Just to pick up on a little bit from your comment:
The other place would have been the ill-fated tablet computer, had it been correctly designed, with the X serevr on the portable bit.
I thought about this a couple of months ago - how great it'd be to have a tablet PC that was literally just an X/VNC/RDC/Citrix server. With a GPU that most of the hard work could be dedicated to, and possibly something like a Transmeta/C3 etc type CPU for networking, device management etc - which wouldn't require much work.
I did some searching on it a while back but only found some Windows CE (or something similar, Tablet edition possibly?) powered tablets that were somehow designed to use RDC normally... I don't want to run an fully-fledged operating system when I'm logged into a remote server! Save the battery power for the display and get rid of that big CPU, it isn't needed.
You could probably make them smaller, consume much less power (or make it last even longer). Combined with systems where you can detach your session at your desktop PC and move it to your tablet remote client, it'd be an excellent tool.
Surely somebody's thinking about doing this or already has done? As I said, the only ones I've found run Windows in the background.
Forced alias's change when the user changes their nick.
I don't find this. The alias that I assign to the user will stay with them no matter what they set their "display name" to. That's the whole point of it - I wouldn't have a clue who I'm talking to without referring to the e-mail address!
MSN re-connects alot, need to hide that...
I agree there, I get quite a few "Switchboard errors" popping up randomly.
Be nice if you could change your IM preferences under gaim, most you have to use the real client.
Which "IM preferences" exactly? You can change some stuff if you press Tools->Account Actions.
I'm now typing this from my wifi laptop which is VNCed into my desktop PC! I think it's the polling from Vino causing it, but the CPU usage for XFree86 is going through the roof, causing my P3 450MHz desktop PC to struggle.
Ah. So is it an [almost] complete emulation of document.all?
If so that could become useful, although it does tend towards the idea of not fixing the root of the problem! I assumed when I saw the changelog that it was just that the object now existed to "trick" any scripts that tested for its existance.
I quite like how CUPS works personally - it leaves the low level USB to the kernel as it should, but support for individual printers is in CUPS itself at user-space level. It also means it's easy to add support for extra printers if I wish - e.g. there's a nice package in Debian (foomatic-db) that provides loads of printer filters (or drivers if you like) for CUPS, which can be upgraded seperately.
Likewise, as printer manufacturers begin to embrace Linux, they'll be able to distribute these files (which are XML IIRC) on a CD. With my Samsung 1210 laser printer, Samsung actually advertised Linux support on the box, and on the CD included the file for the printer to work with. I didn't use it however as the 1210 was already in the Debian package (kudos to Samsung though).
If you can get a copy where you live, there was an interesting article in Linux Format (UK) this month about the new HAL and the new system being built around it (nicknamed Project Utopia). It's made up of udev which manages your/dev/ directory dynamically, dbus and HAL. On top of that, there's things like GNOME Volume Manager which is moving into GNOME now providing GNOME with a much better view of the system and devices connected.
I'm really confident that once this system is fully in place (I already use it on my Debian unstable system) and has support for common types of hardware (I assume CUPS would work through it) we'll have a top of the range system available for Linux.
I can't help with your TV card unfortunately, I haven't used one!
If Sylpheed-Claws begins supporting http in my e-mail
I too use Sylpheed-Claws, and it's a nice client IMO. There's an extension that uses the Dillo web browser as a plugin to SC to render incoming HTML e-mail (except images I think) if you require it, but I agree it's very nice that there's a client that doesn't support it out of the box!
I use the Dillo plugin as sometimes somebody decides to send an HTML only e-mail (and they get a form e-mail back asking them not to do it again!) - you just click on the icon to the right of the preview area if you want to read the HTML part of the message.
On a sidenote, I don't recommend upgrading to 0.9.12a (0.9.12 worked fine) - there's an annoying bug that causes a segfault when moving messages without a Message-ID header. It's been fixed in CVS however.
I'm on Opera (I've tried Firefox, but can't get used to it!) and very occasionally I get an error message popping up saying it couldn't connect to the advertising server. This is normally the square banner that is around the summary text - with it missing, this could be a source of rendering problems possibly?
The good thing is, my upgrade today to Firefox PR1.0 seems to work on a lot of sites that weren't working with Mozilla
This might have been to the document.all object (originally in IE) that Firefox now supports/emulates or whatever (no, I haven't checked it yet!). If sites have code to detect the object to determine if it's IE, as many do, then they hopefully won't be able to tell.
A system user that is allowed to alter the printer as defined in your CUPS primary config file (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf here). Root will work. Else use a graphical tool - the one in the KDE Control Centre allows you to alter all the authentication stuff for CUPS and you have loads of control.
A big advantage is that frequent googlers have a good sense of how to word the query for maximum valid results.
I agree - many times I see a search box on a website, with no "advanced search" link and you never know how it'll work. Usually you find that (unlike Google) it'll match any word and not all of them, so you lots of really irrelevant material. You don't know what boolean operators it supports etc etc.
Another quite simple advantage of using a Google search on your website is that it's a consistent interface - which is a Good Thing.
Currently my HP deskjet printer is not working, even though it should be supported by the kernel
I would like to see higher levels and even user space processes dedicated for this kind of hardware. Let the disk IO, memory etc. be left to the kernel
Funnily enough, that's the same for your printer. The printer itself isn't supported by the kernel (only at USB level) - you need your printing daemon (almost certainly CUPS) configured to use your printer. Mandrake, SuSE and probably FC have interfaces to configure CUPS and your printer, or if you're using KDE, it also has a control centre module for it IIRC.
Else point your browser to http://localhost:631/admin (normally it's enabled) and use the web panel to configure it.
Or better yet, subtitute the IP address in a banner ad or graphic. That way, the calls to the trojaned servers are automatic.
I've just done a quick Google but failed to find the URL. Hopefully somebody on/. will...
It was a website entirely based around spam, and on every page, they'd have 20 or so images (banners, box adverts etc) linked that they'd taken out of spams. They encouraged you to continually hit refresh (think what our refresh-holding/.ers could do!) to try and saturate the links and transfer limits of the spammer's websites.
Maybe for your particular recovery distro, it might not want you mounting there, but normally, you just mount where you want./mnt or/media are usual directories to mount under, but you should mount one level below that to specify what you've mounted (say/mnt/ipod or/mnt/cdrom etc).
Windows (thankfully) doesn't run at the boot stage, so it cannot prevent somebody booting from a removable drive... not quite sure what you think is going on.
USB keys can be blocked by the operating system - i.e. Windows can refuse to mount such a device if the computer policy says so. To block booting from removable drives, the BIOS needs to be locked down, not an operating system that loads after that.
Yes, but they wouldn't have much reputation to go around unless somebody else who has a good reputation says they trust the spammers, so it wouldn't do much for them (unless somebody with a good reputation went bad). PageRank hands out the reputation that is given to you through links to places you link to.
Remember, when searching Google, on some searches you will bring up a some spammy links, but this is mainly done through keywords, URLs etc, PageRank IMHO is fairly reliable.
It's simply a system to verify that an e-mail purported to come from domainx.com was actually sent through mail servers they've listed in the DNS records for that domain.
It's nothing to do with spam as such - it'll hopefully be a stop to viruses and spammers from faking sender domains. Instead they'll have to fake it to come from a domain that doesn't have SPF (which hopefully within the near future, there will be very few of), or register their own domain, implement SPF and then be blacklisted.
It's actually kind of like PageRank in a way. Depending on the reputation of the linking (or in this case, sponsoring) website, the rank of the website increases (or in this case, the calculated validity of the e-mail).
In fact, a PageRank type algorithm would probably work very well - you'd need either a central database somewhere, or a P2P network sharing the information.
Yep - unfortunately, it's what ISPs are resorting to doing in order to try and curb the amount of spam leaving their networks - and costing them money. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation here - ISPs who block outgoing port 25 connections need to disable this so SPF can be used.
I've no idea how common port 25 blocking is - I've failed to find the story about the large American ISP who were planning to bring it in, and as I said, my ISP (Freeserve/Wanadoo) is one of the top 2/3 largest in the country.
I'd have to make SPF optional on customer's domains - there would be a small minority who would enable it if I put a page/e-mail up explaining it and its consequences, but I doubt most of my customers would use it (either restrictions, or just don't know what it does).
Hmm... I wonder what the legal implications would be if they put the privacy policy on that page (the hostname of which contains beta.) after some people had installed WMP10 to this "policy".
I take it they would then be covered under the non-existant privacy policy - would that give Microsoft a carte blanche as far as privacy goes?
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Just to pick up on a little bit from your comment:
The other place would have been the ill-fated tablet computer, had it been correctly designed, with the X serevr on the portable bit.
I thought about this a couple of months ago - how great it'd be to have a tablet PC that was literally just an X/VNC/RDC/Citrix server. With a GPU that most of the hard work could be dedicated to, and possibly something like a Transmeta/C3 etc type CPU for networking, device management etc - which wouldn't require much work.
I did some searching on it a while back but only found some Windows CE (or something similar, Tablet edition possibly?) powered tablets that were somehow designed to use RDC normally... I don't want to run an fully-fledged operating system when I'm logged into a remote server! Save the battery power for the display and get rid of that big CPU, it isn't needed.
You could probably make them smaller, consume much less power (or make it last even longer). Combined with systems where you can detach your session at your desktop PC and move it to your tablet remote client, it'd be an excellent tool.
Surely somebody's thinking about doing this or already has done? As I said, the only ones I've found run Windows in the background.
Sounds pretty much like their standard WWW homepage!
Wow, when you said that, I just checked a Redhat 7.3 based SA server and thankfully that has Perl 5.6.1 on it. Even Debian Woody has 5.6.1!
Forced alias's change when the user changes their nick.
I don't find this. The alias that I assign to the user will stay with them no matter what they set their "display name" to. That's the whole point of it - I wouldn't have a clue who I'm talking to without referring to the e-mail address!
MSN re-connects alot, need to hide that...
I agree there, I get quite a few "Switchboard errors" popping up randomly.
Be nice if you could change your IM preferences under gaim, most you have to use the real client.
Which "IM preferences" exactly? You can change some stuff if you press Tools->Account Actions.
Thanks for that - I didn't know about Vino :-)
I'm now typing this from my wifi laptop which is VNCed into my desktop PC! I think it's the polling from Vino causing it, but the CPU usage for XFree86 is going through the roof, causing my P3 450MHz desktop PC to struggle.
Useful anyway, thanks!
Ah. So is it an [almost] complete emulation of document.all?
// make the site function
If so that could become useful, although it does tend towards the idea of not fixing the root of the problem! I assumed when I saw the changelog that it was just that the object now existed to "trick" any scripts that tested for its existance.
e.g. you see a lot of scripts along the lines of:
if (document.all) {
}
I quite like how CUPS works personally - it leaves the low level USB to the kernel as it should, but support for individual printers is in CUPS itself at user-space level. It also means it's easy to add support for extra printers if I wish - e.g. there's a nice package in Debian (foomatic-db) that provides loads of printer filters (or drivers if you like) for CUPS, which can be upgraded seperately.
/dev/ directory dynamically, dbus and HAL. On top of that, there's things like GNOME Volume Manager which is moving into GNOME now providing GNOME with a much better view of the system and devices connected.
Likewise, as printer manufacturers begin to embrace Linux, they'll be able to distribute these files (which are XML IIRC) on a CD. With my Samsung 1210 laser printer, Samsung actually advertised Linux support on the box, and on the CD included the file for the printer to work with. I didn't use it however as the 1210 was already in the Debian package (kudos to Samsung though).
If you can get a copy where you live, there was an interesting article in Linux Format (UK) this month about the new HAL and the new system being built around it (nicknamed Project Utopia). It's made up of udev which manages your
I'm really confident that once this system is fully in place (I already use it on my Debian unstable system) and has support for common types of hardware (I assume CUPS would work through it) we'll have a top of the range system available for Linux.
I can't help with your TV card unfortunately, I haven't used one!
If Sylpheed-Claws begins supporting http in my e-mail
I too use Sylpheed-Claws, and it's a nice client IMO. There's an extension that uses the Dillo web browser as a plugin to SC to render incoming HTML e-mail (except images I think) if you require it, but I agree it's very nice that there's a client that doesn't support it out of the box!
I use the Dillo plugin as sometimes somebody decides to send an HTML only e-mail (and they get a form e-mail back asking them not to do it again!) - you just click on the icon to the right of the preview area if you want to read the HTML part of the message.
On a sidenote, I don't recommend upgrading to 0.9.12a (0.9.12 worked fine) - there's an annoying bug that causes a segfault when moving messages without a Message-ID header. It's been fixed in CVS however.
I'm on Opera (I've tried Firefox, but can't get used to it!) and very occasionally I get an error message popping up saying it couldn't connect to the advertising server. This is normally the square banner that is around the summary text - with it missing, this could be a source of rendering problems possibly?
The good thing is, my upgrade today to Firefox PR1.0 seems to work on a lot of sites that weren't working with Mozilla
This might have been to the document.all object (originally in IE) that Firefox now supports/emulates or whatever (no, I haven't checked it yet!). If sites have code to detect the object to determine if it's IE, as many do, then they hopefully won't be able to tell.
A system user that is allowed to alter the printer as defined in your CUPS primary config file (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf here). Root will work. Else use a graphical tool - the one in the KDE Control Centre allows you to alter all the authentication stuff for CUPS and you have loads of control.
A big advantage is that frequent googlers have a good sense of how to word the query for maximum valid results.
I agree - many times I see a search box on a website, with no "advanced search" link and you never know how it'll work. Usually you find that (unlike Google) it'll match any word and not all of them, so you lots of really irrelevant material. You don't know what boolean operators it supports etc etc.
Another quite simple advantage of using a Google search on your website is that it's a consistent interface - which is a Good Thing.
Currently my HP deskjet printer is not working, even though it should be supported by the kernel
I would like to see higher levels and even user space processes dedicated for this kind of hardware. Let the disk IO, memory etc. be left to the kernel
Funnily enough, that's the same for your printer. The printer itself isn't supported by the kernel (only at USB level) - you need your printing daemon (almost certainly CUPS) configured to use your printer. Mandrake, SuSE and probably FC have interfaces to configure CUPS and your printer, or if you're using KDE, it also has a control centre module for it IIRC.
Else point your browser to http://localhost:631/admin (normally it's enabled) and use the web panel to configure it.
Ah yes, that was it. Still can't find the URL.
Or better yet, subtitute the IP address in a banner ad or graphic. That way, the calls to the trojaned servers are automatic.
/. will...
/.ers could do!) to try and saturate the links and transfer limits of the spammer's websites.
I've just done a quick Google but failed to find the URL. Hopefully somebody on
It was a website entirely based around spam, and on every page, they'd have 20 or so images (banners, box adverts etc) linked that they'd taken out of spams. They encouraged you to continually hit refresh (think what our refresh-holding
Quite a nice idea, anyone got the URL?
There will still be address hoarding. I don't see how IPv6 prevents that.
It won't, it'll just put it off for a bit longer...
I don't see why this would be controversial.
It isn't - it's a simple feature (as you said) that should've been there with XP when it was released, but it must be slow news day...
Maybe for your particular recovery distro, it might not want you mounting there, but normally, you just mount where you want. /mnt or /media are usual directories to mount under, but you should mount one level below that to specify what you've mounted (say /mnt/ipod or /mnt/cdrom etc).
Windows (thankfully) doesn't run at the boot stage, so it cannot prevent somebody booting from a removable drive... not quite sure what you think is going on.
USB keys can be blocked by the operating system - i.e. Windows can refuse to mount such a device if the computer policy says so. To block booting from removable drives, the BIOS needs to be locked down, not an operating system that loads after that.
Yes, but they wouldn't have much reputation to go around unless somebody else who has a good reputation says they trust the spammers, so it wouldn't do much for them (unless somebody with a good reputation went bad). PageRank hands out the reputation that is given to you through links to places you link to.
Remember, when searching Google, on some searches you will bring up a some spammy links, but this is mainly done through keywords, URLs etc, PageRank IMHO is fairly reliable.
You don't seem to understand what SPF does...
It's simply a system to verify that an e-mail purported to come from domainx.com was actually sent through mail servers they've listed in the DNS records for that domain.
It's nothing to do with spam as such - it'll hopefully be a stop to viruses and spammers from faking sender domains. Instead they'll have to fake it to come from a domain that doesn't have SPF (which hopefully within the near future, there will be very few of), or register their own domain, implement SPF and then be blacklisted.
Yep - take a look at http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120537&cid= 10153847
It's actually kind of like PageRank in a way. Depending on the reputation of the linking (or in this case, sponsoring) website, the rank of the website increases (or in this case, the calculated validity of the e-mail).
In fact, a PageRank type algorithm would probably work very well - you'd need either a central database somewhere, or a P2P network sharing the information.
Yep - unfortunately, it's what ISPs are resorting to doing in order to try and curb the amount of spam leaving their networks - and costing them money. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation here - ISPs who block outgoing port 25 connections need to disable this so SPF can be used.
I've no idea how common port 25 blocking is - I've failed to find the story about the large American ISP who were planning to bring it in, and as I said, my ISP (Freeserve/Wanadoo) is one of the top 2/3 largest in the country.
I'd have to make SPF optional on customer's domains - there would be a small minority who would enable it if I put a page/e-mail up explaining it and its consequences, but I doubt most of my customers would use it (either restrictions, or just don't know what it does).
Hmm... I wonder what the legal implications would be if they put the privacy policy on that page (the hostname of which contains beta.) after some people had installed WMP10 to this "policy".
I take it they would then be covered under the non-existant privacy policy - would that give Microsoft a carte blanche as far as privacy goes?