Not that Kaplan has exceeded the bounds of judicial conduct, but he has been very antagonistic towards 2600 & their lawyers. It might also explain why he didn't dismiss Garbus when the plaintiffs asked him to - he's looking forward to handing him a high-profile lost case.
In the same way that really repressive dictatorships are good for democracy.
While the SSH people are perfectly within their rights to release future versions under a more restrictive licence, one questions the business logic of pissing off your entire user base.
In part, the article seems to fall into the "OSS can only copy ClosedSS" trap, although he backs away from that in the end without providing an example of OpenSSH's innovation.
We should all join FIN, and coopt it in the name of competition and real innovation.
"Dear Senator, I am writing to you on behalf of the local branch of the Freedom to Innovate Network, who would like to see senior Microsoft executives forced to work the helpdesk for their crappy products."
It seems to me that instead of having all this ICANN accreditation nonsense, any authoratitive DNS server should be world-writable, with some form of digital signature required to update an existing domain, but unregistered domains go to anyone who requests them. Billing could be done post-facto, or not at all.
Further, why not scrap the whole DNS heirarchy? Every ISP has at least two DNS servers, and they all talk to the upstream DNS servers until you get to the root servers. DNS should be made peer-to-peer, not top down, and the need for ICANN and it's 5M$/year budget goes out of the window.
I don't want to knock the book at all, but have no compunctions about lambasting this review;-)
My [non-techie] wife found it amusing, which is unusual for geek humour. I liked it, but since I check User Friendly almost daily, I didn't see anything I hadn't seen before.
Correction: there is a new joke in the book, and it is the book. This is an O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" book, right down to the Colophon: "The animal on the cover is a Dust Puppy". I can't help but think that if IDG weren't such assholes about their trademarks, this could just as well have been "Evil Geniuses for Dummies".
Thanks to the reviewer for pointing out the missing text in the Windows refund storyline. I didn't get it, and didn't think to check the website to see if the print version was accurate.
Isn't it Mike who is haunted by the giant cola can? The reviewer says it's AJ, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
Oh, come on! Everyone uses 192.168.0.0/24. We're going to wear out this class C if we're not careful. I propose having the third octet be your house number mod 256. My home network is now 192.168.192.0/24 (I live at # 10432).
Indeed I did see the movie. I never saw myself reflected in the Monkey Boy character before. Opinion seems divided on the Ruprecht/Rupert question, although they are just different forms of the same name.
Thank you. Not that I was particularly miffed in the first place - I just have a really low threshhold for posting stuff to/.
The name "Monkey Boy" was given to me by an AC earlier in this thread. I really hope it doesn't stick.
If I didn't say so before [checks: I didn't], nice site! You made way better use of the idea than I would have. Plus, my wife would want to know why I "wasted" $15.
My window commands a great view of "Target Plaza South", currently under construction in downtown Minneapolis. I have to tell you that the concrete floors being poured there recently have not anywhere near approached FF/FL "Superflat".
See, news for nerds does not have to be about computers. Many of us, particularly those with houses of our own, find concrete and the pouring of it, rather interesting.
When was the last time you heard after a Linux security problem the Microsoft people coming out of the woodwork to say "Well we use NT so we didn't have problems, haha"...
Agreed. The article looked hard into why hackers get upset by the misuse of "their" words, and then clearly explained why the CBC was going to carry on doing it.
They may not agree with those who would use hacker in its entirely white hat sense, but they definitely understand what the fuss is about.
>>western European nuclear soverign power who is a member of NATO
>By western I meant as far as ideologies go, as opposed to eastern russia/asia ideologies.
Right, and my whole point is that while France may have as much influence as the UK, it does not have as much influence as the USA.
>>I don't think anyone outside France thinks that France is as important as the USA in terms of international clout.
>So what, you just take this time to toot your own capitalist horn?
What makes you think I'm a capitalist? Tooting [Bec] or not, I stand by my comment. You are obviously an exception to my generalization. Surprising to find you on/.
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Not that Kaplan has exceeded the bounds of judicial conduct, but he has been very antagonistic towards 2600 & their lawyers. It might also explain why he didn't dismiss Garbus when the plaintiffs asked him to - he's looking forward to handing him a high-profile lost case.
In the same way that really repressive dictatorships are good for democracy.
While the SSH people are perfectly within their rights to release future versions under a more restrictive licence, one questions the business logic of pissing off your entire user base.
In part, the article seems to fall into the "OSS can only copy ClosedSS" trap, although he backs away from that in the end without providing an example of OpenSSH's innovation.
A standard would be good.
We should all join FIN, and coopt it in the name of competition and real innovation.
"Dear Senator,
I am writing to you on behalf of the local branch of the Freedom to Innovate Network, who would like to see senior Microsoft executives forced to work the helpdesk for their crappy products."
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
It seems to me that instead of having all this ICANN accreditation nonsense, any authoratitive DNS server should be world-writable, with some form of digital signature required to update an existing domain, but unregistered domains go to anyone who requests them. Billing could be done post-facto, or not at all.
Further, why not scrap the whole DNS heirarchy? Every ISP has at least two DNS servers, and they all talk to the upstream DNS servers until you get to the root servers. DNS should be made peer-to-peer, not top down, and the need for ICANN and it's 5M$/year budget goes out of the window.
At the time of writing, this was a first post.
There isn't a mirror at linuxapps (at least, I couldn't find it). Opera said there was.
Sorry.
here
/.ed). I found the response at opera.no to be much better.
opera.com is dreadfully slow (prolly
I don't want to knock the book at all, but have no compunctions about lambasting this review ;-)
My [non-techie] wife found it amusing, which is unusual for geek humour. I liked it, but since I check User Friendly almost daily, I didn't see anything I hadn't seen before.
Correction: there is a new joke in the book, and it is the book. This is an O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" book, right down to the Colophon: "The animal on the cover is a Dust Puppy". I can't help but think that if IDG weren't such assholes about their trademarks, this could just as well have been "Evil Geniuses for Dummies".
Thanks to the reviewer for pointing out the missing text in the Windows refund storyline. I didn't get it, and didn't think to check the website to see if the print version was accurate.
Isn't it Mike who is haunted by the giant cola can? The reviewer says it's AJ, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
--
At the time of writing, this is a first post.
"Go Metallica, die RIAA"
I couldn't have put it better myself.
The Register, that bastion of technology journalism, has good article on why Boo failed.
<summary>
It was all Boo's fault for experimenting after they started their high-profile ad campaigns, not before.
</summary>
Oh, come on! Everyone uses 192.168.0.0/24. We're going to wear out this class C if we're not careful. I propose having the third octet be your house number mod 256. My home network is now 192.168.192.0/24 (I live at # 10432).
Right.
...
Next month
Full frontals of John Carmack!
Indeed I did see the movie. I never saw myself reflected in the Monkey Boy character before. Opinion seems divided on the Ruprecht/Rupert question, although they are just different forms of the same name.
Thank you. Not that I was particularly miffed in the first place - I just have a really low threshhold for posting stuff to /.
The name "Monkey Boy" was given to me by an AC earlier in this thread. I really hope it doesn't stick.
If I didn't say so before [checks: I didn't], nice site! You made way better use of the idea than I would have. Plus, my wife would want to know why I "wasted" $15.
I was actually thinking of him putting the acknowledgement on the site, right about where he claims it was his idea.
--
Monkey Boy
I thought it was rather interesting, actually.
My window commands a great view of "Target Plaza South", currently under construction in downtown Minneapolis. I have to tell you that the concrete floors being poured there recently have not anywhere near approached FF/FL "Superflat".
See, news for nerds does not have to be about computers. Many of us, particularly those with houses of our own, find concrete and the pouring of it, rather interesting.
It would be nice if you credited the person who came up with the idea for this site. Even JonKatz and Hemos know that this is only polite.
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
Coherent and well-argued, Jon.
Why aren't your articles like that?
When was the last time you heard after a Linux security problem the Microsoft people coming out of the woodwork to say "Well we use NT so we didn't have problems, haha"...
Pirhana?
According to GeekLife.com, who may or may not know what he's talking about in this article, you may now sue Metallica for perjury.
Let me know when you set up www.suelars.com.
317,377 users? I think they mean elite users.
Agreed. The article looked hard into why hackers get upset by the misuse of "their" words, and then clearly explained why the CBC was going to carry on doing it.
They may not agree with those who would use hacker in its entirely white hat sense, but they definitely understand what the fuss is about.
From the article:
Visual Basic files used by webmasters
I feel that anyone calling themselves a master of the web, but who uses VB, probably has some issues.
>>western European nuclear soverign power who is a member of NATO
>By western I meant as far as ideologies go, as opposed to eastern russia/asia ideologies.
Right, and my whole point is that while France may have as much influence as the UK, it does not have as much influence as the USA.
>>I don't think anyone outside France thinks that France is as important as the USA in terms of international clout.
>So what, you just take this time to toot your own capitalist horn?
What makes you think I'm a capitalist? Tooting [Bec] or not, I stand by my comment. You are obviously an exception to my generalization. Surprising to find you on
western European nuclear soverign power who is a member of NATO
I don't think anyone outside France thinks that France is as important as the USA in terms of international clout.
Paris meridian my arse (pardon my French).
How can this be redundant? there isn't a higher-moderated post asking the same question that I can see.
Plus, I want to know the answer to this question. Please moderate it back up.