I have an AES-encrypted ext3 partition on some portable drive somewhere (using the encrypted loopback device) and I once had the impression that it has the same problem, just XORing every sector with the same 512-bit key. Am I the onlt one? I don't have the drive here right now to check it out, unfortunately..
It can't be that hard to remove/ignore.. Or does it hook into other browsers than MSIE as well?
But still, that thing is indeed a little bit disappointing. I'm not sure if OpenDNS has the right to call it spyware though. It seems to fit the definition of adware. But like this, OpenDNS can see everything that's supposed to go to google.com. And IMHO, a truly paranoid person should trust OpenDNS as much as he/she trusts Google... Pot, kettle?
> You'd have to edit the cache so that the new key matches though (because it won't be the same one).
Heck, when you have enough access to a machine to change its DNS settings, you have enough access to flush the cache or to just disable all SSL safety checks.
> They link it up with private data held by other companies, and then they sell it to other ad companies, who then go on to pester you, perhaps send you target you with potentially embarrassing ads. Or they sell the info to prospective employers.
Have you ever actually seen proof that this happens? Whenever I see ads on GMail they're related to the mail I'm currently reading. It's not much different from the AdSense ads.
I use IRC because it's simple, and because I can easily run it anywhere that I like. Typically, I run it in a screen on my colo. I've never found a satisfactory IM client that runs in a console, so I've never much been a fan of them.
The string "died in a blogging accident" actually has to be in the link to the comic. Most people probably used a different link text like "today's xkcd comic". As long as computers don't understand natural languages, it'll have to be like that.
I wanted to buy it, but was a bit disappointed when it insisted on me filling in my full name-, address- and telephone informaiton. Why do they need that if I'm just going to pay (or not) and download it?
"The primary reason for the change was the fact that in April 1997 Xerox had sued PalmSource, Inc. over its use of Graffiti. After a legal fight lasting a number of years, and despite the dismissal of the case by a federal judge, Xerox won a reversal late in 2001 in the U.S. Court of Appeals."
However, Googling for "graffiti 2 xerox" also gives you this El Reg article where it looks like Xerox didn't really own Graffiti 1 at all...
Interesting to know this. I (and many more, I suppose) always thought Graffiti 2 was there to attract more people who don't understand steep learning curves can have advantages in the long term. It keeps annoying me how typing TT in Jot gets converted to " all the time if I don't want for at least a second before writing the next T (IIRC).
> so that the music punches through when it competes against background noise in pubs or cars
WTF, in pubs the music *is* the background noise! I go there to hang out with people, not to be deafened by music. I'll do that at home or at concerts, thank you...
Can you reproduce this on a different machine? To me it sounds like good old filre system corruption. He should check dmesg when this happens. Linux usually remounts a fs r/o when it seems to be broken.
So how am I supposed to keep that a secret? Wear a mask and sunglasses when I go to work? Because there's this big sign in the window that says GOOGLE. So then I should make sure that at least people don't recognize me.:-)
I'm not going to say they are the one and only saviour, but things like the Summer of Code certainly help. I also have some colleagues working on GCC, all improvements go straight to the FSF. I'm not voiding my NDA here, because it's visible for anyone. And of course there are some kernel hackers like Andew Morton working there.
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Yes, and the people who teamed up with Microsoft and ran an anti-Unix campaign. Not sure how anti-Linux it was though..
I have an AES-encrypted ext3 partition on some portable drive somewhere (using the encrypted loopback device) and I once had the impression that it has the same problem, just XORing every sector with the same 512-bit key. Am I the onlt one? I don't have the drive here right now to check it out, unfortunately..
It can't be that hard to remove/ignore.. Or does it hook into other browsers than MSIE as well?
But still, that thing is indeed a little bit disappointing. I'm not sure if OpenDNS has the right to call it spyware though. It seems to fit the definition of adware. But like this, OpenDNS can see everything that's supposed to go to google.com. And IMHO, a truly paranoid person should trust OpenDNS as much as he/she trusts Google... Pot, kettle?
> We should all go back to remembering the dot-quads of the sites we know are safe, the way it was in the good old days.
You're going to love the day IPv4 gets abandoned in favour of IPv6...
> You'd have to edit the cache so that the new key matches though (because it won't be the same one).
Heck, when you have enough access to a machine to change its DNS settings, you have enough access to flush the cache or to just disable all SSL safety checks.
> They link it up with private data held by other companies, and then they sell it to other ad companies, who then go on to pester you, perhaps send you target you with potentially embarrassing ads. Or they sell the info to prospective employers.
Have you ever actually seen proof that this happens? Whenever I see ads on GMail they're related to the mail I'm currently reading. It's not much different from the AdSense ads.
Google makes good money from selling statistics on the words used in e-mails and IM.
That's interesting. How do you know that?
I use IRC because it's simple, and because I can easily run it anywhere that I like. Typically, I run it in a screen on my colo. I've never found a satisfactory IM client that runs in a console, so I've never much been a fan of them.
:-)
I don't usually plug my own product, but maybe BitlBee is what you're looking for. At least it has exactly the UI you need.
there isn't anything WRONG with AIM
.. this announcement is awesome for anyone who ever wrote an IM client.
Read the OSCAR (AIM/ICQ protocol) specs and think again
You know what I still don't get? Why's everyone acting like dividing a CPU into several separate cores is a good thing?
AFAIK adding more MHz was getting more and more complicated, so it was time to try a new trick.
IIRC this is done in mainframes for *ages* already...
The string "died in a blogging accident" actually has to be in the link to the comic. Most people probably used a different link text like "today's xkcd comic". As long as computers don't understand natural languages, it'll have to be like that.
> My question is why are the logs in ASCII text format? When all you want is say the IP [4 bytes]
:-)
Congratulations, you have just decided to go for a log format that will cause you a lot of pain in the transition to IPv6!
For a moment I thought you wrote "massaging the beta". Which would make perfect sense as well in this context. :-)
I wanted to buy it, but was a bit disappointed when it insisted on me filling in my full name-, address- and telephone informaiton. Why do they need that if I'm just going to pay (or not) and download it?
Ah yeah, from the Graffiti 2 Wikipedia page:
"The primary reason for the change was the fact that in April 1997 Xerox had sued PalmSource, Inc. over its use of Graffiti. After a legal fight lasting a number of years, and despite the dismissal of the case by a federal judge, Xerox won a reversal late in 2001 in the U.S. Court of Appeals."
However, Googling for "graffiti 2 xerox" also gives you this El Reg article where it looks like Xerox didn't really own Graffiti 1 at all...
Interesting to know this. I (and many more, I suppose) always thought Graffiti 2 was there to attract more people who don't understand steep learning curves can have advantages in the long term. It keeps annoying me how typing TT in Jot gets converted to " all the time if I don't want for at least a second before writing the next T (IIRC).
So if that doesn't match the patent, then what does the vacation auto-responder in GMail and all the other services do what vacation(1) didn't?
Wow, that's pretty cool! Too bad that the image will expire in two months. :-(
> so that the music punches through when it competes against background noise in pubs or cars
WTF, in pubs the music *is* the background noise! I go there to hang out with people, not to be deafened by music. I'll do that at home or at concerts, thank you...
Most likely it only works in the US. If you're somewhere else and can't see it yet, just try searching via a US server.
Probably because nobody understood what Froogle means. (Mainly non-English speakers, possibly.) Too bad, Froogle was a nice name. :-(
Can you reproduce this on a different machine? To me it sounds like good old filre system corruption. He should check dmesg when this happens. Linux usually remounts a fs r/o when it seems to be broken.
Ah, like me?
:-)
So how am I supposed to keep that a secret? Wear a mask and sunglasses when I go to work? Because there's this big sign in the window that says GOOGLE. So then I should make sure that at least people don't recognize me.
I'm not going to say they are the one and only saviour, but things like the Summer of Code certainly help. I also have some colleagues working on GCC, all improvements go straight to the FSF. I'm not voiding my NDA here, because it's visible for anyone. And of course there are some kernel hackers like Andew Morton working there.
Oops, that's not very nice. What if you log into your GMail account, shouldn't Orkut automatically recognize you too then?