Sasser.d attacked our University last night and we noticed two particular things.
1) Several groups were relying on SUS in order to get those patched distributed. If you go into SUS, the patches were 'approved' on one screen, not on the other. I wasn't alone in seeing this. Suffice to say, I was also a bit shocked when it started to blow through and none of my machines were protected.
2) When it installs (sasser.d) it writes itself to 'System Volume Information' - allowing it to not get caught by NAI's on demand scanner, and re-infect the box if you don't do a C drive scan manually.
Is there something that I can't do with the music that I have bought from itunes that this will allow me to do?
Nope. Unless my favorite mp3 player gets a firmware update to play mp4s...no....do I need this on a machine other than the three that I play tracks on? No....
Am I going to hop on Kazaa with all the tracks that I've downloaded? No....The heat is still too much on that program.
1) I hope this buries hotmail.com. Sure, it's the anti-monopoly side of me coming out, but it's nice to see a company stick it to MS and out compete them.
2) Who, *really* is going to use 1GB within the first 24 hours of gmail's activation? I think this is part hype and it may actually be a while before some folk start getting close to that limit. In other words, I think they have a little time to scale this depending upon demand.
--pete
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It always happened that when I was doing a search on the web and wanted to switch over to a usenet search that I would mouse up a little too high above the menu bar and hit the google logo, taking me back to the main page. I really like the redesign which eliminates that problem by putting the menu bar up at the top of the screen.
They'll be out of business again in 3 months. People try and compete with apple only to go to the same miserable mistake: militant DRM.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but *if* they were to ever drop their restrictive DRM and go with AAC, or something similar, I would darken their doorstep. Otherwise, I don't care if you offer.wma files for a penny a piece, they're not worth the space on my hard drive.
The only people that will ever succeed in online music stores will be those that offer decent DRM that is fair to both the fan and artist alike.
But I think free software has a bit more of an important lesson to teach employers.
A programmer that codes sendmail, for example, will be a more intelligent, higher skilled programmer who doesn't spend the time with it. Having an employee involved in an open source project teaches them things like how to work well with a vastly distributed team, the inner workings of a large system, and just plain hones their skills more. Yeah, you may not make money on it, but there's an intangible benefit you receive from bettering your skills
I think should be a new html tag that should be added so that when people make comments the text can be a bit dimmer and all relevant factual argument can be removed from within the text that the tag is surrounding
I would agree generally. I think what killed yahoo's dominance of the search engine market a few years ago was the cloudiness of their product. Why damage something so simple and uncluttered as a search engine by offering an e-mail service, language translation, etc. My advice would be to not cloud what it is that you do really, really well - searching.
Google should leverage that freaking huge database that they have and dejanews. None of the other competitors have that comprehensive of a set of data. Don't screw with it by adding useless features.
I'll never underestimate the ability of politicians to come up with bad ideas. What about security for this new mega-network? The potential targets for a new worm could unleash a devistating attack - try adding 100 million people to the list of clueless folk who have a computer for little suzy to do her homework on that never gets updated via windowsupdate.
I hope this doesn't sound too conspiracy-theory oriented, but I find it interesting the amount of pull MS has in our society now. We're talking about a product that, for all purposes, is still a product and yet the verbage that I've seen on it makes it sound like someone just gave out a key national secret.
Granted, we have so much riding on Windows that it being compromised is akin to loosing a national secret, but who is to blame here? If we lean so much on MS's code being secure, why are people storing data on there that could be a probem if the system was hacked?
Actually, I recall a Matt Groening interview where he had said that the only way that they would do a simpsons movie is if the series is coming to an end. He'd mentioned that the movie would, in effect, cap off the story. I hope this isn't the case...I still really enjoy that show.
--pete
One of the beautiful parts about the ipod is that it does one job and does it really well. People don't want to watch a video when they are jogging and a large screen only ends up getting cracked.
A better choice would be to have this thing have a S-video out and/or composite video out where you could plug it into a TV in a motel or at a friends place and watch a movie there; a video screen on the device is a waste of time and only proves that MS doesn't understand the market.
O.k., so the whole 'software sucks because there was no time to get it done right' argument doesn't really work with me. In essecence, aren't you saying that developers make absolutely no mistakes ever, or make poor decisions based on limited experience with the environment in which they are coding? I'm not saying people are like that in general, just that you have to plan for that environment.
For me, it's not an issue of having a dictator complex, but managing complex needs of multiple groups. Case in point? O.k., so you need to run your specialized app on port 8000 (or whatever) right? Lets say we can't do that because it breaks another poject by someone else? It's happened a couple of times for me.
Here's the big two lessons I've learned as an admin. Never say 'No', not to anything. If you have time, prove it won't work. Secondly, always communicate; in fact, overcommunicate. I've found clients are a bit more understanding if you explain *why* you can't do something and not 'just because'. I dunno, flame me if necessary, but for me it's a balance of needs.
A player that, for DRM'd songs, provides them ina reasonably high quality, burnable format. I hope Steve Jobs makes a gazillion dollars and shoves it right down the cakehole of Bill Gates.
O.k. reasonable comment - from what I've seen of the list of songs there are discs that I've just been hestitant to check out that I've been able to download a song or two off of (e.g. Sting's new one...which sucks) to check out. If I like it, I go buy the disc. As they expand the selection, I think their strategies for how rights are distributed will be what will win the day for them. Napster...bah...I'm not a big fan of wma files. Big deal if I have to burn the disc to convert the files to 320Kbps mp3. I'm not an audiophile and the sound still does do well in my stereo.
--Aslan
I don't think she's real for one. "I don't want to hurt the artist's I love" just doesn't sound like something a 12 year old would say. I don't think I had those kind of sentences in my head when I was twelve. Which, if the RIAA is pulling a big media manipulation thing, that puts them even lower on my list...
--Aslan
The problem is that is often doesn't work that way. Many people who I have interacted with who are telemarketers have conversations like this:
[me]Hello? Hello? Hello?
[telemarketer]Hello, Mr. (misprounounces last name gravely wrong)
[me]Hi.
[telemarketer]Hi this is Jim calling on behalf of SBC...
[me]Hi Jim, I'm not interested in any telemarketing calls, can you put on your do-not-call....
*click* the phone is hung up. Or I get a very hal-hearted 'Yeah, whatever'.
And then I get called by the same people an hour later. That is exactly why I put all my phones on the do-not-call list.
--Aslan
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1) Several groups were relying on SUS in order to get those patched distributed. If you go into SUS, the patches were 'approved' on one screen, not on the other. I wasn't alone in seeing this. Suffice to say, I was also a bit shocked when it started to blow through and none of my machines were protected.
2) When it installs (sasser.d) it writes itself to 'System Volume Information' - allowing it to not get caught by NAI's on demand scanner, and re-infect the box if you don't do a C drive scan manually.
--pete
Said by the kid when captured "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling haxors and your dog!"
--pete
Is there something that I can't do with the music that I have bought from itunes that this will allow me to do?
Nope. Unless my favorite mp3 player gets a firmware update to play mp4s...no....do I need this on a machine other than the three that I play tracks on? No....
Am I going to hop on Kazaa with all the tracks that I've downloaded? No....The heat is still too much on that program.
Wow, really *useful* program ya got there dude.
--pete
2) Who, *really* is going to use 1GB within the first 24 hours of gmail's activation? I think this is part hype and it may actually be a while before some folk start getting close to that limit. In other words, I think they have a little time to scale this depending upon demand.
--pete
--pete
Good job google...you continue to rock
--pete
That was *really* amazing. --pete
I hate to sound like a broken record, but *if* they were to ever drop their restrictive DRM and go with AAC, or something similar, I would darken their doorstep. Otherwise, I don't care if you offer .wma files for a penny a piece, they're not worth the space on my hard drive.
The only people that will ever succeed in online music stores will be those that offer decent DRM that is fair to both the fan and artist alike.
Get a clue Smiley yellow happy face guy
--pete
--pete
...was sometime in 1995. This isn't exactly new, given that encyclopedias stopped being useful when search engines were invented... --pete
A programmer that codes sendmail, for example, will be a more intelligent, higher skilled programmer who doesn't spend the time with it. Having an employee involved in an open source project teaches them things like how to work well with a vastly distributed team, the inner workings of a large system, and just plain hones their skills more. Yeah, you may not make money on it, but there's an intangible benefit you receive from bettering your skills
--pete
--pete
And I was half way tempted to bust out my .wav extraction tool and ripz m3z s0/\/\3 3113t grrl r0c|
--Pete
Google should leverage that freaking huge database that they have and dejanews. None of the other competitors have that comprehensive of a set of data. Don't screw with it by adding useless features.
--pete
--pete
Granted, we have so much riding on Windows that it being compromised is akin to loosing a national secret, but who is to blame here? If we lean so much on MS's code being secure, why are people storing data on there that could be a probem if the system was hacked?
--pete
Actually, I recall a Matt Groening interview where he had said that the only way that they would do a simpsons movie is if the series is coming to an end. He'd mentioned that the movie would, in effect, cap off the story. I hope this isn't the case...I still really enjoy that show. --pete
Ironically, If I remember correctly, it was Nine Inch Nail's 'Something I can never have'. --pete
A better choice would be to have this thing have a S-video out and/or composite video out where you could plug it into a TV in a motel or at a friends place and watch a movie there; a video screen on the device is a waste of time and only proves that MS doesn't understand the market.
--Pete
--pete
At what point the RIAA is going to start suing people for downloading this piece of audio... --Aslan
A player that, for DRM'd songs, provides them ina reasonably high quality, burnable format. I hope Steve Jobs makes a gazillion dollars and shoves it right down the cakehole of Bill Gates. O.k. reasonable comment - from what I've seen of the list of songs there are discs that I've just been hestitant to check out that I've been able to download a song or two off of (e.g. Sting's new one...which sucks) to check out. If I like it, I go buy the disc. As they expand the selection, I think their strategies for how rights are distributed will be what will win the day for them. Napster...bah...I'm not a big fan of wma files. Big deal if I have to burn the disc to convert the files to 320Kbps mp3. I'm not an audiophile and the sound still does do well in my stereo. --Aslan
I don't think she's real for one. "I don't want to hurt the artist's I love" just doesn't sound like something a 12 year old would say. I don't think I had those kind of sentences in my head when I was twelve. Which, if the RIAA is pulling a big media manipulation thing, that puts them even lower on my list... --Aslan
The problem is that is often doesn't work that way. Many people who I have interacted with who are telemarketers have conversations like this: [me]Hello? Hello? Hello? [telemarketer]Hello, Mr. (misprounounces last name gravely wrong) [me]Hi. [telemarketer]Hi this is Jim calling on behalf of SBC... [me]Hi Jim, I'm not interested in any telemarketing calls, can you put on your do-not-call.... *click* the phone is hung up. Or I get a very hal-hearted 'Yeah, whatever'. And then I get called by the same people an hour later. That is exactly why I put all my phones on the do-not-call list. --Aslan