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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Clarification: Software bugs.
There's an interesting article on wired.com where it is pointed out how important software quality is. The link to the gasline article is especially interesting, IMO.
I have to say that I'm sometimes curious how many accidents/events are caused by some software error. I'd guess that there's a lot more than we discover. I sometimes wonder how we manage to stay alive while depending so heavily on floating point calculations, integers, multiplyers and whatnot.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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And here I was thinking this was going to be about the 'NN upgrade.
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"angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Any one have any idea what Cubeoid would think is the worst bug?
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Hi Athens!
Silverfish.
Cubeoid
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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I would pick BED BUGS, they are bloody hard to kill and leave lots of nasty sores on your body.
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Brian says (9:16 AM): I was looking at houses in Ottawa... I actually have a temptation in me to move
Jeff ******* says (9:19 AM): Eww, Ottawa is gross. It's infested with politicians, and presently, 1 Harper as well.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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1995/1996 -- The Ping of Death. A lack of sanity checks and error handling in the IP fragmentation reassembly code makes it possible to crash a wide variety of operating systems by sending a malformed "ping" packet from anywhere on the internet. Most obviously affected are computers running Windows, which lock up and display the so-called "blue screen of death" when they receive these packets. But the attack also affects many Macintosh and Unix systems as well.
Is that true ? I never heard it affecting a Mac. Does anybody know ?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: case.edu
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The bug was in the BSD IP stack, which everyone (yes, including Windows) used. So it probably was present in the Mac. I'm pretty sure it has been fixed though - in most all of the systems that used that code.
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pb 1440x960 | 1.67, 1.5, 128, 80 | leopard
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Minnesota - Twins Territory
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Originally Posted by Athens
I would pick BED BUGS, they are bloody hard to kill and leave lots of nasty sores on your body.
i had bed bugs once. it sucked. i bug bombed them.
i think moths are the worst bugs - gross when you smash them
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