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Posted by emmett on Sunday July 16, @01:32AMfrom the remember-the-alamo dept. OzzyFudd writes "I have recently returned from the Microsoft Professional Developers conference and posted a scathing journal of my week there at www.ozzyfudd.com I am an architech who works in largely heterogenous environments, hence, I go because I have to. I offer here some commentary, criticism, and humor from behind enemy lines." Gives some interesting insight into the future of C#, as well. ( Read More... | 30 of 51 comments )
Posted by michael on Saturday July 15, @06:15PMfrom the when-spammers-attack dept. An Anonymous Coward sent in "Direct Magazine is carrying the story Yesmail Gets Restraining Order Against MAPS Blacklist (curiously dated July 17). YesMail has apparently obtained a restraining order preventing MAPS from entering it into its Real-time Black-hole List." ( Read More... | 133 of 249 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 15, @02:34PMfrom the stuff-to-read dept. Fawking DSL writes: "BSD Today reviews the new features, supported cards, and installation of XFree86 version 4.0.1." The article starts off by saying that XF864.0 "Shocked The World" which I find mind numbingly amusing, but it's a good review. ( Read More... | 53 of 154 comments )
Posted by jamie on Saturday July 15, @01:45PMfrom the kids-these-days dept. "AOL wants your children to be safe online," using their Parental Controls. There's just one problem with their censorware. You can see any site you want by appending a "." to the hostname - and this has been true since at least 1997, when Mike Sklut of newriot.com discovered the simple exploit. At the time, he was 11 years old. Despite his having told a few thousand of his closest friends, AOL didn't wise up to the fact until yesterday morning. Mike's out of town at a baseball tournament, but we managed to trade e-mail with him about his early hacking years. ( Read More... | 9986 bytes in body | 89 of 174 comments | Features )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 15, @01:30PMfrom the never-forget-a-password-again dept. Pac writes: "The U-Match mouse has an embedded fingerprint scanning device. It is currently available only for Windows 9x/NT, but Biolink says it will have a Unix\Linux version by the end of the year and a Mac version in the beginning of 2001." I've been eyeballing finger scanners since I saw a nifty one that worked through PAM at a tradeshow one time: I still think it'd be very convenient if it worked, but I'm very skeptical that something like this could gain widespread acceptance. ( Read More... | 74 of 95 comments )
Posted by emmett on Saturday July 15, @12:28PMfrom the trust-me dept. Robert J. Berger writes: "A press release from the ACLU says they are using the Freedom of Information Act to seek all of the codes, records, letters and memorandums related to the FBI programs dubbed 'Carnivore', 'Omnivore' and 'Etherpeek.' "The FBI is saying 'trust us, we're not violating anybody's privacy,"' said Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the ACLU. "With all due respect, we'd like to determine that for ourselves."" ( Read More... | 87 of 156 comments )
Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 15, @10:46AMfrom the stripping-down-the-lizard dept. Motor writes: "The very excellent weekly newsletter NTK (Need To Know) tipped me off about galeon - a desperately needed attempt to build a mere browser (as opposed to an entire operating system/xterm/game console) using the best bit of the Mozilla project: gecko." I wondered how long before someone did this. Very excellent looking. ( Read More... | 141 of 212 comments )
Posted by emmett on Saturday July 15, @07:16AMfrom the masaki-san dept. randomErr write: "AIC, the people who did the good Tenchi episodes, has announced here that they are doing another series. They haven't said if it would be a based on the OVA series or a continuation of Tenchi in Tokyo. BTW, if you can't read Japanese, Click Here for a bad translation by Anime News Network." You guys know about Tenchi, right? It's about the high school kid that meets up with a demon, and the creepy 700-year-old mummy morphs into a girl space pirate? I love anime. ( Read More... | 61 of 128 comments )
Posted by Cliff on Saturday July 15, @07:10AMfrom the helpful-recommendations-wanted dept. Jeff Kwiatkowski asks: "We are looking to roll out Linux to over 2500 desktops and could use any advice that we can get. We need security info, implementation suggestions and any other advice that you would care to offer. We are currently evaluating Debian, Caldera and Red Hat. I also want a minimalist desktop, so I have been leaning toward WindowMaker as the window manager. In addition, we currently have machines with 32 meg of RAM (fast processors, though) and would like to keep the upgrade to 64 meg, only, if possible. Lastly, do any of you have any thoughts on Word Perfect vs. Applixware?" For those of you who think that the claim 'Linux is not ready for the desktop' is a falsehood, then this story is for you. As you can see, people are looking at deploying Linux on the desktop, and suggestions from you guys could make this process a lot easier. ( Read More... | 176 of 247 comments | Ask Slashdot )
Posted by Roblimo on Saturday July 15, @06:41AMfrom the slow-Saturday-mornings dept. We got a number of submissions about this. The Tribal Council Voting History page for the CBS TV show Survivor apparently contains a bug that lets you see which contestants have been kicked off the show before their names appear on the site, sort of like the Slashdot bug (now fixed) that sometimes let you see our stories before they appeared on the main page. The clearest instructions I saw for exploiting the "Survivor Spoiler" bug were here. I'm sure CBS will fix this soon, but you could still pull the trick as of 6:40 a.m. (US EDT) this morning. Do you think this is a true bug, or is CBS doing it on purpose (with the "wrong people" crossed out) to increase interest in the show? ( Read More... | 77 of 112 comments ) |
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