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What a crapload of free advertising for something I 'm not interested in, dunno about the other slashdot readers but lately it seems that a lot of people and projects are getting unnecessary advertisements..
All speech should be free, true or not. You just have to get it from a reliable source. Tabloids aren't true, yet protected.. this should be no different.
A) those programs are not bundled with the Operating System; only running on some machines.
B) there have been multiple wuftp exploits, anyone sane wouldn't run it.
C) the programs you specified are open source, they are usually patched very quickly, rather then brushed off as Microsoft often does. Also, since they are open source if there is no patch available, you can easily work-around the bug or disable the faulty feature.
If IE was open source, this problem would be major.. but it would be fixable; currently, as it is closed source.. it is a continuing major security hole
If software is known to be faulty, either the company licensing fixes it or they do not.. they are not required per their license to fix bugs; unless explicitly stated in their license.
If their product is not secure; that is your fault and negligence for running it, not the developer's
This is like saying that it is microsoft's fault that someone gets infected by a virus; when it is the user's fault for being stupid enough to trust any product made by microsoft..
Actually, linux has had security problems in the past.. and Linus needs to take some classes on Quality Assurance; I'd sooner trust microsoft to come out with a secure opensource kernel then I would Linus.
But then again, i'd expect Linus to come out with a more secure closed source kernel then it would be likey for Microsoft to come out a secure closed source kernel:)
It is about time the Feds started cracking down on this stuff. Warez is bad and only hurts the economy and free software. I just had a fight with my finacee' the other day because she was pirating Windows ME. I told her that she won't be pirating software in my house, or music for that matter.
There was once a time, that not only did I pirate software.. but I was also a trader, back when a 28.8 modem was cool. I have turned around and no longer pirate any software, and I feel much better for it. It really is nuts to even consider pirating software, why would I? Everything I need is available in a free (gpl or bsd) version; Why would I ever have to pirate? Especially when it is wrong.
Feed the starving developers or better yet, use free software; You know it is better anyway.
Many of your Joe-Windows-users likely said they were experienced.. Who decides the person's skill level? If they aren't chosen by the person being tested but rather by a selective approach.. what constitutes experienced? The testing for if someone is experienced or not could end up rigging the voting process. Anyway, this is probably answered on the webpage if only I bothered to read it.
I vote you must grok this to qualify as experienced:)
My college asked me to rewrite their pascal program in Java. I asked why. Their excuse was that it ran under DOS. I think it was a lame excuse.
Anyway, the never rewrite code idea.. never optimize.. We now see why Windows is such a terribly bloated hog,.
I think he forgot to mention the move of MacOS from m86k to PowerPC, and finally to OSX which is a wholy different kernel and can be considered a pretty major rewrite. And they did it without suffering! Ok, apple hasn't always been doing well, but it wasn't directly related their rewrites or huge porting projects.
I am basing my opinion on my limited experiences using Windows 2000 enterprise server without a mouse to start, stop, and edit the properties of services.
I have also attempted to navigate some other built-in dialogs as part of the Windows 2000 enterprise server's configuration.
They are difficult, if not impossible to navigate without a mouse.
Sure, apps may be fine. but configuration is nearly impossible.
Have you tried to use Windows 2000 without a mouse? It is near impossible. First of all, everything is in a GUI. It is a lot easier to deal with text rather then images when you are blind. Ok, you can finally do some things from the console like type "net start Windows \ 2000\ Service\ for\ making\ me\ type\ too\ much", assuming that what you want to do can be done that way.
The keyboard macros and accelerators in newer versions of windows are hovering somewhere between terrible and non-existant. I'm not speaking of the programming running under 2000. Just the built-in stuff like configuration, server management, the shell, etc.. It wouldn't fair to judge microsoft on 3rd party software:)
As far as X windows applications go, they are usually worse then Windows applications... although Gtk and QT (and their respective desktop environments) are doing much better then most older applications.
Are things getting better? for unix yes, for windows no. But they both still suck.
It isn't really an issue with the platform, though.. but more of a problem with bad UI designers writing 3rd party software.
yes, but I am under the impression that this person wants to have >thousand ip addresses that stay up even if he loses a line. If your server is hosted at his data-center and he loses a line, you want the other line to pickup the slack... without losing your site because nobody is routing to your ip address.
I am assuming he doesn't want nat, but a redundant solution to keep his servers up.
I personally like Virtualhosts and http/1.1, of course my clients have a much different idea. We have server using thousands of ips, on for each webpage hosted on the machine. Why? because ignorant business owners (clients) want it.
These people go, "I'm sharing what with who?" and decide they need their own IP address. Whats even worse, IMHO are those who run shell boxen and need an IP address for every person because they want to have reverse dns on IRC.
At work, I must admit it is nice to have an IP address for each of my servers.. but really, I should setup NAT. Why should I waste IP address space for a laptop?
I really think hosting companies should tighen up on ip usage more. Of course, they offer them and people will keep buying them as long as their clients beg for them.. even if they don't really need it.
What you are looking for is speed, not multihoming. What you are talking about is having 2 ips, one for each connection... and then balancing the load across them.
Linux can do this, it has the ability to "shotgun" ethernet connections into a larger one.
However, this is not what this person wants. The problem is IP addresses and routing. In your configuration, if one of your connections die you use an IP address. If one of the connections in a multi-homed environment dies, you still want the traffic for the ips on the 2nd line to be routed to your network.
What this means is, you need cooperation by your ISPs if you wish to be multihomed. Sure, for a home-connection where you are just looking for speed, shotgunning your data is fine.. but it just isn't the solution this person needs.
Everyone loves our CG pal Jar-Jar:) I can't wait to meet her! I would never wash my harddrive again if she would only sign my digital certificate!
It is so hard being a fan of a computer generated character, first it is so hard to find the real person.. Sure, there are tons of impersonaters in rubber suits, but to find the REAL one.. its hard.
Maybe one day I'll get to meet Jar-jar, the bestest person in the whole wide world!
This upgrade requires you to download and print a form which includes terms and conditions, a sort of EULA.
However, I don't think that should be a major issue.. as it does not mention anything about discovering flaws in the software packaging or discovering ways to steal the full version from it... It just says that it requires the full version.
This is clearly an issue of freedom of speech, since all the parties involved are in the United States.
It is ok with regulation. I work at an isp which is looking at deploying an 802.11b network. We have an amplifier on it. I don't know how good for our health it is, but i've stood next the the antenna for extended periods of time with no apparent problem.
As per another one of my posts.. I noticed that they had this network over a year and 1/2 ago, it may have only been in testing then.. or perhaps they just didn't want to advertise it until they worked out some security issues..
But.. it did cover the hotels. The nice thing for us about this is that you don't have to worry about sneaking a laptop into the park if you are staying at one of the hotels.
Infact, it was at the hotel I originally noticed it as I was glacing around waiting for my bus:) There was an antenna coming from a amplifier connected to a wireless card coming from their cash register.:)
I took note of their network over a year and half ago when I went there with my Highschool senior class.
I noticed the cash registers were connected to an 802.11b network.. also, I spotted some computers as well.
I didn't have an 802.11b card at the time, and my only laptop had suffered a terrible accident.. so I wasn't able to do any 'diagnostics', but I thought it was interesting. Maybe next time I'll bring my PowerBook/w 802.11b card and go to work.
See, you don't need to worry about getting into the park with your laptop.. Because this also extends to their hotels and probably their on-site buses as well.
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What a crapload of free advertising for something I 'm not interested in, dunno about the other slashdot readers but lately it seems that a lot of people and projects are getting unnecessary advertisements..
:)
So who do I pay to get my site mentioned ?
All speech should be free, true or not. You just have to get it from a reliable source. Tabloids aren't true, yet protected.. this should be no different.
I would like to mention that
A) those programs are not bundled with the Operating System; only running on some machines.
B) there have been multiple wuftp exploits, anyone sane wouldn't run it.
C) the programs you specified are open source, they are usually patched very quickly, rather then brushed off as Microsoft often does. Also, since they are open source if there is no patch available, you can easily work-around the bug or disable the faulty feature.
If IE was open source, this problem would be major.. but it would be fixable; currently, as it is closed source.. it is a continuing major security hole
If software is known to be faulty, either the company licensing fixes it or they do not.. they are not required per their license to fix bugs; unless explicitly stated in their license.
If their product is not secure; that is your fault and negligence for running it, not the developer's
This is like saying that it is microsoft's fault that someone gets infected by a virus; when it is the user's fault for being stupid enough to trust any product made by microsoft..
Actually, linux has had security problems in the past.. and Linus needs to take some classes on Quality Assurance; I'd sooner trust microsoft to come out with a secure opensource kernel then I would Linus.
:)
But then again, i'd expect Linus to come out with a more secure closed source kernel then it would be likey for Microsoft to come out a secure closed source kernel
It is about time the Feds started cracking down on this stuff. Warez is bad and only hurts the economy and free software. I just had a fight with my finacee' the other day because she was pirating Windows ME. I told her that she won't be pirating software in my house, or music for that matter.
There was once a time, that not only did I pirate software.. but I was also a trader, back when a 28.8 modem was cool. I have turned around and no longer pirate any software, and I feel much better for it. It really is nuts to even consider pirating software, why would I? Everything I need is available in a free (gpl or bsd) version; Why would I ever have to pirate? Especially when it is wrong.
Feed the starving developers or better yet, use free software; You know it is better anyway.
I personally like how he said he hasn't decided on a license and that it may be gnu-style :P
Many of your Joe-Windows-users likely said they were experienced.. Who decides the person's skill level? If they aren't chosen by the person being tested but rather by a selective approach.. what constitutes experienced? The testing for if someone is experienced or not could end up rigging the voting process. Anyway, this is probably answered on the webpage if only I bothered to read it.
:)
I vote you must grok this to qualify as experienced
Why not use wireless?
Zophar's domain has Information on the Genesis's specs.
Note, the Majesco Genesis clone did not have the Z80 chip making it incompatable with some games. The master system emulator and game-genie included.
I was speaking of the sound engine, not the main CPU.
Z80 also powered the sound chip in the Sega Genesis and a modified chip was used in the Gameboy.
My college asked me to rewrite their pascal program in Java. I asked why. Their excuse was that it ran under DOS. I think it was a lame excuse.
Anyway, the never rewrite code idea.. never optimize.. We now see why Windows is such a terribly bloated hog,.
I think he forgot to mention the move of MacOS from m86k to PowerPC, and finally to OSX which is a wholy different kernel and can be considered a pretty major rewrite. And they did it without suffering! Ok, apple hasn't always been doing well, but it wasn't directly related their rewrites or huge porting projects.
I am basing my opinion on my limited experiences using Windows 2000 enterprise server without a mouse to start, stop, and edit the properties of services.
I have also attempted to navigate some other built-in dialogs as part of the Windows 2000 enterprise server's configuration.
They are difficult, if not impossible to navigate without a mouse.
Sure, apps may be fine. but configuration is nearly impossible.
I didn't say for blind people. You might want to consider those with other kinds of disabilities.
Have you tried to use Windows 2000 without a mouse? It is near impossible. First of all, everything is in a GUI. It is a lot easier to deal with text rather then images when you are blind. Ok, you can finally do some things from the console like type "net start Windows \ 2000\ Service\ for\ making\ me\ type\ too\ much", assuming that what you want to do can be done that way.
:)
The keyboard macros and accelerators in newer versions of windows are hovering somewhere between terrible and non-existant. I'm not speaking of the programming running under 2000. Just the built-in stuff like configuration, server management, the shell, etc.. It wouldn't fair to judge microsoft on 3rd party software
As far as X windows applications go, they are usually worse then Windows applications... although Gtk and QT (and their respective desktop environments) are doing much better then most older applications.
Are things getting better? for unix yes, for windows no. But they both still suck.
It isn't really an issue with the platform, though.. but more of a problem with bad UI designers writing 3rd party software.
Using the engine's heat to generate cold air.. although possible, it just sounds so ironic :)
yes, but I am under the impression that this person wants to have >thousand ip addresses that stay up even if he loses a line. If your server is hosted at his data-center and he loses a line, you want the other line to pickup the slack... without losing your site because nobody is routing to your ip address.
I am assuming he doesn't want nat, but a redundant solution to keep his servers up.
I personally like Virtualhosts and http/1.1, of course my clients have a much different idea. We have server using thousands of ips, on for each webpage hosted on the machine. Why? because ignorant business owners (clients) want it.
These people go, "I'm sharing what with who?" and decide they need their own IP address. Whats even worse, IMHO are those who run shell boxen and need an IP address for every person because they want to have reverse dns on IRC.
At work, I must admit it is nice to have an IP address for each of my servers.. but really, I should setup NAT. Why should I waste IP address space for a laptop?
I really think hosting companies should tighen up on ip usage more. Of course, they offer them and people will keep buying them as long as their clients beg for them.. even if they don't really need it.
What you are looking for is speed, not multihoming. What you are talking about is having 2 ips, one for each connection... and then balancing the load across them.
Linux can do this, it has the ability to "shotgun" ethernet connections into a larger one.
However, this is not what this person wants. The problem is IP addresses and routing. In your configuration, if one of your connections die you use an IP address. If one of the connections in a multi-homed environment dies, you still want the traffic for the ips on the 2nd line to be routed to your network.
What this means is, you need cooperation by your ISPs if you wish to be multihomed. Sure, for a home-connection where you are just looking for speed, shotgunning your data is fine.. but it just isn't the solution this person needs.
Everyone loves our CG pal Jar-Jar :) I can't wait to meet her! I would never wash my harddrive again if she would only sign my digital certificate!
It is so hard being a fan of a computer generated character, first it is so hard to find the real person.. Sure, there are tons of impersonaters in rubber suits, but to find the REAL one.. its hard.
Maybe one day I'll get to meet Jar-jar, the bestest person in the whole wide world!
This upgrade requires you to download and print a form which includes terms and conditions, a sort of EULA.
However, I don't think that should be a major issue.. as it does not mention anything about discovering flaws in the software packaging or discovering ways to steal the full version from it... It just says that it requires the full version.
This is clearly an issue of freedom of speech, since all the parties involved are in the United States.
It is ok with regulation. I work at an isp which is looking at deploying an 802.11b network. We have an amplifier on it. I don't know how good for our health it is, but i've stood next the the antenna for extended periods of time with no apparent problem.
As per another one of my posts.. I noticed that they had this network over a year and 1/2 ago, it may have only been in testing then.. or perhaps they just didn't want to advertise it until they worked out some security issues..
:) There was an antenna coming from a amplifier connected to a wireless card coming from their cash register. :)
But.. it did cover the hotels. The nice thing for us about this is that you don't have to worry about sneaking a laptop into the park if you are staying at one of the hotels.
Infact, it was at the hotel I originally noticed it as I was glacing around waiting for my bus
I took note of their network over a year and half ago when I went there with my Highschool senior class.
/w 802.11b card and go to work.
I noticed the cash registers were connected to an 802.11b network.. also, I spotted some computers as well.
I didn't have an 802.11b card at the time, and my only laptop had suffered a terrible accident.. so I wasn't able to do any 'diagnostics', but I thought it was interesting. Maybe next time I'll bring my PowerBook
See, you don't need to worry about getting into the park with your laptop.. Because this also extends to their hotels and probably their on-site buses as well.