The Ad-Zapper for squid works also fine, and if you're what the slashdot users usually pretend to be, you should run squid, not junkbuster.;)
Also, for spam in general, or rather against it, SpamMotel and especially SneakEmail work like a charm; SneakEmail even lets you reply to (suspected) spammers without revealing your real address.
Of course, if you have your own domain/MX and mail server, you can generate these "one-time" email addresses yourself - but using sneakemail is just too easy and convenient.
It's about eight months out of date now, but has decent background.
The last 8 months can be summed up briefly in a dialog:
DOJ: Bad company!
MS: No we aren't.
DOJ: Yes you are.
MS: No we aren't.
Judge: Yes you are.
MS: Well, maybe, but not that bad.
Appeals Court: Actually, you were, but so was the Judge.
MS: Ah ha!! So the trail was unfair.
Appeals: Well, not quite. You're still bad.
DOJ: We can't tell who's bad anymore.
MS: Definitely not us.
DOJ: Hmm.. You're not? Ok, then. Maybe it's us that's bad?
State AG's: Excuse me?
MS: We will punish ourselves dearly, by selling coc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonating software to the schools. By "donating" we understand something else than what those misleading dictionaries taught you...
Prasad, moderator of an Internet mailing list on south Asia security and information warfare, told Newsbytes that Afroze made the claims in a police confession.
Even if the story is true, and the guy "confessed"... I know I'd confess to writing windows XP if faced with a rubber hose.
Speaking of the "P" word, the New Scientist article states:
All cellphones made in the US now have to include some form of locator
technology so that they can be tracked by emergency services.
Well, that's definitely news for me (and I don't think I live in a hole, no-no:)
Is this true? How about the export phones? I know that this automatic tracking thing has been discussed in many counties, and deemed illegal (in Germany and Sweden, at least). Does this mean that Motorola has different models to sell in the US and Europe? Doesn't this give Nokia a competitive edge? (the article says "made in the US", not "sold")
Lots of questions...
No, don't get me wrong: I just hate the kind of competition that looks good on paper but doesn't have a chance in the real world.
Just think of it: 6-7 years ago, when an alternative to "integrated windows" was still possible, microsoft bought or drove out of business almost everyone that was in their way. Having that accomplished, of course it's hard to come with competitive products nowdays - and stunts like Lindows benefits only Microsoft.
But, hey, that's my oppinion, you can have yours - be my guest.
Don't you have the feeling that this will give an argument to Microsoft, towards "Your Honor, there *is* competition in OS and apps business..."?
I don't really think the average consumer will see the advantage of running windows apps in a restricted environment. Even so, if you run, let's say, an unpatched outlook, with your real address book - when SirCam/whatever eventually hits you there's little difference from running pure Windows: it will send itself to everybody and will infect/delete the "sandbox" itself. For most of the people this will mean "everything".
To sum it up, apart from giving M$ something to mention (or not) in court and to give someone the opportunity to run a hybrid os, I don't see any real uses for Lindows. Nor do I see a market segment or even a niche for it.
It's not very clear. The faq on their web site states that "Some of the LindowsOS code will be Open Source".
No idea if this is - or not - WINE-related.
Well, when you "click to download" tou have 2 options: ie6 or ie5.5sp2. What did you expect?
Anyway, you have to know where it is (the patch/hotfix) as it's not yet listed under "windowsupdate".
I ran it and it looks to do the right thing - at least if you try with ct's "browser check" at http://www.heise.de/ct/browsercheck/readme.txt. The link actually feeds you with "hello.exe", beware.
And be assured a lot of other big guys will back Micros~1 on this one - using the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy. I mean, when almost everybody (say, 95% of the people) buying things online will have Passport, who's going to say "you need something else to get my stuff"? You have to have:
a) big balls;
b) a somewhat unique product or service;
c) some nerve
to try to pull this one.
Of course there will be (pathetic) alternatives to Passport - just enough that Micros~1 can say "it's a free market, Your Honor...".
Some potential users are concerned over the prospect of being observed by their household appliances, and said they would not knowingly purchase a product that tracked their entertainment preferences.
Isn't that exactly as in 1984? The screen that was watching you... maybe... or maybe not. And the feds won't use it ever, we swear.
All right, maybe I'm paranoid now... but don't they say "don't beleive it until it's officially denied"?
Yep, that seems to be the case.
That, or someone didn't get it (the author? the marketing guy?)
The quirk is that none of the data is ever transmitted; the receiving end creates its own copy of a file based on a complete set of mathematical equations.
This simply doesn't work. If you have something already compressed (no redundancy) - let's say a.zip file or a.jpeg picture, there is no "set of mathematical equations" that considerably reduce the data size. Note that JPEG being a lossy algorithm, it can achieve higer compression rates than non-lossy algorithms (in theory). And you can't talk about lossy compression in the same phrase as data backup.:)
They may have designed something that speeds up transfers, that's not relying on the exact packet sequence etc. - but it's not spelled out in the article.
Yep, you're right.
If the old saying, "Don't believe it until it's officially denied" still holds - there must be a lot of other things to be afraid about. Or only cautious...
But Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt said the software giant could help more schools under the proposed settlement, distributing more software at a lower cost than if the same schools went out and bought programs on the open market.
... the same programs on the open market.
I love mainstream media...:(
it is usally easy to find a channel that you can watch with your 16-year old daughter without blushing (The kids can stay up late at weekends).
I think you exaggerate here. C'mon, *blush*... with a 16-year old daughter... that's not a kid, it's a young adult. Where do you live, for chrissake?
This reminds me of this (rather old) joke:
Mother to 12-years-old daughter: 'Dear, it's time to have a talk about sex.'
'Yea, mom, what do you wanna know?'
In Europe (Switzerland) GSM phones with a prepaied SIM can be purchased at most gas stations. If you want to pay cash, nothing more is required then a 100 francs bill. Refills can be purchased at ticket vending machines at virtually every train station (no, they don't take a photo, when you pay cash)
Exactly the same applies to Sweden. Well, s/100 francs/500 kronor/:)
You can register your initially-anonymous SIM and get back (in call credit) around $10. If you want anonymity, that's what you pay for it (one-time charge).
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You most probably forgot "--with-pam" when configuring...
Quote from the CTO: 'We could get it to the point where radios are built into every product we make [...]
:)
Radio? Gimme sattelite tv, radio is old news...
The Ad-Zapper for squid works also fine, and if you're what the slashdot users usually pretend to be, you should run squid, not junkbuster. ;)
Also, for spam in general, or rather against it, SpamMotel and especially SneakEmail work like a charm; SneakEmail even lets you reply to (suspected) spammers without revealing your real address.
Of course, if you have your own domain/MX and mail server, you can generate these "one-time" email addresses yourself - but using sneakemail is just too easy and convenient.
No, M$ are way ahead: remember Passport/Hotmail terms of use along the line of "all your mails are belong to us"?
It's about eight months out of date now, but has decent background.
The last 8 months can be summed up briefly in a dialog:
DOJ: Bad company!
MS: No we aren't.
DOJ: Yes you are.
MS: No we aren't.
Judge: Yes you are.
MS: Well, maybe, but not that bad.
Appeals Court: Actually, you were, but so was the Judge.
MS: Ah ha!! So the trail was unfair.
Appeals: Well, not quite. You're still bad.
DOJ: We can't tell who's bad anymore.
MS: Definitely not us.
DOJ: Hmm.. You're not? Ok, then. Maybe it's us that's bad?
State AG's: Excuse me?
MS: We will punish ourselves dearly, by selling coc^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonating software to the schools. By "donating" we understand something else than what those misleading dictionaries taught you...
Prasad, moderator of an Internet mailing list on south Asia security and information warfare, told Newsbytes that Afroze made the claims in a police confession.
Even if the story is true, and the guy "confessed"... I know I'd confess to writing windows XP if faced with a rubber hose.
Think about it...
Can subscribe to this - same old SB16 ISA here, no troubles with games, OS and even hardware that came and went during this time.
God, the computer I bought it with (or rather, "for") was a 486DX2/66.
The review doesn't mention how the Audigy works under any open source operating systems, though.
The Alsa Soundcard Matrix shows all Audigy cards greyed out - which is "support is undetermined as yet".
That's saying that they don't have the specs and don't know if the card will be ever supported. My guess is yes, but not right now...
Speaking of the "P" word, the New Scientist article states:
:)
All cellphones made in the US now have to include some form of locator
technology so that they can be tracked by emergency services.
Well, that's definitely news for me (and I don't think I live in a hole, no-no
Is this true? How about the export phones? I know that this automatic tracking thing has been discussed in many counties, and deemed illegal (in Germany and Sweden, at least). Does this mean that Motorola has different models to sell in the US and Europe? Doesn't this give Nokia a competitive edge? (the article says "made in the US", not "sold")
Lots of questions...
No, don't get me wrong: I just hate the kind of competition that looks good on paper but doesn't have a chance in the real world.
Just think of it: 6-7 years ago, when an alternative to "integrated windows" was still possible, microsoft bought or drove out of business almost everyone that was in their way. Having that accomplished, of course it's hard to come with competitive products nowdays - and stunts like Lindows benefits only Microsoft.
But, hey, that's my oppinion, you can have yours - be my guest.
Don't you have the feeling that this will give an argument to Microsoft, towards "Your Honor, there *is* competition in OS and apps business..."?
:)
I don't really think the average consumer will see the advantage of running windows apps in a restricted environment. Even so, if you run, let's say, an unpatched outlook, with your real address book - when SirCam/whatever eventually hits you there's little difference from running pure Windows: it will send itself to everybody and will infect/delete the "sandbox" itself. For most of the people this will mean "everything".
To sum it up, apart from giving M$ something to mention (or not) in court and to give someone the opportunity to run a hybrid os, I don't see any real uses for Lindows. Nor do I see a market segment or even a niche for it.
What's this about again?
It's not very clear. The faq on their web site states that "Some of the LindowsOS code will be Open Source".
No idea if this is - or not - WINE-related.
Just wanted to be sure nobody will jump with "don't click there - this guy is trying to fsck you". :)
And it was a fair warning - it *does* send you hello.exe...
Of course it's not a virus. C't is one of (if not the) biggest german computer magazines!
Well, when you "click to download" tou have 2 options: ie6 or ie5.5sp2. What did you expect?
Anyway, you have to know where it is (the patch/hotfix) as it's not yet listed under "windowsupdate".
I ran it and it looks to do the right thing - at least if you try with ct's "browser check" at http://www.heise.de/ct/browsercheck/readme.txt. The link actually feeds you with "hello.exe", beware.
Yes - it makes sense.
And be assured a lot of other big guys will back Micros~1 on this one - using the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy. I mean, when almost everybody (say, 95% of the people) buying things online will have Passport, who's going to say "you need something else to get my stuff"? You have to have:
a) big balls;
b) a somewhat unique product or service;
c) some nerve
to try to pull this one.
Of course there will be (pathetic) alternatives to Passport - just enough that Micros~1 can say "it's a free market, Your Honor...".
... but using blindly ssh is prone to the exploit itself (see the "UseLogin yes|no" discussion)
Some potential users are concerned over the prospect of being observed by their household appliances, and said they would not knowingly purchase a product that tracked their entertainment preferences.
Isn't that exactly as in 1984? The screen that was watching you... maybe... or maybe not. And the feds won't use it ever, we swear.
All right, maybe I'm paranoid now... but don't they say "don't beleive it until it's officially denied"?
Yep, that seems to be the case.
.zip file or a .jpeg picture, there is no "set of mathematical equations" that considerably reduce the data size. Note that JPEG being a lossy algorithm, it can achieve higer compression rates than non-lossy algorithms (in theory). And you can't talk about lossy compression in the same phrase as data backup. :)
That, or someone didn't get it (the author? the marketing guy?)
The quirk is that none of the data is ever transmitted; the receiving end creates its own copy of a file based on a complete set of mathematical equations.
This simply doesn't work. If you have something already compressed (no redundancy) - let's say a
They may have designed something that speeds up transfers, that's not relying on the exact packet sequence etc. - but it's not spelled out in the article.
Yep, you're right.
If the old saying, "Don't believe it until it's officially denied" still holds - there must be a lot of other things to be afraid about. Or only cautious...
Wasn't MPEG-4 supposed to do this? And aren't the newest Windows Media codecs based on a draft of the MPEG-4 standard?
:)
Yes it was, but the marketing guys were in a harry and they first thought about you...
But Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt said the software giant could help more schools under the proposed settlement, distributing more software at a lower cost than if the same schools went out and bought programs on the open market.
:(
... the same programs on the open market.
I love mainstream media...
it is usally easy to find a channel that you can watch with your 16-year old daughter without blushing (The kids can stay up late at weekends).
I think you exaggerate here. C'mon, *blush*... with a 16-year old daughter... that's not a kid, it's a young adult. Where do you live, for chrissake?
This reminds me of this (rather old) joke:
Mother to 12-years-old daughter: 'Dear, it's time to have a talk about sex.'
'Yea, mom, what do you wanna know?'
:)
From the "feature list":
Use your own ISP!
(Does not support AOL/Compuserve)
Yeah, you're free to use any ISP as long as it's called MSN.
Sorta trick question, "3 letter isp, starts with M and ends with SN".
In Europe (Switzerland) GSM phones with a prepaied SIM can be purchased at most gas stations. If you want to pay cash, nothing more is required then a 100 francs bill. Refills can be purchased at ticket vending machines at virtually every train station (no, they don't take a photo, when you pay cash)
:)
Exactly the same applies to Sweden. Well, s/100 francs/500 kronor/
You can register your initially-anonymous SIM and get back (in call credit) around $10. If you want anonymity, that's what you pay for it (one-time charge).