Clowns like you are the reason that such games, BF:V, for example, require the CD in the drive all the time now. There's NOTHING that is needed to run the game on the CD, just that dorks like you abuse the system, leading to irritation for us all.
The key difference between a buffer overflow in Pine and one in Outlook is that the overflow in Pine will only have the set of permission that you, the user, has.
With Outlook, the user has (most always) Administrator permissions, which then allows the takeover of the system.
Who owns your hard drive? If you've installed Steam, read this, then answer the question again.
Yeah, let's all give game developers on-demand access to our storage. Cheat detection notwithstanding, this is bad news; is it worth the cost? I like to think intelligent people agree: it isn't.
HL2 was not originally going to, and as far as I know, won't require Steam, as long as someone buys a boxed copy.... Until you patch it. You should have seen the thread on the Valve/Steam forums that blasted that decision to hell and back. No one, save Valve/Vinvendi, likes it.
I won't buy or play HL2 if it requires Steam. Exception: when I can buy a used copy off of someone for single-player or when a LAN fake-Steam server will fool the software, I might buy it (used) for ten bucks, as long as my purchase won't add a tick to their sales figures.
Think about it - the entertainment industry (Vivendi/Universal, hello? MPAA/RIAA, hello?) wants to own everything. Forget about fair use if this Steaming crap becomes the norm; you won't even be able to use your computer when your ISP borks your net connection. The only way to fight this crud is to fight it by keeping your money away from the people resonsible for this farce, even if it means passing up something that might actually be really fun. If HL2 really will require Steam, then don't purchase the game. Don't increase their sales figures, don't let them think this is a profitable way to force DRM down our throats. Behave like customers, not simpering consumers, and take your business elsewhere.
I recently changed my gaming PC's OS to Windows XP Pro. I'd previously used Windows 98SE. Why did I, a rabid hater of all things XP (updates, EUL"A"s, wizardry, etc.) give up on 98 for my gaming OS?
DirectX 9 broke 98. I've been telling everyone within earshot that this was the way that MS was going to force the gamers off of 98 - via DirectX. All video files, under any format that I can find, (except real; I don't use it) are broken. They refuse to load. Breakdown of the issue here and here
It isn't a critical problem at this point, but the second "solution" is so obscure that I wonder how anyone managed to find it. (The first involves re-running the directx installer, which will allow the system to play back videos fine until the subsequent reboot.) How likely is an official fix for this issue? That's what I thought. Too bad, though - Win98SE still had a year or two worth of gaming life left in it.
A shame about that, but thankfully, there are things like Y Windows, which would be next to impossible to create without the existence of the Open Source train of thought in the first place.
What if you don't like the next version of MS' EULA? 1. suck it up and patch 2. refuse and be owned by the next RPC buffer overflow worm
Until consoles allow mods to be created, non-central server/LAN multiplayer games, hi-res (>1024x768) graphics, 5.1 or other surround sound, and a decent setup for FPS and other high-precision-required games, the PC isn't going anywhere but forward as a gaming platform. ("Just running" works already with the majority of the big PC games. If I wanted things to "just run", I'd own a Mac.)
Which platform is going to be the first to support AR (augmented reality) games, mm?
Err, yes, if you want the new features, you must upgrade. That was never in question. What is in question is whether or not someone needs the added features of either 2.6 or Windows X.
If you like ext2 and ipchains, you'll do fine on 2.0, securitywise.
Back to the point, 2.0 is still being maintained. This makes it one of those "mature" OSs. A win98 machine sitting being a NAT box is fairly hard to get to. The real problem is that while ANYone could take the time to learn to maintain the 2.0 kernel, while MS has the final say when the ball stops for Windows X.
Seriously, grandparent, set yourself up your own mail server (assuming you can't mooch root/whatever access off someone else you know that runs theirs) and set up a new email alias, which then points right back to your system account, for every single instance that requires the divulgence of such an address. Customize it in respect to the requesting site: 'brian.slashdot.org@youkickedmydog.org', for example. This is only slightly defeated by the need to maintain a highly visible address, such as one posted on some whacky Linux web site somewhere, and yet aliases can still be used to that end, although not as effectively.
That said, I have had three out of approximately two hundred aliases posted on web sites for the past four years, and the site that delivers the highest volume of spam to my inbox is someonelikesyou.com, due to ONE of my "friends" plunking my actual address into their maw some time ago, which amounts to, at most thus far, one spam a week.
Other occasional sources are the now defunct digitalmandate mailing list ("Support the US Beef Export Ban!!!@!"), and a bi-monthly blurb from some moron that includes webmaster@/abuse@/postmaster@ in their lists. All but the RFC required/recommended addresses have their own alias, dropped at any time I wish. Also, I then have a very good idea of whom sold me out.
Finally, an excuse to chop random stranger up with my cool samurai sword!
These are precisely the types of games I've been waiting for: ones that put all the entertainment of current (okay, okay, of the previous years) into the real-world environment. I want to run around in public with a fake rocket launcher whilst playing AR (Augmented Reality) DOOM! Mmm, I bet the corpses will still be staring up at me even after I walk around to the other side...
From section A: "Netscape may provide to you automatic Software and technology upgrades as the Preview Service is improved, and you agree to accept and to take no action to interfere with such automatic upgrades and related services."
Great. Yet another outfit that wants write access to my drive. If Counter-Strike wasn't enough to tempt me to allow a program to do what it wants on my system (Steam), there's not a snowflake's chance in hell that anything else will.
(An EULA is different from a service agreement, although usually the only penalty for not abiding by the service agreement is the termination of said service. So it carries a lot more weight.)
Once you read about how the electorial college works, you'll realize how stupid your post sounds, especially the part about Gore receiving ~500,000 more votes nationwide than Bush being in any way relevant.
Port State Service 21/tcp filtered ftp 22/tcp open ssh 23/tcp open telnet 25/tcp filtered smtp 53/tcp filtered domain 80/tcp filtered http 135/tcp filtered loc-srv 136/tcp filtered profile 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 443/tcp open https 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 515/tcp filtered printer 1433/tcp filtered ms-sql-s 12345/tcp filtered NetBus 17300/tcp filtered kuang2 27374/tcp filtered subseven 31337/tcp filtered Elite
Looks like they need a laxative. Badly. (Not sure why they left 443 open, but I'm happy they did! Hopefully, it must be open both ways to establish the connection or something, or they're too dumb/lazy to get around to it.)
Thanks for the info, but I am very rarely logged in. (Only login to post.) Hopefully, this is something I can chalk up to yet another/code change, akin to the vanishing sigs, etc.
I think that's a wonderful suggestion. Bicycle, car, truck, bus, plane... all the same. Let any schmoe with the cash jump on board.
What? What about the 9/11 incident(s), you say? Well, if those ~300 people *per plane* hadn't been thoroughly conditioned to stand by and do nothing, do you honestly expect that five people armed with 3/4-inch "knives" could have gained control of... anything? Do you think ~300 people will ever allow such a thing to happen again? Can you say "bum rush"?
Freedom and complete security are incompatible. Deal with it.
The only key feature missing from MUSHclient is the ability to map any key or key combination to any given macro. That's it. In every other aspect, it is the King of Clients (not open source, tho). Word has it this is being worked on, too.
... do you think I'd ever accidentally add something like "verisign.com" to a delegation zone, accidentally, of course, instead of the more unpopular "sitefinder.verisign.com"?
10. # Sole Remedy. YOUR USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE MATERIALS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENTS OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR OTHER POLICIES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE.
Stop using the Verisign services? Excellent! Now all I have to do is... uh... stop using the Internet?
Slashdot Mirror
'NFS: Make sure that fsync() flushes all pending file data to disk. The current call to nfs_wb_file() will fail to flush out mmapped() dirty pages.'
Clowns like you are the reason that such games, BF:V, for example, require the CD in the drive all the time now. There's NOTHING that is needed to run the game on the CD, just that dorks like you abuse the system, leading to irritation for us all.
Nice going.
Am I the only one that likes browsing entries by the order in which they were created?
The key difference between a buffer overflow in Pine and one in Outlook is that the overflow in Pine will only have the set of permission that you, the user, has.
With Outlook, the user has (most always) Administrator permissions, which then allows the takeover of the system.
Big difference.
Who owns your hard drive? If you've installed Steam, read this, then answer the question again.
Yeah, let's all give game developers on-demand access to our storage. Cheat detection notwithstanding, this is bad news; is it worth the cost? I like to think intelligent people agree: it isn't.
HL2 was not originally going to, and as far as I know, won't require Steam, as long as someone buys a boxed copy. ... Until you patch it. You should have seen the thread on the Valve/Steam forums that blasted that decision to hell and back. No one, save Valve/Vinvendi, likes it.
I won't buy or play HL2 if it requires Steam. Exception: when I can buy a used copy off of someone for single-player or when a LAN fake-Steam server will fool the software, I might buy it (used) for ten bucks, as long as my purchase won't add a tick to their sales figures.
Think about it - the entertainment industry (Vivendi/Universal, hello? MPAA/RIAA, hello?) wants to own everything. Forget about fair use if this Steaming crap becomes the norm; you won't even be able to use your computer when your ISP borks your net connection. The only way to fight this crud is to fight it by keeping your money away from the people resonsible for this farce, even if it means passing up something that might actually be really fun.
If HL2 really will require Steam, then don't purchase the game. Don't increase their sales figures, don't let them think this is a profitable way to force DRM down our throats. Behave like customers, not simpering consumers, and take your business elsewhere.
I recently changed my gaming PC's OS to Windows XP Pro. I'd previously used Windows 98SE. Why did I, a rabid hater of all things XP (updates, EUL"A"s, wizardry, etc.) give up on 98 for my gaming OS?
DirectX 9 broke 98. I've been telling everyone within earshot that this was the way that MS was going to force the gamers off of 98 - via DirectX. All video files, under any format that I can find, (except real; I don't use it) are broken. They refuse to load. Breakdown of the issue here and here
It isn't a critical problem at this point, but the second "solution" is so obscure that I wonder how anyone managed to find it. (The first involves re-running the directx installer, which will allow the system to play back videos fine until the subsequent reboot.) How likely is an official fix for this issue? That's what I thought. Too bad, though - Win98SE still had a year or two worth of gaming life left in it.
A shame about that, but thankfully, there are things like Y Windows, which would be next to impossible to create without the existence of the Open Source train of thought in the first place.
What if you don't like the next version of MS' EULA?
1. suck it up and patch
2. refuse and be owned by the next RPC buffer overflow worm
Whee.
They said preferably laptops, which have internal batteries. A 1.7GHz Centrino laptop has PLENTY of power, and damn good battery life to boot.
Someone just used the word "power" to describe "Centrino." Obviously, this poor man is stuck in the 1980's.
I take it that I'm the only one who actually liked Edlin?
Yes.
Until consoles allow mods to be created, non-central server/LAN multiplayer games, hi-res (>1024x768) graphics, 5.1 or other surround sound, and a decent setup for FPS and other high-precision-required games, the PC isn't going anywhere but forward as a gaming platform. ("Just running" works already with the majority of the big PC games. If I wanted things to "just run", I'd own a Mac.)
Which platform is going to be the first to support AR (augmented reality) games, mm?
Err, yes, if you want the new features, you must upgrade. That was never in question. What is in question is whether or not someone needs the added features of either 2.6 or Windows X.
If you like ext2 and ipchains, you'll do fine on 2.0, securitywise.
Back to the point, 2.0 is still being maintained. This makes it one of those "mature" OSs. A win98 machine sitting being a NAT box is fairly hard to get to. The real problem is that while ANYone could take the time to learn to maintain the 2.0 kernel, while MS has the final say when the ball stops for Windows X.
A better question: When was the last time a 2.0 series kernel needed a new patch?
... you bastard!
Seriously, grandparent, set yourself up your own mail server (assuming you can't mooch root/whatever access off someone else you know that runs theirs) and set up a new email alias, which then points right back to your system account, for every single instance that requires the divulgence of such an address. Customize it in respect to the requesting site: 'brian.slashdot.org@youkickedmydog.org', for example.
This is only slightly defeated by the need to maintain a highly visible address, such as one posted on some whacky Linux web site somewhere, and yet aliases can still be used to that end, although not as effectively.
That said, I have had three out of approximately two hundred aliases posted on web sites for the past four years, and the site that delivers the highest volume of spam to my inbox is someonelikesyou.com, due to ONE of my "friends" plunking my actual address into their maw some time ago, which amounts to, at most thus far, one spam a week.
Other occasional sources are the now defunct digitalmandate mailing list ("Support the US Beef Export Ban!!!@!"), and a bi-monthly blurb from some moron that includes webmaster@/abuse@/postmaster@ in their lists. All but the RFC required/recommended addresses have their own alias, dropped at any time I wish. Also, I then have a very good idea of whom sold me out.
Finally, an excuse to chop random stranger up with my cool samurai sword!
These are precisely the types of games I've been waiting for: ones that put all the entertainment of current (okay, okay, of the previous years) into the real-world environment. I want to run around in public with a fake rocket launcher whilst playing AR (Augmented Reality) DOOM! Mmm, I bet the corpses will still be staring up at me even after I walk around to the other side...
From section A:
"Netscape may provide to you automatic Software and technology upgrades as the Preview Service is improved, and you agree to accept and to take no action to interfere with such automatic upgrades and related services."
Great. Yet another outfit that wants write access to my drive. If Counter-Strike wasn't enough to tempt me to allow a program to do what it wants on my system (Steam), there's not a snowflake's chance in hell that anything else will.
(An EULA is different from a service agreement, although usually the only penalty for not abiding by the service agreement is the termination of said service. So it carries a lot more weight.)
Once you read about how the electorial college works, you'll realize how stupid your post sounds, especially the part about Gore receiving ~500,000 more votes nationwide than Bush being in any way relevant.
Port State Service
21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp filtered smtp
53/tcp filtered domain
80/tcp filtered http
135/tcp filtered loc-srv
136/tcp filtered profile
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
443/tcp open https
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
515/tcp filtered printer
1433/tcp filtered ms-sql-s
12345/tcp filtered NetBus
17300/tcp filtered kuang2
27374/tcp filtered subseven
31337/tcp filtered Elite
Looks like they need a laxative. Badly.
(Not sure why they left 443 open, but I'm happy they did! Hopefully, it must be open both ways to establish the connection or something, or they're too dumb/lazy to get around to it.)
Each post must be accompanied, at a minimum, by your:
full name
home address
phone number(s)
date and place of birth
social security account number
recent passport photo
Otherwise, STFU. ("Anti-anon proponent". Hmm.)
Thanks for the info, but I am very rarely logged in. (Only login to post.) Hopefully, this is something I can chalk up to yet another /code change, akin to the vanishing sigs, etc.
Didn't realize that not all stories make it to the front page. Hrmf.
I think that's a wonderful suggestion. Bicycle, car, truck, bus, plane... all the same. Let any schmoe with the cash jump on board.
... anything? Do you think ~300 people will ever allow such a thing to happen again? Can you say "bum rush"?
What? What about the 9/11 incident(s), you say? Well, if those ~300 people *per plane* hadn't been thoroughly conditioned to stand by and do nothing, do you honestly expect that five people armed with 3/4-inch "knives" could have gained control of
Freedom and complete security are incompatible. Deal with it.
The only key feature missing from MUSHclient is the ability to map any key or key combination to any given macro. That's it. In every other aspect, it is the King of Clients (not open source, tho). Word has it this is being worked on, too.
Well worth a one-time $20 cost.
... do you think I'd ever accidentally add something like "verisign.com" to a delegation zone, accidentally, of course, instead of the more unpopular "sitefinder.verisign.com"?
Naaaaaaw, I'd never do THAT...
10.
# Sole Remedy.
YOUR USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE MATERIALS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENTS OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR OTHER POLICIES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE.
Stop using the Verisign services? Excellent! Now all I have to do is... uh... stop using the Internet?
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