Re:Of course he doesn't care about security...
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Firefox vs. SP2's IE?
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You dont want to trick them into using Firefox - you need to explain to them what the benefits are (more resistant to spyware, ad blocking, tabbed browsing, consumes less resources, the plug-ins) and they have to remember that it is Firefox they are using. The main reason is so that person can then go on and become an evangelist themselves and spread the word further. It is only with this method that Firefox would be able to gain a large share of the browser market and momentum.
In my experience, most people assume that Internet Explorer *is* 'the internet' and when you speak of a better alternative they are all a bit stunned.
mod_suphp might prevent you from attaining root, but more often than not root is not required. If you manage to upload files, insert some SQL, read files as the user PHP is running as (eg. nobody) then you have access to the whole web application (user accounts, credit card databases, everything). Getting root is very often not required. That is why these web apps must be as tight (security and access wise) as operating systems themselves. Developers (esp. PHP and ASP developers) are often very slack in this regard.
Very true - Qantas (which is the correct spelling - it is an acronym) added a 'fuel surcharge' to all tickets when oil hit $50 a barrel.
Chances are that Qantas has never paid $50 for a barrel of oil, their bottom line is protected from oil price fluctuations due to future price contracts ('futures'). I believe that they lock in pricing for their fuel supply for up to 3 years in advanced.
They need to do this for two reasons, so that they are able to forecast future expenditure and as I mentioned to protect their whole operation from any sort of oil/fuel supply meltdown.
Adding $10-$20 on the price of a ticket the day that oil prices spike up is just a total scam - Qantas and the other airlines are not ordinary purchasers who pay 'bowser prices'.
To get back on-topic, a number of airlines already offer Internet access to business class passengers. I cant see a profit motive for allowing phone calls - since existing 'in seat' phones charge the user about $6 a minute for calls. The benefit for the airlines would be just as a 'value add' to attract more business customers. Airlines mostly profit from business users, economy class just fills the rest of the seats. There is almost zero profit in long-haul economy class passengers, this is why they charge you extortionate amounts for extra luggage!
The fact that the API is similar is not what lead to the statement. There is actually a BSD copyright notice within Winsock.dll (it is still there in XP SP2). Plus it says it on page 5 of these notes under history.
Other parts of the operating system that had/have BSD code (off the top of my head) are BSD networking tools (such as ftp, finger, nslookup - grep for "The Regents of the University of California" copyright notice.), zlib library, the POSIX sub-system . From what I have recently heard, Microsoft started to phase out BSD licensed code a while ago. They re-wrote the Winsock library to be more compact and with IPv6 support. Could this be because of an issue with SCO?
I am suprised that there is no documented exhaustive search of BSD copyright references in Windows.
"Does anyone have any stats to back up this claim?"
I dont need stats, because I download music/movies, I purchase music/movies and despite being a customer of the MPAA/RIAA for a very long time I have not seen or heard of any plan from the two cartels that will unlock consumers from the existing shackles that they have imposed and have thrived on over the past decades.
I've seen a lot of people state when asked, that if they download tracks and like them then they go and buy the Album. That the justification for free downloads is try-and-buy.
By your logic, radio play makes no contribution to record sales either. Action from the MPAA would turn people off sending them more money to fund their campaigns. Its called boycotting.
Your average street punter doesn't know what's going on, and frankly doesn't care.
I dont want to speak on behalf of the 'average street punter' (who are these people anyway) but P2P, the MPAA/RIAA etc. are in the media enough for most Internet using people to have a vague awareness of what is going on.
MPAA did not win a single court case in 2004. Groskter was found to be legal, and there are a number of previous rulings that show that providing technology that enables people to share files does not constitute breach of copyright! The RIAA and ARIA (Australian equiv.) are seeing this now in their Kazaa case currently underway in Australia - and if a case can not be proven against Kazaa (which still has some elements of centralisation that could provide Kazaa with a way to 'filter' or 'block' copyright material) then the chances of being able to find that a simple website with links to trackers (which themselves are not a copyright infringement either - just a 'pointer') are guilty of copyright violation are almost zero.
Time for the record labels and movie studios to wake up to themselves - they are alienating a large part of their support base. All the expenses of lobbying various governments around the world, and the associated legal fees around every case is being paid for, and funded by consumers who purchase their records!
They should listen to the overpaid Robbie Williams, who said something along the lines of "I dont care, I am rich, if yo uwant my music, just download it!" (He said this in 2002 - I can't find an online source).
Do you still need to be sent an invitation to setup a gmail account? I never got around to signing up during the initial wave of hype and I would appreciate it if anybody could send me an invitation.
The new terms and conditions are now on the Solutionstap site, so you will be able to join now. Thank you for noticing this, and apologies for our mistake in not keepping it up to date.
Hellraiser: We will be updating the terms and conidtions tonight to reflect reality. Membership is free, and once the new terms are on there you will be able to join for free. I will post here when the changes are made.
Nik
No, its actually free - look closely. It was a future plan to charge members, but that plan is up in the air now. If we (the members also have to agree) change our minds on that at a later
date, existing members will get 12 months through for free regardless. I guess the site needs updating. It is still in early development stages, but is looking good.
Sounds like you are asking for business advice, you should of framed your question more like that (Judging by the offers to work for $100 a week, I guess it just didn't come across right). If your game is popular, you might be able to attract a sponsor, and using sponsorship money pay developers. But the days of high-advertising money are over. Have you considered contacting Sierra (developers of the original series)?
It usually also works the other way around, that you are first semi-popular, and then sponsored, as opposed to seeking sponsorship at an early phase. To get your project semi-popular, use some initiative to get the word out (you obviously are, by asking slashdot).
I cant really see any other source of revenue from such a project. Other projects that are applicable to business or consumer use have potential for support, customisation and other revenues (eg. MySQL, Snort, PHP, etc. etc.).
I would go into this more, but feel free to email me.
Even Mozilla has conceded and is dropping their browser suite to work on niche applications like pheonix.
Phoenix, a niche? Get real, Phoenix is the browser (Firebird). If Netscape didnt Open Source and start the Mozilla project, _then_ Microsoft would of had dominance . They would of been able to dictate standards and nobody would of cared when you cried "but your page wont work in Opera". The browser war is over, but there was no winner, just losers. No party acomplished their aims, and that is the way it should be.
For a full duplication and counterfiting effort, you would have to trace the notes with Cocaine. Because aparently 78% of US notes have traces of cocaine on them.
An executive from Coca-Cola once said that their brand is their biggest asset. They could lose all their factories, manufacturing plants and offices, and just keep the brand. Any bank in the world would guarantee them more than enough money to rebuild, just based on the brand.
If I had a brand like Apple sitting around, I sure as hell wouldn't be worth "nothing".
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You dont want to trick them into using Firefox - you need to explain to them what the benefits are (more resistant to spyware, ad blocking, tabbed browsing, consumes less resources, the plug-ins) and they have to remember that it is Firefox they are using. The main reason is so that person can then go on and become an evangelist themselves and spread the word further. It is only with this method that Firefox would be able to gain a large share of the browser market and momentum.
In my experience, most people assume that Internet Explorer *is* 'the internet' and when you speak of a better alternative they are all a bit stunned.
mod_suphp might prevent you from attaining root, but more often than not root is not required. If you manage to upload files, insert some SQL, read files as the user PHP is running as (eg. nobody) then you have access to the whole web application (user accounts, credit card databases, everything). Getting root is very often not required. That is why these web apps must be as tight (security and access wise) as operating systems themselves. Developers (esp. PHP and ASP developers) are often very slack in this regard.
Very true - Qantas (which is the correct spelling - it is an acronym) added a 'fuel surcharge' to all tickets when oil hit $50 a barrel.
Chances are that Qantas has never paid $50 for a barrel of oil, their bottom line is protected from oil price fluctuations due to future price contracts ('futures'). I believe that they lock in pricing for their fuel supply for up to 3 years in advanced.
They need to do this for two reasons, so that they are able to forecast future expenditure and as I mentioned to protect their whole operation from any sort of oil/fuel supply meltdown.
Adding $10-$20 on the price of a ticket the day that oil prices spike up is just a total scam - Qantas and the other airlines are not ordinary purchasers who pay 'bowser prices'.
To get back on-topic, a number of airlines already offer Internet access to business class passengers. I cant see a profit motive for allowing phone calls - since existing 'in seat' phones charge the user about $6 a minute for calls. The benefit for the airlines would be just as a 'value add' to attract more business customers. Airlines mostly profit from business users, economy class just fills the rest of the seats. There is almost zero profit in long-haul economy class passengers, this is why they charge you extortionate amounts for extra luggage!
The fact that the API is similar is not what lead to the statement. There is actually a BSD copyright notice within Winsock.dll (it is still there in XP SP2). Plus it says it on page 5 of these notes under history.
Other parts of the operating system that had/have BSD code (off the top of my head) are BSD networking tools (such as ftp, finger, nslookup - grep for "The Regents of the University of California" copyright notice.), zlib library, the POSIX sub-system . From what I have recently heard, Microsoft started to phase out BSD licensed code a while ago. They re-wrote the Winsock library to be more compact and with IPv6 support. Could this be because of an issue with SCO?
I am suprised that there is no documented exhaustive search of BSD copyright references in Windows.
The BSD advertising clause you're seeing comes from one piece of BSD software (I can't recall which) Microsoft incorporated.
BSD Sockets (Winsock on Win32). Ever noticed that socket programming on UNIX and Win32 are extremely similar? Not a co-incidence.
"Does anyone have any stats to back up this claim?"
I dont need stats, because I download music/movies, I purchase music/movies and despite being a customer of the MPAA/RIAA for a very long time I have not seen or heard of any plan from the two cartels that will unlock consumers from the existing shackles that they have imposed and have thrived on over the past decades.
I've seen a lot of people state when asked, that if they download tracks and like them then they go and buy the Album. That the justification for free downloads is try-and-buy.
By your logic, radio play makes no contribution to record sales either. Action from the MPAA would turn people off sending them more money to fund their campaigns. Its called boycotting.
Your average street punter doesn't know what's going on, and frankly doesn't care.
I dont want to speak on behalf of the 'average street punter' (who are these people anyway) but P2P, the MPAA/RIAA etc. are in the media enough for most Internet using people to have a vague awareness of what is going on.
MPAA did not win a single court case in 2004. Groskter was found to be legal, and there are a number of previous rulings that show that providing technology that enables people to share files does not constitute breach of copyright! The RIAA and ARIA (Australian equiv.) are seeing this now in their Kazaa case currently underway in Australia - and if a case can not be proven against Kazaa (which still has some elements of centralisation that could provide Kazaa with a way to 'filter' or 'block' copyright material) then the chances of being able to find that a simple website with links to trackers (which themselves are not a copyright infringement either - just a 'pointer') are guilty of copyright violation are almost zero.
Time for the record labels and movie studios to wake up to themselves - they are alienating a large part of their support base. All the expenses of lobbying various governments around the world, and the associated legal fees around every case is being paid for, and funded by consumers who purchase their records!
They should listen to the overpaid Robbie Williams, who said something along the lines of "I dont care, I am rich, if yo uwant my music, just download it!" (He said this in 2002 - I can't find an online source).
I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...."
That does not search the contents of files. Nor does locate.
Thanks to everyone who sent out gmail invites - but they are not required anymore.
Do you still need to be sent an invitation to setup a gmail account? I never got around to signing up during the initial wave of hype and I would appreciate it if anybody could send me an invitation.
The new terms and conditions are now on the Solutionstap site, so you will be able to join now. Thank you for noticing this, and apologies for our mistake in not keepping it up to date.
Hellraiser: We will be updating the terms and conidtions tonight to reflect reality. Membership is free, and once the new terms are on there you will be able to join for free. I will post here when the changes are made. Nik
No, its actually free - look closely. It was a future plan to charge members, but that plan is up in the air now. If we (the members also have to agree) change our minds on that at a later date, existing members will get 12 months through for free regardless. I guess the site needs updating. It is still in early development stages, but is looking good.
Sounds like you are asking for business advice, you should of framed your question more like that (Judging by the offers to work for $100 a week, I guess it just didn't come across right). If your game is popular, you might be able to attract a sponsor, and using sponsorship money pay developers. But the days of high-advertising money are over. Have you considered contacting Sierra (developers of the original series)?
It usually also works the other way around, that you are first semi-popular, and then sponsored, as opposed to seeking sponsorship at an early phase. To get your project semi-popular, use some initiative to get the word out (you obviously are, by asking slashdot).
I cant really see any other source of revenue from such a project. Other projects that are applicable to business or consumer use have potential for support, customisation and other revenues (eg. MySQL, Snort, PHP, etc. etc.).
I would go into this more, but feel free to email me.
We (Solutionstap) will have a labor-sourcing portal thing specific to paid open source projects shortly:
http://www.solutionstap.com/pimp
$100 a week is a bit too low (within the US and most Western countries, at least)
Must remember to hit preview..
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Or donate to the slashcode "let me edit my posts" foundation...
Donate it to open source P2P applications, with these applications being the future we will no longer have to deal with RIAA muscle.
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Gnutella (various projects)
Even Mozilla has conceded and is dropping their browser suite to work on niche applications like pheonix. Phoenix, a niche? Get real, Phoenix is the browser (Firebird). If Netscape didnt Open Source and start the Mozilla project, _then_ Microsoft would of had dominance . They would of been able to dictate standards and nobody would of cared when you cried "but your page wont work in Opera". The browser war is over, but there was no winner, just losers. No party acomplished their aims, and that is the way it should be.
Switch off plug and play in your BIOS.
Add:
http://www.nik.com.au/waste/
Whole site mirrored
The version that I have mirrored there is GPL, so there are no legal repercussions. Every file in the source has a GPL header on it, from the author.
Forget all that. Implement BT on proxy servers. bing!
They have, and they are called Akamai. Their "edge-network" system also works with dynamic pages with some slight modifications on the server-end.
For a full duplication and counterfiting effort, you would have to trace the notes with Cocaine. Because aparently 78% of US notes have traces of cocaine on them.
And after all that:
Backup Glitch in Windows Server 2003
All that money, all that process...
An executive from Coca-Cola once said that their brand is their biggest asset. They could lose all their factories, manufacturing plants and offices, and just keep the brand. Any bank in the world would guarantee them more than enough money to rebuild, just based on the brand.
If I had a brand like Apple sitting around, I sure as hell wouldn't be worth "nothing".