I couldn't update Slashdot for a moment, so I thought if somebody was trying to find out what would happen if US connections were shutdown. So Slashdot was busy for a moment, but when I thought of trace routing other US sites to see what's happening, I couldn't remember any. So, at the moment US is important because of most routes go trought it, but the content they are providing isn't that signifient. I propably could live without Slashdot but anything else gone down, I wouldn't even notice. I still would miss my connections to people in South-America (I think that you were refering to North-America and specially US, not Canada)
I don't care if "Americans" don't know anything about my(or any other) country, it's choice they've made. I only hope that information you decide to collect from other countries are real, not just some version that your TV/newspaper editors have decided to put together because it sell better than real facts. I have to admit that my knowledge about Ukraine or most of the countries is quite limited, but most of the ínformation I would receive from non-trusted sources(TV/radio/newspapers).
To answer your question about why would any non-American know that much about US: You keep making noise about "good" things you do/have done. There aren't a news day without mentioning how US is going to help some other country, but they always forget to mention why there was trouble at first place(most cases its because of US goverment or large US company).
So this would mean that I'm violating the patent when my client selects best availeble server without telling the user where they are connecting. Connections may change between sessions depending on situations of servers (server busy or down).
Patents description didn't make any sence to me(regarding to other posters being non-english reader didn't make any difference), but if methods that I'm using violate the nature of this patent is this something that I should check further into, or is this patent just something to pass and hope that this patent will be withdraw because of it is obvius solution for building stable client-server solutions.
It seems also that I should have patented my active private corporation information services in early 90's, now know database related intranets.
I was just making a point of situation. I haven't been using Linux for about 4 years, but got it installed back last weekend. It will be fixed when I have enough time to do so and a lot have changed in this time. Last time I checked from RedHat they had something like 30-40 differend packages for bux fixes. That is way too many for average user to handle if (s)he dosn't know what they all do and does (s)he need all of them.
For me time is excuse, but I will do my best to learn all that has been forgotten, but my situation wasn't the point. Average user don't wan't to spend time on finding out these kind of things and their computers can be used for things like DDOS. I'm not saying that they would make sure that their Windows boxes are working, cause those got a lot more holes than their Linux boxes.
For all of you yelling about that Linux is secure and this is plain MS FUD, think twice. Linux is getting more and more popular with average users who want to try it it out and aren't any experts on security. They (including me) install some relaesed distribution and that's it. What else would I need do? Everybody is telling that Linux is secure and stable. Most of you guys now what needs to be fixed after default instalation, but I don't. So this leaves my Linux machine vulnerable to anybody who knows that there are some holes in these defaults. I bet there are thousends of users like me connected directly to net unaware of how our computers can be used to things like DoS.
What we need is to get these distribution makers to get us avege users some "ServicePacks" that are easy to install and would fix recent holes that someone has found. I know that this information can be found from somewhere, but haven't got the time to look for it.
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I couldn't update Slashdot for a moment, so I thought if somebody was trying to find out what would happen if US connections were shutdown. So Slashdot was busy for a moment, but when I thought of trace routing other US sites to see what's happening, I couldn't remember any. So, at the moment US is important because of most routes go trought it, but the content they are providing isn't that signifient. I propably could live without Slashdot but anything else gone down, I wouldn't even notice. I still would miss my connections to people in South-America (I think that you were refering to North-America and specially US, not Canada)
I don't care if "Americans" don't know anything about my(or any other) country, it's choice they've made. I only hope that information you decide to collect from other countries are real, not just some version that your TV/newspaper editors have decided to put together because it sell better than real facts. I have to admit that my knowledge about Ukraine or most of the countries is quite limited, but most of the ínformation I would receive from non-trusted sources(TV/radio/newspapers).
To answer your question about why would any non-American know that much about US: You keep making noise about "good" things you do/have done. There aren't a news day without mentioning how US is going to help some other country, but they always forget to mention why there was trouble at first place(most cases its because of US goverment or large US company).
Patents description didn't make any sence to me(regarding to other posters being non-english reader didn't make any difference), but if methods that I'm using violate the nature of this patent is this something that I should check further into, or is this patent just something to pass and hope that this patent will be withdraw because of it is obvius solution for building stable client-server solutions.
It seems also that I should have patented my active private corporation information services in early 90's, now know database related intranets.
I was just making a point of situation. I haven't been using Linux for about 4 years, but got it installed back last weekend. It will be fixed when I have enough time to do so and a lot have changed in this time.
Last time I checked from RedHat they had something like 30-40 differend packages for bux fixes. That is way too many for average user to handle if (s)he dosn't know what they all do and does (s)he need all of them.
For me time is excuse, but I will do my best to learn all that has been forgotten, but my situation wasn't the point.
Average user don't wan't to spend time on finding out these kind of things and their computers can be used for things like DDOS. I'm not saying that they would make sure that their Windows boxes are working, cause those got a lot more holes than their Linux boxes.
For all of you yelling about that Linux is secure and this is plain MS FUD, think twice.
Linux is getting more and more popular with average users who want to try it it out and aren't any experts on security. They (including me) install some relaesed distribution and that's it. What else would I need do? Everybody is telling that Linux is secure and stable.
Most of you guys now what needs to be fixed after default instalation, but I don't. So this leaves my Linux machine vulnerable to anybody who knows that there are some holes in these defaults. I bet there are thousends of users like me connected directly to net unaware of how our computers can be used to things like DoS.
What we need is to get these distribution makers to get us avege users some "ServicePacks" that are easy to install and would fix recent holes that someone has found.
I know that this information can be found from somewhere, but haven't got the time to look for it.