Not knowing what the Netscape plug-in API and the ActiveX architecture are like, is there the possibility of developing a meta-API of some sort that would allow you to develop your plugin in a somewhat neutral manner and be able to deploy it as either an ActiveX or Netscape Plug-In style component?
So, you're proposing middleware to run on top of the existing middleware?
Actually, there are a very large number of people that advocate teaching the biblical account of Creation in schools. (And in fact, many of us are more than willing to pay $15,000 a year for private school to make sure it gets taught!)
Sorry, I actually meant teaching Biblical Creation exclusively and not teaching evolution at all - I hope nobody's pushing for this in public schools. There certainly need to be private schools that do, but public schools should be open to alternative ideas, and in a secular encironment, shutting out evolution altogether isn't much better than shutting out creationism.
Thanks for the link; I'll definitely check it out. Look for a book called "In Six Days"; it's a collection of essays written by 50 PhDs explaining why they believe in the Biblical account of Creation. You might also like an article my father wrote, Could Life "Just Happen?"
Let's see... we still fight over the teaching of evolution because so many Americans have a bizarre
unflinching adherance to a literal belief in Genesis. That's not the whole story but it's not a bad place to start...
I always thought the fight was because so many Americans have a bizarre unflinching adherance to the belief that evolution and the Big Bang are proven scientific fact, when by definition they're not even provable scientifically.
Is anybody seriously arguing that we should be teaching the Biblical account of creation in public schools? Not that I've heard of. Catastrophism is certainly valid in a secular context, and even the young-earth theories can be discussed without necessarily talking about a Creator, yet these concepts are ridiculed simply because of the association with Bible-thumping brainless lunatics. Open your mind a little!
Sub7 is a popular Trojan horse these days. You send somebody a file and trick them into running it, and it installs itself on their system. The first thing it does is bind to an incoming TCP port and listen for connections. The second thing it does is log onto an IRC server and broadcast itself to whoever set it up. This allows that person to gain remote control of your system.
A firewall will help in this situation by A) blocking incoming connections to the server, and B) blocking the outgoing IRC connections that the server makes - if it's set up correctly. Of course, if your firewall isn't configured correctly, it's all a waste of time, and how many people who are dumb enough to get Sub7 installed are smart enough to configure a firewall?
Of course you're right, no firewall is needed (although blocking port 139 might not be a bad idea, just to be on the safe side) - what's needed is not doing stupid things (or falling for devious tricks) that get things you don't want installed on your system. Similarly, contrary to popular opinion, having a firewall will do NOTHING about Sircam or Code Red.
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Nah, we Slack users are generally peaceful people. We won't force you to switch to the One True Distribution. We'll just sit back and quietly laugh at you until you see the light.
Re:Homogeny isn't a bad thing.
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Linus Torvalds has actually stated (sorry, I don't have the exact quote) that if Linux ever gets 90% market share, life will suck.
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Writing portable code also forces you to write BETTER code. Most software that was designed from the beginning to be portable is higher quality than a single-platform app that was ported later, even on the original platform.
The GPL doesn't restrict what you can do with software the way other EULAs do. The software is copyrighted, and you can do what you'd like with it while still adhering to copyright law (fair use, don't distribute copies or derivatives) regardless of the GPL. The GPL grants you certain additional rights, such as the right to distribute derivative works, under the condition that all derivative works be licensed under the GPL, and that the source code be made available to anyone who has received a binary. If the GPL were declared null and void, you'd still be restricted by copyright - and tell me, do you really think software copyrights will ever be done away with? After all, isn't Office XP copyrighted?
Unfortunately, this is the first step in the process of requiring people running servers of any kind to be *licenced* - Now won't that be fun?
I have to point out here that many of the servers affected by the Code Red worms were on residential cable connections, where running any Web server is an explicit TOS violation. The broadband ISPs never enforced their TOS unless you brought attention to yourself, but it's always been against their policy. You suggest you should have to be licensed in order to run a server - what if you just had to use an ISP that would officially allow you to do so?
You and I know that you don't need your proof of purchase, but is it inconcievable that the bulk of people using a bootleg copy would feel uncomfortable going to Microsoft.com - Thinking that MS will somehow *know* and track them down?
Sometimes I fear that after visiting their Web site, Microsoft will track me down even if I'm not pirating their software.
It will almost certainly use Cocoa, not Carbon - it's VERY possible that Quake 4 will not run on classic Mac OS at all. Carmack has said that the only reason he has supported classic Mac OS so far is to support Apple until OSX is ready - he hates classic Mac OS as a dev environment (and really, who can blame him?).
Cocoa rules.:-)
Re:I hope they put more focus on the "fun" part
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I hope they put more focus on the "fun" part, because they dropped the ball on Quake III. It's been all Unreal Tournament for me for the last 18 months.
Agreed. Really unfortunate, because Q3 has a MUCH better quality engine. With UT I keep seeing miscellaneous display glitches.
Example: on the CTF map with the two big towers and just a couple paths between them, you can go up on the top and grab a sniper rifle. Go up there are zoom in on the top of the enemy's tower - if someone's up there, and they start walking around, it won't display correctly. Looks like they're walking in the middle of the wall or something.
I don't see an Earthlink/Juno merger at all. Juno and NetZero just merged to form United Online, and Earthlink's management expects them to go out of business before much longer. I used to work for Earthlink, and I'd say the chances of Earthlink merging with them are pretty much nil. Earthlink might try to acquire their customer base if they went under, but since Earthlink charges $21.95/month for dialup access, I don't know how well the customers would like that.
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They quote a columnist for Microsoft's TechNET who makes the false claim that IIS is more popular than apache, and attributes the widespread exploits to that (false) popularity!
But of course IIS is more popular at Microsoft! Why wouldn't it be?;-)
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Code Red II doesn't give you Administrator access; root.exe usually runs with the privaleges of the Internet Guest Account.
If anyone's wondering, the TRS-80 Model 100 really does look like that, it really does run 24 hours on 4 AA batteries, it really does have 32K of RAM, and it really is 2.4MHz. The reason it takes one second to reboot is because there are no drives; everything is stored in 32 of RAM (including the operating system, all programs, and all files).
The port on the left side that these guys have an Ethernet cable plugged into is a DB-9 port labeled BDR (Bar Code Reader). I've never tried connecting anything to it; the manual says nothing about how to use it (it just says "special Bar Code Reader software is required" and has pinouts in the appendix). I'd imagine it's probably RS-232 serial...
My casette player is the CCR-81 Model 26-1208A, looks quite a bit different from theirs, and doesn't seem to have a catalog number printed on it. The TRS-80 itself is catalog number 26-3802.
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so... does Opera support Netscape plugins?
Not knowing what the Netscape plug-in API and the ActiveX architecture are like, is there the possibility of developing a meta-API of some sort that would allow you to develop your plugin in a somewhat neutral manner and be able to deploy it as either an ActiveX or Netscape Plug-In style component?
So, you're proposing middleware to run on top of the existing middleware?
Actually, there are a very large number of people that advocate teaching the biblical account of Creation in schools. (And in fact, many of us are more than willing to pay $15,000 a year for private school to make sure it gets taught!)
Sorry, I actually meant teaching Biblical Creation exclusively and not teaching evolution at all - I hope nobody's pushing for this in public schools. There certainly need to be private schools that do, but public schools should be open to alternative ideas, and in a secular encironment, shutting out evolution altogether isn't much better than shutting out creationism.
Thanks for the link; I'll definitely check it out. Look for a book called "In Six Days"; it's a collection of essays written by 50 PhDs explaining why they believe in the Biblical account of Creation. You might also like an article my father wrote, Could Life "Just Happen?"
I would like to see the netcraft study after all of the unintentional IIS sites are shut down because of CodeRed.
Unfortunately Netcraft doesn't usually scan unintentional sites. Somebody has to do a query first, and then Netcraft will start scanning.
Let's see ... we still fight over the teaching of evolution because so many Americans have a bizarre
...
unflinching adherance to a literal belief in Genesis. That's not the whole story but it's not a bad place to start
I always thought the fight was because so many Americans have a bizarre unflinching adherance to the belief that evolution and the Big Bang are proven scientific fact, when by definition they're not even provable scientifically.
Is anybody seriously arguing that we should be teaching the Biblical account of creation in public schools? Not that I've heard of. Catastrophism is certainly valid in a secular context, and even the young-earth theories can be discussed without necessarily talking about a Creator, yet these concepts are ridiculed simply because of the association with Bible-thumping brainless lunatics. Open your mind a little!
Submerged in mineral oil? What the hell were you doing?
Sub7 is a popular Trojan horse these days. You send somebody a file and trick them into running it, and it installs itself on their system. The first thing it does is bind to an incoming TCP port and listen for connections. The second thing it does is log onto an IRC server and broadcast itself to whoever set it up. This allows that person to gain remote control of your system.
A firewall will help in this situation by A) blocking incoming connections to the server, and B) blocking the outgoing IRC connections that the server makes - if it's set up correctly. Of course, if your firewall isn't configured correctly, it's all a waste of time, and how many people who are dumb enough to get Sub7 installed are smart enough to configure a firewall?
Of course you're right, no firewall is needed (although blocking port 139 might not be a bad idea, just to be on the safe side) - what's needed is not doing stupid things (or falling for devious tricks) that get things you don't want installed on your system. Similarly, contrary to popular opinion, having a firewall will do NOTHING about Sircam or Code Red.
You have to run in baseball. It qualifies.
Nah, we Slack users are generally peaceful people. We won't force you to switch to the One True Distribution. We'll just sit back and quietly laugh at you until you see the light.
Linus Torvalds has actually stated (sorry, I don't have the exact quote) that if Linux ever gets 90% market share, life will suck.
Writing portable code also forces you to write BETTER code. Most software that was designed from the beginning to be portable is higher quality than a single-platform app that was ported later, even on the original platform.
The GPL doesn't restrict what you can do with software the way other EULAs do. The software is copyrighted, and you can do what you'd like with it while still adhering to copyright law (fair use, don't distribute copies or derivatives) regardless of the GPL. The GPL grants you certain additional rights, such as the right to distribute derivative works, under the condition that all derivative works be licensed under the GPL, and that the source code be made available to anyone who has received a binary. If the GPL were declared null and void, you'd still be restricted by copyright - and tell me, do you really think software copyrights will ever be done away with? After all, isn't Office XP copyrighted?
Unfortunately, this is the first step in the process of requiring people running servers of any kind to be *licenced* - Now won't that be fun?
I have to point out here that many of the servers affected by the Code Red worms were on residential cable connections, where running any Web server is an explicit TOS violation. The broadband ISPs never enforced their TOS unless you brought attention to yourself, but it's always been against their policy. You suggest you should have to be licensed in order to run a server - what if you just had to use an ISP that would officially allow you to do so?
You and I know that you don't need your proof of purchase, but is it inconcievable that the bulk of people using a bootleg copy would feel uncomfortable going to Microsoft.com - Thinking that MS will somehow *know* and track them down?
Sometimes I fear that after visiting their Web site, Microsoft will track me down even if I'm not pirating their software.
It will almost certainly use Cocoa, not Carbon - it's VERY possible that Quake 4 will not run on classic Mac OS at all. Carmack has said that the only reason he has supported classic Mac OS so far is to support Apple until OSX is ready - he hates classic Mac OS as a dev environment (and really, who can blame him?).
:-)
Cocoa rules.
I hope they put more focus on the "fun" part, because they dropped the ball on Quake III. It's been all Unreal Tournament for me for the last 18 months.
Agreed. Really unfortunate, because Q3 has a MUCH better quality engine. With UT I keep seeing miscellaneous display glitches.
Example: on the CTF map with the two big towers and just a couple paths between them, you can go up on the top and grab a sniper rifle. Go up there are zoom in on the top of the enemy's tower - if someone's up there, and they start walking around, it won't display correctly. Looks like they're walking in the middle of the wall or something.
I didn't see it coming. I expected (hoped?) that after Doom 3, Carmack would finally do something more interesting than another FPS.
I don't see an Earthlink/Juno merger at all. Juno and NetZero just merged to form United Online, and Earthlink's management expects them to go out of business before much longer. I used to work for Earthlink, and I'd say the chances of Earthlink merging with them are pretty much nil. Earthlink might try to acquire their customer base if they went under, but since Earthlink charges $21.95/month for dialup access, I don't know how well the customers would like that.
They quote a columnist for Microsoft's TechNET who makes the false claim that IIS is more popular than apache, and attributes the widespread exploits to that (false) popularity!
;-)
But of course IIS is more popular at Microsoft! Why wouldn't it be?
Code Red II doesn't give you Administrator access; root.exe usually runs with the privaleges of the Internet Guest Account.
Tell me, sir, how does it feel to be an expert on ficitious events conjured up for the amusement of children and associated merchandising?
At least he reads books. I doubt you could say the same.
Damn, that's hysterical.
If anyone's wondering, the TRS-80 Model 100 really does look like that, it really does run 24 hours on 4 AA batteries, it really does have 32K of RAM, and it really is 2.4MHz. The reason it takes one second to reboot is because there are no drives; everything is stored in 32 of RAM (including the operating system, all programs, and all files).
The port on the left side that these guys have an Ethernet cable plugged into is a DB-9 port labeled BDR (Bar Code Reader). I've never tried connecting anything to it; the manual says nothing about how to use it (it just says "special Bar Code Reader software is required" and has pinouts in the appendix). I'd imagine it's probably RS-232 serial...
My casette player is the CCR-81 Model 26-1208A, looks quite a bit different from theirs, and doesn't seem to have a catalog number printed on it. The TRS-80 itself is catalog number 26-3802.
I just have to point out that the G3 uses less power than the Pentium, so watt hours (WH) is not a good measure of battery life.
I didn't have a better metric. I had to use the information they would give me, which varied between manufacturer.
I'm pretty sure I found one with a 12.1" screen for comparison purposes.
Would you mind sharing?