With apt being built for Linux, apt for OS X, I would start by putting together some perl scripts for Windows to work like apt. Then build packages for each OS and use a package repository to distribute them.
Sorry, but the MD5 solution won't work, if there is a publicly known method of retrieving good values you just setup your custom client software so that it downloads the database of good values and transmits good values for bad files. You have to download the entire file to make sure that the data you are getting doesn't match.
The only difference between MS and apple practices is the size of the company, if Apple was the size of MS and doing the things it does now it would still be against the law.
People complain about script kiddie hackers but what does it say about us developers if those script kiddie idiots can defeat our security? I think if we are as brilliant as we think we are that we can easily find ways of defeating script kiddies.
Testing shouldn't be an end phase part of development. If you design your application to be testable and test each component rigorously as development progresses the end result is a much more secure piece of software. If you allocate 6 months at the end of dev to secure your software you will be looking at a nightmare.
There is no agreement you can refuse when purchasing an AMI BIOS, or at least I've never encountered a EULA with an AMI BIOS. I don't see why AMI should have to refund you for a piece of equiptment you willingly bought.
Have you asked Ford lately to refund you for their engine if you decieded to put a new engine in?
The problem with the MS Windows thing is that there is a EULA and MS refuses to sell you the license unless you agree to the EULA, so in the event that you don't agree to the EULA no purchase has taken place and they have your money and you have no product resulting in them owing you money.
The situation is no where near the same with AMI, replacing a working product with something else is not a valid reason for return.
Dispatch ACK packets to sector 7g, we have detected enemy SYN packets vectored for that sector.
This place really sounds like a joke for marketing droids to drool over.
Next thing you know when you type AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA as a search string on symantecs site it will think you're trying to create a NOP slide.
Hrmm... with a few mod rewrite rules any site that doesnt wish to be linked to can redirect the request.
If they don't want links from a certain site just add another rule, if you don't want people accessing the site put a firewall up or password protect it. This silly business of linking laws is akin to me preventing people from making references to my businesses location. Or a grocery store owner preventing me from telling someone that the grocery store has Peanut Butter in isle 12.
I think people really need to grow up, anything I don't want linked to I password or otherwise protect.
Personally, I'd like to know what you would think if people started linking to unprotected SMB content.
All you need to do is put a few of the cygwin tools on the machines, use gpg, rsync, perl, and ar. sign packages with gpg, put them on a central server and have the clients rsync off the server, the packages you download should contain the changed files and a reg patch, so that on extracting into c:\ they go into the right directory. then have as well a.reg file that is merged into the registry after the new files, and finally a perl script writes that the patch is install and interfaces with the Win32 GUI to prompt the user to reboot. If you feel really good write the app in VB and sell it for thousands to clueless windows admins
Just install the Qmail tarpitting patch, also you might want to look at rate limiting on at the firewall level to limit the amount of incoming connections per second from a given IP. In reality this is just a like a DoS attack against any other service.
Four letter combinations save considerable space, I believe you can store 2 times more information with a four letter system than with a binary system.
Also I think some of the error checking "code" could be more easily implimented with the four letter sequences than with the two letter sequences. Something about some letters not matching up beside each other. Which could also be important when the genes from two entities combine (ie. reproduction).
Just a few hunches of mine, no scientific data to back me up.
Yes, apple has never made inferior products, sort of like Mac OS 9 which had no support for virtual memory (i dont mean a swap file btw) and about as much support for users as DOS. Apple does make products that suck and do have security flaws.
How about being able to login to a default OS X machine with out being prompted for a password. Personally I think that SUCKS and it is definately a SECURITY FLAW. Software Update is another example of Apple products with security flaws.
Having the source available means finding security flaws sooner rather than later. The faster vulnerabilities are found and patched the less exposure your system recieves to them. How do I know that no where strcpy() or a similarly known insecure function is being used inappropriately in the source for their APIs.
I'm assuming this is for some kind of security measure. Have you implimented something like proxy arp so that people can't just listen for arp requests and have a list of valid MACs for use at a later time? It is rather easy to change your MAC on most network cards, especially the popular Realtek 8139s
"Jill Taylor, a director of engineering, said Home Depot considered Linux but settled on the "more mainstream" Windows operating system. She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware."
Umm... I don't see a plethora of Windows drivers for non-Intel computers. (Maybe they are talking about CE?). And the last time I checked Java still worked on Linux. Seems to be alot of FUD to me, because once your on non-x86 chips there seems to be much more hardware support in Linux than on Windows.
... because when our planes start bombing our cities in the hunt for the terrorists I'd really hate to interfere with their bombing abilities ny the use of my WLAN.
Just wait till the gov't finds out that the microwaves in our house transmit at similar frequencies to those that my WiFi card emits, except they do it at 700W.
Maybe we shouldn't build our radar systems in the public spectrum.
I remember useing the old 3 button gravis designs when I was that age, amazing thing is, I still have my gravis from that era and it still worked the last time I used it.
You know, if they want to claim copyright infringement they have to identify themselves to go to court with it. I can then just make an archive of all the names and addresses from the court records on who is producing spam. I think I might just create a spam archive and hope some spammers sue me.
I'm sure they'd love their names and addresses and sworn court documents affirming they are the source of spam to be posted on the internet.
Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright." http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1. html
It's clear that copyright takes effect from the time of creation of the work.
However, since the sender has provided a copy of the licensed art work, that you should be able to transfer that work to another person. Ie. Your browswer takes control of the license for a short period of time. If a few people who recieved spam were to transfer their license to the site that it should allow the site to transfer their license to viewers over the internet with out fear of copyright infringement. Also, copyright provides to reproduction for academic / research purposes so spam archives for research should be perfectly protected.
For the Linux distro i would start with something small like Debian Slink w/ X 3.3.6, WindowMaker for the window manager and Mozilla for the communications applications. This should easily fit on to a 2GB drive.
I remember a program called DOSEMU for System V UNIXware. It worked well enough for me to run most DOS programs on my 386 running UNIXware. I would test the emulation layer first, and then look at making a custom linux image for the PC's. Something like Systemimager should work nicely for distributing the install.
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With apt being built for Linux, apt for OS X, I would start by putting together some perl scripts for Windows to work like apt. Then build packages for each OS and use a package repository to distribute them.
Sorry, but the MD5 solution won't work, if there is a publicly known method of retrieving good values you just setup your custom client software so that it downloads the database of good values and transmits good values for bad files. You have to download the entire file to make sure that the data you are getting doesn't match.
iCommune solution. ./configure
wget http://www.xmms.org/xmmstarball.tar.gz
tar zvxf xmmstarball.tar.gz
make
make test
make install
The only difference between MS and apple practices is the size of the company, if Apple was the size of MS and doing the things it does now it would still be against the law.
People complain about script kiddie hackers but what does it say about us developers if those script kiddie idiots can defeat our security? I think if we are as brilliant as we think we are that we can easily find ways of defeating script kiddies.
Testing shouldn't be an end phase part of development. If you design your application to be testable and test each component rigorously as development progresses the end result is a much more secure piece of software. If you allocate 6 months at the end of dev to secure your software you will be looking at a nightmare.
There is no agreement you can refuse when purchasing an AMI BIOS, or at least I've never encountered a EULA with an AMI BIOS. I don't see why AMI should have to refund you for a piece of equiptment you willingly bought.
Have you asked Ford lately to refund you for their engine if you decieded to put a new engine in?
The problem with the MS Windows thing is that there is a EULA and MS refuses to sell you the license unless you agree to the EULA, so in the event that you don't agree to the EULA no purchase has taken place and they have your money and you have no product resulting in them owing you money.
The situation is no where near the same with AMI, replacing a working product with something else is not a valid reason for return.
Dispatch ACK packets to sector 7g, we have detected enemy SYN packets vectored for that sector.
This place really sounds like a joke for marketing droids to drool over.
Next thing you know when you type AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA as a search string on symantecs site it will think you're trying to create a NOP slide.
Hrmm... with a few mod rewrite rules any site that doesnt wish to be linked to can redirect the request.
If they don't want links from a certain site just add another rule, if you don't want people accessing the site put a firewall up or password protect it. This silly business of linking laws is akin to me preventing people from making references to my businesses location. Or a grocery store owner preventing me from telling someone that the grocery store has Peanut Butter in isle 12.
I think people really need to grow up, anything I don't want linked to I password or otherwise protect.
Personally, I'd like to know what you would think if people started linking to unprotected SMB content.
All you need to do is put a few of the cygwin tools on the machines, use gpg, rsync, perl, and ar. sign packages with gpg, put them on a central server and have the clients rsync off the server, the packages you download should contain the changed files and a reg patch, so that on extracting into c:\ they go into the right directory. then have as well a .reg file that is merged into the registry after the new files, and finally a perl script writes that the patch is install and interfaces with the Win32 GUI to prompt the user to reboot. If you feel really good write the app in VB and sell it for thousands to clueless windows admins
Just install the Qmail tarpitting patch, also you might want to look at rate limiting on at the firewall level to limit the amount of incoming connections per second from a given IP. In reality this is just a like a DoS attack against any other service.
Four letter combinations save considerable space, I believe you can store 2 times more information with a four letter system than with a binary system. Also I think some of the error checking "code" could be more easily implimented with the four letter sequences than with the two letter sequences. Something about some letters not matching up beside each other. Which could also be important when the genes from two entities combine (ie. reproduction). Just a few hunches of mine, no scientific data to back me up.
Yes, apple has never made inferior products, sort of like Mac OS 9 which had no support for virtual memory (i dont mean a swap file btw) and about as much support for users as DOS. Apple does make products that suck and do have security flaws. How about being able to login to a default OS X machine with out being prompted for a password. Personally I think that SUCKS and it is definately a SECURITY FLAW. Software Update is another example of Apple products with security flaws. Having the source available means finding security flaws sooner rather than later. The faster vulnerabilities are found and patched the less exposure your system recieves to them. How do I know that no where strcpy() or a similarly known insecure function is being used inappropriately in the source for their APIs.
Yeah, because if your vendor made it then it must be secure.....
Why not just take a look at the source... its more readily available than the source for Mac OS X.
I'm assuming this is for some kind of security measure. Have you implimented something like proxy arp so that people can't just listen for arp requests and have a list of valid MACs for use at a later time? It is rather easy to change your MAC on most network cards, especially the popular Realtek 8139s
"Jill Taylor, a director of engineering, said Home Depot considered Linux but settled on the "more mainstream" Windows operating system. She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware." Umm... I don't see a plethora of Windows drivers for non-Intel computers. (Maybe they are talking about CE?). And the last time I checked Java still worked on Linux. Seems to be alot of FUD to me, because once your on non-x86 chips there seems to be much more hardware support in Linux than on Windows.
... because when our planes start bombing our cities in the hunt for the terrorists I'd really hate to interfere with their bombing abilities ny the use of my WLAN.
Just wait till the gov't finds out that the microwaves in our house transmit at similar frequencies to those that my WiFi card emits, except they do it at 700W.
Maybe we shouldn't build our radar systems in the public spectrum.
1. Buy microwave
2. Remove shielding
3. Sell "radar jammer"
4 ?? Proft.
Notice he was arrested on US soil? And didn't you watch the troops march on Noriega? US law extends as far as US bombers will fly.
I remember useing the old 3 button gravis designs when I was that age, amazing thing is, I still have my gravis from that era and it still worked the last time I used it.
The libeller sues the libelled
I wonder if the Empire created the the Imperial system, maybe it was the Jedis who brought us the metric system.
You know, if they want to claim copyright infringement they have to identify themselves to go to court with it. I can then just make an archive of all the names and addresses from the court records on who is producing spam. I think I might just create a spam archive and hope some spammers sue me.
I'm sure they'd love their names and addresses and sworn court documents affirming they are the source of spam to be posted on the internet.
"WHO CAN CLAIM COPYRIGHT
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Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright."
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1
It's clear that copyright takes effect from the time of creation of the work.
However, since the sender has provided a copy of the licensed art work, that you should be able to transfer that work to another person. Ie. Your browswer takes control of the license for a short period of time. If a few people who recieved spam were to transfer their license to the site that it should allow the site to transfer their license to viewers over the internet with out fear of copyright infringement. Also, copyright provides to reproduction for academic / research purposes so spam archives for research should be perfectly protected.
Just my 2 cents
For the Linux distro i would start with something small like Debian Slink w/ X 3.3.6, WindowMaker for the window manager and Mozilla for the communications applications. This should easily fit on to a 2GB drive.
I remember a program called DOSEMU for System V UNIXware. It worked well enough for me to run most DOS programs on my 386 running UNIXware. I would test the emulation layer first, and then look at making a custom linux image for the PC's. Something like Systemimager should work nicely for distributing the install.