This would also have some interesting implications not only with Microsoft, but say, Apple, in that both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP performance in order to keep pace with Linux
I don't quite get this argument that if Linux improves its TCP/IP stack, the Microsofts and Apples of the world will begin shaking, suddenly stop what they are doing to completely rewrite a critical piece of their respective OSs that have been through years of debugging. I mean, Oracle makes a hell of a better database with many more features, but did that stop them from releasing Sql 7.0; this software is basically a buggy piece of shit and after one service pack there is still this fucking lame trusted connection bug that affects every single one of our users every single day AND THEY STILL don't have a fix for it yet!!! So I guess you will be waiting a LONG time for your newly rewritten TCP/IP stack. And it's probably just as well, anyway. That's what makes Linux so alluring, so attractive. Bugs get stomped out right away, and the ones that don't at least you can fix yourself!
Hopefully they concentrate on fixing existing features rather than adding new ones. It seems that in the race to keep up with the latest and greatest, nothing quite works right. In fact, I shouldn't just apply this to gnome, but most all software in general. "Feature Creep" is getting out of hand. We need to get back to basics and make sure all the code works properly and is 100% bug free (like TeX).
I'm already starting to this on the news on tv. I've seen a bunch of anti-ecommerce news recently: that this Christmas season, etailers had bunchs of problems delivering product and that customers were less than happy with their online experiences. Also, I saw one tonight attacking ebay for allowing too much fake stuff available. It is amazing. There are lawyers representing large corps with call centers full of people going to ebay and searching for fake stuff and going after the sellers (looks like they'd really like to go after ebay too!). But anyway, it does look the the hype is FINALLY dying down. Thank God. Now we may resume the Information Age!!
I feel that this is just a marketing ploy to try and ride the Linux popularity wave while Apple can, since open-source or closed-source, Apple couldn't right a decent OS if it tried. I have to pretty much disagree with you here. If they wanted to ride the "Linux" wave, wouldn't they just drop "OS X" and go with Linux? It seems that they still believe they want to be "on their own" so to speak. Maybe they can still jump on the linux bandwagon by slowly transitioning all their "OS X" code into Linux. I'm still waiting for the first big company to release their very own linux distro. I've been thinking it would be IBM or SUN, but who knows, maybe Apple will beat them to it! I just hope it's not Microsoft Linux. Can you imagine Microsoft Linux with a new custom enhanced API?!?
Does linux have a MFC compatible interface? Does it support COM objects? When will I be able to port my 'hello world' over to linux? When is Microsoft's linux distro coming out? Will they throw in MS Office free like Corel does with Wordperfect? When will I finally be able to give them marketing scum their powerpoint presentations on linux? When will linux 2000 be out? When will Microsoft open-source windows? What is open source? Why is it no women ever log onto slashdot? What the hell is up with Natalie Portmen anyway? She's not that cute.
Does anybody know if 2.3.x (2.4) will support the Adaptec Raid adapters, specifically the AAA-13x series? I really want a linux driver badly for this card. I got it before I even found out Linux existed. Adaptec's driver support really sucks, so don't imagine I'll ever be seeing them release the driver. Hell, they don't even have a win2000 driver for it. Thanks for you help in advance!
I believe this manifesto to be about as bad and worthless as those randomly generated paragraphs that keep popping up on slashdot from time to time. I've read Joyce and he makes more sense to me.. This is all just college 201 creative writing drivel.
Well, this is too cool. I hope mozilla supports the standard right out of the box. That way I can start designing my web pages with it! On a related note, when the hell will gifs finally die! I'm amazed at how long it is taking for pngs to catch on. If this is any indication, I wouldn't expect to be able to include jpg2000 images on my web site for several years.
Why is this still needed? Haven't we verified that these encryptions can be broken through brute-force already? To continue doing it would seem to be wasteful exercise of cpu power, kinda like Sisypus pushing that stone up the hill, only to have it fall back down. Don't mean to upset any body, just wondering why?
Windows 2000 is second to last, just barely beating out BeOS with a paltry record of 49 days.
Let's at least be fair here. Windows 2000 has not even been released yet. 49 days ago they were at beta 2 or something like that. Let's at least wait until it's released before we start bitching about how much it sucks. I mean, we don't want to sink to their level and start spreading FUD now do we??
Who woulda thunk it a couple of years ago that a die-hard Linux fan who does a lot of Java and database work would today be saying, "At least there's IBM to look to for real support of Java on Linux without trying to screw us over."
If you actually believe that IBM cares one lick about anything but profits and keeping shareholders happy; if you actually think they wouldn't sell you, me and every other linux nut out for an extra dollar's profit at day's end; if you actually think IBM wouldn't put a hit on Bill Gates if they thought they could get back what Microsoft stole from them; if you do believe any of that, then you are believing exactly what their PR/Marketing dept wants you to believe.
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I'm using Netscape Enterprise right now. I tried an earlier version of apache JServ but didn't have much luck. Does your servlets really run as well on JServ compared to Netscape. NES is supposed to have the best/fastest implementation of servlets out there, but it is a really buggy program with a lousy interface and sometimes I swear worst configuration tool and help I've ever seen. I would LOVE to go to apache, but I'm just waiting to make sure that they've "done it right" with Servlets. Please report what you think of their implementation compared to NES. Thanks!
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I don't care how portable your ANSI C code is, but that is almost unheard of.
Yeah, and with your ansi C your networking code, database code, threading code, and basically everything else worth mentioning will be left far far behind. I suppose if you were just using your computer as a big calculator that ansi c code might be ok.
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I'll tell you, those Servlets are fantastic. I've changed OSs and Web Servers and my code just doesn't break (expect for one annoying problem, which of course turned out to be my own coding problem!)
Java ain't proprietary; it's just still too rapidly evolving to be handed to "api by committee". We should be thanking sun, not condemning them. Once it is mature (as in Unix mature) then let the "api by committee" lord it over the place.
Did anybody notice this in the email: "Quake is indexed in Germany, not banned. This means it's only allowed to sell it to adults and advertising is prohibited."... So maybe it isn't a problem to have quake in the archive after all...
#1 Why the heck would quake be banned in Germany? Is quake really just mental "fertilizer" for terrorists? #2 What does being indexed mean? #3 Man, could you imagine the U.S. government trying to get away with this? There would be a public outcry for sure. #4 Also, why the hell would that stop them from putting quake in potato anyway? You can't please every country out there, and I'm sure there's no way to comply with the laws of all of them. Is the market for debian really that big in Germany? Don't they have their own distro anyway, that SUSE distro??
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I've got to agree this this comment 100%. Let the UN control the name services, not just the US government. We need a relatively non-biased controller that won't quake just because some mega-corporation is just whining. Processes should exist for handling these types for problems, because I imagine upon occasion a site will need to be removed. But the process to remove it should be slow and carefully reviewed, with rights of appeal.
What makes GNOME more innovative than say, KDE? I'm sorry, I don't mean to present any bias. I'm just wondering. I've only used KDE and am very happy with it. Or is the "Innovator" part of the award just revolved around the fact it is an open-source project being managed across the internet? If that's the case, then I would guess it was just the luck of the draw who got the award considering how many great open-source projects are out there.
Yeah, but it doesn't really count cause I never got them. I have since cancelled the orders and believe me they are on my permanent shit list (along with buy.com).
In this day and age, nothing suprises me. I think this sets a precedent we should uphold though. I ordered toys for my children through Toys'RUs and EToys and neither of my orders made it in time for Christmas. Therefore, I believe we should stone the CEOS to death, or barring that, stone (ie, DoS attack) their websites to death. Everybody get your Mac OS 9 systems ready!
The purpose of this scheme, which I call a "Mac DoS Attack," is to generate a large amount of ICMP Internet traffic going to a specific target. This scheme can be replicated to attack many different targets, with little chance that the perpetrators will be caught. Phase I - Scanning The attackers run computer programs that sends UDP packets to every Internet address in the address ranges assigned to CATV cable modem and ADSL modem providers. Addresses that have Macintosh computers attached and operating will respond with a 1500-byte ICMP packet. These addresses are kept in a list for Phase 2. I will refer to the Macintosh computers at these addresses as "slaves."Phase 2 - Attack A computer at a location like a University is "root compromised." This means the aggressor group has used one of the many well-known techniques to gain the administrator password so they can load their own programs, which may be scheduled to run at a later time (like Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve). The compromised computer is given a list of addresses for 40 slaves, and the address of a specific target. The log files are erased so that no one will later be able to tell who installed the attack program. When the attack program starts running, it sends trigger packets in rotation to the forty or more slaves on its list. The source (return) Internet address is forged to be that of the target. The slaves then send a 1500 byte ICMP packet to the target each time they receive a 40-byte trigger packet. If the attack computer sends 4000 40-byte trigger packets per second (bit rate less than 1.3 Mbps), the slave will send 4000 1500-byte packets to the target (bit rate 48 Mbps). |-------------> Slave ------------>| Control |-------------> Slave ------------>| Computer ------->|-------------> Slave ------------>|-------> Target |-------------> Slave ------------>| | * * * | 4000 1500-byte 4000 40-B pkt/s 100 40-B pkt/s 100 1500-B pkt/s ICMP pkts/s to each slave from each slave = 48 Mbps This figure shows the process of "byte amplification." The target organization (or organizations) is cut off from the Internet because it's connection, a 1.5 Mbps (million bit per second) T-1 or a 45 Mbps DS-3 digital line is swamped with ICMP packets from forty different sources. Note that 30 different T-1 connections could be swamped by varying the return addresses in the trigger packets).
Had to search the web site a little to find this, so I thought I'd post it to make people's lives easier. The problem I see with the theory above is that: what ADSL/Cable connection could support 48 Mbps of data from the Macs? I think there would have to be an AWFUL LOT of Mac slaves to actually swamp a DS-3 connection. In fact, I bet it isn't even possible.
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Oh, this is too cool. I am ordering one right away! I hope it comes with good sound though. Hopefully tiny little Bose cube speakers would be ideal :)
This would also have some interesting implications not only with Microsoft, but say, Apple, in that both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP performance in order to keep pace with Linux
I don't quite get this argument that if Linux improves its TCP/IP stack, the Microsofts and Apples of the world will begin shaking, suddenly stop what they are doing to completely rewrite a critical piece of their respective OSs that have been through years of debugging. I mean, Oracle makes a hell of a better database with many more features, but did that stop them from releasing Sql 7.0; this software is basically a buggy piece of shit and after one service pack there is still this fucking lame trusted connection bug that affects every single one of our users every single day AND THEY STILL don't have a fix for it yet!!! So I guess you will be waiting a LONG time for your newly rewritten TCP/IP stack. And it's probably just as well, anyway. That's what makes Linux so alluring, so attractive. Bugs get stomped out right away, and the ones that don't at least you can fix yourself!
Hopefully they concentrate on fixing existing features rather than adding new ones. It seems that in the race to keep up with the latest and greatest, nothing quite works right. In fact, I shouldn't just apply this to gnome, but most all software in general. "Feature Creep" is getting out of hand. We need to get back to basics and make sure all the code works properly and is 100% bug free (like TeX).
2. The E-Commerce Backlash
I'm already starting to this on the news on tv. I've seen a bunch of anti-ecommerce news recently: that this Christmas season, etailers had bunchs of problems delivering product and that customers were less than happy with their online experiences. Also, I saw one tonight attacking ebay for allowing too much fake stuff available. It is amazing. There are lawyers representing large corps with call centers full of people going to ebay and searching for fake stuff and going after the sellers (looks like they'd really like to go after ebay too!). But anyway, it does look the the hype is FINALLY dying down. Thank God. Now we may resume the Information Age!!
I feel that this is just a marketing ploy to try and ride the Linux popularity wave while Apple can, since open-source or closed-source, Apple couldn't right a decent OS if it tried.
I have to pretty much disagree with you here. If they wanted to ride the "Linux" wave, wouldn't they just drop "OS X" and go with Linux? It seems that they still believe they want to be "on their own" so to speak. Maybe they can still jump on the linux bandwagon by slowly transitioning all their "OS X" code into Linux. I'm still waiting for the first big company to release their very own linux distro. I've been thinking it would be IBM or SUN, but who knows, maybe Apple will beat them to it! I just hope it's not Microsoft Linux. Can you imagine Microsoft Linux with a new custom enhanced API?!?
Does linux have a MFC compatible interface? Does it support COM objects? When will I be able to port my 'hello world' over to linux? When is Microsoft's linux distro coming out? Will they throw in MS Office free like Corel does with Wordperfect? When will I finally be able to give them marketing scum their powerpoint presentations on linux? When will linux 2000 be out? When will Microsoft open-source windows? What is open source? Why is it no women ever log onto slashdot? What the hell is up with Natalie Portmen anyway? She's not that cute.
Does anybody know if 2.3.x (2.4) will support the Adaptec Raid adapters, specifically the AAA-13x series? I really want a linux driver badly for this card. I got it before I even found out Linux existed. Adaptec's driver support really sucks, so don't imagine I'll ever be seeing them release the driver. Hell, they don't even have a win2000 driver for it. Thanks for you help in advance!
I believe this manifesto to be about as bad and worthless as those randomly generated paragraphs that keep popping up on slashdot from time to time. I've read Joyce and he makes more sense to me.. This is all just college 201 creative writing drivel.
Well, this is too cool. I hope mozilla supports the standard right out of the box. That way I can start designing my web pages with it! On a related note, when the hell will gifs finally die! I'm amazed at how long it is taking for pngs to catch on. If this is any indication, I wouldn't expect to be able to include jpg2000 images on my web site for several years.
It would be cool if it was possible to run a web site from a lego brick :)
Thanks for this clarification. Now I understand that this is only the beginning of a very ambitious project. Good luck guys!
Why is this still needed? Haven't we verified that these encryptions can be broken through brute-force already? To continue doing it would seem to be wasteful exercise of cpu power, kinda like Sisypus pushing that stone up the hill, only to have it fall back down. Don't mean to upset any body, just wondering why?
Windows 2000 is second to last, just barely beating out BeOS with a paltry record of 49 days.
Let's at least be fair here. Windows 2000 has not even been released yet. 49 days ago they were at beta 2 or something like that. Let's at least wait until it's released before we start bitching about how much it sucks. I mean, we don't want to sink to their level and start spreading FUD now do we??
Who woulda thunk it a couple of years ago that a die-hard Linux fan who does a lot of Java and database work would today be saying, "At least there's IBM to look to for real support of Java on Linux without trying to screw us over."
If you actually believe that IBM cares one lick about anything but profits and keeping shareholders happy; if you actually think they wouldn't sell you, me and every other linux nut out for an extra dollar's profit at day's end; if you actually think IBM wouldn't put a hit on Bill Gates if they thought they could get back what Microsoft stole from them; if you do believe any of that, then you are believing exactly what their PR/Marketing dept wants you to believe.
I'm using Netscape Enterprise right now. I tried an earlier version of apache JServ but didn't have much luck. Does your servlets really run as well on JServ compared to Netscape. NES is supposed to have the best/fastest implementation of servlets out there, but it is a really buggy program with a lousy interface and sometimes I swear worst configuration tool and help I've ever seen. I would LOVE to go to apache, but I'm just waiting to make sure that they've "done it right" with Servlets. Please report what you think of their implementation compared to NES. Thanks!
I don't care how portable your ANSI C code is, but that is almost unheard of.
Yeah, and with your ansi C your networking code, database code, threading code, and basically everything else worth mentioning will be left far far behind. I suppose if you were just using your computer as a big calculator that ansi c code might be ok.
I'll tell you, those Servlets are fantastic. I've changed OSs and Web Servers and my code just doesn't break (expect for one annoying problem, which of course turned out to be my own coding problem!)
Java ain't proprietary; it's just still too rapidly evolving to be handed to "api by committee". We should be thanking sun, not condemning them. Once it is mature (as in Unix mature) then let the "api by committee" lord it over the place.
Did anybody notice this in the email: "Quake is indexed in Germany, not banned. This means it's only allowed to sell it to adults and advertising is prohibited." ... So maybe it isn't a problem to have quake in the archive after all...
#1 Why the heck would quake be banned in Germany?
Is quake really just mental "fertilizer" for terrorists?
#2 What does being indexed mean?
#3 Man, could you imagine the U.S. government trying to get away with this? There would be a public outcry for sure.
#4 Also, why the hell would that stop them from putting quake in potato anyway? You can't please every country out there, and I'm sure there's no way to comply with the laws of all of them. Is the market for debian really that big in Germany? Don't they have their own distro anyway, that SUSE distro??
I've got to agree this this comment 100%. Let the UN control the name services, not just the US government. We need a relatively non-biased controller that won't quake just because some mega-corporation is just whining. Processes should exist for handling these types for problems, because I imagine upon occasion a site will need to be removed. But the process to remove it should be slow and carefully reviewed, with rights of appeal.
What makes GNOME more innovative than say, KDE? I'm sorry, I don't mean to present any bias. I'm just wondering. I've only used KDE and am very happy with it. Or is the "Innovator" part of the award just revolved around the fact it is an open-source project being managed across the internet? If that's the case, then I would guess it was just the luck of the draw who got the award considering how many great open-source projects are out there.
Yeah, but it doesn't really count cause I never got them. I have since cancelled the orders and believe me they are on my permanent shit list (along with buy.com).
In this day and age, nothing suprises me. I think this sets a precedent we should uphold though. I ordered toys for my children through Toys'RUs and EToys and neither of my orders made it in time for Christmas. Therefore, I believe we should stone the CEOS to death, or barring that, stone (ie, DoS attack) their websites to death. Everybody get your Mac OS 9 systems ready!
While we're all flashing back, here's another great flashback to what www.microsoft.com looked like back in 1993. Enjoy! www.microsofttimecapsule.com
The purpose of this scheme, which I call a "Mac DoS Attack," is to generate a large amount of ICMP Internet traffic going to a specific target. This scheme can be replicated to attack many different targets, with little chance that the perpetrators will be caught. Phase I - Scanning The attackers run computer programs that sends UDP packets to every Internet address in the address ranges assigned to CATV cable modem and ADSL modem providers. Addresses that have Macintosh computers attached and operating will respond with a 1500-byte ICMP packet. These addresses are kept in a list for Phase 2. I will refer to the Macintosh computers at these addresses as "slaves."Phase 2 - Attack A computer at a location like a University is "root compromised." This means the aggressor group has used one of the many well-known techniques to gain the administrator password so they can load their own programs, which may be scheduled to run at a later time (like Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve). The compromised computer is given a list of addresses for 40 slaves, and the address of a specific target. The log files are erased so that no one will later be able to tell who installed the attack program. When the attack program starts running, it sends trigger packets in rotation to the forty or more slaves on its list. The source (return) Internet address is forged to be that of the target. The slaves then send a 1500 byte ICMP packet to the target each time they receive a 40-byte trigger packet. If the attack computer sends 4000 40-byte trigger packets per second (bit rate less than 1.3 Mbps), the slave will send 4000 1500-byte packets to the target (bit rate 48 Mbps). |-------------> Slave ------------>| Control |-------------> Slave ------------>| Computer ------->|-------------> Slave ------------>|-------> Target |-------------> Slave ------------>| | * * * | 4000 1500-byte 4000 40-B pkt/s 100 40-B pkt/s 100 1500-B pkt/s ICMP pkts/s to each slave from each slave = 48 Mbps This figure shows the process of "byte amplification." The target organization (or organizations) is cut off from the Internet because it's connection, a 1.5 Mbps (million bit per second) T-1 or a 45 Mbps DS-3 digital line is swamped with ICMP packets from forty different sources. Note that 30 different T-1 connections could be swamped by varying the return addresses in the trigger packets).
Had to search the web site a little to find this, so I thought I'd post it to make people's lives easier. The problem I see with the theory above is that: what ADSL/Cable connection could support 48 Mbps of data from the Macs? I think there would have to be an AWFUL LOT of Mac slaves to actually swamp a DS-3 connection. In fact, I bet it isn't even possible.