Very misleading article title. The web server is nothing more than a very basic and somewhat broken web server used to test ASP.NET classes. While it can serve ASP.NET pages I wouldn't say they have shipped a server.
Everquest IS a game and using ShowEQ IS cheating. It damages the balance by giving users an unfair advantage. Take tracking for example. In Sony's view Rangers should have that ability and druids and bards have it to a lesser extent. SEQ gives it to anyone.
but to call it cheating is like calling MP3-swapping cheating. No, this is called theft in some cases.
What kind of environmental impact does a cluster like this have over a super computer. Hardware wise it is cheaper to build but what does it cost to power it, cool it, and house it?
I just love a book review that doesn't mention what the book is about. I know nothing about this author and series so comparing the book to how it reads compared to others in the series does nothing for non-familiar readers. How about giving a little insight to what the book is about next time rather than the technical aspects of the book. All that is useful for fans of the series but for the unfamiliar reader it does nothing for the book.
XP isn't vulnerable because XP uses a newer MDAC and you can't install an older MDAC on XP. Non XP users can download the newer MDAC and I'll refer you to the rest of the thread for the issues with that. I seriously doubt this is a conspiracy. If you are looking for conspiracies, try looking at why trojans occasionally slip into OSS releases.
NT, 2000, and XP can run services under different user accounts and XP can run applications under different user accounts which you set via shortcuts.
I have never done this with an interactive application. I would imagine for some applications you would encounter problems related to NTFS permissions when trying to read or write data. Of course in a malicious attack this would be a good thing.
I've pretty much given up on Linux as a desktop OS. I think GNOME and KDE are crap. In my opinion they spend too much time focusing on eye candy and bloat. (Do Konqueror and Nautilus need to do EVERYTHING?)
I used to have the time to play with Linux and tweak it but now I have other things to spend that time on, like my family. The fun thing about Linux was the tweaking and the tuning, trying to shrink that kernel another 2k. If Linux were to ever win the battle for the desktop OS then I would imagine all the stuff that made Linux fun for me would have to go away or at least be very well hidden.
I wonder how many people would have complained if they had chosen Hooters with their busty waitresses over McD's?
In some games, product placement provides added realism. I think McD's and Sims is a good mix. If it were McD's and Star Wars Galaxies I could see a reason to complain.
Just because Moxi is using Linux doesn't mean they are hacking together the whole system based on open source and other free shit. This is a commercial venture, not some case mod like project that Joe Sixpack can reproduce with a dremel tool and a hot glue gun. Moxi is paying licensing fees to the parties they need technology from. You're not going to be able to roll your own Moxi when they are finished.
There must be more to the story that's being left out.
Yeah there is. People are looking at their licenses for XP/2000/ME and assuming KMart has the exact same license. They compare Kmart selling a division to giving their little brother their old PII. This is just not the case.
You and almost everyone else is reading too much into the story trying to find a conspiracy that doesn't exist. Try reading the article from the point of view of who the article's intended audience is. (Note: The article's intended audience was not the anti-Microsoft crowd.)
Ford trucks != software licenses so why even try to make a comparison?
Let's sum it up. Kmart has a license agreement with Microsoft. Kmart uses these products in one of their divisions and then sells JUST that division. Microsoft steps in and says wait a minute, that license is not transferable. Non transferable licenses are very popular with servers and high end software and many vendors have a problem with it. This could just have easily been IBM, Oracle, or Sun for that matter.
Remember THAT during your next round of computer purchases, pointy-haired-boss-kissing-IT- director-of-Mega-Corp.
Nah, I'll remember the asshat who doesn't know the difference between a non transferable software license and a physical asset like a Ford truck.
Don't get too excited. Many other companies have similar licenses. Had Bluelight.com used Oracle products instead of Microsoft we'd be reading the same article here.
Thats too bad, I now know of 4 congressman that I vote against in the upcoming election
If you mean the 4 congressmen sponsoring this action you may find that difficult unless you are registered to vote in multiple states.
I would like to find some examples on why the GPL is the wrong license to use on a government funded project. I think I can make one up though.
The FAA develops some software for air traffic control. There's nothing special in it so they decide to release it under the GPL. The Navy takes the code modifies it with a little military flavor and keeps it in house. The Air Force learns of the software and realizes it would fit their needs as well. Since code falls under the GPL they can't get it from the Navy without the Navy having to make their modifications public. The alternative for the Air Force is to write that portion of the code for themselves. Taxpayers have just payed for the development twice.
Maybe a certain kind of film will do better on DVD in the home than the theatre but I don't see it killing the industry. If you have kids try telling them they need to wait 5 months for the DVD release of Harry Potter. Not gonna happen. Sometimes people just need a place to go, the movies is one of those places.
Windows applications will always be less secure than OSS because it's much more complex and used by millions more users. This is the fact that tends to get missed by people who blindly quote stats that they don't comprehend.
Your reasoning for windows applications being less secure than OSS makes no sense.
Closed source software is no more complex than its open source counterpart. The fact that millions uses software package A over software package B does not make A less secure than B.
I've never worked on an open source project because the closed source world keeps me too busy. But I would imagine its very similar to working on a closed source project, the main difference being teams are not working at the same location. Still, everyone works on their assigned piece of the project and checks it in and hopefully the project leader and others on the team review the code and perform walkthroughs. In either world security holes (buffer overflows, etc.) should be spotted. So its not the open or closed source model that leads to more secure code, it is the project management methodology and the people on the projects who lead to more secure code.
The code most prone to errors in my opinion would be the code written by teams of one where virtually no review would be done. I believe you would find this type of development more often in an open source project but it could happen in either environment.
The thought that security problems in commercial software being a conspiracy to make way for DRM and DRM based operating systems is laughable. I remember back in the early 90's a similar theory that IBM was writing the more common DOS viruses as a method to promote the usage of OS/2 because at the time no one had ever heard of any OS/2 virii. The fact that there was little OS/2 file swapping because there was little OS/2 native software never came into people's minds.
Why would you want to use windows and have the bulk of your memory taken up by a bloated OS when you can use linux and have the vast majority available for gaming?
Yeah, as long as you aren't running GNOME with Nautilus as your desktop manager. But with memory being so inexpensive does it really matter?
Does this mean that Lavar Burton won't be able to see himself in the upcoming Star Trek film? What about Lee Majors? How will his bionic eye react to such anti-piracy measures? I think the pulsing light may give him a siezure. How would you like to have him sitting behind your when he goes into a fit when the show starts. His bionic leg would kick you right through the screen. You can be damn sure I won't be going to any movies until this technology is better tested.
Harvesting a field of sugar cane is quite messy. I'm not sure of all the steps required but one thing they do is torch the fields to burn off the leaves leaving just the cane. This produces a hell of a lot of ash and smoke. Living in South Florida where some sugar cane is grown I've experienced the effects. The upside is the smell of caramel as the crops burn (which always made me crave apple pie). The downside is having to wash your car more often and the sneezing if smoke irritates you. For me the aroma offset everything else but the ash residue sucked if you had a dark colored car.
She was even busted smoked crack in the rehab facility and the Bushies leaned on the staff not to make a thing out of it.
If JEB wanted to he could pardon her and the whole thing would be over. But he's not doing that. His daughter has a problem and needs to recover from it properly. Dragging her pesonal life through the TV and paper tabloids would not be good for her recovery. And her problems shouldn't be used as ammo against Bush which would more than likely be the case with JEB up for re-election. JEB is a good governor and would make a great president, 100 times better than Dubbya.
but then for some reason XP refuses to return any results if I search my entire system for "*.java" in XP, and I'm a Java Developer...
You're probably typing your search in the wrong field. I had the same problem trying to find a particular C header file yesterday and discovered that I was the problem. btw, I just searched for *.java and got plenty of hits on my XP box. And there is always the command prompt, dir *.java/s
As for the mod chip issue, what prevents Microsoft from having future games detect the mod chip and refuse to play? If I had an XBox I think I'd rather be playing games on it than running Mandrake. Obviously the XBox isn't the best platform for Linux. I look at it like I do those neon lights kids stuck under their cars. There may be a slight coolness (or geek factor to it in this case) for a little while but there are better things to do with your time, money, and hardware.
My hatred of Microsoft comes from the lack of stability in their operating systems and their predatory, monopolistic practices
Interesting that you mention stability first over your other reasons. The last two releases from Microsoft, Windows 2000 and Windows XP have been very stable for me at home and in the office. I can't really speak for Linux since I don't use it as a workstation and give it the beating that I give XP. As far as servers go, aside from an occasional hardware failure I've seen no difference in stability among Win2k, HP/UX, or Solaris.
I see an aweful lot of people on slashdot complain about Windows stability. Either they're running older versions of Windows, have some really shitty or misconfigured hardware, or are overclocking.
1.) You -=knew=- that the charity was not going to get the commission if you didn't buy it through their site
EULA or no EULA this kind of sales tactic should never have been implemented. It is unethical. The charity doesn't know their commissions are being highjacked and Amazon doesn't really know the charity's commissions are being diverted. Thankfully Amazon is cutting off Morpheus for this.
Somewhere out there is a person or group of people who built this software. Shame on you. It is unethical practices like this that is going to force the acceptance of technologies like Palladium.
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...how many people thought Russia was being fucked by Internet Information Server?
In Soviet Russia, Internet Information Server fucks YOU.
Very misleading article title. The web server is nothing more than a very basic and somewhat broken web server used to test ASP.NET classes. While it can serve ASP.NET pages I wouldn't say they have shipped a server.
Everquest IS a game and using ShowEQ IS cheating. It damages the balance by giving users an unfair advantage. Take tracking for example. In Sony's view Rangers should have that ability and druids and bards have it to a lesser extent. SEQ gives it to anyone.
but to call it cheating is like calling MP3-swapping cheating. No, this is called theft in some cases.
What kind of environmental impact does a cluster like this have over a super computer. Hardware wise it is cheaper to build but what does it cost to power it, cool it, and house it?
I just love a book review that doesn't mention what the book is about. I know nothing about this author and series so comparing the book to how it reads compared to others in the series does nothing for non-familiar readers. How about giving a little insight to what the book is about next time rather than the technical aspects of the book. All that is useful for fans of the series but for the unfamiliar reader it does nothing for the book.
XP isn't vulnerable because XP uses a newer MDAC and you can't install an older MDAC on XP. Non XP users can download the newer MDAC and I'll refer you to the rest of the thread for the issues with that. I seriously doubt this is a conspiracy. If you are looking for conspiracies, try looking at why trojans occasionally slip into OSS releases.
NT, 2000, and XP can run services under different user accounts and XP can run applications under different user accounts which you set via shortcuts.
I have never done this with an interactive application. I would imagine for some applications you would encounter problems related to NTFS permissions when trying to read or write data. Of course in a malicious attack this would be a good thing.
I've pretty much given up on Linux as a desktop OS. I think GNOME and KDE are crap. In my opinion they spend too much time focusing on eye candy and bloat. (Do Konqueror and Nautilus need to do EVERYTHING?)
I used to have the time to play with Linux and tweak it but now I have other things to spend that time on, like my family. The fun thing about Linux was the tweaking and the tuning, trying to shrink that kernel another 2k. If Linux were to ever win the battle for the desktop OS then I would imagine all the stuff that made Linux fun for me would have to go away or at least be very well hidden.
I wonder how many people would have complained if they had chosen Hooters with their busty waitresses over McD's?
In some games, product placement provides added realism. I think McD's and Sims is a good mix. If it were McD's and Star Wars Galaxies I could see a reason to complain.
Just because Moxi is using Linux doesn't mean they are hacking together the whole system based on open source and other free shit. This is a commercial venture, not some case mod like project that Joe Sixpack can reproduce with a dremel tool and a hot glue gun. Moxi is paying licensing fees to the parties they need technology from. You're not going to be able to roll your own Moxi when they are finished.
Not as dangerous as taking apart your monitor.
There must be more to the story that's being left out.
Yeah there is. People are looking at their licenses for XP/2000/ME and assuming KMart has the exact same license. They compare Kmart selling a division to giving their little brother their old PII. This is just not the case.
You and almost everyone else is reading too much into the story trying to find a conspiracy that doesn't exist. Try reading the article from the point of view of who the article's intended audience is. (Note: The article's intended audience was not the anti-Microsoft crowd.)
Ford trucks != software licenses so why even try to make a comparison?
Let's sum it up. Kmart has a license agreement with Microsoft. Kmart uses these products in one of their divisions and then sells JUST that division. Microsoft steps in and says wait a minute, that license is not transferable. Non transferable licenses are very popular with servers and high end software and many vendors have a problem with it. This could just have easily been IBM, Oracle, or Sun for that matter.
Remember THAT during your next round of computer purchases, pointy-haired-boss-kissing-IT- director-of-Mega-Corp.
Nah, I'll remember the asshat who doesn't know the difference between a non transferable software license and a physical asset like a Ford truck.
Don't get too excited. Many other companies have similar licenses. Had Bluelight.com used Oracle products instead of Microsoft we'd be reading the same article here.
Thats too bad, I now know of 4 congressman that I vote against in the upcoming election
If you mean the 4 congressmen sponsoring this action you may find that difficult unless you are registered to vote in multiple states.
I would like to find some examples on why the GPL is the wrong license to use on a government funded project. I think I can make one up though.
The FAA develops some software for air traffic control. There's nothing special in it so they decide to release it under the GPL. The Navy takes the code modifies it with a little military flavor and keeps it in house. The Air Force learns of the software and realizes it would fit their needs as well. Since code falls under the GPL they can't get it from the Navy without the Navy having to make their modifications public. The alternative for the Air Force is to write that portion of the code for themselves. Taxpayers have just payed for the development twice.
Perhaps Apple was just looking for a way out of doing two conferences a year and this was a good opportunity for them.
I don't think it warrents calling Apple or Jobs stupid or immature.
Maybe a certain kind of film will do better on DVD in the home than the theatre but I don't see it killing the industry. If you have kids try telling them they need to wait 5 months for the DVD release of Harry Potter. Not gonna happen. Sometimes people just need a place to go, the movies is one of those places.
Windows applications will always be less secure than OSS because it's much more complex and used by millions more users. This is the fact that tends to get missed by people who blindly quote stats that they don't comprehend.
Your reasoning for windows applications being less secure than OSS makes no sense.
Closed source software is no more complex than its open source counterpart. The fact that millions uses software package A over software package B does not make A less secure than B.
I've never worked on an open source project because the closed source world keeps me too busy. But I would imagine its very similar to working on a closed source project, the main difference being teams are not working at the same location. Still, everyone works on their assigned piece of the project and checks it in and hopefully the project leader and others on the team review the code and perform walkthroughs. In either world security holes (buffer overflows, etc.) should be spotted. So its not the open or closed source model that leads to more secure code, it is the project management methodology and the people on the projects who lead to more secure code.
The code most prone to errors in my opinion would be the code written by teams of one where virtually no review would be done. I believe you would find this type of development more often in an open source project but it could happen in either environment.
The thought that security problems in commercial software being a conspiracy to make way for DRM and DRM based operating systems is laughable. I remember back in the early 90's a similar theory that IBM was writing the more common DOS viruses as a method to promote the usage of OS/2 because at the time no one had ever heard of any OS/2 virii. The fact that there was little OS/2 file swapping because there was little OS/2 native software never came into people's minds.
Why would you want to use windows and have the bulk of your memory taken up by a bloated OS when you can use linux and have the vast majority available for gaming?
Yeah, as long as you aren't running GNOME with Nautilus as your desktop manager. But with memory being so inexpensive does it really matter?
Does this mean that Lavar Burton won't be able to see himself in the upcoming Star Trek film? What about Lee Majors? How will his bionic eye react to such anti-piracy measures? I think the pulsing light may give him a siezure. How would you like to have him sitting behind your when he goes into a fit when the show starts. His bionic leg would kick you right through the screen. You can be damn sure I won't be going to any movies until this technology is better tested.
Harvesting a field of sugar cane is quite messy. I'm not sure of all the steps required but one thing they do is torch the fields to burn off the leaves leaving just the cane. This produces a hell of a lot of ash and smoke. Living in South Florida where some sugar cane is grown I've experienced the effects. The upside is the smell of caramel as the crops burn (which always made me crave apple pie). The downside is having to wash your car more often and the sneezing if smoke irritates you. For me the aroma offset everything else but the ash residue sucked if you had a dark colored car.
She was even busted smoked crack in the rehab facility and the Bushies leaned on the staff not to make a thing out of it.
If JEB wanted to he could pardon her and the whole thing would be over. But he's not doing that. His daughter has a problem and needs to recover from it properly. Dragging her pesonal life through the TV and paper tabloids would not be good for her recovery. And her problems shouldn't be used as ammo against Bush which would more than likely be the case with JEB up for re-election. JEB is a good governor and would make a great president, 100 times better than Dubbya.
but then for some reason XP refuses to return any results if I search my entire system for "*.java" in XP, and I'm a Java Developer...
/s
You're probably typing your search in the wrong field. I had the same problem trying to find a particular C header file yesterday and discovered that I was the problem. btw, I just searched for *.java and got plenty of hits on my XP box. And there is always the command prompt, dir *.java
As for the mod chip issue, what prevents Microsoft from having future games detect the mod chip and refuse to play? If I had an XBox I think I'd rather be playing games on it than running Mandrake. Obviously the XBox isn't the best platform for Linux. I look at it like I do those neon lights kids stuck under their cars. There may be a slight coolness (or geek factor to it in this case) for a little while but there are better things to do with your time, money, and hardware.
My hatred of Microsoft comes from the lack of stability in their operating systems and their predatory, monopolistic practices
Interesting that you mention stability first over your other reasons. The last two releases from Microsoft, Windows 2000 and Windows XP have been very stable for me at home and in the office. I can't really speak for Linux since I don't use it as a workstation and give it the beating that I give XP. As far as servers go, aside from an occasional hardware failure I've seen no difference in stability among Win2k, HP/UX, or Solaris.
I see an aweful lot of people on slashdot complain about Windows stability. Either they're running older versions of Windows, have some really shitty or misconfigured hardware, or are overclocking.
1.) You -=knew=- that the charity was not going to get the commission if you didn't buy it through their site
EULA or no EULA this kind of sales tactic should never have been implemented. It is unethical. The charity doesn't know their commissions are being highjacked and Amazon doesn't really know the charity's commissions are being diverted. Thankfully Amazon is cutting off Morpheus for this.
Somewhere out there is a person or group of people who built this software. Shame on you. It is unethical practices like this that is going to force the acceptance of technologies like Palladium.