Slackware is conspicuously absent from the list, is it not vulnerable? Or just not listed?
The title brought back a question I've had for a while:
the vulnerability: Wu-Ftpd File Globbing Heap Corruption Vulnerability
I've never been able to figure out in laymans terms, much less technical terms WTF globbing is?
Oh, and while smarter people than I are explaining...the quote at the bottom (the one I see)...what is a Vegemite?
Ever since that Men at Work song, I've wondered.
An episode of *anything* more than 5 years old that hasn't been butchered (think MASH) to the point of unwatchability.
Intelligent commercials...some of the producers or whatever should be flogged with their own film...camera still atttached.
It was inevitable a device such as this came about...for all the talk years ago of V chips (violence chips) none of these idiots ever thought of a Commercial chip...well, here it is.
And maybe I am too much of a geek, ethernet is nice...what it really needs is a RAID tower and LVD 360M scsi...OOoooo.
One, if they run NAT everything will resolved back to disney.com.
Two, who could trust such an..ahem.."Mickey Mouse Operation".
Three, their DHCP will probably charge by the address's lease life, which will be lobbied by congress to last the life of the laptop/user+ 90 years now? Talk about a revenue stream...oye.
Am I the only one who has noticed:
@home arrives, up/down is whatever you get.
(best was ~420k/s down/ 250k/s kbytes, not bits)
About a year later...down did not change much, upload capped at 128kbytes.
A year after that when *other* @home areas got 256kbyte caps...chithead^H^H^H^H^ charter capped at 128kbits ~12kbytes/s.
Pardon my french, but these fucking morons did it to themselvesby completeley defeating the purpose of broad band.
IN ADDITION: The divx fiasco where not only did they kill off the groups, but @home posters got jack booted thu^H^H^H^H^H^H cease and desist letters from the MPAA w/o so much as a "how do you do".
Yet again, they defeat the purpose of broad band.
They have yet to provide:
1)content anyone really wants
2)bandwidth people need (down and UP for christ-sake...30 minutes or more for a 900K attachment? PHEH...you are out of your fricking mind if you think that is adequate)
3)any reason whatsoever for me to recommend broadband to anyone who even *considers cable*...I say the magic words xDSL...if you can get it...fsck cable, they offer *no incentives* to get or stay with them.
4)Intelligent network management. Scanning users machines for NNTP services...with a 12kbyte upload speed?...WTF ARE THEY SMOKING!!!!
I'm giving charter pipeline a month or so for some sort of intelligent management to show its face...while looking elsewhere for broadband.
I feel sorry for the fact I've recommended cable to literally several dozen people!
And to be treated like this?
I'm fixing that mistake as quickly as possible...in addition to their mistakes, I'm just fueling the fire.
How about everyone hold their tounge for a month, let them do their "remedy" thing.
After it is completed, get them for further anti-trust violations, monopoly extensions and find out how much the "donated" software they will probably claim for tax exemption puropses and *nail* them for tax evasion/fraud!
Hell, the got Capone that way... it could work, perhaps.
Seeing as Intel just might hit the Thz mark very quickly, this leaves me with one question:
Will rambus actually get above 400Mhz memory?
(you know that "quad-pumped" x 100Mhz RDRAM)
// begin sarcasm
Heh, Thz chips, and 100/133Mhz bus...sounds like a match made in heaven to me
//end sarcasm
Seeing as the p3 was an "improvement" to the pentium architecture, it leaves me to wonder if the Ghz machine's similarity to a 486 will yield Thz machines similar to 386's?
I dunno, it seems like trading clock speed and heat in place of actually getting stuff done seems rather silly.
Seriously, this is how some of these criminals operate...data in the form of cc#'s is captured over the wire, or from insecure IIS boxes or where ever VISA/MC/Discover is accepted and re-used during the busy season, where, it may not be discovered or disputed.
Funny? Yes, if you made the connection.
Offtopic? Yes, if you did not make the connection.
IMO, most humor is made up of "questionable ethics/decisions"...probably the #1 reason federal, state a local govt. are constant sources of amusement.
It is getting close to the "silly season", and I am forced to wonder: I know there is a moderator FAQ, but is there a moderator "aptitude test".
There have been several posts I've seen in the past year or so, that I have bought "hook, line and sinker" as a troll or flamebait...until the "tone of voice" sets in as sarcastic, the it is the funniest stuff I've read.
"The underlying issue is that the infrastructure of all these Web sites aren't protected."
Agreed. Such lax security via the use of Frontpage, IIS,.asp and VBS in webpages.
You might as well do and impression of Duncan in the movie Shrek "Ooo! Ooo! pick me! pick me!"
Webmasters queried about the search engine problem said precautions against overzealous search bots are of fundamental concern.
Uhh...they are "bots"...they don't think, they do.
Does the bot say "Oh, look, these guys did something stupid...let's tell them about it."
No, they search, they index and they generate reports.
I've seen this problem crop up before when a coworker was looking for something totally unrelated on google.
Sad part was it was an ISP I had respect for, despite moving from them to broadband.
What killed my respect was at the very top of the pages was "Generated by Frontpage Express"...gack!
I don't recall if it was a user account or one of their admin accounts...but for modem access I kind of stopped recommending them, or pointed out my observations.
I have to parrot, and agree, with the "Human Error" but add "Computer accelerated and amplified".
It happens, but that does not mean we have to like it, much less let it keep happening.
"glass like windows" and not one comment to the effect, of course "Windows should be transparent, other wise they are called doors or walls"!
Just one other thing that maybe Windows programmrs could answer...is there a single window mode planned? I'm partially serious. (and that is really scary)
It was in OS X dp4, and I for one loved it.
Can't beat the "switch the app/window, hide the porn" trick...saves a lot of, uhh, mouse'ing.
The API is still there, but, no way to access it save for a bit of shareware that accesses it (forget the name) but 12 dollars for one function I'd use?
I think not.
Heh, "Windows(tm) now has transparency"...and nobody said a word. That's FUNNY.
Over the years RMS has been a rather interesting character, if for no other reason than his tenacity, boarderline fanaticism and ideals.
I forget the circumstance (gcc vs cc compiler, perhaps) but RMS's views were dead set against one of the two, and IIRC Linus was trying to decide for/aginst RMS's arguments.
Now, this is based on my rather fuzzy recollection, but the jist is there:
I think Linus, himself, said in effect "RMS pisses people off by being unyielding, uncompromising, unrelenting...and invariably proven correct.
From what RMS said in the interview that he has learned *at times to be diplomatic* when it is called for, is very telling.
Wasn't it Will Rogers who said "diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a big rock."?
Stallman has the proper motives, as usual, however his meathods leave a bit to be desired (still) it seems.
Heck, they are just now getting the drivers to implement the "whiz bang features" and Nvidia has a GF4 in the works.
At least I'll be able to afford the GF3 when I build my next system, there is that.
ATI has some serious work ahead of it to stay in the game. But If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are it Quack(.exe)'s like a duck too.
if i think of a song I like, mentally convert it using iThoughts (provided it does not wipe my brain from the install scri...) or WMP (Windows Mind Player) does that mean my mind is a circumvention device that can be removed via a court order by the RIAA?
Oddly enough I see a Luddite or a Windows user tapping them selves furiously on the forhead trying to launch a program.
Or if something goes wrong, these same people abuse the equipment (smacking a monitor)...now they will take their aggression on the "real faulty" device...them.
PEBETE, a new tech acronym...Problem Exists Between Ear To Ear.
serverkiller.slashdot.us for those that want to testt there websites.
or
theshortb.us for archival of all score 1 posts.
and
RIAA.us, MPAA.us and FUCK.us, because after all they are 4-letter words meaning the same thing, right?
(I suppose that TLD in this case would mean Top Level Dicks...but I digress....)
``If taxpayer money is used to create the software, then it should be publicly available for free,'' said Harry Mangalam, of tacg Informatics in Irvine, Calif. ``The public is being billed twice right now.''
Notice, please that he said "IF". Damn straight, if by extension "I/we" are funding these projects we should have the right to see what we are getting for our money. Taxes, tuition and student fees in addition to private funding, everyone has a claim, right? Everyone has rights to the code and the results.
Of course the opening paragraph was very telling:
Before computer whiz Steven E. Brenner accepted his tenure-track research post at the University of California-Berkeley last year, he demanded that the school's intellectual property police leave him alone.
Amen. It seems like the "good of mankind" feeling is winning over the "for the good of corporation kind"... now that code is free speech (for the moment) maybe he should have his own DeCSS like mirror for his code?
And let me get this straight:
The school in question is both publically and privatly funded, correct? IP disputes occur and are won by whoever has the most money, correct?
This, to me at least, sounds like a warped verions of prostitution, and in prostitution STD's are the result of...ahem..."Passing the *uck, around"...so the idea that IP ~= STD is forming in my mind.
What I am driving at is that Intellectual Property is a "Socially Transmitted Disease".
Pardon my cynicism, please, but no wonder congress is banning this kind of research.
They have a monopoly on the first part of that statement and can't stand the competition.
How/if a clone has/gets a soul
This question will probably be left to the determination of the legal profession...talk about the blind leading the blind.
Slashdot Mirror
Slackware is conspicuously absent from the list, is it not vulnerable? Or just not listed?
The title brought back a question I've had for a while:
the vulnerability: Wu-Ftpd File Globbing Heap Corruption Vulnerability
I've never been able to figure out in laymans terms, much less technical terms WTF globbing is?
Oh, and while smarter people than I are explaining...the quote at the bottom (the one I see)...what is a Vegemite?
Ever since that Men at Work song, I've wondered.
Shows worth watching.
An episode of *anything* more than 5 years old that hasn't been butchered (think MASH) to the point of unwatchability.
Intelligent commercials...some of the producers or whatever should be flogged with their own film...camera still atttached.
It was inevitable a device such as this came about...for all the talk years ago of V chips (violence chips) none of these idiots ever thought of a Commercial chip...well, here it is.
And maybe I am too much of a geek, ethernet is nice...what it really needs is a RAID tower and LVD 360M scsi...OOoooo.
to say "Campbell's performance was 'mmm, mmm, good'..."
Probably not, too obvious.
One, if they run NAT everything will resolved back to disney.com.
Two, who could trust such an..ahem.."Mickey Mouse Operation".
Three, their DHCP will probably charge by the address's lease life, which will be lobbied by congress to last the life of the laptop/user+ 90 years now? Talk about a revenue stream...oye.
www.home.net
News release, letter to subscribers and excite users, vendor and investor info.
May actually be a source of information for youse guys.
no more XP..eXasperating Pissants attacking my machine from IP address 0.0.0.0.
The down side, of course, is they, nor I, will have access (possibly).
IP 0.0.0.0, yeah, sure, this is an os for "home users"....or maybe the @home users being equated with Nimda and 1337 |1DD13$ is somewhat dead on.
make an IBM branded linux for these...
Then the could call it:
The seriesOS
(insert rimshot)
Actually it is not a bad idea..."the seriesOS, when you are seriOuS.
Am I the only one who has noticed:
@home arrives, up/down is whatever you get.
(best was ~420k/s down/ 250k/s kbytes, not bits)
About a year later...down did not change much, upload capped at 128kbytes.
A year after that when *other* @home areas got 256kbyte caps...chithead^H^H^H^H^ charter capped at 128kbits ~12kbytes/s.
Pardon my french, but these fucking morons did it to themselves by completeley defeating the purpose of broad band.
IN ADDITION: The divx fiasco where not only did they kill off the groups, but @home posters got jack booted thu^H^H^H^H^H^H cease and desist letters from the MPAA w/o so much as a "how do you do".
Yet again, they defeat the purpose of broad band.
They have yet to provide:
1)content anyone really wants
2)bandwidth people need (down and UP for christ-sake...30 minutes or more for a 900K attachment? PHEH...you are out of your fricking mind if you think that is adequate)
3)any reason whatsoever for me to recommend broadband to anyone who even *considers cable*...I say the magic words xDSL...if you can get it...fsck cable, they offer *no incentives* to get or stay with them.
4)Intelligent network management. Scanning users machines for NNTP services... with a 12kbyte upload speed?...WTF ARE THEY SMOKING!!!!
I'm giving charter pipeline a month or so for some sort of intelligent management to show its face...while looking elsewhere for broadband.
I feel sorry for the fact I've recommended cable to literally several dozen people!
And to be treated like this?
I'm fixing that mistake as quickly as possible...in addition to their mistakes, I'm just fueling the fire.
(fingers crossed, eyes closed, mumbeling "competant service, competant service, pleeeeaaassseee!)
How about everyone hold their tounge for a month, let them do their "remedy" thing.
After it is completed, get them for further anti-trust violations, monopoly extensions and find out how much the "donated" software they will probably claim for tax exemption puropses and *nail* them for tax evasion/fraud!
Hell, the got Capone that way... it could work, perhaps.
Seeing as Intel just might hit the Thz mark very quickly, this leaves me with one question:
Will rambus actually get above 400Mhz memory?
(you know that "quad-pumped" x 100Mhz RDRAM)
// begin sarcasm
Heh, Thz chips, and 100/133Mhz bus...sounds like a match made in heaven to me
//end sarcasm
Seeing as the p3 was an "improvement" to the pentium architecture, it leaves me to wonder if the Ghz machine's similarity to a 486 will yield Thz machines similar to 386's?
I dunno, it seems like trading clock speed and heat in place of actually getting stuff done seems rather silly.
Sheesh, it was a joke...and ontopic, no less.
Oh, well, whatever.
Seriously, this is how some of these criminals operate...data in the form of cc#'s is captured over the wire, or from insecure IIS boxes or where ever VISA/MC/Discover is accepted and re-used during the busy season, where, it may not be discovered or disputed.
Funny? Yes, if you made the connection.
Offtopic? Yes, if you did not make the connection.
IMO, most humor is made up of "questionable ethics/decisions"...probably the #1 reason federal, state a local govt. are constant sources of amusement.
It is getting close to the "silly season", and I am forced to wonder: I know there is a moderator FAQ, but is there a moderator "aptitude test".
There have been several posts I've seen in the past year or so, that I have bought "hook, line and sinker" as a troll or flamebait...until the "tone of voice" sets in as sarcastic, the it is the funniest stuff I've read.
"The underlying issue is that the infrastructure of all these Web sites aren't protected."
.asp and VBS in webpages.
Agreed. Such lax security via the use of Frontpage, IIS,
You might as well do and impression of Duncan in the movie Shrek "Ooo! Ooo! pick me! pick me!"
Webmasters queried about the search engine problem said precautions against overzealous search bots are of fundamental concern.
Uhh...they are "bots"...they don't think, they do.
Does the bot say "Oh, look, these guys did something stupid...let's tell them about it."
No, they search, they index and they generate reports.
I've seen this problem crop up before when a coworker was looking for something totally unrelated on google.
Sad part was it was an ISP I had respect for, despite moving from them to broadband.
What killed my respect was at the very top of the pages was "Generated by Frontpage Express"...gack!
I don't recall if it was a user account or one of their admin accounts...but for modem access I kind of stopped recommending them, or pointed out my observations.
I have to parrot, and agree, with the "Human Error" but add "Computer accelerated and amplified".
It happens, but that does not mean we have to like it, much less let it keep happening.
Just in time for Christmas Shopping!!!!
All the toys and none of the debt!
Just gotta remember to buy a P.O. box first, not give my home address like the last ti....uhhhh...never mind.
am suprised no one picked up on it!
"glass like windows" and not one comment to the effect, of course "Windows should be transparent, other wise they are called doors or walls"!
Just one other thing that maybe Windows programmrs could answer...is there a single window mode planned? I'm partially serious. (and that is really scary)
It was in OS X dp4, and I for one loved it.
Can't beat the "switch the app/window, hide the porn" trick...saves a lot of, uhh, mouse'ing.
The API is still there, but, no way to access it save for a bit of shareware that accesses it (forget the name) but 12 dollars for one function I'd use?
I think not.
Heh, "Windows(tm) now has transparency"...and nobody said a word. That's FUNNY.
OOOooo, now that is the reason to have transparent windows!!!
Laetitia Casta should *never, ever* be obscured, IMO.
Over the years RMS has been a rather interesting character, if for no other reason than his tenacity, boarderline fanaticism and ideals.
I forget the circumstance (gcc vs cc compiler, perhaps) but RMS's views were dead set against one of the two, and IIRC Linus was trying to decide for/aginst RMS's arguments.
Now, this is based on my rather fuzzy recollection, but the jist is there:
I think Linus, himself, said in effect "RMS pisses people off by being unyielding, uncompromising, unrelenting...and invariably proven correct.
From what RMS said in the interview that he has learned *at times to be diplomatic* when it is called for, is very telling.
Wasn't it Will Rogers who said "diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a big rock."?
Stallman has the proper motives, as usual, however his meathods leave a bit to be desired (still) it seems.
Heck, they are just now getting the drivers to implement the "whiz bang features" and Nvidia has a GF4 in the works.
At least I'll be able to afford the GF3 when I build my next system, there is that.
ATI has some serious work ahead of it to stay in the game. But If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are it Quack(.exe)'s like a duck too.
Heh, competition is good, n'est pas?
if i think of a song I like, mentally convert it using iThoughts (provided it does not wipe my brain from the install scri...) or WMP (Windows Mind Player) does that mean my mind is a circumvention device that can be removed via a court order by the RIAA?
Oddly enough I see a Luddite or a Windows user tapping them selves furiously on the forhead trying to launch a program.
Or if something goes wrong, these same people abuse the equipment (smacking a monitor)...now they will take their aggression on the "real faulty" device...them.
PEBETE, a new tech acronym...Problem Exists Between Ear To Ear.
seeing as the Central Nervous System is miles of neruons...usually a boost is needed to power most circuits.
Where would you put the plug?
Uh...forget I asked.
testt? testy? testes....heh, corrected my typo only to make it again...sigh.
:\ ... for that one.
dang, should have been (less than symbol) 1 posts.....
Looks like I'll be the owner of the shortb.us domain...
serverkiller.slashdot.us for those that want to testt there websites.
or
theshortb.us for archival of all score 1 posts.
and
RIAA.us, MPAA.us and FUCK.us, because after all they are 4-letter words meaning the same thing, right?
(I suppose that TLD in this case would mean Top Level Dicks...but I digress....)
``If taxpayer money is used to create the software, then it should be publicly available for free,'' said Harry Mangalam, of tacg Informatics in Irvine, Calif. ``The public is being billed twice right now.''
Notice, please that he said "IF". Damn straight, if by extension "I/we" are funding these projects we should have the right to see what we are getting for our money. Taxes, tuition and student fees in addition to private funding, everyone has a claim, right? Everyone has rights to the code and the results.
Of course the opening paragraph was very telling:
Before computer whiz Steven E. Brenner accepted his tenure-track research post at the University of California-Berkeley last year, he demanded that the school's intellectual property police leave him alone.
Amen. It seems like the "good of mankind" feeling is winning over the "for the good of corporation kind"... now that code is free speech (for the moment) maybe he should have his own DeCSS like mirror for his code?
And let me get this straight:
The school in question is both publically and privatly funded, correct? IP disputes occur and are won by whoever has the most money, correct?
This, to me at least, sounds like a warped verions of prostitution, and in prostitution STD's are the result of...ahem..."Passing the *uck, around"...so the idea that IP ~= STD is forming in my mind.
What I am driving at is that Intellectual Property is a "Socially Transmitted Disease".
A School actually passing on knowledge for the education of others.
Who'd of thunk it?
No functioning brain = not a person.
Pardon my cynicism, please, but no wonder congress is banning this kind of research.
They have a monopoly on the first part of that statement and can't stand the competition.
How/if a clone has/gets a soul
This question will probably be left to the determination of the legal profession...talk about the blind leading the blind.
now that BT can claim they "invented the internet".