Build a kernel with everything you can as modules. With exception to deep-kernel changes, most things can be unloaded/reloaded on the fly.... Course this doesn't work with some modules that won't remove because they're busy.
Imho a good working kernel doesnt need to be updated every revision. Only when you know something that was quirky before will be fixed, or other known speed improvements to your system. Only serious security issues for my system forces me to update the kernel.
News: discovered vulnerability
Mozilla: patch next day after article.
Microsoft: patch next black tuesday.
The only reason you see patches before announcements with microsoft is because the security groups dont want to deal with litigation-hell microsoft might try to inflict on them.
Mozilla on the other hand doesn't have that advantange with all groups.
So please keep your stupid comments to yourself.
Firefox isn't a security flaw. Would you rather have IPC open as an RPC? No. They bind to 127.0.0.1 for IPC (restricting it to local traffic only). Security +1. If you think this is bad, how do you think two processes of firefox talk to each other and realize "Oh... I'm already running, rather than starting another copy, I'll tell the other to load xxx page/new window"
Then you got another socket for internet. You don't really need this, but without this firefox is sorta restricted to intranet/local browsing.
Freedom of speech does not protect you when it harms others. This form of speech, code, when written intentionally to destroy, you are NOT PROTECTED when released in a neglent manner or intentionally.
You have a right to have a weapon, you do not have the right to use the weapon against me unless I am encrouching on your rights. Spying on me is violating my rights of privacy. Therefore you are using a weapon against me.
If you don't believe me, go around town screaming lies like "unnamed-business believes in slave labor and raped my mom". If they feel it is threatening their bottom line, they will call the police on you and file charges under slander/libel... or whatever the hell it is.
Virii/worms/spyware affects the productivity of businesses and essentially everything else in a generally negative manner. Freedom of speech is NOT 100%, nor is any other right.
It is not booting other OSes. It is booting a bootloader. If you lack a bootloader in that 512byte section, you will not boot at all.
Oh yeah, have fun if you use lilo.
15a120v [std outlet] = 1800w
Place another computer on the same outlet (or, any other outlet directly connected to the same line) and it's lights out for you buddy.
"In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem!"
Now, I'm not that au fait with the low-level Windows or Linux processes, but I understood that they both used monolithic kernels (ie, drivers not in userland). Surely this means that Windows also has to "recompile" the kernel when the device drivers change? If so it might be hidden behind a pretty user-interface, but it's the same damn architecture and the same design problem.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with the zealot's view, but in some cases, yes, you do have to recompile the kernel if you have a fairly monolithic kernel. This does not apply to all linux installations however.
A lot of people these days who do fresh installs of stable distros such as slackware and Ubuntu (well, more ubuntu than slack) don't even bother to recompile the kernel to have it more specific to their system. This means that their kernel will work on just about any system and to change "device drivers" so to say, all you need to do is have your kernel sources, grab a new driver (spca5xx comes directly to mind), compile/install it, and reinsert the module.
So pretty much it comes down to: We're you planning on never changing hardware when you made a monolithic kernel, or did you build a highly modular kernel and kept your source tree available. They both have their cons/pros.
Just a slight note, you must reboot between benchmarking before your test will be (somewhat) valid. Windows keeps shared dlls in paged memory, and will just page it back in if you attempt to load word after closing both winword and osa.
Also making sure ctfmon.exe is not present during startup as well. Yes, this too is an office application very capable of loading shared dlls that will tamper with your results.
ctfmon.exe: Microsoft Cicero Loader, related to text-input and other input related handlers. If you have it entirely paged out it will use ~25-100kb ram (unknown vmem usage), but when office is activated again, it will expand to roughly 2mb ram, 4mb vmem. This file will be FUN for you to try to get rid of: WFP + permenant startup item (try removing it from start up, it just pops back in there by next reboot).
I know, I know. I should be testing this out myself, but the only 2k box I have at home is a 450mhz pos with not nearly enough space to work with. My question about this is generally concerned with how it "requires" windows xp sp2 to install and was wondering if this was going to be another xp-forced install (thanks for thinking to older customers ms!).
I know a lot of places that have powerful machines still running on win2k (out of spite I assume) which I guess would exclude them from this in the future if this is indeed XP++ required.
I disagree. All spammers should be blocked from the internet, but rather kicked into a really small corner of the net where they can play nice until they get cleaned up.
Blocking computers from the internet is an excellent idea, but not a complete block. Rather, do what some universities do. If you are detected doing spam/virii activities, your system gets kicked off the normal subnet that is granted full internet access, to a restricted-access subnet. In this secondary subnet you are only allowed to visit update sites, the ISP's website, and other computer fixing websites that have been whitelisted by your ISP.
Yes I know you naysayers will start to complain "WHAT ABOUT VOIP", again, if the whitelist is setup correctly, VOIP should not be affected, nor should any critical services that have been whitelisted be affected. But this does present a problem. "What should be whitelisted? Who gets to determine this?" I believe that there should be a consortium between the ISPs to determine what can and cannot be accessed in this restricted-subnet. The consortium should have it's whitelist allow all updates for any software depending on whether or not the company writing the software has requested the consortium to whitelist their address (which of course would have to be reviewed).
This is not perfect, but solutions like netsquid and others can do this relatively well. Depending on how much ISPs keep these products up to date. It will significantly remove the spamming idiots off the net, reducing everyone's overall costs (spam = wasted bandwidth, bandwidth = money) to be connected to the internet. ISPs can differentiate what services get killed when you get caught for spamming by integrating it into the connection classes (such as, VPN does not get killed if a business-class spammer gets detected).
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY does this, and I've only been blocked a few times out of mere stupidity (I forget to close xwin32 for its XSet + vulnerabilities when I cannot use ssh tunneling and neglect to turn on it's ACL)...
It works. People will complain but it is their own dumb fault for not using antivirus/antispyware/firewall software. The message they should get should have instructions on how to clean their computers of the problems and places to get help if it is required.
I've had it on more than one occation have it switched to all applications without my knowledge or consent. Generally DEP is safe to turn off if you have an up to date firewall and virus scanner AND configured them properly.
DEP, though, when only told to handle system related services tends to still interfere with things so I still recommend it to be disabled.
Due to the nature of gaming, you need xp32.
WinXP64 just went gold recently, but does that help me? No. Half of my hardware is still unsupported. You think I am going to switch os architectures because my hardware supports it but the os doesn't? No I won't.
I did have a native linux 64 bit installation that supports all of my hardware installed, but for the time being I will continue to use windows until a few of my games work correctly. Wine/Cedega/VMWare are NOT viable solutions for the games I am talking about.
By the way dork, at the time I bought this, i got A LOT MORE PERFORMANCE having a 64bit based device on it because of the much higher fsb. 800mhz fsb when the intels were still chugging along at 400mhz.
These aren't hacks, these are turning off stupid features that microsoft poorly implemented to prevent worms and such. I don't need them, I've NEVER gotten a virus on my system unintentionally (Yes there are times where you do intend to get a virus to test how it will interact with your programs after cleaning).
I have XP SP2 and an Athlon64.
It has never had any problems what so ever with any application I have ever used, with exception to windows itself.
However I will repeat myself on how to get rid of those things that cause SP2 to screw up applications.
First: Turn off NoExecute, easily done by altering your boot.ini to remove the/NoExecute=OptIn flag.
Method 1: Hit start and go to Run... Type cmd
- Type: attrib -s -h -r %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Type: notepad %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Remove all instances of/NoExecute=OptIn from any of the boot lines.
- Save, Exit, and Type: attrib +s +h +r %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Reboot and NoExecute is now gone.
Method 2: Right click on My Computer and go to Properties
- Click on the Advanced tab and hit the settings button located in the Startup and Recovery section.
- Hit the edit button undernear the first set of check marks.
- Remove all instances of/NoExecute=OptIn from any of the boot lines.
- Save, exit, reboot.
Turn off the windows firewall
Method 1: Install a 3rd party software firewall first before continuing.
- Hit Start -> Run... and type: services.msc
- Navigate down the list until you get to Windows Firewall, double click on it.
- Hit the stop button and change the Startup type combobox to Disabled.
- Hit ok and close this.
- If you wish to turn off nagging (if your firewall does not support telling windows about itself) continue to the following.
Get rid of those firewall/antivirus/update warnings
Method 1:
- Go to your control panel. In either classic view or category view, open Security Center
- On the Resources bar, click on "Change the way Security Center alerts me"
- Uncheck all that you want the security center to quit nagging about.
- Hit ok. You are done.
I do not condone usage of windows sp2 without these key features, designed to prevent virii and attacks on your computer, without actually knowing what the hell you are doing, or at least have a viable replacement for them. NoExecute, in my view, is a waste of cpu cycles and memory space because most devices out there do not support the NX bit flag properly. Even on my Athlon64 3000+ I can see a pretty heafty performance hit in applications such as Photoshop CS when NoExecute is enabled, and other applications such as WindowBlinds (other than their was-then beta for SP2 users) and DesktopX become extremely unstable. Clearly microsoft did not have application compatibility in mind when they added this feature, but at least with the new revision of windows firewall it had a little more (of much needed) power. I like it how it can configure my router's hardware firewall as well as provide an additional layer of security for my systems. It does lack the configurability of the much loved Linux Firewall, and there are alternative firewalls I can use, but they tend to cause other conflicts with my other applications. So the jury is out with the Windows Firewall, but damn. The security center was by far the most annoying thing I have seen microsoft implement. I hope these corporate users have fun if their admins forget to turn that annoying service off.
I have never gotten any spam that came from *.co.uk. Hell I never got any spam that mentioned: sixes and sevens, cherio, and all that other stereotypical bs or anything UK specific. Hey if they can't spell John in US spam (Jjoohunnn) which is the American stereotype of being near-retarded, there has to be some spam that mentions sixes and sevens!
But to be sure I don't have anything to worry about I am going to remove the blackhole from korea and give it to UK.
Yes lets support VBScript and activeX and watch all the security flaws of windows show its ugly head through firefox. I have yet to find an actual use for activeX or VBScript for that matter. If those 5/10% of the WWW wanted their site to be viewed by everyone it is their responsibility of the web developer to support as many possible clients and standards as possible. Those 5 - 10% of web developers are the equivilant of stores that only accept credit cards and not actual money. An interesting way of handling business, but a surefire way of shooting one's self in the foot.
The Mozilla dev team (so far) has shown that they know how to create secure products. Microsoft as everyone on slashdot knows has a tendancy to create products that suffer from shoddy qa thus having all of these buffer overflow issues and exploits. Yes the IDN issue will eventually show it's ugly head again for firefox, but I do know IE7 WILL have the same phishing problems that firefox had because IDN. Although IDN is nice for the foreign folk and non-english speaking, many fonts repeat characters left and right through different character sets allowing for phishing.
By the way, MS's implementation of javascript was a bastardization of the initial javascript/EMCAscript standard. Accepting MS's implementation basically throws out the standard because even with MSIE's implementation, I've had a few occations where something did not act as they were documented. Oh by the way, Microsoft cannot legally call their javascript implementation javascript, their implementation is called JScript. (This may or may not be current, I just remember reading about it years ago)
Microsoft stating that they will embrace and extend standards is just another way of Microsoft saying: Yeah, we'll follow your standards up to a point, but then we will do our own thing to make it incompatible with other products. It is the 3rd party's decision to support OUR standard or not.
Enough with bashing MS though, they should rather conform to what everyone else is using. If they did that, yes firefox would have a lot of trouble switching people over.
Arbitrarily blocking ports is not an answer. I personally prefer using nonstandard ports and having my hosting automatically redirect to my nonstandard ports. Your method is just how many ISPs responded to Code Red which by the way is annoying as hell and serves absolutely no purpose because my http server on a non-standard port receives the same bs attacks.
Not to mention *** you do not have to use port 25 to send SMTP traffic *** rather its target is going to a known pop3/pop2 (yeah they are still around) or whatever email server which also may not be running on a standard port.
Terms of services need to be enforced. Almost all ISPs reserve the right to terminate or suspend your account if it is doing mischeivous/malicious activities. Trojans and so forth spreading around can be considered this type of activity.
I wonder if this governor realized that when you browse the internet you download the pictures, text and whatever advertisement (or virii for that matter) you happen to stumble onto. Did this governor understand how the internet works?
If that passes, that will have to be submitted to the dumb laws websites, but of course Wisconsin viewers will have to pay taxes to see that.
First of all, I have found that all the incompatibility comes from two realms: NX-bit protection and the new Windows Firewall. Both are easy to disable.
NX (off): Edit your boot.ini by removing that/NoExecute=OptIn or/NoExecute line. (Go to System properties, Advanced tab. Startup and Recovery startup Settings button. and hit the edit button in the new window., it will open up your boot.ini file).
Clear, simple, and every application will no longer flip out. + you'll get a boost in performance (I take a 10% performance hit when NX is on my laptop, far more visible in photoshop than any other application).
Windows Firewall: First off, GET A BETTER FIREWALL! Next step, net stop sharedaccess and find it in your services (Start->run: services.msc) Disabled it.
Horrah! Your windows should now perform in it's old SP1 ways. (I have yet to find any application to fail after these features were disabled). Oh yeah if you get annoyed by that Windows Security Center, in it's main window on the left side it has a way to change its notification (to completely off because nagging programs suck).
I propose we have congress pass a law making it illegal to pass off spyware without having a confirmation "Do you accept to install this activity monitoring software?". Granted this won't help with idiots who blindly click through everything during install, this would greatly make hidden spyware less hidden.
Hiding spyware in EULAs is distasteful and dishonest at best. This damned act still lets that pass.
I'm not saying that I disagree with you but you really can't say your culture is better than someone elses. Yes in our respects how they treat women is crazy, but in their eyes the same occurs when they look at us.
Just because we adopt children from other countries, yes it is a sign of compassion, however it is in no way proof. We as a country can afford to adopt children, and furthermore our society accepts it, but don't for one second believe they would not do the same. They are human too, it is just that they likely do not have the same amount of resources perform the adoption (this includes lack of money or lack of knowledge about adoption of foreign children).
One should never force another's belief onto another, using force is a sign of weakness. Rather, lead the person in the direction you want and he or she will make the correct decision themself.
... despite the extreme unlikelyhood of such an event of someone walking out with some nuclear material (come on, if you can walk out of a nuclear facility with that sort of material, you clearly deserve a medal and better health insurance because frankly, you'll need it) I wouldn't really worry about it.
There'd be a lot of people that would suddenly start looking for whoever had the plutonium and it'd probably be found quickly. Else it'd probably be used in bad ways, but when you really look at the scheme of things, we're doomed anyways right? Let's go out in style!
Anyhow worrying about possible things is utterly pointless. Waiting for death is a waste of your time, go have fun instead.
For those who prefer group policy over screwing with the wmp settings (good for hiding settings from family) and can't find it: it's in Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
My family is smart enough to check options, but not smart enough for gpedit.msc. muahahaha.
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Build a kernel with everything you can as modules.
With exception to deep-kernel changes, most things can be unloaded/reloaded on the fly.... Course this doesn't work with some modules that won't remove because they're busy.
Imho a good working kernel doesnt need to be updated every revision. Only when you know something that was quirky before will be fixed, or other known speed improvements to your system. Only serious security issues for my system forces me to update the kernel.
News: discovered vulnerability Mozilla: patch next day after article. Microsoft: patch next black tuesday. The only reason you see patches before announcements with microsoft is because the security groups dont want to deal with litigation-hell microsoft might try to inflict on them. Mozilla on the other hand doesn't have that advantange with all groups. So please keep your stupid comments to yourself.
Firefox isn't a security flaw.
Would you rather have IPC open as an RPC? No. They bind to 127.0.0.1 for IPC (restricting it to local traffic only). Security +1. If you think this is bad, how do you think two processes of firefox talk to each other and realize "Oh... I'm already running, rather than starting another copy, I'll tell the other to load xxx page/new window"
Then you got another socket for internet. You don't really need this, but without this firefox is sorta restricted to intranet/local browsing.
Just be happy they don't leave an open RPC.
Freedom of speech does not protect you when it harms others. This form of speech, code, when written intentionally to destroy, you are NOT PROTECTED when released in a neglent manner or intentionally. You have a right to have a weapon, you do not have the right to use the weapon against me unless I am encrouching on your rights. Spying on me is violating my rights of privacy. Therefore you are using a weapon against me. If you don't believe me, go around town screaming lies like "unnamed-business believes in slave labor and raped my mom". If they feel it is threatening their bottom line, they will call the police on you and file charges under slander/libel... or whatever the hell it is. Virii/worms/spyware affects the productivity of businesses and essentially everything else in a generally negative manner. Freedom of speech is NOT 100%, nor is any other right.
Oh yeah, have fun if you use lilo.
instead of:
And that is assuming the windows partition is a FAT32 partition. (No, most people STILL don't use NTFS-write support)
15a120v [std outlet] = 1800w Place another computer on the same outlet (or, any other outlet directly connected to the same line) and it's lights out for you buddy.
Apparently you haven't ran into intel's higher end gaming chips. They cook more than my amds anyday.
All my amds run cooler than my intel chips, but then again, I believe in using adaquate cooling.
You might want to give that a try.
"In Linux, you have to recompile a kernel if you want to so much as change your modem!"
Now, I'm not that au fait with the low-level Windows or Linux processes, but I understood that they both used monolithic kernels (ie, drivers not in userland). Surely this means that Windows also has to "recompile" the kernel when the device drivers change? If so it might be hidden behind a pretty user-interface, but it's the same damn architecture and the same design problem.
I wouldn't necessarily agree with the zealot's view, but in some cases, yes, you do have to recompile the kernel if you have a fairly monolithic kernel. This does not apply to all linux installations however.
A lot of people these days who do fresh installs of stable distros such as slackware and Ubuntu (well, more ubuntu than slack) don't even bother to recompile the kernel to have it more specific to their system. This means that their kernel will work on just about any system and to change "device drivers" so to say, all you need to do is have your kernel sources, grab a new driver (spca5xx comes directly to mind), compile/install it, and reinsert the module.
So pretty much it comes down to: We're you planning on never changing hardware when you made a monolithic kernel, or did you build a highly modular kernel and kept your source tree available. They both have their cons/pros.
Just a slight note, you must reboot between benchmarking before your test will be (somewhat) valid. Windows keeps shared dlls in paged memory, and will just page it back in if you attempt to load word after closing both winword and osa.
Also making sure ctfmon.exe is not present during startup as well. Yes, this too is an office application very capable of loading shared dlls that will tamper with your results.
ctfmon.exe: Microsoft Cicero Loader, related to text-input and other input related handlers. If you have it entirely paged out it will use ~25-100kb ram (unknown vmem usage), but when office is activated again, it will expand to roughly 2mb ram, 4mb vmem. This file will be FUN for you to try to get rid of: WFP + permenant startup item (try removing it from start up, it just pops back in there by next reboot).
I know, I know. I should be testing this out myself, but the only 2k box I have at home is a 450mhz pos with not nearly enough space to work with. My question about this is generally concerned with how it "requires" windows xp sp2 to install and was wondering if this was going to be another xp-forced install (thanks for thinking to older customers ms!).
I know a lot of places that have powerful machines still running on win2k (out of spite I assume) which I guess would exclude them from this in the future if this is indeed XP++ required.
I disagree. All spammers should be blocked from the internet, but rather kicked into a really small corner of the net where they can play nice until they get cleaned up.
Blocking computers from the internet is an excellent idea, but not a complete block. Rather, do what some universities do. If you are detected doing spam/virii activities, your system gets kicked off the normal subnet that is granted full internet access, to a restricted-access subnet. In this secondary subnet you are only allowed to visit update sites, the ISP's website, and other computer fixing websites that have been whitelisted by your ISP.
Yes I know you naysayers will start to complain "WHAT ABOUT VOIP", again, if the whitelist is setup correctly, VOIP should not be affected, nor should any critical services that have been whitelisted be affected. But this does present a problem. "What should be whitelisted? Who gets to determine this?" I believe that there should be a consortium between the ISPs to determine what can and cannot be accessed in this restricted-subnet. The consortium should have it's whitelist allow all updates for any software depending on whether or not the company writing the software has requested the consortium to whitelist their address (which of course would have to be reviewed).
This is not perfect, but solutions like netsquid and others can do this relatively well. Depending on how much ISPs keep these products up to date. It will significantly remove the spamming idiots off the net, reducing everyone's overall costs (spam = wasted bandwidth, bandwidth = money) to be connected to the internet. ISPs can differentiate what services get killed when you get caught for spamming by integrating it into the connection classes (such as, VPN does not get killed if a business-class spammer gets detected).
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY does this, and I've only been blocked a few times out of mere stupidity (I forget to close xwin32 for its XSet + vulnerabilities when I cannot use ssh tunneling and neglect to turn on it's ACL)...
It works. People will complain but it is their own dumb fault for not using antivirus/antispyware/firewall software. The message they should get should have instructions on how to clean their computers of the problems and places to get help if it is required.
I've had it on more than one occation have it switched to all applications without my knowledge or consent. Generally DEP is safe to turn off if you have an up to date firewall and virus scanner AND configured them properly.
DEP, though, when only told to handle system related services tends to still interfere with things so I still recommend it to be disabled.
Due to the nature of gaming, you need xp32. WinXP64 just went gold recently, but does that help me? No. Half of my hardware is still unsupported. You think I am going to switch os architectures because my hardware supports it but the os doesn't? No I won't.
I did have a native linux 64 bit installation that supports all of my hardware installed, but for the time being I will continue to use windows until a few of my games work correctly. Wine/Cedega/VMWare are NOT viable solutions for the games I am talking about.
By the way dork, at the time I bought this, i got A LOT MORE PERFORMANCE having a 64bit based device on it because of the much higher fsb. 800mhz fsb when the intels were still chugging along at 400mhz.
These aren't hacks, these are turning off stupid features that microsoft poorly implemented to prevent worms and such. I don't need them, I've NEVER gotten a virus on my system unintentionally (Yes there are times where you do intend to get a virus to test how it will interact with your programs after cleaning).
I have XP SP2 and an Athlon64.
/NoExecute=OptIn flag.
/NoExecute=OptIn from any of the boot lines.
/NoExecute=OptIn from any of the boot lines.
It has never had any problems what so ever with any application I have ever used, with exception to windows itself.
However I will repeat myself on how to get rid of those things that cause SP2 to screw up applications.
First: Turn off NoExecute, easily done by altering your boot.ini to remove the
Method 1: Hit start and go to Run... Type cmd
- Type: attrib -s -h -r %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Type: notepad %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Remove all instances of
- Save, Exit, and Type: attrib +s +h +r %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
- Reboot and NoExecute is now gone.
Method 2: Right click on My Computer and go to Properties
- Click on the Advanced tab and hit the settings button located in the Startup and Recovery section.
- Hit the edit button undernear the first set of check marks.
- Remove all instances of
- Save, exit, reboot.
Turn off the windows firewall
Method 1: Install a 3rd party software firewall first before continuing.
- Hit Start -> Run... and type: services.msc
- Navigate down the list until you get to Windows Firewall, double click on it.
- Hit the stop button and change the Startup type combobox to Disabled.
- Hit ok and close this.
- If you wish to turn off nagging (if your firewall does not support telling windows about itself) continue to the following.
Get rid of those firewall/antivirus/update warnings
Method 1:
- Go to your control panel. In either classic view or category view, open Security Center
- On the Resources bar, click on "Change the way Security Center alerts me"
- Uncheck all that you want the security center to quit nagging about.
- Hit ok. You are done.
I do not condone usage of windows sp2 without these key features, designed to prevent virii and attacks on your computer, without actually knowing what the hell you are doing, or at least have a viable replacement for them. NoExecute, in my view, is a waste of cpu cycles and memory space because most devices out there do not support the NX bit flag properly. Even on my Athlon64 3000+ I can see a pretty heafty performance hit in applications such as Photoshop CS when NoExecute is enabled, and other applications such as WindowBlinds (other than their was-then beta for SP2 users) and DesktopX become extremely unstable. Clearly microsoft did not have application compatibility in mind when they added this feature, but at least with the new revision of windows firewall it had a little more (of much needed) power. I like it how it can configure my router's hardware firewall as well as provide an additional layer of security for my systems. It does lack the configurability of the much loved Linux Firewall, and there are alternative firewalls I can use, but they tend to cause other conflicts with my other applications. So the jury is out with the Windows Firewall, but damn. The security center was by far the most annoying thing I have seen microsoft implement. I hope these corporate users have fun if their admins forget to turn that annoying service off.
If the BlueGene/L can grant me any wish I want for collecting 7 of them, sign me up.
I have never gotten any spam that came from *.co.uk. Hell I never got any spam that mentioned: sixes and sevens, cherio, and all that other stereotypical bs or anything UK specific. Hey if they can't spell John in US spam (Jjoohunnn) which is the American stereotype of being near-retarded, there has to be some spam that mentions sixes and sevens!
But to be sure I don't have anything to worry about I am going to remove the blackhole from korea and give it to UK.
<3 the UK, <3 my blackholes
Yes lets support VBScript and activeX and watch all the security flaws of windows show its ugly head through firefox. I have yet to find an actual use for activeX or VBScript for that matter. If those 5/10% of the WWW wanted their site to be viewed by everyone it is their responsibility of the web developer to support as many possible clients and standards as possible. Those 5 - 10% of web developers are the equivilant of stores that only accept credit cards and not actual money. An interesting way of handling business, but a surefire way of shooting one's self in the foot.
The Mozilla dev team (so far) has shown that they know how to create secure products. Microsoft as everyone on slashdot knows has a tendancy to create products that suffer from shoddy qa thus having all of these buffer overflow issues and exploits. Yes the IDN issue will eventually show it's ugly head again for firefox, but I do know IE7 WILL have the same phishing problems that firefox had because IDN. Although IDN is nice for the foreign folk and non-english speaking, many fonts repeat characters left and right through different character sets allowing for phishing.
By the way, MS's implementation of javascript was a bastardization of the initial javascript/EMCAscript standard. Accepting MS's implementation basically throws out the standard because even with MSIE's implementation, I've had a few occations where something did not act as they were documented. Oh by the way, Microsoft cannot legally call their javascript implementation javascript, their implementation is called JScript. (This may or may not be current, I just remember reading about it years ago)
Microsoft stating that they will embrace and extend standards is just another way of Microsoft saying: Yeah, we'll follow your standards up to a point, but then we will do our own thing to make it incompatible with other products. It is the 3rd party's decision to support OUR standard or not.
Enough with bashing MS though, they should rather conform to what everyone else is using. If they did that, yes firefox would have a lot of trouble switching people over.
Arbitrarily blocking ports is not an answer. I personally prefer using nonstandard ports and having my hosting automatically redirect to my nonstandard ports. Your method is just how many ISPs responded to Code Red which by the way is annoying as hell and serves absolutely no purpose because my http server on a non-standard port receives the same bs attacks. Not to mention *** you do not have to use port 25 to send SMTP traffic *** rather its target is going to a known pop3/pop2 (yeah they are still around) or whatever email server which also may not be running on a standard port. Terms of services need to be enforced. Almost all ISPs reserve the right to terminate or suspend your account if it is doing mischeivous/malicious activities. Trojans and so forth spreading around can be considered this type of activity.
I wonder if this governor realized that when you browse the internet you download the pictures, text and whatever advertisement (or virii for that matter) you happen to stumble onto. Did this governor understand how the internet works? If that passes, that will have to be submitted to the dumb laws websites, but of course Wisconsin viewers will have to pay taxes to see that.
First of all, I have found that all the incompatibility comes from two realms: NX-bit protection and the new Windows Firewall. Both are easy to disable.
/NoExecute=OptIn or /NoExecute line. (Go to System properties, Advanced tab. Startup and Recovery startup Settings button. and hit the edit button in the new window., it will open up your boot.ini file).
NX (off): Edit your boot.ini by removing that
Clear, simple, and every application will no longer flip out. + you'll get a boost in performance (I take a 10% performance hit when NX is on my laptop, far more visible in photoshop than any other application).
Windows Firewall: First off, GET A BETTER FIREWALL! Next step, net stop sharedaccess and find it in your services (Start->run: services.msc) Disabled it.
Horrah! Your windows should now perform in it's old SP1 ways. (I have yet to find any application to fail after these features were disabled). Oh yeah if you get annoyed by that Windows Security Center, in it's main window on the left side it has a way to change its notification (to completely off because nagging programs suck).
I propose we have congress pass a law making it illegal to pass off spyware without having a confirmation "Do you accept to install this activity monitoring software?". Granted this won't help with idiots who blindly click through everything during install, this would greatly make hidden spyware less hidden.
Hiding spyware in EULAs is distasteful and dishonest at best. This damned act still lets that pass.
I'm not saying that I disagree with you but you really can't say your culture is better than someone elses. Yes in our respects how they treat women is crazy, but in their eyes the same occurs when they look at us.
Just because we adopt children from other countries, yes it is a sign of compassion, however it is in no way proof. We as a country can afford to adopt children, and furthermore our society accepts it, but don't for one second believe they would not do the same. They are human too, it is just that they likely do not have the same amount of resources perform the adoption (this includes lack of money or lack of knowledge about adoption of foreign children).
One should never force another's belief onto another, using force is a sign of weakness. Rather, lead the person in the direction you want and he or she will make the correct decision themself.
... despite the extreme unlikelyhood of such an event of someone walking out with some nuclear material (come on, if you can walk out of a nuclear facility with that sort of material, you clearly deserve a medal and better health insurance because frankly, you'll need it) I wouldn't really worry about it. There'd be a lot of people that would suddenly start looking for whoever had the plutonium and it'd probably be found quickly. Else it'd probably be used in bad ways, but when you really look at the scheme of things, we're doomed anyways right? Let's go out in style! Anyhow worrying about possible things is utterly pointless. Waiting for death is a waste of your time, go have fun instead.
I wonder how many slashdot-related server deaths have occurred. Surely a human DDoS must have some lasting effect on servers.
For those who prefer group policy over screwing with the wmp settings (good for hiding settings from family) and can't find it: it's in Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Media Digital Rights Management. My family is smart enough to check options, but not smart enough for gpedit.msc. muahahaha.