I live in San Diego, and work for an ISP in Oaklahoma administering the network systems remotely over SSH. The guys out there handle all of the sales and such then e-mail to me the usernames and passwords, credit card info, demographics, etc. This is exactly the kind of information that/needs/ to be encrypted when sent over the Internet, especially for such an insecure system of data transfer as e-mail. If that stuff was sent in plain text I'd have hundreds of sucessful crack attempts, instead of a pretty tight and secure box. Even the best security measures will ammount to nothing if we broadcast user/pass combinations to just anybody who's watching.
It's not only e-mail they're quiting from.
I use Alta-Vista Free Internet access (or used to, that is), and today got an e-mail from them saying that they will stop providing dial up access very soon.
I think you're right. Not every piece of software released for Linux has to be GPL. Has anybody actually downloaded the source code and checked to see if it's anything that has been GPLed before?
I've been using IE since version 2.something on windows and was there for `midnight madness' downloading the brand new 3.0
The first thing I noticed when I had it downloaded is that none of the things in the links toolbar went exactly where they said they were going. Second thing I did was to delete all of them.
You are an idiot. Have you ever heard of LinuxPPC or Yellow Dog Linux? Linux runs very well on Mac hardware. Not to mention that a G4 is the only super computer that can be owned personally and run Linux. My Linux on a G4 will spank your Linux on Intel any day of the week and twice on Sundays. By Intel's own benchmarks, G4 is 2-3 times faster than any Pentium.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe some of us never read our high school physics books...acceleration is a change in speed, or direction. Any speed, up or down, and any direction.
I live in San Diego, and work for an ISP in Oaklahoma administering the network systems remotely over SSH. The guys out there handle all of the sales and such then e-mail to me the usernames and passwords, credit card info, demographics, etc. This is exactly the kind of information that /needs/ to be encrypted when sent over the Internet, especially for such an insecure system of data transfer as e-mail. If that stuff was sent in plain text I'd have hundreds of sucessful crack attempts, instead of a pretty tight and secure box. Even the best security measures will ammount to nothing if we broadcast user/pass combinations to just anybody who's watching.
It's not only e-mail they're quiting from. I use Alta-Vista Free Internet access (or used to, that is), and today got an e-mail from them saying that they will stop providing dial up access very soon.
Even as screwed up as it is, and the terrible direction we're heading, this is still the best country in the world.
Wow, caching, why didn't anyone think of that before?
If you'd read the FAQ you'd know why he doesn't.
I think you're right. Not every piece of software released for Linux has to be GPL. Has anybody actually downloaded the source code and checked to see if it's anything that has been GPLed before?
I've been using IE since version 2.something on windows and was there for `midnight madness' downloading the brand new 3.0
The first thing I noticed when I had it downloaded is that none of the things in the links toolbar went exactly where they said they were going. Second thing I did was to delete all of them.
I probably found this thread way too late, but what about this one? Dick Butkus - Football comentator
This may not show up in the replies, but maybe it will. If anyone wants a copy of cuecat, I've got it on my ftp server, here
You are an idiot. Have you ever heard of LinuxPPC or Yellow Dog Linux? Linux runs very well on Mac hardware. Not to mention that a G4 is the only super computer that can be owned personally and run Linux. My Linux on a G4 will spank your Linux on Intel any day of the week and twice on Sundays. By Intel's own benchmarks, G4 is 2-3 times faster than any Pentium.