Not necessarily. If you worked at SCO and you're now contributing to another company's codebase, well, SCO has already shown how eager they are to sue anyone who might possibly have infinged on their IP, real or imagined. I wouldn't be eager to give SCO a reason to sue my company at this point.
The problem is that you have to give third-party device drivers access to the ring-0 "core" of the OS in order for many of them to function properly. One bad device driver can indeed take down the OS, and given the number of poorly written device drivers out there, MS's claim may be valid.
The FDA treats Blood Bank software in particular as if it were a "medical device" and requires much of the same kind of validation as any peice of medical hardware. I can't make a change in our blood bank software without filing FDA documentation.
The FDA is currently loking into requiring such documentation for Pharmacy software (at my work blood bank and pharmacy are known collectively as "the two places where a software bug can kill someone").
I've been hearing though other channels that the IDE layer rewrite improves the IDE subsystem to the point where SCSI emulation won't be needed to drive an IDE CD burner. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If so, this will probably become my main reason to switch to 2.6 (although there are quite a few secondary ones too). Thanks linux team (and IDE rewrite folks)!
Although Palladium may help with some worms, since Outlook Express is a "trusted application" (at least by Palladium...), those.vbs scripts will be run as trusted apps; this will allow better than half of the viruses currently circulating to continue to do so.
It's almost amusing to read my mail in kmail with HTML rendering turned off, and look over the attached scripts that arrive in my mailbox now and then. It makes me feel like an entomologist looking though a magnifying glass at a venomous spider pinned to a corkboard.
Which, if he didn't have a good lawyer, may be a possibility depending on the wording of the settlement. Not many college students can afford one...
If RPI is the same as it was when I attended 20 years ago, its independent student union has its own lawyer whom students are able to consult with for free (like I did back then). I don't know if said person still exists, or whether they would qualify as a "good lawyer", but that's where I'd start.
I've found about 45 geocaches so far. It's been my experience that most caches seem to have a "shelf life" of about a year-2 years. After that, they can be lost, be stolen, or all of the geocachers in the area have already found it and it falls into disuse. Caches in our area (the northeastern US) typically follow a trail and then are hidden somehwhere 100-500 feet off the trail. Since it's rare that cachers will leave the trail at the same spot to search for the cache, I've never seen a cache where heavy traffic has created its own trail to the cache, except in the snow, and even then most cachers I know will deliberately create extra footprints to mislead later cachers from the path to the cache.
Generally, cachers are a benevolent bunch of people, and I would think that anything that gives the parks and byways extra foot traffic is a good thing.
However, along the lines of this story, the group that maintains the Beaver Brook Reservation in Hollis, NH asked the local geocachers to remove all caches from the reservation. Thisi s in a place that is a haven for dirt and mountain bikers who take a much heavier tool on the trails than geocachers ever could! One of their arguments was that the caches are hidden in the woods off trail, so the cachers go tromping though the woods and disturb the local flora and fauna in search of the cache, whereas the bikers stay on the trails.
This never seemed to be a problem in the days of letterboxing. I guess geocaching has become a victim of its own success:-(.
Theft was far too prevalent on my campus, particularly with something like a laptop, which has a high resale value. The person who suggested an old laptop with the weirdest OS that still sports a TCP/IP stack is again right in this regard. An old laptop is less likely to catch the eye of dorm's resident thief. An older laptop (say, a P266) still has plenty of oomph to get you onto the net with your favorite OS, write papers, etc. And it's cheaper to boot! (bad pun - sorry).
I remember this! OS/2's newreader was called NR/2, and it came with the OS. It had three separate windows: one listed the newsgruops, and double-clicking the group you wanted to browse brought up a second window with a list of headers from that group sorted by thread, and double-clicking the header you wanted brought up a third window with the message. Because of this, you could easily read the message fullscreen, something I haven't seen in a GUI-based newsreader before or since. Anyone know of an open source newsreader that works like this? Barring that, maybe I'll take a crack at writing one in Perl. It shouldn't be too hard; NR/2 was a simple, elegant newsreader.
There are degrees of partial install than can be considered successful. I'm currently running Dungeon Siege under the WineX 3 pre-release. I had the opposite problem the reviewer did: I couldn't get the installer to work. So I installed the game on my wife's Windows box (I no longer have one), and copied the install into an appropriate subdirectory under my user's.transgaming directory.
It runs pretty much flawlessly, except for falling water, but I wouldn't expect that to work under my TNT2 card (it wants a 128 MB GeForce card. Me too:-)).
Given that I can launch and play the game under Linux, I consider this to be "running the game successfully". Granted you need a Windows install somewhere to get the game up and running, but that's also true of the the Neverwinter nights Linux client.
I removed a virus from someone's computer that does something very similar. It added a program to the Windows registry startup tree that would change all of the default settings in IE, including the homepage, to point to a certain kiddie porn page. Every time the user brought up IE, it went straight to that page. Even after reboot.
Why would someone write a trojan to do this? Aside from malicious glee the virus writer gets, if you run the web site you might pick up a few extra customers this way.
I worry about this as a legal defense. So I can infect my machine with this virus, and now I can collect kiddie pr0n on the 'Net (no credit cards! that would imply human interaction) and I have an easy out if Mr. FBI knocks on my door. Not cool.
That should be correct (can't say for sure as I've never been to Japan). Note that for safety reasons many US outlets have a round third point below the two veritcal bars, for grounding. Plugs without the third point will work fine in these outlets.
This reminds me of the power armor in Robert A Heinlein's early novel Starship Troopers. It described in detail the experience of fighting in a suit with virtual enhancements to a solider's regular senses. A great read.
It sure can. How many times have you seen the phrase "Hacked by Chinese" scrawled across a US website? I saw my company's website thus defaced. US relations with China have not been all that cordial of late...
It has no state sales tax (ie, no internet sales tax).
The area is well-covered broadband-wise. Manchester airport is easy to get to and non-congested (unlike Boston's Logan), and within 30 minutes of just about any spot in the area.
I'm a Linux user first, gamer second. I love the things I can do/work on/hack in Linux. I also love to play games once in a while. I can't imagine blowing $200 on a Windows license and going through the hassle of dual-booting to play the occasional game. For people like me, a very high quality high-end game like NWN being ported to Linux is a godsend.
Yep, it's late. Yep, it doesn't have a toolset. Yep, I'm gonna be as happy as a pig in sh*t when I buy it, bring it home, and fire it up under Linux. Late or not, I'm thrilled Bioware made the promise to port it to an OS that most major game companies never take a second glance at, and stuck to that promise even after being derided for it being late. Thanks, Bioware!
From a marketriod standpoint (IANAM), the word "Assassin" is too heavily conotated with the deliberate forcible termination of human life to be effective as part of a product name (unless you make assassination products!). Also, while SpamAssassin has great market penetration amongst the Slashdot crowd, I don't think it's so well known with the general public that they'll keep the brand name for recognition value.
I was called to serve jury duty in Framingham, MA. I forgot to send back the little card that informs you that you have to serve. It says on it - "Send this back, but even if you don't, you still have to serve"). So I brought the card with me. When I got there, I found out that I was not in the computer becuase I forgot to send the card back. There were about fifty people in the room, and they expected to need about forty jurors for the day. Since the clerk would then have to type my record into the computer by hand, he saved himself some work by sending me home first.
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Actually, octopi are quite intelligent. I remember seeing (on the Discovery channel) intelligence tests where octopi were given sealed mason jars with crabs in them to figure out how long it would take the octopus to figure out how to unseal and/or unscrew the cap. Answer: not long.
I put NWN on my list of things I want that people are always asking me for at Christmastime. It would be nice to fire up NWN under Linux, but I'm happy they're committed to putting out a Linux client at all. So I'll wait 'til January if need be. It just means there will be more user-built modules I can try out:-).
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Thanks Erwin!
Not necessarily. If you worked at SCO and you're now contributing to another company's codebase, well, SCO has already shown how eager they are to sue anyone who might possibly have infinged on their IP, real or imagined. I wouldn't be eager to give SCO a reason to sue my company at this point.
The problem is that you have to give third-party device drivers access to the ring-0 "core" of the OS in order for many of them to function properly. One bad device driver can indeed take down the OS, and given the number of poorly written device drivers out there, MS's claim may be valid.
The FDA treats Blood Bank software in particular as if it were a "medical device" and requires much of the same kind of validation as any peice of medical hardware. I can't make a change in our blood bank software without filing FDA documentation.
The FDA is currently loking into requiring such documentation for Pharmacy software (at my work blood bank and pharmacy are known collectively as "the two places where a software bug can kill someone").
... Google supports it.
I've been hearing though other channels that the IDE layer rewrite improves the IDE subsystem to the point where SCSI emulation won't be needed to drive an IDE CD burner. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If so, this will probably become my main reason to switch to 2.6 (although there are quite a few secondary ones too). Thanks linux team (and IDE rewrite folks)!
Although Palladium may help with some worms, since Outlook Express is a "trusted application" (at least by Palladium...), those .vbs scripts will be run as trusted apps; this will allow better than half of the viruses currently circulating to continue to do so.
It's almost amusing to read my mail in kmail with HTML rendering turned off, and look over the attached scripts that arrive in my mailbox now and then. It makes me feel like an entomologist looking though a magnifying glass at a venomous spider pinned to a corkboard.
If RPI is the same as it was when I attended 20 years ago, its independent student union has its own lawyer whom students are able to consult with for free (like I did back then). I don't know if said person still exists, or whether they would qualify as a "good lawyer", but that's where I'd start.
I just reread the parent once I posted it, and laughed out loud. It sounds really funny given my sig!
I've found about 45 geocaches so far. It's been my experience that most caches seem to have a "shelf life" of about a year-2 years. After that, they can be lost, be stolen, or all of the geocachers in the area have already found it and it falls into disuse. Caches in our area (the northeastern US) typically follow a trail and then are hidden somehwhere 100-500 feet off the trail. Since it's rare that cachers will leave the trail at the same spot to search for the cache, I've never seen a cache where heavy traffic has created its own trail to the cache, except in the snow, and even then most cachers I know will deliberately create extra footprints to mislead later cachers from the path to the cache.
:-(.
Generally, cachers are a benevolent bunch of people, and I would think that anything that gives the parks and byways extra foot traffic is a good thing.
However, along the lines of this story, the group that maintains the Beaver Brook Reservation in Hollis, NH asked the local geocachers to remove all caches from the reservation. Thisi s in a place that is a haven for dirt and mountain bikers who take a much heavier tool on the trails than geocachers ever could! One of their arguments was that the caches are hidden in the woods off trail, so the cachers go tromping though the woods and disturb the local flora and fauna in search of the cache, whereas the bikers stay on the trails.
This never seemed to be a problem in the days of letterboxing. I guess geocaching has become a victim of its own success
Theft was far too prevalent on my campus, particularly with something like a laptop, which has a high resale value. The person who suggested an old laptop with the weirdest OS that still sports a TCP/IP stack is again right in this regard. An old laptop is less likely to catch the eye of dorm's resident thief. An older laptop (say, a P266) still has plenty of oomph to get you onto the net with your favorite OS, write papers, etc. And it's cheaper to boot! (bad pun - sorry).
I remember this! OS/2's newreader was called NR/2, and it came with the OS. It had three separate windows: one listed the newsgruops, and double-clicking the group you wanted to browse brought up a second window with a list of headers from that group sorted by thread, and double-clicking the header you wanted brought up a third window with the message. Because of this, you could easily read the message fullscreen, something I haven't seen in a GUI-based newsreader before or since. Anyone know of an open source newsreader that works like this? Barring that, maybe I'll take a crack at writing one in Perl. It shouldn't be too hard; NR/2 was a simple, elegant newsreader.
There are degrees of partial install than can be considered successful. I'm currently running Dungeon Siege under the WineX 3 pre-release. I had the opposite problem the reviewer did: I couldn't get the installer to work. So I installed the game on my wife's Windows box (I no longer have one), and copied the install into an appropriate subdirectory under my user's .transgaming directory.
:-)).
It runs pretty much flawlessly, except for falling water, but I wouldn't expect that to work under my TNT2 card (it wants a 128 MB GeForce card. Me too
Given that I can launch and play the game under Linux, I consider this to be "running the game successfully". Granted you need a Windows install somewhere to get the game up and running, but that's also true of the the Neverwinter nights Linux client.
I removed a virus from someone's computer that does something very similar. It added a program to the Windows registry startup tree that would change all of the default settings in IE, including the homepage, to point to a certain kiddie porn page. Every time the user brought up IE, it went straight to that page. Even after reboot.
Why would someone write a trojan to do this? Aside from malicious glee the virus writer gets, if you run the web site you might pick up a few extra customers this way.
I worry about this as a legal defense. So I can infect my machine with this virus, and now I can collect kiddie pr0n on the 'Net (no credit cards! that would imply human interaction) and I have an easy out if Mr. FBI knocks on my door. Not cool.
That should be correct (can't say for sure as I've never been to Japan). Note that for safety reasons many US outlets have a round third point below the two veritcal bars, for grounding. Plugs without the third point will work fine in these outlets.
There's a post on NWN's linux forum from someone running it successfully under slack. Go for it!
It sure can. How many times have you seen the phrase "Hacked by Chinese" scrawled across a US website? I saw my company's website thus defaced. US relations with China have not been all that cordial of late...
It has a small but growing tech presence.
It has no state sales tax (ie, no internet sales tax).
The area is well-covered broadband-wise. Manchester airport is easy to get to and non-congested (unlike Boston's Logan), and within 30 minutes of just about any spot in the area.
I asked 3 of my profs in business school if there was any way to make money from Open source except support. They all said NO!
I suspect that Tim O'Reilly might disagree with them on this point (had to bring this up as I just spent $125+ on Linux books at Amazon.com).
I'm a Linux user first, gamer second. I love the things I can do/work on/hack in Linux. I also love to play games once in a while. I can't imagine blowing $200 on a Windows license and going through the hassle of dual-booting to play the occasional game. For people like me, a very high quality high-end game like NWN being ported to Linux is a godsend.
Yep, it's late. Yep, it doesn't have a toolset. Yep, I'm gonna be as happy as a pig in sh*t when I buy it, bring it home, and fire it up under Linux. Late or not, I'm thrilled Bioware made the promise to port it to an OS that most major game companies never take a second glance at, and stuck to that promise even after being derided for it being late. Thanks, Bioware!
From a marketriod standpoint (IANAM), the word "Assassin" is too heavily conotated with the deliberate forcible termination of human life to be effective as part of a product name (unless you make assassination products!). Also, while SpamAssassin has great market penetration amongst the Slashdot crowd, I don't think it's so well known with the general public that they'll keep the brand name for recognition value.
I was called to serve jury duty in Framingham, MA. I forgot to send back the little card that informs you that you have to serve. It says on it - "Send this back, but even if you don't, you still have to serve"). So I brought the card with me. When I got there, I found out that I was not in the computer becuase I forgot to send the card back. There were about fifty people in the room, and they expected to need about forty jurors for the day. Since the clerk would then have to type my record into the computer by hand, he saved himself some work by sending me home first.
Actually, octopi are quite intelligent. I remember seeing (on the Discovery channel) intelligence tests where octopi were given sealed mason jars with crabs in them to figure out how long it would take the octopus to figure out how to unseal and/or unscrew the cap. Answer: not long.
I put NWN on my list of things I want that people are always asking me for at Christmastime. It would be nice to fire up NWN under Linux, but I'm happy they're committed to putting out a Linux client at all. So I'll wait 'til January if need be. It just means there will be more user-built modules I can try out :-).