TCP Offload Engine (TOE) is the name for allowing the network driver to do part or all of the TCP/IP protocol processing. Vendors have made modifications to Linux to support TOE, and these changes have been submitted for kernel inclusion but were rejected.
A TOE net stack is closed source firmware. Linux engineers have no way to fix security issues that arise. As a result, only non-TOE users will receive security updates, leaving random windows of vulnerability for each TOE NIC's users.
Once resources are exhausted, TOE will either fall back to 100% software net stack, defeating the purpose of TOE, or will deny service to additional clients.
If an attacker can discover the TOE NIC model in use, they can use this information to enable resource-based algorithmic attacks. For example, a SYN flood could potentially use up all TOE resources in a matter of seconds. The TOE NIC will either stop accepting connections (complete DoS), or will constantly bounce back to the software net stack.
Windows Forms is a way to create native, rich client GUI applications with.NET. Programs created with Windows Forms can be extremely good looking, and fully programmable IronPython.
IronPython [1] is an implementation of Python 2.4 written in C#. This means it integrates fully with the Microsoft.NET framework 2.0 and Mono. You can natively use.NET classes from within IronPython.
I prefer to use vi (of the elvis variety) unless I'm editing a page some a$$hole has used dreamweaver or frontpage to create. I can't stand "^M"! If I'm doing some heavy php work then I use Bluefish.
This crusade against child offenders is turning into the biggest political redirection I have ever seen. Once again the leeches suckling on the religious voters have found an issue, that no individual would refute its level of good, in order to draw attention away from all the other crusades that have ended in disaster. These same worthless, pandering, disgracefull Republicans have riden yet another bandwaggon over the poor horses.
The answer is simple the implementation is hard.
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Build a game that allows the player to have the exact amount of fun regardless of the level of his/her character and allows the player to perform some activities offline. Do this and you'll have hit the holy grail of an online game. It will never happen because it is impossible but...
Considering how familiar Microsoft is with Firefox, after ripping it apart to copy it as closely as possible for IE7, I would think they need to justify the techhours somehow.
A public network and ettercap are all you need. With ettercap you should have no problem watching what other people browse, getting session ID's, plain text passwords etc... When ever I travel and get bored I'll watch the hotels network. The number of people that check their mail without encryption is disgusting. And, some of the sites they visit afterwards are worse.
http://www.linuxgames.com/ has had this discussion many times with Linux as the subject. Does emulation kill ports and/or original games. I think Apple is in the position to take the PC game spotlight away from DirectX. The popularity of OS/X on x86 and the performance of Apple's machines will decide the battle.
I like the concept of bayes filters. If I had more than 2-3,000 email per minute I might be tempted to use one. But IMHO, I think nothing is as good as adding to a filtering system after human intervention. It takes some time to learn trends and spot patterns but once learned, spam is easily foiled. If an administrator takes the time to look they will see spamers follow trends. They have habits, get attached to buzwords, develop alter egos. All of these might be picked up by filters but the experienced administrator will spot them right away. Another bother some aspect of bayes filters, instead of human intervention, is the lack of additional action. If an administrator has honey email accounts it is more likely an open relay or phishing hole ip address' will get added to the RBL/XBL lists.
5 tips for spam filtering 1) do the same things you would do to teach your filters but use them to teach yourself. ie. create honey email address' like sales@myurl.com spamers love to send to all@ info@ admin@ sales@ partners@ if you have a web site create a blank page with meta tags listing your honey email accounts. 2) use an email client that lets you read the source of an email. also try to get one that won't automatically install a virus on your machine. 3) read, and get to know the "X-stuff". (ie. X-Mailer: X-MimeOLE: X-DSPAM-Result: X-DSPAM-Processed: X-DSPAM-Confidence: X-DSPAM-Signature: X-Virus-Scanned: X-Spam-Status: X-Spam-Score: X-Spam-Level: X-Originating-IP) These and the Subject, Sender, and User-Agent: information is where you will find more important trends then the content will ever tell you. a spammer's scrubs are part of his/her personality. 4) always use hello restrictions. 5) if your email server doesn't provide a way to easily add to filters then put up a postfix email gateway. if you don't know linux, or just don't know linux very well, check out Endian Firewall or IPCop. enable header_checks, hello_checks, RBL's, and XBL's
you can add trends that you see to your header_checks file like this: echo "/^X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527/ REJECT Your email client, Microsoft Outlook Express, has been exploited. Please perform a Windows update and remove the worm from your computer." >>/etc/postfix/header_checks
you are not restricted to X-Mailer headers here are some others:
"/^X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106/ REJECT Your email client, Microsoft Outlook, has been exploited. Please perform a Windows update and remove the worm from your computer."
"/^User-Agent: Internet Mail Service/ DISCARD"
"/^Subject:.*software at low/ DISCARD" "/^Subject:.*Cia1is/ DISCARD" "/^Subject:.*ou can save up to/ DISCARD"
Get your free Microsoft keyboards right here ladies and gents. Guaranteed to have no strings attached. They even have special security chips installed to... um... make the internet go faster. Yeah thats it. They make the internet go faster.
WiFi comes along and gives us blazingly fast Internet connections through the air
I hit my head ROFL so someone will be hearing from my lawyer very soon!
Wireless is the bane of my existence. Everytime a tard goes someplace they can't connect I get a call. Everytime a tard can't sync a bluetooth phone I get a phone call. "I can't double click on my internet even with my special double clicky internet clicker thingie. Should I have gotten the one with the green blinkie light or maybe the blue one?".
F**K wireless. F**K bluetooth. Wireless devices and networks have caused more down time than gawfle BNC wireing from days gone bye. Wireless is worth it in only one place. If you have pets that eat cables. Though IMHO cost/pain is only equal if you don't call someone like me for tech support.
Game players tend to be geeks. The "good ol' boy your not as good as me because I fit in to this little box and you don't" shit doesn't work on geeks. People place the geek in the box because they are diffent. I'd like to think the difference is intelligence. That intelligence is what makes the geek smart enought not to fall for such an ignorant marketing ploy. Now jocks on the other hand...
If IBM is able to sell MB & processor kits for the CELL platform I won't buy a PS3. Unless someone here on/. knows of a devel kit for under $600 I'll still be waiting. I prefer my games to be on my PC.
If porting OpenGL games to OS/X is easier because they have moved to x86 then OS/X x86 will take the home PC OS market from Vista. So, yes Apple should be very interested in OpenGL. Shifting the focus of OpenGL to include portable devices would only help spread adoption of the API. This, like Apples move to x86, is more good news.
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You might have wanted to add some additional information about TOE network cards and forgot so....
From http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TOE
TCP Offload Engine (TOE) is the name for allowing the network driver to do part or all of the TCP/IP protocol processing. Vendors have made modifications to Linux to support TOE, and these changes have been submitted for kernel inclusion but were rejected.
A TOE net stack is closed source firmware. Linux engineers have no way to fix security issues that arise. As a result, only non-TOE users will receive security updates, leaving random windows of vulnerability for each TOE NIC's users.
Once resources are exhausted, TOE will either fall back to 100% software net stack, defeating the purpose of TOE, or will deny service to additional clients.
If an attacker can discover the TOE NIC model in use, they can use this information to enable resource-based algorithmic attacks. For example, a SYN flood could potentially use up all TOE resources in a matter of seconds. The TOE NIC will either stop accepting connections (complete DoS), or will constantly bounce back to the software net stack.
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http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7
Or to narrow the list further:
Has cheat codes = Role Playing game because of God mode.
Does not have cheat codes = Movie.
I think SOME students should only be allowed to take SOME courses online.
I prefer to use vi (of the elvis variety) unless I'm editing a page some a$$hole has used dreamweaver or frontpage to create. I can't stand "^M"! If I'm doing some heavy php work then I use Bluefish.
This crusade against child offenders is turning into the biggest political redirection I have ever seen. Once again the leeches suckling on the religious voters have found an issue, that no individual would refute its level of good, in order to draw attention away from all the other crusades that have ended in disaster. These same worthless, pandering, disgracefull Republicans have riden yet another bandwaggon over the poor horses.
Build a game that allows the player to have the exact amount of fun regardless of the level of his/her character and allows the player to perform some activities offline. Do this and you'll have hit the holy grail of an online game. It will never happen because it is impossible but...
Who scored this off topic? Is there really someone who hasn't killed Barney or Kenny?
Considering how familiar Microsoft is with Firefox, after ripping it apart to copy it as closely as possible for IE7, I would think they need to justify the techhours somehow.
She should have sent it UPS overnight. Everytime I send something overnight it gets smashed, bent, stabbed, or soaked.
Does this mean /.'ers that sign up for the next phase have a shot at having sex?
I had one with the "SuperRom" chip. The spread sheet application was outstanding.
A public network and ettercap are all you need. With ettercap you should have no problem watching what other people browse, getting session ID's, plain text passwords etc... When ever I travel and get bored I'll watch the hotels network. The number of people that check their mail without encryption is disgusting. And, some of the sites they visit afterwards are worse.
An important article on slashdot and I'm too stoned to think of a good reply.
along with millions of assertions
No. It says assertions not assumptions.
http://www.linuxgames.com/ has had this discussion many times with Linux as the subject. Does emulation kill ports and/or original games. I think Apple is in the position to take the PC game spotlight away from DirectX. The popularity of OS/X on x86 and the performance of Apple's machines will decide the battle.
I like the concept of bayes filters. If I had more than 2-3,000 email per minute I might be tempted to use one. But IMHO, I think nothing is as good as adding to a filtering system after human intervention. It takes some time to learn trends and spot patterns but once learned, spam is easily foiled. If an administrator takes the time to look they will see spamers follow trends. They have habits, get attached to buzwords, develop alter egos. All of these might be picked up by filters but the experienced administrator will spot them right away. Another bother some aspect of bayes filters, instead of human intervention, is the lack of additional action. If an administrator has honey email accounts it is more likely an open relay or phishing hole ip address' will get added to the RBL/XBL lists.
/etc/postfix/header_checks
.*software at low/ DISCARD" .*Cia1is/ DISCARD" .*ou can save up to/ DISCARD"
.*212.216.176.143/ DISCARD" .*212.216.176.222/ DISCARD" .*212.216.176./ DISCARD"
5 tips for spam filtering
1) do the same things you would do to teach your filters but use them to teach yourself. ie. create honey email address' like sales@myurl.com spamers love to send to all@ info@ admin@ sales@ partners@ if you have a web site create a blank page with meta tags listing your honey email accounts.
2) use an email client that lets you read the source of an email. also try to get one that won't automatically install a virus on your machine.
3) read, and get to know the "X-stuff". (ie. X-Mailer: X-MimeOLE: X-DSPAM-Result: X-DSPAM-Processed: X-DSPAM-Confidence: X-DSPAM-Signature: X-Virus-Scanned: X-Spam-Status: X-Spam-Score: X-Spam-Level: X-Originating-IP) These and the Subject, Sender, and User-Agent: information is where you will find more important trends then the content will ever tell you. a spammer's scrubs are part of his/her personality.
4) always use hello restrictions.
5) if your email server doesn't provide a way to easily add to filters then put up a postfix email gateway. if you don't know linux, or just don't know linux very well, check out Endian Firewall or IPCop. enable header_checks, hello_checks, RBL's, and XBL's
a snip from a postfix standard setup:
smtpd_helo_required = yes
maps_rbl_domains = dnsbl.njabl.org, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
mime_header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_unauth_pipelining, permit_mynetworks, reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org, reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org, reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, reject_unauth_destination
you can add trends that you see to your header_checks file like this:
echo "/^X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527/ REJECT Your email client, Microsoft Outlook Express, has been exploited. Please perform a Windows update and remove the worm from your computer." >>
you are not restricted to X-Mailer headers here are some others:
"/^X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106/ REJECT Your email client, Microsoft Outlook, has been exploited.
Please perform a Windows update and remove the worm from your computer."
"/^User-Agent: Internet Mail Service/ DISCARD"
"/^Subject:
"/^Subject:
"/^Subject:
"/^Received:
"/^Received:
"/^Received:
Get your free Microsoft keyboards right here ladies and gents. Guaranteed to have no strings attached. They even have special security chips installed to... um... make the internet go faster. Yeah thats it. They make the internet go faster.
WiFi comes along and gives us blazingly fast Internet connections through the air
I hit my head ROFL so someone will be hearing from my lawyer very soon!
Wireless is the bane of my existence. Everytime a tard goes someplace they can't connect I get a call. Everytime a tard can't sync a bluetooth phone I get a phone call. "I can't double click on my internet even with my special double clicky internet clicker thingie. Should I have gotten the one with the green blinkie light or maybe the blue one?".
F**K wireless. F**K bluetooth. Wireless devices and networks have caused more down time than gawfle BNC wireing from days gone bye. Wireless is worth it in only one place. If you have pets that eat cables. Though IMHO cost/pain is only equal if you don't call someone like me for tech support.
Game players tend to be geeks. The "good ol' boy your not as good as me because I fit in to this little box and you don't" shit doesn't work on geeks. People place the geek in the box because they are diffent. I'd like to think the difference is intelligence. That intelligence is what makes the geek smart enought not to fall for such an ignorant marketing ploy. Now jocks on the other hand...
The answer depends on how much electricity the electric chair uses.
If IBM is able to sell MB & processor kits for the CELL platform I won't buy a PS3. Unless someone here on /. knows of a devel kit for under $600 I'll still be waiting. I prefer my games to be on my PC.
I completely disagree. There would be nothing worse than smart kids that are buff like jocks. Well, at least for my ego.
If porting OpenGL games to OS/X is easier because they have moved to x86 then OS/X x86 will take the home PC OS market from Vista. So, yes Apple should be very interested in OpenGL. Shifting the focus of OpenGL to include portable devices would only help spread adoption of the API. This, like Apples move to x86, is more good news.