don't be stupid. india also have the same problems with poverty we have here and they have a thriving technology industry.
this move to digital theater is done with private money, while poverty is a state issue. and trust me, our current socialist govt is taking steps to reduce this problem.
plus, technological advances like these means it'll be easier to open movie theaters in far away places like Acre, Para, Amazonas (the state, not the forest. Acre and Para are also part of the forest), Mato Grosso and the "caatinga" (semi-desert region that takes large areas of several states in the north-east) which means more jobs and entertainment options there.
so shut up. you don't know our coutry enough to make such coments. this digital movies initiative IS good for us. period.
"Its far easier to fight a war on their ground than your own."
since when ??? on their ground you don't know where you stand, where the pitfalls are or where the enemy is lurking.
I agree with the article, free/open source coders should fight on their own ground (free/open source plataforms) and leave the people in redmond with their own.
but don't worry, i agree with you in one thing. F/OSS is not all about linux. is also about GNU and many *BSDs out there.
since when a better product means market success ??? if this were true alpha would be on every desktop and DEC wouldn't have been bought by compaq, then HP.
opteron is selling twice as more as itanic (http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32736.html near the end) wich proves that the market is looking not only for raw performance but also for price and convenience.
oh, btw, acording to top500.org the best placed itanium2 supercomputer is less than 10% faster than the best opteron based machine. and both lose to an alpha and a G5 and even to a P4 Xeon.
Re:probably best left on the drawing board...
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2003 Vaporware Awards
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· Score: 3, Interesting
betamax, windows (any version since 1.0), ford pinto,...
but my lifetime achievement for vaporware is: arificial inteligence
"There is not even a financial link between Caldera Systems and Caldera Inc,"
and the company that purchased old SCO's unix busines was Caldera Systems (Official history here). that's why they were so desperate to pump up the stock and to get that $50 mil financing from baystar capital (apparently baystar is backed up by several companies, including microsoft). they were running out of money from pre-ipo financings and ipo money. according to linuxworld they had only $4 million left to pay the bills.
considering that our company is located in south america and we hardly receive anything from US other tham SPAM, the few exceptions can be dealt separetely.
and answering that guy abouot the "y" in rhythm... "y" is considered a vowel by the script.
1- aim a large provider (sympatico.ca, uol.com.br, aol.com, and so on) 2- do a dictionary atack and log every address that responds "250". 3- build a spam list 4- sell it on CD 5-... 6- profit
if it looks too professional and organized for a spammer i have bad news: they ARE getting professional and organized. even low-live scums like spammer can pull this out. mafia does. why can't spammers ?
My boss (hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam. I'm pretty sure if neccessary he can add a rulle to check how many characters in a sentence are vowels, consonants, digits and punctuation. more than x% of punctuation in a sentence plus y% digits and the filter tags as spam.
I'm not as good as him but I'm sure this can be done quite easily in perl with regexes.
a huge success in south america. also success in Spain, france and russia.
i worked for sometime in a spanish company here in brasil, and once i was chating with my boss an i mentioned MSX. he sai "hey, i had one of these. i leraned programing with one". this is not a flop.
try looking a litlle farther than US borders pal.
I can still read MSX assembly code and recognize most calls to it's bios, most hacker from my generation learned with them.
and MSX boards are still manufactured by entusiasts around here.
"english-like languages that promised to make programming as easy as speaking." Nobody makes english-like programming languages any more; the idea is universally agreed to be silly.
"Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age."
I reather have an ice age. since i live in a tropical place is unlikelly that ice will cover here, in a worst case scenario we'll have a climate resembling that of southern chile or argentina (snow in winter, warm in summer). plus, my sister lives in a litoranean city. if the ice caps melt (specially the southern one) her city will drown.
SCO Sends Second Warning Letter to Linux Users By STEVE LOHR
Published: December 22, 2003
he SCO Group plans to announce today that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including I.B.M. and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.
The letters, dated Friday, are the second round that SCO has sent to corporate users of Linux. SCO sent letters to 1,500 companies in May, warning them that it contended that Linux had violated its intellectual property rights. SCO owns the rights to the Unix operating system. The company asserts that Linux, a variant of Unix that is distributed free, violates SCO's license and copyright.
The new letters, signed by Ryan E. Tibbitts, SCO's general counsel, name more than 65 programming files that "have been copied verbatim from our copyrighted Unix code base and contributed to Linux."
The letters focus on application binary interfaces, the programming hooks by which a software application gains access to the underlying operating system. "We believe these violations are serious, and we will take appropriate actions to protect our rights," the letters state.
Letters asserting copyright violations in Linux are being sent to several hundred of its corporate users. SCO, based in Lindon, Utah, is also sending letters to many of its 6,000 Unix licensees requiring them to certify in writing that they are complying with SCO licenses, a company executive said. SCO's Unix licensees are asked to certify that none of their employees or contractors have contributed any Unix code to Linux.
The warning letters come after David A. Boies, a lawyer representing SCO, said on Nov. 18 that the company intended to single out and sue a large corporate user of Linux within three months.
The letters include an olive branch as well as a threat. "Once you have reviewed our position," the Linux letter said, "we will be happy to further discuss your options and work with you to remedy this problem."
SCO began its Linux campaign last March, when it sued I.B.M., the leading corporate champion of Linux. SCO, seeking $1 billion in damages, has accused I.B.M. of illegally contributing Unix code to Linux. I.B.M. has denied the charges.
On Dec. 5, a federal district judge in Utah ordered that within 30 days, SCO had to show the court and I.B.M. the Linux code to which SCO claims it has rights and where I.B.M. has infringed upon it.
a ROCK can fly if launched from a catapult. i don't buy that a home made 4 cilinder engine was enough to keep Wright brother's airplane in the air. IMHO it was just a glider serving as a test bed to their engine.
the first REAL engine powered flight was made by Santos DuMont in 1906 at bagatele fields near paris.
last week one of my tech support clients had problems with spamm scum using his xchange to relay junk. the xchange box sits behind a linux box and they had only a SNAT redirecting port 25 to the M$ box. vulnerable as hell.
what I did: postfix, clamav, amavis and the following configuration:
" # Attack first. If you kill the messenger, you can always apologize later. # If someone disagrees with you, that person must be a crook. # Behaving badly -- by attacking, lying or bullying -- is only bad if someone on the other side does it."
then he says:
"This group owes its roots to similar groups that existed around OS/2 and the Apple platforms. The Zealots are generally seen as being part of the cause when the related platform fails or goes into decline."
who's lying and atacking first ? or is enderle missinformed ?
I don't see apple's platfform failing, specially because apple's platform is actually a BSD unix variant, wich is going fine, thanks. OS/2 and amiga failled, we all know that and many here on/. is also sadened by this, but i doubt zealots had anything to do with it. my guess is amiga and OS/2 zealots only became more verbal AFTER the failure of those platforms.
enderle, the only zealot i see here is you. no. you're not a zealot. you're a troll. and a bad one.
we probably *BUY* more than all other south-american countries put togheter.
currently our piracy rate is down to 55%, from 75% 8 years ago when ABES (Associacao Brasileira das Empresas de Software, local branch of BSA), with more and more ABES raids on piracy and increased adoption of open-source piracy rates tend to go down even further.
back in my former employer we had a socket 7 mobo with a cyrix CPU and the small platic hook in the socket where the CPU cooler was supposed to be attached broke.
since it was now impossbile to correctly attach a cooler in the machine, here came the big idea: spread thermal compund over the chip, put a cooler over it and glue it to the socket with epoxy. well instead of glueing the cooler by it's sides he spread glue between the chip and the heatsink...
cringely wrote 2 columns this month about the issue I think you should read.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2003080 7. html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200 30814. html
BTW, i'm not threatned. i live in a 3rd world country, and i can maybe even benefit from this situation. but cringely does raise several points that you ppl up north should know about. specially the decision makers
MD5 is the result of a mathematical algorithm. it's just like H2G2 answer for the meaning of life, the universe and everything. 42.
but what the heck does 42 means ? no one knows, unless the right question whose answer is 42 is found.
I can think of several mathematical procedures that will result in 42. 6*7 is just one of them. now, can you imagine how many 650 MB files would have the same MD5 checksum ?
this is SCO's official history: http://www.sco.com/company/history.html
scroll down to 1999, just before caldera's purchase of old SCO's unix busines and you'll find this:
1999 SCO launches numerous Open Source initiatives: 1) Offers free Open Source applications and tools to SCO customers; 2) Extends Professional Services to include audits and deployment consultation for customers interested in installing Linux and Open Source technologies; 3) Invests in LinuxMall.com, the leading portal for Linux-related products and services; 4) Enters strategic agreement with TurboLinux to develop services for TurboLinux's TurboCluster Server and provide Linux Professional Services for TurboLinux customers.
not only caldera was a linux company before the purchase, old SCO was also moving ahead to become one. go figure...
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don't be stupid. india also have the same problems with poverty we have here and they have a thriving technology industry.
this move to digital theater is done with private money, while poverty is a state issue. and trust me, our current socialist govt is taking steps to reduce this problem.
plus, technological advances like these means it'll be easier to open movie theaters in far away places like Acre, Para, Amazonas (the state, not the forest. Acre and Para are also part of the forest), Mato Grosso and the "caatinga" (semi-desert region that takes large areas of several states in the north-east) which means more jobs and entertainment options there.
so shut up. you don't know our coutry enough to make such coments. this digital movies initiative IS good for us. period.
"Its far easier to fight a war on their ground than your own."
since when ??? on their ground you don't know where you stand, where the pitfalls are or where the enemy is lurking.
I agree with the article, free/open source coders should fight on their own ground (free/open source plataforms) and leave the people in redmond with their own.
but don't worry, i agree with you in one thing. F/OSS is not all about linux. is also about GNU and many *BSDs out there.
since when a better product means market success ??? if this were true alpha would be on every desktop and DEC wouldn't have been bought by compaq, then HP.
l near the end) wich proves that the market is looking not only for raw performance but also for price and convenience.
opteron is selling twice as more as itanic (http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32736.htm
oh, btw, acording to top500.org the best placed itanium2 supercomputer is less than 10% faster than the best opteron based machine. and both lose to an alpha and a G5 and even to a P4 Xeon.
betamax, windows (any version since 1.0), ford pinto,...
but my lifetime achievement for vaporware is: arificial inteligence
SCO is the company formerly known as "Caldera Systems". the money from the microsoft settlement went to "Caldera Inc."
according to this register arcticle:
"There is not even a financial link between Caldera Systems and Caldera Inc,"
and the company that purchased old SCO's unix busines was Caldera Systems (Official history here). that's why they were so desperate to pump up the stock and to get that $50 mil financing from baystar capital (apparently baystar is backed up by several companies, including microsoft). they were running out of money from pre-ipo financings and ipo money. according to linuxworld they had only $4 million left to pay the bills.
considering that our company is located in south america and we hardly receive anything from US other tham SPAM, the few exceptions can be dealt separetely.
and answering that guy abouot the "y" in rhythm... "y" is considered a vowel by the script.
not a "single" address. thousands of it.
...
1- aim a large provider (sympatico.ca, uol.com.br, aol.com, and so on)
2- do a dictionary atack and log every address that responds "250".
3- build a spam list
4- sell it on CD
5-
6- profit
if it looks too professional and organized for a spammer i have bad news: they ARE getting professional and organized. even low-live scums like spammer can pull this out. mafia does. why can't spammers ?
My boss (hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam. I'm pretty sure if neccessary he can add a rulle to check how many characters in a sentence are vowels, consonants, digits and punctuation. more than x% of punctuation in a sentence plus y% digits and the filter tags as spam.
I'm not as good as him but I'm sure this can be done quite easily in perl with regexes.
MSX:
a huge success in south america. also success in Spain, france and russia.
i worked for sometime in a spanish company here in brasil, and once i was chating with my boss an i mentioned MSX. he sai "hey, i had one of these. i leraned programing with one". this is not a flop.
try looking a litlle farther than US borders pal.
I can still read MSX assembly code and recognize most calls to it's bios, most hacker from my generation learned with them.
and MSX boards are still manufactured by entusiasts around here.
"english-like languages that promised to make programming as easy as speaking." Nobody makes english-like programming languages any more; the idea is universally agreed to be silly.
i have a TLA for you: SQL
yes. you _ARE_ missing something. they sell unbundled word and excel in US because of that anti-trust thing.
h results .asp?Query=ProductPage&ProdTypeId=10&WhichForm=frm SearchHomePage
w are&g=2 3&d=Aplicativos
no stand alone excel here:
http://www.submarino.com.br/software_searc
no MS Word here also:
http://www.pluguse.com.br/grupo.asp?l=Soft
and they're both official MS reselers in brasil.
in israel things are probably the same as in brasil. you want word ? buy excel.
"Personally, I can't wait to know if we're going to melt down, or alternatively, have an ice age."
I reather have an ice age. since i live in a tropical place is unlikelly that ice will cover here, in a worst case scenario we'll have a climate resembling that of southern chile or argentina (snow in winter, warm in summer). plus, my sister lives in a litoranean city. if the ice caps melt (specially the southern one) her city will drown.
a package containing cleaning lotion, chocolate and condoms ???
"Unix licensees are asked to certify that none of their employees or contractors have contributed any Unix code to Linux."
from a company that willingly contributed with more than a few lines of code...
SCO Sends Second Warning Letter to Linux Users
By STEVE LOHR
Published: December 22, 2003
he SCO Group plans to announce today that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including I.B.M. and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.
The letters, dated Friday, are the second round that SCO has sent to corporate users of Linux. SCO sent letters to 1,500 companies in May, warning them that it contended that Linux had violated its intellectual property rights. SCO owns the rights to the Unix operating system. The company asserts that Linux, a variant of Unix that is distributed free, violates SCO's license and copyright.
The new letters, signed by Ryan E. Tibbitts, SCO's general counsel, name more than 65 programming files that "have been copied verbatim from our copyrighted Unix code base and contributed to Linux."
The letters focus on application binary interfaces, the programming hooks by which a software application gains access to the underlying operating system. "We believe these violations are serious, and we will take appropriate actions to protect our rights," the letters state.
Letters asserting copyright violations in Linux are being sent to several hundred of its corporate users. SCO, based in Lindon, Utah, is also sending letters to many of its 6,000 Unix licensees requiring them to certify in writing that they are complying with SCO licenses, a company executive said. SCO's Unix licensees are asked to certify that none of their employees or contractors have contributed any Unix code to Linux.
The warning letters come after David A. Boies, a lawyer representing SCO, said on Nov. 18 that the company intended to single out and sue a large corporate user of Linux within three months.
The letters include an olive branch as well as a threat. "Once you have reviewed our position," the Linux letter said, "we will be happy to further discuss your options and work with you to remedy this problem."
SCO began its Linux campaign last March, when it sued I.B.M., the leading corporate champion of Linux. SCO, seeking $1 billion in damages, has accused I.B.M. of illegally contributing Unix code to Linux. I.B.M. has denied the charges.
On Dec. 5, a federal district judge in Utah ordered that within 30 days, SCO had to show the court and I.B.M. the Linux code to which SCO claims it has rights and where I.B.M. has infringed upon it.
a ROCK can fly if launched from a catapult. i don't buy that a home made 4 cilinder engine was enough to keep Wright brother's airplane in the air. IMHO it was just a glider serving as a test bed to their engine.
the first REAL engine powered flight was made by Santos DuMont in 1906 at bagatele fields near paris.
last week one of my tech support clients had problems with spamm scum using his xchange to relay junk. the xchange box sits behind a linux box and they had only a SNAT redirecting port 25 to the M$ box. vulnerable as hell.
/etc/postfix/transport:
.domain.com.br smtp:[exchange.domain.com.br]
/etc/hosts
what I did: postfix, clamav, amavis and the following configuration:
in main.cf:
myhostname = server.domain.com.br
mydomain = server.domain.com.br
myorigin = server.domain.com.br
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.domain.com.br, localhost
relay_domains = domain.com.br
relayhost = 10.0.1.10
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
smtpd_helo_required = yes
body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table
header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_table
smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access
in
domain.com.br smtp:[exchange.domain.com.br]
and in
10.0.1.10 exchange.domain.com.br
and that's it. relay closed.
first enderele says this about zealots:
/. is also sadened by this, but i doubt zealots had anything to do with it. my guess is amiga and OS/2 zealots only became more verbal AFTER the failure of those platforms.
"
# Attack first. If you kill the messenger, you can always apologize later.
# If someone disagrees with you, that person must be a crook.
# Behaving badly -- by attacking, lying or bullying -- is only bad if someone on the other side does it."
then he says:
"This group owes its roots to similar groups that existed around OS/2 and the Apple platforms. The Zealots are generally seen as being part of the cause when the related platform fails or goes into decline."
who's lying and atacking first ? or is enderle missinformed ?
I don't see apple's platfform failing, specially because apple's platform is actually a BSD unix variant, wich is going fine, thanks. OS/2 and amiga failled, we all know that and many here on
enderle, the only zealot i see here is you. no. you're not a zealot. you're a troll. and a bad one.
we probably *BUY* more than all other south-american countries put togheter.
currently our piracy rate is down to 55%, from 75% 8 years ago when ABES (Associacao Brasileira das Empresas de Software, local branch of BSA), with more and more ABES raids on piracy and increased adoption of open-source piracy rates tend to go down even further.
the last line in SLS 1.2's README is "good luck".
am i the only one here that finds disturbing when a software wishes good luck before the install begins ?
back in my former employer we had a socket 7 mobo with a cyrix CPU and the small platic hook in the socket where the CPU cooler was supposed to be attached broke.
since it was now impossbile to correctly attach a cooler in the machine, here came the big idea: spread thermal compund over the chip, put a cooler over it and glue it to the socket with epoxy. well instead of glueing the cooler by it's sides he spread glue between the chip and the heatsink...
cringely wrote 2 columns this month about the issue I think you should read.
0 7. html0 30814. html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200308
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20
BTW, i'm not threatned. i live in a 3rd world country, and i can maybe even benefit from this situation. but cringely does raise several points that you ppl up north should know about. specially the decision makers
MD5 is the result of a mathematical algorithm. it's just like H2G2 answer for the meaning of life, the universe and everything. 42.
but what the heck does 42 means ? no one knows, unless the right question whose answer is 42 is found.
I can think of several mathematical procedures that will result in 42. 6*7 is just one of them. now, can you imagine how many 650 MB files would have the same MD5 checksum ?
this is SCO's official history: http://www.sco.com/company/history.html
scroll down to 1999, just before caldera's purchase of old SCO's unix busines and you'll find this:
1999 SCO launches numerous Open Source initiatives: 1) Offers free Open Source applications and tools to SCO customers; 2) Extends Professional Services to include audits and deployment consultation for customers interested in installing Linux and Open Source technologies; 3) Invests in LinuxMall.com, the leading portal for Linux-related products and services; 4) Enters strategic agreement with TurboLinux to develop services for TurboLinux's TurboCluster Server and provide Linux Professional Services for TurboLinux customers.
not only caldera was a linux company before the purchase, old SCO was also moving ahead to become one. go figure...
make it look like a *BSD
novell's setlement with berkeley makes BSD imune to SCO claims