Some would say Buuel is the greatest surrealist filmmaker ever...
The story makes no sense. The images make some sense. It was a critique/homage to Federico Garcia Lorca, a gay writer that was part of their group (the surrealists in Europe in the 1930's). Garcia Lorca was an Andalucian, Buuel called him the andalucian dog. He wrote a poem to Dali that was the inspiration for the eye-slashing scene. There is also a critique in that movie, to the writer Juan Ramon Jimenez: the rotten donkey on the piano is a reference to Platero y yo, Jimenez's masterpiece (a story about a donkey and a boy).
Dali himself appears briefly in the movie, he's one of the priests being dragged along with the piano and the rotten donkey. Buuel also appears, he's the man who slashes the girl's eye.
I find it interesting that in spite of the RPC exploits known in windows, there weren't that many attempts to enter Sombria through RPC... Samba was the most common, while port 135 doesn't even figure in the port outbound connection attempts. Or perhaps they left it out because all outbound connection attempts to port 135 were considered to be done by worms?
Could this mean an attacker could disguise itself as a worm with this technique?
But then again, it seems that almost every attack was performed by a script kiddie.
simply because of the enormous number of addresses that can be reached at almost no cost
But the cost for spammers is (fortunately) increasing. We read here about a spammer having a DDoS with snail mail, about spammers getting their names and addresses published, about a spammer who was harrassed until he had to shut down his operation (in New Zealand, nonetheless).
Just last night there was this article posted and the/. effect was worse than usual... My guess is there was a DDoS attack performed with the scripts posted by some/.ers and the bulk club domain was removed from DNS servers (although you can still reach the site with the IP address).
So now a lot of people have names and addresses of many spammers, a spam support group site is under attack, perhaps some of these spammers can expect some harrassment over the next days... I hope they learn the lesson.
I just received news that thebulkclub.com has been erased from DNS records so for the script to work it needs to have the IP address (this still works):
while:; do curl -o/dev/null http://64.78.42.11/benefits.asp; done
I guess this means they're trying to avoid a DDoS, but they'll have to move to another ISP if everybody bombs them using their IP.
Yes, but as the article says, there are many features that Eclipse doesn't have out-of-the-box. A default GUI Builder would be something very good to have without having to install a plugin. The problem is usually with the issue of having the GUI with SWT, swing, AWT, etc, although SWT seems to be the way to go.
I wouldn't be so sure about #develop being the official Mono IDE because it was only fairly recently that it became Mono-compatible (and I'm not even sure if it's already mono-compatible).
And about Eclipse being ported to mono, it's on the mono homepage, it was ported on May 10th, there's even a screenshot.
I'm not aware of the details, but they probably ported the whole SWT to Mono using their java compiler and then they could build the whole thing.
This is very good news for Eclipse itself and for Eclipse users as well... Eclipse is way ahead of NetBeans, some would say even ahead of any other Java IDE... it has been ported to Mono (although I don't know if the Mono developers are using it to develop or if it was just a test), there are Eclipse plugins so you can use it with.NET, WebObjects, etc.
Perhaps this means Eclipse will get a GUI builder soon?
The cryptography classes on.NET suck. The only managed implementation there is Rijndael. The rest (RSA, MD5, SHA-1, etc) are just wrappers that call the Win CryptoAPI, which as we all know, sucks big time.
.NET doesn't even have a BigInteger class, with which to make a managed implementation of the RSA algorithm, for example, so that no "high encryption pack" is needed on non-US versions of Windows.
DotGNU is trying to implement System.Windows.Forms using only X instead of Wine or GTK#. This should result in greater portability. So they're writing all the gadgets from scratch, in C#. It's slower than using Wine but right now I can build PNET completely on OSX, and I can't still get Mono to work on OSX and even if I did it would only be for command-line and ASP stuff, no GUI available because I can't use Wine on OSX.
So you admire DCOM and that's why you recomment a book about.NET which brings a new way of doing things to get away from the mess that is DCOM? now it looks a lot more like J2EE...
I am afraid I did not keep up on that issue. Either way I think it's inevitable that they will switch to OSS. If not this year then next or the one after that. It would have been better if it was sooner but what the hell rome wasn't built in a day
Actually this OSS stuff happened a year or two ago. But I truly hope that what you say comes true (about the inevitable switch to OSS).
BTW Brazil has a population of 144 million people, Mexico is reaching 100 million. Unfortunately it's not just a question of raw numbers. We would have to consider how many people have a higher education in Mexico and in Brazil, that would be more useful, but anyway I hope this gives people in Brazil a chance to come out and make something important for the OSS community and for their country.
Actually I don't think Miguel had anything to do with this. I'm not attacking him, in fact I admire him. I was just making sure you were talking about that Miguel (since he's mexican and the article is about Brazil, I don't know if there is some Miguel in Brazil who's linked to OSS)
As for "the linux guys" screwing it up, I'm talking about the people who know and use linux in Mexico. They were very excited about the government wanting to use linux, but the ones who approached the government got greedy and wanted to charge a lot for their services, besides they kinda wanted to run the place. Not all of them, mind you, probably just a few, unfortunately the ones with connections inside the government. They thought it was more important to get a lot of money as soon as possible than making a slow transition to OSS in the most important city in the country, which would have surely had repercussions in the rest of the states.
So no bribes were necessary; after seeing the cost of hiring people for all the maintenance and development they would need, they decided to stick with MS...
Good for them!!! I just hope they don't screw it up like we did in Mexico City. The government had a plan to switch to Linux and then backed out because all the linux people here got too greedy and wanted to get hired for support, development, etc with very high salaries. Then MS comes with the well-known cheap software upgrades offer, and the government sticked with MS. They didn't see the long-term benefit of OSS. But the sad part was that the linux people didn't see them long-term benefit, either. They just wanted to get rich right away.
I guess you're talking about Miguel de Icaza...
Mexico City's government had a plan to switch to Linux and free software, but unfortunately the people with inside connections got too greedy and wanted to hire many linux programmers with very high salaries, in the end the government decided it was too expensive and continued to use MS software. Neither the government nor the linux people saw the long-term benefits, it was sad to see how the linux guys screwed it up.
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Some would say Buuel is the greatest surrealist filmmaker ever...
The story makes no sense. The images make some sense. It was a critique/homage to Federico Garcia Lorca, a gay writer that was part of their group (the surrealists in Europe in the 1930's). Garcia Lorca was an Andalucian, Buuel called him the andalucian dog. He wrote a poem to Dali that was the inspiration for the eye-slashing scene. There is also a critique in that movie, to the writer Juan Ramon Jimenez: the rotten donkey on the piano is a reference to Platero y yo, Jimenez's masterpiece (a story about a donkey and a boy).
Dali himself appears briefly in the movie, he's one of the priests being dragged along with the piano and the rotten donkey. Buuel also appears, he's the man who slashes the girl's eye.
I find it interesting that in spite of the RPC exploits known in windows, there weren't that many attempts to enter Sombria through RPC... Samba was the most common, while port 135 doesn't even figure in the port outbound connection attempts. Or perhaps they left it out because all outbound connection attempts to port 135 were considered to be done by worms?
Could this mean an attacker could disguise itself as a worm with this technique?
But then again, it seems that almost every attack was performed by a script kiddie.
Does this mean I have to remove all the blank lines from all my code to avoid being sued by SCO?
They removed the DNS entry but the site is still available if you use the IP:
ab -c 60 -n 50000 http://64.78.42.11/benefits.aspBut the cost for spammers is (fortunately) increasing. We read here about a spammer having a DDoS with snail mail, about spammers getting their names and addresses published, about a spammer who was harrassed until he had to shut down his operation (in New Zealand, nonetheless).
Just last night there was this article posted and the /. effect was worse than usual... My guess is there was a DDoS attack performed with the scripts posted by some /.ers and the bulk club domain was removed from DNS servers (although you can still reach the site with the IP address).
So now a lot of people have names and addresses of many spammers, a spam support group site is under attack, perhaps some of these spammers can expect some harrassment over the next days... I hope they learn the lesson.
I just received news that thebulkclub.com has been erased from DNS records so for the script to work it needs to have the IP address (this still works):
:; do curl -o /dev/null http://64.78.42.11/benefits.asp; done
while
I guess this means they're trying to avoid a DDoS, but they'll have to move to another ISP if everybody bombs them using their IP.
This Drew guy will receive at least 15 catalogos within two weeks...
As for the wget/curl script, I keep getting Couldn't resolve host 'www.thebulkclub.com' so I guess I'm not the only one running it...
This has been a good day.
Yes, but as the article says, there are many features that Eclipse doesn't have out-of-the-box. A default GUI Builder would be something very good to have without having to install a plugin. The problem is usually with the issue of having the GUI with SWT, swing, AWT, etc, although SWT seems to be the way to go.
I wouldn't be so sure about #develop being the official Mono IDE because it was only fairly recently that it became Mono-compatible (and I'm not even sure if it's already mono-compatible).
And about Eclipse being ported to mono, it's on the mono homepage, it was ported on May 10th, there's even a screenshot.
I'm not aware of the details, but they probably ported the whole SWT to Mono using their java compiler and then they could build the whole thing.
This is very good news for Eclipse itself and for Eclipse users as well... Eclipse is way ahead of NetBeans, some would say even ahead of any other Java IDE... it has been ported to Mono (although I don't know if the Mono developers are using it to develop or if it was just a test), there are Eclipse plugins so you can use it with .NET, WebObjects, etc.
Perhaps this means Eclipse will get a GUI builder soon?
I swear I read "mandrake prostitute", and I thought this was the daily SCO story.
Although, the "world of possibilities" wouldn't have made much sense...
The cryptography classes on .NET suck. The only managed implementation there is Rijndael. The rest (RSA, MD5, SHA-1, etc) are just wrappers that call the Win CryptoAPI, which as we all know, sucks big time.
.NET doesn't even have a BigInteger class, with which to make a managed implementation of the RSA algorithm, for example, so that no "high encryption pack" is needed on non-US versions of Windows.
I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. It must look exactly like rush hour.
Supposedly it's not reverse engineering; they're implementing everything according to the ECMA spec.
DotGNU is trying to implement System.Windows.Forms using only X instead of Wine or GTK#. This should result in greater portability. So they're writing all the gadgets from scratch, in C#. It's slower than using Wine but right now I can build PNET completely on OSX, and I can't still get Mono to work on OSX and even if I did it would only be for command-line and ASP stuff, no GUI available because I can't use Wine on OSX.
So what are the ID's for Life and The Universe?
So you admire DCOM and that's why you recomment a book about .NET which brings a new way of doing things to get away from the mess that is DCOM? now it looks a lot more like J2EE...
Let's hope this time it's not being controlled by... Newman!!! (any Seinfeld fan will know what I mean)
so, um, is anyone going to welcome our new mechasaur overlords?
I am afraid I did not keep up on that issue. Either way I think it's inevitable that they will switch to OSS. If not this year then next or the one after that. It would have been better if it was sooner but what the hell rome wasn't built in a day
Actually this OSS stuff happened a year or two ago. But I truly hope that what you say comes true (about the inevitable switch to OSS).
BTW Brazil has a population of 144 million people, Mexico is reaching 100 million. Unfortunately it's not just a question of raw numbers. We would have to consider how many people have a higher education in Mexico and in Brazil, that would be more useful, but anyway I hope this gives people in Brazil a chance to come out and make something important for the OSS community and for their country.
Actually I don't think Miguel had anything to do with this. I'm not attacking him, in fact I admire him. I was just making sure you were talking about that Miguel (since he's mexican and the article is about Brazil, I don't know if there is some Miguel in Brazil who's linked to OSS)
As for "the linux guys" screwing it up, I'm talking about the people who know and use linux in Mexico. They were very excited about the government wanting to use linux, but the ones who approached the government got greedy and wanted to charge a lot for their services, besides they kinda wanted to run the place. Not all of them, mind you, probably just a few, unfortunately the ones with connections inside the government. They thought it was more important to get a lot of money as soon as possible than making a slow transition to OSS in the most important city in the country, which would have surely had repercussions in the rest of the states.
So no bribes were necessary; after seeing the cost of hiring people for all the maintenance and development they would need, they decided to stick with MS...
Good for them!!! I just hope they don't screw it up like we did in Mexico City. The government had a plan to switch to Linux and then backed out because all the linux people here got too greedy and wanted to get hired for support, development, etc with very high salaries. Then MS comes with the well-known cheap software upgrades offer, and the government sticked with MS. They didn't see the long-term benefit of OSS. But the sad part was that the linux people didn't see them long-term benefit, either. They just wanted to get rich right away.
I guess you're talking about Miguel de Icaza... Mexico City's government had a plan to switch to Linux and free software, but unfortunately the people with inside connections got too greedy and wanted to hire many linux programmers with very high salaries, in the end the government decided it was too expensive and continued to use MS software. Neither the government nor the linux people saw the long-term benefits, it was sad to see how the linux guys screwed it up.
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