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for those of you who didn't notice, this article is only one in a series of four articles about toxics in the computer industry in this issue of the Guardian.
i think it depends to some extent on the type of software involved (e.g. a boxed operating system should provide at least a simple reference manual in case the user can't get the system to install or boot), but for most applications, the advantages of electronic documentation make it the best way to go.
however, to accomodate those customers who do want printed media, a company should either provide printed (preferrably bound) versions of any manual on request, or distribute their documentation in such a way that another business or individual can legally create and distribute printed copies of the electronic manuals (read: GNU Free Documentation License).
some people seem to think that asking telemarketers to take you off "their list" is the appropriate thing to do in response to an unsolicited call.
while this may help (but probably won't), a more helpful and effective tactic (as many people have already mentioned) is to have them put you on their "DO NOT CALL" or "DO NOT SOLICIT" list.
the reason is that direct marketers are required by law to keep a list of people they cannot call for at least ten years, but there are no laws respecting their management of lists of people they can call. so if they take you off "their list", there's nothing to stop them from using another list with your number later, or from putting your number back on their list.
people keep asking why the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" was in the affected DLL if it wasn't the pass phrase for a back door of some kind.
from this note on Microsoft's site, it seems that the phrase was being used as an "obfuscation key" for filenames in HTTP requests involving this component (probably using an XOR scheme, or else they would have called it encryption).
But wasn't a password of some kind needed to exploit the original vulnerability?
Press reports originally claimed that Dvwssr.dll used a password to bypass access controls, but this was not correct. The component uses an obfuscation key to obscure the names of files being requested by the client from the server. The obfuscation key and its use did not influence the operation of the access controls on the server in any way.
AFAIK, no Gnutella source code has been distributed. all available source is provided by third parties who based their code on CapnBry's (or someone else's) reverse-engineering efforts, not on the original Gnutella source.
the Gnutella source is due to be released once the "official" client reaches version 1.0.
oh dear me! i knew after the black album that metallica was on the way down, and by the time "Load" came around, i could no longer call myself a metallica fan, but this!
FUCKING SELLOUTS!!!!!! FUCK BOB ROCK, CAUSE IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!!!!!!
i pine and weep for the carefree, riley days of Cliff Burton, RIP.
AOL is having ORBS block outbound SMTP traffic from its external IP gateways in an effort to stop AOL users from running their own MTA through AOL's network. AOL's own SMTP servers do not send mail through those gateways, so they will not be blocked. these machines are presumably spam-proofed in some way, hence they are not listed as open relays.
AOL users can use any user agent they want, as long as the mail only gets sent out through AOL's SMTP. (actually, spammers can still run their own outbound SMTP on AOL's network, but ORBS subcribers won't receive it)
there is nothing that states that the current binaries are under the GPL (AFAIK), so i think the intention is to apply the GPL to the code once 1.0 is released. at that point, the source code will also be made available as required by the GPL.
i wouldn't call the current support "good". there is still no Java2 VM for *BSD or any GNU/Linux flavor except X86. i would keep holding if i were you.
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in short, this is what GNOME developers have been working on for the past year. October GNOME was just a sideshow, for the most part.
the particular code that you saw is appended by the server because your User-Agent header identified your browser as M$ Internet Exploiter.
no, but you should probably be worried about yourself if you're demented enough to use vigor.
here's a link to the fatbrain profile for the book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos.
the other three are:
IMO, the "Garbage In" article is a bit more informative and less tear-jerky than the one linked in the main story.
i think it depends to some extent on the type of software involved (e.g. a boxed operating system should provide at least a simple reference manual in case the user can't get the system to install or boot), but for most applications, the advantages of electronic documentation make it the best way to go.
however, to accomodate those customers who do want printed media, a company should either provide printed (preferrably bound) versions of any manual on request, or distribute their documentation in such a way that another business or individual can legally create and distribute printed copies of the electronic manuals (read: GNU Free Documentation License).
while this may help (but probably won't), a more helpful and effective tactic (as many people have already mentioned) is to have them put you on their "DO NOT CALL" or "DO NOT SOLICIT" list.
the reason is that direct marketers are required by law to keep a list of people they cannot call for at least ten years, but there are no laws respecting their management of lists of people they can call. so if they take you off "their list", there's nothing to stop them from using another list with your number later, or from putting your number back on their list.
from this note on Microsoft's site, it seems that the phrase was being used as an "obfuscation key" for filenames in HTTP requests involving this component (probably using an XOR scheme, or else they would have called it encryption).
AFAIK, no Gnutella source code has been distributed. all available source is provided by third parties who based their code on CapnBry's (or someone else's) reverse-engineering efforts, not on the original Gnutella source.
the Gnutella source is due to be released once the "official" client reaches version 1.0.
i found it. the hacker is CapnBry, and here's the URL.
please confirm your rants before you submit them angrily to major news organizations.
oh dear me! i knew after the black album that metallica was on the way down, and by the time "Load" came around, i could no longer call myself a metallica fan, but this!
FUCKING SELLOUTS!!!!!! FUCK BOB ROCK, CAUSE IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!!!!!!
i pine and weep for the carefree, riley days of Cliff Burton, RIP.
chuck d. represent!
AOL is having ORBS block outbound SMTP traffic from its external IP gateways in an effort to stop AOL users from running their own MTA through AOL's network. AOL's own SMTP servers do not send mail through those gateways, so they will not be blocked. these machines are presumably spam-proofed in some way, hence they are not listed as open relays.
AOL users can use any user agent they want, as long as the mail only gets sent out through AOL's SMTP. (actually, spammers can still run their own outbound SMTP on AOL's network, but ORBS subcribers won't receive it)
http://download.sourcefor ge.net/mirrors/redhat/redhat-6.2beta/
that's my recommendation. pretty simple, eh?
Darwin was cross-compiled, using a PPC, into binaries for both x86 and PPC.
there is nothing that states that the current binaries are under the GPL (AFAIK), so i think the intention is to apply the GPL to the code once 1.0 is released. at that point, the source code will also be made available as required by the GPL.
you can check out the patent text for patent 6,029,141 here. boycott amazon.
IANAV, but i believe it has to do with the involvement of bone char in the blanching process.
well, i'm pretty sure i'm not going to go rush out and buy any, but at least they're all vegetarian.
perhaps it should be called afterbirth
here's a link to the tarball: Propaganda-14.tar.gz
here's the link from LYCOS: http://news.lycos.com/headlines/Technology/article .asp?docid=RTTECH-MICROSOFT-L AWSUIT&date =20000217
i take that back...Blackdown RC4 is available for SPARC, but it's not supported by Sun and probably won't be for a while.
i wouldn't call the current support "good". there is still no Java2 VM for *BSD or any GNU/Linux flavor except X86. i would keep holding if i were you.