Unlike many who have posted here, I actually read the article;)
Here's a great sleeper / not widely publicized feature:
NDIS Binary Compatibility
a.k.a. "Project Evil".
FreeBSD i386 can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. It is a little cumbersome to convert a NDIS driver into a FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Module (KLD)
Excellent another vaporware non-story posted on slashdot!
Shouldn't/. also report on a really great Duke Nukem game, HDTV TiVOs, the Phantom game console, and (smirk) Half Life 2.. all of which are also release in press-release-only format?
You can't patent an idea, you can only patent an implementation. Surely the Windows implementation would differ enough from the Linux one to escape any kind of patent violation. Even if it did violate a patent, do you think Linux as a whole could sue Microsoft in court and win?
The webpage mentions that the program is windows based and doesn't save state. That means that all of those CPU hours came in a row (at idle priority even).
Bash MS all you want, but Windows isn't as unstable and problematic as all of your anti-MS zealots would like to believe.
Baaaad PR for the linux camp.
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SCO DOS'ed
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· Score: 1
For years they've been trying to shake the "Linux is just for 15-year-old-script-kiddies-in-moms-basement" image, but then they go and pull a stunt like this and set their PR image back 2 years.
The previous method that they're talking about involved a buffer overflow in the savegame handling from 007:Agent Under Fire.
You were able to execute code (in most cases, a BIOS flash to flash the internal TSOP) tacked on to the end of your save game.
Hopefully this comes as a lesson to ALWAYS ALWAYS sanity check ANY USER INPUT, even if it comes in the form of a file that you THINK you know the layout of.
Bitching about NT4 not being patched...
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Windows 2003 Going Gold
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Is like saying you want patches for your 1.3.x Linux kernel branch (which was released around the same time as NT 4).
Think Linus would care if there were a flaw found in 1.3.75? DOUBTFUL.
The default configuration of URLScan prevents the WebDAV vulnerability from being exploited.
URLScan is a part of the IIS Lockdown tool. For more information about URLScan, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/URLScan. asp
The default configuration of URLScan prevents the vulnerability from being exploited. URLScan is a part of the IIS Lockdown tool. For more information about URLScan, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/URLScan. asp
This chip is pretty much a clone of the much older Matrix / Xodus chip XODUS HOMEPAGE , but without the nicety of not requiring soldering.
The only problem is, to cut costs they ship it without a programmer or any external way to program it at all. This means to program it, you HAVE to boot to it, then flash it using Evolution-X or a similar tool.
The only problem with no external flashing is... what happens if you f**k up a flash? If you can't boot the chip, you can't flash. If you mess up a flash with this chip, you have to just get another one. How annoying is THAT?
Also, it's only 256k, so debug bios's won't work on it. There's also no flash protect (Like the X-Ecutor 2 has), so your chip can be programmed at any time, whether you know it or not. Requires solder AND is only 256k... you get the biggest downsides of Matrix and X-Ecutor 2, but without any of the benefits!
For a rundown of current generation 3 modchip, check the reference guide AT XBOX-SCENE.COM. I'd recommend staying away from this one and getting an X-Ecutor 2 lite (flash protect, 1 mbyte flash, easy jumper-based enable/disable)
Unlike full releases, RCs seem to be immune to slashdotting! I'm currently pulling over 200K from a Canadian (eh!) FTP mirror site.
The day of the last full release, you were lucky to pull over 5 K from ANYWHERE.
Getting better, still some bloat issues
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Phoenix 0.3 Is Out
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This thing with 1 tab open (mozzilla.org/start) was using 5 more megs of memory than Opera with 7 tabs (slashdot, easybuy2000, tomshardware, a few others)
What's funny is they'll post TCO stories from LINUX TODAY, but won't post any from MICROSOFT such as this point-by-point comparison found here. How is it FAIR to link LINUX TODAY, but not MICROSOFT? Ahh... more classic Slashdot bias (notice all of the other OS's get real icons, MS get a borg Bill Gates... very mature)
Basically, the LINUX TODAY article is saying the TCP (Total cost to purchase) is equivalent to TCO (Total cost of ownership)... in effect saying that any positives and negatives Windows may have in the software itself has NO value. As other above have said, you can calculate TCO in many different ways. If you want to assign EVERYTHING other than software licensing a VALUE of $0... maybe this article strikes a chord with you.
How is an 8 MB install file light weight or lean?
Opera is only 3.4 megs!
Load times are still slow, but not nearly as bad as regular slowzilla. DEFINITELY a step in the right direction, this is one project to keep your eye on.
5. Infogrames' and BioWare's Use of Variations. If you Distribute, or permit others to Distribute, your Variations, you hereby grant back to Infogrames and BioWare an irrevocable royalty-free right to use and distribute such Variations by any means, and to make such modifications thereto as Infogrames and/or BioWare deem are necessary to package, combine, and otherwise distribute such Variations. If you do not wish to grant these rights to Infogrames and BioWare, you must not Distribute your Variations (although you may Serve your Modules). Infogrames and BioWare will make a reasonable effort to provide credit to you in the event it uses or distributes your Variations, but you acknowledge that identifying you and/or other Variation creators may be difficult, and any failure by Infogrames and/or BioWare to provide credit to any person shall not be a breach of this License and shall not limit Infogrames' or BioWare's rights to use and distribute any Variation.
Anyone accepting this EULA grants Bioware the right to steal their IP on any mods they make. Given that several other mods have gone on to make their creators money (Tactial Ops for UT, Counter Strike for Half-Life, etc.) this is a TERRIBLE thing. Don't buy this game if you plan on modding it, because you're going to get screwed in the end if you plan on ever making a profit (kinda like GPL'd software)
Can a clock really be DEADLY accurate?
A rifle, a smart bomb, maybe even a rolling pin weilded by an angry wife when her husband comes in late.... THESE can be deadly accurate...
I don't think a clock can be.
ahh...
I have fond memories of Studs! and Studettes! door games from back in the day.
Nothing beats watching ANSI animated sex while you click the "boff" button.
I think the RIAA should sue Al Gore for creating the internet (sic)!
The interent enables all of us to pirate all of the RIAA's great IP assets!
What would be really funny is when Al Gore lost and then went on bitching and suing people for 2 months swearing that he won and they just counted incorrectly.
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BSD is truly free. You can do wahtever you want with the code.
GPL is free with string attached.
Finally a SERIOUS open-source competitor to Outlook (no offence to the Thunderbird fans out there)! Cheers Novell!
Unlike many who have posted here, I actually read the article ;)
Here's a great sleeper / not widely publicized feature:
NDIS Binary Compatibility
a.k.a. "Project Evil".
FreeBSD i386 can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. It is a little cumbersome to convert a NDIS driver into a FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Module (KLD)
Is there a way to upgrade your FreeBSD install using PACKAGES (bins) rather than CVS or ports (src)??
Excellent another vaporware non-story posted on slashdot! Shouldn't /. also report on a really great Duke Nukem game, HDTV TiVOs, the Phantom game console, and (smirk) Half Life 2.. all of which are also release in press-release-only format?
You can't patent an idea, you can only patent an implementation. Surely the Windows implementation would differ enough from the Linux one to escape any kind of patent violation. Even if it did violate a patent, do you think Linux as a whole could sue Microsoft in court and win?
The webpage mentions that the program is windows based and doesn't save state. That means that all of those CPU hours came in a row (at idle priority even).
Bash MS all you want, but Windows isn't as unstable and problematic as all of your anti-MS zealots would like to believe.
For years they've been trying to shake the "Linux is just for 15-year-old-script-kiddies-in-moms-basement" image, but then they go and pull a stunt like this and set their PR image back 2 years.
The previous method that they're talking about involved a buffer overflow in the savegame handling from 007:Agent Under Fire.
You were able to execute code (in most cases, a BIOS flash to flash the internal TSOP) tacked on to the end of your save game.
Hopefully this comes as a lesson to ALWAYS ALWAYS sanity check ANY USER INPUT, even if it comes in the form of a file that you THINK you know the layout of.
Is like saying you want patches for your 1.3.x Linux kernel branch (which was released around the same time as NT 4). Think Linus would care if there were a flaw found in 1.3.75? DOUBTFUL.
The default configuration of URLScan prevents the WebDAV vulnerability from being exploited. URLScan is a part of the IIS Lockdown tool. For more information about URLScan, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/URLScan. asp
The default configuration of URLScan prevents the vulnerability from being exploited. URLScan is a part of the IIS Lockdown tool. For more information about URLScan, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/URLScan. asp
http://66.201.243.170/ As usual, slashdot didn't do their reasearch before accepting a post. Looks like a simple DNS hijack.
This chip is pretty much a clone of the much older Matrix / Xodus chip XODUS HOMEPAGE , but without the nicety of not requiring soldering.
The only problem is, to cut costs they ship it without a programmer or any external way to program it at all. This means to program it, you HAVE to boot to it, then flash it using Evolution-X or a similar tool.
The only problem with no external flashing is... what happens if you f**k up a flash? If you can't boot the chip, you can't flash. If you mess up a flash with this chip, you have to just get another one. How annoying is THAT?
Also, it's only 256k, so debug bios's won't work on it. There's also no flash protect (Like the X-Ecutor 2 has), so your chip can be programmed at any time, whether you know it or not. Requires solder AND is only 256k... you get the biggest downsides of Matrix and X-Ecutor 2, but without any of the benefits! For a rundown of current generation 3 modchip, check the reference guide AT XBOX-SCENE.COM. I'd recommend staying away from this one and getting an X-Ecutor 2 lite (flash protect, 1 mbyte flash, easy jumper-based enable/disable)
Unlike full releases, RCs seem to be immune to slashdotting! I'm currently pulling over 200K from a Canadian (eh!) FTP mirror site. The day of the last full release, you were lucky to pull over 5 K from ANYWHERE.
Is it 7-12K upload speed as well
This thing with 1 tab open (mozzilla.org/start) was using 5 more megs of memory than Opera with 7 tabs (slashdot, easybuy2000, tomshardware, a few others)
Good prorgress. The load time still sucks.
What's funny is they'll post TCO stories from LINUX TODAY, but won't post any from MICROSOFT such as this point-by-point comparison found here. How is it FAIR to link LINUX TODAY, but not MICROSOFT? Ahh... more classic Slashdot bias (notice all of the other OS's get real icons, MS get a borg Bill Gates... very mature)
Basically, the LINUX TODAY article is saying the TCP (Total cost to purchase) is equivalent to TCO (Total cost of ownership)... in effect saying that any positives and negatives Windows may have in the software itself has NO value. As other above have said, you can calculate TCO in many different ways. If you want to assign EVERYTHING other than software licensing a VALUE of $0... maybe this article strikes a chord with you.
All I am saying is consider the source!
How is an 8 MB install file light weight or lean? Opera is only 3.4 megs! Load times are still slow, but not nearly as bad as regular slowzilla. DEFINITELY a step in the right direction, this is one project to keep your eye on.
Microsoft is QUOTED in this article as saying "We don't need no stinkin' remedy." I really hope /. gets sued for libel / slander / being pricks.
5. Infogrames' and BioWare's Use of Variations. If you Distribute, or permit others to Distribute, your Variations, you hereby grant back to Infogrames and BioWare an irrevocable royalty-free right to use and distribute such Variations by any means, and to make such modifications thereto as Infogrames and/or BioWare deem are necessary to package, combine, and otherwise distribute such Variations. If you do not wish to grant these rights to Infogrames and BioWare, you must not Distribute your Variations (although you may Serve your Modules). Infogrames and BioWare will make a reasonable effort to provide credit to you in the event it uses or distributes your Variations, but you acknowledge that identifying you and/or other Variation creators may be difficult, and any failure by Infogrames and/or BioWare to provide credit to any person shall not be a breach of this License and shall not limit Infogrames' or BioWare's rights to use and distribute any Variation.
Anyone accepting this EULA grants Bioware the right to steal their IP on any mods they make. Given that several other mods have gone on to make their creators money (Tactial Ops for UT, Counter Strike for Half-Life, etc.) this is a TERRIBLE thing. Don't buy this game if you plan on modding it, because you're going to get screwed in the end if you plan on ever making a profit (kinda like GPL'd software)
That library is running a Gibson XP with a 128-bit hack-proof firewall with triple redundant fault re-routers.
Can a clock really be DEADLY accurate? A rifle, a smart bomb, maybe even a rolling pin weilded by an angry wife when her husband comes in late.... THESE can be deadly accurate... I don't think a clock can be.
ahh... I have fond memories of Studs! and Studettes! door games from back in the day. Nothing beats watching ANSI animated sex while you click the "boff" button.
I think the RIAA should sue Al Gore for creating the internet (sic)! The interent enables all of us to pirate all of the RIAA's great IP assets! What would be really funny is when Al Gore lost and then went on bitching and suing people for 2 months swearing that he won and they just counted incorrectly.