Look what it did to a story on the front-page of slashdot:
Roberth Edberg writes "The Swedish birthday congratulationlist for Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) is increasing every minute. How do you explain Wayne Newton's POWER over millions? It's th' MOUSTACHE... Have you ever noticed th' way it radiates SINCERITY, HONESTY & WARMTH? It's a MOUSTACHE you want to take HOME and introduce to NANCY SINATRA! Will he have an world record in individual birthday congratulations? Even the Swedish Linux World site, made news about it. Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it! Why not follow the example and make lists for your own country?" Linus Torvalds turned 30 yesterday, October 28, 1999. Happy (belated) birthday, Linus!
Stephen Cobb [...] stressed that network attackers, be they hackers or criminals bent on espionage or terrorism, have only temporarily thwarted the security software.
"Criminals bent on espionage or terrorism"?!? That's an odd way to spell "script kiddy". rOD. --
Apparently the inventors have come up with a similar invention for men -- It's a pair of underpants that monitors your "heartbeat" to see when you get lucky. When you do, it immediately phones up 15 of your mates and brags to them about it.
In middle of flame war, user in America posted an article to newsgroup, forging the From: address to be that of Mr Godfrey. Mr Godfrey contacted his ISP, Demon, asking for them to remove the message from their servers (despite the fact that the message poster has no connection with DEmon). Demon (for a variety of reasons) said no. Godfrey sued for libel, and won.
The implications for this are wide-ranging -- that ISPs in Britain are somehow responsible for the messages that pass through their servers. The only good thing to come out of it is that it may be the incentive needed to get the British libel laws rewritten for the 21st century (because they've barely been touched in the 20th)
AOL now own half of them (ICQ, Winamp & Netscape).
Clearly, they're trying to make sure that, while they may not get all the ISP traffic, they can have their fingers in the proverbial pies of other net users.
Now if they can just buy Number 18 on the download.com list... (A Nightmare on Sesame Street:)
I'm an experienced-ish Linux user (I've installed Redhat & Suse on four different machines, and part of my work is as a sysadmin on an HP box), but I'm having a bugger of a time getting it onto my new Dell PC.
Problems hit so far:
1) My hard disk was too big. I had to specify 'linux hda=1580,255,63' when running the boot disk. 2) My network card wasn't supported with the supplied kernel (2.0.32). I had to download a new version of tulip.c and recompile the kernel to see the network. 3) My graphics card & monitor *still* aren't set-up right for X. They weren't listed in the Xconfigurator program, and I'm having a hell of a time hacking through the config file. I gave up yesterday, and went out to enjoy the sun instead.
And I haven't even *STARTED* with the sound card yet.
Searching Dejanews has uncovered a few odds&sods of useful information, but I'm still not quite there.
OTOH, I have floppies with Windows drivers for my monitor, graphics, network & sound cards. So installing them is a total no-brainer.
Windows installed with no fuss whatsoever. Linux isn't there after a week of plittering. Fact.
This article is extremely vague. It doesn't specify that the person was caught because of the GUID, which I think is still a red-herring.
It would be easier to trace who first posted the document to alt.sex than it would be to track someone by GUID. Or someone could just have grassed him up.
As someone who spent far too many years playing Lunar Jetman (and never finding the damn truck), this was a great story! The town of "Ashby-De-La-Zouch" will forever be imprinted in my mind.
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Look what it did to a story on the front-page of slashdot:
Roberth Edberg writes "The Swedish birthday congratulationlist for Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) is increasing every minute. How do you explain Wayne Newton's POWER over millions? It's th' MOUSTACHE... Have you ever noticed th' way it radiates SINCERITY, HONESTY & WARMTH? It's a MOUSTACHE you want to take HOME and introduce to NANCY SINATRA! Will he have an world record in individual birthday congratulations? Even the Swedish Linux World site, made news about it. Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it! Why not follow the example and make lists for your own country?" Linus Torvalds turned 30 yesterday, October 28, 1999. Happy (belated) birthday, Linus!
rOD.
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"Criminals bent on espionage or terrorism"?!? That's an odd way to spell "script kiddy". rOD.
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How long does it them distributed.net chaps to turn-around a new module?
rOD.
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that of the 10 real word URLs it generated, all 10 were taken (although only a few had web pages).
I'm just off to register IndoorSticklebacker.com now. What a great domain!
rOD.
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Apparently the inventors have come up with a similar invention for men -- It's a pair of underpants that monitors your "heartbeat" to see when you get lucky. When you do, it immediately phones up 15 of your mates and brags to them about it.
rOD.
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for those not familiar:
In middle of flame war, user in America posted an article to newsgroup, forging the From: address to be that of Mr Godfrey. Mr Godfrey contacted his ISP, Demon, asking for them to remove the message from their servers (despite the fact that the message poster has no connection with DEmon). Demon (for a variety of reasons) said no. Godfrey sued for libel, and won.
The implications for this are wide-ranging -- that ISPs in Britain are somehow responsible for the messages that pass through their servers. The only good thing to come out of it is that it may be the incentive needed to get the British libel laws rewritten for the 21st century (because they've barely been touched in the 20th)
rOD.
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Am i the only person who wondered WTF a sound format had to do with Linux getting banned?
rOD!
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AOL now own half of them (ICQ, Winamp & Netscape).
:)
Clearly, they're trying to make sure that, while they may not get all the ISP traffic, they can have their fingers in the proverbial pies of other net users.
Now if they can just buy Number 18 on the download.com list... (A Nightmare on Sesame Street
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but are you *really* getting spams from AOL users, or (as in my experience) getting spams which have fake @aol.com return address?
aol's mail servers are actually pretty quick at stopping spam getting out.
rod.
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How much do you reckon they paid some fancy-schmancy consultancy to come out with that inspired move?
I would have done it for five bucks and a bag of chips.
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Problems hit so far:
1) My hard disk was too big. I had to specify 'linux hda=1580,255,63' when running the boot disk.
2) My network card wasn't supported with the supplied kernel (2.0.32). I had to download a new version of tulip.c and recompile the kernel to see the network.
3) My graphics card & monitor *still* aren't set-up right for X. They weren't listed in the Xconfigurator program, and I'm having a hell of a time hacking through the config file. I gave up yesterday, and went out to enjoy the sun instead.
And I haven't even *STARTED* with the sound card yet.
Searching Dejanews has uncovered a few odds&sods of useful information, but I'm still not quite there.
OTOH, I have floppies with Windows drivers for my monitor, graphics, network & sound cards. So installing them is a total no-brainer.
Windows installed with no fuss whatsoever. Linux isn't there after a week of plittering. Fact.
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It would be easier to trace who first posted the document to alt.sex than it would be to track someone by GUID. Or someone could just have grassed him up.
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*** STOP-PRESS TRIBUTE ISSUE: GOOD LUCK IN YOUR NEW JOB, jwz! ***
I assumed at the time that this was their April Fools joke. But did they really know ahead of time, or was it just life imitating fiction?
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The comments used to be that annoying bit at the bottom of the page that delayed the content from rendering. Now they're fun to read and join in with.
If I wore a cap, you can be damned sure that I'd doff it to you.
Rod.
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That way, all the publicity ("Look at all the geeks in the lines across the country") focuses on one date, not many.
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