Agreed; and it's overly simplistic to say "... it is when a program attempts to store more data in an array (buffer) than it was intended to hold, thus overwriting the return address of the function." Just overflowing a buffer may not make any change to a return address - else nearly every off-by-one programming error would be disastrous.
While I'm not claiming that my university is a decade ahead of Duke, the School of Computer Science at The University of Western Australia replaced their Sun- and X-terminal based labs with Linux about 10 years ago. It's been RedHat and now Fedora on lab machines and servers, ever since.
But don't feel bad; it'll be at least 10 years before we give our students iPods.
I also heard that Best-Buy was owned by Microsoft, and that they have undertaken a TCO study of Windows.vs.Linux and that Windows is 84% less expensive, and that they also drown kittens as well.
If he can't see the source, how can he make any determination at all?
Easily; you don't have to have access to source code to make a determination - you can make many external determinations by treating things as a black-box. It's a myth that only open-source code can be secure.
We don't understand the "source-code" of DNA, and yet we make millions of determinations about other people, every day.
... for example, I currently have (and want) only one desktop computer at home, and I use it to share my Linux with my girlfriend's Windows - on the same box. Others may similarly wish to share OSX and Linux - seems an obvious concept to me.
If only my university course didn't enforce non-programmable calculators
or,.... if only your university course took the effort to set assessment questions which would not provide an immediate advantage to those with programmable calculators.
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Can't wait to see this one on Mythbusters!
By their nature, script-kiddies won't bother reading TFA and writing such an exploit. By their nature, they just download and run them.
Agreed; and it's overly simplistic to say "... it is when a program attempts to store more data in an array (buffer) than it was intended to hold, thus overwriting the return address of the function." Just overflowing a buffer may not make any change to a return address - else nearly every off-by-one programming error would be disastrous.
Well, except for all of those pesky preference files in each user's directory.
I agree; Desktop Manager is a great piece of software - free, reliable, and amazingly small.
But don't feel bad; it'll be at least 10 years before we give our students iPods.
well, in the US anyway, but how quickly their population forgets the rest of us....
I also heard that Best-Buy was owned by Microsoft, and that they have undertaken a TCO study of Windows.vs.Linux and that Windows is 84% less expensive, and that they also drown kittens as well.
Well, that's my best information, but if we each choose one day each, someone is bound to be correct.
Impressive how they can so successfully sell something that doesn't exist - a bit like Mac minis I guess.
All generalizations are wrong.
No need to complain about Apple's versioning, given what Linus recently did to Linux....
... and Tax Day is June 30th, you, you, ...., Yank!
... and solve many other problems at the same time, too.
Looks like from California to Maine, to me.
Easily; you don't have to have access to source code to make a determination - you can make many external determinations by treating things as a black-box. It's a myth that only open-source code can be secure.
We don't understand the "source-code" of DNA, and yet we make millions of determinations about other people, every day.
Don't try to project *your* lack of a girlfriend on to others!
... for example, I currently have (and want) only one desktop computer at home, and I use it to share my Linux with my girlfriend's Windows - on the same box. Others may similarly wish to share OSX and Linux - seems an obvious concept to me.
Easy. Because one may have a job developing code that has to tested on a Linux platform.
I don't think that something will supercede browsers for a while, but first we'll see Google superceding the operating sytstem.
That may be a little confusing; why not a Forwards and a Backwards button?
This is news because this is new. That's what news is.
or, .... if only your university course took the effort to set assessment questions which would not provide an immediate advantage to those with programmable calculators.
Chris.
What makes you think that they paid anything like $300?