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A few good articles on sender-ID controversy:

http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=134028 ,00.asp
http://www.circleid.com/article/730_0_1_0_C/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1639880,00.as p
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1 555212
http://trends.newsforge.com/14/04/08/26/1326244.sh tml?tid=137

Also, here are the opinions of Eben Moglen of FSF and Larry Rosen of OSI:
http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg036 78.html

A few good articles on sender-ID controversy:

http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=134028 ,00.asp
http://www.circleid.com/article/730_0_1_0_C/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1639880,00.as p
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1 555212
http://trends.newsforge.com/14/04/08/26/1326244.sh tml?tid=137

Also, here are the opinions of Eben Moglen of FSF and Larry Rosen of OSI:
http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg036 78.html

While there have been many StarOffice (or OpenOffice) "reviews", I don't think any have talked about how transparently you can work with documents,

False. All major reviewers cover that topic.

>> not subject to regulatory agencies That will likely change within the next few years. The situation is analogous to taxation of online purchases. Sooner or later, it will reach a threshold so that governments would start considering legislation to somehow collect taxes or regulate that sector somewhat. According to an eweek article, some states are already moving in that direction.

Don't you mean Tiger?

Most likely, using one or the other of these. I don't think they'll be worrying about being left behind just yet.

From the eWeek article:

But a recent string of attacks on primary Internet services and the unraveling of major encryption routines are raising concerns in the Internet operator community.

Sounds like someone with less than half a clue got hold of a certain Slashdot article and is blowing it way out of proportion. Also from that same article:

A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week...

I can imagine a few guys with AK-47s, sitting either in bombed out buildings or caves in the middle of a desert hacking away at encryption algorithms and figuring out ways to trounce "Internet servers". Sheesh, what do we need all of our mathematicians and security researchers for if these guys can just brush these mechanisms out of the way like theyre nothing?

really that bad?

from eweek: here:
And in July, DoubleClick Inc.'s DNS (domain name system) was attacked and unable to serve ads for a similar time frame.

oh, boo-hoo people can't get their poor little ads...

The Itanium can scale up to 8, 16, 32 or even 64 processor modules ...

HELLO? When was FAT patented...NEVER. Microsoft didn't even invent fat. Please think before you post.

Ignorant people shouldn't yak.

And then came the articles that Google doesn't want to IPO - they want to remain "pure" and "uncompromised" by not having a board of directors and shareholders who would force them to become "evil." In the end, it was a great marketing strategy - playing "hard to get."

Although Google chants "Don't be evil" in public, actions behind the scenes speak louder than words.

From an August 5, 2004, article at http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=89761200 4

GOOGLE, the internet search engine company, admitted it may have broken United States stock market rules after it revealed it

illegally issued about 30 million shares worth £1.69 billion to current and former staff. ...
The firm, whose search engine gets more than 200 million inquiries every day, said it may have broken federal securities laws and the securities laws of 18 states, including New York, Texas and Virginia, by failing to register the stock and options or exempt them from registration.

This illegal action was fueled by greed.

Google is fueled by greed. They, and Stanford University, own a patent on facets of the Google page rank technology, and we all know that Software Patents are Evil (TM) .

Now, from the Stanford Daily (May 21, 2004):

In a separate development, University President John Hennessy

took a position on the board of Google in late April, as one of three company outsiders that Google added to its corporate board before its IPO. Hennessy was granted 65,000 shares of stock when he joined the board. These shares could potentially be worth millions of dollars, depending on the eventual stock value.

First off, does Hennessy need the money? He already founded MIPS, which has licensed its intellectual property in everything from the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. He earns $566,581 a year from his salary as President of Stanford(November 26, 2003,Stanford Daily), and additional revenue due to royalties from his textbooks, which (of course) feature the MIPs assembly language (and only MIPS) as examples.

Secondly, is Hennessy's arrival at Google some sort of payoff? We've seen how this cozy kind of relationship can be very corrupt. If a professor serves on the board of directors of company "x", then there is a definite conflict of interest, as the professor will push company "x"'s products when he can (after all, it only increases the value of the professor's stock).

From an article by Deborah Gage, on June 8, 2004, at http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=129083 ,00.asp , which was discussed on Slashdot a while back:

Stanford has spent more than seven years transferring its financial systems onto applications from Oracle called Oracle Financials. The project was supposed to be finished in 1999. ...
Stanford has spent a lot of money on software and still has work to do. According to the university's annual budget plans, the board of trustees since 1999 has been asked to approve $93.4 million in capital expenditures for applications and infrastructure . The trustees had approved $60 million in 1994 to overhaul Stanford's entire administrative information systems, a project they expected would take five years, even though controller Susan Calandra says some of the projects in the original plan were never started. ...
Three Stanford professors serve on Oracle's board of directors... ...
Now faced with budget cuts and layoffs, Stanford's information technology department has

If OSS really takes off in California, maybe other states will turn to this justification.

It's been happening in Rhode Island for some time. Not to the extent California is looking to achieve but at least it is happening.

EWeek on Opens Source and RI

Microsoft Apologist Apologizes for Microsoft
Rob Enderle Announces Death of Bluetooth
and
Enderle's Ferrari Laptop
have appeared on Slashdot in the past.

This "technology analyst" is also the author of In Defense Of the Microsoft Monoculture and ranted and raved in an "informative" Eweek article about his Windows Ferrari theme and gushed happily about how his colleagues were impressed by it's cool shutdown and startup sounds.

See http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1634748,00.as p

With google's ubiquity in almost everyone's daily internet life,

the potential for misconduct is staggering. The fact that they haven't abused their position yet makes me proud of the fact that i can afford exactly 1 share of their stock right now.

I agree with you 150%. Unfortunately, although Google chants "Don't be evil" in public, actions behind the scenes speak louder than words, and they have broken the law. From an August 5, 2004, article at http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=89761200 4

GOOGLE, the internet search engine company, admitted it may have broken United States stock market rules after it revealed it

illegally issued about 30 million shares worth £1.69 billion to current and former staff. ...
The firm, whose search engine gets more than 200 million inquiries every day, said it may have broken federal securities laws and the securities laws of 18 states, including New York, Texas and Virginia, by failing to register the stock and options or exempt them from registration.

This illegal action was fueled by greed.

Google is fueled by greed. They, and Stanford University, own a patent on facets of the Google page rank technology, and we all know that Software Patents are Evil (TM) .

Now, from the Stanford Daily (May 21, 2004):

In a separate development, University President John Hennessy

took a position on the board of Google in late April, as one of three company outsiders that Google added to its corporate board before its IPO. Hennessy was granted 65,000 shares of stock when he joined the board. These shares could potentially be worth millions of dollars, depending on the eventual stock value.

First off, Does Hennessy need the money? He already founded MIPS, which has licensed its intellectual property in everything from the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. He earns $566,581 a year from his salary as President of Stanford(November 26, 2003,Stanford Daily), and additional revenue due to royalties from his textbooks, which (of course) feature the MIPs assembly language (and only MIPS) as examples.

Secondly, is Hennessy's arrival at Google some sort of payoff? We've seen how this cozy kind of relationship can be very corrupt. If a professor serves on the board of directors of company "x", then there is a definite conflict of interest, as the professor will push company "x"'s products when he can (after all, it only increases the value of the professor's stock).

From an article by Deborah Gage, on June 8, 2004, at http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=129083 ,00.asp , which was discussed on Slashdot a while back:

Stanford has spent more than seven years transferring its financial systems onto applications from Oracle called Oracle Financials. The project was supposed to be finished in 1999. ...
Stanford has spent a lot of money on software and still has work to do. According to the university's annual budget plans, the board of trustees since 1999 has been asked to approve $93.4 million in capital expenditures for applications and infrastructure . The trustees had approved $60 million in 1994 to overhaul Stanford's entire administrative information systems, a project they expected would take five years, even though controller Susan Calandra says some of the projects in the original plan were never started. ...
Three Stanford professors serve on Oracle's board of directors... ...
Now faced with budget cuts and layoffs

No no no, ZDnet is apparently not owned by Ziff/Davis anymore.

eWeek, is though.

Jeroen

Google's "Do No Evil" mantra...

Although Google chants "Don't be evil" in public, actions behind the scenes speak louder than words.

From an August 5, 2004, article at http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=89761200 4

GOOGLE, the internet search engine company, admitted it may have broken United States stock market rules after it revealed it

illegally issued about 30 million shares worth £1.69 billion to current and former staff. ...
The firm, whose search engine gets more than 200 million inquiries every day, said it may have broken federal securities laws and the securities laws of 18 states, including New York, Texas and Virginia, by failing to register the stock and options or exempt them from registration.

This illegal action was fueled by greed.

Google is fueled by greed. They, and Stanford University, own a patent on facets of the Google page rank technology, and we all know that Software Patents are Evil (TM) .

Now, from the Stanford Daily (May 21, 2004):

In a separate development, University President John Hennessy

took a position on the board of Google in late April, as one of three company outsiders that Google added to its corporate board before its IPO. Hennessy was granted 65,000 shares of stock when he joined the board. These shares could potentially be worth millions of dollars, depending on the eventual stock value.

First off, Does Hennessy need the money? He already founded MIPS, which has licensed its intellectual property in everything from the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. He earns $566,581 a year from his salary as President of Stanford(November 26, 2003,Stanford Daily), and earns royalties from his textbooks, which (of course) feature the MIPs assembly language (and only MIPS) as examples.

Secondly, is Hennessy's arrival at Google some sort of payoff? We've seen how this cozy kind of relationship can be very corrupt. If a professor serves on the board of directors of company "x", then there is a definite conflict of interest, as the professor will push company "x"'s products when he can (after all, it only increases the value of the professor's stock).

From an article by Deborah Gage, on June 8, 2004, at http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=129083 ,00.asp , which was discussed on Slashdot a while back:

Stanford has spent more than seven years transferring its financial systems onto applications from Oracle called Oracle Financials. The project was supposed to be finished in 1999. ...
Stanford has spent a lot of money on software and still has work to do. According to the university's annual budget plans, the board of trustees since 1999 has been asked to approve $93.4 million in capital expenditures for applications and infrastructure . The trustees had approved $60 million in 1994 to overhaul Stanford's entire administrative information systems, a project they expected would take five years, even though controller Susan Calandra says some of the projects in the original plan were never started. ...
Three Stanford professors serve on Oracle's board of directors... ...
Now faced with budget cuts and layoffs, Stanford's information technology department has successfully sent coding and maintenance work to outsourcing firms in India , which are helping with Oracle report writing and an upgrade to PeopleSoft v. 8. Jobs that require deeper knowledge of Stanford, such as writing specifications, have been kept at ho

One rare thing about Google is their "Don't Be Evil." mantra, which somewhat translates to the company turning down the chance to make quick bucks today in the expectation that they'll get that money back in the long run through their near-flawless reputation.

Although Google chants "Don't be evil" in public, actions behind the scenes speak louder than words.

From an August 5, 2004, article at http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=89761200 4

GOOGLE, the internet search engine company, admitted it may have broken United States stock market rules after it revealed it

illegally issued about 30 million shares worth £1.69 billion to current and former staff. ...
The firm, whose search engine gets more than 200 million inquiries every day, said it may have broken federal securities laws and the securities laws of 18 states, including New York, Texas and Virginia, by failing to register the stock and options or exempt them from registration.

This illegal action was fueled by greed.

Google is fueled by greed. They, and Stanford University, own a patent on facets of the Google page rank technology, and we all know that Software Patents are Evil (TM) .

Now, from the Stanford Daily (May 21, 2004):

In a separate development, University President John Hennessy

took a position on the board of Google in late April, as one of three company outsiders that Google added to its corporate board before its IPO. Hennessy was granted 65,000 shares of stock when he joined the board. These shares could potentially be worth millions of dollars, depending on the eventual stock value.

First off, Does Hennessy need the money? He already founded MIPS, which has licensed its intellectual property in everything from the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. He earns $566,581 a year from his salary as President of Stanford(November 26, 2003,Stanford Daily), and royalties from his textbooks, which (of course) feature the MIPs assembly language (and only MIPS) as examples.

Secondly, is Hennessy's arrival at Google some sort of payoff? We've seen how this cozy kind of relationship can be very corrupt. If a professor serves on the board of directors of company "x", then there is a definite conflict of interest, as the professor will push company "x"'s products when he can (after all, it only increases the value of the professor's stock).

From an article by Deborah Gage, on June 8, 2004, at http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=129083 ,00.asp , which was discussed on Slashdot a while back:

Stanford has spent more than seven years transferring its financial systems onto applications from Oracle called Oracle Financials. The project was supposed to be finished in 1999. ...
Stanford has spent a lot of money on software and still has work to do. According to the university's annual budget plans, the board of trustees since 1999 has been asked to approve $93.4 million in capital expenditures for applications and infrastructure . The trustees had approved $60 million in 1994 to overhaul Stanford's entire administrative information systems, a project they expected would take five years, even though controller Susan Calandra says some of the projects in the original plan were never started. ...
Three Stanford professors serve on Oracle's board of directors... ...
Now faced with budget cuts and layoffs, Stanford's information technology department has successfully sent coding and maintenance wor

- Stealth Dave
satisfied CrossOver customer.

There are a lot of good quotes from Schwartz here. Also good for your daily dose of venom is his weblog. The message is clear: Solaris' binary only, standards based distribution is open and good, while linux's open source has and can be twisted into being proprietary and bad.

I love OpenOffice, but this is starting to smack of the Real thread. You can't coast on past goodness (or badness) forever.

same happened when they sold a previous sw company I worked at their "isupport" package before they built that product too.

Indeed. And don't forget:

5. The single file mentioned in 1. can't grow above 16 Gb with the standard edition of Microsoft Exchange. (See also 2.)

Of course, I haven't used OpenExchange yet so I can't really comment on that. I tried hunting round for a few reviews, but didn't come up with much. Here they are anyway:

eweek
pcmag
OpenMag

There is a mention of a "downside" being "lack of a spellchecker in the web client", but of course modern browsers like Konqueror have this built-in anyway.

There is also mention of the web client not being as "feature rich" or "refined" as Microsoft Exchange's, but without any actual qualifications.

Basically, from the reviews everything seems great apart from the backup aspect. This is only a downside because their is apparently little guidance given.

Is Darl McBride under the elusion that up to now, SCO has had an army of volunteer slave programmers?

An awful lot of people do have access to the Windows sourcecode, and that recently significantly expanded with the addition of Microsoft MVPs.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1624877,00.as p

MVPs, for the record, are just people who frequently answered questions correctly in the Microsoft newsgroups.

Is this the basis for the PowerTune technology either used in the 970FX or to be used in it? It supposedly automatically adjusts power consumption and processor speed based on how processor intensive the current operations are.

This seems much different from the current speed stepping technologies as it doesn't scale down to a fixed MHz rating. That is, it isn't always 2.0Ghz during intensive operations and 1.2Ghz for non-intensive operations. /got nothing

It sounds to me like SCO is no more. They are out of money and are being taken to court by their own investors. Never mind the fact that no one believes their claims anymore. I think we can safely ignore SCO news now.

How do you keep the access restricted?

There's a couple layers of what we can do. With the tri-band access points that we're using from Cisco we can do a couple different things. We can do surveys with the antennas. Each band, [802.11] a, b and g can be VLANed, so if you hit the access point with a card, you'll be sent to our authenticated PEAP [Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol] system through our firewall, through our ISA server and into our network...We'll be able to turn them on and off as we need to through a centralized management system. We can also monitor for rogue activity.

Wow, what a clueless rant. Here's some suggestions:

• OpenOffice can write both MSWord files and PDF files. Where's the supposed incompatability?
• Just about every Linux distro nowadays uses DHCP to find network parameters.
• Local proxy problems are an issue with the local network setup. Any competant network admin should set up transparent HTTP proxying and/or allow direct connections anyway.
• Here's a recent eWeek article about setting up Samba to work in an AD domain. Admittedly, it is hard to find docs for Samba that are useful and up to date. AD support is, of course, rather bleeding edge.
• Email? You couldn't just email the document to an account?
• FTP? A lot of places have some sort of FTP space for students. And it's easy to setup an FTP server in Linux.
• A USB thumb drive. Hell, a lot of other devices also use the USB mass storage device spec - digital cameras, MP3 players, mobile/cell phones, etc. Linux has no problems with either mounting the FAT filesystem or using Mtools directly.
• A CDR/RW disc? I've heard that this sort of support is almost a no-brainer nowadays under Mandrake or SuSE.
• And lastly, Explore2fs allows a windows machine to read an e2fs filesystem.

But hey, thanks for your dramatic little piece of fiction. Your cluelessness is only surpassed by your ability to blow things out of proportion, to make a mountain out of a molehill. Perhaps you should go into politics.

From Eweek:

IBM is developing the "Cell" processor for future entertainment consoles sold by Sony Corp.; the processor used by the "Xenon," Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox; as well as the "Revolution," Nintendo Ltd.'s next-generation console. IBM has already shipped more than 10 million PowerPCs to Nintendo for use in the current GameCube, each a 485MHz derivative of the G3 called the "Gekko."

Umm, this is the guy who loved an Acer laptop because of the Ferrari motif and the sound of Vroom.. Vroom, right. And he said "Overall, this is one of the highest quality laptops I have ever had, and it should serve its purpose of improving Acer's image admirably." This guy has no taste whatsoever.

Yeah, his opinion is so valuable especially when he predicts things about Apple. He is a Microsoft lapdog. I don't know why journalists keep quoting him.

So, truly the bug lies in Windows.

Mandrake had that bug.
And SuSe also had that bug.
If you mind not spreading fud and educating yourself have a look at This Page Which tells you how to not only recover the problem, but avoid it all together.
This crap is really getting old, stop trying to place blame only on Fedora dev's when every distro with 2.6 kernel has this problem okay?

"In discussions with representatives of the Mozilla Foundation, they conceded this indeed was a bug and didn't try to foist the blame on to Microsoft. And that's because they know what's usually perfectly obvious: that browsers are supposed to look suspiciously at content and try to protect the user. There's little to be gained by a defense that it's Windows fault, not when you wrote the application to tell Windows to run whatever content comes up.

...

But even IE in Windows XP SP1 behaves more reasonably. Its behavior is identical to that of a straight href of the program file. The user is asked if they want to save or open the file and are given a clear warning that the program could be hazardous.

How did Microsoft get Internet Explorer do this? It actually looks as if IE just stripped the 'shell:' from the link and treated it like a regular href. This is an interesting thought, still the important point here is that Microsoft didn't just take a program name and tell Windows to execute it. "

We're going to be seeing Photoshop for Linux any day now.

First, it's not a Mozilla exploit, it's a Windows exploit.

Did anyone else see this? A little spooky I think.

Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer takes a different view of the bug in Mozilla on Windows. Click here to read more.

I'm clicking but I'm not getting any reading. I assume this is the same for everyone else. For anyone who wants to read the article that wasn't linked properly, check here:

Larry Seltzer on Mozilla Flaw

This was announced by microsoft several months ago.

Can someone say porn site friendly mode?

Well according to MS 'longhorn' will be more stable, of course only if you have 2 gigs of RAM.

Whilst 'Tiger' doesn't require a humungous amount of RAM, does it?

Check out this screenshot.

Teach Me Tiger!

And an about box too... I think I'm in awe. Killer feature right there...

Now I know that this is an early beta, earlier than Panther was when it was previewed last year. Everything could change before Tiger's gold release. But could it be that the folks at Apple consider Aqua's style to be more or less finished?

Now I know that this is an early beta, earlier than Panther was when it was previewed last year. Everything could change before Tiger's gold release. But could it be that the folks at Apple consider Aqua's style to be more or less finished?

Now I know that this is an early beta, earlier than Panther was when it was previewed last year. Everything could change before Tiger's gold release. But could it be that the folks at Apple consider Aqua's style to be more or less finished?

Seriously the pipeline goes Address Book --> Mail Merge --> Group Mailer.

WTF?

When I was a kid and would ask aloud where something was, my mum would say, "Look where you put it." It annoyed me to no end, of course, but years later I find myself "putting things where they belong" and emptying my mind of everything else, much like putting phone numbers in a phone book so one doesn't have to clutter up one's my mind remembering any of them.

My own opinion is that there is no substitute for "putting things in folders." Boring, but true. Regular expressions and databases can go a long way (even for the average Joe), but it's as brainless as it is fast to look in an appropriately named folder. Not everyone agrees, of course:

Apple Unveils Faster Searching
Apple Throws Spotlight on Search

heh. Apple know pr0n is what everyone really uses the internet for... Private Surfing Mode