The development was fairly simple. They created a program called DARL, wich they first thought was for calculating the ideal temperature for making pizza. When discussing the marketing, the program propesed to create a company called Sue COmpany and sue all open source developers for violating their pizza. The finaly realised that DARL was a kind of AI program. For one of the developers, called Tinus Lorvald, it sound verry familiar but it couldn't remember exactly wat is was.
I would geuss that Opensource is alien for microsoft.
Imagine FSF world... King RMS II is looking at his kingdom... some GNU's are lying in the Sun.
In the sky a small dot appears. Slowly it becomes bigger and bigger. Eventualy RMS noticed that it is a space ship. A new model called 'XP with windows". When it is landed it sits there for a while. It is nice metal collor,shiny egg shaped craft. There is small sign on the door saying "Please close windows when taken off"
After a while the door opens. A Bill Gates creature comes out of the craft and walks too the GNU. With a robot like voice the creature says:Bring me to your leader... bring me to your leader.
RMS is watching this and thinks "Dammend people from planet propertary... first those presky IBM and now those guys". He shakes his head and walks away. Het still regrets that he didn't become a balet dancer as his mother wished. Live could be easy...
Do I still need to install a compleet new desktop version when i want to have new version of Gedit? Is it still easier to write your own desktop enviroment then compiling Gnome? The longest function name under gnome 3.x becomes: gnome_output_compleetly_new_system_write _a_singe_c haracter_on_the_screen
Many years ago there was a internet rule that it was rude to critize others about spelling mistakes, beceause English is not the native language of most people. Sadly that's changed beside many other things.
I'm currently reading a book writte by Bill Bryson called ' A short Hisory of Nearly Everything'. In this book het tells how strang guy Newton was. Newton once poked with a needle behind his eyers becease he wanne know what happends. Just by sheer luck nothing happend. He also discovered some verry inportant things but he kept is secret for almost 30 years.
He was briliant but he was also solitary,sombre and nearly paranoea.
I got many critical comments from this post, and would like response to all this way. * Yes there is much wrong with our IT. But i'm not a sysadmin and I'am not part of the IT department so i can't change anything about that. * The sysadmin with I needed to deel with is a mcse * I even need to explain to them that the need to protected their citrix servers for spyware. The mcse guy didn't even know what spywhare was (even he was a mcse). * And yes there is a lot wrong with firewalling. But that is not mine reponsibility. * I know and then give comments to them to improve things,but i need to keep working with them so I can't be to harsh to them. * And yes it is easier to find a virus with a virus scanner. But i didn't know that it was a virus. The server had a uptodate virus scanner, and we checked it and the server was clean. Only the problems was caused by a desktop wich was not uptodate. That is not mine responisbility. * And yes it is the server was not up to date regarding service packs and hardening, but that is the responisbility of the sysadmin, not me. I would like to do that, but i can't
I think i meant 'free beer' . But free bear is also possible. The place i work, is in the middle of a forrest, so a free bear is possible.
Once we had a herd of 40 mad cows walking on the field near our office. They where broken out some grazing land. One of the cows spoke to me , and said that he was Durl MoeBride. He kept repeating ' I need Scoe Code , I need Scoe Code'. I don't know what he was talking about. Nobody did either.
The server wich is used by the web application was never infected with a virus. We scanned the computer and it was clean. The server was disturbed by a virus on a other desktop wich hadn't any up to date virus scanner. I couln't know also because i'm not a sysadmin. Btw they changed the virus scanner, such that it is update daily.... better late than never.
I'am also a application maintainer of some web application. During mine holliday the application started to have some random problems. When I returned I begin the investigation to the cause. I Couldn't reproduce the errors, so it took some time to get futher with finding the cause. After some time I looked at the eventviewer (Yes it is Win2000 and not linux) and saw that the computer rebooted on average twice a day. The error messages said "Unexpected reboot". The sysadmin could find a cause also. In most cases this error was caused by a hardware error. So what I did is download etherreal and monitor the network traffic from the server. (This shows how nice opensource is. You just download in for free as in bear. If there was not FOSS i couldn't do this). I saw some strange network trafic to port 445 on the computer. I also saw that it uses a specific function. When I googled with this function I saw that there was I bug in the 'lsass' program regarding this bug. Then I checked the network traffic from the source host and saw some strange network traffic to outside the organisation on port 445, what is verry strange. After the investigation of the computer (desktop) they found the pedodo (I think it is called this way) trojan. (It collect passwords and creditcard numbers) Now we patched the server (it was only SP4) and every thing was fine. This solved the problem. So I think this solved the problem. Mine conclusion was that this trojan disturbed the server. This showes how fucked windows is and how great foss is.
When talking about saftety it is not verry usefull when counting the number of o.s. hacked and then just say "oh this o.s. is safer" because this doesn't give any accurate data.
When the breach is caused by administrator fault, you can't allways blame the o.s.
In the past it is often argued that the cause of many breaches are because windows administators where less experienced that linux admins. This has nothing to do with o.s, more with culture
Many breaches are caused by application and not because of the o.s. When for example a machine is hacked by a bug in Apache, you can't blame the o.s allways.
Another example are the public accesable web application. Many of them are verry badly written regardig safety! When such application is hacked, does this also count as a breach in the research? This has also nothing to do with the OS.
There is much more to say about this , but from above i can safely draw the conclution that for producing any sensibale data wich can be use to draw conclutions you should do seperate the data in:
* Caused by admin fault * Caused by bug/weekness in o.s. * Caused by application
When I was a student they learned me how carefull you should be to interpet measurements. Often people doesn't take the circumstances or correctness into account and often they do the wrong math.
Regardless the conclution, this is just bad research
It sounds to me to much like sco talking about linux. On the other hand maybe SCO discoverd a simelarity between linux and the universe. Only 5% of the source lines in linux is visible and 95% is dark matter, wich belongs to SCO ip...
anyway.. i have been an astronomy studend... but failed. I stil remeber a teacher saying that when a astronomer proclaiming that his theory was the right one, It means that there was a small possebilty that some part of hist theory was correct... Hmm still sounds like Darlic McBride
Sorry I can only talk about the best working place... Currently I work for a organisation wich is a youth care foundation. The headquarters is in the middle of nowhere in a forrest. If is even so remote that many mobilephone doesn't work here. I live about 7 or 8 km from that place at the other side of the forrest. Because is just a nice distance to walk, I try to go on foot every day. When you walk a avearage speed, it is about 70 or 80 minutes walk. Often you see many wild animals like birds of prey,deer, squirrles and currently you will see many geece flying over. Often It is dark when I go home. At someplaces it's often so dark that you can't see a hand for your face. Fortunate I know that forrest like mine pokkets. So it's no problem to find the way home, but it's still a nice experience to walk in the dark.
The building in where i work isn't verry beautifull. I have a nice big office and share it with 2 other. The office has nice big windows, and I looking at a small zoo outside. I can go outside, just near mine office. When the weather is nice, it's easy to go outside and enjoy the sun. Because it's in the middel in a forrest it is a verry enjoyfull place. Most of the colleges are woman, with different kind of proffesion. I'am part of a small division (6 people) and have alot of freedom, mine job is verry varied and i only need to work foor 32 hours in a week.
Someone posted funny search stuff on sco search page here I discovert when you place a qoute (') behind the &t= in the URL you get a 'sql error' message. So the sco site has a sql injection safty problem.
What about this:Desmond McBribe... anyway something serious:
For the USA Copyright law: here See paragraph 106 wich says: Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and toauthorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
I dont like most SciFi.
Too many are only violent, to much science 'Whe invent a atomic particle once every minute', to
much a military organisation with s.m. like uniforms or 'stupid enough I only encounter more avanced people, who wants to kill me'.
But the best SciFi is RedDwarf.
Second best is Microsoft windows 3000, Opensource edition.... No not realy I dont care.
Slashdot Mirror
The development was fairly simple. They created a program called DARL, wich they first thought was for calculating the ideal temperature for making pizza. When discussing the marketing, the program propesed to create a company called Sue COmpany and sue all open source developers for violating their pizza. The finaly realised that DARL was a kind of AI program. For one of the developers, called Tinus Lorvald, it sound verry familiar but it couldn't remember exactly wat is was.
I would geuss that Opensource is alien for microsoft.
Imagine FSF world... King RMS II is looking at his kingdom... some GNU's are lying in the Sun.
In the sky a small dot appears. Slowly it becomes bigger and bigger. Eventualy RMS noticed that it is a space ship. A new model called 'XP with windows". When it is landed it sits there for a while. It is nice metal collor,shiny egg shaped craft. There is small sign on the door saying "Please close windows when taken off"
After a while the door opens. A Bill Gates creature comes out of the craft and walks too the GNU. With a robot like voice the creature says:Bring me to your leader... bring me to your leader.
RMS is watching this and thinks "Dammend people from planet propertary... first those presky IBM and now those guys". He shakes his head and walks away. Het still regrets that he didn't become a balet dancer as his mother wished. Live could be easy...
Do I still need to install a compleet new desktop version when i want to have new version of Gedit?e _a_singe_c haracter_on_the_screen
Is it still easier to write your own desktop enviroment then compiling Gnome?
The longest function name under gnome 3.x becomes:
gnome_output_compleetly_new_system_writ
Naah
g'd day....
mmm five? That's verry good for me...
..
Beceause English is not mine native language
Many years ago there was a internet rule that it was rude to critize others about spelling mistakes, beceause English is not the native language of most people. Sadly that's changed beside many other things.
I'm currently reading a book writte by Bill Bryson called ' A short Hisory of Nearly Everything'.
In this book het tells how strang guy Newton was. Newton once poked with a needle behind his eyers becease he wanne know what happends. Just by sheer luck nothing happend. He also discovered some verry inportant things but he kept is secret for almost 30 years.
He was briliant but he was also solitary,sombre and nearly paranoea.
First the desktop was inside the firewall and the desktop only tried to reach an outside host, but failed.
I got many critical comments from this post, and would like response to all this way.
* Yes there is much wrong with our IT. But i'm not a sysadmin and I'am not part of the IT department so i can't change anything about that.
* The sysadmin with I needed to deel with is a mcse
* I even need to explain to them that the need to protected their citrix servers for spyware. The mcse guy didn't even know what spywhare was (even he was a mcse).
* And yes there is a lot wrong with firewalling. But that is not mine reponsibility.
* I know and then give comments to them to improve things,but i need to keep working with them so I can't be to harsh to them.
* And yes it is easier to find a virus with a virus scanner. But i didn't know that it was a virus. The server had a uptodate virus scanner, and we checked it and the server was clean. Only the problems was caused by a desktop wich was not uptodate. That is not mine responisbility.
* And yes it is the server was not up to date regarding service packs and hardening, but that is the responisbility of the sysadmin, not me. I would like to do that, but i can't
Don't call me fool.
I'm not responsebel for patching because I can't. I'm just a softwareprogrammer and a application maintainer.
I think i meant 'free beer' . But free bear is also possible. The place i work, is in the middle of a forrest, so a free bear is possible.
...
Once we had a herd of 40 mad cows walking on the field near our office. They where broken out some grazing land. One of the cows spoke to me , and said that he was Durl MoeBride. He kept repeating ' I need Scoe Code , I need Scoe Code'. I don't know what he was talking about. Nobody did either.
Any way
The server wich is used by the web application was never infected with a virus. We scanned the computer and it was clean. The server was disturbed by a virus on a other desktop wich hadn't any up to date virus scanner. I couln't know also because i'm not a sysadmin.
Btw they changed the virus scanner, such that it is update daily.... better late than never.
I dit forget to mention that this trojan was spread by a firus wich uses a bug in IE
I'am also a application maintainer of some web application. During mine holliday the application started to have some random problems. When I returned I begin the investigation to the cause.
I Couldn't reproduce the errors, so it took some time to get futher with finding the cause. After some time I looked at the eventviewer (Yes it is Win2000 and not linux) and saw that the computer rebooted on average twice a day. The error messages said "Unexpected reboot". The sysadmin could find a cause also. In most cases this error was caused by a hardware error. So what I did is download etherreal and monitor the network traffic from the server. (This shows how nice opensource is. You just download in for free as in bear. If there was not FOSS i couldn't do this). I saw some strange network trafic to port 445 on the computer. I also saw that it uses a specific function. When I googled with this function I saw that there was I bug in the 'lsass' program regarding this bug. Then I checked the network traffic from the source host and saw some strange network traffic to outside the organisation on port 445, what is verry strange. After the investigation of the computer (desktop) they found the pedodo (I think it is called this way) trojan. (It collect passwords and creditcard numbers)
Now we patched the server (it was only SP4) and every thing was fine. This solved the problem. So I think this solved the problem. Mine conclusion was that this trojan disturbed the server.
This showes how fucked windows is and how great foss is.
Nope they should look for persons with pointy ears wich are keep repeating 'It's illogical...It's illogical...'
Yeah but common sense is often not so common.
I can imagine wat it is like if it was a microsoft & carwash instead of linux.
First there is a big sign outside : Please close all windows before using carrwash.
- or -
A customer ask to wash his windows.Service men response: Wich version you have? Windows 98 or XP?
nahh i don't have a car nor a drivers license...
When talking about saftety it is not verry usefull when counting the number of o.s. hacked and then just say "oh this o.s. is safer" because this doesn't give any accurate data.
When the breach is caused by administrator fault, you can't allways blame the o.s.
In the past it is often argued that the cause of many breaches are because windows administators where less experienced that linux admins. This has nothing to do with o.s, more with culture
Many breaches are caused by application and not because of the o.s. When for example a machine is hacked by a bug in Apache, you can't blame the o.s allways.
Another example are the public accesable web application. Many of them are verry badly written regardig safety! When such application is hacked, does this also count as a breach in the research? This has also nothing to do with the OS.
There is much more to say about this , but from above i can safely draw the conclution that for producing any sensibale data wich can be use to draw conclutions you should do seperate the data in:
* Caused by admin fault
* Caused by bug/weekness in o.s.
* Caused by application
When I was a student they learned me how carefull you should be to interpet measurements. Often people doesn't take the circumstances or correctness into account and often they do the wrong math.
Regardless the conclution, this is just bad research
It sounds to me to much like sco talking about linux.
.. i have been an astronomy studend... but failed.
On the other hand maybe SCO discoverd a simelarity between linux and the universe. Only 5% of the source lines in linux is visible and 95% is dark matter, wich belongs to SCO ip...
anyway
I stil remeber a teacher saying that when a astronomer proclaiming that his theory was the right one, It means that there was a small possebilty that some part of hist theory was correct... Hmm still sounds like Darlic McBride
Jer
Judging the number of Score=0 posts i thing Rob Enderle is posting at slashdot.
Anyway I only used FreeBSD with bochs and i would say it is ok.
Sorry I can only talk about the best working place...
Currently I work for a organisation wich is a youth care foundation. The headquarters is in the middle of nowhere in a forrest. If is even so remote that many mobilephone doesn't work here.
I live about 7 or 8 km from that place at the other side of the forrest. Because is just a nice distance to walk, I try to go on foot every day. When you walk a avearage speed, it is about 70 or 80 minutes walk. Often you see many wild animals like birds of prey,deer, squirrles and currently you will see many geece flying over.
Often It is dark when I go home. At someplaces it's often so dark that you can't see a hand for your face. Fortunate I know that forrest like mine pokkets. So it's no problem to find the way home, but it's still a nice experience to walk in the dark.
The building in where i work isn't verry beautifull. I have a nice big office and share it with 2 other. The office has nice big windows, and I looking at a small zoo outside.
I can go outside, just near mine office. When the weather is nice, it's easy to go outside and enjoy the sun. Because it's in the middel in a forrest it is a verry enjoyfull place.
Most of the colleges are woman, with different kind of proffesion. I'am part of a small division (6 people) and have alot of freedom, mine job is verry varied and i only need to work foor 32 hours in a week.
NICE!
The FSF and RMS did good things, but their websites ... nah ... Browsing their website is like editting a file in VI.
(btw I don't like VI)
Someone posted funny search stuff on sco search page
here
I discovert when you place a qoute (') behind the
&t= in the URL you get a 'sql error' message.
So the sco site has a sql injection safty problem.
ESR wrote a interseting open letter: An Open Letter to Darl McBride
What about this:Desmond McBribe...
anyway something serious:
For the USA Copyright law: here
See paragraph 106 wich says:
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and toauthorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
Sounds clear to me....
The http response header of the ADTI webserver is:
RapidSite/APA/1.3.20 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6
It looks like that they using Apache with modified host string, but they using OpenSSL. Hmm Opensource?
I dont like most SciFi. ... No not realy I dont care.
Too many are only violent, to much science 'Whe invent a atomic particle once every minute', to
much a military organisation with s.m. like uniforms or 'stupid enough I only encounter more avanced people, who wants to kill me'.
But the best SciFi is RedDwarf.
Second best is Microsoft windows 3000, Opensource edition.