They were better than I expected. I couldn't see them do the whole Phoenix cycle in the theaters. They'd have to condense it too much and start getting into way too big of a story arc. Not too mention digging up the whole "which came first: Alien (the movie) or The Brood", question.
Personally, I gave up when Storm switched from long-haired African goddess to the mohawk. They changed artists and I didn't like the new one.
Yes, I know. Re-releasing it under the GPL would allow GNU/Linux to benefit from the improvements as well. I believe the BSD's have no issue with the CDDL, so that point is moot. Linux, however, is where the momentum is and considering how focused IBM is on services, an improved Linux is a big benefit for them as well.
Sparc or Power? Those new Niagara-series Sparcs are quite nice, but will IBM keep development going in both chip families?
Solaris or AIX? Personally, I'd prefer Solaris. A better option would be to GPL/BSD Solaris and let the best parts be cannibalized off by Linux and the BSDs.
With DB2, what attention will IBM give to MySQL?
The bigger question, is Red Hat next?
IBM already has a tight relationship with Red Hat. RH's support for Power and IBM zSeries mainframes (and lack of support for Sparc) are evidence of that. I've also worked a couple of jobs where there were thousands of IBM blade servers all running Red Hat Linux.
What more need be said? How about "at least it isn't AIX". Or, better yet, "Thank GOD it isn't that abomination known as HP-UX aka H-PHUX aka Unix-on-Crack".
Windows is much more prevalent and the low hanging fruit. I don't think Mac and Linux will be totally ignored, but the bulk of the effort will go where the bulk of the target are, and in a normal office environment that means Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet Explorer.
the abstract mentions that the attack was done using malwares. Firstly, I expected Chinese hackers (read govt.) smarter than this.
Considering how effective it was, why use a different technique? I mean if they get something really super-hot, they would save it for more critical times. Until every copy of Windows is patched, firewalled, run thru Tor, buried in peat and recycled as firelighters, why bother?
IBM doesn't support Debian-based distros on their servers.
Every version of Red Hat is LTS, not just every other like with Ubuntu.
Red Hat owns and has tons of expertise in JBoss, which is a benefit in the enterprise.
Red Hat support IBM Power chips, Intel Itanium2 and IBM Mainframes, though Ubuntu supports Sparc. Those SunFires tempt me...
Last year I finished a gig at a telco that deployed over 9,000 IBM Blade Servers all running Red Hat.
It works both ways. I cut my teeth on Red Hat, so RPM is second nature to me while Debian's dpkg and apt took some fumbling. I have Ubuntu-EEE at home but run either CentOS or RHEL on servers.
Yeah, open a terminal and run "top" or use the System Monitor and check processes. Then kill netbook-launcher and watch your machine spring back to life.
I've just uninstalled it for now and installed gnome-menu and am using a normal, but slim, desktop/menu and it works fine. If they fix the launcher, great. If not, so be it.
Being a non-profit corporation and being 501(c) tax exempt are two totally different things.
While there are some serious complication in changing a large, public for-profit corporation into a non-profit, they are simply a matter of time, effort and money. Getting tax-exempt status means you have to deal with the IRS. Unless Congress amends the tax law, it looks like newspapers could only fit under 501(c)(3) as a literary charity. That law specifically states: Section 501(c)(3) organizations are subject to limits or absolute prohibitions on engaging in political activities.
Unless the papers are willing to abide by that (and the EXTENSIVE restrictions listed after that in the law), Congress would need to make a special exemption.
Then you have "tax exempt" does not necessarily mean "tax deductible." A tax exempt organization is one that does not have to pay income taxes. Contributions made to certain tax exempt organizations may be deductible on the donor's federal income tax return. While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) defines more than twenty different categories of tax exempt organizations, contributions to groups in only a few of these categories are tax deductible.[1]
So, to sum up, either Congress enacts a change to the tax code that makes special exception for newspapers -- aka a "buggy whip law" -- or the newspapers submit to self-castration.
You mean we can look forward to having an entire week's worth of issues, once a quarter, be full of nothing but spots begging for donations? Yeah, that'll make subscription rates soar!
Grandma has done fairly well. She can get her e-mail and check her bank accounts without assistance, which is 99% of what she wants to do. She still mashes the mouse button, jerking the mouse. She also is majorly impatient, clicking the Firefox icon 3 or 4 times thinking it isn't coming up fast enough. I wish that app had an "allow only one instance" option.
Many of her "senior" friends were encouraging her to use the PC more, but can never answer her question of "for what?" As it turns out, there is a set of them that are big into online games like poker, Mah-jong and the like. She isn't interested in that. She enjoys reading her newspaper over breakfast in the morning and watching the evening news on TV at night, so isn't interested in getting news online. She'd much rather be in her garden than on the PC.
Actually, she is comfortable in just having the PC there so she can tell her friends that she is "online" and get the occasional e-mail. She really does like the online banking. THAT she remembers to check. Her e-mail could go a week before she bothers to look. Snail-mail is faster for her.:-)
I've helped set up PCs for a bunch of her (ancient) friends. Almost all were underpowered, old hand-me-down PCs with something like Win98 or XP Home on them. If anything was less than 5 years old, it escaped my notice. "Let's get grandma a computer" usually is code for "Let's dump our old PC on grandma and use that as justification to buy ourselves a new machine!". This is a big problem because most of these people are impatient and the machines are too slow.
Still, their biggest obstacle in PC adoption is they've spent a lifetime doing things a different way and there is little justification for changing now. Especially when many of them are trying real hard NOT to sit around in front of some electronic box (like the TV) but actually get out and DO something while they still can.
I can see it now, Fedora wanting 2x your RAM for a swap partition. A nice 1 Tb drive dedicated just to swap. Excuse me, my computer is paging, I'm going to step out for lunch...
I'd guess that most people, even geeks, don't run dd-wrt, tomato, or openwrt on their router unless they've got a pretty good clue about what's going on.
Really?
1. The article claims between 80,000 - 100,000 infected routers. 2. Neither DD-WRT nor OpenWRT allow connections from the outside world by default. 3. The worm brute-forces passwords.
From this we can conclude that there are at least 80-100K geeks who opened their connections to the outside world and used weak passwords. This does not sound like people with a "pretty good clue" to me.
Put this in terms the average American can understand. How much does this increase the odds of Earth-swallowing black holes being created? Isn't the LHC beam scheduled to hit full luminance sometime in December of 2012?
The worm uses peer-to-peer communication with rendezvous points, not client-server. There are an estimated 10 million infected machines. Which one is the control center? Take your time.
These guys have nothing on the auto industry, or did you miss the article in Time on Wednesday? Let me quote:
The wooden but plucky CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, told the press that if his company is allowed to go into Chapter 11, it will end up being a simple liquidation. GM will be torn into pieces and sold off as scrap.
The title of the article is "General Motors Checkmates Obama in Two Moves".
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They were better than I expected. I couldn't see them do the whole Phoenix cycle in the theaters. They'd have to condense it too much and start getting into way too big of a story arc. Not too mention digging up the whole "which came first: Alien (the movie) or The Brood", question.
Personally, I gave up when Storm switched from long-haired African goddess to the mohawk. They changed artists and I didn't like the new one.
Achievement Unlocked: +1 Whoosh!
That was a (mostly) direct quote from X-Man: The Movie where the Senator was trying to drum up support for an anti-mutant bill.
Yes, I know. Re-releasing it under the GPL would allow GNU/Linux to benefit from the improvements as well. I believe the BSD's have no issue with the CDDL, so that point is moot. Linux, however, is where the momentum is and considering how focused IBM is on services, an improved Linux is a big benefit for them as well.
Sparc or Power? Those new Niagara-series Sparcs are quite nice, but will IBM keep development going in both chip families?
Solaris or AIX? Personally, I'd prefer Solaris. A better option would be to GPL/BSD Solaris and let the best parts be cannibalized off by Linux and the BSDs.
With DB2, what attention will IBM give to MySQL?
The bigger question, is Red Hat next?
IBM already has a tight relationship with Red Hat. RH's support for Power and IBM zSeries mainframes (and lack of support for Sparc) are evidence of that. I've also worked a couple of jobs where there were thousands of IBM blade servers all running Red Hat Linux.
What more need be said? How about "at least it isn't AIX". Or, better yet, "Thank GOD it isn't that abomination known as HP-UX aka H-PHUX aka Unix-on-Crack".
God, I hope you mean one-digit UID. Most IUDs are designed only for one digit already. Well, one at a time.
Had they titled this book "Mastering Pussy (cat)" they would've probably made the NY Times Best Seller list.
On the Dell Mini 9 I opened the other day to add RAM, the 3G modem was a miniPCI card.
1. Buy subsidized netbook.
2. Remove miniPCI card modem
3. Cancel credit card
4. Resell netbook at markup.
5. Profit!
A few more steps than the Gnomes, but it works.
Windows is much more prevalent and the low hanging fruit. I don't think Mac and Linux will be totally ignored, but the bulk of the effort will go where the bulk of the target are, and in a normal office environment that means Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet Explorer.
the abstract mentions that the attack was done using malwares. Firstly, I expected Chinese hackers (read govt.) smarter than this.
Considering how effective it was, why use a different technique? I mean if they get something really super-hot, they would save it for more critical times. Until every copy of Windows is patched, firewalled, run thru Tor, buried in peat and recycled as firelighters, why bother?
IBM doesn't support Debian-based distros on their servers.
Every version of Red Hat is LTS, not just every other like with Ubuntu.
Red Hat owns and has tons of expertise in JBoss, which is a benefit in the enterprise.
Red Hat support IBM Power chips, Intel Itanium2 and IBM Mainframes, though Ubuntu supports Sparc. Those SunFires tempt me...
Last year I finished a gig at a telco that deployed over 9,000 IBM Blade Servers all running Red Hat.
It works both ways. I cut my teeth on Red Hat, so RPM is second nature to me while Debian's dpkg and apt took some fumbling. I have Ubuntu-EEE at home but run either CentOS or RHEL on servers.
Yeah, open a terminal and run "top" or use the System Monitor and check processes. Then kill netbook-launcher and watch your machine spring back to life.
I've just uninstalled it for now and installed gnome-menu and am using a normal, but slim, desktop/menu and it works fine. If they fix the launcher, great. If not, so be it.
Have you been bitten by the bug where netbook-launcher sits at 100% CPU utilization? I had to remove it because it was making my EEE unusable.
Being a non-profit corporation and being 501(c) tax exempt are two totally different things.
While there are some serious complication in changing a large, public for-profit corporation into a non-profit, they are simply a matter of time, effort and money. Getting tax-exempt status means you have to deal with the IRS. Unless Congress amends the tax law, it looks like newspapers could only fit under 501(c)(3) as a literary charity. That law specifically states: Section 501(c)(3) organizations are subject to limits or absolute prohibitions on engaging in political activities.
Unless the papers are willing to abide by that (and the EXTENSIVE restrictions listed after that in the law), Congress would need to make a special exemption.
Then you have "tax exempt" does not necessarily mean "tax deductible." A tax exempt organization is one that does not have to pay income taxes. Contributions made to certain tax exempt organizations may be deductible on the donor's federal income tax return. While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) defines more than twenty different categories of tax exempt organizations, contributions to groups in only a few of these categories are tax deductible.[1]
So, to sum up, either Congress enacts a change to the tax code that makes special exception for newspapers -- aka a "buggy whip law" -- or the newspapers submit to self-castration.
Good luck with either happening anytime soon.
You mean we can look forward to having an entire week's worth of issues, once a quarter, be full of nothing but spots begging for donations? Yeah, that'll make subscription rates soar!
Grandma has done fairly well. She can get her e-mail and check her bank accounts without assistance, which is 99% of what she wants to do. She still mashes the mouse button, jerking the mouse. She also is majorly impatient, clicking the Firefox icon 3 or 4 times thinking it isn't coming up fast enough. I wish that app had an "allow only one instance" option.
Many of her "senior" friends were encouraging her to use the PC more, but can never answer her question of "for what?" As it turns out, there is a set of them that are big into online games like poker, Mah-jong and the like. She isn't interested in that. She enjoys reading her newspaper over breakfast in the morning and watching the evening news on TV at night, so isn't interested in getting news online. She'd much rather be in her garden than on the PC.
Actually, she is comfortable in just having the PC there so she can tell her friends that she is "online" and get the occasional e-mail. She really does like the online banking. THAT she remembers to check. Her e-mail could go a week before she bothers to look. Snail-mail is faster for her. :-)
I've helped set up PCs for a bunch of her (ancient) friends. Almost all were underpowered, old hand-me-down PCs with something like Win98 or XP Home on them. If anything was less than 5 years old, it escaped my notice. "Let's get grandma a computer" usually is code for "Let's dump our old PC on grandma and use that as justification to buy ourselves a new machine!". This is a big problem because most of these people are impatient and the machines are too slow.
Still, their biggest obstacle in PC adoption is they've spent a lifetime doing things a different way and there is little justification for changing now. Especially when many of them are trying real hard NOT to sit around in front of some electronic box (like the TV) but actually get out and DO something while they still can.
I can see it now, Fedora wanting 2x your RAM for a swap partition. A nice 1 Tb drive dedicated just to swap. Excuse me, my computer is paging, I'm going to step out for lunch...
Okay, here you go.
Add a few chips and you'll soon get "I think, therefore I am."
Keep going and you'll end up with "Bite my shiny metal ass you meatbag!"
I wonder if the researchers will know when to STOP adding the together?
I'd guess that most people, even geeks, don't run dd-wrt, tomato, or openwrt on their router unless they've got a pretty good clue about what's going on.
Really?
1. The article claims between 80,000 - 100,000 infected routers.
2. Neither DD-WRT nor OpenWRT allow connections from the outside world by default.
3. The worm brute-forces passwords.
From this we can conclude that there are at least 80-100K geeks who opened their connections to the outside world and used weak passwords. This does not sound like people with a "pretty good clue" to me.
Put this in terms the average American can understand. How much does this increase the odds of Earth-swallowing black holes being created? Isn't the LHC beam scheduled to hit full luminance sometime in December of 2012?
Here you go.
The worm uses peer-to-peer communication with rendezvous points, not client-server. There are an estimated 10 million infected machines. Which one is the control center? Take your time.
These guys have nothing on the auto industry, or did you miss the article in Time on Wednesday? Let me quote:
The wooden but plucky CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, told the press that if his company is allowed to go into Chapter 11, it will end up being a simple liquidation. GM will be torn into pieces and sold off as scrap.
The title of the article is "General Motors Checkmates Obama in Two Moves".
Time for CTRL-ALT-DEL and restart it all.
In this economy? Just wait your turn and Congress will eventually get to you, too.