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k-hell writes "Researchers from the University of Michigan are using virtual machines to 'to provide security in an operating-system-independent manner.' They have designed and implemented a replay service for virtual machines called
ReVirt, which 'logs enough information to replay a long-term execution of a virtual machine instruction-by-instruction.' A system called BackTracker 'automatically identifies potential sequences of steps that occurred in an intrusion,' and they provide a nice example of BackTracker's output for an attack against a machine that they set up as a honeypot, where an attacker gained access through httpd. Here's the source code."
Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
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Who can do more than root? Someone outside the "simulation", of course. "God" would certainly be an appropriate password to the system on which the virtual worlds/machines run...
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Oracle is attempting to buy PeopleSoft for $5.1Bilion.
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Dow gains nearly 100 as Oracle makes hostile bid
The Dow jumped nearly 100 points Friday as a $5 billion hostile takeover bid from Oracle, a solid profit forecast from Intel and the latest U.S. employment data stoked buyers.
The S&P 500 broke through the 1,000 mark for the first time in a year before falling back to more modest gains.
The Nasdaq closed in on 1,700, a level not seen since May, 2002, but cooled off in afternoon action as the tech-heavy index caught its breath.
Setting the bullish tone, Oracle (NasdaqNM:ORCL - News) offered $5.1 billion for business software firm PeopleSoft (NasdaqNM:PSFT - News)
Investors cheered the latest U.S. jobs report, in which 17,000 people lost jobs in May, fewer than the expected figure of 46,000. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent, as expected. And April's originally reported 48,000-payroll drop was revised to flat.
While the employment report revealed a still-sluggish job market, it came in within expectations and did not disappoint market watchers, said Bryan Piskorowski, market commentator at Prudential. "Investors are now looking at the economic glass as half full and this has fueled the market's gains of late," he said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (CBOT:^DJI - News) jumped 90 points, or 1 percent, to 9,131.
The S&P 500 (CBOE:^SPX - News) rose 5, or 0.5 percent, to 995.
The Nasdaq (NasdaqSC:^IXIC - News) dropped 6, or 0.4 percent to 1,639.
Advancers outlasted decliners by a 19 to 12 on the Big Board. The Nasdaq was in break-even mode with decliners outlasting advancers by 14.2 to 14.
In the bond market, the 10-year Treasury note was down 5/32 to yield 3.36 percent.
Intel (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) jumped 2.2 percent to $22.31 as it cut the top end and raised the bottom end of its second-quarter sales range. The company is poised to deliver on Wall Street's expectations for its next financial period.
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD - News) is rocketing 9.6 percent to $21.14 as the fast food giant said it'll spend $50 million to sell some of its hefty real estate holdings. It also clocked a 6.3 percent gain in same-store sales last month -- the biggest increase in four years. Separately, Wedbush Morgan upgraded the tech bellwether and Dow component to a "buy" from a "hold."
PeopleSoft rocked up 22 percent to $18.45. Oracle fell 2.3 percent.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, discussing the company's takeover bid, said, "The strong are getting stronger," in a consolidating industry. "PeopleSoft fits perfectly," he added.
Richard Nash, chief market strategist at Victory Capital Management, sounded a cautious note. He said Wall Street could face a near-term correction in the area of 5- to 7 percent on the heels of recent gains.
For great security!