Watch how fast Sun becomes "displeased" with the latest GPL3 draft, and considers not open-sourcing Solaris under the GPL3 license.
Seriously, this is not a troll. I am convinced that the only reason Sun was considering this is because the Linux project was not. There is no chance in hell they want to see any of their kernel code end up inside the Linux kernel.
Um, most of their land is unusable, frozen tundra. Also, Communism probably had a big influence on keeping most people in the cities with no "suburbia" developing, since nobody was allowed to own their own land until very recently.
I believe that Microsoft already has debugging protection built into the kernel. From what I have read on other message boards, newer versions of Windows Media Player refuse to run if loaded into a debugger.
No, grandparent is right, this would require some sort of kernel level debugger. Unfortunately, once Win64 is mainstream, this might also be difficult or impossible for a hacker to create, since all kernel modules in Win64 will have to be digitally signed by Microsoft before they will run. Unless, of course, the digital signature for kernel modules is in turn cracked...
My understanding is that Singapore's punishment for littering, vandalism, drugs, and most everything else, is far more severe than most liberal democracies would tolerate. It is NOT surprising, therefore, that he is facing 3 years / $10,000 fine in Singapore, whereas in a western country he would likely face < 1 year + < $3,000 fine for a first offence of a crime of this nature, unless he was caught using the wireless access to do something else illicit, like download child pornography.
Singapore is a police state. It is not a liberal democracy. It is unfortunate that he is facing such a harsh sentice for such a minor crime, but it should not be unexpected in an unfree country such as this.
Not to end on a trollish note, but honestly, if you believe that caning and a lengthy prison sentence is a fair and just punishment for spraypainting a wall, then I would suggest you try living in a country that practices such harsh punishments, and see how long you like it there.
My computer science degree taught me *nothing* about regular expressions. In fact, I would expect that any quality computer science degree wouldn't teach you about RE. Here's why: A good computer science degree teaches you one language, then it teaches you the concepts behind programming -- algorithim analysis, discrete math, data structures, fundamentals of programming on modern operating systems (threads, semaphores, etc), and once you learn all of the fundamentals, you are expected to be able to learn any programming language virtually at will.
This book is not a "cookbook". I am an accomplished programmer with a real computer science degree, and I used the first edition of this book to teach myself regular expressions. For most people, even experienced programmers, learning RE is hard when all you have are "reference" manuals. This is coming from someone who, when my boss asked me once "What book did you read to learn Linux?", replied, "UNIX MAN Pages."
I highly recommend this book for even the most accomplished programmer, if you don't yet know RE. If your University's curricula includes teaching you RE, I would suggest you find a better University, since they are likely focusing on the "high level" stuff, and not the basic fundamentals you will need to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Entrapment is when you are coerced or tricked into doing something you would not normally do.
Case in point: A few years ago, there was a local case (San Diego, CA) where a man went online looking for an older, single woman for romance. He met someone online claiming to be a female lonelyheart, and correspondance ensued. After a time, the "woman" asked him what he wanted to do to her sexually. He wrote a raunchy e-mail to her, detailing various sex acts. The "woman" then said, sounds nice, now, tell me what you want to do to my 16-year old daughter. The man then fired off another raunchy e-mail to her, describing similar sex acts that he would perform on her daughter.
I'm sure you see where this is going. The "woman" turned out to be an undercover cop, and he was busted for soliciting sex from a minor. Fortunately for him, this was a clear case of entrapment, as he was able to prove from the correspondance that he had no interest in having sex with a minor, and merely wrote a fantasy at the woman's bidding, and he was found not guilty at his trial.
When someone is suspected of actively soliciting sex from a real minor (because the minor or parents alert the police), and an undercover cop takes the place of the said minor and busts the offender after incriminating himself, that is not entrapment. The person clearly knows (or is enlightened during the course of conversation) that he is dealing with a minor, and when the solicitation comes, it comes because that person is genuinely interested in procuring sex from a minor.
Personally, I don't think that Human brains are binary based, logic gate controlled computation machines, and this difference accounts for why we have so much diffuclty with developing strong AI on them.
I do believe, however, that we will eventually "crack the code" to the fundamental archetecture of our brains, and once we do that, we will re-design our computers accordingly, and finally achieve strong AI.
I also believe, that our currently architected computers will play a key role in assisting us with cracking this code.
This is for Promise Serial ATA controllers (PCI card, not built into the motherboard). Specifically, the Promise FasTrak TX2Plus (rebranded as a Maxtor SATA/150)
You got it to work? With which vendor's card?? At this point, I am so frustrated, I'm willing to throw money at the solution and buy a new Serial/Parallel ATA controller, if it is affordable enough ($20-30). My understanding, however, was that libata itself (not just the individual drivers, like sata_promise) had no support yet for the PATA connector on any SATA adapter.
There appears to be some confusion, so I'll followup here and clarify what I mean
So, apparantly, PATA is more of a "generic" term for IDE hard drives than I had realized:) When I say "no PATA support", I mean, "No support for Parallel ATA connectors on Serial ATA Adapter cards". This is essential for Ultra ATA hard drives -- you cannot connect an Ultra ATA hard drive to a legacy IDE connector, it must be a special PATA connector that uses some of the same logic for Serial ATA drives.
Yes, there is a Promise Serial ATA adapter driver, but no, it does not have support for the onboard PATA connector yet. Support for it is still extremely bleeding edge, you must patch it in manually yourself (in addition to being able to understand how to comnpile a vanilla kernel), and why should I trust that driver code that is still "in development" will not potentially corrupt my hard drive?
This also doesn't solve my dilemma of having no support for my hard drive at install time -- the SATA driver that Fedora (and all 2.6 kernel based distros) have burned into the ISO CD/DVD image will not recognize my hard drive, so I can't even install Linux. It's a chicken-and-egg dilemma for me; In order to patch the kernel to support my hard drive, I have to be able to first install Linux on the hard drive! (and no, I'm not running SuSE 9.0 anymore, so I can't use that to recompile)
There doesn't appear to be a full changelog yet, but I have been following the release candidates, and it appears that Parallel ATA (AKA "Ultra ATA") Hard disk support is still not in the kernel.
This is frustrating. I had purchased an Ultra ATA Hard disk drive (which came bundled with a Serial/Parallel ATA controller), and I had it working fine under SUSE Linux 9.0. What I didn't realize at the time was, Promise made proprietary drivers for SuSE Linux, and no other distro.
I have wanted to switch over to Fedora Linux for some time now, but although it is able to detect my SATA card and load drivers for it just fine, It does not recognise the PATA connector, and does not locate my hard drive, as a result.
There does appear to be a patch available for this, but it is still officially "in development", and I am concerned that it will not make it into the mainstream kernel in time now for Fedora Core 4 to be able to recognize my hard drive, and install to it.
This is so frustrating. What is the holdup? PATA support appears to have been discussed for almost a year now and it is still not in the kernel. There appear to be a lot of Ultra ATA hard disks on the market; I can't be the only one encountering the frustration of not being able to install a modern version of Linux due to lack of driver support.
1987 Apr: Microsoft introduces OS/2 Lan Manager, an network operating system to compete with Novell's NetWare.
It's a patched up rehash of IBM's old PCNet.
1988 Oct: 3Com introduces the 3+Open network, based on Microsoft's Lan Manager (based on IBM's old PCNet). In 1990 a famous "shoot out" was held between 3+ and Novell NetWare. 3Com dropped out of the network software business in Dec 1990.
I never stated that Lan Man came before Netware, was superior to Netware, or anything of that sort. However, id did predate WfW, was direct competition to NetWare, and was finally integrated for "free" into Windows WfW/NT, when MS decided they couldn't keep up with NetWare, and is still the foundation for NetBEUI under Windows today.
I don't know the details of the lawsuit, but if anything, the subsequent integration and "giving away with the operating system" of LanMan must have hurt Novell's business, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this isn't part of the reason for the lawsuit in the first place
Microsoft had LAN Manager, which was direct, if crappy, competition to Netware and Banyan, before they incorporated into WfW as peer-to-peer filesharing. Indeed, if you peek at even the NT networking layer dlls, I believe you will still see ID strings titled "LANMAN" -- showing that there still either exists some LAN Manager code in Windows, or at least that the NetBEUI layer is still codenamed after what it originated from.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that the SELinux kernel patches are a part of the stock kernel, and I'm not sure they ever will be. My guess would be that this is why Fedora always patches the standard kernel.
At my first computer programming job out of college, I was required to write scripts that processed JCL dumps. the scripting language of choice, back then, was CLIST. It was the most horrid "language" I have ever had to program in.
Fortunately, IBM had just released the first version of MVS/TSO that included support for REXX. Unaware that this was a recent thing, I grabbed the offical MVS/Rexx reference book (an internal IBM publication at the time, I believe), and took a week to self teach myself REXX, and ditched CLIST.
When IBM had their Great Layoff of '93, they purged all of the contractors first. As I wrapped up my project to hand over to my IBM supervisors, a look of shock and amazement came over their faces.
IBM'er: "You, you... programmed this in REXX!!!"
Me: "Yeah, so? It was a lot easier to do it that way."
IBM'er: "But, but... nobody here knows REXX!!! What are we going to do?!?!"
I was floored. Because I had a Computer Science degree, I was able to master a simple procedural programming language on my own, with one flimsy, poorly written internal reference document, within a week. The IBM'ers, on the other hand, had no degree, and were totally dependant on internal IBM training and certification in order to understand anything as "advanced" as a new programming language.
That, my friends, is the power of a good University degree.
I thought that the open replacement for SNMP was WBEM. Microsoft, in fact, has already implimented this, basically, as WMI, or Windows Management Instrumentation.
Anyone know why this is suddenly being pushed, and not WBEM?
Namely, "fun/amusement" applets -- think applets like "XEyes". Yes, I will admit, when I was in college I used to get a kick out of running things like "BartEyes" (A Bart Simpson knockoff of XEyes), and although I have outgrown them, My mom still likes her "Felix", a cat that walks around on her screen.
Felix is the last amusement applet I will ever let my mom run. I only let her run it now because it predates spyware being trojaned into these little applets. Today, I don't trust ANY fun/amusing "applet" because IMO they all potentially carry a spyware payload.
Sadly, I have noticed that this trend of spyware payloads has begun to move itself into mildly useful, free utitlity applets as well -- I have heard of a weather reporting applet and a time server synchronization applet carrying nasty payloads. I suppose it won't be much longer before the majority of nifty utilities from places like tucows.com are suspect.
It's been awhile since I took Assembly, but from what I understand, NX, or "No Execute", is an instruction that tells the processor to refuse to execute any binary data stored in certain locations in memory. This way, you cannot execute code that might be hidden inside, say, a string variable; this is a common exploit used by trojans & worms called a "buffer overrun", meaning it tries to insert code past the legal length of the string, and, if conditions are right, the code gets executed before the program crashes. I believe that the "NX" feature is found on "Big Iron" processors, and has been for quite some time.
NOP, on the other hand, is "No Operation". Literally, step over this instruction and do nothing. Applications for this are fairly limited, but they do not include attempting to block illegal code from running inside of data space
Anyone know how Struts compares to Maypole, a Perl-based MVC? I just started reading up on MVCs, and Maypole claims decent functionality can be achieved with as little as 10-20 lines of coding.
Also, while I'm thinking of it, does anyone know of a decent Python-based MVC?
I read an introduction to one of the "Man-Kzin Wars" anthologies a while ago, and in it, Niven talked about being approacehed (I don't remember whether it was formally or informally) about crossing over the Kzin with the Star Trek universe. His answer: a resounding "No".
This is indeed a timely article. I have been thinking about registering a generic drug name -- not the brand name -- for a personal web site, because the name sounds interesting, it is an online pseudonym that I use, and I have a personal history with the drug in question. Would/could a pharmaceutical company come after me for using the generic name? What about someone else, like the FDA, saying that it was in the "public interest" that the generic name be used exclusively in connection with information about the actual drug?
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I think The ONN (Onion News Network) summs up the sad situation in our country quite nicely with this little "expose": CEO fired, replaced by illegal immigrant
Watch how fast Sun becomes "displeased" with the latest GPL3 draft, and considers not open-sourcing Solaris under the GPL3 license.
Seriously, this is not a troll. I am convinced that the only reason Sun was considering this is because the Linux project was not. There is no chance in hell they want to see any of their kernel code end up inside the Linux kernel.
Um, most of their land is unusable, frozen tundra. Also, Communism probably had a big influence on keeping most people in the cities with no "suburbia" developing, since nobody was allowed to own their own land until very recently.
I believe that Microsoft already has debugging protection built into the kernel. From what I have read on other message boards, newer versions of Windows Media Player refuse to run if loaded into a debugger.
No, grandparent is right, this would require some sort of kernel level debugger. Unfortunately, once Win64 is mainstream, this might also be difficult or impossible for a hacker to create, since all kernel modules in Win64 will have to be digitally signed by Microsoft before they will run. Unless, of course, the digital signature for kernel modules is in turn cracked...
"The Punishment Does Not Fit The Crime"
My understanding is that Singapore's punishment for littering, vandalism, drugs, and most everything else, is far more severe than most liberal democracies would tolerate. It is NOT surprising, therefore, that he is facing 3 years / $10,000 fine in Singapore, whereas in a western country he would likely face < 1 year + < $3,000 fine for a first offence of a crime of this nature, unless he was caught using the wireless access to do something else illicit, like download child pornography.
Singapore is a police state. It is not a liberal democracy. It is unfortunate that he is facing such a harsh sentice for such a minor crime, but it should not be unexpected in an unfree country such as this.
Not to end on a trollish note, but honestly, if you believe that caning and a lengthy prison sentence is a fair and just punishment for spraypainting a wall, then I would suggest you try living in a country that practices such harsh punishments, and see how long you like it there.
I have to take umbrage with this.
My computer science degree taught me *nothing* about regular expressions. In fact, I would expect that any quality computer science degree wouldn't teach you about RE. Here's why: A good computer science degree teaches you one language, then it teaches you the concepts behind programming -- algorithim analysis, discrete math, data structures, fundamentals of programming on modern operating systems (threads, semaphores, etc), and once you learn all of the fundamentals, you are expected to be able to learn any programming language virtually at will.
This book is not a "cookbook". I am an accomplished programmer with a real computer science degree, and I used the first edition of this book to teach myself regular expressions. For most people, even experienced programmers, learning RE is hard when all you have are "reference" manuals. This is coming from someone who, when my boss asked me once "What book did you read to learn Linux?", replied, "UNIX MAN Pages."
I highly recommend this book for even the most accomplished programmer, if you don't yet know RE. If your University's curricula includes teaching you RE, I would suggest you find a better University, since they are likely focusing on the "high level" stuff, and not the basic fundamentals you will need to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Entrapment is when you are coerced or tricked into doing something you would not normally do.
Case in point: A few years ago, there was a local case (San Diego, CA) where a man went online looking for an older, single woman for romance. He met someone online claiming to be a female lonelyheart, and correspondance ensued. After a time, the "woman" asked him what he wanted to do to her sexually. He wrote a raunchy e-mail to her, detailing various sex acts. The "woman" then said, sounds nice, now, tell me what you want to do to my 16-year old daughter. The man then fired off another raunchy e-mail to her, describing similar sex acts that he would perform on her daughter.
I'm sure you see where this is going. The "woman" turned out to be an undercover cop, and he was busted for soliciting sex from a minor. Fortunately for him, this was a clear case of entrapment, as he was able to prove from the correspondance that he had no interest in having sex with a minor, and merely wrote a fantasy at the woman's bidding, and he was found not guilty at his trial.
When someone is suspected of actively soliciting sex from a real minor (because the minor or parents alert the police), and an undercover cop takes the place of the said minor and busts the offender after incriminating himself, that is not entrapment. The person clearly knows (or is enlightened during the course of conversation) that he is dealing with a minor, and when the solicitation comes, it comes because that person is genuinely interested in procuring sex from a minor.
It seems that the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center is currently restoring(PDF) one of only four remaining RAMACs to a functioning state.
Personally, I don't think that Human brains are binary based, logic gate controlled computation machines, and this difference accounts for why we have so much diffuclty with developing strong AI on them.
I do believe, however, that we will eventually "crack the code" to the fundamental archetecture of our brains, and once we do that, we will re-design our computers accordingly, and finally achieve strong AI.
I also believe, that our currently architected computers will play a key role in assisting us with cracking this code.
This is for Promise Serial ATA controllers (PCI card, not built into the motherboard). Specifically, the Promise FasTrak TX2Plus (rebranded as a Maxtor SATA/150)
You got it to work? With which vendor's card?? At this point, I am so frustrated, I'm willing to throw money at the solution and buy a new Serial/Parallel ATA controller, if it is affordable enough ($20-30). My understanding, however, was that libata itself (not just the individual drivers, like sata_promise) had no support yet for the PATA connector on any SATA adapter.
There appears to be some confusion, so I'll followup here and clarify what I mean
:) When I say "no PATA support", I mean, "No support for Parallel ATA connectors on Serial ATA Adapter cards". This is essential for Ultra ATA hard drives -- you cannot connect an Ultra ATA hard drive to a legacy IDE connector, it must be a special PATA connector that uses some of the same logic for Serial ATA drives.
So, apparantly, PATA is more of a "generic" term for IDE hard drives than I had realized
Yes, there is a Promise Serial ATA adapter driver, but no, it does not have support for the onboard PATA connector yet. Support for it is still extremely bleeding edge, you must patch it in manually yourself (in addition to being able to understand how to comnpile a vanilla kernel), and why should I trust that driver code that is still "in development" will not potentially corrupt my hard drive?
This also doesn't solve my dilemma of having no support for my hard drive at install time -- the SATA driver that Fedora (and all 2.6 kernel based distros) have burned into the ISO CD/DVD image will not recognize my hard drive, so I can't even install Linux. It's a chicken-and-egg dilemma for me; In order to patch the kernel to support my hard drive, I have to be able to first install Linux on the hard drive! (and no, I'm not running SuSE 9.0 anymore, so I can't use that to recompile)
There doesn't appear to be a full changelog yet, but I have been following the release candidates, and it appears that Parallel ATA (AKA "Ultra ATA") Hard disk support is still not in the kernel.
This is frustrating. I had purchased an Ultra ATA Hard disk drive (which came bundled with a Serial/Parallel ATA controller), and I had it working fine under SUSE Linux 9.0. What I didn't realize at the time was, Promise made proprietary drivers for SuSE Linux, and no other distro.
I have wanted to switch over to Fedora Linux for some time now, but although it is able to detect my SATA card and load drivers for it just fine, It does not recognise the PATA connector, and does not locate my hard drive, as a result.
There does appear to be a patch available for this, but it is still officially "in development", and I am concerned that it will not make it into the mainstream kernel in time now for Fedora Core 4 to be able to recognize my hard drive, and install to it.
This is so frustrating. What is the holdup? PATA support appears to have been discussed for almost a year now and it is still not in the kernel. There appear to be a lot of Ultra ATA hard disks on the market; I can't be the only one encountering the frustration of not being able to install a modern version of Linux due to lack of driver support.
I never stated that Lan Man came before Netware, was superior to Netware, or anything of that sort. However, id did predate WfW, was direct competition to NetWare, and was finally integrated for "free" into Windows WfW/NT, when MS decided they couldn't keep up with NetWare, and is still the foundation for NetBEUI under Windows today.
I don't know the details of the lawsuit, but if anything, the subsequent integration and "giving away with the operating system" of LanMan must have hurt Novell's business, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this isn't part of the reason for the lawsuit in the first place
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Microsoft had LAN Manager, which was direct, if crappy, competition to Netware and Banyan, before they incorporated into WfW as peer-to-peer filesharing. Indeed, if you peek at even the NT networking layer dlls, I believe you will still see ID strings titled "LANMAN" -- showing that there still either exists some LAN Manager code in Windows, or at least that the NetBEUI layer is still codenamed after what it originated from.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that the SELinux kernel patches are a part of the stock kernel, and I'm not sure they ever will be. My guess would be that this is why Fedora always patches the standard kernel.
Obviously have never had to program in CLIST
At my first computer programming job out of college, I was required to write scripts that processed JCL dumps. the scripting language of choice, back then, was CLIST. It was the most horrid "language" I have ever had to program in.
Fortunately, IBM had just released the first version of MVS/TSO that included support for REXX. Unaware that this was a recent thing, I grabbed the offical MVS/Rexx reference book (an internal IBM publication at the time, I believe), and took a week to self teach myself REXX, and ditched CLIST.
When IBM had their Great Layoff of '93, they purged all of the contractors first. As I wrapped up my project to hand over to my IBM supervisors, a look of shock and amazement came over their faces.
IBM'er: "You, you... programmed this in REXX!!!"
Me: "Yeah, so? It was a lot easier to do it that way."
IBM'er: "But, but... nobody here knows REXX!!! What are we going to do?!?!"
I was floored. Because I had a Computer Science degree, I was able to master a simple procedural programming language on my own, with one flimsy, poorly written internal reference document, within a week. The IBM'ers, on the other hand, had no degree, and were totally dependant on internal IBM training and certification in order to understand anything as "advanced" as a new programming language.
That, my friends, is the power of a good University degree.
I thought that the open replacement for SNMP was WBEM. Microsoft, in fact, has already implimented this, basically, as WMI, or Windows Management Instrumentation.
Anyone know why this is suddenly being pushed, and not WBEM?
Namely, "fun/amusement" applets -- think applets like "XEyes". Yes, I will admit, when I was in college I used to get a kick out of running things like "BartEyes" (A Bart Simpson knockoff of XEyes), and although I have outgrown them, My mom still likes her "Felix", a cat that walks around on her screen.
Felix is the last amusement applet I will ever let my mom run. I only let her run it now because it predates spyware being trojaned into these little applets. Today, I don't trust ANY fun/amusing "applet" because IMO they all potentially carry a spyware payload.
Sadly, I have noticed that this trend of spyware payloads has begun to move itself into mildly useful, free utitlity applets as well -- I have heard of a weather reporting applet and a time server synchronization applet carrying nasty payloads. I suppose it won't be much longer before the majority of nifty utilities from places like tucows.com are suspect.
I think sometimes that we live in sad times.
It's been awhile since I took Assembly, but from what I understand, NX, or "No Execute", is an instruction that tells the processor to refuse to execute any binary data stored in certain locations in memory. This way, you cannot execute code that might be hidden inside, say, a string variable; this is a common exploit used by trojans & worms called a "buffer overrun", meaning it tries to insert code past the legal length of the string, and, if conditions are right, the code gets executed before the program crashes. I believe that the "NX" feature is found on "Big Iron" processors, and has been for quite some time.
NOP, on the other hand, is "No Operation". Literally, step over this instruction and do nothing. Applications for this are fairly limited, but they do not include attempting to block illegal code from running inside of data space
Anyone know how Struts compares to Maypole, a Perl-based MVC? I just started reading up on MVCs, and Maypole claims decent functionality can be achieved with as little as 10-20 lines of coding.
Also, while I'm thinking of it, does anyone know of a decent Python-based MVC?
I read an introduction to one of the "Man-Kzin Wars" anthologies a while ago, and in it, Niven talked about being approacehed (I don't remember whether it was formally or informally) about crossing over the Kzin with the Star Trek universe. His answer: a resounding "No".
Time to send a PGP encrypted e-mail message to yourself that reads:
;-)
Dear NSA:
Stop reading my e-mail.
This is indeed a timely article. I have been thinking about registering a generic drug name -- not the brand name -- for a personal web site, because the name sounds interesting, it is an online pseudonym that I use, and I have a personal history with the drug in question. Would/could a pharmaceutical company come after me for using the generic name? What about someone else, like the FDA, saying that it was in the "public interest" that the generic name be used exclusively in connection with information about the actual drug?
These also include the Extended Edition DVDs, and are in handy table format.
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King