The New Zealand mirror has some 25 million entries or so.
Small fry.
There are also explanations on there of how to avoid this sort of attack, by use of proper salt, and md5(pass + md5(pass)), all the usual improvements.
Also, what software should I use? I dabbled with a few. One would grab everything from the newsgroup, even if it could not construct the entire file when it had finished.
My local ISP has a good feed. I say good because they sometimes have swapped out pieces of larger files.
Comments like yours are exactly why I stopped reading Slashdot*. You may have visited New Zealand but that doesn't stop you being retarded and writing stupid brainless comments.
(* The only reason I'm posting here is because a friend sent me the link.)
First off, Microsoft does not immediately impose a Win32 regime on companies it acquires.
Maybe that's because if they did the servers would collapse under the load?
Only in the last year has Hotmail started using Microsoft software for mail transfer (at about the same time as messages started taking longer to be delivered).
From my perspective poor training was the real root of the problem.
The books I've been learning from have been gobbling arbitary strings from the user and cramming them into fixed length variables on every second coding example. There is no discussion of the security implications or how to prevent these problems anywhere! Only after complaining to tutors did they say there was a problem - they were bright enough to realise that. I don't know if the text books have been changed.
Um, no... because then Google would be using too much bandwidth.
Their page cache feature is very helpful for searches and it would be a tragedy to lose that if Google received a flood of Slashdotters every time a site was posted. Didn't you read the article posted yesterday? Their top guy was quoted as saying that Google is overloaded at the moment. (See article about using DRAM instead of disk drives. I hope you did read the link.)
The idea of mirroring - no Google isn't a mirror, it just shifts the problem to someone else - is that the load gets spread to servers nearby. What you need is intelligent mirrors - um, Akamai?
Check at your local Government's health and safety office dumbass.
Have a look at the regulations for people whose environments include vibration and see what they have to go through. Look at truck / bus drivers and their seating requirements. Look at people who use jack hammers. Look at builders.
For those interested in the dirty details, may I recommend:
wget
asfrecorder
Squid
Ethereal (+ tcpdump)
A plugin-equipped browser (eg, Mozilla)
With that combination (and sometimes "strings") I can download ANY Quicktime or Windows Media video that I want to - permissions be damned. Plus, get this: mplayer on Linux does a better job of playing Windows Media files than Windows Media Player on Windows! (And at a higher screen res too!)
BTW, the secret letter is 'm'. (This may become apparant if you have done the above.) I don't have time for a complete downloading HOWTO, but... mov = wget, asf = wget, asx = asfrecorder, wmv = try asfrecorder then wget.
Re:Unix email can also corrupt plain-text...
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What he's talking about here is the Unix-style mbox format for storing mail. Each message has another header added to it that begins "From " and has pre-parsed contents of the RFC822/2822 message that follows it.
Should a message include the word "From " at the start of the line it is quoted while in the mbox only. When it is displayed it is removed. Is that clear enough? While it is in storage it is quoted. You might think this is a problem, but have a look at the garbage bollocks some mailers mash a message into when they store them.
Unix mailers that use mbox may munge the message while it is stored but they do not have a problem with displaying the message.
I don't use AOL so I'm not sure whether they still bundle IE, but I do know that Gecko (embeddable Mozilla) is powerful enough to be used as a replacement for most of IE.
The issue at stake here predates AOL's purchase of Netscape. As the purchaser of Netscape, AOL now has the power to continue Netscape's old court battle and attempt to recover from the scars Netscape received.
No, size is not ridiculous. Here's the file sizes for an A4 sheet, mainly text with line art, exported as an ASCII format PDF and also exported as a 96dpi PNG image:
Slashdot Mirror
This has been done before, and with over twice the size:
http://us.md5.crysm.net/stats
Has 32,106,390 entries.
The New Zealand mirror has some 25 million entries or so.
Small fry.
There are also explanations on there of how to avoid this sort of attack, by use of proper salt, and md5(pass + md5(pass)), all the usual improvements.
http://saf.crysm.net/
Stupid name.
With me own eyes!
Better.
Don't let him be extradited!
That's extortion! I'm calling the Feds oh wait they are here already and taking me away oh shi
Nobody cares about your hosts file.
I want a refund.
Yes, newsgroups are an excellent source of files.
What newsgroups do you suggest?
Also, what software should I use? I dabbled with a few. One would grab everything from the newsgroup, even if it could not construct the entire file when it had finished.
My local ISP has a good feed. I say good because they sometimes have swapped out pieces of larger files.
But your system will run out of valuable entropy!!!
I found this comic quite insightful: http://elftor.com/elftorstrip.php?number=135
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Comments like yours are exactly why I stopped reading Slashdot*. You may have visited New Zealand but that doesn't stop you being retarded and writing stupid brainless comments.
(* The only reason I'm posting here is because a friend sent me the link.)
They still need to use these words:
Only then can their news be stale and boring.
Read what Michael Parenti has to say about the media.
Maybe that's because if they did the servers would collapse under the load?
Only in the last year has Hotmail started using Microsoft software for mail transfer (at about the same time as messages started taking longer to be delivered).
Fortunately somebody remembered it! I thought I had deja vu!
From my perspective poor training was the real root of the problem.
The books I've been learning from have been gobbling arbitary strings from the user and cramming them into fixed length variables on every second coding example. There is no discussion of the security implications or how to prevent these problems anywhere! Only after complaining to tutors did they say there was a problem - they were bright enough to realise that. I don't know if the text books have been changed.
Um, no ... because then Google would be using too much bandwidth.
Their page cache feature is very helpful for searches and it would be a tragedy to lose that if Google received a flood of Slashdotters every time a site was posted. Didn't you read the article posted yesterday? Their top guy was quoted as saying that Google is overloaded at the moment. (See article about using DRAM instead of disk drives. I hope you did read the link.)
The idea of mirroring - no Google isn't a mirror, it just shifts the problem to someone else - is that the load gets spread to servers nearby. What you need is intelligent mirrors - um, Akamai?
OK ok ok ... I'm going to get beaten over the head for this ... but I quite like vim 6's colour highlighting.
The ability to step through a script during execution would be nice, but enough "error_log" statements (and tail -f on another console) is excellent.
Check at your local Government's health and safety office dumbass.
Have a look at the regulations for people whose environments include vibration and see what they have to go through. Look at truck / bus drivers and their seating requirements. Look at people who use jack hammers. Look at builders.
For those interested in the dirty details, may I recommend:
With that combination (and sometimes "strings") I can download ANY Quicktime or Windows Media video that I want to - permissions be damned. Plus, get this: mplayer on Linux does a better job of playing Windows Media files than Windows Media Player on Windows! (And at a higher screen res too!)
BTW, the secret letter is 'm'. (This may become apparant if you have done the above.) I don't have time for a complete downloading HOWTO, but ... mov = wget, asf = wget, asx = asfrecorder, wmv = try asfrecorder then wget.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/report
They can word it better than you can. :-)
What he's talking about here is the Unix-style mbox format for storing mail. Each message has another header added to it that begins "From " and has pre-parsed contents of the RFC822/2822 message that follows it.
Should a message include the word "From " at the start of the line it is quoted while in the mbox only. When it is displayed it is removed. Is that clear enough? While it is in storage it is quoted. You might think this is a problem, but have a look at the garbage bollocks some mailers mash a message into when they store them.
Unix mailers that use mbox may munge the message while it is stored but they do not have a problem with displaying the message.
I don't use AOL so I'm not sure whether they still bundle IE, but I do know that Gecko (embeddable Mozilla) is powerful enough to be used as a replacement for most of IE.
The issue at stake here predates AOL's purchase of Netscape. As the purchaser of Netscape, AOL now has the power to continue Netscape's old court battle and attempt to recover from the scars Netscape received.
No, size is not ridiculous. Here's the file sizes for an A4 sheet, mainly text with line art, exported as an ASCII format PDF and also exported as a 96dpi PNG image:
176k game.png
68k game.pdf
Hmm? Ridiculous?