Subj : scott mcnealy talking out his arse again
To   : Scott Little
From : Dirk Cap
Date : Thu Oct 12 2000 02:14 am

 SL> ahh.. so an email containing those six bytes "attack" just magically
 SL> finds it's way to my Commander?
 SL> 
 SL> Not. A test email to myself shows no less than 590 bytes, 4720 bits.
 SL> And would be closer to 8000 bits had the email actually left my

 There is always a header who stores information about this mail.
 In outlook (and many other mailsoftware) you can look at the core
 text who was retrieved from the mailservers.

 SL> computer. And even more again if the email was formatted with HTML
 SL> giving it any kind of formatting abilities as the other examples.

 There is after the header the HTML tags around the "attack" word.

 SL> be much closer to 1000 bits for a properly formatted HTML document,
 SL> PLUS the HTTP overhead "to transmit the word 'attack' to an army"

 What do you want ???
 A "hidden" header so it "feels" there are only this bytes retrieved...

 SL> much space a StarOffice document would take? I don't know, SO really
 SL> really sucks, so I'm not going to install it again to try...

 StarOffice is a increadable good piece of "free" software.
 I don't think you can write it better. There is always header
 "inside" the document. Even the good old WordPerfect has his
 formatting bytes inside the document. You could watch it with
 some sort of debug mode. Very interesting in these days.

 It always difficult. I am playing with communications now and
 I am using the MFC classes from MS to construct a testcase.
 The testcase soft uses three threads, one for reading the port,
 one for writing and one to formatting the results. When a user
 uses this soft he doesn't know how this soft is created. Only when
 this user uses software to watch the game he can figure out there
 are these three threads. And what is the problem then.

 Many users claims Linux is better soft than MS. I know for sure
 the NT line operating systems are "good". I know the latest Linux
 operating system, optimized by recompiling the kernel with the
 correct modules, is also "good". Did you know MSWord is a COM
 object which is runnable hidden, initialized from some other
 application. I didn't know but I have seen a demonstration and
 the sourcecode a few days ago,... with the MFC classes.
 I don't think this is possible with StarOffice (not for sure)
 but I tell you it is also "good". (especially with the K environment)

 greetings

 Dirk


.... "Mr. Worf, fire all phasers at the DOS server" ... Zzzap!

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 * Origin: Cap Dirk from Belgium (2:292/865.19)

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