The fact that Moz does the right thing without putting up an "alert" window is a bug? That's a bit of a stretch, if I'm understanding it right.
The issue with IE isn't that it takes you to the "secret" URL, it's that it allows the true location of the "secret" URL to NOT be displayed because of a formatting error, so what you see in your URL bar may NOT be the URL of the site you're at (it's pushed "down" a line with an %01 character or something).
Safari takes you to the URL just fine, and also shows it to you. This is correct behavior, and it's what I'd expect. I assume Moz does the same, but I haven't used it in a while.
I was going to take another look at your license agreement to see if it was any less preposterous than the previous one, which basically wanted admin privileges on user's machines so it could shoehorn in all kinds of DRM crap and all the usual garbage. After supplying the usual fake information in order to access the download (following links from the "version 10" announcement on the front page), what came down for OSX was labeled version 9, beta.
You should put the license agreement somewhere obvious on the site so people can inspect it before downloading. And maybe don't have links to version 10 until version 10 is really there?
Glad you're reading slashdot. I'd take careful notes on the comments in here to learn why most slashdotters can't abide Real, and make whatever changes you can make.
Even if I don't, explain to me how paying for other kids' mp3s is going to prevent unwanted pregnancies or death by AIDS, which are human/social conditions. Not having people die at school is something I'm willing to sling a little tuition money towards. Your not being able to play Britney for free on your windows PC, however, isn't going to keep me up at night.
They should. But they shouldn't force the 5% who can't use it to subsidize it for the others. Do whatever you want, Windows users, but don't ask me to pay for it.
Good point. Let's all be sure we have something to sell them when we call. I have an extra comb around here, and I'll be happy to sell it to them for, say, $1 plus $3 shipping and handling. Now it's a sales call, and I have every intention of transacting an honest business deal and looking for new customers for my venture.
missing000's comment is quite correct, there's a mistake in my original post. Omit the DenyUsers line, it will override the AllowUsers line. Just use the AllowUsers line by itself.
Sorry.
AllowUsers you@your_ip_address
Remember, always test making a new ssh connection before logging out of your existing one, after restarting sshd.
you can restrict access in your/etc/sshd_config (wherever you have it) like so until you can get the patched version, if you allow access from anywhere:
DenyUsers * AllowUsers you@your_ip_address
(and restart sshd)
You can also firewall the port off. I've done a hodge-podge of these solutions on different systems I admin until I can actually get the 3.7p1 source from the mirrors (they dont' seem to have it yet).
You should definitely build qmail with the QMAILQUEUE patch - this opens up a world of possibilities for customizing what happens to mail on the way in to your machine.
Combine this with qmail-qfilters, which allows you to daisy-chain simple filter scripts you can whip up yourself to examine messages and decide what to do with them. The site has some examples.
Sobig.* and other viruses with predictable patterns (like one of eight or so standard subjects and a body with other clues) can be blocked very easily with this.
I've been keeping my old machines instead of selling them for YEARS. You don't get squat for them anyway. My old Mac Plus is the only machine I have that will run Rogue (Epyx, 1985), one of TEH BSET GAEMS EVAR. I have a room full of old machines, and I keep them running.
I also have my original Atari 2600 (and a backup), NES (on which I recently replaced the 72-pin connector to get rid of the "flashies"), SNES, Oddesy 2 (really), Atari 400 (my first actual computer, with my disk drives and floppies that still boot after over 20 years), and so forth. Cartridges for the games you loved and played are easy to find and cheap.
I also have a Robotron machine in my living room and a Defender on the way.
The point is: no, you can't count on new hardware to run legacy games and software. Support may be gone forever and eventually the disks will stop working, but the best way to ensure that your old games are still playable is to not garage-sale them in the first place. Take care of your old machines and they will take care of you. <dieter>TOUCH THEM, LOVE THEM!</dieter>
If Amazon was wearing a white hat, they could get the patent (which they did) and then tell everyone that they won't enforce it, go ahead and make the internet better. Granting a patent for one-click shopping is stupid and broken; enforcing it strips away any veneer of "nobility" they could have had on the issue.
Anyway, I'm sure the FSF or EFF will appreciate your check for the amount you save every time you buy from Amazon.
This message needs to be delivered loudly and clearly to Mr. Gates. You don't get to whisper vaguely about IP theft in the current climate. Either show us the source you claim has your IP in it, or keep your mouth shut.
Apache HTTP Server addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
It helps if you can distinguish between hardware and software before entering into such a discussion.
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Excellent points, thanks. I'll just add a few notes:
- Don't forget that Perl is bright blue, while PHP is dark green. If you have an aversion to bright blue, you should definitely code in PHP.
- Three out of four gnomes script their underwear-cart code in PHP; Perl gets sticky on hot days.
- Perl behaves badly under zero-gravity conditions; PHP will actually make your computer lighter. The benefits of this should be obvious to everyone.
Really, there's no competition. PHP is the obvious choice - and its emissions are less fattening, too.
They will start viewing little Johnny as being a horrible ciminal just because he downloads T3 on the net instead of pay the $10 to see it in the theater.
Well, not to be pedantic, but... isn't this true? If little Johnny downloads T3 on the net, he is a criminal. And he was before the MPAA started making noise, too. Informing people of this isn't FUD, it's FACT.
Far be it from me to defend the MPAA, whose thug-like tactics I absolutely abhor. I welcome any civil behavior from them, and running ads to try to make their case to the public is extremely civil. Doesn't it beat Orrin Hatch trying to hack your computer because he thinks there might be something illegal on it?
How is this different from any other form of advertising? If you've got money, you can buy air time.
I'd love to have public airwaves for rebuttal to all the stupid ads I see, but that's not the issue at hand. The ??AA have just as much right to run ads as anybody else, even if we don't like them.
I completely support the (MP|RI)AA doing everything they can in the court of public opinion to lobby peoples' attitudes about copying. People can talk to me all they want, as long as I can change the channel or choose not to listen - or choose TO listen and consider their views.
Lobbying to pass laws to criminalize behavior is a whole different matter - that's the brute-force approach that leverages the State's monopoly on legal violence to achieve their aims.
Run as many ads and try to change as many minds peacefully and through reason as you want. Appeal to peoples' higher instincts. That's perfect.
livephish.com (which a friend tried to get me to visit) used to boot you if you weren't using IE. I sent them an email saying "nice IE application you've got - let me know if/when you do a website." Never heard from them, but they seem to have seen the error of their ways (although they still "recommend" IE, without saying why).
Don't forget, slashdotters - programs run twice as fast in an OS with 64-bit support as in one with only 32-bit support. You can run two side-by-side 32-bit "shells" by only using half the bus for each, or you can just run one twice as fast. You also get twice the screen space, you can fit twice as much in RAM, and your Diablo II stash will be twice as big and you'll get twice as many skill points. That's the part I really can't wait for.
The only way to stop spam is to scrap SMTP and build a new trust based system from the ground up. The protocol is broken and can't be fixed.
If you weren't already at 5, I would have modded you up. Wish I could mod you higher. This is exactly correct, and it makes me a little crazy to see all the continual wasted effort to plug holes in the dike even as new ones steadily emerge.
Please make sure your congresscritter really understands that, and convinces all his/her congresscritter friends the same way. We need to get moving on the alternative, whatever it's going to be. (Tripoli?)
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Uruklink does offer DSL service to a few neigborhoods. I have a 256K line that goes down a few hours a week and a few days a month
Does this mean you have an Uruk-Hai-speed connection?
Sorry, truly sorry. Don't know what came over me. Move along.
The fact that Moz does the right thing without putting up an "alert" window is a bug? That's a bit of a stretch, if I'm understanding it right.
The issue with IE isn't that it takes you to the "secret" URL, it's that it allows the true location of the "secret" URL to NOT be displayed because of a formatting error, so what you see in your URL bar may NOT be the URL of the site you're at (it's pushed "down" a line with an %01 character or something).
Safari takes you to the URL just fine, and also shows it to you. This is correct behavior, and it's what I'd expect. I assume Moz does the same, but I haven't used it in a while.
You mean it's going to be warmer on Mars than it will be in New England on Thursday night?
Can I go on the next trip?
I was going to take another look at your license agreement to see if it was any less preposterous than the previous one, which basically wanted admin privileges on user's machines so it could shoehorn in all kinds of DRM crap and all the usual garbage. After supplying the usual fake information in order to access the download (following links from the "version 10" announcement on the front page), what came down for OSX was labeled version 9, beta.
You should put the license agreement somewhere obvious on the site so people can inspect it before downloading. And maybe don't have links to version 10 until version 10 is really there?
Glad you're reading slashdot. I'd take careful notes on the comments in here to learn why most slashdotters can't abide Real, and make whatever changes you can make.
How do you know I never use them?
Even if I don't, explain to me how paying for other kids' mp3s is going to prevent unwanted pregnancies or death by AIDS, which are human/social conditions. Not having people die at school is something I'm willing to sling a little tuition money towards. Your not being able to play Britney for free on your windows PC, however, isn't going to keep me up at night.
They should. But they shouldn't force the 5% who can't use it to subsidize it for the others. Do whatever you want, Windows users, but don't ask me to pay for it.
You have nothing to sell them.
Good point. Let's all be sure we have something to sell them when we call. I have an extra comb around here, and I'll be happy to sell it to them for, say, $1 plus $3 shipping and handling. Now it's a sales call, and I have every intention of transacting an honest business deal and looking for new customers for my venture.
What's the problem now?
missing000's comment is quite correct, there's a mistake in my original post. Omit the DenyUsers line, it will override the AllowUsers line. Just use the AllowUsers line by itself.
Sorry.
AllowUsers you@your_ip_address
Remember, always test making a new ssh connection before logging out of your existing one, after restarting sshd.
you can restrict access in your /etc/sshd_config (wherever you have it) like so until you can get the patched version, if you allow access from anywhere:
DenyUsers *
AllowUsers you@your_ip_address
(and restart sshd)
You can also firewall the port off. I've done a hodge-podge of these solutions on different systems I admin until I can actually get the 3.7p1 source from the mirrors (they dont' seem to have it yet).
One fellow was even arrested for not wanting stamps with the US flag on it.
Link?
You should definitely build qmail with the QMAILQUEUE patch - this opens up a world of possibilities for customizing what happens to mail on the way in to your machine.
Combine this with qmail-qfilters, which allows you to daisy-chain simple filter scripts you can whip up yourself to examine messages and decide what to do with them. The site has some examples.
Sobig.* and other viruses with predictable patterns (like one of eight or so standard subjects and a body with other clues) can be blocked very easily with this.
...hackers will just point at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com instead. Right?
I've been keeping my old machines instead of selling them for YEARS. You don't get squat for them anyway. My old Mac Plus is the only machine I have that will run Rogue (Epyx, 1985), one of TEH BSET GAEMS EVAR. I have a room full of old machines, and I keep them running.
I also have my original Atari 2600 (and a backup), NES (on which I recently replaced the 72-pin connector to get rid of the "flashies"), SNES, Oddesy 2 (really), Atari 400 (my first actual computer, with my disk drives and floppies that still boot after over 20 years), and so forth. Cartridges for the games you loved and played are easy to find and cheap.
I also have a Robotron machine in my living room and a Defender on the way.
The point is: no, you can't count on new hardware to run legacy games and software. Support may be gone forever and eventually the disks will stop working, but the best way to ensure that your old games are still playable is to not garage-sale them in the first place. Take care of your old machines and they will take care of you. <dieter>TOUCH THEM, LOVE THEM!</dieter>
If Amazon was wearing a white hat, they could get the patent (which they did) and then tell everyone that they won't enforce it, go ahead and make the internet better. Granting a patent for one-click shopping is stupid and broken; enforcing it strips away any veneer of "nobility" they could have had on the issue.
Anyway, I'm sure the FSF or EFF will appreciate your check for the amount you save every time you buy from Amazon.
Am I the only one still boycotting Amazon?
(cue chirping crickets)
...or STFU.
This message needs to be delivered loudly and clearly to Mr. Gates. You don't get to whisper vaguely about IP theft in the current climate. Either show us the source you claim has your IP in it, or keep your mouth shut.
Apache HTTP Server addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
It helps if you can distinguish between hardware and software before entering into such a discussion.
Excellent points, thanks. I'll just add a few notes:
- Don't forget that Perl is bright blue, while PHP is dark green. If you have an aversion to bright blue, you should definitely code in PHP.
- Three out of four gnomes script their underwear-cart code in PHP; Perl gets sticky on hot days.
- Perl behaves badly under zero-gravity conditions; PHP will actually make your computer lighter. The benefits of this should be obvious to everyone.
Really, there's no competition. PHP is the obvious choice - and its emissions are less fattening, too.
They will start viewing little Johnny as being a horrible ciminal just because he downloads T3 on the net instead of pay the $10 to see it in the theater.
Well, not to be pedantic, but... isn't this true? If little Johnny downloads T3 on the net, he is a criminal. And he was before the MPAA started making noise, too. Informing people of this isn't FUD, it's FACT.
Far be it from me to defend the MPAA, whose thug-like tactics I absolutely abhor. I welcome any civil behavior from them, and running ads to try to make their case to the public is extremely civil. Doesn't it beat Orrin Hatch trying to hack your computer because he thinks there might be something illegal on it?
How is this different from any other form of advertising? If you've got money, you can buy air time.
I'd love to have public airwaves for rebuttal to all the stupid ads I see, but that's not the issue at hand. The ??AA have just as much right to run ads as anybody else, even if we don't like them.
I completely support the (MP|RI)AA doing everything they can in the court of public opinion to lobby peoples' attitudes about copying. People can talk to me all they want, as long as I can change the channel or choose not to listen - or choose TO listen and consider their views.
Lobbying to pass laws to criminalize behavior is a whole different matter - that's the brute-force approach that leverages the State's monopoly on legal violence to achieve their aims.
Run as many ads and try to change as many minds peacefully and through reason as you want. Appeal to peoples' higher instincts. That's perfect.
Don't make using tools illegal.
No? Then it's no "Powerbook killer" from where I stand.
Seems to work fine for me with Safari...
livephish.com (which a friend tried to get me to visit) used to boot you if you weren't using IE. I sent them an email saying "nice IE application you've got - let me know if/when you do a website." Never heard from them, but they seem to have seen the error of their ways (although they still "recommend" IE, without saying why).
Don't forget, slashdotters - programs run twice as fast in an OS with 64-bit support as in one with only 32-bit support. You can run two side-by-side 32-bit "shells" by only using half the bus for each, or you can just run one twice as fast. You also get twice the screen space, you can fit twice as much in RAM, and your Diablo II stash will be twice as big and you'll get twice as many skill points. That's the part I really can't wait for.
The only way to stop spam is to scrap SMTP and build a new trust based system from the ground up. The protocol is broken and can't be fixed.
If you weren't already at 5, I would have modded you up. Wish I could mod you higher. This is exactly correct, and it makes me a little crazy to see all the continual wasted effort to plug holes in the dike even as new ones steadily emerge.
Please make sure your congresscritter really understands that, and convinces all his/her congresscritter friends the same way. We need to get moving on the alternative, whatever it's going to be. (Tripoli?)