though the fact that they've added the darknet mode suggests that that they aren't 100% confident about that! That is completely and utterly wrong. The darknet mode was added to prevent harvesting of nodes simply by joining the network. In 0.5 (and in 0.7 with activated opennet) you can create a list of all Freenet nodes just by waiting. Nodes that do not have opennet activated are not found by this method (unless you are directly connected to them in which case you wouldnâ(TM)t need to search for them). That is the reason for darknet.
What standards are they breaking be removing user/password information from http(s) URLs?
RFC 1738 doesn't mention them. RFC 2396 says some things about a general scheme for include user/password information in a URL (but only for protocols that to not have their own URL schemes like HTTP does), and RFC 1945 again confirms that user/password information do not belong to the HTTP URL scheme.
Unfortunately your BIOS won't let you flash it. If you rip the chip out and replace it with an EPROM your new BIOS won't be verified correctly and your computer won't even boot. Great job.:)
Non-flashable BIOS? Not a myth. I got one of the last Pioneer DVD-ROMs that let you flash the BIOS. Newer ones stick with whatever region code you "teach" them by playing DVDs.
Did I make any statement on my opinion? I like this TCPA and/or Palladium stuff as much as anybody here. But take a look at the facts. You got a DVD drive/player? The hardware industrie already tries to dictate what content you can consume. TCPA is just a step further down the road. Open your eyes.
Sooner or later you simply don't have a choice anymore. All the talk about boycotting AMI (or whatever other company) is so damn useless. People who know enough about Palladium & Co to know that they don't want it are a minority. The rest just hears the marketing divisions' talk--they think it's actually good for them. Who care's if you buy it? Nobody does.
So, the actual message is still interceptable, and therefore still susceptible to a brute-force attack.
No. If you encrypt (XOR is enough) the message with an equal-sized random key, you simply can not decrypt it without the key. Brute-force is not an option in this case.
Of course now you also have to transmit the key. So you encrypt this key with a meta-key, a key for the key. And that is what the article is about: Secure transmission of this meta-key, the rest can be e-mailed, e.g.
We could discuss this matter for hours and hours. It wouldn't lead anywhere. I wouldn't switch to X-Chat, you wouldn't switch to mIRC. It's a matter of taste.
Why don't more companied invest more money into Linux, simple, why should they? The Microsoft monopoly eliminates all need for diversity.
Partially true. Ever ran Oracle with NT?:)
Anyway, if companies can't (or won't) develop for Windows anymore, they will have to come to the point where they have to decide on a new OS to make their products for. Companies who already have versions of their products for other OSes do clearly have an advantage when it comes to this decision. They might simply drop the Windows line of their products and concentrate harder on Linux, Solaris, YouNameIt. Companies that have not diversified their product line will still have the problem of a new OS for their stuff. And you don't resolve these kinds of questions with a dice. Smaller companies also aren't really able to afford coding teams for different OSes, let alone to support it afterwards.
Diversity is considered a good thing when talking about genetics, why isn't it a good thing for software? [...] Competition is the single largest driving force behind both genetics and capitalism.
I absolutely agree with you there. I also agree that Microsoft's business tactics concerning resellers and PC vendors are illegal. From Microsoft's view, though, they are not even stupid - they want to stay on top. Maybe PC vendors all over the world should simply install Linux (or other OSes) on their machines, make them dual-bootable and simply give a fuck about what Microsoft says. If Microsoft suddenly sells no more copies of Windows, they might think about their way-of-things. Blackmailing might work in both directions.:)
there is no clear successor to Windows, but why does there have to be ? Why can't we have 3 or 4 successors ?
Of course there could be several successors, maybe there would be several successors. See above for what that would mean for companies. A small problem here is that for a change of OS you would have to reboot. And if your tools to use are shattered between different OSes, this might piss you off. It most definitely would piss me off.
This is an easy question to answer and should be obvious to you. Microsoft has been convicted of being an monopoly. While it had a strangle hold on the industry, it has stifled and strong armed companies from investing in the R&D required. These are the reasons they were convicted.
I don't what influence that does have on making Linux more userfriendly.
perhaps in the absences of the Microsoft Monopoly, these companies would be free to develope drivers and software as they see fit [...]
Microsoft keeps hardware manufacturers from developing drivers for other OSes? Got any proof for that? And if so, why does Microsoft still support NVidia? They have linux drivers available.
They could and would develope accross plateforms in attemps to get as big a piece of the pie as possible.
They could be doing that today; some are already, e.g. NVidia.
What little programs are you talking about ? We are not talking about programs developed in house, by various companies [...]
True. I'm not talking about those programs. I'm talking about programs that make my life easier. mIRC comes to my mind immediately. Programs I use for ripping CDs and DVDs. All those are mostly developed by a single person who would (at some point in the future) decide on a new OS as their favorite/main-OS. But you use another OS... so you're out.
these times would go down in history as some of the most exciting in the history of Computers.
Remarkable times, agreed. Exciting? Maybe.
There would be a boom in innovation, creativity and competition ( all long suppressed by Microsofts monopoly), as all these companies would no longer be hampered by the Microsoft agenda and would be FREE to port thier software and develope the killer applications for any plateform they wanted. This means more R&D money, more programers hired, more diverse computing environment. I see no problem here.
I do. Obviously. WHICH OS would they write for? Every available? Or only major alternatives? And what are these? And who decides?
You can't simply burn money with porting applications to a dozen different OSes. Every company developing killer applications (think of 3D Studio, e.g. - just one example) would have to make a decision. Maybe Discreet decides "OS/2 is it", but other companies decide themselves for other OSes (the company developing Lightwave would probably go for Linux as they already have a Linux version of Lightware, IIRC) - so the market will be split up.
Let's just simply face it: There is no decent successor for Windows.
If Windows ceased to exist, you'd be very suprised at how fast Linux would become usable by the masses.
You're damn right, I really would be surprised. Why didn't that happen earlier? Why doesn't it happen right now? Linux still isn't ready for consumers.
There would be no shortage of companies rushing to fill the void and of all the alterentive OS's
You obviously didn't get me. The lack of the windows OS in one thing, but it's only a secondary matter. Every hardware-manufacturer would have to write new drivers, and they are not going to do that until a new market-leader has been established. And without drivers, who would that be?
Also, this is about the software. All those tiny little programs you use every day. They all would have to ported to another OS. One author thinks OS/2 will be the new "OS for the Masses". Another will port his stuff to Linux. And you will end up with less applications for your new OS, regardless what OS you will be using.
There are tons of information out there about "Windows support", much of it better than what you get at support.microsoft.com.
Well, I was thinking more about patches, upgrades and new Windows versions. Someone finds Yet another Stupid Bug and it's never going to be fixed.
If Microsoft goes bust, that doesn't mean Windows stops working [...]
Yes, of course. But I never meant that. I was talking about getting more licences for it to be able to use it legally in an ever-growing company. Sure you could just go and install 20 more computers than your licence originally allowed you... what would happen? Could you be sued for that? I don't know, just a thought that crossed my mind.
I use Linux on a daily basis, and I think I know what I am talking about. I've been using Linux for about 5 years now, and I've had some nasty kinds of trouble, and I also had great fun with Linux.
Sure, if you mess up your system, it's your fault. But most Windows errors (if they are persistent) can eventually be fixed by the neighbour's kid, but you might have a hard time finding someone to fix your Linux if you have noone around to do it and know nothing about it.
Great, they have finalled ported it to x86? Good news.
Oh... you say they haven't? So you are going to buy me a G4 (or something with a performance similar to that of my Athlon XP 1900+ with 1 GB RAM)? Thank you very much.
And should have been punished accordingly: not simply broken up into different divisions, but broken up, dissolved, and all their assets confiscated.
I once spend some thoughts on what would happen if Microsoft suddenly ceased to exist. Almost every company in the world using computers uses Windows (except for some Linux support companies, and even there I've seen Windows in e.g. PR and Sales). What would they do if they suddenly don't get any more support for their OS because the manufacturer is dead. They would be pretty fucked, I guess. Another thing: What if they want to expand, but can't buy any more licences? What happens to software once the producer doesn't exist anymore? Abandonware?
And which OS would be a successor for Windows?
Linux - forget it. Fine for techies, unusable for computer illiterates.
Minix - ahahahahahaha! No comment.
Other Unices/BSD - see Linux.
BeOs - gone.
QNX - fits on a disk, contains a GUI and a browser. But it's still far too geeky.
Several Windows Clones/free implementations of the Windows API - latest thing I saw was a blue screen, so a part of the kernel was already there.
A new development? Stuff it. We need something now. And right now there is nothing that could match Windows when it comes to companies and "normal" consumers.
I guess not only companies would be fucked. What about you? What about me?
Microsoft dead is a damn bad thing, if you ask me. (No, I don't work for them, no, they don't pay me. This is just my opinion.) Splitting stuff like the HTML control (the Internet Explorer is in fact just a window around that control) from the rest of the OS would be a stupid thing to do. But letting vendors place other icons on the desktop - damn, who cares?
The people who did not buy a gaming console in the past are most likely not going to buy one now just because Microsoft is the manufacturer.
I wouldn't say that... I never owned a console in my life, not even something as little as a gameboy, but I played some games on Xbox, and this console really beats the shit out of every other console. When prices keep dropping I think I will get one.
I'm not sure that the reason for that is that Microsoft is the manufacturer... ever played Wreckless? The graphics and effects are superb. Haven't seen that on a PS2...
my ps2 is the australian model but i've ben watching DVD's on it just fine
Okay, I heard that from the German version... a friend of mine got himself one, invited some friends for a nice DVD evening, set everything up, put in the disc, and the picture was all green. Then he just disconnected one of the pins from the video connection cable, and the picture was fine.:)
The X-box is nothing more than a port system. Lack of original, exclusive games that people want, coupled with it's PC-lite interface make it a handy attraction to Edios and Activision and others looking to make a quik few bucks by porting some of their PC/PS2 titles.
You don't do much console-gaming, do you? Things you can do on your PC suck on a console, and vice versa. I played Halo on the Xbox, and... well. The game might be good if it was a PC game. You can't play FPS' without a mouse and a keyboard. And on the other hand I also played Wreckless (which beats the shit out of your GF4), and I could never imagine playing that on a PC. You simply lack the controller.
And besides, game-programming for a console differs a lot from game-programming on a PC.
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What standards are they breaking be removing user/password information from http(s) URLs?
RFC 1738 doesn't mention them. RFC 2396 says some things about a general scheme for include user/password information in a URL (but only for protocols that to not have their own URL schemes like HTTP does), and RFC 1945 again confirms that user/password information do not belong to the HTTP URL scheme.
Finally this is a thing Microsoft does right.
Non-flashable BIOS? Not a myth. I got one of the last Pioneer DVD-ROMs that let you flash the BIOS. Newer ones stick with whatever region code you "teach" them by playing DVDs.
Did I make any statement on my opinion? I like this TCPA and/or Palladium stuff as much as anybody here. But take a look at the facts. You got a DVD drive/player? The hardware industrie already tries to dictate what content you can consume. TCPA is just a step further down the road. Open your eyes.
Sooner or later you simply don't have a choice anymore. All the talk about boycotting AMI (or whatever other company) is so damn useless. People who know enough about Palladium & Co to know that they don't want it are a minority. The rest just hears the marketing divisions' talk--they think it's actually good for them. Who care's if you buy it? Nobody does.
[...] But most likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication. [...]
Of course now you also have to transmit the key. So you encrypt this key with a meta-key, a key for the key. And that is what the article is about: Secure transmission of this meta-key, the rest can be e-mailed, e.g.
We could discuss this matter for hours and hours. It wouldn't lead anywhere. I wouldn't switch to X-Chat, you wouldn't switch to mIRC. It's a matter of taste.
EOD.
Anyway, if companies can't (or won't) develop for Windows anymore, they will have to come to the point where they have to decide on a new OS to make their products for. Companies who already have versions of their products for other OSes do clearly have an advantage when it comes to this decision. They might simply drop the Windows line of their products and concentrate harder on Linux, Solaris, YouNameIt. Companies that have not diversified their product line will still have the problem of a new OS for their stuff. And you don't resolve these kinds of questions with a dice. Smaller companies also aren't really able to afford coding teams for different OSes, let alone to support it afterwards.
I absolutely agree with you there. I also agree that Microsoft's business tactics concerning resellers and PC vendors are illegal. From Microsoft's view, though, they are not even stupid - they want to stay on top. Maybe PC vendors all over the world should simply install Linux (or other OSes) on their machines, make them dual-bootable and simply give a fuck about what Microsoft says. If Microsoft suddenly sells no more copies of Windows, they might think about their way-of-things. Blackmailing might work in both directions.You can't simply burn money with porting applications to a dozen different OSes. Every company developing killer applications (think of 3D Studio, e.g. - just one example) would have to make a decision. Maybe Discreet decides "OS/2 is it", but other companies decide themselves for other OSes (the company developing Lightwave would probably go for Linux as they already have a Linux version of Lightware, IIRC) - so the market will be split up.
Let's just simply face it: There is no decent successor for Windows.
Also, this is about the software. All those tiny little programs you use every day. They all would have to ported to another OS. One author thinks OS/2 will be the new "OS for the Masses". Another will port his stuff to Linux. And you will end up with less applications for your new OS, regardless what OS you will be using.
This sucks.
Sure, if you mess up your system, it's your fault. But most Windows errors (if they are persistent) can eventually be fixed by the neighbour's kid, but you might have a hard time finding someone to fix your Linux if you have noone around to do it and know nothing about it.
Oh... you say they haven't? So you are going to buy me a G4 (or something with a performance similar to that of my Athlon XP 1900+ with 1 GB RAM)? Thank you very much.
And which OS would be a successor for Windows?
- Linux - forget it. Fine for techies, unusable for computer illiterates.
- Minix - ahahahahahaha! No comment.
- Other Unices/BSD - see Linux.
- BeOs - gone.
- QNX - fits on a disk, contains a GUI and a browser. But it's still far too geeky.
- Several Windows Clones/free implementations of the Windows API - latest thing I saw was a blue screen, so a part of the kernel was already there.
- A new development? Stuff it. We need something now. And right now there is nothing that could match Windows when it comes to companies and "normal" consumers.
I guess not only companies would be fucked. What about you? What about me?Microsoft dead is a damn bad thing, if you ask me. (No, I don't work for them, no, they don't pay me. This is just my opinion.) Splitting stuff like the HTML control (the Internet Explorer is in fact just a window around that control) from the rest of the OS would be a stupid thing to do. But letting vendors place other icons on the desktop - damn, who cares?
Absolutely.
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I'm not sure that the reason for that is that Microsoft is the manufacturer... ever played Wreckless? The graphics and effects are superb. Haven't seen that on a PS2...
Anyway, M.A.M.E. is in the progress of being ported.