I don't think TI did anything which hasn't already been done. I work at Sigma Designs and we have developed several DSP chipsets which run Linux. We use ARM/MIPS as host and DSP for video/audio decoding. Our chips are used in Set-top boxes and Digital Media Players. We have been one of the leaders in this field for over five years.
And the right doesn't lie to you.... HMMM, very strange logic indeed... Lets see how many lies we can count...
1) WMD in Iraq 2) They had no idea people wanted to fly planes into buildings 3) You're either with us or against us. 4) Osama Bin Laden 'Dead or Alive'
I will gladly side on the Left where science and logic rule instead of on the Right where fear and lies rule... Sorry Charlie...
Way back in 1980 I was only 14 years old. I was considered a wonderkind, was interviewed by Geraldo Rivera when I worked at a computer camp in 1982, was written up in Newspapers and Magazines...
I am not impressed with this Microsoft kid... Nothing to see here... I was 16 when I was an instructor at Computer Camps International,and we were teaching kids 9-13 years old how to program in Basic and Assembly language... What is so great about Microcock certification?
I was quoted in the Stamford Advocate in 1982 as saying "I am not an overachiever, I believe that kids younger than me will be the real wonderkids..."... I was being modest, but my statement was true. I am now 40 years old and I am working with kids who were born when I was working with 6502's and Apple II's.
Remember: THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TORAH AND A SEFER TORAH SCROLL...
Hmmm...Think about it for a second...
PS: A Torah laid out into portions is called a CHUMASH. A Torah laid out into a book form is called a Pentatuch {for five, as in five books of Moses}. A Sefer Torah is a scroll kept on two wooden pegs and rolled out to read.
You are a troll. You know nothing about which you are talking about, and sound like an idiot.
Who said anything about Torah desecration in this article? It has to do with tracing stolen Torah scrolls. This is not a Bible, or a Quran, or whatever. The Torah scroll must be kosher in order for it to be used in all Jewish rituals. Again, nobody is claiming it was desecrated or flushed or anything... Is it, or isn't it according to the word of G-d? Simple as that...
Who is expecting you to fall over, not me, not the Jewish community, who is? And you must think alot of yourself to call other peoples beliefs 'fairy tales'. You must be one SMART DUDE!!!
Check your facts before you open your dumb mouth...
I have been envisioning a scenario very similar to Big Brother. In the future anyone who wants to operate a computer will require a computer operators license. The license will contain an RFID chip containing encrypted authorization tokens and security level information. You will obtain your license through the Ministry of Information after submitting all required information. This will include DNA samples, family history, medical and psychological profiles, etc. Only those who are allowed by the government to operate computers will be allowed to. Anyone found to be using Computers or related devices will be arrested and confined at a detention and mind-altering facility {i.e. Room 101}. The reason this will be forced on us it due to terrorism.
It is a sad future I forsee, but I have been right about other technology issues. Unfortunately I forsee a joint venture between the US government and Microsoft in the next 10 years. This will be the 1st step toward the Computer Operators license.
Yes, but Microsoft did not invent the Spreadsheet. There was many years of prior art, including the 1st commercially successful spreadsheet named VISICALC which ran on the stock 16K Apple ][ back in 1979.
Yesterday there were news reports that the Bush administration is suppressing the generation of a report which would estimate the success of the War On Terror. Last years report was such an embarassment to the administration because the first release of the report indicated that Bush was completely triumphant in that world terrorism was reduced significantly. He ran with this news in the run up to the 2004 election. Shortly after the election a footnote appeared which explained that the results of that report were flawed, and that world terrorism has actually increased since Bush was in office. This was very, very embarassing for the dumb-fark Bush.
SOLUTION: Don't come out with the report this year. We don't want people to know the truth that America is losing the war on terrorism. Less information is good for the administration, because it becomes easier for them to lie to the people.
This is the worst damn administration and worst president EVER...
I wouldnt trust anything in a Microsoft Encyclopedia. They have already rewritten computer history... I think that in the article about Microsoft they claim to have invented the personal computer, they claim to have invented the mouse and the GUI. They are not to be believed...
I can imagine how slanted their views on politics and human nature articles are...
Microsoft is a shifty, selfish and self-aggrandizing corporate monopoly...
Bill Gates and Microsoft did not invent the Personal Computer nor the operation system. Luckily I was involved in the start of the microcomputer revolution. I think that computing would have been much better off if there never was a Microsoft. There was a time when there was much innovation in the computer science field. Once Microsoft came around, companies were being put out of business by some of MS's anti-competitive business practices. For instance, I was the lead programmer for Commodore Amigas Novell Netware. Both Commodore and Novell were adversely affected by MS's business practices. There is not debating that the Amiga OS was lightyears ahead of MS WIndows 3.1. AmigaOS had real multitasking, high-resolution video and audio, and much more software available for it. Novell Netware was the cats-meow so far as Networking systems in the late 80's and early 90's. Microsoft couldn't compete... But so they bundle the network software with the OS, and low and behold, Novell is no longer needed. Then there was the browser wars, etc...
There are people like anorlunda who think that without MS computing would be nowhere. I was contributing and innovating through the 80's and 90's and had some of my work stolen by MS. I have worked on at least three projects which have since been taken over by MS. MS is not innovative, they are predators...
I am absolutely amazed at the number of neo-nazis who read this site. The only people who would be affected by this ruling would be those people looking for hate-speech. There is enough of this which you come accross during routine searches. I fully support any hate-crime legislation because the fact of the matter is that people who enjoy this hate-speech are the ones who go out and commit hate-crimes. My people suffered immensely at the hands of the German Nazis. Their press and media were filled with hate-speech and propaganda. People certainly are affected by the media and thoughts of others around them. Proof of this point is the RE-SELECTION of the a**-wipe GW Bush. They flooded the media with propaganda, and won as a result of it. The Bush admin is taking pages from Nazi propaganda leader Goebbles {sp?}, i.e. the BIG LIE. Now I don't support censorship, but self-censorship is a great idea. One must act responsibly, as demonstrated by the cretinous professor who claimed that my brother, a victim of 9/11, deserved to die. He certainly has a right to say it, but he didn't care about the people who he hurt. He is a terrorist in my opinion, and I would personally punch his lights out if he crossed my path. I don't aim to intimidate him, but he hurt me and my family, and I think he should be hurt too. Hitler and the Nazi's were very evil. We cannot make them go away by censorship, but we can prevent others from being hurt by watching what we say.
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Wow... I just dragged out of my computer crypt my original copies of Visicalc for Apple II.. I still have four Apple II's in my computer room. I was telling my young {20} friend about how Visicalc spurred the PC revolution. I worked in a small computer store in Stamford, CT. called "THE COMPUTER PLACE" when it all started. Apple II's started to fly out the door, each with a copy of Visicalc. I learned about DIF {Data Interchange Format} which was one of the first portable data description format {tuples/rows... etc}... I did a bit of consulting for some companies writing spreadsheets combined with BASIC programs.
It was exciting back then... I wish I felt the excitement now..
I don't know if I agree with this assesment. I worked closely with the engineers at Commodore Amiga in PA back in 1991 {actually I was working with their engineers when the Gulf War started}. I remember a great engineer there, her name was Carolyn Schepner {spelling?} and their software support crew was magnatudes more helpful than MS support has ever been to me {over 10 years MS windows system level programming experience here}. I worked for a company called OXXI, and we were the publisher of VideoTitler 3D, SuperBase IV, TurboText, amongst some of the other heavy-weight Amiga titles. I personally worked on SuperBase IV. My main project at Oxxi was porting the Novell Netware client to the Amiga PC. It was this that Commodore was interested as they were also helping Oxxi market the product. The product, known as Amiga Client Software, or ACS allowed the Amiga to share files server from a Novell Netware 2.15 - Netware 4 server, and also provided all the Netware console applications including SysCon, PrintCon, PConsole, etc. I believe Amiga had great engineers, who wanted to make the software as good as it could be. We gave a presentation at Amiga DevCon in Atlanta.
I really miss those days... The days when software developers really developed software instead of linking up software components. Amiga System services were light-years ahead of Win3.1 development. And the custom chips made the stogy old PC architecture seem dinosouric {sic}. True multitasking, 16 channel DAC audio, multiple pages of high resolution screens which could be dragged down, exposing the screen behind {precursor to multiple screens in Gnome}, Motorola 680X0 series processors {forget RISC, give me 16 address and 16 data registers and an more addressing modes you can shake a stick at}.
In my opinion, marketing for Microsoft Winbloze 3.1 and the ability to sell PC clones in office stores spelled the doom of Amiga. Personally I felt it coming about a year before they went belly up... I suggested to my boss that we get into PC software, at which point we developer Azeena PaintBox, authored by the Israeli programmer Oren Peli {who wrote Photon Paint for the Amiga}. I was still working on upgrades for SuperBase at the time, but from that project I was moved to the project which got me into the profession I am in today... We started developing a digital video capture system for MS Video For Windows {Windows 3.1-Win95}. Today I am still working writing video capture drivers and DVD editing/authoring applications....
I really don't like having to program in Windows, and I have been moving towards more Linux projects...
I still have my Amiga 2000 {68040} in my computer museum, next to my 6 C64's, my 2 Atari 400's, my 2 C128's, my Mac 128K, my 4 Apple II's, and my old 286 machines.
I am sorry if I can't be so beligerent as some people seem to be. Although I have political differences with the powers that be I must remember today as the day the terrorists killed my only brother. Jonathan J. Uman was only 34, recently married and just had his second child. He worked for eSpeed on the 105th floor of the 1st tower of the WTC. I live in the San Francisco bay area, and woke up to the news. My father called me to tell me my brother was confirmed to be in the building at the time of the impact. This news was devastating to both my mother and my father, and his wife and children.
All contempt aside, this day is a day which our country, the United States has never seen the likes of before. This is an historic event, and when they read my brothers name at the cerimonies today I was reminded that me and my family will forever be reminded of his death, and his life. I look at those people who take this event and mock it, those who are 'tired' of the commercialization of the event. I am tired of that too, but there is more to this, a human quality which extends beyond that capitalistic desire. I am tired of all the flag waving, but 2,800 some odd people perished in a couple of moments.... That is quite tragic, and nothing they did would make them deserve the death they received. It was a horrible, horrible death... Burning and falling, screaming and being crushed. I have pictured the event over and over, and have to watch it over and over while watching the news.
I believe in a future where mankind lives in peace and prosperity. In my speech for my brothers memorial I mentioned my desire to live like Roddenberry depicted in Star Trek, a world without hunger and a world where people strive to make things better. This is an optimistic goal, and one which I have begun to question as I believe that human nature is possibly more ugly than I wanted to admit.
I don't want my brothers death to cause more unwarranted death in the world. I want to make things better by looking at the problems we have, analyzing them, and making educated decisions. I don't believe the administration is doing that at this time. But that is another story...
Why is XWindows great if you are living in 1970? I am using Xwindows and Gnome and in my experience it is superior to MS Windows XP. I use all OS's because I am a software engineer and I much prefer Gnome to Xp.. You are entiteled to you opinion, but please... Try not to be so idiotic.... What exactly is your gripe with XWindows/Gnome? They do the job superbly, allow me to open desktops on remote machines which Windows will not do without expensive add-on software and saves me a lot of time moving from machine to machine {I sometimes work on up to four machines at a time}.
Windows XP is a great OS for idiots, people who don't have the mental capacity to control a TV remote control, for people who like to be like everyone else {clones}, or people who just like to be obtuse. I don't see the benefits, as I am struggling most of the time with the Bugs in MS Office Outlook and Word. Sheesh I just spent about $850 on MS software, so I have a right to complain... MS Office XP is buggy IMHO... I can demonstrate at least three bugs on my laptop. Remember I PAID $850 for Office/Viso and I have to live with these sh*tty bugs. I don't have these problems on Linux... I have found that these problems don't occur in StarOffice.
So if you really want to defend your position, please extoll the problems you experience in X11/Gnome/KDE? I would be interested in your supposed complaints?
Or are you just parroting something someone else told you? Like most MS junkies...
This assertion is completely ridiculous in my experience. I have found that Windows outcosts Linux by a factor of 80%, whereas it could cost me only $100 for software and support on Linux would cost me about $800 in software and support on Windows. Here is my reasoning:
1) Cost of Windows Software
More expensive {$500 MS Word {Buggy Crappy OS Suite}
More expensive OS {$199 Windows XP, Buggy Crappy OS} 2) Cost of Linux Software
Less Expensive {$39.00 Linux Mandrake Distro}
Less Expensive {$50.00 WordPerfect, Free SunOffice}
3) Cost of Windows Service/Support
More Expensive {MS Support $250/Call}
Never able to find people to answer questions {Must use Usenet anyway to find people, most people don't know what I am talking about, etc}
4) Cost of Linux Service/Support
Very good online documentation/suppor
Kenel code available for debugging
Many people with good technical skills to ask questions to
Basically I don't see this less cost to support Windows. Windows is much more difficult to support, goes down much more than my Linux systems {I am running XP Home/Office and 2000}, takes forever to start up {3 1/2 minutes from bootup to settle-down on my 1.5Ghz Laptop}, horrible user interface, etc.
Why do people have to put up with Windows? If a user wants Linux, let them have it... This is America isn't it? I think the DOJ should tap MS on the shoulders if this posting is correct. I will look more into this...
Sorry to disagree with you here, but I have not heard anyone using Linux saying that they want to eliminate Windows OSes. Maybe we say that Windows sucks, maybe we say that Windoze blows. But I have not seen any Linux developers plotting how to eliminate Windows as a Competitor. I have not seen any organized resistance to Windows, and surely no legal or coercive behaviors.
I must disagree that Linux users want a Linux monopoly. We mostly want an even playing field. We want support from the hardware vendors, the support for device drivers, and the good will which would be expected of any decent individual. I have not seen any allegations that Linux companies have engaged in illegal business practices, no evidence that Linux users are spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Deception.
I use Windows, and I develop multimedia applications and device drivers for it. I am not very happy working in this environment. I consider it another hostile environment, where Microsoft will come around soon and swoop up my work and call it their own. They have already begun to do that. I much prefer the Linux OS. I think there is opportunity to make money developing for Linux, and I also believe in the prosperity of the Open Source community.
My point is that most Linux users I have talked to, read posts from, and chatted with in chat rooms understand that Windows will not go away. I don't even think that Linux users want Windows to go away, it gives the 'unhip' people something to use, stupidity for the masses. Capitalism is not an evil thing, what is evil is the fact that people can and will do things which are unlawful. They are the bullys of the world, they can get away with it.. I have recently dealt with those kinds of bullys.. They lie, bend truths, and when confronted avoid the situation and turn things back on those confronting them.
Microsoft is a company of bullys who have gotten away with so much for so long, it is almost impossible to stop such a monstrosity from breaking the law. I think that unbundling Windows is an excellent idea, it would make so many of those involved in the states cases much happier. It would address many of the concerns, and many of my own concerns about obvious violations of anti-trust laws. But MS is against it. Microsoft, for the longest time, asserted that there was no way to seperate the browser from the OS... Then all of a sudden it comes out that they have a version of windows which can snap components in and out, even without Internet Explorer. Obviously somebody lied about something there...
Enough... Just had to speak my mind about an obvious misrepresentation of Linux users. We don't want to destroy MS, and we don't want to engage in dirty tricks, they are not becoming of hard working adults.
He speaks before he knows... People like this give software engineers bad names. It is so obvious he hasn't looked at the Unix API... The wait() call is a central part of Unixes, since day one. Signals, semaphores, mutexes, they are used abundantly in Unixes. Whoever posted this should be tarred and feathered..
I program both Windows and Unix, and have written OS Wrappers which allow me to port my applications between OS's. Everything you can do in Windows OS's can be done in Unix. Threads, Processes, Semaphores, Mutexes, Spin-Locks, Signals, memory maps, pipes, timers, etc. To make assertions that Windows uses WaitForObject, etc. is a ridiculous one. I would use semaphores or mutexes to co-ordinate two threads.
Personally I find the Unix OS much more straight forward and easier to design for. Microsoft keeps on making programming more and more esoteric, more difficult to understand. I use COM all over the place, and have started to port COM to Linux. It is nice, but it is not anything new, it is basically dynamic libraries with a known exported interface which exports class factories. I write low-level, often device drivers, or interfaces to video capture devices for DVD burning software. I use DirectShow which is a layer on COM. I find COM beneficial for some things and think Linux needs a similar framework.
>>Stand up and try to prevent the monopolies >>from taking over life as we know it...
Maybe I should have said...
"Stand up and reach over and turn the TV off!"
Or just leave it on but don't watch it... I often leave the TV on in the other room while I'm working... I'm gung-ho on the Bond movie because I'm using it to rip from and watch as I write this...
In the Bond movie, Tommorow Never Dies the entire premise is that a media mogule, who runs about 100% of the media worldwide, is able to control world events by inserting politically hot issues, and by creating his own international conflict. The effect of the media mogules empire is, in my humble opinion, exactly what the intent of the 35% rules are supposed to prevent.
I'm very afraid that media is already lopsided, opinionated, and biased. We get our news from probrobly three or four sources... Yes, even the major news houses use AP Newswire for many stories. We don't have as broad a view as we used to, no more equal time, no more preventing viewer market dominance. The world seems to be in a headlong dive, the American people too confused to even think. People are pasting American flags on cars, and yet if you ask them what the Bill Of Rights is, they don't know, and they don't care...
I consider myself a patriot... I know about the Constitution, I know my rights. I vote in every general election and I write my representatives. I believe the American system has the potention to make the world a better place. But before we can do that, we need to GET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER. Our house is a mess, we need to have goals for the future, not an endless future of small-scale wars against third world nations.
The media is lying to us, the government is lying to us, and we are lying to ourselves. Stand up and try to prevent the monopolies from taking over life as we know it...
I understand that this worm exploits the buffer overflow bug in IIS. Has anybody disassembled the program to understand how it operates. If so, please contact me...
I have determined that if we could insert a payload on a codeRed terminator, we could shut down the infested machine by calling the winAPI function:
ExitWindowsEx(EWX_POWEROFF)
This should work, assuming the process has SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME priveleges. I don't have IIS, but I am looking at MSDN on a Win2000 machine now.
I would like to understand the payload, it seems like a sequence of unsigned integers. They occur just past the stack, so when the function exits it returns to the inserted code. If we could insert the call to ExitWindowsEx() we would be HOME FREE!
I just downloaded a very good ssh implementation for Windows2000. Now I can ssh to a shell on the W2000 box and build my projects without having to spin-around and use that Useless GUI included with Windows2000.
Notice that this article was written before the appearance of CR2, the more virulent version of Code Red. I too believed that the worm was "Overhyped" in the media. But as of yesterday, I saw a four-fold increase in the attacks from the worm. I think the new version could be quite a problem. I have been tracking down systems infecting others and calling the sysadmin. I think we need to pro-actively stop this thing by alerting sysadmins that their machines are compromised.
I have noticed that a lot of the recent hits have been coming from my Service Providers address space. And the frequency of attacks are increasing. On the 2nd of August I only got about 30 hits, about 1 every hour. On the 4th of August I got over 80 hits, thats about 4 hits an hour.
This thing is gaining momentum... Don't be foolish and underestimate it...
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Hello,
I don't think TI did anything which hasn't already been done. I work at Sigma Designs and we have developed several DSP chipsets which run Linux. We use ARM/MIPS as host and DSP for video/audio decoding. Our chips are used in Set-top boxes and Digital Media Players. We have been one of the leaders in this field for over five years.
Check out http://www.sigmadesigns.com/
Thank you,
Michael Uman
Sr. Software Engineer, System tools
Sigma Designs
And the right doesn't lie to you.... HMMM, very strange logic indeed... Lets see how many lies we can count...
1) WMD in Iraq
2) They had no idea people wanted to fly planes into buildings
3) You're either with us or against us.
4) Osama Bin Laden 'Dead or Alive'
I will gladly side on the Left where science and logic rule instead of on the Right where fear and lies rule... Sorry Charlie...
Michael
Way back in 1980 I was only 14 years old. I was considered a wonderkind, was interviewed by Geraldo Rivera when I worked at a computer camp in 1982, was written up in Newspapers and Magazines...
I am not impressed with this Microsoft kid... Nothing to see here... I was 16 when I was an instructor at Computer Camps International,and we were teaching kids 9-13 years old how to program in Basic and Assembly language... What is so great about Microcock certification?
I was quoted in the Stamford Advocate in 1982 as saying "I am not an overachiever, I believe that kids younger than me will be the real wonderkids..."... I was being modest, but my statement was true. I am now 40 years old and I am working with kids who were born when I was working with 6502's and Apple II's.
Michael
Remember: THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TORAH AND A SEFER TORAH SCROLL...
Hmmm...Think about it for a second...
PS: A Torah laid out into portions is called a CHUMASH. A Torah laid out into a book form is called a Pentatuch {for five, as in five books of Moses}. A Sefer Torah is a scroll kept on two wooden pegs and rolled out to read.
You are a troll. You know nothing about which you are talking about, and sound like an idiot.
Who said anything about Torah desecration in this article? It has to do with tracing stolen Torah scrolls. This is not a Bible, or a Quran, or whatever. The Torah scroll must be kosher in order for it to be used in all Jewish rituals. Again, nobody is claiming it was desecrated or flushed or anything... Is it, or isn't it according to the word of G-d? Simple as that...
Who is expecting you to fall over, not me, not the Jewish community, who is? And you must think alot of yourself to call other peoples beliefs 'fairy tales'. You must be one SMART DUDE!!!
Check your facts before you open your dumb mouth...
Hello,
I have been envisioning a scenario very similar to Big Brother. In the future anyone who wants to operate a computer will require a computer operators license. The license will contain an RFID chip containing encrypted authorization tokens and security level information. You will obtain your license through the Ministry of Information after submitting all required information. This will include DNA samples, family history, medical and psychological profiles, etc. Only those who are allowed by the government to operate computers will be allowed to. Anyone found to be using Computers or related devices will be arrested and confined at a detention and mind-altering facility {i.e. Room 101}. The reason this will be forced on us it due to terrorism.
It is a sad future I forsee, but I have been right about other technology issues. Unfortunately I forsee a joint venture between the US government and Microsoft in the next 10 years. This will be the 1st step toward the Computer Operators license.
Oh joy...
Yes, but Microsoft did not invent the Spreadsheet. There was many years of prior art, including the 1st commercially successful spreadsheet named VISICALC which ran on the stock 16K Apple ][ back in 1979.
Yesterday there were news reports that the Bush administration is suppressing the generation of a report which would estimate the success of the War On Terror. Last years report was such an embarassment to the administration because the first release of the report indicated that Bush was completely triumphant in that world terrorism was reduced significantly. He ran with this news in the run up to the 2004 election. Shortly after the election a footnote appeared which explained that the results of that report were flawed, and that world terrorism has actually increased since Bush was in office. This was very, very embarassing for the dumb-fark Bush.
SOLUTION: Don't come out with the report this year. We don't want people to know the truth that America is losing the war on terrorism. Less information is good for the administration, because it becomes easier for them to lie to the people.
This is the worst damn administration and worst president EVER...
Michael
Link to story
I wouldnt trust anything in a Microsoft Encyclopedia. They have already rewritten computer history... I think that in the article about Microsoft they claim to have invented the personal computer, they claim to have invented the mouse and the GUI. They are not to be believed...
I can imagine how slanted their views on politics and human nature articles are...
Microsoft is a shifty, selfish and self-aggrandizing corporate monopoly...
Hi,
Must be your network or something... I'm using Firefox on Windoze and have no problems...
Bill Gates and Microsoft did not invent the Personal Computer nor the operation system. Luckily I was involved in the start of the microcomputer revolution. I think that computing would have been much better off if there never was a Microsoft. There was a time when there was much innovation in the computer science field. Once Microsoft came around, companies were being put out of business by some of MS's anti-competitive business practices. For instance, I was the lead programmer for Commodore Amigas Novell Netware. Both Commodore and Novell were adversely affected by MS's business practices. There is not debating that the Amiga OS was lightyears ahead of MS WIndows 3.1. AmigaOS had real multitasking, high-resolution video and audio, and much more software available for it. Novell Netware was the cats-meow so far as Networking systems in the late 80's and early 90's. Microsoft couldn't compete... But so they bundle the network software with the OS, and low and behold, Novell is no longer needed. Then there was the browser wars, etc...
There are people like anorlunda who think that without MS computing would be nowhere. I was contributing and innovating through the 80's and 90's and had some of my work stolen by MS. I have worked on at least three projects which have since been taken over by MS. MS is not innovative, they are predators...
Michael Uman
I am absolutely amazed at the number of neo-nazis who read this site. The only people who would be affected by this ruling would be those people looking for hate-speech. There is enough of this which you come accross during routine searches. I fully support any hate-crime legislation because the fact of the matter is that people who enjoy this hate-speech are the ones who go out and commit hate-crimes. My people suffered immensely at the hands of the German Nazis. Their press and media were filled with hate-speech and propaganda. People certainly are affected by the media and thoughts of others around them. Proof of this point is the RE-SELECTION of the a**-wipe GW Bush. They flooded the media with propaganda, and won as a result of it. The Bush admin is taking pages from Nazi propaganda leader Goebbles {sp?}, i.e. the BIG LIE. Now I don't support censorship, but self-censorship is a great idea. One must act responsibly, as demonstrated by the cretinous professor who claimed that my brother, a victim of 9/11, deserved to die. He certainly has a right to say it, but he didn't care about the people who he hurt. He is a terrorist in my opinion, and I would personally punch his lights out if he crossed my path. I don't aim to intimidate him, but he hurt me and my family, and I think he should be hurt too.
Hitler and the Nazi's were very evil. We cannot make them go away by censorship, but we can prevent others from being hurt by watching what we say.
Wow... I just dragged out of my computer crypt my original copies of Visicalc for Apple II.. I still have four Apple II's in my computer room. I was telling my young {20} friend about how Visicalc spurred the PC revolution. I worked in a small computer store in Stamford, CT. called "THE COMPUTER PLACE" when it all started. Apple II's started to fly out the door, each with a copy of Visicalc. I learned about DIF {Data Interchange Format} which was one of the first portable data description format {tuples/rows... etc}... I did a bit of consulting for some companies writing spreadsheets combined with BASIC programs.
It was exciting back then... I wish I felt the excitement now..
Later Ppl,
Michael Uman
I don't know if I agree with this assesment. I worked closely with the engineers at Commodore Amiga in PA back in 1991 {actually I was working with their engineers when the Gulf War started}. I remember a great engineer there, her name was Carolyn Schepner {spelling?} and their software support crew was magnatudes more helpful than MS support has ever been to me {over 10 years MS windows system level programming experience here}. I worked for a company called OXXI, and we were the publisher of VideoTitler 3D, SuperBase IV, TurboText, amongst some of the other heavy-weight Amiga titles. I personally worked on SuperBase IV. My main project at Oxxi was porting the Novell Netware client to the Amiga PC. It was this that Commodore was interested as they were also helping Oxxi market the product. The product, known as Amiga Client Software, or ACS allowed the Amiga to share files server from a Novell Netware 2.15 - Netware 4 server, and also provided all the Netware console applications including SysCon, PrintCon, PConsole, etc. I believe Amiga had great engineers, who wanted to make the software as good as it could be. We gave a presentation at Amiga DevCon in Atlanta.
I really miss those days... The days when software developers really developed software instead of linking up software components. Amiga System services were light-years ahead of Win3.1 development. And the custom chips made the stogy old PC architecture seem dinosouric {sic}. True multitasking, 16 channel DAC audio, multiple pages of high resolution screens which could be dragged down, exposing the screen behind {precursor to multiple screens in Gnome}, Motorola 680X0 series processors {forget RISC, give me 16 address and 16 data registers and an more addressing modes you can shake a stick at}.
In my opinion, marketing for Microsoft Winbloze 3.1 and the ability to sell PC clones in office stores spelled the doom of Amiga. Personally I felt it coming about a year before they went belly up... I suggested to my boss that we get into PC software, at which point we developer Azeena PaintBox, authored by the Israeli programmer Oren Peli {who wrote Photon Paint for the Amiga}. I was still working on upgrades for SuperBase at the time, but from that project I was moved to the project which got me into the profession I am in today... We started developing a digital video capture system for MS Video For Windows {Windows 3.1-Win95}. Today I am still working writing video capture drivers and DVD editing/authoring applications....
I really don't like having to program in Windows, and I have been moving towards more Linux projects...
I still have my Amiga 2000 {68040} in my computer museum, next to my 6 C64's, my 2 Atari 400's, my 2 C128's, my Mac 128K, my 4 Apple II's, and my old 286 machines.
I am sorry if I can't be so beligerent as some people seem to be. Although I have political differences with the powers that be I must remember today as the day the terrorists killed my only brother. Jonathan J. Uman was only 34, recently married and just had his second child. He worked for eSpeed on the 105th floor of the 1st tower of the WTC. I live in the San Francisco bay area, and woke up to the news. My father called me to tell me my brother was confirmed to be in the building at the time of the impact. This news was devastating to both my mother and my father, and his wife and children.
All contempt aside, this day is a day which our country, the United States has never seen the likes of before. This is an historic event, and when they read my brothers name at the cerimonies today I was reminded that me and my family will forever be reminded of his death, and his life. I look at those people who take this event and mock it, those who are 'tired' of the commercialization of the event. I am tired of that too, but there is more to this, a human quality which extends beyond that capitalistic desire. I am tired of all the flag waving, but 2,800 some odd people perished in a couple of moments.... That is quite tragic, and nothing they did would make them deserve the death they received. It was a horrible, horrible death... Burning and falling, screaming and being crushed. I have pictured the event over and over, and have to watch it over and over while watching the news.
I believe in a future where mankind lives in peace and prosperity. In my speech for my brothers memorial I mentioned my desire to live like Roddenberry depicted in Star Trek, a world without hunger and a world where people strive to make things better. This is an optimistic goal, and one which I have begun to question as I believe that human nature is possibly more ugly than I wanted to admit.
I don't want my brothers death to cause more unwarranted death in the world. I want to make things better by looking at the problems we have, analyzing them, and making educated decisions. I don't believe the administration is doing that at this time. But that is another story...
Thank you,
Why is XWindows great if you are living in 1970? I am using Xwindows and Gnome and in my experience it is superior to MS Windows XP. I use all OS's because I am a software engineer and I much prefer Gnome to Xp.. You are entiteled to you opinion, but please... Try not to be so idiotic.... What exactly is your gripe with XWindows/Gnome? They do the job superbly, allow me to open desktops on remote machines which Windows will not do without expensive add-on software and saves me a lot of time moving from machine to machine {I sometimes work on up to four machines at a time}.
Windows XP is a great OS for idiots, people who don't have the mental capacity to control a TV remote control, for people who like to be like everyone else {clones}, or people who just like to be obtuse. I don't see the benefits, as I am struggling most of the time with the Bugs in MS Office Outlook and Word. Sheesh I just spent about $850 on MS software, so I have a right to complain... MS Office XP is buggy IMHO... I can demonstrate at least three bugs on my laptop. Remember I PAID $850 for Office/Viso and I have to live with these sh*tty bugs. I don't have these problems on Linux... I have found that these problems don't occur in StarOffice.
So if you really want to defend your position, please extoll the problems you experience in X11/Gnome/KDE? I would be interested in your supposed complaints?
Or are you just parroting something someone else told you? Like most MS junkies...
This assertion is completely ridiculous in my experience. I have found that Windows outcosts Linux by a factor of 80%, whereas it could cost me only $100 for software and support on Linux would cost me about $800 in software and support on Windows. Here is my reasoning:
1) Cost of Windows Software
More expensive {$500 MS Word {Buggy Crappy OS Suite}
More expensive OS {$199 Windows XP, Buggy Crappy OS}
2) Cost of Linux Software
Less Expensive {$39.00 Linux Mandrake Distro}
Less Expensive {$50.00 WordPerfect, Free SunOffice}
3) Cost of Windows Service/Support
More Expensive {MS Support $250/Call}
Never able to find people to answer questions {Must use Usenet anyway to find people, most people don't know what I am talking about, etc}
4) Cost of Linux Service/Support
Very good online documentation/suppor
Kenel code available for debugging
Many people with good technical skills to ask questions to
Basically I don't see this less cost to support Windows. Windows is much more difficult to support, goes down much more than my Linux systems {I am running XP Home/Office and 2000}, takes forever to start up {3 1/2 minutes from bootup to settle-down on my 1.5Ghz Laptop}, horrible user interface, etc.
Why do people have to put up with Windows? If a user wants Linux, let them have it... This is America isn't it? I think the DOJ should tap MS on the shoulders if this posting is correct. I will look more into this...
Sorry to disagree with you here, but I have not heard anyone using Linux saying that they want to eliminate Windows OSes. Maybe we say that Windows sucks, maybe we say that Windoze blows. But I have not seen any Linux developers plotting how to eliminate Windows as a Competitor. I have not seen any organized resistance to Windows, and surely no legal or coercive behaviors.
I must disagree that Linux users want a Linux monopoly. We mostly want an even playing field. We want support from the hardware vendors, the support for device drivers, and the good will which would be expected of any decent individual. I have not seen any allegations that Linux companies have engaged in illegal business practices, no evidence that Linux users are spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Deception.
I use Windows, and I develop multimedia applications and device drivers for it. I am not very happy working in this environment. I consider it another hostile environment, where Microsoft will come around soon and swoop up my work and call it their own. They have already begun to do that. I much prefer the Linux OS. I think there is opportunity to make money developing for Linux, and I also believe in the prosperity of the Open Source community.
My point is that most Linux users I have talked to, read posts from, and chatted with in chat rooms understand that Windows will not go away. I don't even think that Linux users want Windows to go away, it gives the 'unhip' people something to use, stupidity for the masses. Capitalism is not an evil thing, what is evil is the fact that people can and will do things which are unlawful. They are the bullys of the world, they can get away with it.. I have recently dealt with those kinds of bullys.. They lie, bend truths, and when confronted avoid the situation and turn things back on those confronting them.
Microsoft is a company of bullys who have gotten away with so much for so long, it is almost impossible to stop such a monstrosity from breaking the law. I think that unbundling Windows is an excellent idea, it would make so many of those involved in the states cases much happier. It would address many of the concerns, and many of my own concerns about obvious violations of anti-trust laws. But MS is against it. Microsoft, for the longest time, asserted that there was no way to seperate the browser from the OS... Then all of a sudden it comes out that they have a version of windows which can snap components in and out, even without Internet Explorer. Obviously somebody lied about something there...
Enough... Just had to speak my mind about an obvious misrepresentation of Linux users. We don't want to destroy MS, and we don't want to engage in dirty tricks, they are not becoming of hard working adults.
Thank you,
Umanity
He speaks before he knows... People like this give software engineers bad names. It is so obvious he hasn't looked at the Unix API... The wait() call is a central part of Unixes, since day one. Signals, semaphores, mutexes, they are used abundantly in Unixes. Whoever posted this should be tarred and feathered..
I program both Windows and Unix, and have written OS Wrappers which allow me to port my applications between OS's. Everything you can do in Windows OS's can be done in Unix. Threads, Processes, Semaphores, Mutexes, Spin-Locks, Signals, memory maps, pipes, timers, etc. To make assertions that Windows uses WaitForObject, etc. is a ridiculous one. I would use semaphores or mutexes to co-ordinate two threads.
Personally I find the Unix OS much more straight forward and easier to design for. Microsoft keeps on making programming more and more esoteric, more difficult to understand. I use COM all over the place, and have started to port COM to Linux. It is nice, but it is not anything new, it is basically dynamic libraries with a known exported interface which exports class factories. I write low-level, often device drivers, or interfaces to video capture devices for DVD burning software. I use DirectShow which is a layer on COM. I find COM beneficial for some things and think Linux needs a similar framework.
>>Stand up and try to prevent the monopolies
>>from taking over life as we know it...
Maybe I should have said...
"Stand up and reach over and turn the TV off!"
Or just leave it on but don't watch it... I often leave the TV on in the other room while I'm working... I'm gung-ho on the Bond movie because I'm using it to rip from and watch as I write this...
Buh Bye,
That's the ticket...
In the Bond movie, Tommorow Never Dies the entire premise is that a media mogule, who runs about 100% of the media worldwide, is able to control world events by inserting politically hot issues, and by creating his own international conflict. The effect of the media mogules empire is, in my humble opinion, exactly what the intent of the 35% rules are supposed to prevent.
I'm very afraid that media is already lopsided, opinionated, and biased. We get our news from probrobly three or four sources... Yes, even the major news houses use AP Newswire for many stories. We don't have as broad a view as we used to, no more equal time, no more preventing viewer market dominance. The world seems to be in a headlong dive, the American people too confused to even think. People are pasting American flags on cars, and yet if you ask them what the Bill Of Rights is, they don't know, and they don't care...
I consider myself a patriot... I know about the Constitution, I know my rights. I vote in every general election and I write my representatives. I believe the American system has the potention to make the world a better place. But before we can do that, we need to GET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER. Our house is a mess, we need to have goals for the future, not an endless future of small-scale wars against third world nations.
The media is lying to us, the government is lying to us, and we are lying to ourselves. Stand up and try to prevent the monopolies from taking over life as we know it...
I understand that this worm exploits the buffer overflow bug in IIS. Has anybody disassembled the program to understand how it operates. If so, please contact me...
I have determined that if we could insert a payload on a codeRed terminator, we could shut down the infested machine by calling the winAPI function:
This should work, assuming the process has SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME priveleges. I don't have IIS, but I am looking at MSDN on a Win2000 machine now.
I would like to understand the payload, it seems like a sequence of unsigned integers. They occur just past the stack, so when the function exits it returns to the inserted code. If we could insert the call to ExitWindowsEx() we would be HOME FREE!
Contact me @ michaeluman@softwaremagic.net
Duh!
I just downloaded a very good ssh implementation for Windows2000. Now I can ssh to a shell on the W2000 box and build my projects without having to spin-around and use that Useless GUI included with Windows2000.
Good luck,
Notice that this article was written before the appearance of CR2, the more virulent version of Code Red. I too believed that the worm was "Overhyped" in the media. But as of yesterday, I saw a four-fold increase in the attacks from the worm. I think the new version could be quite a problem. I have been tracking down systems infecting others and calling the sysadmin. I think we need to pro-actively stop this thing by alerting sysadmins that their machines are compromised.
I have noticed that a lot of the recent hits have been coming from my Service Providers address space. And the frequency of attacks are increasing. On the 2nd of August I only got about 30 hits, about 1 every hour. On the 4th of August I got over 80 hits, thats about 4 hits an hour.
This thing is gaining momentum... Don't be foolish and underestimate it...
My first hit from the 'N' variety was :
/default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 330 "-" "-"
evrtwa1-ar9-4-60-251-194.vz.dsl.gtei.net
4.60.251.194 - - [04/Aug/2001:06:26:29 -0700] "GET
This was at 6:26AM Pacific time. I hope this helps track the bastard...