I thought the idea was that anyone could make their own extensions to it? Hence the "eXtensible" Markup Language. The other things were most definitely abused, as is their monopolistic position in the PC/Console crossbread market.
So if i made up a nice-looking box containing a pentium x processor, some RD RAM, a standard hard disk with my own variation of ReiserFS or something, and a customised mainboard with built-in high-spec video and a standard USB host controller, removed the PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, and installed a weird version of Windows (take your pick), i could sell it as a console? It's a cross between a console and a PC I would say. Show me another device like that and I'll accept that MS doesn't have 100^% of the market share.
It's not circumventing any encryption. Your filtered power supply or UPS is a circumvention device for circumventing faults in your house's/office's power supply. Not all circumvention devices are bad, even in the evil eyes of the DMCA. Anyway, there's no copyright being infringed. At the worst, such a device might allow people to infringe MS's patent on the design of the controller by making cheaper ones that look like it and don't require the same USB ID - but people don't want to do that - they just want to use Japanese X-Box pads which is perfectly legal.
If it's got the USB logo on it, then surely it should be able to cope with being connected to any other USB device? Just like only CDs conforming to ISO9660 are allowed to have the CD Digital Audio logo on them. Thinking about it that way makes it seem more like a monopoly move.
Time for another cumulative patch for IE, this time covering 6 security holes found during the last week, including this one. Using that is like having "Come and get me, 'leet script kiddies" stamped on your forehead.
EveryBuddy and Gaim are two alternative messaging clients that have access to the MSN chat system. I use to use Everybuddy but I prefer Gaim's interface now. Both are fully "skinnable" (using GTK themes) link Trillian is. There are plenty of alternatives to Microsoft's offering. MS's software would appear to make extensive use of scripting like most of their other products do, which does more bad than good with worms/viruses such as this one on the rounds. Gaim support perl scripting, but it's easy to disable it, and it's default state is disabled. I understand that most internet chat users probably don't realise that their software has this scripting ability. Maybe something needs done to make them aware of it and what it can (potentially) do. Then we might see less stories about people falling victim to these attacks. (hey!, stop laughing and saying they deserve it! that's not fair...)
The picture of the modulated signal from the WAP11 on the HP8565a should be rated PG due to explicit content:-)
I mean, what does the 1st one look like to you?
If having fancy graphics makes the Windows ppl switch to Linux, why not let Linux have the fancy graphics, after all a product's goal is to be popular.
FYI, XMMS uses 2% processor power on my PC, and mpg123 varies from 1 to 2 (Dual Athlon MP 1600+). Only thing I find unresponsive is OpenGL games under X version 4. I should probably be using an X server with 3D acceleration.
Where Linux (well, the big popular distros anyway) are loosing out is being able to run the graphically intensive stuff on lower spec machines. My Compaq laptop hapilly runs the latest MS bloatware but crawls under RedHat or Mandrake.
Maybe the pre-emptive kernel will sort this out too:-) *fingers crossed*
I'm sure people will buy these no-return-rental [tm] DVDs and make their first play a rip, then play back from DivX as often as they like. Since it will run on a normal standalone DVD player, there is nothing else the supplier can do to ensure it only gets played once. Anything that someone says can be played once, will always have people flocking to prove otherwise, just like Oracle saying that their database system was unbreakable, people tried hard to prove them wrong. The manuafacturer of these DVDs will be able to use the "surprisingly" (well, for the industry people anyway) high sales to prove that people like this way of doing things, and will eventually loose out because they're charging rental prices and putting people off buying the full versions which they actually make money off.
and that should end in "...if they didn't also use an open-source solution".
i really should use the preview option!
Of course, if the German government (which seems to be further towards actually making this choice) does not choose an open source solution, then there must be pretty good reasons for that too.
Compensated... that makes it sound like something you really don't want to happen in your life, just like you get compensated after being unfairly dismissed from your job.:-P
I agree that the guys who pretty much invented the web, the pioneers of email, etc all had really interesting jobs, but do you really think it's still like that now? I imagine around half of the people working there fix bugs, and a big number of the rest of the guyd probably have jobs that are relatively un-interesting compared to the early pioneers.
More to the point though, if the German government use open source and publish their reasons for doing so, and show everyone else how good it is and how they benefit from it, then it would make the US look bad (and probably produce some MS-style "oh no, look, we're not that bad really" literature).
Actually the irony Nazi's post should get +1 funny. Either I'm missing something alltogether or some people just dont get these kind of jokes. It is hypocritical when someone criticises spelling mistakes and unknowingly make more of their own. It is funny if they do it knowingly making mistakes in a very obvious way. There have been some good examples of this lately on alt.humor.best-of-usenet.
So do vacuum cleaners, and they soon replaced brushes for cleaning the floors of most modern houses. They just took a little time before everyone accepted them.
perhaps he needs a system that scales better to the amount of users he has? or one that doesn't leak incredible (read: anything above zero) amount of memory? My server with me web hosting company has never noticable failed on a request. But then I don't look at it that often. I've seen IIS fail many times though. My friend's university project involve's IIS and while he was getting me to have a look at it to see what i though last night, it failed twice. "It just needs restarted" he says. Web servers should never need started. I agree with you about it being evil:-)
More to the point though, if they were correctly written to perform the task they were meant to be doing, rebooting would acheive nothing, as it would be running perfectly without having to reboot. problems like that really shouldn't make it beyond QA department in commercial situations.
This could be just what I'm looking for. My University honours project includes doing some 3D models in a web browser and at the moment I'm looking at SVG and javascript to fake the 3D. I'm now requiring something a bit more advance and this may be just what I'm looking for to avoid ActiveX:-)
My PC can do that, and all my friends that are getting new PCs are getting similar specs to this. Hmmm... maybe "commodity" PCs to us and the rest of the slashdot community are different to what you're talking about? 4 of my PCI slots are 64bit/66MHz ones and my system was well under GBP1000.
From what I can tell so far and what I think would be common sense:
They're not going to run any sensitive data or important systems over this wireless network. in fact, it'll be used for nothin other than customers' internet access.
For that reason, security is of no concern. If a traveller uses the airport's wireless network, then they are agreeing to whatever terms and conditions there are to its use, which will most likely be that you are not being protected in any way from nasty things, everything you do will be logged (just like any other ISP) and they have the right to sniff whatever they want - after all, you are using their network.
On a sidenote to that, the article says all clients will require to comply with Wi-Fi standards... doesn't that incorporate some form of security?
Bandwidth - I'd imagine that although the lan party idea sounds good, since they are the 13th largest airport in the world, they will enforce some limits on the amount of bandwidth each connection has, or the service might get frustratingly slow for people using it for its intended purpose.
For the future...
I hope that this technology spreads to shopping malls too. Wouldn't it be great to let your girlfriend go off shopping while you sit in a nice relaxing location, next to the fountain or something, surfing slashdot on your PDA?
Win2K's active directory service makes significant hits on the performance of Win2K on your average desktop PC. So they're forcing users to get new hardware too now. Sweet. Glad I'm not caught up in that.
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Roundups happen at the end. The end of what? Is CmdrTaco trying to tell us something?
(Kerbos, Java, HTML, XML, ad infium).
I thought the idea was that anyone could make their own extensions to it? Hence the "eXtensible" Markup Language. The other things were most definitely abused, as is their monopolistic position in the PC/Console crossbread market.
The XBOX is a game *console*
So if i made up a nice-looking box containing a pentium x processor, some RD RAM, a standard hard disk with my own variation of ReiserFS or something, and a customised mainboard with built-in high-spec video and a standard USB host controller, removed the PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, and installed a weird version of Windows (take your pick), i could sell it as a console? It's a cross between a console and a PC I would say. Show me another device like that and I'll accept that MS doesn't have 100^% of the market share.
It's not circumventing any encryption. Your filtered power supply or UPS is a circumvention device for circumventing faults in your house's/office's power supply. Not all circumvention devices are bad, even in the evil eyes of the DMCA. Anyway, there's no copyright being infringed. At the worst, such a device might allow people to infringe MS's patent on the design of the controller by making cheaper ones that look like it and don't require the same USB ID - but people don't want to do that - they just want to use Japanese X-Box pads which is perfectly legal.
If it's got the USB logo on it, then surely it should be able to cope with being connected to any other USB device? Just like only CDs conforming to ISO9660 are allowed to have the CD Digital Audio logo on them. Thinking about it that way makes it seem more like a monopoly move.
I think you went to the same school-of-namechoosing as the person who posted the message below this one :-)
boB just sounds funny
And how do you think all the Bob's feel? Unless, of course, you were talking about Microsoft Bob, which look sfunny too!
Ok, you mentioned R, G and B, but what about the other one ?
In next week's news:
Time for another cumulative patch for IE, this time covering 6 security holes found during the last week, including this one. Using that is like having "Come and get me, 'leet script kiddies" stamped on your forehead.
EveryBuddy and Gaim are two alternative messaging clients that have access to the MSN chat system. I use to use Everybuddy but I prefer Gaim's interface now. Both are fully "skinnable" (using GTK themes) link Trillian is. There are plenty of alternatives to Microsoft's offering. MS's software would appear to make extensive use of scripting like most of their other products do, which does more bad than good with worms/viruses such as this one on the rounds. Gaim support perl scripting, but it's easy to disable it, and it's default state is disabled. I understand that most internet chat users probably don't realise that their software has this scripting ability. Maybe something needs done to make them aware of it and what it can (potentially) do. Then we might see less stories about people falling victim to these attacks. (hey!, stop laughing and saying they deserve it! that's not fair...)
The picture of the modulated signal from the WAP11 on the HP8565a should be rated PG due to explicit content :-)
I mean, what does the 1st one look like to you?
Windows has spoiled you my friend
:-) *fingers crossed*
If having fancy graphics makes the Windows ppl switch to Linux, why not let Linux have the fancy graphics, after all a product's goal is to be popular.
FYI, XMMS uses 2% processor power on my PC, and mpg123 varies from 1 to 2 (Dual Athlon MP 1600+). Only thing I find unresponsive is OpenGL games under X version 4. I should probably be using an X server with 3D acceleration.
Where Linux (well, the big popular distros anyway) are loosing out is being able to run the graphically intensive stuff on lower spec machines. My Compaq laptop hapilly runs the latest MS bloatware but crawls under RedHat or Mandrake.
Maybe the pre-emptive kernel will sort this out too
I'm sure people will buy these no-return-rental [tm] DVDs and make their first play a rip, then play back from DivX as often as they like. Since it will run on a normal standalone DVD player, there is nothing else the supplier can do to ensure it only gets played once. Anything that someone says can be played once, will always have people flocking to prove otherwise, just like Oracle saying that their database system was unbreakable, people tried hard to prove them wrong. The manuafacturer of these DVDs will be able to use the "surprisingly" (well, for the industry people anyway) high sales to prove that people like this way of doing things, and will eventually loose out because they're charging rental prices and putting people off buying the full versions which they actually make money off.
and that should end in "...if they didn't also use an open-source solution".
i really should use the preview option!
Of course, if the German government (which seems to be further towards actually making this choice) does not choose an open source solution, then there must be pretty good reasons for that too.
"he or she is VERY WELL compensated"
:-P
Compensated... that makes it sound like something you really don't want to happen in your life, just like you get compensated after being unfairly dismissed from your job.
I agree that the guys who pretty much invented the web, the pioneers of email, etc all had really interesting jobs, but do you really think it's still like that now? I imagine around half of the people working there fix bugs, and a big number of the rest of the guyd probably have jobs that are relatively un-interesting compared to the early pioneers.
More to the point though, if the German government use open source and publish their reasons for doing so, and show everyone else how good it is and how they benefit from it, then it would make the US look bad (and probably produce some MS-style "oh no, look, we're not that bad really" literature).
Wonder why it focuses on windows ;-)
not to mention being totally ripped off!
oops! i should preview things before I post, glad I didn't in that case though ;-)
Actually the irony Nazi's post should get +1 funny. Either I'm missing something alltogether or some people just dont get these kind of jokes. It is hypocritical when someone criticises spelling mistakes and unknowingly make more of their own. It is funny if they do it knowingly making mistakes in a very obvious way. There have been some good examples of this lately on alt.humor.best-of-usenet.
after a day spent on a cold computer
man, you really need to get an Athlon!
So do vacuum cleaners, and they soon replaced brushes for cleaning the floors of most modern houses. They just took a little time before everyone accepted them.
perhaps he needs a system that scales better to the amount of users he has? or one that doesn't leak incredible (read: anything above zero) amount of memory? My server with me web hosting company has never noticable failed on a request. But then I don't look at it that often. I've seen IIS fail many times though. My friend's university project involve's IIS and while he was getting me to have a look at it to see what i though last night, it failed twice. "It just needs restarted" he says. Web servers should never need started. I agree with you about it being evil :-)
More to the point though, if they were correctly written to perform the task they were meant to be doing, rebooting would acheive nothing, as it would be running perfectly without having to reboot. problems like that really shouldn't make it beyond QA department in commercial situations.
This could be just what I'm looking for. My University honours project includes doing some 3D models in a web browser and at the moment I'm looking at SVG and javascript to fake the 3D. I'm now requiring something a bit more advance and this may be just what I'm looking for to avoid ActiveX :-)
My PC can do that, and all my friends that are getting new PCs are getting similar specs to this. Hmmm... maybe "commodity" PCs to us and the rest of the slashdot community are different to what you're talking about? 4 of my PCI slots are 64bit/66MHz ones and my system was well under GBP1000.
For the future...
Win2K's active directory service makes significant hits on the performance of Win2K on your average desktop PC. So they're forcing users to get new hardware too now. Sweet. Glad I'm not caught up in that.