Thise Europeans know how to do big engineering projects.
Don't include us English in that. We can fuck up any big construction scheme. The French, however... Did anyone see that bridge that is higher than the clouds? That's worthy of a Slashdot story in itself.
Great - the UK might be a nice place to live by then! You can keep your Med coasts in France, and Spain - arrid deserts, they'll be in 100 years. Invest in Dorset, I say:)
Wow. That makes my EOS300D look like p00p. And I was happy with it before I read this. Curses! Still, erm, it's the photographer, and the location that makes a picture. Isn't it? Isn't it?
my scanner software (Microtek Scanmaker 4850, listed as unsupported in SANE) to become compatible with OpenBSD?
I never buy hardware now that isn't supported under Linux, full stop. I always check before buying something. If it's not supported, I don't get it, no matter how much I want it. It's a matter of principle.
Running WinXP SP2 and fully patched system. I run Norton anti-virus, spybot, Ad-aware and now MS Antispyware and enabled autoupdate.
You're Microsofts wet dream, aren't you?:)
I admit, this flaw isn't patched. But most of the time, the worm/virus uses old exploits.
Anyway, my point was that it would illustrate the fact that many many people (90%?) are using a flawed OS and browser combo.
Or just used Windows file encryption to encrypt a load of stuff, and then change the passwords for all the accounts. Chances of people backing up their encryption key, but not patching their boxes are very small.
Change a few fields in spreadsheets too might be fun.
Post stored usernames and passwords to newsgroups..
We need a worm/virus that deletes everyones files. That would make keeping your computers patched a high priority for most of the users. At the moment, viruses are just something that affects and annoys "other people"
If I thought for one second that users on my boxes would try this (or even know about this), I would change sshd_config so that only I could log in, restart it, and kill off everyones sessions. I would also take steps to avoid people being able to run commands on the system via other means. I would just tell them on Monday that in the interests of security, I had to do it.
Could you do something along the lines of:
mount/dev/hda1/foo -ouid=you,ro,bind
and then have read access to the lot? Surely you can additionally mount the file readonly with the user have rights to read it?
It does happen. Even night at 8pm at a web hosting company I used to work at, all the sites on a server would go down, and come back in 5 minutes. It was a cleaner using a socket.
Is there a psychologist reading who can confirm that men like big breasts because they remind us of female arses, which is what we saw just before we mounted Mrs Cavewoman? It seems to me that someone was fishing for a reason for this one...
Not really a simple "shutdown -h now" would do it.
I was playing around as root:) on a server once when I was learning Linux (dangerous), and I found out that you can simply echo stuff straight over/dev/kmem. Makes the box lock up solid. What other (stylish) ways do Slashdotters have to make boxes go bang-bang?
I did rm / -rf once too. (On purpose. No, really. It was an only machine that needed rebuilding, and we thought, what the hell.) It wasn't that great. It trashed some dirs, and stopped when it got to/bin/rm. I should have compiled it statically, and run it from/dev/shm or something. Or set the sticky bit.
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Can you imagine the adverts for Longhorn?
Wndows Longhorn: Not as good as the next one
Why the hell don't Google (and Slashdot for that matter) go IPv6? It's a fairly simple transition, and it (Google anyway) would drive IPv6 forward.
Mod this puppy up. But hey, if a little sacrifice is what it takes to make Linux easy and compatible for Mr Home User, so be it.
Don't include us English in that. We can fuck up any big construction scheme. The French, however... Did anyone see that bridge that is higher than the clouds? That's worthy of a Slashdot story in itself.
But what was the greatest thing **before** sliced bread?
Great - the UK might be a nice place to live by then! You can keep your Med coasts in France, and Spain - arrid deserts, they'll be in 100 years. Invest in Dorset, I say :)
Wow. That makes my EOS300D look like p00p. And I was happy with it before I read this. Curses! Still, erm, it's the photographer, and the location that makes a picture. Isn't it? Isn't it?
I never buy hardware now that isn't supported under Linux, full stop. I always check before buying something. If it's not supported, I don't get it, no matter how much I want it. It's a matter of principle.
Who does then?
And why would you be worried if it got busted by a virus then?
Personally, I would only trust my data to a machine that I was confident in.
I'm genuinely curious. Why isn't it up to you?
You're Microsofts wet dream, aren't you? :)
I admit, this flaw isn't patched. But most of the time, the worm/virus uses old exploits.
Anyway, my point was that it would illustrate the fact that many many people (90%?) are using a flawed OS and browser combo.
Or just used Windows file encryption to encrypt a load of stuff, and then change the passwords for all the accounts. Chances of people backing up their encryption key, but not patching their boxes are very small.
Change a few fields in spreadsheets too might be fun.
Post stored usernames and passwords to newsgroups..
Mmm, not quite the same. Smoke detectors don't prevent the setting on fire. They just warn after the fact.
We need a worm/virus that deletes everyones files. That would make keeping your computers patched a high priority for most of the users. At the moment, viruses are just something that affects and annoys "other people"
If I thought for one second that users on my boxes would try this (or even know about this), I would change sshd_config so that only I could log in, restart it, and kill off everyones sessions. I would also take steps to avoid people being able to run commands on the system via other means. I would just tell them on Monday that in the interests of security, I had to do it.
A better picture.
Yep, agreed. It would stop most proggies needing root access to start.
Could you do something along the lines of: /dev/hda1 /foo -ouid=you,ro,bind
mount
and then have read access to the lot? Surely you can additionally mount the file readonly with the user have rights to read it?
Basically, they let you give them enough rope to hang you with, should you ever decide to go into politics, and challenge the current regime.
Why not put it to the test?
Having not understood the difference between pudding, and Christmas pudding....
It does happen. Even night at 8pm at a web hosting company I used to work at, all the sites on a server would go down, and come back in 5 minutes. It was a cleaner using a socket.
Overheard American guy: "The French are so stupid - they don't even have a word for entrepreneur."
Is there a psychologist reading who can confirm that men like big breasts because they remind us of female arses, which is what we saw just before we mounted Mrs Cavewoman? It seems to me that someone was fishing for a reason for this one...
I was playing around as root :) on a server once when I was learning Linux (dangerous), and I found out that you can simply echo stuff straight over /dev/kmem. Makes the box lock up solid. What other (stylish) ways do Slashdotters have to make boxes go bang-bang? /bin/rm. I should have compiled it statically, and run it from /dev/shm or something. Or set the sticky bit.
I did rm / -rf once too. (On purpose. No, really. It was an only machine that needed rebuilding, and we thought, what the hell.) It wasn't that great. It trashed some dirs, and stopped when it got to