First of all, I am not afraid of any man on Earth...I just dont give a fuck.
Then you're either quite dumb or quite young. I doubt you're both as you at least manage to post a message to slashdot. If you really think you can completely control your anger and actions, you've just not seen enough yet. Really. Let's talk again in twenty years. There is a world outside your box. Join us, it's fun.
And by the way, I hope you don't talk to real people the way you write. That would make for exactly the kind of guy that makes people hate geeks, thank you very much. If you really were as intelligent and evolved as you think, you'd realize that talking down on people just makes you a dick.
The interesting thing is that the above statements contain a subliminal riddle, and I wonder if you get it, or solve it maybe.
At least where I work, that would make up a nice training, no more need for the gym. And there still is the possibility of the greatest career change EVAR:
Before a storm whips up here, the operative words are
specifically target.
What exactly did Salvador Allende do in 1973 to qualify as not innocent? I'm not being Anti-American here, there's lots of examples like that for *every* nation, if you dig deep enough. I'm just curious.
In my book your stance on terrorism is exactly the same propaganda I see on CNN. Free your mind from that BS. Terrorism isn't about you, it's about how your governments have acted the last 10, 20 years. If you want to get rid of terrorism, LART your government and keep them from acting like dicks towards half of the population of the planet. You are so proud of your democracy, so use it. The rest of the world needs you as an example. Just in another way than you think. We know you are not your government, and we know you don't agree. Now just go ahead. Part of the aggression towards innocents comes from the fact that the Islamists claim you are, too, responsible for your government because you don't stand up and oppose it enough that it cannot be muted by the media. And to be honest, I can feel what they mean. Look at it from their perspective, and you see how easy it could be to solve the issue in 10, maybe 15 years, just by being a better world community citizen. Only you can make the change, we're watching from overseas. (Some of us.)
That's it for today's off-topic rant. I need to finish that web site and order my material to get it out of my head.;)
If you understand how you have been hit, then you can remove it.
And if you don't know whether there have been secondary 'hits', will you check your system in detail, every little bit where secondary malware, maybe handcrafted even, might hide? Even if you *do* know, it'll take hours, maybe days, and you can't be safe at all because I might have just sneaked in a nice IIS module which you didn't think of as an attack vector and you'll still be fucked.
Recovery + reinstall takes what, two hours at most? If you're a good boy and have backups of your data, it'll likely be less. If you really go the long way, you're either not using computers long enough and still view them as a toy, not the tool they are, or you're plain stupid.
Your suggest is right up ther with the 'lets change something and see if that fixes the bug' type of software development.
D'oh. You're getting absurd. Reinstalling from scratch barely is "lets change something". And it "fixes the bug" which isn't one but a compromise, because it's the only sane thing to do.
"Dan gives a careful, step-by-step menu of what you can and should do to recover as much as you possibly can, eradicate the malware that is causing the problem, and get your system back to a usable state"
The only way to a secure system after being hit is recovering your data, formatting the drive and reinstalling. If your machine has been compromised, there can *always* be other malware installed through the backdoors it opened. If the chapter is only about the above, without the reinstall part, it's not doing the readers much good.
They can get angry all they want - maybe they should remove all those *real* guns from American households before they make idiots out of themselves for the still unverified claim that games make kids run amok.
Before the usual whining starts, yes it has been proven that aggressive kids get even more aggressive, but "normal" kids aren't significantly affected. After all, it's a parenting issue, not a media issue. Being a father myself, I wonder where the concept of being responsible for one's kids went. People blame it on TV, games, etc. and fail to see that the kids weren't exposed so much to all those media if parents actually spent some time with them instead of parking them in front of the telly. </rant>
Actually I don't understand why the hell they don't bring back those light guns from the 80's which were used on those pong-consoles to shoot. It would be pretty easy and cheap to include distance metering to keep people from putting the thing near the screen and cheat. Imagine Counter-Strike with "gun look". I would dig it, and it would give much to the meaning of "aim", which right now means "the gift of those who can spend several hours a day on a game".
Actually at the moment I have mod point every five to seven days, but I have the impression that I often have them at the wrong time.;-)
FWIW, I found that posting and meta-moderating results in getting mod points much more often. When I'm only lurking and don't meta-moderate, I get mod points around every three or four weeks, but actually I don't find having mod points so important that I would post and m2 only to get them. Bad moderation might spoil this, but I have only had two or three "Funny" rejected of which people thought they were trolls (which of course they were, but funny ones).
It simply won't happen. If we had business partners in the US (I'm in Germany) and our ISP blacklisted them because of this, I am sure my boss will sue them for compensation the same day unless they enable us to talk to our clients (= source of money) again. I know I would if I were the boss, and I'm sure every company depending on those network connections will do so. I hate spam like every other slashbot, but I'd hate going bankrupt by losing clients like this even more.
Too bad that 1.7.1 was released before that, which only leaves beta stuff with working Eudora import. Anyway, bug 3157 contains some perl script (replace.pl) which for me resolved the issue. Check it out if you want to use a non-beta version of Moz and still get your Eudora E-Mail over.
I don't really see how this is possibly funny. This is how it's done for *huge* projects in the real world, have templates for the different browsers and let that browser detection sort out which template to display. Hell, use smarty and do it for your private stuff as well even if you don't use different templates for different browsers. Separating code from presentation is a Good Thing(TM). You can fiddle with the look as much as you want, without even touching that PHP stuff.
For MacOS, you can use PearPC. I haven't tried it yet, but even if it's slow (which I suppose according to the site), it should be well usable to test web sites.
Another point where there is discrepincies, is if you have a table cell with the style: style="border: 1 solid #000000; width:100px;" In IE that cell will have a width of 100px, and a border. While in mozilla it will put the border on the outside of the cell. So it's actual width will be 102px;.
Yes, and that's exactly what the W3C specification says. Go look up the Box Model. If you don't find this intuitive, then you don't get it. Read it again until you do. And while you're at it, read the HTML and CSS specs as well and understand them.
I don't mean this harshly, it's just well-spirited advice which will greatly help you in designing sites and writing HTML and CSS which is valid and works cross-browser. It's really not that hard, if you look at it closely. Writing shell scripts is much harder and I assume most people here find shell scripts trivial. (So do I.)
Yes there are programs out there that will write the bot for you!
This is new exactly how? Things like this are around for decades, the earliest I remember for DOS was VCL (Virus Creation Lab), but we had things like that on the C64 in the 80s already. But, as has been said, those are easy to detect as all 'created' virii derive from the same codebase.
Not that there has been AV software for the C64.;)
> Right, because we all saw how Apple completely > failed in rewriting a buggy OS from the ground up.
Oh yes, those who have looked have seen it.
I believe it was called Copland or something, and they never got it out the door, yet fiddled with it for years. I have seen a presentation at MacWorld Expo back in the day. It sucked ass. Only when Big Steve returned, they started with the thing which is known as OSX today (based on his NeXt stuff IIRC).
Speaks the one who supposedly isn't married and has no kids. Actually this little guy who is my son is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and I expect his sibling, to be born in December, to be the same.
YMMV, though. I know people who don't like their kids at all, so it's all a point-of-view-thing. To put it short: Don't rate things like that.
While we're at it, IMO the divorce rate simply is a sign that people today are completely incapable of getting over problems in a constructive way. The generation of our grandparents for sure had lots of problems with their partners, too, they just didn't say "fuck it, I'll get divorced and look for that perfect person" immediately like many people today do. Newsflash: This person usually doesn't exist, and if you love someone enough to marry him/her, he/she definitely is worth the hard work it takes to keep your marriage intact. Our grandparents understood this. And no, I don't think it was because being divorced was unpopular then, it was because people had much more discipline.
Well said. It's what I try to do, too, even though I watch news and documentaries from time to time, and our second child will be born in December.
Most people obviously have difficulty relating to someone who tends to end relationships for certain things happening (such as revealing attitudes that are FUBAR, intentional illoyality or striking stupidity). It tends to be perceived as hostility or arrogance, but that's the price you pay for living a life with minimum idiocy and malice from other people.
BTW, to my friends list you go - I haven't met many people with the same attitude.
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Nice try of changing the subject. Just to remind you, we were talking about PHP documentation and how some of it sucks ass. DOMXML is such an example.
Just for the record, of course it works fine and of course I googled for it. The point was that with a good documentation I wouldn't have *needed* Google.
I'm interested - why are you assuming I couldn't find out? The project is finished, but I'll check out phpxpath anyway, I find DOMXML a bit cumbersome to deal with.
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The community has been extremely helpful and the online documentation is awsome.
Yeah. Like the extremely useful documentation of the DOMXML functions. I mean, XML is so strange no one will ever use it anyway, right? The expat-based XML functions are even worse - there is at least some info, but the examples completely fail to show WTF one is supposed to do with those. Google knew the answers, but a good documentation should make googling mostly obsolete.
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Thank you for saying what I was thinking about for a long time. I have no mod points, so I reply. To my friends list you go.
Then you're either quite dumb or quite young. I doubt you're both as you at least manage to post a message to slashdot. If you really think you can completely control your anger and actions, you've just not seen enough yet. Really. Let's talk again in twenty years. There is a world outside your box. Join us, it's fun.
And by the way, I hope you don't talk to real people the way you write. That would make for exactly the kind of guy that makes people hate geeks, thank you very much. If you really were as intelligent and evolved as you think, you'd realize that talking down on people just makes you a dick.
The interesting thing is that the above statements contain a subliminal riddle, and I wonder if you get it, or solve it maybe.
Surprise me. I'm not trolling.
At least where I work, that would make up a nice training, no more need for the gym. And there still is the possibility of the greatest career change EVAR:
;)
Becoming a circus boxer.
One can dream, at least.
What exactly did Salvador Allende do in 1973 to qualify as not innocent? I'm not being Anti-American here, there's lots of examples like that for *every* nation, if you dig deep enough. I'm just curious.
In my book your stance on terrorism is exactly the same propaganda I see on CNN. Free your mind from that BS. Terrorism isn't about you, it's about how your governments have acted the last 10, 20 years. If you want to get rid of terrorism, LART your government and keep them from acting like dicks towards half of the population of the planet. You are so proud of your democracy, so use it. The rest of the world needs you as an example. Just in another way than you think. We know you are not your government, and we know you don't agree. Now just go ahead. Part of the aggression towards innocents comes from the fact that the Islamists claim you are, too, responsible for your government because you don't stand up and oppose it enough that it cannot be muted by the media. And to be honest, I can feel what they mean. Look at it from their perspective, and you see how easy it could be to solve the issue in 10, maybe 15 years, just by being a better world community citizen. Only you can make the change, we're watching from overseas. (Some of us.)
That's it for today's off-topic rant. I need to finish that web site and order my material to get it out of my head.
That's so dumb it must be a troll.
If you understand how you have been hit, then you can remove it.
And if you don't know whether there have been secondary 'hits', will you check your system in detail, every little bit where secondary malware, maybe handcrafted even, might hide? Even if you *do* know, it'll take hours, maybe days, and you can't be safe at all because I might have just sneaked in a nice IIS module which you didn't think of as an attack vector and you'll still be fucked.
Recovery + reinstall takes what, two hours at most? If you're a good boy and have backups of your data, it'll likely be less. If you really go the long way, you're either not using computers long enough and still view them as a toy, not the tool they are, or you're plain stupid.
Your suggest is right up ther with the 'lets change something and see if that fixes the bug' type of software development.
D'oh. You're getting absurd. Reinstalling from scratch barely is "lets change something". And it "fixes the bug" which isn't one but a compromise, because it's the only sane thing to do.
IHBT. HAND.
"Dan gives a careful, step-by-step menu of what you can and should do to recover as much as you possibly can, eradicate the malware that is causing the problem, and get your system back to a usable state"
The only way to a secure system after being hit is recovering your data, formatting the drive and reinstalling. If your machine has been compromised, there can *always* be other malware installed through the backdoors it opened. If the chapter is only about the above, without the reinstall part, it's not doing the readers much good.
They can get angry all they want - maybe they should remove all those *real* guns from American households before they make idiots out of themselves for the still unverified claim that games make kids run amok.
Before the usual whining starts, yes it has been proven that aggressive kids get even more aggressive, but "normal" kids aren't significantly affected. After all, it's a parenting issue, not a media issue. Being a father myself, I wonder where the concept of being responsible for one's kids went. People blame it on TV, games, etc. and fail to see that the kids weren't exposed so much to all those media if parents actually spent some time with them instead of parking them in front of the telly.
</rant>
Actually I don't understand why the hell they don't bring back those light guns from the 80's which were used on those pong-consoles to shoot. It would be pretty easy and cheap to include distance metering to keep people from putting the thing near the screen and cheat. Imagine Counter-Strike with "gun look". I would dig it, and it would give much to the meaning of "aim", which right now means "the gift of those who can spend several hours a day on a game".
Actually at the moment I have mod point every five to seven days, but I have the impression that I often have them at the wrong time. ;-)
FWIW, I found that posting and meta-moderating results in getting mod points much more often. When I'm only lurking and don't meta-moderate, I get mod points around every three or four weeks, but actually I don't find having mod points so important that I would post and m2 only to get them. Bad moderation might spoil this, but I have only had two or three "Funny" rejected of which people thought they were trolls (which of course they were, but funny ones).
How is this a troll? I'd rather say +4, Funny, but hey, you never get those moderation points when you need them.
Jesus. Google really is your friend.
The answer is: Dead Milkmen, "Stuart".
It simply won't happen. If we had business partners in the US (I'm in Germany) and our ISP blacklisted them because of this, I am sure my boss will sue them for compensation the same day unless they enable us to talk to our clients (= source of money) again. I know I would if I were the boss, and I'm sure every company depending on those network connections will do so. I hate spam like every other slashbot, but I'd hate going bankrupt by losing clients like this even more.
Too bad that 1.7.1 was released before that, which only leaves beta stuff with working Eudora import. Anyway, bug 3157 contains some perl script (replace.pl) which for me resolved the issue. Check it out if you want to use a non-beta version of Moz and still get your Eudora E-Mail over.
/. - copy to location bar!)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3157
(Clicking the link won't work from
I don't really see how this is possibly funny. This is how it's done for *huge* projects in the real world, have templates for the different browsers and let that browser detection sort out which template to display. Hell, use smarty and do it for your private stuff as well even if you don't use different templates for different browsers. Separating code from presentation is a Good Thing(TM). You can fiddle with the look as much as you want, without even touching that PHP stuff.
For MacOS, you can use PearPC. I haven't tried it yet, but even if it's slow (which I suppose according to the site), it should be well usable to test web sites.
Completely offtopic, but I was really disappointed by not finding my sadly disappeared wide open friend there.
Note to self: Insert into "100 Things That Make You Notice You're On Slashdot" list.
Yes, and that's exactly what the W3C specification says. Go look up the Box Model. If you don't find this intuitive, then you don't get it. Read it again until you do. And while you're at it, read the HTML and CSS specs as well and understand them.
I don't mean this harshly, it's just well-spirited advice which will greatly help you in designing sites and writing HTML and CSS which is valid and works cross-browser. It's really not that hard, if you look at it closely. Writing shell scripts is much harder and I assume most people here find shell scripts trivial. (So do I.)
Nah, no one can beat The Man .
This is new exactly how? Things like this are around for decades, the earliest I remember for DOS was VCL (Virus Creation Lab), but we had things like that on the C64 in the 80s already. But, as has been said, those are easy to detect as all 'created' virii derive from the same codebase.
Not that there has been AV software for the C64. ;)
> Right, because we all saw how Apple completely
> failed in rewriting a buggy OS from the ground up.
Oh yes, those who have looked have seen it.
I believe it was called Copland or something, and they never got it out the door, yet fiddled with it for years. I have seen a presentation at MacWorld Expo back in the day. It sucked ass. Only when Big Steve returned, they started with the thing which is known as OSX today (based on his NeXt stuff IIRC).
Coincidentally, this is what Nietzsche said, too. Reading this felt like freeing my mind of a heavy burden.
> All of which are overrated.
Speaks the one who supposedly isn't married and has no kids. Actually this little guy who is my son is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and I expect his sibling, to be born in December, to be the same.
YMMV, though. I know people who don't like their kids at all, so it's all a point-of-view-thing. To put it short: Don't rate things like that.
While we're at it, IMO the divorce rate simply is a sign that people today are completely incapable of getting over problems in a constructive way. The generation of our grandparents for sure had lots of problems with their partners, too, they just didn't say "fuck it, I'll get divorced and look for that perfect person" immediately like many people today do. Newsflash: This person usually doesn't exist, and if you love someone enough to marry him/her, he/she definitely is worth the hard work it takes to keep your marriage intact. Our grandparents understood this. And no, I don't think it was because being divorced was unpopular then, it was because people had much more discipline.
Well said. It's what I try to do, too, even though I watch news and documentaries from time to time, and our second child will be born in December.
Most people obviously have difficulty relating to someone who tends to end relationships for certain things happening (such as revealing attitudes that are FUBAR, intentional illoyality or striking stupidity). It tends to be perceived as hostility or arrogance, but that's the price you pay for living a life with minimum idiocy and malice from other people.
BTW, to my friends list you go - I haven't met many people with the same attitude.
Nice try of changing the subject. Just to remind you, we were talking about PHP documentation and how some of it sucks ass. DOMXML is such an example.
Just for the record, of course it works fine and of course I googled for it. The point was that with a good documentation I wouldn't have *needed* Google.
I'm interested - why are you assuming I couldn't find out? The project is finished, but I'll check out phpxpath anyway, I find DOMXML a bit cumbersome to deal with.
Yeah. Like the extremely useful documentation of the DOMXML functions. I mean, XML is so strange no one will ever use it anyway, right? The expat-based XML functions are even worse - there is at least some info, but the examples completely fail to show WTF one is supposed to do with those. Google knew the answers, but a good documentation should make googling mostly obsolete.