I agree, when I was in Watertown a few years ago (I'm back there again), I used to take I-90 heading west. It was great. It fact I got 2 speeding tickets on my way to work.
I disagree. Yes the worm is exploiting a vulnerability in the openssl code. But openssl has had a fixed version out for a while now. The problem is with pre 0.9.6e versions. 0.9.6e has been out since july 30.
So the real blame exists with the admins who did not upgrade since july 30th. A security advisory was given out a while ago.
I've been using mozilla milestones and the more stable nightlies as my primary browser for over almost a year now. I've even been using it for online banking w/ Fleet. Fleet's online stuff doesn't seem to have any problems w/ mozilla, SSL and forms and all.
No, the shuttle cannot go to the moon (in its current configuration) but it can carry a payload with its own booster to. So the shuttle becomes the earth to LEO stage and the the payload uses the strapped on booster to leave earth orbit to reach the moon.
This has been done before with the Galileo Jupiter probe, for example. Although using other non-manned rockets would be cheaper than using the shuttle.
I would love to see the shuttle modified to be able to make earth to moon flights. I think it would be cool. However, I would not be surprised if the cost benefits were in the negative.
People complain about why gtk themes are not being used. And other people complain why native win32 widgets are not being used on windows.
The reason for the XP toolkit and XUL is to make maintanance much less of a pain in the long run and easy to change the face mozilla.
It should be noted that the mozilla developers have said, on the record, that if it was not was for XP toolkit they would have only developed on windows. Other platforms would have lagged as developers would need to hack it to their favorite OS.
The speed of the NN4 rendering engine sucks. It's very clear when it comes to rendering complex tables. the browser freezes up several to 30 seconds even, while trying to figure out how to dipslay a complex table layout.
I second that. I have an original mouseman from 4 years ago and it still works just fine. The thumb area is nice and smooth usage tho:)
Logitech now sells the same mouse as a gaming mouse. It's gray but looks and works the same. In fact I bought 2 more. One for work and the other an extra for home.
I like the delivery method too. It's a shell script with the binary attached to it. copy the file under a different name and delete all the shell script lines. What you have now is a tarball. gunzip it and then untar it. You'll end up with an 800K binary named Photogenics and a directory full of supporting files. Doing an ldd on the binary reveals that it's linked to the standard X stuff plus libpthread. Otherwise everything else is selfcontained. If the look and feel of the widgets is authentic Amiga look and feel then it looks like GTK borrowed some of that look and feel. This is really cool. narbey
wooohoo, they're selling it again. I've had an original one for 4 years now. It still works and would have been quite sad if it broke.
going to order an extra asap.
narbey
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You're nuts and hurting your customers. Netscape still has a significant percentage of the market. Yeah it sucks not to have the major browsers properly support the most fundemental standars (HTML4 and CSS, and boy do I want CSS; IE5 still doesn't support fully like Mozilla) but you can't ignore Netscape users.
BTW, Mozilla has not hit beta yet. But it is looking good.
Don't give up on Mozilla so easily. It a completely new beast, no old code whatsoever.
You can have your KDE browser (I'm sure it will be good), but you need Mozilla to keep IE in check. Even if you use Linux, you should be worrying about IE.
One of the key design goals for mozilla was to make it extremely modular. This will allow you to embed the rednering engine in any app. Each mozilla binary release comes with a small program called 'viewer' (I think you need to run mozilla-viewer.sh to get it going). It basically looks like a gtk shell around the rendering engine. It has the back and forward buttons, and the URL field.
The purpose of the interface is to actually save time. Time spent now will save time in following versions where a single config and a set of image files will work on all platforms without any mods. It's actually nifty and I'm looking forward to the XUL interface.
If anyone is interested in what exactly the developers are doing on mozilla please see this page. It's supposed to be updated once a week http://www.mozilla.org/status/
Both free and commercial software are double edged swords. Both have different motivations and both systems have produced gold and crap. There are disadvantages to rushing to meet a 3 month deadline: bloat and bugs. xv and slackware are examples of idling you mention but gimp, kde, gnome are total opposites. They may be implementations of functions and features originally perfected by others but it's still impressive in how close they are to their commercial cousins in their version 1.0 releases. In fact no one was holding a gun to the heads of the gimp developers to have multiple undo in version 1. Hey, where in hell is Amiga? Where is it going? Maybe GPLing the Amigo OS and putting it in the hands of the die-hard users could be the best thing for it. The commercial caretakers of Amiga don't seem to get anything done. They're changing the 3 month feature deadline every 2 months. That said, I think commercial software porting to Linux is very welcome. The world is obviously not going to be open source only. I saw the screenshots of Paul Nolan's software and it looked good. I with him the best of luck. This can only enrich Linux. sincerely narbey
I could be missing something but if anyone can add themselves to any group in/etc/group to access a previously inaccessable file, why not just give world permissions on that file?
Do you want to restrict who can add themselves to groups?
I could be imagining things but it may be possible to put a user in charge of a group, under Linux. There is a password field in/etc/group. If you're on a Linux system check out 'man gpasswd' that might lead you in the right direction.
But I don't think this still allows any user to create their own groups, at will, without sudo.
I'm not a seasoned (or full fledged) sysadmin but let me give it a try. Under Unix/Linux a user can be assigned to multiple groups. I believe the user runs under a single user id AND group id, but a user with multiple groups can access files belonging to any of those groups. That's been my experience under Linux.
If this is the same AC then I'm a little puzzled by your statements about SCSI and PCI problems with Linux. Adaptec is supported and PCI issues just aren't. Have you been looking at Linux today or from a few years ago?
I've also seen references to implementing ACLs under Linux, but I assume there are differences in implementation between Linux and NT.
It's my understanding that the news and mail readers are just dll/so that are loaded on demand. The only issue I see is downloading of a larger mozilla install that includes the mail and news portions. Otherwise if you don't use the mail or news functions, then you should be just running the browser code.
let me know if I'm off the rocker with the technical details.
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I agree, when I was in Watertown a few years ago (I'm back there again), I used to take I-90 heading west. It was great. It fact I got 2 speeding tickets on my way to work.
narbey
I believe the silver line (buses using alternative fuels) was put into place because a new subway was impractical to build.
What boston needs a line that goes in a circumference, cutting through and connecting the other lines which are radial, originating from downtown.
narbey
I disagree. Yes the worm is exploiting a vulnerability in the openssl code. But openssl has had a fixed version out for a while now. The problem is with pre 0.9.6e versions. 0.9.6e has been out since july 30.
So the real blame exists with the admins who did not upgrade since july 30th. A security advisory was given out a while ago.
narbey
count your blessings not yet.
We were dealing with nations fearing annihiliation, lets talk about nation or groups, today, that don't fear death shall we?
And we actually did come pretty close with the cuban missle crisis. cooler heads prevailed in that one.
narbey
Dave? is that you?
narbey
Secando Impacto!
I've been using mozilla milestones and the more stable nightlies as my primary browser for over almost a year now. I've even been using it for online banking w/ Fleet. Fleet's online stuff doesn't seem to have any problems w/ mozilla, SSL and forms and all.
mozilla++
:)
narbey
grrr. I wish I had taken a drunkenmonkey domain a long time ago. oh well :/
No, the shuttle cannot go to the moon (in its current configuration) but it can carry a payload with its own booster to. So the shuttle becomes the earth to LEO stage and the the payload uses the strapped on booster to leave earth orbit to reach the moon.
This has been done before with the Galileo Jupiter probe, for example. Although using other non-manned rockets would be cheaper than using the shuttle.
I would love to see the shuttle modified to be able to make earth to moon flights. I think it would be cool. However, I would not be surprised if the cost benefits were in the negative.
anyone able to get realplayer plugin working under mozilla? I know it's a motif based plugin.
just wondering.
People complain about why gtk themes are not being used. And other people complain why native win32 widgets are not being used on windows.
The reason for the XP toolkit and XUL is to make maintanance much less of a pain in the long run and easy to change the face mozilla.
It should be noted that the mozilla developers have said, on the record, that if it was not was for XP toolkit they would have only developed on windows. Other platforms would have lagged as developers would need to hack it to their favorite OS.
Mozilla kicks ass in this respect. Can't wait.
So Network Solutions claims to have ownership for the following domains?
microsoft.com
apple.com
intel.com
disney.com (go.com)
This is after these domains are renewed with NSI, according to the contract.
narbey
I second that. I have an original mouseman from 4 years ago and it still works just fine. The thumb area is nice and smooth usage tho :)
Logitech now sells the same mouse as a gaming mouse. It's gray but looks and works the same. In fact I bought 2 more. One for work and the other an extra for home.
go to the logitech site and check under gaming.
narbey
I like the delivery method too. It's a shell script with the binary attached to it. copy the file under a different name and delete all the shell script lines. What you have now is a tarball. gunzip it and then untar it. You'll end up with an 800K binary named Photogenics and a directory full of supporting files. Doing an ldd on the binary reveals that it's linked to the standard X stuff plus libpthread. Otherwise everything else is selfcontained. If the look and feel of the widgets is authentic Amiga look and feel then it looks like GTK borrowed some of that look and feel. This is really cool. narbey
wooohoo, they're selling it again. I've had an original one for 4 years now. It still works and would have been quite sad if it broke.
going to order an extra asap.
narbey
You're nuts and hurting your customers. Netscape still has a significant percentage of the market. Yeah it sucks not to have the major browsers properly support the most fundemental standars (HTML4 and CSS, and boy do I want CSS; IE5 still doesn't support fully like Mozilla) but you can't ignore Netscape users.
BTW, Mozilla has not hit beta yet. But it is looking good.
"patiently" waiting for mozilla.
narbey
Don't give up on Mozilla so easily. It a completely new beast, no old code whatsoever.
You can have your KDE browser (I'm sure it will be good), but you need Mozilla to keep IE in check. Even if you use Linux, you should be worrying about IE.
narbey
One of the key design goals for mozilla was to make it extremely modular. This will allow you to embed the rednering engine in any app. Each mozilla binary release comes with a small program called 'viewer' (I think you need to run mozilla-viewer.sh to get it going). It basically looks like a gtk shell around the rendering engine. It has the back and forward buttons, and the URL field.
Everything is explained at mozilla.org
narbey
The purpose of the interface is to actually save time. Time spent now will save time in following versions where a single config and a set of image files will work on all platforms without any mods. It's actually nifty and I'm looking forward to the XUL interface.
xul is cool
narbey
If anyone is interested in what exactly the developers are doing on mozilla please see this page. It's supposed to be updated once a week http://www.mozilla.org/status/
Both free and commercial software are double edged swords. Both have different motivations and both systems have produced gold and crap. There are disadvantages to rushing to meet a 3 month deadline: bloat and bugs. xv and slackware are examples of idling you mention but gimp, kde, gnome are total opposites. They may be implementations of functions and features originally perfected by others but it's still impressive in how close they are to their commercial cousins in their version 1.0 releases. In fact no one was holding a gun to the heads of the gimp developers to have multiple undo in version 1. Hey, where in hell is Amiga? Where is it going? Maybe GPLing the Amigo OS and putting it in the hands of the die-hard users could be the best thing for it. The commercial caretakers of Amiga don't seem to get anything done. They're changing the 3 month feature deadline every 2 months. That said, I think commercial software porting to Linux is very welcome. The world is obviously not going to be open source only. I saw the screenshots of Paul Nolan's software and it looked good. I with him the best of luck. This can only enrich Linux. sincerely narbey
I could be missing something but if anyone can add themselves to any group in /etc/group to access a previously inaccessable file, why not just give world permissions on that file?
/etc/group. If you're on a Linux system check out 'man gpasswd' that might lead you in the right direction.
Do you want to restrict who can add themselves to groups?
I could be imagining things but it may be possible to put a user in charge of a group, under Linux. There is a password field in
But I don't think this still allows any user to create their own groups, at will, without sudo.
Hope that helps.
narbey
I'm not a seasoned (or full fledged) sysadmin but let me give it a try. Under Unix/Linux a user can be assigned to multiple groups. I believe the user runs under a single user id AND group id, but a user with multiple groups can access files belonging to any of those groups. That's been my experience under Linux.
If this is the same AC then I'm a little puzzled by your statements about SCSI and PCI problems with Linux. Adaptec is supported and PCI issues just aren't. Have you been looking at Linux today or from a few years ago?
I've also seen references to implementing ACLs under Linux, but I assume there are differences in implementation between Linux and NT.
sincerely
narbey
It's my understanding that the news and mail readers are just dll/so that are loaded on demand. The only issue I see is downloading of a larger mozilla install that includes the mail and news portions. Otherwise if you don't use the mail or news functions, then you should be just running the browser code.
let me know if I'm off the rocker with the technical details.
narbey