This is just a cautionary note to anyone who mgiht install a program 
called Cooledit.

I d/l'd it from "ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/"  I unpacked it read the 
instructions all the way through, compiled and installed it.  No 
problem.

I later discovered that my PC was trying to send an email to the auther 
to deliver some information about my machine, I hadn't agreed to this 
or expected it.  I'll delete the outgoing message before I go on line
again, but I could have easily been caught out.

When I next started X I found that a second package Coolicons had also 
been installed on my machine, there were about ten massive icons plastered 
all over the screen, and quite a few of them were associated to files that 
aren't available to this machine.

It's also made a change somewhere (I'm assuming, not 100% sure), to at 
least  one of the mime settings, when I now go in to change the image for 
an existing icon only xpm files are available where before both xpm and 
png were available as icons.  For a new launcher I can still use png, but 
not for existing ones.

Having said all of that it's a nice editor, I've got a script set up so 
that by just pressing two keys it'll render, give me the ssages in a popup 
window, and then will open the image in ee (Electric Eye), when the render 
has finished.  It'll even send the cursor to the line where there's an error 
if one is reported in the message window, I can just double click on that line. 
It also lets me mark text and copy or move or cut with the shift key and arrow 
keys which is the main thing that I've missed since moving to Linux.

-- 
Cheers
Steve              email mailto:sjl### [at] ndirectcouk

%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee  0 pps. 

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Steve <sjl### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain> wrote:
: I later discovered that my PC was trying to send an email to the auther 
: to deliver some information about my machine, I hadn't agreed to this 
: or expected it.

  So Microsoft is not the only one...

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On 18 Jan 2000 04:19:17 -0500, Nieminen Juha
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote:

>Steve <sjl### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain> wrote:
>: I later discovered that my PC was trying to send an email to the auther 
>: to deliver some information about my machine, I hadn't agreed to this 
>: or expected it.
>
>  So Microsoft is not the only one...

The battle.net server supported by Blizzard Enternainment retrieves
personal information (name, e-mail, address etc.) from your registry
if you enter an invalid CD-Key. It only looks into the registry
entries that common MS products use for such information, though.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

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BitchX does the same..

and, I think it has three or four backdoors there as well.
*shrug* go epic go :)

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