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Found this on slashdot,

http://rozinov.sfs.poly.edu/papers/bagle_analysis_v.1.0.pdf

Its pretty useful in explaining how assembly works for those who don't know, and also goes in depth about counter-virus techniques
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SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

holy shit that piece of crap almost shutdown my computer

I fucking hate PDF's

Solo Ace · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:19 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Gonna save that link for when I'm bored.

Dr Brain · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:34 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Portable as in it doesn't require Microsoft Office 2018 ($1000+) to view.
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.txt all the way.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

txt or html, gebus anything but really old and gigantic PDF's

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:13 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

WTF is that? Computers 101 on how to combat a virus?
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:59 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

I already have almost all the plugins disabled.

50% Packetloss · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:51 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Thanks Distort.

Smong · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:53 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I suppose the only good thing about pdf is the viewer has anti-alias fonts, it renders faster than postscript, it supports a nested table of contents (although I rarely see manuals and ebooks using this feature) and you can embed images in it.

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maybe.....

Smong · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:04 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Are you saying html is postscript? Because some of my teachers are distributing their notes in .ps files and I can see the progress meter trying to load about 20-30 pages in 5 seconds, that's only slightly faster than the start-up time of firefox.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

No, I'm saying postscript and PDF are both inferior to HTML.

Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:30 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Wrong. HTML is for displaying webpages. HTML layout is quite limiting.

PDF and PS are typesetting formats. They exist for the puprose of displaying text, symbols (that HTML cannot display) and pictures EXACTLY where the author wants them on the page.

You cannot write a professional product manual in HTML. These, however, *are* frequently written in PDF files.

I use PDF files for displaying math symbols. I'd like to see HTML try to display "The inverse Laplace transform of the definite integral from s to infinity of one over rho". That's something that's quite possible in TeX and PDFs (postscript too, but I don't work with it).

HTML and PDFs serve very different functions, and they are both very good at what they do. HTML does web pages. PDF does typesetting. HTML is inferior in typesetting. PDF is inferior in hypertext display.

Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:22 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

For example:

CypherJF · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:37 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

ya brain is right about the PDF... it's a desktop publishing tool allowing you to set objects, etc. easily...

However, I'm now uneasy knowing that there is a PoC of having PDF read files off of your harddrive, :/
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:25 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Dr Brain · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:30 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I doubt that very much. I'm sure a few are, but I believe the rest are written in some kind of PDF GUI.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:59 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

http://www.w3.org/Math/

Mozilla supports it.

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:14 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I worked for a math textbook author, there were several stages of manuscripts. Early, rough drafts where done w/ MS Word + Equation Editor, they would then be typed up onto quark (if im thinking right) which then would be converted to JPG and PDF files.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Book publishing is not exactly what we're talking about.

I'm saying if you're motherfucking giving people information via a motherfucking website, why not fucking make all your information available ACTUALLY in the website instead of being a lazy motherfucker that uses PDF's instead.

I mean there are fucking PDF to HTML convertors out there if you're so fucking retard you can't use a motherfucking WYSIWYG editor. Gebus...lazy fucking twat-ass bitches.

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:11 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I'm just saying that PDF's are used simply for the fact that not all characters can be converted to HTML.. Meh! Or w/o the need of special font's, and/or plugins. Hence the MathML - www.w3c.org

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