"... a group of companies, led by I.B.M. and Intel, plans to announce today that it is setting up a $10 million legal defense fund..."
I am just looking forward to the day where this SCO's legal challenge gets thrown out of court...I am interested what would happen to all these companies that setup these defense funds worth millions of dollars. I sure hope thy donate this back into the OS community in some form (eg donations, code contributions, OS marketing) etc etc.
Check this out (link) in a Martini commercial is another you will not see in US, Britain or Australia. Quote from the article:
In one of the commercials, Paltrow is seen rising apparently naked from a hotel bed shared by an equally unclothed male.
"Pausing to put on only a shirt, she tiptoes downstairs, hoists herself over the bar and prepares Martinis on the rocks for herself and her bedmate."...But what distinguishes Paltrow from previous faces of the company is her very public, healthy living image.
"She particularly asked that the advert was not shown in Britain or the US because people in those countries are much more aware that she doesn't drink," a source at Martini & Rossi's headquarters in Turin said.
The IEEE is worried that this may lead to the need to support two different standards in wireless networking hardware.
MHO: I do not think the IEEE has anything to worry about. For all I care, any Government can release their own home grown networking stack/protocol standard in regards to IEEE's 802.3...or any other 'standards' for that matter.
Will people accept this new standard? Who will manufactures trust: One Government/Country, or a respected body encompassing more than 380,000 individual members in 150 countries..promoting consensus-based standards?
Look how much is spent on 'physical' security and you will see why. A Government agency that is physically attacked (eg bomb, chemical, bio) usually results in human casualties/lives...and is very hard to cover up.
Now look at attacks on computer security (eg cyber attacks, worms, compromised systems). A Government agency that is 'electronically' attacked 'APPEARS' to not result in human casualties/lives.
Notice I stressed the word 'appears' in my last comment. I say this because it may be the real situation OR it maybe we don't know as previous cases have been covered up...as it is easier for an organisation to cover up these types of attacks.
I can just see someone driving down the road and their Indash navigation system locks up. ...I don't care as long as long as the critical components are still functioning normally.
And as they are fumbling with buttons to reboot/reset the damn thing they crash into a telephone pole and take down the DSL connections in that neighboorhood. ...I consider this just plain stupid human error. The car itself is functioning normally and should be parked on the side of the road (or somewhere safe) before you start to fumble.
All because they took their EYES off the road for a few seconds....*tsk* *tsk* "The computer made/caused me to do it..." just doesn't cut it I'm sorry.
My point is as mentioned in my previous post, I don't really care what crap they put in the car as long it doesn't fail and FORCES upon me grevious bodily harm (or death for that matter).
Look, the car didn't FORCE that person into the pole, he/she did. They had the option to stop and they didn't.
I'd be pissed if I found out the braking system failed and the drive-by-wire system decided I was not going fast enough.
...from navigation systems to music players to information devices... Personally, I think it's no big deal. Just remember these are all non-critical components.
I'd start to worry if they operated the controllers for engine/fuel/drive-by-wire systems. etc.
I'm thinking the following are some of the potiential bidders that might be interested in this auction:
O_B_Ladden Saddam_H CIA^H^H_Research NASA_Cos t_Control_Dept A_Schwarzenegger (I can imagine him saying every 90 minutes when the satallite passes over... "Heeeyyy fellas, looook ait my wondafull California state I am in charge of...isn't this very neat and powerful?")
Just a humble suggestion: Asking for credit card numbers or blank cheques/checks or direct deposits (donations) seems just a little unprofessional and unrealistic. I suggest the following:
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY EXTRACTING OUR FUNDS FROM THESE COMPUTER SOFTWARES. TO THIS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MANDATE BY MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. WE ARE PREPARED TO SELL YOU A SHARE IN THIS ENTERPRISE "THE SCO GROUP (SCOX)" WHICH IS 100% PUBLICALLY LISTED ON THE NASDAQ STOCK EXCHANGE. OUR SHARE PRICE IS EXPECTED TO REACH UP TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) FOR EACH SHARE YOU PURCHASE THROUGH THE BROKERAGE OF YOUR CHOICE. TO HELP US GUAGE HOW YOUR SHARE PRICE WILL PERFORM, PLEASE CONTACT US AND GIVE YOUR INDICATION ON WHAT PRICE YOU EXPECT TO SELL YOUR SHARES TO MAKE INSTANT PROFIT. WE WILL PASS THIS INFORMATION TO OUR MANAGMENT TEAM AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS SO THEY CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISION REGARDING THE DIRECTION OF THE COMPANY.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
Some suggested improvements:
on
SCO Nigerian Spam
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· Score: 5, Funny
The CAPS effect is good and makes the letter look similar to the shit I get everyday in my inbox. However, the letter seems to be lacking the "dollar ($) numbers" that make the spam more authentic Here is my suggestion:
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS.
Could be improved by:
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION ($1,000,000,000.00) U.S. DOLLARS.
And to make things a bit more interesting:
OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT NO FEWER THAN SEVENTY (70) LINES OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX.
could be changed to:
OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT
UP TO
SEVEN IN TEN (70%)
OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX.
To the author: the more dramatic and consistent in the apperence of the spam, the more automated response for the viewers to hit that block and delete key. Keep up the great work, you are getting there.
correction: " This case shows who or what department that was incharge had very little or no concrete policy with regards to information and IT security."
The same information was also accessible to individuals using district computers within school sites.
This case shows who or what department that was incharge had concrete policy with regards to information and IT security.
Security was fundamentally flawed, little or no security mechanisms in place, even lan connections had access to the files! Wireless connection only exacerbated the situation.
I tell you I've learnt so much about (*nix) security from this it's not funny. (The site is so comprensive it also support other language options: Korean, Chinese and Japanese)
Quote: "...Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun."
./run.sh .
JBoss Bootstrap Environment .
JBOSS_HOME: C:\jboss-3.0.6\bin\\.. .
JAVA: c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin\java .
JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.bat .
CLASSPATH:;c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\lib\tools.jar;C:\jboss-3.0.6\bin \\run.jar . ------ . 09:01:01,453 INFO [Server] JBoss Release: JBoss-3.0.6 CVSTag=JBoss_3_0_6 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Home Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Home URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/ 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Library URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/lib/ 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Patch URL: null 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Name: default 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Home URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/default / 09:01:01,4 68 INFO [Server] Server Data Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default\db 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Temp Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default\tmp 09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Config URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/defau lt/conf/ 09:01 :01,484 INFO [Server] Server Library URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/defa ult/lib/ 09:01: 01,484 INFO [Server] Root Deployemnt Filename: jboss-service.xml 09:01:01,500 INFO [Server] Starting General Purpose Architecture (GPA)... 09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.4.1_01,Sun Microsystems Inc. 09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.4.1_01-b01,Sun Microsystems Inc.
-------I admit as a user it's my fault in using "Sun's" Sdk. I will correct this mistake as soon as possible. -----
09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] OS-System: Windows XP 5.1,x86 09:01:01,718 INFO [ServiceController] Controller MBean online 09:01:01,796 INFO [MainDeployer] Creating 09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Created 09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting 09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Started 09:01:01,812 INFO [JARDeployer] Creating 09:01:01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Created 09:01:01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Starting 09:01:01,828 INFO [MainDeployer] Adding deployer: org.jboss.deployment.JARDeplo yer@12d3205 09:01: 01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Started 09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Creating 09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Created 09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Starting 09:01:01,843 INFO [MainDeployer] Adding.....
He summed it up well.
Good to see how the quality of the release takes precedence over any deadlines. That's the way it should be. I'd rather have FreeBSD 4.6 a month late than have a buggy one now.
Code release:
Free BSD: 7 days delay - Secure + very rare security patches
MS: 7 months late (only binaries) and then...
urmm...SP1 +reboot+SP2+reboot +SP2a...oh stuff it...http://www.windowsupdate.com
BSD wins
Marketing:
Free BSD: 4.6 +/.
MS: 2000/XP + $Marketing$
Afterall 2000 is 434.78260869565217391304347826087 times better than 4.6
My calculator refuses to give me a comparision for XP/4.6....always displays '0'.
You be the Judge of this one...
Slashdot Mirror
For those that are not Chinese (or asian), Here's the cantonese side of the story:
:P
8 (eight) is 'baet'' which 'sounds' like how one would pronounce 'faet' which means 'fortune (rich)'
2 (two) is 'yi' which 'sounds' like how one would pronounce 'ye' which means 'easy'
4 (four) is 'sei' which 'sounds' eactly how one would pronounce 'sei' which means 'death/die'
So if your number is 8888888 or 282828 for example, it means good fortune.
If Your number is 4444444 or 242424, it's means bad fortune (easy death) and avoid it at all costs.
You'll find Asian people will choose numbers eg:
Phone numbers
Fax numbers
Street numbers
numbers plates on cars
etc.
Welcome to number superstition Chinese style
I have an old VIC 20. Will piece of software still work with it?
To give credit to Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen, I would have to say if there were only 2069 CPUs then he might of just won... :P (J/KING)
More interestingly, would the ChessBrain.net team would of won with more CPUs?
As stated in this news release
The honour does not allow them to use the title sir.
No Sir for you! [Mr Gates]
The link provides this:
Anounced today that its first fiscal quarter of 2004 resulted in a positive operating result of [EURO] 280,000
Somehow I think some browswers do not like Euro symbol.
Slap on some sunscreen, you may get burnt from the sun otherwise..
"... a group of companies, led by I.B.M. and Intel, plans to announce today that it is setting up a $10 million legal defense fund..."
I am just looking forward to the day where this SCO's legal challenge gets thrown out of court...I am interested what would happen to all these companies that setup these defense funds worth millions of dollars. I sure hope thy donate this back into the OS community in some form (eg donations, code contributions, OS marketing) etc etc.
Check this out (link)
in a Martini commercial is another you will not see in US, Britain or Australia. Quote from the article:
In one of the commercials, Paltrow is seen rising apparently naked from a hotel bed shared by an equally unclothed male.
"Pausing to put on only a shirt, she tiptoes downstairs, hoists herself over the bar and prepares Martinis on the rocks for herself and her bedmate."...But what distinguishes Paltrow from previous faces of the company is her very public, healthy living image.
"She particularly asked that the advert was not shown in Britain or the US because people in those countries are much more aware that she doesn't drink," a source at Martini & Rossi's headquarters in Turin said.
The IEEE is worried that this may lead to the need to support two different standards in wireless networking hardware.
...or any other 'standards' for that matter.
MHO: I do not think the IEEE has anything to worry about. For all I care, any Government can release their own home grown networking stack/protocol standard in regards to IEEE's 802.3
Will people accept this new standard? Who will manufactures trust: One Government/Country, or a respected body encompassing more than 380,000 individual members in 150 countries..promoting consensus-based standards?
As a consumer, which would you choose/trust?
This is MHO:
Look how much is spent on 'physical' security and you will see why. A Government agency that is physically attacked (eg bomb, chemical, bio) usually results in human casualties/lives...and is very hard to cover up.
Now look at attacks on computer security (eg cyber attacks, worms, compromised systems). A Government agency that is 'electronically' attacked 'APPEARS' to not result in human casualties/lives.
Notice I stressed the word 'appears' in my last comment. I say this because it may be the real situation OR it maybe we don't know as previous cases have been covered up...as it is easier for an organisation to cover up these types of attacks.
My reply (and MHO)
...I don't care as long as long as the critical components are still functioning normally.
...I consider this just plain stupid human error. The car itself is functioning normally and should be parked on the side of the road (or somewhere safe) before you start to fumble.
...*tsk* *tsk* "The computer made/caused me to do it..." just doesn't cut it I'm sorry.
I can just see someone driving down the road and their Indash navigation system locks up.
And as they are fumbling with buttons to reboot/reset the damn thing they crash into a telephone pole and take down the DSL connections in that neighboorhood.
All because they took their EYES off the road for a few seconds.
My point is as mentioned in my previous post, I don't really care what crap they put in the car as long it doesn't fail and FORCES upon me grevious bodily harm (or death for that matter).
Look, the car didn't FORCE that person into the pole, he/she did. They had the option to stop and they didn't.
I'd be pissed if I found out the braking system failed and the drive-by-wire system decided I was not going fast enough.
...from navigation systems to music players to information devices...
Personally, I think it's no big deal. Just remember these are all non-critical components.
I'd start to worry if they operated the controllers for engine/fuel/drive-by-wire systems. etc.
I'm thinking the following are some of the potiential bidders that might be interested in this auction:
s t_Control_Dept
O_B_Ladden
Saddam_H
CIA^H^H_Research
NASA_Co
A_Schwarzenegger (I can imagine him saying every 90 minutes when the satallite passes over...
"Heeeyyy fellas, looook ait my wondafull California state I am in charge of...isn't this very neat and powerful?")
Do you have a payload that you would like to put in orbit around the Earth?
...Yes my one meter tall Plush Tux Penguin
If they could launch something into space towards the sun I would nominate my Microsoft and SCO Operating system licenses..."Burn baby burn"...
Mastercard jig: "Not Priceless...bid starts at only $250000 on ebay"
As per usual, we 'Down Under' miss out :(
I find it strange since the movie was produced in Sydney.
(...and yes we do have Imax)
Oh wells.
Just a humble suggestion: Asking for credit card numbers or blank cheques/checks or direct deposits (donations) seems just a little unprofessional and unrealistic. I suggest the following:
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY EXTRACTING OUR FUNDS FROM THESE COMPUTER SOFTWARES. TO THIS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MANDATE BY MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. WE ARE PREPARED TO SELL YOU A SHARE IN THIS ENTERPRISE "THE SCO GROUP (SCOX)" WHICH IS 100% PUBLICALLY LISTED ON THE NASDAQ STOCK EXCHANGE. OUR SHARE PRICE IS EXPECTED TO REACH UP TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) FOR EACH SHARE YOU PURCHASE THROUGH THE BROKERAGE OF YOUR CHOICE. TO HELP US GUAGE HOW YOUR SHARE PRICE WILL PERFORM, PLEASE CONTACT US AND GIVE YOUR INDICATION ON WHAT PRICE YOU EXPECT TO SELL YOUR SHARES TO MAKE INSTANT PROFIT. WE WILL PASS THIS INFORMATION TO OUR MANAGMENT TEAM AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS SO THEY CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISION REGARDING THE DIRECTION OF THE COMPANY.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
Here is my suggestion:
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS.
Could be improved by:
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION ($1,000,000,000.00) U.S. DOLLARS.
And to make things a bit more interesting:
OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT NO FEWER THAN SEVENTY (70) LINES OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX.
could be changed to:
OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT
- UP TO
- SEVEN IN TEN (70%)
OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX.To the author: the more dramatic and consistent in the apperence of the spam, the more automated response for the viewers to hit that block and delete key. Keep up the great work, you are getting there.
Sorry just had to post this as a Bond film addict...
"From Russia with Love"...
correction: "
This case shows who or what department that was incharge had very little or no concrete policy with regards to information and IT security."
The same information was also accessible to individuals using district computers within school sites.
This case shows who or what department that was incharge had concrete policy with regards to information and IT security.
Security was fundamentally flawed, little or no security mechanisms in place, even lan connections had access to the files! Wireless connection only exacerbated the situation.
Try Mr. Lee Jeong-Nam's HackersLab site: learn to hack zone
I tell you I've learnt so much about (*nix) security from this it's not funny.
(The site is so comprensive it also support other language options: Korean, Chinese and Japanese)
ps: See you on level 17 and on the "Hall of Fame"
Quote: "...Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun."
./run.sh ;c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\lib\tools.jar;C:\jboss-3.0.6\bin \\run.jar4 68 INFO [Server] Server Data Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default\db1 :01,484 INFO [Server] Server Library URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/defa: 01,484 INFO [Server] Root Deployemnt Filename: jboss-service.xml
: 01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Started .....
.
JBoss Bootstrap Environment
.
JBOSS_HOME: C:\jboss-3.0.6\bin\\..
.
JAVA: c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\bin\java
.
JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.bat
.
CLASSPATH:
.
------
.
09:01:01,453 INFO [Server] JBoss Release: JBoss-3.0.6 CVSTag=JBoss_3_0_6
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Home Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Home URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Library URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/lib/
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Patch URL: null
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Name: default
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Home URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/default
/
09:01:01,
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Temp Dir: C:\jboss-3.0.6\server\default\tmp
09:01:01,468 INFO [Server] Server Config URL: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.6/server/defau
lt/conf/
09:0
ult/lib/
09:01
09:01:01,500 INFO [Server] Starting General Purpose Architecture (GPA)...
09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] Java version: 1.4.1_01,Sun Microsystems Inc.
09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.4.1_01-b01,Sun Microsystems Inc.
-------I admit as a user it's my fault in using "Sun's" Sdk. I will correct this mistake as soon as possible. -----
09:01:01,687 INFO [ServerInfo] OS-System: Windows XP 5.1,x86
09:01:01,718 INFO [ServiceController] Controller MBean online
09:01:01,796 INFO [MainDeployer] Creating
09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Created
09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting
09:01:01,812 INFO [MainDeployer] Started
09:01:01,812 INFO [JARDeployer] Creating
09:01:01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Created
09:01:01,828 INFO [JARDeployer] Starting
09:01:01,828 INFO [MainDeployer] Adding deployer: org.jboss.deployment.JARDeplo
yer@12d3205
09:01
09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Creating
09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Created
09:01:01,843 INFO [SARDeployer] Starting
09:01:01,843 INFO [MainDeployer] Adding
Related to this story.
How will United Linux determine which packages (assuming it will be packaged based) to include in the "powered by Unitied Linux" distribution?
Will United Linux take the opportunity to do a BSD style security code audit on core packages?
Have there been contact with Sun with regards Java on United Linux?
Good to see how the quality of the release takes precedence over any deadlines. That's the way it should be. I'd rather have FreeBSD 4.6 a month late than have a buggy one now.
Code release: Free BSD: 7 days delay - Secure + very rare security patches
MS: 7 months late (only binaries) and then... urmm...SP1 +reboot+SP2+reboot +SP2a...oh stuff it...http://www.windowsupdate.com
BSD wins
Marketing: Free BSD: 4.6 + /.
MS: 2000/XP + $Marketing$
....always displays '0'.
Afterall 2000 is 434.78260869565217391304347826087 times better than 4.6
My calculator refuses to give me a comparision for XP/4.6
You be the Judge of this one...