Nope no exaggeration here. On a 4 processor machine with 1 GB of memory, typical number of users supported 30. Random crashes are a weekly occurance. Virus scanner was causing peoplesoft to hang for at least a minute and during that minute you could log on to another instance of peoplesoft with the same security of the hung instance. Administration nightmares, now why has my desktop changed again and where are my printers. Daily reboots, yep every night 11pm.
Along with: obsurd memory requirements to support a small number of users, random crashes, application security problems (peoplesoft and certain virus scanners), administration nightmares and daily reboots.
This letter was recently published in the columbus dispatch (Ohio's greatest home newspaper....yea right). What would your response be to this person?
Letter to the editor: Opening windows could let bad guys do a lot of damage Saturday, December 25, 1999
I was amazed to see that the Clinton administration, in its initial victory over Microsoft, wants the source code to Windows to be made public. I'm sure it will follow up with a demand that all banks publish the combinations to their safes and freely distribute keys to both their front and back doors. Perhaps they will make banks install a large button so visitors can disable all alarms.
Making the world safe for bank robbers would be a lot better than making Windows' source code public. The year 2000 problem is nothing compared to what a hacker could do with the code to Windows.
The anti-virus software today depends on two primary tests to find a virus: the Cyclic Redundancy Checksum and file size. A virus attaches itself to a program and runs when the program runs.
Rather than get into a complex technical discussion, let us just say every computer file has a fingerprint. If a virus is attached, the file's fingerprint changes. An anti-virus program just looks for the fingerprints left by the virus. However, if one has the source code to Windows, a file with a virus can be made with the same fingerprint as a file without the virus.
Even worse, the operating system, instead of being the virus cop, becomes the virus enabler. Imagine a world where half the people in uniform are trying to rob you and where dialing 911 brings a band of serial killers to your door.
Such a virus would be very, very difficult to fight. Police try to catch such people by tracing who benefits. But when the goal is revenge and not profit, it gets tough to catch the bad guys. If you think catching the Unabomber was time consuming, this would make the search for the Unabomber look very fast, indeed.
So with the Windows source code, the hacker could write a program that on June 1, 2001, swaps all bank balances. Someone whose name starts with an A gets Z's balances. Throw credit cards into that mix, and there could be real fun. Maybe some hacker would find it fun to pay off everyone's property taxes. I'll bet everyone who had not paid his tax would tell the truth and pay up voluntarily, wouldn't they?
Every programmer I have ever met has always left himself a back door into every system he writes. Does anyone want to bet Microsoft does not have a back door to its software? Does anyone believe that if the judge makes Microsoft publish the source code, Bill Gates would remove the back door before publishing it? He would not dare. The judge might put him in jail for modifying the code. Couldn't have that now, could we?
If he would leave it in, every highly skilled programmer would have a key to everything running on Microsoft software. We can rest assured that every hacker is totally honest, can't we? And with the Internet, those hackers would all be in places where Americans are loved, such as Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Baghdad, Iraq, for example.
Some hacker might even have fun with a newspaper, such as removing the names of everyone who is a subscriber and replacing them with the names of people who are not. Did I mention court records, employment records, child support records?
All Microsoft bashers in and out of government should beware. It looks like they are going to get what they wished for.
Do what I do. I run the peoplesoft client on Win98 using VMWARE. Also, use the (damn) citrix metaframes also. Works fine and my Windows never crashes. PS. Don't try to let vmware use your current windows partition. You will have nothing but problems.
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Nope no exaggeration here. On a 4 processor machine with 1 GB of memory, typical number of users supported 30. Random crashes are a weekly occurance. Virus scanner was causing peoplesoft to hang for at least a minute and during that minute you could log on to another instance of peoplesoft with the same security of the hung instance. Administration nightmares, now why has my desktop changed again and where are my printers. Daily reboots, yep every night 11pm.
GW is for restrictions on freedom. "There ought to be limits to freedom" G. W. Bush Jr., 1999. Scary, very scary.
Along with: obsurd memory requirements to support a small number of users, random crashes, application security problems (peoplesoft and certain virus scanners), administration nightmares and daily reboots.
I went an AMD! 800 MHz is cool!
Etoys has anatomically correct dolls! What are they teaching our children!
Letter to the editor: Opening windows could let bad guys do a lot of damage Saturday, December 25, 1999
I was amazed to see that the Clinton administration, in its initial victory over Microsoft, wants the source code to Windows to be made public. I'm sure it will follow up with a demand that all banks publish the combinations to their safes and freely distribute keys to both their front and back doors. Perhaps they will make banks install a large button so visitors can disable all alarms.
Making the world safe for bank robbers would be a lot better than making Windows' source code public. The year 2000 problem is nothing compared to what a hacker could do with the code to Windows.
The anti-virus software today depends on two primary tests to find a virus: the Cyclic Redundancy Checksum and file size. A virus attaches itself to a program and runs when the program runs.
Rather than get into a complex technical discussion, let us just say every computer file has a fingerprint. If a virus is attached, the file's fingerprint changes. An anti-virus program just looks for the fingerprints left by the virus. However, if one has the source code to Windows, a file with a virus can be made with the same fingerprint as a file without the virus.
Even worse, the operating system, instead of being the virus cop, becomes the virus enabler. Imagine a world where half the people in uniform are trying to rob you and where dialing 911 brings a band of serial killers to your door.
Such a virus would be very, very difficult to fight. Police try to catch such people by tracing who benefits. But when the goal is revenge and not profit, it gets tough to catch the bad guys. If you think catching the Unabomber was time consuming, this would make the search for the Unabomber look very fast, indeed.
So with the Windows source code, the hacker could write a program that on June 1, 2001, swaps all bank balances. Someone whose name starts with an A gets Z's balances. Throw credit cards into that mix, and there could be real fun. Maybe some hacker would find it fun to pay off everyone's property taxes. I'll bet everyone who had not paid his tax would tell the truth and pay up voluntarily, wouldn't they?
Every programmer I have ever met has always left himself a back door into every system he writes. Does anyone want to bet Microsoft does not have a back door to its software? Does anyone believe that if the judge makes Microsoft publish the source code, Bill Gates would remove the back door before publishing it? He would not dare. The judge might put him in jail for modifying the code. Couldn't have that now, could we?
If he would leave it in, every highly skilled programmer would have a key to everything running on Microsoft software. We can rest assured that every hacker is totally honest, can't we? And with the Internet, those hackers would all be in places where Americans are loved, such as Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Baghdad, Iraq, for example.
Some hacker might even have fun with a newspaper, such as removing the names of everyone who is a subscriber and replacing them with the names of people who are not. Did I mention court records, employment records, child support records?
All Microsoft bashers in and out of government should beware. It looks like they are going to get what they wished for.
Ray Malone
MBS Software
Chillicothe, Ohio
They protect stupid "Business" speak so why not anonymous speak.
Thin Windows TBE = Thin windows that break easily.
Do what I do. I run the peoplesoft client on Win98 using VMWARE. Also, use the (damn) citrix metaframes also. Works fine and my Windows never crashes. PS. Don't try to let vmware use your current windows partition. You will have nothing but problems.
Hope it looks good.
Maybe because the artifical world would be a pretty boring place. I believe the AI need human creativity to exist. Without that they are nothing.
Not only is it a real first post, it is a first post for An0nymousC0ward.
cool might have to get freebsd now.