The legislation would skyrocket production costs for Microsoft if the company were forced to release foolproof products.
Why would this happen? Car manufacturers used the same "skyrocket production costs" argument with the lemon law with cars. But it just doesn't mean that everything needs to be perfect. Instead it just ensures some basic quality control such as practiced in Japan.
As for free software, it would just mean
that some of the legal entities that support a
packaged product (i.e., Red Hat) would be held to
the same standards. IANAL, but if the FSF says 'this isn't
a complete product' they can't be held liable any
more than a tire company could be for some idiot
putting the wrong tire on their car.
Dude... just use Procmail's built-in capabilities. No need to put an interpreted script in between your MTA and MDA. Out of the goodness of my heart, here's some actual working stuff to put in your/etc/procmailrc that dumps all email with executable attachments in/var/virusdump/: #/etc/procmailrc VIRUSLOG=/var/ virusdump/viruslog
:0 # Use procmail match feature * ^To:\/.* { HTO = "$MATCH" }
:0 # Use procmail match feature * ^From:\/.* { HFR = "$MATCH" }
:0 fhw
| (/usr/bin/formail -r; \ echo -e "This is an auto-generated message on behalf of${HTO}:\n\ \n\ The email referenced above, which was sent from your address, \n\ had a virus-vulnerable attachement (such as.EXE,.VBS,.PIF, etc).\n\n\ This mail server no longer accepts mail with virus-vulnerable \n\ attachments and the email has been quarantined.\n\ Please try resending your attachment in a safe format such as ZIP. \n\ Contact support@iocc.com if you have any questions")\ | mail -s "Possible virus deleted" "${HFR}"
I'm the guy with the passwords to the routers connected to the T1 lines.
There are already a few hundred routes in the tables... who's going to notice everything from my workstation misses the filtering appliance? Oh that's right, it's my job to make sure no one *else* does this, too.;)
I had a shareware program that did the "registered to" name
hard-coding that the article talks about. I
hated it. See, I used this particular program to
print out pretty pieces of source code side-by-side with output. At the top I had a header. In the header was my name. Or actually, the name from the email headers at the time of registration, which was something no one actually ever calls me. They could have just asked what name I wanted to use, but instead every time I used the software I saw that wrong name.
What we use
on
Hawaii Wi-Fi
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We've got a wireless network set up in two small
towns here. We just hooked up a guy about 6mi.
outside of town. It look a 40ft. antenna, but I
digress.
We've found that the most reliable access points
are Cisco Aironets, 340s or 350s. They can cost
$1000-1500, though, so go with Linksys/SMC/Netgear if you're not that worried.
Also make sure you tie up cables on masts with
something, like guy wire or metal cable ties, that doesn't disentigrate in a couple
months. Always tape up the ends of the cables
with electrical tape or use that rubbery stuff for protection from the weather.
I don't know if she told you this, too, but IBM
saved Sequent from going out of business. I lived
a couple of blocks from their headquarters in
the Silicon Forest (Portland, OR) and in the last
couple of years two or three of their buildings
had the Sequent sign taken down. There were articles in the paper about how in trouble they
were, guys at Intel (Sequest was an Intel spin-off) saying they're sorry to see such a good idea go, etc. Sure, they had a few years left, but,
without IBM, NUMA-Q probably would have went the
way of the Alpha.
Thank God for DVD, because DVD at least resurrects the thing to the original sound and picture quality....
The happy ending and Harrison Ford's voice-over, both forced upon Scott back in 1982, will vanish.
The voice-over is what made the film intelligible
to first-time viewers. That's why you get both the
original and director's cut. The real beauty of a
DVD would be BOTH tracks on one disc, but it
doesn't sound like he's doing this.:(
If you bug them about it, they'll let you use whatver you want. In the latest Vi book, for example, each of the chapters on the clones was written in SGML with the clone being discussed.
Sorry, that'll leave unfiltered all the
attachments with just name="foo.doc.pif",
not filename=. Also, it'll filter out
any HTML attachments with "filename" and
".com" in them. Not that that's a bad thing.
And we still will, too. Until the big ones hire people other people trust in rural areas.
Disclaimer: I work for a Mom & Pop ISP
It's in a small town in south Arkansas. My
boss is from the area. For several years we were
the only ISP in about 5-6 counties. None of the big ISPs seem to have any interest whatsoever in the area. SWBell just rolled out DSL in some of the bigger towns, and we've got a wireless service that's competitive in price and usually a better connection speed. Most of the people in town actually know my boss or someone that does personally.
Honestly, how many people really send raw
screensavers?? Make people at least zip them.
If you're running a *NIX mail
server, put this in your/etc/procmailrc NOW:
VIRUSDUMP=/var/virusdump/virus :0 # Use procmail match feature
* ^From:\/.*
{
HFR = "$MATCH"
}
:0
*^Content-type:.*
{ :0 HB
*name=".*\. (vbs|wsf|vbe|wsh|hta|scr|pif|com|exe| bat|js)"
{ :0 fhw
| (formail -r; \
echo -e "This is an auto-generated message\n\
\n\
The email referenced above, which was sent from your address, \n\
had a virus-vulnerable attachement (such as.EXE,.VBS,.PIF, etc).\n\n\
This mail server no longer accepts mail with virus-vulnerable \n\
attachments and the email has been quarantined.\n\
Please try resending your attachment in a safe format such as ZIP. \n\
Contact support@your-name.com if you have any questions")\
| mail -s "Possible virus deleted" "${HFR}" :0
${VIRUSDUMP}
}
}
We get about 50MB/day of these. Archive them for a week, then delete them. If anybody really sent something useful, someone
at the address listed can get it back for them.
Hasn't happened yet.
As tasty as your FUD is to eat, I must remind everyone that most of the world is not covered by US DMCA law. I'm sure MS would love to sue the SAMBA guys, too.
I am an admin, and I would just love it if everything came over port 80...make my job tending the firewalls much easier:)
'Course, I'd have to be sure to do all the security updates so I could blame problems on the software vendor--but we already have to do that with Microsoft anyway!
Now we have computer company, mostly, making FuelCell batteries
Sorry, but NEC (Nippon Electronics Co) isn't exactly a computer company. Did you notice the regular AA battery with NEC on it in the picture? Ever seen an NEC stereo system? Heck, my first VCR, way back in the 80's, was made by NEC (sorry Sony, no BetaMax for me).
That said, the Japanese corporate landscape really does have a lot more conglomerates like our good ole American 3M.
Everything has a history, of course.:)
I've done a good amount of online history-seeking, and I've found that the usual places of searching (like Google are the best--at least to find other subject-specialized sites.
For some of these, there's always Yahoo!, which seems to have a good number of links in
this directory.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the video/audio/software quality of a DVD hard coded in the directory structure?
There's a video_ts subdir that set-top DVD boxes MUST have for video. There's a similar audio_ts for "DVD-AUDIO", just in case it ever catches on. And there's anything else for software.
They can be easily classified by whichever has the majority of the content. For example, that _PowerPuff Girls_ DVD probably has 4 GB of video, and less than 100MB of software. _The Complete National Geographic_ DVD set, which I own, comes with a "free" episode of "National Geographic Explorer" on one disc, but that doesn't make it not software.
Hmm... I just hope noboby comes out with an RPM-based linux distro named "video_ts"...that/mnt/dvdrom/video_ts/RPMS/ directory might confuse the players.
For a big of trivia, the "dollar sign" came from the interposing of the characters 'U' and 'S' (think about it...the U was tall and thin).
That's why it used to (and still should, in my opinion) have two lines through it, not just one like $.
The word 'dollar', on the other hand, is an old one for currency. Some of the Grimm fairy tales use the German 'taler', which is the same thing. So, really I guess you should be putting Canadian Dollars, NZD, and so on.
I had the hardest time just getting it to do things like find my sound card, or give me fonts in X-windows when I was running Netscape that didn't make my eyes bleed. It also didn't help that when I did my install, it never seemed to tell me exactly what dependencies I needed, so lots of stuff didn't work correctly, and I could never figure out where things were supposed to go, which was frustrating to me. I rely on computers for too much in my life to make my primary OS one that doesn't run in idiot (also known as Wil Wheaton) mode.
IMHO, this is the real test for Linux on the desktop. Can someone who wants to use it do so?
I might not mind lynx and do all my word processing in vim, but my wife or mom need the "Windows key" to open the KDE menu.
Yes, and Hitler was VOTED into his office, then he slowly took away people rights, one by one..
Hitler was not elected, though it is a common misconception. The executive in Germany under the Weimar Republic was split between President (Paul von Hindenburg in its later years) and Chancellor. Neither was directly elected, and the President simply appointed the Chancellor (his office was modeled after the Kaiser). The Nazis never--even in a mock election after banning left-wing parties--took over 40% of the vote.
So how did Hitler come to power? In the early 30's, Conservative politicians were worried about the rise of the Social Democratic Party (that's right, the party in power in Germany RIGHT NOW) and formed an alliance with Hitler's National Socialists, who were much more popular than the Conservatives. It was assumed that a Conservative such as Franz von Papen would be Chancellor. Hitler, however, demanded he be Chancellor for his support. The vast majority of the Cabinet were Conservatives, so they thought it wouldn't be too bad having a Nazi Chancellor. Hitler seized power after the Reichstag fire, when they voted him special "emergency powers"--getting us back to the importance of the bill just passed by Congress.
In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for
the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they
came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up. *
Martin Niemöller 1892-1984.
http://internet.ggu.edu/university_library/if/Ni em oller.html
Stallman still hacks it
on
GNU Emacs 21
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After reading a bit about RMS' pre-FSF years, about his graduation with honors from Harvard (Physics, I believe) while pulling all-nighters at MIT AI, about EMACS, about the LISP contests with Greenblatt... I am convinced that RMS was born for hacking. I had been slightly concerned that all the FSF/GNU work was taking away his time to hack. (As happened with the FSF's Bradley Kuhn's perl to java.) It's nice to see all the "Stallman" entries in the changelog.
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The legislation would skyrocket production costs for Microsoft if the company were forced to release foolproof products.
Why would this happen? Car manufacturers used the same "skyrocket production costs" argument with the lemon law with cars. But it just doesn't mean that everything needs to be perfect. Instead it just ensures some basic quality control such as practiced in Japan.
As for free software, it would just mean that some of the legal entities that support a packaged product (i.e., Red Hat) would be held to the same standards. IANAL, but if the FSF says 'this isn't a complete product' they can't be held liable any more than a tire company could be for some idiot putting the wrong tire on their car.
Dude... just use Procmail's built-in capabilities. /etc/procmailrc that dumps all email with /var/virusdump/:/ virusdump/viruslog
:0 HBs )"
:0c
:0 fhw .EXE, .VBS, .PIF, etc).\n\n\
:0
:0
/dev/null
No need to put an interpreted script in between
your MTA and MDA. Out of the goodness of my heart,
here's some actual working stuff to put in your
executable attachments in
#/etc/procmailrc
VIRUSLOG=/var
:0 # Use procmail match feature
* ^To:\/.*
{
HTO = "$MATCH"
}
:0 # Use procmail match feature
* ^From:\/.*
{
HFR = "$MATCH"
}
NL="
"
:0
*.for virususer;.*
/var/virusdump/virususer
:0
*^Content-type:.*
{
*name=".*\.(vbs|wsf|vbe|wsh|hta|scr|pif|exe|bat|j
{
! virususer
| (/usr/bin/formail -r; \
echo -e "This is an auto-generated message on behalf of${HTO}:\n\
\n\
The email referenced above, which was sent from your address, \n\
had a virus-vulnerable attachement (such as
This mail server no longer accepts mail with virus-vulnerable \n\
attachments and the email has been quarantined.\n\
Please try resending your attachment in a safe format such as ZIP. \n\
Contact support@iocc.com if you have any questions")\
| mail -s "Possible virus deleted" "${HFR}"
| echo "VIRUS From:${HFR} To:${HTO}" >> $VIRUSLOG
}
}
OK, I've explained to my boss how Red Hat does
x.0, x.1, x.2 every time--why 7.3 now?
Someone want to explain that, hmmm?
Oh, and the obligatory:
When is the final coming out?
about $200.
And fully open APIs (a la Sun) wouldn't hurt them at all.
I'm the guy with the passwords to the routers
;)
connected to the T1 lines.
There are already a few hundred routes in the
tables... who's going to notice everything from
my workstation misses the filtering appliance?
Oh that's right, it's my job to make sure no one
*else* does this, too.
I had a shareware program that did the "registered to" name hard-coding that the article talks about. I hated it. See, I used this particular program to print out pretty pieces of source code side-by-side with output. At the top I had a header. In the header was my name. Or actually, the name from the email headers at the time of registration, which was something no one actually ever calls me. They could have just asked what name I wanted to use, but instead every time I used the software I saw that wrong name.
We use antennas and amplifiers from Fleeman Anderson & Bird Corp.
We use antenna masts from Radio Shack.
We've found that the most reliable access points are Cisco Aironets, 340s or 350s. They can cost $1000-1500, though, so go with Linksys/SMC/Netgear if you're not that worried.
Also make sure you tie up cables on masts with something, like guy wire or metal cable ties, that doesn't disentigrate in a couple months. Always tape up the ends of the cables with electrical tape or use that rubbery stuff for protection from the weather.
And have fun!
I don't know if she told you this, too, but IBM saved Sequent from going out of business. I lived a couple of blocks from their headquarters in the Silicon Forest (Portland, OR) and in the last couple of years two or three of their buildings had the Sequent sign taken down. There were articles in the paper about how in trouble they were, guys at Intel (Sequest was an Intel spin-off) saying they're sorry to see such a good idea go, etc. Sure, they had a few years left, but, without IBM, NUMA-Q probably would have went the way of the Alpha.
The voice-over is what made the film intelligible to first-time viewers. That's why you get both the original and director's cut. The real beauty of a DVD would be BOTH tracks on one disc, but it doesn't sound like he's doing this. :(
If you bug them about it, they'll let you use whatver you want. In the latest Vi book, for example, each of the chapters on the clones was written in SGML with the clone being discussed.
What CGI? I thought they just ran out of money and did a simple reverse-negative (a la the B&W _Wizard of Oz_).
Sorry, that'll leave unfiltered all the
attachments with just name="foo.doc.pif",
not filename=. Also, it'll filter out
any HTML attachments with "filename" and
".com" in them. Not that that's a bad thing.
And we still will, too. Until the big ones hire people other people trust in rural areas.
Disclaimer: I work for a Mom & Pop ISP
It's in a small town in south Arkansas. My boss is from the area. For several years we were the only ISP in about 5-6 counties. None of the big ISPs seem to have any interest whatsoever in the area. SWBell just rolled out DSL in some of the bigger towns, and we've got a wireless service that's competitive in price and usually a better connection speed. Most of the people in town actually know my boss or someone that does personally.
As tasty as your FUD is to eat, I must remind everyone that most of the world is not covered by US DMCA law. I'm sure MS would love to sue the SAMBA guys, too.
I am an admin, and I would just love it if everything came over port 80...make my job tending the firewalls much easier :)
'Course, I'd have to be sure to do all the security updates so I could blame problems on the software vendor--but we already have to do that with Microsoft anyway!
Sorry, but NEC (Nippon Electronics Co) isn't exactly a computer company. Did you notice the regular AA battery with NEC on it in the picture? Ever seen an NEC stereo system? Heck, my first VCR, way back in the 80's, was made by NEC (sorry Sony, no BetaMax for me).
That said, the Japanese corporate landscape really does have a lot more conglomerates like our good ole American 3M.
For some of these, there's always Yahoo!, which seems to have a good number of links in this directory.
Also the Online History of Computers seems alright.
If you're willing to spend a few bucks, you might invest in some of the titles in the IEEE Bibliography. LoL.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the video/audio/software quality of a DVD hard coded in the directory structure?
/mnt/dvdrom/video_ts/RPMS/ directory might confuse the players.
There's a video_ts subdir that set-top DVD boxes MUST have for video. There's a similar audio_ts for "DVD-AUDIO", just in case it ever catches on. And there's anything else for software.
They can be easily classified by whichever has the majority of the content. For example, that _PowerPuff Girls_ DVD probably has 4 GB of video, and less than 100MB of software. _The Complete National Geographic_ DVD set, which I own, comes with a "free" episode of "National Geographic Explorer" on one disc, but that doesn't make it not software.
Hmm... I just hope noboby comes out with an RPM-based linux distro named "video_ts"...that
For a big of trivia, the "dollar sign" came from the interposing of the characters 'U' and 'S' (think about it...the U was tall and thin).
That's why it used to (and still should, in my opinion) have two lines through it, not just one like $.
The word 'dollar', on the other hand, is an old one for currency. Some of the Grimm fairy tales use the German 'taler', which is the same thing. So, really I guess you should be putting Canadian Dollars, NZD, and so on.
IMHO, this is the real test for Linux on the desktop. Can someone who wants to use it do so?
I might not mind lynx and do all my word processing in vim, but my wife or mom need the "Windows key" to open the KDE menu.
Hitler was not elected, though it is a common misconception. The executive in Germany under the Weimar Republic was split between President (Paul von Hindenburg in its later years) and Chancellor. Neither was directly elected, and the President simply appointed the Chancellor (his office was modeled after the Kaiser). The Nazis never--even in a mock election after banning left-wing parties--took over 40% of the vote.
So how did Hitler come to power? In the early 30's, Conservative politicians were worried about the rise of the Social Democratic Party (that's right, the party in power in Germany RIGHT NOW) and formed an alliance with Hitler's National Socialists, who were much more popular than the Conservatives. It was assumed that a Conservative such as Franz von Papen would be Chancellor. Hitler, however, demanded he be Chancellor for his support. The vast majority of the Cabinet were Conservatives, so they thought it wouldn't be too bad having a Nazi Chancellor. Hitler seized power after the Reichstag fire, when they voted him special "emergency powers"--getting us back to the importance of the bill just passed by Congress.
For more info on Germany in the 30s, get a book by Dietrich Orlow.
You left out the trade unionists.
i em oller.html
In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for
the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they
came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up. *
Martin Niemöller 1892-1984.
http://internet.ggu.edu/university_library/if/N
After reading a bit about RMS' pre-FSF years, about his graduation with honors from Harvard (Physics, I believe) while pulling all-nighters at MIT AI, about EMACS, about the LISP contests with Greenblatt... I am convinced that RMS was born for hacking. I had been slightly concerned that all the FSF/GNU work was taking away his time to hack. (As happened with the FSF's Bradley Kuhn's perl to java.) It's nice to see all the "Stallman" entries in the changelog.