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The guy was listing an awful lot of "virii" found per week. By the way virii also infect the boot sector and some only infect the boot sector. But it's all the same. A virii will attach itself (IE patch) existing software (usually any and all on your system). A trojen is a self contained infection and dose not spread. A worm hacks into the target. I suspect about 90% of the "virii" found are actually trojens. They are the single easiest peace of malicous code that can be created. They are the essence of all the others.
I'm starting to see banner ads for virus scanners touting to go after worms and it's starting to really piss me off. Here is what I have to say about using a virus scanner for ALL forms of maliware.
Virus: No brainner. Install it let it scan incomming code etc etc. Don't install new software that hasn't been scanned. The problem with making money on virus scanners.. and updates. Is that new viruses are rare. It's just not worth it anymore. People made virii for: Revenge: Spyware is easier, more effective and produces better results. Attack a group: FUD is easier and more effective. a challange: What challange? Not unless your making a Linux virii. To prove it can be done: Unless your making a Linux or Unix virii everyone knows. To prove you can do it: Not impressive to script kiddies anymore.
In short the typical reasons for making virii are dead unless your making a Linux virii. That is why it took so long for Windows to GET any viruses of it's own. All the dos virii were doing the job quite nicely.
So if you want to sell updates you have to go after ALL forms of Malware.
Trojens: Trojens are.. brain dead easy to make. Script kiddys may not be able to make virii but they can make trojens. I wouldn't be supprised if all those "virii" found were actually just trojens. By the time an anti-virus company is able to ID a trojen it's done it's dirty work and your left with the floating debree... the infector itself still floating around. File sharing networks are plugged full of trojens and trojens get updated quickly. Forget virii scanners for this just beware of geeks bearing gifts. Some commen sense is in order. Don't download pirated versions of software. Becouse of Microsoft people think making software is where the money is. When (not if) they don't make money they get bitter. Often beliving software piracy is to blame (in some cases it's true) they'll turn to making trojen for hapless victoms. Don't pirate. Don't download software via P2P file sharing. Download it from the source. Is that so hard? I can see the BSA spin on this: "Steal software-> Install trojen-> Get hacked-> Lose everything-> Don't look for sympathy from us."
Worms: Worms infect in weeks, days, hours, minuts even seconds. Todays worms are really pathetic taking days to overtake the network. But it'll take weeks before everyone has a patch to prevent it or update a virus detector.
Anti-virus companys can only act once the virus is released. For worms that is far to late to take action. Once your infected the worm can update your virus deffs for you. No that's NOT a good thing as any software tool that might stop the worm is flagged as a virus.
Security tools are FAR more effective at stopping worms and also thwart script kiddys who will (once in your system) infect you with trojens, viruses, worms, etc. Some of whom will chew up your virus deffs file.
I know your joking but some people actully think this way so:
1. We are trying to increase Linux popularity and that is really cool BUT there are still quite a few people that aren't ready for Linux or better put Linux isn't ready for them.
On this note I'd like to know why people expect a non-technical os when using Linux. By the compaints I'd say many people who try Linux do so just so they can badmouth it. The worst excuse ever was "I'm not a geek and I don't want people to think of me as a geek". First: If you can confuse the diffrence between software tools and fassion statements your a geek. Second: Who cares what software you use?.. outside geeks and os zellots and you'll never win with those.
Using Windows won't make you sexyer than using Linux. PS. Be affrade I've actually got hit on based on my Os prefrence of Linux.. People just assume that means I'm smart. I'm not smart.
3. Read The Fing Manual before calling tech support...
5. I like to think of Linux as a cheap MCSE. People mistake me for knowing computers just becouse I use Linux and I don't have to fork it over for a cheap peace of paper. PS: I kid.. I'm a Linux Certified Admin ok? I'm not a Techno n00b. But it's not as hard to learn as some seam to think. I know a pair of kids who both learnned Linux before they were 9 and they both have quite a bit to learn before they can consider themselfs computer experts.
I love Gimp and use it almost exclusively when on my Linux box (at home). But lately I've not had as much time as I'd like to work on my puter at home. So I use Gimp at work... when I can.
GTK for Windows has a bug in it when dealing with digital tablets and.. yep.. I draw with a tablet. Gasp.
Fix that single bug and Gimp will be absolutly perfict. Else I'll be using other software to draw my images and then the gimp for image editing after the fact. But that kinda sucks.
I'm just learning Japanise myself and my translation is "Still not knowing enough Japanise to translate this nerd boy" -Signed The Japanise version of BunBun.
No it's "Help me Oggy ben doggy you're my only hope"
You'll laugh you'll gry you'll kiss three bucks good bye. I'd like to know how Hardware wars got the FX hardware to pull of the 3D hologram the way they did.
There has been a long standing stereotype/mytos that smart people wear glasses. This is where the geek glasses come in. The geek is always said to be ultra smart etc so of course the geek wears glasses but not just any glasses no. Like everything else the glasses have to be geeked so they are thick glasses.
On the other hand Slashdot readers are typicly reguarded as geeks but often clamed to be not very bright.
So in answering your question "What kind of geek dosen't wear glasses" the answer is a Slashdot Geek.
For the anolog to be complete the medical industry would be saying preventive medicen dosen't work. That keeping your home clean and bathing is a waist of time you'll get sick anyway.
There are good anologs between the medical industry and the software virus industry.
The best would be ADD. It's a real disorder but so populare that a good number of kids labled with ADD are actually just suffering side effects of the medication.
But annother anolog that may be more appt today would be bloodletting. Bleading patents to cure them of the commen cold.
Using anti-virus software to stop worms. Sure they clean up the mess AFTER the damage has been done. Congradulations your screwed. Your anti-virus software will do exactly NOTHING to save your butt. By the time it's detected it has already cleanned out your bank account, trashed all your files and contacted all your friends.
The anti-virus industry would have you believe anti-virus software is the ONLY way. If you don't patch your machine and keep regulare back ups your alternitive is to stick your head between your legs and kiss you butt goodbye. Becouse nothing will stop a worm if you fail to secure your box.
On that... Symantic sells very good system backup software I recomend buying it.
Symantec is way byond viruses. They have been behind some very good software tools for Microsoft Dos and Windows predating the whole virus issue. Most of what they do is make commen sense improvments to Microsofts products that are well overdue.
So Microsoft bundles software with Windows that should have been released with MsDos 4. Mcafees hypes the problem Symantec sells software pacages.
If Microsoft crushes the virus industry: Good riddence. Virus experts have lived off FUD for long enough.
Symantic is just selling the software tools people want. Mcafee is creating that want through fear.
I suspect that what ever they were being paid they were saving it up for upcomming unemployment.
Airline ticks aren't an insignificant perk but they aren't quite a huge deal to UN officals as for you and me. A UN offical could get a ticket to where ever he needs to go. After filling out the proper forums and proving his intent etc and showing he's not waisting international funds on a vacation. Or he can get tickets from Microsoft.
It's not the dollar value but the headake savings that make this a valuable deal.
Who would want an electronic version of the Enigma machine? A time travler... And while we are at it if any time travlers are reading the Slashdot archives remember to pull the URL off the Wayback machine (Becouse no doupt the URL went away 25 years ago.. shortly after slashdotting).
I'm gona guess this saved you one jumps worth of fule so now if you'll jump over to 1979 and warn me to NOT go to my girlfriends HS. (Thinking with the wrong orgen almost screwed my education... and her HS has a shotty computer lab)
SCO has not yet made the case in cort. Not to defend Microsoft more than I have to but Microsoft is in cort a lot and many times for bogus IP rights issues. Actualy at any given time at least one of the big players is fighting some sort of IP rights clame made by a much smaller company.
If your thinking of a one time indemnification then yeah SCOs deal looks pritty sweet but let's get real here that isn't how things will go down if SCO makes a good chunk of change from SCOs liccensing. In fact it's more of a lose lose situation for anyone who forks it over.
If SCO wins the case there are many other issues to deal with and you've already set yourself up for a bunch of collage students and IT profesionals to stick hands out expecting a cut.
If SCO loses you've set yourself up for every Tom, Dick and Herry who thinks they can take on Microsoft, Intel or Apple to seek an liccens from YOU reguardless of how stupid or anil the clame may be.
Pony up... It's not the drop of blood you think it is.
On the other hand the corts could deside this practace is illegal. Then your just out the cost of the one liccens.
Sorry for being off topic, but I just felt like sharing. Quite the contrary. Your not the slightest bit off topic. Your story hilights whe happens when you give law enforcment officers complete disgression.
Police harrasment, assult and battery by a law enforcment office, denial of your right to a lawer.
You gave him a Hawaii ID and still went to jail? That is just wrong.
But I think I can do you one better. In California even. I gave him a California state ID. No he wanted a dam NIGHT PERMIT. I've never heard of a night permit. Nobody I know knows anything about it. I haven't a clue where to get one. Thankfully he didn't arrest me but... Ick.
I work late nights. I desided to stand outside for a while becouse around that time a certen jerk likes to show up and threaton to break into the building. I wanted to get his liccens plate so I could give it to the police.
Instead I get super cop who wants to arrest ME for standing on the sidewalk infront of the building where I work.
On one side we have the requirement to provide an ID any time a police officer requests it. On the other side we have someone requiring the exclusion for investigaters.
So on one hand we have the police state where all people are identified. On the other hand we have a socity where the police are themselfs exempt from certen laws. And this is an improvment?
I just wanted to point this out. Baby steps. If the defendent wins it opens the door to make law enforcment officers a privilaged class. If the prasicution wins it opens the door to demanding identification of anyone any time any place for any reason.
It would not be unlike Microsoft to do such a thing.
Before Microsoft pulls a stunt someone else pulls it first and Microsoft sits back and watches how things come out so they can pull the same stunt and have an excuse for it.
So if Microsoft is trying to SCO ReactOS then the tinfoil hat thing to do is watch the ReactOS code submissions carefully.
A stupid windows user will be an even more stupid linux user. Sorry to tell y'all this. Them the breaks
Hardly true. Anyone remember the old antiMac FUD "When you hide how the os works the user never learns" This is FUD not so much for being untrue but becouse MacOs dosen't hide how it works. It's not anymore applicable to MacOs than the "Total Operating Cost" FUD is to Linux.
But Windows dose. Notice how Windows trys to do everything for the user? MacOs however shows the user how everything works. Linux is for the most part a cluster of tools. There is nothing between the user and the Os. Not even a road map. The typical user has to rely on his/her computer to learn and understand how it works and when it dose not coperate the typical user dosen't presue the matter ignorent of the details. After all most people use computers to get things done not to learn how they work. This minnor detail must mystify Microofts staff as to why people who do favor Linux do. But it's actually quite simple. Linux users want to know how things work so they can make best use of the equipment.
On that note MacOs users while not intrested in learnning do learn and end up making best use of the Mac.
MacOs guides the user. Windows encurrages ignorence. Linux forbids it.
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FOX: Cancle anything that dosen't suck. UPN: Take anything good and make it suck WB: Drop anything that makes money. News outlets: Screw doing research let's just report the marketting hype as fact.
I have a TV here and for entertainment I'm posting on Slashdot... Now I know why.... Oh well still have Star Wrek, KeenSpot, OSDN and Anime DVDs.. (Not Henti you pervert...)
Technicality but if your 110 baud then I'd say you are both wealthy and a cheap bastard.
110 baud modems were toast long before the Vic20 came along (let alone 64) so your modem came from earlier days.. Your an early addopter.. Maybe an old Mainframe in your back yard.
Cheap becouse... dude I mean come on the VicModem wasn't that expensive.. I mean for the cost of the RS232 addapter.. Spring the extra $2 and get a 300 baud.. gezz..
Yea, the hard drives were really awful. Hard drives? Do you mean: 1581 floppy drive? The small disks were often called "hard disks" by people who didn't know what a hard disk was. The 1581 was designed based on the 1571 who had fixed the whole drive knocking problem.
Do you mean the vareous hard disks available for the Commodore 8 bits? As the Commodore computers didn't have an actual drive interface but more of a "slave computer" IO buss the hard disks were usually stock hard disks inserted in a costume drive system. If they had a knocking problem it wasn't a commodore issue byond maybe copying the 1541.
Do you mean then 1541 and 1540? Those drives would slam dance themselfs when an error happend as a lazy way of trying to correctly determine where the drive head really was. (assuming a software fault). The stupid copy protection systems on the Commodore would intoduce thies errors on the disk causing a lot of drive knocking.
A local computer shop reduced the knocking by adding a rubber stopper into the disk drive.
Some people believe Commodore intended the disk drives to come out of allignment every now an then to make it valuable to be a Atherised Commodre service shop. No doupt they didn't intend for it to get as bad as it did with the copyprotection.
I can see why the Geoworks SDK was so bad. Firstly Geoworks or GEOS/PC was based on Geos 64 however Geos 64 (unlike Windows) was not intended to be an operating system but an applications pacage. So originally Geos 64 was designed to have the apps develuped internally at Berkly this would most likely be passed over to Geoworks unless it was a white paper rewrite.
Geoworks was a very populare product with a problem. The market had already gone to Windows. While it made no sense at the time Microsoft had already gainned market domination.
Also Geoworks didn't have an SDK before version 2.0. As a result Geoworks had to rush the SDK develupment before Microsoft got market domination.
Geoworks also made the intresting choice of liccensing the MOTIF GUI. I always wondered if the infamous MOTIF API was found in Geoworks.. The problems you faced with it suggest the answer is yes.
Even with rushing the SDK to the market Geoworks was good and dead on the PC long before the Geoworks SDK was ready. The SDK remained for the Zoomer, Geobook and early smart cell phones.
But the Geoworks GUI was very nice. link Thanks to Toastytech for documenting the old Geoworks UI.
Ahh but Geoworks got a new life with "Newdeal" but they appear to be missing now.
A new reincarnation of Geoworks is Breadbox makes Breadbox Ensemble for sale and for trial you can use Ensemble lite. (Downloadable from Breadboxes website).
Breadbox has supported Geoworks back in the days of the Zoomer.
In my opinion the Geoworks SDK was a pig becouse Geoworks was doomed not the other way around.
First let me point out you can't be an effective teacher if you start off forming an advisarial relationship with your students. Having said that I remember one teacher when I was in high school who was truely sick.
She was contantly pulling little stunts. For example: After my mother and father devorced the school recomended I see a psycologest to help me addapt. Standard procedure I guess. When this teacher discovered I was seeing a psycologest she announced to the class I was suffering a nervous breakdown or something to that effect.
She was always dropping hints about me being mentally retarted and other insults.
I had no idea how to deal with the situation. Eventually she assulted annother student for no apparent reason and last I heard she was being sued for it.
Thies teachers are rare. But rare dose not mean non-exsistent. If the teachers today inspire this sort of reaction it really dose not matter if what the students clame is true or if the student body is just getting back at a hateful teacher the teacher failed to establish anything approching a student teacher/mentor relationship.
If they don't trust you they won't believe anything you try to teach them.
Companys paranoid that a group of geeks won't properly peer review the code they write will then chouse to hire profesionals... outsourced profesionals they can't watch over and won't be able to implement any sort of review process themselfs (trusting yet annother organisation do to that).
I've nothing wrong with outsourcing so much as how companys don't trust peer review anymore. Seams pritty dumb to me.
How to use this for evil is obveous. (Actually I do searches on myself ever now and then just to see what I look like on the Internet. Do it yourself it's fun.)
Your an evil badguy and go nuts on Google... Credit Cards... Horray... Now to go nutz.
Leave it to MSNBC to neglect to mention that this is also a tool for good.
Your a credit card holder..... Now go google your credit cards... DO IT NOW. Did you find it? I didn't.
I've got 4 credit cards.. two store cards one business visa and one personal mastercard. (Oh yeah hackers the name on the card is Felinoid) Yeah they'll buy that.. not...
Don't need to use Google BTW... Use Alta Vista.. or Microsoft serch.. or Lycos...
Oh yeah and when your done put your credit cards away (I had to leave desk while entering post an left my wallet on desk... Now my credit cards are gone and I think I saw a stuffed teady bear running down the street yelling "Charge it"... Just kidding got all my cards..). (Oh yeah if you do see a teady bear running down the street your missing credit cards are the least of your conserns)
Now to set up a bot to trap all thies searches on Google.... (Oh come on it had to be said)
Apple makes money on sales of iPODs. However each music entity also makes money from the sales (otherwise they wouldn't agree to deal). BMG could do well to convert it's CD sales store to online media sales. Other record lables could do the same. Microsoft could use a music store to push a new media format. eBay or mymp3.com could charge a "commission" fee for selling online music from indupendent artists.
Google or Yahoo could use MP3 sales as additional content.
Keenspot might grab into the act with "Inspired by" music sales... "Gothic Erotic by Britty Speres inspired by Zebra Girl" (Don't say it... You dona wana get the demonic girl mad at you...)
Or maybe something more intresting inspired by "User Friendly" or "Sluggy Freelance"... In the past you'd need a whole colection of soungs to get "Inspired by" music sold but with single unit sales a single soung could do just fine. With a bunch of KeenSpot comics there could be a CD but not with Sluggy or UF as they are independent.
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The guy was listing an awful lot of "virii" found per week.
By the way virii also infect the boot sector and some only infect the boot sector.
But it's all the same.
A virii will attach itself (IE patch) existing software (usually any and all on your system).
A trojen is a self contained infection and dose not spread.
A worm hacks into the target.
I suspect about 90% of the "virii" found are actually trojens. They are the single easiest peace of malicous code that can be created. They are the essence of all the others.
I'm starting to see banner ads for virus scanners touting to go after worms and it's starting to really piss me off.
Here is what I have to say about using a virus scanner for ALL forms of maliware.
Virus: No brainner. Install it let it scan incomming code etc etc. Don't install new software that hasn't been scanned.
The problem with making money on virus scanners.. and updates. Is that new viruses are rare.
It's just not worth it anymore.
People made virii for:
Revenge: Spyware is easier, more effective and produces better results.
Attack a group: FUD is easier and more effective.
a challange: What challange? Not unless your making a Linux virii.
To prove it can be done: Unless your making a Linux or Unix virii everyone knows.
To prove you can do it: Not impressive to script kiddies anymore.
In short the typical reasons for making virii are dead unless your making a Linux virii.
That is why it took so long for Windows to GET any viruses of it's own. All the dos virii were doing the job quite nicely.
So if you want to sell updates you have to go after ALL forms of Malware.
Trojens: Trojens are.. brain dead easy to make. Script kiddys may not be able to make virii but they can make trojens.
I wouldn't be supprised if all those "virii" found were actually just trojens.
By the time an anti-virus company is able to ID a trojen it's done it's dirty work and your left with the floating debree... the infector itself still floating around.
File sharing networks are plugged full of trojens and trojens get updated quickly. Forget virii scanners for this just beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Some commen sense is in order. Don't download pirated versions of software.
Becouse of Microsoft people think making software is where the money is. When (not if) they don't make money they get bitter. Often beliving software piracy is to blame (in some cases it's true) they'll turn to making trojen for hapless victoms.
Don't pirate. Don't download software via P2P file sharing. Download it from the source. Is that so hard?
I can see the BSA spin on this: "Steal software-> Install trojen-> Get hacked-> Lose everything-> Don't look for sympathy from us."
Worms: Worms infect in weeks, days, hours, minuts even seconds.
Todays worms are really pathetic taking days to overtake the network. But it'll take weeks before everyone has a patch to prevent it or update a virus detector.
Anti-virus companys can only act once the virus is released. For worms that is far to late to take action.
Once your infected the worm can update your virus deffs for you. No that's NOT a good thing as any software tool that might stop the worm is flagged as a virus.
Security tools are FAR more effective at stopping worms and also thwart script kiddys who will (once in your system) infect you with trojens, viruses, worms, etc. Some of whom will chew up your virus deffs file.
I know your joking but some people actully think this way so:
1. We are trying to increase Linux popularity and that is really cool BUT there are still quite a few people that aren't ready for Linux or better put Linux isn't ready for them.
On this note I'd like to know why people expect a non-technical os when using Linux. By the compaints I'd say many people who try Linux do so just so they can badmouth it.
The worst excuse ever was "I'm not a geek and I don't want people to think of me as a geek".
First: If you can confuse the diffrence between software tools and fassion statements your a geek.
Second: Who cares what software you use?.. outside geeks and os zellots and you'll never win with those.
Using Windows won't make you sexyer than using Linux.
PS. Be affrade I've actually got hit on based on my Os prefrence of Linux.. People just assume that means I'm smart. I'm not smart.
3. Read The Fing Manual before calling tech support...
5. I like to think of Linux as a cheap MCSE. People mistake me for knowing computers just becouse I use Linux and I don't have to fork it over for a cheap peace of paper.
PS: I kid.. I'm a Linux Certified Admin ok? I'm not a Techno n00b. But it's not as hard to learn as some seam to think. I know a pair of kids who both learnned Linux before they were 9 and they both have quite a bit to learn before they can consider themselfs computer experts.
Been there done that.
If I wanted to play a PS5 I wouldn't have bothered to jump back in time.
I love Gimp and use it almost exclusively when on my Linux box (at home).
But lately I've not had as much time as I'd like to work on my puter at home.
So I use Gimp at work... when I can.
GTK for Windows has a bug in it when dealing with digital tablets and.. yep.. I draw with a tablet. Gasp.
Fix that single bug and Gimp will be absolutly perfict. Else I'll be using other software to draw my images and then the gimp for image editing after the fact.
But that kinda sucks.
I'm just learning Japanise myself and my translation is
"Still not knowing enough Japanise to translate this nerd boy" -Signed The Japanise version of BunBun.
No it's "Help me Oggy ben doggy you're my only hope"
You'll laugh you'll gry you'll kiss three bucks good bye.
I'd like to know how Hardware wars got the FX hardware to pull of the 3D hologram the way they did.
There has been a long standing stereotype/mytos that smart people wear glasses.
This is where the geek glasses come in. The geek is always said to be ultra smart etc so of course the geek wears glasses but not just any glasses no. Like everything else the glasses have to be geeked so they are thick glasses.
On the other hand Slashdot readers are typicly reguarded as geeks but often clamed to be not very bright.
So in answering your question "What kind of geek dosen't wear glasses" the answer is a Slashdot Geek.
For the anolog to be complete the medical industry would be saying preventive medicen dosen't work.
That keeping your home clean and bathing is a waist of time you'll get sick anyway.
There are good anologs between the medical industry and the software virus industry.
The best would be ADD. It's a real disorder but so populare that a good number of kids labled with ADD are actually just suffering side effects of the medication.
But annother anolog that may be more appt today would be bloodletting.
Bleading patents to cure them of the commen cold.
Using anti-virus software to stop worms.
Sure they clean up the mess AFTER the damage has been done. Congradulations your screwed. Your anti-virus software will do exactly NOTHING to save your butt. By the time it's detected it has already cleanned out your bank account, trashed all your files and contacted all your friends.
The anti-virus industry would have you believe anti-virus software is the ONLY way.
If you don't patch your machine and keep regulare back ups your alternitive is to stick your head between your legs and kiss you butt goodbye. Becouse nothing will stop a worm if you fail to secure your box.
On that... Symantic sells very good system backup software I recomend buying it.
Symantec is way byond viruses. They have been behind some very good software tools for Microsoft Dos and Windows predating the whole virus issue.
Most of what they do is make commen sense improvments to Microsofts products that are well overdue.
So Microsoft bundles software with Windows that should have been released with MsDos 4. Mcafees hypes the problem Symantec sells software pacages.
If Microsoft crushes the virus industry: Good riddence. Virus experts have lived off FUD for long enough.
Symantic is just selling the software tools people want.
Mcafee is creating that want through fear.
Goodbye Mcafee hello Norten security analisis pacages.
How much are they paid?
Dose it matter?
I suspect that what ever they were being paid they were saving it up for upcomming unemployment.
Airline ticks aren't an insignificant perk but they aren't quite a huge deal to UN officals as for you and me.
A UN offical could get a ticket to where ever he needs to go. After filling out the proper forums and proving his intent etc and showing he's not waisting international funds on a vacation.
Or he can get tickets from Microsoft.
It's not the dollar value but the headake savings that make this a valuable deal.
Who would want an electronic version of the Enigma machine?
A time travler...
And while we are at it if any time travlers are reading the Slashdot archives remember to pull the URL off the Wayback machine (Becouse no doupt the URL went away 25 years ago.. shortly after slashdotting).
I'm gona guess this saved you one jumps worth of fule so now if you'll jump over to 1979 and warn me to NOT go to my girlfriends HS.
(Thinking with the wrong orgen almost screwed my education... and her HS has a shotty computer lab)
SCO has not yet made the case in cort. Not to defend Microsoft more than I have to but Microsoft is in cort a lot and many times for bogus IP rights issues. Actualy at any given time at least one of the big players is fighting some sort of IP rights clame made by a much smaller company.
If your thinking of a one time indemnification then yeah SCOs deal looks pritty sweet but let's get real here that isn't how things will go down if SCO makes a good chunk of change from SCOs liccensing. In fact it's more of a lose lose situation for anyone who forks it over.
If SCO wins the case there are many other issues to deal with and you've already set yourself up for a bunch of collage students and IT profesionals to stick hands out expecting a cut.
If SCO loses you've set yourself up for every Tom, Dick and Herry who thinks they can take on Microsoft, Intel or Apple to seek an liccens from YOU reguardless of how stupid or anil the clame may be.
Pony up... It's not the drop of blood you think it is.
On the other hand the corts could deside this practace is illegal.
Then your just out the cost of the one liccens.
Sorry for being off topic, but I just felt like sharing.
Quite the contrary. Your not the slightest bit off topic.
Your story hilights whe happens when you give law enforcment officers complete disgression.
Police harrasment, assult and battery by a law enforcment office, denial of your right to a lawer.
You gave him a Hawaii ID and still went to jail?
That is just wrong.
But I think I can do you one better.
In California even. I gave him a California state ID. No he wanted a dam NIGHT PERMIT. I've never heard of a night permit. Nobody I know knows anything about it. I haven't a clue where to get one. Thankfully he didn't arrest me but... Ick.
I work late nights. I desided to stand outside for a while becouse around that time a certen jerk likes to show up and threaton to break into the building. I wanted to get his liccens plate so I could give it to the police.
Instead I get super cop who wants to arrest ME for standing on the sidewalk infront of the building where I work.
On one side we have the requirement to provide an ID any time a police officer requests it.
On the other side we have someone requiring the exclusion for investigaters.
So on one hand we have the police state where all people are identified.
On the other hand we have a socity where the police are themselfs exempt from certen laws.
And this is an improvment?
I just wanted to point this out.
Baby steps. If the defendent wins it opens the door to make law enforcment officers a privilaged class.
If the prasicution wins it opens the door to demanding identification of anyone any time any place for any reason.
It would not be unlike Microsoft to do such a thing.
Before Microsoft pulls a stunt someone else pulls it first and Microsoft sits back and watches how things come out so they can pull the same stunt and have an excuse for it.
So if Microsoft is trying to SCO ReactOS then the tinfoil hat thing to do is watch the ReactOS code submissions carefully.
A stupid windows user will be an even more stupid linux user. Sorry to tell y'all this. Them the breaks
Hardly true.
Anyone remember the old antiMac FUD
"When you hide how the os works the user never learns"
This is FUD not so much for being untrue but becouse MacOs dosen't hide how it works.
It's not anymore applicable to MacOs than the "Total Operating Cost" FUD is to Linux.
But Windows dose. Notice how Windows trys to do everything for the user?
MacOs however shows the user how everything works.
Linux is for the most part a cluster of tools. There is nothing between the user and the Os. Not even a road map.
The typical user has to rely on his/her computer to learn and understand how it works and when it dose not coperate the typical user dosen't presue the matter ignorent of the details.
After all most people use computers to get things done not to learn how they work. This minnor detail must mystify Microofts staff as to why people who do favor Linux do. But it's actually quite simple. Linux users want to know how things work so they can make best use of the equipment.
On that note MacOs users while not intrested in learnning do learn and end up making best use of the Mac.
MacOs guides the user.
Windows encurrages ignorence.
Linux forbids it.
FOX: Cancle anything that dosen't suck.
UPN: Take anything good and make it suck
WB: Drop anything that makes money.
News outlets: Screw doing research let's just report the marketting hype as fact.
I have a TV here and for entertainment I'm posting on Slashdot...
Now I know why.... Oh well still have Star Wrek, KeenSpot, OSDN and Anime DVDs.. (Not Henti you pervert...)
Technicality but if your 110 baud then I'd say you are both wealthy and a cheap bastard.
110 baud modems were toast long before the Vic20 came along (let alone 64) so your modem came from earlier days.. Your an early addopter.. Maybe an old Mainframe in your back yard.
Cheap becouse... dude I mean come on the VicModem wasn't that expensive.. I mean for the cost of the RS232 addapter.. Spring the extra $2 and get a 300 baud.. gezz..
Yea, the hard drives were really awful.
Hard drives?
Do you mean: 1581 floppy drive? The small disks were often called "hard disks" by people who didn't know what a hard disk was.
The 1581 was designed based on the 1571 who had fixed the whole drive knocking problem.
Do you mean the vareous hard disks available for the Commodore 8 bits? As the Commodore computers didn't have an actual drive interface but more of a "slave computer" IO buss the hard disks were usually stock hard disks inserted in a costume drive system. If they had a knocking problem it wasn't a commodore issue byond maybe copying the 1541.
Do you mean then 1541 and 1540? Those drives would slam dance themselfs when an error happend as a lazy way of trying to correctly determine where the drive head really was. (assuming a software fault).
The stupid copy protection systems on the Commodore would intoduce thies errors on the disk causing a lot of drive knocking.
A local computer shop reduced the knocking by adding a rubber stopper into the disk drive.
Some people believe Commodore intended the disk drives to come out of allignment every now an then to make it valuable to be a Atherised Commodre service shop. No doupt they didn't intend for it to get as bad as it did with the copyprotection.
I can see why the Geoworks SDK was so bad.
Firstly Geoworks or GEOS/PC was based on Geos 64 however Geos 64 (unlike Windows) was not intended to be an operating system but an applications pacage. So originally Geos 64 was designed to have the apps develuped internally at Berkly this would most likely be passed over to Geoworks unless it was a white paper rewrite.
Geoworks was a very populare product with a problem. The market had already gone to Windows. While it made no sense at the time Microsoft had already gainned market domination.
Also Geoworks didn't have an SDK before version 2.0. As a result Geoworks had to rush the SDK develupment before Microsoft got market domination.
Geoworks also made the intresting choice of liccensing the MOTIF GUI. I always wondered if the infamous MOTIF API was found in Geoworks.. The problems you faced with it suggest the answer is yes.
Even with rushing the SDK to the market Geoworks was good and dead on the PC long before the Geoworks SDK was ready. The SDK remained for the Zoomer, Geobook and early smart cell phones.
But the Geoworks GUI was very nice. link Thanks to Toastytech for documenting the old Geoworks UI.
Ahh but Geoworks got a new life with "Newdeal" but they appear to be missing now.
A new reincarnation of Geoworks is Breadbox makes Breadbox Ensemble for sale and for trial you can use Ensemble lite. (Downloadable from Breadboxes website).
Breadbox has supported Geoworks back in the days of the Zoomer.
In my opinion the Geoworks SDK was a pig becouse Geoworks was doomed not the other way around.
First let me point out you can't be an effective teacher if you start off forming an advisarial relationship with your students.
Having said that I remember one teacher when I was in high school who was truely sick.
She was contantly pulling little stunts.
For example: After my mother and father devorced the school recomended I see a psycologest to help me addapt. Standard procedure I guess.
When this teacher discovered I was seeing a psycologest she announced to the class I was suffering a nervous breakdown or something to that effect.
She was always dropping hints about me being mentally retarted and other insults.
I had no idea how to deal with the situation.
Eventually she assulted annother student for no apparent reason and last I heard she was being sued for it.
Thies teachers are rare. But rare dose not mean non-exsistent. If the teachers today inspire this sort of reaction it really dose not matter if what the students clame is true or if the student body is just getting back at a hateful teacher the teacher failed to establish anything approching a student teacher/mentor relationship.
If they don't trust you they won't believe anything you try to teach them.
Companys paranoid that a group of geeks won't properly peer review the code they write will then chouse to hire profesionals... outsourced profesionals they can't watch over and won't be able to implement any sort of review process themselfs (trusting yet annother organisation do to that).
I've nothing wrong with outsourcing so much as how companys don't trust peer review anymore. Seams pritty dumb to me.
How to use this for evil is obveous. (Actually I do searches on myself ever now and then just to see what I look like on the Internet. Do it yourself it's fun.)
Your an evil badguy and go nuts on Google... Credit Cards... Horray... Now to go nutz.
Leave it to MS NBC to neglect to mention that this is also a tool for good.
Your a credit card holder..... Now go google your credit cards... DO IT NOW.
Did you find it? I didn't.
I've got 4 credit cards.. two store cards one business visa and one personal mastercard.
(Oh yeah hackers the name on the card is Felinoid) Yeah they'll buy that.. not...
Don't need to use Google BTW... Use Alta Vista.. or Microsoft serch.. or Lycos...
Oh yeah and when your done put your credit cards away (I had to leave desk while entering post an left my wallet on desk... Now my credit cards are gone and I think I saw a stuffed teady bear running down the street yelling "Charge it"... Just kidding got all my cards..).
(Oh yeah if you do see a teady bear running down the street your missing credit cards are the least of your conserns)
Now to set up a bot to trap all thies searches on Google....
(Oh come on it had to be said)
Apple makes money on sales of iPODs.
However each music entity also makes money from the sales (otherwise they wouldn't agree to deal).
BMG could do well to convert it's CD sales store to online media sales. Other record lables could do the same.
Microsoft could use a music store to push a new media format.
eBay or mymp3.com could charge a "commission" fee for selling online music from indupendent artists.
Google or Yahoo could use MP3 sales as additional content.
Keenspot might grab into the act with "Inspired by" music sales...
"Gothic Erotic by Britty Speres inspired by Zebra Girl"
(Don't say it... You dona wana get the demonic girl mad at you...)
Or maybe something more intresting inspired by "User Friendly" or "Sluggy Freelance"...
In the past you'd need a whole colection of soungs to get "Inspired by" music sold but with single unit sales a single soung could do just fine. With a bunch of KeenSpot comics there could be a CD but not with Sluggy or UF as they are independent.