Even years after ending military service, you sent echoes of dit-dit-dit-dah dit-dit-dit-dah dit-dit-dit-dah (VVV) throught my head. Days in the bush listening for messages and relaying...
OK, so tell me how any of those remove the renderer, mshtml.dll from the system, which is what my post talked about. Good luck getting a usable system without that.
I used 98lite to remove it some years ago for a rollout in a university, but it required the 95 dlls to do the job. I doubt you can wedge NT's dlls into XP the same way, but maybe I'm wrong.
Get some reading skills. Thanks for wasting my time...
I grew up in Hawaii, where the legal age was 18, and I think the unofficial policy at Korean liquor stores near me was that, if you were over 6 feet tall, you could buy booze.
I also started getting gray at 19 years old, and now everyone assumes that I'm at least ten years older than I really am.
When I went to university in the 80's, where the age was 21, I would just special order imports by the case, and pick them up when they arrived. They didn't even want to card me for those...
As long as you are aware. I personally think that noexec should be standard in tmp and home, so that those who need to change it will be the ones who know that risk because they develop for a living or compile source constantly. The standard user has no use for it.
I didn't forget, just answered the point that was brought up. Marking various partitions noexec is really important. Do the users compile all the time? You can set up a shared resource for that on another machine...
But the point is that you can't bypass it. It's hooked into so many services and programs that a flaw in the IE renderer affects the entire OS. That's dangerous. Firefox doesn't hook to anything. If it did, you'd be in similar danger.
If I move X into the kernel to gain speed, then move most of the rendering for the screen to xpdf, the xpdf vulnerability becomes a scary thing indeed. I hope that Linux stays as modular as it always has, and I'll sacrifice a little speed for safety. Please don't tell me that I deserve neither!
I'm not going to comment about how secure or insecure Linux is compared to WindowsXP, but, living in S. Korea, I receive about 20 targeted attacks per day, based on my logcheck, snort, and portsentry reports. Sshd gets hammered every night, as well as my web services.
I seem to be holding up fine, though. I'd hate to have an MS webserver deirectly on the internet, considering the number of IIS vulnerability-based hits my webserver gets every night.
I did almost have a heart attack the first time that I ran chkrootkit after intalling portsentry, because I came up as being infected with BINDSHELL. Luckily, that's answered on the chkrootkit site and being a false positive.
Yeah. I've been living in Asia for a few years, and everybody talks about how bad the economy is here. Most people seem to believe that the economy is in the tank seriously.
In reality, The economy grows steadily at 2-3%. This is reasonable and sustainable, but many want a return to the heyday of double digit growth. It won't happen and they'd better come to accept that.
Many (non-IT) folks I talk to also look back to that time when stock prices were through the roof, everyone's 401K was looking good, and politicians were talking about how to spend all the extra money. They, too, just need to get over it.
I hope that IT comes bak in a small way, but nothing like the 90s should ever happen again...
I'm an expat, an American living in Asia. Trust me, though, there are a great many idiot politicians throughout the world. Many of them don't speak English often, though, so you might not notice. PM Taksin ranks right up there in my book.
My coworker in Thailand always used to message back home to the Philippines, and then he'd fill up on cards when he went back or have his wife buy them and mail them to him.
I live in Korea now, and I get the feeling (by how much it's used) that text messaging is free with cell service. All I'm sure about is that the teens seem to spend their entire day doing it, so it has to be cheap.
Yeah, well, what I really meant was the Fourth ammendment, where they can't seize my weapon, or something like that. Embarrassing. And since I misspelled amendment, as well, I really buggered the whole thing up. Good thing I don't live in the US, eh? You might have to exile me...
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Even years after ending military service, you sent echoes of dit-dit-dit-dah dit-dit-dit-dah dit-dit-dit-dah (VVV) throught my head. Days in the bush listening for messages and relaying...
"Miramax? I thought they only made classy movies, like The Crying Game."
"Yeah, but after they made She's All That, it was all downhill."
Heck Bluntman and Chronic even got a movie of their own. This is not news.
Now if you own/have a clitoris (i dont)
I just rent...
So an embedded computer producer's website only works in Flash, eh? I think I'll pass on their product, then.
OK, so tell me how any of those remove the renderer, mshtml.dll from the system, which is what my post talked about. Good luck getting a usable system without that.
I used 98lite to remove it some years ago for a rollout in a university, but it required the 95 dlls to do the job. I doubt you can wedge NT's dlls into XP the same way, but maybe I'm wrong.
Get some reading skills. Thanks for wasting my time...
I didn't make the original spelling correction, but, hey, I'll take the compliment, anyway. I don't get many...;)
you misspelled "manner" as "manor," changing the meaning of your sentence entirely. "In an insecure manor..." Whose? Bruce Wayne's?
I grew up in Hawaii, where the legal age was 18, and I think the unofficial policy at Korean liquor stores near me was that, if you were over 6 feet tall, you could buy booze.
I also started getting gray at 19 years old, and now everyone assumes that I'm at least ten years older than I really am.
When I went to university in the 80's, where the age was 21, I would just special order imports by the case, and pick them up when they arrived. They didn't even want to card me for those...
As long as you are aware. I personally think that noexec should be standard in tmp and home, so that those who need to change it will be the ones who know that risk because they develop for a living or compile source constantly. The standard user has no use for it.
Thanks for the nosuid recommendation, though.
I didn't forget, just answered the point that was brought up. Marking various partitions noexec is really important. Do the users compile all the time? You can set up a shared resource for that on another machine...
/dev/hdb2 /home ext3 noexec 0 2 should handle that.
But the point is that you can't bypass it. It's hooked into so many services and programs that a flaw in the IE renderer affects the entire OS. That's dangerous. Firefox doesn't hook to anything. If it did, you'd be in similar danger.
If I move X into the kernel to gain speed, then move most of the rendering for the screen to xpdf, the xpdf vulnerability becomes a scary thing indeed. I hope that Linux stays as modular as it always has, and I'll sacrifice a little speed for safety. Please don't tell me that I deserve neither!
I'm not going to comment about how secure or insecure Linux is compared to WindowsXP, but, living in S. Korea, I receive about 20 targeted attacks per day, based on my logcheck, snort, and portsentry reports. Sshd gets hammered every night, as well as my web services.
I seem to be holding up fine, though. I'd hate to have an MS webserver deirectly on the internet, considering the number of IIS vulnerability-based hits my webserver gets every night.
I did almost have a heart attack the first time that I ran chkrootkit after intalling portsentry, because I came up as being infected with BINDSHELL. Luckily, that's answered on the chkrootkit site and being a false positive.
Right, so simply taking the original site the virus downloads from won't affect it. Cool!
Are you talking about some company in particular?
While you're talking about the US, I was talking about Thailand and Korea.
Yeah, but if you get dinner and a movie from them, you know they'll be expecting something from you after... ;)
Best of all, we'll give it all away and make the money back on advertising!
Yeah. I've been living in Asia for a few years, and everybody talks about how bad the economy is here. Most people seem to believe that the economy is in the tank seriously.
In reality, The economy grows steadily at 2-3%. This is reasonable and sustainable, but many want a return to the heyday of double digit growth. It won't happen and they'd better come to accept that.
Many (non-IT) folks I talk to also look back to that time when stock prices were through the roof, everyone's 401K was looking good, and politicians were talking about how to spend all the extra money. They, too, just need to get over it.
I hope that IT comes bak in a small way, but nothing like the 90s should ever happen again...
Dan
Is John gone? I hadn't noticed. Geez, I miss him... ;)
- Get a sealed computer. We can get an old Petium 200 without a fan and seal all the holes. Cover it in a clear plastic bag.
- Physically protect it. Put it in some kind of container.
- Choose peripherals that can't die from dust. No wheel mice. No ball mice. Sealed KB and mouse, again with a plastic bag if necessary.
- Export the display from somewhere else that's cool and relatively dust free.
Bingo. LTSP (or PXE boot) is your friend.I'm an expat, an American living in Asia. Trust me, though, there are a great many idiot politicians throughout the world. Many of them don't speak English often, though, so you might not notice. PM Taksin ranks right up there in my book.
My coworker in Thailand always used to message back home to the Philippines, and then he'd fill up on cards when he went back or have his wife buy them and mail them to him.
I live in Korea now, and I get the feeling (by how much it's used) that text messaging is free with cell service. All I'm sure about is that the teens seem to spend their entire day doing it, so it has to be cheap.
Yeah, well, what I really meant was the Fourth ammendment, where they can't seize my weapon, or something like that. Embarrassing. And since I misspelled amendment, as well, I really buggered the whole thing up. Good thing I don't live in the US, eh? You might have to exile me...
Yeah, but with grsecurity and selinux, the amount of damage anything can do automatically is pretty small.