Maybe so, butit seems they're working hard to counter that image.
Just take the Windows Update thing -- just yesterday I was trying to download an security patch for my Windows box from my Linux machine at work. (the updates are large, and I want to d/l them on a high-speed connection).
Only to realize that M$ doesn't let you download security patches for their product (ie. Internet Explorer) unless you go to their website using said unsecure product.
You can't download patches to use later, unless you're running on Win/IE already.
Heck, they themselves admit
that you can't download all security patches for NT 4.0 using NT 4.0!!
You have to : "access the Windows Update Catalog using a computer that is running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003"
and that : "Administrators who do not have access to a computer that is running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 to use the Windows Update Catalog can contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain this patch."
Now, this is just total bull that no owner of a (very expensive) product should have to put up with!
...hopes to release a tradition graphic novel and DVD box set of the series by Christmas 2003.
They plan to release this on DVD???
I mean, I can put up with this PBS-like pan-and-zoom animation, with subtitles on a flash presentation, but watching it on a TV would be just torture.
On the other hand, from what I've seen of anime (which is not much, so please correct me if I'm wrong), its all done in this "we're too cool to actually have things move" style.
Originally, it was supposed to be "Fiber Channel".
But then, to emphasise the fact that you can run it over media other than fiber, the British spelling of "fibre" was chosen instead, so its "Fibre Channel".
The drivers can't be 32-bit drivers. Running on a 64-bit OS, the drivers need to be able to address 64-bit space, etc. User mode programs can run in 32-bit "emulation" mode, because the OS will do all the translation for them, the drivers can't. That said, I'm sure first-cut pre-release drivers are nowhere NEAR the performance peak.
There's no problem like that with CD-RWs, because they use a special file system -- UDF.
Its a filesystem specifically designed for CD-RWs and would not suffer from a problem like the poster describes.
However, CD-RWs do have a maximum write lifetime, and will eventually degrade. This will take a long time though using UDF.
I tend to disagree.
Memories of important (or traumatic events) can be collected as early as 2 or 3.
I, for example, got hospitalized at age 2.5, and I distinctly remember what happened at the hospital.
Noone could have told me, because I was in there alone.
The memories are admittedly spotty -- I remember what happened that evening when I was admitted, but completely nothing of the next morning when I was supposedly being treated..
If you want to get a cheap computer to install a pirated copy of windows on, its cheaper to build one yourself, or get something from some no-name shop on pricewatch
The pc's there are cheaper and better than the junk you get at Walmart. And you still ended up paying for an operating system -- to Lindows.
So, I don't think many people will be following your example.
Although you might make a good example in the M$ vs Lindows suit for the prosecution!
Yes, mechanical failures are the bane of hard drives.
But is keeping your precious data on a drive that will lose _all_ your data on the next _power failure_ better?!? Power failures happen much more often than HD failures in my experience.
No, until we have huge, fast NVRAM, I'm sticking with my mechanical HD.
This is a different vulnerability it seems.
The original story is about the DOS attack thats alluded to in the end of the eWeek article.
So these seems to be two seprate vulnerabilities.
I used to work on the HP-UX kernel.
The kernel grew from
Also, HP-UX is not very (read: at all) modular -- since HP sells all the hardware for the PA servers anyway, most of the driver development is in-house, and in-kernel.
The sources are in the area of 100MB (with a full build getting into the 3-400MB range when all the objects are built, etc.) And it takes a couple of hours to compile on a 4-CPU N-class.
(Of course that also because all the files were sitting on NFS..)
Even us./ nerds can't burn it onto our DVD players, because the software required to view it won't let you do that. (And will enforce the 24-h cap).
The only way to burn a DVD would be to crack the encoding somehow. Not only would that violate the DMCA, but why bother when all of the movies they offer are on Kazaa for the last year?:)
My joystick still does not work with X-plane [x-plane.com], I would also like to have a descent combat flight simulator like Aces High [flyaceshigh.com] both games load and run well except the joystick does not work!
Hey, I had the same problem, and fixed it:)
I wrote a major joystick improvement for wineX, and now joysticks work in Aces High. I also added POV hat support. See my page on how to run Aces High under winex here
You could, in theory, construct a trojaned-binary that had the same md5 checksum, but I had always thought that this was so difficult as to be infeasible/not worth worrying about.
In theory. Not in practice.
MD5, but more so SHA-1 is believed to be "collision free" -- it is computationaly infeasable to find 2 messages x and y where H(x) = H(y).
Finding not only these 2 messages, but a "malicious" code that would still preserve the original MD5 or SHA-1 is exponentially more infeasable, I would venture to say, impossible in the next few years. (Barring quantum computing) (its much simpler to break into the main CVS server and just change the code there)
Electric Fence in linux (or any other unix platform) will do this for you. It will segfault on any references beyond the end of malloc'ed arrays, use of free()'d memory, etc.
Its very easy to use too -- just link with -lefence or set $LD_PRELOAD to load it.
With it being out for so many years, its a wonder that people don't make it standard practice to use it!
Current NAT technology only works if you're static. Consider if you're driving and switch between "lillypads" -- the IP address of your NATed host changes, and your TCP session drops (since you've just switched to a new IP from the server's point of view!)
Unlike photons, electrons have mass. Nothing with mass moves at anything close to the speed of light.
Umm, I'm sorry, if photons don't have mass why are they attracted by gravity? (eg. black holes?)
Photons DO have mass. This is part of the dual wave-particle nature of light.
(if anyone read the cover-page article in The New Republic..)
Delaware now seems not only to be the leading pro-corporate leech-state in America (ever see where all of your credit card bills are mailed from) but also the first to start the "pre-crime" division? (ala Minority Report).
And what right do they have to divulge people's personal information without their consent, when no overriding law would allow them to do so (i.e. the child sexual offender laws, etc). Is there any legal precedent for this???
In fact, this was discovered much before sept 11th. There was much talk about this "Easter egg" -- NYC spelling "Death to the Jews" in Windings. Microsoft, to prove that they did not intend anything, specifically made NYC do a "I love NY". So the second part _was_ a conspiracy:)
In the paragraph in this article (german) or in this goodle english translation.
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Maybe so, butit seems they're working hard to counter that image.
Just take the Windows Update thing -- just yesterday I was trying to download an security patch for my Windows box from my Linux machine at work. (the updates are large, and I want to d/l them on a high-speed connection).
Only to realize that M$ doesn't let you download security patches for their product (ie. Internet Explorer) unless you go to their website using said unsecure product.
You can't download patches to use later, unless you're running on Win/IE already.
Heck, they themselves admit that you can't download all security patches for NT 4.0 using NT 4.0!!
You have to : "access the Windows Update Catalog using a computer that is running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003"
and that : "Administrators who do not have access to a computer that is running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 to use the Windows Update Catalog can contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain this patch."
Now, this is just total bull that no owner of a (very expensive) product should have to put up with!
They plan to release this on DVD???
I mean, I can put up with this PBS-like pan-and-zoom animation, with subtitles on a flash presentation, but watching it on a TV would be just torture.
On the other hand, from what I've seen of anime (which is not much, so please correct me if I'm wrong), its all done in this "we're too cool to actually have things move" style.
You can't jump around, but you can pause it by right-clicking on the flash animation, and unchecking "Play".
Originally, it was supposed to be "Fiber Channel". But then, to emphasise the fact that you can run it over media other than fiber, the British spelling of "fibre" was chosen instead, so its "Fibre Channel".
The drivers can't be 32-bit drivers.
Running on a 64-bit OS, the drivers need to be able to address 64-bit space, etc.
User mode programs can run in 32-bit "emulation" mode, because the OS will do all the translation for them, the drivers can't.
That said, I'm sure first-cut pre-release drivers are nowhere NEAR the performance peak.
There's no problem like that with CD-RWs, because they use a special file system -- UDF.
Its a filesystem specifically designed for CD-RWs and would not suffer from a problem like the poster describes.
However, CD-RWs do have a maximum write lifetime, and will eventually degrade. This will take a long time though using UDF.
Eh? You probably live in Canada :)
If you read the report, it says that they booted off a boot disk, then copied.
(There was even something about a Linux bootable CD! That should have been made into a seperate ./ headline!!! :)
I tend to disagree.
Memories of important (or traumatic events) can be collected as early as 2 or 3.
I, for example, got hospitalized at age 2.5, and I distinctly remember what happened at the hospital. Noone could have told me, because I was in there alone.
The memories are admittedly spotty -- I remember what happened that evening when I was admitted, but completely nothing of the next morning when I was supposedly being treated..
Don't know about you, but I would definitely hate to be rebooted.
The pc's there are cheaper and better than the junk you get at Walmart.
And you still ended up paying for an operating system -- to Lindows.
So, I don't think many people will be following your example.
Although you might make a good example in the M$ vs Lindows suit for the prosecution!
If you would actually visit the site, you would notice that they say that they remove lift surfaces from the wings and tail excatly for this reason.
Yes, mechanical failures are the bane of hard drives.
But is keeping your precious data on a drive that will lose _all_ your data on the next _power failure_ better?!? Power failures happen much more often than HD failures in my experience.
No, until we have huge, fast NVRAM, I'm sticking with my mechanical HD.
This is a different vulnerability it seems. The original story is about the DOS attack thats alluded to in the end of the eWeek article. So these seems to be two seprate vulnerabilities.
I used to work on the HP-UX kernel.
The kernel grew from Also, HP-UX is not very (read: at all) modular -- since HP sells all the hardware for the PA servers anyway, most of the driver development is in-house, and in-kernel.
The sources are in the area of 100MB (with a full build getting into the 3-400MB range when all the objects are built, etc.) And it takes a couple of hours to compile on a 4-CPU N-class. (Of course that also because all the files were sitting on NFS..)
Even us ./ nerds can't burn it onto our DVD players, because the software required to view it won't let you do that. (And will enforce the 24-h cap).
:)
The only way to burn a DVD would be to crack the encoding somehow. Not only would that violate the DMCA, but why bother when all of the movies they offer are on Kazaa for the last year?
Hey, I had the same problem, and fixed it :)
I wrote a major joystick improvement for wineX, and now joysticks work in Aces High. I also added POV hat support. See my page on how to run Aces High under winex here
In theory. Not in practice. MD5, but more so SHA-1 is believed to be "collision free" -- it is computationaly infeasable to find 2 messages x and y where H(x) = H(y).
Finding not only these 2 messages, but a "malicious" code that would still preserve the original MD5 or SHA-1 is exponentially more infeasable, I would venture to say, impossible in the next few years. (Barring quantum computing)
(its much simpler to break into the main CVS server and just change the code there)
We have the technology!
Its called an alarm clock.
Its very easy to use too -- just link with -lefence or set $LD_PRELOAD to load it.
With it being out for so many years, its a wonder that people don't make it standard practice to use it!
Current NAT technology only works if you're static.
Consider if you're driving and switch between "lillypads" -- the IP address of your NATed host changes, and your TCP session drops (since you've just switched to a new IP from the server's point of view!)
Umm, I'm sorry, if photons don't have mass why are they attracted by gravity? (eg. black holes?)
Photons DO have mass. This is part of the dual wave-particle nature of light.
The Worst State(tm)
(if anyone read the cover-page article in The New Republic..)
Delaware now seems not only to be the leading pro-corporate leech-state in America (ever see where all of your credit card bills are mailed from) but also the first to start the "pre-crime" division? (ala Minority Report).
And what right do they have to divulge people's personal information without their consent, when no overriding law would allow them to do so (i.e. the child sexual offender laws, etc).
Is there any legal precedent for this???
In fact, this was discovered much before sept 11th. :)
There was much talk about this "Easter egg" -- NYC spelling "Death to the Jews" in Windings.
Microsoft, to prove that they did not intend anything, specifically made NYC do a "I love NY".
So the second part _was_ a conspiracy
In the paragraph in this article (german) or in this goodle english translation.
The pre-process-only option (-E) to the C compiler produces the result of macro expansion.