1) Pick up a book on nuclear energy before bitching, please.
2) You are surrounded by radiation. Your clothes are slightly radioactive, your coffee table is slightly radioactive, your blow-dryer is radioactive, everything. The amount of radiation exposure you suffer as a result of sitting infront of your monitor and nearby kitchen appliances is significantly HIGHER than the degree of radiation exposure one would suffer from being down wind of an explosion you people say will ultimately happen.
3) Suppose it does happen. Do you know how big Earth is? The damage would occur in the space of less than a pin prick on a global scale, and would probably occur over an ocean, and not land. Even if one did blow up and scatter big stinky radioactive fallout all over the earth, it would be spread out so thinly that by the time it reached the ground where we are, you wouldn't even be able to differentiate it between the normal ambient radiation already there.
Quoting directly from The Open Group's "About Us" page:
"The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise."
I guess the "Open" part of The Open Group is responsible for suing companies who [i]openly[/i] use the term "Unix".
Unix isn't an acronym. It's not an abbreviation. It's a word used to denote a certain type or style of operating system. The Open Group suing Apple over the use of the word "Unix" is the equivalent of Breyers suing Baskin Robbins over the user of the word "Vanilla".
Its sad, really....Watching all the old Unix dinosaurs die. Rather than embrace what Unix has become in the past 10 years, and become kick-ass companies in their own right, they'd rather throw lawsuits around. SCO and The Open Group could easilly become major players if they simply modified their business plan a little.
The Unix world isn't comprised of a handful of companies with reinforced concrete walls separating them anymore. By refusing to acknowledge it, they're chiseling their own gravestone, and they'll have no one to blame but themselves when the company goes under.
If a company's reluctance to adapt to changing marketplace is any measure of when that event should occur, the case for SCO and The Open Group is long, long overdue. Unix doesn't exist in a vacuum anymore. The Open Group seems to insist that it still does.
Sorry guys. Lawsuits will no sooner make your business model viable than driving my car backwards will make it newer.
...I can buy a 1GB compact flash for, what, $100? 1GB of storage contained in something the size of a poker chip.
What the hell is stopping someone from coming up an CF-based IDE drive?
(Yes, technically, I know the answer. But you have to admit, the most antiquated piece of hardware in a modern PC is the hard disk. It's friggin *mechanical*, for cryin' out loud. What the hell is that doin' in there?)
As a long-time RTCW addict, I can tell you this much -- The original RTCW in multiplayer mode is enough to keep you hooked for months. I mean, come on... Any game that allows you to shoot someone in the face point blank with a high powered rifle, drag their body off into a dark corner, set them on fire, and jump up and down on their chest while stabbing them in the face... What more could you ask for?
If you truly "got my point" the first time around, you and I wouldn't be having this little discussion. You would have already recognized that I was right, and moved on to something else.
By most people's accounts, I not only hold the "annoyance" patent, but i've got market cornered on annoyance-related technologies.
I think i'll call my lawyer tomorrow. SCO is treading on my territory.
On a serious note, I think we're seeing the beginning of a new trend when it comes to business management. If Chapter 11 is imminent, as has been the case with SCO in recent years, file lawsuits! File as many as you can, for as much money as humanly possible. It buys you time, and if by some stretch of bizarro-world luck you happen to win, the money you get comes straight out of the pockets of your competitors!
With all this, keep one thing in mind:
We live in a world where the most profitable company in the world sells bug-infested software, while another company who goes belly-up selling a product that can't crash.
You should be thankful I don't dance around an issue like a fairy. If it sucks, it sucks, and thats it. You're welcome to your opinion, certainly, but sometimes i'll tell you that your opinion sucks ass..
The reason I brought up the "100 words or less thing" is because shit like nonstandardized GUI design prevents people from writing manuals that get people interested in the platform. Nobodys going to give a rats ass about Linux if what they learn on one machine is practically worthless on another.
One more time. In 100 words or less, tell a novice Linux user how to minimize a window. If you can do it, i'll agree with you on how everyones desktops should be different...idiot.
Oh gee, like thats gonna be REAL popular with people.. How long will it take an enterprising young 14-year-old to write a little hack that sits on a network, opens promiscuous mode on a NIC, watches for calls to Phoenix's verification IP, and answers back with a smurfed "AAGH! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" reply before Phoenix, Inc. has a chance to?
And I, for one, don't want the operation of my machine to be wholly dependent upon whether or not it's connected to a public network.
Stupid idea, if you ask me.
You want PC security? A note on the wall that says "If you screw with this machine, I'll know, and i'm quite capable of kicking your ass, having you fired, or both." will do the trick nicely.:)
Seriously..When I was in HS, the guy who ran the computer room was massively anti-piracy. If he even *suspected* you were using pirated shit in the lab, he'd confiscate your disk and literally staple it to the wall. Got the point across.
From a single key? No. To brute-force crack WEP, you either need a few million packets to work with, or, you monitor passively and basically let it do the work for you. The more packets you have at your disposal to compare, the less time its going to take.
The whitepaper I read regarding WEP encryption vulnerabilities is the same one i'd imagine everyone else has read. There are a couple of approaches to it, but generally speaking, successful WEP cracking (IIRC) takes upwards of 5-8 million packets, minimum...Basically, enough packets to ensure than a weak IV will be found. Short work from there.
5-8 million may seem like alot, but on a busy network, it's a drop in the bucket. It can be broken within hours.
Yeah, similar story here.. Every mermaid i've ever seen on a bike exhibited the same problems -- The tail flipper either becomes entangled in the spokes, or, the mermaid lacks a strong enough lower-body strength to keep the pedals going on a single-side rotation. Thats not to say bicycles for mermaids are useless... I'm sure there are a few who do manage to get around pretty well with them, but, on the whole, mermaids and bicycles just don't mix.
Yeah, and money is bad and lets throw stuff. Anarchy is k00l. Yeah, man, fuck the WTO.
Jesus... Take a bath, hippy. And while you're there, how about you write down, in 100 words or less, how to minimize a window on a Linux desktop. Maybe then you'll see what I mean.
Oh wait.
No...That assumes you'll put down your bong long enough to stop "celebrating diversity".
WEP is a miserable encryption algorithm. It can be brute-forced within hours, or passively within a day or two. Simply by having WEP enabled on your access point is *no* guarantee whatsoever that your data is secure.
Now, having everything SSH tunnelled and then wrapped in a flaky WEP crust, that's different... But WEP for 802.11(x) makes about as much sense as a bicycle for a mermaid.
...is Mandrake adopt/keep close to RH's BlueCurve idea. Once the Linux desktop starts having a consistant appearance to it, we'll get closer and closer to having a universal theme standard.
Universal theme standard = Easier job for guys like me, and application developers who've been waiting for the dust to settle before moving their apps to the platform.
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1) Pick up a book on nuclear energy before bitching, please.
2) You are surrounded by radiation. Your clothes are slightly radioactive, your coffee table is slightly radioactive, your blow-dryer is radioactive, everything. The amount of radiation exposure you suffer as a result of sitting infront of your monitor and nearby kitchen appliances is significantly HIGHER than the degree of radiation exposure one would suffer from being down wind of an explosion you people say will ultimately happen.
3) Suppose it does happen. Do you know how big Earth is? The damage would occur in the space of less than a pin prick on a global scale, and would probably occur over an ocean, and not land. Even if one did blow up and scatter big stinky radioactive fallout all over the earth, it would be spread out so thinly that by the time it reached the ground where we are, you wouldn't even be able to differentiate it between the normal ambient radiation already there.
Use your heads and do your homework, hippies.
Bahahahahah, good point..
No kiddin.
Wanna know whats even funnier? IBM is a fucking sponsor of The Open Group. And the Open Group is suing them.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you..Sheesh.
Quoting directly from The Open Group's "About Us" page:
"The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise."
You were saying?
Hahhaa..Okay, you're a CIO. Pick your response:
"Wow, okay, looks like we'll have to migrate our entire enterprise away from AIX as soon as possible!!"
-or-
"Bahahahahaha, OMG SCO is so fucking gay."
Damn you, vBulletin! You've corrupted my sense of proper HTML! :)
[i]Duh..[/i]
I guess the "Open" part of The Open Group is responsible for suing companies who [i]openly[/i] use the term "Unix".
Unix isn't an acronym. It's not an abbreviation. It's a word used to denote a certain type or style of operating system. The Open Group suing Apple over the use of the word "Unix" is the equivalent of Breyers suing Baskin Robbins over the user of the word "Vanilla".
Its sad, really....Watching all the old Unix dinosaurs die. Rather than embrace what Unix has become in the past 10 years, and become kick-ass companies in their own right, they'd rather throw lawsuits around. SCO and The Open Group could easilly become major players if they simply modified their business plan a little.
The Unix world isn't comprised of a handful of companies with reinforced concrete walls separating them anymore. By refusing to acknowledge it, they're chiseling their own gravestone, and they'll have no one to blame but themselves when the company goes under.
If a company's reluctance to adapt to changing marketplace is any measure of when that event should occur, the case for SCO and The Open Group is long, long overdue. Unix doesn't exist in a vacuum anymore. The Open Group seems to insist that it still does.
Sorry guys. Lawsuits will no sooner make your business model viable than driving my car backwards will make it newer.
Cheers,
Aim for Redmond, guys.
...Does that constitute filesharing? :)
Helloooo? CompactFlash?
No moving parts, less power consumption, comparable speeds, practically indestructible.
Sorry, gang, but the idea sounds patently insane. Are these guys funded by Sun's "Insanity First" program or something?
Shrubmod... +salute hack while crouched = drag bodies around.
;)
And, I'm an American. I can spell "alot" however I damn well please.
What the hell is stopping someone from coming up an CF-based IDE drive?
(Yes, technically, I know the answer. But you have to admit, the most antiquated piece of hardware in a modern PC is the hard disk. It's friggin *mechanical*, for cryin' out loud. What the hell is that doin' in there?)
Cheers,
I impaled one of my sister's Barbie dolls on the business end of a power drill when I was 9. Where's my patent?
As a long-time RTCW addict, I can tell you this much -- The original RTCW in multiplayer mode is enough to keep you hooked for months. I mean, come on... Any game that allows you to shoot someone in the face point blank with a high powered rifle, drag their body off into a dark corner, set them on fire, and jump up and down on their chest while stabbing them in the face... What more could you ask for?
I disagree.
If you truly "got my point" the first time around, you and I wouldn't be having this little discussion. You would have already recognized that I was right, and moved on to something else.
By most people's accounts, I not only hold the "annoyance" patent, but i've got market cornered on annoyance-related technologies.
I think i'll call my lawyer tomorrow. SCO is treading on my territory.
On a serious note, I think we're seeing the beginning of a new trend when it comes to business management. If Chapter 11 is imminent, as has been the case with SCO in recent years, file lawsuits! File as many as you can, for as much money as humanly possible. It buys you time, and if by some stretch of bizarro-world luck you happen to win, the money you get comes straight out of the pockets of your competitors!
With all this, keep one thing in mind:
We live in a world where the most profitable company in the world sells bug-infested software, while another company who goes belly-up selling a product that can't crash.
Figure that one out.
6'4" 270, size 13 shoes.
But, in general, I agree. Most people are full of hot air... Bon Scott could kick my ass hands down, and he's dead!
You should be thankful I don't dance around an issue like a fairy. If it sucks, it sucks, and thats it. You're welcome to your opinion, certainly, but sometimes i'll tell you that your opinion sucks ass..
The reason I brought up the "100 words or less thing" is because shit like nonstandardized GUI design prevents people from writing manuals that get people interested in the platform. Nobodys going to give a rats ass about Linux if what they learn on one machine is practically worthless on another.
Take your red herring and shove it.
One more time. In 100 words or less, tell a novice Linux user how to minimize a window. If you can do it, i'll agree with you on how everyones desktops should be different.
Oh gee, like thats gonna be REAL popular with people.. How long will it take an enterprising young 14-year-old to write a little hack that sits on a network, opens promiscuous mode on a NIC, watches for calls to Phoenix's verification IP, and answers back with a smurfed "AAGH! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" reply before Phoenix, Inc. has a chance to?
And I, for one, don't want the operation of my machine to be wholly dependent upon whether or not it's connected to a public network.
Stupid idea, if you ask me.
You want PC security? A note on the wall that says "If you screw with this machine, I'll know, and i'm quite capable of kicking your ass, having you fired, or both." will do the trick nicely.
Seriously..When I was in HS, the guy who ran the computer room was massively anti-piracy. If he even *suspected* you were using pirated shit in the lab, he'd confiscate your disk and literally staple it to the wall. Got the point across.
From a single key? No. To brute-force crack WEP, you either need a few million packets to work with, or, you monitor passively and basically let it do the work for you. The more packets you have at your disposal to compare, the less time its going to take.
:)
The whitepaper I read regarding WEP encryption vulnerabilities is the same one i'd imagine everyone else has read. There are a couple of approaches to it, but generally speaking, successful WEP cracking (IIRC) takes upwards of 5-8 million packets, minimum...Basically, enough packets to ensure than a weak IV will be found. Short work from there.
5-8 million may seem like alot, but on a busy network, it's a drop in the bucket. It can be broken within hours.
Have a look..A good article awaits you.
Yeah, similar story here.. Every mermaid i've ever seen on a bike exhibited the same problems -- The tail flipper either becomes entangled in the spokes, or, the mermaid lacks a strong enough lower-body strength to keep the pedals going on a single-side rotation. Thats not to say bicycles for mermaids are useless... I'm sure there are a few who do manage to get around pretty well with them, but, on the whole, mermaids and bicycles just don't mix.
Yeah, and money is bad and lets throw stuff. Anarchy is k00l. Yeah, man, fuck the WTO.
Jesus... Take a bath, hippy. And while you're there, how about you write down, in 100 words or less, how to minimize a window on a Linux desktop. Maybe then you'll see what I mean.
Oh wait.
No...That assumes you'll put down your bong long enough to stop "celebrating diversity".
Sheesh.
WEP is a miserable encryption algorithm. It can be brute-forced within hours, or passively within a day or two. Simply by having WEP enabled on your access point is *no* guarantee whatsoever that your data is secure.
Now, having everything SSH tunnelled and then wrapped in a flaky WEP crust, that's different... But WEP for 802.11(x) makes about as much sense as a bicycle for a mermaid.
Universal theme standard = Easier job for guys like me, and application developers who've been waiting for the dust to settle before moving their apps to the platform.