KOffice does offer some benefits over StarOffice. KOffice is natively compiled for the machine platform on which it is executing, whereas StarOffice is a Java-based application. This means KOffice responds much faster and is less memory-intensive than StarOffice.
The rest of the review just looses all credibility and although it might have some good points, this really hurts the review and says the reviwer has not looked at the whole picture of the marketplace. The fact you can browse the source code on the net sorta gives most of that away.
Elsewhere around the world, the Weekly World News is still reporting that the chineese are going to drive their cars all in the same direction at the same time in order to change the rotation of the earth. Apparently the Russians are planning on flushing their toilets all at the same time in hopes that the rotation of the water in the toilets will send the earth plumetting into the cosmos.
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm not all that excited about this. One of the key things to highlight is that this is just a tool and a method for doing 45 degree angles on chips.
If companies can manufacture such devices reliably with high yield, the approach would achieve an engineering trifecta: higher performance, improved real estate utilization and lower power consumption.
The word in the above statement is IF. That's a big if. Just because you can design something doesn't mean that you can fabricate it.
As an interesting little side now, it should be noted that some of the people working on good old Magic are trying to implement non-manhattan geometries in it also. Although, doing it on a router would be kinda tricky.
Just an FYI, renegade was based of a copy of the Forum BBS code if I remember correctly. Along with Telegard. I'm pretty sure that was in Pascal because I saw the Forum source once.
Oblivion, Cheese and host of other crappy systems were based of WWIV source code, which was in C. At least if memory serves me correct.
After a fit of stupidity on NSI's part this summer I decided to get back at them. Using Gandi.net I registered the domain name fucknsi.org. They kinda got taken aback when I was on the phone with them and said my email was i@want.to.skull.fucknsi.org. Plus Gandi is like 10 bucks for a year. Well, depending on the strength of the Euro I guess.
Along a similar line, you'll see that NSI owns all the NSIsucks.* domains. Hmm...funny, apparently their policy against profanities left the f*cknsi domains all open though, much to my happiness.
Once again, I attend IIT, so maybe I'm biased here. I also know Dean Perritt and Harold Krent. In fact I've worked closely with Hank Perrit on a variety of projects. We didn't always get along, but I feel confident he will do a good job.
As a bit of a background, Perritt was one of the founders of a program called "Project Bosnia" which is designed to help restore the information infrastructure to Bosnia. Since then it has expanded to KRISYS Net (Kosovo Refugee Information System Network). I had the fortune to work with Perritt on both of these projects. Perritt is very aware of many of the issues that can come up from the filtering of information and government snooping of information as a result of these projects.
I've heard some comments about not being a criminal law expert or constitutional law expert.
KentLaw is probably the best school to do this because it has such a focus on technology law. All you need to do is to look at the homepage and see the school has it's stuff together when it comes to the internet and the new world order.
As for IIT's relationship to this whole thing. KentLaw and IITRI operate fairly independently of the school and the main engineering school didn't have much (or anything at all) to do with the proposal. I'm not sure why the names were kept confidential, I just asked who was in charge of it and got a response in a few hours.
First of all, I attend IIT, so I can clear some stuff up about what is going on.
IITRI is affiliated and also owned by the school. Anyone who has ever been to Comiskey Park in Chicago has seen a big tall ominous building at 35th and state. That's the main IITRI thing. Last year when the government was testing the foam for bioweapons at airports, they tested it on live anthrax there. It should be noted that with 8 blocks to a mile in Chicago, that puts IIT around 4 miles from downtown chicago. One of IITRI's biggest clients is the US government. There are dozens of IITRI labs around the country.
I've had extensive dealings with the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Some of their faculty are very good about legal issues. Other assume because they wrote a paper about cyberspace a couple of years ago they know everthing about it. Then again, it might just be a personal issue with me and the dean.
This is unusal for our institution. The most prominent IIT research that I know of relating to computers is Garbage Collection and is being done by Morris Chang. There is also some AI research being done. But not a whole lot else.
The law school (chicago-kent) is pretty distant from the main campus, and they don't do much with actual computer stuff there. So it's going to be a legalistic investigation, which is probably what this means.
To be honest, I'm kinda excited about this, but I wouldn't trust my own school to do it.
Okay, so I watched the whole thing and was mildly amused. I couldn't help but notice for a few things in the credits they said Miguel Sanchez did them (Director of Photography). Now my question is, did they actually find someone in Australia (I presume that's where this was made from cars and license plates) that was named Miguel Sanchez or was it a take from the Simpsons where Lionel Hutz is babysitting Bart and Lisa. "Lionel Hutz is no more. Say hello to Miguel Sanchez!"
Doesn't IE dislike this sort of stuff? I remember back when IE 4 came out we used to send cookies to remote domains via 1x1 gifs and IE started to make it so a 1x1 gif couldn't set a cookie if it was loaded from another domain. Anyone else remember this? Netscape will still let you set a cookie with a 1x1 gif from another domain, but when, for the time being, IE has won the browser war you cater to them.
A my school they were going to do this during the fall semester of last year. They even went so far as to buy a 10,000 user site license for the Windows users so they could use SecureCRT.
Anyway, despite the fact I'm a unix sysadmin at work, I still was against this move. First of all, my school has a HUGE proportion of international students (somewhere around 35%). Some of these students are from countries where their legal status to use such encryption in the US is questionable at best. Secondly my school apparently hadn't compiled in the RSARef library and the sysadmin couldn't figure out how to do it. (When you pay $30K for a sysadmin you get a $30K sysadmin).
But the bigger issues were these. First of all, there was no suitable legal Macintosh SSH client at the time as NiftySSH apparently suffered from the same nasty patent problems. Secondly, most school systems have HUGE amounts of accounts (this system has 14000+ accounts on it), many of these have never been used and getting access via a default password (usually last.first or social security numbers at most places) is trivial.
Turning off telnet then only really makes it a headache for people who can't get SSH, or who go home for the weekend and don't have an SSH client. It doesn't address the poorly configured log files which are the real problem in the first place.
As a postscript, my school has now implemented some crappy java/html insecure mail system which makes it easier to read other peoples email because now it's sent all at once and you don't have to filter out the cursor keys in sniffit logs.
It's true, if SSH were available for every platform, freely (FAIB and FAIS) then this would be good, but it's not, telnet and FTP are.
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Seeing as I'm too lazy to reply to every comment that I've seen here, I'm just going to put them all in one post.
There seems to be a lot of comments about Lars' poor grammar and what not. Did it not occur to some of you people that this was a transcribed audio interview (but don't try getting a copy and posting it on napster). If you do a word for word transcription of most people it sounds like that.
I think Lars makes a really good point where he talks about the scale of the whole thing. 1.4 million in a weekend, I can believe that stat (some of the other ones I question). That would be somewhere around 100000 albums. Sure not everyone would buy one, but some people would.
An interesting point which he alluded to, but didn't finish is something about emerging bands. Sure it provides an excellent way to get songs to the masses. But what happens once they are signed and people continue to trade all their songs on Napster or Gnutella or FreeNet? What then? Being signed once, they are now a commercial bust with no hope of becoming a commercial success. Which, despite what your saying and cursing under your breath right now, is what it's all about.
I think that Lars/Metallic and other bands would be much more open to a system where it was done on a permission level for bands and songs. It's quite clear that Lars has no problem with people trading bootlegs so they would probably allow those on such a service, but I don't imagine he want's people trading ReReLoad or whatever the next album is, two days after it comes out.
It's clear that Metallica has done their research on this issue, and Lars' shows that (after all who would openly admit to using AOL), so we should give them some credit for that. All of you people that think the record company put them up to this should go back to reading your conspiracy books and try to figure out who killed JFK.
Other major technology factors such as BUYING A CD ONLINE were apparently ignored.
The article said: Managers from other independent stores around the country said their businesses have been affected far more by the growth of big chain stores or by online retailers, such as CDNow and Amazon.com, than by online music-swapping software.
however it was interesting to note how this buried near the end of the article where no one ever reads. Apparently they decided to be somewhat honest, but just hide the real reason near the end of the article.
Metallica explained that these usernames had made available for others to download materials that Metallica claims infringed its copyrights.
At the same time, Best Buy and any other Brick and Mortar retailer makes their CD's available for me to steal. Along with Napster, because the opportunity is there does not mean people take advantage of it. Which is along the same lines of people getting something without paying for it. So, I guess I'm waiting for Metallica to deliver a list of all the Best Buy stores to Best Buy, Coconuts stores to Coconuts, Musicland to Musicland etc...
Some may say that this is different because it's making it easy to and encouraging people to steal with Napster. I say they haven't talked to enough suburban 14 year olds (sorry DJ Jazzy Trevor, I didn't know the food court was your turf).
<SARCASM>Oh wait, that's right this is the way of the future, and we should be scared of it.</SARCASM>
I think what the author of this article fails to notice is that it still is their project. Being as the nice people at sourceforge have written the software they should have control.
I see a couple of other flaws with the arguments. First of all, it's not always the case that patches are accepted. Look at all the projects SGI has done for the kernel and note how some of them were outright rejected. Yet we magically don't accuse the Kernel of being open source.
about the release cycle thing, I don't see a problem if they take a long time. It takes a large amount of time to do stuff like write documentation, create tar balls and the like. If it's just programmers, most of them would rather program. And access to the CVS for the PHP source, it's been my experience that CVS doesn't serve PHP that well, your mileage may vary.
so while it would be nice to have the SF source code all nice and up to date. If they choose only periodic releases so be it. It's their project. If you think this is a problem, go Xemacs on their ass and fork the code.
For those of you who are asking the inevitable question, "What about linux support"? I think you should have some faith in the good people of the world out there. You might want to see some of the stuff that TerraSoft Solutions is doing with YellowDog Linux and BlackLab Linux. I'm not sure how much a lot of this applies, but they've gotten it to run on some of CSP's Quad G4 boards and other nifty configurations.
Okay, so I'm a matrox bigot. I'll preface this post by saying that. I have a Matrox G400Max in my home system and a Voodoo 3 3000 (I think) in my work system. Overall I'm more impressed with the visual quality of the Matrox. There are just some things voodoos can't do. I belive 32 bits is one of them. But the real reason I bought the G400 was because of two factors - OpenGL in a window in X and Dual Monitor Support. Most programmers will agree that openGL in a window is much better for development as you can see debugging information while running the program. Do that with a V3 in linux. Although dual head support on one AGP isn't here yet, it will be soon in XF4. When only displaying on one display the matrox is usuing only one of the two separate ramdacs on it. It's akin to only using a single processor on a dual processor system. It's rather a shame. The only downside to the G400 is that I can't play soulblighter accelerated as its glide for linux. But I suppose that's why I keep the monster 3d around.
Although I don't nescessairly agree with the emphasis on l0phtcrack that the article has, I'm fairly sure this is the usual case of underinformed slashdotites getting over excited when the see a word they recognize in a mainstream article.
Let's be perfectly clear with something. It was illegal to steal the customer lists from their two places of employment, regardless of the methods. The article has some bad wording, but it seems like they were referring to a l0phtcrack datafile found on the guy's computer, not the software itself.
In any case the software was used to commit a crime and therefore it's not like the police saying it's illegal to have the software.
What these people really should be busted for is stupidity. They got caught. They were using prefabbed tools (prolly not 100% suited to the job) and didn't use encrpytion. Geeze, what happened to the good old days when people knew how to commit computer crime.
Yes, that would be correct. I was at work and not thinking right. This shows something though, it's actually REALLY hard to type messages like that because of the < that you have to type to have it show < and don't even get me started on quoting.
Am I the only one who said "well, geez, that's obvious, a monkey could have figured that out". The issue is just people being smart about how they handle user provided input. We've all seen this sort of stuff for a long time, so it surprises me that CERT would issue a warning on something like this.
Just don't be a bonehead when writing your stuff. Strip out all tags then apply them again later if needed.
Okay. I can understand why he might say that the PC era is ending. I mean, my Ti99/4a can hardly keep up anymore. We upgraded recently to a massive 10 megabyte hard disk and a 1200 baud modem. You should see slashdot on this thing. It's interesting to see how it remaps the character set to make the various icons like einstein and lady liberty that you "power users" of such computer as the Timex Sinclair take for granted.
However there are two things that my trusty Ti99/4a will have that these newfangled things (that connect to something called the global internet) will never have. First a giant box of a speech synthesizer. Who would think, a talking computer. Second a cassette tape adapter for me to load Tunnels of Doom. God bless technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Elsewhere around the world, the Weekly World News is still reporting that the chineese are going to drive their cars all in the same direction at the same time in order to change the rotation of the earth. Apparently the Russians are planning on flushing their toilets all at the same time in hopes that the rotation of the water in the toilets will send the earth plumetting into the cosmos.
It may not be in Sid yet, but there are packages out there for Woody.
deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/i386/
deb-src http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/source/
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm not all that excited about this. One of the key things to highlight is that this is just a tool and a method for doing 45 degree angles on chips.
The word in the above statement is IF. That's a big if. Just because you can design something doesn't mean that you can fabricate it.
As an interesting little side now, it should be noted that some of the people working on good old Magic are trying to implement non-manhattan geometries in it also. Although, doing it on a router would be kinda tricky.
Just an FYI, renegade was based of a copy of the Forum BBS code if I remember correctly. Along with Telegard. I'm pretty sure that was in Pascal because I saw the Forum source once. Oblivion, Cheese and host of other crappy systems were based of WWIV source code, which was in C. At least if memory serves me correct.
After a fit of stupidity on NSI's part this summer I decided to get back at them. Using Gandi.net I registered the domain name fucknsi.org. They kinda got taken aback when I was on the phone with them and said my email was i@want.to.skull.fucknsi.org. Plus Gandi is like 10 bucks for a year. Well, depending on the strength of the Euro I guess.
Along a similar line, you'll see that NSI owns all the NSIsucks.* domains. Hmm...funny, apparently their policy against profanities left the f*cknsi domains all open though, much to my happiness.
Once again, I attend IIT, so maybe I'm biased here. I also know Dean Perritt and Harold Krent. In fact I've worked closely with Hank Perrit on a variety of projects. We didn't always get along, but I feel confident he will do a good job.
As a bit of a background, Perritt was one of the founders of a program called "Project Bosnia" which is designed to help restore the information infrastructure to Bosnia. Since then it has expanded to KRISYS Net (Kosovo Refugee Information System Network). I had the fortune to work with Perritt on both of these projects. Perritt is very aware of many of the issues that can come up from the filtering of information and government snooping of information as a result of these projects.
I've heard some comments about not being a criminal law expert or constitutional law expert. KentLaw is probably the best school to do this because it has such a focus on technology law. All you need to do is to look at the homepage and see the school has it's stuff together when it comes to the internet and the new world order.
As for IIT's relationship to this whole thing. KentLaw and IITRI operate fairly independently of the school and the main engineering school didn't have much (or anything at all) to do with the proposal. I'm not sure why the names were kept confidential, I just asked who was in charge of it and got a response in a few hours.
First of all, I attend IIT, so I can clear some stuff up about what is going on.
IITRI is affiliated and also owned by the school. Anyone who has ever been to Comiskey Park in Chicago has seen a big tall ominous building at 35th and state. That's the main IITRI thing. Last year when the government was testing the foam for bioweapons at airports, they tested it on live anthrax there. It should be noted that with 8 blocks to a mile in Chicago, that puts IIT around 4 miles from downtown chicago. One of IITRI's biggest clients is the US government. There are dozens of IITRI labs around the country.
I've had extensive dealings with the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Some of their faculty are very good about legal issues. Other assume because they wrote a paper about cyberspace a couple of years ago they know everthing about it. Then again, it might just be a personal issue with me and the dean.
This is unusal for our institution. The most prominent IIT research that I know of relating to computers is Garbage Collection and is being done by Morris Chang. There is also some AI research being done. But not a whole lot else.
The law school (chicago-kent) is pretty distant from the main campus, and they don't do much with actual computer stuff there. So it's going to be a legalistic investigation, which is probably what this means.
To be honest, I'm kinda excited about this, but I wouldn't trust my own school to do it.
One could have raked in some serious points over at fuckedcompany for these guys as they got fucked twice in slightly over a month. More details are at http://www.fuc kedcompany.com/archives/search.cfm?search=contentv ille
Okay, so I watched the whole thing and was mildly amused. I couldn't help but notice for a few things in the credits they said Miguel Sanchez did them (Director of Photography). Now my question is, did they actually find someone in Australia (I presume that's where this was made from cars and license plates) that was named Miguel Sanchez or was it a take from the Simpsons where Lionel Hutz is babysitting Bart and Lisa. "Lionel Hutz is no more. Say hello to Miguel Sanchez!"
Doesn't IE dislike this sort of stuff? I remember back when IE 4 came out we used to send cookies to remote domains via 1x1 gifs and IE started to make it so a 1x1 gif couldn't set a cookie if it was loaded from another domain. Anyone else remember this? Netscape will still let you set a cookie with a 1x1 gif from another domain, but when, for the time being, IE has won the browser war you cater to them.
A my school they were going to do this during the fall semester of last year. They even went so far as to buy a 10,000 user site license for the Windows users so they could use SecureCRT.
Anyway, despite the fact I'm a unix sysadmin at work, I still was against this move. First of all, my school has a HUGE proportion of international students (somewhere around 35%). Some of these students are from countries where their legal status to use such encryption in the US is questionable at best. Secondly my school apparently hadn't compiled in the RSARef library and the sysadmin couldn't figure out how to do it. (When you pay $30K for a sysadmin you get a $30K sysadmin).
But the bigger issues were these. First of all, there was no suitable legal Macintosh SSH client at the time as NiftySSH apparently suffered from the same nasty patent problems. Secondly, most school systems have HUGE amounts of accounts (this system has 14000+ accounts on it), many of these have never been used and getting access via a default password (usually last.first or social security numbers at most places) is trivial.
Turning off telnet then only really makes it a headache for people who can't get SSH, or who go home for the weekend and don't have an SSH client. It doesn't address the poorly configured log files which are the real problem in the first place.
As a postscript, my school has now implemented some crappy java/html insecure mail system which makes it easier to read other peoples email because now it's sent all at once and you don't have to filter out the cursor keys in sniffit logs.
It's true, if SSH were available for every platform, freely (FAIB and FAIS) then this would be good, but it's not, telnet and FTP are.
Too late
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There seems to be a lot of comments about Lars' poor grammar and what not. Did it not occur to some of you people that this was a transcribed audio interview (but don't try getting a copy and posting it on napster). If you do a word for word transcription of most people it sounds like that.
I think Lars makes a really good point where he talks about the scale of the whole thing. 1.4 million in a weekend, I can believe that stat (some of the other ones I question). That would be somewhere around 100000 albums. Sure not everyone would buy one, but some people would.
An interesting point which he alluded to, but didn't finish is something about emerging bands. Sure it provides an excellent way to get songs to the masses. But what happens once they are signed and people continue to trade all their songs on Napster or Gnutella or FreeNet? What then? Being signed once, they are now a commercial bust with no hope of becoming a commercial success. Which, despite what your saying and cursing under your breath right now, is what it's all about.
I think that Lars/Metallic and other bands would be much more open to a system where it was done on a permission level for bands and songs. It's quite clear that Lars has no problem with people trading bootlegs so they would probably allow those on such a service, but I don't imagine he want's people trading ReReLoad or whatever the next album is, two days after it comes out.
It's clear that Metallica has done their research on this issue, and Lars' shows that (after all who would openly admit to using AOL), so we should give them some credit for that. All of you people that think the record company put them up to this should go back to reading your conspiracy books and try to figure out who killed JFK.
Other major technology factors such as BUYING A CD ONLINE were apparently ignored.
The article said: Managers from other independent stores around the country said their businesses have been affected far more by the growth of big chain stores or by online retailers, such as CDNow and Amazon.com, than by online music-swapping software.
however it was interesting to note how this buried near the end of the article where no one ever reads. Apparently they decided to be somewhat honest, but just hide the real reason near the end of the article.
IANAL, but here is what's funny:
Metallica explained that these usernames had made available for others to download materials that Metallica claims infringed its copyrights.
At the same time, Best Buy and any other Brick and Mortar retailer makes their CD's available for me to steal. Along with Napster, because the opportunity is there does not mean people take advantage of it. Which is along the same lines of people getting something without paying for it. So, I guess I'm waiting for Metallica to deliver a list of all the Best Buy stores to Best Buy, Coconuts stores to Coconuts, Musicland to Musicland etc...
Some may say that this is different because it's making it easy to and encouraging people to steal with Napster. I say they haven't talked to enough suburban 14 year olds (sorry DJ Jazzy Trevor, I didn't know the food court was your turf).
<SARCASM>Oh wait, that's right this is the way of the future, and we should be scared of it.</SARCASM>
I think what the author of this article fails to notice is that it still is their project. Being as the nice people at sourceforge have written the software they should have control.
I see a couple of other flaws with the arguments. First of all, it's not always the case that patches are accepted. Look at all the projects SGI has done for the kernel and note how some of them were outright rejected. Yet we magically don't accuse the Kernel of being open source.
about the release cycle thing, I don't see a problem if they take a long time. It takes a large amount of time to do stuff like write documentation, create tar balls and the like. If it's just programmers, most of them would rather program. And access to the CVS for the PHP source, it's been my experience that CVS doesn't serve PHP that well, your mileage may vary.
so while it would be nice to have the SF source code all nice and up to date. If they choose only periodic releases so be it. It's their project. If you think this is a problem, go Xemacs on their ass and fork the code.
For those of you who are asking the inevitable question, "What about linux support"? I think you should have some faith in the good people of the world out there. You might want to see some of the stuff that TerraSoft Solutions is doing with YellowDog Linux and BlackLab Linux. I'm not sure how much a lot of this applies, but they've gotten it to run on some of CSP's Quad G4 boards and other nifty configurations.
Okay, so I'm a matrox bigot. I'll preface this post by saying that. I have a Matrox G400Max in my home system and a Voodoo 3 3000 (I think) in my work system. Overall I'm more impressed with the visual quality of the Matrox. There are just some things voodoos can't do. I belive 32 bits is one of them. But the real reason I bought the G400 was because of two factors - OpenGL in a window in X and Dual Monitor Support. Most programmers will agree that openGL in a window is much better for development as you can see debugging information while running the program. Do that with a V3 in linux. Although dual head support on one AGP isn't here yet, it will be soon in XF4. When only displaying on one display the matrox is usuing only one of the two separate ramdacs on it. It's akin to only using a single processor on a dual processor system. It's rather a shame. The only downside to the G400 is that I can't play soulblighter accelerated as its glide for linux. But I suppose that's why I keep the monster 3d around.
Methinks that because of this origin hath lost more than a mere eigth.
Although I don't nescessairly agree with the emphasis on l0phtcrack that the article has, I'm fairly sure this is the usual case of underinformed slashdotites getting over excited when the see a word they recognize in a mainstream article.
Let's be perfectly clear with something. It was illegal to steal the customer lists from their two places of employment, regardless of the methods. The article has some bad wording, but it seems like they were referring to a l0phtcrack datafile found on the guy's computer, not the software itself.
In any case the software was used to commit a crime and therefore it's not like the police saying it's illegal to have the software.
What these people really should be busted for is stupidity. They got caught. They were using prefabbed tools (prolly not 100% suited to the job) and didn't use encrpytion. Geeze, what happened to the good old days when people knew how to commit computer crime.
Yes, that would be correct. I was at work and not thinking right. This shows something though, it's actually REALLY hard to type messages like that because of the < that you have to type to have it show < and don't even get me started on quoting.
Am I the only one who said "well, geez, that's obvious, a monkey could have figured that out". The issue is just people being smart about how they handle user provided input. We've all seen this sort of stuff for a long time, so it surprises me that CERT would issue a warning on something like this.
Just don't be a bonehead when writing your stuff. Strip out all tags then apply them again later if needed.
$_ =~ s/</</g;
$_ =~ s/>/>/g
$_ =~ s/<\s*\/?b\s*>/<b>/gi;
This strips out all HTML tags except for properly formatted <B> and </B> tags.
Grow a brain. It helps.
Okay. I can understand why he might say that the PC era is ending. I mean, my Ti99/4a can hardly keep up anymore. We upgraded recently to a massive 10 megabyte hard disk and a 1200 baud modem. You should see slashdot on this thing. It's interesting to see how it remaps the character set to make the various icons like einstein and lady liberty that you "power users" of such computer as the Timex Sinclair take for granted.
However there are two things that my trusty Ti99/4a will have that these newfangled things (that connect to something called the global internet) will never have. First a giant box of a speech synthesizer. Who would think, a talking computer. Second a cassette tape adapter for me to load Tunnels of Doom. God bless technology.