It means their names will all end up in the court documents. That will come in very handy when someone has the guts to nail them under the rico act which will send them all to club fed for a very long time. So everyone torment these guys all you can and see if we can get them all in on the game.
Remember that AT&T still holds some rights (they use Version 10? on some of their phone switches). AT&T and Sun have an agreement where Sun has as much rights to the Unix trademarks and source code as anyone else and Sun paid Novell (I think) for an unlimited redistribution license. There is also the license stream from the AT&T terminal spin off compnay and at least 5 universities have orignal licenses that have "unlimited" rights to the IP. Tacking this down will bring many skeletons out of the closet. When its over, the courts will have proof that SCO has less of an exclusive right to the IP than they thought they had. Since this is all public, may its time to short the stock.
The RIAA sells little plastic bits for their member through record stores. Those record stores are based on a model from the 1950's where there were a very limited number of new product and inventory issues were easy. I figure there are about 1333 new CD's per year per million people. In the english speaking world, that nearly 1/2 million new albums per year. There is no way a traditional record store could deal with that many different albums and the RIAA fixes that problem.
If you have 30,000 workstations and you chose to cancel the Office part of it next year, you will save a large fortune. Because Office is a major part of the rest of the licenses, its could be much cheaper for the company to default on the license terms and relicense a small subset. This is what they have expensive lawyers for.
Its interesting that in Australia, nearly everything is sold at regular price with no discounts. Thouse regular prices tend to be the US recomended retail price plus 5% duty plus the 10% sales tax (tax here is included in sticker price). There are also very few places that will or even can bargin and sales are very rare. It doesn't matter if its socks or cisco routers, its all works about the same way.
The burning of the library of Alexandria didn't mean much for the few years after it happened but today we know how much was lost. There was a serious breach of Jeneva conventions to not protect the museum and archives and someone should will be the fall guy.
The archives just happened to be one of the best sources of documentation of who was associated with which political parties which gives cules about what they were involved with. Of course there were records that would be unplesent for the world press to get ahold of as well (from the US's point of view)
There was enouhg time for most of Europe (many who have troops in the area) to help stop the looting but they decided not to and left it in the hands of the US and British.
If sun knew what was good for them, they would fedex a copy of Star Office with a license allowing the company to use the current version forever for free to every major company that got nailed by this. If any of thouse compaiens took the StarOffice solution, then they would be making a killing on license fees with the next version or else they are out the cost of a fedex packet and a CD. Considering how much sun sends out anyway, it makes me wondering whats going on inside their marketing department... Oh never mind its a marketing department so nothing useful is going on.
I don't think the Samba team is well. At least not in the head anyways.
These guys look at some of the uglyest packets in the world. And they keep doing it. And they keep coming back for more. Ever hear Tridge talk about whats going on inside the SMB packets? Hes not too hard on MS in the large public forums but see what happens when you hand him a VB or 5 before a talk... then he will give it to you without the sugar coating... Were talking odd sized data structures that may or may not be little endian. Most of the time the structures are hiding inside other structures and the inner and outer structures will have different bitness and different world alignments. Nest a few levels for even more pain. And then repeat. This is what these guys do for FUN! This is why I'm concerned about them.
Now they want to tackle other stuff as well? Maybe they could just throw in Novell's stuff for grins. Once they have done that, they will win the all time award for being the most saito masicistic coders ever. No one will ever be able to beat them. Ever. Its not even worth attempting to compete with them.
Suing the right 5 spamers might make more of a difference than you think.
I had an NT box cracked and a proxy put on it. (read about the filters in another post) The people who did that were out to spam in a big way. Had my server worked they way they had planned, it could have sent out a billion messages in less than a week. My own email address was in the junk they were attempting to deliver spam to and that consited of 10 messages or so. Considering I'm only getting 50 spams a day, if one spamer can generate 20% of that, I'll be happy with nailing 5 spamers if they are big spamers.
Of course the person who rooted the NT box can get caught, I've alos go logs where they tried to hack other boxes includeing.gov and.mil machines. Maybe someone from.gov wants to look at the logs.
It wasn't locked down. It was running a stock NT4 (just like some of our customers). However there as a another box sitting between it and the wire that wasn't so eager to send packets off to port 25 on remote servers. The network looked like a connection with something funny going on. The result is that when the box came back on the net (it looks like a typical office machine behind a nated router), it would phone home and then a remote server would connect to the proxy that hte hackers insalled and try to send out messages. The 1st set of addresses go to a specifc set of addresses and then after a short time (if and only if the right address does get sent), then the box would get hit with hundreds of socket connections to its proxy. Once it did that it attempted to deliver a million or so messages in a very samll time. Once I had figured out their game, I could let their test messages through while blocking spam to most of the net. Most of the leaks involved @aol addresses because thats where the test accounts are. I faked accepance of about 5 million messages and flat out rejected millions more. I figure if this system had been up for more than about an hour (and truly open), it could have easly send a billion messages in a week.
In the local sage mailing list, someone mentioned that he hadn't gotten any spam that day. His email address was in the list list of stuff I rejected several times.
A major spamer just hit one of my test boxes and in the millions of messages that went to my logging server, there are clues into who is behind some of this.
They are selling CDs (and soon DVDs). Their aim is to move large amounts of cheap plastic into the stores. Thats all they care about. No one here buys stuff from the RIAA members, they just buy it from the record stores who are the customers of the RIAA members and what they want conflicts with what the end customers want. Now that anyone has the ability to edit music in a home studio that will sound better than most of the well done stuff made in expensive studios before the 1980s. The result is there is too much music for the record stores to deal with. Remember, they don't sell music, they sell small bits of plastic. They have to inventory them and arrange them so customers can find them and deal with moving out old stuff to make room for the new stuff and there is just too much new stuff. For example a radio station in Melbourne Australia had a contest where any local band could enter and 3000 bands sent in entries. If there are 3000 bands in listening area of 4 million people, I'm guessing that there is 3 bands per 4000 people that can make a CD per year. Now how many unique cd's are in the local record store? They can't cope with that many new CD's every week. Thats the problem that needs to be fixed. Come up with a way to do a record store were you can have more than 100,000 albums in stock and then the current RIAA cusotmers dry up and they will go away.
If you can vote in Germany, contact your local offical and let them know that the Americans will love this bill because it makes Germany less efficient which will give the US goods a slight edge. The problem with geeks talking to goverment officals is they make points that are completely lost. Don't make the points too complex or you will get ignored.
I had a NT box set up where it was effectivly on the net. Someone found it and rooted it and installed a remote proxy on it. For the next few days, another box they hacked was sending the cracked NT box packets to realy off to smtp servers all over the world. Thanks to some fun filtering, about 1.5 million spam messages ended up being diverted to my logging machines. This is a major spamer operation and they aren't doing it the old way. They are playing mean and breaking the law. Of course not one of the law enforcment agencies has any interest in this. The result of this criminal stealing $2000 worth of bandwidth is that I've got enough info that a prime canidate can be tracked down but it will require either a cort order or a BOFH inside AOL.
We do have an open consortium to fix this. Their fix was X.400. Go find ISODE on some archive and install it on your box. While it was written a decade ago, I suspect it will keep a nice new daul processor box quite busy. Oh, US gov't departments are required to switch to X.400 under a plan called gossip. Lucky for everyone, I got SMTP added to the list of accepable systems to use until they are ready to migrate.
Right now Motorola Canopy is about $1100 per 60 degrees on an access point and the subscriber units are about $515. With the built in antenna you get about two miles but with a typical sat tv type dish, you can get upto 35 miles in some configurations. Its not 802.16 but it works and it works today.
The book "True Names" by V Vinge (now back in print) starts out with a guy talking about how they will bust you if you have too much processing power, storage or bandwidth since only illegal hacker types need that kind of power.
Its also talks about IRCisms which is odd since the book was written long before that happened.
Recent rise? Unix has alwasy been delivered in source forms. That will true till Sun and Dec and IBM started doing binary distros for their own hardware.
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Does it matter if its 100 or 200 if the OS only swtiches tasks 100 times a second?
I can't stand ps2 mice anymore. They seem to be very jummpy compared to USB but I've been using a logitech USB (and PS2) trackball for quite some time.
A copmany I know has many good digital design people but when it comes to RF, its a completely different ballgame. You tend to run into people that know the old style analog systems but the people who can design a newer digital system correctly are very, very rare. We may have funding for a project but I don't even know where to start looking for the RF design people.
This could be consider just another drug war. Uday Hussein is involved with US tobacco smuggling It turns that Uday has figured out he can grow his own and doesn't need to pay US compaines for the stuff and he started draining swams to grow it. Tobacco is how the US keeps the tradbalacnes from getting too bad with oil compaines and now Uday seems to be getting serious. Ever since Gulf War I, the Arabs have been more concerned about how they buy their tobbaco from and prefer to buy Uday's imported and reboxed brands. Some figures connect him to nearly 25% of US tobacco sales. The real story isn't showing up but it appears that some of Bush's best supporters are deeply tied up with the thugs of Iraq. Throw in considerations of Bush's CIA connections (via daddy) combined with the CIA's love of illegal trade makes and you've got one heck of a conspiracy.
The problem is finding the right bit. I figure that if you logical or every bit, then you the the IFF_EVIL bit. This works great execpt on one machine that has mac address of 0:0:0:0:0:0.
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It means their names will all end up in the court documents. That will come in very handy when someone has the guts to nail them under the rico act which will send them all to club fed for a very long time. So everyone torment these guys all you can and see if we can get them all in on the game.
Remember that AT&T still holds some rights (they use Version 10? on some of their phone switches). AT&T and Sun have an agreement where Sun has as much rights to the Unix trademarks and source code as anyone else and Sun paid Novell (I think) for an unlimited redistribution license. There is also the license stream from the AT&T terminal spin off compnay and at least 5 universities have orignal licenses that have "unlimited" rights to the IP. Tacking this down will bring many skeletons out of the closet. When its over, the courts will have proof that SCO has less of an exclusive right to the IP than they thought they had. Since this is all public, may its time to short the stock.
The RIAA sells little plastic bits for their member through record stores. Those record stores are based on a model from the 1950's where there were a very limited number of new product and inventory issues were easy. I figure there are about 1333 new CD's per year per million people. In the english speaking world, that nearly 1/2 million new albums per year. There is no way a traditional record store could deal with that many different albums and the RIAA fixes that problem.
If you have 30,000 workstations and you chose to cancel the Office part of it next year, you will save a large fortune. Because Office is a major part of the rest of the licenses, its could be much cheaper for the company to default on the license terms and relicense a small subset. This is what they have expensive lawyers for.
Its interesting that in Australia, nearly everything is sold at regular price with no discounts. Thouse regular prices tend to be the US recomended retail price plus 5% duty plus the 10% sales tax (tax here is included in sticker price). There are also very few places that will or even can bargin and sales are very rare. It doesn't matter if its socks or cisco routers, its all works about the same way.
Like the tax laws for small home run businesses, make a profit 3 out of 5 times or its a hooby?
The thing is a state could make this a law for teir federal reps so there is hope it could happen.
The burning of the library of Alexandria didn't mean much for the few years after it happened but today we know how much was lost. There was a serious breach of Jeneva conventions to not protect the museum and archives and someone should will be the fall guy.
The archives just happened to be one of the best sources of documentation of who was associated with which political parties which gives cules about what they were involved with. Of course there were records that would be unplesent for the world press to get ahold of as well (from the US's point of view)
There was enouhg time for most of Europe (many who have troops in the area) to help stop the looting but they decided not to and left it in the hands of the US and British.
If sun knew what was good for them, they would fedex a copy of Star Office with a license allowing the company to use the current version forever for free to every major company that got nailed by this. If any of thouse compaiens took the StarOffice solution, then they would be making a killing on license fees with the next version or else they are out the cost of a fedex packet and a CD. Considering how much sun sends out anyway, it makes me wondering whats going on inside their marketing department... Oh never mind its a marketing department so nothing useful is going on.
I don't think the Samba team is well. At least not in the head anyways.
These guys look at some of the uglyest packets in the world. And they keep doing it. And they keep coming back for more. Ever hear Tridge talk about whats going on inside the SMB packets? Hes not too hard on MS in the large public forums but see what happens when you hand him a VB or 5 before a talk... then he will give it to you without the sugar coating... Were talking odd sized data structures that may or may not be little endian. Most of the time the structures are hiding inside other structures and the inner and outer structures will have different bitness and different world alignments. Nest a few levels for even more pain. And then repeat. This is what these guys do for FUN! This is why I'm concerned about them.
Now they want to tackle other stuff as well? Maybe they could just throw in Novell's stuff for grins. Once they have done that, they will win the all time award for being the most saito masicistic coders ever. No one will ever be able to beat them. Ever. Its not even worth attempting to compete with them.
Suing the right 5 spamers might make more of a difference than you think.
.gov and .mil machines. Maybe someone from .gov wants to look at the logs.
I had an NT box cracked and a proxy put on it. (read about the filters in another post) The people who did that were out to spam in a big way. Had my server worked they way they had planned, it could have sent out a billion messages in less than a week. My own email address was in the junk they were attempting to deliver spam to and that consited of 10 messages or so. Considering I'm only getting 50 spams a day, if one spamer can generate 20% of that, I'll be happy with nailing 5 spamers if they are big spamers.
Of course the person who rooted the NT box can get caught, I've alos go logs where they tried to hack other boxes includeing
It wasn't locked down. It was running a stock NT4 (just like some of our customers). However there as a another box sitting between it and the wire that wasn't so eager to send packets off to port 25 on remote servers. The network looked like a connection with something funny going on. The result is that when the box came back on the net (it looks like a typical office machine behind a nated router), it would phone home and then a remote server would connect to the proxy that hte hackers insalled and try to send out messages. The 1st set of addresses go to a specifc set of addresses and then after a short time (if and only if the right address does get sent), then the box would get hit with hundreds of socket connections to its proxy. Once it did that it attempted to deliver a million or so messages in a very samll time. Once I had figured out their game, I could let their test messages through while blocking spam to most of the net. Most of the leaks involved @aol addresses because thats where the test accounts are. I faked accepance of about 5 million messages and flat out rejected millions more. I figure if this system had been up for more than about an hour (and truly open), it could have easly send a billion messages in a week.
In the local sage mailing list, someone mentioned that he hadn't gotten any spam that day. His email address was in the list list of stuff I rejected several times.
A major spamer just hit one of my test boxes and in the millions of messages that went to my logging server, there are clues into who is behind some of this.
How long is it going to take before they fiugre out "now we've got the code segment, where is the data segment?"
They are selling CDs (and soon DVDs). Their aim is to move large amounts of cheap plastic into the stores. Thats all they care about. No one here buys stuff from the RIAA members, they just buy it from the record stores who are the customers of the RIAA members and what they want conflicts with what the end customers want. Now that anyone has the ability to edit music in a home studio that will sound better than most of the well done stuff made in expensive studios before the 1980s. The result is there is too much music for the record stores to deal with. Remember, they don't sell music, they sell small bits of plastic. They have to inventory them and arrange them so customers can find them and deal with moving out old stuff to make room for the new stuff and there is just too much new stuff. For example a radio station in Melbourne Australia had a contest where any local band could enter and 3000 bands sent in entries. If there are 3000 bands in listening area of 4 million people, I'm guessing that there is 3 bands per 4000 people that can make a CD per year. Now how many unique cd's are in the local record store? They can't cope with that many new CD's every week. Thats the problem that needs to be fixed. Come up with a way to do a record store were you can have more than 100,000 albums in stock and then the current RIAA cusotmers dry up and they will go away.
If you can vote in Germany, contact your local offical and let them know that the Americans will love this bill because it makes Germany less efficient which will give the US goods a slight edge. The problem with geeks talking to goverment officals is they make points that are completely lost. Don't make the points too complex or you will get ignored.
I had a NT box set up where it was effectivly on the net. Someone found it and rooted it and installed a remote proxy on it. For the next few days, another box they hacked was sending the cracked NT box packets to realy off to smtp servers all over the world. Thanks to some fun filtering, about 1.5 million spam messages ended up being diverted to my logging machines. This is a major spamer operation and they aren't doing it the old way. They are playing mean and breaking the law. Of course not one of the law enforcment agencies has any interest in this. The result of this criminal stealing $2000 worth of bandwidth is that I've got enough info that a prime canidate can be tracked down but it will require either a cort order or a BOFH inside AOL.
We do have an open consortium to fix this. Their fix was X.400. Go find ISODE on some archive and install it on your box. While it was written a decade ago, I suspect it will keep a nice new daul processor box quite busy. Oh, US gov't departments are required to switch to X.400 under a plan called gossip. Lucky for everyone, I got SMTP added to the list of accepable systems to use until they are ready to migrate.
Right now Motorola Canopy is about $1100 per 60 degrees on an access point and the subscriber units are about $515. With the built in antenna you get about two miles but with a typical sat tv type dish, you can get upto 35 miles in some configurations. Its not 802.16 but it works and it works today.
The book "True Names" by V Vinge (now back in print) starts out with a guy talking about how they will bust you if you have too much processing power, storage or bandwidth since only illegal hacker types need that kind of power.
Its also talks about IRCisms which is odd since the book was written long before that happened.
Recent rise? Unix has alwasy been delivered in source forms. That will true till Sun and Dec and IBM started doing binary distros for their own hardware.
Does it matter if its 100 or 200 if the OS only swtiches tasks 100 times a second?
I can't stand ps2 mice anymore. They seem to be very jummpy compared to USB but I've been using a logitech USB (and PS2) trackball for quite some time.
A copmany I know has many good digital design people but when it comes to RF, its a completely different ballgame. You tend to run into people that know the old style analog systems but the people who can design a newer digital system correctly are very, very rare. We may have funding for a project but I don't even know where to start looking for the RF design people.
This could be consider just another drug war. Uday Hussein is involved with US tobacco smuggling It turns that Uday has figured out he can grow his own and doesn't need to pay US compaines for the stuff and he started draining swams to grow it. Tobacco is how the US keeps the tradbalacnes from getting too bad with oil compaines and now Uday seems to be getting serious. Ever since Gulf War I, the Arabs have been more concerned about how they buy their tobbaco from and prefer to buy Uday's imported and reboxed brands. Some figures connect him to nearly 25% of US tobacco sales. The real story isn't showing up but it appears that some of Bush's best supporters are deeply tied up with the thugs of Iraq. Throw in considerations of Bush's CIA connections (via daddy) combined with the CIA's love of illegal trade makes and you've got one heck of a conspiracy.
The problem is finding the right bit. I figure that if you logical or every bit, then you the the IFF_EVIL bit. This works great execpt on one machine that has mac address of 0:0:0:0:0:0.
At least you didn't try to generate a patch to their code using diff -w