I hope you aren't saying that Halo actually has a groundbreaking story. To me its more like blah blah blah space marine blah blah blah save the planet blah blah blah get the keycard blah blah blow some crap up. Talk about cliched.
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You are all pussies. I patched my kernel thusly:
-- main.c Sun Jun 3 22:02:34 2001 +++ main.c~ Tue Jul 10 16:05:26 2001 @@ -789,9 +789,9 @@
if (execute_command) execve(execute_command,argv_init,envp_init); &nbs p; - execve("/sbin/init",argv_init,envp_init); - execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init); - execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init); - execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init); - panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."); + execve("/usr/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init); &nb sp; + execve("/usr/local/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init); + execve("/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init); + execve("/usr/bin/xemacs",argv_init,envp_init); &n bsp; + panic("No emacs found. Are you sure this is GNU/Linux?"); }
I'll gladly volunteer to go up on any shuttle missions to test out the safety:) I can't help but feel that the shuttle program, with all its warts, is still vital and needs to continue.
Well yeah, I remember when there were no user accounts and people like JWZ frequented the boards. There's always people saying how/. is going downhill, and in many ways they are right. It doesn't scale well.
Frankly, I usually only come back here for nostalgic reasons. I don't actually find a lot of value here anymore. YMMV.
The shoe is considered dirty, so beating someone with a shoe is a grave insult reserved for servants. You would beat your family with a stick or your hand, enver your shoe. At least so says my online sources. I found this article enlightening.
Actually the network activity is not used as an attacker could control that. However there is a patch that allows you to optionally add that feature, so you weren't entirely off base.
Just so long as it isn't like the scheduling related to us by our OS prof, where one of the early time sharing systems gave a bit of a boost to terminals after they pressed the enter key.
This way interactive processes gained a slight boost. Of course, they had to rethink their algorithm as soon as someone figured out that by hitting return a lot they could speed up their programs! Oops:)
Could be, most of my experience as a Sysop was with RemoteAccess 2.02, Frontdoor 2.12, and various Renegade and WWIV boards.
And yes, it would be incredibly poor programming practice to have a code path that would allow a user to exploit this. But, consider that many boards had some kind of dynamic headers which would display on top of the regular menus or message boards.
So it could have been possible such that a user could embed a sequence in a forum message and then upon display the stupid software loads the header from disk, appends the part it has to display and then parses it for command sequences and finally displays it.
Perhaps I'm only remembering somone claiming this was possible, I never tried to exploit any BBS, I was on the other side trying to keep myself up to date so these things couldn't happen to me. Either way, it was a blast being a Sysop and its good to see I'm not the only one on Slashdot that got a start there:)
Been a long time, but I seem to recall that many popular bulletin board systems used special ANSI characters as control codes in the menus and such. The purpose was to allow the sysop the ability to dynamically add the current date, or who was online, etc. Basically server side includes for the BBS.
However, certan software would allow an attacker to insert these control codes anywhere, and not just interpret them from the menus.
Imagine the hilarity that insues once the attacker figures out the embed sequence for the drop to DOS feature.:)
Sorry, it is EU policy to encourage its citizens to ask hard questions of the American government and to question the freedom of Americans every chance they get. The theory goes if they are too busy out protesting how much of a cowboy Bush is being, they won't have time to realize how much their own rights are being systematically stripped away by the European governments and the European Union.
Well, during the hight of the dotCom era, I said many times that I would be doing this whether or not the pay was good, and it's still true today during the layoffs and recessions.
It always seemed that there were two types of people in my Computer Science program, those that would be there no matter what and those that thought it was a ticket to a higher salary. Even if I was working at a minimum wage job flipping burgers, I'd be spending my evenings tinkering with Linux and a junked out 386:)
don't worry dude, slashdot hasn't been really technical for a _long_ _long_ time. it's more fun watching the downward spiral, there is no need to help it along.:)
So are OpenBSD programmers good at coding in C securely? Are they not professionals? Have they not made mistakes that comprimised the security of the entire system? What was your point again?
Well, no. Most FPS wouldn't scale linearly on multi-processor machines anyway (nor do they have support for more than one CPU). IIRC, Quake III supports SMP but only gets about 30% better performance with the second processor enabled.
Electronic voting would be nifty, but how do you audit the components and the source code? I imagine something like the slots in vegas. Wouldn't want to have some crafty developer inserting a special backdoor would you?
Damn I am a nerd. I didn't get the joke at all, I started thinking that yes, rsync would make sense on space missions as the bandwidth to space as well as the propogation delay would necesitate having something like rsync for data transfers.
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I hope you aren't saying that Halo actually has a groundbreaking story. To me its more like blah blah blah space marine blah blah blah save the planet blah blah blah get the keycard blah blah blow some crap up. Talk about cliched.
You are all pussies. I patched my kernel thusly:
s p; - execve("/sbin/init",argv_init,envp_init);b sp; + execve("/usr/local/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init) ;n bsp; + panic("No emacs found. Are you sure this is GNU/Linux?");
-- main.c Sun Jun 3 22:02:34 2001
+++ main.c~ Tue Jul 10 16:05:26 2001
@@ -789,9 +789,9 @@
if (execute_command) execve(execute_command,argv_init,envp_init);
&nb
- execve("/etc/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/init",argv_init,envp_init);
- execve("/bin/sh",argv_init,envp_init);
- panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
+ execve("/usr/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
&n
+ execve("/bin/emacs",argv_init,envp_init);
+ execve("/usr/bin/xemacs",argv_init,envp_init);
&
}
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DAMN STRAIGHT, it is about time someone had the balls to stand up for what they truly believe in. MOD THIS COMMENT STRAIGHT UP MY GOOD FRIENDS!
I'll gladly volunteer to go up on any shuttle missions to test out the safety :) I can't help but feel that the shuttle program, with all its warts, is still vital and needs to continue.
Frankly, I usually only come back here for nostalgic reasons. I don't actually find a lot of value here anymore. YMMV.
The shoe is considered dirty, so beating someone with a shoe is a grave insult reserved for servants. You would beat your family with a stick or your hand, enver your shoe. At least so says my online sources. I found this article enlightening.
Actually the network activity is not used as an attacker could control that. However there is a patch that allows you to optionally add that feature, so you weren't entirely off base.
I do.
Just so long as it isn't like the scheduling related to us by our OS prof, where one of the early time sharing systems gave a bit of a boost to terminals after they pressed the enter key.
:)
This way interactive processes gained a slight boost. Of course, they had to rethink their algorithm as soon as someone figured out that by hitting return a lot they could speed up their programs! Oops
I think its a pretty good thing that your users can't start up their own webservers or sendmail processes on ports that everyone uses by default.
And yes, it would be incredibly poor programming practice to have a code path that would allow a user to exploit this. But, consider that many boards had some kind of dynamic headers which would display on top of the regular menus or message boards.
So it could have been possible such that a user could embed a sequence in a forum message and then upon display the stupid software loads the header from disk, appends the part it has to display and then parses it for command sequences and finally displays it.
Perhaps I'm only remembering somone claiming this was possible, I never tried to exploit any BBS, I was on the other side trying to keep myself up to date so these things couldn't happen to me. Either way, it was a blast being a Sysop and its good to see I'm not the only one on Slashdot that got a start there :)
However, certan software would allow an attacker to insert these control codes anywhere, and not just interpret them from the menus.
Imagine the hilarity that insues once the attacker figures out the embed sequence for the drop to DOS feature.
Sorry, it is EU policy to encourage its citizens to ask hard questions of the American government and to question the freedom of Americans every chance they get. The theory goes if they are too busy out protesting how much of a cowboy Bush is being, they won't have time to realize how much their own rights are being systematically stripped away by the European governments and the European Union.
Peasants.
Hey Damon, what's going on?
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It always seemed that there were two types of people in my Computer Science program, those that would be there no matter what and those that thought it was a ticket to a higher salary. Even if I was working at a minimum wage job flipping burgers, I'd be spending my evenings tinkering with Linux and a junked out 386
You know that referer depends on what the client tells it, hence its insecure. You just tell it what it wants to hear :)
I guess I'm one of those three.
don't worry dude, slashdot hasn't been really technical for a _long_ _long_ time. it's more fun watching the downward spiral, there is no need to help it along. :)
So are OpenBSD programmers good at coding in C securely? Are they not professionals? Have they not made mistakes that comprimised the security of the entire system? What was your point again?
Well, no. Most FPS wouldn't scale linearly on multi-processor machines anyway (nor do they have support for more than one CPU). IIRC, Quake III supports SMP but only gets about 30% better performance with the second processor enabled.
yawn.
Electronic voting would be nifty, but how do you audit the components and the source code? I imagine something like the slots in vegas. Wouldn't want to have some crafty developer inserting a special backdoor would you?
Damn I am a nerd. I didn't get the joke at all, I started thinking that yes, rsync would make sense on space missions as the bandwidth to space as well as the propogation delay would necesitate having something like rsync for data transfers.
Well I can safely say I passed my linear algebra class partly due to the video lectures I got from MIT. :)