The likelihood of someone typing bastbuy.com is far lower than someone typing brstbuy.com (based on key positions); so it's no wonder that brstbuy.com is owned by bestbuy.com!
I don't know. But I do know it's not considered professional to ACK and WAIT in a business environment; if you don't answer with "Systems Support this is X" you will piss off some people in the brass.
I just wish they'd stick to giving the cylons a uniform goal. Robots are scarier when they're robots.
That being said, the season finale hooked me and now I pretty much have to watch the third season.
Your personal problems likely stem from trying an intermediate-to-advanced project on an operating system I assume you have little experience in, rather than inherent flaws in my argument that it is easy to do.
When I said easy, I was speaking to what I would deem the 'average' slashdotter, who is a relatively linux-experienced, microsoft-bashing comment whore. With these qualifications under his belt, he may go on to build a MythTV PVR in under an hour.
I give you kudos for starting your comment by calling yourself a user, and following that with a remark about your windows experience. You, sir, truly fear no flames.
I wasn't saying 'there's no market for this' only 'why are we self-proclaimed geeks talking about it'
Certainly YOU aren't claiming to be a twelve-o'clock flasher, are you? Consider the intended audience!
I want to know if there are things the BOOK didn't cover -- I bet they don't consider adventure games from LucasArts et al 'retro'.
Speaking of hidden games, things like finding 'Maniac Mansion' inside 'Day of the Tentacle' made my day when I first played it. I actually kept the minigame longer than the original game (since the former fit on a floppy, unlike the latter)
I used W2k (and have since, but only as a server platform) as a home PC but stopped when I noticed that my games ran FAR faster on XP.
I had been relatively anti-XP (it was initially rumoured to scan you for WaReZ, and so forth, which didn't make me too happy) but it really did benchmark a 33% increase over XP in most of my games.
Heck, even the original UT. I never really investigated why this was; I just moved on.
It took me two and a half months, using Windows knowledge, to be able to do all the same things in linux. Maybe that's steep, but it was all in my spare time on extra machines at home.
my experience has been that knowing the concepts and being willing to learn are all it takes.
The virus using a virtual machine would probably compromise existing virtual machine servers, and could script the copy of an existing virtual machine. At least thats what occurs to me off the top of my head. You CAN write data to the virtual HDD of a virtual machine while it's not loaded, usually. So it just writes itself into the boot sector or executable area of a virtual machine, and voila. Payload size hasnt dramatically increased.
No, they want you to throw them around more. It weakens the effect it has on us.
fewer people freak out when they hear that we live under big brother, now.
Wouldn't that be context and opinion sensitive, depending on whether you referred to Microsoft as a corporation (singular business entity) or colloquially as 'the guys at Microsoft', which would be a plural group?
I really disagree. This is security through obscurity, and hiding the plain english description of an available patch only limits the n00b level black hats (scriptkiddies and the like!)
all the information about what is patched is directly available in patch, exposed via a relatively simple decompiling operation. A compare of the newly provided DLL and the original show you clearly what the original lacks. And as such, how you can attack anyone unpatched, or figure out what other DLLs may have such a problem.
I remember helpctr.exe was the first executable I ever did this to. Simple buffer overflow, before SP1.
Writing 100% secure code (in your own code, not considering linked libraries et al) is near impossible, but you go a long ways towards stopping anyone who hasn't spent dang near his whole life on black hatting by simply remembering: don't assume.
We apply every avail. patch using that same mentality.
A quick testbed and then patch. We have to worry more about the patches breaking things than otherwise, since not patching isn't even a possibility.
Personally, I find the experience of asking questions of users who aren't in the immediate vicinity (i.e. face-to-face or telephone) to be far too time consuming for my level of impatience:P
I just find another manual, or so forth. There's always more documentation! This is how I learned SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, RedHat/FC, as well as Exim, Xen, etc etc etc etc
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you mean like the long-range attacks in starship troopers (movie)?
::hides from geeks frothing at the mouth::
Using the support list alone is an amazing community resource. users-debian and so on make life EASY.
The likelihood of someone typing bastbuy.com is far lower than someone typing brstbuy.com (based on key positions); so it's no wonder that brstbuy.com is owned by bestbuy.com!
I don't know. But I do know it's not considered professional to ACK and WAIT in a business environment; if you don't answer with "Systems Support this is X" you will piss off some people in the brass.
Why in God's name would you do that?
Are you doing IP-based virtual hosts? This is ridiculous.
I just wish they'd stick to giving the cylons a uniform goal. Robots are scarier when they're robots.
That being said, the season finale hooked me and now I pretty much have to watch the third season.
Your personal problems likely stem from trying an intermediate-to-advanced project on an operating system I assume you have little experience in, rather than inherent flaws in my argument that it is easy to do.
When I said easy, I was speaking to what I would deem the 'average' slashdotter, who is a relatively linux-experienced, microsoft-bashing comment whore. With these qualifications under his belt, he may go on to build a MythTV PVR in under an hour.
I give you kudos for starting your comment by calling yourself a user, and following that with a remark about your windows experience. You, sir, truly fear no flames.
I wasn't saying 'there's no market for this' only 'why are we self-proclaimed geeks talking about it'
Certainly YOU aren't claiming to be a twelve-o'clock flasher, are you? Consider the intended audience!
You, sir, have missed the effin' joke.
Unless you MEANT to insinuate the boys parents would be at his cute neighbour's house.
Which would be...awkward.
I want to know if there are things the BOOK didn't cover -- I bet they don't consider adventure games from LucasArts et al 'retro'.
Speaking of hidden games, things like finding 'Maniac Mansion' inside 'Day of the Tentacle' made my day when I first played it. I actually kept the minigame longer than the original game (since the former fit on a floppy, unlike the latter)
I used W2k (and have since, but only as a server platform) as a home PC but stopped when I noticed that my games ran FAR faster on XP.
I had been relatively anti-XP (it was initially rumoured to scan you for WaReZ, and so forth, which didn't make me too happy) but it really did benchmark a 33% increase over XP in most of my games.
Heck, even the original UT. I never really investigated why this was; I just moved on.
Who would buy a pre-built system at all? Setup time for building your own is slightly less than an hour.
Oh come ON mod parent UP
It took me two and a half months, using Windows knowledge, to be able to do all the same things in linux. Maybe that's steep, but it was all in my spare time on extra machines at home.
my experience has been that knowing the concepts and being willing to learn are all it takes.
The virus using a virtual machine would probably compromise existing virtual machine servers, and could script the copy of an existing virtual machine. At least thats what occurs to me off the top of my head. You CAN write data to the virtual HDD of a virtual machine while it's not loaded, usually. So it just writes itself into the boot sector or executable area of a virtual machine, and voila. Payload size hasnt dramatically increased.
No, they want you to throw them around more. It weakens the effect it has on us.
fewer people freak out when they hear that we live under big brother, now.
Wouldn't that be context and opinion sensitive, depending on whether you referred to Microsoft as a corporation (singular business entity) or colloquially as 'the guys at Microsoft', which would be a plural group?
I've recently learned that porno is surprisingly difficult to burn.
Long story.
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software patenting is a broken idea
I really disagree. This is security through obscurity, and hiding the plain english description of an available patch only limits the n00b level black hats (scriptkiddies and the like!)
all the information about what is patched is directly available in patch, exposed via a relatively simple decompiling operation. A compare of the newly provided DLL and the original show you clearly what the original lacks. And as such, how you can attack anyone unpatched, or figure out what other DLLs may have such a problem.
I remember helpctr.exe was the first executable I ever did this to. Simple buffer overflow, before SP1.
Writing 100% secure code (in your own code, not considering linked libraries et al) is near impossible, but you go a long ways towards stopping anyone who hasn't spent dang near his whole life on black hatting by simply remembering: don't assume.
We apply every avail. patch using that same mentality.
A quick testbed and then patch. We have to worry more about the patches breaking things than otherwise, since not patching isn't even a possibility.
Personally, I find the experience of asking questions of users who aren't in the immediate vicinity (i.e. face-to-face or telephone) to be far too time consuming for my level of impatience :P
I just find another manual, or so forth. There's always more documentation! This is how I learned SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, RedHat/FC, as well as Exim, Xen, etc etc etc etc
something like..this ?? :P
haven't read it, I moved to linux on FM's alone