KDE IMO is pretty stable and Gnome for that matter is also. But I use KDE becuase there appears to be more apps being developed for it.
Maybe if the WM's would design some sort of common application interface so things would look right on all the WM's that confirmed to the standard then we'd see a lot more x-compatibility in those applications.
And why does each WM have a seperate browser/file explorer? Just keep the explorer seperate from web browsing (Besides it's a MicroSoft idiocy) and we can all use Mozilla/Opera or whatever else.
I think that would be a violation of your legal rights. So who's going door to door to see if anyone ever used register.com to allow them to opt out in case they wish to bring their own lawsuit?
Yeah lets just take food out of the mouth of a young girl. She's a minor and the punishment does not fit the crime. Why not just let her talk to her school class about it. Taking 2k from her mother is a little harsh.
Should I be taken for my whole life savings or lack of for a traffic violation?
Personally the RIAA has broken tons of laws to gain this iformation on the downloaders. Wiretap's have to be approved by a judge and carried out by law enforcement personel. Where's the order and what group performed the investigation. I'm sure there are plenty of judges to just allow the entire law enforcement community to scan all internet traffic for song swapping while bin laden and co are passing messages on how to blow up their next target.
And doing so over the internet probably has violated the rights of people overseas by tapping their communications. And that all crosses state lines so they're in violation of federal wiretap laws along with international law enforcement treaties and other laws to prevent this type of abuse.
What we really need here is a class action against the RIAA over their lawlessness just to bust a few file traders.
I'm sure some genious can make a java app that will remove or stop any active adware prior to the page loading so it's ad's will show up on the page.
I dont really understand this ruling since the judge is basically saying that anyone can overwrite another's ad's. Now what about television.. networks pay millions for ad's just like they do in the internet so what's different.. is it now okay for directtv to overwrite ad's on CNN to advertis Foxnews?
Packet switching in the next few years will begin to phase out 5ESS Switching which is the major standard today along with DMS 1000 by Nortel and other Motorola landline switches. With the full adoption of IPv6 your telephone # will be mapped to your phone's IP adddress to allow voice over packet data which is similar to VoIP.
I'm currently at a Holiday INN. Well they're high speed net access. Faster than a T1 is nice but they block port 25. It's a inconvience since I cant send email through my yahoo smtp account nor my email account on another server. Though I'll have to call our hosting service to map port 2525 to 25 to get around this issue it's still an annoyance.
If the ISP blocks 25 then the spammer will have a buddy setup a box outside the network to accept on some random high port like 37337 and just go to town just like usual. All it serves to do is get in the way of legitimate users in a punish the many for the crimes of a few method.
The loss of any developer is keenly felt by the platform makers. But in contrast the N64 has a profit margin per console sold compared to the PS2 and Xbox. The push by console makers to compete with PC platforms has only led them to make PC's in the long run. IMO it's better to shell out the cash for the PC and if you want formfactor there are many things out today that are comparable in size to a console system. Keep in mind the PS3 and Xbox2 may actually fail if they cannot generate sales of games to make up withe the negative profit margins those systems will generate. If they charge 399 per system then depending on the system spec's they could lose upwards to 200 dollars per unit sold not to mention the discounts they give to markets where the average person could not afford the 399 pricetag.
I think the real war for profitability is to stop the pirating of games that runs rampant in many Asian countries. I remember in Korea you could buy PS1 games for 4 dollars a peice which I thought was a shame since most people there can afford the games. They also have major problems with Software and Music priacy.
How many security experts have found exploits and have contacted the network department of the exploited network only to get a ho hum or nasty response of "whatever there are no problems"? Only when the systems are hacked and proved to management that things are ordered to be fixed. The security administrators nautral reactions are usually to blame the hacker even though the hacker had good intentions to help them he also probably cost someone their job. So it's no wonder the security admins probably in a effort to cover their collective arses asked law enforcement to go after the hacker.
I believe this is the case with NYT here. Yahoo and @home are understandably grateful becuase of the potential of lawsuits due to people's computers being hacked and they also would lose business accounts if those businesses perceived that the network was insecure. Even though all ISP's have a disclaimer I have yet to see something happen to where it's brought to court so it's a untested method of deniablilty of responsibility by the ISP.
Hopefully this guy can get out of the mess he's in and some security company will snatch him up or he can become a independent contractor for larger companies.
Either way it takes a security breakin to find the holes as many audits can also miss things. NYT should be thanking this guy.
Reminds me of that ATM machine that was stolen from Snow Hall on military base, they didnt find it for 2 years until a long dry spell let a pond get real low.
For those that dont know Snow Hall is a tech training center and has 24 hour security and video cameras. The machine was quite large and bolted to the floor and since it was the day before payday it was full also. 250k was in it I believe.
Only bank robbers I know of that got away with it AFAIK.
Develop a AV system that can have a simple client on the PC that will download itself and install to the system and update automatically as part of the install of any networking setup for a students computer. Also have the systems communicate with hubs so if computers that are monitoring traffic on the network spot a virus trying to spam it alerts the hub and isolates the network automatically and helps stem the spread of the virus.
Legacy systems will provide more resistance to viruses than any MS based system mainly due to the lack of coders with the knowhow to write viruses for such systems. Though when paried next to and on networks containing Microsoft based systems a MSVirus could cause havoc just by crippling the network that those systems rely on.
In any case a system using NFS/NIS would be especially vulnerable to traffic floods by MSVirii due to the lockups that can happen when high traffic causes such file/security systems to fail.
I've seen flapping interfaces on certain cisco equipment that have made messes of NFS and NIS based systems requireing a total reboot of the entire network from the top down. And the flapping can be caused by recent MSBlaster virii that has recently seen action.
As a safety precaution the legacy networks should be extremely firewalled, and not allowed to work on any shared media that also caters to any Microsoft systems. Such seperation of the network would prevent either from spamming the other to death. Also in many critical areas private networks with private loops vs being carried over the internet should be considered with backups such a MicroWave or Sattelite communications to critical centers in case of any large infrastructure outages in your carriers network.
Can someone Loan me the $295,000 dollars to buy it?
Also I cant wait for one to be stolen in Los Angeles and the resulting police chase. I'd love to see the looks on the cops faces when it drives into one of the aquaducts and gets away from the cars at least. I'm sure the helicopter pioliot will be laughing at least.
I'm still at a loss on why I would want to switch to Thunderbird when it still has a few bugs (no biggie) but there is no spam filters built into the program. I have also not seen any Anti Virus programs that would work with it also so it's definately not going to ever get on one of my XP machines for sure.
A really great product idea would be for a program that sits on your PC or even hooks into your firewalls hardware/software that would intercept all POP/SMTP/IMAP traffic and scan the files that go through before passing it on to the pc with spam tagging or deletion and AV detection.
Of course I'm basically building almost the same thing with my home mail server using fetchmail/Spamassassin and a yet to be selected antivirus scanner. It would make a great netplaince.
I think however once Thunderbird gets those extras for protection for users it's adoption may speed up greatly.
Based on a population of 213 to give each person 25,000 dollars would cost 5.325 Trillion Dollars. Okay that's certainly doable. Double it and you've got the average high tech job salary. Not a impossible number either.
Consider the Stock Market it's a nice place. Frankly I've always considered a place of wonder. More money comes out of it than goes in. In this place given time one dollar can become 5 million dollars.
So what's the point of money anyways..
Goods and Services, Companies produce goods and provide services. Consumers pay for those goods and services but they also work at companies that provide goods or services.
If you get down to it money is not needed anymore. People could turn the robots loose on the drudgery that nobody really wants to do and move on to providing other services or goods. Imagine if all the auto workers were moved into housing production or highway building but each were not paid. In repayment for building the backbones and homes of our society things they need, (Housing, Food, Transportation, Healthcare, Items/Cloting) are provided becuase they're working.
Such a system is possible on a global scale if you can convince the Rich to give up all the things that really dont make them rich at all. Everyone could literally work a job of some sort and in return they get the necessities of life.
Human invention and productivity would reach new highs, governments would actually do things in the interest of the people, and maybe for once there would be peace in many of the third world countries when the strife and hunger are replaced by food, homes, and jobs.
Now maybe roads are a bad example becuase it's hot hard work. Robots will handle the drudgery. So these people can turn their attention towards schooling or early retirement for that percentage that have labored for so long. Children and the rest would be encouraged to learn math and sciences, to produce new compting hardware. Society would then finally be free to turn the engeries of the world into getting off this rock and onto the next one. As more and more things are discovered we may be able to extend life spans over hundreds of years instead of a mere hundred if you're lucky.
If MS wants to make us pay for MSNM then I want it to be free for me since my last Laptop came with Windows bundled with it. And guess what? MSNM is intergrated into the OS in the same manner IE is that has generated the complaints from the states. I cant remove it and it's always popping up when I dont want it too where I just have to kill the process.
If they shut it out of Trillan and Kopete I really cannot call it a big loss since I'm sure the 5 people I do talk to ON MSNM will probably move to something else also. I've always been a heavy Yahoo and AOLIM user since that's really where people are at anyways.
MS will also have to introduce value added services such as voice chat, good chat rooms, stop the SPAM!, oh and NO ADS! before they should start asking for money. Otherwise they'll just lose out to the free alternatives. And frankly chat is probably the cheapest part of their bandwidth bill due to all the security patches people have to download on a daily basis. They also act like MSNM is the cause of viruses which is not the case though I suspect they're doing all this due to a issue they found and are worried so they decided to secure it.
All I can say is begin the complaint process with AOL. Get a someone who'll file the proper paperwork and maybe file a lawsuit to get things put back the way they're supposed to be unless it's a genuine mistake on AOL.
Also put up a message on your support lines with Steve Case's phone # to call him for support:)
I wonder if those professors working on these are the same ones who let their TA's come to the first day of class and in some cases first week of class instead of them themselves.
My fiance was pretty disgusted this year since she's a grad student and for the money's she's paying she does not expect a student to be teaching the class on day one.
Especially in the rare case he's someone who just takes apart viruses and sees how they work.
Anyone remember the old viruses? Back in the late 80's and early 90's viruses were harmful but lately they're nothing but a pain in the arse 90% of the time being of the email variety. What's curious is it's rare to now see viruses that blow your video card, corrupt your hard drive (Though in some cases it's understandable they dont or they cant propagate)
I for one dont want to see the return of damaging viruses mainly becuase these new email virii never seem to be detected by many AV products until they have a definition for it. When was the last time your AV detected the latest Sobig without a update first. Which always gives the virus at least a 12 hour window to spread in the better connected parts of the internet.
I wonder how much more powerful it could of been if they designed it with Opteron processors or had waited until next summer when the release of XDDR Ram that runs in the 3ghz range would of been out.
Keep in mind as main memory speeds catch up with processor speeds and can easily run in 128 & 256 bit configurations that the signifigance of chip cache will become less and less. If the memory standards commttee's can keep memory speeds in line wiht processors then we can see some great advances in supercomputing. Along with cheaper processors due to the lack of onboard cache's since the processors would be able to use the main memory for such purposes.
Only stopgap into truely fast computing is the hard drive and that is quickly coming into it's solid state future as well.
I would guess at 2006 for 10ghz PC's with the only moving parts left being the dvd player and cooling systems which at that time will probably have to be more advanced than even liquid unless we make thsoe processors run at that speed with todays power outputs.
Man I miss the ASCII days:) I used to hack at Maximus, Gecho, and Frontdoor to get my system to look really cool over a modem before the internet came along and changed things. Though it was interesting to see some of my friends try to exist in the same manner through TCPIP instead of a dialup session to someones computer. I rather just moved on to HTML and did cool things there though I never got as serious about it as I was with BBS software when I was a kid.
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"His parents have also put up their house to guarantee his appearance in New York."
Jeez what next, strap a parent into a letheal injection machine to guarrentee appearance in court?
KDE IMO is pretty stable and Gnome for that matter is also. But I use KDE becuase there appears to be more apps being developed for it.
Maybe if the WM's would design some sort of common application interface so things would look right on all the WM's that confirmed to the standard then we'd see a lot more x-compatibility in those applications.
And why does each WM have a seperate browser/file explorer? Just keep the explorer seperate from web browsing (Besides it's a MicroSoft idiocy) and we can all use Mozilla/Opera or whatever else.
What happened to the Opt In Class Action?
I think that would be a violation of your legal rights. So who's going door to door to see if anyone ever used register.com to allow them to opt out in case they wish to bring their own lawsuit?
Yeah lets just take food out of the mouth of a young girl. She's a minor and the punishment does not fit the crime. Why not just let her talk to her school class about it. Taking 2k from her mother is a little harsh.
Should I be taken for my whole life savings or lack of for a traffic violation?
Personally the RIAA has broken tons of laws to gain this iformation on the downloaders. Wiretap's have to be approved by a judge and carried out by law enforcement personel. Where's the order and what group performed the investigation. I'm sure there are plenty of judges to just allow the entire law enforcement community to scan all internet traffic for song swapping while bin laden and co are passing messages on how to blow up their next target.
And doing so over the internet probably has violated the rights of people overseas by tapping their communications. And that all crosses state lines so they're in violation of federal wiretap laws along with international law enforcement treaties and other laws to prevent this type of abuse.
What we really need here is a class action against the RIAA over their lawlessness just to bust a few file traders.
I'm sure some genious can make a java app that will remove or stop any active adware prior to the page loading so it's ad's will show up on the page.
I dont really understand this ruling since the judge is basically saying that anyone can overwrite another's ad's. Now what about television.. networks pay millions for ad's just like they do in the internet so what's different.. is it now okay for directtv to overwrite ad's on CNN to advertis Foxnews?
Packet switching in the next few years will begin to phase out 5ESS Switching which is the major standard today along with DMS 1000 by Nortel and other Motorola landline switches. With the full adoption of IPv6 your telephone # will be mapped to your phone's IP adddress to allow voice over packet data which is similar to VoIP.
I'm currently at a Holiday INN. Well they're high speed net access. Faster than a T1 is nice but they block port 25. It's a inconvience since I cant send email through my yahoo smtp account nor my email account on another server. Though I'll have to call our hosting service to map port 2525 to 25 to get around this issue it's still an annoyance.
If the ISP blocks 25 then the spammer will have a buddy setup a box outside the network to accept on some random high port like 37337 and just go to town just like usual. All it serves to do is get in the way of legitimate users in a punish the many for the crimes of a few method.
The loss of any developer is keenly felt by the platform makers. But in contrast the N64 has a profit margin per console sold compared to the PS2 and Xbox. The push by console makers to compete with PC platforms has only led them to make PC's in the long run. IMO it's better to shell out the cash for the PC and if you want formfactor there are many things out today that are comparable in size to a console system. Keep in mind the PS3 and Xbox2 may actually fail if they cannot generate sales of games to make up withe the negative profit margins those systems will generate. If they charge 399 per system then depending on the system spec's they could lose upwards to 200 dollars per unit sold not to mention the discounts they give to markets where the average person could not afford the 399 pricetag.
I think the real war for profitability is to stop the pirating of games that runs rampant in many Asian countries. I remember in Korea you could buy PS1 games for 4 dollars a peice which I thought was a shame since most people there can afford the games. They also have major problems with Software and Music priacy.
How many security experts have found exploits and have contacted the network department of the exploited network only to get a ho hum or nasty response of "whatever there are no problems"? Only when the systems are hacked and proved to management that things are ordered to be fixed. The security administrators nautral reactions are usually to blame the hacker even though the hacker had good intentions to help them he also probably cost someone their job. So it's no wonder the security admins probably in a effort to cover their collective arses asked law enforcement to go after the hacker.
I believe this is the case with NYT here. Yahoo and @home are understandably grateful becuase of the potential of lawsuits due to people's computers being hacked and they also would lose business accounts if those businesses perceived that the network was insecure. Even though all ISP's have a disclaimer I have yet to see something happen to where it's brought to court so it's a untested method of deniablilty of responsibility by the ISP.
Hopefully this guy can get out of the mess he's in and some security company will snatch him up or he can become a independent contractor for larger companies.
Either way it takes a security breakin to find the holes as many audits can also miss things. NYT should be thanking this guy.
What did they ask for? Bill gates pocket lint and this was the spare change that shook out while he gave it to them?
Reminds me of that ATM machine that was stolen from Snow Hall on military base, they didnt find it for 2 years until a long dry spell let a pond get real low.
For those that dont know Snow Hall is a tech training center and has 24 hour security and video cameras. The machine was quite large and bolted to the floor and since it was the day before payday it was full also. 250k was in it I believe.
Only bank robbers I know of that got away with it AFAIK.
Develop a AV system that can have a simple client on the PC that will download itself and install to the system and update automatically as part of the install of any networking setup for a students computer. Also have the systems communicate with hubs so if computers that are monitoring traffic on the network spot a virus trying to spam it alerts the hub and isolates the network automatically and helps stem the spread of the virus.
Time to put those CS&E's to work!
Legacy systems will provide more resistance to viruses than any MS based system mainly due to the lack of coders with the knowhow to write viruses for such systems. Though when paried next to and on networks containing Microsoft based systems a MSVirus could cause havoc just by crippling the network that those systems rely on.
In any case a system using NFS/NIS would be especially vulnerable to traffic floods by MSVirii due to the lockups that can happen when high traffic causes such file/security systems to fail.
I've seen flapping interfaces on certain cisco equipment that have made messes of NFS and NIS based systems requireing a total reboot of the entire network from the top down. And the flapping can be caused by recent MSBlaster virii that has recently seen action.
As a safety precaution the legacy networks should be extremely firewalled, and not allowed to work on any shared media that also caters to any Microsoft systems. Such seperation of the network would prevent either from spamming the other to death. Also in many critical areas private networks with private loops vs being carried over the internet should be considered with backups such a MicroWave or Sattelite communications to critical centers in case of any large infrastructure outages in your carriers network.
No I was not trolling.. Av works with it? i must of clicked on the wrong area of the webpage or something.. maybe it is worth checking out.
Can someone Loan me the $295,000 dollars to buy it?
Also I cant wait for one to be stolen in Los Angeles and the resulting police chase. I'd love to see the looks on the cops faces when it drives into one of the aquaducts and gets away from the cars at least. I'm sure the helicopter pioliot will be laughing at least.
I'm still at a loss on why I would want to switch to Thunderbird when it still has a few bugs (no biggie) but there is no spam filters built into the program. I have also not seen any Anti Virus programs that would work with it also so it's definately not going to ever get on one of my XP machines for sure.
A really great product idea would be for a program that sits on your PC or even hooks into your firewalls hardware/software that would intercept all POP/SMTP/IMAP traffic and scan the files that go through before passing it on to the pc with spam tagging or deletion and AV detection.
Of course I'm basically building almost the same thing with my home mail server using fetchmail/Spamassassin and a yet to be selected antivirus scanner. It would make a great netplaince.
I think however once Thunderbird gets those extras for protection for users it's adoption may speed up greatly.
They put in a few more dollars on that webserver and their slashdotting would of been seamless.
Based on a population of 213 to give each person 25,000 dollars would cost 5.325 Trillion Dollars. Okay that's certainly doable. Double it and you've got the average high tech job salary. Not a impossible number either.
Consider the Stock Market it's a nice place. Frankly I've always considered a place of wonder. More money comes out of it than goes in. In this place given time one dollar can become 5 million dollars.
So what's the point of money anyways..
Goods and Services, Companies produce goods and provide services. Consumers pay for those goods and services but they also work at companies that provide goods or services.
If you get down to it money is not needed anymore. People could turn the robots loose on the drudgery that nobody really wants to do and move on to providing other services or goods. Imagine if all the auto workers were moved into housing production or highway building but each were not paid. In repayment for building the backbones and homes of our society things they need, (Housing, Food, Transportation, Healthcare, Items/Cloting) are provided becuase they're working.
Such a system is possible on a global scale if you can convince the Rich to give up all the things that really dont make them rich at all. Everyone could literally work a job of some sort and in return they get the necessities of life.
Human invention and productivity would reach new highs, governments would actually do things in the interest of the people, and maybe for once there would be peace in many of the third world countries when the strife and hunger are replaced by food, homes, and jobs.
Now maybe roads are a bad example becuase it's hot hard work. Robots will handle the drudgery. So these people can turn their attention towards schooling or early retirement for that percentage that have labored for so long. Children and the rest would be encouraged to learn math and sciences, to produce new compting hardware. Society would then finally be free to turn the engeries of the world into getting off this rock and onto the next one. As more and more things are discovered we may be able to extend life spans over hundreds of years instead of a mere hundred if you're lucky.
If MS wants to make us pay for MSNM then I want it to be free for me since my last Laptop came with Windows bundled with it. And guess what? MSNM is intergrated into the OS in the same manner IE is that has generated the complaints from the states. I cant remove it and it's always popping up when I dont want it too where I just have to kill the process.
If they shut it out of Trillan and Kopete I really cannot call it a big loss since I'm sure the 5 people I do talk to ON MSNM will probably move to something else also. I've always been a heavy Yahoo and AOLIM user since that's really where people are at anyways.
MS will also have to introduce value added services such as voice chat, good chat rooms, stop the SPAM!, oh and NO ADS! before they should start asking for money. Otherwise they'll just lose out to the free alternatives. And frankly chat is probably the cheapest part of their bandwidth bill due to all the security patches people have to download on a daily basis. They also act like MSNM is the cause of viruses which is not the case though I suspect they're doing all this due to a issue they found and are worried so they decided to secure it.
Well off to work!
From the bottom of my non trolling heart!
All I can say is begin the complaint process with AOL. Get a someone who'll file the proper paperwork and maybe file a lawsuit to get things put back the way they're supposed to be unless it's a genuine mistake on AOL.
:)
Also put up a message on your support lines with Steve Case's phone # to call him for support
I wonder if those professors working on these are the same ones who let their TA's come to the first day of class and in some cases first week of class instead of them themselves.
My fiance was pretty disgusted this year since she's a grad student and for the money's she's paying she does not expect a student to be teaching the class on day one.
Especially in the rare case he's someone who just takes apart viruses and sees how they work.
Anyone remember the old viruses? Back in the late 80's and early 90's viruses were harmful but lately they're nothing but a pain in the arse 90% of the time being of the email variety. What's curious is it's rare to now see viruses that blow your video card, corrupt your hard drive (Though in some cases it's understandable they dont or they cant propagate)
I for one dont want to see the return of damaging viruses mainly becuase these new email virii never seem to be detected by many AV products until they have a definition for it. When was the last time your AV detected the latest Sobig without a update first. Which always gives the virus at least a 12 hour window to spread in the better connected parts of the internet.
I wonder how much more powerful it could of been if they designed it with Opteron processors or had waited until next summer when the release of XDDR Ram that runs in the 3ghz range would of been out.
Keep in mind as main memory speeds catch up with processor speeds and can easily run in 128 & 256 bit configurations that the signifigance of chip cache will become less and less. If the memory standards commttee's can keep memory speeds in line wiht processors then we can see some great advances in supercomputing. Along with cheaper processors due to the lack of onboard cache's since the processors would be able to use the main memory for such purposes.
Only stopgap into truely fast computing is the hard drive and that is quickly coming into it's solid state future as well.
I would guess at 2006 for 10ghz PC's with the only moving parts left being the dvd player and cooling systems which at that time will probably have to be more advanced than even liquid unless we make thsoe processors run at that speed with todays power outputs.
Man I miss the ASCII days :) I used to hack at Maximus, Gecho, and Frontdoor to get my system to look really cool over a modem before the internet came along and changed things. Though it was interesting to see some of my friends try to exist in the same manner through TCPIP instead of a dialup session to someones computer. I rather just moved on to HTML and did cool things there though I never got as serious about it as I was with BBS software when I was a kid.