I'm gonna have to play devils advocate here, because I see lots and lots of references to how awful Windows NT's security is, yet no specific examples. I'm not saying I disagree, but I want to see some examples. I'm not talking about the Loveletter virus. Tell me a reliable way I can hack my way into Administrator-level account with a Windows NT or 2000 default setup. The exploits I've read about all rely on external programs like ASP or SQL Server. Then again, I've read about lots of Sendmail and Bind exploits as well.
From my(limited) understanding of the situation, getting Administrator access is a very hard thing to do.
>> explain to me why as the author of some open source software (all gpl'd actually, but not because RMS said I should) I should give a shit.
Well, if you are going to release software under the GPL, Stallman's pretty much the authority if it doesn't meet the licence requirements. If you don't particularly care if you're software is GPL-compatible, don't use a GPL licence.
I fail to see what the big deal is. The Python people approached Stallman for the express purpose of complying with the terms of the GPL licence. Stallman told them where their software is incompatible. He's only concerned if someone calls software GPL if it is not.
You should only give a shit about Stallman if you want to release software under the GPL. If not, don't bother. However, if you are writing software because you want to make it free-as-in-speech, rather than free-as-in-beer, you might want to consider joining the GPL club.
I've often wondered about the common practice of "weeding out" students at universities. I'm not talking about private schools either, its the publicly funded universities as well. The tactic is to make the assignments so hard that only the most dedicated students(with ample time to study) make it. It made it at excruciatingly difficult for me at times because I had to work full time to support myself. Most(but not all) of the students who succeeded in engineering or CS at my school were traditional students, working 10 hours a week or less, and they had ample time to finish the assignments. My 300 level C++ class took about 20 hours of time each week. I envied my classmates who didn't have to work. A lot.
After about 90 hours(at a 3.2 GPA, I didn't exactly flunk out) I took my first sysadmin job and eventually got into programming. I haven't gone back to finish my CS degree. From my experiences, I can see how our universities are contributing to the labor shortage. It is just too damn difficult for a working person to decide they want to become an engineer or programmer. And that's a shame because I think there are lots of people who only find this out later in life.
No actually I just wanted to see if I could host both from the same site. Having a single page being able to do both perl and PHP isn't an issue. I read somewhere that slashcode(perl with 15+ modules installed) had problems if you tried to run PHP pages on the same server. So I thought I would ask.
This was a topic of discussion at my workplace not too long ago. We sell books, you see. It became a source of amusement to discuss the "models" on the covers of WROX books.
I'd play devils advocate and ask the snickering girls if they'd go out with a certain WROX star if they made a six-figure income. Nope, didn't make a difference to them. A geek is a geek. I was however, reassured that most women look for more than money in a potential mate.:)
I work for an independent online bookstore, Page One. We have a profitable internet business, and the majority of our customers have found us through comparison sites that we partner with. We have never spent money on internet advertising, so partner sites are very important to us.
Personally, I welcome Amazon not working with comparison sites. It will be their loss. There are already over 50 other bookstores that are set up to sell books online. If one single company decides it doesn't want to be compared with the rest, it wont have a great effect on comparison searches.
Folks, there are a great variety of stores out there to choose from. The internet lends itself to variety, not monopolies that dominate an entire area of business. If one company decides to go against the nature of the internet(which lends itself perfectly to lots of businesses and comparison shopping) they are only going to be hurting themselves.
I disagree. Most people who use comparison sites already know that Amazon will not likely have the best price.
Also, its important to understand that there are two significantly different methods comparison sites use to obtain prices. Sites such as BestBookBuys perform a real-time search, and are therefore going to be the most accurate. Other comparison sites, like shopping.com, or mysimon.com compile records daily, and are not real-time searches. Their data is more likely to be incorrect, however since it is all in their own database, you get a faster comparison.
Real time searches should not be affected too much. Amazon is likely to be taken off of these if the real time search doesn't match their price. It won't matter a whole lot if that happens because people who comparison shop for prices already know the best price is not going to be from amazon.com.
If amazon.com doesn't work well with comparison sites its their loss. Amazon's biggest mistake is that their business plan calls for them to dominate selling on the web. That part of their plan is backfiring as more and more businesses are figuring out how to play the web game. We will end up with a great variety of stores to choose from, and consenquently, sites that analyse the great variety of choices will be popular.
Comparison sites are here to stay. If Amazon refuses to cooperate with them, oh well. There are always the 100 or so other stores in any given category that a comparison shopper can choose from.
Since Michael saw fit to speculate that Bertelsmann was behind the proposal to tax electronic devices for the benefit of media companies, I thought I should point out just how much Bertlesmann affects us all.
IMO, Bertelsmann is a monopolist trying to grab as much of the media market as they can, especially in the book arena. They own the largest publishing company and the largest chain bookstore, Random House and Barnes & Noble. They attempted to purchase Ingram Book Company(big distributor-something like 60% of Amazon's books come from Ingram), luckily that was stopped by the antitrust folks in our govt. If they had pulled that off they would have had a complete vertical hold on the book industry - from publishing to distributing to bookselling. They would have profitted from the majority of internet book sales.
They are definitely a company/.ers should know about and be wary of.
>> You previously violated the license, so you have lost all rights to modify or distribute the code you violated the license of
Really? Can you elaborate on how exactly one loses their right to release software under the GPL? And how long does this loss of rights last? Forever? Your argument seems to imply that KDE may never be "legal" under the GPL.
I'm not trying to flame you, I'm interested.(you're a Debian developer, right?)
I have never before heard of someone's GPL licence being revoked. I didn't even know there was an authority set up to do this. I've always thought that anyone could release software under the GPL simply by playing by the rules. Now your'e saying that there is an outside body determining who has the right to release their software under the GPL? That someone can revoke a developers right to GPL their software?
Its totally slanted toward Linux. Not that that's a bad thing, but if you are trying to get an unbiased, objective comparison, this is not the place to look.
My experiences with Win2K - its been very stable. W2k won't let rogue applications install. It has much less backward compatibility than any other version of Windows I've used, but the stability has definitely increased. There is definitely an overhead premium - I wouldn't consider running any version with less than a 300 MHz processor with 128 MB of RAM. As a comparison, Linux generally uses much less resources to perform the same tasks.
Using Windows 2000 carries risks of being incompatible with the rest of your network. If you want to authenticate with kerberos, and you have both Linux and Win2k boxen, you'll most likely have to have a Win2K server. Other "improvements" to standard TCP/IP programs, like their dynamic DNS may create compatibility issues as well. Samba still works well with Linux servers and Windows clients for basic file and print services.
The only compelling reason I can think of to go with Windows is speed of application development, both on web and desktop based applications. ASP with SQL Server on IIS allows you to knock out web applications very rapidly. And of course if you sell Windows applications you will need to have Windows somewhere. But other than that I can't think of much reason to go with Win2K on a server level. I used to use Windows for everything - now I'm using Linux for file and print services, Apache, planning to move to qmail eventually, and I have an OpenBSD firewall. So far, there is nothing available on Win2k that would make me want to switch back.
Not speaking for any other software, but I feel TrollTech did this at the right time, and for the right reason. I was just thinking the other day that in all likelihood, KDE would die if it did not change to 100% GPL software. With IBM, Red Hat, Sun, and others recently supporting GNOME primarily because it was GPL'd, it would be only a matter of time until they built up GNOME to the point that it would make KDE irrelevant.
The QT framework was the only thing making KDE not qualify for being GPL'd, since it was proprietary software.
QT has several advantages over the GTK - it is written in object-oriented C++, and the libraries are cross-platform between UNIX and Windows. IMHO, if you want to build a cross-platform GUI in C++, QT is the best way to go. Supposedly it offers better Windows support than MFC, although I haven't confirmed this myself. However, it was becoming unpopular with Linux developers because it wasn't GPL'd, and having all the industry giants unite behind GNOME looked like the kiss of death for KDE and QT development on Linux.
My hat is off to TrollTech. Now I can feel comfortable using QT, knowing it will be around for years to come because of their wise decision to GPL the code.
You are hands down the dumbest person I have ever seen on Slashdot.
This appears to be a threat of violence, rather than a challenge to a debate. Which is why I carry a.44 Magnum, because there are way too many STUPID ASSHOLES such as yourself in this world.
offtopic: but does anyone know how to turn off Javascript in Internet Explorer 5.0? Did you know that if you search for Javascript in IE5.0 help you get no matches!?
Tools->Internet Options->Security
Click the 'Custom Level' button, scroll down, and click the 'Disable Java' radio button.
Also, if you want to view a framed page, you can right click within the frame to get the URL, then you have to type it in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no easy 'break out of frames' command or button.
I suppose you think the holocaust is fake, as well? Tell you what, why don't you log in and we'll debate that. But only if you are ready to be intellectually humiliated.
I'd advise against the O'Reilly C++ book, unless you are planning on buying a shelf full of C++ books. It's not bad, but its a bit out of date. You really want a book that teaches the latest ANSI standard, which the O'Reilly book does not. Also beware any C++ book that doesn't have the STL(standard template library) at the heart of its teaching. The STL will save you from writing a lot of low level code, and is rightfully part of the C++ standard.
I highly, highly recommend Essential C++ by Lippman. Its less than 300 pages. If you can digest that, the books you want on your shelf are C++ Primer, also by Lippman, and of course The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup(the inventor of C++).
There are no greater authorities on C++ than the two authors I mentioned. Essential C++ is hands down the best book on learning C++.
>> The list of DeCSS hyperlinks on the 2600 Enterprises web site has grown to over 350 sites
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There are exactly 0 links to DeCSS on 2600.com.
And not only that you are wrong on all other counts. You are spouting the same exact bullshit the MPAA is trying to. Most of us here realize that Kaplan's ruling is short sighted. People have the right to reverse engineer software in the name of compatibility. Code is free speech. Dispute these truths if you will, but I hope you realize your viewpoints are anachronistic and will not prevail.
Hotmail is now showing they run Windows 2000, however that is new in the last few weeks. Which means their entry server(s) are running 2000 and the rest of it is FreeBSD, like it always has been. If not, there would surely be lots of promotional garbage about how quickly Microsoft converted hotmail to W2K.
bcentrals ad server is linkexchange, www.linkexchange.com, which you can verify by going to bcentral and right-clicking an ad. Netcraft still shows their servers running FreeBSD.
I have confirmed this story far more than I can confirm your 'bitter ex-employee' conjecture. Oh wait, didn't I see you on one of the troll sids?
The name 'Fascdot Killed My Pr' I think is short for 'Slashdot killed my previous account'. So he could have been one of the first.
I was reading/. since 97 so I know the correlation between user # and how long a person has been reading/posting doesn't always apply. The older articles have a much higher percentage of AC's.
Kaplan was merely enforcing the DMCA. If this makes it to the Supreme Court, and the court finds that 2600's freedom of speech was limited, they may have to not only overturn Kaplan's ruling, but perhaps invalidate the DMCA itself.
In this series we will examine a poorly constructed troll in order to learn what makes a good troll.
First, lets start by examining a poorly constructed troll:
i hate those things. they are self degrading. you must really be a loser to read a book for dummies. why admit such self defeat?
The preceding is a troll for two reasons. First, it is placed in a discussion about dummies books. Rather than having something constructive to say, this inexperienced troller tries to invalidate the entire discussion. Secondly, it is a troll because it attempts to insult the intelligence of those seriously engaged in the discussion. The troller is saying, "Not only are dummies books lame, but you are lame for reading them.
What distinguishes a good troll from a bad troll is its obviousness. A really good troll should not only be completely ludicrous like the above statement, it should not appear completely ludicrous, but rather appear to be an intelligent argument against whatever prevailing wisdom the majority of those in the discussion hold. It should stir heated discussion about the merits or the pros and cons of the topic being discussed. Unfortunately, the above troll can only inspire a knee-jerk reaction(I am NOT stupid...), something that only the most clueless newbie would fall for.
So there you have it. You can learn good trolling by looking at bad trolling.
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From my(limited) understanding of the situation, getting Administrator access is a very hard thing to do.
Well, if you are going to release software under the GPL, Stallman's pretty much the authority if it doesn't meet the licence requirements. If you don't particularly care if you're software is GPL-compatible, don't use a GPL licence.
I fail to see what the big deal is. The Python people approached Stallman for the express purpose of complying with the terms of the GPL licence. Stallman told them where their software is incompatible. He's only concerned if someone calls software GPL if it is not.
You should only give a shit about Stallman if you want to release software under the GPL. If not, don't bother. However, if you are writing software because you want to make it free-as-in-speech, rather than free-as-in-beer, you might want to consider joining the GPL club.
After about 90 hours(at a 3.2 GPA, I didn't exactly flunk out) I took my first sysadmin job and eventually got into programming. I haven't gone back to finish my CS degree. From my experiences, I can see how our universities are contributing to the labor shortage. It is just too damn difficult for a working person to decide they want to become an engineer or programmer. And that's a shame because I think there are lots of people who only find this out later in life.
Thanks to all for the answers!
I'd play devils advocate and ask the snickering girls if they'd go out with a certain WROX star if they made a six-figure income. Nope, didn't make a difference to them. A geek is a geek. I was however, reassured that most women look for more than money in a potential mate. :)
Personally, I welcome Amazon not working with comparison sites. It will be their loss. There are already over 50 other bookstores that are set up to sell books online. If one single company decides it doesn't want to be compared with the rest, it wont have a great effect on comparison searches.
Folks, there are a great variety of stores out there to choose from. The internet lends itself to variety, not monopolies that dominate an entire area of business. If one company decides to go against the nature of the internet(which lends itself perfectly to lots of businesses and comparison shopping) they are only going to be hurting themselves.
Also, its important to understand that there are two significantly different methods comparison sites use to obtain prices. Sites such as BestBookBuys perform a real-time search, and are therefore going to be the most accurate. Other comparison sites, like shopping.com, or mysimon.com compile records daily, and are not real-time searches. Their data is more likely to be incorrect, however since it is all in their own database, you get a faster comparison.
Real time searches should not be affected too much. Amazon is likely to be taken off of these if the real time search doesn't match their price. It won't matter a whole lot if that happens because people who comparison shop for prices already know the best price is not going to be from amazon.com.
If amazon.com doesn't work well with comparison sites its their loss. Amazon's biggest mistake is that their business plan calls for them to dominate selling on the web. That part of their plan is backfiring as more and more businesses are figuring out how to play the web game. We will end up with a great variety of stores to choose from, and consenquently, sites that analyse the great variety of choices will be popular.
Comparison sites are here to stay. If Amazon refuses to cooperate with them, oh well. There are always the 100 or so other stores in any given category that a comparison shopper can choose from.
IMO, Bertelsmann is a monopolist trying to grab as much of the media market as they can, especially in the book arena. They own the largest publishing company and the largest chain bookstore, Random House and Barnes & Noble. They attempted to purchase Ingram Book Company(big distributor-something like 60% of Amazon's books come from Ingram), luckily that was stopped by the antitrust folks in our govt. If they had pulled that off they would have had a complete vertical hold on the book industry - from publishing to distributing to bookselling. They would have profitted from the majority of internet book sales.
They are definitely a company /.ers should know about and be wary of.
Really? Can you elaborate on how exactly one loses their right to release software under the GPL? And how long does this loss of rights last? Forever? Your argument seems to imply that KDE may never be "legal" under the GPL.
I'm not trying to flame you, I'm interested.(you're a Debian developer, right?)
I have never before heard of someone's GPL licence being revoked. I didn't even know there was an authority set up to do this. I've always thought that anyone could release software under the GPL simply by playing by the rules. Now your'e saying that there is an outside body determining who has the right to release their software under the GPL? That someone can revoke a developers right to GPL their software?
Please explain.
If sol.exe dies in a forest and no one hears its dying scream, did it make a sound?
If sol.exe dies, and comes back to life, will you be able to see the animation at the end of the game on a fast machine?
My experiences with Win2K - its been very stable. W2k won't let rogue applications install. It has much less backward compatibility than any other version of Windows I've used, but the stability has definitely increased. There is definitely an overhead premium - I wouldn't consider running any version with less than a 300 MHz processor with 128 MB of RAM. As a comparison, Linux generally uses much less resources to perform the same tasks.
Using Windows 2000 carries risks of being incompatible with the rest of your network. If you want to authenticate with kerberos, and you have both Linux and Win2k boxen, you'll most likely have to have a Win2K server. Other "improvements" to standard TCP/IP programs, like their dynamic DNS may create compatibility issues as well. Samba still works well with Linux servers and Windows clients for basic file and print services.
The only compelling reason I can think of to go with Windows is speed of application development, both on web and desktop based applications. ASP with SQL Server on IIS allows you to knock out web applications very rapidly. And of course if you sell Windows applications you will need to have Windows somewhere. But other than that I can't think of much reason to go with Win2K on a server level. I used to use Windows for everything - now I'm using Linux for file and print services, Apache, planning to move to qmail eventually, and I have an OpenBSD firewall. So far, there is nothing available on Win2k that would make me want to switch back.
The QT framework was the only thing making KDE not qualify for being GPL'd, since it was proprietary software.
QT has several advantages over the GTK - it is written in object-oriented C++, and the libraries are cross-platform between UNIX and Windows. IMHO, if you want to build a cross-platform GUI in C++, QT is the best way to go. Supposedly it offers better Windows support than MFC, although I haven't confirmed this myself. However, it was becoming unpopular with Linux developers because it wasn't GPL'd, and having all the industry giants unite behind GNOME looked like the kiss of death for KDE and QT development on Linux.
My hat is off to TrollTech. Now I can feel comfortable using QT, knowing it will be around for years to come because of their wise decision to GPL the code.
This appears to be a threat of violence, rather than a challenge to a debate. Which is why I carry a .44 Magnum, because there are way too many STUPID ASSHOLES such as yourself in this world.
OK, I tested this, so I know it works. Tools->Internet Options->Security
Choose 'Custom Level' and disable Active Scripting. To test this on a page that has right-clicking disabled, go to this page.
wrong. the link took me directly to Tom's comment. Thats what the '#' is for - to take you to a bookmark.
Tools->Internet Options->Security
Click the 'Custom Level' button, scroll down, and click the 'Disable Java' radio button.
Also, if you want to view a framed page, you can right click within the frame to get the URL, then you have to type it in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no easy 'break out of frames' command or button.
I highly, highly recommend Essential C++ by Lippman. Its less than 300 pages. If you can digest that, the books you want on your shelf are C++ Primer, also by Lippman, and of course The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup(the inventor of C++).
There are no greater authorities on C++ than the two authors I mentioned. Essential C++ is hands down the best book on learning C++.
Oops. My bad.
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There are exactly 0 links to DeCSS on 2600.com.
And not only that you are wrong on all other counts. You are spouting the same exact bullshit the MPAA is trying to. Most of us here realize that Kaplan's ruling is short sighted. People have the right to reverse engineer software in the name of compatibility. Code is free speech. Dispute these truths if you will, but I hope you realize your viewpoints are anachronistic and will not prevail.
Hotmail is now showing they run Windows 2000, however that is new in the last few weeks. Which means their entry server(s) are running 2000 and the rest of it is FreeBSD, like it always has been. If not, there would surely be lots of promotional garbage about how quickly Microsoft converted hotmail to W2K.
bcentrals ad server is linkexchange, www.linkexchange.com, which you can verify by going to bcentral and right-clicking an ad. Netcraft still shows their servers running FreeBSD.
I have confirmed this story far more than I can confirm your 'bitter ex-employee' conjecture. Oh wait, didn't I see you on one of the troll sids?
1) How well I can find stuff about myself by entering my name.
2) How well it can find websites I've worked on by typing in the websites' company name.
Google performs flawlessly on both counts whereas All the Web falls short. But then my criteria are entirely selfish and subjective.
Any suggestions?
I was reading /. since 97 so I know the correlation between user # and how long a person has been reading/posting doesn't always apply. The older articles have a much higher percentage of AC's.
Here's to hoping!
First, lets start by examining a poorly constructed troll:
i hate those things. they are self degrading. you must really be a loser to read a book for dummies. why admit such self defeat?
The preceding is a troll for two reasons. First, it is placed in a discussion about dummies books. Rather than having something constructive to say, this inexperienced troller tries to invalidate the entire discussion. Secondly, it is a troll because it attempts to insult the intelligence of those seriously engaged in the discussion. The troller is saying, "Not only are dummies books lame, but you are lame for reading them.
What distinguishes a good troll from a bad troll is its obviousness. A really good troll should not only be completely ludicrous like the above statement, it should not appear completely ludicrous, but rather appear to be an intelligent argument against whatever prevailing wisdom the majority of those in the discussion hold. It should stir heated discussion about the merits or the pros and cons of the topic being discussed. Unfortunately, the above troll can only inspire a knee-jerk reaction(I am NOT stupid...), something that only the most clueless newbie would fall for.
So there you have it. You can learn good trolling by looking at bad trolling.
This message brought to you as a public service by Pinball Wizard(a fan of the good kind of troll.)