New MS corporate themesong: "Pretty fly for a white Guy" by Offspring.
Seriously though, Apple already has the "cool" image MS wants to take. They are in most of the movies and look how much marketshare it got them? The only possible explanation for this is that someone up top is going though a midlife crisis or soemthing.
SGI has been wanting to dump Irix for years with good reason.. I recall SGI making noise about going NT on Intel before finally unleashing a small army of developers on the Linux kernel to bring performance up to par for their needs.
I still have archinved posts of Linus flaming one of their enginneers for trying to mod the linux OS to improve the performance of Maya when an app change would have been more efficiant.
Make no mistake, SGI was one of the earliest backers of Linux in movie production and actively sells Linux/Intel hardware to the studios.
Thanks! And here are the entries you add to named.conf for the latest version of bind to block them:
zone "com" { type delegation-only; }; zone "net" { type delegation-only; }; zone "ac" { type delegation-only; }; zone "cc" { type delegation-only; }; zone "cx" { type delegation-only; }; zone "mp" { type delegation-only; }; zone "nu" { type delegation-only; }; zone "ph" { type delegation-only; }; zone "pw" { type delegation-only; }; zone "sh" { type delegation-only; }; zone "td" { type delegation-only; }; zone "tk" { type delegation-only; }; zone "tm" { type delegation-only; }; zone "ws" { type delegation-only; }; zone "museum" { type delegation-only; };
You need to think about what that will do to other service since all the world is not http. With this change smtp will now attempt to retransmit until it times out instead of hitting verisign's fake mail server that will reject the message immediatly. The average timeout is 5 days.. that's 5 days of added load to your mail server for every email to a mistyped domain.
I suggest Installing the new version of bind instead.
It was resolved by being disproved. The complaint was based on the mistaken view that the only way to get those structures was from Soren when in fact the author of those headders had gotten the documentation from the manufacturer.
The similarities are easilly explained by the fact that the structures use standard variable names and are in a layout dictated by the hardware.
Well for starters DNS can't reliably tell what's a web browser and what is from something else and a lot of queries come from non human sources. So if in the future they came up with something that does what soundex tries (and fails) to do reliably this is still way too low a level to implement a feature like that.
A web browser plugin would be a much better place to implement this so it can either be replaced or turned off according to the user's wishes.
Free? What on earth are you talking about? They get a fee for every domain registered that their root servers are authoritative for.
So yes they DO get payed to do this. Just because they think that isn't enough doesn't mean they get to use their unique position to make money at the expense of the rest of the net's admins.
But you do attempt to connect to sitefinder.verisign.com. The server at the first address issues a browser redirect. And that redirect goes to sitefinder.verisign.com http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=foo.baddoma in.net&host=baddomain.net
However this will only feed google or whatever you set it to a set of params it won't understand.. to make it really work you need a wrapper site somewhere. I doubt this guy has actually tested it.
Unfortunatly still it doesn't fix the mail problem.
"caused by the worldwide economic slowdown, increased competition from other alternate operating platforms, and uncertainty from our recent Linux announcement. This impact was largely felt in our distribution channel in the Americas and Europe."
That's interesting.. it indicates at least some customers have given that lawsuit as the reason for not using their products.
One grand total ONE post on Linux kernel with what are now dead links and a list of files?
Yeah good.
Meanwhile those "spinless" software folks have gone after several hardware makers over GPL issues so it's not exactly true that they never do anything about that.
I don't know why this troll was modded but now that it is I'll respond.
First of all what was taken from freebsd? the idea or the code?
Second the ATA "copy" was in fact proved to be just some headders that the freebsd people had reverse engineered but that Andre had gone to the manufacturer for and gotten the actual documentation. So who coppied what?
As for the Virgin incedent I found no info on that at all other than how to install a new linux distro onto it and some comments about how the default OS is dog slow and installing either windows or Linux on it is a better idea.
It is a lot of work to mod each Xbox. The more large an office I run the more buying complete machiens make sense from a staffing perspective. Modding X-box would run counter to the whole thin client idea since the whole point of a thin client is to reduce admin work. Not to mention the fact that you get no warranty and X-Box will put out a lot more heat than either the crusoe or often used Geodes will.
A good thin client on the other hand will have no moving parts(no fans, no hds) and be setup out of the box to work as a thin client.
If you want cheap, the Neoware Capio thin clients aren't much more than an X-box. Plus you get a tiney unubstrsive white box instead of an ugly black box with bright green logos on the front.
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What are you talking about? Most places here have those already to keep non employees out of the building.
20 inches sounds a lot like the access cards they use for access to all of the buildings around here.
I wouldn't be supprised if it was the same thing.
"we will have cameras in our breakfast cereals before long"
That Has already been done.
That poll has countermeasures installed to keep the poll from being stuffed.
New MS corporate themesong: "Pretty fly for a white Guy" by Offspring.
Seriously though, Apple already has the "cool" image MS wants to take. They are in most of the movies and look how much marketshare it got them? The only possible explanation for this is that someone up top is going though a midlife crisis or soemthing.
Sure, we can start with a complaint by Linus about optimising for benchmarks Then we can move onto Linus' rant on how a feature SGI wanted breaks the beauty and design of Linux Followed by An appology from one of the devalopers for submitting the patch in question
SGI has been wanting to dump Irix for years with good reason.. I recall SGI making noise about going NT on Intel before finally unleashing a small army of developers on the Linux kernel to bring performance up to par for their needs.
I still have archinved posts of Linus flaming one of their enginneers for trying to mod the linux OS to improve the performance of Maya when an app change would have been more efficiant.
Make no mistake, SGI was one of the earliest backers of Linux in movie production and actively sells Linux/Intel hardware to the studios.
Once you have the patched version go here to get the entries needed to block all root zones from doing this.
In the case of a spell checker if it sucks you get to use another product with a better one.
You don't get to in this case.
Also all the world is not http... the protocol level is the worst possible place to do this.
Was about to exactly that when I discovered that
someone beat me to it
Thanks! And here are the entries you add to named.conf for the latest version of bind to block them:
zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
zone "net" { type delegation-only; };
zone "ac" { type delegation-only; };
zone "cc" { type delegation-only; };
zone "cx" { type delegation-only; };
zone "mp" { type delegation-only; };
zone "nu" { type delegation-only; };
zone "ph" { type delegation-only; };
zone "pw" { type delegation-only; };
zone "sh" { type delegation-only; };
zone "td" { type delegation-only; };
zone "tk" { type delegation-only; };
zone "tm" { type delegation-only; };
zone "ws" { type delegation-only; };
zone "museum" { type delegation-only; };
You need to think about what that will do to other service since all the world is not http. With this change smtp will now attempt to retransmit until it times out instead of hitting verisign's fake mail server that will reject the message immediatly. The average timeout is 5 days.. that's 5 days of added load to your mail server for every email to a mistyped domain.
I suggest Installing the new version of bind instead.
On the upside, the new bind patches will allow us to block the other TLDs from pulling this crap.
When this all settles down I'll update all of my nameservers with a complete list of tlds who do this and block them all.
*sigh* why does this always get modded up?
It was resolved by being disproved. The complaint was based on the mistaken view that the only way to get those structures was from Soren when in fact the author of those headders had gotten the documentation from the manufacturer.
The similarities are easilly explained by the fact that the structures use standard variable names and are in a layout dictated by the hardware.
In short: there was no coppying.
That only blocks the sitefinder page but doesn't solve the problem of the lack of a dns error.
Just upgrade bind.. it's easier and more reliable.
The one upside to all of this is that it forced ISC to add a feature that can now be used on all of the other stupid TLDs that do the same thing.
Well for starters DNS can't reliably tell what's a web browser and what is from something else and a lot of queries come from non human sources. So if in the future they came up with something that does what soundex tries (and fails) to do reliably this is still way too low a level to implement a feature like that.
A web browser plugin would be a much better place to implement this so it can either be replaced or turned off according to the user's wishes.
Free? What on earth are you talking about? They get a fee for every domain registered that their root servers are authoritative for.
So yes they DO get payed to do this. Just because they think that isn't enough doesn't mean they get to use their unique position to make money at the expense of the rest of the net's admins.
But you do attempt to connect to sitefinder.verisign.com. The server at the first address issues a browser redirect. And that redirect goes to sitefinder.verisign.com http://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=foo.baddoma in.net&host=baddomain.net
However this will only feed google or whatever you set it to a set of params it won't understand.. to make it really work you need a wrapper site somewhere. I doubt this guy has actually tested it.
Unfortunatly still it doesn't fix the mail problem.
It's not just Sun..
As a sysadmin I've leaned that almost everything is negotiable and list price is for suckers.
Hardware, software, bandwidth...
Even MS will drop prices if they think your looking at something else.
The fact that Sun's list price is twice as expensive tells me there are people actually willing to pay that much.
The only thing that makes it different is that size difference. The *.nu thing was only mildly annoying. *.com and *.net is a huge problem.
On the upside these bind changes will put an end to all of the other cases of domain authorities doing this.
"caused by the worldwide economic slowdown, increased competition from other alternate operating platforms, and uncertainty from our recent Linux announcement. This impact was largely felt in our distribution channel in the Americas and Europe."
That's interesting.. it indicates at least some customers have given that lawsuit as the reason for not using their products.
One grand total ONE post on Linux kernel with what are now dead links and a list of files?
Yeah good.
Meanwhile those "spinless" software folks have gone after several hardware makers over GPL issues so it's not exactly true that they never do anything about that.
No they were NOT coppied.. they were derived from the documentation provided by the hardware vendor.
..
There are only so many ways you can write data structures that speak to the hardware
I don't know why this troll was modded but now that it is I'll respond.
First of all what was taken from freebsd? the idea or the code?
Second the ATA "copy" was in fact proved to be just some headders that the freebsd people had reverse engineered but that Andre had gone to the manufacturer for and gotten the actual documentation. So who coppied what?
As for the Virgin incedent I found no info on that at all other than how to install a new linux distro onto it and some comments about how the default OS is dog slow and installing either windows or Linux on it is a better idea.
Please check your facts next time.
It is a lot of work to mod each Xbox. The more large an office I run the more buying complete machiens make sense from a staffing perspective. Modding X-box would run counter to the whole thin client idea since the whole point of a thin client is to reduce admin work. Not to mention the fact that you get no warranty and X-Box will put out a lot more heat than either the crusoe or often used Geodes will.
A good thin client on the other hand will have no moving parts(no fans, no hds) and be setup out of the box to work as a thin client.
If you want cheap, the Neoware Capio thin clients aren't much more than an X-box. Plus you get a tiney unubstrsive white box instead of an ugly black box with bright green logos on the front.