Doesn't work. I'v written from scratch or participated in a slew of open projetcs. Chances are you are using something i'v worked on right now.
Still, no consulting. In consulting what matters is knowing right people. Having a friend in charge of IT budget somwhere and some kickbacks is what really brings home da bacon.
Any society coming to the point where any significant amount of goods or services need to be obtained through waiting in line, is bound to crumble and soon. See examples to the East. Providing "entertainment" to those in lines isn't going to help either...
http://www.ipo.org/PTODay_99.htm - here the name of Peter L. Olson is mentioned. He seems to work for 3M. He makes presentation on prosecution issues - scary..:)
http://www.micropat.com/og/ogn980210/patrequ.htm l He is again listed as attorney for 3M on adjudication of certain patent.
The *RIGHT* way of solving a buffer overflow problem would be to have a return address stored on a SEPARATE stack, different from the stack where the parameters and such are stored for the function being called.
Recall that the way this usually works, is overwriting a return address through the non-bound-checked data with some function address that will execute a shell or something of the sort. If it's not on the data stack - you CAN'T overwrite it.
This will require changes both in compilers and in the instruction set, true. But it will make things inherently more secure. The worst one will be able to do with buffer overflow is corrupting data, but no NEW functionality will be executed.
This CAN be trivially done on any un*x i know...
on
UNIX Process Cryogenics?
·
· Score: 2, Redundant
1) Produce the core dump of a process
2) Use the core and process image to restart it
(for example in the debugger such as gdb, if you
don't want to write specialized software).
To the best of my knowledge perl "compiler" uses
precisely this technique to produce perl "executables" - dumps them out as a core right
after compilation and reuses it later on.
You can do this to a kernel as well, if you
REALLY want to.
However, since indeed many things may be dependant
on state of kernel, files, network connections, devices etc. etc. doing this is not adviseable.
Good coding practice for long-running processes is
to actually spend some time on writing the state
saving functionality to support process restart.
Anyway, (call it a flame if ya will) but the fact
that/. posts this as a relevant question is very
disquieting - level of technical knowledge here
gets reduced day after day.
While this is not a largest market - its essential
product that will not go away. Polaroid backs and
polaroid professional film are a must in a studio
flash photography to get quick preliminary results
out of the same camera that will be used for the
real shoot.
So for better or worse they will have a litte
segment of the market forever:))))
Look at FreeBSD - they are fairly open, in that anyone with GOOD idea will be eventually admitted. However you can't just come in with a bunch of code that does not conform to their guidelines and does not do something within a current plan and hope they will take it.
If you are sure that your code is good and that project will benefit from it - and they don't "let you in" - just take their work, put your changes in it and distribute it to the world. If what you do is useful or necessary - they people will make the right choice.
Thats a great restriction.. The less under-teenage children are on the internet - the better. In fact if it were up to me - the wide internet would be open only if you are old enough to drink (and drive:)
For all others - just have some sort of a "children area"...
Things would have been so different..And my pr0n bandwith wouldn't be abused with downloads of Eminem and Britney Spears mp3's...
So this is kind of an open source satellite, isn't it? At least it is clearly an effort of multiple people donating their own time to a project. And here is a result - a piece of crap in space, useless and broken.
Next time you try to point fingers at NASA look this up and shut up.
Yess...yet another ultra-high-frequency wireless technology beaming even more microwaves through your brain.
Go brain cancer....
Truly morons will never learn...
Your home stereo as anything of the sort can
live on its own private network. There is no
need for your home stereo to talk directly
to anything beyound your home.
When it really has to it will go out on the
same IP address everything else in your home has -
the samoe old IPv4 to which it and every other
device - and your porn download should be translated.
In any organization where 24x7 support is needed the only real way to go is work in shifts. My company is a sort of service provider that offers day-round connectivity. Needless to say 24x7 is a must.
It is really simple. NOC (network operations center) personnel (or simply operators/sysadmins) are specifically hired with the work time being as following : 3 days on, 3 days off , 3 nights on , 3 nights off. This way if you need 1 person there at all times u gotta hire 4 obviously, but if you NEED 24x7 its the way to go.
All the "pager" stuff is a silly way to torture a person and is completely antiproductive. I never took a pager from a job (had to refuse a couple of times) and i feel strongly that no "on-call" work should ever be done for any reason.
--Ugen
I posted on this exact issue once before but i may as well repeat it - although nobody of consequence will listen.
Domain system is bogus, the whole idea of single english word "dot" a finite number of half-legible suffixes to mark a diverse body of companies, organizations, entities, ideas, events, people etc. is utterly inadequate.
It is sort of like trying to describe everything in the world using 5 verbs and a small number of nouns.
This system had one purpose - to map IP addresses to human readable words that are easier to understand. The Internet outgrew the stage when it was just a collection of ip addresses and servers. There is a whole new social dynamic involved, it is a world upon itself and in that world one way of finding things isnt good enough. Just like the Yellow pages may be a decent guide but it is not all the world and there are great many other ways to look for things.
But - neither big corporations nor software manufacturers neither frankly a consumer are ready or willing to make a serious change. So we are stuck in a 21st century using naming conventions worthy of Indian tribes (no offence) about 2000 years ago.
Well, good luck to all of you, "4 eyes":)
(Oh, btw - yes i know what can we do, now i am sure some of you do to - there are much better solutions - extending tld's and prolonging an agony isnt one of them)
a) Public transporation sux - i like my privacy and i hate sitting next to YOU! I spent over half of my life in Russia - country where you basically have no choice but to use public transportation. I live in NYC where i must use subway. I hate both - stinky sweaty people closer then 10 ft away are downright disgusting.
b) There are no reliable technologies that can work in a vehicle at this point and use something readily available. 1) Hydrogen - well, you have to produce a fucking hydrogen and it requires LOTS of electricity. And electricity requires lots of oil or coal to be used - and in fact calculations show that with a low energy/work ratio this sort of engine is more polluting eventually. And no, those bacteria still cannot produce enough hydrogen to even blow up a birthday baloon.
2) Ergo for electric cars - and on top of that you have to drive with a speed of under 50mph and lug half-ton container filled with dangerous and environmentally unsafe acids.
3) Fuel cells - well, they just plain don't work yet...also see hydrogen above.
4) Natural gas - it is all good but there arent so much resources and it is dangerous to store and transport - more so then fuel since it must be stored under high pressure. There isnt a good solution for refueling with it either.
So yes - until we find something radical - regular fuel and combustion engine are the only way - and we must improve the mpg - that much is true.
But then again - if YOU use the bus - there is one less person on the highway so i can drive a little easier.
a) Well, first of all security agencies wiretap. It is normal and necessary, there are quite real investigational needs that have to be fulfilled. In a better world where nobody would do anything illegal this would not be needed, but in our crappy little universe this is a necessity.
b) US jurisdiction only covers US based servers, services etc. So in case of quite legitimate need for wiretapping they may not be able to get access due to services being provided abroad.
c) This also means that those abroad may have easier access wiretapping traffic here - legitimate security concern even among best of friends in our world.
Anyhow, think about this - when was the last time YOU had anything on the wire that may be of interest to any government agency, really now? Nobody gives a damn about us and our little lives..get on with it..
Let's look at things as they are - there is only one steady service that people pay in the Internet for - the actual connection. Be that your provider of dialup, dsl, T1 etc, you pay your subscriber fee. (Let's not bother with netzero and such - they will all be dead before time). This is where the revenue comes from - as long as people pay to come online providers are interested in keeping online going. If the sites will start to dry up, i am pretty sure programs will appear to join providers of connectivity and providers of information.
This in fact is how TV works in some countries - you pay yearly TV tax and tv studios get their share. Of course then internet will more and more resemble one giant AOL with link providers dictating content. But this has been the case with every media and this one will conform just the same.
Well, let's see - i am guessing in poor country like India the railway control systems arent an example of reliability.
So now we introduce a whole new banana in this system and run a new signal on the same poor abused copper wire.
For all practical purposes from the point of view of a control system we created some noise and complications in there.
How do you think this will affect train traffic?
I really prefer to know that the grain train and a passenger train will go safely through the interchange - and nobody in the rural village can shop on yahoo then other way around.
I mean - i understand that every techie/geek here has to be brought up on Star Treck and all, so let it be here. But how did it get to be the only science field getting any coverage on/.?
It has little to do with computers, as for "stuff that matters" - i am sure , say automotive news or medical science, matter a lot to great many here. And the list can go on.
So i'd say either discuss them *all* or get the damn astronomy out of here. Personal tastes of site founders should not be a guiding line in what is posted for a site that is used and trusted by as many people as this one.
Well, for starters great many trademarks ARE regular english words. Let's see. Apple? Of course trademark depends on context. Pants for dummies - that do not require buttoning or pulling up to wear them - won't be covered. Profoundly yellow book/page/printed or otherwise text material clearly is. It is all about context.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't work.
I'v written from scratch or participated in a slew of open projetcs. Chances are you are using something i'v worked on right now.
Still, no consulting. In consulting what matters is knowing right people. Having a friend in charge of IT budget somwhere and some kickbacks is what really brings home da bacon.
Any society coming to the point where any significant amount of goods or services need to be obtained through waiting in line, is bound to crumble and soon. See examples to the East.
Providing "entertainment" to those in lines isn't going to help either...
Last time they moved it on the back of AH Mriya, i guess that's what they can do this time, if the buyer appears.
http://www.ipo.org/PTODay_99.htm - here the name of Peter L. Olson is mentioned. He seems to work for 3M. He makes presentation on prosecution issues - scary..:)
m l
http://www.micropat.com/og/ogn980210/patrequ.ht
He is again listed as attorney for 3M on adjudication of certain patent.
The *RIGHT* way of solving a buffer overflow problem would be to have a return address stored on a SEPARATE stack, different from the stack where the parameters and such are stored for the function being called.
Recall that the way this usually works, is overwriting a return address through the non-bound-checked data with some function address that will execute a shell or something of the sort. If it's not on the data stack - you CAN'T overwrite it.
This will require changes both in compilers and in the instruction set, true. But it will make things inherently more secure. The worst one will be able to do with buffer overflow is corrupting data, but no NEW functionality will be executed.
1) Produce the core dump of a process
/. posts this as a relevant question is very
2) Use the core and process image to restart it
(for example in the debugger such as gdb, if you
don't want to write specialized software).
To the best of my knowledge perl "compiler" uses
precisely this technique to produce perl "executables" - dumps them out as a core right
after compilation and reuses it later on.
You can do this to a kernel as well, if you
REALLY want to.
However, since indeed many things may be dependant
on state of kernel, files, network connections, devices etc. etc. doing this is not adviseable.
Good coding practice for long-running processes is
to actually spend some time on writing the state
saving functionality to support process restart.
Anyway, (call it a flame if ya will) but the fact
that
disquieting - level of technical knowledge here
gets reduced day after day.
While this is not a largest market - its essential
product that will not go away. Polaroid backs and
polaroid professional film are a must in a studio
flash photography to get quick preliminary results
out of the same camera that will be used for the
real shoot.
So for better or worse they will have a litte
segment of the market forever:))))
Being a computer geek does not releive you of aneed to use good grammar. It's "dEspite"..
Look at FreeBSD - they are fairly open, in that anyone with GOOD idea will be eventually admitted. However you can't just come in with a bunch of code that does not conform to their guidelines and does not do something within a current plan and hope they will take it.
If you are sure that your code is good and that project will benefit from it - and they don't "let you in" - just take their work, put your changes in it and distribute it to the world. If what you do is useful or necessary - they people will make the right choice.
Thats a great restriction.. The less under-teenage children are on the internet - the better. In fact if it were up to me - the wide internet would be open only if you are old enough to drink (and drive:) For all others - just have some sort of a "children area"... Things would have been so different..And my pr0n bandwith wouldn't be abused with downloads of Eminem and Britney Spears mp3's...
So this is kind of an open source satellite, isn't it? At least it is clearly an effort of multiple people donating their own time to a project. And here is a result - a piece of crap in space, useless and broken.
Next time you try to point fingers at NASA look this up and shut up.
Lets bring back the 1) Steam Engine 2) Lamp radio
Yess...yet another ultra-high-frequency wireless technology beaming even more microwaves through your brain. Go brain cancer.... Truly morons will never learn...
Your home stereo as anything of the sort can
live on its own private network. There is no
need for your home stereo to talk directly
to anything beyound your home.
When it really has to it will go out on the
same IP address everything else in your home has -
the samoe old IPv4 to which it and every other
device - and your porn download should be translated.
IPv6 is not to be..just get used to it.
yes yes, yet another bunch of cool barefoot good hackers fighting evil child porn distributing credit card stealing lock picking evil dudes.
/. , it really lowers the overall level of this otherwise worthy publication.
right, every kid they pick out of the trash and detox from acid is a genius. and no , no - *they* only watch child porn for research.
Please, try to avoid posting silly yellow newsman gobbledygook pr shit on
In any organization where 24x7 support is needed the only real way to go is work in shifts. My company is a sort of service provider that offers day-round connectivity. Needless to say 24x7 is a must.
It is really simple. NOC (network operations center) personnel (or simply operators/sysadmins) are specifically hired with the work time being as following : 3 days on, 3 days off , 3 nights on , 3 nights off. This way if you need 1 person there at all times u gotta hire 4 obviously, but if you NEED 24x7 its the way to go.
All the "pager" stuff is a silly way to torture a person and is completely antiproductive. I never took a pager from a job (had to refuse a couple of times) and i feel strongly that no "on-call" work should ever be done for any reason.
--Ugen
Inasmuch as client (recipient) will have to be fixed in a following way:
a) Alert you every time someones certificate is used if it contains any additional keys.
b) Have an option of ignoring such messages.
You still have to notify the author that he is using a compromised certificate so the problem isnt entirely solved but it will be clearly visible.
What a crock.. Anime is as mainstream pop as it gets, just not in US (yet) - but wait. Pokemon generation will make sure we all watch that.
I posted on this exact issue once before but
i may as well repeat it - although nobody of
consequence will listen.
Domain system is bogus, the whole idea of
single english word "dot" a finite number of
half-legible suffixes to mark a diverse body
of companies, organizations, entities, ideas,
events, people etc. is utterly inadequate.
It is sort of like trying to describe everything
in the world using 5 verbs and a small number
of nouns.
This system had one purpose - to map IP addresses
to human readable words that are easier to
understand. The Internet outgrew the stage
when it was just a collection of ip addresses
and servers. There is a whole new social dynamic
involved, it is a world upon itself and in that
world one way of finding things isnt good
enough. Just like the Yellow pages may be
a decent guide but it is not all the world and
there are great many other ways to look for things.
But - neither big corporations nor software
manufacturers neither frankly a consumer are
ready or willing to make a serious change.
So we are stuck in a 21st century using naming
conventions worthy of Indian tribes (no
offence) about 2000 years ago.
Well, good luck to all of you, "4 eyes":)
(Oh, btw - yes i know what can we do, now i
am sure some of you do to - there are much
better solutions - extending tld's and
prolonging an agony isnt one of them)
Cars are good...
a) Public transporation sux - i like my privacy
and i hate sitting next to YOU!
I spent over half of my life in Russia - country
where you basically have no choice but to use
public transportation. I live in NYC where i
must use subway. I hate both - stinky sweaty
people closer then 10 ft away are downright
disgusting.
b) There are no reliable technologies that can
work in a vehicle at this point and use something
readily available.
1) Hydrogen - well, you have to
produce a fucking hydrogen and it requires LOTS
of electricity. And electricity requires lots
of oil or coal to be used - and in fact
calculations show that with a low energy/work
ratio this sort of engine is more polluting eventually.
And no, those bacteria still cannot
produce enough hydrogen to even blow up a
birthday baloon.
2) Ergo for electric cars - and on top of that
you have to drive with a speed of under 50mph
and lug half-ton container filled with dangerous
and environmentally unsafe acids.
3) Fuel cells - well, they just plain don't
work yet...also see hydrogen above.
4) Natural gas - it is all good but there arent
so much resources and it is dangerous to
store and transport - more so then fuel since
it must be stored under high pressure. There
isnt a good solution for refueling with it either.
So yes - until we find something radical -
regular fuel and combustion engine are the
only way - and we must improve the mpg - that
much is true.
But then again - if YOU use the bus - there
is one less person on the highway so i can
drive a little easier.
a) Well, first of all security agencies wiretap.
It is normal and necessary, there are quite real
investigational needs that have to be fulfilled.
In a better world where nobody would do anything
illegal this would not be needed, but in our
crappy little universe this is a necessity.
b) US jurisdiction only covers US based servers,
services etc. So in case of quite legitimate need
for wiretapping they may not be able to get
access due to services being provided abroad.
c) This also means that those abroad may have
easier access wiretapping traffic here -
legitimate security concern even among
best of friends in our world.
Anyhow, think about this - when was the last
time YOU had anything on the wire that may
be of interest to any government agency,
really now? Nobody gives a damn about us and
our little lives..get on with it..
Let's look at things as they are - there
is only one steady service that people pay in
the Internet for - the actual connection.
Be that your provider of dialup, dsl, T1 etc,
you pay your subscriber fee. (Let's not bother
with netzero and such - they will all be dead
before time).
This is where the revenue comes from - as long
as people pay to come online providers are
interested in keeping online going. If the
sites will start to dry up, i am pretty sure
programs will appear to join providers of
connectivity and providers of information.
This in fact is how TV works in some countries -
you pay yearly TV tax and tv studios get their
share. Of course then internet will more and
more resemble one giant AOL with link providers
dictating content. But this has been the case
with every media and this one will conform
just the same.
O well...who cares.
Well, let's see - i am guessing in poor country
like India the railway control systems arent
an example of reliability.
So now we introduce a whole new banana in this
system and run a new signal on the same poor
abused copper wire.
For all practical purposes from the point of
view of a control system we created some noise
and complications in there.
How do you think this will affect train
traffic?
I really prefer to know that the grain train and
a passenger train will go safely through the
interchange - and nobody in the rural village
can shop on yahoo then other way around.
I mean - i understand that every techie/geek here /.?
has to be brought up on Star Treck and all, so
let it be here. But how did it get to be the
only science field getting any coverage on
It has little to do with computers, as for
"stuff that matters" - i am sure , say automotive
news or medical science, matter a lot to great
many here. And the list can go on.
So i'd say either discuss them *all* or get the
damn astronomy out of here. Personal tastes of
site founders should not be a guiding line in
what is posted for a site that is used and trusted
by as many people as this one.
Well, for starters great many trademarks ARE regular english words. Let's see. Apple? Of course trademark depends on context. Pants for dummies - that do not require buttoning or pulling up to wear them - won't be covered. Profoundly yellow book/page/printed or otherwise text material clearly is. It is all about context.