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Well, I found that strim refers to either a system in the seventeenth galaxy the British term for a gasoline powered garden tool (most likely a string trimmer, or weed-whacker in the States) or some geological post-doc research thingy.

Put it all together and it sounds about right to me: post-grads doing geology research projects concerning astronomic debris from the seventeenth galaxy being converted into warm weed whackers.

Please mod this (+/-1, huh?)

Why restricted? All you need to do is hack MudSH to be a bit more, uh, challenging to your users ("You turn left into /etc. A giant firebreathing dragon labelled 'root' awaits you.")

Sounds like MUD Shell, only graphical.

That's true. FreeBSD is not for people who want to play games. These people need to use a PlayStation, GameCube, or Xbox.

With their penchant for user friendliness, I'm surprised they didn't choose mudsh

While features like a commandline history are nice, while you are at it, why not try something like the MUD Shell or the New Adventure shell? Instead of some plain black, dull shell, spice unix up with a gameplay like feeling. Interestingly, The MUD shell, was inspired by a posting at... Slashdot!

While features like a commandline history are nice, while you are at it, why not try something like the MUD Shell or the New Adventure shell? Instead of some plain black, dull shell, spice unix up with a gameplay like feeling. Interestingly, The MUD shell, was inspired by a posting at... Slashdot!

I would like the plagurism of AlphaKinetic and Saalim Chowdhury exposed. My work, and the work of others, is the subject of a recent SlashDot article called "Electronic Pricetag Alteration", although we are not attributed. I published an article which was plagurized by Saalim Chowdhury and used as the subject of a press release. An article was subsequently published by TheTelegraph and mentioned by TheRegister. This article was cited by ZDNet, syndicated to Yahoo, then this article was cited by SlashDot.

I published an article called "Flaws In ECommerce Systems" in the Autumn issue of 2600 Magazine. This article is available at http://www.xirium.com/product/mtecs/doc/secure/ and http://www.basketlogic.com/doc/secure/ . This article:

• States how loosely integrated ECommerce sites do not check prices.
• Cites a wine merchant with such a vunerability.
• Cites a domain name re-seller with such a vunerability.
• Explains how to move decimal points to reduce prices and why this action should succeed, but has never been substantiated.

On 25 Jan 2001, TheRegister reported an article in TheTelegraph which:

• Cites an undisclosed "glitch" that allows prices to be modified.
• Cites a domain name re-seller with such a vunerability.
• Cites Saalim Chowdhury as the "chief executive of e-commerce software development company Alphakinetic which discovered the flaw".
• Omits all references to moving

AlphaKinetic press releases 4 and 5:

• State that AlphaKinetic "found this security hole whilst developing our own secure e-commerce system, and our forthcoming e-commerce solutions".
• Cites the purchase of wine by this method.
• AlphaKinetic does not specialise in security.
• "What astonished us was when we contacted our secure payment provider about this they stated that they had be aware about the possibility of this hole existing for the last 5 years".

All attempts to contact all parties have been ignored. This inaccuracy has now been extensively propagated during the last two days. The additional information that was unsubstantiated is now the subject of recent articles and the estimated proportion of vunerable sites has risen from 10%-20% to 40%.

There is circumstantial evidence that Saalim Chowdhury read my work in 2600 Magazine (the source of the information) and this can be verified by checking domain name registrations. 2600 has a pre-occupation with purchasing domains of the form *sucks.com then printing the "cease and desist" "nastygrams" from lawyers. AlphaKinetic (the source of the plagurism) is highly anomalous because they have registered alphakineticsucks.com themselves, although this problem only affects large companies.

Seems pretty MSInnovative to me.

N, MSInnovate is when you copy ideas. I genuinely did not know about about previous efforts. I have even met a member of SlashDot who had done one of the previous implementations. Is seems like many people have had similar ideas independantly.

Anyhow, mentioning MSInnovate, I just knew I forgot to add something to the denied domain list. Well, if you see anything like MUD Shell from MicroSoft, you saw it here first. The rest of the logs are also interesting.

Announcing the Ecsponent Message DTD that can be accessed at: http://www.ecsponent .com/opt/xml/message-xml1_0-strict.dtd .
Hopefully it works as well -;@}=.

Dean Swift


Ecsponent - The future of ECommerce

The URL is: http://www.parrswoodhighschool.org.uk/ .

NetCraft Stats says Apache on Unix (Solaris). Good stuff, although I am curious why they have .org.uk rather than .sch.uk reserved for schools.



Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
Xirium, http://www.xirium.com/

The URL is: http://www.parrswoodhighschool.org.uk/ .

NetCraft Stats says Apache on Unix (Solaris). Good stuff, although I am curious why they have .org.uk rather than .sch.uk reserved for schools.



Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
Xirium, http://www.xirium.com/

The URL is: http://www.parrswoodhighschool.org.uk/ .

NetCraft Stats says Apache on Unix (Solaris). Good stuff, although I am curious why they have .org.uk rather than .sch.uk reserved for schools.



Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
Xirium, http://www.xirium.com/

The URL is: http://www.parrswoodhighschool.org.uk/ .

NetCraft Stats says Apache on Unix (Solaris). Good stuff, although I am curious why they have .org.uk rather than .sch.uk reserved for schools.



Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
Xirium, http://www.xirium.com/

y, i done this with Pair.Net. i suspect they don't get many requests for this.

anyway, if you have .site.domain, and create and subdomain .user.site.domain then the web and mail DNS can be hosted by different organisations, as well as the web and mail itself. this gives you ultimate redundancy and tolerance.

if you have problems with any provider, you can change immediately, usually before users notice. additionally, i forward my EMail to two different sites. (y, you can have multiple lines in your .forward.) this allows me to check EMail if my usual EMail server is off line.

Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
DNS Administrivia
Xirium

y, i done this with Pair.Net. i suspect they don't get many requests for this.

anyway, if you have .site.domain, and create and subdomain .user.site.domain then the web and mail DNS can be hosted by different organisations, as well as the web and mail itself. this gives you ultimate redundancy and tolerance.

if you have problems with any provider, you can change immediately, usually before users notice. additionally, i forward my EMail to two different sites. (y, you can have multiple lines in your .forward.) this allows me to check EMail if my usual EMail server is off line.

Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
DNS Administrivia
Xirium

y, i done this with Pair.Net. i suspect they don't get many requests for this.

anyway, if you have .site.domain, and create and subdomain .user.site.domain then the web and mail DNS can be hosted by different organisations, as well as the web and mail itself. this gives you ultimate redundancy and tolerance.

if you have problems with any provider, you can change immediately, usually before users notice. additionally, i forward my EMail to two different sites. (y, you can have multiple lines in your .forward.) this allows me to check EMail if my usual EMail server is off line.

Dean Swift, dean@xirium.com
DNS Administrivia
Xirium