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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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