please forgive me the flaming, but this is one of the silliest articles i've ever seen. Nor does he have any real information, neither is it funny. Instead of an insight we're given poor excuses for crime (don't want to support the goverment; we don't break legs, we just threaten to). Every drug adict has ten times better reasons. Please be aware that SPAM is related to the organized crime as
well. If that guy had confesssed working for the
MPAA or the RIAA to catch file swappers, the moral outrage on/. would be greater than working for the mobsters. Strange world...
Like Terry Pratchett said, the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
Probably you would be run over and beaten afterwards by people who would complain, that the switch doesn't work. If
the switch worked, they would complain too (about lax security measures) if they still could.
I hate to say it, but this is one of those things like the explanation of where the immortals in Highlander came from -- we didn't actually want to know.
That's not the point. If seek out the most forgotten cave and you install there a switch with the inscription "Doomsday switch - Press here to destroy earth", it's only a matter of time till someone comes by and presses it.
Humans are curious like young cats. And the/.'ers
are the worst of all;-).
it's a good but short game. Optimal for guys like me
who like to play but lack the time. Even short on time you're able to play through the complete game.
Style and story is better than most games. And it's playable even without being 20 years old an having a cat's reflexes.
One problem with these figures is the exchange
rate between Euro and the US$. 18 months ago, when
one Euro was 0.86 US$, your figures were "correct".
Nowadays one Euro is woth about 1.15 US$. Suddenly
the GDP measured in US$ per capita jumped up nearly
30%. So did germany close the gap while being in
recession? No!
Another problem about the GDP is that the US
(AFAIK) gives it an uplift due to the quality
increase. This isn't done in Europe.
Regards, Martin
P.S. Let's not play "my ecconomy is bigger than yours". For my part, there are a lot of things, i think the US is doing better. But there are a lot of things too, i consider worse.
while i'm no big fan of M$ as most here, i think this is a good idea. Especially the Sobig virus author is
becoming a menace. So making him watch his back,
may set back the release date for Sobig.G.
Please be aware that the Sobig viruses were written
with a comercial interest. Putting a bounty on their arrest something worth considering and in
line with all ethical codes i know.
As the Sobig author pobably has his roots in the
SPAM community and they would sell their next-of-kin for half price their, i guess the chances are quite good.
Regards, Martin
P.S. Putting 250 K$ (better M$) into R&D for more security would be good thing too.
I think the fear of nuclear energy has reached a hysterical level. All nuclear accidents together have produced less deaths and damage than the traffic accidents of a single year. But even though a lot of fear is not rational, it is a force to be reconned with.
If someone feels threatened (even if it is not substantiated), he will act on it. To overcome those reactions may be prove the hardest part of all.
But John Brunner said: There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"
This kind of reactor would pose a new problem: Lot's of uranium will be distributed at a lot of lonely places. I would be easier to aquire it.
Today it is very difficult to raid a nuclear facility. This may change if they're small and many.
some may have faced the same decision i did: Either you spend hours and hours in investigations if the sitefinder shit breaks some script of yours or your ancestors, or you take the risk applying a patch that can't be tested very throughly. Neither choice
really seemed inviting.
As it turned out, the patch wasn't working very well (increased memory usage, was an unofficial patch for 8.4.somewhat) and we had a malfunctioning debug script.
Just like France trusted Germany? Just before Germany walked into France? (WWII)
I'm not aware that there has been any trust. War was declared on September 3rd 1939. The attack started in May 1940. The relationship between
germany and france already cooled down in the
years leading to the war. When Hitler moved troops
into Saarland in 1935, they already reached the
freezing point.
Being afraid of a german invasion, they started
building one of the largest fortifications in
history, the maginot line. I think, that doesn't
sound much like trust.
Just like the USSR trusted Germany? Just before they walked into Poland? (WWII)
Neither am i aware of any trust from Stalin into Hitler. The Hitler-Stalin-pact was signed 1939 by Stalin to gain time. He was surprised by the attack in 1941 only because he believed the USSR
to be invincible and nobody would be so stupid
to attack them. There was no trust involved.
They both divided Poland among each other for a
temporary gain.
You obviously have not learned from history... as you seem doomed to repeat it.
I think history is more than fancy quotes. There
are a lot of details involved if you wish to use
it as an argument.
... and stop oppressing the free, democratic people of Taiwan by letting them have their own seat at the U.N.
Is my memory playing tricks on me or wasn't it Kissinger and Nixon to agree to remove Taiwan and
replace it by PR China in a move to smooth relations with them?
i don't know if they handle usual recruits the way
they do with virtual recruits. Currently i need about
100 tries for one successfull logon. It took me about
a week to complete the basic training (4 missions)
just because the authentication fails in 90+% of
all cases.
It seems that
209.58.64.85 authcentral.login.americasarmy.com
is not up to the task of taking so many virtual recruits and the game is killed by its success.
Bye, Martin
P.S. I'm not in danger of joining tthe US Army. Served my time with a different one and i didn't enjoy it. Most seargants had an intellectual lag which made the experience very frustrating:-(.
"The Shockwave Rider" is probably one of the most far
sighted books ever written. It is really spooky what
John Brunner envisioned in 1973. He predicted the PC,
the Internet, Worms and Viruses, Online Identity
Theft, Gene-Engineering etc. It always gives me a
shudder to read that book.
If you ever see a copy around: buy it! It gets
reprinted only very rarely. Look on ebay. Just got
a "first edition" print for 5 bucks.
This is the first time, i got a lot of up- and down-moderation. My article seems to be angering to some.
I think people forget Linus' real talent is managing people.
I didn't speak a word agains Linus. Quite the opposite, i think he will always earn all that he gets. But i seriously doubt if Transmeta was after
the talents you mentioned.
I'd like to see you do that
You're a little late, i already served my time (7 years as CEO). Trust me, i know what it means to manage people and i'm sure, that i don't wanna do it again.
One side effect of this time is some scepticism concerning the motives of people. Transmeta was an startup to challenge the big fishes in the pond. They wanted and needed all the attention they could get. All knowlegde and skill Linus could bring
in were wellcome, but they went in for the name.
This is nothing bad and my statements are not ment
as a judgement. I think Linus and Linux benefitted of it. Even Transmeta may have profited at the early stage. But now, all that matters is the flow of cash. As Linus enjoys a lot of freedom, it is
difficult for a company to draw money from that
resource. A big company like Intel or IBM may be able to sustain such "free electrons" (-> Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister), but for a company struggling for survival, this feels like a ball on a chain.
i guess that Linus was too expensive for Transmeta. I don't doubt, that he's worth all the money he earns, but Transeta employs him mostly for PR reasons (that's why they left him so much freedom). But you have to have some sales to support PR. I already wondered for some time, if it pays off for Transmeta financially.
But Linus is so popular, i don't think he will ever
encounter serious employment problems.
For my part, i thank Transmeta for employing Linus. As i don't own any shares, i had the profit from Linus' work without any cost.
It was named "Lord of the rings" but based on the
content of "The Hobbit". The quality was good, but
it went bankrupt soon. They had a lot of bad luck.
"Worldwide and 7*24h Support" and "Open Source" are no contradictions. I think we (NetUSE) are not the
only company to offer support for Open Source products like SSH, Squid, Apache etc.
Typical customers purchase support like helpdesk,
patch services or (espescially for Solaris) packaging.
It's not a lot of work to offer SSH packages that
you can remove and install in a newer version
without a new host key. But it's those small things a lot of customers pay gladly for.
Thanks to Open Source and the community, companies
like are ours usually faster with patches than a lot
of other big software companies i could name.
On the other side the Open Source products get a
benefit when enhancements on the request of
customers (LDAP support here, there another
command line option) find their way back into the
community. I believe this is win-win at its best.
Open Source says "you can patch/modify/package it by yourself". But it's not a holy duty to do so.
Yours, Martin
P.S. If you want to use OSS and don't know where to spend your huge support budget, feel free to contact me;-).
I strongly doubt Churchill and Roosevelt wanted to inflict civillian casualties.
If you read (even the british) war history, this proves you wrong. The official strategy was to terror the german civilization into opposing the Nazi regime. Look into the internet and look for Air Marshal Arthur Harris. He devised the strategy and commanded the attack. From my point of view (biased by beeing a german) he was a war criminal by all definitions.
and leading "mud people" into "showers" is somehow forgotten here?
This is not forgotten. I just wanted to point out, that you should look at the acts of the winners too.
You're correct: The definition includes a lot of losers too. No doubt about it and it is to my regret too, that a lot of them also escaped punishment. But a least they were under the threat of punishment, on the winner side no one was severely
reprimanded for mass slaughtering of civilians with intent.
Another note: The Holocaust can not be compared
to the bombing of the citys. I completely agree
that the Holocaust was the worst crime i ever heard of. There is no excuse for it.
Bye, Martin
P.S. Such topics are rather complex and perhaps i should skip such side remarks as you cannot cover it with a few sentences without provoking missunderstandings.
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please forgive me the flaming, but this is one of the silliest articles i've ever seen. Nor does he have any real information, neither is it funny. Instead of an insight we're given poor excuses for crime (don't want to support the goverment; we don't break legs, we just threaten to). Every drug adict has ten times better reasons. Please be aware that SPAM is related to the organized crime as well. If that guy had confesssed working for the MPAA or the RIAA to catch file swappers, the moral outrage on /. would be greater than working for the mobsters. Strange world...
Regards, Martin
.... designing a fail safe internet connection.
Probably you would be run over and beaten afterwards by people who would complain, that the switch doesn't work. If the switch worked, they would complain too (about lax security measures) if they still could.
Bye, Martin
That's not the point. If seek out the most forgotten cave and you install there a switch with the inscription "Doomsday switch - Press here to destroy earth", it's only a matter of time till someone comes by and presses it.
Humans are curious like young cats. And the /.'ers
are the worst of all ;-).
Regards, Martin
it's a good but short game. Optimal for guys like me who like to play but lack the time. Even short on time you're able to play through the complete game.
Style and story is better than most games. And it's playable even without being 20 years old an having a cat's reflexes.
Regards, Martin
Yes, but as it is with all benchmarks: everyone is cheating ;-).
Regards, Martin
One problem with these figures is the exchange rate between Euro and the US$. 18 months ago, when one Euro was 0.86 US$, your figures were "correct".
Nowadays one Euro is woth about 1.15 US$. Suddenly the GDP measured in US$ per capita jumped up nearly 30%. So did germany close the gap while being in recession? No!
Another problem about the GDP is that the US (AFAIK) gives it an uplift due to the quality increase. This isn't done in Europe.
Regards, Martin
P.S. Let's not play "my ecconomy is bigger than yours". For my part, there are a lot of things, i think the US is doing better. But there are a lot of things too, i consider worse.
while i'm no big fan of M$ as most here, i think this is a good idea. Especially the Sobig virus author is becoming a menace. So making him watch his back, may set back the release date for Sobig.G.
Please be aware that the Sobig viruses were written with a comercial interest. Putting a bounty on their arrest something worth considering and in line with all ethical codes i know.
As the Sobig author pobably has his roots in the SPAM community and they would sell their next-of-kin for half price their, i guess the chances are quite good.
Regards, Martin
P.S. Putting 250 K$ (better M$) into R&D for more security would be good thing too.
nothing new: Already Sobig showed that SPAMMERs would write viruses to serve their needs. Perhaps it's even the same author. Wouldn't surprise me.
We'll see more if that shortly. SPAMMERs are outsiders (socially). So they build their own structures.
Regards, Martin
Sending mental command: Mod up!
I think the fear of nuclear energy has reached a hysterical level. All nuclear accidents together have produced less deaths and damage than the traffic accidents of a single year. But even though a lot of fear is not rational, it is a force to be reconned with.
If someone feels threatened (even if it is not substantiated), he will act on it. To overcome those reactions may be prove the hardest part of all.
But John Brunner said: There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better"
This kind of reactor would pose a new problem: Lot's of uranium will be distributed at a lot of lonely places. I would be easier to aquire it.
Today it is very difficult to raid a nuclear facility. This may change if they're small and many.
Regards, Martin
some may have faced the same decision i did: Either you spend hours and hours in investigations if the sitefinder shit breaks some script of yours or your ancestors, or you take the risk applying a patch that can't be tested very throughly. Neither choice really seemed inviting.
As it turned out, the patch wasn't working very well (increased memory usage, was an unofficial patch for 8.4.somewhat) and we had a malfunctioning debug script.
Regards, Martin
Regards, Martin
Just like France trusted Germany? Just before Germany walked into France? (WWII)
I'm not aware that there has been any trust. War was declared on September 3rd 1939. The attack started in May 1940. The relationship between germany and france already cooled down in the years leading to the war. When Hitler moved troops into Saarland in 1935, they already reached the freezing point.
Being afraid of a german invasion, they started building one of the largest fortifications in history, the maginot line. I think, that doesn't sound much like trust.
Just like the USSR trusted Germany? Just before they walked into Poland? (WWII)
Neither am i aware of any trust from Stalin into Hitler. The Hitler-Stalin-pact was signed 1939 by Stalin to gain time. He was surprised by the attack in 1941 only because he believed the USSR to be invincible and nobody would be so stupid to attack them. There was no trust involved.
They both divided Poland among each other for a temporary gain.
You obviously have not learned from history... as you seem doomed to repeat it.
I think history is more than fancy quotes. There are a lot of details involved if you wish to use it as an argument.
Is my memory playing tricks on me or wasn't it Kissinger and Nixon to agree to remove Taiwan and replace it by PR China in a move to smooth relations with them?
Regards, Martin
this is just a trick. They just want to get rid of all those obsolete BIND-versions out in the internet.
So they did this to goat all admins into patching their bind.
Tricky they are...
Regards, Martin
i'm currently trying to setup a local resistance. Our CTO will mail to Verisign at once. As ISP we have a few .com/.net-Domains.
I have a very good relationship to a customer with about 100K domains. They're next on my call list. And they will be anything but pleased.
I'll make sure they will recognize the size of the mistake they made.
Regards, Martin
you just earned a badge for best support of the day. Every login works now on first try.
Thanks, Martin
P.S. I'm connected through 64kbps over the pond ;-).
i don't know if they handle usual recruits the way they do with virtual recruits. Currently i need about 100 tries for one successfull logon. It took me about a week to complete the basic training (4 missions) just because the authentication fails in 90+% of all cases. It seems that
209.58.64.85 authcentral.login.americasarmy.com
is not up to the task of taking so many virtual recruits and the game is killed by its success.
Bye, Martin
P.S. I'm not in danger of joining tthe US Army. Served my time with a different one and i didn't enjoy it. Most seargants had an intellectual lag which made the experience very frustrating :-(.
"The Shockwave Rider" is probably one of the most far sighted books ever written. It is really spooky what John Brunner envisioned in 1973. He predicted the PC, the Internet, Worms and Viruses, Online Identity Theft, Gene-Engineering etc. It always gives me a shudder to read that book.
If you ever see a copy around: buy it! It gets reprinted only very rarely. Look on ebay. Just got a "first edition" print for 5 bucks.
Bye, Martin
This is the first time, i got a lot of up- and down-moderation. My article seems to be angering to some.
I think people forget Linus' real talent is managing people.
I didn't speak a word agains Linus. Quite the opposite, i think he will always earn all that he gets. But i seriously doubt if Transmeta was after the talents you mentioned.
I'd like to see you do that
You're a little late, i already served my time (7 years as CEO). Trust me, i know what it means to manage people and i'm sure, that i don't wanna do it again.
One side effect of this time is some scepticism concerning the motives of people. Transmeta was an startup to challenge the big fishes in the pond. They wanted and needed all the attention they could get. All knowlegde and skill Linus could bring in were wellcome, but they went in for the name. This is nothing bad and my statements are not ment as a judgement. I think Linus and Linux benefitted of it. Even Transmeta may have profited at the early stage. But now, all that matters is the flow of cash. As Linus enjoys a lot of freedom, it is difficult for a company to draw money from that resource. A big company like Intel or IBM may be able to sustain such "free electrons" (-> Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister), but for a company struggling for survival, this feels like a ball on a chain.
Yours, Martin
i guess that Linus was too expensive for Transmeta. I don't doubt, that he's worth all the money he earns, but Transeta employs him mostly for PR reasons (that's why they left him so much freedom). But you have to have some sales to support PR. I already wondered for some time, if it pays off for Transmeta financially.
But Linus is so popular, i don't think he will ever encounter serious employment problems.
For my part, i thank Transmeta for employing Linus. As i don't own any shares, i had the profit from Linus' work without any cost.
Bye, Martin
Yours, Martin
"Worldwide and 7*24h Support" and "Open Source" are no contradictions. I think we (NetUSE) are not the only company to offer support for Open Source products like SSH, Squid, Apache etc.
Typical customers purchase support like helpdesk, patch services or (espescially for Solaris) packaging.
It's not a lot of work to offer SSH packages that you can remove and install in a newer version without a new host key. But it's those small things a lot of customers pay gladly for.
Thanks to Open Source and the community, companies like are ours usually faster with patches than a lot of other big software companies i could name.
On the other side the Open Source products get a benefit when enhancements on the request of customers (LDAP support here, there another command line option) find their way back into the community. I believe this is win-win at its best.
Open Source says "you can patch/modify/package it by yourself". But it's not a holy duty to do so.
Yours, Martin
P.S. If you want to use OSS and don't know where to spend your huge support budget, feel free to contact me ;-).
i'm currently investigating a similar matter: dark data. It seems to occupy around 90% of my hard disk.
Bye, Martin
If you read (even the british) war history, this proves you wrong. The official strategy was to terror the german civilization into opposing the Nazi regime. Look into the internet and look for Air Marshal Arthur Harris. He devised the strategy and commanded the attack. From my point of view (biased by beeing a german) he was a war criminal by all definitions.
and leading "mud people" into "showers" is somehow forgotten here?
This is not forgotten. I just wanted to point out, that you should look at the acts of the winners too.
You're correct: The definition includes a lot of losers too. No doubt about it and it is to my regret too, that a lot of them also escaped punishment. But a least they were under the threat of punishment, on the winner side no one was severely reprimanded for mass slaughtering of civilians with intent.
Another note: The Holocaust can not be compared to the bombing of the citys. I completely agree that the Holocaust was the worst crime i ever heard of. There is no excuse for it.
Bye, Martin
P.S. Such topics are rather complex and perhaps i should skip such side remarks as you cannot cover it with a few sentences without provoking missunderstandings.