Its does not work like that. The tone you play is the tone that normaly is made by your phone when you hang it up. it tricks the recorder into thinking you hung the phone up and turns itself off.
Not to many people have caught onto the part that said this only worked in analog systems, which are very out of date and never used by smart criminals.
Im confused, i always understood a darknet to be a segment of ip addresses with no services on it that captures all packets to a monitoring computer. They use them to track malware attacks. see http://www.cymru.com/Darknet/
Now they are using it to describe covert channels, whats the deal?
The main problem with PHP is that its almost to easy for someone with no real programming knowledge to use. PHP is a very powerful language but it lacks the standardization present in other languages. I work as a freelance web developer (unless someone wants to hire me full time) and i cant even count the amount of times i was asked to help fix problems on sites which were caused because of poor coding standards or a lack of knowledge on the original developers part. This is combined with the fact that most smaller PHP driven sites end up being a messy combination of free scripts people find online, then are glued together in a poor way by a person with out a lot of programming knowledge.
Zend is doing a lot to fix these problems and make PHP much more appealing for professional developer. Zend studio is an amazing tool for PHP, being able to debug an entire website remotely was huge for me. Combined with the Zend Framework and other tools, PHP becomes a viable alternative to J2EE or.NET, and all for a fraction of the price.
Before we can get there though, some things will need to change in the way PHP code is written. PHPDOC should always be used for every piece of PHP code Coding standards like those used in the PEAR project should always be followed. Also, PHP5 needs to go into more wide spread use. Currently very few web hosting company's support PHP5, this is usually because the applications they them self use for managing their business are written in PHP4.
Hopefully PHP will replace J2EE and.NET one day, but it isn't here yet, until then it looks like I am stuck fixing other peoples mistakes.
My current setup consists of my dell inspiron 8200 laptop running Debian with an extra 19 inch monitor. my mouse is a logitech mx510 (i do a lot of gaming also). After using a 2nd monitor for so long now i don't think i could ever give up that extra space. i have also grown the love the feel of a laptop keyboard with its flat key layout. so much so that i have been looking for an external keyboard in the same style.
for IDE's i use Zend Studio for my PHP development and Eclipse for Java, Emacs for everything else.
this is absolutly true. A few months ago i reformated a friends system and installed XP again. this was a version that only had integrated service pack 1. it was plugged direcly to the cable modem and since windows did not have a firewall on by defualt he was wide open. in fact his computer was infected by multiple things before it even finished booting for the first time! By the time i got into widnwos it already had lots of interesting spyware and worms for me to get rid of. Luckily im more than capable of handeling those problems, but the average user would not be, and may never even know he was infected. This is a huge prolem IMHO, which could be fixed by having a full firewall enabled during the install. and has a habbit of turning what should be an easy install of windows in less than an hour, into a nightmare that last over 5 just to get it ready to use.
but in the mean time just dont be connected directly to the internet when doing an install. or you can just use Linux like me =)
ugh get a grip man, my rant was not directed at you personaly, i dont know a thing about you. it was directed more at people in general who think that linux should be the same as windows. you may know a lot more than the general person i was refuring to. but a lot of people are like that.
just a note on updating. apt-get update/upgrade is meant for updating yoru entire system, fixing possible bugs and vulnerabilitys as well as installing new versions. you can run it your self once a week/month/whenever or you could automate it with a simple cron job. if your keeping your systems up to date you are asking for problems
They may not be able to tax the dead but im sure they could find a way to tax the "dead for a few years". Say, if you Invest a bunch of money in the markets, freeze yourself for a few years and then come back to collect your money. You would still have an income even though your frozen and therefore still have to pay taxes.
When you began using a computer it was probably on windows, you spent some time moving the mouse around, clicking on stuff, pressing next a bunch of times with out reading anything. that appeared to work and you thought "wow this computer stuff isn't so hard". you assumed that since Microsoft made it, it much be the best cause "Hey they are MS they know stuff". 1 year later (assuming you haven't had to reformat because your MS product broke, or let you break it.) your still using the same version of win-zip and win-amp or whatever it is you use, Even though new versions of the software have been out for months with new features you would probably like (but your don't even know they exist). The only typing you do is when you email your grandmother or instant message someone (and since you never took the time to learn to type it takes your forever to hunt and peck).
Then one day you hear about this magic thing called Linux, and thinking that your the computer master since you helped your grandmother install AOL, and are just so good at the video games you play that it should be easy. You don't take 5 mins to learn the first thing about Linux and just ASSUME that you should be able to double click everything just like in windows. Well this isn't windows, this is Linux and you shouldn't use it probably unless 1. you use it at work and your sysadmin sets it all up to be easy, or 2. you are willing to take 10 mins to do a little reading (all of which is free on the Internet) and learn a little bit about your distro.
THE POINT!
If your not willing to spend a little time learning how to use your system, THEN YOU WONT BE ABLE TO USE IT. RTFM..
i doubt the companys will release the source code for the software even if it is linux. and considering the applicatiosn that run on these devices are ususaly very small and take little input from the user it should be easy for the developers to make it pretty secure. they could probaly even use some kind of hashing system to check the images to insure you cant use a cellphone with modified OS image.
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Its does not work like that. The tone you play is the tone that normaly is made by your phone when you hang it up. it tricks the recorder into thinking you hung the phone up and turns itself off.
Not to many people have caught onto the part that said this only worked in analog systems, which are very out of date and never used by smart criminals.
Im confused, i always understood a darknet to be a segment of ip addresses with no services on it that captures all packets to a monitoring computer. They use them to track malware attacks. see http://www.cymru.com/Darknet/ Now they are using it to describe covert channels, whats the deal?
Would something like this apply to open-source projects as well? Or would open-source fall into "Use at your own risk".
The main problem with PHP is that its almost to easy for someone with no real programming knowledge to use. PHP is a very powerful language but it lacks the standardization present in other languages. I work as a freelance web developer (unless someone wants to hire me full time) and i cant even count the amount of times i was asked to help fix problems on sites which were caused because of poor coding standards or a lack of knowledge on the original developers part. This is combined with the fact that most smaller PHP driven sites end up being a messy combination of free scripts people find online, then are glued together in a poor way by a person with out a lot of programming knowledge.
.NET, and all for a fraction of the price.
.NET one day, but it isn't here yet, until then it looks like I am stuck fixing other peoples mistakes.
Zend is doing a lot to fix these problems and make PHP much more appealing for professional developer. Zend studio is an amazing tool for PHP, being able to debug an entire website remotely was huge for me. Combined with the Zend Framework and other tools, PHP becomes a viable alternative to J2EE or
Before we can get there though, some things will need to change in the way PHP code is written. PHPDOC should always be used for every piece of PHP code Coding standards like those used in the PEAR project should always be followed. Also, PHP5 needs to go into more wide spread use. Currently very few web hosting company's support PHP5, this is usually because the applications they them self use for managing their business are written in PHP4.
Hopefully PHP will replace J2EE and
My current setup consists of my dell inspiron 8200 laptop running Debian with an extra 19 inch monitor. my mouse is a logitech mx510 (i do a lot of gaming also). After using a 2nd monitor for so long now i don't think i could ever give up that extra space. i have also grown the love the feel of a laptop keyboard with its flat key layout. so much so that i have been looking for an external keyboard in the same style.
for IDE's i use Zend Studio for my PHP development and Eclipse for Java, Emacs for everything else.this is absolutly true. A few months ago i reformated a friends system and installed XP again. this was a version that only had integrated service pack 1. it was plugged direcly to the cable modem and since windows did not have a firewall on by defualt he was wide open. in fact his computer was infected by multiple things before it even finished booting for the first time! By the time i got into widnwos it already had lots of interesting spyware and worms for me to get rid of. Luckily im more than capable of handeling those problems, but the average user would not be, and may never even know he was infected. This is a huge prolem IMHO, which could be fixed by having a full firewall enabled during the install. and has a habbit of turning what should be an easy install of windows in less than an hour, into a nightmare that last over 5 just to get it ready to use.
but in the mean time just dont be connected directly to the internet when doing an install. or you can just use Linux like me =)
what i meant to say was
If your NOT keeping your system up to date you are asking for problems.
ugh get a grip man, my rant was not directed at you personaly, i dont know a thing about you. it was directed more at people in general who think that linux should be the same as windows. you may know a lot more than the general person i was refuring to. but a lot of people are like that.
just a note on updating. apt-get update/upgrade is meant for updating yoru entire system, fixing possible bugs and vulnerabilitys as well as installing new versions. you can run it your self once a week/month/whenever or you could automate it with a simple cron job. if your keeping your systems up to date you are asking for problems
Hitchikers guide to the galaxy anyone?
They may not be able to tax the dead but im sure they could find a way to tax the "dead for a few years". Say, if you Invest a bunch of money in the markets, freeze yourself for a few years and then come back to collect your money. You would still have an income even though your frozen and therefore still have to pay taxes.
When you began using a computer it was probably on windows, you spent some time moving the mouse around, clicking on stuff, pressing next a bunch of times with out reading anything. that appeared to work and you thought "wow this computer stuff isn't so hard". you assumed that since Microsoft made it, it much be the best cause "Hey they are MS they know stuff". 1 year later (assuming you haven't had to reformat because your MS product broke, or let you break it.) your still using the same version of win-zip and win-amp or whatever it is you use, Even though new versions of the software have been out for months with new features you would probably like (but your don't even know they exist). The only typing you do is when you email your grandmother or instant message someone (and since you never took the time to learn to type it takes your forever to hunt and peck).
Then one day you hear about this magic thing called Linux, and thinking that your the computer master since you helped your grandmother install AOL, and are just so good at the video games you play that it should be easy. You don't take 5 mins to learn the first thing about Linux and just ASSUME that you should be able to double click everything just like in windows. Well this isn't windows, this is Linux and you shouldn't use it probably unless 1. you use it at work and your sysadmin sets it all up to be easy, or 2. you are willing to take 10 mins to do a little reading (all of which is free on the Internet) and learn a little bit about your distro.
THE POINT!
If your not willing to spend a little time learning how to use your system, THEN YOU WONT BE ABLE TO USE IT. RTFM..
and if thats to hard for you heres a hint.
apt-cache search whatever
apt-get install whatever
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
and the most important of all
man program-name
i doubt the companys will release the source code for the software even if it is linux. and considering the applicatiosn that run on these devices are ususaly very small and take little input from the user it should be easy for the developers to make it pretty secure. they could probaly even use some kind of hashing system to check the images to insure you cant use a cellphone with modified OS image.
those all sound like good reasons to be using linux on these devices.