>Fortunately, not everyone can do this sort of thing, and it takes time
Not everybody has a BlueGene(tm) in their back yard but consider this:
MafiaBoss: We have captured some [CIA|BANK|POLICE] data, but it is encrypted. DarkSideHacker: Hmmm, do you know the seti@home project? I allready have a huge spambot net for sending emails, and doing DDos attacks. But they can be reprogrammed.....
Many countries consider the act of buying being a contract between two parties, the buyer and the supplier. INAL, but AFAIK it is a verbal contract here in germany.
Don't go about raving about paying for a so called "free" OS. Parent is right, it's free as in speech, not beer.
But, ubuntu linux ships a cd for Free (as in beer) to anywhere you like. https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ It has a nice cardboard sleeve, and contains 2 cd's. One is a live cd, to test it. The other is the Install cd. It furthers explains why ubuntu is free, and what free means.
Ubuntu is my favorite distro for a desktoplinux for "beginners".
The (widely known) german Ct magazine has isued just this contest to its readers. It uses the "Dell DVD Organizer" wich has "many" database backends. The software is then (stress)tested with 10 MB and 1GB database sizes.
The contestants are urged to write their own backend, or optimize an existing backend, or optimize the databse of choise, or do all of the obove:-)
The contest is open until the 13. november 2005 and results will be released some time later.
I know TFA is in german, but I know you can use "the fish".
This works fine if you open a new DB connection for every update. If you go into connection pooling, or do other things in your programm between "new DBConnection()" and Update() you might be screwed if the (remote) database suddenly stops accepting your requests, or drops your connection.
Another "good thing"(tm) about exceptions (at least in Java) is that as a toolset or library devolper I can indicate that my method might run into an exception. This way, every devolper using my methods must handle the exception in his programm.
Unfortunenatly this mostly results in: log("an error occured while executing update..."); return null;
But at least the programmer is reminded that these things _can_ happen.
Having to use code where _every_ method throws at least 2 exceptions is (ofcource) a major pain in the ass.
As allways there are up and downsides to exception throwing, but if used correctly it is actualy very usefull.
AFAIK: no access to all contents of the file does not mean that one person can only view a subset of the records, but only a subset of the information per reccord.
The dutch have allways been quiet complicated about personal data. Many things are allready kept electronicaly, but even for authorities it is often complicated to get the data. My sisters works at the national healthcare agency (?), she told me some horror stories about it.
(disclaimer: I'm from I Holland but live in germany now) another example: I my passport is my name and birthdate,but not my address.
This is because someone looking into my passport should know who I am, but it is none of his business to know where I live. (For me this is complicated, becaus in germany, every passport contains the address, so german authorities often give me a hard time because I cannot provide them with my offcial address)
So I think it was intended that people accessing the database can see if I have a criminal reccord, but not my illness, (exclusive-) or the other way arround.
Maybe you should work a bit on your MetaMod skillz:-) I've been reading slashdot for about 8 years now, but the week I started metamoderating was the week I first good modpoints, ever.
-- atleast once a month raise fingers from the keyboard and stop to think "What am I missing from my daily environment? Are stupid, repetetive or borings things that I do all too frequently?"...
Yep, that's what I do all day. Problem is that I don't get any real work done, but that's another story:-)
(obgl. Douglas Admas quote, shamelessly ripped) (MODS: not mine => no voting !)
...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Non-techie friends are always wanting to buy things from Amazon as a one-off, so I let them use my account. Boom - that's up to twenty people represented by one cookie, right there.
Nope, They use a different session (is different cookie), while using your account. Unless they physically access your computer/browser they are different users.
But you are pretty right on the bet on the other points.
Those who have windows that won't validate should just buy a legal copy of windows. If they got ripped of by an "off the truck" sale, they only need to send in an receipt to microsoft to get an original copy of windows. Microsoft will go out and sue the guy who coned you out of your money for them (provided he "sold" enough copies)
If they don't want to pay, they should use Linux/BSD or whatever suits their need.
I think it is a good move by microsoft to only let those people upgrade who actually bought their stuff. Why would they be obligated the give away their software?
Remember that the "Windows Advantage" is not needed to get security related patches.
It does not have anything to do with it being BETA or not. The whole content of the article can be condensed to: "Warning, it is posible to write a virus using the Monad shell."
The same can be said about Perl, C, Java on any platform. If we should stop feeding the trolls in a discussion, maybe slashdot should stop posting Troll articles.....
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"this might be the future" the author writes.
Well, it might be,
and monkeys might be flying out of my BUT.
(Madona in a Waynes World epiode)
I think this story is not really ", stuff that matters"
>Fortunately, not everyone can do this sort of thing, and it takes time
Not everybody has a BlueGene(tm) in their back yard but consider this:
MafiaBoss: We have captured some [CIA|BANK|POLICE] data, but it is encrypted.
DarkSideHacker: Hmmm, do you know the seti@home project? I allready have a huge spambot net for sending emails, and doing DDos attacks. But they can be reprogrammed.....
Many countries consider the act of buying being a contract between two parties, the buyer and the supplier.
INAL, but AFAIK it is a verbal contract here in germany.
If you use the Qemu Kernel module it is workable.
I run win2K in Qemu here at work (debian sarge host).
Without the kernel module Qemu has a slowdown factor of 5 to 10.
With the kernel module the factor is only 2 to 1 ("realtime")
Just to use the occasional MS sql servel enterprise manager stuff, it is pretty good.
yeah, but "who's on first?"
Don't go about raving about paying for a so called "free" OS.
Parent is right, it's free as in speech, not beer.
But,
ubuntu linux ships a cd for Free (as in beer) to anywhere you like.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
It has a nice cardboard sleeve, and contains 2 cd's.
One is a live cd, to test it.
The other is the Install cd.
It furthers explains why ubuntu is free, and what free means.
Ubuntu is my favorite distro for a desktoplinux for "beginners".
I use stock Debian-SARGE myself.
Your prayers have been heard: Heise Database Contest
:-)
The (widely known) german Ct magazine has isued just this contest to its readers.
It uses the "Dell DVD Organizer" wich has "many" database backends.
The software is then (stress)tested with 10 MB and 1GB database sizes.
The contestants are urged to write their own backend, or optimize an existing backend,
or optimize the databse of choise, or do all of the obove
The contest is open until the 13. november 2005 and results will be released some time later.
I know TFA is in german, but I know you can use "the fish".
This works fine if you open a new DB connection for every update.
If you go into connection pooling,
or do other things in your programm between "new DBConnection()" and Update() you might be screwed if the (remote) database suddenly stops accepting your requests, or drops your connection.
Another "good thing"(tm) about exceptions (at least in Java) is that as a toolset or library devolper I can indicate that my method might run into an exception.
This way, every devolper using my methods must handle the exception in his programm.
Unfortunenatly this mostly results in:
log("an error occured while executing update...");
return null;
But at least the programmer is reminded that these things _can_ happen.
Having to use code where _every_ method throws at least 2 exceptions is (ofcource) a major pain in the ass.
As allways there are up and downsides to exception throwing,
but if used correctly it is actualy very usefull.
AFAIK:
no access to all contents of the file does not mean that one person can only view a subset of the records, but only a subset of the information per reccord.
The dutch have allways been quiet complicated about personal data.
Many things are allready kept electronicaly, but even for authorities it is often complicated to get the data.
My sisters works at the national healthcare agency (?), she told me some horror stories about it.
(disclaimer: I'm from I Holland but live in germany now)
another example:
I my passport is my name and birthdate,but not my address.
This is because someone looking into my passport should know who I am, but it is none of his business to know where I live.
(For me this is complicated, becaus in germany, every passport contains the address, so german authorities often give me a hard time because I cannot provide them with my offcial address)
So I think it was intended that people accessing the database can see if I have a criminal reccord, but not my illness,
(exclusive-) or the other way arround.
Maybe you should work a bit on your MetaMod skillz :-)
I've been reading slashdot for about 8 years now,
but the week I started metamoderating was the week I first good modpoints, ever.
I've been moderating once a week ever since.
Then start metamoderating.
:-)
I think the troll mod was unfair too,
but that's why I metamoderate twice a week.
It keeps the system healthy.
Regular metamoderation gets me mod points once a week too
-- atleast once a month raise fingers from the keyboard and stop to think "What am I missing from my daily environment? Are stupid, repetetive or borings things that I do all too frequently?". ..
:-)
Yep, that's what I do all day.
Problem is that I don't get any real work done, but that's another story
Why is black coffee not attractive?
I allways drink my coffee black.
If someone asks me, if I would like milk or sugar in my coffe,
I allways reply: "with coffee, please".
(obgl. Douglas Admas quote, shamelessly ripped)
...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
(MODS: not mine => no voting !)
1:
Nope,
They use a different session (is different cookie), while using your account. Unless they physically access your computer/browser they are different users.
But you are pretty right on the bet on the other points.
Just out of interrest, why would you store the password for a user as (pseudo code follows)
md5(pw);
and not
md5(username + pw);
Salting the the hash with a variable (here: username) helps preventing wide scale probing with rainbow lists in the event the DB gets "stolen".
It's is part of my job to stay informed about IT in general.
If you read Slashdot the "right" way, you can get some very interesting insights and ideas.
You can't imagine what I've seen on slashdot for the first time, which has become productive in the company I work for.
- The linux vserver project http://linux-vserver.org/
- subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/
- svg (see previous story)
- Phpcache http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/
- Ajax (I know it's mainly a buzzword at the moment but my current project already bennefits)
And numerous discusions about security.
See, slashdot is not my main source of information, but it leads to information.
(obg. simpsons quote:)
Leny: "Max Power, that's a great name Homer. Where did you get the idea?"
Homer: "I thought about it when I was blow drying my hair this morning."
(in" Homer to the max" Season:??)
Those who have windows that won't validate should just buy a legal copy of windows.
If they got ripped of by an "off the truck" sale, they only need to send in an receipt to microsoft to get an original copy of windows. Microsoft will go out and sue the guy who coned you out of your money for them (provided he "sold" enough copies)
If they don't want to pay, they should use Linux/BSD or whatever suits their need.
I think it is a good move by microsoft to only let those people upgrade who actually bought their stuff.
Why would they be obligated the give away their software?
Remember that the "Windows Advantage" is not needed to get security related patches.
It does not have anything to do with it being BETA or not.
The whole content of the article can be condensed to:
"Warning, it is posible to write a virus using the Monad shell."
The same can be said about Perl, C, Java on any platform.
If we should stop feeding the trolls in a discussion,
maybe slashdot should stop posting Troll articles.....
That's what my dad allways says:
"A dirty mind is a joy for ever."
I personaly know he is right...
We definetly need an "(+1) correct Simpson quote" modifier.
He, who has no time to invest in a better and more efficient way of working,
is like a man claiming he has no time to eat...
You don't need to reboot.
If you are not sure about cron rereading the timezone:
- read the man page
- ask someone who knows (mailinglist?)
If in doubt, just do a "/etc/init.d/crond restart"
that should do the trick.
No,
a good analogy would be:
If I leave the door to my house open, to let my friends in.
If you were to come into my houe, it would be tresspassing.
It is actually very simple.
Just because something is easily possible, it is not automaticly legal.
You could argue I should/could have locked my door. But you would still be tresspassing.