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  1. For NT users: Proxomitron on DoubleClick 'Web Bugs' On Porn, Medical Sites · · Score: 1

    My NAT box runs junkbuster, and that works for the os/2 machine attached to it too. At work we have NT. Instead of junkbuster, Proxomitron runs under NT and does a few tricks even Junkbuster can't manage: stops blinking .GIF files, intercepts "nasty" Javascripts and allows you to pop up a k3wl window to see what's going on.

  2. WSeB / os/2 on Is The Microsoft-Free Office Possible? · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of os/2? You can still get an avatar of this: Workspace for e-business (clunky name, but still...) And if you think office monkeys can't use os/2, think again.

    There exist NOW offices that use exclusively os/2. You're only correct if you say "well, there is a taint of M$ in os/2" - and that is literally true but practically it's misleading.

  3. Re:My Configuration on Net Access On The International Trip? · · Score: 1

    This is a real gem. You might want to look for a file called arlog.txt on your machine. Not sure (any longer) where it's stored. As of IGN 4.20 arlog.txt was all sent to an IP address in the 32.xxx.xxx.xxx IP block. Unbeknownst to you, I might add.

    For those of you who don't have this trojan installed, my last copy of arlog.txt reported my OS, free memory, free disk space, modem type (!) and access level (e.g. administrator, user).

    BTW I reported this to Slashdot, and to IBM as incident 0901142. They had a rep of whomever it is that wrote AccessRamp send me a letter saying what a wonderful idea it was for me to trust them.

    I use another dialer when I use NT now.

  4. Consumers vs. participants on AOL + Time-Warner Worse Than Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    AOL/TW is aimed at the people who consume information. If you sit at the TV and just absorb, this will affect you since you are a sheep. If you participate in dialog, I don't care what it is, you will not care so much to have your opinions owned and marketed, and you will belong to the alternative group that isn't affected by soap commercials.

    It is true you can get power by receiving money in return for pandering to the sheep. It is true you can make sheep do some things. It's true that you can be a participant and not have the loot Steve Case does. However, it isn't true that someone else can make you have opinions. You generate those, or allow someone else to generate them for you, depending on whether or not you are willing to think.

  5. Re:Need real-time A's to your Q's about this topic on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1
    Yeesus Christmas - that channel had 114 users when I logged out at 0600 CUT 12 Mar.

    The consensus: The SanDisk is NVRAM, not flash. The IDE connector must be fabbed via the instructions here. USB will support multiple NICs but is an I/O bottleneck. Stated by MrBlaq: If you bought the box from IOpener, do NOT boot the machine while it is connected to a phone line unless you want to start ISP service. You can see a dmesg at the URL above.

  6. Very well written. Very bad news. on The Power of Openness · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of Eastern-bedwetter sociological blather that derives from having missed the boat. The article says, with bloatware: that people are writing software, that it might be dangerous for them (or Society) if they keep it up, and that they should follow us because we know better.

    English is from the bazaar. French is from the cathedral. The parallel is exact: there is a "cathedral" in France called the Academie Francaise and it is responsible for how the French language operates. And French is dying (I take no pleasure in this; I say that because things are changing faster than the structure can follow). In contrast, English lives in the open and anyone can coin a word or phrase. The only criterion for adoption is usability. And surprise, surprise - English is vibrant and its user base is increasing.

    And it got there with no help from a tweedy clutter of barf-mats offering "leadership".

  7. Drivel about drivel about drivel on Bill Gates & his 12 Steps · · Score: 1

    Why does Katz think he needs to `interpret' (even through a sort of fulminating parody) an article in Time? His message seems to be `well, Gates is out of touch.' The terse comment I wish he'd have written would be something like this:

    `Bill Gates is out of touch, along with many journalists. His latest collection of doodles and matchbook covers, `Business at the X of Y', received a fawning, if woozy, reception by Time magazine, not coincidentally the publishers of the book. Time holds up a distorted mirror to the Gates scribbles, sees a Jackson Pollock drawing, and pronounces it great - unaware that the drawing is hanging upside down.'