Lots of people have access to the Windows source code, albeit under non-disclosure. See the various licenses at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sharedsource/
keep up to date with patches (easy with Windows) and run up to date antivirus software and you're almost certainly safe. Any decent personal firewall will also stop spyware too.
I know there are massive technical problems with implementing such a system, especially with respect to international mail, but this is at least for the sake of argument: one way to crush spam would be to put a per-message fee on sending mail.
Currently a spammer needs very few responses to a spam campaign, maybe a couple hundred out of hundreds of thousands of messages sent, to break even on it. Change the economics and perhaps spam won't be profitable.
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When I started attending in 91 the show literally filled the city, taking the whole LVCC, the whole Sands and space in the Mirage. I haven't been there in a few years but I understand it's less than the whole LVCC now. With that kind of drop in demand they can't charge vendors what they used to.
Just in case it's not clear to everyone, JAR files *are* ZIP files. See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/basics/index.html for docs on this.
ZIP files are more relevant than ever, but PKZip is not. They have little chance of taking control back.
The whole point of it is to be at least as cheap as parallel ATA, even cheaper. The connectors will be smaller and cheaper for example. It should also make system design more flexible since you won't have parallel ATA's infuriating cable length limits.
I just finished writing a networking book and tested 802.11a and 802.11b equipment in my home/office. 11a had much less range than 11b. I was really rooting for the 11a too.
The few of you who are in your 30's or older might remember that Microsoft has sold hardware since 1980. I doubt they ever owned a manufacturing facility, but they do design it themselves and it's manufactured to their specifications.
Remember the SoftCard, a Z80 card that let you run CP/M on an Apple II?
Microsoft mice have a great reputation and they're actually pretty innovative about them.
And Sun didn't sue them. Netscape actually never shipped a compliant VM and stopped trying in the 4.0 timeframe.
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I officially asked MS about this as part of a review I wrote recently for a major magazine and the answer was a simple "no, we won't be doing that." There are literally dozens of third party blockers though. Go to download.com and search for 'popup'
>>I'd be just as happy to know that Microsoft wasn't getting paid a tax out of my money for purchasing a computer.
In fact, with this deal you are paying a non-Windows tax. They are charging you the same money as if they were installing Windows and pocketing it. Plus they don't have any obligation to support Windows on this system, further lowering their costs, and the system with Windows was profitable in the first place. These systems are a practical joke by Dell and you're the target for thinking that you're some how better off.
Once again, blame the dumb-ass moderators. According to paragraph 1 in the link: "Cygwin/XFree86 runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows; as of 2002-05-12 those versions are specifically Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP."
I was the maintainer of the p-System version of NPL, a 4GL for numerous platforms from Desktop Software out of Princeton.
Given the hardware of the day (early-mid 80's), a VM system like p-System was (ahem) ahead of its time. It was really slow, even to our ancient sense of performance. But the same binary did run fine on numerous p-System implementations, including the IBM PC and DEC Rainbow.
I also did work on the HP Pascal system on their Series 200 68000-based systems. The Pascal system was a native 68K port of the p-System. You got the UCSD Pascal, which was a great Pascal, and a number of other HP proprietary enhancements, and it was the fastest computer I had ever seen at the time.
I read an earlier edition and have a very high opinion of it. It's not an intro to database programming, but it will get you from nothing to very far into SQL.
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So who do I sue when some vulnerability comes out in Linux or some other open source product? If you think you'll hurt commercial software concerns with liabilities, just wait till someone sues the people who don't even take in revenues.
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Lots of people have access to the Windows source code, albeit under non-disclosure. See the various licenses at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sharedsource/
keep up to date with patches (easy with Windows) and run up to date antivirus software and you're almost certainly safe. Any decent personal firewall will also stop spyware too.
I know there are massive technical problems with implementing such a system, especially with respect to international mail, but this is at least for the sake of argument: one way to crush spam would be to put a per-message fee on sending mail.
Currently a spammer needs very few responses to a spam campaign, maybe a couple hundred out of hundreds of thousands of messages sent, to break even on it. Change the economics and perhaps spam won't be profitable.
When I started attending in 91 the show literally filled the city, taking the whole LVCC, the whole Sands and space in the Mirage. I haven't been there in a few years but I understand it's less than the whole LVCC now. With that kind of drop in demand they can't charge vendors what they used to.
Just in case it's not clear to everyone, JAR files *are* ZIP files. See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/basics /index.html for docs on this.
ZIP files are more relevant than ever, but PKZip is not. They have little chance of taking control back.
The whole point of it is to be at least as cheap as parallel ATA, even cheaper. The connectors will be smaller and cheaper for example. It should also make system design more flexible since you won't have parallel ATA's infuriating cable length limits.
The Washington Post article is not about criticizing settlement compliance, it's about criticism of the settlement.
One of the authors, Roy Fielding, is on the Apache Board of Directors. I haven't read the paper yet and I'm sure he can be objective, but still.
I just finished writing a networking book and tested 802.11a and 802.11b equipment in my home/office. 11a had much less range than 11b. I was really rooting for the 11a too.
This book came out in February 2000. Perhaps a review of some Hemingway next?
Remember the SoftCard, a Z80 card that let you run CP/M on an Apple II?
Microsoft mice have a great reputation and they're actually pretty innovative about them.
>>Look at where it has gotten Sun shareholders.
No kidding. SUNW went under 3 today and their market cap is under $10B for the first time in over 5 years.
Numerous serious security problems in Office 97 have not been patched and Microsoft won't patch it anymore.
Especially Outlook 97.
Maybe they'll just decide that it's too expensive and too much trouble to support Linux
And Sun didn't sue them. Netscape actually never shipped a compliant VM and stopped trying in the 4.0 timeframe.
I officially asked MS about this as part of a review I wrote recently for a major magazine and the answer was a simple "no, we won't be doing that." There are literally dozens of third party blockers though. Go to download.com and search for 'popup'
>>I'd be just as happy to know that Microsoft wasn't getting paid a tax out of my money for purchasing a computer.
In fact, with this deal you are paying a non-Windows tax. They are charging you the same money as if they were installing Windows and pocketing it. Plus they don't have any obligation to support Windows on this system, further lowering their costs, and the system with Windows was profitable in the first place. These systems are a practical joke by Dell and you're the target for thinking that you're some how better off.
Plus there are scores of licensees of Windows source code, including many Universities. Someone would have pointed it out by now.
The Levy piece has moved to the Newsweek Pay Archives.
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Terminal Server. Much more bandwidth-frugal protocol too.
Once again, blame the dumb-ass moderators. According to paragraph 1 in the link: "Cygwin/XFree86 runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows; as of 2002-05-12 those versions are specifically Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP."
I was the maintainer of the p-System version of NPL, a 4GL for numerous platforms from Desktop Software out of Princeton.
Given the hardware of the day (early-mid 80's), a VM system like p-System was (ahem) ahead of its time. It was really slow, even to our ancient sense of performance. But the same binary did run fine on numerous p-System implementations, including the IBM PC and DEC Rainbow.
I also did work on the HP Pascal system on their Series 200 68000-based systems. The Pascal system was a native 68K port of the p-System. You got the UCSD Pascal, which was a great Pascal, and a number of other HP proprietary enhancements, and it was the fastest computer I had ever seen at the time.
I read an earlier edition and have a very high opinion of it. It's not an intro to database programming, but it will get you from nothing to very far into SQL.
He says the UI is badly designed, the MSOffice importing is badly flawed, it resorts to heavy techie jargon too often, and it's just plain buggy.
So who do I sue when some vulnerability comes out in Linux or some other open source product? If you think you'll hurt commercial software concerns with liabilities, just wait till someone sues the people who don't even take in revenues.