We biologists have a special word for stable. It is "dead".
If they are reinventing SMTP, might as well...
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IETF to Look at Spam
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...allow binary transfers. I can't tell you how much CPU time has been wasted by base64 encoding binaries, sending them over an inefficient protocol, and decoding them on the other end. yEnc does a good job but the whole encoding shenanigan is a major pain for anyone trying to send family photos or the latest AFI album. Please, IETF, make a better 8-bit clean push protocol, because SMTP is the only one we have.
Yes, the supernodes send out upgrade notices. Spoof this upgrade notice, and you may be able to execute arbitrary code on 4,464,221 hosts. Kazaa 1.5 booted Morpheus off the network because of its updateable key/hash algorithm for supernode authentication. Users of outdated clients receive a dialog, asking them to upgrade; clicking yes automatically downloads the software.
Kazaa Lite is a nice piece of software, but you shouldn't give the authors too much credit. They didn't reverse-engineer the FT protocol. Resource hacking and in-process manipulation is the jist of KL. (Because of the way Win32 works, its pretty easy to manipulate certain windows, and write programs such as SpeedUp and Kazap). The real crackers haven't spent any time on Kazaa, as far as I know.
"DC", unqualified, is the original software from Neo-Modus (the creators of DirectConnect). DC++ is an open-source implementation of the DirectConnect protocol. They all use the same protocol.
DC doesn't support resuming of broken downloads from other sources automatically, but you can resume manually.
Unfortunately, giFT does not work on BSD last time I checked. To me, this is the major show stopper. Project FastTrack is well-funded but I doubt they will make any progress. I suspect that there is a code execution backdoor intentionally installed within all FT servents (this is how Morpheus got booted off FastTrack), aka an auto-update feature--and one who controls the FT protocol may be able to control the entire userbase of the FT network. A cracker could own millions of machines without any hacking required. Of course, Sharman might have used public-key cryptopgraphy, but who knows...
Ever heard of KaZaA? Remember CloudLoad and AltNet? They are an alternative, commerical peer-to-peer network piggy-backing on FastTrack; serving paid content and crunching numbers. FT is currently the largest P2P network in existance, with over 5 million users, and their hashing/encryption algorithms for peer-to-peer authentication are secret (no one has yet to reverse Kazaa), so they can do anything they damn well please. Including merging P2P and "grid" computing. Which they have already done. (I'm waiting for PFT to come out and make grid computing optional.).
What does RedHat gain from making their own "system tools"? Shouldn't they be contributing to the project at hand, rather than writing their own superfluous configuration tools? For example, whats with the redhat-xfree86-probe (or whatever it is called program); doesn't that belong in the XFree86 CVS? I can understand having a RedHat-specific installer, but some times these Linux distributions go to far in making their own distribution-specific tools.
Re:stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!!!
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Has GNOME Become LAME?
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On the contrary; this article is constructive criticism. The author doesn't make vague generalizations on why KDE > GNOME, he actually points out specific weeknesses. Which can be fixed. So take any comments on KDE's superiority which a grain of salt; it may do some things better, but it also does some things worse.
Without articles like this, how can anything improve?
Before I reinstalled GAIM (from the FreeBSD ports system), I had the dock plugins you described. But due to high unstability (presumably because of library incompatablies, but it turned out to just be because its GNOME) I decided to wipe out all packages and start fresh. So I installed GAIM, it doesn't have the notification area thingy. And sometimes, the window bar is on the top; other times its on the left. I don't want it on the left, but I'm confused as to what happened. None of my configuration files changed, but using the newer version of GAIM has removed the icon. Any hints?
No its not OK, at least v1. I tried to save a file in gedit; it popped up the usual file save dialog. I want to go up one directory, but I'm too lazy to move my mouse and click the dot dot directory. I don't want to use the dropdown either. So I type ".." in the filename to save as, The Windows file dialog is smart enough to recognize that it is a directory, and will open treat it as such - displaying the directory listing. But no, the GNOME File Dialog stupidly replies:
``/home/user/docs/..'' is about to be overwritten. Do you want to continue ?
Besides grammatical errors (using grave accents as an opening single quote, and having an extra space before terminating sentence puncuation?), the error message makes no sense. You can't overwrite a directory. I tried to, but luckily I didn't have write permission. I don't even want to think about what would happen if I did, and accidently overwrote/.
When I enter ".." in the GNOME file dialog of xmms, nothing happens. Useless. The windows are also too small to see anything. All my long directory names are truncated.
Galeon's rendititon of the GNOME file dialog is a little smarter. Entering ".." when in/home/user correctly identifies/home. But that's where the intelligence stops. GNOME loudly complains:
/home is a directory
Please enter a filename.
Did the developers not think of any more creative things to do when a directory is selected, but to complain?
When I use arrow keys, the file I would want to be selected is outlined, but not highlighted. What the fuck is that? (Pardon my French.)
More integration with a file manager in the file dialog would be nice, but I think its too much to ask. In Windows, your file dialog is a full-fledged Windows Explorer. Sure, GNOME's file dialog can rename, delete, and create (directories), but Windows Explorer can run programs, create files, sort, by name, date, size, or other attributes. Maybe I'm just weird but I find this mini-Windows-Explorer functionality very useful. Its too bad the GNOME folks, armed with their UNIX philiosophy of reusable components, has not so. In this respect, Microsoft Windows is more Unix-like than GNOME. Its a shame.
Can this really be considered a "hack"?
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Hacking the Streamium
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The XML schema is publically available, the protocol is plain text, and XXML itself is widely documented and implemented. I'm sure the provided Perl script iis a nice application, but its hardly the product of "reverse-engineering".
There are multiple authentication servers, but authentication is in fact optional. Unauthenticated users on the FastTrack network will have usernames in the format foo@????.
You don't want sequential order. A little-known feature of nmap is idlescanning which can use any of the incremental IPID machines as a proxy to perform a TCP scan on any host on the Internet. Best make nonsense out of your IPIDs.
I run a FreeBSD server for serving Windows users through Samba, and occasionally an infected Windows box drops malicious emails and exes all over my shared filesystem. You Unix zealots seem to brag about BSD not being as suspectiple. Need I remind you of Slapper, wwhich only infected Linux/Apache machines, but athe same vulnerability existed on any system running Apache.
What we (or at least, I) need is a Unix-based virus scanner that can prevent the spread of viruses for all platforms.
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You can omit the condition in a while() loop if its always true.
...allow binary transfers. I can't tell you how much CPU time has been wasted by base64 encoding binaries, sending them over an inefficient protocol, and decoding them on the other end. yEnc does a good job but the whole encoding shenanigan is a major pain for anyone trying to send family photos or the latest AFI album. Please, IETF, make a better 8-bit clean push protocol, because SMTP is the only one we have.
Yes, the supernodes send out upgrade notices. Spoof this upgrade notice, and you may be able to execute arbitrary code on 4,464,221 hosts. Kazaa 1.5 booted Morpheus off the network because of its updateable key/hash algorithm for supernode authentication. Users of outdated clients receive a dialog, asking them to upgrade; clicking yes automatically downloads the software. Kazaa Lite is a nice piece of software, but you shouldn't give the authors too much credit. They didn't reverse-engineer the FT protocol. Resource hacking and in-process manipulation is the jist of KL. (Because of the way Win32 works, its pretty easy to manipulate certain windows, and write programs such as SpeedUp and Kazap). The real crackers haven't spent any time on Kazaa, as far as I know.
"DC", unqualified, is the original software from Neo-Modus (the creators of DirectConnect). DC++ is an open-source implementation of the DirectConnect protocol. They all use the same protocol. DC doesn't support resuming of broken downloads from other sources automatically, but you can resume manually.
Unfortunately, giFT does not work on BSD last time I checked. To me, this is the major show stopper. Project FastTrack is well-funded but I doubt they will make any progress. I suspect that there is a code execution backdoor intentionally installed within all FT servents (this is how Morpheus got booted off FastTrack), aka an auto-update feature--and one who controls the FT protocol may be able to control the entire userbase of the FT network. A cracker could own millions of machines without any hacking required. Of course, Sharman might have used public-key cryptopgraphy, but who knows...
Man, I'm glad my name isn't Quick right now.
Ever heard of KaZaA? Remember CloudLoad and AltNet? They are an alternative, commerical peer-to-peer network piggy-backing on FastTrack; serving paid content and crunching numbers. FT is currently the largest P2P network in existance, with over 5 million users, and their hashing/encryption algorithms for peer-to-peer authentication are secret (no one has yet to reverse Kazaa), so they can do anything they damn well please. Including merging P2P and "grid" computing. Which they have already done. (I'm waiting for PFT to come out and make grid computing optional.).
Quick, someone register Gnutella7.com!
On the contrary; this article is constructive criticism. The author doesn't make vague generalizations on why KDE > GNOME, he actually points out specific weeknesses. Which can be fixed. So take any comments on KDE's superiority which a grain of salt; it may do some things better, but it also does some things worse. Without articles like this, how can anything improve?
Before I reinstalled GAIM (from the FreeBSD ports system), I had the dock plugins you described. But due to high unstability (presumably because of library incompatablies, but it turned out to just be because its GNOME) I decided to wipe out all packages and start fresh. So I installed GAIM, it doesn't have the notification area thingy. And sometimes, the window bar is on the top; other times its on the left. I don't want it on the left, but I'm confused as to what happened. None of my configuration files changed, but using the newer version of GAIM has removed the icon. Any hints?
Besides grammatical errors (using grave accents as an opening single quote, and having an extra space before terminating sentence puncuation?), the error message makes no sense. You can't overwrite a directory. I tried to, but luckily I didn't have write permission. I don't even want to think about what would happen if I did, and accidently overwrote
When I enter ".." in the GNOME file dialog of xmms, nothing happens. Useless. The windows are also too small to see anything. All my long directory names are truncated.
Galeon's rendititon of the GNOME file dialog is a little smarter. Entering ".." when in
Did the developers not think of any more creative things to do when a directory is selected, but to complain?
When I use arrow keys, the file I would want to be selected is outlined, but not highlighted. What the fuck is that? (Pardon my French.)
More integration with a file manager in the file dialog would be nice, but I think its too much to ask. In Windows, your file dialog is a full-fledged Windows Explorer. Sure, GNOME's file dialog can rename, delete, and create (directories), but Windows Explorer can run programs, create files, sort, by name, date, size, or other attributes. Maybe I'm just weird but I find this mini-Windows-Explorer functionality very useful. Its too bad the GNOME folks, armed with their UNIX philiosophy of reusable components, has not so. In this respect, Microsoft Windows is more Unix-like than GNOME. Its a shame.
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Okay, you're right. Good job.
The XML schema is publically available, the protocol is plain text, and XXML itself is widely documented and implemented. I'm sure the provided Perl script iis a nice application, but its hardly the product of "reverse-engineering".
There are multiple authentication servers, but authentication is in fact optional. Unauthenticated users on the FastTrack network will have usernames in the format foo@????.
ICQ-AIM integration has already begun (try entering an ICQ number in the latest version of AOL Instant Messenger.)
In Soviet Russia, you plead with I!
You don't want sequential order. A little-known feature of nmap is idlescanning which can use any of the incremental IPID machines as a proxy to perform a TCP scan on any host on the Internet. Best make nonsense out of your IPIDs.
What can change in an HTML rendering program? Not much--all the navigation, bookmarks, whatever is outside KTHML, right?
Besides the improvements, KHTML is identical to the KHTML used in Safari. So its not unreasonable to compare the two.
Safari is based on KHTML, so if you use Konquerer you'll have a similar experience. HTH, HAND.
Cheers.
I run a FreeBSD server for serving Windows users through Samba, and occasionally an infected Windows box drops malicious emails and exes all over my shared filesystem. You Unix zealots seem to brag about BSD not being as suspectiple. Need I remind you of Slapper, wwhich only infected Linux/Apache machines, but athe same vulnerability existed on any system running Apache. What we (or at least, I) need is a Unix-based virus scanner that can prevent the spread of viruses for all platforms.