Rethoric training - $200 Write up a nice FUD script - $300 Get assigned as speaker - $5000... tagging this story "wheredoyouwanttofudtoday" - priceless!
"... but it seems like the EU picks on US companies a lot."
It's Intel vs. AMD. Both US companies AFAIK. Maybe the EC just takes the words "competition", "monopoly" and "free market" more serious than other areas of this planet do ?
not only this, Germany has a huge purchasing power (the average german has a high salary).
And, Germany is (and has been for a long time) the high tech nation in europe. Technological decision made in Germany influence large parts of europe, since many companies need to work/trade with German companies.
hehe, good question! Back in the windows NT4 and NT5 days we had servers crashing because of bad ati drivers and had constantly install problems with ati drivers on windows, I never even bothered to buy hardware with ATI chips for linux.
If the microsoft stock drivers run more stable than the ATI drivers, this says something.
Who is to expect good Linux drivers, if they can't even produce decent drivers for their main platform ?
This is a great move I think. php 5 has been out for years, superior and pretty backward compatible to php 4. Many problems in the past with 4.3/4.4 and 5.0/5.1 releases have happend due to the backward compatibility of php 5. I hope this will ease development and result in a robuster solution.
Becasue php5 is already in the wild for years and there is still more than a year of security updates available, I think there should be time enough for migration to php5. I is also not too hard to migrate, I have done this in the last 1-2 years on many sites. There are some really annoying changes in php 5 but the php guys have documented it well [1].
Using the "Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5"[2] Documentation was very helpfull and it turned out to be pretty easy (except for scripts/applications which were already ported from php 3 and still were using php 4 backward compatibility "features").
a) you are a big fish, we allow you to broadcast for a bargain of $2500. We know you, we thrust you (the large ones are usually already FM stations which have been dealing with the music industries for decades and are controllable).
b) you are a small fish, either you pay a ridiculous fee or shut up. You are our problem because there are too many of you we have no control over.
In 2008 or later, when most of the small stations are gone, we negotiate new deals with the remaining large ones to extort more money and shut down the remaining unwilling (read indies).
Oh yes, certainly. I was not going into the attribute thing, i would disallow all attributes by default (forgot to mention).
Although the parent did not get moderated up, Mr_Icons point is valid and extremely important (if you strip tags but forget to strip attributes in allowed tags, it's not very effective).
If you want to secure your systems, make sure you do not allow userinput with certain tags (assuming this input is displayed later on in a html page).
Tags like script, iframe, link, style, embed, object _MUST_ be stripped in an untrusted environment. why you may ask: script, iframe, link allow external references (for example injection of code of remote sites which you can not easily check).
script itself is the most evil tag because it allows an attacker to access any element in a page, modify it and inject further remote scripts not stored on your server.
ie interprets javascript and vbcode in style tags/me *shudders* (not sure if this is still true in IE7, in quriks-mode however i am pretty sure this still works in ie7 and non standard compliant mode AKA quirks-mode is the default for most IE only or IE targetted sites).
embed and object tags are used to insert java and activeX code, I guess I do not have to say much about those two techniques, it's again about inserting remote code at runtime.
iframe is, by nature, a fairly secure tag. it can not harm the users page much but it can be used to trick the user in believing to be on another page/site or trick him in any other way. plus, many IE versions had security holes where scripts could travel up from iframe into its parent document to manipulate data from another domain (crossite;)
There might be some potentially evil tags missing in my list, this is just from the top of my head.
I usually go the other way, instead of restricting tags i define a white-list of tags which are useful for formatting reasons such as strong, em, front, etc. this seems to be a much more controllable way.
Fortunately switzerland is changing slowly. During my last military service I was ordered to return my war-ammunition (every swiss solder has his gun an a minimal amount of ammunition at home). It is still easy to get some ammunition though. However, on the political side it is now quiet hard to argue for keeping weapons at home. The original purpose of every soldier having the weapon at home was; that in case a war broke out, every soldier would be able to shoot himself trough to the point where he should join his troops. Now without ammunition at home, there is no point of keeping the weapon at home, I think in a couple of years we'll also return the weapon back after military service.
Back on topic, yes it's really cheap to blame video games for some rare occasion where an ill kid went amok in a school. But I have to agree, it seems much easier topic to cover (and so much popularity to gain) than covering the real issues we have here. For example many kids grow up without supervision by their parents. Many parents are eighter divorced or underpayed or greedy so that both parents are forced to work full time. Kids are raised by television or they are hanging out (young kids). Resolving serious social problems is a long term job, where banning some so called "violent" games is quicker so a politician gets the needed publicty while he/she is still in charge (and at best just before the next election, heh).
I am living in the german speaking part of switzerland and because our market is very small (about 4 million german speaking citizens) we mostly get those german versions of games.
I often ask myself if this is doing any good to the children. Especially in first person shooters. Kids shoot at things that look like humans, they kill them but nothing happens, they usually just fall down and/or disappear. The lessons a kid could learn from this is? pointing with weapons at people and pulling the trigger doesn't do much (no scream, no blood, nothing). It's clean... never give those kids a real gun... I am a bit scared.
Erfurt (germany's colombine) did happen despite the draconian measures the german government put on computer games. AFAIK there has not been such a case in another european country which have (mostly) very lax rules about computer games. It should be clear that happenings like Erfurt or Colombine are not caused due to computer games but most likely due to the environment of the school kid (personal problems, problems with family, teacher maybe all of them).
Such laws do what? Usually after a release of the "german version" of a game there'll be a patch available (or a config setting documented) how to change the game back into its original non-german state. That's what i always do and i do not know anyone who does not. Many german friends have started ordering their games via internet from the uk or usa not because these games are cheaper there and not because many games get released earlier in the uk and the usa no - they want the "original version[tm]"
What is this horrible fascination with Unix? The operating system of the
1960s, still gaining in popularity in the 1990s. A horrible system, except
that all the other commercial offerings are even worse.
Well, the headline is misleading, as often is the case here on./ (the headline field is limited to very few characters). I was expecting to see a software which lets me manage ldap/krb/dns/mail/dhcp/etc.... well, this is what i would understand as "... System Mgmt App...".
However, about your concerns, you should really search for a provider which offers plesk. I have been working for an internet provider, we checked many systems. plesk offers many easy to use web applications to setup/administer vhosts (web/mail/dns/mailing lists/ and more) for the customer... and offers nice tools for the administrator (xml-rpc/cli interface for automating tasks). This bundled with a nicely polished and more or less intutive web interface is really what you might be looking for. and no... it's not like webmin (webmin is a web interface for people who know how to edit files manually but want a a little more overview, webmin doesn't help to understand things, webmin only adds input validation... and not even this in many areas).
hehe... it's rpm based. i gave up with suse and redhat 5 years ago when i discovered the beautynes of deb packages, easy and powerful tools and carefully managed repositories.
"Ever migrated from one distro to another on one's primary workstation?"
Yes I did many times and you are right. I considered myself a gnudiehard because I spend most of my time in gnu environments and, therefore, never really liked the bsd userspace tools (although I spent many years on Open/FreeBSD). But maybe I am not and am just a Linux user.
she forgot to sue google. the site is slashdotted and i read it via google cache (which seems to do the same as archive.org). Had she put up a robots.txt (requesting the/robots.txt from her site gives a 404) hadn't she been indexed. She should read up how to prevent such things instead of putting a notice on the site which can only be agreed upon the page is already requested (ie. i wouldn't have downloaded the page if i had known before).
"But I also burn all the songs to a CD and then rip them back at high quality into mp3's."
sounds more complicated/time consuming than buying a cd and just rip it. I, for one, prefer to buy the CD and rip it, it's less work. I buy large amounts of music every month and i'd really like to buy them online but as long as i have to do such stunts... screw it!
I am aware of online shops which sell non-DRMed music, unfortunately their sortiment is usually small and/or late to release.
A bit more on topic, yes I think she's right. Online music should only be sold if it can be played in your preferred player(s). iTunes doesn't do that, it requires joe average to know how to burn and then rip it again. No problem for computer savy people, IMHO a problem for the majority.
No offense intended. I personally think that racism must not be tolerated. And i am also a strong supporter of shutting up liars. Freedom of speach, yes! Freedom to lie, no!
Why do people in Europe go to jail for doing just that. Where is the all-American liberal's "righteous indignation" there?
if you replace Europe with Germany then your statement is correct. And it might be obvious even to the non European why Germany is not tolerating neo-nazis.
at least it would be a fair comparison, comparing alpha/beta grade software (ETCH) with alpha/beta grade software (Vista)
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sorry, i wasn't aware of this. it sounds as if you are a candidate for vmware server (qemu is much more light weight... but as you point out... has some drawbacks). with vmware server (which is free as in beer... cheers) you get full control of the keyboard except the ctrl+alt combination.
Cheers, -S
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why don't you use qemu or bochs for dos ? that way you wouldn't need to reboot to use it. qemu with the kqemu kernel module is pretty fast... i use it to play old dos/win 3.11 games on my linux boxen.
interesting, there was a thing called svnc which used an svga frame buffer or something. I haven't used it for years and do not know if it is still available/maintained. it was pretty small as well.
a nice idea which is probably hard to enforce. the **AA's might have a lot of influence in the western world where such ideas could become enforcable by law. but what will they do against online radio stations streams from countries they cannot control ?
commercial radio stations would probably suffer and that's great, this means less crap "aired" over the tubes:D
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Write up a nice FUD script - $300
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" ... but it seems like the EU picks on US companies a lot."
It's Intel vs. AMD. Both US companies AFAIK. Maybe the EC just takes the words "competition", "monopoly" and "free market" more serious than other areas of this planet do ?
Cheers,
-S
not only this, Germany has a huge purchasing power (the average german has a high salary).
And, Germany is (and has been for a long time) the high tech nation in europe. Technological decision made in Germany influence large parts of europe, since many companies need to work/trade with German companies.
Cheers,
-S
hehe, good question! Back in the windows NT4 and NT5 days we had servers crashing because of bad ati drivers and had constantly install problems with ati drivers on windows, I never even bothered to buy hardware with ATI chips for linux.
If the microsoft stock drivers run more stable than the ATI drivers, this says something.
Who is to expect good Linux drivers, if they can't even produce decent drivers for their main platform ?
This is a great move I think. php 5 has been out for years, superior and pretty backward compatible to php 4. Many problems in the past with 4.3/4.4 and 5.0/5.1 releases have happend due to the backward compatibility of php 5. I hope this will ease development and result in a robuster solution.
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Becasue php5 is already in the wild for years and there is still more than a year of security updates available, I think there should be time enough for migration to php5. I is also not too hard to migrate, I have done this in the last 1-2 years on many sites. There are some really annoying changes in php 5 but the php guys have documented it well [1].
Using the "Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5"[2] Documentation was very helpfull and it turned out to be pretty easy (except for scripts/applications which were already ported from php 3 and still were using php 4 backward compatibility "features").
1) http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompati
2) http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php#migra
this is exactly what I understand
a) you are a big fish, we allow you to broadcast for a bargain of $2500. We know you, we thrust you (the large ones are usually already FM stations which have been dealing with the music industries for decades and are controllable).
b) you are a small fish, either you pay a ridiculous fee or shut up. You are our problem because there are too many of you we have no control over.
In 2008 or later, when most of the small stations are gone, we negotiate new deals with the remaining large ones to extort more money and shut down the remaining unwilling (read indies).
Oh yes, certainly. I was not going into the attribute thing, i would disallow all attributes by default (forgot to mention).
Although the parent did not get moderated up, Mr_Icons point is valid and extremely important (if you strip tags but forget to strip attributes in allowed tags, it's not very effective).
Cheers,
-S
If you want to secure your systems, make sure you do not allow userinput with certain tags (assuming this input is displayed later on in a html page).
/me *shudders* (not sure if this is still true in IE7, in quriks-mode however i am pretty sure this still works in ie7 and non standard compliant mode AKA quirks-mode is the default for most IE only or IE targetted sites).
;)
Tags like script, iframe, link, style, embed, object _MUST_ be stripped in an untrusted environment. why you may ask: script, iframe, link allow external references (for example injection of code of remote sites which you can not easily check).
script itself is the most evil tag because it allows an attacker to access any element in a page, modify it and inject further remote scripts not stored on your server.
ie interprets javascript and vbcode in style tags
embed and object tags are used to insert java and activeX code, I guess I do not have to say much about those two techniques, it's again about inserting remote code at runtime.
iframe is, by nature, a fairly secure tag. it can not harm the users page much but it can be used to trick the user in believing to be on another page/site or trick him in any other way. plus, many IE versions had security holes where scripts could travel up from iframe into its parent document to manipulate data from another domain (crossite
There might be some potentially evil tags missing in my list, this is just from the top of my head.
I usually go the other way, instead of restricting tags i define a white-list of tags which are useful for formatting reasons such as strong, em, front, etc. this seems to be a much more controllable way.
HTH,
-Simon
Fortunately switzerland is changing slowly. During my last military service I was ordered to return my war-ammunition (every swiss solder has his gun an a minimal amount of ammunition at home). It is still easy to get some ammunition though. However, on the political side it is now quiet hard to argue for keeping weapons at home. The original purpose of every soldier having the weapon at home was; that in case a war broke out, every soldier would be able to shoot himself trough to the point where he should join his troops. Now without ammunition at home, there is no point of keeping the weapon at home, I think in a couple of years we'll also return the weapon back after military service.
Back on topic, yes it's really cheap to blame video games for some rare occasion where an ill kid went amok in a school. But I have to agree, it seems much easier topic to cover (and so much popularity to gain) than covering the real issues we have here. For example many kids grow up without supervision by their parents. Many parents are eighter divorced or underpayed or greedy so that both parents are forced to work full time. Kids are raised by television or they are hanging out (young kids). Resolving serious social problems is a long term job, where banning some so called "violent" games is quicker so a politician gets the needed publicty while he/she is still in charge (and at best just before the next election, heh).
I am living in the german speaking part of switzerland and because our market is very small (about 4 million german speaking citizens) we mostly get those german versions of games.
... never give those kids a real gun ... I am a bit scared.
I often ask myself if this is doing any good to the children. Especially in first person shooters. Kids shoot at things that look like humans, they kill them but nothing happens, they usually just fall down and/or disappear. The lessons a kid could learn from this is? pointing with weapons at people and pulling the trigger doesn't do much (no scream, no blood, nothing). It's clean
Erfurt (germany's colombine) did happen despite the draconian measures the german government put on computer games. AFAIK there has not been such a case in another european country which have (mostly) very lax rules about computer games. It should be clear that happenings like Erfurt or Colombine are not caused due to computer games but most likely due to the environment of the school kid (personal problems, problems with family, teacher maybe all of them).
Such laws do what? Usually after a release of the "german version" of a game there'll be a patch available (or a config setting documented) how to change the game back into its original non-german state. That's what i always do and i do not know anyone who does not. Many german friends have started ordering their games via internet from the uk or usa not because these games are cheaper there and not because many games get released earlier in the uk and the usa no - they want the "original version[tm]"
Well, the headline is misleading, as often is the case here on ./ (the headline field is limited to very few characters). I was expecting to see a software which lets me manage ldap/krb/dns/mail/dhcp/etc. ... well, this is what i would understand as "... System Mgmt App ...".
... and offers nice tools for the administrator (xml-rpc/cli interface for automating tasks). This bundled with a nicely polished and more or less intutive web interface is really what you might be looking for. and no ... it's not like webmin (webmin is a web interface for people who know how to edit files manually but want a a little more overview, webmin doesn't help to understand things, webmin only adds input validation ... and not even this in many areas).
However, about your concerns, you should really search for a provider which offers plesk. I have been working for an internet provider, we checked many systems. plesk offers many easy to use web applications to setup/administer vhosts (web/mail/dns/mailing lists/ and more) for the customer
hehe ... it's rpm based. i gave up with suse and redhat 5 years ago when i discovered the beautynes of deb packages, easy and powerful tools and carefully managed repositories.
"Ever migrated from one distro to another on one's primary workstation?"
Yes I did many times and you are right. I considered myself a gnudiehard because I spend most of my time in gnu environments and, therefore, never really liked the bsd userspace tools (although I spent many years on Open/FreeBSD). But maybe I am not and am just a Linux user.
Or novell/SuSE could migrate to the BSD equivalents, which would make many gnu diehards pretty unhappy.
she forgot to sue google. the site is slashdotted and i read it via google cache (which seems to do the same as archive.org). Had she put up a robots.txt (requesting the /robots.txt from her site gives a 404) hadn't she been indexed. She should read up how to prevent such things instead of putting a notice on the site which can only be agreed upon the page is already requested (ie. i wouldn't have downloaded the page if i had known before).
"But I also burn all the songs to a CD and then rip them back at high quality into mp3's."
... screw it!
sounds more complicated/time consuming than buying a cd and just rip it. I, for one, prefer to buy the CD and rip it, it's less work. I buy large amounts of music every month and i'd really like to buy them online but as long as i have to do such stunts
I am aware of online shops which sell non-DRMed music, unfortunately their sortiment is usually small and/or late to release.
A bit more on topic, yes I think she's right. Online music should only be sold if it can be played in your preferred player(s). iTunes doesn't do that, it requires joe average to know how to burn and then rip it again. No problem for computer savy people, IMHO a problem for the majority.
No offense intended. I personally think that racism must not be tolerated. And i am also a strong supporter of shutting up liars. Freedom of speach, yes! Freedom to lie, no!
if you replace Europe with Germany then your statement is correct. And it might be obvious even to the non European why Germany is not tolerating neo-nazis.
Cheers,
-S
I thought you are a reporter/professional writer. you should tell from which source the quote is, please.
at least it would be a fair comparison, comparing alpha/beta grade software (ETCH) with alpha/beta grade software (Vista)
sorry, i wasn't aware of this. it sounds as if you are a candidate for vmware server (qemu is much more light weight ... but as you point out ... has some drawbacks). with vmware server (which is free as in beer ... cheers) you get full control of the keyboard except the ctrl+alt combination.
Cheers,
-S
why don't you use qemu or bochs for dos ? that way you wouldn't need to reboot to use it. qemu with the kqemu kernel module is pretty fast ... i use it to play old dos/win 3.11 games on my linux boxen.
interesting, there was a thing called svnc which used an svga frame buffer or something. I haven't used it for years and do not know if it is still available/maintained. it was pretty small as well.
a nice idea which is probably hard to enforce. the **AA's might have a lot of influence in the western world where such ideas could become enforcable by law. but what will they do against online radio stations streams from countries they cannot control ?
:D
commercial radio stations would probably suffer and that's great, this means less crap "aired" over the tubes