Unless the copyright holder(s) of the libraries agree to licence it under a different licence. Neither the GPL nor the LGPL preclude the owner from make individual agreements with other parties.
If it's AS400 powered then it's probably not DOS based. I think the article submitter meant text-based (console-based, terminal emulator-based, 3270-based, but not DOS based!)
Okay, maybe I'm being pedantic - I just have this thing about everything non-gui being called DOS.
Deep down I've always felt that charging interest is not a nice thing, but I couldn't put my finger on what exactly I didn't like about it. Your quotes have articulated what I've always felt and I thank you for that.
If Linux had Window's market share it too would have a profit potential for these slim balls that infect our PCs.
I remember back in the eighties, when home and small office PCs usually weren't networked and viruses spread by floppy disk, there were quite a few viruses for DOS. I expect that there are as many linux boxes now as there were DOS boxes in the eighties, so by your logic there should be as many linux viruses now as there were DOS viruses in the eighties. Given that today's ubiquitous Internet would spread viruses faster than the old floppy days, you might even expect more viruses today.
Vulnerability to malware is more a product of design rather than market share.
I hope Microsoft has no partnership deal with Sony that might affect the efficacy of their anti-spyware utility.
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What about spoofing results back to Sony HQ to throw off the statistics?
Yes. In fact, if someone wrote a script that mimics the rootkit with regard to talking to Sony HQ that just spits out random bogus data, I'd run that script all day (after getting a programmer friend to check it for malware).
It's our duty to poison phishers' and corporate data harvesters' databases.
Stupid covers a wide range of human activity. The gullible/naïve/trusting aspect is only one facet of stupidity - and not the worst. Children are naïve and trusting.
My questions about there being a different version for each distro were rhetorical -- in repsonse to the charge that Microsoft would need to support a whole lot of distros if they released Office for Linux.
I've never compiled Firefox or OpenOffice for my distro, and the versions I downloaded are not specific to my distro. I guess they work because they're staticly linked. I don't know the details - it just works.
I've done the make config, make install thing on tarballs too, and that just worked. I'm guessing that if Microsoft ever do Office for Linux, it will be staticly linked binaries rather than source tarballs.
I take it you haven't actually used Linux before? I switched from dual-booting linux and OS/2 to running linux only in about 1997. One of my first distros was Caldera Open-Linux (remember the Tetris game during the install?)
Plus, Microsoft would have to support how many different versions of how many different distributions in order to even have their product available to the whole Linux market?
Is there a version of firefox for every distro? Is there a version of OpenOffice for every distro?
That was a classic. The first show that came to mind when I saw the headline. Out of 50 SF shows I'm sure B7 would rate well above some of the ones they included.
WYSIWYG is important for non-technical users Before GUIs become common, there were console based word processors: Wordstar, WordPerfect and Works for DOS. These were not WYSIWYG.
not all people are capable of this kind of mental gymnastics Give people a bit more credit. I believe grandma is capable of grasping the concepts "This is a section header", "This is a subsection header", "This is normal text", "This is a block quote".
In some countries, all new power outlets need a GFCI (called an RCD in New Zealand). Not just in water-prone places. A kid can stick a fork into any outlet. An RCD will save lives.
The one thing that made XP a solution to my family was the welcome screen. Once they could select their username from a list that made it possible to give each family member an individual and run them in low privileged accounts.
I switched from OS/2 to Linux about the time that Windows 95 came out. Therefore I have taken separate user accounts for granted since then. Did Windows not have this before XP? Sheesh!
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Have you ever noticed that drug pushers and the computer industry are the only ones who refer to their customers as "users"?
Simply using a NAT router DOES NOT protect your machine from e-mail worms
Don't run any mail clients until you've finished patching.
It also doesn't protect your machine from any other wom-infected machine behind the router
Unplug any computer running MS-Windows from the router until you've finished patching.
Anyone who's desparate to surf pr0n will find a way around it.
Why post it on the fourth of January? I would've waited 'til the beginning of April - it would've been funnier then.
I just thought I'd mention the downside.
And good on you for doing so. Everything is a trade-off.
This tactic is not legal under the LGPL
Unless the copyright holder(s) of the libraries agree to licence it under a different licence.
Neither the GPL nor the LGPL preclude the owner from make individual agreements with other parties.
If it's AS400 powered then it's probably not DOS based. I think the article submitter meant text-based (console-based, terminal emulator-based, 3270-based, but not DOS based!)
Okay, maybe I'm being pedantic - I just have this thing about everything non-gui being called DOS.
Static Linking. It results in bigger bloated binaries - but at least they're self-contained.
Deep down I've always felt that charging interest is not a nice thing, but I couldn't put my finger on what exactly I didn't like about it.
Your quotes have articulated what I've always felt and I thank you for that.
If Linux had Window's market share it too would have a profit potential for these slim balls that infect our PCs.
I remember back in the eighties, when home and small office PCs usually weren't networked and viruses spread by floppy disk, there were quite a few viruses for DOS.
I expect that there are as many linux boxes now as there were DOS boxes in the eighties, so by your logic there should be as many linux viruses now as there were DOS viruses in the eighties. Given that today's ubiquitous Internet would spread viruses faster than the old floppy days, you might even expect more viruses today.
Vulnerability to malware is more a product of design rather than market share.
I hope Microsoft has no partnership deal with Sony that might affect the efficacy of their anti-spyware utility.
What about spoofing results back to Sony HQ to throw off the statistics?
Yes. In fact, if someone wrote a script that mimics the rootkit with regard to talking to Sony HQ that just spits out random bogus data, I'd run that script all day (after getting a programmer friend to check it for malware).
It's our duty to poison phishers' and corporate data harvesters' databases.
Stupid covers a wide range of human activity.
The gullible/naïve/trusting aspect is only one facet of stupidity - and not the worst.
Children are naïve and trusting.
most people who receive email still respond to phishing attacks
I always respond to phishing attacks. I consider it my duty to fill the phishers' databases with useless fake bank account info.
it's absolutely amazing how stupid people are.
By "Stupid" you mean gullible, naïve and trusting?
Given your sig, how do you know your *nix box isn't rootkitted?
Write portable code is not tied to linux, not by definition (if code is tied to unix/linux it does not run in windows thus it is not multiplataform).
Try posix. I believe one can compile posix code on windows.
My questions about there being a different version for each distro were rhetorical -- in repsonse to the charge that Microsoft would need to support a whole lot of distros if they released Office for Linux.
I've never compiled Firefox or OpenOffice for my distro, and the versions I downloaded are not specific to my distro. I guess they work because they're staticly linked. I don't know the details - it just works.
I've done the make config, make install thing on tarballs too, and that just worked.
I'm guessing that if Microsoft ever do Office for Linux, it will be staticly linked binaries rather than source tarballs.
I take it you haven't actually used Linux before?
I switched from dual-booting linux and OS/2 to running linux only in about 1997.
One of my first distros was Caldera Open-Linux (remember the Tetris game during the install?)
Plus, Microsoft would have to support how many different versions of how many different distributions in order to even have their product available to the whole Linux market?
Is there a version of firefox for every distro?
Is there a version of OpenOffice for every distro?
Or does the same binary just run on every distro?
Legacy apps?
As long as whatever new windowing system comes out has a 3270 terminal emulator, legacy apps will still run.
That was a classic.
The first show that came to mind when I saw the headline. Out of 50 SF shows I'm sure B7 would rate well above some of the ones they included.
Maybe the list was compiled by an american.
WYSIWYG is important for non-technical users
Before GUIs become common, there were console based word processors: Wordstar, WordPerfect and Works for DOS.
These were not WYSIWYG.
not all people are capable of this kind of mental gymnastics
Give people a bit more credit. I believe grandma is capable of grasping the concepts "This is a section header", "This is a subsection header", "This is normal text", "This is a block quote".
If she can use Word, she can use LyX.
In some countries, all new power outlets need a GFCI (called an RCD in New Zealand).
Not just in water-prone places.
A kid can stick a fork into any outlet. An RCD will save lives.
The one thing that made XP a solution to my family was the welcome screen. Once they could select their username from a list that made it possible to give each family member an individual and run them in low privileged accounts.
I switched from OS/2 to Linux about the time that Windows 95 came out.
Therefore I have taken separate user accounts for granted since then.
Did Windows not have this before XP? Sheesh!