Once it's in the main repository you can upgrade using synaptic, else download the tar.gz file and extract to a/tmp location and type the following five lines, at a command prompt:
su root
tar -zxvf OO.version.tar.gz ./configure
make
make install
.. and that's the sum total of my knowledge of compiling...
"Yay! I think people were beginning to dislike me a little when I'd ask them to convert and resend an attachment that I couldn't open. Looks like I'll have to hunt around for some other subtle way to annoy my co-workers:)"
Why not point them to where they can download Open Office?
'Import of password protected Microsoft Office XML documents has been implemented in CWS dr72'
If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?
Internet design--that's enough.
That's it? What's wrong with the design of the Internet?
There's anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people--hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong...to introduce it in the same way.
-- unquote --
That's total BS, what's wrong with the Internet is the vast networks of compromised desktop computers co-opted to be used as botnets to provide spamming and phishing services to the criminal sector. The vast majority of which run on Microsoft Windows. And people like you making a good living out of selling 'security' solutions. If everyone on the planet switched off their office 'computer' when they went home from work, the amount of spam/malware on the Internet would drop by over a half.
There is nothing wrong with the Internet, it performs as designed. It delivers packets to-and-from IP addresses. It doesn't know or care what's in 'em. Nor should it, that would break the design. Security should be handled at the end connections. What would cure the current smam/phishing/malware infestation is to design a desktop 'computer' that don't get infected by opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL.
"If I were Bill Gates, I'd run another company--100 percent owned by Microsoft--that produces the antivirus under a different brand"
It's never occured to Kaspersky to suggest that Bill Gates design an Operating System that don't rely on AV to protect. As Marcus Ranum once said enumerating badness is a bad idea since, 'the amount of Badness in the Internet began to vastly outweigh the amount of Goodness'.
So basically because people like Kaspersky have failed at security, and want to implement an Internet Stasi (Staatssicherheit). I don't think so. There are enough people out there that'll see it don't ever happen.
--
'Kaspersky Lab UK provides the leading antivirus and spyware software'
please by more of my bogus 'security' solutions - nuff said..:)
"I used to work on a team at Microsoft who heavily relied on the services of the data center, and if you only knew the shenanigans and the complete incompetence of some of the people responsible for some of the servers, you'd realize that not even Microsoft is immune from stupid admins"
It begs the question as to why MS has to outsource its own cloud services to a third party. Unless it's the people at the top trying to save money by doing things on the cheap. An IT manager who isn't technically trained. Low cost hardware with no redundancy and low cost ms certified 'IT' staff. The staff leaving/hiring cycle being so fast that there isn't a familiar face there after ten months.
'poised to take advantage of the upgrade cycle'.. or time to get back on the upgrade wagon again. You need a computer with twice the power and costs twice as much to do the same as what you did last year.
"i always thought that an active-desktop-esque [sourceforge.net] window manager for linux would be cool, as it would allow users to write applications in HTML, Flash, or anything, and have them in the "Start" Menu, or as part of the desktop"
I thought Active Desktop was HTML shortcuts on your desktop that you could click on and browse using Internet Explorer, while Chrome is a minimalist Operating System designed for sped and security. Something with which for Windows/IExplorer seems to be permanently set on the horizon.
"There was a misunderstanding about an embedded default setting applied by the machine . . .," officials at the renowned Los Angeles hospital said in a written statement that provided no other details about how the error occurred. "As a result, the use of this protocol resulted in a higher than expected amount of radiation."
The dose of radiation was eight times what it should have been.
Once the scanner was programmed with the new instructions, the higher dose was essentially locked in. Each patient who got the procedure -- known as a CT brain perfusion scan -- was subjected to the overdose..
Does that mean there was a programming error. Who wrote the new protocol, who implimented it, who was responsible for testing it? And why isn't there a sensor in the device that sounds an alarm if the radiation exceeds a safe limit?
"Vista sucking has a lot more to do with sociology than technology. The problem was that marketdroids.. outright lied about the user experience at some levels of hardware capability", QuoteMstr
"More internal Microsoft e-mails were unsealed today in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit, detailing the wrangling that took place inside the company and across the industry before and after the operating system's January 2007 launch. The plaintiffs are using the messages to support their contention that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was involved enough in decisions to warrant a deposition"
'The "Vista sucks" meme, however, spread virally because 1) we all love to hate Microsoft, and 2) most users really can't tell the difference between good technology and bad', QuoteMstr
The "Vista sucks" meme spread becasue Vista did really suck, really:)
"From: Stevan Sinofsky
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:08 PM
To: Steve Ballmer Cc: Bill Veghte; Jon Devaan
Subject: Re: Vista
A lot of changes led many Windows XP drivers not really working at all - this across the board for printers, scanners, wan, accessories (fingerprint readers, smartcards, tv tuners), and so on"
"According to some reports, the failure was due to a SAN (Storage Area Network) gone wrong at Microsoft's end. It is claimed that Microsoft does not have a working backup of some of the data that has gone missing from customers devices. The SAN upgrade is rumoured to have been outsourced to Hitachi to complete"
"Microsoft, possibly trying to compensate for lost and / or laid-off Danger employees, outsources an upgrade of its Sidekick SAN to Hitachi, which -- for reasons unknown -- fails to make a backup before starting"
"If the issue is *web browser* stuff, then that should be confined to *browsing the web* - right?"
As I pointed out, the choice of browser is becoming moot, which is why MS is prepared to concede room to the others on their desktop. The next big-thing is with cloud applications, software as a service.. er renting the software. So it won't matter what browser you use, you still get to pay the Microsoft tax.
"Forcing Microsoft to somehow completely remove any part of their OS that can interpret HTML because then it could be construed as a "web browser" - and thus have their own "browser" built-in - is silly. May as well decide notepad shouldn't be allowed to ship with Windows or something"
I'm not in favour of forcing Microsoft to do anything. What I am in favour of is having control of my own computer. That it takes the EU Commission to get this concession out of Microsoft quite frankly beggars belief.
'This proposed measure ensures that PC manufacturers will continue to be able to install any browser on top of Windows and make any browser the default. It also ensures that PC manufacturers and users will be able to turn Internet Explorer on and off'
And with 'search' going to be directly embedded into the applications, the 'choice' of browser is going to become moot.
"Accenture and Microsoft obviously botched the application developement. I wouldn't blame the tools or the platform if something goes wrong. Maybe they chose the wrong tools and platforms. Maybe not. Difficult to say"
Without you producing any evidence to the contrary, the obvious conclusion is that the dot.NET platform isn't robust enough for a real-time application such as the LSE. Else provide evidence as to exactly where and when 'developement' went wrong. How would you have done it differently?
'I think the real problem wasn't.NET, but decision-makers basing their decisions on the wrong input. I've seen this happen in our own company too.. It was a bit like teen sex'
"I'm posting this as AC for a good reason; I work with Accenture and Microsoft both...
I believe you, I really do and your not invoking the appealing-to-authority astro-turfing/fud strategy.
"if say, PM X doesn't request Microsoft to look at problem B because they have no idea it could be a problem (because they not being of a technical background wouldn't think to think it could), then the boys in blue won't either. Sounds like this was the more of the same"
You're talking nonsense. The stock exchange system failed on one of the busiest trading days. And the system had been in place two years, enough time to have any design bugs come to light.
"there were serious holes in the system I can see already; the infrastructure was ancient (a DBMS &.net runtime nearly a decade old)"
Do you have any verifiable citations for the above. Why, for instance would they be using a decade old run time on a system implemented only two years previously. And if it wasn't capible of delivering, why was it ever implemented in the first place? As someone who works with both, you should have all the inside information.
'The London Stock Exchange (LSE.L) suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world's third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users. The problem occurred on what could have been one of London's busiest trading days of the year'
"I work on Mono, because I like it. If you want to learn more about my goals, you can read this old post:"
Well, I guess you are in a bit of a bind, working in co-operation with the Evil dot Empire. I do believe Stallman and you sparring in public is counter productive.
"Since we only have a limited time on earth, I have decided to spend my time on earth as much as I can trying to be like the second salesman. Looking at opportunities where others see hopelessness"
Which begs the question as to why expend so much energy in duplicating dotNET onto the Linux platform. Isn't whole the MONO effort diverting developers from developing native Linux applications?
"The creation of the CodePlex foundation was an internal effort of people that believe in open source at Microsoft. They have been working from within the company to change it. Working at CodePlex is a great way of helping steer Microsoft in the right direction"
What was wrong with SourceForge. If I was cynical and recalling Microsoft's past behaviour, including tthe NovoSOFT trojan.. er covenant, I would suspect this as yet another attempt to co-opt and control a technology they don't own. Why not contribute to SourceForge instead of creating and stacking their own organization. Same with the numerous Microsoft 'open source' licenses. It's very telling that GPL 3 is not one of the supported licenses on CodePlex.
And as an 'open source' supporter I fail to understand how you would recommend something called the LinuxHater's Blog
'If you're a freetard, but you need to run Windows at work or something, I've got an idea for a utility that will keep you true to the cause'
'How many hours do I have to waste wading through the monument of shit known as the debian package repository?'
"For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts"
"Carper himself said, 'I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life.'
So, why don't they put it in SVN (or some similar version control system) where people can tkdiff the changes (i.e. new legislation is in a branch) or output a patchset? If a bill is passed, it's merged into the trunk. It just seems so logical to me, yet I can't find any mention of doing this on the web. What do you think?"
Because legislative language is designed to be so confusing that no one can read it and the various vested interests and pork-barrelers can sneak the various self-serving clauses get passed Senate. If they did what you want then people would know what their politicians really do, as distinct to saying. And then where would we be, government would grind to a hault. What are you some kind of commie-socialist-liberal.
Slashdot Mirror
"Will this be backported to Ubuntu 9.04?"
/tmp location and type the following five lines, at a command prompt:
./configure
.. and that's the sum total of my knowledge of compiling ...
Once it's in the main repository you can upgrade using synaptic, else download the tar.gz file and extract to a
su root
tar -zxvf OO.version.tar.gz
make
make install
"Yay! I think people were beginning to dislike me a little when I'd ask them to convert and resend an attachment that I couldn't open. Looks like I'll have to hunt around for some other subtle way to annoy my co-workers :)"
Why not point them to where they can download Open Office?
'Import of password protected Microsoft Office XML documents has been implemented in CWS dr72'
Me first, me first with the 'doesn't have $X feeture' :)
"Spotify uses 160Kbps OGG compression for its free service, whereas Sky Songs uses 48Kbps AAC+ compression"
HOW do the compression efficiency of both compare and what royalties patent rights apply to either.
If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?
.. :)
Internet design--that's enough.
That's it? What's wrong with the design of the Internet?
There's anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people--hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong...to introduce it in the same way.
-- unquote --
That's total BS, what's wrong with the Internet is the vast networks of compromised desktop computers co-opted to be used as botnets to provide spamming and phishing services to the criminal sector. The vast majority of which run on Microsoft Windows. And people like you making a good living out of selling 'security' solutions. If everyone on the planet switched off their office 'computer' when they went home from work, the amount of spam/malware on the Internet would drop by over a half.
There is nothing wrong with the Internet, it performs as designed. It delivers packets to-and-from IP addresses. It doesn't know or care what's in 'em. Nor should it, that would break the design. Security should be handled at the end connections. What would cure the current smam/phishing/malware infestation is to design a desktop 'computer' that don't get infected by opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL.
"If I were Bill Gates, I'd run another company--100 percent owned by Microsoft--that produces the antivirus under a different brand"
It's never occured to Kaspersky to suggest that Bill Gates design an Operating System that don't rely on AV to protect. As Marcus Ranum once said enumerating badness is a bad idea since, ' the amount of Badness in the Internet began to vastly outweigh the amount of Goodness '.
So basically because people like Kaspersky have failed at security, and want to implement an Internet Stasi (Staatssicherheit). I don't think so. There are enough people out there that'll see it don't ever happen. --
'Kaspersky Lab UK provides the leading antivirus and spyware software'
please by more of my bogus 'security' solutions - nuff said
"I used to work on a team at Microsoft who heavily relied on the services of the data center, and if you only knew the shenanigans and the complete incompetence of some of the people responsible for some of the servers, you'd realize that not even Microsoft is immune from stupid admins"
It begs the question as to why MS has to outsource its own cloud services to a third party. Unless it's the people at the top trying to save money by doing things on the cheap. An IT manager who isn't technically trained. Low cost hardware with no redundancy and low cost ms certified 'IT' staff. The staff leaving/hiring cycle being so fast that there isn't a familiar face there after ten months.
"BBC news reports today that Microsoft has in fact recovered all data, but a minority are still affected (out of 1 million subscribers)"
correction: BBC news reports today that Microsoft claimed it has recovered all the data.
'poised to take advantage of the upgrade cycle' .. or time to get back on the upgrade wagon again. You need a computer with twice the power and costs twice as much to do the same as what you did last year.
A fool that bets his own money on the stock market ..
"i always thought that an active-desktop-esque [sourceforge.net] window manager for linux would be cool, as it would allow users to write applications in HTML, Flash, or anything, and have them in the "Start" Menu, or as part of the desktop"
I thought Active Desktop was HTML shortcuts on your desktop that you could click on and browse using Internet Explorer, while Chrome is a minimalist Operating System designed for sped and security. Something with which for Windows/IExplorer seems to be permanently set on the horizon.
Does that mean there was a programming error. Who wrote the new protocol, who implimented it, who was responsible for testing it? And why isn't there a sensor in the device that sounds an alarm if the radiation exceeds a safe limit?
'See: "Personally I think"'
..
Yes, in other words you just make stuff up and type it
"Vista sucking has a lot more to do with sociology than technology. The problem was that marketdroids .. outright lied about the user experience at some levels of hardware capability", QuoteMstr
:)
"More internal Microsoft e-mails were unsealed today in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit, detailing the wrangling that took place inside the company and across the industry before and after the operating system's January 2007 launch. The plaintiffs are using the messages to support their contention that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was involved enough in decisions to warrant a deposition"
'The "Vista sucks" meme, however, spread virally because 1) we all love to hate Microsoft, and 2) most users really can't tell the difference between good technology and bad', QuoteMstr
The "Vista sucks" meme spread becasue Vista did really suck, really
"From: Stevan Sinofsky
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:08 PM
To: Steve Ballmer Cc: Bill Veghte; Jon Devaan
Subject: Re: Vista
A lot of changes led many Windows XP drivers not really working at all - this across the board for printers, scanners, wan, accessories (fingerprint readers, smartcards, tv tuners), and so on"
"Personally I think Apple is the one to blame about the public perception of Vista"
Do you have any verifiable third party references to support those claims?
"According to some reports, the failure was due to a SAN (Storage Area Network) gone wrong at Microsoft's end. It is claimed that Microsoft does not have a working backup of some of the data that has gone missing from customers devices. The SAN upgrade is rumoured to have been outsourced to Hitachi to complete"
"Microsoft, possibly trying to compensate for lost and / or laid-off Danger employees, outsources an upgrade of its Sidekick SAN to Hitachi, which -- for reasons unknown -- fails to make a backup before starting"
"If the issue is *web browser* stuff, then that should be confined to *browsing the web* - right?"
.. er renting the software. So it won't matter what browser you use, you still get to pay the Microsoft tax.
As I pointed out, the choice of browser is becoming moot, which is why MS is prepared to concede room to the others on their desktop. The next big-thing is with cloud applications, software as a service
"Forcing Microsoft to somehow completely remove any part of their OS that can interpret HTML because then it could be construed as a "web browser" - and thus have their own "browser" built-in - is silly. May as well decide notepad shouldn't be allowed to ship with Windows or something"
I'm not in favour of forcing Microsoft to do anything. What I am in favour of is having control of my own computer. That it takes the EU Commission to get this concession out of Microsoft quite frankly beggars belief.
'This proposed measure ensures that PC manufacturers will continue to be able to install any browser on top of Windows and make any browser the default. It also ensures that PC manufacturers and users will be able to turn Internet Explorer on and off '
And with 'search' going to be directly embedded into the applications, the 'choice' of browser is going to become moot.
"Accenture and Microsoft obviously botched the application developement. I wouldn't blame the tools or the platform if something goes wrong. Maybe they chose the wrong tools and platforms. Maybe not. Difficult to say"
Without you producing any evidence to the contrary, the obvious conclusion is that the dot.NET platform isn't robust enough for a real-time application such as the LSE. Else provide evidence as to exactly where and when 'developement' went wrong. How would you have done it differently?
'I think the real problem wasn't .NET, but decision-makers basing their decisions on the wrong input. I've seen this happen in our own company too .. It was a bit like teen sex'
rest of waffle snipped .. :)
"I'm posting this as AC for a good reason; I work with Accenture and Microsoft both...
.net runtime nearly a decade old)"
I believe you, I really do and your not invoking the appealing-to-authority astro-turfing/fud strategy.
"if say, PM X doesn't request Microsoft to look at problem B because they have no idea it could be a problem (because they not being of a technical background wouldn't think to think it could), then the boys in blue won't either. Sounds like this was the more of the same"
You're talking nonsense. The stock exchange system failed on one of the busiest trading days. And the system had been in place two years, enough time to have any design bugs come to light.
"there were serious holes in the system I can see already; the infrastructure was ancient (a DBMS &
Do you have any verifiable citations for the above. Why, for instance would they be using a decade old run time on a system implemented only two years previously. And if it wasn't capible of delivering, why was it ever implemented in the first place? As someone who works with both, you should have all the inside information.
'The London Stock Exchange (LSE.L) suffered its worst systems failure in eight years on Monday, forcing the world's third largest share market to suspend trading for about seven hours and infuriating its users. The problem occurred on what could have been one of London's busiest trading days of the year'
"I work on Mono, because I like it. If you want to learn more about my goals, you can read this old post:"
Well, I guess you are in a bit of a bind, working in co-operation with the Evil dot Empire. I do believe Stallman and you sparring in public is counter productive.
"Since we only have a limited time on earth, I have decided to spend my time on earth as much as I can trying to be like the second salesman. Looking at opportunities where others see hopelessness"
.. er covenant, I would suspect this as yet another attempt to co-opt and control a technology they don't own. Why not contribute to SourceForge instead of creating and stacking their own organization. Same with the numerous Microsoft 'open source' licenses. It's very telling that GPL 3 is not one of the supported licenses on CodePlex.
Which begs the question as to why expend so much energy in duplicating dotNET onto the Linux platform. Isn't whole the MONO effort diverting developers from developing native Linux applications?
"The creation of the CodePlex foundation was an internal effort of people that believe in open source at Microsoft. They have been working from within the company to change it. Working at CodePlex is a great way of helping steer Microsoft in the right direction"
What was wrong with SourceForge. If I was cynical and recalling Microsoft's past behaviour, including tthe NovoSOFT trojan
And as an 'open source' supporter I fail to understand how you would recommend something called the LinuxHater's Blog
'If you're a freetard, but you need to run Windows at work or something, I've got an idea for a utility that will keep you true to the cause'
'How many hours do I have to waste wading through the monument of shit known as the debian package repository?'
How about limiting SSH access for a restricted set of IP address?
"For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts"
...
"Large and high profile websites using Perl include: Slashdot, The Internet Movie Database, Amazon.com, CMPnet technical magazines
"Carper himself said, 'I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life.'
So, why don't they put it in SVN (or some similar version control system) where people can tkdiff the changes (i.e. new legislation is in a branch) or output a patchset? If a bill is passed, it's merged into the trunk. It just seems so logical to me, yet I can't find any mention of doing this on the web. What do you think?"
Because legislative language is designed to be so confusing that no one can read it and the various vested interests and pork-barrelers can sneak the various self-serving clauses get passed Senate. If they did what you want then people would know what their politicians really do, as distinct to saying. And then where would we be, government would grind to a hault. What are you some kind of commie-socialist-liberal.