RTFA. Paying for an entire OS when you're essentially using it as a boot loader wasn't the biggest thing to stick in Google's craw. Having to go ask for permission to be able to stick your nose deep into the kernel and pull out, tweak or seriously crank parts of the OS is what really irked them -- and now that Bill considers Google to be their competition, I can easily see Microsoft yanking them around on a chain at every opportunity.
Imagine being a Professional Nascar team, and having to ask Gates Motors (GM) for permission every time they re-tune their machine... then finding out that the President of GM has gotten into Nascar racing.... Then they start asking you to provide full details of your tuning methods "to ensure that our cars don't get a bad safety reputation".
It's all downhill from there.
I never new you could run entire systems directly from RAM.
You boot off of the net. Most PCs these days have support for it. Linux works real well that way. I've run classrooms off of one knoppix CD, using the Knoppix Terminal Server (penguin menu -> services -> Start KNOPPIX Terminal Server). Takes all of a couple of minutes to start up. No need even for disk drives (although swap space is sometimes nice).
When Microsoft tries to FUD about 'difficult installs for Linux', they're obviously doing their damndest not to look at things like Knoppix -- The hardest thing is setting the BIOS to boot off of the NIC.
On a global scale, 46% of P2P traffic is video in Microsoft formats.
Percentage figures like these are..... going to do nothing but light a big fire under the MPAA and RIAA's.
Suit up guys.... Lock and load. We're going after Bill. The Bill??!
Yep.
But he survived an attack from Washington.
We're the RIAA. We're bigger than Washington.
So, Gateway, HP/Compaq are the worst on both revieews I'm not totally surprised. I'm also not surprised that Toshiba came in on the top for laptops... Pretty much consistent with my (relatively limited) experience. .... Of course, this also depends on what is meant by 'serious problems', since I'm mostly looking for hardware 'problems', and some of those 'serious problems' could, conceivably include things like a wonky Windows install.
It is, however, nice to see Apple on the top of both surveys. Even though I don't currently own one, I still have a soft spot for the Mac.
Besides... The whole idea is to sneak Linux in the back door. if you explain to them that it's legally free, they might be a bit less worried about it.
SCO has so much legal crap comming down the pipe, that this would really be beating a squashed bug. Something else to add to the accusations -- but, unless you can pierce the corporate veil with this and go after either Darl himself, some of the directors/executives of the company or their parent enterprises, then actually following up on this would mostly an exercise in vanity.
... "clean up word docs" did about 80% of the work, and then it was just a matter of a buttload of search/replace stuff in order to get it to finish the rest.
That boatload of search/replace stuff might be able to be replaced with a perl/sed/awk script.
If you're in an all-Windows shop, you can always load up
knoppix to do that part -- or set aside 10 MB to do a desktop install of your favorite distro (knoppix is, once again an option) and dual boot. Better yet, just find an old machine in some storage room, somewhere that you can assign to the task.
Bingo --
Different departments are going to have different needs. Accounts Recievable, for example can probably get away with a P2-200 if you want to make them feel ignored. marketing might use a Mac, or two, and the engineers are probably going to be most productive with reasonably up-to-date boxes (give the hand-me-downs to A-R with new disk drives).
The executives and upper management, of course, will need the latest and greatest game boxes. Don't give them X-Boxes. It'd be just too obvious.
People hack into systems for all sorts of reasons... They can use them to launch DOS attacks (Linux servers tend to be attached to nice, fat pipes), serve websites, or even just run seti-at-home (honest... I've seen it happen).
Clearly, you don't want your critical databases read/write (or even read) others, no matter what OS you're running. No system is perfectly secure (especially when you add oodles of net applications). Most of the Linux break-ins I've seen have been people finding old (and known vulnerable) net apps that haven't been updated for sometimes years. These kinds of break-ins aren't that easy to automate. Windows, itself, on the other hands has enough easy-to replicate holes that automatic breaches are very productive. That's why whenever you see 'more breakins on Linux', it's almost always finding some way to discount the automated attacks which make the bulk of (Windows) breakins. Why do manually what you can have a computer do for you, much faster?
In any case,
I can definitely see that UnixWare boxes account for near-0% of the manual hack attacks... They have near-0% of the market. Even if every UnixWare web server in existence got hacked to death today, it'd probably be nothing more than a decent blip on CERT's statistics.
I posted about this the week it came out -- (same week as "Fevenge of the Sith"). Some reviewer on the CBC noted that that 'March of the Penguins' was the only other movie to debut that weekend.
..... "Only penguins would go up against Darth Vader"
Now they're going up against 'The Corporation', too.
CALEAwas supposed to apply to telecom services, yes? Now they're saying that DSL isn't a telecom service, but CALEA still applies to it.
From The CALEA act
(6) The term ``information services''--
(A) means the offering of a capability for generating,
acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving,
utilizing, or making available information via
telecommunications; and
If DSL is no longer a telecommunication, then there is no longer a need to complay with the CALEA, right? I think that this would definitely apply if I were to run the lines, and only supply DSL services on it.
Time to go to your customers and say "this is what the supposedly 'good for business' Republicans are about to do to you. Time to start railing at them now."
When people get their heads directly kicked in, they really can raise a ruckus. You have a year to force this decision to be reversed.
So much for market forces, eh?
Adam Smith considered
'the free market' to be a good number of small merchants. Big business produces the same sorts of centralized stupidity as big government -- especially when it has a (pseudo) monopoly.
If you want really long-term semi-mobile power for your laptop and camera, you can get an inverter (used to be StatPower, but they've now been sold to another name).. Ah. xantrex. The XPower Xantrex 175 can provide 140 watts continuous (175 for 5 minutes). That's enough for most P4s and a camcorder. You can then run that off of a 12 volt jell cell battery that'll beat your average laptop battery to a whispy pulp (both figuratively and physically).
I used a similar setup 10 years ago to allow long-term recording out in the bush. it also allows you to run off of vehicle accessory power for effectively infinite recording. (really nice for recharging semi-mobile equipment on long road trips, too).
Oh yeah. Guaranteed, knowing about how these back doors work -- Like that's gonna stop some mafia hacker in Moscow, or Albania who's collecting information to blackmail you with or steal your identity.
They won't get how bad this idea is until it's used to completely (and publicly) botch some top-secret investigation.
recompile all of the programs that you're using on the Intel boxes to work on MacOS. Not much more work than (1), and (1) is going to include (2), anyways. this also gives you access to whatever Mac software you're interested in.
Does anybody have his chip ID? It'd be lots of fun to set up a bunch of alarms to go off whenever he walks by certain spots.
Actually, it just hit me. This could be NASTY. If these things become law, then the best way to impersonate someone would be to take the ID chip -- almost literally -- out of their cold, dead hands.
Some old houses have 60 Amp service -- if they use gas stoves.
Stoves and clothes dryers are commonly wired to 40 amp circuits (each), so these units are going to eat 50% more power than my stove with all burners and the oven on.
It'd probably be cheaper to buy 20 P4s as space heaters, plus 2 more to run a really nice display.
It's a little like McDonalds -- it's pervasive, almost ubiquitous. Part of the problem is that most of the versions of Unix really are trademark unix. Many versions of Linux could probably pass the tests needed to be officially trademark unix and it's legally possible that Unixware(tm) is technically not actually Unix(tm).
It gets even worse because, until SCOX is actually bankrupt (hopefully sometime September/October if/when Novell succeeds in it's (expected) injunction requests), it's legally (or, at least PR-wise) dangerous to refer to Linux simply as a 'UNIX(tm) clone'.
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Imagine being a Professional Nascar team, and having to ask Gates Motors (GM) for permission every time they re-tune their machine ... then finding out that the President of GM has gotten into Nascar racing. ... Then they start asking you to provide full details of your tuning methods "to ensure that our cars don't get a bad safety reputation".
It's all downhill from there.
You boot off of the net. Most PCs these days have support for it. Linux works real well that way. I've run classrooms off of one knoppix CD, using the Knoppix Terminal Server (penguin menu -> services -> Start KNOPPIX Terminal Server). Takes all of a couple of minutes to start up. No need even for disk drives (although swap space is sometimes nice).
When Microsoft tries to FUD about 'difficult installs for Linux', they're obviously doing their damndest not to look at things like Knoppix -- The hardest thing is setting the BIOS to boot off of the NIC.
Percentage figures like these are
Suit up guys.... Lock and load. We're going after Bill.
The Bill??!
Yep.
But he survived an attack from Washington.
We're the RIAA. We're bigger than Washington.
It is, however, nice to see Apple on the top of both surveys. Even though I don't currently own one, I still have a soft spot for the Mac.
Besides... The whole idea is to sneak Linux in the back door. if you explain to them that it's legally free, they might be a bit less worried about it.
SCO has so much legal crap comming down the pipe, that this would really be beating a squashed bug. Something else to add to the accusations -- but, unless you can pierce the corporate veil with this and go after either Darl himself, some of the directors/executives of the company or their parent enterprises, then actually following up on this would mostly an exercise in vanity.
Each year, a large proportion of the gun deaths in Canada, Mexico and as far away as Japan are caused by illegal guns smuggled out of the US.
Now, all Osamma Bin Laden has to do to get in the US is steal the ID tag from some innocuous victim (dead or alive).
That boatload of search/replace stuff might be able to be replaced with a perl/sed/awk script.
If you're in an all-Windows shop, you can always load up knoppix to do that part -- or set aside 10 MB to do a desktop install of your favorite distro (knoppix is, once again an option) and dual boot. Better yet, just find an old machine in some storage room, somewhere that you can assign to the task.
Different departments are going to have different needs. Accounts Recievable, for example can probably get away with a P2-200 if you want to make them feel ignored. marketing might use a Mac, or two, and the engineers are probably going to be most productive with reasonably up-to-date boxes (give the hand-me-downs to A-R with new disk drives).
The executives and upper management, of course, will need the latest and greatest game boxes. Don't give them X-Boxes. It'd be just too obvious.
Clearly, you don't want your critical databases read/write (or even read) others, no matter what OS you're running. No system is perfectly secure (especially when you add oodles of net applications). Most of the Linux break-ins I've seen have been people finding old (and known vulnerable) net apps that haven't been updated for sometimes years. These kinds of break-ins aren't that easy to automate. Windows, itself, on the other hands has enough easy-to replicate holes that automatic breaches are very productive. That's why whenever you see 'more breakins on Linux', it's almost always finding some way to discount the automated attacks which make the bulk of (Windows) breakins. Why do manually what you can have a computer do for you, much faster?
In any case, I can definitely see that UnixWare boxes account for near-0% of the manual hack attacks... They have near-0% of the market. Even if every UnixWare web server in existence got hacked to death today, it'd probably be nothing more than a decent blip on CERT's statistics.
From The CALEA act If DSL is no longer a telecommunication, then there is no longer a need to complay with the CALEA, right? I think that this would definitely apply if I were to run the lines, and only supply DSL services on it.
Especially if they both end up being owned by the same mega-corp -- But the FTC wouldn't allow that, would they?? (sigh)
When people get their heads directly kicked in, they really can raise a ruckus.
You have a year to force this decision to be reversed.
So much for market forces, eh?
Adam Smith considered 'the free market' to be a good number of small merchants. Big business produces the same sorts of centralized stupidity as big government -- especially when it has a (pseudo) monopoly.
I used a similar setup 10 years ago to allow long-term recording out in the bush. it also allows you to run off of vehicle accessory power for effectively infinite recording. (really nice for recharging semi-mobile equipment on long road trips, too).
(I hate errors like that).
They won't get how bad this idea is until it's used to completely (and publicly) botch some top-secret investigation.
It wasn't done by CWS, it was done by someone pretending to be them.
We just need to lobby the games reviewers to compare video cards using the OpenGL drivers as a default.
Actually, it just hit me. This could be NASTY. If these things become law, then the best way to impersonate someone would be to take the ID chip -- almost literally -- out of their cold, dead hands.
Some old houses have 60 Amp service -- if they use gas stoves.
Stoves and clothes dryers are commonly wired to 40 amp circuits (each), so these units are going to eat 50% more power than my stove with all burners and the oven on.
It'd probably be cheaper to buy 20 P4s as space heaters, plus 2 more to run a really nice display.
Thanks, but no thanks.
It gets even worse because, until SCOX is actually bankrupt (hopefully sometime September/October if/when Novell succeeds in it's (expected) injunction requests), it's legally (or, at least PR-wise) dangerous to refer to Linux simply as a 'UNIX(tm) clone'.