2 parts FAT file structure
1 part NTFS for security
1 pinch of FAT32 (to keep the flavour)
1/2 part SQL (so Suzie Soccer Mom can use it too)
4 parts XML to keep DRM in tight control
2000 parts OS bloatwear to understand it
Searched the web for google counter. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,530,000. Search took 0.07 seconds.
But no Google Counter. =)
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Was I the first one to think about the Zentradi and all the cool new toys that might become available if they realised that the RDF might be practicle?
Why (some) anti-virus companies are to blame for the recent e-mail flood
As everyone should now know, Sobig.F has generated a tremendous amount of e-mail traffic world-wide. However, part of the blame for this traffic should be placed on some of the anti-virus companies.
What I am referring to is the large number of incorrectly configured mail filters that respond by sending a "virus alert" to the "From:" address. As Sobig.F falsifies the "From:" address, these e-mails just clutter up the mailboxes of innocent, non-infected people. These messages cause unnecessary annoyance and worry, as they typically (and incorrectly) claim that people have sent out a virus.
When you get an e-mail, warning you of a Sobig.F infection, with a subject line similar to these:
* *** detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.
* Warning: E-mail viruses detected
* Virus Detected by ***
* This is an alert from ***
it usually means that someone, somewhere has made a bad decision on how to react to infected mail, either by selecting a substandard product or by configuring it incorrectly.
Worse yet, if mail filters send out one message for every copy of Sobig.F received, they are in effect doubling the amount of traffic. This makes them a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
The problem is that some commercial mail filters have this behaviour set as the default. At least one filter gives only two options: Always send a "virus alert" to the "From" address of every infected e-mail received or "pass the message through to the recipient". Clearly neither of these options are acceptable.
I have only one word for this: Stupid!
Acceptable behaviour would be one of the following:
1. Have the mail filter properly distinguish between worms that falsify the "From:" address and ones that do not and only send a warning message when the "From:" address is likely to be genuine.
2. Do not send the alerts at all.
In fact, sending an alert automatically to the From: address for every virus or worm received by e-mail should not even be a selectable option.
With Sobig.F scheduled to die out today, Sept. 10th, the problem might go away for a while - until the next similar worm appears. And this is the scary part. Sobig.F didn't really infect that many machines world-wide, maybe only 200.000 or so. This is only a fraction of the number of machines infected by Msblaster (Lovsan). Now imagine a worm combining the distribution method of Msblaster with the mass-mailing feature of Sobig.F. The flood of traffic might practically render the Internet unusable.
Eventually, some virus author will create a virus like this, maybe this month, maybe in a few years, but it will happen. And when it does we do not need the anti-virus companies making a bad situation worse.
I hope the "guilty" anti-virus producers will be updating their products in the near future, but this is not going to happen unless their customers request it.
Fridrik Skulason ( frisk@f-prot.com ) Founder of FRISK Software International
As with most biometric systems, this is only ever works reliably in a lab.
Remeber the fingerprint system that got fooled by gelatine-gummi's ?
I wonder when these dot-bomb ideas will stop popping back up, and more credible research will get the much needed funds.
There is only one thing that has ever been able to recognize the human face; other humans. (And we do a rather poor job of it too after 10 million years of evolution!!!)
Proof: Take your average ignorant North American, (like myself) and ask him to tell the difference between 3 different Asian individuals. There is a good chance that we would fail that test because we are not used to (or mentally trained to) spot the difference.
{I love using myself for proof, it's so scientific}
I actually loved the program back then. It honestly ran my DOS games faster then they ran in Dos, I could not believe it. My 386/40 was screaming, and I was in heaven. My only complaint; few native apps.
1944... Atomic bomb is dropped 1969... man sets foot on the moon 1994... IBM releases OS/2 Warp v3 (Apps unable to corrupt/crash the OS) 2003... Microsoft finally admits that half of all crashes are their fault
blah blah... *nix good... blah blah... Mac good... blah blah... yes windows does suck.
Keep a schedule and a variety of game genres posted.
Very important:
mix up the games. FPS are fun, but after 10 hrs of the same thing (even if it is spread over 6 different games) gets boring very quick.
This is very cool, I just hope that they don't make it a politically correct POS.
My only complaint with the original moni-series was the uber crappy ending. That little girl with the magic powers! I hope they can rewrite or avoid that.
AFA the `good-guys` are concerned lets hope that it is not a candy-apple version. I don't want it to be sickening sweet.
My cousin is currently in jail for this crime.
He was spend over $10,000 per month on ink cartridges. The `special` paper was very easy to get ahold of, so don't let that fool you. This was not a `small-time` operation either. There were 4+ print-houses setup in 2 cities. Each warehouse had more then 40 printers.
He made $10, $20, and $100 notes. Canadian currency has a little psudo-holographic square in the corner. He just used a simple little green/gold foil glued onto the paper to overcome this level of protection. The cops finally caught him after he owned the following:
2 Ford Mustangs
1 20' boat
4 Jet-ski's
1 Lincoln Navigator SUV
4 Houses
(and he bought them all with cash)
To say he made millions would be an understatement.
I live in Canada.
Therefore I only have 1 Sattelite choice. CRTC Approved, (in 2 flavours, BEV, and Dish).
BEV does have a PVR but without any of the goodness that TiVo offers.
Is there any hope for me? Are there any choices out there that I am missing?
Help me please.
...The Service does not support LAN Connection Service, Telecommuting and VPN Service. The connection of Internet servers at Client premises to the COGECO Network is prohibited. The Customer may not run programs or servers which provide network service to others. Examples of prohibited programs include, but are not limited to mail, http, ftp, irc, dhcp servers, and multi-user interactive forums.
This is old information, and has been part of the Infinibad proposal for quite some time.
Good news for you AMD-Fanboys: Infiniband is part of the HyperTransport scheme too.
A+B=C
Hopefully we will see a natural progression to integrated CPU-I/O controller at FULL CPU speed.
Why is there always an assumption of guilt when dealing with file sharing?
This type of draconian heavy-handed measure is an insult. Why is the burben of proof on the individual and not the government?
I am one of the ones who have waited YEARS for this game. I look forward to running out after work and buying it.
The review pointed out that the viceroy has more control over the planets then you do. I enjoyed altering my Farmer/Worker/Scientist ratios.
I enjoyed plotting my research paths.
Will I lose this level of control?
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I work for Canon. We are running Windows95 on P2-300's everywhere.
We have just started upgrading these boxes to Win2000.
I'd day we saved a lot of money by waiting, but it has also cost us MORE THEN $1million for licensing & etc. before we rolled out 1 box.
2 parts FAT file structure
1 part NTFS for security
1 pinch of FAT32 (to keep the flavour)
1/2 part SQL (so Suzie Soccer Mom can use it too)
4 parts XML to keep DRM in tight control
2000 parts OS bloatwear to understand it
I saw this on "The Outer Limits" almost 2 years ago.
AND I am sure one of those SuperMarket tabloid papers ran a few stories like this too.
=)
Searched the web for google counter. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,530,000. Search took 0.07 seconds.
But no Google Counter. =)
Was I the first one to think about the Zentradi and all the cool new toys that might become available if they realised that the RDF might be practicle?
Why (some) anti-virus companies are to blame for the recent
e-mail flood
As everyone should now know, Sobig.F has generated a tremendous amount of e-mail traffic world-wide. However, part of the blame for this traffic should be placed on some of the anti-virus companies.
What I am referring to is the large number of incorrectly configured mail filters that respond by sending a "virus alert" to the "From:" address. As Sobig.F falsifies the "From:" address, these e-mails just clutter up the mailboxes of innocent, non-infected people. These messages cause unnecessary annoyance and worry, as they typically (and incorrectly) claim that people have sent out a virus.
When you get an e-mail, warning you of a Sobig.F infection, with a subject line similar to these:
* *** detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.
* Warning: E-mail viruses detected
* Virus Detected by ***
* This is an alert from ***
it usually means that someone, somewhere has made a bad decision on how to react to infected mail, either by selecting a substandard product or by configuring it incorrectly.
Worse yet, if mail filters send out one message for every copy of Sobig.F received, they are in effect doubling the amount of traffic. This makes them a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
The problem is that some commercial mail filters have this behaviour set as the default. At least one filter gives only two options: Always send a "virus alert" to the "From" address of every infected e-mail received or "pass the message through to the recipient". Clearly neither of these options are acceptable.
I have only one word for this: Stupid!
Acceptable behaviour would be one of the following:
1. Have the mail filter properly distinguish between worms that falsify the "From:" address and ones that do not and only send a warning message when the "From:" address is likely to be genuine.
2. Do not send the alerts at all.
In fact, sending an alert automatically to the From: address for every virus or worm received by e-mail should not even be a selectable option.
With Sobig.F scheduled to die out today, Sept. 10th, the problem might go away for a while - until the next similar worm appears. And this is the scary part. Sobig.F didn't really infect that many machines world-wide, maybe only 200.000 or so. This is only a fraction of the number of machines infected by Msblaster (Lovsan). Now imagine a worm combining the distribution method of Msblaster with the mass-mailing feature of Sobig.F. The flood of traffic might practically render the Internet unusable.
Eventually, some virus author will create a virus like this, maybe this month, maybe in a few years, but it will happen. And when it does we do not need the anti-virus companies making a bad situation worse.
I hope the "guilty" anti-virus producers will be updating their products in the near future, but this is not going to happen unless their customers request it.
Fridrik Skulason ( frisk@f-prot.com )
Founder of FRISK Software International
As with most biometric systems, this is only ever works reliably in a lab.
Remeber the fingerprint system that got fooled by gelatine-gummi's ?
I wonder when these dot-bomb ideas will stop popping back up, and more credible research will get the much needed funds.
There is only one thing that has ever been able to recognize the human face; other humans. (And we do a rather poor job of it too after 10 million years of evolution!!!)
Proof: Take your average ignorant North American, (like myself) and ask him to tell the difference between 3 different Asian individuals. There is a good chance that we would fail that test because we are not used to (or mentally trained to) spot the difference.
{I love using myself for proof, it's so scientific}
I actually loved the program back then. It honestly ran my DOS games faster then they ran in Dos, I could not believe it. My 386/40 was screaming, and I was in heaven. My only complaint; few native apps.
1944 ... Atomic bomb is dropped ... man sets foot on the moon ... IBM releases OS/2 Warp v3 (Apps unable to corrupt/crash the OS) ... Microsoft finally admits that half of all crashes are their fault
... *nix good ... ... Mac good ... ... yes windows does suck.
1969
1994
2003
blah blah
blah blah
blah blah
=)
I have to agree with you about the never-crashing-server of choice 4+ years ago.
We were running a small Pentium 200 server, total uptime before the mobo went into a sparky fit-of-death: 5 years 11 Months.
Novell v4.1 (with no updates, fixes or patches EVER)
It was setup, placed in a closet and forgotten about.
Keep a schedule and a variety of game genres posted. Very important:
mix up the games. FPS are fun, but after 10 hrs of the same thing (even if it is spread over 6 different games) gets boring very quick.
It's too bad you didn't choose to use that Beowolf power to run your web server.
This is very cool, I just hope that they don't make it a politically correct POS.
My only complaint with the original moni-series was the uber crappy ending. That little girl with the magic powers! I hope they can rewrite or avoid that.
AFA the `good-guys` are concerned lets hope that it is not a candy-apple version. I don't want it to be sickening sweet.
I think that would be a wonderfull idea... Just get the origianl site permission first.
I have donated $$ to your site and I have offered hardware/hosting (free) also. Do you read your email or reply to offers such as this?
My cousin is currently in jail for this crime.
He was spend over $10,000 per month on ink cartridges. The `special` paper was very easy to get ahold of, so don't let that fool you. This was not a `small-time` operation either. There were 4+ print-houses setup in 2 cities. Each warehouse had more then 40 printers.
He made $10, $20, and $100 notes. Canadian currency has a little psudo-holographic square in the corner. He just used a simple little green/gold foil glued onto the paper to overcome this level of protection. The cops finally caught him after he owned the following: 2 Ford Mustangs 1 20' boat 4 Jet-ski's 1 Lincoln Navigator SUV 4 Houses (and he bought them all with cash)
To say he made millions would be an understatement.
I live in Canada.
Therefore I only have 1 Sattelite choice. CRTC Approved, (in 2 flavours, BEV, and Dish).
BEV does have a PVR but without any of the goodness that TiVo offers.
Is there any hope for me? Are there any choices out there that I am missing?
Help me please.
Considering the Aztec calender was much more accurate then ours is today, why not just use that for our day-to-day lives?
The bad news: The Earth with end Dec 12 2013. =)
This is old information, and has been part of the Infinibad proposal for quite some time. Good news for you AMD-Fanboys: Infiniband is part of the HyperTransport scheme too. A+B=C Hopefully we will see a natural progression to integrated CPU-I/O controller at FULL CPU speed.
Yes it is inefficent to use P2P, but if you don't have a web/ftp server running then it becomes much easier just to load up a P2P client.
Why is there always an assumption of guilt when dealing with file sharing?
This type of draconian heavy-handed measure is an insult. Why is the burben of proof on the individual and not the government?
I feel 100% the same way you do. I just dropped $80 CDN on this and my biggest reaction: The computer just wants to play itself.
I am one of the ones who have waited YEARS for this game. I look forward to running out after work and buying it. The review pointed out that the viceroy has more control over the planets then you do. I enjoyed altering my Farmer/Worker/Scientist ratios. I enjoyed plotting my research paths. Will I lose this level of control?
Hehe, sorry I forgot about that one.