I currently live in Melbourne, and in the news down here, it (the 2 week old bushfires in ACT) are being blamed on severe lightning strikes. Same goes for Blue Moutains in NSW.
Err, I think Bruce would be well aware that I can't breach the firewall outside->inside. It's the OTHER direction he is "paranoid" about. I agree. If I allow only protocols X & Y to get out on ports X1 & Y1, I will not be impressed if a user/client breeches this by tunnelling XML data through protocol X. This is a completely valid argument in a sensitive environment.
Ok, I would be the first to agree that: a) MS code would most likely suck b) MS code might be undocumented/hard to follow c) Bill Gates is a band-wagon-riding-weenie ... but, would it not be MUCH easier to code device drivers if we had some starting point?
Even if their drivers (the ones on the install cd) suck, at least we'd be able to say, "ah, I see... that register controls this...".
That would be good for really alien (read spiffy/ new/unusual) hardware, and gasp - we could even write drivers for Blozedems.:)
AH, but even if they did release the code,
they'd probably have to take out lots of driver code they dont have license to open. (like Netscape had to take out Java:( - oh well, Java sucks anyway.)
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I currently live in Melbourne, and in the news down here, it (the 2 week old bushfires in ACT) are being blamed on severe lightning strikes. Same goes for Blue Moutains in NSW.
It is pronunciation damnit!
Err, I think Bruce would be well aware that I can't breach the firewall outside->inside. It's the OTHER direction he is "paranoid" about. I agree. If I allow only protocols X & Y to get out on ports X1 & Y1, I will not be impressed if a user/client breeches this by tunnelling XML data through protocol X. This is a completely valid argument in a sensitive environment.
You in Brissie eh?
/.
Come here often (cough... gasp... aaarrg)
I'd like to talk to you as I don't meet many people from Brisbane on
PowerTool lives in Rochedale South (southside)
mmmm lets see....
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd
on my mate ash's machine (ide DVD),
udf patchs in kernel:-
smount -t udf
now I can access all data on the disk, no?
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Ok, I would be the first to agree that:
:)
:( - oh well, Java
a) MS code would most likely suck
b) MS code might be undocumented/hard to follow
c) Bill Gates is a band-wagon-riding-weenie
... but, would it not be MUCH easier to code
device drivers if we had some starting point?
Even if their drivers (the ones on the install cd)
suck, at least we'd be able to say, "ah, I see...
that register controls this...".
That would be good for really alien (read spiffy/
new/unusual) hardware, and gasp - we could even write drivers for Blozedems.
AH, but even if they did release the code,
they'd probably have to take out lots of driver
code they dont have license to open. (like
Netscape had to take out Java
sucks anyway.)
Ok. I'm done spitting.