Possibly a valid point, but an equally valid response is to point out that Microsoft employs a large amount of people in Germany, and provides employment to a lot more indirectly working on their products.
The govt also has to bear these people in mind, and there are certainly a large amount of them.
In the UK I've never actually been able to see the verisign page. My provider is freeserve who get their connectivity from energis, combined they carry a hell of a lot of internet traffic in the UK...freeserve is one of the largest ISPs here for home users.
It still resolves, but the webpage is not visible, I get proxy error instead. FS force use of web-caches and smtp-proxies so I guess the sitefinder is blocked on those, but not the DNS servers.
I carried a bag of computer parts, inc hard disks, onto a plane in Germany. Apparently they have no problem with people carrying small metal boxes with circuitry clamped on the underside. That was through 2 security checks w/scan too.
They did hassle the hell out of the 12yr old girl infront for having a metal comb in her bag though.
BT spent 30 million on an ad campaign for broadband last year. How many exchanges could they have upgraded for that amount of money?
According to this they could have done somewhere between 60 and around 200 exchanges for that price.
Although, I'm pretty sure most places all they would need to do would be to bung in a DSLAM and the exchange could handle dsl. This would costs considerably less, although upgrading customer lines could hike the price up a little.
They "claim" they need to upgrade the backbones but I bet if you applied for a leased line from a non-dsl exchange you would get it....so there must be enough of a backbone there already, just not for people paying under 5k/month.
They was actually talking about enforced power cuts, not "accidental" ones like in the US.
They are talking about enforcing power cuts because we "don't have enough power stations"....although if the real reason is "we don't have enough fuel" then that would certainly explain certain recent occurances.
And part of that is....punitive damages (according to IBM press release)...IBM aren't just going after SCO for what they are owed...they are going to stop them ever doing this again. And lets not kid around, the normal damages from this case could run into hundreds of millions...
Mcbride can stop chewing his pinky and mouthing off about "1 million dollars" now, cos that won't even pay for the ink to write all the 0's on the end of the cheque he will soon have to write:)
for ftp you could use proftpd and ignore system accounts completely, it supports quite a few alternative methods.
for the email solution use something like vpopmail with no system users and supported by quite a few MTA/POP3 agents.
If you don't want the OS to handle the passwords, then you can set it up so it doesn't. By default system accounts are normally used which I assume is from the era of people having shells and doing * from it, ftp/read mails/etc in which case things would use the standard system accounts..
mysql support is dropped from PHP5 because there are now 2 versions of the libs knocking around for mysql 3 and 4 which apparently don't play well if you get them the wrong way round with the server version.
so php could either bundle both and put up with 1000s of whiners who couldnt work out which they had installed, or just use the one installed on the system by mysql.
its hardly been dropped.
mysql 4 hardly uses "crazy locking" either, but then 3 hasnt for ages either if you rtfm on howto set it up properly...
Because the UK patent office has the sensible rule that you can only patent something that is novel in that its not obvious to a person well versed in the "state of the art".
Unfortunately I'm not sure how well this will play together with the upcoming EU laws on software patents, since there is no software function that is not obvious to a person who knows about IT, everything has been done or discussed before.
I hope the Eurocrats dont break our patent system, its one of the rare things that does work well in this country.
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Not entirely, there are still holes in SMTP that can be used to relay mail even if your server is not an open relay.
Such as me sending a mail from spoofed user victim@box.com, to nonexistant@yourdomain.com. What does yourdomain.com's mailserver do? it replies to victim@box.com saying user nonexistant not found with the entire copy of the origonal mail underneath. You just relayed some spam.
This particular one is due to an issue with the SMTP protocol, both servers are acting correctly. Receipt verification should be moved into the client imo.
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I would guess those with enough money already have their own plans.
I can't afford a nuclear bunker so I'll make do with a tinfoil hat and my "duck n cover" leaflet.
Q: Earlier you said you were still a products company and not a strictly IP company. This appears to have changed and you are now an IP company. Would you agree with that assessment? Linux has succceeded while your product failed in the marketplace.
A: Our Unixware product was damaged by Linux and that is why it isn't successful. That is why we are doing this. We didn't fail, it is Linux' fault we failed.
I think you could be right, since I use it for completely different thing and am hooked.
Everyday for the last 6 months I am on eclipse + one of the few PHP plugins along with the ftp plugin from eclipse.org for developing websites. Theres even a few SQL plugins if you're that way inclined (plug a shedload more). Lots of time saved and I can share projects between my work winxp system and linux at home since both run eclipse.
The only things that can match all these features (last time I looked anyway) cost at least a few hundred dollars, and didn't impress me as much as eclipse did.
It also runs very fast for me, completely useable on my old 400mhz system.
Randolpho, theres a few drag/drop plugins on that 2y.net site, might do what you want.
Or splash out 40$ on an electric shaver and not have to bother buying anything until 2-3 years when it breaks. Screw buying blades every week.
I have to say this does encourage me to start wrapping tinfoil around my head, since theres already designated "secure" area's in those shops, i.e. the place behind the counter they sell cigarettes/spirit minitures from, theres no valid reason not to use those (many shops do), other than either 1) retarded management who came up with the idea or 2) tinfoil hat time.
Having lived in the UK most of my life I think the odds are in favour of #1.
The.cx domain used to give a free domain name to any open source project so saying "dont click on a.cx link" is pretty much blasphemy by slashdot standards:P
There is a kinda reverse version called dinglish but I'm not sure how the Germans spell it, probably d'englisch.
It means the way lots of english words are working their way into the German language so much so that they become suitable for everyday use. I'm not sure how official it is but most I've spoken to here (nrw/west germany) have heard of it.
germish...sounds like something that needs purifying:)
I think you are right with that interpretation but its possible that it could also be interpreted that by taking an address on their network that is access enough. Your packets are on their hardware, even if its just arp. They do say ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law so I wonder if that applies to cases like this (ie ignorance to secure their network and stop it "inviting" users who don't know it is unauthorised).
It would really come down to what happened once you'd connected to the network and how much evidence there was of it:)
I wonder if you could actually use that in court, well the law says a person is guilty if he....
Netscape4.x. Yes some people do still use it, for instance in businesses where they can't/won't upgrade for whatever reason or old macintoshes. There are all sorts of odd browsers knocking about that cannot understand css.
For all the whining about tables here they are still the best way to get a page to look the same in all browsers. Yes CSS is technically a much better way to do it, but web designers don't earn money from being technically correct, they earn money from making pages that work.
Its quite possible with your customer/visitor base that you will never come across a non-modern browser that can handle all the bells and whistles, great, I'm jealous.
But you can be guaranteed that when mr X shows his friends his new company website you are asking him 5k for and it doesn't even work on his friends "old" pc you ain't gonna make that money. This is the situation in my experience.
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Possibly a valid point, but an equally valid response is to point out that Microsoft employs a large amount of people in Germany, and provides employment to a lot more indirectly working on their products.
The govt also has to bear these people in mind, and there are certainly a large amount of them.
Its not quite as straightforward as you make out.
bleh, its now working so I guess either sitefinder or the proxy was overloaded and its not blocked at all.
One thought, can't people now start sueing verisign for running sucks.com websites?
In the UK I've never actually been able to see the verisign page. My provider is freeserve who get their connectivity from energis, combined they carry a hell of a lot of internet traffic in the UK...freeserve is one of the largest ISPs here for home users.
It still resolves, but the webpage is not visible, I get proxy error instead. FS force use of web-caches and smtp-proxies so I guess the sitefinder is blocked on those, but not the DNS servers.
I carried a bag of computer parts, inc hard disks, onto a plane in Germany. Apparently they have no problem with people carrying small metal boxes with circuitry clamped on the underside. That was through 2 security checks w/scan too.
:)
They did hassle the hell out of the 12yr old girl infront for having a metal comb in her bag though.
Makes ya feel so safe eh
BT spent 30 million on an ad campaign for broadband last year. How many exchanges could they have upgraded for that amount of money?
According to this they could have done somewhere between 60 and around 200 exchanges for that price.
Although, I'm pretty sure most places all they would need to do would be to bung in a DSLAM and the exchange could handle dsl. This would costs considerably less, although upgrading customer lines could hike the price up a little.
They "claim" they need to upgrade the backbones but I bet if you applied for a leased line from a non-dsl exchange you would get it....so there must be enough of a backbone there already, just not for people paying under 5k/month.
They was actually talking about enforced power cuts, not "accidental" ones like in the US.
They are talking about enforcing power cuts because we "don't have enough power stations"....although if the real reason is "we don't have enough fuel" then that would certainly explain certain recent occurances.
And part of that is....punitive damages (according to IBM press release)...IBM aren't just going after SCO for what they are owed...they are going to stop them ever doing this again. And lets not kid around, the normal damages from this case could run into hundreds of millions...
:)
Mcbride can stop chewing his pinky and mouthing off about "1 million dollars" now, cos that won't even pay for the ink to write all the 0's on the end of the cheque he will soon have to write
most daemons/services are capable of authenticating users via PAM or from an SQL database.
for apache, PAM auth, mysql auth and postgresql auth.
for ftp you could use proftpd and ignore system accounts completely, it supports quite a few alternative methods.
for the email solution use something like vpopmail with no system users and supported by quite a few MTA/POP3 agents.
If you don't want the OS to handle the passwords, then you can set it up so it doesn't. By default system accounts are normally used which I assume is from the era of people having shells and doing * from it, ftp/read mails/etc in which case things would use the standard system accounts..
mysql support is dropped from PHP5 because there are now 2 versions of the libs knocking around for mysql 3 and 4 which apparently don't play well if you get them the wrong way round with the server version.
so php could either bundle both and put up with 1000s of whiners who couldnt work out which they had installed, or just use the one installed on the system by mysql.
its hardly been dropped.
mysql 4 hardly uses "crazy locking" either, but then 3 hasnt for ages either if you rtfm on howto set it up properly...
Because the UK patent office has the sensible rule that you can only patent something that is novel in that its not obvious to a person well versed in the "state of the art".
Unfortunately I'm not sure how well this will play together with the upcoming EU laws on software patents, since there is no software function that is not obvious to a person who knows about IT, everything has been done or discussed before.
I hope the Eurocrats dont break our patent system, its one of the rare things that does work well in this country.
Not entirely, there are still holes in SMTP that can be used to relay mail even if your server is not an open relay.
Such as me sending a mail from spoofed user victim@box.com, to nonexistant@yourdomain.com. What does yourdomain.com's mailserver do? it replies to victim@box.com saying user nonexistant not found with the entire copy of the origonal mail underneath. You just relayed some spam.
This particular one is due to an issue with the SMTP protocol, both servers are acting correctly. Receipt verification should be moved into the client imo.
I would guess those with enough money already have their own plans.
I can't afford a nuclear bunker so I'll make do with a tinfoil hat and my "duck n cover" leaflet.
...that IANA decided to hold onto 80 or so class A's. I doubt they could even allocate all that space by 2005.
Dont believe me? get it straight from the horses mouth
Perhaps if the organizations bemoaning the lack of IP space stopped hogging so much of it there wouldn't be such a shortage.
How about searching on msn.com to compare.
Unfortunately I've lost the ranking now but for the last few months I had been in the msn top10 of familysex sites.
Anyone searching for familysex there would certainly be thoroughly dissapointed with what they find.
from that url:
Q: Earlier you said you were still a products company and not a strictly IP company. This appears to have changed and you are now an IP company. Would you agree with that assessment? Linux has succceeded while your product failed in the marketplace.
A: Our Unixware product was damaged by Linux and that is why it isn't successful. That is why we are doing this. We didn't fail, it is Linux' fault we failed.
ratings: 15 troll, 4 informative, 18million overrated.
linkage here for the "mclibel" trial :)
I think you could be right, since I use it for completely different thing and am hooked.
Everyday for the last 6 months I am on eclipse + one of the few PHP plugins along with the ftp plugin from eclipse.org for developing websites. Theres even a few SQL plugins if you're that way inclined (plug a shedload more). Lots of time saved and I can share projects between my work winxp system and linux at home since both run eclipse.
The only things that can match all these features (last time I looked anyway) cost at least a few hundred dollars, and didn't impress me as much as eclipse did.
It also runs very fast for me, completely useable on my old 400mhz system.
Randolpho, theres a few drag/drop plugins on that 2y.net site, might do what you want.
Or splash out 40$ on an electric shaver and not have to bother buying anything until 2-3 years when it breaks. Screw buying blades every week.
I have to say this does encourage me to start wrapping tinfoil around my head, since theres already designated "secure" area's in those shops, i.e. the place behind the counter they sell cigarettes/spirit minitures from, theres no valid reason not to use those (many shops do), other than either 1) retarded management who came up with the idea or 2) tinfoil hat time.
Having lived in the UK most of my life I think the odds are in favour of #1.
Society should serve the many, not the few, and certanly not the dollar.
Unfortunately the few are in collaboration with the dollar and have conditioned the many to believe that this is the only way it can ever be.
The .cx domain used to give a free domain name to any open source project so saying "dont click on a .cx link" is pretty much blasphemy by slashdot standards :P
Does anyone know if this is still the case?
The USA Federal Courts ruled in 1990 that Roy Bates claim to Rough Tower as an independent principality is nonsense.
erm what exactly does this have to do with the USA federal courts?
Check out this for a more realistic report of what happened there.
Make of it that its tabloid junk like 95% of everything else in the media.
you get what you pay for
I heard a great version of this:
If you pay peanuts you get monkeys!
germ-ish....
:)
There is a kinda reverse version called dinglish but I'm not sure how the Germans spell it, probably d'englisch.
It means the way lots of english words are working their way into the German language so much so that they become suitable for everyday use. I'm not sure how official it is but most I've spoken to here (nrw/west germany) have heard of it.
germish...sounds like something that needs purifying
I think you are right with that interpretation but its possible that it could also be interpreted that by taking an address on their network that is access enough. Your packets are on their hardware, even if its just arp. They do say ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law so I wonder if that applies to cases like this (ie ignorance to secure their network and stop it "inviting" users who don't know it is unauthorised).
:)
It would really come down to what happened once you'd connected to the network and how much evidence there was of it
I wonder if you could actually use that in court, well the law says a person is guilty if he....
Netscape4.x. Yes some people do still use it, for instance in businesses where they can't/won't upgrade for whatever reason or old macintoshes. There are all sorts of odd browsers knocking about that cannot understand css.
For all the whining about tables here they are still the best way to get a page to look the same in all browsers. Yes CSS is technically a much better way to do it, but web designers don't earn money from being technically correct, they earn money from making pages that work.
Its quite possible with your customer/visitor base that you will never come across a non-modern browser that can handle all the bells and whistles, great, I'm jealous.
But you can be guaranteed that when mr X shows his friends his new company website you are asking him 5k for and it doesn't even work on his friends "old" pc you ain't gonna make that money. This is the situation in my experience.