I'm not a driver, so forgive me if this is a stupid question; but wouldn't a head restraint for the center/rear seat obstruct the driver's view of objects in the rear view mirror?
What if it's not your car--what if you only lease it?
If you don't think that the manufacturers can pull that one off, what about this one:
What if the manufacturer uses copyrights, patents and trademarks to impose after market restrictions upon the car's use?
Modify your car and they pull the license; your car then refuses to be started. Take matters into your own hands and they sue you for copyright infringement (using the car's software without a license), trademark infringement (driving around with their logo without a license) and patent infringment (using/owning/whatever a device that infringes on their patents without a license).
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Maybe Microsoft have borrowed Gnome's "desktop == $HOME" idea. This would be pretty nice, I find it much easier to explain this concept to people, than explaining to them that all their files are actually hidden in a mysterious location that is one level _above_ their desktop.
I didn't see any mention of disabling this dangerous feature in the article.
By default, OS X stores your password as a nice secure hash. However, it also stores it using Windows' shitty hash method, that takes approximatly 0.000000001 seconds to brute force with John the Ripper.
So it's advisable to somehow disable this functionalty.
You confuse the symptoms of the problem with the cause. Your PDF related freeze is not caused by a buffer overflow -- the freeze from viewing the "Host:" exploit demonstration is.
Assuming the document is UTF-8 (no way of telling for sure), we can look up 0xad in gucharmap and so realise that the character that triggers the bug is really "U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN"
So you are a victim of loss of information caused by the incorrect encoding of the advisory into ASCII.:)
Freezing the extensions API puts an unecessary burden on the developers that they don't want to have to deal with. They don't want decisions made years ago about the extensions API design (which may not even be relevant several years down the line) to limit the changes they can make in future versions of the browser.
At the end of the day, if your extensions are still maintained, they will be ported. If not, then it's best that they fall out of use... unless you enjoy being exposed to remotely triggered security problems.:)
All I know is that the set of handles presented me from Firefox matches that in mailcap much more closely than it matches what is in shared-mime-info; that updates to one do not show up in the other; and that making an application the default handler for a mime type in Gnome does not affect my preference in Firefox and vice-versa.
"Yes, there is. Namely, one unit of backup media can't be used to back up all of the data. DVDs are slow to write and can't be written to like a hard drive, and top out at 8.5GB. High-capacity tape drives are expensive and not supported on most consumer systems."
That's what the --multi-volume option of tar is for. It's not rocket science.;)
"I suggest using an external hard drive that's bigger, coupled with something like Acronis True Image (which can make incremental backups), and then power off and/or disconnect that drive until the next backup."
Also a good idea--however I would not do it as it would mean all my backups would be on one drive that is itself susceptible to inevitable drive failure. And it costs more.
Deep down, everyone seems to believe in magical thinking. Even though we all know that the plural of anecdote is not data, we continue to fool ourselves into thinking that, since our knowledge comes from personal experience, it is better than any namby pamby "statistically significant" data.;)
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Drive failure is inevitable. Buy your drive from from someone who will advance you a new drive as part of the RMA process.
Drive failure is inevitable -- but drives last longer if you treat them well. Use all four (preferably six) mounting screws.
Drive failure is inevitable -- but drives last longer if they are adequately cooled. One can use SMART monitoring software to monitor a drive's temperature.
Drive failure is inevitable -- so BACK UP YOUR DATA. Tape drives are cheaper than ever, as are DVD writers. Is there any excuse other than stupidity/laziness?:)
Drive failure is inevitable. But you can use SMART monitoring software to get an early warning of a pending failure. As soon as any pre-failure attribute drops below its threshold, immediatly get an RMA number for the drive in question, and verify that your backup of the drive's contents is in good condition.
For the record, since Gnome 2.10 uses the freedesktop.org Desktop Menu Specification, you can use any menu editor. It is true that gnome-menu-editor hasn't shipped with Gnome before 2.12, but nothing has stopped you from using Smeg or even kmenuedit!
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Being a Linux user means that I will be spared from this abomination.
I don't know how me and my partner ever managed to write code without the PairOn.
I'm not a driver, so forgive me if this is a stupid question; but wouldn't a head restraint for the center/rear seat obstruct the driver's view of objects in the rear view mirror?
What if it's not your car--what if you only lease it?
If you don't think that the manufacturers can pull that one off, what about this one:
What if the manufacturer uses copyrights, patents and trademarks to impose after market restrictions upon the car's use?
Modify your car and they pull the license; your car then refuses to be started. Take matters into your own hands and they sue you for copyright infringement (using the car's software without a license), trademark infringement (driving around with their logo without a license) and patent infringment (using/owning/whatever a device that infringes on their patents without a license).
Maybe Microsoft have borrowed Gnome's "desktop == $HOME" idea. This would be pretty nice, I find it much easier to explain this concept to people, than explaining to them that all their files are actually hidden in a mysterious location that is one level _above_ their desktop.
Oddly, this is familiar to me, as if it were from and old dream... but I can't exactly remember...
Accepting singular transmission with bated breath.
You are describing SELinux. :)
Yeah, I'm glad to see that Apple improved this in 10.4.
IIRC, /var/db/samba/hash/$USER. This was on my brother's OS X 10.3 (Panther) machine.
I didn't see any mention of disabling this dangerous feature in the article.
By default, OS X stores your password as a nice secure hash. However, it also stores it using Windows' shitty hash method, that takes approximatly 0.000000001 seconds to brute force with John the Ripper.
So it's advisable to somehow disable this functionalty.
mkfs
Surely any half-intelligent suicide bomber would use a dead man's switch?
You confuse the symptoms of the problem with the cause. Your PDF related freeze is not caused by a buffer overflow -- the freeze from viewing the "Host:" exploit demonstration is.
The advisory isn't talking about "0+002D HYPHEN-MINUS". Try the sample exploit. Freezes Firefox and Epiphany cold here.
................ ................ .......... >.
:)
$ GET www.security-protocols.com/firefox-death.html | xxd
0000000: 3c41 2048 5245 463d 6874 7470 733a adad <A HREF=https:..
0000010: adad adad adad adad adad adad adad adad
0000020: adad adad adad adad adad adad adad adad
0000030: adad adad adad adad adad 203e 0a
Assuming the document is UTF-8 (no way of telling for sure), we can look up 0xad in gucharmap and so realise that the character that triggers the bug is really "U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN"
So you are a victim of loss of information caused by the incorrect encoding of the advisory into ASCII.
It shouldn't and it doesn't--the Debian packages disable the auto-update mechanism.
Possibly once it becomes possibly to unlink opened files in Windows. I wonder what else would prevent a port of dpkg to Windows...
Send in a bug, the FF developers will push it upstream to whoever writes the SVG library they use, and eventually it will be fixed.
Freezing the extensions API puts an unecessary burden on the developers that they don't want to have to deal with. They don't want decisions made years ago about the extensions API design (which may not even be relevant several years down the line) to limit the changes they can make in future versions of the browser.
:)
At the end of the day, if your extensions are still maintained, they will be ported. If not, then it's best that they fall out of use... unless you enjoy being exposed to remotely triggered security problems.
All I know is that the set of handles presented me from Firefox matches that in mailcap much more closely than it matches what is in shared-mime-info; that updates to one do not show up in the other; and that making an application the default handler for a mime type in Gnome does not affect my preference in Firefox and vice-versa.
That's what the --multi-volume option of tar is for. It's not rocket science.
Also a good idea--however I would not do it as it would mean all my backups would be on one drive that is itself susceptible to inevitable drive failure. And it costs more.
Deep down, everyone seems to believe in magical thinking. Even though we all know that the plural of anecdote is not data, we continue to fool ourselves into thinking that, since our knowledge comes from personal experience, it is better than any namby pamby "statistically significant" data. ;)
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Hm, my /usr/bin is of a similar size and it takes Nautilus 25 seconds to do the same job. The CPU is an Athlon XP 2500+.
I like Nautilus a lot, but it does have performance problems, and there are still a lot of bugs to be worked out WRT interactions with FAM and Gamin.
For the record, since Gnome 2.10 uses the freedesktop.org Desktop Menu Specification, you can use any menu editor. It is true that gnome-menu-editor hasn't shipped with Gnome before 2.12, but nothing has stopped you from using Smeg or even kmenuedit!