Allow Gates to hold controlling intrest in no more than one of these companies for a period of 2 years. That oughta do it. Did I leave anything out?
Yeah.
Ballmer, Alchin, Mundie, and no doubt others are every bit as evil, and exert even more control over Microsoft's illegal activities.
The problem is, if Bill can only hold one of the baby-Microsofts, then the others might behave legally and play nice.
But if you put one each of the above named evil directors in control of each baby-Microsoft, then competition will be ensured. Each MS will then compete with the others to see who can top the other's acts of evil, spite, greed, control, extortion, control, etc. Additionally, we as consumers would enjoy the advantages of the baby Microsofts being able to act in concert with each other because of the old-boy network of the guys in charge of each piece.
A delay would have put this trial off by what, a couple of weeks?
Maybe longer. But the important point is that they are trying to put it off in order to prevent justice. If they can get XP into the market place before a new remedy is pronounced, it gives them a big advantage.
This will be a 3-year long trial, while Microsoft calls in experts
This is what Microsoft wants, not what is good. It is good that the court isn't going to let MS stall this out forever.
Microsoft...., trying to protect the money that they fought so hard to earn
trying to protect the money they fought so hard to extort from us. Everyone is so happy to pay higher prices for lower quality.
We're never going to see a just resolution to this
Sure we could. Nuke the MS campus.
so what does it matter if they aren't delayed a few weeks?
Because MS might be able to rush XP out the door to further remove competition and prevent innovation.
--
Our father who art in Redmond,
Microsoft be thy name.
Thy monopoly come, thy chokehold be complete,
throughout the earth as it is in the US.
Give us this day, our daily license renewal.
And forgive us our bug reports,
as we forgive our system crashes.
And lead us not into competition,
but deliver us from innovation.
For thine is the control, and the power,
and the greed forever.
Amen.
I learned in high school. Took a one semester course. Was typing like a pro in a month. The rest of the class was spent learning how to type specific kinds of documents.
Do this:
Make a large chart of the keyboard, put it on the wall.
Put tape over the labels of the keys on your keyboard.
Write a program to drill yourself
Practice for 30 minutes a day, for a month
The chart and tape is important because you must learn to not look at the keys. Look at something else, like a wall chart, and your mind has to think which finger to use.
Day 1: Drill on only "A" and ";". Write a program to generate a sequence of "A" and ";" that you try to replicate -- at whatever speed you're comfortable. Use only your two pinkies. All fingers on the home row. Program says: aaa;;a;a;;;;aa;a;;;aaa;a;;a;;aa. DO NOT stop until 30 minutes have elapsed. You will now know "A" and ";" on your pinkies like a pro.
Day 2: Add the next fingers "S" and "L". Drill on all four. (Or only add "S", and tomorrow add "L".) Your program should generate a drill pattern like: aa;s;;slla;ls;als;alslsla;slsla;sl
Day 3: Add next fingers "D" and "K". 30 minutes.
Then add: "F", and "J".
Then add: "G" and "H".
Then work on the rows above and below home. Choose what letters to add each day as you see fit. Maybe you add "B" and "Y" on one day.
In a few weeks you really will type like a pro. Maybe even 40-50 words per minute.
SuSE 7.2 comes on 7 CD's, and includes 1 DVD, which can be used instead of the CDs.
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First Konqui can't display several charsets on a page. So, for example the bottom of the page on www.debian.org (where you have the lists of available language for the page written in the native language.
IIRC Konqueror does not have separate options for http and https proxies
IMHO, these are both fairly obscure problems that wouldn't affect the vast majority of users. While both are desirable things to get fixed, they would certianly not top my priority list, were I on this project.
Some pages do not display correctly (they're 10 times too wide with many blank spaces for example), even when faking the user agent to that of moz or netscape (with which the page works) (but this is very rare, most pages display correctly).
This sounds like a higher priority issue, although still, you seem to indicate it is very rare.
I use Konqueror as my primary browser. I'm not trying to use this message to convert others to Konqueror. But I haven't heard you say anything yet that should dissuade most users from using Konqueror. Certianly, if the above problems affect you personally and the pages you frequent -- then it is a very annoying problem for you. But consider how these particular issues affect everyone at large.
wonder whether someone who doesn't have the time/interest to contribute code to a project should be managing the project
I would agree if you had said ability to contribute code. Someone who has the ability to code would make a better leader than someone who can't code. But this is not the same thing as the leader not having the time to code. Interest is yet another thing. I think if the leader is not interested in the code, then they shouldn't be the leader.
The best project managers I've ever worked for understood code. They just didn't write code themselves anymore. In fact, their coding skills may even be sub-par. But they do understand it. They can usually understand logic and reason and why something can or cannot be made to work a certian way. One of my favorite examples from eleven years ago: Our great project manager understands and agrees with engineers. And he takes up the cause. The marketing and "artists" want to design the user interface. We ask, what does this control do? They answer. But that's not what you said it does ten minutes ago. Well, this control just has whichever of these two functions the user wants it to have at the moment. i.e. the software should implement telepathy. This whole episode makes me think of so much consumer electronics which look great on the shelf. Beautifully designed front panels, etc. But absolutely NO thought given to HOW this damned thing is supposed to be operated by a user. Its primary design goal is to look good on a shelf.
My point being, the project manager doesn't need to code. They should be interested in the project. And they should understand code -- perhaps even have been a coder themselves at one time. It may help if they are somewhat older and more mature than the young dudes writing the code. They can guide the evolution, and a really great leader, inspires everyone, and they all buy into it.
I feel for the engineers at Microsoft. This ludicrious anti open source campaign is completely ficticious and doesn't represent anyones real opinion within Microsoft.
I disagree. I think the anti open source campaign does represent real opinion within Microsoft.
Not everyone's opinion. As you point out. But it does represent the opinion of people in the organization who have enough control to cause this to be the official party line within the corporation and who make very public statements, such as top MS people are making.
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links..... You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links.
I can just hear the end user complaints now. "How come sometimes links look like this, and sometimes they look like that? Shouldn't links always look the same?"
I am running SuSE 6.4, shipped in April 2000. Over a year old. I tend to install every update I can get my hands on. But I'm running the Netatalk that SuSE provides.
I'm looking forward to updating to SuSE 7.1 soon. Maybe this will improve the Netatalk.
It is really easy to take a look at a finished product and declare how anyone could have thought of it.
Yes it is.
But this really is an obvious idea. A friend and I sere speculating about this back in the 1990-91 timeframe.
There is no innovation that should be patentable by marying existing parts in a fairly obvious way. This really is a case of TiVo just getting it together first, lining up capital, marketing, etc. Just because they implemented it first, should not qualify for a patent.
It's called Program Linking. And I had forgotten all about it. You're right. You could execute a remote script, if Program Linking were turned on. Not just in AppleScript either, but in any language for which you have a suitable scripting agent installed.
Still, this is not exactly like having a shell. But you could, theoreticaly, send suitable AppleEvent's to the Finder to manipulate files, launch programs, etc. Of course, I suspect the knowledge to do this is not common to most crackers who seem to confine themselves to Unix & Windows.
I don't do the remote-mount thing very often. So I don't tend to worry about it. I tend to change my password later that evening when I get home. (Paranoid.)
I use SuSE 6.4, and use the Netatalk that came with it. It's super easy to set up. (Unlike some of the setup nightmares I've read on usenet of people trying to set up Netatalk on other distributions.)
Sounds like you need to go to a MacOS only solution
That depends on the problem definition.
In this case, the problem is:
I've got a Linux box at home. I want to access files on it from work. AFP over TCP is great -- except for the plaintext password.
In this case, a Mac OS only solution, wouldn't be a solution at all. I also have some Macs at home and access two of them over the Internet in the same way. (Some of them are really old.) But only in the case of the Linux running Netatalk is there a security issue.
I wouldn't dare do this with samba to allow my Windows box at work to access my home directory at home over the Internet. I think there's just not enough people who know to grab passwords out of the AFP over TCP protocol.
MacOSX ships with almost all of its services turned off, as did Mac OS 9 and its predecessors
Mac OS 9 and predecessors, don't ship with very many services. AFP, Personal Web Sharing.
Just a very few years ago, this list was only AFP. Apple's AFP at least doesn't send passwords in the clear. (Unless client is a Mac, and server is a Linux box. See my other posting in this story titled AppleTalk exploits.)
As for security, AFAIK, there have never been any exploits. Very few things on Mac work in such a way that there could even be such a thing as a format string attack. You probably wouldn't find a lot of buffer overflows. Originally, MacOS was all done in Pascal, with a length byte for all strings instead of the zero-terminated C strings.
Even if you found a buffer overflow... What could an exploit do? There is no command shell. No pipes. No command line. No handy large library of pre-installed stuff like telnet, ftp, tftp, bash, netcat, etc.
This is probably why Mac OS has always been the most secure. There is nothing there to exploit. Even if you run a MacOS hosted web server, there just isn't anything there to exploit.
Apple does not recommend the use of Voiceprint unless the user has a high quality microphone -and- has the audio inputs set to 16 bit / 48 kHz. It's too easy to defeat otherwise
Bummer. I guess this means I would need to use at least this high quality of a tape playback to defeat it.
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Allow Gates to hold controlling intrest in no more than one of these companies for a period of 2 years. That oughta do it. Did I leave anything out?
Yeah.
Ballmer, Alchin, Mundie, and no doubt others are every bit as evil, and exert even more control over Microsoft's illegal activities.
The problem is, if Bill can only hold one of the baby-Microsofts, then the others might behave legally and play nice.
But if you put one each of the above named evil directors in control of each baby-Microsoft, then competition will be ensured. Each MS will then compete with the others to see who can top the other's acts of evil, spite, greed, control, extortion, control, etc. Additionally, we as consumers would enjoy the advantages of the baby Microsofts being able to act in concert with each other because of the old-boy network of the guys in charge of each piece.
A delay would have put this trial off by what, a couple of weeks?
Maybe longer. But the important point is that they are trying to put it off in order to prevent justice. If they can get XP into the market place before a new remedy is pronounced, it gives them a big advantage.
This will be a 3-year long trial, while Microsoft calls in experts
This is what Microsoft wants, not what is good. It is good that the court isn't going to let MS stall this out forever.
Microsoft...., trying to protect the money that they fought so hard to earn
trying to protect the money they fought so hard to extort from us. Everyone is so happy to pay higher prices for lower quality.
We're never going to see a just resolution to this
Sure we could. Nuke the MS campus.
so what does it matter if they aren't delayed a few weeks?
Because MS might be able to rush XP out the door to further remove competition and prevent innovation.
--
Our father who art in Redmond,
Microsoft be thy name.
Thy monopoly come, thy chokehold be complete,
throughout the earth as it is in the US.
Give us this day, our daily license renewal.
And forgive us our bug reports,
as we forgive our system crashes.
And lead us not into competition,
but deliver us from innovation.
For thine is the control, and the power,
and the greed forever.
Amen.
When the vulnerability applies to Windows:
- publish the vulnerability along with at least one example exploit
- write a paper letter to the vendor telling them of the website which describes the vulnerability. (Include sufficient postage on letter)
When the vulnerability applies to Linux, you still have full disclosure.- Tell the developers
- They fix the bug
- Full source code for the fix is released into the public -- which constitutes full disclosure.
- Comments in the source explain the vulnerability
Seems simple enough.I learned in high school. Took a one semester course. Was typing like a pro in a month. The rest of the class was spent learning how to type specific kinds of documents.
Do this:
- Make a large chart of the keyboard, put it on the wall.
- Put tape over the labels of the keys on your keyboard.
- Write a program to drill yourself
- Practice for 30 minutes a day, for a month
The chart and tape is important because you must learn to not look at the keys. Look at something else, like a wall chart, and your mind has to think which finger to use.Day 1: Drill on only "A" and ";". Write a program to generate a sequence of "A" and ";" that you try to replicate -- at whatever speed you're comfortable. Use only your two pinkies. All fingers on the home row. Program says: aaa;;a;a;;;;aa;a;;;aaa;a;;a;;aa. DO NOT stop until 30 minutes have elapsed. You will now know "A" and ";" on your pinkies like a pro.
Day 2: Add the next fingers "S" and "L". Drill on all four. (Or only add "S", and tomorrow add "L".) Your program should generate a drill pattern like: aa;s;;slla;ls;als;alslsla;slsla;sl
Day 3: Add next fingers "D" and "K". 30 minutes.
Then add: "F", and "J".
Then add: "G" and "H".
Then work on the rows above and below home. Choose what letters to add each day as you see fit. Maybe you add "B" and "Y" on one day.
In a few weeks you really will type like a pro. Maybe even 40-50 words per minute.
I find that a lot of time is spent thinking, and designing. Not just typing.
One could also learn one of several programming languages designed by non-typists for non-typists. (i.e. C, Perl)
Google is chronically understaffed in the PHB department.
I'm 100% sure.
I memorized the entire text of Phillipians once. (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.)
It's only 4 chapters. Correct spelling is Philippians -- but hey, this is slashdot.
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Honestly, though, who needs a petabyte of space?
You, sir, have obviously not tried to install the latest betas of Windows XP.
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What the hell are we going to do if we throw away a computer every year instead of every three years?
I think we should focus on edible computers instead of disposable.
As technology matures in this area, we could have low-fat and low-carb varieties.
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Nobody called the program Kadobe!
How about this new name....
Kadobel
Then there's also: KOffUs, KQuackulator, KWite, etc.
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SuSE 7.2 comes on 7 CD's, and includes 1 DVD, which can be used instead of the CDs.
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First Konqui can't display several charsets on a page. So, for example the bottom of the page on www.debian.org (where you have the lists of available language for the page written in the native language.
IIRC Konqueror does not have separate options for http and https proxies
IMHO, these are both fairly obscure problems that wouldn't affect the vast majority of users. While both are desirable things to get fixed, they would certianly not top my priority list, were I on this project.
Some pages do not display correctly (they're 10 times too wide with many blank spaces for example), even when faking the user agent to that of moz or netscape (with which the page works) (but this is very rare, most pages display correctly).
This sounds like a higher priority issue, although still, you seem to indicate it is very rare.
I use Konqueror as my primary browser. I'm not trying to use this message to convert others to Konqueror. But I haven't heard you say anything yet that should dissuade most users from using Konqueror. Certianly, if the above problems affect you personally and the pages you frequent -- then it is a very annoying problem for you. But consider how these particular issues affect everyone at large.
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wonder whether someone who doesn't have the time/interest to contribute code to a project should be managing the project
I would agree if you had said ability to contribute code. Someone who has the ability to code would make a better leader than someone who can't code. But this is not the same thing as the leader not having the time to code. Interest is yet another thing. I think if the leader is not interested in the code, then they shouldn't be the leader.
The best project managers I've ever worked for understood code. They just didn't write code themselves anymore. In fact, their coding skills may even be sub-par. But they do understand it. They can usually understand logic and reason and why something can or cannot be made to work a certian way. One of my favorite examples from eleven years ago: Our great project manager understands and agrees with engineers. And he takes up the cause. The marketing and "artists" want to design the user interface. We ask, what does this control do? They answer. But that's not what you said it does ten minutes ago. Well, this control just has whichever of these two functions the user wants it to have at the moment. i.e. the software should implement telepathy. This whole episode makes me think of so much consumer electronics which look great on the shelf. Beautifully designed front panels, etc. But absolutely NO thought given to HOW this damned thing is supposed to be operated by a user. Its primary design goal is to look good on a shelf.
My point being, the project manager doesn't need to code. They should be interested in the project. And they should understand code -- perhaps even have been a coder themselves at one time. It may help if they are somewhat older and more mature than the young dudes writing the code. They can guide the evolution, and a really great leader, inspires everyone, and they all buy into it.
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I feel for the engineers at Microsoft. This ludicrious anti open source campaign is completely ficticious and doesn't represent anyones real opinion within Microsoft.
I disagree. I think the anti open source campaign does represent real opinion within Microsoft.
Not everyone's opinion. As you point out. But it does represent the opinion of people in the organization who have enough control to cause this to be the official party line within the corporation and who make very public statements, such as top MS people are making.
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Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. .... You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links.
I can just hear the end user complaints now. "How come sometimes links look like this, and sometimes they look like that? Shouldn't links always look the same?"
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Thanks for the info. I stand totally corrected.
I am running SuSE 6.4, shipped in April 2000. Over a year old. I tend to install every update I can get my hands on. But I'm running the Netatalk that SuSE provides.
I'm looking forward to updating to SuSE 7.1 soon. Maybe this will improve the Netatalk.
It is really easy to take a look at a finished product and declare how anyone could have thought of it.
Yes it is.
But this really is an obvious idea. A friend and I sere speculating about this back in the 1990-91 timeframe.
There is no innovation that should be patentable by marying existing parts in a fairly obvious way. This really is a case of TiVo just getting it together first, lining up capital, marketing, etc. Just because they implemented it first, should not qualify for a patent.
It's called Program Linking. And I had forgotten all about it. You're right. You could execute a remote script, if Program Linking were turned on. Not just in AppleScript either, but in any language for which you have a suitable scripting agent installed.
Still, this is not exactly like having a shell. But you could, theoreticaly, send suitable AppleEvent's to the Finder to manipulate files, launch programs, etc. Of course, I suspect the knowledge to do this is not common to most crackers who seem to confine themselves to Unix & Windows.
Hey thanks for the info!
I'll look into it.
I don't do the remote-mount thing very often. So I don't tend to worry about it. I tend to change my password later that evening when I get home. (Paranoid.)
I use SuSE 6.4, and use the Netatalk that came with it. It's super easy to set up. (Unlike some of the setup nightmares I've read on usenet of people trying to set up Netatalk on other distributions.)
Sounds like you need to go to a MacOS only solution
That depends on the problem definition.
In this case, the problem is:
I've got a Linux box at home. I want to access files on it from work. AFP over TCP is great -- except for the plaintext password.
In this case, a Mac OS only solution, wouldn't be a solution at all. I also have some Macs at home and access two of them over the Internet in the same way. (Some of them are really old.) But only in the case of the Linux running Netatalk is there a security issue.
I wouldn't dare do this with samba to allow my Windows box at work to access my home directory at home over the Internet. I think there's just not enough people who know to grab passwords out of the AFP over TCP protocol.
Doesn't Ext2 use what basically amount to a text file to hold the contents of a directory?
Just try having 100,000 files in a directory under Ext2 vs. RiserFS.
MacOSX ships with almost all of its services turned off, as did Mac OS 9 and its predecessors
Mac OS 9 and predecessors, don't ship with very many services. AFP, Personal Web Sharing.
Just a very few years ago, this list was only AFP. Apple's AFP at least doesn't send passwords in the clear. (Unless client is a Mac, and server is a Linux box. See my other posting in this story titled AppleTalk exploits.)
As for security, AFAIK, there have never been any exploits. Very few things on Mac work in such a way that there could even be such a thing as a format string attack. You probably wouldn't find a lot of buffer overflows. Originally, MacOS was all done in Pascal, with a length byte for all strings instead of the zero-terminated C strings.
Even if you found a buffer overflow... What could an exploit do? There is no command shell. No pipes. No command line. No handy large library of pre-installed stuff like telnet, ftp, tftp, bash, netcat, etc.
This is probably why Mac OS has always been the most secure. There is nothing there to exploit. Even if you run a MacOS hosted web server, there just isn't anything there to exploit.
Apple does not recommend the use of Voiceprint unless the user has a high quality microphone -and- has the audio inputs set to 16 bit / 48 kHz. It's too easy to defeat otherwise
Bummer. I guess this means I would need to use at least this high quality of a tape playback to defeat it.