Unlike a virus, a worm doesn't require e-mail to replicate and transmit itself into other systems.
This I find interesting...do people really believe that viruses require email? Also, are the hordes of 'email viruses' actually viruses or worms. They (generally) don't infect executables, just exploit a particular program and use it to spread.
Slammer gained access via "port 1434," tech lingo for a standard entry point for queries to Microsoft database servers. Simply closing that port isn't a viable option, however, as it would disable key business functions.
But closing, or at the very least, restricting this port IS a recommended solution.
It's called "hypocrisy" and if you read Slashdot enough, you'll have to get used to it.
No it isn't. Slashdot is more than one person. Multiple people are perfectly allowed to hold conflicting ideas and interests. I'm interested in coverage of filesharing products, and it seems that the editors are too. Why should you get to have the say of what should be on slashdot, and not me, or perhaps the editors?
There are problems with the US copyright laws, pointing them out is not such a bad thing, is it? Perhaps violating them is the way people have decided to show that they don't approve of those laws. I have violated music copyright before, but have used to to sample CDs that I have, or plan to, buy. Many of these I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't downloaded them first. I have also not bought CDs because I didn't like them after sampling them. The RIAA thinks this is bad of me, because I have bought more CDs of artists that aren't with their labels (and aren't in music shops), but I'm reluctant to change my habits for them. I also imagine that more of my money is going to artists, as I expect the labels those smaller bands take less of a cut (I don't know this for sure)
Most of the cybercafes in India are used primarily to send email (hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail, etc.)
I'm at a university where this is the case, too. I wandered past a row af Win2k computers a little while ago: hotmail, hotmail, bsod, hotmail yahoo, hotmail...
So it seems kinda pointless to keep stating the obvious over and over again.
Sure, I know I can save money using Linux, but if I made that proposal to a school (e.g.) I would like to not only have raw figures ("this is free, this is $500"), but examples to show that others have done the same thing successfully before to back my arguments up with.
What Linux really needs is the equivalent of Windows Update so you can get a full listing of what needs to be updated.
Uhh, it does. from the two distros I've used to any real extent: MandrakeUpdate [Mandrake] and sorcery system-update [SourceMage]. I know Debian and RedHat have similar things, I just can't remember them offhand.
I feel that I should mention Trillian, which everyone should know about
Personally I use Jabber to talk to Jabber users, ICQ users, and MSN users (I have no need for AIM, so don't use that). All running over an open-standard, XML based system (with emphasis on the extensibility: people can, and do, write things like Mozilla-based whiteboarding software). Best thing with it is the plethora of clients (windows [exodus, JIM,...], Linux GUI[gabber,GAIM,...]/console[imcom, Jarl,...], MacOS9[Jabbernaut], MacOSX[JabberFoX,...] among others). It also allows multiple connects, so I don't have to remember to disconnect from home before using it from another computer.
Many clients also support GPG, SSL, and the servers don't give away your IP address.
In an effort to get a more readable version of this, I did a view source. At interesting bit, that explains to me a lot about Microsofts reputation for dodgy code is:
function leave(bOol){ window.returnValue = bOol; window.close(); }
OK, this is easy to understand on a small scale, but still isn't indicative of good practices, surely. (The b*O*ol is what I'm referring to). Note that I'm not a native javascript speaker, so don't know if this is actually common or not...
While at work nobody complains about how i dress, the nightclub i went to last saturday, kicked us out just because of the sport shoes.
I work[0] in whatever I'm wearing at the time, usually cargos or jeans and t-shirt, and black steel capped combat boots. No problem. I go out to a nightclub, and they won't let me in first citing my jacket (ex-military greatcoat)(I pointed out that they have a coatcheck for that purpose), then the black 'jeans' (they were cargo pants), and finally due to the steel caps. From this, and your example I conclude that you aren't expected to have shoes at a nightclub:)
([0] OK, so it's part time, programming, in a university environment, but hey...)
...hear the aliens saying something about 'going to pick up L. Ron and his mates' in that when they play it backwards? Man, they're going to be pissed when they find that he's dead.
From that link, anyone else find this sentence disturbingly true?:
It is a direct descendent of Perl, a programming language which was used mainly by programmers. However, the original language required too much reading and thinking and so PERL was developed as a language which was more in tune with the requirements of the Internet age.
I'd think any patent that uses phrases like "a variety of" is too vague.
I'm considering patenting ``a method of doing a variety of things with the internet'', and suing all/. readers.
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Immense video displays were used to show images of the new customizable BSOD screen side-by-side with the older static version. Users can select from a collection of "BSOD Themes", allowing them to instead have a Mauve Screen of Death or even a Paisley Screen of Death.
Wow...three whole posts, one on topic...anyway, from the article w.r.t. being able to modify the source, but not distribute:
This isn't quite the same as what some other open source people believe constitutes "open source," but our philosophy on source is completely in line with the principles that the FSF and LPF were founded to defend -- the right to look under the hood.
I was under the impression that the FSF liked that, but felt that the main freedom of Free software was the ability to modify, and then distribute free versions, which isn't what they are allowing.
There was also talk of a Linux version -- if the source is avalible, all they have to do is ask the community (for the freeware version, anyway). Personally, I'll be sticking to GPG I think.
Going up on the scale of power, the campus's amateur radio club used a 2kW setup to talk to Mir a while back.
Not surprised that they were unhappy about that, I have talked to Mir on a couple of occasions with a 10-15 watt transmitter, and that worked like a charm until they sunk below the horizon (something like a 7 minute window IIRC). Once, for kicks, I got onto their AX.25 BBS with a 3 watt handheld, but that only lasted for a few minutes.
Well, setting your sender's address to a trivially guessed domain name (such as the reverse-mapped address of the host), you effectivly have an open relay. Guess what spammers are doing: they are using known-good addresses, and try sending spam from those addresses MX hosts in the hope that the MTA do this foolish kind of access check.
Even easier than this: RFCwhatever says that the mailserver should report its hostname in the login banner when you connect. This means that even if (like me) you are on a dyndns address (so reverse lookup gives the ISPs address), you can still work out what the mailserver knows itself as.
Therefore, could the solution here simply be cell free zones that are electronically enforced?
I believe that this has been considered in some places, but a major objection is that the jamming signals may leak on to the street, and prevent someone calling for help in an emergency.
My favourite idea is sending a signal to the phone that turns on silence mode(using bluetooth or similar).
They also run almost 100% of the existing Windows 98 programs.
Not on a Pentium 200 with 32Mb RAM and 2Gb of HDD they don't. There are heaps or people with these computers, and no reason to change. It plays solataire, runs Word 95, IE4 or 5, and thats all they need. Putting anything newer than Win 2k (and even a newbie-friendly Linux distro) is stretching the bounds of this hardware too much, and the users have no reason to upgrade it.
This is a worrying trend. Open source projects getting version numbers over 0.9999. I'm worried about this becoming a problem like the y2k bug was expected to be. All of a sudden sourceforge crashes because of the unexpected version numbers!
He also addressed the licensing changes that the company put in place over the last year, calling them an important part of a long-term simplification strategy.
"I personally reviewed most of the key decisions that went into that, and I personally will take most of the blame, credit and responsibility that goes along with it," he said.
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Here are same of the man pages that come with emacs (trimmed for relevance):
I have heard of such people. I believe they are known as "programmers".
This I find interesting...do people really believe that viruses require email? Also, are the hordes of 'email viruses' actually viruses or worms. They (generally) don't infect executables, just exploit a particular program and use it to spread.
But closing, or at the very least, restricting this port IS a recommended solution.
No it isn't. Slashdot is more than one person. Multiple people are perfectly allowed to hold conflicting ideas and interests. I'm interested in coverage of filesharing products, and it seems that the editors are too. Why should you get to have the say of what should be on slashdot, and not me, or perhaps the editors?
There are problems with the US copyright laws, pointing them out is not such a bad thing, is it? Perhaps violating them is the way people have decided to show that they don't approve of those laws. I have violated music copyright before, but have used to to sample CDs that I have, or plan to, buy. Many of these I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't downloaded them first. I have also not bought CDs because I didn't like them after sampling them. The RIAA thinks this is bad of me, because I have bought more CDs of artists that aren't with their labels (and aren't in music shops), but I'm reluctant to change my habits for them. I also imagine that more of my money is going to artists, as I expect the labels those smaller bands take less of a cut (I don't know this for sure)
Most of the cybercafes in India are used primarily to send email (hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail, etc.)
I'm at a university where this is the case, too. I wandered past a row af Win2k computers a little while ago: hotmail, hotmail, bsod, hotmail yahoo, hotmail...
So it seems kinda pointless to keep stating the obvious over and over again.
Sure, I know I can save money using Linux, but if I made that proposal to a school (e.g.) I would like to not only have raw figures ("this is free, this is $500"), but examples to show that others have done the same thing successfully before to back my arguments up with.
What Linux really needs is the equivalent of Windows Update so you can get a full listing of what needs to be updated.
Uhh, it does. from the two distros I've used to any real extent: MandrakeUpdate [Mandrake] and sorcery system-update [SourceMage]. I know Debian and RedHat have similar things, I just can't remember them offhand.
Doh! Forgot to do the link right' so here are the important ones: The community side and the commercial side.
I feel that I should mention Trillian, which everyone should know about
Personally I use Jabber to talk to Jabber users, ICQ users, and MSN users (I have no need for AIM, so don't use that). All running over an open-standard, XML based system (with emphasis on the extensibility: people can, and do, write things like Mozilla-based whiteboarding software). Best thing with it is the plethora of clients (windows [exodus, JIM, ...], Linux GUI[gabber,GAIM, ...]/console[imcom, Jarl, ...], MacOS9[Jabbernaut], MacOSX[JabberFoX, ...] among others). It also allows multiple connects, so I don't have to remember to disconnect from home before using it from another computer.
Many clients also support GPG, SSL, and the servers don't give away your IP address.
Microsoft's site shows the license.
In an effort to get a more readable version of this, I did a view source. At interesting bit, that explains to me a lot about Microsofts reputation for dodgy code is:
OK, this is easy to understand on a small scale, but still isn't indicative of good practices, surely. (The b*O*ol is what I'm referring to). Note that I'm not a native javascript speaker, so don't know if this is actually common or not...
While at work nobody complains about how i dress, the nightclub i went to last saturday, kicked us out just because of the sport shoes.
I work[0] in whatever I'm wearing at the time, usually cargos or jeans and t-shirt, and black steel capped combat boots. No problem. I go out to a nightclub, and they won't let me in first citing my jacket (ex-military greatcoat)(I pointed out that they have a coatcheck for that purpose), then the black 'jeans' (they were cargo pants), and finally due to the steel caps. From this, and your example I conclude that you aren't expected to have shoes at a nightclub :)
([0] OK, so it's part time, programming, in a university environment, but hey...)
...hear the aliens saying something about 'going to pick up L. Ron and his mates' in that when they play it backwards? Man, they're going to be pissed when they find that he's dead.
With GNU tools, at least, this works: rm -- -p
From that link, anyone else find this sentence disturbingly true?:
It is a direct descendent of Perl, a programming language which was used mainly by programmers. However, the original language required too much reading and thinking and so PERL was developed as a language which was more in tune with the requirements of the Internet age.
I'd think any patent that uses phrases like "a variety of" is too vague.
I'm considering patenting ``a method of doing a variety of things with the internet'', and suing all /. readers.
Immense video displays were used to show images of the new customizable BSOD screen side-by-side with the older static version. Users can select from a collection of "BSOD Themes", allowing them to instead have a Mauve Screen of Death or even a Paisley Screen of Death.
From my /mnt/windows/windows/system.ini:
...I have a magenta screen of death!
Any program can have at least one reduncdant byte removed or optimized away and still function
Actually, I believe it is this:
Axioms:
From this, we can conclude that any program can be written as one byte that doesn't work.
Wow...three whole posts, one on topic...anyway, from the article w.r.t. being able to modify the source, but not distribute:
This isn't quite the same as what some other open source people believe constitutes "open source," but our philosophy on source is completely in line with the principles that the FSF and LPF were founded to defend -- the right to look under the hood.
I was under the impression that the FSF liked that, but felt that the main freedom of Free software was the ability to modify, and then distribute free versions, which isn't what they are allowing.
There was also talk of a Linux version -- if the source is avalible, all they have to do is ask the community (for the freeware version, anyway). Personally, I'll be sticking to GPG I think.
Going up on the scale of power, the campus's amateur radio club used a 2kW setup to talk to Mir a while back.
Not surprised that they were unhappy about that, I have talked to Mir on a couple of occasions with a 10-15 watt transmitter, and that worked like a charm until they sunk below the horizon (something like a 7 minute window IIRC). Once, for kicks, I got onto their AX.25 BBS with a 3 watt handheld, but that only lasted for a few minutes.
73 de ZL4TRS :)
Well, setting your sender's address to a trivially guessed domain name (such as the reverse-mapped address of the host), you effectivly have an open relay. Guess what spammers are doing: they are using known-good addresses, and try sending spam from those addresses MX hosts in the hope that the MTA do this foolish kind of access check.
Even easier than this: RFCwhatever says that the mailserver should report its hostname in the login banner when you connect. This means that even if (like me) you are on a dyndns address (so reverse lookup gives the ISPs address), you can still work out what the mailserver knows itself as.
Therefore, could the solution here simply be cell free zones that are electronically enforced?
I believe that this has been considered in some places, but a major objection is that the jamming signals may leak on to the street, and prevent someone calling for help in an emergency.
My favourite idea is sending a signal to the phone that turns on silence mode(using bluetooth or similar).
Putting anything newer than Win 2k
My bad...amend to read:
...anything newer than Win 98
They also run almost 100% of the existing Windows 98 programs.
Not on a Pentium 200 with 32Mb RAM and 2Gb of HDD they don't. There are heaps or people with these computers, and no reason to change. It plays solataire, runs Word 95, IE4 or 5, and thats all they need. Putting anything newer than Win 2k (and even a newbie-friendly Linux distro) is stretching the bounds of this hardware too much, and the users have no reason to upgrade it.
Mozilla 1.0, OpenOffice 1.0, now Vorbis 1.0
This is a worrying trend. Open source projects getting version numbers over 0.9999. I'm worried about this becoming a problem like the y2k bug was expected to be. All of a sudden sourceforge crashes because of the unexpected version numbers!
He also addressed the licensing changes that the company put in place over the last year, calling them an important part of a long-term simplification strategy.
"I personally reviewed most of the key decisions that went into that, and I personally will take most of the blame, credit and responsibility that goes along with it," he said.
This is explained by this.