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Peter T. Breuer Much. Thanks. Interesting. Here are some of the prior messages (with my comments in the parenthesis...
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Peter T. Breuer Here is the verbatim report : Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root-fs on unknown-block(3,9) I might have missed some whitespace-punctuation here...
How about Adobe deciding they can audit your PDF use, without permission?
I was outraged (like others, apparently) Adobe (who IIRC bought Macromedia and its Flash "technology" not long ago) put spyware in Acroread 7.0:
March 30, 2005 This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier. Linux users may have been pleased to find that Adobe has finally made available a new version of its Acrobat Reader, with accessibility features, a much slicker interface than Acrobat 5.x and new and other spiffy features. However, there are a few other features that Linux users should be aware of.
A company called Remote Approach is promising to alert PDF publishers as to the "reach and use of their materials." We were curious to find out how Remote Approach was going to make good on its promise, given that PDF has largely been seen as a one-way medium. To find out, we created a test account and uploaded a PDF to be "tagged" by Remote Approach, and then downloaded the modified document to see whether Remote Approach could log our use of the document. ...
By default, Adobe Reader 7 turns on JavaScript, so the "tagged" document is able to "phone home" without the user's awareness. Turning off JavaScript disables the document's code, and prevents Remote Approach (or any other enbreasty) from tracking views of the document. No doubt, Remote Approach is using features that would normally be used to submit information from a PDF form.
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If Adobe thinks I am as stupid-cowed as typical microsmurfs, they are very badly mistaken.
Thank you for posting the above info. I had read vague hintings that acroread was "phoning home", but nothing specific. Now, I'll...
I preordered SuSE 10.0 and expect to install it sometime RSN.
The first thing I'll do postinstall is nuke Acroread, if it gets installed without my permission. Macromedia-Flash too, if it sneaks past the EULA at the usual preinstall agreement, in this version of SuSE.
If I wanted M$-style sneakware I by gawd would BUY that garbage LEGALLY.
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