75% is an impressive number, but remember that after your second installation of any OS you have done 100% as many as the day before !! (assuming you won't do them both on the same day) --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
I don't know about google but there are commercial companies out there that do portscanning as part of their businessmodel.
Here is one:
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37301 -> xxx.xx.65.88:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37278 -> xxx.xx.65.65:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37285 -> xxx.xx.65.72:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37286 -> xxx.xx.65.73:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37287 -> xxx.xx.65.74:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37291 -> xxx.xx.65.78:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37293 -> xxx.xx.65.80:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37294 -> xxx.xx.65.81:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37298 -> xxx.xx.65.85:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37302 -> xxx.xx.65.89:80 SYN ******S*
Does this mean that Google and company can now be found guilty when searching for open port 80 on networks ?
How about search engines that look for open 21(ftp) port ? , How about gopher ? CIFS (Common Internet filesystem) ? Hmmmm Interesting.. --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
TCP is actually *less* overhead as the IP stack will take care of lost packets, retransmissions and let the application receive the data in the same order as it was sent.
UDP will do none of those things for you.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
From what I have seen, Microsoft really does quite a lot for free software. It provides competition and so on, true, but it
also writes free software itself.
When people on/. refer to "free" software they normally mean "free as in speach" not "as in bear".
Also, if competition is so good, then why is MS killing off all of theirs ?
It always amazes me how little some people do care about freedom. There are a number of reasons for why we need a active monitoring of the market to ensure that it will stay competitive and open to all.
Consumers, in general, are not going to bother. "bothering" involves looking up information/spending your time on something they don't understand the purpose of. They would rather just sit and watch the N-th episode of the anorexic AllyMcBean
Consumer lock-ins Imagine you had bought all your electronic hardware from just one manufacturer. The TV, the Video, the DVD player, the radio, the Stereo.. Everything bought from Bill's Hardware. Everything works just fine together. It was relatively cheap compared to other options. But now, even if someone else manufactures a new DVD player with options that you would be ready to kill for, you can't reasonably buy it. It won't plug into your Bill's Hardware TV, nor the stereo, and not even that special powerplug you got as a bonus foe being such a nice custumer. You are locked-in
Monopoly, Economicaly speaking, a company is said to have monopoly position on a market if it can block/prevent active competition with either market position or financial power.
It works like this: Let's say that some company is producing the perfect DVD player. Bill's Hardware starts selling it's DVD players way under manufacturing costs and even giving them away in some bundle-backs. When the new company goes under, the prises will of course rise again, and since there is no competition, Bill's Hardware can just blod-suck the marked dry.
brant-typing is the phenomenm when consumers connect one producers product with a product category. Examples could be McDonalds and hamburgers, Domino's and Pizzas etc etc...
There was an interesting example of this here in france a while ago when people decided to protest against a certain dairy-product manufacturer by boycotting his products. Polls showed that about 60% of people were in favor of the boycott. But in reality sales of this producer's product's almost didn't decrease at all !! This is the power of brand-typing. --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
Put whatever you want to burn into a directory DDD and do "mkisofs -l -r -J -o Image.iso -V "My Stuff"/location/of/DDD
Then do "cdrecord --scanbus" to find the ID of your SCSI writer (there is a little bit different command for IDE drives)
Now write the image with "cdrecord dev=0:6:6 speed=12 -v Image.iso"
And CD burning will never be the same again;-) --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
Anyone who knows networking will tell you that this is exactly what SYNcookies were made for. The attack didn't use up all the network traffic, but rather used up all the filehandle-slots on the server OS.
When using SYNcookies the server doesn't allocate a file-handle for each new connection but puts a 'challenge' in the Syn/Ack package and waits for the last Ack of the 3-way handshake. This effectively forces the attacker to reveal his IP address if he wants to use up the filehandles, and then you just block hin in your router. --
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
But this does not make sense to me: this addition does change the meaning of the license.
Nope, remember that if you find some software just lying around somewhere, you have, by default, zero rights for that software.
All rights to use it have to be explicitly given to you by the rightsholder.
So if the license did not explicitly allow any use of modified code, that that's it. It was never allowed.
This is also why the GNU GPL works, agreeing on it is the only thing that will allow you to use the code.
Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
Listen, NameVirtualHost, and directives support IPv6
numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
[Jeff Trawick]
2. The primary gist seems to be the use of a MPEG-specific coprocessor in a certain way that unloads the main
CPU from having to do any video encoding / decoding work. IANAL but this does not seem to cover PVR
functionality implemented in a PC, given the way most videocards are implemented.
And this is judged creative enought to be granted a patend ??
Sorry, but isn't this *exactly* what MPEG-specific coprocessors are designed for ???
The problem was a design/logical/programming error.
The error had - erroneously - made the current test appear easier than the previous year's. To make the tests equal in difficulty, the computer had then compensated by making it harder for some students to do as well as they had last time. The error did not change students' right and wrong answers, but it did affect their comparative percentile scores.
And regarding the 'disclosure of questions', I don't think we're asking for to much if we want the questions/ansvers one year after the testing, it may be to late for correcting the damage, but at least the testing company will know that it's work will be doublechecked.
This process is necessary so scores one year can be compared with those from previous years, even if different questions are used. States ask for new questions because they are worried the old questions will leak out.
Also, there is no such thing as a "computer error", not any more than there is a "pencil error" when writing.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
Maby it's just me, but I fear that setting properties to variables that affect how fuctions work on them, will greatly decrease the quality of code, available.
Let's just face it, not everybody has even heard of Dijkstra, let alone know how to write 'proofable' programs.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
one of you techheads should program a random terrain
generator linked to a webpage and have a voting system to see if a person sees anything in that picture.
Sorry, but terrain is not formed by "random forces". Craters f.ex have a special known form, depending on what formed them, they can look like a bowl (wolcanic) or various impact craters (asteroids). But none of them would actually be with almost vertical walls and a flat floor as this one looks like.
Same goes for riverbeds and only rarely does landscape actually form something that resembles a triangle.
The way we should interpret those images is just "wow, neat, but like most reports it doesn't prove anything"
For that matter, it's worth pointing out that the GPL actually restricts my freedom! I cannot do just anything with GPL-ed code.
Still, some people seem to have problem understanding "free software". It was never ment to mean that you could just take it and do with it as you wish (as in beer).
It's the *software* that is free, and the fact that it's freedom blocks your freedom in some areas (you can't "imprison" it in "un-free" software) seem to be the source of this annoyance.
But there's no way I can ever tolerate his distorted vision for the future of software. To the extent that he denies a
software author the right to do with his code as he pleases, the man is a maniac.
I assure you that this is complete nonsense, of cource you can do as you wish with your code. It's the code of *others* that you can't do with as you wish.
The real threat to future innovation and development does not come from Free code.
No, the real problem is when someone has come up with a brilliant idea, spent weeks/months writing it up in an application only to find out that he has "infringed" upon dozens of software patents in the process.
Now that is something that threatens future innovation.
Can you imagine what MS marketing will make out of this if this turns out to be a Linux box ? (they have been aboard shuttles, so why not on the station).
My point here is that mentioning MS now, should absolutely not be considered MS bashing, but rather just mentioning the obvious. That MS server *do* crash for no apparent reason, a fact that you can't find mentioned anywhere on this site.
I think anyone, with even half a braincell, can see where this is going.
If we accept it as a fact that movies and videogames are to blame for peoples actions, then why not books, comics, radio and theater as well ?
If seeing someone beeing killed in a specific way, makes someone kill in a similar way, then it is just a small step from saying that 'hearing' about someone kill, will make someone to kill in the same way.
And just where will we get a change to say that enough is enough, that ultimately, people are responsible for their own actions.
Haven't we had enough of books beeing censored already, to be "political correct" for our children ?
Will the evil wizard/witch just take off to a long Vacation in the future ?
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
Slashdot Mirror
So what if there are 7 "anti-bsd posts" ??
Statistics folks, statistics !
75% is an impressive number, but remember that after your second installation of any OS you have done 100% as many as the day before !! (assuming you won't do them both on the same day)2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
I don't know about google but there are commercial companies out there that do portscanning as part of their businessmodel.
Here is one:
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37301 -> xxx.xx.65.88:80 SYN ******S*
2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37278 -> xxx.xx.65.65:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37285 -> xxx.xx.65.72:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37286 -> xxx.xx.65.73:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37287 -> xxx.xx.65.74:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37291 -> xxx.xx.65.78:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37293 -> xxx.xx.65.80:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37294 -> xxx.xx.65.81:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37298 -> xxx.xx.65.85:80 SYN ******S*
May 15 03:32:39 209.211.205.56:37302 -> xxx.xx.65.89:80 SYN ******S*
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Does this mean that Google and company can now be found guilty when searching for open port 80 on networks ?
How about search engines that look for open 21(ftp) port ? , How about gopher ? CIFS (Common Internet filesystem) ? Hmmmm Interesting ..2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
UDP will do none of those things for you.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
As
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
From what I have seen, Microsoft really does quite a lot for free software. It provides competition and so on, true, but it also writes free software itself.
When people on /. refer to "free" software they normally mean "free as in speach" not "as in bear".
Also, if competition is so good, then why is MS killing off all of theirs ?
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
It always amazes me how little some people do care about freedom. There are a number of reasons for why we need a active monitoring of the market to ensure that it will stay competitive and open to all.
Consumers, in general, are not going to bother. "bothering" involves looking up information/spending your time on something they don't understand the purpose of. They would rather just sit and watch the N-th episode of the anorexic AllyMcBean
Consumer lock-ins Imagine you had bought all your electronic hardware from just one manufacturer. The TV, the Video, the DVD player, the radio, the Stereo .. Everything bought from Bill's Hardware. Everything works just fine together. It was relatively cheap compared to other options. But now, even if someone else manufactures a new DVD player with options that you would be ready to kill for, you can't reasonably buy it. It won't plug into your Bill's Hardware TV, nor the stereo, and not even that special powerplug you got as a bonus foe being such a nice custumer. You are locked-in
Monopoly, Economicaly speaking, a company is said to have monopoly position on a market if it can block/prevent active competition with either market position or financial power. It works like this: Let's say that some company is producing the perfect DVD player. Bill's Hardware starts selling it's DVD players way under manufacturing costs and even giving them away in some bundle-backs. When the new company goes under, the prises will of course rise again, and since there is no competition, Bill's Hardware can just blod-suck the marked dry.
brant-typing is the phenomenm when consumers connect one producers product with a product category. Examples could be McDonalds and hamburgers, Domino's and Pizzas etc etc ...
There was an interesting example of this here in france a while ago when people decided to protest against a certain dairy-product manufacturer by boycotting his products. Polls showed that about 60% of people were in favor of the boycott. But in reality sales of this producer's product's almost didn't decrease at all !! This is the power of brand-typing.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Co'm on folks, you don't realy think I will belive you are using Windows are you ?
Look, download CDRecord and compile it.
Put whatever you want to burn into a directory DDD and do "mkisofs -l -r -J -o Image.iso -V "My Stuff" /location/of/DDD
Then do "cdrecord --scanbus" to find the ID of your SCSI writer (there is a little bit different command for IDE drives)
Now write the image with "cdrecord dev=0:6:6 speed=12 -v Image.iso"
And CD burning will never be the same again ;-)2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Anyone who knows networking will tell you that this is exactly what SYNcookies were made for. The attack didn't use up all the network traffic, but rather used up all the filehandle-slots on the server OS.
Just take a look at that graph and the anver is obvious.
When using SYNcookies the server doesn't allocate a file-handle for each new connection but puts a 'challenge' in the Syn/Ack package and waits for the last Ack of the 3-way handshake. This effectively forces the attacker to reveal his IP address if he wants to use up the filehandles, and then you just block hin in your router.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
But this does not make sense to me: this addition does change the meaning of the license.
Nope, remember that if you find some software just lying around somewhere, you have, by default, zero rights for that software.
All rights to use it have to be explicitly given to you by the rightsholder.
So if the license did not explicitly allow any use of modified code, that that's it. It was never allowed.
This is also why the GNU GPL works, agreeing on it is the only thing that will allow you to use the code.
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Well, the production server that runs on www.apache.org seems to have been supporting IPv6 for a long time.
According to this document.
Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6, Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the Listen, NameVirtualHost, and directives support IPv6 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
[Jeff Trawick]
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
2. The primary gist seems to be the use of a MPEG-specific coprocessor in a certain way that unloads the main CPU from having to do any video encoding / decoding work. IANAL but this does not seem to cover PVR functionality implemented in a PC, given the way most videocards are implemented.
And this is judged creative enought to be granted a patend ??
Sorry, but isn't this *exactly* what MPEG-specific coprocessors are designed for ???
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
The problem was a design/logical/programming error.
The error had - erroneously - made the current test appear easier than the previous year's. To make the tests equal in difficulty, the computer had then compensated by making it harder for some students to do as well as they had last time. The error did not change students' right and wrong answers, but it did affect their comparative percentile scores.
And regarding the 'disclosure of questions', I don't think we're asking for to much if we want the questions/ansvers one year after the testing, it may be to late for correcting the damage, but at least the testing company will know that it's work will be doublechecked.
This process is necessary so scores one year can be compared with those from previous years, even if different questions are used. States ask for new questions because they are worried the old questions will leak out.
Also, there is no such thing as a "computer error", not any more than there is a "pencil error" when writing.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
How about:
$*ARGS is chomped;
Maby it's just me, but I fear that setting properties to variables that affect how fuctions work on them, will greatly decrease the quality of code, available.
Let's just face it, not everybody has even heard of Dijkstra, let alone know how to write 'proofable' programs.2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
one of you techheads should program a random terrain generator linked to a webpage and have a voting system to see if a person sees anything in that picture.
Sorry, but terrain is not formed by "random forces". Craters f.ex have a special known form, depending on what formed them, they can look like a bowl (wolcanic) or various impact craters (asteroids). But none of them would actually be with almost vertical walls and a flat floor as this one looks like.
Same goes for riverbeds and only rarely does landscape actually form something that resembles a triangle.
The way we should interpret those images is just "wow, neat, but like most reports it doesn't prove anything"
--
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
For that matter, it's worth pointing out that the GPL actually restricts my freedom! I cannot do just anything with GPL-ed code.
Still, some people seem to have problem understanding "free software". It was never ment to mean that you could just take it and do with it as you wish (as in beer).
It's the *software* that is free, and the fact that it's freedom blocks your freedom in some areas (you can't "imprison" it in "un-free" software) seem to be the source of this annoyance.
But there's no way I can ever tolerate his distorted vision for the future of software. To the extent that he denies a software author the right to do with his code as he pleases, the man is a maniac.
I assure you that this is complete nonsense, of cource you can do as you wish with your code. It's the code of *others* that you can't do with as you wish.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Mo dt hi sup !2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
The best warning ever, must be this:
Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.
It comes from SAFETY RULES FOR US STRATEGIC BOMBERS2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Just download Sniffit and "Touch of Death" from HERE
Will autokill any connection you see ;-)2 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
Is there any real difference between the service that Napster provides and what Google does ?
Apart from that in the former case, it are the users who submit the data to be indexed, I can see no difference justifying all this hoopla.
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The real threat to future innovation and development does not come from Free code.
No, the real problem is when someone has come up with a brilliant idea, spent weeks/months writing it up in an application only to find out that he has "infringed" upon dozens of software patents in the process.
Now that is something that threatens future innovation.
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echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
You can read the paper on line or you can download all the files a a zip file and read it off-line.
Will we now have a new mirror-this-free-speech frenzy ?
--
Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.
From the article:
If the problem persists, NASA could extend the mission by a day or two.
Now, could Microsoft please recalculate the "Total Cost of Ownership for NASA ?
--
Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.
Can you imagine what MS marketing will make out of this if this turns out to be a Linux box ? (they have been aboard shuttles, so why not on the station).
My point here is that mentioning MS now, should absolutely not be considered MS bashing, but rather just mentioning the obvious. That MS server *do* crash for no apparent reason, a fact that you can't find mentioned anywhere on this site.
--
Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.
I think anyone, with even half a braincell, can see where this is going.
If we accept it as a fact that movies and videogames are to blame for peoples actions, then why not books, comics, radio and theater as well ?
If seeing someone beeing killed in a specific way, makes someone kill in a similar way, then it is just a small step from saying that 'hearing' about someone kill, will make someone to kill in the same way.
And just where will we get a change to say that enough is enough, that ultimately, people are responsible for their own actions.
Haven't we had enough of books beeing censored already, to be "political correct" for our children ?
Will the evil wizard/witch just take off to a long Vacation in the future ?
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?