There has only been one kernel exploit in Windows in the last few years, if memory serves correctly. A lack of memory protection was highlighted as a contributing cause to slammer, but that wasn't the only cause.
What you recommend is a kernel switch. That's not where the problem has been. Now, NT x employs a microkernel architecture, so some of the services that have gotten exploited would have been in the Linux kernel (not sure about BSD), so you could argue there, but again, it's the higher services that get hacked.
Do you think if IIS was ported to BSD or Linux it would be safer? Do you think Outlook would be different? Do you think the default user would not be root? Haven't you seen the exploit that uses the GUI COMBO BOX of all things?
No, Windows has a great kernel. It's modular and scalable and performs well. Windows understands granting tokens various rights so you don't have the root/nonroot scenario. That other stuff to which you refer is the problem, so switching kernels/cores isn't the answer unless it's the impetus for an overhaul, but it's the overhaul that's needed.
Ironically, I remember Windows NT as being the overhaul that Win16 needed because Win16 had been remade too often and crusted up with "end user junk." It seems history repeats itself.
Still, backwards compatibility is difficult, and you have to make a choice -- do you want to be able to run Visicalc on Windows XP (you can) or do you want a locked down, secure system? How many times has Apple remade things? They switched computer platforms (Apple I, II, III, Lisa, Mac), they switched CPUs (68K, PPC) and they switched the fundamental OS. MS switched from 16bit to 32bit. They don't even support other CPUs anymore (with a wink at 64bit). The industry would kill them if they made the switches that Apple made. I believe it's maintaining this compatibility that gives them many of the problems and hurdles to making better products.
Proper English called -- it wants you to quit spreading apostrophe FUD.
An apostrophe is also used to form some plurals, especially the plural of letters, symbols, and digits, but according to some, his usage is still incorrect, but for a different reason than you suggest. This plural rule, though, is specific to letters, symbols, and digits, so forming plurals of entire words with apostrophes is still wrong. I've often wondered about acronyms that make words, though.
A platform that a dereferencing a null pointer requires a reboot before you can reload your code and if you do it twice may require a walk down the hall to your test system to hit the magic plug isn't "difficult." It's learning to swim by being tossed in the rapids. I still think those it's a better way to learn to program than on these mamby-pamby clean up your mistakes operating systems.
When a bug makes you get out of your chair, you learn not to make them!;)
Well, why not support SMP by default? After all, Intel is going that direction with their uni-CPUs -- making them appear as two. Perhaps that is their permanent direction.
If so, then shouldn't everything be written assuming it will run on two processors, since that's all we'll have in a few years?
Carl Sagan v. Apple Computer, Inc.
United States District Court, D.D. 874 F. Supp. 1972 (1994)
Defendant Apple Computer, Inc., used "Carl Sagan" as the code name for a new personal computer. After this use was publicized in computer publications, Plaintiff requested that Defendant cease using his name. Defendant complied and changed the code name to "Butt-head Astronomer," which was published by the Defendant in numerous newspapers and in other media. Plaintiff consequently filed suit against Apple Computers for libel, among other claims.
Defendant Apple Computer Company filed a motion to dismiss.
DISTRICT JUDGE BAIRD
Defendant argues that the statement "Butt-Head Astronomer" cannot be the basis of a libel action because such a statement is an opinion, which is nonactionable under the First Amendment....
In the 9th Circuit, courts analyze the following conditions...
(1) whether the defendant used figurative or hyperbolic language that would negate the impression that he was seriously maintain an assertion of fact;
(2) whether the general tenor of the communication negated the assertion of fact; and
(3) whether the assertion is susceptible of being proved true or false.
...There can be no question that the use of the figurative term "Butt-Head" negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase "butt-head." thus, the figurative language militates against implying an assertion of fact.
Furthermore, the tenor of any communication of the information, especially the phrase "Butt-Head Astronomer," would negate the impression that Defendant was implying an assertion of fact....Any reader exposed to such a publication would likely have knowledge of the context in which the language was used. A reader aware of the context would understand that Defendant was clearly attempting to retaliate in a humerous and satirical way against Plaintiff's reaction to Defendant's use of his name.
A reasonable reader would further conclude that the use of the term "astronomer" did not imply that Plaintiff was a less than able astronomer, but that the word was merely a means of identifying Plaintiff. Finally, a reasonable reader would conclude that the phrase "Butt-Head Astronomer" did not imply that Plaintiff was legally wrong in asking Defendant to cease using his name. After all, by ceasing use of Plaintiff's name, Defendant's actions spoke louder than words. Thus, the tenor of the communication militates against implying an assertion of fact....
Based on an analysis of the factors identified..., the Court has no reason to conclude that the statement made by Defendant implies an assertion of objective fact. Therefore, the statement is protected under the First Amendment and cannot form the basis of a claim for libel...
Plaintiff cites Gill v. Hughes...in support of his position. However, in Gill the following statement was found to be actionable: "He is an incompetent surgeon and needs more training."....Such a statement is clearly distinguishable from the statement made here.
Therefore, the statement made by Defendant is protected under California law and cannot form the basis of a claim for libel.
That depends on if it's music -- I've been wanting to carry around several of the Supreme Court trials on my iPod, but at 2:30 (that's two hours), they are somewhat bulky.
With a 40gigger, all the Supremes could be mine!
Except for the assumption that if a p/i/a person came in, they wouldn't watched like a hawk as a terrorist out of biggotry -- so how could they have stolen anything?
You sound like someone who should read that Grisham novel, The King of Torts, where the main character makes millions while those he "serves" get $40,000 for a defective drug that kills them.
Heh, go out and buy yourself a copy of XPe Project Builder (only about $1,000). Then you can do all of what's described as well as have access to patches, fixes, and service packs!
Or, plunk down $2.50 and get the eval version from MS and just reload every 120 days (you're reinstalling Windows 4 times a year anyway, right?).
I have a Windows XPe image with IE that works pretty well at only 125 MB.
Has anyone tried running Windows XP Embedded on an xbox? I've been working with XPe for about a week, and frankly I'm pretty impressed with the ability to select/deselect components of the OS (don't want IE, don't include IE), but it seems it would be something that someone has tested on a 'box.
Several people have mentioned that they enter the system and expect a common set of tools, but aren't most of the commonalities GNU (or just open source software) and most of what's different part of the proprietariness?
So, maybe we should just call our systems GNU systems or for the folks running KDE who would object, refer to them as "open source environments." After all, running cygwin on windows gives me same look/feel, and I could call it an OSE. Notice the word environment implies it sits on top of something proprietary, so we aren't claiming it's an open source system.
And, GNU advocates could call it the GOSE (need to figure out how to put another O in there).
w2k can/will swap the (ram) disk cache into virtual memory on the disk. It's listed as a feature of the comprehensive memory model that treats everything as swapable, but I've always wondered if the virt mem is in ram cache.....
This arm of BB is the cards, not the online learning environment. Is there an open source unified card access system?
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The Hundred-Year Language
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From http://www.legacyj.com/cobol/cobol_history.html: In 1952, Grace Murray Hopper began a journey that would eventually lead to the language we know as COBOL.
Modern economy? You must not have seen yesterday's WSJ.
Essentially, Iraq has not released any economic data, including population, since about 1973. Inflation has seemed to average 70% the last few years. Even super-secret Syria has published more economic data.
Actually, I want my search results tracked -- I want the search engine to know which hits worked (and got people to click them) and which ones are obviously fake hits to the human eye, but fooled the search engine.
Of course, I like my TiVo to send back anonymous data about my viewing habits so my television is catered to, as well.
You really should contact your credit card company. They can be good at helping the consumer and doing a charge back to a provider that is, in effect, committing fraud.
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There has only been one kernel exploit in Windows in the last few years, if memory serves correctly. A lack of memory protection was highlighted as a contributing cause to slammer, but that wasn't the only cause.
What you recommend is a kernel switch. That's not where the problem has been. Now, NT x employs a microkernel architecture, so some of the services that have gotten exploited would have been in the Linux kernel (not sure about BSD), so you could argue there, but again, it's the higher services that get hacked.
Do you think if IIS was ported to BSD or Linux it would be safer? Do you think Outlook would be different? Do you think the default user would not be root? Haven't you seen the exploit that uses the GUI COMBO BOX of all things?
No, Windows has a great kernel. It's modular and scalable and performs well. Windows understands granting tokens various rights so you don't have the root/nonroot scenario. That other stuff to which you refer is the problem, so switching kernels/cores isn't the answer unless it's the impetus for an overhaul, but it's the overhaul that's needed.
Ironically, I remember Windows NT as being the overhaul that Win16 needed because Win16 had been remade too often and crusted up with "end user junk." It seems history repeats itself.
Still, backwards compatibility is difficult, and you have to make a choice -- do you want to be able to run Visicalc on Windows XP (you can) or do you want a locked down, secure system? How many times has Apple remade things? They switched computer platforms (Apple I, II, III, Lisa, Mac), they switched CPUs (68K, PPC) and they switched the fundamental OS. MS switched from 16bit to 32bit. They don't even support other CPUs anymore (with a wink at 64bit). The industry would kill them if they made the switches that Apple made. I believe it's maintaining this compatibility that gives them many of the problems and hurdles to making better products.
Aw, man, I don't want to get drawn in, but...
Proper English called -- it wants you to quit spreading apostrophe FUD.
An apostrophe is also used to form some plurals, especially the plural of letters, symbols, and digits, but according to some, his usage is still incorrect, but for a different reason than you suggest. This plural rule, though, is specific to letters, symbols, and digits, so forming plurals of entire words with apostrophes is still wrong. I've often wondered about acronyms that make words, though.
Don't let the Man get you down!
Don't you mean mormon?When you say difficult you do the word injustice.
A platform that a dereferencing a null pointer requires a reboot before you can reload your code and if you do it twice may require a walk down the hall to your test system to hit the magic plug isn't "difficult." It's learning to swim by being tossed in the rapids. I still think those it's a better way to learn to program than on these mamby-pamby clean up your mistakes operating systems.
When a bug makes you get out of your chair, you learn not to make them! ;)
Turn into another Corel?
NOVELL WAS THE ORIGINAL KILLER OF WORD PERFECT!
Think WordPerfect, think Unixware. Corel was another Novell.
Egads, I hope you don't use C, object oriented methodologies, UNIX, relational databases, or any other of that old cruft!
Well, why not support SMP by default? After all, Intel is going that direction with their uni-CPUs -- making them appear as two. Perhaps that is their permanent direction.
If so, then shouldn't everything be written assuming it will run on two processors, since that's all we'll have in a few years?United States District Court, D.D. 874 F. Supp. 1972 (1994)
Defendant Apple Computer, Inc., used "Carl Sagan" as the code name for a new personal computer. After this use was publicized in computer publications, Plaintiff requested that Defendant cease using his name. Defendant complied and changed the code name to "Butt-head Astronomer," which was published by the Defendant in numerous newspapers and in other media. Plaintiff consequently filed suit against Apple Computers for libel, among other claims.
Defendant Apple Computer Company filed a motion to dismiss.
DISTRICT JUDGE BAIRD
Defendant argues that the statement "Butt-Head Astronomer" cannot be the basis of a libel action because such a statement is an opinion, which is nonactionable under the First Amendment....
In the 9th Circuit, courts analyze the following conditions...
(1) whether the defendant used figurative or hyperbolic language that would negate the impression that he was seriously maintain an assertion of fact;
(2) whether the general tenor of the communication negated the assertion of fact; and
(3) whether the assertion is susceptible of being proved true or false.
Furthermore, the tenor of any communication of the information, especially the phrase "Butt-Head Astronomer," would negate the impression that Defendant was implying an assertion of fact....Any reader exposed to such a publication would likely have knowledge of the context in which the language was used. A reader aware of the context would understand that Defendant was clearly attempting to retaliate in a humerous and satirical way against Plaintiff's reaction to Defendant's use of his name.
A reasonable reader would further conclude that the use of the term "astronomer" did not imply that Plaintiff was a less than able astronomer, but that the word was merely a means of identifying Plaintiff. Finally, a reasonable reader would conclude that the phrase "Butt-Head Astronomer" did not imply that Plaintiff was legally wrong in asking Defendant to cease using his name. After all, by ceasing use of Plaintiff's name, Defendant's actions spoke louder than words. Thus, the tenor of the communication militates against implying an assertion of fact....
Based on an analysis of the factors identified..., the Court has no reason to conclude that the statement made by Defendant implies an assertion of objective fact. Therefore, the statement is protected under the First Amendment and cannot form the basis of a claim for libel...
Plaintiff cites Gill v. Hughes...in support of his position. However, in Gill the following statement was found to be actionable: "He is an incompetent surgeon and needs more training." ....Such a statement is clearly distinguishable from the statement made here.
Therefore, the statement made by Defendant is protected under California law and cannot form the basis of a claim for libel.
MOTION DISMISSED
Uhm, just use this one on your PC? Just like we use PC keyboards on our Mac (hint Windows=Apple key).
That depends on if it's music -- I've been wanting to carry around several of the Supreme Court trials on my iPod, but at 2:30 (that's two hours), they are somewhat bulky.
With a 40gigger, all the Supremes could be mine!
Except for the assumption that if a p/i/a person came in, they wouldn't watched like a hawk as a terrorist out of biggotry -- so how could they have stolen anything?
You sound like someone who should read that Grisham novel, The King of Torts, where the main character makes millions while those he "serves" get $40,000 for a defective drug that kills them.
Uhm, corp tax rate is a progressive income tax, same as on citizens.
Or, plunk down $2.50 and get the eval version from MS and just reload every 120 days (you're reinstalling Windows 4 times a year anyway, right?).
I have a Windows XPe image with IE that works pretty well at only 125 MB.
Has anyone tried running Windows XP Embedded on an xbox? I've been working with XPe for about a week, and frankly I'm pretty impressed with the ability to select/deselect components of the OS (don't want IE, don't include IE), but it seems it would be something that someone has tested on a 'box.
So, maybe we should just call our systems GNU systems or for the folks running KDE who would object, refer to them as "open source environments." After all, running cygwin on windows gives me same look/feel, and I could call it an OSE. Notice the word environment implies it sits on top of something proprietary, so we aren't claiming it's an open source system.
And, GNU advocates could call it the GOSE (need to figure out how to put another O in there).
Hrm, wouldn't that be a bummer if he cashed the check b/c you didn't put COPY or nonnegotiable on it?
And what do you think the Windows users did? And why do you think they hated the Mac?
w2k can/will swap the (ram) disk cache into virtual memory on the disk. It's listed as a feature of the comprehensive memory model that treats everything as swapable, but I've always wondered if the virt mem is in ram cache.....
You forgot the magic phrase: "No presumption of privacy."
This arm of BB is the cards, not the online learning environment. Is there an open source unified card access system?
Fortran dates to 1954.
So, there are 50 years of computer language.
Essentially, Iraq has not released any economic data, including population, since about 1973. Inflation has seemed to average 70% the last few years. Even super-secret Syria has published more economic data.
In short, Iraq does not have an economy.
Of course, I like my TiVo to send back anonymous data about my viewing habits so my television is catered to, as well.
You really should contact your credit card company. They can be good at helping the consumer and doing a charge back to a provider that is, in effect, committing fraud.