Even if the RIAA looses the fast-track subpoena, they'll keep suing -- they'll just switch to John Doe lawsuits...
But that will cost them money.. and the more it costs them to keep up this campaign of lawsuits, the less likely they'll collect enough in settlements to draw a profit from it; and if it's not profitable, they won't do it.
If even one player succeeds in becoming jedi, out of 300,000 players, it will mean there are 100,000,000 times as many Jedi as is realistic. An equivalent proportional error would be to say "the entire human population of the earth has flown into space on the space shuttle". Its not just wrong! Its insane!
And yet, in the movies, a similarly disproportionately high number of the characters were Jedi -- so what's the problem?
I can log into any computer on the network, and have administrator access on the local system. Securable? Maybe. Secured? Not likely.
That's your sysadmin's fault, not Microsoft's. As an example of the same problem with another OS, Linux lets you modify the handling of its trusted path keystroke when you log in as "root" too.
If your network is set up to where you log in as a Domain User, and not a Local (or Domain) Administrator (like it should be), then the Ctrl-Alt-Del trusted path in Windows can't be corrupted.
- It executes the all the programs in the "RunOnce" registry key - Windows connects to all your SMB shares after you login - It loads all the common internet apps after you login(i.e. messenger takes a long time to startup and connect). There should be a common backend server spawning a new messenger interface for each user instance - it reads a 2-5megabyte user profile file at startup
That's effectively your.profile under Windows, though. Those aren't "services", they're "applications" -- they can't load prior to login because which ones load depends on who's logging in. My account may have different SMB shares than your login; and I might have MSN Messenger disabled on my account, while you don't, for instance.
- when you logout: all your processes are destroyed(when you logout in linux the background processes or processes not attached to a tty are left intact).
Windows doesn't kill a process if you start it unattached from your session with the "at" command -- so its functionality is strikingly similar to Linux in this regard. If you set/interactive, the app may terminate when you log out if it hasn't been written to correctly handle the logout message -- Windows doesn't kill it, it kills itself incorrectly.
BTW, for what its worth I have a stock Windows 2000 Server on my Desktop and it takes a really loooooong time to boot and startup. Moreso than RH9.0 with "Everything Installed".
I may be mistaken on this point, but I don't think Microsoft started touting shorter bootup times until Windows XP.
This is actually untrue. There are several ways to capture ctrl-alt-del in Windows. One is by remapping the keyboard with the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Keyboard Layout registry entry. This changes the key mappings before the system processes ctrl-alt-del.
The idea of a secure access key is a good one, but MS has a broken implementation since they allow it to be circumvented.
Too bad the Registry is a securable object, otherwise you might have a point.
notepad?! so you're a windows user, which means you probably wern't joking. were you?
Don't get all jealous. Linux comes with a few good single player MUD clients too. vi is small and lightweight, and emacs is a little more beefy, but allows the player better customization.
Want to resize your picture to a specific inch dimension and resolution so you can print out your digital print at your favourite Costco or on your home printer? Sure, it's possible, but it's not exactly obvious how to do it.
Correct me if we're talking about different things here, but I'm of the impression that this couldn't be any more obvious in Photoshop 7.0 -- go to the Resize Image dialog box, use the dropdowns to change the units to "inches", and type in your desired size and DPI.
I'm a salaried employee, so I don't punch a clock.
Those of our employees that do, however, use a mechanical punch clock with time cards. There's a lot to be said for an incorruptable paper trail when it comes to money owed.
When cable and DSL first came out no one heard of Napster let alone Kazaa or eMule.
When cable and DSL first came out, we were all being sold on the idea of video-on-demand and bandwidth-intensive rich media. The media companies never delivered on this promise, which is where Napster, Kazaa, and eMule came into the picture.
Once Verisign quits doing it, I revert to the damned MSN page every time there's a type-o.
Why isn't anyone bitching about MS?
First off, people do bitch about that behavior of IE.
Second off, that is a feature of Internet Explorer, the application. It does not violate any RFCs, nor does it adversely affect any critical Internet infrastructure. It's not a part of Windows' TCP stack or anything silly like that. Also, you can turn it off or even redirect it to any other site you want.
It's not the same ballpark as Verisign's SiteFinder "service", which does violate RFCs, adversely affects critical Internet infrastructure, and can not be avoided or opted-out of.
The holdup in the fed was over a foreign business interest owning and operating a piece of "critical infrastructure" like a fibre optic grid. Big deal. There are two relevant counter-points to such an argument
You missed the third argument in favor of it: We're already outsourcing most hardware production to other countries, and we're already working on moving all the software development to other countries; why not outsource the infrastructure too!
I think it's time we started writing system software (that is, software which provides services but which runs as a process under the OS) in a language which doesn't have these problems. And if a suitable language is unavailable, that argues strongly for creating that language.
Careful there tiger, you're starting to sound exactly like Microsoft --- that's what they're in the middle of doing with C#; and we certainly don't want to imply that the OSS community needs to play catch-up with Microsoft when it comes to security practices.
However if you work in an environment with mission critical apps that cannot fail, you can't just simply "patch your systems". You must test, test and retest.
If you're in an environment where your systems are so mission critical that you must "test, test and retest" patches, you'd better damn well have the ports in question firewalled off already unless you have a damn good reason related to the "mission critical" aspect of the system.
Anything less and you've failed at your job of securing the system. You don't block ports only to protect you from the vulnerabilities you know, but also from the vulnerabilities you don't yet know.
A boss who's into kicking heads will not get as much value from his staff as one who rides with a looser rein.
That depends on the people. Intelligent workers usually do better under a more laissez-faire manager and set of policies; but they need to be self-disciplined. Otherwise, more rigid structure is what they need.
Upper management decreeing strict policies is a good way to strangle a business -- the decision on how to lead should be made close to the employees that are affected by it, and be made by someone who knows what will best help his or her people.
I finally got so sick and tired of doing tech support for family and friends that a couple of years ago I simply declared to them all, no more computer help for Microsoft products. I don't get paid for tech support, and Bill has too much money, so go bug him instead.
Fortunately for you that your parents never declared "No more parenting. We don't get paid to feed you."
As the other poster said, you'll probably have to write this yourself. I recommend looking at TIGER and FIPS, which may allow you to have your program be completely dynamic--people could choose to be alerted of seismic events within 100, 500, 1000 miles of their home relatively easily. (I'm not familiar with either of these services, but I remembered their use by the winner of the Google Programming Contest.)
Just to provide some additional information about TIGER and FIPS, you could definately use TIGER data to do area-based alerting. FIPS is more of an identification standard. In either case you're going to have to do some custom programming work.
I've done spatial alerting stuff before, with TIGER data in fact. Drop me an email (drysart 'at' evercrest.com), I'd love to see if I could help out with a solution for you -- when I lived in LA your website was the first place I went whenever I felt the ground move; it's only fair I offer to give back what I can.
That the reason Linux doenst write anything to the HD after Panic si so that it doesnt mangle/destroy the FS.
Why not reserve a set place on the hard drive and write out error trap information there? There's no reason the filesystem needs to be involved at all. I'm going to guess that's what Windows does.
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Even if the RIAA looses the fast-track subpoena, they'll keep suing -- they'll just switch to John Doe lawsuits...
But that will cost them money.. and the more it costs them to keep up this campaign of lawsuits, the less likely they'll collect enough in settlements to draw a profit from it; and if it's not profitable, they won't do it.
If even one player succeeds in becoming jedi, out of 300,000 players, it will mean there are 100,000,000 times as many Jedi as is realistic. An equivalent proportional error would be to say "the entire human population of the earth has flown into space on the space shuttle". Its not just wrong! Its insane!
And yet, in the movies, a similarly disproportionately high number of the characters were Jedi -- so what's the problem?
That's kinda funny, lumping a web browser in the same category as server apps designed to handle gazillions of users. Come on, it's not THAT bloated!
At least they didn't mention emacs.
"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State." That about wraps it up.
Since when have lawmakers started reading and obeying the Constitution?
I can log into any computer on the network, and have administrator access on the local system. Securable? Maybe. Secured? Not likely.
That's your sysadmin's fault, not Microsoft's. As an example of the same problem with another OS, Linux lets you modify the handling of its trusted path keystroke when you log in as "root" too.
If your network is set up to where you log in as a Domain User, and not a Local (or Domain) Administrator (like it should be), then the Ctrl-Alt-Del trusted path in Windows can't be corrupted.
- It executes the all the programs in the "RunOnce" registry key
.profile under Windows, though. Those aren't "services", they're "applications" -- they can't load prior to login because which ones load depends on who's logging in. My account may have different SMB shares than your login; and I might have MSN Messenger disabled on my account, while you don't, for instance.
/interactive, the app may terminate when you log out if it hasn't been written to correctly handle the logout message -- Windows doesn't kill it, it kills itself incorrectly.
- Windows connects to all your SMB shares after you login
- It loads all the common internet apps after you login(i.e. messenger takes a long time to startup and connect). There should be a common backend server spawning a new messenger interface for each user instance
- it reads a 2-5megabyte user profile file at startup
That's effectively your
- when you logout: all your processes are destroyed(when you logout in linux the background processes or processes not attached to a tty are left intact).
Windows doesn't kill a process if you start it unattached from your session with the "at" command -- so its functionality is strikingly similar to Linux in this regard. If you set
BTW, for what its worth I have a stock Windows 2000 Server on my Desktop and it takes a really loooooong time to boot and startup. Moreso than RH9.0 with "Everything Installed".
I may be mistaken on this point, but I don't think Microsoft started touting shorter bootup times until Windows XP.
This is actually untrue. There are several ways to capture ctrl-alt-del in Windows. One is by remapping the keyboard with the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Keyboard Layout registry entry. This changes the key mappings before the system processes ctrl-alt-del.
The idea of a secure access key is a good one, but MS has a broken implementation since they allow it to be circumvented.
Too bad the Registry is a securable object, otherwise you might have a point.
...Windows might boot faster, but as we all know windows has D.S.S. capabilities which means "Delayed Service Startup":)
In other words, it loads everything AFTER you login, no joke;)
Let's see.... I've never heard of this before, I know it to be false, and The Hive Mind has absolutely no references to it.
Care to try to salvage your credibility?
notepad?! so you're a windows user, which means you probably wern't joking. were you?
Don't get all jealous. Linux comes with a few good single player MUD clients too. vi is small and lightweight, and emacs is a little more beefy, but allows the player better customization.
Want to resize your picture to a specific inch dimension and resolution so you can print out your digital print at your favourite Costco or on your home printer? Sure, it's possible, but it's not exactly obvious how to do it.
Correct me if we're talking about different things here, but I'm of the impression that this couldn't be any more obvious in Photoshop 7.0 -- go to the Resize Image dialog box, use the dropdowns to change the units to "inches", and type in your desired size and DPI.
I'm a salaried employee, so I don't punch a clock.
Those of our employees that do, however, use a mechanical punch clock with time cards. There's a lot to be said for an incorruptable paper trail when it comes to money owed.
When cable and DSL first came out no one heard of Napster let alone Kazaa or eMule.
When cable and DSL first came out, we were all being sold on the idea of video-on-demand and bandwidth-intensive rich media. The media companies never delivered on this promise, which is where Napster, Kazaa, and eMule came into the picture.
Once Verisign quits doing it, I revert to the damned MSN page every time there's a type-o.
Why isn't anyone bitching about MS?
First off, people do bitch about that behavior of IE.
Second off, that is a feature of Internet Explorer, the application. It does not violate any RFCs, nor does it adversely affect any critical Internet infrastructure. It's not a part of Windows' TCP stack or anything silly like that. Also, you can turn it off or even redirect it to any other site you want.
It's not the same ballpark as Verisign's SiteFinder "service", which does violate RFCs, adversely affects critical Internet infrastructure, and can not be avoided or opted-out of.
The holdup in the fed was over a foreign business interest owning and operating a piece of "critical infrastructure" like a fibre optic grid. Big deal. There are two relevant counter-points to such an argument
You missed the third argument in favor of it: We're already outsourcing most hardware production to other countries, and we're already working on moving all the software development to other countries; why not outsource the infrastructure too!
I think it's time we started writing system software (that is, software which provides services but which runs as a process under the OS) in a language which doesn't have these problems. And if a suitable language is unavailable, that argues strongly for creating that language.
Careful there tiger, you're starting to sound exactly like Microsoft --- that's what they're in the middle of doing with C#; and we certainly don't want to imply that the OSS community needs to play catch-up with Microsoft when it comes to security practices.
I can only guess that nobody ever used a .museum url anyway :)
I bet spammers will, if Verisign shuts off their SiteFinder service, since we've just showed them the way to get around all our filtering.
However if you work in an environment with mission critical apps that cannot fail, you can't just simply "patch your systems". You must test, test and retest.
If you're in an environment where your systems are so mission critical that you must "test, test and retest" patches, you'd better damn well have the ports in question firewalled off already unless you have a damn good reason related to the "mission critical" aspect of the system.
Anything less and you've failed at your job of securing the system. You don't block ports only to protect you from the vulnerabilities you know, but also from the vulnerabilities you don't yet know.
Please name one vendor other than Microsoft that has announced that their product will be able to read and write Microsoft Word 11 documents.
Please name one software package other than StarOffice/OpenOffice that has announced their product will be able to read and write OOo XML.
Does that mean that OOo's XML is proprietary too?
They either got a hold of a customer list from a former employee or walked our IP space to find our web hosting customers.
Sounds like you've got an open and shut legal case to recoup those costs they're causing you to incur.
A boss who's into kicking heads will not get as much value from his staff as one who rides with a looser rein.
That depends on the people. Intelligent workers usually do better under a more laissez-faire manager and set of policies; but they need to be self-disciplined. Otherwise, more rigid structure is what they need.
Upper management decreeing strict policies is a good way to strangle a business -- the decision on how to lead should be made close to the employees that are affected by it, and be made by someone who knows what will best help his or her people.
I never signed any contract at the register allowing Microsoft to modify it without my permission, nor was there a mention of that on the box.
Perhaps you shouldn't have allowed it to connect to XBox Live then.
I finally got so sick and tired of doing tech support for family and friends that a couple of years ago I simply declared to them all, no more computer help for Microsoft products. I don't get paid for tech support, and Bill has too much money, so go bug him instead.
Fortunately for you that your parents never declared "No more parenting. We don't get paid to feed you."
As the other poster said, you'll probably have to write this yourself. I recommend looking at TIGER and FIPS, which may allow you to have your program be completely dynamic--people could choose to be alerted of seismic events within 100, 500, 1000 miles of their home relatively easily. (I'm not familiar with either of these services, but I remembered their use by the winner of the Google Programming Contest.)
Just to provide some additional information about TIGER and FIPS, you could definately use TIGER data to do area-based alerting. FIPS is more of an identification standard. In either case you're going to have to do some custom programming work.
I've done spatial alerting stuff before, with TIGER data in fact. Drop me an email (drysart 'at' evercrest.com), I'd love to see if I could help out with a solution for you -- when I lived in LA your website was the first place I went whenever I felt the ground move; it's only fair I offer to give back what I can.
That the reason Linux doenst write anything to the HD after Panic si so that it doesnt mangle/destroy the FS.
Why not reserve a set place on the hard drive and write out error trap information there? There's no reason the filesystem needs to be involved at all. I'm going to guess that's what Windows does.
The .NET CLR does not yet come with any version of Windows
I thought for sure it came with Windows Server 2003. And I'd be honestly surprised if it's not included in the post-SP2 copies of XP.