Everyone in my family except me uses AOL. (They're OK otherwise, and actually rather intellignet, believe it or not.) Anyhow, I'm trying to figure out if AOL's browser at v6.0 is MSIE or what. Any help much appreciated. (Using 'help->about' just says it's AOL v6.0, unfortunately, I'm told.)
It doesn't matter that it is really part of the OS, you don't have to use it.
Not quite true. As the bulletin makes clear, the same code gets used to render HTML in the MS email clients. Additionally, MSIE components get used in other places, such as the MS "help" system. And maybe you don't have to use it explicitly, but have you tried installing or upgrading ANY MS software lately? Every time I've done it lately, I was forced to install IE. It's very dificult to get away from.
Just for clarification, I (Fanatic) didn't have to follow the link this time - thank god - once was more than enough. No one with a weak stomach should follow that link.
Quick tip - if you mouse-over the link, it's href shows up in the status line.
That is inaccurate. It's thanks to an object oriented operating system that we have this problem.
Not sure what OO has to do with it; the problem is a program that executes code recieved from the net without even asking. That's the problem. Let's hope KDE never does anything that silly.
...until a hacker figures out how to make CDROM reader s/w that does the same things as the CD players - unless the differences between CD and CDROM are built into the CDROM player hardware/firmware. That would make it harder. Does anyone know if this is the case?
It is not a physical transfer, it is an electronic transfer. Physical transfer is disk, CD etc.
I disagree. Before the download, the data did not exist on your disk. Afterwards, it did. Information was transferred, even if the only thing that moved was some electrons.
I think it would be perectly OK for them to charge more for pre-compiled, pre-packaged binary distribution, as long as the source for GPL'd code is available at a very nominal price. But, IANAL.
Someone else mentioned Alan Turing's thoretical contributions. His work at Blechley Park in England on code breaking during WWII is also fascinating. The book "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges makes good reading. (I am not a shill and derive no financial benefit from sales of this book.) See http://www.turing.org.uk/
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As a computer-illiterate boss,
You should find another line of work. You are the problem, not the solution.
understand why under an OS such as Win 98 or ME, even a single Pentium III 1 GHz will handily outperform a dual-Pentium III 500 MHz setup.
This is the expected result under ANY operating system. Multiprocessing only helps for problems that lend themselves to highly parallel processing (exploring independent address spaces of cryptography problems, for example), which many don't, and in any case incurrs overhead.
can someone explain to me why anglo-saxons are so f***ing paranoid about their democratically-elected governments
Centuries of experience (ours and others). Governments are made up of INDIVIDUALS. Failing to hold them accountable and granting them sweeping powers is a recipe for disaster.
The article here asks for a list of companies supporting this. Top of the list is Microsoft. One of their stooges actually helped write this evil piece of crap. For this, if nothing else, they are damned. Check out the affect (formerly 4cite.org) website
I don't understand the uproar over the Judge's comments, at least those after the trial. It is universally conceded that MS engaged in massive lying, including obviously fradulent videotapes, during the trial. In a venue where all are required to swear to tell the truth, why would anyone have anything except contempt for this behaviour? The judge heard the facts and saw the lies - why is his expression of distaste, based on this, such a big deal?
If you want piracy, look at the record companies. They steal more from the artists than a billion napsters ever could. Check out Courtney love's diatribe at Salon. The do some surfing - there's dozens of other such write-ups making the same point: the record companies rape nearly everyone - only the biggest acts actually get out with their shirts.
No GUI yet, just paste the fllowing line in your prefs.js file:// Image animation mode: normal, once, none.
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "once"); It works great.
No IT DOESN'T WORK AT ALL. They could at least test this stuff.
The way to solve government tyranny has been largely worked out - division of power, checks and balances - witness the US, Western Europe, etc.
Now comes the bigger fight - how to rein in corporate tyranny. How do you stop the greedy slimeballs from buying the law and screwing everyone in sight?
I saw a box get rooted that was only connected to the 'net via dial-up. Couldn't believe it, but:
ifconfig wouldn't show promiscuous mode,
netstat wouldn't honor -p and
ls, ps, find and du were also modified.
Amazing.
Moral: the script kiddies are totally indiscriminate. Once you're connected, you're vulnerable if you haven't taken protective measures, which include applying patches or upgrading vulnerable software, turning off un-needed services and firewalling/packet filtering. File integrity checking is also a good idea to warn you ASAP of a compromise.
For nomination(s) to 'assholes of the century', how about the schmucks who write the scripts that script-kiddies use? Why would anyone do this?
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I'm not sure that AOL6.0 would have Mozilla - didn't AOL7.0 come out recently? Mozilla is still fairly green, especially the parts used by Netscape.
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Everyone in my family except me uses AOL. (They're OK otherwise, and actually rather intellignet, believe it or not.) Anyhow, I'm trying to figure out if AOL's browser at v6.0 is MSIE or what. Any help much appreciated. (Using 'help->about' just says it's AOL v6.0, unfortunately, I'm told.)
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It doesn't matter that it is really part of the OS, you don't have to use it.
Not quite true. As the bulletin makes clear, the same code gets used to render HTML in the MS email clients. Additionally, MSIE components get used in other places, such as the MS "help" system. And maybe you don't have to use it explicitly, but have you tried installing or upgrading ANY MS software lately? Every time I've done it lately, I was forced to install IE. It's very dificult to get away from.
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Just for clarification, I (Fanatic) didn't have to follow the link this time - thank god - once was more than enough. No one with a weak stomach should follow that link.
Quick tip - if you mouse-over the link, it's href shows up in the status line.
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12:40 AM Going to my girlfriend's house.
12:41 AM Back from girlfriend's.
Gotta love it.
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It is cool that the fix is available quickly. I hate MS business practices, but at least they were prompt on this.
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Please mod this moron down to -10, his link is to GOATSE.CX
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That is inaccurate. It's thanks to an object oriented operating system that we have this problem.
Not sure what OO has to do with it; the problem is a program that executes code recieved from the net without even asking. That's the problem. Let's hope KDE never does anything that silly.
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...until a hacker figures out how to make CDROM reader s/w that does the same things as the CD players - unless the differences between CD and CDROM are built into the CDROM player hardware/firmware. That would make it harder. Does anyone know if this is the case?
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It is not a physical transfer, it is an electronic transfer. Physical transfer is disk, CD etc.
I disagree. Before the download, the data did not exist on your disk. Afterwards, it did. Information was transferred, even if the only thing that moved was some electrons.
I think it would be perectly OK for them to charge more for pre-compiled, pre-packaged binary distribution, as long as the source for GPL'd code is available at a very nominal price. But, IANAL.
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Someone else mentioned Alan Turing's thoretical contributions. His work at Blechley Park in England on code breaking during WWII is also fascinating. The book "Alan Turing: the Enigma" by Andrew Hodges makes good reading. (I am not a shill and derive no financial benefit from sales of this book.) See http://www.turing.org.uk/
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As a computer-illiterate boss,
You should find another line of work. You are the problem, not the solution.
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understand why under an OS such as Win 98 or ME, even a single Pentium III 1 GHz will handily outperform a dual-Pentium III 500 MHz setup.
This is the expected result under ANY operating system. Multiprocessing only helps for problems that lend themselves to highly parallel processing (exploring independent address spaces of cryptography problems, for example), which many don't, and in any case incurrs overhead.
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can someone explain to me why anglo-saxons are so f***ing paranoid about their democratically-elected governments
Centuries of experience (ours and others). Governments are made up of INDIVIDUALS. Failing to hold them accountable and granting them sweeping powers is a recipe for disaster.
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The article here asks for a list of companies supporting this. Top of the list is Microsoft. One of their stooges actually helped write this evil piece of crap. For this, if nothing else, they are damned. Check out the affect (formerly 4cite.org) website
I don't understand the uproar over the Judge's comments, at least those after the trial. It is universally conceded that MS engaged in massive lying, including obviously fradulent videotapes, during the trial. In a venue where all are required to swear to tell the truth, why would anyone have anything except contempt for this behaviour? The judge heard the facts and saw the lies - why is his expression of distaste, based on this, such a big deal?
I'd like to see this used vis a vis DoS attacks and such
A serious DOS wil use spoofed source addresses, rendering this use useless.
From "view source"
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="User-Agent: Mozilla/3.0Gold (Macintosh; U; PPC)">
Netscape did this?
If you want piracy, look at the record companies. They steal more from the artists than a billion napsters ever could. Check out Courtney love's diatribe at Salon. The do some surfing - there's dozens of other such write-ups making the same point: the record companies rape nearly everyone - only the biggest acts actually get out with their shirts.
Well, maybe it does. There's 2 prefs.js files and the interaction is confusing.
No GUI yet, just paste the fllowing line in your prefs.js file: // Image animation mode: normal, once, none.
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "once"); It works great.
No IT DOESN'T WORK AT ALL. They could at least test this stuff.
everyone talsk about this. It appears in NO menu I've found yet. Where the heck is it? I'm definitely running 0.8.
from their website:
XML Spy is available for the Windows platform only
trash.
The way to solve government tyranny has been largely worked out - division of power, checks and balances - witness the US, Western Europe, etc.
Now comes the bigger fight - how to rein in corporate tyranny. How do you stop the greedy slimeballs from buying the law and screwing everyone in sight?
- ifconfig wouldn't show promiscuous mode,
- netstat wouldn't honor -p and
- ls, ps, find and du were also modified.
Amazing.Moral: the script kiddies are totally indiscriminate. Once you're connected, you're vulnerable if you haven't taken protective measures, which include applying patches or upgrading vulnerable software, turning off un-needed services and firewalling/packet filtering. File integrity checking is also a good idea to warn you ASAP of a compromise.
For nomination(s) to 'assholes of the century', how about the schmucks who write the scripts that script-kiddies use? Why would anyone do this?