For a project at work, I've been involved with changing a module that generated Word-DOC documents into code that delivered RTF. The first step was to have Word convert it's own documents to see what happens, and Word does the same here as what FrontPage was famous for as well: Loads of markup code that isn't used (putting font code around an image, for example). The most anoying part is that any in-document image is stored twice in Word-RTF. Once in hex-code, and once more in WMF-format. The latter will usually be 8 to 10 times the size of the hex-code representation, and can safely be removed. Word will still show your image normally... but should you save the document, it'd generate the WMF file inline again.
The code I wrote generated styled resumees, and the average document size went down from 150kb to around 10kb by switching to RTF. Opening and saving the file again in RTF with Word would bloat the file up to 2MB.
So, yes, RTF can be used to make styled documents the same as Word, and the document will actually be smaller, but don't let Word generate those documents for you. It'll bloat then.
Some utilities you want in the hands of the government, just allow ISPs to provide services on these networks. That way, you have the choice in provider (or chose to have none, run your own mail server etc..), and you won't lose your only highspeed connection if some company goes belly-up due to mismanagement because they still believe in the dot-bomb hype (and padding their own wallets;)
Perhaps you personally feel that you must be able to use SSH to log into another computer, in which case I can imagine SSH being a requirement (but those options are available) To most people though, a PDA is what those letters stand for: A personal data assistant. You write down your appointments and get reminders about them in time, you write down addresses and phonenumbers of people, make notes on the fly, and add some other tools for your personal needs. (Metro planner, Library database, etc) A PDA was never meant as a mini-laptop to use on a network, it was meant to rest in your pocket, and allow you to quickly look up the things you needed to know in your every day life.
I don't know how much a thief would make off a stolen laptop, but I can't imagine it would still be profitable if he had to get a new motherboard (for a laptop). Besides which, it would start to get a bit suspicious, if an individual or company keeps ordering 'replacement' motherboards for laptops.
Uhmm, so if looking up multiple sollutions for a entered (potential) domainname is now patented... what is going to happen to the ability in Internet Explorer and Netscape (and other browsers), where if you just type in one word, it will try it first with.com, then with.net and other extensions?
"Specifically, the improved query server searches for an existing domain name records in various domains and then displays the results in a formatted manner, thus eliminating the need for a user to perform individual searches."
Well, the result is displayed in a formatted manner (being the first found valid address), and this is done in a way that the user doesn't have to do the individual searches.
Wonder if Verisign will be going up against AOL/Netscape and Microsoft soon?:)
The mozilla install box will only install software IN your browser, never on your system. Those programs will always be programs that are part of mozilla, your browser, not your operating system. They won't be able to run a check when you boot, only when you start your browser. They won't be able to run in memory to check changes if your browser isn't running. And (as far as I know), mozilla doesn't allow registry changes from it's internal programs. With IE, you can install software with a single 'Yes' button that is entirely unrelated to your browser. Take the 'Windows Update' for example, this is a single 'Yes' that changes your system files.
To be honest, that sounds a bit silly. That's like saying: Top level DNS servers accept DNS lookup requests, that's their job. Still I believe an investigation is underway on the attack on the TLD servers from a couple of weeks (months already?) ago.
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but I wonder if you're actually running an SMTP server yourself, or if you're just guessing that SPAM hardly costs ISPs anything to cope with? Because just 10 minutes ago, someone who actually does run an ISP posted a reply here that stated that it does cost a lot on money and equipment to cope with SPAM. (See this reaction )
You mention the fact that spamming can act as a DoS attack on small ISPs, and I guess it could even be counted as one for larger ISPs, though perhaps not 'succesful' as in bringing the servers down. Which makes made me wonder.. there's already legislation against cybercrime in the form of DoS attacks. The FBI takes up these cases, and is very serious about prosecution of the perpetrators. Could the DoS angle not be used to get some real-world action to be taken against spammers?
I have a Palm OS based PDA, and I have to say that I am using it more and more often. At first I bought the thing more or less as a geek toy (hence going for the colour screen, even if it meant it was more expensive), but I have found it to be of great use. Not only the usual basics, agenda, planner, but also checklists of things to do that you can actually archive (and not just dump on top of that pile of paper that is already eating up more than half your desk), but for me, most important was to have a database. I have been collecting Sci-Fi books since I was about fifteen, and used to keep track of them in DBase, keep a printed version of it with me, whenever I went into a used bookstore, so I knew I didn't get titles double (which is hard to keep track of once you go over a thousand). Now it's so much easier to have it all in a small carrying form (instead of a bulk of papers you have to scribble the new titles on untill you do a new printout), a quick search to see if I already have the title of an author. Also, I use it to keep track of the things I order at the comic shop, to see when I ordered something, and if it should have arrived already. And with a few touches to the screen, I change the order list into the list of comics I already own if I need to make sure I should backorder anything.
So yes, it started out as a toy I wasn't using too often, all I did was write some appointments in it, but now I'm using it quite a lot.
(As a side note, I have heard that the use of the PDA depends a lot on how easy it is to access, and that some PDA's are just so slow that you rather find the information some other way. So your question might actually result in different answers for different models and PDA OS-es)
Perhaps a bit off topic.. but even Beauty and the Beast was not an original Disney story. If you want to find out the origins, check for example: http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/StoryOrigin.html T his work is quite free of copyright, as it was written down somewhere in the 16th century.
It doesn't even have to work, as long as enough advertisers think it works and buy spam services, it'll keep going. Remember, they aren't payed by how many people actually follow up on the spam they send, they get payed for the number of people they send their spam to.
I think you'll have to use your imagination a little.
Besides the fact that just the trip might be worth going at all, think of the posibilities that a weightless environment might offer (besides getting horribly space-sick;) Already there is talk about building a space hotel, which would offer a place to stay, as well as to do things in. You could device all kinds of new sports to play in a weightless environment, and I don't doubt that people who come up with attractions on earth can't build something equally if not more attractive in space. (Anybody up for a rollercoaster ride around the space-station? 300 Km up, instead of just a measly 300 meters;)
The advantage of a laser system is that you do not need to calculate the trajectory. Since you are firing at the object with the speed of light, the object will be (almost) in the same location from the moment you fire till the moment the beam hits.
Could this perhaps be that with Windows 2000 SP3 or Win XP (which are required for Office 11), they can have different API calls that have not been made available in Wine/CrossOver? I can imagine that by changing the software to make calls to the newest APIs, there's a smaller chance that these have already been made available to Linux users through Wine/CrossOver, and thus users would find their Office 11 not working on this SuSE version.
That might raise an interesting question... I admit I haven't read the legislation that is being proposed, but if it says the RIAA can legitimately hack away (or crack away, you know what I mean;), does this also include member companies? I don't think Sony corp. (for example) would be allowed to hack under this legislation. And what would happen if they hire an organisation to do the hacking for them? As I don't think that right now the RIAA employs hackers, so they would most likely try to hire someone to do it for them.
Perhaps this has been said before, but I wonder... if it is possible to blacklist open-relay servers, why not make a blacklist of websites that are solliciting for visitors through spam. Admitted, you probably wouldn't affect more than a third of the spam being send, if that, but it would make a start. And based on the number of reports of spam having been received about a certain website, you would know how serious this website is in solliciting through spam. Of course, this would also allow competitors to 'blacklist' websites, so there's the flaw to the strategy, but I wonder if not something along these lines could be worked out.
After all, if websites start -losing- visitors, by sending out spam, they'd quickly stop doing it.
Not only do the early versions of MS SQL server (up to and including 7) accept a blank password for SA upon install, you don't actually get asked to set a password. Only after installation can you enter a password for the SA account, by going to the security section and changing the login for SA. Service Pack 2 was the first to address this issue, and comes with a warning if your SA account uses a blank password. Version 2000 (and up, I presume) do request a password upon installation.
It's called science. You make a hypothesis, and you try and prove it by experimentation. Simple really.
[Nitpicking mode] Actually, you can never prove a hypothesis or theory, you can only prove it wrong, and thus work towards a better theory. [/Nitpicking mode]
Wonder how this will work out.
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The usual lobbyist would probably promise a contribution to the election campaign, but the geek lobbyist could help the congressman to program his VCR.
The fun part in this is that the one that is making money is MidBar with their Cactus Data Shield. They won't be interested in another way of supporting artists or lowering prices of CDs so that people are more likely to buy them.
It's a bit like lawsuits, where lawyers are the ones that really bennefit from all the suing that goes around. Copy protection companies are earning lots of money as long as RIAA desperately holds onto it's current business model.
I hardly think that banks would be eager to switch to something as new, untried and controversial as Passport anytime in the next ten years.
Considering they still mostly use Cobol for their core applications because of the proven reliability of those systems, and fear of problems when changing to something new, Passport would probably be furthest from a bank managers mind.
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For a project at work, I've been involved with changing a module that generated Word-DOC documents into code that delivered RTF.
The first step was to have Word convert it's own documents to see what happens, and Word does the same here as what FrontPage was famous for as well: Loads of markup code that isn't used (putting font code around an image, for example).
The most anoying part is that any in-document image is stored twice in Word-RTF. Once in hex-code, and once more in WMF-format. The latter will usually be 8 to 10 times the size of the hex-code representation, and can safely be removed. Word will still show your image normally... but should you save the document, it'd generate the WMF file inline again.
The code I wrote generated styled resumees, and the average document size went down from 150kb to around 10kb by switching to RTF. Opening and saving the file again in RTF with Word would bloat the file up to 2MB.
So, yes, RTF can be used to make styled documents the same as Word, and the document will actually be smaller, but don't let Word generate those documents for you. It'll bloat then.
Sure, we need idealists like the RIAA ;)
;)
Some utilities you want in the hands of the government, just allow ISPs to provide services on these networks. That way, you have the choice in provider (or chose to have none, run your own mail server etc..), and you won't lose your only highspeed connection if some company goes belly-up due to mismanagement because they still believe in the dot-bomb hype (and padding their own wallets
Perhaps you personally feel that you must be able to use SSH to log into another computer, in which case I can imagine SSH being a requirement (but those options are available)
To most people though, a PDA is what those letters stand for: A personal data assistant. You write down your appointments and get reminders about them in time, you write down addresses and phonenumbers of people, make notes on the fly, and add some other tools for your personal needs. (Metro planner, Library database, etc)
A PDA was never meant as a mini-laptop to use on a network, it was meant to rest in your pocket, and allow you to quickly look up the things you needed to know in your every day life.
I don't know how much a thief would make off a stolen laptop, but I can't imagine it would still be profitable if he had to get a new motherboard (for a laptop).
Besides which, it would start to get a bit suspicious, if an individual or company keeps ordering 'replacement' motherboards for laptops.
Well, you could always use it to messure Continental Drift :)
Uhmm, so if looking up multiple sollutions for a entered (potential) domainname is now patented... what is going to happen to the ability in Internet Explorer and Netscape (and other browsers), where if you just type in one word, it will try it first with .com, then with .net and other extensions?
:)
"Specifically, the improved query server searches for an existing domain name records in various domains and then displays the results in a formatted manner, thus eliminating the need for a user to perform individual searches."
Well, the result is displayed in a formatted manner (being the first found valid address), and this is done in a way that the user doesn't have to do the individual searches.
Wonder if Verisign will be going up against AOL/Netscape and Microsoft soon?
The mozilla install box will only install software IN your browser, never on your system. Those programs will always be programs that are part of mozilla, your browser, not your operating system. They won't be able to run a check when you boot, only when you start your browser. They won't be able to run in memory to check changes if your browser isn't running. And (as far as I know), mozilla doesn't allow registry changes from it's internal programs.
With IE, you can install software with a single 'Yes' button that is entirely unrelated to your browser. Take the 'Windows Update' for example, this is a single 'Yes' that changes your system files.
Quite a difference, I would say.
To be honest, that sounds a bit silly.
That's like saying: Top level DNS servers accept DNS lookup requests, that's their job.
Still I believe an investigation is underway on the attack on the TLD servers from a couple of weeks (months already?) ago.
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but I wonder if you're actually running an SMTP server yourself, or if you're just guessing that SPAM hardly costs ISPs anything to cope with?
Because just 10 minutes ago, someone who actually does run an ISP posted a reply here that stated that it does cost a lot on money and equipment to cope with SPAM.
(See this reaction )
You mention the fact that spamming can act as a DoS attack on small ISPs, and I guess it could even be counted as one for larger ISPs, though perhaps not 'succesful' as in bringing the servers down.
Which makes made me wonder.. there's already legislation against cybercrime in the form of DoS attacks. The FBI takes up these cases, and is very serious about prosecution of the perpetrators. Could the DoS angle not be used to get some real-world action to be taken against spammers?
I'd mod you up as funny if I had any points left.
;)
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I have a Palm OS based PDA, and I have to say that I am using it more and more often. At first I bought the thing more or less as a geek toy (hence going for the colour screen, even if it meant it was more expensive), but I have found it to be of great use.
Not only the usual basics, agenda, planner, but also checklists of things to do that you can actually archive (and not just dump on top of that pile of paper that is already eating up more than half your desk), but for me, most important was to have a database.
I have been collecting Sci-Fi books since I was about fifteen, and used to keep track of them in DBase, keep a printed version of it with me, whenever I went into a used bookstore, so I knew I didn't get titles double (which is hard to keep track of once you go over a thousand).
Now it's so much easier to have it all in a small carrying form (instead of a bulk of papers you have to scribble the new titles on untill you do a new printout), a quick search to see if I already have the title of an author.
Also, I use it to keep track of the things I order at the comic shop, to see when I ordered something, and if it should have arrived already. And with a few touches to the screen, I change the order list into the list of comics I already own if I need to make sure I should backorder anything.
So yes, it started out as a toy I wasn't using too often, all I did was write some appointments in it, but now I'm using it quite a lot.
(As a side note, I have heard that the use of the PDA depends a lot on how easy it is to access, and that some PDA's are just so slow that you rather find the information some other way. So your question might actually result in different answers for different models and PDA OS-es)
Perhaps a bit off topic.. but even Beauty and the Beast was not an original Disney story.
T his work is quite free of copyright, as it was written down somewhere in the 16th century.
If you want to find out the origins, check for example: http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/StoryOrigin.html
It doesn't even have to work, as long as enough advertisers think it works and buy spam services, it'll keep going.
Remember, they aren't payed by how many people actually follow up on the spam they send, they get payed for the number of people they send their spam to.
I think you'll have to use your imagination a little.
;) ;)
Besides the fact that just the trip might be worth going at all, think of the posibilities that a weightless environment might offer (besides getting horribly space-sick
Already there is talk about building a space hotel, which would offer a place to stay, as well as to do things in. You could device all kinds of new sports to play in a weightless environment, and I don't doubt that people who come up with attractions on earth can't build something equally if not more attractive in space. (Anybody up for a rollercoaster ride around the space-station? 300 Km up, instead of just a measly 300 meters
The advantage of a laser system is that you do not need to calculate the trajectory. Since you are firing at the object with the speed of light, the object will be (almost) in the same location from the moment you fire till the moment the beam hits.
Could this perhaps be that with Windows 2000 SP3 or Win XP (which are required for Office 11), they can have different API calls that have not been made available in Wine/CrossOver?
I can imagine that by changing the software to make calls to the newest APIs, there's a smaller chance that these have already been made available to Linux users through Wine/CrossOver, and thus users would find their Office 11 not working on this SuSE version.
1) Refuse to sell X-box to Australians
2) ???
3) Profit!
That might raise an interesting question... ;), does this also include member companies?
I admit I haven't read the legislation that is being proposed, but if it says the RIAA can legitimately hack away (or crack away, you know what I mean
I don't think Sony corp. (for example) would be allowed to hack under this legislation.
And what would happen if they hire an organisation to do the hacking for them? As I don't think that right now the RIAA employs hackers, so they would most likely try to hire someone to do it for them.
Perhaps this has been said before, but I wonder...
if it is possible to blacklist open-relay servers, why not make a blacklist of websites that are solliciting for visitors through spam.
Admitted, you probably wouldn't affect more than a third of the spam being send, if that, but it would make a start. And based on the number of reports of spam having been received about a certain website, you would know how serious this website is in solliciting through spam.
Of course, this would also allow competitors to 'blacklist' websites, so there's the flaw to the strategy, but I wonder if not something along these lines could be worked out.
After all, if websites start -losing- visitors, by sending out spam, they'd quickly stop doing it.
Not only do the early versions of MS SQL server (up to and including 7) accept a blank password for SA upon install, you don't actually get asked to set a password.
Only after installation can you enter a password for the SA account, by going to the security section and changing the login for SA.
Service Pack 2 was the first to address this issue, and comes with a warning if your SA account uses a blank password.
Version 2000 (and up, I presume) do request a password upon installation.
[Nitpicking mode]
Actually, you can never prove a hypothesis or theory, you can only prove it wrong, and thus work towards a better theory.
[/Nitpicking mode]
The usual lobbyist would probably promise a contribution to the election campaign, but the geek lobbyist could help the congressman to program his VCR.
The fun part in this is that the one that is making money is MidBar with their Cactus Data Shield. They won't be interested in another way of supporting artists or lowering prices of CDs so that people are more likely to buy them.
It's a bit like lawsuits, where lawyers are the ones that really bennefit from all the suing that goes around. Copy protection companies are earning lots of money as long as RIAA desperately holds onto it's current business model.
I hardly think that banks would be eager to switch to something as new, untried and controversial as Passport anytime in the next ten years.
Considering they still mostly use Cobol for their core applications because of the proven reliability of those systems, and fear of problems when changing to something new, Passport would probably be furthest from a bank managers mind.