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Slashback: Gaping, Wristwear, Screenies
Too bad there isn't a lot of good Free software. aka-ed writes: "A small update on the "Drink Or Die" busts: Apparently, the feds' move has borne preventative fruit. According to this post from one of the major commercial Usnet services, binaries traffic on Usenet has taken a noticeable hit since the bust, for reasons speculated upon in the post itself."
Open wide, and say "mmmmghrfgghfgr." atreus42 writes: "Microsoft has released a patch to fix the Gaping Security Hole(TM) in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0. This security bulletin details the file extension/content header spoofing bug that would allow bad people to disguise a downloadable executable file as text. The internet isn't doomed after all..."
How to make my Visor look slow and lowly.
Sindre Lia writes "Sharp's new Zaurus SL5500 is the first PDA device from a major manufacturer in a long time that uses a new operating system and a new user interface.
According to preliminary reports from infoSync staffers Larry Garfield and Janice Karin that attended the launch of the SL-5500 and got hands-on experience with the new device, the GUI still needs polishing and to some degree also the hardware, but the device has according to them a lot of potential if some first-generation problems can be fixed.
See all the pictures of the new OS here!"
At least this letter is not in binary ...
Dog and Pony writes with a lengthy letter (informative, if you have odd taste in watches). "Slashdot recently ran a story about a pretty silly binary watch. Well, anyways, being a silly person, I thought one would be cool to have, even though I normally don't wear watches.
Problem was, they only shipped inside Norway... so I sent them a polite mail, asking them to notify me if they would start shipping internationally. And today I got an answer.
Too bad it seems a really cumbersome process to get that watch... have these guys never heard of PayPal? And offering payment via the www in 2003? 'Course, you gotta have goals...
Here is a copy of the mail:
> Dear Customer
> Please note the binary watch is released World-Wide Sale
> To be able to expedite your orders please follow instructions below
> 1.0
> Order Your watch by using or online home page:rsi-digital.com
> 2.0
> US$ 35 must be transfer from your local bank to
> ATT
> NORDEA BANK NORWAY
> Middelthuns Gt 17
> Postboks 1166.Centrum
> 0107 OSLO
> ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6527 05 04641
> Research & Supplier International A/S
> Postboks 236
> 4201 Sauda
> Norway
> 3.0
> Original receipt must be faxed to +47 52 78 88 01 or send scanned and send by mail to arramsta@online.no
> 4.0
> Your order will than be expedite from our sales office
> Delivery time is estimated to be 10 to 14 days after received confirmed payment by fax or mail as stated above
> 5.0
> Note: RSI will from 2003 offer payment by using WWW.
> 6.0
> Payment 35USD cover cost of watch 28 USD handling and postage 7 USD
> Total:
> =35 USD
> Best Regards
> Tone Yven
> Sales engineer
I am still thinking that black one....
On a side note, to us non-native English speakers, that has spent too much time in Dilbert-land, "Sales engineer" really sounds like an oxymoron."
...Is only available to IE 5.5SP1 and 6. I have 5.5 and a 56k modem. It will take me about 5 hours and a version upgrade to fix a small security hole. I've already tried once and inital crapplet that is required to start the download of IE5.5SP1 failed to complete its 400k-ish download. I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.
Drop in usenet traffic? Howzabout a drop in mail traffic?
And wasn't the microsoft "gaping security hole" patch covered a few days ago?
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Once: you're a philosopher. Twice: a pervert.
Don't you mean 'pirates'? No, not the ones with the peg-legs and parrot on their shoulders, the ones stealing software. Or are we using euphemisms today?
Am I the only one who hoped to get images of the paging algorithm, the process context switch, the...
OK, not really. But the images are of the UI, not the OS.
I happen to be a big fan of the Linux + Java combo. I wonder what the library is that they use for UI development? Anyone know. Is that a part of J2ME? I noticed the Trolltech reference. Is this QT? Java bindings for QT?
The things keeping me from going completely Open Source Java are the classlibraries and the JVM. Open source Java compilers are out there (most notably Jikes).
I noticed this on the site:
Amiga gets into Linux PDAs
When Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA hits the U.S. and Europe, software developed by old-timer Amiga will provide that old black magic.
Who is this Amiga guy? Is he that old Commodore Aminga, now retired from active duty?....
Open Source Identity Management: FreeIPA.org
http://www.sans.org/topten.htm
Unix and Linux are doing great!!!!!! None of those "gaping holes" that MS has. Yes, bash away, for everyone knows it's MICROSOFT that's responsible for all those gaping security holes. Really. Really. No kidding. Seriously.
On a side note, to us non-native English speakers, that has spent too much time in Dilbert-land, "Sales engineer" really sounds like an oxymoron."
Leave it to a Nordic to apologize for their English, and then use a word that 1/2 the high school students in the USA couldn't define, all in the same sentence.
They sent me an email saying that they'll be accepting credit card payments on the binary watch in "ten days". that was about four days ago. I hope it's true. I want one so bad.
-- Nerds on toast in the new millenium
When I see a link on the internet for massive bust I don't usually expect to get a page of text...
You're going to have just as many problems downloading another browser as you are downloading the patch. Instead, why don't you order the IE6 CD? It costs $10. There's also another one that includes Windows Media Player for $10.
Also, I believe that the free 30-day trial CDs of Earthlink and such have the latest IE on them. You should be able to get this from an office supply store or computer store.
Finally, if you have a friend with broadband, or you have a fast work connection, you can use the advanced option in IE's install to save the files to a disk instead of just installing it directly. Burn to a CD and you're all set.
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what do you think that infared watch is? It'll be interesting to see what they mean by sending "virus" to each other. Is that actually virus in the sense of computers and M$ and all that, or is it just a game? ooh the suspense.
"It has always been this way and it won't change, god bless the fucked up USA" The Briefs
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) introduces himself to chesty Monique De Carlo (Gina Mastrogiancomo) in Naked Gun 2 1/2. The Smell of Fear (1991): - Lt. Drebin: 'Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad.' - Monique: 'Is this some kind of bust?' - Lt. Drebin: 'Yes, it's very impressive, but we need to ask you some questions.'
Help fight continental drift.
If this is the same one they showed at Java One last year (conspiciously playing high frame rate videos of bikini clad women dancing in the rain) it is very cool. The Java layer means a short dev cycle and a highly configurable UI and the back end stability's got to be pretty good.
I was impressed back in June, i'm excited to see the final product (and for reasons other than the bikini videos)
\Drew National Data Director, John Edwards for President
There is a thread on BugTraq which explores this issue in depth:
http-equiv@excite.com is quoted:
Clearly what this so-called "patch" does is convert all embedded file types in MHTML documents viewed in patched Internet Explorer 6 into *.TMP files. Previously all file types and file names were retained and if accepted would run.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Aaaarrrrrgh! Senior moments are nothing to Microsoft Moments.
Guess I'll be using Netscape exclusively from now on.
Would YOU have been thrilled to see your watch roll over with the UNIX clock a few months back?
"What time is it?"
"Hmmm.... it says 1008722379... I'm not sure if that's AM or PM though."
MadCow
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
Actually, about 3 days after that letter went out, they sent one saying that you would be able to use a credit card online within 10 days, and also gave simplified payment instructions.
I would venture to guess that the amount of money lost to the resources used and stolen by spammers is probably close to or soon will top revenue lost to pirated software
;)
Its not just pipe, cpu, and diskspace, but think about all the productivity lost
especially when people spend an extra five minutes around the water cooler bitching about the spam they get
Old age and treachery almost always overcome youth and skill.
I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.
Give Opera a try. Well worth it and it is nice you can switch between Linux and Windows (plus a ton other incl way cool QNX) and still have the same interface.
Help fight continental drift.
File Name Spoofing Vulnerability:
* The determination on choosing to accept a file download from an Internet site should always be based on the trustworthiness of the source and not on the file type. File downloads should never be accepted from an untrusted source, no matter how harmless the type may appear to be.
No, it was a stupid design that allowed quiet execution due to the combination of content-type and file extension checking. When I download a PDF, I should be confident that unless I try running it in some fashion, it should be perfectly safe to download it to my machine.
Or just to make an extreme case, if I download an HTML usenet post, I don't want the browser trying to automatically convert the BASE64 to an executable and running that.
Some common sense on MS' part would've been appreciated.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
...to try to buy anything if you don't live in the US!
Perhaps 25% of sites that offer online purchasing are so USA-centric it's crazy. I guess that's part of living in New Zealand, but come on US$35 to ship a paper back book!? I can send one to my sister in NYC for NZ$12 (US$5 ish)
gadgetophile.com
Not really OT.
/. posted the Uplink article, the introversion server went down. But now the server came back up yesterday (Monday), so you may now place your orders.
After
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
One quality alternative to Netscape and IE is Opera . It is on the larger side, as it is trying to compete with IE, but it is fast and secure. The gestures are especially useful; they make me feel like I'm a kid again painting with my hands. Opera is also available for a number of platforms, including your favourite forms of free Unix (i.e. Linux) and Windows. Could help to make your workspaces consistent, if you work on multiple platforms.
Apart from the well known ones, the only other types of alternatives I can think of are the stripped down Gecko systems (Gecko being the HTML renderer built out of the Mozilla project.) They repackage the core technology, without the rest of the stuff would typically gives Mozilla its reputation for being slow, bloated or inefficient. Gecko, by itself, is a very small, fast and efficient core, comparable to the IE renderer. Most of the ones I've seen are for Linux-type systems, though, like Galeon . And don't forget that Gecko, Mozilla, Netscape 4.7 and Netscape 6 are differnet beasts, but all closely related.
Note! If a moderator would care to help me along in the karma department... I don't know what I did (I don't post often), but every time I post I get can automatic -1. Please see the value of my comments for whatever they are worth! Thank you!
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The one thing that has kept me loyal to the Palm derivatives is Grafitti. It is a really excellent way to enter text quickly and accurately (for the most part). What are people's opinions of the Zaurus keyboard. It looks too small to be useful, so I was curious to know what people who have tried one think.
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opera kicks ass
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Although I am not an avid 'C' Programmer, I cannot comprehend how a security hole THAT LARGE could occur, oh, right.... M$ likes to reuse DLL's and API's as much as possible to reduse cost..
Why isn't there a top-level authority to inform the public/community on such security issues? RedHat seems to make bug/hole info widely available, and quickly fixable.
I think there should be more pressure on large corps in this matter to protect the community.
What ever happened to quality assurance?
No, no, no!
JFK is a worthless scumbag with half a brain.
Thanks,
Lee Harvey Oswald
Anyway, the details. He had around 10 machines just sitting underneath a table in the server room, with a combined storage of 2 terabytes. Apparantly, he was eating up 8-20 megabits of MIT's bandwidth a day. Needless to say, he is no longer employed by the institute...
I dont have a
Opera is cool. If you take a few minutes to explore it's nifty features, you'll be a happier person.
Plus... it's small, fast, compatible with most webpages, and, not microsoft.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Gecko is a steaming, slow pile of shit in everything that it has been packaged in that Ive seen. Galeon is incredibly slow when compared to Opera, and Galeon is the lightest Gecko based browser that I can find.
i really wish that Evolution had the ability to load HTML mail into a different browser, because just hitting it in the preview pane with Gecko causes a 3-5 second lag time before Evolution starts responding again, and that's before it even gets the message displaying.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I have to work at a Microsoft asylum. I can't wait until I get home and relax with linux.
by the way, Opera does rock for the most part. Opera 6 for Windows is awesome - it even rocks pretty hard under a good WINE installation in Linux.
I'm currently using the Linux 6.0 TP2 release, and it is blazing fast, except for the occasions where it gets hung up on DNS. It does crash More than the Windows ver under WINE though, and the Windows ver under WinE crashes more than the Windows ver under Windows. (I have the Win ver installed on an Xp box in the other room, it ROCKS compared to using the built in IE shit)
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
Can other people access google at the moment?
Someone is releasing a commodity platform with Linux preinstalled!
Now where's the PS2 keyboard in and the XGA out?
mt
20 megabits of bandwidth. I.E., like, 7 t-1s worth of bandwidth. Lots of money.
I dont have a
We don't really want to catch the guys that started the anthrax scare, but those warez kidz, now, they are a top priority. I understand Osama Bin Laden himself was able to plan the Sept 11th attacks using cracked software.
It's time to crack down. Let's jam bamboo under their fingernails and put electrodes on their testicles and make them scream so that we can all feel safe again.
At least this letter is not in binary ...
Well, since it was emailed, technically it WAS in binary...
or does that watch deal sound incredibly fraudulent. I love the concept!
"Hey Svenn! The foolish Americans want to buy that watch we photoshopped!"
"Jah Olie? They're perfectly welcome to send as much money as they want to my account! International prosecutions for petty crimes are delightfully hard to pursue..."
I noticed that RSI Digital, the makers of the binary watch, also have a link (currently "under construction") for an InfraRed watch.
Just what we all need: a watch that can only be viewed with night vision goggles or by insects.
The binary watch is pretty cool, especially since it uses a matrix display. I would think you could program it to display the time in a variety of bases. Hex time? Ternary time? Display the time in base nine and really confuse everyone.
-podom
We're wanted men. I have the death sentence in 12 systems!
You must have a pretty slow computer... I've been using Mozilla almost exclusively for the last 4 months or so, and I think it is really good.
(And, it is truly Free!)
I love how slashdot say how free software beats any commercial software in any benchmark and then they come along with this quote
"Too bad there isn't a lot of good Free software"
The benefits of free software are if you don't like it, change it. Stop compaining about software that doesn't do what you want (free or otherwise) and either change it or make it yourself.
I use a hotmail addy (mostly because i've had it since the front page proudly explaimed something like _10000_ users, so I've got a good one) & hate the fact that they butcher all the links in an email. I read several forums, many of which can't cope with the fubar'd links. So surprise, surprise when I found that most of them _worked_perfectly_ if viewed with Konquerer rather then IE. I don't generally like to get on the "bashin' wagin'" but you'd think that a M$'s geberated page ('cause they butchered it, remember) with a M$'s browser should work.
"Sanity is not statistical", George Orwell, "1984"
With all the tobacco taxes paying the war, the Americans will need to tax marijuana too.
I patched IE 5.5 on Win95 this morning. I had no problems.
(And, it is truly Free!)
NPL != Free
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
save the window setup is friggin fantastic
Opera's mouse gestures lets you do frequently performed browse operations with small, quick mouse movements.
Help fight continental drift.
didn't they release it under both the gpl and the npl and another one?
Therefore if its released in some form under the gpl then it would be truly free
Are you referring to BaconHead, one of the fine films released under the Troma label?
"Microsoft Works"
Seeing this, and remembering I wanted to give it a try, I quickly head to the URL.
Foolish me.
Damn... slashdotted not once, but twice.
you can find more screenshots here
and more info here here
this runs on top of the familiar linux distribution. and works on a compaq ipaq as well (although, not the 3800 series).
"we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" --Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
NPL'd software is free software. There are many free software licenses besides the GPL.
From a list of free software licenses at the GNU website:
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
I'm going to go to Norway (to visit friends)and buy one for myself and a few friends in the US. Problem is, the guy told me over email that they are only sold through the mail, not in any stores in Oslo. Good thing the Norwegian mail system is pretty speedy.
This is probably a great product, but the marketing team needs a swift kick in the p@nts.
Although I could make a fortune selling them on eBay... Look for one in January...
Opera crashes a LOT. It seems to have memory leak problems. Otherwise, it is way better than the alternatives.
What about K-Meleon? This is IMHO one of the best *browsers* (i.e. no mail client, no news client, no blot) out there. It uses the gecko (i.e. Mozilla's) rendering engine. It's open source (GPLed). It's almost completely bug less (and the bugs are all UI, not the "I can delete your hard drive" variety). It's multi-lingual. It's secure. It's easy. And to your question it's small (3.89 mb). It kicks butt.
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SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK.
WHEN YOU SLEEP THEY EAT YOUR TOES.
This is in reference to the link off of the message- the DoJ press release
No, it really doesn't make sense, but I guess this is the only way to have charges dropped from the Warez rings.
Remember the last moments of the Clinton Presidency? When he made a slew of laws? Well one of these was called the McDade Act(s), which specifically states that no agent undercover may lie. That was one of the dumbest laws passed, considering that it could have prevented 9-11, but it applies to this case. The DoJ prides itself on it's "year-long" undercover investigation, but they should have known that its a big no-no to lie. I'd bet that some of these people "undercover" were asked "are you w/ the feds" in which their answer would obviously be "NO." Thats a lie, and goes against whath the (retarded) McDade act states. Boom, thats it- they were found illegally.
Please don't flame this, because all I'm doing is bringing to light something that most people didn't know. This is like the old police searching a random student at a HS dance, then arresting him for Marijuana possession. THe kid gets off totally free afterwards because the police had no warrant (etc...). I guess that the McDade act is the only trump card that the Warez rings have. I personally believe that McDade is totally stupid, and it will be really sad if they are used to throw out the case.
No, this is not WIPO.
hi,
there's a much better watch for europeans (i own one myself (since more than 5 years)) and it's really cool!
i admit: in the beginning it's difficult, but due to the design (using diagonal slashes instead of 0s and 1s) you find patterns quite rapidly and then the watch is great.
link: museumsmarket.de
It should, however, be noted that the NPL is not approved by the Open Source Initiative, assuming that you give a shit about such things.
Errr... Evolution uses GtkHTML which is extremely small and light. If you're having problems using GtkHTML maybe there is something wrong with your machine?
Galeon sometimes feels slow on my K6 333, but flies on my work machine (a dual PII 550MHZ).
Evolution never gives me speed problems with HTML rendering though.
First of all, you should note that mozilla is relicensing everything under a triple license (NPL/GPL/LGPL for some and MPL/GPL/LGPL for others). See here for more info.
But to claim the NPL isn't free is bullshit. The NPL is basically the GPL with a few nods Netscape's way. The main difference is that they can use your code in proprietary products, whereas you can't use theirs in proprietary products.
Pretty much that means that this code acts like a BSD license for Netscape, and a GPL license for you. But since there's no real way for Netscape to yank the code away from you, even if they wanted to, I think it's pretty fair to call mozilla "free". The source code is out there, and there's nothing they can do to stop that. How is that not free?
Read more about the licenses here
You covered massive busts and gaping holes, but you forgot all about the most important thing, beavers.
I don't know about the binary watch, but I know here in Luxembourg it is next to impossible (and, sometimes, quite illegal) to pay remotely. If I want to pay my doctor, I have to go to my bank and sign a paper transferring money from one person to another.
I could do web banking, but there are two problems: One, it's Windows only (and not due to a limitation in the browser - you get a smart-card reader that only works with Windows. It is *really* secure, though), and two: it's *really* expensive.
So, it's not that odd that they don't take credit cards...
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
That the pictures of the watches used on the site are computer generated images?
I live life on the edge
To me, the taurus screenshots look like the GUI should be used with a mouse. Maybe you can use it with a pen, barely. But certainly not with your fingers. It looks like a compressed interface for a desktop computer. Not like one for a handheld.
and Galeon is the lightest Gecko based browser that I can find.
Well, seems like you need to find SkipStone, then. It's the Gecko engine packaged up using only GTK+ widgets, no GNOME. It's pretty nice.
main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128 >>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}
Of course, that also goes for the Linux distros that default install with everything enabled. All those helpless, rooted lusers would be giving the "I was cleaning it and didn't know it was loaded" line.
"The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws)." -- Doug Gwyn
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
"how to get the binary watch you've always wanted"
Hey Jed
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
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Heh, now you know what we kreditkardless un-amerikan web surfers feel like when we come to your amazing web sites. The amerikan sites have... limited ways to get your produkts and international money transfer is often the only way. No wonder the "new ekonomy" is failing - many people forget it is not enough to be the country's best, you have to be the world's best.
Kash on delivery! Now that is the way to order thingks from the internet.
More vodka! We just found out a site of which the amerikans will need to share our pain with.
</accent>
Has got to be the UPS centric shipping plan.
I live just a bit north of the "you nice states" and have had occasions when someone has sent me somthing via UPS. After a 50 mile round trip to the depot to pick the item up, I find that I have been charged 40 bucks for "brokerage" to file the GST. (40 bucks to pay for 2 dollars taxes)
The post office charges 5 for the same "service" and has an arrangement where the package is available for pickup at the drug store in my neighbourhood shopping centre.
It seems the USPS has a bad repuation in the USA, while my experience over the last 30 years has been uniformly good, with only about one package going missing in that time. Most packages even arive with the corners of the boxes still square.
Every package I have ever received via UPS, including domestic shipments has arrived looking as if it traveled via afganistan.
Another Wild-Eyed CANADIAN.
If you run the Gnome Control Center (gnomecc), under Document Handlers -> URL Handlers, you can set the browser to whatever you like. I have http set to 'konqueror "%s"', since I use KDE and like my anti-aliased browser fonts.
... I've tried all the mailcheckers I can find, and they only seem to do IMAP-Inbox, not any subfolders beneath Inbox, which does me no good.
Now, if only I could get Evolution to show IMAP folders in the Mail Summary on the Summary page, and some sort of visual indicator when new mail is received (a-la a little envelope in my tray)
Hope that helps.
I see one maggot, it all gets thrown away -- My Fiancee
I like music
You sign up for a service at your bank, eg. Nordea or Osuuspankki or whatever.
They send you an paper with both OTP and re-usable codes of four numbers. To enter the service you use a one-time code. Then you can do transactions, pay for purchases etc. in the SSL-secured page.
You acknowledge the transactions with your re-use numbers. When the sheet is about to be used up, the bank sends you a new one.
It's very convenient. For example, you find some CDs or books to buy at a web page, then enter your information (most times you don't need to "register" as a user if you don't really want to (ie. you're thinking of ordering more from the store at some point)), address, etc. and what method of payment you want.
If you choose eg. Nordea's Solo-service, then you are given a link to the bank's page where you just acknowledge the amount of money. Exiting the bank's service takes you back to the web store. Then you see some kind of a Thank You page. That's it.
Then you get the goods in the snail mail to your nearest post office after a while. The transaction is visible at your account status page, like any payment. It's really simple and best of all, it works NOW!
It's pretty sad that this is the first thing I thought of upon reading the headline :(
P.S. If you're too stupid to mouse over the link and see what it is before clicking, please get off the 'net. Don't think, just go.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Mozilla != NPL
From mozilla.org:
At the moment, parts of the source are available under either the Netscape Public License (NPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL), often in combination with either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or both. mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license; for more information, see the Relicensing FAQ.
m00.
mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license
working towards != is
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
You're right. I must have been thinking of some other license. Was there an initial version of the NPL which was not free?
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
Interesting, one of the things on my "Top ten reasons to hate IE" is the fact that if I have a couple dozen websites open there are 24+ IE icons on my task bar. MDI Much better for me. Maybe this should be a poll question.
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emacs and vi being two. The problem with these editors is that real programmers consider "what you see is what you get' to be just as bad a concept in text editors as it is in women. No the real programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous- TECO, to be precise.
I was looking at the page for the binary wristwatch again and I noticed something odd. Why do they not have an actual picture of the watch? The pictures they have appear to me to be computer generated. Has anyone actually seen one of these in person? If so, I'd love to get one.
It's easy to stand out when the general level of competence is so low.
Airnews' claims of a drop in bandwidth just don't hold water. Supernewst , Giganews denies it, 44fT7.35599$Zd.3333344@bin1.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com , and a major poster himself denies it: uqtq1us4rs471vgmd672m78fqceta7ujnt@4ax.com. Google doesn't archive alt.binaries.news-server-comparison but the messages are only a few days old so any decent news server should still have them.
denies it in this message: slrna1prr7.jgf.andrew+nonews@trinity.supernews.ne
There is no other way to put it! Statements in Microsloth's security bulletin are pure lies. The only way one cannot take them as lies it to believe that Mircosoft engineers are too stupid to recognize the problem:
... A security vulnerability exists because, if an attacker altered the HTML header information in a certain way, it could be possible to make IE believe that an executable file was actually a different type of file -- one that it is appropriate to simply open without asking the user for confirmation.
* The first vulnerability involves a flaw in the handling of the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in an HTML stream.
and
So, is the problem that IE is handling certain MIME types incorrectly?
No. IE handles files appropriate for their MIME types - the problem in this case is that it's possible to convince IE that a file is of a different MIME type than it really is, by altering the Content-Disposition and Content-Header fields. IE would then handle the file in the wrong way, potentially with dangerous results.
Wrong! Lies!! The problem exists because IE refuses to believe the headers and reads the file extension instead. This is completely at odds with the standard.
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
On December 11, 2001, the longest-running of the undercover operations culminated with the execution of over 30 search warrants across the United States and Canada. This undercover operation, code-named 'Bandwidth,' was a two-year covert investigation established as a joint investigative effort to gather evidence to support identification and prosecution of entities and individuals involved with illegal access to computer systems and the piracy of proprietary software utilizing 'warez' storage sites on the Internet.
Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. The undercover 'warez' site has been accessed to transfer over 100,000 files, including over 12,000 separate software programs, movies and games.
If it looks like entrapment, walks like entrapment, and quacks like entrapment....
Any lawyers want to comment?
-Legion
MIT has 40 GIGABIT lines coming in. 20 megabits is hardly noticeable.
It was to be called Mantis, and used scripting language called Mantis Markup Language. It was enormously powerful, completely portable, and simple to use.
It's first use was to be in a MP3 player named "Sonique2" until Lycos hijacked the project from it's creators to use as a copy protected music distribution system. Mantis could have changed the world of UI design... Too bad.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Don't more than half the students take SAT prep courses these days? "Oxymoron" is the classic SAT word.
sulli
RTFJ.
quoting just the end != in context
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quoting just the end != in context
Quoting just the end may or may not = in context. In this case, I didn't take anything out of context. Mozilla is not GPLed.
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?