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New Windows Vulnerability in Help System
wesleyt writes "CERT announced today a significant Microsoft Windows vulnerability related to IE and its handling of the Windows help subsystem. There are currently no patches available and no virus definitions for the major scanners. As well, exploits have been reported in the wild. Because the vulnerability is in the help subsystem, even users who avoid Outlook and IE are vulnerable, since IE is the default handler for help files. It seems that this is going to be an ugly one."
...but Linux needs to get its act together.
/tmp or the installer will dump core. After the installer is done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and add a section called "GL" and put "driver nv" in it. Make sure you have the latest version of X and Linux kernel 2.6 or else X will segfault when you start. OK, run the Quake 3 installer and make sure you set the proper group and setuid permissions on quake3.bin. If you want sound, look here [link to another obscure web site], which is a short HOWTO on how to get sound in Quake 3. That's all there is to it!"
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
Linux zealots are far too forgiving when judging the difficultly of Linux configuration issues and far too harsh when judging the difficulty of Windows configuration issues. Example comments:
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Linux?"
Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin, then do chmod +x on the file. Then you have to su to root, make sure you type export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 but ONLY if you have that latest libc6 installed. If you don't, don't set that environment variable or the installer will dump core. Before you run the installer, make sure you have the GL drivers for X installed. Get them at [some obscure web address], chmod +x the binary, then run it, but make sure you have at least 10MB free in
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows?"
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
So, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that what seems easy and natural to Linux geeks is definitely not what regular people consider easy and natural. Hence, the preference towards Windows.
Microsoft Readies for Software Bootleg Binge
Microsoft Corp. officials on Thursday said the company is investigating the leak of a piece of code that is capable of generating activation keys for Windows Server 2003 and other enterprise products. The tool, known as a key generator, can be used to produce the random alphanumeric keys that are needed to activate the software upon installation. The arrival of the key generator was noted in a posting by Microsoft enthusiast site Neowin.net earlier in the week. However, the group withdrew the listing for an undisclosed reason. More
Activists United
The hours of reloading finally paid off. I RULE! Score: -1 Pathetic
I just wish ICMP Nuke would still work.
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!
Pretty icons are for blondes. Note that their are some blondes whose hair is actually not blonde. Blondness is about what goes on inside the head, not outside (even though often blondness does show up outside as well).
I use Slackware 9.1
1. I put cd in my dvd-rom player.
2. Under gnome or kde i press the litle CD icon
3. click on setup.sh, quake3 installer starts, in install the stuff in the usual default place.
thats it, even get a cute litle quake3 icon on my desktop.
Same as with windows mate. Don.t have to be a wiz to install quake3.
STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF UNION OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS OF CUBA
Cuban writers and artists against fascism
THE national council of the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba (UNEAC) is meeting during a dramatic moment in history, at an extremely dangerous time for humanity when fascism is reemerging with the intention of exercising its brutal dominion over the planet. The war of conquest that has been unleashed against the people of Iraq, in absolute contempt of worldwide public opinion and the community of nations, brings to mind the 1936 fascist intervention in Spain that constituted the prelude to the Second World War.
In those sad days, fascism tested its weapons of extermination in places like Guernica and initiated a lengthy escalation that would culminate in the invasion of Poland and a conflict that cost 50 million lives and the destruction and ruin of entire continents. We are faced today with an even greater danger because this return to fascism on a universal scale does not have, as it did then, an armed opposition or some wall of containment, and its war machine is of such devastating power that it is capable of destroying any country whatsoever in a question of minutes.
With its invasion of Iraq, the U.S. government has openly disregarded the principles of coexistence between nations and the very San Francisco Charter that established the hope of a peaceful, balanced and just world order through the United Nations Organization. It has imposed an interventionist criterion that violates all the accords relating to international law and is attempting to obliterate the sacrosanct principles of sovereignty and self-determination. In its own time and with similar aims, Nazi Germany abandoned the League of Nations. As has been rightfully said before, it is a case of the fateful substitution of the empire of law by the law of the empire.
In this conflict, we can see perfectly articulated fascist theories of a pre-emptive war or lightning strike, along with a powerful system of propaganda and misinformation. Without doubt, the legacy of Goebbels is present in this neofascism.
The U.S. propaganda machine repeats its accusations in a deliberate way, without ever showing evidence; it presents the empire?s forces as ?liberators? and as a ?coalition.? It announces the ?democratic? nature of the colonial administration that it will impose. It uses the term ?humanitarian aid? in a repugnant way and it intends to leave the victims without a face, and without culture or morals. It shows an aseptic image of what was a massacre by systematically blocking information, so that the blood and the deaths of thousands of civilians, the casualties of the attackers themselves, and resistance to the invasion cannot be seen or assessed by the U.S. people or by worldwide public opinion.
The manipulation of information is nourished by ridiculous theories like that of the supposed clash of civilizations and that of civilization versus barbarism, masks for the racism that has always accompanied wars of conquest and colonialism.
This machine floods the planet daily with a reiterated message regarding the superiority of the United States and the Messianic role of the savior of humanity that it has attributed to itself, complemented by an absurd and xenophobic vision of the ?Other?, particularly in relation to the Third World. At the same time, it emphatically insists on the manipulation of history as is evident, for example, in the attempts to erase the so-called ?Vietnam syndrome? from the memory of the U.S. people.
However, despite the enormous influence of the media war, a new anti-war and anti-imperialist awareness is growing among humanity, which began to emerge with the announcements and preparations for the genocide of the Iraqi people and has a dignified precursor in the ?Not in our Name? manifesto signed by thousands of the most outstanding artists and intellectuals in the United States. It is only just to recall that UNEAC celebrated last 4th of July in or