To put it lightly... these 50,000 to 75,000 zombies need to be pulled from the Internet stat.
Fortunately this portscanning behaviour will show up on firewall logs much better than this email crap. Within no time, dshield.org and other similar log aggrigation services should have a nice accurate list of infected machines that they use to contact sysadmins of appropriate networks.
You might think it looks like this on the outside, but the environment of outsourcing creates events like this by making it impossible to determine who's competent and who's not. There are so many degrees of separation between the company needing the work and the individual doing it that it's impossible to keep track of what's going on until it's obviously gone wrong or right. Also, outsourcing is so awful that the turnover is very high. This leads to excessive pressure on each new outsourcee as they get employed closer and closer to the deadline -- forcing them to take risks like these in order to do the job "on time". Outsourcing incubates problems like these.
Look up "Secondhand". Simple phones are available very cheap and off plan in such places as pawnbrokers. Many give you a decent warranty (they have so many they can just give you another if yours breaks) and most of the phones barely have a scratch on them.
It's not like simple old phones vanish when their first owner doesn't want them anymore. You're thinking of iTunes.
Why do you think my signature and website now make reference to American politics? The last few Australian PMs have been sucking up to the US so hard they could pull the moon out of orbit. Screw the middle-man, start affecting US policy to get what you want in Australia.
The software that came with my N-Gage claims to sync with Outlook and Lotus Notes. Don't use either, so I don't know how good it is, but I would guess you'd get the typical range of notes, contacts and appointments.
I was working on Gopher pages for the University Computer Club at UWA over 10 years ago now. Can't say that I miss it. HTML/HTTP is everything Gopher was and so much more.
All streaming media companies have been spoilt by broadband -- thusly, in areas with poor broadband take-up rates streaming media is all but abandoned.
It's also the model that's been working for something like 30 years now.
Working badly. Back a manager into a corner and you might be able to get them to admit just how many times they've had to throw away an expensive peice of software because their company's needs and the software developer's intentions have diverged. I'm sure any study that placed a value on waste due to closed software would come up with a value in the billions, with a b.
You are completely wrong. An Open Source policy is not just some pie-in-the-sky ideal -- it's a valid business decision based on value and control. Buying into proprietory, closed systems is a significant risk and can result in not only large financial outlays now, but again later, eg; When the product is discontinued and the tax laws change. Software with only a Windows client is almost as bad as no software at all.
Second, that the person's vote is anonymous. Anonymous voting is trivially implmented. There is a problem when you combine the above verification requirement with the need to keep a given person's vote secret.
Let's lose this then. Personally, I believe that I should be able to ask the system afterwards what it believed my vote was. Obviously this is impossible if it's been anonymized.
Mind you, I also believe Internet voting should be used to allow people to vote on the issues throughout the year, assign proxy votes and basically allow democracy to be dynamic -- rather than this thing we have currently where you're stuck with some arsehole for four years and have no way to affect decisions on issues you actually care about.
Your story "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" contains baseless slander as to the source of the viruses attacking SCO and Microsoft. In fact, educated theory has the source placed somewhere in the Russian spam industry. The story should be pulled or clearly marked as an editorial comment.
For the love of dog, we need more people writing drivers than we do writing OSes. Hook up with one of the interesting weird OS projects, like Contiki, and write some stuff for that. See if you can workout why the web downloader fails on some C64s. Or add support for the extra RAM in an RR-Net cart. Or if Contiki isn't your style, add support for the ECS to IntyOS
Learning to expand an existing OS, and there are plenty of small ones to choose from, will teach you much more than building your own one from scratch.
Do what I'm planning to do. Run an old BBS on the spare phone line. That it's DSLed means that you won't get 56k, but you should manage at least 9600 and since I'm intending to run it on old 8-bit hardware, I don't think the phone line will be the bottleneck.
Or think up something else yourself. a truely spare phone line is a wonderful resource to play with.
Ignoring all the marketing crap, the N-Gage is now the cheapest Series 60 phone out there, and the Series 60 is a seriously nice mobile phone platform. If you'be been burnt by Windows (or even Palm) based "smartphones", don't let that stop you from trying the S60 range. They really are a phone first and a mobile computing platform second.
Anyone got a link to any solid-state hard drives big enough to run Windows XP without emptying my bank account? If the rest of the PC is all silent, it would be a shame to require a noisy hard drive.
Put simply, I've played games that have mad no sense to me and I've had to give them up because I can't workout how to progress. I have a theory that "logic" is very cultural. For example; many US text adventure games quickly reached a point where I simply could not find the right word to do something obvious. Later, many adventure games would contain some element that might be common in the author's home town, but the rest of the world had never heard of -- subsequent clues were therefore lost.
Don't know if this answers the question that was asked, but it's my experience.
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Or Linux. Surely the off-the-shelf options for "smart" phones are: Symbian, Windows, PalmOS and Linux.
You might think it looks like this on the outside, but the environment of outsourcing creates events like this by making it impossible to determine who's competent and who's not. There are so many degrees of separation between the company needing the work and the individual doing it that it's impossible to keep track of what's going on until it's obviously gone wrong or right. Also, outsourcing is so awful that the turnover is very high. This leads to excessive pressure on each new outsourcee as they get employed closer and closer to the deadline -- forcing them to take risks like these in order to do the job "on time". Outsourcing incubates problems like these.
It's not like simple old phones vanish when their first owner doesn't want them anymore. You're thinking of iTunes.
Why do you think my signature and website now make reference to American politics? The last few Australian PMs have been sucking up to the US so hard they could pull the moon out of orbit. Screw the middle-man, start affecting US policy to get what you want in Australia.
The software that came with my N-Gage claims to sync with Outlook and Lotus Notes. Don't use either, so I don't know how good it is, but I would guess you'd get the typical range of notes, contacts and appointments.
I was working on Gopher pages for the University Computer Club at UWA over 10 years ago now. Can't say that I miss it. HTML/HTTP is everything Gopher was and so much more.
All streaming media companies have been spoilt by broadband -- thusly, in areas with poor broadband take-up rates streaming media is all but abandoned.
You are completely wrong. An Open Source policy is not just some pie-in-the-sky ideal -- it's a valid business decision based on value and control. Buying into proprietory, closed systems is a significant risk and can result in not only large financial outlays now, but again later, eg; When the product is discontinued and the tax laws change. Software with only a Windows client is almost as bad as no software at all.
Mind you, I also believe Internet voting should be used to allow people to vote on the issues throughout the year, assign proxy votes and basically allow democracy to be dynamic -- rather than this thing we have currently where you're stuck with some arsehole for four years and have no way to affect decisions on issues you actually care about.
Learning to expand an existing OS, and there are plenty of small ones to choose from, will teach you much more than building your own one from scratch.
Or think up something else yourself. a truely spare phone line is a wonderful resource to play with.
Think that's bad? It's number 17 on Blogdex, and rising.
Or when they've never heard of "Who's on First".
With the Shark development system you can have your game on all the portable platforms out at the moment. No muss, no fuss.
Ignoring all the marketing crap, the N-Gage is now the cheapest Series 60 phone out there, and the Series 60 is a seriously nice mobile phone platform. If you'be been burnt by Windows (or even Palm) based "smartphones", don't let that stop you from trying the S60 range. They really are a phone first and a mobile computing platform second.
Sorry. Not used the keyboard I'm using. </> does not a closed link tag make. I'm sure I pressed the a...
I'm sure we did. Anyway, if you want a basic cellphone, buy a secondhand one. Meanwhile, I'm travelling soon and my N-Gage will give me all the access I need to my email and Slashdot, as well as providing video game entertainment in the evenings should I require it. Heck, I'll probably even have an Ogg Vorbis version of an episode of Retro Gaming Radio on there to listen to. I'm sure the hotel will have TV, but as an Optus subscriber my N-Gage gives me access to two free-to-air stations and CNNi. By being so many things in a small package, I'm hoping to travel with just carry-on luggage.
Anyone got a link to any solid-state hard drives big enough to run Windows XP without emptying my bank account? If the rest of the PC is all silent, it would be a shame to require a noisy hard drive.
Serial connections are primarily used because at ultra-high speeds the timing is easier.
Insightful? The iPods would have been powered while connected to the computers.
Don't know if this answers the question that was asked, but it's my experience.