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  1. Re:Random thoughts on installers on Linux Games Come Of Age · · Score: 1
    I'm not a big Microsoftie, but I have worked with Install Shield and there are a couple of points that should be brought up:

    - Install Shield consists of setup.exe (~384k) plus a dll or two, less than half a meg.

    - You can specify an internet location to update the library from in setup.ini. Below is a sample that likely has garbled syntax, as it's been a while.

    [msdao15.dll]
    file=%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msdao15.dll
    version=1.5.0.1234
    codebase=http://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/msdao. cab


    This section in setup.ini would cause msdao15.dll to be downloaded and installed from the specified package if an up-to-date version were not available.
  2. Re:From The Associate (key is on the server) on Privacy vs. Anonymity · · Score: 1

    What server?

  3. Re:There is no anonymity on Privacy vs. Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Sure, they can tell you're using FreeNet, but they have no clue what you're putting in or getting out. Of, course, the protocol isn't encrypted yet. BTW: Node to Node encryption should be available with version 0.3, due out before July, I think.

  4. Re:You're absolutely right... on Censorship In China · · Score: 2

    When I buy a PC, it does not list on the side the countries where all the chip were fabbed, where the fan in the power supply was made, location of the factory that stamped out the connectors for the IDE bus, etc. All these are commodity parts, and tend to be shipped from wherever is supplying them cheapest this month. As a consumer you simply can't know where everything you're buying was built.
    That is not to say that you shouldn't take reasonable steps to avoid buy stuff made in countries you dissaprove of, but being 100% sure is impossible without enacting some draconian legislation regarding country-of-origin labeling.

  5. Re:This might be interesting on Kerberos Loophole May Be Closed/Apple Getting Kerberos · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Samba team based in au? I thought Australia gave much better protection to reverse engineering than the US.

  6. Re:OFFTOPIC: Perl question on Abandonware, or 'Allaire Forums Open Sourced' · · Score: 1
    If you start all your perl CGI scripts with:
    #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
    use strict;

    You shouldn't have too many problems.
    The -T is key, it forces you to "launder" any outside data ( such as form inputs ) through a regular expression before you use it to affect other things outside the script. See chapter 6 of the Camel Book. I'm not really a security nut, but from my experience, perl does have some nice features to prevent you from pulling any obvious forehead slappers.
  7. Re:The web is broken. on Bow Tie Theory: Researchers Map The Web · · Score: 1
    Then we come to my pet-peeve: JavaScript. I cannot stand pages that depend on JS-support. It is fine to use, but as soon as I get to a page that is impossible to navigate without JS, I leave.

    Which brings me to my pet peeve. Has anyone else notices that style sheets simply stop working in Communicator 4.x when you turn javascript off? At least in Linux that is, I haven't used it under Windows in ages.

  8. Re:Fine, FreeNET is given yet more reason to exist on NetPD, Metallica's Mysterious Tracker · · Score: 1

    People who want to become reputible freenet publishers can sign their content with a private key. They publish the public key to freent. They use this keypair _only_ on freenet, so they do not compromise their annonimity. The folks at freenet are also working on a protocol that allows authors of signed contenet to update (byut not delete) already published material.
    I'm currently reading up on crypto protocols so that hopefully I can contribute before the projects finished. Most of the stuff on the dev list on this subject is currently a little over my head.

  9. Re:Napster Only has one use on RIAA Claims Initial Legal Win vs. Napster · · Score: 1

    > freenet_request mp3/some-band/some-album/some-track.mp3 some-track.mp3
    I don't advocate using a liberating technology such as freenet to infringe other people's copyrights, but... Put that in your pipe and smoke it RIAA!!
    heh.

  10. Re:Ask Slashdot on Which CGI Language For Which Purpose? · · Score: 1

    1. ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR.
    2. e
    3. [L]GPL
    4. All of them, all mixed up in a bucket!
    5. Mandrale
    6. GNU/Linux has the moral victory, but Linux saves two whole syllabals
    7. Big-endian
    8. Buy
    9. Boxers
    10. brunette
    11. Both
    12. neither
    13. none
    14. INF, I left the warpper on
    15. Babylon 5
    16. non of that either
    17. Color
    18. Frames
    19. *gag*
    20. Walk
    21. Dr. Suess
    22. mouse, and keyboard
    23. Cooperative
    24. POP3
    25. Hex
    26. [[[[[[[[[[[[[[------------------]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
    27. Troll

  11. Re:Object Database on Why Not MySQL? · · Score: 1

    It's not Open Source, but you can try Cache` from Intersystems It can talk SQL, and stored procedures are written in M. It's used extensively in the medical industry (where I work). They license by concurrent user, not sure about pricing though.

  12. Re:Once again... on Shut Down Metallica, Not Napster · · Score: 2

    Jon might not come after you, put his publisher's lawyers would. Typically an author signs over their copyright for 5, 7, 10 whatever years to the publisher, or the exclusive right to print two runs, or whatever. It depends on the contract, but odds are, he couldn't give his work away even if he wanted to.

  13. This is why on Metallica's "Justice" And Napster · · Score: 4

    ...projects like Freenet are so important. It denies the media heavies an organization to sue, and the .edu's a central site to block. If your university starts blocking traffic on port 19114, just start your node on 80 ;-).

  14. beta.slashdot.org on Help Beta Test The New Slashdot Server · · Score: 1

    ...is /.'ed. It takes from 45s to forever to load the front page. Compare to 6s to 15s at slashdot.org. Maybe it's just half the /. user population running obsessive reloading scripts against it. I guess I'll have to check it out later.

  15. Re:What is proprietary anyway then? on Caldera CEO Says Linux Is Proprietary · · Score: 1

    Because then you would be reserving the right to use the software as well. Any rights not granted by the license are reserved solely for the author/owner.

  16. Crashing VMS on Microsoft -- Designed for Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Kill an M job from the VMS promt. Slap forehead. Call computer room.

  17. Re:Directory Archiecture and Centraliaztion Questi on Learn About FreeNet Straight From The Source · · Score: 1

    --- snip ---
    Also, you say it's not searchable? Well, I pictured that with a directory structure like the one outlined, one would be able to load /hardware and see directories like reviews, previews, articles, etc, in the directory, and that's how all directories would work, and thus be searchable? After all, woulnd't someone have to go around giving out the document location anyway? How anonymous is that?
    Well you could have third party indexes where people could post interesting document links. These sites could also have a review/synopsis of the document. Think USENET --> DejaNews. If you were really paranoid about staying hidden, I'm sure anonymous mail gateways/websites will be created. Fill out a form on a website you trust not to log you, then you just register your FreeNet resource with one of these indexes and away you go.

    --snip--
    You say that there will be no centralization. So how are all of the new servers gonna know where all the other servers are? My point: doesn't it seem like there will HAVE to be at least one mothership of all servers to give out lists of all other servers?
    I don't think so. I haven't looked at the protocol, but here's one way to do it:
    Node A knows how to fetch data from nodes B,C,D
    Node B can fetch from E,I,F
    Node C can fetch from A,I,F
    etc.
    Basicly your requests propogate depth first along a directed graph. Presumably the node that you requested the data from, and possibly the intervening ones would cache the data as it made its way back to you. As long as there exists a tree that spans FreeNet your covered. I'm sure there are ways to gaurentee this, although I'm not qualified to discuss them.

  18. Re:Gotta agree with you there. on Diablo II Collector's Edition · · Score: 1

    Forget D&D - How about a MERP ro RoleMaster game.
    ICE rocked my world.

  19. Re:Killobyte by Piers Anthony on X-Files FPS Episode · · Score: 1

    There was also a guy with a pace maker who couldn't allow himselft to "die" in the game because it simulated death with electric shock. BTW - I think the reason they couldn't get out was because some h4x0r disabled their logout command.

  20. Tables on Updated Slash & Server 51 · · Score: 3

    I'm viewing this page with Netscape 4.7/Linux and the tables are really messed up: they're all squished over on the right up top, and to left on the bottom. Is anyone else getting this?

  21. Re:Interesting story... on Sex in Space · · Score: 1

    The Orgasmotron!

  22. Re:the jargon file says... on Geeks vs. Nerds · · Score: 1

    Graphic artists, web page designers, desktop publishers, and other people who use computers as part of their jobs but not necessarily for programming, often use geek(2) when referring to themselves. My theory is that Wired probably had alot to do with this.

  23. Re:Fibre Optics vs speed of light. on Fiber Optic World Records Broken · · Score: 1

    I thought signals propogated at c/6, at least in SI. My CS prof metioned this once in connection with the importance of keeping die size small as clock rates rise. You have to give the clock signal enough time to reach the end of your data path before you send another one. I could be way off on this, but I'd assume that it would apply to copper as well.

  24. Yes but... on Stallman Responds to LinuxWorld GPL Article · · Score: 1
    To further confound matters, he promotes free software by constraining the freedom of software developers.

    Which is exactly how you guarentee freedom: by limiting the the ability of those in power to abuse it. Notice how many of the freedoms guarenteed in the Bill of Rights are basicly restriction on the government. "Congress shall make now law restricting X" Where X=Gun ownership, press, religion, speech, etc...

  25. Re:what was the article about I don't remember on Linkage between Cell-phone Usage and Long Term Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    Many phones disply it briefly when it starts up. Otherwise look for a menu option call NAM (Network access module) this stores your phones network settings, and should have the number in there somewhere.