And didnt realy care or yet know about these things.
School tends to focus on the past and not our present so children are not prepared for the current world they're still thinking of cowboys and indians, Russian Czars and French Revolutions.
If you wanted to get the whole of the united states to speak say spanish then you'd begin a the preshcool level and work your way up.
This is exactly why MicroSoft and Apple for years have fought a battle over schools. I learned to type on a Apple system. But in tech ed and computer science we used MicroSoft x86 based systems.
So if someone who's using a Mac all their life it can be their parents used it before but more than likely they used it during school.
I've got friends that were in yearbook for the highschool and they exclusively used Mac's to do all publishing becuase that's what Mac's have always been strong at. And to this day I'd say about 80% of them have stuck with Mac's though I do know several that went and got com sci degrees and work on *nix based systems.
Now that a good number (At least in the Linux case) of schools have moved to running Linux more students will be (Hate to use this word) Indoctrinated* into using Linux over say Windows. Though them using it after schools is dependent on how the person develops to use a computer. If it's for email, basic games, and other light home tasks then they'll be find.
HC Gamers that like MMO's and other DirectX based games will either go all Windows or Dual boot if so inclined.
"No. 5,794,207, for Priceline.com's buyer-driven, name-your-price E-commerce system"
Now IANAL but how do you patent the bartering system. Are you saying that the consumer has to pay royalties for neogeoating a better price with a company?
Someone needs to reign in the USPTO very quickly before this all begins to get out of hand. What are we to do when your legal system is overwhelmed with lawsuits that real crimes such as theft and murder begin to take a back seat to big business lawsuits making the lawyers millions of dollars.
Or what if it becomes so lucrative (Probably has already happened) that lawyers wont represent the defendants and instead concentrate on convincing companies with patents that other companies are violating their IP and that sueing is something they should do.
This all falls back to SCO (Just an Example) instead of producing a workable product they've relied on litigation to sustain the company. It's beyond me why any worker at SCO (Other than our current economic situation) would stay with a company that could find itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. It's like the Enron situation has not driven it home to them yet.
But again I ask people to write their congressmen and women and all their other elected officials and point out the problems inherent with patenting many things the way it goes on.
Business is just that business. I can understand patenting a process to make a 5 dollar diamond processor and a special chemical forumlae that cures cancer it's in their interest to make money after investing millions in developing these products. But patenting things such as door to door salesmanship or basic E Commerce systems is just damaging to the E-Economy.
If anyone deserved any patents it's the designers of the coding systems such as Basic, C, C++, C#, PHP and myraid of other languages. Of which none were expressly written with 2 billion ways to write code that would say yes or no. If we continue this madness then someone might as well patent the 0 and the 1 while they're at it.
if NTT is making these what's to stop them from moving into the processor market. Intel has already stated they've invested so much into their current platforms that they dont want to start researching a new material.
Perhaps with this breakthrough they might see the light. Of course between them and AMD whoever could turn this into diamond chips would own the processor market.
You show me one average user that can update their kernel.
Can it pass the mom test? No, then point made.
Kernel updates should be seamless and not break anything that you had compiled for the kernel.. EG Nvidia drivers. I'd love to have my parents use Linux but if every time the updates are needed (although rare) I'd have to either ssh into the box or go there physically. Trust me you cant tell them how to do it over the phone (hard of hearing)
Maybe that's the whole problem. Upgrades in windows have rarely caused problems. But on the other hand a simple update to Redhat 8 on a production server completely broke it requiring a backup to a older version. The system in question was a webserver and some security update rendered RPM unusable and some subset of RPM has to work for apache to work properly so we were screwed.
I think it's time to get the devs of RPM, apt and all other major packaging programs and make them form a standard and stick with it. And whatever standard should work to where 1 package will work for all systems instead of such things like RPM where you have a rpm for every flavor and version of processor and distribution. EG Redhat RPM's and Mandrake RPM's.
As processor speeds and faster subsystems make code compling a short trip instead of the long times it can take for bigger projects maybe source packages that compile on the target system into a correct rpm for that system/distro and installs itself. But for it to be tolerable you're looking at least 6ghz with solid state HD/PCI-X/XDDR-RAM wihtout any bottlenecks.
Anyways I think I'm rambling now:) but many see the same problem and that's why Linux will work in corporations fine with correctly trained IT staff but not for the average home users.
For the exact instructions above we cannot get the average user to upgrade their systems.. Kernel updates are stil crypic under a normal GUI based upgrade and gives the end user no idea of any reason to update it.
To each their own but if you sit and think about you come down with this.
Every gamer wants to have fun in the game. Many MMO's still are basic treadmills just to level. In Asheron's Call I spent a lot of time on what we all called Coral Beach becuase the golems that spawned there gave the best XP. Of course it was the only one in the game so it was constantly fought over and macro'd.
Asheron's Call 2 hit the nail on the head with advancement rates but they forgot to provide a endgame or high level content soon enough. They're finally expanding it in sept's patch so that should end that problem. Sadly this delay has cost them the 90,000 subscribers they had originally. But I think MicroSoft's chat system issues and their forcing Turbine to release early hurt the game the most. Now that they've let Turbine redo the chat system and just generally let them run the game as intended it will improve and players are coming back.
SWG is another problem child in a series of games. You've got customer support issues, and you have what seems to me the slowest advancement you could possibly imagine. Each world is basically the same subset of creatures that you have to kill for money and experience. You get too little of both and since there's no personal mounts yet much of the stuff you nened to be killing for your level is too far to go for the casual player. Mounts are coming but they still need to make combat more engaging than it currently is. Taking the Shadowbane path of "You fight monsters just to gain levels for the pvp aspect" is not going to cut it becuase not everyone wants to be pvp. A typical example of a bad mission is to kill 45 Worrts so of course you'd head out of town. Guess what there are none to be found becuase spawns are mostly controlled to spawn when a mission is picked up from a mission terminal so you're basically screwed unless you pick up those missions. Then they're 3Km away which takes about 15 minutes one way to get out to for only 1/3 of the required kills so then you have to go back. You can only have 2 missions at once so stocking up on them does not help either.
Those are the biggest problems in many games. HC gamers dont really count since many are typically blind to the issues a casual player has time to see. You have to find a balance for Time vs Reward/Advancement becuase if it's too long then players get fustrated and if it's too short then players advance too fast and you find a top heavy server.
Seems more or less that the 1st link is pointed at trying to wrestle people off the LAMP platform. However considering the copius amount of IIS viruses that tend to pop up plus the rock solid stabilty and ability to do basically what you want on the LAMP platform really proves you just dont need MicroSoft's IIS and messaging platforms at all.
Especially if LAMP+Jabber would cover everything. And it also looks like the Outlook killers are beginning to mature and with large scale deployments in countries such as Germany it will generate enough feedback and such features that are needed to be put in are.
Also with China's decision to not use propriety software in worlds largest government MicroSoft is basically forced to try to woo businesses and home users though ever copy they could sell in china would be at a loss due to the differences in cost of living.
These guys may have interoperability going for them but they'll definately have a pitched battle for all the good locations. I can see the regular locations making some good profits off how greedy these Welcos as they toss more and more money at companies for lucrative locations. My advice to any potentials is to not sign extremely lenghty contracts so you can have a bidding war every few years.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent rules dropped against AOL. Also here's a nice tidbit from MS..
"It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after Oct. 15," Sundwall said. "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
Let me rephrase a bit of that.
"We would encourage those thrid parties to contact us to work out payments by which they can drive away your customers"
I've also heard a rumor that a new version of MSN messenger yet unnannounced will include the ability to work in a similar manner of Trillian which allows you to consolidate all popular IM Programs into one program. I have no way to verify this "Rumor" but it's really hard to say MS wouldnt do it.
Has anyone else heard otherwise?
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When I was in High School my teacher knew some people over at ID and we got to alpha and beta test Doom in computer club. I remember the still monsters and walls you would fall through and the numerous crashes we would have. Even then the game was a total blast.
Now they're trying to blame texting/sms on poor Movie and CD sales. We'll the only solution there is to produce better products. And IMHO I think the press did more damage to GiGi than texting. It was all over the news on how bad it was, for days.
I suppose now the push for cell phone blockers in the theatres will be pushed to quiet the storm of "this movie sucks" to others in the hopes that those people are in line to see the next showing. Instead of quieting the barrage of ringers that have come about in recent months.
Sadly maybe the world would be different had the Nasdaq delisted them.
In a report card update on the company over the past year since he joined, McBride said he had acheived his first mission, which was to increase company value. A year ago the stock was trading around $.66 and the company was capitalized at some $8 million. Days after McBride took the helm at SCO, the Nasdaq sent a delisting notice informing SCO that it needed to get its stock price above $1 again to avoid being delisted. This raised customer concerns about the financial security of the firm and its viability.
SCO now has a market capitalization of more than $130 million, McBride said. A year ago the company was sitting on just two quarters of cash and was about "to go out," but a belt tightening effort and aggressive sales campaign had changed that.
"We have tripled our cash position over the past four months. SCO is actually going into business, not out of it, and we have turned the company around. We are proud of that, and the future going forward is bright. We have no long-term debt, cash balances are improved and we have reduced costs," he said.
As you can see from the above more proof that the FUD attacks against Linux has only served to increase their bottom line. McBride admits this publicly at a confrence. While at the same time he's dumping the same stock he claims to have turned around. So it seems to me that he does not have much faith in the company.
Another sad fact is the silence from the SEC about all this. Clearly this is stock manipulation in the worst light. A small company on the verge of going out of business begins to spread rumors that other companies owe them big bucks and suddenly people jump on the bandwagon becuase they know the stock will shoot up if such a case won in court. In fact the stock has gone up over 1000% in the last 4 months and people have made a profit at the expense of Linux and frankly I dont see how the damage can be reversed at all. Yes more people know aobut Linux but now they're just saying "There's that OS. Looks nice but I'm not going to buy it and have to pay a fee to SCO" Seriously I heard that the other day at a CompUSA when someone was considering a copy of RedHat Pro for 99.00 which I sorely missed by one day cause I misread the label *cry* but back to the topic here. Linux is damaged, the SEC is doing nothing, and McBride and his cronies are raking in the cash. I'm sure the Jailed company Exec's are screaming from their cells to get the SCO crew to join them also. Must be torture to watch someone commit the same crimes you're imprisioned for but nobody's doing anything.
Life will be fun if the court decides that SCO is in error. But if such a decision comes about the stock will be worth.02 cents and of course SCO will appeal and drag it through the courts. Even then if it is still proved wrong those who paid the license fees will not be able to get a refund becuase by then SCO will have declared bankruptcy.
x.x.x.15: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.4: unpatched x.x.x.12: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.66: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.18: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.16: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.21: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.101: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.109: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.99: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.85: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.82: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.131: unable to determine patch status; please investigate x.x.x.79: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.73: unpatched x.x.x.80: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.76: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.74: unpatched x.x.x.78: unpatched x.x.x.135: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.136: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.105: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.139: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.142: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.130: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.147: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.151: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.162: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.183: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.166: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.164: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.200: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.186: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.203: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.160: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.171: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.207: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.208: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.206: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.205: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.212: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.225: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.228: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.221: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.215: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.237: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.234: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.226: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.238: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.243: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.246: connection to tcp/135 refused x.x.x.254: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.253: patched with KB823980 x.x.x.224: patched with KB823980
I dont know who was asleep at the switch over in intel land but surely that guy is one job less after rejecting the idea to use the same backwards compatibility idea that made things so successful in the 16 bit to 32 bit switch all those years ago.
Now I get to watch a chip company I've supported (AMD) for years finally succeed. I just hope they stand by and keep their good prices for performance and not start to charge more for their chips if they become top dog or at least get a lot closer to knocking Intel off their high horse.
You'll notice (Map is in GMT) that near the time there was the outage there's also a gap in the map. Not sure if it's a graphical fluke or an actual spike it did not read.
Also
Near the same time auroral dataplots as seen below
There's another 2 surges in activity near those times the power outage was to occur.
It still could of been lightning but only more so powerful since it's known that lightning extends far up into space and it's possible the grid actually met up with the some bend in the van allen belts due to a buffet from a solar flare which they're talking about M to X class flares possible from a sunspot facing the earth.
Wonder if MS would push them to not make Linux drivers anymore.. They've done things similar in the past. Though the driver quality is dominated by Nvidia I'd like my 9700PRo to work in Linux.
So what next? MicroSoft cant stand to have a business model they dont incorporate into their OS. I suppose they might go ahead and make a music service built directly into Media Player 10 thus shutting out other music services.
Of course the RIAA could contend that with restrictions.
My question here is, that you have this chip that will now run at 2k instead of 200 degrees but what the hell are you going to do with the heat? For home users are we going to start seeing dryer vents with firewall protection through the walls to the outside of the house?
I'm running 2 AMD XP 2000+ processors in a 12x12 room and shut the doors and it can be 100 degrees in there quickly. I'm sure it creates enough heat to raise my power bill some also but I have yet come up with a solution. I have planned on venting them out the Window but I have to handle the bug and security problem there at the same time.
Viruses are no longer spread by floppy disks but instead come into your computers.
Phily may blame Symantec for the virus but are they truely responsible? I doubt it. More the blame should be pointed to their cheif of IT for allowing those specific ports to be open.
Any IT cheif worth his money would know the advantage of having all outside network facing machines not run any MicroSoft OS and instead rely on Linux to handle those functions thus providing a barrier beyond the firewalls to keep viruses out. In today's age it's just not a good idea to have any MicroSoft equipment as any network edge service.
Also it's obvious that the line by line review of the OS code has done nothing to alleviate these problems. This is the 3rd virus in the last 2 weeks to hit Windows and many times the AV companies take upwards of 24 hours to produce new definitions to block the viruses themselves.
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And didnt realy care or yet know about these things.
School tends to focus on the past and not our present so children are not prepared for the current world they're still thinking of cowboys and indians, Russian Czars and French Revolutions.
If you wanted to get the whole of the united states to speak say spanish then you'd begin a the preshcool level and work your way up.
This is exactly why MicroSoft and Apple for years have fought a battle over schools. I learned to type on a Apple system. But in tech ed and computer science we used MicroSoft x86 based systems.
So if someone who's using a Mac all their life it can be their parents used it before but more than likely they used it during school.
I've got friends that were in yearbook for the highschool and they exclusively used Mac's to do all publishing becuase that's what Mac's have always been strong at. And to this day I'd say about 80% of them have stuck with Mac's though I do know several that went and got com sci degrees and work on *nix based systems.
Now that a good number (At least in the Linux case) of schools have moved to running Linux more students will be (Hate to use this word) Indoctrinated* into using Linux over say Windows. Though them using it after schools is dependent on how the person develops to use a computer. If it's for email, basic games, and other light home tasks then they'll be find.
HC Gamers that like MMO's and other DirectX based games will either go all Windows or Dual boot if so inclined.
"No. 5,794,207, for Priceline.com's buyer-driven, name-your-price E-commerce system"
Now IANAL but how do you patent the bartering system. Are you saying that the consumer has to pay royalties for neogeoating a better price with a company?
Someone needs to reign in the USPTO very quickly before this all begins to get out of hand. What are we to do when your legal system is overwhelmed with lawsuits that real crimes such as theft and murder begin to take a back seat to big business lawsuits making the lawyers millions of dollars.
Or what if it becomes so lucrative (Probably has already happened) that lawyers wont represent the defendants and instead concentrate on convincing companies with patents that other companies are violating their IP and that sueing is something they should do.
This all falls back to SCO (Just an Example) instead of producing a workable product they've relied on litigation to sustain the company. It's beyond me why any worker at SCO (Other than our current economic situation) would stay with a company that could find itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit. It's like the Enron situation has not driven it home to them yet.
But again I ask people to write their congressmen and women and all their other elected officials and point out the problems inherent with patenting many things the way it goes on.
Business is just that business. I can understand patenting a process to make a 5 dollar diamond processor and a special chemical forumlae that cures cancer it's in their interest to make money after investing millions in developing these products. But patenting things such as door to door salesmanship or basic E Commerce systems is just damaging to the E-Economy.
If anyone deserved any patents it's the designers of the coding systems such as Basic, C, C++, C#, PHP and myraid of other languages. Of which none were expressly written with 2 billion ways to write code that would say yes or no. If we continue this madness then someone might as well patent the 0 and the 1 while they're at it.
if NTT is making these what's to stop them from moving into the processor market. Intel has already stated they've invested so much into their current platforms that they dont want to start researching a new material.
:)
Perhaps with this breakthrough they might see the light. Of course between them and AMD whoever could turn this into diamond chips would own the processor market.
Imagine DoomIII on a 81 Ghz system
You show me one average user that can update their kernel.
:) but many see the same problem and that's why Linux will work in corporations fine with correctly trained IT staff but not for the average home users.
Can it pass the mom test? No, then point made.
Kernel updates should be seamless and not break anything that you had compiled for the kernel..
EG Nvidia drivers. I'd love to have my parents use Linux but if every time the updates are needed (although rare) I'd have to either ssh into the box or go there physically. Trust me you cant tell them how to do it over the phone (hard of hearing)
Maybe that's the whole problem. Upgrades in windows have rarely caused problems. But on the other hand a simple update to Redhat 8 on a production server completely broke it requiring a backup to a older version. The system in question was a webserver and some security update rendered RPM unusable and some subset of RPM has to work for apache to work properly so we were screwed.
I think it's time to get the devs of RPM, apt and all other major packaging programs and make them form a standard and stick with it. And whatever standard should work to where 1 package will work for all systems instead of such things like RPM where you have a rpm for every flavor and version of processor and distribution. EG Redhat RPM's and Mandrake RPM's.
As processor speeds and faster subsystems make code compling a short trip instead of the long times it can take for bigger projects maybe source packages that compile on the target system into a correct rpm for that system/distro and installs itself. But for it to be tolerable you're looking at least 6ghz with solid state HD/PCI-X/XDDR-RAM wihtout any bottlenecks.
Anyways I think I'm rambling now
For the exact instructions above we cannot get the average user to upgrade their systems.. Kernel updates are stil crypic under a normal GUI based upgrade and gives the end user no idea of any reason to update it.
To each their own but if you sit and think about you come down with this.
Every gamer wants to have fun in the game. Many MMO's still are basic treadmills just to level. In Asheron's Call I spent a lot of time on what we all called Coral Beach becuase the golems that spawned there gave the best XP. Of course it was the only one in the game so it was constantly fought over and macro'd.
Asheron's Call 2 hit the nail on the head with advancement rates but they forgot to provide a endgame or high level content soon enough. They're finally expanding it in sept's patch so that should end that problem. Sadly this delay has cost them the 90,000 subscribers they had originally. But I think MicroSoft's chat system issues and their forcing Turbine to release early hurt the game the most. Now that they've let Turbine redo the chat system and just generally let them run the game as intended it will improve and players are coming back.
SWG is another problem child in a series of games. You've got customer support issues, and you have what seems to me the slowest advancement you could possibly imagine. Each world is basically the same subset of creatures that you have to kill for money and experience. You get too little of both and since there's no personal mounts yet much of the stuff you nened to be killing for your level is too far to go for the casual player. Mounts are coming but they still need to make combat more engaging than it currently is. Taking the Shadowbane path of "You fight monsters just to gain levels for the pvp aspect" is not going to cut it becuase not everyone wants to be pvp. A typical example of a bad mission is to kill 45 Worrts so of course you'd head out of town. Guess what there are none to be found becuase spawns are mostly controlled to spawn when a mission is picked up from a mission terminal so you're basically screwed unless you pick up those missions. Then they're 3Km away which takes about 15 minutes one way to get out to for only 1/3 of the required kills so then you have to go back. You can only have 2 missions at once so stocking up on them does not help either.
Those are the biggest problems in many games. HC gamers dont really count since many are typically blind to the issues a casual player has time to see. You have to find a balance for Time vs Reward/Advancement becuase if it's too long then players get fustrated and if it's too short then players advance too fast and you find a top heavy server.
Seems more or less that the 1st link is pointed at trying to wrestle people off the LAMP platform. However considering the copius amount of IIS viruses that tend to pop up plus the rock solid stabilty and ability to do basically what you want on the LAMP platform really proves you just dont need MicroSoft's IIS and messaging platforms at all.
Especially if LAMP+Jabber would cover everything. And it also looks like the Outlook killers are beginning to mature and with large scale deployments in countries such as Germany it will generate enough feedback and such features that are needed to be put in are.
Also with China's decision to not use propriety software in worlds largest government MicroSoft is basically forced to try to woo businesses and home users though ever copy they could sell in china would be at a loss due to the differences in cost of living.
These guys may have interoperability going for them but they'll definately have a pitched battle for all the good locations. I can see the regular locations making some good profits off how greedy these Welcos as they toss more and more money at companies for lucrative locations. My advice to any potentials is to not sign extremely lenghty contracts so you can have a bidding war every few years.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent rules dropped against AOL. Also here's a nice tidbit from MS..
"It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after Oct. 15," Sundwall said. "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
Let me rephrase a bit of that.
"We would encourage those thrid parties to contact us to work out payments by which they can drive away your customers"
I've also heard a rumor that a new version of MSN messenger yet unnannounced will include the ability to work in a similar manner of Trillian which allows you to consolidate all popular IM Programs into one program. I have no way to verify this "Rumor" but it's really hard to say MS wouldnt do it.
Has anyone else heard otherwise?
When I was in High School my teacher knew some people over at ID and we got to alpha and beta test Doom in computer club. I remember the still monsters and walls you would fall through and the numerous crashes we would have. Even then the game was a total blast.
Now they're trying to blame texting/sms on poor Movie and CD sales. We'll the only solution there is to produce better products. And IMHO I think the press did more damage to GiGi than texting. It was all over the news on how bad it was, for days.
I suppose now the push for cell phone blockers in the theatres will be pushed to quiet the storm of "this movie sucks" to others in the hopes that those people are in line to see the next showing. Instead of quieting the barrage of ringers that have come about in recent months.
Does anyone know if the scientists in Doom were Russian? Somehow I figure they'll open the gates to hell there.
Sadly maybe the world would be different had the Nasdaq delisted them.
.02 cents and of course SCO will appeal and drag it through the courts. Even then if it is still proved wrong those who paid the license fees will not be able to get a refund becuase by then SCO will have declared bankruptcy.
In a report card update on the company over the past year since he joined, McBride said he had acheived his first mission, which was to increase company value. A year ago the stock was trading around $.66 and the company was capitalized at some $8 million. Days after McBride took the helm at SCO, the Nasdaq sent a delisting notice informing SCO that it needed to get its stock price above $1 again to avoid being delisted. This raised customer concerns about the financial security of the firm and its viability. SCO now has a market capitalization of more than $130 million, McBride said. A year ago the company was sitting on just two quarters of cash and was about "to go out," but a belt tightening effort and aggressive sales campaign had changed that. "We have tripled our cash position over the past four months. SCO is actually going into business, not out of it, and we have turned the company around. We are proud of that, and the future going forward is bright. We have no long-term debt, cash balances are improved and we have reduced costs," he said.
As you can see from the above more proof that the FUD attacks against Linux has only served to increase their bottom line. McBride admits this publicly at a confrence. While at the same time he's dumping the same stock he claims to have turned around. So it seems to me that he does not have much faith in the company. Another sad fact is the silence from the SEC about all this. Clearly this is stock manipulation in the worst light. A small company on the verge of going out of business begins to spread rumors that other companies owe them big bucks and suddenly people jump on the bandwagon becuase they know the stock will shoot up if such a case won in court. In fact the stock has gone up over 1000% in the last 4 months and people have made a profit at the expense of Linux and frankly I dont see how the damage can be reversed at all. Yes more people know aobut Linux but now they're just saying "There's that OS. Looks nice but I'm not going to buy it and have to pay a fee to SCO" Seriously I heard that the other day at a CompUSA when someone was considering a copy of RedHat Pro for 99.00 which I sorely missed by one day cause I misread the label *cry* but back to the topic here. Linux is damaged, the SEC is doing nothing, and McBride and his cronies are raking in the cash. I'm sure the Jailed company Exec's are screaming from their cells to get the SCO crew to join them also. Must be torture to watch someone commit the same crimes you're imprisioned for but nobody's doing anything.
Life will be fun if the court decides that SCO is in error. But if such a decision comes about the stock will be worth
I believe it's been mentioned before but this is interesting that someone would write a virus to go out and fix the probem on PC's.
:)
Maybe he got tired of getting hit by code red, and the other variants that you always still see pinging your webservers and such.
If the sysadmin is lazy this is his dream a virus that does his job
There just was nothing good enough to post on SCO today so we get this lol!
Curious using the scan tool on my network for dsl
x.x.x.15: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.4: unpatched
x.x.x.12: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.66: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.18: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.16: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.21: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.101: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.109: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.99: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.85: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.82: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.131: unable to determine patch status; please investigate
x.x.x.79: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.73: unpatched
x.x.x.80: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.76: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.74: unpatched
x.x.x.78: unpatched
x.x.x.135: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.136: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.105: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.139: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.142: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.130: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.147: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.151: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.162: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.183: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.166: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.164: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.200: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.186: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.203: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.160: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.171: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.207: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.208: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.206: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.205: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.212: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.225: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.228: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.221: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.215: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.237: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.234: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.226: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.238: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.243: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.246: connection to tcp/135 refused
x.x.x.254: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.253: patched with KB823980
x.x.x.224: patched with KB823980
So about 1/10+- remain unpatched.
Evolution Data Only will be over 2 Megabits.. currently in testing in the beltline area of Washington State..
:)
Also by Verizon Wireless not to be confused with Verizon
You can get info here
I dont know who was asleep at the switch over in intel land but surely that guy is one job less after rejecting the idea to use the same backwards compatibility idea that made things so successful in the 16 bit to 32 bit switch all those years ago.
Now I get to watch a chip company I've supported (AMD) for years finally succeed. I just hope they stand by and keep their good prices for performance and not start to charge more for their chips if they become top dog or at least get a lot closer to knocking Intel off their high horse.
Looking at the data
here
You'll notice (Map is in GMT) that near the time there was the outage there's also a gap in the map. Not sure if it's a graphical fluke or an actual spike it did not read.
Also
Near the same time auroral dataplots as seen below
here
There's another 2 surges in activity near those times the power outage was to occur.
It still could of been lightning but only more so powerful since it's known that lightning extends far up into space and it's possible the grid actually met up with the some bend in the van allen belts due to a buffet from a solar flare which they're talking about M to X class flares possible from a sunspot facing the earth.
More info can be found at
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
http://sunspotcycle.com/
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html
Wonder if MS would push them to not make Linux drivers anymore.. They've done things similar in the past. Though the driver quality is dominated by Nvidia I'd like my 9700PRo to work in Linux.
So what next? MicroSoft cant stand to have a business model they dont incorporate into their OS. I suppose they might go ahead and make a music service built directly into Media Player 10 thus shutting out other music services.
Of course the RIAA could contend that with restrictions.
Dr Bartle works for the Themis Group a company that has a unique specialty of promoting online games. You can find his company bio here.
My question here is, that you have this chip that will now run at 2k instead of 200 degrees but what the hell are you going to do with the heat? For home users are we going to start seeing dryer vents with firewall protection through the walls to the outside of the house?
I'm running 2 AMD XP 2000+ processors in a 12x12 room and shut the doors and it can be 100 degrees in there quickly. I'm sure it creates enough heat to raise my power bill some also but I have yet come up with a solution. I have planned on venting them out the Window but I have to handle the bug and security problem there at the same time.
Viruses are no longer spread by floppy disks but instead come into your computers.
Phily may blame Symantec for the virus but are they truely responsible? I doubt it. More the blame should be pointed to their cheif of IT for allowing those specific ports to be open.
Any IT cheif worth his money would know the advantage of having all outside network facing machines not run any MicroSoft OS and instead rely on Linux to handle those functions thus providing a barrier beyond the firewalls to keep viruses out. In today's age it's just not a good idea to have any MicroSoft equipment as any network edge service.
Also it's obvious that the line by line review of the OS code has done nothing to alleviate these problems. This is the 3rd virus in the last 2 weeks to hit Windows and many times the AV companies take upwards of 24 hours to produce new definitions to block the viruses themselves.