While you are 99.999% right, theses 2 are related concept, whether we like it or not.
Why? In this particular case, Windows doesn't have to be secure to keep his marketshare, as opposed to Apple, Linux and BSD that needs technical merrits to get installed (or bought).
If you check Google Zeitgeist, you will find that plenty of people are still accessing the internet using Windows 98 and 2000.
Why? "It works for me."
I know this is all obivious to most techies out there but still....
This is so true. I'm afraid that his management does not understand this though.
You just have to make them understand that computers products won't mater in the future... Knowledge will. Why? Because cost associated with copying data is next to none, so unless you force your customer to buy multiple copy, only a single copy is going to be bought.
If, on the contrary, you give away the product but charge for services, you will have a large customer, and, while you won't have the monopoly on services for your product, your will still control developpement done over the said product.
Then at least try to borrow the 4CD edition. I found the documentaries on how the movie was made and fact about the LOTR itself even more entertaining... There's a video about Tolkien himself on 'The Two Towers' that I enjoyed a lot...
But yeah, It was kind of expensive... Might want to rent it instead...
WEP is not secure, but in 99% of cases, it's secure *enough*.
For home/personnal use, not really a problem (unless your neighboor really wants your personnal information). It's commercial use that's a Problem...
Worse case scenario: Imagine your Bank using Wi-Fi... Some people WILL be patient enough to try to get on the network... Not pretty...
(Of course, banks are smart enough not to use Wi-Fi, but some Hotels, for exemple, are not smart enough to even enable WEP...I know, I have seen it first hand...)
Same Here up in Canada... I'm in Engineering School (Computer Eng.) and the only thing I REALLY have learned is HOW to learn...
That and doing stuff in 3 days with notions that you didn't know 2 days ago...
Of course fast crammed learning like that feels like crap cause you don't remember anything 6 months later...
I especialy blame the school for teaching us good programming pratices in year 3 and how to code in year 1... You realise that you old code is mostly crap... Although it compiled and runned...
I will finish this 4 year 'training' next year and I just learn what exception(in C++) are.... and I had to change the idea that:
'If it works, it's right'
to
'If it's right, it works'...
"This is a Virus. If You do not click Cancel in the next 30 seconds, You computer will be formated!"
And went the user click cancel, present them an explanation on WHY this happened. Or something like that... Something with REAL infection-properties, but with only purpose to SCARE the user...
(it doesn't matter if you heat your apartment with oil power, electric radiators, light bulbs or a computer - the total amount of energy required for heating will still be the same).
Not true... If you use a thermopump (Think Refrigirator backwards) It take less energy to move heat around then to produce it...
And as much as I agree with winter heating, in the summer, the same 'advantage' becomes a problem...
I live in Montreal... We get average of -15C in the Winter and 25C in the summer.... 4month/years that computer IS a problem for heating
True, If I remember correctly, another metal piece act as an antenna, depending on length, they are more 'tuned' to one frequency. Now, an EMP is simply a very power radio pulse on (almost) all frequencies. What you get is varying potentiel differences and, depending on the power of the EMP, it can easily fry electronics if you get somthing like -100V on one spot and +100V on another spot for 1ms (think 200V on a Cell phone, or a computer)....
Such a thing would easily fry any circuit, but I doubt a wire would suffer any real consequence except a bit of heat...
Anyone can confirm that I'm right / speaking bullshit?
aimSniff : sniff AIM traffic
driftnet : sniffs for images
dsniff : sniffs for cleartext passwords (thanks Dug)
ethereal 0.10.0 : the standard. includes tethereal
ettercap 0.6.b : sniff on a switched network and more.
filesnarf : grab files out of NFS traffic
mailsnarf : sniff smtp/pop traffic
msgsnarf : sniff aol-im, msn, yahoo-im, irc, icq traffic
ngrep : network grep, a sniffer with grep filter capabilities
tcpdump : the core of it all
urlsnarf : log all urls visited on the wire
webspy : mirror all urls visited by a host in your local browser
Slashdot Mirror
Why are companies allowed to get away with this crap just because we pay them for their shoddy wares?
Because It Takes a Lot Less Time and Most People Won't Notice the Difference Until It's Too Late.
Security is not the same as marketshare.
While you are 99.999% right, theses 2 are related concept, whether we like it or not.
Why? In this particular case, Windows doesn't have to be secure to keep his marketshare, as opposed to Apple, Linux and BSD that needs technical merrits to get installed (or bought).
If you check Google Zeitgeist, you will find that plenty of people are still accessing the internet using Windows 98 and 2000.
Why? "It works for me."
I know this is all obivious to most techies out there but still....
The fact that Slashdot has to constantly misrepresent information to make Microsoft look bad says more for Microsoft than it does against them.
You must be new here...
You know as well as me that this will never happen.
Why? The general public doesn't understand the issues at stake... it's too long to explain, and the big players have enough power to spread FUD.
This is so true. I'm afraid that his management does not understand this though. You just have to make them understand that computers products won't mater in the future... Knowledge will. Why? Because cost associated with copying data is next to none, so unless you force your customer to buy multiple copy, only a single copy is going to be bought.
If, on the contrary, you give away the product but charge for services, you will have a large customer, and, while you won't have the monopoly on services for your product, your will still control developpement done over the said product.
That is the direction that IBM is heading: Consulting. Why? If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.
:)
Well, it's lawyers who file and handle the patents and lawyers that fight the patents. Maybe they are just setting themselves up for more business.
Reminds me of this Comic Strip...
Then at least try to borrow the 4CD edition. I found the documentaries on how the movie was made and fact about the LOTR itself even more entertaining... There's a video about Tolkien himself on 'The Two Towers' that I enjoyed a lot...
But yeah, It was kind of expensive... Might want to rent it instead...
So why is it so bad if my network is not secured? I leave it open on purpose.
One Word: Spammer.
You really want someone from the street to use your open net connection to send 10 gig of spam? It's your bandwith, not mine...
Of course, if you live on the 14th floor, then it's a VERY slim possibility, so you're mostly OK...
WEP is not secure, but in 99% of cases, it's secure *enough*.
... Some people WILL be patient enough to try to get on the network... Not pretty...
For home/personnal use, not really a problem (unless your neighboor really wants your personnal information). It's commercial use that's a Problem...
Worse case scenario: Imagine your Bank using Wi-Fi
(Of course, banks are smart enough not to use Wi-Fi, but some Hotels, for exemple, are not smart enough to even enable WEP...I know, I have seen it first hand...)
Molson? Labatts?
:)
:)
Kid Stuff!
I only drink this stuff (and the occassional Guiness)...
8%, 9%.... now you're talking
I'll have to admit, though, Bell's/Kalamazoo is a pretty good choise too
Like this fellow 'Coder' sitting next to me, that putting most of his code in between /* and */ because 'It compiled faster'...
he was wondering why his program wasn't working
I was wondering was he was doing in Computer Engineering school...
Good job Sepper, I'm going to keep that one handy.
Thank you but the actual credit is not mine. I didn't come up with this idea... But I don't remember where I've first seen it...
Same Here up in Canada... I'm in Engineering School (Computer Eng.) and the only thing I REALLY have learned is HOW to learn...
That and doing stuff in 3 days with notions that you didn't know 2 days ago...
Of course fast crammed learning like that feels like crap cause you don't remember anything 6 months later...
I especialy blame the school for teaching us good programming pratices in year 3 and how to code in year 1... You realise that you old code is mostly crap... Although it compiled and runned...
I will finish this 4 year 'training' next year and I just learn what exception(in C++) are.... and I had to change the idea that:
'If it works, it's right'
to
'If it's right, it works'...
Since there is less code, is ReactOS FASTER than, say, Windows NT4 or Win98?
Or simply a pop-up window that says:
"This is a Virus. If You do not click Cancel in the next 30 seconds, You computer will be formated!"
And went the user click cancel, present them an explanation on WHY this happened. Or something like that... Something with REAL infection-properties, but with only purpose to SCARE the user...
For those who wanted to know what the 'Other' might be
IEEE 1164 std_logic
'U' Uninitialized
'X' Unknown
'0' Logic 0 (driven)
'1' Logic 1 (driven)
'Z' High impedance
'W' Weak 1
'L' Logic 0 (read)
'H' Logic 1 (read)
'-' Don't-care
I Have an exam involving this stuff (VHDL) Tomorrow... so I thought some of you might want to know... (But i'm sure most of you just '-' )
can anyone succinctly explain the exact tricks the team used to speed up their time?
Hum... Frame skipping?
Considering I'm working on a 600mhz, I kind of find it depressing that the author of the article refer to an 'old' computer as a 1GHZ...
My computer is too fast to run certain games... won't a 1GHZ be waaayyy too fast?
I see that I was not the only only having Flashback to C & C...
Let's just hope this plant doesn't have a 'tendency to disrupt carbon-based molecular structures'
Isn't that what alt.binairies Newsgroups are?
and it was more Parisienne French instead of Quebecois French, which was what was promised.
So true... don't know how much time I lost because the french Windows install default to AZERTY instead of QWERTY keyboard...
"Dammit, Where was the 'M' Key again?"
The devil is in the details
(it doesn't matter if you heat your apartment with oil power, electric radiators, light bulbs or a computer - the total amount of energy required for heating will still be the same).
Not true... If you use a thermopump (Think Refrigirator backwards) It take less energy to move heat around then to produce it...
And as much as I agree with winter heating, in the summer, the same 'advantage' becomes a problem...
I live in Montreal... We get average of -15C in the Winter and 25C in the summer.... 4month/years that computer IS a problem for heating
It really makes me sad when, if people don't understand something they assume it's magic.
I'm not that suprised after I read this
I don't for you, but I find it kind of depressing...
True, If I remember correctly, another metal piece act as an antenna, depending on length, they are more 'tuned' to one frequency. Now, an EMP is simply a very power radio pulse on (almost) all frequencies. What you get is varying potentiel differences and, depending on the power of the EMP, it can easily fry electronics if you get somthing like -100V on one spot and +100V on another spot for 1ms (think 200V on a Cell phone, or a computer)....
Such a thing would easily fry any circuit, but I doubt a wire would suffer any real consequence except a bit of heat...
Anyone can confirm that I'm right / speaking bullshit?
I can vouch for the win32 build... altouhg I could not check the packets in realtime... (network too fast, computer too slow)
you can try it with Knoppix STD Bootable Linux-ON-CD
with comes with all this:
aimSniff : sniff AIM traffic
driftnet : sniffs for images
dsniff : sniffs for cleartext passwords (thanks Dug)
ethereal 0.10.0 : the standard. includes tethereal
ettercap 0.6.b : sniff on a switched network and more.
filesnarf : grab files out of NFS traffic
mailsnarf : sniff smtp/pop traffic
msgsnarf : sniff aol-im, msn, yahoo-im, irc, icq traffic
ngrep : network grep, a sniffer with grep filter capabilities
tcpdump : the core of it all
urlsnarf : log all urls visited on the wire
webspy : mirror all urls visited by a host in your local browser