I'm still waiting to actually see the evidence that SCO claims is in the Linux source code. They showed us one example, and if I recall it was mostly comments!
We have a local Prison that works with Unicor to recycle old computers, and then sell what they can as usable computers, we often are able to get some good deals for our company there.
The phrase "Catch-22" comes from the book of that name by Joseph Heller (1923-1999), published in 1961. Catch-22 is a wonderful book, full of dark humor and absurdity, satirizing war, military bureaucracy, and by extension modern life and the ways in which they destroy the human spirit.
The word "catch" of course is used in the sense of snare, snag or entanglement.
The story is set in Italy in World War II. The main character, Captain Yossarian, is a bombardier (as Heller had been) who wants to get out of flying potentially deadly combat missions. So does his tent-mate, Orr. The easiest way to get out of flying more missions is to plead insanity. Heller writes:
There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and he would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to, but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
In short, Catch-22 is "heads I win, tails you lose." If you can, you can't, and if you can't, you can. Fair is foul and foul is fair. Whenever you try to behave sensibly in a crazy world, there's a catch.
Heller writes:
Yossarian strode away, cursing Catch-22 vehemently even though he knew there was no such thing. Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon, or burn up.
In fact, Heller originally wanted to name his dilemma Catch-18, but a book by Leon Uris called Mila 18, historical fiction about the Warsaw ghetto uprising during WWII, had just been published, and the publishers were afraid there would be confusion. (Mila 18 was a street address.)
So, there really isn't a Catch-22, despite its pervasiveness--and that's an example of the catch, of course. Circular dilemmas of this sort appear over and over in the book. Sometimes the Catch is mentioned explicitly, more often not. Some other examples of Catch-22 in action, from the book:
* Major Major is a commander who doesn't command. He hates dealing with people, and is somewhat frightened of them. He therefore instructs his receptionist/orderly that, whenever he is in his office, any visitors should be told he is out. When he leaves his office (sneaking out the back window), the receptionist can send visitors in to see him. In short, the only time you can see Major Major in his office is when he's out. If he's in, you can't see him. It's an example of Catch-22, although the catch is not explicitly mentioned in this connection.
* Doctor Daneeka is a doctor who responds to patients' complaints by telling them his own troubles.
* The military police chase the girls away from Yossarian's favorite haunt. When asked what right they have to do this, they reply, "Catch-22." Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything that you can't stop them from doing. And if you ask to see Catch-22, the law says they don't have to show it to you. What law? Catch-22, of course.
* In the hospital, the Soldier in White (in a plaster cast from head to toe) has a bottle of plasma going in and a bottle of urine coming out. The nurses routinely switch the bottles around, in an endless cycle.
* The Chaplain, when cornered, lies. He knows that telling lies and defecting from duty are sins. He also knows that s
In October, Microsoft committed to making its patch-release schedule more regular, by only publishing patches on the second Tuesday in each month. The software giant said it will be skipping that release this month.
I'm sorry but this seems to fly in the face of all I understand.... shouldn't you release the patch on the day the exploit is released?!??? Seems that if it's discovered on Wednesday we have a week for our systems to get exploited! YEAH! Another hit for open source
spamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider
that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems. The
plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page devoted to tracking
spamhausen (http://www.spamhaus.org).
The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber
Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The
anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day,
but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners
of the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the
junk-fax laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have
declined in relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers
using relay rape and throwaway accounts on reputable ISPs seem to
account for most of the flow.
Guess it's time to start having popup ads on TV... I can see it now.... in the middle of a TV show, all of a sudden a chevy truck bursts through the screen.. totally obscuring what you are trying to watch and making this horrid crashing sound.. then it drives back and forth for a bit and finally comes to rest in the upper top corner for the remainder of the show.
Hrmm.. I could swear I've seen this idea some place before!
What this user said is true. GPS+ is simply a name the cell companies seem to have labeled on these phones.. it uses a GPS in the cell tower for cordinates (sometimes).... but the phone only knows where it is based on triangulation.. so while it says GPS.. it's NOT GPS...
This is nice.. especially for kids. I wouldn't mind having it on a cell phone my kids keep in the car. Obviously there are going to be people who are going to abuse the system... but then these people probably already can... so.... Also, I'm not really worried, because... who wants to track me? I'm joe normal... but yes I know the whole invasion of privacy thing... but, at least here in the US, you CAN turn off GPS+ on your phone... even though it still works for 911..
REF: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam _1.html Greetings, I'm not sure what your problem was. You call yourself a consultant, and yet you couldn't figure out how to get spamassassin running quickly? We run spamassassin on a farm of mail servers, and if what you said was true that would be my full time job. Rather spam assassin is as easy to install as doing:
perl Makeconfig make make install
Then adding a line to QMail which tells it to run qmailqueue (which proccesses through spamassassin).
That's 3 steps and a line to add to a config file.
Sorry but the whole thing takes maybe all of 10 minutes. You are saying that these others can be up and WORKING in under 10 minutes? WOW!
Maybe your issue was that you tried to use the SpamAssassin that came with RedHat... rather then blaming this on SpamAssassin, maybe you should blame it on RedHat since they set it up. If you are going to evaluate SpamAssassin then download it and install it.. don't go off of what RedHat did to it... that's like purchasing a car (redhat) with a special after market "GPS NAVIGATION" (spamsassassin) unit installed which was installed by Ford, and has some funky wire setup that isn't really standard.. then when the GPS breaks you go blame the company, when you didn't even set it up yourself..
You are doing an evaluation of how easy the GPS unit is to setup in your car, yet you purchased a car with the unit already installed by a third party and then you rate it bad because it didn't work.
Oh Dear, What is the world coming to. What are we going to call them? Surfs and Pesants? White Collar/Blue Collar? Good grief.... MASTER - Takes control/precidence (first drive to boot) SLAVE - Follows after...
Umm so what exactly are they trying to play?!?!?! Sounds like all of the robots have their own tracks going at once not in sync with others.. Sorry, but that is NOT music.. sounds like a train wreck to me... now this whole concept is very fascinating, if they were actually playing something useful!
[matth@mercury matth]$ telnet email.pct.edu 25 Trying 12.23.198.9... Connected to email.pct.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220 email.pct.edu Novonyx SMTP ready $Revision: 3.16 $ quit 221 email.pct.edu So long, and thanks for all the fish
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1) PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY PENNCOLLEGE-198 (NET-12-23-198-0-1)
... Why would Mozilla stop development of the Mozilla series? Are we going to have to use two different things now? (mail/web) or are they going to be integrated?
I don't know.. but I"ve been to philly and have walked down one of the streets where a sprint tower is just over the hill and I only had 3 bars. And don't give me the bars don't matter in digital. The point is... sprint is using 1.9ghz which doesn't go through much of anything! All throughout philly I had usually around 2 bars. That's just not goodenough "lock on" for me. Verizon usually gives me 3-4 routinely.
One problem I see is one that I would run into. I have a domain somethingblah.com I use my ISP's mail server to send mail out, but I send it out from myself@somethingblah.com. This would result in all this e-mail being rejected... yes?
I urge everyone to copy these two files.... Even hide them someplace on your website so search engines find them MULTIPLE times but people can't see them!:) Teach Verisign a lesson.
.... that the one we use at the place I work (Propel).. also used by earthlink is run on a Squid based system.. yeah open source! Also, the client software is free... I'm not sure where the author got that it costs money from. We were very suprised at work to see that it ACTUALLY DOES work!
Does this not include AIX? I understand SCO is saying that Linux has their code, but are they saying that the AIX/FreeBSD kernel does NOT have any infringed code then?
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I'm still waiting to actually see the evidence that SCO claims is in the Linux source code. They showed us one example, and if I recall it was mostly comments!
After taking the place of CowboyNeal will a system like posting duplicate articles, phrase slightly different? Yes!
We have a local Prison that works with Unicor to recycle old computers, and then sell what they can as usable computers, we often are able to get some good deals for our company there.
Unicor
The phrase "Catch-22" comes from the book of that name by Joseph Heller (1923-1999), published in 1961. Catch-22 is a wonderful book, full of dark humor and absurdity, satirizing war, military bureaucracy, and by extension modern life and the ways in which they destroy the human spirit.
The word "catch" of course is used in the sense of snare, snag or entanglement.
The story is set in Italy in World War II. The main character, Captain Yossarian, is a bombardier (as Heller had been) who wants to get out of flying potentially deadly combat missions. So does his tent-mate, Orr. The easiest way to get out of flying more missions is to plead insanity. Heller writes:
There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and he would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to, but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
In short, Catch-22 is "heads I win, tails you lose." If you can, you can't, and if you can't, you can. Fair is foul and foul is fair. Whenever you try to behave sensibly in a crazy world, there's a catch.
Heller writes:
Yossarian strode away, cursing Catch-22 vehemently even though he knew there was no such thing. Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon, or burn up.
In fact, Heller originally wanted to name his dilemma Catch-18, but a book by Leon Uris called Mila 18, historical fiction about the Warsaw ghetto uprising during WWII, had just been published, and the publishers were afraid there would be confusion. (Mila 18 was a street address.)
So, there really isn't a Catch-22, despite its pervasiveness--and that's an example of the catch, of course. Circular dilemmas of this sort appear over and over in the book. Sometimes the Catch is mentioned explicitly, more often not. Some other examples of Catch-22 in action, from the book:
* Major Major is a commander who doesn't command. He hates dealing with people, and is somewhat frightened of them. He therefore instructs his receptionist/orderly that, whenever he is in his office, any visitors should be told he is out. When he leaves his office (sneaking out the back window), the receptionist can send visitors in to see him. In short, the only time you can see Major Major in his office is when he's out. If he's in, you can't see him. It's an example of Catch-22, although the catch is not explicitly mentioned in this connection.
* Doctor Daneeka is a doctor who responds to patients' complaints by telling them his own troubles.
* The military police chase the girls away from Yossarian's favorite haunt. When asked what right they have to do this, they reply, "Catch-22." Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything that you can't stop them from doing. And if you ask to see Catch-22, the law says they don't have to show it to you. What law? Catch-22, of course.
* In the hospital, the Soldier in White (in a plaster cast from head to toe) has a bottle of plasma going in and a bottle of urine coming out. The nurses routinely switch the bottles around, in an endless cycle.
* The Chaplain, when cornered, lies. He knows that telling lies and defecting from duty are sins. He also knows that s
So exactly how are they planning on dealing with hackers and the like? Sounds like a great place to hack from! Get on.. do your stuff.. get off!
In October, Microsoft committed to making its patch-release schedule more regular, by only publishing patches on the second Tuesday in each month. The software giant said it will be skipping that release this month.
I'm sorry but this seems to fly in the face of all I understand.... shouldn't you release the patch on the day the exploit is released?!??? Seems that if it's discovered on Wednesday we have a week for our systems to get exploited! YEAH! Another hit for open source
spamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider
that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems. The
plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page devoted to tracking
spamhausen (http://www.spamhaus.org).
The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber
Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The
anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day,
but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners
of the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the
junk-fax laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have
declined in relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers
using relay rape and throwaway accounts on reputable ISPs seem to
account for most of the flow.
Guess it's time to start having popup ads on TV... I can see it now.... in the middle of a TV show, all of a sudden a chevy truck bursts through the screen.. totally obscuring what you are trying to watch and making this horrid crashing sound.. then it drives back and forth for a bit and finally comes to rest in the upper top corner for the remainder of the show.
Hrmm.. I could swear I've seen this idea some place before!
What this user said is true. GPS+ is simply a name the cell companies seem to have labeled on these phones.. it uses a GPS in the cell tower for cordinates (sometimes).... but the phone only knows where it is based on triangulation.. so while it says GPS.. it's NOT GPS...
This is nice.. especially for kids. I wouldn't mind having it on a cell phone my kids keep in the car. Obviously there are going to be people who are going to abuse the system... but then these people probably already can... so.... Also, I'm not really worried, because... who wants to track me? I'm joe normal... but yes I know the whole invasion of privacy thing... but, at least here in the US, you CAN turn off GPS+ on your phone... even though it still works for 911..
REF: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam _1.html
.. then when the GPS breaks you go blame the company,
Greetings,
I'm not sure what your problem was. You call yourself a consultant, and
yet you couldn't figure out how to get spamassassin running quickly? We
run spamassassin on a farm of mail servers, and if what you said was
true that would be my full time job. Rather spam assassin is as easy to
install as doing:
perl Makeconfig
make
make install
Then adding a line to QMail which tells it to run qmailqueue (which
proccesses through spamassassin).
That's 3 steps and a line to add to a config file.
Sorry but the whole thing takes maybe all of 10 minutes. You are saying
that these others can be up and WORKING in under 10 minutes? WOW!
Maybe your issue was that you tried to use the SpamAssassin that came
with RedHat... rather then blaming this on SpamAssassin, maybe you
should blame it on RedHat since they set it up. If you are going to
evaluate SpamAssassin then download it and install it.. don't go off of
what RedHat did to it... that's like purchasing a car (redhat) with a
special after market "GPS NAVIGATION" (spamsassassin) unit installed
which was installed by Ford, and has some funky wire setup that isn't
really standard
when you didn't even set it up yourself..
You are doing an evaluation of how easy the GPS unit is to setup in your
car, yet you purchased a car with the unit already installed by a third
party and then you rate it bad because it didn't work.
BLAH.. Glad you don't do my consulting work..
~ Matt
Oh Dear,
What is the world coming to. What are we going to call them? Surfs and Pesants? White Collar/Blue Collar? Good grief....
MASTER - Takes control/precidence (first drive to boot)
SLAVE - Follows after...
Umm so what exactly are they trying to play?!?!?!
Sounds like all of the robots have their own tracks going at once not in sync with others.. Sorry, but that is NOT music.. sounds like a train wreck to me... now this whole concept is very fascinating, if they were actually playing something useful!
Anyone else getting 404's for the images?
Interesting.. don't they MAKE the camera phones at Samsung? :)
Seems to work fine for me!
[matth@mercury matth]$ telnet email.pct.edu 25
Trying 12.23.198.9...
Connected to email.pct.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 email.pct.edu Novonyx SMTP ready $Revision: 3.16 $
quit
221 email.pct.edu So long, and thanks for all the fish
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY PENNCOLLEGE-198 (NET-12-23-198-0-1)
Nope.. I'm getting them as well.
... Why would Mozilla stop development of the Mozilla series? Are we going to have to use two different things now? (mail/web) or are they going to be integrated?
I don't know.. but I"ve been to philly and have walked down one of the streets where a sprint tower is just over the hill and I only had 3 bars. And don't give me the bars don't matter in digital. The point is... sprint is using 1.9ghz which doesn't go through much of anything! All throughout philly I had usually around 2 bars. That's just not goodenough "lock on" for me. Verizon usually gives me 3-4 routinely.
One problem I see is one that I would run into. I have a domain somethingblah.com I use my ISP's mail server to send mail out, but I send it out from myself@somethingblah.com. This would result in all this e-mail being rejected... yes?
For search engines to find [evil laugh]
:) Teach Verisign a lesson.
this one
and of course
this one also
Let the search engines be unleashed!
I urge everyone to copy these two files....
Even hide them someplace on your website so search engines find them MULTIPLE times but people can't see them!
.... that the one we use at the place I work (Propel).. also used by earthlink is run on a Squid based system.. yeah open source! Also, the client software is free... I'm not sure where the author got that it costs money from. We were very suprised at work to see that it ACTUALLY DOES work!
Hrmm... what lives in a pineapple under the sea... sponge bob fiber light... wait no.. er... DOH!
I don't see the typo?
Does this not include AIX? I understand SCO is saying that Linux has their code, but are they saying that the AIX/FreeBSD kernel does NOT have any infringed code then?