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The Next 50 Years of Computer Security: An Interview with Alan Cox (O'ReillyNet)
Edd Dumbill talks
with Alan Cox, who will be speaking at O'Reilly's EuroOSCON.
"Alan Cox is well known for his long-standing work on the Linux
kernel, but at O'Reilly's EuroOSCON (October 17-20), he will speak about
computer security. According to Alan, we're just at the beginning of a long
journey into getting security right. Eager for directions and a glimpse of
the future, O'Reilly Network interviewed him about his upcoming
keynote."
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Flashy ads at O'Reilly (O'ReillyNet) Posted Sep 14, 2005 4:43 UTC (Wed) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link] I have a small dead tree note pad on my desk, if I see a flashy ad I immediately cover it without reading the ad. If the ads are obnoxious and cannot be covered or ignored, the company and site get written on the pad under the heading don't buy or visit. Even though I still like O'reilly, I only visit now if it features a must read which Alan Cox is for me. Needless to mention that the company featured in the ad is a non-contender.
Well maybe none of that matters anyway, I will still buy an O'reilly book if needed. But I certainly am not exposed to as many book reviews as I was in the past. That cannot be said for the Company featured in the ad, I would prefer to ditch my computer if they were my only choice.
Sorry to LWN for posting this rant here but all O'reilly email is apparently for members only and I don't want to be a member of an obnoxious flashy ad site.
As to the LWN ads, I find them well mannered and I have a certain initial respect for the companies involved. Probably due primarily to the owner of the site, thanks Mr. Corbet.
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 14, 2005 5:05 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link] I uninstalled flash about four or five years ago for the same reason and I haven't been bothered with flash ads since. I have yet to find any flash content compelling enough for me to install the flash player again.
But in any case, you should check this out: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 14, 2005 6:07 UTC (Wed) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link] Thanks for the link, I will consider it. I must admit to a certain satisfaction in the list that I keep though. Because there may be a connection between the lack of quality of the ad, or willingness to present it that way, and how they make what they are selling. They obviously don't have the best interests of their customers in mind.
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 14, 2005 11:22 UTC (Wed) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] Thanks kindly for that link. I'm a much happier camper now.
Also sorry this thread got hijacked, but it was worth it to me.
Adblock Posted Sep 14, 2005 17:49 UTC (Wed) by jabby (guest, #2648) [Link] You haven't heard of the Adblock extension? It's fantastic! It's #4 on the most popular extensions list.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
You can either add your own custom filters using Adblock interactively, or you can just download and import the most recent filterset from here:
http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/
Tools -> Adblock -> Preferences
It's simply heaven.
adblock Posted Sep 14, 2005 17:00 UTC (Wed) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] Flashblock is good, but if you really don't like seeing ads:
along with Filterset G:
<http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/>>
And I didn't even know O'Reilly had obnoxious flash ads, much less any ads at all...
And I still have flash installed and have no problems with it.
adblock Posted Sep 14, 2005 20:39 UTC (Wed) by job (guest, #670) [Link] The filterset seems to be non-free. Do you know of a project that creates something similar but free?
Filterset G Posted Sep 16, 2005 0:39 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] Non-free - what are you talking about? It's right here:
<http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/2005-09-05a.txt>>
just import that into adblock prefs. Better yet, follow the
<http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/instructions.txt>>
It's totally free...
Filterset G Posted Sep 16, 2005 22:58 UTC (Fri) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] He's talking about the licensing terms which are right here:http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/license.txt And are way past non-Free and well into needlessly obnoxious.
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 14, 2005 22:30 UTC (Wed) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] You could just run Linux on an AMD64 CPU, and then you wouldn't get any Flash.
:-/
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 15, 2005 8:16 UTC (Thu) by druiloor (guest, #26069) [Link] http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/
Flashy ads at O'Reilly Posted Sep 15, 2005 8:36 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] According to the Gentoo ebuild, this supports Flash <= 4, which is not sohelpful considering that Macromedia currently publishes Flash player 7 for Linux, and Flash player 8 for Windows & Mac. There is a GplFlash effort on SourceForge: http://gplflash.sourceforge.net Looking through on-line forums reveals things like "crashes my browser" and "under heavy development". AFAIK the only way to view Flash on AMD64 is via 32-bit compatability methods (like 32-bit chroot environments) to run the proprietary code.
No flash in my main browser Posted Sep 15, 2005 0:03 UTC (Thu) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link] I like to run two browsers. The one used almost all the time has no flash installed and the other one has flash installed. Maybe 3 times a week I'll launch the browser with flash to see something. The rest of the time I'm not seeing any flash at all.
I suppose installing a flash blocker as mentioned by TwoTimeGrime might work better, but for as little as I need flash, the current method works okay for me.
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