Loerrach (where that article says the Agobot/Phatbot author comes from) is on the German/Swiss border and around 10 miles from the French border. The programmer was also apparently part of a group - others helped him write it.
Loerrach is about as far as you can get from the village the Sasser author came from and still be in Germany.
US authorities helped the German police in both cases.
A couple of friends of mine are thinking of 'upgrading' from Win95 to WinXP. Both have good reasons for the upgrade - USB support, other SW support, whatever - and both have V.90 modems. Yup, neither uses the net much and sees any reason to upgrade to DSL which is the only alternative here. Now tell me how they are supposed to download the M$ patches necessary. Professional sysadmins have fast net access and have to find the time to routinely download patches. These ladies are not fools but they have a real problem here.
The other point is that the kid has already admitted the offence, and sufficient proof was found on his PC to convict him anyway. At a guess, he is looking at a suspended sentence + compensation claims which will bankrupt both him and his family (even though he is 18, his parents are still liable).
Swissair went belly-up first. A subsiduary of theirs (Crossair) was spun off and attempted to keep the swiss flag flying but it did not really work. Then the swiss banks got together and organised the founding of a new airline, something to replace the original airline. It would have been cheaper for them to have bought Lufthansa, but what the hell. This airline (called Swiss? I think Crossair have the rights to the old name) is also struggling. They originally tried to merge with Lufthansa (or was it a takeover?) but then changed their minds and tried for a connection to British Airways. That was cancelled a week or so ago. They will not survive on their own so we will see what they try next.
Sabena closed down shortly afterwards. Here again, a new airline has been formed to replace them, but I can't remember what it is called.
It was not that spectacular, what about the Burroughs/Sperry merger? Compaq/Dec (or was that a takeover?), and those are just some of the IT ones which bombed. A seriously nasty one was when Swissair took Sabena on - the black holes in Sabena's books drove Swissair bankrupt.
AOLTW was just a good bit of Dotcom business, a totally overvalued company took advantage of that valuation to buy some serious real-estate. Nothing special, apart from the sums involved.
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Yup, Akamai. That link of yours points to 'Technology Review' (I can't say more because it appears to be slashdotted) and not the 'Wall Street Journal'.
This is just fun stuff that the company chooses to publish, it is not Investor Information'.
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Do you know how many servers IBM have? Akamai? Microsoft?
Be reasonable.
Financial information is important, their business plan is important, it is probably important to know that they are running Linux so that SCO-type problems can be factored in. The sort of fine technical details the Observer goes into are totally irrelevant, just an incidental business expense. We know that it all works and that Google are on top of what they do. That is what matters.
Nope, the fatal crash was 3 years ago and it took this long to come to trial.
As for the privacy issue: - the thing has a memory of 5 seconds so it can only be used to say how one party to an impact was driving. - My understanding of forensics is that they could pretty much tell how fast he was moving before the accident anyway, and the absence of skid marks either means he had ABS or had not braked before impact. This box just makes it easier and more precise.
I have no problem with that. Driving at 100mph where 30 is allowed is just insane.
You can look at the changelog yourself (the title blurb contains the link) but none of the reiserfs change-descriptions look as though they apply to that particular problem.
If a user owns a file but can't access it: try copying it (as root), deleting the original and then renaming the copy to the original and with the original's chown/chmod values.
I did not test reiserfs this time round because I migrated my last two reiser partitions to xfs just before upgrading the kernel this morning.
In a lot of cases, what you say is true. Then you get stories like thesetwo.
I have not had that particular cups problem, but quite a few linux UIs are really pretty arcane. Then again, I was trying to configure XP's networking for a friend last week and did not manage to get communication with the client going. He then tried reconfiguring his client himself and ended up being locked out of his system altogether. Neither XP nor linux has a monopoly on problems.
Well - I'm outside that age range but have not had a TV since (guessing) 1984, apart from a couple of months in the mid 90's when someone 'lent' theirs to me so they would watch less.
I gave it back, it was in the way.
To me, TV is for when you have nothing to do and not enough imagination to think of something. A Hotel room sometimes does that for me, but there is always something to do at home.
The Left Hand of Darkness was her first book and it was rejected by someone who felt the same way as you.
On a similar vein: the 'Toten Hosen' - a German punk band who sold zillions in the 90's were previously rejected by CBS (?) because they could not imagine that there would ever be a market for that kind of noise. There was.
That is a pity, The Other Wind follows on directly from the last of those short stories - Dragonfly. All of the other stories there tie in directly with the main line except 'Darkrose and Diamond'.
Given she now has a good job which will be taking a lot of her time and which should be paying real money, she probably won't be for much longer. How much mileage has the SCO story got left anyway? A good time to get out:-)
That is a good thing, because the winner's tamagotchi is then going to be sitting on a lot of people and I am in no hurry to wear a pink dress while dancing in the streets.
My understanding is that EU member governments are obliged to adopt EU directives into their national laws. Maybe I am thinking of something else.
As to NI Terrorists, the Provisional IRA has declared a permenant ceasefire and have been sticking to it for a few years now. Are you talking about them, Real/continuity or the UDA fractions?
Yes, I know that the IRA are involved in some criminal stuff (and some 'punishments'), I just wondered.
Well, I was looking for some updated.rpms this afternoon and noticed then that 3.2.1 was available.
It has sorted all of the problems that were previously annoying me. The only (very minor) problem is that I had to de-install kdenetwork3-chat to install some of the new packages. The package kdenetwork3-InstantMessenger seems to have replaced it.
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This particular weakness was exploited 3 weeks after it was publicised. Do M$ send out CDs on a weekly basis? That is what would be needed here.
Loerrach (where that article says the Agobot/Phatbot author comes from) is on the German/Swiss border and around 10 miles from the French border. The programmer was also apparently part of a group - others helped him write it.
Loerrach is about as far as you can get from the village the Sasser author came from and still be in Germany.
US authorities helped the German police in both cases.
Yup, neither uses the net much and sees any reason to upgrade to DSL which is the only alternative here.
Now tell me how they are supposed to download the M$ patches necessary.
Professional sysadmins have fast net access and have to find the time to routinely download patches. These ladies are not fools but they have a real problem here.
At a guess, he is looking at a suspended sentence + compensation claims which will bankrupt both him and his family (even though he is 18, his parents are still liable).
Swissair went belly-up first. A subsiduary of theirs (Crossair) was spun off and attempted to keep the swiss flag flying but it did not really work.
Then the swiss banks got together and organised the founding of a new airline, something to replace the original airline. It would have been cheaper for them to have bought Lufthansa, but what the hell. This airline (called Swiss? I think Crossair have the rights to the old name) is also struggling. They originally tried to merge with Lufthansa (or was it a takeover?) but then changed their minds and tried for a connection to British Airways. That was cancelled a week or so ago. They will not survive on their own so we will see what they try next.
Sabena closed down shortly afterwards. Here again, a new airline has been formed to replace them, but I can't remember what it is called.
the worst merger in history
It was not that spectacular, what about the Burroughs/Sperry merger? Compaq/Dec (or was that a takeover?), and those are just some of the IT ones which bombed. A seriously nasty one was when Swissair took Sabena on - the black holes in Sabena's books drove Swissair bankrupt.
AOLTW was just a good bit of Dotcom business, a totally overvalued company took advantage of that valuation to buy some serious real-estate. Nothing special, apart from the sums involved.
Yup, Akamai. That link of yours points to 'Technology Review' (I can't say more because it appears to be slashdotted) and not the 'Wall Street Journal'.
This is just fun stuff that the company chooses to publish, it is not Investor Information'.
Do you know how many servers IBM have? Akamai? Microsoft?
Be reasonable.
Financial information is important, their business plan is important, it is probably important to know that they are running Linux so that SCO-type problems can be factored in. The sort of fine technical details the Observer goes into are totally irrelevant, just an incidental business expense. We know that it all works and that Google are on top of what they do. That is what matters.
Nope, the fatal crash was 3 years ago and it took this long to come to trial.
As for the privacy issue:
- the thing has a memory of 5 seconds so it can only be used to say how one party to an impact was driving.
- My understanding of forensics is that they could pretty much tell how fast he was moving before the accident anyway, and the absence of skid marks either means he had ABS or had not braked before impact. This box just makes it easier and more precise.
I have no problem with that. Driving at 100mph where 30 is allowed is just insane.
You can look at the changelog yourself (the title blurb contains the link) but none of the reiserfs change-descriptions look as though they apply to that particular problem.
If a user owns a file but can't access it: try copying it (as root), deleting the original and then renaming the copy to the original and with the original's chown/chmod values.
I did not test reiserfs this time round because I migrated my last two reiser partitions to xfs just before upgrading the kernel this morning.
In a lot of cases, what you say is true. Then you get stories like these two.
I have not had that particular cups problem, but quite a few linux UIs are really pretty arcane. Then again, I was trying to configure XP's networking for a friend last week and did not manage to get communication with the client going.
He then tried reconfiguring his client himself and ended up being locked out of his system altogether. Neither XP nor linux has a monopoly on problems.
A very nice idea. It will never happen because most of the legislators in any elected parliament trained as lawyers.
Well - maybe not at the village level, but the higher you go the more this applies.
The place where I work had a similar problem back in 2000. They had a backup line which the telecom company guaranted would not be the same cable.
When building workers cut through a whole collection of cables, it turned out that the two physical cables used were running down the same ditch.
Nope, the bbc did not miss that one. It ran 2 days ago.
That story ran in 1957
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:-)
at least it was on topic
Well, I put some new hardware in (USB 2.0 PCI Card) and now 2.4 no longer runs correctly, something in SuSE's startup procedure locks up.
2.6.4 runs fine though.
Well - I'm outside that age range but have not had a TV since (guessing) 1984, apart from a couple of months in the mid 90's when someone 'lent' theirs to me so they would watch less.
I gave it back, it was in the way.
To me, TV is for when you have nothing to do and not enough imagination to think of something. A Hotel room sometimes does that for me, but there is always something to do at home.
Looking around SFO (airport) I see people talking to the air with both hands free
We are talking about California right? Your point is?
(sorry, could not resist that one)
You missed 'Tales from Earthsea' and 'The Other Wind'. One of those (guess which) is a collection of short stories.
The Left Hand of Darkness was her first book and it was rejected by someone who felt the same way as you.
On a similar vein: the 'Toten Hosen' - a German punk band who sold zillions in the 90's were previously rejected by CBS (?) because they could not imagine that there would ever be a market for that kind of noise. There was.
Connie Willis? Sorry, I have never heard of her.
That is a pity, The Other Wind follows on directly from the last of those short stories - Dragonfly. All of the other stories there tie in directly with the main line except 'Darkrose and Diamond'.
Given she now has a good job which will be taking a lot of her time and which should be paying real money, she probably won't be for much longer. :-)
How much mileage has the SCO story got left anyway? A good time to get out
That is a good thing, because the winner's tamagotchi is then going to be sitting on a lot of people and I am in no hurry to wear a pink dress while dancing in the streets.
My understanding is that EU member governments are obliged to adopt EU directives into their national laws. Maybe I am thinking of something else.
As to NI Terrorists, the Provisional IRA has declared a permenant ceasefire and have been sticking to it for a few years now. Are you talking about them, Real/continuity or the UDA fractions?
Yes, I know that the IRA are involved in some criminal stuff (and some 'punishments'), I just wondered.
Well, I was looking for some updated .rpms this afternoon and noticed then that 3.2.1 was available.
It has sorted all of the problems that were previously annoying me. The only (very minor) problem is that I had to de-install kdenetwork3-chat to install some of the new packages. The package kdenetwork3-InstantMessenger seems to have replaced it.
No new bugs so far.
Your mileage may vary.