I use my drill press to drill a 1/4" hole thru some of the chips and the platters.
Anyone who wants to spend enough to get anything off of it after that is happy to do so.
For a load of corporate data a couple of holes would probably do it. After that it would be easier to burglarize you and get a live disk or machine with the data on it.
I thought NASA was tracking these things. This sounds like it was big enough to be a major disaster if it hit a metropolitan area. Are they just watching for the ones that are big enough to wipe out a state, and not a city?
For now, I would be very happy with a super power supply that I could use to replace the huge number of wall warts I have. One cord to AC, and a bunch of connectors and cables to replace the original warts.
For example, for my network connection, I have a DSL modem, and switch to break out the ip's, a couple of routers, all plugged in to a UPS. I don't need any AC here, everything connected to the UPS is a wart that converts it back to DC. Everything would cooler, faster, and longer on backup if the DC was distributed directly.
Add storage to a separate machine, and keep a backup copy on it.
My last hard drive failure was caused by a power supply failure. It roasted both the main hard drive and the backup hard drive in the system. Even if they had been RAID I would have been out of luck.
I have seen a couple of reports that the rootkit included code written by DVD Jon having to do with iTunes security.
I cannot verify this, I have not seen to root kit.
I would really like it to be true. Sony steals others intellectual property in an attempt to protect music they distribute, and the RIAA says they have done nothing wrong.
I use APF and BFD on servers I manage. BFD will automatically block ip addresses that generate too many invalid login attempts.
I have been seeing attacks since the server went online, but they have increased recently.
BFD comes with a 10 minute cycle time. I recently changed it to 1 minute on one of my servers. It looks like the scripts expect it to be running on a 10 minute cycle, since a lot of the attacks start on 10 minute intervals.
This bill was introduced by the notorious pirate Hatch. It seems to read like a preliminary to a more restrictive law. IANAL, but it seems to me that it would actually be hard to convict a casual file sharer.
An excert:
(a) Prohibited Acts- Section 506(a) of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
`(a) Criminal Infringement-
`(1) IN GENERAL- Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed--
`(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
`(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
`(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
`(2) EVIDENCE- For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement of a copyright.
`(3) DEFINITION- In this subsection, the term `work being prepared for commercial distribution' means--
`(A) a computer program, a musical work, a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or a sound recording, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution--
`(i) the copyright owner has a reasonable expectation of commercial distribution; and
`(ii) the copies or phonorecords of the work have not been commercially distributed; or
`(B) a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution, the motion picture--
`(i) has been made available for viewing in a motion picture exhibition facility; and
`(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.
Won't this also occur in email with Outlook and Outlook Express? They use the same control that IE does to process the html.
This could make for a much worse case than having to visit a web site. Just have the preview pane open with these apps and get a spam than contains the exploit.
There is a weird mix of members in this. Not what I would expect from their quotes. One of the interesting ones: University of New Mexico representing the state of New Mexico. http://www.nlr.net/members.html
This sure is a graceful way to tell people that the server is too busy. On the good side, it is returned very quickly.
Server Error in '/' Application.
Server Too Busy
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpW orkerRequest wr) +148
Version Information: Microsoft.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573
This is real nasty. It looks like most versions of office as well as MS Works since 2000 are affected. See the
Security Bulletin
Any random word document with an infected embeded jpg is a transfer vector.
There were many software products prior to MS Windows that used Windows as part of the name. I have always thought that a trademark for such a generic term should not be permitted. I have no problem with "Microsoft Windows", or "MS Windows", but "Windows" is just wrong. And saying that a trademark on a rhyming word is just absurd. I do think that "Lindows" would be a perfectly good trademark. It was not a term for anything prior to its use for "Lindows".
In the early 80's, I used several Windows packages, "Windows for C", "Windows for Data", both from Vermont Creative Sotware. I also used "Greenleaf Windows", another DOS window package, and I am pretty sure that this was based on an even earlier Windows package that Greenleaf Software purchased. Wasn't GEM also called a Windows package? What about X Windows?
It seems to me that Microsoft's argument is we are a monopoly.
The first ink jet printer I ever was was a Xerox. This was in the early days of PC's, before HP even had an ink jet printer for sale. Xerox would only sell the printer as part of a word processing system package. I believe, but am not sure, that it had a custom interface.
Now Dell is marketing printers from Lexmark/Xerox. The R&D is still being done, just not by Dell. Lexmark is doing the R&D, maybe not as much as HP, but lots of it. The article mentions the fact that HP is in this same position in the laser printer market, but ignores it to concentrate on ink jet printers.
The difference between Dell and HP at least for ink jets, is that of a marketing company vs a integrated company. The integrated company should have the cost advantage.
A better comparison for the article, but much less provocative, would be HP marketing vs Dell marketing, or HP R&D vs Dell partner R&D, or loogin forward, HP laser printers vs Dell laser printers.
I feel that HP ink-jet hardware is much superior to Lexmark. As sad as this is, that may be the their dilemma.
FWIW I recently replaced a low end Lexmark printer because the cost of the replacement ink was more than the cost of a new printer. The replacement printer was selected more on the cost of ink supplies than on the cost of the printer itself, and was obviously NOT a Lexmark.
Almost every point they point make in their document applies equally well between generations of MS Office. The most important point in the document in MS Access compatibility. There are a whole lot of small business applications built on this, and these would need to be rewritten.
It also seems that this document is about the best argument against upgrading to a new version of MS Office.
The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Siemens was planning on moving 15,000 programming jobs to Indis after closing several facilites in Europe and the US.
Where in India are these people going to come from? Thats a whole lot of people. Are there currently that many unemployed programmers in India looking for work?
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I use my drill press to drill a 1/4" hole thru some of the chips and the platters.
Anyone who wants to spend enough to get anything off of it after that is happy to do so.
For a load of corporate data a couple of holes would probably do it. After that it would be easier to burglarize you and get a live disk or machine with the data on it.
A lot of the ad servers are very slow, or overloaded.
I finally started blocking some of the more obnoxious adds, and pages started appearing much faster.
I am probably going to start blocking flash soon. It doesn't play nice with Konqueror on x86_64.
DNS resolution also seems to have slowed dramatically. I should probably put a caching name server on my network finally.
I just checked my wife's Acer desktop system. This was purchased about 2 years ago at an Office Max store in the US.
This program was installed on it. It is uninstalled and deleted now.
This may be on all Acer systems, not just the laptops.
I guess nobody with mod points caught that one.
Here is another.
I estimate the global market for cores at about 4.
I thought NASA was tracking these things. This sounds like it was big enough to be a major disaster if it hit a metropolitan area. Are they just watching for the ones that are big enough to wipe out a state, and not a city?
For now, I would be very happy with a super power supply that I could use to replace the huge number of wall warts I have. One cord to AC, and a bunch of connectors and cables to replace the original warts.
For example, for my network connection, I have a DSL modem, and switch to break out the ip's, a couple of routers, all plugged in to a UPS. I don't need any AC here, everything connected to the UPS is a wart that converts it back to DC. Everything would cooler, faster, and longer on backup if the DC was distributed directly.
Add storage to a separate machine, and keep a backup copy on it.
My last hard drive failure was caused by a power supply failure. It roasted both the main hard drive and the backup hard drive in the system. Even if they had been RAID I would have been out of luck.
I have seen a couple of reports that the rootkit included code written by DVD Jon having to do with iTunes security.
I cannot verify this, I have not seen to root kit.
I would really like it to be true. Sony steals others intellectual property in an attempt to protect music they distribute, and the RIAA says they have done nothing wrong.
I really hope that some can validate this story.
It looks pretty good on: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) KHTML/3.2.3 (like Gecko)
It even works well with the larger fonts I prefer to use.
I use APF and BFD on servers I manage. BFD will automatically block ip addresses that generate too many invalid login attempts.
I have been seeing attacks since the server went online, but they have increased recently.
BFD comes with a 10 minute cycle time. I recently changed it to 1 minute on one of my servers. It looks like the scripts expect it to be running on a 10 minute cycle, since a lot of the attacks start on 10 minute intervals.
I am blocking 3-10 new ip's per day.
This did not happen overnight. The version they are running is probably older than the released version.
Of course running it on their servers only exercises a small portion of the code, and with an extremely limited set of drivers.
This bill was introduced by the notorious pirate Hatch. It seems to read like a preliminary to a more restrictive law. IANAL, but it seems to me that it would actually be hard to convict a casual file sharer.
An excert:
(a) Prohibited Acts- Section 506(a) of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
`(a) Criminal Infringement-
`(1) IN GENERAL- Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed--
`(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
`(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
`(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
`(2) EVIDENCE- For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement of a copyright.
`(3) DEFINITION- In this subsection, the term `work being prepared for commercial distribution' means--
`(A) a computer program, a musical work, a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or a sound recording, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution--
`(i) the copyright owner has a reasonable expectation of commercial distribution; and
`(ii) the copies or phonorecords of the work have not been commercially distributed; or
`(B) a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution, the motion picture--
`(i) has been made available for viewing in a motion picture exhibition facility; and
`(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.
This sounds like someone has finally found a use for all of those AOL cd's. A completely new set of pads delivered to your door monthly.
They apparently use time travel in their review process. From the Lingo review:
Lingo
REVIEW DATE: 02.08.05
Won't this also occur in email with Outlook and Outlook Express? They use the same control that IE does to process the html.
This could make for a much worse case than having to visit a web site. Just have the preview pane open with these apps and get a spam than contains the exploit.
Isn't frontpage support the other major reason to stick with 1.3? I don't believe it is available for Apache 2.
A lot of "Web Designers" seem to expect the frontpage extensions to be available.
Is something like this discovered by accident, or is some poor person sitting at a desk coding weird html all day to see what happens?
There is a weird mix of members in this. Not what I would expect from their quotes. One of the interesting ones: University of New Mexico representing the state of New Mexico. http://www.nlr.net/members.html
This sure is a graceful way to tell people that the server is too busy. On the good side, it is returned very quickly.
W orkerRequest wr) +148
.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573
Server Error in '/' Application.
Server Too Busy
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(Http
Version Information: Microsoft
This is real nasty. It looks like most versions of office as well as MS Works since 2000 are affected. See the Security Bulletin Any random word document with an infected embeded jpg is a transfer vector.
There were many software products prior to MS Windows that used Windows as part of the name. I have always thought that a trademark for such a generic term should not be permitted. I have no problem with "Microsoft Windows", or "MS Windows", but "Windows" is just wrong. And saying that a trademark on a rhyming word is just absurd. I do think that "Lindows" would be a perfectly good trademark. It was not a term for anything prior to its use for "Lindows".
In the early 80's, I used several Windows packages, "Windows for C", "Windows for Data", both from Vermont Creative Sotware. I also used "Greenleaf Windows", another DOS window package, and I am pretty sure that this was based on an even earlier Windows package that Greenleaf Software purchased. Wasn't GEM also called a Windows
package? What about X Windows?
It seems to me that Microsoft's argument is we are a monopoly.
The first ink jet printer I ever was was a Xerox. This was in the early days of PC's, before HP even had an ink jet printer for sale. Xerox would only sell the printer as part of a word processing system package. I believe, but am not sure, that it had a custom interface.
Now Dell is marketing printers from Lexmark/Xerox. The R&D is still being done, just not by Dell. Lexmark is doing the R&D, maybe not as much as HP, but lots of it. The article mentions the fact that HP is in this same position in the laser printer market, but ignores it to concentrate on ink jet printers.
The difference between Dell and HP at least for ink jets, is that of a marketing company vs a integrated company. The integrated company should have the cost advantage.
A better comparison for the article, but much less provocative, would be HP marketing vs Dell marketing, or HP R&D vs Dell partner R&D, or loogin forward, HP laser printers vs Dell laser printers.
I feel that HP ink-jet hardware is much superior to Lexmark. As sad as this is, that may be the their dilemma.
FWIW I recently replaced a low end Lexmark printer because the cost of the replacement ink was more than the cost of a new printer. The replacement printer was selected more on the cost of ink supplies than on the cost of the printer itself, and was obviously NOT a Lexmark.
Is this the same notorious pirate hatch?
6 23 7&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=185&tid= 99
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/004
Almost every point they point make in their document applies equally well between generations of MS Office. The most important point in the document in MS Access compatibility. There are a whole lot of small business applications built on this, and these would need to be rewritten.
It also seems that this document is about the best argument against upgrading to a new version of MS Office.
The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Siemens was planning on moving 15,000 programming jobs to Indis after closing several facilites in Europe and the US.
Where in India are these people going to come from? Thats a whole lot of people. Are there currently that many unemployed programmers in India looking for work?