I use the Suse derived Sun Java Desktop and it is at least as "just use it" as Windows 2000. And unlike Win 2K I did not have to install extra software for either my printer or my camera, they just worked.
What do you mean "as well". If you allow for the reporter's and management's slant on reality, the article could still be talking about a Firefox derivative that uses the IE rendering engine when required.
First, a 2 day outage for a mail server upgrade seems wrong. One of my clients has 10,000 and a mail server upgrade would take the core system out of server for maybe 4 hours in the dead of night, and incoming mail would be spooled at the internet gateway. Maybe there is some clue in "upgrade the Exchange mail server to the latest version". I have zero experience with Exchange.
Second, I find it hard to believe that a 2 day outage will cause an email address to disappear from the spam lists on files and cdroms. Again, maybe I don't understand enough.
Finally, is it just possible that as well as the server upgrade, spam filtering was installed?
"This is more standard than 99.9% of the other options available under win32"
How the fcsk can some something that has.1% of the most common desktop be considered a standard? Sounds like one of the old OSI "standard" products that were going to replace TCP/IP a few years ago.
"Clearly the broke Canadian law. However, the fact is that the Canadians can't do anything about it except invade Sealand, impose sanctions of some sort on the entire country, or hope the guy flys back to Canada so that they can arrest him at Immigration."
You forgot extradition. So Canada does not have an extradition treaty with Sealand, then just wait until the alledged criminal travels to a country with an extradition treaty with Canada.
Extradition does work fairly well for capital crimes, as long as solid evidence is involved. Privacy cases, which may involve civil law, may be another matter though.
But do some research (I know, I should not use abusive phrases here) and it gets better. Googling for "NYT says that slashdot is credible" gets 330 hits. Do the same for "microsoft says that slashdot is credible" returns 1570 hits.
So Slashdot has 3 times the credibility at Microsoft than it does at NYT....
I understand the that the falling-paper effect requires 3 components, paper, gravity and air (or a fluid I guess). Without the air I think the falling rock problem would still remain.
If "Bob Goatse" is a union of Microsoft Bob and the goatse we all know so well, then thank god that (s)he is dead and buried. Mind you I am not at all surprised that such a combination would be showing some sort of life in a grave.
"I don't think anyone with local access to my machine gives a shit, though; it's in my bedroom. I suppose that if a cracker is enterprising enough to break into my house and root my machine locally, well...fair play to them:)"
Hey, come on. Root my wife, partner or whatever. No problem there. But definitely not my machine, particularly in my bedroom....
"1) Software designers should be more careful when using buffers" "2) OS designers should do more through checking to make sure data pages are never executed"
Great idea. Now minor problem, how do you make sure your software and OS designers are 100% competent, never have a bad day, never arrive with a hangover, never have a bitter argument with spouse/partner.
I see no evidence that this is possible with the current crop of earth's inhabitants.
"You can't just fly down there to replace broken parts."
You can actually, but I guess cost/benefit comes into it.
I live near Christchurch, New Zealand and once or twice a winter a fully loaded hercules takes off for an emergency trip to Antarctica to rescue some poor bastard that has broken an appendage etc.
"They claim it's great in the winter when the sun is below the horizon. The reason they claim they can't see anything in the summer is because they are all covering their faces (see here [unsw.edu.au] for an example of what I mean!"
Obviously FreeBSD country with the red clothing and provision for horns on his head...
Oracle sure did try a database for their mail server. And they kept right on using it. Sun uses one (Berkeley DB) for their mail, calendar and other app servers. So do other vendors.
I thought that it was a reasonable assumption that M$ would benefit from a reduction in Spam, but apart from freeing up bandwidth on their own network, how would they benefit?
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I use the Suse derived Sun Java Desktop and it is at least as "just use it" as Windows 2000. And unlike Win 2K I did not have to install extra software for either my printer or my camera, they just worked.
What do you mean "as well". If you allow for the reporter's and management's slant on reality, the article could still be talking about a Firefox derivative that uses the IE rendering engine when required.
I have more than a few problems with this...
First, a 2 day outage for a mail server upgrade seems wrong. One of my clients has 10,000 and a mail server upgrade would take the core system out of server for maybe 4 hours in the dead of night, and incoming mail would be spooled at the internet gateway. Maybe there is some clue in "upgrade the Exchange mail server to the latest version". I have zero experience with Exchange.
Second, I find it hard to believe that a 2 day outage will cause an email address to disappear from the spam lists on files and cdroms. Again, maybe I don't understand enough.
Finally, is it just possible that as well as the server upgrade, spam filtering was installed?
"This is more standard than 99.9% of the other options available under win32"
.1% of the most common desktop be considered a standard? Sounds like one of the old OSI "standard" products that were going to replace TCP/IP a few years ago.
How the fcsk can some something that has
Likely they will get access to the data as it comes from the keyboard. Or they have access to the guv-mint's decryption keys...
Well they don't spend big bugs on their web server and apparently have heard of OSS. Their web site runs apache on linux.
"Clearly the broke Canadian law. However, the fact is that the Canadians can't do anything about it except invade Sealand, impose sanctions of some sort on the entire country, or hope the guy flys back to Canada so that they can arrest him at Immigration."
You forgot extradition. So Canada does not have an extradition treaty with Sealand, then just wait until the alledged criminal travels to a country with an extradition treaty with Canada.
Extradition does work fairly well for capital crimes, as long as solid evidence is involved. Privacy cases, which may involve civil law, may be another matter though.
Chlorine in not half as deadly as sodium, but salt is not exactly a safe product, if used to excess, ask any cadio specialist.
Here is a demo of PIV in operation http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/OptInstr/piv/pivdemo.h tm
It shows a group of people walking past the PIV system and getting blasted with lasers. I assume it thought they were all bad guys (or gals)....
But do some research (I know, I should not use abusive phrases here) and it gets better. Googling for "NYT says that slashdot is credible" gets 330 hits. Do the same for "microsoft says that slashdot is credible" returns 1570 hits.
So Slashdot has 3 times the credibility at Microsoft than it does at NYT....
That would be the same international treaties that prohibit aggression against other countries with good cause and the backing of the UN?
Some sort of garden sprinkler, I assume... http://www.gardeningnow.com.au/toro/gn052-02.htm
Well you put the cell phone IN the condom. Maybe fit a compactFlash card in there as well.
I understand the that the falling-paper effect requires 3 components, paper, gravity and air (or a fluid I guess). Without the air I think the falling rock problem would still remain.
For some reason the idea of someone using a hand pump in front of a laptop may not be socially acceptable, except on /.
Maybe it is not just the US electroral process at fault, the aliens might see this result http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydi splay.cfm?storyID=3601745&thesection=business&thes ubsection=technology&thesecondsubsection=informati on and conclude anything with software in it is at fault.
If "Bob Goatse" is a union of Microsoft Bob and the goatse we all know so well, then thank god that (s)he is dead and buried. Mind you I am not at all surprised that such a combination would be showing some sort of life in a grave.
I just got a big square black blob. Rather similar to a technical goatse, I guess.
"I don't think anyone with local access to my machine gives a shit, though; it's in my bedroom. I suppose that if a cracker is enterprising enough to break into my house and root my machine locally, well...fair play to them :)"
Hey, come on. Root my wife, partner or whatever. No problem there. But definitely not my machine, particularly in my bedroom....
"1) Software designers should be more careful when using buffers"
"2) OS designers should do more through checking to make sure data pages are never executed"
Great idea. Now minor problem, how do you make sure your software and OS designers are 100% competent, never have a bad day, never arrive with a hangover, never have a bitter argument with spouse/partner.
I see no evidence that this is possible with the current crop of earth's inhabitants.
"You can't just fly down there to replace broken parts."
You can actually, but I guess cost/benefit comes into it.
I live near Christchurch, New Zealand and once or twice a winter a fully loaded hercules takes off for an emergency trip to Antarctica to rescue some poor bastard that has broken an appendage etc.
"They claim it's great in the winter when the sun is below the horizon. The reason they claim they can't see anything in the summer is because they are all covering their faces (see here [unsw.edu.au] for an example of what I mean!"
Obviously FreeBSD country with the red clothing and provision for horns on his head...
Oracle sure did try a database for their mail server. And they kept right on using it. Sun uses one (Berkeley DB) for their mail, calendar and other app servers. So do other vendors.
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http://www.sleepycat.com/solutions/customers.shtm
In reality databases can be the right solutions for all sorts of problems - and cause a few as well.
How?
I thought that it was a reasonable assumption that M$ would benefit from a reduction in Spam, but apart from freeing up bandwidth on their own network, how would they benefit?
"Not only read them, but then inturpet what they really mean"
/. as well ;=)
Yes, I struggle with such issues on