Anyone have some rebuttals from the Microsoft people? It looks like this article tells us what we already knew: Use the right tool for the right job. Windows is NOT the right tool for most jobs.
Another way to hide mail addresses is to throw in the words AT and DOT where the "@" and "." go (like most./ ers). Some simple perl scripting should do it: (an example script is at http://gooberguy.homeip.net/cgi-bin/email.cgi?emai l=your_emailaddress@your_domain)
That is the same thing that is going on at my school. We have Bay Networks routers, which always have an account called User with admin privliges. I logged in, typed "disable ip route" and laughed heartiliy until I realized that I had just taken down the entire school's internet access. I had no./ for 3 days!
They should throw in a few system calls that remove/bin or c:\windows (depending on what platform your on) so that script kiddies get what's coming to them.
I would love to give blood. I am over 16, weigh more than 110 lbs (of course) but there is one problem: People who have lived in many parts of Europe for more than 6 months are not eligible. The red cross thinks we have mad cow disease or something. A large amount of military families cannot give blood because they have been overseas. Leave it to the red cross to find a way to prevent people from helping in times of crisis.
I like this quote: We do not yet know if the recording companies are abusing their monopoly on online distribution...
The DOJ seems to be on our side so far, (after suing MS) maybe they will go after the record companies for abusing their monopoly powers. $25 for a CD? Come on!
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Microsoft Windows Update
windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Now I know they are biased. There are thousands of sites with more technological achievement. Like slashcode or even my site, Spatial Disruption uses more technology. I use perl, C, C++, and Apache to make my game work. All errors are logged and emailed to me. Bugs are fixed within a week of me finding them out. I'd like to see microsoft do that. (ok, ok, I only have a thousand players, but it's like a mini-game)
The Apache Software Foundation has decided that it is in the best interests of attendees to cancel the show now rather than attempt to find another conference organizer for the Dublin event.
It seems like they have plenty of time before the event to find a new place to host it. I guess places for events in Dublin are hard to find/booked well in advance.
If you can see it, then you can copy it. Time-Warner, Fox, and other broadcasting corporations need to figure this out. Then they could stop wasting millions on encryption and give us show we like. If people can break CSS and 56 bit RSA encrytpion, then I think anything the media tries to do is futile.
Is there a pratical, scientific use for this?
Sure, I love drive-in movies, but why not just use a projector? What could possibly need a 20 million pixel display?
Wow, I think I've seen about 10 MS SQL databases screwing up in VERY critial environments. A military/government really shouldn't use Microsoft products when people's lives are on the line. In fact, they shouldn't rely on technology in general that much.
So, you would like more history on the Ottoman Empire?
Well, they also traveled into eastern europe where they killed thousands and took many more thousands (all young children) as slaves. They then trained the children to fight for them, to start the cycle all over again.
The Ottomans were a little more tolerant than Christans at the time, as they would allow Jews to practice freely in thier empire. They had to pay a "I'm not Islamic" tax, but were tolerated nonetheless.
``We want to establish a system in Afghanistan through which we can control all those things that are wrong, obscene, immoral and against Islam,''
Those are the exact words of the taliban. If they weren't crazy Islamics (I'm not calling Islam crazy, they are crazy, and Islamic), then none of this would be happening. If you took away their crazyness, or Islam, then Afghanistan would be a much more tolerant place.
The taliban has bastardized Islam into thier own version of it and used it to control an intolerant, oppressive oligarchy.
BTW, a little Islamic history. In the Ottoman Empire, when the king died, all of his sons had to travel to the capital as fast as they could. Whoever got there first, became king. The rest were strangled with a silk cloth. Islam seems to have a brutal past.
Just to ease your mind, I did read your post, and despite people thinking I'm a karma whore, also the entire report. I use linux for all my server needs too.
It's amazing how my old 486 (overlocked to 100mhz) can serve up dynamic content in Linux, when it can't even start up in NT (I was fair and tried both OSes). That goes to show you what some of the best programmers in the world can do in thier spare time!
BTW, I loved some of the guys references at the end of the report, such as the OS sucks-o-meter and IBM's story about using linux.
This goes completely against all of Microsoft's reports that they've tried to use to belittle and discourage the Open Source Movement and free software.
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Anyone have some rebuttals from the Microsoft people? It looks like this article tells us what we already knew: Use the right tool for the right job. Windows is NOT the right tool for most jobs.
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Another way to hide mail addresses is to throw in the words AT and DOT where the "@" and "." go (like most ./ ers). Some simple perl scripting should do it: (an example script is at http://gooberguy.homeip.net/cgi-bin/email.cgi?emai l=your_emailaddress@your_domain)
/g;
$email_address=~s/\./ DOT /g;
$email_address=~s/\@/ AT
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That is the same thing that is going on at my school. We have Bay Networks routers, which always have an account called User with admin privliges. I logged in, typed "disable ip route" and laughed heartiliy until I realized that I had just taken down the entire school's internet access. I had no ./ for 3 days!
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I bet the next
How much do you want to pay for
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In other news, VIM 7.0 was released, with more obscure and impossible-to-remember commands than ever before!
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They should throw in a few system calls that remove /bin or c:\windows (depending on what platform your on) so that script kiddies get what's coming to them.
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So, who can explain to me why this would be worth it? I'm curious to know =)
A water cooled system makes MUCH less noise than an air cooled system. There is no constant fan blowing like crazy.
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How should I know? I use lynx with the color turned off.
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I would love to give blood. I am over 16, weigh more than 110 lbs (of course) but there is one problem: People who have lived in many parts of Europe for more than 6 months are not eligible. The red cross thinks we have mad cow disease or something. A large amount of military families cannot give blood because they have been overseas. Leave it to the red cross to find a way to prevent people from helping in times of crisis.
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GAH, I kept on getting an error when I try to post. :(
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My phone number (minus area code) starts at digit 18740826 (not including the 3) of pi.
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I like this quote:
We do not yet know if the recording companies are abusing their monopoly on online distribution...
The DOJ seems to be on our side so far, (after suing MS) maybe they will go after the record companies for abusing their monopoly powers. $25 for a CD? Come on!
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They will probably have to change thier name since Reptile is a product of Sausage Software. They've had the name since 1998.
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Technical Achievement
Microsoft Windows Update
windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Now I know they are biased. There are thousands of sites with more technological achievement. Like slashcode or even my site, Spatial Disruption uses more technology. I use perl, C, C++, and Apache to make my game work. All errors are logged and emailed to me. Bugs are fixed within a week of me finding them out. I'd like to see microsoft do that. (ok, ok, I only have a thousand players, but it's like a mini-game)
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The Apache Software Foundation has decided that it is in the best interests of attendees to cancel the show now rather than attempt to find another conference organizer for the Dublin event.
It seems like they have plenty of time before the event to find a new place to host it. I guess places for events in Dublin are hard to find/booked well in advance.
D/\ Gooberguy
If you can see it, then you can copy it. Time-Warner, Fox, and other broadcasting corporations need to figure this out. Then they could stop wasting millions on encryption and give us show we like. If people can break CSS and 56 bit RSA encrytpion, then I think anything the media tries to do is futile.
D/\ Gooberguy
Is there a pratical, scientific use for this?
Sure, I love drive-in movies, but why not just use a projector? What could possibly need a 20 million pixel display?
D/\ Gooberguy
Wow, I think I've seen about 10 MS SQL databases screwing up in VERY critial environments. A military/government really shouldn't use Microsoft products when people's lives are on the line. In fact, they shouldn't rely on technology in general that much.
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I was just wondering, what would you ever need this for? Maybe someone will build a beowolf cluster of a billion of them, but that is about it.
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So, you would like more history on the Ottoman Empire?
Well, they also traveled into eastern europe where they killed thousands and took many more thousands (all young children) as slaves. They then trained the children to fight for them, to start the cycle all over again.
The Ottomans were a little more tolerant than Christans at the time, as they would allow Jews to practice freely in thier empire. They had to pay a "I'm not Islamic" tax, but were tolerated nonetheless.
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``We want to establish a system in Afghanistan through which we can control all those things that are wrong, obscene, immoral and against Islam,''
Those are the exact words of the taliban. If they weren't crazy Islamics (I'm not calling Islam crazy, they are crazy, and Islamic), then none of this would be happening. If you took away their crazyness, or Islam, then Afghanistan would be a much more tolerant place.
The taliban has bastardized Islam into thier own version of it and used it to control an intolerant, oppressive oligarchy.
BTW, a little Islamic history. In the Ottoman Empire, when the king died, all of his sons had to travel to the capital as fast as they could. Whoever got there first, became king. The rest were strangled with a silk cloth. Islam seems to have a brutal past.
D/\ Gooberguy
Just to ease your mind, I did read your post, and despite people thinking I'm a karma whore, also the entire report. I use linux for all my server needs too.
It's amazing how my old 486 (overlocked to 100mhz) can serve up dynamic content in Linux, when it can't even start up in NT (I was fair and tried both OSes). That goes to show you what some of the best programmers in the world can do in thier spare time!
BTW, I loved some of the guys references at the end of the report, such as the OS sucks-o-meter and IBM's story about using linux.
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I did read the article, and even looked at some references.
I enjoyed the OS sucks/rules-o-meter (http://srom.zgp.org/) and IBM's story about turning to linux.
Are you posting anonymously to preserve your precious karma?
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This goes completely against all of Microsoft's reports that they've tried to use to belittle and discourage the Open Source Movement and free software.
Great paper!
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I knew the disney movie was true!
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