I think its just companies being pissed off because their crap security, which they DID spend a lot of money on, was badly set up, and cracked by a 15 year old geek.
Mafiaboy isn't a geek, he's a script kiddie, and he didn't crack anything. He just ran a script and DDOS'd people. There's no way to defend against that, no matter how good your security is.
Is there really an Easter Egg in Excel? How stupid...
Yep... use the following in Excel 97 (stolen from eeggs.com):
1. On a new Worksheet, Press F5
2. Type X97:L97 and hit enter
3. Press the tab key
4. Hold Ctrl-Shift
5. Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button
6. Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse
There is a third option, which is what we were successfully able to do in World War II and its aftermath: Beat them until they beg for mercy and then help them with open and generous hearts.
And WWII was "successful"?! Killing millions of Allied and Axis soldiers, setting a precedent for the use of atomic bombs, and letting six million Jews be executed was "successful"? Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I think the successful way is the one that works without killing lots of people.
And I happen to believe that if you show what happens to the people who organize and plan terrorist attacks, it does deter those who are still out there and haven't been caught/punished yet.
Please. Terrorists are perfectly willing to die for their causes. The hijackers of the planes today knew they would die, but they did it anyway. Palestinians have been doing suicide bombings for years, and the Japanese were flying kamikaze planes in WWII.
Punishment won't deter terrorist groups. We need to convince these groups that they don't want to attack us. Otherwise, they always will attack us and we really can't stop them (aside from a 1984-style society, which would be worse).
Squidguard comes with a blockfile for porn sites. I don't know how comprehensive it is, but it will probably satisfy the law and be restrictive than blocking all.com,.org, and.net domains.
For example, Google's cache or altavista's babelfish, and many other loopholes alike (there was a link about this in a previous post). If you allow access to these resources - You've allowed access to all.
Not necessarily- google only caches text, so pr0n images are still blocked. However, you'd still need to block moore comprenhensive services like SilentSurf or the Anonymizer in order to work.
Yes, but in the open-source world, the word binary is usually used to describe a precompiled program. And what the tarball is doesn't matter as much as what it contains - in this case, ASCII-encoded source code.
You must also be new to the open source idea. If it's source code, it's not a binary. Binaries are the stuff without source that you get from MS.
But even if it does have source, do you think he'll do a full audit of the code before compiling it? That would take weeks! The emacs code is large and complicated, and malicious code can be inserted almost anywhere.
Besides, I don't know how emacs is developed, but you must be able to get development versions from CVS without relying on Usenet. This isn't commercial software, where you only get to see a few screenshots before the release.
For those who don't want to click on all the links, the task was to produce a program that would optimise a HTML-like markup language called SML/NG. The programs had to remove excess whitespace, redundant and overlapping tags, and perform other simplifications.
Harry and his friends regularly drink 'butterbeer', often in a public house. The adult wizards are present, and it appears to have no intoxicating affects, so one is forced to conclude that, despite the name, like 'ginger beer', it does not contain alcohol. This is until the forth book, when a 'house elf' is found to be drunk on butterbeer. Harry is heard to remark 'it's not very strong'. Not once does any character remark on the strangeness of 11 year olds drinking alcoholic beer.
It never says the beer is alchoholic. Maybe the some chemical/magic used in it affects elves differently from wizards. Or, maybe the kids are served a nonalchoholic version while the elves aren't. Besides, the kids don't drink until they're 13 and have written permission from their parent/guardian.
Harry's platonic friend, Hermione, is 14 years old when she begins a relationship with an 18 year old Bulgarian sportsman, Krum. Being a children's book, there are no descriptions of sexuality of any sort, and so some might think their relationship was 'innocent'.
How do you know it wasn't? They never would have had a chance to meet intimatly anyway. Maybe they just had a mutual crush that never went anywhere.
However, there are no descriptions of Harry beginning to masturbate either, so are we to assume that by age 14 he has not entered puberty? No, of course Harry masturbates, but such details are left out because they are not appropriate for the readership.
It's perfectly normal and rather common for a 14-year-old not to have entered puberty, or at least not to have gotten very far in it. And why do you assume he masturbates? 5% of American teenage boy's don't (yes, I know he's not American but that's the only statistic I have). He could be one of them.
They aren't childrens books at all.
- They don't have any sex.
Harry's got a crush... that might go somewhere in the next book.
- They don't have any violence (well not gruesome violence anyway).
There's a rather graphic description of the torturing spell, as well as people getting punched and thrown against walls.
- They don't have any swearing.
The 4th book says "hell" and "damn" several times, although you may think those doesn't qualify as swearing.
But you're mostly right- there's no real sex, no really gruesome violence, and no hard-core swearing. But I say they are children's books, because they are about children and are mainly read by children.
Heck, why hasn't Xft support been integrated into a released version of GDK yet?
It is fully supported in GTK1.3/2.0, which is due to be released this fall. I think the authors thought it was too much to put into a minor release of 1.2. And yes, it is a kludge, to tide us over until GTK2.0 is released.
what's up with this: "Your comment violated the poster comment compression filter. Comment aborted"
This is offtopic, but one of the lameness filters compresses your comment with gzip and notes the size difference - if it doesn't compress well, it's assumed not to be English (ie ASCII art or something like that).
try/dev/hda1 for starters. what the fuck is that supposed to mean? damn. (i know its like the second hard drive or something, but still)
In Linix, the/dev/hd* files represent the hard drives./dev/hda is the first drive,/dev/hdb is the second drive, and so on. The number at the end is the partition, for example/dev/hda1 is the first partition of the first hard drive and/dev/hdb3 is the 3rd partition of the 2nd hard drive.
I agree that the way Linux accesses devices is outdated and unintuitive. This is something devfs is working on.
Unfortunately, I still don't have AA fonts, because I'm running debian and the alianized.deb I created didn't appear to do anything.
I'm also running Debian (potato + Ximian) and I installed gdkxft from source. It isn't working for me either. Maybe there's some issue with the GTK packages for Debian or something.
QT and GTK can already work without X (frame-buffer) . So it may be worth trying to port them to the Berlin architecture too.
I doubt this will happen. The point of Berlin (or one of them) is to have a consistent user interface with ONE widget set, just like Windows and MacOS. Porting GTK/QT would defeat this purpose.
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I have been trying to get gnome working on my Linux box for weeks. After compiling package after package, I am now stuck...Well great. I can't use gnome on my system.
Since when is compiling from source the only way to install GNOME? Install Ximian GNOME through Red Carpet or install binarypackages for your distribution.
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Mafiaboy isn't a geek, he's a script kiddie, and he didn't crack anything. He just ran a script and DDOS'd people. There's no way to defend against that, no matter how good your security is.
Evolution is a free Outlook clone for *nix. Still beta but it's very close to a 1.0 release.
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html has good information (and most of it isn't UNIX-specific).
Evolution supports most of the Exchange/Outlook groupware features (and it's always getting better).
They don't?
Yep... use the following in Excel 97 (stolen from eeggs.com):
1. On a new Worksheet, Press F5
2. Type X97:L97 and hit enter
3. Press the tab key
4. Hold Ctrl-Shift
5. Click on the Chart Wizard toolbar button
6. Use mouse to fly around - Right button forward/ Left button reverse
And WWII was "successful"?! Killing millions of Allied and Axis soldiers, setting a precedent for the use of atomic bombs, and letting six million Jews be executed was "successful"? Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I think the successful way is the one that works without killing lots of people.
Please. Terrorists are perfectly willing to die for their causes. The hijackers of the planes today knew they would die, but they did it anyway. Palestinians have been doing suicide bombings for years, and the Japanese were flying kamikaze planes in WWII.
Punishment won't deter terrorist groups. We need to convince these groups that they don't want to attack us. Otherwise, they always will attack us and we really can't stop them (aside from a 1984-style society, which would be worse).
Google is working, and it's got a link to a cached copy of CNN.com on its front page.
Squidguard comes with a blockfile for porn sites. I don't know how comprehensive it is, but it will probably satisfy the law and be restrictive than blocking all .com, .org, and .net domains.
Not necessarily- google only caches text, so pr0n images are still blocked. However, you'd still need to block moore comprenhensive services like SilentSurf or the Anonymizer in order to work.
Yes, but in the open-source world, the word binary is usually used to describe a precompiled program. And what the tarball is doesn't matter as much as what it contains - in this case, ASCII-encoded source code.
Besides, I don't know how emacs is developed, but you must be able to get development versions from CVS without relying on Usenet. This isn't commercial software, where you only get to see a few screenshots before the release.
Try Anjuta.
For those who don't want to click on all the links, the task was to produce a program that would optimise a HTML-like markup language called SML/NG. The programs had to remove excess whitespace, redundant and overlapping tags, and perform other simplifications.
Why not just use an image satellite in the first place? The picture quality is good enough.
It never says the beer is alchoholic. Maybe the some chemical/magic used in it affects elves differently from wizards. Or, maybe the kids are served a nonalchoholic version while the elves aren't. Besides, the kids don't drink until they're 13 and have written permission from their parent/guardian.
Harry's platonic friend, Hermione, is 14 years old when she begins a relationship with an 18 year old Bulgarian sportsman, Krum. Being a children's book, there are no descriptions of sexuality of any sort, and so some might think their relationship was 'innocent'.
How do you know it wasn't? They never would have had a chance to meet intimatly anyway. Maybe they just had a mutual crush that never went anywhere.
However, there are no descriptions of Harry beginning to masturbate either, so are we to assume that by age 14 he has not entered puberty? No, of course Harry masturbates, but such details are left out because they are not appropriate for the readership.
It's perfectly normal and rather common for a 14-year-old not to have entered puberty, or at least not to have gotten very far in it. And why do you assume he masturbates? 5% of American teenage boy's don't (yes, I know he's not American but that's the only statistic I have). He could be one of them.
- They don't have any sex.
Harry's got a crush... that might go somewhere in the next book.
- They don't have any violence (well not gruesome violence anyway).
There's a rather graphic description of the torturing spell, as well as people getting punched and thrown against walls.
- They don't have any swearing.
The 4th book says "hell" and "damn" several times, although you may think those doesn't qualify as swearing.
But you're mostly right- there's no real sex, no really gruesome violence, and no hard-core swearing. But I say they are children's books, because they are about children and are mainly read by children.
It is fully supported in GTK1.3/2.0, which is due to be released this fall. I think the authors thought it was too much to put into a minor release of 1.2. And yes, it is a kludge, to tide us over until GTK2.0 is released.
This is offtopic, but one of the lameness filters compresses your comment with gzip and notes the size difference - if it doesn't compress well, it's assumed not to be English (ie ASCII art or something like that).
In Linix, the /dev/hd* files represent the hard drives. /dev/hda is the first drive, /dev/hdb is the second drive, and so on. The number at the end is the partition, for example /dev/hda1 is the first partition of the first hard drive and /dev/hdb3 is the 3rd partition of the 2nd hard drive.
I agree that the way Linux accesses devices is outdated and unintuitive. This is something devfs is working on.
I'm also running Debian (potato + Ximian) and I installed gdkxft from source. It isn't working for me either. Maybe there's some issue with the GTK packages for Debian or something.
Does it work with all applications? I saw a patch for AA text in GTK1.2 a few months ago that worked in most apps but crashed XMMS and a few others.
I doubt this will happen. The point of Berlin (or one of them) is to have a consistent user interface with ONE widget set, just like Windows and MacOS. Porting GTK/QT would defeat this purpose.
Since when is compiling from source the only way to install GNOME? Install Ximian GNOME through Red Carpet or install binary packages for your distribution.