Extending Konqueror with view profiles (replace FTP/Samba applications with Konq, and browse Google easily)
Thanks. This has shown me something that I'll actually be using quite intensively, whereas until now I was wondering what this "split screen" stuff was usefull for.
Obviously, I must admit I hadn't searched for it in the helpsystem yet:-)
The SCO thingy is a diversion at best. The motivation behind this virus is the same as behind the previous big ones, ie installing an open mailrelay which spammers can use. And of course installing a keylogger end a backdoor to steal interesting info such as creditcard#'s, stuff like that.
Besides, in yesterdays more mydoom gloom story was a link to an article that showed tests couldn't get it to DDoS sco at all.
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Email for my domain is wildcarded, so it really doesn't matter that much what's in front of the @ and I'll get it. The past 2 days I've received a shitload of Mydooms, and there's something funny going on. Mydoom will put common names in front of the @. I've started receiving viruses for brian@ and bill@ and claudia@ and fred@ and jerry@ and george@ and smith@ and and and. I even received one for debby@. What, she's doing my domain now? I've also noticed that some of the "senders" are constructed the same way.
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Maybe diversifying will help a little for a short while, but the real solution to this problem is to write better code.
In the case at hand, better code won't help a bit. Mydoom is a *trojan*, not a worm. It asks people to ACTIVELY CLICK on it. Diversification in this case would have made it more difficult for the trojan to spread this fast.
Of course, better code is something that's seriously needed as well.
Do you know a better way of getting Bill Gates to kneel in front of someone who wants to hit him with a sword?
If only Elizabeth has suffered through enough blue screens... Ah... the possibilities...
What's the quickest/easiest way to get Mozilla running on Solaris 7?
I'd try Mozilla Firebird for a browser. Available from mozilla.org, and it's great. No bloat, no crashes, v-e-r-y fast. Haven't tested Thunderbird as exhaustively, but it seems pretty ok as well.
O, I've run 'm on Solaris 8, not 7, so ymmv...
Hey, you've just learned a new word:-)
Besides, I refuse to call a 20 year old, double-distilled, cask-strength calvados "french apple brandy," even though technically it is.
Also, if you have your address spam-guarded, it's effectively a message to the spammers that, "I'm not one of the.01% of people who responds to this crap, and anything you send me will just hit my spam-filter anyways, so don't even try."
And they don't, because it's just not worth it for both those reasons.
I beg to differ. Opting out is mostly used as an emailaddress confirmation, even though a better message stating that you do not want their mail is hardly possible. As long as people pay spammers to get their message out to X million unique "prospective customers," spammers will think these 10 lines of perl are worth their while. They already have to write some perl to harvest emailaddresses from usenet and webpages anyways.
I imagine a flying fridge could take your eye out!
Actually, somewhere in Holland a few weeks ago, a kid riding his bike was hit by a flying fridge. Apparently, someone threw it out a high story window window without looking. Kid only broke his arm, and his bike was damaged, iirc.
And where are you that you think you have more freedom of speech than the US?
In Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Trinidad and Tobago, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Slovenia, Hungary, Jamaica, South Africa, Costa Rica, Uruguay, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, Benin, Timor-Leste and Greece.
See the second world press freedom ranking.
A better indicator would be when these companies pull out because the workers demand more money.
Although this is probably what will happen, don't forget that this will not happen overnight. And until it does happen, it only adds to the US main export-product, money.
The US trade-deficit is already killing US-economy, and other countries now see that it's not a good idea to be dragged along with the US. That's why there is a slow shift in balance, where large countries (India, China) and tradeblocks (EU, parts of Asia) are working to become more self-supporting, and less dependant on the US economy.
Try opening kcalc, a basic scientific calculator. On my Athlon 2000XP it takes 6 (six!) seconds for the window to appear.
Excuse me? I run an AthlonXP 1800+/256MB ram and if kcalc takes longer than half a second to launch I'll cut off some fingers.
There's only two times I have to actually wait for things to start in KDE, and that's when starting a GTK-application (OpenOffice comes to mind), or initiating the first network access with a given app. Checking mail right after starting kmail takes a few seconds untill initial contact with the mailserver, all subsequent checks fly by. Same with accessing webpages. The first after logging in takes a few seconds, all others either go fast, or are dead links or slashdotted or something. In howfar this networkbehaviour is KDE-specific I don't know, since I haven't used Gnome since the pre-2.x days and olwm on an Ultra5 w/ 192 MB running Solaris 8 just doesn't compare anyways.
We also need a distro that has the kind of critical mass and corprate support Red Hat has.
SuSE. Very big in Europe, both in corporations and governments. Really nice support, very complete, they are for KDE what RedHat is for Gnome (are they still, now that they've dropped the desktop?), they're longtime partners with the likes of IBM and now that they've been acquired by Novell they have a worldwide presence and sales-apparatus that I don't think RedHat can beat. As far as critical mass and support is concerned, I really think SuSE's got RedHat cornered. I only hope (to stay semi on-topic) that the Novell/SuSE/Ximian-combination will not kill-off KDE development.
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Obviously, I must admit I hadn't searched for it in the helpsystem yet
All of a sudden I remember why I never liked xbill...
You know of course that a pram is a tit in dutch?
Wow. So Bradley saved bussinesses all over the world some US$30000000000gazillion thanks to prolonged productivity!
The SCO thingy is a diversion at best. The motivation behind this virus is the same as behind the previous big ones, ie installing an open mailrelay which spammers can use. And of course installing a keylogger end a backdoor to steal interesting info such as creditcard#'s, stuff like that.
Besides, in yesterdays more mydoom gloom story was a link to an article that showed tests couldn't get it to DDoS sco at all.
Email for my domain is wildcarded, so it really doesn't matter that much what's in front of the @ and I'll get it.
The past 2 days I've received a shitload of Mydooms, and there's something funny going on. Mydoom will put common names in front of the @. I've started receiving viruses for brian@ and bill@ and claudia@ and fred@ and jerry@ and george@ and smith@ and and and. I even received one for debby@. What, she's doing my domain now?
I've also noticed that some of the "senders" are constructed the same way.
In the case at hand, better code won't help a bit. Mydoom is a *trojan*, not a worm. It asks people to ACTIVELY CLICK on it. Diversification in this case would have made it more difficult for the trojan to spread this fast.
Of course, better code is something that's seriously needed as well.
Do you know a better way of getting Bill Gates to kneel in front of someone who wants to hit him with a sword?
If only Elizabeth has suffered through enough blue screens... Ah... the possibilities...
I'd try Mozilla Firebird for a browser. Available from mozilla.org, and it's great. No bloat, no crashes, v-e-r-y fast. Haven't tested Thunderbird as exhaustively, but it seems pretty ok as well.
O, I've run 'm on Solaris 8, not 7, so ymmv...
Hey, you've just learned a new word :-)
Besides, I refuse to call a 20 year old, double-distilled, cask-strength calvados "french apple brandy," even though technically it is.
Fuck. You, too, made me spill some real nice calvados.
Damn. You made me spill some really good calvados...
I beg to differ. Opting out is mostly used as an emailaddress confirmation, even though a better message stating that you do not want their mail is hardly possible. As long as people pay spammers to get their message out to X million unique "prospective customers," spammers will think these 10 lines of perl are worth their while. They already have to write some perl to harvest emailaddresses from usenet and webpages anyways.
See the second world press freedom ranking.
Although this is probably what will happen, don't forget that this will not happen overnight. And until it does happen, it only adds to the US main export-product, money.
The US trade-deficit is already killing US-economy, and other countries now see that it's not a good idea to be dragged along with the US. That's why there is a slow shift in balance, where large countries (India, China) and tradeblocks (EU, parts of Asia) are working to become more self-supporting, and less dependant on the US economy.
You post to this forum filled with hippy commie hackers, DMCA-violators and other longhaired filesharing scum. Of course you're a terrorist.
They're really large files...
There's only two times I have to actually wait for things to start in KDE, and that's when starting a GTK-application (OpenOffice comes to mind), or initiating the first network access with a given app. Checking mail right after starting kmail takes a few seconds untill initial contact with the mailserver, all subsequent checks fly by. Same with accessing webpages. The first after logging in takes a few seconds, all others either go fast, or are dead links or slashdotted or something. In howfar this networkbehaviour is KDE-specific I don't know, since I haven't used Gnome since the pre-2.x days and olwm on an Ultra5 w/ 192 MB running Solaris 8 just doesn't compare anyways.
Like in the subject you mean?
SuSE. Very big in Europe, both in corporations and governments. Really nice support, very complete, they are for KDE what RedHat is for Gnome (are they still, now that they've dropped the desktop?), they're longtime partners with the likes of IBM and now that they've been acquired by Novell they have a worldwide presence and sales-apparatus that I don't think RedHat can beat. As far as critical mass and support is concerned, I really think SuSE's got RedHat cornered. I only hope (to stay semi on-topic) that the Novell/SuSE/Ximian-combination will not kill-off KDE development.