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He may have been told where the door was. http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?News ID=2564 Too bad.

I submitted the same story too... here's some more info you won't find on the EST site.
The first time these guys surfaced was on FullDisclosure mailing list. Here's the message. Their website which, apparently, doesn't work anymore. Techworld article can link you to a lot more information.

The point of the article is to draw attention away from the fact that once again the love of PHBs for Microsoft has eclipsed other concerns. The two key paragraphs are near the end:

The genesis of the problem was the transition in 2001 by Harris Corp. of the Federal Aviation Administration's Voice Switching Control System from Unix-based servers to Microsoft Corp.'s off-the-shelf Windows Advanced Server 2000.

By most accounts, the move went well except the new system required regular maintenance to prevent data overload. When that wasn't done, it turned itself off as it was designed to do. But the backup also failed.

In other words, a working Unix-based solution was replaced by a dubiously reliable Windows-based version. The phrases "regular maintenance" and "data overload" are not very descriptive, but a more technical summary,

The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order
to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. To avoid this
automatic shutdown, technicians are required to restart the system manually
every 30 days. An improperly trained employee failed to reset the system,
leading it to shut down without warning, the official said[,]

makes the issue clear. Unix-based solutions do not require being restarted every 30 days to avoid "data overload". Unix-based solutions could restart automatically if they did. The question people should be asking is: why was an obviously defectively designed system allowed to replace a working system. Doing so put 800 planes worth of lives at risk.

Not all nuclear reactors. I'm afraid China is going to be the one who shows the west how it's done. I guess we'll let China whip us for the next ten years or fifteen years, then adopt what pans out.

Well, assuming we aren't still whining about 'Intellectual Property' and draining our resources fighting 'Rouge Dictators' when they have beaten us in cloning, stem cell treatments, computer science, computer hardware, and space exploration. Energy production almost seems small by comparison.

"This lawsuit appears to differ from earlier challenges to MicroSoft's marketplace dominance by entertaining the possibility of a Class-Action lawsuit." Um, RTFA? At least 16 other states have had similar lawsuits, including the recent settlement here in Minnesota.

Let me see if I can do my best to google up some of the news artcles and links that recommended against installing SP1 so perhaps you can understand the reasons why...

Windows XP SP1 problems
Windows XP Update crashes some PCs
XPdlite (contains an SP1 caution)
Forums

Hopefully that gives a general idea on the subject. I would have liked to have stuck to news sites only... but ancient articles of the web aren't as easy to find as one might expect.

Actually, FreeBSD is increasing it's market share, as mentioned here, here, and here. You really should know a little about what you're talking about before you talk about it.

As for one BSD hating another, that is utterly ridiculous to the point that I laughed at you when I read it.

Finally, I don't know what you define as "success" but the way I see it, microsoft still has the dominant desktop operating system in both quality (IMHO) and popularity (statistically) and IMHO FreeBSD still has the upper hand over Linux in the server department. So, if you follow that, that still leaves linux behind both of them.

Notice also that Secunia yaps on about how, for Mac OS X, "of the 36 advisories issued in 2003-2004, 61 percent could be exploited across the Internet and 32 percent enabled attackers to take over the system"-- but never mentions how many could be exploited across the Internet to enable attackers to take over the system. Personally, we aren't much concerned about exploits that require local access to a Mac, because if anyone's climbing in through a window downstairs, we've got more important things to worry about than whether or not he can mess with our Finder preferences. We picked one of those advisories at random, noted that it's tagged with an impact of "System access" and a location of "From remote," and then scoped out the description of the flaws to find that the only ones listed that appear to allow "escalation of privileges" can only be exploited by "malicious, local users." So as long as we keep the doors locked at night and don't tick off our housemates to the point of digital vandalism, we're apparently all right.

What will be the "recomended ones"? Mozilla/Firefox? Konqueror/Safari? links/w3m?

Maybe the nicest effect of that variety of recommended browsers and so many people saying "don't use IE" will finish making web er... "designers" to go to the real standards instead of things that are IE specific.

Now those people must go a step forward, first recomending to avoid Outlook (uses IE rendering engine, an IE vulnerability could be triggered with a simple mail message), and then Windows (if is for unsolved vulnerabilities and bad security record it takes all the prices), maybe first the 9x/Me family.

Hilarious.

"That however is where Young and SCO's head Darl McBride leave reality alone and continue with their evangelistic pronouncements which are what have put the company in its sticky situation in the first place."

[...]

But still the company can't stop itself from issuing threats. "If they're willfully not buying licences, the price will be a horrific price," said Young. Why? Because of all the penalties that SCO will add when it has won all its lawsuits. "They run a huge risk. What they're looking at right now is a bet and that bet is going to get more expensive." But every week, the horse is looking more of an outsider.

Just go there and read it. I think the press is going to gang up on SCO and really kick them. What goes up, must come down.

Mind you, I'd love to see the court case. "I have prior art, your Honour...

"Look see how my finger moves - that finger has worked since 1975."

Or has Microsoft in fact patented time?

few quotes from TheRegister:

"A major revision of Apple's Mac OS X operating system released this week fails to come bundled with a vital, recently-issued security fix."

"A security patch (2004-05-24) which guards against a vulnerability in the Help viewer sub-system is absent from the Mac OS X version 10.3.4, despite claims to the contrary by Apple."

"This confusion is compounded by Apple, which has thus far failed to address another critical - and easily exploitable - security hole which it wrongly told Techworld was fixed by the Help Viewer patch."

"An updated version of a security testing tool by Unsanity establishes that even patched systems are vulnerable. So patched Mac OS X systems are vulnerable and unpatched systems are even more vulnerable."

Now, if I ever again see one of the Mac zealots here advertising MacOS against Windows because of vulnerabilities & patches stuff, I'll instantly go into "undefined behaviour"!

Well, actually, a better and longer version first appeared on Techworld.

Seems to me that with the world beyond 802.11g looking a bit fragmented, the Wi-Fi standards aren't as settled as everyone is saying. Now would be a perfect time to "embrace and extend" the standards, and bend Wi-fi one way or another - if Microsoft wanted to. The only thing is it would cause more trouble than it was worth - causing potential trouble with the authorities, and partners. Here's my opinion on why they dropped Wi-fi hardware. Peter Judge

As the article points out, it's already fixed A fixed iso is available.
Microsoft and Apple are mostly blamed for their "Keep silent and don't fix" policy.

If you need anything larger, I suggest you fork over a few millions for one of these babies. Just 2.5Tb of solid state memory disk and with a pricetag of $4.7 million ....

Not only does the article offer only very little in the way of evidence, but the whole point of the article appears moot. My favorite quote at http://secunia.com/advisories/11539 (linked from the article):

"Solution:
Apply Security Update 2004-05-03."


(The article is dated "04 May 2004")

TechWorld seems to have a rather pro-Microsoft, anti-everything-else bias. Yesterday, in addition to this "news", they also blasted Apple for having security holes in Mac OS X even though Windows has far worse security...

You missed it because it broke just today.

See here See Here

I thought Microsoft was secretly SCO's biggest investor, at least that's what everyone else still believes.

I think Sun is serious about becoming the biggest Linux vendor, as they suggested a year ago with their china deal where McNealy said "This, I believe, makes us instantaneously the number one Linux desktop play in the planet."

If they're going for volume, you can't beat Wal*Mart and China.

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X
for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens

So, from where I am viewing the market from the perspective of an end user, Apple's market position is looking pretty good to me.

Yeah, real good.

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Apple, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system; G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply as it threatens Micr

/. doesn't like linked newline?
link.

"Texas Memory Systems" heh.

Being find is a lot diffrent to being made to open source your product. The only time windows being opened sourced has been discussed has been by journalists and here on slashdot as a possibility that some of it might be. Even the fine is not certain for all we know they could be slapped on the wrists and told not to be so naughty, wait for something to actually happen before commenting.

He meant this article, which was posted on Slashdot a few days ago. Quit being such a troll.

RAM Disk Link

No. 1 is EV1Servers.net who announced SCO lied about how much they were paid (Microsoft is a fan of EV1)
(little did the CEO know when he made the deal that SCO planned to 'worth' him out of seven figures)

No. 2 is CompterAssociates who announced SCO lied about "linux licenses" which are really from an unrelated settlement

No. 3 is Leggett and Platt say SCO lies and they don't have a license and "would not have an interest in doing so"

No. 4 is Questar Gas said they just wanted to get things over with and also runs Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) on Windows 2000


Make sure *you* are Legally Unencumbered(tm) by getting a SCOsores license
and don't forget to head over and sign your Clean Slate contract with the RIAA

SCO lies once more
Leggett & Platt was even clearer. "I have now talked to our people who handle our Linux systems and, at least at a corporate level, we have not bought such a licence from SCO Group," said the company's VP of human resources, John Hale. "To their knowledge they would not have an interest in doing so."

I tried looking for information on RedHat dropping their Linux desktop as an unviable product. All I found was that they are not supporting older distributions but are actually accelerating their development of Linux for the desktop of course that won't be a free distribution.

i'm sorry, something went wrong when posting the link.
The link is here

And, yet they build more stuff in the OS:

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction =displaynews&NewsID=995

"The more you can put in the core operating system the better." Yeah, they are that inept.

The G5 spanks the Opteron in many of the non-gaming tests, except for the Photoshop tests.

Isn't photoshop the reason for buying a mac?

And what about all those announcements?

Microsoft asks Mac users, "How can we get your business?'

Merrill Lynch, whose technology group recently began coverage of Red Hat, noted in a research note last week that "open source and Mac adoption is still in infancy in the enterprise market." However, "we should see explosive growth in the years to come as corporations look to achieve cost savings within their IT departments."

Using IDC's own estimate for G5/OSX server shipments through 2007, as well as its internal data on OSX operating system attach rates and server pricing, Merrill reckons that the enterprise G5 market could be worth $529 million by 2007. "This represents a [compound annual growth rate] of 61 percent over the 5-year period from 2002-2007," the note said.

Japanese telco to aid Mac phone development

Mac, G5 systems move out enterprise's mainframe

New G5 chips, but no 64-bit OS X for at least two years (too late).

"We're saying that OSX/G5s will eat Unix," Gantz said.

Is Computer Associates contemplating dumping Windows?

If you have been following Microsoft attempts to hold onto counties, cities, states, governmental bodies, governments, corporations and people, you know the headlines have gone from talk to action.

The governments that are starting to move over tend to be mostly poorer countries, or ones with large, largely computer-free populaces. Brazil and China are good examples of this trend. In those places, OSX/G5 adoption has been picking up steam to the point that if a second world country told MS to take a hike, it would hardly rate a Slashdot story on a slow day. .

THE NATIONAL HEALTH Service is considering using the OSX operating system & G5s in a 2.3 billion deal that could affect as many as 800,000 PCs if a pilot is successful.

Nine German cities poised to adopt OSX/G5

Official: China to invest in OSX/G5-based software industry

The US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen OSX for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme, according to a report in National Defense Magazine. The move, initially covering a personal computing and communications device termed the Commander's Digital Assistant (CDA), follows the failure of the previous attempt at such a device in trials in February of this year, and is part of a move to make the device simpler and less breakable.

According to program manager Lt Col Dave Gallop this is part of a broader move towards OSX/G5 by the US Army: "Evidence shows that OSX is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to OSX/G5-based OS."

Sun Microsystems is the odd man out. It has an impressive array of powerful enemies: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Novell, and more. It has only a weakened Oracle as a friend, and Oracle too has made a "bet the company" move to OSX/G5. OSX/G5 threatens many of Sun's traditional products as sharply a

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