1. position harddisk on one end of a accelerometer.
2. power up the harddisk
3. accelerate the harddisk to the other end at great accelerations
4. when you are close to the end of the accelerometer, power off the harddisk
5. harddisk deaccelerates down to 0 velocity due to impact
6. smile, your harddisk has just lost all its data
From my Hitachi HDD: can survive 300G/2ms operating shock; 900G/1ms non-operating shock
Ok fine. So this macro can download a image and open in another new document. But any legit macro should also be able to do that (i mean, just refer to a web image in a new document, and you're done).
What this guy has a a doc which has a macro embedded in it. And all you get is an execution of that macro when you open the doc.
Where are the *real* characteristics of a virus - spreading to other files on the disk?
I agree with you on that, CMoF. I agree that the government may not realise this, or may not care a damn about this, but the world is more and more looking at US as an international bully. Little do they realise that the government is playing the big bully on the people in US as well as the people all over the world.
d00d, for that price, you can pick-up a faster celeron/pIV box from the market with a hard-disk and oodles of RAM. if your fetish are thin clients (no pun intended), then you can remote desktop out on boot all the time! and if you do require to use it to play movies/games/CAD applications - you can always dish out the task to the "not so thin client". IMHO, the whole argument of thin clients falls apart when they are sold at a much higher pricer than a regular system.
a thin client system like this would require a VERY fast server(s)! imagine the processing required to run 1000 office/ie sessions (and an obligatory symantec). only recommended for the brave hearted.
slightly less brave souls may want to have a fileserver tftp booting remote diskless clients with linux images. the diskless clients would mount their filesystem over NFS and you're done with it. people can run mplayer/staroffice/your-favorite-app-here all they want without overloading the server
i bet megatokyo fans would pass it with 100% accuracy!
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maybe he didn't have the sense enough to wipe the data clean; or maybe - because the system wasn't working - he didn't have the motivation enough to yank the hdd out, put it on another system - and wipe it there.
the auction says that the laptop comes with all paperwork, but it might be a stolen laptop - so the police might be investigating that also. the price for that laptop configuration is quite a sweet deal!
well i once hacked up two firewire cameras looking at an object from right angles on a linux system. then i wrote a program to capture the video feeds and detect the position of the object in it. i then fed that to object data to a 3d setup of stepper motors to have a tracker track the object. i build a closed loop system to keep the tracker exactly 1 cm below the object.
it was damn cool to see the object tracked by the tracker in realtime, with a really quick response time. if you put your hand in front of the cameras, the tracker will move with your hand (exactly 1 cm below it)
the time for building this system was 3 months and i hacked it up in 2 weeks- from scratch, to matlab models, C models, to real implementation!
d00d, when it comes 2 da fight club- there's the g00gle camp, the lihnux camp (linus) and the winbloz camp (bill, with sidekick ballmer). ballmer's favorite weapon is a chair which he throws when he hears about people defecting to g00gle
I don't know where they got the idea that all scripting languages must always parse the script on every invocation.
From wikipedia:
Those languages which are suited to scripting are typically called scripting languages. Many languages for this purpose have common properties: they favor rapid development over efficiency of execution; they are often implemented with interpreters rather than compilers; and they are strong at communication with program components written in other languages.
Can we not have such collaborative hackathons over the internet? The problems of somebody not being there etc. will go aay then. Free VoIP calls (Skype et. al) are all too good now a days. Wot say?
Did it pop up a window every so often and say, "What you are trying to do isn't allowed! Quarantined, deleted, formatted and terminated. Resitance is futile. You will be owned!"
You've hit the nail right in the head dude! Totally agree with you. CONTENT is the factor that is missing. When I wanted to build a game, all i cared about was building up a good 3D graphics engine. That was the challenge for me, and is for most programmers. Once a good engine is made, I lost interest. I doesn't feel like a challenge to throw content in it!
Even today, there are somanygood 3d game engines- but very few games. Probably because people don't find it appealing enough to make the content.
in other news, Intel files a case against China for setting up a chinese-origin employee network in their campus. the network is neither open, nor standards based. the organisation has not been able to reverse engineer, decrypt and figure out the verbal chatter being broadcast from this foriegn-language encrypted network. it is believed that emergency help is being sought from network monitors and verbal translators.
you have a point there, pep11. it sure wouldn't be a nice idea to implant chips in kids brain and add remote control on these chips. what i meant by this idea was the same as the technology that is used in cars.
the idea is to have small micrometer sized dots sprayed all over the car. it is *impossible* to clean-up the car of all the dots from a stolen car. investigators / spare part shops can detect stolen car parts this way. this prevents cars from being stolen and sold in parts as well. see here for more info
insurance is a good idea; but it does nothing to deter theives. it doesn't prevent people from stealing - which is what the whole idea is. it just covers ur a$$ if you get something stolen.
we could have something similar for laptops. it was a mistake, IMHO, to associate the term RFID with this, though. as far as privacy is concerned, i think this idea will leak out less information about where i have been using this mobile device than the cellular phone i'm carrying. my cellphone broadcasts my location everywhere i go via a "Location Update".
No, your IP address may have been included on one of the blacklists, but your server was not "blocked".
The person controlling the server that your server was trying to send a message to was using a SpamCop blacklist as a rejection list.
If you want to complain, complain to that person.
Ahem, and what is he gonna reply? Why is he blocking this poor chap's server? He's only gonna say that it's because he's using SpamCop and SpamCop says his IP was reported as a spammer.
Well I see two methods to tackle this problem effectively.
reply with opt-out from an invalid email address: let their server add another non-existant email id and waste their bandwidth
follow the links, and fill their subscription forms two times. Once with *junk data*, and another time (after a random time interval) with a request to un-subscribe. this way, their (spammer's) customers won't do a grep -v unsubscribe!
if a lot of home users join in as well and somehow do this for the spam they get in their mailboxes as well, then they can't effectively be targetted for retalliation as they're running on dynamic ip addresses. just wait till the anti-spam net strength reaches 100K+
we're living in very interesting times
I've dropped Symantec's products like a hot-potato.
It happened one fine day, whwen I saw my harddisk sans netcat. The guy *just* erased all instances of it. When I downloaded a new copy and unzipped, I found the exe 0wner and deleted.
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1. position harddisk on one end of a accelerometer.
2. power up the harddisk
3. accelerate the harddisk to the other end at great accelerations
4. when you are close to the end of the accelerometer, power off the harddisk
5. harddisk deaccelerates down to 0 velocity due to impact
6. smile, your harddisk has just lost all its data
From my Hitachi HDD: can survive 300G/2ms operating shock; 900G/1ms non-operating shock
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What this guy has a a doc which has a macro embedded in it. And all you get is an execution of that macro when you open the doc.
Where are the *real* characteristics of a virus - spreading to other files on the disk?
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Let the world domination begin!
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a thin client system like this would require a VERY fast server(s)! imagine the processing required to run 1000 office/ie sessions (and an obligatory symantec). only recommended for the brave hearted.
slightly less brave souls may want to have a fileserver tftp booting remote diskless clients with linux images. the diskless clients would mount their filesystem over NFS and you're done with it. people can run mplayer/staroffice/your-favorite-app-here all they want without overloading the server
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there could be words 345y or |\|07 50 345y
i bet megatokyo fans would pass it with 100% accuracy!
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the auction says that the laptop comes with all paperwork, but it might be a stolen laptop - so the police might be investigating that also. the price for that laptop configuration is quite a sweet deal!
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no rushing.. no rushing
place your bets here.. place your bets here..
Today's bet: When will MS bring out another paid service to make sure their Windoze Live OneCare service works as expected?
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you might also want to check on the debugging and maintenance aspects of VB.
see if all the functionalities and underlying tasks for your target application are available with actively supported libraries/groups.
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it was damn cool to see the object tracked by the tracker in realtime, with a really quick response time. if you put your hand in front of the cameras, the tracker will move with your hand (exactly 1 cm below it)
the time for building this system was 3 months and i hacked it up in 2 weeks- from scratch, to matlab models, C models, to real implementation!
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From wikipedia: Those languages which are suited to scripting are typically called scripting languages. Many languages for this purpose have common properties: they favor rapid development over efficiency of execution; they are often implemented with interpreters rather than compilers; and they are strong at communication with program components written in other languages.
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Seriously not a good idea. You can save a lot of frustrations and agonizing if you ask people their requirements first and then trim down.
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mine does. ;)
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Even today, there are so many good 3d game engines- but very few games. Probably because people don't find it appealing enough to make the content.
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the idea is to have small micrometer sized dots sprayed all over the car. it is *impossible* to clean-up the car of all the dots from a stolen car. investigators / spare part shops can detect stolen car parts this way. this prevents cars from being stolen and sold in parts as well. see here for more info
insurance is a good idea; but it does nothing to deter theives. it doesn't prevent people from stealing - which is what the whole idea is. it just covers ur a$$ if you get something stolen.
we could have something similar for laptops. it was a mistake, IMHO, to associate the term RFID with this, though. as far as privacy is concerned, i think this idea will leak out less information about where i have been using this mobile device than the cellular phone i'm carrying. my cellphone broadcasts my location everywhere i go via a "Location Update".
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Do you seriously do that? Boy I sure hope you realise how much risk you're putting your company's network. Destructive testing: not recommended ;)
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Ahem, and what is he gonna reply? Why is he blocking this poor chap's server? He's only gonna say that it's because he's using SpamCop and SpamCop says his IP was reported as a spammer.
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does this imply, security by obscurity. not a good idea!
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if a lot of home users join in as well and somehow do this for the spam they get in their mailboxes as well, then they can't effectively be targetted for retalliation as they're running on dynamic ip addresses. just wait till the anti-spam net strength reaches 100K+
we're living in very interesting times
* lon3st4r *
I've dropped Symantec's products like a hot-potato.
It happened one fine day, whwen I saw my harddisk sans netcat. The guy *just* erased all instances of it. When I downloaded a new copy and unzipped, I found the exe 0wner and deleted.
So long, and thanks for all the lost cycles!
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I went over to the BlueGene/L's page to see how they manage to shuffle data around. They seem to use 1GB Ethernet links for IO nodes.
Any ideas why Ethernet is not an outsider here.
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