Do I want a free e-mail account branded with my computer maker's domain name? No, for the same reason I don't wear clothes that say Gap or Tommy on them. I'm not a walking billboard for other people's products, and I won't use my e-mail messages for viral online marketing either.
Hmmm, then I guess MS has completely missed the boat with WinXP and Hailstorm, because thats exactly where they are going. Hotmail and MSN Messenger for everybody, and let MS be the keeper of your online persona.
Unfortunately, Mozilla doesn't support this (yet), but it might get support faster if you vote for this bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60377
Mozilla is a graphical email client. And it is cross-platform. And it is open-source. Any other graphical, cross-platform, open source mail clients out there?
Currently, a PGP plugin interface is being added to Mozilla. It should show up in the next release or the one after that. It will allow PGP to be used almost transparently.
Hopefully, this will bring PGP a little closer to the mainstream.
Mozilla definately does 1 & 2, as someone else has pointed out elsewhere.
3 works or should work (haven't tried lately).
4 -- ummm ok, sure. Mozilla does build with Boehm, but it is only used to track down problems. Garbage collected systems typically use more memory and are slower than explicit memory management -- why is Boehm a show stopper for you?
As for 5, try 'ulimit -c 0'; thats about as good as it gets.
Help fight spam by reporting the spammers to their service providers. Most free email and web-hosting companies have terms of use argreements that forbid their use in spam, and WILL terminate the accounts of offenders. And most ISPs will take action against open relays and cancel accounts used for spamming.
The easiest way is to use SpamCop, which will automatically mail abuse reports to service providers and submit open relay information to ORBS.
It only takes a minute or two, and the more people who participate, the greater the inconvenience for the spammers.
Actually, linux is a supported platform. You can get it from http://www.aol.com/aim/linux.html. It doesn't have all the features of the windows client, but it works.
YMMV though: rumor is that it was broken by the recent changes.
One thing that seems to be missing from Red Carpet (as well as any other tool i've used) is a summary of changes between the version installed and the updated version. That would really kick ass.
There is a patch for mozilla that provides hooks for a PGP plugin in development right now. I believe Network Associates is working on it. Expect to see it fully operational in 0.9. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687 for more info.
Keep in mind, most of the mozilla source is C++, not C (ike most of FreeBSD. C++ takes longer to compile; it is a more complex language.
Also, there is an additional stage where interface specifications are compiled into header files. The interface specs allow cross language access to components at runtime.
"Just a browser" today means an entire interpreted, garbage collected language (javascript), HTML, XML and XSL rendering and a ton of other stuff. If you want a lightweight browser, get lynx.
Finally, while mozilla is a browser, it is also a platform for developing OS independant applications with web and web-like technologies (see mozdev.org). It has a scope as broad as a OS.
Eventually, it will compile into both the entire mozilla system *AND* a compact embeddable component, but its not quite there yet (but really close!).
I'd just like to point out the obvious; that you can easily extract the source tarball from an SRPM. Use 'rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -i'. rpm2cpio is included the rpm package, or there is a seperate version written in perl here.
I don't disagree that helix is ignoring slackware, but it is a fairly small hurdle for anybody willing to build from source.
what's gotten into people when they turn themselves into walking adverts for the products they own?
Its nothing new. Some people put Calvin pissing on {Ford/GM} stickers on their trucks. Some people won't drink Pepsi, only Coke. Some people swear Marlboro cigarettes taste better.
In our consumerist culture, people define themselves by what they consume, and people choose dominant brands to avoid marginalizing themselves. Software is no different.
Any advise for code auditers? Can you share any tips or techniques you have found useful in uncovering bugs? What do you first look for in a fresh piece of code? What about a mature piece of code?
Netscape 6 was the first go. It was a scramble to get all the features in and an acceptable level of stability. I think they achieved that.
Now the mozilla team is concentrating on the next release, and the *TOP* priorities are memory footprint, speed and bug fixes of course. In addition, a lot of effort is being put towards getting the gecko component small and usable, for projects like nautilus and galeon.
So just wait for 6.1 -- most of the problems raised in the article should be fixed.
This is totally another reaction to Java. Now that MS has come up with.NET, lifting and proprieterizing the Java network service architecture, it needs to address the security issues that were designed into the core of Java. Namely, the idea of sandboxes, trusted code, and code signers.
This is an unavoidable step, a key building block needed to compete with Java as a network service provider platform. It's highly doubtful this will have any impact at all on user targeted applications.
Umm, the US didn't win the war of 1812, unless winning the war means having your capitol burnt down, suffering 50% more casualties, then negoitiating a truce. The American goal of occupying Upper Canada was not accomplished.
Of course, in the US, the popular image of the war of 1812, if there is one at all, is the battle of New Orleans.
Which highlights the problem with Canada, and why the Reform party started in the first place: the entire western half of the country only has 90 seats. The election can be over before the polls close in BC.
Couple that with virtual dictatorship power for a majority government, and you have effectively no representation in Ottawa at all for the country west of Winnipeg.
The CA was an attempt to stop splitting the right wing vote, but the eastern Conservatives refused to play ball. Instead they dig up old Joe Clark, the west's last major PC player, other than perhaps Mazankowski, supposedly appealing to western regional interests and the eastern red Tories.
So once again, we face a split right wing, a disenfranchised west, and an unchecked Liberal party. Sigh...
For what it's worth, poutine is not so much a Canadian food as it is a Quebec food. It is rarely found east of Ottawa, except for the bastardized fast food version (no curds -- usually cheddar cheese). In Quebec and eastern Ontario, its on every street corner.
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FWIW, the PGP bug already has the most votes of *all* bugs.
The Win2k advocate makes this comment:
Do I want a free e-mail account branded with my computer maker's domain name? No, for the same reason I don't wear clothes that say Gap or Tommy on them. I'm not a walking billboard for other people's products, and I won't use my e-mail messages for viral online marketing either.
Hmmm, then I guess MS has completely missed the boat with WinXP and Hailstorm, because thats exactly where they are going. Hotmail and MSN Messenger for everybody, and let MS be the keeper of your online persona.
Unfortunately, Mozilla doesn't support this (yet), but it might get support faster if you vote for this bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60377
Mozilla is a graphical email client. And it is cross-platform. And it is open-source. Any other graphical, cross-platform, open source mail clients out there?
Currently, a PGP plugin interface is being added to Mozilla. It should show up in the next release or the one after that. It will allow PGP to be used almost transparently.
Hopefully, this will bring PGP a little closer to the mainstream.
Mozilla definately does 1 & 2, as someone else has pointed out elsewhere.
3 works or should work (haven't tried lately).
4 -- ummm ok, sure. Mozilla does build with Boehm, but it is only used to track down problems. Garbage collected systems typically use more memory and are slower than explicit memory management -- why is Boehm a show stopper for you?
As for 5, try 'ulimit -c 0'; thats about as good as it gets.
Help fight spam by reporting the spammers to their service providers. Most free email and web-hosting companies have terms of use argreements that forbid their use in spam, and WILL terminate the accounts of offenders. And most ISPs will take action against open relays and cancel accounts used for spamming.
The easiest way is to use SpamCop, which will automatically mail abuse reports to service providers and submit open relay information to ORBS.
It only takes a minute or two, and the more people who participate, the greater the inconvenience for the spammers.
Oscar. It's default settings are to connect to login.oscar.aol.com on port 5190.
Actually, linux is a supported platform. You can get it from http://www.aol.com/aim/linux.html. It doesn't have all the features of the windows client, but it works.
YMMV though: rumor is that it was broken by the recent changes.
Just park your car far away, stand back and don't breathe too deeply...
The clipboard should be a stack.
You've hit the nail on the head! It definately needs this. I hope the nautilus developers are listening.
Emacs does this. C-w is cut, M-w is copy, C-y is paste, and M-y pops the stack (more or less).
Actually, I think they are both small, fuzzy carnivorous mammals.
Stephenson, not Sterling, I think.
One thing that seems to be missing from Red Carpet (as well as any other tool i've used) is a summary of changes between the version installed and the updated version. That would really kick ass.
There is a patch for mozilla that provides hooks for a PGP plugin in development right now. I believe Network Associates is working on it. Expect to see it fully operational in 0.9. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22687 for more info.
Keep in mind, most of the mozilla source is C++, not C (ike most of FreeBSD. C++ takes longer to compile; it is a more complex language.
Also, there is an additional stage where interface specifications are compiled into header files. The interface specs allow cross language access to components at runtime.
"Just a browser" today means an entire interpreted, garbage collected language (javascript), HTML, XML and XSL rendering and a ton of other stuff. If you want a lightweight browser, get lynx.
Finally, while mozilla is a browser, it is also a platform for developing OS independant applications with web and web-like technologies (see mozdev.org). It has a scope as broad as a OS.
Eventually, it will compile into both the entire mozilla system *AND* a compact embeddable component, but its not quite there yet (but really close!).
I'd just like to point out the obvious; that you can easily extract the source tarball from an SRPM. Use 'rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -i'. rpm2cpio is included the rpm package, or there is a seperate version written in perl here.
I don't disagree that helix is ignoring slackware, but it is a fairly small hurdle for anybody willing to build from source.
Leaky, from the mozilla project, works really well. It works with any C or C++ project.
what's gotten into people when they turn themselves into walking adverts for the products they own?
Its nothing new. Some people put Calvin pissing on {Ford/GM} stickers on their trucks. Some people won't drink Pepsi, only Coke. Some people swear Marlboro cigarettes taste better.
In our consumerist culture, people define themselves by what they consume, and people choose dominant brands to avoid marginalizing themselves. Software is no different.
Any advise for code auditers? Can you share any tips or techniques you have found useful in uncovering bugs? What do you first look for in a fresh piece of code? What about a mature piece of code?
Netscape 6 was the first go. It was a scramble to get all the features in and an acceptable level of stability. I think they achieved that.
Now the mozilla team is concentrating on the next release, and the *TOP* priorities are memory footprint, speed and bug fixes of course. In addition, a lot of effort is being put towards getting the gecko component small and usable, for projects like nautilus and galeon.
So just wait for 6.1 -- most of the problems raised in the article should be fixed.
This is totally another reaction to Java. Now that MS has come up with .NET, lifting and proprieterizing the Java network service architecture, it needs to address the security issues that were designed into the core of Java. Namely, the idea of sandboxes, trusted code, and code signers.
This is an unavoidable step, a key building block needed to compete with Java as a network service provider platform. It's highly doubtful this will have any impact at all on user targeted applications.
Umm, the US didn't win the war of 1812, unless winning the war means having your capitol burnt down, suffering 50% more casualties, then negoitiating a truce. The American goal of occupying Upper Canada was not accomplished.
Of course, in the US, the popular image of the war of 1812, if there is one at all, is the battle of New Orleans.
Which highlights the problem with Canada, and why the Reform party started in the first place: the entire western half of the country only has 90 seats. The election can be over before the polls close in BC.
Couple that with virtual dictatorship power for a majority government, and you have effectively no representation in Ottawa at all for the country west of Winnipeg.
The CA was an attempt to stop splitting the right wing vote, but the eastern Conservatives refused to play ball. Instead they dig up old Joe Clark, the west's last major PC player, other than perhaps Mazankowski, supposedly appealing to western regional interests and the eastern red Tories.
So once again, we face a split right wing, a disenfranchised west, and an unchecked Liberal party. Sigh...
For what it's worth, poutine is not so much a Canadian food as it is a Quebec food. It is rarely found east of Ottawa, except for the bastardized fast food version (no curds -- usually cheddar cheese). In Quebec and eastern Ontario, its on every street corner.