The fault ultimately should not be placed on the browsers, but on the web standards that have been created over the years.
HTML was originally intended as a lightweight markup language that was far simpler than SGML. As time has passed, the language has expanded to support more and more features that graphic-happy developers and marketers have demanded.
Eventually, we'll all be running browsers that use a language more complicated than SGML ever was. Then, somebody will create a new markup language, designed to be lightweight and perhaps facilitate communications, and everybody will switch to it. And then the designers will start demanding new features...
So, really, it's the destiny of every application (browser or otherwise) to bloat and grow (open-source or not) until it's unusuable and then be replaced by something faster and better.
(without reading the article). These are all ones that I've used at some point, too. And they should all run on a PC.
1) MS-DOS 3.3 2) MS-DOS 5 3) MS-DOS 6.2 4) Windows 95 5) Windows 98 6) Windows 98SE 7) Windows ME 8) Windows XP 9) Windows NT 3.51 10) Windows NT 4.00 11) Windows 2000 12) SCO Xenix 13) Linux of all sorts 14) FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc. 15) Solaris 16) GNU/Hurd 17) Plan 9 18) FreeDOS (Version ?) 19) DR-DOS (Version ?) 20) Novell Netware (Version ?)
That's about all I can pull from the top of my head. If you consider seperate versions BSD, Linux, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Netware as different OSes or installations of Windows 286/386/3.1/3.11 as actual OSes, you'd easily get past 37.
Or perhaps those technical people who help a company make decisions will read about this here on Slashdot and be more informed when they are asked if Red Hat 8.0 is appropriate.
Knowing that Red Hat is intentionally hiding some of KDE's features from the users *is* important. I used to consider KDE clunky and unintuitive, and swore by Gnome. Then, I tried KDE 3. It works. While Gnome continues to bloat itself with poorly designed projects (some of which are dead) and dependencies from hell, KDE just gets better.
This doesn't mean that RH 8.0 will suck, but given that Red Hat loves Gnome, it's something to watch out for. And knowing what to watch out for is really important.
Finally, I think it's good that companies have somebody watching what they do, even when those companies are like Red Hat.
--Elentar
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The idea that such a camera might be used to watch another person is not just perverse, it is also illegal in many places. Most people probably don't realize that.
In California, where I live, I know someone who has been arrested for hiding a camera in his shared house. It's a misdemeanor and falls under the "disorderly conduct" set of laws, along with public drunkenness and such.
I _strongly_ urge people to consider not just other people's feelings but also the legal consequences before following the Slashdot editor's and submitter's suggestion and spying on the nearest attractive woman with a camera.
Use a distribution with a package manager, and don't install a compiler on your exposed servers. Just install binaries, and verify them (e.g. rpm --verify) with a cron task. Presto, you'll be warned if something gets changed.
Add iptables rules to the server to block SYN outgoing packets - so only existing connections are allowed. Remove the rules when needed. Presto, your server can't be used for launching attacks.
While you're at it, add rules to only allow necessary services and trusted networks.
This stuff is really not that tough, and the only reason attacks like this happen is because of laziness. Perhaps they should add a kernel module that shuts down the machine if the administrator hasn't checked it out in the last 24 hours.;)
To clarify what a few previous posts didn't seem to quite get, NWN originally advertised shipping the Windows, Linux, and Mac clients together (okay, they *originally* advertised BeOS too, but we'll ignore that). They have quite clearly stated that even though the Linux binaries did not make the final box, they will be available free for anyone who has the Windows CD to use. The Linux Server is already available for download, and the client will be when it is released.
I use Linux on nearly every machine I work with, except one: my gaming computer. I keep this machine around with Windows 98SE and some nice hardware so that I can play the games I want, when they come out, with a minimum of hassle. I'm not interested in trying to force the industry to ship more products for Linux, although I'll certainly try it out when they do. Linux is productive, fast, and highly customizeable. Windows is compatible, optimized, and wide-spread.
I believe a great many people do exactly the same thing. It's just nice to have a dedicated machine for games, and using Windows simply works best.
This was the best solution I found, a year ago. At the time it was $2500 - now, it seems to sell for around $1000 at some retailers.
This is a PCI card that takes video input and sends keyboard and mouse out - perfect for connecting to the console of any KVM. We got a cheap 1U NT server, put this card in the single PCI slot it came with, and ran VNC on it. It worked beautifully.
Can't argue with what they're saying - security increases as you restrict access. If they don't have a problem keeping employees happy, who's to care?
(sarcasm) For that matter, why bring the Internet to an employee's desk at all? Why not go back to a 1980's-era environment with a legacy communications package and a clunky internet email gateway? What good is this whole 'internet thing', anyway? (end sarcasm)
Was there a mention on that page somewhere about 5000 gigs in 30 minutes? I must have missed it - anyway, I thought the numbers were interesting in their own right. Whose T1 did the students use to do their work? I doubt that the university would have approved of it, if they "volunteered" the bandwidth...
Picking an average song length from nowhere of about 4 minutes, 30 seconds, your wife's download comes out to about 1,100 mp3s. The students' download would produce around 27 gigabytes of data, using the same average.
To download 5 gigabytes, you'd need a sustained tranfer rate of 2.84 megabytes/second, or 2,840 kilobytes/second. That's about half a T-3! On the other hand, three students downloading 27 gigabytes over two days only need a T-1 to do their jobs, at around 150 kilobytes/second.
I have a Sony PCG-C1XS (Picturebook), and it's been dropped numerous times. The magnesium case is cracked on one corner, but the laptop is otherwise fine. Having a small screen can be an advantage!
These threads carry a strong statement about the true feelings of Slashdot readers. Many of you are quick to bash Microsoft for tying Internet Explorer into every part of Windows, yet you insist that Konquerer is doing something wonderful by doing the same thing. It is the behavior you should be criticizing, not the perpetrator. Microsoft could easily use something like Konquerer to validate their own actions.
Judging from the large number of posts here from people who didn't bother to read the article, one can draw one of several conclusions: (a) Many Slashdot readers think they know everything already, (b) Many Slashdot readers do not take showers, or (c) Many Slashdot readers are secretly employed by physics textbook manufacturers.
An old coworker of mine had a scheme he suggested to users with problems using complex passwords - he would recommend that they use the serial number from their mouse, keyboard, monitor, or some other piece of equipment on their desk. It's long and cryptic, not as obvious as a post-it note, and if someone is sitting at the console they can break into your computer anyway.
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The fault ultimately should not be placed on the browsers, but on the web standards that have been created over the years.
;)
HTML was originally intended as a lightweight markup language that was far simpler than SGML. As time has passed, the language has expanded to support more and more features that graphic-happy developers and marketers have demanded.
Eventually, we'll all be running browsers that use a language more complicated than SGML ever was. Then, somebody will create a new markup language, designed to be lightweight and perhaps facilitate communications, and everybody will switch to it. And then the designers will start demanding new features...
So, really, it's the destiny of every application (browser or otherwise) to bloat and grow (open-source or not) until it's unusuable and then be replaced by something faster and better.
Much like governments - but I'll stop there.
-Elentar
Gestures '02 = Mac '84
Today: Hold down a button, move the mouse, go back a page in your browser.
18 years ago: Hold down a button over an icon, move the mouse toward the trash, watch your item get deleted!
Also: Hold the button down, move the mouse over some text, watch it get selected!
And: Hold the button down, move the mouse diagonally across some files, watch them get selected!
-Elentar
(without reading the article). These are all ones that I've used at some point, too. And they should all run on a PC.
1) MS-DOS 3.3
2) MS-DOS 5
3) MS-DOS 6.2
4) Windows 95
5) Windows 98
6) Windows 98SE
7) Windows ME
8) Windows XP
9) Windows NT 3.51
10) Windows NT 4.00
11) Windows 2000
12) SCO Xenix
13) Linux of all sorts
14) FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc.
15) Solaris
16) GNU/Hurd
17) Plan 9
18) FreeDOS (Version ?)
19) DR-DOS (Version ?)
20) Novell Netware (Version ?)
That's about all I can pull from the top of my head. If you consider seperate versions BSD, Linux, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Netware as different OSes or installations of Windows 286/386/3.1/3.11 as actual OSes, you'd easily get past 37.
-Elentar
Or perhaps those technical people who help a company make decisions will read about this here on Slashdot and be more informed when they are asked if Red Hat 8.0 is appropriate.
Knowing that Red Hat is intentionally hiding some of KDE's features from the users *is* important. I used to consider KDE clunky and unintuitive, and swore by Gnome. Then, I tried KDE 3. It works. While Gnome continues to bloat itself with poorly designed projects (some of which are dead) and dependencies from hell, KDE just gets better.
This doesn't mean that RH 8.0 will suck, but given that Red Hat loves Gnome, it's something to watch out for. And knowing what to watch out for is really important.
Finally, I think it's good that companies have somebody watching what they do, even when those companies are like Red Hat.
--Elentar
The idea that such a camera might be used to watch another person is not just perverse, it is also illegal in many places. Most people probably don't realize that.
In California, where I live, I know someone who has been arrested for hiding a camera in his shared house. It's a misdemeanor and falls under the "disorderly conduct" set of laws, along with public drunkenness and such.
I _strongly_ urge people to consider not just other people's feelings but also the legal consequences before following the Slashdot editor's and submitter's suggestion and spying on the nearest attractive woman with a camera.
-Elentar
Use a distribution with a package manager, and don't install a compiler on your exposed servers. Just install binaries, and verify them (e.g. rpm --verify) with a cron task. Presto, you'll be warned if something gets changed.
;)
Add iptables rules to the server to block SYN outgoing packets - so only existing connections are allowed. Remove the rules when needed. Presto, your server can't be used for launching attacks.
While you're at it, add rules to only allow necessary services and trusted networks.
This stuff is really not that tough, and the only reason attacks like this happen is because of laziness. Perhaps they should add a kernel module that shuts down the machine if the administrator hasn't checked it out in the last 24 hours.
-Elentar
To clarify what a few previous posts didn't seem to quite get, NWN originally advertised shipping the Windows, Linux, and Mac clients together (okay, they *originally* advertised BeOS too, but we'll ignore that). They have quite clearly stated that even though the Linux binaries did not make the final box, they will be available free for anyone who has the Windows CD to use. The Linux Server is already available for download, and the client will be when it is released.
I use Linux on nearly every machine I work with, except one: my gaming computer. I keep this machine around with Windows 98SE and some nice hardware so that I can play the games I want, when they come out, with a minimum of hassle. I'm not interested in trying to force the industry to ship more products for Linux, although I'll certainly try it out when they do. Linux is productive, fast, and highly customizeable. Windows is compatible, optimized, and wide-spread.
I believe a great many people do exactly the same thing. It's just nice to have a dedicated machine for games, and using Windows simply works best.
--Elentar
This was the best solution I found, a year ago. At the time it was $2500 - now, it seems to sell for around $1000 at some retailers.
This is a PCI card that takes video input and sends keyboard and mouse out - perfect for connecting to the console of any KVM. We got a cheap 1U NT server, put this card in the single PCI slot it came with, and ran VNC on it. It worked beautifully.
More info at Avocent's website, under "Emerge card".
-Elentar
Try clicking here to read the Google cached pages for this story. -Elentar
My company _is_ in the porn business. ;) We're not allowed to browse any sites displaying images with clothing.
--Elentar
Can't argue with what they're saying - security increases as you restrict access. If they don't have a problem keeping employees happy, who's to care?
(sarcasm)
For that matter, why bring the Internet to an employee's desk at all? Why not go back to a 1980's-era environment with a legacy communications package and a clunky internet email gateway? What good is this whole 'internet thing', anyway?
(end sarcasm)
-Elentar
Was there a mention on that page somewhere about 5000 gigs in 30 minutes? I must have missed it - anyway, I thought the numbers were interesting in their own right. Whose T1 did the students use to do their work? I doubt that the university would have approved of it, if they "volunteered" the bandwidth...
-Pradeep
Picking an average song length from nowhere of about 4 minutes, 30 seconds, your wife's download comes out to about 1,100 mp3s. The students' download would produce around 27 gigabytes of data, using the same average.
To download 5 gigabytes, you'd need a sustained tranfer rate of 2.84 megabytes/second, or 2,840 kilobytes/second. That's about half a T-3! On the other hand, three students downloading 27 gigabytes over two days only need a T-1 to do their jobs, at around 150 kilobytes/second.
Whee! Wasn't that fun?
-Pradeep
I have a Sony PCG-C1XS (Picturebook), and it's been dropped numerous times. The magnesium case is cracked on one corner, but the laptop is otherwise fine. Having a small screen can be an advantage!
These threads carry a strong statement about the true feelings of Slashdot readers. Many of you are quick to bash Microsoft for tying Internet Explorer into every part of Windows, yet you insist that Konquerer is doing something wonderful by doing the same thing. It is the behavior you should be criticizing, not the perpetrator. Microsoft could easily use something like Konquerer to validate their own actions.
-Elentar