You are drawing conclusions. f-secure didn't say that the meta tag was FOLLOWED by lycos client, merely that spammers added a meta refresh tag. In fact, it was debunked it on their weblog:
Update on 4th of December, 2004: Lycos has confirmed to us that their screensaver does not follow Meta Refresh tags, so this attempt by spammers will fail. --Mikko
Compare the available set of generic drugs today to the state of the art of medicine 25 years ago and you see why the patent system is a vital part of progress.
Apparently humanitarian organisations and Third world disagree that medical patents converting AIDS meds into profits are progress. I too, fail to see how letting people die around the world is "vital part of progress".
If brands are irrelevant, howcome you are posting a link to wired on slashdot? Surely there are lots of other and even better web magazines and forums... just the names of sites escape my mind.
The Linux-based host nodes manage user interaction functions, while the Linux-based service nodes provide control and monitoring capabilities.
Linux is also used in I/O nodes, which provide a gigabit Ethernet connection to the outside world for each group of 64 compute nodes, or every 128 processors. Thus, the full BlueGene/L system will have 1024 I/O nodes, which essentially form a Linux cluster.
The actual compute nodes -- the 128,000 processors -- do not run Linux, but instead run a very simple operating system written from scratch by the Project's scientists.
Lets have a look the Open Source languages available:
php: no major forks perl: no major forks python: no major forks (maybe jython) tcl/tk: no major forks gcc: one historic fork (egcs) which was not incompatible and eventually came mainline and more standards compatible than the original.
And then compare to Java: Several, different incompatible and incomplete implementations: kaffe, gcj, sablevm, ikvm).
So, I wonder, which one again was the approach that creates more incompatabilities? But sure, java is sun's creation and they can do whatever they please with it.
Massive LCD, spinning media and fast memory/cpu's - not really a suprise. A portable device is a compromise. In this case sony compromised the battery life to get high enough specs to get the nerds to drool.
Anyone using any of the Kiss Technology DivX/DVD players. These and all other Sigma Designs reference platforms based DVD/DivX players run uCLinux. So there are lots of people watching DVD's at their home who have no idea that their DVD player is running uCLinux. There is nothing "amazing" about uClinux, It's just Linux running on CPU's without MMU....And without MMU, any application can crash the system. Therefore you have to write every app as carefully as you would write a kernel module.
In the telecom space, for instance, Solaris is well respected for building embedded applications. While AT&T invented Unix, they never meant it for critcal "five nines" real-time telephone call processing. Yet the dial tone on my desk comes from a Solaris-driven central office switch
And for some reason a large pack of Telecom vendors is busy investing in Carrier Grade Linux. While Linus created Linux, he never meant it for critical "five nines" real-time telephone call processing. Yet soon the dial tone in your cell phone may come from Carrier Grade Linux BSS.
1) Umm, funny that you mention wireless drivers and nvidia 3d - because - solaris has NEITHER. Kind of evidence that a stable binary driver ABI doesn't necessary attract more drivers. I think Sun is trying to lobby a Linux binary driver abi, because if such abi existed, solaris could support it too, and solaris users could use all the GPL'd drivers. Yes it is vary annoying, that FCC has chosen to ban free software from certain applications. Which is ridiculous, as binary drivers can and have been hacked to produce overpowered emission. Such limits should be in hardware to be effective.
2) And Linux is hot stuff in embedded too. And very much because it's drivers are open source drivers! Need to access some obscure USB devices using a ARM/MIPS/superH system? No prob, just compile the driver. With binary abi drivers, they would only exist for x86. Besides, for embedded systems, there is no need to follow mainline anyway. Just freeze at a good enough kernel and merge in the most important fixes back from mainline. even 2.0 kernels get fixes, and I'm pretty sure we will see Linux 2.4 systems still runnning 10y from now.
the Solaris approach still wins for those big systems where an hour of downtime is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In other words, Solaris is becoming a mainframe dinosaur for those systems where availability requirements can't be implemented by cluster-style redunancy.
Yes Solaris is a very nice, well engineered System. Unfortunatly, for most tasks Linux is good enough, is easier to use and Linux knowledge is easier to hire than Solaris knowledge. Unless OpenSolaris will come out GPL (I doubt), It will keep lacking support for many common hardware components and thus remain popular only with Sun Microsystems current customers.
"Linux has a greater TCO than windows systems! use our windows systems and you need less admins and coders! And you don't need so well trained admins and coders, you can outsource the jobs!"
"Linux and open source will take away your jobs!"
Of course, Gates is just hoping that your Boss hears the first message and you (and the goverment) hear the second message.
Even if you don't want to hack them yourself, buying hackable hardware means you can probably install easily hacks done by others, which increases the value of the hardware a lot.
That's why I payed a little bit more on my phone (to get a symbian based one which allows you to install your own software instead of just java midlets), and a linksys Access Point.
Most people do not yet realize that the lifetime of hackable hardware is a lot longer than locked hardware.
I find the following comment even more insightful:
It's always bothered me that hardware can do so many things relatively easily and fast that aren't done today because there's no software to support it. We just decided to try to break the mold. We were going to do hardware that, literally, had no software support at the start. And now the software is there, in several variations, and people are starting to use it. I actually think that's only going to happen in the open source world.
I wonder how many features engineers discard just because "yeah this is neat, but I doubt windows will support this...".
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The total cost is less than that of a so-called "commercial" access point, and is infinitely more flexible. Can you run open-source software on that crappy Microsoft router? I knew you couldn't.
Did you count _electricity_ of having a fully blown pc with a pentium cpu and spinning disks into the TCO compared to the electricity taken by a MIPS cpu booted from flash?
Linkys And almost everyone else in the market uses Linux in their access points. If that isn't enough flexibility I do not know what is.
forwarding spam tells nothing about the effectivness of antispam measures. The mail headers will be vastly different. And possible the content gets munged too by your MUA.
And none of the ip address based filters will hit either. unless you sent the samples from a blacklisted IP, offcourse...
Try posting your new gmail address to some newsgroups, and start instantly getting real spam..
The article doesn't say NSA did read the mail. It says email caused NSA to alert some investigators.
Email encryption is very rare currently. I wouldn't be surprised if echelon considered PGP encrypted mails suspicous and worth checking. From (unecrypted!) mail headers they may have noticed, that the recipent and sender sound suspicous, and match to another snippet of info (like a posting to a islamic radical newsgroup?). Now NSA can give tipoff to the local authorities to see what the guy is actually upto.
Ofcourse, the more plausible explanation is that terrorists were not carefull this time.
Afaik digital cameras have more pixels on the CCD than end up on the picture. Mostly on the edges, since the CCD is an analog device, and at the edges the image quality isn't so great.
Think about it like the CRT monitors are sold as 19" actually have a viewable area of 18".
Here's why -- UUNET is a *HUGE* ISP they have more spammers then anyone else because they're bigger then anyone else.
nope.
They have more spammers than anyone else because they care less than anyone else.
They still allow send-safe.com in their IP space, even thou send-safe.com has been kicked out from Russian, Chinese and Indian ISPs. They landed on uunet, and found a place to rest. For over 6 months now. And th T1 buyer hosting send-safe.com now was identified as a spammer over year ago.
uunet says, here is a T1 line, do whatever you want with it. Scan for vulnarable machines? no problem. Rape proxies araound the world? No problem. Send mail directly from the IPs we gave to you instead hiding the IP using proxies like all the other spammers? Please dont, that would make us seem spam-friendly.
Unfortunatly for uunet, spamhaus doesnt list only those ips used dircetly in sending. They list all ips that owned by spammers.
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You are drawing conclusions. f-secure didn't say that the meta tag was FOLLOWED by lycos client, merely that spammers added a meta refresh tag. In fact, it was debunked it on their weblog:
Update on 4th of December, 2004: Lycos has confirmed to us that their screensaver does not follow Meta Refresh tags, so this attempt by spammers will fail. --Mikko
Compare the available set of generic drugs today to the state of the art of medicine 25 years ago and you see why the patent system is a vital part of progress.
Apparently humanitarian organisations and Third world disagree that medical patents converting AIDS meds into profits are progress. I too, fail to see how letting people die around the world is "vital part of progress".
Iriver ifP-1095 - mp3/ogg player and a digital camera on a usb keychain. Please don't ask why it has a camera. I have absolutely no idea.
If brands are irrelevant, howcome you are posting a link to wired on slashdot? Surely there are lots of other and even better web magazines and forums... just the names of sites escape my mind.
Yes and no.
The Linux-based host nodes manage user interaction functions, while the Linux-based service nodes provide control and monitoring capabilities.
Linux is also used in I/O nodes, which provide a gigabit Ethernet connection to the outside world for each group of 64 compute nodes, or every 128 processors. Thus, the full BlueGene/L system will have 1024 I/O nodes, which essentially form a Linux cluster.
The actual compute nodes -- the 128,000 processors -- do not run Linux, but instead run a very simple operating system written from scratch by the Project's scientists.
Lets have a look the Open Source languages available:
php: no major forks
perl: no major forks
python: no major forks (maybe jython)
tcl/tk: no major forks
gcc: one historic fork (egcs) which was not incompatible and eventually came mainline and more standards compatible than the original.
And then compare to Java:
Several, different incompatible and incomplete implementations: kaffe, gcj, sablevm, ikvm).
So, I wonder, which one again was the approach that creates more incompatabilities? But sure, java is sun's creation and they can do whatever they please with it.
So we shouldn't be allowed to tell you that we think Bush sucks and is a liar (If there ever where weapons of mass destruction, where are they now?).
However, it is OK, if you come and overthrow goverments you don't like? Something Bush did twice in just 4 years.
You have a truly interesting view of what is making demands and interfering with foreign politics...
Massive LCD, spinning media and fast memory/cpu's - not really a suprise. A portable device is a compromise. In this case sony compromised the battery life to get high enough specs to get the nerds to drool.
Anyone using any of the Kiss Technology DivX/DVD players. These and all other Sigma Designs reference platforms based DVD/DivX players run uCLinux. So there are lots of people watching DVD's at their home who have no idea that their DVD player is running uCLinux. There is nothing "amazing" about uClinux, It's just Linux running on CPU's without MMU. ...And without MMU, any application can crash the system. Therefore you have to write every app as carefully as you would write a kernel module.
Ok, flames at will:
In the telecom space, for instance, Solaris is well respected for building embedded applications. While AT&T invented Unix, they never meant it for critcal "five nines" real-time telephone call processing. Yet the dial tone on my desk comes from a Solaris-driven central office switch
And for some reason a large pack of Telecom vendors is busy investing in Carrier Grade Linux. While Linus created Linux, he never meant it for critical "five nines" real-time telephone call processing. Yet soon the dial tone in your cell phone may come from Carrier Grade Linux BSS.
1) Umm, funny that you mention wireless drivers and nvidia 3d - because - solaris has NEITHER. Kind of evidence that a stable binary driver ABI doesn't necessary attract more drivers. I think Sun is trying to lobby a Linux binary driver abi, because if such abi existed, solaris could support it too, and solaris users could use all the GPL'd drivers. Yes it is vary annoying, that FCC has chosen to ban free software from certain applications. Which is ridiculous, as binary drivers can and have been hacked to produce overpowered emission. Such limits should be in hardware to be effective.
2) And Linux is hot stuff in embedded too. And very much because it's drivers are open source drivers! Need to access some obscure USB devices using a ARM/MIPS/superH system? No prob, just compile the driver. With binary abi drivers, they would only exist for x86. Besides, for embedded systems, there is no need to follow mainline anyway. Just freeze at a good enough kernel and merge in the most important fixes back from mainline. even 2.0 kernels get fixes, and I'm pretty sure we will see Linux 2.4 systems still runnning 10y from now.
the Solaris approach still wins for those big systems where an hour of downtime is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In other words, Solaris is becoming a mainframe dinosaur for those systems where availability requirements can't be implemented by cluster-style redunancy.
Yes Solaris is a very nice, well engineered System. Unfortunatly, for most tasks Linux is good enough, is easier to use and Linux knowledge is easier to hire than Solaris knowledge. Unless OpenSolaris will come out GPL (I doubt), It will keep lacking support for many common hardware components and thus remain popular only with Sun Microsystems current customers.
Well designed X apps should work under any standards compliant window manager
What if your your window manager isn't standards compliant?
I bet your window manager doesn't support Xembed standard, which happens to be the way konqueror uses to embed java applets to the window.
I agree.
Atleast they could mention that there are several NON MICROSOFT portable media players out there too:
Iriver pmp-120
Archos gmini400
When you have several articles touting A less featured microsoft/creative model without mentioning alternatives, sounds like advertisizing indeed.
6600
has all the features as the phone in that Image and a conventional keypad. I thought the model in that pic is discontinued?
Looking at the current lineup, I see 4 out 20 phones (which one is touchscreen) that do _not_ have 4 rows of three numbers layout.
People claiming that nokia keypads suck are referring to minority of the lineup.
Umm...
And you think Propiertary licences, such like say the Unix code from SCO, are chrystal clear, safe from Lawsuits and tested in courts??
Do these messages sound contradicting:
"Linux has a greater TCO than windows systems! use our windows systems and you need less admins and coders! And you don't need so well trained admins and coders, you can outsource the jobs!"
"Linux and open source will take away your jobs!"
Of course, Gates is just hoping that your Boss hears the first message and you (and the goverment) hear the second message.
Even if you don't want to hack them yourself, buying hackable hardware means you can probably install easily hacks done by others, which increases the value of the hardware a lot.
That's why I payed a little bit more on my phone (to get a symbian based one which allows you to install your own software instead of just java midlets), and a linksys Access Point.
Most people do not yet realize that the lifetime of hackable hardware is a lot longer than locked hardware.
I find the following comment even more insightful:
It's always bothered me that hardware can do so many things relatively easily and fast that aren't done today because there's no software to support it. We just decided to try to break the mold. We were going to do hardware that, literally, had no software support at the start. And now the software is there, in several variations, and people are starting to use it. I actually think that's only going to happen in the open source world.
I wonder how many features engineers discard just because "yeah this is neat, but I doubt windows will support this...".
The total cost is less than that of a so-called "commercial" access point, and is infinitely more flexible. Can you run open-source software on that crappy Microsoft router? I knew you couldn't.
Did you count _electricity_ of having a fully blown pc with a pentium cpu and spinning disks into the TCO compared to the electricity taken by a MIPS cpu booted from flash?
Linkys And almost everyone else in the market uses Linux in their access points. If that isn't enough flexibility I do not know what is.
Indeed, somehow the EMACS="Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" acronym insult doesn't quite have the teeth it used to
pawsense Will probably work well for that purpose too. Once you hear the harmonica sound while falling asleep on your keaboard, you _will_ wake up.
forwarding spam tells nothing about the effectivness of antispam measures. The mail headers will be vastly different. And possible the content gets munged too by your MUA.
And none of the ip address based filters will hit either. unless you sent the samples from a blacklisted IP, offcourse...
Try posting your new gmail address to some newsgroups, and start instantly getting real spam..
The article doesn't say NSA did read the mail. It says email caused NSA to alert some investigators.
Email encryption is very rare currently. I wouldn't be surprised if echelon considered PGP encrypted mails suspicous and worth checking. From (unecrypted!) mail headers they may have noticed, that the recipent and sender sound suspicous, and match to another snippet of info (like a posting to a islamic radical newsgroup?). Now NSA can give tipoff to the local authorities to see what the guy is actually upto.
Ofcourse, the more plausible explanation is that terrorists were not carefull this time.
Afaik digital cameras have more pixels on the CCD than end up on the picture. Mostly on the edges, since the CCD is an analog device, and at the edges the image quality isn't so great.
Think about it like the CRT monitors are sold as 19" actually have a viewable area of 18".
Here's why -- UUNET is a *HUGE* ISP they have more spammers then anyone else because they're bigger then anyone else.
nope.
They have more spammers than anyone else because they care less than anyone else.
They still allow send-safe.com in their IP space, even thou send-safe.com has been kicked out from Russian, Chinese and Indian ISPs. They landed on uunet, and found a place to rest. For over 6 months now. And th T1 buyer hosting send-safe.com now was identified as a spammer over year ago.
uunet says, here is a T1 line, do whatever you want with it. Scan for vulnarable machines? no problem. Rape proxies araound the world? No problem. Send mail directly from the IPs we gave to you instead hiding the IP using proxies like all the other spammers? Please dont, that would make us seem spam-friendly.
Unfortunatly for uunet, spamhaus doesnt list only those ips used dircetly in sending. They list all ips that owned by spammers.