Interesting point. At the time the IBM PC came out, IBM had a huge slice of the market in "proper" commercial machines and I remember there being a certain amount of nervousness from other micro manufacturers that IBM would simply take over the market.
It could be that of the possible OS suppliers, Bill Gates was the only one with the necessary business ability to avoid being screwed over by IBM. Things might be worse now than they are but with IBM supplying both hardware and software for everybody (they might have been able to lean on the OS supplier to stop them from supplying the clone manufacturers).
One of the reasons Bill Gates is so much more successful than his contemporaries is that since the earliest days he treated his business as a commercial venture. His vision was not to make the best software, but to sell the most.
Yes, as far as I can see, you need to send thousands of messages to each person on your spam list and train your "evil" filter *separately* for each one. Also, if the target turns off image link following on his/her mail client (well, duh!), it negates the possibility of doing the attack at all. It's hardly unstoppable.
Great Britain is part of Europe in the geographical sense and was connected to it by a land bridge at one time. No amount of voting against it is going to change that fact.
The UK is a member of a political entity called the European Union which contains a subset of the countries in Europe. We joined this organisation in 1973 I believe and there was a referendum in 1976 (or thereabouts) to determine if we should stay in. So the voters were involved.
Read the actual report of the investigating team. It's written in a very accessible style and comes to the conclusion that a rescue mission would have been possible if the problem had been discovered before reentry.
"Relatively modest design changes" would probably still mean scrapping the remaining SSTs andf building new ones.
It's easy to make design changes while your space craft is still a CAD drawing (or probably paper in those days), but when it comes to welding new bits of metal on, there is probably no such thing as "modest".
By the time of Windows, DR DOS was already dead meat. It was still kicking a bit but its days were numbered.
In any case, Digital Research blew its chance years before when its owner - Gary Kildall - decided to go flying his plane instead of meeting the IBMers who wanted to talk about an operating system for their new microcomputer. They went to Microsoft instead.
Most honours in the British system are recommended by the government of the day. The Queen makes the award, but she doesn't choose who gets the award. This award was recommended by Gordon Brown, a senior member of the British government.
Why is this relevant? Well the current British government is one of the most devious bunches of lying deceitful bastards this country (the UK) has had the misfortune to be run by. They aren't giving him this because of his wonderful contribution to IT.
BTW you are wrong about operating system portability. Every manufacturer had its own OS and its own hardware architecture. Only Unix had any pretentions to real portability and it was a bit player in the pre-MS-DOS age.
Other people have replied about the two button mouse myth, but I have a question: If you don't use a Mac, how do you *know* you don't like one button mice and the menu at the top of the screen?
Nobody except a developer goes near the environment settings dialog. That's left over from WinNT. I expect they just forgot about it.
I really don't understand what they were thinking about with the new services box. As far as I can see "advanced" is only called that because the left hand edge is completely blank meaning you have to squeeze the useful info into less space.
I think the file sharing idea is to make it harder to do stupid things. In the default "simple" mode you have to move the files you want to share to a special folder. This contrasts with the old way where as soon as anybody discovered sharing they immediately shared the whole "C" drive read/write to anybody on the whole Internet.
Don't kid yourself, a computer simple enough for granny to use will be useless to other people
Patronising pile of shit. My mother is a grandmother and she has no problems using a computer. Any reasonably intelligent person of any age can learn to use a computer given a bit of time. I will not be migrating my mother to a Linux dektop however, because a) she is used to Windows, b) a lot of the software she uses is Windows only and while there may be equivalent Linux packages out there, she sees her computer as a tool not as a plaything. She is not going to be impressed with having to learn a whole new set of conventions and tools just because her son thinks Bill Gates is the spawn of satan.
You know, back in the early nineties he wasted a lot of time writing a silly new operating system kernel when there were plenty of "adequate" OS's around that he could have used.
If he wants to write his own e-mail *indexing* app (not archiving), it's up to him. The fact that he has the patience to do this kind of thing and I don't is why we have Linux and not jeremypnux.
Certainly I have access to their changes. That's one of the requirements of the GPL. That's the whole *point*.
No you don't. The GPL requires them to give the source code of their changes only to people to whom they distribute the code either directly or indirectly (i.e. if one of their customers distributes the code). If they choose to distribute the code for a fee, you can get access to the source by either buying a copy or persuading one of their customers to distribute it to you.
You may think that's harsh and it is in many circumstances, but lets say I distribute a base64 encoding library and somebody else wraps it up in a MIME encryption suite it doesn't seem quite as bad.
or they modified it (and they must give us back the changes to those sources)
I don't think that's necessarily the case with the GPL. They only have to give the source code to people they distribute their software to. From the GPL FAQ:
If I distribute GPL'd software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.
Of course if they had properly distributed their code under the GPL you could buy a copy and request the source code or persuade one of their existing customers to distribute the software to you for free.
My original e-mail gets about 100 spams a day. This e-mail address is now nearly ten years old. I think the reason I get so much spam is that when I first started getting it I was using a mail client that rendered HTML and so was fetching all those images from the spammers web site and more stupidly I was clicking all those "click here to stop receiving" links.
I now have a domain with as many e-mail addresses as I like and although I use it to sign up to all that free software/internet shopping websites etc e.g. amazon@domain apple@domain oracle@domain etc etc my combined spam for that whole domain is maybe three messages on a bad day.
Interestingly, my web site home page has a "webmaster" e-mail address on it and that address only gets about two spams a month.
(A) Err actually, a signed message in s/mime format does not include the headers in the signed part. In fact, that would be impossible since current e-mail standards require all MTAs to add a received header.
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All women will look ravishing because whenever you look at one you have to put on a pair of specs with the lenses smeared in vasaline.
And next time you're there you can enable the ssh server on their Mac so you can dial in and help them with their support problems.
So let them do all of her support tasks.
Which is the whole point of why she wasn't given a Mac
Interesting point. At the time the IBM PC came out, IBM had a huge slice of the market in "proper" commercial machines and I remember there being a certain amount of nervousness from other micro manufacturers that IBM would simply take over the market.
It could be that of the possible OS suppliers, Bill Gates was the only one with the necessary business ability to avoid being screwed over by IBM. Things might be worse now than they are but with IBM supplying both hardware and software for everybody (they might have been able to lean on the OS supplier to stop them from supplying the clone manufacturers).
One of the reasons Bill Gates is so much more successful than his contemporaries is that since the earliest days he treated his business as a commercial venture. His vision was not to make the best software, but to sell the most.
The spec for PDF is published by Adobe at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specificati ons.jsp. It *is* an open format.
Darwin doesn't use the FreeBSD kernel. It has its own (open source) kernel based on Mach, so it has nothing to contribute back to the FreeBSD kernel.
You're an idiot if you still edit sendmail.cf by hand. m4 configuration for sendmail has been around for at least 10 years.
"list of strings is a subclass of list"
Actually, it isn't. The list of strings can't have a method "add (Object o)" for instance.
Yes, as far as I can see, you need to send thousands of messages to each person on your spam list and train your "evil" filter *separately* for each one. Also, if the target turns off image link following on his/her mail client (well, duh!), it negates the possibility of doing the attack at all. It's hardly unstoppable.
but water's characteristic of expanding when freezing is very much counterintuitive if you've never encountered it or been taught about it.
And yet, everybody knows that ice floats.
Great Britain is part of Europe in the geographical sense and was connected to it by a land bridge at one time. No amount of voting against it is going to change that fact.
The UK is a member of a political entity called the European Union which contains a subset of the countries in Europe. We joined this organisation in 1973 I believe and there was a referendum in 1976 (or thereabouts) to determine if we should stay in. So the voters were involved.
Read the actual report of the investigating team. It's written in a very accessible style and comes to the conclusion that a rescue mission would have been possible if the problem had been discovered before reentry.
"Relatively modest design changes" would probably still mean scrapping the remaining SSTs andf building new ones.
It's easy to make design changes while your space craft is still a CAD drawing (or probably paper in those days), but when it comes to welding new bits of metal on, there is probably no such thing as "modest".
By the time of Windows, DR DOS was already dead meat. It was still kicking a bit but its days were numbered.
In any case, Digital Research blew its chance years before when its owner - Gary Kildall - decided to go flying his plane instead of meeting the IBMers who wanted to talk about an operating system for their new microcomputer. They went to Microsoft instead.
Most honours in the British system are recommended by the government of the day. The Queen makes the award, but she doesn't choose who gets the award. This award was recommended by Gordon Brown, a senior member of the British government.
Why is this relevant? Well the current British government is one of the most devious bunches of lying deceitful bastards this country (the UK) has had the misfortune to be run by. They aren't giving him this because of his wonderful contribution to IT.
BTW you are wrong about operating system portability. Every manufacturer had its own OS and its own hardware architecture. Only Unix had any pretentions to real portability and it was a bit player in the pre-MS-DOS age.
Other people have replied about the two button mouse myth, but I have a question: If you don't use a Mac, how do you *know* you don't like one button mice and the menu at the top of the screen?
So how do you accept e-mail from legitimate MTAs based on Windows boxes?
How do you block worm ridden e-mail from Windows boxes that have passed through a non Windows MTA?
I'm not familiar with the OpenBSD firewall, how does an OpenBSD box determine the OS of the connecting machine?
I don't know of any Windows app that needs to be *run* as admin - even most services can be run as a defined user without admin rights.
Almost all of them require admin rights to be installed but that is as it should be.
Nobody except a developer goes near the environment settings dialog. That's left over from WinNT. I expect they just forgot about it.
I really don't understand what they were thinking about with the new services box. As far as I can see "advanced" is only called that because the left hand edge is completely blank meaning you have to squeeze the useful info into less space.
I think the file sharing idea is to make it harder to do stupid things. In the default "simple" mode you have to move the files you want to share to a special folder. This contrasts with the old way where as soon as anybody discovered sharing they immediately shared the whole "C" drive read/write to anybody on the whole Internet.
Don't kid yourself, a computer simple enough for granny to use will be useless to other people
Patronising pile of shit. My mother is a grandmother and she has no problems using a computer. Any reasonably intelligent person of any age can learn to use a computer given a bit of time. I will not be migrating my mother to a Linux dektop however, because a) she is used to Windows, b) a lot of the software she uses is Windows only and while there may be equivalent Linux packages out there, she sees her computer as a tool not as a plaything. She is not going to be impressed with having to learn a whole new set of conventions and tools just because her son thinks Bill Gates is the spawn of satan.
You know, back in the early nineties he wasted a lot of time writing a silly new operating system kernel when there were plenty of "adequate" OS's around that he could have used.
If he wants to write his own e-mail *indexing* app (not archiving), it's up to him. The fact that he has the patience to do this kind of thing and I don't is why we have Linux and not jeremypnux.
Certainly I have access to their changes. That's one of the requirements of the GPL. That's the whole *point*.
No you don't. The GPL requires them to give the source code of their changes only to people to whom they distribute the code either directly or indirectly (i.e. if one of their customers distributes the code). If they choose to distribute the code for a fee, you can get access to the source by either buying a copy or persuading one of their customers to distribute it to you.
You may think that's harsh and it is in many circumstances, but lets say I distribute a base64 encoding library and somebody else wraps it up in a MIME encryption suite it doesn't seem quite as bad.
or they modified it (and they must give us back the changes to those sources)
I don't think that's necessarily the case with the GPL. They only have to give the source code to people they distribute their software to. From the GPL FAQ:
Of course if they had properly distributed their code under the GPL you could buy a copy and request the source code or persuade one of their existing customers to distribute the software to you for free.My original e-mail gets about 100 spams a day. This e-mail address is now nearly ten years old. I think the reason I get so much spam is that when I first started getting it I was using a mail client that rendered HTML and so was fetching all those images from the spammers web site and more stupidly I was clicking all those "click here to stop receiving" links.
I now have a domain with as many e-mail addresses as I like and although I use it to sign up to all that free software/internet shopping websites etc e.g. amazon@domain apple@domain oracle@domain etc etc my combined spam for that whole domain is maybe three messages on a bad day.
Interestingly, my web site home page has a "webmaster" e-mail address on it and that address only gets about two spams a month.
(A) Err actually, a signed message in s/mime format does not include the headers in the signed part. In fact, that would be impossible since current e-mail standards require all MTAs to add a received header.