Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Mozilla wasn't built with the same attention to security details as Microsoft products are. If
this was the case, you can be sure that we'd see the same sort of
overwhelm in the (not) holier than thou OS world as you are in the Microsoft response.
It's not that Microsoft's programmers don't care about security... The problem is that they have so many
holes to fix, that they don't know where to begin
If the Mozilla people had the sheer volume of bugs to deal with that the MicroSoft people do, I'd expect
that they'd be just as slow to deal with serious bugs --probably slower. Unfortunately, they don't,
so I think that it's unfair to judge them on the same footing as Microsoft.
You have to remember that Mozilla isn't written and supported by professionals. who get paid
for supporting it. No- It's done by a rag-tag team of rebel coders who aren't even backed up by the
resources of a multi-billion dollar company with enough cash reserves to buy most third-world countries.
Microsoft's unique approach to security has made them the darlings of the script-kiddie crowd, and I
expect that they'll stay the leaders in that market for years to come.
These script kiddies represent a new wave of innovation in the software market, and it would be
un-American to shut them down.
there are a *lot* of ppl out there who believe you should never accept a counter-offer.
There are all sorts of things to look at when deciding to accept/reject a counter offer. Most importantly, take advantage of the fact that you now have a choice.
One is: Just how good is your current employer? If they spuriously gave you a 30% pay cut on the premise of the dot-com bust, are they likely to do it again? Are they willing to give you a written promise that you will keep your new job/salary for a long period of time? How stable is the company if it had to give it's employees a 30-50% pay cut? If this is actually an issue, are they willing to offer you a golden parachute? More to the point: Just how much do you trust your current company (or -- for that matter -- the company that made the first offer).
You also have to consider peer-acceptence whether you stay or go. If this presages a general increase in wages, your peers may love you for what you are setting in motion.
You may want to talk to your peers. They may have info on your current company that influences your go/no-go decision. You may (or may not) want to get into the details of 50%, but you can probably let them know that you now have offers from another company and your boss, and you need to make a choice. If nothing else, they'll find out when you've left.. Why not do them the honor of letting them know now.
Also: consider that the "never accept a counter-offer" pages are possibly put up by head-hunters who only make money if they get your head.
They don't actually care about your career. They only care about the money that they get for placing you (and then for placing your replacement -- and then replacing that replacement.........)
In this digital age, this might also allow the government to intercept voice calls that are transmitted via digital methods.
Such transmissions are also stored (even if only for microseconds) on routers while in transit. This would possibly make them susceptible to be intercepted without a warrent.
In other words, only pure analog phone messages would require an intercept request. Phone calls that go through digital switches would not.
IANAL, I've just dealt with the courts too damn much.
There are inherent insecurities associated with sending emails, but intercepting emails and other communications is generally illegal. It is also illegal for the government to do so. This illegality, at the very least, forces them to limit the ammount of spying that they do on us. If we catch them doing so, then various responses are possible, including public censure and court cases.
If it becomes legal for any government department to spy on us, then we have absolutely no defence whatsoever. They take a look, verify that it was done illegaly and then shut you the F up.
Sun isn't so much discovering the dumb terminal, as re-descovering it.
Portable offices have been a reality in the Unix world for more than a decade.
When I worked at the University of British Columbia in 1991, we had it down pretty pat -- and this was in a hetrogenous (but almost entirely Unix) environment. We had Suns, SGIs, IBM RS/6000s, NeXts and a good smattering of other random UNIX varients. Everybody was served by a network of NFS and NIS servers, and you could log in anywhere you want to do your work..
Not all of this was dumb terminals, though. People with light CPU loads would have X terminals and people with heavy CPU (or better funding!) would use a real workstation. Because home directories (and most binaries) were NFS mounted, I could log into any machine in our department (split over 2 buildings and 1/2 a mile) and do my work.
For part of my time, my desktop terminal was a 5-year old Sun-3 set to boot dataless, later on I was assigned a low-end SGI. Now, granted, the SGI did a far better job as a flight simulator, but for most of my work, the Sun-3 was quite satisfactory. For any of my heavy work I could log into one of the heavy-duty compute monsters (Either physically or remotely depending on the type of work needed) and work there.
word to the wise: in any remote-computing environment, always double check which machine your terminal is connected to before you do things like rebooting the system or formatting a filesystem.
Total: $512 and this does far more than the Sunray.
Savings: Up to $144. More if you don't want to use Windows. Another $124 if I'm right and the $500 sunray doesn't include a display.
You forgot software;
You forgot support;
This is where MS makes it's big killing. They probably get $500+ for each office worker in software. -- and then there's your AntiVirus Software too.
and your (semi) yearly software upgrages.. just to keep all of those boxes inter-operating, since Microsoft software often fails to interoperate properly with it's older bretheren.
And, of course, you need to pay people to run around doing the weekly MS security updates.
It also sounds like (from other posts) that the $500 quoted for a sunray is a bit high (unless it's for the 24" display model, in which case, it's pretty cheap).
It may be that $500/seat includes amortized server costs..
When the US is serious about all the greenhouse nonsense and builds public transportation systems that are as effective as Japan's, I'll consider changing my lifestyle. Until then I won't.
As I said, this is both a political and a personal issue, and the political decisions do affect the personal ones. As long as the Car and Petroleum industry lobbies have more sway in our legislative halls than most people, it will continue to be the case that cars will be easier to use than SOVs (Single Occupant Vehicles).
Driving a vehicle in rush hour is more stess-generating, more expensive and more environmentally taxing than taking transit, but people feel bound to do it because our lawmakers put way more money per user into Car support than we do into mass transit. That discourages people from using transit even though it is, in many cases, cheaper and faster and more relaxing (or would be with minimal investment).
With North America being
The heaviest per-captia generators of greenhouse gasses, and
The most unwilling to do anything about it (both Canada and the US are refusing to ratify the treaty, even after getting massive concessions from the rest of the world)
If we aren't willing to do something about global warming soon, Our grandchildren may find Los Angeles' beaches replaced with dikes and windmills.
UnitedLinux is designed to be a distributor's Linux. It's not really a user's linux. Once a UnitedLinux distribution is out, various distributors are intended to take the source tarball, compile it, and add their own bells & whistles.
It is the UnitedLinux Distributors who are expected to put out the various United binaries (each with their own flavour).
i.e.
Caldara (UnitedLinuz compatible) Linux,
SuSe (UnitedLinuz compatible) Linux,
etc.
all with their associated binaries released to the public. If you want a UL binary, get it from them... If you want a bare UL binary, then compile it using one of the distributed UL binaries.
One approach is to not buy a car. It can be a rather difficult thing to do (my mother bugged me for years that I should be getting a car, and even offered to give me hers for free.
It's not that I never drive: Feet, bus and bike can get me to most places. From time to time, I'll take a cab. When I do want to do somethign that requires my own car, I rent one (or borrow), but the setup structurally forces me to consider whether I really do need a car for a particular purpose (and most of the time, the answer really is no).
In the short time that I owned a car (about a year), what I found is that I used it far more often than I had to.. The convenience of starting a few minutes later, and using the car instead of the bus was far too fetching, but it kept on nagging on my consciense. I was very happy to finally let it go.
Cutting greenhouse gasses is both a political question and a personal question. If we want to slow down the greenhouse effect, we will have to make changes, and some of them will be inconvenient.
BTW: Using the bus isn't entirely a bad thing. When I drive, I have to devote my focus on driving. Using the phone is, at best half-hearted, and I definitely can't do things like sleep, study or work on paperwork -- all of which I can do while using transit. Of course, the occasional opportunity to hit on beautiful babes on the bus is far easier than the equivalent when driving a car.
I've gon through a number of palm 3's (kept on breaking the screen), but I found them rather addicting. My most recent purchase was a 100 (I'm getting tired or paying for machines and then having them break on me), and I have also had problems with it.. wierd screen glitches from time to time, and one of the buttons is a bit 'sticky'. I've chaulked it up to 'cheap build', given the price, and have just put up with it.
Lifeforms seemed to do pretty much what you're asking for when I last saw it (in 1993!). If it's been getting support since then (which seems to be the case), then it should be pretty nice, by now).
just set up ICS on the XP machine.....
put the router off of there, and then run your machines behind that, if you really care to.
If it't that horribly bad, then I might not do it at all... There's no way that I'm gonna put a Microsoft Windows box in on a cable modem with no protection. It'd be like wild unsafe sex at an AIDS hospice: In a week, or two, you'd have every virus in the book.
Actually, if you watch closely, she hasn't quite got the bust of T'Pol, and she rarely gets the sexy scenes, but she's still quit nice... and far more attractive (in my mind) than Shatner.
If you remember the scene in the (one of) the first episode where Hoshi, T'Pol and Tucker are resting in decon, I thought both of the women were pretty nice.
Actually, once they learn to play with it, I'd expect that the tonal form of Mandarin would probably make things easier... They'd allow you to split the language into 4 pieces -- up down flat and hook. Once done, you could then resolve the sounds and ignore the tone. I'd have thought that resolving the tonal direction of a sound would be pretty easy.
They should give William Shatner a beta model out of pure respect...
I'd much rather see them give it to Linda Park (Hoshi Sato on 'Enterprise'). She's the one who really made the universal translators famous. On TOS, the concept was mostly ignored ("They always worked perfectly -- Yeah! That's the story!"). On Enterprise, she does the translating almost as often as the translator does.
Besides, I'd much rather see her recieving the thing in a newscast than Shatner (she's cuter!).
It would be spam if they managed to convince your TIVO to spuriously record them for you. ---
On the other hand, it's not spam if you willingly opted in to some 'free service for ads' scheme. Similarly, the ads on/. aren't spam because I willfully came to the site, and they just happen to be here (and well paid-for, one would hope).
Why would you need a router? If you only have one machine, then you are set to go without a router.
Well, if you read the first sentence of the post,
"I recently networked the computer
s in my house with a Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router.
The "If you only have one machine" proposition is provably false. There is more than one computer, so a hub/router is already there.
______
That having been said, if the Linksys router can't handle split cable/phone routing (this is an RTFM question), then you may need to use a solution like a dedicated linux/bsd box in front of the router. It doesn't take much. An old P/166 w/ 32M of ram and an 800 MB hard disk is plenty. We used to use 386/25s to handle 10Mb ethernet traffic at the Department of Computer Science (but they didn't do any serious firewalling, that I know of). Using a box 6 times as fast to handle 1/10 the traffic bandwidth should be pretty easy.
I had sendmail running a server for 100,000 users. It was slightly modified, however.
The user database for most of the users was a very simple fixed-record database. this made for fast access. (later migrated to IMAP)
Email was stored in a separate directory for each user, and the user directories were hashed into a tree, with about 100 (or was it 10?, this was a while ago) users per leaf directory.
heavily RAIDed -- more than a dozen disks to store the email. This distributed the I/O cost.
The server had 4 processors (200Mz each -- it was a while ago) and 2GB of ram.
I was the only person directly responsible for the mail server, and I considered it a sign that something was wrong if it took more than 5-10 seconds for email to get delivered (users with 400MB mailboxes that insisted on checking them every 5 minutes excepted).
Just perfect for breaking into the professors offices and snapping shots of tests.
Yeah.. It'd go real nice with the lockpick set.
Not that I want to be nitpicky, or anything, but aren't burglery tools considered illegal in most jurisdictions? Perhaps they're only to help her 'make backups of her dorm room contents'?
No need for you to worry about having your head explode. MS is both evil and wrong, and Stefi is good and right and deliciously sexy^w^w^w (but I digress).
Apparently (and undocumented in the article referenced by the first post), at the heart of the suit is the fact that MS claims ownership of anything that is posted on their website.
They own it; they disseminate it; they're responsible for it. Suite and simple.
Because MS is trying to get greedy with the content, they don't have much choice. If they disclaim ownership of the content, then their contract with (possibly unsuspecting) users would be useless, becsuse anybody who didn't like MS having rights to their software would be able to point to MS's claims in this lawsuit, and MS would be estopped from claiming otherwise. Thus, MS had to defend the suit without disclaiming ownership of the stuff that got posted by one of their users.
In other words, this lawsuit would not apply to the likes of slashdot that acknowledges that doesn't try to get greedy with it's posters' IP.
MS got hoist by their own greedy little petard. Get out there and party in the streets -- and when you're done slobbering over those (fake) nude Steffi pics on MSN (that MSH claims ownership of), be sure to send a copy to her lawyers.
ahhh.. so the heart of this mess is that MS claims ownership of anything that users post on their site.
If you own it and publish it, you're responsible for it. If MS hadn't been greedy and demanded ownership of their users' work, they wouldn't have had to deal with this lawsuit.
Apex got in trouble because they signed the non-disclosure agreement that, among other things, prevented them from allowing multi-region players, etc.
If CSS is simply trade-secret, and not patented, then all these newcommers have to do is use DECSS in their players (and possibly include a copy of the source code with every player!!!:-)
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Mozilla wasn't built with the same attention to security details as Microsoft products are. If this was the case, you can be sure that we'd see the same sort of overwhelm in the (not) holier than thou OS world as you are in the Microsoft response. It's not that Microsoft's programmers don't care about security... The problem is that they have so many holes to fix, that they don't know where to begin If the Mozilla people had the sheer volume of bugs to deal with that the MicroSoft people do, I'd expect that they'd be just as slow to deal with serious bugs --probably slower. Unfortunately, they don't, so I think that it's unfair to judge them on the same footing as Microsoft.
You have to remember that Mozilla isn't written and supported by professionals. who get paid for supporting it. No- It's done by a rag-tag team of rebel coders who aren't even backed up by the resources of a multi-billion dollar company with enough cash reserves to buy most third-world countries.
Microsoft's unique approach to security has made them the darlings of the script-kiddie crowd, and I expect that they'll stay the leaders in that market for years to come. These script kiddies represent a new wave of innovation in the software market, and it would be un-American to shut them down.
There are all sorts of things to look at when deciding to accept/reject a counter offer. Most importantly, take advantage of the fact that you now have a choice.
One is: Just how good is your current employer? If they spuriously gave you a 30% pay cut on the premise of the dot-com bust, are they likely to do it again? Are they willing to give you a written promise that you will keep your new job/salary for a long period of time? How stable is the company if it had to give it's employees a 30-50% pay cut? If this is actually an issue, are they willing to offer you a golden parachute? More to the point: Just how much do you trust your current company (or -- for that matter -- the company that made the first offer).
You also have to consider peer-acceptence whether you stay or go. If this presages a general increase in wages, your peers may love you for what you are setting in motion.
You may want to talk to your peers. They may have info on your current company that influences your go/no-go decision. You may (or may not) want to get into the details of 50%, but you can probably let them know that you now have offers from another company and your boss, and you need to make a choice. If nothing else, they'll find out when you've left.. Why not do them the honor of letting them know now.
Also: consider that the "never accept a counter-offer" pages are possibly put up by head-hunters who only make money if they get your head. ... ... ...)
They don't actually care about your career. They only care about the money that they get for placing you (and then for placing your replacement -- and then replacing that replacement
It's also hogwash to think that a country would elect a former coke addict to rule them.
Shit happens. Grow mushrooms
Such transmissions are also stored (even if only for microseconds) on routers while in transit. This would possibly make them susceptible to be intercepted without a warrent.
In other words, only pure analog phone messages would require an intercept request. Phone calls that go through digital switches would not.
IANAL, I've just dealt with the courts too damn much.
If it becomes legal for any government department to spy on us, then we have absolutely no defence whatsoever. They take a look, verify that it was done illegaly and then shut you the F up.
bc(1) is SOOO much fun!
Portable offices have been a reality in the Unix world for more than a decade.
When I worked at the University of British Columbia in 1991, we had it down pretty pat -- and this was in a hetrogenous (but almost entirely Unix) environment. We had Suns, SGIs, IBM RS/6000s, NeXts and a good smattering of other random UNIX varients. Everybody was served by a network of NFS and NIS servers, and you could log in anywhere you want to do your work..
Not all of this was dumb terminals, though. People with light CPU loads would have X terminals and people with heavy CPU (or better funding!) would use a real workstation. Because home directories (and most binaries) were NFS mounted, I could log into any machine in our department (split over 2 buildings and 1/2 a mile) and do my work.
For part of my time, my desktop terminal was a 5-year old Sun-3 set to boot dataless, later on I was assigned a low-end SGI. Now, granted, the SGI did a far better job as a flight simulator, but for most of my work, the Sun-3 was quite satisfactory. For any of my heavy work I could log into one of the heavy-duty compute monsters (Either physically or remotely depending on the type of work needed) and work there.
word to the wise: in any remote-computing environment, always double check which machine your terminal is connected to before you do things like rebooting the system or formatting a filesystem.
Savings: Up to $144. More if you don't want to use Windows. Another $124 if I'm right and the $500 sunray doesn't include a display.
You forgot software;
You forgot support;
This is where MS makes it's big killing. They probably get $500+ for each office worker in software. -- and then there's your AntiVirus Software too. .. just to keep all of those boxes inter-operating, since Microsoft software often fails to interoperate properly with it's older bretheren.
and your (semi) yearly software upgrages
And, of course, you need to pay people to run around doing the weekly MS security updates.
It also sounds like (from other posts) that the $500 quoted for a sunray is a bit high (unless it's for the 24" display model, in which case, it's pretty cheap).
It may be that $500/seat includes amortized server costs..
As I said, this is both a political and a personal issue, and the political decisions do affect the personal ones. As long as the Car and Petroleum industry lobbies have more sway in our legislative halls than most people, it will continue to be the case that cars will be easier to use than SOVs (Single Occupant Vehicles).
Driving a vehicle in rush hour is more stess-generating, more expensive and more environmentally taxing than taking transit, but people feel bound to do it because our lawmakers put way more money per user into Car support than we do into mass transit. That discourages people from using transit even though it is, in many cases, cheaper and faster and more relaxing (or would be with minimal investment).
With North America being
- The heaviest per-captia generators of greenhouse gasses, and
- The most unwilling to do anything about it
If we aren't willing to do something about global warming soon, Our grandchildren may find Los Angeles' beaches replaced with dikes and windmills.(both Canada and the US are refusing to ratify the treaty, even after getting massive concessions from the rest of the world)
It is the UnitedLinux Distributors who are expected to put out the various United binaries (each with their own flavour). i.e.
- Caldara (UnitedLinuz compatible) Linux,
all with their associated binaries released to the public. If you want a UL binary, get it from them... If you want a bare UL binary, then compile it using one of the distributed UL binaries.SuSe (UnitedLinuz compatible) Linux,
etc.
It's not that I never drive: Feet, bus and bike can get me to most places. From time to time, I'll take a cab. When I do want to do somethign that requires my own car, I rent one (or borrow), but the setup structurally forces me to consider whether I really do need a car for a particular purpose (and most of the time, the answer really is no).
In the short time that I owned a car (about a year), what I found is that I used it far more often than I had to .. The convenience of starting a few minutes later, and using the car instead of the bus was far too fetching, but it kept on nagging on my consciense. I was very happy to finally let it go.
Cutting greenhouse gasses is both a political question and a personal question. If we want to slow down the greenhouse effect, we will have to make changes, and some of them will be inconvenient.
BTW: Using the bus isn't entirely a bad thing. When I drive, I have to devote my focus on driving. Using the phone is, at best half-hearted, and I definitely can't do things like sleep, study or work on paperwork -- all of which I can do while using transit. Of course, the occasional opportunity to hit on beautiful babes on the bus is far easier than the equivalent when driving a car.
I've gon through a number of palm 3's (kept on breaking the screen), but I found them rather addicting. My most recent purchase was a 100 (I'm getting tired or paying for machines and then having them break on me), and I have also had problems with it.. wierd screen glitches from time to time, and one of the buttons is a bit 'sticky'. I've chaulked it up to 'cheap build', given the price, and have just put up with it.
Lifeforms seemed to do pretty much what you're asking for when I last saw it (in 1993!). If it's been getting support since then (which seems to be the case), then it should be pretty nice, by now).
If it't that horribly bad, then I might not do it at all... There's no way that I'm gonna put a Microsoft Windows box in on a cable modem with no protection. It'd be like wild unsafe sex at an AIDS hospice: In a week, or two, you'd have every virus in the book.
Compared to Shatner?? Are you crazy?
Actually, if you watch closely, she hasn't quite got the bust of T'Pol, and she rarely gets the sexy scenes, but she's still quit nice... and far more attractive (in my mind) than Shatner.
If you remember the scene in the (one of) the first episode where Hoshi, T'Pol and Tucker are resting in decon, I thought both of the women were pretty nice.
Actually, once they learn to play with it, I'd expect that the tonal form of Mandarin would probably make things easier... They'd allow you to split the language into 4 pieces -- up down flat and hook. Once done, you could then resolve the sounds and ignore the tone. I'd have thought that resolving the tonal direction of a sound would be pretty easy.
I'd much rather see them give it to Linda Park (Hoshi Sato on 'Enterprise'). She's the one who really made the universal translators famous. On TOS, the concept was mostly ignored ("They always worked perfectly -- Yeah! That's the story!"). On Enterprise, she does the translating almost as often as the translator does.
Besides, I'd much rather see her recieving the thing in a newscast than Shatner (she's cuter!).
On the other hand, it's not spam if you willingly opted in to some 'free service for ads' scheme. Similarly, the ads on /. aren't spam because I willfully came to the site, and they just happen to be here (and well paid-for, one would hope).
Well, if you read the first sentence of the post,
The "If you only have one machine" proposition is provably false. There is more than one computer, so a hub/router is already there.______
That having been said, if the Linksys router can't handle split cable/phone routing (this is an RTFM question), then you may need to use a solution like a dedicated linux/bsd box in front of the router. It doesn't take much. An old P/166 w/ 32M of ram and an 800 MB hard disk is plenty. We used to use 386/25s to handle 10Mb ethernet traffic at the Department of Computer Science (but they didn't do any serious firewalling, that I know of). Using a box 6 times as fast to handle 1/10 the traffic bandwidth should be pretty easy.
The user database for most of the users was a very simple fixed-record database. this made for fast access. (later migrated to IMAP)
Email was stored in a separate directory for each user, and the user directories were hashed into a tree, with about 100 (or was it 10?, this was a while ago) users per leaf directory.
heavily RAIDed -- more than a dozen disks to store the email. This distributed the I/O cost.
The server had 4 processors (200Mz each -- it was a while ago) and 2GB of ram.
I was the only person directly responsible for the mail server, and I considered it a sign that something was wrong if it took more than 5-10 seconds for email to get delivered (users with 400MB mailboxes that insisted on checking them every 5 minutes excepted).
Yeah.. It'd go real nice with the lockpick set.
Not that I want to be nitpicky, or anything, but aren't burglery tools considered illegal in most jurisdictions? Perhaps they're only to help her 'make backups of her dorm room contents'?
Apparently (and undocumented in the article referenced by the first post), at the heart of the suit is the fact that MS claims ownership of anything that is posted on their website.
They own it; they disseminate it; they're responsible for it. Suite and simple.
Because MS is trying to get greedy with the content, they don't have much choice. If they disclaim ownership of the content, then their contract with (possibly unsuspecting) users would be useless, becsuse anybody who didn't like MS having rights to their software would be able to point to MS's claims in this lawsuit, and MS would be estopped from claiming otherwise. Thus, MS had to defend the suit without disclaiming ownership of the stuff that got posted by one of their users.
In other words, this lawsuit would not apply to the likes of slashdot that acknowledges that doesn't try to get greedy with it's posters' IP.
MS got hoist by their own greedy little petard. Get out there and party in the streets -- and when you're done slobbering over those (fake) nude Steffi pics on MSN (that MSH claims ownership of), be sure to send a copy to her lawyers.
If you own it and publish it, you're responsible for it. If MS hadn't been greedy and demanded ownership of their users' work, they wouldn't have had to deal with this lawsuit.
If CSS is simply trade-secret, and not patented, then all these newcommers have to do is use DECSS in their players (and possibly include a copy of the source code with every player!!! :-)
Besides, chances are you don't want to mislead people as to what your reply address is if you're sending them email
Unless, of course, you're a spammer!