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Please write your elected W3C representative. haplo21112 writes "The W3C has posted a next-steps comment on the mailing list for the Patent Policy Frame Work proposal.
It announces among other things that two Open Source People have been added to the working group as Invited experts, Eben Moglen (General Counsel, Free Software Foundation) and Bruce Perens (Co-Founder of the Open Source Initiative). They have also announced a home page for the Working Group at: http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/
Especially interesting is the Second Objection noted on the page from IBM, where basically they are revealed as one of the drivers of the proposal. They grumble about RF and pretty much say they would vastly prefer RAND."
You'd like to think so, eh? ColaMan writes: "Is CodeRed finally dead? I've had a counter on my webserver (yay apache!) that tracks attempts, but since the start of the month only 1 lone attempt has been logged on our permanent IP dialup connection (and that was just overnight). This compares to 2490 attempts for August and 931 for September. Nimda still seems to be plodding along though - I've had 159 unique ip's so far this month and 466 for September. Knowing that my IP address is in some bandwidth-forsaken backwater of the internet, I was wondering how things were going CodeRed-wise in the Real Internet?"
I forget -- does the M stand for "Microsoft," or "Macintosh"? An Anonymous Coward writes: "Remember this story from last Tuesday asking about audio applications on linux? Today the Jazz++ mailinglist declared jazz++ dead (find the message here). While not the perfect midi sequencer, jazz++ is robust and GPL'd. Since jazz++ only appeared twice in the postings (each moderated at +1 ...) related to the earlier story, it would seem this fine product has low visibility among the /. crowd. The only viable GNU/Linux midi solution died the same week ./ had a call for audio solutions on Linux. Gotta love irony..."
From Bundesrat to Bangkok Germany may be considering it, but Thailand is doing them one better. TheMMaster writes "According to this article on newsbytes, the Thai government will switch to open-source software, linux on the desktop, StarOffice. This is a nice example of OSS, and probably why a lot of people contribute, to help people (OK and for fun)"
As usual, the actual developers float high above the flames on their behalf. Yep, KDE is 5 years old -- and fm6 writes: "A nice contrast to the usual GNOME-versus-KDE flamage: the users of news.gnome.org wish KDE a happy 5th birthday." Remember, the flame wars you see about these two projects have little to do with the fact that both have already created killer desktops, and are continuing to do so faster than human beings should be allowed to travel.
The w3 patent policy list, now that the rucus from the patent proposal has died down, is full of repeated spam messages.
Well 5 years and KDE is going strong. Keep up the good work!
-Jasa -- Linux - The SOURCE will be with you, ALWAYS
It's time to face the facts. Code Red is dying...
So why is this rubust and successfull, gpl'ed program dead? Just because it won't link against new libraries doesn't make it dead.
And it's ofcourse GPL, which means that you can reuse parts of it in other software.
Over the last 3 days my site has been receiving one Code Red hit per day. The interesting this is that the original 'N' padding is being used again similar to CR1. Prior to this I hadn't had a hit since Sep. 30th.
Nimda is still going like made but at a much reduced pace. 8 unique hosts 423 hits today. I sure wish it would give up after the first GET and it realizes I'm not running IIS. I'm about to start dynamically updating my IPTables
I've gotta wish KDE a happy birthday -- it was my first Linux GUI and arguably my favourite. The "winds of change" have prompted me to switch to GNOME and while I have to admit I adore Ximian/GNOME I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for KDE. Isn't it great to see how alive and well competition in the Linux scene is? Thank God for KDE (and GNOME) because they've made each other a tonne better simply by their existence.
This has got to be a joke. Both of them have done a good job of creating Windows-like desktops. The Mac and OS/2 users are still laughing their asses off, though. Neither Gnome or KDE is even in the neighborhood of "killer desktops."
Code Red is dead baby, Zed is I mean Code Red is dead. Actually, I run the intrusion detection system at my company, and I can say that CodeRed v2 is all but gone (the decompile did say it would die in October - http://www.incidents.org/react/code_redII.php 3/4 down the page, "Infection Process"), however CodeRed v1 still knocks occasionally (we get 2 to 3 hits a day). Nimda is something else, it keeps hitting at about 10~20 per day.
Jack Ash
Sure, it's free! Can we take some good design from you then?
The KDE team!
I've got a small apache server running on the "dirty front lines" of the internet... right in the middle of the 2nd largest cable network in the US, where every tom, dick and harry goes nuts with p2p, porn, spam, and of course, IIS without having a clue about anything significant.
Anyway, my current NIMDA stats: 55,522 hits in the access_log, and they've only slowed down noticeably within the past week. 196 so far today, and today isn't over yet.
I've successfully been able to shut down some of these machines remotely by randomly picking IPs from the log, checking for either open SMB shares or win2k remote administration. With either of those, especially since these sysops are usually the height of insecurity, its been quite easy to contribute my part of NIMDA disinfection.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
to those on the Gnome side who were gracious enough to be this polite regarding KDE's birthday
It kinda makes one wonder, though, how much energy and how many good ideas are wasted by all the lobbing of insults in the general community. This is a fact of life when it comes to closed-source applications apparently, but in the world of open source it's just dumb. Elitism and smugness hinder progress.
Now, if only the database trolls could take a lesson on this one... sometimes the wars between the various open source factions (mySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) can be worse than anything seen between KDE/Gnome (at least in my opinion).
As to what's better, all I can say is that I use *both* Gnome and KDE (well, KDE a bit more than Gnome these days), and *both* mySQL and PostgreSQL personally (more mySQL than the others, blah blah).
It's all progress, folks. Let's keep it that way
Sure! <Insert backhanded compliment here>!
The GNOME team
Happy Birthday KDE, from a GNOME User...
I am one of those people - and there are probably way more of us than not - who (although it does eat up quite a bit of drive space) has both QT and GTK+ libraries and associated files on the computer. Although I always use GNOME (and i think KDE is a bit, well, ugly) I am happy that:
Shit. I forgot to insert the backhanded compliment!
Damned trolling tutorial... Damned cut and paste...
One of my Chinese co-workers has a collection of MIDI tunes he likes to play from time to time. I'm telling you, you haven't lived until you've listened to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On Your Head" as a MIDI tune, 20 times in the course of one day.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
MusE is a more powerful, more appealing, more actively developed MIDI editor and sequencer than Jazz or Jazz++ ever was. And besides, Jazz is not dead. The message is simply one user expressing their concerns, which although they may be realistic, are not definitive.
I got my first Sircam email today.
I don't know whether to be happy that I've been spared thus far, or sad that I don't seem to be worth the bother of putting in an address book.
It was just some German person's Werewolf campaign character sheet, too. How dull. I was hoping for government secrets.
I just have to chime in and wish the KDE project a happy birthday. I've been using KDE since 1998, and it's still my favourite general-purpose desktop. Not to seem like flame-bait, but I've never liked GNOME, whether Helix-code or not. Soce of the applications are killer (I do like Evolution) but the desktop lacks a lot of the polish one takes from granted from MS and Apple. At any road, I just want to say that I switched from fvwm to KDE and I've never looked back. Happy Birthday, K, and hopefully many, many more to come.
~wmaheriv
"Shema Yisroel- Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad!"
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this question, but the M in MIDI stands for "Musical". Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
Oh, how fast the days have flown by. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. My thoughts are with you on this lonely day. What has the world come to when there aren't any automatic viruses floating around on buggy Windows systems? Maybe we'll get lucky and WinXP will have some colossal hole. For now, however, my lonely IP has nobody tracerouting it, scanning for open ports, or even sending it petty pings.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Code Red is dying.
.008 percent of the virus infection market. Therefore there are (7000/100)*.008 = .56 Code Red on FreeBSD machines. This is the result of one guy working in his spare time to port Code Red and consistent with the number of Code Red on FreeBSD Usenet posts.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict Code Red's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Code Red faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Code Red because Code Red is dying. Things are looking very bad for Code Red. As many of us are already aware, Code Red continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Code Red using hacker mafiaboy states that there are 7000 machines that are victims of Code Red. How many users of Nimda are there? Let's see. The number of Code Red versus Nimda posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 4. Therefore there are about 7000*5 = 35000 Nimda users. Code Red on Linux posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Code Red on Windows posts. Therefore there are about 700 victims of Code Red on Linux. A recent article put Code Red on *BSD at about
Due to the troubles of Sircam, abysmal infection rates and so on, Sircam is getting out of the virus business and becomming a flight simulator. Code Red is still dying and the corpse of Code Red will soon be turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Code Red has steadily declined in market share. Code Red is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Code Red is to survive at all it will be among virus hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. Code Red continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Code Red is dead.
--Shoeboy
Redundant and you forgot "dying" -- that's it, i'm taking you off my christmas card list.
the same week ./ had a call for audio solutions on Linux. Gotta love irony...
Well, all those NT servers had to have been rebooted at least once by now :) !
The Thai language has 77 letters (or 76?), and requires complicated marks that go above the letters. So, all word processing software must be modified anyway. Thailand is a good country to begin with Open Source software.
What should be the Response to Violence?
Bush's education improvements were
OpenSource programs don't die!
They just fade away.
...comparatively speaking. For those of you who didn't read it, one of their objections is that while anyone involved in making the standard might potentially be forced to declare RF licensing, someone who keeps quiet during the standard's formulation but owns a patent on essential parts of the standard, can license under RAND or whatever else, as they didn't take part in the process.
While that is a problem, it doesn't negate the idea of RF. There were three other objections - but they're half legalese, and IANAL... :-)
Code Red deliberately self terminates on October 1st 2001.
There's a check inside the code that essentially sends the server into an endless reboot loop if the month is greater than 9 or the year is greater than 2001.
This pretty much ensures you either fix your server or stay offline.
I guess even a worm writer wants to use the 'Net. Building self-termination into a worm seems like an oddly moral thing to do, however closer examination will probably reveal the author was concerned about the worm making the net completely unusable.
And that would never do.
The activity light is still on rock solid, and there's nothing wrong with the modem. No, I don't have any of the worms because I'm using a broadband firewall.
At my last count, I receive around 500 attempts by these worms each day, usually by other cable users. Before I got a firewall, loading up my Apache log file crashed notepad. My favorite past time has become tracerouting the IPs to see what nearby city they're in. I live in Columbus, Ohio and can easily discern those from nearby towns and locations throughout the city (e.g. pos1-2-colswest or pos4-0-dublin).
I then like to load up Telnet and go searching for root.exe on these computers. When dumped into a root cmd, a carefully placed command copies a file from a share on my computer to the other machine. The file, of course, is an MS update patch or lately one of the clean utilities posted around the net. Another command runs the program and when finished the system is reboot and no longer bothers me.
Now there's an idea...fixing worm systems through their own security holes. I even wrote a little script to automatically attempt to 'fix' an attacking system. Don't just bitch when the same IP keeps pounding you...do something about it!! There's plenty of info out there, and you can get most of the info from the attacking HTTP GET strings.
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
MIDI is a most important tool for composers ..." new cool app ...check it out .. "
Yeah i know if you use a sound card in a comp the sound stinls.But that's not what it's for either.Normally the sequencer is but a part of the whole.Samplers,keyboards and up to date drum machines are plugged in and produce very realistic sound.Enough for the composer to
make a classic symphony at home and to know what it sounds before he's with the whole orchestra for the first repetition.
A m shame such an important tool wasn't known Then should the community be more verbose and go
The death of jazz++ saddens me.
/. article months ago about how computer graphics for movies were being moved to Linux render farms. This meant that Hollywood was going Linux. Well, why can't the same thing happen for recording industry (also hollywood/LA)? There is a huge demand for it. Believe me, I wouldn't pay god knows how much for ProTools if I could just download a free linux equivalent, which would probably run faster anyway.
As a professional musician I need to use windows because that is where all the best sequencing/recording/processing technology is (yes, windows is far superior to mac for digital audio). Nevertheless, as a computer scientist...I HATE WINDOWS! And a lack of music applications is what is really holding me down from solely booting linux.
There was
If the recording industry moved to Linux, they wouldn't just be saving tons of money for software (their only costs would be hardware). They might also adopt a new outlook on the "free world". A combination of the two might shut up the RIAA.
can't sleep. clowns will eat me.
I wouldn't mind getting her in the kernel
Please don't print the date in that format(20011018) again! I've been thinking in hex way too much recently, and I tried to interpret it as a SPIM instruction to be decoded. Uhn. Bah.
Impossible, the pit will eventually get you in China one day or another.
Arrrgh. I just checked my access.log and it had about 680 IIS exploit attempts since 12am today.
:(
Guess that's the price I pay for being on @home, the largest collection of Nimda/CodeRed/Sub7 zombies in the world...
I guess even a worm writer wants to use the 'Net. Building self-termination into a worm seems like an oddly moral thing to do, however closer
examination will probably reveal the author was concerned about the worm making the net completely unusable.
Or as someone else pointed out, it's to stop the infected host from broadcasting "My owner is a moron, please FIX ME!". If the worm writers main goal was to gather an arsenal of computer slaves, then a wormicide would be the thing to do. When the worm stops spreading the security gurus go away, the press stops spreading panic, and the script kiddies can quietly move in and gorge themself on an unprecedented number of slaves. Now why they'd want to run their advanced skript-kiddie-software on such a lame OS beats me, but then again, I probably don't like their music either.
-- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.
WinXP already has produced a colossal hole... in your wallet. Bwahahahaahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
Edith Keeler Must Die
I've been hit with over 78000 Nimda attacks, and about 16000 attacks between Code Red (1 and 2).
I use a utility I wrote to keep track of all the attacks on my Apache server. It's called WormScan, and you can find it here. It's written in Java, is licensed under the GPL, and only needs a couple of minutes to scan through your logs (depending on size and number of attacks, of course). Lots and lots of features, and extremely flexible. It generates detailed reports which can help you get a look at what's going on.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
Actually, the message asked if the program was on its' deathbead, since there were certain changes in libraries that threaten to make it unbuildable on modern systems.
So it is not dead yet.
And somebody with spare time could turn around and patch it as a summer project or something.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
nice try man...didn't even crash my win98 machine; while burning a cd, with SETI running in the background :P
Gimme a URL to download code to install this code red counter. I want to keep track of it too. I look through my logs occasionally and I'm always seeing failed attempts for files like ../../../../sys.com and C:/blah i assume this code red trying to worm it's way onto my linux box.
Joseph Elwell.
Remember the curse of the .0 microsoft version!
remember Dos 2.0? No?
win 3.0? no?
Now the only NT4.0 rocked was that the problems were in 3.50!
the 4.0 was only grafting on a 95-like face.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
seems that Stephen King dies every week - to some slashdot user.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
Hey, I -have- seen Windows 1.3, though. (NOT 3.1, 1.3) Pretty daaaaaaamn funny.
Single tasking, task switching. I think the "DOSSHELL" that implemented "Task Switching" was based upon it.
It might even have BEEN it.
LOL
Talk about a total piece of trash...
And then I remember Windows 2.0. I saw that one too. On my 4-color CGA card. I formatted my hard drive immediatly after running it. Hey, I did that after installing 3.0, and 3.1, too. But instead of reinstalling DOS/Win with 3.0 and 3.1, I installed Linux.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I tried and tried to make my Roland SCC-1 sound card work well in linux, but failed. This simple isa MPU-401 compatible card uses the mpu401 module. No matter which program i try, playmidi, jazz or whatever thing that uses the /dev/sequencer device, it simply can't play the files right. Further investigation has revealed that the mpu401 module lacks the "intelligent mode" that _true_ mpu401 devices can employ, which could be a cause. The only way i could "barely" make this card sound decent "under linux", was using dos software running in dosemu and letting direct access to the card (ie, avoiding the kernel module and letting use irq/addresses directly).
Of course this card sounds perfect using true dos or windows. Everything from a 286 up to the latest AMD can make this board play midi files just fine. Linux can't. For some reason, notes get lost/muted in the way (or lag). It may be a latency issue; i guess its the braindead module kernel that nobody cared to improve anymore.
I have hopes for the kernel low latency and preemptive patches, maybe that could help.
Oh, and ALSA assumes you can't have an mpu401 device stand alone...
Well now i'm playing with Freebsd, who knows, maybe it works here...
Artix
Your Linux, your init.
And it will be a real test of coding to port a windows Thai font to linux.
We just released Rosegarden 4 v0.1.
Sun has all sorts of Thai crap it tries to install in Solaris. I always try to remove it, to avoid system clutter.
Yea, they're a good band, saw them play here a bunch of times.. jazzy versions of greatful dead songs..pretty damn cool.................
whats the commotion?
oh
i get it
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
its called getting on with your lives like we were told to do.
What makes this news difficult to believe is this:
Thailand is a very difficult country for OpenSource without a significant community to back it. It would require a major backing of large companies (IBM, Sun, HP) for Linux to be considered. I hope this will happen. Pushing Linux into the Thai market is very much in the interest of these companies. The alternative is playing on a tilted field after Microsoft's rules.
-Rudiger
If my past trips to Thailand are any indication, not too many people there are purchasing M'soft licences anyway..
he said "jazz".
Everything I know in life I learnt from
What about MusE and Midi Mountain? Are you saying they're not viable? MusE: http://muse.seh.de/ Midi Mountain: http://www.music-community.ch/midimountain/ There's also Brahms (http://brahms.sourceforge.net/) but I've never been able to get it to work... There are also many other interesting Linux MIDI apps like timidity. For a full list, check out the MIDI section of David Philip's Linux Music and Sound Apps page at http://sound.condorow.net/midi.html
It's doing better than ever! Even my local supermarket just started carrying it in bottles and cans! 88 cents a six pack. Gotta love it.
So long as there's one copy of the source in the wild, GPL software never dies. I downloaded the CVS for safekeeping, and when I've got time I'll work on it.
Life's a bitch but somebody's gotta do it.
I see you're posting to Slashdot again.
Why did you ditch your old account? Is it becuase you got trolled to hell and back and your karma got seriously butt-raped?