I feel safer knowing that the CIA is doing it's job. Wait a minute here - the FBI has ABSOLUTELY no business monitoring chat rooms on the Internet, that is totally outside of its jurisdiction.
Have you ever tried recording a video using screen capture and got only a blank space because the video player uses a DirectX overlay? The new Protected Video Path in Windows Vista is like that but even stronger.
I'm fully aware of that; however, when the screenshot key works then recording video with a screen capture works as well.
But it isn't true anyway. The COA tells you that your copy is "genuine", not that it is "licensed". For example, if you violate the terms of the license, you lose your license, but you still retain the COA.
Then how do you prove you have a license then? Keep the original receipt? How do you prove you haven't had your license revoked? Oh wait, we're talking about an artificial construct that Microsoft has utter control over and can use to screw you whenever they feel like it.
They took my tilde, now I cannot cheat in Half Life 2! NOOOOOOO! But honestly, no one's gonna printscreen an entire movie.
The concept of taking full-blown movies of your desktop is very old and is used a lot for computer training programs, it would be incredibly simple for one of those recording programs to record the video and audio of a playing movie and save it without the copy protection.
If the Japanese-Americans were jailed in WWII, why weren't the German-Americans jailed? Or the Italian-Americans (at least until 1944)? come on, if we were trying to protect ourselves, why did we leave ourselves open to spying from the two European Axis powers?
Because Japanese-Americans are easier to spot and a lot of people are racist, you should watch (or read) Snow Falling On Cedars.
AMD is well-supported under Linux and supports Linux rather well (though I imagine it's more on one side than the other).
They're not just well-supported, AMD actively works with the community! That's the only reason we have Linux support for the x86-64 processors, not because Intel was being a nice processor overlord or people spent the last decade hacking support: http://www.x86-64.org/
Pardon me for asking but doesn't the definition of a virus include duplication? All I hear is that some code can download a picture. How does it "reproduce" itself and infect other stations?
It doesn't, macros are of the "Trojan" variety. Personally, I think we should call the whole virus/worm/trojan category "Internet Transmitted Diseases", or ITDs for short, so that they're scarier to the non-tech crowd.
On my patched FC3 boxes I get an error after trying to run the Linux client. "Server terminated prematurely". Now I'm going to download and run the Windows cient.
No you can't. What he describes works via IP routing in concert with switches between you and the router. Your only option is wireless, which means creating a separate network. You can stop ssh tunneling by also restricting or banning what goes out of the router. This is a heavy handed, nasty thing, so it's understandable why the GP wouldn't want to do it.
If I can still use DNS then I can tunnel SSH over it. Even if the only DNS server I can contact directly is his then that server will still redirect my hidden queries to the tunneling server.
It's a Cisco config option that says client stations can't speak to each other except via a router. Firewall rules in the router to only allow access to a proxy server, mail server and dns server, problem solved.
Not so, I can easily route around your restricted access rules by using SSH tunneling. I can do this flat-out if you left SSH open, or I can route it over ICMP (ping), or I can route it over DNS if you decide to block ping (fat chance you'd block that - especially since SSH over DNS uses carefully disguised valid DNS queries). All this requires is a single machine IP setup to serve (which can be either part of the network or located somewhere else) and a configuration script set to run on all clients to route their LAN or internet access through the server machine. SSH tunneling is also useful at hotels and airports that restrict access but I can guarantee you that if people start blocking access at universities that it will become a main-stream technology.
Please tell me that you don't really believe that this is unique to "Open Source projects".
I don't think a feature-freeze is "unique" to Open Source but I've seen it a lot more in the Open Source world than in the commercial world. Just about everything I've seen has been feature-driven or bug-driven in the form of "Customer X needs Feature/Bug Y by Date Z". The Open Source world has more of a "we've fixed a bunch of stuff, let's get ready for a new release on Date Z" attitude.
I guess I am a little confused what the rush is. Can't they just hold the release until they get this feature correct? It is not like they are selling a product and need the churn to make revenue.
Open Source projects go into a state that is called a "feature-freeze" in preparation for the next release of the core product. During this time no new features may be added, only bug-fixing and removal of features can occur. This step of the release process is present in order to ensure that a feature didn't add too-many unnecessary bugs to the software that sacrifice the core goals of the project. In this case Mozilla is trying to ensure that the next set of core changes to the browser aren't messed up by the new bookmarking system since the new bookmarking system isn't as important as the changes to the internals (which is what the new release is really about).
What's the next step. Setting up a phony bank branch and asking you to come into it?
... visit our new location at 25th and Wells and sign-up for our Totally Free Checking(tm) with Free iPod(tm) *!
* Some terms and conditions apply, business may not actually be a subsidiary of Stealing Your Money Banks.
Copy on Write saves you real memory, cache memory, and CPU time by pretending that each forked process has a true copy of a memory segment when it in fact is looking at the original. That is, right up until a fork tries to write to that memory location, in which case an exception is handled by making an actual copy to a new location and allowing the write.
I think the problem with this approach is that COW will only give you a copy of the particular piece of the memory that you accessed. That means that the system has to keep huge tables of what is shared and what is not and every time you make a call to request ANY memory it's going to need to check the table. This action is going to result in an overall performance degradation since the application has to check the table for every write over the long-haul, rather than just duplicate the memory and go.
You don't prove something is impossible by failing to demonstrate it!
Yes, you do. Under the circumstances that they created they have proved, for all intents and purposes, that prayer is not helpful. This result does not exclude other cirumstances as they have clearly stated, but it is absolute folly to think that it will work next time under identical conditions.
Is moochfish totally inept or just trying to fan the 'IE7 is the suck' flames? My guess is the latter.
Probably, and I'm totally cool with that. I say he should convert his company over to using Firefox or Opera, the more people that use "alternative" browsers the better it is for everyone.
... is what every application ought to do, and what every application will be forced to do eventually.
Yup, that's what selinux is for - if any process (including processes owned by root) is up to something suspicious then selinux steps in. If you're going to manage your system that way then you need to go all-out, hacking it on top of the browser is not the way to go.
... but I have never heard of an "ordinary" user process switching to an even less privileged user account.
On many Linux systems Apache starts as either root or an ordinary user but then most of it runs as "www-data" (or similar) that only has permission to write to/var/www (or similar) and has no actual login shell. I think that qualifies as a "less privileged user account", but why in the hell would I want my browser to do that? If I'm running a browser I want to be able to write files to my desktop without it prompting me every 2 seconds, now I don't want it to be "root" and run all over my programs but I'm just fine with it being "me".
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I feel safer, don't you?
I feel safer knowing that the CIA is doing it's job. Wait a minute here - the FBI has ABSOLUTELY no business monitoring chat rooms on the Internet, that is totally outside of its jurisdiction.
Have you ever tried recording a video using screen capture and got only a blank space because the video player uses a DirectX overlay? The new Protected Video Path in Windows Vista is like that but even stronger.
I'm fully aware of that; however, when the screenshot key works then recording video with a screen capture works as well.
But it isn't true anyway. The COA tells you that your copy is "genuine", not that it is "licensed". For example, if you violate the terms of the license, you lose your license, but you still retain the COA.
Then how do you prove you have a license then? Keep the original receipt? How do you prove you haven't had your license revoked? Oh wait, we're talking about an artificial construct that Microsoft has utter control over and can use to screw you whenever they feel like it.
They took my tilde, now I cannot cheat in Half Life 2! NOOOOOOO! But honestly, no one's gonna printscreen an entire movie.
The concept of taking full-blown movies of your desktop is very old and is used a lot for computer training programs, it would be incredibly simple for one of those recording programs to record the video and audio of a playing movie and save it without the copy protection.
If the Japanese-Americans were jailed in WWII, why weren't the German-Americans jailed? Or the Italian-Americans (at least until 1944)? come on, if we were trying to protect ourselves, why did we leave ourselves open to spying from the two European Axis powers?
Because Japanese-Americans are easier to spot and a lot of people are racist, you should watch (or read) Snow Falling On Cedars.
People really should listen to their gut instinct when the red flags go up....
Look it up in your gut
Maybe they need it to calculate Sergei's Income Tax.
But if he lives across the river in Washington then there is no income tax.
AMD is well-supported under Linux and supports Linux rather well (though I imagine it's more on one side than the other).
They're not just well-supported, AMD actively works with the community! That's the only reason we have Linux support for the x86-64 processors, not because Intel was being a nice processor overlord or people spent the last decade hacking support: http://www.x86-64.org/
I'm curious to see if Earth is native.
It is, I just downloaded it and it installs and runs beautifully without any Wine (even checked for them hiding it with ps).
Pardon me for asking but doesn't the definition of a virus include duplication? All I hear is that some code can download a picture. How does it "reproduce" itself and infect other stations?
It doesn't, macros are of the "Trojan" variety. Personally, I think we should call the whole virus/worm/trojan category "Internet Transmitted Diseases", or ITDs for short, so that they're scarier to the non-tech crowd.
Problem is, Hitler was (kind of) democratically elected.
Bush was (kind of) democratically elected too.
On my patched FC3 boxes I get an error after trying to run the Linux client. "Server terminated prematurely". Now I'm going to download and run the Windows cient.
:)
Not.
You could see if it runs under Wine
No you can't. What he describes works via IP routing in concert with switches between you and the router. Your only option is wireless, which means creating a separate network. You can stop ssh tunneling by also restricting or banning what goes out of the router. This is a heavy handed, nasty thing, so it's understandable why the GP wouldn't want to do it.
If I can still use DNS then I can tunnel SSH over it. Even if the only DNS server I can contact directly is his then that server will still redirect my hidden queries to the tunneling server.
http://www.aripollak.com/wiki/Main/SSHOverDNS
It's a Cisco config option that says client stations can't speak to each other except via a router. Firewall rules in the router to only allow access to a proxy server, mail server and dns server, problem solved.
Not so, I can easily route around your restricted access rules by using SSH tunneling. I can do this flat-out if you left SSH open, or I can route it over ICMP (ping), or I can route it over DNS if you decide to block ping (fat chance you'd block that - especially since SSH over DNS uses carefully disguised valid DNS queries). All this requires is a single machine IP setup to serve (which can be either part of the network or located somewhere else) and a configuration script set to run on all clients to route their LAN or internet access through the server machine. SSH tunneling is also useful at hotels and airports that restrict access but I can guarantee you that if people start blocking access at universities that it will become a main-stream technology.
Please tell me that you don't really believe that this is unique to "Open Source projects".
I don't think a feature-freeze is "unique" to Open Source but I've seen it a lot more in the Open Source world than in the commercial world. Just about everything I've seen has been feature-driven or bug-driven in the form of "Customer X needs Feature/Bug Y by Date Z". The Open Source world has more of a "we've fixed a bunch of stuff, let's get ready for a new release on Date Z" attitude.
I guess I am a little confused what the rush is. Can't they just hold the release until they get this feature correct? It is not like they are selling a product and need the churn to make revenue.
Open Source projects go into a state that is called a "feature-freeze" in preparation for the next release of the core product. During this time no new features may be added, only bug-fixing and removal of features can occur. This step of the release process is present in order to ensure that a feature didn't add too-many unnecessary bugs to the software that sacrifice the core goals of the project. In this case Mozilla is trying to ensure that the next set of core changes to the browser aren't messed up by the new bookmarking system since the new bookmarking system isn't as important as the changes to the internals (which is what the new release is really about).
What's the next step. Setting up a phony bank branch and asking you to come into it?
... visit our new location at 25th and Wells and sign-up for our Totally Free Checking(tm) with Free iPod(tm) *!
* Some terms and conditions apply, business may not actually be a subsidiary of Stealing Your Money Banks.
Copy on Write saves you real memory, cache memory, and CPU time by pretending that each forked process has a true copy of a memory segment when it in fact is looking at the original. That is, right up until a fork tries to write to that memory location, in which case an exception is handled by making an actual copy to a new location and allowing the write.
I think the problem with this approach is that COW will only give you a copy of the particular piece of the memory that you accessed. That means that the system has to keep huge tables of what is shared and what is not and every time you make a call to request ANY memory it's going to need to check the table. This action is going to result in an overall performance degradation since the application has to check the table for every write over the long-haul, rather than just duplicate the memory and go.
What's the usual sentence for third-degree yoinking and aggravated shenanigans?
IANAL but I think that would probably fall under "Criminal Mischief", which is probably different depending on the state you're in.
And 12 people were dead.
A couple of high schoolers did better than that, try again.
You don't prove something is impossible by failing to demonstrate it!
Yes, you do . Under the circumstances that they created they have proved, for all intents and purposes, that prayer is not helpful. This result does not exclude other cirumstances as they have clearly stated, but it is absolute folly to think that it will work next time under identical conditions.
Is moochfish totally inept or just trying to fan the 'IE7 is the suck' flames? My guess is the latter.
Probably, and I'm totally cool with that. I say he should convert his company over to using Firefox or Opera, the more people that use "alternative" browsers the better it is for everyone.
... is what every application ought to do, and what every application will be forced to do eventually.
Yup, that's what selinux is for - if any process (including processes owned by root) is up to something suspicious then selinux steps in. If you're going to manage your system that way then you need to go all-out, hacking it on top of the browser is not the way to go.
... but I have never heard of an "ordinary" user process switching to an even less privileged user account.
/var/www (or similar) and has no actual login shell. I think that qualifies as a "less privileged user account", but why in the hell would I want my browser to do that? If I'm running a browser I want to be able to write files to my desktop without it prompting me every 2 seconds, now I don't want it to be "root" and run all over my programs but I'm just fine with it being "me".
On many Linux systems Apache starts as either root or an ordinary user but then most of it runs as "www-data" (or similar) that only has permission to write to
1) Create a plain text file with all the alias commands:
...
alias ls="ls -alF"
alias nano="nano -w"
2) Open connection to server in client of choice
3) Open file in notepad
4) Select All
5) Copy selection
6) Paste in connection window