Mozilla is likely to have more holes in it than IE. Any monolithic program such as a browser will have bugs and some of those bugs will lead to leaked information, or backdoors. You cannot use either IE or Mozilla and expect to be secure. You can expect Microsoft and Mozilla developers to fix security bugs and release new versions. Currenly IE has many known security holes, and since bugzilla is down, I can't tell how many mozilla has (they might not be public bugs anyway), but I'd wager there are several. If most users don't even apply hot fixes to the browser they have to secure it, why would they upgrade to another browser (which won't be secure) to fix security issues?
There are many reasons why I use mozilla, but security isn't one of them.
HOWEVER, the interview's subject frequently digressed and in a couple cases didn't answer the questions posed, particularly the question.
I think that is a sure sign that the questions were answered by a robot. Everytime I try to talk to one of these robots, it tries to change the subject when it doesn't know the answer.
Know of any more? Submit the URL and I'll take care of them. Find any on that list that are are no longer free? Email me or update the URL and I'll take care of it.
If I write free stuff, I expect you to do so to if you use my work. So yes I am restricting you, but no, I don't feel bad about it. The restrictions in the GPL ensure that derivitives of free software stay free. You make it sound unreasonable.
Most projects generate almost no interest (flops by your book). As an open source developer, if they work for you, what more do you want?
I don't accept any patches that I don't understand, or that I think will make the project harder to direct, maintain, or to make additions. If somebody wants to fork it is almost never a problem. If you think their patches will have problems, so will their version. If they want to do something different with it, then it really isn't competition. Why is competition bad anyway? Its not like you expect to make more money the more customers you get.
Read the cathedral and the bazaar if you have not already done so. You think like a cathedral programmer: your program should be directed from on high. A bazaar programmer will coerce others into feeling good about making contributions and release early and often.
Furthermore, you need to look at your motivations for producing open source software. You sound like you want the user base and the name recognition. It doesn't happen to all of us. I code open source because I want to make cool things happen and I want to force other people to let me experience the cool things that they make happen (for free!) So one of my favorites is why not lgpl?
If you want a successful (popular) open source project, the ones that make it big fall into two categories as I see it: 1) The ones that are big: mozilla, the gimp, they take a lot of open source programmers working together to produce something that paid developers would have a hard time doing. 2) Projects that let other developers build from them: linux, libraries, that fuel innovation in other open source developers.
If you work on something that falls in both those categories (like linux and mozilla) you are all set. But you can't do it alone. And unless you release early, and often, you can't get help.
The information that CDDB uses is not stored with the mp3s. It does some calculation of the track lengths. You would have to have all the mp3s of the album including silent tracks as mp3s and the mp3s would have to have the the exactly right length, which I doubt that the mp3 format does.
Chances are that you have you songs named in Album-Artist-Song.mp3, Album/Artist-Song.mp3, or Album/Artist/Song.mp3 format. I wrote a program called Mp3Tagger that can import this mp3 name information into the ID3 tag. (It can also go the other way and rename an mp3 based on id3 tags.) It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X among others.
CVS is great, but it doesn't know enough about common file types that are checked in to it.
It doesn't do diffs between image files that it considers "binary" format. Also PDFs, Word Documents, and the like could have better than "binary" file support.
I am constantly annoyed that I can't change tabs to spaces or adjust indentation in source files without causing diffs.
Both of those problems would be solved if CVS knew more about the file type. The second can theoretically be solved by CVS by adding checkin and checkout scripts for each file. The script would remove all whitespace from the beginning of each line on commit and then pretty print the output on checkout. However, I haven't found scripts that will do so yet.
Junkyard wars had an episode in which the contestants had to build super fuel efficient vehicles. They showed some clips of these actual races. The basic premise is that you get very light, very aerodynamic, much lubrication, and thin tires with a large diameter to reduce rolling resistance. Most of the entrants burn their fuel in stages and build up speed and then cut the motor and coast because engines need some amount of fuel flow to keep running and their efficiency goes to where flow would be below this minimum.
The most fuel efficient car you can get in the US is still the Hybrid Electtric Honda Insight. I have about 63 mpg average over the two years that I've had mine.
Ross Anderson just released a paper concluding that open source and closed source software are equally insecure.
All software has security vulnerabilities. Software with vulnerabilites is secure as long as nobody knows about the vulnerabalities or nobody exploits the vulnerabilities. Security is a process, not a state. To run a secure system, you have to know as much about the vulnerabilities as the hackers. You have to patch your systems. You have to manage your risk.
All it takes is one hole in some piece of software that you are running. If somebody knows about it and hacks you you are insecure. There are channels for discussing security vulnerabilities for both open and closed source software. Holes in both open and closed source software get patched. In that respect they are equally secure. There are more holes in both. It doesn't matter how many holes, it only takes one. In that respect they are equally insecure.
You should check out htdig. It now comes with Redhat. It will crawl a web site or web sites, index them, and provide a web search. You can set it up to look a lot like google. You can tweak the parameters so that it pays attention to how often a page is linked and you can set up weights for how important a word is based on where in the page it is and even if it is in the link text that points to that page. I don't think that google has much more than that, but they seem to have their values well tuned.
It isn't the easiest thing to configure since there are so many options for crawling and ranking pages. The look and feel for the pages it spits out isn't so clean looking as google, so when I've set it up I've had to modify that as well. It doesn't do caching, or tie in the a directory, but for a local search, those aren't much use anyway.
Homer: Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!
Bart: Don't be a sap dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.
Homer: I know a genuine 'Panaphonics' when I see one. And look, there's 'Magnet Box' and 'Sorny'!
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV,
and I mean _really_ watch it, you want the Carnivale'.
[shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one]
It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well,
durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...]
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
[3F11] Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
I have been using Mozilla almost exclusivly for one year.
Mozilla has been the best browser out there (free, stable, feature rich (tabbed browsing, image blocking, fastest rendering)) for six months.
Why 1.0 is news is beyond me.
Mozilla could be improved by making new windows open faster (although tabbed browsing really helps), and adding many of the thousand of feature requests that are in the bugzilla database. Here are bugs for which I am currently voting. I'd like middle mouse button to open forms in new windows, junkbuster functionality built in, an easy way to switch SMTP servers, and the Reply-To on mail to be set to the person mail was sent to to begin with when replying.
I doubt that this includes the developers of the open source libraries that a project uses. If a game uses the SDL libraries, do the SDL developers get counted? Probobly not.
I am probably a developer on a dozen projects that use my open source Java libraries. Open source is just different than normal development.
Is there a workaround for this? Probably not. I don't think any of the major browsers have a way to selecivly disable browser features. It would be nice if you could disable gopher: hyperlinks until this got fixed.
A nice browser feature would be a regular expression based prefilter of web pages. If a file called prefilter.rules exists, the browser would run the raw html of each pages it downloaded through the filter. This would allow admins to make the browser safe again (with some lost functionality) until the browser was patched.
In this case you might want to use a rule something like: s/(gofer\:[^'" \n\r\t]*)/about:blocked.html?$1/
I should see if this is a requested feature for mozilla yet. With browsers knowing about regexp for javascript this probably wouldn't be too hard to implement. Plus once it was implemented, you could use it for blocking ads and other annoyances.
This stuff was used on Mars missions to capture particles so I thought it would be really expensive stuff. No way that you would ever be able to afford enough of it to actually insulate your house, even though it is 39 times better at it than the best fiberglass insulation.
Upon seaching Google for the cost of this stuff I ran across Aerogel Super-Insulation made by Aspen Aerogels. They don't have prices on their sites but it looks like somebody is trying to make an insulation product out of it. It says they are trying to break into the 20 billion dollar insulation market and that mass adoption of the product would greatly reduce fossil fuel use around the world.
Ad-aware is a Windows program from Lavasoft that will remove spyware from your computer. It is freeware. There is also a plus version available for a fee that will run in the background and prevent spyware from being installed.
Beard - Slang term for a woman who helps a gay man to convince others he is straight by going with him to social functions as his "date." Examples: "He brought a woman with him to the office party, but I think that she was just his beard."
So all you have to do is hide that you are gay and your wife becomes your beard.
In the same price range is your-site.com. They charge $60 a year and have provided me excellent service. You can get your raw access logs and they run stat software called Urchin on them for you. They also offer a shell account (Solaris) and you run your own stat software. (I use The Webalizer.)
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There are many reasons why I use mozilla, but security isn't one of them.
Freeware text editors, mostly for Windows.
Know of any more? Submit the URL and I'll take care of them.
Find any on that list that are are no longer free? Email me or update the URL and I'll take care of it.
That does appear to be a nice freeware text editor. Another freeware text editor for windows that I like to use is Context - Programmer's Editor.
If I write free stuff, I expect you to do so to if you use my work. So yes I am restricting you, but no, I don't feel bad about it. The restrictions in the GPL ensure that derivitives of free software stay free. You make it sound unreasonable.
I don't accept any patches that I don't understand, or that I think will make the project harder to direct, maintain, or to make additions. If somebody wants to fork it is almost never a problem. If you think their patches will have problems, so will their version. If they want to do something different with it, then it really isn't competition. Why is competition bad anyway? Its not like you expect to make more money the more customers you get.
Read the cathedral and the bazaar if you have not already done so. You think like a cathedral programmer: your program should be directed from on high. A bazaar programmer will coerce others into feeling good about making contributions and release early and often.
Furthermore, you need to look at your motivations for producing open source software. You sound like you want the user base and the name recognition. It doesn't happen to all of us. I code open source because I want to make cool things happen and I want to force other people to let me experience the cool things that they make happen (for free!) So one of my favorites is why not lgpl?
If you want a successful (popular) open source project, the ones that make it big fall into two categories as I see it:
1) The ones that are big: mozilla, the gimp, they take a lot of open source programmers working together to produce something that paid developers would have a hard time doing.
2) Projects that let other developers build from them: linux, libraries, that fuel innovation in other open source developers.
If you work on something that falls in both those categories (like linux and mozilla) you are all set. But you can't do it alone. And unless you release early, and often, you can't get help.
Chances are that you have you songs named in Album-Artist-Song.mp3, Album/Artist-Song.mp3, or Album/Artist/Song.mp3 format. I wrote a program called Mp3Tagger that can import this mp3 name information into the ID3 tag. (It can also go the other way and rename an mp3 based on id3 tags.) It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X among others.
That stands for "You have been trolled".
The perl script is a troll, it won't work, I can't believe this got modded up.
If you made that rant a little longer, you could be the next Jon Katz.
CVS is great, but it doesn't know enough about common file types that are checked in to it. It doesn't do diffs between image files that it considers "binary" format. Also PDFs, Word Documents, and the like could have better than "binary" file support. I am constantly annoyed that I can't change tabs to spaces or adjust indentation in source files without causing diffs. Both of those problems would be solved if CVS knew more about the file type. The second can theoretically be solved by CVS by adding checkin and checkout scripts for each file. The script would remove all whitespace from the beginning of each line on commit and then pretty print the output on checkout. However, I haven't found scripts that will do so yet.
The most fuel efficient car you can get in the US is still the Hybrid Electtric Honda Insight. I have about 63 mpg average over the two years that I've had mine.
All software has security vulnerabilities. Software with vulnerabilites is secure as long as nobody knows about the vulnerabalities or nobody exploits the vulnerabilities. Security is a process, not a state. To run a secure system, you have to know as much about the vulnerabilities as the hackers. You have to patch your systems. You have to manage your risk.
All it takes is one hole in some piece of software that you are running. If somebody knows about it and hacks you you are insecure. There are channels for discussing security vulnerabilities for both open and closed source software. Holes in both open and closed source software get patched. In that respect they are equally secure. There are more holes in both. It doesn't matter how many holes, it only takes one. In that respect they are equally insecure.
It isn't the easiest thing to configure since there are so many options for crawling and ranking pages. The look and feel for the pages it spits out isn't so clean looking as google, so when I've set it up I've had to modify that as well. It doesn't do caching, or tie in the a directory, but for a local search, those aren't much use anyway.
Bart: Don't be a sap dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.
Homer: I know a genuine 'Panaphonics' when I see one. And look, there's 'Magnet Box' and 'Sorny'!
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean _really_ watch it, you want the Carnivale'. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...]
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
[3F11] Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
If you want to see my votes you will have to copy and paste the link location so as not to send the referer url to bugzilla.
I have been using Mozilla almost exclusivly for one year.
Mozilla has been the best browser out there (free, stable, feature rich (tabbed browsing, image blocking, fastest rendering)) for six months.
Why 1.0 is news is beyond me.
Mozilla could be improved by making new windows open faster (although tabbed browsing really helps), and adding many of the thousand of feature requests that are in the bugzilla database. Here are bugs for which I am currently voting. I'd like middle mouse button to open forms in new windows, junkbuster functionality built in, an easy way to switch SMTP servers, and the Reply-To on mail to be set to the person mail was sent to to begin with when replying.
I am probably a developer on a dozen projects that use my open source Java libraries. Open source is just different than normal development.
A nice browser feature would be a regular expression based prefilter of web pages. If a file called prefilter.rules exists, the browser would run the raw html of each pages it downloaded through the filter. This would allow admins to make the browser safe again (with some lost functionality) until the browser was patched.
In this case you might want to use a rule something like:
s/(gofer\:[^'" \n\r\t]*)/about:blocked.html?$1/
I should see if this is a requested feature for mozilla yet. With browsers knowing about regexp for javascript this probably wouldn't be too hard to implement. Plus once it was implemented, you could use it for blocking ads and other annoyances.
If you like getting a nice secure password, try a password generator.
This is a duplicate story from a couple months ago.
Here is the original.
Upon seaching Google for the cost of this stuff I ran across Aerogel Super-Insulation made by Aspen Aerogels. They don't have prices on their sites but it looks like somebody is trying to make an insulation product out of it. It says they are trying to break into the 20 billion dollar insulation market and that mass adoption of the product would greatly reduce fossil fuel use around the world.
If I ever have to eat my hat because I've opened my big mouth at the wrong time, I want my hat to be made of this.
Ad-aware is a Windows program from Lavasoft that will remove spyware from your computer. It is freeware. There is also a plus version available for a fee that will run in the background and prevent spyware from being installed.
Examples: "He brought a woman with him to the office party, but I think that she was just his beard."
So all you have to do is hide that you are gay and your wife becomes your beard.
In the same price range is your-site.com. They charge $60 a year and have provided me excellent service. You can get your raw access logs and they run stat software called Urchin on them for you. They also offer a shell account (Solaris) and you run your own stat software. (I use The Webalizer.)