music industry will regain their focus on improving quality of music production rather than setting prices for maximizing profit and accusing youngsters not paying enough.
I compare the sound quality of CD now and ten years ago...nothing improved. And then they blame us for listening to sub-quality electronic music. Shame on them. Give us something that worth buying.
Think I should stop ranting, this is the day of celebrating.:)
other businesses and public agencies...have agreed to the new licensing deals X a linchpin of Microsoft's growth strategy.
Not Houston.
Fools they are!
Turn your back away the darkside, you can never gain points
Without points, you can never advance to next levels!
Join me and I'll complete your training!
Don't make me destroy you!
(Interesting enough, Microsoft seems to have taken away the license 6.0 guide from its place, and I've to dig up the old pages above from google. Does Microsoft finally realize they are digging their own grave?)
You mean, have me drilled holes in all boundary routers and rewrite the security policy in faour of your Microsoft shares? Next time you'd ask me to drill holes for corporation-wide Quake Tournament! (oh may be I'd accept:)
I don't usually answer AC but you asked the exactly same question that MCSE was asking(hey, is that you?) The best quote from him:
"Why do you worry about the security? Microsoft Network has all the advanced access control than any other OS."
The reason why I dropped the Microsoft class was because we were being taught about the existence of Routers, File Servers and other networking topics
You know what - THAT's an advanced topics in Microsoft Networking Essential! I once received a call from an MCSE asking me why he couldn't see the domain controller and its neigbours in the Network Neighbourhood. I checked and told him that he's in the wrong domain and he insisted that he's in the right domain because he has typed the correct domain name in the 'NT domain' box something like that. I told him it's the TCP/IP domain we are talking about and the Netbios traffic couldn't passthru the routers. Then he, with pride and professional tone, told me that Netbios is on the top of any networking protocol and devices such that it SHOULD be transparent to Microsoft Network, and that I should look into the problem...
I've been thinking about this, but figured this is not very useful. The Government wouldn't be held liability for any lost as a result of forgery/criminal activities. Say if you lost money to a scammer who use faked drivers license(renting car and run away with it, etc.), Government will proceed to prosecute the criminals, and that's it. The Government simple won't insure your lost, or be held liability of it. CA insurers, on the other hand, take your money and insure your lost, to a certain extend written in the contract.
However, I do think your proposal viable in some aspect - having Government regulate the issuing of CA, that could lessen the risk of issuing trusted CA thus enable CA issurers bear higher risk and low the fee as a result.
I don't know about other places, but China chose opensource path mainly because they don't want more american made stuffs in their Government. After an unfortunately instance when Microsoft shipped the first version of Simplified Chinese Windows 95 which included pranks from taiwanese developers who hide words like 'Communist Bandit' in their work(so much for not testing their products well before release) Of course, there's rumors about embedded missile guidiance chips in the printers to middle-east, but it's more like a X-Files episode to me.:)
Do they contribute anything back to OSS? AFAIK none for the China Government, because closing source within an organization is allowed in GPL, while RedFlag Linux, which is co-developed by Minister of Information and a Government co-owned private company seems to take opensource community value in the development.
I'm aware that the Canadian's Constitution upholds the human right. I'm just curious that why his MP would reply him a message like that.
However, most Canadians, unlike you, would become very short-tempered when being questioned on their own civil matters. I'm not an American, but to be honest Americans are more open-minded in this. May be that's their culture.
Thank you very much for your information. You are way better than that bold AC, who is obvious a Canadian who take me as an American.:)
The law assumes guilt that everyone who buys a blank tape or CD is pirating music
Huh? I always thought Canada's legal system is based on Common Laws. Now that's pretty much like China's legal system - 'guilty until proven innocent'.
With gratitude we must thank you for finding my email, which was created and forgotten years ago.
I'd be much grateful if you'd also join the next competition - To Find Aussie PM's password to his own Email Address. The first price would be another thank you letter and three years waive of mandatory anal inspection for people who don't vote dearest Howard(laws will be passed along with other Internet laws later this year), second price is two year...and so on.
This is a life-time offer you wouldn't want to miss.
I suppose one will bring up Beta, which rightly died because Sony made it proprietary and abused their monopoly of the format to stop people using their format for anything "distasteful" (not for long, but who wants to deal with a company that emits even a hint of regulating speech?)
Funny when you brought this up. Beta was really widely accepted in a place where Government loved to regulate speech - Soviet Russia. I remembered we were shipping a lot of Beta function TVs and video-recorders to Soviet Russia. Sony and few manufacturers made unifunction TV/recorders(Beta) because multifuction, which were already popular at time, were NOT welcomed by Russian Government. Somehow I found they've striking similarity in their believes, heh.:)
I'm not sure whether Russians are still using Beta TV now. Anyone would update me? (begins with IN SOVIET RUSSIA:)
reverse-engineering of the operation of a Memory Stick, because Sony only discloses its specifications to their partners, with huge loyality fee. Frankly I'm not sure how big the loyality is, but you don't see much non-Sony Memory Stick compliant stuff around do you?
However, at the risk of being accused of spreading FUD, I believe one might violate DMCA by reverse-engineering it. Ask your lawyer.
1) This is posted by Cliff, last time it was posted by Hemos. Isn't it a pity when those who blocked Cliff's or Hemos missed this great news? The news will be reposted by Taco very soon, so he majority who blocked both Cliff and Hemos will not miss it
2) Last time we don't have typo in the headline. This is very untolerable for slashdot readers
3) This time we've same article from other source. Slashdot editors must make sure they don't miss any reference to great news like that
4) Last time Hemos said 'Quadruples Surfing Speed', today Cliff found out that it can actually boost the speed up to 500% percent! This is definitely an improvement and should be posted as a follow-up
IBM and Oracle are competitors, but they do not apply this to the interoperative issue. To them, interoperability means profit. You can't apply the same mentality you've found in Microsoft in dealing with competition. I receive full support from IBM in getting AIX works with Oracle, and vice versa.
I must admit the choice is based on the business needs, not on the technical side, but technically I don't think DB2 shine on AIX. DB2 is great on MVS, I was a DB2/MVS developer.
Regardlessly, this combo seldom has problem. So far the AIX down once, and Oracle never. That Staffware on Windows 2K, on the other hand, down twice per week, at least.
Middleware solves problems that people don't know they have
Very true. Some are solving the problem in very complicated way, like Staffware, we used it in writing workflow application for JSP. It's supposed to make life easier, but turn out the total effort to collaborate and manintain this damn Staffware server is multiple times more than it takes to write a workflow mechanism on our own from the ground up.
What's worse is that most middleware introduce a vulnerable layer in a supposingly robust system. The above-mentioned system has a AIX+Oracle backend and it's supposed to be very reliable, but most of the time the system cease to function when that Windows server which host Staffware goes down. I swear to God I do not make this up.
When they sell you middleware and say "slip this in and you can save the money doing this layer yourself!". They lied, they just want your cash.
May be that's the major reason why opensource community seldom target on middleware, as most of them are useless.
The fastest way to learn a new OS is see what commands a user type to get job done. You could stand behind someone who is proficient with that OS, but it's pretty annoying. If you are lucky you could find 'RECORD/REPLY' key in some old keyboard(like those you find in 3270 keyboard). Press it and walk away and wait for a unaware user to come....
Oh you are a security reviewer? Nevermind then...:)
This might not do the job. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Some companies even claim to be able to recover up to 16 layers.
May be you'd like to try this: apt-get install wipe
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Must be Microsoft, they always bloat how many lines of code a new release of Windows exceeding the previous version. :)
music industry will regain their focus on improving quality of music production rather than setting prices for maximizing profit and accusing youngsters not paying enough.
:)
I compare the sound quality of CD now and ten years ago...nothing improved. And then they blame us for listening to sub-quality electronic music. Shame on them. Give us something that worth buying.
Think I should stop ranting, this is the day of celebrating.
other businesses and public agencies...have agreed to the new licensing deals X a linchpin of Microsoft's growth strategy.
Not Houston.
Fools they are!
Turn your back away the darkside, you can never gain points
Without points, you can never advance to next levels!
Join me and I'll complete your training!
Don't make me destroy you!
(Interesting enough, Microsoft seems to have taken away the license 6.0 guide from its place, and I've to dig up the old pages above from google. Does Microsoft finally realize they are digging their own grave?)
He discusses Microsoft's changing attitude in competing with Linux -- no longer calling it a "cancer" but instead promoting the advantages of Windows.
3) then you win.
Why you all Microsoft guys like to post as AC? :)
:)
You mean, have me drilled holes in all boundary routers and rewrite the security policy in faour of your Microsoft shares? Next time you'd ask me to drill holes for corporation-wide Quake Tournament! (oh may be I'd accept
I don't usually answer AC but you asked the exactly same question that MCSE was asking(hey, is that you?) The best quote from him:
"Why do you worry about the security? Microsoft Network has all the advanced access control than any other OS."
The reason why I dropped the Microsoft class was because we were being taught about the existence of Routers, File Servers and other networking topics
You know what - THAT's an advanced topics in Microsoft Networking Essential! I once received a call from an MCSE asking me why he couldn't see the domain controller and its neigbours in the Network Neighbourhood. I checked and told him that he's in the wrong domain and he insisted that he's in the right domain because he has typed the correct domain name in the 'NT domain' box something like that. I told him it's the TCP/IP domain we are talking about and the Netbios traffic couldn't passthru the routers. Then he, with pride and professional tone, told me that Netbios is on the top of any networking protocol and devices such that it SHOULD be transparent to Microsoft Network, and that I should look into the problem...
Things go downhill from there.
I've been thinking about this, but figured this is not very useful. The Government wouldn't be held liability for any lost as a result of forgery/criminal activities. Say if you lost money to a scammer who use faked drivers license(renting car and run away with it, etc.), Government will proceed to prosecute the criminals, and that's it. The Government simple won't insure your lost, or be held liability of it. CA insurers, on the other hand, take your money and insure your lost, to a certain extend written in the contract.
However, I do think your proposal viable in some aspect - having Government regulate the issuing of CA, that could lessen the risk of issuing trusted CA thus enable CA issurers bear higher risk and low the fee as a result.
I don't know about other places, but China chose opensource path mainly because they don't want more american made stuffs in their Government. After an unfortunately instance when Microsoft shipped the first version of Simplified Chinese Windows 95 which included pranks from taiwanese developers who hide words like 'Communist Bandit' in their work(so much for not testing their products well before release) Of course, there's rumors about embedded missile guidiance chips in the printers to middle-east, but it's more like a X-Files episode to me. :)
Do they contribute anything back to OSS? AFAIK none for the China Government, because closing source within an organization is allowed in GPL, while RedFlag Linux, which is co-developed by Minister of Information and a Government co-owned private company seems to take opensource community value in the development.
I'm aware that the Canadian's Constitution upholds the human right. I'm just curious that why his MP would reply him a message like that.
:)
However, most Canadians, unlike you, would become very short-tempered when being questioned on their own civil matters. I'm not an American, but to be honest Americans are more open-minded in this. May be that's their culture.
Thank you very much for your information. You are way better than that bold AC, who is obvious a Canadian who take me as an American.
The law assumes guilt that everyone who buys a blank tape or CD is pirating music
Huh? I always thought Canada's legal system is based on Common Laws. Now that's pretty much like China's legal system - 'guilty until proven innocent'.
while eight balls can yield better result? Tell your boss. :)
Dears Champion,
With gratitude we must thank you for finding my email, which was created and forgotten years ago.
I'd be much grateful if you'd also join the next competition - To Find Aussie PM's password to his own Email Address. The first price would be another thank you letter and three years waive of mandatory anal inspection for people who don't vote dearest Howard(laws will be passed along with other Internet laws later this year), second price is two year...and so on.
This is a life-time offer you wouldn't want to miss.
John Howard,
Prime Minister of Australia
I suppose one will bring up Beta, which rightly died because Sony made it proprietary and abused their monopoly of the format to stop people using their format for anything "distasteful" (not for long, but who wants to deal with a company that emits even a hint of regulating speech?)
:)
:)
Funny when you brought this up. Beta was really widely accepted in a place where Government loved to regulate speech - Soviet Russia. I remembered we were shipping a lot of Beta function TVs and video-recorders to Soviet Russia. Sony and few manufacturers made unifunction TV/recorders(Beta) because multifuction, which were already popular at time, were NOT welcomed by Russian Government. Somehow I found they've striking similarity in their believes, heh.
I'm not sure whether Russians are still using Beta TV now. Anyone would update me? (begins with IN SOVIET RUSSIA
because that'd be awkward when the audiences yelling "Hey this is a dupe!" during his speech.
reverse-engineering of the operation of a Memory Stick, because Sony only discloses its specifications to their partners, with huge loyality fee. Frankly I'm not sure how big the loyality is, but you don't see much non-Sony Memory Stick compliant stuff around do you?
However, at the risk of being accused of spreading FUD, I believe one might violate DMCA by reverse-engineering it. Ask your lawyer.
I've it easier
Look for google's cache whenever it asks for a page. SpeeeeeeD!
Calm down, I see the differences:
1) This is posted by Cliff, last time it was posted by Hemos. Isn't it a pity when those who blocked Cliff's or Hemos missed this great news? The news will be reposted by Taco very soon, so he majority who blocked both Cliff and Hemos will not miss it
2) Last time we don't have typo in the headline. This is very untolerable for slashdot readers
3) This time we've same article from other source. Slashdot editors must make sure they don't miss any reference to great news like that
4) Last time Hemos said 'Quadruples Surfing Speed', today Cliff found out that it can actually boost the speed up to 500% percent! This is definitely an improvement and should be posted as a follow-up
IBM and Oracle are competitors, but they do not apply this to the interoperative issue. To them, interoperability means profit. You can't apply the same mentality you've found in Microsoft in dealing with competition. I receive full support from IBM in getting AIX works with Oracle, and vice versa.
I must admit the choice is based on the business needs, not on the technical side, but technically I don't think DB2 shine on AIX. DB2 is great on MVS, I was a DB2/MVS developer.
Regardlessly, this combo seldom has problem. So far the AIX down once, and Oracle never. That Staffware on Windows 2K, on the other hand, down twice per week, at least.
Middleware solves problems that people don't know they have
Very true. Some are solving the problem in very complicated way, like Staffware, we used it in writing workflow application for JSP. It's supposed to make life easier, but turn out the total effort to collaborate and manintain this damn Staffware server is multiple times more than it takes to write a workflow mechanism on our own from the ground up.
What's worse is that most middleware introduce a vulnerable layer in a supposingly robust system. The above-mentioned system has a AIX+Oracle backend and it's supposed to be very reliable, but most of the time the system cease to function when that Windows server which host Staffware goes down. I swear to God I do not make this up.
When they sell you middleware and say "slip this in and you can save the money doing this layer yourself!". They lied, they just want your cash.
May be that's the major reason why opensource community seldom target on middleware, as most of them are useless.
The affected units have the potential to overheat, melting the outer casing and causing a potential fire hazard.
Are you sure it's not caused by slashdot effect?
The fastest way to learn a new OS is see what commands a user type to get job done. You could stand behind someone who is proficient with that OS, but it's pretty annoying. If you are lucky you could find 'RECORD/REPLY' key in some old keyboard(like those you find in 3270 keyboard). Press it and walk away and wait for a unaware user to come....
:)
Oh you are a security reviewer? Nevermind then...
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
This might not do the job. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Some companies even claim to be able to recover up to 16 layers.
May be you'd like to try this:
apt-get install wipe
There're commercial expert grade disk eraser too.
I wondered if the author actually committed the social crime like Frank W. Abagnale? :) who wrote the book The Art of the Steal and
Catch Me If You Can - yes, the movie
:)
(save your mod point elsewhere thanks.
They used Linux.
The systems in question were mainframe computers running IBM's Operating System 390.
Not that i'm a linux fanatic, just wanted you to get your facts straight.
You sure it was Linux?
Or you assumed that a OS/390 must run Linux?
Besides, I'm not that pro-Linux in this, but if you go straight to the end you see the problem was not all that OS-centric.
I just want to state with the facts. Thanks for your time.
Apple has been dragging its ass in the sand in the processor race due to Motorola's lack of money/research/carbonated beverages
Too true. This is what Motorola got after the big layoffs, mobile business misinvestment and shutting down of research labs.
Not only Apple, Palm also learnt their hard lesson and gradually move to non-Motorola processor like ARM as you find in Tungsten.