AFAIK, All you have to do to get/etc/shadow on a Linux box is throw in a single-floppy linux like tomsrtbt and mount the / partition. Voila./etc/shadow.
No difference between Windows and Linux here. This is why you should disable the floppy drive (or take it out) in the BIOS and password protect it.
hmm... you know... I could probably subpoena and sue my university. I gave them a single copy of my papers. I guess I agreed to it in fair exchange for a passing grade, but... I bet that sometimes they make copies so that the prof and a TA, or two different TAs / graders can read them...
I didn't authorize that! YAY... LAWSUIT TIME!!!!!!
Maybe not.. I'm quite sure somewhere (something you had to agree to to get in to the school) they give themselves permission to do whatever the hell they want with anything you submit to them and that it becomes their property when you do so.
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VNC on Windows only sends updates to the client, but it's method of doing so (polling the screen on that machine running the VNC server) is very slow and inaccurate, leading to it either not updating properly if you set the settings too restrictively, or if you set them too loosely, you can end up with the entire screen every refresh.
Other software like the non-free (blashpemy!) PCAnywhere or Remote Administrator (reccomended, I use it) hook into the GDI to determine more accurately when an app has updated it's display. There is someone working on a fork of VNC that does this, as well, but it is pre-alpha, I believe.
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Right, but AFAIK VNC on OSX is like VNC on Windows. It stupidly polls the screen over and over again checking for changes. Very slow, and painful to use over dialup.
VNC on *nix is an X client (hope I get the client/server thing right) and so essentially works similar to running a remote X session, only over the VNC protocol (which with tinyVNC allows good compression and stuff without something like lbproxy).
It's not that Paypal is/was the only success, it's that they hooked everyone with free money and low fees. {snip}
Paypal also had a lot of marketting muscle and a catchy name.
To top this off, Paypal also started to guaranty their purchases.
It also ended up being the way that Paypal was used for other payment services because of the debit card that allowed it to prosper. I would for instance use my Paypal card to pay Billpoint or PayDirect if it was offered. This would get me 1.5% back.
StormPay and C2it are the services frauds use. Bidpay is reasonable, but never use it to pay for anything just to be paid.
Nevermind the fact that once PayPal became popular they started doing things like bumping up their rates, denying purchases of various things they don't happen to like (porn, for example) and randomly locking user accounts.
I'm also still not fond of the way they extort money from you when you sign up. You can search the site all you want, but it is not really made clear until AFTER you give them your credit card number that they charged you $2.95 to your credit card, and that they give you a $2.95 credit to your PayPal account (of which they eat some for misc. fees).
Nevermind that it takes a month to get any money in your account because you have to type in the associated code that appears with the charge on your credit card.. very inconvient when you are trying to open a PayPal account to pay for something that you just bought off an auction.
Never mind, I just looked in to what is happening and understand now. Yes, it seems that speeds have been bumped to 1.7/800 even though IGS has not updated their pages.
Yes, GVC modem, I know how to check the speed it is syncing at. But isn't my ISP, IGS, the one who should be controlling my package and transfer rates, not Bell Nexxia?
From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/WordPer fect-Linux-FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ (1 Mar 2003)
4. Downloadable WP 8
4.1. Where can I find a copy of WP 8.0 DPE for Linux? What filenames should I look for?
Most locations that formerly offered the download (for example, CNET's download.com, ftp.calderasystems.com, and linux.tucows.com) ceased doing so about the time Corel itself did. It's possible (but pure speculation) that Corel asked or required that the files be pulled.
However, the download is still available at:
* [ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm] ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/
download.htm (includes all localisation files except French),
* [ftp://ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordper fect8/] ftp://
ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordperfect8/ (includes all
localisation files),
* [http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/] http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/
apps/ (WP 8.0 DPE, all localisation files, the Filtrix fix, and copies of
WP 8.x licences, knowledgebase/FAQs/docs).
I'd just like to mention something that most people seem to have forgotten: Corel really didn't do all that much when it comes to WordPerfect. Yes, the Linux port is theirs, but the core program, up to WP6 for Windows was written by Satellite Software International (at the very start) who changed their name to WordPerfect Corp. after a version or two. Around WP6.1-6.2 for Windows it was bought by Novell (1994) and then before or right after the release of WP7 was bought by Corel (1996).
I'd say that pretty much all the real functionality was in it by version 6 (I'm hard pressed to find anything important missing from WP6 that is in the latest verison, save automatic underlining on misspelled words) and that Corel merely added a few features to give them an excuse to release new versions.
Anyway, the writing has been on the wall for years now..
"There are other, smaller, local DSL providers - but the speed and prices are comparable."
Uhh, no they're not. They're much cheaper.
Agreed. I'm getting Business-class ADSL from IGS (www.igs.net, who services Toronto as well). 1.5mbit down and ~600kbit up (though my plan is 128, for some reason they didn't cap me right, I guess). The best part is that they allow servers and have UNLIMITED transfer (for business class). Very nice, $54.95/month! Residential (capped, no servers) $34.95/month.
I'm not sure if you are asking this because you want to run it on Linux or just want it open-sourced, but Corel provides a (free for personal use) binary of WordPerfect for Linux at their website.
I found the rocker switch that you use to navigate around the screen to be stiff and its surface to be as slippery as rob malda's love sausage-- though Fossil says it will add texture to the switch by September.
It's getting to the point that having everything on-board on the MoBo is actually a good idea. They are cheap, and despensible.
And mostly very low quality.
If something goes wrong, you simply swap out the board and you end up getting an upgrade to the rest of the components in the processes.
Not to mention how wasteful this is, I've yet to see a motherboard manufacturer do a decent job with any of the on-board crap they stick in. On-board sound? Decent, but what if you want surround? Let's say you want to through in a fancy card, but don't need a new mobo. Sorry, I guess you need to run out and replace the whole damn thing. On-board graphics? Crap. Shared memory, flaky, horrible performance.
A common technique in web development is to serve things in a compressed format. Virtually all browsers support this by transparently decompressing the files after they are recieved. This is part of HTTP (content-encoding).
What happens is that when a web browser opens an HTTP connection it (Mozilla and Opera, probably Konqueror) sends Accept-encoding: gzip and then then GET/index.html or whatever, something like that. The server responds with Content-encoding: gzip followed by the gzipped file, which is decompressed by the browser.
It happens transparently, the files on the server are uncompressed. Internet Explorer supports it too, but refuses to send the Accept-encoding: gzip string, but will work if forced to using a filtering proxy like Proxomitron (great for removing ads, by the way).
(PLEASE NOTE: I am not entirely sure about the accuracy of what I have said regarding the exchange with the server, but something happens and it comes across gzipped)
This means that the only distro you're going to find at BB and CompUSA is going to be SuSE, at least until or if Mandrake ever manages to find another retail distributor.
FYI Mandrake (at least when I bought 8.0) is available in Canada through Business Depot / Staples / Bureau en gros (I would assume, since they are all the same company).
RH is choosing to concentrate on the business space. Which is good, since their efforts there are somewhat lacking. (RHAS is dreadful, but with improvement it'd be decent)
Not so in Canada, unfortunately. SOCAN (basically Canada's RIAA) has managed to get a 21 cent levy on ANY and ALL blank CD-Rs and a slightly smaller levy on all CD-RWs. They want to make it even higher, too. 59 cents per CD-R is what the bastards want.
CD-Rs are ALREADY too expensive in Canada.. a 10 pack of CD-Rs will set you back ~CDN$10, 25 pack of CD-Rs will set you back ~CDN$20, a 50 pack ~CDN$35-40.
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
Canadian retailers aren't happy either, and big names like Wal-mart Canada and Radio Shack Canada are apart of the Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access.
Wouldn't it be wiser to use a desktop publishing app such as Scribus, Quark or even MS Publisher to do this, anyway?
Anything requiring page layout tends to turn into an ugly hack when you try to do it in Word (or OOo Writer for that matter)
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Amen -- AND, the security policies (i.e. horrible "lockdown" software like Fortres) in place at your high school/college/university/work place may prevent you from using a USB keychain device, whereas the CD-ROM drive is usually allowed since it is used for software and whatnot..
Things are on a different scale with PalmOS devices. A large PalmOS program will take up 500kb, an average program probably 100-200kb. So really, this is quite a bit of room. Though the small memory amount are because of limitations in PalmOS, it isn't really a big deal since things aren't as bloaty as in WinCE (err.. Pocket PC 2000-and-whatever)
The bill is called the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003.
It seems pretty clear that this is designed to protect the big corporations and (maybe) the authors of works. But how this 'protect' consumers and computer owners?
I think I'm going to have to make "I'm glad I'm Canadian." my sig sooner or later...
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Relax.. it's humour. "For dummies" or "Idiots' guide" suggests to me that I should have no trouble with the book if an idiot can figure it out.
That said, I think most "for dummies" books are way below the level of most Slashdot readers.
This is modded funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future the US government tries to block the release of information related to Windows' (in)security, and start arresting people as 'terrorists' because the information could conceivably be used to hack Homeland Security's computers.
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ERD? As in [E]merency [R]escue/Repair [D]isk?
/etc/shadow on a Linux box is throw in a single-floppy linux like tomsrtbt and mount the / partition. Voila. /etc/shadow.
AFAIK, All you have to do to get
No difference between Windows and Linux here. This is why you should disable the floppy drive (or take it out) in the BIOS and password protect it.
Maybe not.. I'm quite sure somewhere (something you had to agree to to get in to the school) they give themselves permission to do whatever the hell they want with anything you submit to them and that it becomes their property when you do so.
Other software like the non-free (blashpemy!) PCAnywhere or Remote Administrator (reccomended, I use it) hook into the GDI to determine more accurately when an app has updated it's display. There is someone working on a fork of VNC that does this, as well, but it is pre-alpha, I believe.
Right, but AFAIK VNC on OSX is like VNC on Windows. It stupidly polls the screen over and over again checking for changes. Very slow, and painful to use over dialup.
VNC on *nix is an X client (hope I get the client/server thing right) and so essentially works similar to running a remote X session, only over the VNC protocol (which with tinyVNC allows good compression and stuff without something like lbproxy).
Paypal also had a lot of marketting muscle and a catchy name.
To top this off, Paypal also started to guaranty their purchases.
It also ended up being the way that Paypal was used for other payment services because of the debit card that allowed it to prosper. I would for instance use my Paypal card to pay Billpoint or PayDirect if it was offered. This would get me 1.5% back.
StormPay and C2it are the services frauds use. Bidpay is reasonable, but never use it to pay for anything just to be paid.
Nevermind the fact that once PayPal became popular they started doing things like bumping up their rates, denying purchases of various things they don't happen to like (porn, for example) and randomly locking user accounts.
I'm also still not fond of the way they extort money from you when you sign up. You can search the site all you want, but it is not really made clear until AFTER you give them your credit card number that they charged you $2.95 to your credit card, and that they give you a $2.95 credit to your PayPal account (of which they eat some for misc. fees).
Nevermind that it takes a month to get any money in your account because you have to type in the associated code that appears with the charge on your credit card.. very inconvient when you are trying to open a PayPal account to pay for something that you just bought off an auction.
Never mind, I just looked in to what is happening and understand now. Yes, it seems that speeds have been bumped to 1.7/800 even though IGS has not updated their pages.
Yes, GVC modem, I know how to check the speed it is syncing at. But isn't my ISP, IGS, the one who should be controlling my package and transfer rates, not Bell Nexxia?
From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/WordPer fect-Linux-FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ (1 Mar 2003)
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4. Downloadable WP 8
4.1. Where can I find a copy of WP 8.0 DPE for Linux? What filenames should I
look for?
Most locations that formerly offered the download (for example, CNET's
download.com, ftp.calderasystems.com, and linux.tucows.com) ceased doing so
about the time Corel itself did. It's possible (but pure speculation) that
Corel asked or required that the files be pulled.
However, the download is still available at:
* [ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm] ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/
download.htm (includes all localisation files except French),
* [ftp://ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordpe
ftp.uni-halle.de/pub/Linux/software/wordperfect8/ (includes all
localisation files)
* [http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/linux/nonfree/] http://sunsite.ui.ac.id/pub/
linux/nonfree/
* [http://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/Linux/print/] http://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/
Linux/print/
* [ftp://ftp.ufscar.br/pub/linux/editortexto/] ftp://ftp.ufscar.br/pub/
linux/editortexto/
* [http://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/linux/wp8/] http://ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/
linux/wp8/
* [http://alge.anart.no/ftp/pub/Office/WordPerfect/
ftp/pub/Office/WordPerfect/
* [ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/wordperfect
ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/wordperfect/linux/
* [http://www.asker.net/pub/linux/corel/] http://www.asker.net/pub/linux/
corel/
* [http://content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordp
content.443.ch/pub/linfiles/Gnusoft/wordperfect8/ (includes all
localisation files)
* [http://www.invivo.net/pub/SOFTS/telechargement/L
www.invivo.net/pub/SOFTS/telechargement/Linux/WOR
localisation files), and
* [http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/apps/] http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/
apps/ (WP 8.0 DPE, all localisation files, the Filtrix fix, and copies of
WP 8.x licences, knowledgebase/FAQs/docs).
I'd say that pretty much all the real functionality was in it by version 6 (I'm hard pressed to find anything important missing from WP6 that is in the latest verison, save automatic underlining on misspelled words) and that Corel merely added a few features to give them an excuse to release new versions.
Anyway, the writing has been on the wall for years now..
Eh, it's the price you pay for free health care and other niceties.
Uhh, no they're not. They're much cheaper.
Agreed. I'm getting Business-class ADSL from IGS (www.igs.net, who services Toronto as well). 1.5mbit down and ~600kbit up (though my plan is 128, for some reason they didn't cap me right, I guess). The best part is that they allow servers and have UNLIMITED transfer (for business class). Very nice, $54.95/month! Residential (capped, no servers) $34.95/month.
DISCLAIMER: I do not work for IGS.
I'm not sure if you are asking this because you want to run it on Linux or just want it open-sourced, but Corel provides a (free for personal use) binary of WordPerfect for Linux at their website.
Copied verbatim from the article, I'm sure. ;)
It's getting to the point that having everything on-board on the MoBo is actually a good idea. They are cheap, and despensible.
And mostly very low quality.
If something goes wrong, you simply swap out the board and you end up getting an upgrade to the rest of the components in the processes. Not to mention how wasteful this is, I've yet to see a motherboard manufacturer do a decent job with any of the on-board crap they stick in. On-board sound? Decent, but what if you want surround? Let's say you want to through in a fancy card, but don't need a new mobo. Sorry, I guess you need to run out and replace the whole damn thing. On-board graphics? Crap. Shared memory, flaky, horrible performance.
Please don't turn my PC into a toaster.
What, this?
A common technique in web development is to serve things in a compressed format. Virtually all browsers support this by transparently decompressing the files after they are recieved. This is part of HTTP (content-encoding).
What happens is that when a web browser opens an HTTP connection it (Mozilla and Opera, probably Konqueror) sends Accept-encoding: gzip and then then GET /index.html or whatever, something like that. The server responds with Content-encoding: gzip followed by the gzipped file, which is decompressed by the browser.
It happens transparently, the files on the server are uncompressed. Internet Explorer supports it too, but refuses to send the Accept-encoding: gzip string, but will work if forced to using a filtering proxy like Proxomitron (great for removing ads, by the way).
This is supported by Apache.. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/
(PLEASE NOTE: I am not entirely sure about the accuracy of what I have said regarding the exchange with the server, but something happens and it comes across gzipped)
For those of us who know nothing about software development, what is BitKeeper?
This means that the only distro you're going to find at BB and CompUSA is going to be SuSE, at least until or if Mandrake ever manages to find another retail distributor.
FYI Mandrake (at least when I bought 8.0) is available in Canada through Business Depot / Staples / Bureau en gros (I would assume, since they are all the same company).
RH is choosing to concentrate on the business space. Which is good, since their efforts there are somewhat lacking. (RHAS is dreadful, but with improvement it'd be decent)
Out of couriousity, what is so bad about it?
Out of curiousity, where can you get CD-Rs that cheap? Are they of any decent quality?
Not so in Canada, unfortunately. SOCAN (basically Canada's RIAA) has managed to get a 21 cent levy on ANY and ALL blank CD-Rs and a slightly smaller levy on all CD-RWs. They want to make it even higher, too. 59 cents per CD-R is what the bastards want.
CD-Rs are ALREADY too expensive in Canada.. a 10 pack of CD-Rs will set you back ~CDN$10, 25 pack of CD-Rs will set you back ~CDN$20, a 50 pack ~CDN$35-40.
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
Canadian retailers aren't happy either, and big names like Wal-mart Canada and Radio Shack Canada are apart of the Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access.
Wouldn't it be wiser to use a desktop publishing app such as Scribus, Quark or even MS Publisher to do this, anyway?
Anything requiring page layout tends to turn into an ugly hack when you try to do it in Word (or OOo Writer for that matter)
Amen -- AND, the security policies (i.e. horrible "lockdown" software like Fortres) in place at your high school/college/university/work place may prevent you from using a USB keychain device, whereas the CD-ROM drive is usually allowed since it is used for software and whatnot..
Things are on a different scale with PalmOS devices. A large PalmOS program will take up 500kb, an average program probably 100-200kb. So really, this is quite a bit of room. Though the small memory amount are because of limitations in PalmOS, it isn't really a big deal since things aren't as bloaty as in WinCE (err.. Pocket PC 2000-and-whatever)
The bill is called the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003.
It seems pretty clear that this is designed to protect the big corporations and (maybe) the authors of works. But how this 'protect' consumers and computer owners?
I think I'm going to have to make "I'm glad I'm Canadian." my sig sooner or later...
Relax.. it's humour. "For dummies" or "Idiots' guide" suggests to me that I should have no trouble with the book if an idiot can figure it out.
That said, I think most "for dummies" books are way below the level of most Slashdot readers.
This is modded funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future the US government tries to block the release of information related to Windows' (in)security, and start arresting people as 'terrorists' because the information could conceivably be used to hack Homeland Security's computers.
I'm glad I'm Canadian.