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+Article 154467 of comp.text.tex:
+From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk (TeXhax Digest)
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #9
+Date: 5 Oct 1999 17:39:28 +0100
+Organization: ACS, The University of Nottingham
+X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 939141569 18232 128.243.241.164 (5 Oct 1999 16:39:29 GMT)
+X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk
+NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 1999 16:39:29 GMT
+Organisation: (University of Nottingham - mail2news gateway)
+
+TeXhax Digest Tuesday, October 5 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 009
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ "root kit" invasion of servers.
+ [none]
+ TUGboat 20(2) shipped to printer this date
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:59:58 -0700
+From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
+Subject: "root kit" invasion of servers.
+
+During the past two weeks, we have learned of a cascade of assaults on
+Unix server systems, especially Solaris systems, by the consortium of
+brilliant programmers in the "root kit" enterprise. There is no way
+to avoid the suggestion that SUN Microsystems ought to have been
+sharper about their vulnerability. Most of us knew about "root kit"
+at least a year ago. This message, however, is aimed not at at at the
+feckless quality managers at SUN, but at the self-righteous
+programmers who support "root kit".
+
+You guys are brilliant. Compared with the hackers who attack
+MicroSlush systems, you belong in another realm altogether. But
+you have never thought through the implications of what you are
+doing. My little FTP site has no commercial effect whatsoever,
+but I cannot keep it open as a Trojan horse access to the equally
+public-spirited network through which it used to communicate.
+
+You claim that you intend to shut down voracious corporate networks by
+making it too risky to keep them open. What you have achieved, at
+least in my case, is the termination of a service which was offered
+absolutely freely to all users. Because you have made network access
+to the software which I was delighted to offer freely to all users
+a way of destroying the entire network system, I can no longer
+offer that access.
+
+You claim that your activities are inspired by the highest moral
+standards. Maybe they are, but I would like to hear from you
+just what those standards are. You have made it impossible for
+me to distribute free software, and it looks as if you will manage
+to shut off more than half the remaining distributions of free
+software. The top echelons of the software industry will not
+be affected at all. They knew you were there, and they could afford
+to defend themselves against against you. We can't afford it, and
+because of your activities, we can't even go on distributing the
+free software we formerly offered.
+
+IS THIS REALLY WHAT YOU INTENDED?
+
+It is virtually certain that one of the "root kit" team will read
+this message. You know better than anyone else how to disguise
+the origin of a mail message. I would like to hear from one of you
+just why you think the termination of the growing habit of free
+distribution of Unix software is a crime that you are willing
+to suppress with all the energy you can muster.
+
+- --
+Email: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay
+Smail: Department of Classics Emeritus Druid for
+ 218 Denny Hall, Box 353110 Unix-flavored TeX
+ University of Washington
+ Seattle, WA 98195
+ (206) 543-2268 (Message recorder)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:09:07 +0200
+From: "W. Muhammad" <ali@aristote.i3s.unice.fr>
+Subject: [none]
+
+Can someone tell me how to install a new package (like easyeqn) under Linux
+operating system?
+Thanks in advance
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:02:53 -0500 (EDT)
+From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
+Subject: TUGboat 20(2) shipped to printer this date
+
+I'm happy to finally be able to say that this issue was shipped to
+the printer today. This issue will contain the 3 CTAN CD-ROMs.
+
+Mimi Burbank
+
+====================================================================
+ TUGboat
+ Volume 20, Number 2 / June 1999
+ ================================
+
+Addresses 83
+
+General Delivery
+ Mimi Jett
+ From the President 85
+ Barbara Beeton
+ Editorial comments 86
+ Remembering Norman Naugle and Roswitha Graham;
+ New home for the UK TUG FAQ;
+ TUB authors' rights;
+ Home site for CONTEXT;
+ Credit where credit is due;
+ The growing Russian TeX library;
+ A new feature: Cartoons by Roy Preston
+ Bart Childs
+ Norman W. Naugle --- A Rememberance 87
+ Dag Langmyhr
+ Roswitha von den Schulenburg Graham 89
+ Mimi Burbank
+ You meet the nicest people...Father Everett Larguier 89
+
+Views & Commentary
+ Bernard Gaulle
+ The french package on and off CTAN 91
+ Response from the CTAN team 92
+ Barbara Beeton
+ Editor's commentary 92
+
+Letters
+ Jonathan Fine
+ The good name of TeX 93
+ Petr Olsak
+ Reply 93
+
+Typography
+ Peter Flynn
+ Typographers' Inn 94
+
+Fonts
+ Maarten Gelderman
+ A short introduction to font characteristics 96
+ Boguslaw Jackowski
+ MF: Practical and impractical applications 104
+
+Language Support
+ Anshuman Pandey
+ Typesetting Bengali in TeX 119
+
+Software & Tools
+ Klaus Hoppner
+ The CTAN May 1999 CD ROM set by DANTE e.V.
+ and Lehmanns bookstore 127
+ Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen
+ Interacting pdfTeX, PERL and CONTEXT 128
+ Robert Tolksdorf
+ NetBibTeXing 134
+
+Hints & Tricks
+ Jeremy Gibbons
+ Hey --- it works! 141
+
+Abstracts
+ Les Cahiers GUTenberg, Contents of Issues 31
+ (December 1998) and 32 (May 1999) 143
+
+News & Announcements
+ Calendar 146
+
+Late-Breaking News
+ Mimi Burbank
+ Production notes 147
+ Future issues 147
+
+Cartoon
+ Roy Preston
+ Monk-ey business 140
+
+TUG Business
+ Institutional members 148
+
+Forms
+ TUG membership application 150
+
+Advertisements
+ Cambridge University Press 149
+ TeX consulting and production services 151
+ Y&Y Inc. 152
+ Blue Sky Research c3
+====================================================================
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V1999 #9
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