What would happen if they succeded in causing AMD to go out of business? Then the only other option for consumers are VIA C3's and Transmeta which will never match Intel's. So then once again at the top of their game and after buying auctioned assets off AMD's corpse they ratchet prices back up and we lose out on innovation.
That discloses the operating system running on ATM's so people can make informed decisions when inserting their credit/bank cards into them.
Sorry Microsoft but I'm not about to stick my card in a machine especially when nobody can prove to me who's at the wheel.
Most older machines run on home grown code and are not as hard to be cracked by hackers. If my bank switches to MS run machines I will take my money elsewhere.
I recently took a flight the other day and the passenger before me with his laptop only had to open the bag and show it to him. They however made me take off my shoes, open my case and take my laptop out and used a pair of forceips to wipe some sort of cloth around my laptop. Even over the screen which I was none too happy with.
Who's to say that they have not already started testing this system on actual travelers.
Also international travelers will not have any sort of credit profile so WHY do they have to include OURS as part of the system. It makes me sick how it's acceptible to discriminate on people becuase of poor credit.
As an example I have a score right above 650 but am currently a State Farm customer for my Truck's insurance. I decided to shop around to see if there were alternatives that were cheaper.
Geico and Progressive both quoted double my current premiums. When I asked a manager of the similarities at Progressive he responded both companies set your rates based in part on your credit profile. I asked what difference does it make on my driving and he said people with poor credit tend to drive worse.
I'd say that's bull since I know people that are well off and they drive like a bat out of hell. I had though that by being a responsible driver I would be rewarded but that's obviously not the case.
The point here is that credit ratings have nothing to do with how dangerous people are. I would question the Unibomber's credit rating if he had one at that time and what it really was.
I'm also sure that Tim McVeigh had good credit also.
I'm really happy to see this working it's way up the ladder. Hopefully it'll make it through! While I dont mind paying sales taxes on items purchased over the network in my own state I however am against taxes on email (Where's the public burden?), bandwidth/bit taxes (I dont get taxed per call) both of which would of been extremely damaging to small businesses and would of killed off a lot of small websites in the US.
Okay so you're telling me that a 3rd party company is contacting your web customers and selling them monitoring services that you already provide and some other services that you may or may not provide. They then begin to access your system to do said monitoring but it's crashing your servers.
Lets put it this way.
You provide your customers a service. Part of that user agreement (This is doubly important in a shared server enviroment) that the customer cannot install any software/script/service that impacts the performance of the servers beyond what you say they can. Even the act of using 3rd party monitoring that is causing this problem is in violation of your AUP your customers are contractually binded to. Now I cant see your AUP but I hope there are provisions in there stating this.
Now as far as the 3rd party company goes. You need to have your legal department file a cease letter to them with a explanation of the problems they're causing and until things can be worked out they are not permitted to conduct business across your network.
You also need to notify your customers the actions you're taking on this company and why. Also pointing out your AUP/SLA's with them and the un acceptable behavior of the company that was selling them services. Tell them what you can monitor and explain what they really need.
In the assumption of a web/email then all you need to do is monitor the ports and maybe a script that will verify the email server is accepting connections on a minute basis. That's all you need for that setup. Also if they're allowed to telnet into the box (SSH I hope) then you'd also monitor the SSH port as well to ensure they can connect to their equipment.
If you're co-locating: Then I would suggest getting a Nagios setup running and sell some sort of monitoring to your customers. A good example would be the system that springboardhosting.com provides to their users. We use them as our colo partner and I've had no complaints. Though we only use the basic monitoring I do have advanced tools at the house and my laptop should I feel I need to watch any critical services. And I use webmin to monitor peer servers and page my phone in case there are any problems.
You're in a pickle at the moment but I think your customers will appreciate cutting off the source of the outages. Nobody needs to know if their service is up by the second unless it's some sort of huge database application and then you'd have special provisions to monitor it and not remotely.
That company is basically DDOS'g your servers to death. So it's basically them or you. I think the choice is simple:)
In the next year we'll see the first solid state hard drives (Some that will run fast or faster than the processor) and faster RAM that would run the same speed as the processor.
Cache on a processor would be redundant if you can access the RAM at the same speeds. AMD is aware of this and are working to make compatible products.
Solid state drive/memory that runs at compatible speeds as the processor will probably reduce the need for what we call ram these days and operating systems could just use the drive for it's RAM.
If you're thinking of buying the latest and greatest I'd wait. Many things are about to happen and it'll be worth just keeping the money in the bank for now. Most people in the 2ghz range dont need any upgrades right now unless it's in the graphics department. I bought a ATI 9700 Pro last Janurary and it made more of a difference in my games than having any faster processor could.
I think most people know how jealous Verizon is of it's name even in url's. I'm curious how they'll view someone who misstypes a verizon adress and is presented with ad's from their competitors.
A kid can make a fusion reactor but our best scientists cant make one that actually works?!!
However I think they can make ones that are power producers but companies and governments are afraid to release any sort of cheap energy, then they'd lose the power they have over economies across the world.
There are hardly no standards and any good things put together are hacked apart by budgets and politics.
Also the move to include COTS based equipment has completely removed any EMP hardening that the "Old" equipment had which while I was in the service my vocality on the matter was largely ignored on the basis that nuclear war was not reguarded as a likely scenario anymore with "most" countries we'd be at war with. However they dont realize that a nuclear weapon is not the only way to generate EMP that could effect their equipment.
As far as IT training goes there are no certifications nor will the army send it's enlisted personel to any training worth anything. A group of soldiers went to a cisco workshop that didnt even teach enough for them to get a CCNA. The military has a long history of giving training to soldiers that typically requires a license outside the service and says since they're trained they dont deserve a bonus since they can get out and get a good paying job. Which they cant due to the license requirements.
One example is a friend who was a powerplant and airframe mech on large cargo jets. He had to be FAA licensed outside the military but due to the fact that he had bills he had to find employment immediately and did not have time to persue some extra classes in order to rate that license.
The same applies for any of the IT mos's though you may not get certified many companies will hire you based on the experience as a associate position to see if you can learn up. That's how I got my current job outside of the military working in Data networking with hardly no training when I was in.
Better would be to focus on the slowdown of American broadband. When it was first rolled out there were no caps whatsoever and it was generally allowed to run at the speed that the equipment could handle. So the average DSL user ran over 3mbit in some cases if they had good lines. Uncapped both directions.
Then came the abusers and greed of the communications companies and today you see the extreme chokehold on the broadband today. SBC's base package for DSL is 384/128k dn/up compared to Verizon's 768k-1.544M/128k and the cable companies provide service comparable to Verizon.
New trends are starting to take hold in some areas with Verizon Wireless rolling out EvDO 3G which can run upwards of 2.3M and Verizon Landline (Seperate companies) is testing 2M+ speeds in certain (Lucky) markets with future plans to turn up the dial on broadband.
While those trends are nice to see you still have many who still have dialup due to cost and some worse off areas still cannot get a better connection than 26600kbps!
Interestingly people have pointed out monopolies. There is basically 1 telepone company in South Korea. Korean Telecom and a handfull of offshots after other companies were allowed to spring up but I'd say 90% of that country is serviced by KT and TMK there is only one cable company there. So it's questionable if more competition really is the answer (Korea may regulate, the us de-regulates)
I'm not sure what goes on in Japan but I would suspect nearly the same situation there also but you'll have to understand both countries until very recently had complete conglomerates (Sp?) of many things from electronics to communications systems. Now there is free market competition but not in the manner of how the US Govt mandated AT&T split up those companies were just forced to allow competition to "try" to work their way into a established system. Which probably will work becuase the exec's of those companies realize given choice people will pick the better company that provides them value.
Someone said that 1 cent per megabyte would be fair.
That equals to 6 to 7 dollars per CD. Hmm lets see how many companies go out of business due to prices like that. Nobody could make a profit of making cd's so they would charge more also so then you end up making it too expensive to distribute cd's with the software and music industry.
Could have the converse that it forces everything to be delivered on the internet but then what about those cuaght up in the digital divide?
I dont know how much they charge per cd in Canada but hopefully it's not that crazy. I highly doubt it is since even one country doing something like that would have repercussions elsewhere.
Verizon has control of the root domain servers through a congressionaly granted trust on the basis that they would be doing public good.
If we can show Congress that they are negatively impacting the public (read: sys and netadmins, not just regular people), we can get Congress to order Verizon to put a stop to this BULLSHIT
Hello Mr AC but Genuity owned those DNS servers and still do. 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 Etc still belong to them and not nor never Verizon. What you confuse is probably Verizon using Genuity's network as a backbone for their DSL services which caused me hell a few weeks ago when a Genuity core router in Dallas was having problems talking to a central office border router in Lewisville Tx causing me and all my neighbors to have horrible 1200ms+ ping times.
I had thougth that verizon used their own network but they actually just provide the local loop and dump it all out to various carriers like Genuity.
A more direct issue of verisign would be misstyped email addresses coming back with advertisements thus turning regular bounce messages into Spam also.
Sure that's great let the ISP encrypt your email! That way the fed's can keep a copy of the keys and decrypt everything on the fly and continue to read those sexy words you say to your wife or mistress via email.
Anyone who wants or needs encryption and who are smart enough to use it would know better to use something that resides on your pc which you have control over not the other way around.
Mehta estimates that U.S. companies will save up to $11 billion in 2004 by outsourcing to India and that India will purchase $3 billion in high-tech imports from the United States in that time. "I think it is really a two-way mutually beneficial argument," he says. "If IBM is able to lower its cost structure, the U.S. economy benefits as a whole."
First I'd like to point otu the guys name.. Sunil Mehta which is a Indian Name.
Now lets point out that 2/3 of the US economy is fueled by consumer spending. Where does this guy get off saying that's to benefit the economy. What happens when the Middle class become the lower class and then there's only lower and rich classes?? There will not be any economy due to the fact that companies will be forced to lower prices on goods to enable the new class to buy their products and thus lowering profit ratios of the companies. it's a cycle and companies are ignoring the long term effects of their actions.
If Indians make more money will they buy more US made products? Doubtful since their tastes in what they buy differ greatly from what we would buy. Maybe MicroSoft would be able to lose less on each copy of their software sold overseas but Old Navy, Sears, and many other companies will not be seeing any rise in sales at all in those countries. It would be better to offshore jobs in countries where at least they would turn around an d increase buying of american products. Otherwise were just dumping more money overseas without any hopes of return and risk our country's tech advantage over many countries.
Almost every business website now had some sort of paid content. So much content is free yet premium content and other features are on a subscription or pay per use model it's impossible to use any of them effectively without going broke.
Now that the internet is beginning to show the usual signs of capitalism it's becoming more of a less free zone than thre free zone everyone once enjoyed.
If I'm going to pay to use things on the internet then I want a low fee that covers everything so I can go where I wish otherwise I pay nobody.
Joy another thing to bring up prices
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Seriously case prices have done nothing but go up in the last year or so with many of the vanilla boxes not being stocked anymore. Though I've had my eye on a prefab'd watercooled case for awhile due to the noise levels I still have not seen the prices of it go down where I'd consider it acceptable.
If you consider the case which retails for maybe 100 dollars and a pump that runs 30 dollars and another 30 for hoses and such I still dont see the point of paying 300 for a case for that amount of silence. And there's still the amount of heat that's being output into the house to deal with. I'm considering installing a duct from the office room to a window or through the wall to pipe all the excess heat out of the house.
I'm sure I'd make it back on the 300 dollar case by pumping all that hot air back outside except in the winter when I wouldnt mind it being put into the house:)
I think it's time for all OS's to accept standards to help people interact with eachother effectively and securely. As everyone know MicroSoft has shunned many attempts at standards in order to control their market share by keeping their users pinned into MicroSoft sanctioned data. This has the effect of forcing businesses to support the MicroSoft users first and everyone second if at all.
I think a security standard should be enforced by a world body to help prevent MicroSoft from once again taking the standard and corrupting it to work only with Windows and.Net applications thus forcing the same cycle of users/companies designing to MS standards again thus shutting out the rest of us from secure systems.
Some would say standards hurt computing that's not exactly the case. You can design products around standards and still compete with other standard compliant products. It allows everyone to remain compatible and at the same time darwinism will take effect with bad products going away and good products evolving to better suit their users.
They shut it down sometime last year. I believe also other activities are being relocated to Florida so any new activity would be located in that area.
What would be interesting if the senator didnt know this:)
Half of the search engine/Porn redirects that you get when you misspell a domain. Take Linuxgames.net for example. Linuxgames.com is the actual domain but someone has linuxgame.net going to a search engine.
That I turned off security notifies at my company. Our Queue's were going well over 2000 and personally anyone dumb enough to accept or send.pif.bat and other file types deserve the viruses and no notices.
Back in the old days you could download all the mp3's you could handle from little known artists trying to get a foot in the door. I have not been there in a long time but I see it's now populated by all the big names in the business and it's hard to find unsigned artists at the top of any of the charts. All the big names have done to MP3.com is use it to advertise their songs.
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What would happen if they succeded in causing AMD to go out of business? Then the only other option for consumers are VIA C3's and Transmeta which will never match Intel's. So then once again at the top of their game and after buying auctioned assets off AMD's corpse they ratchet prices back up and we lose out on innovation.
They need to learn to spoof email headers so it does not appear to come from a .ms domain.
It's good thing symantec got a patch out before the virus started making it's rounds. Kudo's to them!
That discloses the operating system running on ATM's so people can make informed decisions when inserting their credit/bank cards into them.
Sorry Microsoft but I'm not about to stick my card in a machine especially when nobody can prove to me who's at the wheel.
Most older machines run on home grown code and are not as hard to be cracked by hackers. If my bank switches to MS run machines I will take my money elsewhere.
I recently took a flight the other day and the passenger before me with his laptop only had to open the bag and show it to him. They however made me take off my shoes, open my case and take my laptop out and used a pair of forceips to wipe some sort of cloth around my laptop. Even over the screen which I was none too happy with.
Who's to say that they have not already started testing this system on actual travelers.
Also international travelers will not have any sort of credit profile so WHY do they have to include OURS as part of the system. It makes me sick how it's acceptible to discriminate on people becuase of poor credit.
As an example I have a score right above 650 but am currently a State Farm customer for my Truck's insurance. I decided to shop around to see if there were alternatives that were cheaper.
Geico and Progressive both quoted double my current premiums. When I asked a manager of the similarities at Progressive he responded both companies set your rates based in part on your credit profile. I asked what difference does it make on my driving and he said people with poor credit tend to drive worse.
I'd say that's bull since I know people that are well off and they drive like a bat out of hell. I had though that by being a responsible driver I would be rewarded but that's obviously not the case.
The point here is that credit ratings have nothing to do with how dangerous people are. I would question the Unibomber's credit rating if he had one at that time and what it really was.
I'm also sure that Tim McVeigh had good credit also.
I'm really happy to see this working it's way up the ladder. Hopefully it'll make it through! While I dont mind paying sales taxes on items purchased over the network in my own state I however am against taxes on email (Where's the public burden?), bandwidth/bit taxes (I dont get taxed per call) both of which would of been extremely damaging to small businesses and would of killed off a lot of small websites in the US.
Okay so you're telling me that a 3rd party company is contacting your web customers and selling them monitoring services that you already provide and some other services that you may or may not provide. They then begin to access your system to do said monitoring but it's crashing your servers.
:)
Lets put it this way.
You provide your customers a service. Part of that user agreement (This is doubly important in a shared server enviroment) that the customer cannot install any software/script/service that impacts the performance of the servers beyond what you say they can. Even the act of using 3rd party monitoring that is causing this problem is in violation of your AUP your customers are contractually binded to. Now I cant see your AUP but I hope there are provisions in there stating this.
Now as far as the 3rd party company goes. You need to have your legal department file a cease letter to them with a explanation of the problems they're causing and until things can be worked out they are not permitted to conduct business across your network.
You also need to notify your customers the actions you're taking on this company and why. Also pointing out your AUP/SLA's with them and the un acceptable behavior of the company that was selling them services. Tell them what you can monitor and explain what they really need.
In the assumption of a web/email then all you need to do is monitor the ports and maybe a script that will verify the email server is accepting connections on a minute basis. That's all you need for that setup. Also if they're allowed to telnet into the box (SSH I hope) then you'd also monitor the SSH port as well to ensure they can connect to their equipment.
If you're co-locating: Then I would suggest getting a Nagios setup running and sell some sort of monitoring to your customers. A good example would be the system that springboardhosting.com provides to their users. We use them as our colo partner and I've had no complaints. Though we only use the basic monitoring I do have advanced tools at the house and my laptop should I feel I need to watch any critical services. And I use webmin to monitor peer servers and page my phone in case there are any problems.
You're in a pickle at the moment but I think your customers will appreciate cutting off the source of the outages. Nobody needs to know if their service is up by the second unless it's some sort of huge database application and then you'd have special provisions to monitor it and not remotely.
That company is basically DDOS'g your servers to death. So it's basically them or you. I think the choice is simple
Hope that helps.
In the next year we'll see the first solid state hard drives (Some that will run fast or faster than the processor) and faster RAM that would run the same speed as the processor.
Cache on a processor would be redundant if you can access the RAM at the same speeds. AMD is aware of this and are working to make compatible products.
Solid state drive/memory that runs at compatible speeds as the processor will probably reduce the need for what we call ram these days and operating systems could just use the drive for it's RAM.
If you're thinking of buying the latest and greatest I'd wait. Many things are about to happen and it'll be worth just keeping the money in the bank for now. Most people in the 2ghz range dont need any upgrades right now unless it's in the graphics department. I bought a ATI 9700 Pro last Janurary and it made more of a difference in my games than having any faster processor could.
I think most people know how jealous Verizon is of it's name even in url's. I'm curious how they'll view someone who misstypes a verizon adress and is presented with ad's from their competitors.
What is up with Utah that all these IP/Copyright things seem to surface there instead of other places. Did Silicon valley move?
Is that the next generation nintendo?
A kid can make a fusion reactor but our best scientists cant make one that actually works?!!
However I think they can make ones that are power producers but companies and governments are afraid to release any sort of cheap energy, then they'd lose the power they have over economies across the world.
There are hardly no standards and any good things put together are hacked apart by budgets and politics.
Also the move to include COTS based equipment has completely removed any EMP hardening that the "Old" equipment had which while I was in the service my vocality on the matter was largely ignored on the basis that nuclear war was not reguarded as a likely scenario anymore with "most" countries we'd be at war with. However they dont realize that a nuclear weapon is not the only way to generate EMP that could effect their equipment.
As far as IT training goes there are no certifications nor will the army send it's enlisted personel to any training worth anything. A group of soldiers went to a cisco workshop that didnt even teach enough for them to get a CCNA. The military has a long history of giving training to soldiers that typically requires a license outside the service and says since they're trained they dont deserve a bonus since they can get out and get a good paying job. Which they cant due to the license requirements.
One example is a friend who was a powerplant and airframe mech on large cargo jets. He had to be FAA licensed outside the military but due to the fact that he had bills he had to find employment immediately and did not have time to persue some extra classes in order to rate that license.
The same applies for any of the IT mos's though you may not get certified many companies will hire you based on the experience as a associate position to see if you can learn up. That's how I got my current job outside of the military working in Data networking with hardly no training when I was in.
Better would be to focus on the slowdown of American broadband. When it was first rolled out there were no caps whatsoever and it was generally allowed to run at the speed that the equipment could handle. So the average DSL user ran over 3mbit in some cases if they had good lines. Uncapped both directions.
Then came the abusers and greed of the communications companies and today you see the extreme chokehold on the broadband today. SBC's base package for DSL is 384/128k dn/up compared to Verizon's 768k-1.544M/128k and the cable companies provide service comparable to Verizon.
New trends are starting to take hold in some areas with Verizon Wireless rolling out EvDO 3G which can run upwards of 2.3M and Verizon Landline (Seperate companies) is testing 2M+ speeds in certain (Lucky) markets with future plans to turn up the dial on broadband.
While those trends are nice to see you still have many who still have dialup due to cost and some worse off areas still cannot get a better connection than 26600kbps!
Interestingly people have pointed out monopolies. There is basically 1 telepone company in South Korea. Korean Telecom and a handfull of offshots after other companies were allowed to spring up but I'd say 90% of that country is serviced by KT and TMK there is only one cable company there. So it's questionable if more competition really is the answer (Korea may regulate, the us de-regulates)
I'm not sure what goes on in Japan but I would suspect nearly the same situation there also but you'll have to understand both countries until very recently had complete conglomerates (Sp?) of many things from electronics to communications systems. Now there is free market competition but not in the manner of how the US Govt mandated AT&T split up those companies were just forced to allow competition to "try" to work their way into a established system. Which probably will work becuase the exec's of those companies realize given choice people will pick the better company that provides them value.
Someone said that 1 cent per megabyte would be fair.
That equals to 6 to 7 dollars per CD. Hmm lets see how many companies go out of business due to prices like that. Nobody could make a profit of making cd's so they would charge more also so then you end up making it too expensive to distribute cd's with the software and music industry.
Could have the converse that it forces everything to be delivered on the internet but then what about those cuaght up in the digital divide?
I dont know how much they charge per cd in Canada but hopefully it's not that crazy. I highly doubt it is since even one country doing something like that would have repercussions elsewhere.
Verizon has control of the root domain servers through a congressionaly granted trust on the basis that they would be doing public good.
If we can show Congress that they are negatively impacting the public (read: sys and netadmins, not just regular people), we can get Congress to order Verizon to put a stop to this BULLSHIT
Hello Mr AC but Genuity owned those DNS servers and still do. 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 Etc still belong to them and not nor never Verizon. What you confuse is probably Verizon using Genuity's network as a backbone for their DSL services which caused me hell a few weeks ago when a Genuity core router in Dallas was having problems talking to a central office border router in Lewisville Tx causing me and all my neighbors to have horrible 1200ms+ ping times.
I had thougth that verizon used their own network but they actually just provide the local loop and dump it all out to various carriers like Genuity.
A more direct issue of verisign would be misstyped email addresses coming back with advertisements thus turning regular bounce messages into Spam also.
Sure that's great let the ISP encrypt your email! That way the fed's can keep a copy of the keys and decrypt everything on the fly and continue to read those sexy words you say to your wife or mistress via email.
Anyone who wants or needs encryption and who are smart enough to use it would know better to use something that resides on your pc which you have control over not the other way around.
Mehta estimates that U.S. companies will save up to $11 billion in 2004 by outsourcing to India and that India will purchase $3 billion in high-tech imports from the United States in that time. "I think it is really a two-way mutually beneficial argument," he says. "If IBM is able to lower its cost structure, the U.S. economy benefits as a whole."
First I'd like to point otu the guys name.. Sunil Mehta which is a Indian Name.
Now lets point out that 2/3 of the US economy is fueled by consumer spending. Where does this guy get off saying that's to benefit the economy. What happens when the Middle class become the lower class and then there's only lower and rich classes?? There will not be any economy due to the fact that companies will be forced to lower prices on goods to enable the new class to buy their products and thus lowering profit ratios of the companies. it's a cycle and companies are ignoring the long term effects of their actions.
If Indians make more money will they buy more US made products? Doubtful since their tastes in what they buy differ greatly from what we would buy. Maybe MicroSoft would be able to lose less on each copy of their software sold overseas but Old Navy, Sears, and many other companies will not be seeing any rise in sales at all in those countries. It would be better to offshore jobs in countries where at least they would turn around an d increase buying of american products. Otherwise were just dumping more money overseas without any hopes of return and risk our country's tech advantage over many countries.
Almost every business website now had some sort of paid content. So much content is free yet premium content and other features are on a subscription or pay per use model it's impossible to use any of them effectively without going broke.
Now that the internet is beginning to show the usual signs of capitalism it's becoming more of a less free zone than thre free zone everyone once enjoyed.
If I'm going to pay to use things on the internet then I want a low fee that covers everything so I can go where I wish otherwise I pay nobody.
Seriously case prices have done nothing but go up in the last year or so with many of the vanilla boxes not being stocked anymore. Though I've had my eye on a prefab'd watercooled case for awhile due to the noise levels I still have not seen the prices of it go down where I'd consider it acceptable.
:)
If you consider the case which retails for maybe 100 dollars and a pump that runs 30 dollars and another 30 for hoses and such I still dont see the point of paying 300 for a case for that amount of silence. And there's still the amount of heat that's being output into the house to deal with. I'm considering installing a duct from the office room to a window or through the wall to pipe all the excess heat out of the house.
I'm sure I'd make it back on the 300 dollar case by pumping all that hot air back outside except in the winter when I wouldnt mind it being put into the house
I think it's time for all OS's to accept standards to help people interact with eachother effectively and securely. As everyone know MicroSoft has shunned many attempts at standards in order to control their market share by keeping their users pinned into MicroSoft sanctioned data. This has the effect of forcing businesses to support the MicroSoft users first and everyone second if at all.
.Net applications thus forcing the same cycle of users/companies designing to MS standards again thus shutting out the rest of us from secure systems.
I think a security standard should be enforced by a world body to help prevent MicroSoft from once again taking the standard and corrupting it to work only with Windows and
Some would say standards hurt computing that's not exactly the case. You can design products around standards and still compete with other standard compliant products. It allows everyone to remain compatible and at the same time darwinism will take effect with bad products going away and good products evolving to better suit their users.
They shut it down sometime last year. I believe also other activities are being relocated to Florida so any new activity would be located in that area.
:)
What would be interesting if the senator didnt know this
Half of the search engine/Porn redirects that you get when you misspell a domain. Take Linuxgames.net for example. Linuxgames.com is the actual domain but someone has linuxgame.net going to a search engine.
That I turned off security notifies at my company. Our Queue's were going well over 2000 and personally anyone dumb enough to accept or send .pif .bat and other file types deserve the viruses and no notices.
I dont understand this at all.
They won against a company that added a speaker jack to the computer? *slaps head* I mean what kind of crack was the judge really on here.
I'm so flabberghasted(sp) that I cant even come up with a coherent response to this.
Back in the old days you could download all the mp3's you could handle from little known artists trying to get a foot in the door. I have not been there in a long time but I see it's now populated by all the big names in the business and it's hard to find unsigned artists at the top of any of the charts. All the big names have done to MP3.com is use it to advertise their songs.