When to a security demo and watched the security guys run a Metasploit process that actually injected the remote.dll into a currently running.dll on the target machine while showing process viewer. So while sys_msg.exe or whatever minimal process changed in the process viewer slightly the name remained the same and there was no way to tell that the process was suddenly pwned from a remote host and was (presumably) doing horrible and unwanted things to your computer. All from a dropdown menu, point and click interface too.
I went back to my office and hugged my Mac, tell you what.
dont have the money to buy a pc gaming rig. $1200+ (im talking building from the ground up with reliable and decent parts)
The cost of a gaming rig isn't just in the building - it's also in the maintaining of a PC gaming rig. To continue to play the newest FPS you constantly need to upgrade processors and especially GPUs. Over a longer period you will probably have to replace your whole mobo to be able to use the new processor socket or chipset and get the new AGP4x, AGP8x, PCIe slot advancement. Over that same 3-5 year period your console doesn't cost you a thing.
Homer:[] Kids, there's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way! Bart: Isn't that the wrong way? Homer: Yeah, but faster!
As I recall, one of the changes from WinXP to Vista in terms of structure of the product line is that the various Vista versions are supposed to be strict supersets with no or minimal basic configuration differences (for the common features) so that if something can be done on various versions of the OS, the procedure will be the same
Great, so they go to all the trouble to have 6 versions but still Grandma gets saddled with an IT managers interface ("Why do I have 1000 choices?") or the IT manager gets saddled with a Grandma interface ("Why do I have only one choice?").
Knowing MS they'll both get saddled with an unhappy medium - grandma has too many choices but the IT manager has too few. And the slogan can be "We know it sucks, but it sucks for everyone equally across the board!"
Again - why all the different versions if they are going to be the same? But look on the bright side - it may not ship until 2008 at the rate they're going...
So why have 21 different versions of Vista if NOT to have a consumer version with as much protection as possible with as few services running as possible? A business office version you assume will be configured by an IT guy that has difficult to admin - but very flexible and detailed - firewall options. Yes.
But to not a have a 1 button "Protect me on the internets" button for grandma? That's MS effectively selling off its consumer base to big corporations at their request.
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Actually, she is BOTH a Senator AND a member of Congress. What she is not (among other things) is a member of the House of Representatives. The Senate and the House together make up the Congress.
The California initiative system is a good example of the problems with democratic political processes.
I think Gov. Ahnuld is a better example of what's wrong with democracy in California.
Sure the initiative system isn't perfect and many of the high profile cases directly from the ballot box to court but in a system that allows the Patriot Act to pass with one dissenting vote I personally LIKE the idea of actually being able to end run the legislature and enact 'the will of the people'.
=tkk
PS This is any kind of a "tax issue" it's wingnuts determined to stop stem cell research. Period.
I'm sure we all remember the Simpsons episode where his brother thinks that an "average guy" can design a better car then the "eggheads" he has working for him?
I don't expect the results from this venture to be as good as that.
I'm a huge fan of.conf files (or, on my home platform of choice -- OS X --.plist) files
The resultant XML isn't as tidy as that which OS X's Cocoa frameworks
I'd like to put together a generic viewer/editor... much like OS X's 'Property List Editor'
So you're copying the way OS X does things within.Net to compensate for the way M$ does them. Sounds like you're ready for the Windows next-gen R&D team alright!
I just don't see how they can keep out of the red, when they're paying off slashdot editors to post every trivially relevant XBOX 360 article.
But what's a couple bags of cheetos and some burned CDs of fake Natalie Portman nudes really cost? No, the Slashdot editors could be bought off for less than the weekly budget of snacks of one wing of one floor at Redmond. I think the budget goes to replace broken office chairs.
He doesn't have a/. account, and I can't blame him for not wanting to be bothered to come here and say what I already have.
If he's too stupid to return a defective piece of hardware that he paid almost $400 for a working unit PLEASE do not encourage him to come here to post. We have WAY more of those than we can already find a use for...
=tkk
PS If the plural of anecdote is not evidence then the singular REALLY isn't...
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I thought you couldn't polish a turd.
... same principle though, really.
Oops, that's says tarnish
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The IT title thing jumped the shark at "Webmaster" as a real job title.
It's all been re-arranging deck chairs since then.
Seriously.
=tkk
Would you use a 20-incher?
I can't believe you ended a Slashdot post with a question like this... it's like T-ball.
What are you tying to do - flush the trolls into the open?
Sheesh,
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No, you just suck.
[rimshot]
I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress....
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I'd sue too if they outed me as user of AOL.
Damn, that would be really, really embarrassing and my l33t status would be called into question.
=tkk
You might be looking at it and not see it.
.dll into a currently running .dll on the target machine while showing process viewer.
When to a security demo and watched the security guys run a Metasploit process that actually injected the remote
So while sys_msg.exe or whatever minimal process changed in the process viewer slightly the name remained the same and there was no way to tell that the process was suddenly pwned from a remote host and was (presumably) doing horrible and unwanted things to your computer. All from a dropdown menu, point and click interface too.
I went back to my office and hugged my Mac, tell you what.
=tkk
dont have the money to buy a pc gaming rig. $1200+ (im talking building from the ground up with reliable and decent parts)
The cost of a gaming rig isn't just in the building - it's also in the maintaining of a PC gaming rig. To continue to play the newest FPS you constantly need to upgrade processors and especially GPUs. Over a longer period you will probably have to replace your whole mobo to be able to use the new processor socket or chipset and get the new AGP4x, AGP8x, PCIe slot advancement. Over that same 3-5 year period your console doesn't cost you a thing.
=tkk
Tinker Toys.
Yeah, that's what Logs thought too until that damn meddling Lincoln came around....
=tkk
Careful! It's a trick to try to get you to eat your gun... and that ain't a good thing to do.
=tkk
=tkk
Obj. Simpsons:
Homer:[] Kids, there's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
Bart: Isn't that the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster!
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF09
Maybe Steve should change his name...
=tkk
it's useful for more advanced/paranoid users.
Windows make paranoid users of us all.
=tkk
As I recall, one of the changes from WinXP to Vista in terms of structure of the product line is that the various Vista versions are supposed to be strict supersets with no or minimal basic configuration differences (for the common features) so that if something can be done on various versions of the OS, the procedure will be the same
Great, so they go to all the trouble to have 6 versions but still Grandma gets saddled with an IT managers interface ("Why do I have 1000 choices?") or the IT manager gets saddled with a Grandma interface ("Why do I have only one choice?").
Knowing MS they'll both get saddled with an unhappy medium - grandma has too many choices but the IT manager has too few. And the slogan can be "We know it sucks, but it sucks for everyone equally across the board!"
Again - why all the different versions if they are going to be the same? But look on the bright side - it may not ship until 2008 at the rate they're going...
=Tod
So why have 21 different versions of Vista if NOT to have a consumer version with as much protection as possible with as few services running as possible? A business office version you assume will be configured by an IT guy that has difficult to admin - but very flexible and detailed - firewall options. Yes.
But to not a have a 1 button "Protect me on the internets" button for grandma? That's MS effectively selling off its consumer base to big corporations at their request.
=Tod
Actually, she is BOTH a Senator AND a member of Congress. What she is not (among other things) is a member of the House of Representatives.
The Senate and the House together make up the Congress.
=Tod
Err...so what version do people in the high-definition video business buy?
Macs, duh.
=tkk
[Killer Instinct Voice] Humiliation! [/KIV]
Damn! ;)
=tkk
Smaller still!
[Duke Nuke Voice]Suck it down![/DNV]
=tkk
I think Gov. Ahnuld is a better example of what's wrong with democracy in California.
Sure the initiative system isn't perfect and many of the high profile cases directly from the ballot box to court but in a system that allows the Patriot Act to pass with one dissenting vote I personally LIKE the idea of actually being able to end run the legislature and enact 'the will of the people'.
=tkk
PS This is any kind of a "tax issue" it's wingnuts determined to stop stem cell research. Period.
I'm sure we all remember the Simpsons episode where his brother thinks that an "average guy" can design a better car then the "eggheads" he has working for him?
I don't expect the results from this venture to be as good as that.
Nuff said,
=tkk
Only if your character's name is Pierre!
=tkk
So you're copying the way OS X does things within
=tkk
I checked this story more because of the big-ass obvious typo in the headline then out of actual interest.
"360 Has Best Launch Limp Ever?" would have been funnier and perhaps more accurate.
=tkk
I just don't see how they can keep out of the red, when they're paying off slashdot editors to post every trivially relevant XBOX 360 article.
But what's a couple bags of cheetos and some burned CDs of fake Natalie Portman nudes really cost? No, the Slashdot editors could be bought off for less than the weekly budget of snacks of one wing of one floor at Redmond.
I think the budget goes to replace broken office chairs.
=tkk
If he's too stupid to return a defective piece of hardware that he paid almost $400 for a working unit PLEASE do not encourage him to come here to post. We have WAY more of those than we can already find a use for...
=tkk
PS If the plural of anecdote is not evidence then the singular REALLY isn't...