You should watch some of the Halo (blood glutch Chronicles) on redvsblue.com, those people spent some serious free time but it was time well spent. If you have ever played Halo you have to check out the vids
They also did a mac gamer parody which I am sure will offend a few of you.
Linux is ready for the desktop because it can be installed?? What about actually using the operating system in a real world environment? The first time the user needs to install a package, or fix or change something everything is a amess.
Great, now instead of someone handing me a pen with their logo they can hand me knoppix with a replaced logo. MS should put a team of developers on this right now!
If you want your buisness card on a CD why not a web site or flash presentation or something?
Apparently MS is filing for copyright infringement now. 6 of the 7 characters in the lindows name were written by MS. There is a slideshow that covers this around somewhere. google for it.
Re AC: My suggestion is that the email client and attachments be sandboxed so the worm can't gain administrator access outright. It would be hard to write a worm to bypass all the firewalls people are using but there is no need. The same people that open these attachments are the same people that just click "yes" every time the firewall pops up a message.
Microsoft deserves to take the blunt of this attack. Preventing this type of attack is not that difficult. Microsoft decided to close off all the open ports in SP2 after blaster and Nachi, maybe this will help motivate them to take steps to combat mail worms. If MS does not secure OE than AV companies can sell an alternate secure mail client.
But the post you link in Google groups does prevent worms from using their OWN SMTP engines, Forcing them instead to pass through a mail server run by a paid administrator that has the ability to add spam and virus filters. I think blocking dynamic IP addresses from mail servers is a great idea.
You do know that this is what Nachi did and it turned out to be worse than Blaster that it was sent out to get rid of. Why don't you just let the virus propigate for 48 hours then clean the disk while you are at it.
That it is just going right past AV programs just like A, B, and every other mass mailing worm before it. Give it a few days for people to update AV progies and maybe then it they will detect the virus. What a false sense of security.
We can't give users restricted accounts becasue it stops them from doing things like installing valid software. But don't you think it is time we took steps to sandbox the email applications?
It is about time someone went after spammers for false advertisement. If the spammers want to claim that spam is a legit method of marketing than thay can be subject to the same rules and regulations as any other advratisement media.
I would have posted that as AC too. If you were in the band you must never tell!
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There is a huge shift right now in several major companies to build servers with Dell rather than Sun/Solaris. I know a few companies that seem to be ordering 2650's by the truck load these days.
I wish the ratio was 3:1, between selecting a combat MOS in the Military, selecting a geeky major, and working in a technical job, I would say more than 90% of the people I see on a day to day basis are male. Out of the 10% that are female they are either 45, ugly, married to a friend of mine, or a combination of more than one.
I have always considered myself a heterosexual male but after looking at the choices I have made in life thus far I have to wonder what the hell I was thinking.
Your post suggestss that SCO dropped the entire thing and is only going after IBM for ignoring thier revoke of their UNIX license. Can someone lse confirm this statement?
When I am using Linux I probably su to root about 3 times a minute. I don't need or want training wheels on my OS. I would much rather sandbox the browser and mail clients first.
PS. It only works with DOCSIS 1.0, most MSO's are now on 1.1, a few have 2.0 systems deployed
From the article: The DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 specifications only accept firmware that's been digitally signed by the cable company. "Once you move to a DOCSIS 1.1, and we already have some cable operators deploying 1.1, this hack is not a viable hack any more.... One mistake, and it turns the modem into a brick."
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They also did a mac gamer parody which I am sure will offend a few of you.
Linux is ready for the desktop because it can be installed?? What about actually using the operating system in a real world environment? The first time the user needs to install a package, or fix or change something everything is a amess.
If you want your buisness card on a CD why not a web site or flash presentation or something?
To blame autism is to.
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Now I know what is "wrong" with me :)
Has anyone verified that this is the actual source code yet? So far neowin is the only source.
Apparently MS is filing for copyright infringement now. 6 of the 7 characters in the lindows name were written by MS. There is a slideshow that covers this around somewhere. google for it.
Re AC: My suggestion is that the email client and attachments be sandboxed so the worm can't gain administrator access outright. It would be hard to write a worm to bypass all the firewalls people are using but there is no need. The same people that open these attachments are the same people that just click "yes" every time the firewall pops up a message.
Microsoft deserves to take the blunt of this attack. Preventing this type of attack is not that difficult. Microsoft decided to close off all the open ports in SP2 after blaster and Nachi, maybe this will help motivate them to take steps to combat mail worms. If MS does not secure OE than AV companies can sell an alternate secure mail client.
But the post you link in Google groups does prevent worms from using their OWN SMTP engines, Forcing them instead to pass through a mail server run by a paid administrator that has the ability to add spam and virus filters. I think blocking dynamic IP addresses from mail servers is a great idea.
You do know that this is what Nachi did and it turned out to be worse than Blaster that it was sent out to get rid of. Why don't you just let the virus propigate for 48 hours then clean the disk while you are at it.
Because you can't /etc/services | grep 3127
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If they are running a router the ports are already "closed" unless they configured the machine into the DMZ.
We can't give users restricted accounts becasue it stops them from doing things like installing valid software. But don't you think it is time we took steps to sandbox the email applications?
It is about time someone went after spammers for false advertisement. If the spammers want to claim that spam is a legit method of marketing than thay can be subject to the same rules and regulations as any other advratisement media.
I would have posted that as AC too. If you were in the band you must never tell!
There is a huge shift right now in several major companies to build servers with Dell rather than Sun/Solaris. I know a few companies that seem to be ordering 2650's by the truck load these days.
I have always considered myself a heterosexual male but after looking at the choices I have made in life thus far I have to wonder what the hell I was thinking.
Your post suggestss that SCO dropped the entire thing and is only going after IBM for ignoring thier revoke of their UNIX license. Can someone lse confirm this statement?
When I am using Linux I probably su to root about 3 times a minute. I don't need or want training wheels on my OS. I would much rather sandbox the browser and mail clients first.
The MD5 apps are for the modem config file, not the firmware.
That guy is one of the best bug hunters in the industry. He and Rain Forrest Puppy should start a consulting firm.
From the article: The DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 specifications only accept firmware that's been digitally signed by the cable company. "Once you move to a DOCSIS 1.1, and we already have some cable operators deploying 1.1, this hack is not a viable hack any more.... One mistake, and it turns the modem into a brick."
It is theft, the fact that this is front page news on /. speaks volumes about the OSS community.