who will pay for the testing/certification process?
will it have to be repeated for every minor version or every major version?
Are you talking commercial software, non-commercial software or both?
The answers the the first two questions are obvious and make this a bad idea, Major s/w releases - like new MS Win/Office releases, Samba, KDE, Mozilla, the kernel . . . - go out for beta-testing by people who often know what the hell they are doing. Making that a necessity for small products (who decides what is small?) is not practible.
That is not how I interpreted your Remember those missile strikes Clinton launched when Monicagate was breaking open? Pulling the wool over anyone's eyes? and reminding you - non too gently - what that was really about.
As for I think the pResident should stop trying to misdirect the American public from his attempts at tyranny. no comment. Getting serious again: Reagan and Bush I both announced initiatives like this when they wanted to distract people when things were going wrong. Their initiatives were later quietly shelved. The original JFK program was announced just after Yuri Gagarin went into space and the Bay of Pigs disaster had happened. Distraction again. I wonder whether the Apollo program would have been junked if JFK had not been murdered, once he was dead it became his memorial and was sacred.
After having posted that (and I had to head off in a hurry afterwards), I thought about how I would implement something like that. Disclaimer - I program on mainframes, not PCs.
get hold of the highest 2.0.x kernel the 2.0 series had comparatively few interfaces to kernel structures and ext2 was already rock-solid by then
pick up the ext2fs coding from there, treat it as a module
bolt on the windows front-end (this is very simplistic!!). If you go for ro access then it will be as root, rw means making decisions on ownership
the result will probably have to be GPLed because it leans heavily on GPL source.
implementing ext3fs (only makes sense for rw access) would also theoretically possible along those lines, although I can't remember it ever having ported to 2.0.
That whole list is probably total bowlocks, but that would be my strategy for it.
A 'code review' consists of going through the coding and checking it for correctness / capacity to cause damage. There is no conflict of interest here because everyone involved knows that he is wearing two hats in this business:
An employee of SGI (and developer of XFS)
One of the top ten contributors to the Kernel
Consider it a case of CH anointing this patch with sacred Penguin Pee, something Linus used to have to do before people got used to other people being Kernel maintainers.
Linus always was more likely to accept patches from people he knew and who had a good track record, Marcelo is doing the same thing here.
?? - I thought that there was a product available for windows which allowed you to access ext2 filesystems, although it may not be free. If an ext3 partition was correctly unmounted, it can be treated behave exactly like ext2 - just leave the journal alone.
try: man initrd for a start. SuSE (for example) have the support for all filesystems except ext2 in as modules. They use the initrd mechanism to load the rest of the stuff. This is not an approach I like - it means one more thing that can go horribly wrong if you compile your own kernel - but that is another matter.
You started off making sense, but then headed abruptly south.
Those missile strikes Clinton launched were the response to the two Al Qaida (sp?) bombings of US Embassies in Africa, bombings in which several hundred people died.
One missile was aimed directly at Osama bin Laden - the name might ring a bell - and the other one at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (?) which was reportedly making chemical weapons. One of those missiles was an inadequate response, the other one was almost certainly a mistake but blaming Monica (with or without her gate) for them is like blaming Bush for 09.11.
If you changed the first word to 'Yes', we could be saying the same thing.
A plague on both your houses?
The SEC believes in 'self regulation' which seems to be held to have failed. 'self regulation' here is a much bigger mistake because there is no larger power waiting in the wings to correct abuses. Overseeing elections is far too important to be left to the parties involved, and that is something that also applies to allowing counting to be done using buggy and insecure software. If constituencies could be selected at random (really at random) for spot-checks where 'paper votes' could be compared to electronic ones then electronic voting would be safer. Now it is also just open to abuse.
Someone had to bring the L-word into it. In the article, it was made clear that both parties were doing this but that the Elephants have started taking things much further than the Donkeys.
I have no idea where the person who wrote the article stands politically, but you are using the L-word to misrepresent what was being said.
That is trivially easy to stop, any party which does not manage x% (x should be somewhere around 4-6) gets nothing. I am not sure what the rules are like in Italy, in Germany x=5. France has a different system.
Germany has had stable government since the last war. After the mid 50's or so, there were 3 parties around. 2 big ones and a small one. The first real changes of government were when the small one changed sides which it did some time around 1970 and back again in 1981. Now there is another small party around which means the larger main party can more or less choose their partner. Works as designed.
Italy traditionally had instable coalitions which had one main aim - keeping the communists out of government. After the Soviet Union fell, the communists finally formed a government for a while. I would not call Italy's political system a success, a system where the same party has a perpetual lease on power (the Christian Democrats, now defunct and having been replaced by Berlusconi's people) just breeds corruption. The CDs were in bed with Mafia-like organisations for years.
A large number of countries have proportional representation.
advantage: this sort of gerrymandering is totally impossible - the one (person/party) with the most votes wins.
disadvantage: if corrupt politicians have the support of their party, they are a long way up their party's list and are almost guaranteed reelection
side-effect: coalitions become normal. What you have to have is some cutoff where parties getting less than (say) 5% are out of luck, otherwise you get a mess like Israel where tiny parties in a coalition can blackmail the main parties.
You say that the US constitution is 'pretty good'. I am not totally convinced on this one - it is over 200 years old and probably needs beefing up a bit. The problem is: who would do that 'beefing'. With the current political climate the way it is, leaving it the way it is is probably the safest option, otherwise the party in power will use that power to cement that power (this is normal - all parties/politicians want power, what defines a democracy is what lengths they are prepared to go to).
One thing has to be said though, a country where this sort of gerrymandering is going on can not be said to be a democracy. It is a self-perpetuating ogliarchy. This would not matter much to the rest of the world if we were talking about Upper-Volta, but it is the most powerful country in the world that is trying to copy the Roman empire and that affects everyone.
The article hopes that the supreme court will put it's foot down on this issue. Sorry - I will not be holding by breath. Rehnquist - in particular - and Thomas normally vote along party lines. Even if by some mischance, the Supreme Court stopped this, what would appear in it's place? Iowa shows that it can be done but who cares what Iowa does?
That actually means that not knowing that something is illegal is no defence. Not knowing what your own company is up to (as in: what their main product is) is taking incompetence very very far, but is it ignorance in the legal sense?
Caldera bought SCO and then changed their own name to SCO. Darl was part of that Caldera and either did not know what his own company was up to (as in producing/selling) or misrepresented it in order to blackmail everone in sight. The first variation makes him look like the pointy-haired incompetent in Dilbert and the second variation makes him a criminal.
That indicates inadequate research by Groklaw, they present (by implication) his work on XFS as evidence that SCO are involved in this area. In reality, this is what he has been doing since he turned his back on that mob. Yes - I know they give his two SGI e-mail addresses but in reality, this has nothing to do with SCO at all.
In other parts of the document, they take the presence of his contributions to mean that SCO was still involved recently. Wrong.
The older stuff where he had an e-mail address belonging to SCO / Caldera is good, though.
I live in Germany and used to share a flat back then. My (German) flatmate had a bunch of people round to watch TV for the funeral.
You will probably find that most of the western world (and, at a guess, Egypt) covered Diana's death far more thoroughly than Mother Teresa's. One was also a big surprise, the other one was not.
I understand 'making images' to be 'taking photos', and 'gross indecency' to be what this whole story is about.
At a guess, your interpretation is based on the differences between US and UK English.
Around 3-4 years ago, someone got into trouble in England or Germany (sorry, can't remember which) for having taken some nude photos of their kids. The people who developed the films informed the police. There was absolutely no question of the parents having abused their kids and also no question of them having wanted to publicise those photos in any way.
You may not think gays are 'sexual deviants' (although taking those two words literally, they probably could be said to be) bit according to the State of Texas (link from further up this page) they were held to be up until 5 months ago. The two apparently took this one all the way to stay off the register. With laws like that around, being considered a 'Sex Offender' is not such a clear cut issue as a lot of people think.
Going from what I have read in the papers - always a dangerous move - a lot of the paedeophiles who go for boys were themselves abused as kids.
That is because not nuch gets reported in the US which is not of 'local' interest. Ireland has had several cases, Austria had a very high-profile case a few years ago and several other ones have made the local news. Paedeophile priests are actually not big news any more.
Going off-topic - American reporting: A few years back (I think it was September '89), two aircraft crashes happened on the same day. One was in NY, some plane overshot the runway and ended up in the East River - 4 dead. The other was a terrorist bomb in a French plane over Africa - around 280 dead if I remember correctly. The bombing hardly got a mention on CNN, the E River incident got wall-to-wall coverage being repeated every few minutes. The US media are very parochial, although it will have helped that CNN could cover the whole pathetic incident live.
Way back when I was getting my degree, one of the lecturers had implemented this interpretive language called Codil (COntext Dependent Information Language) in Cobol. It was apparently really good at solving certain types of problems, but one of it's own problems was that the interpreter partially depended on some bugs in that one particular Cobol compiler. When Bugfixes were applied, the author needed a description of the fixes so he could track down the problems they were causing his interpreter.
Another problem will have been that the hardware he used was an ICL 1900 - a 24-bit machine with 6-bit bytes and whose successor (the ICL 2900, I think) was totally incompatable to it. ICL was taken over by Fujitsu some time in the 80's.
Google has quite a few pointers Codil but they all appear to be historical.
They must mean MAC Address, the only way it could be IP Address is if AOL give fixed IP Addresses (for broadband) based on the MAC Address and then it's the MAC Address all over again. Someone here quoted another - more detailed - article from SFGate where it was claimed that he used the AOL account he found on the laptop.
Your article contradicts the other one, quoted below. Some of the stuff in the Yahoo one is obviously flawed, or do Yahoo allow fixed IP Addresses based on the MAC Addess? The SFGate article is more detailed and contains no obvious mistakes, but I don't understand why the fool would have logged into someone else's AOL account when he seemingly wanted to do his own home-office thing on the net. Surfing would be possible, but he seems to have had no interest in the 'you have mail for someone else' side of things.
Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol address, a number that identifies a computer on the Internet, to Krastof's home address through his AOL account, White said.
I thought you could turn the p3 serial-no off via a bios option (not that I have one)
is the mainboard bios serial # really transmitted?
Now to MAC Address (the article said IP-Address but we can ignore that), what is to stop you putting another pcmcia card in there? If the original ethernet was a pcmcia card, dispose of it as anonymously as possible and if it is internal, use it for an internal network only. Disable wireless lan.
On the other hand, if the thief had known what he was up to and what the risks were, he would have known enough to be able to get a half-decent job anyway.
If you are running some SCO Unix, you want to do exactly that - start migrating. If you are using Linux and are worried, draw up a contingency plan and home you don't actually have to use it.
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- who will pay for the testing/certification process?
- will it have to be repeated for every minor version or every major version?
- Are you talking commercial software, non-commercial software or both?
The answers the the first two questions are obvious and make this a bad idea, Major s/w releases - like new MS Win/Office releases, Samba, KDE, Mozilla, the kernel . . . - go out for beta-testing by people who often know what the hell they are doing. Making that a necessity for small products (who decides what is small?) is not practible.That is not how I interpreted your Remember those missile strikes Clinton launched when Monicagate was breaking open? Pulling the wool over anyone's eyes? and reminding you - non too gently - what that was really about.
As for I think the pResident should stop trying to misdirect the American public from his attempts at tyranny. no comment. Getting serious again: Reagan and Bush I both announced initiatives like this when they wanted to distract people when things were going wrong. Their initiatives were later quietly shelved. The original JFK program was announced just after Yuri Gagarin went into space and the Bay of Pigs disaster had happened. Distraction again. I wonder whether the Apollo program would have been junked if JFK had not been murdered, once he was dead it became his memorial and was sacred.
- get hold of the highest 2.0.x kernel
- pick up the ext2fs coding from there, treat it as a module
- bolt on the windows front-end (this is very simplistic!!). If you go for ro access then it will be as root, rw means making decisions on ownership
- the result will probably have to be GPLed because it leans heavily on GPL source.
- implementing ext3fs (only makes sense for rw access) would also theoretically possible along those lines, although I can't remember it ever having ported to 2.0.
That whole list is probably total bowlocks, but that would be my strategy for it.the 2.0 series had comparatively few interfaces to kernel structures and ext2 was already rock-solid by then
- An employee of SGI (and developer of XFS)
- One of the top ten contributors to the Kernel
Consider it a case of CH anointing this patch with sacred Penguin Pee, something Linus used to have to do before people got used to other people being Kernel maintainers.Linus always was more likely to accept patches from people he knew and who had a good track record, Marcelo is doing the same thing here.
?? - I thought that there was a product available for windows which allowed you to access ext2 filesystems, although it may not be free. If an ext3 partition was correctly unmounted, it can be treated behave exactly like ext2 - just leave the journal alone.
was.
Groklaw said in the article that he 'also' had 2 e-mail addresses at SGI but not that he has been working for them for several months.
try: man initrd
for a start. SuSE (for example) have the support for all filesystems except ext2 in as modules. They use the initrd mechanism to load the rest of the stuff. This is not an approach I like - it means one more thing that can go horribly wrong if you compile your own kernel - but that is another matter.
You started off making sense, but then headed abruptly south.
Those missile strikes Clinton launched were the response to the two Al Qaida (sp?) bombings of US Embassies in Africa, bombings in which several hundred people died.
One missile was aimed directly at Osama bin Laden - the name might ring a bell - and the other one at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (?) which was reportedly making chemical weapons.
One of those missiles was an inadequate response, the other one was almost certainly a mistake but blaming Monica (with or without her gate) for them is like blaming Bush for 09.11.
If you changed the first word to 'Yes', we could be saying the same thing.
A plague on both your houses?
The SEC believes in 'self regulation' which seems to be held to have failed. 'self regulation' here is a much bigger mistake because there is no larger power waiting in the wings to correct abuses.
Overseeing elections is far too important to be left to the parties involved, and that is something that also applies to allowing counting to be done using buggy and insecure software. If constituencies could be selected at random (really at random) for spot-checks where 'paper votes' could be compared to electronic ones then electronic voting would be safer. Now it is also just open to abuse.
cool.
I missed that, do you have a link?
Someone had to bring the L-word into it. In the article, it was made clear that both parties were doing this but that the Elephants have started taking things much further than the Donkeys.
I have no idea where the person who wrote the article stands politically, but you are using the L-word to misrepresent what was being said.
That is trivially easy to stop, any party which does not manage x% (x should be somewhere around 4-6) gets nothing. I am not sure what the rules are like in Italy, in Germany x=5. France has a different system.
Germany has had stable government since the last war. After the mid 50's or so, there were 3 parties around. 2 big ones and a small one. The first real changes of government were when the small one changed sides which it did some time around 1970 and back again in 1981. Now there is another small party around which means the larger main party can more or less choose their partner. Works as designed.
Italy traditionally had instable coalitions which had one main aim - keeping the communists out of government. After the Soviet Union fell, the communists finally formed a government for a while. I would not call Italy's political system a success, a system where the same party has a perpetual lease on power (the Christian Democrats, now defunct and having been replaced by Berlusconi's people) just breeds corruption. The CDs were in bed with Mafia-like organisations for years.
A large number of countries have proportional representation.
- advantage: this sort of gerrymandering is totally impossible - the one (person/party) with the most votes wins.
- disadvantage: if corrupt politicians have the support of their party, they are a long way up their party's list and are almost guaranteed reelection
- side-effect: coalitions become normal. What you have to have is some cutoff where parties getting less than (say) 5% are out of luck, otherwise you get a mess like Israel where tiny parties in a coalition can blackmail the main parties.
You say that the US constitution is 'pretty good'. I am not totally convinced on this one - it is over 200 years old and probably needs beefing up a bit. The problem is: who would do that 'beefing'. With the current political climate the way it is, leaving it the way it is is probably the safest option, otherwise the party in power will use that power to cement that power (this is normal - all parties/politicians want power, what defines a democracy is what lengths they are prepared to go to).One thing has to be said though, a country where this sort of gerrymandering is going on can not be said to be a democracy. It is a self-perpetuating ogliarchy. This would not matter much to the rest of the world if we were talking about Upper-Volta, but it is the most powerful country in the world that is trying to copy the Roman empire and that affects everyone.
The article hopes that the supreme court will put it's foot down on this issue. Sorry - I will not be holding by breath. Rehnquist - in particular - and Thomas normally vote along party lines. Even if by some mischance, the Supreme Court stopped this, what would appear in it's place? Iowa shows that it can be done but who cares what Iowa does?
Ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law.
That actually means that not knowing that something is illegal is no defence.
Not knowing what your own company is up to (as in: what their main product is) is taking incompetence very very far, but is it ignorance in the legal sense?
Caldera bought SCO and then changed their own name to SCO. Darl was part of that Caldera and either did not know what his own company was up to (as in producing/selling) or misrepresented it in order to blackmail everone in sight. The first variation makes him look like the pointy-haired incompetent in Dilbert and the second variation makes him a criminal.
Or have I missed something?
That indicates inadequate research by Groklaw, they present (by implication) his work on XFS as evidence that SCO are involved in this area. In reality, this is what he has been doing since he turned his back on that mob. Yes - I know they give his two SGI e-mail addresses but in reality, this has nothing to do with SCO at all.
In other parts of the document, they take the presence of his contributions to mean that SCO was still involved recently. Wrong.
The older stuff where he had an e-mail address belonging to SCO / Caldera is good, though.
I live in Germany and used to share a flat back then. My (German) flatmate had a bunch of people round to watch TV for the funeral.
You will probably find that most of the western world (and, at a guess, Egypt) covered Diana's death far more thoroughly than Mother Teresa's. One was also a big surprise, the other one was not.
I understand 'making images' to be 'taking photos', and 'gross indecency' to be what this whole story is about.
At a guess, your interpretation is based on the differences between US and UK English.
Around 3-4 years ago, someone got into trouble in England or Germany (sorry, can't remember which) for having taken some nude photos of their kids. The people who developed the films informed the police. There was absolutely no question of the parents having abused their kids and also no question of them having wanted to publicise those photos in any way.
You may not think gays are 'sexual deviants' (although taking those two words literally, they probably could be said to be) bit according to the State of Texas (link from further up this page) they were held to be up until 5 months ago. The two apparently took this one all the way to stay off the register. With laws like that around, being considered a 'Sex Offender' is not such a clear cut issue as a lot of people think.
Going from what I have read in the papers - always a dangerous move - a lot of the paedeophiles who go for boys were themselves abused as kids.
That is because not nuch gets reported in the US which is not of 'local' interest. Ireland has had several cases, Austria had a very high-profile case a few years ago and several other ones have made the local news. Paedeophile priests are actually not big news any more.
Going off-topic - American reporting:
A few years back (I think it was September '89), two aircraft crashes happened on the same day. One was in NY, some plane overshot the runway and ended up in the East River - 4 dead. The other was a terrorist bomb in a French plane over Africa - around 280 dead if I remember correctly.
The bombing hardly got a mention on CNN, the E River incident got wall-to-wall coverage being repeated every few minutes. The US media are very parochial, although it will have helped that CNN could cover the whole pathetic incident live.
That brings back an old memory!
Way back when I was getting my degree, one of the lecturers had implemented this interpretive language called Codil (COntext Dependent Information Language) in Cobol. It was apparently really good at solving certain types of problems, but one of it's own problems was that the interpreter partially depended on some bugs in that one particular Cobol compiler. When Bugfixes were applied, the author needed a description of the fixes so he could track down the problems they were causing his interpreter.
Another problem will have been that the hardware he used was an ICL 1900 - a 24-bit machine with 6-bit bytes and whose successor (the ICL 2900, I think) was totally incompatable to it. ICL was taken over by Fujitsu some time in the 80's.
Google has quite a few pointers Codil but they all appear to be historical.
They must mean MAC Address, the only way it could be IP Address is if AOL give fixed IP Addresses (for broadband) based on the MAC Address and then it's the MAC Address all over again.
Someone here quoted another - more detailed - article from SFGate where it was claimed that he used the AOL account he found on the laptop.
Your article contradicts the other one, quoted below.
Some of the stuff in the Yahoo one is obviously flawed, or do Yahoo allow fixed IP Addresses based on the MAC Addess? The SFGate article is more detailed and contains no obvious mistakes, but I don't understand why the fool would have logged into someone else's AOL account when he seemingly wanted to do his own home-office thing on the net. Surfing would be possible, but he seems to have had no interest in the 'you have mail for someone else' side of things.
Investigators traced the computer to Krastof when he logged onto his own America Online account at home through one of the stolen computers, White said. That enabled authorities to connect the computer's Internet Protocol address, a number that identifies a computer on the Internet, to Krastof's home address through his AOL account, White said.
- I thought you could turn the p3 serial-no off via a bios option (not that I have one)
- is the mainboard bios serial # really transmitted?
- Now to MAC Address (the article said IP-Address but we can ignore that), what is to stop you putting another pcmcia card in there? If the original ethernet was a pcmcia card, dispose of it as anonymously as possible and if it is internal, use it for an internal network only. Disable wireless lan.
On the other hand, if the thief had known what he was up to and what the risks were, he would have known enough to be able to get a half-decent job anyway.If you are running some SCO Unix, you want to do exactly that - start migrating.
If you are using Linux and are worried, draw up a contingency plan and home you don't actually have to use it.