That same day the first long-distance telephone call via satellite was carried by Telstar. During the call, President Lyndon Johnson spoke to Fred Kappel, then chairman of AT&T.
I rather suspect that many transatlantic calls were made by test engineers long before anyone was bold enough to hand a phone to the President of the USA! <grin>
I've been submitting bug reports and suggesting improvements to Enigmail for a few months now and I like it a lot!
One great thing about it is that it is a cross-platform solution. I can use it under WinBlows and linux; both with GnuPG and the same keyring. <grin>
One thing I like the sound of is Herbivore.
Putting transparent, seamless and automatic encryption and signing into MUA's is the best solution to problems like Carnivore.
I urge people in light of the recent "demise" of PGP to lend their time & support to projects like Enigmail and Ägypten. Even if all you do is report bugs or make suggestions for improvements you'll help with getting these products ready for non-geek end users.
My SF project is an IM protocol library used in about 10 IM clients (libyahoo) and another SF project is a client based on this library (GTKYahoo).
I'm sorry to say that of all the people in my two AUTHORS files I think only one was a girl and she didn't do any developing; only testing.
I wish more girl geeks "did OSS" but IM doesn't seem to be an arena I've seen 'em in.
What so "I've warned you that I'm a racist is now a defence for being racist!
Bah! There's more of an issue with revisionism than just cultural centrism (sp?)
We're US-centric does not defend The US invented everything when clearly it hasn't.
However continually stating things like this in these ways keeps the myths rolling out and perpetuates them.
Like the film U571 (or whatever it was). It's my understanding that it was a British surface ship and not a US submarine that captured the Enigma machine. But now Hollywood has declared that a US victory.
Your comment didn't even state an opinion, it just had a link.
For shame. You can't even defend the (almost racist) revisionism in your own words.
If the FBI hackers are allowed to crack a Russian cracker because the Russians have vetoed their own rights to privcay by their act of cracking why can't one shoot in the back without warning a burglar who breaks into your house? The burglar has surely vetoed their rights to safety by breaking into someone elses house?
Here in the UK, we have stupid laws like barbed wire fences are almost illegal and if I have 10m fences around my pool (or any other, what I would call reasonable safety measures) and someone breaks in and drowns it's my fault!
I happen to think that the FBI hackers were right. I'm tired of criminals trying to claim that their individual rights can supercede a vitim of crime's rights during the committing of a crime.
I'm not saying the FBI should have carte blanch; get a warrent (or whatever) and then do "the search". Looking for evidence doesn't have to be done in person does it?
However, if a personal search for evidence was required overseas, the US would surely have sought the cooperation of the native law enforcement autorities wouldn't they? Did that happen here?
Okay, fair enough. But in the real world, interoperability will be king.
Jabber will only thrive by letting people chat with their friends whatever other client they use.
But there are thousands of people using Jabber every day to chat....
It's good that Jabber can exist on it's own without the gateways, but AOL has (around) 30 million members; that a lot of friends to force to change over from AIM to Jabber.
Not only do I think that the gateways is what will make Jabber king but that they will be strictly necessary for Jabber to be king. I hope it works out that way too.
I guess that SSL is useful for loging on but of course it not end-to-end
The Jabber servers manage connections to the real servers (like Yahoo!'s or whomever) and I don't think any of them support SSL (I only really know about Yahoo! as I work on GtkYahoo) and it (the Yahoo! server) definitely doesn't.
Still it's better than nothing.
Of course this is a handy point to note. Jabber is not an IM service in it's own right. It's a conduit for other IM client / server models so it cannot replace them can it?
No matter how much you want to replace the AIM servers you can't if you want to continue chatting with other AIM users (who aren't using Jabber, I guess).
Also things may have changed but the last time I looked Jabber couln't handle HTTP tunneling. Both Yahoo!'s own client (and there are Linux and FreeBSD versions) and the CVS copy of GtkYahoo can. Can other IM clients do this?
I would say that the guys at Jabber seem serious about helping the Open Source projects they interface with. Libyahoo (the protocol library that GtkYahoo relies on) was recently dual licensed as GPL/JOSL so that they could continue using and upgrade the libyahoo code they were using in their servers and keep it in line with their development and licensing needs.
If you're serious about helping Jabber, help out with the protocol libraries like ours or libicq etc. The more protocols that Jabber can transparently conduit for clients the better. Heterogeneity (sp?) is the key.
I'm actually wearing a 1960's Omega Automatic Seamaster.
Even though I inherited it (and maybe because) it's the best watch I've ever had.
If some street thug tried to mug me for it I'd die first.
I also know 3 other people in my office that have Omega Seamasters. Theirs are new ones though so I don't know if they're self-winding anymore.
One jewler I took my watch to to be valued thanked me profoundly for letting this watch pass through his hands!
I definitely do not think automatic watched should have been on this list.
I've still got my Blood Sweat and Code T-shirt and Boxers that came with CodeWarrior 8!
Back on topic. The CodeWarrior tools rock. I used to be the only Mac programmer working with 10 PC developers and I used to find their bugs before they did.
I regularly use the whois DB to get the deetails of the owner of a site which has facilitated SPAM by having crap security.
The responses have been generally fair. Most times they say mea culpa (sp?) and trash the account of the SPAMmer. Of course they just move on to another ISP but it's an inconvenience that's my only legit weapon against them.
I say keep this DB. The details don't need to be personal afterall, they've got their own domain! They can give a Title instead of a name and an e-mail address in the domain instead of a personal one.
This is an important resource in the fight against people who run such appaulingly insecure mail servers that SPAMmers the world over use them with impunity. Every mail server that's closed up is one less that SPAMmers can use.
Well all I can say is that I (a bloke) was into electronics at 12, computers at 13 and now I'm 32 and programming for a living in London.
My wife is a fully trained counsellor but works extensively with computers and can out-Word and out-Excel me in her sleep. (To the Americans in this forum let me point out that your interpretation of a counsellor is woefully wide. To the UK it mean a professionally trained and accredited psychological professional. Some are therapists others are not.)
Furthermore she's got more letters after her name than she does in her name and she's been smarter than I am since the day we met and always will be so.
She's also a complete babe and I love her to death. She's a strong, passionate and fiercely intelligent woman with a sense of humour and drips with class.
My point is this: women needn't be stupid, for a male Geek to maintain their ego. Any women who practice this (by keeping themselves stupid) or anyone who fosters it (by prejudicing women who don't practice it) are doing all genders a huge disservice.
Also: aren't these kinds of questions (why do women do this... why do black people do that... why do gays do the other?) inherently foster prejudice? Think about it.
Having said that, it's too much of a temptation to say *something**. How he can say 30 years old technology is bizare! Are Ferrari's 100 years old technology because they have wheels? I thought **nothing** was more up to date than Linux. You see new kernels on Freshmeat **every** day. Do M$ ship new versions of Windows that often? I DON'T THINK SO! I'm truley dismayed that someone so obviously intelligent could be **so** way off, to just sound stupid. I weep for his children. The Rev.
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I rather suspect that many transatlantic calls were made by test engineers long before anyone was bold enough to hand a phone to the President of the USA! <grin>
One great thing about it is that it is a cross-platform solution. I can use it under WinBlows and linux; both with GnuPG and the same keyring. <grin>
One thing I like the sound of is Herbivore. Putting transparent, seamless and automatic encryption and signing into MUA's is the best solution to problems like Carnivore.
I urge people in light of the recent "demise" of PGP to lend their time & support to projects like Enigmail and Ägypten. Even if all you do is report bugs or make suggestions for improvements you'll help with getting these products ready for non-geek end users.
Come on guys & gals! Pitch in!
Craig.
My SF project is an IM protocol library used in about 10 IM clients (libyahoo) and another SF project is a client based on this library (GTKYahoo).
I'm sorry to say that of all the people in my two AUTHORS files I think only one was a girl and she didn't do any developing; only testing. I wish more girl geeks "did OSS" but IM doesn't seem to be an arena I've seen 'em in.
Maybe the Jabber ppl can comment.
Bah! There's more of an issue with revisionism than just cultural centrism (sp?)
We're US-centric does not defend The US invented everything when clearly it hasn't.
However continually stating things like this in these ways keeps the myths rolling out and perpetuates them.
Like the film U571 (or whatever it was). It's my understanding that it was a British surface ship and not a US submarine that captured the Enigma machine. But now Hollywood has declared that a US victory.
Your comment didn't even state an opinion, it just had a link.
For shame. You can't even defend the (almost racist) revisionism in your own words.
Here in the UK, we have stupid laws like barbed wire fences are almost illegal and if I have 10m fences around my pool (or any other, what I would call reasonable safety measures) and someone breaks in and drowns it's my fault!
I happen to think that the FBI hackers were right. I'm tired of criminals trying to claim that their individual rights can supercede a vitim of crime's rights during the committing of a crime.
I'm not saying the FBI should have carte blanch; get a warrent (or whatever) and then do "the search". Looking for evidence doesn't have to be done in person does it?
However, if a personal search for evidence was required overseas, the US would surely have sought the cooperation of the native law enforcement autorities wouldn't they? Did that happen here?
Craig.
Jabber will only thrive by letting people chat with their friends whatever other client they use.
But there are thousands of people using Jabber every day to chat....
It's good that Jabber can exist on it's own without the gateways, but AOL has (around) 30 million members; that a lot of friends to force to change over from AIM to Jabber.
Not only do I think that the gateways is what will make Jabber king but that they will be strictly necessary for Jabber to be king. I hope it works out that way too.
Craig.
And you can make yourself a friend so that you'll always know when you're online!
Messages sent to you just come right back. No chit chat though! <sigh>
Craig.
The Jabber servers manage connections to the real servers (like Yahoo!'s or whomever) and I don't think any of them support SSL (I only really know about Yahoo! as I work on GtkYahoo) and it (the Yahoo! server) definitely doesn't.
Still it's better than nothing.
Of course this is a handy point to note. Jabber is not an IM service in it's own right. It's a conduit for other IM client / server models so it cannot replace them can it?
No matter how much you want to replace the AIM servers you can't if you want to continue chatting with other AIM users (who aren't using Jabber, I guess).
Also things may have changed but the last time I looked Jabber couln't handle HTTP tunneling. Both Yahoo!'s own client (and there are Linux and FreeBSD versions) and the CVS copy of GtkYahoo can. Can other IM clients do this?
I would say that the guys at Jabber seem serious about helping the Open Source projects they interface with. Libyahoo (the protocol library that GtkYahoo relies on) was recently dual licensed as GPL/JOSL so that they could continue using and upgrade the libyahoo code they were using in their servers and keep it in line with their development and licensing needs.
If you're serious about helping Jabber, help out with the protocol libraries like ours or libicq etc. The more protocols that Jabber can transparently conduit for clients the better. Heterogeneity (sp?) is the key.
Craig.
I agree with spoonyfork. Ximain should make a new channel or release it through the Ximain Desktop channel or something.
Craig.
I stand wholy corrected.
Why? Is it because they feel that pornography is not acceptable but Nazism is?
They censored themselves whilst raising issues about censorship!
I personally have no probelms with pornography but take enormous and personal issue with Nazism.
I find it odd that we can all have sex at 17 (in the UK the age of consent is 16) but killing Jews (or promoting it or excusing it) is wrong.
Hm!
Craig.
Hey, I saw this on Bloomberg TV this morning (0500hours GMT) so that's all the confirmation I need.
Even though I inherited it (and maybe because) it's the best watch I've ever had.
If some street thug tried to mug me for it I'd die first. I also know 3 other people in my office that have Omega Seamasters. Theirs are new ones though so I don't know if they're self-winding anymore.
One jewler I took my watch to to be valued thanked me profoundly for letting this watch pass through his hands!
I definitely do not think automatic watched should have been on this list.
The Rev.
Back on topic. The CodeWarrior tools rock. I used to be the only Mac programmer working with 10 PC developers and I used to find their bugs before they did.
The responses have been generally fair. Most times they say mea culpa (sp?) and trash the account of the SPAMmer. Of course they just move on to another ISP but it's an inconvenience that's my only legit weapon against them.
I say keep this DB. The details don't need to be personal afterall, they've got their own domain! They can give a Title instead of a name and an e-mail address in the domain instead of a personal one.
This is an important resource in the fight against people who run such appaulingly insecure mail servers that SPAMmers the world over use them with impunity. Every mail server that's closed up is one less that SPAMmers can use.
Craig.
My wife is a fully trained counsellor but works extensively with computers and can out-Word and out-Excel me in her sleep. (To the Americans in this forum let me point out that your interpretation of a counsellor is woefully wide. To the UK it mean a professionally trained and accredited psychological professional. Some are therapists others are not.)
Furthermore she's got more letters after her name than she does in her name and she's been smarter than I am since the day we met and always will be so.
She's also a complete babe and I love her to death. She's a strong, passionate and fiercely intelligent woman with a sense of humour and drips with class.
My point is this: women needn't be stupid, for a male Geek to maintain their ego. Any women who practice this (by keeping themselves stupid) or anyone who fosters it (by prejudicing women who don't practice it) are doing all genders a huge disservice.
Also: aren't these kinds of questions (why do women do this... why do black people do that... why do gays do the other?) inherently foster prejudice? Think about it.
Having said that, it's too much of a temptation to say *something**. How he can say 30 years old technology is bizare! Are Ferrari's 100 years old technology because they have wheels? I thought **nothing** was more up to date than Linux. You see new kernels on Freshmeat **every** day. Do M$ ship new versions of Windows that often? I DON'T THINK SO! I'm truley dismayed that someone so obviously intelligent could be **so** way off, to just sound stupid. I weep for his children. The Rev.
I've been running RH5.2 on an old 360CSE (DX2-50MHz 20Mb RAM, 380Mb disk) for about a year now and it's great for playing on the train.
It's about time IBM started supporting Linux properly & I applaud this completely.