CTRL ALT DEL? The real pros these days use CTRL SHIFT ESC. It brings up the task manager directly instead of brining up the screen with the logoff, shutdown and lock options first.
This is on XP pro, I'm not sure of the behaviour on xp home.
Update after some more googling.
Still all I can find are links to a conference hosted by O'Reilly: http://www.web2con.com/
Looks to me like just another buzzword. Shucks, they had me excited for a minute there.
Can someone tell me what "Web 2.0 compliant". Whatever it is "Web 2.0" sounds really big, and I want to know the details. I googled for the phrase and found nothing (google musn't have indexed the slashdot index recently). The term compliant leads me to believe there's an RFC or something out there I can look through. Does anyone have links to any info?
Did you read his post? IE is considered to be a part of the OS because nearly every windows application expects it to be there. His wording was: "IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present."
To repeat:
IE is not part of the windows kernel, so an attack on IE is no more effective against your windows box than an attack on another windows application. But IE still is considered to be part of the windows OS because apps like windows explorer require it to be installed to offer their full feature set.
It's not complicated, but I don't see an inconsistency either.
'Spatial Code Browsing' just struck as the most brilliant idea I've heard in a long time. Are there any projects out there to implement this? I would love to see something like this in action.
Intelligent mail sorting. This isn't my idea, but unfortunately I can't remember where I heard it (probably someone else's slashdot post). The same methods that are used today in bayesian spam filtering could be used to sort my mail into folders for me. This might prove a little more difficult than spam filtering because you have n categories instead of just 2 (spam and not spam), but it would certainly be useful.
For those too timid to enter binary codes into the windows registry, there's a program out there called KeyTweak for you. Thats for win2k/xp, nearly everyone else can head here.
I think Google's Software Principles would be a good place to start. I mean, we can just ban any software that doesn't meet these principles. Granted, things like WhenU would probably still be alowed (I havn't used it myself, so I don't really know), but from a standars point of view, Google's really has given us a good point to work from.
You know, you wouldn't even need a special tool to burn selected software. Just make sure everything on the pc is free. It's definately not hard to set something like this up these days, esp. with distros out there like Debian.
The downside of course is always maintenance. You'd also need to set up the box so that non-root users don't have access to write to the hard disk (we don't want people throwing MS Office on there and having others pirate it, the library might be held responsible). You'd also someone to watch that no one boots into single-user mode or something like that and changes things around, but I think this maybe isn't so much work that a volunteer couldn't do it.
He never said you couldn't rename files in windows by right clicking-them. The point was that there's a "feature" in windows and OS X that allows you to rename files easily. The problem is it's too easy and gets triggered by accident often. Gnome doesn't have this problem (and niether does KDE).
That's all well and good, but you don't want to break the old page. I read slashdot often with my "text zoom" on mozilla 1.0.1 at 120 or 150%.
Right now slashdot looks normal at any text zoom setting, but the version proposed in the article hides parts of words when I turn up my zoom to 200%. I don't often read with text that large, but I've done it before, and I'm sure there's users out there who do it regularily.
You shouldn't have asked. Verisign has made it clear that what they're after is money. Show them that what they're doing has the opposite effect that was intended and it'll grab their attention.
Look at it this way, if the lock on my house is faulty did someone who demonstrates this fact to me "damage" my property by "causing" me to have to buy a new lock?
No, but, the real question is how did he demonstrate it to you? Did he personally show you while you were watching that the lock could be compromised? Or did he enter your house without your knowledge, take a look around and then call you up afterwards to tell you what he did? The latter is illegal, and IMO is a more accurate representation of what Lamo did.
I really wish that would work. But the problem is that the software industry is not like construction. If a house is designed poorly it could collapse and cause serious damage. There would likely be lawsuits involved and the construction company would be bad publicity. They would lose market share and possibly fall out of the buisiness entirely.
If a software program is poorly designed, it crashes, Joe User restarts his machine and goes on with his life. He doesn't even bother to investigate what caused the crash because it happens so often.
The real problem with "cybersecurity" is that software companies have no incentive to create secure software, insecure software sells just as well.
It was posted because people have been saying for a long time that windows is insecure, but Joe Shmoe computer user won't know that (you mean there's computers that don't run windows?) until it gets some attention in the mainstream media. This is the media attention a lot of linux geeks have been waiting for.
Go to a state (read: cheap) school. Undergrad degrees are more or less the same wherever you go. It's just the basic stuff. If you intend to go on into a master's or PhD, that's when you should really look into the good schools.
Also if you intend to go on to a masters of PhD you don't want to already have a $100k debt behind you.
Getting through school without any debt in north america is nearly impossible these days. I'm one of the lucky few who seem to be managing it (with help from my folks), here's my situation.
I live at home, my parents have enough money pay for all my food and living expenses, I don't have to pay rent to them.
I work, about ~15 hours a week during the year, and full-time (40 hrs/week) during the summer.
I have virtually no social life (like any good slashdotter), which means I spend very little money apart from tuition and textbooks, which cost me about $7k a year cdn. I'm also a science major , which is about 1k/year cheaper than engineering.
Report it via email from a throw-away hotmail address using a computer at the public library. It's still possible for them to trace you but I doubt it'd be worth the trouble to them.
Another possible solution is put the executable source code on cd, with whatever other information you want to include in plain text format and slip it under the door of a computer lab manager, or professor, or whoever you think would be most likely to deal with it.
I bet pretty soon we'll see PC's for sale that can only run Windows (this will be enforced by hardware)
I think as long as there's someone around to modify hardware so it won't run linux, there will be someone around to modify linux so it will run on said hardware. Xbox is a nice example.
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Yes, it does.
CTRL ALT DEL? The real pros these days use CTRL SHIFT ESC. It brings up the task manager directly instead of brining up the screen with the logoff, shutdown and lock options first.
This is on XP pro, I'm not sure of the behaviour on xp home.
Update after some more googling. Still all I can find are links to a conference hosted by O'Reilly: http://www.web2con.com/ Looks to me like just another buzzword. Shucks, they had me excited for a minute there.
Can someone tell me what "Web 2.0 compliant". Whatever it is "Web 2.0" sounds really big, and I want to know the details. I googled for the phrase and found nothing (google musn't have indexed the slashdot index recently). The term compliant leads me to believe there's an RFC or something out there I can look through. Does anyone have links to any info?
Did you read his post? IE is considered to be a part of the OS because nearly every windows application expects it to be there. His wording was: "IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present." To repeat: IE is not part of the windows kernel, so an attack on IE is no more effective against your windows box than an attack on another windows application. But IE still is considered to be part of the windows OS because apps like windows explorer require it to be installed to offer their full feature set. It's not complicated, but I don't see an inconsistency either.
'Spatial Code Browsing' just struck as the most brilliant idea I've heard in a long time. Are there any projects out there to implement this? I would love to see something like this in action.
Intelligent mail sorting. This isn't my idea, but unfortunately I can't remember where I heard it (probably someone else's slashdot post). The same methods that are used today in bayesian spam filtering could be used to sort my mail into folders for me. This might prove a little more difficult than spam filtering because you have n categories instead of just 2 (spam and not spam), but it would certainly be useful.
For those too timid to enter binary codes into the windows registry, there's a program out there called KeyTweak for you. Thats for win2k/xp, nearly everyone else can head here.
I think Google's Software Principles would be a good place to start. I mean, we can just ban any software that doesn't meet these principles. Granted, things like WhenU would probably still be alowed (I havn't used it myself, so I don't really know), but from a standars point of view, Google's really has given us a good point to work from.
You know, you wouldn't even need a special tool to burn selected software. Just make sure everything on the pc is free. It's definately not hard to set something like this up these days, esp. with distros out there like Debian.
The downside of course is always maintenance. You'd also need to set up the box so that non-root users don't have access to write to the hard disk (we don't want people throwing MS Office on there and having others pirate it, the library might be held responsible). You'd also someone to watch that no one boots into single-user mode or something like that and changes things around, but I think this maybe isn't so much work that a volunteer couldn't do it.
You mean like
cvs -dusername@host/path/to/repository checkout modulename
?
You can also set and reset the CVSROOT environment variable to your heart's content.
He never said you couldn't rename files in windows by right clicking-them. The point was that there's a "feature" in windows and OS X that allows you to rename files easily. The problem is it's too easy and gets triggered by accident often. Gnome doesn't have this problem (and niether does KDE).
That's all well and good, but you don't want to break the old page. I read slashdot often with my "text zoom" on mozilla 1.0.1 at 120 or 150%.
Right now slashdot looks normal at any text zoom setting, but the version proposed in the article hides parts of words when I turn up my zoom to 200%. I don't often read with text that large, but I've done it before, and I'm sure there's users out there who do it regularily.
Oh come on. Dont' waste efforts on this guy. He actually stopped spamming people, that means we won. Please don't punish him for that.
That whole article is -1 flamebait.
You shouldn't have asked. Verisign has made it clear that what they're after is money. Show them that what they're doing has the opposite effect that was intended and it'll grab their attention.
Of course, that's much easier said than done.
No, but, the real question is how did he demonstrate it to you? Did he personally show you while you were watching that the lock could be compromised? Or did he enter your house without your knowledge, take a look around and then call you up afterwards to tell you what he did? The latter is illegal, and IMO is a more accurate representation of what Lamo did.
I really wish that would work. But the problem is that the software industry is not like construction. If a house is designed poorly it could collapse and cause serious damage. There would likely be lawsuits involved and the construction company would be bad publicity. They would lose market share and possibly fall out of the buisiness entirely.
If a software program is poorly designed, it crashes, Joe User restarts his machine and goes on with his life. He doesn't even bother to investigate what caused the crash because it happens so often.
The real problem with "cybersecurity" is that software companies have no incentive to create secure software, insecure software sells just as well.
Inconceivable!
I'd really like to see this actually. Linux hasn't really been tested at all in the mass market. We might see some interesting results.
It was posted because people have been saying for a long time that windows is insecure, but Joe Shmoe computer user won't know that (you mean there's computers that don't run windows?) until it gets some attention in the mainstream media. This is the media attention a lot of linux geeks have been waiting for.
Go to a state (read: cheap) school. Undergrad degrees are more or less the same wherever you go. It's just the basic stuff. If you intend to go on into a master's or PhD, that's when you should really look into the good schools.
Also if you intend to go on to a masters of PhD you don't want to already have a $100k debt behind you.
Getting through school without any debt in north america is nearly impossible these days. I'm one of the lucky few who seem to be managing it (with help from my folks), here's my situation.
I live at home, my parents have enough money pay for all my food and living expenses, I don't have to pay rent to them.
I work, about ~15 hours a week during the year, and full-time (40 hrs/week) during the summer.
I have virtually no social life (like any good slashdotter), which means I spend very little money apart from tuition and textbooks, which cost me about $7k a year cdn. I'm also a science major , which is about 1k/year cheaper than engineering.
Report it via email from a throw-away hotmail address using a computer at the public library. It's still possible for them to trace you but I doubt it'd be worth the trouble to them.
Another possible solution is put the executable source code on cd, with whatever other information you want to include in plain text format and slip it under the door of a computer lab manager, or professor, or whoever you think would be most likely to deal with it.
I bet pretty soon we'll see PC's for sale that can only run Windows (this will be enforced by hardware)
I think as long as there's someone around to modify hardware so it won't run linux, there will be someone around to modify linux so it will run on said hardware. Xbox is a nice example.