First SCO said they weren't going to show the code because they had to "protect their secrets" -- those secrets being the copyrighted code itself.
Then they went on extortion trips to Japan and around the U.S. Neither panned out, with major companies like Oracle, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and H-P calling their bluff. Accusations without proof are meaningless.
They showed code snippets under super-tight NDAs, mostly to non-geeks, who promptly said "yep, they look the same". Of COURSE they looked the same! Would SCO show code that doesn't match? The fact that it was all out of context didn't seem to matter.
When THAT didn't convince anyone, they started showing bits of code without an NDA -- and the rest of the world found out why IBM, Oracle, Fujitsu, et. al. isn't afraid and why SCO was so reluctant to show the code in the first place.
SCO is clueless. They have no idea what they own and what they don't. They don't know what they, as Caldera and SCO, gave away and what they "borrowed" from others for their own. They simply assume that any.c file written by anyone at Sun, SGI, H-P, IBM, Sequent, Cray or any other licensee belongs to them.
Somebody just did a "diff" between the SCO source and a Linux kernel and went off from there.
Just watching them escalate the claims day after day gives a clue. First it is dozens of lines, then hundreds, then thousands, and now MILLIONS!
The truth is SCO probably had NO intention of this getting to the discovery phase -- they were hoping for a settlement or buyout before all this came to light.
You think nature is so smart. Bah! Nature can't destroy, pollute, and decimate the planet as fast as we can, so there. What took 500+ million years to develop, we can eradicate and wipe out in decades. Barring an outside influence such as a nearby supernova or a 30 km asteroid impact, let's see mother nature match that!
Actually, scientists believe there have been half-a-dozen or so mass extinctions. The latest one, the one where the dinosaurs bit it, was nothing compared to the Permian which supposedly wiped out 90-95% of all life at that time.
Most mass extinctions were speculated to be caused by glaciation events.
In short, Nature *CAN* destroy & decimate this planet MUCH more effictively and probably faster than we can...once She puts her mind to it.
The movie industry has know for YEARS that even if a movie is crap, they can still pull in $$ with a big hype campaign. This is one of the reasons they pay so much attention to week-2-week falloff of ticket sales. It is based off of just how fast word-of-mouth is.
They admit the idea of "buying your gross", and aren't talking about banning anything. They're going to have to rethink the entire idea of "buying success" with a crap movie.
I think we're going to see a lot more direct-to-video and movies that only stay a couple of weeks before hitting the DVD market.
The devices themselves are used as comm nodes for the U.S. military. They could forward encrypted, digital communications through the network they create.
FTP should be for anonymous downloads only, with no user accounts able to login.
SSH/SFTP is for logging in using usernames.
The details about whether this was an exploit of insecure code (i.e. buffer overflow), or bad admin practices (i.e. cleartext logins) hasn't been made public.
If the former, I expect to see an announcement soon of a patch. God help them if they were running known flawed, unpatched, ftpd software.
If the latter, then it is time for the FSF to review their policies & procedures on user logins accessing their FTP server.
Of course, it could have just been a poor password that was guessed. That means enforcing and verifying the use of strong passwords. This really should have been done before, but is the most likely of scenarios. People get lazy and unless there is a mechanism for automatically dealing with this, then poor passwords are inevitable.
The first is for recall -- there must be 50% or more voting for recall before they even LOOK at #2. He is the ONLY candidate in this part. There is no one else to vote for here.
The second is who to replace him with IF AND ONLY IF he is recalled. Then it needs only a plurality -- simply because they don't want the expense of a runoff.
Consider only 1 State official has EVER been successfully recalled (S. Dakota Governor, I think) in the last 100 years -- and HE then got elected to the Senate several times. Hardly unfair.
I don't think anyone has tried to bomb rape and plunder Iceland in a very long time. I think the last time Canada was invaded was when the US Gov had some idiotic notion that it could take the place over in 1812 or thereabouts.
Both are NATO members. Attack one, attack them all. No one fucks with Iceland because NATO (US, UK, Germany, France, etc.) would kick their ass. Combine that with no one really wants anything Iceland has -- not since the fall of the Soviet Union. They don't have stockpiles of nuclear weapons because the US *does*!
The US does because the Soviet Union *did* -- something like 5x what the US had. As the peoples of Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia about what happened when they didn't have the firepower to stand up to the Soviets. (Google for "prague spring")
Prior to that, Iceland was a major strategic ally of the U.S. and kept and eye on the Soviets. They were also critical to the North Atlantic battles in WWII as observation and refueling posts.
Canada was and IS a MAJOR listening post for over the pole. They kept a close eye on the Soviets and the Chinese.
Keep in mind, the U.S. is probably the ONLY country in the world with the combination of super-abundant natural resources AND a decent climate. Canada and Russia are too far north; Australia mostly desert; the rest (except Brazil, China and maybe the Ukraine and Germany) are too small.
Japan referred to China as "the Northern Resource Zone" in WWII. How exactly was Korea and China treated when Japan invaded? Niether had an army to speak of at the time (1930s). (Hint: check google for "comfort girls" and "manchu quo")
If that isn't enough, look at the history of the Mongol, Ottoman, Roman, Persian and Egyptian empires. Being a nice, friendly neighbor to those folks didn't get you anywhere except into chains.
Does the name "Pol Pot" and the "Khmer Rouge" ring a bell?
None of their victims played "empire" and see where it got them. "Extinct" is the word I'm looking for. "Butchered" and "enslaved" also work.
In short, if everyone got together, held hands and sang "kum bye yah" -- all it would take would be ONE person with a big stick to kick some serious ass and take over. (Hey, this was a Simpson's episode!)
Thank you. Is refreshing to see that there are people out there who realize the fundimental problem with government doing ANYTHING is that it takes inneumerable signatures, and approvals before it goes forward. The whole process is more bloated than an MS product.
But once all those signatures ARE in place, all it takes is one bored tech to browse through the system. It happens all the time at the IRS -- bored employees checking the financial statements of celebrities, friends and enemies. Cops doing intensive background checks on their ex-girlfriends, etc.
Government initiative are like a massive boulder. A bitch to get moving, but once it is going almost impossible to stop.
Last month I drove from my old home (Orlando, FL) to my new one (Spokane, WA). I was amazed at the difference in the night sky between the two places.
The last night of my drive, I stopped at Lookout Pass to camp for the night. Since it is summer, and the ski facilities are closed, there were only three cars besides myself up there.
Lookout Pass is 4725 ft. up in the mountains, right on the border between Montana and Idaho (Exit 0 on I -90).
Not a small town for miles, and not a city of mention for 50+ miles in any direction. Almost zero light pollution.
I've never been able to see so many stars before. The Milky Way stood out and was easily visible. I was able to watch sattelites pass overhead. You can understand how the ancient Greeks saw the constellations -- it really helps when you can see the fainter stars.
It is all out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Most people don't know what they are missing with all the light pollution.
I wasn't saying it was a bad idea. It was a good idea.
I'm not interested in FOSS because of a political agenda, I'm interested because the level of control and customization it offers is unsurpassed. I DO understand the interface issue -- which is why I purchased Lightwave instead of learning something FOSS. I can do LW in my sleep. (Hell, I can still close my eyes and run through DPaint IV shortcut keys!)
Over the long run, investing the time in FOSS software can lead to much greater productivity gains than with closed source software.
Finally, you didn't answer my question -- what EXACTLY does PS do better? If it is just a matter of interface difference and CYMK, then a decent skin and key bindings could go a long way.
Herein lies the rub......from the folks who do some sort of graphic design for a living almost all of them swear by PS, and quite a few of them have dicked around with the GIMP as well. To a (wo)man they all say it just isn't as good of a tool to get the type of work done in a timely manner.
"dicked around with" GIMP is the major problem. People who say Photoshop is so much easier than the GIMP have YEARS or experience with PS, and only passing experience with the GIMP. Of COURSE things will be easier/faster with PS!
The user interface differences are a major hurdle because things become reflexive when you are used to it while they have to be thought about or hunted for.
Other than decent CYMK support and bitching about all the filters you've accumulated for PS that don't work with the GIMP, can anyone itemize why exactly PS is light years ahead of the GIMP?
MP3 isn't included for the same reason out-of-the-box encrypted DVD playing isn't -- they require LICENSES!
While Fraunhaufer probably won't go after you personally, they will definately take a second look at someone like RedHat distributing their IP without paying royalties.
Linux has never been big in the "boxed set" market. Unlike Windows, you buy one and then copy it as many times as you need. No need to buy dozens of them. If you think having a boxed set is so hot, put it together and sell it.
Most people seem to get their copy of Linux from a friend, something like CheapBytes or a download.
As for Advanced Server options not backported to RH9 -- duh! That is what makes it "Advanced Server" and not "RH9".
Yes, I would like reiserfs/xfs and lvm for RH. I'll give you those.
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Maybe they'll come up with something else as entertaining.
From the grandfather of the Roman Gods to the butt (pun intended) of most astronomy jokes. How the mighty have fallen.
First SCO said they weren't going to show the code because they had to "protect their secrets" -- those secrets being the copyrighted code itself.
.c file written by anyone at Sun, SGI, H-P, IBM, Sequent, Cray or any other licensee belongs to them.
Then they went on extortion trips to Japan and around the U.S. Neither panned out, with major companies like Oracle, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi and H-P calling their bluff. Accusations without proof are meaningless.
They showed code snippets under super-tight NDAs, mostly to non-geeks, who promptly said "yep, they look the same". Of COURSE they looked the same! Would SCO show code that doesn't match? The fact that it was all out of context didn't seem to matter.
When THAT didn't convince anyone, they started showing bits of code without an NDA -- and the rest of the world found out why IBM, Oracle, Fujitsu, et. al. isn't afraid and why SCO was so reluctant to show the code in the first place.
SCO is clueless. They have no idea what they own and what they don't. They don't know what they, as Caldera and SCO, gave away and what they "borrowed" from others for their own. They simply assume that any
Somebody just did a "diff" between the SCO source and a Linux kernel and went off from there.
Just watching them escalate the claims day after day gives a clue. First it is dozens of lines, then hundreds, then thousands, and now MILLIONS!
The truth is SCO probably had NO intention of this getting to the discovery phase -- they were hoping for a settlement or buyout before all this came to light.
They are quite desparate now.
Damn! I wish I bought SCOX back in November.
You think nature is so smart. Bah! Nature can't destroy, pollute, and decimate the planet as fast as we can, so there. What took 500+ million years to develop, we can eradicate and wipe out in decades. Barring an outside influence such as a nearby supernova or a 30 km asteroid impact, let's see mother nature match that!
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Actually, scientists believe there have been half-a-dozen or so mass extinctions. The latest one, the one where the dinosaurs bit it, was nothing compared to the Permian which supposedly wiped out 90-95% of all life at that time.
Most mass extinctions were speculated to be caused by glaciation events.
In short, Nature *CAN* destroy & decimate this planet MUCH more effictively and probably faster than we can...once She puts her mind to it.
http://hannover.park.org/Canada/Museum/extincti
Considering the original and first variant of the MSBlaster worm made major headlines, why were these systems still vulnerable?
Are each of those systems equipped with a 9-volt battery and a cheap Somebody Else's Problem field?
And don't give me that shit about airline computers having to be 24x7. If that were the case, they wouldn't be running Windows in the first place.
The movie industry has know for YEARS that even if a movie is crap, they can still pull in $$ with a big hype campaign. This is one of the reasons they pay so much attention to week-2-week falloff of ticket sales. It is based off of just how fast word-of-mouth is.
They admit the idea of "buying your gross", and aren't talking about banning anything. They're going to have to rethink the entire idea of "buying success" with a crap movie.
I think we're going to see a lot more direct-to-video and movies that only stay a couple of weeks before hitting the DVD market.
About time, too.
Okay, partial foot in mouth...
It seems it has a 140-pin expansion slot for other peripherals, like a CF adaptor, etc. Sounds like the "jacket" option of some iPaq models.
One for data storage expansion, one for peripherals.
Think: camera & place to store pictures; WiFi card & place to store downloaded files.
Other than that, seems like YALP (yet another Linux PDA). Not that we couldn't use more of them...
You are missing something obvious.
Caldera granted rights to what WAS 16-bit and 32-bit code plus DERIVATIVES. The license wasn't a restriction as to what processor it could be run on.
I forgot the painfully obvious one...
The devices themselves are used as comm nodes for the U.S. military. They could forward encrypted, digital communications through the network they create.
Proprietary frequencies? (non-cellular standard)
Digital communications with IFF that are ignored by the jammers? Like the pay-per-view stuff -- if your key code is correct, we don't jam you.
Ultra wideband that doesn't rely on a specifig frequency.
etc.
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FTP should be for anonymous downloads only, with no user accounts able to login.
SSH/SFTP is for logging in using usernames.
The details about whether this was an exploit of insecure code (i.e. buffer overflow), or bad admin practices (i.e. cleartext logins) hasn't been made public.
If the former, I expect to see an announcement soon of a patch. God help them if they were running known flawed, unpatched, ftpd software.
If the latter, then it is time for the FSF to review their policies & procedures on user logins accessing their FTP server.
Of course, it could have just been a poor password that was guessed. That means enforcing and verifying the use of strong passwords. This really should have been done before, but is the most likely of scenarios. People get lazy and unless there is a mechanism for automatically dealing with this, then poor passwords are inevitable.
Students feeling oppressed? Yes. By the faculty/administration? Nope.
Well, not anywhere NEAR the proportion of being intimidated by other students -- which this should provide a little help with.
Who leaves open ports they don't use? Are there still people who "close off" specific ports?
I hope this was sarcasm, because the answer is about 99% of the general public.
At least Microsoft was nice enough to credit LSD in the tech note.
You are confusing things.
There are TWO votes on the same ballot.
The first is for recall -- there must be 50% or more voting for recall before they even LOOK at #2. He is the ONLY candidate in this part. There is no one else to vote for here.
The second is who to replace him with IF AND ONLY IF he is recalled. Then it needs only a plurality -- simply because they don't want the expense of a runoff.
Consider only 1 State official has EVER been successfully recalled (S. Dakota Governor, I think) in the last 100 years -- and HE then got elected to the Senate several times. Hardly unfair.
I don't think anyone has tried to bomb rape and plunder Iceland in a very long time. I think the last time Canada was invaded was when the US Gov had some idiotic notion that it could take the place over in 1812 or thereabouts.
Both are NATO members. Attack one, attack them all. No one fucks with Iceland because NATO (US, UK, Germany, France, etc.) would kick their ass. Combine that with no one really wants anything Iceland has -- not since the fall of the Soviet Union. They don't have stockpiles of nuclear weapons because the US *does*!
The US does because the Soviet Union *did* -- something like 5x what the US had. As the peoples of Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia about what happened when they didn't have the firepower to stand up to the Soviets. (Google for "prague spring")
Prior to that, Iceland was a major strategic ally of the U.S. and kept and eye on the Soviets. They were also critical to the North Atlantic battles in WWII as observation and refueling posts.
Canada was and IS a MAJOR listening post for over the pole. They kept a close eye on the Soviets and the Chinese.
Keep in mind, the U.S. is probably the ONLY country in the world with the combination of super-abundant natural resources AND a decent climate. Canada and Russia are too far north; Australia mostly desert; the rest (except Brazil, China and maybe the Ukraine and Germany) are too small.
Japan referred to China as "the Northern Resource Zone" in WWII. How exactly was Korea and China treated when Japan invaded? Niether had an army to speak of at the time (1930s). (Hint: check google for "comfort girls" and "manchu quo")
If that isn't enough, look at the history of the Mongol, Ottoman, Roman, Persian and Egyptian empires. Being a nice, friendly neighbor to those folks didn't get you anywhere except into chains.
Does the name "Pol Pot" and the "Khmer Rouge" ring a bell?
None of their victims played "empire" and see where it got them. "Extinct" is the word I'm looking for. "Butchered" and "enslaved" also work.
In short, if everyone got together, held hands and sang "kum bye yah" -- all it would take would be ONE person with a big stick to kick some serious ass and take over. (Hey, this was a Simpson's episode!)
Unfortunately, many retailers no longer stock any 802.11a equipment, other than a couple of "universal" a/b/g cards.
I was in Best Buy and CompUSA and it is wall-2-wall 801.11g -- all "54 MBps!" in big, bold print.
It is a shame, since the 5 GHz band is so less crowded. I think "A" equipment is going to fade into a niche and be harder and harder to find.
Combine this idea with TransGaming's "Vote for the Next Game to Support" idea and you could have a winner.
Donors get to vote on which game to try and get rights to next. Rank them, etc.
Thank you. Is refreshing to see that there are people out there who realize the fundimental problem with government doing ANYTHING is that it takes inneumerable signatures, and approvals before it goes forward. The whole process is more bloated than an MS product.
But once all those signatures ARE in place, all it takes is one bored tech to browse through the system. It happens all the time at the IRS -- bored employees checking the financial statements of celebrities, friends and enemies. Cops doing intensive background checks on their ex-girlfriends, etc.
Government initiative are like a massive boulder. A bitch to get moving, but once it is going almost impossible to stop.
Last month I drove from my old home (Orlando, FL) to my new one (Spokane, WA). I was amazed at the difference in the night sky between the two places.
The last night of my drive, I stopped at Lookout Pass to camp for the night. Since it is summer, and the ski facilities are closed, there were only three cars besides myself up there.
Lookout Pass is 4725 ft. up in the mountains, right on the border between Montana and Idaho (Exit 0 on I -90).
Not a small town for miles, and not a city of mention for 50+ miles in any direction. Almost zero light pollution.
I've never been able to see so many stars before. The Milky Way stood out and was easily visible. I was able to watch sattelites pass overhead. You can understand how the ancient Greeks saw the constellations -- it really helps when you can see the fainter stars.
It is all out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Most people don't know what they are missing with all the light pollution.
I wasn't saying it was a bad idea. It was a good idea.
I'm not interested in FOSS because of a political agenda, I'm interested because the level of control and customization it offers is unsurpassed. I DO understand the interface issue -- which is why I purchased Lightwave instead of learning something FOSS. I can do LW in my sleep.
(Hell, I can still close my eyes and run through DPaint IV shortcut keys!)
Over the long run, investing the time in FOSS software can lead to much greater productivity gains than with closed source software.
Finally, you didn't answer my question -- what EXACTLY does PS do better? If it is just a matter of interface difference and CYMK, then a decent skin and key bindings could go a long way.
Herein lies the rub... ...from the folks who do some sort of graphic design for a living almost all of them swear by PS, and quite a few of them have dicked around with the GIMP as well. To a (wo)man they all say it just isn't as good of a tool to get the type of work done in a timely manner.
"dicked around with" GIMP is the major problem. People who say Photoshop is so much easier than the GIMP have YEARS or experience with PS, and only passing experience with the GIMP. Of COURSE things will be easier/faster with PS!
The user interface differences are a major hurdle because things become reflexive when you are used to it while they have to be thought about or hunted for.
Other than decent CYMK support and bitching about all the filters you've accumulated for PS that don't work with the GIMP, can anyone itemize why exactly PS is light years ahead of the GIMP?
Get a grip!
MP3 isn't included for the same reason out-of-the-box encrypted DVD playing isn't -- they require LICENSES!
While Fraunhaufer probably won't go after you personally, they will definately take a second look at someone like RedHat distributing their IP without paying royalties.
Linux has never been big in the "boxed set" market. Unlike Windows, you buy one and then copy it as many times as you need. No need to buy dozens of them. If you think having a boxed set is so hot, put it together and sell it.
Most people seem to get their copy of Linux from a friend, something like CheapBytes or a download.
As for Advanced Server options not backported to RH9 -- duh! That is what makes it "Advanced Server" and not "RH9".
Yes, I would like reiserfs/xfs and lvm for RH. I'll give you those.
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