Um, IE has always had 8 bit translucency support. It's done through a directx filter. You can enable this with javascript so that IE treats PNG transparency correctly, and this has been known for years - IE 5.5 and up. One of the links in TFA documents this method. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm
If you look at the source to, say, google maps, you will see that they use this very method to make the drop-shadows work properly with IE.
MS used BSD code in their TCP/IP stack in NT 3.5 and prior. They rewrote everything from scratch for NT 4 and on. They still use some BSD code for the userland utils (telnet, ping, etc) but there is absolutely none of it in the kernel/protocol stack, and hasn't been for at least 10 years.
This requires cooperation from the kernel. If you have enough privileges on the target machine to install a kernel module then the game is already over. Rootkits have been around for decades that do things just as invasive, such as monitor all network traffic passing through the box for passwords.
If somebody has the ability to install this on a machine then the problem is not with this module, it's that the person somehow got root privileges. In that sense this is no more of a "hack" than ssh, rsync, netcat, ettercap, etc. since having root on a box makes it possible to do just about anything you want.
When you telnet to port 80 and type "GET/" you are sending a HTTP 0.9 request. That was the first version of the protocol and is all but extinct. That version of the protocol had no such thing as headers, so if the server follows the HTTP 0.9 spec, you will never get any headers. Apparently IIS does not speak HTTP 0.9 very well.
However, if you use a valid HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 request: "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n" you will get all the headers.
So, I'm sorry, but your point is completely wrong. Apache sends just as many headers as IIS, as the other poster points out. You should really stop using telnet and start using curl or wget. If you do use telnet, please get a clue about how HTTP works.
Yeah, yeah, those instructions have been all over the place for a long time.
But if you follow them then URLs in the PDF file no longer work. WHen you click on one it just says that it needs a missing plugin and won't load the site.
If you want to correct that, also add EScript.api and weblink.api to the non-disabled folder. It took me forever to find out that you needed EScript in addition to weblink, as if you just add the latter it still doesn't work. I had to go through a process of elimination to figure out that it was EScript that was required.
Agree 100% about phpbb. Stay the hell away from it. Somebody finds a cross site scripting vuln or remote code execution vuln every other week it seems. Besides, it's not really a CMS at all, it's just a bulletin board, and not a very good one at that. I prefer IPB any day of the week, phpbb's feature set is rather lame. About the only thing going for it is that it's free.
The example of being able to play games smoothly with anti-virus scanning in the background was just that... an EXAMPLE of a situation where a dual core system might excel. The author mentions a ton of others, like encoding tv input in the background. I think it's rather sensational to say that the author thinks that's the only use or the primary use. The story submitter really needs to get a grip. The article was just trying to make the point that general responsiveness of a dual core system in the face of multiple tasks should be better, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
Yes, it will tax the FPU as well as the normal integer units and the cache. The FPU is a considerable amount of die space. Forget all these posts about silly bash fork bombs. Prime95 even has a torture test that you can run in a loop - requires no net connection, no accounts to setup, etc. It's perfect for a boot floopy/live CD.
Yes, but you can't revoke a GPL-licensed work retroactively. You can make future versions available only under a more restrictive license, but once you put Version X.Y-Z out under the GPL it's out, you cannot relicense it later. You can of course always dual license it, but there is still a copy of the GPLd one. And of course if a party violates the GPL then they forfeit their right to the terms of the license and no longer have those rights. "Said person" cannot retroactively revoke anything, except as far as to demand that since CherryPC violated the terms of the GPL they no longer have a right to the code. But that's not revoking anything, that's just enforcing terms that are already in the GPL.
Once it's out under the GPL, it's out forever, there is no revocation, regardless of what the copyright holder wants or desires. Otherwise it would not be Free software, as a company could release something and then later decide to revoke all rights because they want to make more money off the product.
Something simple like that would never happen. The reason is because if the browser just requested a standard.ttf file from the server and used it to render text, there would be no protection from the user keeping the.ttf file and having a new font. It sounds ridiculous, but high quality.ttf files cost money and you're not allowed to distribute them (just like software.) Go check the price on the Adobe Font Folio. The font bureaus would scream bloody murder and start suing anyone distributing those unmodified.ttf files.
There have been several methods in use for many years of "bastardizing" the font file so that it either contains only the specific glyphs needed for the text (so that it's useless as a general purpose font) or by including some kind of DRM so that the operating system will not allow it to be installed as a general purpose font. But they never really caught on for obvious reasons.
On the other hand, as soon as $misinformed_customer finds a charge for $50 (or whatever the inflated cost is) for a movie that he's had for a couple of weeks from Blockbuster, he's going to be pretty pissed and perhaps decide to go back to the competitor out of rage.
The numbers themselves are irrelevent, the interesting part is the fact that 1729 is the smallest number expressible in such a way and that Ramanujan knew this instantly.
I have read that many experienced managers/interviewers can sniff out a less than enthusiastic reference just from the tone and choice of words, even if the reference says nothing outright negative or derogatory. I wouldn't say it's really the case that anyone would give an outright negative reference ("This employee was terrible") unless the person was really terrible.. but rather that they would say something neutral like "the employee was competent and punctual" rather than perhaps "this person was a real rock star, you should be glad to have him."
Trusted means that the "auth cookie" from the local X11 server is transfered to the ~/.Xauthority file on the remote machine, so that remote clients will present the cookie to the server when connecting and be trusted. This is analogous to the ancient "xhost +remote" method but much more secure and robust. See "man Xsecurity" and "man xauth".
You're wasting your time. All links in slashdot have rel="nofollow" so they're ignored by google for the purposes of indexing. If you don't believe me, view the source...
The photoshop SDK is non-free ($195) but anyone can obtain it. After that you can write plugins that do just about anything, and you can distribute them however you want.
I'm sure there are lots of plugin authors that already have the SDK and could download the matlab files from the authors of this paper and take a stab at implementing it as a plugin.
If you hadn't noticed, there are thousands of Photoshop plugins, both free and commercial, and none of them require Adobe to open the "source code of photoshop".
Don't bother. Slashcode adds 'rel="nofollow"' to all links in comments now. So any link you post in a comment will not affect the pagerank of the target site, regardless of/.'s PR.
Transfering billions of files every day implies that the program has been downloaded many times (it has) and is left running or used often by lots of people (it is.) Sharman makes their money from the adware that gets installed when someone installs kazaa, and from the subsequent popups and other crapware that the software presentes to the user when it's running. Therefore that the program is so widely used implies that Sharman is making a great deal of money off those ads.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, IE has always had 8 bit translucency support. It's done through a directx filter. You can enable this with javascript so that IE treats PNG transparency correctly, and this has been known for years - IE 5.5 and up. One of the links in TFA documents this method. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm
If you look at the source to, say, google maps, you will see that they use this very method to make the drop-shadows work properly with IE.
*sigh* Not this again.
MS used BSD code in their TCP/IP stack in NT 3.5 and prior. They rewrote everything from scratch for NT 4 and on. They still use some BSD code for the userland utils (telnet, ping, etc) but there is absolutely none of it in the kernel/protocol stack, and hasn't been for at least 10 years.
This requires cooperation from the kernel. If you have enough privileges on the target machine to install a kernel module then the game is already over. Rootkits have been around for decades that do things just as invasive, such as monitor all network traffic passing through the box for passwords.
If somebody has the ability to install this on a machine then the problem is not with this module, it's that the person somehow got root privileges. In that sense this is no more of a "hack" than ssh, rsync, netcat, ettercap, etc. since having root on a box makes it possible to do just about anything you want.
Thank you. This is correct information. There is no one "GUI process" in Windows. Mod parent up and mod down grandparent.
You are wrong, but not for the reason you think.
/" you are sending a HTTP 0.9 request. That was the first version of the protocol and is all but extinct. That version of the protocol had no such thing as headers, so if the server follows the HTTP 0.9 spec, you will never get any headers. Apparently IIS does not speak HTTP 0.9 very well.
When you telnet to port 80 and type "GET
However, if you use a valid HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 request: "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n" you will get all the headers.
So, I'm sorry, but your point is completely wrong. Apache sends just as many headers as IIS, as the other poster points out. You should really stop using telnet and start using curl or wget. If you do use telnet, please get a clue about how HTTP works.
FLV Player
Google has a recruiting video that focuses on getting more women interested in CS/software development. The director of engineering at google is a woman and has been pushing this idea lately.
Yeah, yeah, those instructions have been all over the place for a long time.
But if you follow them then URLs in the PDF file no longer work. WHen you click on one it just says that it needs a missing plugin and won't load the site.
If you want to correct that, also add EScript.api and weblink.api to the non-disabled folder. It took me forever to find out that you needed EScript in addition to weblink, as if you just add the latter it still doesn't work. I had to go through a process of elimination to figure out that it was EScript that was required.
Agree 100% about phpbb. Stay the hell away from it. Somebody finds a cross site scripting vuln or remote code execution vuln every other week it seems. Besides, it's not really a CMS at all, it's just a bulletin board, and not a very good one at that. I prefer IPB any day of the week, phpbb's feature set is rather lame. About the only thing going for it is that it's free.
The example of being able to play games smoothly with anti-virus scanning in the background was just that... an EXAMPLE of a situation where a dual core system might excel. The author mentions a ton of others, like encoding tv input in the background. I think it's rather sensational to say that the author thinks that's the only use or the primary use. The story submitter really needs to get a grip. The article was just trying to make the point that general responsiveness of a dual core system in the face of multiple tasks should be better, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
Mandriva-Linux-2005-Ltd-Edition-DVD.i586.iso.torre nt (alternate link) (tracker) (details)
(this is not the official torrent, as that requires club membership.)
A real link for those that hate removing stupid spaces inserted by slashcode in URLs pasted by stupid posters that can't figure out <a>
Yes, it will tax the FPU as well as the normal integer units and the cache. The FPU is a considerable amount of die space. Forget all these posts about silly bash fork bombs. Prime95 even has a torture test that you can run in a loop - requires no net connection, no accounts to setup, etc. It's perfect for a boot floopy/live CD.
Yes, but you can't revoke a GPL-licensed work retroactively. You can make future versions available only under a more restrictive license, but once you put Version X.Y-Z out under the GPL it's out, you cannot relicense it later. You can of course always dual license it, but there is still a copy of the GPLd one. And of course if a party violates the GPL then they forfeit their right to the terms of the license and no longer have those rights. "Said person" cannot retroactively revoke anything, except as far as to demand that since CherryPC violated the terms of the GPL they no longer have a right to the code. But that's not revoking anything, that's just enforcing terms that are already in the GPL.
Once it's out under the GPL, it's out forever, there is no revocation, regardless of what the copyright holder wants or desires. Otherwise it would not be Free software, as a company could release something and then later decide to revoke all rights because they want to make more money off the product.
Something simple like that would never happen. The reason is because if the browser just requested a standard .ttf file from the server and used it to render text, there would be no protection from the user keeping the .ttf file and having a new font. It sounds ridiculous, but high quality .ttf files cost money and you're not allowed to distribute them (just like software.) Go check the price on the Adobe Font Folio. The font bureaus would scream bloody murder and start suing anyone distributing those unmodified .ttf files.
There have been several methods in use for many years of "bastardizing" the font file so that it either contains only the specific glyphs needed for the text (so that it's useless as a general purpose font) or by including some kind of DRM so that the operating system will not allow it to be installed as a general purpose font. But they never really caught on for obvious reasons.
On the other hand, as soon as $misinformed_customer finds a charge for $50 (or whatever the inflated cost is) for a movie that he's had for a couple of weeks from Blockbuster, he's going to be pretty pissed and perhaps decide to go back to the competitor out of rage.
The numbers themselves are irrelevent, the interesting part is the fact that 1729 is the smallest number expressible in such a way and that Ramanujan knew this instantly.
I have read that many experienced managers/interviewers can sniff out a less than enthusiastic reference just from the tone and choice of words, even if the reference says nothing outright negative or derogatory. I wouldn't say it's really the case that anyone would give an outright negative reference ("This employee was terrible") unless the person was really terrible.. but rather that they would say something neutral like "the employee was competent and punctual" rather than perhaps "this person was a real rock star, you should be glad to have him."
Cygwin's ssh is OpenSSH, same as on most all *nixes.
-X (uppercase) enables X11 forwarding.
-x (lowercase) disables X11 forwarding.
-Y enables trusted X11 forwarding.
Trusted means that the "auth cookie" from the local X11 server is transfered to the ~/.Xauthority file on the remote machine, so that remote clients will present the cookie to the server when connecting and be trusted. This is analogous to the ancient "xhost +remote" method but much more secure and robust. See "man Xsecurity" and "man xauth".
All very good points, but I think you missed what he said... "I write in "SEE ID" and then my signature next to it". The card is signed.
You're wasting your time. All links in slashdot have rel="nofollow" so they're ignored by google for the purposes of indexing. If you don't believe me, view the source...
*ahem* it was sarcasm *ahem*
Wow, the FUD is pretty thick there.
The photoshop SDK is non-free ($195) but anyone can obtain it. After that you can write plugins that do just about anything, and you can distribute them however you want.
I'm sure there are lots of plugin authors that already have the SDK and could download the matlab files from the authors of this paper and take a stab at implementing it as a plugin.
If you hadn't noticed, there are thousands of Photoshop plugins, both free and commercial, and none of them require Adobe to open the "source code of photoshop".
Don't bother. Slashcode adds 'rel="nofollow"' to all links in comments now. So any link you post in a comment will not affect the pagerank of the target site, regardless of /.'s PR.
Transfering billions of files every day implies that the program has been downloaded many times (it has) and is left running or used often by lots of people (it is.) Sharman makes their money from the adware that gets installed when someone installs kazaa, and from the subsequent popups and other crapware that the software presentes to the user when it's running. Therefore that the program is so widely used implies that Sharman is making a great deal of money off those ads.