Apache is installed by default on most Linux distros and is easily installed under Windows.
Most MS admins and MCSEs would balk at installing a "web server" on every workstation. I realize that there is already one there - even under Windows. It's just that they don't know it and will see it as installing two peices of software instead of just one. Lazy admin syndrome.
With PHP and XML, I don't really see why we need another database front end. What is it that makes this a "Killer App"? I don't see it.
Though I don't know much about Rekall, Access is usually used for standalone "applications" - fill in forms and such that can be run natively under Windows. PHP would require either Apache or II$, a dedicated server and the admins for such a contrivance. Then, god forbid, some wacko would come along and make "improvements" to the PHP code. Access is dumbed down, so it can be given to dumb people (I wish that were the MS marketing line for it). Not only would Rekall be great for that functionality, but it would also be cross platform - meaning the Apple and *nix users could play too.
I suspect that the reality of it is irrelevant, and busted or not, the same stories with be with us for a very long time.
Ah, but now there's the additional story to tell: How a pair of wackos proved or disproved the old story. I don't think that they're killing the stories off as much as they are enhancing them. Maybe even assuring that some will be with us even longer, now that they are proven fact (bagel anyone?).
It's funny. I saw your nick was "Captain Kirk" and ended up reading your post envisioning William Shatner.
(holds out hands as if pleading) "If you... want... a practical... service... itMUSTbeport25(!). If you... can't... offer... port25... either you... need... tousesomeoneelse's... smtp server... or... to... change... ISP!"
Shatnerizing speech is fun! I'm going to have to do that more often. Thank... you(!)...
why do e-mail programs not just connect directly to the servers they are trying to send mail to?
This goes back to when the internet was young and sparse. Since clients didn't always have reliable connections and servers went down a little more often, it seemed logical to hand your message to a server and let it try to connect to a possibly unavailable server repeatedly than for your to sit and wait for the receiving server to come back online after an outage hitting "send" over and over again. Especially since bandwidth and connection time were at a premium back then (most ISPs had hourly rates). It was done in the name of automation and savings. It was a good solution for a number of years, but is irrelevant in today's world of high availability servers, persistant client connections and broadband. We need a new protocol, but no one wants to offer something that is for the greater good (they get greedy) and no one is willing to change their entire mail system. SMTP is very long in the tooth and will eventually break down completely one day, if you ask me (I hope). Maybe we'll get something after IPV6 is widespread;)
Maybe you should just send them a friendly letter explaining your problem.
Be sure to check your terms of service first. You don't want to call them and tell them that you are running a server that is against their TOS and get your account canned. More and more ISPs are getting draconian about this sort of thing and won't even blink at canning your account for running a "rogue server". Don't get yourself into trouble. Lots of these companies aren't here to help you - they just want your money.
Of course, I would rather that you dumped them altogether for this and found an ISP that encourages folks to run servers and explore, like Omsoft. Far better than giving them your hard earned cahs for something you con't even fully use.
I'm kind of scared by the fact that you're into BDSM and your nickname on Slashdot is "drinkypoo". I would personally find it hard to hire someone into pyrexing or golden showers - but then again, it's not my business and falls into that "things I would rather not know" category.
I seriously doubt most HR droids will bother trying to find my homepage. I've gone into interviews where the people interviewing me had no idea what was in my resume, much less done a Google search on my old Usenet posts.
My homepage is on my resume and they still don't look most of the time. I love it when an interviewer says something like "I see on your resume that you have your own website, could you describe what its like?" You know, I put it on the resume so they could look at it themselves. They do the same thing with my portfolio (also on my site).I even had one HR lady tell me that typing the domain name into the address bar was "too much work" (Yes, I'm glad that job didn't pan out).
I've had the page for so long now that I'm the first result on Google when you type my name in (also helps to have a rare name and video game content). If you just try my first name and my old nick (badmonkey), it's the first result as well. To bad prospective employers don't look. I think I've missed out on a lot of jobs because nobody bothered to look at my portfolio and other work on my site. I even had one HR lady tell me that typing the URL into the address bar was "too much work".
In a way, Media Player is what forced Real to get so obnoxious. Sure, Real wanted to rule your file associations on install before Real One came along. However, nowadays it has to compete with something that's already there and free(ish). They probably feel like they would crumple up and die if they didn't scream in your face with the ads, sneaky services and CPU hogging graphics. That's monopoly power.
Don't they realize that the majority of their viewers (geeks) don't have Flash installed because it's just some method for advertisers to make us all sick?
Maybe they do and they just got a bunch of us to re-enable Flash.
Since most of the pre-release rips come from studio employees, what does this actually do to stem the tide of violating material? How many employees do you think they would prossecute? When will they start cleaning up their own staff and stop picking on their customers and fans? I can understand that screeners may come from third parties, but pre-releases? Come on!
The article says that it, and the earlier "No Electronic Theft Act" (who's heard of that one?), make copyright infrigement a felony.
It's right here. The act was passed in 1997 (under most people's noses). The first conviction under the act happened in 2001 to Christian
Morley for Software Copyright Piracy (cracking warez). The BSA was behind this law, so the RIAA and MPAA are probably unaware of it (even they are scared of a BSA audit, but most likely their heads were too far into an orifice to have spotted the act). And yes: The idea of the BSA, MPAA and RIAA working together or even sharing notes is a Bad Thing(tm).
"Feinstein has taken payoffs to the tune of $264,566 from the Tv/Movies/Music lobby."
Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work.
And the price for your career change:
1 Soul (preferably yours)
Liquidated Honesty - If you have any left, get rid of it! This is an honesty free zone.
Investment Capital - The days of Lincoln are gone. No more poor, self made politicians, please.
Your family - Your current family will have to be cleansed and re-structured for maximum campaign penetration.
Your future - Once you're in the club, you can't get out until you do something to ruin your career... Then you get to do Speaking Tours.
After these prices have been paid, you may send in your application (with $5,000 filing fee). Please note that additional expenses to your livelihood may be incurred during the application process.
You know, this guy was probably researching these bugs because he actually likes and wants to use Gamespy's software (I'm betting it started with Roger Wilco for him). Not only was he their customer, but he was also their fan. He took his own time and donated it to help them create decent and reliable software. People this helpful are rare and should be encouraged. If this man were my customer, I'd be thanking him for the help and talking to him about how he worked on it. I'm no fan of what GS has become, but they are definitely dead to me now. First they started with a free product - then charged for it - then charged a subscription to it - then made it adware even after you paid for it - and now it has security flaws that they have no interest in fixing. What a lame strategy. Gamespy - one more ride down the software shitslide. That'll show people for trying to help them.
Rrrrrrr. To think that I used to like their product - it seems so long ago.
These folks are some of the same great people who are supposed to be working for you anyway, plus a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure.
And how many former black hats are security experts now? The industry knows that it takes someone very familiar with exploits and viruses to combat them effectively. I wonder how many former black hats work at MS... Ballmer should have been named Assmer - a more appropriate piece of anatomy for him. It blows my mind how weak the MS FUD can be.
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It's their report and their numbers. Do you think that they would highlight the areas in which they are weak? The report will probably focus on printer exploits or something just as inane. I think the original submitter was right in the idea that they will ignore Outlook/Script exploits and focus on the OS itself (I know - not a good track record there either, but it's better). Since they are presenting data on the time to a fix, I know that they are ignoring the time that the public doesn't know about an MS exploit and making it seem like they work coding miracles. They may have hit on a very subtle point with Linux security without addressing it directly: Linux exploits get reported sooner and OSS coders encourage others to report exploits quickly. MS obfuscates their exploit reports and would rather only know about them behind closed doors.
Last week, the company announced a $5 million reward program aimed at bringing virus writers to justice. Although it is unlikely to reap any tangible results, the message was clear: Microsoft is taking security seriously.
How seriously can they be taking it if all they did was start a $5Mil smoke and mirrors reward program? Tackling security problems with PR is not taking security seriously, it's being flippant with your solution. I wonder how much this program will eventually pay out. They didn't say that the reward was $5Mil, just that they allocated $5Mil to the program for creating rewards. Is that program in the marketing division or is it a real program?
Why anyone feels sorry for someone who knowingly and willingly breaks the law so that they can save themselves from buying a $15 CD (face it, 95% of the people downloading are doing it for selfish reasons) is beyond me.,/i>
I may not feel sorry, but I can understand some situations. Take someone who listens to a lot of radio music (opinions aside, bear with me). That is "single" music. Producers and execs hope to get one "hit" from the majority of what goes by their desk in the way of demo tapes. If there's no hit at the begining of the tape, next tape! This creates a genre of music where most acts have one innovative/talented/hip track and the is either plain (but expert) technical musicianship and polish or just plain sucks. How is someone supposed to get all of those CDs? Buying the top ten would be $150.
This is the trap that has been set in modern pop. I wont participate in it. I buy the CDs of bands that I like for the entire CD. I could easily see someone a bit more crass than I extending the concept to justify his/her piracy and convincing some people.
it would have been sufficient to say he'd taken a course in law. If he wanted to be unnecessarily specific, he might have said 'information technology law'...The mention of open-source licences seems too specific and too explicit to be happenstance.
I think it was a PR move. Open source has become quite a buzzword and this guy is from the Aussie equivalent of the RIAA. The situation is ripe for him to throw in a few loaded words ofr a good sound bite. Open source is also an often mis-understood phrase. He's probably hoping to use that to his advantage. "What? You don't know what open source is? Well let me tell you what these people are like..."
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Dammit! SCO joke maintenance is becoming a full time job.
The Matrix just Blue Screened. Whoa.
You never know on /. I think everyone has a little BDSM in them, but may be too timid to let it out. Take care.
(holds out hands as if pleading) "If you... want... a practical... service... itMUSTbeport25(!). If you... can't... offer... port25... either you... need... tousesomeoneelse's... smtp server... or... to... change... ISP!"
Shatnerizing speech is fun! I'm going to have to do that more often. Thank... you(!)...
Of course, I would rather that you dumped them altogether for this and found an ISP that encourages folks to run servers and explore, like Omsoft. Far better than giving them your hard earned cahs for something you con't even fully use.
I'm kind of scared by the fact that you're into BDSM and your nickname on Slashdot is "drinkypoo". I would personally find it hard to hire someone into pyrexing or golden showers - but then again, it's not my business and falls into that "things I would rather not know" category.
Oops! Superfluous and redundant sentence! Preview button. Think preview button.
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I've had the page for so long now that I'm the first result on Google when you type my name in (also helps to have a rare name and video game content). If you just try my first name and my old nick (badmonkey), it's the first result as well. To bad prospective employers don't look. I think I've missed out on a lot of jobs because nobody bothered to look at my portfolio and other work on my site. I even had one HR lady tell me that typing the URL into the address bar was "too much work".
In a way, Media Player is what forced Real to get so obnoxious. Sure, Real wanted to rule your file associations on install before Real One came along. However, nowadays it has to compete with something that's already there and free(ish). They probably feel like they would crumple up and die if they didn't scream in your face with the ads, sneaky services and CPU hogging graphics. That's monopoly power.
Since most of the pre-release rips come from studio employees, what does this actually do to stem the tide of violating material? How many employees do you think they would prossecute? When will they start cleaning up their own staff and stop picking on their customers and fans? I can understand that screeners may come from third parties, but pre-releases? Come on!
- 1 Soul (preferably yours)
- Liquidated Honesty - If you have any left, get rid of it! This is an honesty free zone.
- Investment Capital - The days of Lincoln are gone. No more poor, self made politicians, please.
- Your family - Your current family will have to be cleansed and re-structured for maximum campaign penetration.
- Your future - Once you're in the club, you can't get out until you do something to ruin your career... Then you get to do Speaking Tours.
After these prices have been paid, you may send in your application (with $5,000 filing fee). Please note that additional expenses to your livelihood may be incurred during the application process.Rrrrrrr. To think that I used to like their product - it seems so long ago.
It's their report and their numbers. Do you think that they would highlight the areas in which they are weak? The report will probably focus on printer exploits or something just as inane. I think the original submitter was right in the idea that they will ignore Outlook/Script exploits and focus on the OS itself (I know - not a good track record there either, but it's better). Since they are presenting data on the time to a fix, I know that they are ignoring the time that the public doesn't know about an MS exploit and making it seem like they work coding miracles. They may have hit on a very subtle point with Linux security without addressing it directly: Linux exploits get reported sooner and OSS coders encourage others to report exploits quickly. MS obfuscates their exploit reports and would rather only know about them behind closed doors.
This is the trap that has been set in modern pop. I wont participate in it. I buy the CDs of bands that I like for the entire CD. I could easily see someone a bit more crass than I extending the concept to justify his/her piracy and convincing some people.