Now that that's out of the way... they're saying that if your *specific* DVD player was used to create illegal copies of a DVD, that were later distributed, they can make sure later DVDs don't work on it, so you don't illegally distribute those, too.
While I think this whole proposition sucks, this is one of the few parts of it I don't have a problem with. If they can confirm that you're doing illegal stuff with the DVDs they sell you (see the sections on forensic marking to see how they plan to figure out your serial number), I don't have a problem with them doing what they can to make sure you don't do it again.
The old monitor on my TRS-80 Model I was the worst squealer I ever heard. I could tell it was on the second I walked in the house, and nobody else in my family could hear the buzz at all.
I remember reading about a study on just this subject many years ago. It turns out that, while it's entirely normal not to be able to hear it, about twice as many men can hear it than women.
Oh, THAT'S it. I was trying to remember why I'd leased my current car, and now I know it's because I'm self-absorbed.
Thanks for straightening me out on that. Up until now, I'd erroneously believed it was because the monthly payments were a lot lower, it made things a lot easier on me tax-wise, and I could buy off the car at the end of the lease for about what I'd still owe on it if I had bought it, while also having the option of ditching it if I decided I didn't like it any more, for any reason.
Now I realize it was because I'm retarted. That's so much easier to remember. Thanks!
I don't doubt that works for some people. I'd probably be one of the other guys who did "OK, I guess."
Back in my younger days when I had a lot of downtime on my hands, the very last thing you'd find me doing would have been to have my nose buried in a book. Given that, these days, the choices would be more like studying or fragging my co-workers, I'd choose a gut shot to the Notes admin in a split second.
Granted, I'm a big-time geek, and I like learning new stuff at least as much as a good geek should. I'm a coder, network engineer, systems admin, and security guy rolled into one, and I like to think I'm pretty damned good at all of those. However, I wouldn't also be highly- (some might say over-) payed, and also working with people who I truly consider friends, if it wasn't for the relationships I formed at previous jobs. Based on my experience, it's hard to get people to really care about you five years after if they just remember you as the guy who was always reading the Unix manual in the corner.
Obviously, I'm replying to someone who did pretty well for himself using the other approach. I'd just like to submit the opposing view that time spent screwing off with friends and co-workers isn't necessarily time wasted.
But if you *do* license Windows, do you deserve to have your network pounded by all the machines that belong to people who don't?
Windows has a long history of works that do can take down whole networks with network congestion, etc. With no patches from MS for these boxes, it could only get worse for everyone.
No benefit to them? I hardly think so. Imagine how much worse MS's current security problems would be if, on top of all the machines that currently *don't* get patch, you also had some unknown number of machines that *can't* be patched.
Judging from how many people I know who have less-than-legal copies of Windows, it could be a disaster. not just for unpatched machines, but for any networks they're attached to -- not to mention the entire rest of the Internet as they try to "reach out and touch someone" a few thousand times a second.
On a PR level, I'd say keeping their OS secure, whether paid for or not, would be a huge PR benefit for them, if nothing else.
I doubt that. Our IBM rep told us about the upcoming release of the new switch module, and said the primary reason for it was because customers wanted something that would interoperate better with their networks than the previous hardware they were using.
Putting Linux on the switch modules would totally defeat the purpose of these new modules, which is 100% Cisco compatibility.
It might seem like a no-brainer, but the Cisco module for the blade servers doesn't work that way. They're basically just a NIC for the blades in the server -- you still need to run a cable (or a couple for a trunked link) from the switch module to whatever switches the rest of your network devices connect to.
They've been doing this with their blade servers for a while. The only thing new here is that the previous switch-module offerings were made by either D-Link or (if I remember correctly) Nortel.
A lot of people mistakenly seem to think these are blades similar to what go into a Cisco 69xx chassis. They're not. They're a module that goes into the back of the blades that allow you to connect your blade server to the rest of your network. You're not going to find ports for plugging in any other servers.
That's precisely why the last two versions of Solaris (and possibly farther back) have included the GNU utilities -- so people who prefer them can install them easily. However, if you have apps you need to support that were made to work with the Solaris versions of these utilities (perhaps because they pre-date the GNU software), you can use the stock stuff and your apps won't break.
Sun's SSH on Solaris 9 is also a Sun-maintained version of OpenSSH. Last year, Solaris 9 was the current version, and patching SSH was as easy as downloading the patch package and installing it -- not any tougher than Linux.
It seems to me you're asking Sun to fix problems they've already fixed, some a very, very long time ago.
I work as a networking consultant. I *need* a laptop, because I'm constantly hopping from one place to another, and need to bring a PC with me.
When I'm not working (which seems like rarely ever these days), I like a good game now and then.
When I needed a new PC a couple months back, I immediately latched onto the Sager 4780. It's got a big ol' 17" screen (great for editing Perl scripts, and games look great on it), a 3.2GHz hyperthreading processor (great for kernel compiles *and* games, as it happens), TV/S-video in (nice for creating really flashy presentations to the PHBs, and for hooking up to an XBox), a fast video card (a plus, again, for flashy presentations, and a must for modern games) and all kinds of other features that make it perfect for someone who never knows where he'll be plugging in next.
Sure, it's not real upgradeable, but what laptop is? All I care about is having a machine that can do whatever I want, wherever I want, and this machine does it.
> We were all warned a long time ago that MS products > sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook > not so good"
Actually, the Magic 8 Ball said "Outlook Good." It always was full of crap, though. It told me the hottest girl in third grade had the hots for me, too.
There were two sets of tax cuts. I make a pretty decent amount of money, and benefited from both. A friend of mine who lives around the poverty level only benefited from the first.
This isn't a function of the virus scanner. I'm not aware of *any* virus-scanning software that will delete a file for *seeming* like a virus. Either it matches a definition in a signature database, or it doesn't.
If you're getting attachments stripped, it's more likely because your mail server admins have decided certain attachment types are viruses more often than not, and should be blocked outright whether they are viruses or not.
The reason attachment type blocking is done, in most cases, is because you've got a group of users who's been told a million times "Don't open any attachment unless you are expecting a file and know what it is," but they do it anyway.
Would it be better we *not* discuss things like licensing, and just write software? How would you propose we release it? Oh, wait, I forgot we're not allowed to discuss that. What the hell... public domain, free, proprietary -- none of that matters, does it?
I shouldn't even go into the blatant disregard for the facts in your "dinosaur mascots" comment. Facts like... oh, that nobody's been sued over the Mozilla logo.
While we're talking about blatant disregard for the facts, how about the fact that Microsoft's got people defending its trademarks, too? Oh, my mistake; all they ever do is write software. I'm not sure where I got the impression that they might have multiple giant friggin' teams of lawyers on their side to talk about their trademarks. I was also obviously misinformed when I was told they've got whole other swarms of them, not to mention the BSA, to handle those insignificant little license issues.
These things need to be talked about. If all you want to do is write software, do it. You don't need to jump into discussions of stuff that you seem to think is so distracting, and so unimportant. I, however, am glad this stuff does get talked about. If nobody ever talked about stupid little things like how to keep software free, most of us probably wouldn't be here, and neither would our code.
Yep, Sager's laptops kick ass. I just picked one up myself from PC Torque last month, and got a 3GHz P4, a 17" widescreen, a gig of RAM, and a 128MB ATI 9600 Pro card, for about $2000 -- *way* below the cost of a comparable Alienware or Dell machine (though there's currently no 17" Alienware machine available).
I wholeheartedly second the Sager recommendation. And no, this is not an ad. I'm just really, really happy with my new laptop.
For what it's worth, I just recently got rid of my old '71 Pinto. It was over 30 years old, with over 500,000 miles (on various engines).
That does not, however, mean it was a good car -- it was an unqualified piece of crap. I just spent a lot of money over the years to keep it running -- a method that works on practically any car, P.O.S. or otherwise.
A few years ago I applied for a job at a now-defunct ISP. There were two questions I later learned were critical to getting hired:
The first: "Florence Henderson or Shirley Jones?" Fortunately, I answered that one correctly, because I really blew it on:
"If you didn't have to worry about money, what would be your ideal job?"
I went off on some BS about installing networks in deprived third-world countries, which almost cost me the job. Luckily, the guy who said he'd spend all day at home in his underwear watching football on TV turned down the offer.
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Now that that's out of the way... they're saying that if your *specific* DVD player was used to create illegal copies of a DVD, that were later distributed, they can make sure later DVDs don't work on it, so you don't illegally distribute those, too.
While I think this whole proposition sucks, this is one of the few parts of it I don't have a problem with. If they can confirm that you're doing illegal stuff with the DVDs they sell you (see the sections on forensic marking to see how they plan to figure out your serial number), I don't have a problem with them doing what they can to make sure you don't do it again.
The old monitor on my TRS-80 Model I was the worst squealer I ever heard. I could tell it was on the second I walked in the house, and nobody else in my family could hear the buzz at all.
I remember reading about a study on just this subject many years ago. It turns out that, while it's entirely normal not to be able to hear it, about twice as many men can hear it than women.
> The most votes ever received in any presidential election (though that's not necessarily relevant)
I'll consider it relevant if I can add that he had more votes *against* him than any incumbent president in history.
Are you kidding? Do you remember the average specs of machines that came with Windows 98 and Office 2000?
I've got a couple here -- they're the ones that would run like molasses if you could fit XP on their hard drives.
Oh, THAT'S it. I was trying to remember why I'd leased my current car, and now I know it's because I'm self-absorbed.
Thanks for straightening me out on that. Up until now, I'd erroneously believed it was because the monthly payments were a lot lower, it made things a lot easier on me tax-wise, and I could buy off the car at the end of the lease for about what I'd still owe on it if I had bought it, while also having the option of ditching it if I decided I didn't like it any more, for any reason.
Now I realize it was because I'm retarted. That's so much easier to remember. Thanks!
I don't doubt that works for some people. I'd probably be one of the other guys who did "OK, I guess."
Back in my younger days when I had a lot of downtime on my hands, the very last thing you'd find me doing would have been to have my nose buried in a book. Given that, these days, the choices would be more like studying or fragging my co-workers, I'd choose a gut shot to the Notes admin in a split second.
Granted, I'm a big-time geek, and I like learning new stuff at least as much as a good geek should. I'm a coder, network engineer, systems admin, and security guy rolled into one, and I like to think I'm pretty damned good at all of those. However, I wouldn't also be highly- (some might say over-) payed, and also working with people who I truly consider friends, if it wasn't for the relationships I formed at previous jobs. Based on my experience, it's hard to get people to really care about you five years after if they just remember you as the guy who was always reading the Unix manual in the corner.
Obviously, I'm replying to someone who did pretty well for himself using the other approach. I'd just like to submit the opposing view that time spent screwing off with friends and co-workers isn't necessarily time wasted.
Huh? Red Hat stopped updating their Sparc version *years* ago. If I'm not mistaken, at version 6.2.
But if you *do* license Windows, do you deserve to have your network pounded by all the machines that belong to people who don't?
Windows has a long history of works that do can take down whole networks with network congestion, etc. With no patches from MS for these boxes, it could only get worse for everyone.
No benefit to them? I hardly think so. Imagine how much worse MS's current security problems would be if, on top of all the machines that currently *don't* get patch, you also had some unknown number of machines that *can't* be patched.
Judging from how many people I know who have less-than-legal copies of Windows, it could be a disaster. not just for unpatched machines, but for any networks they're attached to -- not to mention the entire rest of the Internet as they try to "reach out and touch someone" a few thousand times a second.
On a PR level, I'd say keeping their OS secure, whether paid for or not, would be a huge PR benefit for them, if nothing else.
This module would be used in place of the Nortel (or D-Link) switch modules they currently offer for the blade servers.
I doubt that. Our IBM rep told us about the upcoming release of the new switch module, and said the primary reason for it was because customers wanted something that would interoperate better with their networks than the previous hardware they were using.
Putting Linux on the switch modules would totally defeat the purpose of these new modules, which is 100% Cisco compatibility.
It might seem like a no-brainer, but the Cisco module for the blade servers doesn't work that way. They're basically just a NIC for the blades in the server -- you still need to run a cable (or a couple for a trunked link) from the switch module to whatever switches the rest of your network devices connect to.
They've been doing this with their blade servers for a while. The only thing new here is that the previous switch-module offerings were made by either D-Link or (if I remember correctly) Nortel.
A lot of people mistakenly seem to think these are blades similar to what go into a Cisco 69xx chassis. They're not. They're a module that goes into the back of the blades that allow you to connect your blade server to the rest of your network. You're not going to find ports for plugging in any other servers.
That's precisely why the last two versions of Solaris (and possibly farther back) have included the GNU utilities -- so people who prefer them can install them easily. However, if you have apps you need to support that were made to work with the Solaris versions of these utilities (perhaps because they pre-date the GNU software), you can use the stock stuff and your apps won't break.
Sun's SSH on Solaris 9 is also a Sun-maintained version of OpenSSH. Last year, Solaris 9 was the current version, and patching SSH was as easy as downloading the patch package and installing it -- not any tougher than Linux.
It seems to me you're asking Sun to fix problems they've already fixed, some a very, very long time ago.
I work as a networking consultant. I *need* a laptop, because I'm constantly hopping from one place to another, and need to bring a PC with me.
When I'm not working (which seems like rarely ever these days), I like a good game now and then.
When I needed a new PC a couple months back, I immediately latched onto the Sager 4780. It's got a big ol' 17" screen (great for editing Perl scripts, and games look great on it), a 3.2GHz hyperthreading processor (great for kernel compiles *and* games, as it happens), TV/S-video in (nice for creating really flashy presentations to the PHBs, and for hooking up to an XBox), a fast video card (a plus, again, for flashy presentations, and a must for modern games) and all kinds of other features that make it perfect for someone who never knows where he'll be plugging in next.
Sure, it's not real upgradeable, but what laptop is? All I care about is having a machine that can do whatever I want, wherever I want, and this machine does it.
> We were all warned a long time ago that MS products
> sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook
> not so good"
Actually, the Magic 8 Ball said "Outlook Good." It always was full of crap, though. It told me the hottest girl in third grade had the hots for me, too.
There were two sets of tax cuts. I make a pretty decent amount of money, and benefited from both. A friend of mine who lives around the poverty level only benefited from the first.
Guess linking to http://www.canopy.com as your homepage was just a typo then, eh? :)
This isn't a function of the virus scanner. I'm not aware of *any* virus-scanning software that will delete a file for *seeming* like a virus. Either it matches a definition in a signature database, or it doesn't.
If you're getting attachments stripped, it's more likely because your mail server admins have decided certain attachment types are viruses more often than not, and should be blocked outright whether they are viruses or not.
The reason attachment type blocking is done, in most cases, is because you've got a group of users who's been told a million times "Don't open any attachment unless you are expecting a file and know what it is," but they do it anyway.
This got modded insightful? Give me a break.
Would it be better we *not* discuss things like licensing, and just write software? How would you propose we release it? Oh, wait, I forgot we're not allowed to discuss that. What the hell... public domain, free, proprietary -- none of that matters, does it?
I shouldn't even go into the blatant disregard for the facts in your "dinosaur mascots" comment. Facts like... oh, that nobody's been sued over the Mozilla logo.
While we're talking about blatant disregard for the facts, how about the fact that Microsoft's got people defending its trademarks, too? Oh, my mistake; all they ever do is write software. I'm not sure where I got the impression that they might have multiple giant friggin' teams of lawyers on their side to talk about their trademarks. I was also obviously misinformed when I was told they've got whole other swarms of them, not to mention the BSA, to handle those insignificant little license issues.
These things need to be talked about. If all you want to do is write software, do it. You don't need to jump into discussions of stuff that you seem to think is so distracting, and so unimportant. I, however, am glad this stuff does get talked about. If nobody ever talked about stupid little things like how to keep software free, most of us probably wouldn't be here, and neither would our code.
Wow, that went right over the heads of at least one poster and one moderator, didn't it? :)
What's the difference? Sager's laptops are Clevos as well.
Yep, Sager's laptops kick ass. I just picked one up myself from PC Torque last month, and got a 3GHz P4, a 17" widescreen, a gig of RAM, and a 128MB ATI 9600 Pro card, for about $2000 -- *way* below the cost of a comparable Alienware or Dell machine (though there's currently no 17" Alienware machine available).
I wholeheartedly second the Sager recommendation. And no, this is not an ad. I'm just really, really happy with my new laptop.
For what it's worth, I just recently got rid of my old '71 Pinto. It was over 30 years old, with over 500,000 miles (on various engines).
That does not, however, mean it was a good car -- it was an unqualified piece of crap. I just spent a lot of money over the years to keep it running -- a method that works on practically any car, P.O.S. or otherwise.
A few years ago I applied for a job at a now-defunct ISP. There were two questions I later learned were critical to getting hired:
The first: "Florence Henderson or Shirley Jones?" Fortunately, I answered that one correctly, because I really blew it on:
"If you didn't have to worry about money, what would be your ideal job?"
I went off on some BS about installing networks in deprived third-world countries, which almost cost me the job. Luckily, the guy who said he'd spend all day at home in his underwear watching football on TV turned down the offer.