I hate to say this, but the RPC bug that opened for the MSBlast worm was most likely imported from OSF itself.
What may be less known is that MSblast, while not being able to infect them, killed the OSF DCE host daemons on Solaris, Windows, Linux, HPUX, Tru64 and probably IRIX as well.
AIX seems to have stayed clear, but IBM has nevertheless released a patch.
Now, it is very rare indeed that you can find anyone outside of the "customer service" ranks (a garage) who has any inkling on what to do if something breaks, or for that matter on what some of the technology under the hood is doing in the first place!
Sure, but that's just because cars today have been stuffed with computers...
Making the OS 64-bit is NOT just the matter of recompiling and making it 64-bit safe. It also will have to handle all those old 32-bit binaries that expect structures with 32-bit data from the kernel, stat(2) comes into mind.
OTOH, geeks like us will immediately throw ourselves into write apps that really have to use files larger that 2^32 bytes, so they will have to write some code, they do...
The P800 kit contains a Duo to MemoryStick adapter, i.e. you can put the Duo stick into any other MemeoryStick reader. You can't do the other way round, though.
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I hate to say this, but the RPC bug that opened for the MSBlast worm was most likely imported from OSF itself. What may be less known is that MSblast, while not being able to infect them, killed the OSF DCE host daemons on Solaris, Windows, Linux, HPUX, Tru64 and probably IRIX as well. AIX seems to have stayed clear, but IBM has nevertheless released a patch.
Except for that fascinating but small group of people who are
clueful but don't know it.
Working with these can be quite rewarding for both sides.
Making the OS 64-bit is NOT just the matter of recompiling and making it 64-bit safe. It also will have to handle all those old 32-bit binaries that expect structures with 32-bit data from the kernel, stat(2) comes into mind.
OTOH, geeks like us will immediately throw ourselves into write apps that really have to use files larger that 2^32 bytes, so they will have to write some code, they do...
The P800 kit contains a Duo to MemoryStick adapter, i.e. you can put the Duo stick into any other MemeoryStick reader. You can't do the other way round, though.