Perhaps we could/. is snail-mail box with letters paraising him in his dilligence in his anit-trust litigation and urge him to not give up the fight.
His name is Mark Shurtleff Administration Office:
Utah State Attorney General
Administration Office
160 East 300 South,6th Fl.
Heber Wells Building,
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
I'm certain that it would be very bad news for you, and you would be loosing many customers.
As an actualy customer of Marcomedia perhaps you can convince them to port Shockwave and Director to a more open platform such as Linux. Especially since many more schools will be converting to Linux due to increasing costs of deploying an MS solution.
Anothe suggestion would be to move to your own apps to something more portable.
I gotta toss some water on this FUD unless some poor smuck actually believes it.
According to Netcraft there are >18,300,000. Assuming that 1/3 of these system's are running Linux, that leaves 6,100,000 Linux servers running Apache. Acording to your numbers there are 455000 servers running linux that leaves something like 13.5 webservers per user.
This does not include people using Linux as routers, File servers, and PDAs. It doesn't include workstations not running apache, clusters, or boxes behind firewalls.
And if you thing red ink is flowing like blood in the linux community, just have a look at how poorly the tech industry is doing. Linux companies are actually performing better than the market average.
Because disclusing vulnerabilities gives administrators the leverage they need to convince the management to give them the resources to apply patches before they become a crisis. It doesn't take much to patch a single server, but patching 30 servers, is no small undertaking.
I hope that with Code Red management will start taking security issues, and preventative maintence seriouly. Kinda like not having the oil changed regularly on your car.
SBC wants to charge me and additional $40/month, if I go through and ISP other than swbell.
You want competition in the DSL market you separate the ISP from the DSL service. And you Separate the DSL service from the LEC. Otherwise the phone company will jack up their rates, unless you get the bundeled deal. That kills the competition.
Fortunately cable provides competition, but how long will it be before SBC buys the cable system as well.
They own the phone lines, they own the ISP, they own your ass.
The ECMA probably doesn't require the disclosure of software patents, because that would give the patent validity, and IIRC, many European countries do no allow software patents.
It is sad and ironic that a russian programmer, is a flight risk from persecution in a U.S. courtroom. 20 years ago, that would have only been imaginable if he were a spy or saboture.
I think the writer has the wrong idea with car metaphore. He needs to check out Mags like Import Racer, and Sport Compact. There are Miatas running around with ~300hp! Just because mods today are differnet from mods 30 years ago, doesn't mean they wont exits, they will be different.
Computer mods will be the same, mods and home brew system will be around, it's just they will be different, and hopefully more interesting.
How do I know mods be around?
Economics, if there is a market for a product, companies will try and sell to it.
TSMC's website allows you do design a chip via the web, in a few years you will probably be able to design a chip by have is manufactured at a reasonable price. (Currently a full reticle set costs something like a million dollars. Tech allwoing for the custon production of chips wold require the elimiation of expensive reticles.)
Many techie's are hired on the basis of their techincal skill with little emphasis placed on their interpersonal communications skills. Whe the exhibit come exceptional skill, that feeds their desire to be improtant. That's human nature. There are primma donnas in every field, it's just in IT we call them nerds.
Managers on the other hand should have siginifant communication skills to keep the prima donna under control. A good manager can make the primma donna feel important so that he can drop much of the attitued without loosing face or respect.
There is a big honking difference between KIllustrator and GAIM.
GAIM is taken from a trademarked acronym.
KIllustrator is taken from Illustrator, while may be trademarked name for piece of software, it is also derived from the job title of the person who would be using the software. I don't think that trademark Illustrator is trademarkable, but "Adobe Illustrator" certainly is. Is KIllustrator confusable or diluting the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark?
Perhaps the KDE team shoud change the name to Kommercial Artist keeping with the K- theme.
MS isn't running scared of anything. They're embracing open standards to increase their market share. They aren't running scared from Open Souce, they're running after Open Source and trying to stamp the annoying roach out of existance.
Unions say where you can work. "Sorry buddy, that's not a union shop, you can't work there."
Unions say what your job description is. "Sorry boss, I'm a programmer, that's a DBA's job
Unions say what you're qualified to do. "Sorry, I can't do that, I haven't been qualified on Perl."
Unions determin how you are to do your job. "vi is the standard editor, we deleted emacs."
You laugh, but a one time IT workers were union, I knew one of the. Job description's were very narrow. Analysts wrote the specs, Programmers then coded, and loaders then loaded the programs into the machines.
Unions give security to unskilled labores because unions have the standard of last hired first fired. In IT shops when times get lean, managers pull out the performance reviews, rank everybody, then draw a line and can everybody below that line. At least that's the way it worked at every IT shop I've worked in. In a union shop, if your performance is borderline incompetant, and they have to hire additional personel the newer guys will be canned before you are when times get lean.
If I can't connect my computer to the NET, if I can't share files with others, if I can view web pages, if I can't do with my computer what I want; what use is it.
I am not going to spend all my time, writing device drivers, additions to network protocalls, or patches to applications, I am not going to write my own version of ICQ or whater IM I choose to use. I have a life outside of programming.
Free Markets are driven by competition. Right now Microsoft is murdering Linux in certain demographic groups. Those groups being the ones who have better things to do than read man pages all day.
According to the open source economic model, the content producers will still need day jobs to pay the rent. Workable, but will this really put Big Media Corp inc. out of business? Where would Madonna work for instance? McDonalds? "You want some fucking fries with that?"
You mean Madona would actually have to do on tour?
Content producers made money long before CD and DVDs. Musicians played concerts, and people went to movie theaters to watch movies. Loosing the home distribution market is not the end of the world.
The people who are going to loose out are the once who make titles that normally go straight to video. They're the ones who have the problems, but ironically they aren't the ones screaming the loudest about copy protection.
First of all, there are really only three picture-tube manufacturers for monitors, and Sony's one of them. I can see them making contracts to only sell tubes to companies who implement this.
what makes you think that they're going to be using picture tubes? Things like LED/LCD and/or DLP systems will eventually replace the tube.
The real danger to this system presents is potential for the elimination of non-licensed content.
Imagine having to purchase a license to write and sign software, like operating systems, because the hardware wont permit the execution or use otherwise.
Because Games, unlike alcohol, leave your system when you put them down. You also can't do a blood or breath test to find out how many games somebody had played, nor whether or not their judgement is impared. People also don't get arrested for DUI for having played one to many rounds of Quack.
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Perhaps we could /. is snail-mail box with letters paraising him in his dilligence in his anit-trust litigation and urge him to not give up the fight.
His name is Mark Shurtleff
Administration Office:
Utah State Attorney General
Administration Office
160 East 300 South,6th Fl.
Heber Wells Building,
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
I'm certain that it would be very bad news for you, and you would be loosing many customers.
As an actualy customer of Marcomedia perhaps you can convince them to port Shockwave and Director to a more open platform such as Linux. Especially since many more schools will be converting to Linux due to increasing costs of deploying an MS solution.
Anothe suggestion would be to move to your own apps to something more portable.
How about this, go to Circuit City and pick up a nice Polk home theatre speakers. Then try to install those speakers in you car.
And if you call it GNU/Linux you're "Stallmaaaayn".
364000 Red Hat users?
I gotta toss some water on this FUD unless some poor smuck actually believes it.
According to Netcraft there are >18,300,000. Assuming that 1/3 of these system's are running Linux, that leaves 6,100,000 Linux servers running Apache. Acording to your numbers there are 455000 servers running linux that leaves something like 13.5 webservers per user.
This does not include people using Linux as routers, File servers, and PDAs. It doesn't include workstations not running apache, clusters, or boxes behind firewalls.
And if you thing red ink is flowing like blood in the linux community, just have a look at how poorly the tech industry is doing. Linux companies are actually performing better than the market average.
Because disclusing vulnerabilities gives administrators the leverage they need to convince the management to give them the resources to apply patches before they become a crisis. It doesn't take much to patch a single server, but patching 30 servers, is no small undertaking.
I hope that with Code Red management will start taking security issues, and preventative maintence seriouly. Kinda like not having the oil changed regularly on your car.
SBC wants to charge me and additional $40/month, if I go through and ISP other than swbell.
You want competition in the DSL market you separate the ISP from the DSL service. And you Separate the DSL service from the LEC. Otherwise the phone company will jack up their rates, unless you get the bundeled deal. That kills the competition.
Fortunately cable provides competition, but how long will it be before SBC buys the cable system as well.
They own the phone lines, they own the ISP, they own your ass.
What is happening is that your server is prepending the server name to the URL
Set the option
UseCanocialName No
Or was that
UseCanocialName off
Anyway It should be obvious after looking at your httpd.conf file.
The ECMA probably doesn't require the disclosure of software patents, because that would give the patent validity, and IIRC, many European countries do no allow software patents.
It is sad and ironic that a russian programmer, is a flight risk from persecution in a U.S. courtroom. 20 years ago, that would have only been imaginable if he were a spy or saboture.
Who says Microsoft doesn't innovate?
I think the writer has the wrong idea with car metaphore. He needs to check out Mags like Import Racer, and Sport Compact. There are Miatas running around with ~300hp! Just because mods today are differnet from mods 30 years ago, doesn't mean they wont exits, they will be different.
Computer mods will be the same, mods and home brew system will be around, it's just they will be different, and hopefully more interesting.
How do I know mods be around?
Economics, if there is a market for a product, companies will try and sell to it.
TSMC's website allows you do design a chip via the web, in a few years you will probably be able to design a chip by have is manufactured at a reasonable price. (Currently a full reticle set costs something like a million dollars. Tech allwoing for the custon production of chips wold require the elimiation of expensive reticles.)
Many techie's are hired on the basis of their techincal skill with little emphasis placed on their interpersonal communications skills. Whe the exhibit come exceptional skill, that feeds their desire to be improtant. That's human nature. There are primma donnas in every field, it's just in IT we call them nerds.
Managers on the other hand should have siginifant communication skills to keep the prima donna under control. A good manager can make the primma donna feel important so that he can drop much of the attitued without loosing face or respect.
There is a big honking difference between KIllustrator and GAIM.
GAIM is taken from a trademarked acronym.
KIllustrator is taken from Illustrator, while may be trademarked name for piece of software, it is also derived from the job title of the person who would be using the software. I don't think that trademark Illustrator is trademarkable, but "Adobe Illustrator" certainly is. Is KIllustrator confusable or diluting the "Adobe Illustrator" trademark?
Perhaps the KDE team shoud change the name to Kommercial Artist keeping with the K- theme.
There are top tier engineers working for free/open source software. Many of them work for companies like Red Hat, IBM, and Sun.
You should dive into some of the midsized open projects, like Jakarta, and Xerces. They do have professional engineers working full time on them.
What kind of crack are you smoking?
MS isn't running scared of anything. They're embracing open standards to increase their market share. They aren't running scared from Open Souce, they're running after Open Source and trying to stamp the annoying roach out of existance.
Wrongo!
You laugh, but a one time IT workers were union, I knew one of the. Job description's were very narrow. Analysts wrote the specs, Programmers then coded, and loaders then loaded the programs into the machines.
Unions give security to unskilled labores because unions have the standard of last hired first fired. In IT shops when times get lean, managers pull out the performance reviews, rank everybody, then draw a line and can everybody below that line. At least that's the way it worked at every IT shop I've worked in. In a union shop, if your performance is borderline incompetant, and they have to hire additional personel the newer guys will be canned before you are when times get lean.
If I can't connect my computer to the NET, if I can't share files with others, if I can view web pages, if I can't do with my computer what I want; what use is it.
I am not going to spend all my time, writing device drivers, additions to network protocalls, or patches to applications, I am not going to write my own version of ICQ or whater IM I choose to use. I have a life outside of programming.
Free Markets are driven by competition. Right now Microsoft is murdering Linux in certain demographic groups. Those groups being the ones who have better things to do than read man pages all day.
You mean Madona would actually have to do on tour?
Content producers made money long before CD and DVDs. Musicians played concerts, and people went to movie theaters to watch movies. Loosing the home distribution market is not the end of the world.
The people who are going to loose out are the once who make titles that normally go straight to video. They're the ones who have the problems, but ironically they aren't the ones screaming the loudest about copy protection.
what makes you think that they're going to be using picture tubes? Things like LED/LCD and/or DLP systems will eventually replace the tube.
The real danger to this system presents is potential for the elimination of non-licensed content.
Imagine having to purchase a license to write and sign software, like operating systems, because the hardware wont permit the execution or use otherwise.
This just reaks of pro-slavery legislation and court cases where slaves were not granted rights.
I can see the Surpreem Court throwing this crap right out.
But then again considering the way the Court has been going recently, they would probably rule in favor of it.
Until they can implement this with a solid-state wave guide and lasers, the tech pretty usless.
Because Games, unlike alcohol, leave your system when you put them down. You also can't do a blood or breath test to find out how many games somebody had played, nor whether or not their judgement is impared. People also don't get arrested for DUI for having played one to many rounds of Quack.