Indeed, I'm up to a total of 20 attempts on 2 servers (14 on one, 6 on the other). And the attempts seem to be increasing as time goes on.
This will TRULY be interesting to see how it plays out.
As a matter of fact, this is the first DOOMSDAY type situation that is actually playing out as advertised. The others (Y2K, 9/9/99, the GPS reset, sunspots last summer) all fizzled without much fanfare.
Thank God for Linux! (and other Free alternatives)
226 Transfer complete.
10128585 bytes received in 76.89 secs (128.6 kB/s)
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That's my 1mbs DSL connection, which seems to be operating at full speed. Also, I've grepped my syslogs on my servers at home and at work and I find no mention of *.ida.
That (obviously) doesn't mean it's not out there, though.:)
Ironic, you'd think that with all the Windows servers there must be just east of here that we'd be dead in the water. (moderators: That was a joke . Laugh! HaHa! +1 Funny!:)
But, either way, the district court UPHELD the rights of individuals (in this case MS and its shareholders.) You might not like microsoft, or its shareholders, but the government was trying to FORCE them to change their buisness practices. MS's rights are just as valuable as yours or mine because cooporations are OWNED by people.
Like many, you seem to have missed the main point of the ruling. The court agreed that MS has a monopoly and had acted illegally to maintain the monopoly. What was remanded back to the lower court was the ruling to split them up. This simply means that they are guilty, but that the punishment isn't necessarily the correct one.
Linux is MS's competition. MS is therefor NOT a monopoly because it is slowly, and steadily LOOSING its marketshare.
I would like to see the data you use to support the contention that Microsoft is losing marketshare. They may not be expanding their market share, but that's because they already have about all they can get.
Again, the court has upheld the fact that Microsoft has an OS monopoly. You say that Linux is MS's competition, but try to tell that to all the PC makers: "Oh, you don't want to use Windows? Well just put Linux on there, your customers will never know the difference." Like it or not, nearly all PC buyers want Windows. If a PC maker doesn't like the tactics of the hard drive maker or the memory maker or even the CPU maker, they can just switch manufacturers. With the OS they have NO CHOICE.
This is what makes it a monopoly. The monopoly itself is not illegal, but it forces MS to change their intensely competitive actions, which they have failed to do.
First, readers of LWN.net/daily will probably have read the response to RMS by Ransom Love regarding Caldera's relative Linux contriubutions. From the article:
"To bring it to the point: The only way to make Linux a successful business is to cash in. This is the other side of the medal. In the future, all Linux applications will have a price tag."
I don't necessarily agree with him, but it certainly clarifies his viewpoint.
Also, from another standpoint, per seat licenses make some sense. I don't know if it is illegal to install CLWS3.1 on a computer without a license, but you sure wouldn't be able to get any support from Caldera for it. They're just charging per machine to pay for the eventual support they expect to provide.
Probably won't do much for their general standing in the overall Linux community. But I've never used Caldera (strictly Debian for me, I'm an apt addict:) and most PHB's are certainly not members of the Linux community anyway.
I think the point of the comment was to illustrate that even with a C$600 million investment, they're looking at another options besides the one MS wants them to use. It just happens to be Linux, which points out that they must indeed be disappointed with the WebTV system, since if MS has any influence at all, the Linux system is the very last competitor they would want to see Rogers switch to.
MS feels they can fight other companies reasonably well (like AOLTV, Nokia's set top box, etc.), but they still haven't figured out how to combat the Linux 'market' effectively.
Why do I bet these would only be useful with one company's cable service?
I couldn't disagree more. I can't believe that Ucentric would be so short-sighted as to limit themselves to only one cable system. Perhaps Rogers will try to give Ucentric a bunch of money for an exclusive license, but I think that would be foolish on Ucentric's part.
This kind of device, if successful, would make the most amount of money if it could be sold to other cable companies, like AT&T, Time Warner, and other cable companies in the US and around the world. If they limit themselves to one cable company, they are severely limiting their revenue potential.
Except that you can't stop breathing (without dying:). TVA employees can avoid installing SETI without ill effects. As a matter of fact, it will (minimally) increase the TVA's bottom line due to lower electricity usage.
It's a completely controllable risk (by not installing SETI), and well within their rights since they own the computers.
I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm a Network Admin and for myself and all the people I know who do PC support, one of the most annoying things is users thinking they can install whatever they want on their computers.
I don't think it's a 'time-to-market' release, but I would definitely wait until 1.4.1 or somesuch, if you're going to be putting clients on it. As you say, KDE 2.1 wasn't even ready (to say nothing of 2.0). I don't think even KDE 2.1.1 is quite ready yet, but it gets to a point where you have to get something out the door, and besides, you won't get proper widespread testing and bug reports until everyone starts using it.
As a side note, I have found myself somewhat less critical of Microsoft (don't worry, I still hate them:) and their buggy software. I think that it's just the way things go. You really don't find all the niggling little bugs until the whole world is using your code. (Don't get your panties in a knot, folks, I'm not defending MS. Free Software is still worlds more stable and reliable that MS products, but it's interesting to note that KDE, Gnome and even the Linux kernel tend to have issues when first released, and it's usually the x.x.1 or x.x.2 release before it's really ready for VAR's to put their clients on it.)
Meine kleine zwei pfennige......
Konqueror isn't IE (yet...)
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Justin,
I agree with you that KDE 2.1 is excellent. I was also amazed that I was able to get home from work and simply apt-get everyting right away at full speed. Nice bandwidth, TDYC!:)
I must disagree with your assertion that Konqueror is IE's equal, however. Don't get me wrong, I'm no MS fan, but IE is still currently the best browser overall, IMO. Konqueror is very close, but just hop on over to espn.com. The main page looks horrible, you have to use their 'index.30.html' file that they offer to users of browsers that don't render the main page properly. Maybe it's an IE specific page and not standards-compliant, I don' t know.
Also, go to the NBA scores page and click one of the GameCast links. This is a really cool Java applet that displays continually updated info about games in progress (it's even cooler for baseball:). It simply doesn't work under Konqueror, although other Java things do.
There are other pages that don't render correctly but you get the point. I'm sure that Konqueror will continue to improve. Its recent pace of improvement has been amazing! But it's no IE-killer yet, although it's close.
...if linux had something that worked as nicely as windowsupdate.com...
It does. It's called Debian. I'm being totally serious, not sarcastic.
apt is the package tool for Debian and nothing compares. Windows Update is admittedly quite nice, but I updated my boss's Win98SE machine the other day and then it wouldn't boot. After 3 days of hell trying to re-install and fussing with finding the right Product ID numbers etc. we finally have him back up and running.
This has never happened to me in 3 plus years of using Debian.
A much higher percentage of Win95 software runs on Win98 than 2.2 software runs (perfectly) on 2.4.
Prove it. Please name 3 examples of programs (preferably ones that are at least fairly widely used) that run perfectly under 2.2 that have any issues under 2.4.
Accusation without documentation is nothing more than lazy trolling.
...so maybe no one will ever read it, but I don't think Max OSX will have any effect on me. I will always run Linux on my servers (my main web/mail/ftp/samba/firewall server is a P166 with 64mb. It's been up for 100 days, check for yourself:). My main computer is always a dual boot of Linux and Win9X. Ever shall it be (unless someday I can actually get rid of 'doze once and for all).
Besides, I can build a 1Ghz Athlon system for less than a grand. You can't come anywhere close to that price with Mac hardware.
I'll be willing to help if I can see the parody website(s) so that I know he wasn't breaking the law. I'm almost certain he wasn't even though I don't have any real facts, but I have to be certain before I can put anything on the line for someone on the other side of the country.
On a side not, for those of you that have websites, please make a tarball of the site and burn it to CDR and put it somewhere safe (i.e. not in your home). That way if some rat-bastards take your stuff, you can get a mirror up later to show the real truth.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e37'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'TA_Errors'. Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly.
Sorry, SvS, gotta disagree with you. To say that "...index funds are tied to the performance of the US stock markets..." isn't totally correct. They're not just tied, they bascially are the US stock markets.
Statistically speaking, since the crash in 1929, the broader stock market has outperformed every other cash investment over any 20 year period.
You can invest in the areas you mention, but they require a great deal of research to be successful and intestinal fortitude to ride out the volatility. I you have a long investment horizon (like me: I'm 35 and hope to retire when I'm 60 or so), nothing beats index funds for simplicity, solid returns (average of 11% over the last 50 years) and low risk.
Here's my story: I'm running W2KSP1 here at work on an Athlon 800/256mb. I ran the setup file, it downloaded everything, then quit halfway through the install with "Error occurred during installation: -214 DOES_NOT_EXIST"
Tried it twice more with the same results.
Oh, well, at least their error message makes a lot of sense.;)
I'll try the Linux version when I get home, but I'm not holding my breath.
...that IBM made this decision. Their support definitely would have gone a long way toward solidifying Transmeta's name in the industry.
I don't buy the argument that IBM is 'sticking it to them', however. They just made a business decision. If they thought they could have made decent money on laptops with a Crusoe inside, they would have built them.
Plus I don't think TM has anything to worry about just yet. Paul Allen is one of their principals, and while his MSFT has dropped about in half, that just means he's now worth a little less than 20 billion dollars (he said with his pinky to his mouth).
They'll have plenty of time to find their place in the market. Let's just hope they do. The more the merrier.
I'm running Debian 2.2 (Potato) on my server with IMP as the webmail program. It's very cool.
You'll need to install MySQL, Apache-SSL (if you want to be secure and encrypted:) and horde as well, but the dependencies will take care of that. (I just LOVE apt!:)
If you choose to install it, my recommendation from personal experience is to install MySQL first (by itself), set the MySQL root password, then install imp/horde/apache-ssl.
Requires a bit of tweaking of the Apache files, but hey if I can figure it out, anyone can.:)
1.) now all we need to do is make taco use ispell....and get you to use capitals. You shouldn't try to be a member of the English police without putting yourself beyond reproach.
2.) Nice name-calling. Now we know why you're an AC.
3.) "2.Unwieldy from weight or bulk." One could easily make the argument that the reason that Debian has such lengthy release cycles is that they like to include absolutely as much software as possible in 'main'.
Bear in mind that I have four Linux-based computers (3 home-brew and an IBM Thinkpad) that all run Debian 2.2. I won't use anything else, since I'm addicted to apt.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm up to 27 total attempts like you describe on 2 servers (15 & 12), 7 in the last 2 hours alone.
Indeed, I'm up to a total of 20 attempts on 2 servers (14 on one, 6 on the other). And the attempts seem to be increasing as time goes on.
This will TRULY be interesting to see how it plays out.
As a matter of fact, this is the first DOOMSDAY type situation that is actually playing out as advertised. The others (Y2K, 9/9/99, the GPS reset, sunspots last summer) all fizzled without much fanfare.
Thank God for Linux! (and other Free alternatives)
(said in my best Jewish imitation, ala Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride)
.ida access.log
/default.ida?NNNN(plus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/default.ida?NNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/default.ida?NNNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
.ida access.log
/default.ida?NNNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/default.ida?NNNNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/default.ida?NNNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/default.ida?NNNNplus more N's to avoid the lameness filter)*
1 %u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u00 03%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
/var/log/syslog. Thanks for the tip. :)
:)
AHHHA!!
From my home server:
/var/www/logs# grep
192.83.112.172 - - [01/Aug/2001:05:44:42 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
202.28.38.25 - - [01/Aug/2001:07:05:12 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
64.75.31.153 - - [01/Aug/2001:09:53:46 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
...and from my server at work:
/var/www/logs# grep
203.65.201.241 - - [31/Jul/2001:21:34:37 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
211.254.138.162 - - [01/Aug/2001:07:22:21 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
216.156.1.67 - - [01/Aug/2001:09:39:56 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
217.34.96.101 - - [01/Aug/2001:09:55:18 -0700] "GET
%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780
/var/www/logs/access.log, not
*=Sidenote: Isn't it rather ironic that one of the lamest things about Slashdot is the lameness filter?
No problems here at oz.net (Seattle):
:)
:)
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That's my 1mbs DSL connection, which seems to be operating at full speed. Also, I've grepped my syslogs on my servers at home and at work and I find no mention of *.ida.
That (obviously) doesn't mean it's not out there, though.
Ironic, you'd think that with all the Windows servers there must be just east of here that we'd be dead in the water. (moderators: That was a joke . Laugh! HaHa! +1 Funny!
...you're loading ALL the KDE/Qt libraries, too, since they don't get loaded when you start your environment.
Try this: First, start another KDE app (like Konqueror), then start KMail and see how long it takes.
But, either way, the district court UPHELD the rights of individuals (in this case MS and its shareholders.) You might not like microsoft, or its shareholders, but the government was trying to FORCE them to change their buisness practices. MS's rights are just as valuable as yours or mine because cooporations are OWNED by people.
Like many, you seem to have missed the main point of the ruling. The court agreed that MS has a monopoly and had acted illegally to maintain the monopoly. What was remanded back to the lower court was the ruling to split them up. This simply means that they are guilty, but that the punishment isn't necessarily the correct one.
Linux is MS's competition. MS is therefor NOT a monopoly because it is slowly, and steadily LOOSING its marketshare.
I would like to see the data you use to support the contention that Microsoft is losing marketshare. They may not be expanding their market share, but that's because they already have about all they can get.
Again, the court has upheld the fact that Microsoft has an OS monopoly. You say that Linux is MS's competition, but try to tell that to all the PC makers: "Oh, you don't want to use Windows? Well just put Linux on there, your customers will never know the difference." Like it or not, nearly all PC buyers want Windows. If a PC maker doesn't like the tactics of the hard drive maker or the memory maker or even the CPU maker, they can just switch manufacturers. With the OS they have NO CHOICE.
This is what makes it a monopoly. The monopoly itself is not illegal, but it forces MS to change their intensely competitive actions, which they have failed to do.
And not necessarily altogether bad, either, IMO.
:) and most PHB's are certainly not members of the Linux community anyway.
First, readers of LWN.net/daily will probably have read the response to RMS by Ransom Love regarding Caldera's relative Linux contriubutions. From the article:
"To bring it to the point: The only way to make Linux a successful business is to cash in. This is the other side of the medal. In the future, all Linux applications will have a price tag."
I don't necessarily agree with him, but it certainly clarifies his viewpoint.
Also, from another standpoint, per seat licenses make some sense. I don't know if it is illegal to install CLWS3.1 on a computer without a license, but you sure wouldn't be able to get any support from Caldera for it. They're just charging per machine to pay for the eventual support they expect to provide.
Probably won't do much for their general standing in the overall Linux community. But I've never used Caldera (strictly Debian for me, I'm an apt addict
Yes, killing a baby is murder. Aborting a fetus is not. That's why it's legal in most Western countries.
I think the point of the comment was to illustrate that even with a C$600 million investment, they're looking at another options besides the one MS wants them to use. It just happens to be Linux, which points out that they must indeed be disappointed with the WebTV system, since if MS has any influence at all, the Linux system is the very last competitor they would want to see Rogers switch to.
MS feels they can fight other companies reasonably well (like AOLTV, Nokia's set top box, etc.), but they still haven't figured out how to combat the Linux 'market' effectively.
Why do I bet these would only be useful with one company's cable service?
I couldn't disagree more. I can't believe that Ucentric would be so short-sighted as to limit themselves to only one cable system. Perhaps Rogers will try to give Ucentric a bunch of money for an exclusive license, but I think that would be foolish on Ucentric's part.
This kind of device, if successful, would make the most amount of money if it could be sold to other cable companies, like AT&T, Time Warner, and other cable companies in the US and around the world. If they limit themselves to one cable company, they are severely limiting their revenue potential.
Except that you can't stop breathing (without dying :). TVA employees can avoid installing SETI without ill effects. As a matter of fact, it will (minimally) increase the TVA's bottom line due to lower electricity usage.
It's a completely controllable risk (by not installing SETI), and well within their rights since they own the computers.
I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm a Network Admin and for myself and all the people I know who do PC support, one of the most annoying things is users thinking they can install whatever they want on their computers.
Not trolling, not flaming, just my 2 cents.......
I don't think it's a 'time-to-market' release, but I would definitely wait until 1.4.1 or somesuch, if you're going to be putting clients on it. As you say, KDE 2.1 wasn't even ready (to say nothing of 2.0). I don't think even KDE 2.1.1 is quite ready yet, but it gets to a point where you have to get something out the door, and besides, you won't get proper widespread testing and bug reports until everyone starts using it.
:) and their buggy software. I think that it's just the way things go. You really don't find all the niggling little bugs until the whole world is using your code. (Don't get your panties in a knot, folks, I'm not defending MS. Free Software is still worlds more stable and reliable that MS products, but it's interesting to note that KDE, Gnome and even the Linux kernel tend to have issues when first released, and it's usually the x.x.1 or x.x.2 release before it's really ready for VAR's to put their clients on it.)
As a side note, I have found myself somewhat less critical of Microsoft (don't worry, I still hate them
Meine kleine zwei pfennige......
I agree with you that KDE 2.1 is excellent. I was also amazed that I was able to get home from work and simply apt-get everyting right away at full speed. Nice bandwidth, TDYC! :)
I must disagree with your assertion that Konqueror is IE's equal, however. Don't get me wrong, I'm no MS fan, but IE is still currently the best browser overall, IMO. Konqueror is very close, but just hop on over to espn.com. The main page looks horrible, you have to use their 'index.30.html' file that they offer to users of browsers that don't render the main page properly. Maybe it's an IE specific page and not standards-compliant, I don' t know.
Also, go to the NBA scores page and click one of the GameCast links. This is a really cool Java applet that displays continually updated info about games in progress (it's even cooler for baseball :). It simply doesn't work under Konqueror, although other Java things do.
There are other pages that don't render correctly but you get the point. I'm sure that Konqueror will continue to improve. Its recent pace of improvement has been amazing! But it's no IE-killer yet, although it's close.
Cheers.........
It does. It's called Debian. I'm being totally serious, not sarcastic.
apt is the package tool for Debian and nothing compares. Windows Update is admittedly quite nice, but I updated my boss's Win98SE machine the other day and then it wouldn't boot. After 3 days of hell trying to re-install and fussing with finding the right Product ID numbers etc. we finally have him back up and running.
This has never happened to me in 3 plus years of using Debian.
Prove it. Please name 3 examples of programs (preferably ones that are at least fairly widely used) that run perfectly under 2.2 that have any issues under 2.4.
Accusation without documentation is nothing more than lazy trolling.
...so maybe no one will ever read it, but I don't think Max OSX will have any effect on me. I will always run Linux on my servers (my main web/mail/ftp/samba/firewall server is a P166 with 64mb. It's been up for 100 days, check for yourself :). My main computer is always a dual boot of Linux and Win9X. Ever shall it be (unless someday I can actually get rid of 'doze once and for all).
Besides, I can build a 1Ghz Athlon system for less than a grand. You can't come anywhere close to that price with Mac hardware.
Meine kleine zwei pfennige......
On a side not, for those of you that have websites, please make a tarball of the site and burn it to CDR and put it somewhere safe (i.e. not in your home). That way if some rat-bastards take your stuff, you can get a mirror up later to show the real truth.
I wish I could see the web page, but:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e37'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'TA_Errors'. Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly.
/Error_URLNotFound.asp, line 29
Oh, well, I guess I'll check back later......
Statistically speaking, since the crash in 1929, the broader stock market has outperformed every other cash investment over any 20 year period.
You can invest in the areas you mention, but they require a great deal of research to be successful and intestinal fortitude to ride out the volatility. I you have a long investment horizon (like me: I'm 35 and hope to retire when I'm 60 or so), nothing beats index funds for simplicity, solid returns (average of 11% over the last 50 years) and low risk.
Cheers....
Here's my story: I'm running W2KSP1 here at work on an Athlon 800/256mb. I ran the setup file, it downloaded everything, then quit halfway through the install with "Error occurred during installation: -214 DOES_NOT_EXIST"
;)
Tried it twice more with the same results.
Oh, well, at least their error message makes a lot of sense.
I'll try the Linux version when I get home, but I'm not holding my breath.
Cheers.....
Cheers...........
...that IBM made this decision. Their support definitely would have gone a long way toward solidifying Transmeta's name in the industry.
I don't buy the argument that IBM is 'sticking it to them', however. They just made a business decision. If they thought they could have made decent money on laptops with a Crusoe inside, they would have built them.
Plus I don't think TM has anything to worry about just yet. Paul Allen is one of their principals, and while his MSFT has dropped about in half, that just means he's now worth a little less than 20 billion dollars (he said with his pinky to his mouth).
They'll have plenty of time to find their place in the market. Let's just hope they do. The more the merrier.
You'll need to install MySQL, Apache-SSL (if you want to be secure and encrypted :) and horde as well, but the dependencies will take care of that. (I just LOVE apt! :)
If you choose to install it, my recommendation from personal experience is to install MySQL first (by itself), set the MySQL root password, then install imp/horde/apache-ssl.
Requires a bit of tweaking of the Apache files, but hey if I can figure it out, anyone can. :)
Cheers....
2.) Nice name-calling. Now we know why you're an AC.
3.) "2.Unwieldy from weight or bulk." One could easily make the argument that the reason that Debian has such lengthy release cycles is that they like to include absolutely as much software as possible in 'main'. Bear in mind that I have four Linux-based computers (3 home-brew and an IBM Thinkpad) that all run Debian 2.2. I won't use anything else, since I'm addicted to apt.
WTF??!?!??!!