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Slashback: Gopherectomy, Portacinema, Disunity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ann-arbor-is-lovely dept.

Slashback tonight with a quartet of updates. So, read on for more information on portable video viewing (and instant recording!), United Linux and one analysts view of What it All Means, Microsoft's answer to a Gopher hole, and why easily guessed passwords sometimes save the day.

Throwing the gopher out with the bathwater. An Anonymous Coward writes: "As reported on News.com and discussed on Slashdot, MSIE's gopher support had a serious security vulnerability that allowed your machine to get ROOT'ed.

Well, it seems that Microsoft is unwilling or unable to make the fix, so it is removing support for the gopher protocol from IE. Not that MSIE's gopher support isn't very poorly implemented anyways."

Kept out of the U.S. by the secret conspiracy, no doubt. Buggalo writes "When I saw the article about the Pogo Flipster I thought I'd mention this too. Of course, it's not available in the US (not yet at least), but it sounds cool anyway. It plays MP4 video as well as MP3 audio. One thing that differentiates it from the Flipster is that this one includes video inputs so you don't even need a computer to get anything onto it. It also seems to have a larger screen. From what I can tell it has 64 megs of flash memory built in, and has an SD memory card slot as well. Sorry the website is in Japanese, but you can use Babelfish to translate it."

Not betting on a United front. dgb2n writes "Smart Money Magazine published an excellent article covering the business implications of the United Linux consortium. It provides some good insight into Red Hat's business model, stock price, and future prospects and names a potential winner in the Linux market."

At least this one aspect is happy. Hellkitten writes "The password for the database has been found, it was as simple as 'ladepujd', the name of the database's creator spelt backwards This previous Slashdot article explains the problem they had.

Aasentunet posted this notice, telling the password and thanking everyone that helped"

ZDNet has the story here as well."

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  1. Re:The confusion by King+of+the+World · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Moderation Totals: Insightful=2, Total=2.
    Er, wot?
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  2. Anagram Fun Competition! by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who can come up with the best anagram of "Slashdot Editor" ?

    My best effort so far is: "Oddest oral shit".

    Have fun!

    Your friendly neighbourhood AC

    1. Re:Anagram Fun Competition! by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      how about "Toss RedHat idol"? or "idle as short dot"?

      Thanks to Wordsmith's Internet Anagram Server for these.

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    2. Re:Anagram Fun Competition! by Iguanaphobic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      A toddler shit so.

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  3. Re:The confusion by sholden · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Not that MSIE's gopher support isn't very poorly implemented anyways.

    Er, wot?


    You have trouble parsing sentences of the form:

    Not that A isn't B.

    ???

    For the english impaired, it means that A isn't B is false. And in a lot of cases, thus A is B.

    So the quoted sentence means:

    MSIE's gopher support is very poorly implemented.

    But stated in a more diplomatic style, which I guess is not so common for slashdot :)
  4. obligatory movie reference by WebMasterJoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This reminds me of Spaceballs (slightly paraphrased)

    1! .... 2! ..... 3! .... 4! .... 5!

    That's the combination? That's the kind of combination an asshole would use for his luggage!

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