In many ways Cisco *is* a victim here. They didn't design the router, and I'm reasonably sure that Cisco's development proceedures would have prevented such a gaffe from happening. Someone at Linksys and/or Broadcom made some very bad decisions, and Cisco inherited the resulting problem along with the merger.
That's warped, Cisco purchased a healthy competitor. Using free software for routers was a great idea and it's why we have $100 wireless gateways in a box. Cisco knew about this like everyone else. If anything Cisco's a predator.
it is critical to carefully review the development materials for possible license violations, of both proprietary and Free licenses. Otherwise you can end up in all sorts of legal hot water. I just wish they told that story better.
Once again, you put the blame on the GPL. Hogwash. Cisco should have no trouble releasing the code they borrowed and improved or paying reasonable terms to the software's authors. Most software companies would make much less reasonable demands. This business about "it wants you to burn down your house, or at the very least share it with cloners," is greed based bullshit.
Only people who don't have the nuts to share their code can think this way, that would be companies like Cisco, Microsoft and other "Information Economy" losers. They think they can steal everyone else's work and keep everyone else from doing anything.
Cicso's recent advert showing "hackers" being beaten and abused in filthy Russian looking jails, puts Cisco firmly on my list of "Bad Company". Despite their prowess, size and publications, I no longer want anything to do with them.
I made a packet filter out of my 66MHz 486 I got from Dell in 1993 or so. It was capable of running lighter GUIs, but it does a better job just passing filters through it's ISA ethernet cards. It only has a power supply fan so it's quiet but it's never overheated. It also uses it's orignial 540MB hard disk, though I've put 4 gig drives on it for ftp service.
My oldest piece of equipment is my first computer case, bought in 1987. It is an XT clone with a 150 W power supply. I took down the 8086 which still ran in 1996. Into the box I put a 150 MHz Media GX and more modern hard drives. Later, I swaped that out for a K6/2 400 with 128 MB ram. It is a nice little internal ftp and Star Office server but mostly it's easy to tear open and stick stuff in. Yeah, I rigged the little red LED to blink with hard drive use.
The cloak of academia can be used to disseminate information that would otherwise be considered questionable.... Why should it be different just because someone happens to go to MIT?... All in all, a case could be made that there is no real benefit in exposing it other than embarrassing the company and providing users with information on how to disable it. And being able to disable it indeed facilitates piracy, you cannot deny this.
Go to hell, will you? There, you might find something better to do than posting flamebait.
While it's nice of you point out that "credentials" should not be required for free speech, your attitude in general is servile and inflamatory. I will not deny that this technique will be used to make copies of music but I refuse to consider that "piracy" or immoral. It's not even a copyright violation, if you have a reasonable and lawful view of publishing. You either believe the above or you are posting flamebait. Either way, you have little regard for your rights and those of others.
Use of the collective "Slashdot" and the perverse views expressed here makes me think you are simply trolling:
Curiously, this seems to be the average Slashdotter's stand too. The disagreement is over who actually owns the property in question. SunnComm says they do, Slashdot says that the guy who bought the CD does.
Nonsense, the question is if ownership of ideas can ever occur rather than the details of what the "owner" allows you. Society should never come together to keep the Girl Scouts of America from singing "America the Beautiful" around a campfire because someone else "owns" the tune. Yet that's exactly what happens when songs can be owned like that. Yes, that happened. The conditions of the GPL use the power of copyright law to enforce good behavoir. You can only use and benifit from free software if you agree to pass along what you learned while you benifit. It's a reasonable request next to what people like you advocate, complete ownership of ideas with abitrary powers to stop other people from doing things with your ideas or ideas very similar to yours.
Here I sit, digitizing my mom's old 45s. I'm going to make CD's full of wave files and oggs. You can bet your ass I'll give anyone a coppy who wants one. Because I'm useing a free operating system, I don't have to worry about the fucking though police breaking down my door and hauling me off. So, the music scene lives offline as it always has.
RIAA, you don't have what I want and you will never keep anyone from getting and sharing the things they enjoy. Much of the music I'm digitizing is no longer published and impossible to find. Well, not impossible. WWOZ does a show called "records from the crypt" which features all sorts of great New Orleans R&B.
If the RIAA does ever get what it wants, their sales will go to zero.
If what they're doing is redirecting to random compromised machines which in turn go to the real site,
With enough machines comprimised, the whole operation can be automated. From capturing new machines to distributing content from the captured boxes. The loser can go through an anonymizer from time to time as he starts new campaigns. You will never see him because his worms do all the dirty work.
Then again, you might catch someone. It's impossible to hook up a M$ box to the internet without it being owned. The problem will then be chasing down the thousands of people you will dig up. Go for it and tell us what you find.
The problem isnt' windows. The problem are broken machines on a network.
Dude, Bill Gates is paying you good money to write drivel like that, can't you use his grammar checker?
The problem is windows, its design, distribution and operation. It was never ready for the desktop and it will never be ready for the internet. It's supposed to be an "easy to use" "consumer level" OS, but keeping it up is harder than other. The machines are broken because the software they run was designed to be pushed on by third parties. The end user has no control of it and can not keep others from running code on it.
MS released a patch and it never got populated as much as it should.
This is a cop out, blaming the user for Microsoft's sucky distribution method. Microsoft only distributes it's crap on CDs and CDs are dead. There's no such thing as a nice up to date network install in the M$ world, so there's no way the end user can do anything but install from a months or years old, turn everything on and rape me CD. The only way an end user could possibly get all of M$'s huge "patches" is to use ANOTHER OS, but what end user can figure out how? Computer shops can't even figure it out and Microsoft can't really keep up anyway. The diligent are getting just as burnt as everyone else, perhaps mores because Microsoft "updates" inclued nasty EULA's as well as break critical applications.
For every reason these things should be turned off, it's turned on.
Right, tell me why Outlook auto-executes porn spammer email again? Is it because Bill Gates wants my 2 year old girl to look at popups while my system is trojaned?
does finger pointing solve anything?
Yes it does. People are sick of the problems they have with M$. Just not being able to turn off pop-ups is bad enough. Having the senders of such garbage own your machine is much worse.
Did pointing fingers get most everyone to stop using telnet vs ssh? Did it stop people from sending sensitive data over non-ssl connections? No. Did it stop people from running daemons as root? No.
If you know someone who does these things on a non-Microsoft platform, kindly tell them why they should not. It does help and I don't know anyone who does these things anymore.
propose a solution
Dump M$. I've been M$ free for years and I'm better educated, less troubled and much happier. You don't need their shit, you are better off without it and so are the rest of us. Microsoft has proved itself unwilling or unable to fix their problems they need to be shunned.
If you used a Mac (which would be likely if you were using a 23" flat panel), the maximize button would not maximize fully, but rather only enlarges the window vertically,
OLVWM does that too. It's also nice to have an unlimited number of desktops too. With as many desktops as you want, you don't feel as inclined to buy a $200 "dual head" video card and a second flat screen monitor and are much happier with your 17" CRT. Do I need to mention "ssh -X hostname" logs you in graphically to all your computers? Yes, more than one user can run Star Office, Open Office, Kword, Emacs and or Vi at the same time. That's not alowed by the EULA for M$ Word, even if you were clever enough.
I'd be surprised if there isn't a hack for XP to do the same thing
Hack, hack, and still pay through the nose, why bother? Apt-get yourself out of that mess. Once you've got your modelines set up, that's it, video just works. Go see for yourself at www.hillnotes.org. The stuff I've got posted is all easy to do. Anyone who can figure out the Windoze hack game is more than up to the task of learning free software. When it's all said and done, you get way more for your free software effort than you can buy from Bill and friends.
Multiple monitors are a sign of poor software. I used to have a bunch of monitors to match the bunch of computers I have. Then I learned the amzingly simple "ssh -X my_other_computer_name". Now, I only have two and one of them stays off most of the time. Using virtual the desktops that Window Maker provides, I can segragate the things I'm doing by task or computer. I've got 9 workspaces opened up and use 3 routinely. Clicks on the top bar expand to maximum vertical size, send to appropriate workspace and roll the window to a blind or icon. All of it works snappy on a simple Athlon 650 with a TNT2 AGP2 card. Yes, Quake 2 is playable on it, though not so good as a ecrypted Xfoward stream. I'm aware that X can do as many video cards as I want, but I just don't see the need. One day, I might do that for fun, VGA cards are cheap enough.
I hate going back to anything less. Windoze is the worst with it's single desktop, crappy iconification and pathetic multitasking. Microsoft's bloaty GUI blows in general. I have not seen Apple's OSX yet. All the bad things people say about X are silly.
If 30 33.3MB files (bonnie test) are not representative of your needs, please download the scripts. You can then modify the parameters for thousands of 2k files and post the results. Lots of people would be intersted, you know.
Bars that want my photograph before they'll take my money. What will they think of next?
Proving that someone got tanked at your establishment and then killed Mother Teresa on his way home? These idiots need to think twice about the liability issue.
n short, his own account information was stolen via Outlook, then several other employees were hit with a Outlook preview-pane virus that installed a keylogger.
Yep, I had the same thing happen to me when I was working for a Nuclear Generating station 18 months ago. A porn spam jumped out of the preview pane, launching several full screen instances of M$IE directed at porn sites, while the hard disk spun furiously. Exactly what it did, God and the sender only know. I hit the off switch.
IT was no help at all. They thought I was worried about being fired for browsing porn and opend an investigation into my web browsing habits. The clueless exchange admin remoted into my machine while I was away from my desktop and ran it to completion. She did not have the patience to watch events unfold and disconected. She then had the nerve to tell me that things cant run from the preview pane and tell me I had clicked something. I insisted and made her watch it. Even after seeing it she did not get it. When I asked her if she though that arbitrary code from anywhere on the internet being run on my computer was a bad idea, she told me that it was "a normal part of advertising" and that she got several such spams a day.
It makes sense that crackers would target admin on any windoze network.
Corporate networks that use M$ are so owned it's not even funny. The stupid, arrogant and brainwashed M$ fanboys they have running them have no clue. M$ partners forever, baby yeah! 2003 and eXPensive software will solve your every click and drool need. Tthththpthpththht-tit!
some of these fanboys I've been reading posts from on USENET might just kill themselves. Maybe someone should set up a crisis counciling center?
Just tell them to download the source code from SCO's site and compile it themselves. They did a code audit and found that Half Life is really an inferior copy of BSD Games, which they own since they purchased the System V copyrights. Though they are in the process of issuing cease and dissists letters, they still host the source code and are drawing up licensing plans, "just to be safe".
It's not because the game leaked, but because the underlying systems that ensure that players can't easily cheat, warez the game, or access the personal information of other players.
Next you will tell me that XP is so full of holes because someone "stole" it's source code before M$ sold it to China and the former KGB. That's almost as good as them swearing that revealing the source code to Windoze would be a national security disaster. Give me a break, will you?
Warez only needs to hack a binary copy.
Cheats only need to watch their traffic.
None of this makes a difference if the system is well made to begin with. This is why OpenSSH is a secure system despite open publication of it's source code.
This is just more anti-open and anti-free FUD. Shame on VU for using Outlook and M$ for anything they wanted to keep to themselves. Shame on them for blaming software and the philosophy behind it for their own failures and shame on them for not being able to get their shit together. ID games rules, VU drools under Bill Gates thumb.
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I'm going to take $250 to be put on a list of windoze crackers? No thanks. I don't care how fun it would be to look into how to do this kind of thing or how bad I need the money. Projects like this have the stink of an INS washing machine give away in a Mexican neghborhood.
My only pencil is an Alvin Draft/Matic, 0.9mm lead mechanical pencil. It worked me through a Mechanical Engineering degree, five years of graduate school, research work and two years at a nuclear power plant. I don't have to worry about breaking it's lead and I have never misplaced it in ten years. The day I bought it, I also purchased a box of leads which are just now running out. I've worn down the brass diamond pattern on the bottom so that it simply has diamond scribe lines and it works as well as the day I bought it. I have other writing implements. Many are more comfortable. Most are better looking. None work better. I can't stand mechanical pencils with lesser leads.
If ever you stuck the thing into a wall socket, I'd make you hold on to it.
If you get funny ideas about sticking me with some wimpy little pentel, just forget it.
Tell me some storries about graphite in disk drives. If you mess with MY drives, I'll crack you over the head with my Model M keyboard.
So unless the guv'mnt decides to install those big gate antennas all over your local neighborhood, this whole passive RFID paranoia is mainly just FUD.
They will and books will be the least of your concerns. Some likely RFID gates are air ports and all other public transportation, public rest rooms, libraries, office buildings and all retail stores. Using Patriot Act 2004, government will have access to all private records at retail stores. This will cross link you by the UID tags in your clothes.
I don't need a UID in my shirt or on a can of tomatoes and no one else does either. A number that identifies the shirt as a shirt of a specific size and color is sufficient for inventory purposes. Bar codes have done this very well and are still more practical than these invasive little fuckers so many other fuckers wish to present as "inevitable" and "practical".
"The rebate program by the Lexington, Ky.-based company offers an upfront discount to consumers who agree to return used cartridges only to Lexmark for refilling or recycling."
Oh, that's easy. Doctrine of first sale. If you really sold it to me, I can do what I want. If you are leasing it to me, that's another story because you and I agreed that you own the thing. If you don't care that I throw the thing in the trash all your other conditions are bogus.
Your "prebate", which is essentialy fair market value for your outrageously patented printer cartrige is a farce as well. The root problem here is that Lexmark can get patents on their toner cartridges that effectively keeps anyone else in the world from making them. The most "innovative" thing the company has done is add a lock out chip. By charging an outrageous amount for normal new cartidges that no one else may make and convincing purchasers that they don't really own the cartidge, Lexmark seeks to suck as much money from their users as possible by keeping them from doing what most normal people would do: put tonner into a perfectly usable part.
I will never buy or recomend a Lexmark printer. They have always been the worst on the market. I suspect it's because the company has such poor morals. The whole thing is dishonest and no on should do business with dishonest people.
The problem is not that there is no solution, the problem is that this silly judge made a new problem to begin with. Sure, people may move to less restrictive printers as an answer, so what? The problem is that Lexmark:
wanted to do this in the first place.
is getting US government support to do it.
This support will bring more problems than the jundge can imagine in her silly and slanted brain. Lexmark could not have found a more closed minded and sympathetic jugde. She described the "lock out chip" as an "innovation" worthy of protecting but all of ARCO's assertions were "claims" to be rejected. All sorts of idiots who run companies will now direct their lawyers to patent obvious devices who's sole purpose is to impose use restrictions on thier products and any attempt to disable such silly restrictions will be defeated by law. This case must be apealed and shown up for what it is.
Sun could be getting all that Linux revenue at Microsoft's expense instead of Dell, HP, IBM, etc.
While you and I know that Sun should have embraced free software long ago, ML's Milunovich recomends just the opposite. Recomending that Sun make it clear that they "aggresively support Linux" he also recomends that Sun cut it's own development efforts, " [Sun's]Solaris, Linux, Orion, Mad Hatter, N1, SPARC, x86, storage, Java-'The Network is the Computer' tent is bursting at the seams," he wrote of some of Sun's main product and services lines. You can imagine what kind of headlines MSNBC would come up with if Sun were to drop any of it's free software efforts.
The rest of the message looked like it came straight from a M$ press release. What's lower than a "corpse" in a "nitch" at the bottom of a "tech ravine"? They might as well have called the company whale shit. The personal comments directed at Scott McNealy, while typical of Microsoft name calling, have no place in profesional advice.
I must apologize for atributing quotes from ML's Steven Milunovich to Erin Joyce. I mistook the article for the actual letter. Joyce has done a fine job of reporting the salient details of what looks like a routine Microsoft press release but should not be held accountable for the message.
Having thought a while, I'm still astounded by Milunovich's letter. It contains all the usual Microsoft press release contents, but came from Merrill Lynch. It has name calling and the usual message "we've already won and if you don't see that you are stupid and doomed to failure". My only conclusion is that ML is a M$ whore and could care less for their investors.
How often has anyone seen an investment company tell a technology company exactly how to run it's business in an "open letter"? I'm shocked to see such stupid advise, but now some of Sun's recent moves become clear. Wall Street must have been putting pressure on Sun for a long time and has now done it's utmost to halt Linux. Joyce pleads:
Solaris is critical to why users like Sun. Being late to Linux is unforgivable both because Linux is a kissing cousin to Unix and because Linux is a disruptive threat to Microsoft.
Sun needs to convince users that Linux is a subset of Solaris and push two messages: (1) if you're doing Linux, go to the Unix expert, and (2) use Linux on the edge, but when you need mission-critical capability it's time to graduate to Solaris.
That's incredible. Since when should a technology company be worried about disrupting a competitor? Nuts. Sun should make all the money it can and if it does so by taking share from a competitor's inferior offerings, that's great. Merrill Lynch is attempting to halt technological progress in order to protect it's worthless Microsoft holdings. This is ass backward, they should be looking out for their investors by urging them to sell Microsoft.
The CAGW is confused on this issue, as are all Microsoft fanboys. They have confused government intervention in the marketplace with rational government purchasing policy. Conservative idialogy does not allow for government subsidies, but that's exactly what the CAGW is promoting with "equal footing" for software sales based on "compatibility" with propiatory junk. They are simply ignorant when it comes to software and judge the only things they know to be superior to what they don't know.
It's obvious to anyone in IT that Microsoft and comercial software in general has been beat by free software. BSD rules web serving uptimes, GNU/Linux rules for applications and ease of use. Microsoft has nothing left to offer but compatibility with it's second rate Office file formats. All of their toys, such as active directory and all that, have superior free software alternatives. Their attempts at DRM are both futile and unwanted. The standard unix/permissions combined with kerbos and client/server applications provide much better control of sensitive documents. Microsoft has so many code quality and architectural issues to deal with that they may never escape the script kiddie attack that makes their systems insecure, expensive and a public menace.
Governemt specifications for their own software purchasing don't amount to subsidies or a "monopoly". Public documents are permanent works and need to work forever. The only way to make sure this happens is to keep their formats public and the methods used to manipulate them free. Microsoft and others are welcome to compete this way, that they chose to do as they do is their own loss.
If @stake is saying they don't agree with these statements, then their credibility as a security company is seriously in question.
At stakes credibility is zero after this. It's blindigly obvious that @stake:
Won't listen to their own experts,
knows more than they are telling you,
won't tell you what you need to know, and
feels a greater obligation to a vendor than to their customers.
They don't even know how to fire a whistle blower. Their timing is pathetic and the idiots actually admitted that they fired him over his paper. They tried to couch it in PHB terms, but they only ended up putting more steam in the whistle.
The dismissal is more damaging than the paper ever was. Everyone in IT knows what the paper said is true, but it's just so much background noise. Greer's dismissal is so shocking and so obvious that it may make news outside IT. Microsoft might as well send the BSA after public school systems. Oh yeah, I forgot, they already do that. They are a buch of dumb asses and @stake is their bitch.
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That's warped, Cisco purchased a healthy competitor. Using free software for routers was a great idea and it's why we have $100 wireless gateways in a box. Cisco knew about this like everyone else. If anything Cisco's a predator.
it is critical to carefully review the development materials for possible license violations, of both proprietary and Free licenses. Otherwise you can end up in all sorts of legal hot water. I just wish they told that story better.
Once again, you put the blame on the GPL. Hogwash. Cisco should have no trouble releasing the code they borrowed and improved or paying reasonable terms to the software's authors. Most software companies would make much less reasonable demands. This business about "it wants you to burn down your house, or at the very least share it with cloners," is greed based bullshit.
Only people who don't have the nuts to share their code can think this way, that would be companies like Cisco, Microsoft and other "Information Economy" losers. They think they can steal everyone else's work and keep everyone else from doing anything.
Cicso's recent advert showing "hackers" being beaten and abused in filthy Russian looking jails, puts Cisco firmly on my list of "Bad Company". Despite their prowess, size and publications, I no longer want anything to do with them.
My oldest piece of equipment is my first computer case, bought in 1987. It is an XT clone with a 150 W power supply. I took down the 8086 which still ran in 1996. Into the box I put a 150 MHz Media GX and more modern hard drives. Later, I swaped that out for a K6/2 400 with 128 MB ram. It is a nice little internal ftp and Star Office server but mostly it's easy to tear open and stick stuff in. Yeah, I rigged the little red LED to blink with hard drive use.
Go to hell, will you? There, you might find something better to do than posting flamebait.
While it's nice of you point out that "credentials" should not be required for free speech, your attitude in general is servile and inflamatory. I will not deny that this technique will be used to make copies of music but I refuse to consider that "piracy" or immoral. It's not even a copyright violation, if you have a reasonable and lawful view of publishing. You either believe the above or you are posting flamebait. Either way, you have little regard for your rights and those of others.
Use of the collective "Slashdot" and the perverse views expressed here makes me think you are simply trolling:
Curiously, this seems to be the average Slashdotter's stand too. The disagreement is over who actually owns the property in question. SunnComm says they do, Slashdot says that the guy who bought the CD does.
Nonsense, the question is if ownership of ideas can ever occur rather than the details of what the "owner" allows you. Society should never come together to keep the Girl Scouts of America from singing "America the Beautiful" around a campfire because someone else "owns" the tune. Yet that's exactly what happens when songs can be owned like that. Yes, that happened. The conditions of the GPL use the power of copyright law to enforce good behavoir. You can only use and benifit from free software if you agree to pass along what you learned while you benifit. It's a reasonable request next to what people like you advocate, complete ownership of ideas with abitrary powers to stop other people from doing things with your ideas or ideas very similar to yours.
RIAA, you don't have what I want and you will never keep anyone from getting and sharing the things they enjoy. Much of the music I'm digitizing is no longer published and impossible to find. Well, not impossible. WWOZ does a show called "records from the crypt" which features all sorts of great New Orleans R&B.
If the RIAA does ever get what it wants, their sales will go to zero.
With enough machines comprimised, the whole operation can be automated. From capturing new machines to distributing content from the captured boxes. The loser can go through an anonymizer from time to time as he starts new campaigns. You will never see him because his worms do all the dirty work.
Then again, you might catch someone. It's impossible to hook up a M$ box to the internet without it being owned. The problem will then be chasing down the thousands of people you will dig up. Go for it and tell us what you find.
Dude, Bill Gates is paying you good money to write drivel like that, can't you use his grammar checker?
The problem is windows, its design, distribution and operation. It was never ready for the desktop and it will never be ready for the internet. It's supposed to be an "easy to use" "consumer level" OS, but keeping it up is harder than other. The machines are broken because the software they run was designed to be pushed on by third parties. The end user has no control of it and can not keep others from running code on it.
MS released a patch and it never got populated as much as it should.
This is a cop out, blaming the user for Microsoft's sucky distribution method. Microsoft only distributes it's crap on CDs and CDs are dead. There's no such thing as a nice up to date network install in the M$ world, so there's no way the end user can do anything but install from a months or years old, turn everything on and rape me CD. The only way an end user could possibly get all of M$'s huge "patches" is to use ANOTHER OS, but what end user can figure out how? Computer shops can't even figure it out and Microsoft can't really keep up anyway. The diligent are getting just as burnt as everyone else, perhaps mores because Microsoft "updates" inclued nasty EULA's as well as break critical applications.
For every reason these things should be turned off, it's turned on.
Right, tell me why Outlook auto-executes porn spammer email again? Is it because Bill Gates wants my 2 year old girl to look at popups while my system is trojaned?
does finger pointing solve anything?
Yes it does. People are sick of the problems they have with M$. Just not being able to turn off pop-ups is bad enough. Having the senders of such garbage own your machine is much worse.
Did pointing fingers get most everyone to stop using telnet vs ssh? Did it stop people from sending sensitive data over non-ssl connections? No. Did it stop people from running daemons as root? No.
If you know someone who does these things on a non-Microsoft platform, kindly tell them why they should not. It does help and I don't know anyone who does these things anymore.
propose a solution
Dump M$. I've been M$ free for years and I'm better educated, less troubled and much happier. You don't need their shit, you are better off without it and so are the rest of us. Microsoft has proved itself unwilling or unable to fix their problems they need to be shunned.
OLVWM does that too. It's also nice to have an unlimited number of desktops too. With as many desktops as you want, you don't feel as inclined to buy a $200 "dual head" video card and a second flat screen monitor and are much happier with your 17" CRT. Do I need to mention "ssh -X hostname" logs you in graphically to all your computers? Yes, more than one user can run Star Office, Open Office, Kword, Emacs and or Vi at the same time. That's not alowed by the EULA for M$ Word, even if you were clever enough.
I'd be surprised if there isn't a hack for XP to do the same thing
Hack, hack, and still pay through the nose, why bother? Apt-get yourself out of that mess. Once you've got your modelines set up, that's it, video just works. Go see for yourself at www.hillnotes.org. The stuff I've got posted is all easy to do. Anyone who can figure out the Windoze hack game is more than up to the task of learning free software. When it's all said and done, you get way more for your free software effort than you can buy from Bill and friends.
I hate going back to anything less. Windoze is the worst with it's single desktop, crappy iconification and pathetic multitasking. Microsoft's bloaty GUI blows in general. I have not seen Apple's OSX yet. All the bad things people say about X are silly.
If 30 33.3MB files (bonnie test) are not representative of your needs, please download the scripts. You can then modify the parameters for thousands of 2k files and post the results. Lots of people would be intersted, you know.
How about a strong magnet?
Proving that someone got tanked at your establishment and then killed Mother Teresa on his way home? These idiots need to think twice about the liability issue.
Yep, I had the same thing happen to me when I was working for a Nuclear Generating station 18 months ago. A porn spam jumped out of the preview pane, launching several full screen instances of M$IE directed at porn sites, while the hard disk spun furiously. Exactly what it did, God and the sender only know. I hit the off switch.
IT was no help at all. They thought I was worried about being fired for browsing porn and opend an investigation into my web browsing habits. The clueless exchange admin remoted into my machine while I was away from my desktop and ran it to completion. She did not have the patience to watch events unfold and disconected. She then had the nerve to tell me that things cant run from the preview pane and tell me I had clicked something. I insisted and made her watch it. Even after seeing it she did not get it. When I asked her if she though that arbitrary code from anywhere on the internet being run on my computer was a bad idea, she told me that it was "a normal part of advertising" and that she got several such spams a day.
It makes sense that crackers would target admin on any windoze network.
Corporate networks that use M$ are so owned it's not even funny. The stupid, arrogant and brainwashed M$ fanboys they have running them have no clue. M$ partners forever, baby yeah! 2003 and eXPensive software will solve your every click and drool need. Tthththpthpththht-tit!
Just tell them to download the source code from SCO's site and compile it themselves. They did a code audit and found that Half Life is really an inferior copy of BSD Games, which they own since they purchased the System V copyrights. Though they are in the process of issuing cease and dissists letters, they still host the source code and are drawing up licensing plans, "just to be safe".
Next you will tell me that XP is so full of holes because someone "stole" it's source code before M$ sold it to China and the former KGB. That's almost as good as them swearing that revealing the source code to Windoze would be a national security disaster. Give me a break, will you?
Warez only needs to hack a binary copy.
Cheats only need to watch their traffic.
None of this makes a difference if the system is well made to begin with. This is why OpenSSH is a secure system despite open publication of it's source code.
This is just more anti-open and anti-free FUD. Shame on VU for using Outlook and M$ for anything they wanted to keep to themselves. Shame on them for blaming software and the philosophy behind it for their own failures and shame on them for not being able to get their shit together. ID games rules, VU drools under Bill Gates thumb.
I'm going to take $250 to be put on a list of windoze crackers? No thanks. I don't care how fun it would be to look into how to do this kind of thing or how bad I need the money. Projects like this have the stink of an INS washing machine give away in a Mexican neghborhood.
If ever you stuck the thing into a wall socket, I'd make you hold on to it.
If you get funny ideas about sticking me with some wimpy little pentel, just forget it.
Tell me some storries about graphite in disk drives. If you mess with MY drives, I'll crack you over the head with my Model M keyboard.
They will and books will be the least of your concerns. Some likely RFID gates are air ports and all other public transportation, public rest rooms, libraries, office buildings and all retail stores. Using Patriot Act 2004, government will have access to all private records at retail stores. This will cross link you by the UID tags in your clothes.
I don't need a UID in my shirt or on a can of tomatoes and no one else does either. A number that identifies the shirt as a shirt of a specific size and color is sufficient for inventory purposes. Bar codes have done this very well and are still more practical than these invasive little fuckers so many other fuckers wish to present as "inevitable" and "practical".
Astroturfers, fuck off.
Oh, that's easy. Doctrine of first sale. If you really sold it to me, I can do what I want. If you are leasing it to me, that's another story because you and I agreed that you own the thing. If you don't care that I throw the thing in the trash all your other conditions are bogus.
Your "prebate", which is essentialy fair market value for your outrageously patented printer cartrige is a farce as well. The root problem here is that Lexmark can get patents on their toner cartridges that effectively keeps anyone else in the world from making them. The most "innovative" thing the company has done is add a lock out chip. By charging an outrageous amount for normal new cartidges that no one else may make and convincing purchasers that they don't really own the cartidge, Lexmark seeks to suck as much money from their users as possible by keeping them from doing what most normal people would do: put tonner into a perfectly usable part.
I will never buy or recomend a Lexmark printer. They have always been the worst on the market. I suspect it's because the company has such poor morals. The whole thing is dishonest and no on should do business with dishonest people.
This support will bring more problems than the jundge can imagine in her silly and slanted brain. Lexmark could not have found a more closed minded and sympathetic jugde. She described the "lock out chip" as an "innovation" worthy of protecting but all of ARCO's assertions were "claims" to be rejected. All sorts of idiots who run companies will now direct their lawyers to patent obvious devices who's sole purpose is to impose use restrictions on thier products and any attempt to disable such silly restrictions will be defeated by law. This case must be apealed and shown up for what it is.
Bill Gates' Open Letter to the Hobbiests, is the definitive point. February 3 1976 is when calling your customers theives proved to be profitable.
While you and I know that Sun should have embraced free software long ago, ML's Milunovich recomends just the opposite. Recomending that Sun make it clear that they "aggresively support Linux" he also recomends that Sun cut it's own development efforts, " [Sun's]Solaris, Linux, Orion, Mad Hatter, N1, SPARC, x86, storage, Java-'The Network is the Computer' tent is bursting at the seams," he wrote of some of Sun's main product and services lines. You can imagine what kind of headlines MSNBC would come up with if Sun were to drop any of it's free software efforts.
The rest of the message looked like it came straight from a M$ press release. What's lower than a "corpse" in a "nitch" at the bottom of a "tech ravine"? They might as well have called the company whale shit. The personal comments directed at Scott McNealy, while typical of Microsoft name calling, have no place in profesional advice.
Having thought a while, I'm still astounded by Milunovich's letter. It contains all the usual Microsoft press release contents, but came from Merrill Lynch. It has name calling and the usual message "we've already won and if you don't see that you are stupid and doomed to failure". My only conclusion is that ML is a M$ whore and could care less for their investors.
Solaris is critical to why users like Sun. Being late to Linux is unforgivable both because Linux is a kissing cousin to Unix and because Linux is a disruptive threat to Microsoft.
Sun needs to convince users that Linux is a subset of Solaris and push two messages: (1) if you're doing Linux, go to the Unix expert, and (2) use Linux on the edge, but when you need mission-critical capability it's time to graduate to Solaris.
That's incredible. Since when should a technology company be worried about disrupting a competitor? Nuts. Sun should make all the money it can and if it does so by taking share from a competitor's inferior offerings, that's great. Merrill Lynch is attempting to halt technological progress in order to protect it's worthless Microsoft holdings. This is ass backward, they should be looking out for their investors by urging them to sell Microsoft.
It's obvious to anyone in IT that Microsoft and comercial software in general has been beat by free software. BSD rules web serving uptimes, GNU/Linux rules for applications and ease of use. Microsoft has nothing left to offer but compatibility with it's second rate Office file formats. All of their toys, such as active directory and all that, have superior free software alternatives. Their attempts at DRM are both futile and unwanted. The standard unix/permissions combined with kerbos and client/server applications provide much better control of sensitive documents. Microsoft has so many code quality and architectural issues to deal with that they may never escape the script kiddie attack that makes their systems insecure, expensive and a public menace.
Governemt specifications for their own software purchasing don't amount to subsidies or a "monopoly". Public documents are permanent works and need to work forever. The only way to make sure this happens is to keep their formats public and the methods used to manipulate them free. Microsoft and others are welcome to compete this way, that they chose to do as they do is their own loss.
Did you write your letter to them? I did.
At stakes credibility is zero after this. It's blindigly obvious that @stake:
They don't even know how to fire a whistle blower. Their timing is pathetic and the idiots actually admitted that they fired him over his paper. They tried to couch it in PHB terms, but they only ended up putting more steam in the whistle.
The dismissal is more damaging than the paper ever was. Everyone in IT knows what the paper said is true, but it's just so much background noise. Greer's dismissal is so shocking and so obvious that it may make news outside IT. Microsoft might as well send the BSA after public school systems. Oh yeah, I forgot, they already do that. They are a buch of dumb asses and @stake is their bitch.