I sure hope they go with BSD. GPL is more viral than that stuff I got from my last girlfriend. I sure hope they have the smarts to see through the hype and go with a truly free licensing scheme.
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It will be interesting to see if MS can steal the crown jewels from Sun, a lot of people commenting on the topic are predicting a grim future for Sun's baby. We'll just have to wait and see.
It was all a ploy on Theo's part. I can't believe anyone with respect for the opensource community would have taken the approach he took to the latest big OpenSSH exploit. It basically went like this : Theo announces that there is some sort of problem, Theo urges everyone to upgrade to upgrade to the latest still vulnerable version, a patch is released, details are provided. I see this as an obvious attempt at bringing other platforms which were not previously vulnerable into the mess with OpenBSD.
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Where have you been? Everything is shifting towards webservices. No longer do you have to worry about which of the forty versions of libc your Linux distro is using, no more worrying about having proper vb runtimes installed. If you've got a valid browser, it works for you.
I think.NET is going to quickly change a lot of the way things are done. Anyone who's read even the basics can see that.NET is definately going to be a powerhouse.
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"Checking Email on Linux -- Now everyone can find what they want with a much wider range of possibilities than on PCs. "
What a bunch of crackpipe reporters joining on the bandwagon reporting on something they have NFI about. I'm still waiting for an unbiased series comparing MS and Linux written by someone who can use something other than a wordprocessor to submit articles to their editor.
"A great feature of Pine is its search command. You can search all your e-mails in a folder by keyword. If, for example, you want to search through your e-mails for a specific company, that can be done very easily. This is the only e-mail client we know of where this is so simple."
There are specifications as to how many connections you should initiate to a server. Allowing 20 connections to a server is way beyond specifications and is rather unfriendly. IE by default respects the widely accepted standard. Increasing it beyond this is not suggested.
I'm really glad someone said it. This is a complete disgrace. You guys are fools. If someone asks how to peel and orange you don't give them an apple corer. Blah blah, I don't want to hear about how great Linux is, noone asked "How do I setup Linux packet shaping", the question is explicitly targetted at a Windows solution. Get over your Linux world domination kick and realize that some people just don't want Linux.
None of this thread is relevant to the question. What he's experiencing is a signifigant drop in performance when his upstream nears the cap. I experience the same thing. If you can't ack packets then the host will not send anymore and it becomes a problem.
Wow, this is amazing. Over 1600 posts compared to the normal 300max that an article gets. I guess they came in droves to talk about how wrong this guy is, I don't know, I fear reading them.
I think you can still buy music in the unmodified form online, and even at retail stores! Believe it or not, its true, I know some of you have probably never experienced such an event, but basically you get a fucking job. You do some fucking work. You go to a fucking store (physical or Internet) and you buy the fucking music. Stop whining when someone protects copyright owner's interests. You sick bottom feeding pirates.
On another note, this demonstrates exactly how viral p2p networks can become.
How about a T-Shirt like this: Windows NT Server $1,000 = Linux Free Microsoft Office $300 = Openoffice Free MS SQL Server $5000 = Sybase Free WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?!?!?!
I'm sincerly sorry that you've been fooled into thinking that all of the "Free" options above are really viable for big time business. If not simply because they're poor performers, but also because they're not truly "Free" as they fall under the incredibly viral GPL.
Also, its interesting that you mention Sybase as its the only free option you've listed above that's to be taken seriously. The bad part is that the Linux version of Sybase server that's available freely is terribly outdated and does not support many of the very nice features that MS-SQL2000 does. I'm really glad you didn't mention some half assed database server like MySQL; unless they really make some ground breaking improvement quickly, MySQL is not in a position for real applications.
I've not tried Openoffice so I won't comment on that, other than the fact that Office has a really strong following that's hard to kill off. As for Linux filling the shoes of NT server, no offense, but I haven't stopped laughing about that yet.
They simply go out there and offer their users EVERYTHING in the linux world.
This is exactly the reason I will never use Linux. Talk about WinXP's bloat all you want, check out the latest Linux distributions... very few Linux distributions are still available via a single CD install, quite a shame that the everything to everyone attitude is trashing things.
Its particularly interesting that it explicitly targets broadband users. Towards the end of the Bugtraq post it describes that dialup users will get a clean version while broadband users will generally get the backdoored version. Quite interesting. Packet kiddies are getting smarter?
We're soon approaching critical mass. The point at which everyone who wants a computer has one. Sales will drop off sharply as only those who require the top of the line buy new computers and those who don't require top of the line buy those discarded machines second hand.
Hah, each any every one of MS's flaws are exposed here for the hecklers to go on and on about how much MS sucks. I'd venture that 1 out of 10 OSS security issues make it to slashdot to be seen by anyone. When IRSSI was backdoored, did anyone hear about that on Slashdot? I could go on for hours with examples of major issues that Slashdot has refused to publish because they want to keep on good terms with the simple minded MS bashers.
The 2.9 version in 4.6 is not vulnerabe to this attack. I see no rush to upgrade other than Theo trying to push FreeBSD into the mix in order to keep OpenBSD from being one of the few that are affected. Really lame if you ask me.
Its very suspicious that Theo suddenly urged everyone to upgrade to 3.3. The version 2.9 distributed with FreeBSD was not vulnerable, but after pushing everyone to upgrade to 3.3 it was. I think it was a trick to get other systems to a state to where it would be easy to show that there were many others who had the same problem. Lame.
Even my computer-illiterate friends can explain to me why no article on MSNBC will ever say good things about Linux (or Solaris, or OS X, or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or OS/2, etc)
Linux server sales jumped by more than 50 percent to $400 million, with IBM leading the pack.
"We don't get viruses," he said. "Last year, viruses cost the business world billions, but every one of those was on Windows."
Remind me again why MSNBC will never say anything good about Linux, etc... Next time feel free to read the article.
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I sure hope they go with BSD. GPL is more viral than that stuff I got from my last girlfriend. I sure hope they have the smarts to see through the hype and go with a truly free licensing scheme.
It will be interesting to see if MS can steal the crown jewels from Sun, a lot of people commenting on the topic are predicting a grim future for Sun's baby. We'll just have to wait and see.
It was all a ploy on Theo's part. I can't believe anyone with respect for the opensource community would have taken the approach he took to the latest big OpenSSH exploit. It basically went like this : Theo announces that there is some sort of problem, Theo urges everyone to upgrade to upgrade to the latest still vulnerable version, a patch is released, details are provided. I see this as an obvious attempt at bringing other platforms which were not previously vulnerable into the mess with OpenBSD.
Where have you been? Everything is shifting towards webservices. No longer do you have to worry about which of the forty versions of libc your Linux distro is using, no more worrying about having proper vb runtimes installed. If you've got a valid browser, it works for you.
.NET is going to quickly change a lot of the way things are done. Anyone who's read even the basics can see that .NET is definately going to be a powerhouse.
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"Checking Email on Linux -- Now everyone can find what they want with a much wider range of possibilities than on PCs. "
What a bunch of crackpipe reporters joining on the bandwagon reporting on something they have NFI about. I'm still waiting for an unbiased series comparing MS and Linux written by someone who can use something other than a wordprocessor to submit articles to their editor.
"A great feature of Pine is its search command. You can search all your e-mails in a folder by keyword. If, for example, you want to search through your e-mails for a specific company, that can be done very easily. This is the only e-mail client we know of where this is so simple."
Oh wow! Will wonders never cease?
There are specifications as to how many connections you should initiate to a server. Allowing 20 connections to a server is way beyond specifications and is rather unfriendly. IE by default respects the widely accepted standard. Increasing it beyond this is not suggested.
I'm really glad someone said it. This is a complete disgrace. You guys are fools. If someone asks how to peel and orange you don't give them an apple corer. Blah blah, I don't want to hear about how great Linux is, noone asked "How do I setup Linux packet shaping", the question is explicitly targetted at a Windows solution. Get over your Linux world domination kick and realize that some people just don't want Linux.
None of this thread is relevant to the question. What he's experiencing is a signifigant drop in performance when his upstream nears the cap. I experience the same thing. If you can't ack packets then the host will not send anymore and it becomes a problem.
Do they block google? If not use google cache.
Wow, this is amazing. Over 1600 posts compared to the normal 300max that an article gets. I guess they came in droves to talk about how wrong this guy is, I don't know, I fear reading them.
Funny how the MS articles get the most comments.
Are his older volumes still worth a read today or have things changed to a point where they're no longer applicable?
I think you can still buy music in the unmodified form online, and even at retail stores! Believe it or not, its true, I know some of you have probably never experienced such an event, but basically you get a fucking job. You do some fucking work. You go to a fucking store (physical or Internet) and you buy the fucking music. Stop whining when someone protects copyright owner's interests. You sick bottom feeding pirates.
On another note, this demonstrates exactly how viral p2p networks can become.
Active directory, etc. It was assumed that NT meant recent versions of NT, as in 2k and the forth coming .Net server line.
How about a T-Shirt like this:
Windows NT Server $1,000 = Linux Free
Microsoft Office $300 = Openoffice Free
MS SQL Server $5000 = Sybase Free
WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?!?!?!
I'm sincerly sorry that you've been fooled into thinking that all of the "Free" options above are really viable for big time business. If not simply because they're poor performers, but also because they're not truly "Free" as they fall under the incredibly viral GPL.
Also, its interesting that you mention Sybase as its the only free option you've listed above that's to be taken seriously. The bad part is that the Linux version of Sybase server that's available freely is terribly outdated and does not support many of the very nice features that MS-SQL2000 does. I'm really glad you didn't mention some half assed database server like MySQL; unless they really make some ground breaking improvement quickly, MySQL is not in a position for real applications.
I've not tried Openoffice so I won't comment on that, other than the fact that Office has a really strong following that's hard to kill off. As for Linux filling the shoes of NT server, no offense, but I haven't stopped laughing about that yet.
Finally an advance that's a bit more than simply bumping up the clock rate!
They simply go out there and offer their users EVERYTHING in the linux world.
This is exactly the reason I will never use Linux. Talk about WinXP's bloat all you want, check out the latest Linux distributions... very few Linux distributions are still available via a single CD install, quite a shame that the everything to everyone attitude is trashing things.
Its particularly interesting that it explicitly targets broadband users. Towards the end of the Bugtraq post it describes that dialup users will get a clean version while broadband users will generally get the backdoored version. Quite interesting. Packet kiddies are getting smarter?
We're soon approaching critical mass. The point at which everyone who wants a computer has one. Sales will drop off sharply as only those who require the top of the line buy new computers and those who don't require top of the line buy those discarded machines second hand.
Hah, each any every one of MS's flaws are exposed here for the hecklers to go on and on about how much MS sucks. I'd venture that 1 out of 10 OSS security issues make it to slashdot to be seen by anyone. When IRSSI was backdoored, did anyone hear about that on Slashdot? I could go on for hours with examples of major issues that Slashdot has refused to publish because they want to keep on good terms with the simple minded MS bashers.
The 2.9 version in 4.6 is not vulnerabe to this attack. I see no rush to upgrade other than Theo trying to push FreeBSD into the mix in order to keep OpenBSD from being one of the few that are affected. Really lame if you ask me.
Its very suspicious that Theo suddenly urged everyone to upgrade to 3.3. The version 2.9 distributed with FreeBSD was not vulnerable, but after pushing everyone to upgrade to 3.3 it was. I think it was a trick to get other systems to a state to where it would be easy to show that there were many others who had the same problem. Lame.
I thought Open Source meant secure? You've all been lying to me, you bastards!
Even my computer-illiterate friends can explain to me why no article on MSNBC will ever say good things about Linux (or Solaris, or OS X, or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or OS/2, etc)
Linux server sales jumped by more than 50 percent to $400 million, with IBM leading the pack.
"We don't get viruses," he said. "Last year, viruses cost the business world billions, but every one of those was on Windows."
Remind me again why MSNBC will never say anything good about Linux, etc... Next time feel free to read the article.
I've not seen any real stats lately that comprehensively show that Linux performs better than properly tuned Windows machines. Maybe the scales have tipped?
I'm glad to see that you've read the article. Your comment ment as much to me as all the *BSD is dying trolls. Thank you. Have a nice day.