There is a funny image here related to Sergio Amadeu. The translation (i'm not good at all in portuguese and not so good at english): is something like:
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Wanted
(photo here)
Sergio Amadeu do Silveira
Criminal Charges
Democratization of technologic knowledge
Technologic liberation of Brazil
Capacitation of 2000 civil servant
Publisher of several books
(er, not sure how to translate this line:)
Beware, this man is dangerous!
Any information about where is this man contact immediately with the Justice Department of Microsoft
Your identity will be hidden
(Microsoft logo)
Always caring about Brazil own good
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Well, i'm not good translating, but at least brazilians will have fun with that:)
That looked like an apology for closed formats...Poor Adobe, they opened most of the PDF specification and lose business too, of course, doing that also helped to make their specification almost an universal standard, feasible to be used in organizations without the problems related to closed formats (arbitrary changes from vendor, disappearing vendor, low extensibility, etc) and in the long run increased the market for them.
NoMachine opening the specification of what they do just will have a different market if the use of they technology standarizes enough. That will open doors to they own extensions, support, being anyway as the visible head of that technology, etc. I think that some of the ESR writings explain a bit better the advantages of doing that.
Evolution put us that gene for something (ok, is random and we still carry things from the fishes stage and before).
Being definately stronger should be a surplus, unless ever growing muscles implies problems like heart attacks, needing more food or things more structural, like the bones or how they are connected with muscles can't stand what those muscles can do in an adult body.
I remember reading somewhere a reason why some topics in bad movies, like really giant insects, apes, humans, or to the other direction, very tiny humans (think in Giant's Land) and was related to body architecture and strength of materials. A 20 mt human built proportionally to normal people and with the same "materials" probably will broke by its own weight. This case could have similar problems.
Lets see what will happens with SCO even smaller chances. Now the legal system is in illegal state?
Anyway, probably is the beginning of a good move. If something could shift the balance towards open source, open formats (hope there the court resolutions are not published in msword format, or required that format to present documents) and really wider access to information ("no, you can't show THIS for contract/base software limitations").
... is to have an interface that makes sense to store and manage that size. With traditional mail client software (when only 300Mb of stored mail), if i have to retrieve something and not remember where it is and some clue on how it will look (with good details) i'm out of luck.
Google move was to give not only a big enough (?) space for mail, but also a interface to effectively deal with it, and...well, google to search within.
Is like those pills that have "the vitamin C of 40 lemons" or something similar, you can handle that in that way, will feel like a pill but will have the amount you need, but if a "traditional" vendor gives you to eat 40 lemons to get that amount of vitamin C at the same price, and try to eat all of this you will end with problems. The "content" will be the same, but in a way that will be hard to deal with it.
Was wondering why noone yet suggested this one. Of course, there are more text based utilities one can't live without (screen, vi, links, wget, most of the entire gnu text/file/shell utilities, etc), but mc is the one that have the more "full" interface of them, by far.... well, ok, could be others like centericq that are somewhat near, but still not there.
Like the people that lost a satellite, a probe or something like that a year because the mixed measures in inches with meters? Well, is linked in the same story.
Still don't understand how someone would wonder that a something-k is 1000 times that something (ok, not for computing/bits/etc where the K is 1024).
Anyway, i'm cheating here, i live with the metric system since i have memory, so for me looking at bigger scale measures as powers of 10 more is natural, but probably is easier to do the math for going from inches to yards than the one needed to go from centimeters to kilometers.
I'm using since months POPFile and it have an accuracy of 99.75% with 17k messages. Its not very dependant on the client, it just sit as a pop3 proxy, and it classifies mails in buckets that you can define (so no need to just split mail in spam/ham, for some time i even have categories for virus, nigerian-like scams, automated reports, etc).
Would be interesting to see how that message sample reacts against more spam filtering technologies, or even webmails with spam protection integration.
No, not yelling, just the people that will NOT apply the patch, because it will broke their games, legacy applications, etc, and virus/worms/etc will still be breeding happily on internet.
So now you will have an interesting choice to take: be somewhat safe OR run this special game or that beloved application (and lose of applying some critical fixes from sp2). But, er... that is a choice most actual-linux/ex-windows users have already taken, if windows users already have to lose what they want to be safe they could take a bit more effort and finally migrate to Linux.
I feel it more like "today was an story about skype and linux, but, there are other programs that do the same?". The original story not had a lot of comments on alternatives, but yes some reports on that is spyware and things like that.
What you think is more possible? Skype people posting two stories about it in the same day in slashdot (when just one do the job and don't expose them to someone giving alternatives) or my explanation?
And, btw, when i saw the freshmeat announce today morning was tempted to announce it, before the actual story was posted, and i'm not related to skype in any way. More people could had thinked the same as me, so probably no story was posted by people related to that company.
From the FAQ SkypeOut (what enables to call external phone numbers) is not enabled for the Linux version, and that could be what makes it worth, or different from other available solutions.... or is something common and widely used?
Nice printed manuals, mastered CDs/DVDs instead of burned ones, sometimes nice merchandising included too (stickers, mousepads, etc), some not so free programs included, and the feeling that you are helping them to continue doing its good job.
Indirectly, too, you are helping other OSS projects too, SuSE/Novell is actively developing and helping i.e. reiserfs, kde, Openswan, etc.
So the advantages a bit depends on you. You don't need help and the manuals are ok for looking them online? ok. You have enough bandwidth to install it from the net? ok. You want it to keep coming? then think on doing something for them in return.
Of course, you can do something too for Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo and Debian, if you happy with any of them any help you can give them probably will end in you getting a better distribution in part because your contribution.
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Firefox is named in the text you pasted
Firefox uses the gecko rendering engine, they are naming browsers, but what they should support are rendering engines. Safari is pretty like Konqueror, so Konqueror should work. Same with Mozilla and Firefox, and the rest of gecko powered browsers, and Internet Explorer and all the windows alternate browsers that uses IE rendering engine.
If you want to complain about browsers not supported, well, Opera is not supported yet, nor links:( is a shame because those two are very ligthweight, multiplataform and good browsers.
When it will be out of beta? when it will allow non-invite subscriptions? When they will consider "its ready"?
They are making their webmail a playfield like is the domain name ownership one, and if it last months a to have really big webmail mailboxes, ligth webpages, intelligent spam/virus filtering and threaded mail view will be so common than when it will be finally out could be no news.
I even wonder if in the open source webmail market not exist already one that provides a good part of what gmail will give who knows when.
At this moment i would open the registration in gmail, not by invitation, but at will, still leave there the "beta" mark to show that still could be rough edges, but to accaparate the market before is too late. What if i.e. the actual Teoma come out around the same time google started? still google would be the #1?
Well, anyway, i could be wrong, not tested yet so i can't say how hard or easy could be duplicated with advantages, but so far for non-users is almost vapourware.
Seems that all mothers are producing tools that help to do infringements to the copyright law, so they must be put in jail.
Seriously, under the umbrella of "building tools that could be used to break copyright laws" we could put copiers, cd burning hardware and software, and continue going till reach pencils and the human brain itself.
And the argument against p2p is very nice also. Not only p2p is used for er... lawful things (i.e. smaller linux distribution torrents), but file sharing is a good part of what is internet.I could see the day where the authors of www, mail, ftp, gopher, etc are jailed because they creations "induce copyright infringements".
Next thing they will do is try to penalize worms and programs that behave like them and they will go after SETI, grid technologies and internet itself.
This is a nice trend, how much we must wait for laws that bans thinking?
10-15 years ago there was a Microsoft Antivirus, for DOS, and was a joke, a simple "dir" had more probabilities of finding virus than it. After a while Microsoft realized that it was even more crappy than the average MS product, and retired it from market.
Now it will try again, now with technology buyed from the ex-RAV antivirus. When they not invent something, at least their start is not so bad (of course, then their corporate policy makes it something unsafe, that have troubles with all non-ms software, and in general a piece of junk, think how evolved most technology adquired by microsoft like IE, MSSQL, Frontpage and so on).
Now, is nice to see MS marketing in action. First create a problem doing things bad (how much percent of viruses/worms/etc are not for MS plataforms?) and then sell the solution.
There are other multiplataform solutions (i.e. popfile, that can easily be "plugged" in both, but there are a lot more available choices) that have over 99% accuracy, but active training one of the biggest components of their success (every time a message is misclassified, correct their choice). I hope gmail will have far better spam detection ratio when out of beta and well managed by the user.
If I have to spend US$30000 to sleep surely will have nightmares.
In the other hand, if my work spends US$30k to make me work for i.e. 50 hours straigth as a policy with short periods of 30 minutes sleep, i should quit. Working for much hours must be for some very unusual, end of the world-kind emergencies and not for er.. "usual" things.
They compared the cost of XP against server edition of SuSE or RedHat. Of course, you can install i.e. SuSE for free from ftp, but the server edition have the big "support" component that anyway, probably covers up whatever support you can get for XP for the same price.
So 25 days, eh? Lets see what eEye lists in their upcoming advisories page... mmm Looks that Microsoft has closed some old advisories now, some months ago they had a very long list with very critical, remote vulnerabilities known for 6 months or more.
... but what about "unnatural" or random ones? There are artificial and outside earth things that could do enough to start one. Industrial dust or the impact of one or even several meteors, or things like that could have as a global effect that lot less sunlight hits earth and the climate balance could be broken.
I'm not sure if the global warm disrupting the sea currents and then starting an ice age could or not be possible, but that something happened in a ciclic for certain time way don't mean that always have to happen that way. Maybe it will not even humanity's fault if it happens again sooner than 15k years from now, but anyway, is may be sooner than we think.
today was found a vulnerability to the ONLY browser and probably mail client that everyones there uses.
I send "spam" to every mail address i can found from their domain to see how much damage can do the receiving user and
do it
...
WWIII (or at the very least erased all shared directories where the user have permission, not sure what is worse)
Profit?
A 0-day exploit makes things fall all together as dominoes, with not enough response time to avoid... well, whatever.
In real life was diversity is what avoided to have no life now after any of the mass extintion that happened, exploiting some "vulnerability". Promoting uniformity, and specially on a known, by design, vulnerable system, is wanting, asking, YELLING for a big disaster in the worst possible moment.
Slashdot Mirror
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Wanted
(photo here)
Sergio Amadeu do Silveira
Criminal Charges
- Democratization of technologic knowledge
- Technologic liberation of Brazil
- Capacitation of 2000 civil servant
- Publisher of several books
- (er, not sure how to translate this line
:)
Beware, this man is dangerous!Any information about where is this man contact immediately with the Justice Department of Microsoft
Your identity will be hidden
(Microsoft logo)
Always caring about Brazil own good
-----
Well, i'm not good translating, but at least brazilians will have fun with that
NoMachine opening the specification of what they do just will have a different market if the use of they technology standarizes enough. That will open doors to they own extensions, support, being anyway as the visible head of that technology, etc. I think that some of the ESR writings explain a bit better the advantages of doing that.
Being definately stronger should be a surplus, unless ever growing muscles implies problems like heart attacks, needing more food or things more structural, like the bones or how they are connected with muscles can't stand what those muscles can do in an adult body.
I remember reading somewhere a reason why some topics in bad movies, like really giant insects, apes, humans, or to the other direction, very tiny humans (think in Giant's Land) and was related to body architecture and strength of materials. A 20 mt human built proportionally to normal people and with the same "materials" probably will broke by its own weight. This case could have similar problems.
Anyway, probably is the beginning of a good move. If something could shift the balance towards open source, open formats (hope there the court resolutions are not published in msword format, or required that format to present documents) and really wider access to information ("no, you can't show THIS for contract/base software limitations").
Google move was to give not only a big enough (?) space for mail, but also a interface to effectively deal with it, and...well, google to search within.
Is like those pills that have "the vitamin C of 40 lemons" or something similar, you can handle that in that way, will feel like a pill but will have the amount you need, but if a "traditional" vendor gives you to eat 40 lemons to get that amount of vitamin C at the same price, and try to eat all of this you will end with problems. The "content" will be the same, but in a way that will be hard to deal with it.
Was wondering why noone yet suggested this one. Of course, there are more text based utilities one can't live without (screen, vi, links, wget, most of the entire gnu text/file/shell utilities, etc), but mc is the one that have the more "full" interface of them, by far.... well, ok, could be others like centericq that are somewhat near, but still not there.
Still don't understand how someone would wonder that a something-k is 1000 times that something (ok, not for computing/bits/etc where the K is 1024).
Anyway, i'm cheating here, i live with the metric system since i have memory, so for me looking at bigger scale measures as powers of 10 more is natural, but probably is easier to do the math for going from inches to yards than the one needed to go from centimeters to kilometers.
Would be interesting to see how that message sample reacts against more spam filtering technologies, or even webmails with spam protection integration.
So now you will have an interesting choice to take: be somewhat safe OR run this special game or that beloved application (and lose of applying some critical fixes from sp2). But, er... that is a choice most actual-linux/ex-windows users have already taken, if windows users already have to lose what they want to be safe they could take a bit more effort and finally migrate to Linux.
What you think is more possible? Skype people posting two stories about it in the same day in slashdot (when just one do the job and don't expose them to someone giving alternatives) or my explanation?
And, btw, when i saw the freshmeat announce today morning was tempted to announce it, before the actual story was posted, and i'm not related to skype in any way. More people could had thinked the same as me, so probably no story was posted by people related to that company.
From the FAQ SkypeOut (what enables to call external phone numbers) is not enabled for the Linux version, and that could be what makes it worth, or different from other available solutions.... or is something common and widely used?
... this could give a new meaning to "CPU burning"
... they seems to keep using Windows.
Indirectly, too, you are helping other OSS projects too, SuSE/Novell is actively developing and helping i.e. reiserfs, kde, Openswan, etc.
So the advantages a bit depends on you. You don't need help and the manuals are ok for looking them online? ok. You have enough bandwidth to install it from the net? ok. You want it to keep coming? then think on doing something for them in return.
Of course, you can do something too for Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo and Debian, if you happy with any of them any help you can give them probably will end in you getting a better distribution in part because your contribution.
They are making their webmail a playfield like is the domain name ownership one, and if it last months a to have really big webmail mailboxes, ligth webpages, intelligent spam/virus filtering and threaded mail view will be so common than when it will be finally out could be no news.
I even wonder if in the open source webmail market not exist already one that provides a good part of what gmail will give who knows when.
At this moment i would open the registration in gmail, not by invitation, but at will, still leave there the "beta" mark to show that still could be rough edges, but to accaparate the market before is too late. What if i.e. the actual Teoma come out around the same time google started? still google would be the #1?
Well, anyway, i could be wrong, not tested yet so i can't say how hard or easy could be duplicated with advantages, but so far for non-users is almost vapourware.
Seriously, under the umbrella of "building tools that could be used to break copyright laws" we could put copiers, cd burning hardware and software, and continue going till reach pencils and the human brain itself.
And the argument against p2p is very nice also. Not only p2p is used for er... lawful things (i.e. smaller linux distribution torrents), but file sharing is a good part of what is internet.I could see the day where the authors of www, mail, ftp, gopher, etc are jailed because they creations "induce copyright infringements".
Next thing they will do is try to penalize worms and programs that behave like them and they will go after SETI, grid technologies and internet itself.
This is a nice trend, how much we must wait for laws that bans thinking?
Now it will try again, now with technology buyed from the ex-RAV antivirus. When they not invent something, at least their start is not so bad (of course, then their corporate policy makes it something unsafe, that have troubles with all non-ms software, and in general a piece of junk, think how evolved most technology adquired by microsoft like IE, MSSQL, Frontpage and so on).
Now, is nice to see MS marketing in action. First create a problem doing things bad (how much percent of viruses/worms/etc are not for MS plataforms?) and then sell the solution.
There are other multiplataform solutions (i.e. popfile, that can easily be "plugged" in both, but there are a lot more available choices) that have over 99% accuracy, but active training one of the biggest components of their success (every time a message is misclassified, correct their choice). I hope gmail will have far better spam detection ratio when out of beta and well managed by the user.
In the other hand, if my work spends US$30k to make me work for i.e. 50 hours straigth as a policy with short periods of 30 minutes sleep, i should quit. Working for much hours must be for some very unusual, end of the world-kind emergencies and not for er.. "usual" things.
They compared the cost of XP against server edition of SuSE or RedHat. Of course, you can install i.e. SuSE for free from ftp, but the server edition have the big "support" component that anyway, probably covers up whatever support you can get for XP for the same price.
So 25 days, eh? Lets see what eEye lists in their upcoming advisories page... mmm Looks that Microsoft has closed some old advisories now, some months ago they had a very long list with very critical, remote vulnerabilities known for 6 months or more.
I'm not sure if the global warm disrupting the sea currents and then starting an ice age could or not be possible, but that something happened in a ciclic for certain time way don't mean that always have to happen that way. Maybe it will not even humanity's fault if it happens again sooner than 15k years from now, but anyway, is may be sooner than we think.
A 0-day exploit makes things fall all together as dominoes, with not enough response time to avoid... well, whatever.
In real life was diversity is what avoided to have no life now after any of the mass extintion that happened, exploiting some "vulnerability". Promoting uniformity, and specially on a known, by design, vulnerable system, is wanting, asking, YELLING for a big disaster in the worst possible moment.