This is more or less what went wrong with the active x security. Verisign gave a code signing certificate to someone who identified themselves as a Microsoft contractor, and bleui, there goes the security layer. Microsoft will try to keep the rabit in the hat this time, but isn't this just another case of security throough obscurity, with the certificate as the obscurity. There will always be a chance for human error and with the stakes as high as all the Windows systems crashing quickly from a wild virus crusing the internet, that is a reason in and of itself to spread the key infrastructure across a number of platforms so everything doesn't die at once.
There are a lot of smart people with the responsibility to keep the structure of the internet running, and I don't think they entirely trust Microsoft with their jobs.
Also If Microsoft has control over which driver's get signed, that's a way for them to force all hardware vendor's to disclose their driver source code in the Windows Hardware Compatibility certification process. And it they don't like you, they make it hard to certify.
The same way the open source people don't like binary only drivers, I don't want any part of Microsoft's totally closed system. This will assure that Microsoft written applications always run better on Windows because they know what's really going on with the system and which interfaces are the most efficient for applications to use. The agreement by which they have to share their api's expires next year, just in time for Vista.
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He he he:)
It is only necessary to visualize the battery charging the ring. Both the charging and the use of the ring happen on the astral plane.
As with all modern magic, the activity accurs first on the astral plane then is mirrored here. As above so below.
Since D-Link seems to be a repeat offender, I think I will cease and desist buying their products. The only product they have that I buy are their $24US gigabit network boards of the pci kind. I will search long and hard to find another vendor, or re-evaluate whether I need that bandwidth where I am currently using it. Hurray for the GPL. Another win for the good guys.
I was interested as to whether there was anything new to learn about this attack that would make me safer in the future. I use all the operating systems because I can write programs for all of them. Each has it's benefits and it's liabilities. Reading through these responses was a complete waste of time and used up today's quota of time for reading/.
You really put your finger on that one. You are exactly right. I don't think PayPal had much liability in this case. The writer(s) of the software didn't need paypal to create their software, and Paypal is a service that benefits the consumer (for convenience) and themselves (they take a few percent). Anybody else probably would have hung in there, and terminated the situation if any real trouble started.
As a professional software engineer, I have always had some troubled feelings about reverse engineering. Whether done by hand, or using Microsoft supplied ildasm. Over the years though it seems like many people don't see a problem with it. Software vendors still put nomenclature on the disk label stating that reverse engineering (disassembly) is prohibited, but there are lots of convenient software packages that take apart binaries.
If someone figured out a way to run more games (which still must be purchased) on their game machines, more power to them. It still sells more software, and many more games than game shims.
Just a few days ago, I read an article on slashdot about Apple paying Creative Labs a pile of money for the same thing. Is this somehow the same case, or are they going around and taking care of anyone who ever had anything similar to cement their position?
I found that the opinions and misunderstandings at the start continued on 'til the end. With no shift either way. Hogs want all they can get, and reasonable people dont think they need to take every possible bit of service out of their provider. Nothing changes. Being good Internet users makes things good for eveybody. Hoging bandwidth for low money flat rate service stresses the system. I'll save some bits and keep this short.
Part of your misunderstanding of the situation occurs because nowdays the phone companies are selling data circuit products to end-users who aren't familar with terms like maximum banwidth and committed rate. If people aren't hogging every bit of available bandwidth continuously, for hours and hours. Users can get nice peak rates for normal periods of time. It's always been a numbers game, and if you use too much bandwidth, they kick you up a tier and charge you more. That's nothing new. Get a grip.
I have had a major problem recently with Intel. I can hardly believe it. I purchased two SC1420 Xeon servers from Dell to run Windows XP Professional 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit. I am a software engineer and I know that different revs of the CPU chips have different features. I of course wanted to know exactly which CPU chips were in my machines. I think its only right that I should be able to find this out. I started with the Intel CPUID program which told me the Family, Stepping, and Revision numbers for the CPUs. That's where the trouble started. The CPUFinder web page at the Intel site has no reference for the stepping and revision repored by the CPUID utility. I emailed Intel technical support ten times with the CPUID numbers asking for clarification. Intel finally called me back and told me I should remove the CPU fan assembly and remove the thermal transfer material and read the sSpec number off the CPU chip. I didn't want to void my Dell service agreement, so I started asking Dell to tell me the sSpec number of the CPU chips that they ship in the SC1420 server systems. My sales person dumped me back to the Special Support Services desk who never returned any of my calls. I called Intel back, and they stated that it is up to the vendor whether they want to disclose what chip they are using in a system. I am royally pissed off at Intel and Dell and don't plan on buying either of their products any time soon. The whole situation in so unprofessional I can't stand it. The moral of this story is that Intel has so many versions of the Xeon chip that they cannot keep them straight, even on their technical support web site. I have always had the highest respect for Intel in the past and have used their chips since the 8085. But not any more.
If they are going to lay of a major percentage of their employees, it can't happen soon enough to suit me. To bad they aren't going to start from the top down.
I can't find Kate in the list of supported editors, but when I get a chance, I will bring up KDE on my FreeBSD box and give it a try. It's nice to have friends.:-)
Maxtor hard drives running hot is nothing new. Their drives have always run hot. I first noticed this with their SCSI-2 4GB drive. I didn't make special arrangements and it died after several weeks. Drives with lots of platters to spin are especially subject to this. When you put together a new storage subsystem, it's a good idea to keep an eye (and a finger) on it once every couple of hours to see if it needs an extra fan. If you want the largest, state of the art drive, that spins at 10KRPM and has the largest cache, it's going to generate some heat. Do what is necessary to carry the heat away, and your hardware will be happier for it.
I have been using cygwin lately because it has the windows, and comfortable command line tools. I will look into Kate right away.
May I list you as a friend in my slashdot profile?
You can find the XML Development Tools at:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xmldevotools
Regards,
Doug
p.s. Spaces.Live.Com is a lot of fun. Even though I know HTML, its nice to be able to be creative at a higher level sometimes. I have really enjoyed it. I blog there, and my photo album is there...
Thanks for the tip. Since I still have to use it, maybe this will help make it easier.
My other observations still hold. Command line programming with multiple windows, vi
and gnu tools feels more under control. BTW check out my project on sourceforge, xmldevotools.
Doug
Regarding Visual Studio and Microsoft programming in general. I use Visual Studio when writing code for Windows, but I dislike it for one of it's major strengths. I have heard it said that very few people really understand WIndows, and that most Windows programming is an exercise in cutting and pasting bits of code from a book, or the web, or whatever.
There are several things I hate about Visual Studio. The first is the project wizards. They ask you a bunch of questions about the program you want to write, then generate 28000 lines of code. When compiled it has the look and feel of a windows program. A menu, populated with submenus and everything. That's the good news. The bad news is that you have to sit down and comprehend 28000 lines of code before you can take the next step. Assuming you still remember what the program was supposed to do. You immediately have a todo list of hundreds of things and you only just got started. You are already way behind.
The second thing I hate about Visual Studoio is the Class Wizardry. If you really do understand Windows, you can sit down and hit a thousand buttons in a row, and write a complete program. I believe there are some people who can do this, but I never met them. What I hate the most about the wizards, is that their functionality is inscrutable. They touch a thousand things behind your back, and speaking of back, you can't back up. Using wizards is a one way deal. If you do need to back up, that usually means changing parts of the code by hand, that screw up future use of the wizards. Then there is the problem that the projects settings are kept in binary files, and there are so many binary files in a project, that its difficult to use source code control tools with any comfort. That's why I still enjoy programming with Makefile at the command line over using the Microsoft IDE. I know it's powerful, but too powerful for me. VS IDE is hooked right in to their knowledge base, but most of the knowledge base talks about ancient history like millenium edition or Windows 95. The minute you start using VS, the list of things you don't know starts expanding exponentially. I think I have said enough. Does anyone else have an opinion about something better?
I have sympathy for you because you create your own content, and are having trouble recording it in a permanent way. This is refreshing to hear. As a software engineer, I have only recently started cutting my own DVDs. And that is because Microsoft publishes some of its content in the form of ISO files that must be placed on DVDs to access. For many years, the capacity of the CDRom has exceeded my needs for software publishing because I write compact code. My code barely fills up a floppy (What's that?). The need to place a huge amount of data on a little piece of PVC is a cute way of publishing a large amount of data for very little money. It lasts longer than a record, which creates a little pile of PVC where the needle actually scratches the recording media. I no longer feel the need to hoard a collection of media of any kind. Just being a software engineer and having to keep up with Microsofts SDKs/DDKs and endless kits of all kind, keeps me busy finding ways to store all the little disks. I used to have a collection of VHS tapes recorded from television of my favorite shows. In the end I never watched them. I only made them for my own use. I did this with records, reel to reel, cassetes, and VHS tapes. I don't want to do it with DVDs. There is always new content to watch and enjoy without trying to archive it. Someone should be archiving it, but now end-users who have to use consumer grade equipment. The person who suggested you hire professional people to record your content had it right. Its worth the money.
Considering that the new operating system will be a must have for soo many people, why should it cost so much, and why do we need soo many versions. How about just making a good version, instead of multitargeting it and making quality control a nightmare. Lets face it, they are paying for a little glob of PVC and some ink, (and a cute little holograph). Every other aspect of computers has seen economy of scale decreases in prices such as, "Memory $/KB/MB/GB", and "Hard dives $/MB/GB/TB".
Wondering, Doug
My Subject line got lost.
I said, "They patented the Tree Control?"
I was thinking about what could possess Apple to actually pay Creative over the tree control.
What it does do, is raise the bar for any manufacturer or programmer that wants to create a music device or program because they would probably end up paying creative an ungodly amount of money, which they might not be able to afford.
So in affect, Apple caving in stifles competition. Apple can afford to pay this, but who else can?
Slashdot Mirror
I have heard that a lot of people really like EMACS, but since when was an extensible editor an operating system?
Does that mean Bill Gates is going to have he body decomosed and transmitted into the kernel and them we will worship him?
This is more or less what went wrong with the active x security. Verisign gave a code signing certificate to someone who identified themselves as a Microsoft contractor, and bleui, there goes the security layer. Microsoft will try to keep the rabit in the hat this time, but isn't this just another case of security throough obscurity, with the certificate as the obscurity. There will always be a chance for human error and with the stakes as high as all the Windows systems crashing quickly from a wild virus crusing the internet, that is a reason in and of itself to spread the key infrastructure across a number of platforms so everything doesn't die at once. There are a lot of smart people with the responsibility to keep the structure of the internet running, and I don't think they entirely trust Microsoft with their jobs. Also If Microsoft has control over which driver's get signed, that's a way for them to force all hardware vendor's to disclose their driver source code in the Windows Hardware Compatibility certification process. And it they don't like you, they make it hard to certify. The same way the open source people don't like binary only drivers, I don't want any part of Microsoft's totally closed system. This will assure that Microsoft written applications always run better on Windows because they know what's really going on with the system and which interfaces are the most efficient for applications to use. The agreement by which they have to share their api's expires next year, just in time for Vista.
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He he he :)
It is only necessary to visualize the battery charging the ring. Both the charging and the use of the ring happen on the astral plane. As with all modern magic, the activity accurs first on the astral plane then is mirrored here. As above so below.
Since D-Link seems to be a repeat offender, I think I will cease and desist buying their products. The only product they have that I buy are their $24US gigabit network boards of the pci kind. I will search long and hard to find another vendor, or re-evaluate whether I need that bandwidth where I am currently using it. Hurray for the GPL. Another win for the good guys.
I was interested as to whether there was anything new to learn about this attack that would make me safer in the future. I use all the operating systems because I can write programs for all of them. Each has it's benefits and it's liabilities. Reading through these responses was a complete waste of time and used up today's quota of time for reading /.
Interesting who got the /8's...
Haliburton, Merck
This could use some review
It is interesting that this particular FUD is pointed at Microsoft.
You really put your finger on that one. You are exactly right. I don't think PayPal had much liability in this case. The writer(s) of the software didn't need paypal to create their software, and Paypal is a service that benefits the consumer (for convenience) and themselves (they take a few percent). Anybody else probably would have hung in there, and terminated the situation if any real trouble started. As a professional software engineer, I have always had some troubled feelings about reverse engineering. Whether done by hand, or using Microsoft supplied ildasm. Over the years though it seems like many people don't see a problem with it. Software vendors still put nomenclature on the disk label stating that reverse engineering (disassembly) is prohibited, but there are lots of convenient software packages that take apart binaries. If someone figured out a way to run more games (which still must be purchased) on their game machines, more power to them. It still sells more software, and many more games than game shims.
Just a few days ago, I read an article on slashdot about Apple paying Creative Labs a pile of money for the same thing. Is this somehow the same case, or are they going around and taking care of anyone who ever had anything similar to cement their position?
I found that the opinions and misunderstandings at the start continued on 'til the end. With no shift either way. Hogs want all they can get, and reasonable people dont think they need to take every possible bit of service out of their provider. Nothing changes. Being good Internet users makes things good for eveybody. Hoging bandwidth for low money flat rate service stresses the system. I'll save some bits and keep this short.
You don't actually think encrption is that good? Do you? The NSA doesn't allow traffic they cannot crack. Grow up.
Part of your misunderstanding of the situation occurs because nowdays the phone companies are selling data circuit products to end-users who aren't familar with terms like maximum banwidth and committed rate. If people aren't hogging every bit of available bandwidth continuously, for hours and hours. Users can get nice peak rates for normal periods of time. It's always been a numbers game, and if you use too much bandwidth, they kick you up a tier and charge you more. That's nothing new. Get a grip.
I have had a major problem recently with Intel. I can hardly believe it. I purchased two SC1420 Xeon servers from Dell to run Windows XP Professional 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit. I am a software engineer and I know that different revs of the CPU chips have different features. I of course wanted to know exactly which CPU chips were in my machines. I think its only right that I should be able to find this out. I started with the Intel CPUID program which told me the Family, Stepping, and Revision numbers for the CPUs. That's where the trouble started. The CPUFinder web page at the Intel site has no reference for the stepping and revision repored by the CPUID utility. I emailed Intel technical support ten times with the CPUID numbers asking for clarification. Intel finally called me back and told me I should remove the CPU fan assembly and remove the thermal transfer material and read the sSpec number off the CPU chip. I didn't want to void my Dell service agreement, so I started asking Dell to tell me the sSpec number of the CPU chips that they ship in the SC1420 server systems. My sales person dumped me back to the Special Support Services desk who never returned any of my calls. I called Intel back, and they stated that it is up to the vendor whether they want to disclose what chip they are using in a system. I am royally pissed off at Intel and Dell and don't plan on buying either of their products any time soon. The whole situation in so unprofessional I can't stand it. The moral of this story is that Intel has so many versions of the Xeon chip that they cannot keep them straight, even on their technical support web site. I have always had the highest respect for Intel in the past and have used their chips since the 8085. But not any more. If they are going to lay of a major percentage of their employees, it can't happen soon enough to suit me. To bad they aren't going to start from the top down.
I can't find Kate in the list of supported editors, but when I get a chance, I will bring up KDE on my FreeBSD box and give it a try. It's nice to have friends. :-)
While I look forward to seeing the book, the link in the article doesn't go anywhere.
Maxtor hard drives running hot is nothing new. Their drives have always run hot. I first noticed this with their SCSI-2 4GB drive. I didn't make special arrangements and it died after several weeks. Drives with lots of platters to spin are especially subject to this. When you put together a new storage subsystem, it's a good idea to keep an eye (and a finger) on it once every couple of hours to see if it needs an extra fan. If you want the largest, state of the art drive, that spins at 10KRPM and has the largest cache, it's going to generate some heat. Do what is necessary to carry the heat away, and your hardware will be happier for it.
I have been using cygwin lately because it has the windows, and comfortable command line tools. I will look into Kate right away. May I list you as a friend in my slashdot profile? You can find the XML Development Tools at: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xmldevotools Regards, Doug p.s. Spaces.Live.Com is a lot of fun. Even though I know HTML, its nice to be able to be creative at a higher level sometimes. I have really enjoyed it. I blog there, and my photo album is there...
Thanks for the tip. Since I still have to use it, maybe this will help make it easier. My other observations still hold. Command line programming with multiple windows, vi and gnu tools feels more under control. BTW check out my project on sourceforge, xmldevotools. Doug
Regarding Visual Studio and Microsoft programming in general. I use Visual Studio when writing code for Windows, but I dislike it for one of it's major strengths. I have heard it said that very few people really understand WIndows, and that most Windows programming is an exercise in cutting and pasting bits of code from a book, or the web, or whatever. There are several things I hate about Visual Studio. The first is the project wizards. They ask you a bunch of questions about the program you want to write, then generate 28000 lines of code. When compiled it has the look and feel of a windows program. A menu, populated with submenus and everything. That's the good news. The bad news is that you have to sit down and comprehend 28000 lines of code before you can take the next step. Assuming you still remember what the program was supposed to do. You immediately have a todo list of hundreds of things and you only just got started. You are already way behind. The second thing I hate about Visual Studoio is the Class Wizardry. If you really do understand Windows, you can sit down and hit a thousand buttons in a row, and write a complete program. I believe there are some people who can do this, but I never met them. What I hate the most about the wizards, is that their functionality is inscrutable. They touch a thousand things behind your back, and speaking of back, you can't back up. Using wizards is a one way deal. If you do need to back up, that usually means changing parts of the code by hand, that screw up future use of the wizards. Then there is the problem that the projects settings are kept in binary files, and there are so many binary files in a project, that its difficult to use source code control tools with any comfort. That's why I still enjoy programming with Makefile at the command line over using the Microsoft IDE. I know it's powerful, but too powerful for me. VS IDE is hooked right in to their knowledge base, but most of the knowledge base talks about ancient history like millenium edition or Windows 95. The minute you start using VS, the list of things you don't know starts expanding exponentially. I think I have said enough. Does anyone else have an opinion about something better?
The government of a Communist state, which is a democracy... Wait a minute, which is which. Can they both be true?
I have sympathy for you because you create your own content, and are having trouble recording it in a permanent way. This is refreshing to hear. As a software engineer, I have only recently started cutting my own DVDs. And that is because Microsoft publishes some of its content in the form of ISO files that must be placed on DVDs to access. For many years, the capacity of the CDRom has exceeded my needs for software publishing because I write compact code. My code barely fills up a floppy (What's that?). The need to place a huge amount of data on a little piece of PVC is a cute way of publishing a large amount of data for very little money. It lasts longer than a record, which creates a little pile of PVC where the needle actually scratches the recording media. I no longer feel the need to hoard a collection of media of any kind. Just being a software engineer and having to keep up with Microsofts SDKs/DDKs and endless kits of all kind, keeps me busy finding ways to store all the little disks. I used to have a collection of VHS tapes recorded from television of my favorite shows. In the end I never watched them. I only made them for my own use. I did this with records, reel to reel, cassetes, and VHS tapes. I don't want to do it with DVDs. There is always new content to watch and enjoy without trying to archive it. Someone should be archiving it, but now end-users who have to use consumer grade equipment. The person who suggested you hire professional people to record your content had it right. Its worth the money.
Considering that the new operating system will be a must have for soo many people, why should it cost so much, and why do we need soo many versions. How about just making a good version, instead of multitargeting it and making quality control a nightmare. Lets face it, they are paying for a little glob of PVC and some ink, (and a cute little holograph). Every other aspect of computers has seen economy of scale decreases in prices such as, "Memory $/KB/MB/GB", and "Hard dives $/MB/GB/TB". Wondering, Doug
My Subject line got lost. I said, "They patented the Tree Control?" I was thinking about what could possess Apple to actually pay Creative over the tree control. What it does do, is raise the bar for any manufacturer or programmer that wants to create a music device or program because they would probably end up paying creative an ungodly amount of money, which they might not be able to afford. So in affect, Apple caving in stifles competition. Apple can afford to pay this, but who else can?