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  1. lol on Fewer Employees + Same Work = Higher Productivity · · Score: 1

    blood soaked murderer with a temper

    wtg

  2. things can be done with its credentials - nop on The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that's the thing you see, trusting the client is plain wrong and assumptions made with that model will get you in trouble.

    plan9 offers a model that doesn't require trusting the client. It runs a dedicated authentication server and a dedicated CPU server and a dedicated file server. The three talk to each other behind the client's back.

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html

  3. why? on Fewer Employees + Same Work = Higher Productivity · · Score: 1

    murderer

  4. er, client / server on The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't need secure clients, you only need secure servers.

    Tell me, what is the compelling business reason for using windows that prevents me from using anything else in a corporate environment?

    There is only one answer (or is it three?):
    "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt"

    And that's one feature we can all do without!

  5. Secstore / Factotum - plan9 on Single Sign-On for Integrated Open-Source Apps? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Fourth Edition of Plan 9 includes a substantially reworked security architecture, described in the USENIX Security 2002 conference paper by Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Sean Quinlan.

    One particular aspect that other operating systems may wish to adopt is our single-signon solution. A process called factotum is used to hold credentials like passwords and public/private keypairs and perform cryptographic operations. Factotum allows clients to speak a variety of cryptographic protocols and therefore legacy application servers can participate in our single-signon system without change and without even knowing it exists.

    The factotum has no direct permanent storage, but rather fetches credentials at startup from a secstore server on the network. To authenticate safely with the secstore, Password Authenticated Key-exchange is used; this implies that the user just has to remember and type one password and passive eavsdroppers or even active malicious intermediaries can not launch even a dictionary attack against the system. The credentials are encrypted for storage on secstore, so even an administrator there would have difficulty reading them.

    To see the code for all this, download the Plan 9 distribution and look in /sys/src/cmd/auth, particularly subdirectories factotum and secstore. The libraries /sys/src/libmp and /sys/src/libsec may also interest you.

    Queries to ehg@lucent.com.
    Copyright © 2002 Lucent Technologies. All rights reserved.

  6. get a degree - try english on Fewer Employees + Same Work = Higher Productivity · · Score: 2

    trolling & insulting for England

  7. I found the URL on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 2

    http://shop.easyspace.com/shop-cgi-bin/easyspace1. cgi

    click on the New.net tab

    and enter fuck and .sport [or one of the others] from the dropdown

  8. my friend tried to register fuck.sport on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 2

    and the auto-generated reply said "that's gone, but fuck.kids is available"
    !!

  9. Re:KDE on Windows, when? on Trolltech Releases Qt 3.1 · · Score: 2

    It's already posix compliant.

    The point i was making is that QT claims to be a cross platform dev environment of which KDE is the flagship so the natural step should be cross platform KDE. I was also being ironic in that KDE is oft accused of Windows cloniness.

    It's not really a product I want. Would be nice to see it live but I don;t have any expectations.

    I'm an Enlightenment and plan9 user anyway. I like my desktops empty not crammed with silly little pictures.

  10. KDE on Windows, when? on Trolltech Releases Qt 3.1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know it will cygwin but :

    "With the release of Qt 3.1, customers who use Qt for Microsoft Windows development can now use Qt with ActiveX."

    When can I expect a native KDE ?

    Their html is weird too
    <title>Trolltech - Title</title>

  11. grind to a halt - only if the don't spend on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's the movement and consumption of money that creates wealth.
    The $100 isn't destroyed it's displaced.

    Spam creates jobs and your time contributes. You should be pleased that you are helping out just by pressing delete occasionally.

  12. what the market can bear on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 2

    not the price of manufacture / production

    You don't think you get to be the richest person in the world with "cost of production + 10%" do you?

  13. try looking at web pages on Finding an Ad Management System? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    mostly people seem to use javascript these days

    That way the pages themselves can be cached / static and the ads rotate themselves.
    This also helps with tracking as the script that generates the javascript can log the ads.

    Generating traffic via search engines is important.
    Your URL scheme is an important consideration.
    I use mod_perl to take the url and set environment variables which then tell the page generation code which page to generate. Similar to having a query string but my pages are called comething nice like

    http://www.thebigchoice.com/Graduate_Jobs/Teleco mm unications/Nutts_Corner/

    rather than

    http://www.thebigchoice.com/jobsearch.php?discip li neID=5&region=7

  14. Params - noooooooo on Finding an Ad Management System? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not search engine friendly

    spider :
    http://website/makepage.x?page=1 : ok
    http://website/makepage.x?page=2 : skipping - repeat
    http://website/makepage.x?page=3 : skipping - repeat
    http://website/makepage.x?page=4 : skipping - repeat

  15. they modded the post not the person on OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX · · Score: 2

    well, in theory.

    As you rightly point out, redundant is appropriate so what's the problem?

    Moderation is, conceptually, to categorize the pages on behalf of the reader; not manipulate the ego of the poster.

  16. so you 8) when Bill stole it on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 3, Informative

    the future of winzip is basically death since zip compression in browsing s built into xp

    pkzip is still a command line utility elsewhere

    drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 11 09:06 /var/db/pkg/pkzip-2.5

  17. turn it on it's head on Microsoft Responds to Leaked Memo · · Score: 2

    Like someone said about TV
    "the product is not the programmes but the viewers"

    so customer value can refer to the value of the customer not of the Microsoft product line

  18. There were people executed - but for theft on Magnetic Poles May Be About To Flip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here in Nottingham if you stole more then the value of a loaf of bread you were hung on the courthouse steps (the fittings for the gallows are still there).

    Less than that and you were transported.

    The courthouse is a museum now.

    Admittedly the law wasn't created to specifically deal with the poor but their lives were held in contempt. TBH if you survived the journey and lived out your sentence you probably ended up better off than back in Nottingham but still, not everyone did.

    Whatever you want to call it, it was akin to genocide / slavery and it's a great injustice to those unfortunates and their antipodean descendents to be branded as criminals rather than victims.

  19. It's been on TV every day for the past year on Open the Iris: Stargate SG1 Confirms Season 7 · · Score: 1

    tis getting a bit old

    the kids are fed up of it

  20. A lot of people don't grow food and they survive on Magnetic Poles May Be About To Flip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but take away their infrastructure and they will start struggling.

    Take a look at the early Industrial Revolution Cities in England. So overcrowded a plan was needed.
    The solution : criminalisation of poverty. That way the poor could be killed or transported.

    The sudden loss of computing would be totally devastating in the short term. And for mnay of us that could be as long as we live.

  21. Let's not forget JS, VBS & JSCRIPT on W3C Releases Drafts For DOM L2 And More · · Score: 2

    Javascript was a Netscape invention.

    Hows about that for non-standard!

    My first introduction to the DOM and Scripting was builing an I.E.4 Based VB Script application for Boots The Chemist Intranet. That's about as non-standard as you can get. The VBS/JS step debugger in Visual Studio was useful if you could get it going.

    These days there are few differences between the different javascript/dom. (getting xml documents without screen refreshes is unfortunately one of them *sigh*). My favoured route is develop in Mozilla then test in I.E. I've done a drag and drop HTML email editor that works in Moz IE & Opera. The scope of Javascript doesn't really get excercised as far as I've seen round the web.

  22. er, yes. on W3C Releases Drafts For DOM L2 And More · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://validator.w3.org

    Is a great tool.

    If your code is valid HTML then if anyone complains that their X browser doesn't render it properly that's your first point of defense.

  23. Just because you don't feel the need .... on W3C Releases Drafts For DOM L2 And More · · Score: 1

    I use it to help cache my site.
    The banner rotation is via js so that the main page can be cached.
    (but not annoying pop-up/unders - some of us realise they are a detraction).
    Our banners don't link to any external sites.
    The banner is part of the web frame of reference.

    We have over 500 pages of content so I'm sure you'll excuse us our right to present deep links on our main page.

  24. No need - they have Passport on W3C Releases Drafts For DOM L2 And More · · Score: 2

    Here in the UK the Govt. has snuggled up nicely and they rolling out IE Only Govt. Services.

    Changing headers is no use in that scenario

  25. Luckily Magnetic Signatures are Infallable on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 4, Insightful

    cos you can't buy magnets anywhere