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Well actually I see it in another way: probably in a few years Intel will have an absolute monopoly in the X86 arena. If they would be the only manufacturer of the CPU and chipset they would stand to make a shitload of money without caring for their brand as people wouldn't really have any choice.

They can absolutely have a monopoly on the x86 architecture, they can be the captain of a sinking ship. Meanwhile the other chip manufacturers can continue making money on today's technology. I don't think Intel would be stupid enough to continue making 32-bit (x86) machines for the "next few years", that would be like Nintendo still manufacturing the NES, despite having the ps3 staring them down.

Intel tried to do their own 64-bit Itanium that fell flat on it's face, so now they're using AMD's 64-bit instruction set. AMD has threatened to revoke Intel's access to AMD's 64-bit processing copyrights, which would leave Intel scrambling.

I'm not sure of all the specifics for who owns what copyrights and has them apportioned to whoever else, though I do know that Intel's current game can end up very bad for them, very quickly.

some light reading

"Christopher Aragon had recently run an Orange County leasing company .. Butler gave him a shopping list of equipment he'd need to get started, including a new laptop, military-grade crypto, and an antenna"

The worlds greatest hacker asks a truck leaser for 'military-grade' crypto .. enough from the school-of-bad-journalism ..

Is this the same Kevin Poulsen that Adrian Lamo ran into ..

I don't see how Adobe is related to the topic. PDF is not an "Adobe's format" anymore. PDF can be implemented by anyone without requiring any deals or license from Adobe. There are hundreds of feature-rich open-source implementations. PDF has nothing to do with Adobe.

Yes, everybody thought so. Then Adobe got pissy at Microsoft for implementing it. This news was widely covered everywhere, including Slashdot.

Whom did they sue? Can you give us some references?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39273094,00.htm
http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39159285,00.htm
http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/188701275
http://www.pdfzone.com/c/a/Authoring/Adobe-to-Sue-Microsoft-Over-PDF-Support-in-Office-2007/
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/4509/53/
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1012_3-6079320.html
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Drop_PDF_Support_in_Office/1149284222

I have to correct myself, though: They didn't actually sue, because Microsoft settled first (by relegating the PDF support to a optional install.)

What Adobe wants is irrelevant. Nobody needs Adobe's permission to implement PDF support. Anyways, can you give us some reference to Adobe's behaviour?

Yes, everybody thought that. Then they got pissy at Microsoft for implementing it. Wow, this conversation is kind of repetitive.

ms didn't "back-down". It truly hates the idea of providing proper pdf support.

Actually, they did. Is your memory seriously this short? It only happened, what, 2 years ago? It was covered in all the trade press, extensively, it got probably 1000+ comments on Slashdot stories. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

This security survey from informationweek (registration required) said the same thing. Worse, when you get into the report, few companies are acutally using encryption for back-ups and think physical access control is good enough.

It's a mess out there kids and not getting any better.

Server 54, where art thou?

This link actually works. It was at the University of North Carolina. Not much info is provided at the link so don't expect a full article.

Here is the link to the server behind the wall;

"The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the server."

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

UNC in 2001

Sorry the link doesnt work? here: Server 54 Story

The novell server walled up in the closet for years is well documented. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 for example.

It was a Novell version 3.11 Netware box. If it'd been VMS it would never have been found, since it would have always worked perfectly ;) .

it was covered on /.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

Your might be thinking of the Novell NetWare server story. University of North Carolina in 2001. It was physically MIA for 4 years yet kept doing the Energizer Bunny routine. I was a Novell Reseller at the time and the story made a great sales pitch. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=half-node

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

It was probably this story:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

of a lost Novell server.

Your reading comprehension seems a little low, though, as while the wiki statement is accurate, your immediate conclusion jump is not.

In what way is my conclusion wrong?

Another interesting item to note is the spying they (have been | are | will be) doing.

Yea, have you seen the new ads on TV lately about how whoever says the senate passed a bill to "renew" a spying law but that the house of reps went on vacation? Part of the bill the senate passed gives the telecoms a get out of jail free card. I can't help but say when it says the law is needed "prove it". Of course nobody can prove it's needed.

Yet another item of interest would be that the iPhone that everyone seems to be slobbering over is sold only with a 2-year AT&T service contract.

I can buy a naked iPhone. I can go down to one of the Apple stores in the area, there's 3 I've been to that are at most 20 minutes drive, and buy an iPhone without getting ATT service. Of course why would I buy an expensive brick? I don't even have an iPod, all I've got from Apple are 3 Macs, 2 old Macs and the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on. One of the old Macs is about 20 years old and the other about 10.

These people are bad, just like every other major corporate player in this hemisphere. I am sorry, Falcon, but you cannot defend them any longer.

Defend whom?

My initial point could bear restatement, I believe. It is as follows:
AT&T owns the North American communication lines.

ATT owns some but not all of the backbones. Qwest owns some as well as does or did GTE, MCI, and Worldcom. Google owns a lot of dark fiber as well, and is partnering with some other companies to lay more fiber between California and Japan. Broadwing Communications Inc owns almost 10,000 miles of fiber, and Qwest owns "888,000 fiber miles across the United States".

In addition, I would like to thank jc42 for a well thought out, insightful post, over here. It comprises a much better rebuttal of your fallacious arguments than this one you are reading right now. I recommend you read that one after this, and rethink your conclusions.

First, and again, what conclusion? Next, what "fallacious arguments" do I make? I think it's you who needs to work on reading comprehension.

I would agree if a company has a poor security record. On the other hand, Mozilla fixes security bugs faster than the other major browser makers. They also fix bugs that were not publicly known with nearly every release. What makes you think they need the motivation of having the exploit publicly exposed immediately after the release? It looks like 0x000000 is just looking for attention, not altruistically helping to increase security. If he wanted to do that, he should have discussed the problem (even publicly) before the release, or filed a private security bug report after the release. If he reported the problem weeks ago, and a new release came out without the fix, then it might make sense to blab about the problem.

Also don't forget that it is not MS's responsibility to fix 'badly' coded software by every donkey and their brother. If they wrote software that is crap and works like crap or does crap it shouldn't, MS can only do so much, and even in this regard the Application Compatibility system in Vista 'corrects' 1000s of software titles in realtime that are 3rd party problems, not Vista nor MS's.

Let's have a look at some of that software that is crap and works like crap or does crap it shouldn't as you so eloquently put it. It appears that the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 has something called Visual Studio for Applications - the scripts for which are not compatible with Vista.

5.5.1 Scripting Incompatible with Microsoft Windows Vista In this release, Microsoft Visual Studio for Applications (VSA)--the scripting development environment and run-time engine that the Script task and Script component in Integration Services use--is incompatible with the final version of Windows Vista. If a computer is running the final version of Windows Vista, you cannot use that computer to edit or debug scripts in Integration Services, nor run Integration Services packages that contain scripts.

Can we forgive Microsoft for not supporting a development tool that was updated last August and still isn't compatible?

What else might use Visual Studio for Applications? Apparently it was an early version of .NET. Microsoft seems to be in the process of memwiping it from their webservers. This is not the web development platform of the future you were looking for. Google remembers though. If it weren't for Google and archive.org the only thing we'd have to remember this aborted plot is all the applications that won't run any more.

I know I'm preaching to the deaf and blind here - that you're trying not to hear me. Compare all of the apps that will run on Vista with the apps that will run on Ubuntu using a virtual machine with XP and you see where the problem lies. We don't need to buy new Windows any more. Since Vista lacks any compelling feature, isn't better looking, is less secure and comes inseparable from a metric ton of WTFWYThinking? using it is pointless. We can keep all our expensive software and use it on all-new shiny hardware and we don't have pay Suckage Assurance for the continuing right to do so.

And no, I don't have any sympathy for people who throw their money away on DRM infested iTunes videos, nor whether they play on vista with any sort of hard drive or chipset, unless they're paying me to care. They care, though. More than they care for Vista, I'll tell you.

IDC sells reports with comments like the following for thousands of dollars:

"Despite the dominance of the Windows platform, Linux adoption continues to grow in the region in both the COE and server operating environment (SOE) spaces," says Antony Lee, market analyst, Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific.

...

"On the desktop side, IDC sees Linux share more than doubling, from 3% today to 6% in 2007, while Windows loses a bit of ground."

So, people who scientifically design and implement surveys reported that GNU/Linux was the size of Mac on the desktop a few years ago and it is still growing rapidly.

see this excerpt. That was from 2005. If the share was 3% then and growing rapidly, how can the NetApps share of less than 1% possibly be true unless NetApps' universe is unrepresentative? That was before Dell and ASUS jumped in.

So. There are no signs of GNU/Linux on the desktop slowing down any time soon and Chinese Linux Market

We know there are millions of GNU/Linux desktops there, because Sun made a deal to supply millions of them. see Sun story (2003)

Turbolinux is also in China in a big way. "According to the International Data Corp. (IDC), Turbolinux's market share in servers in China was 62 percent in 2004. On the desktop, it holds a 25 percent share. "

see http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170700943 (2005)

GNU/Linux is huge in China, a country several times the population of the USA with a huge growth in GDP. Hundreds of millions there will be first time computer buyers within a few years and they are not locked-in to M$

Numbers are not too much different in the BRIC (Brazil Russia India and China). There, governments are activly promoting GNU/Linux by using it themselves, putting it into schools or insisting on open file formats.

"Sun executives were meeting with Brazilian government executives and were told in no uncertain terms that the government would not consider any technology that wasn't open source. " see www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3697166

So Brazil was the straw that broke the camel's back and caused Sun to open Java.

BRIC is 2.65 thousand million people. see http://www.xminc.com/mt/archives/000177.html Many are poor but rapidly industrializing and hungry for IT. Are they going to want a bloated OS or a lean, mean, computing machine? Do not be misled by NetApps. Unless their clients are audited and deemed to be representative of the world somehow, they must be considered way off base.

China is huge. If you look at http://google.com/trends and enter linux,windows you will see that other OS has a steady lead over time with Google. Now, zero in on China. Interesting, eh? Now, zero in on Beijing. Whoops! Where did the lead go? Beijing is a huge city and the seat of government. Stories about that other OS taking over there are overstated, even at $3 a licence.

Windows XP ran much slower than Windows 98, and I know from fixing my friends computers that it was port scanned and comprimised by spyware, (remember Blaster/Sasser/Sorbig), within 20 minutes of connecting to the internet on the default install or less three years after it was released.

BTW, the built-in "Internet Connection Firewall" in Windows XP took years to get working, after the product was released, and it wasn't until Service Pack 2 was released, using developers pulled off of Vista, that XP had a working firewall without 3rd party software.

Windows XP was and is a security nightmare. Plain and simple.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/183702832 -- This one in Illinois http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/07/tech/main707361.shtml -- This one in Florida http://web.archive.org/web/20060701105145/http://www.katu.com/stories/87037.html -- This one in Washington http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070522-michigan-man-arrested-for-using-cafes-free-wifi-from-his-car.html -- And another story about the Michigan guy, for those who missed it As dumb as it sounds, to be arrested for using technology the way it was designed, it is happening. Just because computers running Windows automatically do it by default, does not mean you won't get arrested. It's ridiculous, but true. Welcome to the 21st century, where it's considered a felony(by cops and judges) to turn on a standard wifi enabled computer running Windows.

I recall that the Pentium III has a hardware random number generator built in (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990120S0017), but I wasn't aware that motherboards have them (in the chipset? Where would they be?). Do newer man newer CPUs have them as well, or did they give up on them (along with the serial numbers in the PIIIs)?

(also PHP, Perl and Python runs seamlessly on Linux rather than on Mac, I mean PHP or Perl or Java is well TESTED on Linux rather than on Mac).

What the hell are you talking about?

PHP PERL PYTHON and all your linux and most Unix server software has been running perfectly in OSX since the day it was released.
every single mac install comes with apache, php, perl and python installed by default.
Mysql is one click away as well.

Furthermore most software that needed to be recompiled to run on the power architecture doesn't need to be anymore as an apple server is just another x86 server.

Most developers who I work with on major web projects using PHP/Mysql/postgres/Oracle/Python/Ruby do all their work in OSX, with some compatibility testing on windows, not much on Linux. (iVillage, BlackPlanet, VH1, MTV, Coke, L'oreal, Nickolodeon, Scolastic, etc) This is to their advantage because they can use all vi or emacs on the command line, they can use all opensource tools, as well as subetha, bbedit, etc, but then they can have MSword, excel and all the garbage that production managers/account execs send them as well, without using some clanky converter software.

further down your post:
How many really bother whether Linux is an OFFICIAL UNIX or not

Why should it matter if its an official Unix?
Well for starters because it means that most applications and application frameworks from any other Unix system can run on osx, either with a recompile or directly if from another x86 based Unix; again obviating your ignorant argument about Linux being the ONLY server.

Second because any Unix admin can open an osx command line and will feel at home, as he would on Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Unixware, etc.

All I care is it should be scalable, secure and supports major application frameworks and databases. Exactly, which is what OsX does. its scalable, you can form a grid system in a few clicks or command line commands, it supports every major framework as all the other Unix systems do, and it runs mySQL, Postgres, Oracle, DB2, and any other unix compatible open source database .

Nothing can replace Linux in the server market, but there is a great chance that Linux can exceed market share of Mac OS X
OsX might not be the most popular server for sure, but Linux market share in that market is DECLINING, not increasing:
http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/28/the-server-market-share-battle-microsoft-gains-2/
http://www.geekpedia.com/news193_Linux-server-market-share-plummeting.html
http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/184429419
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/48999.html

on desktop (I think Linux already exceeds Mac OS X in market share)
Hugh, dood... come on alright:
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techhardware/10385313.html
and the money is showing the opposite as well here:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/22/apple-q407-financials-triumph-of-the-steve


how did this post get a 5 -- are you kidding me? what is informative about it?

Congress needs to earmark funding for the FBI to prosecute spammers under CAN-SPAM.

Yeah, whiners on Slashdot say CAN-SPAM is horrible, because it legalizes spam. What they forget is that CAN-SPAM only legalizes it under certain rules, which spammers are ignoring because there's no enforcement. According to this article from last year, only 0.27% of all junk mail actually complies with CAN-SPAM, which means the other 99.73% is clearly illegal. On top of that, the 0.27% is deliberately easy to filter out if you choose.

We don't need a new law to make spam illegal; CAN-SPAM already makes it illegal. We just need to start actually prosecuting people who break the law.

Yes, some spam comes from other countries where the FBI has no jurisdiction, but not as much as you might think, and I believe the FBI already has partnership agreements with agencies in several other countries to work together on fighting spam - they're just not doing enough of it.

Why won't this happen without an act of Congress? Because without a direct congressional mandate, the FBI has better things to do with its time and money. I don't blame them, really - raiding meth labs or catching serial killers is certainly important. But fighting spam is important too, and there's no reason the FBI couldn't do both.

So that's the answer. Spam is a social problem, more than it's a technical problem. We can try to fight it with technology, but spammers are fighting back, and they have the huge advantage of not being limited by morals or legality. We can't win with the odds stacked that high in their favor. The only way to win is to throw them all in jail.

Of the "ten most destructive PC viruses of all time":

CIH, by Chen Ing Hau, who "attended a university" at the time of release ~1998.
Melissa virus, by David L. Smith, age 31 in 1999
ILOVEYOU, by university student for thesis, 2000
Code Red, author unknown?
SQL Slammer, 2003, by a 21-22 year old
Blaster, 2003, variant by an 18 year old
Sobig, possibly by 30 year old Ruslan Ibragimov?
Bagle, author unknown?
MyDoom, unknown
Sasser, by 17 year old

Not much to go on.

...while I really do hate the RIAA and the music industry...

You could have fooled me.


She also feels a need to support the artists

Then she should forget Bryan Adams and listen to indie music, where the artist actually gets paid more than a pittance. Sure, megastars like Adams or Metallica or Ted "if Jimmy Buffet had my money he'd declare Chapter 11" Nugent get filthy rich, but most musicians live on subsistance wages. Very little money comes from sales of anything but concert tickets and merchandise.

Really, DRM free on iTunes is predicated on the fact that the recording industry must feel like it is getting some sort of handle on musical file sharing - that is, RIAA lawsuits to music downloaders must actually be working.

Don't believe everything you read. The lawsuits aren't what is getting people to switch to paid services; most people would have gladly paid at the start had there been a legal alternative. Now that there is iTunes and other legal venues, it doesn't make much sense to use P2P. If the lawsuits had anything to do with it, file sharing would have declined earlier and people would stop using illegal drugs. You can go to prison for marijuana, but millions of people smoke it anyway.

Were there REALLY no DMCA or copyright controls on music, though, someone would eventually make something with a really cool user interface, like iTunes, but where music would be genuinely free. Then, musicians would starve.

First, lets not confuse copyright, which COULD be a good thing if its term limits were what previous generations had (12-30 years) rather than the present calamity, and the DMCA.

Secondly, Roger McGuinn, an early '60s rocker (the Byrds) stated that the old, illegal Napster revitalized his career!

Many artists DO give music away. The link is to free recordings of live shows in lossless format of some friends of mine. They've released two CDs (the first one is their best) and play all over the midwest. here is a bluegrass version of a rap song(!!), while here is a cover of an Allman Brother's song. However, that's not their usual style. Links are lossless, but there are MP3 and Ogg versions available.

I link them because these are friends of mine, but there are literally thousands of artists who are giving it away, as the money isn't in selling recordings, but rather in performing. This is the megastars as well as the little guys. And the only ones who are starving are the ones that suck.

And if the CD you bought only has one good song, guess what? They suck!

-mcgrew

That's probably smarter than it appears at first. If he knows little about computers, someone probably foisted MS Windows on him. If it's got MS Windows, is powered on and connected to the net, then it's cracked. (Physical access works, too.)

• Average time to Total 0wn3rsh1p in 2007 : < 20 minutes
• Average time to Total 0wn3rsh1p in 2004 : < 16 minutes
• etc.

If it's cracked and if there is a microphone, discussions in his chambers can be easily followed.

This is exactly the scenario that was used in EU-level negotiations in recent years, so it's not just a hypothetical situation.

Well hosting his own works raise a lot of troubles, and some can't be resolved:

1) Domain: Not everyone hold a domain or a static IP that people can use to contact their site. Even if free solutions exists, it needs a little bit of knowledge to set it up and to discover them.

2) Internet connection: even if Iceland is 3th on the broadband penetration (http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,2340,en_2649_342 23_38446855_1_1_1_1,00.html#Data2005) it doesn't mean there is no restriction on the amount of data that can be sent and received per month. Increasing would require more money.

3) Setting a _AMP solution for a normal user would mean exposing his computer. Most people use windows and as we know that it doesn't last long unprotected: (http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/54201306). Would you let your local photograph secure your computer?

4) 24/7 computer usage mean electricity bill raise. I know most of /. users are leaving their computer(s) opened 24/7, but let's not forget we're the exeption, not the rule.

5) Bring the people: what's the point of loading your pictures on the net if nobody watch them? Pretty useless isn't it?

Even tought I agree that it's best ot keep our own stuff under our control, some people can't, for lots of reason, do so. What's the best solution for them? Watermarking. Professional cameras* should come with a way to upload a watermark and insert it automatically in all taken picture. That way, if you know your work is used by another one, all you have to do is show them the watermark. Would still require some knowledge to use but if the app is done correctly, could be pretty easy to use. Mix that to a fingerprint scanner and your watermark become your fingerprint: pretty hard to prove the picture is yours when it's marked with someone else fingerprint.

* May already exists

'Open Source projects can be more expensive than their equivliant out of the box vendor specific solutions .. assuming you actually give them time to roll the software and train on it'

This is how most people use Open Source. Decide on a particular distro and sign a support contract. Any problems are dealt with upstream, by the software developers themselves. They are interested in bug reports but that is the sum total involvment of your IT staff in rolling software.

Open Source is about control of your IT and independence from vendors as well as reduced TCO, up to 90% according to the French DGI.

'it allows us to cut our software costs We are trying to evaluate the software TCO implied by our policy. It's probably a bit more than an overall factor of 10'

'Companies with at least 2,000 employees can reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much as 26 percent over three years by using Linux servers over Windows'

was Reply to: Open Source != Lower TCO

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jht ml?term=DSL

HDSL (High Bit Rate DSL) The most mature DSL, HDSL provides T1 transmission over existing twisted pair without the additional provisioning typically required for setting up T1 circuits, such as bridged tap removal and repeater installation. HDSL requires two cable pairs up to 12,000 feet, while HDSL-2 requires only one cable pair and spans 18,000 feet. HDSL does not allow line sharing with analog phones.

The service being delivered to the smartjack maybe delivered via 1 pair, or 2 pairs, depending on the method of transport being used. The service spit out from the smartjack requires 2 pairs.

If you are a clec you can get copper from the lec a $7 to $14 per pair. That, in my mind, is not very expensive.

The magic of twisted pair is that the pair is balanced so there is 'no' cross talk. All kinds of services exist next to each other with little issue. This is why you see phones, dsl, t1s, and sometime ethernet, all punched down on the same 66 block. These services exist on the same huge copper bundles that cross freeways, bridges, enter buildings, etc.

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jht ml?term=DSL

HDSL (High Bit Rate DSL) The most mature DSL, HDSL provides T1 transmission over existing twisted pair without the additional provisioning typically required for setting up T1 circuits, such as bridged tap removal and repeater installation. HDSL requires two cable pairs up to 12,000 feet, while HDSL-2 requires only one cable pair and spans 18,000 feet. HDSL does not allow line sharing with analog phones.

a T1 is HDSL and HDSL-2 with an SLA. You have no idea what you are talking about. A smartjack is nothing more than a lec maintained 'modem', and uses HDSL and HDSL-2 signaling to provide service.

Not only are T1's slow, and expensive, the end format require additional media conversion to be useful. This is additional cost, added complexity, and another point of failure. other tech exists (http://www.hatterasnetworks.com/) that allows 5.6m over the same single copper pair, multiple pairs can be muxed together to provide higher rates, and spits it out as ethernet. The multiple pairs also provide a certain level of redundancy. But in some cases bridge taps and coils need to be removed (line conditioning) to get the service to work, about $70 per pair)
We're also not talking about 30 years of spaghetti; we are talking about new builds. The CFA's are still copper pairs. Sometimes in an ampanol cable, sometimes they are spun or punched down.

It is clear you havent provisioned many T1s. They can still be very time consuming and complicated processes requiring lots of man power; even where the copper and facilities are new. FOC dates change as the lec scratches their heads trying to figure out why shit isnt working and then cancels the order requesting that you order a special access T1. Dont compare your T1 to the test of the real world. Very few people have telco facilities at the prem that hand T1's off as fiber and then convert it at the prem, even if the lec has fiber to the prem.

Your order a T1 #1 no other service is available in your area or #2 you are not in the know.

Um, and if there is fiber to the prem, why would you not order another service? I believe ATT's optiman service is more cost effective than a T1, and they will hand off as ethernet or fiber, and the service scales readily.

Like I said, slashdot users often make me want to smoke crack.

You've been around a long time and havent noticed changes to technology, have you? http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jht ml?term=DSL HDSL (High Bit Rate DSL) The most mature DSL, HDSL provides T1 transmission over existing twisted pair without the additional provisioning typically required for setting up T1 circuits, such as bridged tap removal and repeater installation. HDSL requires two cable pairs up to 12,000 feet, while HDSL-2 requires only one cable pair and spans 18,000 feet. HDSL does not allow line sharing with analog phones. Anyways, T1's ARE DSL. PERIOD. END OF LINE. try researching the subject further before you post again.

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jht ml?term=DSL This ofcourse does not take into consideration technology from hatteras, which can give you 5.6mbps per copper pair. http://www.hatterasnetworks.com/default.aspx?pagen ame=addBandwidthOnDemand That is 45 megs over 8 copper pairs. The existing copper facilities in most cities have no problem supporting this technology. There are companies that provide faster than T1 service at better costs using a variety of technologies. Why arent major telcos offering higher speeds at reasonable rates? Traditionally they have not had too. Customers arent aware of other solutions or are misinformed and continue to accept what the telco offers them. The telcos in turn have not seen a need to invest in better products because their bottom lines are just fine. I find their fiber investments perplexing. Let's invest in a fiber build out that we know wont be profitable for a long time to come and completely ignore that we could fund it exploiting our current copper infrastructure. I dont get it. If you live in pittsburgh or cleveland there is a company called Expedient that can provide you cost effective bandwidth solutions at better than t1 speeds. ANET in Chicago, and Web United in Miami can do the same. In cincinnati there is a company that does internet over power lines to buildings. People should check their local yellow pages for other providers and ask them what they have to offer. They should also ask other business owners about their ISPs and services to see what is out there. T1's are old and antiquated... Seriously, you dont have to suffer like that.

It was stored on a Windows box?

botnet
holes
obsessed with botnets

If I were in a position of authority over a University network, would I outsource the email? Absolutely.

Better idea: load up a small Linux box in a closet and drywall it:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID =196802844&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

A fun story was posted here a year or so ago, http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 , about a server that had been running for awhile without anyone knowing where it was at. When they tried to track it down, they finally discovered it had been entombed withinin a wall of a building.

During some remodeling, the small closet/room it was in was sealed with drywall. It was 4 years before the box required maintenance and someone went about trying to find it and realized what had happened.

It's not really a fork. Openoffice.org already said they were in favor of this.

One word:
botnets

Then you can explain how it's actually the closed source OS that is the most damaging.
Hell, just show them some apache logs that are still constantly being hit by things like IIS servers still infected with Sasser, years after it should have been eradicated.

...'But spyware researcher Ben Edelman doubts that the company has reformed its ways. "I commend the FTC's efforts here, but serious diligence will be required to assure that [the company] actually complies with its many obligations under the settlement," Edelman said in an e-mail on Friday. "At this instant, I am confident that [the company] is not in compliance."...

..."[The company] continues plenty of bad practices, including some unlabeled ads and installation attempts predicated on security exploits," said Edelman. "I have the proof, and I expect to post this on my Web site in the coming weeks, subject only to my busy travel schedule." Zango's adware has been installed over 70 million times, according to the FTC. Its adware includes programs such as Zango Search Assistant, 180Search Assistant, Seekmo, and n-CASE. Often installed by third-party affiliates, the software monitors Internet use to display pop-up advertising. To date, the adware has displayed some 6.9 billion pop-up ads."'...

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Whoops ; Here are the examples I meant to include in my previous post.

Venezuela[1], Brazil[2], Extremadura and other regions of Spain[3], New Zealand[6], Bulgaria & Madeconia[4], and China[5], India. Development is often a worldwide effort, much like academic research.

For example, while I have only done a little FLOSS development, I've never met any of my collaborators in person.
    Thailand Cities: Vienna, Munich, Geneva, Bergen[7]. Peru, Paris:almost.

[1] http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08 -30-011-26-NW-LL-PB
[2] http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26006
[3] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8485 - Good Read.
[4] http://www.foss.bg/news.php?id=2
[5] http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031117S0015
[6]
[7] http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/13/t13_2.php

Let's take a look at the career of last year's big pump-and-dump spammer:

"Computer Virus Broker Arrested for Selling Armies of Infected Computers to Hackers and Spammers

"Pump-and-dump spam domains go silent after botnet closure"

Spammers register pump-and-dump spam domains for use in spam runs. These domains are commonly discarded after a few days. The tactic is commonplace but the the arrest of alleged botmaster Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, of Downey, California, on 3 November has been accompanied by a radical shift in the landscape. "Up to recently, the graphs were all fairly smooth, with the stats showing that 12 days was about the maximum lifetime for this type of domain, while 30 per cent only lasted a day or under, and 10 per cent only lasted three hours or under," Shipp said. "This kind of activity just disappeared completely from the radar on 2 November."

Following up:

"Botnet Creator Pleads Guilty, Faces 25 Years"

Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator

• Name: JEANSON JAMES ANCHETA
• Inmate number: 32392-112
• Age: 21
• Race: Asian
• Sex: M
• Projected release date: 12-25-2009
• Location: CALIFORNIA CITY CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

California City Prison: "This medium security desert prison opened in 2000, and is a stunning sight, either by day when its monolithic forms stand out on the desert pavement like ancient Egyptian architecture, or by night when floodlights bathe the gleaming facility in an orange glow which can be seen from as much as 30 miles away."

Next spammer, please.

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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't the East Fishkill plant the one that Sony just invested millions of dollars upgrading to support fabricating Cell processors?

I smell potential lawsuit!

bringsd truckloads of networking infrastructure to places like New Orleans when the local government doesn't have a chance of procuring it on their own that fast

That would have been charity if that infrastructure had not been set up to exclude non-MS systems. As it is, it is an investment, a way to squeeze people who are on the rocks into his technological roach motel. Even FEMA joined him to make the problem worse.

If that infrastructure had been set up to be fully interoperable with other systems, then yes it would have been philantropy / charity. As it stands, it is simply an investment to exclude competitors and potential competitors from that market (once it recovers).

Wow! The open source community could take lessons from them.

http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?arti cleID=X482225

"McAfee first delivered security as a service in 1999,
setting the industry standard with seamless, integrated
protection and transforming the way consumers use ..."

Always keep in mind, just who first delivered this plague of completely-expiring software upon users who already knew there was no need to buy this-years-model every 12 months.

I prefer Avira's AntiVir for its low system usage, and the humor of the slightly off German->English translations in the ad that comes up when it updates. Plus, when you buy a copy (with integrated POP3 scanner, etc) they make a donation to charity.