Tumbleweed - Slashdot User

Submission + - Smokescreen: a javascript-based Flash player (smokescreen.us)

Submitted by Tumbleweed on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @01:30PM

Tumbleweed writes: How to make Steve Jobs your mortal enemy: Smokescreen, a 175kB, 8,000-line javascript-based Flash player. To be open-sourced "in the near future". From Simon's blog: "It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG." Badass! (Via Simon Willison's blog)

Submission + - Obama Trying to Keep Warrantless Wiretapping (rawstory.com) 1

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Tumbleweed

on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:38PM

Tumbleweed writes: "Apparently the Presidential election was less of "Change" and more of "Out with the old, in with the same old," as President Obama has "invoked 'state secrets' to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed."

Well, crap. So who do we elect next time to actually change things? This is NOT the 'change' I voted for!"

Submission + - MS releases beta s/w to manage Unix/Linux systems (msdn.com)

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Tumbleweed

on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @02:03PM

Tumbleweed writes: "The Cross Plat and Interop teams at MS announced today on their blog , some new beta products for managing Unix/Linux systems from MS Operations Manager 2007, as well as connectors for HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console. Both betas are available at http://connect.microsoft.com (search for systemcenter), according the blog."

Submission + - LOLCODE: scripting code for a new generation

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Tumbleweed

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @05:16PM

Tumbleweed writes: " LOLCODE is a new scripting language being designed to more closely match current trends in language grammar and syntax; LOLCODE will likely appeal to a new generation of web coders.

LOLCODE features keywords like these: can-has, gimmeh, hai, i-has-a, im-in-yr, im-outta-yr, kthxbye and
visible. My favourite example:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10 O RLY?
YA RLY
BTW this is true
VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
NO WAI
BTW this is false
VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
KTHX
KTHXBYE"

Submission + - Vista RC1 still vulnerable to pagefile attack

Submitted by Tumbleweed on Wednesday September 13, 2006 @02:24PM

Tumbleweed writes: Joanna Rutkowska, of Blue Pill fame , writes in her blog that Vista RC1 (Build 5600, x64 edition) is still vulnerable to the pagefile attack she demonstrated at the SyScan conference nearly 2 months ago.

"As I described during my talk, it's just enough to... disable kernel mode memory paging. Surly, it would cause a little waste of memory, but according to some Microsoft engineers I spoke to, it would be only around 80MB. This seems very little these days, doesn't it?", she writes.

Well, no, 80MB is not 'very little' by my standards, but nevertheless, I don't see how this can be considered a 'Release Candidate' by anyone other than Microsoft, with such a high-profile vulnerability left in place.

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