Indeed. I haven't purchased any music over the last decade from a group that started durring the last decade. I also haven't downloaded any of that crap, either.
I want strong, classically trained musicians, not talented singers pulled off the street who think the act of writing music is simple experimenting with what "sounds good." You gotta learn the rules before you can break them, otherwise you're the backstreet boys.
My PalmIIIxe was something like 25mhz, but I could overclock it with a software app to 33mhz. My Palm515 I think was already 33mhz.
The 8088 Tandy1000 I had growing up was varriable 8-12mhz (12mhz unless you held down the one of the F keys on boot to slow it down to "Compatibility Mode")
Nobody, not even AOL, does proxies like that anymore. Users have found too many uses for directly connecting to each others computers including: online gaming, remote desktop applications, voice and video chat, file sharing, and spreading viruses.
None of the above would work correctly in your situation. AOL USED to use proxies pretty heavily, but even then it only cached websites and didn't disrupt other connections.
It would have been a better story with a Tandy1000 or some other 8088 based system. 286? 33mhz is way too fast, man... My PalmPilot doesn't even do that, and it's only 4 years old!
The problem with using DHT on a private torrent is that the data in the torrent file you download that identifies who you are (for your account ratio) gets passed to other users. That screws up your ratio because others are downloading with your account info. You can very quickly find yourself below the enforced limit if you don't disable DHT.
This part is wrong. The tracker identifies you based on the IP that is connecting to the tracker. When you enter your Username/password on the website, they log your IP and keep that IP on file until you log in again from another IP.
If you have DHT turned on, the people that aren't logged in and thus aren't connecting to the tracker (they'll see "Connection refused! Track is down") will still be able to get file parts from you and others with DHT turned on. You guys can share completely free from the tracker.
The problem this can cause is that from a private community stand point, you've just allowed people to leech files without having an upload limit enforced. The problem from a user point of view is that if you upload to people through DHT this won't nessicarily count towards your upload that the tracker keeps track of (although, since I'm pretty sure the tracker just asks your client for a number when you disconnect, it actually does...)
You don't have to worry about people using your "account info" (IP Address) unless you installed NAT on your computer and allowed them to access the web through your connection.
Listen, you clueless zealot: FF-extensions are in no way restricted
All I know is that FireFox 1.5 (DeerPark) broke GreaseMonkey and a lot of other extensions because of this XPC wrapper thingy, which as I understand it, securely wraps extensions to seperate them somewhat from each other and the browser preventing them from doing things they shouldn't. Greasemonkey specific information regarding this can be found here.
You can also check that old thread from back when GreaseMonkey had a horrible security flaw allowing access to local files from a malicious userscript and possibly even website. In there somewhere there's a comment that this wouldn't have been possible on FireFox 1.5.
Before 1.5 Firefox extensions were worse than ActiveX in that there were no restrictions at all other than that they couldn't AutoInstall as they often can in IE. However, now the situation is different, as I understand it.
That boot sector virus crap has always given me crap since Win95 onward. The Bios simply can't display its warning when your in Windows. Also, I haven't heard of a new virus that attacks the boot sector since about the same time. As a result, I've left it off since about that time. Why turn on something that can protect against less than 0.1% of the problem but bothers you 3% of the time when a software solution protects against 99% of the problem and doesn't cause any problems?
Doesn't the Win XP firewall by default allow several things such as UPNP, etc....
No. The WinXP SP1 firewall by default blocks UPNP, windows file and printer sharing, and most windows components you woulnd't want recieving connections from the internet. None of the major self-propigating exploits would have been possible if the WinXP firewall was on by default, even in SP1 form.
The SP2 firewall block all incomming services by default, prompting the user to allow them or not. The SP2 firewall does not block outgoing connections as most standalone firewalls do, but we aren't concerned about outgoing connections. We're concerned something might connect to use to infect us, hack us, etc before we can get the windows updates.
If your computer sits behind a NAT based consumer router at home (all consumer routers are nat based) you only have to worry about getting a virus through e-mail, for the most part. You are safe enough to install windows updates right away.
If you connect your Cable/DSL modem directly into the computer then you are at risk without a firewall and the most recent service packs. All of the big exploits occure on machines without SP1 and there are a few for machines without SP2.
If you download Service Pack 2 standalone on a seperate machine before hooking up to your broadband. Then install that on your windows machine.
Once that's done enable a firewall. Turning on the Windows Firewall is good enough for right now if you don't have something else.
From this point, install the rest of the windows updates and update your antivirus definitions. You're basically safe with Service Pack2 and a firewall, but I wouldn't run a windows box without the most recent updates and AV.
Why not have a second IE window open? At the bottom of windows you have the taskbar, you can tab from there.
The taskbar is for applications. When I have 10-15 browser sessions open, very quickly I either can't quickly "tab" to my other open apps, or all of my Internet Explorer windows are lumped together into the same taskbar item (depending on my settings) defeating the purpose entirely.
Also with Firefox I can middle click a link and it opens in a new tab without focus. This means I can do a google search and middle click all of the items that appear relevant without losing my origional google search. I can do this with new windows in IE by right clicking, but this is less convienient and the new windows steals the focus. New tabs also open much quicker than new windows.
I can then run down the tabs and as I encounter sites that really weren't relevent, I can middle click the tab to close it and be done.
Not to mention that I can drag and drop tabs to reorganize them.
There's a big "Document created under the Creative Commons License" at the top of the document (although this could be faked) but then on page 4 there are links to the "Premium Forums" and the more detailed "Lumen-Lab Pro" version of the guide, both of which one has to pay for.
I don't think the second part could be reasonably faked. Unless of course they H4x0r3d lumenlab.com...
It would certainly take care of the.jpg.exe and.gif.exe situations.
I think people will be more likely to become used to knowing that Pictures != Programs than all this weird stuff with the extension.
Not to mention that the OS could be more aware. On Linux if I mark a *.jpg as executable, it still tries to open with The Gimp. If I take a windows binary and append some other extension, it tells me that the extension doesn't match the MIME type.
*.jpg.exe should set off a flag in windows. It wouldn't be hard to blacklist, and it would do a lot of good, stop gap as it may seem.
AIM-bot viruses have been around for YEARS. They used to be way more prolific than in the past. The only innovative thing this does is try to somewhat intelligently replay.
That said, people still have AV. There's still stinger. AOL might even be able to release an update that blocks where it's hooking into the main AIM program (which would, of course, be very stop gap)
I got attacked by this the other day. I was sent a link that said "I uploaded some new picutres you should check out!
I click the link and was presented with something like Photos.com
It didn't even try to mask itself with a double file extension or anything. Nor could I get it to run in WINE, so that's another point of the Linux vs Windows desktop battle;)
I immediately told him he had a virus and talked him through getting rid of it. Now instructions are on his away message. Word of Mouth and AV are what stopped this things in the past, and that's what's going to stop them now.
It started from the Alchemy sources when Sveasoft finally made them available, and then, yes, Brainslayer's been moving towards OpenWRT compatabilitiy. That's one of the project goals, primarily because OpenWRT had that nice set of ipkg repositories. Some packages had problems when using the other kernel, so it was only natural to switch to the OpenWRT one.
It doesn't use the Linksys interface anymore, either. It's now almost entirely free of tables for layout and lets you choose from a number of different interface designs.
DD-WRT is my favorite. OpenWRT is good too, but doesn't come with a GUI interface by default. Both DD-WRT and OpenWRT let you install debian ipk files for software compiled for the WRT. That's how you can get a GUI on OpenWRT...
HyperWRT is also one I've heard of that's supposed to be good. Just do some googling;)
I for one hope they do this. And I hope that companies who don't pay them money join together and launch a slime-ad in order to educate the masses of this shady practice.
I hate to break it to you but that happened quite a while back. Even the minimal install of most major distros these days is bigger than the full install of most distros six years ago. Linux has gotten bloated.
Yeah, but disk space is cheap, and this helps ensure that people have the tools they need since there's less software you can purchase for linux and most windows programs don't run on wine and it's derivatives.
What I like is how much less bloated linux is memory wise. I run all the same stuff as I did before (ftp server, ssh server, vnc, firewall, etc) that I had in the background on windows, but I'm only using ~100MB ram with Gnome loaded and 248Kb of swap space.
Sure beats Windows demand to use almost half my memory and a significant portion of my swap just because they're there.
No, I don't feel bad for either criminals or terrorists.
But I do feel bad for my black friend Mohomed who was born in Chicago but detained for 24 hours because his name was Mohomed and he might be a muslim terrorist!
The problem is that evidence is required to accuse someone of a crime, but hearsy and sometimes NAMES are all that's needed to label someone a terrorist suspect and treat them like a criminal.
..Could this list be used to track possible terrorist suspects? Yes and you can bet it will be.
But if you're not a terrorist (still don't know if they have a big readership on Slashdot) I don't really see the harm in telling the CDC where you're going so... (emphasis mine)
If they're tracking possible terrorists, then we all have something to fear. If they're tracking terrorists, then you only have something to fear if your a terrorist.
Everyone has the potential to be a "possible terrorist suspect." All it takes is an accusation.
That's quite a valid point and rather insightful, but I'm not sure he was upset about a line being drawn. He was upset because NO line was drawn. The quote that started this was "but if I have to pick between freedom and safety I will usually pick safety" which is as good as saying "I draw the line so far over there that you can't even see it."
offended by your inability to read. Reall, I'm offended. As a college student, I'm rather offended at your lack of proofreading. I should expect English processors to catch their own simple spelling mistakes and typos.
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Indeed. I haven't purchased any music over the last decade from a group that started durring the last decade. I also haven't downloaded any of that crap, either.
I want strong, classically trained musicians, not talented singers pulled off the street who think the act of writing music is simple experimenting with what "sounds good." You gotta learn the rules before you can break them, otherwise you're the backstreet boys.
When kids see [snip] cereal boxes we don't expect them to just ask for the product, but to say, "I want it"
They already do this. They're kids.
I guess I'm not sure to what you're referring...
My PalmIIIxe was something like 25mhz, but I could overclock it with a software app to 33mhz. My Palm515 I think was already 33mhz.
The 8088 Tandy1000 I had growing up was varriable 8-12mhz (12mhz unless you held down the one of the F keys on boot to slow it down to "Compatibility Mode")
The 286, I guess checking wikipedia was 4-20mhz
Nobody, not even AOL, does proxies like that anymore. Users have found too many uses for directly connecting to each others computers including:
online gaming, remote desktop applications, voice and video chat, file sharing, and spreading viruses.
None of the above would work correctly in your situation. AOL USED to use proxies pretty heavily, but even then it only cached websites and didn't disrupt other connections.
It would have been a better story with a Tandy1000 or some other 8088 based system. 286? 33mhz is way too fast, man... My PalmPilot doesn't even do that, and it's only 4 years old!
The problem with using DHT on a private torrent is that the data in the torrent file you download that identifies who you are (for your account ratio) gets passed to other users. That screws up your ratio because others are downloading with your account info. You can very quickly find yourself below the enforced limit if you don't disable DHT.
This part is wrong. The tracker identifies you based on the IP that is connecting to the tracker. When you enter your Username/password on the website, they log your IP and keep that IP on file until you log in again from another IP.
If you have DHT turned on, the people that aren't logged in and thus aren't connecting to the tracker (they'll see "Connection refused! Track is down") will still be able to get file parts from you and others with DHT turned on. You guys can share completely free from the tracker.
The problem this can cause is that from a private community stand point, you've just allowed people to leech files without having an upload limit enforced. The problem from a user point of view is that if you upload to people through DHT this won't nessicarily count towards your upload that the tracker keeps track of (although, since I'm pretty sure the tracker just asks your client for a number when you disconnect, it actually does...)
You don't have to worry about people using your "account info" (IP Address) unless you installed NAT on your computer and allowed them to access the web through your connection.
Listen, you clueless zealot: FF-extensions are in no way restricted
All I know is that FireFox 1.5 (DeerPark) broke GreaseMonkey and a lot of other extensions because of this XPC wrapper thingy, which as I understand it, securely wraps extensions to seperate them somewhat from each other and the browser preventing them from doing things they shouldn't. Greasemonkey specific information regarding this can be found here.
You can also check that old thread from back when GreaseMonkey had a horrible security flaw allowing access to local files from a malicious userscript and possibly even website. In there somewhere there's a comment that this wouldn't have been possible on FireFox 1.5.
Before 1.5 Firefox extensions were worse than ActiveX in that there were no restrictions at all other than that they couldn't AutoInstall as they often can in IE. However, now the situation is different, as I understand it.
Protected mode sounds kind of like the security wrappers Firefox Deer Park places around extensions.
Or whenever you edit the partition table.
That boot sector virus crap has always given me crap since Win95 onward. The Bios simply can't display its warning when your in Windows. Also, I haven't heard of a new virus that attacks the boot sector since about the same time. As a result, I've left it off since about that time. Why turn on something that can protect against less than 0.1% of the problem but bothers you 3% of the time when a software solution protects against 99% of the problem and doesn't cause any problems?
uh-uh
Doesn't the Win XP firewall by default allow several things such as UPNP, etc....
No. The WinXP SP1 firewall by default blocks UPNP, windows file and printer sharing, and most windows components you woulnd't want recieving connections from the internet. None of the major self-propigating exploits would have been possible if the WinXP firewall was on by default, even in SP1 form.
The SP2 firewall block all incomming services by default, prompting the user to allow them or not. The SP2 firewall does not block outgoing connections as most standalone firewalls do, but we aren't concerned about outgoing connections. We're concerned something might connect to use to infect us, hack us, etc before we can get the windows updates.
If your computer sits behind a NAT based consumer router at home (all consumer routers are nat based) you only have to worry about getting a virus through e-mail, for the most part. You are safe enough to install windows updates right away.
If you connect your Cable/DSL modem directly into the computer then you are at risk without a firewall and the most recent service packs. All of the big exploits occure on machines without SP1 and there are a few for machines without SP2.
If you download Service Pack 2 standalone on a seperate machine before hooking up to your broadband. Then install that on your windows machine.
Once that's done enable a firewall. Turning on the Windows Firewall is good enough for right now if you don't have something else.
From this point, install the rest of the windows updates and update your antivirus definitions. You're basically safe with Service Pack2 and a firewall, but I wouldn't run a windows box without the most recent updates and AV.
Why not have a second IE window open? At the bottom of windows you have the taskbar, you can tab from there.
The taskbar is for applications. When I have 10-15 browser sessions open, very quickly I either can't quickly "tab" to my other open apps, or all of my Internet Explorer windows are lumped together into the same taskbar item (depending on my settings) defeating the purpose entirely.
Also with Firefox I can middle click a link and it opens in a new tab without focus. This means I can do a google search and middle click all of the items that appear relevant without losing my origional google search. I can do this with new windows in IE by right clicking, but this is less convienient and the new windows steals the focus. New tabs also open much quicker than new windows.
I can then run down the tabs and as I encounter sites that really weren't relevent, I can middle click the tab to close it and be done.
Not to mention that I can drag and drop tabs to reorganize them.
There's a big "Document created under the Creative Commons License" at the top of the document (although this could be faked) but then on page 4 there are links to the "Premium Forums" and the more detailed "Lumen-Lab Pro" version of the guide, both of which one has to pay for.
I don't think the second part could be reasonably faked. Unless of course they H4x0r3d lumenlab.com...
It would certainly take care of the .jpg.exe and .gif.exe situations.
I think people will be more likely to become used to knowing that Pictures != Programs than all this weird stuff with the extension.
Not to mention that the OS could be more aware. On Linux if I mark a *.jpg as executable, it still tries to open with The Gimp. If I take a windows binary and append some other extension, it tells me that the extension doesn't match the MIME type.
*.jpg.exe should set off a flag in windows. It wouldn't be hard to blacklist, and it would do a lot of good, stop gap as it may seem.
AIM-bot viruses have been around for YEARS. They used to be way more prolific than in the past. The only innovative thing this does is try to somewhat intelligently replay.
;)
That said, people still have AV. There's still stinger. AOL might even be able to release an update that blocks where it's hooking into the main AIM program (which would, of course, be very stop gap)
I got attacked by this the other day. I was sent a link that said "I uploaded some new picutres you should check out!
I click the link and was presented with something like Photos.com
It didn't even try to mask itself with a double file extension or anything. Nor could I get it to run in WINE, so that's another point of the Linux vs Windows desktop battle
I immediately told him he had a virus and talked him through getting rid of it. Now instructions are on his away message. Word of Mouth and AV are what stopped this things in the past, and that's what's going to stop them now.
But its impossible to tell *just what revision* you're actually getting until you tear open the packaging.
Model numbers are printed on the box. Linksysinfo and other places have the model number to revision table's on their websites.
Here's the table from the DD-WRT Wiki
I've purchased one of these for myself, and 4 for friends and relatives, and I always make sure I purchase a revision I have compatible firmwares for.
It started from the Alchemy sources when Sveasoft finally made them available, and then, yes, Brainslayer's been moving towards OpenWRT compatabilitiy. That's one of the project goals, primarily because OpenWRT had that nice set of ipkg repositories. Some packages had problems when using the other kernel, so it was only natural to switch to the OpenWRT one.
It doesn't use the Linksys interface anymore, either. It's now almost entirely free of tables for layout and lets you choose from a number of different interface designs.
DD-WRT is my favorite.
;)
OpenWRT is good too, but doesn't come with a GUI interface by default. Both DD-WRT and OpenWRT let you install debian ipk files for software compiled for the WRT. That's how you can get a GUI on OpenWRT...
HyperWRT is also one I've heard of that's supposed to be good. Just do some googling
I for one hope they do this. And I hope that companies who don't pay them money join together and launch a slime-ad in order to educate the masses of this shady practice.
I hate to break it to you but that happened quite a while back. Even the minimal install of most major distros these days is bigger than the full install of most distros six years ago. Linux has gotten bloated.
Yeah, but disk space is cheap, and this helps ensure that people have the tools they need since there's less software you can purchase for linux and most windows programs don't run on wine and it's derivatives.
What I like is how much less bloated linux is memory wise. I run all the same stuff as I did before (ftp server, ssh server, vnc, firewall, etc) that I had in the background on windows, but I'm only using ~100MB ram with Gnome loaded and 248Kb of swap space.
Sure beats Windows demand to use almost half my memory and a significant portion of my swap just because they're there.
No, I don't feel bad for either criminals or terrorists.
But I do feel bad for my black friend Mohomed who was born in Chicago but detained for 24 hours because his name was Mohomed and he might be a muslim terrorist!
The problem is that evidence is required to accuse someone of a crime, but hearsy and sometimes NAMES are all that's needed to label someone a terrorist suspect and treat them like a criminal.
..Could this list be used to track possible terrorist suspects? Yes and you can bet it will be.
... (emphasis mine)
But if you're not a terrorist (still don't know if they have a big readership on Slashdot) I don't really see the harm in telling the CDC where you're going so
If they're tracking possible terrorists, then we all have something to fear. If they're tracking terrorists, then you only have something to fear if your a terrorist.
Everyone has the potential to be a "possible terrorist suspect." All it takes is an accusation.
That's quite a valid point and rather insightful, but I'm not sure he was upset about a line being drawn. He was upset because NO line was drawn. The quote that started this was "but if I have to pick between freedom and safety I will usually pick safety" which is as good as saying "I draw the line so far over there that you can't even see it."
offended by your inability to read. Reall, I'm offended.
;)
As a college student, I'm rather offended at your lack of proofreading. I should expect English processors to catch their own simple spelling mistakes and typos.
As long as we're harping on everyone