I recieved a picture of two people making love. It was so beautiful I just had to give it back to the sender, so I pressed the outlook reply button. You know, the one with the puble arrow and face. Well, funny thing, the sender never answered. I looked up Mellisa Perez from Big Media Group and tried calling and mailing, but she did not know what I was talking about. At this point I decided to post it on the New York subway with my email address so whoever owned that picture could get it back from me. If you have been victimized by this terrible virus and think you might be missing a photo like that, send me a copy or near copy. If the copy matches, I'll send you back my electronic original.
Why indeed are you reading this? Don't like it, move on.
Now all you geeky people, please stop talking and get back to work. egomaniac will be very upset if he does not get his daily dose of good technical humor, insight and amusement.
there are undoubtedly subtle and potentially dangerous bugs in the Windows code which will be obvious to anyone who can steal the source from the servers.
The flaws will be more obvious to poor users. Who needs source code to break machines? You find responses faster by sending ugly junk to a running machine. Source code is better for fixing things.
Oh that subtle and complicated peice of work that is MS. More complicated than the space shuttle, able to deliver Active Desktops, Adverts and other trash to you by clever scripting language that has full root access right from your word processor. Bloaaaty 500MB footprint of MSIE, cool!
Let's see. Here at work we are up to NT service pack six and IE 5. If you factor in all the other programs that change dlls and what not, MS junk has lots of variants. (That's why software does not always work on MS platforms. Hell, I've never had an MS box that acutally did everything it was usupposed to, but that's another story.) The only thing thats been consistent is low quality and poor security. Why fix bugs when there is a competitor to trip up?
Of course, their adverts were full of promisses they have yet to deliver, eight years later multitasking with MS is still hit and miss. We should not be supprised that they have removed adverts for Win 3.1 prommising the moon and stars as people might take offense to paying for the same junk every three years or so: 93,95,97 (relB),98,2000,ME,XP, and so on. It's also not suprising that some offensive people forget past prommises, they want to forget. LocalRoger called you ignorant. He was wrong, you are just stupid.
Right, comrad, make much trouble and destroy the piggish software merchants.
Exchange mp3s at will, errr, wait media and content are someone else's job, though the freedom to manipulate your own content is a benifit of free software.
Exchange MS Warez all day... Oh no, wait a minute that would just fortify the depenence on their "standards". And that's what the BSA is all about isn't it?
Do you really think there's some kind of plot to make the BSA dumber than it is? Nope, this kind of extortion is not a means, it's a prime cause.
The free software movement is very much a product of a free society. It's adption by comercial institutions, government and individuals will occur by free market principles or not at all. Volunteerism relies on freedom. The tyrants are in Redmond.
Why not tell them where to get free software and offer consulting service? For half the price of XP, Office and the trinity on each and every computer, you could set them up much beter: Central server with inteligent sharing, gateway, email, Star/K/WP what not. It might earn you more than being "Linux expert" at shrink wrap store. Set it up with two boxes at home then jump, man, jump!
Yeah, yeah, keep it honest. Sell people what they want, be careful of store policy... but tell the truth to your cusotmers policy or none! Good luck.
The only thing Win3.1 was even remotely stable doing was running a single
application without network access. That's it, nothing else. Try to get any real work
done, and it blows up.
Yet it was marketed as multitasking. Hmmm, kind of makes you think, don't it?
Way out here in the swamps around Baton Rouge, we use the inter-library loan program. If you want an article, you make a request and the magazine in question arives in one or two weeks. Oh yeah, you had better have some department ready to pay the postage or you get a card instead saying it was never sent for lack of payment. It sucks. It's like all the Journal subscriptions ended in 1990 or so.
The difficulty in obtaining information is a terrible trowback, and I hope all institutions set up their own journal servers to replace those greedy nasty tree killers.
It's important for this looser to know that there are more than anarchists and hippies that disagree with him. I enjoyed mailing him from my corporate account.
What he's talking about would bring MORE bottle necks, and content conrtol as well as higher prices for everyone. I don't want to give that kind of control to anyone and it is not in this country's best interest to destabilize the net that way. Real Audio packets already rudely give themselves top priortity so that a soap commercial will push my email, telnet and other comunications out of the way. Do I really want someone to be able to decide that RA is right?
There is plenty of inteligent stuff right here. I asked him if he had read it.
It's kind of rotten of the LA times to imediatly try to back this New Jersy loosers opinion by digging up a "anarchist hippie" to display.
Others detect a hidden agenda: an attempt by big business to stifle some of the cultural empowerment that the Internet represents. "This is the past trying to kill the future at a time when the future is down," said John Perry Barlow, a former Grateful Dead lyricist who is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a defender of free speech online. "And it's happening in ways that are generally invisible to the public."
OK, he might be a "hippie", whatever that is, and an anarchist, but he's right. The ad hominem attack is the kind of thing I might expect from a "telecomunications consultant", not a supposedly independent and news organization interested in the public good. The drafters of this document might agree with the EFF. So do I, a flat topped engineer.
But you forgot one more piece of information on the demand side. Publishers charge what they do because public pays for it. Libraries have resorted to journal sharing agreements to limit their costs, but it's a zero sum game. The publishers simply increased their prices to match the money the public makes available for purchases. Publishers will soon be left out in the cold, unless their current legislative activities agains libraries bears fruit.
I wonder if libraries will be able to digitize dead journals for sharing.
You do. Your tax dollars are paying for library the local Universities subscriptions, not to mention private copies for proffesors. The costs are amazing!
There are plenty of dimes to be found if public libraries could simply share the cost of electronic publication. Why kill trees to fill shelves with much needed, but hardly visited magazines?
The shameful thing isn't that authors have to sign contracts - it's that in the
case of scientific journals the authors aren't being compensated and the works
that they essentially donate are being restricted.
The only way for an author to get paid and and retain all rights is to become
established and have the clout to negotiate a decent contract.
Clout? Peer review publications don't waste much time with trolls. You have to have a reputation, or do something for someone with a reputation, to be considered for review. Your article is sent out to a random selection of peers who offer suggestions or approve your article, then it's published. Oh yeah, none of the reviewers is paid. That's as much clout as you can get.
Good luck to those loosers trying to bust libraries now. The American Publisher's Association has been picking on libraries for sharing $1000/month scientific journals. Let all of those libraries host projects like this and the publishers will have to beg them for content and the Public rip off will end. That's right, you end up paying for those publications otherwise.
Looks like they had lots of boxes to bounce off. The 62. and 24. are at home numbers, AC.
The end of the chain may be an anonymizer or some poor windows box configured to be one.
98 was the fix for "unstable" 95. 95 was the fix for "unstable" win93, errr 3.1. People know better, but they need a little help.
Make your mom a nice red hat box. It's easier to install and set up. The last time I set up a windows box it took 4 hours or so and print sevices died within days. Red Hat 7.1 fixed that box.
That's what I did for my wife. She likes it now, and knows that linux compatibility should be a consideration in all future hardware purchases. She also understands that it's easier for me to keep a Debian box up to date, but more work to set up initially.
Neither of us has any inclination to plunk down $350 for XP. The adverts for it are much less than apealing: "integrated" audio, video etc. We've been doing those things for years and don't want to have MS squash us with their crappy versions of stuff we like. As Windows blows harder, we've been able to do less and less with it.
Free tools can do these things and more. Lead them away from old junk that's hard to use and breaks.
So, because MSFT sold a piece of SW they will not support, everything should
be released under the GPL if it's "old". Well, shoot, then every product ever
released in the history of the world should be required to be released under the
GPL.
Well, it is only protected by copyright. Copyrights are supposed to be temporary protection with the sole aim of increasing the public domain.
Why of why do people use MS BS? No insult to the fine folks above, especially freedos, but the alternatives are better used together rather than piece wise. Openssh on a PC with IE and Outlook is not secure in anyway. Don't throw your computer out the window, throw windows out of your computer!
I cast the blame squarely on the cable modem providers. Mine runs NT, and does not support anything but Windoze. For $40/month they can afford to ban insecure OS from direct connections, insure all connections are firewalled, and educate their users. Instead they simply ban "servers" without realizing that any old PC can become a server if it's hacked. Oh yeah, they also seem to be ignoring all the warez kiddies that are hacking their neighbor's crappy little boxes. They ought to go after them.
This worm only went after IIS, so it must have only burnt the cable providers themselves. I hope it tought them a lesson.
Pardon the rant. My little Debian box was broken into by some looser last night. I blame my own inexperience and inability to configure things properly, but I'd love some help tracking that sucker down. He had a 24. address.
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Better you install a real OS, Apatche and FTP.
Someone had to say it, so put down those rocks.
I love you, Mellisa!
Now all you geeky people, please stop talking and get back to work. egomaniac will be very upset if he does not get his daily dose of good technical humor, insight and amusement.
The flaws will be more obvious to poor users. Who needs source code to break machines? You find responses faster by sending ugly junk to a running machine. Source code is better for fixing things.
Oh that subtle and complicated peice of work that is MS. More complicated than the space shuttle, able to deliver Active Desktops, Adverts and other trash to you by clever scripting language that has full root access right from your word processor. Bloaaaty 500MB footprint of MSIE, cool!
Let's see. Here at work we are up to NT service pack six and IE 5. If you factor in all the other programs that change dlls and what not, MS junk has lots of variants. (That's why software does not always work on MS platforms. Hell, I've never had an MS box that acutally did everything it was usupposed to, but that's another story.) The only thing thats been consistent is low quality and poor security. Why fix bugs when there is a competitor to trip up?
specific technical. and
search results from MS on same subject.
Of course, their adverts were full of promisses they have yet to deliver, eight years later multitasking with MS is still hit and miss. We should not be supprised that they have removed adverts for Win 3.1 prommising the moon and stars as people might take offense to paying for the same junk every three years or so: 93,95,97 (relB),98,2000,ME,XP, and so on. It's also not suprising that some offensive people forget past prommises, they want to forget. LocalRoger called you ignorant. He was wrong, you are just stupid.
Exchange mp3s at will, errr, wait media and content are someone else's job, though the freedom to manipulate your own content is a benifit of free software.
Exchange MS Warez all day... Oh no, wait a minute that would just fortify the depenence on their "standards". And that's what the BSA is all about isn't it?
Do you really think there's some kind of plot to make the BSA dumber than it is? Nope, this kind of extortion is not a means, it's a prime cause.
The free software movement is very much a product of a free society. It's adption by comercial institutions, government and individuals will occur by free market principles or not at all. Volunteerism relies on freedom. The tyrants are in Redmond.
Yeah, yeah, keep it honest. Sell people what they want, be careful of store policy... but tell the truth to your cusotmers policy or none! Good luck.
It's better than having a "chip" on your shoulder.
Thanks! I could not tell if that was "guh-four" or "giga four".
Have you seen my Omega Hadron?
Yet it was marketed as multitasking. Hmmm, kind of makes you think, don't it?
No MS in my house.
The difficulty in obtaining information is a terrible trowback, and I hope all institutions set up their own journal servers to replace those greedy nasty tree killers.
Oh, I did not know this was an offtopic post;-)
Just thought I'd fill you in on some of the abuse Scientific writers have had to put up with and what drove them to start their own journal.
Newsmen have it much worse, I admit.
What he's talking about would bring MORE bottle necks, and content conrtol as well as higher prices for everyone. I don't want to give that kind of control to anyone and it is not in this country's best interest to destabilize the net that way. Real Audio packets already rudely give themselves top priortity so that a soap commercial will push my email, telnet and other comunications out of the way. Do I really want someone to be able to decide that RA is right?
There is plenty of inteligent stuff right here. I asked him if he had read it.
Others detect a hidden agenda: an attempt by big business to stifle some of the cultural empowerment that the Internet represents. "This is the past trying to kill the future at a time when the future is down," said John Perry Barlow, a former Grateful Dead lyricist who is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a defender of free speech online. "And it's happening in ways that are generally invisible to the public."
OK, he might be a "hippie", whatever that is, and an anarchist, but he's right. The ad hominem attack is the kind of thing I might expect from a "telecomunications consultant", not a supposedly independent and news organization interested in the public good. The drafters of this document might agree with the EFF. So do I, a flat topped engineer.
I wonder if libraries will be able to digitize dead journals for sharing.
There are plenty of dimes to be found if public libraries could simply share the cost of electronic publication. Why kill trees to fill shelves with much needed, but hardly visited magazines?
The only way for an author to get paid and and retain all rights is to become established and have the clout to negotiate a decent contract.
Clout? Peer review publications don't waste much time with trolls. You have to have a reputation, or do something for someone with a reputation, to be considered for review. Your article is sent out to a random selection of peers who offer suggestions or approve your article, then it's published. Oh yeah, none of the reviewers is paid. That's as much clout as you can get.
Good luck to those loosers trying to bust libraries now. The American Publisher's Association has been picking on libraries for sharing $1000/month scientific journals. Let all of those libraries host projects like this and the publishers will have to beg them for content and the Public rip off will end. That's right, you end up paying for those publications otherwise.
1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500
1?: 10.81.69.1
2?: 24.181.126.1
3?: 24.7.72.237
4?: 24.7.64.189
5?: 24.7.64.185
6?: 209.245.240.141
7?: 209.247.10.97 asymm 8
8?: 209.247.8.5 asymm 13
9?: 212.187.128.137 asymm 13
10?: 212.187.128.50 asymm 14
11?: 212.187.131.40 asymm 15
12?: 212.187.151.162 asymm 16
13?: 213.46.160.53 asymm 16
14?: 213.46.160.46 asymm 17
15?: 213.46.160.9 asymm 19
16?: 213.46.160.14 asymm 19
17?: 213.46.161.54 asymm 21
18?: 212.142.32.42 asymm 22
19?: 212.142.32.36 asymm 23
20?: 62.108.0.86 asymm 23
21?: 62.108.0.62 asymm 25
22?: 24.132.223.113 asymm 154 reached
Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 22 back 154
Looks like they had lots of boxes to bounce off. The 62. and 24. are at home numbers, AC. The end of the chain may be an anonymizer or some poor windows box configured to be one.
Make your mom a nice red hat box. It's easier to install and set up. The last time I set up a windows box it took 4 hours or so and print sevices died within days. Red Hat 7.1 fixed that box.
That's what I did for my wife. She likes it now, and knows that linux compatibility should be a consideration in all future hardware purchases. She also understands that it's easier for me to keep a Debian box up to date, but more work to set up initially.
Neither of us has any inclination to plunk down $350 for XP. The adverts for it are much less than apealing: "integrated" audio, video etc. We've been doing those things for years and don't want to have MS squash us with their crappy versions of stuff we like. As Windows blows harder, we've been able to do less and less with it.
Free tools can do these things and more. Lead them away from old junk that's hard to use and breaks.
Well, it is only protected by copyright. Copyrights are supposed to be temporary protection with the sole aim of increasing the public domain.
Why of why do people use MS BS? No insult to the fine folks above, especially freedos, but the alternatives are better used together rather than piece wise. Openssh on a PC with IE and Outlook is not secure in anyway. Don't throw your computer out the window, throw windows out of your computer!
This worm only went after IIS, so it must have only burnt the cable providers themselves. I hope it tought them a lesson.
Pardon the rant. My little Debian box was broken into by some looser last night. I blame my own inexperience and inability to configure things properly, but I'd love some help tracking that sucker down. He had a 24. address.