*flash* *flash* You are being attacked by pirates!!
That game had this hilarious flaw. You know how the moneylender charged you absurd amounts of interest? You could pay him back more than you borrowed, and it kept applying interest on the negative amount you owed him... So you could just use him as a high interest bank...:)
I really don't get why Kingpin got such bad reviews and got delegated to the bargain bin so quickly...
Yeah, I liked System Shock as well, but as a less obvious choice I really got into the whole character interaction and plot of Kingpin. The way you could diss the nasty homeboys, the way you had to sneak around and not just blast everything in sight... great game...
DirectoryServices is part of the MacOS X information and
authentication subsystem. It is launched at startup, setuid root
and installed by default. It is vulnerable to several attacks
ultimately allowing a local user to obtain root privileges.
Details:
During the startup of DirectoryService, the application creates a
lock file by executing the touch(1) UNIX command. It executes touch
through the system() libc function. This function is inherently
insecure and its use is strongly discouraged in privileged
applications.
Since this call to system() does not specify a full path to the
touch(1) command, it is possible for an attacker to modify the PATH
environment variable to specify a directory containing her own
version of the touch(1) command. In this instance, this would cause
DirectoryService to execute arbitrary commands as root.
In order for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability, they must
first cause DirectoryServices to terminate. This can be done by
simply connecting to port 625 repeatedly using an automated program.
Well, that's good - next time I am going to use that logic every time I lose a CD of a software package I bought (and I have lost quite a few). I am going to call up the software maker, inform them of my loss, and demand another copy of their product and present them with my license number and purchase receipt. Somehow, I don't think this is going to fly with anyone. They'll just tell me to go to hell or buy another license AND media.
Then you're dealing with the wrong companies.
I've had numerous cases, both as a personal individual and on behalf of my workplace, where I've gotten media for software replaced after something happened to the original.
Prove you've bought the software, and most software companies will gladly send you new media, and won't always charge you a media fee either.
Hell, I've even had hardware dongles replaced at cost and/or free when they've died so long as I returned the dongle...
But, really, for a read only filesystem, I'd think NFS would be fine.
No, I don't need a lecture on the shortcomings of NFS - I really don't care. I only use it in secure LANs, anyway.
yeah you're right. If it's read only, and in a secure LAN, there aren't really any serious problems.
I was thinking this the other day, remembering having arguments with the other two geek friends I had as a kid as to the point of a GUI...
I read some article somewhere extolling the virtues of a GUI in highly theoretical terms, and got all excited, managed to get my hands on an early copy of Windows and tried to convince my friends that this was the way of the future...
they rolled their eyes at me, and after about a week of messing around with it, I trashed Windows from my machine. Did I ever think that was a waste of time...
The other thing is that it's quite normal for the battery to just sit at 97%, no matter how long you've left it plugged in for.
It's designed this way so that the battery isn't continually charging every time it's a little bit away from 100%. Recharging doesn't happen until the battery drops below 97%.
If this person had unplugged the power, let it drain the battery for a little while, and then plugged the power back in, it would have returned to somewhere between 97% and 100%.
I find curl can't deal with urls that either have lots of special characters in them or that forward to another URL.
Things like the link on mysql/php to download from one of the mirror sites, urls like:
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/download.php?file=D ownloads%2FMySQL-3.23%2Fmysql-3.23.55-apple-darwin 6.1-powerpc.tar.gz&mirror=http%3A%2F%2Fmysql.ausga mers.com%2F
that's why I installed wget...
Sheesh... That game was incredible.
It's probably nothing like I remember, but it used to just seem so huge.... with an incredible variety of weapons and objects and enemies and rooms and puzzles...
Trying to remember this other//e game I played heaps... "Masks of the Sun" or something? Kind of like a text adventure with pictures... lots of driving a jeep around at the beginning after you got off the aeroplane...
Again, it seems to depend.
Sometimes I can forget to disconnect, wake up my laptop at home, and it's fine after twenty seconds or so.
Sometimes it sends my machine into the spinning beachball of death, and sometimes even spreads beyond Finder.app, and once other apps need to access the filesystem they start spinning as well...
I swear it's gotten worse since 10.2, but I could be wrong.
Sure you can emulate it, but you miss so much by simple emulation. The most hailed feature of the C64 was the sid chip (it's still used by some techo artists to make effects)
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hey weird.. I know you in, well not meatspace, but in a slightly smaller internet land...
If you did the money lender trick, your cash soon ended up getting expressed in exponential notation...
//e emulator for OS X recently, and had a quick go. Unfortunately battles still took all day...
the 'E' character in the Taipan font is pretty damn funky... heh.
yeah... I remember getting serious space bar fatigue in the battles...
I downloaded an Apple
Was that Taipan?
:)
*flash* *flash* You are being attacked by pirates!!
That game had this hilarious flaw. You know how the moneylender charged you absurd amounts of interest? You could pay him back more than you borrowed, and it kept applying interest on the negative amount you owed him... So you could just use him as a high interest bank...
I really don't get why Kingpin got such bad reviews and got delegated to the bargain bin so quickly...
Yeah, I liked System Shock as well, but as a less obvious choice I really got into the whole character interaction and plot of Kingpin. The way you could diss the nasty homeboys, the way you had to sneak around and not just blast everything in sight... great game...
You have to be kidding me...
You want some background on mr macwhispers?
http://www.macintouch.com/mactable.html
Trust him about as far as I can throw him...
According to a vulnerability report release by @Stake, this fixes a serious security hole.
0 41003-1.txt
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a
Overview:
DirectoryServices is part of the MacOS X information and authentication subsystem. It is launched at startup, setuid root and installed by default. It is vulnerable to several attacks ultimately allowing a local user to obtain root privileges.
Details:
During the startup of DirectoryService, the application creates a lock file by executing the touch(1) UNIX command. It executes touch through the system() libc function. This function is inherently insecure and its use is strongly discouraged in privileged applications.
Since this call to system() does not specify a full path to the touch(1) command, it is possible for an attacker to modify the PATH environment variable to specify a directory containing her own version of the touch(1) command. In this instance, this would cause DirectoryService to execute arbitrary commands as root.
In order for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability, they must first cause DirectoryServices to terminate. This can be done by simply connecting to port 625 repeatedly using an automated program.
Well, that's good - next time I am going to use that logic every time I lose a CD of a software package I bought (and I have lost quite a few). I am going to call up the software maker, inform them of my loss, and demand another copy of their product and present them with my license number and purchase receipt. Somehow, I don't think this is going to fly with anyone. They'll just tell me to go to hell or buy another license AND media.
Then you're dealing with the wrong companies. I've had numerous cases, both as a personal individual and on behalf of my workplace, where I've gotten media for software replaced after something happened to the original.
Prove you've bought the software, and most software companies will gladly send you new media, and won't always charge you a media fee either.
Hell, I've even had hardware dongles replaced at cost and/or free when they've died so long as I returned the dongle...
But, really, for a read only filesystem, I'd think NFS would be fine. No, I don't need a lecture on the shortcomings of NFS - I really don't care. I only use it in secure LANs, anyway.
yeah you're right. If it's read only, and in a secure LAN, there aren't really any serious problems.
But otherwise...
(+3 Funny? Hell, I was being serious...)
I was thinking this the other day, remembering having arguments with the other two geek friends I had as a kid as to the point of a GUI...
I read some article somewhere extolling the virtues of a GUI in highly theoretical terms, and got all excited, managed to get my hands on an early copy of Windows and tried to convince my friends that this was the way of the future...
they rolled their eyes at me, and after about a week of messing around with it, I trashed Windows from my machine. Did I ever think that was a waste of time...
No, your admin should be shot for deciding to use such a horribly insecure system as NFS.
bleagh.
heh. heh. mmm... the pure simplicity of var...
However, OSX itself is a very unsecure OS. While it flaunts the power of UNIX, it is a crippled UNIX, with a few gaping holes in the security login.
I'd like to hear just a few bits of evidence in support of such a strong statement...
This article is a bit clueless... It would be helpful if it had even mentioned the possibility of Resetting the Power Management Unit.
The other thing is that it's quite normal for the battery to just sit at 97%, no matter how long you've left it plugged in for.
It's designed this way so that the battery isn't continually charging every time it's a little bit away from 100%. Recharging doesn't happen until the battery drops below 97%.
If this person had unplugged the power, let it drain the battery for a little while, and then plugged the power back in, it would have returned to somewhere between 97% and 100%.
I find curl can't deal with urls that either have lots of special characters in them or that forward to another URL. Things like the link on mysql/php to download from one of the mirror sites, urls like: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/download.php?file=D ownloads%2FMySQL-3.23%2Fmysql-3.23.55-apple-darwin 6.1-powerpc.tar.gz&mirror=http%3A%2F%2Fmysql.ausga mers.com%2F
that's why I installed wget...
yeah, once there is a pro quality audio sequencer with decent support for good virtual instruments...
:)
as much as I like Linux on the desktop, saying 'music production on Linux really will rock' is kind of misleading... There just aren't the apps there.
sure, there's a decent multichannel hard disk recorder, and there's a bunch of interesting software packages you can run, but the sequencers tend to suck badly.
(correcting me by providing links to good sequencers would make me happy....
If only we could get some high quality instruments...
Sheesh... That game was incredible. It's probably nothing like I remember, but it used to just seem so huge.... with an incredible variety of weapons and objects and enemies and rooms and puzzles... Trying to remember this other //e game I played heaps... "Masks of the Sun" or something? Kind of like a text adventure with pictures... lots of driving a jeep around at the beginning after you got off the aeroplane...
Again, it seems to depend. Sometimes I can forget to disconnect, wake up my laptop at home, and it's fine after twenty seconds or so. Sometimes it sends my machine into the spinning beachball of death, and sometimes even spreads beyond Finder.app, and once other apps need to access the filesystem they start spinning as well... I swear it's gotten worse since 10.2, but I could be wrong.
oh man... I'd forgotten they even existed... thanks for the link and trip down memory lane....
Sure you can emulate it, but you miss so much by simple emulation. The most hailed feature of the C64 was the sid chip (it's still used by some techo artists to make effects)
So go out and get yourself a SidStation.
There are some pretty damn good software emulators of the SID chip sound around these days. They've gotten much better.
I still don't get the point of running something like this in this form factor.
Mmm... I've had phones on both Optus and Telstra, and never had an SMS fail on me...
7 odd percent is a crazy high failure rate... I don't think I'd use it if it was that high here...
Gay Deceiver - Bounce!!
shesh. read before I type... meant that it *didn't* take 640k and loaded in himem as the poster below said...
it's been a while, but didn't doskey do this?
Hey thanks for that. most informative... alas no mod points...
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