"A funny remark was that when MSX seemed to be succesful, Microsoft said MS in MSX means MicroSoft, but after 1986, when MSX seemed not as succesful as Microsoft had hoped, they denied that..."
Anyone who want to learn more about how UNIX Password security was designed should read this paper by Robert Morris and Ken Thompson that explains things like hashes (one way cryptographic functions) and salted passwords.
First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because Phoenix BIOS was annoyed (afraid someone could mistakenly buy a web browser instead of a BIOS chip).
Now, they realized that the name was already in use by another open source project but they have no intention to get back.
First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because they were afraid of Phoenix BIOS lawyers.
Now Mozilla.org is telliing Firebird Database people to fuck themselves because they are a small opensource community with no money for lawyers. That's right ? Is this the OpenSource spirit ?
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"Then I figured it out. Masturbation. The only viable use I can fathom for having the ability to conveniently and surrepitiously carry around tiny movie clips and random digital phots is to satisfy a lonely geek's need to have easy-access porn-at-hand"
From
Sony Product Information Page "Sony's exclusive Jog Dial navigator allows you to access images, phone numbers, notes, even video clips, while keeping your other hand free"
"If DRM could be implemented without restricting access to memory in my own computer I probably wouldn't mind it so much. The problem is that DRM cannot be implemented without this restriction."
Wrong! DRM could be implemented in hardware in the soundcard. So the music never gets decripted by the CPU.
Or even the music could be decripted by digital speakers so the only way you'ld have to make a copy is with a microphone. That only until a system like Macrovision is made for sound.
Re:Vulnerability Check
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To check the version number on the "Server" field of the HTTP Reply is not enough. Some patched versions did not change this header. On the PDF they explain on page 5 that they discovered a way to check the vulnerability without crashing the server.
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It s possible to determine whether OpenSSL has been patched by generating a
CLIENT-MASTER-KEY which is one octet too long. It s easy to see that in a
patched version, this falls afoul of the length check shown in Figure 5. The
result is a handshake error. In an unpatched version of OpenSSL, the server
overruns the key_arg with whatever the extra byte is. However, as we shall now
show, this overrun is harmless."
"Look at all the money the.gif royalties made Compuserve..."
In fact, the royalties went to Unisys.
GIF uses an adaptation of LZW (Lempel Ziv Welch) algorithm for image compression. Unfortunately, this famous algorithm is patented by Unisys Corporation.
In January of 1993, Unisys Corp. became aware that GIF uses the LZW algorithm and began negotiations with CompuServe Inc. to create a licensing agreement. They reached agreement on licensing in June 1994, and CompuServe Inc. announced it at the end of December 1994. Since then Unisys require developers of GIF-based software to secure a licensing agreement with Unisys Corp.
"We do, however, have good evidence for the existence of black holes,..."
Could you please explain us this evidence ?
I don't see any evidence. We only know that current phisic theories predicts the existense of black holes. But we can not create a tiny blackhole in laboratories. And we never saw a blackhole. The photographs we have from HST (like this one), only shows a huge concentration of matter. This is not necessary a black hole.
To believe in the existense of black holes is like to believe in god. Only faith (in current theories) can make us believe in them.
I personally think this proposal of the existense of a "gravastar" substance, is as weird as black holes. But it's normal to create "patch" theories when the main theory has problems. This will happen until we have enough data for a new Einstein to discover a completely new universal theory.
"Why isn't font rendering done properly in the X server itself, where font rendering originally was done? Why must it be done client side?
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I think the X server uses the FreeType library not the client application. XFree86 can load a module named "libfreetype.a" (usually in lib/modules/fonts dir) that does the rendering on server side.
All these addresses means position 0x10000 of phisical memory.
I think the problem was not the 640 barrier or the segmented address space. The problem was that DOS makes almost imposble to get an abstract view of the hardware. You have to use absolute addresses to access the video screen, or to read command line parameters, or to write to serial ports in a eficient way.
Also there were no standar C library functions for doing this things. So, all programs source code were linked to the hardware forever.
Minix is an example of an OS which ran on 8086 but programs could easily be recompiled for different hardware and programs automagically gain access to more memory, or memory protection.
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Anyone who want to learn more about how UNIX Password security was designed should read this paper by Robert Morris and Ken Thompson that explains things like hashes (one way cryptographic functions) and salted passwords.
In the same place where you can find unbiased comparisons of VI vs Emacs, KDE vs GNome, Mac vs PC, etc.
nowhere
- Open Source (GPL)
- Open Protocols (Jabber)
- Connectivity with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! and MSN
- Multi-platform
- Secure connections (SSL)
- HTTP Proxies support
And soon (in a few weeks) PGP authentication and end-to-end encryption.Psi is a very nice OpenSource, Multiplatform Jabber client that I think it runs on Win95. You should try it.
Please, someone correct me if I am wrong.
First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because Phoenix BIOS was annoyed (afraid someone could mistakenly buy a web browser instead of a BIOS chip).
Now, they realized that the name was already in use by another open source project but they have no intention to get back.
Is this correct ?
First Mozilla.org changed the name from Phoenix to Firebird because they were afraid of Phoenix BIOS lawyers.
Now Mozilla.org is telliing Firebird Database people to fuck themselves because they are a small opensource community with no money for lawyers. That's right ? Is this the OpenSource spirit ?
In Spanish is "Libre". With normal "e". Not acute "e". And I think in French is also the same.
Wrong! DRM could be implemented in hardware in the soundcard. So the music never gets decripted by the CPU.
Or even the music could be decripted by digital speakers so the only way you'ld have to make a copy is with a microphone. That only until a system like Macrovision is made for sound.
I recommend reading this essay
And when you live in a democracy with free speach, people are free to disagree with Red Hat.
You have discovered Word Metadata and Fast Save problems.
On May 04, Nicolas Pitre released a free (GPL) fixed point vorbis decoder and announced it on Vorbis Developement list.
But this important contribution was kept in silence. Even all posts from May 2002 had mysteriously dissapeared from Vorbis-dev archive.
Fortunately a copy of Nicolas announcement could be find here.
Now Xiph.org anounces that its fixed-point implementation is available for free under BSD style license.
This seems very strange to me.
Bayesian filters for spam have extensively been studied and compared in the last few years.
Recently more filtering methods have been studied.
It's good to see someone implementing these techniques
Dijkstra was one of the pioneers in computer science. In most CS courses you can learn about Dijkstra work on semaphores and concurrency.
The Dining Philosophers problem is a famous synchronization problem proposed by Dijkstra concerning resource allocation between processes.
Here you can see some of his papers.
or waste your time posting on /.
In fact, the royalties went to Unisys.
Bug 141061 - XMLHttpRequest allows reading of local files
When an http server redirects the user to a local file, XMLHttpRequest gets tricked into thinking the page came from the http server.
Bug Reported on 2002-04-29 17:46
Bug Fixed on 2002-05-01 09:11
top <message_num> <lines_of_body_to_display>
From RFC1939
TOP msg n
Arguments:
a message-number (required) which may NOT refer to to a
message marked as deleted, and a non-negative number
of lines (required)
Could you please explain us this evidence ?
I don't see any evidence. We only know that current phisic theories predicts the existense of black holes. But we can not create a tiny blackhole in laboratories. And we never saw a blackhole. The photographs we have from HST (like this one), only shows a huge concentration of matter. This is not necessary a black hole.
To believe in the existense of black holes is like to believe in god. Only faith (in current theories) can make us believe in them.
I personally think this proposal of the existense of a "gravastar" substance, is as weird as black holes. But it's normal to create "patch" theories when the main theory has problems. This will happen until we have enough data for a new Einstein to discover a completely new universal theory.
The link to the babelfish translation was broken for me. However this link works fine.
I think the X server uses the FreeType library not the client application. XFree86 can load a module named "libfreetype.a" (usually in lib/modules/fonts dir) that does the rendering on server side.
All these addresses means position 0x10000 of phisical memory.
I think the problem was not the 640 barrier or the segmented address space. The problem was that DOS makes almost imposble to get an abstract view of the hardware. You have to use absolute addresses to access the video screen, or to read command line parameters, or to write to serial ports in a eficient way.
Also there were no standar C library functions for doing this things. So, all programs source code were linked to the hardware forever.
Minix is an example of an OS which ran on 8086 but programs could easily be recompiled for different hardware and programs automagically gain access to more memory, or memory protection.