It means Linux will run on top of the CMS layer. The linux extensions they are writing will be open source (hopefully something to allow Flash to run:-) but the CMS will be propietary.
You will notice that when you install most software these days that needs such facilities that it asks for a password during the install.
This is the way it should be. If a user choses a dumb password, that's different, but having a default is a good way to get bad PR, and companies that succede in getting bad PR for that will earn no sympathy from me.
SQL 6.5 _does_ ask for an SA password during install. these people obviously ignored it. The site admins are to blame, not Microsoft.
These are two strong signs that the author may be using some form of irony. Irony, for those not familiar with the concept, can be described as "when the actual opinion is the opposite of that stated". Ironys are in other words obvious lies, and are used as a way of stating the obvious in a humorous manner. (Do you understand the concept humour?)
Actually, the word you are looking for is "sarcasm." You're not alone, though. Alanis Morrisette doesn't know what Irony is either: "Rain on your wedding day" is not ironic. A sword-swallower choking on a toothpick is ironic.
Great, now I'm the irony police...
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I see it as just a huge ISP company joining a huge media company... no big deal there, but is it ME who still gets to decide how do I view their content, or whether to view it or not... after all, there's still a lot of other media companies, in the US and around the world. Remember, the net is, again, that which makes this possible. Unless you get your content through a TW cable franchise. Admittedly theoretical: what if every email you sent out started having an advertisement for the latest Time-Life video attached to the bottom of it...
Actually, nobody knows what changes will be made in 3rd edition rules as they are not out yet. (Another big announcement at GenCon '99 was that 3rd edition will be released at GenCon '00)
2nd edition is what's in the stores now, and what Baldur's Gate and Planescape:Torment are based on.
You don't have to have drunk the MS kool-aid to recognize when they have a superior product. By this I am NOT saying that Win95 / NT is a superior product, but right now the Outlook / Exchangecombo is very strong.
Instead of burying your head in the sand ("MS doesn't exist, if I ignore it - it will go away") you should be looking at the product to see _why_ it is so good, then encourage others to make something better.
I'm looking into that HP OpenMail product (fortunately, we have some HP hardware here already) but the client will still be MS Outlook. Why? It's easy to use and integrated.
You decide a year or more in advance how much bandwidth you will get. Then decide how many customers that will support, and you don't allow marketing to sell to any more customers. Thats right, you refuse to allow more onto the system. Marketing can deal with this if you make them, and long term satisfaction will go up.
You're joking, right? Have you actually gone to the CEO of any company and told him/her that it's time to shut down marketing? "They can just take the next 2 months off while we re-engineer the back end systems."
You'll be lucky if you're not fired outright. And if they listen to you, they are even crazier than you:-)
As was previously noted the real danger isn't necessarily Microsoft's products, it's the monolithic nature of corporate america. If 90% of corporate america ran the MacOS you'd see every concievable security hole on that platform exploited by these idiots. I daresay the same would hold true for unix, if you could find enough unix-heads willing to agree which mail client was best.:-)
According to the article they aren't happy about it but aren't currently prosecuting anyone for it....
While I understand why they to be concerned about this, has anyone actually watched the version of the Matrix that's floating around? no music, really poor lighting, very poor quality. It's difficult to believe anyone would watch this in place of the real deal...
You would think that Exchange server administrators would be smart enough to at least start filtering attachments or running a virus scan on incoming traffic. I guess not, since M$ themselves were offline yesterday...
When Melissa was released, no virus scanners could detect it. Sure we could just strip all attachments, but the upper management tends to get mad at stuff like that:-)
It's interesting that other collaboration/e-mail packages such as Lotus Notes and Eudora are unaffected by these problems....
Um, well, it won't pull names from an Eudora client, but it will still happily start outlook and see what it can find in there. And that's just based on what the writer wanted to target (there ARE more outlook clients installed than Eudaora, after all)
Why are M$ products *designed* to be so blatantly insecure? I'm sure the basic principles of program security have been around for ages... why motivates M$ to deliberately ignore them?
Here we agree. They claim it's to allow third part developers a chance to extend the office suite, I think it kinda blows:-)
It's not coincidence that issues like the GUID are troubling us now... these technologies were created for specific purposes... and look how easy it was for two non-M$ people to track down the creator of the Melissa docs.
Conspiracy theories, my ass. More than enough evidence to go on here.
Back to the debate of whether PGP signing is useful if it's not mandatory. Don't wanna go there...
``Software is going to play a far broader role in our lives than we can even imagine today,'' he said. ``When we took stock of our ability to meet these future opportunities, it became clear that we were organized to meet today's needs but not those of the next decade.''
Yup, the Melissa virus shows how ready they are to meet today's needs:-)
My current desktop wallpaper is the User Friendly where whashisname just got his T3 and Sun hardware installed. "What do I have to show for it?... All the porn I could want."
It uses Sun's logo in the cartoon, and without permission, that's a no-no...
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It means Linux will run on top of the CMS layer. The linux extensions they are writing will be open source (hopefully something to allow Flash to run :-) but the CMS will be propietary.
"runs all plugins" how is that supposed to work? Mobile Linux running shockwave? Mobile Linux running Windows Media Player?
how will they ensure it plays _all_ the major media formats even if those formats are windows only?
Linus must have been working on the extensions to Linux to optimize it for the Crusoe processors.
:-)
Therefore they will be forever known as the Crusoe Extensions for Linux.
Congratulations, you just invented LinuxCE
You will notice that when you install most software these days that needs such facilities that it asks for a password during the install.
This is the way it should be. If a user choses a dumb password, that's different, but having a default is a good way to get bad PR, and companies that succede in getting bad PR for that will earn no sympathy from me.
SQL 6.5 _does_ ask for an SA password during install. these people obviously ignored it. The site admins are to blame, not Microsoft.
These are two strong signs that the author may be using some form of irony. Irony, for those not familiar with the concept, can be described as "when the actual opinion is the opposite of that stated". Ironys are in other words obvious lies, and are used as a way of stating the obvious in a humorous manner. (Do you understand the concept humour?)
Actually, the word you are looking for is "sarcasm." You're not alone, though. Alanis Morrisette doesn't know what Irony is either: "Rain on your wedding day" is not ironic. A sword-swallower choking on a toothpick is ironic.
Great, now I'm the irony police...
I see it as just a huge ISP company joining a huge media company... no big deal there, but is it ME who still gets to decide how do I view their content, or whether to view it or not... after all, there's still a lot of other media companies, in the US and around the world. Remember, the net is, again, that which makes this possible. Unless you get your content through a TW cable franchise. Admittedly theoretical: what if every email you sent out started having an advertisement for the latest Time-Life video attached to the bottom of it...
Razer Boomslang and a cluster of Dreamcasts :-) I can't get razer's page to open up, but I think it's http://www.razer.com
minor picky point:
the blurb said the bill only got half the votes needed to pass, but by my math, it was only 4 votes away from passing. That's pretty close.
>They (WotC) bought TSR, and suddenly what became a part of the new Dragonlance expansion? Cards!?!
Actually, the SAGA system came out before WotC bought TSR. And cards had been a part of D&D before that (Priest and Mage deck products...)
Actually, nobody knows what changes will be made in 3rd edition rules as they are not out yet. (Another big announcement at GenCon '99 was that 3rd edition will be released at GenCon '00)
2nd edition is what's in the stores now, and what Baldur's Gate and Planescape:Torment are based on.
How long until we see this thing modelled in Rollercoaster Tycoon :-)
You don't have to have drunk the MS kool-aid to recognize when they have a superior product. By this I am NOT saying that Win95 / NT is a superior product, but right now the Outlook / Exchangecombo is very strong.
Instead of burying your head in the sand ("MS doesn't exist, if I ignore it - it will go away") you should be looking at the product to see _why_ it is so good, then encourage others to make something better.
I'm looking into that HP OpenMail product (fortunately, we have some HP hardware here already) but the client will still be MS Outlook. Why? It's easy to use and integrated.
Scott
You're joking, right? Have you actually gone to the CEO of any company and told him/her that it's time to shut down marketing? "They can just take the next 2 months off while we re-engineer the back end systems."
You'll be lucky if you're not fired outright. And if they listen to you, they are even crazier than you :-)
Don't forget, they could be the first self-propelled Beowolf cluster...
As was previously noted the real danger isn't necessarily Microsoft's products, it's the monolithic nature of corporate america. If 90% of corporate america ran the MacOS you'd see every concievable security hole on that platform exploited by these idiots. I daresay the same would hold true for unix, if you could find enough unix-heads willing to agree which mail client was best. :-)
Scott
Tolkein, Gandalf's Sacrifice of Form. 'Nuff said :-)
According to the article they aren't happy about it but aren't currently prosecuting anyone for it....
While I understand why they to be concerned about this, has anyone actually watched the version of the Matrix that's floating around? no music, really poor lighting, very poor quality. It's difficult to believe anyone would watch this in place of the real deal...
I thought it was just another april fools joke.
Oh well.
When Melissa was released, no virus scanners could detect it. Sure we could just strip all attachments, but the upper management tends to get mad at stuff like that :-)
It's interesting that other collaboration/e-mail packages such as Lotus Notes and Eudora are unaffected by these problems....
Um, well, it won't pull names from an Eudora client, but it will still happily start outlook and see what it can find in there. And that's just based on what the writer wanted to target (there ARE more outlook clients installed than Eudaora, after all)
Why are M$ products *designed* to be so blatantly insecure? I'm sure the basic principles of program security have been around for ages... why motivates M$ to deliberately ignore them?
Here we agree. They claim it's to allow third part developers a chance to extend the office suite, I think it kinda blows :-)
It's not coincidence that issues like the GUID are troubling us now... these technologies were created for specific purposes... and look how easy it was for two non-M$ people to track down the creator of the Melissa docs.
Conspiracy theories, my ass. More than enough evidence to go on here.
Back to the debate of whether PGP signing is useful if it's not mandatory. Don't wanna go there...
``Software is going to play a far broader role in our lives than we can even imagine today,'' he said. ``When we took stock of our ability to meet these future opportunities, it became clear that we were organized to meet today's needs but not those of the next decade.''
:-)
Yup, the Melissa virus shows how ready they are to meet today's needs
My current desktop wallpaper is the User Friendly where whashisname just got his T3 and Sun hardware installed. "What do I have to show for it? ... All the porn I could want."
It uses Sun's logo in the cartoon, and without permission, that's a no-no...
I can put a good word in for Dish Network. Good quality, good channel selection, and the two times I've had to call them I got pretty quick response.
DirecTV is better is a sports nut, though...
Scott
www.emunews.net - EMU News World
www.davesclassics.com - um, Dave's Classics
Both of these are emulation related news sites.