I'm living in South Korea at the moment, and Windows/IE is pretty much 100% here because a certain ActiveX control is used by most sites for encryption (they use their own SEED encryption or something, here are some links...
"The key reason ActiveX is mandated by financial institutions is that Korea has its own national encryption scheme called SEED that is used in place of SSL. The reason this came to be stemmed from the fact that US export law in the late 1990s didn't permit the export of web browsers with more than 40 bit encryption. This meant that an ActiveX SEED plug-in was used in place of browser SSL. While there are Java and Netscape implementations of SEED, it was almost never implemented. ActiveX is so dominant that KFTC (Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute) won't even assign users security certificates unless they're using Internet Explorer with ActiveX."
The point the author makes about authentication is that on Vista it's APPROVAL (clicking yes or no), but on OSX it's AUTHENTICATION (having to type your password).
A huge difference, very important.
I've only used Vista for about an hour, but I must have got about 30 popups from the UAC and it annoyed the hell out of me. For Gods sake, even for a hardcore nerd, why the hell is Vista displaying a GUID in the approval dialog?!?!?!?!?!?! What does that mean to ANYONE?!?!
i'm using firefox 2.0 on linux, first my popup blocker would allow the site to open when i clicked on the video like the instructions said, then when i allowed it i just got youtube.com?
i'm running a kubuntu xgl setup on my laptop, and trying to upgrade to edgy failed when it got to the xserver bit and hosed my install. i don't know if there was a better way, but as it would no longer even boot i had to re-install to the basic system, and am now upgrading to edgy before i go about setting up xgl again.
a warning i guess, if you've any kind of custom setup.
i know this isn't that constructive and probably just trolling, but "reliable" and "dependable" are the last words i'd use to describe commercially driven software. it's been said a million times before but commerical software is about business, it's about being able to sell people something, regardless of how good it is. OSS is about making good, useful software. sure there are lots of projects which end up languishing and dying, but that's also true (more so probably because of the closed source) in the commerical software world.
i actually have been forced back (due to my normal comp exploding) to my dads hand-me-down P350, with 256MB RAM. I'm running 2.6.14 with KDE 3.2 and actually goes pretty well considering. Just makes me wonder where all that extra power really goes to...
don't ya think that maybe in the same way that the RIAA and co's efforts to crush P2P apps has forced their development to become increasingly sophisticated, and increasingly hard to shut down... that constantly cracking DRM and encryption is going to force companies trying to protect their content to go to more and more extreme lengths? so ultimately the efforts to circumvent DRM will only force to to learn and adapt and get uncrackable.
i'm not saying people shouldn't be trying to crack these if they really are insecure... i'm just sayin...:P
reminds me of a conversation i overheard our IT manager having with one of the directors. the director was trying to get us to make the application (a disability reference manual type thing for architects to make compliant buildings with) as accessible as possible with big fonts, proper colors, etc... when after a while of argueing the IT manager just had to scream down the phone "look, i just don't think there are going to be many blind architects using the bloody package!"
i tell it seriously badly, but it was urrr... funny at the time... heh.
yeah, i never thought of that till now, shouldn't governments (being for the people and not for corporations) always support free (as in beer) software so that all of their citizens can access what they have to offer them.
it seems silly to me for them to be only supporting one company, meaning you HAVE to pay a particular company money to access resources that you should be entitled to because they are meant to help you.
i guess you could make the point that you have to buy a computer in the first place maybe... or that you could go to your nearest library and they're probably gonna be running IE... but i don't think either of those things should matter.
i'm running firefox 1.0.4 and the secunia test didn't work for me. i noticed that there was a brief flash of the 'firefox has blocked this popup' just after i clicked the link, just before google appeared... so i allowed popups from secunia and then it DID work.
so is this only an issue for sites that you have specifically allowed popups from? ie. sites you probably trust anyway?
the dedicated windows monkey team are still having difficultyrandomly producing the perfect operating system. the monkeys have been working at the typewriters for nearly 30 years now with little more than windows xp to show for it. microsofts head bill gates said he has not lost faith, the project will continue.
"The history of SQL and relational databases traces back to E.F. Codd, an IBM researcher who first published an article on the relational database idea in June 1970. Codd's article started a flurry of research, including a major project at IBM. Part of this project was a database query language named SEQUEL, an acronym for Structured English Query Language. The name was later changed to SQL for legal reasons, but many people still pronounce it SEQUEL to this day."
i find it take playing around on my computer at home (coding/games/general geekery) to remind me why i enjoy using computers so much, why it was i got into it in the first place.
i have a developers job by day and to say the least it can be a little dry, just not problems i am enthused about tackling. so i feel the need to get involved with oss projects and do stuff on my own to have some fun with programming again.
but i don't want to go fix peoples computers i guess, especially when 99% of them are just malware/worm/virus ridden windows boxes.
maybe a virus management program could be a good idea. where there are these white knight worms unleashed out there (though digitally signed by "trusted" people like norton or microsoft maybe, or otherwise just with someones name on (hey, ya might trust em?)) that look for these infected computers then leave a message (in an organised way) on the computer to inform it of the exploit. the user could then use some client program to review any messages that have been left on their system by these white knights.
i guess it'd be like having an anti-virus program that isn't something that sits on your computer and scans it for virus', but something that is out there in the wild looking for holes, and telling people when it find them (though i guess this would probably be for a price if it was to be worth companies whiles developing such a system...)
something that white knights can check on your computer to see if you want to allow them to try and fix your system? who would support this though, i don't know if microsoft would be too keen on just anyone patching their systems, i'm sure they'd manage to get drm'd white knights in there somewhere.
in the wired article the guys says "As with the toothbrush, one patent on the handle (doesn't) prevent others from going into the toothbrush business.", but this is so obviously wrong, he missies the point. if someone DID own a patent on toothbrush handles then noone else would be able to make toothbrushes competitively because of the price they'd have to pay for the handle.
maybe courtney love is a little extreme, heh. i just hope keanu doesn't do his "walking around spaced out like" acting that he seems to usually fall into.
he was pretty good in that film with cate blanchet though... what was that called...
i usually like winona ryder (don't ask me why) but i don't see her as donna... maybe courtney love would have been better, cause she can look like a drug fuckup. all the time, heh.
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I'm living in South Korea at the moment, and Windows/IE is pretty much 100% here because a certain ActiveX control is used by most sites for encryption (they use their own SEED encryption or something, here are some links...
9 62,39154849,00.htm ...)
"The key reason ActiveX is mandated by financial institutions is that Korea has its own national encryption scheme called SEED that is used in place of SSL. The reason this came to be stemmed from the fact that US export law in the late 1990s didn't permit the export of web browsers with more than 40 bit encryption. This meant that an ActiveX SEED plug-in was used in place of browser SSL. While there are Java and Netscape implementations of SEED, it was almost never implemented. ActiveX is so dominant that KFTC (Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute) won't even assign users security certificates unless they're using Internet Explorer with ActiveX."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=412
http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/internet/0,39036
The point the author makes about authentication is that on Vista it's APPROVAL (clicking yes or no), but on OSX it's AUTHENTICATION (having to type your password).
A huge difference, very important.
I've only used Vista for about an hour, but I must have got about 30 popups from the UAC and it annoyed the hell out of me. For Gods sake, even for a hardcore nerd, why the hell is Vista displaying a GUID in the approval dialog?!?!?!?!?!?! What does that mean to ANYONE?!?!
i'm using firefox 2.0 on linux, first my popup blocker would allow the site to open when i clicked on the video like the instructions said, then when i allowed it i just got youtube.com?
that's the first time i've heard those words used, maybe changing perceptions of just how important a tool it's becoming?
i'm running a kubuntu xgl setup on my laptop, and trying to upgrade to edgy failed when it got to the xserver bit and hosed my install. i don't know if there was a better way, but as it would no longer even boot i had to re-install to the basic system, and am now upgrading to edgy before i go about setting up xgl again.
a warning i guess, if you've any kind of custom setup.
i know this isn't that constructive and probably just trolling, but "reliable" and "dependable" are the last words i'd use to describe commercially driven software. it's been said a million times before but commerical software is about business, it's about being able to sell people something, regardless of how good it is. OSS is about making good, useful software. sure there are lots of projects which end up languishing and dying, but that's also true (more so probably because of the closed source) in the commerical software world.
i actually have been forced back (due to my normal comp exploding) to my dads hand-me-down P350, with 256MB RAM. I'm running 2.6.14 with KDE 3.2 and actually goes pretty well considering. Just makes me wonder where all that extra power really goes to...
don't ya think that maybe in the same way that the RIAA and co's efforts to crush P2P apps has forced their development to become increasingly sophisticated, and increasingly hard to shut down... that constantly cracking DRM and encryption is going to force companies trying to protect their content to go to more and more extreme lengths? so ultimately the efforts to circumvent DRM will only force to to learn and adapt and get uncrackable.
:P
i'm not saying people shouldn't be trying to crack these if they really are insecure... i'm just sayin...
reminds me of a conversation i overheard our IT manager having with one of the directors. the director was trying to get us to make the application (a disability reference manual type thing for architects to make compliant buildings with) as accessible as possible with big fonts, proper colors, etc... when after a while of argueing the IT manager just had to scream down the phone "look, i just don't think there are going to be many blind architects using the bloody package!" i tell it seriously badly, but it was urrr... funny at the time... heh.
yeah, i never thought of that till now, shouldn't governments (being for the people and not for corporations) always support free (as in beer) software so that all of their citizens can access what they have to offer them.
it seems silly to me for them to be only supporting one company, meaning you HAVE to pay a particular company money to access resources that you should be entitled to because they are meant to help you.
i guess you could make the point that you have to buy a computer in the first place maybe... or that you could go to your nearest library and they're probably gonna be running IE... but i don't think either of those things should matter.
i'm running firefox 1.0.4 and the secunia test didn't work for me. i noticed that there was a brief flash of the 'firefox has blocked this popup' just after i clicked the link, just before google appeared... so i allowed popups from secunia and then it DID work.
so is this only an issue for sites that you have specifically allowed popups from? ie. sites you probably trust anyway?
the dedicated windows monkey team are still having difficultyrandomly producing the perfect operating system. the monkeys have been working at the typewriters for nearly 30 years now with little more than windows xp to show for it. microsofts head bill gates said he has not lost faith, the project will continue.
"The history of SQL and relational databases traces back to E.F. Codd, an IBM researcher who first published an article on the relational database idea in June 1970. Codd's article started a flurry of research, including a major project at IBM. Part of this project was a database query language named SEQUEL, an acronym for Structured English Query Language. The name was later changed to SQL for legal reasons, but many people still pronounce it SEQUEL to this day."
http://www.provue.com/proVUE/Fact_SQLServer.htmljust a bit of history.
i find it take playing around on my computer at home (coding/games/general geekery) to remind me why i enjoy using computers so much, why it was i got into it in the first place.
i have a developers job by day and to say the least it can be a little dry, just not problems i am enthused about tackling. so i feel the need to get involved with oss projects and do stuff on my own to have some fun with programming again.
but i don't want to go fix peoples computers i guess, especially when 99% of them are just malware/worm/virus ridden windows boxes.
yeah i can't access it either... ack. i really wanna try it!!!
i tried the url but i get a 502 server error.
maybe a virus management program could be a good idea. where there are these white knight worms unleashed out there (though digitally signed by "trusted" people like norton or microsoft maybe, or otherwise just with someones name on (hey, ya might trust em?)) that look for these infected computers then leave a message (in an organised way) on the computer to inform it of the exploit. the user could then use some client program to review any messages that have been left on their system by these white knights.
i guess it'd be like having an anti-virus program that isn't something that sits on your computer and scans it for virus', but something that is out there in the wild looking for holes, and telling people when it find them (though i guess this would probably be for a price if it was to be worth companies whiles developing such a system...)
just an idea...
something that white knights can check on your computer to see if you want to allow them to try and fix your system? who would support this though, i don't know if microsoft would be too keen on just anyone patching their systems, i'm sure they'd manage to get drm'd white knights in there somewhere.
more extensions for mozilla
right?
right there in YELLOW of all colors! sheesh!
maybe courtney love is a little extreme, heh. i just hope keanu doesn't do his "walking around spaced out like" acting that he seems to usually fall into.
he was pretty good in that film with cate blanchet though... what was that called...
is almost exactly how i pictured Barris.
i usually like winona ryder (don't ask me why) but i don't see her as donna... maybe courtney love would have been better, cause she can look like a drug fuckup. all the time, heh.
keanu... hmmm....
would quality pr0n be considered an unfair advantage?
:D
i thought it was going to be another run of the mill teen slasher flick, but DAMN was it good!!!
i was in a room with a load of mates and it still scared the shit out of us all.
are they going to be making a western version of the second film aswell?? anyone know??