Had one more advanced user who bypassed the proxy with a VPN type software using SSL. He thought he would not be noticed so we watched his terminal. He was using file shares relayed from his home system and watching, you got it - porn
Is that you John??
Seriously, I used to do it that way, but there's a faster way:
Anyways, with that in mind, what exactly does the author mean by "Trojan Horse"?
Higgins says some software developers use open source as a professional services Trojan horse.
Perhaps they think the developers 'use' open source software to get their foot on the door, then after they're hooked, the real expense will come when the developers charge for extra needed work.
Forget about being unable to speak...! If this speech recognition is as good as any of my cell phones' then you'll keep repeating 4, 5 or more times, until this chip recognizes your voice, or worst case, blocks itself until the next day for security purposes...
Not to undermine his job, which I think is a major accomplishment, not only by building it but by reimplementing the whole logic from diagrams. But looking at the logic, it seems it could fit easily in a Spartan 3 FPGA. So yes, it could be done cheaper and faster, but not with the degree of detail this guy put on.
Last summer, much was made of Slate author Paul Boutin’s harangue in his June 30, 2004 “Webhead” column. Boutin basically told his readers to drop Microsoft’s Internet Explorer like a hot rock and move to Mozilla’s Firefox, because of the increasingly nasty security holes turning up in IE. Problem is, Slate is owned by Microsoft.
Ouch.
It really has gotten that bad, and it’s easy to be left with the impression that Microsoft creates lousy software, rotten with bugs that allow the black hats to break into our networks and bring the global Internet to its knees. The anti-Microsoft tomato tossers insist that if only Microsoft cleaned up its products, we’d be rid of the security holes and the black hats who thrive on them.
It’s not that simple. Microsoft has some of the best programmers in the world working on its products, and books like “Writing Solid Code” from the Microsoft developer culture are seen as classics that belong on every programmer’s shelf. Nonetheless, Microsoft software has bugs; all software has bugs, which is a crucial point that I’ll return to later.
What we have to understand is that our current problems with Internet Explorer have less to do with bugs than with success. When a product has 90% of a huge worldwide market, there will be problems. It doesn’t matter what the product is, and it matters only a little how good it is. What matters is that Internet Explorer is virtually the sole organism in an ecosystem that the world’s technology industry depends on. When IE catches a cold, the networked world gets pneumonia.
This metaphor from biology is called software monoculture. Ubiquitous high-bandwidth communication has turned the world of computing from countless independent islands into a single global ecosystem. The fewer distinct organisms at work within this ecosystem, the easier it is for a bug—any bug—to become a threat to the health of the whole.
Worms and viruses that depend on these bugs replicate and travel automatically, and unless they can assume that the next system is identical (bugs and all) to the one they’re leaving, they can’t propagate as quickly nor do as much damage. If only one in 20 systems allowed such worms and viruses to take hold (rather than nine out of 10) it’s doubtful that they could ever achieve any kind of critical mass, and would be exterminated before they got too far.
Software monoculture happens for a lot of reasons, only a few of them due to Microsoft’s sales and marketing practices. In the home market, nontechnical people see safety in numbers: They want to be part of a crowd so that when something goes wrong, help will be nearby, among family, friends, or a local user group.
In corporate IT, monoculture happens because IT doesn’t want to support diversity in a software ecosystem. Supporting multiple technologies costs way more than supporting only one, so IT prefers to pick a technology and force its use everywhere. Both of these issues are the result of free choices made for valid reasons. Monoculture is the result of genuine needs. Technological diversity may be good, but it costs, in dollars and in effort.
As if that weren’t bad enough, there is another kind of software monoculture haunting us, far below the level of individual products—down, in fact, at the level of the bugs themselves.
If you give reports of recently discovered security holes in all major products (not merely Microsoft’s) a very close read, you’ll find a peculiar similarity in the bugs themselves. Most of them are “buffer overflow exploits,” and these are almost entirely due to the shortcomings of a single programming language: C/C++. (C and C++, are really the same language at the core, where these sorts of bugs h
Indeed a very impressive technology, getting better and faster by every geometry.
As a digital designer I can't help to point out that the man time invested in an ASIC these days is an order of magnitude of what it takes to build a single chip. TSMC can put a chip out in two weeks.
Of course I'm not taking in consideration the time taken to prepare the fab to be ready for first production, but when you and your team of 10 work tirelessly for a year, two weeks turnaround time always seems amazing.
I don't remember exactly the model number, but the D-link wireless access point/router I got didn't work for me. 3 feet was all the reach I got, using a different power source though (15V). It could have been that, but the Linksys I bought after that worked out of the box. YMMV
Is it Linux day today at Slashdot??
80% of the submissions are Linux-related... am I missing something here? Not that I don't love Linux... I very much do, but aren't any other subjects for news today?
Google is where it is, because its search engine is as objective as possible, without post-processing and/or filtering of the output.
MSN Search on the other hand, only returns whatever MS wants you to see.
Try yourself to look for, say, 'Linux' on MSN and on Google.
She will only learn if she needs to do something with computers. You learn by demand; you could teach somebody computing for weeks, but if this person doesn't *need* it, s/he just won't learn.
My mom couldn't use a computer for years, but until she needed it to comunicate with her sons living out of town, then she started learning. Now she can use linux to irc, email and video conference with us. She didn't install the software, just uses it. In my mind, this is quite an accomplishment for her!
This device needs to store _a_lot_ of info about other's people devices, making a real time nightmare to manage. Imagine an underground train at rush hour, you cross hundreds of people. First, is it going to store all of them? Second, if this is wireless, what kind of bandwidth do you need to send all that info at the same time?
I guess that the storage of the data is the biggest issue. How long will it store it for? a week? a month?
Judging for my daily life, I don't see how this device would ever be dark. At home, it picks the signals from my neighboards, at work picks my co-workers', at lunch... etc., etc.
As a social theory though, it's very interesting.
-P@
Coincidence?
I was out in the patio an hour ago here in west Los Angeles when a bright light in the sky caught my attention. I thought it was a star or a plane passing by (tens an hour), but it was moving slower than a plane and it was really bright, I would say brighter than Vega, and white.
It was high in the sky, moving north really slow.
In about 5 seconds it started dimming and couple of more seconds later it vanished completely.
All this before I got to hit my pipe for the first time tonight...
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If you want to build GNOME from source, try http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/ HTH
Is this the same NORAD that couldn't track and intercept 4 (four!) commercial airplanes flying wildly off-course in September 11th 2001? Hmm...
-saned
Who is Dvorak?
He's qwerty's brother, iirc
-P@
Had one more advanced user who bypassed the proxy with a VPN type software using SSL. He thought he would not be noticed so we watched his terminal. He was using file shares relayed from his home system and watching, you got it - porn
Is that you John??
Seriously, I used to do it that way, but there's a faster way:
ssh -L 5901:remotehost.net:5901 remotehost.net
vncviewer localhost:1
-saned
Anyways, with that in mind, what exactly does the author mean by "Trojan Horse"?
Higgins says some software developers use open source as a professional services Trojan horse.
Perhaps they think the developers 'use' open source software to get their foot on the door, then after they're hooked, the real expense will come when the developers charge for extra needed work.
-p@
I for one, welcome our new greedy bastards overlords.
Time to change my tin-foil for a polyethylene-foil hat?!
"In my relationship, I always have the last word: Yes, honey"
-P@
What icon? you must be new here... :)
-P@
Forget about being unable to speak...! If this speech recognition is as good as any of my cell phones' then you'll keep repeating 4, 5 or more times, until this chip recognizes your voice, or worst case, blocks itself until the next day for security purposes...
YMMV
-P@
They're at it again and they're not waisting any time.
I'd say more like they're shooting from the hip.
-P@
Not to undermine his job, which I think is a major accomplishment, not only by building it but by reimplementing the whole logic from diagrams. But looking at the logic, it seems it could fit easily in a Spartan 3 FPGA. So yes, it could be done cheaper and faster, but not with the degree of detail this guy put on.
Kudos to him
Indeed a very impressive technology, getting better and faster by every geometry.
As a digital designer I can't help to point out that the man time invested in an ASIC these days is an order of magnitude of what it takes to build a single chip. TSMC can put a chip out in two weeks.
Of course I'm not taking in consideration the time taken to prepare the fab to be ready for first production, but when you and your team of 10 work tirelessly for a year, two weeks turnaround time always seems amazing.
-P@
Adding
to the command line option helps me get 100% (almost) download speed, along your max dl rate, just by limiting the upload rate.
YMMV
-P@
Firefox's Javascript console reports many errors:
n ov&opt=hjj&rw=468&rh=60&cv=220&uid=673 475
Line: 3, Column: 17
Source Code:
document.writeln('
1 &adtype=over&affiliate=ultimate-guitar&suba=ultima te-guitar&channel=music&subchannel=tic&category=ti c&PT=ct&CR=ei&pez=tic
Line: 11
...and many more similar to this
Error: unterminated string literal Source File: http://focusin.ads.targetnet.com//ad/id=dmitryiva
Error: newPopup has no properties Source File: http://mediamgr.ugo.com/js.ng/Network=ugo&size=1x
Error: document.getElementById("clientcall").click is not a function Source File: http://www.xcelent.biz/o/ Line: 74
Error: event is not defined Source File: http://www.xcelent.biz/o/frame.html Line: 84
-P@
I don't remember exactly the model number, but the D-link wireless access point/router I got didn't work for me. 3 feet was all the reach I got, using a different power source though (15V). It could have been that, but the Linksys I bought after that worked out of the box.
YMMV
-P@
Is it Linux day today at Slashdot??
;-)
80% of the submissions are Linux-related... am I missing something here?
Not that I don't love Linux... I very much do, but aren't any other subjects for news today?
I kinda miss the worm-of-the-day headline...
-P@
Google is where it is, because its search engine is as objective as possible, without post-processing and/or filtering of the output.
MSN Search on the other hand, only returns whatever MS wants you to see.
Try yourself to look for, say, 'Linux' on MSN and on Google.
-P@
1000 times faster, integration of 21 databases...
here's one database you can move from and get those numbers:
MS Access
-P@
She will only learn if she needs to do something with computers. You learn by demand; you could teach somebody computing for weeks, but if this person doesn't *need* it, s/he just won't learn.
My mom couldn't use a computer for years, but until she needed it to comunicate with her sons living out of town, then she started learning. Now she can use linux to irc, email and video conference with us. She didn't install the software, just uses it.
In my mind, this is quite an accomplishment for her!
This device needs to store _a_lot_ of info about other's people devices, making a real time nightmare to manage. Imagine an underground train at rush hour, you cross hundreds of people. First, is it going to store all of them? Second, if this is wireless, what kind of bandwidth do you need to send all that info at the same time?
I guess that the storage of the data is the biggest issue. How long will it store it for? a week? a month?
Judging for my daily life, I don't see how this device would ever be dark. At home, it picks the signals from my neighboards, at work picks my co-workers', at lunch... etc., etc.
As a social theory though, it's very interesting.
-P@
Coincidence?
I was out in the patio an hour ago here in west Los Angeles when a bright light in the sky caught my attention. I thought it was a star or a plane passing by (tens an hour), but it was moving slower than a plane and it was really bright, I would say brighter than Vega, and white.
It was high in the sky, moving north really slow. In about 5 seconds it started dimming and couple of more seconds later it vanished completely.
All this before I got to hit my pipe for the first time tonight...