(in the previous post, the way the text appears, it makes me look like some sort of DOS dweeb because of how the whitespace is presented. Make sure you put the proper spaces, i.e. my [sp] escape sequence, in the second line of the trojan: $rm[sp]-f[sp]-r[sp]*[sp].* failing to do so will only delete files in your home directory that have an embedded dot in the name. You really want to make sure your trojan deletes all the dotfiles and those pesky dotdirectories. Those are some of the important ones! In fact, deleting just the dot directories would make for some real fun, as 'luzer' won't see anything different in his home directory, but logins and programs won't start up right anymore.)
(and, obviously, your home directory and all it's contents disappear)
And that's the real paradox of Unix security
Your home directory, and all it's contents are quite vulnerable. Obviously they have to be writable or you couldn't use the contents. But many Unix advocates forget that for ordinary people, the home directory contains the only part of the system they can't easily stream back off a CDROM if everything fails.
Believe me, when things heat up after people's home directories start disappearing due to a Linux trojan (and they WILL start showing up as more 'click and make neat things happen' people transition to the Linux desktop), your 'Unix virus' funnies will seem less amusing.
A floppy diskette with all the homoerotic 'fantasy stories' written regarding Wesley Crusher and posted on Usenet would be more fun to buy for Wil.
I remember one where Wesley and some other crew member are emergency-teleported out of a 'marooned' shuttle craft buck naked and in a compromising position. What fun they used to have with that sort of fan fiction.....
For years I favored the original IBM-AT keyboard, which isn't the Model M. It has the same clicky mechanism you describe, but the function keys on the left and control where it ought to be.
The bigger keyboards are fricking aircraft carriers. I succumed to using a 'regular' modern keyboard, however. At work I was using way too many keyboards all over the firmware lab and there was no way in hell I was gonna be able to use anything 'special' on all of them. The 'special keyboard' attitude, it seems to me, is for the prima donna who plants his butt on the same chair all day long.
It's the massive increase in the transaction cost that limits my enthusiasm for eBay. But I am talking about the shipping cost, mostly. I'd like to pick up another cheap 486 laptop off eBay to run NetBSD on for light duty (Python hacking, messing around with X11, etc.) But, while I can easily pick up one for under $30, the daunting $15-25 charge for shipping keeps me away. This is a problem with all web-based and mail order shopping, of course. In the case of eBay it's one of the big issues that keeps it from being the kind of fun I enjoy at swapmeets and hamfests.
Whenever corporations (and/or the lackeys they manage to get into government) talk about "free market", keep a tight hold on your wallet and watch carefully for the slight-of-hand.
And on the flipside, we should trust in the sincerity of the anti-free-market bureaucrats and the big government monopolies, like the postal service???
I think you'll find that, actually, what 'Republicans' do is give back to individuals (both 'companies' and just regular folks like you and I) what was taken away from them by the government. The Postal Service filled a role for many, many years. Perhaps it's an obsolete notion now, and should solely be maintaining the address space, and the actual carrying and delivery should be done by non-tax-subsidized operations.
And your assertion about the Grand Canyon is, well, ridiculous.
If anything, the demise of the 'recordings of music' industry would be a boon for musical instrument makers and sellers. People like having music in their lives. And we should all make more of our own.
Marc Andreessen was a member of the team that wrote Mosaic, and reports are that he didn't sling the majority of the code.
There's a big complicated mess about UIUC and the Mosaic mess, with text written by all sides in the affair.
About the only facts that are undisputed is that Andreessen and Netscape aimed to make big bucks by closing the source to the pre-eminent web browser, and then introducing proprietary features to the protocol.
Ummm, audiophiles don't want any 'distortion' at all. My Karmon-Kardon tube integrated amplifier's chief virtue is it's very very low noise. Mediocre solid state design (as opposed to the good design in the Yamaha solid state Integrated amplifier I currently use), particularly in the preamplifier state, produces a 'hiss' noise.
If I crank the volume up all the way on the H-K amp set to 'phono' there's no hiss noise at all. Then when the tone arm hits the vinyl cranked up like that it throws you across the room. It's all about Signal to Noise ratios.
I retired the H-K amp a few years ago when I could (finally) afford a solid state amp that was of the same class. It needs new caps and probably a new set of tubes, and it's just not worth it. I should probably hawk it on eBay to somebody.
Tube amplifiers for guitars are used specifically for the kind of distortion they produce. It's a 'cultural' thing, not a technical thing.
My CD-ROM drive has a 'CD Player application you can boot into instead of Windows' too. It's that second 'play' button on the face of the drive. Hell, you don't even have to plug the power supply into the motherboard to use it!
I just want to know where I plug in my Light Emitting EPROM.
(yes, I've done Light Emitting EPROMS a few times. Plug them into the breadboard socket backwards and bright light comes out of the quartz window for a little while)
The oldest functioning technology for audio playback is pure mechanical. The old gramophone recording systems had no electric amplification at all. When I was a kid, and had lots of grandma and grandpa's old records, I remember some of them from the early 20's saying 'recorded electrically' on them- those were the new leading edge discs.
A number of non-developers have probably tried it on XP by now, but are any users really still running it on '95?
You're talking about a programming tool for embedded controller developers. There are probably plenty of people with Windows 95 machines on their workbench running the compiler you mentioned. Hell, all that means is they've probably got expensive hardware, i.e. emulators, etc. that run on Windows 95 better than they do on anything 'newer' that doesn't have the 16 bit subsystem. Legacy OSes are important to people who aren't on an upgrade treadmill. My EPROM Programmer runs under DOS, is pretty good under Windows 95, and becomes problematic as the DOS compatability withers away in subsequent Windows versions.
Where I've been doing contract work, there are machines running DOS with dual floppy drives driving some of the test equipment. Test equipment worth thousands of dollars.
The Chinese constitution is 'followed' any time one of the big Communist Party controlled conglomerates needs to get it's way.
Do you think the big water projects have been decided democratically, by the people in the regions that are being permanently flooded and cease to exist as land?
The People's Liberation Army is a huge industrial conglomerate. They own factories, and (sadly) they own the people who work in said factories.
Added to this- what kind of government is it when the best one can say about it is 'the constituion isn't followed by anyone'??
The kid in Brazil is allowed to access the shortwave band as long as he uses the right equipment. He gets his license and he follows the rules established by everyone.
Right now it is kind of hard to develop...web content for a browser that has major changes every week.
So you're saying that you're one of the guys who is going to produce 'Web Content' tuned to run only on Mozilla? I thought all it had to do was hew to the standards and everybody was going to be happy.
Actually, people on the left have the audacity, often enough, to figure 'we know what's best for the whole world' so they claim ownership of their fabricated 'world community' which often consists only of little pockets of elite idealists in all those countries 'round the world.
Ask the man in the street in Taipei, Barcelona, Nairobi, or Bogata what their opinion is. Don't cloak it in media buzzwords like 'Kyoto Treaty.' Ask them if they'd like a refrigerator in their kitchen, or if they have a refrigerator, if they'd like to give it up.
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I maintain that 'rm -rf ~/.*' will do more interesting damage.
(in the previous post, the way the text appears, it makes me look like some sort of DOS dweeb because of how the whitespace is presented. Make sure you put the proper spaces, i.e. my [sp] escape sequence, in the second line of the trojan:
$rm[sp]-f[sp]-r[sp]*[sp].*
failing to do so will only delete files in your home directory that have an embedded dot in the name. You really want to make sure your trojan deletes all the dotfiles and those pesky dotdirectories. Those are some of the important ones! In fact, deleting just the dot directories would make for some real fun, as 'luzer' won't see anything different in his home directory, but logins and programs won't start up right anymore.)
You messed up:
.*
$cd ~
$rm -f -r *
(and, obviously, your home directory and all it's contents disappear)
And that's the real paradox of Unix security
Your home directory, and all it's contents are quite vulnerable. Obviously they have to be writable or you couldn't use the contents. But many Unix advocates forget that for ordinary people, the home directory contains the only part of the system they can't easily stream back off a CDROM if everything fails.
Believe me, when things heat up after people's home directories start disappearing due to a Linux trojan (and they WILL start showing up as more 'click and make neat things happen' people transition to the Linux desktop), your 'Unix virus' funnies will seem less amusing.
Offtopic, but did you know what D.A.R.E. really stands for?
Drugs Aren't Right for Everybody.
But they never mention that in the D.A.R.E. lectures and rants.
A floppy diskette with all the homoerotic 'fantasy stories' written regarding Wesley Crusher and posted on Usenet would be more fun to buy for Wil.
I remember one where Wesley and some other crew member are emergency-teleported out of a 'marooned' shuttle craft buck naked and in a compromising position. What fun they used to have with that sort of fan fiction.....
For years I favored the original IBM-AT keyboard, which isn't the Model M. It has the same clicky mechanism you describe, but the function keys on the left and control where it ought to be.
The bigger keyboards are fricking aircraft carriers. I succumed to using a 'regular' modern keyboard, however. At work I was using way too many keyboards all over the firmware lab and there was no way in hell I was gonna be able to use anything 'special' on all of them. The 'special keyboard' attitude, it seems to me, is for the prima donna who plants his butt on the same chair all day long.
I once purchased a SparcStation 2, complete with keyboard, mouse, and 17" monitor, on eBay.
The shipping cost was about 150% of the price.
Ouch!
It's the massive increase in the transaction cost that limits my enthusiasm for eBay. But I am talking about the shipping cost, mostly. I'd like to pick up another cheap 486 laptop off eBay to run NetBSD on for light duty (Python hacking, messing around with X11, etc.) But, while I can easily pick up one for under $30, the daunting $15-25 charge for shipping keeps me away. This is a problem with all web-based and mail order shopping, of course. In the case of eBay it's one of the big issues that keeps it from being the kind of fun I enjoy at swapmeets and hamfests.
this fall would crush my All-In-Wonder 7500
That sounds like one hell of a heavy heatsink.
And on the flipside, we should trust in the sincerity of the anti-free-market bureaucrats and the big government monopolies, like the postal service???
I think you'll find that, actually, what 'Republicans' do is give back to individuals (both 'companies' and just regular folks like you and I) what was taken away from them by the government. The Postal Service filled a role for many, many years. Perhaps it's an obsolete notion now, and should solely be maintaining the address space, and the actual carrying and delivery should be done by non-tax-subsidized operations.
And your assertion about the Grand Canyon is, well, ridiculous.
Oh, I don't worship eBay.
It's a fine way to find hard-to-get items not easy to find anywhere else.
But I would never consider 'a perfect store' one where I have to compete with other customers to drive the prices up.
If anything, the demise of the 'recordings of music' industry would be a boon for musical instrument makers and sellers. People like having music in their lives. And we should all make more of our own.
Netscape rolled over and hollered out 'Uncle' if that's what you mean about them opening the Mozilla source.
Marc Andreessen was a member of the team that wrote Mosaic, and reports are that he didn't sling the majority of the code.
There's a big complicated mess about UIUC and the Mosaic mess, with text written by all sides in the affair.
About the only facts that are undisputed is that Andreessen and Netscape aimed to make big bucks by closing the source to the pre-eminent web browser, and then introducing proprietary features to the protocol.
Ummm, audiophiles don't want any 'distortion' at all. My Karmon-Kardon tube integrated amplifier's chief virtue is it's very very low noise. Mediocre solid state design (as opposed to the good design in the Yamaha solid state Integrated amplifier I currently use), particularly in the preamplifier state, produces a 'hiss' noise.
If I crank the volume up all the way on the H-K amp set to 'phono' there's no hiss noise at all. Then when the tone arm hits the vinyl cranked up like that it throws you across the room. It's all about Signal to Noise ratios.
I retired the H-K amp a few years ago when I could (finally) afford a solid state amp that was of the same class. It needs new caps and probably a new set of tubes, and it's just not worth it. I should probably hawk it on eBay to somebody.
Tube amplifiers for guitars are used specifically for the kind of distortion they produce. It's a 'cultural' thing, not a technical thing.
My CD-ROM drive has a 'CD Player application you can boot into instead of Windows' too. It's that second 'play' button on the face of the drive. Hell, you don't even have to plug the power supply into the motherboard to use it!
I just want to know where I plug in my Light Emitting EPROM.
(yes, I've done Light Emitting EPROMS a few times. Plug them into the breadboard socket backwards and bright light comes out of the quartz window for a little while)
The oldest functioning technology for audio playback is pure mechanical. The old gramophone recording systems had no electric amplification at all. When I was a kid, and had lots of grandma and grandpa's old records, I remember some of them from the early 20's saying 'recorded electrically' on them- those were the new leading edge discs.
A number of non-developers have probably tried it on XP by now, but are any users really still running it on '95?
You're talking about a programming tool for embedded controller developers. There are probably plenty of people with Windows 95 machines on their workbench running the compiler you mentioned. Hell, all that means is they've probably got expensive hardware, i.e. emulators, etc. that run on Windows 95 better than they do on anything 'newer' that doesn't have the 16 bit subsystem. Legacy OSes are important to people who aren't on an upgrade treadmill. My EPROM Programmer runs under DOS, is pretty good under Windows 95, and becomes problematic as the DOS compatability withers away in subsequent Windows versions.
Where I've been doing contract work, there are machines running DOS with dual floppy drives driving some of the test equipment. Test equipment worth thousands of dollars.
'Obsolete' is a marketing concept.
The Chinese constitution is 'followed' any time one of the big Communist Party controlled conglomerates needs to get it's way.
Do you think the big water projects have been decided democratically, by the people in the regions that are being permanently flooded and cease to exist as land?
The People's Liberation Army is a huge industrial conglomerate. They own factories, and (sadly) they own the people who work in said factories.
Added to this- what kind of government is it when the best one can say about it is 'the constituion isn't followed by anyone'??
Nuclear reprocessing technology has been blocked by politics, not just technical challanges.
The kid in Brazil is allowed to access the shortwave band as long as he uses the right equipment. He gets his license and he follows the rules established by everyone.
Right now it is kind of hard to develop ...web content for a browser that has major changes every week.
So you're saying that you're one of the guys who is going to produce 'Web Content' tuned to run only on Mozilla? I thought all it had to do was hew to the standards and everybody was going to be happy.
Actually, people on the left have the audacity, often enough, to figure 'we know what's best for the whole world' so they claim ownership of their fabricated 'world community' which often consists only of little pockets of elite idealists in all those countries 'round the world.
Ask the man in the street in Taipei, Barcelona, Nairobi, or Bogata what their opinion is. Don't cloak it in media buzzwords like 'Kyoto Treaty.' Ask them if they'd like a refrigerator in their kitchen, or if they have a refrigerator, if they'd like to give it up.