At what level of penetration (% install base share) will Linux reach critical mass on the desktop? It's much less relevant from a server perspective since it appears that Linux already has reached critical mass on that front.
I mean, really.
What are the primary means of assessing Linux usage statistics, and how reliable are these methods? Also, what types of methods are used to offset each method's failings?
Without knowing that how could us say that critical mass has been reached?
With WiFi, the poor can take advantage of the many wealth-building opportunities provided by the Internet, ranging from multi-million dollar gifts from Nigeria to sure-thing casino accounts to free university diplomas.
David Brumley and Dan Boneh writes "Timing attacks are usually used to attack civilians buildings such as WTC. We show that timing attacks apply to several towers. Specifically, we devise a timing attack against USA. Our experiments show that we can collapse WTC from a pathetic weapon such as two planes with only 4 terrorists inside. Our results demonstrate that timing attacks against big towers are practical. Subsequently, infidels should implement defenses against timing attacks. Our paper can be found at Al Quada's Applied Crypto Group."
Creating laws, regulations, and whatnot will come nowhere near solving the problems. Sure, if a spammer lives in the US then maybe this would work; but what about all these scams from Europe, Australia, Britain, etc. Just because laws exist in one jurisdication, it doesn't mean that others will play ball. And even having laws does nothing if they're not enforced. Why not have a group of IT police hunt down spammers? After all, they're already guilty of theft and fraud (think bandwidth people). Why not prosecute under existing laws and treat spammers like the theives they are. Even though you won't catch spammers outside your legal jurisdicition, you'll help. And every country that helps would quickly be eliminating the spam problem we live with.
Now Microsoft is hoping to end when has become known as DLL Hell by building into Windows Server 2003 a system that will stop updated DLLs installed by new applications from overwriting older versions of the same DLLs that may still be used by existing applications.
Some interesting excerpts for those to lazy to click through:
"...any person who 'invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent,' subject to the conditions and requirements of the law."
The patent law specifies that the subject matter must be "useful."
"... patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc..."
In a lot of ways, Sun is the MS of the commercial UNIX world, but they have an impressive record of making contributions to the community. the most notable contribution was probably NFS, and Sun gave it away long before most of us had ever heard of the GPL. Solaris has lots of goodies in it, obviously including great NFS support, but also pleasant standardisation and maturity, which Linux still somewhat lacks. Solaris is also rock solid. Sure, Linux can have multi-year uptimes, but it doesn't really compare to Solaris. When you want to run a giant website with 100's of CPU's, you turn to Solaris, and you don't even care that you get raped on the price of the hardware.
I imagine that Sun is doing this because they know they won't make any money pushing beige box PC's. (SGI sure didn't.) By just selling the OS, they may not sell a ton of copies, but the profit margins on software are pretty sweet, if you can pay off the cost of development.
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should have said "land of fee"
5x faster SPAMing from dial up IPs
At what level of penetration (% install base share) will Linux reach critical mass on the desktop? It's much less relevant from a server perspective since it appears that Linux already has reached critical mass on that front.
I mean, really.
What are the primary means of assessing Linux usage statistics, and how reliable are these methods? Also, what types of methods are used to offset each method's failings?
Without knowing that how could us say that critical mass has been reached?
The correct link for the article is here
Users tend to be dumb, the problem is when editors ARE dumb.
With WiFi, the poor can take advantage of the many wealth-building opportunities provided by the Internet, ranging from multi-million dollar gifts from Nigeria to sure-thing casino accounts to free university diplomas.
If we can't trust society with a cup of hot McDonalds coffee how can we trust people with phase change methanol?
I can see the warnings stickered to future laptops: Do not use this laptop near an open flame. Smoking near this laptop is strictly prohibited!
I run 2.2 kernel you insensitive clod!
Make an idiot proof software and they will make a better idiot.
David Brumley and Dan Boneh writes "Timing attacks are usually used to attack civilians buildings such as WTC. We show that timing attacks apply to several towers. Specifically, we devise a timing attack against USA. Our experiments show that we can collapse WTC from a pathetic weapon such as two planes with only 4 terrorists inside. Our results demonstrate that timing attacks against big towers are practical. Subsequently, infidels should implement defenses against timing attacks. Our paper can be found at Al Quada's Applied Crypto Group."
Those r all ia32 and the old releases for IA64, Sparc, UltraSparc and Alpha.
:)
Try research in the future.
Try reading the hole page
i would rather use a fly
Creating laws, regulations, and whatnot will come nowhere near solving the problems. Sure, if a spammer lives in the US then maybe this would work; but what about all these scams from Europe, Australia, Britain, etc. Just because laws exist in one jurisdication, it doesn't mean that others will play ball. And even having laws does nothing if they're not enforced. Why not have a group of IT police hunt down spammers? After all, they're already guilty of theft and fraud (think bandwidth people). Why not prosecute under existing laws and treat spammers like the theives they are. Even though you won't catch spammers outside your legal jurisdicition, you'll help. And every country that helps would quickly be eliminating the spam problem we live with.
Ill be sending my refund form right now!
I really can't see the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough
:)
Aim at the missiles source
Now Microsoft is hoping to end when has become known as DLL Hell by building into Windows Server 2003 a system that will stop updated DLLs installed by new applications from overwriting older versions of the same DLLs that may still be used by existing applications.
W2003 - W95 = 8 Years to have that briliant idea!
Shall we sue now? Or sue later?
The US Patent Office has a page on "What can be Patented"
Some interesting excerpts for those to lazy to click through:
"...any person who 'invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent,' subject to the conditions and requirements of the law."
The patent law specifies that the subject matter must be "useful."
"... patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc..."
I dont think a trashcan icon fits that.
Me troll? This is a god damm dup! Check reposts first after modn someone troll.
News for the Amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.
News for the Amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.
Memo? No! Im really about to do something about that damm printer!
In a lot of ways, Sun is the MS of the commercial UNIX world, but they have an impressive record of making contributions to the community. the most notable contribution was probably NFS, and Sun gave it away long before most of us had ever heard of the GPL. Solaris has lots of goodies in it, obviously including great NFS support, but also pleasant standardisation and maturity, which Linux still somewhat lacks. Solaris is also rock solid. Sure, Linux can have multi-year uptimes, but it doesn't really compare to Solaris. When you want to run a giant website with 100's of CPU's, you turn to Solaris, and you don't even care that you get raped on the price of the hardware.
I imagine that Sun is doing this because they know they won't make any money pushing beige box PC's. (SGI sure didn't.) By just selling the OS, they may not sell a ton of copies, but the profit margins on software are pretty sweet, if you can pay off the cost of development.
If only somebody can invent software that would make the random writings/thoughts of millions of nitwits worth reading.
THAT would be a blog revolution!