You base your conclusing on a broad sweeping assumption that "it can happen". This theory is flawed. Viruses and worms are combated on many fronts, using multiple strategies.
You are making a broad sweeping assumption as well. Routers with NAT, which offer rudimentary inbound firewalling as a side effect of actually doing NAT, do stop a good bit of the viral attacks such as back orifice etc but they aren't stateful firewalls like you'll see in an enterprise. They don't stop anything from going *out* the pipe. All it takes is a rogue payload on the inside of one of many networks with a big pipe and things get ugly quick! As an aside, I *don't* want my upstream provider filtering my traffic at all though and dropped the last ISP that started that and told them as much.
You're also assuming that the AV software catches 'everything'. What about the last bout of worms carried by the encrypted zips? I'm in the driver's seat on a dozen or so high traffic mail servers up and down the East Coast of the US and I (and other admins) was caught off guard by this worm. We block (with client permission) every executable attachment known to Microsoft operating systems and a few obscure ones as well. The encrypted zips slid right past qmail-scanner, clamav and a couple home-grown perl scripts we use for filtering. Those worms slid past the big name AV products at places I do other types of work. I will give the ClamAV and the qmail-scanner mailing lists credit though...it wasn't long before there were patches and add-ons for each to drop that worm at the gate, patches came in to the qmail-scanner list within hours of the first sighting of that worm in the wild.
The encrypted zip ruse was clever, how long before somebody comes up with something similar but more sinister? The only way to stop email-borne viruses completely would be to do as you say and stop all attachments completely. That's not an option for 99% of my clients, just simply not an option. Everytime I read something from one of the guys that works on ClamAV or one of the 'gurus' at the big AV labs about how shitty the code was in the last worm I get twitchy. What's going to happen if somebody that knows what they're doing and has a bit of cleverness up their sleeve as well decides to write the next nasty bug?
The cost of anything is simple. What the market will bear. In the case of Windows, the market has to bear the current pricing structure of Microsoft's operating systems. It's this very market that is to blame for the price, the market decided long ago to pay what Microsoft asked. The market itself has locked in to this supplier and is just now beginning to see that it made a very stupid and short-sighted move.
None of the OEMs are in a position to bargain with Microsoft. Look at IBM. They've invested millions(billions?) into Linux and you can't even buy a laptop from them sans Windows. When the supplier of the base ingredient to your product has a ~90% marketshare on that ingredient you have very little to no bargaining power. Limiting yourself to just one supplier of anything is going to come back and bite you in your collective asses.
Since the OEMs are in no position to bargain, that leaves a government to step in. My government attempted to straighten Microsoft out but failed miserably. Time will tell how others fare. Regardless of the outcome, it will have no effect how Microsoft operates on its home turf. Microsoft will continue to strong arm clients and dictate the price of their products until they are stopped by the U.S. government or the market refuses to bear the cost.
From my small part of the world: Sub Pop, Ninja Tune, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Matador, Kill Rock Stars, That Ann DiFranco lable (can't think of it now) and many more.
I'm not sure if your question was serious or not but I was curious about the OS used for this.
The best I could do was this document referencing Y2K from ICANN's site.
From the page:
The root servers themselves all use some variant of the Unix operating system, however both the hardware base and the vendors' Unix variants are relatively diverse: of the 13 root servers, there are 7 different hardware platforms running 8 different operating system versions from 5 different vendors.
I would not be surprised if at least one of those systems is running something from SCO.
The page also mentions they all run BIND. I'd like to see a couple of those things running DJBDNS or any other high availablity DNS service for variety's sake. Pulling from my admittedly n00b-level knowledge of DNS, the DBs for the two packages are incompatible, apparently throwing that option out. Anyone with more experience with the two care to clarify why they run BIND only?
I keep an eye on the Fedora Legacy mailing list and quite frankly the project is just now getting off the ground.
Let me preface this comment with this:
If you've had experience with this type of project (and don't need to be told step by step what to do, when to do it, and why you should do it) head over to the site and volunteer, they could sure use some help. I hope this post will kick start some talented folks to help out. I'll explain:
There is a lot of arguing over petty things such as the layout of the website (which does look nice now). People are bitching about having to use IRC to communicate with other people in the project.
The guy that got the project off the ground (Warren Togami) sent this in one of his postings today in response to an average gripe and blame posting:
I have been expressing my displeasure quite vocally, to the point of threatening to kill the project a week ago to avoid giving false hope.
Warren has stated on the list that his goal was to simply get the ball rolling on the project and let a community effort drive it. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. After all that seems what usually stops most OSS projects...nobody to kick the ball at the beginning of the game.
Unfortunately it's not happening. Seems like everyone wants Warren to do all the work while all they have to do is run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or if they do any work they expect Warren to email them a numbered list of what to do like homework. Fedora Legacy has a chance to be a perfect example of how OSS can work for everyone. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if it never takes off.
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I would like to thank you for the link to that used computer site.
I was yelling out the prices "Oh my god look at this, a p2 400 for $40, that's twice as fast as our file server!"
My wife rolled her eyes and denied knowing the whereabouts of the credit card.
At this rate I'll have several more computers to do *ahem*, "testing and development".
On behalf of myself and Visa, I thank you.
If they gave the Linux version then people could just look at the source code and remove the parts that limit the functionality for this personal edition.
AC you ignorant slut.
If you had ever installed anything at all on a Linux system you would know that there are such things as binaries. As it is shipped, Maya for Linux comes as an rpm.
Do you honestly think that to install Maya on Linux you actually do something like this:
tar xzf Maya.5.0.0.tar.gz
cd Maya.5.0.0 ./configure
make
make install
?
Jesus Christo if you think KDE takes a while to compile!!
I imagine that the folks at Alias|Wavefront figure that if you're forward thinking enough to use Linux on the desktop for animation then Maya and general 3D capability is a skillset you already have. I'm guessing that their reasoning is: if you're firing up Maya on Linux it's to do a job not monkey around.
We have the right to travel freely.
and then: If driving is indeed a right, by nature...
To quote the slashdot crowd and The Princess Bride...You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Is traveling a natural right? I defer to a one Thomas Paine to straighten out your misunderstanding of "rights"
"Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Now, let's say driving is a natural right by extension of your magical right to travel. If you drive crazy and almost kill someone then that right is null and void because it infringes on the first natural right! The right to life!
I sat through more philosophy classes in college than I care to remember and have heard some crazy suggestions on what defines a natural right and what is a natural right, but the right to travel and by extension the right to drive is one of, nay, the wildest I've seen to date. Be proud of that young philosopher, be proud.
I'll stop here, the whole FUD thing about new cars' technology is too much.
I've been reading Zeldman's book Designing for Web Standards at safari.oreilly.com and it addresses this quite well. Safari and Mac IE 5.2 are very compliant to standards moreso than any version of IE on Windows, so it's not as big a deal now as it once was during the browser war era. Yeesh what a mess that was.
You can rest assured that as long as you don't code with a certain browser in mind your site(s) will look pretty close across platforms, IF you design with standards in mind. Losing table based layouts or at least minimizing their usage is one of the best things you can do to increase consistency across browser version/platform. Try not to use deprecated code either, like the venerable <br> or bgcolor = * and <P align="right"> etc. Always specify a DOCTYPE.
If you can move away from using old pre-war coding practices you'll be a step ahead in the fight. Check out these sites for more info on coding pages that look good in any browser on any platform:
Accessibility is not only a good thing it's the right thing, especially if you ever make a government site.
Bluerobot has some pre-cooked layouts to cut your teeth on.
Designing with XHTML and CSS means not leaving anybody out. From Web-enabled phones to IE 6 to text only browsers like lynx or links you'll only need to write your code once. I say do away with javascript browser detection scripts and write once, run (almost) anywhere!
There is a last resort you can go to if you must. Macromedia Flash looks the same in any browser provided you have the proper plugin.:) Although that is not my recommended solution.
What is the great good done for society having its citizens to spend a huge percentage of their income on music and movies, making a few artists, and more importantly Mega-Media houses, obscenely wealthy?
I agree wholeheartedly with you on this issue. Why is it that we(society) pile heaps of money on people with natural talents?
Why do people that can "just do something" get paid so much more than the poor schmuck that actually busts his hump digging the drainage ditch on the side of the road?
Why do we reward someone for being born with the gift of being able to carry a tune or run really fast versus the person that has overcome a learning disability (minor or severe, doesn't matter) to become a teacher? How can you put a price on what value a teacher adds to society?
Why are cops and teachers and firefighters and ambulance drivers paid such paltry salaries?
The best example of this lop-sided economic situation that I can think of is professional athletes vs. police officers (note I am not a cop or a professional athlete, heh). Think of what a cop does, ok, think of what Shaq does. A Senior police officer in Houston Texas tops out at US$44,500.04 (must have 12+ years experience), in Houston, home of the 5th Ward. Shaq made US$19,285,715 from 2000 to 2001 that's nineteen million dollars, basically because he was born with "tall and strong" genes. Who offers society more value? The cop that you expect to save your life in the face of any danger? Or Shaq who can dunk a basketball? Loaded question I know, but that's what it boils down to.
The sums of money that RIAA artists and pro athletes make is patently obscene.
If you have the time and/or inclination one day, flip to MTV and watch Cribs. It will make you sick to your goddamn stomach. That program is an inside view of the actual Decline of Western Civilization.
I really wish it would import settings from Apple's Mail.app.
Mail.app is 'teh suXor' for me with IMAP.
I think I read somewhere that the cause may be that Courier-IMAP needs a folder named Inbox on the client.
I'm too lazy to look into fixing it so I'm moving to Thunderbird.
Easier to download Thunderbird and drag it to the Applications folder, how lazy am I?
I do hear that Apple has made great strides with Mail.app with 10.3 so that might make me move back to Mail.app, until then its Tbird all the way.
Here you go:
This is the jackass that runs the site bulkclub.com
Drew Auman
The Bulk Club LLC
3867 W. Market St #272
Akron, OH 44333
330-666-7625
Last known home address from yahoo people search (the phone number matches from the contact on a whois on the site registration info):
Drew Auman
113 Hunt Club Dr
Copley, OH 44321-2759
330-666-7625
Maya was originially written for Irix not Windows.
I would imagine the code base for Maya (if it hasn't changed significantly since 1.x) was easier to move to Linux and OS X than the initial Windows port.
It is against their business model to write secure code.
I think you make a very good point with this. Perhaps the most creative take on this I've seen so far here. And one that I feel is probably the closest to the truth.
Do you know what makes people stop using WinNT 4.0? NOTHING.
I have clients that absolutely refuse to upgrade beyond NT 4.0 Server. I don't push the upgrade to Win 2kx because it makes no sense to. The machines are firewalled off from the internet and are humming along as I type this. (I hope;). To reinforce your point, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I'd say they CAN do it and they WILL do it. But the question that rings in my mind is what doom it will spell to Microsoft when they do. No more upgrades for a long time...
I think we're seeing this now with Win2k, this reluctance to upgrade from NT 4 to Win2k(server and desktop) and from Win2k to XP (on the desktop) and Server 2003 (um, on the server) is what Microsoft fears most. The only desktop upgrades I'm seeing with our clients is with new computers bundled with XP. Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot when they made Win2k. Of all Microsoft's OSes, its the one that I see most of the time in corporations of all sizes, I dig Linux(hey I'm using it to type this) and I really dig OS X, but Win2k is a decent enough operating system; I can count on one hand the times I've seen it crap out completely. To reiterate, corporate users aren't beating down the walls in Redmond to upgrade to XP, they sure as heck aren't going to upgrade to Longhorn if it's released anytime soon. This may just be Microsoft betting on users getting an itch to upgrade when Win2k/XP starts to "feel" a little long in the tooth. They may be re-thinking their OS release schedule. Just a thought.
A quick google search turns up that Adobe made(makes?) the following for Irix and occasionally Solaris:
Framemaker
Illustrator
Photoshop
Let's not forget OS X and its collection of Adobe applications. Like zakezuke, I wonder why they haven't bothered with a Linux or FreeBSD port of these applications?
I mean, surely the fact that Disney(IIRC) uses Photoshop on Linux with wine is enough evidence that it is a needed application.
Disney alone would probably license enough copies of Photoshop to make the port worth Adobe's time.
The GIMP is cool and all, hell it's free and does some really cool stuff like Script-Fu, but anybody that has spent some serious time in front of Photoshop and the GIMP in a production environment will tell you that the GIMP is no Photoshop.
The GIMP is awesome for whipping up some rough textures for 3D modeling or a quick wallpaper, but when it comes to image manipulation, text layout, web page design, high-res texture maps and other stuff you'll run into on a daily basis as a graphic designer or 3D artist, there's really no comparing the two. Not at this point in time anyway.
OpenUNIX, formerly UnixWare, which is about as modern as UNIXes get
About as modern is correct. OpenUNIX is UNIX95 certified as seen here. As modern as UNIXes get is UNIX98 (according to The Open Group). Which as you can see by the link does not include OpenUNIX.
Yikes!!
That's a bunch for an iBook. I don't work for any of the following companies but I do keep an eye on the used Mac marketplace. Ebay is not a buyers market btw. As of this writing Smalldog has an 800MHz iBook for $899. Macofalltrades usually has good deals on portables and desktop Macs. MacResQ has good deals occasionally(sp?). I would certainly put PowerMax at the bottom of the list pricewise. They want $729.00 for a G4 400 desktop!! Macofalltrades wants $500 for a better equipped G4 450 Note: direct links subject to not work as both sites update stock quite regularly.
To keep this post somewhat on-topic, I want a Pegasos. They are supposed to support up to a PowerPC G4 MPC 7450. A G4 @ 1GHz is still a lot of computer.
How is this bug more of a bummer than how gnuftp was compromised and potentially more damaging? Oh, don't hear people moaning about that on here now do you...?
Do you not read the newspapers?
When the GNU ftp site was compromised did it affect any DMVs?
Did the cracking of the GNU server cause disruption at entire school districts?
In case you missed it, look here
or here
If you follow the first link you'll see that even Cisco's VoIP customers are affected by Blaster, not just WIndows users. I'd call that more of a bummer than the GNU compromise.
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You base your conclusing on a broad sweeping assumption that "it can happen". This theory is flawed. Viruses and worms are combated on many fronts, using multiple strategies.
You are making a broad sweeping assumption as well. Routers with NAT, which offer rudimentary inbound firewalling as a side effect of actually doing NAT, do stop a good bit of the viral attacks such as back orifice etc but they aren't stateful firewalls like you'll see in an enterprise. They don't stop anything from going *out* the pipe. All it takes is a rogue payload on the inside of one of many networks with a big pipe and things get ugly quick! As an aside, I *don't* want my upstream provider filtering my traffic at all though and dropped the last ISP that started that and told them as much.
You're also assuming that the AV software catches 'everything'. What about the last bout of worms carried by the encrypted zips? I'm in the driver's seat on a dozen or so high traffic mail servers up and down the East Coast of the US and I (and other admins) was caught off guard by this worm. We block (with client permission) every executable attachment known to Microsoft operating systems and a few obscure ones as well. The encrypted zips slid right past qmail-scanner, clamav and a couple home-grown perl scripts we use for filtering. Those worms slid past the big name AV products at places I do other types of work. I will give the ClamAV and the qmail-scanner mailing lists credit though...it wasn't long before there were patches and add-ons for each to drop that worm at the gate, patches came in to the qmail-scanner list within hours of the first sighting of that worm in the wild.
The encrypted zip ruse was clever, how long before somebody comes up with something similar but more sinister? The only way to stop email-borne viruses completely would be to do as you say and stop all attachments completely. That's not an option for 99% of my clients, just simply not an option. Everytime I read something from one of the guys that works on ClamAV or one of the 'gurus' at the big AV labs about how shitty the code was in the last worm I get twitchy. What's going to happen if somebody that knows what they're doing and has a bit of cleverness up their sleeve as well decides to write the next nasty bug?
Count me as a happy user of GNUMP3d as well. :-)
Very nice app stevey.
Music stops...it's time to go
The cost of anything is simple. What the market will bear. In the case of Windows, the market has to bear the current pricing structure of Microsoft's operating systems. It's this very market that is to blame for the price, the market decided long ago to pay what Microsoft asked. The market itself has locked in to this supplier and is just now beginning to see that it made a very stupid and short-sighted move.
None of the OEMs are in a position to bargain with Microsoft. Look at IBM. They've invested millions(billions?) into Linux and you can't even buy a laptop from them sans Windows. When the supplier of the base ingredient to your product has a ~90% marketshare on that ingredient you have very little to no bargaining power. Limiting yourself to just one supplier of anything is going to come back and bite you in your collective asses.
Since the OEMs are in no position to bargain, that leaves a government to step in. My government attempted to straighten Microsoft out but failed miserably. Time will tell how others fare. Regardless of the outcome, it will have no effect how Microsoft operates on its home turf. Microsoft will continue to strong arm clients and dictate the price of their products until they are stopped by the U.S. government or the market refuses to bear the cost.Check it out heironymouscoward...you made Wired News with this post, hats off.
MyDoom Targets Linux Antagonist
You're not a eunuch are you?
No sir, we prefer to be referred to as eunuch-like if you don't mind. ;)
Cool, thanks for the link.
I'll check this out.
From my small part of the world: Sub Pop, Ninja Tune, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Matador, Kill Rock Stars, That Ann DiFranco lable (can't think of it now) and many more.
Let me add Dischord and Southern Records to your list, two more really great non-RIAA labels.
I'm not sure if your question was serious or not but I was curious about the OS used for this.
The best I could do was this document referencing Y2K from ICANN's site.
From the page:I would not be surprised if at least one of those systems is running something from SCO.
The page also mentions they all run BIND. I'd like to see a couple of those things running DJBDNS or any other high availablity DNS service for variety's sake. Pulling from my admittedly n00b-level knowledge of DNS, the DBs for the two packages are incompatible, apparently throwing that option out. Anyone with more experience with the two care to clarify why they run BIND only?
Check this site out for old versions of Winamp (all the way back to 0.20!!) and other win32 apps:
Oldversion.com
Cool site.
Let me preface this comment with this:
If you've had experience with this type of project (and don't need to be told step by step what to do, when to do it, and why you should do it) head over to the site and volunteer, they could sure use some help. I hope this post will kick start some talented folks to help out. I'll explain:
There is a lot of arguing over petty things such as the layout of the website (which does look nice now). People are bitching about having to use IRC to communicate with other people in the project.
The guy that got the project off the ground (Warren Togami) sent this in one of his postings today in response to an average gripe and blame posting:
Warren has stated on the list that his goal was to simply get the ball rolling on the project and let a community effort drive it. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. After all that seems what usually stops most OSS projects...nobody to kick the ball at the beginning of the game.
Unfortunately it's not happening. Seems like everyone wants Warren to do all the work while all they have to do is run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or if they do any work they expect Warren to email them a numbered list of what to do like homework. Fedora Legacy has a chance to be a perfect example of how OSS can work for everyone. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if it never takes off.
I would like to thank you for the link to that used computer site.
I was yelling out the prices "Oh my god look at this, a p2 400 for $40, that's twice as fast as our file server!"
My wife rolled her eyes and denied knowing the whereabouts of the credit card.
At this rate I'll have several more computers to do *ahem*, "testing and development".
On behalf of myself and Visa, I thank you.
AC you ignorant slut.
If you had ever installed anything at all on a Linux system you would know that there are such things as binaries. As it is shipped, Maya for Linux comes as an rpm.
Do you honestly think that to install Maya on Linux you actually do something like this:
tar xzf Maya.5.0.0.tar.gz
cd Maya.5.0.0
make
make install
?
Jesus Christo if you think KDE takes a while to compile!!
I imagine that the folks at Alias|Wavefront figure that if you're forward thinking enough to use Linux on the desktop for animation then Maya and general 3D capability is a skillset you already have. I'm guessing that their reasoning is: if you're firing up Maya on Linux it's to do a job not monkey around.
This post is flawed. Terribly. Insightful indeed.
We have the right to travel freely.
and then:
If driving is indeed a right, by nature...
To quote the slashdot crowd and The Princess Bride...You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Is traveling a natural right? I defer to a one Thomas Paine to straighten out your misunderstanding of "rights"
Now, let's say driving is a natural right by extension of your magical right to travel. If you drive crazy and almost kill someone then that right is null and void because it infringes on the first natural right! The right to life!
I sat through more philosophy classes in college than I care to remember and have heard some crazy suggestions on what defines a natural right and what is a natural right, but the right to travel and by extension the right to drive is one of, nay, the wildest I've seen to date. Be proud of that young philosopher, be proud.
I'll stop here, the whole FUD thing about new cars' technology is too much.
I've been reading Zeldman's book Designing for Web Standards at safari.oreilly.com and it addresses this quite well. Safari and Mac IE 5.2 are very compliant to standards moreso than any version of IE on Windows, so it's not as big a deal now as it once was during the browser war era. Yeesh what a mess that was.
You can rest assured that as long as you don't code with a certain browser in mind your site(s) will look pretty close across platforms, IF you design with standards in mind. Losing table based layouts or at least minimizing their usage is one of the best things you can do to increase consistency across browser version/platform. Try not to use deprecated code either, like the venerable <br> or bgcolor = * and <P align="right"> etc. Always specify a DOCTYPE.If you can move away from using old pre-war coding practices you'll be a step ahead in the fight. Check out these sites for more info on coding pages that look good in any browser on any platform:
Designing with XHTML and CSS means not leaving anybody out. From Web-enabled phones to IE 6 to text only browsers like lynx or links you'll only need to write your code once. I say do away with javascript browser detection scripts and write once, run (almost) anywhere!
There is a last resort you can go to if you must. Macromedia Flash looks the same in any browser provided you have the proper plugin. :) Although that is not my recommended solution.
What is the great good done for society having its citizens to spend a huge percentage of their income on music and movies, making a few artists, and more importantly Mega-Media houses, obscenely wealthy?
I agree wholeheartedly with you on this issue. Why is it that we(society) pile heaps of money on people with natural talents?
Why do people that can "just do something" get paid so much more than the poor schmuck that actually busts his hump digging the drainage ditch on the side of the road?
Why do we reward someone for being born with the gift of being able to carry a tune or run really fast versus the person that has overcome a learning disability (minor or severe, doesn't matter) to become a teacher? How can you put a price on what value a teacher adds to society? Why are cops and teachers and firefighters and ambulance drivers paid such paltry salaries?
The best example of this lop-sided economic situation that I can think of is professional athletes vs. police officers (note I am not a cop or a professional athlete, heh). Think of what a cop does, ok, think of what Shaq does. A Senior police officer in Houston Texas tops out at US$44,500.04 (must have 12+ years experience), in Houston, home of the 5th Ward. Shaq made US$19,285,715 from 2000 to 2001 that's nineteen million dollars, basically because he was born with "tall and strong" genes. Who offers society more value? The cop that you expect to save your life in the face of any danger? Or Shaq who can dunk a basketball? Loaded question I know, but that's what it boils down to.
The sums of money that RIAA artists and pro athletes make is patently obscene.
If you have the time and/or inclination one day, flip to MTV and watch Cribs. It will make you sick to your goddamn stomach. That program is an inside view of the actual Decline of Western Civilization.
I really wish it would import settings from Apple's Mail.app.
Mail.app is 'teh suXor' for me with IMAP.
I think I read somewhere that the cause may be that Courier-IMAP needs a folder named Inbox on the client.
I'm too lazy to look into fixing it so I'm moving to Thunderbird.
Easier to download Thunderbird and drag it to the Applications folder, how lazy am I?
I do hear that Apple has made great strides with Mail.app with 10.3 so that might make me move back to Mail.app, until then its Tbird all the way.
Here you go:
This is the jackass that runs the site bulkclub.com
Drew Auman
The Bulk Club LLC
3867 W. Market St #272
Akron, OH 44333
330-666-7625
Last known home address from yahoo people search (the phone number matches from the contact on a whois on the site registration info):
Drew Auman
113 Hunt Club Dr
Copley, OH 44321-2759
330-666-7625
That prefix is quite fitting don't you think?
Maya was originially written for Irix not Windows.
I would imagine the code base for Maya (if it hasn't changed significantly since 1.x) was easier to move to Linux and OS X than the initial Windows port.
It is against their business model to write secure code.
I think you make a very good point with this. Perhaps the most creative take on this I've seen so far here. And one that I feel is probably the closest to the truth.
Do you know what makes people stop using WinNT 4.0? NOTHING.
I have clients that absolutely refuse to upgrade beyond NT 4.0 Server. I don't push the upgrade to Win 2kx because it makes no sense to. The machines are firewalled off from the internet and are humming along as I type this. (I hope;). To reinforce your point, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I'd say they CAN do it and they WILL do it. But the question that rings in my mind is what doom it will spell to Microsoft when they do. No more upgrades for a long time...
I think we're seeing this now with Win2k, this reluctance to upgrade from NT 4 to Win2k(server and desktop) and from Win2k to XP (on the desktop) and Server 2003 (um, on the server) is what Microsoft fears most. The only desktop upgrades I'm seeing with our clients is with new computers bundled with XP. Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot when they made Win2k. Of all Microsoft's OSes, its the one that I see most of the time in corporations of all sizes, I dig Linux(hey I'm using it to type this) and I really dig OS X, but Win2k is a decent enough operating system; I can count on one hand the times I've seen it crap out completely. To reiterate, corporate users aren't beating down the walls in Redmond to upgrade to XP, they sure as heck aren't going to upgrade to Longhorn if it's released anytime soon. This may just be Microsoft betting on users getting an itch to upgrade when Win2k/XP starts to "feel" a little long in the tooth. They may be re-thinking their OS release schedule. Just a thought.
Adobe also made Photoshop for Irix at one point.
A quick google search turns up that Adobe made(makes?) the following for Irix and occasionally Solaris:
Framemaker
Illustrator
Photoshop
Let's not forget OS X and its collection of Adobe applications.
Like zakezuke, I wonder why they haven't bothered with a Linux or FreeBSD port of these applications?
I mean, surely the fact that Disney(IIRC) uses Photoshop on Linux with wine is enough evidence that it is a needed application.
Disney alone would probably license enough copies of Photoshop to make the port worth Adobe's time. The GIMP is cool and all, hell it's free and does some really cool stuff like Script-Fu, but anybody that has spent some serious time in front of Photoshop and the GIMP in a production environment will tell you that the GIMP is no Photoshop.
The GIMP is awesome for whipping up some rough textures for 3D modeling or a quick wallpaper, but when it comes to image manipulation, text layout, web page design, high-res texture maps and other stuff you'll run into on a daily basis as a graphic designer or 3D artist, there's really no comparing the two. Not at this point in time anyway.
About as modern is correct. OpenUNIX is UNIX95 certified as seen here.
As modern as UNIXes get is UNIX98 (according to The Open Group). Which as you can see by the link does not include OpenUNIX.
Yikes!!
That's a bunch for an iBook. I don't work for any of the following companies but I do keep an eye on the used Mac marketplace. Ebay is not a buyers market btw.
As of this writing Smalldog has an 800MHz iBook for $899.
Macofalltrades usually has good deals on portables and desktop Macs.
MacResQ has good deals occasionally(sp?).
I would certainly put PowerMax at the bottom of the list pricewise. They want $729.00 for a G4 400 desktop!!
Macofalltrades wants $500 for a better equipped G4 450
Note: direct links subject to not work as both sites update stock quite regularly.
To keep this post somewhat on-topic, I want a Pegasos. They are supposed to support up to a PowerPC G4 MPC 7450. A G4 @ 1GHz is still a lot of computer.
How is this bug more of a bummer than how gnuftp was compromised and potentially more damaging? Oh, don't hear people moaning about that on here now do you...?
Do you not read the newspapers?
When the GNU ftp site was compromised did it affect any DMVs?
Did the cracking of the GNU server cause disruption at entire school districts?
In case you missed it, look here
or here
If you follow the first link you'll see that even Cisco's VoIP customers are affected by Blaster, not just WIndows users.
I'd call that more of a bummer than the GNU compromise.
ritual suicide
The following is my obligatory OT post for the week:
Better known as Hari-kari or in formal language Seppuku as I understand it from the book Shogun.:)
Interesting link here: Seppuku -Ritual Suicide