Just last week a couple of friends (non technical people) mentioned to me that they'd switched to OO after powerpoint let them down badly - apparently Powerpoint runs presentations at different speeds on different machines and requires the same fonts installed so when they took their expensively produced presentation and decided to use it for an important meeting on a different machine it looked like complete crap and ran at 10* normal speed (it was synchronised with a soundtrack so needed to be *exactly* the same speed).
Importing to OO fixed it, but messed up the colours slightly. It was still usable though.
I heard about it when they started cursing Microsoft... These aren't the people I would normally have expected to know what OO was and definately not the standard slashdot types.. but they all (well, a group of 5 of them) switched to it because Office let them down at a crucial moment.
Of course this is a place where backward compatibility doesn't really matter - documents are produced for the moment, so ODF is fine.
The GPL already has an IP right - if you license something under patent, GPL it then distribute it it's illegal for anyone else to take that code and use it.. because the GPL has a specific exception for that.
Interpreted code is only a tool. You have to avoid machine specific dependencies - I've seen huge Java projects that required Windows boxes (and IE6) to run for example (and of course Java changes with each release so JDK 1.3 code often won't run on JDK 1.4 for example).
OTOH I have a C++ app that compiles unchanged to 9 different architectures. It's all down to the design and how you handle the OS specific stuff. With good design you can avoid the cross platform issues.
IMO it's not about cross platform (although there's always the issue of availability -.NET is basically Windows only and even Java is not available for most of the platforms that I port too) it's about speed of development vs. speed of execution.
Of course only the one added by your server is trustable - the others can be anything the spammer wants them to be - including perfectly legitimate IP addresses.
We're arguing over whether Pluto is a planet or not.
That's the problem with that kind of fixed thinking - why can't we just say agree that nobody really knows and get on with actually learning stuff that's actually useful.
Does Windows switch its firewall on at boot yet? Or does it wait until the system is up. We year or so back had a server pwned because of that little bug..
Even on the MS support boards the common response to authentication questions is 'switch it off'.
I keep it on because I need to test my software with it on (works, except the control panel - you can't run control panels with administrator privileges any more... that's gonna break a *lot* of stuff).
3d browsing will probably never happen because there's no need for it. We get all our information 2d.. 2d newspapers, 2d books.. why bother with 3d?
*All* the efforts I've seen to create it have sucked - from VRML to 'Second Life' - suck donkey because they miss the point - and that's to get information as fast as possible. It aint going to get any faster than typing search terms into google (in fact with all of these environments it's nearly impossible to find what you need).
The problem with Second Life is it aint gonna work with current hardware - anything less than a dual core 64bit and you might as well not bother because your framerate will suck.
I suspect it's just poor implementation - the 3d in something like WoW or FFXI is *far* more immersive than second life because it renders at full frame rate and has lots of detail (and there's more to do - nothing much to do in second life but walk/fly around and chat to people). The engine looks like something done 5-6 years ago, yet still runs like a dog.
I heard about it after someone I know said it was the wave of the future... got there and it's just a place for 14 year olds to hang out and chat about their boyfriends. They can do that in 1st life too.. and myspace does it far better on the web.
Firefox only ever worked on NT4 if you installed IE5/6 first... which is quite ironic really (the installer is linked with an IE DLL that ships with 2000 but not NT4)..
It's a pity since the bare NT4 ships with IE2 (possibly IE3) and nothing works with it - not even the microsoft website.. having FF available would save scrabbling around trying to find a copy of IE6 on chinese FTP sites..
So Microsoft want to make printer manufacturers use their own proprietary protocol rather than Postscript which has been doing this job rather well for the last 20 years?
You also don't seem to know how print spoolers work. They do *not* work for the lowest common denominator, they are pretty much device independent until they hit the driver itself... even Windows uses a display language to describe the page rather than Bitmaps (Unix of course use postscript throughout, so if you print a postscript document on a decent printer no driver is ever involved).
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Hey if someone wants to give me 100 million dollars for a bit of source code then they can distribute it all they want.
This is of course the point, making the article moot.
It's not necessary for every GPL program that ever uses any other GPL program to provide the entire source, or else it would get ridiculous.
All you have to do is offer the source code to comply with the GPL. Charge for the DVD or bandwidth (DVD is too much hassle).
I suspect it barely had any effect.. how many people saw the ad vs. people who downloaded it.. probably about 0.0001%
OO are trying to get their ad in one of those free papers that just litter the streets not some major journal.. so in their case make it 0.000000001%
Waste of money - they'd be better off using the money to pay a decent programmer for a few months.
Just last week a couple of friends (non technical people) mentioned to me that they'd switched to OO after powerpoint let them down badly - apparently Powerpoint runs presentations at different speeds on different machines and requires the same fonts installed so when they took their expensively produced presentation and decided to use it for an important meeting on a different machine it looked like complete crap and ran at 10* normal speed (it was synchronised with a soundtrack so needed to be *exactly* the same speed).
Importing to OO fixed it, but messed up the colours slightly. It was still usable though.
I heard about it when they started cursing Microsoft... These aren't the people I would normally have expected to know what OO was and definately not the standard slashdot types.. but they all (well, a group of 5 of them) switched to it because Office let them down at a crucial moment.
Of course this is a place where backward compatibility doesn't really matter - documents are produced for the moment, so ODF is fine.
Oh yeah, found it...
"The unauthorized disclosure or interception of e-mail is a federal crime. See 18 U.S.C
SEC.251 7(4)."
Someone's toast.
Oh it gets better... there's a couple of legal stuff in there...
Just reading one. It contains internal government emails, private correspondence between a client and their attourney.
The start cracks me up though "you need to start reading from the bottom and read up" - Outlook users, lol.
The GPL already has an IP right - if you license something under patent, GPL it then distribute it it's illegal for anyone else to take that code and use it.. because the GPL has a specific exception for that.
Interpreted code is only a tool. You have to avoid machine specific dependencies - I've seen huge Java projects that required Windows boxes (and IE6) to run for example (and of course Java changes with each release so JDK 1.3 code often won't run on JDK 1.4 for example).
.NET is basically Windows only and even Java is not available for most of the platforms that I port too) it's about speed of development vs. speed of execution.
OTOH I have a C++ app that compiles unchanged to 9 different architectures. It's all down to the design and how you handle the OS specific stuff. With good design you can avoid the cross platform issues.
IMO it's not about cross platform (although there's always the issue of availability -
They're probably trusting the received lines...
Of course only the one added by your server is trustable - the others can be anything the spammer wants them to be - including perfectly legitimate IP addresses.
But we're not striving to make things better.
We're arguing over whether Pluto is a planet or not.
That's the problem with that kind of fixed thinking - why can't we just say agree that nobody really knows and get on with actually learning stuff that's actually useful.
Why would a 60year old even have a network let alone be mapping drives on it?
Hmm.. KDE - fine in 64mb.. works (slowly!) in 32mb.
Vista - *minimum* install 512mb. Won't install in less than that.
Does Windows switch its firewall on at boot yet? Or does it wait until the system is up. We year or so back had a server pwned because of that little bug..
Even on the MS support boards the common response to authentication questions is 'switch it off'.
I keep it on because I need to test my software with it on (works, except the control panel - you can't run control panels with administrator privileges any more... that's gonna break a *lot* of stuff).
3d browsing will probably never happen because there's no need for it. We get all our information 2d.. 2d newspapers, 2d books.. why bother with 3d?
*All* the efforts I've seen to create it have sucked - from VRML to 'Second Life' - suck donkey because they miss the point - and that's to get information as fast as possible. It aint going to get any faster than typing search terms into google (in fact with all of these environments it's nearly impossible to find what you need).
The problem with Second Life is it aint gonna work with current hardware - anything less than a dual core 64bit and you might as well not bother because your framerate will suck.
I suspect it's just poor implementation - the 3d in something like WoW or FFXI is *far* more immersive than second life because it renders at full frame rate and has lots of detail (and there's more to do - nothing much to do in second life but walk/fly around and chat to people). The engine looks like something done 5-6 years ago, yet still runs like a dog.
I heard about it after someone I know said it was the wave of the future... got there and it's just a place for 14 year olds to hang out and chat about their boyfriends. They can do that in 1st life too.. and myspace does it far better on the web.
Firefox only ever worked on NT4 if you installed IE5/6 first... which is quite ironic really (the installer is linked with an IE DLL that ships with 2000 but not NT4)..
It's a pity since the bare NT4 ships with IE2 (possibly IE3) and nothing works with it - not even the microsoft website.. having FF available would save scrabbling around trying to find a copy of IE6 on chinese FTP sites..
So Microsoft want to make printer manufacturers use their own proprietary protocol rather than Postscript which has been doing this job rather well for the last 20 years?
You also don't seem to know how print spoolers work. They do *not* work for the lowest common denominator, they are pretty much device independent until they hit the driver itself... even Windows uses a display language to describe the page rather than Bitmaps (Unix of course use postscript throughout, so if you print a postscript document on a decent printer no driver is ever involved).
Maybe it's random... none of the machines here have it (luckily).
80. Wanna block that outgoing?
.net stuff is a pain as you need an L3 firewall to distinguish the packets.
/a /s wgatray.exe
Blocking
OTOH you might not have it. It looks like you have to do something 'special' to get it (beyond visiting windows update anyway):
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 98F0-5B53
File Not Found
It's still the DOS command line even if it's running in a different environment.
Nothing by that name here... Are you sure that's MS related and not spyware?
Actually lots of people do it - A/V disribution over cat5 is a huge business.
Hybrid drives have a petrol engine that starts up whenever you need to actually use them, and draw power the rest of the time. :)
You can add iran to that - try a google for 'iran oil dollars'.