Linux has no anti-Microsoft strategy yet people are migrating from Windows to Linux.
While there is no _formal_ strategy, there sure is a lot of noise making the W -> L migration tempting.
I'm all for Linux and opensource, but saying that the migration phenomenon from Windows do Linux is spontaneous could be a little stretch. There is a lot of pressure, and many vendors have this anti-Microsoft-ism already built in.
Here in.br, while the whole world sees us as a big case for FLOSS / Linux, the results of this so greatly announced program are yet to be seen. I've been involved in a government project or three, and I've seen things like they throwing away perfectly working Linux-based applications and changing them to Microsoft just to realize that it won't work.
In the end, more money goes to hire dozens of different software houses just to duct'tape the system to hell so that it half-assed works.
And I'm not even talking about the USA, where the market holds potentially more money for MS than here.
I know this was not exactly on-topic, and I've RTFA, but I had to say it.
"(...)as opposed to Apple's iPod only being able to play iTunes music."
I think you got it the other way around. The iPod can play a variety of formats. It's just the iTunes files that cannot, sorta, be played outside of the iPod. (there's your right to backup them, of course, and burn it to what's-this-week-amount of CDs.
Other than that, I see your point, and kinda agree, and like it. Maybe we'll see good players coming from different, cheaper vendors.
"Worldwide revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated at $33 billion for 2004 with about 1/3 of the software used being illegal. But within five years, that number could boom to two-thirds(...)"
So, I'm not sure it has, but the trend shows it would.
I think this is a good step for MS. I mean, for ten years I've been wondering why is that the worst error possible is featured in a screen that has the company's colors! Now they simply go red and no harm done.
However, I would've done it brown, since:
1) Doesn't change the BSOD acronym; 2) Brown's a color that reflects so much what I'm thinking about when the error screens happen.
Course, I don't use Windows anymore. But my customers do.
'By introducing Linux on the MSM, Qualcomm supports manufacturer partners who wish to leverage existing Linux applications, third-party developers and application catalogs to reduce their software development costs and improve time-to-market.'
Jeez! It's like Buzzword Bingo all over again! (no time to find the Dilbert reference, though)
If you really need the uptime, you may already have a storage unit, which is almost certainly capable of snapshots/snapclones with close to zero downtime (some of them don't even bother copying the full contents of the drives -- just the differences!).
Anyway, this would be only for databases, AFAICT. Any other kind of data usually does not need that kind of bringing-down-the-server-for-backups consistency.
So, what's the point? Is this to be sold to enterprises that are so small that don't use storage systems, and most certainly don't need the uptime?
No, really, it doesn't look like MS will get much revenue from this.
...to dedicated links, corporate access, or something similar for that matter. Now, do they want to control every single bit of the Internet? Last time I checked, there is no restriction on servers or traffic for corporate links. Are they planning on restricting those too?
If so, I'm sure Netcraft will declare the Internet dead instantly.
I suppose a better way to do this communication would be directly via rails. Here in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the subway system is totally automatic (of course small systems like these are easier), and all communication is made via digital multiplexed signalling transmitted directly to the train via its rails.
So, to hack into one of those, one would have to measure certain frequencies inside the track. Not impossible, but damn harder than radio.
I should say I use Gentoo, did not compile my kernel with genkernel (btw, I use ck-sources, so genkernel was not an option), but nowhere in the process there are sensible default ulimits. If you are not aware of forkbombs, you are vulnerable.
It is an administration issue. Just as in Windows, it is not secure by default.
Looks like the problem is with PNG handling. Could it be then exploited through web pages? Or is it only the use those applications make of the format?
...that there actually is a version of Linux that does not use a MMU (this "ARM-no-MMU" is based on uClinux, AFAICT, which is a non-MMU distro for embedded devices).
IIRC, Linux was born exactly as a study of the capabilities of the 386 processor's MMU.
Now that is change... this should be the most extreme fork from the original project (which is not bad, I'm just amazed by the diversity Linux is promoting)
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...may I add, Joe user does not tune performance. So that's actually a non-issue.
Just adding to your point.
"(...)the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is developing a new standard that is called 802.11i."
which was approved one year ago, and covered on Slashdot then.
And every other week we get the same "WiFi security basics" article.
Why not have a section for that only? Just so I can filter it out.
Linux has no anti-Microsoft strategy yet people are migrating from Windows to Linux.
While there is no _formal_ strategy, there sure is a lot of noise making the W -> L migration tempting.
I'm all for Linux and opensource, but saying that the migration phenomenon from Windows do Linux is spontaneous could be a little stretch. There is a lot of pressure, and many vendors have this anti-Microsoft-ism already built in.
This does not protect from man-in-the-middle-style attacks, does it?
So there's the next step for phishers.
Uh, forget I said that.
Here in .br, while the whole world sees us as a big case for FLOSS / Linux, the results of this so greatly announced program are yet to be seen. I've been involved in a government project or three, and I've seen things like they throwing away perfectly working Linux-based applications and changing them to Microsoft just to realize that it won't work.
In the end, more money goes to hire dozens of different software houses just to duct'tape the system to hell so that it half-assed works.
And I'm not even talking about the USA, where the market holds potentially more money for MS than here.
I know this was not exactly on-topic, and I've RTFA, but I had to say it.
Nuff said.
stupid lameness filter makes me type a whole lot of bullshit just to get this comment posted
Here you go some more
And more.
"(...)as opposed to Apple's iPod only being able to play iTunes music."
I think you got it the other way around. The iPod can play a variety of formats. It's just the iTunes files that cannot, sorta, be played outside of the iPod. (there's your right to backup them, of course, and burn it to what's-this-week-amount of CDs.
Other than that, I see your point, and kinda agree, and like it. Maybe we'll see good players coming from different, cheaper vendors.
You mean, uh, viral?
No thanks!
FTFBlurb:
"Worldwide revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated at $33 billion for 2004 with about 1/3 of the software used being illegal. But within five years, that number could boom to two-thirds(...)"
So, I'm not sure it has, but the trend shows it would.
As the electrons strike a special pair of layers called a 'p-n junction,' a current results.
That's an amazing technology. Let's release it 60 years ago and call it a "diode".
Now seriously, I found the idea interesting, but what's so "special" about a pn junction anyway?
You don't get it, do you?
...base 17.
80 == 42.
I think this is a good step for MS. I mean, for ten years I've been wondering why is that the worst error possible is featured in a screen that has the company's colors! Now they simply go red and no harm done.
However, I would've done it brown, since:
1) Doesn't change the BSOD acronym;
2) Brown's a color that reflects so much what I'm thinking about when the error screens happen.
Course, I don't use Windows anymore. But my customers do.
'By introducing Linux on the MSM, Qualcomm supports manufacturer partners who wish to leverage existing Linux applications, third-party developers and application catalogs to reduce their software development costs and improve time-to-market.'
Jeez! It's like Buzzword Bingo all over again! (no time to find the Dilbert reference, though)
If you really need the uptime, you may already have a storage unit, which is almost certainly capable of snapshots/snapclones with close to zero downtime (some of them don't even bother copying the full contents of the drives -- just the differences!).
Anyway, this would be only for databases, AFAICT. Any other kind of data usually does not need that kind of bringing-down-the-server-for-backups consistency.
So, what's the point? Is this to be sold to enterprises that are so small that don't use storage systems, and most certainly don't need the uptime?
No, really, it doesn't look like MS will get much revenue from this.
...to dedicated links, corporate access, or something similar for that matter. Now, do they want to control every single bit of the Internet? Last time I checked, there is no restriction on servers or traffic for corporate links. Are they planning on restricting those too?
If so, I'm sure Netcraft will declare the Internet dead instantly.
I suppose a better way to do this communication would be directly via rails. Here in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the subway system is totally automatic (of course small systems like these are easier), and all communication is made via digital multiplexed signalling transmitted directly to the train via its rails.
So, to hack into one of those, one would have to measure certain frequencies inside the track. Not impossible, but damn harder than radio.
...only old people will use Linux anyway.
/me hides in shame for excessive Slashdot cliche use.
In other news, distros will be forced to use KDE. Either that, or they will change the country name to South Gorea.
I should say I use Gentoo, did not compile my kernel with genkernel (btw, I use ck-sources, so genkernel was not an option), but nowhere in the process there are sensible default ulimits. If you are not aware of forkbombs, you are vulnerable.
It is an administration issue. Just as in Windows, it is not secure by default.
That said, it doesn't feel like news.
Actually, Côte d'or is also by Kraft
Damn merging world we live in.
I'd think that one is complement too.
But hey, I'm not a spelling nazi.
...you insensitive clod.
Looks like the problem is with PNG handling. Could it be then exploited through web pages? Or is it only the use those applications make of the format?
...that there actually is a version of Linux that does not use a MMU (this "ARM-no-MMU" is based on uClinux, AFAICT, which is a non-MMU distro for embedded devices).
IIRC, Linux was born exactly as a study of the capabilities of the 386 processor's MMU.
Now that is change... this should be the most extreme fork from the original project (which is not bad, I'm just amazed by the diversity Linux is promoting)
Disclaimer: I couldn't RTFA (slow as hell).
But you could use AI for clustering also.
For example, Kohonen's neural network is seen as AI, and is an algorithm that suits really well the task of clustering.
I find it really hard to draw the line between AI and anything that's not, because even "intelligence" is hard to define.
Just my R$0.02 (something like US$0.007).
The point:
Processing power is cheaper than network bandwidth.
'Nuff said.