"the whole point of Quake 4 is to get an engine update for the quake online multiplayer gaming. Just as Q2, which wasn't that magnificient as a single player (atleast in comparison to Quake 1), but kicked butt online"
Hmm, can't say I can agree with Q2 kicking butt online. I actually thought it was pretty bad in comparison with Q1, where id fixed its problems in Q3. Q2 to me was always THE Quake for single player, and if Q4 is going to be made for this as well, it's a bit surprising since I expected Q4 to be a refined version of Q3, with Doom III being for single player already.
Uninstallations of service packs work if you tell the installer to support uninstallation. I wouldn't call the backup data "cruft", since without it, it wouldn't be able to reconstruct your previous SP. Cruft to me = unnecessary features / bloat, which uninstall data definitely isn't as long as you care about being able to uninstall it.
MS jokes aren't innovative, but can still be fun, but not as fun if they aren't trying to relate to the truth very much. Read up about trustworthy computing and learn how it is a process that has barely taken off today, but is an effort that will show up more in Longhorn, etc. DRM and NGSCB are two technologies that have a lot to do with trustworthy computing that aren't even implemented in today's versions of Windows.
At 2002, MS said:
"It may take us ten to 15 years to get there, both as an industry and as a society."
Trustworthy computing is in many ways only at the concept stage this far.
Sure, one might wonder what's making them think it will take a time period as long as an outrageous 15 years to get these things straight and one might think DRM is Bill Gates' worst idea ever, but then one should comment about this instead. This may seem that I'm defending Microsoft, although I'm in this case just being annoyed by a joke I've seen numerous times before, and that must have been made up by some uninformed person.
Hmm, or perhaps the original virus -- Blaster -- was MS' creation in order to patch the OS, spread to other computers and patch those, etc before a real one appeared, but that the virus was unfortunately bugged.:-)
"We want a single platform." == "We want EVERY machine to be effected by any virus or worm that's going around." How 'bout doing some research first to see if supporting multiple platforms really does cost more?
Multiple platforms is definitely NOT a good way to stop viruses and worms. Educated administrators, auto-updated antivirus software, firewalls and common sense are.
And now, the company has "extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight.
If you're going to submit a biased article, at least get the facts straight. WindowsUpdate.com was never the primary WU domain, windowsupdate.microsoft.com was. They're just disabling the extra one that was never linked from the Windows OS.
Perhaps some of you knew this one already, but it's one of the most useful ones I've found so far and I really like those huge and high quality pictures they have for most elements that you can take meaningful pictures of.:-)
"We had high hopes we could pin down muckrosoftium as element 115 - but the damn thing just wasn't stable".... "but clearly the largest element to date".:-)
I'm using SCO's attempts at getting Linux to kneel as a random seed. Their claims seem to be truly random, and completely isolated from external interference.
Hehe.. C1541... I remember cutting holes in the 5 1/4" floppies by hand to make them double sided. Good times:-) (and yeah, I had one of those 1541's... my dream about a hard drive for the Amiga never came true though, since about that time those became good enough, PC's were conquering the market and I went for those)
Also think of the animals living at the poles.. Polar bears, penguins... Having Tux represent an extinct animal wouldn't be very cool, eh?
Anyway, efficiently making lots of animals go extinct was at least what crossed my mind when I first read this. Wohoo, sea levels might not rise much (which is a flawed assumption according to several/. articles by now). Great, so the land animals live on will just vanish. Thank god humanity is so selfish that we won't care about that.:-(
Seriously, I thought these stories were funny at first, but right now they're mostly like sequels to a funny movie that get less and less funny as more are made. What I'd like to see now is how SCO is judged, but I guess there are a dozen of episodes left until that.:-P
Ah, I admit I didn't RTFA and see they might have been discussion bad drivers and not software in general (i.e. applications). Yes, I can agree with that, and that's why drivers should be WHQL tested. I haven't had any probs with those, but I have had others (especially video card drivers) who weren't properly tested to bring down my OS.
So they're saying that a poorly designed application can take down the entire operating system? The OS should be resilient enough to handle application crashes and keep on running, who cares who causes the crash? It's the OS's responsibility to handle it.
This is also usually the case with MS' NT-based operating systems. At least from my experiences. However, I can't say the same for Windows 9x, but all of those are more like leaked alpha builds.:-)
Regarding stock play, IBM mentioned this in their countersuit. Here's a summary I found so one doesn't have to wade through it in its entirety.
Serious accusations (I agree with) that I think really deserves a harsh penalty include:
"SCO has misleadingly overstated its rights to UNIX, AIX, and IBM's Linux-related products, for its own financial benefit" (and probably being fully aware of their overstatements as well)
"breach of contract, violations of the Lanham Act, unfair competition, intentional interference with prospective economic relations, and unfair and deceptive trade practices." (I assume this includes their intentional "tampering" with the stock value)
I hope they're prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for this, since what SCO has done goes far beyond a simple bickering about who owns a license and a breach of the GPL. Intentionally misleading their targets by spreading FUD, ruthlessly ignoring how it hurts an entire business, and tampering with their stock value is all in direct collision course with the law to me, and should be punished as such.
That SCO will be fried to a crisp by IBM (and others?) wouldn't surprise me, but I hope they take this to the next level beyond a fight for a license, since this behavior shouldn't be tolerated in any business.
A new version of Blaster has started spreading. The new version is called RPCsdbot.A by Trend Micro and appears to be more stable and can also open a backdoor to IRC.
The largest ISP in Sweden, Telia, had 40 servers collapse from this virus and in effect prevented 16,000 users from logging on to their ADSL service. That gives you a great deal of confidence in an ISP, right?;-)
Thanks for finally clarifying that article for me. I saw it in swedish news too and thought it sounded too strange to be true, even for something from the EU.:-) I've asked about it, but haven't got any good answer until now.
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"the whole point of Quake 4 is to get an engine update for the quake online multiplayer gaming. Just as Q2, which wasn't that magnificient as a single player (atleast in comparison to Quake 1), but kicked butt online"
Hmm, can't say I can agree with Q2 kicking butt online. I actually thought it was pretty bad in comparison with Q1, where id fixed its problems in Q3. Q2 to me was always THE Quake for single player, and if Q4 is going to be made for this as well, it's a bit surprising since I expected Q4 to be a refined version of Q3, with Doom III being for single player already.
Uninstallations of service packs work if you tell the installer to support uninstallation. I wouldn't call the backup data "cruft", since without it, it wouldn't be able to reconstruct your previous SP. Cruft to me = unnecessary features / bloat, which uninstall data definitely isn't as long as you care about being able to uninstall it.
Yay for trustworthy computing.
MS jokes aren't innovative, but can still be fun, but not as fun if they aren't trying to relate to the truth very much. Read up about trustworthy computing and learn how it is a process that has barely taken off today, but is an effort that will show up more in Longhorn, etc. DRM and NGSCB are two technologies that have a lot to do with trustworthy computing that aren't even implemented in today's versions of Windows.
At 2002, MS said:
"It may take us ten to 15 years to get there, both as an industry and as a society."
Trustworthy computing is in many ways only at the concept stage this far.
Sure, one might wonder what's making them think it will take a time period as long as an outrageous 15 years to get these things straight and one might think DRM is Bill Gates' worst idea ever, but then one should comment about this instead. This may seem that I'm defending Microsoft, although I'm in this case just being annoyed by a joke I've seen numerous times before, and that must have been made up by some uninformed person.
Seems like it was a pre-beta build of SP2 to me. Not what I'd call more or less ready.
I found another one. ;-) I doubt it's infected by Blaster, etc, while still offering perfectly functional internet connectivity.
No, it's likely not the final SP to XP, so you should stay with NT4 SP6. Don't consider switching to 2000 or another OS either.
I wonder if MS is h4x0r1ng themselves...
:-)
Hmm, or perhaps the original virus -- Blaster -- was MS' creation in order to patch the OS, spread to other computers and patch those, etc before a real one appeared, but that the virus was unfortunately bugged.
"We want a single platform." == "We want EVERY machine to be effected by any virus or worm that's going around." How 'bout doing some research first to see if supporting multiple platforms really does cost more?
Multiple platforms is definitely NOT a good way to stop viruses and worms. Educated administrators, auto-updated antivirus software, firewalls and common sense are.
And now, the company has "extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight.
If you're going to submit a biased article, at least get the facts straight. WindowsUpdate.com was never the primary WU domain, windowsupdate.microsoft.com was. They're just disabling the extra one that was never linked from the Windows OS.
The Wooden Periodic Table
:-)
Perhaps some of you knew this one already, but it's one of the most useful ones I've found so far and I really like those huge and high quality pictures they have for most elements that you can take meaningful pictures of.
"We had high hopes we could pin down muckrosoftium as element 115 - but the damn thing just wasn't stable". ... "but clearly the largest element to date". :-)
All the evidence points to a natural overload.
:-)
Natural? And I who thought it was the human-rabbit clones' first step to conquer the world.
Bah, can't something interesting like that happen some day?
I'm using SCO's attempts at getting Linux to kneel as a random seed. Their claims seem to be truly random, and completely isolated from external interference.
The copyright law violates GPL!
FFS, can't they get anything straight??
Now if you excuse me, I'll start evangelizing these wicked followers of copyrights. Let's see, yes, it was that heretic... Bill Gates...
Hehe.. C1541... I remember cutting holes in the 5 1/4" floppies by hand to make them double sided. Good times :-) (and yeah, I had one of those 1541's... my dream about a hard drive for the Amiga never came true though, since about that time those became good enough, PC's were conquering the market and I went for those)
Also think of the animals living at the poles.. Polar bears, penguins... Having Tux represent an extinct animal wouldn't be very cool, eh?
/. articles by now). Great, so the land animals live on will just vanish. Thank god humanity is so selfish that we won't care about that. :-(
Anyway, efficiently making lots of animals go extinct was at least what crossed my mind when I first read this. Wohoo, sea levels might not rise much (which is a flawed assumption according to several
Seriously, I thought these stories were funny at first, but right now they're mostly like sequels to a funny movie that get less and less funny as more are made. What I'd like to see now is how SCO is judged, but I guess there are a dozen of episodes left until that. :-P
Too bad Windows is closed source. Would be so much more fun to see actual embarassing programming mistakes and hacks. ;-)
Ah, I admit I didn't RTFA and see they might have been discussion bad drivers and not software in general (i.e. applications). Yes, I can agree with that, and that's why drivers should be WHQL tested. I haven't had any probs with those, but I have had others (especially video card drivers) who weren't properly tested to bring down my OS.
So they're saying that a poorly designed application can take down the entire operating system? The OS should be resilient enough to handle application crashes and keep on running, who cares who causes the crash? It's the OS's responsibility to handle it.
:-)
This is also usually the case with MS' NT-based operating systems. At least from my experiences. However, I can't say the same for Windows 9x, but all of those are more like leaked alpha builds.
They collapsed because of the high server load due to all the rebooting windows machines (their customers...), not of the virus itself.
:-P
Ah, I see... I guess it was from their stupid login scripts starting to suck huge amount of CPU, then.
Regarding stock play, IBM mentioned this in their countersuit. Here's a summary I found so one doesn't have to wade through it in its entirety.
Serious accusations (I agree with) that I think really deserves a harsh penalty include:
"SCO has misleadingly overstated its rights to UNIX, AIX, and IBM's Linux-related products, for its own financial benefit" (and probably being fully aware of their overstatements as well)
"breach of contract, violations of the Lanham Act, unfair competition, intentional interference with prospective economic relations, and unfair and deceptive trade practices." (I assume this includes their intentional "tampering" with the stock value)
I hope they're prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for this, since what SCO has done goes far beyond a simple bickering about who owns a license and a breach of the GPL. Intentionally misleading their targets by spreading FUD, ruthlessly ignoring how it hurts an entire business, and tampering with their stock value is all in direct collision course with the law to me, and should be punished as such.
That SCO will be fried to a crisp by IBM (and others?) wouldn't surprise me, but I hope they take this to the next level beyond a fight for a license, since this behavior shouldn't be tolerated in any business.
A new version of Blaster has started spreading. The new version is called RPCsdbot.A by Trend Micro and appears to be more stable and can also open a backdoor to IRC.
RPCsdbot.A Information
Home users, maybe but businesses????
;-)
The largest ISP in Sweden, Telia, had 40 servers collapse from this virus and in effect prevented 16,000 users from logging on to their ADSL service. That gives you a great deal of confidence in an ISP, right?
Thanks for finally clarifying that article for me. I saw it in swedish news too and thought it sounded too strange to be true, even for something from the EU. :-) I've asked about it, but haven't got any good answer until now.