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Slashback: Cables, Kernels, Crackers
Under the sea, a strange force was brewing ... Dag Willén, Group Leader, Superconducting Technologies at Denmark's NKT Research, wrote in regards to the recent story about superconducting cables in Denmark, saying "Info in english about this project can be found at www.supercables.com. (sorry for our "one-size" web design for 600x800 px, it was limited budget and talent.)"
Thanks, Dag.
Moving pictures of moving words Recently, a kernel summit took place, and many of the top kernel developers gathered in San Jose to wear funny hats, drink, and decide (or at least debate) on further directions for development of the Linux kernel. Chris DiBona pointed out there are now videos and sound recordings available for download, and you no longer need Real (as originally announced) to enjoy seeing and hearing all these smart people at work. Hopefully, these will one day be joined by Ogg versions as well;)
Don't trust malicious scumbags is part of "trust." AltGrendel writes "SecurityPortal has an article on how Apache.com was compromised. As the Billy Joel song says 'It's a matter of trust'." As always, Kurt Seifried is lucid and informative -- and brings up good points on protecting sites no matter how careful the admins are.
I allow ssh connections on the telnet port from 2 hosts at university to my box at home (outgoing ssh connections are blocked at the uni). My iptables/NAT router forwards that connection to "my" machine. If I type the wrong password twice, incoming ssh connections are blocked for 24 hours. While I'm reasonably certain that no-one is logging the keyboard, not a lot springs to mind about what I can do about that. root logins over ssh is disabled, and any connection to every other port is rejected. My point being, you don't have to "trust" every host on the internet. Maybe just a few.
What about giving the option for text versions of presentations/speeches? Information density of compressed audio is woeful for speech :)
(Don't ask me who's going to transcribe it though.)
Cool, but useless.
Aha. So the solution is simple. Add an entry in the "User Agent" section of your Konq config for supercables.com.
On that note, a site just went up for info on sites that don't work in Linux browsers. Check it out at http://penguinfriendly.org/. It's pretty light right now because it only just went up.
What the bleeping heck... the javascript on supercables.com checks to see if you're running Netscape version 4.x, and if not basically does the equivilant of <FRAMESET onLoad="document.location.href = document.location.href">
I'm not sure why you would want to send every browser except netscape 4.x into an in infinite redirect loop, and I'm not sure why IE doesn't fall for it, but it sure is some strange programming.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
At least with the Apche.org hack it took the work of somebody who was past the point of script kiddie. And it says nothing bad about the product Apache it self. Only that with large numbers of people and a little trust something bad will happen once and a while.
That's true anywhere in life.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. - Albert Camus
Disable javascript before going to the site. They appear to have a bug which causes continual refreshes in Konq.
Not sure about other browsers.
Hats are a sort of head covering, often made of felt, cloth, or straw (though other materials are not unheard of). While they have some use as protection from rain or sun, they are more generally a social symbol. Many cultures place significance on their shape or ornamentation.
Sorry, I couldn't resist
--MarkusQ