Actually, this wasn't "first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm". This was second. First was written three months ago by Latvian hacker Lethal for Latvian Friendster-alike website Draugiem.lv. That worm was called Draugberts.
Do you own a mobile phone? If so, then you lied, just then.
Well, I mean OS on my PC of course. GUI-only OS will be good on my cell phone, PDA, TV and similar stuff. (but it would be nice if I could have some shell too)
Yes, but how does an application get in the apt repository to the first place??? When Adobe ports Photoshop to Linux how are they going to distribute it to anyone that wants to download it from their site? There is no simple, standard way to distribute an application for each version of Linux that will install. Windows DOES IT. Linux DOES NOT.
You can always create your own installation shell script so user will only need to download.tar.gz (or.tar.bz) and run install.sh. For example, Opera is distributed in three flavours - rpm (RedHat), dep (Debian) and tar.gz (all).
Furthermore, it shouldn't be necessary to use a CLI, ever. It's fine if you want to use it for more control, but people should be able to start out in pure GUI.
Yes, GUI is a good thing, but I will never use an OS that can't run without GUI.
For the amiga's design purposes, it was pretty close to unix. It was intended to be a single-user system, so obviously, it didn't have all of unix's multi-user/network stuff. But it had true multitasking including it's own form of task prioritisation, pipes, similar commands, dynamic libraries, a powerful scriptable shell, etc.
MS-DOS 2.0 and later versions too had inspired from UNIX in many ways: handle-based file i/o API, pipes (well, not a real pipes, but...), possibility to use '-' as switch character, possibility to prefix device "files" with "/dev/" prefix, etc... But I don't think MS-DOS could be called "UNIX system".
Furthermore, I'd recommend reading Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful by Ian Hickson.
Basically I'm not affected by problems described there. I'm always keeping JavaScript in external files (and maximally trying to avoid JavaScript at all), I'm using lower-cased names in CSS. I don't really understand described problems with "The "/>" empty tag syntax", as I don't understand why HTML4 UA should display "<br/>" as "<br>>".
Why I'm using XHTML? Because lot of new cell phones (including cheaper ones, like Nokia 3100) support XHTML and with additional CSS for media type "handheld" I can't make website look good on cellphones and PDAs without the need to fight with WML and it's file size limits.
Well, some time ago I had the following code in my homepage:
"XHTML 1.1 is only valid when served with the application/xhtml+xml mimetype"
Where did you get that? XHTML 1.0 specification (XHTML 1.1 doesn't say anything about mimetypes) says: "XHTML Documents which follow the guidelines set forth in Appendix C, "HTML Compatibility Guidelines" may be labeled with the Internet Media Type "text/html" [RFC2854], as they are compatible with most HTML browsers. Those documents, and any other document conforming to this specification, may also be labeled with the Internet Media Type "application/xhtml+xml" as defined in [RFC3236]. For further information on using media types with XHTML, see the informative note [XHTMLMIME]."
MSIE can't handle all valid XHTML 1.1 documents as it's buggy XML parser can't handle XHTML 1.1 DTD, but true is not that XHTML document must be served with "application/xhtml+xml" mimetype. So we can say: MSIE6 has partial XHTML support.
I think main problem is not making Slashdot itself as correct XHTML. Somebody should also make all posted arcticles and comments valid XHTML. Maybe HTML Tidy could help there?
Possibility to add custom NNTP servers on "Google Groups" (for example, in Latvia there exists one NNTP server which allows usenet access to some popular mailing lists)
Latvian language support for "Google Ads" (to be able to add "Google Ads" in my Latvian websites)
I mailed to author of this arcticle. Mel is acronym from "Multi-Edit Lite" and it can be downloaded from Free DOS software page. Unfortunatelly, it is simple text editor, not a word processor. (and it's shareware, not freeware):(
As for free DOS word processors, there is thing called "GalaxyWrite". Still working download link are in an old FreeDOS newsitem. It also mentions program called "AsEasyAs" - spreadsheet for DOS. Can't guarrantee anything, as I don't have tested them yet, but I hope this helps for somebody!
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Actually, this wasn't "first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm". This was second. First was written three months ago by Latvian hacker Lethal for Latvian Friendster-alike website Draugiem.lv. That worm was called Draugberts.
Libertarian (anarchist)? Grrrrrrrrr....
- slackware user
I can say, that I know many persons using GNU/Linux as their desktop OS, but I don't know anyone using Mac at home.
Also ~ 5-6 % of my homepage visitors are using Linux, only ~ 0.3-0.5 are using Mac's (MacPPC+MacOSX).
At least in Latvia (where I am living) Linux is more popular than MacOS. I'm too use GNU/Linux (Slackware) as OS for my workstation at home.
1) How is a Blog Service any different from Slashdot journals?
Well, IMHO Slashdot journals is a Blog Service.
Uhh Google is a search engine. What does that have to do with blogs?
Google owns Blogger.
Do you own a mobile phone? If so, then you lied, just then.
Well, I mean OS on my PC of course. GUI-only OS will be good on my cell phone, PDA, TV and similar stuff. (but it would be nice if I could have some shell too)
Yes, but how does an application get in the apt repository to the first place??? When Adobe ports Photoshop to Linux how are they going to distribute it to anyone that wants to download it from their site? There is no simple, standard way to distribute an application for each version of Linux that will install. Windows DOES IT. Linux DOES NOT.
You can always create your own installation shell script so user will only need to download .tar.gz (or .tar.bz) and run install.sh. For example, Opera is distributed in three flavours - rpm (RedHat), dep (Debian) and tar.gz (all).
Furthermore, it shouldn't be necessary to use a CLI, ever. It's fine if you want to use it for more control, but people should be able to start out in pure GUI.
Yes, GUI is a good thing, but I will never use an OS that can't run without GUI.Linux on X86 won't comply becuase some of the errno codes are incorrect, being based on Minix, which also uses incorrect values.
The Open Group Single UNIX Specification Version 3 only specifies names of errno codes in errno.h not the exact values.
For the amiga's design purposes, it was pretty close to unix. It was intended to be a single-user system, so obviously, it didn't have all of unix's multi-user/network stuff. But it had true multitasking including it's own form of task prioritisation, pipes, similar commands, dynamic libraries, a powerful scriptable shell, etc.
MS-DOS 2.0 and later versions too had inspired from UNIX in many ways: handle-based file i/o API, pipes (well, not a real pipes, but...), possibility to use '-' as switch character, possibility to prefix device "files" with "/dev/" prefix, etc... But I don't think MS-DOS could be called "UNIX system".Yes, IMAP access would be good.
Replace any remaining <b> and <i> tags with <span style="font-weight:bold"> and <span syle="font-style: italic">
That's not required. XHTML 1.1 still have bold and italic tags.
Oups, correction! Of course I mean "can make website look good" not "can't make website look good" :)
Furthermore, I'd recommend reading Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful by Ian Hickson.
Basically I'm not affected by problems described there. I'm always keeping JavaScript in external files (and maximally trying to avoid JavaScript at all), I'm using lower-cased names in CSS. I don't really understand described problems with "The "/>" empty tag syntax", as I don't understand why HTML4 UA should display "<br />" as "<br>>".
Why I'm using XHTML? Because lot of new cell phones (including cheaper ones, like Nokia 3100) support XHTML and with additional CSS for media type "handheld" I can't make website look good on cellphones and PDAs without the need to fight with WML and it's file size limits.
Well, some time ago I had the following code in my homepage:
In theory this should work, but unfortunatelly, this leads to problems with MSIE6 :(. So after two days I removed this code.
"XHTML 1.1 is only valid when served with the application/xhtml+xml mimetype"
Where did you get that? XHTML 1.0 specification (XHTML 1.1 doesn't say anything about mimetypes) says: "XHTML Documents which follow the guidelines set forth in Appendix C, "HTML Compatibility Guidelines" may be labeled with the Internet Media Type "text/html" [RFC2854], as they are compatible with most HTML browsers. Those documents, and any other document conforming to this specification, may also be labeled with the Internet Media Type "application/xhtml+xml" as defined in [RFC3236]. For further information on using media types with XHTML, see the informative note [XHTMLMIME]."
MSIE can't handle all valid XHTML 1.1 documents as it's buggy XML parser can't handle XHTML 1.1 DTD, but true is not that XHTML document must be served with "application/xhtml+xml" mimetype. So we can say: MSIE6 has partial XHTML support.
I think main problem is not making Slashdot itself as correct XHTML. Somebody should also make all posted arcticles and comments valid XHTML. Maybe HTML Tidy could help there?
Why I need package system if I have ./configure, make and make install?
mine usually starts with `mc' :)
I will use!
I mailed to author of this arcticle. Mel is acronym from "Multi-Edit Lite" and it can be downloaded from Free DOS software page. Unfortunatelly, it is simple text editor, not a word processor. (and it's shareware, not freeware) :(
As for free DOS word processors, there is thing called "GalaxyWrite". Still working download link are in an old FreeDOS newsitem. It also mentions program called "AsEasyAs" - spreadsheet for DOS. Can't guarrantee anything, as I don't have tested them yet, but I hope this helps for somebody!
Yes, I'm wondering too...
I'm still searching for some good free word processing software for DOS.
France hasn't been part of the British Empire since around, oh, 1450 or so... ;)
France has never been part of "British Empire".
What I'm reading:
More importantly: before Mozilla, it was the only cross-platform browser (as far as I know).
How about Lynx? :)
Just because it's not open source, doesn't make it a bad browser.
Agree. I'm using Opera for about two years (before that I was Netscape 4.x user) and I'm not going to switch to Firefox or other open source browser.