To seek the sacred river Alph To walk the caves of ice To break my fast on honeydew And drink the milk of Paradise...
I had heard the whispered tales of immortality The deepest mystery From an ancient book I took a clue I scaled the frozen mountain tops of eastern lands unknown Time and Man alone Searching for the lost Xanadu
To stand within the Pleasure Dome Decreed by Kubla Khan To taste anew the fruits of life The last immortal man To find the sacred river Alph To walk the caves of ice Oh, I will dine on honeydew And drink the milk of Paradise
A thousand years have come and gone but time has passed me by Stars stopped in the sky Frozen in an everlasting view Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night Praying for the light Prison of the lost Xanadu
Held within the Pleasure Dome Decreed by Kubla Khan To taste my bitter triumph As a mad immortal man Nevermore shall I return Escape these caves of ice For I have dined on honeydew And drunk the milk of Paradise
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PHP5 will not write Javascript for you. If you want the client to "work with data without page reloads", you've got to get your hands dirty. Not that I mind doing that. Generating Javascript via PHP can be fun!
My company has a.biz registration we use for staging servers, so yes, it can be useful. Our http://companyname.biz is a nice, out of the way place, while http://companyname.com works nicely for the corporate presense, while the other TLDs just wouldn't be appropriate. Agreed about the uselessness of most of the other new TLDs tho..
Are you comparing the Fedora trojan*, to Windows viruses like MyDoom which require nothing more than opening an email in Outlook?!
FYI, I'm a Windows user since 1992, Linux user since 2000, and can say with some certainty that Windows is far less secure. For one, I don't *need* virus scanners and/or firewalls to protect my box from the nasty 'ol internet. I shut down services which are not needed, and keep the ones that are facing the 'net updated. Of course, a good dose of common sense helps when administering any system. But when you have one system engineered with security in mind, and another where security was an afterthought, one is going to be a harder target than the other. It's as simple as that.
* Which relied on tricking the user into downloading a tarball (which is not even Fedora's update method), compiling it, and installing it as root. Also, I haven't heard of anyone actually getting their system unintentionally infected with it.
I agree with you that this would be typical Microsoft behavior. However, C# (at least in.NYET) is byte-code interpreted, like Java, and not suited for Kernel work. I suppose it's possible they're working on a C# compiler that actually creates x86 instructions -- I don't know.
Not to mention that these studies usually do not weigh the severity of the vulnerability. I.E. Windows tends to have more Administrator-level vulns than Linux has root-level vulns, but they conveniently ignore that fact since it doesn't lead to the results they desire..
But then they would be comparing speculation (what might happen to Linux) to reality (the current situation with Windows). Not that little things like that have ever stopped them before, of course.
Yes, obviously it's the users fault when they visit the wrong web site and it does a drive-by install of malware, or they open an email message addressed from a coworker but which is actually a Mydoom variant.. what we need to do is restrict *all* access to the system. Shut off all Windows boxes, unplug them, and lock them in a vault. Then Windows will be secure from those darn users.;)
I noticed that too.. the article text was crammed into a 100-pixel column, rendering it unreadable. Validating at W3C revealed 461 errors, so display problems are no surprise.
Good to see that Micros~1 is running out of ideas to fight Linux, and must resort to recycling their same old collection of lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BTW, why is it none of these "TCO" studies consider the effects or cleanup costs of Windows trojans, worms, viruses, or spyware? I wouldn't trust any study which doesn't include those figures into the equation for a "total" cost of ownership.
You could always have bought the original version of the GBA, which used regular batteries. For me, the GBA-SP's major selling points were the backlit screen and the rechargeable L-I battery. It gets old running to the store for more double-A's every week.
Indeed, it was a trademark issue. The NES was engineered to lock out any cartridge which didn't present Nintendo's (trademarked) stream of bits on startup. Although the principal subject of this suit was copyright and not trademark law, I would think the same interoperability clause would apply.
I for one would love to see this ruling overturned, if only for the possible return of the independant console game developer.
This ruling brings to mind the brouhaha over the NES lockout chip (remember the NES?), which prevented independant publishers from creating games for the system, unless they went through Nintendo and paid exorbitant licensing fees. At the time, the courts ruled in favor of Nintendo (which I found surprising, considering the anti-competitive implications). This seems like a very similar case. Could it be the courts of today are slightly more educated about technology?
But isn't current usually represented by a capital I, to differentiate it from the imaginary number i?
Granted, it's been 10 years since I received my degree in electronics.. pretty fuzzy on anything outside of Ohm's law, which is permanently etched into my neural pathways.:)
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So yeah, the end of the world.
Funny, I feel fine..
Or any crazed Norwegians trying to shoot their dogs..
PHP5 will not write Javascript for you. If you want the client to "work with data without page reloads", you've got to get your hands dirty. Not that I mind doing that. Generating Javascript via PHP can be fun!
My company has a .biz registration we use for staging servers, so yes, it can be useful. Our http://companyname.biz is a nice, out of the way place, while http://companyname.com works nicely for the corporate presense, while the other TLDs just wouldn't be appropriate. Agreed about the uselessness of most of the other new TLDs tho..
Are you comparing the Fedora trojan*, to Windows viruses like MyDoom which require nothing more than opening an email in Outlook?!
FYI, I'm a Windows user since 1992, Linux user since 2000, and can say with some certainty that Windows is far less secure. For one, I don't *need* virus scanners and/or firewalls to protect my box from the nasty 'ol internet. I shut down services which are not needed, and keep the ones that are facing the 'net updated. Of course, a good dose of common sense helps when administering any system. But when you have one system engineered with security in mind, and another where security was an afterthought, one is going to be a harder target than the other. It's as simple as that.
* Which relied on tricking the user into downloading a tarball (which is not even Fedora's update method), compiling it, and installing it as root. Also, I haven't heard of anyone actually getting their system unintentionally infected with it.
I agree with you that this would be typical Microsoft behavior. However, C# (at least in .NYET) is byte-code interpreted, like Java, and not suited for Kernel work. I suppose it's possible they're working on a C# compiler that actually creates x86 instructions -- I don't know.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Not to mention that these studies usually do not weigh the severity of the vulnerability. I.E. Windows tends to have more Administrator-level vulns than Linux has root-level vulns, but they conveniently ignore that fact since it doesn't lead to the results they desire..
But then they would be comparing speculation (what might happen to Linux) to reality (the current situation with Windows). Not that little things like that have ever stopped them before, of course.
Yes, obviously it's the users fault when they visit the wrong web site and it does a drive-by install of malware, or they open an email message addressed from a coworker but which is actually a Mydoom variant.. what we need to do is restrict *all* access to the system. Shut off all Windows boxes, unplug them, and lock them in a vault. Then Windows will be secure from those darn users. ;)
This site has some great extensions which aren't on update.mozilla.org for some reason. I find the following extensions from this site very useful:
Allow Right-Click
Alt-Text for Links
Always Remember Password
BugMeNot
Ext2Abc
Also look for their developers guide to writing extensions, it's good stuff.
I noticed that too.. the article text was crammed into a 100-pixel column, rendering it unreadable. Validating at W3C revealed 461 errors, so display problems are no surprise.
It's hard
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Good to see that Micros~1 is running out of ideas to fight Linux, and must resort to recycling their same old collection of lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BTW, why is it none of these "TCO" studies consider the effects or cleanup costs of Windows trojans, worms, viruses, or spyware? I wouldn't trust any study which doesn't include those figures into the equation for a "total" cost of ownership.
The horror.. the horror!
You could always have bought the original version of the GBA, which used regular batteries. For me, the GBA-SP's major selling points were the backlit screen and the rechargeable L-I battery. It gets old running to the store for more double-A's every week.
I don't see how retroactive copyright extensions are constitutional. That tree was too good for Bono.
Indeed, it was a trademark issue. The NES was engineered to lock out any cartridge which didn't present Nintendo's (trademarked) stream of bits on startup. Although the principal subject of this suit was copyright and not trademark law, I would think the same interoperability clause would apply.
I for one would love to see this ruling overturned, if only for the possible return of the independant console game developer.
This ruling brings to mind the brouhaha over the NES lockout chip (remember the NES?), which prevented independant publishers from creating games for the system, unless they went through Nintendo and paid exorbitant licensing fees. At the time, the courts ruled in favor of Nintendo (which I found surprising, considering the anti-competitive implications). This seems like a very similar case. Could it be the courts of today are slightly more educated about technology?
I think it's interesting how the arguments for intellectual property sound when placed in the context of early man:
Arrr! Ugg steal fire from Argh! Now Argh no pass legacy of fire to little Argh! Now anybody make fire. Fire stealers bad, must crush!!
But isn't current usually represented by a capital I, to differentiate it from the imaginary number i?
:)
Granted, it's been 10 years since I received my degree in electronics.. pretty fuzzy on anything outside of Ohm's law, which is permanently etched into my neural pathways.
Personally, I'm partial to the quadratic equation:
(-b ± (b^2-4ac)^(1/2))/2a = 0
(of course taking a number to a 1/2 power is just another way of saying "square root")
Debian and Gentoo have built software management policies right into their core system.
So does Fedora (and Red Hat). It's made me an apt fan. :)
FYI, I voted that unfair in Metamod. Should have been Funny!