I copied the source from the (now Slashdotted) page and created an HTML file at http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout/IE_Hack.html for those of you with IE to test it out. If you want, reply to this post and let everyone know if it works with your browser, Windows version, etc.
This is a very troubling security hole for Windows users who prefer IE (99.7% of them).
In fact the belief in the inherent security of Open Source software over proprietary software seems to be the product of a single comparison, Apache versus Microsoft IIS.
No, I'd venture to say that although you are correct in citing IIS' tendency to destroy the Internet every few months when another virus comes out targeted at the Microsoft web server, there are most definitely other pieces of Microsoft proprietary crap that looks pretty lame when compared to its open source or free software counterpart.
CmdrTaco: I have yet to see the more recent episodes, but several of the episodes I have seen have been quite excellent...
She's gotten to you already! And you just officially became non-single at, like, 9:45am this morning!
First, it's "No, honey, instead of watching Stargate or X-Files or whatever TV show that is, let's go to the new arts & crafts show at the mall".
Next, it'll be "Oh, Robby, could you be a doll and clean up the entire house? I'm not feeling too good this week. Don't forget the toilet and the shower."
Then, she'll be saying "Hey sweetie, don't go with Hemos to that Linux show again. You go every single year and I grow so lonely when you're away. Abandon your friends and let's go rent another movie from Blockbuster!
Finally, it may come to "Rob, quit it with that damn Slashdot crap already. And why haven't you changed your vulgar and perverted username yet?!"
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
Shut-up. Just shut-up. You had me at hello. You had me at hello...
I spent a good three minutes making an ASCII heart that says "SAY YES!" over and over again, but your own lameness filter prevented me from posting it, Rob!
Basically they are [going] after scammers offering easy money quick, not the average 'get porn here' type of spam.
I personally feel that the porm spam can be just as deceptive as the EZ $$$ NOW! scams.
I mean, let's be honest -- I'm sure we've all received dozens and dozens of emails saying that someone's site has a ton of free pics and videos of the hottest girls. But generally that's a blatant lie, and the lewd site is a reseller of explicit pornography. They simply tell a fib to get you to click on over to their site, which upon being rendered throws a half-dozen pop-up windows on the desktop.
Let's aim higher rather than just taking out the con artists alone.
That's no weirder math than when I have 50 karma points and post a 4, 5, 3, another 4, another 5, and another 4 and then one of the fives gets marked overrated and I'm back at 49 karma.
For those who want the scoop, there's a video available with the co-founder of this neat little gadget (he also was the inventor of the Palm Pilot that many have come to love).
The formats supported are RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime. It's available in 56k, 100k, and 300k flavors.
I just watched it and thought it was kind of neat.
How did that happen? $401k in 8 months? Am I missing something here?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll bite.
A 401(K) is a savings plan that many employees use to place a small percentage of their income into. Generally, they're tax-sheltered accounts that allow you to invest in a variety of stocks, etc. in order to let your money work for you a bit rather than burn a hole in your pocket.
So, he could have easily had as little as a few thousands dollars in his account that he was forced to live off of while out of work.
Closed source programs like Office are the standard in government (just like in the private sector).
When you have committee after committee that needs to share data, it's beneficial to use one standard so that you spend less time haggling with technological problems and more time on the real work -- governmental issues.
As nice as it would be to see all governmental organizations, agencies, committees, etc. using open source or free software to get their work done, it's not something that will happen overnight (or even this year).
But if the coders keep coding and the zealots keep shouting, they'll hear the voice of reason. Perhaps even just the monetary issue is enough to get them all to switch over.
But many folks may have no idea what effect preemptability actually has upon a user who uses GNU/Linux. Here's the good news:
[] Smoother video
[] Smoother user interface
[] A seemingly more responsive computer
[] Overall smoothness in operation
(reply to this if you'd like to add to my list)
Congrats to Linus for getting this ready so soon, and to those who helped develop it.
Now she's blaming it all on the managment that kicked her out.
Is she bitter?
The short answer is "No".
The longer answer is that Greenspun's own account of Ars' downfall matches hers in a number of ways. They both felt that the venture capitalists made horrible decisions.
I can understand if she's upset that her dream for Ars will never manifest itself, but I doubt she'd stoop so low as to manufacture incidents that never happened just to make herself look good and make others look bad.
From all I've read about them and her, she seems to be a bright and honest person.
Museums like these help to illustrate just how complex modern computers truly are.
You get to journey back into time and put yourself in the shoes of researchers who were trying to figure out how to solve the most complex problems of the day, all while having a newfangled electronic appliance the size of a room do all of the work for you.
In times such as ours where computing for the every day person involves little more than pointing, clicking, and writing IMs or emails, we should all learn to appreciate and marvel at computers.
There's no better way to learn about the current information technology field than by studying the past.
We'd like a Cringely icon, please, to go along with his own section.
You can perform a simple search to see just how many times his material has been posted as a new story on the front of Slashdot.
He's not a God, but he's damn close. His articles are almost always interesting and sometimes he even manages to produce original ideas that are quite captivating.
I don't think I'm the first one to suggest this, either...
It's interesting that in a $9 Billion industry, there's so little money going to Linux gaming.
What's not to understand? If you're comfortable with open source and free software and these packages are all that you use, why would you go out and actually pay for programs when you haven't spent money on software in two, five, or even ten years?
As good of a "service" as it was to have Loki allowing folks to only install one operating system on their machines and be able to play games, their business model just wasn't feasible. Perhaps if they truly understood the mindset of their target consumers and that they just simply weren't going to be paying any money for software, then they would have avoided starting a company and failing soon thereafter.
I realize this will probabyl get modded down to tarnation, but I'm hoping that someone appreciates my opinion as it is and doesn't take it personally. I'm right, people.
DIVX was an original venture by Circuit City to promote discs similar to the ones linked to in this story. They were "play a few times and it's gone", so essentially you were renting a disc that would self-destruct.
DivX;-) on the other hand is merely an encoding scheme for movies that is used frequently by folks with DVDs to save them to secondary storage at around 500MB - 1GB per movie while retaining much of the original video and sound quality.
If I hear one more "didn't they try this with DIVX", or "I thought Circuit City...", etc., I'll inflict harm upon someone in this lab I'm currently sitting in! Inflicting harm is kinda like DIVX, isn't it, but instead of "play once and it's done" it's "punch once and they're done"?
Wow, two sites out of how many thousands (and I'm talking REAL, established dot coms) can break even or slightly profit?
While we're on this topic, please don't reply and say that Amazon is a profitable venture; they get billions of dollars per year and lose all but a couple million.
Slashdot Mirror
I copied the source from the (now Slashdotted) page and created an HTML file at http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout/IE_Hack.html for those of you with IE to test it out. If you want, reply to this post and let everyone know if it works with your browser, Windows version, etc.
This is a very troubling security hole for Windows users who prefer IE (99.7% of them).
Founder, monolinux
Next time search for a good review that's thorough rather than linking to some half-baked MSNBC article.
n ame=News&file=article&sid=670&mode=thread&order=0& thold=0 n ame=News&file=article&sid=667&mode=thread&order=0& thold=0 4 -12-014-26-RV-DT 4 -12-005-26-NW-DT l e=article&sid=1856 l e=article&sid=1848 / 12/1740252 / 11/1459213
The best review out there isn't exactly a top-secret either, as is apparent below.
1] http://www.tuxreports.com/modules.php?op=modload&
2] http://www.tuxreports.com/modules.php?op=modload&
3] http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-0
4] http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-0
5] http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&fi
6] http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&fi
7] http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04
8] http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04
9] http://www.distrowatch.com/index.php
Thanks.
L.A. Times on Game Reviewer 'Playola'
Posted by chrisd on Friday April 12, @01:09AM
Evangelion Reviewed In LA Times
Posted by Hemos on Thursday April 11, @10:46PM
Two posts in a row with "L.A. Times" in the title. They must have some damn good writers or something.
Anyway, I just found this interesting and it's probably a simple coincedence. Off to bed...
:-)
Feeling Lucky?
He should get a monocle first ;-D
Gee, um, just a wild guess, but how about:
opensesame
No, Dare, you're wrong my friend.
In fact the belief in the inherent security of Open Source software over proprietary software seems to be the product of a single comparison, Apache versus Microsoft IIS.
No, I'd venture to say that although you are correct in citing IIS' tendency to destroy the Internet every few months when another virus comes out targeted at the Microsoft web server, there are most definitely other pieces of Microsoft proprietary crap that looks pretty lame when compared to its open source or free software counterpart.
Ever hear of Microsoft Outlook?
No!!!
CmdrTaco: I have yet to see the more recent episodes, but several of the episodes I have seen have been quite excellent...
She's gotten to you already! And you just officially became non-single at, like, 9:45am this morning!
First, it's "No, honey, instead of watching Stargate or X-Files or whatever TV show that is, let's go to the new arts & crafts show at the mall".
Next, it'll be "Oh, Robby, could you be a doll and clean up the entire house? I'm not feeling too good this week. Don't forget the toilet and the shower."
Then, she'll be saying "Hey sweetie, don't go with Hemos to that Linux show again. You go every single year and I grow so lonely when you're away. Abandon your friends and let's go rent another movie from Blockbuster!
Finally, it may come to "Rob, quit it with that damn Slashdot crap already. And why haven't you changed your vulgar and perverted username yet?!"
;-)
My Slashdot Research
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
Shut-up. Just shut-up. You had me at hello. You had me at hello...
How ironic...
I spent a good three minutes making an ASCII heart that says "SAY YES!" over and over again, but your own lameness filter prevented me from posting it, Rob!
Basically they are [going] after scammers offering easy money quick, not the average 'get porn here' type of spam.
I personally feel that the porm spam can be just as deceptive as the EZ $$$ NOW! scams.
I mean, let's be honest -- I'm sure we've all received dozens and dozens of emails saying that someone's site has a ton of free pics and videos of the hottest girls. But generally that's a blatant lie, and the lewd site is a reseller of explicit pornography. They simply tell a fib to get you to click on over to their site, which upon being rendered throws a half-dozen pop-up windows on the desktop.
Let's aim higher rather than just taking out the con artists alone.
Listen To My Latest Recording @ EricKrout.com
That's no weirder math than when I have 50 karma points and post a 4, 5, 3, another 4, another 5, and another 4 and then one of the fives gets marked overrated and I'm back at 49 karma.
;-)
50 + 4 + 5 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 4 - 1 = 49
Now that's weird
For those who want the scoop, there's a video available with the co-founder of this neat little gadget (he also was the inventor of the Palm Pilot that many have come to love).
e ed.jhtml
The formats supported are RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime. It's available in 56k, 100k, and 300k flavors.
I just watched it and thought it was kind of neat.
http://www.handspring.com/products/treo/choose_sp
How did that happen? $401k in 8 months? Am I missing something here?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll bite.
A 401(K) is a savings plan that many employees use to place a small percentage of their income into. Generally, they're tax-sheltered accounts that allow you to invest in a variety of stocks, etc. in order to let your money work for you a bit rather than burn a hole in your pocket.
So, he could have easily had as little as a few thousands dollars in his account that he was forced to live off of while out of work.
Closed source programs like Office are the standard in government (just like in the private sector).
:: I'm The Man Now, Dawg!
When you have committee after committee that needs to share data, it's beneficial to use one standard so that you spend less time haggling with technological problems and more time on the real work -- governmental issues.
As nice as it would be to see all governmental organizations, agencies, committees, etc. using open source or free software to get their work done, it's not something that will happen overnight (or even this year).
But if the coders keep coding and the zealots keep shouting, they'll hear the voice of reason. Perhaps even just the monetary issue is enough to get them all to switch over.
EricKrout.com
But many folks may have no idea what effect preemptability actually has upon a user who uses GNU/Linux. Here's the good news:
:: A Weblog On Crack
[] Smoother video
[] Smoother user interface
[] A seemingly more responsive computer
[] Overall smoothness in operation
(reply to this if you'd like to add to my list)
Congrats to Linus for getting this ready so soon, and to those who helped develop it.
EricKrout.com
She was sacked last October.
Now she's blaming it all on the managment that kicked her out.
Is she bitter?
The short answer is "No".
The longer answer is that Greenspun's own account of Ars' downfall matches hers in a number of ways. They both felt that the venture capitalists made horrible decisions.
I can understand if she's upset that her dream for Ars will never manifest itself, but I doubt she'd stoop so low as to manufacture incidents that never happened just to make herself look good and make others look bad.
From all I've read about them and her, she seems to be a bright and honest person.
Museums like these help to illustrate just how complex modern computers truly are.
You get to journey back into time and put yourself in the shoes of researchers who were trying to figure out how to solve the most complex problems of the day, all while having a newfangled electronic appliance the size of a room do all of the work for you.
In times such as ours where computing for the every day person involves little more than pointing, clicking, and writing IMs or emails, we should all learn to appreciate and marvel at computers.
There's no better way to learn about the current information technology field than by studying the past.
I applaud people like Michael Williams.
Like the state-of-art US ellection system...
At least our election system works better than your spell-checker *wink*
We'd like a Cringely icon, please, to go along with his own section.
You can perform a simple search to see just how many times his material has been posted as a new story on the front of Slashdot.
He's not a God, but he's damn close. His articles are almost always interesting and sometimes he even manages to produce original ideas that are quite captivating.
I don't think I'm the first one to suggest this, either...
It's interesting that in a $9 Billion industry, there's so little money going to Linux gaming.
What's not to understand? If you're comfortable with open source and free software and these packages are all that you use, why would you go out and actually pay for programs when you haven't spent money on software in two, five, or even ten years?
As good of a "service" as it was to have Loki allowing folks to only install one operating system on their machines and be able to play games, their business model just wasn't feasible. Perhaps if they truly understood the mindset of their target consumers and that they just simply weren't going to be paying any money for software, then they would have avoided starting a company and failing soon thereafter.
I realize this will probabyl get modded down to tarnation, but I'm hoping that someone appreciates my opinion as it is and doesn't take it personally. I'm right, people.
Cynics unite! We have a new leader, and he's more grumpy and skeptical than all of us combined!
"This talk is an hour long bitching session for everything that has annoyed me in the last 20 years."
Rock on!
Not if they originally get five billion dollars in venture capital (i.e. for free).
You're confusing the two, my friend.
;-) on the other hand is merely an encoding scheme for movies that is used frequently by folks with DVDs to save them to secondary storage at around 500MB - 1GB per movie while retaining much of the original video and sound quality.
DIVX was an original venture by Circuit City to promote discs similar to the ones linked to in this story. They were "play a few times and it's gone", so essentially you were renting a disc that would self-destruct.
DivX
OK, This is IT!
:-/
If I hear one more "didn't they try this with DIVX", or "I thought Circuit City...", etc., I'll inflict harm upon someone in this lab I'm currently sitting in! Inflicting harm is kinda like DIVX, isn't it, but instead of "play once and it's done" it's "punch once and they're done"?
Sorry, too much caffeine today
Wow, two sites out of how many thousands (and I'm talking REAL, established dot coms) can break even or slightly profit?
While we're on this topic, please don't reply and say that Amazon is a profitable venture; they get billions of dollars per year and lose all but a couple million.