Here. Notice I'm not the parent poster and I don't really care about De Raadt's attitude (and I use OpenSSH and OpenBSD daily and I have never tried libssh, I just know it exists).
Speex is open, iLBC is free (as in no royalty and documented in RFC3951). I don't know much about other voice codecs but I guess they are at least well documented (not like the MSN audio codec).
It looks like talk.google.com users can't talk to external Jabber users (like thoses using jabber.org for example). I really hope it's not a feature and that it will be fixed when they'll announce the new service. If it's not the case it's not that better than MSN, it's just leaving a monopoly for another one. Nice to see they use an open protocol but it would really sucks to have a closed Google Jabber network.
Another thing some people might have noticed is that reverse DNS for talk.google.com is toolbar.google.com. Now have a look at JEP0151.
Virtual presence on Web pages (also sometimes known as co-browsing, while co-browsing can also mean something different) makes people aware of each other, who are at the same Web location at the same time. The basic purpose of a virtual presence system is to show names, icons, and/or avatars of people who are on a page or a set of pages and to let them communicate.
Here is another IRC-like web application. But this one doesn't require the whole page to be reloaded. I think that's what AJAX is supposed to be used for (I mean, no need to reload the page => snappier).
Good idea but I think it could be somewhat easily defeated by portknocking. The rootkit would never really listen on any port until it receive some special ICMP packets or something.
1) While most programs today should probably not be written in C, I think it's still an important language to learn and understand as a beginner programmer. Most applications today use C at some level. If you understand it, you get a chance to understand how the application/framework/library you are using works which make you able to use it better. See Joel Spolski's "Back to Basics" for more on this.
CSS 2.1 is still a working draft (well, it was, until 2 days ago). And last time I checked, Mozilla/Firefox didn't implemented it (took me some time to understand why "white-space: pre-wrap" wouldn't work).
I don't see the problem with users installing software in their $HOME. *nix users do that all the time. When I get a non priviledged account on a *nix box I'm glad I am able to install my favourite window manager and IRC client in my $HOME without having to bother the admin. If the admin doesn't want users to install stuff (why?), he just has to ask users to not do it and set the/home (and/tmp) partition noexec (yes I know it can be circumvented but if you really want to you can still install stuff as user on Windows too).
There is no reason for most applications to need administrative rights on installation (admitting the target directory is writable by the user).
I use the "right click/run as" trick every time I use Windows but it's far from being as good as sudo. You have to supply the admin password while you can configure sudo to let a normal users run only some predefined programs with admin right with _their_ password or even without password.
OS: 64.04% (146) Windows 12.72% (029) Linux (4 Debian) 02.63% (006) Mac (all OS X) 02.19% (005) FreeBSD 18.42% (042) bots, wget and unknowns
All the libwww-perl things are from Slashdot itself (same IP). Here is an example: 66.35.250.150 - - [22/Jun/2004:18:58:50 +0200] "GET http://slashdot.org/ok.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 277 "-" "libwww-perl/5.76"
i believe that the next evolutionary step would be to say... (which is already implemented to some extent) let gentoo portage be able to emerge from.rpm or.deb files... NOT through some function of the portage program, rather through an exposed function of the rpm library...
And what would that function do ? Turn the rpm into a Gentoo portage ? That would mean every package management system would have to support all other ones.
2) Several files that do not have extensions usually have some information about their default parser in line #1. Either parse it, or start using file extensions in *NIX.
Isn't that what file(1) and run-mailcap(1) are for ?
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Does that mean Valve will switch to SDL and OpenGL ?
Here. Notice I'm not the parent poster and I don't really care about De Raadt's attitude (and I use OpenSSH and OpenBSD daily and I have never tried libssh, I just know it exists).
Why would you want to use WinFS when you have Beagle or Kat.
Speex is open, iLBC is free (as in no royalty and documented in RFC3951). I don't know much about other voice codecs but I guess they are at least well documented (not like the MSN audio codec).
Another thing some people might have noticed is that reverse DNS for talk.google.com is toolbar.google.com. Now have a look at JEP0151.
Here is another IRC-like web application. But this one doesn't require the whole page to be reloaded. I think that's what AJAX is supposed to be used for (I mean, no need to reload the page => snappier).
Good idea but I think it could be somewhat easily defeated by portknocking. The rootkit would never really listen on any port until it receive some special ICMP packets or something.
Modern ttys support colors too: http://sam.zoy.org/libcaca/
Since Jython is all Java, I guess you can still use JNI to use C modules.
ET is not Free/Open source. However there are tons of fun Open Source multiplayer games that you can use.
1) While most programs today should probably not be written in C, I think it's still an important language to learn and understand as a beginner programmer. Most applications today use C at some level. If you understand it, you get a chance to understand how the application/framework/library you are using works which make you able to use it better. See Joel Spolski's "Back to Basics" for more on this.
3) More on this in Robert L. Read's How to be a Programmer.
You should use the tty media type to "detect" text browsers, not the UA string.
CSS 2.1 is still a working draft (well, it was, until 2 days ago). And last time I checked, Mozilla/Firefox didn't implemented it (took me some time to understand why "white-space: pre-wrap" wouldn't work).
Maybe Tinfoil Hat Linux could be useful to someone after all.
I don't see the problem with users installing software in their $HOME. *nix users do that all the time. When I get a non priviledged account on a *nix box I'm glad I am able to install my favourite window manager and IRC client in my $HOME without having to bother the admin. If the admin doesn't want users to install stuff (why?), he just has to ask users to not do it and set the /home (and /tmp) partition noexec (yes I know it can be circumvented but if you really want to you can still install stuff as user on Windows too).
There is no reason for most applications to need administrative rights on installation (admitting the target directory is writable by the user).
I use the "right click/run as" trick every time I use Windows but it's far from being as good as sudo. You have to supply the admin password while you can configure sudo to let a normal users run only some predefined programs with admin right with _their_ password or even without password.
Windows may be a commercial success but do you think it's a technical success ?
--- shockmal.c.orig 2005-04-04 13:30:44.311341544 +0200
/* lets increase the dosage every time we shock */
+++ shockmal.c.new 2005-04-04 13:31:03.324451112 +0200
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
- for (magnitude = 10; magnitude != 0; magnitude *= 2){
+ for (magnitude = 10;; magnitude *= 2){
if (!(status = shock(magnitude))) return EXIT_FAILURE;
sleep(1);
if ((status = unshock())) return EXIT_FAILURE;
Got 228 hits with slashdot in the referer.
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64.04% (146) Windows
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02.63% (006) Mac (all OS X)
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18.42% (042) bots, wget and unknowns
All the libwww-perl things are from Slashdot itself (same IP). Here is an example:
66.35.250.150 - - [22/Jun/2004:18:58:50 +0200] "GET http://slashdot.org/ok.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 277 "-" "libwww-perl/5.76"
Maybe you should try and install Ubuntu on your grandmother's computer.