Your signature is terrible and not "clever". The order of operations rules state that nested powers be done first, which means that sqrt(-1*-1) is 1, not -1.
Dude, stop! Not everyone is out to get you. Not everyone wants the leftover DNA from your underpants. Your Thumbprint means nothing. If someone really REALLY wanted to fuck you over, they'd have done so already. Wait until they ask you for a universally accepted method of identification before freaking out. I've never had to sign a lease or car loan by thumbprint yet, so it obviously isn't binding yet. Fox Mulder does not exist. Scully is hot. Good night, you folks have been great.
I've used it to create a number of scheduled tasks and command line utilities without incident... HOWEVER, I did notice some inconsistancies with the per2exe version.
For example, v5.01 "compiles" scripts using the Socket module, but 5.03 bombs out on an @INC error.
5.03 will properly package up Net::FTP but 5.01 will not unless you also package Sockets.
Very unpredictable.
It's just a pain to have to keep different versions of perl2exe around and know when to use which depending on the code.
You're right, but Sidgemore did take the company public the first time, and orchestrated many of the original network nergers that made UUNet/WCom the powerhouse it is today.
1. Worldcom's telecom business has been losing money for a long time now. It's almost a lock that it will be sold off.
2. Ditto for a bunch of their other units - i.e. Skytel paging, etc.
3. The current CEO basically founded UUNet - it's his baby - it's not going away. The networks are owned by UUNet Worldcom - they're not going away either.
4. WCom's web hosting and data centers have been profitable for the past 8 quarters - plus, they are among the most well run DC's in the world. They're not going anywhere either.
Long story short - they're not going to get rid of anything making money - which is data and hosting. The worst that's going to happen is that you send your long distance checks to a different carrier. No worries, people.
Why deploy a brand new browser? Why deploy something that just came out? Sure it's been tested and tested and tested and peer reviewed, but that guarantees you nothing.
IE is free. It comes with windows. It has its share of security problems but they are easily fixed and deployed. How easy do you think it will be to patch all your copies of Mozilla when something happens? And it will happen. Will you be able to use Active Directory or NT Policy patch to manage all your PC's? I assume since you don't like MS, you don't have SMS installed.
How much time do you want to "waste" getting people up to speed with a system they don't know anything about? Deploy Mozilla at home or at your friends' houses. Geek it up somewhere else.
Suck it up and go with MS - you might not like it, but all the people you support - your CUSTOMERS for all intents & purposes might not like Mozilla. They know how to use IE. They don't want to learn anything new. They'll resent you if you take away their ability to use their Palms.
My $0.02, to be sure, but look at the big picture. It's great to stand up for and support what you believe in, but I have yet to hear a good solid argument for the kind of thing you're trying to do.
This list is so incomplete - whey even bother?
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Not to rain on the parade of all those people that think this information is somehow useful, but it's not even complete - not by a long shot.
What's the point of all this? To prove that you know how to use Visio? I happen to have first hand information about a lot of companies on this list and Mr. West either has things all wrong, or is missing so many things it makes one wonder why he even bothered?
Don't get me wrong, a ot of effort obviously went in to this project, and the logical arrangements are simply put and easy to understand, but still, what's the point? I guess it's a good project to brush up your modeling skills, but the data it models is out of date, incomplete, incorrect, and too fluid for this map to be of any real use to anyone.
And no, I will not divulge my associations with any of these companies except to say that everyone in my oiffice that's seen it has said "dood - how wrong is this?" and "ooh-- look at this - that doesn't happen"
dude, you're going on your HONEYMOON for the love of god. I think you have more to worry about than this. You're probably lucky enough to even HAVE a honeymoon... shut off the geek in you for a week so you make it BACK married.
"The US government is, and never was, charged with the responsibility to ensure that a business model that made money in the past is able to make money in the future."
-I forget who
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. "
Windows Update uses MS-issued keys (the public key is installed by default with every copy of IE), not Verisign keys. Not to say that someone couldn't have used these "oops" MS keys to fake something, but with this particular process no Verisign keys are used.
The Windows Update process is run in a ActiveX control that ships with every version of IE. This control is the *only* way to automatically download and install updates from the WU site.
If your control is out of date when you connect to the WU server, a newer version will be downloaded (which also has a signature attached to it) and installed.
In short, everything you download from the Windows Update site goes through this ActiveX control --- accepting an unsigned or non-trusted download is **not possible** with this control - you never get the option to accept or deny it. The process just fails and tells you to try again.
Since MS is the only one that can sign things that the WU process will dish out, well... do the math.
I'm not saying that your thinking should be discounted (there _are_ products out there that do not rely on a digital signature - NAV 6.0 and below come to mind - you'd be right on using this argument with them) just that in this case, your reasoning does not apply b/c MS already thought of it. They're not all bad, you know.
This is absolutely 100% untrue. In short, every patch/driver/add-on that comes down from MS through Windows Update has an MS digital signature. Any application w/o that signature causes Windows Update to fail.
Congratulations, you figured out a "vulnerability" that MS anticipated and prevented years ago. Try not to spread panic without knowing the full details about a system.
Shouldn't this article, and the many many others like it, be phrased something more like this:
"I'm a borderline slacker that has no time/ambition to go out and do the legwork and research that would enable me to compete on the same level as someone who has done their own networking/self-improvement/career planning. What shortcuts can the Slashdot community offer me so that I may continue to slack off and blame 'the system' for my unfortunate lack of direction? I mean, can't a normal guy get ahead anymore?"
Everyone, please realize that not everyone is out to get you, keep you down, and that no matter what anyone tells you, you and you alone have ultimate control over whetever your own life situation happens to be this week.
Since this is a GSM phone, Verizon isn't supporting it. Only AT&T, MCI, VoiceStream, Cingular, to name a few national carriers.
Maybe those other carriers work for you, but for those of us who live in the northeast - especially around new york, the other carriers can;t live up to Verizon's service level.
Granted, I'm no Verizon-fan by any means - I'd drop them in a second if I could, but unfortunately that's the only carrier up here (NY Metro Area) that is worth anything.
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And those who can understand it probably shouldn't
and how do you make the jump from 1=-1 to 1=0? That's just stupid.
/. karma stud.
Beer is good. More beer is better.
Feel free to use THAT as your signature, ya wanna-be
Your signature is terrible and not "clever". The order of operations rules state that nested powers be done first, which means that sqrt(-1*-1) is 1, not -1.
Try again, please.
Dude, stop! Not everyone is out to get you. Not everyone wants the leftover DNA from your underpants. Your Thumbprint means nothing. If someone really REALLY wanted to fuck you over, they'd have done so already. Wait until they ask you for a universally accepted method of identification before freaking out. I've never had to sign a lease or car loan by thumbprint yet, so it obviously isn't binding yet. Fox Mulder does not exist. Scully is hot. Good night, you folks have been great.
Who cares about constant? Play with the thermostat and get your your spray bottle so you can create pretty graphs like these.
I've used it to create a number of scheduled tasks and command line utilities without incident... HOWEVER, I did notice some inconsistancies with the per2exe version.
For example, v5.01 "compiles" scripts using the Socket module, but 5.03 bombs out on an @INC error.
5.03 will properly package up Net::FTP but 5.01 will not unless you also package Sockets.
Very unpredictable.
It's just a pain to have to keep different versions of perl2exe around and know when to use which depending on the code.
... the last line from the review?
"I can think of nothing better than to lay in bed and browse the internet not even being near the computer."
riiiiiiiiight
You're right, but Sidgemore did take the company public the first time, and orchestrated many of the original network nergers that made UUNet/WCom the powerhouse it is today.
1. Worldcom's telecom business has been losing money for a long time now. It's almost a lock that it will be sold off.
2. Ditto for a bunch of their other units - i.e. Skytel paging, etc.
3. The current CEO basically founded UUNet - it's his baby - it's not going away. The networks are owned by UUNet Worldcom - they're not going away either.
4. WCom's web hosting and data centers have been profitable for the past 8 quarters - plus, they are among the most well run DC's in the world. They're not going anywhere either.
Long story short - they're not going to get rid of anything making money - which is data and hosting. The worst that's going to happen is that you send your long distance checks to a different carrier. No worries, people.
they have books that you can borrow and read -- and guess what? It's all FREE FREE FREE!!! All the knowledge you gain is yours to keep!
Why deploy a brand new browser? Why deploy something that just came out? Sure it's been tested and tested and tested and peer reviewed, but that guarantees you nothing.
IE is free. It comes with windows. It has its share of security problems but they are easily fixed and deployed. How easy do you think it will be to patch all your copies of Mozilla when something happens? And it will happen. Will you be able to use Active Directory or NT Policy patch to manage all your PC's? I assume since you don't like MS, you don't have SMS installed.
How much time do you want to "waste" getting people up to speed with a system they don't know anything about? Deploy Mozilla at home or at your friends' houses. Geek it up somewhere else.
Suck it up and go with MS - you might not like it, but all the people you support - your CUSTOMERS for all intents & purposes might not like Mozilla. They know how to use IE. They don't want to learn anything new. They'll resent you if you take away their ability to use their Palms.
My $0.02, to be sure, but look at the big picture. It's great to stand up for and support what you believe in, but I have yet to hear a good solid argument for the kind of thing you're trying to do.
Not to rain on the parade of all those people that think this information is somehow useful, but it's not even complete - not by a long shot.
What's the point of all this? To prove that you know how to use Visio? I happen to have first hand information about a lot of companies on this list and Mr. West either has things all wrong, or is missing so many things it makes one wonder why he even bothered?
Don't get me wrong, a ot of effort obviously went in to this project, and the logical arrangements are simply put and easy to understand, but still, what's the point? I guess it's a good project to brush up your modeling skills, but the data it models is out of date, incomplete, incorrect, and too fluid for this map to be of any real use to anyone.
And no, I will not divulge my associations with any of these companies except to say that everyone in my oiffice that's seen it has said "dood - how wrong is this?" and "ooh-- look at this - that doesn't happen"
Use cash. Don't write checks. Don't link your accounts to a card. Visit the bank once a week.
dude, you're going on your HONEYMOON for the love of god. I think you have more to worry about than this. You're probably lucky enough to even HAVE a honeymoon... shut off the geek in you for a week so you make it BACK married.
"The US government is, and never was, charged with the responsibility to ensure that a business model that made money in the past is able to make money in the future."
-I forget who
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. "
-I forget who
It's still a GSM phone, and as we all know GSM phones stink as far as service goes.
As James Earl Jones says, "The phone is only as good as the network it's on" and in this case, the networks all suck.
Windows Update uses MS-issued keys (the public key is installed by default with every copy of IE), not Verisign keys. Not to say that someone couldn't have used these "oops" MS keys to fake something, but with this particular process no Verisign keys are used.
The Windows Update process is run in a ActiveX control that ships with every version of IE. This control is the *only* way to automatically download and install updates from the WU site.
If your control is out of date when you connect to the WU server, a newer version will be downloaded (which also has a signature attached to it) and installed.
In short, everything you download from the Windows Update site goes through this ActiveX control --- accepting an unsigned or non-trusted download is **not possible** with this control - you never get the option to accept or deny it. The process just fails and tells you to try again.
Since MS is the only one that can sign things that the WU process will dish out, well... do the math.
I'm not saying that your thinking should be discounted (there _are_ products out there that do not rely on a digital signature - NAV 6.0 and below come to mind - you'd be right on using this argument with them) just that in this case, your reasoning does not apply b/c MS already thought of it. They're not all bad, you know.
This is absolutely 100% untrue. In short, every patch/driver/add-on that comes down from MS through Windows Update has an MS digital signature. Any application w/o that signature causes Windows Update to fail.
Congratulations, you figured out a "vulnerability" that MS anticipated and prevented years ago. Try not to spread panic without knowing the full details about a system.
If you really *want* a lower-class job...
Instead of over-stating your resume, understate it. Problem solved.
Shouldn't this article, and the many many others like it, be phrased something more like this:
"I'm a borderline slacker that has no time/ambition to go out and do the legwork and research that would enable me to compete on the same level as someone who has done their own networking/self-improvement/career planning. What shortcuts can the Slashdot community offer me so that I may continue to slack off and blame 'the system' for my unfortunate lack of direction? I mean, can't a normal guy get ahead anymore?"
Everyone, please realize that not everyone is out to get you, keep you down, and that no matter what anyone tells you, you and you alone have ultimate control over whetever your own life situation happens to be this week.
that was so not funny
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-018.asp
/. hype machine these days? First it takes 2 days to post the news, then they understate the scope of the problems.
Impact of vulnerability: Ten new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable code of an attacker's choice to be run on a server.
What's wrong with the
It's a tablet PC, and it DOES do resolutions of 1024x768.
Way to go editors!
Since this is a GSM phone, Verizon isn't supporting it. Only AT&T, MCI, VoiceStream, Cingular, to name a few national carriers.
Maybe those other carriers work for you, but for those of us who live in the northeast - especially around new york, the other carriers can;t live up to Verizon's service level.
Granted, I'm no Verizon-fan by any means - I'd drop them in a second if I could, but unfortunately that's the only carrier up here (NY Metro Area) that is worth anything.