The company I work for (BaaN) suffered from the trojan as well. The email network is down (Exchange) as I type. The problem here: everybody uses one shared addressbook with over 4000 (!!) mail adresses. You can image what happens if the trojan gets hold of this...
Most of the correspondence goes through email around here (because we have departments all over the world) so you can image the damage.
And people ask me why I always ssh to my server to start pine.... *grin*
Hmm, interesting. It seems we've got ourselfs a new category: upgrades. About the problem: I think a multiprocessor would perform best, a cheap board wich 4 cheap celerons outperforms a 1Ghz Athlon, but your program's need to be written for multiprocessors.
When browsing the C'T site, my eye fell on the following: http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml. A page with the contents of the next C'T. It includes the line: DVD:Videos mit versteckten Botschaften Translation: Video's with hidden images. This looks very, very real to me. I haven't seen this issue in the stores yet, and I now honestly think that this article will show up in that issue. From the site search:
2. Gerald Himmelein, Jürgen Schmidt: (ju) Subtile Subtitel Versteckte Botschaften auf DVDs Report, Subliminale Botschaften auf DVDs, DVD, DeCSS, Subliminale Werbung c't 7/00, Seite 42
So, are there still people who think this is just a hoax??
Wung arkg, Kyvatba? [ Lvahk ] Pbfgrq ol rzzrgg ba Sng Acevy 01, 14:10 sebz gur gung-znxr-n-orbjhys-ynetr-gb ertebhc qrcg. Eyyra Screghf jevgrf " gur uvfgbel bs gur zhfrhz bs gur Cragre pnyphyngvat, fvghngrq gb gur svryq bs Mbssrgg va gur Mbhagnva Vvrj, vf gb fcbafbe frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs Brbjhys-Cynff pnyyrq gnyx: A Precrpgvir Sgbevpb' frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs Brbjhys-Cynff pnyyrq gnyx: Oar uvfgbevpny Precrpgvir' tvira sebz Tubznf Sgreyvat, gung gur fdhner bs gur NASA unf yrnq gung unf qrirybcrq gb gur svefg frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs gur Brbjhys-pbqr pngrtbel naq vf gur Cb-nhgube Hbj va beqre gb pbafgehpg bar Brbjhys. Tur gnyx jvyy unccra gur riravat bs guhefqnl, 13
duffbeer writes: "There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha. In addition, they have a schedue for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expcted with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit." Apparently it will break some code. The release notes describe them as "folkore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out an ambitious roadmap toward Python 3000
Hmm, Apple will give the copyright to the FSF, but will that mean that it's automatical released under the GPL (or another free licence)?? I'me not really familiar with the apple-patches, but if they're only patches I'd think that they would fall under the licence the GCC package has (that would be GPL).
If you (a campus sysop) really want to throttle down the bandwidth used by napster, why don't you install a traffic shaper? A fast x86 with linux will do the trick for a subnet with approx. 200/300 clients. Ofcourse, users can enter a different data-port, but with a little packet-sniffing the shaper could detect this and limit that users bandwidth.
Hmm, when I first heard of napster, I've spend hours and hours finding a linux version. That was quite some months ago and there was only one: 'nap', which was closed-source and not very usefull. Fortunately there now are a zillion napster-clients that are open source (knapster, gnapster, gnome-napster, jnapster, etc. etc. etc.). Knowing this, I was a little surprised when I read to following in the ZDnet article:
Also, it was pretty difficult because I had a background in Unix development, but it was really my first Windows application. I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
Now this is weird. A true unix-developper creates a windows program (ok, that is possible:) but then he doesn't release a unix version? Why has he switched to windows-only? I mean, if you still have to learn the windows api an then write a successfull program like this, it shouldn't be too hard to make an official port to unix.
Ok, nice that it's a PDA running linux, but what can this thing do? What kind of display does it have, what kind of in/output capabilities? (i'd love to run QuakeWorld on one of those...;)
btw: it isn't a slow link at all, at least, for people living in the Netherlands.
Being a Dutch amateur-astronomer, the news of a Dutch radiotelescope looking for the Mars Polar Lander sounded nice to me. Finally a small country like the Netherlands can help a large organisation like NASA finding one of their landers. Unfortuneally the Netherlands is a small country which is very high populated, so the amount of background interference is very high. We sometimes want to take a telescope out of the city to watch nebulas etc. but background interference is everywhere. If you look at air-photographs of Holland during night, you see one big light. That's probably the reason that our radio-telescope didn't find anything: a signal so faint as the one expected from the Mars Polar Lander is undetectable around here:((
This isn't a real surprise for me. I've been using suse from version 6.0 (i've had 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 & 6.3 till now) and I think it's better than RedHat. I've seen somebody mention the X efforts from SuSE as as comment, but that isn't the only thing. For users with ISDN SuSE is the best distro available. Also, I think it's both great for workstations and servers. Yast is a really great tool for administrating your computer if you don't like editting scripts, but that can still be done. The last time I editted my sendmail.cf YaST warned me with a message like: You seem to have editted your/etc/sendmail.cf. You can find my version in/etc/sendmail.cf.YAST (or something like that). I do have some experience with redhat, but I think SuSE just outperforms RedHat on a couple of points.
This is the first version of wine that allows me to run Napster, winamp (!!!) and FreeAgent. It seems to mee that the wine-developpers are finally far enough to release a pre-production version.
Recently, I've written some code (perl) for an ircbot a friend of mine made. He had added a little ai routine that could anwser yes/no questions (remember Pitr (userfriendly) writing an AI subroutine? That algorithm...:)
I think writing a REAL ai-subroutine would be far more challenging. Also the language you use could be very important. Using regular expressions in perl, you might be able to 'recognise' structure in sentences, and write an intelligent reply.
Another possibility is a neural net. Make a bot, implement a neural net, and let the boit join a channel where normal english is spoken. Then train, train, train and train (leave your bot online for about 3 months) and maybe it can reproduce sentences that actually make sence.
Verisign is the world's largest SSL Certificate issuer, with 60% of the market, with Thawte the second-largest, with about 40%. Combined, they own 99% of the market After all those Microsoft Anti-trust stuff on/., I really expected this to be under a 'monopoly' headline. I don't have much experience with Certificates issued by verisign (I always sign my own ones) but I think it's a Bad Thing (tm) that one company owns 99% of whatever market you like. How is it possible that Versign is allowed to do this?
Sure:) Course not, I just typed it because I thougt you guys wouldn't know what Holland is if I didn't mention tulips and wooden shoos:) If you ever visit the Netherlands, don't be surprised to see 0.000001% of the population with wooden shoos and 500 others types of flowers in the flower-shops:) I've never really tasted flowers, but some people say they are great. I personally prefer steak with french fries;-) Thank you for your reply, it now is perfectly clear to me that Americans (or wherever you're from) just beleave anything a foreigner says;-)
Ok, I admit, I submitted. It could be the fact that I'm from Holland (nope, not Michigan, just that little country somewhere in europe where they wear wooden shoes and eat tulips;) and I don't understand the expression. AFAIK my uncle doesn't even know where the powerswich of his son's computer is, so I don't think he submitted a post about a new kernel;)
Why doesn't this come as a big surprise? Actually, this article shouldn't get any more comments than this one. Everybody already knows that open-source security models have the future, so is there really a point in debating all this again?
Not distributing a full code release does have a major benefit above releasing it entirely, but it also isn't perfect. The nice thing about the Full Release of Quake 1 is that you can compile the entire game with pgcc (Pentium GCC) optimized for your pentium, k6, ppro, whatever. At first, you might not notice major speed improvements, but after playing for 3 hours or so (quakeworld multiplayer with 5 opponents) I can really say that the game is a lot smoother. With UT you can't compile the entire shitload of code, just (as far as I've looked at it) a very small part. Ofcourse, I agree, it's the only way to prevent cheating, but it isn't perfect either!
I've always loved LEGO (since I was 5 or so) and when if first heard about Mindstorms I almost went insane. I've bought that they-say-it's-programmable-but-in-fact-it-isn't control station but when I first started programming (when I was 12) that just didn't attract me any more. After all, I'me glad I started programming C, but lego still has a 'special place in my heart'. This slashdot article brought the entire feeling back. It makes me want to run to the nearest toy-store and buy that Mindstorms set. (too bad it's sunday and 0:34 Am;). Can anyone tell me how far this Mindstorms-programming thing goes? Might it actually be possible to create your own Aibo??;)) (those things are neat!!:)
I haven't got the faintest idea:) I just posted it because I thought it would be fun, and I saw the moderation points rising and rising. I almost fell of my chair laughing when I saw the 'informative':))
You only have to put this in a while (1==1) loop (and remove the ~/.lynxcookies file) and withing 10 minutes linux wil be on 4.9, 4.9,4.9, 4.9 with 100.000 votes:-))
If you want to measure how good an OS is, dont use polls! The stats show that linux is most voted for, so I can only draw one conclusion about it. Every linux-user I know says that it's the best OS they've ever used, especially the ones wyo use it as a server. So, if all people who voted for linux really used it, linux should be on top. This sure looks like voting-pollution to me!
If you really want to measure how good an OS is than test it (okay, not a mindcraft-you-give-the-results-we-give-the-test kind of test, but a fair one). This kind of subjective polls shouldn't get as much media attention as they get now.
Cnet has an interesting page right now: a list of webcams which are pointed to partys al around the world. The first is Gisborne, in New-zealand. So you try to click the link http://www.2000-live.com/SmallCam/ and what do you get? "Netscape's network connection was refused by the server www.2000-live.com. The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy.". I miss the "the server could be affected by the Y2K bug" text:)
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The company I work for (BaaN) suffered from the trojan as well. The email network is down (Exchange) as I type. The problem here: everybody uses one shared addressbook with over 4000 (!!) mail adresses. You can image what happens if the trojan gets hold of this ...
.... *grin*
Most of the correspondence goes through email around here (because we have departments all over the world) so you can image the damage.
And people ask me why I always ssh to my server to start pine
... about 30 minutes to 1 hour ...
Hmm, interesting. It seems we've got ourselfs a new category: upgrades.
About the problem: I think a multiprocessor would perform best, a cheap board wich 4 cheap celerons outperforms a 1Ghz Athlon, but your program's need to be written for multiprocessors.
When browsing the C'T site, my eye fell on the following: http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml. A page with the contents of the next C'T. It includes the line:
DVD:Videos mit versteckten Botschaften
Translation: Video's with hidden images. This looks very, very real to me. I haven't seen this issue in the stores yet, and I now honestly think that this article will show up in that issue. From the site search:
2. Gerald Himmelein, Jürgen Schmidt: (ju)
Subtile Subtitel
Versteckte Botschaften auf DVDs
Report, Subliminale
Botschaften auf DVDs, DVD, DeCSS, Subliminale Werbung
c't 7/00, Seite 42
So, are there still people who think this is just a hoax??
Wung arkg, Kyvatba? [ Lvahk ] Pbfgrq ol rzzrgg ba Sng Acevy 01, 14:10 sebz gur gung-znxr-n-orbjhys-ynetr-gb ertebhc qrcg. Eyyra Screghf jevgrf " gur uvfgbel bs gur zhfrhz bs gur Cragre pnyphyngvat, fvghngrq gb gur svryq bs Mbssrgg va gur Mbhagnva Vvrj, vf gb fcbafbe frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs Brbjhys-Cynff pnyyrq gnyx: A Precrpgvir Sgbevpb' frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs Brbjhys-Cynff pnyyrq gnyx: Oar uvfgbevpny Precrpgvir' tvira sebz Tubznf Sgreyvat, gung gur fdhner bs gur NASA unf yrnq gung unf qrirybcrq gb gur svefg frevrf bs trnef bs gur PC bs gur Brbjhys-pbqr pngrtbel naq vf gur Cb-nhgube Hbj va beqre gb pbafgehpg bar Brbjhys. Tur gnyx jvyy unccra gur riravat bs guhefqnl, 13
duffbeer writes: "There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha. In addition, they have a schedue for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expcted with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit." Apparently it will break some code. The release notes describe them as "folkore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out an ambitious roadmap toward Python 3000
Hmm, Apple will give the copyright to the FSF, but will that mean that it's automatical released under the GPL (or another free licence)?? I'me not really familiar with the apple-patches, but if they're only patches I'd think that they would fall under the licence the GCC package has (that would be GPL).
Can anyone shed some light on this?
If you (a campus sysop) really want to throttle down the bandwidth used by napster, why don't you install a traffic shaper? A fast x86 with linux will do the trick for a subnet with approx. 200/300 clients.
Ofcourse, users can enter a different data-port, but with a little packet-sniffing the shaper could detect this and limit that users bandwidth.
It really isn't so hard to implement
Knowing this, I was a little surprised when I read to following in the ZDnet article:
Now this is weird. A true unix-developper creates a windows program (ok, that is possible
Strange
--
Ok, nice that it's a PDA running linux, but what can this thing do? What kind of display does it have, what kind of in/output capabilities? (i'd love to run QuakeWorld on one of those ... ;)
btw: it isn't a slow link at all, at least, for people living in the Netherlands.
Being a Dutch amateur-astronomer, the news of a Dutch radiotelescope looking for the Mars Polar Lander sounded nice to me. Finally a small country like the Netherlands can help a large organisation like NASA finding one of their landers. :((
Unfortuneally the Netherlands is a small country which is very high populated, so the amount of background interference is very high. We sometimes want to take a telescope out of the city to watch nebulas etc. but background interference is everywhere. If you look at air-photographs of Holland during night, you see one big light. That's probably the reason that our radio-telescope didn't find anything: a signal so faint as the one expected from the Mars Polar Lander is undetectable around here
This isn't a real surprise for me. I've been using suse from version 6.0 (i've had 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 & 6.3 till now) and I think it's better than RedHat. I've seen somebody mention the X efforts from SuSE as as comment, but that isn't the only thing. /etc/sendmail.cf. You can find my version in /etc/sendmail.cf.YAST (or something like that).
For users with ISDN SuSE is the best distro available. Also, I think it's both great for workstations and servers. Yast is a really great tool for administrating your computer if you don't like editting scripts, but that can still be done. The last time I editted my sendmail.cf YaST warned me with a message like:
You seem to have editted your
I do have some experience with redhat, but I think SuSE just outperforms RedHat on a couple of points.
This is the first version of wine that allows me to run Napster, winamp (!!!) and FreeAgent.
It seems to mee that the wine-developpers are finally far enough to release a pre-production version.
Recently, I've written some code (perl) for an ircbot a friend of mine made. He had added a little ai routine that could anwser yes/no questions (remember Pitr (userfriendly) writing an AI subroutine? That algorithm ... :)
I think writing a REAL ai-subroutine would be far more challenging. Also the language you use could be very important. Using regular expressions in perl, you might be able to 'recognise' structure in sentences, and write an intelligent reply.
Another possibility is a neural net. Make a bot, implement a neural net, and let the boit join a channel where normal english is spoken. Then train, train, train and train (leave your bot online for about 3 months) and maybe it can reproduce sentences that actually make sence.
Verisign is the world's largest SSL Certificate issuer, with 60% of the market, with Thawte the second-largest, with about 40%. Combined, they own 99% of the market /., I really expected this to be under a 'monopoly' headline.
After all those Microsoft Anti-trust stuff on
I don't have much experience with Certificates issued by verisign (I always sign my own ones) but I think it's a Bad Thing (tm) that one company owns 99% of whatever market you like. How is it possible that Versign is allowed to do this?
Sure :) :) :) ;-) ;-)
Course not, I just typed it because I thougt you guys wouldn't know what Holland is if I didn't mention tulips and wooden shoos
If you ever visit the Netherlands, don't be surprised to see 0.000001% of the population with wooden shoos and 500 others types of flowers in the flower-shops
I've never really tasted flowers, but some people say they are great. I personally prefer steak with french fries
Thank you for your reply, it now is perfectly clear to me that Americans (or wherever you're from) just beleave anything a foreigner says
Ok, I admit, I submitted. It could be the fact that I'm from Holland (nope, not Michigan, just that little country somewhere in europe where they wear wooden shoes and eat tulips ;) and I don't understand the expression. ;)
AFAIK my uncle doesn't even know where the powerswich of his son's computer is, so I don't think he submitted a post about a new kernel
Why doesn't this come as a big surprise?
Actually, this article shouldn't get any more comments than this one. Everybody already knows that open-source security models have the future, so is there really a point in debating all this again?
Not distributing a full code release does have a major benefit above releasing it entirely, but it also isn't perfect. The nice thing about the Full Release of Quake 1 is that you can compile the entire game with pgcc (Pentium GCC) optimized for your pentium, k6, ppro, whatever. At first, you might not notice major speed improvements, but after playing for 3 hours or so (quakeworld multiplayer with 5 opponents) I can really say that the game is a lot smoother.
With UT you can't compile the entire shitload of code, just (as far as I've looked at it) a very small part. Ofcourse, I agree, it's the only way to prevent cheating, but it isn't perfect either!
I've always loved LEGO (since I was 5 or so) and when if first heard about Mindstorms I almost went insane. I've bought that they-say-it's-programmable-but-in-fact-it-isn't control station but when I first started programming (when I was 12) that just didn't attract me any more. ;). ;)) (those things are neat!! :)
After all, I'me glad I started programming C, but lego still has a 'special place in my heart'. This slashdot article brought the entire feeling back. It makes me want to run to the nearest toy-store and buy that Mindstorms set. (too bad it's sunday and 0:34 Am
Can anyone tell me how far this Mindstorms-programming thing goes? Might it actually be possible to create your own Aibo??
I haven't got the faintest idea :) :))
I just posted it because I thought it would be fun, and I saw the moderation points rising and rising. I almost fell of my chair laughing when I saw the 'informative'
Hmm, what exactly is this? Does it mean that I can route my network with my microwave?? :)
Okay, take a *nix box and type:
5 &CR3=5&CR4=5&CID=11997&P DID=5281"
:-))
lynx -accept_all_cookies -source "http://www.deja.com/rate/user_rate.xp?CR1=5&CR2=
You only have to put this in a while (1==1) loop (and remove the ~/.lynxcookies file) and withing 10 minutes linux wil be on 4.9, 4.9,4.9, 4.9 with 100.000 votes
Hey people, wake up!
If you want to measure how good an OS is, dont use polls! The stats show that linux is most voted for, so I can only draw one conclusion about it.
Every linux-user I know says that it's the best OS they've ever used, especially the ones wyo use it as a server. So, if all people who voted for linux really used it, linux should be on top. This sure looks like voting-pollution to me!
If you really want to measure how good an OS is than test it (okay, not a mindcraft-you-give-the-results-we-give-the-test kind of test, but a fair one). This kind of subjective polls shouldn't get as much media attention as they get now.
Cnet has an interesting page right now: a list of webcams which are pointed to partys al around the world. :)
The first is Gisborne, in New-zealand. So you try to click the link http://www.2000-live.com/SmallCam/ and what do you get? "Netscape's network connection was refused by the server www.2000-live.com. The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy.".
I miss the "the server could be affected by the Y2K bug" text