For about an hour last night I couldn't access anybody except Google and a handful of sites, apparently at random. I could ping the DNS servers but could not reach most sites. I restarted the DSL modem, my Netgear router, and my machines - no effect. Came back as suddenly as it disappeared.
The part where he says "I was told" - which means this asshole doesn't even know what they're selling or doing at Microsoft any more - and doesn't care as long as the money rolls in.
Fuck him. The crap he went through is precisely what hundreds of millions of stupid users - stupid because they put up with this shit - go through every goddamn day trying to use this POS. Serves him right he gets to get screwed by it, too.
The guy's article says you can get root by accessing the launchers for things like synaptics which require root access.
But this only works if you do stupid shit like Ubuntu - and now apparently openSUSE - where you allow people to run stuff with sudo or gksu.
If you do what I do and disable that shit, and only use su with the root password, so much for that plan.
Which is why I've bitched about Ubuntu and other distros "dumbing down" the difference between regular and root users. When Ubuntu started this shit, they claimed it was more secure.
Well, now we see it isn't.
The article is interesting as detailing a means of writing malware that can infect a normal user, but this has been known to be possible for years on Linux. And while certain idiots on USENET (Peter Breuer with whom I had a huge argument some years ago about precisely whether viruses were possible on UNIX - especially since Dr. Fred Cohen's original virus work was ALL on UNIX!) have said Linux is invulnerable, the reality has been known to be otherwise. There are proof of concept viruses for Linux in existence. All you really need is one of these user space malware programs that can implement an unpatched privilege escalation exploit. Note the key word - unpatched.
But for the most part, Linux is not terribly vulnerable to root privilege elevation as long as the proper patches are applied regularly. The same is true of Windows. More importantly, Linux simply has a cleaner separation of kernel space and user space, reducing the vulnerability footprint somewhat.
But the real problem for ALL software is the utter lack of attention paid in the industry to DESIGNING software with the components of reliability, security and maintenance first and foremost. The industry is just in a PATHETIC shape. ALL the effort in writing software is devoted to getting it to do its core function - the equally important functions listed are ignored or tacked on as an afterthought.
How many patches for buffer overflows are still released today even though that vulnerability has been known for the last two decades?
Judge D. Lowell Jensen of the Federal Court of Northern California sentenced me to nine years in Federal prison (this was back in 1993).
Guess what? I'm sitting in the Federal Transit Center in Dublin, California, when another inmate clues me in on the INSLAW scandal, where the Justice Department defrauded a case management database software company, nearly driving them to bankruptcy, so they could steal the software and sell it all over the place.
Turns out my judge was involved in that when he was at the DoJ and was rewarded with a Federal judgeship as a result of his corruption.
In other words, my judge should have been in Federal prison right next to me, according to the opinion of two Federal judges who looked at the INSLAW case and concluded there was clear evidence of DoJ fraud.
Every time I have to reinstall a Windows image backup on one of my clients machines - BECAUSE Adobe Premiere or Encore totally screwed up Windows - the goddamn Adobe License Manager kicks in and says that the hardware has changed (it hasn't since the image backup was made, like a week ago) and says I have to reinstall Premiere. Then I have to spend an hour reinstalling the Matrox video capture card driver - which is also unmitigated shit that actually hard crashes Windows the instant it's installed!
Adobe software is unmitigated shit on a par with Windows itself.
If Linux had a decent video editor that my client could use, he would dump Windows in a heartbeat. But no Linux video editors - and don't start listing Linux video editors, I mean NONE - can do the job of Adobe Premiere.
Seriously, the OSS community needs to develop a non-linear video editor that can do everything Adobe can do, and another that does everything PhotoShop can do (and it ain't GIMP), and then Adobe can be kicked to the curb - correct that, to the sewer - where their shit belongs.
All he does in this post is point out that before you get to court, you get jerked around by the legal system via search and seizure, lame public defenders, etc.
Well, fucking DUH! Anybody who's stupid enough not to know that deserves to be in prison.
This is "legal information for techies"? No, this is "stupid shit you should know if you have a brain at all" or "legal information on Sarah Palin's level".
crash my Linux box or otherwise disturb my downloading of the return of "Terminator" and the premiere of "Dollhouse" that night, I'm sure I'll survive.
Overall, according to the testing agencies, it's a pretty decent AV with very high detection rates - almost always in the top five or ten.
It's administration over a network is pretty complicated, using its Administration Kit. The basics aren't hard, but it's a very complicated product with a high degree of customization possible which makes administering it hard.
It does have a bad problem with false positives - it seems to want to tag any exe encapsulated in an archive as a "trojan". I had a bunch of utilities for unattended installs of Windows sitting around and it went wild tagging a lot of them as "trojans" - even though most are well known utilities used for installing or slipstreaming Windows, and if any of them had trojans, somebody would have caught that by now. This is a know issue with KAV and apparently they're not doing much to correct it, according to comments on their forums.
But ALL the virus engines these days are behind the curve of actual viruses in the wild - so it's no surprise that the occasional virus gets through. One got through on one of my client machines a week or two ago without being spotted by either KAV or Spyware Terminator. A very nasty one, too, that was almost a rootkit - took me some hours to fully get rid of it. Downloaded from a hostile Web site by one of the staff accidentally, I think, since the client has a hardware firewall in front of the network.
Spreading actual physical papers on cars with a fake parking fine notification with links to a Web site to resolve the ticket issue where the site just dumps malware on the victim.
Now the infection of a court system.
Best way to take down a government today would be by taking down their computer systems.
Skynet did it on "Terminator" a few episodes ago - sent a guy back through time to insert a "roving backdoor" onto the government's systems, so once Skynet gets created it will have immediate access to government and corporate systems. And Derek and Jesse screwed up by not finding out about the plan from Fischer, the guy they caught who did it.
I looked to the first page to see if anybody is complaining about the speed variations due to the "green" power balancing - and the whole first page is a bunch of morons arguing about powers of 2!
Morons.
Who gives a shit if the drive is only 1.8TB instead of precisely 2TB? The question is the performance and reliability of the drive. "Green" drives suck at performance, and the Seagate 1TB and 1,5TB drives are unreliable. So what's the story on the WD?
When I started looking recently at high capacity drives, I simply viewed the number of negative reports on Seagate 1 and 1.5 terabyte drives on Newegg. There was no doubt there were problems with these drives. And it's not merely a matter of capacity because Samsung, Hitachi and other drive manufacturers did not receive so many negative reviews for their 1TB drives.
Clearly Seagate, which used to have a rep for very good drives, let themselves drop the ball when they went to TB and higher drivers.
Note that as far as I know, Seagate drives under 1TB don't have any particular problems. It's the 1TB and 1.5TB models that are problematic.
Once again the IT industry let itself push technology beyond where they could make it reliable. This is a chronic, endemic problem with the industry and the fault lies squarely with management (although when it comes to software, the engineers are frequently equally to blame.)
and the headline is completely wrong - the article lists ONE company that MIGHT go out of business or be acquired and also speculates that Novell MIGHT be acquired (by whom? Who knows?)
"Sorry, your request cannot be processed at the moment."
Appropriate.
Using the Internet these days frequently reminds me of working on a green screen terminal attached to a mainframe over a slow modem twenty five years ago. Hurry up and wait...Between mislabeled bandwidth, simply inadequate bandwidth, overloaded servers and badly built Web sites with huge front pages loaded with images and connections to even slower ad servers, it's a wonder we connect at all.
You're absolutely correct. Some actual cops are professional, especially the higher ranked who are capable of learning to be professional. The least professional cops are "wannabe cops" - bozos like correctional officers who are either downsized military because they were too dumb to gain rank in the military or wannabe cops who couldn't pass the educational requirements to be real cops on any major city police force.
It's a serious mistake to allow prison guards to be that sort of material - the standards should be higher, not lower, for that job.
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For about an hour last night I couldn't access anybody except Google and a handful of sites, apparently at random. I could ping the DNS servers but could not reach most sites. I restarted the DSL modem, my Netgear router, and my machines - no effect. Came back as suddenly as it disappeared.
The part where he says "I was told" - which means this asshole doesn't even know what they're selling or doing at Microsoft any more - and doesn't care as long as the money rolls in.
Fuck him. The crap he went through is precisely what hundreds of millions of stupid users - stupid because they put up with this shit - go through every goddamn day trying to use this POS. Serves him right he gets to get screwed by it, too.
Well, not as interesting as THIS cyborg:
http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/s2_promo/s2_wallpaper_7.jpg
http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/s2_promo/2x02_001.jpg
http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/s2_promo/2x07_001.jpg
http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/s2_promo/2x11_001.jpg
And they are.
The guy's article says you can get root by accessing the launchers for things like synaptics which require root access.
But this only works if you do stupid shit like Ubuntu - and now apparently openSUSE - where you allow people to run stuff with sudo or gksu.
If you do what I do and disable that shit, and only use su with the root password, so much for that plan.
Which is why I've bitched about Ubuntu and other distros "dumbing down" the difference between regular and root users. When Ubuntu started this shit, they claimed it was more secure.
Well, now we see it isn't.
The article is interesting as detailing a means of writing malware that can infect a normal user, but this has been known to be possible for years on Linux. And while certain idiots on USENET (Peter Breuer with whom I had a huge argument some years ago about precisely whether viruses were possible on UNIX - especially since Dr. Fred Cohen's original virus work was ALL on UNIX!) have said Linux is invulnerable, the reality has been known to be otherwise. There are proof of concept viruses for Linux in existence. All you really need is one of these user space malware programs that can implement an unpatched privilege escalation exploit. Note the key word - unpatched.
But for the most part, Linux is not terribly vulnerable to root privilege elevation as long as the proper patches are applied regularly. The same is true of Windows. More importantly, Linux simply has a cleaner separation of kernel space and user space, reducing the vulnerability footprint somewhat.
But the real problem for ALL software is the utter lack of attention paid in the industry to DESIGNING software with the components of reliability, security and maintenance first and foremost. The industry is just in a PATHETIC shape. ALL the effort in writing software is devoted to getting it to do its core function - the equally important functions listed are ignored or tacked on as an afterthought.
How many patches for buffer overflows are still released today even though that vulnerability has been known for the last two decades?
Software quality is a joke. A bad joke.
Judge D. Lowell Jensen of the Federal Court of Northern California sentenced me to nine years in Federal prison (this was back in 1993).
Guess what? I'm sitting in the Federal Transit Center in Dublin, California, when another inmate clues me in on the INSLAW scandal, where the Justice Department defrauded a case management database software company, nearly driving them to bankruptcy, so they could steal the software and sell it all over the place.
Turns out my judge was involved in that when he was at the DoJ and was rewarded with a Federal judgeship as a result of his corruption.
In other words, my judge should have been in Federal prison right next to me, according to the opinion of two Federal judges who looked at the INSLAW case and concluded there was clear evidence of DoJ fraud.
Every time I have to reinstall a Windows image backup on one of my clients machines - BECAUSE Adobe Premiere or Encore totally screwed up Windows - the goddamn Adobe License Manager kicks in and says that the hardware has changed (it hasn't since the image backup was made, like a week ago) and says I have to reinstall Premiere. Then I have to spend an hour reinstalling the Matrox video capture card driver - which is also unmitigated shit that actually hard crashes Windows the instant it's installed!
Adobe software is unmitigated shit on a par with Windows itself.
If Linux had a decent video editor that my client could use, he would dump Windows in a heartbeat. But no Linux video editors - and don't start listing Linux video editors, I mean NONE - can do the job of Adobe Premiere.
Seriously, the OSS community needs to develop a non-linear video editor that can do everything Adobe can do, and another that does everything PhotoShop can do (and it ain't GIMP), and then Adobe can be kicked to the curb - correct that, to the sewer - where their shit belongs.
If this moron is a lawyer, look elsewhere.
All he does in this post is point out that before you get to court, you get jerked around by the legal system via search and seizure, lame public defenders, etc.
Well, fucking DUH! Anybody who's stupid enough not to know that deserves to be in prison.
This is "legal information for techies"? No, this is "stupid shit you should know if you have a brain at all" or "legal information on Sarah Palin's level".
Complete fucking waste of a read.
Bill wants to charge you BY THE APP - since Microsoft wants to move to subscription licensing and online cloud and all that crap eventually.
So now they're getting people used to paying for a limited number of open apps at a time.
It's ridiculous. And of course, Bill thinks he can screw over the Third World this way and screw Linux at the same time.
Really charitable guy, Bill - like his stock laundering "Foundation".
Major asshole is the best description.
crash my Linux box or otherwise disturb my downloading of the return of "Terminator" and the premiere of "Dollhouse" that night, I'm sure I'll survive.
Overall, according to the testing agencies, it's a pretty decent AV with very high detection rates - almost always in the top five or ten.
It's administration over a network is pretty complicated, using its Administration Kit. The basics aren't hard, but it's a very complicated product with a high degree of customization possible which makes administering it hard.
It does have a bad problem with false positives - it seems to want to tag any exe encapsulated in an archive as a "trojan". I had a bunch of utilities for unattended installs of Windows sitting around and it went wild tagging a lot of them as "trojans" - even though most are well known utilities used for installing or slipstreaming Windows, and if any of them had trojans, somebody would have caught that by now. This is a know issue with KAV and apparently they're not doing much to correct it, according to comments on their forums.
But ALL the virus engines these days are behind the curve of actual viruses in the wild - so it's no surprise that the occasional virus gets through. One got through on one of my client machines a week or two ago without being spotted by either KAV or Spyware Terminator. A very nasty one, too, that was almost a rootkit - took me some hours to fully get rid of it. Downloaded from a hostile Web site by one of the staff accidentally, I think, since the client has a hardware firewall in front of the network.
Spreading actual physical papers on cars with a fake parking fine notification with links to a Web site to resolve the ticket issue where the site just dumps malware on the victim.
Now the infection of a court system.
Best way to take down a government today would be by taking down their computer systems.
Skynet did it on "Terminator" a few episodes ago - sent a guy back through time to insert a "roving backdoor" onto the government's systems, so once Skynet gets created it will have immediate access to government and corporate systems. And Derek and Jesse screwed up by not finding out about the plan from Fischer, the guy they caught who did it.
Preferably Bill. Or that the victim's family sues his ass for his entire fortune.
Fuck him.
Not at all different. It will be as bug-ridden and messed up as every other point 0 release of just about every software ever written.
Especially Microsoft software.
Meanwhile the Windows shills will be telling us how SO NEW AND IMPROVED it will be, borrowing the Bill Gates playbook from the early '80's.
My advice: as usual, wait for Service Pack 1 - if not Service Pack 2.
I looked to the first page to see if anybody is complaining about the speed variations due to the "green" power balancing - and the whole first page is a bunch of morons arguing about powers of 2!
Morons.
Who gives a shit if the drive is only 1.8TB instead of precisely 2TB? The question is the performance and reliability of the drive. "Green" drives suck at performance, and the Seagate 1TB and 1,5TB drives are unreliable. So what's the story on the WD?
Fuck powers of two!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Qubit molester!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
If you read what Linus said, he said KDE *4.0* was a disaster. He was referring to the initial release, not the latest or KDE in toto.
He also said he will be revisiting KDE when he does a new install.
The headline implied that Linus was against KDE 4.x, which does not appear to be the case in the article.
He also considers that GNOME might be re-designing things, so it could "go the other way".
Bottom line: he only switched for the same reasons most people did (or stayed with 3.5, like I did): the first release was badly done.
Why has the above post been moderated - no doubt by Windows shills - as flamebait? Guy has specific complaints.
Nobody can beat this robot for looks, deadliness or comic relief!
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Cameron terminating a bad Terminator in the future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RGQGI7V8o8
Scary Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZN5-kHETc&feature=related
"They knew where we live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCWTThe4Cs
Cameron Seduces John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPGGzBUquU&feature=related
Cameron Cuts Derek Off Because He Didn't Follow the Phone Security Code Protocol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDgWGs9Wdo&feature=related
Would You Like A Bedtime Story?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEcJjq5ByiM&feature=related
You lied to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OisxAXVAMEs&feature=related
Cameron plays pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6t83BHB6OQ&feature=related
is called a market...
It's also called "inevitable".
When I started looking recently at high capacity drives, I simply viewed the number of negative reports on Seagate 1 and 1.5 terabyte drives on Newegg. There was no doubt there were problems with these drives. And it's not merely a matter of capacity because Samsung, Hitachi and other drive manufacturers did not receive so many negative reviews for their 1TB drives.
Clearly Seagate, which used to have a rep for very good drives, let themselves drop the ball when they went to TB and higher drivers.
Note that as far as I know, Seagate drives under 1TB don't have any particular problems. It's the 1TB and 1.5TB models that are problematic.
Once again the IT industry let itself push technology beyond where they could make it reliable. This is a chronic, endemic problem with the industry and the fault lies squarely with management (although when it comes to software, the engineers are frequently equally to blame.)
and the headline is completely wrong - the article lists ONE company that MIGHT go out of business or be acquired and also speculates that Novell MIGHT be acquired (by whom? Who knows?)
Total garbage. Don't waste your time.
Everybody in the outgoing Bush Administration.
Oh, wait, they don't have any to donate...
Never mind.
"Sorry, your request cannot be processed at the moment."
Appropriate.
Using the Internet these days frequently reminds me of working on a green screen terminal attached to a mainframe over a slow modem twenty five years ago. Hurry up and wait...Between mislabeled bandwidth, simply inadequate bandwidth, overloaded servers and badly built Web sites with huge front pages loaded with images and connections to even slower ad servers, it's a wonder we connect at all.
"the worst don't seem to be cops, but semi-cops"
You're absolutely correct. Some actual cops are professional, especially the higher ranked who are capable of learning to be professional. The least professional cops are "wannabe cops" - bozos like correctional officers who are either downsized military because they were too dumb to gain rank in the military or wannabe cops who couldn't pass the educational requirements to be real cops on any major city police force.
It's a serious mistake to allow prison guards to be that sort of material - the standards should be higher, not lower, for that job.
"Microsoft is run by morons - and greedy morons at that" doesn't anybody get here?