You are probably thinking of Sendmail 8.12.6.
Someone trojaned the source tarball so that the make process built, installed, and ran a trojan horse. Here's a link to the CERT advisory:
Usually people imagine solar sails as being made of a very VERY thin film,on the order of a few micrometers thick... the point being that there's very little additional mass created by the sails themselves since you need so much surface area to create any appreciable force. Also, the less mass that's used for the sails, the more mass that's available for payload (or just plain not there, which means greater acceleration).
If holding a library card and using their services doesn't make you a patron, then what does? Sounds like you're saying one can only be a patron while inside the building during businiess hours.
A quick Google search shows that most libraries define a patron as 'a person that uses the library'. Not is using, but uses. Under this definition, any use of library services at any time would make me a patron. This includes use of technical services such as online catalogs, book reservation services, or wireless access; and not just now, but at any time in the past.
So it looks to me like the very act of using the library's wireless network would assign to me the credentials necessary to do so.
It's because the magic in the Harry Potter is traditional witches-and-wizards magic. The Narnia series mythology is closely tied into Christianity. Seriously, have you read the later books in the series? It's pretty well beaten over your head by that point. Lewis was also influnced by astrology and Germanic mythology, but that stuff isn't near as offensive to your average middle-american Fundie as hexes and spells are.
For more info about the astrology tie-ins, check out this article. Yeah, it's on Christianity Today, ironically enough.
Re-reading the post now that I've had some coffee, that may be so. However, I think I can still say the same thing - GST is designed to be OS-agnostic. (I think they even use that term in the documentation somewhere.)
However, it seems more likely that the parent poster thought that the existance of GST meant that GTK was suddenly mucking around in his OS internals. I don't think he's aware that Gnome is not GTK... which is an important distinction to make. I can see how he might be confused, since they tend to rev Gnome and GTK at the same time.
It's great that you didn't RTFA, but you obviously haven't read anything about GST either.
As another poster mentioned, the frontends are all Gnome and C, will look the same on all platforms. The C frontend calls into a standard library of Perl functions to do the distro-specific backend bits, the whole idea being that regardless of whose distribution you're using, the config tool will look the exact same and do the same things.
Pontificating is wonderful and all, but when you haven't RTFA and have no clue what you're talking about, what's the point? Just karma whoring I guess...
There's also the fact that if you look at the page source (or image properties), the picture is named 'marvin.jpg'. So I'd say it's a good bet that it's Marvin.
Ahh, so that's how they track how long you looked at the message. As long as you have the message up, your client keeps the socket open, trying to load the image. They send you the image content at a rate just fast enough to keep the client interested. (If I cared, I'd run a TCPDump and get numbers.) When the socket's closed, they think you've stopped looking at the message.
They're probably also relying on quirks in the Windows / IE network code... something about Linux or maybe Mozilla gives up, calls the image done, and closes the socket after 2 minutes, whereas IE will keep trying until the parent frame or message is closed. That would explain why it took me ~2 minutes to load the parent post's link, and why it said that the reviewer only read the message for 2 minutes.
The article says that they licenced the Source engine. Let me break it down for ya.
The Half-Life 2 game engine (graphics, physics, network code, interface, etc) is code-named 'Source'. Therefore, we refer to it as 'The Source Engine'. When you license it, you licence 'The Half-Life 2 Source Engine'.
Not sure where you get the 'source engine engine' from.
Or was the leak just a nice excuse for the clueless managers who wanted
game shipped around the Christmas shopping spree?
Actually, it's a poor attempt to cover up the fact that they're massively behind schedule.
Remember the E3 demo that stunned us all with the dynamic environments and phenomenal AI? Remember how they claimed it was all normal gameplay footage? It was ENTIRELY SCRIPTED. 6 months later when the source leaked, they were not halfway there yet.
Nice how they blamed the last release postponement on the hacker, when it was quite obvious that it just wasn't done yet. Braindead AI, incomplete levels, missing models and textures, the list goes on. I wish they'd just admit that they're running behind schedule.
Hello idiots, the delegation-only option is supposed to be used on a PER ZONE basis. It's not like applying the patch makes it so that no TLD is able to return non-delegation responses. It simply allows you to define certain zones that that the server only accepts delegation results from.
Now in this great wide internet, I suppose it is possible that some asshats found a way to apply it to every zone that they query against - but last time I checked, you were supposed to do this:
zone "com" {type delegation-only;}; zone "net" { type delegation-only;};
So how it's breaking all these other zones is a farking mystery to me.
Looks to me like the post was meant to say "don't set the delegation-only option on these domains", but someone who doesn't understand what's going on took it to mean "THE PATCH BREAKS ALL DNS! THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!"
Calm down people. The patch is still a perfectly fine idea.
Did you even RTFA? It said that the modules provided by IBM were buggy, so they wrote their own. However, the article does *not* say whether or not they have GPLd their custom drivers. That I'd be interested to know.
Wooo I'm bored so I'm gonna reply to the trolling AC.
I wish I was at home eating crackers and watching porn. Instead, I'm sitting here in the cube farm, surfing Fark and/. while telling overpaid consultants that make 8 times what I do how to do their jobs.
This coming from someone who couldn't come up with anything original, so he posted a cliche? Riiiight. Troll on, oh ignorant looser.
Like I said. If you're gonna use a cliche, GET IT RIGHT.
Quit complaining. If you RTFA (a novel concept, I know) you would have seen that this is at a PER-ZONE level.
As in, you say that the root zone is delegation-only and suddenly the A record that Verisign put in there is ignored.
Say it with me again: PER ZONE. There's no reason ANYONE would put this on a normal zone. It ignores all host records, which is good because these things really don't belong in the root anyways.
So don't worry newbie, your nice newbie domain won't be broken by the nice widdle patch. Now go install it.
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Not to nitpick, but any true Lego fan would notice that those bricks are WAY too big to be Lego blocks. They look like Duplo to me.
You are probably thinking of Sendmail 8.12.6.
Someone trojaned the source tarball so that the make process built, installed, and ran a trojan horse. Here's a link to the CERT advisory:
CERT® Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution
Usually people imagine solar sails as being made of a very VERY thin film,on the order of a few micrometers thick... the point being that there's very little additional mass created by the sails themselves since you need so much surface area to create any appreciable force. Also, the less mass that's used for the sails, the more mass that's available for payload (or just plain not there, which means greater acceleration).
Here's a few links (thanks Google and the obligatory Wikipedia):
A geocities-looking site with some usefull info
Planetary Society has some more info
Wikipedia entry
If holding a library card and using their services doesn't make you a patron, then what does? Sounds like you're saying one can only be a patron while inside the building during businiess hours.
A quick Google search shows that most libraries define a patron as 'a person that uses the library'. Not is using, but uses. Under this definition, any use of library services at any time would make me a patron. This includes use of technical services such as online catalogs, book reservation services, or wireless access; and not just now, but at any time in the past.
So it looks to me like the very act of using the library's wireless network would assign to me the credentials necessary to do so.
It's because the magic in the Harry Potter is traditional witches-and-wizards magic. The Narnia series mythology is closely tied into Christianity. Seriously, have you read the later books in the series? It's pretty well beaten over your head by that point. Lewis was also influnced by astrology and Germanic mythology, but that stuff isn't near as offensive to your average middle-american Fundie as hexes and spells are.
For more info about the astrology tie-ins, check out this article. Yeah, it's on Christianity Today, ironically enough.
Re-reading the post now that I've had some coffee, that may be so. However, I think I can still say the same thing - GST is designed to be OS-agnostic. (I think they even use that term in the documentation somewhere.)
However, it seems more likely that the parent poster thought that the existance of GST meant that GTK was suddenly mucking around in his OS internals. I don't think he's aware that Gnome is not GTK... which is an important distinction to make. I can see how he might be confused, since they tend to rev Gnome and GTK at the same time.
It's great that you didn't RTFA, but you obviously haven't read anything about GST either.
As another poster mentioned, the frontends are all Gnome and C, will look the same on all platforms. The C frontend calls into a standard library of Perl functions to do the distro-specific backend bits, the whole idea being that regardless of whose distribution you're using, the config tool will look the exact same and do the same things.
Pontificating is wonderful and all, but when you haven't RTFA and have no clue what you're talking about, what's the point? Just karma whoring I guess...
Ungrounded Lightning later finished his story:
"Now where was I. oh yeah!
The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time..."
There's also the fact that if you look at the page source (or image properties), the picture is named 'marvin.jpg'. So I'd say it's a good bet that it's Marvin.
Ahh, so that's how they track how long you looked at the message. As long as you have the message up, your client keeps the socket open, trying to load the image. They send you the image content at a rate just fast enough to keep the client interested. (If I cared, I'd run a TCPDump and get numbers.) When the socket's closed, they think you've stopped looking at the message.
They're probably also relying on quirks in the Windows / IE network code... something about Linux or maybe Mozilla gives up, calls the image done, and closes the socket after 2 minutes, whereas IE will keep trying until the parent frame or message is closed. That would explain why it took me ~2 minutes to load the parent post's link, and why it said that the reviewer only read the message for 2 minutes.
Looks like he's right on the money.
Given its size, perhaps the the void inside the Grand Canyon?
The article says that they licenced the Source engine. Let me break it down for ya.
The Half-Life 2 game engine (graphics, physics, network code, interface, etc) is code-named 'Source'. Therefore, we refer to it as 'The Source Engine'. When you license it, you licence 'The Half-Life 2 Source Engine'.
Not sure where you get the 'source engine engine' from.
Or was the leak just a nice excuse for the clueless managers who wanted game shipped around the Christmas shopping spree?
Actually, it's a poor attempt to cover up the fact that they're massively behind schedule.
Remember the E3 demo that stunned us all with the dynamic environments and phenomenal AI? Remember how they claimed it was all normal gameplay footage? It was ENTIRELY SCRIPTED. 6 months later when the source leaked, they were not halfway there yet.
Nice how they blamed the last release postponement on the hacker, when it was quite obvious that it just wasn't done yet. Braindead AI, incomplete levels, missing models and textures, the list goes on. I wish they'd just admit that they're running behind schedule.
You sir, are funny.
Yes, it's flaimbait - but it's also true. Somebody throw it another Informative or two.
Hello idiots,
the delegation-only option is supposed to be used on a PER ZONE basis. It's not like applying the patch makes it so that no TLD is able to return non-delegation responses. It simply allows you to define certain zones that that the server only accepts delegation results from.
Now in this great wide internet, I suppose it is possible that some asshats found a way to apply it to every zone that they query against - but last time I checked, you were supposed to do this:
zone "com" {type delegation-only;};
zone "net" { type delegation-only;};
So how it's breaking all these other zones is a farking mystery to me.
Looks to me like the post was meant to say "don't set the delegation-only option on these domains", but someone who doesn't understand what's going on took it to mean "THE PATCH BREAKS ALL DNS! THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!"
Calm down people. The patch is still a perfectly fine idea.
Did you even RTFA? It said that the modules provided by IBM were buggy, so they wrote their own. However, the article does *not* say whether or not they have GPLd their custom drivers. That I'd be interested to know.
Wooo I'm bored so I'm gonna reply to the trolling AC.
/. while telling overpaid consultants that make 8 times what I do how to do their jobs.
I wish I was at home eating crackers and watching porn. Instead, I'm sitting here in the cube farm, surfing Fark and
Oh well, it's a paycheck. TGIF.
There's also MythTV and Freevo.
Both are fairly immature, but moderately stable. MythTV in particular is feature-rich, but most of the features don't behave quite right.
I'd recommend giving them a try, and maybe contributing of any one is interested, but I don't see any OSS replacing the TiVo quite yet.
Apparently we are stupider - it's +5 now. Wish I had some mod points, I'd take it down a peg...
This is right up there with that fucker that rewords the same paragraph and FPs it on every review. Haven't seen that yet this round.
This coming from someone who couldn't come up with anything original, so he posted a cliche? Riiiight. Troll on, oh ignorant looser. Like I said. If you're gonna use a cliche, GET IT RIGHT.
Silicone, eh? Is SCO getting into the breast-enlargement market?
I'm pretty sure you meant SILICON. If you're going to use a cliche, please try to get it right.
Wait wait - so you're telling me that the X-Box live is a portal for FIFTEEN games - and it's ALMOST as popular as ONE PC GAME?
Wow, it must be doing AWESOME. That sure teaches me.
Asshat.
Quit complaining. If you RTFA (a novel concept, I know) you would have seen that this is at a PER-ZONE level.
As in, you say that the root zone is delegation-only and suddenly the A record that Verisign put in there is ignored.
Say it with me again: PER ZONE. There's no reason ANYONE would put this on a normal zone. It ignores all host records, which is good because these things really don't belong in the root anyways.
So don't worry newbie, your nice newbie domain won't be broken by the nice widdle patch. Now go install it.