05/21/06 10:55 - 46ºF - ID#21551
Flash [strike]8.5[/strike] 9.0 beta
Nothing has changed except the name it is claimed.
The new "9.0 beta" for Windows and osX is available at
For Linux Fanboys and Fangirls only
It is possible to experience the new Flash player using Linux with WINE with the Windows versions of Firefox and Flash
I've not tried this with the "9.0 beta" but this works with the "8.5 beta" and with the stable 8.0 release for me.
Sound and Video work ok - including (e:peep) user sounds.
However, when using Firefox and Flash with WINE for estrip.org, some frames have rendering problems. My assumption is that they don't' call it "Flash" because the content of the frames flashs on a regular basis. This bug is duplicated on both Linux boxes.
Generic Instructions
Download and install WINE for your distro.
Download Firefox for Windows and install it with WINE.
Download Flash 8.0 or higher for Windows and install it using WINE.
Here's a brief how-to for Ubuntu that gives a bit more detail:
You should be able to modify this how-to for your favie distro without too much trouble.
--walt ( (e:uncutsaniflush) )
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Category: software piracy?
04/26/06 07:26 - 47ºF - ID#21550
Microsoft to nag pirate WinXP users
I wonder how many people who thought they had legal copies of WinXP will find out that their copy is actually pirated. Only time will tell.
for more info including descriptions of the actual nags from Microsoft Support check out:
--Walt
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03/25/06 08:57 - 32ºF - ID#21549
ajaxwrite
Ajaxwrite is a web-based word processor that is written in AJAX with some XUL. It is claimed that it is MS Office compatible.
I've tested it with some old .doc and .wpd files and it read them ok.
Micheal Robertson, the person responsible for mp3.com, Linspire (Lindows), SIPphone, etc, is behind ajaxwrite.
To me the funniest thing about ajaxwrite is that as of right now it only works on Firefox 1.5 and other browsers based on that version of the gecko rendering engine.
In other words, it doesn't work on MSIE. Supposedly MSIE and Safari compatiblity is in the works.
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Category: web
02/23/06 10:33 - 30ºF - ID#21548
Disabling the nasty clipboard reader
1. Under the Tools menu, select Internet Options
2. Click on the Security tab.
3. In the box labelled, "Security level for this zone", click on Custom Level
4. Scroll all the way down to the Scripting heading
5. Under "Allow paste operations via script" choose the Disable button.
6. Click OK and confirm that Yes you do want to change security settings for this zone.
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Category: security
02/17/06 03:05 - 26ºF - ID#21547
Windows IE security issue with clipboard
--paul
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Category: browsers
02/16/06 05:47 - 40ºF - ID#21546
Camino 1.0 released
Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved web page compatibility.
more info:
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Category: web
01/31/06 03:05 - 33ºF - ID#21545
Microsoft Developer Toolbar
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01/31/06 12:05 - 39ºF - ID#21544
face the nation
Does anyone else get nostalgic for "vintage" [inlink]twisted,296[/inlink] computer memorabilia? I wish I had screenshots of some of my old desktops.
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Category: privacy
01/30/06 09:47 - 39ºF - ID#21543
Internet Privacy
I think that for the vast majority of internet users, privacy is just an illusion. Even if you use a firewall, http (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) sends all sorts of data about you, your computer, your browser and even your monitor's screen resolution to the websites that you surf.
Your IP
When you surf the internet, your connection is uniquely identified by an IP (internel Protocol) number. If you are on a LAN (Local Area Network) you may share that IP with others on the same network.
In general terms for people who surf the 'net at home, knowing a user's IP is enough to find him or her. But . . .
The above is a screenshot with firefox on the left running tor (more about that later in this journal) and konqueror on the right. Both browsers show the ipchicken website which shows my old Linux box's IP. Notice that two different IPs are being returned at the same time.
Privacy at an Internet Cafe?
That's why some people go to internet cafes to surf the 'net. But even that can be problematic since the IP can be traced back to the cafe and computers can be forensically examined - most computers retain much data related to surfing the net - cookies, cached data, etc.
And that is why some people get online at internet cafes using "live cd" operating systems that boot and run entirely from the cd without writing any data to the hard drive. Some good Linux live cds that I have used are SimplyMepis Knoppix Kanotix PCLinuxOS Ubuntu and Slax
But that still does not solve the IP problem. There are also several live cds that are designed for getting online anonymously and privately including Anonym.OS (an OpenBSD distrobution) and Phantomix
Tor - privacy at home?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recommends the use of Tor
Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
I installed and set up tor and firefox on my old Linux box this evening, and it seems to work as promised. Given the nature of how tor works browsing even on a broadband connection is slower.
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Category: vnc
01/19/06 08:18 - 38ºF - ID#21542
tunneling VNC through putty
Here you can see my mac desktop on my windows desktop
You can download a VNC server and client here or at the original hoem of realVNC
Unfortunately, it is not the most secure thing out there. Yes, ytou can buy expensive versions that are highly encrypted but the easiest thing to do, is to tunnel your VNC connection through an SSH client such as putty.
This for example lets me visually control my linux server from afar. In a home network this would allow you to use one computer from a window on another to say change msuci on the computer downstairs.
So anyways if you are using VNC client on windows to view you other desktop, it is easy and freee to pipe it over putty.
Here is how you would do it I copied the info here to so that in case that link goes down you can still find it here.
If the VNC Server is running on a Linux machine or it is running on a Windows machine that is also running sshd, then setup a tunnel from client machine to server machine with: (The following instructions are for PuTTY , adjust accordingly.)
* After entering the address of the client machine, go to the "Tunnels" section under SSH.
* Enter 5901 in the "Source port" box under the "Add new forwarded port" section.
* Enter "localhost:5901" in the "Destination" box
* Make sure that the "Local" radio button is selected
* Click the "Add" button and the information should appear in the "Forwarded ports:" box.
* One can now initiate the connection by pressing the "Open" button
* Once the connection is established, the VNC client can be started from the Windows menu (use display 1)
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Flash is better than Quicktime, I agree
Both use a 1px by 1px transparent flash swf to pipe sounds through to flash streaming audio. It amounts to about 15 lines of code out of around 10,000 lines of code for everything. I don't know if that constitutes "lots of stuff."
The previous alternative was basing sounds on the quicktime player but I find it is less reliable than flash and now quicktime requires a 35MB download with itunes from the apple site, which was too much to ask for people to download.