LuTze

You need to connect both machines to the router, then the router to the dsl line. Without knowing anything about the router that you're using and having not used one myself, I can't really be any more specific, soz!

There are a few ways to do it, ranging from "very simple" to "very complicated and OTT". Have a look here: - http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/

Well if it's close to full you'll have fragments of files all over the place...

Yes and no, once you delete the inode the operating system no longer 'sees' the file, so considers the space taken up by it available. That's why it will eventually be overwritten by something else.

It depends where on the disk the operating system decides to put the modified file. It could put it somewhere else on the disk, then modify the inode to point to the new location.

If you're talking about a computers RAM, then anything in that will disappear a couple of microseconds after the power is switched off, because it is volatile storage. The hard disk itself if different. It stores data magnetically, in a file system. A file system is a way of organising data on the disk so the operating system knows where to find it. Generally, information about where a file is stored on a disk is contained in something called an 'inode'. When you 'delete' a file in windows, all your are actually doing is deleting this inode, not the data itself. This just means the the operating system no longer knows where to find the file - in time the space used by the file itself will probably be overwritten by something else, but until then it's hanging around waiting for someone to find it. To get rid of something completely, you need a program that will remove the inode, and the actual file's data. You can get programs that write over the data several times with 'random' stuff, just to be sure. PGP does this I think. The 'Secure Delete' function in Mac OS X does a similar thing.

Gavin, or Gav without the 'in'.

You could use Rsync: - http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Instructions for installing on Windows are here: - http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html It will automatically synchronise files/directories between machines. Or, you could just share a directory from computer2, and use the shared files on computer1. Less mucking about that way.

From my experience, Pascal seems to be taught as a 'learner' language in schools - it's procedural and a good introduction to programming concepts. From there C is your best bet if you want something that's used everywhere. It is the grand-daddy of programming languages. If you want something a liitle easier, try scripting languages first. Python is quite nice, PHP is OK for web stuff but a little lightweight for much else and there is always Perl - the mother of all scriping lanuages. There are some nice Python introductions here: - http://www.python.org/topics/learn/

http://winn.com/bs/atombomb.html

Temperament Score Idealist 10 Rationalist 10 Traditionalist 2 Hedonist 7 Your temperament type is undetermined. heh

That is gonna need some meaty power! Best commision another reactor...

It'd do the job though - and do it while you're still building you're giant rail gun, commisioning nuclear reactors, getting permits, dealing with protestors and so on

I'm sure they'd be able to manage some sort of solid rocket fuel...

The Physicists make themselves a nice implosion nuke, and Chemists bring along a truckload of VX. It just comes down to who can throw the furthest

Hello! I'd like to ask what people think of Bush's recently introduced tax cuts. Do you feel they have benifited you at all? Is it a good thing that most of the money will be going to the wealthiest Americans? How is the record budget defecit that has been created going to be dealt with? Has the tax plan made you more or less likely to vote for Bush in the coming elections?

Where are all these WOMD then? Weren't we supposed to have found them by now?

Spend $99 on a CD full of "double opt-in" email addresses and some quality mass-mailing software made by "internet experts". I'm sure that'll help!

Do you know what model of mac it is? The connector you describe sounds like a DB15 port. The signal given by the mac should work on a PC monitor, and your best bet is to get a DB15 to VGA adapter, there are a few on ebay relatively cheaply: - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2778036538&category=25436 That one is $3 at the minute. Once you have one of them, you can use a regular VGA cable.

They don't give any sources for thier data either, apart from a vague reference to a "database" of "attacks" they've had since 1995.

Fixed *after* a worm brought half of the internet to a grinding halt. Thanks Microsoft! I didn't say it was "better than XP", don't put words in my mouth please. In any case, I'd be suspicious of thier numbers. This type of research seems to take "Linux" to mean an entire distribution, which usually includes every application under the sun. It makes sense that an install of an operating system plus supporting applications has more bugs than an install of just the OS.

Uh, i'm not sure. Maybe it had something to do with you starting your own post with "LuTze, ". If you're talking about one link in particular please quote it, instead of speaking to me like you would 10 year old child. I'd like to see where you came up with that information. Anyone who regulaly reads lists dedicated to this subject (bugtraq, full-disclosure. The archives are available all over the place) would know that MS are often slow to respond to bug reports, sometimes taking months before a fix is forthcoming. Here is a long list of unpatched IE vulnerabilities, that MS knows all about, for you to have a look at: -http://www.safecenter.net/UMBRELLAWEBV4/ie_unpatched/ On top of this, they do not publish detailed information on vulnerabilities, simply because they believe it will slow down the development of malware. MSBlast, Nimda, Code Red, Slammer, I could go on. In the open source world, fixes are usually in place before the vulnerability is even announced, and in the cases where it isn't i've observed very quick turnarounds on patches, the latest problems with OpenSSH being a very good example. Flippant comments like "more than I can say for linux" show you up for the troll you are.

I was talking about the one I posted. Which does.

Does not harm your system? Hello? Maybe not by itself, but the guy with full remote admin privilages might be something to worry about

The link seems to be for a problem with Exchange server, not XP..... http://packetstormsecurity.nl/filedesc/ms03-043v2.c.html That one is a fairly recent XP exploit.