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Slashback: Quiesence, Jazz, RAND
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.
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.
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.
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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
Some of us actually use midi to make interesting music (if you consider techno to be interesting music), since it is the primary way to control hardware synthesizers and samplers. The lack of good midi/audio support in linux is actually the main reason I don't have linux on my home computer. If this program is dead, it's just one more reason for me to stay with Windows...
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.
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
The article was referring to MIDI used in the context of an intermediary protocol between music hardware and sequencing software. It's the only open and documented interface for musical information interchange between devices and so should be promoted by the community, before the proprietary formats manage to get a foothold. I sympathise with what you say about MIDI songs being played on computers, but you should recognise that that's not what MIDI is all about.
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.