I fully agree: it is not at all true that Windows is easier to administer than Linux. Usually, when folks claim the contrary they then come up with issues like those in the parent article.
I.e. they think it is simple, but that is only because they have not yet discovered the complexity. Kind of like considering a Mars rover simple because it is just a bouncing ball that unfolds and releases a radio controlled car that drives around.
Spammers have now begun to append a paragraph of normal text to spam messages. (there is a short message about losing weight, some link to a site, and then a long text that is not at all related to the spam)
I suppose this is being done to fool the Bayesian filters.
That means you (or the admins) have not yet fully understood how they can manage desktop systems. This is understandable. There is a lot to read. But in the end it will be possible to protect the systems against the user (somewhat) and still be able to manage them, even defragment.
He states that the personel in those stores get absolutely low wages, that the DVD players they sell are too cheap, yet he is not informing himself when he buys one without S-video (I would not think S-video is good enough, get RGB instead!) and then he "returns it for a full refund".
Now THAT I call cheap! The store already had to take a loss on it, and now he returns the whole unit, which will most likely not be sold again, and takes a refund. Of $32. Sheesh...
He also worries about patent licenses not being paid. Well, that is not a problem for the consumer, right? This is an issue between the manufacturer and the patent holder, and probably the law in China does not require the holder of a US patent to be paid by a Chinese manufacturing company.
There is a market for high-end expensive stuff, for those that are prepared to pay too much, and there is a market for this kind of things. When you don't think so, then don't advocate a free market. It has lots of complications like this, but it seems to be the favorite of Americans.
No, your point is not valid. 12345.1234@compuserve.com is NOT a message ID. It is an oldschool address.
The fact that you equate it to other addresses, that have a hexadecimal pair of numbers in front of a domain name, and are in fact message IDs, just shows that you were not there when compuserve.com still used those numeric addresses.
This will not work, because there will be no similarity in the spam you receive on the fake addresses and your real address.
- the from address will be different
- the sending system will be different (it will be one of a million hacked windows systems on a DSL or Cable connection, another one for every message)
- the message will be different (padding words)
So while your fake addresses will attract spam and you can block further spam from those servers or users, that will do virtually nothing to decrease the spam on your main account.
Interesting. Over here the business accounts have lower bandwidth up and down stream than the "consumer" accounts. They offer some form of guarantee (e.g. specified uptime, specified overbooking, specified service window) but other than that, a consumer account always provides more bps...
You don't need to worry about the client's data. You need to worry about their behaviour. What if someone sits down in your shop, connects, and starts sending spam, posting child porn, cracks systems, or whatever? They will do so on YOUR (the shop's) DSL account. So you will get disconnected, sued or worse, and don't know who actually did it.
Note that they used SuSE Linux. That does not have this problem (like most modern distributions), as it automatically resolves such dependencies and installs the required packages.
Although very clean Diesel engines have been made, the buses are now switching from Diesel to LPG (Liquid Propane Gas) and LNG (Liquid Natural Gas, Methane). This seems to be cleaner.
Another Dutch company had a prototype of such a bus decades ago. At that time, they were quite active with Stirling engine development. Have not heard about any practical use for a long time...
This won't work. The spammers will just offload the computation tasks to their trojaned Windows systems, creating a huge distributed computing network that can send mail at any rate they like. Now they are using them as open proxies, and most likely they already have the capability to download new software to them. Just download the 10-second computation code to your one million compromised systems and you can still send 100.000 signed e-mails per second.
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It is always difficult to foresee what will happen to a computer-based system.
In 1989-1990 I was involved in a project that implemented a system that would have to be maintained for at least 10 (preferably 15) years. The project was related to a mobile telephone network that predated GSM. The people deciding the hardware and software platform chose the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX running VMS. Furthermore, a couple of Compaq PCs were used, running MS-DOS and using some very special cards in ISA slots.
In hindsight, what can we see:
- Digital Equipment Corporation no longer exists - the VAX line was replaced by the Alpha - which is being discontinued as well - VMS I don't know, is it still maintained? - MS-DOS isn't used by anybody anymore - PCs with ISA slots are now very hard to get - but fortunately: the network for which this was all developed was taken out of production after about 5 years, to be replaced by GSM.
I thing to sit out its entire 15-year maintenance would have been kind of tricky. Maybe with proper monitoring of end-of-sale announcments and buying some spares at the right time, it could have been pulled off.
>While we certainly could build an RGB DVD player for roughly the cost of a Y'CbCr one, it'd only get half the run time, and would look worse on standard television (only VGA is natively RGB for signal).
This may be true in the USA, but in Europe RGB has been the standard for professional and consumercolor systems for a very long time before VGA. 20 year old television sets have SCART connectors that accept RGB, even before S-video existed as a consumer video standard.
While you could think that a component video output on a DVD player is always Y'CbCr because of the internal signal processing, it is of course very simple to provide an RGB output on the same player. And in fact this is done on all but the lowest-end European models. Is that different in the USA?
Actuall, yes. I used one of these at work as well, in a similar timeframe (may have been '88 or '89) and they used a system similar to multisession recording on a CD. I.e. you could copy files on it, and later "delete" them, or copy different data under the same name, and it would appear like a DOS disk (it was of course used under MS-DOS). Using some utility it was also possible to recover data written at a certain moment in time. This was possible because no data was ever overwritten, the disc was just a chain of sessions.
I think the unit (and possibly also the software) was made by Pioneer.
You probably did not notice the problem is not for the user, but for the innocent bystanders. Your "it runs fine for me" sounds like "I don't care if others are harmed by it".
Switching to a recent SuSE Linux will be disaster on that hardware! Don't even think about it. Especially the system administration tool, YaST2, will crawl on 64MB of RAM.
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I fully agree: it is not at all true that Windows is easier to administer than Linux.
Usually, when folks claim the contrary they then come up with issues like those in the parent article.
I.e. they think it is simple, but that is only because they have not yet discovered the complexity. Kind of like considering a Mars rover simple because it is just a bouncing ball that unfolds and releases a radio controlled car that drives around.
Spammers have now begun to append a paragraph of normal text to spam messages.
(there is a short message about losing weight, some link to a site, and then a long text that is not at all related to the spam)
I suppose this is being done to fool the Bayesian filters.
That means you (or the admins) have not yet fully understood how they can manage desktop systems.
This is understandable. There is a lot to read.
But in the end it will be possible to protect the systems against the user (somewhat) and still be able to manage them, even defragment.
So keep on studying!
He states that the personel in those stores get absolutely low wages, that the DVD players they sell are too cheap, yet he is not informing himself when he buys one without S-video (I would not think S-video is good enough, get RGB instead!) and then he "returns it for a full refund".
Now THAT I call cheap! The store already had to take a loss on it, and now he returns the whole unit, which will most likely not be sold again, and takes a refund. Of $32. Sheesh...
He also worries about patent licenses not being paid. Well, that is not a problem for the consumer, right? This is an issue between the manufacturer and the patent holder, and probably the law in China does not require the holder of a US patent to be paid by a Chinese manufacturing company.
There is a market for high-end expensive stuff, for those that are prepared to pay too much, and there is a market for this kind of things.
When you don't think so, then don't advocate a free market. It has lots of complications like this, but it seems to be the favorite of Americans.
No, your point is not valid.
12345.1234@compuserve.com is NOT a message ID.
It is an oldschool address.
The fact that you equate it to other addresses, that have a hexadecimal pair of numbers in front of a domain name, and are in fact message IDs, just shows that you were not there when compuserve.com still used those numeric addresses.
> "71532.4532@compuserve.com" is a message ID
You are apparently not from the old school yourself.
Maybe you should not comment on those things.
This will not work, because there will be no similarity in the spam you receive on the fake addresses and your real address.
- the from address will be different
- the sending system will be different (it will be one of a million hacked windows systems on a DSL or Cable connection, another one for every message)
- the message will be different (padding words)
So while your fake addresses will attract spam and you can block further spam from those servers or users, that will do virtually nothing to decrease the spam on your main account.
Why?
The phone numbers of politicians are publicly available information.
Of course, you can expect to get a secretary on the line when you call such a number.
Your first step should be to find out the name of that company. It is called Philips, not Phillips.
Interesting. Over here the business accounts have lower bandwidth up and down stream than the "consumer" accounts. They offer some form of guarantee (e.g. specified uptime, specified overbooking, specified service window) but other than that, a consumer account always provides more bps...
Why would you need a business grade line for that?
And are lines so expensive in the US?
I guess we are lucky. For that money we get an uncapped ADSL (8Mbit down 1Mbit up) line here.
You don't need to worry about the client's data. You need to worry about their behaviour.
What if someone sits down in your shop, connects, and starts sending spam, posting child porn, cracks systems, or whatever?
They will do so on YOUR (the shop's) DSL account.
So you will get disconnected, sued or worse, and don't know who actually did it.
Note that they used SuSE Linux. That does not have this problem (like most modern distributions), as it automatically resolves such dependencies and installs the required packages.
Although very clean Diesel engines have been made, the buses are now switching from Diesel to LPG (Liquid Propane Gas) and LNG (Liquid Natural Gas, Methane). This seems to be cleaner.
Another Dutch company had a prototype of such a bus decades ago. At that time, they were quite active with Stirling engine development. Have not heard about any practical use for a long time...
This won't work. The spammers will just offload the computation tasks to their trojaned Windows systems, creating a huge distributed computing network that can send mail at any rate they like.
Now they are using them as open proxies, and most likely they already have the capability to download new software to them. Just download the 10-second computation code to your one million compromised systems and you can still send 100.000 signed e-mails per second.
It is always difficult to foresee what will happen to a computer-based system.
In 1989-1990 I was involved in a project that implemented a system that would have to be maintained for at least 10 (preferably 15) years.
The project was related to a mobile telephone network that predated GSM.
The people deciding the hardware and software platform chose the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX running VMS. Furthermore, a couple of Compaq PCs were used, running MS-DOS and using some very special cards in ISA slots.
In hindsight, what can we see:
- Digital Equipment Corporation no longer exists
- the VAX line was replaced by the Alpha
- which is being discontinued as well
- VMS I don't know, is it still maintained?
- MS-DOS isn't used by anybody anymore
- PCs with ISA slots are now very hard to get
- but fortunately: the network for which this was all developed was taken out of production after about 5 years, to be replaced by GSM.
I thing to sit out its entire 15-year maintenance would have been kind of tricky. Maybe with proper monitoring of end-of-sale announcments and buying some spares at the right time, it could have been pulled off.
>While we certainly could build an RGB DVD player for roughly the cost of a Y'CbCr one, it'd only get half the run time, and would look worse on standard television (only VGA is natively RGB for signal).
This may be true in the USA, but in Europe RGB has been the standard for professional and consumercolor systems for a very long time before VGA. 20 year old television sets have SCART connectors that accept RGB, even before S-video existed as a consumer video standard.
While you could think that a component video output on a DVD player is always Y'CbCr because of the internal signal processing, it is of course very simple to provide an RGB output on the same player. And in fact this is done on all but the lowest-end European models. Is that different in the USA?
The bug is not that it allows @, the bug is that it stops displaying the URL after %01%00.
Other than that, the bugs in this advisory do not seem to qualify as "holes".
Actuall, yes.
I used one of these at work as well, in a similar timeframe (may have been '88 or '89) and they used a system similar to multisession recording on a CD.
I.e. you could copy files on it, and later "delete" them, or copy different data under the same name, and it would appear like a DOS disk (it was of course used under MS-DOS).
Using some utility it was also possible to recover data written at a certain moment in time.
This was possible because no data was ever overwritten, the disc was just a chain of sessions.
I think the unit (and possibly also the software) was made by Pioneer.
You probably did not notice the problem is not for the user, but for the innocent bystanders.
Your "it runs fine for me" sounds like "I don't care if others are harmed by it".
Switching to a recent SuSE Linux will be disaster on that hardware! Don't even think about it.
Especially the system administration tool, YaST2, will crawl on 64MB of RAM.
Never used SuSE Linux, I see?
"Dumb modulation" is something like FSK (MSK) with manchester-encoded data.
BPSK is slightly better.
But the OFDM system used by DVB-T puts 38Mbps in the same bandwith, or 150 times better than this project.