This is so spot-on it hurts: Report slams 'recreational grieving' trend.
In other news, Microsoft and RSA Security have partnered to provide strong authentication (read: native support for RSA SecurID tokens) in Windows. Wankstains. Smart cards have been supported since Windows 2000 was released. Smart cards are cheaper, more flexible and a stronger form of authentication than RSA's SecurID will ever be. Next!
ECC support in a decent EFS implementation: Now there's something I would love to see. And how about a Windows install which by default does not expose any services to the world? I would love to see that too.
And how about a version of Windows that does not try to limit what the user is allowed to do with content? What a radical idea.
I swear, if I had a few pints in me, a good reading session of
comp.lang.c would probably arouse me. If you post 20 lines of code
and ask "Can this code be improved?" -- the first follow-up simply says: "Yes."
I wanted to complain about how Word made 5 pages of my document vanish today. I am not going to, however, as I just re-found the cover Tori Amos did of You Make Me Feel Brand New almost 10 years ago. If the 5 pages of lost work was my price for getting that song back, I pay it gladly.
Theo posted to misc@ about the license change in XFree:
"I've tried to negotiate with David Dawes, and show him that his new license is not acceptable, and he has been hostile and it has gone nowhere."
Would someone please explain to me how that behaviour is different from the manner in which Theo reacts to people who try to tell him how to run his project. Thanks.
Had another huge fight with Word today, and it won. My wounds were not substantial, nor severe enough to warrant medical assistance, yet deep enough to hurt for a while and remind me of my defeat for even longer.
I have been having wet dreams involving me, a baseball bat (with spikes) and the entire Word developement team. Let me teach you about heartache and the loss of God.
Spent most of the day hating Word, and being hated by Word. I had planned on an elaborate description but I went out for pints with the boys and a girl. I am now drunk and off to bed.
Oh, Norah Jones, honey? I wanted to buy your album but it was only available on copy-controlled (defective CD) disks. So I just downloaded a big-ass tarball with all your songs in it. You lose. Avoid shitty technology in the future, please.
(Still drunk and still off to bed).
While on the subject of The Sims, one time she was playing, I noticed that her female character had the option of flirting with another female. This gave me the idea of making two SimGirls get it on.
The mission, lasting less than 20 minutes, was a success. I have proof.
She wants to thank those who helped with her The Sims problems. The kids are still alive and they have made a family friend. Whatever that means.
My new kernel and userland did not stop priceless from dropping
wi0 whenever it wants. According to Google, other people have had
the same problem with NetGear cards since OpenBSD 3.2. One person even
mentioned problems with the NetGear in his Soekris. My NetGear/Soekris combo
runs perfectly.
I have no idea what is going on.
I am sexually aroused. Liebach told me about RoundUp the issue tracker tonight and I have been looking at it ever since. Very simple to set up, yet seriously flexible and well designed. Bunny, my secure bugtracker, is hereby postponed and I will never even consider using Bugzilla or RT again.
Microsoft developers hate Windows as much as we do. I assume you have a copy of the leaked source like everyone else. Try grepping the Windows 2000 source for XXX, BUGBUG, TODO, 'fuck', 'dick' or even 'hackers':
"We are hackers." -- Microsoft, repeatedly, in the Windows 2000 source.
Now try searching for BSD and GPL.
The song I meant to mention yesterday is David Bowie's Life on Mars.
I find it extremely amusing that Microsoft started a PR campaign called Days of Risk which was supposed to illustrate how dangerous it is to run open source software, when patches are sometimes delayed by days.
A remotely exploitable heap overflow has been found in Windows by eEye, and Microsoft took six months to fix the problem. This did not please eEye, so they now have a list of vulnerabilities reported to Microsoft but which have not yet been fixed. Notice there are two serious flaws mentioned in that list, both of which were reported to Microsoft last September. Pathetic.
I wonder about Microsoft's average time-to-fix for remotely exploitable security problems. The only nice thing you could probably say about it is that its "too long."
More stuff for the programmer in you:
[00:04] <Liebach> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/7/144019/8872
[00:07] <holsta> You know, when I read these things, I do get the impression
that people don't get it.
[00:08] <holsta> C's flaws are well-known and documented. They can be avoided.
An entire genre of books have been written just *that* subject.
[00:08] <dogs> "C has continued to stagnate over the last 35 years with few
fundamental improvements made. It's time to redress the balance;
here's why C is now owned by Pascal."
[00:08] <dogs> those C99 folks must be annoyed
[00:08] <Liebach> dogs, no, they'er stagnant.
[00:09] <Liebach> He just said so.
[00:09] <dogs> No built-in Boolean type
[00:09] <dogs> mov ab,true
Smartass developer.
For reasons best known to somebody else, priceless has been
dropping my wireless card. The link led on my wireless card switches off,
ifconfig, wmwave and most other commands and utils
that are related to networking hog all CPU (interrupts, most likely), making
the machine very unresponsive. Sometimes, with a little patience, I am able to
kill CPU hogging processes and regain control. My network is still unavailable,
though. Ejecting the card makes the machine lock hard. I am building a new
system, as my -current build is about 20 days old.
If I had faster hardware, I would rebuild everything more often.
If you are a programmer, you should be able to mention a song containing the words: "out of bounds". If you cannot, come back tomorrow.
She had a shock today. In her game of The Sims, the kitchen stove caught on fire, which, I am told, is a regular event. Unfortunately, both parents also caught fire and died. So, now she has a big-ass house with a robot and two orphaned kids. If you are skilled in the ways of The Sims and have suggestions on what she should do now, drop me a note.
The eurovision song contest weighs heavily on our minds:
[23:54] <Mercur> Did you see the danish melodi-grandprix?
[23:54] <holsta> Of course not.
[23:56] <Mercur> It was incredible.
[23:56] <Mercur> Worst songs ever. The production looked like something from
an arabic network.
Being an outspoken security bastard and such, I am probably required by some obscure law to share my thoughts on the wireless network security section of last night's Station 2, so let me get it out of the way.
Last night was the second time I have seen that Jacob
Olesen Jacob Ovesen person on TV. I have no idea who he is, but it is
refreshing to see a clueful security specialist being interviewed instead of
the usual crowd of incompetent media whores I hate so much. It would have been
better for all parties involved if Allan Fischer-Madsen and Peter Vestergaard
had not participated.
The show itself was pretty sad. Allan Fischer-Madsen kept talking about their useless brochure which tries to relay helpful items about wireless network security, but fails utterly. He talked about MAC filtering and disabling SSID broadcasts like it did any good. He also gave the impression that WEP is perfectly secure. Jacob did point out that you should take additional steps if you were protecting something very valuable, but I fear the point did not come across very well.