Free as in GPL or similar licenses provide lowest cost over time. It may cost more now to convert but you can 'stay there' without worry.
Free as in Keygened, serialzed, or plain jane copied software is good for NOW, but prepare when you have to pay the piper. You dont know when the software nazi's are gonna come get you, or when the "Government wants to make an example out of you".
How much would it cost to convert your business from 'Astalavista software model' to 'mostly GPL model'? Factor that in if you use infringing software, and that you may have to pay double/10 times if you're caught.
If anything, I'd develop/use any software I could use freely (as in GPL or similar). Anyways, most common tools have good implementations in the free-software world.
Because ps lists full processor charts of whats running, how much cpu time, and how much mem used up, it requires root access (hence a suid root bit set).
When you run it, it would create a/tmp/.root/ps exec file that woukld then proceed to copy state from the kernel and then be read back into the real PS. This file would only last 1/1000 of a second before rm got it.
Now, how would you hack a system like this to get root? On this specific SUN system,/tmp did not have group sticky on and so it didnt control who overwrote others' files. Turns out if you do a timed attack (of calling ps, moving/tmp/.root/ps to your ~, and then edit it to be a shellscript that calls bash), root was easy to get.
Since this depended on a variable on state, you would run it in a script that called ps about 5000 times, and then BAMN! You have root.
I guess getting root isnt all that dangerous when you have to the attack some 5k times... Now is it?
"Unauthorized access to or use of data" "Unauthorized use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network" "The unauthorized access to a computer system."
Hmmm.. Did you receive WRITTEN PERMISSION to use Slashdot's service?
the military life. I get so annoyed with some of these active duty crybabies and their complaints about low pay.
Let me tell you something, the military is a swank deal and everyone should stop crying wolf over a bogus issue. Let me break it down.
Okay, so starting off, military pay is kind of on the low side. However, its not low considering the great benefits, which render the salary pure gravy. Especially considering, you're getting free paid training. How many companies offer free paid training, with total benefits, to completely unskilled people? Not many. You get free housing, all you have to do is pay for optionals like cable TV and telephone calls. But even that is subsided by the BAH II, which chips in some dough, tax-free, to you, to pay for things, like toilet paper and paper towels. Hell, your initial work clothes are given to you free, everyone else in the real world has to pay out of pocket.
Replacement work clothes, aka BDUs, are paid for too. They give you a nice fat check to use to buy new clothing as you see fit.
These things, and many many others, are sold at a heavily discounted rate.... Wholesale cost plus 5%. You have subsided entertainment options, you pay nothing for health, dental, mental health, or vision care. Your transportation costs are lower because the base has its own intra-base mass transit, and if you own a car, maintenance is a available at a discount rate,
Plus you get 30 days of paid vacation and 12 federal holidays off a year. That's 42 day or 12% of the year off. That's 3xs the average of two weeks a year in the civilian world. The military even provides free travel on Space Available Flights, for, at worse a nominal fee, and there are often on base accommodations for members at discount. In addition to paid vacation time, you also receive unlimited paid sick leave. Plus there is no risk of being fired for using these benefits as very few soldiers are fired during their period of guaranteed employment. How many companies offer their wage slaves guaranteed employment? Again not many. This is because the military does not outsource its jobs overseas, rarely does it cut down on its numbers, and never does it fire anyway for anything less than gross incompetence or criminality. In many cases, criminal conduct is swept under the rung with a slap on the wrist thanks to Article 15s.
As you mature,get older, and serve longer guess what? The deal gets even sweeter. You only have to serve twenty years and guess what? You get a free retirement for life, a giant, never ending 401k you didn't have to pay into. Its free money and you can start receiving, depending on the age of enlistment at 37. The VA begins to provide you with low cost healthcare upon retirement as well. You get the MGIB, which will pay for any college expense you may have left over. This should not be too much of a problem given the military already pays 100% of all college tuition of all people on active duty. If you went to college before enlistment, the military has programs, for student loan repayment. Soldiers who retired or leave after one enlistment get access to numerous other benefits like low cost VA housing lows, job training, and preferential hiring for government jobs, no matter how unqualified or incompetent they are, allowing them to beat out superior applicants.
In addition, over those twenty years of service, you get multiple, guaranteed pay raises. You get more money for marrying and for each dependent you have, meaning the military pays you to fuck and have kids.
So to brake it down: The military deal includes Free College Free Housing Free Health/Mental/Dental/Vision care (often for life) Free Retirement Free Paid Training Paid Vacation Unlimited Paid Sick Leave Guaranteed Raises Job Programs Subsided Shopping/ Transportation/ Entertainment Security Clearance
---The law is a vast, complicated subject, with many non-obvious doctrines.
Why should it be? Shouldnt the law be plainly readable and understandable by the majorit of the people?
There's soo much crud in the legal system in that you SHOULD be able to legitimately claim ignorance of a law if its an uncommon or rarely used law. That and I remember some lady who tried to buy a subscription to Lexis-Nexis (or one of those Law archives) and THEY REFUSED.
Given the set of precedance, some po-dunk hick judge in the hills of 'Kan-tuck-eee' can legislate directly to.. well... The whole state. And from there on, the USA.
I guess Hitler was right. Make enough laws and have everybody criminals so they CANT do anything against you. By the way, you better stay in that "Free Speech Box or the pigs'll come and arrest you.
Real wormhole theory would assume that its a reversible portal connecting multiple points in space. Inconsistancies in SG1 happen to do with EM radiation able to pass through the "wrong way" when matter cant, some weird nullification field, and other such.
Im happy with wormhole theory IF its a size of a proton wormhole with infinite bandwidth to transmit/receive. How much data could you fit in the whole spectrum? Now if each side's view and everything were converted to EM and then sent, would it not work?
---I dunno. With an ACL? I'm not a system administrator, and your question has pretty much absolutely NOTHING to do with my post. Go ask a professional how to do it.
It has all to do with your question..
WHy is YOUR system coming up and autodetecting hardware when you didnt explicitly ask for it? Thats something altogether if it prompts you for updating of hardware list and then proceeds to install the driver.. but YOUR system is auto-doing everything without your permission.
---Funny, last time I used Windows, it was NT4, which also needed to reboot to change the IP address.
MS finally solved that crap in Win2k. And it wasnt "changing IP addresses" but instead was changing a set static address to DHCP or another static address.
DHCP obviously did not make you restart for a new address.
---It's good to see Windows has caught up in this regard. I haven't checked in lately--can a Windows machine join a domain without rebooting like a Linux machine can?
Lol;P Nope;)
---You'd think they could what with AD being a Microsoft invention and all, but you never know.
Even worse is how you cant change a ADS name on the root server and propigate it out. When you change it, all the Windows machines go nucking futs and cant figure what domain server to try. The Linux ones dont care.
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Free as in GPL or similar licenses provide lowest cost over time. It may cost more now to convert but you can 'stay there' without worry.
Free as in Keygened, serialzed, or plain jane copied software is good for NOW, but prepare when you have to pay the piper. You dont know when the software nazi's are gonna come get you, or when the "Government wants to make an example out of you".
How much would it cost to convert your business from 'Astalavista software model' to 'mostly GPL model'? Factor that in if you use infringing software, and that you may have to pay double/10 times if you're caught.
If anything, I'd develop/use any software I could use freely (as in GPL or similar). Anyways, most common tools have good implementations in the free-software world.
How very wrong..
/tmp/.root/ps exec file that woukld then proceed to copy state from the kernel and then be read back into the real PS. This file would only last 1/1000 of a second before rm got it.
/tmp did not have group sticky on and so it didnt control who overwrote others' files. Turns out if you do a timed attack (of calling ps, moving /tmp/.root/ps to your ~, and then edit it to be a shellscript that calls bash), root was easy to get.
A while back (in '92) there was the 'PS' bug.
Because ps lists full processor charts of whats running, how much cpu time, and how much mem used up, it requires root access (hence a suid root bit set).
When you run it, it would create a
Now, how would you hack a system like this to get root? On this specific SUN system,
Since this depended on a variable on state, you would run it in a script that called ps about 5000 times, and then BAMN! You have root.
I guess getting root isnt all that dangerous when you have to the attack some 5k times... Now is it?
"Unauthorized access to or use of data"
"Unauthorized use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network"
"The unauthorized access to a computer system."
Hmmm.. Did you receive WRITTEN PERMISSION to use Slashdot's service?
Sounds like hacking to me.
Or the word 'access' is defined by whomever.
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the military life. I get so annoyed with some of these active duty crybabies and their complaints about low pay.
.... Wholesale cost plus 5%. You have subsided entertainment options, you pay nothing for health, dental, mental health, or vision care. Your transportation costs are lower because the base has its own intra-base mass transit, and if you own a car, maintenance is a available at a discount rate,
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Let me tell you something, the military is a swank deal and everyone should stop crying wolf over a bogus issue. Let me break it down.
Okay, so starting off, military pay is kind of on the low side. However, its not low considering the great benefits, which render the salary pure gravy. Especially considering, you're getting free paid training. How many companies offer free paid training, with total benefits, to completely unskilled people? Not many. You get free housing, all you have to do is pay for optionals like cable TV and telephone calls. But even that is subsided by the BAH II, which chips in some dough, tax-free, to you, to pay for things, like toilet paper and paper towels. Hell, your initial work clothes are given to you free, everyone else in the real world has to pay out of pocket.
Replacement work clothes, aka BDUs, are paid for too. They give you a nice fat check to use to buy new clothing as you see fit.
These things, and many many others, are sold at a heavily discounted rate
Plus you get 30 days of paid vacation and 12 federal holidays off a year. That's 42 day or 12% of the year off. That's 3xs the average of two weeks a year in the civilian world. The military even provides free travel on Space Available Flights, for, at worse a nominal fee, and there are often on base accommodations for members at discount. In addition to paid vacation time, you also receive unlimited paid sick leave. Plus there is no risk of being fired for using these benefits as very few soldiers are fired during their period of guaranteed employment. How many companies offer their wage slaves guaranteed employment? Again not many. This is because the military does not outsource its jobs overseas, rarely does it cut down on its numbers, and never does it fire anyway for anything less than gross incompetence or criminality. In many cases, criminal conduct is swept under the rung with a slap on the wrist thanks to Article 15s.
As you mature,get older, and serve longer guess what? The deal gets even sweeter. You only have to serve twenty years and guess what? You get a free retirement for life, a giant, never ending 401k you didn't have to pay into. Its free money and you can start receiving, depending on the age of enlistment at 37. The VA begins to provide you with low cost healthcare upon retirement as well. You get the MGIB, which will pay for any college expense you may have left over. This should not be too much of a problem given the military already pays 100% of all college tuition of all people on active duty. If you went to college before enlistment, the military has programs, for student loan repayment. Soldiers who retired or leave after one enlistment get access to numerous other benefits like low cost VA housing lows, job training, and preferential hiring for government jobs, no matter how unqualified or incompetent they are, allowing them to beat out superior applicants.
In addition, over those twenty years of service, you get multiple, guaranteed pay raises. You get more money for marrying and for each dependent you have, meaning the military pays you to fuck and have kids.
So to brake it down: The military deal includes
Free College
Free Housing
Free Health/Mental/Dental/Vision care (often for life)
Free Retirement
Free Paid Training
Paid Vacation
Unlimited Paid Sick Leave
Guaranteed Raises
Job Programs
Subsided Shopping/ Transportation/ Entertainment
Security Clearance
(taken from http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/5/23/15739/
And by SSH'ing into a Linux/Unix based machine that has X programs, I can remotely run them as NATIVE programs on MY desktop.
I can run Konqueror on Windows, AirSnort on Windows, and many other Linux-based programs as a program on Windows via remote running and display.
The closest MS can do is RDP, a pitiful attempt for true remote desktops and remote apps. On a huge network, it blurs what exactly YOUR computer is...
Lol! We have about 5 in our house, with removable jacks too ;)
My 12 year old sis WILL not use any sort of membrane keyboard. They suck. A lot.
A spoon.
A spoon beats retinal scans.. COUGH
---The law is a vast, complicated subject, with many non-obvious doctrines.
Why should it be? Shouldnt the law be plainly readable and understandable by the majorit of the people?
There's soo much crud in the legal system in that you SHOULD be able to legitimately claim ignorance of a law if its an uncommon or rarely used law. That and I remember some lady who tried to buy a subscription to Lexis-Nexis (or one of those Law archives) and THEY REFUSED.
Given the set of precedance, some po-dunk hick judge in the hills of 'Kan-tuck-eee' can legislate directly to.. well... The whole state. And from there on, the USA.
I guess Hitler was right. Make enough laws and have everybody criminals so they CANT do anything against you. By the way, you better stay in that "Free Speech Box or the pigs'll come and arrest you.
For one, SG1 is a good show. Thats it.
Real wormhole theory would assume that its a reversible portal connecting multiple points in space. Inconsistancies in SG1 happen to do with EM radiation able to pass through the "wrong way" when matter cant, some weird nullification field, and other such.
Im happy with wormhole theory IF its a size of a proton wormhole with infinite bandwidth to transmit/receive. How much data could you fit in the whole spectrum? Now if each side's view and everything were converted to EM and then sent, would it not work?
Who in the fuck would buy a system with "Banner Ads" built into the damned GUI?
How do you Windows users/developers like being nickel-and-dimed?
Im sorry Bob, you are playing too much World Of Warcraft and cannot pay your electric bills. I cannot run that program.
And the server goes in a puff of smoke and flame when somebody goes to the bathroom!
Ill have your spam! I LOVE IT!
Really, the stuff is pretty darn good.
Just cook it like you would bacon or a hamburger... IT will brown like bacon.
Once you get the outer slab nice and crisp, its damn tasty.
Hence why Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled.
Heh, I like the sound of that idea ;)
Obviously a NanoMeg. ;P
---I dunno. With an ACL? I'm not a system administrator, and your question has pretty much absolutely NOTHING to do with my post. Go ask a professional how to do it.
It has all to do with your question..
WHy is YOUR system coming up and autodetecting hardware when you didnt explicitly ask for it? Thats something altogether if it prompts you for updating of hardware list and then proceeds to install the driver.. but YOUR system is auto-doing everything without your permission.
Somethings wrong in that model.
Ok then, how do you prevent certain users from accessing the sound card?
/dev/dsp and /dev/mixer . How do I do this in Windows?
For example, I create an audio group with full read/write to
How much money did you waste writing that?
---Funny, last time I used Windows, it was NT4, which also needed to reboot to change the IP address.
;P Nope ;)
MS finally solved that crap in Win2k. And it wasnt "changing IP addresses" but instead was changing a set static address to DHCP or another static address.
DHCP obviously did not make you restart for a new address.
---It's good to see Windows has caught up in this regard. I haven't checked in lately--can a Windows machine join a domain without rebooting like a Linux machine can?
Lol
---You'd think they could what with AD being a Microsoft invention and all, but you never know.
Even worse is how you cant change a ADS name on the root server and propigate it out. When you change it, all the Windows machines go nucking futs and cant figure what domain server to try. The Linux ones dont care.
Idiot would do that to this sort of NEW, EXPENSIVE hardware?
Would you overclock a Z-Series IBM server? Would you overclock a 20 4-way xeons in a cluster?
Give it a while. Its not like the MOST OF US will need that speed...
Hell, I use a 1 GHz machine and develop on a 500 MHz machine. Yeah, 500 MHz because many users are still stuck on 300's and 450's.
Forgot the M in BSD.