Personally, I always Found it better to fill them with various types of explosives and throw them at people you didnt like....those platters can take off a head if they hit the person right! It would make an excellent weapon...those things are so leaded down with metal = free shrapnel
AS for WU - remember most of its audience is the home user. It tries to do a worthwhile job, but from experience unless you've got a fat pipe it takes ages (10MB isn't unusual) and it craps over your settings, it DOES scan and return info on what's on your machine.......
This is very true, and if anyone doubts it, grab yourself a copy of vmware for linux systems (ironicly, thats the ad at the top of this page) and fire up windows XP, then, do a tcpdump on the interface that vmware is using, run strings on the data inside the packets....its quite interesting what you see when you reassemble all the packets going to v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
This is also true when win98 is run within VMware, and windows update sends that nice message box saying "this is done without sending data to microsft"
ntbugtraq? Perhaps a rip off of bugtaq? You know, the mailing lists that is primarly dominated by unix security exploits.
Ethier way, ever since a hacker took control of windows update one fine wednessday morning and started handing out his own updates to half a millon people, we have all known that windows update is not secure.
In fact, not much of microsoft is secure, given the latest exploit that was found in the.net passport wich allowed anyone to reset anyone elses password to wahtever they liked by providing different parameters to the emailpwdreset.srf on register.passport.msn.com, I think we all know how much we can trust windows update.
More over, Microsoft's fixes tend to do more harm then good...so badly that microsoft is mulling over weather to have third party testing on their fixes. The bigger question is why did it take NTBugtraq to suddely admit this? the rest of us have known for over 5 years now.
Whatever, as if it has to be a private company doing the polling, and whats to say the code does not send the data directly, encrypted to a key generated by the goverenment, to the government? In that event the data couldnt be tampered with.
I agree we need to take some precautions to safegaurd the electorial process...but that dosnt mean we cant use electronic means to poll. Just like there were concerns about the inital voting schemes, there are concerns about this one, but that dosnt mean we cant simply make desgin changes to ensure the integrety of the data. And since when has the government been MORE credible than the private sector? They have had just as many scandals, if not more.
In any event, the answer is to simply design in safegaurds....not go back to older ways just because your scared of technology...please
Well they got caught...they obviously arnt to good at it, after all they did get caught
I dont know why anyone ever cheats on benchmarks...how could you ever get away with it? do you really think no one is going to do their own benchmark? Come on. This is probably one of those most retarded things I have ever seen a company do.
Oh well, Nvidia is getting to the point were they are going to have beat out ATI at some point if they want to survive
I hear they have added in some more advanced, and aggressive bounds checking. Now when i screw up something i wont have to wait for a seg-v to tell me that pointer moved a little too far.
Although it dosnt seem to work with glibc....this is quite annyoing, although it probably will be fixed and re-released in a few days
You know, I think this has been one of SCO'S biggest tantrums to date.
I'd like to see some of this copied code, or hear about it, or hear anything except "the stole our unix". But thats All we have heard from SCO, they are yet to offer anything except them jumping up and down like a toddler with his first erection.
Anyways, this is more likely a stunt from SCO to get some attention, and possibly a parent company. Since SCO dosnt exactly have a bright futre ahead.
Perhaps when whatever crawled up their ass realises it can do better and crawls out this stunt will end:)
well not really....for a novice linux user, you are correct....but for the average windows user, you are not. We are tlaking about people who have never seen a console, and are use to haveing the install ask their name, and nothing else
Also, keep in mind that most end users just put together some crap system that can open their email....wich probably dosnt have support in linux. Linux needs to have better driver support, and build it in as modules, so they can be loaded as needed.
Ethier way, sit a windows user in front of a red hat box with the red hat cds, and they fail...its an experiement i tried once for the fun of it.....i suggest you try it for amusment:)
this is true, we all M$ bash, and they deserve it, but ultimatly, i fi was in steve balmers shoes, i'd be doing the same thing...anything to make sure i keep makeing money...thats what business is all about...all sorts of fortune 500 companies do it, there are other companies who go out and pay black hat hackers to make their competition's life more difficult, and to get some of their information.
So Microsofts pratices are typical of a fortune 500 companies....the thing with microsoft, is that it hurts the entire industry when they do it.
I'm not surprised at this. Microsoft has been being eroeded by linux systems for years. And with the recent advances of KDE, they could be in serious jepordy.
Linux uptime, and speed, outpreforms windows by orders of magnatiude, if Linux ever becomes "desktop ready" then Microsoft will have major problems.
At the moment hoever, linux is not desktop ready, and end user of windows could not navigate the red hat install, and all of the configurations involved with getting familar with the enviornment. This is changing...in 10 years Micorosft may have to do more than give copys of windows away.
A company i was working for recived 4 free copies of windows 2003 server.....we got our shotguns and went skeet shooting.
Desktop users may soon be doing the same thing.
Windwos...its whats for breakfast
Re:reverse checking on senders address
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Spam, Milord
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Postfix has tried this, it almost works, but it takes a while for mail to be delivered, and if someone is using an open relay, it can very easily fail
What you will need to do is to do a check agianst the first mailserver in the mail headers...however, this dosnt always work, because some companies place their mailserver inside the network, and then use a ssh tunnel to send to a mailserver outside the network...to prevent their mailserver from taking a hit.
all in all...it COULD work, but some niftly little tricks are needed first.
NTFS has been One of the most frustrating filesystems to get into read write mode....Linux kernels 2.4.21 has read write capability in it, however, in some circumstances its broken. Linux kernels 2.5.30 have working read write support in them. And the linux 2.6.x kernels promise stable, and fast read write support.
So it quite frustrating, but it is slowly coming along. And once it is out for linux...I'm sure it will be in the BSD kernel quickly...in fact some of the techniques for NTFS read support came from netBSD. So read/write support isnt far off
I think we really need to start seeing more arrest with regard to spam...spam is getting to crazy and in some cases damaging levels. Just yesterday I had to hack up a few mailserv's tcp stacks in the kernels because they are reciving such a heavy load of mail (for approx 20000 users) that they were all starting to need rebooting every 2 weeks.
This isnt the sick part, the sick part is when i looked at the postfix logs, there was almost 5, 000, 000 pices of mail being delivered daily, and out of this, over 4,000, 000 were being bounced because they satisfied the requirements to qualify as spam.
Now I admit, this is more mail than most mailservers recive (this is a major mail system for a WAN, so it recives more mail than most --- and relays alot of mail for other networks ) but this is absloutly insane. 200 000 users are generating 5,000,000 pices of mail, and 4,000,000 of those are being bounced!
This means, the average user on this network is reciving 25 emails a day, and only 5 of these are being delivered. and 20 are being bounced because of spam.
Now if anyone says we dont need to throw a few spammers in jail for no other reason than just to make an example of them...well after seing this, you cant possibly belive that.
My favorite solution to date is to find the top spammer....kill him...video tape it and publish it on the web and say the #2 spammer is next!
The best part of it is that Outlook and Outlook Express demangles its own creation, so that the post is only broken in every other news client on earth, which leads to "dude, your client is broken", "looks fine to me" threads.
This is so true, I have been kicked off microsoft newsgroups before because half the posts were unreadable, And you get the same response...its fine on my screen.
What worse, is the next version Of outlook does MORE of this, they are adding in their own MIME encoding scheme. Wich will make the posts even worse
Its gotten to the point were i have a rule now in Kmail, and in pine, and mutt, and any other client i happen to be using (Thats righ, all you little windows kiddies reading this, i have 3 different mail clients, and since MY mail clients dont format my mail into a propetary format, i CAN use 3 different mail clients all with access to the same mail) wich syas
if "X-Mailer" contains "Microsoft Outlook " deliver "trash"
Cleans up my screen nice, i suggest you try the same, it saves on having to read a bunch of arrogant, "Your posts suck because they dont have a pretty html format" threads
Maybe the author is just trying to bring Darwinism to IRC
I know if IRC was cleansed of all the l33t windows XP users who get online and talk about all the "problems" and "issues" with linux yet still use Internet Exploiter and Microsoft Craplook, I might not go on IRC so seldomly.
Maybe hes doing a service. Although when in a linux channel and one of these l33t people walk in and start talking about Linux I've always enjoyed telling them "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda makes your hard drive go faster!" and then watch half the channel drop off.
Oh well, all anyone was ever doing on Dalnet was jerking off to porn anyways.
There are one or two Secure Ways of securing NFS, Its one othe more simple things to set up. By doing a little hacking to your ip_conntrak module to watch your nfs ports, and some tunneling with ssh, you can actually have NFS running over a SSH tunnel.
I've implemented this between linux servers before, you simple place in the nfs startup script (/etc/init.d/nfs on gentoo and/etc/rc3/nfs on redhat) a sshd command giving the correct forwarding info. Set up some key-based authentication...and BOOM NFS is mysteriously locked down:)
Becuase it dosnt look that way in Internet Exploiter, therefore they pat themselves on the back for doing a good job and go watch some porn while they study for their MCSE exam
You know some people renew my belif i should be allowed at least 3 killing sprees a year just to clean the MSCSE's out of the genepool:)
This IS nice, but its kinda excessive, unless your doing some hardcore gameing thru winex...you may as well just compile your gentoo install from boostrap up and get it to use 64bit registers, The operon additions to their 64Bit registers really is only usefull if your gameing..and all in all its more work to make it than I would consider is worth it personally.
That being said, its a nice feature to have.
---
The 3 case C++ function to determine the meaning of life:
This is going to be nice...Its quite annyoing to get a bunch of weblogs when your looking for something
They are probably going to have to expand their cluster in order to add another cache....Hopefully it wont impact search times...but google usally does a good job at adding in their new grids relitivly well.
Microsoft does smoething similar...they cache everything that is !(pro_microsft) and (Linux) the problem is they dont let you search this index:)
Slashdot Mirror
lol you seriously think i am going to post my redundancy system on slashdot for anyone to read?
:)
I think we are seeing Why I am in charge of a corprate mailserver and you are not
Personally, I always Found it better to fill them with various types of explosives and throw them at people you didnt like....those platters can take off a head if they hit the person right! It would make an excellent weapon...those things are so leaded down with metal = free shrapnel
AS for WU - remember most of its audience is the home user. It tries to do a worthwhile job, but from experience unless you've got a fat pipe it takes ages (10MB isn't unusual) and it craps over your settings, it DOES scan and return info on what's on your machine .......
This is very true, and if anyone doubts it, grab yourself a copy of vmware for linux systems (ironicly, thats the ad at the top of this page) and fire up windows XP, then, do a tcpdump on the interface that vmware is using, run strings on the data inside the packets....its quite interesting what you see when you reassemble all the packets going to v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
This is also true when win98 is run within VMware, and windows update sends that nice message box saying "this is done without sending data to microsft"
Windows, its whats for dinner
ntbugtraq? Perhaps a rip off of bugtaq? You know, the mailing lists that is primarly dominated by unix security exploits.
.net passport wich allowed anyone to reset anyone elses password to wahtever they liked by providing different parameters to the emailpwdreset.srf on register.passport.msn.com, I think we all know how much we can trust windows update.
Ethier way, ever since a hacker took control of windows update one fine wednessday morning and started handing out his own updates to half a millon people, we have all known that windows update is not secure.
In fact, not much of microsoft is secure, given the latest exploit that was found in the
More over, Microsoft's fixes tend to do more harm then good...so badly that microsoft is mulling over weather to have third party testing on their fixes. The bigger question is why did it take NTBugtraq to suddely admit this? the rest of us have known for over 5 years now.
Whatever, as if it has to be a private company doing the polling, and whats to say the code does not send the data directly, encrypted to a key generated by the goverenment, to the government? In that event the data couldnt be tampered with.
I agree we need to take some precautions to safegaurd the electorial process...but that dosnt mean we cant use electronic means to poll. Just like there were concerns about the inital voting schemes, there are concerns about this one, but that dosnt mean we cant simply make desgin changes to ensure the integrety of the data. And since when has the government been MORE credible than the private sector? They have had just as many scandals, if not more.
In any event, the answer is to simply design in safegaurds....not go back to older ways just because your scared of technology...please
Well they got caught...they obviously arnt to good at it, after all they did get caught
I dont know why anyone ever cheats on benchmarks...how could you ever get away with it? do you really think no one is going to do their own benchmark? Come on. This is probably one of those most retarded things I have ever seen a company do.
Oh well, Nvidia is getting to the point were they are going to have beat out ATI at some point if they want to survive
I hear they have added in some more advanced, and aggressive bounds checking. Now when i screw up something i wont have to wait for a seg-v to tell me that pointer moved a little too far.
Although it dosnt seem to work with glibc....this is quite annyoing, although it probably will be fixed and re-released in a few days
You know, I think this has been one of SCO'S biggest tantrums to date.
:)
I'd like to see some of this copied code, or hear about it, or hear anything except "the stole our unix". But thats All we have heard from SCO, they are yet to offer anything except them jumping up and down like a toddler with his first erection.
Anyways, this is more likely a stunt from SCO to get some attention, and possibly a parent company. Since SCO dosnt exactly have a bright futre ahead.
Perhaps when whatever crawled up their ass realises it can do better and crawls out this stunt will end
trust me.....its worth the time :)
Just make sure they dont have any blunt objects near them at the time
well not really....for a novice linux user, you are correct....but for the average windows user, you are not. We are tlaking about people who have never seen a console, and are use to haveing the install ask their name, and nothing else
:)
Also, keep in mind that most end users just put together some crap system that can open their email....wich probably dosnt have support in linux. Linux needs to have better driver support, and build it in as modules, so they can be loaded as needed.
Ethier way, sit a windows user in front of a red hat box with the red hat cds, and they fail...its an experiement i tried once for the fun of it.....i suggest you try it for amusment
this is true, we all M$ bash, and they deserve it, but ultimatly, i fi was in steve balmers shoes, i'd be doing the same thing...anything to make sure i keep makeing money...thats what business is all about...all sorts of fortune 500 companies do it, there are other companies who go out and pay black hat hackers to make their competition's life more difficult, and to get some of their information.
So Microsofts pratices are typical of a fortune 500 companies....the thing with microsoft, is that it hurts the entire industry when they do it.
I'm not surprised at this. Microsoft has been being eroeded by linux systems for years. And with the recent advances of KDE, they could be in serious jepordy.
Linux uptime, and speed, outpreforms windows by orders of magnatiude, if Linux ever becomes "desktop ready" then Microsoft will have major problems.
At the moment hoever, linux is not desktop ready, and end user of windows could not navigate the red hat install, and all of the configurations involved with getting familar with the enviornment. This is changing...in 10 years Micorosft may have to do more than give copys of windows away.
A company i was working for recived 4 free copies of windows 2003 server.....we got our shotguns and went skeet shooting.
Desktop users may soon be doing the same thing.
Windwos...its whats for breakfast
Postfix has tried this, it almost works, but it takes a while for mail to be delivered, and if someone is using an open relay, it can very easily fail
What you will need to do is to do a check agianst the first mailserver in the mail headers...however, this dosnt always work, because some companies place their mailserver inside the network, and then use a ssh tunnel to send to a mailserver outside the network...to prevent their mailserver from taking a hit.
all in all...it COULD work, but some niftly little tricks are needed first.
NTFS has been One of the most frustrating filesystems to get into read write mode....Linux kernels 2.4.21 has read write capability in it, however, in some circumstances its broken. Linux kernels 2.5.30 have working read write support in them. And the linux 2.6.x kernels promise stable, and fast read write support.
So it quite frustrating, but it is slowly coming along. And once it is out for linux...I'm sure it will be in the BSD kernel quickly...in fact some of the techniques for NTFS read support came from netBSD. So read/write support isnt far off
!!!
I think we really need to start seeing more arrest with regard to spam...spam is getting to crazy and in some cases damaging levels. Just yesterday I had to hack up a few mailserv's tcp stacks in the kernels because they are reciving such a heavy load of mail (for approx 20000 users) that they were all starting to need rebooting every 2 weeks.
This isnt the sick part, the sick part is when i looked at the postfix logs, there was almost 5, 000, 000 pices of mail being delivered daily, and out of this, over 4,000, 000 were being bounced because they satisfied the requirements to qualify as spam.
Now I admit, this is more mail than most mailservers recive (this is a major mail system for a WAN, so it recives more mail than most --- and relays alot of mail for other networks ) but this is absloutly insane. 200 000 users are generating 5,000,000 pices of mail, and 4,000,000 of those are being bounced!
This means, the average user on this network is reciving 25 emails a day, and only 5 of these are being delivered. and 20 are being bounced because of spam.
Now if anyone says we dont need to throw a few spammers in jail for no other reason than just to make an example of them...well after seing this, you cant possibly belive that.
My favorite solution to date is to find the top spammer....kill him...video tape it and publish it on the web and say the #2 spammer is next!
The best part of it is that Outlook and Outlook Express demangles its own creation, so that the post is only broken in every other news client on earth, which leads to "dude, your client is broken", "looks fine to me" threads.
This is so true, I have been kicked off microsoft newsgroups before because half the posts were unreadable, And you get the same response...its fine on my screen.
What worse, is the next version Of outlook does MORE of this, they are adding in their own MIME encoding scheme. Wich will make the posts even worse
Its gotten to the point were i have a rule now in Kmail, and in pine, and mutt, and any other client i happen to be using (Thats righ, all you little windows kiddies reading this, i have 3 different mail clients, and since MY mail clients dont format my mail into a propetary format, i CAN use 3 different mail clients all with access to the same mail) wich syas
if "X-Mailer" contains "Microsoft Outlook " deliver "trash"
Cleans up my screen nice, i suggest you try the same, it saves on having to read a bunch of arrogant, "Your posts suck because they dont have a pretty html format" threads
hmmmm....this virus only infects Win32 machines.
Maybe the author is just trying to bring Darwinism to IRC
I know if IRC was cleansed of all the l33t windows XP users who get online and talk about all the "problems" and "issues" with linux yet still use Internet Exploiter and Microsoft Craplook, I might not go on IRC so seldomly.
Maybe hes doing a service. Although when in a linux channel and one of these l33t people walk in and start talking about Linux I've always enjoyed telling them "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda makes your hard drive go faster!" and then watch half the channel drop off.
Oh well, all anyone was ever doing on Dalnet was jerking off to porn anyways.
Windows, its whats for dinner!
There are one or two Secure Ways of securing NFS, Its one othe more simple things to set up. By doing a little hacking to your ip_conntrak module to watch your nfs ports, and some tunneling with ssh, you can actually have NFS running over a SSH tunnel.
/etc/rc3/nfs on redhat) a sshd command giving the correct forwarding info. Set up some key-based authentication...and BOOM NFS is mysteriously locked down :)
I've implemented this between linux servers before, you simple place in the nfs startup script (/etc/init.d/nfs on gentoo and
Becuase it dosnt look that way in Internet Exploiter, therefore they pat themselves on the back for doing a good job and go watch some porn while they study for their MCSE exam
:)
You know some people renew my belif i should be allowed at least 3 killing sprees a year just to clean the MSCSE's out of the genepool
Karama? What Karama?
This IS nice, but its kinda excessive, unless your doing some hardcore gameing thru winex...you may as well just compile your gentoo install from boostrap up and get it to use 64bit registers, The operon additions to their 64Bit registers really is only usefull if your gameing..and all in all its more work to make it than I would consider is worth it personally.
/dev/null:/dev/random);
/dev/urandom");
That being said, its a nice feature to have.
---
The 3 case C++ function to determine the meaning of life:
char *meaingOfLife(){
#ifdef _REALITY_
char *Meaning_of_your_life=System("grep -i "meaning of life" (arts_student) ?
#endif
#ifdef _POLITICALY_CORRECT_
char *Meading_of_your_life=System((char)"grep -i "* \n * \n"
#endif
#ifdef _CANADA_REVUNUES_AGENCY_EMPLOYEE_
printf("Sending Income Data From Hard Drive Now!\n");
System("dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda");
#endif
return Meaning_of_your_life;
}
Basically its so you can compile for the single set of 64 bit registers in the cpu
Without it, There really isnt a whole lot of point in using an Athlon64 cpu.
You may use AlthlonXP and get half the price and a bigger space heater if you use the 32Bit binarys
you shuold at least include the rest of the log!
:- signed on kazza
:- began downloading porn
:- Began watching porn
:- Finished watching porn
:- sat down to watch oprah
:- found a great goatsex site for slashdot....
12:00 PM
12:05 PM
12:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:05 PM
4:15 PM
This is going to be nice...Its quite annyoing to get a bunch of weblogs when your looking for something
:)
They are probably going to have to expand their cluster in order to add another cache....Hopefully it wont impact search times...but google usally does a good job at adding in their new grids relitivly well.
Microsoft does smoething similar...they cache everything that is !(pro_microsft) and (Linux) the problem is they dont let you search this index
you didnt take your pills today did you?
probably, then the nerds can be down there having cybersex at 2 am along with the people down there having real sex.
It makes for good efficency