Are you sure that disabling the device and re-enabling it is enough to get Windows to use the replaced.sys file? I replaced the.sys file and did as you suggested, but upon rebooting, the new.sys file doesn't have its "last accessed" date updated, and the device manage still shows the old version of the driver as being active.
Other than downloading the exploit and trying it on out, is there any way to know for sure whether I'm now running the fixed version of the driver?
No, they're now in a separate box as well as in the search results. I just searched for 'debian' and saw "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian" as the 5th result as well as seeing it as the 1st result in the wikipedia box.
He isn't. He said that the most certain way of avoiding vulnerabilities is not to be connected to the 'net. That's true, right?
You said:
> The computer I had before my current laptop got incredibly bogged down with > viruses that entered the system through a variety of means. > Eventually I found it to be unusable, and switched it to Linux.
and then went on to say:
> Let me reiterate that I have never had a problem with viruses.
Sounds to me like you have had a problem with viruses; so much so that you found they made your computer unusable.
When you upload a video to YouTube, you grant them a non-exclusive license to use the video. Basically, you're just giving them the right to show the video to other people.
Can this upgrade be done from a live CD version? In other words, if I have live CD V 5.1 Can I then do a hard disk installation / upgrade to the new Dapper version?
You can first install the 5.10 to your hard disk,
If you only have the 5.10 live CD, you won't be installing anything. The 5.10 live CD is *only* a live CD, with no install option.
It's only in 6.06 that the live CD has an "install" icon on the desktop.
Be careful with that one - the '-d' flag tells the update manager to check for the latest development version of Ubuntu. That's fine at the moment, but in a week or two the "Edgy Eft" repositories will have opened, and will in all probability be very broken for a while. You don't want to upgrade to that version quite yet.
Whenever I have seen this problem, of GNOME locking up as it starts the desktop, the following has fixed it (read and remember steps 2 and 3 before running step 1, because step 1 will make this text disappear):
* hold control and alt and press F1 to get into a virtual console
* pkill esd
* hold alt and press F7 to get back to the GNOME screen
esd seems to be the process which allows you to hear annoying drummers whenever you do anything. I never miss it.
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OK, so you've got a clean image saved somewhere. Now what?
How do you detect whether you've been infected, when all you have is an image of an NTFS filesystem?
And once you are infected, how do you clean up without losing all your user files?
This is Slashdot. The headlines almost never reflect the true story.
Never mind, I ended up following the steps described in http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=365 and that seems to have worked.
Are you sure that disabling the device and re-enabling it is enough to get Windows to use the replaced .sys file? I replaced the .sys file and did as you suggested, but upon rebooting, the new .sys file doesn't have its "last accessed" date updated, and the device manage still shows the old version of the driver as being active.
Other than downloading the exploit and trying it on out, is there any way to know for sure whether I'm now running the fixed version of the driver?
The exploit is available for metasploit, so I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard to attach a Linux payload to it.
No, they're now in a separate box as well as in the search results. I just searched for 'debian' and saw "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian" as the 5th result as well as seeing it as the 1st result in the wikipedia box.
And the remix, in case you didn't already see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIMOPwvFZE
But:
1. the disks won't arrive in time for Christmas
2. shipit don't ship the current release, they ship the previous ('long term support') release
3. it's Ubuntu
With the link on the other hand:
1. I can download immediately
2. I can download up-to-the-minute testing or unstable packages if I so desire
3. it's Debian
> You are severely exaggerating.
He isn't. He said that the most certain way of avoiding vulnerabilities is not to be connected to the 'net. That's true, right?
You said:
> The computer I had before my current laptop got incredibly bogged down with
> viruses that entered the system through a variety of means.
> Eventually I found it to be unusable, and switched it to Linux.
and then went on to say:
> Let me reiterate that I have never had a problem with viruses.
Sounds to me like you have had a problem with viruses; so much so that you found they made your computer unusable.
> It doesn't say that Firefox has 50% of the browser market,
No, it doesn't, and neither did anyone else. You're correcting a mistake which nobody made.
What it does say is:
"Overall, we got about a 50/50 split between Firefox and Internet Explorer users"
Here's something like what you were expecting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQ9kvLGXS8
No, and you also shouldn't mention that Slashdot should be capitalized, or that nazis doesn't have an apostrophe.
That link in your signature takes me to a page containing nothing but links in German.
http://wmii.suckless.org/ looks like it might be the official WMII home page, but I'm not sure.
Anything less than a megabyte of memory usage is amazing for Firefox, considering that the binary itself is 11MB.
Where are you looking to find these numbers? I have a feeling you might not be looking in the right place.
"Press Ctrl+Shift+T to open them one by one in reverse order."
(from Help -> Help Contents -> Tabbed Browsing -> Closing and Restoring Tabs)
Does he say that Linux is failing because it has >1% install base in every paste as well?
If that's the standard then Windows is failing as well, also having a >1% install base.
Since you asked, that's the size of the disk cache. It is nothing to do with how much memory is used for caching.
That's not true.
See the clarification here:
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=al0Sb4gNaB8
When you upload a video to YouTube, you grant them a non-exclusive license to use the video. Basically, you're just giving them the right to show the video to other people.
You can set a preference to say you want Google in your own language.
I believe the preference is stored in a cookie...
Using "pause" won't stop Google storing your searches - it will just store them with a "do not display to user" flag against them.
It's only in 6.06 that the live CD has an "install" icon on the desktop.
So just:
"gksu update-manager"
will do the trick, safely.
The way it works is you boot the 'desktop' CD, which runs a live session, giving you a desktop with an install icon on it.
If, for some reason, you don't want to run a live session, you'll need the alternate CD, yes.
Here are torrents for the various dapper CDs.
Whenever I have seen this problem, of GNOME locking up as it starts the desktop, the following has fixed it (read and remember steps 2 and 3 before running step 1, because step 1 will make this text disappear):
* hold control and alt and press F1 to get into a virtual console
* pkill esd
* hold alt and press F7 to get back to the GNOME screen
esd seems to be the process which allows you to hear annoying drummers whenever you do anything. I never miss it.