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I like how 10:14-10:18 zooms in right on Chris's keyboard as he types his password. Just using Windows Media Player on cntl+shift+s takes a lot of the guess work out of the password.
Especially with a little help from our friends from UC-Berkley.
Also, I like 12:32, "so we'll avoid showing ip address... haha we'll have to cut that part out..." like the large 207.46.16.30 address looking at us in the face and then seconds later the 3 ip addresses in clear view on the right.
"So we have terminal server access to all the servers in the data center, right.". Right, well I wonder how may of those servers, whose IP addresses we just saw, are attached to Chris's login and password?
Is it really too much to ask that you run your site
through a validator?
Really come on now, I'm sure you've duped the 'importance of validating' articles before. And what's up with HTML Strict, why not XHTML strict? Get your nerd programming skills together.
I would have to agree with the article on the following point:
The problem here is to implement in all drivers sufficient 2D-XRender-Hardwarebeschleunigung - those actually simply only one special case of the existing 3D-Beschleunigung represents.
I've had a hard enough time trying to figure out how to say "Hardwarebeschleunigung" let along trying to implement all the drivers for it.Despite this it is good to know however that...
Without the parallel running videoaufzeichnung the animations ran absolutely liquid.
I wonder if the book covers the fact that if you use MySQL for commercial use and you don't release the source code you have to pay for it. Otherwise you are violating their licencing agreement
Licence Agreement
I would like to see some novice user post their shopping cart code on their site so that the hacker won't even have to break a sweat trying to get into the credit card system.
What the novice really needs is a PHP Postgresql book, but I don't know of one. That's because Postgresql uses the BSD licence and doesn't care what you do with it
About Postgresql
This is a question I wanted to ask on the other post so I'm kinda glad it's a duplication...
Besides firefox default for searching on google, how much actual revenue is lost for M$ with alternative browsers? I'm not looking for a figure I just don't quite understand why it would be worth it to have a full-team of developers and testers working on this over the next year/two?
Are they afraid of it just being that much easy to switch to Mac or Linux? MSN search revenues? What outweighs the cost of development and embarrassment of more security problems?
The thing is that Microsoft has already created the $149.00 PC and it will run linux without any modification, they just need to drop the price again and he'll be set.
Oh come on i've been 'storing data' on these "LCD sized harddrives" things for years. But shaking it side-to-side like they are suggesting just erases the data... at least its a quick format:)
Well I'm now better off buying CD's then using DRM telling me how many computers I can put it on. Here are a few things I found interesting from their privacy policy...
"Microsoft also provides a service that lets you move your own secure content..."
Gee thanks M$ for letting me put the content I purchased where I want to
"Unless the migration limit has been reached, a new license will be returned that enables use of the content on your new computer. Microsoft keeps track of the number of migration licenses granted for content that was first licensed on your original computer and allows a limited number of license migrations."
Great so if I move it to my work, laptop and home computer I might not be able to play what I purchased? Furthermore, how does this work since my laptop / home run Gentoo Linux?
I'll be sticking with ANYTHINGBUTTHIS.
Thanks for deciding to licence my music for me, M$ how nice of you. Not even Real does that, come on!
Burnout 2: Developer's Cut was a great game... however, the game didn't get a lot of press and the real anticipation was/is for Burnout 3 which EA Games has. The problem is that Acclaim always had great idea's, like Turok, South Park and Cruisin USA... but they where easily duplicated and someone else usually did it better.
P.s - Sorry to link to a competitors website
I'll give you that it can run damn small linux, but damn small windows? Most people are not going to want to run a win-ce system on something that claims to be a pc... in this case it's just an oddly shaped, poorly designed, less powerful Pocket PC with a lot of RAM.
Don't try and crack a 256-bit encryption scheme, that's nye impossible in time... instead, just exploit outlook and read their email floating around about the encryption key / link / ssh login to the full working version. =) Hell it worked last time.
Also something to consider... they may have posted some of the games standard anti-crack mesures to see what people would come up with, so they could patch it before you got the.exe's, assuming you didn't compile the ripped build from before.
XMMS has the ability to load winamp skins, but doesn't auto-install/launch/set-it-as-default like winamp does. I personally say XMMS has the better approach, this situation is a great case for that... if I click a picture and get a XMMS/Winamp skin I prob. won't download and install it...
I understand why people are getting defensive about winamp as it's a great product, but since when did people start siding/defending M$...
"...I'm using Windows, and so XMMS is not an option."
(your mistakes are emphasized by me)
"Why would I change my entire operating system..."
Why would you want to open your system up to infinate amout of security holes? Who knows...
I thought./ blocked all the *.microsoft.com posters, if not they should.
Since the forum basically gives step-by-step instructions of how to recreate the exploit they might want to release the patch sooner or edit the forum post so that happy script-kiddies have to do a little more work then copying and pasting to exploit it...
Meanwhile, switch to linux and use XMMS:)
I've been following moller for a while and the solution they are pushing to eliminate drivers having to learn how to essentially fly a plane is to not let them at all...
What a lot of the companies like moller have been trying to come up with is a virtual highway system, much like you see in the Jetsons. Instead of everyone just flying around in the sky where ever the hell they want, they are forced onto virtual computer controlled freeways that traffic is limited to. The idea is with the help of GPS and navigation systems, you would simply type in your destination (much like mapquest) and it would autopilot you to your location. Now since they have dedicated towers and people tracking this for commercial planes, I doubt this could ever work out when you have millions of objects to track.
Now what computer would be driving this, and how far away this technology is... well your guess is as good as mine. I know that I sure as hell wouldn't be running windows on my flying car. It would bring a scarey new meaning to the "blue screen of death".
Everyone has his or her own version of this technology, but what about actually make use of it...
"Holographic memory offers the possibility of storing 1 terabyte (TB) of data in a sugar-cube-sized crystal." http://computer.howstuffworks.com/holographic-memo ry1.htm
And what ever happened to Mini-disc, they had a great idea to but a case around the disc so when we lightly grazed it with our hand we didn't loose our important data we tried to backup.
So if you want to impress us...
A.) Do the same thing in a small little crystal that I can carry around and not have to worry about scratching and make it reasonably priced and big enough to just buy one crystal.
B.) Go back to the old school days of mini-disc and put it in a permanent protective jewel case so I don't have to blow on it and baby it like an old Nintendo.
Since half of slashdotters out there didn't get the 1337 terminology, odds are 90% of M$ won't either... in which case it would be great if some buzzword fiend upper-manager got it added to the "Get the facts" section of the M$ website comparing the "Facts" about why they are better then Linux. Which is prob. also filled with more humorous satire.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/default.mspx
Napster perhaps should stop focusing on their marketing and start focusing on their own product.
For starters, take a look at www.napster.com, if anything this was a "best buy" website, obviously contracted out by the neighborhood middle school kid that had two lessons in Dreamweaver.
Then their product isn't cross-platform compatible, and furthermore there are no variable pricing options.
Apple has got it right, it doesn't feel bad to spend a buck on a song. However napster thinks that instead your going to fork over 119 upfront for music and a crappy mp3 player... They obviously arn't looking at the target market they helped to create... which is cheap, young teenagers.
There will be more kids that can convince their parents to give them their credit card to buy 3 bucks worth of music, but you would be hard pressed to find any at all that would fork out 119+.
I think the founder should have stayed in college a litle longer and taken business 101.
Now this is a divergence of the topic slightly, but I think its an important thing to look at. Several people have joked about how now we can have open, unprotected sex... but that's just it. If the counter virus was really successful then what would be the main motivation behind having protective sex... You can't die from it really, and the only other thing you risk are the other STD's out there... and hell if they got AIDS, maybe it's just a couple more years till they cure anything that you might catch.
Now I don't have anybody that is in my circle of family or friends that has contracted HIV/AIDS so I am biased. However with this disease being the " now the world's deadliest infectious disease" Satistics and given the fact that it would be advantageous to sleep with people, unproductively with this counter-virus... hello millions of new unwanted pregnancies and also millions of more humans living longer.
Hopefully a Grad student can invent a spaceship and a living environment to take us to other planets to populate there as well. Slashdot posting
Slashdot Mirror
I like how 10:14-10:18 zooms in right on Chris's keyboard as he types his password. Just using Windows Media Player on cntl+shift+s takes a lot of the guess work out of the password.
Especially with a little help from our friends from UC-Berkley.
Also, I like 12:32, "so we'll avoid showing ip address... haha we'll have to cut that part out..." like the large 207.46.16.30 address looking at us in the face and then seconds later the 3 ip addresses in clear view on the right.
"So we have terminal server access to all the servers in the data center, right.". Right, well I wonder how may of those servers, whose IP addresses we just saw, are attached to Chris's login and password?
Ready, aim, proxy.
Best Perl Practices - By: Roy Martin
Chapter 1
The End.Don't use it.
Is it really too much to ask that you run your site through a validator?
Really come on now, I'm sure you've duped the 'importance of validating' articles before. And what's up with HTML Strict, why not XHTML strict? Get your nerd programming skills together.
Here is a better overview of the changes and feature additions
I wonder if the book covers the fact that if you use MySQL for commercial use and you don't release the source code you have to pay for it. Otherwise you are violating their licencing agreement Licence Agreement
I would like to see some novice user post their shopping cart code on their site so that the hacker won't even have to break a sweat trying to get into the credit card system. What the novice really needs is a PHP Postgresql book, but I don't know of one. That's because Postgresql uses the BSD licence and doesn't care what you do with it About Postgresql
This is a question I wanted to ask on the other post so I'm kinda glad it's a duplication...
Besides firefox default for searching on google, how much actual revenue is lost for M$ with alternative browsers? I'm not looking for a figure I just don't quite understand why it would be worth it to have a full-team of developers and testers working on this over the next year/two?
Are they afraid of it just being that much easy to switch to Mac or Linux? MSN search revenues? What outweighs the cost of development and embarrassment of more security problems?
Perhaps Nick McGrath was misquoted he was actually saying "Windows security is highly exaggerated"
The thing is that Microsoft has already created the $149.00 PC and it will run linux without any modification, they just need to drop the price again and he'll be set.
Oh come on i've been 'storing data' on these "LCD sized harddrives" things for years. But shaking it side-to-side like they are suggesting just erases the data... at least its a quick format :)
http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/
...40 miles line of sight... I wonder what poor longsighted kid they found to confirm this.
Well I'm now better off buying CD's then using DRM telling me how many computers I can put it on. Here are a few things I found interesting from their privacy policy...
"Microsoft also provides a service that lets you move your own secure content..." Gee thanks M$ for letting me put the content I purchased where I want to
"Unless the migration limit has been reached, a new license will be returned that enables use of the content on your new computer. Microsoft keeps track of the number of migration licenses granted for content that was first licensed on your original computer and allows a limited number of license migrations."
Great so if I move it to my work, laptop and home computer I might not be able to play what I purchased? Furthermore, how does this work since my laptop / home run Gentoo Linux?
I'll be sticking with ANYTHING BUT THIS.
Thanks for deciding to licence my music for me, M$ how nice of you. Not even Real does that, come on!
Burnout 2: Developer's Cut was a great game... however, the game didn't get a lot of press and the real anticipation was/is for Burnout 3 which EA Games has. The problem is that Acclaim always had great idea's, like Turok, South Park and Cruisin USA... but they where easily duplicated and someone else usually did it better.
P.s - Sorry to link to a competitors website
I'll give you that it can run damn small linux, but damn small windows? Most people are not going to want to run a win-ce system on something that claims to be a pc... in this case it's just an oddly shaped, poorly designed, less powerful Pocket PC with a lot of RAM.
Check out google's use of pigeon power, it's The technology behind Google's great results
Skippy dies due to slashdotting a site with 14 pictures of him... Now who is going to power the annoyingly loud little nightlight?
Don't try and crack a 256-bit encryption scheme, that's nye impossible in time... instead, just exploit outlook and read their email floating around about the encryption key / link / ssh login to the full working version. =) Hell it worked last time.
.exe's, assuming you didn't compile the ripped build from before.
Also something to consider... they may have posted some of the games standard anti-crack mesures to see what people would come up with, so they could patch it before you got the
XMMS has the ability to load winamp skins, but doesn't auto-install/launch/set-it-as-default like winamp does. I personally say XMMS has the better approach, this situation is a great case for that... if I click a picture and get a XMMS/Winamp skin I prob. won't download and install it... I understand why people are getting defensive about winamp as it's a great product, but since when did people start siding/defending M$... "...I'm using Windows, and so XMMS is not an option." (your mistakes are emphasized by me) "Why would I change my entire operating system..." Why would you want to open your system up to infinate amout of security holes? Who knows... I thought ./ blocked all the *.microsoft.com posters, if not they should.
Since the forum basically gives step-by-step instructions of how to recreate the exploit they might want to release the patch sooner or edit the forum post so that happy script-kiddies have to do a little more work then copying and pasting to exploit it... Meanwhile, switch to linux and use XMMS :)
I've been following moller for a while and the solution they are pushing to eliminate drivers having to learn how to essentially fly a plane is to not let them at all...
What a lot of the companies like moller have been trying to come up with is a virtual highway system, much like you see in the Jetsons. Instead of everyone just flying around in the sky where ever the hell they want, they are forced onto virtual computer controlled freeways that traffic is limited to. The idea is with the help of GPS and navigation systems, you would simply type in your destination (much like mapquest) and it would autopilot you to your location. Now since they have dedicated towers and people tracking this for commercial planes, I doubt this could ever work out when you have millions of objects to track.
Now what computer would be driving this, and how far away this technology is... well your guess is as good as mine. I know that I sure as hell wouldn't be running windows on my flying car. It would bring a scarey new meaning to the "blue screen of death".
Read this for more info flying-car
Everyone has his or her own version of this technology, but what about actually make use of it... "Holographic memory offers the possibility of storing 1 terabyte (TB) of data in a sugar-cube-sized crystal." http://computer.howstuffworks.com/holographic-memo ry1.htm
And what ever happened to Mini-disc, they had a great idea to but a case around the disc so when we lightly grazed it with our hand we didn't loose our important data we tried to backup.
So if you want to impress us...
A.) Do the same thing in a small little crystal that I can carry around and not have to worry about scratching and make it reasonably priced and big enough to just buy one crystal.
B.) Go back to the old school days of mini-disc and put it in a permanent protective jewel case so I don't have to blow on it and baby it like an old Nintendo.
Since half of slashdotters out there didn't get the 1337 terminology, odds are 90% of M$ won't either... in which case it would be great if some buzzword fiend upper-manager got it added to the "Get the facts" section of the M$ website comparing the "Facts" about why they are better then Linux. Which is prob. also filled with more humorous satire. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts /default.mspx
Napster perhaps should stop focusing on their marketing and start focusing on their own product. For starters, take a look at www.napster.com, if anything this was a "best buy" website, obviously contracted out by the neighborhood middle school kid that had two lessons in Dreamweaver. Then their product isn't cross-platform compatible, and furthermore there are no variable pricing options. Apple has got it right, it doesn't feel bad to spend a buck on a song. However napster thinks that instead your going to fork over 119 upfront for music and a crappy mp3 player... They obviously arn't looking at the target market they helped to create... which is cheap, young teenagers. There will be more kids that can convince their parents to give them their credit card to buy 3 bucks worth of music, but you would be hard pressed to find any at all that would fork out 119+. I think the founder should have stayed in college a litle longer and taken business 101.
Now this is a divergence of the topic slightly, but I think its an important thing to look at. Several people have joked about how now we can have open, unprotected sex... but that's just it. If the counter virus was really successful then what would be the main motivation behind having protective sex... You can't die from it really, and the only other thing you risk are the other STD's out there... and hell if they got AIDS, maybe it's just a couple more years till they cure anything that you might catch. Now I don't have anybody that is in my circle of family or friends that has contracted HIV/AIDS so I am biased. However with this disease being the " now the world's deadliest infectious disease" Satistics and given the fact that it would be advantageous to sleep with people, unproductively with this counter-virus... hello millions of new unwanted pregnancies and also millions of more humans living longer. Hopefully a Grad student can invent a spaceship and a living environment to take us to other planets to populate there as well. Slashdot posting
Could you imagine what would happen if Microsoft got a hold of this.
Welcome to Windows 2008 BIOS PRO.... You have 78 critical BIOS updates to perform.
To uninstall Internet Explorer: Replace chips 45- 1035 and solder points 20, 40, 30, and 90. (At least you would be able to uninstall it I guess).
When installing Real player: It permanently writes spyware to part of your flash memory and then charges you for it.