Dood, a little less TV, a little more reality. Publishing private e-mails in the media in no way renders anything 'inadmissable.' On the contrary, obtaining something illegally can make it inadmissable, but for things that become part of the public record you may use those (they may or may not be discarded based upon validity.)
Do you not realize that Oracle and SUN do the very same thing? That HP does with HP-UX? Apparently it is only news if MS does it... LOL. What the hell would Linux users (myself one) have to bitch/post/whine about if MS didn't exist? Hell, there'd be nothing on theRegister, and 1/5 of the slashdot traffic would disappear... Sad but true.
...MS more than any other company, but they are ALL the same. ORACLE is filled with assholes, Apple is filled with idiots and assholes. MS is filled with assholes. All companies are if you're a critic.
Note the use of the term 'apes'. FFS, if this was a posting about how Apple have followed some of MS's directions (posted many times here), people would never use the word 'apes', they would couch it in terms and phrases like 'taking the best from the lump of crap Windows' and 'improving on MS' pathetic attempts...'
Can't you MS bashers see how absolutely f*cking biased you are, simply by examining the language you use? You people make me want to like (gag) MS...
...that attempted to present itself as historically accurate. As a trained historian I found it difficult to finish his book because the whole things was built on shoddy premise after shoddy premise. Sort of a less retarded Chariots of the Gods... It was written in an attractive style, but for accuracy it is basically a fraud.
Does he/she/it really think that Amazon solicits purchases directly from 6 year olds? I mean, who buys their toys...? Their parents. For Christ's sake...
I'd, for one, buy a MAC (something I thought I'd never do again after 1987) if they went Intel... The hardware at apple is just sooooooo slow to catch up on things, and then when they do get ahead and produce something cool, it comes out a couple of weeks later available for PCs at HALF THE PRICE.
>It is a Win32 vulnerability in that it is even >possible to have this kind of elevation of >priveleges by "poorly written" services. >Basically, any system service that interacts >with the desktop is vulnerable (virus scanners). >McAfee interacts with the desktop. This is bad >too.
If that is so, how do buffer overflow cracks manage to run themselves with elevated priviledges? Answer, they don't because the security level of the attacker is not the point of this 'flaw.' The point is that you can execute code at the level of another process by exploiting this 'overflow' like condition. Just as you can with many *nix applications. The fix for this IS the app. Of course, in fantasy land, the fix would be the OS...
It has to be the worst implementation of case based reasoning I've ever seen. The only reason it 'wins competitions' is because nobody who actually does work in the field would bother to get involved with these 'competitions', ROTFL... Just check out the ALICE web page to see how stupid the approach actually is...
...To people who CANNOT possibly have DX9 yet. Being on the 1st cut beta list, I was informed just yesterday, by the DX9 group, that the initial Beta for DX9 is nearing completion... LOL.
That is NOT a big project. Try 80 devs working in the same source code with multiple builds from the same common source base on both IRIX and NT/2000?
Source control on large projects is TRIVIAL. You just need very specific check in procedures... That's it. People who don't follow the check in procedures just need to get hammered:).
Honestly, guys/gals, out of the 5 software companies I have worked for - only 2 have had clear visions. That resulted from program managers (some might call them producers) who (a)knew the area of software we were dealing with from the user side and (b)were capable of producing a spec that didn't change once it had been approved (occasional change control requests happened but they were few and far between.) That was it, that was the key. People who knew their field. They weren't necessarily good managers; however, because they were confident in their desires for the product, they found it easy to communicate their desires and their enthusiasm was infectious. They didn't need to read '14 points' or other dumbass management books to supervise the outcome, or micro-manage us. They simply gave us a clear vision and let us engineer a solution to their needs. The other 3 places, they had no real idea what they wanted except to be a software company... LOL!
...and they release it, I mean, hey... They're not exactly obtaining sperm counts from the little guys are they? There is a high likelyhood that they will be releasing flies who are less affected by short bursts of hard gammas... Crazy man, crazy. I thought we had figured out (like Socrates) that we know only that we know nothing when it comes to momma natura...
There isn't anything new involved here. All you need is the projectors... LOL. It isn't even a difficult computing problem. Nor a difficult problem to 'lock' multiple CPU's rendering multiple windows (all a CAVE actually is.) U of I hasn't done anything that hasn't been possible since 1996 (even earlier technologically.)
I have spent a few years cross developing on IRIX, Solaris, HP-Unix, and NT/2000.
We used Ansi C/C++ (I know, C++ and Ansi don't mix) and except for machine specific sections (such as serial communications) it worked great. But we didn't do much GUI.
There are cross platform GUI's like MainWin's if you can determine your target *nix machine. That is important. Else, you can simply abstract your GUI from everything else and create a facade/proxy pattern. Good luck!
I agree, they are being blamed for being much more successful, intelligent, and opportunistic than their competitors. They don't use any practices not used by every other corporation in this country. People were saying 'shortly Microsoft will control' even before Linux showed up and offered an alternative. Open Source? Please, get real. It is hard enough producing good software when people are paid for it. Open Source is free? Yeah, just like Linux is free - unless you need help and that costs beaucoup $...
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Like Internet Explorer, right? Man, it is painful writing those monthly checks to Microsoft so that I can use the best browser available...
Dood, a little less TV, a little more reality. Publishing private e-mails in the media in no way renders anything 'inadmissable.' On the contrary, obtaining something illegally can make it inadmissable, but for things that become part of the public record you may use those (they may or may not be discarded based upon validity.)
Do you not realize that Oracle and SUN do the very same thing? That HP does with HP-UX? Apparently it is only news if MS does it... LOL.
What the hell would Linux users (myself one) have to bitch/post/whine about if MS didn't exist? Hell, there'd be nothing on theRegister, and 1/5 of the slashdot traffic would disappear... Sad but true.
My windoze box has NAV on it and boots in less than 30 seconds...
...MS more than any other company, but they are ALL the same. ORACLE is filled with assholes, Apple is filled with idiots and assholes. MS is filled with assholes. All companies are if you're a critic.
Note the use of the term 'apes'. FFS, if this was a posting about how Apple have followed some of MS's directions (posted many times here), people would never use the word 'apes', they would couch it in terms and phrases like 'taking the best from the lump of crap Windows' and 'improving on MS' pathetic attempts...'
Can't you MS bashers see how absolutely f*cking biased you are, simply by examining the language you use? You people make me want to like (gag) MS...
He's just telling you that the people who own/create the media have the choice to protect it or not.
..can run you over with...
...that attempted to present itself as historically accurate. As a trained historian I found it difficult to finish his book because the whole things was built on shoddy premise after shoddy premise. Sort of a less retarded Chariots of the Gods... It was written in an attractive style, but for accuracy it is basically a fraud.
Does he/she/it really think that Amazon solicits purchases directly from 6 year olds? I mean, who buys their toys...? Their parents. For Christ's sake...
I'd, for one, buy a MAC (something I thought I'd never do again after 1987) if they went Intel... The hardware at apple is just sooooooo slow to catch up on things, and then when they do get ahead and produce something cool, it comes out a couple of weeks later available for PCs at HALF THE PRICE.
>It is a Win32 vulnerability in that it is even >possible to have this kind of elevation of >priveleges by "poorly written" services. >Basically, any system service that interacts >with the desktop is vulnerable (virus scanners). >McAfee interacts with the desktop. This is bad >too.
If that is so, how do buffer overflow cracks manage to run themselves with elevated priviledges? Answer, they don't because the security level of the attacker is not the point of this 'flaw.' The point is that you can execute code at the level of another process by exploiting this 'overflow' like condition. Just as you can with many *nix applications. The fix for this IS the app. Of course, in fantasy land, the fix would be the OS...
It has to be the worst implementation of case based reasoning I've ever seen. The only reason it 'wins competitions' is because nobody who actually does work in the field would bother to get involved with these 'competitions', ROTFL... Just check out the ALICE web page to see how stupid the approach actually is...
...To people who CANNOT possibly have DX9 yet. Being on the 1st cut beta list, I was informed just yesterday, by the DX9 group, that the initial Beta for DX9 is nearing completion... LOL.
That is NOT a big project. Try 80 devs working in the same source code with multiple builds from the same common source base on both IRIX and NT/2000?
:).
Source control on large projects is TRIVIAL. You just need very specific check in procedures... That's it. People who don't follow the check in procedures just need to get hammered
Honestly, guys/gals, out of the 5 software companies I have worked for - only 2 have had clear visions. That resulted from program managers (some might call them producers) who (a)knew the area of software we were dealing with from the user side and (b)were capable of producing a spec that didn't change once it had been approved (occasional change control requests happened but they were few and far between.) That was it, that was the key. People who knew their field. They weren't necessarily good managers; however, because they were confident in their desires for the product, they found it easy to communicate their desires and their enthusiasm was infectious. They didn't need to read '14 points' or other dumbass management books to supervise the outcome, or micro-manage us. They simply gave us a clear vision and let us engineer a solution to their needs. The other 3 places, they had no real idea what they wanted except to be a software company... LOL!
...and they release it, I mean, hey... They're not exactly obtaining sperm counts from the little guys are they? There is a high likelyhood that they will be releasing flies who are less affected by short bursts of hard gammas... Crazy man, crazy. I thought we had figured out (like Socrates) that we know only that we know nothing when it comes to momma natura...
There isn't anything new involved here. All you need is the projectors... LOL. It isn't even a difficult computing problem. Nor a difficult problem to 'lock' multiple CPU's rendering multiple windows (all a CAVE actually is.) U of I hasn't done anything that hasn't been possible since 1996 (even earlier technologically.)
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I have spent a few years cross developing on IRIX, Solaris, HP-Unix, and NT/2000.
We used Ansi C/C++ (I know, C++ and Ansi don't mix) and except for machine specific sections (such as serial communications) it worked great. But we didn't do much GUI.
There are cross platform GUI's like MainWin's if you can determine your target *nix machine. That is important. Else, you can simply abstract your GUI from everything else and create a facade/proxy pattern. Good luck!
You're an idiot for thinking that smart and learned are the same thing.
Why did you bother posting that?
I agree, they are being blamed for being much more successful, intelligent, and opportunistic than their competitors. They don't use any practices not used by every other corporation in this country. People were saying 'shortly Microsoft will control' even before Linux showed up and offered an alternative. Open Source? Please, get real. It is hard enough producing good software when people are paid for it. Open Source is free? Yeah, just like Linux is free - unless you need help and that costs beaucoup $...
Only in a world where people do not make a living from Software. I like the fact that I get paid money to write software.
Great well founded and logical argument you idiot. Get off our side.