I'm personally pretty interested here, maybe for this coming fall or later (once I get through my apartment lease)
The problem is that although I've got 6+ years in the industry, have worked my way up to Tech. Svcs. Manager for an internet provider, I have no cash to live on or for plane fare for this sort of volunteering. Wages are not as high for the tech sector here in Canada (Vancouver) as they are elsewhere, like the US. If there was a program like this which would pay plane fare, and give a small living allowance, I would be much more likely to go. The living allowance would not have to be much more than to keep myself fed, clothed, and not completely insane, but three months without something would be pretty difficult.
"I ctually like Outlook Express more than any other mail reader... Compared to say netscape messenger, Outlook can: Recieve mail from multiple POP boxes without needing to change identities, let you decide which account you'd like to send each mail from from the message composition window, has a much better rule system for filing messages, and it just plain looks nicer than any of the other apps i've used."
So use Eudora Pro! You'll get:
Powerful filtering system
Multiple Identities
Better security
Group and Individual address book
Ability to add many plugins for hundreds of uses
Easier setup program
Less bloat
Ability to sort mailboxes in folders
Use of Stationary and auto-replies to simplify your email
...and all in an interface that is cleaner and nicer to use than Outlook.
Overall a much better alternative to Outlook Express and M$.
Of course Microsoft puts together a package of 'remedies' that does nothing! The list of actions it was willing to take were infinitesimally (sp?) simple and minor.
"We're willing to allow hardware manufacturers to change the background/login images. We're willing to hide the E (for Explorer) icon."
Any kid with half a brain and TweakUI can do that.
The thing here is....M$ ain't stupid...they wouldn't put out a package like that for no reason whatsoever. They would HAVE to know that it would be turned down.
Any guesses as to why they offered this instead of a real solution?
Or go to any physical university, pay cash up the wazoo, spend time learning things that are pointless to your goals, come out with a piece of paper and a 20 year debt...
What it really is...the phrase is the key to poor encryption based on unbelievably simple string list.
The fact that you now know the key to that encryption (which is not a one-way encryption like a linux passwd entry), _may_ allow you to decipher further backdoors into the server and others' websites...but in this case ONLY if you are already a user on that server, using Frontpage98 for your website, which will contain a copy of the dll file in question.
If anyone cares to decipher the code, it is on SecurityFocus.org...included in the listing of the original submission of the bug. TheGeek
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Corporatism has taken over the Linux community and there ain't no going back.
Time to play with a different toy for me. I still use Linux as my OS of choice, I still develop for the open source community, but it's quickly becoming much less fun as rampant consumerism and corporatism takes over.
How long do you think until there is an ISO (international standards organization) standard for Linux?
I can't remember how old I was when Halley's Comet was visible on earth...I do remember how my mother prevented me from seeing it. I knew it was something I'll likely never see in my lifetime, and that's something that was taken away from me.
I understand wholeheartedly what upset the author of this. It's not like you can wait until the next millenium celebration and party then. As Henry Rollins says "When you waste some of my time, you murder a little bit of me".
What surprises me most is that there wasn't a mass exodus from the tech companies who were forcing people to work NYE. Shows you how much the bosses still have us by the short and curlies.
Umm...you've given away your secret identity, and as secret identity rules go, you've got to either, die, disappear (and reappear as someone else), or turn evil.
What's so strange about this? I don't use the internet at all...in fact, I've never even seen it in action!
For my two cents (real cents = real sense), I think he's a dotcommie, bent on destroying the north american way (styrofoam containers,.357 magnums, flea markets, chaw). We've got the bomb, let's blow the hell outta his house and see if he stays, summoning 911 via email.
And you know, it wouldn't be terribly hard either...I know a local organic produce place allows you to order over the web, a couple pizza places allow you to do the same. God knows you could buy clothing, software, amusements, whatever over the net...though if you run out of something, expect a few days or weeks before it arrives.
One thing though...it order to make this really fair they should take away his phone line and give him cable access...that way he really is restricted to using the net for everything instead of just ordering take-out all year. And he should not be allowed to talk to his friends or neighbours and ask them to bring things over for him. Otherwise this would be a pointless effort (though, temptingly lazy).
Too bad, he's gone! Resigned, and you've got to deal with Psycho-Putin now (which sounds kinda like Poutine, and Putin kinda looks like frenchfries soaked in cheese and gravy)
I resolve to:
Spend some time with nature and away from linux (sacrilege!)
Stop installing one piece of software a day from freshmeat.
Make some money this year (maybe move out of Canada)
Really know the Curses.pm perl module
Give up on 8 hours of work + 6 hours of contracting + 4 hours of trying to learn more + 4 hours of scanning for better jobs + 1.5 hours of a movie +.5 hours of bathroom activities = 24 hours days with no sleep whatsoever.
I can't offer what you need to attract these folks, but here is a bad example (and the reason why I'm seriously looking at moving to the USA if a good offer appears)
Completely honest here, I still have the emails from Rob.
At one point I posted a submission to Slashdot about my site: Geekrights.org, and since I heard nothing after a couple weeks I decided I'd find out what it takes to get listed on Slashdot. My intention was not to get Slashdotted, I think that's an idiots game. But when you've got a website you believe in, you try to promote it.
So...I emailed CmdrTaco (Rob Limo) and asked in a very nice way..."what does it take to get listed on Slashdot?".
I got this frigging major nasty email from him, telling me my site was pointless, overdone, ignorant, and pretty much sucked the sweat of Jar Jar's privates (I'm prolly gonna lose any chance of a moderators liking this post because of the last phrase). Well, I can't say I was crushed, but it wasn't the nicest feeling. Heck, I even stopped reading Slashdot for a while because of it.
About a week later CmdrTaco announced "Your rights online", and I felt anger, disappointment, annoyance. The similarity is not small.
So I wrote Rob another letter, this time asking him why he would do this, when Geekrights.org wasn't likeable enough. His response was "I'm sick and tired of the word GEEK, it's overused, trendy, and I'm sorry I named my radio show "Geeks in Space". And more, Your Rights Online is nothing like Geekrights.org" Effectively..."Blow me, jerk", or at least that was the impression I got.
So anyway, my impression as unbiased as I try to be, yet biased I am, is that Rob is kind of a jerk, Slashdot is still a good read, but I definitely wouldn't want to be affiliated with it without some major turnaround in their policies.
Get a giant beachball, put the person inside it, deflate it slightly enough that the bottom flattens out, and place this and the person inside on a rack of ball-bearing sensors. The person will be able to walk in any direction, and if the ball bearings are slightly stiff, the person won't keep falling flat on their ass.
We started out with element names...Erbium, Uranium, Lithium, etc...the lone NT server was Oxygen, but with the addition of a second NT server, and the poisonous nature of the first it became..."Dioxin"!
We also have an "Elvis", because thanks to Brother Skid - "Elvis is everywhere, man!"
At home I run Poltergiest (Dual boot Win98/Openlinux), Ghoul (486 server running Slackware), and Spirit (gf's machine, running 98 only). My old laptop is tenatively named "Banshee" (386 Primax laptop that only boots to floppy and is incredibly slow. That's satire, boy! Satire!)
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that although I've got 6+ years in the industry, have worked my way up to Tech. Svcs. Manager for an internet provider, I have no cash to live on or for plane fare for this sort of volunteering. Wages are not as high for the tech sector here in Canada (Vancouver) as they are elsewhere, like the US. If there was a program like this which would pay plane fare, and give a small living allowance, I would be much more likely to go. The living allowance would not have to be much more than to keep myself fed, clothed, and not completely insane, but three months without something would be pretty difficult.
TheGeek
I have no doubt it would be a major download. Maybe we can ask him for permission to put it on mp3.com too!
TheGeek
So use Eudora Pro! You'll get:
Overall a much better alternative to Outlook Express and M$.
TheGeek
Of course Microsoft puts together a package of 'remedies' that does nothing! The list of actions it was willing to take were infinitesimally (sp?) simple and minor.
"We're willing to allow hardware manufacturers to change the background/login images. We're willing to hide the E (for Explorer) icon."
Any kid with half a brain and TweakUI can do that.
The thing here is....M$ ain't stupid...they wouldn't put out a package like that for no reason whatsoever. They would HAVE to know that it would be turned down.
Any guesses as to why they offered this instead of a real solution?
TheGeek
Gee, this doesn't rip off Google at aaaaaallllllll.
TheGeek
Errr...I did say "come out with a piece of paper"
TheGeek
No thanks, I'll stick with online.
TheGeek
The fact that you now know the key to that encryption (which is not a one-way encryption like a linux passwd entry), _may_ allow you to decipher further backdoors into the server and others' websites...but in this case ONLY if you are already a user on that server, using Frontpage98 for your website, which will contain a copy of the dll file in question.
If anyone cares to decipher the code, it is on SecurityFocus.org...included in the listing of the original submission of the bug.
TheGeek
Wow, I had no idea it would only last that long. Kinda makes me think how much we've spent to get that minor amount of time out of it.
Also makes me wonder how much longer it might have lasted if it used something better than a 486.
TheGeek
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Corporatism has taken over the Linux community and there ain't no going back.
Time to play with a different toy for me. I still use Linux as my OS of choice, I still develop for the open source community, but it's quickly becoming much less fun as rampant consumerism and corporatism takes over.
How long do you think until there is an ISO (international standards organization) standard for Linux?
TheGeek
Yeah, that's kind of weird...the double negatives mean they actually profited huge amounts, right? So what are they complaining about? ;-)
TheGeek
Huh huh huh huh...they call the place you can buy more scent cartridges a 'snortal'.
TheGeek
I understand wholeheartedly what upset the author of this. It's not like you can wait until the next millenium celebration and party then. As Henry Rollins says "When you waste some of my time, you murder a little bit of me".
What surprises me most is that there wasn't a mass exodus from the tech companies who were forcing people to work NYE. Shows you how much the bosses still have us by the short and curlies.
I wish I wrote this.
TheGeek
Sorry, those are the rules.
TheGeek
And for that matter, I've personally never seen them in the same place at the same time.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
For my two cents (real cents = real sense), I think he's a dotcommie, bent on destroying the north american way (styrofoam containers, .357 magnums, flea markets, chaw). We've got the bomb, let's blow the hell outta his house and see if he stays, summoning 911 via email.
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http://www.blowthehelloutofdotcomguybeforehehasIR
TheGeek
And you know, it wouldn't be terribly hard either...I know a local organic produce place allows you to order over the web, a couple pizza places allow you to do the same. God knows you could buy clothing, software, amusements, whatever over the net...though if you run out of something, expect a few days or weeks before it arrives.
One thing though...it order to make this really fair they should take away his phone line and give him cable access...that way he really is restricted to using the net for everything instead of just ordering take-out all year. And he should not be allowed to talk to his friends or neighbours and ask them to bring things over for him. Otherwise this would be a pointless effort (though, temptingly lazy).
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
I resolve to:
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org/articles/99061901.html
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
TheGeek
Unless of course your Dad agreed beforehand.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Can you imagine surfing via punchcard?
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
At one point I posted a submission to Slashdot about my site: Geekrights.org, and since I heard nothing after a couple weeks I decided I'd find out what it takes to get listed on Slashdot. My intention was not to get Slashdotted, I think that's an idiots game. But when you've got a website you believe in, you try to promote it.
So...I emailed CmdrTaco (Rob Limo) and asked in a very nice way..."what does it take to get listed on Slashdot?".
I got this frigging major nasty email from him, telling me my site was pointless, overdone, ignorant, and pretty much sucked the sweat of Jar Jar's privates (I'm prolly gonna lose any chance of a moderators liking this post because of the last phrase). Well, I can't say I was crushed, but it wasn't the nicest feeling. Heck, I even stopped reading Slashdot for a while because of it.
About a week later CmdrTaco announced "Your rights online", and I felt anger, disappointment, annoyance. The similarity is not small.
So I wrote Rob another letter, this time asking him why he would do this, when Geekrights.org wasn't likeable enough. His response was "I'm sick and tired of the word GEEK, it's overused, trendy, and I'm sorry I named my radio show "Geeks in Space". And more, Your Rights Online is nothing like Geekrights.org" Effectively..."Blow me, jerk", or at least that was the impression I got.
So anyway, my impression as unbiased as I try to be, yet biased I am, is that Rob is kind of a jerk, Slashdot is still a good read, but I definitely wouldn't want to be affiliated with it without some major turnaround in their policies.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Get a giant beachball, put the person inside it, deflate it slightly enough that the bottom flattens out, and place this and the person inside on a rack of ball-bearing sensors. The person will be able to walk in any direction, and if the ball bearings are slightly stiff, the person won't keep falling flat on their ass.
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
We also have an "Elvis", because thanks to Brother Skid - "Elvis is everywhere, man!"
At home I run Poltergiest (Dual boot Win98/Openlinux), Ghoul (486 server running Slackware), and Spirit (gf's machine, running 98 only). My old laptop is tenatively named "Banshee" (386 Primax laptop that only boots to floppy and is incredibly slow. That's satire, boy! Satire!)
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Nope, but we've got GNUchess & xboard
TheGeek
Geekrights.org