BTW, if this post goes through, it means i've managed to moderate and post to the same thread...whoops.
Offtopic, but that is possible. When you post to an article where you have moderated posts, your moderations are canceled. You won't get any points back, though.
Konqueror, the browser component of KDE does HTTPS if you have OpenSSL installed.
Technically it is not really Konqueror supporting https but rather the kio_https module of KDE's kio system. Every KDE application can do HTTPS.
By the way, Mozilla can do HTTPS as well with the right plugins. Both have Java, Javascript support, render fast and almost with full compliancy to the specs. Konqueror can even do Netscape plugins such as Flash, I'm not sure about Mozilla but I expect that it will since it is ment to replace Navigator sooner or later.
And if that's not enough, w3m (Lynx only better;-) can do it as well!
Was this upgrade the first step towards the MySQL replication Andover will be developing for Slashdot and Freshmeat?
Or will there be another upgrade necessary to implement those changes when ready? We're looking at replication at work right now and it's much more work than just the database itself, so I would hope this upgrade has such future developments in mind. Just curious..
'scuse the ignorance, but what the FUCK has this to do with i18n issues?
This thread focussed on the Linux Standard Base. But it would also hold up pretty well for i18n: there's a great benefit if all distributions used the same translations and it would be odd and a-bad-thing(tm) if one or two would include their own seperate ones.
From what I've seen Linux seems to be pretty standarized already. Sure, most distributions have their own taste and flavours, such as Slackware trying to stay on the traditional/BSD side of things. But alltogether they seem to try to adhere to filesystem standards etc.
Except one: RedHat (and thus Mandrake, etc). Kind of careless of me to drop such flamebait rich material, but I cannot escape from the expression that RedHat does seem to have its own mind, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst.
My biggest fear is that one or two of the big distributions will not team up. It's pretty much a all or nothing issue. If even one decides not to adhere to the standards things are pretty messed up for they would not really be standards anymore.
Then again, I've also learned that as long as you stick to *one* package tool you won't run in to trouble. I prefer source, someone else [rpm|deb|tgz|foo]. As long as we keep things a little organized ourselves, we'll be all fine.
I would not hire any administrator who could not overcome the differences that exist. And those same differences should not be a big problem for the non-power user either since they are most likely to stick to one distribution anyway. Even if they wouldn't.. if you can make the transition from another OS to Linux, surely you can also learn to make the transition (either in thought or actual OS transfer) between distributions.
That, or I have a way too bright view of the future and computers (and their users).
Please, don't get your knives and guns out of the closet just yet. A keyboard will do fine.
What we need is a true file distribution system. Not limited to mp3's. All media types, all sorts of documentation, from plain text to Flash presentations.
More personalized too. Kind of a combination between ICQ, Napster and apt-get. At first you'd simply share files with friends and slowly you get to know more people...
The problem with Napster is that is was too obviously created to share (copyrighted) mp3's. File distribution is not illegal, nor is the mp3 format itself, but it is plain obvious what the purpose of Napster is. And judges don't like that.
If you need speed, then your best option would be to write your own CGI stuff in C. PHP and Perl do wonders, but scripting is slower (besides, PHP/Perl are not CGI in most configurations but embedded server mods).
Yah, someone at work explained to me today how everything in Windows integrates and operates.
Seems to me like it's mostly a "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" case and more prove that dumbing down computer users is NOT a good idea. It's great that computer systems can work and think for us, but a lot of people act like they do not have to think at all anymore.
Apparently there is no worthy alternative.. in that case, could you explain what is so special about Outlook (feature-wise) that nothing else could replace it?
With all the Melissa's and I love you's out there, my personal opinion is that every mail client is a worthy alternative. I guess it depends on what you prefer: lots of gadgets or security.
Fortunately, our office is not affected yet, one of our clients warned us in time - not by e-mail I presume.
What worries me, and I like to have this explained, is why people continue to use Outlook.
First it was Melissa, now it is ILOVEYOU.. you would think that someone would wake up and do something constructive such as switching to a mail program that would and could not be affected.
I've tried to reason with our NT users, telling them that we got away these two times but that the next time (because there will be a next time I'm afraid) we might not be so lucky. Are there any worthy alternatives to Outlook? [worthy enough to convince the NT group.. you know how stubborn they are.. they're almost zealots like us;-)]
How could you lose assignment work when installing a new OS? You *do* make regular backups of your personal files and system configuration files, no?
When you plan on installing a new OS you should *always* make a backup copy of important files as well as a bootdisk in case you somehow screw up the boot loader.
I know this doesn't answer your question but I hope this advice is of some value to you anyway.
One of the recent decisions made by the tech team in our company was to make a it a requirement for our clients to get a static IP.
No more relaying for entire ISP networks, easier firewall rules..
I am not sure if this can easily be achieved in the USA or anywhere outside of the Netherlands, but we've got plenty of ISP's here that offer a static IP for little or no extra cost.
If such a setup is possible in your area, I'd recommend it. Convincing your client should not be any harder than "your site is insecure [open relaying / fscked firewalls are, aren't they?], but it can be fixed". The client will immediately go: "how?" and will easily accept your suggestion to go with a static IP.
You didn't mention the purpose of clustering, but if you want to use load balancing check out Zeus.
Works on various Unices. It might be pricy for a school (no price available but I expect it will cost you) but you might at least want to try the free evaluation copy.
Use meta tags. It will take a long time before you appear in search engines, but meta tags will help you get a better position. And thus more visitors.
Word-of-the-mouth. Mail your friends, colleagues, friendly webmasters of other sites.. stimulate other sites to link to you by offering buttons and banners or by linking back to them. Spread the word some more on mailinglists, newsgroups etc (but keep it relevant, spam doesn't work!)
Advertising. If you have the money, advertise. On TV, radio, the Web or whatever you can afford. Or advertise by sacrificing advertising income using a banner trade program such as LinkExchange on your site instead of regular ads.
Spam. Just kidding.;-)
Maintainance. Keep your site up-to-date. Alive. Fresh. Cool. This might even be the key element.. build it and they will come. Maintain it and they will keep coming!
Reverse engineering. How did you know about the sites you like best? Somehow you became a visitor. Try and determin what they did (think, ask) and copy their methods.
Trust me, open source/free software is a lifeline to students on limited incomes.
Not where I live.. the lifeline here is called pirating. Why pay for Windows/Office/Photoshop/games when there's always a friend around who will copy it for you for a very friendly price, or lend it to you in case you have your own burner?
Btw: I am not playing the devil's advocate here.. software piracy *is* wrong. Just observing that there are not many students I know that actually have to pay for their software.
[from a Star Trek perspective since I know more about Trek than any of the other examples]
You cannot just write a book or story containing the characters from the series. All of the names of the primary cast, as well as most of the regulars, have been carefully trademarked.
Even if you were to write fan art without any of the existing characters, you'd still build upon the (copyrighted) works and pre-established (and often copyrighted) events that shaped the universe in which your saga takes place. Your work can never be truly original and will therefore always be derivative.
Of course, "Beam me up Scotty" is common speech now, but AFAIK there are trademarks on "Make it so!", "Captain Picard", etc etc.
When it comes to Paramount taken your cozy Star Trek idea and implementing it.. since your work is derived from theirs, they would have a proper claim on most of the copyrights, especially since: a) when you submit it to them personally, you probably encountered one of the many statements that say "we don't take scripts, but if we do, you grant us all rights" or b) they take it from your website, which means you published a work that infrings on their original copyright of the Trek saga.
Just because copyright enforcement is not always that easy on the Internet and often bad publicity (hence the countless fan sites), doesn't mean the copyright doesn't exist.
Noone will sue your favourite Linux distribution for including a few Star Trek fortunes. If I were to OCR the "Star Trek: Quotable" book and publish it as fortune file though, I *would* probably get in trouble.
I'd like to thank the morons at QNX for writing their own crypt function, and thus making this program possible.
There are plenty of good crypt implementations available. I can imagine wanting to write your own, but I don't understand why they wanted/chose/allowed a reversable encryption method?
When the source is out there, reversable is doomed: anyone can find the algorithm and apply it backwards, which is the reason why fetchmail uses plain text password storage (encrypting them would not at all improve security).
But even without source reversable encryption is doomed: there are very neat decompilers that explain the complete bit and byte shifting stuff that's going on. And probably there are plenty more methods of cracking the code, hence this article.
Besides.. this news is no more off-topic than the IPO's were. If the dropping stocks are really CNNfn news only, then all new software releases should be on Freshmeat and Kernelnotes, all Mozilla news on MozillaZine, the Apache section to apache.org, etc etc.
I regret the immature reactions the Slashdot guys undoubtly have received, but what were they thinking? If the IPO is newsworthy, so is the progress.
I love DVD. Most of the cool stuff I have on VHS such as my DS9 collection is starting to show signs of old age. DVD's last longer and have better quality to begin with. No background noise during dialogs, no distortions during space battle and (in my country just as important) no subtitles - or at least ones you can disable.
But, I also hate DVD. Or rather, all the hassle with the MPAA/DeCSS etc etc. I hate region codes too. I could get my player fixed, of course.. but unless I do that there are tons of movies I can not view here in region 2. Not just the latest ones that WILL make it in time, also a lot of old classics that were only released for the North American market.
And forgive me for being so weak.. but so far the technical superiority of DVD seems to outweigh the other issues. I *am* getting more DVD's. Although more selective than what would-have-been in a more open market. Why must I buy my favourite Star Trek episodes on VHS? Why am I advertised to death with Episode 1 yet cannot buy the DVD?
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Offtopic, but that is possible. When you post to an article where you have moderated posts, your moderations are canceled. You won't get any points back, though.
Technically it is not really Konqueror supporting https but rather the kio_https module of KDE's kio system. Every KDE application can do HTTPS.
By the way, Mozilla can do HTTPS as well with the right plugins. Both have Java, Javascript support, render fast and almost with full compliancy to the specs. Konqueror can even do Netscape plugins such as Flash, I'm not sure about Mozilla but I expect that it will since it is ment to replace Navigator sooner or later.
And if that's not enough, w3m (Lynx only better ;-) can do it as well!
The limitations in ASCII makes searching texts and code a lot easier. I _like_ restrictions for function and variable names.
Of course something like is_ascii might just be enough for such a backwards compatibility hack.
There was a recent articlehere , our friends at Andover.net are going to add this feature to MySQL because they need it for /. and [fm].
Or will there be another upgrade necessary to implement those changes when ready? We're looking at replication at work right now and it's much more work than just the database itself, so I would hope this upgrade has such future developments in mind. Just curious..
This thread focussed on the Linux Standard Base. But it would also hold up pretty well for i18n: there's a great benefit if all distributions used the same translations and it would be odd and a-bad-thing(tm) if one or two would include their own seperate ones.
Except one: RedHat (and thus Mandrake, etc). Kind of careless of me to drop such flamebait rich material, but I cannot escape from the expression that RedHat does seem to have its own mind, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst.
My biggest fear is that one or two of the big distributions will not team up. It's pretty much a all or nothing issue. If even one decides not to adhere to the standards things are pretty messed up for they would not really be standards anymore.
Then again, I've also learned that as long as you stick to *one* package tool you won't run in to trouble. I prefer source, someone else [rpm|deb|tgz|foo]. As long as we keep things a little organized ourselves, we'll be all fine.
I would not hire any administrator who could not overcome the differences that exist. And those same differences should not be a big problem for the non-power user either since they are most likely to stick to one distribution anyway. Even if they wouldn't.. if you can make the transition from another OS to Linux, surely you can also learn to make the transition (either in thought or actual OS transfer) between distributions.
That, or I have a way too bright view of the future and computers (and their users).
What we need is a true file distribution system. Not limited to mp3's. All media types, all sorts of documentation, from plain text to Flash presentations.
More personalized too. Kind of a combination between ICQ, Napster and apt-get. At first you'd simply share files with friends and slowly you get to know more people...
The problem with Napster is that is was too obviously created to share (copyrighted) mp3's. File distribution is not illegal, nor is the mp3 format itself, but it is plain obvious what the purpose of Napster is. And judges don't like that.
Perhaps we should do some integration ourselves..
apt-get install britney spears
If you need speed, then your best option would be to write your own CGI stuff in C. PHP and Perl do wonders, but scripting is slower (besides, PHP/Perl are not CGI in most configurations but embedded server mods).
Seems to me like it's mostly a "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" case and more prove that dumbing down computer users is NOT a good idea. It's great that computer systems can work and think for us, but a lot of people act like they do not have to think at all anymore.
With all the Melissa's and I love you's out there, my personal opinion is that every mail client is a worthy alternative. I guess it depends on what you prefer: lots of gadgets or security.
There is an article and already an update.
What worries me, and I like to have this explained, is why people continue to use Outlook.
First it was Melissa, now it is ILOVEYOU.. you would think that someone would wake up and do something constructive such as switching to a mail program that would and could not be affected.
I've tried to reason with our NT users, telling them that we got away these two times but that the next time (because there will be a next time I'm afraid) we might not be so lucky. Are there any worthy alternatives to Outlook? [worthy enough to convince the NT group.. you know how stubborn they are.. they're almost zealots like us ;-)]
They would be better off calling these viruses "Mixed emotions".. perhaps our Linux team thought it was funny, but our NT team did not. ;-)
First beta (1.90, "Konfucious")in a week, gold (2.0, "Kopernicus") in September.
When you plan on installing a new OS you should *always* make a backup copy of important files as well as a bootdisk in case you somehow screw up the boot loader.
I know this doesn't answer your question but I hope this advice is of some value to you anyway.
No more relaying for entire ISP networks, easier firewall rules..
I am not sure if this can easily be achieved in the USA or anywhere outside of the Netherlands, but we've got plenty of ISP's here that offer a static IP for little or no extra cost.
If such a setup is possible in your area, I'd recommend it. Convincing your client should not be any harder than "your site is insecure [open relaying / fscked firewalls are, aren't they?], but it can be fixed". The client will immediately go: "how?" and will easily accept your suggestion to go with a static IP.
Works on various Unices. It might be pricy for a school (no price available but I expect it will cost you) but you might at least want to try the free evaluation copy.
It will take a long time before you appear in search engines, but meta tags will help you get a better position. And thus more visitors.
Mail your friends, colleagues, friendly webmasters of other sites.. stimulate other sites to link to you by offering buttons and banners or by linking back to them. Spread the word some more on mailinglists, newsgroups etc (but keep it relevant, spam doesn't work!)
If you have the money, advertise. On TV, radio, the Web or whatever you can afford. Or advertise by sacrificing advertising income using a banner trade program such as LinkExchange on your site instead of regular ads.
Just kidding.
Keep your site up-to-date. Alive. Fresh. Cool. This might even be the key element.. build it and they will come. Maintain it and they will keep coming!
How did you know about the sites you like best? Somehow you became a visitor. Try and determin what they did (think, ask) and copy their methods.
Not where I live.. the lifeline here is called pirating. Why pay for Windows/Office/Photoshop/games when there's always a friend around who will copy it for you for a very friendly price, or lend it to you in case you have your own burner?
Btw: I am not playing the devil's advocate here.. software piracy *is* wrong. Just observing that there are not many students I know that actually have to pay for their software.
You cannot just write a book or story containing the characters from the series. All of the names of the primary cast, as well as most of the regulars, have been carefully trademarked.
Even if you were to write fan art without any of the existing characters, you'd still build upon the (copyrighted) works and pre-established (and often copyrighted) events that shaped the universe in which your saga takes place. Your work can never be truly original and will therefore always be derivative.
Of course, "Beam me up Scotty" is common speech now, but AFAIK there are trademarks on "Make it so!", "Captain Picard", etc etc.
When it comes to Paramount taken your cozy Star Trek idea and implementing it.. since your work is derived from theirs, they would have a proper claim on most of the copyrights, especially since: a) when you submit it to them personally, you probably encountered one of the many statements that say "we don't take scripts, but if we do, you grant us all rights" or b) they take it from your website, which means you published a work that infrings on their original copyright of the Trek saga.
Just because copyright enforcement is not always that easy on the Internet and often bad publicity (hence the countless fan sites), doesn't mean the copyright doesn't exist.
Noone will sue your favourite Linux distribution for including a few Star Trek fortunes. If I were to OCR the "Star Trek: Quotable" book and publish it as fortune file though, I *would* probably get in trouble.
I hope they patented it. ;-)
I'd like to thank the morons at QNX for writing their own crypt function, and thus making this program possible.
There are plenty of good crypt implementations available. I can imagine wanting to write your own, but I don't understand why they wanted/chose/allowed a reversable encryption method?
When the source is out there, reversable is doomed: anyone can find the algorithm and apply it backwards, which is the reason why fetchmail uses plain text password storage (encrypting them would not at all improve security).
But even without source reversable encryption is doomed: there are very neat decompilers that explain the complete bit and byte shifting stuff that's going on. And probably there are plenty more methods of cracking the code, hence this article.
I regret the immature reactions the Slashdot guys undoubtly have received, but what were they thinking? If the IPO is newsworthy, so is the progress.
But, I also hate DVD. Or rather, all the hassle with the MPAA/DeCSS etc etc. I hate region codes too. I could get my player fixed, of course.. but unless I do that there are tons of movies I can not view here in region 2. Not just the latest ones that WILL make it in time, also a lot of old classics that were only released for the North American market.
And forgive me for being so weak.. but so far the technical superiority of DVD seems to outweigh the other issues. I *am* getting more DVD's. Although more selective than what would-have-been in a more open market. Why must I buy my favourite Star Trek episodes on VHS? Why am I advertised to death with Episode 1 yet cannot buy the DVD?
DVD, can't live with or without you.