Caveats:
If the patch is installed on a system running a version of IE other than the one it is designed for, an error message will be displayed saying that the patch is not needed. This message is incorrect, and customers who see this message should upgrade to a supported version of IE and re-install the patches.
If users fail to read the advisory, I don't to see how this is Microsoft's fault. The original security whole was undoubtedly stupid; let us concentrate on that rather than this non-issue.
I beg to differ; Windows 2000 is not a microkernel architecture in the true sense of the word. It adopts some microkernel methodologies, but just because a dalmation has spots, that doesn't make it a leopard.
And I know quite a few people that have bought one. In fact when it was announced that production of them had stopped, and the price was dropped, the Dreamcast outsold the PS2 in Japan for a week.
But you need to put this in context; this is a Financial Times article, and they don't really care about the quality of the games; they're interested in the sucess (or in this case otherwise) of the business. And one has to say that the Dreamcast did nothing for the business - in fact Sega stock rose quite sharply when it was announced that they were dropping the DC.
Try Konqueror 2.1 - it's fscking amazingly quick at rendering, and is far more standards compliant that IE5.5. I really can't over-state how great it is..
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My prediction for the overall winner is...
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Rather surprisingly...
Sega.
Think about it, both Sega and Nintendo have always been known for great games and we know that isn't going to change. PS1 and PC have been charecterised as quantity over quality, and that trend looks to continue with PS2 and X-Box. But with Sega publishing on PS2, X-Box, Gameboy Advance and possibly Gamecube, it's hard to see how they can loose.
As many/.'ers have already pointed out, most sites don't have nearly the bandwidth to handle 100mbit xfer. Where this is good is that it suddenly makes p2p protocols *faster* than going to centralised sites.
This means the downward view-this-content trend on the internet since the growth of the web should be halted.
Either that, or lots of MP3 trading will be going on. Actually, probably that one.
Not mentioned in the SANS report but in the NIPC advisory the trojan also installs the Tribe tfn2k flood util, giving this the potential to launch a massive DoS attack.
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Why *shouldn't* Apple release buggy software?
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Release early, release often.
The best way to find bugs is to get the maximum number of people using the software and contributing fixes. Except.. wait.. how can they fix something they don't have the source for?
As far as I'm concerned the problem here is that the software is non-Free, not that it is buggy.
The screen shots show all these weird alien looking guys - where are the nazis? They look more like the goombas from the Super Mario Bros film than anything (except for the swastikas of course). I was looking forward to kicking some far-right butt...
Creative soundcards are only adequate. There is no competition, and as a result there have been no really great developments. I would like to see soundcards with support for proper 3dimensional sound - this would do for sound what 3d graphics cards have done for graphics, add a whole extra dimension. Sounds like you want a Creative SB Live! card, which has support for Dolby Digital. Creative make good card with GPL'd drivers, and as such I have no problem in buying their products. nVidia make products that might be good, but with binary-only drivers I don't intend to find out. My 16mb Matrox G400 does me fine, good 3D performance (Quake3 runs very well)and proper open-source drivers. I don't intend to buy an nVidia card unless they change their driver release policy.
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Re:A flaw in the book? Or the review?
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The book starts with linux?
Actually, I read the first chapter when it was published in Computer Weekly and it started with the 60s. Maybe this doesn't feature majorly in the book, but the extract I read spoke all about how open UNIX originally was (bug reports freely given out etc) and went on to talk about Bill Gates' rants against free software in the mid-70s. BSD was certinally also mentioned.
If Microsoft are getting genuinely worried about the GPL, as this article would suggest, then it would seem that it's working. I personally cannot wait for the day when we don't need to worry about software licenses because there is no such thing as non-free software. Until that day, I believe we need to release (almost) all our code under the GPL, or we have the potential to unwittingly help those who are against freedom (witness the large chunks of BSD code within the various MS operating systems). Microsoft speaking out so strongly against the GPL proves that this is obviously the correct tactic to be taking.
It was _decentralized_ property ownership that made this country great, not centralized corperations. Centralized capitalism has the exact same problems as communism. Hell, just look at all the corperate welfare we have today. That's the great sucking sounds of centralization which killed the USSR.
Actually, many who would describe themsleves as Communists (myself included) would say that the USSR was an example of state-run capitalism, not Communism. The potential for even greater abuse when the entity controlling everything doesn't even have to pretend it's doing anything in anyones best interest, other than the shareholders, is seriously scary.
"Technology people never gave their stuff away," Schroeder says.
Bzzt, go and read some of those books rather than litigating over them and you'll find pretty much anything thats good software wise has been given away.
Does anyone get the impression that most cases like this have more to do with lawyers talking up cases to get cash rather than actual legitimate concerns?
OK, I can see this is all well and good for the big five record companies. But what about the rest of us?
I make my own tracks. Before with Napster I connected and I shared them. Now Napster are going to be charging a fee for me to share my tracks, and furthermore they're going to be making money by charing other people to listen to them! Does this in any way strike anyone as injust??
I'll be emailing Napster to enquire as to exactly how they intend to resolve this issue. If I had money for lawyers, I reckon I might actually have a pretty decent case, because they've set a precedent by paying other artists. But then of course the question arises: how much are they going to pay everyone? They could, I suppose, pay per search request (they can't tell when someone connects to download at present). But how do you link searches to particular tracks? Filenames are pretty meaningless. There are a hell of a lot of issues that need to be worked out here.
Does anyone remember very, very similar stories and benchmarks when the Pentium Pro came out? I thought this was supposed to be slashdot, where the majority of users use open-source operating systems. Because these operating systems are open-source, we can recompile with 64-bit operations and get excellent speed. The only people that are going to be stuck with sucky 32bit performance are Windows users. Why should we care about them? Do people complain at the way the Alpha (doesn't) run 32-bit code? Of course not. So really, why are people doing such pathetic benchmarks?
I have to say that this was an extremely enjoyable read. It almost made me wish I lived in the US just so I could have participated.
The major question it raises to me is this: is it really right? A hacker at home, playing about with the card to get free TV I have no problem with, but what about the mentioned $400 fees for a hacked card? Is this not worse than DirecTV themselves, who at least provide the service you pay for? I'm glad to see that DirecTV in the end used a hack to beat the hackers.. there message shows a great sense of humour about the task too, and I have nothing but respect for the techs who worked on it.
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Actually, in a recent study teenagers in the UK actually take more drugs than those of any other nation in Europe - including Amsterdam.
Having been to Amsterdam, I can report that those stoned were mainly tourists.
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This was on the original bulletin:
Caveats: If the patch is installed on a system running a version of IE other than the one it is designed for, an error message will be displayed saying that the patch is not needed. This message is incorrect, and customers who see this message should upgrade to a supported version of IE and re-install the patches.
If users fail to read the advisory, I don't to see how this is Microsoft's fault. The original security whole was undoubtedly stupid; let us concentrate on that rather than this non-issue.
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I beg to differ; Windows 2000 is not a microkernel architecture in the true sense of the word. It adopts some microkernel methodologies, but just because a dalmation has spots, that doesn't make it a leopard.
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Sorry, how is this different from getting a pre-compiled distro, and using a pre-compiled module?
No current version of Windows uses a microkernel architecture, which is I think what you're getting confused about.
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And I know quite a few people that have bought one. In fact when it was announced that production of them had stopped, and the price was dropped, the Dreamcast outsold the PS2 in Japan for a week.
But you need to put this in context; this is a Financial Times article, and they don't really care about the quality of the games; they're interested in the sucess (or in this case otherwise) of the business. And one has to say that the Dreamcast did nothing for the business - in fact Sega stock rose quite sharply when it was announced that they were dropping the DC.
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Try Konqueror 2.1 - it's fscking amazingly quick at rendering, and is far more standards compliant that IE5.5.
I really can't over-state how great it is..
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Rather surprisingly...
Sega.
Think about it, both Sega and Nintendo have always been known for great games and we know that isn't going to change. PS1 and PC have been charecterised as quantity over quality, and that trend looks to continue with PS2 and X-Box. But with Sega publishing on PS2, X-Box, Gameboy Advance and possibly Gamecube, it's hard to see how they can loose.
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As many /.'ers have already pointed out, most sites don't have nearly the bandwidth to handle 100mbit xfer. Where this is good is that it suddenly makes p2p protocols *faster* than going to centralised sites.
This means the downward view-this-content trend on the internet since the growth of the web should be halted.
Either that, or lots of MP3 trading will be going on. Actually, probably that one.
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Not mentioned in the SANS report but in the NIPC advisory the trojan also installs the Tribe tfn2k flood util, giving this the potential to launch a massive DoS attack.
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Release early, release often.
The best way to find bugs is to get the maximum number of people using the software and contributing fixes. Except.. wait.. how can they fix something they don't have the source for?
As far as I'm concerned the problem here is that the software is non-Free, not that it is buggy.
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Doh.. that'll teach me to not read the article properly.. :( :)
Ahh well, who wants karma anyway?
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Is it me or does this sound very similar to the article Intel Says 10GHz By 2005?
2005 is just too far away for me to get excited anyway..
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The screen shots show all these weird alien looking guys - where are the nazis? They look more like the goombas from the Super Mario Bros film than anything (except for the swastikas of course). I was looking forward to kicking some far-right butt...
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Actually, Commander Keen was by ID. Nice way to disprove you're own argument.. :)
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Creative soundcards are only adequate. There is no competition, and as a result there have been no really great developments. I would like to see soundcards with support for proper 3dimensional sound - this would do for sound what 3d graphics cards have done for graphics, add a whole extra dimension.
Sounds like you want a Creative SB Live! card, which has support for Dolby Digital.
Creative make good card with GPL'd drivers, and as such I have no problem in buying their products. nVidia make products that might be good, but with binary-only drivers I don't intend to find out. My 16mb Matrox G400 does me fine, good 3D performance (Quake3 runs very well)and proper open-source drivers. I don't intend to buy an nVidia card unless they change their driver release policy.
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The book starts with linux?
Actually, I read the first chapter when it was published in Computer Weekly and it started with the 60s. Maybe this doesn't feature majorly in the book, but the extract I read spoke all about how open UNIX originally was (bug reports freely given out etc) and went on to talk about Bill Gates' rants against free software in the mid-70s. BSD was certinally also mentioned.
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If Microsoft are getting genuinely worried about the GPL, as this article would suggest, then it would seem that it's working.
I personally cannot wait for the day when we don't need to worry about software licenses because there is no such thing as non-free software. Until that day, I believe we need to release (almost) all our code under the GPL, or we have the potential to unwittingly help those who are against freedom (witness the large chunks of BSD code within the various MS operating systems). Microsoft speaking out so strongly against the GPL proves that this is obviously the correct tactic to be taking.
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It was _decentralized_ property ownership that made this country great, not centralized corperations. Centralized capitalism has the exact same problems as communism. Hell, just look at all the corperate welfare we have today. That's the great sucking sounds of centralization which killed the USSR.
Actually, many who would describe themsleves as Communists (myself included) would say that the USSR was an example of state-run capitalism, not Communism. The potential for even greater abuse when the entity controlling everything doesn't even have to pretend it's doing anything in anyones best interest, other than the shareholders, is seriously scary.
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We all know that fractions should be cancelled down - thus the topic should have been four fifths of a lizard, not eight tenths! :)
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"Technology people never gave their stuff away," Schroeder says.
Bzzt, go and read some of those books rather than litigating over them and you'll find pretty much anything thats good software wise has been given away.
Does anyone get the impression that most cases like this have more to do with lawyers talking up cases to get cash rather than actual legitimate concerns?
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get it from:
/ v2.4/
ftp://ftp.COUNTRYCODE.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel
Where country code is your country, eg uk for uk, us for the us, nl for holland etc etc.
I everyone keeps downloading from the main site then it creates problems for the mirrors, which believe me is a bad thing
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OK, I can see this is all well and good for the big five record companies. But what about the rest of us?
I make my own tracks. Before with Napster I connected and I shared them. Now Napster are going to be charging a fee for me to share my tracks, and furthermore they're going to be making money by charing other people to listen to them! Does this in any way strike anyone as injust??
I'll be emailing Napster to enquire as to exactly how they intend to resolve this issue. If I had money for lawyers, I reckon I might actually have a pretty decent case, because they've set a precedent by paying other artists.
But then of course the question arises: how much are they going to pay everyone? They could, I suppose, pay per search request (they can't tell when someone connects to download at present). But how do you link searches to particular tracks? Filenames are pretty meaningless.
There are a hell of a lot of issues that need to be worked out here.
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Does anyone remember very, very similar stories and benchmarks when the Pentium Pro came out?
I thought this was supposed to be slashdot, where the majority of users use open-source operating systems. Because these operating systems are open-source, we can recompile with 64-bit operations and get excellent speed. The only people that are going to be stuck with sucky 32bit performance are Windows users. Why should we care about them?
Do people complain at the way the Alpha (doesn't) run 32-bit code? Of course not. So really, why are people doing such pathetic benchmarks?
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I have to say that this was an extremely enjoyable read. It almost made me wish I lived in the US just so I could have participated.
The major question it raises to me is this: is it really right? A hacker at home, playing about with the card to get free TV I have no problem with, but what about the mentioned $400 fees for a hacked card? Is this not worse than DirecTV themselves, who at least provide the service you pay for?
I'm glad to see that DirecTV in the end used a hack to beat the hackers.. there message shows a great sense of humour about the task too, and I have nothing but respect for the techs who worked on it.
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Don't forget us poor students that support M$ products because there aren't any other jobs where we can just work a couple of weeks here and there.
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