Show me one government research program that has come anywhere close to the return on investment that the space program has. In tax dollars and technology the space program has amply repaid it's development and if we can ever get the cost to orbit down the benefit to humanity will be immense. But I digress, it is amazing to me that somebody so anti tech as you have just made yourself to be could turn on a computer let alone find Slashdot. The corrective fixes for Hubble are promising to bring better than 20-20 vision to those of us cursed to wear glasses. Egg crate foam matresses such as are used for bed-ridden patients are an offshoot of tech developed to keep astronauts well. GPS is and will only get more useful at keeping people from getting lost or finding airplane crashes and many other uses. Cell phone technology has brought communications to many parts of the world where the infrastructure isn't there for good reliable landlines. Satellite tv has brought the news and education to many parts of the world that had no idea of what was happening in the rest of the world. Those are only the things I could think of real quick that NASA and government funded space research have brought about. There are a whole lot more. So get off your high horse and realize that money spent on research is never in vain. There will always be some kind of payoff even if it isn't obvious to idiots like yourself.
Guess what? I've been using and working with computers for over 23 years and I agree with the guy above. Man and info pages are way too hard to read and understand. If it is a program or command that I have never seen before I want it to spell out what it does, how it does it, and how the command should be used in very easy terms. I want example of the most common uses and when, where, why, and how to use different switches. Not because I don't know what I'm doing or can't read at a high level but because I know how easy it is to do damge to my system by doing something in the wrong way. I want documentation that is almost impossible to get confused by. It also needs to be easy to find. Proper documentation can and will teach even newbies how and why to use a command in such a way that they can utilize it without much fear that they will screw up their system. It will also have the nice little benefit of helping people who think they know what they are doing from some glaring mistake.
The average person who is trying Linux for the first time is going to give it exactly one shot. If it is a dificult install he isn't going to know or care that there are other distros. To him Linux sucks. Everyone he knows that mentions Linux to him will know he thinks it sucks. Since the average person trying Linux will usually consider himself knowledgable and his friends will probably consider him knowledgable about computers they will decide that Linux sucks. If you are pointing someone to Linux you had better point them to the easiest to install and learn distro you can find because for every person you find that likes a challenge you will find six that decide don't. And those six will be telling everybody how hard it is and how it won't work with their PC.
Unless I know the person has some command line experience in an OS other than DOS I will refuse to help them install anything but Mandrake. They and the Linux on a desktop movement are better off if they have no experience with Linux than a bad one.
A PC hardware tech doesn't pay anymore than that most places. I do some of that here in Roanoke Virginia but have other skills that make my title and pay higher.
You set the mainframe up to run multiple instances of the OS and software and enable it to roll over to another instance if the one that you are currently using fails. Quit thinking in PC terms when talking about big iron. We use Alphas in mission critical system and there is never a reason for our system to go down because the software failed. If it does go down someone screwed up with the setup.
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Install IIS. Did it to me. I have an advantage though, my W2K system can't be gotten to from the net. I wouldn't have W2K at all but work requires it.
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I've been reading your sig for a while now. I think the sig from Deuteronimy(sp?) might apply to you.
Man! You can get 16:1 compression on text files? What compression program is that? Maybe as an image you can get that kind of compression but not in any form of text file compression I know of.
If you are creating a threat to other systems or helping contribute to the overload of their systems by not having a secure box they can and should block your account until such time as you have fixed the problem.
The biggest problem is with having one centralized database that the vast majority of users use. If there were 12 or 15 different implementations of the same scheme with different operating systems the problem lessens. Some of the methods of getting the information don't change no matter what you do but crack attempts are greatly complicated by having different implementations. A central repository will be the target of every black hat out there. Split it up and diversify it and any one of the schemes is less likely to be beaten. Use open protocols and operating systems, have lots of repositories and there is less danger to all. I personally think MS is crazy for wanting it all on their servers. When they get hacked it will be the single biggest computer news story ever. I don't think any software company, no matter what their advertising and lobbying budget is will be able to withstand the backlash of public opinion. Senators and Congressmen use hotmail too or if they don't family members do.
Yep, sure would be a good idea except for the fact that now all of your accounts can be accessed with one password that will be stored on the most highly targeted servers in the world. Everyone from governments to organized crime to the script kiddy down the street will be trying to crack the Passport servers and someone will succeed. Most likely several someones, repeatedly. I don't trust this one even to Open Source projects. The servers will be hacked. It is only a matter of time.
As will anybody who can crack the passport servers. Anybody who doesn't think that those servers will be the ones that are the most targeted for attacks? They will be the Holy Grail of targets. Get them and you can do almost anything almost anywhere. You'll have access to fortunes in personal financial data, blackmail material, probably even research and developement information. Anybody who doesn't have an idea how much potential damage can be done by this service has no imagination.
Yep, and in the early days of automobiles I could choose to deal with Standard Oil or I could ride a horse. Sometimes the choice isn't really a choice.
Considering there are more than twice as many servers using Apache as IIS and the fact that you can get the source for Apache I would say that it is entirely likely that there are as many or more attempts to crack Apache. As a rule however Apache users are much more likely to keep up with patches.
You are so full of s*** it isn't funny. You can not be guilty of committing a crime if the act you performed was not against the law in the jurisdiction it was performed in. There are some international laws that can apply in some cases but copyright infringement is not one of those. He developed the software in Russia. He can be tried in Russia under Russian law if what he did is illegal there. The company he works for contracted with a US company to sell the software here. I'm not sure they can even get the company he works for under US law. They were not the agents advertising and collecting the money for the software. As a foreign company using a domestic company for distribution purposes it can be argued that the US based company is the one that is responsible for knowing whether or not the software can legally sold here.
And I get soooo tired of all of the crackheads that think Microsoft does no wrong. Microsoft is the single most influential organization in the history of the world, outside of the Roman Catholic church and some governments. Everything they say or do can and should be subject to intense scrutiny. They are a convicted monopoly that shows no remorse and by all indications every has intention to continue and accelerate their monopolistic behavior. Contrary to some misguided fools beliefs, Microsoft does not have any desire to do anything for the benefit of the consumer. They will provide such features as will allow them to continue to extend the reach and grasp of their monopoly. Make no mistake Microsoft has only one intent. That intent is that eventually every bit of information in the world be created, evaluated, and used by, for, and with Microsoft products.
They can get an injuntion preventing the release of XP any time up till the October release date. It just gets a little harder to get one after the code goes to the OEMs. If I remember correctly the proposed release date to the public is October 25th.. The judge could rule on the 24th. that XP cannot be sold and all of those machines sitting at Best Buy waiting to be sold the next day will have to go back to the manufacturer to be re-imaged. It all depends on the judge and how willing he is to create a big ruckus.
I have never had a problem with Mandrake 7.2. I went to Insight.com and started pricing Windows software to do the same things I am doing with Linux and stopped looking when the total went over $2000. The learning curve isn't that bad and even at my income level $2000 buys a lot of learning time. In three years I have spent less than $200 on Linux. You are not forced to upgrade every six months with Linux. You need to upgrade on every major version if you want to be able to use 3rd party binaries but that isn't necessary if the software you have is doing the job. Out of the box Win2000 doesn't even begin to have the functionality and completness of Mandrake.
Excuse me. What kind of crap are you spouting? I buy the boxed sets. It suits my purposes to do so. I don't buy every new version that comes out and I certainly don't buy a set for each PC I have. I have bought four boxed sets in three years. Each set has given me a huge increase in capability and usability for my system. I have one version of Windows. Windows 98 came on the system it is installed on. That machine is used for games and my wife surfs the internet on it most of the time. Everything else is done in Linux. I will never purchase another copy of MSOffice again. I am about to purchase a copy of Win2000 so that I may play Win games a while longer. That will be my last personal purchase of anything made by MS. I have spent approximately $200 on Linux software and use it for a lot of different things. To get comparable usage out of Windows would cost have cost me well over $2000. The OS is the least expensive part of the MS tax.
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Show me one government research program that has come anywhere close to the return on investment that the space program has. In tax dollars and technology the space program has amply repaid it's development and if we can ever get the cost to orbit down the benefit to humanity will be immense. But I digress, it is amazing to me that somebody so anti tech as you have just made yourself to be could turn on a computer let alone find Slashdot. The corrective fixes for Hubble are promising to bring better than 20-20 vision to those of us cursed to wear glasses. Egg crate foam matresses such as are used for bed-ridden patients are an offshoot of tech developed to keep astronauts well. GPS is and will only get more useful at keeping people from getting lost or finding airplane crashes and many other uses. Cell phone technology has brought communications to many parts of the world where the infrastructure isn't there for good reliable landlines. Satellite tv has brought the news and education to many parts of the world that had no idea of what was happening in the rest of the world. Those are only the things I could think of real quick that NASA and government funded space research have brought about. There are a whole lot more. So get off your high horse and realize that money spent on research is never in vain. There will always be some kind of payoff even if it isn't obvious to idiots like yourself.
A planet of the size they talk about will give off enough infrared to probably keep some of the closer satellites warm.
Guess what? I've been using and working with computers for over 23 years and I agree with the guy above. Man and info pages are way too hard to read and understand. If it is a program or command that I have never seen before I want it to spell out what it does, how it does it, and how the command should be used in very easy terms. I want example of the most common uses and when, where, why, and how to use different switches. Not because I don't know what I'm doing or can't read at a high level but because I know how easy it is to do damge to my system by doing something in the wrong way. I want documentation that is almost impossible to get confused by. It also needs to be easy to find. Proper documentation can and will teach even newbies how and why to use a command in such a way that they can utilize it without much fear that they will screw up their system. It will also have the nice little benefit of helping people who think they know what they are doing from some glaring mistake.
Unless I know the person has some command line experience in an OS other than DOS I will refuse to help them install anything but Mandrake. They and the Linux on a desktop movement are better off if they have no experience with Linux than a bad one.
If you haven't tried Mandrake you haven't seen easy.
A PC hardware tech doesn't pay anymore than that most places. I do some of that here in Roanoke Virginia but have other skills that make my title and pay higher.
You set the mainframe up to run multiple instances of the OS and software and enable it to roll over to another instance if the one that you are currently using fails. Quit thinking in PC terms when talking about big iron. We use Alphas in mission critical system and there is never a reason for our system to go down because the software failed. If it does go down someone screwed up with the setup.
Install IIS. Did it to me. I have an advantage though, my W2K system can't be gotten to from the net. I wouldn't have W2K at all but work requires it.
I've been reading your sig for a while now. I think the sig from Deuteronimy(sp?) might apply to you.
Man! You can get 16:1 compression on text files? What compression program is that? Maybe as an image you can get that kind of compression but not in any form of text file compression I know of.
If you are creating a threat to other systems or helping contribute to the overload of their systems by not having a secure box they can and should block your account until such time as you have fixed the problem.
Try removing the spaces in the address that /. added.
The biggest problem is with having one centralized database that the vast majority of users use. If there were 12 or 15 different implementations of the same scheme with different operating systems the problem lessens. Some of the methods of getting the information don't change no matter what you do but crack attempts are greatly complicated by having different implementations. A central repository will be the target of every black hat out there. Split it up and diversify it and any one of the schemes is less likely to be beaten. Use open protocols and operating systems, have lots of repositories and there is less danger to all. I personally think MS is crazy for wanting it all on their servers. When they get hacked it will be the single biggest computer news story ever. I don't think any software company, no matter what their advertising and lobbying budget is will be able to withstand the backlash of public opinion. Senators and Congressmen use hotmail too or if they don't family members do.
Yep, sure would be a good idea except for the fact that now all of your accounts can be accessed with one password that will be stored on the most highly targeted servers in the world. Everyone from governments to organized crime to the script kiddy down the street will be trying to crack the Passport servers and someone will succeed. Most likely several someones, repeatedly. I don't trust this one even to Open Source projects. The servers will be hacked. It is only a matter of time.
As will anybody who can crack the passport servers. Anybody who doesn't think that those servers will be the ones that are the most targeted for attacks? They will be the Holy Grail of targets. Get them and you can do almost anything almost anywhere. You'll have access to fortunes in personal financial data, blackmail material, probably even research and developement information. Anybody who doesn't have an idea how much potential damage can be done by this service has no imagination.
Yep, and in the early days of automobiles I could choose to deal with Standard Oil or I could ride a horse. Sometimes the choice isn't really a choice.
Considering there are more than twice as many servers using Apache as IIS and the fact that you can get the source for Apache I would say that it is entirely likely that there are as many or more attempts to crack Apache. As a rule however Apache users are much more likely to keep up with patches.
Read the indightment. There is nothing in it about selling software at DEFCON.
You are so full of s*** it isn't funny. You can not be guilty of committing a crime if the act you performed was not against the law in the jurisdiction it was performed in. There are some international laws that can apply in some cases but copyright infringement is not one of those. He developed the software in Russia. He can be tried in Russia under Russian law if what he did is illegal there. The company he works for contracted with a US company to sell the software here. I'm not sure they can even get the company he works for under US law. They were not the agents advertising and collecting the money for the software. As a foreign company using a domestic company for distribution purposes it can be argued that the US based company is the one that is responsible for knowing whether or not the software can legally sold here.
But they didn't bring any charges for the speach. The charges were brought for the actual software.
And I get soooo tired of all of the crackheads that think Microsoft does no wrong. Microsoft is the single most influential organization in the history of the world, outside of the Roman Catholic church and some governments. Everything they say or do can and should be subject to intense scrutiny. They are a convicted monopoly that shows no remorse and by all indications every has intention to continue and accelerate their monopolistic behavior. Contrary to some misguided fools beliefs, Microsoft does not have any desire to do anything for the benefit of the consumer. They will provide such features as will allow them to continue to extend the reach and grasp of their monopoly. Make no mistake Microsoft has only one intent. That intent is that eventually every bit of information in the world be created, evaluated, and used by, for, and with Microsoft products.
They can get an injuntion preventing the release of XP any time up till the October release date. It just gets a little harder to get one after the code goes to the OEMs. If I remember correctly the proposed release date to the public is October 25th.. The judge could rule on the 24th. that XP cannot be sold and all of those machines sitting at Best Buy waiting to be sold the next day will have to go back to the manufacturer to be re-imaged. It all depends on the judge and how willing he is to create a big ruckus.
Actually they frequently do if the the crime was a white collar crime.
I have never had a problem with Mandrake 7.2. I went to Insight.com and started pricing Windows software to do the same things I am doing with Linux and stopped looking when the total went over $2000. The learning curve isn't that bad and even at my income level $2000 buys a lot of learning time. In three years I have spent less than $200 on Linux. You are not forced to upgrade every six months with Linux. You need to upgrade on every major version if you want to be able to use 3rd party binaries but that isn't necessary if the software you have is doing the job. Out of the box Win2000 doesn't even begin to have the functionality and completness of Mandrake.
Excuse me. What kind of crap are you spouting? I buy the boxed sets. It suits my purposes to do so. I don't buy every new version that comes out and I certainly don't buy a set for each PC I have. I have bought four boxed sets in three years. Each set has given me a huge increase in capability and usability for my system. I have one version of Windows. Windows 98 came on the system it is installed on. That machine is used for games and my wife surfs the internet on it most of the time. Everything else is done in Linux. I will never purchase another copy of MSOffice again. I am about to purchase a copy of Win2000 so that I may play Win games a while longer. That will be my last personal purchase of anything made by MS. I have spent approximately $200 on Linux software and use it for a lot of different things. To get comparable usage out of Windows would cost have cost me well over $2000. The OS is the least expensive part of the MS tax.