Speaking of suid vulnerabilities, http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20050123.fm-iSink.c.php is an exploit of the mrouter hole (an overflowable suid app in iSync) which allows local root access. Exploited in January, still unfixed in April.
Severity of course depends on how your system is used.
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What's a worry is a good proportion of them are the lower user IDs. People who've seen this April Fool's Day treatment over and over, and who know exactly how it goes.
They know it goes on all day. Yet they still come, still post, still whinge.
Something that often comes up in discussions about the free family tech support (and I refuse to do it except for very close family. Not aunts, uncles or one of a dozen cousins) is accusations of selfishness for not helping them all, and comments that family should always help one another - so I'm missing out on free car fixing, work around my house, a free accountant etc.
What ends up happening in reality is I work my fulltime job, and then I end up working another near fulltime job fixing computers that happen to be owned by extended family. Sure it's possible I'm being paid for it in services they can provide, but that still leaves my life as Wake up. Go to work. Come home. Work more. Sleep.
And nothing more. I want to wake up, go to work, come home - and then enjoy time doing fun things with my family. I like to fish, I like to sculpt, I like to paint and I like to camp with them. I like to go on vacations and explore the countryside with them, discuss our lives, spend time playing with our pets...
Not fix their goddamned windows boxes.
I end up being the crutch that supports Microsoft. No thanks.
It kind of reminds me of when I got one of those Photoshop accelerator hardware cards (Radius Photoengine with 4 DSPs on a daughter card linked to the Thunder series video card) for my IIci. Photoshop filter functions ran faster on that IIci than they did on much later PowerPC systems simply because you now had four hardware DSPs running your image math.
I managed to pick up a ThunderIV last year with the DSP card, and had a run around with photoshop on it. It's impressive stuff. I have an iMac 350 here I also ran photoshop on, and while the 350 kicked the Thunder in a Quadra for many unaccelerated things, on those operations where the DSPs kicked in (and the card has those cool little LEDs to show just when it's happening) it could keep up with the iMac nearly neck & neck.
That's a 25MHz 68040 from 1992 and Thunder IVGX vs a 350MHz G3 from 2000. Very cool.
Clearly one flaw in the argument is... they don't. It's an incorrect statement, and MS is known to be HORRENDOUSLY slow in counteracting vulnerabilities.
In another state-the-opposite-to-truth (is that a lie?), from the interview: ---- Spiegel:...your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less frequently a victim of virus attacks...
Gates:... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many respects, even more significantly affected. ----
There you go people. Linux is even more significantly affected by virus attacks than Windows.
> So we finally can see virus checking in linux?!?!? yay!!!
This is part of the ignorance of people who assume that problems with windows are problems with operating systems in general.
As a mac user who's seen hundreds of people switching, often you'll have criticism of the Mac OS for not including good free virus checkers, antispyware apps, anti adware apps, registry checkers/protection, TCP tweakers, and so on. All apps used to get around problems inherent with using Windows.
I find my 1GHz G4 runs well, but to be honest there's no way to know how it'll really feel to you without trying it.
You could take heart in the fact that if you shell out your $799 for a bottom of the line mini and find it's far below what you like, Macs do hold their resale value very well. You could sell it again in 6 months for not much less than you paid. No loss, and experience gained:)
Technically as another poster replied, it is out now.
I do consider it 'released' as it was released the day it was created. It's been there for download & use for years.
While it's labelled "testing", and woody is the current "stable" in reality I find very little difference between the two. Both have been rock solid for me, although Sarge has had issues of the kind where a config file changes and there's unexpected behaviour, or a package will be updated from version 1.0 to 1.2 and change its behaviour simply by the way it works. That's life on ANY constantly updated operating system.
For most purposes I'd recommend Sarge as the normal, everyday Debian for people to use. It's kept updated, it works, it's solid, and the nice apt tools work fine. Stable is for people who need absolute consistency, those aiming for the five nines.
Debian needs better marketing in release names:). Don't let the moniker of "Stable" given to Woody make you think Sarge is inherently "Unstable" in the traditional sense. That's the job of Sid.
Does this say something for originality, and the fear of showbusiness people that their talent and success is all wrapped up on the abilities of one cat, dog, pig, britney, whatever?
It's only 2.5 inches, so that's not totally unreasonable, but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.
This drive isn't JUST a drive like other 2.5" USB external drives. It also has the ability to talk to other USB devices, such as a camera (or sound recorder, or what have you). It can mount the USB device - let's use a camera for argument's sake - and copy files from it at the press of a button. Normal USB drives do NOT do this. the iPod doesn't either, without extra hardware.
So the point is - you can run around with your brand new EOS 1Ds Mark II spitting out 10MB RAW 16megapixel images all day long, and not have to worry about a maximum of 4GB on your (expensive!) compact flash card. You can shoot a bunch of images, connect to the drive, press a button to transfer to an 80GB drive......and your camera is quickly free, ready to shoot some more. It sits in between the capability of a laptop for storage, and a mere HD for size convenience. When you're running around with a Camera and camera bag and need to get hundreds of photos done, carrying around even a 12" laptop is extremely cumbersome. slip this device inside your camera bag and you're running at an advantage.
I'm not so sure. As an experiment early this year, march I guess, I went through my entire junk mail folder in an attempt to get as much spam as I could. What the hell, hey, I'm getting several hundred messages a day and more can't hurt, and even if it trebled it'll help train my spam filter, right? I entered my email address in all the unsubscribe links I could find.
I forgot about it for a while, and it wasn't until 2 months later I noticed an EXTREME drop in the number of spam emails. My last entire week of spam totals 51 emails. Curiously, not one of them contains an unsubscribe link. It's not down to "stopping spam" but it's a couple of orders of magnitude less. I never kept detailed stats on exactly when the drop off occurred, so I can't for sure say the unsubscribe links stopped it, but they certainly didn't add to it.
This story has inspired me to test entering a brand new unguessable email address into unsubscribe forms online, to see what happens coming from the other direction. That's going to take effort to dig up email archives though. I just don't have any spam available WITH unsubscribe links any more.
From the article: "Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids.".
While your suggestion would fix the problem, widespread use of it as a cure for what's broken promotes acceptance of bad software.
You shouldn't need to get another piece of hardware to protect a computer that's perfectly capable of protecting itself, running the right software.
Performing workarounds for Windows is what leads to acceptance of worms (just buy a hardware firewall) what leads to acceptance of viruses (just buy an antivirus) and what leads to acceptance of spyware (just buy an antispyware) and what leads to acceptance of systems so bogged down by combinations of the above (just reinstall every 6 months).
It's a bit like living in a really bad neighbourhood and denying it's a problem. "Oh we're OK, we live in a safe area. As long as you put bars on all your windows, don't leave the house when it's dark, put up bullet proof windows, and don't make eye contact with the neighbours you're perfectly safe"
If the alternative were losing most of my free time again for ingrates who really don't have a clue and don't want to listen to good simple advice on how to keep things running... I'd rather pay five times normal prices to have my car fixed.
I usually get flamed for this, but I just do NOT do family tech support any more. The appreciation doesn't always exist for the work put in, the expectations are as high as any job I've had, and it just...never...stops... I've been through the worst of it, not having a free weekend with my friends for weeks at a time, having weeknights with my partner disturbed constantly, and feeling like I'm moving from 9 to 5 work just to come 'home' and face more of the same.
Maybe it comes from having a really large extended family of people who just don't want to know how computers should/shouldn't work, but it's just too much sometimes. Strictly my mother and sister now, nobody else.
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How about OSX on a Gameboy
> What solutions have Slashdot readers came up with this and
> similar problems?"
Easy. Disconnect them at the first sign of virus trouble. Don't let them back until they can prove they've fixed it.
When their fresh new computer lasts an hour on the network before you pull it down, they'll soon decide to fix it.
Speaking of suid vulnerabilities, http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20050123.fm-iSink.c .php is an exploit of the mrouter hole (an overflowable suid app in iSync) which allows local root access. Exploited in January, still unfixed in April.
Severity of course depends on how your system is used.
What's a worry is a good proportion of them are the lower user IDs. People who've seen this April Fool's Day treatment over and over, and who know exactly how it goes.
:)
They know it goes on all day. Yet they still come, still post, still whinge.
Guess they're the real fools
I laugh at you!
and I laugh at these slashdot submissions. all damned day long.
They started off amusing. got worse. I got really annoyed. Now they've looped around and are so bloody shocking I find I'm laughing at them again.
Slashdot you turned my humour neuron inside out.
didn't you post that here last year?
If you did, then this recollection is a dupe.
looks like it's just here!
(Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!
Actually verdana is the better font, and georgia is weak & problematic.
No Antitrust for you to see here, please move along.
Something that often comes up in discussions about the free family tech support (and I refuse to do it except for very close family. Not aunts, uncles or one of a dozen cousins) is accusations of selfishness for not helping them all, and comments that family should always help one another - so I'm missing out on free car fixing, work around my house, a free accountant etc.
What ends up happening in reality is I work my fulltime job, and then I end up working another near fulltime job fixing computers that happen to be owned by extended family. Sure it's possible I'm being paid for it in services they can provide, but that still leaves my life as Wake up. Go to work. Come home. Work more. Sleep.
And nothing more. I want to wake up, go to work, come home - and then enjoy time doing fun things with my family. I like to fish, I like to sculpt, I like to paint and I like to camp with them. I like to go on vacations and explore the countryside with them, discuss our lives, spend time playing with our pets...
Not fix their goddamned windows boxes.
I end up being the crutch that supports Microsoft. No thanks.
It kind of reminds me of when I got one of those Photoshop accelerator hardware cards (Radius Photoengine with 4 DSPs on a daughter card linked to the Thunder series video card) for my IIci. Photoshop filter functions ran faster on that IIci than they did on much later PowerPC systems simply because you now had four hardware DSPs running your image math.
I managed to pick up a ThunderIV last year with the DSP card, and had a run around with photoshop on it. It's impressive stuff. I have an iMac 350 here I also ran photoshop on, and while the 350 kicked the Thunder in a Quadra for many unaccelerated things, on those operations where the DSPs kicked in (and the card has those cool little LEDs to show just when it's happening) it could keep up with the iMac nearly neck & neck.
That's a 25MHz 68040 from 1992 and Thunder IVGX vs a 350MHz G3 from 2000. Very cool.
Clearly one flaw in the argument is... they don't. It's an incorrect statement, and MS is known to be HORRENDOUSLY slow in counteracting vulnerabilities.
...your small competitor Apple, for example, is much less frequently a victim of virus attacks ...
... put so sweepingly, that is not correct. Of course we are the largest target, simply because we have the most widely disseminated system. But it affects others in exactly the same way. Linux is, in many respects, even more significantly affected.
In another state-the-opposite-to-truth (is that a lie?), from the interview:
----
Spiegel:
Gates:
----
There you go people. Linux is even more significantly affected by virus attacks than Windows.
> So we finally can see virus checking in linux?!?!? yay!!!
This is part of the ignorance of people who assume that problems with windows are problems with operating systems in general.
As a mac user who's seen hundreds of people switching, often you'll have criticism of the Mac OS for not including good free virus checkers, antispyware apps, anti adware apps, registry checkers/protection, TCP tweakers, and so on. All apps used to get around problems inherent with using Windows.
Trent Reznor and steve jobs.
I find my 1GHz G4 runs well, but to be honest there's no way to know how it'll really feel to you without trying it.
:)
You could take heart in the fact that if you shell out your $799 for a bottom of the line mini and find it's far below what you like, Macs do hold their resale value very well. You could sell it again in 6 months for not much less than you paid. No loss, and experience gained
Technically as another poster replied, it is out now.
:). Don't let the moniker of "Stable" given to Woody make you think Sarge is inherently "Unstable" in the traditional sense. That's the job of Sid.
I do consider it 'released' as it was released the day it was created. It's been there for download & use for years.
While it's labelled "testing", and woody is the current "stable" in reality I find very little difference between the two. Both have been rock solid for me, although Sarge has had issues of the kind where a config file changes and there's unexpected behaviour, or a package will be updated from version 1.0 to 1.2 and change its behaviour simply by the way it works. That's life on ANY constantly updated operating system.
For most purposes I'd recommend Sarge as the normal, everyday Debian for people to use. It's kept updated, it works, it's solid, and the nice apt tools work fine. Stable is for people who need absolute consistency, those aiming for the five nines.
Debian needs better marketing in release names
Does this say something for originality, and the fear of showbusiness people that their talent and success is all wrapped up on the abilities of one cat, dog, pig, britney, whatever?
It's only 2.5 inches, so that's not totally unreasonable, but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.
...and your camera is quickly free, ready to shoot some more. It sits in between the capability of a laptop for storage, and a mere HD for size convenience. When you're running around with a Camera and camera bag and need to get hundreds of photos done, carrying around even a 12" laptop is extremely cumbersome. slip this device inside your camera bag and you're running at an advantage.
This drive isn't JUST a drive like other 2.5" USB external drives. It also has the ability to talk to other USB devices, such as a camera (or sound recorder, or what have you). It can mount the USB device - let's use a camera for argument's sake - and copy files from it at the press of a button. Normal USB drives do NOT do this. the iPod doesn't either, without extra hardware.
So the point is - you can run around with your brand new EOS 1Ds Mark II spitting out 10MB RAW 16megapixel images all day long, and not have to worry about a maximum of 4GB on your (expensive!) compact flash card. You can shoot a bunch of images, connect to the drive, press a button to transfer to an 80GB drive...
> s reported by CNET to be planning a $.75/ year fee to holders of .net domains
75c a year isn't so bad.
I'm not so sure. As an experiment early this year, march I guess, I went through my entire junk mail folder in an attempt to get as much spam as I could. What the hell, hey, I'm getting several hundred messages a day and more can't hurt, and even if it trebled it'll help train my spam filter, right? I entered my email address in all the unsubscribe links I could find.
I forgot about it for a while, and it wasn't until 2 months later I noticed an EXTREME drop in the number of spam emails. My last entire week of spam totals 51 emails. Curiously, not one of them contains an unsubscribe link. It's not down to "stopping spam" but it's a couple of orders of magnitude less. I never kept detailed stats on exactly when the drop off occurred, so I can't for sure say the unsubscribe links stopped it, but they certainly didn't add to it.
This story has inspired me to test entering a brand new unguessable email address into unsubscribe forms online, to see what happens coming from the other direction. That's going to take effort to dig up email archives though. I just don't have any spam available WITH unsubscribe links any more.
From the article: "Back in March, Sandy Wilson was taking care of her three grandsons when a group of men attempted to burglarize her home, pointing a gun at the kids.".
So back in March, it couldn't have been GTA:SA
While your suggestion would fix the problem, widespread use of it as a cure for what's broken promotes acceptance of bad software.
You shouldn't need to get another piece of hardware to protect a computer that's perfectly capable of protecting itself, running the right software.
Performing workarounds for Windows is what leads to acceptance of worms (just buy a hardware firewall) what leads to acceptance of viruses (just buy an antivirus) and what leads to acceptance of spyware (just buy an antispyware) and what leads to acceptance of systems so bogged down by combinations of the above (just reinstall every 6 months).
It's a bit like living in a really bad neighbourhood and denying it's a problem. "Oh we're OK, we live in a safe area. As long as you put bars on all your windows, don't leave the house when it's dark, put up bullet proof windows, and don't make eye contact with the neighbours you're perfectly safe"
Apart from how it's broken, it works perfectly
If the alternative were losing most of my free time again for ingrates who really don't have a clue and don't want to listen to good simple advice on how to keep things running... I'd rather pay five times normal prices to have my car fixed.
I usually get flamed for this, but I just do NOT do family tech support any more. The appreciation doesn't always exist for the work put in, the expectations are as high as any job I've had, and it just...never...stops... I've been through the worst of it, not having a free weekend with my friends for weeks at a time, having weeknights with my partner disturbed constantly, and feeling like I'm moving from 9 to 5 work just to come 'home' and face more of the same.
Maybe it comes from having a really large extended family of people who just don't want to know how computers should/shouldn't work, but it's just too much sometimes. Strictly my mother and sister now, nobody else.
Would you buy a Mac if you could play Counterstrike Source and Half-Life 2?
No, I already bought a mac for its existing great games. I've nearly completed Photoshop CS. The end guy is hard.