IBM declined to comment on the suit, which was filed in Utah on behalf of SCO by David Boies of Boies, Schiller and Flexner. Boies was the U.S. Justice Department's lead lawyer in its successful antitrust case against Microsoft.
I've been to all but one of the FP events since it's inception in 1997, I even won the tournament that year back when everyone played nothing but quake. I've got to warn people though that with size comes a distinct lack of quality... last years FP was a complete disaster, the words anarchy and chaos come to mind.
I definately won't be going back and if you're more interterested in a good time than simply being around lots of computers, I suggest you go to a LAN that hasn't completely outgrown itself.
... as a kid and watch the ants run around and panic? It was fun to terrorize them and I always wondered what they were doing, why they ran around like that and where they were going.
I think I finally figured it out... they were trying to get my credit history!
I disagree. This sort of thing is my forte as I happen to work for a cable company, on the internet side of things. We like to think of ourselves, on both fronts, as recession proof in that when times are tough, people usually turn to their cheapest forms of entertainment to pass the hours.
That used to be just TV, but now I think it's expanded to the Internet as well. For the TV side of things, the research is there to back up what I am saying. On the Internet side I am making a bit of an assumption, but I have watched our growth and retention myself and they never seem to be affected by the ebb and flow of the economy much.
Personally, I would attribute the decline of these major dialup providers to two things. First, as always people are spending more time online than ever before, and the more time they spend on line the more eager they will be to switch to better/faster connections. We all knew that eventually, dialup was going to begin it's decline. Second, broadband is becoming cheaper and is quite comparable with dial up costs, as "value" (slower, cheaper) versions of cable and dsl are being offered in more regions.
The ironic thing is, with the super bowl trailers you get 30 seconds but want the whole hour and a half; with the porn you get the whole hour and a half but only need 30 seconds.
My intial thought on this was that this isn't MS's fault and we shouldn't be bashing them for this worm; almost every os and daemon out there has had it's holes and exploits and MS has already put out the fix so it's in the admins hands now.
But on second thought, when I look at the serious impact of the worms that have been created for MS products and their vulnerabilities the last few years, the obvious becomes apparent: admins of MS OS's and processes on them are a LOT slower to patch than any of their counterparts (read: stupider). And the thing is, MS knows this, they specifically market to the stupid/lazy admins. They're the "easy" OS, they sell their products by telling people that you just install them and never worry about them again. I've taken too many MS courses (I am an MSCE and MSCDBA if they haven't expired on me, but I couldn't care less) and not once was patching the operating systems or server processes ever mentioned during all those courses, which is amazing to me.
And hey, to each their own I guess... apparently there aren't enough intelligent or well read admins around so there is a demand for these products and this approach. But if that's the case, then I think it has to be said that MS has a greater responsibility to create products free from exploits than anyone else, if they're marketing and teaching the idea that you don't need to patch.
It's by creating that laissez faire attitude towards administration that MS is directly responsible for the proliferation of these worms.
Speaking for Canada and the usa's other allies, this is really good news for us. It may actually be safe to fight on the same side as americans again soon! We can only hope...
If you look at the P2P networks as they currently stand, they are quite raw and chaotic. Somewhat like the concept behind open source development, the same openness that allows the lables to exploit a weakness in P2P is forcing the developers of these networks to identify and fix the weakness.
People are making joking comments about putting in a slashdot like moderation system or CRC checks on the files, but both of those are good options. A CRC check on the file to determine exact duplicates will prevent anyone from downloading the same spoofed file twice (imagine you check an option that marks the file as 'bad' and all the files of the same size and CRC are removed from your view). A moderation system would work even better, but in that lay a whole new realm of problems (how do you prevent spoofed moderation?).
Still, I think from this sort of thing will emerge a solution and the next generation of P2P networking. Well, I hope.
Under the Justice Department settlement, Microsoft must allow consumers or PC makers to hide user access to five pieces of so-called middleware: Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine.
Reading the article, it sounds to me like if you've already deleted the shortcuts to these applications, you stand to gain nothing from this service pack. The bloat is still there.
I'm not aware of a good open source streaming media format that also has good linux AND windows clients, which might explain why Darwin chose to stream quicktime format (or even more likely, there is something about the quicktime format that makes it supperior for streaming). But it would be nice to see something come up to bat against the major players here.
But just because I'm not aware of it, doesn't mean it does not exist. Where there is a software question, there is usually an open source answer. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good streaming format with clients for Windows/Linux/Apple? Perhaps a Java client is the answer.
We started out with one open view server, which was named 'Nova' before I was involved, so I don't know how. But when the bigger and better server arrived, it was appropriately titled 'Supernova'. After we started doing a little development, we decided we needed a test box, but due to cut backs all we were allowed was an old x86 (an P233 or some piece of crap). So we named it 'Chevy Nova'.
I'm quite proud of my own personal naming convention though, because in our work environment (at an ISP), very often management will speak about specific servers at meetings. So I've taking to naming my boxes noises that handicapped people make, like "phnork" and "phnea".
I never get sick of listening to my manager tell our operations centre that I've made a new tool available to them on "phnooshipling".
I, for one, hope this passes...
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No offense to the americans here, but quite frankly, this would open up a gaping hole in your market that we, the other countries capable of producing computer hardware, would love to fill. The hardware and software markets outside the usa borders are large markets to say the least, markets in which crippled exports from you would have a hard time competing.
While this may be a bad thing for americans, it's a good thing for the rest of us when the competition shoots itself in the foot.
Your points are valid... for an american. You need to realize that in Canada, our government is used to running things for it's citizens, in a manner that is more often than not better than could be done by an open market. Health care is an example I am sure you are familiar with.
The point is, what's good for the united states is not neccesarily good for Canada, and vice versa. I believe you when you say your country could not pull this off; but if you mean to imply that we can't, you're wrong. Theoretically it can be done and it can be done well.
That having been said, I know a few people who were recruited from where I work now to go work for Axia, the company mainly responsible for building the network, and they were bottom of the barrel staff here. If you've ever seen that comercial where a couple guys go around in vans and round up a bunch of random people to get $100 for 15 minutes work, in order to staff their IT department, that's basically what's going on over at Axia.
In theory this can be done and it can be very effectively, however, I have little to no faith in Axia to do so, they have been desparately hiring very poor staff.
It seems from reading the comments here that a very unfair comparison between 'everything Linux' and specific versions of Windows is being made. You have to take into account all of the versions of the moderm windows OS (95/98/NT/2000/XP) to begin to compare to the range of uses for Linux, and even then you're not doing Linux's flexability justice. Although they use the phrase 'Windows' from time to time I am led to believe they are actually comparing any kind of Linux vulnerability to specifically only Win2K and WinNT vulnerabilities. And on top of it, although I'm admittedly not sure, I get the feeling this comparison only took into account perhaps IIS on the Windows side while lumping into Linux the vulnerabilities of a great many more applications.
How about someone produce a more useful article such as a comparison of vulnerabilities between WinXP and Linux kernel 2.4.17, and this time take into account the most important factor of all; how long the vulnerabilities are known in the wild before a fix is available.
It's the american way! Mom, apple pie, and killing anyone who stands in the way of 'furthering the cause'.
Terrorism:
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
It's funny how americans block out the bigger picture, thinking somehow that when they commit terrorist acts, they aren't terrorists.
Half life is a game, not an engine. Half life was written inside the Quake 2 engine. Now although the article seems to say that they targeted it towards the game (read: just quake3.exe), the article still holds a valid point. But the reason they didn't target it to Half life is it its not used for benchmarking; the reason it is not used for bench marking is it is just a game based off a bought engine... why would you benchmark the older engine (Quake 2) when you can bench mark the more recent engine (Quake 3)?
Besides, real gamers play Quake 3. Counter strike is for little girls.:)
Shaw and Rogers are in completely different boats. While Rogers still buys major services from @Home vital to it's infrastructure (like provisioning, the act of allowing a cable modem to lock onto the network), Shaw buys nothing from @Home other than the remaining legacy email accouts. Shaw has succeeding in completely replacing all of the services @Home once provided. Soon I beleive they will remove the '@Home' portion of the 'Shaw@Home' trademark.
My response, as a consumer, is to take my music pirating up a notch. Where as before I spent a predetermined budget on the CDs I wanted the most, I'm now going to pirate everything, save the indy bands I like.
Remember, people, the ball (money) is in our court. We need to understand collectively that music piracy is a legitimate form of protest against these damaged products being sold. Use it.
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IBM declined to comment on the suit, which was filed in Utah on behalf of SCO by David Boies of Boies, Schiller and Flexner. Boies was the U.S. Justice Department's lead lawyer in its successful antitrust case against Microsoft.
IBM: Uh oh.
I've been to all but one of the FP events since it's inception in 1997, I even won the tournament that year back when everyone played nothing but quake. I've got to warn people though that with size comes a distinct lack of quality... last years FP was a complete disaster, the words anarchy and chaos come to mind.
I definately won't be going back and if you're more interterested in a good time than simply being around lots of computers, I suggest you go to a LAN that hasn't completely outgrown itself.
... as a kid and watch the ants run around and panic? It was fun to terrorize them and I always wondered what they were doing, why they ran around like that and where they were going.
I think I finally figured it out... they were trying to get my credit history!
Looks like denim. I somehow doubt that with 2 layers of aluminum, this is going to feel anything like denim.
I disagree. This sort of thing is my forte as I happen to work for a cable company, on the internet side of things. We like to think of ourselves, on both fronts, as recession proof in that when times are tough, people usually turn to their cheapest forms of entertainment to pass the hours.
That used to be just TV, but now I think it's expanded to the Internet as well. For the TV side of things, the research is there to back up what I am saying. On the Internet side I am making a bit of an assumption, but I have watched our growth and retention myself and they never seem to be affected by the ebb and flow of the economy much.
Personally, I would attribute the decline of these major dialup providers to two things. First, as always people are spending more time online than ever before, and the more time they spend on line the more eager they will be to switch to better/faster connections. We all knew that eventually, dialup was going to begin it's decline. Second, broadband is becoming cheaper and is quite comparable with dial up costs, as "value" (slower, cheaper) versions of cable and dsl are being offered in more regions.
The ironic thing is, with the super bowl trailers you get 30 seconds but want the whole hour and a half; with the porn you get the whole hour and a half but only need 30 seconds.
My intial thought on this was that this isn't MS's fault and we shouldn't be bashing them for this worm; almost every os and daemon out there has had it's holes and exploits and MS has already put out the fix so it's in the admins hands now.
But on second thought, when I look at the serious impact of the worms that have been created for MS products and their vulnerabilities the last few years, the obvious becomes apparent: admins of MS OS's and processes on them are a LOT slower to patch than any of their counterparts (read: stupider). And the thing is, MS knows this, they specifically market to the stupid/lazy admins. They're the "easy" OS, they sell their products by telling people that you just install them and never worry about them again. I've taken too many MS courses (I am an MSCE and MSCDBA if they haven't expired on me, but I couldn't care less) and not once was patching the operating systems or server processes ever mentioned during all those courses, which is amazing to me.
And hey, to each their own I guess... apparently there aren't enough intelligent or well read admins around so there is a demand for these products and this approach. But if that's the case, then I think it has to be said that MS has a greater responsibility to create products free from exploits than anyone else, if they're marketing and teaching the idea that you don't need to patch.
It's by creating that laissez faire attitude towards administration that MS is directly responsible for the proliferation of these worms.
Speaking for Canada and the usa's other allies, this is really good news for us. It may actually be safe to fight on the same side as americans again soon! We can only hope...
Mainly because there are no higher forms of life there.
No, it's because we were able to produce plenty of examples of prior art, something the united states and others couldn't.
If you look at the P2P networks as they currently stand, they are quite raw and chaotic. Somewhat like the concept behind open source development, the same openness that allows the lables to exploit a weakness in P2P is forcing the developers of these networks to identify and fix the weakness.
People are making joking comments about putting in a slashdot like moderation system or CRC checks on the files, but both of those are good options. A CRC check on the file to determine exact duplicates will prevent anyone from downloading the same spoofed file twice (imagine you check an option that marks the file as 'bad' and all the files of the same size and CRC are removed from your view). A moderation system would work even better, but in that lay a whole new realm of problems (how do you prevent spoofed moderation?).
Still, I think from this sort of thing will emerge a solution and the next generation of P2P networking. Well, I hope.
Under the Justice Department settlement, Microsoft must allow consumers or PC makers to hide user access to five pieces of so-called middleware: Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine.
Reading the article, it sounds to me like if you've already deleted the shortcuts to these applications, you stand to gain nothing from this service pack. The bloat is still there.
Quake 3 already does this for me, provided I win. If I lose, I move on to punching holes in the walls of my apartment.
...this whole topic is going to be irrelivent once the entire internet is shut down because it's a haven for terrorists.
I'm not aware of a good open source streaming media format that also has good linux AND windows clients, which might explain why Darwin chose to stream quicktime format (or even more likely, there is something about the quicktime format that makes it supperior for streaming). But it would be nice to see something come up to bat against the major players here.
But just because I'm not aware of it, doesn't mean it does not exist. Where there is a software question, there is usually an open source answer. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good streaming format with clients for Windows/Linux/Apple? Perhaps a Java client is the answer.
We started out with one open view server, which was named 'Nova' before I was involved, so I don't know how. But when the bigger and better server arrived, it was appropriately titled 'Supernova'. After we started doing a little development, we decided we needed a test box, but due to cut backs all we were allowed was an old x86 (an P233 or some piece of crap). So we named it 'Chevy Nova'.
I'm quite proud of my own personal naming convention though, because in our work environment (at an ISP), very often management will speak about specific servers at meetings. So I've taking to naming my boxes noises that handicapped people make, like "phnork" and "phnea".
I never get sick of listening to my manager tell our operations centre that I've made a new tool available to them on "phnooshipling".
No offense to the americans here, but quite frankly, this would open up a gaping hole in your market that we, the other countries capable of producing computer hardware, would love to fill. The hardware and software markets outside the usa borders are large markets to say the least, markets in which crippled exports from you would have a hard time competing.
While this may be a bad thing for americans, it's a good thing for the rest of us when the competition shoots itself in the foot.
Your points are valid... for an american. You need to realize that in Canada, our government is used to running things for it's citizens, in a manner that is more often than not better than could be done by an open market. Health care is an example I am sure you are familiar with.
The point is, what's good for the united states is not neccesarily good for Canada, and vice versa. I believe you when you say your country could not pull this off; but if you mean to imply that we can't, you're wrong. Theoretically it can be done and it can be done well.
That having been said, I know a few people who were recruited from where I work now to go work for Axia, the company mainly responsible for building the network, and they were bottom of the barrel staff here. If you've ever seen that comercial where a couple guys go around in vans and round up a bunch of random people to get $100 for 15 minutes work, in order to staff their IT department, that's basically what's going on over at Axia.
In theory this can be done and it can be very effectively, however, I have little to no faith in Axia to do so, they have been desparately hiring very poor staff.
It seems from reading the comments here that a very unfair comparison between 'everything Linux' and specific versions of Windows is being made. You have to take into account all of the versions of the moderm windows OS (95/98/NT/2000/XP) to begin to compare to the range of uses for Linux, and even then you're not doing Linux's flexability justice. Although they use the phrase 'Windows' from time to time I am led to believe they are actually comparing any kind of Linux vulnerability to specifically only Win2K and WinNT vulnerabilities. And on top of it, although I'm admittedly not sure, I get the feeling this comparison only took into account perhaps IIS on the Windows side while lumping into Linux the vulnerabilities of a great many more applications.
How about someone produce a more useful article such as a comparison of vulnerabilities between WinXP and Linux kernel 2.4.17, and this time take into account the most important factor of all; how long the vulnerabilities are known in the wild before a fix is available.
Hrm, blatantly offtopic posts to Slashdot threads to try and drive a stock down.... interesting.
Uh, news flash, you are hypocrytical crybabies. And the world already knows it, so, too late. :/
Read the article, retard. It bypasses download security. Blind faith in microsoft... could you be any stupider?
It's the american way! Mom, apple pie, and killing anyone who stands in the way of 'furthering the cause'.
Terrorism:
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
It's funny how americans block out the bigger picture, thinking somehow that when they commit terrorist acts, they aren't terrorists.
Half life is a game, not an engine. Half life was written inside the Quake 2 engine. Now although the article seems to say that they targeted it towards the game (read: just quake3.exe), the article still holds a valid point. But the reason they didn't target it to Half life is it its not used for benchmarking; the reason it is not used for bench marking is it is just a game based off a bought engine... why would you benchmark the older engine (Quake 2) when you can bench mark the more recent engine (Quake 3)?
:)
Besides, real gamers play Quake 3. Counter strike is for little girls.
Shaw and Rogers are in completely different boats. While Rogers still buys major services from @Home vital to it's infrastructure (like provisioning, the act of allowing a cable modem to lock onto the network), Shaw buys nothing from @Home other than the remaining legacy email accouts. Shaw has succeeding in completely replacing all of the services @Home once provided. Soon I beleive they will remove the '@Home' portion of the 'Shaw@Home' trademark.
My response, as a consumer, is to take my music pirating up a notch. Where as before I spent a predetermined budget on the CDs I wanted the most, I'm now going to pirate everything, save the indy bands I like.
Remember, people, the ball (money) is in our court. We need to understand collectively that music piracy is a legitimate form of protest against these damaged products being sold. Use it.