Considering that the internet/darpanet/packet switching was designed to route it's way long distances through a post nuclear holocaust, with the tools we have now riding on it now, you can't stop the packets, not forever.
All of the affected web servers that we have examined use the Linux 2.6 kernel.
For clarity, the old kernel is a common indicator on the compromised hosts.
Okay, so between 2003 and 2011 there have probably been 3 dozen versions of that kernel. The overwhelming majority of Linux based web servers run the vetted, thoroughly tested and patched, tried and true 2.6 series Linux Kernel. This makes me concerned Cisco doesn't understand what it means to run a production system. Also, what do they even mean by "web server" are we to assume Apache? Because there are alternatives in use... lots. Considering most Linux based web servers are running a variation of the 2.6 kernel, then of course that's where they will the find the attacks (Duh anyone?). I would be much more interested in what web server we are talking about and any commonality between them over the kernel of the operating system. I am shaking my head trying to figure what this article is really trying to communicate especially since they practically shoot down most of their article with the "Update" at the top.
Although users of Cisco’s Cloud Web Security solution are protected from this attack...
You completely missed my point. As I said, "settings" is the tool you are talking about. To make a user friendly configuration tool you would strip "settings" of a zillion features down to basics. There, you now have an easy to configure Enlightenment tool and a much more basic Enlightenment. You can't design a configuration tool with everything E has to offer and make it easy to use - the very notion makes no sense, it's already as easy as it can be. You could argue that you could have two levels of configuration tools - again, settings, one for basic easy configuration and another one for more complex configuration, except that still doesn't make sense because someone would have to decide what those basic settings would be.
Also, Enlightenment reduced to a basic "every other DE" kind of configuration is no better than any other DE and in some respects may be worse. There is nothing compelling about it at all in that condition. I know, I have personally widdled it down to that form just to see and it's not likely something I would use.
You are missing the charm of Enlightenment completely. Also, messing with config files is a thing of the past. If you really want to know the difference between Enlightenment and what you mentioned as well as others, I would say install it and spend some serious time getting to know it, but I am not going to sit here and write you a manual in a Slashdot comment outlining all the differences, and I most definitely put you in the category of people who should steer clear of it. There will always be more to it than you will ever understand and that is ok - nothing wrong with that at all. I am officially done beating this dead horse.
Clearly you have never used it, or at least never learned it. They do have such a tool. It's called settings, it's five-miles across, ten-miles deep, and can be accessed in different places in different ways. A main part of the philosophy of E is extreme flexibility in it's configuration. Myself as someone who knows it, uses, and loves it, it is an absolute marvel of perfect complexity - a work of art. The system is so flexible I don't know where to begin explaining it or what I even mean by it without writing a book. I have settled on my way (perfect personal configuration), and a thousand others have settled on radically different configurations that suit them and their needs, while ten-thousand others have given up quickly because the don't understand what they have. It's like with every other DE\WM out there, I'm always wishing for this or that feature, functionality, or behavior several times over per environment. With E you have all of those features. Activating and configuring them is a puzzle the first time or three (or more), but when you're done you have a system you can't complain about - and you then know it's internals. You have everything you have ever wanted out of anything in any configuration you desire, exhibiting whatever behavior you want. These are the things that make it complicated for regular users - putting it together. If they were to make a "regular user version" they would have to dump their core philosophy, decides what's best for you, then cut out a thousand configuration options. With every possibility available, what's best for you? What should stay and go? Only you can decide. That's the trick to making a dumbed down version of it.
As I have said to many people before, and have even quoted myself on in this very thread, "Enlightenment is not for everybody" - I am not here trying to advertise it like a fanboy, I just wanted to set some standard stereotypes straight. I spend far more time telling people to steer clear of it than I do recommending it, despite being my own DE of choice.
Suddenly I remember when E was first announced on Chips n Dip.... : )
sudo make install will not install it system wide, without a prefix it will install into the directory you compile it in. Prove it to yourself and try it. Otherwise my preferred location is opt:/configure --prefix=/opt/python3.4
I tell that to people all the time, encouraging many not to bother with it. It has reached enough critical mass with developers and admins that it's not going anywhere. If you take the time to mold it into what it can be, there is nothing better. I have considered drafting a proposal for a version of E that lacks much of it's current complexity while still being awesome. Past that, I am not denying it exists in a niche market. The goal of my post was to dispel common misconceptions about Enlightenment. Basically, if your going to dislike it, I want people to dislike it for the right reasons, while I lay out the reasons I like it.
No it will not take a decade to see E19 final. Once the project started back up again, they went from E16 to E17 in one year. E18 was quickly on it's heels and now a functional beta of E19 is already out. I am on their mailing list and follow the project closely. They are developing at warp speed. To all the people who install a recent version of E, play with it for a few hours, declare it crap and purge it from their systems: you have no idea what you are missing. If Enlightenment has a problem, it is that to use it to it's full potential - which is vast - one must endure one of the, if not the, steepest learning curves of any DE out there. Once mastered, there is no GUI\DE more powerful and flexible. I am currently running Bodhi 4.2 with E 17.4 and out 16 years of using Linux and every other DE\WM that has come along over that duration, this is the greatest setup I have ever had. I have one display setup with four workspaces, each setup in it's own tiling configuration and my other display setup in a more traditional, but heavily customized way. The window tiling abilities in E are no joke and one of the primary reasons I use it. Being able to use it both ways, one on each monitor is more than I could ever ask for. Now, if all E could do right after an install was limited to what you are presented with, then yes, it would be silly. But it is up to the user, perhaps with a little Googling, forum searching, and getting the mailing list to make it do whatever your hearts content. Because of this, Enlightenment is not for everyone: power users only need apply. I keep going, but i will stop here before I get too carried away. My only gripe is the current lack of documentation for Elementary, which makes writing software for it difficult since you can only learning by studying source code, but standard tutorials are on the way.
If someone is looking to install Python 3.4 the day it is released, they are not an average office worker. If someone is above average enough as a user to want\need this, they may as well have the expertise that goes with it. What exactly are you expecting them to be doing with it? Fully upgrading a 2.x system to 3.x will only break things - clearly nerdy goals are at hand. Therefor nerdier instruction in required. Plus there is no other way to do it on day one of it's release.
In fact I will even get you started:
cd ~/Downloads
tar -zxvf Python-3.4.0.tgz
cd Python-3.4.0 ./configure
make
sudo make install
This harmless method will only install python in the directory you built it in. So if you type "python" you will still get the old interpreter. If you type./python you will get 3.4 - As far as replacing your existing installation completely or doing something more complicated, I will leave it to you to Google that so I don't lead you down an irreversible path you did not intend to go down.
I am a little confused about your request. On my very modest system, Python takes just under three-minutes to compile from: extract > cd >./configure > make > make install
I run several Ubuntu derivatives and honestly never considered apt-get - but I also often run more than one version of Python on any given system and compiling manually makes that easier to maintain. If you are a Linux user so stuck on apt-get that you cannot work with source code at all, I highly suggest you download the source from here: https://www.python.org/downloa... and give it a try.
These are the sorts of aborted attempts at schools that produce "graduates" with a stack of certifications yet who somehow don't even know what the ping command is. Countless times I have encountered these individuals only to be shocked that despite the year or more they spend in these places I have literally had to instruct them on how to use the basics like ping, traceroute, ip/ifconfig, etc... and then how to use such things to perform basic troubleshooting. How someone obtain an A+, Network+, and more and not know these things is beyond me.
Around the turn of the millennium I briefly attended one such school. I ended up doing more teaching than the teachers, quickly realized it was a scam and dropped out. That particular tech-school was later sued out of existence for making promises they could not deliver on.
This is why I despise the majority of technical certifications: they either measure knowledge or they don't - you can't always tell right away. It can be a matter of learning the material and rightfully passing the exam, or merely learning how to take the exam. I sometimes contemplate teaching a class in Linux so I can teach it right, but then again I would not want to be associated with such an institution.
While it may be fair to say that prayer has this effect, what is prayer? Meditation. Introspective meditation, a form of secular meditation has been under intense scientific study and has been shown to have greater effects on the brain than prayer. It's even heavily endorsed by everyone's favorite Atheist and neuroscientist Sam Harris
The first time this story was posted a month ago, it was reported that Target's internal security team warned management months in advance that there was a huge problem.
How do you think we can get through to the anti-vaxxers?"
It may not be possible. The anti-vaccination movement has taken on full blown fundamentalist religious zeal. It's like trying to talk about evolution to a fundamentalist christian. In the end you have wasted your breath talking to an ignorance re-reinforced brick wall.
Personally, I think the government needs air strongly worded PSA's during the commercial segments in primetime television with powerful and sickening imagery combined with stories of kids that died becaue they did not get vaccinated. Yes, we need a campaign stronger than the opposition.
The mystery of why the plane was in flight, way off course, and out of contact for hours is confounding. Maybe everyone on board was already dead. A plane can fly itself. Perhaps the pilots sent it of course on purpose before whatever happened, happened. Perhaps hypoxia was involved and the pilots went delusional. There are a thousand and one perhaps. Perhaps we will never know.
I have always found it funny that Apple gives away all these Macs to television shows and movie production, but 9 times out of 10 when they show the screen it is something completely made up and looks nothing like OS X.
Anyway, I watch out for these things very carefully and I have to lend some credit to Revolution. In two different episodes a computer booted into what was very clearly a korn shell. I was a bit impressed. They also show a lot of code on that show, but it is too briefly shown and obfuscated to make out what it is. Probably Javascript : p I can only imagine the programming jokes that are hidden within.
I did a stint with a major carrier doing customer service and billing related stuff. Calls like this came in all the time. Standard procedure was to refund the money and educate the customer so it doesn't happen again. Of course you log in their account that you gave them a one time courtesy refund and educated them on the matter so if they call back with the same complaint you can find a polite way of saying "Too bad so sad". I also spent a lot of time flat out blocking the ability to purchase from the play store, blocking in app-purchases, and blocking short codes.
How, as a 'non-marketer' are you qualified to comment on how effective web marketing is?
Simple: I am a consumer. It is very rare I click on on ad out of interest. Typically I mis-click because the go away button is too small or ambiguous. Mostly when I click on ads, it's to support a website I like in hopes that it's set up as a simple click through. Then I close the page.
Currently, advertising pays for the web as we know it. From my perspective as a non-marketer, it is very much ineffective and yet a lot of money is changing hands over it. We live in an age where someone can make $50,000\day on a free mobile game that display ads that most people do not even tap on, and avoid directing their attention to. The web doesn't seem much different, and that strikes me as unsustainable. Do you foresee a future bubble burst based on an industry-wide, sudden realization that current advertising models do not work anywhere near as well as the powers that be currently believe the do? What would be the consequences of an advertising bubble burst and what might support the web afterwards?
I more than suspect they all read very similar. As far as I am concerned as long as the actual "link" is denies in no uncertain terms the idea that he failed to go through proper channels it's up for grabs. Get a grip.
They were fighting over it because one of the kids broke his after seeing how far he could kick it down one of the longer halls without hitting any lockers.
Everything in that video was a gross underestimation of what kids could potentially.... no make that will put this thing through. I suggest the real litmus test would be to put one of these things through a laundry washing machine, then a dryer, then repeat three times before driving back and forth over it multiple times with an 18-wheeler. I am not saying any single one of those scenarios will unfold, but somehow someway the equivalent abuse will.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering that the internet/darpanet/packet switching was designed to route it's way long distances through a post nuclear holocaust, with the tools we have now riding on it now, you can't stop the packets, not forever.
Okay, so between 2003 and 2011 there have probably been 3 dozen versions of that kernel. The overwhelming majority of Linux based web servers run the vetted, thoroughly tested and patched, tried and true 2.6 series Linux Kernel. This makes me concerned Cisco doesn't understand what it means to run a production system. Also, what do they even mean by "web server" are we to assume Apache? Because there are alternatives in use... lots. Considering most Linux based web servers are running a variation of the 2.6 kernel, then of course that's where they will the find the attacks (Duh anyone?). I would be much more interested in what web server we are talking about and any commonality between them over the kernel of the operating system. I am shaking my head trying to figure what this article is really trying to communicate especially since they practically shoot down most of their article with the "Update" at the top.
Oh, I get it now.
Yes but only for backwards compatibility if your'e building A Time Machine.
You completely missed my point. As I said, "settings" is the tool you are talking about. To make a user friendly configuration tool you would strip "settings" of a zillion features down to basics. There, you now have an easy to configure Enlightenment tool and a much more basic Enlightenment. You can't design a configuration tool with everything E has to offer and make it easy to use - the very notion makes no sense, it's already as easy as it can be. You could argue that you could have two levels of configuration tools - again, settings, one for basic easy configuration and another one for more complex configuration, except that still doesn't make sense because someone would have to decide what those basic settings would be.
Also, Enlightenment reduced to a basic "every other DE" kind of configuration is no better than any other DE and in some respects may be worse. There is nothing compelling about it at all in that condition. I know, I have personally widdled it down to that form just to see and it's not likely something I would use.
You are missing the charm of Enlightenment completely. Also, messing with config files is a thing of the past. If you really want to know the difference between Enlightenment and what you mentioned as well as others, I would say install it and spend some serious time getting to know it, but I am not going to sit here and write you a manual in a Slashdot comment outlining all the differences, and I most definitely put you in the category of people who should steer clear of it. There will always be more to it than you will ever understand and that is ok - nothing wrong with that at all. I am officially done beating this dead horse.
Clearly you have never used it, or at least never learned it. They do have such a tool. It's called settings, it's five-miles across, ten-miles deep, and can be accessed in different places in different ways. A main part of the philosophy of E is extreme flexibility in it's configuration. Myself as someone who knows it, uses, and loves it, it is an absolute marvel of perfect complexity - a work of art. The system is so flexible I don't know where to begin explaining it or what I even mean by it without writing a book. I have settled on my way (perfect personal configuration), and a thousand others have settled on radically different configurations that suit them and their needs, while ten-thousand others have given up quickly because the don't understand what they have. It's like with every other DE\WM out there, I'm always wishing for this or that feature, functionality, or behavior several times over per environment. With E you have all of those features. Activating and configuring them is a puzzle the first time or three (or more), but when you're done you have a system you can't complain about - and you then know it's internals. You have everything you have ever wanted out of anything in any configuration you desire, exhibiting whatever behavior you want. These are the things that make it complicated for regular users - putting it together. If they were to make a "regular user version" they would have to dump their core philosophy, decides what's best for you, then cut out a thousand configuration options. With every possibility available, what's best for you? What should stay and go? Only you can decide. That's the trick to making a dumbed down version of it.
As I have said to many people before, and have even quoted myself on in this very thread, "Enlightenment is not for everybody" - I am not here trying to advertise it like a fanboy, I just wanted to set some standard stereotypes straight. I spend far more time telling people to steer clear of it than I do recommending it, despite being my own DE of choice.
Suddenly I remember when E was first announced on Chips n Dip.... : )
sudo make install will not install it system wide, without a prefix it will install into the directory you compile it in. Prove it to yourself and try it. Otherwise my preferred location is opt: /configure --prefix=/opt/python3.4
I tell that to people all the time, encouraging many not to bother with it. It has reached enough critical mass with developers and admins that it's not going anywhere. If you take the time to mold it into what it can be, there is nothing better. I have considered drafting a proposal for a version of E that lacks much of it's current complexity while still being awesome. Past that, I am not denying it exists in a niche market. The goal of my post was to dispel common misconceptions about Enlightenment. Basically, if your going to dislike it, I want people to dislike it for the right reasons, while I lay out the reasons I like it.
No it will not take a decade to see E19 final. Once the project started back up again, they went from E16 to E17 in one year. E18 was quickly on it's heels and now a functional beta of E19 is already out. I am on their mailing list and follow the project closely. They are developing at warp speed. To all the people who install a recent version of E, play with it for a few hours, declare it crap and purge it from their systems: you have no idea what you are missing. If Enlightenment has a problem, it is that to use it to it's full potential - which is vast - one must endure one of the, if not the, steepest learning curves of any DE out there. Once mastered, there is no GUI\DE more powerful and flexible. I am currently running Bodhi 4.2 with E 17.4 and out 16 years of using Linux and every other DE\WM that has come along over that duration, this is the greatest setup I have ever had. I have one display setup with four workspaces, each setup in it's own tiling configuration and my other display setup in a more traditional, but heavily customized way. The window tiling abilities in E are no joke and one of the primary reasons I use it. Being able to use it both ways, one on each monitor is more than I could ever ask for. Now, if all E could do right after an install was limited to what you are presented with, then yes, it would be silly. But it is up to the user, perhaps with a little Googling, forum searching, and getting the mailing list to make it do whatever your hearts content. Because of this, Enlightenment is not for everyone: power users only need apply. I keep going, but i will stop here before I get too carried away. My only gripe is the current lack of documentation for Elementary, which makes writing software for it difficult since you can only learning by studying source code, but standard tutorials are on the way.
If someone is looking to install Python 3.4 the day it is released, they are not an average office worker. If someone is above average enough as a user to want\need this, they may as well have the expertise that goes with it. What exactly are you expecting them to be doing with it? Fully upgrading a 2.x system to 3.x will only break things - clearly nerdy goals are at hand. Therefor nerdier instruction in required. Plus there is no other way to do it on day one of it's release.
In fact I will even get you started:
./configure
./python you will get 3.4 - As far as replacing your existing installation completely or doing something more complicated, I will leave it to you to Google that so I don't lead you down an irreversible path you did not intend to go down.
cd ~/Downloads
tar -zxvf Python-3.4.0.tgz
cd Python-3.4.0
make
sudo make install
This harmless method will only install python in the directory you built it in. So if you type "python" you will still get the old interpreter. If you type
I am a little confused about your request. On my very modest system, Python takes just under three-minutes to compile from: extract > cd > ./configure > make > make install
I run several Ubuntu derivatives and honestly never considered apt-get - but I also often run more than one version of Python on any given system and compiling manually makes that easier to maintain. If you are a Linux user so stuck on apt-get that you cannot work with source code at all, I highly suggest you download the source from here: https://www.python.org/downloa... and give it a try.
These are the sorts of aborted attempts at schools that produce "graduates" with a stack of certifications yet who somehow don't even know what the ping command is. Countless times I have encountered these individuals only to be shocked that despite the year or more they spend in these places I have literally had to instruct them on how to use the basics like ping, traceroute, ip/ifconfig, etc... and then how to use such things to perform basic troubleshooting. How someone obtain an A+, Network+, and more and not know these things is beyond me.
Around the turn of the millennium I briefly attended one such school. I ended up doing more teaching than the teachers, quickly realized it was a scam and dropped out. That particular tech-school was later sued out of existence for making promises they could not deliver on.
This is why I despise the majority of technical certifications: they either measure knowledge or they don't - you can't always tell right away. It can be a matter of learning the material and rightfully passing the exam, or merely learning how to take the exam. I sometimes contemplate teaching a class in Linux so I can teach it right, but then again I would not want to be associated with such an institution.
While it may be fair to say that prayer has this effect, what is prayer? Meditation. Introspective meditation, a form of secular meditation has been under intense scientific study and has been shown to have greater effects on the brain than prayer. It's even heavily endorsed by everyone's favorite Atheist and neuroscientist Sam Harris
The first time this story was posted a month ago, it was reported that Target's internal security team warned management months in advance that there was a huge problem.
Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management
So which is it?
It may not be possible. The anti-vaccination movement has taken on full blown fundamentalist religious zeal. It's like trying to talk about evolution to a fundamentalist christian. In the end you have wasted your breath talking to an ignorance re-reinforced brick wall.
Personally, I think the government needs air strongly worded PSA's during the commercial segments in primetime television with powerful and sickening imagery combined with stories of kids that died becaue they did not get vaccinated. Yes, we need a campaign stronger than the opposition.
The mystery of why the plane was in flight, way off course, and out of contact for hours is confounding. Maybe everyone on board was already dead. A plane can fly itself. Perhaps the pilots sent it of course on purpose before whatever happened, happened. Perhaps hypoxia was involved and the pilots went delusional. There are a thousand and one perhaps. Perhaps we will never know.
I have always found it funny that Apple gives away all these Macs to television shows and movie production, but 9 times out of 10 when they show the screen it is something completely made up and looks nothing like OS X.
Anyway, I watch out for these things very carefully and I have to lend some credit to Revolution. In two different episodes a computer booted into what was very clearly a korn shell. I was a bit impressed. They also show a lot of code on that show, but it is too briefly shown and obfuscated to make out what it is. Probably Javascript : p I can only imagine the programming jokes that are hidden within.
I did a stint with a major carrier doing customer service and billing related stuff. Calls like this came in all the time. Standard procedure was to refund the money and educate the customer so it doesn't happen again. Of course you log in their account that you gave them a one time courtesy refund and educated them on the matter so if they call back with the same complaint you can find a polite way of saying "Too bad so sad". I also spent a lot of time flat out blocking the ability to purchase from the play store, blocking in app-purchases, and blocking short codes.
Simple: I am a consumer. It is very rare I click on on ad out of interest. Typically I mis-click because the go away button is too small or ambiguous. Mostly when I click on ads, it's to support a website I like in hopes that it's set up as a simple click through. Then I close the page.
Currently, advertising pays for the web as we know it. From my perspective as a non-marketer, it is very much ineffective and yet a lot of money is changing hands over it. We live in an age where someone can make $50,000\day on a free mobile game that display ads that most people do not even tap on, and avoid directing their attention to. The web doesn't seem much different, and that strikes me as unsustainable. Do you foresee a future bubble burst based on an industry-wide, sudden realization that current advertising models do not work anywhere near as well as the powers that be currently believe the do? What would be the consequences of an advertising bubble burst and what might support the web afterwards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
I more than suspect they all read very similar. As far as I am concerned as long as the actual "link" is denies in no uncertain terms the idea that he failed to go through proper channels it's up for grabs. Get a grip.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...
They were fighting over it because one of the kids broke his after seeing how far he could kick it down one of the longer halls without hitting any lockers.
Everything in that video was a gross underestimation of what kids could potentially.... no make that will put this thing through. I suggest the real litmus test would be to put one of these things through a laundry washing machine, then a dryer, then repeat three times before driving back and forth over it multiple times with an 18-wheeler. I am not saying any single one of those scenarios will unfold, but somehow someway the equivalent abuse will.