"On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs"
Why didn't anyone tell Childs of this promotion, and who got her the 'promotion'?
"Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde"
Were there or were there not photographs taken of Pieralde by Childs. Was Pieralde authorized to conduct such audits and where now is this 'SF Owned cell phone', and what exactly did Childs intend to do with these photographs.
"the city stated that Childs was placed under surveillance and was arrested on the evening of July 12 as he was parking his vehicle near his home in the suburb of Pittsburg. At the time of his arrest, he was found to have $10,000 cash on his person and receipts showing that he had traveled to Sparks, Nevada, where he had looked at renting storage units. Following his arrest, police searched his house and workspaces. Police turned up 9mm and.45 caliber bullets, but apparently no weapons"
Like, if he was under surveillance (and his cell/pager conficated), wouldn't they have noticed that he wasn't actually near a computer whern the pager went off ?
"Considering that normal bail for a murder case is $1 million -- one fifth of what Childs' bail was set at -- this filing was unexpected"
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"it is a mystery what exactly Jeana Pieralde was doing performing an unannounced, after-hours "security audit" in a City office other than that in which she herself worked. It was during that secret "security audit" on the evening of Friday, June 20th, 2008, in which Jeana Pieralde took a hard drive from another City employee's office and was photographed by Terry Childs as she did so"
"The office from which Pieralde removed the hard drive belonged to DTIS Security Officer Nancy Hastings (who naturally was not present in the office because the "security audit" was being conducted after hours.)"
"Terry Childs had returned late to the offices (which do include his office and do not include Jeana Pieralde's office) at about 5:15 P.M. to find Jeana Pieralde (who does not work in those offices) taking a hard drive from one of Terry's co-workers offices. Terry photographed this act with the camera in his cellphone"
Did Pieralde really remove a harddrive. What was the name of this co-worker, where is this harddrive now. What motovated Pieralde to remove the harddrive. What's really going on here. Was Pieralde caught with her-in-th-cookie-jar, and someone decide to frame Childs to distract from something?
Does anyone find it curious that the city managers claim they couldn't get access to the system without Childs passwords. I mean how difficult is it technically to reset a password, especially with physical access to the system. And with most reported 'news' nowadays, the facts keep changing with each new itteration:
Sep 10 2008
"The SF rogue admin Terry Childs installed a 'terminal server,' which appears to be a router, on the city's network, but investigators haven't been able to find or log into it"
"Childs has become increasingly hostile at work and defiant toward certain managers and has failed to comply with standard work procedure, as described above by the only system administrator situation"
"On the late afternoon of Friday 6-20-08, Security Manager J. Pieralde was conducting an audit inventory of equipment at the OMP Data Center. As she proceeded with her work, she was confronted by Childs and Childs began taking pictures of her, using his SF Owned cell phone. Pieralde became so concerned for her personal safety that she locked herself in a room and contacted Director R. Robinson by cell phone, informing him of (S) Childs' behavior.."
"Over the last months, Childs has refused and not authorized or allowed any other system administrators to the FiberWAN.."
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"The Labor Relations representative, Mr. Leung, then informed Childs that because of his insubordination and his failure to answer questions by a superior of his insubordination and his failure to answer questions by a superior he was being suspended from his employment.."
" Childs' City owned work cell phone, pager, ID cards, and access cards were taken from him.."
"Approximatly, an hour later, a page was received on the pager and a check of messages revealed a message from one of the routers ..Security Director J. Pieralde.. highly suggests that Childs still had current system admin rights.."
"Mr. Maupin was also able to determine that Mr' Childs had, in fact, intentionally configured multiple Cicso network devices with a command that erases all configuration date in the event that someone tries to restore administrative access or tries to perform disaster recovery. This command was created for military applications that require deployment of network devices in areas that may have the possibility of hostile forces that could get physical access to network devices.."
Does anyone else apart from me think this is technologically nonsense
"I think the first paragraph of Section 10, if thus paraphrased, would be an excellent introduction to the GPLv3. However unfortunately it is not worded quite how you worded it"
Well, that's lawyers for you, always use ten words where the one would suffice. Maybe someone should write an app to perform Lexical Analysis on it...
I would like to be able to watch (and pay) for tv progs or the latest movies on a legitimate P2P site, but am unable, as people like the RIAA and the IFPI seem obsessive about keeping us in the nineteen sixties..
I disagree with this statement: "Understanding licenses isn't really an Open Source issue.".. For someone who doesn't understand the basic idea.. the GPL is undoubtedly even more confusing.
Only if you're a lawyer. It seams clear enough to me, I get 'a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work', without responsibility for 'enforcing compliance by third parties with this License'
"The GPL, however, is a true copyright license: a unilateral permission, in which no obligations are reciprocally required by the licensor. Copyright holders of computer programs are given, by the Copyright Act, exclusive right to copy, modify and redistribute their programs. The GPL, reduced to its essence, says:
'You may copy, modify and redistribute this software, whether modified or unmodified, freely. But if you redistribute it, in modified or unmodified form, your permission extends only to distribution under the terms of this license. If you violate the terms of this license, all permission is withdrawn.'"
"some articles suffer precisely because there are so many aggressive people who 'guard' articles and drive off others (PDF)"
Is this an example of a guarded article. Are these statements even remotely historically accurate. As such the current guardian of that page can't even find any verifiable citations.
'Consumer versions of Windows were originally designed for ease-of-use on a single-user PC without a network connection, and did not have security features built in from the outset.'
'Windows NT and its successors are designed for security (including on a network) and multi-user PCs, but were not initially designed with Internet security in mind as much since, when it was first developed in the early 1990s, Internet use was less prevalent'.
I'm all for open source software, but it seems like Slashdot is the great open source circle jerk
You only speak for yourself here..
"If the average slashdotter's spent half the time working to promote open source to the average consumer"
We all can do something in our own small way. For example, a friend of mine phoned up and asked for advice on how to fix errors in Vista LiveUpdate. I'm going round next week and installing Linux MCE..
"will there ever be a way to watch blue-ray movies legally on a Linux computer?"
Isn't that the fault of the manufacturers and according to this blue-ray movies do play under Linux. See also a demo of the Linux MCE media player. What major effort would the average user encounter in using this?
You actually went out and bought the Windows version only to discover the Dualhead issue. What did they say when you posted on this issue on the support forum?
"To answer somebody's earlier question, Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under LGPL"
"Moonlight Implementation" means only those specific portions of Moonlight 1.0 or Moonlight 1.1 that run only as a plug-in to a browser on a Personal Computer and are not licensed under GPLv3 or a Similar License.
Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, it is a pure C++ engine.
Moonlight 2.0 contains code that is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL and the MIT X11 licenses, it includes the graphical C++ engine, the Mono Runtime and the Mono class libraries.
Users of Moonlight interested in using this on embedded systems should contact the Mono at Novell team (http://www.go-mono.com/contact) to obtain a commercial license. See our Licensing page for details.
The Microsoft covenant for Moonlight users is posted here).
'Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue Downstream Recipients of Novell and its Subsidiaries for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft on account of such Downstream Recipients' use of Moonlight Implementations to the extent originally provided by Novell'
unquote...
So, basically you are violating Microsofts patents if you use mono and only Novells Downstream Recipients are indemnified..
...
Wait there's more..
"Moonlight Implementation" means only those specific portions of Moonlight 1.0 or Moonlight 1.1 that run only as a plug-in to a browser on a Personal Computer and are not licensed under GPLv3 or a Similar License
So it is both licensed and not licensed under the GPL..:)
Hitachi had agreed to license BeOS, and ship a dual-boot system using Be's boot loader and an icon on the desktop that enabled a Windows user to reboot into BeOS with one click.
"Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who expressed their 'anger' with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be, and 'reminded' Hitachi of the terms of its Windows license," according to the claim"
Rebooting is a chore. Once people start up, they don't want to shut down to start up another application
They why do I have to reboot my Windows machine after a few hours of browsing or playing a video without getting 'windows is running low on virtual memory' messages, never mind letting it switched on over night..
"ANY corporate non-techie is going to see that if they have to boot Windows to get their big tasks done they obviously don't want Linux on their main system"
"heavier duty" computing like running Microsoft Office applications"
"if I need to attack a device with dd or something, I'm not running dd.exe"
you're kidding, I can't remember when I last needed to DD to read a device, unless you mean a floppy that Windows can't access..
The simple fact is that multi-booting is annoying. Windows has a hard time reading Linux filesystems and Linux has a slow time reading NTFS, so you end up with files that you can't conveniently access from one OS or the other (or both) and having to bounce back and forth to move files around, et cetera
If multi-booting is annoying then why not stick to the one OS. Most any version of Linux can read NTFS straight out of the box and there are a number of solutions
Every so often you add or remove some big waste of disk space and then you have to repartition and the most entertaining Linux filesystems can't necessarily be moved around conveniently, so you have to shuttle Linux off to another disk, repartition and resize Windows, then bring it back
You're kidding, if you run out of space, then add a second harddrive and map that into/home and you've doubled your storage, all without having to 'shuttle Linux off to another disk'
"I can't view photos from my camera in XBMC with autorun on insert"
You're still kidding, inserting a camera and a dialog box pops up..
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"On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs"
.45 caliber bullets, but apparently no weapons"
Why didn't anyone tell Childs of this promotion, and who got her the 'promotion'?
"Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde"
Were there or were there not photographs taken of Pieralde by Childs. Was Pieralde authorized to conduct such audits and where now is this 'SF Owned cell phone', and what exactly did Childs intend to do with these photographs.
"the city stated that Childs was placed under surveillance and was arrested on the evening of July 12 as he was parking his vehicle near his home in the suburb of Pittsburg. At the time of his arrest, he was found to have $10,000 cash on his person and receipts showing that he had traveled to Sparks, Nevada, where he had looked at renting storage units. Following his arrest, police searched his house and workspaces. Police turned up 9mm and
Like, if he was under surveillance (and his cell/pager conficated), wouldn't they have noticed that he wasn't actually near a computer whern the pager went off ?
"Considering that normal bail for a murder case is $1 million -- one fifth of what Childs' bail was set at -- this filing was unexpected"
-------
"it is a mystery what exactly Jeana Pieralde was doing performing an unannounced, after-hours "security audit" in a City office other than that in which she herself worked. It was during that secret "security audit" on the evening of Friday, June 20th, 2008, in which Jeana Pieralde took a hard drive from another City employee's office and was photographed by Terry Childs as she did so"
"The office from which Pieralde removed the hard drive belonged to DTIS Security Officer Nancy Hastings (who naturally was not present in the office because the "security audit" was being conducted after hours.)" "Terry Childs had returned late to the offices (which do include his office and do not include Jeana Pieralde's office) at about 5:15 P.M. to find Jeana Pieralde (who does not work in those offices) taking a hard drive from one of Terry's co-workers offices. Terry photographed this act with the camera in his cellphone"
Did Pieralde really remove a harddrive. What was the name of this co-worker, where is this harddrive now. What motovated Pieralde to remove the harddrive. What's really going on here. Was Pieralde caught with her-in-th-cookie-jar, and someone decide to frame Childs to distract from something?
Does anyone find it curious that the city managers claim they couldn't get access to the system without Childs passwords. I mean how difficult is it technically to reset a password, especially with physical access to the system. And with most reported 'news' nowadays, the facts keep changing with each new itteration:
.."
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.Security Director J. Pieralde .. highly suggests that Childs still had current system admin rights .."
.."
Sep 10 2008 "The SF rogue admin Terry Childs installed a 'terminal server,' which appears to be a router, on the city's network, but investigators haven't been able to find or log into it"
"Childs has become increasingly hostile at work and defiant toward certain managers and has failed to comply with standard work procedure, as described above by the only system administrator situation"
"On the late afternoon of Friday 6-20-08, Security Manager J. Pieralde was conducting an audit inventory of equipment at the OMP Data Center. As she proceeded with her work, she was confronted by Childs and Childs began taking pictures of her, using his SF Owned cell phone. Pieralde became so concerned for her personal safety that she locked herself in a room and contacted Director R. Robinson by cell phone, informing him of (S) Childs' behavior
"Over the last months, Childs has refused and not authorized or allowed any other system administrators to the FiberWAN
"
"
"The Labor Relations representative, Mr. Leung, then informed Childs that because of his insubordination and his failure to answer questions by a superior of his insubordination and his failure to answer questions by a superior he was being suspended from his employment
" Childs' City owned work cell phone, pager, ID cards, and access cards were taken from him
"Approximatly, an hour later, a page was received on the pager and a check of messages revealed a message from one of the routers .
"Mr. Maupin was also able to determine that Mr' Childs had, in fact, intentionally configured multiple Cicso network devices with a command that erases all configuration date in the event that someone tries to restore administrative access or tries to perform disaster recovery. This command was created for military applications that require deployment of network devices in areas that may have the possibility of hostile forces that could get physical access to network devices
Does anyone else apart from me think this is technologically nonsense
"The top search result on Google for my full name is a blog posting regarding an article about a pedophile"
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The solution is to never ever use your real name online
"Okay... did that... now what?"
..
I meant a clickable link or email attachment
"None of that so far required root privileges. And our script now can do whatever it wishes to do within the confines of the user account"
A good reason the Higgs boson is elusive, is that it don't exist ..
"I think the first paragraph of Section 10, if thus paraphrased, would be an excellent introduction to the GPLv3. However unfortunately it is not worded quite how you worded it"
...
Well, that's lawyers for you, always use ten words where the one would suffice. Maybe someone should write an app to perform Lexical Analysis on it
I would like to be able to watch (and pay) for tv progs or the latest movies on a legitimate P2P site, but am unable, as people like the RIAA and the IFPI seem obsessive about keeping us in the nineteen sixties ..
I disagree with this statement: "Understanding licenses isn't really an Open Source issue." .. For someone who doesn't understand the basic idea .. the GPL is undoubtedly even more confusing.
Only if you're a lawyer. It seams clear enough to me, I get 'a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work', without responsibility for 'enforcing compliance by third parties with this License'
"The GPL, however, is a true copyright license: a unilateral permission, in which no obligations are reciprocally required by the licensor. Copyright holders of computer programs are given, by the Copyright Act, exclusive right to copy, modify and redistribute their programs. The GPL, reduced to its essence, says:
'You may copy, modify and redistribute this software, whether modified or unmodified, freely. But if you redistribute it, in modified or unmodified form, your permission extends only to distribution under the terms of this license. If you violate the terms of this license, all permission is withdrawn.'"
"some articles suffer precisely because there are so many aggressive people who 'guard' articles and drive off others (PDF)"
Is this an example of a guarded article. Are these statements even remotely historically accurate. As such the current guardian of that page can't even find any verifiable citations.
'Consumer versions of Windows were originally designed for ease-of-use on a single-user PC without a network connection, and did not have security features built in from the outset.'
'Windows NT and its successors are designed for security (including on a network) and multi-user PCs, but were not initially designed with Internet security in mind as much since, when it was first developed in the early 1990s, Internet use was less prevalent'.
"Realistically, open source creates fewer jobs than a closed source solution"
How does using the Microsoft product translate into increased revenue for a company. It doesn't and in fact does the exact opposite.
I'm all for open source software, but it seems like Slashdot is the great open source circle jerk
..
..
You only speak for yourself here
"If the average slashdotter's spent half the time working to promote open source to the average consumer"
We all can do something in our own small way. For example, a friend of mine phoned up and asked for advice on how to fix errors in Vista LiveUpdate. I'm going round next week and installing Linux MCE
--
'we must cultivate our garden'
"will there ever be a way to watch blue-ray movies legally on a Linux computer?"
Isn't that the fault of the manufacturers and according to this blue-ray movies do play under Linux. See also a demo of the Linux MCE media player. What major effort would the average user encounter in using this?
I would have found out before paying my $20.00 .. World of Goo is distributed only for Linux distributions based on the IA-32 architecture
You actually went out and bought the Windows version only to discover the Dualhead issue. What did they say when you posted on this issue on the support forum?
How is this going to affect Microsofts' current retail channels, like Dixons or PC World ..
"To answer somebody's earlier question, Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under LGPL"
"Moonlight Implementation" means only those specific portions of Moonlight 1.0 or Moonlight 1.1 that run only as a plug-in to a browser on a Personal Computer and are not licensed under GPLv3 or a Similar License.
Moonlight 1.0 is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, it is a pure C++ engine.
...
..
...
..
.. :)
Moonlight 2.0 contains code that is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL and the MIT X11 licenses, it includes the graphical C++ engine, the Mono Runtime and the Mono class libraries.
Users of Moonlight interested in using this on embedded systems should contact the Mono at Novell team (http://www.go-mono.com/contact) to obtain a commercial license. See our Licensing page for details.
The Microsoft covenant for Moonlight users is posted here).
'Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue Downstream Recipients of Novell and its Subsidiaries for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft on account of such Downstream Recipients' use of Moonlight Implementations to the extent originally provided by Novell'
unquote
So, basically you are violating Microsofts patents if you use mono and only Novells Downstream Recipients are indemnified
Wait there's more
"Moonlight Implementation" means only those specific portions of Moonlight 1.0 or Moonlight 1.1 that run only as a plug-in to a browser on a Personal Computer and are not licensed under GPLv3 or a Similar License
So it is both licensed and not licensed under the GPL
No, it's XP with 512MB ... curiously enough Yoper running on the same machine has no such problems ..
Hitachi had agreed to license BeOS, and ship a dual-boot system using Be's boot loader and an icon on the desktop that enabled a Windows user to reboot into BeOS with one click.
"Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who expressed their 'anger' with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be, and 'reminded' Hitachi of the terms of its Windows license," according to the claim"
Microsoft Settles Anti-Trust Charges with Be
Microsoft Corp. and Be Inc. Reach Agreement to Settle Litigation
BeOS
Rebooting is a chore. Once people start up, they don't want to shut down to start up another application
..
They why do I have to reboot my Windows machine after a few hours of browsing or playing a video without getting 'windows is running low on virtual memory' messages, never mind letting it switched on over night
"ANY corporate non-techie is going to see that if they have to boot Windows to get their big tasks done they obviously don't want Linux on their main system"
"heavier duty" computing like running Microsoft Office applications"
Would Portable Office (86.4MB) run on such a system?
"if I need to attack a device with dd or something, I'm not running dd.exe"
..
/home and you've doubled your storage, all without having to 'shuttle Linux off to another disk'
..
you're kidding, I can't remember when I last needed to DD to read a device, unless you mean a floppy that Windows can't access
The simple fact is that multi-booting is annoying. Windows has a hard time reading Linux filesystems and Linux has a slow time reading NTFS, so you end up with files that you can't conveniently access from one OS or the other (or both) and having to bounce back and forth to move files around, et cetera
If multi-booting is annoying then why not stick to the one OS. Most any version of Linux can read NTFS straight out of the box and there are a number of solutions
Every so often you add or remove some big waste of disk space and then you have to repartition and the most entertaining Linux filesystems can't necessarily be moved around conveniently, so you have to shuttle Linux off to another disk, repartition and resize Windows, then bring it back
You're kidding, if you run out of space, then add a second harddrive and map that into
"I can't view photos from my camera in XBMC with autorun on insert"
You're still kidding, inserting a camera and a dialog box pops up
Wikipedia: a failed experiment in user generated content. Verifiable seems to mean, someone else typed it into a website ..
Shouldn't that be, Microsoft doesn't produce a cross-platform OS ..