I read with interest the amount of hype that came before this game (all the "suck it down" ads), along with juicy tales of internal squabbling and mass resignation of the dev team, and have to say that Daikatana came awfully close to being vaporware. Alas, it was not meant to be, and now future generations will be cursed with bootleg copies of this junk.
I don't know exactly how they are doing financially right now (although news coverage a while ago pegged them at the "Not Good" category), but SCO must *really* be in dire straits to make this type of hail-mary, last-ditched attempt at making a buck.
I guess this is the type of "if-we-are-going-down-we-will-take-with-us-as-many -as-we-can" behaviour that is at once laughable and despicable.
I just wish they had properly configured their server that's all. I ended up having to block all SMTP traffic coming in from the compromised host via the firewall. After that we were able to give our Exchange server a breather. But we got slammed, alright.
We certainly got hammered for a good part of today from a university down south who shall remain anonymous. Contacted their IT/infrastructure department and was told that one of their mail servers got used as a relay, and nobody found out about it until a few hours ago. If I were them I would have shut down their MTA and flushed the queue a long time ago, but that's just me...
I agree. Most users do not like to waste time on a piece of machinery when they know that they have legitimate work to do. Frankly, as you pointed out, most of them do not have what it takes to install, configure, and support it.
I am the network engineer for a manufacturing firm, and I can tell you that (not counting the guys in production lines) our office workers could probably handle cut-and-paste on a good day. So I get to teach them how to add a printer while doing other system and network admin stuff.
Something interesting: In a sidebar of this article it is mentioned that his annual income is three quarters of a million, while his net worth is a sliver over $52 billion.
As a matter of perspective, consider a man whose net worth is $50,000 gets paid a little over 70 cents per annum. That is the ratio of net worth vs. income for Uncle Bill.
I also posted a question for you all a few minutes ago regarding the "proof by counter-example" of the irrationality of pi, so hopefully someone who remembers how the counter-example goes can post it here.
My question is: How do we know that the value is accurate up to and including the 1.2 trillionth place that the professor claimed? Can someone comment on what the mathematical technique(s) would be used to verify the accuracy of this calculation?
I don't remember the exact details, but I think the proof by counter-example of a number's irrationality starts out assuming that a given number is in fact representable by an arbitrary a/b (a divided by b). (This, of course, is the very definition of rationality.) The proof then goes to demonstrate, through a series of algebraic manipulations, how it would then lead to a contradiction if the number in question were in fact a rational number.
Can someone back me up on this, and perhaps even provide the details?
I think in any sci-fi work, the author must lay out the construct of a framework (be it the Trade Federation or Star Fleet) before leading us into the meat of the story. For the narrative to be engaging, he (the author) has to touch on very quickly the essentials. While I don't think it's un-doable, it would be a challenge for him in the span of a short narrative.
It wouldn't be too long before...
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...all the grocery stands, supermarkets, and open-air markets would have to pay the Big A for using their name on all the produce tags.
There was a CNET.com article just a week or two ago saying that Longhorn project has been scrapped, in favor of the Blackcomb project (which is the successor to Longhorn). Currently Blackcomb is not slated to come out at least until after 2004-5.
So the features you see here may be rolled into Blackcomb eventually, or dropped altogether. But Longhorn, AFAIK, is dead.
They built in on top of FreeBSD, not NetBSD. Go to their website to verify the claim. Or did someone fall asleep at the News Verification Department yet AGAIN?!?!
1) At least from the way he is attempting to shutdown the rest of the system and leave the kernel running in memory, it sounds like he is switching from multiuser to single-user mode.
2) This is slightly different from using sysctl to set kern.securelevel in that, even at the highest level of 3, it doesn't dismount all the drives. With this approach, there simply isn't any drive because he'd already have dismounted/unmounted them all.
I'd be curious whether you can do exactly the same thing (again, not quite setting the sysctl variable) in *BSD.
I am a network engineer in a large manufacturing firm, and I can tell you that the cook is only as good as his ingredients - if the patches are, well, patchy, then the network and higher-end systems architecture will be insecure, no matter how many patches are installed. There is only so much that a network or systems guy can do before (or unless) he sees the actual code and can address the issue from there. Remember that not-so-famous patch that Microsoft put out last summer, only to release a patch for that patch? That was where the dam finally burst for me.
I just talked with an AT&T tech this morning via "Chat Room", and he said that it stands to reason that everything will be migrated over to the new domain name with no change. Thus far they are still allowing persistent hostnames to exist although they no longer take any more registration for it. The thinking is probably that the custom hostnames will gradually die off as attrition takes place.
I don't see any reference in the announcement that specifically and explicitly foretells the demise of POP3 account. Just because they introduce web-based email doesn't necessarily mean that they will get rid of POP3. Several years ago another ISP (I want to say Earthlink) had concurrent email access, through POP3 and the web. Maybe that's what they are doing now???
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I read with interest the amount of hype that came before this game (all the "suck it down" ads), along with juicy tales of internal squabbling and mass resignation of the dev team, and have to say that Daikatana came awfully close to being vaporware. Alas, it was not meant to be, and now future generations will be cursed with bootleg copies of this junk.
I don't know exactly how they are doing financially right now (although news coverage a while ago pegged them at the "Not Good" category), but SCO must *really* be in dire straits to make this type of hail-mary, last-ditched attempt at making a buck.
y -as-we-can" behaviour that is at once laughable and despicable.
I guess this is the type of "if-we-are-going-down-we-will-take-with-us-as-man
Hey, *I* didn't say it. :-)
I just wish they had properly configured their server that's all. I ended up having to block all SMTP traffic coming in from the compromised host via the firewall. After that we were able to give our Exchange server a breather. But we got slammed, alright.
We certainly got hammered for a good part of today from a university down south who shall remain anonymous. Contacted their IT/infrastructure department and was told that one of their mail servers got used as a relay, and nobody found out about it until a few hours ago. If I were them I would have shut down their MTA and flushed the queue a long time ago, but that's just me...
I agree. Most users do not like to waste time on a piece of machinery when they know that they have legitimate work to do. Frankly, as you pointed out, most of them do not have what it takes to install, configure, and support it.
I am the network engineer for a manufacturing firm, and I can tell you that (not counting the guys in production lines) our office workers could probably handle cut-and-paste on a good day. So I get to teach them how to add a printer while doing other system and network admin stuff.
I would love to see Agent Smith dressed up as the French Maid...
Do the math, people:
2^128 = 3.4028236692093846346337460743 * 10^38
Even Cisco got it wrong in one of its technology articles. The author claimed that it was "four times" the size of IPv4.
*sigh*
...that its code was in a series of products called "Windows".
Something interesting: In a sidebar of this article it is mentioned that his annual income is three quarters of a million, while his net worth is a sliver over $52 billion.
As a matter of perspective, consider a man whose net worth is $50,000 gets paid a little over 70 cents per annum. That is the ratio of net worth vs. income for Uncle Bill.
I hear they have been making this shoe that holds enough nitroglycerin to blow a passenger jet out of the sky...
I am waiting to see Agent Smith and Neo break out into a twenty-five-on-one, Shaolin-style gang fight.
Computer monitors that dynamically change colors and patterns. Wowza!
If I ever did what CmdrTaco did, my girlfriend will divorce me.
I also posted a question for you all a few minutes ago regarding the "proof by counter-example" of the irrationality of pi, so hopefully someone who remembers how the counter-example goes can post it here.
My question is: How do we know that the value is accurate up to and including the 1.2 trillionth place that the professor claimed? Can someone comment on what the mathematical technique(s) would be used to verify the accuracy of this calculation?
I don't remember the exact details, but I think the proof by counter-example of a number's irrationality starts out assuming that a given number is in fact representable by an arbitrary a/b (a divided by b). (This, of course, is the very definition of rationality.) The proof then goes to demonstrate, through a series of algebraic manipulations, how it would then lead to a contradiction if the number in question were in fact a rational number.
Can someone back me up on this, and perhaps even provide the details?
I think in any sci-fi work, the author must lay out the construct of a framework (be it the Trade Federation or Star Fleet) before leading us into the meat of the story. For the narrative to be engaging, he (the author) has to touch on very quickly the essentials. While I don't think it's un-doable, it would be a challenge for him in the span of a short narrative.
...all the grocery stands, supermarkets, and open-air markets would have to pay the Big A for using their name on all the produce tags.
Just think how many times the numbers "95", "98", and "2000" have been used in the past year.
Ch-ching, ch-ching.
There was a CNET.com article just a week or two ago saying that Longhorn project has been scrapped, in favor of the Blackcomb project (which is the successor to Longhorn). Currently Blackcomb is not slated to come out at least until after 2004-5.
So the features you see here may be rolled into Blackcomb eventually, or dropped altogether. But Longhorn, AFAIK, is dead.
They built in on top of FreeBSD, not NetBSD. Go to their website to verify the claim. Or did someone fall asleep at the News Verification Department yet AGAIN?!?!
A few comments:
1) At least from the way he is attempting to shutdown the rest of the system and leave the kernel running in memory, it sounds like he is switching from multiuser to single-user mode.
2) This is slightly different from using sysctl to set kern.securelevel in that, even at the highest level of 3, it doesn't dismount all the drives. With this approach, there simply isn't any drive because he'd already have dismounted/unmounted them all.
I'd be curious whether you can do exactly the same thing (again, not quite setting the sysctl variable) in *BSD.
Vexler
I am a network engineer in a large manufacturing firm, and I can tell you that the cook is only as good as his ingredients - if the patches are, well, patchy, then the network and higher-end systems architecture will be insecure, no matter how many patches are installed. There is only so much that a network or systems guy can do before (or unless) he sees the actual code and can address the issue from there. Remember that not-so-famous patch that Microsoft put out last summer, only to release a patch for that patch? That was where the dam finally burst for me.
So I guess the earlier /. news article about the Irishman solving the zero-point energy problem was actually true? *grin*
I just talked with an AT&T tech this morning via "Chat Room", and he said that it stands to reason that everything will be migrated over to the new domain name with no change. Thus far they are still allowing persistent hostnames to exist although they no longer take any more registration for it. The thinking is probably that the custom hostnames will gradually die off as attrition takes place.
I don't see any reference in the announcement that specifically and explicitly foretells the demise of POP3 account. Just because they introduce web-based email doesn't necessarily mean that they will get rid of POP3. Several years ago another ISP (I want to say Earthlink) had concurrent email access, through POP3 and the web. Maybe that's what they are doing now???