I does not currently support ICQ. ICQ uses a different protocol than AIM does and I would have to write support for that. I am waiting on that to see what AOL does with ICQ since there was a recent announcement to the effect of them being merged.
Yep, Trillian's security is one of the many projects called SecureIM. One of the main reasons I am changing the name of my application.
Once I am happy with the base functionality of my application I am going to look in to making it work with other IM security protocols, or adapt mine to theirs if it's better:)
For the past few weeks I have been writing a program I currently call SecureIM. It is a encrypting proxy server that runs on your computer and allows you to have secure conversations over AIM. It's runs under Win32 and is tested with AIM 4.x and higher and Trillian.
The program will be getting a name change before v1.0 since there are several SecureIMs out there.
Before you flame me about security or what not, please at least have a read of the Readme.txt file where I think I explain pretty well what SecureIM is and isn't capable of.
Quote:/Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper./
So, does he mean real work like running the vast majority of business in the world (like Windows does) or real work like making pretty pictures (like most Macs do) or is it real work like rendering the latest version of Titanic (like Linux does)?
Here's a fun activity! Tomorrow, take Windows away from the world. See how long it takes for everything to be running as smooth as it was yesterday including CEOs being able to access their email. Now, the next day take OSX away and do the same test. For the grand finale try Linux.
It's a simple matter of numbers. How many OSs do you need to reinstall?
The sad part is that this post will get marked as Flamebait. The article itself should have been.
Unless I am sorely mistaken, the kernel that runs OSX is not written in ObjC. While a OS is more than a kernel (as RMS will gladly point out) the bits that talk to the hardware are the important ones and they are not ObjC.
I was paraphrasing for effect but here are the details. I did finish installing RedHat 7.3 by using a USB mouse. After I was done I restarted, plugged in my KVM mouse and tried a few dozen different mouse configurations and none of them worked. Since using the computer I was using Linux on without my KVM is not possible for my daily use I suppose it's not even half as useful. It's useless.
As barjam points out below this is a known bug that has been around for quite a while. It's the simple stuff that makes Linux a worthless desktop like not being able to set up a simple mouse with a KVM (a very common configuration in most server rooms).
A few years back my big gripe was PPP. Do you remember how hard it used to be to get PPP working in Linux 3 years ago? And this was during the big "Linux is so easy my mom can do it!" push.
Linux simply isn't ready for primetime on people's desktops and a TCO report needs to take that into account. I am not saying Windows doesn't have it's flaws (registry, weird crashes, lots of patches) but hey, at least I can use my mouse.
Seriously though folks, there is a reason Windows is expensive as it is. It's part corporate greed, but it's also part quality of product.
I run Linux on quite a few web servers and a database server here and there and I love it for my servers. It's fast, stable and black and white. Just like I like em. I run Windows on my desktops. Recently I decided to install RedHat 7.3 just to see how things were coming on the desktop front. It was pretty smooth, until I decided I wanted to move my mouse, at which point the X installer locked up.
Seems the X mouse drivers can't figure out a plain ol' optical mouse running through a Linksys KVM. I searched and searched to no avail. The mouse just resets over and over, every second or so.
Screw it. Back to the server room with you! Where's my XP CD?
A few other people have mentioned it but I will too. I have a Turtle Beach AudioTron and it totally kicks ass.
As far as features go, it's fairly basic. It plays MP3 and MP3 streams using SMB over Ethernet or phone LAN (whatever that is called). It has a good front panel and remote and a very good web interface.
I've had mine for a bit less than a year and it's been one of my favorite purchases since the day I got it.
If you get (or have) one and use Windows, also check out a little system tray app I wrote called ATTray which makes it quick to control the AT from your computer.
I realize not every experience is the same, but I had LASIK performed about 2 years ago and it's been great. I had miserable vision (don't have prescription before LASIK handy) and when I went back for a checkup one week later I was 20/15. I could tell on the ride home that it had worked as I was able to read license plates and such that I could never see before.
I do experience the halos that some people describe during nighttime driving. It's a little bit of flare around bright sources of light on a dark background but as stupid as it sounds I can't remember if this is how I was before the surgery. Even if I wasn't, it's worth it for me. I do a hell of a lot less nighttime driving than I do daytime seeing. I just recently spent 2 days going to and 2 days returning from Burning Man, driving for 12+ hours at a time and had no problem at all.
Uh, do you not have any utilities coming in to your home? Almost every single utility I have uses SSN and requires it for transactions.
As for your statement. Your employer is not allowed to require your SSN but you are required to provide a way for them to tax you. That can be a tax id or something but doesn't have to be SSN.
The difference is that if a company has a policy then they can choose to not do business with you. If you don't want to provide SSN, well, Long Distance isn't a right.
The DigiMarc stuff I was talking about is at http://www.digimarc.com/ I see a reply below with a pretty simple way to remove one, so like I said it's not fool proof, but it's a little more involved than changing the format. DigiMarc has been around a long time. I am sure there are stronger solutions out there now.
That's not how watermarking works. A good example is the DigiMarc stuff for images. You can crop the image, move hunks of it around, print it out and rescan it and you can still derive the watermark.
Watermarking schemes are not foolproof, but it takes a much larger fool than changing formats to trick em.
This is the exact difference between a hacker, which these guys obviously are, and a "developer". A hacker does something because it intrigues them. In many cases it doesn't need to be done, or doesn't benefit anyone (although I personally think this project does) but the hacker wants to learn and experiment.
It won't be stamped out until the need for email is stamped out. Every single company, no matter how small needs email these days with few exceptions. The problem arises that getting a decent admin, and certainly one that can make a Linux or UNIX server sing does not come cheap. It's much cheaper to pay $5000 (or much less, if you buy it with your boxes) for Exchange and have the one guy that knows a little about computers set it up.
I am actually a Certified Lotus Notes Programmer Thing, it being required for a previous job. I know Notes / Domino inside and out and it doesn't come anywhere close to the ease of use of Outlook.
Outlook is so popular because it's GUI is quite good. (Like many of the MS products). I freely admit that it's storage sucks, it's servers and protocols suck but to the end user that doesn't matter. They want a nice GUI they can use without a tech guy standing over their shoulder and Outlook does provide that.
If you think that you can replicate what Exchange does in "a couple house of time" you have not been at it long enough. There are two excellent reasons that so many people use Exchange.
1) In general, it works out of the box. A company with someone with meager knowledge can set up a fairly complex mail handling system without much help.
2) It does A LOT. In it's most basic configuration it does what you need 10 or more programs in Linux to do, not to mention that most of those 10 don't exist.
Rage against the machine all you want, but when your boss says you will have shared contacts and calendars and your clients will run Windows; find me a solution that comes within miles of the ease of Outlook and Exchange and I'll give you a cookie. Actually, I'll probally give you several thousand dollars.
How is getting something for a period of time for nothing anything like getting half a wheel? If it were anywhere near your analogy it would be, "Here is a working wheel. You can use it for now but eventually you will have to pay or stop using it." In the mean time you save time and effort. It's free.
Any time you get something that benefits you for nothing, even if it's just for a second you are getting it for free. Maybe you can't access the network everywhere in the city, but if you can access it anywhere you have gained something for nothing. That is free.
I just don't see how anyone can do anything but say, "Thanks. That's cool." about this.
Because it nets them grillions of dollars? That's my guess at least. Verant / Sony is a company. They do it all to make money. If people want to sit around and practice virtual jewelcrafting for hours and hours and be charged for it, bring it on!
Not to shock anyone, but pouring Liquid Drano down your throat will cause severe burns, injury and possibly death!
While I don't agree with copy protection on CDs, if the front of the CD says, "Do not play in a PC or a Mac" and you do it then Sony is not "intentionally" crashing your computer.
When you ignore the warnings, bad things happen. Don't do it.
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I does not currently support ICQ. ICQ uses a different protocol than AIM does and I would have to write support for that. I am waiting on that to see what AOL does with ICQ since there was a recent announcement to the effect of them being merged.
Yep, Trillian's security is one of the many projects called SecureIM. One of the main reasons I am changing the name of my application.
:)
Once I am happy with the base functionality of my application I am going to look in to making it work with other IM security protocols, or adapt mine to theirs if it's better
For the past few weeks I have been writing a program I currently call SecureIM. It is a encrypting proxy server that runs on your computer and allows you to have secure conversations over AIM. It's runs under Win32 and is tested with AIM 4.x and higher and Trillian.
:)
If you would like to check out the beta version, it's available at http://www.vonnieda.org/SecureIM
The program will be getting a name change before v1.0 since there are several SecureIMs out there.
Before you flame me about security or what not, please at least have a read of the Readme.txt file where I think I explain pretty well what SecureIM is and isn't capable of.
I hope someone finds some use of it. Enjoy
Quote: /Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work, but it looks pretty cool for minesweeper./
So, does he mean real work like running the vast majority of business in the world (like Windows does) or real work like making pretty pictures (like most Macs do) or is it real work like rendering the latest version of Titanic (like Linux does)?
Here's a fun activity! Tomorrow, take Windows away from the world. See how long it takes for everything to be running as smooth as it was yesterday including CEOs being able to access their email.
Now, the next day take OSX away and do the same test.
For the grand finale try Linux.
It's a simple matter of numbers. How many OSs do you need to reinstall?
The sad part is that this post will get marked as Flamebait. The article itself should have been.
Most of the technical guys I know /are/ fat ass white guys :)
Consider me corrected. My deepest appologies for offending you so deeply.
Dickhead.
Unless I am sorely mistaken, the kernel that runs OSX is not written in ObjC. While a OS is more than a kernel (as RMS will gladly point out) the bits that talk to the hardware are the important ones and they are not ObjC.
I was paraphrasing for effect but here are the details. I did finish installing RedHat 7.3 by using a USB mouse. After I was done I restarted, plugged in my KVM mouse and tried a few dozen different mouse configurations and none of them worked. Since using the computer I was using Linux on without my KVM is not possible for my daily use I suppose it's not even half as useful. It's useless.
As barjam points out below this is a known bug that has been around for quite a while. It's the simple stuff that makes Linux a worthless desktop like not being able to set up a simple mouse with a KVM (a very common configuration in most server rooms).
A few years back my big gripe was PPP. Do you remember how hard it used to be to get PPP working in Linux 3 years ago? And this was during the big "Linux is so easy my mom can do it!" push.
Linux simply isn't ready for primetime on people's desktops and a TCO report needs to take that into account. I am not saying Windows doesn't have it's flaws (registry, weird crashes, lots of patches) but hey, at least I can use my mouse.
Half the price and half as useful!
God, poor karma.
Seriously though folks, there is a reason Windows is expensive as it is. It's part corporate greed, but it's also part quality of product.
I run Linux on quite a few web servers and a database server here and there and I love it for my servers. It's fast, stable and black and white. Just like I like em. I run Windows on my desktops. Recently I decided to install RedHat 7.3 just to see how things were coming on the desktop front. It was pretty smooth, until I decided I wanted to move my mouse, at which point the X installer locked up.
Seems the X mouse drivers can't figure out a plain ol' optical mouse running through a Linksys KVM. I searched and searched to no avail. The mouse just resets over and over, every second or so.
Screw it. Back to the server room with you! Where's my XP CD?
A few other people have mentioned it but I will too. I have a Turtle Beach AudioTron and it totally kicks ass.
As far as features go, it's fairly basic. It plays MP3 and MP3 streams using SMB over Ethernet or phone LAN (whatever that is called). It has a good front panel and remote and a very good web interface.
I've had mine for a bit less than a year and it's been one of my favorite purchases since the day I got it.
If you get (or have) one and use Windows, also check out a little system tray app I wrote called ATTray which makes it quick to control the AT from your computer.
I realize not every experience is the same, but I had LASIK performed about 2 years ago and it's been great. I had miserable vision (don't have prescription before LASIK handy) and when I went back for a checkup one week later I was 20/15. I could tell on the ride home that it had worked as I was able to read license plates and such that I could never see before.
I do experience the halos that some people describe during nighttime driving. It's a little bit of flare around bright sources of light on a dark background but as stupid as it sounds I can't remember if this is how I was before the surgery. Even if I wasn't, it's worth it for me. I do a hell of a lot less nighttime driving than I do daytime seeing. I just recently spent 2 days going to and 2 days returning from Burning Man, driving for 12+ hours at a time and had no problem at all.
Basically, I recommend it. I love my new eyes.
MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?
Nope. Not really.
Uh, do you not have any utilities coming in to your home? Almost every single utility I have uses SSN and requires it for transactions.
As for your statement. Your employer is not allowed to require your SSN but you are required to provide a way for them to tax you. That can be a tax id or something but doesn't have to be SSN.
The difference is that if a company has a policy then they can choose to not do business with you. If you don't want to provide SSN, well, Long Distance isn't a right.
The take over the world of course. Fortunatly they have yet to find any intelligence on the net :)
The DigiMarc stuff I was talking about is at http://www.digimarc.com/
I see a reply below with a pretty simple way to remove one, so like I said it's not fool proof, but it's a little more involved than changing the format.
DigiMarc has been around a long time. I am sure there are stronger solutions out there now.
That's not how watermarking works. A good example is the DigiMarc stuff for images. You can crop the image, move hunks of it around, print it out and rescan it and you can still derive the watermark.
Watermarking schemes are not foolproof, but it takes a much larger fool than changing formats to trick em.
Just out of curiosity, do you consider the fact that BMW makes expensive cars a slap to the face of the poor?
This is the exact difference between a hacker, which these guys obviously are, and a "developer". A hacker does something because it intrigues them. In many cases it doesn't need to be done, or doesn't benefit anyone (although I personally think this project does) but the hacker wants to learn and experiment.
This project is the very definition of hacker.
It won't be stamped out until the need for email is stamped out. Every single company, no matter how small needs email these days with few exceptions. The problem arises that getting a decent admin, and certainly one that can make a Linux or UNIX server sing does not come cheap. It's much cheaper to pay $5000 (or much less, if you buy it with your boxes) for Exchange and have the one guy that knows a little about computers set it up.
I am actually a Certified Lotus Notes Programmer Thing, it being required for a previous job. I know Notes / Domino inside and out and it doesn't come anywhere close to the ease of use of Outlook.
Outlook is so popular because it's GUI is quite good. (Like many of the MS products). I freely admit that it's storage sucks, it's servers and protocols suck but to the end user that doesn't matter. They want a nice GUI they can use without a tech guy standing over their shoulder and Outlook does provide that.
If you think that you can replicate what Exchange does in "a couple house of time" you have not been at it long enough.
There are two excellent reasons that so many people use Exchange.
1) In general, it works out of the box. A company with someone with meager knowledge can set up a fairly complex mail handling system without much help.
2) It does A LOT. In it's most basic configuration it does what you need 10 or more programs in Linux to do, not to mention that most of those 10 don't exist.
Rage against the machine all you want, but when your boss says you will have shared contacts and calendars and your clients will run Windows; find me a solution that comes within miles of the ease of Outlook and Exchange and I'll give you a cookie.
Actually, I'll probally give you several thousand dollars.
How is getting something for a period of time for nothing anything like getting half a wheel?
If it were anywhere near your analogy it would be, "Here is a working wheel. You can use it for now but eventually you will have to pay or stop using it." In the mean time you save time and effort. It's free.
Any time you get something that benefits you for nothing, even if it's just for a second you are getting it for free. Maybe you can't access the network everywhere in the city, but if you can access it anywhere you have gained something for nothing. That is free.
I just don't see how anyone can do anything but say, "Thanks. That's cool." about this.
/If we have to go to trial where the word "windows" will be declared generic, we're prepared to do so."/
Damn that would be sweet. The whole "Windows", "Word", "Office" thing has always pissed me off.
Because it nets them grillions of dollars?
That's my guess at least.
Verant / Sony is a company. They do it all to make money. If people want to sit around and practice virtual jewelcrafting for hours and hours and be charged for it, bring it on!
Not to shock anyone, but pouring Liquid Drano down your throat will cause severe burns, injury and possibly death!
While I don't agree with copy protection on CDs, if the front of the CD says, "Do not play in a PC or a Mac" and you do it then Sony is not "intentionally" crashing your computer.
When you ignore the warnings, bad things happen. Don't do it.