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Netscape és a webes operációs rendszer

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on 2009. július 8.
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Nem szokásunk aktuális hírekre reagálni, most mégse tudjuk megállni az ujjal mutogatást és a gúnyolódást, de legalábbis azt, hogy csendben és zárójelben megjegyezzük: nem a Google gondolta először, hogy egy böngésző és más semmi, a felhasználó vágya csak ennyi volna, hanem már a Netscape is. És annak a történetnek a végét jól ismerjük.

June 17, 1996 9:00 AM ET <br/> Netscape’s Andreessen eyes ’Internet OS’ <br/> MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Netscape Communications Corp. is attacking a number of fronts to convince customers that it still has a technological lead over rapidly approaching competition. Netscape will spin off a new subsidiary within the next month to focus on creating software for non-PC platforms, said sources close to the company.

Later this summer, Netscape will roll out a comprehensive Internet strategy that will position its servers and browser as a next-generation Internet-based operating system.

„Major new releases of our browser is a 12-month thing,” Chief Technology Officer Marc Andreessen said during an interview with PC Week at Netscape’s headquarters here last week. „Major releases of operating systems like Cairo or Copland take five years. So anything [like Java] integrated into an [operating system] is outdated the day [the operating system] ships.”

The only difference technically between Netscape’s Navigator browser and a traditional operating system is that Navigator will not include device drivers, Andreessen said.

In addition, Netscape began laying plans last week for the next-generation Navigator, code-named Galileo, and the next major release of its SuiteSpot server applications, code-named Orion, as part of its intranet framework.

„Netscape has good technology and good ideas,” said a vice president of IS at a major financial institution based in Boston who requested anonymity. „But the key for them is to make the story compelling enough that I will be interested in paying extra for technologies that I might be getting free from other vendors.”

Netscape’s as-yet-unnamed subsidiary will focus on delivering Navigator derivatives for such products as network computers, personal digital assistants and set-top boxes, said sources.

Set to be announced within the next couple of weeks, the subsidiary will likely form alliances with other vendors that are developing both hardware and software for non-PC platforms, sources added.

Netscape’s umbrella platform strategy involves releasing new and unified APIs this year for Navigator and SuiteSpot that will enable development of client/ server applications for the intranet, said Andreessen.

For example, Netscape will release new APIs for its Mail, News, Catalogue, Directory and Enterprise servers that enable corporations to create applications that leverage the underlying messaging and communications capabilities of each product. On the client side, Netscape will release connections that will more closely link Navigator to databases.

Netscape is also forming an object linking strategy to enable client-side objects and applets to communicate over the Internet with server-based applications. The framework and APIs will be based on the recently introduced Java API, called RMI (remote method invocation), and a CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)-based model, IIPO.

According to sources, Netscape will base its work on a Java-to-CORBA integration technology being developed by PostModern Computing Technologies Inc., an object-oriented application development tool vendor based here that recently merged with database connectivity vendor Visigenic Inc., of San Mateo, Calif.

In the meantime, Netscape plans to stay a step ahead of its competition with new versions of Navigator and SuiteSpot. The Galileo upgrade, due by the end of the year, will include offline Web browsing capabilities, integrated groupware replication functionality based on the company’s Collabra Share groupware, and enhanced Web site and application creation tools, according to Andreessen.

1963 - a hacker szó bemutatkozik

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on 2009. április 4.
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A legtartósabb legenda a hackeléssel kapcsolatban, hogy kezdetben voltak a patyolattiszta hackerek, akik a rendszerek iránti kíváncsiságtól vezérelve kalandoztak a telefonos, számítógépes hálózatokon, aztán jött a sajtó és összemosta őket a gépeket feltörő, warezolt szoftvert áruló aljanéppel. Az igazság valahol félúton van, a patyolatból is visza kell venni és az aljanépből is. A legrégebbi, a hacker szót tartalmazó sajtóbeli szöveget Fred Shapiro ásta elő az American Dialect Society levelezőlistáján. A cikk az MIT The Tech nevet viselő egyetemi lapjának 1963. november 20-án megjelent számából származik, és a telefonrendszert vaktárcsázással és kísérletezéssel elfoglaló hackerekről szól. Az évszám főleg azért fontos, mert a hackerkultúra egyik bölcsőjének számító Marvin Minsky-féle mesterséges intelligencia laboratórium is még csak négy éve üzemelt, lopott szoftverek pedig még egyáltalán nem voltak.

Services curtailed

Telephone hackers active

<br/> by Henry Lichstein<br/>

Many telephone services have been curtailed because of so-called hackers, according to Рrofessor Carltoп Tucker, administrator of the Institute phone system.

Stating „IT means the students whoo are doing this are depriving the rest of you of priviliges you otherwise might have.” Prof. Tucker noted that two or three students are expelled each year for abuses of the phone system.

The hackers have accomplished such things as typing up all the tie-lines between Harvard and МIT, or making longdistance calls by charging them to a local radar installation. One method involved connecting the PDP 1 computer to the phone system to search the lines until a dial tone, indicating an outstde line, was found.

Tie lines connect MIT’s phone system to many areas qithout a prorata chanrge. Among the tie-lines discovered have been ones to the Millstone Radar Facility, the Sudbury defense installation, IBM in Kingston, New York, and the MITRE Corporation.

Tucker warns hackers

Commenting on these incidents Prof. Tucker said „If any of these people are caught (by the telephone company) they are liable to be put in jail. I try to warn them and protect them.”

While Tucker felt „we don’t have too much trouble with the boys; we appreciate their curiosity,” he also said that repeated involvement, for instance, caused the expulsion from the Institute of one member of the Class of ’63 one week before his graduation.

Because of the „hacking”, the majority of the MIT phones are „trapped”. They are set up so tie-line calls may not be made. Originally, these tie-lines were open to general use.

Lines Found by Force

While the hackers have resorted to some esoteric methods, many tielines have been found by „brute force techniques” - mass dialing until something „interesting” is found. Another, more urbane method, has been the judicious perusal of telephone directories. To quote one accomplished hacker, „The field is always open to experimentation.”

While stating „We attempt to stop (hacking) because it impairs our relations with the phone company, and hurts the service for the rest of the students,’ Tucker observed that the MIT phone system, serving a community of about 14,000 persons, is as large as that for a small town.

Including Lincoln Laboratories, which accounts for over 50% of costs, the Institute’s phone bill exceeds $1,000,000 each year. This is the third largest bill in New England.

The General Electric Company has the largest phone bill. Raytheon Corporation has the second largest bill in the New England area.

Hála jár még Gustavo Duartének, aki Shapiro leletét ásta elő pár évvel később. Amerikát bezzeg elég volt egyszer felfedezni.

Elektromos újság modemmel letöltve

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kelt
on 2009. január 30.
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Már 1981-ben lehetett tudni, hogy a napi hírek helye a számítógép képernyője. Mr Howard, akinek a daliás időkben már nem csak számítógépe, de modemje is volt, így töltötte le nap mint nap a San Francisco Examinert. A kísérlet alapvetően nem a pénzről szólt a lap számára, hanem a digitális szerkesztéssel való kísérletezésről. A lehetőséget az újságban hirdették meg, és a Bay Area két-háromezer személyi számítógéppel rendelkező geekjéből ötszáz jelentkezett is kipróbálni az újdonságot. A teljes lap két óra alatt jött le modemen, ami nagyjából tíz dollárjába került az előfizetőnek.

A videót a Gizmodo Retromodo rovata ásta elő, érdemes rájuk felirítkozni mindenkinek, akit érdekel a sosevolt jövő.