Concerning using tail on log files. I read at one time that it's possible (maybe even easy??) to put an exploit in a log file (you know what gets logged with httpd, so it's easy to get what you want in a log file) that causes an overflow and for the exploit to run. I don't remember where I read that, but ever since, I just use less and hit > to go to the end of the file.
I think it's far more likely that open source coded is in closed source software. Since open souce, by defintion, is open for all to see, wouldn't companies have lawsuits (SCO excluded) over their stolen code? Since nobody can see the code to closed software, I think it's far more likely that open source code has been taken to be used in closed source software (since nobody that isn't involved in the project will be able to see it).
I've been a pilot for 15 years now and I can tell you without a doubt that cellphones (and most any electronic device) can affect instruments in the airplane. Yes, in this day and age the chances of that have been reduced, but it can still happen.
My favorite part of that entire article is at the very end:
"Seth Jayson is currently struggling through a new Linux install on a computer he built from an old wood crate. SCO may serve his papers at FoolishSeth@sethj.com."
I'm impressed. The president of the company not only reads slashdot, but responds to questions as well!
Now for my questions. When and where will this be available for purchase, and will there be an option to plug this into an power outlet to charge everything (that would be so much simpler than taking everything out of the jacket and plugging them into their respective chargers)?
I must have done something right in a past life, because I just love my cable modem provider. I average 400-500kb/s download speeds at anytime and aobut 40kb/s upload. Plus, no ports are blocked and they could care less how much of my bandwidth I use (which at times has been a lot). Plus, even though they don't officially support anything but windows, they do have help on their support website for setting up linux or a mac and even how to share your connection with multiple computers at home.
Oh, and one that one windows virus that kept rebooting everybody's pc, they were proactive with. They blocked the ports it infected other computers on for about a week to give people a chance to be up and online long enough to download any updates needed.
I guess it just goes to show, there are some good ISP's out there, but they sure seem few and far between.
Well, I just downloaded the md5sums for what was just released and compared it to the iso's I downloaded through Mandrake Club when it was first released and they match. So I guess nothing has changed as far as the iso's are concerned.
Of course, if you don't have gtk2 installed, you'll soon find out that this won't work (as I just found out on an alpha running Redhat 7.2). In that case, just take the openssh.spec file from the source rpm, change it to not use gtk2 for the gnome-askpass part and then run rpm -ba openssh.spec (make sure you have a tarball of the latest openssh in the same directory).
That does look like a good way to handle that. Is there a way to do that if you're using gdm? (another pet peeve my wife has is having to type startx after logging in, hence the gdm, guess I should consider myself lucky she's willing to even log in!)
It also comes in handy when you and your significant other use the same computer but like different resolutions. My wife likes 800x600 and I like 1280x1024. This is one of the main reasons my wife hates using linux.
True, you could have changed it in the executable if it was the same length, but that would have gone against company policy of not changing vendor code.
Oh, I'm not saying it's unique to MS programmers at all. It's just been my professional experience (my job is almost totally MS programming, only do linux programming on my own on the side) that there are a lot of programmers that have no idea what they're doing. And since most of my professional experience in programming is with MS software, hence the comment.
There are good and bad programmers wherever you go, I just happen to run into most of the bad ones.
As for your question about programming with open source databases, that's probably best left for someone to answer who has experience with that. As much as I'd like to program more with open source, I don't have much time to do so, or much experience with.
What I'm saying is, it's bad design to put the one and only username and password into the executable as plaintext.
And you're right about the integrated security, it works quite nicely with MSSQL. Granted, there are ways to get usernames and passwords from NT/2000, but that's much more secure than putting the dbo username and password out there for everyone to see.
Once before, while working at a client site, I was installing a 3rd party application. Well, in setting it up and looking for any security holes, I found a pretty large one. Apparently, the client application talks to a MSSQL server using a single account (which happens to have dbo access). Not only did it use a single account for everyone, but the username and password were stored as cleartext in the executable itself! Now granted, not likely that an end user would look there to find this information, but if someone did, and the client did happen to know someone breached the security, the only way to block the intrusion was to shut down the entire system. With the username and password hard coded into the executable, there was no way to change it witout having the vendor make the change and send out a new executable.
Just goes to prove that MS programmers are a dime a dozen, but most of them are worth that too!
I was in the same situation as you and about a month ago I finally decided to join a gym. At first I didn't think there was any way I'd fit it in my schedule (up at 5:00am and not home will 5:00pm) but it's worked out quite nicely. Granted, the first week of going to the gym I was sore as hell, but that quickly goes away and now I have much more engery it seems. I did meet with a personal trainer there once just to tell me what I should be doing and how to use the machines, but now I go every day and love it.
Oh, and as an added plus, my gym even has a daycare, so my son goes there while I work out and then when I'm done (if he was good at the daycare) we go swimming there for a bit.
"You hear a lot about Linux not being ready to work on desktops," said HP's Jeff Wood, director of product marketing for personal workstations. "Well, here we have the perfect example of how Linux is more than ready for the desktop -- hundreds of animators successfully used Linux to create a film right from their desktops."
It says if you want to sign up for the list online, you need to give them an email address. I sure hope the email address isn't going to be distributed along with the list of DNC numbers, else this is going to be a gold mine for email spammers.
Anyone have any info on what is included on the DNC list given to the telemarketers?
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Umm...considering the article is about British scientists and in a UK news source, isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? ;)
Concerning using tail on log files. I read at one time that it's possible (maybe even easy??) to put an exploit in a log file (you know what gets logged with httpd, so it's easy to get what you want in a log file) that causes an overflow and for the exploit to run. I don't remember where I read that, but ever since, I just use less and hit > to go to the end of the file.
I think it's far more likely that open source coded is in closed source software. Since open souce, by defintion, is open for all to see, wouldn't companies have lawsuits (SCO excluded) over their stolen code? Since nobody can see the code to closed software, I think it's far more likely that open source code has been taken to be used in closed source software (since nobody that isn't involved in the project will be able to see it).
I've been a pilot for 15 years now and I can tell you without a doubt that cellphones (and most any electronic device) can affect instruments in the airplane. Yes, in this day and age the chances of that have been reduced, but it can still happen.
My favorite part of that entire article is at the very end:
"Seth Jayson is currently struggling through a new Linux install on a computer he built from an old wood crate. SCO may serve his papers at FoolishSeth@sethj.com."
I think the media is finally getting it.
I'm impressed. The president of the company not only reads slashdot, but responds to questions as well!
Now for my questions. When and where will this be available for purchase, and will there be an option to plug this into an power outlet to charge everything (that would be so much simpler than taking everything out of the jacket and plugging them into their respective chargers)?
I must have done something right in a past life, because I just love my cable modem provider. I average 400-500kb/s download speeds at anytime and aobut 40kb/s upload. Plus, no ports are blocked and they could care less how much of my bandwidth I use (which at times has been a lot). Plus, even though they don't officially support anything but windows, they do have help on their support website for setting up linux or a mac and even how to share your connection with multiple computers at home.
Oh, and one that one windows virus that kept rebooting everybody's pc, they were proactive with. They blocked the ports it infected other computers on for about a week to give people a chance to be up and online long enough to download any updates needed.
I guess it just goes to show, there are some good ISP's out there, but they sure seem few and far between.
Did anybody else confuse this for flux capacitor when they first read it?!? :)
Well, I just downloaded the md5sums for what was just released and compared it to the iso's I downloaded through Mandrake Club when it was first released and they match. So I guess nothing has changed as far as the iso's are concerned.
If I remember correctly, the ARM processors don't have a floating point unit on them, so is it really going to be any faster than my old 48gx?
Because once DirecTV gets wind that London Transport is programming smart cards, they'll have lawsuits all over them. :)
Of course, if you don't have gtk2 installed, you'll soon find out that this won't work (as I just found out on an alpha running Redhat 7.2). In that case, just take the openssh.spec file from the source rpm, change it to not use gtk2 for the gnome-askpass part and then run rpm -ba openssh.spec (make sure you have a tarball of the latest openssh in the same directory).
That does look like a good way to handle that. Is there a way to do that if you're using gdm? (another pet peeve my wife has is having to type startx after logging in, hence the gdm, guess I should consider myself lucky she's willing to even log in!)
It also comes in handy when you and your significant other use the same computer but like different resolutions. My wife likes 800x600 and I like 1280x1024. This is one of the main reasons my wife hates using linux.
You're right, after reading my comment again that does sound like a pot shot at MS programmers. For that I appologize.
Sometimes my fingers just type faster than my brain can keep up with!
True, you could have changed it in the executable if it was the same length, but that would have gone against company policy of not changing vendor code.
Oh, I'm not saying it's unique to MS programmers at all. It's just been my professional experience (my job is almost totally MS programming, only do linux programming on my own on the side) that there are a lot of programmers that have no idea what they're doing. And since most of my professional experience in programming is with MS software, hence the comment.
There are good and bad programmers wherever you go, I just happen to run into most of the bad ones.
As for your question about programming with open source databases, that's probably best left for someone to answer who has experience with that. As much as I'd like to program more with open source, I don't have much time to do so, or much experience with.
What I'm saying is, it's bad design to put the one and only username and password into the executable as plaintext.
And you're right about the integrated security, it works quite nicely with MSSQL. Granted, there are ways to get usernames and passwords from NT/2000, but that's much more secure than putting the dbo username and password out there for everyone to see.
Once before, while working at a client site, I was installing a 3rd party application. Well, in setting it up and looking for any security holes, I found a pretty large one. Apparently, the client application talks to a MSSQL server using a single account (which happens to have dbo access). Not only did it use a single account for everyone, but the username and password were stored as cleartext in the executable itself! Now granted, not likely that an end user would look there to find this information, but if someone did, and the client did happen to know someone breached the security, the only way to block the intrusion was to shut down the entire system. With the username and password hard coded into the executable, there was no way to change it witout having the vendor make the change and send out a new executable.
Just goes to prove that MS programmers are a dime a dozen, but most of them are worth that too!
I was in the same situation as you and about a month ago I finally decided to join a gym. At first I didn't think there was any way I'd fit it in my schedule (up at 5:00am and not home will 5:00pm) but it's worked out quite nicely. Granted, the first week of going to the gym I was sore as hell, but that quickly goes away and now I have much more engery it seems. I did meet with a personal trainer there once just to tell me what I should be doing and how to use the machines, but now I go every day and love it.
Oh, and as an added plus, my gym even has a daycare, so my son goes there while I work out and then when I'm done (if he was good at the daycare) we go swimming there for a bit.
"You hear a lot about Linux not being ready to work on desktops," said HP's Jeff Wood, director of product marketing for personal workstations. "Well, here we have the perfect example of how Linux is more than ready for the desktop -- hundreds of animators successfully used Linux to create a film right from their desktops."
Kind of brings a tear to your eye!
Hell froze over?!?! Sweet!! Duke Nukem Forever must be right around the corner!
1. Acquire a large EMP device.
2. Park large EMP device outside of Google headquarters.
3. Detonate large EMP device.
4. Profit!
or something along those lines...I can't think of any other way they'll get ahead of google...
(also notice, that the usual missing step 3 is included in this exercise for your viewing pleasure)
than give this power to someone that never makes mistakes.
It says if you want to sign up for the list online, you need to give them an email address. I sure hope the email address isn't going to be distributed along with the list of DNC numbers, else this is going to be a gold mine for email spammers.
Anyone have any info on what is included on the DNC list given to the telemarketers?