Setup a Microsoft Server 2003, Enterprise Edition then install Terminal Services on it. You can have the remote sites hook into the terminal server making the session be local to where the data is found. I do know there are clients for Windows and Mac readily available. As for Unix, setting up VNC on a couple of XP Pro workstations might be the best workaround for accessing the data at the local/HQ site.
Curious... just how many people are we talking about that need access to the data?
Rather than bitching about it, look at fixing the problems via one of the best tools on the market:
Retina Security Scanner: www.eeye.com
There is a demo available that can apply patches and registry fixes remotely. If your serious about it, purchasing a copy of Retina is very easy and ROI is tremendous -- especially via their free updates.
For those looking to get interested into the lost art of MUDDING (and the secret art of MUDSEX), take a look at these sites for finding a game to play on:
VALVE CYBERCAFE PROGRAM All commercial licensing of Valve software is done directly with Valve Corporation. The Valve Cybercafe Program costs $10USD per month per computer. You will need to maintain an active subscription for a minimum of 10 licensed seats to participate in the program. Subscription fees are due on a quarterly basis, however, with the advance purchase of a one-year subscription, café owners will receive a 10% discount.
You do not have to purchase the underlying products at retail. Rather, the software will be made accessible to you by Valve. The licensing fees entitle you to use fully licensed versions of products in the Valve Cybercafé Program in your cyber café subject to the terms of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and the Subscription Terms for Licensed Cybercafe Operators which can be found at http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=subscri ber_agreement.
Products currently in the cyber café program are:
Counter-Strike Counter-Strike:Condition Zero Day of Defeat Ricochet Half-Life Deathmatch Half-Life Team Fortress Classic Deathmatch Classic CounterStrike:Source Half-Life 2 Half-Life:Source
Day of Defeat:Source (when released)
IMPORTANT: RETAIL SOFTWARE DOES NOT INCLUDE A LICENSE TO USE THE PRODUCT FOR USE IN CYBER CAFÉS.
Valve will provide you with software and product keys for each subscription you have acquired through the program. Valve may deliver new products or updates to you automatically when released in the Valve Cybercafe Program.
Valve's Cybercafé program includes a Café Administration Server (CAS) which allows cafés to manage their licenses on a concurrent user basis which means you only need enough licenses to cover your peak user volume. The CAS also allows for local updating of individual computers on a café's local area network (reducing bandwidth needs for updates), and will allow individual users with personal Steam accounts to access their account on any computer station located at a cybercafé site.
Valve's Cybercafé Program also assists members with banned or stolen product keys. We understand that it is sometimes difficult to prevent users from misusing your computers or gaining access to the registry and taking the product keys. To help combat this problem, cafés in the program can contact Valve to have their systems "un-banned" and/or to receive a new set of product keys. Old product keys may be quickly turned off in order to prevent unauthorized use.
After talking w/ a Valve sales partner, the cyber cafe agreement is that of a pay per computer agreement for the Steam application.
This is where the fun part comes out of it:
It depends where you live for licensing rights to use the Steam application and its games.
There is also a minimum of 10 computers that must be signed up for using Valve's Steam application.
After a quick inquiry, my rate (for living on the East Coast) was $10/per machine per month ($100/month for 10 computers -- quick math for you non-geeks). Comes out to around $1200 per year.
Noted that some places this would be a decent deal expecially if you have a large crowd of players, but if you are in a small town (like where I am), forget having any of Valve's Steam-based games if it means just breaking even on a per month basis.
My small business, MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment, is currently in the process for the development of a Java game engine plus a Java-based combination online game client integrated with a distributed, streaming MPI client (i.e. Seti@Home, Capcal, etc) that only runs while the user is online playing games.
For more info on the work being done, feel free to check out our site: http://www.murpe.com/ and look under the 'XML Game Client' link.
In MUDs, all of the worlds are persistant is layout. MURPE's games are a combination of the persistance and a dynamic flair as well. Take a look at our Novel To Life game engine we are working on for a better example.
My business is currently involved in this now, except we are mixing it up a bit by working w/ authors and turning their novels into online games...
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is a total game development and publishing enterprise that was designed to be the next stage in a real-time, immersive game evolution. Working with multi-genre authors and their publishing vendors, we intend to turn these novels into living works of art, but applying a totally dynamic story-like atmosphere through online gaming.
My business is currently involved in this now, except we are mixing it up a bit by working w/ authors and turning their novels into online games...
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is a total game development and publishing enterprise that was designed to be the next stage in a real-time, immersive game evolution. Working with multi-genre authors and their publishing vendors, we intend to turn these novels into living works of art, but applying a totally dynamic story-like atmosphere through online gaming.
Think of using it for RPGs... swinging a sword, etc while in battle. Add in multiplayer, and it really becomes something to play and interact with especially with other people.
So when will the parts and other goodies be available on Ebay? We already had Blue Angels jet on it, so why not this thing? Maybe the Army could get a little cash back for some of the equipment that was needed to build it?
As from the SCOX Message board (found on Finance.Yahoo.com): IBM's Report on SCO's Compliance with the December 12th order.
http://pacer.utd.uscourts.gov/images/203cv00294000 00103.pdf
Something from the mid 90's was a product & company called Cybiko. Though it was a nice idea, the handheld item was (and still is) very expensive and the games... well honestly... sucked.
Website: http://www.cybikoxtreme.com/
As per Yahoo Finance, SpaceDev is offered under the Symbol 'SPDV.OB', a tag usually given to companies that are having financial problems (ie. bankrupt or really close to it). Perhaps the Ebay auction is a possible way for it to get the needed cash to keep operating instead?
Isn't what they are asking the similar to that of the HoneyPot project? If they are using software you have to install to 'watch' your scripting/program use (which you later upload), then monitoring the server as well... then what's the point?
[shameless plug] 43 SC: War of Souls. A strange storm covers Krynn, bringing with it the prophet of the One God, Mina. Mina leads a revolt within the Knights of Neraka (Takhisis) and takes control of the organization. She enters the shield of Silvanesti with her troops, and assists the elves in defeating Cyan Bloodbane and destroying the shield. The Knights take control of Silvanesti.
Realm of the Magi (formally known as DragonStorm) has been in ever-changing development since December 1997. Rather than just creating a basic game world with no interesting theme, our development team proposed the recreation of Wizards of the Coast Dragonlance novels into a real-time, text-based roleplay setting. Ever since the decision was made, we have not regretted it since. With an average of 15 to 20 players on at any one time, we have been reported as having one of the most influental Dungeons & Dragons RPG games found anywhere on the net! Voted by Kyndig.com as 'Game of the Month' for August 2003!
Darl, I see little benefit in publishing this letter. It says nothing new and does little or nothing to settle the disputes over the Linux kernel. It would appear to only stroke your ego and allow you to continue to spread false claims in an illegal attempt to scare Linux users into paying protection money for that which you refuse to document or prove.
About the denial of service attacks, this is likely the work of one irresponsible person, if indeed there was really ever an attack. It's rather curious that SCO didn't put out a press release or make any demands that it stop what would seem to be a significant attack. You also cannot demonize the entire open source community for the actions of one vigilante. I would think you'd realize by now that if SCO executives weren't constantly attacking and insulting open source developers in the media with their ongoing campaign of hype and sensationalism, people like this wouldn't have the motivation to do what they do.
Regarding the SGI code, you fail to mention that code improperly being contributed is just as likely to happen in closed source projects. In fact, it may be more likely to happen there since the code is secret and not visible to outsiders, so the temptation to take some code that you don't have the right to use may be stronger. Why would someone be foolish enough to intentionally contribute illegal code to an open source project that the entire world can view when they know the chance of getting caught is significantly higher?
About the flaws you repeatedly claim in the open source development process, there is no practical way to trace the origin of all source code, regardless of whether it's used in open or closed source. I think SCO's (and most software companies') own development process is equally flawed if not more so. There have been claims that there's GPL code in SCO's Linux Kernel Personality Layer. IBM claims you are infringing on at least four of their patents. Microsoft has recently been stung by patent lawsuits for SQL Server and Internet Explorer. There simply is no way to know that a project with millions of lines of code in it is all legal.
The claims of one million lines of infringing code are propsterous and blatant lies and you know it. There are only about 3.4 million lines of code in the entire 2.4.20 kernel. To claim that nearly all the code changes between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernel are illegal defies reality. Similar claims of over 800,000 lines of illegal SMP code are equally false.
I believe you are intentionally including IBM's code in the count, but this is incorrect. Blake Stowell admitted in a MozillaZine interview that IBM is the copyright owner of all the enterprise code they donated to Linux. Unless IBM's contract compels them to transfer the copyrights to SCO and they actually do so, IBM is the owner of this code and you have no right to claim any ability to restrict its use.
About your repeated use of the terms "intellectual property" and "IP," there is no such thing under the law. There are only copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. Your repeated use of these weasel words is a feeble attempt to make your claims look more credible. You need to state exactly what type of right you are claiming.
You show repeated instances of hypocrisy through your letter, and one of them is the claim that IBM and Linux vendors don't offer a warranty. Does SCO offer such a warranty on their OpenServer, UnixWare, or Sys V source code licenses? I didn't think so. Neither does Microsoft, as witnessed by the Timeline lawsuit over SQL Server. No company, even ones the size of IBM or Microsoft can afford such liability.
You also incorrectly refer to IBM as a Linux vendor, but they do not sell Linux. IBM partners with Red Hat and SuSE for
Then you accuse the open source community of not following the rule of law, yet SCO has violated the rights of others by continuing to d
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is currently in the development of games like this. Although our games will be text-based at first, we are already working with several fiction-fantasy authors bringing their books to the virtual reality life. For more information on what we are doing, feel free to visit our website www.murpe.com.
Fresh out off the CD, HP-UX has a configuration that makes its server C2 compliant. Sun/Solaris has a release that is C2 compliant, but very expensive.
The NSA was working on a kernel fix/patch release that gave this sort of security and auditing capibility to Linux, but why not as a module? It could be choosen from the installation/setup page rather than having to go someplace else to download, install, and do kernel patches all day.
With the amount of security updates going on in the US (and possibly abroad as well), having something right off the shelf as C2 security compliant would catch the interest of many goverment officials real fast.
Slashdot Mirror
Setup a Microsoft Server 2003, Enterprise Edition then install Terminal Services on it. You can have the remote sites hook into the terminal server making the session be local to where the data is found. I do know there are clients for Windows and Mac readily available. As for Unix, setting up VNC on a couple of XP Pro workstations might be the best workaround for accessing the data at the local/HQ site.
Curious... just how many people are we talking about that need access to the data?
Here is the link to the Disclic Ltd website...
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URL: http://www.discount-licensing.com/
There is also a more in-depth article on the topic here:
URL: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/outla
Rather than bitching about it, look at fixing the problems via one of the best tools on the market:
Retina Security Scanner: www.eeye.com
There is a demo available that can apply patches and registry fixes remotely. If your serious about it, purchasing a copy of Retina is very easy and ROI is tremendous -- especially via their free updates.
For those looking to get interested into the lost art of MUDDING (and the secret art of MUDSEX), take a look at these sites for finding a game to play on:
The Mud Connector: http://www.mudconnector.com/
TopMudSites.com: http://www.topmudsites.com/
And for those that wish to become admins of their own online MU* world and seeking cheap, reliable MU* hosting services, check out:
MURPE Online Game Hosting Services: http://www.murpe.com/hosting/
-- M
Here is a copy of the sales quote price:
i ber_agreement.
VALVE CYBERCAFE PROGRAM
All commercial licensing of Valve software is done directly with Valve Corporation. The Valve Cybercafe Program costs $10USD per month per computer. You will need to maintain an active subscription for a minimum of 10 licensed seats to participate in the program. Subscription fees are due on a quarterly basis, however, with the advance purchase of a one-year subscription, café owners will receive a 10% discount.
You do not have to purchase the underlying products at retail. Rather, the software will be made accessible to you by Valve. The licensing fees entitle you to use fully licensed versions of products in the Valve Cybercafé Program in your cyber café subject to the terms of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and the Subscription Terms for Licensed Cybercafe Operators which can be found at http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=subscr
Products currently in the cyber café program are:
Counter-Strike Counter-Strike:Condition Zero
Day of Defeat Ricochet
Half-Life Deathmatch Half-Life
Team Fortress Classic Deathmatch Classic
CounterStrike:Source
Half-Life 2
Half-Life:Source
Day of Defeat:Source (when released)
IMPORTANT: RETAIL SOFTWARE DOES NOT INCLUDE A LICENSE TO USE THE PRODUCT FOR USE IN CYBER CAFÉS.
Valve will provide you with software and product keys for each subscription you have acquired through the program. Valve may deliver new products or updates to you automatically when released in the Valve Cybercafe Program.
Valve's Cybercafé program includes a Café Administration Server (CAS) which allows cafés to manage their licenses on a concurrent user basis which means you only need enough licenses to cover your peak user volume. The CAS also allows for local updating of individual computers on a café's local area network (reducing bandwidth needs for updates), and will allow individual users with personal Steam accounts to access their account on any computer station located at a cybercafé site.
Valve's Cybercafé Program also assists members with banned or stolen product keys. We understand that it is sometimes difficult to prevent users from misusing your computers or gaining access to the registry and taking the product keys. To help combat this problem, cafés in the program can contact Valve to have their systems "un-banned" and/or to receive a new set of product keys. Old product keys may be quickly turned off in order to prevent unauthorized use.
This is where the fun part comes out of it:
- It depends where you live for licensing rights to use the Steam application and its games.
- There is also a minimum of 10 computers that must be signed up for using Valve's Steam application.
After a quick inquiry, my rate (for living on the East Coast) was $10/per machine per month ($100/month for 10 computers -- quick math for you non-geeks). Comes out to around $1200 per year.Noted that some places this would be a decent deal expecially if you have a large crowd of players, but if you are in a small town (like where I am), forget having any of Valve's Steam-based games if it means just breaking even on a per month basis.
-- M
Lets see... Today: TV Sets. Tomarrow: Traffic Lights!
Yea, we could do the old thing of an Chrome Box, but actually getting that box working to work was truely unrealistic.
-- M
My small business, MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment, is currently in the process for the development of a Java game engine plus a Java-based combination online game client integrated with a distributed, streaming MPI client (i.e. Seti@Home, Capcal, etc) that only runs while the user is online playing games.
For more info on the work being done, feel free to check out our site: http://www.murpe.com/ and look under the 'XML Game Client' link.
-- M
In MUDs, all of the worlds are persistant is layout. MURPE's games are a combination of the persistance and a dynamic flair as well. Take a look at our Novel To Life game engine we are working on for a better example.
Novel To Life: http://www.murpe.com/novel_to_life.htm
-- Michael
My business is currently involved in this now, except we are mixing it up a bit by working w/ authors and turning their novels into online games...
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is a total game development and publishing enterprise that was designed to be the next stage in a real-time, immersive game evolution. Working with multi-genre authors and their publishing vendors, we intend to turn these novels into living works of art, but applying a totally dynamic story-like atmosphere through online gaming.
Website: http://www.murpe.com/
-- Michael
My business is currently involved in this now, except we are mixing it up a bit by working w/ authors and turning their novels into online games...
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is a total game development and publishing enterprise that was designed to be the next stage in a real-time, immersive game evolution. Working with multi-genre authors and their publishing vendors, we intend to turn these novels into living works of art, but applying a totally dynamic story-like atmosphere through online gaming.
Website: http://www.murpe.com/
-- Michael
Think of using it for RPGs... swinging a sword, etc while in battle. Add in multiplayer, and it really becomes something to play and interact with especially with other people.
So when will the parts and other goodies be available on Ebay? We already had Blue Angels jet on it, so why not this thing? Maybe the Army could get a little cash back for some of the equipment that was needed to build it?
:-)
Cheers.
As from the SCOX Message board (found on Finance.Yahoo.com): IBM's Report on SCO's Compliance with the December 12th order. http://pacer.utd.uscourts.gov/images/203cv00294000 00103.pdf
Something from the mid 90's was a product & company called Cybiko. Though it was a nice idea, the handheld item was (and still is) very expensive and the games... well honestly... sucked. Website: http://www.cybikoxtreme.com/
MUDs are possibly some of the best multiplayer games on the net, esp playable under Linux. Heck, most mud servers are running Linux!
-- M
Under a number of the message postings from the SCOX message board under yahoo, I stumbled upon this little link that might be of interest to some... http://www.geocities.com/gspot_licker/AncientUnix. pdf.
The funny thing about the letter is that its dated 2002, so not too long ago when SCO made this announcement publically and openly.
-- M
As per Yahoo Finance, SpaceDev is offered under the Symbol 'SPDV.OB', a tag usually given to companies that are having financial problems (ie. bankrupt or really close to it). Perhaps the Ebay auction is a possible way for it to get the needed cash to keep operating instead?
Check Yahoo Finance for more information: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SPDV.OB
-- M
Isn't what they are asking the similar to that of the HoneyPot project? If they are using software you have to install to 'watch' your scripting/program use (which you later upload), then monitoring the server as well... then what's the point?
-- M
[shameless plug]
43 SC: War of Souls. A strange storm covers Krynn, bringing with it the prophet of the One God, Mina. Mina leads a revolt within the Knights of Neraka (Takhisis) and takes control of the organization. She enters the shield of Silvanesti with her troops, and assists the elves in defeating Cyan Bloodbane and destroying the shield. The Knights take control of Silvanesti.
Realm of the Magi (formally known as DragonStorm) has been in ever-changing development since December 1997. Rather than just creating a basic game world with no interesting theme, our development team proposed the recreation of Wizards of the Coast Dragonlance novels into a real-time, text-based roleplay setting. Ever since the decision was made, we have not regretted it since. With an average of 15 to 20 players on at any one time, we have been reported as having one of the most influental Dungeons & Dragons RPG games found anywhere on the net! Voted by Kyndig.com as 'Game of the Month' for August 2003!
Website: http://www.murpe.com/magi/
[/shameless plug]
No, your momma after she just wiped her ass with a rabbit while taking a shit in the woods.
I found through Google about Congress and Outsourcing revealed this interesting article on IndianExpress.com
Here is also a Petition site attempting to Abolish the H-1B program entirely: Zazona.com
As quoted from Linuxworld feedback forum:
ProgrammerMan commented on 8 September 2003:
Darl, I see little benefit in publishing this letter. It says nothing new and does little or nothing to settle the disputes over the Linux kernel. It would appear to only stroke your ego and allow you to continue to spread false claims in an illegal attempt to scare Linux users into paying protection money for that which you refuse to document or prove.
About the denial of service attacks, this is likely the work of one irresponsible person, if indeed there was really ever an attack. It's rather curious that SCO didn't put out a press release or make any demands that it stop what would seem to be a significant attack. You also cannot demonize the entire open source community for the actions of one vigilante. I would think you'd realize by now that if SCO executives weren't constantly attacking and insulting open source developers in the media with their ongoing campaign of hype and sensationalism, people like this wouldn't have the motivation to do what they do.
Regarding the SGI code, you fail to mention that code improperly being contributed is just as likely to happen in closed source projects. In fact, it may be more likely to happen there since the code is secret and not visible to outsiders, so the temptation to take some code that you don't have the right to use may be stronger. Why would someone be foolish enough to intentionally contribute illegal code to an open source project that the entire world can view when they know the chance of getting caught is significantly higher?
About the flaws you repeatedly claim in the open source development process, there is no practical way to trace the origin of all source code, regardless of whether it's used in open or closed source. I think SCO's (and most software companies') own development process is equally flawed if not more so. There have been claims that there's GPL code in SCO's Linux Kernel Personality Layer. IBM claims you are infringing on at least four of their patents. Microsoft has recently been stung by patent lawsuits for SQL Server and Internet Explorer. There simply is no way to know that a project with millions of lines of code in it is all legal.
The claims of one million lines of infringing code are propsterous and blatant lies and you know it. There are only about 3.4 million lines of code in the entire 2.4.20 kernel. To claim that nearly all the code changes between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernel are illegal defies reality. Similar claims of over 800,000 lines of illegal SMP code are equally false.
I believe you are intentionally including IBM's code in the count, but this is incorrect. Blake Stowell admitted in a MozillaZine interview that IBM is the copyright owner of all the enterprise code they donated to Linux. Unless IBM's contract compels them to transfer the copyrights to SCO and they actually do so, IBM is the owner of this code and you have no right to claim any ability to restrict its use.
About your repeated use of the terms "intellectual property" and "IP," there is no such thing under the law. There are only copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. Your repeated use of these weasel words is a feeble attempt to make your claims look more credible. You need to state exactly what type of right you are claiming.
You show repeated instances of hypocrisy through your letter, and one of them is the claim that IBM and Linux vendors don't offer a warranty. Does SCO offer such a warranty on their OpenServer, UnixWare, or Sys V source code licenses? I didn't think so. Neither does Microsoft, as witnessed by the Timeline lawsuit over SQL Server. No company, even ones the size of IBM or Microsoft can afford such liability.
You also incorrectly refer to IBM as a Linux vendor, but they do not sell Linux. IBM partners with Red Hat and SuSE for
Then you accuse the open source community of not following the rule of law, yet SCO has violated the rights of others by continuing to d
MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment (MURPE) is currently in the development of games like this. Although our games will be text-based at first, we are already working with several fiction-fantasy authors bringing their books to the virtual reality life. For more information on what we are doing, feel free to visit our website www.murpe.com.
Fresh out off the CD, HP-UX has a configuration that makes its server C2 compliant. Sun/Solaris has a release that is C2 compliant, but very expensive.
The NSA was working on a kernel fix/patch release that gave this sort of security and auditing capibility to Linux, but why not as a module? It could be choosen from the installation/setup page rather than having to go someplace else to download, install, and do kernel patches all day.
With the amount of security updates going on in the US (and possibly abroad as well), having something right off the shelf as C2 security compliant would catch the interest of many goverment officials real fast.
-- M