why don't you read that agan real slow-like, and then ask yourself what the definition of a computer virus is.
Actually, I saw reports of this elsewhere a last week, and the definition of 'virus' used in the law probably included worms such as Melissa. It was a pretty broad definition, it may even include things like BO2K and DDOS tools (I'll leave that for PA courts to decide, though).
I saw this list last night, and my first thought was that it couldn't possibly be right, as most of the compromises on this list are UNIX related. NT accounts for twice as many web server compromises as every other OS combined, even though it holds only 21% of the Internet web server market.
As far as web stuff goes, yeah, Apache is a lot safer than IIS (just based on the relative number of exploits and bugs listed on Bugtraq). However, the big-ticket items there were bind and sendmail. AFAIK, neither of these even run on NT, and even if so, I'm sure Exchange and whatever NT uses for DNS is more popular on the platform.
Personally, I think that, OS to OS, most Unix variants are more secure than NT. But some very popular Unix software is pitifully insecure (bind especially). Hopefully bind 9 (betas are out now!) will improve on that record. But for now, I'm glad my name servers are running on m68k... any Intel-based DNS server is probably going to get rooted faster than you can patch it.
12 year old will learn more about these holes, possible cracking un-protected systems
Oh, come on. They hardly said anything about how to exploit them, and anyway, exploits are all over the place. Especially Bind, I know people who got rooted because the current RH RPMS aren't safe (that includes the updates, they're only up to P3, whereas P5 is the only safe version currently available). And that was months ago.
Huh. Now all they need is to post the sploits. Then we'd have even more ereet kiddies running around.
Any halfway-competant script kiddie knows to read Bugtraq and NT Bugtraq. SANS didn't need to produce the exploit. Anyway, they were pretty vauge in places (especially about the POP/IMAP vulnerabilities).
Reminds me of something one of my housemates said toward the beginning of Ghost in the Shell (I was seeing it for the first time). "Here comes the standard issue full frontal nudity". At least it was fairly justifiable in GitS.
Five minutes later I was on the floor laughing - especially when I started to understand everything that was going on and where all these weird animals were coming from.
I remember I was sitting around with a bunch of people a couple summers ago, and a (badly-dubbed) anime movie came on. We just started laughing our asses off, it was _so ridiculous. We may have just been bored, though.:)
If you watch enough anime you'll se a common theme in a lot of the series that reminds me of the daily plot from Power Rangers.
Actually, I was just thinking the same thing about Buffy a few days ago (hey, there was nothing else on, and SMG is hot...)
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Ghost in the Shell: Popularized anime, big guns, naked girls, mecha, complex plot, this has everything that *is* anime. I think it's the perfect representation of the genre. And my favorite.
"What's that?" "Standard issue big gun"
Love that movie.:)
Legend of the Overfiend: a series, they recently released a box set of the first 5 disks, and the only ones worth getting. This is a 'tenticle porn' anime, and is another 'representative of the genre' things. If you ever wanted something that made your friends go 'holy crap!' check this out. NOT FOR KIDS!
I'm planning on buying a copy of it for my roommate's birthday in a few months. We (we being a small circle of friends) always kid him about buying anime porn DVDs and watching them at night. It'll be a good laugh.:)
You wouldn't happen to know of any other films with a similiar quality? I've seen precisely 2 anime movies (Akira and GitS), so I really don't know much about it; but I really liked Ghost in the Shell.
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It's probably the best movie ever made that you've likely never heard of.
That depends on whether or not you've heard of The City of Lost Children. It actually has an anime-like quality at times, too. If you get it, make sure you get the subtitled version - the voices of the original actors are just too good to miss (and yes it is on DVD).
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And Ghost in the Shell is simply stunning. Watch it, now!
Two of my housemates are pretty big anime fans, and one of them basically forced me to watch Ghost in the Shell (not that I didn't want to see it, as I'd heard a bit about it). But the whole thing just blew me away (especially the weapons - in the credits they have one guy listed as "Weapson Design" or something along those lines. Very cool.) I don't think I like Akira as much, but I've been told you have to watch it several times before "getting it".
we had a cluster of 14 P120's and a single P133 with a Fore ASX 1000 switch generating a sizable heat dent that would actually shut it down (crash) in the summertime.
We've got a 8 machine PII-350 cluster. One time someone came in, the room was really cold, so he started up Merseine prime seach programs on all the machines. Heated the room up to 85 or so within a half hour. Course a PII isn't the coolest chip around, either.:)
Well, yes, it would be hard to make a single-player game out of the Q3A engine, as it's so optimized for deathmatch. Just gimme Doom running an engine on the same level of Q3A, Halflife, or Unreal, and I'll be _very_ happy.:)
I look forward to the next Doom. The atmosphere in the original (Doom I episode I in particular) was just EERIE. Updated graphics and a new engine will be amazing.
Indeed. I've always prefered single-player games (Doom/Doom II, Freespace/Freespace2, and many console games) to multiplayer stuff. Especially the first Doom. I remember 2 of my brothers and myself playing marathon games, all 3 episodes, straight through (switching off every level or so).
I didn't like Quake very much (I mean it was OK, but I never even played it the whole way through), but Quake II really brought back some of Doom atomosphere for me. Also variety - I really liked the level when you set up the airstrike on the fuel bunker, stuff like that.
Hopefully Doom III will deliver a Doom-like experience with Q3A technology.:)
You're right. My best CS teacher ever taught at a small community college; prior to that she worked in industry for about 20 years. She could really explain what was going on, far better than the CS professors at my college (at least the ones I've had), most of whom have been in academia since forever. Maybe she doesn't know the theory as well as they, but she knows what works and what doesn't.
Just because companies don't think you know anything doesn't mean you don't, and generally people who know better (ie, proto-hackers and company) are going to be happy to listen to what you have to say. I know I was.
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Hey, I'm not even 25 and I don't really like coding anymore
That's good. I was getting worried; I'm turning 19 in July and I'm already getting tired of coding. Still hack little one-liners in shell and Perl, of course, but that's about it. And just a couple years ago I would code C++ 20 hours straight. Really been leading more and more towards system administration since then...
KDevelop alone is worth the price of admission (which of course is $0.)
I tried it last winter, and found it utterly useless for creating anything but KDE apps. I'm trying to write ISO C++ libraries, and Kdevelop (at the time, at least) didn't even have a library project template! Maybe I'll try it again sometime, but I was seriously disapointed with what I saw.
This is not meant as a slam towards the Kdevelop people, for creating a KDE app it would be great. It just didn't do what I needed it to do.
BTW, why did you mention Kdevelop, when you claim you are talking about the general desktop market, or as you put elsewhere: "Linux grass-roots zealots weren't invited. I was talking about KDE and GNOME in terms of a viable desktop environment, not something that fuels some nerd's desire to be 'leet just because his apps don't match."
Your sig is great. Especially as I recently posted the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." in the X-box story.:)
I switched from GNOME to KDE because, on a quad Pentium II Xeon 450, I got tired of asking to switch windows with the mouse, waiting ten seconds, and still typing at the wrong window...has that gotten any better?
Much better. I think it was pre-October GNOME that had those kind of problems. On my P-II 350, 128 Mb RAM, GNOME 1.2 w/ sawfish are quite fast. Of course X is a memory sieve (can't use 4.0 as VMware doesn't support it yet), so it's a good idea to close the session and restart it after a few hours (though I log out if I leave, so it doesn't bother me much).
This "you can't do OO in plain C" attitude is silly and immature. Anyone who has done any work on a large (>100,000 line) C project has probably run into OO methodologies employed within the program.
Certainly, OO in C is possible (and done all the time). Of course, the question is more "which is it easier to do OO in?", in which case the answer is obviously C++ (no Java/Python/whatever comments please, I'm talking about C and C++ only here).
Heck, you can do OO in assembly if you have a good design and structure your code properly.
I'm not much of an asm programmer (just inline stuff), but it seems like that would be pretty hard without some decent data structures.
Hey I luv console, but if you use GUI it doesn't mean you're not a hacker.
Hell, it's hard to be a hacker on the console. Ever try to run a pair of makes, emacs, a web brower to look at online docs, info and man all on the console? Gets pretty crowded, even with virtual terminals.:)
Really, the only thing I actually need a GUI at all for is Netscape - most everything else is console apps anyway. But I figure if I'm going to use a GUI I should use a really tricked out one...
Maybe your machine is f*cked. I haven't had any stability problems with gnome since redhat 6.1 which I believe was before the october release. I agree redhat 6.0's release (1.0) was horrible.
I went from 5.2 to 6.1, so thankfully I missed that little mess <g>. And yes, 6.1 was pre-October, as I remember spending about 12 hours downloading new RPMs (well, I wasn't just sitting there the whole time, but it took a while). And both the 6.1 RPMs and October were quite stable for me. I'm using 1.2 now, and so far it seems rock-solid. I don't know what that guy is talking about.
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why don't you read that agan real slow-like, and then ask yourself what the definition of a computer virus is.
Actually, I saw reports of this elsewhere a last week, and the definition of 'virus' used in the law probably included worms such as Melissa. It was a pretty broad definition, it may even include things like BO2K and DDOS tools (I'll leave that for PA courts to decide, though).
I saw this list last night, and my first thought was that it couldn't possibly be right, as most of the compromises on this list are UNIX related. NT accounts for twice as many web server compromises as every other OS combined, even though it holds only 21% of the Internet web server market.
As far as web stuff goes, yeah, Apache is a lot safer than IIS (just based on the relative number of exploits and bugs listed on Bugtraq). However, the big-ticket items there were bind and sendmail. AFAIK, neither of these even run on NT, and even if so, I'm sure Exchange and whatever NT uses for DNS is more popular on the platform.
Personally, I think that, OS to OS, most Unix variants are more secure than NT. But some very popular Unix software is pitifully insecure (bind especially). Hopefully bind 9 (betas are out now!) will improve on that record. But for now, I'm glad my name servers are running on m68k... any Intel-based DNS server is probably going to get rooted faster than you can patch it.
12 year old will learn more about these holes, possible cracking un-protected systems
Oh, come on. They hardly said anything about how to exploit them, and anyway, exploits are all over the place. Especially Bind, I know people who got rooted because the current RH RPMS aren't safe (that includes the updates, they're only up to P3, whereas P5 is the only safe version currently available). And that was months ago.
Huh. Now all they need is to post the sploits. Then we'd have even more ereet kiddies running around.
Any halfway-competant script kiddie knows to read Bugtraq and NT Bugtraq. SANS didn't need to produce the exploit. Anyway, they were pretty vauge in places (especially about the POP/IMAP vulnerabilities).
No porn. Note: IMO, some nudity != porn
Reminds me of something one of my housemates said toward the beginning of Ghost in the Shell (I was seeing it for the first time). "Here comes the standard issue full frontal nudity". At least it was fairly justifiable in GitS.
Five minutes later I was on the floor laughing - especially when I started to understand everything that was going on and where all these weird animals were coming from.
:)
I remember I was sitting around with a bunch of people a couple summers ago, and a (badly-dubbed) anime movie came on. We just started laughing our asses off, it was _so ridiculous. We may have just been bored, though.
If you watch enough anime you'll se a common theme in a lot of the series that reminds me of the daily plot from Power Rangers.
Actually, I was just thinking the same thing about Buffy a few days ago (hey, there was nothing else on, and SMG is hot...)
Ghost in the Shell: Popularized anime, big guns, naked girls, mecha, complex plot, this has everything that *is* anime. I think it's the perfect representation of the genre. And my favorite.
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"What's that?"
"Standard issue big gun"
Love that movie.
Legend of the Overfiend: a series, they recently released a box set of the first 5 disks, and the only ones worth getting. This is a 'tenticle porn' anime, and is another 'representative of the genre' things. If you ever wanted something that made your friends go 'holy crap!' check this out. NOT FOR KIDS!
I'm planning on buying a copy of it for my roommate's birthday in a few months. We (we being a small circle of friends) always kid him about buying anime porn DVDs and watching them at night. It'll be a good laugh.
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Pokemon
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HEY! Pikachu is cool (and Misty has a great body!) [half kidding <g>]
Seriously, why isn't Ghost in the Shell on your list? I haven't seen much anime, but I thought Ghost in the Shell was really cool.
You wouldn't happen to know of any other films with a similiar quality? I've seen precisely 2 anime movies (Akira and GitS), so I really don't know much about it; but I really liked Ghost in the Shell.
It's probably the best movie ever made that you've likely never heard of.
That depends on whether or not you've heard of The City of Lost Children. It actually has an anime-like quality at times, too. If you get it, make sure you get the subtitled version - the voices of the original actors are just too good to miss (and yes it is on DVD).
And Ghost in the Shell is simply stunning. Watch it, now!
Two of my housemates are pretty big anime fans, and one of them basically forced me to watch Ghost in the Shell (not that I didn't want to see it, as I'd heard a bit about it). But the whole thing just blew me away (especially the weapons - in the credits they have one guy listed as "Weapson Design" or something along those lines. Very cool.) I don't think I like Akira as much, but I've been told you have to watch it several times before "getting it".
we had a cluster of 14 P120's and a single P133 with a Fore ASX 1000 switch generating a sizable heat dent that would actually shut it down (crash) in the summertime.
:)
We've got a 8 machine PII-350 cluster. One time someone came in, the room was really cold, so he started up Merseine prime seach programs on all the machines. Heated the room up to 85 or so within a half hour. Course a PII isn't the coolest chip around, either.
Likewise, to argue that humanity's extinction would be bad is equally silly.
:)
I don't know about you, but it would be bad for me!
all-new engine using brand-new technology?
:)
Well, yes, it would be hard to make a single-player game out of the Q3A engine, as it's so optimized for deathmatch. Just gimme Doom running an engine on the same level of Q3A, Halflife, or Unreal, and I'll be _very_ happy.
I look forward to the next Doom. The atmosphere in the original (Doom I episode I in particular) was just EERIE. Updated graphics and a new engine will be amazing.
:)
Indeed. I've always prefered single-player games (Doom/Doom II, Freespace/Freespace2, and many console games) to multiplayer stuff. Especially the first Doom. I remember 2 of my brothers and myself playing marathon games, all 3 episodes, straight through (switching off every level or so).
I didn't like Quake very much (I mean it was OK, but I never even played it the whole way through), but Quake II really brought back some of Doom atomosphere for me. Also variety - I really liked the level when you set up the airstrike on the fuel bunker, stuff like that.
Hopefully Doom III will deliver a Doom-like experience with Q3A technology.
Teach.
You're right. My best CS teacher ever taught at a small community college; prior to that she worked in industry for about 20 years. She could really explain what was going on, far better than the CS professors at my college (at least the ones I've had), most of whom have been in academia since forever. Maybe she doesn't know the theory as well as they, but she knows what works and what doesn't.
Just because companies don't think you know anything doesn't mean you don't, and generally people who know better (ie, proto-hackers and company) are going to be happy to listen to what you have to say. I know I was.
Hey, I'm not even 25 and I don't really like coding anymore
That's good. I was getting worried; I'm turning 19 in July and I'm already getting tired of coding. Still hack little one-liners in shell and Perl, of course, but that's about it. And just a couple years ago I would code C++ 20 hours straight. Really been leading more and more towards system administration since then...
KDevelop alone is worth the price of admission (which of course is $0.)
I tried it last winter, and found it utterly useless for creating anything but KDE apps. I'm trying to write ISO C++ libraries, and Kdevelop (at the time, at least) didn't even have a library project template! Maybe I'll try it again sometime, but I was seriously disapointed with what I saw.
This is not meant as a slam towards the Kdevelop people, for creating a KDE app it would be great. It just didn't do what I needed it to do.
BTW, why did you mention Kdevelop, when you claim you are talking about the general desktop market, or as you put elsewhere: "Linux grass-roots zealots weren't invited. I was talking about KDE and GNOME in terms of a viable desktop environment, not something that fuels some nerd's desire to be 'leet just because his apps don't match."
And it's spelled 31337. Get it right.
Your sig is great. Especially as I recently posted the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." in the X-box story. :)
I switched from GNOME to KDE because, on a quad Pentium II Xeon 450, I got tired of asking to switch windows with the mouse, waiting ten seconds, and still typing at the wrong window...has that gotten any better?
Much better. I think it was pre-October GNOME that had those kind of problems. On my P-II 350, 128 Mb RAM, GNOME 1.2 w/ sawfish are quite fast. Of course X is a memory sieve (can't use 4.0 as VMware doesn't support it yet), so it's a good idea to close the session and restart it after a few hours (though I log out if I leave, so it doesn't bother me much).
KDE-2.0 in BETA and Gnome 1.2 on it's way out soon. XF86-4.0 is out and the new Kernel has gone into the "Linus vacation stage".
:)
Plus goodies like gcc 3 (still a bit off, but hopefully in time for RH 7).
It's this competing against each other that let them beet the tar out of CDE
During the year I work for a place that's all-Solaris, and oh-man do I detest CDE. I keep fantasizing about installing GNOME and using that.
This "you can't do OO in plain C" attitude is silly and immature. Anyone who has done any work on a large (>100,000 line) C project has probably run into OO methodologies employed within the program.
Certainly, OO in C is possible (and done all the time). Of course, the question is more "which is it easier to do OO in?", in which case the answer is obviously C++ (no Java/Python/whatever comments please, I'm talking about C and C++ only here).
Heck, you can do OO in assembly if you have a good design and structure your code properly.
I'm not much of an asm programmer (just inline stuff), but it seems like that would be pretty hard without some decent data structures.
Hey I luv console, but if you use GUI it doesn't mean you're not a hacker.
:)
Hell, it's hard to be a hacker on the console. Ever try to run a pair of makes, emacs, a web brower to look at online docs, info and man all on the console? Gets pretty crowded, even with virtual terminals.
Really, the only thing I actually need a GUI at all for is Netscape - most everything else is console apps anyway. But I figure if I'm going to use a GUI I should use a really tricked out one...
Maybe your machine is f*cked. I haven't had any stability problems with gnome since redhat 6.1 which I believe was before the october release. I agree redhat 6.0's release (1.0) was horrible.
I went from 5.2 to 6.1, so thankfully I missed that little mess <g>. And yes, 6.1 was pre-October, as I remember spending about 12 hours downloading new RPMs (well, I wasn't just sitting there the whole time, but it took a while). And both the 6.1 RPMs and October were quite stable for me. I'm using 1.2 now, and so far it seems rock-solid. I don't know what that guy is talking about.