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All those years of trying to get fglrx to work, avenged!
So, is that what you call passive aggression? No. after trying to get them to work once on Solaris (over the span of a week), I'd say it's justifiable grounds for homicide.
And since the levy/tax/whatever is ultimately collected by our RIAA equivalent, who represents virtually none of the artists I support, I feel that they are stealing the money I could have given to the artists I like.
Now, if I were rich enough to simply buy all the music, I would; however, I am not, so I do not. And I've already paid for it once.
Personally, I'm against piracy. That being said, if I were in your position, I would probably feel fine downloading whatever the ransom^H^H^H levy covers. You have, albeit not by choice, fulfilled your legal obligation so far as both the letter and spirit of the law are concerned. You've already paid for it, so you are entitled to enjoy it. I almost wish the US would do this - it would (in theory) end the whole issue, AFAIC. I'm sure the RIAA's puppeteers would gladly chase the offer if it were presented before them in the same way a donkey chases a carrot on a stick dangling before his nose.
OK, it's nearly 2AM and I'm out of it; I'm sure I'll regret this post in a few hours while I'm enjoying my first pot of coffee at work. Flame away.
...I may have to actually RTFA this time. Don't you do it! If you do, you can hand in your/. card, tazer, and key to the clubhouse, 'cause you're out of the club.
Next thing you know, you'll be reading the flippin' article and posting insightful things that the rest of us, who spend our 9-5 journey together every day, will have no way to counter unless we start to read the freakin' articles! This will have an impact beyond what you realize. For the good of the greater, don't RTFA!
I'm not worried about a vuln. in sudo; I always log in as root and don't have sudo running:). Remember, Real Programmers log in as root. Take that h4x0rz!
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True. But perhaps the ISP should just filter out malicious traffic at the edge, before it takes the first hop into their network?
They don't (or didn't, as of the last time I sent myself an executable - within the last year) scan RAR or 7Zips for executables. Also, they won't check a doubly encapsulated archive; if you RAR or 7zip or gzip the folder, and then zip that, you should be fine. The best method is to use a lower compression method on the folder first (zip or gzip), and then encapsulate it with an archiver that uses a larger library (like 7zip or bzip2). This will keep it from 'bloating' on the second compression.
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Now I've got your attention worm style, click this link for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm I'm interested in something from that wikipedia article; it mentions that the source code to storm specifically avoids infecting Windows Server 2003 boxes. Anyone know why the author would go out of his way to not hit 2K3 boxes?
Perhaps to avoid infecting government servers (and upping the ante, if he got caught)? That's the only thing I could think of. I'm sure there's a very logical reason, but I have no idea what it might be.
remember kids, the internet might not be dangerous, but overuse of commas can be! This guy isn't kidding, kids! I once knew a guy who turned in a paper in freshman English class with a comma splice in the opening paragraph. BAM! Hit by a school bus at the end of the day. Perhaps, in hind sight, this had something to do with being chased down by his English teacher wielding a rolled up copy of the paper as a LART.
I remember this one! This is one where the coyote sat his ass in a slingshot then strapped himself to an acme rocket. Is that what we're doing here? Yeah, and we've nominated you to play the part of coyote; good luck, pilot!;)
We can't get Real Dew here in.au,
the government decided that caffeine is bad =(. You're... you're... kidding, right? Please say it ain't so!
Geeks, assemble! We need to start a charity for our oppressed brother in a foreign land! I'll need a keg of Mountain Dew - no make it 2 kegs, a Red Bull Truck, some rope, a carton of Marlboros, flares, a large parachute, sausage links, some explosives... an iPod, iPhone, Macbook Pro, power converter, and one of those backpacks that have the USB ports accessible from the outside. Oh, and ZZ-Tops greatest hits encoded at nothing less than 512Kb/sec AAC. And if anyone has a plan, that would help, too.
On the bright side, any security is likely asleep on their post without caffeine. Make it happen; I need to shave my body and watch the Rambo trilogy so as to sharpen myself.
I don't smoke any more, but of my 'IT type' friends who still do (all in their early to mid 20's, mind you - 1 is 21 working on his masters), well... I spent the night working on my Solaris server trying to get NFS, LDAP, MySQL and Samba to play nicely with a BSD box, Mac, XP, and Gentoo inside segmented routed networks. Granted, I failed miserably, but I'm fairly sure my friends spent their night sharpening their skill set by getting high, eating munchies, and watching Sponge Bob's Square Pants before passing out at 10pm.
As an aside, it always seems the network and hardware geeks are the ones who smoke pot, and the database and BSD guys who like their vodka. The C/C++/Java programmers (this is my category, usually) are chain smokers - Marlboro Reds in a soft pack style, and caffeine junkies. How many of you have a Mountain Dew can that you're drinking next to an empty Mountain Dew can - and both are still cold to the touch? Yeah - all the programmers.
And the Mac guys generally seem to be clean cut replicas of Jeff Goldblum, for the most part. They're health conscience, and probably taking on a good number of sunshine units from those freakin' 45 inch MacBook Pro screens as they tend to be fans of irony. Mac guys also probably currently have a half gallon of water, in a jogging harness, on their desks right now... probably the cleanest desks on/. for that matter. Oh, and I think the Amiga guys are in to acid or something - that's why they've been in their garages for the last 15 years hacking away. Poor guys don't even know their wife unplugged the monitor 3 years ago.
...walking around the office distracting anyone who will listen with war stories of how they once installed Linux on a damned flashlight. Get the story right! It wasn't just a flashlight, it was a flippin' Mag Light! The 4 'D' battery kind! The kind that doubles as a blackjack if you're stuck in the city after dark. And I'd like to see you install Linux on a Mag Light while the server room was being flooded by battery acid... Well, not flooded - but the floor was quite sticky with it. And I didn't just have to install Linux on that Mag Light; I had to compile it from punch cards, in the dark, while up to my knees in battery acid. And all the while, I was writing the documentation for my kernel branch! See this scar? While I was writing the docs, I didn't have a pen handy - I was writing in my own blood! You can take that little story back to your MSCE classes, youngin'!
Yes, but will they port Duke Nukem' Forever to it?
/P
Well, no... but it will kind of work under Wine-0.99.937.2777 on 3 or 4 AGP cards if you don't mind getting under the hood and, well... find a Slackware or Gentoo user.
...all the addresses might have to be changed because the map gets reset... When you refer to 'map', do you mean routing table? I really know nothing about IPv6, and something about this statement unsettles me if a unique map is not distributed, but rather on a single host... isn't this the very reason DNS is distributed? Or is it not a routing table, to which you're referring to as a 'map', and I'm all out of context?
Let's up the ante and get this thing going - I'll throw in $10 to the first slashdotter who contains and publishes the 'bins' and/or reverse engineers this piece of code. $20 if you can isolate the signature of executables that it's binded to with a high degree of success (say, =>75% confidence). It's $10 well spent to sleep at night, IMO. I kinda' want to play with this thing and I'm willing to fund the hunt for it. Anyone else wanna' throw in?
Haha, thanks, I needed that laugh. And, yes, the infinite loop was there on purpose - just beyond the function's reach, 1 line away might have been a million;)
I thought that you only had to pay for a printed copy of the POSIX standards? Oh well, I've heard that Windows (NT4, I think, but I may be wrong) was considered POSIX compliant before GNU/Linux; I guess it's all a money game, in the end.
On the plus side; most supercomputers are fully hot swappable, try doing that with women. My experience says the hotswap turns to a dual cold shoulder; It has something to do with an error when malloc fails to make sufficient room to store correct name, or a null pointer is dereferenced when trying to remember name. Oh well. There's still hope.
This is in line with what I was going to say - I think git uses MD5, no? I was going to say md5 or sha1 the log after each log write (depending on how frequently it logs, you don't want to DOS yourself when everyone logs on at 9:15 AM) and then if the integrity of the logs is ever questioned, cut the log at the time stamp of a write and md5 or sha1 it again to see if it matches up. Although, trailing '\n's might screw it up if you're not careful.
Should be fairly easy to script, and no one has to know if they've been detected altering the logs until after you've figured out what they've done. I don't like crackers with an itchy trigger finger to know how much I know, until I want them to.
Conducted in an open-plan office, the test revealed that particle levels increased five-fold during working hours, a rise blamed on printer use. I'm just throwing out the idea that many people walking around on the carpet during office hours may be kicking up toner dust that has settled in the carpet. You'd be amazed how much crap is kicked up from a carpet with just a few people walking on it. For those of us with wood floors, how long after you mop or clean the floor until you see dust starting to collect? For me, it's a week or so. Imagine all that being churned by people walking on it all day.
I call "dibs" on IP 127.0.0.1
Any IP infringers out there...be warned...that's MY IP you're infringing upon Fine... if that's how you want to play; I get::1! We'll see who's laughing in 10 years!
OK, I have an experience where 2 people were put to the test of honesty, myself being one of them. I was paying for a software package at my university. It was a good deal of cash (relatively speaking), somewhere around $100. There was an elderly lady at the register, myself in front of her as my purchase got rang up, and a middle aged guy behind me (I'd say in his late 30's or early 40's). The cashier gave me something like $40 too much back (I can't remember the cost or what I gave her, to be honest - but I think I gave her $110 and she thought I gave her $150), and both myself and the guy behind me noticed.
My turn to be honest or see if I could get away with it. I said you gave me too much back - she seemed in a world of her own. She thanked the guy behind me for telling her. Now, he had noticed, although he wasn't the one to point it out, although he could have taken the credit by not saying anything. Instead he said, "I noticed, but he (meaning me) was the one who told you.", I looked at him with a nod for 'thank you', and we all parted ways each in turn having done the honest thing when given a chance to benefit from this elderly ladies' (sic?) mistake.
I don't think that he had much to gain from the recognition, although I go to school on a mostly conservative (save only a few art majors) campus with relatively few minorities, this guy behind me being one of them. I'm sure that it's nice for him to get recognition, as he is in the minority.
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... All those years of trying to get fglrx to work, avenged!So, is that what you call passive aggression? No. after trying to get them to work once on Solaris (over the span of a week), I'd say it's justifiable grounds for homicide.
My government recently decided to do just that.
And since the levy/tax/whatever is ultimately collected by our RIAA equivalent, who represents virtually none of the artists I support, I feel that they are stealing the money I could have given to the artists I like.
Now, if I were rich enough to simply buy all the music, I would; however, I am not, so I do not. And I've already paid for it once.
Personally, I'm against piracy. That being said, if I were in your position, I would probably feel fine downloading whatever the ransom^H^H^H levy covers. You have, albeit not by choice, fulfilled your legal obligation so far as both the letter and spirit of the law are concerned. You've already paid for it, so you are entitled to enjoy it. I almost wish the US would do this - it would (in theory) end the whole issue, AFAIC. I'm sure the RIAA's puppeteers would gladly chase the offer if it were presented before them in the same way a donkey chases a carrot on a stick dangling before his nose.OK, it's nearly 2AM and I'm out of it; I'm sure I'll regret this post in a few hours while I'm enjoying my first pot of coffee at work. Flame away.
So... how do you patch your system without escalating from a normal user?
...I may have to actually RTFA this time. Don't you do it! If you do, you can hand in yourNext thing you know, you'll be reading the flippin' article and posting insightful things that the rest of us, who spend our 9-5 journey together every day, will have no way to counter unless we start to read the freakin' articles! This will have an impact beyond what you realize. For the good of the greater, don't RTFA!
I'm not worried about a vuln. in sudo; I always log in as root and don't have sudo running :). Remember, Real Programmers log in as root. Take that h4x0rz!
True. But perhaps the ISP should just filter out malicious traffic at the edge, before it takes the first hop into their network?
They don't (or didn't, as of the last time I sent myself an executable - within the last year) scan RAR or 7Zips for executables. Also, they won't check a doubly encapsulated archive; if you RAR or 7zip or gzip the folder, and then zip that, you should be fine. The best method is to use a lower compression method on the folder first (zip or gzip), and then encapsulate it with an archiver that uses a larger library (like 7zip or bzip2). This will keep it from 'bloating' on the second compression.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm I'm interested in something from that wikipedia article; it mentions that the source code to storm specifically avoids infecting Windows Server 2003 boxes. Anyone know why the author would go out of his way to not hit 2K3 boxes?
Perhaps to avoid infecting government servers (and upping the ante, if he got caught)? That's the only thing I could think of. I'm sure there's a very logical reason, but I have no idea what it might be.
the government decided that caffeine is bad =(. You're... you're... kidding, right? Please say it ain't so!
Geeks, assemble! We need to start a charity for our oppressed brother in a foreign land!
I'll need a keg of Mountain Dew - no make it 2 kegs, a Red Bull Truck, some rope, a carton of Marlboros, flares, a large parachute, sausage links, some explosives... an iPod, iPhone, Macbook Pro, power converter, and one of those backpacks that have the USB ports accessible from the outside. Oh, and ZZ-Tops greatest hits encoded at nothing less than 512Kb/sec AAC. And if anyone has a plan, that would help, too.
On the bright side, any security is likely asleep on their post without caffeine. Make it happen; I need to shave my body and watch the Rambo trilogy so as to sharpen myself.
As an aside, it always seems the network and hardware geeks are the ones who smoke pot, and the database and BSD guys who like their vodka. The C/C++/Java programmers (this is my category, usually) are chain smokers - Marlboro Reds in a soft pack style, and caffeine junkies. How many of you have a Mountain Dew can that you're drinking next to an empty Mountain Dew can - and both are still cold to the touch? Yeah - all the programmers.
And the Mac guys generally seem to be clean cut replicas of Jeff Goldblum, for the most part. They're health conscience, and probably taking on a good number of sunshine units from those freakin' 45 inch MacBook Pro screens as they tend to be fans of irony. Mac guys also probably currently have a half gallon of water, in a jogging harness, on their desks right now... probably the cleanest desks on
Oh, and I think the Amiga guys are in to acid or something - that's why they've been in their garages for the last 15 years hacking away. Poor guys don't even know their wife unplugged the monitor 3 years ago.
...walking around the office distracting anyone who will listen with war stories of how they once installed Linux on a damned flashlight. Get the story right! It wasn't just a flashlight, it was a flippin' Mag Light! The 4 'D' battery kind! The kind that doubles as a blackjack if you're stuck in the city after dark. And I'd like to see you install Linux on a Mag Light while the server room was being flooded by battery acid... Well, not flooded - but the floor was quite sticky with it. And I didn't just have to install Linux on that Mag Light; I had to compile it from punch cards, in the dark, while up to my knees in battery acid. And all the while, I was writing the documentation for my kernel branch! See this scar? While I was writing the docs, I didn't have a pen handy - I was writing in my own blood! You can take that little story back to your MSCE classes, youngin'!Yes, but will they port Duke Nukem' Forever to it?
/P
Well, no... but it will kind of work under Wine-0.99.937.2777 on 3 or 4 AGP cards if you don't mind getting under the hood and, well... find a Slackware or Gentoo user.*Ducks*
...all the addresses might have to be changed because the map gets reset... When you refer to 'map', do you mean routing table? I really know nothing about IPv6, and something about this statement unsettles me if a unique map is not distributed, but rather on a single host... isn't this the very reason DNS is distributed? Or is it not a routing table, to which you're referring to as a 'map', and I'm all out of context?Let's up the ante and get this thing going - I'll throw in $10 to the first slashdotter who contains and publishes the 'bins' and/or reverse engineers this piece of code. $20 if you can isolate the signature of executables that it's binded to with a high degree of success (say, =>75% confidence). It's $10 well spent to sleep at night, IMO. I kinda' want to play with this thing and I'm willing to fund the hunt for it. Anyone else wanna' throw in?
Haha, thanks, I needed that laugh. And, yes, the infinite loop was there on purpose - just beyond the function's reach, 1 line away might have been a million ;)
I thought that you only had to pay for a printed copy of the POSIX standards? Oh well, I've heard that Windows (NT4, I think, but I may be wrong) was considered POSIX compliant before GNU/Linux; I guess it's all a money game, in the end.
while(1)
{
myGirl = myGirl -> cuteFriend;
delete myGirl -> last;
}
myGirl -> isHappyEnding = !(myGirl -> isHappyEnding);
Should be fairly easy to script, and no one has to know if they've been detected altering the logs until after you've figured out what they've done. I don't like crackers with an itchy trigger finger to know how much I know, until I want them to.
Any IP infringers out there...be warned...that's MY IP you're infringing upon
Fine... if that's how you want to play; I get
My turn to be honest or see if I could get away with it. I said you gave me too much back - she seemed in a world of her own. She thanked the guy behind me for telling her. Now, he had noticed, although he wasn't the one to point it out, although he could have taken the credit by not saying anything. Instead he said, "I noticed, but he (meaning me) was the one who told you.", I looked at him with a nod for 'thank you', and we all parted ways each in turn having done the honest thing when given a chance to benefit from this elderly ladies' (sic?) mistake.
I don't think that he had much to gain from the recognition, although I go to school on a mostly conservative (save only a few art majors) campus with relatively few minorities, this guy behind me being one of them. I'm sure that it's nice for him to get recognition, as he is in the minority.
So true, friend. I guess I was speaking relatively when I said 'Right Thing'. :)