Thanks! I was just going to not care that some idiot mod thought this was a troll, but it's nice to see some support, albeit anonymous.
Mods, the post was a reference to History of the World, Part I, where the end of the movie is a promo for the sequel, which never came out. Hence, it's vaporware.
I'm sorry, by 2008, we'll be too busy with our flying cars to pay any attention to DNF!
Because the radio isn't full of ads already?
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So what businees need is this filling? Did the Clearchannel radio execs wake up one morning and realize that 20 minutes of commercials per hour was not enough?
Coming soon: Revolutionary new smart e-boards create customized, targeted advertising across multiple mediums to provide a fully immersive, multimedia marketing opportunity which responds in real time to complement FM radio advertisement, maximizing penetration to target demographics. Consumers can now receive 2 hours worth of advertisements every hour, and still get fifteen minutes of today's top hits (as determined by a small focus group with vaguely similar demographics to the region I live in) as well, sandwiched between inane local DJ blather intended to make the locals feel like their music is "customized" for their area.
This just reinforces my tendency to not listen to the radio at all. My car CD player handles mp3 CD's, so I really don't listen to the radio anymore, and on the rare occasion that I do, it gets turned off at the first commercial break (usually less than ten minutes).
The "I know you're a troll" line referred to your statement after that:
those berating ms should set about fixing it in their beloved OSS browser first. interesting to see whose fix comes out first.
As has been mentioned in another post on this thread, the 0.7 version of Firebird doesn't display this behavior. I found the above statement to be trollish, especially when you look at the poor capitalisation. Your post was an attempt to make people think that Mozilla/Firebird browsers are all open to the same exploit, when in reality you only tested it on one version, which has already been upgraded (and the exploit does not exist in newer versions).
Now on to the merits of your claim. I downloaded Firebird 0.6.1 and went to this test page to see if the exploit worked. Guess what, it doesn't. Then I went to the link you posted above, http://www.slashdot.org%01@www.cnn.com/, and the address bar did not truncate after slashdot.org (you have to copy and paste the above, since slashcode strips out the bad parts). I hereby declare your post, by virtue of being incorrect, misleading, and inflammatory, to be the work of a troll. You were right when you said you shouldn't have responded. Now you've been shown to be even more wrong. HAND.
It was actually going directly to the ftp server, but I had to use Netscape because whatever ftp client I was trying to use wouldn't allow me to use a proxy server on port 80 to get through to an ftp server on port 23. Netscape allowed that (this was back in the days of NS 3.0), and I didn't know much about ports back then so I went with my friend's advice and used Netscape.
I haven't seen any standard covering it for http connections, but I know that for ftp connections you can put in the username and password for the site you are connecting to: ftp://username:password@ftp.myftpserver.com
This was carried over from early browsers, I believe. The only time I have ever had a real use for this was back at school, when I was behind a proxy server/firewall that blocked every port except port 80 - makes no sense, but the bottom line was that I had to go through Netscape to connect to a friend's ftp server.
Are you sure? I tested Mozilla using this page and it worked correctly. I tested the same page using IE and the url came up "www.microsoft.com".
Yes, I know you're a troll. But I figured anybody who might be fooled by your outstanding writing should be able to click on a link and test their own browsers.
Also, I should note that Opera actually gave me a pop-up warning that I was sending a username to the site - the username www.microsoft.com - and after I agreed to do that I got a page with the correct url. Has anybody else tested this on other browsers?
I used to try to help him learn, but I got tired of that, and he knows enough to get himself into trouble, then reinstall the OS. And he always wants to install WinME, for some crazy reason.
My grandfather, on the other hand, keeps playing with things (and keeps twelve icons on his desktop, each one a link to a specific month on his Win3.1-generation calendar program) and keeps breaking them, and my dad (his son-in-law), always eager to fix a computer problem, jumps in and reinstalls Windows ME every time.
I now know enough to keep my mouth shut and just agree with my dad that those two guys from the Screen Savers really do know everything about computers.
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And the fonts are rendered poorly, too. That is, until I ran rpm -i truetypebookfonts-2.2.145-7-i386-mdk.rpm. Er, wait, that requires glib-2.4.16 or higher, and I'm running glib-2.4.18mdk!
Maybe I can do a google search for this. Oh! Here we go, a mailing list where a guy had this same problem. Let's look at the solution... oh crap, does anybody speak French? Maybe I'll just go to my distro's ftp site and... uh-oh, too many users. Screw this, I'm just going to check my webmail.
If I were an HD vendor who sold equipment, I'd have no problem making this change. Of course, this would cost more to me to alter the labels, and I'd have to create some new documentation, full-color glossy and such, and I'd probably have to do a lot of "awareness" marketing campaigns to let the IT industry in LA understand the new terminology. I would have no problem passing this cost on to LA buyers; in fact I'd probably have to mark up the cost a bit as well.
And if I was in IT in LA, I'm quite sure it would take me twice as long to set up systems with the new hard drive identification terminology - some of that extra time would be spent looking at the full-color glossy promotional materials, and some would be spent reading about it on slashdot.
But LA is more concerned with keeping us from using words that might make us think about human slavery, even though I personally never equated my second hard drive with an African-American working in a field, and my primary hard drive doesn't look much like a Southern 18th-century landowner. I suppose the folk in LA's government were thinking about that, though, and can't trust the intellect of their constituents to consider the context of perfectly harmless words. Well, I suppose "50% markup" will have to enter their vocabulary, too. Western Digital, are you listening? Rip off LA! Gouge them!
Well, for starters, they don't do an episode a week. It takes a lot longer than that to create 22 minutes of animation. Even if we figure that the show goes at half the NTSC fps of ~30, that's still 15*60*22 = 19,800 frames to draw. That takes a lot of people to put together.
I think that the figure quoted (we all were watching Adult Swim that night, I see) is the whole cost, which means it includes things like the cost of the studio, electricity, data connectivity, sound studio, food, parking, shipping, and telephones. The show is digital ink&paint, I assume, so there are who knows how many high-end workstations, OS licenses (they're probably not on linux), application licenses, file servers, print servers, and they probably have a big expensive machine that spits final frames out to some sort of professional display format.
So if we assume they put together 22 seasons in one year, that's around $25 million to cover those costs annually. Count the names on the closing credits, plus the costs from the above paragraph, plus licensing costs whenever they use something that requires royalties, plus some other miscellaneous costs, and that is how each episode checks in at over $1 million. And if it still seems high, well, Seth McFarlane deserves big honkin' piles of money for what he's come up with.
Well, at first glance it appears that its top stories #1 and #3 are the same story from two different sources (Microsoft tests Web news service) and they both have the same headline. Doesn't Google News list similar articles like that together, so it only appears once?
My prediction is that it will make headway among MSN subscribers who don't know any better, and AOL users who are lucky if they don't fall off their chair during the login process. These people will see MSN's News, think that this is how crappy a news aggregator will have to be, and they'll just accept mediocrity, while the rest of us are still able to rely on Google. Good for us.
Looks to me like we're on track for a 100% death rate among humans, though. That's pretty bad, losing every single freakin' person. I wouldn't hire the humans if I was an employer.
Your wait may be over, if you're willing to go the WINE route: Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office I haven't tried it myself yet, and I'd need Fireworks too, but it looks promising.
I'm not sure who makes it, but every linux distro (at least every one since RH 5.2) I've used seems to have that screensaver included. I believe it's in Gnome, but it might be KDE. All I know is I've never seen it in Windows.
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Thanks! I was just going to not care that some idiot mod thought this was a troll, but it's nice to see some support, albeit anonymous.
Mods, the post was a reference to History of the World, Part I, where the end of the movie is a promo for the sequel, which never came out. Hence, it's vaporware.
I'm still waiting for History of the World: Part II. See! Hitler on Ice! Jews in Space!
Now I'm just beginning to think they're never going to release that one. Stupid media censorship.
I'm sorry, by 2008, we'll be too busy with our flying cars to pay any attention to DNF!
So what businees need is this filling? Did the Clearchannel radio execs wake up one morning and realize that 20 minutes of commercials per hour was not enough?
Coming soon: Revolutionary new smart e-boards create customized, targeted advertising across multiple mediums to provide a fully immersive, multimedia marketing opportunity which responds in real time to complement FM radio advertisement, maximizing penetration to target demographics. Consumers can now receive 2 hours worth of advertisements every hour, and still get fifteen minutes of today's top hits (as determined by a small focus group with vaguely similar demographics to the region I live in) as well, sandwiched between inane local DJ blather intended to make the locals feel like their music is "customized" for their area.
This just reinforces my tendency to not listen to the radio at all. My car CD player handles mp3 CD's, so I really don't listen to the radio anymore, and on the rare occasion that I do, it gets turned off at the first commercial break (usually less than ten minutes).
Now on to the merits of your claim. I downloaded Firebird 0.6.1 and went to this test page to see if the exploit worked. Guess what, it doesn't. Then I went to the link you posted above, http://www.slashdot.org%01@www.cnn.com/, and the address bar did not truncate after slashdot.org (you have to copy and paste the above, since slashcode strips out the bad parts). I hereby declare your post, by virtue of being incorrect, misleading, and inflammatory, to be the work of a troll. You were right when you said you shouldn't have responded. Now you've been shown to be even more wrong. HAND.
It was actually going directly to the ftp server, but I had to use Netscape because whatever ftp client I was trying to use wouldn't allow me to use a proxy server on port 80 to get through to an ftp server on port 23. Netscape allowed that (this was back in the days of NS 3.0), and I didn't know much about ports back then so I went with my friend's advice and used Netscape.
I haven't seen any standard covering it for http connections, but I know that for ftp connections you can put in the username and password for the site you are connecting to: ftp://username:password@ftp.myftpserver.com
This was carried over from early browsers, I believe. The only time I have ever had a real use for this was back at school, when I was behind a proxy server/firewall that blocked every port except port 80 - makes no sense, but the bottom line was that I had to go through Netscape to connect to a friend's ftp server.
Are you sure? I tested Mozilla using this page and it worked correctly. I tested the same page using IE and the url came up "www.microsoft.com".
Yes, I know you're a troll. But I figured anybody who might be fooled by your outstanding writing should be able to click on a link and test their own browsers.
Also, I should note that Opera actually gave me a pop-up warning that I was sending a username to the site - the username www.microsoft.com - and after I agreed to do that I got a page with the correct url. Has anybody else tested this on other browsers?
Slight correction on NASA's score - that's in metric, should actually be 92.4.
think about that for a few minutes!
I used to try to help him learn, but I got tired of that, and he knows enough to get himself into trouble, then reinstall the OS. And he always wants to install WinME, for some crazy reason.
My grandfather, on the other hand, keeps playing with things (and keeps twelve icons on his desktop, each one a link to a specific month on his Win3.1-generation calendar program) and keeps breaking them, and my dad (his son-in-law), always eager to fix a computer problem, jumps in and reinstalls Windows ME every time.
I now know enough to keep my mouth shut and just agree with my dad that those two guys from the Screen Savers really do know everything about computers.
And the fonts are rendered poorly, too. That is, until I ran rpm -i truetypebookfonts-2.2.145-7-i386-mdk.rpm. Er, wait, that requires glib-2.4.16 or higher, and I'm running glib-2.4.18mdk!
Maybe I can do a google search for this. Oh! Here we go, a mailing list where a guy had this same problem. Let's look at the solution... oh crap, does anybody speak French? Maybe I'll just go to my distro's ftp site and... uh-oh, too many users. Screw this, I'm just going to check my webmail.
If I were an HD vendor who sold equipment, I'd have no problem making this change. Of course, this would cost more to me to alter the labels, and I'd have to create some new documentation, full-color glossy and such, and I'd probably have to do a lot of "awareness" marketing campaigns to let the IT industry in LA understand the new terminology. I would have no problem passing this cost on to LA buyers; in fact I'd probably have to mark up the cost a bit as well.
And if I was in IT in LA, I'm quite sure it would take me twice as long to set up systems with the new hard drive identification terminology - some of that extra time would be spent looking at the full-color glossy promotional materials, and some would be spent reading about it on slashdot.
But LA is more concerned with keeping us from using words that might make us think about human slavery, even though I personally never equated my second hard drive with an African-American working in a field, and my primary hard drive doesn't look much like a Southern 18th-century landowner. I suppose the folk in LA's government were thinking about that, though, and can't trust the intellect of their constituents to consider the context of perfectly harmless words. Well, I suppose "50% markup" will have to enter their vocabulary, too. Western Digital, are you listening? Rip off LA! Gouge them!
Well, for starters, they don't do an episode a week. It takes a lot longer than that to create 22 minutes of animation. Even if we figure that the show goes at half the NTSC fps of ~30, that's still 15*60*22 = 19,800 frames to draw. That takes a lot of people to put together.
I think that the figure quoted (we all were watching Adult Swim that night, I see) is the whole cost, which means it includes things like the cost of the studio, electricity, data connectivity, sound studio, food, parking, shipping, and telephones. The show is digital ink&paint, I assume, so there are who knows how many high-end workstations, OS licenses (they're probably not on linux), application licenses, file servers, print servers, and they probably have a big expensive machine that spits final frames out to some sort of professional display format.
So if we assume they put together 22 seasons in one year, that's around $25 million to cover those costs annually. Count the names on the closing credits, plus the costs from the above paragraph, plus licensing costs whenever they use something that requires royalties, plus some other miscellaneous costs, and that is how each episode checks in at over $1 million. And if it still seems high, well, Seth McFarlane deserves big honkin' piles of money for what he's come up with.
"This just in, Powersauce - is amazing!"
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Well, at first glance it appears that its top stories #1 and #3 are the same story from two different sources (Microsoft tests Web news service) and they both have the same headline. Doesn't Google News list similar articles like that together, so it only appears once?
My prediction is that it will make headway among MSN subscribers who don't know any better, and AOL users who are lucky if they don't fall off their chair during the login process. These people will see MSN's News, think that this is how crappy a news aggregator will have to be, and they'll just accept mediocrity, while the rest of us are still able to rely on Google. Good for us.
Are you soliciting people to put up mirrors? I can host a couple images, if necessary...
I hope you didn't get her one of these routers!
"Bill Gates was shot in the MONADs while flying over Slashdot. He spun in. There were no survivors."
Looks to me like we're on track for a 100% death rate among humans, though. That's pretty bad, losing every single freakin' person. I wouldn't hire the humans if I was an employer.
Your wait may be over, if you're willing to go the WINE route:
Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office
I haven't tried it myself yet, and I'd need Fireworks too, but it looks promising.
Does Ballmer have a gun to your head right now? Tug on the rope 67 times if yes, 68 times if no, or 69 times if you're running out of oxygen.
I'm not sure who makes it, but every linux distro (at least every one since RH 5.2) I've used seems to have that screensaver included. I believe it's in Gnome, but it might be KDE. All I know is I've never seen it in Windows.