Or a reason to use better programming languages:) Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar 6 2006, 10:12:24) [GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = 0 >>> if a = 1:
File "", line 1
if a = 1:
^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I just heard some sad news the Internet - the long-running Slashdot joke about Duke Nukem Forever was found dead in its Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't laugh after the first time, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Have a look at LURHQ's stats for this worm. The short answer is, the 300,000 infections are mostly in non-US countries. India shows the highest infection rate.
It's difficult to find anything definitive about OSX, but the consensus from the interweb is that OS X can't currently handle writing to UDF without third party software.
So this probably won't work as a universal filesystem unless some pressure is put on MS and Apple to get native support for writing to UDF, unfortunately:\
All OSes have read support for UDF, certainly, but do they have write support? To cite an analagous example, I tried recently to mount an ISO image on loopback in linux (so as to change the contents of a CD before burning it), only to find that the linux ISO9660 driver can't write that filesystem, and one needs to use mkisofs to get the job done.
I found some details on how the Vorbis algorithm works in the wikipedia article. It means nothing to me, but it appears you have the background to make heads or tails of it.
To answer the original question, hacking together a quick shell script that will do mp3 -> ogg shouldn't be that hard, and you could then use good old find with appropriate -prune options to exclude your game mp3s.
Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like "find . -name pathname -prune -o -exec mp3-to-ogg.sh {} \; "
TSP is considered NP-complete not because of the optimization version but because of the decision version (given a graph with weighted edges and a length L, is there a tour of length at most L? It's very easy to check whether a solution to this problem is correct--just see if it's well-formed and of length
If I recall rightly, problems whose decision version is NP-complete are called NP-hard.
Another excellent pre-made filter is Filterset.G . It aims to be quite complete while avoiding false positives. I've been using it for the past couple months, and can't recall the last time I noticed an ad.
I, too, thought that the Simpsons had permanently jumped the shark. But this season has had some excellent episodes and phenomenal characters. Some lines are just brilliant, to wit:
"I only flew it once at an altitude of six feet, for a distance of four feet. Then we discovered that rain makes it catch fire... then the Fuhrer fired me." -- Burns, referring to the Plywood Pelican:
It has also had one of my favorite supporting characters in recent memory, Tab Spangler (ep 352). Everything about his intonation and timing is perfect.
They still have the occasional preachy or "annoying guest voice" episode that turned me off in the first place, but overall, I'm back to watching every Sunday night.
This gave me an odd thought--it might be interesting if, in civil cases, one could formally hand over liability to another consenting party. For example, the author of DVD Decrypter doesn't want to throw away his life fighting this thing, but there may well be someone in the UK who wants to take the time to make a stand, set up a legal defense fund, and fight them.
As a side note, we ought to know who to boycott pretty soon--once ownership of the domain name gets transferred, a simple whois should suffice.
Pretty much as expected. I work for a uni helpdesk, and the desktop/laptop ratio dropped below 1 long ago. Which is nice, since I don't have to help deliver desktops on opening day any more:D
Well, here might be a good place to look. The article doesn't actually tell you where to find the research, but it was posted on Schneier's blog this morning.
... but you could always rip out the hard drive and read it, right?
No. Most laptop hard drives now come with a security mechanism on the drive itself that prevents it from being read without the appropriate password. It sucks a lot if you've got a laptop like this and you lose the password; usually your only recourse is to get a replacement drive from the manufacturer.
Ok, now I found something about this on MS's site:
Other information is added to the digital media file, such as the URL where the license can be acquired.
The real vulnerability, then, is that WMP doesn't honor default browser settings, and that IE is like swiss cheese when it comes to security. Not as big a deal as I thought, but the fact that someone's actually using this maliciously is newsworthy.
The one thing that I find strange about this story is that try as I may, I can't seem to find any information from the "usual" security sources about exactly how this works--as far as I can recall, bugtraq and full-disclosure haven't touched these. Moreover, the only articles about this are the p2pnet one and the PC World one--and the former appears to be derived from the latter.
Both articles are also oddly vague--"security experts" are mentioned, but no specific names dropped, and there are no technical details given at all.
Can anyone provide independent confirmation of this? In particular, if you have details of how one can embed executable code in a wma or provide a sample of such code, please send them my way via brendandg [at] colby.tjs.org
Actually, this post in reply to the blog indicates that it's an issue with McAfee VirusScan--not Firefox. The only other reference to that I can find on google is from a random VB programming forum, though.
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Or a reason to use better programming languages :)
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Mar 6 2006, 10:12:24)
[GCC 4.0.3 20060304 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-10)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = 0
>>> if a = 1:
File "", line 1
if a = 1:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I think you mean:
Have a look at LURHQ's stats for this worm. The short answer is, the 300,000 infections are mostly in non-US countries. India shows the highest infection rate.
Update:
So this probably won't work as a universal filesystem unless some pressure is put on MS and Apple to get native support for writing to UDF, unfortunately :\
All OSes have read support for UDF, certainly, but do they have write support? To cite an analagous example, I tried recently to mount an ISO image on loopback in linux (so as to change the contents of a CD before burning it), only to find that the linux ISO9660 driver can't write that filesystem, and one needs to use mkisofs to get the job done.
Resource-limited growth usually follows an S-curve--a period of exponential growth followed by a levelling out as resource limits kick in.
I find :syntax off to be an effective solution to that problem...
I found some details on how the Vorbis algorithm works in the wikipedia article. It means nothing to me, but it appears you have the background to make heads or tails of it.
To answer the original question, hacking together a quick shell script that will do mp3 -> ogg shouldn't be that hard, and you could then use good old find with appropriate -prune options to exclude your game mp3s.
Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking something like "find . -name pathname -prune -o -exec mp3-to-ogg.sh {} \; "
TSP is considered NP-complete not because of the optimization version but because of the decision version (given a graph with weighted edges and a length L, is there a tour of length at most L? It's very easy to check whether a solution to this problem is correct--just see if it's well-formed and of length
If I recall rightly, problems whose decision version is NP-complete are called NP-hard.
Another excellent pre-made filter is Filterset.G . It aims to be quite complete while avoiding false positives. I've been using it for the past couple months, and can't recall the last time I noticed an ad.
Damn pirates, ruining it for the rest of us.
Hmm, I've never needed anything so fancy.
always did the job just fine.I, too, thought that the Simpsons had permanently jumped the shark. But this season has had some excellent episodes and phenomenal characters. Some lines are just brilliant, to wit:
It has also had one of my favorite supporting characters in recent memory, Tab Spangler (ep 352). Everything about his intonation and timing is perfect.They still have the occasional preachy or "annoying guest voice" episode that turned me off in the first place, but overall, I'm back to watching every Sunday night.
This gave me an odd thought--it might be interesting if, in civil cases, one could formally hand over liability to another consenting party. For example, the author of DVD Decrypter doesn't want to throw away his life fighting this thing, but there may well be someone in the UK who wants to take the time to make a stand, set up a legal defense fund, and fight them.
As a side note, we ought to know who to boycott pretty soon--once ownership of the domain name gets transferred, a simple whois should suffice.
Pretty much as expected. I work for a uni helpdesk, and the desktop/laptop ratio dropped below 1 long ago. Which is nice, since I don't have to help deliver desktops on opening day any more :D
Well, here might be a good place to look. The article doesn't actually tell you where to find the research, but it was posted on Schneier's blog this morning.
Cheers,
Brendan
Actually, it decimated the internet nine times over...
It was the ducks that finally pushed him over the edge. The world must be warned!
(if you don't get it, look at Neil Gaiman's journal for January 20, 2004)
Because they're compressed with gzip -9. I vaguely recall something about this being so that they can fit into low memory on boot.
Shouldn't that read:
?
Where on earth did you leave the question marks.!
Ok, now I found something about this on MS's site:
The real vulnerability, then, is that WMP doesn't honor default browser settings, and that IE is like swiss cheese when it comes to security. Not as big a deal as I thought, but the fact that someone's actually using this maliciously is newsworthy.Thanks for the info.
The one thing that I find strange about this story is that try as I may, I can't seem to find any information from the "usual" security sources about exactly how this works--as far as I can recall, bugtraq and full-disclosure haven't touched these. Moreover, the only articles about this are the p2pnet one and the PC World one--and the former appears to be derived from the latter.
Both articles are also oddly vague--"security experts" are mentioned, but no specific names dropped, and there are no technical details given at all.
Can anyone provide independent confirmation of this? In particular, if you have details of how one can embed executable code in a wma or provide a sample of such code, please send them my way via brendandg [at] colby.tjs.org
Actually, this post in reply to the blog indicates that it's an issue with McAfee VirusScan--not Firefox. The only other reference to that I can find on google is from a random VB programming forum, though.