Way back when, Prodigy had some method of doing "video text" where they would send out streams of font cues and graphics primitives (vector draws and fills) over a low-bandwidth connection for the purpose of drawing pictures and having nifty text.
What ever happened to that sort of technology? It was pretty efficient use of the bandwidth and still had some pizzazz.
I seem to recall the first web browser/server was NCSA Mosaic with NCSA httpd.
Netscape made a better browser, but it wasn't the first graphical browser around.
Netscape's web server never really did catch on, though. NCSA's httpd eventually became Apache.
I have a friend who, when he travels, simply brings up AIM and then goes through all the saved usernames of people who have used the computer before him. Inevitably he will find some idiot who has saved their password on this public computer. He logs into that person's AIM account and then starts sending messages to his friends, prefacing them with "Hi, this is XXXX, I am traveling...."
As such, his personal AIM screen name and password are never typed in, so the onlything key-loggers will catch is his conversations, which are mostly uninteresting.
If he wants to do any financial transactions or login to secure systems, he carries a Knoppix CD with him. He reboots the system and lets it load the OS from CD. No changes to the hard drive are performed, and he can be sure that there are no software-based processes watching what he types in. He can browse and use ssh without worry.
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If someone managed to package up something they found for free, and sell it to somebody, good for them! They managed to separate a fool from his money. That's what the economy is all about, after all.
Users are supposed to not be stupid. They should shop around, check out the market. If they do that, they will find that the software is available for free, and they don't need to pay for it, or even download a re-branded form of it. Caveat emptor!
Stupid users are always going to end up with spyware on their machine.
Why can't the kids just carry CD-ROM's with their textbooks on them? Or better, keep a copy at home, and another copy at school? Leave the laptop at school, and use a computer at home if they have one.
If they don't have a computer at home, perhaps they could take a laptop home, and leave it there 'til the end of the term.
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Way back when, Prodigy had some method of doing "video text" where they would send out streams of font cues and graphics primitives (vector draws and fills) over a low-bandwidth connection for the purpose of drawing pictures and having nifty text. What ever happened to that sort of technology? It was pretty efficient use of the bandwidth and still had some pizzazz.
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I seem to recall the first web browser/server was NCSA Mosaic with NCSA httpd. Netscape made a better browser, but it wasn't the first graphical browser around. Netscape's web server never really did catch on, though. NCSA's httpd eventually became Apache.
Is that anything like Yahoo! Points?
As such, his personal AIM screen name and password are never typed in, so the onlything key-loggers will catch is his conversations, which are mostly uninteresting.
If he wants to do any financial transactions or login to secure systems, he carries a Knoppix CD with him. He reboots the system and lets it load the OS from CD. No changes to the hard drive are performed, and he can be sure that there are no software-based processes watching what he types in. He can browse and use ssh without worry.
In my opinion, very clever.
Did you say "right-click"? On a MAC??
When is the Google Instant Messenger coming out?
I believe that yours says Etch-a-Sketch on the side!
-- Weird Al
Now spammers will let you MAKE MONEY FAST!!!
Prove it!
Users are supposed to not be stupid. They should shop around, check out the market. If they do that, they will find that the software is available for free, and they don't need to pay for it, or even download a re-branded form of it. Caveat emptor!
Stupid users are always going to end up with spyware on their machine.
If they don't have a computer at home, perhaps they could take a laptop home, and leave it there 'til the end of the term.