..or if someone cracked into their system and stole it.
If this is the case, their network admin should be fired. No matter what resolution, that would have to be one huge file transfer to go unnoticed on a corporate LAN uplink.
Myself, I'm betting it may be a working copy but I bet a number of effects shots are either still low-res versions or simply missing. I have a real hard time believing the film is even done, considering today's effect shop deadlines seeming to back right up against the release date. Either that or some s00per-l33+ skr1p+ k1dd13 was simply bragging about having an animated version.
I continually am amazed at firms that do this. Does not even the lowly geek admin at this place realize this will eventually kill mp3 as a used format, thus killing their source of revenue?
I swear, if people are learning this kinda crap at their respective busisness schools.. I guess it's no wonder things like Enron or WorldComm happen.
And from the second story... "The department discovered the misrepresentations and reported them to the FISA court beginning in 2000.".. which means the improper actions occured before 2000.. i.e. Before Bush. So Bush/Ashcroft are not responsible for those infractions.
Having said that (and despite being a conservative), I do hope these revalations reign in some of the trampling of civil liberties Ashcroft/Bush are considering. I fully understand their desire to fight terrorism, and I understand some liberties we were used to in the past may be crimped in the process. But eliminated? Virtually removed? A number of their proposals (and some things currently put in place) are simply troubling and I hope this is a wake-up call they cannot simply trample over the Constitution in the name of protecting the public. Freedom is not without its risks, either to those who defend it or the society which enjoys it. We all simply need to be aware of that risk and vigilant in our own way to insure we don't lose our freedom to either the terrorist, the criminal or our own government.
(and no, I don't get my music via gnutella either)
AdvFS is one of the important components of Tru64 that will be migrated to HP-UX (but this work is going very badly, from what I understand).
I'm not suprised; AdvFS had to have a lot of hooks deep into Tru64 that probably don't (or really can't) translate over to HPUX. AdvFS is cool: I didn't get to spend a lot of time with it but loved how solid the filesystem (and the OS) performed, whether on RAID, JBOD or otherwise. Particularly, I liked AdvFS method of file domains, adding another level to partitioning. It was REAL simple to create quickie test filedomains for small storage areas without having to format/partition/whatnot.
Comparatively, 64-but HPUX is still quite infantile compared to OSF/Tru64. I think HP is making some mistakes in ASSuming they can incorporate some technologies so easily (TruCluster, AdvFS) while throwing away the rest of such a solid OS.
Google is your friend... Look at DistroWatch. I thoguht Turbo initially was a distro that would try to tailor to your arch a little better, thus perform better.. but I think they turned into another standard GUI-based Mandrake/Redhat pretty install.
You forgot Gentoo - Even more hard core than Slackware; use if you are into watching your machine stroke out in a compile-fest. emerge is your friend. It's neat to watch my spare box (Celery466) sit off to the side mired in building KDE from scratch.:)
I snagged a NomadII MG from Ebay and slapped a 128Mb card (also from ebay) into it. 192MB total.. enough for ~40 songs (Rush-type songs... 5-8 mins per) @112kbps. I use it when riding the motorcycle and it's great for having about 3-5 hours of non-repeating music. I think the entire bundle cost less than $250..
It's been great. And though I've only tinkered with the linux tools for the thing, they seem to tranfer stuff well & easily. All they really require is USB device filesystem compiled into the kernel.. at this point there's not even a kernel module needed. Plus, there's an FM tuner on the thing.. not nearly as good as my Walkman AM/FM radio, but it's nice to have handy. The only complaint are the buttons.. it's way to easy to bump it when in my riding jacket and pause/switch mode/delete. Otherwise, it performs excellent. Quite pleased.
Now, ideally, these parts will not be too terribly difficult to replace...
I don't know about that... the facility where they were built (by The Marion Power Shovel Company of Marion, OH, since bought out by Dresser Industries) has been shut down for quite some time now. Marion Power Shovel appears to still exist, but their website says they work with large mining equipment. Any parts needed for these things may have to be custom machined, which will be a cast-iron bitch (pardon the pun).
I lived ~10 miles south of Marion when I was growing up and just loved the idea of the 'strong shoulders' for NASA were built nearby. The facility is HUGE (well, in 70's standards.. nowadays it probably doesn't rival many large mfg facilities).
So everyone, stop hammering the SSH site and give the RIAA [riaa.org] the affection they so sorely need.
So, can this post be considered a Dos attack on the RIAA website? Will the RIAA in turn go after the/. community?
And should we be suprised at all the server header from www.riaa.org is Microsoft/IIS-4.0 ?
or is there any irony in the fact if the RIAA was doing this to you or your website/host they would be justifed and above prosecution? (at least, with the legislation MPAA is trying to get thru congress...)
These could be (er, SHOULD be) considered karmawhoring or flamebait.. except the RIAA/MPAA will probably consider it at the least, send a few lettters even.
Based on the account in the article your response is simply ridiculous. Although the story is brief and somewhat biased ("Ethical Hacker" etc.) NOWHERE does it indicate that he *poked* around or otherwise exploited the security gap.
In a Chronicle article about the demonstration, Puffer said he noticed he could access the county network in early March, when he scanned for weaknesses throughout Houston.
He said he could also access numerous home, government, university and business computer systems.... County Attorney Mike Stafford said he will resume his investigation into whether the security breach was corrected as promptly as county officials learned of it and the origin of a pornographic picture found on the clerk's office server in March.
Noting a network is open/accessable is one thing.. noting you can access a number of specific systems leans more toward the probing side of things. And, as for the last paragraph, I would suspect either he found that or the subsequent audit after the intrusion.
Overall, the Houston article is rather vague as to his exact actions, so inference on his intent/whatnot is nigh impossible and therefore simple ASSumption.
Another Orwellian-type (Soviet-type? Gestapo-type?) form of overmonitoring? A few things strike me from the challenge...
"United States courts have recognized for more than a century that honest citizens have the right to travel throughout America without government restrictions..." Well, we have to admit not all of those using our travel means in this country are honest citizens. The bulk probably are, but not all of them. So there has to be some form of verification/weeding out.
"This will use your ID to search in a stew of databases like credit records, previous travel history, criminal records, motor vehicle records, banks, web searches, and companies that collect personal information from consumer transactions. " Now this I have a small problem with. I can (maybe) see checking things like criminal records or travel history.. but my credit record? My bank record? Those are in no way relevant to the choice I make to fly to Phoenix for the weekend.
Once again, the government is demonstrating an obscene overreaction to terroristic threats on our soil by ignoring key portions of the Constitution in the same of 'public safety.' Well, at this stage the cable guy can't come into my house (soon, maybe: TIPS), I can't fly to Miami (this crap, maybe), and I have to sit at home (or set up a motion-based webcam, look for sneak-n-peek in Patriot Act) to see if my domocile has been searched. Hell, I can't even surf for pr0n on Google anymore without being federally monitored.
If you asked me, the terrorists have managed to pull of some significant victories. It's a damn shame.
Wow, what a nice step one towards fixing that whole "hated on a global stage" thing.
Right, okey. So, we'll keep all the monentary outlays to ridiculous notions such as the World Court and the United Nations.
It's funny how the US is so 'hated on a global stage' until you need US funding for some earthquake, natural disaster, peacekeeping mission, etc etc... but if you don't want our help, that's fine. Stop asking for drugs. Stop asking for aid. Stop asking for money. I'm tired of subsidizind your asses anyway.
Upgrading Apache and OpenSSH (and most other apps, even daemons/services) doesn't even require a reboot on Win2000/XP. Welcome to the future!
No, welcome to the past. Updating ANY daemon, service or software not directly related to the kernel or core libraries does not require reboot. Where the hell have you been?
It's quite sad when the words 'update' or 'patch' are considered synonymous with 'reboot.'
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
Notexactly. If you know anything about cellphones, you know they're pretty mcuh killing the (need for a) payphone market. More examples...
This actually reminds me of the question of why cellphones are banned on airplanes. Yes, I know the tower range is slim to none, but it can work (and I believe it's been discussed before)..
-'f
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It's the choice between backstabbing your boss and not warning customers who after all may not even be victims.
I still don't see the problem. If I discover this kind of problem, the first one I inform is my boss. If he fails to react, I have two things to consider:
The burden of failing to disclose farther up the chain is on his shoulders now.
If he fails to react, then there is no guilt in going over his head. He put himself in that spot by failing to react.
And as I sit here typing this.. I think I shuold take a fellow admin as a witness, so we have no he-said/he-said crap later on.
I also thought the standard was open. Why hasn't an open source project undergone making a CAD program that read/wrote Pro/E files?
Well, it's not as necessary when you have intermediate formats such as IGES already in most of the commercial packages of the same vein (ProE, PATRAN, I-DEAS, Auto<whatever>, etc etc...). Plus, some of the apps can directly read format variations of the other programs (being able to read PATRAN neutral files, I-DEAS 'export' files (they had a specific name, but it's been ~2 years since I touched I-DEAS), Abaqus input decks, etc etc...)
And as a point of note, MSC has had a Linux (well, RedHat) version of PATRAN included with their dists for the last few releases. ANSYS has done it recently as well. HKS; it would be interesting to see the Abaqus solver go over.. that seems to be quite popular for FEA.
Too bad I'm currently unemployed; it was fun working with that crap.:/
For a day or so, you can keep most large networks running with only one person or so...
I'm sorry, but this kinda comment chafes my ass. Where I worked (I was laid off recently) we had a satellite fiber-optic cable production plant in Canada. My manager once stated in a meeting the place 'was running with only 17 staff...' completely neglecting his IS department in the room that remotely managed, upgraded, troubleshot, etc etc...
'You can keep most networks running with one person' does not jive with 'we have people on call..' the on-call person(s) cannot be discounted so easily. Otherwise, why have them in the first place?
First off, i never downloaded napster. call it the desire not to follow the trend, but I didn't. Besides I believe in supporting the artists I like, as my 800+ cd collection should attest.
I have dabbled a little with gnutella, and find it handy. mostly i look for two things:
bootleg stuff the record companies don't sell,
extra snippets from records besides the aor song of the day from a band/disc i like, or
enough tracks of a disc to tide me over until the order arrives (ever try finding your favorite Apocalyptica disc at Best Buy?)
In most cases, if I like the tunes, I buy the disc. If I only like the radio track, I won't buy it.. and in most cases I won't even keep the MP3. Figure the stuff will be crap enough before long.
So, for me, sharing helps me make a more informed decision. And (probably to the record company's chargrin) I won't buy their crappy disc of crap for only one track I would like. So, I guess it does suck for them..
But isn't there some solution to set up your vast song database on your main server in another room and tell 'em to server your AUX-input of your normal Hifi Equip. by a (obviosly non IR) remote controller?
Perhaps you mean A-UX input?:)
-fester (who had the a-ux floppy-based install somewhere...)
if by that you mean they should have the legal authority to deny any benchmark that they don't approve of. That is akin to passing a law that states "you may only print the truth, and I get to decide what that truth is."
Sorry, poor clarity on my part. I agree with this statement; it's what I meant by being 'lost in the shuffle.' A vendor should be allowed to participate in setup/configuration for a benchmark, but then should also stand behind the results, good or bad. Refusal to allow publication based solely on the 'it will make us look bad' mentality is wrong... (imho) not criminal, but wrong.
A benchmark is not a review. A benchmark is more of an objective test of the performance of an application which can be dependent on a vast number of factors, poor configuration being among them. There's a major difference between a review saying 'this program sucks' and a benchmark saying'this program sucks because it's slower than THAT program'.. the first one is pretty much purely subjective, but the second should have a basis of underlying equality of all factorts except the two actual components tested.
You can't just slap a comparision of Apache and IIS up somewhere and say 'because of unit frob, Apache performs better' without qualifying your goal of comparing apples to apples ("well, in actuality IIS was running on a 486 with 32MB ram.. but see? Apache was faster, wasn't it?"). Remember one of the first Netcraft IIS vs apache reviews where it was revealed Netcraft tuned the hell outta IIS but ran Apache on a stock RedHat (or some such) install? Didn't even tweak number of children or any such crap?
Vendors are perfectly in their right to oversee benchmarking their products in a comparative fashion to insure equality (even though in some cases that fact still gets lost in the shuffle).
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..or if someone cracked into their system and stole it.
If this is the case, their network admin should be fired. No matter what resolution, that would have to be one huge file transfer to go unnoticed on a corporate LAN uplink.
Myself, I'm betting it may be a working copy but I bet a number of effects shots are either still low-res versions or simply missing. I have a real hard time believing the film is even done, considering today's effect shop deadlines seeming to back right up against the release date. Either that or some s00per-l33+ skr1p+ k1dd13 was simply bragging about having an animated version.
Why the quick jump to version 7?
Because it's obviously better than IE6.
Tongue-in-cheek, whoring karma, etc etc...
-r (using Moz1.1, ironically)
(ObOpera: I've been using it quite a bit lately, and it does rock.. but it also has a greater tendency to explode suddenly compared to the other two.)
I continually am amazed at firms that do this. Does not even the lowly geek admin at this place realize this will eventually kill mp3 as a used format, thus killing their source of revenue?
I swear, if people are learning this kinda crap at their respective busisness schools.. I guess it's no wonder things like Enron or WorldComm happen.
Idiots.
The best they're going to get out of my /. data is that I'm reptillian.
How do you denote in your profile you're a lawyer?
-'fester
Found these via Drudge...
Special Court Rejects Ashcroft Rules and Secret Court Rebuffs Ashcroft (related to the main story).
And from the second story... "The department discovered the misrepresentations and reported them to the FISA court beginning in 2000.".. which means the improper actions occured before 2000.. i.e. Before Bush. So Bush/Ashcroft are not responsible for those infractions.
Having said that (and despite being a conservative), I do hope these revalations reign in some of the trampling of civil liberties Ashcroft/Bush are considering. I fully understand their desire to fight terrorism, and I understand some liberties we were used to in the past may be crimped in the process. But eliminated? Virtually removed? A number of their proposals (and some things currently put in place) are simply troubling and I hope this is a wake-up call they cannot simply trample over the Constitution in the name of protecting the public. Freedom is not without its risks, either to those who defend it or the society which enjoys it. We all simply need to be aware of that risk and vigilant in our own way to insure we don't lose our freedom to either the terrorist, the criminal or our own government.
(and no, I don't get my music via gnutella either)
-'fester
AdvFS is one of the important components of Tru64 that will be migrated to HP-UX (but this work is going very badly, from what I understand).
I'm not suprised; AdvFS had to have a lot of hooks deep into Tru64 that probably don't (or really can't) translate over to HPUX. AdvFS is cool: I didn't get to spend a lot of time with it but loved how solid the filesystem (and the OS) performed, whether on RAID, JBOD or otherwise. Particularly, I liked AdvFS method of file domains, adding another level to partitioning. It was REAL simple to create quickie test filedomains for small storage areas without having to format/partition/whatnot.
Comparatively, 64-but HPUX is still quite infantile compared to OSF/Tru64. I think HP is making some mistakes in ASSuming they can incorporate some technologies so easily (TruCluster, AdvFS) while throwing away the rest of such a solid OS.
But that's just my unemployed $0.02...
Google is your friend... Look at DistroWatch. I thoguht Turbo initially was a distro that would try to tailor to your arch a little better, thus perform better.. but I think they turned into another standard GUI-based Mandrake/Redhat pretty install.
:)
You forgot Gentoo - Even more hard core than Slackware; use if you are into watching your machine stroke out in a compile-fest. emerge is your friend. It's neat to watch my spare box (Celery466) sit off to the side mired in building KDE from scratch.
I snagged a NomadII MG from Ebay and slapped a 128Mb card (also from ebay) into it. 192MB total.. enough for ~40 songs (Rush-type songs... 5-8 mins per) @112kbps. I use it when riding the motorcycle and it's great for having about 3-5 hours of non-repeating music. I think the entire bundle cost less than $250..
It's been great. And though I've only tinkered with the linux tools for the thing, they seem to tranfer stuff well & easily. All they really require is USB device filesystem compiled into the kernel.. at this point there's not even a kernel module needed. Plus, there's an FM tuner on the thing.. not nearly as good as my Walkman AM/FM radio, but it's nice to have handy. The only complaint are the buttons.. it's way to easy to bump it when in my riding jacket and pause/switch mode/delete. Otherwise, it performs excellent. Quite pleased.
Now, ideally, these parts will not be too terribly difficult to replace...
I don't know about that... the facility where they were built (by The Marion Power Shovel Company of Marion, OH, since bought out by Dresser Industries) has been shut down for quite some time now. Marion Power Shovel appears to still exist, but their website says they work with large mining equipment. Any parts needed for these things may have to be custom machined, which will be a cast-iron bitch (pardon the pun).
I lived ~10 miles south of Marion when I was growing up and just loved the idea of the 'strong shoulders' for NASA were built nearby. The facility is HUGE (well, in 70's standards.. nowadays it probably doesn't rival many large mfg facilities).
So everyone, stop hammering the SSH site and give the RIAA [riaa.org] the affection they so sorely need.
/. community?
So, can this post be considered a Dos attack on the RIAA website? Will the RIAA in turn go after the
And should we be suprised at all the server header from www.riaa.org is Microsoft/IIS-4.0 ?
or is there any irony in the fact if the RIAA was doing this to you or your website/host they would be justifed and above prosecution? (at least, with the legislation MPAA is trying to get thru congress...)
These could be (er, SHOULD be) considered karmawhoring or flamebait.. except the RIAA/MPAA will probably consider it at the least, send a few lettters even.
Based on the account in the article your response is simply ridiculous. Although the story is brief and somewhat biased ("Ethical Hacker" etc.) NOWHERE does it indicate that he *poked* around or otherwise exploited the security gap.
...
from the Houston Chronicle article...
In a Chronicle article about the demonstration, Puffer said he noticed he could access the county network in early March, when he scanned for weaknesses throughout Houston.
He said he could also access numerous home, government, university and business computer systems.
County Attorney Mike Stafford said he will resume his investigation into whether the security breach was corrected as promptly as county officials learned of it and the origin of a pornographic picture found on the clerk's office server in March.
Noting a network is open/accessable is one thing.. noting you can access a number of specific systems leans more toward the probing side of things. And, as for the last paragraph, I would suspect either he found that or the subsequent audit after the intrusion.
Overall, the Houston article is rather vague as to his exact actions, so inference on his intent/whatnot is nigh impossible and therefore simple ASSumption.
SO if you're in the piedmont NC area make sure to signup, it was good unwholesome fun!
Even if you're not in the piedmont area, try signing up and check it out.. it's fun!
(like, driving over from the Hickory area.. dearth of geekdom)
I may check out Charlotte next time, if they actually have their meeting (it's a little closer) but had fun and hope to see y'all at a future meet.
-ol' man Unemployed 'fester
Another Orwellian-type (Soviet-type? Gestapo-type?) form of overmonitoring? A few things strike me from the challenge...
"United States courts have recognized for more than a century that honest citizens have the right to travel throughout America without government restrictions..." Well, we have to admit not all of those using our travel means in this country are honest citizens. The bulk probably are, but not all of them. So there has to be some form of verification/weeding out.
"This will use your ID to search in a stew of databases like credit records, previous travel history, criminal records, motor vehicle records, banks, web searches, and companies that collect personal information from consumer transactions. " Now this I have a small problem with. I can (maybe) see checking things like criminal records or travel history.. but my credit record? My bank record? Those are in no way relevant to the choice I make to fly to Phoenix for the weekend.
Once again, the government is demonstrating an obscene overreaction to terroristic threats on our soil by ignoring key portions of the Constitution in the same of 'public safety.' Well, at this stage the cable guy can't come into my house (soon, maybe: TIPS), I can't fly to Miami (this crap, maybe), and I have to sit at home (or set up a motion-based webcam, look for sneak-n-peek in Patriot Act) to see if my domocile has been searched. Hell, I can't even surf for pr0n on Google anymore without being federally monitored.
If you asked me, the terrorists have managed to pull of some significant victories. It's a damn shame.
Wow, what a nice step one towards fixing that whole "hated on a global stage" thing.
Right, okey. So, we'll keep all the monentary outlays to ridiculous notions such as the World Court and the United Nations.
It's funny how the US is so 'hated on a global stage' until you need US funding for some earthquake, natural disaster, peacekeeping mission, etc etc... but if you don't want our help, that's fine. Stop asking for drugs. Stop asking for aid. Stop asking for money. I'm tired of subsidizind your asses anyway.
Upgrading Apache and OpenSSH (and most other apps, even daemons/services) doesn't even require a reboot on Win2000/XP. Welcome to the future!
No, welcome to the past. Updating ANY daemon, service or software not directly related to the kernel or core libraries does not require reboot. Where the hell have you been?
It's quite sad when the words 'update' or 'patch' are considered synonymous with 'reboot.'
Didn't MS buy OpenGL patents from SGI recently?
Hard to tell... (more stuff found here). The opengl.org Licensing page links back to oss.sgi.com...
It's not easy to tell who currently owns the rights to OpenGL.. er, the OpenGL API. *gak*
-fester
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
..
Not exactly. If you know anything about cellphones, you know they're pretty mcuh killing the (need for a) payphone market. More examples...
This actually reminds me of the question of why cellphones are banned on airplanes. Yes, I know the tower range is slim to none, but it can work (and I believe it's been discussed before)
-'f
I still don't see the problem. If I discover this kind of problem, the first one I inform is my boss. If he fails to react, I have two things to consider:
And as I sit here typing this.. I think I shuold take a fellow admin as a witness, so we have no he-said/he-said crap later on.
-f
I also thought the standard was open. Why hasn't an open source project undergone making a CAD program that read/wrote Pro/E files?
:/
Well, it's not as necessary when you have intermediate formats such as IGES already in most of the commercial packages of the same vein (ProE, PATRAN, I-DEAS, Auto<whatever>, etc etc...). Plus, some of the apps can directly read format variations of the other programs (being able to read PATRAN neutral files, I-DEAS 'export' files (they had a specific name, but it's been ~2 years since I touched I-DEAS), Abaqus input decks, etc etc...)
And as a point of note, MSC has had a Linux (well, RedHat) version of PATRAN included with their dists for the last few releases. ANSYS has done it recently as well. HKS; it would be interesting to see the Abaqus solver go over.. that seems to be quite popular for FEA.
Too bad I'm currently unemployed; it was fun working with that crap.
wouldn't it be cool to perform some sort of sexual act while sitting in Captain Kirk's chair?
oh come one.. any poor sod can sit in front of his monitor playing Personal Whack-A-Mole without plonking down $80K.
... oh, did you mean with someone else?
For a day or so, you can keep most large networks running with only one person or so...
I'm sorry, but this kinda comment chafes my ass. Where I worked (I was laid off recently) we had a satellite fiber-optic cable production plant in Canada. My manager once stated in a meeting the place 'was running with only 17 staff...' completely neglecting his IS department in the room that remotely managed, upgraded, troubleshot, etc etc...
'You can keep most networks running with one person' does not jive with 'we have people on call..' the on-call person(s) cannot be discounted so easily. Otherwise, why have them in the first place?
I have dabbled a little with gnutella, and find it handy. mostly i look for two things:
In most cases, if I like the tunes, I buy the disc. If I only like the radio track, I won't buy it.. and in most cases I won't even keep the MP3. Figure the stuff will be crap enough before long.
So, for me, sharing helps me make a more informed decision. And (probably to the record company's chargrin) I won't buy their crappy disc of crap for only one track I would like. So, I guess it does suck for them..
But isn't there some solution to set up your vast song database on your main server in another room and tell 'em to server your AUX-input of your normal Hifi Equip. by a (obviosly non IR) remote controller?
:)
Perhaps you mean A-UX input?
-fester (who had the a-ux floppy-based install somewhere...)
if by that you mean they should have the legal authority to deny any benchmark that they don't approve of. That is akin to passing a law that states "you may only print the truth, and I get to decide what that truth is."
Sorry, poor clarity on my part. I agree with this statement; it's what I meant by being 'lost in the shuffle.' A vendor should be allowed to participate in setup/configuration for a benchmark, but then should also stand behind the results, good or bad. Refusal to allow publication based solely on the 'it will make us look bad' mentality is wrong... (imho) not criminal, but wrong.
A benchmark is not a review. A benchmark is more of an objective test of the performance of an application which can be dependent on a vast number of factors, poor configuration being among them. There's a major difference between a review saying 'this program sucks' and a benchmark saying'this program sucks because it's slower than THAT program'.. the first one is pretty much purely subjective, but the second should have a basis of underlying equality of all factorts except the two actual components tested.
You can't just slap a comparision of Apache and IIS up somewhere and say 'because of unit frob, Apache performs better' without qualifying your goal of comparing apples to apples ("well, in actuality IIS was running on a 486 with 32MB ram.. but see? Apache was faster, wasn't it?"). Remember one of the first Netcraft IIS vs apache reviews where it was revealed Netcraft tuned the hell outta IIS but ran Apache on a stock RedHat (or some such) install? Didn't even tweak number of children or any such crap?
Vendors are perfectly in their right to oversee benchmarking their products in a comparative fashion to insure equality (even though in some cases that fact still gets lost in the shuffle).