And just because you're a hacker doesn't mean you do anything illegal or nefarious. The term also indicates people in certain professions, or who do many forms of intense but not illegal code-hacking on PC's
Who replace my cat-in-bag with a can-of-worms? - phorm
Religion is only part of the equation for a "good person." In many religions, zealotism breeds people who are immutable to outside suggest, and often hostile towards those who do not share their beliefs. In other cases, indeed in many cases, they simply view themselves are "better people".
This is not to say that relgion does no enhance life. I see many religious people who do good things for the world/community based on their beliefs.
I've also seen many non-religious people who also do a lot of good, not out of any believe in heaven or an afterlife, but simply because they believe in doing good. The contrast to this is ina a few people I know, we can take a few friends of mine.
Friend 1: Found little point in life, was quite constantly depressed. Verged on very drastic negetive consequence. She became "Christian" (though many other religions are good as well, I won't say Christian is the best) and was embraced by her church, found love and certain amount of peace in herself. She seems a lot happier lately
Friend 2: Was raised as an athiest, by athiests. She has not only no religion, but also background reason for life, or a strong basis for doing anything. She seems wholly unsatisfied at most times, and care little for many of her actions. This isn't to say that she's done strong harm to anyone else, but she lacks a fundamental goal in life, doesn't believe in having children (world sucks too much to raise them in), and often enough has a "what's the point attitude."
Friend 3: Has no real religion. Was raised by a supportive and loving family. Believes she has a future, and wants to propogate children. She often helps others, and is a caring, giving individual.
I've met a lot of other people who are quote religios" but do wholly bad things. They tend to have a good regard for their church circle but little for those outside.
My point. Relgion doesn't always define a meaning in life, but it often helps. The fundamental teachings and upbringing behind it are what is essential. If a church is teaching you how to be a good person, and not teaching you intolerance of others, then the church is doing a good job. If your parents raise you with the same values, then your parents are doing a similarly good job.
Often, it's the basic teachings (play nice, be a good boy Vs care for others, be a good Christian/other) that are important.
I have no name for my believes. I disagree with a large part taught by my family's religion, but agree with many of the basic tenets of goodness towards others. I also believe in evolution, but also in a higher power, and yet don't find a conflict. I'm definately not a bible banger, but I'm happy in my own purpose in life, which is what I think really counts.
Contradictions and agreements are welcome, but remember to think before you post - phorm
GeForce4 (or multi-out video card). Extended desktop. Main video for DVD's goes out via S-Video. I can't afford the projector (I assume he paid lots for this, unless somebody knows a cheap solution), but the video goes to the TV, and the controls,etc are all on my monitor. With a wireless mouse this would be nicer still. It's still a lot cheaper than a special LCD though.
Oh, and just because a card has TV-out, doesn't mean it has extended desktop. Another shot at ATI, for their "feature rich" All-in-wonder card that would only clone, not extend, my desktop).
If anyone knows a cheaper solution to making your own projection system... THEN I'll be listening eagerly.
Would you like to supersize that deathmatch? - phorm
I know somebody who did this too. Actually, a vaccuum works if the cannister is kept far away from the computer, and you use proper attachments (for some, you can buy PC cleaning attachments). However, one person I knew used a dustbuster to clean inside the computer. It was that it sucked up anything important or jarred something, it was the electromagnetic field caused by the dustbuster motor that fried a fair bit of sensitive circuitry. And this was back in the old days, when chips were not quite so sensitive as now.
The moral of this story? It's good to get the dust out because it's bad for your computer. It's very bad to use anything that generates electromagnetic fields at close range...
compressed air=usually ok vacuum=not great dustbuster=that ominous blank screen when you turn on a PC - phorm
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices"
At first I thought this was a joke. However, then I realized one way it was possible. The previous slashdot article Voices in your head outlines a point focus method where inaudible sound could be beamed over distance and converge at the listener. This may be useful for surround?.
Of course, then we need a white noise generated to silence the guy in the next cubie who sings to himself - phorm
Yes, for godsakes, port FFX. I've been waiting for ages to play this damn game. I hardly think it fair that I have to shell out money for a PS2 console just to play FFX, since it doesn't seem to be available for any other systems.
Thus far I've collected all of the FF series available to North America up to FFIX. I have FFI on NES, and the rest as part of the FF Anthology/etc. I was somewhat saddened that FFIX didn't come out on PC, although I ended up buying the PS1 disc and played it through on emulator (which worked surprisingly well).
Unless a decent emulator comes out or a port for PC is announced, I may end up not playing FFX at all, even though I love squaresoft games.
Limiting themselves to a single console seems to eliminate a lot of people from getting the game. I haven't seem PS2's coming out overly cheap on eBay yet either.
Anyone know of FFX/PC or a good PS2 emulator? - phorm
Definately agreed. My ATI card (Radeon All-In-Wonder) was beautiful for what it could do, but severely hampered by drivers. The thing was loaded with features, and quite fast. However, due to incredibly crappy drivers, 90% of my games (particularly those needing directX in fullscreen mode) would not play in Windows 2000/XP. I have a dual install of 98, but it was annoying to have to reboot to play my games.
Also, on a few games I noticed that sound would go to crap in win98 games after awhile. While the video card had no relation to my soundcard, once installing a GeForce4MX this problem went away. I'm guess that the ATI drivers for 98 had a memory leak or something.
It's like having an awesome car, and a pair of undersized tires and low axles. It's great to drive around, but go anywhere with a bump and something gets torn out from underneath you...
Good video card=hardware+drivers+support+compatibility - phorm
I mean, how much money does the average 5-10 year old have in his/her pocket? Richie-Rich aside, its not enough to buy a new game every week.
Point a) They're targetting teens. Not 10-year-olds, but still kids.
b) Piracy costs little money. Many teens have no problem with downloading or copying games
c) In an aside, I've watched violent movies and played violent games since I was about 9. I never developed any real-life violent tendencies...or than smacking my old monitor whenever it used to make odd high-pitch noises (it worked, loose circuit?).
But yes, a little online slaying does tend to loosen one up a bit, unless you suck and die too much - phorm
I agree that putty is an awesome terminal emulator. It's tiny, single-file, and requites no configuration.
However, in minor objection, this is probably a geek tool, as most "family-oriented" PC's don't use much of telnet, SSH, or rlogin nowadays.
I'll throw in a bit of pro-putty to say that almost anyone running a personal website with SSH should put putty somewhere they can get at it from. Whenever I'm away from home and the server needs tuning, it's a short download away - even with dialup (assuming that at least one of the FTP server or Apache are alive).
Aside from general personal preference, can anyone outline the functional differences between the various linux-based systems?
For me, it seems that on any system, once everything is up and running, then I'm good to go. When it comes to desktops, etc, there seems to be a large area of contention.
Currently I'm running RedHat. The GUI installation was nice. Driver detection was good. Most things I configure I have no problems with. Trying Debian recently was like jumping in a cold shower. I suppose I'm spoiled with GUI and quick-and-easy tools, but besides these what is the core difference?
Oh, and in addition, in terminal mode I will currently say that the RedHat VIM (default VI editor) is the nicest editor out of all I've seen from RedHat, Debian, Unix and FreeBSD - as I've tried all of these through terminals into various systems I have access to.
Can perhaps somebody post a page outlining a list of core/important differences between distros?
In another note: the presentation page has been slashdotted already, since it's probably running on Mandrake configured by the Mandrake people, perhaps I'll take this as a cue to stick with RedHat...
The simplest solution for anything I've ever seen is this:
Try it for god sakes. Before you bitch about it or even see it, just try it. Wait until Redhat 8.0 comes out, get a copy, install it, and check out the GUI.
If it sucks big-time, then flaming is somewhat justified. If it works better than what has gone before, then either use it or go crawling back to your old glitchy GUI versions and feel that hollow satisfaction that your whining was warranted.
Seems to me, the only way anyone wins is if it's an improvement - phorm
Any bugs Red Hat introduces to KDE will increase their support costs. People who buy Red Hat call Red Hat when they have trouble.
On a side note, those who download RedHat for free don't get some of that support without paying. If it becomes a large known issue, a patch goes up. If it's a minor issue with only a few people, I would expect RH to charge them service fees.
How do you think companies with free software/OS's make money? One of the big ways is support.
"Record labels know what consumers want. We all do. They want a Napster you pay for. We all know that. But why would the labels want that at all? Making CD's is like printing money."
In the case of selling the music online, wouldn't this be like making money without paying for the cost of ink and presses etc?
However this is like drawing blood from a stone
"Web broadcasters, whether lone teenagers or the Web sites of actual radio stations, will be required to make retroactive payments for all songs they have played in the last four years"
Most laws are made for the now. Making a law, especially one such as this, retroactive is - to say the least - insane. If I did something that was perfectly legal 10 years ago, should I be jailed today if a law making it illegal suddenly becomes retroactively effective?
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do pay big companies an extensive amount of money - phorm
If you need any help let me know (phormix at phormix dot com). I'd be more than happy to lend some examples of good and nightmarish coding.
Oh, and kudos for this work. I was at one time working on a simple PHP manual, but ran out of time before it even really got started. I'd be happy to start it up again, and get assistance from the slashdot crowd.
It can be found at: phpmanual.phormix.com
This is one of the most ironic and ultimately annyoing things for me. Recently, I've been getting more spam from companies sending anti-spam or anti-popup products. In addition, I get popups advertising the same.
One would think that it doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that people who dislike spam/popups are going to be doubly annoyed by spam/popups advertising anti-spam/popup solutions.
Subject: RE: Penis enlargement Body: Cheap way to remove your head from your ass... - phorm
Another thing that may be useful to run every so often. If you have a large password database, and foolish users, there's a good chance that you'll get some changes from this (unless you run something to check for dumb password import).
UPDATE users SET password=PASSWORD('$somerandomvalue') WHERE password=PASSWORD(username)
Substitute as needed:
password (possibly for MD5)
fields: password, username
table: users
Oh, and don't forget to set $somerandomvalue beforehand, otherwise the users get no password - which is even worse!
Indeed, I was using this as an example of many samples which demonstrate using plain WHERE USERNAME='$uname' PASSWORD='$pword' This is common and quite foolish. I prefer to use:
SELECT COUNT(username) as SuccessCount FROM users WHERE username='" . $username . "' AND password=PASSWORD('" . $password . "')"
Where $username and $password have already been checked for funky input, and the PASSWORD function could be substituted for MD5 easily enough.
SELECT * FROM idiots WHERE username='admin' AND password='admin' - phorm
I think that one of the bigger problems is the amount of self-started developers who rely on bad examples. When I first started programming Perl (and later PHP), I relied heavily on samples or articles online. In other cases, I picked apart common but easy programs.
As a result of this, my initial coding was functional, but crap. Over 3 months I picked up a better coding style, and on looking back at my initial code I was surprised at how badly it had been written. While there are many good resources for starting to code in a particular language, many of these use shortcut-code to get the message across.
For instance, PHP code that relies on "register_globals" is a bad example. For one thing, it doesn't work on all systems. For another, it can lead to programmers leaving holes or vulnerabilities in their sites. While it may be a pain to use $HTTP_POST_VARS["something"] every time, it's also nice to set an example of the most compatible method for coding.
Crap code is like a virus. If you make crap samples, and then somebody else makes crap samples based on the knowledge gained from your samples... pretty soon you have crap^2. A good thread might be for everyone to list the best known sites for PHP/Perl/etc sample, as well as known coding baddies/goodies.
And if there were no compiler, then all my./configure, make && make install scripts would go to hell, seeing as though they all recompile themselves. A lot of useful patches often recompile themselves too.
Renaming your compiler binary instead of deleting it would probably be more useful, that way one could at least compile wanted code when needed.
Thank you extremely for putting this up. Seems my server is safe (and now patched), but it's good to know so that I don't have to worry. Also, it saddens me greatly to see that some buttmunch posted the full link, where to be a jerk or just out of sheer ignorance I don't know.
Here's a copy: triple-w.phormix.com/files/public/chkrootkit.tar.g z (replace triple-w. with www.)
"Worms" on the internet? will a "fish" take care of it? - phorm
It seems to me that some of the more recent movies took away a lot of the initial seriousness,etc from the batman series. JC (a good comedian but one shouldn't shove him into every role just because he's popular) made a joke of the riddler, when I remember him more an a form of "intellectual badass". There was a fair bit of humour in previous eps, but much of it was a quite dark variety.
And of course, the odd buddybuddy relationship between Batman and Robin, which was quite reminiscent of Ace and Gary from Saturday Night Live (not that there's anything wrong with that).
I skips my normal embellishment on this. What I meant to say is: AGP will let you run the textures from your video card off of system RAM, but you might as well go fix a can of soup, feed the cat, etc for all the good it does you speed-wise.
Ok, so maybe that's too extreme.:-)
Not to mention, these cards are coming out with enough video RAM to rival the main memory
Spending money on 256MB/512MB video cards seem ludicrous to me, when people I know are just scraping that much up in system RAM (I'm 512 myself until I get a new motherboard). If a game takes more RAM than my standard PC configuration, I think it's time to dull those pixels a bit in favor of a little decency as far as memory consumption. I imaging when these cards start toting that much RAM and CPU power, they're also going to be so hot that you could probably find a case mod that allows them to boil your morning coffee...
The newest innovation, part video card, part base heater, part toaster. Don't forget the heatsink and fan! - phorm
AGP will let you run the textures from your video card off of system RAM, but there is still a speed loss involved in this. More RAM is of course nicer for newer games. Older games, it doesn't mean squat. No games, squat. Games without 3d, squat. (no I'm not counting those who use the video card for system memory).
However, if you intend to play Q3 or whatever enough at superhighres, ultracolordepth, whateverwhatever, then you may want more Video RAM. Crank down the texture detail a little bit and you don't need as much, I'm sure the game is just as fun.
AGP, fast video cards and video RAM are all about games. But when you can buy a whole PS2 for the cost of an expensive video card, it makes you think a bit.
With my old 15" 1024x1024maxres monitor it doesn't matter much anyhow - phorm
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And just because you're a hacker doesn't mean you do anything illegal or nefarious. The term also indicates people in certain professions, or who do many forms of intense but not illegal code-hacking on PC's
Who replace my cat-in-bag with a can-of-worms? - phorm
Religion is only part of the equation for a "good person." In many religions, zealotism breeds people who are immutable to outside suggest, and often hostile towards those who do not share their beliefs. In other cases, indeed in many cases, they simply view themselves are "better people".
This is not to say that relgion does no enhance life. I see many religious people who do good things for the world/community based on their beliefs.
I've also seen many non-religious people who also do a lot of good, not out of any believe in heaven or an afterlife, but simply because they believe in doing good. The contrast to this is ina a few people I know, we can take a few friends of mine.
Friend 1: Found little point in life, was quite constantly depressed. Verged on very drastic negetive consequence. She became "Christian" (though many other religions are good as well, I won't say Christian is the best) and was embraced by her church, found love and certain amount of peace in herself. She seems a lot happier lately
Friend 2: Was raised as an athiest, by athiests. She has not only no religion, but also background reason for life, or a strong basis for doing anything. She seems wholly unsatisfied at most times, and care little for many of her actions. This isn't to say that she's done strong harm to anyone else, but she lacks a fundamental goal in life, doesn't believe in having children (world sucks too much to raise them in), and often enough has a "what's the point attitude."
Friend 3: Has no real religion. Was raised by a supportive and loving family. Believes she has a future, and wants to propogate children. She often helps others, and is a caring, giving individual.
I've met a lot of other people who are quote religios" but do wholly bad things. They tend to have a good regard for their church circle but little for those outside.
My point. Relgion doesn't always define a meaning in life, but it often helps. The fundamental teachings and upbringing behind it are what is essential. If a church is teaching you how to be a good person, and not teaching you intolerance of others, then the church is doing a good job. If your parents raise you with the same values, then your parents are doing a similarly good job.
Often, it's the basic teachings (play nice, be a good boy Vs care for others, be a good Christian/other) that are important.
I have no name for my believes. I disagree with a large part taught by my family's religion, but agree with many of the basic tenets of goodness towards others. I also believe in evolution, but also in a higher power, and yet don't find a conflict. I'm definately not a bible banger, but I'm happy in my own purpose in life, which is what I think really counts.
Contradictions and agreements are welcome, but remember to think before you post - phorm
GeForce4 (or multi-out video card). Extended desktop. Main video for DVD's goes out via S-Video. I can't afford the projector (I assume he paid lots for this, unless somebody knows a cheap solution), but the video goes to the TV, and the controls,etc are all on my monitor. With a wireless mouse this would be nicer still. It's still a lot cheaper than a special LCD though.
Oh, and just because a card has TV-out, doesn't mean it has extended desktop. Another shot at ATI, for their "feature rich" All-in-wonder card that would only clone, not extend, my desktop).
If anyone knows a cheaper solution to making your own projection system... THEN I'll be listening eagerly.
Would you like to supersize that deathmatch? - phorm
I know somebody who did this too. Actually, a vaccuum works if the cannister is kept far away from the computer, and you use proper attachments (for some, you can buy PC cleaning attachments). However, one person I knew used a dustbuster to clean inside the computer. It was that it sucked up anything important or jarred something, it was the electromagnetic field caused by the dustbuster motor that fried a fair bit of sensitive circuitry. And this was back in the old days, when chips were not quite so sensitive as now.
The moral of this story? It's good to get the dust out because it's bad for your computer. It's very bad to use anything that generates electromagnetic fields at close range...
compressed air=usually ok
vacuum=not great
dustbuster=that ominous blank screen when you turn on a PC
- phorm
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices"
At first I thought this was a joke. However, then I realized one way it was possible. The previous slashdot article Voices in your head outlines a point focus method where inaudible sound could be beamed over distance and converge at the listener. This may be useful for surround?.
Of course, then we need a white noise generated to silence the guy in the next cubie who sings to himself - phorm
Yes, for godsakes, port FFX. I've been waiting for ages to play this damn game. I hardly think it fair that I have to shell out money for a PS2 console just to play FFX, since it doesn't seem to be available for any other systems.
Thus far I've collected all of the FF series available to North America up to FFIX. I have FFI on NES, and the rest as part of the FF Anthology/etc. I was somewhat saddened that FFIX didn't come out on PC, although I ended up buying the PS1 disc and played it through on emulator (which worked surprisingly well).
Unless a decent emulator comes out or a port for PC is announced, I may end up not playing FFX at all, even though I love squaresoft games.
Limiting themselves to a single console seems to eliminate a lot of people from getting the game. I haven't seem PS2's coming out overly cheap on eBay yet either.
Anyone know of FFX/PC or a good PS2 emulator? - phorm
Definately agreed. My ATI card (Radeon All-In-Wonder) was beautiful for what it could do, but severely hampered by drivers. The thing was loaded with features, and quite fast. However, due to incredibly crappy drivers, 90% of my games (particularly those needing directX in fullscreen mode) would not play in Windows 2000/XP. I have a dual install of 98, but it was annoying to have to reboot to play my games.
Also, on a few games I noticed that sound would go to crap in win98 games after awhile. While the video card had no relation to my soundcard, once installing a GeForce4MX this problem went away. I'm guess that the ATI drivers for 98 had a memory leak or something.
It's like having an awesome car, and a pair of undersized tires and low axles. It's great to drive around, but go anywhere with a bump and something gets torn out from underneath you...
Good video card=hardware+drivers+support+compatibility - phorm
they didn't get it... they're still too busy reading up on "law for dummies" trying to figure out how to make a case...
I mean, how much money does the average 5-10 year old have in his/her pocket? Richie-Rich aside, its not enough to buy a new game every week.
Point a) They're targetting teens. Not 10-year-olds, but still kids.
b) Piracy costs little money. Many teens have no problem with downloading or copying games
c) In an aside, I've watched violent movies and played violent games since I was about 9. I never developed any real-life violent tendencies...or than smacking my old monitor whenever it used to make odd high-pitch noises (it worked, loose circuit?).
But yes, a little online slaying does tend to loosen one up a bit, unless you suck and die too much - phorm
I agree that putty is an awesome terminal emulator. It's tiny, single-file, and requites no configuration.
However, in minor objection, this is probably a geek tool, as most "family-oriented" PC's don't use much of telnet, SSH, or rlogin nowadays.
I'll throw in a bit of pro-putty to say that almost anyone running a personal website with SSH should put putty somewhere they can get at it from. Whenever I'm away from home and the server needs tuning, it's a short download away - even with dialup (assuming that at least one of the FTP server or Apache are alive).
Sometimes the simple tools are the best - phorm
Aside from general personal preference, can anyone outline the functional differences between the various linux-based systems?
For me, it seems that on any system, once everything is up and running, then I'm good to go. When it comes to desktops, etc, there seems to be a large area of contention.
Currently I'm running RedHat. The GUI installation was nice. Driver detection was good. Most things I configure I have no problems with. Trying Debian recently was like jumping in a cold shower. I suppose I'm spoiled with GUI and quick-and-easy tools, but besides these what is the core difference?
Oh, and in addition, in terminal mode I will currently say that the RedHat VIM (default VI editor) is the nicest editor out of all I've seen from RedHat, Debian, Unix and FreeBSD - as I've tried all of these through terminals into various systems I have access to.
Can perhaps somebody post a page outlining a list of core/important differences between distros?
In another note: the presentation page has been slashdotted already, since it's probably running on Mandrake configured by the Mandrake people, perhaps I'll take this as a cue to stick with RedHat...
Anyone with a GUI is spoiled - phorm
The simplest solution for anything I've ever seen is this:
Try it for god sakes. Before you bitch about it or even see it, just try it. Wait until Redhat 8.0 comes out, get a copy, install it, and check out the GUI.
If it sucks big-time, then flaming is somewhat justified. If it works better than what has gone before, then either use it or go crawling back to your old glitchy GUI versions and feel that hollow satisfaction that your whining was warranted.
Seems to me, the only way anyone wins is if it's an improvement - phorm
Any bugs Red Hat introduces to KDE will increase their support costs. People who buy Red Hat call Red Hat when they have trouble.
On a side note, those who download RedHat for free don't get some of that support without paying. If it becomes a large known issue, a patch goes up. If it's a minor issue with only a few people, I would expect RH to charge them service fees.
How do you think companies with free software/OS's make money? One of the big ways is support.
"Record labels know what consumers want. We all do. They want a Napster you pay for. We all know that. But why would the labels want that at all? Making CD's is like printing money."
In the case of selling the music online, wouldn't this be like making money without paying for the cost of ink and presses etc?
However this is like drawing blood from a stone
"Web broadcasters, whether lone teenagers or the Web sites of actual radio stations, will be required to make retroactive payments for all songs they have played in the last four years"
Most laws are made for the now. Making a law, especially one such as this, retroactive is - to say the least - insane. If I did something that was perfectly legal 10 years ago, should I be jailed today if a law making it illegal suddenly becomes retroactively effective?
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do pay big companies an extensive amount of money - phorm
If you need any help let me know (phormix at phormix dot com). I'd be more than happy to lend some examples of good and nightmarish coding.
Oh, and kudos for this work. I was at one time working on a simple PHP manual, but ran out of time before it even really got started. I'd be happy to start it up again, and get assistance from the slashdot crowd. It can be found at: phpmanual.phormix.com
Time for my server to get slashdotted? - phorm
Cluster (k l ah1 s t er0 ) [hyperdic.net]
Noun: group: A grouping of a number of similar things.
Verb: motion: Come together as in a cluster or flock.
Therefore we can infer that:
Windows cluster: A large group of lawyers ready to surround sue the ass off of anyone they can who crosses them.
Microsoft cluster, large 500lb gorilla hands closing around the throats of competition
From these, it seems Microsoft does indeed have an effective clustering solution, albeit by different interpretation - phorm
This is one of the most ironic and ultimately annyoing things for me. Recently, I've been getting more spam from companies sending anti-spam or anti-popup products. In addition, I get popups advertising the same.
One would think that it doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that people who dislike spam/popups are going to be doubly annoyed by spam/popups advertising anti-spam/popup solutions.
Subject: RE: Penis enlargement
Body: Cheap way to remove your head from your ass...
- phorm
Another thing that may be useful to run every so often. If you have a large password database, and foolish users, there's a good chance that you'll get some changes from this (unless you run something to check for dumb password import).
UPDATE users SET password=PASSWORD('$somerandomvalue') WHERE password=PASSWORD(username)
Substitute as needed:
password (possibly for MD5)
fields: password, username
table: users
Oh, and don't forget to set $somerandomvalue beforehand, otherwise the users get no password - which is even worse!
$somerandomvalue=iamadumbasswithaneasypassword - phorm
Indeed, I was using this as an example of many samples which demonstrate using plain
WHERE USERNAME='$uname' PASSWORD='$pword'
This is common and quite foolish. I prefer to use:
SELECT COUNT(username) as SuccessCount FROM users WHERE username='" . $username . "' AND password=PASSWORD('" . $password . "')"
Where $username and $password have already been checked for funky input, and the PASSWORD function could be substituted for MD5 easily enough.
SELECT * FROM idiots WHERE username='admin' AND password='admin' - phorm
I think that one of the bigger problems is the amount of self-started developers who rely on bad examples. When I first started programming Perl (and later PHP), I relied heavily on samples or articles online. In other cases, I picked apart common but easy programs.
As a result of this, my initial coding was functional, but crap. Over 3 months I picked up a better coding style, and on looking back at my initial code I was surprised at how badly it had been written. While there are many good resources for starting to code in a particular language, many of these use shortcut-code to get the message across.
For instance, PHP code that relies on "register_globals" is a bad example. For one thing, it doesn't work on all systems. For another, it can lead to programmers leaving holes or vulnerabilities in their sites. While it may be a pain to use $HTTP_POST_VARS["something"] every time, it's also nice to set an example of the most compatible method for coding.
Crap code is like a virus. If you make crap samples, and then somebody else makes crap samples based on the knowledge gained from your samples... pretty soon you have crap^2. A good thread might be for everyone to list the best known sites for PHP/Perl/etc sample, as well as known coding baddies/goodies.
"AND password=$password", not a good idea - phorm
And if there were no compiler, then all my ./configure, make && make install scripts would go to hell, seeing as though they all recompile themselves. A lot of useful patches often recompile themselves too.
Renaming your compiler binary instead of deleting it would probably be more useful, that way one could at least compile wanted code when needed.
gcc evil-worm-patch. bash: gcc: command not found. ah crap - phorm
Thank you extremely for putting this up. Seems my server is safe (and now patched), but it's good to know so that I don't have to worry. Also, it saddens me greatly to see that some buttmunch posted the full link, where to be a jerk or just out of sheer ignorance I don't know.
g z (replace triple-w. with www.)
Here's a copy: triple-w.phormix.com/files/public/chkrootkit.tar.
"Worms" on the internet? will a "fish" take care of it? - phorm
It seems to me that some of the more recent movies took away a lot of the initial seriousness,etc from the batman series. JC (a good comedian but one shouldn't shove him into every role just because he's popular) made a joke of the riddler, when I remember him more an a form of "intellectual badass". There was a fair bit of humour in previous eps, but much of it was a quite dark variety.
And of course, the odd buddybuddy relationship between Batman and Robin, which was quite reminiscent of Ace and Gary from Saturday Night Live (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Quick Robin, back to the batcloset! - phorm
I skips my normal embellishment on this. What I meant to say is:
:-)
AGP will let you run the textures from your video card off of system RAM, but you might as well go fix a can of soup, feed the cat, etc for all the good it does you speed-wise.
Ok, so maybe that's too extreme.
Not to mention, these cards are coming out with enough video RAM to rival the main memory
Spending money on 256MB/512MB video cards seem ludicrous to me, when people I know are just scraping that much up in system RAM (I'm 512 myself until I get a new motherboard). If a game takes more RAM than my standard PC configuration, I think it's time to dull those pixels a bit in favor of a little decency as far as memory consumption. I imaging when these cards start toting that much RAM and CPU power, they're also going to be so hot that you could probably find a case mod that allows them to boil your morning coffee...
The newest innovation, part video card, part base heater, part toaster. Don't forget the heatsink and fan! - phorm
AGP will let you run the textures from your video card off of system RAM, but there is still a speed loss involved in this. More RAM is of course nicer for newer games. Older games, it doesn't mean squat. No games, squat. Games without 3d, squat. (no I'm not counting those who use the video card for system memory).
However, if you intend to play Q3 or whatever enough at superhighres, ultracolordepth, whateverwhatever, then you may want more Video RAM. Crank down the texture detail a little bit and you don't need as much, I'm sure the game is just as fun.
AGP, fast video cards and video RAM are all about games. But when you can buy a whole PS2 for the cost of an expensive video card, it makes you think a bit.
With my old 15" 1024x1024maxres monitor it doesn't matter much anyhow - phorm