The colors you see in those lovely space pictures *are* real. No, we do not actually see them.
"huh?"
The colors we see in planets in space... red Mars, blue Neptune... etc all appear because those are the colors they reflect most strongly.
Deeper in space nebulae are the most colorful objects. Some of these are reflection nebulae.. they reflect light from nearby stars, but also scatter it, so they appear bluish.. just like our atmosphere scatters light and comes out blue.
Most visibile nebulae are emission nebulae though. They shine because hot stars inside them excite gases that then emit a red color.
"Ok, but *why* do we not see them??" you ask.
I will tell you!
There are two types of human vision.. "day" and "night" vision.. or the more scientific names... photopic(day) and scotopic(night). Photopic, usually known as just "day" or "color" vision, involves the receptors in the eyes known as cones. Scotopic vision is for low light situations and uses the receptors in the eye known as rods.
For photopic vision to be triggered, you must be looking at a very bright object. (Or looking through a telescope that can make the object appear bright).
You can observe this by looking at the stars: with the naked eye almost all appear white. With binoculars or a telescope though, you can see the lovely blue Rigel, red Betelgeuse, yellow Capella, and more.
So the reason you can see such color in these pictures of space is that cameras, both silver halide and CCD, have significant advantages over our eyes. They can collect light over a period of seconds.. hours.. days even. We meager humans are limited to collecting light over 1/30 of a second though.
I really don't feel much for this guy at all. If you use shitty software these things happen. Go get a real webbrowser like Phoenix, Opera, Netscape, or almost anything else that isn't IE. Grab a real mail client while you're at it. Thunderbird is kinda nice, Eudora isn't bad, TheBAT is ok. There are many more.
Using Outlook and IE makes me wonder if this fellow is one of those who thinks IE "is the internet". Hm.
Personally, I feel that a good bit of this waste and vulnerability is caused by Microsoft.
Uhm.. sure. The latest version of their operating system is stable enough for most things. Around 50% of explorer crashes on XP are due to misconfiguration or user error.
Microsoft could build a bullet-proof OS, solve the virus problem completely, etc. But it chooses not to do that and, at least for now, seems to be largely immune to liability for all of these problems.
So stop using admin logons for everyday things. Most of the problems with spyware, malware, etc will disappear.Would you check your email or do anything else that is not admin work on linux as root? Of course not. When you have administrative priveledges on NT you can do lots of nasty things to your computer without difficulty. This means that any applications you run can do the same, since they are run with your access priveledges.
IIS (or PWS in 9x) is FREE with your windows license. You can install it off the CD. It costs -nothing- and you -don't- have to have the 'server' version of NT to use it.
Note that I'm just trying to correct your wrong perception that you need NT Server to run IIS - I'm not recommending you do it.;-)
If you encounter a machine running IIS you can pretty much guarantee it`s running on an x86 machine running windows, it might, but this is a 1/1000000 chance or something, be running on windows on an alpha, mips or ppc... but this isnt possible for any version above 5.0
Ehm... no.;-)
NT 5 was only released for x86. NT_4_ was released for other architectures, namely the wonderful DEC Alpha, MIPS, and IBM's PowerPC.
Set your inbox to filter all HTML formatted email.. no more spam. Of course this can only work well for personal addresses for correspondence with friends who understand how to configure their mail client. If you want to be able to correspond with lots of people (ie link your addy on your website, on usenet, etc) I don't see an end to receiving spam any time soon.
I kinda sorta agree with a few of your points, but about intrusion detection systems..
They're useless! Any competent hacker knows that there are hundreds (thousands?) of ways to get around being caught by an IDS. Some examples...
If an attack normally goes 'a,b,c', but will work as 'b,c,a', going at it out of order will fool the system.. similarly, you can break attacks up across multiple user accounts, or multiple IP addresses.
Create shell scripts to replace normal commands.. the IDS will not assosciate the scripts with the attack being executed.
Use different commands to accomplish things.. for example, 'echo *' is almost the same as 'ls' in most UNIX shells.
Encode the attack in EBCDIC.. the IDS will miss everything.
Use simple cryptography with sed... - that is, replace 'e' with 'z' and such.
Enable full duplex communication with the target.. the extra characters will confuse the IDS.
Start an outbound session from the target with a modem.. if the IDS is network based it will miss everything.
Create lots of false positives along with the real attack.. finding the actual source of the problem will be human time intensive.
You can also attack the system with the IDS, or send it empty traffic guised as attacks until its disk is full.. no more recording your attack.
... these are just a few of thousands of ways to defeat IDS systems...
"We were unable to compromise or otherwise DoS either of the two NT servers with readily available exploit code for IIS or otherwise on either operating system."
You do know what 'DoS' means, yes? Denial of service, ie sending a bunch of empty network requests to a machine to eat up its bandwidth.
... not sure what that has to do with compromising a machine..:)
I use my iPAQ Pocket PC. With Pocket Nester and Pocket SNES. I have every ROM under the sun - all localized versions too -... what more could you ask for? These are games from back in the day when gameplay mattered. It's also easy to control with iPAQs controls, although 36xx series can only recognize one button press at a time. (Run, OR jump.. to do both you have to use stylus for control, not fun).
There are also lots of games out there made specifically for Pocket PCs, and popular desktop games that have been ported. Hell, I could even be playing SimCity 2000, Tomb Raider, or Ages of Empires if I wanted to.
Now we get to listen to all the little teenie bopper girls out there talk about makeup problems, who the cutest boy in class is, who kissed who behind whose back..
We also get to listen to middle-aged women who do the blog thing bitch. Woo!
What is the big deal here? What makes this "BSD/OS ISE dealy so nifty?
There's always freebsd.org, and I don't see anything happening to them anytime soon.
And before anyone says "*BSD is dying and is teh suX0rs, Linux forever!" I'd just like to say that BSD isn't going anywhere. There is no x86 based server OS that is as stable, as secure, as highly configurable, as fast, and as powerful as FreeBSD.
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The colors you see in those lovely space pictures *are* real. No, we do not actually see them.
"huh?"
The colors we see in planets in space... red Mars, blue Neptune... etc all appear because those are the colors they reflect most strongly.
Deeper in space nebulae are the most colorful objects. Some of these are reflection nebulae.. they reflect light from nearby stars, but also scatter it, so they appear bluish.. just like our atmosphere scatters light and comes out blue.
Most visibile nebulae are emission nebulae though. They shine because hot stars inside them excite gases that then emit a red color.
"Ok, but *why* do we not see them??" you ask.
I will tell you!
There are two types of human vision.. "day" and "night" vision.. or the more scientific names... photopic(day) and scotopic(night). Photopic, usually known as just "day" or "color" vision, involves the receptors in the eyes known as cones. Scotopic vision is for low light situations and uses the receptors in the eye known as rods.
For photopic vision to be triggered, you must be looking at a very bright object. (Or looking through a telescope that can make the object appear bright).
You can observe this by looking at the stars: with the naked eye almost all appear white. With binoculars or a telescope though, you can see the lovely blue Rigel, red Betelgeuse, yellow Capella, and more.
So the reason you can see such color in these pictures of space is that cameras, both silver halide and CCD, have significant advantages over our eyes. They can collect light over a period of seconds.. hours.. days even. We meager humans are limited to collecting light over 1/30 of a second though.
Using Outlook and IE makes me wonder if this fellow is one of those who thinks IE "is the internet". Hm.
Personally, I feel that a good bit of this waste and vulnerability is caused by Microsoft.
Uhm.. sure. The latest version of their operating system is stable enough for most things. Around 50% of explorer crashes on XP are due to misconfiguration or user error.
Microsoft could build a bullet-proof OS, solve the virus problem completely, etc. But it chooses not to do that and, at least for now, seems to be largely immune to liability for all of these problems.
So stop using admin logons for everyday things. Most of the problems with spyware, malware, etc will disappear.Would you check your email or do anything else that is not admin work on linux as root? Of course not. When you have administrative priveledges on NT you can do lots of nasty things to your computer without difficulty. This means that any applications you run can do the same, since they are run with your access priveledges.
yes
http://www.teamspeak.com/ See also buddy phone (google search will find it)
IIS (or PWS in 9x) is FREE with your windows license. You can install it off the CD. It costs -nothing- and you -don't- have to have the 'server' version of NT to use it. Note that I'm just trying to correct your wrong perception that you need NT Server to run IIS - I'm not recommending you do it. ;-)
Ehm... no. ;-)
NT 5 was only released for x86. NT_4_ was released for other architectures, namely the wonderful DEC Alpha, MIPS, and IBM's PowerPC.
The second link took forever to load for me... mirror here if it craps out.
This page requires flash shockwave viewer? Oh please. You can find a much better periodic table, which also doesn't need shockwave, here.
Set your inbox to filter all HTML formatted email.. no more spam. Of course this can only work well for personal addresses for correspondence with friends who understand how to configure their mail client. If you want to be able to correspond with lots of people (ie link your addy on your website, on usenet, etc) I don't see an end to receiving spam any time soon.
They're useless! Any competent hacker knows that there are hundreds (thousands?) of ways to get around being caught by an IDS. Some examples...
If an attack normally goes 'a,b,c', but will work as 'b,c,a', going at it out of order will fool the system.. similarly, you can break attacks up across multiple user accounts, or multiple IP addresses.
Create shell scripts to replace normal commands.. the IDS will not assosciate the scripts with the attack being executed.
Use different commands to accomplish things.. for example, 'echo *' is almost the same as 'ls' in most UNIX shells.
Encode the attack in EBCDIC.. the IDS will miss everything.
Use simple cryptography with sed... - that is, replace 'e' with 'z' and such.
Enable full duplex communication with the target.. the extra characters will confuse the IDS.
Start an outbound session from the target with a modem.. if the IDS is network based it will miss everything.
Create lots of false positives along with the real attack.. finding the actual source of the problem will be human time intensive.
You can also attack the system with the IDS, or send it empty traffic guised as attacks until its disk is full.. no more recording your attack.
You do know what 'DoS' means, yes? Denial of service, ie sending a bunch of empty network requests to a machine to eat up its bandwidth.
If you want to thank me, you could order album from my grandfather's store.. still waiting for first online purchase. :o)
Cheers,
Quintin
Mirror is here. This is medium res one, let me know if you want high res.
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That'll fix their wagon..
There are also lots of games out there made specifically for Pocket PCs, and popular desktop games that have been ported. Hell, I could even be playing SimCity 2000, Tomb Raider, or Ages of Empires if I wanted to.
I've yet to find anything that gives my Quadro4 a real workout.. I'll stick with what I have for now.
There you go. Enjoy.
Someone above said 'don't tell sony'. Sony sells the kit to do this! Anyone who wants to run Linux on their PS2 can easily do so by ordering it.
By the way, it seems from SCOs website that they want to grow our business.
"They want to grow our business?!"
"Quick, DDoS them!"
Letter about the whole recent DDoS is here Open letter to open source community. Hum.
There will always be an audience, as long as we have voyeurs. There's one inside us all.
Before it was only the rich girls. :-P
yea, i kno it stnks when u cant undrstand ppl who talk lik this!!!11! :((
We also get to listen to middle-aged women who do the blog thing bitch. Woo!
There's always freebsd.org, and I don't see anything happening to them anytime soon.
And before anyone says "*BSD is dying and is teh suX0rs, Linux forever!" I'd just like to say that BSD isn't going anywhere. There is no x86 based server OS that is as stable, as secure, as highly configurable, as fast, and as powerful as FreeBSD.