However, Ormandy said, "Zlib is very mature and stable, so development
is sporadic, but it's certainly not dead. Mark Adler [a Zlib co-author]
responded to my report with a patch and an in-depth investigation and
explanation within 24 hours, and I believe he expects to release a new
version of Zlib very soon."
Around Y2K, I worked for a company called Cyrano.com. It produced testing software. We had done very well in the run-up to Y2K - lots of people wanted to perform regression testing on their database applications. We were a small company - much smaller than e.g. Rational.com (Now borged by IBM), but felt that we had a good product. The management decided that the best way to help convince customers to buy our product, in the face of arguments that Cyrano might not be around in a couple of years time, was to open source the code. In these circumstances, the obvious license to choose is the GPL: it ensures that the company benefits from any changes anyone else makes.
I spent a very long time going through the files, adding the appropriate header comments, and removing any comments naming individuals, especially individuals who were no longer with the company, before setting up the project at SourceForge: http://opensta.sourceforge.net/. There were also OpenSTA.com and.org domains set up. The project is still running, and I believe that several ex-employees, made redundant after the company went tits-up, are now self-employed and using the application.
At the very least, open-sourcing the project meant that the codebase was not lost when the company folded.
Schoolforge-UK
is an organisation that is working together to implement open content resources using Free, Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in UK education
I memorized i. People memorizing Pi and e are too irrational for my tastes.
That's nothing. I've memorized all of e^(pi * i).
But seriously, I thought I was geeky for memorizing
3.141592653579323. OTOH, it does give one a certain
reputation when you look over a cow-orker's shoulder,
and tell him that he's got the value of pi #define'd wrongly.
any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam
The primary use of the SBL is to allow sysadmins to refuse e-mail coming from
listed IP addresses. The mail should be rejected during the SMTP header
conversation, and the senders of genuine (non-spam and non-virus) e-mails
will receive a non-delivery report from their outgoing MTA.
I assume that what Paul Graham is complaining about must be SpamAssassin,
or some other content filter, applying a score to articles containing
URLs, which when looked up in DNS resolve to listed IP addresses. This is
much less acceptable, since the sender has no way to know that their e-mail
may have been classified as spam.
The details of the listing can be found at
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL279 45.
This is a/32 - i.e. a single IP address. I don't know
why Paul Graham's web site (which has that IP address) has been associated
with textileshop.com, which has a completely different IP address.
P.S. Sorry about the previous premature post - somehow accidentally hitting CR whilst in the subject field submitted it, and then Slashdot seemed to disappear off the Internet, and then it wouldn't let me post, because I'd posted 11 minutes ago, which was less than 2 minutes!
You can't memorize good enough passwords any more, so don't bother. For
high-security Web sites such as banks, create long random passwords and
write them down. Guard them as you would your cash: i.e., store them in
your wallet, etc.
Never reuse a password for something you care about. (It's fine to have
a single password for low-security sites, such as for newspaper archive
access.) Assume that all PINs can be easily broken and plan accordingly.
Never type a password you care about, such as for a bank account, into
a non-SSL encrypted page. If your bank makes it possible to do that,
complain to them. When they tell you that it is OK, don't believe them;
they're wrong.
I'm glad to see that they are not showing
The Conqueror at
Snow Canyon, near St. George, Utah. Not only was it a lousy film, but the filming location was contaminated with radioactive dust from nearby atomic bomb tests in the previous couple of years. An unusually high number of the cast and crew (including John Wayne) died of cancer.
It has long been known that Boca Raton is the spam-haven of the world. A google groups for the place in group:news.admin.net-abuse.email turns up 1,230 hits.
What is wrong with the Boca Raton, Plantation, et. al. area of FL that it
has such a high density of shameless and unrepentant spammers?
One of the reputed reasons spammers find it attractive, as mentioned in the article are the
lenient bankruptcy laws
which prevent the spammer's house from being reposessed.
Don't bother trying the free demo if you don't have Flash, block popup windows, or restrict cookies. That's some of the most pointless web site coding I've ever seen.
Which play? The one at the ICA in London in 1979 (of which I only saw the first few minutes, up to the destruction of the earth, after which everyone with tickets moved to the rotating auditorium - I had just had some exams and hadn't had time to book tickets in advance)
Or Ken Campbell's production at the Rainbow, Islington, which had very poor reviews, but did have an interesting recipie for the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (I've still got half a bottle of Blue Curaço? somewhere).
Or the production by the Theatr Clwyd, with a remote controlled Tonka bulldozer?
OK. I'll try again, without the subtle sarcasm. In the original item, the word "breech" (the rear opening of a gun where bullets are loaded) is used, where the word "breach" (a disregard of rules) is meant. Still off-topic?
The only reason that the report was released
was that New Scientist Magazine made a request under the UK Freedom of Information Act that came into effect at the start of this year
Slashdot Mirror
Naxos issue low cost CDs of classical recordings. Three months ago they lost a court case brought by the Capitol label.
Sorry - as a couple of others have already
pointed out, I messed up and got the patch reversed.
Around Y2K, I worked for a company called Cyrano.com. It produced testing
.org domains set up. The project is still running, and
software. We had done very well in the run-up to Y2K - lots of people wanted
to perform regression testing on their database applications. We were a small
company - much smaller than e.g. Rational.com (Now borged by IBM), but felt
that we had a good product. The management decided that the best way to help convince
customers to buy our product, in the face of arguments that Cyrano might not
be around in a couple of years time, was to open source the code. In these
circumstances, the obvious license to choose is the GPL: it ensures that
the company benefits from any changes anyone else makes.
I spent a very long time going through the files, adding the appropriate
header comments, and removing any comments naming individuals, especially
individuals who were no longer with the company, before setting up the
project at SourceForge: http://opensta.sourceforge.net/. There were
also OpenSTA.com and
I believe that several ex-employees, made redundant after the company went
tits-up, are now self-employed and using the application.
At the very least, open-sourcing the project meant that the codebase was not
lost when the company folded.
The are organizing a conference in Bolton next week: on Thursday 14th & Friday 15th July 2005.
s/3579/358979/
But seriously, I thought I was geeky for memorizing 3.141592653579323. OTOH, it does give one a certain reputation when you look over a cow-orker's shoulder, and tell him that he's got the value of pi #define'd wrongly.
I assume that what Paul Graham is complaining about must be SpamAssassin, or some other content filter, applying a score to articles containing URLs, which when looked up in DNS resolve to listed IP addresses. This is much less acceptable, since the sender has no way to know that their e-mail may have been classified as spam.
The details of the listing can be found at http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL279 45.
This is a /32 - i.e. a single IP address. I don't know
why Paul Graham's web site (which has that IP address) has been associated
with textileshop.com, which has a completely different IP address.
The other Yahoo listing on the SBL is also a /32.
I also note in another of Paul Graham's articles http://paulgraham.com/sblbad.html he claims
As any fule kno, the most notorious spam blacklist is SPEWS. ~When you have read that article, go and buy a copy of the 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff, ISBN 0393310728.
As the OP said:
Here is the original article, complete with scores for the top and bottom 5 shows.
P.S. Sorry about the previous premature post - somehow accidentally hitting CR whilst in the subject field submitted it, and then Slashdot seemed to disappear off the Internet, and then it wouldn't let me post, because I'd posted 11 minutes ago, which was less than 2 minutes!
On the
10th anniversary of PHP, there i
Thursday April 28, @16:57
You can't memorize good enough passwords any more, so don't bother. For high-security Web sites such as banks, create long random passwords and write them down. Guard them as you would your cash: i.e., store them in your wallet, etc. Never reuse a password for something you care about. (It's fine to have a single password for low-security sites, such as for newspaper archive access.) Assume that all PINs can be easily broken and plan accordingly. Never type a password you care about, such as for a bank account, into a non-SSL encrypted page. If your bank makes it possible to do that, complain to them. When they tell you that it is OK, don't believe them; they're wrong.
I'm glad to see that they are not showing The Conqueror at Snow Canyon, near St. George, Utah. Not only was it a lousy film, but the filming location was contaminated with radioactive dust from nearby atomic bomb tests in the previous couple of years. An unusually high number of the cast and crew (including John Wayne) died of cancer.
See, for example, this media report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from Mar 24, 2003, or this one from Oct 10 2001, asking
One of the reputed reasons spammers find it attractive, as mentioned in the article are the lenient bankruptcy laws which prevent the spammer's house from being reposessed.
Don't bother trying the free demo if you don't have Flash, block popup windows, or
restrict cookies. That's some of the most pointless web site coding I've ever seen.
After some more reading of the long review:
Jonathan Petherbridge's stage adaptation
and checking of an old programme, this was the touring production by Theatr Clwyd, in late 1981.
Which play? The one at the ICA in London in 1979 (of which I only saw the first few minutes, up to the destruction of the earth, after which everyone with tickets moved to the rotating auditorium - I had just had some exams and hadn't had time to book tickets in advance)
Or Ken Campbell's production at the Rainbow, Islington, which had very poor reviews, but did have an interesting recipie for the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (I've still got half a bottle of Blue Curaço? somewhere).
Or the production by the Theatr Clwyd, with a remote controlled Tonka bulldozer?
OK. I'll try again, without the subtle sarcasm. In the original item, the word "breech" (the rear opening of a gun where bullets are loaded) is used, where the word "breach" (a disregard of rules) is meant. Still off-topic?
e.g.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Abreach
or
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3Abreech
The article can be read here