I have a F760 fiber channel filer that was made back in 1999 running a WAFL (ontap 6.x now) OS. Funny how Sun didn't 'notice' the infringement until they made their own version of WAFL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS in 2005. Even funnier that the creators of ZFS claim that WAFL is the "closest" file system to their own. All we have to do is look at the dates here people. Netapp has been using WAFL for almost a decade in production systems. I'm no fan of Netapp because they want to charge for copies of software that I already bought years ago (corrupt disks) but I hope Sun eats a crow for trying to claim infringement on a system that has been in use for several years.
Lets see, I can play an mp3 while transferring a file at 120 mega bytes per second over an iSCSI interface hooked up to a pair of 28 disk fiber filers. I can transfer to a SATA RAID from a SATA RAID at 60 mega bytes a second. Playing an MP3 in media player or a movie, even a 1080P movie, causes no effect at all on the network speed during the copy (a 8gb ISO file). I'm pretty sure 1000 mega bits per second is equal to 120 mega bytes a second. If I can use my iSCSI NAS at 100% and play a 1080P video at the same time then I'm guessing just about anything would work without the described behavior.
I would assume spending 5 minutes running media player and performance monitor together to see if the story is true wouldn't be too much trouble. That might might make slashdot editors talk to a dirty vista OS user, let's just assume if the news is negative then the news must be true.
Just because a project is open source does not mean it's a 'good' project, or make the developers good people, and similarly because it's closed source doesnt necessarily mean it [the project], or it's developers are 'evil'. This is personal to me because I've spent the last 4 years writing a grand application for small business, which I've been paid for, but not very well, it's more a work of passion than a way to make money, right now. When the project is finished I plan on selling it, yes I will make simple copies, I can't reasonably give something away I alone took 4 years to make, and that's what open source software professes: take a lot of your time making something and then give it away for free. Some people have the interest and help of the community and in that case they should be obligated to remain open source. But if you are closed and by yourself, as I am, you should be able to remain closed without incurring the moniker 'evil'. I've spent thousands of hours working on this project, it's not something I just want to give copies away for free. It cost me thousands of dollars to make this program and I'm going to try and recoup that money, and then some, and that is not evil. If someone makes film would you expect them to give it away for free to everyone just because making a copy is so easy? Or what about a book? The idea that software developers are expected to just give up the fruits of their labor is just straight up communist, people should be rewarded for their efforts with cash, or there is no incentive to do it [write software]. I'm not making a program so bill1717@aol.com can give me props on sourceforge or make a happy face on IRC, it's a damn job, and unless we're going to start paying plumbers and doctors in emoticons I'm going to continue to ask for money for the software I write.
I'm not to sure what this codec nonsense is about but I can play and encode 1080P videos using in WMV format all day long. Playback uses about 10%-30% CPU on my 6600 core deuce 2.4. People over at lame ass stardoc are encoding 1080P without a hitch, MS also has their HD showcase site with dozens of 1080P movies. I'm exclusively using my Westinghouse 37" 1080P via DVI in it's native resolution. Actually it's a DVI>30'HDMI>DVI cable, but still digital. I watch 1080i on my moxi via DIV on the same screen and I can see a difference, the WMVs look way better, it could be the compression on the HDTV but It's at least as good as the broadcast HDTV, I'm not sure I would expect a whole lot better from a downloaded movie. If anyone wants to see a good example of HDTV check out Discovery's Planet Earth series. It's only available on craptastic DVD so you've got to catch it when it airs or through some narfarious means and then it's like 7gb per episode. I digress, unless this 'bad codec' is some horrible tyrannical update that destroys the existing WMV codec all this excitement is over nothing, it is working right now.
Not sarcasm -> Perhaps I may be missing the point of the article, I can only profess ignorance to the issue as I'm sure the person who posted this must have tested Vista's HD playback capability and found it lacking.
You want to talk wide open spaces. Talk about the military simulator VBS or it's civilian counterpart OPF/Arma. These games may not look the prettiest but they have hundreds of square miles of seamless terrain. Enough so that many branches of the U.S. military signed up for it several years in a row. It has cross sim technology that allows it to talk to other simulators. But most importantly it run a insane resolutions and has view distances that would make a 747 pilot jealous.
I really wish video game makers would get a little more realistic in their shooting games. Real (outdoor) warfare does not occur at 50ft, it happens at about 400 meters, that's almost so far that the guy you're shooting at looks like an ant. And that happens to be real life. Also, someone tell JC if someone is hiding behind a cinderblock wall and I shoot an 7.62 AK74 round at said wall and the bullet happens to land where someone is standing on the other side, they are dead. Bullets penetrate EVERYTHING except HEAVY ARMOR. That means if you shoot a house, someone on the other side of the house may get hit because the bullet penetrated every wall in the house. This is especially true for heavy machine guns (.50cal+) which can demolish a small house with a few dozen rounds.
Also, and almost as important, don't make stupid doors that have a fucking golf ball holding them shut, I just destroyed a god damn super monkey spider droid with a mega doppler 5000 hand blastron laser fink and I can't open this god damn door because someone wedged a golf ball under it's flimsy wooden frame. What's that you say? Don't go in there? It's not part of the level? DON'T MAKE THE FUCKING DOOR THEN! Did you think you had to follow the layout of Walter Reed hospital exactly? I won't care if there is a wall where there should be a janitors closet, just don't put a door in the level that can't be opened, especially a door with a window and a god damn wooden chair wedged under the door knob. BAD BAD BAD!! Anyone remember Red Faction? Where you could blow up the walls. What ever happen to that idea? What kind of future war training are we offering our children?! ->
Ted: Hey Jimmy hide behind those wooden pallets so the Chinese T80 main battle tank can't use it's HE round to kill you
Jimmy: Thank Ted! I'm not sure how long I could have lasted without that great advice
Jimmy, my friends, would be dead. AND PEOPLE LIKE JC ARE RESPONISBLE FOR HIS DEATH! MAKE VIDEO GAMES MORE REALISTEC NOW!! BEFORE JIMMY AND TED ARE DEAD!
The fact that this is a story show how far behind Apple is in remote management. Everything here I could do on *inx or MS computers for at least a decade, why is this news? I guess there has to be some padding between the regular blowjobs that/. likes to give Apple. oh wait, this is one of those huh. Geeze get a room.
Anyone think maybe it's just a spam filter? I don't use IM of any kind (IRC etc) but when I HAD to in the past I received a lot of spam IM. If 90% of the spam IM has these strings in it (an exaggeration to be sure) then why not stamp it out? I'm sure you wouldn't complain too much if the message you sent to your GMAIL account with the subject 'replica watches with pharmaceutical hudia' didn't go through. I think a good test would be to try the string "Bill Gates sucks Steve Jobs cock", if this makes it through well then, everything important works.
When a self proclaimed vocabulary expert uses an obscure vernacular while talking to his laymen friend to arrogantly show off his language skill, he's missing the point of talking: to communicate an idea.
So to does Apple's font rendering miss the point of rendering a font, it may be technically sound, it represents the target typeface on the screen while maintaining a contiguous high contrast mesh grid thingy, and I'm sure Johannes Gutenberg would be quite impressed. But it's hard to read, and isn't that the whole damn point of reading?
Here's half of every blues song ever written in every key:
14145415
Here's another quarter of them:
141415415
And the rest:
345
For the non musical, 1234567 represents the notes in any key. The upper paragraph represents about 200 years of rock and blues history, ranging across tens of thousands of songs. Almost all of the songs have a copyright but when you play it yourself no copyright can be claimed because it's your version of a song not the version that has a copyright, hundreds of songs of course are the same exact chords and the same exact rhythm, mostly because that's what makes a genre. Of course you can't blatantly rip off a song and collect on it when it's someone else's music, but you can play it as your own, or make something similar!
There is hundreds of years of president to back up "you can play it", if this changes the RIAA is going to have to shut down every coffee shop and dive bar that employs the poor musicians they are so eager to exploit once they write songs that turn into hits.
I'm a developer and and as long as Safari for windows has been out my company has been validating my pages on it, we validate all the windows platform browsers as well as *nix browsers and PIE.. Pages that view perfectly on every other browser I've tried, on Safari do not work. Most pages have funny layout problems as expected, and I can fix that stuff. However, Some pages just don't show up at all, like it decided not to render anything, especially large intranet pages that contain tables with 100+ rows. Also, it has some weird issues with the and how it renders pages that, on the server side, render the select options in different indexes (e.g.:you choose option 3 so it renders option 3 at the top rather than use the 'selected' property). The problems, with the windows version at least are so big I can't even begin to figure out how to 'work' around them. What the hell do you do when the page just does not render at all? If someone wants to give me a safe place that won't get/.'ed I'll gladly upload examples of this. Simple HTML 4.01 trans. using nothing but a few simple tables causes it to display a blank page (mind you with the proper background-color).
So no, I can't write HTML for the iPhone unless they fix some major issues with Safari. Though I may buy one and to hell with viewing certain pages.
I'm a web developer and am interested in cross validation, so I tried some of my drop down menus on one my my sites, seems safari only wants to listen to some of the 'onchange' events that the dropdown triggers. Without reloading the page I can click on a dropdown with the onchange event and it only work about 5 out of 7 times. Guess executing the javascript onchange event was faster than on IE if it happened in 0 seconds!
The only reason google is this prominent is because geeks (like me) told all our friends 'Use google!' There are only a few features that really set google apart from other searches, when someone duplicates these then google will not be so prominent. Let's face it google really has 0 intellectual property. The only IP I actually use (besides the search) is the toobar and that's easily replaced as I only use the spell check and 'click word search/highlight'. I could write a toolbar that does that in my sleep so I don't really see any 'technological' edge.
The few 'features' that google has is really a lack of features:
1: Only relevant text is displayed, no 'you may also like!'
2: No graphical ads, no moving or blinking 'text' NO FLASH!
3: OK search results (just as good as Ya! or MS)
IMHO adwords (google's ad program) is the beginning of the end for the company. More than anything else adwords has created the 'evil' in google. That's exactly why google was so ready to work with red China on blocking 'evil words like democracy and freedom'. Don't forget that Bill Gates snubbed the Chinese president (or whatever he is called) in one of their last meeting over human rights issues, while google was busy constructing their word filters for the communist party. Google is happy to grab up all the videos on the internet and redistribute them with their crummy flash player (may flash burn in hell), meanwhile Bill Gates comes out and says 'DRM is dead' while google is working on their next inception of 'How to DRM everything, even though we don't actually own it'. Not that MS has abandoned DRM but you don't get people like Sergey Brin or Lawrence Page steping out and saying 'DRM is evil and we shal abandon it's use', rather they embrace it's evilness. They also don't say 'Sorry filtering words like "freedom" and "human rights" is evil' when everyone was hoping they would say that.
As soon as the geek community find a more appealing search google will be history, just as google was created it can be uncreated - word of geek.
It's not a religion and it's nothing to get all excited about. 97% of the people on the planet are not zealots and will use whatever OS or hardware suits their needs, the other 3% use Mac's only.
If you need a tool to get the job done does it really matter who makes it if the tool works correctly? It's not like MS grinds up the bones of stillborn babies to oil their war machines. Apple, Sun, etc. are just as evil(capitalistic) as MS, they are just not quite as good at it.
As they read the DCMA it sounds like:
If you have digital information that you would like to copyright then you must protect it with DRM. That means that EVERYTHING that doesn't have DRM, from this web page to the ROM in your microwave must be protected somehow.
So does DRM require DRM?
I've been running windows since 3.1 and have never been affected by any malware. How did I manage that? Common security practices that you MUST adhere to in any operating system.
1. Firewall yourself (and your network)
2. NAT your clients
2a. Hey NAT your servers while your at it!
3. Don't run bins or web pages you aren't sure about
4. Only open ports on your FW that you know are secure
If you fail to do any of these things on ANY operating system you will get screwed eventually.
Why is Windows so insecure? High volume of bad bins and www's that take advantage of 'stupid users'.
I can sum it up this way: If you want to secure windows you need to know a lot about computers. If you want to even USE *nix you have to know a LOT about computers, and even more if you want to secure it. If you want to use a mac, you'll need to know how to operate a TV, but don't expect to have as many bin's or help with the bin's that you can't get working. Security though obscurity is a double edged sword. Obscurity means you get less attention from malware writers as well as niceware writers. If you were a crook would you rob the bank with %90 of the money or %10 of the money?
And finally a shameless plug for FreeBSD * stable IPF/IPNAT!
I for one like the Rail Gun over the plasma gun. Although the recycle rate is lower I find the ability to frag insurgents behind walls far more important than rapid fire.
I have a T1 at work and a 10mbps cable connection at home. The home connection goes down all the time, no reason, just goes down, may be an hour may be longer. The T1 does NOT go down ever, when I unplug the device I get a phone call within 20 minutes letting me know something is wrong. We had a problem years ago when it was first setup and they(tier zero) had verizon at my site on a Sunday afternoon, the same day it went down, it is impossible to do that on your own. The speed is crap compared to the home 10mbps, but it ALWAYS works, so you can use it for stuff like DNS and HTTP that just HAS to be up 24/7.
In the last few months tier zero has been trying to get us to sign up for a 3 year contract at $300/mo, we currently pay $500/mo. so they are desperate for customers! Verizon has been rolling out fios in our area (Long Beach,CA) so I'm waiting until that's ready so I can sign up with verizon.
I see no reason to think our cattle and corn are going to die off. Do you? If anything, technological advances, and the way they happen exponentially will more than offset the worry about the stewardship of the planet and our continued sustenance. Unless there is a nuclear war, then we're all screwed, even the yellow tailed fench or whatever it was.
Like all endangered species, their [the yellow whatever] extension can be directly attributed to the rise of mankind. Even the brontosaurus was driven away because of small ground dwelling mammals. Let's just say from this point forward it's our fault. Darwin would never say "Survival of the fittest"
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Linux is like FreeBSD with a dose of Microsoft. That is to say, it's freeBSD with about 2GB of bullshit sprinkled in every corner of the bloated hog.
I have a F760 fiber channel filer that was made back in 1999 running a WAFL (ontap 6.x now) OS. Funny how Sun didn't 'notice' the infringement until they made their own version of WAFL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS in 2005. Even funnier that the creators of ZFS claim that WAFL is the "closest" file system to their own. All we have to do is look at the dates here people. Netapp has been using WAFL for almost a decade in production systems. I'm no fan of Netapp because they want to charge for copies of software that I already bought years ago (corrupt disks) but I hope Sun eats a crow for trying to claim infringement on a system that has been in use for several years.
The filer is OLD!
Lets see, I can play an mp3 while transferring a file at 120 mega bytes per second over an iSCSI interface hooked up to a pair of 28 disk fiber filers. I can transfer to a SATA RAID from a SATA RAID at 60 mega bytes a second. Playing an MP3 in media player or a movie, even a 1080P movie, causes no effect at all on the network speed during the copy (a 8gb ISO file). I'm pretty sure 1000 mega bits per second is equal to 120 mega bytes a second. If I can use my iSCSI NAS at 100% and play a 1080P video at the same time then I'm guessing just about anything would work without the described behavior.
I would assume spending 5 minutes running media player and performance monitor together to see if the story is true wouldn't be too much trouble. That might might make slashdot editors talk to a dirty vista OS user, let's just assume if the news is negative then the news must be true.
Just because a project is open source does not mean it's a 'good' project, or make the developers good people, and similarly because it's closed source doesnt necessarily mean it [the project], or it's developers are 'evil'. This is personal to me because I've spent the last 4 years writing a grand application for small business, which I've been paid for, but not very well, it's more a work of passion than a way to make money, right now. When the project is finished I plan on selling it, yes I will make simple copies, I can't reasonably give something away I alone took 4 years to make, and that's what open source software professes: take a lot of your time making something and then give it away for free. Some people have the interest and help of the community and in that case they should be obligated to remain open source. But if you are closed and by yourself, as I am, you should be able to remain closed without incurring the moniker 'evil'. I've spent thousands of hours working on this project, it's not something I just want to give copies away for free. It cost me thousands of dollars to make this program and I'm going to try and recoup that money, and then some, and that is not evil. If someone makes film would you expect them to give it away for free to everyone just because making a copy is so easy? Or what about a book? The idea that software developers are expected to just give up the fruits of their labor is just straight up communist, people should be rewarded for their efforts with cash, or there is no incentive to do it [write software]. I'm not making a program so bill1717@aol.com can give me props on sourceforge or make a happy face on IRC, it's a damn job, and unless we're going to start paying plumbers and doctors in emoticons I'm going to continue to ask for money for the software I write.
I'm not to sure what this codec nonsense is about but I can play and encode 1080P videos using in WMV format all day long. Playback uses about 10%-30% CPU on my 6600 core deuce 2.4. People over at lame ass stardoc are encoding 1080P without a hitch, MS also has their HD showcase site with dozens of 1080P movies. I'm exclusively using my Westinghouse 37" 1080P via DVI in it's native resolution. Actually it's a DVI>30'HDMI>DVI cable, but still digital. I watch 1080i on my moxi via DIV on the same screen and I can see a difference, the WMVs look way better, it could be the compression on the HDTV but It's at least as good as the broadcast HDTV, I'm not sure I would expect a whole lot better from a downloaded movie. If anyone wants to see a good example of HDTV check out Discovery's Planet Earth series. It's only available on craptastic DVD so you've got to catch it when it airs or through some narfarious means and then it's like 7gb per episode. I digress, unless this 'bad codec' is some horrible tyrannical update that destroys the existing WMV codec all this excitement is over nothing, it is working right now.
Not sarcasm -> Perhaps I may be missing the point of the article, I can only profess ignorance to the issue as I'm sure the person who posted this must have tested Vista's HD playback capability and found it lacking.
You want to talk wide open spaces. Talk about the military simulator VBS or it's civilian counterpart OPF/Arma. These games may not look the prettiest but they have hundreds of square miles of seamless terrain. Enough so that many branches of the U.S. military signed up for it several years in a row. It has cross sim technology that allows it to talk to other simulators. But most importantly it run a insane resolutions and has view distances that would make a 747 pilot jealous.
I really wish video game makers would get a little more realistic in their shooting games. Real (outdoor) warfare does not occur at 50ft, it happens at about 400 meters, that's almost so far that the guy you're shooting at looks like an ant. And that happens to be real life. Also, someone tell JC if someone is hiding behind a cinderblock wall and I shoot an 7.62 AK74 round at said wall and the bullet happens to land where someone is standing on the other side, they are dead. Bullets penetrate EVERYTHING except HEAVY ARMOR. That means if you shoot a house, someone on the other side of the house may get hit because the bullet penetrated every wall in the house. This is especially true for heavy machine guns (.50cal+) which can demolish a small house with a few dozen rounds.
Also, and almost as important, don't make stupid doors that have a fucking golf ball holding them shut, I just destroyed a god damn super monkey spider droid with a mega doppler 5000 hand blastron laser fink and I can't open this god damn door because someone wedged a golf ball under it's flimsy wooden frame. What's that you say? Don't go in there? It's not part of the level? DON'T MAKE THE FUCKING DOOR THEN! Did you think you had to follow the layout of Walter Reed hospital exactly? I won't care if there is a wall where there should be a janitors closet, just don't put a door in the level that can't be opened, especially a door with a window and a god damn wooden chair wedged under the door knob. BAD BAD BAD!! Anyone remember Red Faction? Where you could blow up the walls. What ever happen to that idea? What kind of future war training are we offering our children?! ->
Ted: Hey Jimmy hide behind those wooden pallets so the Chinese T80 main battle tank can't use it's HE round to kill you
Jimmy: Thank Ted! I'm not sure how long I could have lasted without that great advice
Jimmy, my friends, would be dead. AND PEOPLE LIKE JC ARE RESPONISBLE FOR HIS DEATH! MAKE VIDEO GAMES MORE REALISTEC NOW!! BEFORE JIMMY AND TED ARE DEAD!
The fact that this is a story show how far behind Apple is in remote management. Everything here I could do on *inx or MS computers for at least a decade, why is this news? I guess there has to be some padding between the regular blowjobs that /. likes to give Apple. oh wait, this is one of those huh. Geeze get a room.
Anyone think maybe it's just a spam filter? I don't use IM of any kind (IRC etc) but when I HAD to in the past I received a lot of spam IM. If 90% of the spam IM has these strings in it (an exaggeration to be sure) then why not stamp it out? I'm sure you wouldn't complain too much if the message you sent to your GMAIL account with the subject 'replica watches with pharmaceutical hudia' didn't go through. I think a good test would be to try the string "Bill Gates sucks Steve Jobs cock", if this makes it through well then, everything important works.
When a self proclaimed vocabulary expert uses an obscure vernacular while talking to his laymen friend to arrogantly show off his language skill, he's missing the point of talking: to communicate an idea.
So to does Apple's font rendering miss the point of rendering a font, it may be technically sound, it represents the target typeface on the screen while maintaining a contiguous high contrast mesh grid thingy, and I'm sure Johannes Gutenberg would be quite impressed. But it's hard to read, and isn't that the whole damn point of reading?
Here's half of every blues song ever written in every key:
14145415
Here's another quarter of them:
141415415
And the rest:
345
For the non musical, 1234567 represents the notes in any key. The upper paragraph represents about 200 years of rock and blues history, ranging across tens of thousands of songs. Almost all of the songs have a copyright but when you play it yourself no copyright can be claimed because it's your version of a song not the version that has a copyright, hundreds of songs of course are the same exact chords and the same exact rhythm, mostly because that's what makes a genre. Of course you can't blatantly rip off a song and collect on it when it's someone else's music, but you can play it as your own, or make something similar!
There is hundreds of years of president to back up "you can play it", if this changes the RIAA is going to have to shut down every coffee shop and dive bar that employs the poor musicians they are so eager to exploit once they write songs that turn into hits.
I'm a developer and and as long as Safari for windows has been out my company has been validating my pages on it, we validate all the windows platform browsers as well as *nix browsers and PIE.. Pages that view perfectly on every other browser I've tried, on Safari do not work. Most pages have funny layout problems as expected, and I can fix that stuff. However, Some pages just don't show up at all, like it decided not to render anything, especially large intranet pages that contain tables with 100+ rows. Also, it has some weird issues with the and how it renders pages that, on the server side, render the select options in different indexes (e.g.:you choose option 3 so it renders option 3 at the top rather than use the 'selected' property). The problems, with the windows version at least are so big I can't even begin to figure out how to 'work' around them. What the hell do you do when the page just does not render at all? If someone wants to give me a safe place that won't get /.'ed I'll gladly upload examples of this. Simple HTML 4.01 trans. using nothing but a few simple tables causes it to display a blank page (mind you with the proper background-color).
So no, I can't write HTML for the iPhone unless they fix some major issues with Safari. Though I may buy one and to hell with viewing certain pages.
I'm a web developer and am interested in cross validation, so I tried some of my drop down menus on one my my sites, seems safari only wants to listen to some of the 'onchange' events that the dropdown triggers. Without reloading the page I can click on a dropdown with the onchange event and it only work about 5 out of 7 times. Guess executing the javascript onchange event was faster than on IE if it happened in 0 seconds!
If it was hard to write it should be hard to read.
In my server room I actually play the computer "noises" from old Star Trek in the background on a CD boombox set to repeat!
The only reason google is this prominent is because geeks (like me) told all our friends 'Use google!' There are only a few features that really set google apart from other searches, when someone duplicates these then google will not be so prominent. Let's face it google really has 0 intellectual property. The only IP I actually use (besides the search) is the toobar and that's easily replaced as I only use the spell check and 'click word search/highlight'. I could write a toolbar that does that in my sleep so I don't really see any 'technological' edge. The few 'features' that google has is really a lack of features:
1: Only relevant text is displayed, no 'you may also like!'
2: No graphical ads, no moving or blinking 'text' NO FLASH!
3: OK search results (just as good as Ya! or MS)
IMHO adwords (google's ad program) is the beginning of the end for the company. More than anything else adwords has created the 'evil' in google. That's exactly why google was so ready to work with red China on blocking 'evil words like democracy and freedom'. Don't forget that Bill Gates snubbed the Chinese president (or whatever he is called) in one of their last meeting over human rights issues, while google was busy constructing their word filters for the communist party. Google is happy to grab up all the videos on the internet and redistribute them with their crummy flash player (may flash burn in hell), meanwhile Bill Gates comes out and says 'DRM is dead' while google is working on their next inception of 'How to DRM everything, even though we don't actually own it'. Not that MS has abandoned DRM but you don't get people like Sergey Brin or Lawrence Page steping out and saying 'DRM is evil and we shal abandon it's use', rather they embrace it's evilness. They also don't say 'Sorry filtering words like "freedom" and "human rights" is evil' when everyone was hoping they would say that.
As soon as the geek community find a more appealing search google will be history, just as google was created it can be uncreated - word of geek.
It's not a religion and it's nothing to get all excited about. 97% of the people on the planet are not zealots and will use whatever OS or hardware suits their needs, the other 3% use Mac's only.
If you need a tool to get the job done does it really matter who makes it if the tool works correctly? It's not like MS grinds up the bones of stillborn babies to oil their war machines. Apple, Sun, etc. are just as evil(capitalistic) as MS, they are just not quite as good at it.
As they read the DCMA it sounds like: If you have digital information that you would like to copyright then you must protect it with DRM. That means that EVERYTHING that doesn't have DRM, from this web page to the ROM in your microwave must be protected somehow. So does DRM require DRM?
I've been running windows since 3.1 and have never been affected by any malware. How did I manage that? Common security practices that you MUST adhere to in any operating system. 1. Firewall yourself (and your network) 2. NAT your clients 2a. Hey NAT your servers while your at it! 3. Don't run bins or web pages you aren't sure about 4. Only open ports on your FW that you know are secure If you fail to do any of these things on ANY operating system you will get screwed eventually. Why is Windows so insecure? High volume of bad bins and www's that take advantage of 'stupid users'. I can sum it up this way: If you want to secure windows you need to know a lot about computers. If you want to even USE *nix you have to know a LOT about computers, and even more if you want to secure it. If you want to use a mac, you'll need to know how to operate a TV, but don't expect to have as many bin's or help with the bin's that you can't get working. Security though obscurity is a double edged sword. Obscurity means you get less attention from malware writers as well as niceware writers. If you were a crook would you rob the bank with %90 of the money or %10 of the money? And finally a shameless plug for FreeBSD * stable IPF/IPNAT!
I for one like the Rail Gun over the plasma gun. Although the recycle rate is lower I find the ability to frag insurgents behind walls far more important than rapid fire.
I have a T1 at work and a 10mbps cable connection at home. The home connection goes down all the time, no reason, just goes down, may be an hour may be longer. The T1 does NOT go down ever, when I unplug the device I get a phone call within 20 minutes letting me know something is wrong. We had a problem years ago when it was first setup and they(tier zero) had verizon at my site on a Sunday afternoon, the same day it went down, it is impossible to do that on your own. The speed is crap compared to the home 10mbps, but it ALWAYS works, so you can use it for stuff like DNS and HTTP that just HAS to be up 24/7.
In the last few months tier zero has been trying to get us to sign up for a 3 year contract at $300/mo, we currently pay $500/mo. so they are desperate for customers! Verizon has been rolling out fios in our area (Long Beach,CA) so I'm waiting until that's ready so I can sign up with verizon.
Pretty sure BSD is Unix, not Linux. Funny it's called OSX, it ought to be called OSomeone else made this shit.
Uh, hello? Spam? Anyone, Bueller? Spam is by far the most f*#cking annoying and should be high atop the list.
I see no reason to think our cattle and corn are going to die off. Do you? If anything, technological advances, and the way they happen exponentially will more than offset the worry about the stewardship of the planet and our continued sustenance. Unless there is a nuclear war, then we're all screwed, even the yellow tailed fench or whatever it was.
Like all endangered species, their [the yellow whatever] extension can be directly attributed to the rise of mankind. Even the brontosaurus was driven away because of small ground dwelling mammals. Let's just say from this point forward it's our fault. Darwin would never say "Survival of the fittest"