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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."
...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
In IE, I just select the word, right click and choose Dictionary from the menu. I can do the same for Google searches, and for google-image searches.
In Opera, when you remove the scrollbar, why doesn't the page get resized to fill the space vacated by the scrollbar?
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!
Pete
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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Ultimately, I think I use too many services that won't work on anything but the Big 2 (I have to bypass my proxy for things like Netbank, eBay, Blogger, etc). What I really need is a way of fixing this file type attachment hole without having to download a patch. Has anyone worked out a custom filter for Proxomitron that detects malformed MIME type stuff...?
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
I just thought of something... if there was a gunmaker that made a gun with a bug, and the bug was that if the gun is shot straight up in the air (not often but it happens), the bullet would actually come out of the back of the gun and kill the shooter.
Now, imagine the same gunmaker telling people that there's nothign wrong with their guns, that the fault is with the people telling the shooters to shoot straight up in the air...
True, these people would be malicious, and EVIL in the Bush sense, but they are utilizing a flaw in the gun that shouldn't be there to begin with.
I would bet that only the incompetent and ignorant would buy that sort of gun (not that incompetent and ignorant people should be buying guns, mind you) and then shoot straight up in the air when the l33t says to.
This is to say that both the virus writer and the software writer are to blame (in criminal court with fines and jail time), one for exploiting a flaw, the other for providing the means to.
There should be a government mandated warning on all microsoft software, and all computers with microsoft software preistalled that reads, in 72 point red letters "Consumer Warning: This software can be used by criminals to steal and destroy your personal information. Exercise caution."
That way, people who got a virus would blame microsoft ALONG with the virus writer.
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The reality is that nothing like that will ever happen. (sig-in-training)
"Piter, too, is dead."
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's just part of the plan to take over the net:
:)
1.- Educate all users to only surf "trusted" sites.
2.-Be the one who certifies who is to be trusted.
3.-Watch the cash flow.
Clever huh?
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);}
Uhh, no thanks. Choosing between ads and A$80 is not my idea of a good time, at least not until I'm working again.
I used to think the same way. When Netscape on my Linux box died temporarily, I decided to live with the ads until I could fix Netscape. It was the best browser move I ever made.
All the positive statements above are true. Opera is truly an improvement on the web experience offered by Netscape and IE. Tabbed windows (also in Galeon) are my favorite feature. Speed is a close second (I have 40 meg of memory on a Pentium 200mhz).
What feature do I wish I had in Opera? (or any other browser, for that matter) Fool web pages into thinking I'm running Windows, and let me load them. What's with all the unloadable websites? Some sites, I can't load in ANY browser, but can load on a windows machine quickly.
Visit Lockjaw's Lair. He won't bite.
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