Try reading this for some provocative reasons why ity's a big waster of time:
http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhe re.htm
"In the thirty years since the last Moon flight, we have succeeded in creating a perfectly self-contained manned space program, in which the Shuttle goes up to save the Space Station (undermanned, incomplete, breaking down, filled with garbage, and dropping at a hundred meters per day), and the Space Station offers the Shuttle a mission and a destination. The Columbia accident has added a beautiful finishing symmetry - the Shuttle is now required to fly to the ISS, which will serve as an inspection station for the fragile thermal tiles, and a lifeboat in case something goes seriously wrong."
Most ISPs are extremely willing to take these down quickly, I've had quite a few respond to me within minutes when I've informed them
In my experience most phishing sites now get hosted in places like rural China - not so easy to take down. And if they are smarter and register a domain they just keep moving the site from one compromised machine to another.
IE with XP SP2 now shows you the real domain at the top left of a pop-up window, a little detail that will make it quite a bit harder to effectively show a bogus (phishing) popup form in front of a genuine banking site.
I've been using Thunderbird on Windows now for about 3 weeks and I haven't had a single problem. I much prefer it to Eudora, my previous email client.
By the way, something useful for non-US English users that took me a while to figure out: Thunderbird uses MySpell dictionaries which can be downloaded here.
For example, annoying pages that open with "target=_blank" to make a new window get made into tabs in MyIE2. I've NEVER been able to get Mozilla to do this.
Try Firebird with the Tabbrowser extensions installed. Works a treat.:)
This site is pretty funny, and pretty accurate too. Shame the message board doesn't work anymore, there were some hilarious posts from former employees.
My favourite example of herd mentality is the Office Computer Monitor effect. Stand three people in front of a computer screen and a crowd will soon gather and grow exponentially.
RMS gives a pretty good argument here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyrig ht.html
"...copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information
for a friend makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the
friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity
that strengthens social bonds.
Some readers may question this statement because they know publishers
claim that illegal copying causes them "loss." This claim is mostly
inaccurate and partly misleading. More importantly, it is begging the
question.
The claim is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the
friend would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher.
That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is
false, the claimed loss does not occur.
The claim is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests
events of a very different nature--events in which something they
have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's
stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got
torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is
wrong to do these things to other people.
But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the
bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more
fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get
less income than they might have got. The same consequence can
result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a
book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry
"foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with
them.
The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is
based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid.
That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and
prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand:
what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share
copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid
for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is
not.
In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is
not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one."
I don't get it. Red Hat will be including Nautilus in future distributions (according to the Eazel homepage) but the two companies seem to have competing business models, both based on updating services.
I used to think that, but the more I work with web tv-type services (including online games consoles and anthing else that uses a TV set) the more I realise that as those services catch on web developers will be forced to stick to standards, or they'll be limited to just one platform.
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Try reading this for some provocative reasons why ity's a big waster of time: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhe re.htm
"In the thirty years since the last Moon flight, we have succeeded in creating a perfectly self-contained manned space program, in which the Shuttle goes up to save the Space Station (undermanned, incomplete, breaking down, filled with garbage, and dropping at a hundred meters per day), and the Space Station offers the Shuttle a mission and a destination. The Columbia accident has added a beautiful finishing symmetry - the Shuttle is now required to fly to the ISS, which will serve as an inspection station for the fragile thermal tiles, and a lifeboat in case something goes seriously wrong."
Most ISPs are extremely willing to take these down quickly, I've had quite a few respond to me within minutes when I've informed them In my experience most phishing sites now get hosted in places like rural China - not so easy to take down. And if they are smarter and register a domain they just keep moving the site from one compromised machine to another.
IE with XP SP2 now shows you the real domain at the top left of a pop-up window, a little detail that will make it quite a bit harder to effectively show a bogus (phishing) popup form in front of a genuine banking site.
Not a problem - they take Paypal.
It's ridiculously easy to setup if you get the CrossOver Office software (based on Wine technology but non-free) from Codeweavers.
I've been using Photoshop 7 on Linux for weeks now, and I've been using Internet Explorer 6 too (very handy for checking web development work).
Try the 30-day demo if you don't believe.
I've been using Thunderbird on Windows now for about 3 weeks and I haven't had a single problem. I much prefer it to Eudora, my previous email client.
By the way, something useful for non-US English users that took me a while to figure out: Thunderbird uses MySpell dictionaries which can be downloaded here.
And lots more tips for Thunderbird here.
For example, annoying pages that open with "target=_blank" to make a new window get made into tabs in MyIE2. I've NEVER been able to get Mozilla to do this.
:)
Try Firebird with the Tabbrowser extensions installed. Works a treat.
The DMCA? Last time I checked American law wasn't a global thing.
Yep, it's definitely useful to have an electrician on hand - I've been involved in one LAN party that blew the local electricity sub-station!
Note to self: use preview next time. :)
This site is pretty funny, and pretty accurate too. Shame the message board doesn't work anymore, there were some hilarious posts from former employees.
My favourite example of herd mentality is the Office Computer Monitor effect. Stand three people in front of a computer screen and a crowd will soon gather and grow exponentially.
oh yeah
Eazel Services look very similar to Red Hat's Network service - see www.redhat.com/network/
Anyone care to explain to me what the difference is?
I used to think that, but the more I work with web tv-type services (including online games consoles and anthing else that uses a TV set) the more I realise that as those services catch on web developers will be forced to stick to standards, or they'll be limited to just one platform.