Here is the distressing thing. Five of the exploits are because environment variables were not properly sanitized. How embarrassing is it to not be correctly setting the PATH and IFS environment variables in 2007? Even worse one of them is passing username and password via command line arguments!
Another exploit has any logged in user able to to see the keystrokes of other users thus making key-loggers possible. But that is not the worst part, the embarrassing part is that this was supposedly fixed in an earlier update yet there was a mistake and some systems that applied the update were not patched correctly. Apple just let the bad guys know about an exploit that they could still use.
Notice that those were taken from the SERVER security update? Guess what portmap is running and the firewall open for port 111 if an Xserve is exporting NFS. A very common configuration actually.
If it was the DVD player that was the problem, an RF modulator wouldn't fix it...
The macrovision works by fiddling with the signal at times when no image would appear on screen. The RF modulator passes that on, just the TV does not care. It is the AGC in the VCR that gets confused.
Ah but this is an issue of copy protection not region distribution. Yes the market has decided that the region locking was too strict. But it is much harder to find DVD players that do not honor macrovision. I have an old tv set in my bedroom with only an antenna input. I tried plugging-in my dvd player trhough the VCR it did not work because of the macrovision. I just could not find dvd player anywhere that I could do a remote code to get rid of macrovision. I bought one where there was a bug in the original firmware where you could get around the macrovision by fiddling with the output settings, not the ideal situation since it would not stick. But the one that I got had a firmware date that was a month later than the posting on the web and this particular bug was fixed. Lots of other bugs like video and audio losing sync remain. I have a feeling that the manufactures treat keeping the video producers happy with a high priority. I just had to buy a $10 rf modulator (actually I am on my second since the quality of the first and more expensive one was so terrible).
Shack: When did you realize what you were getting yourself into, as you say?
Alex St John: A month or so in, I still didn't know exactly what my job was until one of the guys who hired me said, "Write a strategy for how you would persuade the publishing industry to move to Windows." I spent a lot of time writing documents saying here's what our strategy should be, here's how we could convince companies to sign on, all that. I came in to do my presentation, and I got about three slides into it before I was interrupted by one of the executives saying, "This is all great stuff, you have a perfect plan. Developers who are reasonable should all support it, but what do you do if none of this works." "What do you mean?" "What if in spite of your best efforts, your best arguments, you best relationships, you can't get them to support them. How do you force the industry to support Microsoft anyway?" "Force them? Well, I don't know." "Come back when you have a plan that answers that question."
That perplexed me for a long time. I'm thinking, "What the hell does he mean, force them? I can't hold a gun to their head, so how do I put all these companies in a position where, regardless of what they see is in their best interest, they have to adopt your technology?" That experience had a major impact on my thinking. I realized that a major part of my job was to figure out how to use technology control to create economic force, or leverage, such that money and business flowed in Microsoft's direction, and people had to go [to them]. That, ultimately, is when I became a "Microsoft guy," when I got that concept.
I bought "Inside the Machine" just a few days ago after reading Hannibal's blog. I bought it from Amazon instead because I could not find it in the "Ars Store." There was no link to store.arstechnica.com from the blog or the Ars home page that I could find.The link I found was the Shop.Ars link to arstechnica.shopping.com which was useless. I thought it was just not in the store yet. You need to make the Ars Store easier to find if you want people to buy things from there. I really wanted to buy it from Ars because of the perks that Hannibal promised and to support Ars. An online version would have been fantastic and I missed-out. Plus you missed-out on a sale from the Ars Store.
The fun part is that if you get a A180 ATSC tuner card and install it under linux, you can not only tune the entire QAM constellation but you can also watch the on-demand feeds your neighbors are watching as they are unscrambled.
Two to three years ago I was able to do it with my TV QAM tuner. At first I thought it was some new kids channel. Then one time it paused and that threw me. Then later they started changing channels. Finally one night it was soft core porn and I figured it out. It was fun channel hopping. The channel would work for a few minutes then you would have to tune to another channel to find it again. After a while it stopped working.
I watched the Bears Packer (oops SeaHawks) game at home on my 30 in or so HDTV CRT set. It was very good quality. Then I watched the Bears Saints game at a friend's house on his 50 inch DLP HD set with comcast cable and it was just terrible quality. The grass would go from muddle to perfect to shimmer even with no movement of the camera. And when there was any movement, it was all a blurred mess. At half time I left saying the snow was getting bad but really I went to my parents' where they have a 36 in LCD HD set with comcast cable and an old antenna in the attic. Switching from the cable to the antenna was the difference, it is true comcast recompresses their HD signals and it is very noticeable.
It was very bad during the World Cup too. At my parents they had a 27 in HD LCD back then and there were times when watching over cable the ball would be kicked through the air it would disappear! It would sort of flicker from spot to spot across the screen at approximately 2 Hz. When watching the same game over the air on the same set this did not occur.
The antenna at my old house cost me under $20 (it was a deal). The house I own now came with an antenna. Just buy and install it, drop the cable subscription, and use the money you save to buy DVDs. Heck analog is still broadcast, the last VCR I bought was less than $13 (Walmart) more than a year ago, so you can use tapes for now if you must.
that played it on an original TG16? Military Madness was a mess when you got to larger levels, slow scrolling with the sound cutting out. I want confirmation dorm someone before I d/l DE that the emulation is better than in military madness.
Being able to browse the web to look-up TV listings was half of the reason I bought the wii. (The other half was the VC, wii-sports is just a bonus.) I have OTA NTSC and ATSC so no cable/sat box that I can use to see what is on. I use titantv on the computer, but that site might be too busy for 480i. Does anyone have suggestions for websites (or scripts I can run on my webserver) that would do the trick?
They have great quality cables for unbelievable prices. By quality I mean one of my friends got a cable that was shielded against pinching and crushing with a mesh-like covering. I have had only good experiences with them and so have two of my friends that I recommended them to. If you order what is in stock, delivery is fast too. Plus they have one of only a handful of hdmi switches that works correctly and the price on it is better than most.
Like the article said, last year it was announced for a number of other models and it happened to ours as well back then. Good luck finding any info about it on the US site. Anyway at first the LCD started behaving oddly (lines and greenish colors) and then finally it just went to a mode where it was basically all white but not uniformly so. I had to call and was on the phone for more than an hour until I got someone with any knowledge about the free repairs program.
But Sony would charge us shipping (to their center). And if they determined that the problem was not this fiasco, they would charge us for the diagnostic (and repair should we decide to get it fixed). Frankly I just did not trust them enough to be honest and of course I could be so unlucky as some other part was broken.
The camera took bad pictures anyway (blues and purples were indistinguishable for one) so my wife looked for a new camera and we bought a Canon. It came to us broken though. I had to take it to the repair center near Schamburg (they charged shipping, companies that do this really annoy me), but when it came back it worked fine.
Oh and the Sony program is a repair, not a new camera. I know how that goes, I got an iBook back where the keyboard did not work after the logic board repair. Apple covered this. But Casio was another story, but that is a long story which amounted to they broke my keyboard during a repair (left keys no longer worked) and they wanted to charge me shipping again to fix that! By that time the multiple shipping costs would have cost almost as much as the keyboard! Years back NEC took almost half a year of multiple repairs to get me a CD drive that worked.
Honestly at first I was really very bad at using the wiimote. It was shaking all over the place. But ten minutes later it was second nature. It just takes a little experimentation to figure-out not to do stupid things like move your whole arm and hold it out straight in front of you. (Yup that is what I was doing at first.) Also one of my wiimotes was not as good as the others. It would disconnect all the time and it's pointer was very shakey on the screen regardless of what I did. I exchanged it when I noticed the others were behaving vastly better.
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HD-DVD also has SKB and KCD for the far future but first the processing key will be changed.
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Here is the distressing thing. Five of the exploits are because environment variables were not properly sanitized. How embarrassing is it to not be correctly setting the PATH and IFS environment variables in 2007? Even worse one of them is passing username and password via command line arguments!
Another exploit has any logged in user able to to see the keystrokes of other users thus making key-loggers possible. But that is not the worst part, the embarrassing part is that this was supposedly fixed in an earlier update yet there was a mistake and some systems that applied the update were not patched correctly. Apple just let the bad guys know about an exploit that they could still use.
Notice that those were taken from the SERVER security update? Guess what portmap is running and the firewall open for port 111 if an Xserve is exporting NFS. A very common configuration actually.
If it was the DVD player that was the problem, an RF modulator wouldn't fix it...
The macrovision works by fiddling with the signal at times when no image would appear on screen. The RF modulator passes that on, just the TV does not care. It is the AGC in the VCR that gets confused.
Ah but this is an issue of copy protection not region distribution. Yes the market has decided that the region locking was too strict. But it is much harder to find DVD players that do not honor macrovision. I have an old tv set in my bedroom with only an antenna input. I tried plugging-in my dvd player trhough the VCR it did not work because of the macrovision. I just could not find dvd player anywhere that I could do a remote code to get rid of macrovision. I bought one where there was a bug in the original firmware where you could get around the macrovision by fiddling with the output settings, not the ideal situation since it would not stick. But the one that I got had a firmware date that was a month later than the posting on the web and this particular bug was fixed. Lots of other bugs like video and audio losing sync remain. I have a feeling that the manufactures treat keeping the video producers happy with a high priority. I just had to buy a $10 rf modulator (actually I am on my second since the quality of the first and more expensive one was so terrible).
Shack: When did you realize what you were getting yourself into, as you say?
Alex St John: A month or so in, I still didn't know exactly what my job was until one of the guys who hired me said, "Write a strategy for how you would persuade the publishing industry to move to Windows." I spent a lot of time writing documents saying here's what our strategy should be, here's how we could convince companies to sign on, all that. I came in to do my presentation, and I got about three slides into it before I was interrupted by one of the executives saying, "This is all great stuff, you have a perfect plan. Developers who are reasonable should all support it, but what do you do if none of this works." "What do you mean?" "What if in spite of your best efforts, your best arguments, you best relationships, you can't get them to support them. How do you force the industry to support Microsoft anyway?" "Force them? Well, I don't know." "Come back when you have a plan that answers that question."
That perplexed me for a long time. I'm thinking, "What the hell does he mean, force them? I can't hold a gun to their head, so how do I put all these companies in a position where, regardless of what they see is in their best interest, they have to adopt your technology?" That experience had a major impact on my thinking. I realized that a major part of my job was to figure out how to use technology control to create economic force, or leverage, such that money and business flowed in Microsoft's direction, and people had to go [to them]. That, ultimately, is when I became a "Microsoft guy," when I got that concept.
It caches documents too. So if you accidentally delete something you may find it in the "Google Desktop" cache. That is sort of nifty.
I bought "Inside the Machine" just a few days ago after reading Hannibal's blog. I bought it from Amazon instead because I could not find it in the "Ars Store." There was no link to store.arstechnica.com from the blog or the Ars home page that I could find.The link I found was the Shop.Ars link to arstechnica.shopping.com which was useless. I thought it was just not in the store yet. You need to make the Ars Store easier to find if you want people to buy things from there. I really wanted to buy it from Ars because of the perks that Hannibal promised and to support Ars. An online version would have been fantastic and I missed-out. Plus you missed-out on a sale from the Ars Store.
And before that they were responsible for the great Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D games, great shareware games.
Yes! Can you do battery backed SRAM behind this gate array?
Maybe you could contact Lord British. I believe that Ultima IV or VI supported the card. He may know who had the card.
There are two inputs and two outputs. One of the outputs is the AND the other is XOR.
Two to three years ago I was able to do it with my TV QAM tuner. At first I thought it was some new kids channel. Then one time it paused and that threw me. Then later they started changing channels. Finally one night it was soft core porn and I figured it out. It was fun channel hopping. The channel would work for a few minutes then you would have to tune to another channel to find it again. After a while it stopped working.
I watched the Bears Packer (oops SeaHawks) game at home on my 30 in or so HDTV CRT set. It was very good quality. Then I watched the Bears Saints game at a friend's house on his 50 inch DLP HD set with comcast cable and it was just terrible quality. The grass would go from muddle to perfect to shimmer even with no movement of the camera. And when there was any movement, it was all a blurred mess. At half time I left saying the snow was getting bad but really I went to my parents' where they have a 36 in LCD HD set with comcast cable and an old antenna in the attic. Switching from the cable to the antenna was the difference, it is true comcast recompresses their HD signals and it is very noticeable.
It was very bad during the World Cup too. At my parents they had a 27 in HD LCD back then and there were times when watching over cable the ball would be kicked through the air it would disappear! It would sort of flicker from spot to spot across the screen at approximately 2 Hz. When watching the same game over the air on the same set this did not occur.
The antenna at my old house cost me under $20 (it was a deal). The house I own now came with an antenna. Just buy and install it, drop the cable subscription, and use the money you save to buy DVDs. Heck analog is still broadcast, the last VCR I bought was less than $13 (Walmart) more than a year ago, so you can use tapes for now if you must.
It is much like the 48S or 48G with a very clicky keyboard. The only downside is the small misplaced enter key. The 49 and 48II were terrible.
Seriously, the arcade game in the 80's was great and so was Goonies II on the NES. A new 2D platformer with a Cyndi Lauper soundtrack would be golden.
that played it on an original TG16? Military Madness was a mess when you got to larger levels, slow scrolling with the sound cutting out. I want confirmation dorm someone before I d/l DE that the emulation is better than in military madness.
Nope, about a fifth of the field a year is what most do here.
Maybe I am hoping for too much but an you point with the wiimote in this GV game?
Being able to browse the web to look-up TV listings was half of the reason I bought the wii. (The other half was the VC, wii-sports is just a bonus.) I have OTA NTSC and ATSC so no cable/sat box that I can use to see what is on. I use titantv on the computer, but that site might be too busy for 480i. Does anyone have suggestions for websites (or scripts I can run on my webserver) that would do the trick?
Not with games on disk, though you can with VC games.
They have great quality cables for unbelievable prices. By quality I mean one of my friends got a cable that was shielded against pinching and crushing with a mesh-like covering. I have had only good experiences with them and so have two of my friends that I recommended them to. If you order what is in stock, delivery is fast too. Plus they have one of only a handful of hdmi switches that works correctly and the price on it is better than most.
Like the article said, last year it was announced for a number of other models and it happened to ours as well back then. Good luck finding any info about it on the US site. Anyway at first the LCD started behaving oddly (lines and greenish colors) and then finally it just went to a mode where it was basically all white but not uniformly so. I had to call and was on the phone for more than an hour until I got someone with any knowledge about the free repairs program.
But Sony would charge us shipping (to their center). And if they determined that the problem was not this fiasco, they would charge us for the diagnostic (and repair should we decide to get it fixed). Frankly I just did not trust them enough to be honest and of course I could be so unlucky as some other part was broken.
The camera took bad pictures anyway (blues and purples were indistinguishable for one) so my wife looked for a new camera and we bought a Canon. It came to us broken though. I had to take it to the repair center near Schamburg (they charged shipping, companies that do this really annoy me), but when it came back it worked fine.
Oh and the Sony program is a repair, not a new camera. I know how that goes, I got an iBook back where the keyboard did not work after the logic board repair. Apple covered this. But Casio was another story, but that is a long story which amounted to they broke my keyboard during a repair (left keys no longer worked) and they wanted to charge me shipping again to fix that! By that time the multiple shipping costs would have cost almost as much as the keyboard! Years back NEC took almost half a year of multiple repairs to get me a CD drive that worked.
Honestly at first I was really very bad at using the wiimote. It was shaking all over the place. But ten minutes later it was second nature. It just takes a little experimentation to figure-out not to do stupid things like move your whole arm and hold it out straight in front of you. (Yup that is what I was doing at first.) Also one of my wiimotes was not as good as the others. It would disconnect all the time and it's pointer was very shakey on the screen regardless of what I did. I exchanged it when I noticed the others were behaving vastly better.