You can run a caching proxy (e.g. "squid") on your computer to prevent re-fetching pages you've already fetched, and chain it to a filtering proxy (e.g. "privoxy") to block downloading of large but superfluous stuff like advertisements. If you're not already using Firefox, you might consider trying it, and installing the NoScript and/or Flashblock extensions to give you control over Flash, Java and other downloads that might otherwise automatically happen whether you actually want them or not.
Perhaps Temporal has a point that tor users are, statistically speaking, "college-age, computer-savvy, geeky, single, and male" (although I am neither college age nor single), but by using privoxy with tor -- the preferred method according to the tor developers -- targeted ads will be blocked anyway. So the point appears to be moot.
FTL wrote:
Microsoft's "Office Open XML" name reminds me of a lot of country names. Whenever one hears a country called "The People's Democratic Republic of [Somewhere]", one instantly knows it is communist. Likewise, anything "open" from Microsoft is invariably closed. Yeah, if they have to tell you explicitly, then it usually means it's not a conclusion you'd come to on your own. Kind of like Fox News' "Fair and Balanced."
goombah99 wrote:
Eventually more and more customers and clients will send you documents encoded in MS format. You will need to not only read them but edit them and send them back. But isn't the New! Improved! "OfficeOpenXML" format supposedly an open "standard" that anyone can implement? Or was that just a bunch of hot air from Microsoft?
> Cause tape doesn't work, simple as that. It's a crappy, slow and > expensive medium. Why anyone at all, home users or enterprises > still use it is beyond me.
Sorry, Brak, but you have no clue. Perhaps consumer-grade tape is crappy and slow, but enterprise-grade tape is not. DLT technology is still the gold standard for backup. You can get lower capacity DLT drives and tapes dirt-cheap on eBay (sometimes even brand-new and in the box). Adding capacity is simply a matter of adding more tape cartridges -- much cheaper than buying additional external drives. With 30 year+ archival lifetime it's also much more reliable than writable CDs or DVDs.
what if the governemnt was running massive tor routers, sniffing packets from whatever comes across their electronic doorstep? You see, that is the weakness of Tor, besides it's speed. You need a trusted source to begin with.
AFAIK, only the first tor router in the chain knows the originating IP address. And if that happens to be running on a machine you control, how will any subsequent tor router discover it?
Trying to save an ecosystem in this manner is like trying to save a burning library by randomly grabbing a few books out of each section and letting the rest go up in flames. Populations restarted after such rescue will have almost no genetic diversity and therefore severely compromised resilience to respond to environmental changes.
To properly save an ecosystem, you need the save the whole ecosystem, not just a few things that are cute or judged to be "more important" than others.
And it found some, but not all the web-enabled devices on my network. It found my web server and correctly identified it as Apache, found the squid proxy running on the gateway/firewall machine (identified as "unknown"), but failed to find my wireless router (through which it had to pass in order to see the rest of my network), or my print server. It also identified as "exists" several IP addresses on which no machine or device exists.
But the Firefox "NoScript" extension completely blocked it until I told it to temporarily allow the host site.
Seriously, I just use the tarball. I unpack it, then "mv firefox firefox-1.5.0.5" and "ln -s firefox-1.5.0.5 firefox" so that I retain the old installation (just in case) and automatically point users to the new location. Before I update I just have to delete the sym-link before unpacking the tarball.
I tried the demonstation exploit with the new Firefox-1.5.0.5 on linux and it still managed to crash the browser (but only after I told NoScript to allow javascript from metasploit.com). What I noticed happening was an attempt to create a file on/tmp (which failed) followed by dramatic memory use increase until it crashed. So perhaps a little more work needs to be done on this.
Yates' objection was spurious from the beginning. Open Document is an open standard, so there's nothing to stop anyone -- Microsoft included -- from implementing a fully compatible Open Document import/export filter for their software. The only reason Microsoft is reluctant to do so is because it might loosen their monopoly grip on the office software market.
Perhaps so, but google scholar covers much more than just comp sci research. I've been using it for months already for health care related acedemic research.
Check the rendering options in/etc/xpdfrc and/or ~/.xpdfrc:
#----- misc settings enableT1lib yes enableFreeType yes antialias yes # Set the anti-aliasing mode for t1lib and FreeType. These can be low # or high (anti-aliasing), plain (no anti-aliasing), or none (disable # the rasterizer entirely).
Have you configured xpdf properly? E.g. in/etc/xpdfrc or ~/.xpdfrc:
#----- misc settings enableT1lib yes enableFreeType yes antialias yes # Set the anti-aliasing mode for t1lib and FreeType. These can be low # or high (anti-aliasing), plain (no anti-aliasing), or none (disable # the rasterizer entirely).
You need to use gaim/gaim-encryption at both ends; you can't expect the standard AIM client to magically know how to decrypt it.
But if you are send info you really care to protect, you should use jabber instead on a server you trust. Jabber will transparently use TLS to encrypt traffic, and running on your trusted server it becomes much more difficult to intercept in the first place.
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You can run a caching proxy (e.g. "squid") on your computer to prevent re-fetching pages you've already fetched, and chain it to a filtering proxy (e.g. "privoxy") to block downloading of large but superfluous stuff like advertisements. If you're not already using Firefox, you might consider trying it, and installing the NoScript and/or Flashblock extensions to give you control over Flash, Java and other downloads that might otherwise automatically happen whether you actually want them or not.
Yet Stratavari managed to do it by art, and we still don't completely understand why his instruments are so good.
Perhaps Temporal has a point that tor users are, statistically speaking, "college-age, computer-savvy, geeky, single, and male" (although I am neither college age nor single), but by using privoxy with tor -- the preferred method according to the tor developers -- targeted ads will be blocked anyway. So the point appears to be moot.
I do hope they're not actually teaching this in science classes! Darn Evilutionists must be everywhere. Where's my theory of Creative Gravity, eh?
Ok, let's try this: "the earth just sucks!"
brak wrote:
> Cause tape doesn't work, simple as that. It's a crappy, slow and
> expensive medium. Why anyone at all, home users or enterprises
> still use it is beyond me.
Sorry, Brak, but you have no clue. Perhaps consumer-grade tape is crappy and slow, but enterprise-grade tape is not. DLT technology is still the gold standard for backup. You can get lower capacity DLT drives and tapes dirt-cheap on eBay (sometimes even brand-new and in the box). Adding capacity is simply a matter of adding more tape cartridges -- much cheaper than buying additional external drives. With 30 year+ archival lifetime it's also much more reliable than writable CDs or DVDs.
what if the governemnt was running massive tor routers, sniffing packets from whatever comes across their electronic doorstep? You see, that is the weakness of Tor, besides it's speed. You need a trusted source to begin with.
AFAIK, only the first tor router in the chain knows the originating IP address. And if that happens to be running on a machine you control, how will any subsequent tor router discover it?
Trying to save an ecosystem in this manner is like trying to save a burning library by randomly grabbing a few books out of each section and letting the rest go up in flames. Populations restarted after such rescue will have almost no genetic diversity and therefore severely compromised resilience to respond to environmental changes.
To properly save an ecosystem, you need the save the whole ecosystem, not just a few things that are cute or judged to be "more important" than others.
And it found some, but not all the web-enabled devices on my network. It found my web server and correctly identified it as Apache, found the squid proxy running on the gateway/firewall machine (identified as "unknown"), but failed to find my wireless router (through which it had to pass in order to see the rest of my network), or my print server. It also identified as "exists" several IP addresses on which no machine or device exists.
But the Firefox "NoScript" extension completely blocked it until I told it to temporarily allow the host site.
Ah, but you can:
http://www.noscript.net/whats
Completely blocked the "proof of concept" script here.
Just install the "NoScript" extension and only the sites you autorize will be able to use javascript.
There's an installer for linux? :-)
Seriously, I just use the tarball. I unpack it, then "mv firefox firefox-1.5.0.5" and "ln -s firefox-1.5.0.5 firefox" so that I retain the old installation (just in case) and automatically point users to the new location. Before I update I just have to delete the sym-link before unpacking the tarball.
I tried the demonstation exploit with the new Firefox-1.5.0.5 on linux and it still managed to crash the browser (but only after I told NoScript to allow javascript from metasploit.com). What I noticed happening was an attempt to create a file on /tmp (which failed) followed by dramatic memory use increase until it crashed. So perhaps a little more work needs to be done on this.
BTW, Thunderbird-1.5.0.5 is also available now.
If their patented gene or physiological relationship has made me ill and they haven't provided a cure?
Bittorrent and the MPAA made peace, didn't they?
o od_Reach_Piracy_Deal/1132701192
http://www.betanews.com/article/BitTorrent_Hollyw
No Vista? Gee, that's a tragedy!
And viruses -- !?!?!? What is he smoking? How the heck do you get a virus from usenet? You'd have to be totally brain-dead.
No, you just have to use Outlook Express.
oh...wait...
NEVER MIND!
I suppose you use postcards for all your snail mail correspondence?
Yates' objection was spurious from the beginning. Open Document is an open standard, so there's nothing to stop anyone -- Microsoft included -- from implementing a fully compatible Open Document import/export filter for their software. The only reason Microsoft is reluctant to do so is because it might loosen their monopoly grip on the office software market.
Perhaps so, but google scholar covers much more than just comp sci research. I've been using it for months already for health care related acedemic research.
Check the rendering options in /etc/xpdfrc and/or ~/.xpdfrc:
#----- misc settings
enableT1lib yes
enableFreeType yes
antialias yes
# Set the anti-aliasing mode for t1lib and FreeType. These can be low
# or high (anti-aliasing), plain (no anti-aliasing), or none (disable
# the rasterizer entirely).
t1libControl low
freetypeControl low
Have you configured xpdf properly? E.g. in /etc/xpdfrc or ~/.xpdfrc:
#----- misc settings
enableT1lib yes
enableFreeType yes
antialias yes
# Set the anti-aliasing mode for t1lib and FreeType. These can be low
# or high (anti-aliasing), plain (no anti-aliasing), or none (disable
# the rasterizer entirely).
t1libControl low
freetypeControl low
Works for me, anyway...
But what if the AIM client autoamatically encrypts with an AOL key as well? There's no way you could know this or prevent it.
You need to use gaim/gaim-encryption at both ends; you can't expect the standard AIM client to magically know how to decrypt it.
But if you are send info you really care to protect, you should use jabber instead on a server you trust. Jabber will transparently use TLS to encrypt traffic, and running on your trusted server it becomes much more difficult to intercept in the first place.