But many of the problems can and should be fixed if possible. For example, remember the Blizzard real name fiasco? Guess what this article uses as an example?
Another candidate could be IBM's choice of Bill Gates over Gary Kildall to supply the operating system for its personal computer. The damage from this decision is still accumulating at breakneck speed, with StuxNet and the OOXML perversion of the ISO standardization process being exemplary bookends for how far and wide the damage spreads.
As it happens, I researched this one for years, and I think the root cause of that one is Gates being an aggressive businessman who considered business as war, which helped it win the IBM PC deal, but also led to many of MS's evils over the 1990s.
I think it was intended to convert null-terminated strings to fixed-length null padded strings, as used in many places in the Unix kernel at the time it was invented, like filenames.
I don't advocate real name policies, but this doesn't mean the problems with using real names shouldn't be fixed if possible. For example, remember the Blizzard real name fiasco? Guess what this article uses as an example?
FYI, just looked this up and assuming that Windows 8 releases next year and they decide to expand Extended Support to all editions of Windows, support for Windows 7 will end after the first Patch Tuesday in 2020.
Actually, I think USB became common on new PCs before the iMac, thanks partly to PIIX3 including an USB controller, but the software was not really mature until Win98 released around the time of the iMac.
AFAIK the only case I know of is that XP SP1 installer bans the FCKGW keys that was leaked soon after XP RTMed. Stronger detection was considered for SP2, but it was not worth it to make pirates insecure.
Well, one way to help solve the drivers problem is doing an emulator. GNU Mach kernel originally had a Linux 2.0 kernel API emulator to use drivers from there. This time they are going to run modern Linux 2.6 drivers in user mode using the DDE toolkit. But yea, Hurd is so old that it do not support ACPI. FXSAVE support to save SSE registers was committed to GNU Mach only in 2007 or so. And I recently suggested adding XSAVE support for AVX. PAE support was added recently, but Mach still do not support more than 1GB of RAM. They decided to wait until they port it to 64-bit to add support. (to be honest, even Linus hated HIGHMEM in the Linux kernel.)
Yea, look up the words "spear phishing". BTW, while last time with JailbreakMe 2.0 the FreeType flaw was only patched days ago, the FreeType flaw used in this version (I think) was patched in the upstream about 9 months ago.
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But many of the problems can and should be fixed if possible. For example, remember the Blizzard real name fiasco? Guess what this article uses as an example?
Another candidate could be IBM's choice of Bill Gates over Gary Kildall to supply the operating system for its personal computer. The damage from this decision is still accumulating at breakneck speed, with StuxNet and the OOXML perversion of the ISO standardization process being exemplary bookends for how far and wide the damage spreads.
As it happens, I researched this one for years, and I think the root cause of that one is Gates being an aggressive businessman who considered business as war, which helped it win the IBM PC deal, but also led to many of MS's evils over the 1990s.
I think it was intended to convert null-terminated strings to fixed-length null padded strings, as used in many places in the Unix kernel at the time it was invented, like filenames.
It existed built-in since WinMe as an optional component. XP has it installed by default.
That security update was already rereleased, plus it only affects system with Windows Media Services installed.
I don't advocate real name policies, but this doesn't mean the problems with using real names shouldn't be fixed if possible. For example, remember the Blizzard real name fiasco? Guess what this article uses as an example?
FYI, just looked this up and assuming that Windows 8 releases next year and they decide to expand Extended Support to all editions of Windows, support for Windows 7 will end after the first Patch Tuesday in 2020.
Support include security updates, which are important.
Remember XP ends support in April 2014. Guess what XP's marketshare will be by them?
I think the recent patent reform act in the US tries to clean up this mess.
It's unfortunate that Schwartz's blog is gone
I think it was gone because it was used in the lawsuit as a defense by Google.
Yea, it reeks of the old MS-Corel and the recent MS-Nokia deals, none of which relates to patents, but was still for a similar purpose.
Yea, I once read that the GPLv3 patent provisions cover renewals to the MS-Novell agreement.
Actually, I think USB became common on new PCs before the iMac, thanks partly to PIIX3 including an USB controller, but the software was not really mature until Win98 released around the time of the iMac.
To be honest, the person was going to publish the result to file-sharing sites which would definitely have been copyright infringement.
AFAIK the only case I know of is that XP SP1 installer bans the FCKGW keys that was leaked soon after XP RTMed. Stronger detection was considered for SP2, but it was not worth it to make pirates insecure.
IE9+ actually.
Well, one way to help solve the drivers problem is doing an emulator. GNU Mach kernel originally had a Linux 2.0 kernel API emulator to use drivers from there. This time they are going to run modern Linux 2.6 drivers in user mode using the DDE toolkit. But yea, Hurd is so old that it do not support ACPI. FXSAVE support to save SSE registers was committed to GNU Mach only in 2007 or so. And I recently suggested adding XSAVE support for AVX. PAE support was added recently, but Mach still do not support more than 1GB of RAM. They decided to wait until they port it to 64-bit to add support. (to be honest, even Linus hated HIGHMEM in the Linux kernel.)
I recently read jwz's rant about how you have to pay $99 per year for Apple to host your existing apps.
Yea, look up the words "spear phishing". BTW, while last time with JailbreakMe 2.0 the FreeType flaw was only patched days ago, the FreeType flaw used in this version (I think) was patched in the upstream about 9 months ago.
I once read Techrights (originally called Boycott Novell) often and still remember that well. Then the news came that MS is suing B&N, and...
FYI from last time something similar happened:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1651220/iPhone-Jailbreak-Modified-Into-CC-Sniffing-Malware
Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/esmonti/toorcon-2010-iphone-rootkits-theres-an-app-for-that
FYI, last time this happened, a researcher proved that it could be turned into malware:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1651220/iPhone-Jailbreak-Modified-Into-CC-Sniffing-Malware
Sorry, it is assessed. From:
That within 30 days of the date of entry of the Commission’s Order in this case, Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. will remit a civil penalty in the amount of $1,000, payable by money order or certified check to:
Suggested, not assessed.