Java is the language taught to all these part-time it / project manager types of people. Its the only thing they know. This is why java has become a synonym for "Oh,OH, danger! Amateurs at work."
ATC Systems are highly political, i therefore doubt that the choice of language was up to the programmer. The project was probably cash-strapped, over budget, late etc. Now people are trying to force it down users throats.
In the forum you see a lot of discontent users, that reads to me like a classic project fail along the lines of: Boss:"We need to go digitial!" As to the how was never properly analyzed. And now people are stuck with a sub-standard system.
Its alarming to see this in the aviation industry. Its actually one of the more sane fields of it-work.
You should use LLDP a protocol for discovering what iface is connected to what port on the switch. There is an lldpd available for pretty much all distros.
Just fork the whole thing. Build a new org and run it from there.
1. The world needs more whistle blower sites. Redundancy is key.
2. The service is too valuable to fail because of any number of persons.
just my 2 cents.
Comerical usage will still be subject to royalities. This is basically to get the people hooked on h264 so that streaming sites in the future need to pay roaylities. This is a common problem with "defacto" standards.
I can hear every mouse movement & hard disk access as interference on my audio-card as long as the volume is up quite a bit. It annoys me greatly, especially because its not a cheap mainboard. However i would not say that it is caused by bad "less shielded" whatever data cables. Power distribution on the main-board seems more likely a cause.
It factors in the subsidies for solar energy. Compares an absolute discount price of solar to the average of nuclear power, ignores the fact that nuclear energy is a constant supplier etc.
Is that they have a very clear idea of what their users do with their products. Not because they leave it up to their users to decide, but because they tell them.
Here is your powerbook.. with it you can videochat and edit your holiday photos.
I'm a glider pilot (engines are for wimps. physics rules.)
but i have come to understand what problems private plane owners have to face.
One is cost. Flying from A to B in your own plane is incredibly expensive. You usually pay higher landing fees, parking/storage fees, even fuel prices at an airport other than your own. Not yet counting cost of getting to and from the airport to your final destination.
Gliders always have had the distinct advantage that they are meant to be taken apart and loaded onto a trailer. Many glider pilots I know keep their plane at home, and set it up at the airport. The only disadvantage is when you outland, then someone will have to hook up your trailer and come to get you. This is where the team sport comes into play.
I sort of never understood why the concept of taking the plane apart and putting it on a trailer on a daily basis hasn't carried over to non glider types. Size isn't really an argument since some of these gliders have wingspans of 25 meters. Multi-seat capability and engines too.
First they almost abolish the 12" market.. and then suddenly begin to sell 9" and 10" notebooks.
The price may be attractive, and the portability may seem intriguing at first.. but have you actually tried to _use_ one of these netbooks?
The keyboards:
1. Usually Suck ergonomically
2. Are too small
The Screens:
1. Are low res 800x600 (try to run evolution on that)
2. tiny
About Large Notebooks: I don't know about you, but I have been shaking my head at people buying notebooks 15" and greater. These things are huge, not portable. few of them are actually built to be carried around. And if you do they break.
I unpack my notebook (shrinkpad x60t) everywhere. On the 5 minute tram or train ride.. bus stop, heck even while walking. (Tablet.) You simply don't do that with something that ways more than 2 kilos and is larger than a a4 paper.
The advisory is rather bleak at the moment, so following is pure speculation:
Past exploits in software firewalls where issues in the packet inspection engine. The engine packs itself infront of the tcpip stack of windows and inspects _every_ packet that goes in or out, regardless of wheter it connects to some port or not. This is done in order to log the packet and to reassure the user with annoying popups that his investment was worth his money.
Back to antivirus: This thing also scans email. It does this by scanning the traffic on pop3 and imap ports. My suspicion is that it does this regardless of the connection state. E.g. if you send packets from port 110 to the target machine it probably inspects them, even if the target machine isn't currently downloading any email. Again: this is speculation on my part.
To answer the parent's questions:
If the above is the case:
- Do I have to browse to a malicious website? Probably not.
- Do I have to download an infected file for it to scan? It's possible that the worm also works when an email is scanned. So if you recieve an email that has such a virus attached your machine would be also infected even if you'd use a hardware firewall.
- Does it somehow come in on Live Update? Unlikley. You'd have to do a man in the middle attack for that. E.g. capture the users dns traffic or route his traffic through the mitm. Both rather unlikley in an Internet scenario unless you have a _really_ lousy provider.
- What if I have a firewall? In a connection-state tracking software firewall it would matter in what comes first: the antivirus or the firewall. A hardware firewall would protect you better as it comes first in any case, but it wouldn't protect you from an exploit that travels from your e-mail account to your machine.
IMO symantec products all suffer from bloat:
- Way too many features, no average user can comprehend. (and i have a suspicion that the devlopers don't either.)
- The install base from the complete package is probably above 100MB. I think a firewall and antivirus should be doable in a fraction of that. (excluding signature files)
- They slow the systems they are installed to to a crawl.
- I get 5+ support calls a day that deal with broken symantec products. (e-mail and internet related.)
Please use FreeAVG, AntiVir or learn how to use ClamAV!
Better yet: install FOSS software like i have done years ago, and get rid of _all_ these problems in an instant.
server: hello blah client: ehlo someplaceonthenet.com server: ok client: mail from: somefaked@nowhere.org server: sender ok client: rcpt to: somedestination@thisdomain.com server: ok client: data (terminate with.) First line is subject.
buy makemoneyfast etc.. . # Now server recognices spam message and pipes it straight back. First line is subject.
buy makemoneyfast etc...
# And at last the expected server: ok client: quit ----
While 95% of all spam comes from compromised hosts, this might increase bandwidth usage on some of the more prominent spam holes, located in some far away places.
On the other hand I cannot understand why people have a spam problem in the first place. I use rbls I use spam assassin and razor. I may have about 2 spam emails a week and the legit traffic is around 2000 emails per week.
Ok there might be about 5 a day in the spam folder. But that stuff is simply discarded.
For the people i exchange regulary emails with i simply use gpg signatures, and that is about the best line of defence against spam.
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This plane has been revised this year: http://www.pipistrel.si/plane/taurus-electro/overviewTaurus Electro Comes with a trailer with battery storage and solar pannels on the roof.
Freedom, also means having the right to commit a "crime" and maybe even a chance to get away with it.
Java is the language taught to all these part-time it / project manager types of people. Its the only thing they know. This is why java has become a synonym for "Oh,OH, danger! Amateurs at work."
ATC Systems are highly political, i therefore doubt that the choice of language was up to the programmer. The project was probably cash-strapped, over budget, late etc. Now people are trying to force it down users throats.
In the forum you see a lot of discontent users, that reads to me like a classic project fail along the lines of: Boss:"We need to go digitial!" As to the how was never properly analyzed. And now people are stuck with a sub-standard system.
Its alarming to see this in the aviation industry. Its actually one of the more sane fields of it-work.
And there i thought: finally some good use for that memory hog.
You should use LLDP a protocol for discovering what iface is connected to what port on the switch. There is an lldpd available for pretty much all distros.
Just fork the whole thing. Build a new org and run it from there. 1. The world needs more whistle blower sites. Redundancy is key. 2. The service is too valuable to fail because of any number of persons. just my 2 cents.
Comerical usage will still be subject to royalities. This is basically to get the people hooked on h264 so that streaming sites in the future need to pay roaylities. This is a common problem with "defacto" standards.
I wouldn't put this off so easily...
I can hear every mouse movement & hard disk access as interference on my audio-card as long as the volume is up quite a bit. It annoys me greatly, especially because its not a cheap mainboard. However i would not say that it is caused by bad "less shielded" whatever data cables. Power distribution on the main-board seems more likely a cause.
- Folken
Take competitors product copy it and implement "new" features.
It factors in the subsidies for solar energy. Compares an absolute discount price of solar to the average of nuclear power, ignores the fact that nuclear energy is a constant supplier etc.
In short: sensational and bogus.
I think the rebuke mentioned earlier should be read as well: http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2010/07/gullible-reporting-by-new-york-times-on.html
Is that they have a very clear idea of what their users do with their products. Not because they leave it up to their users to decide, but because they tell them.
Here is your powerbook.. with it you can videochat and edit your holiday photos.
They are doing the same with the ipad: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/
They take the application and then very much optimize the hell out of the application until it fits perfectly to the device its running on.
Other manufactures just build a tablet. And this is why this product will be a success.
Please not i'm not an apple fanboi. I don't even own any of their products.
It meets the specs of the netbooks (although on the low side.) The price was a little heavy, but then again it might have worked.
and the thoughts that went into it.
I find the design pretty daring and radical. But still, without knowing anything about art or design, I can tell that a lot of thought went into it.
That it's done with free software is ++, and just goes to show how effective it can be, when put into capable hands.
congratulations.
I'm a glider pilot (engines are for wimps. physics rules.)
but i have come to understand what problems private plane owners have to face.
One is cost. Flying from A to B in your own plane is incredibly expensive. You usually pay higher landing fees, parking/storage fees, even fuel prices at an airport other than your own. Not yet counting cost of getting to and from the airport to your final destination.
Gliders always have had the distinct advantage that they are meant to be taken apart and loaded onto a trailer. Many glider pilots I know keep their plane at home, and set it up at the airport.
The only disadvantage is when you outland, then someone will have to hook up your trailer and come to get you. This is where the team sport comes into play.
I sort of never understood why the concept of taking the plane apart and putting it on a trailer on a daily basis hasn't carried over to non glider types. Size isn't really an argument since some of these gliders have wingspans of 25 meters. Multi-seat capability and engines too.
First they almost abolish the 12" market.. and then suddenly begin to sell 9" and 10" notebooks.
The price may be attractive, and the portability may seem intriguing at first.. but have you actually tried to _use_ one of these netbooks?
The keyboards:
1. Usually Suck ergonomically
2. Are too small
The Screens:
1. Are low res 800x600 (try to run evolution on that)
2. tiny
About Large Notebooks:
I don't know about you, but I have been shaking my head at people buying notebooks 15" and greater. These things are huge, not portable. few of them are actually built to be carried around. And if you do they break.
I unpack my notebook (shrinkpad x60t) everywhere. On the 5 minute tram or train ride.. bus stop, heck even while walking. (Tablet.)
You simply don't do that with something that ways more than 2 kilos and is larger than a a4 paper.
The advisory is rather bleak at the moment, so following is pure speculation:
Past exploits in software firewalls where issues in the packet inspection engine. The engine packs itself infront of the tcpip stack of windows and inspects _every_ packet that goes in or out, regardless of wheter it connects to some port or not. This is done in order to log the packet and to reassure the user with annoying popups that his investment was worth his money.
Back to antivirus: This thing also scans email. It does this by scanning the traffic on pop3 and imap ports. My suspicion is that it does this regardless of the connection state. E.g. if you send packets from port 110 to the target machine it probably inspects them, even if the target machine isn't currently downloading any email. Again: this is speculation on my part.
To answer the parent's questions:
If the above is the case:
- Do I have to browse to a malicious website?
Probably not.
- Do I have to download an infected file for it to scan?
It's possible that the worm also works when an email is scanned. So if you recieve an email that has such a virus attached your machine would be also infected even if you'd use a hardware firewall.
- Does it somehow come in on Live Update?
Unlikley. You'd have to do a man in the middle attack for that. E.g. capture the users dns traffic or route his traffic through the mitm. Both rather unlikley in an Internet scenario unless you have a _really_ lousy provider.
- What if I have a firewall?
In a connection-state tracking software firewall it would matter in what comes first: the antivirus or the firewall. A hardware firewall would protect you better as it comes first in any case, but it wouldn't protect you from an exploit that travels from your e-mail account to your machine.
IMO symantec products all suffer from bloat:
- Way too many features, no average user can comprehend. (and i have a suspicion that the devlopers don't either.)
- The install base from the complete package is probably above 100MB. I think a firewall and
antivirus should be doable in a fraction of that. (excluding signature files)
- They slow the systems they are installed to to a crawl.
- I get 5+ support calls a day that deal with broken symantec products. (e-mail and internet related.)
Please use FreeAVG, AntiVir or learn how to use ClamAV!
Better yet: install FOSS software like i have done years ago, and get rid of _all_ these problems in an instant.
A: Obviously mms since its a picture.
l e-ticket/mobile-ticket-testbillett.htm
l e-ticket.htm
s
B: It looks a bit like the white ants on a (analog) tv screen, when its not tuned to a channel. Its a bitfield with crypto/checksum.
The system is in use at the swiss federal railyway.
you will find a sample image here on this page:
http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/en/reisemarkt/billette/mobi
you can also buy your ticket online and print it. This looks then a little more elaborate:
https://www.sbb.ch/mct/wi/shop/testticket_en.pdf
Some background info:
http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/en/reisemarkt/billette/mobi
I find this quite a well thought-thru system. Personally I don't use it as I have a railpass, but even that one can be printed online.
Wikipedia also has some reference to these "QR-Codes" and abuses them for real-world hyperlinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_internet_of_thing
lets have a look at a the smtp talk:
.)
server: hello blah
client: ehlo someplaceonthenet.com
server: ok
client: mail from: somefaked@nowhere.org
server: sender ok
client: rcpt to: somedestination@thisdomain.com
server: ok
client: data (terminate with
First line is subject.
buy makemoneyfast etc..
.
# Now server recognices spam message and pipes it straight back.
First line is subject.
buy makemoneyfast etc...
# And at last the expected
server: ok
client: quit
----
While 95% of all spam comes from compromised hosts, this might increase bandwidth usage on some of the more prominent spam holes, located in some far away places.
On the other hand I cannot understand why people have a spam problem in the first place. I use rbls I use spam assassin and razor. I may have about 2 spam emails a week and the legit traffic is around 2000 emails per week.
Ok there might be about 5 a day in the spam folder. But that stuff is simply discarded.
For the people i exchange regulary emails with i simply use gpg signatures, and that is about the best line of defence against spam.