>Given the history of Microsoft's security flawed implementation and design...
>Would you want to trust your private data...
I, for one, do not.
Their flawed workmanship continues right on through today - even with their search "service". For instance, even though they say so on their website, every single day I've seen msnbot grab the robots.txt off my site then crawl the entire site - even though the robots.txt and metadata in the html tells it not to do so. They've now been added to my firewall, since they can't be bothered to even follow the rules they say they follow.
Microsoft not following time honored standards? That's unpossible!
Since my sister lives several hundred miles away, I'm saved from most "family tech support issues". Her computer wasn't running so fast a couple of years back, so she decided to add more ram to it to speed things up. Her husband took it to his "MCSE Certified buddy at work" to get the job done. "MCSE Certified buddy at work" proceeded to drop a screwdriver onto the mobo when it was powered and fried it. He had the nerve to charge them for a new motherboard, but at least the ram got installed. I was visiting a couple of months later when my sister mentioned that she couldn't get any sound when she tried to play a CD. Figuring I knew exactly what the deal was, I peered in through the back to, sure enough, see that "MCSE Certified buddy at work" hadn't reconnected the CD audio cable and it was just dangling there. I then grabbed a screwdriver to open the case to connect the cable. Seems "MCSE Certified buddy at work" lost the case screws, so "MCSE Certified buddy at work" POP-RIVETED THE GOD DAMN CASE SHUT. Another half hour, a drill, and migraine later, she once again had CD audio working.
That it is - I use it myself. However, I often see people searching out cgiirc login pages via google and elsewhere(in my web server logs). Is there some sort of exploit/spoof available for it that's making the rounds? I haven't seen anything on any of the mailing lists, but that doesn'tmean something's not out there.
IRC is definitely a good way to go. I use IRC and a web based client myself, and you don't even _need_ to run your own IRC daemon either. A channel can be set up on any public network, and you can almost always point the web based clients there. Clients/daemons are only a sourceforge/freshmeat search away...
Then check out a site like Linux Journal. They're generally pretty unbiased, as shown by their Fedora at a Glance article as well as many many software reviews... not just distros.
Alternative translation: We just picked up a phat contract from MS contract because they are dumping @stake to get away from all the bad press they received for firing Dan Geer.
According to this article both companies (BMG and SunnComm) said they had known about it before releasing the CD. That's just plain stupid. Would you ship an automobile with a lock on the door that could be defeated with your finger?
I'd like to "innovate" the highway system so that everytime McLaughlin takes a wrong turn or misses an offramp, he ends up at my house and mows my lawn.
Television shows were once about entertainment. TV News once actually had something to do with journalism.
Neither situation is like that any more. Shows and News programs are now nothing more than something to keep your attention between the commercials. That's the true sentiment behind "if it bleeds it leads" mentality. Most of the time even the shows are quite riddled with product placement. My sister sells baskets as a "home business". She promotes them as "Featured on Everyone Loves Rayman" or whatever the hell it's called. Her husband works for "A Large Pharmeceutical Corporation." He was bragging to me the other day about how much they spend getting their products mentioned by name on "News" programs and ER (the hospital show). The amounts were staggering, and quite obscene considering that several families of 4 could be set for several years for what the "Large Pharmeceutical Corporation" pays just to have it's products mention on some crappy emergency room drama.
According to my ISP's antivirus: "file attachment: chmqkxj.exe
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with the Worm.Automat.AHB virus or worm. They have been removed."
I don't really care which it is. I run linux so I'm not susceptible to it, however... A hearty
FUCK YOU BILL GATES!
Thanks for making such a god damn shitty OS that even those who don't run it are effected by the stupid viruses and worms that plague your shitty software.
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>Given the history of Microsoft's security flawed implementation and design...
>Would you want to trust your private data...
I, for one, do not.
Their flawed workmanship continues right on through today - even with their search "service". For instance, even though they say so on their website, every single day I've seen msnbot grab the robots.txt off my site then crawl the entire site - even though the robots.txt and metadata in the html tells it not to do so. They've now been added to my firewall, since they can't be bothered to even follow the rules they say they follow.
Microsoft not following time honored standards? That's unpossible!
True story:
Since my sister lives several hundred miles away, I'm saved from most "family tech support issues". Her computer wasn't running so fast a couple of years back, so she decided to add more ram to it to speed things up. Her husband took it to his "MCSE Certified buddy at work" to get the job done. "MCSE Certified buddy at work" proceeded to drop a screwdriver onto the mobo when it was powered and fried it. He had the nerve to charge them for a new motherboard, but at least the ram got installed.
I was visiting a couple of months later when my sister mentioned that she couldn't get any sound when she tried to play a CD. Figuring I knew exactly what the deal was, I peered in through the back to, sure enough, see that "MCSE Certified buddy at work" hadn't reconnected the CD audio cable and it was just dangling there. I then grabbed a screwdriver to open the case to connect the cable. Seems "MCSE Certified buddy at work" lost the case screws, so "MCSE Certified buddy at work" POP-RIVETED THE GOD DAMN CASE SHUT.
Another half hour, a drill, and migraine later, she once again had CD audio working.
[insert witty 'certs don't mean jack' sig here]
>in which case their actions are little more than "oh well, you caught us - can't blame us for trying!"
heh...sort of like these bastards
All I have is pocket fluff =/
Ditto, I've rebuilt my olf HP Omnibook hinges with duct tape too. [Diety] forbid I ever try to take it through an airport these days though...
>CGIIRC is a great little ap
That it is - I use it myself. However, I often see people searching out cgiirc login pages via google and elsewhere(in my web server logs). Is there some sort of exploit/spoof available for it that's making the rounds? I haven't seen anything on any of the mailing lists, but that doesn'tmean something's not out there.
IRC is definitely a good way to go. I use IRC and a web based client myself, and you don't even _need_ to run your own IRC daemon either. A channel can be set up on any public network, and you can almost always point the web based clients there.
Clients/daemons are only a sourceforge/freshmeat search away...
Guess what? They do.
You can pick up a PII-450 and a 17" monitor for about a hundred bucks plus shipping.
"Full-Disclosure - We believe in it."
Then check out a site like Linux Journal. They're generally pretty unbiased, as shown by their Fedora at a Glance article as well as many many software reviews... not just distros.
At that speed, more than the capacity of my laptop... per second =/
Alternative translation:
We just picked up a phat contract from MS contract because they are dumping @stake to get away from all the bad press they received for firing Dan Geer.
Just about a year ago, CTO Craig Mundie was asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently".
According to this article both companies (BMG and SunnComm) said they had known about it before releasing the CD.
That's just plain stupid.
Would you ship an automobile with a lock on the door that could be defeated with your finger?
I wonder how long it would take to slashdot a server that's serving up a 1x1 gif...
I'd like to "innovate" the highway system so that everytime McLaughlin takes a wrong turn or misses an offramp, he ends up at my house and mows my lawn.
Television shows were once about entertainment. TV News once actually had something to do with journalism.
Neither situation is like that any more. Shows and News programs are now nothing more than something to keep your attention between the commercials. That's the true sentiment behind "if it bleeds it leads" mentality. Most of the time even the shows are quite riddled with product placement.
My sister sells baskets as a "home business". She promotes them as "Featured on Everyone Loves Rayman" or whatever the hell it's called. Her husband works for "A Large Pharmeceutical Corporation." He was bragging to me the other day about how much they spend getting their products mentioned by name on "News" programs and ER (the hospital show). The amounts were staggering, and quite obscene considering that several families of 4 could be set for several years for what the "Large Pharmeceutical Corporation" pays just to have it's products mention on some crappy emergency room drama.
that aren't entirely 'legit'?
That's unpossible!
I'm by no means any sort of MS apologist...but Robertson has made some other rather lofty claims in the past that have never been lived up to...
I don't run bind, but just about everyone has a hosts file...
/etc/hosts |grep verisign
$ cat
216.239.37.99 sitefinder.verisign.com
216.239.37.99 sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
I decided to give google the hits.
According to my ISP's antivirus:
"file attachment: chmqkxj.exe
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with the Worm.Automat.AHB virus or worm. They have been removed."
I don't really care which it is. I run linux so I'm not susceptible to it, however...
A hearty
FUCK YOU BILL GATES!
Thanks for making such a god damn shitty OS that even those who don't run it are effected by the stupid viruses and worms that plague your shitty software.
of those machines seem to ahve sent it to me :(