Yes it does, but a smart defence lawyer might say to the IMBlaze guy "You *are* fucked, just sign half your posessions over as settlement and you MAY placate them. Otherwise its lifetime poverty for you!"
I just downloaded this abomination, and yep, up comes the GPL licence.
*THEN*
Up pops the part where you have to enter the serial code. Oh yeah. The sourcecode AINT on that site, and it AINT in the package. Do you detect a problem? I do.
Anyway. Lets just see what strings imblaze.exe reveals;-
Theres; GAIM_NO_DLL_CHECK gaim.dll gaim_main
Yup its gaim.
Interestingly removeing imblaze.dll from the plugins directory *seems* to remove the advertising crap.
Theres more. "idletrack.dll" won't delete when I delete this. It means that its in use somewhere. Raise any alarm bells?
Finally, anyone got any idea where this thing keeps its configuration. I'm working on a theory that by deleting imblaze.dll from plugins BEFORE running it, one can bypass registration and use it as plain old gaim.
The point is, IMBlaze *IS* gaim, but with a nominal amount of crappy spamvertising code chucked in.
The Gaim developers are probably owed the entire revenue stream the product made, because IMBlaze are wrongfully claiming someone elses product as there own and charging people money for it.... and possibly triple damage style too because IMBLaze *HAS* been informed.
If the Gaim people want to, they are going to get a bunch of dollars compensation and IMBlaze are history.
IMblaze , an instant messenger thats main "feature" is it will spam your contacts with crap, was notified by myself and others at least a year ago that its a blatant rip from gaim. The company refuses to send me source.
I informed the devs of gaim, and they aparently wont act (or cant afford to). But aparently are NOT happy about it.
Where XML *would* be kinda neat would be to have things like;-
Say for a hypothetical "Gizmo daemon" ('scuse the squre brackets)
gizmod.configurator.xml [gizmod option="port"]
[name]Select Port[/name]
[validate]
[lowerbound]0[/lowerbound]
[upperbound]10000[/lowerbound]
[default]79[/default]
[/validate]
[reject]That port was out of range[/reject] [/gizmod]
and then gizmod.config.xml [gizmod option="port"]
[value]79[/value]
[configurator]gizmod.configurator.xml[/configurato r]
[stanza]port[/stanza]
[/value] [/gizmod]
or shit, even gizmod.cfg.template [network] port=%gizmod .configurator.xml|port%
Thus you have a configurator file for each config file.
Then from there you could have just one tool that looks at the xml config for whatever app is being configured and presents wizards, or whatever based on the configurator xml. Diferent distributions could have there own configurators or whatever
and to top it off, a top level config file could have something like
The T-1 Lines a bit excessive. Granted I've been out the AV industry a while, even 128k ISDN will do it, but 384k is the charm (I think tho the US uses 54k rather than 64k ISDN lines, so translate that acordingly). Use either a tandberg, or perhaps a RSI unit for conferencing (RSI is cheaper but imho a little bodgier image) Make sure it supports both isdn and IP conferencing. When I was in the industry TCP/IP conf was considered fairly crap, but it might of improved a bit.
For inhouse stuff, build up an open323 gateway, and put some isdn in it.
You'll want an AMX or Crestron (My tip. AMX) control system. Bosses *love* touchscreens.
Ultimately however, you really want a pro to do this. Its just not in the skill set of the average IT guy. I've never seen an install by IT guys without AV training that actually worked properly. But then again, AV guys make lousy NT admins;)
OOh yeah. Polycom sucks. They really do. Dont be fooled by that pricetag.
Glad to see the respect for democracy round these woods.
Lets rewrite that a little...
I'm sorry to break this to you so harsh but this man was supporting his wife and kid not by flipping burgers or pumping gas but advocating REPUBLICANISM openly. He preaches and stipulates what "The Man" can and will do but when it comes knocking on his door all he does is cry. He was the one who brought his wife and kid into this no one else, probably even tries to convice those close to him of "the way of the REPUBLICANISM".
Heres something. If you are so opposed to free political speech, why dont you fuck off to north korea.
I have no sympathy for anarchists. They cannot create, only destroy.
Uh. Way to demonstrate an understanding of the topic. Anarchism concerns itself specifically with the creation of a society based on mutual trust and respect. Anarchists fight against the DESTRUCTIVE influences of heirachy and domination.
In short, being the only political philosophy that demands moral behavior (Real moral behavior. Do it cos its right, not cos we are forcing you) of its followers, it is perhaps by extention the only non destructive ideology out there.
For most anarchists I know, non violence is a verry important concept, since violence is cohercive and therefore anti-anarchist. Just cos a bunch of disfunctional punks in seatle decide they are anarchists and smash stuff up, doesnt mean thats what anarchists do.
I suggest reading that FAQ in the original post. Who knows, you might even join us.
"Have you had to deal with a customer who changes requirements on a whim and then proceeds to threaten you with severe penalties if the system will be late?"
Holy shit sherlock! You've just described the experience of any given contractor in any given contract to any given government in the world!
So... er... What your saying is EDS cant cope with it? Theres an old cliche that ends with something like "Get outa the kitchen"
If EDS used open systems it would of saved them a heck of a lot of work due to the superior scaleability and flexibility of using tried and tested methodology.
IM blaze is literally just GAIM, with the source code made unavailable, you pay for it AND it spams your friends with network marketing bullshit.
I've emailed them again and again demanding the source code as I'm legally entitled to, and they ignore me. However, its really up to the Gaim people to sue. Which perhaps they have decided against at this stage. Its a shame, theres probably a fat million each in there for the gaim developers. And possibly potential jailtime.
Someone *NEEDS* to send these people a DMCA notice. If they ignore it... jailtime!
What microsoft miss, is empirically and objectively your system is in a much higher danger of ACTUALLY getting hacked or virussed or whatever.
Lets see. Comparison time. When was the last virus outbreak that trashed linux systems world wide.
oh...
Anyway, to be more fair, the other point is that most of these security bulletins for linux have been of the 'running nethack as root could break system' type pap that doesnt actually increase the chance of a break in in any sensible way. This is compared to the preponderance of serious worm inducing flaws in windows.
Microsoft can bleat as much as they like, and look I'll be honest, props for the fact that modern windows is probably safer than older windows, but this doesnt distract from a simple home truth: Linux , Solaris and BSD is your best bet for a secure system. VMS if your a complete paranoid freak.
i want to live in a world where my government is acting in my best interest, has ABSOLUTELY nothing to hide
I want to live in a world where government goes away and leave me alone.....
*dreams*
also, hell yeah on your idea. Open source government. Its gotta happen!
Hell, even the soviets, pre collapse with the whole glasnost and peristroika thing where far more open than our current western democracies. And thats saying something.:(
I used to work in a courtroom in australia. Generally if you represent yourself you are in big bloody trouble.
However what some judges would do, is ask witnesses(etc) questions on behalf of the person representing themselves to make up for that persons lack of representation. (Especially if the judge thought the person sueing/prosecuting was just beating on some poor guy)
More often then not the judges questions would tear huge stinky holes in the case. Dunno about te US, but over here the best lawyers are definately the judges.
It just has to lead to 'unreasonable imputations' on your character.
Ie if I said "Hired man posts on slashdot", "Slashdot readers are known to steal company time surfing the site" "People who steal from companies are criminals" then I've said 3 things that are true.
But I've also probably defamed you (legally that is). Its all in the imputation.
And not being there extremely fucks my seriously high expectations of being able stop blowing my IT budget in the work place out.
Half out techies cant seem to figure out how to get mac X windows to work, so how the heck are our users supposed to?
Oo is dead on the mac it seems. Its a shame, cos it could of been the platform where it finally got its hold. Apple people , like linux people seem hate microsoft softare almost on principle. A ripe market, alas one thats been thrown away.
Do you realize that you just managed to fulfil a prediction? He just quoted Card saying that people who take a stand against homosexuality will be branded "bigots." So what do you call him? A bigot. At least do him the favor of finding a thesaurus for any future insecure rants.
Why should he lie. Its a fact that homophobes are bigots. To say otherwise is plain dishonesty?
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Well sorry then, what you said sounds awfully like the crap the imblaze idiot was saying on the linuxforum. 1+1=3 oops.
But *surely* you dont see an *tiny* little problem with them saying that they where on it *TEN MONTHS AGO*
That was ten months ago they where supposed to of removed the code *OR* put up the GPL violation.
Theres only one legal way for the IMBlaze people to resolve this, and thats to put up the code or remove the download.
He doesnt have any other options. The third option is to continue to be a thief. But that could be rather costly.
Ok. I think I just lost my temper at the astroturfing anonymous coward. :) oops.
*BULLSHIT*
They claimed it would be there own code indeed about 10 months ago
SINCE THEN
they have revamped the website, changed the system, and its *STILL* fucking gaim.
They are *LYING THRU THERE TEETH*
Seriously, the developer *NEEDS* to post the GPL code *NOW*.
Yes it does, but a smart defence lawyer might say to the IMBlaze guy "You *are* fucked, just sign half your posessions over as settlement and you MAY placate them. Otherwise its lifetime poverty for you!"
Ok. on a bit of research idletrack.dll *may* be non-malicious and a standard bit of gaim.
Ok. Fucking wow.
I just downloaded this abomination, and yep, up comes the GPL licence.
*THEN*
Up pops the part where you have to enter the serial code. Oh yeah. The sourcecode AINT on that site, and it AINT in the package. Do you detect a problem? I do.
Anyway. Lets just see what
strings imblaze.exe reveals;-
Theres;
GAIM_NO_DLL_CHECK
gaim.dll
gaim_main
Yup its gaim.
Interestingly removeing imblaze.dll from the plugins directory *seems* to remove the advertising crap.
Theres more. "idletrack.dll" won't delete when I delete this. It means that its in use somewhere. Raise any alarm bells?
Finally, anyone got any idea where this thing keeps its configuration. I'm working on a theory that by deleting imblaze.dll from plugins BEFORE running it, one can bypass registration and use it as plain old gaim.
IMBLAZE WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SOURCE?
They would have to remove the whole thing
The point is, IMBlaze *IS* gaim, but with a nominal amount of crappy spamvertising code chucked in.
The Gaim developers are probably owed the entire revenue stream the product made, because IMBlaze are wrongfully claiming someone elses product as there own and charging people money for it.... and possibly triple damage style too because IMBLaze *HAS* been informed.
If the Gaim people want to, they are going to get a bunch of dollars compensation and IMBlaze are history.
Well, I dont lose a thing. I'm not the gaim developer.
But it sure ticks off my sense of justice no end.
IMblaze , an instant messenger thats main "feature" is it will spam your contacts with crap, was notified by myself and others at least a year ago that its a blatant rip from gaim. The company refuses to send me source.
I informed the devs of gaim, and they aparently wont act (or cant afford to). But aparently are NOT happy about it.
http://www.imblaze.com/screenshots.asp
Someone needs to stop these creeps.
Where XML *would* be kinda neat would be to have things like;-
o r]
d .configurator.xml|port%
o nfigurator ]f ig.xml][/configuration]
Say for a hypothetical "Gizmo daemon"
('scuse the squre brackets)
gizmod.configurator.xml
[gizmod option="port"]
[name]Select Port[/name]
[validate]
[lowerbound]0[/lowerbound]
[upperbound]10000[/lowerbound]
[default]79[/default]
[/validate]
[reject]That port was out of range[/reject]
[/gizmod]
and then
gizmod.config.xml
[gizmod option="port"]
[value]79[/value]
[configurator]gizmod.configurator.xml[/configurat
[stanza]port[/stanza]
[/value]
[/gizmod]
or shit, even
gizmod.cfg.template
[network]
port=%gizmo
Thus you have a configurator file for each config file.
Then from there you could have just one tool that looks at the xml config for whatever app is being configured and presents wizards, or whatever based on the configurator xml. Diferent distributions could have there own configurators or whatever
and to top it off, a top level config file could have something like
toplevel.xml
[softwareinstalled]
[package name="gizmod"]
[config]
[configurator]gizmo.configurator.xml[/c
[/softwareinstalled]
[configuration]gizmo.con
[/config]
[name]Gizmo Daemon[/name]
[blah....
[/package]
(etc)
[softwareinstalled]
Well you get the basic idea. It'd make life alot easier if it was done properly and adhered to.
The T-1 Lines a bit excessive. Granted I've been out the AV industry a while, even 128k ISDN will do it, but 384k is the charm (I think tho the US uses 54k rather than 64k ISDN lines, so translate that acordingly). Use either a tandberg, or perhaps a RSI unit for conferencing (RSI is cheaper but imho a little bodgier image) Make sure it supports both isdn and IP conferencing. When I was in the industry TCP/IP conf was considered fairly crap, but it might of improved a bit.
;)
For inhouse stuff, build up an open323 gateway, and put some isdn in it.
You'll want an AMX or Crestron (My tip. AMX) control system. Bosses *love* touchscreens.
Ultimately however, you really want a pro to do this. Its just not in the skill set of the average IT guy. I've never seen an install by IT guys without AV training that actually worked properly. But then again, AV guys make lousy NT admins
OOh yeah. Polycom sucks. They really do. Dont be fooled by that pricetag.
Glad to see the respect for democracy round these woods.
Lets rewrite that a little...
I'm sorry to break this to you so harsh but this man was supporting his wife and kid not by flipping burgers or pumping gas but advocating REPUBLICANISM openly. He preaches and stipulates what "The Man" can and will do but when it comes knocking on his door all he does is cry. He was the one who brought his wife and kid into this no one else, probably even tries to convice those close to him of "the way of the REPUBLICANISM".
Heres something. If you are so opposed to free political speech, why dont you fuck off to north korea.
I have no sympathy for anarchists. They cannot create, only destroy.
Uh. Way to demonstrate an understanding of the topic. Anarchism concerns itself specifically with the creation of a society based on mutual trust and respect. Anarchists fight against the DESTRUCTIVE influences of heirachy and domination.
In short, being the only political philosophy that demands moral behavior (Real moral behavior. Do it cos its right, not cos we are forcing you) of its followers, it is perhaps by extention the only non destructive ideology out there.
For most anarchists I know, non violence is a verry important concept, since violence is cohercive and therefore anti-anarchist. Just cos a bunch of disfunctional punks in seatle decide they are anarchists and smash stuff up, doesnt mean thats what anarchists do.
I suggest reading that FAQ in the original post. Who knows, you might even join us.
"Have you had to deal with a customer who changes requirements on a whim and then proceeds to threaten you with severe penalties if the system will be late?"
Holy shit sherlock! You've just described the experience of any given contractor in any given contract to any given government in the world!
So... er... What your saying is EDS cant cope with it? Theres an old cliche that ends with something like "Get outa the kitchen"
If EDS used open systems it would of saved them a heck of a lot of work due to the superior scaleability and flexibility of using tried and tested methodology.
http://www.imblaze.com/index.asp
IM blaze is literally just GAIM, with the source code made unavailable, you pay for it AND it spams your friends with network marketing bullshit.
I've emailed them again and again demanding the source code as I'm legally entitled to, and they ignore me. However, its really up to the Gaim people to sue. Which perhaps they have decided against at this stage. Its a shame, theres probably a fat million each in there for the gaim developers. And possibly potential jailtime.
Someone *NEEDS* to send these people a DMCA notice. If they ignore it... jailtime!
I'd say verry few of them.
...
What microsoft miss, is empirically and objectively your system is in a much higher danger of ACTUALLY getting hacked or virussed or whatever.
Lets see. Comparison time. When was the last virus outbreak that trashed linux systems world wide.
oh
Anyway, to be more fair, the other point is that most of these security bulletins for linux have been of the 'running nethack as root could break system' type pap that doesnt actually increase the chance of a break in in any sensible way. This is compared to the preponderance of serious worm inducing flaws in windows.
Microsoft can bleat as much as they like, and look I'll be honest, props for the fact that modern windows is probably safer than older windows, but this doesnt distract from a simple home truth:
Linux , Solaris and BSD is your best bet for a secure system. VMS if your a complete paranoid freak.
Statistics trumps rhetoric everytime
Aussie rules football? Struth mate! I thought the chinese loved it!
Which is where ice core samples and stuff come in.
we dont have 'a hundred' years worth of data, we have thousands of years of data.
i want to live in a world where my government is acting in my best interest, has ABSOLUTELY nothing to hide
:(
I want to live in a world where government goes away and leave me alone.....
*dreams*
also, hell yeah on your idea. Open source government. Its gotta happen!
Hell, even the soviets, pre collapse with the whole glasnost and peristroika thing where far more open than our current western democracies. And thats saying something.
This is true. Victoria &NSW (australian states) have some lousy defamation laws.
Actually all of australia does. High time for free speech to move from common law to constitution imho.
I used to work in a courtroom in australia. Generally if you represent yourself you are in big bloody trouble.
However what some judges would do, is ask witnesses(etc) questions on behalf of the person representing themselves to make up for that persons lack of representation. (Especially if the judge thought the person sueing/prosecuting was just beating on some poor guy)
More often then not the judges questions would tear huge stinky holes in the case. Dunno about te US, but over here the best lawyers are definately the judges.
Truth isnt always a defamation defence.
It just has to lead to 'unreasonable imputations' on your character.
Ie if I said "Hired man posts on slashdot", "Slashdot readers are known to steal company time surfing the site" "People who steal from companies are criminals" then I've said 3 things that are true.
But I've also probably defamed you (legally that is). Its all in the imputation.
Employee wise, in the scheme of thing its a bubby.
Of course thats why there all so filthy rich. Bugger all staff and monster loads of income means huge huge profit.
And not being there extremely fucks my seriously high expectations of being able stop blowing my IT budget in the work place out.
Half out techies cant seem to figure out how to get mac X windows to work, so how the heck are our users supposed to?
Oo is dead on the mac it seems. Its a shame, cos it could of been the platform where it finally got its hold. Apple people , like linux people seem hate microsoft softare almost on principle. A ripe market, alas one thats been thrown away.
Do you realize that you just managed to fulfil a prediction? He just quoted Card saying that people who take a stand against homosexuality will be branded "bigots." So what do you call him? A bigot. At least do him the favor of finding a thesaurus for any future insecure rants.
Why should he lie. Its a fact that homophobes are bigots. To say otherwise is plain dishonesty?