CDE is pretty expensive though. I bought CDE and Redhat Motif back in the 4.x or 5.x days of RedHat. I really liked it and it was nice having the same desktop that I had at work under AIX.
Redhat dropped CDE and Motif a few years ago and I'm not sure if anyone else markets CDE for Linux. There was another company at the time and I think they wanted $199 for CDE.
KDE and GNOME are trying to standardize the Linux desktop but I think both are going nowhere fast. Both are big and bloated as far as I am concerned and they keep adding to the bloat (mainly to copy Windows and Mac OS). Both have their own interpretation of Internet Explorer which I thought everyone belived was a bad thing but both KDE and the GNOME people have done a good job copying it and integrating it into their desktop environment.
But I for one would really like to see Linux be a free Unix and not a clone of XP or OS X (GUI I am talking about).
I trust my VISA (and credit card companies in general), because they tend to work in my interest and take care of me when I have bonafide problems with unauthorized usage and such. I have zero trust in Microsoft
I used to work for the second largest Visa issuer. We tracked every thing a cardholder did. We knew your spending habits and what you liked to buy. We knew when you were on vacation and when you fooled around on your wife. We sold this information to advertisers and gave it to other ventures within our corporation. Sometimes we'd even turn it over to the Secret Service. Every cardholder had an agreement similar to a EULA. We changed it all the time, raising rates and fees to our benefit. By using the card you were bound to the agreement.
Essentially we did the same thing you say Microsoft does, and maybe even a little more, yet you trust Visa over Microsoft. Interesting.
They may get more money from you if you see the show and buy a shirt for every CD you download but if they don't sell CD's then will there be a tour and t-shirts next time around? But it doesn't justify your theft. Whenever I start believing this shit about the labels and distributors getting almost all of the money and the artists getting nothing, someone like Moby goes on a rant bitching how CD downloading is costing him money. Now who do I believe here, the artists complaining about file sharing hurting his wallet or the slashdot cheapskate with his cost to make a CD figures that he pulled out of his ass which is loosly based on a 50 CD spindle he recently purchased for $2.99 after rebates.
And where is the complaining about software, ie games. A popular RPG comes out and RPG fans who pre-order it or get it the week of release pay $54. In a matter of weeks the price drops $15. This to me is clearly gouging the fans of the game but we don't complain, probably because we are programmers and that would be slapping our own face.
Dreamweaver is nice if you like hundreds of nested tables and div tags to confuse what should be simple HTML. I often though Dreamweaver was in with the chip makers because to render a Dreamweaver page a browsers needs much more RAM and CPU power behind it.
Good, cross browser HTML is done best with a simple text editor and a couple installed browsers to preview with. That is why you don't see as much of it. It takes more time and it takes a knowledge of HTML and not just point and click, drag and drop, or cut an paste.
I was thinking the same thing. I $50k must be chump change to Timmothy.
If the Xbox were a low cost Linux machine how many people would actually use them for a Linux machine? Hobbiests only is my guess. And of those who used them for a Linux machine, how many would break down and buy Halo and perhaps some other games?
Using them in a cluster for whatever task or in a rendering farm just doesn't sound feasable. They aren't really upgradable and for the most part obsolete as far as hardware goes.
Not sure but on my non OSS operating system I run firewalls and intrusion detection software to help me catch spyware and other things which are accessing ports which I am not aware of. Since I'm not the only one who does this I would think the backdoor would be found. You don't have to see the source code to find holes if you can see the holes.
Frankly I am quite tired of this common belief that thousands of eyes are constantly scanning OSS looking for problems to fix. In the 9 or so years I have been using Linux and GNU software I have never looked for such things. Maybe that is because I am a developer and spend enough time with my code. Even when I first started with Linux and things like CDROM and NICs required patching and compiling I was content with the code I was downloading. Hobbiests tended not to screw other hobbiests (unless money is changing hands) and I tend to still believe that. I really doubt there are that many people who police code. If you are working on something and notice a problem then you submit a patch but the belief of a huge and constant code review going on is a false one as far as I am concerned.
With the popularity of Linux and free software however and the perceived threat to some commercial software it might be wise for OSS project leaders to be extra careful of new code that slips in. I have belived for a while that sooner or later we will see companies like Microsoft or Sun let slip some pattented code into a free software project just so they can come back later and shut it down with a lawsuit. Face it, these companies are getting hurt. A project like Mono has the potential to hurt.Net and if successful hurt Java. I would not have thought that someone would slip in a backdoor into a project however.
Anyway, I don't think you can look at OSS or a closed source project and say one is more "secure" than the other. I think it really comes down to how it is managed and the quality of the people who are contributing. You might also want to consider they type of application.
As far as IRC goes, this is a community where you are judged by how "bad-ass" your kick scripts are and your "l33t h4xx0r" skills. I'd be cautious of any IRC tool I used for that matter.
Umm.... The writer works in a government facility and is asking about wireless products that meet government standards for security.
This isn't about bigger government or any other conspiracy where in order to buy new hardware it has to have passed government inspectors. Relax, you won't be seeing a purple USDA stamp of approval on your NIC any time soon, unless it is made out of beef. Mmmmmm... 802.11beef, its what's for dinner.
I loved GNOME until they added Nautilus as the default [insert anything and everything here] manager. While I haven't tried GNOME 2.0 yet I could relate to what the reviewer was saying because I had similar frustrations in 1.4. Hey, where did my wallpaper go, what happened to my icons? Between the Nautilus options and Sawfish options I became a little confused and I quickly went back to gmc. I guess little has changed in this department in 2.0.
We all bitch at Explorer being a file manager, desktop manager, and web browser too so I guess it is only natural for some of us to be equally annoyed with Nautilus. Luckily I can do everything I need to do on my box via ssh.
It is your browser and your computer but those ads like them or not are supporting the sites you visit. Blocking them is one thing (I skip magazine ads and TV commercials and fully believe I have the rights to block web ads) but what Gator is doing is not very nice. Right now I am looking at and ad for the new Altus 130 from Penguin Computing. Gator would replace that with one of its avertisers. If enough slashdot readers used Gator (fat chance) over time Penguin and other advertisers would drop Slashdot and we'd either all be forced to subscribe or the site would shut down.
I think that web advertising needs to change. Banner ads and popups are easy to block and replace thus pissing off the advertisers and the site owners. Not many users care if they are replaced and many users want them blocked. Overall, banner ads are annoying (except for Think Geek ads which I often click through to). I would much rather see, in plain text and avertisements like this:
The following article is brought to you by Oracle Corporation. Oracle 9i Release 2 makes Linux Unbreakable. For more information please visit us at www.oracle.com."
A simple ad a couple of lines long with a couple links, no flash, no images, no sound. Have it before the article or after the article on the page. There'd be no reason to block them and to Gator they would be hard to distinguish from the actual article.
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What do you expect from San Francisco? And by the way, Slashdot seems to be just as anti-Republican as Salon. Most of the comments I see posted are by either by Socialists or Communists. Mod me flamebait if you will, but you must admit that it is a big sin here to admit that you believe in Capitalism and suppor those who try to make a living selling anything that has to do with intellectual property. Oh and God forbid that a company lay off people so they can stay in business. How many times have we seen someone post "Hey, lets open a Pay Pal account to supplement [name of company] so they can continue their [Linux, open source, free stuff] works."
That aside, Salon has some really good articles, especially when it comes to the entertainment industry, copy protection, and fair use. If Salon does go, hopefully those who cover such things might find even more eyes and ears in different outlets, perhaps even more mainstream outlets.
If Walmart struck a deal with AOL to develop a Lindows friendly version of AOL (or a Linux version) and preinstall it on their machines. The cheapest Walmart.com PC is $299. With those prepaid subscription rebates Walmart and AOL could give these machines away.
Imagine you just purchased a new car for zero down and zero percent interest. Sounds like a good deal? So you sign the papers and go to your new car. But there stuck to the steering
Funny you should use this as this is happening... sort of. At the top of consumer complaints lists are car dealers who offer really good financing. The buyer drives off the lot and in a few days gets a call from the finance manager saying they were not approved for the loan but they were able to get another deal at a higher interest rate. Because they have taken the car off the lot and because their right to back out of the contract have elaplsed the buyer is either forced into that deal or forced to find a quick solution on his own.
I think the solution for EULA's is to buy and return for reasons of not accepting the EULA. If the stores don't allow it then there is probably something that can be done in small claims court about it. I think in time publishers would almolst have to make the EULA available on the outside of the box or post a copy at the retailer.
The real solution is for cable companies to quit spending millions of dollars on worthless fucking web portals. Pardon the language but it just offends me how much time and resources ISP's put into a "start page". It is even worse when the fork out millions to buy out a portal like Excite just to avoid the time and expense of having their team of highly skilled web developers cut and paste a clone together.
My point is (and people keep missing it) in a free software project who takes the blame if something like this comes up? Forget GPL as it doesn't really apply here. It is not a licensing issue. What happens when a group of unrelated people working together on a project that falls under some kind legal dispute? Who has ultimate responsibility? Who takes the heat?
How is it the same? Lets say I buy Flash and it turns out Macromedia had violated one of Adobe's patents, or I buy some class library and it turns out some of the code was copied line by line from another company's class library. I am not any way responsible as I am a third party.
Turn in around and put me in an open source project where someone contributes stolen code and who is responsible? As a user of some GPLed binaries the scenario would be the same as buying propritary software. But as soon as I contribute I could become part of the problem. I'm not saying I denfinatly would be but the headache could be a bad one for me depending on how the legal team of the code's owner feels about it.
Look at the BNED case. That has cost some people some money. And then there is the Broadcast 2000 project that shut down because of high risk.
I am not an opponent of open source. I just think there is risk involved. Sometimes more than you think. Think about what could happen to Ximian if some clandestine op by Microsoft leaked some proprietary.Net code to the Mono project. Microsoft could sit back and wait until Mono started making a dent in their business and then let the hammer fall. They could easily force Ximian to close shop and put a huge dent in GNOME. They could seek royalties from other contributors and possibly shut down or chase these people away from using Open Source as well.
It is only a matter of time before it happens and when it does I hope some nice person digs up this post and mods it up from the flamebait rating it is sure to get for me thinking that dabbling in open source is risky business.
But isn't using the GPL or free software risky?
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What are the consequences of contributing to a project that comes under fire for patent or copyright infringement? Aren't the major contributors of BNETD kind of going through that now?
If I am a large corporation and I adopt some GPL software for my business and later someone finds that some code in that project was obtained without authorization and now the owner of that code is looking for blood and sees that I have quite a bit of it to give don't I put myself at risk? I may not have been responsible for inserting that code into the project, it could have happened before I joined the project but I improved on it and helped distribute it on my company's website. That could really screw up my business by costing me time and money. Forget backdoors and trojans. I think the real potential enemy of free software is stolen code.
I have a prediction for the future. At some point we will see some proprietary code slip into a free software project and really challenge the system. If I were Ximian I would be very mindful of what people are submitting to the Mono project.
Why not? George Lucas shut down a big portion of Coruscant during the speeder chase. Sydney has far less going on than the heart of the Republic I don't see what the problem is. *boggle*
Wouldn't it make more sense to have one brand identity "United Linux" rather than having "Caldera - United Linux", "TurboLinux - United Linux" and so on?
Think its confusing now? Wait until RMS gets involved. Caldera - Powered by United GNU/Linux, TurboGNU/Linux - Powered by United GNU/Linux, etc.:)
In theory this is probably a good idea, giving commercial business software a solid foundation to certify their products on. But Linux still grows at a faster pace than Windows or Solaris or HP/UX. Doesn't this collaberation risk slowing that growth down? Will it come to a point that SuSE, and these other partners will be shipping with 2 year old copies of KDE or GNOME because the "industry" isn't ready to move towards libXYZ for a while?
From the article: FTC investigators said Zuccarini makes from $800,000 to $1 million per year by charging advertisers whose ads appear on the browser windows.
In this case the advertisers are getting screwed more than the poor sap who fat-fingered the URL. My question is "Do companies who advertise on the web have any control over how their ads are used?" Cupcake is getting paid by the popup and is really sticking to these advertisers and even moreso because the ads aren't really reaching a target market. I would think the advertisers have more to lose than the person browsing. With that in mind, how hard would it be to script a browser to feed off these popups by creating false hits and start bankrupting advertisers who really don't care how their ads are used.
One of the ClearChannel stations on that list, WPLA-FM, happens to play quite a bit of unheard new artists and considers listener input to what they play. Bash ClearChannel all you want for being a large, corrupt corporation but the odds are the station manager at your local ClearChannel station lacks the balls to stand up to management and play what his audience really wants. And there's also the possibility that your market just doesn't support your particular taste in music.
Why don't you start reading the articles you submit. I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well. The article clearly mentions what "middleware" will be hidden.
The only thing more annoying than people replying to articles without reading the articles are people who submit articles without reading the article. Well, perhaps the goatse.cx guy is more annoying...
From the artice.. "Many Microsoft SQL administrators fail to set a strong password for the system account, which by default has a "null" or non-existent password, SecurityFocus warned yesterday in an alert to ARIS users."
But what they didn't address is why would you even expose the SQLServer to the internet to begin with? A SQL server user can do a lot of damage with the sa account. Might as well give them a CMD prompt. There's really no need to have that port open to the outside at all.
I wonder how many internet servers answer port 1521 to SYS/CHANGE_ON_INSTALL. Could PL/SQLsnake be next?
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CDE is pretty expensive though. I bought CDE and Redhat Motif back in the 4.x or 5.x days of RedHat. I really liked it and it was nice having the same desktop that I had at work under AIX.
Redhat dropped CDE and Motif a few years ago and I'm not sure if anyone else markets CDE for Linux. There was another company at the time and I think they wanted $199 for CDE.
KDE and GNOME are trying to standardize the Linux desktop but I think both are going nowhere fast. Both are big and bloated as far as I am concerned and they keep adding to the bloat (mainly to copy Windows and Mac OS). Both have their own interpretation of Internet Explorer which I thought everyone belived was a bad thing but both KDE and the GNOME people have done a good job copying it and integrating it into their desktop environment.
But I for one would really like to see Linux be a free Unix and not a clone of XP or OS X (GUI I am talking about).
I trust my VISA (and credit card companies in general), because they tend to work in my interest and take care of me when I have bonafide problems with unauthorized usage and such. I have zero trust in Microsoft
I used to work for the second largest Visa issuer. We tracked every thing a cardholder did. We knew your spending habits and what you liked to buy. We knew when you were on vacation and when you fooled around on your wife. We sold this information to advertisers and gave it to other ventures within our corporation. Sometimes we'd even turn it over to the Secret Service. Every cardholder had an agreement similar to a EULA. We changed it all the time, raising rates and fees to our benefit. By using the card you were bound to the agreement.
Essentially we did the same thing you say Microsoft does, and maybe even a little more, yet you trust Visa over Microsoft. Interesting.
They may get more money from you if you see the show and buy a shirt for every CD you download but if they don't sell CD's then will there be a tour and t-shirts next time around? But it doesn't justify your theft. Whenever I start believing this shit about the labels and distributors getting almost all of the money and the artists getting nothing, someone like Moby goes on a rant bitching how CD downloading is costing him money. Now who do I believe here, the artists complaining about file sharing hurting his wallet or the slashdot cheapskate with his cost to make a CD figures that he pulled out of his ass which is loosly based on a 50 CD spindle he recently purchased for $2.99 after rebates.
And where is the complaining about software, ie games. A popular RPG comes out and RPG fans who pre-order it or get it the week of release pay $54. In a matter of weeks the price drops $15. This to me is clearly gouging the fans of the game but we don't complain, probably because we are programmers and that would be slapping our own face.
Dreamweaver is nice if you like hundreds of nested tables and div tags to confuse what should be simple HTML. I often though Dreamweaver was in with the chip makers because to render a Dreamweaver page a browsers needs much more RAM and CPU power behind it.
Good, cross browser HTML is done best with a simple text editor and a couple installed browsers to preview with. That is why you don't see as much of it. It takes more time and it takes a knowledge of HTML and not just point and click, drag and drop, or cut an paste.
50 grand short and we are calling it "nearly"
I was thinking the same thing. I $50k must be chump change to Timmothy.
If the Xbox were a low cost Linux machine how many people would actually use them for a Linux machine? Hobbiests only is my guess. And of those who used them for a Linux machine, how many would break down and buy Halo and perhaps some other games?
Using them in a cluster for whatever task or in a rendering farm just doesn't sound feasable. They aren't really upgradable and for the most part obsolete as far as hardware goes.
Not sure but on my non OSS operating system I run firewalls and intrusion detection software to help me catch spyware and other things which are accessing ports which I am not aware of. Since I'm not the only one who does this I would think the backdoor would be found. You don't have to see the source code to find holes if you can see the holes.
.Net and if successful hurt Java. I would not have thought that someone would slip in a backdoor into a project however.
Frankly I am quite tired of this common belief that thousands of eyes are constantly scanning OSS looking for problems to fix. In the 9 or so years I have been using Linux and GNU software I have never looked for such things. Maybe that is because I am a developer and spend enough time with my code. Even when I first started with Linux and things like CDROM and NICs required patching and compiling I was content with the code I was downloading. Hobbiests tended not to screw other hobbiests (unless money is changing hands) and I tend to still believe that. I really doubt there are that many people who police code. If you are working on something and notice a problem then you submit a patch but the belief of a huge and constant code review going on is a false one as far as I am concerned.
With the popularity of Linux and free software however and the perceived threat to some commercial software it might be wise for OSS project leaders to be extra careful of new code that slips in. I have belived for a while that sooner or later we will see companies like Microsoft or Sun let slip some pattented code into a free software project just so they can come back later and shut it down with a lawsuit. Face it, these companies are getting hurt. A project like Mono has the potential to hurt
Anyway, I don't think you can look at OSS or a closed source project and say one is more "secure" than the other. I think it really comes down to how it is managed and the quality of the people who are contributing. You might also want to consider they type of application.
As far as IRC goes, this is a community where you are judged by how "bad-ass" your kick scripts are and your "l33t h4xx0r" skills. I'd be cautious of any IRC tool I used for that matter.
Umm.... The writer works in a government facility and is asking about wireless products that meet government standards for security.
This isn't about bigger government or any other conspiracy where in order to buy new hardware it has to have passed government inspectors. Relax, you won't be seeing a purple USDA stamp of approval on your NIC any time soon, unless it is made out of beef. Mmmmmm... 802.11beef, its what's for dinner.
I loved GNOME until they added Nautilus as the default [insert anything and everything here] manager. While I haven't tried GNOME 2.0 yet I could relate to what the reviewer was saying because I had similar frustrations in 1.4. Hey, where did my wallpaper go, what happened to my icons? Between the Nautilus options and Sawfish options I became a little confused and I quickly went back to gmc. I guess little has changed in this department in 2.0.
We all bitch at Explorer being a file manager, desktop manager, and web browser too so I guess it is only natural for some of us to be equally annoyed with Nautilus. Luckily I can do everything I need to do on my box via ssh.
It is your browser and your computer but those ads like them or not are supporting the sites you visit. Blocking them is one thing (I skip magazine ads and TV commercials and fully believe I have the rights to block web ads) but what Gator is doing is not very nice. Right now I am looking at and ad for the new Altus 130 from Penguin Computing. Gator would replace that with one of its avertisers. If enough slashdot readers used Gator (fat chance) over time Penguin and other advertisers would drop Slashdot and we'd either all be forced to subscribe or the site would shut down.
I think that web advertising needs to change. Banner ads and popups are easy to block and replace thus pissing off the advertisers and the site owners. Not many users care if they are replaced and many users want them blocked. Overall, banner ads are annoying (except for Think Geek ads which I often click through to). I would much rather see, in plain text and avertisements like this:
The following article is brought to you by Oracle Corporation. Oracle 9i Release 2 makes Linux Unbreakable. For more information please visit us at www.oracle.com."
A simple ad a couple of lines long with a couple links, no flash, no images, no sound. Have it before the article or after the article on the page. There'd be no reason to block them and to Gator they would be hard to distinguish from the actual article.
What do you expect from San Francisco? And by the way, Slashdot seems to be just as anti-Republican as Salon. Most of the comments I see posted are by either by Socialists or Communists. Mod me flamebait if you will, but you must admit that it is a big sin here to admit that you believe in Capitalism and suppor those who try to make a living selling anything that has to do with intellectual property. Oh and God forbid that a company lay off people so they can stay in business. How many times have we seen someone post "Hey, lets open a Pay Pal account to supplement [name of company] so they can continue their [Linux, open source, free stuff] works."
That aside, Salon has some really good articles, especially when it comes to the entertainment industry, copy protection, and fair use. If Salon does go, hopefully those who cover such things might find even more eyes and ears in different outlets, perhaps even more mainstream outlets.
Before you go and suggest companies be liable when software fails think about how that would impact the availability free software.
Microsoft isn't the only entity that produces non-defect free code.
If Walmart struck a deal with AOL to develop a Lindows friendly version of AOL (or a Linux version) and preinstall it on their machines. The cheapest Walmart.com PC is $299. With those prepaid subscription rebates Walmart and AOL could give these machines away.
Looks very blurry on my LCD. Not as bad as inkjet printing on toilet paper but enough for me to clean my glasses (which helped some).
Imagine you just purchased a new car for zero down and zero percent interest. Sounds like a good deal? So you sign the papers and go to your new car. But there stuck to the steering
Funny you should use this as this is happening... sort of. At the top of consumer complaints lists are car dealers who offer really good financing. The buyer drives off the lot and in a few days gets a call from the finance manager saying they were not approved for the loan but they were able to get another deal at a higher interest rate. Because they have taken the car off the lot and because their right to back out of the contract have elaplsed the buyer is either forced into that deal or forced to find a quick solution on his own.
I think the solution for EULA's is to buy and return for reasons of not accepting the EULA. If the stores don't allow it then there is probably something that can be done in small claims court about it. I think in time publishers would almolst have to make the EULA available on the outside of the box or post a copy at the retailer.
The real solution is for cable companies to quit spending millions of dollars on worthless fucking web portals. Pardon the language but it just offends me how much time and resources ISP's put into a "start page". It is even worse when the fork out millions to buy out a portal like Excite just to avoid the time and expense of having their team of highly skilled web developers cut and paste a clone together.
Ok, done ranting...
My point is (and people keep missing it) in a free software project who takes the blame if something like this comes up? Forget GPL as it doesn't really apply here. It is not a licensing issue. What happens when a group of unrelated people working together on a project that falls under some kind legal dispute? Who has ultimate responsibility? Who takes the heat?
How is it the same? Lets say I buy Flash and it turns out Macromedia had violated one of Adobe's patents, or I buy some class library and it turns out some of the code was copied line by line from another company's class library. I am not any way responsible as I am a third party.
.Net code to the Mono project. Microsoft could sit back and wait until Mono started making a dent in their business and then let the hammer fall. They could easily force Ximian to close shop and put a huge dent in GNOME. They could seek royalties from other contributors and possibly shut down or chase these people away from using Open Source as well.
Turn in around and put me in an open source project where someone contributes stolen code and who is responsible? As a user of some GPLed binaries the scenario would be the same as buying propritary software. But as soon as I contribute I could become part of the problem. I'm not saying I denfinatly would be but the headache could be a bad one for me depending on how the legal team of the code's owner feels about it.
Look at the BNED case. That has cost some people some money. And then there is the Broadcast 2000 project that shut down because of high risk.
I am not an opponent of open source. I just think there is risk involved. Sometimes more than you think. Think about what could happen to Ximian if some clandestine op by Microsoft leaked some proprietary
It is only a matter of time before it happens and when it does I hope some nice person digs up this post and mods it up from the flamebait rating it is sure to get for me thinking that dabbling in open source is risky business.
What are the consequences of contributing to a project that comes under fire for patent or copyright infringement? Aren't the major contributors of BNETD kind of going through that now?
If I am a large corporation and I adopt some GPL software for my business and later someone finds that some code in that project was obtained without authorization and now the owner of that code is looking for blood and sees that I have quite a bit of it to give don't I put myself at risk? I may not have been responsible for inserting that code into the project, it could have happened before I joined the project but I improved on it and helped distribute it on my company's website. That could really screw up my business by costing me time and money. Forget backdoors and trojans. I think the real potential enemy of free software is stolen code.
I have a prediction for the future. At some point we will see some proprietary code slip into a free software project and really challenge the system. If I were Ximian I would be very mindful of what people are submitting to the Mono project.
Why not? George Lucas shut down a big portion of Coruscant during the speeder chase. Sydney has far less going on than the heart of the Republic I don't see what the problem is. *boggle*
Wouldn't it make more sense to have one brand identity "United Linux" rather than having "Caldera - United Linux", "TurboLinux - United Linux" and so on?
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Think its confusing now? Wait until RMS gets involved. Caldera - Powered by United GNU/Linux, TurboGNU/Linux - Powered by United GNU/Linux, etc.
In theory this is probably a good idea, giving commercial business software a solid foundation to certify their products on. But Linux still grows at a faster pace than Windows or Solaris or HP/UX. Doesn't this collaberation risk slowing that growth down? Will it come to a point that SuSE, and these other partners will be shipping with 2 year old copies of KDE or GNOME because the "industry" isn't ready to move towards libXYZ for a while?
From the article: FTC investigators said Zuccarini makes from $800,000 to $1 million per year by charging advertisers whose ads appear on the browser windows.
In this case the advertisers are getting screwed more than the poor sap who fat-fingered the URL. My question is "Do companies who advertise on the web have any control over how their ads are used?" Cupcake is getting paid by the popup and is really sticking to these advertisers and even moreso because the ads aren't really reaching a target market. I would think the advertisers have more to lose than the person browsing. With that in mind, how hard would it be to script a browser to feed off these popups by creating false hits and start bankrupting advertisers who really don't care how their ads are used.
One of the ClearChannel stations on that list, WPLA-FM, happens to play quite a bit of unheard new artists and considers listener input to what they play. Bash ClearChannel all you want for being a large, corrupt corporation but the odds are the station manager at your local ClearChannel station lacks the balls to stand up to management and play what his audience really wants. And there's also the possibility that your market just doesn't support your particular taste in music.
Why don't you start reading the articles you submit. I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well. The article clearly mentions what "middleware" will be hidden.
The only thing more annoying than people replying to articles without reading the articles are people who submit articles without reading the article. Well, perhaps the goatse.cx guy is more annoying...
Read the article. You get the CD and a slimline colored case. No art, no booklet, no lyrics.
From the artice.. "Many Microsoft SQL administrators fail to set a strong password for the system account, which by default has a "null" or non-existent password, SecurityFocus warned yesterday in an alert to ARIS users."
But what they didn't address is why would you even expose the SQLServer to the internet to begin with? A SQL server user can do a lot of damage with the sa account. Might as well give them a CMD prompt. There's really no need to have that port open to the outside at all.
I wonder how many internet servers answer port 1521 to SYS/CHANGE_ON_INSTALL. Could PL/SQLsnake be next?