The big problem with Active X security is if you ever downloaded a control and checked off "Trust Microsoft".
At that point any website could force a different version of an Microsoft signed active-x control to download.
So if there was a serious exploit was found in version 1.2 of a control, does not matter it is 5 years later and the user has version 1.8. When they visit your site you can force the download of version 1.2 and then execute your exploit.
There was just no way round this. If you had to do business with a trusted site that had active-x controls, if they ever got hacked AND you had ever clicked "Trust Microsoft" there was no way to defend against that.
Please note I am putting no value-judgement on any of what is to follow:
I am so sorry I have to bring you the bad news. The behind the scenes news for season two of Discovery is just as tumultuous as season one was.
The first 5 episodes of season two were finished and shown to test audiences. 80% hated it. So the spent 5 weeks re-shooting things to retool those episodes. This used up the majority of season two budget. The show runners were fired and new show runners have been brought in and have to produce 5 more episodes with the budget to only film 2 of them the same way the first 5 were filmed.
If test audiences hate the 2nd half of the season, there is no budget left for reshoots.
Whereas I work in a Windows Shop and am the only system admin and only Linux user. Using the same fluxbox setup for the last 15 year. I can RDP, VNC, or SSH into any system in the building. I am more productive in Linux and have been for more than a decade.
We do work with government bids and have to have absolute 100% fidelity with Excel. With that said 95% of the time my users are in Outlook, Excel, File Manager, and Google Chrome. Most of them would notice less of a difference in their workflow moving from WIndows 7 to Linux than when they move to Windows 10.
Try adding autofs to the mix. I have had both MPD at home having issues with NFS and a Nextcloud server at work accessing SMB shares. I use autofs to mount SMB, NFS, and SFTP shares. No problems. No more funky timeouts. Graceful degradation when a share is really offline. It is really the best way to deal with file sharing on a network.
Agreed. I don't care that the movie is darker and more brooding and implies Deckard is replicant without the overdubbing. I don't care that Harrison Ford thought it was stupid to do the voice over and did it in the most passive aggressive monotone voice he could manage. Since the movie is shot in the film noir style, the monotone hardened detective voice over is perfect.
Back in the day on my VIC-20 and then Commodore-64 I had the handbook that mapped every memory location. You could make what would amount to BIOS calls to system routines. Also things were conceptually simpler. The 6502 CPU had 6 items to track. Accumulator, X, Y, stack-pointer, address-counter, and status. WIth status have 7 bits worth looking at. That is 12 items max you had to track.
It was possible to mentally track all the registers and what the code was doing as well as understanding any system calls a programmer used.
Then the liberal protesting students joined in. They may not have thrown the first punch. But after Anifta virtual signaled by hitting people and damaging property, they joined right in.
First of all, no one said anything about free. Talk is cheap. These people are taking action.
This is not the audience demanding content for free. These editors realize that the actual articles are being paid for by tax dollar and should allow open access. They tried to reason with Elesevier but Elesevier would not budge on the point. They then took action, they all resigned and have started their own open access journal. At this point they can operate a a non-profit and do all the editing as willing donations of their time or they can charge for accepting articles.
The people who would be reading this Journals wold not be Freetards. Those articles are paid for by the tax dollars of the readership. The articles that are not paid for by tax dollars have authors that made a decision. They had a choice of publishing in the gated and expensive Elesevier Journal or in the Open Journal. Even though publishing in either journal would have a cost to them. The authors chose to publish in the Open Journal.
Cancer loves sugar. Cancer cells consume sugar at 8 times the rate of normal cells. Warburg won the Nobel prize for this discovery.
Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.
Gotta chime in here. Back in the late 90s I was rooming at a place in Portland OR. The woman who owned the house told me that she voted for Kitzhaber to be governor because he "looked good in a pair of jeans". I know people like that exist out there. As Dr. Science once said, "Your ignorance is appalling".
So the solution to that is to say f*** it, I wont set up my insecure email on my phone with top secret email that lives on a government controlled email server.
I have a better idea. I will set up my own email server, store my top secret government email there and then have only one phone with an unsecured email account on it.
Considering the options above, for f**k sake, put the second unsecured personal account on your secured government phone.
On the Colemak keyboard layout the Caps Lock has been assigned to work as a 2nd backspace key. This would be much more useful if I remembered to use it.
I am sure the average person who is googling out information on Justin Bieber or wants a new pair of shoes will find Bing works just fine for them. However I am an IT professional and Google just seems to get it right where Bing does not seem to have a clue about what I am looking for.
I work with Linux and do quite a bit of programming as well as supporting Microsoft Windows desktops and servers. Every time I give Bing a chance with something I KNOW Google will show as the number one or two search result, Bing totally botches it up. Google just seems to know me to well. I can search for Screen and it usually realizes I am talking about GNU Screen.
I give them a chance about twice a year. So far all I have received in exchange for trying Bing has been frustration and substandard search results.
"as a community need to decide together what our values are".
I am pretty sure that is the same kind of "community" that Mark Shuttleworth had. We vote on everything and we all have a voice. Till he moves the window controls from the top right hand side (windows style) to the top left hand side (mac os style). The community voted to move them back. At which point Mark said he listens to community input but ultimately it is his decision.
The board of directors at Reddit have decided what their values are, and the new CEO has agreed with them to get the job. Now they will do an AMA where they put forth as many of their values as possible in such a way that it looks like the community came up with them. The remaining values they will Mark Shuttleworthed on the community.
If you have one Linux system there with an account you have access to AND an server on your end that you can SSH into your set. On your server you need an account for them to log into which has their autossh users public key in the authorized_hosts file.
You want an excutable file named/etc/network/if-up.d/reverse-ssh
# Ensures that autossh keeps trying to connect AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0 su -c "autossh -f -N -R *:$8000:localhost:22 -R *:$8001:localhost:5900 pozer@myserver.com -oLogLevel=error -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no" root
I have autossh run as root and log into the account pozer on myserver.com. At that point you have a computer on your network with port 8000 opened to their Linux box and 8001 available for vnc. I set the looged in users X destkop to autorun run "x11vnc -shared -forever" export their desktop over vnc. I also install UltraVNC on the windows PCs.
If you had a windows PC at 192.168.1.50 you could add "-R *:8002:192.168.1.50:5900" to the above autossh command so you can reacn it with "vncviewer myserver:8002"
If you dont know the IP address till later you can set up a forward tunnel by remoting into their server over ssh. ssh remote@myserver -p 8000 -L *:8002:192.168.1.50:5900"
As long as there is a reverse tunnel you can use to create a connection back to their linux machine you can open up and access any port on their network. you can use vnserver to run a headless desktop in the background on their linux mint PC.
Accumulator X register Y register Program Counter 6 status flags packed in 1 byte
Yielding 5 registers you had to track plus the Stack Pointer. With a total of 56 mnemonics/operands. It was a joy to program since you could remember what all the registers were doing in your head. On the other hand, with only one accumulator/general purpose register available, you did a LOT of gymnastics to get things done.
Example adding $18 to a number at memory location $1020
CLC clear the carry LDA #$18 Get the number $18 the low byte of $0018 ADC $1020 add the low byte of the result to the accumulator STA $1020 store in the low byte of the result LDA #$00 get the number $00 the high byte of $0018 ADC $1021 add to it the high byte of the second, plus carry STA $1021 store in the high byte of the result
No real cool instruction like ADD #$0018, $1020 you had to do it all. Conceptually it was easy to keep track of it all.
7.8 billion in write offs. They are going to have to sell a LOT of phones to actually make a profit. At $78 profit per phone, they would need to sell 100 million phones just to break even.
I would also like to state that they hold about 3% of the market. Percentage wise they would need to quadruple their market share just to get back to 2005 numbers. A large shift is not likely. It is like Linux in the desktop market. Sure there are some bitter clingers who will hold on a Windows Phone (or Linux desktop for that matter), but the market has spoken and decided those people are a statistical anomaly, a rounding error.
Yes, at the point Nokia was trying selling WinMo phones no one was buyingj and would not sell any Linux based phones though they were flying off the shelves despite not being marketed. The point where the company sold off Nokias phone business to Microsoft. That was the point Nokia was tanked. Having to leave the phone market by selling off to Microsoft.
The fact that Microsoft is now writing off more than the purchase price of Nokia AND is firing all the phone employees they picked up from Nokia, at this point I would say Nokia tanked, and it was Elop who set the course and was at the helm when it happened.
He was handed a bowl of lemons and made more failure out of it.
All besides the point. I was not talking about HOW they got to 2011. Instead I was talking about WHAT they were doing in 2011.
Symbian was a cash cow that had been milked past the point where it was healthy for Nokia. To that point, Nokia saw Maemo/Meego as their way out, switching to modern Linux based OS. Elop offered another choice. Shitcan Maemo and go to Windows Mobile instead.
No one knows how sticking with Maemo would have worked out. Would it have saved Nokia? Who knows?
We know how going with WinMo worked out. They lost a year of sales. Who wanted to buy a Symbian phone when they knew it was dead, anyone who wanted a non-linux Nokia handset just sat back and wait a year, thus tanking sales. The Linux based Nokia phones were selling like hotcakes despite the fact they were not being marketed. That was a pretty good sign going with WinMo was the wrong thing to do. Then when the new WinMo Nokia handsets arrived, the market rejected them.
Since they killed Maemo and sold off QT they had no option but to stick with WinMo at that point. The rest is history
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The big problem with Active X security is if you ever downloaded a control and checked off "Trust Microsoft".
At that point any website could force a different version of an Microsoft signed active-x control to download.
So if there was a serious exploit was found in version 1.2 of a control, does not matter it is 5 years later and the user has version 1.8. When they visit your site you can force the download of version 1.2 and then execute your exploit.
There was just no way round this. If you had to do business with a trusted site that had active-x controls, if they ever got hacked AND you had ever clicked "Trust Microsoft" there was no way to defend against that.
Please note I am putting no value-judgement on any of what is to follow:
I am so sorry I have to bring you the bad news. The behind the scenes news for season two of Discovery is just as tumultuous as season one was.
The first 5 episodes of season two were finished and shown to test audiences. 80% hated it. So the spent 5 weeks re-shooting things to retool those episodes. This used up the majority of season two budget. The show runners were fired and new show runners have been brought in and have to produce 5 more episodes with the budget to only film 2 of them the same way the first 5 were filmed.
If test audiences hate the 2nd half of the season, there is no budget left for reshoots.
That qualifies as tumultuous.
Whereas I work in a Windows Shop and am the only system admin and only Linux user. Using the same fluxbox setup for the last 15 year. I can RDP, VNC, or SSH into any system in the building. I am more productive in Linux and have been for more than a decade.
We do work with government bids and have to have absolute 100% fidelity with Excel. With that said 95% of the time my users are in Outlook, Excel, File Manager, and Google Chrome. Most of them would notice less of a difference in their workflow moving from WIndows 7 to Linux than when they move to Windows 10.
Try adding autofs to the mix. I have had both MPD at home having issues with NFS and a Nextcloud server at work accessing SMB shares. I use autofs to mount SMB, NFS, and SFTP shares. No problems. No more funky timeouts. Graceful degradation when a share is really offline. It is really the best way to deal with file sharing on a network.
Agreed. I don't care that the movie is darker and more brooding and implies Deckard is replicant without the overdubbing. I don't care that Harrison Ford thought it was stupid to do the voice over and did it in the most passive aggressive monotone voice he could manage. Since the movie is shot in the film noir style, the monotone hardened detective voice over is perfect.
It could be good. If they fire 80 people and redirect remaining staff to work on upstream projects like Gnome and Wayland then we are better off.
Canonical has wasted lots of money on Unity and Mir.
Totally agree with this.
Back in the day on my VIC-20 and then Commodore-64 I had the handbook that mapped every memory location. You could make what would amount to BIOS calls to system routines. Also things were conceptually simpler. The 6502 CPU had 6 items to track. Accumulator, X, Y, stack-pointer, address-counter, and status. WIth status have 7 bits worth looking at. That is 12 items max you had to track.
It was possible to mentally track all the registers and what the code was doing as well as understanding any system calls a programmer used.
Good time.
Anonymous Coward that is the best post of the day.
Then the liberal protesting students joined in. They may not have thrown the first punch. But after Anifta virtual signaled by hitting people and damaging property, they joined right in.
Well I can god damm tell you that Obama ordering the FBI not to ever use the term "radical Muslim" didn't help make terrorism go away.
Or modded up by some troll for the lulz
Yes there is, They are maintaining extra code to do this. It costs developers, time, money, it complicates the app store, etc.
I have no problem with vanity projects. If MicroSoft wants to spend $100 million a year to keep windows mobile around, that is there business.
They are not doing it for their user base which is essentially a rounding error.
First of all, no one said anything about free. Talk is cheap. These people are taking action.
This is not the audience demanding content for free. These editors realize that the actual articles are being paid for by tax dollar and should allow open access. They tried to reason with Elesevier but Elesevier would not budge on the point. They then took action, they all resigned and have started their own open access journal. At this point they can operate a a non-profit and do all the editing as willing donations of their time or they can charge for accepting articles.
The people who would be reading this Journals wold not be Freetards. Those articles are paid for by the tax dollars of the readership. The articles that are not paid for by tax dollars have authors that made a decision. They had a choice of publishing in the gated and expensive Elesevier Journal or in the Open Journal. Even though publishing in either journal would have a cost to them. The authors chose to publish in the Open Journal.
That is how the free market works
The Warburg Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cancer loves sugar. Cancer cells consume sugar at 8 times the rate of normal cells. Warburg won the Nobel prize for this discovery.
Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.
Ask Steve Balmer, I understand your cyber can be squirted.
Gotta chime in here. Back in the late 90s I was rooming at a place in Portland OR. The woman who owned the house told me that she voted for Kitzhaber to be governor because he "looked good in a pair of jeans". I know people like that exist out there. As Dr. Science once said, "Your ignorance is appalling".
So the solution to that is to say f*** it, I wont set up my insecure email on my phone with top secret email that lives on a government controlled email server.
I have a better idea. I will set up my own email server, store my top secret government email there and then have only one phone with an unsecured email account on it.
Considering the options above, for f**k sake, put the second unsecured personal account on your secured government phone.
On the Colemak keyboard layout the Caps Lock has been assigned to work as a 2nd backspace key. This would be much more useful if I remembered to use it.
I am sure the average person who is googling out information on Justin Bieber or wants a new pair of shoes will find Bing works just fine for them. However I am an IT professional and Google just seems to get it right where Bing does not seem to have a clue about what I am looking for.
I work with Linux and do quite a bit of programming as well as supporting Microsoft Windows desktops and servers. Every time I give Bing a chance with something I KNOW Google will show as the number one or two search result, Bing totally botches it up. Google just seems to know me to well. I can search for Screen and it usually realizes I am talking about GNU Screen.
I give them a chance about twice a year. So far all I have received in exchange for trying Bing has been frustration and substandard search results.
"as a community need to decide together what our values are".
I am pretty sure that is the same kind of "community" that Mark Shuttleworth had. We vote on everything and we all have a voice. Till he moves the window controls from the top right hand side (windows style) to the top left hand side (mac os style). The community voted to move them back. At which point Mark said he listens to community input but ultimately it is his decision.
The board of directors at Reddit have decided what their values are, and the new CEO has agreed with them to get the job. Now they will do an AMA where they put forth as many of their values as possible in such a way that it looks like the community came up with them. The remaining values they will Mark Shuttleworthed on the community.
Thank you for playing.
If you have one Linux system there with an account you have access to AND an server on your end that you can SSH into your set. On your server you need an account for them to log into which has their autossh users public key in the authorized_hosts file.
You want an excutable file named /etc/network/if-up.d/reverse-ssh
# Ensures that autossh keeps trying to connect
AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0
su -c "autossh -f -N -R *:$8000:localhost:22 -R *:$8001:localhost:5900 pozer@myserver.com -oLogLevel=error -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no" root
I have autossh run as root and log into the account pozer on myserver.com. At that point you have a computer on your network with port 8000 opened to their Linux box and 8001 available for vnc. I set the looged in users X destkop to autorun run "x11vnc -shared -forever" export their desktop over vnc. I also install UltraVNC on the windows PCs.
If you had a windows PC at 192.168.1.50 you could add "-R *:8002:192.168.1.50:5900" to the above autossh command so you can reacn it with "vncviewer myserver:8002"
If you dont know the IP address till later you can set up a forward tunnel by remoting into their server over ssh. ssh remote@myserver -p 8000 -L *:8002:192.168.1.50:5900"
As long as there is a reverse tunnel you can use to create a connection back to their linux machine you can open up and access any port on their network. you can use vnserver to run a headless desktop in the background on their linux mint PC.
6502 assembly language rocked.
Accumulator
X register
Y register
Program Counter
6 status flags packed in 1 byte
Yielding 5 registers you had to track plus the Stack Pointer. With a total of 56 mnemonics/operands. It was a joy to program since you could remember what all the registers were doing in your head. On the other hand, with only one accumulator /general purpose register available, you did a LOT of gymnastics to get things done.
Example adding $18 to a number at memory location $1020
CLC clear the carry
LDA #$18 Get the number $18 the low byte of $0018
ADC $1020 add the low byte of the result to the accumulator
STA $1020 store in the low byte of the result
LDA #$00 get the number $00 the high byte of $0018
ADC $1021 add to it the high byte of the second, plus carry
STA $1021 store in the high byte of the result
No real cool instruction like ADD #$0018, $1020 you had to do it all. Conceptually it was easy to keep track of it all.
7.8 billion in write offs. They are going to have to sell a LOT of phones to actually make a profit. At $78 profit per phone, they would need to sell 100 million phones just to break even.
I would also like to state that they hold about 3% of the market. Percentage wise they would need to quadruple their market share just to get back to 2005 numbers. A large shift is not likely. It is like Linux in the desktop market. Sure there are some bitter clingers who will hold on a Windows Phone (or Linux desktop for that matter), but the market has spoken and decided those people are a statistical anomaly, a rounding error.
Yes, at the point Nokia was trying selling WinMo phones no one was buyingj and would not sell any Linux based phones though they were flying off the shelves despite not being marketed. The point where the company sold off Nokias phone business to Microsoft. That was the point Nokia was tanked. Having to leave the phone market by selling off to Microsoft.
The fact that Microsoft is now writing off more than the purchase price of Nokia AND is firing all the phone employees they picked up from Nokia, at this point I would say Nokia tanked, and it was Elop who set the course and was at the helm when it happened.
He was handed a bowl of lemons and made more failure out of it.
All besides the point. I was not talking about HOW they got to 2011. Instead I was talking about WHAT they were doing in 2011.
Symbian was a cash cow that had been milked past the point where it was healthy for Nokia. To that point, Nokia saw Maemo/Meego as their way out, switching to modern Linux based OS. Elop offered another choice. Shitcan Maemo and go to Windows Mobile instead.
No one knows how sticking with Maemo would have worked out. Would it have saved Nokia? Who knows?
We know how going with WinMo worked out. They lost a year of sales. Who wanted to buy a Symbian phone when they knew it was dead, anyone who wanted a non-linux Nokia handset just sat back and wait a year, thus tanking sales. The Linux based Nokia phones were selling like hotcakes despite the fact they were not being marketed. That was a pretty good sign going with WinMo was the wrong thing to do. Then when the new WinMo Nokia handsets arrived, the market rejected them.
Since they killed Maemo and sold off QT they had no option but to stick with WinMo at that point. The rest is history