Yeah but Windows isn't necessarily safe either; the scenario goes 1.sco beats IBM. 2. sco sues BSD for violating the AT&T vs. BSD settlement, which places BSD back under System V unix copyright. 3 Windows contains or contained BSD which would make Windows a System V derivative.
your windows boxes now owe SCO $699. Sure its far-fetched, but that's the logical conclusion of where sco is trying to take this. You want safe, get Solaris, Mc Bride said "Solaris is safe"
That doesn't make sense to me; if anybody was hoping for a settlement due to costs involved it would have been SCO.
IBM is using it's staff lawyers, they get paid if they are in court, or they get paid if they're standing arround the water-cooler talking football; any real costs of the case are trivial like filing, and copying fees. SCO on the other hand hired external lawyers, who are paid with cash, wallpaper(sco stock) and probably a percent of the proceeds in addition to expenses which are around what $300-$600 per hour per lawyer. If anybody was going to use expenses as an inducement to settle it would hae been IBM!
SCO should be like the small dog lying on it's back, with it's belly exposed trying not to piss itself to bad while hoping the big dog doesn't rip their belly open.
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I have a 70 gal aquarium indoors and a 3800 gal "aquarium" outdoor, and when someone tells me that they are keeping large-mouth bass in a 10 L aquarium and the fish suffered brain damage with-in 48 hours my first thought is what did you expect? and how did you keep the control group so healthy?.
I'm hoping that these guys research is totaly wacked because fullerenes aren't that hard to make and if they are realy that toxic, the implications are a bit staggering given the amount of genocidal activity in the world today.
many years ago there were 2 Detroit Edison power station operators in my econ class, they worked at the DetEdCo Belle River plant. This plant basicaly generate power for sale, shoots it cross the river into Canada over the biggest power line cables and towers you'll ever see, straight across Ontario to Buffalo NY So one night they decide to go downto the river and catch some smelt; the Belle river plant is highly automated. after they came back, they noticed that the voltage from the plant had drooped 5%. fearing they'd get caught, they got new paper for the voltage strip charts and manualy re-recorded the voltage for the nights records. What they didn't know is the whole NE power grid drooped the night, we're talking about the whole August blackout area! Ya gotta love automation.
The biggest problem with these terrorist is that the "liberated" Gnome are throughly domesticated and unable to survive in the wild on their own. The police agencies frequently are reduced to holding the gnomes until their owners claim them in facilities unsuitable for the well-being of gnomes such as boxes kept in dark dusty evidence rooms. Many owners never claim them, dooming the gnomes to live out their live in pathetic gnome refugee camps.
The Gnomes would be better served if the gnome liberation front meerly protested against the few owners who abuse their gnomes rather than trying to liberate gnomes from their love families.
actualy I'd guess most organisations have a guy in IT who pays on his personnal CC and submits for reimursement from the dept. A 100 yr registration is probably verisign's way of getting cash for services that'll be for longer than they exist.
actualy the extraction vehicle could be sent roboticaly independent of a manned mission, all it realy needs to do is get the landing crew off to surface and docked to the orbiting interplanetary transporter for the trip back to earth orbit.
getting from Earth orbit to mars orbit is not dependant on landing on mars, in fact getting from mars orbit to earth orbit, had better not be on getting to or from mars surtface.
Patriot was developed almost 30 yrs ago, the msl's it replaced were analog (nike-herc HAWK and improved HAWK), hell the HAWK msl I worked on had 1 transistor in it and 3 scr in both the missile and the launcher, we are talking vacuum tubes here. The automatic launch sequencer was made out of mechanical relays and clock motors.
Patriot was designed to disable or destroy manned aircraft at medium to high altitude. Manned aircraft have to carry a living pilot and life support causing the aircraft to have a minimum size and therefore a minimum radar cross-section; missiles on the other hand have no such requirements, and are made with miniscule radar cross-sections and can pull G's that would turn a human into jelly. Manned aircraft are a lot more complicated, a few holes in the right place brings it down, in a missile a loose warhead on a ballsitic lob can be as destructive to the target as an untouched missile. The last I heard was the patriot had an 8Mhz 80186 for a processor.
a old medical office can have suprisingly electrical capacity, an X-RAY unit can put out 50mA at 145KVpeaks which works out to 7250W, at 230V thats 31 amps so it's probably on a 45 Amp circuit by it's self to allow to peak surge. An added advantage is you can have a server room with lead lined walls!
In the old dos days it was press any key to continue, Bill Gates has such a sense of humor! It was so much fun laughing at people who tried to hit [cntrl alt del] to keep from formating the winchester.
probably filled with spyware and all kinds of awful stuff
Get SPYBOT S&D, it was recomended to us by a microsoft tech support guy,not sure if it was an offical M$ recom or his personalrecomendation. we used it and it reported and remove 354 different spyware programs on the machine, after that the machine was probably booting up twice as fast as before.
Daryl's behavior is increasingly similar to Paranoid Schizophenic behaviors I've seen while working in a mental health unit. delusions of persecuiton, carring a weapon armed body guards; delutions of granduer, just thinking he can get away with sueing IBM counts a delutions of grandeur; not to mention his loose grip on reality and anti-scocial behavior like insulting the entire OS devoloper community; I think if I was on the board of directors, a competant psyc eval of Daryl would be neccessary for my peace of mind.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (I think) The first electric traffic signal and of course the first traffic ticket for dis-obeying an electric trafic signal.
I realize that doing that would not be so straightforward
sure it would open your/etc/resolv.conf and add the closest two IP numbers to the first 2 nameservers on the list and the 3rd to what ever your ISP gives you and your in business. ns2.ca.opennic.glue (Vancouver, BC, CA) - 199.175.137.212 ns1.de.opennic.glue (Cologne, DE) - 217.115.138.24 ns1.fi.opennic.glue (Helsinki, FI) - 62.236.208.158 ns2.fi.opennic.glue (Vantaa, FI) - 213.185.37.13 ns1.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.34 ns2.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.37 ns1.nz.opennic.glue (Auckland, NZ) - 202.89.131.4 ns1.uk.opennic.glue (London, UK) - 194.164.6.112 ns1.ca.us.opennic.glue (Los Angeles, CA, US) - 209.104.63.240 ns2.ca.us.opennic.glue (Los Angeles, CA, US) - 209.104.63.241 ns1.la.us.opennic.glue (New Orleans, LA, US) - 216.107.80.42 ns1.tx.us.opennic.glue (Dallas, TX, US) - 144.162.120.230.
The only problems you might run into is your ISP could block DNS queries to external Nameservers,(I've never heard of anyone actualy doing this) and their will be name collisions in the dotBIZ TLD because atlantic root was registering that TLD long before it was "officialy sanctioned by ICANN.
Frankly, they deserve to have all authority over the root servers taken away from them before they do more harm in their quest for profits.
a lot of people don't know this but verisign's root server isn't the only game in town, these root servers offer many alternatives. If enough people make an end run arround their monoply, their authority will diminish as well as any brazen behavior. If you need instructions on how to do this OpenNIC has detailed instructions.
most exploits come after the hackers have had a chance to compare patched VS unpatched systems to see what the changes are.
So how hard would it be for them to take a few unrelated DLLs, touch a few to change the dates, add bounds checking in a few places that they missed in some others, recompile a few others with the functions in a different order, in addition to fixing what's realy broken just to throw off people trying to diff the patch?
My magic beight ball says "Microsoft is testing the waters so see if "expedited by subscription update" is marketable. If enough PHBes say "Yeah that's just what we need, get our patches before the public and those evil hackers!" it'll be to M$'s economic advantage to drag their heels on releasing patches.
It seems much ado about nothing; basicly I see, after only reading 13/32 pages Microsoft "big-speak" is adding a XML tag inside the DNS records to list the out-going smtp server's address or range of addresses. That would be cool I suppose because I could set the internet side firewall rules to something like
1 deny all, 2 allow only from domains with outgoing record, 4 deny from domain != address 3 deny from blacklisted
then set the user side firewall so that users's can only send e-mail through my "official" SMTP server. I know AOL blockes outgoing SMTP connects to foriegn (non-AOL SMTP servers) as well as blocks any connection to their smtp server from any comcast.net server other than the official comcast SMTP server. So this is all "do-able"; and not even terribly original. Blocking at the firewall is good, cuts down the bandwidth payments.
Of course because M$ has patents on the "method", and an advertising clause in the license, the GNU people will have much gnashing of teeth over it, but on the bright side is if spammers find a hack to it, they are "infringing" on a M$ patent which will definatly release the "hounds of hell" on the scum sucking bastards.
two things were mutually exclusive... it' the opposistion parties that communists strongly tend to avoid, elections in communist coutries have higher turn-out than happens in non-communist countries.
What I'd like to see is a way to, by simply double-clicking on the RPM, install it to the directory of my choice
I know it's so confusing, down load the rpm file, store it in your home directory, and single click-it. OMG my mouse has three buttoms; guess the left button. (RPM opens in file manager) left click buttom that says "install with YaST" enter root password in dialog box and it installs
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You should have said "sweetheart, you couldn't handle my ass, besides I plan to marry as a virgin"
I had a boss that threated to kill me once, I got most of my raises after he fired me too.
Yeah but Windows isn't necessarily safe either; the scenario goes
1.sco beats IBM.
2. sco sues BSD for violating the AT&T vs. BSD settlement, which places BSD back under System V unix copyright.
3 Windows contains or contained BSD which would make Windows a System V derivative.
your windows boxes now owe SCO $699. Sure its far-fetched, but that's the logical conclusion of where sco is trying to take this. You want safe, get Solaris, Mc Bride said "Solaris is safe"
That doesn't make sense to me; if anybody was hoping for a settlement due to costs involved it would have been SCO.
IBM is using it's staff lawyers, they get paid if they are in court, or they get paid if they're standing arround the water-cooler talking football; any real costs of the case are trivial like filing, and copying fees. SCO on the other hand hired external lawyers, who are paid with cash, wallpaper(sco stock) and probably a percent of the proceeds in addition to expenses which are around what $300-$600 per hour per lawyer. If anybody was going to use expenses as an inducement to settle it would hae been IBM!
SCO should be like the small dog lying on it's back, with it's belly exposed trying not to piss itself to bad while hoping the big dog doesn't rip their belly open.
Konqueror does a lot more than web browsing.
I have a 70 gal aquarium indoors and a 3800 gal "aquarium" outdoor, and when someone tells me that they are keeping large-mouth bass in a 10 L aquarium and the fish suffered brain damage with-in 48 hours my first thought is what did you expect? and how did you keep the control group so healthy?.
I'm hoping that these guys research is totaly wacked because fullerenes aren't that hard to make and if they are realy that toxic, the implications are a bit staggering given the amount of genocidal activity in the world today.
many years ago there were 2 Detroit Edison power station operators in my econ class, they worked at the DetEdCo Belle River plant. This plant basicaly generate power for sale, shoots it cross the river into Canada over the biggest power line cables and towers you'll ever see, straight across Ontario to Buffalo NY So one night they decide to go downto the river and catch some smelt; the Belle river plant is highly automated. after they came back, they noticed that the voltage from the plant had drooped 5%. fearing they'd get caught, they got new paper for the voltage strip charts and manualy re-recorded the voltage for the nights records. What they didn't know is the whole NE power grid drooped the night, we're talking about the whole August blackout area! Ya gotta love automation.
I find I use both depending on what I'm doing, I use gnome if I'll need a few more system resources, and KDE if not. Windowmaker if I need a ton more.
The biggest problem with these terrorist is that the "liberated" Gnome are throughly domesticated and unable to survive in the wild on their own. The police agencies frequently are reduced to holding the gnomes until their owners claim them in facilities unsuitable for the well-being of gnomes such as boxes kept in dark dusty evidence rooms. Many owners never claim them, dooming the gnomes to live out their live in pathetic gnome refugee camps.
The Gnomes would be better served if the gnome liberation front meerly protested against the few owners who abuse their gnomes rather than trying to liberate gnomes from their love families.
actualy I'd guess most organisations have a guy in IT who pays on his personnal CC and submits for reimursement from the dept. A 100 yr registration is probably verisign's way of getting cash for services that'll be for longer than they exist.
actualy the extraction vehicle could be sent roboticaly independent of a manned mission, all it realy needs to do is get the landing crew off to surface and docked to the orbiting interplanetary transporter for the trip back to earth orbit.
getting from Earth orbit to mars orbit is not dependant on landing on mars, in fact getting from mars orbit to earth orbit, had better not be on getting to or from mars surtface.
it always amazed me how the top downloads at SF were either MS apps or cross-platform apps.
Patriot was developed almost 30 yrs ago, the msl's it replaced were analog (nike-herc HAWK and improved HAWK), hell the HAWK msl I worked on had 1 transistor in it and 3 scr in both the missile and the launcher, we are talking vacuum tubes here. The automatic launch sequencer was made out of mechanical relays and clock motors.
Patriot was designed to disable or destroy manned aircraft at medium to high altitude. Manned aircraft have to carry a living pilot and life support causing the aircraft to have a minimum size and therefore a minimum radar cross-section; missiles on the other hand have no such requirements, and are made with miniscule radar cross-sections and can pull G's that would turn a human into jelly. Manned aircraft are a lot more complicated, a few holes in the right place brings it down, in a missile a loose warhead on a ballsitic lob can be as destructive to the target as an untouched missile.
The last I heard was the patriot had an 8Mhz 80186 for a processor.
a old medical office can have suprisingly electrical capacity, an X-RAY unit can put out 50mA at 145KVpeaks which works out to 7250W, at 230V thats 31 amps so it's probably on a 45 Amp circuit by it's self to allow to peak surge. An added advantage is you can have a server room with lead lined walls!
In the old dos days it was press any key to continue, Bill Gates has such a sense of humor! It was so much fun laughing at people who tried to hit [cntrl alt del] to keep from formating the winchester.
probably filled with spyware and all kinds of awful stuff
Get SPYBOT S&D, it was recomended to us by a microsoft tech support guy,not sure if it was an offical M$ recom or his personalrecomendation. we used it and it reported and remove 354 different spyware programs on the machine, after that the machine was probably booting up twice as fast as before.
Daryl's behavior is increasingly similar to Paranoid Schizophenic behaviors I've seen while working in a mental health unit.
delusions of persecuiton, carring a weapon armed body guards;
delutions of granduer, just thinking he can get away with sueing IBM counts a delutions of grandeur; not to mention his loose grip on reality and anti-scocial behavior like insulting the entire OS devoloper community; I think if I was on the board of directors, a competant psyc eval of Daryl would be neccessary for my peace of mind.
I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, "gee I think should have been Cleveland"
Cincinatti is famous for,
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (I think)
The first electric traffic signal and of course the first traffic ticket for dis-obeying an electric trafic signal.
I realize that doing that would not be so straightforward
/etc/resolv.conf and add the closest two IP numbers to the first 2 nameservers on the list and the 3rd to what ever your ISP gives you and your in business.
sure it would open your
ns2.ca.opennic.glue (Vancouver, BC, CA) - 199.175.137.212
ns1.de.opennic.glue (Cologne, DE) - 217.115.138.24
ns1.fi.opennic.glue (Helsinki, FI) - 62.236.208.158
ns2.fi.opennic.glue (Vantaa, FI) - 213.185.37.13
ns1.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.34
ns2.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.37
ns1.nz.opennic.glue (Auckland, NZ) - 202.89.131.4
ns1.uk.opennic.glue (London, UK) - 194.164.6.112
ns1.ca.us.opennic.glue (Los Angeles, CA, US) - 209.104.63.240
ns2.ca.us.opennic.glue (Los Angeles, CA, US) - 209.104.63.241
ns1.la.us.opennic.glue (New Orleans, LA, US) - 216.107.80.42
ns1.tx.us.opennic.glue (Dallas, TX, US) - 144.162.120.230.
The only problems you might run into is your ISP could block DNS queries to external Nameservers,(I've never heard of anyone actualy doing this) and their will be name collisions in the dotBIZ TLD because atlantic root was registering that TLD long before it was "officialy sanctioned by ICANN.
Frankly, they deserve to have all authority over the root servers taken away from them before they do more harm in their quest for profits.
a lot of people don't know this but verisign's root server isn't the only game in town, these root servers offer many alternatives. If enough people make an end run arround their monoply, their authority will diminish as well as any brazen behavior. If you need instructions on how to do this OpenNIC has detailed instructions.
most exploits come after the hackers have had a chance to compare patched VS unpatched systems to see what the changes are.
So how hard would it be for them to take a few unrelated DLLs, touch a few to change the dates, add bounds checking in a few places that they missed in some others, recompile a few others with the functions in a different order, in addition to fixing what's realy broken just to throw off people trying to diff the patch?
My magic beight ball says "Microsoft is testing the waters so see if "expedited by subscription update" is marketable. If enough PHBes say "Yeah that's just what we need, get our patches before the public and those evil hackers!" it'll be to M$'s economic advantage to drag their heels on releasing patches.
It seems much ado about nothing;
basicly I see, after only reading 13/32 pages Microsoft "big-speak" is adding a XML tag inside the DNS records to list the out-going smtp server's address or range of addresses.
That would be cool I suppose because I could set the internet side firewall rules to something like
1 deny all,
2 allow only from domains with outgoing record,
4 deny from domain != address
3 deny from blacklisted
then set the user side firewall so that users's can only send e-mail through my "official" SMTP server. I know AOL blockes outgoing SMTP connects to foriegn (non-AOL SMTP servers) as well as blocks any connection to their smtp server from any comcast.net server other than the official comcast SMTP server. So this is all "do-able"; and not even terribly original. Blocking at the firewall is good, cuts down the bandwidth payments.
Of course because M$ has patents on the "method", and an advertising clause in the license, the GNU people will have much gnashing of teeth over it, but on the bright side is if spammers find a hack to it, they are "infringing" on a M$ patent which will definatly release the "hounds of hell" on the scum sucking bastards.
two things were mutually exclusive...
it' the opposistion parties that communists strongly tend to avoid, elections in communist coutries have higher turn-out than happens in non-communist countries.
It might help to think stealing a service rather than theft of a physical property.
What I'd like to see is a way to, by simply double-clicking on the RPM, install it to the directory of my choice
I know it's so confusing, down load the rpm file, store it in your home directory, and single click-it. OMG my mouse has three buttoms; guess the left button. (RPM opens in file manager) left click buttom that says "install with YaST" enter root password in dialog box and it installs