Hardware DEP Always On, please

Windows XP SP2 introduced Hardware DEP, which was then at first only available to 2 AMD processors and One type (Itanium) Intel processor.

IrfanView will run fine in Opt-Out mode, but NOT Always On mode (because stack pages that look like data are actually code that Irfan wants to run - unnecessarily. This is a very easy fix on Irfan's part, according to Gibson, and any other programmer familiar with Stack loading, hence the occasional overflows, but certainly critical in running bad hacks.)

Multiple Boot.ini files (or use DEPuty, a program written by PC Security Expert,

Steve Gibson

The MS Control Panel Opt-In / Opt-Out modes switch does NOT let you choose Always On or Always Off modes - which are ONLY available out-of-the-box through the BIOS settings. Some BIOSes will turn Hardware DEP to Always OFF, without the ability for you to turn in Always ON.

Live C programming is just a limited work-around, according to Gibson.

ASLR is not available for XP natively, however there is some freeware that DOES add ASLR to Windows XP SP2, and combined with Hardware DEP Always On and programmers stop sending executable code to stack pages for execution, then hackers will almost have a ZERO uptime in PC memory.

Microsoft's software DEP is NOT DEP (it will only block a very specific overflow problem, and that was so 5 years ago).

ALL processors made now and in the future will most probably have Hardware DEP and have it enabled by default as ALWAYS ON.

ALWAYS ON (Strongest - most problems)
OPT OUT (Strong - not many problems for the old-school coders using stack executable code)
OPT IN (weakest - mostly for testing malicious hacks on purpose)
ALWAYS OFF (non-existent)


<-- copyright 2005+ by Dan Prowse -->

Porn: "The Perfect Porn Storms"

Leo LePorte said it. I say it.

If you let your Internet porn filter licenses lapse, then you have yourself to blame.

If I am surfing the net on YOUR equipment, and then all of a sudden I start getting multiple, uncontrollable pop-up windows full of PORN, and YOU blame ME - I WILL sue you.

I will sue you as sure as you read this.

"You have to physically click on this in order to get these kind of sites". The person who says that to you better be looking for another job in a field OTHER THAN IT.

<-- copyright 2007+ by Dan Prowse -->

If it's not Delivery, it's DeStupido!

If you have a message to deliver a friend or a coworker, don't wait, try to remember, especiallly if you even think it could be a bad idea not to deliver it ASAP.

Wise words from me. And my supervisor; who agrees:

Next time: "ahead of time is on time!" Slogan of PTK, an honorable society of real brainiacs.



<-- copyright 2007+ by Dan Prowse -->

World Link TV good for something!

VARTTINA

Wow. Just wow.


Well, that's something, but nothing compared to the new 2007 (World) Link TV music site!

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listpic

Nudge, nudge.

RSS Help

The following is an example of an improper RSS feed url:
http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx

results from running the same run through a validator:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx

Below is a non-working example of an "opml" feed url:
(merely a page that explains what xml or opml is)
http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/Opml.aspx

Again, results from running the same run through the same validator:
http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://citrixcommunity.com/blogs/Opml.aspx

Although I actually use the Citrix products, I am saddened to see the lack of deatail in the simplest of forms represented in their poorly constructed xml and opml references and application.
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Next, what follows are 2 good examples that will actually work:

proper RSS feed url:
http://feeds.pixelcorps.com/feeds/macbreakipod.xml
(This can be dropped in both an aggregate reader AND iTunes for the audio portions)


and then a
working example of an "xml" podcast feed url:
http://www.stratfor.com/reports/podcast.xml
WOW, (notice the ACTUAL "xml" extension used at the END of the url - this is a clue!)


If you cannot see the difference in the urls, look closer or stop trying to make bad urls -

OR

try this, and make good:

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/sbFeedsOPMLFeedBlender.html

and then try this:
(it's fun)

http://www.justinpfister.com/gnewsfeed.php

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Not to worry, for those of you who just want to USE rss in your readers or don't want to get all that technical, you can try IE7 - RSS is built in!

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/microsofts_cont.html

(Although, I disagree with Nick's assesment that Microsoft's patent application here is due to the degredation of the Patent Office. More likely this represents continuing frivolity of legal eagles)

and then follow Nick's advice and read:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&amp;amp;d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&amp;amp;f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329

then follow someone else's advice:
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/forum/index.html
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Copyright vs. Copywrong or the fight between YouTube and Dailymotion.com

In a Forbes.com article about the new GoogleVideo/YouTube-on-the-blockster "Dailymotion.com" recently reported a college law professor - clearly out of touch with current copyright issues and law - saying that, in effect, merely linking to a site that contains illegal content is violating law (for this arguement, copyright act law).

Not only this passed March 2006 did the US Supreme court say that any site linking to other sites cannot be held legally or otherwise responsible for any other content than what is on its own site, but that also no site linked to can expect nor can they legally hold liable nor can they force any linking entity from linking to their site.

Even Forbes.com dropped the ball on this issue. Yawl better stay up on the info.