The difficulty comes from where to store the known-good sums where they can't be altered and how to run the checks without the system calls being hijacked/redirected.
Unless, of course the rootkit sees your app try to connect to the port and moves it's own listening port to another in it's predefined range.
Or it recognises the fact that this is trying to run, disables it, and presents correct looking output to the user.
Or it pops an appropriate looking dialog box up explaining to the user that hardscan.exe contains a virus and offers the choice of either deleting it or quarantining it.
In any case, it would capture Username and Password of the priviledged user used to access the restricted ports.
If you control the kernel or HAL, you own the box. Detection and prevention is nearly impossible without a secure, read-only point of reference that is compared in a method that doesn't use the kernel or HAL. Pretty hard to do that on Windows.
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Oh come on, there are literally thousands of vendors who "magically" manage to connect to Exchange Server. Exchange has had an "add-in" friendly architecture since version 5 (1995). Neither MAPI nor LDAP nor SMTP are secret. It's all on MSDN. Heck, there's even open source MAPI integration here:http://www.omesc.com/modules/main_module/.If Palm couldn't bother to put forward an effort, it's their own fault. Research in Motion could do it and they are invading the market as a result.
Microsoft can be blamed for a lot, but not this one. Palm is dying because it's not innovating - Microsoft is just there picking up the pieces. It's the
evil of two lessers.
I disagree - Word and Excel integration is one of the primary reasons I left Palm. I didn't want to pay for a third party viewer or convert to another format. I like being able to modify spreadsheets on the fly and syncing up when I get back to the hotel. My Ipaq is an extension of my laptop, not a replacement.
You can always put stickers on the click wheel. I put a small round sticker on the >>| button and a square one on the >|| button so I can control the mini without looking at it. I used white stickers so they blend in really nice.
I'm in this situation. I have an 82GB MP3 library and an Ipod mini. Once you get the smart playlists built, it's pretty easy to fit a good subset of your collection in 4GB.
I keep my Ipod loaded with 5 playlists - Favorites, Least played tracks, Often Played tracks, New Music and Random. This gives me a constantly changing and always good mix of music on the Mini.
Lets face it, the battery is only good for about 8 hours, how much music do you really need to store? I primarily charge my Ipod from my PC so it's usually connected to it at least twice a week.
Or maybe your employee's are spending too much time on slashdot. Release a couple of hungry lions to motivate your staff and kill off the sick members of the team/herd. Productivity goes up/sicktime goes down. It's what we call a win-win.
Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, Apple's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote the patent two years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself!
But ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: Ladies and gentlemen this [pointing to a picture of Chewbacca] is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself, what does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major software company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense!
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lived on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
That depends on your environment. There are still some companies who run 5.5 (I work at one) because the AD structure is so large and encumbered that duct taping a messaging environment to it would be really bad. Granted some of the new features of E2K3 SP1 are pretty nice (cross admin group movement, etc), it's still an ugly migration path for legacy clients. Let's face it, if your sites and subnets are not designed along MS whitepaper specs, you are going to have issues with routing in E2kX.
I'm still surprised that no-one has come out with a more popular groupware client than Outlook. This is an area that is starving for new innovation. The features built into exchange really haven't changed much in the last ten years - why can't someone make something better?
Linux is a Operating System. mplayer and gstreamer are applications that are bundled with some distro's. Office suite, video drivers and games are shortcomings of specific distributions that also include the Linux kernel, but have nothing to do with the functionality of the kernel.
This is how most customer loyalty plans work. You give up your privacy, we'll knock 2% off the price. If you defraud them on a return, your customer ID happens to be on the reciept. Break the law, and the police knock on your door. And all of your spending habits become evidence.
Or better yet, embed the chip inside the customer.
Geez, doesn't anyone believe in privacy anymore? If I buy a box of cheezy poofs, it's no one's business but mine. No hackers with RFID scanners, no sysadmins or data miners, no foreign governments should ever have access to my personal data in any form.
It doesn't count when you build your Operating System so that your own peripherals and equipment will run on it. By that argument, IBM's Mainframes have been Plug and Play for fifty years.
Ever hear of a program called Lotus 1-2-3? or Wordperfect? Remember when they were the reason that people bought computers? All Microsoft did was develop a system that gave you an office environment that nicely integrated a word processor, a spreadsheet and bundled it with a networking operating system. That's important because no one else was really working on it at that time. Sometimes it's more important to improve than to invent.
Ugh, horrible analogy. I am always amazed by how many people forget what it was like in the early 90s. Microsoft didn't have a lock on all of the systems and in many cases you had to buy a retail copy of the OS. Apple computers were way too expensive. Commodore was a viable and popular alternative to x86 machines.
Microsoft has done some predatory things in the last ten years but their monopoly is a result of good products (Windows 95 and Office 97), not a deal in the early 80s with IBM. Apple had their shot and did a lousy job of catering to the corporate market.
Funny, because I remember buying thousands of PCs with IBM-DOS or OS/2 pre-installed on them in 1994. Prior to 1995, Microsoft didn't have a lock on the desktop. Windows NT, Windows 95 and Office 97 changed all that. Microsoft won the desktop war by being better than the competition at providing what corporations are interested in - useable applications.
Give credit where it's due. Without Windows 95 we'd all be running OS/2 by now and the Internet wouldn't be nearly as accessible.
Let's call it what it is - Copying. If I make a copy of anything else in the entire world with any other media, it's fine. If I make an identical copy of an automobile, if I trascribe the contents of a book, it's fine (as long as I don't try and sell it or pass it off as my own work). The second I use a computer to make a copy, it's "PIRACY" (arr) and kills puppies and makes Jesus cry.
Copying is important. Most things in life are either direct copies or derivatives of something that was copied. Why is it different if it's done digitally? If I sing a song I heard on a radio, is it a (admittedly poor) copy or is it copyright infringment? What if I sound just like the artist?
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The difficulty comes from where to store the known-good sums where they can't be altered and how to run the checks without the system calls being hijacked/redirected.
Yeah, something like this could never happen on *nix... I wonder why they call it a root kit anyways?
Or it recognises the fact that this is trying to run, disables it, and presents correct looking output to the user.
Or it pops an appropriate looking dialog box up explaining to the user that hardscan.exe contains a virus and offers the choice of either deleting it or quarantining it.
In any case, it would capture Username and Password of the priviledged user used to access the restricted ports.
If you control the kernel or HAL, you own the box. Detection and prevention is nearly impossible without a secure, read-only point of reference that is compared in a method that doesn't use the kernel or HAL. Pretty hard to do that on Windows.
Microsoft can be blamed for a lot, but not this one. Palm is dying because it's not innovating - Microsoft is just there picking up the pieces. It's the evil of two lessers.
I disagree - Word and Excel integration is one of the primary reasons I left Palm. I didn't want to pay for a third party viewer or convert to another format. I like being able to modify spreadsheets on the fly and syncing up when I get back to the hotel. My Ipaq is an extension of my laptop, not a replacement.
Transparent Aluminum Anyone? I saw how the molecules link in Star Trek IV. We just need to find that company in San Francisco.
You can always put stickers on the click wheel. I put a small round sticker on the >>| button and a square one on the >|| button so I can control the mini without looking at it. I used white stickers so they blend in really nice.
I keep my Ipod loaded with 5 playlists - Favorites, Least played tracks, Often Played tracks, New Music and Random. This gives me a constantly changing and always good mix of music on the Mini.
Lets face it, the battery is only good for about 8 hours, how much music do you really need to store? I primarily charge my Ipod from my PC so it's usually connected to it at least twice a week.
Largest hard drive, not largest hard drive array. If you wont read TFA, at least read the text you are quoting.
Or maybe your employee's are spending too much time on slashdot. Release a couple of hungry lions to motivate your staff and kill off the sick members of the team/herd. Productivity goes up/sicktime goes down. It's what we call a win-win.
But ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: Ladies and gentlemen this [pointing to a picture of Chewbacca] is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more important, you have to ask yourself, what does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major software company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense!
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lived on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
That depends on your environment. There are still some companies who run 5.5 (I work at one) because the AD structure is so large and encumbered that duct taping a messaging environment to it would be really bad. Granted some of the new features of E2K3 SP1 are pretty nice (cross admin group movement, etc), it's still an ugly migration path for legacy clients. Let's face it, if your sites and subnets are not designed along MS whitepaper specs, you are going to have issues with routing in E2kX.
I'm still surprised that no-one has come out with a more popular groupware client than Outlook. This is an area that is starving for new innovation. The features built into exchange really haven't changed much in the last ten years - why can't someone make something better?
512 bytes should be enough for anyone. (had to be said)
I'm surprised - No "In soviet Russia, Honey Monkey attacks you" or "I for one welcome our honey- flavoured, feces throwing overlords" yet.
The difference is important.
This is how most customer loyalty plans work. You give up your privacy, we'll knock 2% off the price. If you defraud them on a return, your customer ID happens to be on the reciept. Break the law, and the police knock on your door. And all of your spending habits become evidence.
Geez, doesn't anyone believe in privacy anymore? If I buy a box of cheezy poofs, it's no one's business but mine. No hackers with RFID scanners, no sysadmins or data miners, no foreign governments should ever have access to my personal data in any form.
Or tamper proof boxes? Not every solution needs to involve tracking and black helicopters.
It doesn't count when you build your Operating System so that your own peripherals and equipment will run on it. By that argument, IBM's Mainframes have been Plug and Play for fifty years.
Ever hear of a program called Lotus 1-2-3? or Wordperfect? Remember when they were the reason that people bought computers? All Microsoft did was develop a system that gave you an office environment that nicely integrated a word processor, a spreadsheet and bundled it with a networking operating system. That's important because no one else was really working on it at that time. Sometimes it's more important to improve than to invent.
Microsoft has done some predatory things in the last ten years but their monopoly is a result of good products (Windows 95 and Office 97), not a deal in the early 80s with IBM. Apple had their shot and did a lousy job of catering to the corporate market.
Give credit where it's due. Without Windows 95 we'd all be running OS/2 by now and the Internet wouldn't be nearly as accessible.
Strippers of the world unite! Learn from your automotive worker brothers - it's only a matter of time before the layoffs follow.
Copying is important. Most things in life are either direct copies or derivatives of something that was copied. Why is it different if it's done digitally? If I sing a song I heard on a radio, is it a (admittedly poor) copy or is it copyright infringment? What if I sound just like the artist?