Encryption is not hard. Netscape, LookOut and LookOut express all have one-click access to e-mail encrytpion. The problem of course, is that users have to fork over $50 or so to verisign or whomever is the cheapest CA to get an e-mail encryption certificate. This is not pgp, but rather s/mime. (i believe that's what it's called) I currently have an OpenCA certificate (because they're free) but this does me no good because every install of Outlook will complain because OpenCA is not a trusted CA. (BTA, CA=Certificate Authority)
If we could get affordable (read: free) certificates to work with these clients,i believe e-mail encrytion usage would grow quickly.
Hrm then, that's news to me. Last I heard there's only 1 or 2 people from the original pcg group in the plant. Perhaps They have outsourced development? I'll have to investigate further.
That's what i thought of too, I have family that works for cross (me even being a former employee) from what i understand cross has elimiated their pcg(Pen Computing Grop) line, and the only thing their selling off is the last remaing stock. They had a pad which you would write on paper, and a special piece of hardware would save the strokes, then download them to a PC and OCR them. the software, coincedentially, was written by IBM.
Plex86 sorta absorbed the Bochs Development team. IIRC, there is some bocbs code in plex86. Bochs is a x86 emulator that seems to work on PPC Mac's (which a lot of coaxing/hacking/etc.) How difficult would it be to put a bochs emulationl ayer under the whole thing?
I'm curious, If they want to keep contact with it, why don't they just send out a 'relay' probe behind it? Have the relay pick up the signal, and amp it and send it back to earth...
That should be plenty enough. I've run Nt4, along side a Mac emulator (BasiliskII) and both ran decently. For quite a while I would just minimize the running VM, and continue my regular work in linux w/o blinkng. (i configured the vm to have 64meg of memory, i believe vmware itself uses about 30-40 meg)
I didn't do any price shopping, but I did see a $99 Pricetag on Visual Basic 6.0 boxed. It was right next to Visual Studio Pro for the above mentioned price.
One thing 'we' do that Microsoft doesn't is make the Unix programming tools available to anyone who wants them for free. (Ms's academic licences for VIsual Studio is $249 for the complete package, $99 for individual components) Younger kids are usually relentless about getting what they want. If they want to program They'd get their hands on something like djgpp or cygwin (assuming they're still on an M$-based system) Once they realize that these tools come from the unix world, and that they work better in a unix world, they will try to install a unix-based OS, and Tinker with that.
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As Linux hackers continue to make Linux easier to use, The transition from M$-based OSes becomes easier and easier.
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Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:47:54 EDT <<<
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:47:54 EDT <<<
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
This is not a support forum, and if you weren't an anononymous coward, i'd personally mail you, but have you tried suid'ing the smbmount & smbumount binaries?
i'll be marked as offtopic--- but make sure it doesn't have an extension. Edit it w/ dos edit. Notepad likes to appened.txt to it the file must not have any extension: c:\windows\hosts This will work, i use this trick on my own Win95 machine.
I too, have been considering creating an open source and extensible library management system. 3 other people in the world probaly know of of 'FreePac' (Free Public Access Catalog)'. But unfortuantly it's still vapor. (i have a C++ class for handling marc data, if anyone's interested...)
The problem with using a SQL database staight up, is the complexities of MARC. Many moons ago, MARC records used to be delevired on _tape_. They're fornated thus: [directory][data][record terminator]... Marc Records are sub organized, and there are nearly no length restrictions on the data you can put in each tag. (except for fields with code)
A product like this would be great for libraries and schools, both which operate on a low budget. Things that would be great to support would be - Web based access to take advange of high-end machines and new web browsers.., definatly need telnet/textonly/terminal access because libraries and schools usually have old terminals/PCs and old PCs.
IF anyone would like some help setting this up... I'd be happy to offer.... C++, perl, html, linux, VB, (and a bit of java)
nope, Not unless you publish your name in the directory. Even still I"ve used AIM for 4 years, and have not once recieved a IM-ad. Problem is, once people realise it's an ad, They'll warn the Advertizer. after about 10-15 people warn him, they cannot sign on.
I read about it everywhere (ok, mostly @/.) but It seems that more and more the government is abusing the power that the people have given it. Why don't more people realize what the US government is doing to them right under their noses? I realize that the/. community is just a small subset of the entire US population. we need to find a way to inform the masses of the follies of the goverment. We'll never do it by posting to our personal 'Rant' pages--We need some real media coverage.
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said "We all need a little revolution now and then"...
It's unfortunate that scientests don't get more recognition than they deserve. We have sports role models that are glorified more, and what do they do? Play a game really well? These scientists contribute to our fundamental understanding of the universe. They help advance the human race and allow us to attain a higher intellegence. *moment of silence for Donald Davies*
Favorite Quote from article: (as said by a record store manager) "The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
The trick is to implement an addressing system that's extensible. If we over-implenent, like an addressing system with 128 64-bit fields we'll be wasting space now, for a while we will be ok (for a really long while) but then, with the unevitable expantion of computers, we will run out of space. If we implenet an extensible system from the start... all we have to do is drop in new support, and near-transparent upgrades to the system.
I don't get why everyone is advocating tricks to et around clicking 'ok' on the license agreement. Does anyone really think that a judge would uphold that dodge in court? 'Oh, you didn't know the license was there, so you accidentally used winzip rather than just double clicking on the executable'. I don't see this going over well.
This is standard practice for me, because this is how i avoid viruses. If i can't open it w/ my File manager (Windows commander- which opens just about anything) I delete it.
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Encryption is not hard. Netscape, LookOut and LookOut express all have one-click access to e-mail encrytpion. The problem of course, is that users have to fork over $50 or so to verisign or whomever is the cheapest CA to get an e-mail encryption certificate. This is not pgp, but rather s/mime. (i believe that's what it's called) I currently have an OpenCA certificate (because they're free) but this does me no good because every install of Outlook will complain because OpenCA is not a trusted CA. (BTA, CA=Certificate Authority)
If we could get affordable (read: free) certificates to work with these clients,i believe e-mail encrytion usage would grow quickly.
Hrm then, that's news to me. Last I heard there's only 1 or 2 people from the original pcg group in the plant. Perhaps They have outsourced development? I'll have to investigate further.
That's what i thought of too, I have family that works for cross (me even being a former employee) from what i understand cross has elimiated their pcg(Pen Computing Grop) line, and the only thing their selling off is the last remaing stock. They had a pad which you would write on paper, and a special piece of hardware would save the strokes, then download them to a PC and OCR them. the software, coincedentially, was written by IBM.
Plex86 sorta absorbed the Bochs Development team. IIRC, there is some bocbs code in plex86. Bochs is a x86 emulator that seems to work on PPC Mac's (which a lot of coaxing/hacking/etc.) How difficult would it be to put a bochs emulationl ayer under the whole thing?
I'm curious, If they want to keep contact with it, why don't they just send out a 'relay' probe behind it? Have the relay pick up the signal, and amp it and send it back to earth...
http://sourecforge.net/projects/reefkn ot/
That should be plenty enough. I've run Nt4, along side a Mac emulator (BasiliskII) and both ran decently. For quite a while I would just minimize the running VM, and continue my regular work in linux w/o blinkng. (i configured the vm to have 64meg of memory, i believe vmware itself uses about 30-40 meg)
I didn't do any price shopping, but I did see a $99 Pricetag on Visual Basic 6.0 boxed. It was right next to Visual Studio Pro for the above mentioned price.
One thing 'we' do that Microsoft doesn't is make the Unix programming tools available to anyone who wants them for free. (Ms's academic licences for VIsual Studio is $249 for the complete package, $99 for individual components) Younger kids are usually relentless about getting what they want. If they want to program They'd get their hands on something like djgpp or cygwin (assuming they're still on an M$-based system) Once they realize that these tools come from the unix world, and that they work better in a unix world, they will try to install a unix-based OS, and Tinker with that. '
As Linux hackers continue to make Linux easier to use, The transition from M$-based OSes becomes easier and easier.
Those of you with just slashdot:
/home/mystik]$ whois microsoft.com
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
R ORISTS.NET
V ES.NET
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
/home/mystik]$ whois aol.com
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
[mystik@roast
[whois.crsnic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TER
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.RULED.BY.HACKERJACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSI
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:47:54 EDT <<<
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
[mystik@roast
[whois.crsnic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
AOL.COM.KCAUTOWEB.COM
AOL.COM.IS.REGULARLY.HAX0RED.BY.INSIDE-AOL.COM
AOL.COM.EATMYSHIT.ORG
AOL.COM.AMSLIQUIDATORS.COM
AOL.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:47:54 EDT <<<
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
This is not a support forum, and if you weren't an anononymous coward, i'd personally mail you, but have you tried suid'ing the smbmount & smbumount binaries?
i'll be marked as offtopic--- but make sure it doesn't have an extension. Edit it w/ dos edit. Notepad likes to appened .txt to it the file must not have any extension: c:\windows\hosts This will work, i use this trick on my own Win95 machine.
Oddly... BASIC is not mentioned anythere there. Basic has evolved quite a bit from what it used to be..
I too, have been considering creating an open source and extensible library management system. 3 other people in the world probaly know of of 'FreePac' (Free Public Access Catalog)'. But unfortuantly it's still vapor. (i have a C++ class for handling marc data, if anyone's interested...)
The problem with using a SQL database staight up, is the complexities of MARC. Many moons ago, MARC records used to be delevired on _tape_. They're fornated thus: [directory][data][record terminator]... Marc Records are sub organized, and there are nearly no length restrictions on the data you can put in each tag. (except for fields with code)
A product like this would be great for libraries and schools, both which operate on a low budget. Things that would be great to support would be - Web based access to take advange of high-end machines and new web browsers.., definatly need telnet/textonly/terminal access because libraries and schools usually have old terminals/PCs and old PCs.
IF anyone would like some help setting this up... I'd be happy to offer.... C++, perl, html, linux, VB, (and a bit of java)
nope, Not unless you publish your name in the directory. Even still I"ve used AIM for 4 years, and have not once recieved a IM-ad. Problem is, once people realise it's an ad, They'll warn the Advertizer. after about 10-15 people warn him, they cannot sign on.
Unified chat protocol?
Try IRC.
(want a popup window? /query [nick])
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said "We all need a little revolution now and then" ...
It's unfortunate that scientests don't get more recognition than they deserve. We have sports role models that are glorified more, and what do they do? Play a game really well? These scientists contribute to our fundamental understanding of the universe. They help advance the human race and allow us to attain a higher intellegence. *moment of silence for Donald Davies*
Favorite Quote from article: (as said by a record store manager) "The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
MS didn't write it- It's symantic software- before they got big.
Are you guys purposly trying to get slashdot bitch-slapped with another DCMA violation?
(my karma whoring for the day)
for the copy-paste disabled:
ftp://ftp.nebsllc.com/kde2
ftp://mandrakesoft.com/pub/molnarc
http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697
http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html
Source: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable /distribution/
Rpms:ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unst able/distribution/rpm/
Better?
The trick is to implement an addressing system that's extensible. If we over-implenent, like an addressing system with 128 64-bit fields we'll be wasting space now, for a while we will be ok (for a really long while) but then, with the unevitable expantion of computers, we will run out of space. If we implenet an extensible system from the start... all we have to do is drop in new support, and near-transparent upgrades to the system.
This is standard practice for me, because this is how i avoid viruses. If i can't open it w/ my File manager (Windows commander- which opens just about anything) I delete it.