This site has gone to shit today. One Aprils fool joke is ok. But when your whole site is full of crap its a waste of my time even bothering to visit your portal. Whenever I read an article I have to try and first figure out whether it is an april fools joke. This site is a waste of space today...
If your site is not blindly prejudice against Windows I would expect this article to appear on your site some time. Its a buffer overflow. It also says you are crazy to enable Samba on a box attached to the Internet. You are also crazy not to use the IIS lockdown tool that stops Windows buffer overflows. I prefer Windows because I can make amazing software on that OS and I cannot do much more than 'hello word' on a Linux system.
Article:
"Linux firms look to plug Samba hole:
The open-source community is pushing customers to patch their systems to close a hole in a software component that allows Windows programs to store and retrieve files on Linux and Unix
servers."
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,200002 4997,20272953,00.htm
I have tried to implement an SSL client with both OpenSSL and Microsoft security SDK. Have you tried using Microsofts Security SDK? Basically MS has a small footprint (since all components come with Windows) whereas OpenSSL means you install an extra 1 meg with your software. Do you have any reason not to use Microsoft Security SDK?
I wrote one of the first download managers years ago that resumes interupted downloads of FTP and HTTP. From my point of view FTP is a bitch. FTP is a lot slower to actually start the download. You have to use 2 connections. One to send the commands and one to recieve the data. You do not just request the file in one command like HTTP. You must connect, set the current directory, tell the FTP server what mode to use etc., then start receiving the file on the other connection. FTP is a tool for creating new folders, deleting, uploading etc. HTTP is the way to go for downloads.
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This site has gone to shit today. One Aprils fool joke is ok. But when your whole site is full of crap its a waste of my time even bothering to visit your portal. Whenever I read an article I have to try and first figure out whether it is an april fools joke. This site is a waste of space today...
If your site is not blindly prejudice against Windows I would expect this article to appear on your site some time. Its a buffer overflow. It also says you are crazy to enable Samba on a box attached to the Internet. You are also crazy not to use the IIS lockdown tool that stops Windows buffer overflows. I prefer Windows because I can make amazing software on that OS and I cannot do much more than 'hello word' on a Linux system. Article: "Linux firms look to plug Samba hole: The open-source community is pushing customers to patch their systems to close a hole in a software component that allows Windows programs to store and retrieve files on Linux and Unix servers." http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,200002 4997,20272953,00.htm
I have tried to implement an SSL client with both OpenSSL and Microsoft security SDK. Have you tried using Microsofts Security SDK? Basically MS has a small footprint (since all components come with Windows) whereas OpenSSL means you install an extra 1 meg with your software. Do you have any reason not to use Microsoft Security SDK?
I wrote one of the first download managers years ago that resumes interupted downloads of FTP and HTTP. From my point of view FTP is a bitch. FTP is a lot slower to actually start the download. You have to use 2 connections. One to send the commands and one to recieve the data. You do not just request the file in one command like HTTP. You must connect, set the current directory, tell the FTP server what mode to use etc., then start receiving the file on the other connection. FTP is a tool for creating new folders, deleting, uploading etc. HTTP is the way to go for downloads.