What the article fails to mention is the fact that web bugs can actually be used for legitimate use (IMHO, always).
Take for instance the company itraceyou.com. This company provides a free service for users to be able to receive confirmation emails when their email has been opened. I think that would come in useful for anyone of us. Isn't that a ligitimate use for the web bug?
What troubles me more is that they are attempting to patent this (what seems to me), kind of obvious method of receiving a notification when an email is opened.
Visit the company info page for information on the pending patent. Should this actually be granted?
I live in Cyprus that, according to the article, is one of the small countries outside the EU that is "pro-patent".
What exactly can I do in this situation? Just increase the awareness of the issue? If yes, I can easily do that through a slashdot-like site I run about Cyprus. What else? Who exactly should I attempt to contact to influence the vote?
With this
demonstration application you'll see, first-hand the native Linux performance with full Windows
functionality available only by using MainWin.
We want to take this opportunity to thank Microsoft Corporation for providing the ORIGINAL
source code of FreeCell for Windows game.
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:45:54 -0500 (EST) From: Erik Troan Reply-To: zoot-list@redhat.com To: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com, COLA submissions Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Zoot) now available! Resent-Date: 27 Mar 2000 13:46:45 -0000 Resent-From: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Red Hat is happy to announce the immediate availability of Red Hat Linux 6.2, Zoot, for the ia32 and SPARC platforms (Alpha is coming, really), with support for French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
You can get your hands on Zoot in many different ways:
1. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2 2. Order one of our many boxed set editions from www.redhat.com (shipping April 10) 3. Buy it at a retail outlet (available April 10) 4. Download from one of our many mirror sites. The following mirrors are known to be complete:
For help with this release of Red Hat Linux, subscribe to the Zoot mailing list by sending a message with a subject of "subscribe" to zoot-list-request@redhat.com, or buy a Red Hat Linux boxed set and take advantage of our support department.
The Zoot development team wishes to thank all of the developers who contributed to this release, our beta testers, and everyone who reported a bug or made a feature request.
Here's a (partial) list of new features in Zoot:
- The system can now be installed onto a loopback file on a FAT filesystem. This allows users to install Red Hat Linux onto an existing partition rather then having to repartition their system.
- The upgrade process recognizes Linux RAID arrays.
- Better rescue mode on CD and NFS, allowing improved disaster recovery.
- Networking services have had their client and server components split into separate packages to improve sysadmin flexibility.
- Pentium III support for improved performance
- Workstation installs no longer install networking daemons
- Many system daemons turned off by default
- MesaGL now included
- All man pages gzip'd
- Added support for/etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrd.d for X startup logic
- Piranha clustering updates
o web based GUI config o 2-node service failover support o generic service monitoring/loadblancing o tunneling and direct routing support for IPVS
- Beowulf-style clustering added
o PVM 3.4.3 (Parallel Virtual Machine) o LAM 6.3.1 (MPI library environment) o make-pvm (PVM aware version of GNU make) o (Please note that mpich-1.2.0 is now part of PowerTools for Red Hat Linux 6.2.)
- Automatic support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM
- ISDN configuration utility added
- Encryption now included! Now that the US more closely resembles a free country, all versions of Red Hat Linux include:
o Kerberos authentication for mutt, pine, fetchmail, cvs, and imap. In addition, the following kerberos-aware versions of the following clients have been added:
o Kerboros network clients included for rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp in krb5-workstation package
o GNOME-based Kerberos configuration tools added
o GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) included
o Netscape with 128-bit encryption included
- More beauteous vim included --/usr/bin/vim supports syntax color and langauge-based indention
- anacron used for many system jobs
- termcap, terminfo, and various terms have been modified to support the Debian Backspace Guidelines for Backspace and Delete, as well as to make Home and End work consistently
- DocBook support included
- Colorized ls by default (remove/etc/profile.d/colorls.* to disable)
http://darklife.org/fte.jpg -- The quality is not that good, I prefered to keep the size down, have a look, I'm using "xfce" as a window manager for the curious.
I have been using "FTE" for several months now, and I absolutely love it!
It features color syntax highlighting for C/C++, HTML,PERL, TEX, and many more, multiple file/window editing, column blocks, configurable menus and keyboard bindings, mouse support, undo/redo, regular expression search and replace, folding, as well as background compiler execution.
Actually I've seen a couple of badly programmed Perl scripts around the world (They at first displayed the year in a two digit format, '99' became -> '100'), looks kindof funny:)
Really. I've seen a couple of people ask if it is okay for people outside the US to post the source on their website. I myself live in an island in the mediterranean -- Cyprus. Can these courts do anything to me?
Re:What's this about the V2OS Filesystem?
on
V2OS under GPL
·
· Score: 1
You are comparing apple and oranges here.
The last time I looked their FS didn't even support directories. Hows that for a filesystem?:)
I'm looking forward to replacing Communicator too... Communicator is just too unstable and has too many bugs.
I hope everyone out there is doing the Right Thing (tm) and reporting any bugs they find. There really is no use in saying "Hey this program is full of bugs" and not doing anything about it, whilst you can. Found a communicator bug?:
Correct me if I am wrong, but since they are going to release the source code someone can easily come along and build support for them directly in the kernel, right?
It doesn't really matter what the new drivers are going to be designed to work with.
Slashdot Mirror
Take for instance the company itraceyou.com. This company provides a free service for users to be able to receive confirmation emails when their email has been opened. I think that would come in useful for anyone of us. Isn't that a ligitimate use for the web bug?
What troubles me more is that they are attempting to patent this (what seems to me), kind of obvious method of receiving a notification when an email is opened.
Visit the company info page for information on the pending patent. Should this actually be granted?
I live in Cyprus that, according to the article, is one of the small countries outside the EU that is "pro-patent".
What exactly can I do in this situation? Just increase the awareness of the issue? If yes, I can easily do that through a slashdot-like site I run about Cyprus. What else? Who exactly should I attempt to contact to influence the vote?
The jargon file seems to prefer "email" however.
The old libc5 RPM from 6.x and 5.x should still work fine if you need it.
This looks interesting.
With this demonstration application you'll see, first-hand the native Linux performance with full Windows functionality available only by using MainWin. We want to take this opportunity to thank Microsoft Corporation for providing the ORIGINAL source code of FreeCell for Windows game.
SDF has been providing a similar kind of service since 1987
You mean like HushMail?
XFree86 4.0 is not in. Check the /RPMS directory for the packages
This message was also sent to me a while ago:
6 .2/ r edhat/redhat-6.2/ a t/redhat-6.2/ h at/redhat-6.2/ - 6.2/ a t-6.2/ d hat.com/redhat-6.2/ r edhat/redhat-6.2/ r edhat-6.2/
/etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrd.d for X startup logic
/usr/bin/vim supports syntax color
/etc/profile.d/colorls.* to disable)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:45:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan
Reply-To: zoot-list@redhat.com
To: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com, COLA submissions
Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Zoot) now available!
Resent-Date: 27 Mar 2000 13:46:45 -0000
Resent-From: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com
Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Red Hat is happy to announce the immediate availability of Red Hat Linux 6.2,
Zoot, for the ia32 and SPARC platforms (Alpha is coming, really), with support
for French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
You can get your hands on Zoot in many different ways:
1. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2
2. Order one of our many boxed set editions from www.redhat.com
(shipping April 10)
3. Buy it at a retail outlet (available April 10)
4. Download from one of our many mirror sites. The following mirrors
are known to be complete:
ftp://ftp.hjc.edu.sg/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2/
ftp://ftp.ip.pt/pub/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/redhat-
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redh
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/red
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/redhat/redhat
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/redh
ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/Linux/redhat/ftp.re
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/
ftp://the-city.seas.upenn.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/
For help with this release of Red Hat Linux, subscribe to the Zoot mailing
list by sending a message with a subject of "subscribe" to
zoot-list-request@redhat.com, or buy a Red Hat Linux boxed set and take
advantage of our support department.
The Zoot development team wishes to thank all of the developers who
contributed to this release, our beta testers, and everyone who reported
a bug or made a feature request.
Here's a (partial) list of new features in Zoot:
- The system can now be installed onto a loopback file on a FAT
filesystem. This allows users to install Red Hat Linux onto an
existing partition rather then having to repartition their system.
- The upgrade process recognizes Linux RAID arrays.
- Better rescue mode on CD and NFS, allowing improved disaster
recovery.
- Networking services have had their client and server components split
into separate packages to improve sysadmin flexibility.
- Pentium III support for improved performance
- Workstation installs no longer install networking daemons
- Many system daemons turned off by default
- MesaGL now included
- All man pages gzip'd
- Added support for
- Piranha clustering updates
o web based GUI config
o 2-node service failover support
o generic service monitoring/loadblancing
o tunneling and direct routing support for IPVS
- Beowulf-style clustering added
o PVM 3.4.3 (Parallel Virtual Machine)
o LAM 6.3.1 (MPI library environment)
o make-pvm (PVM aware version of GNU make)
o (Please note that mpich-1.2.0 is now part of PowerTools for Red Hat
Linux 6.2.)
- Automatic support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM
- ISDN configuration utility added
- Encryption now included! Now that the US more closely resembles
a free country, all versions of Red Hat Linux include:
o Kerberos authentication for mutt, pine, fetchmail,
cvs, and imap. In addition, the following kerberos-aware
versions of the following clients have been added:
o Kerboros network clients included for rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp
in krb5-workstation package
o GNOME-based Kerberos configuration tools added
o GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) included
o Netscape with 128-bit encryption included
- More beauteous vim included --
and langauge-based indention
- anacron used for many system jobs
- termcap, terminfo, and various terms have been modified to support
the Debian Backspace Guidelines for Backspace and Delete, as well
as to make Home and End work consistently
- DocBook support included
- Colorized ls by default (remove
I thought it was illegal to clone people anyway(?).
http://darklife.org/fte.jpg -- The quality is not that good, I prefered to keep the size down, have a look, I'm using "xfce" as a window manager for the curious.
Slashdot has been relatively the same (design-wise) as far back as I can remember.
Are there any plans on a complete re-design to accommodate new features in mind?
(Actually I like the way slashdot is, but it is nice to know were we are going.)
I have been using "FTE" for several months now, and I absolutely love it!
It features color syntax highlighting for C/C++, HTML,PERL, TEX, and many more, multiple file/window editing, column blocks, configurable menus and keyboard bindings, mouse support, undo/redo, regular expression search and replace, folding, as well as background compiler execution.
[Stolen from freshmeat entry-- sue me.]
Visit fte's homepage and give it a try.
They aren't necessary. It is supposidely more fun to work together as a team. Acts as an incentive to process those keys I guess.
Actually I've seen a couple of badly programmed Perl scripts around the world (They at first displayed the year in a two digit format, '99' became -> '100'), looks kindof funny :)
1-1-100
NSI does not power the internet.
[/home/yiango/$ nslookup slashdot.org
Server: platon.cytanet.com.cy
Address: 195.14.133.170
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: slashdot.org
Addresses: 209.207.224.42, 209.207.224.40, 209.207.224.41
---
If something like that does happen, we have the IP addresses of slashdot.org which work just the same.
To : release@mcom.com
Cc :
Attchmnt:
Subject : Re: Here it is, world!
----- Message Text -----
Hi Marc,
Sorry for the late reply, please send me an
updated list of the mirrors, thanks!
>An up-to-date listing of mirror sites can be
>obtained at any time by
>sending email to release@mcom.com.
Would someone please answer this damn question!
Really. I've seen a couple of people ask if it is okay for people outside the US to post the source on their website. I myself live in an island in the mediterranean -- Cyprus. Can these courts do anything to me?
You are comparing apple and oranges here.
:)
The last time I looked their FS didn't even support directories. Hows that for a filesystem?
..
Merry xmas!
I hope everyone out there is doing the Right Thing (tm) and reporting any bugs they find. There really is no use in saying "Hey this program is full of bugs" and not doing anything about it, whilst you can.
Found a communicator bug?:
Help make a better product!
Correct me if I am wrong, but since they are going to release the source code someone can easily come along and build support for them directly in the kernel, right?
It doesn't really matter what the new drivers are going to be designed to work with.
--
telnet www.eros-os.org
Trying 158.130.6.119...
Connected to www.eros-os.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore)
Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586
login:
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Spot the mistake here. Talk about old huh? I hope they upgrade before attackers get to them..
Ohh well
- Yiango
Talk about bad memory huh!?
These proves computers effect our memory!
Well at least they won't make the same mistake twice, don't you agree?
I'm kindof pissed with all these journalists
Okay, those people are going to have thousounds of people emailing them because they were submitted on slashdot.org.
:)
It now goes either two ways.
1. "WOAH, What was that?! Let's bring those slashdot guys over!"
2. Ignore us completely as they are unable to respond to that many emails.
3. We flood AOL from all the emails and their servers crash
Okay, I can't count. I think it's the third one