From Symantec report the file extensions are just.pif and.scr. Filtering "executable" extensions at mail server (i.e. renaming normal executables like exe to _exe.renamed and removing/putting in quarantine not normal executable extensions like pif, scr, sys, etc) in addition to scanning with antivirus (with a combination like Anomy Sanitizer and a good antivirus) avoid me all of the troubles with this one.
RedHat is not the only linux distribution, you have lot more, a lot free, even the ones that need or can build your own from scratch.
And enterprise? unless you need to run certified applications (i.e. Oracle) in all and each one of them, an enterprise version is not needed. You can also use some of the UnitedLinux distributions if you want to run a version with certification for applications.
But my best bet is that you need a few for special applications, and the others could be "plain" linux distributions. So you must choose between an unified distribution for all for a common maintenance/patching/etc with high costs, or do something that may need a bit more of work, but a lot less of money.
Lets see... that started saying that IBM stoled code from them, then all Linux users were guilty, now all GPL program users are wrong... there are a pattern here.
What could come next? Of couse, BSD license, *BSD unix, all other free licenses, free projects like mozilla or star office, then claim that the only legal software licenses are the expensive ones, and after this, only SCO and Microsoft licenses are the only legal ones.
And next? Well, Microsoft ruler of the world and SCO the prince, Bill Gates elected US president, and the proclaim "all your base are belong to US"
Stephenson's book talked about a future where nanotechnology, not diamonds, are the force behind a new age of human advance, and diamond age is used as a superlative of Golden age, not as being gold the advance.
Depend on the book, depend on how you print it or the screen you read it, depend on you also, depends in a lot of things is is worthy to read some special book printed or on screen for you or not.
Reference books, dictionaries, tips&tricks/cookbook style books, maybe even short tales or poems are not so bad to be read on screen, but large books (i.e. lord of the rings both for size and for way to be read, from start to end) are not good to be read in such way, even with good lcd monitors or some other reading technology.
About printing, good laser printers that print in both faces could have good look and be almost as readable as a "normal" book, but it will cost you almost the same or at least a big portion as the original book.
In the other hand, electronically you could get books not available in your area, or in a very inexpensive way if you don't have money for buying it, or use the electronic version to start reading it, and decide with a bit more of knowledge on how it fit in your personal preferences to buy it or not (in fact, starting books of series sometimes are put in a downloable form by authors for that last reason)
Is a good exercise, let you have a moment of peace and maybe reflection and not requires special hardware, just use a little time after or before work to do it. Park your car or take your bus a bit more far than usual and that could make the trick.
If you think that just walk is very few, well, carry a huge briefcase, fill it up with reference documentation (that could be useful in your work, anyway) and carrying that for a few miles daily will start to make a hit.
Not in all countries is easy to get an international credit card that can be used to pay things online. There are requeriments like age, minimum of transactions or salary, maybe not previus debts, and things like that.
Something that enables to pay directly with cash, no risks involved (like the fear of many of using their credit card number online) and really for everyone (well, with the cash and with that kind of ATMs near:) could do a real boom for online payments (at least, for the things that don't have a phisical good attached, like program registrations, online donations, domain buying and things like that).
There are a lot of web based mail/office systems in OSS that could be a good replacement. One of the first ones I used was twig, with a not so flashy interface, but very good functionality, but there are a lot of alternatives. Or go to some kind of groupware, like phpgroupware mentioned earlier or PHProjekt, that is also very good. Also not only groupwares have a webmail interfaces, other kind of projects have it, like TikiWiki, that can have another central functionality, but as it have integrated webmail it could be good as a replacement integrated with more solutions.
TikiWiki is a combination of Wiki, CMS, Forums, chat, blogs, image/file galleries and a lot more that let users collaborate in a lot of different ways. It also have a very highly configurable permission system, that enable controlling what some can do and some others no, or what features a group or an user can access.
This is not a virus, neither a worm. How one can be er... "infected" by this worm? is available already in rootkits? or distributed with another innocent looking program? This looks like need to be run as root, so have very few ways to spread, mostly depending on the bad behaviour of the system administrator.
If its very widespread (I not did yet the tcpdump trick:) could mean that it could be attached to something in some way popular, or that is in fact a worm (i.e. taking advantage of some vulnerability to spread, and then do the scanning).
Remember me those cartoons where first they confront with a knife, then a gun, then a cannon, then a ICBM, and so on, scalating fire power in a very absurd and cartoonish way. Well, in this case the only one that is playing that game almost to the letter is SCO... IBM is just in from of it smiling without being worry at all.
Is the beauty of this IBM announcement. Is short, straight to the point (at least, one of them) and don't fool around with legalese. And not introduces new arguments, with this one, the same that IBM said a lot of time before, should be enough.
This kind of things could make spammers paranoid, if its in deep secret. Maybe this measures will not get lifetime jail or finger mutilation for the spammers, but if at least they can't sleep in peace is a good first step.
To be honest, I have been in a similar situation some years ago. Not was exactly a contract breach what the company did because there not was fixed work hours, but in some moment things get complicated, worked lot of months months a lot of time a week (more than 60 hours/week, averag), and I got very tired of the situation (and in general), and quit. Not was something like a revenge, leaving the company without a solution, helped to train the people that will be in my place and things like that, but had to be out there.
But even if it was the right thing to do in that situation, I feel that I should not do the same again (for the kind of reasons that I posted before, for me mostly), and have to avoid this kind of situations in some way, either taking things less seriously or enforcing vacations, or changing a bit the letter of the problem to have less work.
I liked the solution of having a work with fixed hours and if the company tries to take abusive measures just follow the contract to the letter, but in some kinds of work there are no such thing as fixed work hours.
So that teorical 80 lines in the Linux kernel are ok not only because was released by SCO embedded inside they own distribution's linux kernel, but also because those lines was already GPL because SCO source becomes GPL after including there code from Linux? And this, even if those 80 lines were really from SCO originally.
Look like a lose-lose situation for SCO. I hope that greek tragedy end soon so we can worry about meaningful problems.
Linux is about freedom of choice, why you ask about just 2 redhat flavors?
If you want an "enterprise" distribution, well, I suppose that you want to run there certified software (like i.e. Oracle), and then you should see for what distributions that software is certified to choose from (for the Oracle example, probably will be RedHat Advanced Server and United Linux in general).
If you don't meant to run certified software, and have knowledgable people there, well, probably most properly maintained distributions will do the work.
This is a good complement to the previous spoof of LOTR done in the MTV movie awards last year, that even was included in the Fellowship of the Ring DVD. I suppose that this one will be included in the DVD of the The Two Towers.
After all, they say that as they don't know that their code was there, releasing the Linux source with the GPL license attached was some kind of trick, and should not be counted. Well, the same here, Linus didn't know that those 80 lines in fact come from a (C) source, use the same excuse as SCO with the GPL, replace this few lines (80 less comments) with code that do what need to do, but developed by someone new that have not seen that part of the linux code yet, and all happy?
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From Symantec report the file extensions are just .pif and .scr. Filtering "executable" extensions at mail server (i.e. renaming normal executables like exe to _exe.renamed and removing/putting in quarantine not normal executable extensions like pif, scr, sys, etc) in addition to scanning with antivirus (with a combination like Anomy Sanitizer and a good antivirus) avoid me all of the troubles with this one.
And enterprise? unless you need to run certified applications (i.e. Oracle) in all and each one of them, an enterprise version is not needed. You can also use some of the UnitedLinux distributions if you want to run a version with certification for applications.
But my best bet is that you need a few for special applications, and the others could be "plain" linux distributions. So you must choose between an unified distribution for all for a common maintenance/patching/etc with high costs, or do something that may need a bit more of work, but a lot less of money.
What could come next? Of couse, BSD license, *BSD unix, all other free licenses, free projects like mozilla or star office, then claim that the only legal software licenses are the expensive ones, and after this, only SCO and Microsoft licenses are the only legal ones.
And next? Well, Microsoft ruler of the world and SCO the prince, Bill Gates elected US president, and the proclaim "all your base are belong to US"
Ubik, maybe? there are a lot of paralels, begining with a soon to be dead company that think that is alive and healty in its own look of reality.
But, if things will be like is shown in Fig 4, I have to wear two pairs of glasses for work in 3d?
Stephenson's book talked about a future where nanotechnology, not diamonds, are the force behind a new age of human advance, and diamond age is used as a superlative of Golden age, not as being gold the advance.
Reference books, dictionaries, tips&tricks/cookbook style books, maybe even short tales or poems are not so bad to be read on screen, but large books (i.e. lord of the rings both for size and for way to be read, from start to end) are not good to be read in such way, even with good lcd monitors or some other reading technology.
About printing, good laser printers that print in both faces could have good look and be almost as readable as a "normal" book, but it will cost you almost the same or at least a big portion as the original book.
In the other hand, electronically you could get books not available in your area, or in a very inexpensive way if you don't have money for buying it, or use the electronic version to start reading it, and decide with a bit more of knowledge on how it fit in your personal preferences to buy it or not (in fact, starting books of series sometimes are put in a downloable form by authors for that last reason)
Is a good exercise, let you have a moment of peace and maybe reflection and not requires special hardware, just use a little time after or before work to do it. Park your car or take your bus a bit more far than usual and that could make the trick. If you think that just walk is very few, well, carry a huge briefcase, fill it up with reference documentation (that could be useful in your work, anyway) and carrying that for a few miles daily will start to make a hit.
Something that enables to pay directly with cash, no risks involved (like the fear of many of using their credit card number online) and really for everyone (well, with the cash and with that kind of ATMs near :) could do a real boom for online payments (at least, for the things that don't have a phisical good attached, like program registrations, online donations, domain buying and things like that).
There are a lot of web based mail/office systems in OSS that could be a good replacement. One of the first ones I used was twig, with a not so flashy interface, but very good functionality, but there are a lot of alternatives. Or go to some kind of groupware, like phpgroupware mentioned earlier or PHProjekt, that is also very good. Also not only groupwares have a webmail interfaces, other kind of projects have it, like TikiWiki, that can have another central functionality, but as it have integrated webmail it could be good as a replacement integrated with more solutions.
TikiWiki is a combination of Wiki, CMS, Forums, chat, blogs, image/file galleries and a lot more that let users collaborate in a lot of different ways. It also have a very highly configurable permission system, that enable controlling what some can do and some others no, or what features a group or an user can access.
If its very widespread (I not did yet the tcpdump trick :) could mean that it could be attached to something in some way popular, or that is in fact a worm (i.e. taking advantage of some vulnerability to spread, and then do the scanning).
Remember me those cartoons where first they confront with a knife, then a gun, then a cannon, then a ICBM, and so on, scalating fire power in a very absurd and cartoonish way. Well, in this case the only one that is playing that game almost to the letter is SCO... IBM is just in from of it smiling without being worry at all.
Is the beauty of this IBM announcement. Is short, straight to the point (at least, one of them) and don't fool around with legalese. And not introduces new arguments, with this one, the same that IBM said a lot of time before, should be enough.
Better yet, "GNU/Brazil"
This kind of things could make spammers paranoid, if its in deep secret. Maybe this measures will not get lifetime jail or finger mutilation for the spammers, but if at least they can't sleep in peace is a good first step.
But even if it was the right thing to do in that situation, I feel that I should not do the same again (for the kind of reasons that I posted before, for me mostly), and have to avoid this kind of situations in some way, either taking things less seriously or enforcing vacations, or changing a bit the letter of the problem to have less work.
I liked the solution of having a work with fixed hours and if the company tries to take abusive measures just follow the contract to the letter, but in some kinds of work there are no such thing as fixed work hours.
I bet a lot more. Would you trust in an employee that have no problem on leaving you in the dust when you more need him?
Very close to Zero Data Distribution, the point that reachs email when is 100% spam, not exactly a new paradigm, but coming soon, anyway.
Microsoft is worse. Not only will kill you with their CD fragments, but also will own your body after you die.
Where is Bond where you want to play Total World Domination for Xbox with him?
Look like a lose-lose situation for SCO. I hope that greek tragedy end soon so we can worry about meaningful problems.
If you want an "enterprise" distribution, well, I suppose that you want to run there certified software (like i.e. Oracle), and then you should see for what distributions that software is certified to choose from (for the Oracle example, probably will be RedHat Advanced Server and United Linux in general).
If you don't meant to run certified software, and have knowledgable people there, well, probably most properly maintained distributions will do the work.
This is a good complement to the previous spoof of LOTR done in the MTV movie awards last year, that even was included in the Fellowship of the Ring DVD. I suppose that this one will be included in the DVD of the The Two Towers.
After all, they say that as they don't know that their code was there, releasing the Linux source with the GPL license attached was some kind of trick, and should not be counted. Well, the same here, Linus didn't know that those 80 lines in fact come from a (C) source, use the same excuse as SCO with the GPL, replace this few lines (80 less comments) with code that do what need to do, but developed by someone new that have not seen that part of the linux code yet, and all happy?