Is it lying, truely believing what you are saying, or spreding propaganda in the hopes enough people will hear it at it will become true? MS does this, as does SCO, Verisign, Lyndon LaRouche (although he has always done that) and many many others. In the past, businesses and politicians would not make such blanket statements when there was a potential to be proven wrong. Now, it is the normal to make such misguided statements and completely ignore the people with opposing views and ignore evidense to the contrary, they just repeat the same questionable things over and over. Some examples... Security is our #1 goal, after further review we determined it is good for the consumers, the code is ours, homeland security, potential terrorist, weapons of mass destruction, blah blah blah. Is the new trend the battle of the PR firms and to forget about the real facts and problems?
Last month I threw three various Apollo 9000/735 series workstations in the trash. I believe they were introduced in the mid 90's. Two of them still booted and ran but not worth the space they consumed in my "junk" pile. They go for about $20 on Ebay but the shipping costs makes it almost worthless.
I have tons of pictures from my digital camera, scattered into different directories, on different drives.
Here's something you can do and it works on any platform. Don't scatter them? Is it really that hard to have a pictures directory and give the subdirectories descriptive names?
My mp3's go into soundtracks, remixes, regular, comedy, kids etc.. My downloaded files go into internet, drivers, emu, patch, tools, serialz etc.. My scanned records and receipts go into 2003/taxes, cars, house, medical, general My camera pics go into 2003/house, kids, vacation, cars, xmas etc..
I know where they are and when they've been backed up. I do not want to rely on a search term (other then *.jpg or something similar) to verify I found them all or have everything that may or may not apply.
Do you drive 60 on the highway even though the speed limit is 55? Would you object to someone driving 60 down your residential street? Oh, theres more to it then that isnt there...
You try and compare the FSF to RIAA and MPAA and at the same time try to lump all 800k of slashdots users opinions into one big one. That sir, is far from rhetorical.
Maybe it is what you are used to and what you have worked on in the past. The other day I was setting up a W2K server for the sole purpose to be a DHCP server on a vlan isolated from our corporate network for non emplyees to use for internet access. Easy enough, I click around and recognize some parameters and about 5 minutes later it is up and running. Problem though, the machine has two eth interfaces, one is for off network access and the other on the main network. I could NOT find out how to verify and/or configure the DHCP server to only work on the non corporate side, I saw no clickable options for that anywhere, I could not find anything that referenced different interfaces in the registry for the DHCP server or in the network properties. I don't know how to verify that I'm not attempting to route packets between the two networks. For the Linux machines I could set this up and verify the operation via the CLI by modifying 2 of 3 config files in about 2 minutes and be done. I'm sure there are W2K admins that can do the same with Windows in a few minutes also. The point being. Windows was not naturally easy to use for everyone and every task! When I do something new or different in Linux I always have command --help, man command, and usually a quick and dirty readme that describes 95% of the functionality needed along with 1 or 2 config files that are not hard to find or modify to my liking. I can search google for "dhcpcd eth1" and get a result on the first page.
It is my understanding that the recent BIND patches deployed work exactly like they were designed, the code works as expected. Problem is the code was told to do something it should not have been told to do. That is a design flaw, not a code flaw.
If you do stick to regulations, any nutter can put you and your customers out of business any time of day, and you can't do squat about it.
I believe that FCC regulation is a two way street. You have to accept any interference and not cause any interference. The only way that "nutter" could take you down is by doing something illegal (jacking up the power, broadcasting noise etc.., that being the case. you could do something about it.
My Sanyo 4900's and a few of the other Sanyo models take that feature one step further. They have built in voice dialing (does not require a monthly service). You say the name and it dials the associated number. When you get an incoming call from that same number, the ring is a telephone sound followed by an automated voice saying "incoming call from" and your own voice saying the name. It flows together nicely and really works great. Another option is the phone has its own answering machine that records so you can "screen" incoming calls just like your machine at home. I have not used that feature yet. That would not help with telemarketers though as your phone answers it self, plays your outgoing message and stays connected until the incoming message length is reached (18 sec for that I think). You'd be using your minutes for that.
My 12 year old son has a P200 running an hd install of Knoppix for his main computer in his bedroom. I deleted Open Office and a few of the graphical games but everything else works fine. He now knows what an.rtf file is and how to save them to his floppy for school.
I have an AT&T Globalyst 630 that has been running at my house for years. Its a SCSI based P100/64MB ram. It's current duties are Squid and my SSH server that I can get into from the outside world. I also have Apache and Squirrelmail on it but don't use them often.
some of dmesg: Initializing CPU#0 Detected 99.996 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 199.47 BogoMIPS Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
It has been up for 200+ days many times in the past but that current uptime corresponds to when my power was restored after hurricane Isabel passed though. It is headless and KB less. I telnet/ssh in and update as required.
I did a few geeky things with my C64 back in my early teens. My parents owned an electronic repair shop so I had access to tons of electronic gadgets and test equipment.
One thing I made was a dartboard application. I took apart an Atari joystick and rewired it on my own breadboard with some microswitches and diodes from an old VCR (the Atari joystick was pinout compatible with the C64 joystick port also). Then I made an application that used the new joystick as input to my bullseye dartboard scoring program (good ole peeks and pokes). Basically you entered the number of dart throwers, the number of darts, and the number of rounds. I had buttons for 0, 10,20,30,50,80, and 100. As you threw darts, a person could easily hit the button on my breadboard joystick to specify the score you got from each dart. At the end was an option to print the results with an average score per round and per dart.
I took it one step further and tried to make it so the scoring would be completely automatic. I tried several pressure sensitive methods but none worked. What kind-of worked was placing a piece of wax paper between two pieces of aluminum foil and using tape and aligator clips to tie that to the wires on the joystick. The dart would pierce the both layers of foil and create an electrical connection across the once electrically seperated sheets. Problem was sometimes it would not work and sometimes it would count as two scores for one dart plus the whole thing was rather odd looking as a bunch or wires and tape was covering the whole dart board, I actually built a debounce circuit with a 555 timer chip with the help of 555 mini project book from radio shack, it worked better but seemed to not be worth the effort.
I always had the C64 audio and video output running into a VCR. The coax output of the VCR was attached to our houses cable system using a notch filter and a signal combiner. Basically, I blocked our local cable system channel 3 (was a text based info channel) and used the VCR to broadcast channel 3 into the house cable. It served a dual purpose, you could watch a VCR tape or the Commodore 64 from any television in the house on channel 3. I was pretty active into electronics and the C64 until about my 15th birthday. At that point I realized not many of my friends were into things technical, there was no motivation to play around anymore, so I decided to change course and just start doing drugs and drinking like they were. At that point I installed a 5 in Sony color 12v TV in the lower dash of my Pontiac Phoenix and had my old Atari 2600 in the front seat and we went drinking and partied in that, the best of both worlds. Sitting down at the tracks drinking beer, smoking dope and playing Kaboom and Pitfall.
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I know you were only staing this as an example but that example already has an answer that does not require DRM. You do not have to invent a solution when one is not needed.
like, for instance, making a document read-only with *no* print capabilities, very important to people that need to make sure out-of-date printed copies aren't laying on people's desks during an audit
I worked in an environment where procedures were strickly monitored, documented and audited (nuclear power plant). We commonly had to print out or photocopy step by step instructions or worksheets to take into a job site. There was NO WAY you could take a computer into some of these areas to view the "approved" on screen version. We had procedures to mark all copied or printed pages with the rev number and date (most of our manuals already contained this in the footer) and label the first page of the packet with "One time use only, $date". I've also worked at an airline and they do almost the same exact thing with all airline maintenace and procedures. In that specific case, the sheets are stored and printed from a central server and the date and time are automatically injected to the page footer when printing the specific procedure. If your not doing something similar to this already, DRM is not going to help you.
Ohh, the software assurance program
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Wow, remember the cost estimates MS was pushing to justify how much cheaper it was to by into their software assurance plan? Pay every 1,2 or 3 years instead of once and get "free" and immediate upgrades? Considering it will be at least 5 years between XP and Longhorn, I would say everyone who used those initial numbers of a 3 years cycle for a total cost calculation got burned pretty badly.
Software Assurance is an annuity-based licensing offering, under which subscribers pay Microsoft 29 percent of the total cost of the software per year over the life of the contract, though Wilcox noted the fee schedule can be a bit more complicated when factoring in the license plan itself (Open Value, Open or Select), or when accounting for CALs.
I see your point but that is not the fault of Samba which you made a little more clear in your above reply. Along with your story... I know a group that used Novell that everyone had administrator rights in their specific container. There was a trojan horse running around at the time that added a few lines to the autoexec.bat that used deltree/y to delete f:, g:, h: and then c:, some infected idiot double clicked on the autoexec.bat in an attempt to view it and wiped out the entire contents of the shared drives on Novell. I don't blame MS for this issue. He should not have had full rights to the entire container on a permenant basis.
I setup a samba server for our IT department use (long story but the PHB does not know anything about Linux and therefore does not trust it).
The Samba specific configuration took about 4 hours but 3 of the hours was my learning and first time use of joining Samba to an our existing AD structure for user authorization and permissions. In my last job Samba setup also took about an hour but that included mounting some Novell shares via the ipx utils and resharing them out with Samba (they did not route IPX so Samba allowed them to connect from the companies other routed segments)
That being said. Anyone that knows how to use Samba can pretty much get it rolling with the CLI on any network in under an hour. Create directories you want shared, add and modify users and groups, modify the smb.conf, restart smbd and nmbd and test. With a small office with 10 or so users, this process can take as little as 20 minutes. The hard part is getting the company to tell you what they want shared and who they want to have access to what. That process happens with Samba or a native Windows server. If you do not know it, it will take you longer. This applies to ANY piece of software.
Samba, as good as it is, implements M$ holes, so that M$ transmitted diseases from your client boxes can fill up or wipe out your shares after calling home and giving away everything you care to keep to yourself.
WTF are you talking about? The permissions you have on a mapped drive has nothing to do with what you mapped the drive with. Samba, NFS, Novell, FTP, HTTP or logging in locally all depend on permissions you are given to the file system.
Sprint is currently using PRL 10019 (preferred roaming list). I believe some areas in the midwest are using PRL 10020 to fix an issue with Alltel?. Depending on your phone model, you can navigate the menus to the phone options and verify what PRL you have, for many of the Sanyo phones, it is Phone Info --> Version and you will see a value next to PRL. These lists change as they change and modify agreements with other carriers, kind of like a peering arrangement between data carriers. For reference, in May they were using 10017 so its changed twice in the last few months. A call to *2 can get a CSR to verify and update your phone over the air and sometimes Claire (Sprints computer automated support voice) will indicate you need an update as soon as you call *2. All this list does it tell the phone what towers it can use, it does not improve a signal to an existing tower that you are already using.
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Is it lying, truely believing what you are saying, or spreding propaganda in the hopes enough people will hear it at it will become true? MS does this, as does SCO, Verisign, Lyndon LaRouche (although he has always done that) and many many others. In the past, businesses and politicians would not make such blanket statements when there was a potential to be proven wrong. Now, it is the normal to make such misguided statements and completely ignore the people with opposing views and ignore evidense to the contrary, they just repeat the same questionable things over and over. Some examples... Security is our #1 goal, after further review we determined it is good for the consumers, the code is ours, homeland security, potential terrorist, weapons of mass destruction, blah blah blah. Is the new trend the battle of the PR firms and to forget about the real facts and problems?
Sorry to rant..
Last month I threw three various Apollo 9000/735 series workstations in the trash. I believe they were introduced in the mid 90's. Two of them still booted and ran but not worth the space they consumed in my "junk" pile. They go for about $20 on Ebay but the shipping costs makes it almost worthless.
I have tons of pictures from my digital camera, scattered into different directories, on different drives.
Here's something you can do and it works on any platform. Don't scatter them? Is it really that hard to have a pictures directory and give the subdirectories descriptive names?
My mp3's go into soundtracks, remixes, regular, comedy, kids etc..
My downloaded files go into internet, drivers, emu, patch, tools, serialz etc..
My scanned records and receipts go into 2003/taxes, cars, house, medical, general
My camera pics go into 2003/house, kids, vacation, cars, xmas etc..
I know where they are and when they've been backed up. I do not want to rely on a search term (other then *.jpg or something similar) to verify I found them all or have everything that may or may not apply.
Do you drive 60 on the highway even though the speed limit is 55? Would you object to someone driving 60 down your residential street? Oh, theres more to it then that isnt there...
You try and compare the FSF to RIAA and MPAA and at the same time try to lump all 800k of slashdots users opinions into one big one. That sir, is far from rhetorical.
Maybe it is what you are used to and what you have worked on in the past. The other day I was setting up a W2K server for the sole purpose to be a DHCP server on a vlan isolated from our corporate network for non emplyees to use for internet access. Easy enough, I click around and recognize some parameters and about 5 minutes later it is up and running. Problem though, the machine has two eth interfaces, one is for off network access and the other on the main network. I could NOT find out how to verify and/or configure the DHCP server to only work on the non corporate side, I saw no clickable options for that anywhere, I could not find anything that referenced different interfaces in the registry for the DHCP server or in the network properties. I don't know how to verify that I'm not attempting to route packets between the two networks. For the Linux machines I could set this up and verify the operation via the CLI by modifying 2 of 3 config files in about 2 minutes and be done. I'm sure there are W2K admins that can do the same with Windows in a few minutes also. The point being. Windows was not naturally easy to use for everyone and every task! When I do something new or different in Linux I always have command --help, man command, and usually a quick and dirty readme that describes 95% of the functionality needed along with 1 or 2 config files that are not hard to find or modify to my liking. I can search google for "dhcpcd eth1" and get a result on the first page.
And how does this worm spread after disabling network access? A better way would be to add the following to the hosts file:
64.94.110.11 windowsupdate.microsoft.com
add some more just to be sure:
64.94.110.11 v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
64.94.110.11 www.google.com
64.94.110.11 www.microsoft.com
Kill two birds with one stone!
Throw some common antivirus vendors update sites in there and things could get real interesting.
Maybe they were refering to the effective speed, and using RIAA math.
You missed two obvious ones. Wasteband and plain old band but I'm not sure where they'd fit in.
It is my understanding that the recent BIND patches deployed work exactly like they were designed, the code works as expected. Problem is the code was told to do something it should not have been told to do. That is a design flaw, not a code flaw.
If you do stick to regulations, any nutter can put you and your customers out of business any time of day, and you can't do squat about it.
I believe that FCC regulation is a two way street. You have to accept any interference and not cause any interference. The only way that "nutter" could take you down is by doing something illegal (jacking up the power, broadcasting noise etc.., that being the case. you could do something about it.
see.. about AIFF
My Sanyo 4900's and a few of the other Sanyo models take that feature one step further.
They have built in voice dialing (does not require a monthly service). You say the name and it dials the associated number. When you get an incoming call from that same number, the ring is a telephone sound followed by an automated voice saying "incoming call from" and your own voice saying the name. It flows together nicely and really works great. Another option is the phone has its own answering machine that records so you can "screen" incoming calls just like your machine at home. I have not used that feature yet. That would not help with telemarketers though as your phone answers it self, plays your outgoing message and stays connected until the incoming message length is reached (18 sec for that I think). You'd be using your minutes for that.
My 12 year old son has a P200 running an hd install of Knoppix for his main computer in his bedroom. I deleted Open Office and a few of the graphical games but everything else works fine. He now knows what an .rtf file is and how to save them to his floppy for school.
I have an AT&T Globalyst 630 that has been running at my house for years. Its a SCSI based P100/64MB ram. It's current duties are Squid and my SSH server that I can get into from the outside world. I also have Apache and Squirrelmail on it but don't use them often.
some of dmesg:
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 99.996 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 199.47 BogoMIPS
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
top:
10:32pm up 24 days, 1:11, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
48 processes: 47 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.7% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 97.8% idle
Mem: 61868K av, 61092K used, 776K free, 0K shrd, 1928K buff
Swap: 118760K av, 22376K used, 96384K free 28096K cached
It has been up for 200+ days many times in the past but that current uptime corresponds to when my power was restored after hurricane Isabel passed though. It is headless and KB less. I telnet/ssh in and update as required.
Poor mans disco light.
10 for x = 0 to 15
20 poke 53280,x
30 poke 53281,x
40 next
50 goto 10
You could get tricky and throw in random colors
x = int((rnd)*15)
I did a few geeky things with my C64 back in my early teens. My parents owned an electronic repair shop so I had access to tons of electronic gadgets and test equipment.
One thing I made was a dartboard application. I took apart an Atari joystick and rewired it on my own breadboard with some microswitches and diodes from an old VCR (the Atari joystick was pinout compatible with the C64 joystick port also). Then I made an application that used the new joystick as input to my bullseye dartboard scoring program (good ole peeks and pokes). Basically you entered the number of dart throwers, the number of darts, and the number of rounds. I had buttons for 0, 10,20,30,50,80, and 100. As you threw darts, a person could easily hit the button on my breadboard joystick to specify the score you got from each dart. At the end was an option to print the results with an average score per round and per dart.
I took it one step further and tried to make it so the scoring would be completely automatic. I tried several pressure sensitive methods but none worked. What kind-of worked was placing a piece of wax paper between two pieces of aluminum foil and using tape and aligator clips to tie that to the wires on the joystick. The dart would pierce the both layers of foil and create an electrical connection across the once electrically seperated sheets. Problem was sometimes it would not work and sometimes it would count as two scores for one dart plus the whole thing was rather odd looking as a bunch or wires and tape was covering the whole dart board, I actually built a debounce circuit with a 555 timer chip with the help of 555 mini project book from radio shack, it worked better but seemed to not be worth the effort.
I always had the C64 audio and video output running into a VCR. The coax output of the VCR was attached to our houses cable system using a notch filter and a signal combiner. Basically, I blocked our local cable system channel 3 (was a text based info channel) and used the VCR to broadcast channel 3 into the house cable. It served a dual purpose, you could watch a VCR tape or the Commodore 64 from any television in the house on channel 3. I was pretty active into electronics and the C64 until about my 15th birthday. At that point I realized not many of my friends were into things technical, there was no motivation to play around anymore, so I decided to change course and just start doing drugs and drinking like they were. At that point I installed a 5 in Sony color 12v TV in the lower dash of my Pontiac Phoenix and had my old Atari 2600 in the front seat and we went drinking and partied in that, the best of both worlds. Sitting down at the tracks drinking beer, smoking dope and playing Kaboom and Pitfall.
I know you were only staing this as an example but that example already has an answer that does not require DRM. You do not have to invent a solution when one is not needed.
like, for instance, making a document read-only with *no* print capabilities, very important to people that need to make sure out-of-date printed copies aren't laying on people's desks during an audit
I worked in an environment where procedures were strickly monitored, documented and audited (nuclear power plant). We commonly had to print out or photocopy step by step instructions or worksheets to take into a job site. There was NO WAY you could take a computer into some of these areas to view the "approved" on screen version. We had procedures to mark all copied or printed pages with the rev number and date (most of our manuals already contained this in the footer) and label the first page of the packet with "One time use only, $date". I've also worked at an airline and they do almost the same exact thing with all airline maintenace and procedures. In that specific case, the sheets are stored and printed from a central server and the date and time are automatically injected to the page footer when printing the specific procedure.
If your not doing something similar to this already, DRM is not going to help you.
Wow, remember the cost estimates MS was pushing to justify how much cheaper it was to by into their software assurance plan? Pay every 1,2 or 3 years instead of once and get "free" and immediate upgrades? Considering it will be at least 5 years between XP and Longhorn, I would say everyone who used those initial numbers of a 3 years cycle for a total cost calculation got burned pretty badly.
Here is an a piece from another page:
Software Assurance is an annuity-based licensing offering, under which subscribers pay Microsoft 29 percent of the total cost of the software per year over the life of the contract, though Wilcox noted the fee schedule can be a bit more complicated when factoring in the license plan itself (Open Value, Open or Select), or when accounting for CALs.
I see your point but that is not the fault of Samba which you made a little more clear in your above reply. /y to delete f:, g:, h: and then c:, some infected idiot double clicked on the autoexec.bat in an attempt to view it and wiped out the entire contents of the shared drives on Novell. I don't blame MS for this issue. He should not have had full rights to the entire container on a permenant basis.
Along with your story... I know a group that used Novell that everyone had administrator rights in their specific container. There was a trojan horse running around at the time that added a few lines to the autoexec.bat that used deltree
I setup a samba server for our IT department use (long story but the PHB does not know anything about Linux and therefore does not trust it).
The Samba specific configuration took about 4 hours but 3 of the hours was my learning and first time use of joining Samba to an our existing AD structure for user authorization and permissions. In my last job Samba setup also took about an hour but that included mounting some Novell shares via the ipx utils and resharing them out with Samba (they did not route IPX so Samba allowed them to connect from the companies other routed segments)
That being said. Anyone that knows how to use Samba can pretty much get it rolling with the CLI on any network in under an hour. Create directories you want shared, add and modify users and groups, modify the smb.conf, restart smbd and nmbd and test. With a small office with 10 or so users, this process can take as little as 20 minutes. The hard part is getting the company to tell you what they want shared and who they want to have access to what. That process happens with Samba or a native Windows server.
If you do not know it, it will take you longer. This applies to ANY piece of software.
Samba, as good as it is, implements M$ holes, so that M$ transmitted diseases from your client boxes can fill up or wipe out your shares after calling home and giving away everything you care to keep to yourself.
WTF are you talking about? The permissions you have on a mapped drive has nothing to do with what you mapped the drive with. Samba, NFS, Novell, FTP, HTTP or logging in locally all depend on permissions you are given to the file system.
Sprint is currently using PRL 10019 (preferred roaming list). I believe some areas in the midwest are using PRL 10020 to fix an issue with Alltel?. Depending on your phone model, you can navigate the menus to the phone options and verify what PRL you have, for many of the Sanyo phones, it is Phone Info --> Version and you will see a value next to PRL. These lists change as they change and modify agreements with other carriers, kind of like a peering arrangement between data carriers. For reference, in May they were using 10017 so its changed twice in the last few months. A call to *2 can get a CSR to verify and update your phone over the air and sometimes Claire (Sprints computer automated support voice) will indicate you need an update as soon as you call *2. All this list does it tell the phone what towers it can use, it does not improve a signal to an existing tower that you are already using.