It was a nice read, but I was curious about one additional option, the 'Data Strategy'. This is specific to games where you may develop the engine using open source tools and release the engine as open source, but charge for all your data files the engine uses for your particular game. Or has this just not been proven as being a viable model?
Microsoft is betting that the steady release of new content protection technology will help its audio and video formats become standard ways of distributing digital music and films, in turn, keeping people purchasing and using the Windows operating system and associated products.
Third party support for their applications on linux is what's keeping us on RedHat 8. It's the only version of linux that both ClearCase and Mainsoft support, so RH8 it is if we want to port our applications to linux. I actually wanted to run RH9 or FC1, but those aren't supported by Mainsoft.
I name each of my linux laptops after types of penguins (gentoo, adelie, chinstrap, emperor, etc). My wife is a Mayan archaeologist and names each of her laptops after Mayan gods (zotz, ixchel, etc).
Thanks for the inside track information. I was aware of the AES concerns, but we've had pretty good luck so far and we will probably only have about 5 total wireless clients in our pretty small office. So the scaling issues with MAC filtering shouldn't be a problem. At the moment we have no plans for linux clients, but we aren't a 100% Microsoft shop, we have a few solaris boxes and one linux box, but none of them will ever be made wireless, and our servers aren't Win2k (yet), since the NT4 machines still seem to be working just fine.
The SSID broadcast information is pretty handy, I'll probably re-enable it tommorow. How do I know if my AP supports disabling WEP? I've just set it to WPA-PSK with AES encryption, so I assume that means that WEP is disabled and only clients with the correctly encrypted AES packet will be able to connect. It's not exactly a top-of-the-line AP, in fact, one of the guys just dropped it by my office one day and said he got it on sale and wanted to know if it could be made to be secure for use at work, if not, he'd just take it home. It's a Belkin 802.11g, but I'm not sure of the model number.
Thank you. This is all I was really looking for, was if it would be enough to stop the casual wardriver. I'm sure that any network (wired or not) can be hacked by a determined individual. I'm sure that VPN would provided added security, but we don't have any VPN equipment and it would be fairly time consuming to set it up for only a marginal increase in security over the existing setup. I might consider putting IPsec in place. So, even if someone clones the MAC address, they would still need the PSK to connect right?
BTW, you could try social engineering the secretary, but I'm the only one with the pre-shared key and my office is right across the hall from the secretaries. I don't give it out to the wireless clients, I just go to their laptop and type it in.
I would have to agree 100% with that. I tried a gym membership for a while, but I felt that while I was getting in better shape, I just didn't feel like I was actually learning anything so I tried karate and never looked back. In addition to getting in shape, you also learn lots of cool stuff (pressure points, locks, grappling, weapons, etc) and it's actually useful. I also spend quite a bit of time outside of class optimizing my technique and making sure my moves are fluid and precise not to mention it looks cool while you're practicing:). Any geek should appreciate the technical aspect as well as the optimization involved, in fact quite a few of the other people in my school are geeks.
The forced open-sourcing of Windows is the way to go!
That is a bit overkill and unnecessary. All they would have to do is open the APIs and File Formats which would allow interoperability with third party applications and that should be sufficient.
Hey, this looks like a legit article. What's up with that? But it's April 1st according to Slashdot, since it's on GMT. Maybe that will be/.s April Fools joke, no April Fools articles?
Slashdot is on GMT and this was posted at 22:58 GMT and right now it's 23:22 GMT so we still have a few more minutes before official April 1st as far as Slashdot is concerned. However, it is already April 1st where the story originated (Israel).
So if the marketplace is confused to buy a DVD burner that would allow them to make legimate backup copies of their DVDs, it seems that the only group who would benefit from this is the MPAA since there would be less 'piracy'... hmmmm... It all becomes clear now why we have a format war. </hat>
According to Santa Clara Consulting Group, the combined factory sales of -R and -RW blank media amounted to 61 percent of the total worldwide market share in the third quarter. DVD+R and +RW blank media accounted for 37 percent, while DVD-RAM media sales made up 2 percent. Dash media's worldwide market share hovered at about 60 percent for the first three quarters of the year, according to the research firm.
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It was a nice read, but I was curious about one additional option, the 'Data Strategy'. This is specific to games where you may develop the engine using open source tools and release the engine as open source, but charge for all your data files the engine uses for your particular game. Or has this just not been proven as being a viable model?
What isn't going to be included in DOOM3?
Duke Nukem Forever
Actually I would hope that they file for prior art, it would just be an admission that they abuse the patent system and file frivolous patents.
Microsoft is betting that the steady release of new content protection technology will help its audio and video formats become standard ways of distributing digital music and films, in turn, keeping people purchasing and using the Windows operating system and associated products.
That's what I was going to say, but something more along the lines of:
What's the big news? A patch for Win98SE has been available here for quite some time now.
Third party support for their applications on linux is what's keeping us on RedHat 8. It's the only version of linux that both ClearCase and Mainsoft support, so RH8 it is if we want to port our applications to linux. I actually wanted to run RH9 or FC1, but those aren't supported by Mainsoft.
ghoS 'ej jIH Dung
I think I should point that that I believe this mascott is just for the OOoEdu project, not for the OpenOffice.org project as a whole.
I name each of my linux laptops after types of penguins (gentoo, adelie, chinstrap, emperor, etc). My wife is a Mayan archaeologist and names each of her laptops after Mayan gods (zotz, ixchel, etc).
Thanks for the inside track information. I was aware of the AES concerns, but we've had pretty good luck so far and we will probably only have about 5 total wireless clients in our pretty small office. So the scaling issues with MAC filtering shouldn't be a problem. At the moment we have no plans for linux clients, but we aren't a 100% Microsoft shop, we have a few solaris boxes and one linux box, but none of them will ever be made wireless, and our servers aren't Win2k (yet), since the NT4 machines still seem to be working just fine.
The SSID broadcast information is pretty handy, I'll probably re-enable it tommorow. How do I know if my AP supports disabling WEP? I've just set it to WPA-PSK with AES encryption, so I assume that means that WEP is disabled and only clients with the correctly encrypted AES packet will be able to connect. It's not exactly a top-of-the-line AP, in fact, one of the guys just dropped it by my office one day and said he got it on sale and wanted to know if it could be made to be secure for use at work, if not, he'd just take it home. It's a Belkin 802.11g, but I'm not sure of the model number.
Thank you. This is all I was really looking for, was if it would be enough to stop the casual wardriver. I'm sure that any network (wired or not) can be hacked by a determined individual. I'm sure that VPN would provided added security, but we don't have any VPN equipment and it would be fairly time consuming to set it up for only a marginal increase in security over the existing setup. I might consider putting IPsec in place. So, even if someone clones the MAC address, they would still need the PSK to connect right?
BTW, you could try social engineering the secretary, but I'm the only one with the pre-shared key and my office is right across the hall from the secretaries. I don't give it out to the wireless clients, I just go to their laptop and type it in.
Once they bundle virus scanners with the OS, you can count mcaffee and symantec in there.
why don't we have a team ... telling MS what to do?
We do, they're located here, here, and here
My chosen sport isn't running anymore but Karate
:). Any geek should appreciate the technical aspect as well as the optimization involved, in fact quite a few of the other people in my school are geeks.
I would have to agree 100% with that. I tried a gym membership for a while, but I felt that while I was getting in better shape, I just didn't feel like I was actually learning anything so I tried karate and never looked back. In addition to getting in shape, you also learn lots of cool stuff (pressure points, locks, grappling, weapons, etc) and it's actually useful. I also spend quite a bit of time outside of class optimizing my technique and making sure my moves are fluid and precise not to mention it looks cool while you're practicing
If anyone in the denver/boulder area is interested, I would recommend International Black Belt Academy
You're obviously not thinking like a *AA. Just pass a law that makes it illegal for a human to drive a car. Problem solved.
The forced open-sourcing of Windows is the way to go!
That is a bit overkill and unnecessary. All they would have to do is open the APIs and File Formats which would allow interoperability with third party applications and that should be sufficient.
The moderation of the parent Informative is funnier than the parent's joke itself, and way funnier than the story.
I'd have to agree, I've been laughing more at this one moderation/comment than any AF story today.
Hey, this looks like a legit article. What's up with that? But it's April 1st according to Slashdot, since it's on GMT. Maybe that will be /.s April Fools joke, no April Fools articles?
Slashdot is on GMT and this was posted at 22:58 GMT and right now it's 23:22 GMT so we still have a few more minutes before official April 1st as far as Slashdot is concerned. However, it is already April 1st where the story originated (Israel).
Yes, but is there an RFC for IP-over-jet?
I've seen it on one or two, but it was over a year ago, and I can't recall where they were.
So if the marketplace is confused to buy a DVD burner that would allow them to make legimate backup copies of their DVDs, it seems that the only group who would benefit from this is the MPAA since there would be less 'piracy'... hmmmm... It all becomes clear now why we have a format war.
</hat>
From the article:
According to Santa Clara Consulting Group, the combined factory sales of -R and -RW blank media amounted to 61 percent of the total worldwide market share in the third quarter. DVD+R and +RW blank media accounted for 37 percent, while DVD-RAM media sales made up 2 percent. Dash media's worldwide market share hovered at about 60 percent for the first three quarters of the year, according to the research firm.
all of them?
No, you have to apply this patch to fix all of them. Which is quite a large patch as you guessed.
Yep, it's already out out and on the mirrors next to the Mandrake 10 ISOs. It's called MandrakeMove.