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Hey, the ".dot" domain belongs to The Internet Namespace Cooperative.

http://tinc.taronga.com/

Used to be tinc.org, back when we set this up because Network Solutions was playing sillybuggers with ".com". I think we were the second alternative TLD after the ".cool" people. We might have been the first, we didn't find out about each other until we'd already set up our zones and nameservers and the like...

It's more secure, and simpler, to do

ssh -v -l user2 localhost

That way you don't have to mess with xhost and environment variable settings.

The fact that this kind of hack is possible on Unix/Linux but not on Windows has nothing to do with support for multiple or non-admin users. It's purely historical. Unix started out as a time-sharing OS, Windows was always a single-user OS. Unix assumes that it has multiple users sitting in front of serial terminals, Windows assumes it has one user sitting in front of the actual computer.

When the time came to adapt Unix to the GUI era, people assumed that people would continue to use it as a time-sharing system, so they invented graphic monitor technology to support GUIs over the wire: X-Windows. That assumption was economically flawed: graphic terminals are not a big cost savings over PCs, and indeed X-Terminals never achieved the necessary economies of scale to be even comparably priced. So X-Windows mostly ended up being implemented in Unix workstations. If Unix GUIs had been designed with the right assumptions (and some proprietary GUIs actually were) the GUI system wouldn't have this handy remote-user feature.

Heh, I was actually referring to Usenet II.

Meanwhile, a great force and a high pitched whining sound has been reported from Judge Greene's grave as he spins at nearly 10K RPM.

The big flaw in that strategy was that they didn't know how to be a commercial company. Every venture of theirs collapse because of bureaucratic nonsense and bad planning. I worked for the company that built Unix PC for them (basically, one of our 68010 time-sharing boxes clumsily mated with some of their telecom hardware plus an ineptly designed keyboard and display). AT&T spent something like a billion dollars developing this product and paying for initial production — and never even tried to sell it. By the time it reached the market, they decided that they were going to to IBM-compatibles instead. Which made a certain amount of sense — except that product line didn't sell either.

How many different ways did they screw up? Let's see, "phone stores", the TCI buyout...

Ouch! and agreed on both accounts. I do not consider myself a 'christian'. I find that the term and widely accepted generalization as what a christian is, as absolutely revolting to me.

"The thing that I find surprising is the people who claim to be Christians and claim to believe in Christ but who don't act in a way consistent with that belief,"

I find your insight there a relief. I wish more people recfognized that and could take a step back from their 'beliefs' and see what kind of nonsense they were projecting.

As far as my salvation. That is between me and my god. Even according to the much heralded biblical scriptures, that is the way it should be.

BTW- like your site, http://www.taronga.com/~peter/ , Is that a recent picture of you, wildman?

"Have you hugged your wolf today?"

"Where is the nearest thinking mammal?"

"This in my buddy, not tips."

"Have you hugged your wolf today?"

"Waiter, this dish is still alive."

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

I have a feeling they all originate from this page of confusingly sorted quotes. If aliens should look at you with an odd expression in their face, don't panic!

• You actually know what a Bukkake is.
• You personally block all e-mail originating from a Nigerian IP address.
• You start to see 'Enlarge your vagina' mails (think about it...).
• You have friends over and you check your e-mail, and up pops a spam-mail with a pornographic image. You think nothing of it and are not in any way embarassed because you're certain they know it's just the spam.
• You actually bought something from a spammer.

This should be a startr. Could anyone else please add something to the list?

I'm convinced that some companies just have a dysfunctional corporate culture that's immune to real reform. Their only hope is that things get so bad that all the top idiots lose their jobs -- and they're very, very lucky in choosing their new management. (That's basically what saved IBM.) But AT&T's so far gone, not even a total shakeout can save them.

A long time ago, I worked for Convergent Technologies, which partnered with post-breakup AT&T to produce the first commercial hardware to be sold under the AT&T label. (Before the breakup, AT&T was a utility, and thus not allowed to sell hardware commercially.) This was (dig the irony) "Project Safari". The biggest result of this collaboration was the Unix PC.

Now, AT&T spent about $1 billion on this project. Paid most of it to Convergent to fill their supply chain with these boxes. Which they never even tried to sell, because upper management decided to concentrate on IBM compatibles. Almost all got remaindered away to various hackers who jumped at the chance to buy a serious Unix workstation for less then it cost to manufacture the thing. Hundreds of people got their introduction to Unix this way. Not a bad thing, but not a ressurection either.

Go ahead and look at mine. After all, all the "personal" information in the letter is straight from my "WHOIS" entry, so anyone can look it up.

Follow this link.

Or just wait by your postbox. I'm sure you'll get one before too long.

Slamming domain names used to be a bigger problem. We lost NMTI.COM because Verisign (then Network Solutions) screwed up and bythe time we had things cleared up with them Register.COM was squatting on our domain.

And the phone companies got slapped for slamming, and they got slapped for sending out letters like this one (here's mine, at
http://www.taronga.com/~peter/io/vs/ ).

Finally, it's interesting to note that thy refused to let me transfer another domain away from them when it was still over a month from renewal, and yet here it is right on the deadline and they're going after scarydevil.com...

Anyway, AT&T ended up selling 8.5 of these things and they're somewhat of a collector's item nowadays. Microsoft however, did release Microsoft Word for the UnixPC, yup, that's right, Microsoft Word for System V Unix.

Yeah, so that was 1985. It shouldn't be too hard to port it now. Word couldn't have changed *that* much, right? I mean it's not like Microsoft's products have gotten bloated...*tries to keep a straight face*