Who's to say that I couldn't go to their site at 4:00 some fine morning, Tell them that I'm calling from one of my worst enemies, have them connect to another enemy, and give them a third enemy as the 'calling from' number?
In serious negotiations, you're best off if you're seriously willing to go with the alternative. If you've done your homework, and you're pretty sure that you could do an equivalent (or better) deployment with non-MS software, then you can hold off until MS offers you enough incentives to stay with them, or go with the alternative. In either case you then win.
If, on the other hand, MS realizes that you're bluffing, (and they'll probably get real good at sussing out badly designed deployments, if they haven't already), they might just deide to play hardball.
The deployments that have caused MS to really cut their prices were deployments where the customer was very serious about going to a non-MS solution.
In the Munich case, they went Linux in spite of MS's price cutting, In the British case, they had already done a (successful) pilot.
Now, if I were the CIO of a large company, I would definitely look at doing a couple of pilot projects. Worst case, I might get MS to drop their prices by a few extra points. Best case, I might find that the Open Source is a huge step better than the MS product, and worth changing to at any price.
Given that Linux is getting higher security certifications than Windows is (now that we've got companies with enough money invested to make the process worthwhile), I'd say that Windows is (or should be) he underdog when security is paramount.
The last thing you want to hear in the middle of an emergency resuscitation is: "I can't pull the chart up, I've got a virus!"
The courts actually said that Yahoo does retain it's first-amendment rights, but that France has to at least be allowed to bring it's complaint to court. (at which point Yahoo would be allowed to raise it's first amendment defence).
If we were to protect Yahoo from any foreign complaint, then we'd have the opposite effecte where someone could just pick someplace where there was no laws to speak of to put up stuff like kiddie porn and 419 scams. (er, uhm, right).
If we want the right to go after illegalities in other countries, then we have to allow the reciprocal right.
Just to remove any ambiguity: That only handles the 'logging in as root' problem, but it doesn't solve the 'password in cleartext' problem -- especially the 'root password in cleartext' problem.
In the pre-ssh days, I used to login as a non-root user then do the su thing, but I'd do all sorts of things to obfuscate the fact that I was doing an 'su' and the password I used when doing the su..
Nowadays, if I absolutely had to telnet to a box, I'd try to get a 'proxy' capable of accepting an ssh connection as close to the target box as possible This might include smail-mailing a modified knoppix disk with an RSA authorized_key on it (or a single floppy disk equivalent). At least that way I'd only have to worry about hostile machine on the same subnet as opposed to hostile machines on every hop inbetween.
And I'd still do my damndest to get an ssh server installed on the box beforre I left.
There was a time when some people would look down on the idea of working for IBM because they seemed stuffy and out of step with the market. Now they're a hot spot for job seekers again
Hell, this site could possibly be the real reason why they're looking at putting this law in place! They might be tired of brown-noseing the music industry, but stopping something like this might be enough to get them going again.
Hopefully, we can get the courts to strike down this law as banning a type of speech.
I pretty much refuse to run a Windows box on the net without a firewall... The $40 cable routers will generally do a fine job. If you're doing it in the same place as your Linux box, you can use IP Tables to do the same thing..
Get either a dumb hub or a crossover cable, and connect the Windows box by that.
turn on NAT via iptables:
iptables -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD --in-interface eth1 --out-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT
# turn off most packet forwarding (other than outgoing connections above)
iptables --policy FORWARD DROP
Turn on packet forwarding
( echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward )
This, of course, presumes that ETH1 is facing your windows box with an IP address in 192.168.1.{1-254}.
You can then either set your Windows box IP address manually, or learn how to turn on dhcpd (i'm not going to go there, but it's not too hard.). In any case, this should be enough NAT protection to allow you to get out on the net from your Windows box without opening it up to inbound virus connections. You can then get to places like Microsoft and Norton's without being pre-emptively infected.
The filesystems for the UNIX family of OSs has always been in evoloution. Originally the/usr filesystem stood for/user. All user directories were in/usr and/usr/bin was for user contributed binaries.
Then many of the binaries in/usr/bin became 'standard' parts of distributions, and we started using/usr/local/bin for user contributed binaries -- and we started putting user home directories in places like/home.
Now/usr/local is becomming the standard place for 'standard-nonstandard' binaries and we're really starting to need a new place for real user contributed stuff (rinse, repeat).
I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with a complete bottom-up rewrite of the current system. The whole point of Free Software and Open Source is that, if you don't like it the way it is, you can change it. Clearly the current GoboLinux system isn't for the faint of heart, but something really good may come out of it that would increase the usability of Linux by an order of magnitude -- but magic like that doesn't happen if people are constrained to the old way of doing things.
It may be that, in 10 years, most Linux users will be going "/etc? What's that for?". (hmmm. Some may already be doing that!).
Not necessarily, there are places that do in fact sell papers that come with the rights to redistribute......
T'is true -- but if he's been cheating consistently since he entered University (as he claims), then I'm betting that not all of his cheats have been legal.
I'd also guess that he's cheated since high school. Hmm.. I wonder if the university could counter-sue him for misrepresentation of work... which kept him in school, wasted University resources and possibly bumped somebody else out of a (more legitimate) spot.
The missing link here is that McDonalds raised the temperature of their coffee to unsafe levels at the same time as they started a "Free Refils" campaign. Serving the coffee at an unsafe temperature meant that customers would almost never finish their coffee in-store and be able to get a refill. -- But McDonalds still got the extra business from the add campaign.
The woman in question was awarded 75% of her medical costs (she was found partially at fault), and a regurgitation of McDonalds' profits from willfully wounding their customers. The almost the entire $15M she was awarded came from this regurgitation of profits.
The real warning should have been placed at McDonalds' world headquarters:
warning: do not injure your customers in the name of profit, or you may (sooner or later) face a seriously large punitive damage suit.
How any person can get to university without realizing that plagiarism is wrong is beyond me.
You get it wrong. He's suing them for not catching him earlier. He admits that he's been cheating all along and that he knew it was cheating. His complaint is that, if they had caught (and kicked him out) earlier, he wouldn't have stayed in school for so long (and paid his tuition).
It looks like he's going to go into court arguing that he's been cheating since day one. I expect the university to use (among other things) the 'clean hands' defence (you can't claim the protection of the court if you're breaking the law). Plagirism is also copyright violation, so he's likely to get laughed out of court just on that basis.
I can just imagine the disclosure request for:
A list of all assignments on which you cheated
For each such assignment on which you cheated,
A description of where and how you obtained your work,
any agreements you engaged in to obtain it,
how much (if anything) you paid for each assignment, and
how you think the markers should have recognized your cheat.
Somebody else noted that Kinko's would probably charge $.30/page. That's $30/100 pages. If you can manage to set up a sheet-feeding scanner such that you can do one page/30 seconds you would be getting cheaper results by paying that person $30/hour to do the same job.
As other people pointed out, if you can get a couple of departments in on this, then you can more easily amortize the costs of really good equipment to do this...
One thing that I'll note is that I don't really like PDFs for this sort of stuff. If you really have a 100 page article, you're going to be looking at a 3 meg file and, perhaps, a 30 second startup time... That's fine for someone who's going to read the document from cover to cover, or print it... On the other hand, it's a pain if you only want to look at pages 37 and 38.
GrokLaw gets PDFs of court filings regularly, and I got so fed up with PDF's that I created a (semi-automated) batch system to split up the PDF's into separate PNG images and create a simple index.
You can see a sample here. Far easier to view a page or two there (IMNSHO) -- but not as easy if you just want to download and print it.
Before you go too far, you might want to get a good handle on how people are likely to use what you produce -- Use that knowledge to decide just how you want to organize the result. You may want to make it available in two (or more) different formats. It's not that difficult to bulk convert things between different forms (at lest, not if you can dual boot into Linux, or have OS/X).
Well, if you RTFA, you'll notice that it was two girls and one guy that did the design. From the Picture of the real Jennifer, I'd say she's reasonably attractive. Put her in party gear, and I expect that a good number of people here might follow her around like a puppy dog ("Brains and beauty -- what a combo!").
Yeah, she doesn't look like the prototypical geek chick, but then, neither do most of the other geek chicks I know.
If nothing else, it's good to see that females are becomming more common in the Engineering universe.
No. If SCO tries to sue other companies, they can say to the judge "SCO Vs IBM determined that there's no SCO IP in Linux as of 2.6". At that point, the only thing that SCO would be able to sue a Linux user for would be something that gets added in After this month. This would essentially make them into no more of a threat than any other company. (probably less).
Note that PJ at GrokLaw doesn't feel that this motion is necessarily a slam-dunk -- but the IBM lawyers seem to be running on the sharp side, so I'm giving it at least a 75% chance (with most of that other 25% coming from my lack of shureness given that IANAL).
According to PJ, even if this motion doesn't pass it'll help get the judge up to speed on SCO's shenanigans (The memorandumm in support provides a pretty good quick history of what's been going on in the courts {and elsewhere} in the last year). FYI, it's a different judge handling this motion than handled all of the disclosure motions.
Part of what makes figuring out the probablility of success for this motion is the fact that much of the relevant disclosure is under wraps, but IBM's summary of it makes it seem like SCO disclosed a big goose egg in a mildly convoluted package.
I'd like to see there be a ruling that says if you use genetically modified products that you have the responsiblity to preventing the seeds from leaving your property.
Actually, Monsanto had proposed to do exactly that... If Schmieser (or, I presume, anybody else) finds Monsanto canola on their property, they're supposed to call monsanto to clean it up -- and Monsanto is supposed to pay you for the inconvenience. Hopefully they'll be held to this 'offer'.
I think that the next thing for people to do is make sure that no canola survives Roundup spraying -- and, if it does, call Monsanto and make sure that they remove everything, then pay you for what they remove (and any damage to your fields). -- keep them 'hopping.
If they don't remove your roundup-resistant crop, then they're effectively giving a farmer a license to continue growing it and (hopefully) losing any rights to complain about future use.
I second the anon coward. The fact that someone can read/write English doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know (and love) one or more other languages. I have friends who are fluent in English that would just love the opportunity to interact with Linux in other languages (Russian, Dutch, Portugese, French, German and Bulgarian all come to mind).
Just for the convenience of friends, I load my home desktop box with a few extra languages -- even though my only human non-english language I can claim any real understanding of is French (and that is minimal).
Oh, and how could I forget Chinese... I've taught soooo many chinese students in the last couple of years, and I've lost count of how many of them have borrowed my Linux CDs to try at home.
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Who's to say that I couldn't go to their site at 4:00 some fine morning, Tell them that I'm calling from one of my worst enemies, have them connect to another enemy, and give them a third enemy as the 'calling from' number?
If, on the other hand, MS realizes that you're bluffing, (and they'll probably get real good at sussing out badly designed deployments, if they haven't already), they might just deide to play hardball.
The deployments that have caused MS to really cut their prices were deployments where the customer was very serious about going to a non-MS solution.
In the Munich case, they went Linux in spite of MS's price cutting, In the British case, they had already done a (successful) pilot.
Now, if I were the CIO of a large company, I would definitely look at doing a couple of pilot projects. Worst case, I might get MS to drop their prices by a few extra points. Best case, I might find that the Open Source is a huge step better than the MS product, and worth changing to at any price.
Yeah, JDS is better than most other non-linux solutions but
....
When all you know is garbage, mediocre looks like heaven.
The last thing you want to hear in the middle of an emergency resuscitation is: "I can't pull the chart up, I've got a virus!"
If we were to protect Yahoo from any foreign complaint, then we'd have the opposite effecte where someone could just pick someplace where there was no laws to speak of to put up stuff like kiddie porn and 419 scams. (er, uhm, right).
If we want the right to go after illegalities in other countries, then we have to allow the reciprocal right.
Just to remove any ambiguity: That only handles the 'logging in as root' problem, but it doesn't solve the 'password in cleartext' problem -- especially the 'root password in cleartext' problem.
In the pre-ssh days, I used to login as a non-root user then do the su thing, but I'd do all sorts of things to obfuscate the fact that I was doing an 'su' and the password I used when doing the su..
Nowadays, if I absolutely had to telnet to a box, I'd try to get a 'proxy' capable of accepting an ssh connection as close to the target box as possible This might include smail-mailing a modified knoppix disk with an RSA authorized_key on it (or a single floppy disk equivalent). At least that way I'd only have to worry about hostile machine on the same subnet as opposed to hostile machines on every hop inbetween.
And I'd still do my damndest to get an ssh server installed on the box beforre I left.
Guess who Bill learned from?
There was a time when some people would look down on the idea of working for IBM because they seemed stuffy and out of step with the market. Now they're a hot spot for job seekers again
I hope you don't read code like you read slashdot posts! "I", "It" -- What's the difference (besides the meaning of the whole sentence)?
They turned the firewall off???? How in the world is this supposed to increase security?
Hopefully, we can get the courts to strike down this law as banning a type of speech.
Get either a dumb hub or a crossover cable, and connect the Windows box by that.
turn on NAT via iptables:
- iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 --out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE
Turn on packet forwardingiptables -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD --in-interface eth1 --out-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT
# turn off most packet forwarding (other than outgoing connections above) iptables --policy FORWARD DROP
( echo 1 >
This, of course, presumes that ETH1 is facing your windows box with an IP address in 192.168.1.{1-254}.
You can then either set your Windows box IP address manually, or learn how to turn on dhcpd (i'm not going to go there, but it's not too hard.). In any case, this should be enough NAT protection to allow you to get out on the net from your Windows box without opening it up to inbound virus connections. You can then get to places like Microsoft and Norton's without being pre-emptively infected.
Then many of the binaries in
Now
I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with a complete bottom-up rewrite of the current system. The whole point of Free Software and Open Source is that, if you don't like it the way it is, you can change it. Clearly the current GoboLinux system isn't for the faint of heart, but something really good may come out of it that would increase the usability of Linux by an order of magnitude -- but magic like that doesn't happen if people are constrained to the old way of doing things.
It may be that, in 10 years, most Linux users will be going "/etc? What's that for?". (hmmm. Some may already be doing that!).
As has been said one million times...
The trailing "s" in "X-Windows", stands for "System.
T'is true -- but if he's been cheating consistently since he entered University (as he claims), then I'm betting that not all of his cheats have been legal.
I'd also guess that he's cheated since high school. Hmm.. I wonder if the university could counter-sue him for misrepresentation of work... which kept him in school, wasted University resources and possibly bumped somebody else out of a (more legitimate) spot.
The woman in question was awarded 75% of her medical costs (she was found partially at fault), and a regurgitation of McDonalds' profits from willfully wounding their customers. The almost the entire $15M she was awarded came from this regurgitation of profits.
The real warning should have been placed at McDonalds' world headquarters:
How any person can get to university without realizing that plagiarism is wrong is beyond me.
You get it wrong. He's suing them for not catching him earlier . He admits that he's been cheating all along and that he knew it was cheating. His complaint is that, if they had caught (and kicked him out) earlier, he wouldn't have stayed in school for so long (and paid his tuition).
It looks like he's going to go into court arguing that he's been cheating since day one. I expect the university to use (among other things) the 'clean hands' defence (you can't claim the protection of the court if you're breaking the law). Plagirism is also copyright violation, so he's likely to get laughed out of court just on that basis.
I can just imagine the disclosure request for:
!= that I should.
Edit ->
Preferences ->
Privacy & Security ->
Images ->
[checkbox] Do not load remote images in Mail and Newsgroup messages
It's probably the fact that it's under 'Privacy and Security', rather than 'Mail and news' that threw you.
As other people pointed out, if you can get a couple of departments in on this, then you can more easily amortize the costs of really good equipment to do this...
One thing that I'll note is that I don't really like PDFs for this sort of stuff. If you really have a 100 page article, you're going to be looking at a 3 meg file and, perhaps, a 30 second startup time... That's fine for someone who's going to read the document from cover to cover, or print it... On the other hand, it's a pain if you only want to look at pages 37 and 38.
GrokLaw gets PDFs of court filings regularly, and I got so fed up with PDF's that I created a (semi-automated) batch system to split up the PDF's into separate PNG images and create a simple index.
You can see a sample here. Far easier to view a page or two there (IMNSHO) -- but not as easy if you just want to download and print it.
Before you go too far, you might want to get a good handle on how people are likely to use what you produce -- Use that knowledge to decide just how you want to organize the result. You may want to make it available in two (or more) different formats. It's not that difficult to bulk convert things between different forms (at lest, not if you can dual boot into Linux, or have OS/X).
"No, that's Barry Pratchet. Get your names right".
Yeah, she doesn't look like the prototypical geek chick, but then, neither do most of the other geek chicks I know. If nothing else, it's good to see that females are becomming more common in the Engineering universe.
Note that PJ at GrokLaw doesn't feel that this motion is necessarily a slam-dunk -- but the IBM lawyers seem to be running on the sharp side, so I'm giving it at least a 75% chance (with most of that other 25% coming from my lack of shureness given that IANAL).
According to PJ, even if this motion doesn't pass it'll help get the judge up to speed on SCO's shenanigans (The memorandumm in support provides a pretty good quick history of what's been going on in the courts {and elsewhere} in the last year). FYI, it's a different judge handling this motion than handled all of the disclosure motions.
Part of what makes figuring out the probablility of success for this motion is the fact that much of the relevant disclosure is under wraps, but IBM's summary of it makes it seem like SCO disclosed a big goose egg in a mildly convoluted package.
Actually, Monsanto had proposed to do exactly that... If Schmieser (or, I presume, anybody else) finds Monsanto canola on their property, they're supposed to call monsanto to clean it up -- and Monsanto is supposed to pay you for the inconvenience. Hopefully they'll be held to this 'offer'.
I think that the next thing for people to do is make sure that no canola survives Roundup spraying -- and, if it does, call Monsanto and make sure that they remove everything, then pay you for what they remove (and any damage to your fields). -- keep them 'hopping.
If they don't remove your roundup-resistant crop, then they're effectively giving a farmer a license to continue growing it and (hopefully) losing any rights to complain about future use.
Just for the convenience of friends, I load my home desktop box with a few extra languages -- even though my only human non-english language I can claim any real understanding of is French (and that is minimal).
Oh, and how could I forget Chinese... I've taught soooo many chinese students in the last couple of years, and I've lost count of how many of them have borrowed my Linux CDs to try at home.