This may be a attempt to fund this sort of abuse by instituting a Zero Tolerance confiscation rule like they do with drugs. Got a MP3 Player in your car? Your busted and they sell it at auction.
Forget Martians, It's the Cingular wireless logo. This could mean that the Marketing people of Madison Ave are from Mars!!! This would really explain a lot.
Sorry, but I am compelled to respond to a badly done article.
In most of the networks I have worked/setup/etc the underlying hardware isn't the issue. Any UNIX will mount a user's home directory and with minimal tweaking you can customize the env variables.
Sadly the article is reinventing the old ways of doing stuff, better methods such has this example from my (admittedly customized)/etc/profile
if [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]; then if [ "`tty`" != "/dev/console" -o "$TERM" != "console" ]; then
REMOTEHOSTNAME="`who am i | cut -d'(' -f2,2 | cut -d')' -f1,1`"
DISPLAY="$REMOTEHOSTNAME:0"
export DISPLAY
This fixed that display problem automagikly
This outputs my ip address to show this in an ENV command
DISPLAY=swras5-68-229. [BLOCKED-IP].net:0
the 'who' command being fairly common will have flags 'am' 'i' and output this;
Don't get me wrong, its a good baby step into a lot of what's out there, but it has glaring distortions and bad practices. A Professional Sysadmin will have fixed most of the issues mentioned.
Over all there are too many subjects touched on too lightly. This article lacks a central focus. Who wrote this? David Mertz or someone else? The wording indicated it might be both.
who knows, this may start a flame war about the practices of Programmer/Admins and Professional SysAdmins. But this is a good example of why you never want to hire a Ph.D to run your network.
Popupkiller They are looking for someone to take over it at Sourceforge....
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Admuncher A 4k application (yes it's really small), Ad muncher rewrites the html before it reaches your browser. It's stopped 24 Megs of junk in the last month alone. Very useful when your on a crummy dialup.
It's too easy for the script kiddies to highjack. Any distributed system that has more then one single purpose (i.e. Seti) is going to be used by someone else.
Download the app
fire it up
watch the port activity. Get the code.
Seti's FAQ
"The data server doesn't download any executable code to your computer. "
Can we trust Brilliant Digital to build in such safeguards? I trust Seti mostly for pure motivation.
I have thrown a lot of time and effort into securing my systems. I am not going to drop my pants for some lame deal like this. Just say NO to distributed DOS...
It's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.Use radioactive radium paint it's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.Use radioactive radium paint it's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.
Some on at Micro$oft actually admiting to stealing code? (kidding), but seriously if you could tell us in very rough detail what the code does we might be able to help. You already told us it's a web app (apache sites?) You'll still get the kudos for trying to be a sport about it, without violating your NDA.
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Seriously people, it's civil law. The spyware programs are on seriously shaky ground to begin with. Not to mention the Fourth amendment issues. see http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment04/ If you find spyware on your system, track them down and take them to court. Remember to include the programmers and software vendors in the suit. I recommend a aggressive response to this. Who knows, we may see you here on slashdot.....
This is both environmentally sound, economical and low tech. Most of you have used these. They are filled with compressed air. However once they are empty you can recycle them, you will need to flush out the last of the old air by heating them up. Just keep the release button held down has you heat them, you create a vacuum inside as they cool. Just pop them in the oven at 350 centigrade. Remember to hold down the button with your finger.
Promix tried this last year. Mostly it was a hissy fit over INTEL dropping them. Consider that a lot of the Big Chip manufacturers (INTEL, MOTOROLA, TI, etc) stand to make a bundle in the next ten years from wireless net and related products. I would start looking at who is behind this. Mayhaps the usual suspects? RIAA? AOL Time Warner? RAMBUS?
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This may be a attempt to fund this sort of abuse by instituting a Zero Tolerance confiscation rule like they do with drugs. Got a MP3 Player in your car? Your busted and they sell it at auction.
Then return them next week and get your money back. If this happens often enough then the Retailers will pull the plug fast. Bye Bye Datascam!
They were looking for the most Dog-forsaken place when they turned up the Mummies. Steve Case was rather pissed.
Forget Martians, It's the Cingular wireless logo. This could mean that the Marketing people of Madison Ave are from Mars!!! This would really explain a lot.
I wonder how long it will be before American Indian style war paint becomes both a fashion statement, a count measure and a act of defiance.
In most of the networks I have worked/setup/etc the underlying hardware isn't the issue. Any UNIX will mount a user's home directory and with minimal tweaking you can customize the env variables.
Sadly the article is reinventing the old ways of doing stuff, better methods such has this example from my (admittedly customized) /etc/profile
if [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]; then if [ "`tty`" != "/dev/console" -o "$TERM" != "console" ]; then
REMOTEHOSTNAME="`who am i | cut -d'(' -f2,2 | cut -d')' -f1,1`" DISPLAY="$REMOTEHOSTNAME:0"
export DISPLAY
This fixed that display problem automagikly
This outputs my ip address to show this in an ENV command
DISPLAY=swras5-68-229. [BLOCKED-IP] .net:0
the 'who' command being fairly common will have flags 'am' 'i' and output this;
infonography pts/1 Apr 8 19:40 (swras5-68-229.[BLOCKED-IP] .net)
Don't get me wrong, its a good baby step into a lot of what's out there, but it has glaring distortions and bad practices. A Professional Sysadmin will have fixed most of the issues mentioned.
Over all there are too many subjects touched on too lightly. This article lacks a central focus. Who wrote this? David Mertz or someone else? The wording indicated it might be both.
who knows, this may start a flame war about the practices of Programmer/Admins and Professional SysAdmins. But this is a good example of why you never want to hire a Ph.D to run your network.
and
Admuncher A 4k application (yes it's really small), Ad muncher rewrites the html before it reaches your browser. It's stopped 24 Megs of junk in the last month alone. Very useful when your on a crummy dialup.
It's too easy for the script kiddies to highjack. Any distributed system that has more then one single purpose (i.e. Seti) is going to be used by someone else.
Download the app
fire it up
watch the port activity. Get the code.
Seti's FAQ
"The data server doesn't download any executable code to your computer. "
Can we trust Brilliant Digital to build in such safeguards? I trust Seti mostly for pure motivation.
I have thrown a lot of time and effort into securing my systems. I am not going to drop my pants for some lame deal like this. Just say NO to distributed DOS...
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Just say No to Religion.
weird glitch.
It's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.Use radioactive radium paint it's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.Use radioactive radium paint it's both paint and nuclear! You could have paint ball games on a planetary scale.
Some on at Micro$oft actually admiting to stealing code? (kidding), but seriously if you could tell us in very rough detail what the code does we might be able to help. You already told us it's a web app (apache sites?) You'll still get the kudos for trying to be a sport about it, without violating your NDA.
Seriously people, it's civil law. The spyware programs are on seriously shaky ground to begin with. Not to mention the Fourth amendment issues. see http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment04/ If you find spyware on your system, track them down and take them to court. Remember to include the programmers and software vendors in the suit. I recommend a aggressive response to this. Who knows, we may see you here on slashdot.....
This is both environmentally sound, economical and low tech. Most of you have used these. They are filled with compressed air. However once they are empty you can recycle them, you will need to flush out the last of the old air by heating them up. Just keep the release button held down has you heat them, you create a vacuum inside as they cool. Just pop them in the oven at 350 centigrade. Remember to hold down the button with your finger.
Promix tried this last year. Mostly it was a hissy fit over INTEL dropping them. Consider that a lot of the Big Chip manufacturers (INTEL, MOTOROLA, TI, etc) stand to make a bundle in the next ten years from wireless net and related products. I would start looking at who is behind this. Mayhaps the usual suspects? RIAA? AOL Time Warner? RAMBUS?