It's not just the administration. The philosophy behind Unix security is that only the O.S. has access to certain things, and ordinary users are limited to what the O.S. allows them to access. The philosophy is that a non-system program can only affect itself, and the user's files.
Any Unix virus will be limited to what one user can do. Any security bug can be fixed without breaking user programs.
The MS-DOS virus industry has been proliferating due to MS-DOS requiring user access to system hardware for decades.
Gee, the injunction is easier due to little damage to the defendants? The plaintiffs are losing several hundred dollars from me because I won't buy DVD until I can use them on all my equipment.
The DVD CCA's purpose is to stop anyone from bypassing their efforts. Control is their business. You can only alter their behavior if you join the DVD CCA and change their purpose. Or if their other members tell them.
There's a difference between having security bugs and having an insecure OS policy. Ever since the PC-AT (80286), MS-DOS has refused to use protective hardware and has insisted that major parts of the system (hardware and software) be available to every program. It made malicious programs trivial. I suppose then there were no security problems as there was no security. (But "Then" is still "Now" as MS Windows runs MS-DOS...as every virus checking program knows)
What ecological disaster? It's a plastic rock. It just sits there until broken into pebbles or melted back into the Earth when the continent moves far enough. Or until our descendants mine the landfill and just break everything down to their element before reassembly into something new.
Or would you rather burn gasoline/alcohol to return the disc?
That is a good question. He only gave a page name which is too generic to find in web searches, as there are too many documents with that name to identify his. But maybe his site is actually about something else.
Actually, they are using the latest technologies. Fortunately, with "Smaller, Cheaper" they didn't cram as much in as they earlier would have so they didn't lose a $1Billion device. They can still build several more to try out things...and the ones sent up now will have even better tech.
Well, it and the microprobes had heat shields so there was some heating expected.
Of course, as we send more crawlers up there eventually we'll be able to play the game "Find Polar Lander". No winner if it did completely burn up, but then we'd end up with the south polar region extremely well mapped before giving up...
Tarantella Enterprise II is the flagship Tarantella product providing enterprise class features
"Enterprise class features"? Antimatter warp drives, voice controlled computers with interstellar communication links? Control panels with colored smears which require special training? Okay.
for customers demanding an extensible, scaleable solution.
I'll settle for several hundred staff members to start with. If extension requires more ships, I'll deal with the accountants when that is needed.
Tarantella Enterprise II servers can be configured as a centrally managed array, supporting thousands of users. They can also connect to hundreds of application servers providing the reliablility, availability and scaleability needed for enterprises.
Well, I'll have to see some reliability figures. It seems to me that the Enterprise class encounters major problems on a weekly basis.
What is Tarantella software? Is it middleware? In a way it is middleware, but that term does not truly describe the full capabilities of the Tarantella product ("Tarantella"). Tarantella is middleware in that it sits between your appliation servers and client devices.
I thought the Enterprise class did not sit between things, it tends to travel between things.
But unlike most traditional middleware, Tarantella allows you to deploy existing server based applications, as well as new ones, over the network, via a web interface, without the need to rewrite anything.
It was asked above how this compares with Citrix. The article mentions that Citrix has to tinker with MS Terminal Server, while this RDP interface is what is normally used by MS NT TS to talk to an "ultra-thin client" (MS term in above link).
The above link is the SCO page with little info. See the Tarantella description here for a better description. It lets you do things like access mainframe applications over the web. Or access an X11 application over the web. You use Java in your machine to connect to the Tarantella server.
Actually, if you read the article and know a little about networking it is obvious that the problem is a combination of web site design, application configuration, network configuration, and MS-SQL configuration. The operating system is only an issue in how it can or cannot be used for the network configuration issues.
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OK, so your company produces software. You've chosen to make drivers for non-Linux systems so you're not in my market. Some hardware and content companies will get income from me if I start buying DVD products, even if I'm using a free driver. It's the content companies which are playing games with DVD instead of selling the content. If they really wanted to protect against theft they wouldn't be selling movies on VHS.
Oh, I will be buying DVD players also, if I will be able to use DVD discs on my screens which are driven by Linux. Otherwise if I use video it will be from other sources, and those sources probably produce less income than a high-priced DVD produces. As it is, they've lost some of the extra income from the higher prices which DVD products had a year ago.
So you're saying that "higher levels of abstraction" don't need to be simulated? Such as causing one part of the body to produce adrenaline is all that has to be noted, and the effects of adrenaline on the rest of the body can be ignored?
For that matter, we can't do molecular level simulation yet. Some chemicals have an effect because although they fasten to a part of the cell which is is not the one which is of interest, the 3-D shape of the chemical molecule happens to block the receptor of interest. True simulation would require knowing the entire 3-D shape of all the chemicals on the surface of a cell as well as what's happening inside. And then there are fun details such as the recent discovery that neurons actually change the number of chemical receptors on their surface, so the surface can change...
The X-Rays come from stuff falling in before it enters the black hole. What is really being seen is the scream on the way down, not something leaking out from inside the hole.
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Any Unix virus will be limited to what one user can do. Any security bug can be fixed without breaking user programs.
The MS-DOS virus industry has been proliferating due to MS-DOS requiring user access to system hardware for decades.
No, that should be Pizza.
I don't care what patent law allows, I don't think mathematical functions (nor procedural algorithms) should be patented.
Gee, the injunction is easier due to little damage to the defendants? The plaintiffs are losing several hundred dollars from me because I won't buy DVD until I can use them on all my equipment.
The DVD CCA's purpose is to stop anyone from bypassing their efforts. Control is their business. You can only alter their behavior if you join the DVD CCA and change their purpose. Or if their other members tell them.
Yes, 56-bit encryption called not safe enough by German court. But a skeleton lock is not safe enough, but does not make lockpicking legal where it is illegal. Unfortunately, common sense is not common enough.
There's a difference between having security bugs and having an insecure OS policy. Ever since the PC-AT (80286), MS-DOS has refused to use protective hardware and has insisted that major parts of the system (hardware and software) be available to every program. It made malicious programs trivial. I suppose then there were no security problems as there was no security. (But "Then" is still "Now" as MS Windows runs MS-DOS...as every virus checking program knows)
Or would you rather burn gasoline/alcohol to return the disc?
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That is a good question. He only gave a page name which is too generic to find in web searches, as there are too many documents with that name to identify his. But maybe his site is actually about something else.
Actually, they are using the latest technologies. Fortunately, with "Smaller, Cheaper" they didn't cram as much in as they earlier would have so they didn't lose a $1Billion device. They can still build several more to try out things...and the ones sent up now will have even better tech.
Of course, as we send more crawlers up there eventually we'll be able to play the game "Find Polar Lander". No winner if it did completely burn up, but then we'd end up with the south polar region extremely well mapped before giving up...
"Enterprise class features"? Antimatter warp drives, voice controlled computers with interstellar communication links? Control panels with colored smears which require special training? Okay.
for customers demanding an extensible, scaleable solution.
I'll settle for several hundred staff members to start with. If extension requires more ships, I'll deal with the accountants when that is needed.
Tarantella Enterprise II servers can be configured as a centrally managed array, supporting thousands of users. They can also connect to hundreds of application servers providing the reliablility, availability and scaleability needed for enterprises.
Well, I'll have to see some reliability figures. It seems to me that the Enterprise class encounters major problems on a weekly basis.
What is Tarantella software? Is it middleware? In a way it is middleware, but that term does not truly describe the full capabilities of the Tarantella product ("Tarantella"). Tarantella is middleware in that it sits between your appliation servers and client devices.
I thought the Enterprise class did not sit between things, it tends to travel between things.
But unlike most traditional middleware, Tarantella allows you to deploy existing server based applications, as well as new ones, over the network, via a web interface, without the need to rewrite anything.
Can I deploy remotely with a photon torpedo?
It was asked above how this compares with Citrix. The article mentions that Citrix has to tinker with MS Terminal Server, while this RDP interface is what is normally used by MS NT TS to talk to an "ultra-thin client" (MS term in above link).
The above link is the SCO page with little info. See the Tarantella description here for a better description. It lets you do things like access mainframe applications over the web. Or access an X11 application over the web. You use Java in your machine to connect to the Tarantella server.
Okay, okay already. I'll install the service pack as soon as I get this batch of burgers flipped over.
Actually, if you read the article and know a little about networking it is obvious that the problem is a combination of web site design, application configuration, network configuration, and MS-SQL configuration. The operating system is only an issue in how it can or cannot be used for the network configuration issues.
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OK, so your company produces software. You've chosen to make drivers for non-Linux systems so you're not in my market. Some hardware and content companies will get income from me if I start buying DVD products, even if I'm using a free driver. It's the content companies which are playing games with DVD instead of selling the content. If they really wanted to protect against theft they wouldn't be selling movies on VHS.
Oh, I will be buying DVD players also, if I will be able to use DVD discs on my screens which are driven by Linux. Otherwise if I use video it will be from other sources, and those sources probably produce less income than a high-priced DVD produces. As it is, they've lost some of the extra income from the higher prices which DVD products had a year ago.
For that matter, we can't do molecular level simulation yet. Some chemicals have an effect because although they fasten to a part of the cell which is is not the one which is of interest, the 3-D shape of the chemical molecule happens to block the receptor of interest. True simulation would require knowing the entire 3-D shape of all the chemicals on the surface of a cell as well as what's happening inside. And then there are fun details such as the recent discovery that neurons actually change the number of chemical receptors on their surface, so the surface can change...
The X-Rays come from stuff falling in before it enters the black hole. What is really being seen is the scream on the way down, not something leaking out from inside the hole.