I wish some graphical mail client would have a feature where all HTML email is converted to text before being presented
Not that I expect anyone on slashdot to actually know anything about microsoft products, but outlook express, outlook 2002 and 2003 all have this ability.
Outlook 2002 added it with SP1. See Q307594 for details.
IE is not a system compromise in any technical sense. IE (and the rest of explorer) runs in user mode, same as any program. If you run as non-admin, it won't be able to affect anything your user account doesn't have access to.
When they say IE is "integrated into the system" what is meant is that the re-usable browser component is guaranteed to be available on that system, like the common controls. It's considered a base-level system provided function. This allows other browsers like neoplanet or myie2 to be written without writing or distributing the HTML parsing engine.
But did anyone actually read the article? You don't need to sign the agreement to implement sender ID. They are just pre-emptively giving out the agreement that would be necessary if their pending patent is granted.
I believe this is also a requirement of one of the federal security certifications (FIPS 140, etc). To maintain security, the OS cannot be allowed to run if logging isn't working right.
Two new phones coming out soon both look good: The Ericsson 910 and Nokia 9500 Communicator. These phones both use Symbian OS7. The Nokia has GPRS, Bluetooth and WLAN!
If you want to change where your mydocs folder points to (a network share, or just a shorter folder path), just right-click on it and pick properties, and its staring you in the face.
If you want to actually customize the places bar, download the tweakuipowertoy, and go to "common dialogs"->"places bar", and enter your own folders. (if you don't want to download anything, just add Place0,... PlaceN entries under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\comdlg32\PlacesBar)
it is unclear why Microsoft would go to the trouble of filing a patent only to then give it away in a free license
Yes, the article goes on to say that it may be incompatible with the GPL, but so what else is new? If it was compatible with the GPL, they would lose all rights, and as a commercial corportation, it is easy to see how they would want to maintain ownership.
On top of all this, I'm sure that since WINE is user space, you would not be able to crash your entire OS like you can still do with any Windows OS and messed up software.
How long are people going to say stuff like this for??? Maybe on win95 that was true, but have you ever used a Windows NT based OS? I use XP, and develop software on it, and have NEVER had a non-user mode crash (blue screen, etc), in years of heavy use. My main development machine gets rebooted about once every month.
Getting off topic, but speaking of user/kernel mode, since win2k printer drivers have even been user-mode, not kernel mode. And to see where display drivers are headed in Longhorn, look at this winhec slide set, lots of robustness/stability changes.
Washington state has a very cool Address Confidentiality Program that is designed to protect domestic violence/rape victims from people who have access to gov't DB's.
It's kinda like a lightweight Witness Protection Program.
IE is integrated with the operating system in the sense that it is a component that can be assumed to be present, by no stretch does it run in kernel mode. Even explorer.exe (what powers your desktop, start menu, tray,etc), is just a normal user-mode app. Kill it or corrupt it all you want, the rest of the OS will keep running.
"RDP uses its own video driver on the server side to render display output by constructing the rendering information into network packets using RDP protocol and sending them over the network to the client. On the client side, it receives rendering data and interprets them into the corresponding Win32® GDI API calls. "
Looks like yahoo requires you not to sue them also: "licensee agrees not to assert against Yahoo..."
I don't see how that could be objectionable...
And the points on http://boycott-email-caller-id.org/ are nonsensical.
It conflicts with existing, open projects with the same goal. So What? I think its great that there are multiple proposals out for the same goal, may the best one win. Or is there going to be a boycott-photoshop.org since Adobe is writing software that conflicts with GIMP?
It is patent-license encumbered. Doesn't look to "encumbered" to me. Its free for anybody to use, even in GPL code, as long as you pass along the license agreement. Or wait, would that be considered "Viral licensing" like the GPL itself?:)
It is not the de-facto standard
WTF? Its not the standard - in other words, they are trying to innovate! We wouldn't want someone come up with a new way of doing things. Were these people around in 1994 saying "who needs HTTP/HTML, gopher/archie/wais is the de-facto standard". Also, SPF is quite far from being "the standard". It might have 10,000 hosts, but how many users send mail through those hosts? Face it, until aol/yahoo/hotmail pick something, it wont be the standard.
It is not an RFC
Read this article which points out that boycott-email-caller-id.org is biased, and wrong. That article links to this msg from microsoft where they say they are working on submitting it.
It is more verbose
I'm no expert on either of these formats, but it appears that hotmail is sending back a lot more data (unique IP addresses). Thats more a server-config issue for hotmail.com vs aol.com than any comment on the protocol. Obviously XML has more overhead, but this example is contrived. A real apples-to-apples comparison would be returning the exact same data in each format...
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How dare they even claim that? The site is so obviously shilling for SPF its rediculous.
MS could still have kept mod chips off their network without resorting to the path of least resistance (put the offending GUID in a database and let them go to hell). They downloaded "updates" to the box to begin with, so why not have that code execute every time "Live" was started, looking for the mod and refusing to go if it's detected?
Because there is no such thing as client-side security. True security measures must be taken on the server.
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Outlook 2002 added it with SP1. See Q307594 for details.
In outlook 2003 its even easier, just check the option for it.
And in XPSP2, Outlook express now reads mail in plain text (Q883257).
Well, since I posted, 2 more mods have agreed that your factually incorrect post is "insightful". Gotta love slashdot.
IE is not a system compromise in any technical sense. IE (and the rest of explorer) runs in user mode, same as any program. If you run as non-admin, it won't be able to affect anything your user account doesn't have access to.
When they say IE is "integrated into the system" what is meant is that the re-usable browser component is guaranteed to be available on that system, like the common controls. It's considered a base-level system provided function. This allows other browsers like neoplanet or myie2 to be written without writing or distributing the HTML parsing engine.
Yup, spyglass came from mosaic. But IE3 was the last to use the spyglass code, IE4+ MSHTML rendering engine was re-written from scratch.
IF you look at the website, you can (graphically) define exclusion zones within each camera's view.
The software is really quite powerfull.
This is about the only comment by someone with a clue in this whole thread
But did anyone actually read the article? You don't need to sign the agreement to implement sender ID. They are just pre-emptively giving out the agreement that would be necessary if their pending patent is granted.
I believe this is also a requirement of one of the federal security certifications (FIPS 140, etc). To maintain security, the OS cannot be allowed to run if logging isn't working right.
Two new phones coming out soon both look good: The Ericsson 910 and Nokia 9500 Communicator. These phones both use Symbian OS7. The Nokia has GPRS, Bluetooth and WLAN!
Sure, if you want to register "*.quicken.com", that's fine, but it should've redirected to "quicken.intuit.com".
:)
And that exactly what windowsupdate.com does!
If you want to change where your mydocs folder points to (a network share, or just a shorter folder path), just right-click on it and pick properties, and its staring you in the face.
... PlaceN entries under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\comdlg32\PlacesBar)
If you want to actually customize the places bar, download the tweakui powertoy, and go to "common dialogs"->"places bar", and enter your own folders. (if you don't want to download anything, just add Place0,
And from the followup to that article:
it is unclear why Microsoft would go to the trouble of filing a patent only to then give it away in a free license
Yes, the article goes on to say that it may be incompatible with the GPL, but so what else is new? If it was compatible with the GPL, they would lose all rights, and as a commercial corportation, it is easy to see how they would want to maintain ownership.
On top of all this, I'm sure that since WINE is user space, you would not be able to crash your entire OS like you can still do with any Windows OS and messed up software.
How long are people going to say stuff like this for??? Maybe on win95 that was true, but have you ever used a Windows NT based OS? I use XP, and develop software on it, and have NEVER had a non-user mode crash (blue screen, etc), in years of heavy use. My main development machine gets rebooted about once every month.
Getting off topic, but speaking of user/kernel mode, since win2k printer drivers have even been user-mode, not kernel mode. And to see where display drivers are headed in Longhorn, look at this winhec slide set, lots of robustness/stability changes.
Washington state has a very cool Address Confidentiality Program that is designed to protect domestic violence/rape victims from people who have access to gov't DB's.
It's kinda like a lightweight Witness Protection Program.
Gee, if only Microsoft would switch office over to using XML, and publish the schemas...
Oh, wait, looks like they have. Whats that? You want them to participate in standards process? Something like this?
IE is integrated with the operating system in the sense that it is a component that can be assumed to be present, by no stretch does it run in kernel mode. Even explorer.exe (what powers your desktop, start menu, tray,etc), is just a normal user-mode app. Kill it or corrupt it all you want, the rest of the OS will keep running.
Thats basically what terminal services does now...
From the whitepaper:
"RDP uses its own video driver on the server side to render display output by constructing the rendering information into network packets using RDP protocol and sending them over the network to the client. On the client side, it receives rendering data and interprets them into the corresponding Win32® GDI API calls. "
I don't see how that could be objectionable...
And the points on http://boycott-email-caller-id.org/ are nonsensical.
So What? I think its great that there are multiple proposals out for the same goal, may the best one win. Or is there going to be a boycott-photoshop.org since Adobe is writing software that conflicts with GIMP?
Doesn't look to "encumbered" to me. Its free for anybody to use, even in GPL code, as long as you pass along the license agreement. Or wait, would that be considered "Viral licensing" like the GPL itself?
WTF? Its not the standard - in other words, they are trying to innovate! We wouldn't want someone come up with a new way of doing things. Were these people around in 1994 saying "who needs HTTP/HTML, gopher/archie/wais is the de-facto standard".
Also, SPF is quite far from being "the standard". It might have 10,000 hosts, but how many users send mail through those hosts? Face it, until aol/yahoo/hotmail pick something, it wont be the standard.
Read this article which points out that boycott-email-caller-id.org is biased, and wrong. That article links to this msg from microsoft where they say they are working on submitting it.
I'm no expert on either of these formats, but it appears that hotmail is sending back a lot more data (unique IP addresses). Thats more a server-config issue for hotmail.com vs aol.com than any comment on the protocol. Obviously XML has more overhead, but this example is contrived. A real apples-to-apples comparison would be returning the exact same data in each format...
They don't ship internationally, according to their faq.
I think this is what your looking for: Order the Windows Security Update CD.
ps- I found the link by typing windows update CD in the search box on microsoft.com
With media player, you can navigate to a folder in windows, right click on it, and say "play".
RTFA (Read the F'in Advisory).
The bug is in the pluggable protocol handler for MHTML, which is implemented in outlook express.
For better or worse, IE is nearly infinitely extensible, and it calls out to other components to parse extra protocols.
Thats one of the things getting fixed in XPSP2. The firewall is getting way beefed up, and will be on from the begining of the boot cycle.
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America"
Because there is no such thing as client-side security. True security measures must be taken on the server.