Can I "update" Mozilla 1 to 1.1 w/o the obligatory uninstallation of v1 then installation of v1.1...
then follow with the time consuming preference settings?
You still have to uninstall 1.0 before installing 1.1 - or at least install 1.1 in a different directory than 1.0
However, uninstalling 1.0 doesn't remove your profile - all your preferences will remain and can be used with 1.1 without any problems.
Just make sure not to switch back and forth between 1.0 and 1.1 while using the same profile...
But before it even finished starting it gave me to error messages about some DLL. Then enigmail is complaining at me too.
Enigmail does indeed not work anymore - but a new enigmail build is released for each milestone (currently the last one is still for 1.1 beta), so I expect to see a working version within the next day or so; the developer(s) should definitely have been aware of the problem for several weeks now.
i wish you could switch between tabs by keyboard shortcut!
ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedown do this. See the keyboard shortcuts.
And indeed, those shortcuts aren't really handy if you want to use a mouse, but I personally have quickly grown used to them. Who needs a mouse anyway?:)
From the BBC article
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"Since its inception Marsoweb has been viewed by more than 44,000 distinct users, resulting in more than 1,880,000 hits," he adds.
I'll see your 44,000... and triple it...
Write text in notepad - that's what it's there for
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Tabs are stupid... let the window manager manage the windows, that's what it's there for.
Unfortunately at least the M$ windows manager doesn't do a very good job of it.
Say I'm researching two seperate subjects and am also reading slashdot.
With Mozilla's tabbed browsing, I can have three windows - one with tabs to slashdot articles and links followed from there, one with google's results on questions on the first research topic, and another one with google's results on the other research topic.
If you'd open 50 tabs on different subjects in one Mozilla window, then yes, then tabbed browsing wouldn't be really useful (except for removing clutter from your task bar) - and this could have been done by the windows manager as well. But tabbed browsing coupled to multiple windows makes it possible to give some 'meaning' to the different browser windows in your task bar.
(And please don't bring up XP's grouping on the task bar - I've tried it and hated it; not to mention that XP has way too many other problems for me to want to downgrade to it.)
Some interesting pages (full of marketdroid speak):
PRODUCTS
PGP Corporation's products keep your confidential information secure. Whether it's in transit over a network or stored on desktops, laptops, or mobile devices, PGP prevents unauthorized access to your data.
PGP Corporation's products are standards-based and use the most advanced and trusted encryption technology at their core. Even non-technical users can keep confidential information safe.
PGP Corporate Desktop is our enterprise product, including PGP Mail for email, file, and instant messaging encryption, as well as PGP Disk, which encrypts entire disks, PGP Admin allows pre-configuration of company-specific services, security policies, corporate keys, all of which result in significant ease of deployment for IT management.
We are committed to remaining close to PGP's roots. To that end, we will be releasing PGP Personal for individual commercial use, as well as PGP Freeware for individual non-commercial use, when we deliver our forthcoming major release, PGP 8.0.
Version 8.0 will also mark PGP Corporation's next source code release, allowing continued peer review of our technology.
Please go to the individual product pages below for more information.
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Windows
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Mail for Windows
* PGP Disk for Windows
* PGP Enterprise Tools
* PGP Mobile for Palm OS
* PGP Mobile for Windows CE
Available in the fourth quarter of 2002:
* PGP Personal 8.0
* PGP Freeware 8.0
* PGP SDK 3.0
Please note that PGP Corporation's acquisition of PGP technology did not include the PGP E-Business Server.
=================== FREEWARE
PGP Freeware 8.0 will be available in Q4 2002.
We will continue PGP's tradition of offering a freeware version of PGP Mail for non-commercial use.
PGP Freeware is a single-user product that includes the same core PGP Mail software that can be found in our PGP Corporate Desktop and PGP Personal packages. PGP Mail encrypts electronic mail, files, and instant messages, and also provides the ability to create and manage PGP keys.
PGP Freeware is licensed solely to individual users for non-commercial use.
If you are an individual user who needs to secure your electronic business communications, you must obtain a license for our PGP Personal package, which is specifically intended for individual business users, and also includes our PGP Disk software. If you need multiple licenses of PGP software for commercial use, please see our PGP Corporate Desktop pagesfor Windows and for Macintosh.
For more details about the encryption algorithms, hashes, and key formats supported by our products, please read our Technical Specifications page.
=================== PRESS RELEASES
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation today made a series of announcements regarding its formation, purchase of assets from Network Associates a new product release, customer transition process, the establishment of a European partner, and launch of its e-commerce web site. PGP Corporation provides secure messaging and data storage products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure.
PGP Receives $14 Million in Venture Funding
PGP Corporation was created in June 2002 by a management team comprised of technology industry veterans from Vantive, PeopleSoft, Symantec, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc, and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders. The new entity raised $14 million of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two of the most highly respected venture capital firms. The amount raised is sufficient to purchase assets, upgrade existing products, develop new technology, and retain reserves sufficient to reach operating profitability without! additional funding.
PGP Acquires Windows, Macintosh, Wireless Product Lines from Network Associates
PGP Corporation announced the completion on July 26, 2002 of its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates, Inc. PGP will immediately license and support current versions of PGP products to current, lapsed, and new PGP customers. Assets acquired include:
* PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, & PGP Admin software products for Windows and Macintosh
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Keyserver for Windows and Solaris
* PGP Wireless for PalmOS and WinCE/PocketPC
* PGP SDK encryption software development kit
PGP Announces New PGP 8.0 Products
PGP Corporation announced new PGP products for Windows and for Macintosh to ship in November 2002. PGP 8.0 is a new product and significant upgrade to current PGP offerings, including substantial new features on both platforms.
* PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. Adds full Windows XP support, server-side Lotus Notes plug-in, support for Novell GroupWise 5.5 and 6.0 clients, as well as supporting all current operatin!g systems and messaging clients, significantly enhanced Unicode internationalization support, and PGP Admin 8.0 automatic configuration of PGP Disk.
* PGP 8.0 for Macintosh OS X: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. This new product brings full Mac OS X support to the PGP product line. An all-new version of PGP Disk allows compatibility with PGP disks created on Windows, AES algorithm support, and compatibility with older Mac OS 9 PGP disks. PGP Mail for Mac OS X directly integrates with Apple's mail application as well as providing support for Microsoft's Entourage.
PGP Announces Customer Transition Information
PGP Corporation announced the immediate transfer of all worldwide customer software license agreements from Network Associates to PGP Corporation. Detailed customer transition information is immediately available at www.pgp.com/transition.php. Current customers will also receive transition information by email from PGP Corporation within the next week.
Promotional Pricing Program: PGP Corporation will immediately accept orders from customers who need to renew lapsed software licenses, purchase additional seats, and upgrade freeware to standard versions for commercial use. New and current customers can take advantage of the special promotional pricing offer through October 31, 2002. Contact PGP at or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE) for more information.
Support Transition Program: PGP Corporation announced the immediate transfer of customer maintenance and support contracts from Network! Associates to PGP Corporation. To ensure full and uninterrupted customer support, Network Associates will continue to support PGP products through a transition period lasting until October 26, 2002, at which time PGP Corporation will assume all support responsibilities. For the next three months customers will continue to receive support through their existing procedures. PGP is also offering new maintenance and support agreements; information on PGP programs and transition is available at support.
International Customers: PGP Corporation announced a partner for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for sales and support, Intellect, a leading value-added reseller and integrator based in the U.K. Intellect will provide sales and technical support, localization, and be a master distributor for PGP Corporation. PGP customers in Europe, Africa, or the Middle East can contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or Intellect at www.intellect.co.uk. PGP is in the process of developing distribution for the rest of the world; such customers can contact PGP at international.
PGP Announces E-Commerce Capabilities
PGP Corporation announced the launch of its web site, including commerce capabilities, at www.pgp.com. This web site contains complete product, pricing, renewal, and customer transition information, as well as the ability to order, renew, increase, and bring into compliance software license, maintenance, and support agreements. Information on the PGP Corporation management team, venture capital investors, product direction, and corporate philosophy is also available.
PGP Discusses Operating Principles
PGP Corporation has based its operations on the principles of continuity, relationship, and innovation.
* Continuity: a commitment to open source and non-commercial freeware, the highest levels of encryption, and the continued upgrade of current PGP products, including a new product shipment planned for Q4 this year.
* Relationship: a commitment to forging lasting contacts with customers, to actively soliciting input on all aspects of the business, company direction and product evolution.
* Innovation: a commitment to engineering !a new approach to secure messaging and data storage, in time developing an architecture to redefine enterprise security, simplifying user and IT deployment and making practical the universal protection of confidential information.
"We are excited about solving the real corporate, customer, and individual need to protect confidential information, everywhere it resides," said Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "We raised $14 million in this challenging economic climate from two top venture capital firms because they believe in the marketplace and in our ability to provide innovative solutions for our present and future customers. We are dedicated to making PGP products so simple they will be used everywhere."
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the worl!d's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
About DCM - Doll Capital Management
DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. Since 1996, DCM's six partners, armed with over a century of operational and investing experience, have funded leading technology companies including About (Primedia), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP), IPivot (Intel), Recourse Technologies, Remedy (Peregrine Systems), UUNet (Worldcom) and Vernier Networks. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to a!n extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. Visit them at www.dcmvc.com
About Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding entrepreneurs that now spans over six decades. Laurance S. Rockefeller pioneered early stage venture financing in the 1930s. As one of most experienced venture firms in the United States, Venrock maintains a tradition of collaboration with talented entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. During its history Venrock has made over 300 investments in portfolio companies that have achieved an aggregate market capitalization of $1.2 trillion, combined annual revenues of $150 billion, and employees totaling over 773,000. The firm is currently investing a capital pool of approximately $800 million that includes Venrock Associates III, L.P., a fund that closed in July 2000. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.venrock.com.
DCM - Doll Capital Management Name: Aeron Noe PR Agency: the blueshirt group Phone: 415-217-4964 Email: aeron@blueshirtgroup.com Back to top Investors PGP Corporation Receives $14 Million Initial Funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation announced today that it has received $14 million in venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two leading venture capital firms. The funds will be used to establish and operate PGP Corporation as a new, independent company providing secure messaging and data storage products to corporations and individuals.
As stated in a separate press release today, PGP Corporation has purchased the technology assets from Network Associates, additionally announcing that the company will upgrade existing product lines, develop ne!w technology, and retain reserves sufficient to reach operating profitability. PGP Corporation was created with a management team comprised of technology industry veterans from Vantive, PeopleSoft, Symantec, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc, and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders. PGP's secure messaging and data storage products (PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, PGP Wireless, PGP Admin & PGP Keyserver), in use by thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and corporate information remains secure.
"PGP products are well known and highly respected by security experts in leading corporations around the world," said Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "This level of funding is a tremendous vote of confidence from two of the premier venture capital firms that we can, through technical innovation, expand PGP into a product that is a corporate requirement for every desktop and wireless device."
"The feedback we have received from corporate and government customers has provided us with the insights that a comprehensive next generation security product was needed to meet the growing demand for an easy-to-use encryption product that can be used by many people," said Rob Theis, DCM General Partner. "We began working on this project when Phil Dunkelberger joined our Entrepreneur-in-Residence program and are delighted that it has resulted in the creation of a company with the long range objective of offering a complete family of well integrated products, providing the foundation for the next generation in security encryption with proven products and an established brand."
"PGP Corporation has outstanding market potential," said Terry Garnett, General Partner of Venrock Associates. "The entire security category is growing rapidly and customers have a great need for products that protect confidential information. Keeping data secure is a universal enterprise requirement."
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remai!ns secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
About DCM - Doll Capital Management
DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. Since 1996, DCM's six partners, armed with over a century of operational and investing experience, have funded leading technology companies including About (Primedia), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP), IPivot (Intel), Recourse Technologies, Remedy (Peregrine Systems), UUNet (Worldcom) and Vernier Networks. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. Visit them at www.dcmvc.com.
About Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding entrepreneurs that now spans over six decades. Laurance S. Rockefeller pioneered early stage venture financing in the 1930s. As one of most experienced venture firms in the United States, Venrock maintains a tradition of collaboration with talented entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. During its history Venrock has made over 300 investments in portfolio companies that have achieved an aggregate market capitalization of $1.2 trilli!on, combined annual revenues of $150 billion, and employees totaling over 773,000. The firm is currently investing a capital pool of approximately $800 million that includes Venrock Associates III, L.P., a fund that closed in July 2000. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.venrock.com.
DCM - Doll Capital Management Name: Aeron Noe PR Agency: the blueshirt group Phone: 415-217-4964 Email: aeron@blueshirtgroup.com Back to top Assets Purchased
PGP Corporation Announces Purchase of PGP Desktop and Wireless Assets from Network Associates
Technology, Venture Funding, and Management team launch the new company
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates, Inc. The PGP purchase -a buyback of a portion the assets PGP sold to Network Associates in December 1997, coincides with an investment of $14 million by DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, and the announcement of a senior management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, provides the foundation of the new company.
PGP will immediately license and support current versions of PGP products to current, former, and new PGP customers. PGP products, in use today by thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, are available today from the company at https://store.pgp.com/.
"Reacquiring the PGP product line gives us an established, trusted product set, a well-respected code base, and a worldwide customer base," said Phil Dunkelberger, PGP Corporation President and CEO. "We look forward in the future to extending the product line and creating a next generation platform for secure messaging and data storage."
Assets acquired include:
* PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, & PGP Admin software products for Windows and Macintosh
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Keyserver for Windows and Solaris
* PGP Wireless for PalmOS and WinCE/PocketPC
* PGP SDK encryption software development kit
Network Associates retained certain products that were developed using the PGP SDK encryption development software tools. Network Associates has been given a license to continue to maintain and update these PGP based products. Assets not acquired include:
* McAfee E-Business Server (formerly called PGP E-Business Server or PGP Command Line)
* McAfee Desktop Firewall for Win32 platforms
* McAfee VPN Client for Win32 platforms
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
For more information, contact
PGP Corporation Name: Lori Curtis PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC Phone: 970-887-0044 Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com Back to top Announcing PGP 8.0 Newly Formed PGP Announces New Products for Windows and Macintosh
Windows Support for XP, Notes, Novell; Macintosh version for OS X
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, today announced major product line upgrades to their industry-leading PGP encryption product families. The products, PGP 8.0 for Windows and PGP 8.0 for Macintosh, will ship in November of 2002.
PGP 8.0 is a new product and significant upgrade to current PGP offerings, including substantial new features on both platforms.
* PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. Adds full Windows XP support, server-side Lotus Notes plug-in, support for Novell GroupWise 5.5 and 6.0 clients, as well as supporting all current operating systems and messaging clients, significantly enhanced Unicode internationalization support, and PGP Admin 8.0 automatic configuration of PGP Disk.
* PGP 8.0 for Macintosh OS X: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. This new product brings full Mac OS X support to the PGP product line. An all-new version of PGP Disk allows compatibility with PGP disks created on Windows, AES algorithm support, and compatibility with older Mac OS 9 PGP disks. PGP Mail for Mac OS X directly integrates with Apple's mail application as well as providing support for Microsoft's Entourage.
New customers may purchase a license for PGP 8.0 for Windows immediately. Orders for the Macintosh version will be accepted in Q4 2002. Under the current purchase program, new customers will receive the 7.1.1 version now plus a full year license of PGP 8.0 when it ships.
A limited time promotional program has been created to simplify this process. Existing customers may purchase a license and upgrade to PGP 8.0 for existing or new seats. The program is also available to new customers. Pricing is set from 20% to 40% off! of standard pricing. Details are available at www.pgp.com/promo.
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
For more information, contact:
PGP Corporation Name: Lori Curtis PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC Phone: 970-887-0044 Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com Back to top Technical Advisory Board PGP Corporation Announces Formation of Technical Advisory Board
Key experts to provide guidance and advice for newly formed company
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage announced today that it has formed a Technical Advisory Board to advise its executive and engineering teams on products, architecture, technology, integration, and customer requirements. The board will consist of 10 individuals who will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of security, encryption, networking, and future technologies.
The first four members of the board were also announced. They are:
* Carl Amdahl, Technology Partner, DCM--Doll Capital Management. Mr. Amdahl is a seasoned computer and networking industry executive who was a founder of three publicly traded companies: NetFRAME Systems, Trilogy Systems, Ltd., and Magnuson Systems, Inc. He is a Stanford Sloan Fellow and received a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
* Dr. Crispin Cowan, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of WireX. Dr. Cowan conducts research focusing on making systems more secure without breaking compatibility or compromising performance. He has co-authored 34 refereed publications, including those describing the StackGuard compiler for defending against buffer overflow attacks. Dr. Cowan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Science in Mathematics, Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Mathematics, Co-op Honors, Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
* Bruce Schneier, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Mr. Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, and lecturer. He is the author of six books on network security, including "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World", and "Applied Cryptography", the seminal work in its field. He publishes a free email newsletter "Crypto-Gram" which has over 60,000 readers. Schneier has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Rochester.
* Phil Zimmermann, founder of the original PGP, Inc. Mr. Zimmerman is known for his extensive work in cryptography and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems. He is the recipient of numerous awards and was named into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame, named one of InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators, and Time Magazine named Zimmermann !one of the "Net 50", the 50 most influential people on the Internet. He is a Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Zimmermann received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University.
"We are extremely pleased to have such distinguished individuals with great technical prowess as well as business acumen willing to serve on our Technical Advisory Board," said Jon Callas, CTO and CSO of PGP Corporation. "We are committed to technical innovation and this board will provide both a catalyst to great ideas and an outside perspective to keep us on track."
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
Looking at some of the blocks on that map with most arrows poiting to them, I visited those websites and looked at their privacy policies.
I wonder why they even bother having them, but it's a nice way to inform us of everything being done.
eScriptions.net reserves the right to post collected data on eScriptions.net's Web site, or share, rent, sell, or otherwise disclose data it collects to third parties. Any third party to which eScriptions.net shares, rents, sells, or otherwise discloses personal data will be carefully prescreened by eScriptions.net, determined by eScriptions.net to be reputable, and will use the personal data for marketing products and services which eScriptions.net determines, in its sole judgment, that visitors might find of interest.
The Company may receive information about individuals from third parties or from other sources of information outside of the Company including information located in public databases
THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION. <snip> the Company may change or broaden its use at any time.
THE COMPANY MAY SELL OR TRANSFER INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY PURPOSE IN COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION.
I particularly like the way they go through excruciating trouble to explain "webbugs" though:
(b) Webbugs. A webbug is programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page (by using an programming function -- see www.www.org for more information), but can also be used to transfer an individual's unique user identification (often in the form of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows Company to track certain web sites an individual visits online. Webbugs are used to determine products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes. For example, Company might place, with the consent of a third party website, a webbug on the third party's website where fishing products are sold. When Joe, an individual listed in Company's database, visits the fishing website, Company receives notice by means of the webbug that Joe visited the fishing site, and Company would then update Joe's profile with the information that Joe is interested in fishing. Company may thereafter present offers of fishing related products and services to Joe. In addition to using webbugs on web pages, Company also uses webbugs in email messages sent to individuals listed in Company's database.
*pats his Mozilla that displays html mails as plain text and will not load remote images in mail and news (two seperate functions)*
Until we fully know what Palladium encompasses, why are we jumping to these hasty conclusions?
Because we might be just a bit too late if we only start when this has become reality. The mere possibility that we could one day wake up to see that something like this has happened is too chilling to ignore.
Sure, chances are 99% of our conclusions and fears are way out there, but that does in no way remove the need for awareness of those fears to exist. If we wouldn't cry out each time something like this was proposed, we'd be giving a completely wrong signal, all but telling the industry that they can get away with doing such things...
I was just digging through a few hundred pages of information in the wayback machine when the site became sluggish. I jokingly told my friends (you know, the kind that live in my head?) it seemed I was singlehandedly slashdotting the site.
*sighs* Seems I had some help...
Anyway, I love the Wayback Machine. Besides being an extremely useful tool, it proves that Zindell was right. Information is never lost, only ever created.
This novel is written in the present tense. If I were this author, I wouldn't do this -- it's gimmicky and will not make the novel any better.
Writing in the present tense is not 'gimicky' - it's a tool. One of many which good authors can use. The major reason it's been used so little in the past is because editors tend not to like it; after all, it's been used very little, and it might scare away customers...
But again, writing in the present tense is merely a tool; like writing from the first person point of view, or in the future tense (see David Brin's "Kiln People") - in this case, writing present tense was a very appropriate tool - it added a sense of immediacy to the story that went very well with the episodes being written right this very moment.
Dune's just written in plain old past tense, yet this is one of the greatest works of Sci-Fi/Fantasy ever created.
Shakespeare wrote with pen and 'paper'. Following your line of reasoning this would mean...?
Just write it in the past tense like everybody else.
Just use M$ Windows like everybody else.
the idea is to make it harder, since you can't make it impossible.
Luckily Tad never bought into that stupid idea. The story is just plain HTML - and we the readers can do anything we like with it; which is extremely useful. You have no idea how good it is to be able to grep through all those episodes looking for specific references. And as Eric Flint has shown, 'piracy' in this field does not harm authors.
d: EXCELLENT
Then he'll make more money doing it on paper and good luck to him!
He will. He's one of the most popular authors of quality fantasy (as opposed to the kind written by the likes of Goodkind), and any book with his name on the cover is almost guaranteed to sell very well.
It was a certainty way from the start that Shadowmarch would never make anywhere near the amount of money he makes with his books. So Tad was writing War of the Flowers (or whatever it will be renamed to if he finds a title he likes better) for money, and Shadowmarch as an experiment of how things could be.
Shadowmarch was never started for the money; yet unfortunately it has failed (in part) because of it.
And that is a damned shame. Because Shadowmarch was indeed an experiment of how positive things could be. There was no publisher involved; it was just Tad and a few friends who set up and took care of everything - publishing the episodes in plain HTML to guarantee readability (even 20 years down the road), thus making it possible to grep through those episodes looking for references you'd missed before.
Beyond this, the reason for the project, Tad wanted more immediate reader feedback; what did we like, what did we want to know more about, which clues did we pick up? Before Shadowmarch he only got feedback starting close to a year after finishing a book; by which time he'd long since moved on to the next work.
Yet with Shadowmarch, feedback was constant and immediate. And as a reader, this was awesome beyond belief; I'd gladly have paid a lot more than the price of a hardcover (rather than quite a bit less as was the case now) just to be able to see our comments have a noticable influence on the story; to see the world evolve before our very eyes. Shadowmarch will go on. We'll see more of the world in the three books DAW will be publishing, and the website with its awesome community will continue to exist as well. Yet the awesome experience of this project has not managed to survive, and I fear that means a very real end to my hopes for the future of 'epublishing.'
I'd think oreillynet could stand up to it, but I at least can't get through anymore...
DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
by Gordon Mohr
Jun. 7, 2002
The CBDTPA could require billions of individual "digital media devices" -- every TV, stereo, speaker, PC, walkman, hard drive, monitor, and scanner -- to carry enforcement circuitry -- but there are only 300 million people in the country. Mathematically astute readers will note that's less than 600 million each of eyes and ears.
Further, a single economical helmet can cover four of these analog holes at once!
I humbly suggest the most cost-effective and reliable solution to the copyright industries' troubles will be DRM helmets, bolted onto each dutiful consumer at the neck. When these helmets sense watermarked audio or video within earshot/eyeshot, they check their local license manager and instantly "fog up" if payment has not been delivered.
This will especially teach people not to use unauthorized
copies of music while driving.
By bolting a suitably-small DRM helmet onto people at an
appropriately-early age, the citizenry's consumptive
habits can be "arrested" (along with cranial volume) at
a revenue-maximizing developmental stage. I'd guess this is around age 13, but I'm open to the latest research. Give and take is what policymaking is all about.
So step up to the plate, senators, lobbyists, and titans of industry. Write this into the next rev of the CBDTPA. Why try to imperfectly plug billions of analog holes, when you can just cap the problem at far fewer endpoints? The end-to-end design principle is your friend!
[Intellectual Property Disclosure: The "DRM Helmet" and the "Cranial Arrest Adolescent DRM Helmet" may be covered by patents granted or applied for by Gordon Mohr. Licensing will be available on unreasonable and discriminatory terms.]
Gordon Mohr
is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bitzi, a cooperative, universal metadata catalog for all kinds of discrete files. Gordon's personal page is at http://xavvy.com.
Obviously, everybody saying "yaay for Netscape" isn't a real web developer.
Obviously your definition of a "real web developer" is somewhat skewed. Beyond the extremely useful tools like the javascript console and the DOM inspector *drools*, if anyone understands the need for official standards, it should be web developers. Not if you're someone who has no real idea about the standards and only learned to develop by looking at Dreamweaver output, but definitely if you're in this for the long run, and want to someday not have to include additional if statements for various browsers anymore. And the only way that can come about is if browser-vendors will stop pushing their own proprietary extensions. Netscape was at least as bad as IE, but now they've been turned. IE somewhat supports most basic functionality from the standards, even though still horribly broken at various points. If this improves, the day comes very near where you only have to write scripts once, and then have them perform flawlessly forever on all browsers that come after.
You've tested "lots of various DHTML - I want to bet they all failed because of the same two or three issues. If you're a "real web developer", fixing them is a matter of minutes. Don't complain about Mozilla just because you are incapable...
"We've yet to see hard numbers on what the marketing effects of piracy are," McNealy noted.
Somebody should clue this guy in to some of the hard numbers that are out there... (Of course that's books, and freely distributing content, not having it pirated, but all we care about is getting things for free, so that doesn't matter, right?)
Netscape 6.2.x was based on Mozilla 0.9.4 - since then quite important new features include tabbed browsing, and Netscape has done the whole icq/aim integration thing. A Netscape 7.0 can be defended.
Though of course the biggest reason for the version jump would be from marketing reasons. Not so much as opposed to IE, but to wash away the bad taste the original Netscape 6.0 has given a lot of people. I personally know many people who went right back to Netscape 4.x and never tried a Netscape 6.x again. The 7.0 might just convince them to give Netscape another try, and that's (IMO) a good thing.
What added functionality does it provide over Mozilla 1.0/pr2 (build 2002051206)
As seen in the release notes and the marketing talk about the features, netscape 7 includes an integrated icq/aim, favicons in quite a few places where Mozilla has diabled them again, a nifty icon in the status bar showing if cookies are being used by sites, and some older stuff over Mozilla like a spell-checker.
IMO nothing worth switching for, but it does make Netscape 7 a good choice for your average end user.
And although the option for disabling popups has disappeared from Netscape's preferences, so as not to harm AOL's revenues too much, adding this line to your user.js (create the file if necessary) will get you the same functionality:
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
Since quite a few people do not seem to be aware of what the link toolbar (nowadays called the site navigation toolbar) is, a quick explanation.
HTML includes the <link> tag. This tag can be used for intra-site navigation besides the regular navigation offered within the website itself. For example, slashdot has links to [top] (the main slashdot page), [up] (to articles) and to previous and next (to previous article and to next article).
Also, there are [authors] and [search] - which lead you to the list of articles by: and to the slashdot search page.
Other main sites which include such links and thus cause the link toolbar to show if you have that option set (view, show/hide, site navigation bar in pre-RC2) are w3.org and bugzilla.mozilla.org (very handy if you're working your way through a list of bugs).
I never saw much use for this toolbar until I read the discussions about it disappearing. At that point I just turned it on and started looking when and where it was used. In a very short time I've grown quite attached to it. When used right, it's amazingly useful.
Responding to microsoft's accusation of the bill being discrimatory:
On the contrary, the Bill is decidedly antidiscriminatory. This is so because by defining with no room for doubt the conditions for the provision of software, it prevents state bodies from using software
which has a license including discriminatory conditions.
Now I know where I'm going to emigrate to when the European version of the DMCA starts having an effect.
What the Hell do they have on that page? It crashed my Netscape 4.7 twice!
A script writing an iframe, divs nested 9 levels deep (within a table nested within other divs nested within another table)... you know, the usual stuff in this day and age... *shakes his head sadly*
Interestingly enough, there was a science-fiction short story published in Analog more decades ago than I care to admit exactly along those lines.
Since you don't remember the title, any chance you could remember the author? The year? (The decade?);)
The story sounds vaguely familiar, though I'm sad to say I've never read any Analog...
Slashdot Mirror
However, uninstalling 1.0 doesn't remove your profile - all your preferences will remain and can be used with 1.1 without any problems.
Just make sure not to switch back and forth between 1.0 and 1.1 while using the same profile...
And indeed, those shortcuts aren't really handy if you want to use a mouse, but I personally have quickly grown used to them. Who needs a mouse anyway?
With Mozilla's tabbed browsing, I can have three windows - one with tabs to slashdot articles and links followed from there, one with google's results on questions on the first research topic, and another one with google's results on the other research topic.
If you'd open 50 tabs on different subjects in one Mozilla window, then yes, then tabbed browsing wouldn't be really useful (except for removing clutter from your task bar) - and this could have been done by the windows manager as well. But tabbed browsing coupled to multiple windows makes it possible to give some 'meaning' to the different browser windows in your task bar. (And please don't bring up XP's grouping on the task bar - I've tried it and hated it; not to mention that XP has way too many other problems for me to want to downgrade to it.)
Some interesting pages (full of marketdroid speak):
PRODUCTS
PGP Corporation's products keep your confidential information secure. Whether it's in transit over a network or stored on desktops, laptops, or mobile devices, PGP prevents unauthorized access to your data.
PGP Corporation's products are standards-based and use the most advanced and trusted encryption technology at their core. Even non-technical users can keep confidential information safe.
PGP Corporate Desktop is our enterprise product, including PGP Mail for email, file, and instant messaging encryption, as well as PGP Disk, which encrypts entire disks, PGP Admin allows pre-configuration of company-specific services, security policies, corporate keys, all of which result in significant ease of deployment for IT management.
We are committed to remaining close to PGP's roots. To that end, we will be releasing PGP Personal for individual commercial use, as well as PGP Freeware for individual non-commercial use, when we deliver our forthcoming major release, PGP 8.0.
Version 8.0 will also mark PGP Corporation's next source code release, allowing continued peer review of our technology.
Please go to the individual product pages below for more information.
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Windows
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Mail for Windows
* PGP Disk for Windows
* PGP Enterprise Tools
* PGP Mobile for Palm OS
* PGP Mobile for Windows CE
Available in the fourth quarter of 2002:
* PGP Personal 8.0
* PGP Freeware 8.0
* PGP SDK 3.0
Please note that PGP Corporation's acquisition of PGP technology did not include the PGP E-Business Server.
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FREEWARE
PGP Freeware 8.0 will be available in Q4 2002.
We will continue PGP's tradition of offering a freeware version of PGP Mail for non-commercial use.
PGP Freeware is a single-user product that includes the same core PGP Mail software that can be found in our PGP Corporate Desktop and PGP Personal packages. PGP Mail encrypts electronic mail, files, and instant messages, and also provides the ability to create and manage PGP keys.
PGP Freeware is licensed solely to individual users for non-commercial use.
If you are an individual user who needs to secure your electronic business communications, you must obtain a license for our PGP Personal package, which is specifically intended for individual business users, and also includes our PGP Disk software. If you need multiple licenses of PGP software for commercial use, please see our PGP Corporate Desktop pagesfor Windows and for Macintosh.
For more details about the encryption algorithms, hashes, and key formats supported by our products, please read our Technical Specifications page.
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PRESS RELEASES
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation today made a series of announcements regarding its formation, purchase of assets from Network Associates a new product release, customer transition process, the establishment of a European partner, and launch of its e-commerce web site. PGP Corporation provides secure messaging and data storage products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure.
PGP Receives $14 Million in Venture Funding
PGP Corporation was created in June 2002 by a management team comprised of technology industry veterans from Vantive, PeopleSoft, Symantec, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc, and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders. The new entity raised $14 million of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two of the most highly respected venture capital firms. The amount raised is sufficient to purchase assets, upgrade existing products, develop new technology, and retain reserves sufficient to reach operating profitability without! additional funding.
PGP Acquires Windows, Macintosh, Wireless Product Lines from Network Associates
PGP Corporation announced the completion on July 26, 2002 of its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates, Inc. PGP will immediately license and support current versions of PGP products to current, lapsed, and new PGP customers. Assets acquired include:
* PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, & PGP Admin software products for Windows and Macintosh
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Keyserver for Windows and Solaris
* PGP Wireless for PalmOS and WinCE/PocketPC
* PGP SDK encryption software development kit
PGP Announces New PGP 8.0 Products
PGP Corporation announced new PGP products for Windows and for Macintosh to ship in November 2002. PGP 8.0 is a new product and significant upgrade to current PGP offerings, including substantial new features on both platforms.
* PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. Adds full Windows XP support, server-side Lotus Notes plug-in, support for Novell GroupWise 5.5 and 6.0 clients, as well as supporting all current operatin!g systems and messaging clients, significantly enhanced Unicode internationalization support, and PGP Admin 8.0 automatic configuration of PGP Disk.
* PGP 8.0 for Macintosh OS X: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. This new product brings full Mac OS X support to the PGP product line. An all-new version of PGP Disk allows compatibility with PGP disks created on Windows, AES algorithm support, and compatibility with older Mac OS 9 PGP disks. PGP Mail for Mac OS X directly integrates with Apple's mail application as well as providing support for Microsoft's Entourage.
PGP Announces Customer Transition Information
PGP Corporation announced the immediate transfer of all worldwide customer software license agreements from Network Associates to PGP Corporation. Detailed customer transition information is immediately available at www.pgp.com/transition.php. Current customers will also receive transition information by email from PGP Corporation within the next week.
Promotional Pricing Program: PGP Corporation will immediately accept orders from customers who need to renew lapsed software licenses, purchase additional seats, and upgrade freeware to standard versions for commercial use. New and current customers can take advantage of the special promotional pricing offer through October 31, 2002. Contact PGP at or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE) for more information.
Support Transition Program: PGP Corporation announced the immediate transfer of customer maintenance and support contracts from Network! Associates to PGP Corporation. To ensure full and uninterrupted customer support, Network Associates will continue to support PGP products through a transition period lasting until October 26, 2002, at which time PGP Corporation will assume all support responsibilities. For the next three months customers will continue to receive support through their existing procedures. PGP is also offering new maintenance and support agreements; information on PGP programs and transition is available at support.
International Customers: PGP Corporation announced a partner for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for sales and support, Intellect, a leading value-added reseller and integrator based in the U.K. Intellect will provide sales and technical support, localization, and be a master distributor for PGP Corporation. PGP customers in Europe, Africa, or the Middle East can contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or Intellect at www.intellect.co.uk. PGP is in the process of developing distribution for the rest of the world; such customers can contact PGP at international.
PGP Announces E-Commerce Capabilities
PGP Corporation announced the launch of its web site, including commerce capabilities, at www.pgp.com. This web site contains complete product, pricing, renewal, and customer transition information, as well as the ability to order, renew, increase, and bring into compliance software license, maintenance, and support agreements. Information on the PGP Corporation management team, venture capital investors, product direction, and corporate philosophy is also available.
PGP Discusses Operating Principles
PGP Corporation has based its operations on the principles of continuity, relationship, and innovation.
* Continuity: a commitment to open source and non-commercial freeware, the highest levels of encryption, and the continued upgrade of current PGP products, including a new product shipment planned for Q4 this year.
* Relationship: a commitment to forging lasting contacts with customers, to actively soliciting input on all aspects of the business, company direction and product evolution.
* Innovation: a commitment to engineering !a new approach to secure messaging and data storage, in time developing an architecture to redefine enterprise security, simplifying user and IT deployment and making practical the universal protection of confidential information.
"We are excited about solving the real corporate, customer, and individual need to protect confidential information, everywhere it resides," said Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "We raised $14 million in this challenging economic climate from two top venture capital firms because they believe in the marketplace and in our ability to provide innovative solutions for our present and future customers. We are dedicated to making PGP products so simple they will be used everywhere."
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the worl!d's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
About DCM - Doll Capital Management
DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. Since 1996, DCM's six partners, armed with over a century of operational and investing experience, have funded leading technology companies including About (Primedia), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP), IPivot (Intel), Recourse Technologies, Remedy (Peregrine Systems), UUNet (Worldcom) and Vernier Networks. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to a!n extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. Visit them at www.dcmvc.com
About Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding entrepreneurs that now spans over six decades. Laurance S. Rockefeller pioneered early stage venture financing in the 1930s. As one of most experienced venture firms in the United States, Venrock maintains a tradition of collaboration with talented entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. During its history Venrock has made over 300 investments in portfolio companies that have achieved an aggregate market capitalization of $1.2 trillion, combined annual revenues of $150 billion, and employees totaling over 773,000. The firm is currently investing a capital pool of approximately $800 million that includes Venrock Associates III, L.P., a fund that closed in July 2000. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.venrock.com.
For more information, contact:
PGP Corporation
Name: Lori Curtis
PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC
Phone: 970-887-0044
Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com
DCM - Doll Capital Management
Name: Aeron Noe
PR Agency: the blueshirt group
Phone: 415-217-4964
Email: aeron@blueshirtgroup.com
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Investors
PGP Corporation Receives $14 Million Initial Funding from
DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation announced today that it has received $14 million in venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two leading venture capital firms. The funds will be used to establish and operate PGP Corporation as a new, independent company providing secure messaging and data storage products to corporations and individuals.
As stated in a separate press release today, PGP Corporation has purchased the technology assets from Network Associates, additionally announcing that the company will upgrade existing product lines, develop ne!w technology, and retain reserves sufficient to reach operating profitability. PGP Corporation was created with a management team comprised of technology industry veterans from Vantive, PeopleSoft, Symantec, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc, and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders. PGP's secure messaging and data storage products (PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, PGP Wireless, PGP Admin & PGP Keyserver), in use by thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and corporate information remains secure.
"PGP products are well known and highly respected by security experts in leading corporations around the world," said Phil Dunkelberger, President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "This level of funding is a tremendous vote of confidence from two of the premier venture capital firms that we can, through technical innovation, expand PGP into a product that is a corporate requirement for every desktop and wireless device."
"The feedback we have received from corporate and government customers has provided us with the insights that a comprehensive next generation security product was needed to meet the growing demand for an easy-to-use encryption product that can be used by many people," said Rob Theis, DCM General Partner. "We began working on this project when Phil Dunkelberger joined our Entrepreneur-in-Residence program and are delighted that it has resulted in the creation of a company with the long range objective of offering a complete family of well integrated products, providing the foundation for the next generation in security encryption with proven products and an established brand."
"PGP Corporation has outstanding market potential," said Terry Garnett, General Partner of Venrock Associates. "The entire security category is growing rapidly and customers have a great need for products that protect confidential information. Keeping data secure is a universal enterprise requirement."
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remai!ns secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
About DCM - Doll Capital Management
DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. Since 1996, DCM's six partners, armed with over a century of operational and investing experience, have funded leading technology companies including About (Primedia), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq:FDRY), Internap (Nasdaq:INAP), IPivot (Intel), Recourse Technologies, Remedy (Peregrine Systems), UUNet (Worldcom) and Vernier Networks. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. Visit them at www.dcmvc.com.
About Venrock Associates
Venrock Associates was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding entrepreneurs that now spans over six decades. Laurance S. Rockefeller pioneered early stage venture financing in the 1930s. As one of most experienced venture firms in the United States, Venrock maintains a tradition of collaboration with talented entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. During its history Venrock has made over 300 investments in portfolio companies that have achieved an aggregate market capitalization of $1.2 trilli!on, combined annual revenues of $150 billion, and employees totaling over 773,000. The firm is currently investing a capital pool of approximately $800 million that includes Venrock Associates III, L.P., a fund that closed in July 2000. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.venrock.com.
For more information, contact:
PGP Corporation
Name: Lori Curtis
PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC
Phone: 970-887-0044
Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com
DCM - Doll Capital Management
Name: Aeron Noe
PR Agency: the blueshirt group
Phone: 415-217-4964
Email: aeron@blueshirtgroup.com
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Assets Purchased
PGP Corporation Announces Purchase of PGP Desktop and Wireless Assets
from Network Associates
Technology, Venture Funding, and Management team launch the new company
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the PGP Desktop and Wireless encryption product lines from Network Associates, Inc. The PGP purchase -a buyback of a portion the assets PGP sold to Network Associates in December 1997, coincides with an investment of $14 million by DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, and the announcement of a senior management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, provides the foundation of the new company.
PGP will immediately license and support current versions of PGP products to current, former, and new PGP customers. PGP products, in use today by thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, are available today from the company at https://store.pgp.com/.
"Reacquiring the PGP product line gives us an established, trusted product set, a well-respected code base, and a worldwide customer base," said Phil Dunkelberger, PGP Corporation President and CEO. "We look forward in the future to extending the product line and creating a next generation platform for secure messaging and data storage."
Assets acquired include:
* PGP Mail, PGP File, PGP Disk, & PGP Admin software products for Windows and Macintosh
* PGP Corporate Desktop for Macintosh
* PGP Keyserver for Windows and Solaris
* PGP Wireless for PalmOS and WinCE/PocketPC
* PGP SDK encryption software development kit
Network Associates retained certain products that were developed using the PGP SDK encryption development software tools. Network Associates has been given a license to continue to maintain and update these PGP based products. Assets not acquired include:
* McAfee E-Business Server (formerly called PGP E-Business Server or PGP Command Line)
* McAfee Desktop Firewall for Win32 platforms
* McAfee VPN Client for Win32 platforms
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from DCM - Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
For more information, contact
PGP Corporation
Name: Lori Curtis
PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC
Phone: 970-887-0044
Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com
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Announcing PGP 8.0
Newly Formed PGP Announces New Products for Windows and Macintosh
Windows Support for XP, Notes, Novell; Macintosh version for OS X
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, today announced major product line upgrades to their industry-leading PGP encryption product families. The products, PGP 8.0 for Windows and PGP 8.0 for Macintosh, will ship in November of 2002.
PGP 8.0 is a new product and significant upgrade to current PGP offerings, including substantial new features on both platforms.
* PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP 8.0 for Windows: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. Adds full Windows XP support, server-side Lotus Notes plug-in, support for Novell GroupWise 5.5 and 6.0 clients, as well as supporting all current operating systems and messaging clients, significantly enhanced Unicode internationalization support, and PGP Admin 8.0 automatic configuration of PGP Disk.
* PGP 8.0 for Macintosh OS X: PGP Mail and PGP Disk. This new product brings full Mac OS X support to the PGP product line. An all-new version of PGP Disk allows compatibility with PGP disks created on Windows, AES algorithm support, and compatibility with older Mac OS 9 PGP disks. PGP Mail for Mac OS X directly integrates with Apple's mail application as well as providing support for Microsoft's Entourage.
New customers may purchase a license for PGP 8.0 for Windows immediately. Orders for the Macintosh version will be accepted in Q4 2002. Under the current purchase program, new customers will receive the 7.1.1 version now plus a full year license of PGP 8.0 when it ships.
A limited time promotional program has been created to simplify this process. Existing customers may purchase a license and upgrade to PGP 8.0 for existing or new seats. The program is also available to new customers. Pricing is set from 20% to 40% off! of standard pricing. Details are available at www.pgp.com/promo.
About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, builds products that allow corporations to ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure. PGP Corporation combines a management team comprised of technology industry veterans and former PGP executives, developers, and patent holders with $14M of venture funding from Doll Capital Management and Venrock Associates, two highly respected venture capital firms.
Over the last ten years, PGP technology has developed a global reputation for enabling open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate/government users and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or toll free at 866.747.5483 (866.PGP.LIVE).
For more information, contact:
PGP Corporation
Name: Lori Curtis
PR Agency: Jump Start Communications, LLC
Phone: 970-887-0044
Email: lori@jumpstartcom.com
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Technical Advisory Board
PGP Corporation Announces Formation of Technical Advisory Board
Key experts to provide guidance and advice for newly formed company
Palo Alto, Calif. (Aug 19, 2002) - PGP Corporation, the recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage announced today that it has formed a Technical Advisory Board to advise its executive and engineering teams on products, architecture, technology, integration, and customer requirements. The board will consist of 10 individuals who will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of security, encryption, networking, and future technologies.
The first four members of the board were also announced. They are:
* Carl Amdahl, Technology Partner, DCM--Doll Capital Management. Mr. Amdahl is a seasoned computer and networking industry executive who was a founder of three publicly traded companies: NetFRAME Systems, Trilogy Systems, Ltd., and Magnuson Systems, Inc. He is a Stanford Sloan Fellow and received a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
* Dr. Crispin Cowan, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of WireX. Dr. Cowan conducts research focusing on making systems more secure without breaking compatibility or compromising performance. He has co-authored 34 refereed publications, including those describing the StackGuard compiler for defending against buffer overflow attacks. Dr. Cowan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Science in Mathematics, Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Mathematics, Co-op Honors, Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
* Bruce Schneier, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Mr. Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, and lecturer. He is the author of six books on network security, including "Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World", and "Applied Cryptography", the seminal work in its field. He publishes a free email newsletter "Crypto-Gram" which has over 60,000 readers. Schneier has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Rochester.
* Phil Zimmermann, founder of the original PGP, Inc. Mr. Zimmerman is known for his extensive work in cryptography and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems. He is the recipient of numerous awards and was named into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame, named one of InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators, and Time Magazine named Zimmermann !one of the "Net 50", the 50 most influential people on the Internet. He is a Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Zimmermann received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University.
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I wonder why they even bother having them, but it's a nice way to inform us of everything being done.
For example: eScriptions.net: virtumundo.com: I particularly like the way they go through excruciating trouble to explain "webbugs" though: *pats his Mozilla that displays html mails as plain text and will not load remote images in mail and news (two seperate functions)*
Sure, chances are 99% of our conclusions and fears are way out there, but that does in no way remove the need for awareness of those fears to exist. If we wouldn't cry out each time something like this was proposed, we'd be giving a completely wrong signal, all but telling the industry that they can get away with doing such things...
I was just digging through a few hundred pages of information in the wayback machine when the site became sluggish. I jokingly told my friends (you know, the kind that live in my head?) it seemed I was singlehandedly slashdotting the site.
*sighs* Seems I had some help...
Anyway, I love the Wayback Machine. Besides being an extremely useful tool, it proves that Zindell was right. Information is never lost, only ever created.
But again, writing in the present tense is merely a tool; like writing from the first person point of view, or in the future tense (see David Brin's "Kiln People") - in this case, writing present tense was a very appropriate tool - it added a sense of immediacy to the story that went very well with the episodes being written right this very moment. Shakespeare wrote with pen and 'paper'. Following your line of reasoning this would mean...? Just use M$ Windows like everybody else. Luckily Tad never bought into that stupid idea. The story is just plain HTML - and we the readers can do anything we like with it; which is extremely useful. You have no idea how good it is to be able to grep through all those episodes looking for specific references. And as Eric Flint has shown, 'piracy' in this field does not harm authors.
It was a certainty way from the start that Shadowmarch would never make anywhere near the amount of money he makes with his books. So Tad was writing War of the Flowers (or whatever it will be renamed to if he finds a title he likes better) for money, and Shadowmarch as an experiment of how things could be.
Shadowmarch was never started for the money; yet unfortunately it has failed (in part) because of it.
And that is a damned shame. Because Shadowmarch was indeed an experiment of how positive things could be. There was no publisher involved; it was just Tad and a few friends who set up and took care of everything - publishing the episodes in plain HTML to guarantee readability (even 20 years down the road), thus making it possible to grep through those episodes looking for references you'd missed before.
Beyond this, the reason for the project, Tad wanted more immediate reader feedback; what did we like, what did we want to know more about, which clues did we pick up? Before Shadowmarch he only got feedback starting close to a year after finishing a book; by which time he'd long since moved on to the next work.
Yet with Shadowmarch, feedback was constant and immediate. And as a reader, this was awesome beyond belief; I'd gladly have paid a lot more than the price of a hardcover (rather than quite a bit less as was the case now) just to be able to see our comments have a noticable influence on the story; to see the world evolve before our very eyes.
Shadowmarch will go on. We'll see more of the world in the three books DAW will be publishing, and the website with its awesome community will continue to exist as well. Yet the awesome experience of this project has not managed to survive, and I fear that means a very real end to my hopes for the future of 'epublishing.'
DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Gordon Mohr Jun. 7, 2002
The CBDTPA could require billions of individual "digital media devices" -- every TV, stereo, speaker, PC, walkman, hard drive, monitor, and scanner -- to carry enforcement circuitry -- but there are only 300 million people in the country. Mathematically astute readers will note that's less than 600 million each of eyes and ears.
Further, a single economical helmet can cover four of these analog holes at once!
I humbly suggest the most cost-effective and reliable solution to the copyright industries' troubles will be DRM helmets, bolted onto each dutiful consumer at the neck. When these helmets sense watermarked audio or video within earshot/eyeshot, they check their local license manager and instantly "fog up" if payment has not been delivered.
This will especially teach people not to use unauthorized copies of music while driving.
By bolting a suitably-small DRM helmet onto people at an appropriately-early age, the citizenry's consumptive habits can be "arrested" (along with cranial volume) at a revenue-maximizing developmental stage. I'd guess this is around age 13, but I'm open to the latest research. Give and take is what policymaking is all about.
So step up to the plate, senators, lobbyists, and titans of industry. Write this into the next rev of the CBDTPA. Why try to imperfectly plug billions of analog holes, when you can just cap the problem at far fewer endpoints? The end-to-end design principle is your friend!
[Intellectual Property Disclosure: The "DRM Helmet" and the "Cranial Arrest Adolescent DRM Helmet" may be covered by patents granted or applied for by Gordon Mohr. Licensing will be available on unreasonable and discriminatory terms.]
Gordon Mohr is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bitzi, a cooperative, universal metadata catalog for all kinds of discrete files. Gordon's personal page is at http://xavvy.com.
Please do not use the above mirror. It's primarily for use by the developers. If it becomes unusable they won't be able to get any work done.
You've tested "lots of various DHTML - I want to bet they all failed because of the same two or three issues. If you're a "real web developer", fixing them is a matter of minutes. Don't complain about Mozilla just because you are incapable...
Though of course the biggest reason for the version jump would be from marketing reasons. Not so much as opposed to IE, but to wash away the bad taste the original Netscape 6.0 has given a lot of people. I personally know many people who went right back to Netscape 4.x and never tried a Netscape 6.x again. The 7.0 might just convince them to give Netscape another try, and that's (IMO) a good thing.
IMO nothing worth switching for, but it does make Netscape 7 a good choice for your average end user.
Although the main netscape site doesn't yet show this, Netscape 7 PR1 can be downloaded from netscape.com already.
And although the option for disabling popups has disappeared from Netscape's preferences, so as not to harm AOL's revenues too much, adding this line to your user.js (create the file if necessary) will get you the same functionality:
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
Since quite a few people do not seem to be aware of what the link toolbar (nowadays called the site navigation toolbar) is, a quick explanation.
HTML includes the <link> tag. This tag can be used for intra-site navigation besides the regular navigation offered within the website itself. For example, slashdot has links to [top] (the main slashdot page), [up] (to articles) and to previous and next (to previous article and to next article). Also, there are [authors] and [search] - which lead you to the list of articles by: and to the slashdot search page.
Other main sites which include such links and thus cause the link toolbar to show if you have that option set (view, show/hide, site navigation bar in pre-RC2) are w3.org and bugzilla.mozilla.org (very handy if you're working your way through a list of bugs).
I never saw much use for this toolbar until I read the discussions about it disappearing. At that point I just turned it on and started looking when and where it was used. In a very short time I've grown quite attached to it. When used right, it's amazingly useful.
What the Hell do they have on that page? It crashed my Netscape 4.7 twice!
A script writing an iframe, divs nested 9 levels deep (within a table nested within other divs nested within another table)... you know, the usual stuff in this day and age... *shakes his head sadly*
Interestingly enough, there was a science-fiction short story published in Analog more decades ago than I care to admit exactly along those lines.
;)
Since you don't remember the title, any chance you could remember the author? The year? (The decade?)
The story sounds vaguely familiar, though I'm sad to say I've never read any Analog...