The story, it seems, is this: Rüdiger Kuhlmann, the maintainer of mICQ, had a disagreement with Martin Loschwitz, the maintainer of the Debian mICQ package, on how that package should be built. Mr. Kuhlmann complained that an old version of mICQ was shipped, that it contained bugs which had been fixed upstream, and that his name had been removed from the copyright file. The disagreement had apparently been going on for a while.
Mr. Kuhlmann decided that enough was enough, and he was going to take some action. As of mICQ 0.4.10.1, the code will, when built for the Debian distribution, print out a message which says some unflattering things about Mr. Loschwitz and encourages use of a different version; the program then exits. In other words, when built for Debian, mICQ thumbs its nose at the user and refuses to run. To help ensure that this code got into the official Debian version, it was written in an obfuscated manner, set to trigger only after February 11, and only if it was not being run by Mr. Loschwitz.
it took complete submersion in a cold, six foot deep puddle out in the sticks, and driving up a hill at speed, and even that only cracked the engine block.
How does a six foot deep puddle stay put on the side of a hill?
I've always been impressed that Apple's patches for Mac OS X fix such a short list of not-too-serious bugs. Microsoft's Windows service packs, on the other hand, often fix hundreds of serious bugs. And Windows service packs seem to get increasingly unstable in later service packs.
I always wondered, if God made man in His image, then in whose image did He make all the thousands other species? And why does God have such fondness for beetles?
Evolution itself is evolving. With modern technology, humans are actively tinkering with natural selection. Apparently, this is a successful strategy, otherwise it would not work as well as it seems to.
bluethundr it writes "for every year that there existed which only lira traditional text informing, like art the meeting is informed in a manner Randy Hyde, would have it in line lira or a PDF' D copies downloaden and him for your clean bad sef to print. It would seem that no place of state of press of being able exceeds to release poised, for (aka BOOK) the version of this one expenditure in a very marked way envisaged on that mystery topic on dead means of tree in a very marked way pleasant. I the morning very fortunately on this development. While I recognize the value hypertext like reference, if they learn in detail all the complicated dead means of tree from the topic come, the manner must have gone, transmits to the bottom IMHO! Me emailed the company, to receive a grain above, when this development is awaited and this one was the answer: ' No, misinformed him not. The publication envisaged temporally the date for the art of the meeting is March, 2003. I slightly announced very soon on that website, perhaps in the following couples of the days. Thanks for to the interest!' "
We read so many stories about US software jobs and projects being outsourced to Indian software companies. I wonder if US programmers will eventually consider moving to Indian because that's where the jobs are. Most professionals in India speak English (probably better than many USAians). One of my Indian coworkers told me that a good software job will pay only $1500 per month, but the cost of living is so low that for just $500 per month you can afford a nice house with servants.
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From what I've read, Mosaic was mostly written by other people. Marc the Intern just took credit for it. The original Mosaic developers eventually came to work at Netscape under the condition that they do not have to work with or report to Marc (because he was such a jerk).
AM disappointed at the lack of system software support for Rendezvous thus far, but it's just a matter of coding things up. I expect this coming WWDC (may) to be Rendezvous heavy.
I doubt many hardware vendors will add Rendezvous support until Windows (aka 90% of the user market) includes Rendezvous.
I have my own domain name, but I use a different email address for every web site, such as amazon@xyz.com or slashdot@xyz.com. Anything sent to xyz.com ends up in my inbox, so creating new email addresses is easy. And when I do get spam to my slashdot@xyz.com, I know who sold their email list to a spammer and I can block just that email address.
I think Sun was trying to break the Wintel logjam. A cross-platform JVM would reduce/remove people's Intel addiction (for all those x86 legacy apps) and maybe allow apps writen on the world's most common OS (Windows) to run on Sun, too.
Why does Sun want to support cross-platform JVMs on Solaris? Don't they want to sell more SPARC hardware? And wouldn't native SPARC apps be faster?
Corporations think it's a good idea to add more features to their software.
If software companies do not add more and more new features, why would someone who bought the old version upgrade to the new version? At least, that is the thinking of most software companies.
What Opera 6 bug was Microsoft working around? According to Opera in this article: "You mean, perhaps MSN had to write special versions of the page for the older Opera6? No. Opera6 handles the pages sent to MSIE6 just fine."
I think democratizing the entire government budget would allow people to literally "vote with their dollars". I get pissed off when state bond measures are floated to support "extra stuff" that I feel should be paid with the tax money I already forfeited. Change the 1040 tax forms to allow the taxpayer to specify how much of their tax dollars should fund their favorite programs. The government's actions (driven by the available budget) would be directly guided by the hand of the people.
Sure, some people will give 100% to environmental cleanup or 100% to defense spending. I imagine the first few years would be bumpy when certain programs 0% of their previous budget, but I think this budget system would soon become self-correcting as people realize the direct consequences of their budget choices.
I read somewhere that the progammers that wrote the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo saved space by using instruction data from the cartridge ROM for sound effects! I always thought that was clever/sick.:-)
Sun should ask or pay AOL to include the Sun JVM on all AOL CDs and Netscape downloads. Didn't Sun and AOL/Netscape collobrate on the iPlanet server suite? Don't Sun and AOL/Netscape have a common enemy, Microsoft? Instead of working the (slow) legal system, Sun should work with the existing, successful distribution channels.
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Why has Slashdot not mentioned the recent Debian trojan horse? Open Source is not impervious to bugs or trojan horses.
The trojaning of mICQ
The story, it seems, is this: Rüdiger Kuhlmann, the maintainer of mICQ, had a disagreement with Martin Loschwitz, the maintainer of the Debian mICQ package, on how that package should be built. Mr. Kuhlmann complained that an old version of mICQ was shipped, that it contained bugs which had been fixed upstream, and that his name had been removed from the copyright file. The disagreement had apparently been going on for a while.
Mr. Kuhlmann decided that enough was enough, and he was going to take some action. As of mICQ 0.4.10.1, the code will, when built for the Debian distribution, print out a message which says some unflattering things about Mr. Loschwitz and encourages use of a different version; the program then exits. In other words, when built for Debian, mICQ thumbs its nose at the user and refuses to run. To help ensure that this code got into the official Debian version, it was written in an obfuscated manner, set to trigger only after February 11, and only if it was not being run by Mr. Loschwitz.
it took complete submersion in a cold, six foot deep puddle out in the sticks, and driving up a hill at speed, and even that only cracked the engine block.
How does a six foot deep puddle stay put on the side of a hill?
Why is it necessary to disable Microsoft Smart Tags?
Yahoo, as an example of a portal site, uses Google as a web-searching tool.
Not for long. Yahoo bought Inktomi in December 2002 and Google's contract with Yahoo ends in (I think) March 2003.
but isn't Linux a Finnish technology?
Sony + Apple = Snapple?
I've always been impressed that Apple's patches for Mac OS X fix such a short list of not-too-serious bugs. Microsoft's Windows service packs, on the other hand, often fix hundreds of serious bugs. And Windows service packs seem to get increasingly unstable in later service packs.
I always wondered, if God made man in His image, then in whose image did He make all the thousands other species? And why does God have such fondness for beetles?
Evolution itself is evolving. With modern technology, humans are actively tinkering with natural selection. Apparently, this is a successful strategy, otherwise it would not work as well as it seems to.
Yes, there is a casual relationship. The squirrels are causing global warming.
bluethundr it writes "for every year that there existed which only lira traditional text informing, like art the meeting is informed in a manner Randy Hyde, would have it in line lira or a PDF' D copies downloaden and him for your clean bad sef to print. It would seem that no place of state of press of being able exceeds to release poised, for (aka BOOK) the version of this one expenditure in a very marked way envisaged on that mystery topic on dead means of tree in a very marked way pleasant. I the morning very fortunately on this development. While I recognize the value hypertext like reference, if they learn in detail all the complicated dead means of tree from the topic come, the manner must have gone, transmits to the bottom IMHO! Me emailed the company, to receive a grain above, when this development is awaited and this one was the answer: ' No, misinformed him not. The publication envisaged temporally the date for the art of the meeting is March, 2003. I slightly announced very soon on that website, perhaps in the following couples of the days. Thanks for to the interest!' "
We read so many stories about US software jobs and projects being outsourced to Indian software companies. I wonder if US programmers will eventually consider moving to Indian because that's where the jobs are. Most professionals in India speak English (probably better than many USAians). One of my Indian coworkers told me that a good software job will pay only $1500 per month, but the cost of living is so low that for just $500 per month you can afford a nice house with servants.
From what I've read, Mosaic was mostly written by other people. Marc the Intern just took credit for it. The original Mosaic developers eventually came to work at Netscape under the condition that they do not have to work with or report to Marc (because he was such a jerk).
It takes thousands or millions of years for a new species to develop, yet perhaps the blink of an eye to perish.
Makes you wonder what could happen to humans, with just the right set of environmental/climate changes.
You probably just don't have the correct Asian fonts installed for your web browser.
AM disappointed at the lack of system software support for Rendezvous thus far, but it's just a matter of coding things up. I expect this coming WWDC (may) to be Rendezvous heavy.
I doubt many hardware vendors will add Rendezvous support until Windows (aka 90% of the user market) includes Rendezvous.
I don't run my own mail server. I just use the Rules Wizard in Outlook. :-)
I have my own domain name, but I use a different email address for every web site, such as amazon@xyz.com or slashdot@xyz.com. Anything sent to xyz.com ends up in my inbox, so creating new email addresses is easy. And when I do get spam to my slashdot@xyz.com, I know who sold their email list to a spammer and I can block just that email address.
I think Sun was trying to break the Wintel logjam. A cross-platform JVM would reduce/remove people's Intel addiction (for all those x86 legacy apps) and maybe allow apps writen on the world's most common OS (Windows) to run on Sun, too.
Why does Sun want to support cross-platform JVMs on Solaris? Don't they want to sell more SPARC hardware? And wouldn't native SPARC apps be faster?
Corporations think it's a good idea to add more features to their software.
If software companies do not add more and more new features, why would someone who bought the old version upgrade to the new version? At least, that is the thinking of most software companies.
What Opera 6 bug was Microsoft working around? According to Opera in this article: "You mean, perhaps MSN had to write special versions of the page for the older Opera6? No. Opera6 handles the pages sent to MSIE6 just fine."
I think democratizing the entire government budget would allow people to literally "vote with their dollars". I get pissed off when state bond measures are floated to support "extra stuff" that I feel should be paid with the tax money I already forfeited. Change the 1040 tax forms to allow the taxpayer to specify how much of their tax dollars should fund their favorite programs. The government's actions (driven by the available budget) would be directly guided by the hand of the people.
Sure, some people will give 100% to environmental cleanup or 100% to defense spending. I imagine the first few years would be bumpy when certain programs 0% of their previous budget, but I think this budget system would soon become self-correcting as people realize the direct consequences of their budget choices.
I read somewhere that the progammers that wrote the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo saved space by using instruction data from the cartridge ROM for sound effects! I always thought that was clever/sick.
Sun should ask or pay AOL to include the Sun JVM on all AOL CDs and Netscape downloads. Didn't Sun and AOL/Netscape collobrate on the iPlanet server suite? Don't Sun and AOL/Netscape have a common enemy, Microsoft? Instead of working the (slow) legal system, Sun should work with the existing, successful distribution channels.
or perhaps Matt will join the NetBSD or OpenBSD teams or even Linux. The Linux VM could really use some help from a developer of his caliber.