I actually think that this book is really boring. I'll be happy to send it to anyone who's willing to pay for the S&H. I have the Warner Books hard cover edition, circa 1993. Mint condition--I couldn't read past the 20th page. No dust cover, though. It's been on my shelf since.
CNN is running a complementary article to this interview titled Proposal to limit copyright on hard drives draws fire. The article presents an overall view of the issues, describes who the different proponents and industry players are, and comments on the implications for end-users and Open Source programs.
Considering the source, this was a well-balanced, well-written article. It also mentions that one of the main proponents of HD copy protection refuses to being interviewed.
My girlfriend and I were visiting NYC this weekend to do our Christmas shopping. We had reservations for Japanese food on Saturday. The main course? Fugu sashimi!
The fish is sliced very thin, with each bite-size piece arranged around a large plate as the petals of a flower. The sushi chef places some shredded fugu and fugu skin at the 5-7 o'clock quadrant of the plate. A small mound of finely chopped scalions and pickled radish make the centre of the flower.
To eat it: Mix the scalions and radish with thinly diluted soy sauce. Squirt some Japanese lime over the fugu. Wait a minute or so, then pick a piece up with your chopsticks, dunk it in the sauce, and eat it slowly. The result? Delicious. Very delicate flavour, and the lips, palate and tongue tingle and get a bit red.
My girlfriend and I both enjoyed the fugu very much. She freaked out a bit when I told her about the tetradotoxin; she was about halfway done with her sashimi plate. Nevertheless she raved on it and would definitely order it again.
I live in San Francisco, and there are one or two places here who supposedly serve fugu; they never seem to have it, though. If you happen to be in NYC and want to try this, check out Chikubu Restaurant. It's on 46th or 45th (?) between 5th and 6th Avenues. You will need reservations; also, we recommend the sashimi. There is something else they make with it (I don't recall what) but I figure sashimi is the best way to go. The price? $70/plate. I believe fugu is available (in Japan or elsewhere) from autumm to spring only.
Good points, assuming that the letter is legitimate. I am always amazed at how much in-fighting takes place whenever three or more Linux advocates get together. The KDE vs. GNOME situation is right on the money. The comment about HelixCode and profitability is ominously accurate as well: The dotcom implosion showed us that you can't have a company bleeding dollars for long (common sense had already shown us this; some people were too stupid to see it).
As for the politics of Open Source, I fully agree with ESR and completely disagree with RMS. The memo is right regarding the infighting as well.
I believe that Linux can be profitable and fun. I also believe that some of the forces that brought it to us may cause a downfall for our market share. That would be a Bad Thing(tm) for all of us.
This partnership sounds like an excellent idea. The record companies get their cuts and hopefully the membership cost will be at a level where downloading a single song will be in the less-than-a-dollar range.
If Napster and BMG are smart, they'll build the security around the authentication mechanisms to join the Napster community rather than using digital encoding a la SDMI.
Could someone please explain why this is news for nerds or stuff that matters?
Next we'll read here about how the neighbour's cat is trapped atop some tree, or some other (similar) crap just like in most American TV news broadcasts.
There's an alternative to avoid the banner ads: Use the Java version of AIM. That's what I use on all my boxes because it works great under *NIX, Windoze, and Mac.
Check the link out at: http://toc.oscar.aol.com/. You can use this client with your existing AIM account, or you can create a new one and skip the software download step.
Lately I had to log on to the 'net using my AOL account. I left my AIM chat channel open for a while and *surprise*, I began getting XXX AIM messages that originated outside of AOL. They're easy to recognize because AOL warns you that an Internet AIM user wishes to chat, etc. Once I clicked 'OK' and checked the message out. Based on what I saw, and my request for chatting more (user no longer logged on), I think that the message was generated by some robot traversing an AOL acct's list.
I speculate that this is the reason why they're shutting down third-party AIM clients, particularly those that aren't certified, whatever that means.
DISCLAIMER: I use AOL as my ISP when I travel overseas because they've got local access numbers in every country/city I ever been to, unlike almost any other ISP. That way I pay $5/hour for connecting rather than $5/minute for using my US PPP connections to my own 'net.
If you've ever watched the Batman Beyond series you'll find that its biggest problem is the awful plot lines. Stephenson will certainly bring much needed substance to the Batman of the Future.
I think embedding ads in the music is an excellent idea. That will get the heat off this topic and (possibly) make the music companies happy.
We all know that stripping the ad off the MP3 file would probably be trivial. So what's the big deal? For those of us who are technically inclined, this is the best of both worlds: The music becomes available, and we have the means of stripping the ads if we choose to.
This is similar to how people deal with the blinking VCR clock: The technically inclined stop it from blinking, the average Joe is too lazy to learn and lives with it, we all use our VCR to the best of our abilities or our tastes. The same could be applied to ads on MP3s: It won't be that hard to strip them for those of us who choose to; the rest of the world can (or will) live with them, and perhaps the record companies will be off our collective backs.
Hello. Does anyone know if any of the batmobiles used in Tim Burton's Batman films was ever sold or auctioned? If not, does anyone know which company built it? I recall reading an interview with the designers back in 1992 (Batman Returns) and the stuff they went through to get it designed and built for the film but I lost the magazine.
I read the reviews with mixed feelings. I am not a graphics designer or anything like that, yet I often use Corel Draw! and PhotoShop for various things.
Corel Draw! is at its best when it comes to vector graphics and the bundled, vast collection of clipart. Very cool, very efficient, very fast, and relatively easy to use. I've been a Corel user since version 3.0 shipped, and love it dearly. I wish I could say the same thing about Corel PhotoPaint or their end-user documentation for both products. The latter SUCK.
The UI, the manuals, the tutorials, and overall the PhotoPaint programs are extremely hard to understand and follow. I haven't figured out how to do even simple things in it, and the manuals are possibly the worst documentation I've ever read (counting some WinModem manuals). I use Adobe PhotoShop for all my bitmap graphics now.
To conclude: I use Corel Draw! for vector graphics, and Adobe PhotoShop for bitmap graphics. I owned a license to the latter for about 9 months and I can do my image conversions, filters, enhancements, layers, etc. without problems. I have yet to open the manual.
Since both products retail for $300 or more (depending on where you get them), I'd strongly recommend people to only go to Corel if they have a need for vector graphics. Stick to the Gimp/XV/etc. for bitmaps or wait for Linux/PhotoShop.
I read most of the comments on this and the one that struck me the best was the one about having a "reverse firewall."
Disclaimer I don't own any of this offending software but I'm making the assumption that it opens an Internet connection using a socket and a port.
I use JunkBuster in my Linux and Windoze boxes with excellent results. I can filter which cookies go in/out of the box, which ads or web sites to filter out, which domains to block, which ports to block, etc.
Doesn't this functionality count as the "reverse firewall"? Just a thought.
For some reason some browsers report the link above as "broken". If you can't view the web page, go to http://www.ew.com/ew/daily/ then click on the Mission:Impossible 2 on the left, then click on the featured "MI:2's screenplay was a last minute work in progress" link on the right.
Here's the link for what it's worth: http://www.ew.com/ew/daily/0,2514,3068,mi-2sscreen playwaslast-minute.html. I think it may not work because of the embedded URL "cookie" (the numbers and commas prior to the document name).
The movie sucked because it has no plot. Really. It was being rewritten as late as two weeks prior to opening night. No, I didn't make this up. You can read it yourself in Entertainment Weekly. Robert Towne, the only credited writer in the movie, offers very candid comments on what happened behind the scenes. Why this move is so bad can be summarized in (Mr. Towne's quote): "'Hey, Robert, here are the action sequences, how'd you like to write us a story?' I had never even tried to write something that way before, and it was frightening."
I love thrillers. Well-crafted spy movies have always had a soft spot in my heart. Mission: Impossible was actually quite good if you followed the plot line, which wasn't as convoluted as it was touted to be. There was intrigue, and while the action sequences were very Hollywood, the script writers got all the spook-jargon straight (what's an NOC?). Those little touches of authenticity set M:I appart from other summer fare when it came out.
M:I-2 sucks simply because there is really no plot, as it was publicly stated by the only credited writer. The action sequences were too far over the top, and they don't come close to the action sequences in the latest Jackie Chan flick Shanghai Noon. Thandie Newton can't measure up either as a beautiful woman nor as an actress (think the latest James Bond flick: The casting of Denise Richardson was for pure eye candy). The movie sucks so much, that Oscar(TM) winner Anthony Hopkins, the only person delivering witty lines in the film, doesn't appear on the credits.
Movies are about escapism and fun. Other than the opening scene with Tom Cruise rock climbing, this movie provides neither. Save yourself $8.75 (if you live in San Francisco); wait for it to come out on video.
It was about time someone expressed this idea. I found Mr. Stallman's arguments very disturbing for years. He's a very smart guy but he's also a fanatic and with that comes an unwillingness to understand others' point of view. And yes, very often he sounds like a Communist, whether he realizes it or not.
At the end of the day, software exists to resolve problems. The software that best solves them in a given problem domain tends to win. I enjoy working with Linux to no end; I also encourage our friends and customers to move to it when it makes business, economic, or technical sense. I would not currently replace a large Solaris server or a mainframe running an enterprise application with Linux or GNU or whatever on merits of it being "free software." The reality is that no libre OS is available right now to run a mission-critical system (enterprise, government, military, etc.). Examples of this abound even among the most visible Linux companies: They won't say it out loud, but they'll whisper that they run their companies on SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and others where it makes sense.
Mr. Meyer's comment on commercial development was also a nice breath of fresh air:
Even if all commercial software developers became wealthy, there would be no ethical basis for picturing them as greedy liars... At least the entrepreneur who starts a software company, perhaps with the hope of becoming rich, takes a personal risk... That doesn't automatically make him a hero. But it also doesn't make him a despicable thug. There is nothing wrong about believing enough in one's ideas--and ideals--to put one's livelihood at stake.
There's nothing wrong with making a livelihood and improving one's standard of living throug software development. It takes me and the rest of my team a great deal of effort to produce something. We fully expect remuneration from it.
(for the record, we're looking for an Open Source project where we can contribute our Java, Python, or enterprise networking expertise. Instead of flaming me for this comment, send me your suggestions)
Finally, Mr. Meyer's 11-point Course of Action is something that all of us in the software development community (commercial, free software, open source, or whatever label we apply to ourselves) should read, understand, and expand to make this truly a better world.
So let us start terming the bug as a Windows bug or Windows virus instead of a generic computer bug. This goes a long way in getting the mindset of people that if you want to be on the Internet use a secure OS - Mac, Beos or Linux pick your choice.
I partially agree with you in that this is a Windows-specific virus. I disagree, however, with your comment indicating that the cause is lacking the security of Linux. The real issue is the availability of VBScript on the client, which in turn gives the attackers access to the local file system.
Our company runs both Windows and Linux 7x24 (with a few reboots here and there on the Windows boxes every day, of course::wink::). We've received the ILOVEYOU attachments and just laughed at them because our e-mail clients don't support unrestricted scripting, even on the Windows machines, where we run Netscape Messenger. Netscape Messenger, while it allows JavaScript, doesn't allow unrestricted access to the file system and other Communicator resources like VBScript does.
We perceive unrestricted scripting access from the e-mail client as the real problem, not Windows itself. Any system that allows unrestricted scripting privileges (even *NIX systems) to its users is vulnerable to malice.
As for Macintosh and BeOS being "secure", I just beg to disagree. Perhaps you know something about them that I don't about them. Would you care to expand on exactly what makes them inherently secure when compared to Windows?
In conclusion: Our recommendation to our customers is very simple: Get off MS-Outlook/MS-Exchange for e-mail. IMAP and an appropriate e-mail client will do the same job without having to worry about VBScript viruses.
Greetings! For what is worth, I found the article in the ACM Digital Library. It originally appeared in the February 1997 issue of ACM Interactions, pp. 40-53. The article includes many more graphics and photos than the article that prompted this posting on/.
I am not sure about posting this and copyright issues, though, and I'm too lazy to dig out my ACM membership to check the rules. If anyone can confirm a source where ACM says it's OK to post it I'll make the PDF file available.
For those of you who are ACM members, search for "Inventing the Lisa Interface" under title and "Ludolph Perkins Smith" under author. The PDF file is about 1024 KB.
I just checked the base page at http://home.san.rr.com/ and found a list of all the users off this home page. When I clicked on a few of them I received various errors from Apache, though I was able to load some of the other member pages. Some I could load once, then not, then yes again.
I don't think the author cut us off on purpose. Based on this little experiment, I'd say they just urgently need some help in configuring their web server.
The defeat of the algorithms, which were weak because they were designed to meet U.S. and Japanese export controls, makes it possible to build an open-source DVD player that the DVD Forum can't disable, he said.
Is there a source of information on what are Japanese export controls on cryptographic technology?
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I actually think that this book is really boring. I'll be happy to send it to anyone who's willing to pay for the S&H. I have the Warner Books hard cover edition, circa 1993. Mint condition--I couldn't read past the 20th page. No dust cover, though. It's been on my shelf since.
Send me an e-mail if you want the book.
ECNN is running a complementary article to this interview titled Proposal to limit copyright on hard drives draws fire. The article presents an overall view of the issues, describes who the different proponents and industry players are, and comments on the implications for end-users and Open Source programs.
Considering the source, this was a well-balanced, well-written article. It also mentions that one of the main proponents of HD copy protection refuses to being interviewed.
Cheers!
EMy girlfriend and I were visiting NYC this weekend to do our Christmas shopping. We had reservations for Japanese food on Saturday. The main course? Fugu sashimi!
The fish is sliced very thin, with each bite-size piece arranged around a large plate as the petals of a flower. The sushi chef places some shredded fugu and fugu skin at the 5-7 o'clock quadrant of the plate. A small mound of finely chopped scalions and pickled radish make the centre of the flower.
To eat it: Mix the scalions and radish with thinly diluted soy sauce. Squirt some Japanese lime over the fugu. Wait a minute or so, then pick a piece up with your chopsticks, dunk it in the sauce, and eat it slowly. The result? Delicious. Very delicate flavour, and the lips, palate and tongue tingle and get a bit red.
My girlfriend and I both enjoyed the fugu very much. She freaked out a bit when I told her about the tetradotoxin; she was about halfway done with her sashimi plate. Nevertheless she raved on it and would definitely order it again.
I live in San Francisco, and there are one or two places here who supposedly serve fugu; they never seem to have it, though. If you happen to be in NYC and want to try this, check out Chikubu Restaurant. It's on 46th or 45th (?) between 5th and 6th Avenues. You will need reservations; also, we recommend the sashimi. There is something else they make with it (I don't recall what) but I figure sashimi is the best way to go. The price? $70/plate. I believe fugu is available (in Japan or elsewhere) from autumm to spring only.
Cheers!
EGood points, assuming that the letter is legitimate. I am always amazed at how much in-fighting takes place whenever three or more Linux advocates get together. The KDE vs. GNOME situation is right on the money. The comment about HelixCode and profitability is ominously accurate as well: The dotcom implosion showed us that you can't have a company bleeding dollars for long (common sense had already shown us this; some people were too stupid to see it).
As for the politics of Open Source, I fully agree with ESR and completely disagree with RMS. The memo is right regarding the infighting as well.
I believe that Linux can be profitable and fun. I also believe that some of the forces that brought it to us may cause a downfall for our market share. That would be a Bad Thing(tm) for all of us.
EThis partnership sounds like an excellent idea. The record companies get their cuts and hopefully the membership cost will be at a level where downloading a single song will be in the less-than-a-dollar range.
If Napster and BMG are smart, they'll build the security around the authentication mechanisms to join the Napster community rather than using digital encoding a la SDMI.
Cheers!
ECould someone please explain why this is news for nerds or stuff that matters?
Next we'll read here about how the neighbour's cat is trapped atop some tree, or some other (similar) crap just like in most American TV news broadcasts.
EThe lego site requires cookies support; I was unable to view it while Junkbuster was active.
Is anyone out there mirroring the content for this site?
Thanks,
EGreetings!
There's an alternative to avoid the banner ads: Use the Java version of AIM. That's what I use on all my boxes because it works great under *NIX, Windoze, and Mac.
Check the link out at: http://toc.oscar.aol.com/. You can use this client with your existing AIM account, or you can create a new one and skip the software download step.
Cheers!
EHello!
Lately I had to log on to the 'net using my AOL account. I left my AIM chat channel open for a while and *surprise*, I began getting XXX AIM messages that originated outside of AOL. They're easy to recognize because AOL warns you that an Internet AIM user wishes to chat, etc. Once I clicked 'OK' and checked the message out. Based on what I saw, and my request for chatting more (user no longer logged on), I think that the message was generated by some robot traversing an AOL acct's list.
I speculate that this is the reason why they're shutting down third-party AIM clients, particularly those that aren't certified, whatever that means.
DISCLAIMER: I use AOL as my ISP when I travel overseas because they've got local access numbers in every country/city I ever been to, unlike almost any other ISP. That way I pay $5/hour for connecting rather than $5/minute for using my US PPP connections to my own 'net.
Comments?
EIf you've ever watched the Batman Beyond series you'll find that its biggest problem is the awful plot lines. Stephenson will certainly bring much needed substance to the Batman of the Future.
EI think embedding ads in the music is an excellent idea. That will get the heat off this topic and (possibly) make the music companies happy.
We all know that stripping the ad off the MP3 file would probably be trivial. So what's the big deal? For those of us who are technically inclined, this is the best of both worlds: The music becomes available, and we have the means of stripping the ads if we choose to.
This is similar to how people deal with the blinking VCR clock: The technically inclined stop it from blinking, the average Joe is too lazy to learn and lives with it, we all use our VCR to the best of our abilities or our tastes. The same could be applied to ads on MP3s: It won't be that hard to strip them for those of us who choose to; the rest of the world can (or will) live with them, and perhaps the record companies will be off our collective backs.
Hm... something to think about...
EHello. Does anyone know if any of the batmobiles used in Tim Burton's Batman films was ever sold or auctioned? If not, does anyone know which company built it? I recall reading an interview with the designers back in 1992 (Batman Returns) and the stuff they went through to get it designed and built for the film but I lost the magazine.
Thanks in advance!
EI read the reviews with mixed feelings. I am not a graphics designer or anything like that, yet I often use Corel Draw! and PhotoShop for various things.
Corel Draw! is at its best when it comes to vector graphics and the bundled, vast collection of clipart. Very cool, very efficient, very fast, and relatively easy to use. I've been a Corel user since version 3.0 shipped, and love it dearly. I wish I could say the same thing about Corel PhotoPaint or their end-user documentation for both products. The latter SUCK.
The UI, the manuals, the tutorials, and overall the PhotoPaint programs are extremely hard to understand and follow. I haven't figured out how to do even simple things in it, and the manuals are possibly the worst documentation I've ever read (counting some WinModem manuals). I use Adobe PhotoShop for all my bitmap graphics now.
To conclude: I use Corel Draw! for vector graphics, and Adobe PhotoShop for bitmap graphics. I owned a license to the latter for about 9 months and I can do my image conversions, filters, enhancements, layers, etc. without problems. I have yet to open the manual.
Since both products retail for $300 or more (depending on where you get them), I'd strongly recommend people to only go to Corel if they have a need for vector graphics. Stick to the Gimp/XV/etc. for bitmaps or wait for Linux/PhotoShop.
Cheers!
EI read most of the comments on this and the one that struck me the best was the one about having a "reverse firewall."
Disclaimer
I don't own any of this offending software but I'm making the assumption that it opens an Internet connection using a socket and a port.
I use JunkBuster in my Linux and Windoze boxes with excellent results. I can filter which cookies go in/out of the box, which ads or web sites to filter out, which domains to block, which ports to block, etc.
Doesn't this functionality count as the "reverse firewall"? Just a thought.
For more info go to http://www.junkbusters.com (I am not affiliated in any way with this organisation).
Cheers!
EFor some reason some browsers report the link above as "broken". If you can't view the web page, go to http://www.ew.com/ew/daily/ then click on the Mission:Impossible 2 on the left, then click on the featured "MI:2's screenplay was a last minute work in progress" link on the right.
Here's the link for what it's worth: http://www.ew.com/ew/daily/0,2514,3068,mi-2sscreen playwaslast-minute.html. I think it may not work because of the embedded URL "cookie" (the numbers and commas prior to the document name).
EThe movie sucked because it has no plot. Really. It was being rewritten as late as two weeks prior to opening night. No, I didn't make this up. You can read it yourself in Entertainment Weekly. Robert Towne, the only credited writer in the movie, offers very candid comments on what happened behind the scenes. Why this move is so bad can be summarized in (Mr. Towne's quote): "'Hey, Robert, here are the action sequences, how'd you like to write us a story?' I had never even tried to write something that way before, and it was frightening."
I love thrillers. Well-crafted spy movies have always had a soft spot in my heart. Mission: Impossible was actually quite good if you followed the plot line, which wasn't as convoluted as it was touted to be. There was intrigue, and while the action sequences were very Hollywood, the script writers got all the spook-jargon straight (what's an NOC?). Those little touches of authenticity set M:I appart from other summer fare when it came out.
M:I-2 sucks simply because there is really no plot, as it was publicly stated by the only credited writer. The action sequences were too far over the top, and they don't come close to the action sequences in the latest Jackie Chan flick Shanghai Noon. Thandie Newton can't measure up either as a beautiful woman nor as an actress (think the latest James Bond flick: The casting of Denise Richardson was for pure eye candy). The movie sucks so much, that Oscar(TM) winner Anthony Hopkins, the only person delivering witty lines in the film, doesn't appear on the credits.
Movies are about escapism and fun. Other than the opening scene with Tom Cruise rock climbing, this movie provides neither. Save yourself $8.75 (if you live in San Francisco); wait for it to come out on video.
Have an excellent Memorial Day,
EBravo!
It was about time someone expressed this idea. I found Mr. Stallman's arguments very disturbing for years. He's a very smart guy but he's also a fanatic and with that comes an unwillingness to understand others' point of view. And yes, very often he sounds like a Communist, whether he realizes it or not.
At the end of the day, software exists to resolve problems. The software that best solves them in a given problem domain tends to win. I enjoy working with Linux to no end; I also encourage our friends and customers to move to it when it makes business, economic, or technical sense. I would not currently replace a large Solaris server or a mainframe running an enterprise application with Linux or GNU or whatever on merits of it being "free software." The reality is that no libre OS is available right now to run a mission-critical system (enterprise, government, military, etc.). Examples of this abound even among the most visible Linux companies: They won't say it out loud, but they'll whisper that they run their companies on SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and others where it makes sense.
Mr. Meyer's comment on commercial development was also a nice breath of fresh air:
Even if all commercial software developers became wealthy, there would be no ethical basis for picturing them as greedy liars... At least the entrepreneur who starts a software company, perhaps with the hope of becoming rich, takes a personal risk... That doesn't automatically make him a hero. But it also doesn't make him a despicable thug. There is nothing wrong about believing enough in one's ideas--and ideals--to put one's livelihood at stake.
There's nothing wrong with making a livelihood and improving one's standard of living throug software development. It takes me and the rest of my team a great deal of effort to produce something. We fully expect remuneration from it.
(for the record, we're looking for an Open Source project where we can contribute our Java, Python, or enterprise networking expertise. Instead of flaming me for this comment, send me your suggestions)
Finally, Mr. Meyer's 11-point Course of Action is something that all of us in the software development community (commercial, free software, open source, or whatever label we apply to ourselves) should read, understand, and expand to make this truly a better world.
Have a nice wknd,
Eugene
So let us start terming the bug as a Windows bug or Windows virus instead of a generic computer bug. This goes a long way in getting the mindset of people that if you want to be on the Internet use a secure OS - Mac, Beos or Linux pick your choice.
I partially agree with you in that this is a Windows-specific virus. I disagree, however, with your comment indicating that the cause is lacking the security of Linux. The real issue is the availability of VBScript on the client, which in turn gives the attackers access to the local file system.
Our company runs both Windows and Linux 7x24 (with a few reboots here and there on the Windows boxes every day, of course ::wink::). We've received the ILOVEYOU attachments and just laughed at them because our e-mail clients don't support unrestricted scripting, even on the Windows machines, where we run Netscape Messenger. Netscape Messenger, while it allows JavaScript, doesn't allow unrestricted access to the file system and other Communicator resources like VBScript does.
We perceive unrestricted scripting access from the e-mail client as the real problem, not Windows itself. Any system that allows unrestricted scripting privileges (even *NIX systems) to its users is vulnerable to malice.
As for Macintosh and BeOS being "secure", I just beg to disagree. Perhaps you know something about them that I don't about them. Would you care to expand on exactly what makes them inherently secure when compared to Windows?
In conclusion: Our recommendation to our customers is very simple: Get off MS-Outlook/MS-Exchange for e-mail. IMAP and an appropriate e-mail client will do the same job without having to worry about VBScript viruses.
Talk to you later,
Eugenehave a look at this month's issue of Fortune Magazine.
If there is a URL, would you mind posting it? I just checked the Fortune Magazine web site but couldn't find the article. Thanks!
EGreetings! For what is worth, I found the article in the ACM Digital Library. It originally appeared in the February 1997 issue of ACM Interactions, pp. 40-53. The article includes many more graphics and photos than the article that prompted this posting on /.
I am not sure about posting this and copyright issues, though, and I'm too lazy to dig out my ACM membership to check the rules. If anyone can confirm a source where ACM says it's OK to post it I'll make the PDF file available.
For those of you who are ACM members, search for "Inventing the Lisa Interface" under title and "Ludolph Perkins Smith" under author. The PDF file is about 1024 KB.
Cheers
EI just checked the base page at http://home.san.rr.com/ and found a list of all the users off this home page. When I clicked on a few of them I received various errors from Apache, though I was able to load some of the other member pages. Some I could load once, then not, then yes again.
I don't think the author cut us off on purpose. Based on this little experiment, I'd say they just urgently need some help in configuring their web server.
Cheers!
EPLEASE MODERATE THIS DOWN!!!
WHAT IS EVERYONE WAITING FOR TO MODERATE THIS JERK DOWN?????
EGood morning!
Just a quick question: What is the meaning of the word "debian"?
Thanks!
EThe CNN article reads:
The defeat of the algorithms, which were weak because they were designed to meet U.S. and Japanese export controls, makes it possible to build an open-source DVD player that the DVD Forum can't disable, he said.
Is there a source of information on what are Japanese export controls on cryptographic technology?
Thanks!
E