... and here's an odd story. My fiancee uses Windows XP, and I try and keep it up to date with the latest updates. One update (Outlook spam filter, and an Office patch IIRC) failed to work. That wasn't a surprise, sometimes this happens on many OS's. What was weird was that the error message was in two parts:
i) The error message said : "Install Failed due to Error Code 0x5F" ii) When I looked up on KB what this meant it said: Unknown error. Try searching on the internet for help.
This amused me intensely. When I started with Linux 10 years ago, one of the jokes was that when programs failed, all you got was a cryptic message and an imprecation to ask on Usenet. Now, it seems, Microsoft have gone the same route for tech support.
(Found the solution: I had to install some Dev Kit and use it to deactivate error reporting. Took a fair while though -- God damn community supported OS's like Windows XP will never be reliable:) )
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So a truer comparison would involve starting Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, watching how much this entire toolset takes up in memory, and then load the Excel and Calc files and see the difference.
Well... no.
Just because the design of OO.o is completely braindead, that's no reason to handicap the competition to make it look better. If Excel is smaller than Calc, say so. If Word is smaller than Writer, say so. If Word+Excel+Powerpoint combined are about the same as the OO equivalents combined, then say that, but most of the time people want just Word, or just Excel, or just Powerpoint.
Fortunately, no-one's noticed that I got the energy wrong... It's out by a factor of 10^3 because I used m=1 in E=mc^2, which is, of course, a kilogram, not a gram.
If that's "proprietary" then we're well on our way to becoming what the anti-OSS crowd call us: religious fanatics, more interested in internal inquisitions for insufficient piety than in the real world.
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter (or, debian.legal, as it's known):)
the text-based shell is the nexus of computational control and the point at which proper articulation of will can transform commands into consequences Which leads to two questions : who wrote this shit, and were they getting paid per syllable?
Despite the obvious demerits of these fairly crass generalisations, the simple fact is there must be a fairly sizeable chunk of westerners who are initially gullible, stupid enough to trust an anonymous Nigerian emailer and extremely greedy, or these scams would have died out years ago.
But, hey, if I wanted to castigate the moral fibre of certain sections of American life, I'd draw attention to the sort of moron who throws parties outside jails whenever there's an execution...
Jeez, we win one Ashes series in twenty years, and look at us... Remember, the reason we enjoyed beating the Aussies so much is that they're such insufferably bad winners. Rise above it, mate.
I love America too, although the NYPD robbery report I just got to send to my insurance company means I'm not too keen on certain parts of it right now.
I just wish it'd quit this "Land Of The Free" propaganda schtick.
i) Web browsing isn't a server process, it's a client process. ii) You can kill the browser and go to another web page. Hell, you can just start another instance of the web browser. Which must take all of three nanoseconds.
If you prevent login, or send a SYN flood that prevents http connections, you can't just restart the appropriate service. If you really can't see why causing a client to crash is different from preventing a server from functioning, I suggest you look in some elementary computer science textbooks.
I don't have time any more time to explain the basics to fools.
technical usage of the term, which predates the Internet.
Find me a usage of the term that predates the internet but doesn't block login. Fork bombs are a non-network DoS (because no one else can login or run programs). A crashed application using 99% CPU is not a DoS.
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... and here's an odd story. My fiancee uses Windows XP, and I try and keep it up to date with the latest updates. One update (Outlook spam filter, and an Office patch IIRC) failed to work. That wasn't a surprise, sometimes this happens on many OS's. What was weird was that the error message was in two parts:
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i) The error message said : "Install Failed due to Error Code 0x5F"
ii) When I looked up on KB what this meant it said: Unknown error. Try searching on the internet for help.
This amused me intensely. When I started with Linux 10 years ago, one of the jokes was that when programs failed, all you got was a cryptic message and an imprecation to ask on Usenet. Now, it seems, Microsoft have gone the same route for tech support.
(Found the solution: I had to install some Dev Kit and use it to deactivate error reporting. Took a fair while though -- God damn community supported OS's like Windows XP will never be reliable
Just because the design of OO.o is completely braindead, that's no reason to handicap the competition to make it look better. If Excel is smaller than Calc, say so. If Word is smaller than Writer, say so. If Word+Excel+Powerpoint combined are about the same as the OO equivalents combined, then say that, but most of the time people want just Word, or just Excel, or just Powerpoint.
Indeed. Intel should be pushing OpenOffice, because nothing makes me aware of how much I need to upgrade my processor like starting OpenOffice.
Fortunately, no-one's noticed that I got the energy wrong... It's out by a factor of 10^3 because I used m=1 in E=mc^2, which is, of course, a kilogram, not a gram.
D'oh.
Joining the National Guard, then taking leave to campaign for daddy = Patriotism.
Don't you lefties know anything?
the text-based shell is the nexus of computational control and the point at which proper articulation of will can transform commands into consequences Which leads to two questions : who wrote this shit, and were they getting paid per syllable?
Despite the obvious demerits of these fairly crass generalisations, the simple fact is there must be a fairly sizeable chunk of westerners who are initially gullible, stupid enough to trust an anonymous Nigerian emailer and extremely greedy, or these scams would have died out years ago.
But, hey, if I wanted to castigate the moral fibre of certain sections of American life, I'd draw attention to the sort of moron who throws parties outside jails whenever there's an execution...
Jeez, we win one Ashes series in twenty years, and look at us...
Remember, the reason we enjoyed beating the Aussies so much is that they're such insufferably bad winners. Rise above it, mate.
I love America too, although the NYPD robbery report I just got to send to my insurance company means I'm not too keen on certain parts of it right now.
I just wish it'd quit this "Land Of The Free" propaganda schtick.
And even if it is patented, those of us in the Land Of The Free (i.e. outside America) are still free to create a clean room implementation.
i) Web browsing isn't a server process, it's a client process.
ii) You can kill the browser and go to another web page. Hell, you can just start another instance of the web browser. Which must take all of three nanoseconds.
If you prevent login, or send a SYN flood that prevents http connections, you can't just restart the appropriate service. If you really can't see why causing a client to crash is different from preventing a server from functioning, I suggest you look in some elementary computer science textbooks.
I don't have time any more time to explain the basics to fools.
You've denied that service.
Palm and RIM to collaborate?
Look, there are those of us looking to make a cheap, sexually explicit joke about the headline and get some (+5 Funny) love.
But guys, you're just not making it difficult enough anymore.
login is a service.
Servers <=> Service <=> Denial Of Service.
See how that works?
You see where I mentioned "semantics" in the original post... Well, dude, this means you.
Yes, semantically, you are exactly right.
Obviously, the fact that computer security professionals don't use the phrase to mean that is clearly irrelevant. Semantics trumps all.