If grocery stores wish to paint Coke cans green prior to re-selling, I see no reason they should be stopped from doing this. They should even be allowed to change what's *in* the Coke, as long as the customer is made aware of this fact.
Isn't this sort of the point of capitalism, brand differentiation?
Of course, rather ironically, Formula One starts are know done via 'launch control' software, meaning all the driver has to do is put their foot to the floor, and the computer takes care of little things like wheelspin.
"The copyright law should be applied universally," she says. "What is it we're trying to teach these children anyway? Are we teaching them that its OK to steal? The message we need to get to them is that intellectual property deserves to be respected."
That's funny, at my school we were always taught to share. If you had something that someone else could use, and you didn't need it, you should give it to someone else. This was never portrayed as stealing at any point during my education..
Blueyonder via Yorkshire Cable/Telewest/current name of the month.
Not too bad, 512/128kbps. When I initially signed up there were loads of problems, but now they're pretty good.
Oh, and when you sign up they might tell you you need to run Win9x/NT.. if you say in advance you're going to run Linux they'll probably be OK, but apparently some of their sales drones are clueless. Certinally the guy who came to cable the box in here was fine with me running Linux..
No, sid is *always* unstable (if you remember, in Toy Story sid was the kid who used to break things a lot, hence the name:)).
At the bottom of the announcement it does say this about the next name:
On the subject of controversial decisions, one I'm not going to make today is what to call the release after woody. That one will be made when woody is released and a new testing distribution is forked from woody. Besides which, I still haven't gotten around to rewatching Toy Story.
Some experts have suggested that advertisers will focus increasingly on "imbedding" advertising in the programs, via a split screen, an unobtrusive logo, or product placement as a "prop" in the show.
This sounds morally repugnant. Imagine a TV show where there was little plot and just a whole lot of product placement. I for one hope this never takes off.
I have to say: what's all the fuss about? We have online betting here in the UK, in fact the government recently lowered gambling taxes to dissuade people from betting using off-shore services. I'm known to occasionally have a little flutter on the Grand Prix myself (except you Americans and your CART racing seem to have led JP Montoya into bad habits since his amazing performance in F3000).
Anyway, don't most states in the US run a lottery? In what way is this not gambling?
If you think Internet Explorer's the best then you should really try Konqueror. It's faster at rendering than MSIE, and more feature compliant. It also doesn't add new 'features' which are specific to it.
Of course, Netscape were doing this little trick right from the start, so if you want to point fingers for HTML incompatibility problems Netscape is where I'd lay them.
How quickly people forget though..
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Bzzt.. try again.
The worst it could do is pretend to be a local xterm and fool the user into su'ing. The client can only affect the client itself - not other clients, even if they are also on the same machine.. (well, obviosuly a client could send a kill to another process running on the same machine, but that's about it).
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I think you're getting confused here..
X server - what actually displays stuff, runs on your local machine
X client - program that runs on remote machine
SSH daemon - program that runs on remote machine giving you shell access
SSH client - program that runs on your local machine that allows you to connect to SSH daemon on remote machine.
Right, now we've got that clear, let's see what these programs actually allow us to do in terms of potential exploits.
SSH - allows us to run (gasp!) ARBITARY CODE on the remote machine. Except that it runs as the user we're logged in as, which presumably will be a low enough level only to cause problems to ourself (unless there are unpatched programs). This is really only a problem if we've already got root, in which case there are already plenty of naughty things we can do.
Running an X client when logged in via SSH allows one to run X clients (ie X applications) on the remote server, but have them display on our local X server. The code is still running on the remote server, just like it is when we execute a program via SSH. Just like when we use SSH, the output from the program is sent to our screen rather than the machine it's actually running on.
So, to conclude - there is no extra security risk from running X apps remotely. The programs are still running on the remote machine, they're just displaying on your local X server.
The security vulnerability here came about because there was a cracked SSH executable on a machine which one of the Sourceforge guys then used to log in to Sourceforge. The cracker didn't go into details, but I'm willing to bet it's some ancient vulnerability that was expolited - like the portmapper one that a couple of worms have used, or a wu-ftpd issue. Or maybe something bind-related.
Hope this stops anyone from panicing unnecessarily.
Was KDE. Eazel may be dead, but KDE continues to get better and better. Konqueror is arguably the best browser on any platform (and is at least as good as MSIE), and yet is still a relativly new project. KOffice is coming along in leaps and bounds, and given that the KDE team were able to make a Mozilla-beater in far less time, *from scratch* (Mozilla is based on pre-existing NS code remember), I have high hopes. It's already extremely useable for day-to-day tasks, and above all is quick. I continue to use AbiWord for its MS Word importing features. Linux isn't dead on the desktop, you just need to look in the right places.
It may use your CPU cycles, but if you were remise enough to fail to patch well-known security holes then you should be grateful someone is using your CPU time to stop your PC from being used in malicous ways. This worm will help deplete the number of boxes which script kiddies are able to use to crack other systems - which can only be a good thing.
Like it says above, it's an effort to standardise Linux distributions' layout, with an aim to ease the use of applications across distributions. It has a standard set of directories which should be used for things like config files and documentation.
It should be free to trade music, you're just adding to the group's popularity. And everyone knows they just make their money from tours and ringtones, right?:))
(Before I being I realise that posting this on slashdot isn't going to have any actual effect on their policies, but I feel the points need to be made anyway)
As someone who would describe myself as a socialist I have to say that actions such as this sadden me. I do not disagree that there is much pro-captialist propaganda and even out-right lies that are spread by the Western media. But the best possible way to fight this is by putting across a counter-argument. Did not the writings of Marx constantly draw on the writings of capitalist writers (Adam Smith for example)? By stopping the Chinese people from reading Western propoganda, no matter how ridiculous ('We didn't mean to bomb the Chinese embassy, it was an accident!'), you serve only to lend these stories credibility. After all, the argument goes, if the stories are untrue, why should the government be so afraid of them? If China is to become the utopia that Marx wrote of, heavy-handed tactics like this must be abandoned. The key to winning the minds of the general public lies within education, and I would urge the Chinese government to use their efforts instead in improving the Chinese education system. If you truly belive in international soclialism you will see that there is nothing to fear from opposing arguments.
As someone whose done quite a bit of both Perl and PHP for websites, here's my thoughts.
First, forget all this 'scripting language $x is faster than scripting language $y' bullshit. Speed comparisons are so incredibly task-dependant that there's no hard and fast rule at all. mod_php and mod_perl can basically be assumed to be equal in terms of speed, because the scripting language is extremely unlikely to be the limiting factor. Where PHP wins out for my is when you're doing a site that's either simple or a complex site that relies heavily on databases. Database interaction is far easier. Where Perl wins is the thousands of modules avaliable; PHP has a hell of a lot built in a quite a few classes avaliable, but it's never likely to match Perl in this respect. IMO you're very unlikely to actually need most of these modules for doing a website, but if you do, then Perl is the way to go.
To be honest, Perl and PHP are so close in terms of speed and feature-set that I'd tend to argue that it's probably just as much a matter of picking what the developer (this means YOU!) is more comfortable with.
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At the risk of feeding a troll..
Linux is stable
Linux is scalable
Linux isn't UNIX (strictly speaking)
Linux is ready for the desktop
Unfortunately for Indrema, none of these things make any difference when producing a games console (except maybe stability, but when there's fixed hardware instead of moving target stability is far easier to come by anyway). The advanatge Indrema had was in its open-ness, but unfortunately it was never likely to have the necessary user-base due to a lack of developers, which meant it was never going to get enough developers, which meant it was never going to get the necessary userbase, ad infinitum.
Before long, things could get out of hand, with whole games and television series telling children that they have to 'catch 'em all!(tm)', and that if they don't purchase every last related toy they'll never be a 'Pokemon master'(tm)!
Then, once they've bought all 150, they'll bring out another 150! It would be terrible!
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Isn't this sort of the point of capitalism, brand differentiation?
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Of course, rather ironically, Formula One starts are know done via 'launch control' software, meaning all the driver has to do is put their foot to the floor, and the computer takes care of little things like wheelspin.
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That's funny, at my school we were always taught to share. If you had something that someone else could use, and you didn't need it, you should give it to someone else. This was never portrayed as stealing at any point during my education..
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Not too bad, 512/128kbps. When I initially signed up there were loads of problems, but now they're pretty good.
Oh, and when you sign up they might tell you you need to run Win9x/NT.. if you say in advance you're going to run Linux they'll probably be OK, but apparently some of their sales drones are clueless. Certinally the guy who came to cable the box in here was fine with me running Linux..
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Also, ADSL should be avaliable in your area, assuming you don't live too far from the exchange of course..
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No, sid is *always* unstable (if you remember, in Toy Story sid was the kid who used to break things a lot, hence the name :)).
At the bottom of the announcement it does say this about the next name:
On the subject of controversial decisions, one I'm not going to make today is what to call the release after woody. That one will be made when woody is released and a new testing distribution is forked from woody. Besides which, I still haven't gotten around to rewatching Toy Story.
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Well, SGI dropped Irix for Linux some time ago, which has to rate as the most important reason.
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Some experts have suggested that advertisers will focus increasingly on "imbedding" advertising in the programs, via a split screen, an unobtrusive logo, or product placement as a "prop" in the show.
This sounds morally repugnant. Imagine a TV show where there was little plot and just a whole lot of product placement. I for one hope this never takes off.
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How exactly is an 'Internet media hub' different from a portal?
And how exactly do Netscape intend to make any money from it when companies who have been doing it from the start can't?
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I have to say: what's all the fuss about? We have online betting here in the UK, in fact the government recently lowered gambling taxes to dissuade people from betting using off-shore services. I'm known to occasionally have a little flutter on the Grand Prix myself (except you Americans and your CART racing seem to have led JP Montoya into bad habits since his amazing performance in F3000).
Anyway, don't most states in the US run a lottery? In what way is this not gambling?
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From the 'COPYING' file included with the powerdesk source .tar.gz:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
I'm glad to see Matrox actually 'get it'.
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If you think Internet Explorer's the best then you should really try Konqueror. It's faster at rendering than MSIE, and more feature compliant. It also doesn't add new 'features' which are specific to it.
Of course, Netscape were doing this little trick right from the start, so if you want to point fingers for HTML incompatibility problems Netscape is where I'd lay them.
How quickly people forget though..
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Bzzt.. try again.
The worst it could do is pretend to be a local xterm and fool the user into su'ing. The client can only affect the client itself - not other clients, even if they are also on the same machine.. (well, obviosuly a client could send a kill to another process running on the same machine, but that's about it).
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X server - what actually displays stuff, runs on your local machine
X client - program that runs on remote machine
SSH daemon - program that runs on remote machine giving you shell access
SSH client - program that runs on your local machine that allows you to connect to SSH daemon on remote machine.
Right, now we've got that clear, let's see what these programs actually allow us to do in terms of potential exploits.
SSH - allows us to run (gasp!) ARBITARY CODE on the remote machine. Except that it runs as the user we're logged in as, which presumably will be a low enough level only to cause problems to ourself (unless there are unpatched programs). This is really only a problem if we've already got root, in which case there are already plenty of naughty things we can do.
Running an X client when logged in via SSH allows one to run X clients (ie X applications) on the remote server, but have them display on our local X server. The code is still running on the remote server, just like it is when we execute a program via SSH. Just like when we use SSH, the output from the program is sent to our screen rather than the machine it's actually running on.
So, to conclude - there is no extra security risk from running X apps remotely. The programs are still running on the remote machine, they're just displaying on your local X server.
The security vulnerability here came about because there was a cracked SSH executable on a machine which one of the Sourceforge guys then used to log in to Sourceforge. The cracker didn't go into details, but I'm willing to bet it's some ancient vulnerability that was expolited - like the portmapper one that a couple of worms have used, or a wu-ftpd issue. Or maybe something bind-related.
Hope this stops anyone from panicing unnecessarily.
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Please don't feed the trolls..
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I wholeheartedly agree with Mandrake's policy of not installing them by default, but having SSH instead.
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Wow, great idea, I wish someone had thought of that earlier!.
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Was KDE. Eazel may be dead, but KDE continues to get better and better. Konqueror is arguably the best browser on any platform (and is at least as good as MSIE), and yet is still a relativly new project. KOffice is coming along in leaps and bounds, and given that the KDE team were able to make a Mozilla-beater in far less time, *from scratch* (Mozilla is based on pre-existing NS code remember), I have high hopes. It's already extremely useable for day-to-day tasks, and above all is quick.
I continue to use AbiWord for its MS Word importing features.
Linux isn't dead on the desktop, you just need to look in the right places.
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It may use your CPU cycles, but if you were remise enough to fail to patch well-known security holes then you should be grateful someone is using your CPU time to stop your PC from being used in malicous ways. This worm will help deplete the number of boxes which script kiddies are able to use to crack other systems - which can only be a good thing.
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Like it says above, it's an effort to standardise Linux distributions' layout, with an aim to ease the use of applications across distributions. It has a standard set of directories which should be used for things like config files and documentation.
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It should be free to trade music, you're just adding to the group's popularity. And everyone knows they just make their money from tours and ringtones, right? :))
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As someone who would describe myself as a socialist I have to say that actions such as this sadden me. I do not disagree that there is much pro-captialist propaganda and even out-right lies that are spread by the Western media. But the best possible way to fight this is by putting across a counter-argument. Did not the writings of Marx constantly draw on the writings of capitalist writers (Adam Smith for example)?
By stopping the Chinese people from reading Western propoganda, no matter how ridiculous ('We didn't mean to bomb the Chinese embassy, it was an accident!'), you serve only to lend these stories credibility. After all, the argument goes, if the stories are untrue, why should the government be so afraid of them?
If China is to become the utopia that Marx wrote of, heavy-handed tactics like this must be abandoned. The key to winning the minds of the general public lies within education, and I would urge the Chinese government to use their efforts instead in improving the Chinese education system. If you truly belive in international soclialism you will see that there is nothing to fear from opposing arguments.
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First, forget all this 'scripting language $x is faster than scripting language $y' bullshit. Speed comparisons are so incredibly task-dependant that there's no hard and fast rule at all. mod_php and mod_perl can basically be assumed to be equal in terms of speed, because the scripting language is extremely unlikely to be the limiting factor.
Where PHP wins out for my is when you're doing a site that's either simple or a complex site that relies heavily on databases. Database interaction is far easier. Where Perl wins is the thousands of modules avaliable; PHP has a hell of a lot built in a quite a few classes avaliable, but it's never likely to match Perl in this respect. IMO you're very unlikely to actually need most of these modules for doing a website, but if you do, then Perl is the way to go.
To be honest, Perl and PHP are so close in terms of speed and feature-set that I'd tend to argue that it's probably just as much a matter of picking what the developer (this means YOU!) is more comfortable with.
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Linux is stable
Linux is scalable
Linux isn't UNIX (strictly speaking)
Linux is ready for the desktop
Unfortunately for Indrema, none of these things make any difference when producing a games console (except maybe stability, but when there's fixed hardware instead of moving target stability is far easier to come by anyway). The advanatge Indrema had was in its open-ness, but unfortunately it was never likely to have the necessary user-base due to a lack of developers, which meant it was never going to get enough developers, which meant it was never going to get the necessary userbase, ad infinitum.
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Before long, things could get out of hand, with whole games and television series telling children that they have to 'catch 'em all!(tm)', and that if they don't purchase every last related toy they'll never be a 'Pokemon master'(tm)!
Then, once they've bought all 150, they'll bring out another 150! It would be terrible!
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