Terrorist Honeytoken?
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A thought just occurred to me. I wonder if the goverment has set up any phony businesses like this as a type of terrorist honeytoken?
Just throw up some page on the web that says it sells unrefined uranium ore as a novelty or bulk amounts of chemicals used in making a conventional bomb or chemical weapon - no questions asked - and see who it is who's interested in buying these things.
If it we me, I'd create a site called ScienceSalvage.com. Sell a bunch of legit science junk, but then occasionally throw in that you just found a lot of powdered cyanide or an old cesium powered radiation treatment machine and see who's willing to shell out a fair chunk of change for something like that. If they eventually order you can just say sorry we already had another buyer and hadn't bothered to update the site. The next day white vans appear infront of the would be buyer's house.
Boy Scout Who Built A Breeder Reactor In His Shed
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Personally I think this site is a hoax and it's already been taken down.
But if you want to read a really good (and factual) article about a boy scout who built a breeder reactor in his back yard out of radioactive paint and old smoke detectors check out the Harper's magazine story here.
McGwire: Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers? Crowd: Dingers! Dingers! [McGwire hits the long ball] Oooh! McGwire: [takes printout] Yoink! [tucks it under his hat and looks around, suspiciously]
I've noticed that because MS has integrated IE with the OS, when IE crashes it often brings down my whole system, requiring a reboot, but when Moz crashes the system is fine and I just need to reload Moz and keep going.
Personally I find IE crashes much more often than Moz, but even if they both crashed with the same frequency it's a much bigger hassle to recover from an IE crash.
Ok some people complained to me that I should not be posting a bunch of internal sco/caldera e-mail addresses, comparing my actions to the whole firebird database fisaco.
My point is this: The Mozilla Organization is generally a bunch of good guys who are trying to help the open source movement. The Santa Cruz Operation are a bunch of heinous bastards who are trying to sue linux into non-existence.
The Moz/Firebird situation is a quibble about a name. The SCO situation is about using legal trickery to destroy linux. I think everyone working at SCO should know what people think about what they are trying to do so I stand behind my parent posting.
As president of the National Association of Window Installers I have to say I side with the Firebird database people %100.
If they're afraid their google rank is going to drop they should see what happens to us when someone searches for "Install Windows!" Now if only we had thought of that whole email bomb campaign in the 80's.. sigh...
I remember reading the original article about OpenBSD getting the money and Theo's "Uncomfortableness" with it coming from the U.S. military industrial complex. I and just remember thinking, ummmm, shut up, they're finding a special loophole to give you free money and your speaking out about the war isn't going to change a damn thing.
I think Theo has been right about any technical and licencing issues (i.e. ipf) but cheerist, shut your yaphole when people are giving you badly needed funding with no strings attatched. The war has NOTHING to do with OpenBSD and if the KKK/Hitler/Child Pornographers of America trust fund wants to donate vast sums, take it and run.
If someone asks how you feel about getting the money from them repeat after me: "The organisations that have donated money to the project have absoutley no control over it's direction so my personal feelings are irrelevant."
That being said, I remember reading an article (wish I could find it and cite it) that said there were only 4 government employees whose job description includes looking for asteroids to hit earth; most of the people doing this are amateur astronomers.
I haven't been able to read the article because it's slashdotted, but it makes me wonder why they would have something like the Torino Impact Scale if they weren't going to use it to inform the public. So far only one object has ever has ever been classifed a "1" on the tornio scale, but that doesn't look like it's going to a a problem. But with most NEOs still unidentified the most likely warning we will have is none at all.
If we were to discover tomorrow that a comet or asteroid is on an Earth- intersecting path, what could we do about it? What would you recommend doing about it?
Actually, some 100 bodies have already been discovered on orbits which take them so close to the Earth's orbit, that they could hit in the far distant future. This is because the orbits of these bodies change slowly with time. Although their orbits do not intersect Earth's orbit at present, they could hit in a few thousand years or more.
The scenario you have in mind is most likely to unfold as follows. In the course of our search for Earth-crossing asteroids, we could find one that will hit not in the next year, or even in the next ten years, but might hit in the next hundred years. We believe that the chance that we will find such an object is only 1 in 1,000, even after a complete search. If we do find such an object, we will have plenty of time to track it, measure its orbit more precisely, and plan a system for deflecting it from its current orbit (hopefully away from the Earth's). There will be no great hurry, and no great panic. It would be a project for all the world's nations to take part in. It could be a globally unifying event. Because we will have found it long before it actually hits the Earth, it probably would take only a small impulse (chemical rockets, or perhaps mass drivers) to divert it from a threatening path.
There is a much smaller chance that we would find one that could impact in the next 10 years. The chance of that happening is 1 in 10,000. If this were to happen, we would probably still have time to launch a crash program of scientific and technological research, with the goal of characterizing both the structure of the menacing asteroid, and the best means for diverting its orbit.
The least likely scenario is that we would find one that could hit in the next year. The chance is 1 in 100,000. In that case, there is probably little that we could do to divert it.
At the University where I work our entire network was down for about 6 hours due to Slammer/Sapphire. This is an institution with 30,000 students and Oh happy coincidence, it was the last day to drop courses without academic penalty - which could only be done online. The problem is that each department, faculty, club, etc. runs their own servers so what ends up happening is Professor so-and-so's graduate student's cousin who once started studying for the A+ exam becomes the system administrator. Security Bulletin? Patch? Hotfix? What's that?
Network Operations had to manually disconnect MANY servers which were just saturating the network. After doing this we got calls days later from people saying "My students are complaining that they can't access my server, any idea why this is?" So if you're expecting that every server has some crack squad of administrators scouring the net to make sure it's updated to the fullest - well sorry, it takes some people days to notice that their server isn't even on the network anymore.
I mean you'd think people would turn on CNN and see SQL WORM RAVAGES INTERNET, and think, gee don't I have a machine running an SQL server, maybe I should check up on that? But no.
The reality is that there was a patch available for this months before and nobody bothered to install it, I don't think a few more hours would have made much of a difference at least where I work.
With golden skin and flippers as sharp as a knife He's the machine designed to dismember your life And the fish protecting us all from the cat And the cat infecting the world for a laugh Cyborg on a mission to do some perfishin The doctor wants foogoo tonight
You need some machismo to catch the spiky one He's got guts and gizmos to make the system run (?) flips here for fun And without a gun He'll dice you with his golden fin
She's all over puff cause he's such a sexy catch Is she spying on him? Or just a seafood match? Oh double seven, send me to heaven Cause for mister pun the women are fun She knows what to do She'll turn gold to goo Gold flipper is gone Gold flipper is gone
There's an intersting article at The Economist which compares the consortium driven but currently non functioning W-CDMA standard and the Qualcomm owned but currently 2 Million plus userbase CDMA2000-1X standard.
Basically what has happened in Europe is that Telecom companies have paid about $90 Billion for the spectrum and rights to roll out 3G services but are *only* allowed to use W-CDMA. The problem is it doesn't work yet, and who knows when it will.
Meanwhile in Japan, South America, and elsewhere they are using CDMA2000-1X and they've signed up millions of users.
The Eurocrat regulators' stance seems to be "na na na na, I can't hear you, na na na na na na na" while telecom company debt builds up to the point where it may crush some companies before they ever get to actually roll out any 3G services.
The parent comment is *NOT* the release notes from 1.1Beta which this story is about. This is the release notes for 1.1ALPHA which was released over a month ago. The release notes for 1.1BETA are as follows.
Improvements to Arabic shaping which result in better layout of Arabic
pages on Linux and other platforms without their own Arabic support.
A
bug
was fixed which caused English text in text boxes to be displayed in
the wrong direction on Hebrew pages.
The JavaScript Debugger
has gone through a major development cycle. It now sports a palette of
nine views which can be rearranged within the main window, or docked in
separate floating windows. It is also possible to create user defined
views and commands directly with JavaScript. More details are available
in the
FAQ,
newsgroup,
or IRC channel.
Distinct window icons on MS Windows for the different Mozilla applications
Mozilla on Linux now has Fullscreen mode. (press F11)
All Search entry points now your default search engine.
Improved site compatability and rendering.
The tab bar now has a button for creating new tabs.
The following "free" clients are recommended for interoperating with OpenSSH
from Windows machines:
PuTTY
is an SSH1+SSH2 implementation. PSCP, an
scp-style
program for Windows, is also available.
PuTTY is available under the MIT licence (BSD-like).
"PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms,
written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, who lives in Great Britain."
TTSSH (SSH1)
is an SSH1-only implementation, by Robert O'Callahan.
"TTSSH is a free SSH client for Windows. It is implemented as an
extension DLL for Teraterm Pro. Teraterm Pro is a superb free terminal
emulator/telnet client for Windows, and its source is available. TTSSH
adds SSH capabilities to Teraterm Pro without sacrificing any of
Teraterm's existing functionality. TTSSH is also free to download and
use and its source is available too, with an open source
license. Furthermore, TTSSH has been developed entirely in Australia [...]."
WinSCP is a scp(1) program for Windows, with PuTTY integrated into it.
The following clients are recommended for interoperating with OpenSSH from
Mac machines:
NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH
is an SSH1-only implementation which comes with a
scp-style
program. Written by Jonas Wallden.
"NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH r3 is an enhanced version of Chris Newman's
NiftyTelnet 1.1 application which adds support for encrypted terminal
sessions using the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. Please read the
included Readme file before distributing this version."
"MacSSH is a modified version of BetterTelnet with SSH2 support. [...]
The only SSH2 client for MacOS that I could find is a commercial product
thats costs more than $100, and it crashes my Mac when closing a session...
Since it's best to do things by oneself, here's MacSSH."
GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the environment. They are just like many greedy corporations, they will make money...
Why do people always try to demonise the pursuit of profit? When your boss offers you payment to compensate you for the time you spent working do you say "oh no no, I'm not going to behave like a greedy corporation, I'm happy to work for free." No, you expect that because you have provided something of value, your labour, you should be provided payment for that.
So you're right GM is not building fuel cells to help the environment, but you know what, neither is Bob's Environmentally Friendly Toothpaste Company. Both Bob and GM and every other business has the same objective, to make a profit, because if they don't the business disappears.
As for corporations being "greedy" well businesses only make money if they provide consumers with products they want. Businesses know that if they want to get your money they will have to give you the best product at the best price or they're sunk.
In my experience no one has ever put a gun to my head and made me purchase their product. If you think a particular manufacturer produces an inferior product then by all means, don't buy it.
If you don't like GM there are many other manufacturers who would like to satisfy your needs. Hey if you don't want to "support the automotive industry" that's fine too, buy a scooter, use public transit, skateboard, hire a rickshaw, whatever it's your choice.
Here's the kicker, the reason you have so many other choices besides the automotive industry is because there are many other "greedy corporations" out there trying to sell you alternatives. Even if you decide to walk, thank the greedy shoe company for spending R&D money developing the extra cushiony insole so you won't have blisters.
One of the most interesting and controversial yet least known upcoming space telescope projects currently on the drawing boards at NASA's JPL. The tentatively named the Spacebourne Ultra Viewer should more than triple the size of the proposed Next Generation Space Telescope.
Because of the huge cost involved in such a project and the increasing risk of orbital debris the telescope will be sheathed in a special alloyed sleeve. The sleeve itself is so massive that it is estimated it will take 3 shuttle flights to lift its segments. Detractors of the project say that while the sleeve does provide excellent protection that fact is more than offset by decreased mobility by making the craft ungainly and impractical to manoeuvre. Another concern is that the huge size of the telescope will interfere with the viewing instrumentation on other nearby space instruments.
However project director Harold Mann responded to the criticisms by saying "Sure my SUV blocks other's view, has terrible fuel efficiency, and handles like shit, but hey if there's a collision it'll be the other guy who gets creamed, especially if it's one of those dinky Japanese models, and in America that's how we like it."
First off I want to dispel the myth that only small fry peon sites have standards compliance problems. Bugzilla currently has 1920 Tech Evangelism bugs open. These bugs all deal with websites that have poor coding resulting in problems rendering properly in Mozilla. These are sites like:
National Australia Bank Click "Register Now" and you get a "Your Browser Version is not supported"
CN Rail North America's Railroad (Excluding non-NS6 users).
Bank Of America Try to apply for a gold card and the form gets screwed up.
Benjamin Moore Sorry our page is designed for IE only, buy your paint elsewhere.
Connectsite Exchange, Collaborate, Connect! Unless of course your using a non IE browser, then go away.
This isn't counting the 1720 Tech Evangelism bugs that have already been resolved. Sites like salomonsmithbarney.com, yahoo.com, cbs.com, citrix.com and many many more have all resolved improper coding issues that screwed up non IE rendering. But the positive news is that in 1720 cases web administrators have changed their websites to make them unbroken.
Here's an example. One of the most highly reported bugs (bug 114812) that has since been fixed was with hotmail. Due to faulty javascript implementation if you would select the "ALL MESSAGES" box in your inbox only one message would actually be selected, so to delete the mountains of spam that accumulate daily you had to click the box beside _each_individual_message_. Clicking 200 checkboxes after not checking your mailbox for a few days does not a fun time make. Anyway after about 6 months of pestering microsoft finally fixed it. The moral: If complaining can make Microsoft make its pages standards compliant well the sky's the limit.
Anyway if you want to do something to help check out Mozilla Evangelism The site is chock full of advice about how to report and deal with non-compliant websites. You can even use the Letter Writing Tool to write and send a nifty letter to website administrators who haven't yet seen the light. Obviously the site is geared to getting things to work properly in Mozilla, but the fact is, things tend to work in Mozilla if they are standards compliant.
Oh no, not the return of the Never-Ending-Splashscreen-Debate-From-Hell. Oh it all starts out nice "we need a prettier splashscreen, here I made one check it out." Then the accusations of satanism and communism begin (seriously). [to view the links you'll have to copy the link location into the address bar. Bugzilla doesn't accept direct links from slashdot]
Long story short, they can't change the splashscreen because of the legal wrangling
necessary. But ANYONE can change the splashscreen to anything by putting at.bmp file named mozilla.bmp in their/mozilla directory.
Personally I think the best ones are here, and no it's not listed on the big list of splashscreens given before.
I believe the argument on that site is the fallacious one. In my understanding it argues that yelling "Fire" in a theatre is wrong only because it violates the implicit contractual agreement one enters into by buying a theatre ticket; that is, you will shut up and watch the movie and not disrupt other's ability to do so. But when I imagine what could happen if someone actualy yelled fire in a crowded theatre I think of people running for their lives and people possibly being trampled. I think of fire trucks being dispatched and possibly being unable to respond to other real fires and the loss of life and property that may result because of that. In sum, yelling fire is not illegal because it violates implied acceptable behaviour but because it is likely to result in severe harm to others.
I think there's another cliché that is applicable here and it is "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Here's another example where there's no implied contract. Imagine I run out onto the street holding a syringe full of poison and say to someone "The city has just been sprayed with Anthrax, here inject yourself with this antidote!" the person does and promptly dies. Would it be acceptable to claim that I had just been exercising my right to free speech? After all I can say whatever I want and no speech should be made illegal. Obviously in this case my speech has resulted in actions that have severely harmed others and as such it should be illegal.
I personally think that there are many laws that construe what should be restricted in an overbroad way in many countries but I do believe that a strong case can be made for disallowing certain expressions that will cause severe harm to others.
Slashdot Mirror
Just throw up some page on the web that says it sells unrefined uranium ore as a novelty or bulk amounts of chemicals used in making a conventional bomb or chemical weapon - no questions asked - and see who it is who's interested in buying these things.
If it we me, I'd create a site called ScienceSalvage.com. Sell a bunch of legit science junk, but then occasionally throw in that you just found a lot of powdered cyanide or an old cesium powered radiation treatment machine and see who's willing to shell out a fair chunk of change for something like that. If they eventually order you can just say sorry we already had another buyer and hadn't bothered to update the site. The next day white vans appear infront of the would be buyer's house.
But if you want to read a really good (and factual) article about a boy scout who built a breeder reactor in his back yard out of radioactive paint and old smoke detectors check out the Harper's magazine story here.
It's a long article but a great read.
McGwire: Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?
Crowd: Dingers! Dingers!
[McGwire hits the long ball]
Oooh!
McGwire: [takes printout] Yoink!
[tucks it under his hat and looks around, suspiciously]
snpp.com
I've noticed that because MS has integrated IE with the OS, when IE crashes it often brings down my whole system, requiring a reboot, but when Moz crashes the system is fine and I just need to reload Moz and keep going.
Personally I find IE crashes much more often than Moz, but even if they both crashed with the same frequency it's a much bigger hassle to recover from an IE crash.
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening,
All over this a land.
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between Dwarves and Elves
All over this land!
My point is this: The Mozilla Organization is generally a bunch of good guys who are trying to help the open source movement. The Santa Cruz Operation are a bunch of heinous bastards who are trying to sue linux into non-existence.
The Moz/Firebird situation is a quibble about a name. The SCO situation is about using legal trickery to destroy linux. I think everyone working at SCO should know what people think about what they are trying to do so I stand behind my parent posting.
Contact SCO and tell them what you think of their buisness methods:
1-888-465-4689
1-800-726-8649 (Support)
801-765-1313 (FAX)
Or if you perfer the personal touch you might want to BCC these people:
jant@sco.com, rr@sco.com, sco@schwartz-pr.com, andrewk@sco.com, anz_info@sco.com, rhondap@sco.com, bstowell@sco.com, skunkware@sco.com, jkj@sco.com, patrickm@sco.com, phatch@sco.com, polska@caldera.com, louisi@sco.com, murray@sco.com, maindesk@sco.com, rogerv@sco.com, alf@sco.com, asirotin@caldera.com, alee@sco.com, rickpo@sco.com, kathyp@sco.com, deanr@sco.com, evanh@caldera.com, jls@sco.com, dfp@caldera.com, carlsa@sco.com, kieramy@caldera.com, belal@caldera.com, rhondap@caldera.com, jlw@caldera.com, bobs@caldera.com, petrs@caldera.com, robertl@caldera.com, jgale@caldera.com, tim.rose@caldera.com, wynnw@caldera.com, tbird@caldera.com, andyb@caldera.com
If they're afraid their google rank is going to drop they should see what happens to us when someone searches for "Install Windows!"
Now if only we had thought of that whole email bomb campaign in the 80's.. sigh...
I think Theo has been right about any technical and licencing issues (i.e. ipf) but cheerist, shut your yaphole when people are giving you badly needed funding with no strings attatched. The war has NOTHING to do with OpenBSD and if the KKK/Hitler/Child Pornographers of America trust fund wants to donate vast sums, take it and run. If someone asks how you feel about getting the money from them repeat after me: "The organisations that have donated money to the project have absoutley no control over it's direction so my personal feelings are irrelevant."
Oh well too late. Loose lips sink ships.
1-888-465-4689
1-800-726-8649 (Support)
801-765-1313 (FAX)
Or submit an email on their webform HERE
Or if you perfer the personal touch you might want to BCC these people:
jant@sco.com, rr@sco.com, sco@schwartz-pr.com, andrewk@sco.com, anz_info@sco.com, rhondap@sco.com, bstowell@sco.com, skunkware@sco.com, jkj@sco.com, patrickm@sco.com, phatch@sco.com, polska@caldera.com, louisi@sco.com, murray@sco.com, maindesk@sco.com, rogerv@sco.com, alf@sco.com, asirotin@caldera.com, alee@sco.com, rickpo@sco.com, kathyp@sco.com, deanr@sco.com, evanh@caldera.com, jls@sco.com, dfp@caldera.com, carlsa@sco.com, kieramy@caldera.com, belal@caldera.com, rhondap@caldera.com, jlw@caldera.com, bobs@caldera.com, petrs@caldera.com, robertl@caldera.com, jgale@caldera.com, tim.rose@caldera.com, wynnw@caldera.com, tbird@caldera.com, andyb@caldera.com
Actually there are about 100 people worldwide searching for NEOs according to NASA's Ames Research Centre Asteroid Coment Impact Hazards Website.
The most productive NEO search program is the USAF/MIT run LINEAR which has discovered more NEOs than all other search programs combined.
Other search progrms include
- NEAT
- Spacewatch
-
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS)
- Catalina Sky Survey
- Japanese Spaceguard Association (JSGA)
- Asiago DLR Asteroid Survey (ADAS)
NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office helps co-ordiante the activites of all the searchers.I haven't been able to read the article because it's slashdotted, but it makes me wonder why they would have something like the Torino Impact Scale if they weren't going to use it to inform the public. So far only one object has ever has ever been classifed a "1" on the tornio scale, but that doesn't look like it's going to a a problem. But with most NEOs still unidentified the most likely warning we will have is none at all.
If we were to discover tomorrow that a comet or asteroid is on an Earth- intersecting path, what could we do about it? What would you recommend doing about it?
Actually, some 100 bodies have already been discovered on orbits which take them so close to the Earth's orbit, that they could hit in the far distant future. This is because the orbits of these bodies change slowly with time. Although their orbits do not intersect Earth's orbit at present, they could hit in a few thousand years or more.
The scenario you have in mind is most likely to unfold as follows. In the course of our search for Earth-crossing asteroids, we could find one that will hit not in the next year, or even in the next ten years, but might hit in the next hundred years. We believe that the chance that we will find such an object is only 1 in 1,000, even after a complete search. If we do find such an object, we will have plenty of time to track it, measure its orbit more precisely, and plan a system for deflecting it from its current orbit (hopefully away from the Earth's). There will be no great hurry, and no great panic. It would be a project for all the world's nations to take part in. It could be a globally unifying event. Because we will have found it long before it actually hits the Earth, it probably would take only a small impulse (chemical rockets, or perhaps mass drivers) to divert it from a threatening path.
There is a much smaller chance that we would find one that could impact in the next 10 years. The chance of that happening is 1 in 10,000. If this were to happen, we would probably still have time to launch a crash program of scientific and technological research, with the goal of characterizing both the structure of the menacing asteroid, and the best means for diverting its orbit.
The least likely scenario is that we would find one that could hit in the next year. The chance is 1 in 100,000. In that case, there is probably little that we could do to divert it.
Network Operations had to manually disconnect MANY servers which were just saturating the network. After doing this we got calls days later from people saying "My students are complaining that they can't access my server, any idea why this is?" So if you're expecting that every server has some crack squad of administrators scouring the net to make sure it's updated to the fullest - well sorry, it takes some people days to notice that their server isn't even on the network anymore.
I mean you'd think people would turn on CNN and see SQL WORM RAVAGES INTERNET, and think, gee don't I have a machine running an SQL server, maybe I should check up on that? But no.
The reality is that there was a patch available for this months before and nobody bothered to install it, I don't think a few more hours would have made much of a difference at least where I work.
With golden skin and flippers as sharp as a knife
He's the machine designed to dismember your life
And the fish protecting us all from the cat
And the cat infecting the world for a laugh
Cyborg on a mission to do some perfishin
The doctor wants foogoo tonight
You need some machismo to catch the spiky one
He's got guts and gizmos to make the system run
(?) flips here for fun
And without a gun
He'll dice you with his golden fin
She's all over puff cause he's such a sexy catch
Is she spying on him? Or just a seafood match?
Oh double seven, send me to heaven
Cause for mister pun the women are fun
She knows what to do
She'll turn gold to goo
Gold flipper is gone
Gold flipper is gone
Basically what has happened in Europe is that Telecom companies have paid about $90 Billion for the spectrum and rights to roll out 3G services but are *only* allowed to use W-CDMA. The problem is it doesn't work yet, and who knows when it will. Meanwhile in Japan, South America, and elsewhere they are using CDMA2000-1X and they've signed up millions of users.
The Eurocrat regulators' stance seems to be "na na na na, I can't hear you, na na na na na na na" while telecom company debt builds up to the point where it may crush some companies before they ever get to actually roll out any 3G services.
RJ stands for Registered Jack (check out the glossary at the end of this FCC document).
BNC stands for Bayonet Neill Concelman
OpenSSH for Windows includes ssh, scp, and sftp servers for Win XP, NT, and 2000.
- PuTTY
is an SSH1+SSH2 implementation. PSCP, an
scp-style
program for Windows, is also available.
- TTSSH (SSH1)
is an SSH1-only implementation, by Robert O'Callahan.
- Cygwin (POSIX software on top of Windows)
- MSSH
- OpenSSH for Windows
- Secure iXplorer
- WinSCP
The following clients are recommended for interoperating with OpenSSH from Mac machines:PuTTY is available under the MIT licence (BSD-like).
"PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham, who lives in Great Britain."
"TTSSH is a free SSH client for Windows. It is implemented as an extension DLL for Teraterm Pro. Teraterm Pro is a superb free terminal emulator/telnet client for Windows, and its source is available. TTSSH adds SSH capabilities to Teraterm Pro without sacrificing any of Teraterm's existing functionality. TTSSH is also free to download and use and its source is available too, with an open source license. Furthermore, TTSSH has been developed entirely in Australia [...]."
OpenSSH (SSH1 and SSH2 protocol) with Cygwin can run on Windows using the portable version of OpenSSH.
MSSH from the Metropolitan State College of Denver supports Windows 95 and Windows 98, supporting SSH1 protocol.
Another OpenSSH running on top of Windows..
Secure iXplorer is graphical front end to PuTTY's pscp.exe.
WinSCP is a scp(1) program for Windows, with PuTTY integrated into it.
"NiftyTelnet 1.1 SSH r3 is an enhanced version of Chris Newman's NiftyTelnet 1.1 application which adds support for encrypted terminal sessions using the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. Please read the included Readme file before distributing this version."
"MacSSH is a modified version of BetterTelnet with SSH2 support. [...] The only SSH2 client for MacOS that I could find is a commercial product thats costs more than $100, and it crashes my Mac when closing a session... Since it's best to do things by oneself, here's MacSSH."
Why do people always try to demonise the pursuit of profit? When your boss offers you payment to compensate you for the time you spent working do you say "oh no no, I'm not going to behave like a greedy corporation, I'm happy to work for free." No, you expect that because you have provided something of value, your labour, you should be provided payment for that.
So you're right GM is not building fuel cells to help the environment, but you know what, neither is Bob's Environmentally Friendly Toothpaste Company. Both Bob and GM and every other business has the same objective, to make a profit, because if they don't the business disappears.
As for corporations being "greedy" well businesses only make money if they provide consumers with products they want. Businesses know that if they want to get your money they will have to give you the best product at the best price or they're sunk. In my experience no one has ever put a gun to my head and made me purchase their product. If you think a particular manufacturer produces an inferior product then by all means, don't buy it. If you don't like GM there are many other manufacturers who would like to satisfy your needs. Hey if you don't want to "support the automotive industry" that's fine too, buy a scooter, use public transit, skateboard, hire a rickshaw, whatever it's your choice.
Here's the kicker, the reason you have so many other choices besides the automotive industry is because there are many other "greedy corporations" out there trying to sell you alternatives. Even if you decide to walk, thank the greedy shoe company for spending R&D money developing the extra cushiony insole so you won't have blisters.
Because of the huge cost involved in such a project and the increasing risk of orbital debris the telescope will be sheathed in a special alloyed sleeve. The sleeve itself is so massive that it is estimated it will take 3 shuttle flights to lift its segments. Detractors of the project say that while the sleeve does provide excellent protection that fact is more than offset by decreased mobility by making the craft ungainly and impractical to manoeuvre. Another concern is that the huge size of the telescope will interfere with the viewing instrumentation on other nearby space instruments.
However project director Harold Mann responded to the criticisms by saying "Sure my SUV blocks other's view, has terrible fuel efficiency, and handles like shit, but hey if there's a collision it'll be the other guy who gets creamed, especially if it's one of those dinky Japanese models, and in America that's how we like it."
This isn't counting the 1720 Tech Evangelism bugs that have already been resolved. Sites like salomonsmithbarney.com, yahoo.com, cbs.com, citrix.com and many many more have all resolved improper coding issues that screwed up non IE rendering. But the positive news is that in 1720 cases web administrators have changed their websites to make them unbroken.
Here's an example. One of the most highly reported bugs (bug 114812) that has since been fixed was with hotmail. Due to faulty javascript implementation if you would select the "ALL MESSAGES" box in your inbox only one message would actually be selected, so to delete the mountains of spam that accumulate daily you had to click the box beside _each_individual_message_. Clicking 200 checkboxes after not checking your mailbox for a few days does not a fun time make. Anyway after about 6 months of pestering microsoft finally fixed it. The moral: If complaining can make Microsoft make its pages standards compliant well the sky's the limit.
Anyway if you want to do something to help check out Mozilla Evangelism The site is chock full of advice about how to report and deal with non-compliant websites. You can even use the Letter Writing Tool to write and send a nifty letter to website administrators who haven't yet seen the light. Obviously the site is geared to getting things to work properly in Mozilla, but the fact is, things tend to work in Mozilla if they are standards compliant.
Oh it all starts out nice "we need a prettier splashscreen, here I made one check it out." Then the accusations of satanism and communism begin (seriously). [to view the links you'll have to copy the link location into the address bar. Bugzilla doesn't accept direct links from slashdot]
Long story short, they can't change the splashscreen because of the legal wrangling necessary. But ANYONE can change the splashscreen to anything by putting at .bmp file named mozilla.bmp in their /mozilla directory.
Personally I think the best ones are here, and no it's not listed on the big list of splashscreens given before.
Here's some poetry I wrote about the demise of the Lone Gunmen's series in 2001.
I think there's another cliché that is applicable here and it is "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Here's another example where there's no implied contract. Imagine I run out onto the street holding a syringe full of poison and say to someone "The city has just been sprayed with Anthrax, here inject yourself with this antidote!" the person does and promptly dies. Would it be acceptable to claim that I had just been exercising my right to free speech? After all I can say whatever I want and no speech should be made illegal. Obviously in this case my speech has resulted in actions that have severely harmed others and as such it should be illegal.
I personally think that there are many laws that construe what should be restricted in an overbroad way in many countries but I do believe that a strong case can be made for disallowing certain expressions that will cause severe harm to others.