Agreed. Perhaps I missed something, but this seems to be a pretty Windows oriented review.
I'm actually running PureMessaage, which seems to work fairly well. It would have been nice to see how it stacked up against the competition. I'm not likely to get the resources to be able to review it against this much competition.
Everything is replaced at some point. tiff may not go away for many many years, but 100 years from now you may not be able to easily read formats that are common today.
I was going through some really old pictures (75 + years) with relatives recently. All we had to do was pass the photographs around. 100 years from now, my great grandchildren will have a hard time figuring out what a CD is, much less how to read it.
Hmm, I tried to pick up Firefox this morning, and the site was definitely/.ed. That's what happens when you live on the west coast, and get in to work after the story of the Firefox 1.0 release gets posted here.
Yep, that was a recent change. I checked about half an hour ago, and the TTL for www.sco.com was down to 60 seconds. I'm so disapoined, as I was looking for the address to send in my license fee.
My wife and I had my son try bio-feedback when he was about 16. I'll have to say that I did not notice much difference. This is probably because he did not really take it seriously. He later admitted that he thought the whole thing was a 'crock', and just goofed off during the sessions.
So, as with any psychololgical treatment, the person first needs to admit they have a problem, and want to do some work to 'fix' that problem. If this is not the case, don't even bother.
The treatments were very expensive, so I would not do something like this lightly.
I'll have to give this a try. While it does not make WiFi secure, it is a small step to making it a bit more secure. At least this way, if I'm not using my wireless network (which is most of the time), it's not broadcasting SSID's for people to sniff.
On a side note, it's a real shame that a useful article has garnered mostly trolls and flamebait as responses. Sigh...
I just received a call from someone at ActiveState (we use their Spam filter). She told me that they would continue to support all the ActiveState products, including the open source languages. She also said there would be no staff reductions. Let's hope the transition is painless (for the employees and the rest of us).
I'm a bit confused, reading the CERT advisory, it says:
"This vulnerability is message-oriented as opposed to connection-oriented. That means that the vulnerability is triggered by the contents of a specially-crafted email message rather than by lower-level network traffic. This is important because an MTA that does not contain the vulnerability will pass the malicious message along to other MTAs that may be protected at the network level."
The previous suggests that a malicious message can be passed through, even from a patched server. Then later on the advisory says:
"A patched sendmail server will drop invalid headers, thus preventing downstream servers from receiving them. "
So, do we need to upgrade all our sendmail servers now,or just the exterior servers?
Either way, the message may be able to pass through to systems not directly connected to the Internet.
Except that discrimination based on color/sex/religion *is* illegal (at least in the US). I don't think that it is illegal to discriminate based on someones credit rating. Now if it's 'just not right' to turn someone down for a job because of their credit rating is another issue.
That's simple, Joe six-pack locks his house and car because he has been taught to do that since he was young. I'm sure it's second nature for most people to lock their cars when to go shopping.
On the other hand, most average people have never been taught to secure their computers. Perhaps after enough people learn (either through the pain of being hacked, or being educated) to secure their systems, then computer security will be as 'common sense' as locking a car.
I also enjoyed Bill's comments on regret. An earlier post suggested the comment was 'prepared'. Either way, it still rings true. If I can spend less time regretting the past, which I can't change, and more time living in the present, then my life is better. Thanks for the though Bill.
"Asking for it"? I'm not posting to alt.spam.me, so I'm not "asking for it". Yes, posting to usenet makes it more likely I'll get spam - and that's a shame.
That's why you don't let it become a mess in the fisrt place. It's far easier to spend a few extra moments dressing down a wire, than hours cleaning the whole mess up later. Now if I could only convince some of my co-workers this was the case *sigh*.
That is so true. It seems that laptop vendors change model numbers for no apparent reason. I've seen a few HP Pavilion's that *seem* to have the same hardware, but different model numbers. Perhaps the differences are in the installed software.
I did get Debian Sid running on a Pavilion ze1115. Everything worked 'out of the box', except ACPI. I was able to get that working with the latest patches from Sourceforge. The whole process was far easier that I had anticipated.
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Agreed. Perhaps I missed something, but this seems to be a pretty Windows oriented review.
I'm actually running PureMessaage, which seems to work fairly well. It would have been nice to see how it stacked up against the competition. I'm not likely to get the resources to be able to review it against this much competition.
Everything is replaced at some point. tiff may not go away for many many years, but 100 years from now you may not be able to easily read formats that are common today.
I was going through some really old pictures (75 + years) with relatives recently. All we had to do was pass the photographs around. 100 years from now, my great grandchildren will have a hard time figuring out what a CD is, much less how to read it.
Hmm, I tried to pick up Firefox this morning, and the site was definitely /.ed. That's what happens when you live on the west coast, and get in to work after the story of the Firefox 1.0 release gets posted here.
Interesting that you can patent a tree you 'discovered', and did not create. Perhaps I'll patent air.
Yep, that was a recent change. I checked about half an hour ago, and the TTL for www.sco.com was down to 60 seconds. I'm so disapoined, as I was looking for the address to send in my license fee.
My wife and I had my son try bio-feedback when he was about 16. I'll have to say that I did not notice much difference. This is probably because he did not really take it seriously. He later admitted that he thought the whole thing was a 'crock', and just goofed off during the sessions.
So, as with any psychololgical treatment, the person first needs to admit they have a problem, and want to do some work to 'fix' that problem. If this is not the case, don't even bother.
The treatments were very expensive, so I would not do something like this lightly.
I'll have to give this a try. While it does not make WiFi secure, it is a small step to making it a bit more secure. At least this way, if I'm not using my wireless network (which is most of the time), it's not broadcasting SSID's for people to sniff.
On a side note, it's a real shame that a useful article has garnered mostly trolls and flamebait as responses. Sigh...
if it's anything like the RC series, this will be a release to remember. OK, that comment sounds rather omnious. Can anyone clarify that remark?
It's about appeasing the masses. "Look", say the politicians, "We're tough on computer crime!" This will keep most people off the law makers backs.
I just received a call from someone at ActiveState (we use their Spam filter). She told me that they would continue to support all the ActiveState products, including the open source languages. She also said there would be no staff reductions. Let's hope the transition is painless (for the employees and the rest of us).
Well, it is the press. They do get paid to sell stories, and most folks will read stories of impending doom before they read the 'good news' stories.
That being said, if this story wakes up a few people and gets them to install the patch, then that's a good thing.
We destroyed the wrong computer. Better luck next time.
There is now more information here . It looks like an exploit is possible, though it would be difficult. Better to upgrade now and be safe.
I'm a bit confused, reading the CERT advisory, it says:
"This vulnerability is message-oriented as opposed to connection-oriented. That means that the vulnerability is triggered by the contents of a specially-crafted email message rather than by lower-level network traffic. This is important because an MTA that does not contain the vulnerability will pass the malicious message along to other MTAs that may be protected at the network level."
The previous suggests that a malicious message can be passed through, even from a patched server. Then later on the advisory says:
"A patched sendmail server will drop invalid headers, thus preventing downstream servers from receiving them. "
So, do we need to upgrade all our sendmail servers now,or just the exterior servers?
Either way, the message may be able to pass through to systems not directly connected to the Internet.
Ok, let's say I don't owe my company loyalty. I'll keep my resume updated, and not feel to bad if I find a better job and leave.
On the other hand, I do owe them a full days work for a full days pay.
Except that discrimination based on color/sex/religion *is* illegal (at least in the US). I don't think that it is illegal to discriminate based on someones credit rating. Now if it's 'just not right' to turn someone down for a job because of their credit rating is another issue.
How do you know "it won't do any good"? Surely, it won't hurt.
That's simple, Joe six-pack locks his house and car because he has been taught to do that since he was young. I'm sure it's second nature for most people to lock their cars when to go shopping.
On the other hand, most average people have never been taught to secure their computers. Perhaps after enough people learn (either through the pain of being hacked, or being educated) to secure their systems, then computer security will be as 'common sense' as locking a car.
No, they still would have gone bankrupt. The muckie-mucks would just have gotten away with driving their companies out of business.
I also enjoyed Bill's comments on regret. An earlier post suggested the comment was 'prepared'. Either way, it still rings true. If I can spend less time regretting the past, which I can't change, and more time living in the present, then my life is better. Thanks for the though Bill.
"Asking for it"? I'm not posting to alt.spam.me, so I'm not "asking for it". Yes, posting to usenet makes it more likely I'll get spam - and that's a shame.
That's odd. A 'make search name=opera' find's linux-opera, but not opera. I guess I'll have to look a little more carefully next time.
Well, I suppose it's time to try Opera. It's not in the ports collecton yet, but is availaible here.
That's why you don't let it become a mess in the fisrt place. It's far easier to spend a few extra moments dressing down a wire, than hours cleaning the whole mess up later. Now if I could only convince some of my co-workers this was the case *sigh*.
That is so true. It seems that laptop vendors change model numbers for no apparent reason. I've seen a few HP Pavilion's that *seem* to have the same hardware, but different model numbers. Perhaps the differences are in the installed software.
I did get Debian Sid running on a Pavilion ze1115. Everything worked 'out of the box', except ACPI. I was able to get that working with the latest patches from Sourceforge. The whole process was far easier that I had anticipated.