95B at least added USB support. 98SE was a definate DOWNGRADE from 98.
It even says it in the article. They don't have enough to make it worthwhile, it's just a security/bugfix release. They are trying to pad it with "value added" crap, half of which will get deleted after install.
IANAAE (aeronautical engineer), but the way I understand it, planes with no ailerons and rudders are difficult to control, and all the jets that the military use in such configuration are fly-by-wire.
Have special cards that are necessary to start cars. If you go to a bar, they have to swipe the card. The car will check your card if you try to start it, and then require these silly tests. This way only people who purchased drinks are tested. Everyone else's card is steal clean until they purchase a drink. And it can be time stamped, so if you buy a drink and drive 6 hours later, you don't get denied.
The drawback is now you need bars to have special equipment. And now you run into the problem of people swapping cards, or requiring further biometrics to stop THAT problem. It just seems ike WAY too much work for a problem that isn't that prevalent, except maybe in New Mexico:)
A better solution is to just put more piggies on the road that can pull over people near bars. Money stays in the community, you aren't buying some crappy technology that infringes on 99% of the population.
To test the video, just run soem 3D game demo. It's free, and it will flex the GPU muscles on the card. My girlfriend's fan died on her Geforce 256 and that is how I realized it was the video card locking up the whole computer. The fan was still working, but it was running at a low enough RPM that it wasn't clearing the heat out, so it would eventualy overheat enough.
For testing USB, nothing beats a cheap little USB flash drive. Works in most OSes with no drivers, with the exception of win98.
For Serial testing, just plug in an old serial modem. Doesn't matter what speed as long as it is tested good. I bought a 14.4 external at a thrift store for a few bucks. Works fine in a pinch.
For parallel, who knows. There isn't much you can put in a parallel port that won't require drivers. A zip drive can be found for cheap.
I dont' have one, but a POST card will check dead machines that don't come up.
Always keep a spare ISA, PCI and AGP video card around. I bought a P2 motherboard for $7 once, and the AGP was fried. Everything else worked fine.
Sound. Got headphones?
You don't need expensive dongles and software packages to test all this stuff. Knoppix and with a boot floppy for older PC's is all you need.
There are plenty of people on/. that will minimize security risks and breaches by assigning them to "script kiddies". Yes, a script kiddy doens't have the knowledge and experience that a true classic hacker has, but they have the willingness, and it is ignorance to brush them aside for their youth, just as it is ignorance to put them on a pedestal like some hollywood movie, where everyone is astounded by some genius youth, because they themselves are clueless. Every threat should be based on the nature of that threat. Age has nothing to do with it. The author is neither ridiculously knowledgeable or well seasoned. The social skills are definately lacking though.
How did they come across it so quickly? How do most buffer overflows occur? It can't be that difficult to search for these things. I'm sure with a little bit of effort, someone can design a lexical scanner to look for cases where an overflow can be executed. Keep track of data types on a symbols list, and look at the test cases. Then it is just a matter of scanning the data structures to figure out how to exploit it.
There used to be a laptop with an Alpha chip. I've seen pictures of it.
I have an alpha for my server, it's very geeky. It handles my network, file sharing, ICE casting, and some light game server duties (battle net) but other than that I find it a little limited. Can't run wine. Or maybe it can, but I havent' setup em86. Runs bochs, but not very fast. Can't run most media stuff like Xine or MPlayer that requires x86 for half the codecs.
Get a handful of DVD's, and just copy them down the line. The demo will be short, it won't take a long time, but make sure you do multiple DVD's, and that way you can yack like a salesman for a few seconds, and finish it up with "In the time we just spent talking...." and then SHOW them what you just copied, a stack of DVD's. Then explain to them how long that would take on a standard Dialup, DSL/Cable, and T3 line. Now you have a comparisson to wow them with if they aren't that technical.
Don't forget to show off the flashy lights! "This is the machine that goes PING!"
King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
replace "castle" with "linux distribution" and it almost makes sense. Kind of. It makes more sense if you also change "swamp" to "red"
Most people don't know what a firewall is. Most people don't know that the internet isn't "in their computer". Security needs to be built in.
I agree, people should be responsible for their own stuff, but it just isn't feasible. There is a level of education people are willing to go to use a computer, but firewall setup isn't one of them.
The plan was to run an OS that didn't require much power, and use it to run winMX or some other windows only software on Alpha, which won't run wine.
The mouse code sucks in Bochs though. If I ever get back to programming, I was going to change the bochs mouse layer to more of a "touch screen" style. Currently, you move the mouse and you see the mouse pointer CRAWL across the bochs virtual screen. Change a few key functions, and it would only detect where you click, move the mouse pointer in the bochs VM, issue a click to the guest OS, and leave the pointer there till the next click.
You lose the ability to see mouseovers, but for what I wanted to do with it, it wouldn't matter. And click-n-drag probably wouldn't work either, but still, this is unimportant for my needs.
It seems to me that there is more than what you HEAR that determines direction. I wonder if your body can sense the sound waves to help determine direction.
If what you say is true, then how do you determine if a sound is coming from in front or behind you? If the direction-dtermination is based on the time difference between the 2 ears, there are an infinite number of points that represent the true source of the sound, represented by a circle.
If this is hard to understand in words, imagine holding a hula-hoop in the air off directly to your right, somewhere outside of your vision. That hula hoop represent all the points where the distance between the hoop and both ears is the same. Now different positions in space can be represented by different sized hulahoops, located at different distanced from the ear.
How can you tell where on the hula hoop a sound-making object is? Sound waves. Visual cues. How do you tell if something is behind you and coming from above or below? The distance to your ears will be the same either way. Having multiple speakers allows you to add a directional component instead of extrapolate one from a 2 receiver source (your ears).
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3855168/ "The rover rolled off its lander only a week ago and was just getting ready to use a grinding tool on its robotic arm to drill into a rock nicknamed Adirondack."
Adirondack strikes back. ph33r
I for one welcome our new martians-camofloged-as-rocks overlords.
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95B at least added USB support. 98SE was a definate DOWNGRADE from 98.
It even says it in the article. They don't have enough to make it worthwhile, it's just a security/bugfix release. They are trying to pad it with "value added" crap, half of which will get deleted after install.
IANAAE (aeronautical engineer), but the way I understand it, planes with no ailerons and rudders are difficult to control, and all the jets that the military use in such configuration are fly-by-wire.
And Japan is known as the land of the rising sun.
COINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT!
Have special cards that are necessary to start cars. If you go to a bar, they have to swipe the card. The car will check your card if you try to start it, and then require these silly tests. This way only people who purchased drinks are tested. Everyone else's card is steal clean until they purchase a drink. And it can be time stamped, so if you buy a drink and drive 6 hours later, you don't get denied.
:)
The drawback is now you need bars to have special equipment. And now you run into the problem of people swapping cards, or requiring further biometrics to stop THAT problem. It just seems ike WAY too much work for a problem that isn't that prevalent, except maybe in New Mexico
A better solution is to just put more piggies on the road that can pull over people near bars. Money stays in the community, you aren't buying some crappy technology that infringes on 99% of the population.
[Of course, the solution to this is to hire a chauffer, who makes significantly less than you do, and just pay all of his/her fines for them]
Um, doesn't that sidestep the whole driving drunk problem anyway? If a chauffer is driving for you?
an 800lb gorilla get raped in the ass?
To test the video, just run soem 3D game demo. It's free, and it will flex the GPU muscles on the card. My girlfriend's fan died on her Geforce 256 and that is how I realized it was the video card locking up the whole computer. The fan was still working, but it was running at a low enough RPM that it wasn't clearing the heat out, so it would eventualy overheat enough.
For testing USB, nothing beats a cheap little USB flash drive. Works in most OSes with no drivers, with the exception of win98.
For Serial testing, just plug in an old serial modem. Doesn't matter what speed as long as it is tested good. I bought a 14.4 external at a thrift store for a few bucks. Works fine in a pinch.
For parallel, who knows. There isn't much you can put in a parallel port that won't require drivers. A zip drive can be found for cheap.
I dont' have one, but a POST card will check dead machines that don't come up.
Always keep a spare ISA, PCI and AGP video card around. I bought a P2 motherboard for $7 once, and the AGP was fried. Everything else worked fine.
Sound. Got headphones?
You don't need expensive dongles and software packages to test all this stuff. Knoppix and with a boot floppy for older PC's is all you need.
Does it really matter?
/. that will minimize security risks and breaches by assigning them to "script kiddies". Yes, a script kiddy doens't have the knowledge and experience that a true classic hacker has, but they have the willingness, and it is ignorance to brush them aside for their youth, just as it is ignorance to put them on a pedestal like some hollywood movie, where everyone is astounded by some genius youth, because they themselves are clueless. Every threat should be based on the nature of that threat. Age has nothing to do with it. The author is neither ridiculously knowledgeable or well seasoned. The social skills are definately lacking though.
There are plenty of people on
How did they come across it so quickly? How do most buffer overflows occur? It can't be that difficult to search for these things. I'm sure with a little bit of effort, someone can design a lexical scanner to look for cases where an overflow can be executed. Keep track of data types on a symbols list, and look at the test cases. Then it is just a matter of scanning the data structures to figure out how to exploit it.
There used to be a laptop with an Alpha chip. I've seen pictures of it.
I have an alpha for my server, it's very geeky. It handles my network, file sharing, ICE casting, and some light game server duties (battle net) but other than that I find it a little limited. Can't run wine. Or maybe it can, but I havent' setup em86. Runs bochs, but not very fast. Can't run most media stuff like Xine or MPlayer that requires x86 for half the codecs.
What an easy question. Shame on you.
Get a handful of DVD's, and just copy them down the line. The demo will be short, it won't take a long time, but make sure you do multiple DVD's, and that way you can yack like a salesman for a few seconds, and finish it up with "In the time we just spent talking...." and then SHOW them what you just copied, a stack of DVD's. Then explain to them how long that would take on a standard Dialup, DSL/Cable, and T3 line. Now you have a comparisson to wow them with if they aren't that technical.
Don't forget to show off the flashy lights! "This is the machine that goes PING!"
King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.
replace "castle" with "linux distribution" and it almost makes sense. Kind of. It makes more sense if you also change "swamp" to "red"
Yeah, and for the $100 stated in the article, that is like a 5" LCD. drool!
I second this.
Most people don't know what a firewall is. Most people don't know that the internet isn't "in their computer". Security needs to be built in.
I agree, people should be responsible for their own stuff, but it just isn't feasible. There is a level of education people are willing to go to use a computer, but firewall setup isn't one of them.
The plan was to run an OS that didn't require much power, and use it to run winMX or some other windows only software on Alpha, which won't run wine.
The mouse code sucks in Bochs though. If I ever get back to programming, I was going to change the bochs mouse layer to more of a "touch screen" style. Currently, you move the mouse and you see the mouse pointer CRAWL across the bochs virtual screen. Change a few key functions, and it would only detect where you click, move the mouse pointer in the bochs VM, issue a click to the guest OS, and leave the pointer there till the next click.
You lose the ability to see mouseovers, but for what I wanted to do with it, it wouldn't matter. And click-n-drag probably wouldn't work either, but still, this is unimportant for my needs.
As has been noted, it is NT-only, and the technology was never released such that it could be ported/incorporated into linux.
Besides, I think my alpha will only run up to winNT4, no win2k and definately not XP.
The FX32 software is available, but probably not on any official digital pages anymore.
There is also em86 for linux, which does something similar for running x86 linux binaries on alpha. I have it but haven't tried it.
As geeky as it is, I'm thinking of retiring it. I have a dual P2 that will run more software and use less power. And it will be quieter.
And it runs on more than just IA-32. I have it running on my dual Alpha 533. Runs win98.
Who comes up with these names? It's like they are just SCREAMING big brother.
Matrix? As in the thing that enslaved humanity and took away all freedom?
Someone needs to get slapped.
"I will be man again some day"
Give it up for the old school Sierra games.
Go NASA.
In the article it says that popular opinion is that microsoft can't fix this bug (or the previous %01 in the URL one).
What is so hard about scanning a string for %01 and truncating? I don't get it. No one needs %01 in a URL for any legitimate reason, just TRUNCATE.
IANAAP (Audio Phile)
It seems to me that there is more than what you HEAR that determines direction. I wonder if your body can sense the sound waves to help determine direction.
If what you say is true, then how do you determine if a sound is coming from in front or behind you? If the direction-dtermination is based on the time difference between the 2 ears, there are an infinite number of points that represent the true source of the sound, represented by a circle.
If this is hard to understand in words, imagine holding a hula-hoop in the air off directly to your right, somewhere outside of your vision. That hula hoop represent all the points where the distance between the hoop and both ears is the same. Now different positions in space can be represented by different sized hulahoops, located at different distanced from the ear.
How can you tell where on the hula hoop a sound-making object is? Sound waves. Visual cues. How do you tell if something is behind you and coming from above or below? The distance to your ears will be the same either way. Having multiple speakers allows you to add a directional component instead of extrapolate one from a 2 receiver source (your ears).
bullshit. I have a CS degree and no experience. Everyone wants experience.
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3855168/
"The rover rolled off its lander only a week ago and was just getting ready to use a grinding tool on its robotic arm to drill into a rock nicknamed Adirondack."
Adirondack strikes back. ph33r
I for one welcome our new martians-camofloged-as-rocks overlords.
Treason.
Can I bring the redhead from the OSDN personals ad?