I have had this phenomenom for quite some time now. For the longest time, I thought I didn't know enough and R & RRTFM over and over again. It turned out that things are just broken. One of the problems I noticed with it is that it seems to pick up multiple sound "chipsets" in my computer, yet I have no built-in sound card. I assume it's coming from something in the sound card itself in how it identifies itself to the kernel upon bootup. As it turns out, a lot of my problems went away when I switched programs that were intelligent enough (xmms,...) onto the second "chipset", and most times it works. I don't actually understand it or wy it does/does not work, this is just from noodling with things so much. Now it's been a while since I monkeyed with it. The last I used my Linux box was back in November, before I got my G4 Powerbook =P
Regardless of what you may or may not feel you own, you are not entitled to a free copy because of "extenuating circumstances." You are paying for an upgrade that is completely different from what you were previously using. This is especially true of a move from Windows 2k/Me to XP, which is a huge change in a whole bunch of features. Think of it this way. Let's say you bought a Honda Accord in 1999. Now you see these new generations of Accords that are coming out, and you want one, you just gotta have one. However, the dealership isn't just going to give you an upgrade to the new Honda just because you bought from them previously. If you were leasing (read as: licensing) your first Accord, chances are your lease for the newer Accord will be higher because of the more advanced features and whatnot. Same thing here. And please don't try the tack of "making rich people richer" either. They are rich because they worked hard for it, whether or not you agree with their business practices. Bill Gates is not entitled to hand you a $200 check just because you are poor and he is not. What rubbish! What on earth are they indoctrinating kids with these days?
I didn't move to Linux because it was cheap, but now that I use it, I find the TCO of my box is very pleasing.
$ cd leaves_worm $./configure checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached)/usr/bin/ginstall -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for libvirus... no checking for alternate virus libraries/usr/lib/libvirus/usr/local/lib/libvirus/lib/modules/current/libvirus... no ERROR, libvirus.so not found, terminating
Sent via: Via Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested Re: Re: Infringements of AT&T Copyrights and Trademarks
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As you are, no doubt, aware, AT&T owns the rights to ATT, AT&T, or anything relating to or sounding vaguely like the phoenetic sound of "at." These rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks.
We have recently learned that you have have been using the words "at", "attack", "attachment", and any and all words beginning with "AT" in your book entitle the "Dictionary" Your addition of these items in your book is an infringement of AT&T's rights.
Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that your confirm to us in writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (i) you have removed all infringing materials from your book; and (ii) you will refrain from adding any similar infringing material in the future.
The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of AT&T Telecommunications Corporation, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
But consider the size requirements of such a virus. Today's viruses are what, 200kb? I personally think that's absolutely HUGE. These are pretty sophisticated virii, yes, but when you go to start adding AI and all of the memory and data structures to dynamically make decisions, that will puff up the size of the virus/worm to where it's noticable. Some of the smarter virii of old could change the entries in the FAT tables to make their program appear to be very small, or the same size as the file they were trying to "replace." I haven't really heard any of this going on with these worms, they don't seem sophisticated enough. Come to think of it, they really don't seem that sophisticated at all. I guess what I'm getting at is that users are going to start noticing when a virus tacks on 1.2 MB to their file download. Or perhaps I give the average user way too much credit.
Isn't Slashdot here to seek NEWS articles, not propoganda? I agree that this has some value to it, and I'd never really heard of the leaves worm. I did learn some information here, but this article has very little technical value to it. It reminds me of something like Beowulf, only not nearly as well written.
I don't know, seems to have quite the spin on it, almost a dramatic flair not usually found in normal reports. "But there was a hitch. The private experts were uneasy. Could they trust the G-men?" Whoever wrote this probably wasn't going for academic excellence in reporting. There's also a similiar and much better article here on the Gibson Research Corp website. It's qutie a bit less fantastical and more technical. And LONG!
I agree, and I think the issue that you're really hit upon is one of quality vs quantity. The computer industries have been pursuing the latter strategy for quite a long time. When apple started to design chips that had less clock speed, took less power, and had more "muscle per clock cycle," the marketing dodos at Intel said "it's slower because ours has a bigger number" and customers believed them. The same is happening with the big AMD vs Intel battle. AMD had to rename it's line to this ridiculous 2400+ kind of stuff. Apple gave up on the clock-speed game and finally focused instead upon making beautiful products that the Apple fanatics would buy. I've never been a fan of their gear until recently, when I messed around on a Powerbook. I felt right at home in that BSD environment. I actually think that the computer industry should moving more in this direction. More towards open source, more towards beautiful and powerful products and not just pimping out hardware.
It appears that we're moving back to the days of yore, with luggables. Remeber the fledgling beginnings of the portable computer? Ratio of screen to device was like 1 to 4... Well, perhaps it's not THAT bad these days, considering that the most ponderous device on laptops is the screen. But they're still heavy. Personally, a lap top should have the ability to do things, but conserve battery power above all. These mobile PIII and Athlon chips blow me away, I'm gonna go for a Transmeta when I go up for a lap top soon.
Down here, we have what's called "First Saturday" and it happens, well, just guess when. A HUGE number of vendors, some shady, some real businesses come down and sell computer parts, electronic junk, ham radio stuff, and anything else you'd find at a garage sale. Things down there are CHEAP. I got an Athlon 1.0 GHz "C" AXIA for $90 down there, works perfectly with no problems. It's not exactly a swap-a-thon, but it's the closest we have. There's also 3rd Saturday, but I think that's died out by now.
My $0.02
Tim
Slashdot Mirror
I have had this phenomenom for quite some time now. For the longest time, I thought I didn't know enough and R & RRTFM over and over again. It turned out that things are just broken. ...) onto the second "chipset", and most times it works. I don't actually understand it or wy it does/does not work, this is just from noodling with things so much.
One of the problems I noticed with it is that it seems to pick up multiple sound "chipsets" in my computer, yet I have no built-in sound card. I assume it's coming from something in the sound card itself in how it identifies itself to the kernel upon bootup. As it turns out, a lot of my problems went away when I switched programs that were intelligent enough (xmms,
Now it's been a while since I monkeyed with it. The last I used my Linux box was back in November, before I got my G4 Powerbook =P
Regardless of what you may or may not feel you own, you are not entitled to a free copy because of "extenuating circumstances." You are paying for an upgrade that is completely different from what you were previously using. This is especially true of a move from Windows 2k/Me to XP, which is a huge change in a whole bunch of features.
Think of it this way. Let's say you bought a Honda Accord in 1999. Now you see these new generations of Accords that are coming out, and you want one, you just gotta have one. However, the dealership isn't just going to give you an upgrade to the new Honda just because you bought from them previously. If you were leasing (read as: licensing) your first Accord, chances are your lease for the newer Accord will be higher because of the more advanced features and whatnot. Same thing here.
And please don't try the tack of "making rich people richer" either. They are rich because they worked hard for it, whether or not you agree with their business practices. Bill Gates is not entitled to hand you a $200 check just because you are poor and he is not. What rubbish! What on earth are they indoctrinating kids with these days?
I didn't move to Linux because it was cheap, but now that I use it, I find the TCO of my box is very pleasing.
$ cd leaves_worm ./configure /usr/bin/ginstall -c /usr/lib/libvirus /usr/local/lib/libvirus /lib/modules/current/libvirus ... no
$
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached)
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for libvirus... no
checking for alternate virus libraries
ERROR, libvirus.so not found, terminating
Sent via: Via Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested
Re: Re: Infringements of AT&T Copyrights and Trademarks
I write as attorney for AT&T Telecommuncations Corporation.
As you are, no doubt, aware, AT&T owns the rights to ATT, AT&T, or anything relating to or sounding vaguely like the phoenetic sound of "at." These rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks.
We have recently learned that you have have been using the words "at", "attack", "attachment", and any and all words beginning with "AT" in your book entitle the "Dictionary" Your addition of these items in your book is an infringement of AT&T's rights.
Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that your confirm to us in writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (i) you have removed all infringing materials from your book; and (ii) you will refrain from adding any similar infringing material in the future.
The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of AT&T Telecommunications Corporation, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
Very truly yours,
[Attorney]
Even less of an issue if said person is using a Dvorak keyboard. The M and O keys are basically on opposite sides (as they should be).
But consider the size requirements of such a virus. Today's viruses are what, 200kb? I personally think that's absolutely HUGE. These are pretty sophisticated virii, yes, but when you go to start adding AI and all of the memory and data structures to dynamically make decisions, that will puff up the size of the virus/worm to where it's noticable.
Some of the smarter virii of old could change the entries in the FAT tables to make their program appear to be very small, or the same size as the file they were trying to "replace." I haven't really heard any of this going on with these worms, they don't seem sophisticated enough. Come to think of it, they really don't seem that sophisticated at all.
I guess what I'm getting at is that users are going to start noticing when a virus tacks on 1.2 MB to their file download. Or perhaps I give the average user way too much credit.
Isn't Slashdot here to seek NEWS articles, not propoganda? I agree that this has some value to it, and I'd never really heard of the leaves worm. I did learn some information here, but this article has very little technical value to it. It reminds me of something like Beowulf, only not nearly as well written.
I don't know, seems to have quite the spin on it, almost a dramatic flair not usually found in normal reports. "But there was a hitch. The private experts were uneasy. Could they trust the G-men?" Whoever wrote this probably wasn't going for academic excellence in reporting.
There's also a similiar and much better article here on the Gibson Research Corp website. It's qutie a bit less fantastical and more technical. And LONG!
I agree, and I think the issue that you're really hit upon is one of quality vs quantity. The computer industries have been pursuing the latter strategy for quite a long time. When apple started to design chips that had less clock speed, took less power, and had more "muscle per clock cycle," the marketing dodos at Intel said "it's slower because ours has a bigger number" and customers believed them. The same is happening with the big AMD vs Intel battle. AMD had to rename it's line to this ridiculous 2400+ kind of stuff.
Apple gave up on the clock-speed game and finally focused instead upon making beautiful products that the Apple fanatics would buy. I've never been a fan of their gear until recently, when I messed around on a Powerbook. I felt right at home in that BSD environment. I actually think that the computer industry should moving more in this direction. More towards open source, more towards beautiful and powerful products and not just pimping out hardware.
It appears that we're moving back to the days of yore, with luggables. Remeber the fledgling beginnings of the portable computer? Ratio of screen to device was like 1 to 4 ...
Well, perhaps it's not THAT bad these days, considering that the most ponderous device on laptops is the screen. But they're still heavy. Personally, a lap top should have the ability to do things, but conserve battery power above all. These mobile PIII and Athlon chips blow me away, I'm gonna go for a Transmeta when I go up for a lap top soon.
Down here, we have what's called "First Saturday" and it happens, well, just guess when. A HUGE number of vendors, some shady, some real businesses come down and sell computer parts, electronic junk, ham radio stuff, and anything else you'd find at a garage sale. Things down there are CHEAP. I got an Athlon 1.0 GHz "C" AXIA for $90 down there, works perfectly with no problems. It's not exactly a swap-a-thon, but it's the closest we have. There's also 3rd Saturday, but I think that's died out by now. My $0.02 Tim