On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Patrick R. Wade wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 03:05:36PM -0700, larry a price wrote: > > > >Could someone enlighten me as to why a distributed filesharing utility > >that's not distributed from a central source aka > >debian.org or sourceforge.net is such an advantage, there's a lot of > >garbage floating around the net these days and some of it can > >damage you. so why not share the filtering from a trusted central source. > > > > Oh come now, USENET isn't all *that* bad... > let me share a lttle story with you. the other day i was downloading .jpeg files to try out some PIL(python imaging library) stuff, like printing to a picture and drawing lines and charts and stuff.
anyways i decided to download some stuff from this one search on images.google.com and the second i pressed 'd' the screen went black a little gray progress bar flashed and my console froze requiring a hard reboot to stop. this was in lynx from the console. things that make you want to go hmm. I checked the logs but there was nothing Obvious. but i didn't think you could do that kind of mobile code on linux. if you can /sans installing java/ let me know so that i can turn it off and on at my discretion. > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety." > - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. >
