If he was at a conference, then he probably had his travel expenses paid by the organization. Very common.
Also, I just sent a donation to OpenBSD via paypal. Even if I don't think of Theo as the greatest guy in the OSS world, the project is very important to keep alive, and not just for the OpenSSH portion. The OpenBSD group has made a public plea for support and I'm dissapointed to see something along the lines of "needing money, huh, hehehehe then just suffer bitches..." from many posts here.
I'm sure that talented people with a little spare time will read those kinds of posts and be glad to spend a year or two writing something cool and useful for you. With these attitudes, they may get what they are really begging for; a computer running microsoft software because developers got tired of people not stopping at mere indifference towards the projects, but happily extending into ridicule. What a grateful bunch we must seem to be.
No, in TFA the slide described a 15,000 boulder simulation that jumped from 6.2fps to 62fps with the physics offloaded from cpu to the SLI based gpu solution.
Ok, I have to admit to being a tad confused over this issue. Google is only indexing and thumbnailing what is publicly available from the perfect10 site, correct? Then they are concerned that google is saving me a single step in doing the same thing? I could go download the publicly available artwork and shrink it for my phone and leave google completely out of the loop.
Ohh, I thought he meant he had a TomsHardwareGuide diploma. Somehow, I think if someone is lying about having a Theology degree, then they have already missed the entire point of having the degree.
But in seriousness, I'm worried about the use of 'like' in such a fashion in colloquial speech. It emits a lack of confidence of the writer, afraid to commit opinions, facts or asertation.
Yes, and that quote was from a/. editor.;)
This subject is bringing back a lot of memories. My first exposures to computing were a Cosmac Elf and IBM 370 in 1977, quite a contrast between the two, but the elf seemed more exotic to me at the time. Then on to better things with the TRS-80 model I, Vic-20, TI-99/4A and C-64. I had the expansion chassis for the TI. It held my floppy drive, serial card and 32k memory expansion. I learned assembler on the TI too, which was quite fast and capable without their basic in the way.
My first laptop was a TRS-80 Model 100, wish it was still around. Pretty handy system actually; it was literally "instant on". I still have a working Spectrum Z-88 somewhere around here.
News flash for you: Japan bombed and sank US Naval vessels in an unprovoked attack. A Naval vessel is considered to be US territory even in international waters, same as a Russian or British ship or sub.
I'm a programmer. Got my start with BASIC in the TRS-80/Vic-20/Apple][ era. Progressed to writing device drivers in assembler for the new spangled IBM PCs and a UNIX clone named Coherent. Wrote my first Windows program for Win 3.0, progressing through Win2k and then jumping to Linux. For much of this time frame, ( late 80's through the present) I have been reading the writings of Mr. Gibson. I don't always agree with his opinions or approaches to communication, but I've never really been able to find fault with his research into specific security and operational flaws.
Until I see strong reason to doubt his findings, I'll be reading his articles with great interest. To reiterate my previous post, what Mr. Gibson has described is exactly what a backdoor does. It is not a trivial programming task to spawn a new thread and then start that threads execution at the byte following a single invalid wmf record descriptor. Get one of your programmer friends to explain the steps necessary to perform this sequence. If you can't get a good example, then post back here and I'll give you some pseudo code to outline how non-trivial it is and also show how unlikely that this is just a bug.
I'll safely assume that you didn't RTFA since you don't already know what I going to tell you.
What Steve initally found was that he had a hard time getting the SETABORTPROC function to execute wmf embedded code as he had read the vulnerability was allowing. After looking at some of the exploit code that was available, he started experimenting with illegal wmf record header sizes and one ( and only one) illegal record size would actually prompt windows to spawn a new thread and then start executing the bytes within the wmf data stream directly. The SETABORTPROC supplied code entry point is completely ignored.
This behaviour will allow remote execution of arbitrary code on unpatched systems.
When a firmware flash goes bad, the sure way to resurect is a JTAG cable and software ( i.e. the debricking kit).
The only dead routers I have seen were not killed by the bad flash attempt, but during the resurrection attempts by shorting the wrong pins and frying the flash chip or worse.
I used to work for a computer company in Raleigh, NC that was a Red Hat partner. They sold both boxed sets and preinstalls on servers and workstations, which was one of the reasons I went to work for them. They then opened an internet side business to increase volume and started dealing directly with MS. The short version of this story goes like this:
- MS sends reps to educate the sales and tech staff, MS mousepads and stickers flow like water - MS gives conditional discounts on Windows and Office - Red Hat no longer installed on new systems - Soon after, Red Hat not installed even as an upgrade and boxed copies surplused - Soon after that, we started refusing to service computers with Linux, company branded Linux boxes could
be serviced, but only the hardware. No OS work at all, even something as simple as fixing LILO.
Of course, we could offer to sell them windows and even install it for free.
I have to agree with you when you ask what the big deal is about this phone (marketing most likely).
My Nokia 6230 is a more user-friendly device than the ROKR I looked at last night. Heck, I can even listen to FM radio on my nokia and carry many more than 100 songs. The bluetooth is slow, but I can easily pop out the memory card and quickly transfer the files with my card reader. The battery life and display are outstanding and my phone was much cheaper than the current pricing on the ROKR.
The W1AW ham station at ARRL headquarters is testing new BPL equpiment that offers practically no inteference on ham HF bands. See how great things can work when groups learn to work together instead of just pointing their fingers at each other and yelling?
As a HAM with nothing but dialup access easily available, this is greatly encouraging. I just hope that the hams in the gulf states can mobilize quickly to start emergency communications. Fast internet connectivity dosen't seem very important when many people cannot find clean water, food or even dry land.
In other news, my girlfriend has decided to dump me and announced she is going to date my best friend all on the same day to make it a special occasion! Oh the joy.
Different people like different things. I like strawberries and chocolate but some people are allergic to strawberries and may die it they eat them. Dogs can die from eating too much chocolate. Perhaps you are allergic to T'Pol, but remember that we are talking about a TV show, not real life. You and many of the other posters I read in this thread seem to have a scary attachment to your disdain for the series. Real life can be interesting if you get out and live among real people. Then these TV shows become something we refer to as "entertainment".
The grand parent post is a troll only if you have the right to nullify everyone elses opinion.
I certainly did read the article, and you are trying to put words in my mouth. You use "they" as Larry and Sergey, I made no such distinction and didn't even intimate that perspective.
My text:
It generally helps a fast growing company to switch from private to public ownership. There are more regulatory hoops to jump through, but the business process opens up. Since Google was already keenly in the public eye, this move did indeed help the company seem more transparent.
It also gave the millions of google users a chance to profit from the company they indirectly helped to build. As the company continues to grow, so can their portfolios. Plus, making the creators of the company some cash ain't all that bad.
Nothing in the article snippet that you posted contradicts anything that I wrote, perhaps you should re-read it more carefully.
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If he was at a conference, then he probably had his travel expenses paid by the organization. Very common.
Also, I just sent a donation to OpenBSD via paypal. Even if I don't think of Theo as the greatest guy in the OSS world, the project is very important to keep alive, and not just for the OpenSSH portion. The OpenBSD group has made a public plea for support and I'm dissapointed to see something along the lines of "needing money, huh, hehehehe then just suffer bitches..." from many posts here.
I'm sure that talented people with a little spare time will read those kinds of posts and be glad to spend a year or two writing something cool and useful for you. With these attitudes, they may get what they are really begging for; a computer running microsoft software because developers got tired of people not stopping at mere indifference towards the projects, but happily extending into ridicule. What a grateful bunch we must seem to be.
No, in TFA the slide described a 15,000 boulder simulation that jumped from 6.2fps to 62fps with the physics offloaded from cpu to the SLI based gpu solution.
Ok, I have to admit to being a tad confused over this issue. Google is only indexing and thumbnailing what is publicly available from the perfect10 site, correct? Then they are concerned that google is saving me a single step in doing the same thing? I could go download the publicly available artwork and shrink it for my phone and leave google completely out of the loop.
Ohh, I thought he meant he had a TomsHardwareGuide diploma. Somehow, I think if someone is lying about having a Theology degree, then they have already missed the entire point of having the degree.
Yes, and that quote was from a
This subject is bringing back a lot of memories. My first exposures to computing were a Cosmac Elf and IBM 370 in 1977, quite a contrast between the two, but the elf seemed more exotic to me at the time. Then on to better things with the TRS-80 model I, Vic-20, TI-99/4A and C-64. I had the expansion chassis for the TI. It held my floppy drive, serial card and 32k memory expansion. I learned assembler on the TI too, which was quite fast and capable without their basic in the way.
My first laptop was a TRS-80 Model 100, wish it was still around. Pretty handy system actually; it was literally "instant on". I still have a working Spectrum Z-88 somewhere around here.
News flash for you: Japan bombed and sank US Naval vessels in an unprovoked attack. A Naval vessel is considered to be US territory even in international waters, same as a Russian or British ship or sub.
I'm a programmer. Got my start with BASIC in the TRS-80/Vic-20/Apple][ era. Progressed to writing device drivers in assembler for the new spangled IBM PCs and a UNIX clone named Coherent. Wrote my first Windows program for Win 3.0, progressing through Win2k and then jumping to Linux. For much of this time frame, ( late 80's through the present) I have been reading the writings of Mr. Gibson. I don't always agree with his opinions or approaches to communication, but I've never really been able to find fault with his research into specific security and operational flaws.
Until I see strong reason to doubt his findings, I'll be reading his articles with great interest. To reiterate my previous post, what Mr. Gibson has described is exactly what a backdoor does. It is not a trivial programming task to spawn a new thread and then start that threads execution at the byte following a single invalid wmf record descriptor. Get one of your programmer friends to explain the steps necessary to perform this sequence. If you can't get a good example, then post back here and I'll give you some pseudo code to outline how non-trivial it is and also show how unlikely that this is just a bug.
I'll safely assume that you didn't RTFA since you don't already know what I going to tell you.
What Steve initally found was that he had a hard time getting the SETABORTPROC function to execute wmf embedded code as he had read the vulnerability was allowing. After looking at some of the exploit code that was available, he started experimenting with illegal wmf record header sizes and one ( and only one) illegal record size would actually prompt windows to spawn a new thread and then start executing the bytes within the wmf data stream directly. The SETABORTPROC supplied code entry point is completely ignored.
This behaviour will allow remote execution of arbitrary code on unpatched systems.
When a firmware flash goes bad, the sure way to resurect is a JTAG cable and software ( i.e. the debricking kit).
The only dead routers I have seen were not killed by the bad flash attempt, but during the resurrection attempts by shorting the wrong pins and frying the flash chip or worse.
Nah, it usually comes without her. This is
Other /. oxymorons
Slashdot stud
Girl Friend
Penetration testing
Various unrelatable quantum states.
Yes, half drunk, one of the two possible quantum drunkeness states: half drunk and shitfaced.
I used to work for a computer company in Raleigh, NC that was a Red Hat partner. They sold both boxed sets and preinstalls on servers and workstations, which was one of the reasons I went to work for them. They then opened an internet side business to increase volume and started dealing directly with MS. The short version of this story goes like this:
- MS sends reps to educate the sales and tech staff, MS mousepads and stickers flow like water
- MS gives conditional discounts on Windows and Office
- Red Hat no longer installed on new systems
- Soon after, Red Hat not installed even as an upgrade and boxed copies surplused
- Soon after that, we started refusing to service computers with Linux, company branded Linux boxes could
be serviced, but only the hardware. No OS work at all, even something as simple as fixing LILO.
Of course, we could offer to sell them windows and even install it for free.
I have to agree with you when you ask what the big deal is about this phone (marketing most likely).
My Nokia 6230 is a more user-friendly device than the ROKR I looked at last night. Heck, I can even listen to FM radio on my nokia and carry many more than 100 songs. The bluetooth is slow, but I can easily pop out the memory card and quickly transfer the files with my card reader. The battery life and display are outstanding and my phone was much cheaper than the current pricing on the ROKR.
The W1AW ham station at ARRL headquarters is testing new BPL equpiment that offers practically no inteference on ham HF bands. See how great things can work when groups learn to work together instead of just pointing their fingers at each other and yelling?
As a HAM with nothing but dialup access easily available, this is greatly encouraging. I just hope that the hams in the gulf states can mobilize quickly to start emergency communications. Fast internet connectivity dosen't seem very important when many people cannot find clean water, food or even dry land.
No problems there either; since it's a
I'm upset because they will probably want to tattoo the ID number on my forehead.
In other news, my girlfriend has decided to dump me and announced she is going to date my best friend all on the same day to make it a special occasion! Oh the joy.
Web wide malware. The return of Goatse cannot be far behind... Pun intended.
RTFA, his Mac box runs Linux.
This article is about modifying the tape recorder, not the tapes. Surely you didn't break the DVHS pin off of the TV stations recorder, did you?
Different people like different things. I like strawberries and chocolate but some people are allergic to strawberries and may die it they eat them. Dogs can die from eating too much chocolate. Perhaps you are allergic to T'Pol, but remember that we are talking about a TV show, not real life. You and many of the other posters I read in this thread seem to have a scary attachment to your disdain for the series. Real life can be interesting if you get out and live among real people. Then these TV shows become something we refer to as "entertainment".
The grand parent post is a troll only if you have the right to nullify everyone elses opinion.
My text:
Nothing in the article snippet that you posted contradicts anything that I wrote, perhaps you should re-read it more carefully.