It's still early in the conversion cycle. IDC says servers running Linux represent only 5% of the servers in operation, compared with 27% for Windows and 43% for Unix, the umbrella term for the proprietary operating systems largely in use by IBM, HP, and Sun. And there are still big business applications like Siebel's that don't yet support Linux. But IDC predicts that by 2006, Linux and Windows will have all but replaced Unix as the dominant server operating systems. It forecasts that 26% of servers in operation will be running Linux, 56% will be running Windows, and only 12% will be running Unix.
Yes im sure MS is shaking in their boots about the prospect of more than doubling their server market share in a 3 year period according to these projections (which yes, could certainly be flawed but nonetheless it sure looks like good news for them to me)
Of course that projection of Linux more than quintipling their share ain't to shabby either;)
The Intel COO also outlined LaGrande Technology (LT), which will be integrated into Intel processors in the future. LT technology will be the core hardware technology that helps create a safer computing environment for e-Business, enabling protected execution, memory and storage." This of course would have nothing to do with the evils of Palladium [slashdot.org], would it?
Yes of course it's some big Intel conspiracy to make you want their newfangled DRM processors, it's certainly not like AMD is going to be doing the exact same thing
This is about processor advances, not processor crippling, which both companies will be a party too, and which very may well scare off many geeks from said advances, though it's fairly certain that mainstream users will care less.
haha well in washington state here we have a real networks CEO so i suppose she would be spam savvy on her own but im really worried about some of the 60 or 70 + year old senators who dont have the time to learn how to deal with it.
It doesnt really matter how computer savvy that politician is, in my opinion...
None of em are just reading their emails on their own (unless it comes from a certain list of adresses), just like none of em field general phone calls from the public themselves, or read faxes that havent been first screened. That what their aides do, and you can bet the young interns that hold these positions probably do have a clue about these things.
Fact is no matter what you write, call about, or email there is only one way to actually get your point heard, and thats to be articulate and convincing about something that may serve the politician well later when looking for talking points in a debate, form letters won't cut it... everything else gets you 1 more checkmark in the pro or con column of numbers that they will look at later on.
take a look at newegg.com and look at the P4 processors... a 2.8 ghz northwood is 550 bucks, a 2.4 ghz northwood is 202 bucks. at those kind of pricing differences i cant imagine the extra 350 being an attractive deal to very many people.
i've always believed that when upgrading you were best off to buy at least a few notches below the "latest and greatest" and with pricing systems like this it looks like lots of people are starting to feel the same way
there is a big thread thats been going about this situation over at dslreports.
if you dig a page or two back into the thread quite a few users seemed to have success by using some http tunnelling software so they were on a non throttled port. might just find an answer to your problem in there if ya look
Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White....
hey now dont go dissin Barry White, that man's croonin can really turn a woman on... heck it may even cause a need to break out one of those newfangled Lin3x Condoms;)
You come equipped with lots of cash, which you show me before we begin for verification.
I show you to a workstation equipped with VB6 as well as VB.NET for your convenience. You are not allowed to use any materials you brought with you - this is a "from scratch" project.
Step 3 is where this will all start to breakdown, since at this point i will be off to enjoy my air-fare free vacation and you will not be likely to see me again... but hey it sounds fun, what city is this fine excursion to anyways?:)
Today i read Slashdot and suddenly feel that maybe the time is ripe for PGP for just plain old email's... when just yesterday i read a article asking me not to do that;)
Decent article came out this weekend here about college webcasting troubles. Lot's of college stations are gonna fold up shop (the webcasting part at least) because of this it looks like.
I remember when the rates were being discussed on NPR with a recording industry exec there, he flat out stated that the rates being proposed would only be a guideline and that they would gladly negotiate lower fees or possibly drop them all together for non profits (and also even commercial stations who played the music they "want promoted"). It sure sounds like they forgot all about that part now that the fees are set doesn't it?
they dont need to keep taking ISP's to court, they just need to get a precedent set that this quote from the article does indeed apply to the situation:
At issue in the RIAA's request is an obscure part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that permits a copyright owner to send a subpoena ordering a "service provider" to turn over information about a subscriber
After the precedent is set most ISP's will just hand over the subscriber's name is my guess... of course there's always a chance that the precedent goes the other way, but it looks like a long shot from the wording of that quote.
better read than the linked article which is kinda light on detail. interesting to note that the FBI states in it that using a 802.11 access point without "explicit authorization" may be a federal crime
Does it implies that in US you have no expectation of privacy when using computer at work, public library or internet kiosk?
In the U.S in general you have very little privacy in the workplace (which would seem to be the closest fit here). They are basically free to monitor your every keystroke really.
Is my employer allowed to see what is on my terminal while I am working?
Generally, yes. Since the employer owns the computer network and the terminals, he or she is free to use them to monitor employees.
Employees are given some protection from computer and other forms of electronic monitoring under certain circumstances. Union contracts, for example, may limit the employer's right to monitor. Also, public sector employees may have some minimal rights under the United States Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment which safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure
I doubt the union part applies, ermm UFRH (united federation of russian hackers) is notorious for their poor contracts;) They can call on the fourth amendment all they like, but frankly they were using a computer that belonged to someone else when they gave thoose passwords, and that is their downfall (in US courts at least).
Would be interesting to see how it would play out for the FBI agents in a foreign court, but ya can bet there is no chance they will ever see one. FBI would never allow em out of the country unless they knew the whole mess that was possible from it was over with, because of the publicity that would come of it
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***START**THE SMALL PRINT!**FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS**START*** Why is this "Small Print!" statement here? You know: lawyers. They tell us you might sue us if there is something wrong with your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our fault. So, among other things, this "Small Print!" statement disclaims most of our liability to you. It also tells you how you can distribute copies of this etext if you want to.
i'm not sure i could afford the lawyers required to do so, even if i wanted to throw a few months away doing so;)
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i thought some of his points would be fairly obvious to a broader group of individuals than computer geeks (the teach your aibo to dance jazz, and the you cant print any pages of this public domain work of Aristotle's e-book for example)...
sure the whole thing makes more sense to people who actually really care about the issue, but it's not so narrow that an average person might not get a grasp on the scope of it either.
i didn't get the impression that he is totally against copyright in any form, just that the state of where copyright is right now really does suck.
I could not tolerate that without a radio or some mind-altering drug or *something* to relieve the boredom.
Don't worry then, you will fit right in. I highly recommend Kitchen Confidential... it's quite a hilarious read, and isn't too far off from what i encountered when i used to cook professionally.
when Hollings proposed that hardware be restricted everyone cried that why should our computers be crippled to stop the thieves. A common sentiment was that it should be the record companies responsibility to seek out and bring charges against infringers, not hardware makers.
Well you can't have it both ways, now that they want to actually go after the copyright infringers directly, people don't seem to happy about that either.
They *are* going to do something about all of this, and this solution sure beats the hell out of everyone having to buy crippled hardware... if you really dont think a 20$ CD is worth buying then it shouldn't bug you too much not being able to download it either.
you have to remember that Alaska (once you get north of Anchorage) is as close as it comes to the old west, their license plates don't say "last frontier" for nothing.
i remember working up there one summer and wanting to fly to a non-dry town for the weekend so i could get liquored up... the guy who flew me literally pulled his plane out of a barn for the flight. they don't even have real roads between many towns up there, bush planes are very common.
this ain't American Airlines they are reffering to with those stats, but it is pretty cool getting to sit up in the cockpit next to the pilot and learn a bit about flying (assuming you survive);)
that would be pointless, the MIT guy didn't even attempt to break MS's 128 bit RC4 encryption in the first place.
their weakness was that the data actually travels un-encrypted along a high speed bus on the mainboard for a very short run, and is checked after that run for a 32 bit "magic number" at the end of their plaintext stream... that is the spot he watched, he made a lil device that plugged into that bus and read the data as it streamed unencrypted.
unless they encrypted traffic on that bus it would be totally pointless, and the MIT guy who did the research also points out all the complications that doing so would cause (latency, power consumption, reliability)
his research (pdf warning) really is a good read if you havent gone through it yet.
i don't particularly care for ICANN either, but in regards to what this article is about i basically support them.
Verisign and the other registrars want control over how much they can charge per domain instead of being capped.
VeriSign runs dot-com, dot-net and dot-org under agreements with ICANN that prevent VeriSign from raising the wholesale price of the addresses it sells ($6), or substantially changing the way it runs the domains.
how much you think they would want to charge for their Ultra-Premium DOT.COM domains if they were free to choose their own rates... they made their deal to charge that price, let em stick with it
speaking of individually listing congressmen who are for/against these things. is there any easy way to get voting records for what they actually did in previous congressional votes? i'd like to know what my representatives voted for last term before i go to the polls.
Don't know if there is any easy way to check on it, but you can find records of any bill's vote in the senate here, and in the house here
it takes a little time though, gotta go through and click which session the bill was voted on during, then click the number of the bill itself, then click "Bill status", then wade thru all the different yea and nays it goes through till it ends (they vote on some of these things a LOT of times as various ammendments are proposed, and finding the real final vote can be a fair bit of work)
It's all there, but it's far from user friendly and designed for the masses, doubt many people spend much time doing it. Probably mostly done by reporters and politicians looking to dig up dirt on their opponents. An easy to use site that made it all fairly quick to check on would be sweet, but it would likely entail a lot of time and effort.
Slashdot Mirror
from the article:
;)
It's still early in the conversion cycle. IDC says servers running Linux represent only 5% of the servers in operation, compared with 27% for Windows and 43% for Unix, the umbrella term for the proprietary operating systems largely in use by IBM, HP, and Sun. And there are still big business applications like Siebel's that don't yet support Linux. But IDC predicts that by 2006, Linux and Windows will have all but replaced Unix as the dominant server operating systems. It forecasts that 26% of servers in operation will be running Linux, 56% will be running Windows, and only 12% will be running Unix.
Yes im sure MS is shaking in their boots about the prospect of more than doubling their server market share in a 3 year period according to these projections (which yes, could certainly be flawed but nonetheless it sure looks like good news for them to me)
Of course that projection of Linux more than quintipling their share ain't to shabby either
The Intel COO also outlined LaGrande Technology (LT), which will be integrated into Intel processors in the future. LT technology will be the core hardware technology that helps create a safer computing environment for e-Business, enabling protected execution, memory and storage."
This of course would have nothing to do with the evils of Palladium [slashdot.org], would it?
Yes of course it's some big Intel conspiracy to make you want their newfangled DRM processors, it's certainly not like AMD is going to be doing the exact same thing
This is about processor advances, not processor crippling, which both companies will be a party too, and which very may well scare off many geeks from said advances, though it's fairly certain that mainstream users will care less.
haha well in washington state here we have a real networks CEO so i suppose she would be spam savvy on her own but im really worried about some of the 60 or 70 + year old senators who dont have the time to learn how to deal with it.
It doesnt really matter how computer savvy that politician is, in my opinion...
None of em are just reading their emails on their own (unless it comes from a certain list of adresses), just like none of em field general phone calls from the public themselves, or read faxes that havent been first screened. That what their aides do, and you can bet the young interns that hold these positions probably do have a clue about these things.
Fact is no matter what you write, call about, or email there is only one way to actually get your point heard, and thats to be articulate and convincing about something that may serve the politician well later when looking for talking points in a debate, form letters won't cut it... everything else gets you 1 more checkmark in the pro or con column of numbers that they will look at later on.
it's way more pronounced than that.
take a look at newegg.com and look at the P4 processors... a 2.8 ghz northwood is 550 bucks, a 2.4 ghz northwood is 202 bucks. at those kind of pricing differences i cant imagine the extra 350 being an attractive deal to very many people.
i've always believed that when upgrading you were best off to buy at least a few notches below the "latest and greatest" and with pricing systems like this it looks like lots of people are starting to feel the same way
there is a big thread thats been going about this situation over at dslreports.
if you dig a page or two back into the thread quite a few users seemed to have success by using some http tunnelling software so they were on a non throttled port. might just find an answer to your problem in there if ya look
Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White....
;)
hey now dont go dissin Barry White, that man's croonin can really turn a woman on... heck it may even cause a need to break out one of those newfangled Lin3x Condoms
What do I get for the other $750
;)
ehh looking at the description of the HP version, the answer appears to be:
DVD +R/RW drive, twice the RAM, a better processor, a 200 watt Klipsch sound system, a Ge Force4... and a whole bunch of annoying DRM crap
I pay for your flight to my city.
:)
You come equipped with lots of cash, which you show me before we begin for verification.
I show you to a workstation equipped with VB6 as well as VB.NET for your convenience. You are not allowed to use any materials you brought with you - this is a "from scratch" project.
Step 3 is where this will all start to breakdown, since at this point i will be off to enjoy my air-fare free vacation and you will not be likely to see me again... but hey it sounds fun, what city is this fine excursion to anyways?
and of course if you don't have IN_MP3.DLL it will be widely available on all those P2P networks that people like to "backup their CDs" from
Today i read Slashdot and suddenly feel that maybe the time is ripe for PGP for just plain old email's... when just yesterday i read a article asking me not to do that ;)
Decent article came out this weekend here about college webcasting troubles. Lot's of college stations are gonna fold up shop (the webcasting part at least) because of this it looks like.
I remember when the rates were being discussed on NPR with a recording industry exec there, he flat out stated that the rates being proposed would only be a guideline and that they would gladly negotiate lower fees or possibly drop them all together for non profits (and also even commercial stations who played the music they "want promoted"). It sure sounds like they forgot all about that part now that the fees are set doesn't it?
they dont need to keep taking ISP's to court, they just need to get a precedent set that this quote from the article does indeed apply to the situation:
At issue in the RIAA's request is an obscure part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that permits a copyright owner to send a subpoena ordering a "service provider" to turn over information about a subscriber
After the precedent is set most ISP's will just hand over the subscriber's name is my guess... of course there's always a chance that the precedent goes the other way, but it looks like a long shot from the wording of that quote.
link to the actual Pittshburgh FBI email
better read than the linked article which is kinda light on detail. interesting to note that the FBI states in it that using a 802.11 access point without "explicit authorization" may be a federal crime
The judge ruled the data legal in court in May of 2001... well before the Patriot Act
Does it implies that in US you have no expectation of privacy when using computer at work, public library or internet kiosk?
;) They can call on the fourth amendment all they like, but frankly they were using a computer that belonged to someone else when they gave thoose passwords, and that is their downfall (in US courts at least).
In the U.S in general you have very little privacy in the workplace (which would seem to be the closest fit here). They are basically free to monitor your every keystroke really.
Taken from this overview...
Is my employer allowed to see what is on my terminal while I am working?
Generally, yes. Since the employer owns the computer network and the terminals, he or she is free to use them to monitor employees.
Employees are given some protection from computer and other forms of electronic monitoring under certain circumstances. Union contracts, for example, may limit the employer's right to monitor. Also, public sector employees may have some minimal rights under the United States Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment which safeguards against unreasonable search and seizure
I doubt the union part applies, ermm UFRH (united federation of russian hackers) is notorious for their poor contracts
Would be interesting to see how it would play out for the FBI agents in a foreign court, but ya can bet there is no chance they will ever see one. FBI would never allow em out of the country unless they knew the whole mess that was possible from it was over with, because of the publicity that would come of it
Judging by the pages of legal disclaimers at the Gutenberg Project's version of freely distributed public domain work like Aristotle's
;)
***START**THE SMALL PRINT!**FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS**START***
Why is this "Small Print!" statement here? You know: lawyers.
They tell us you might sue us if there is something wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault. So, among other things, this "Small Print!" statement
disclaims most of our liability to you. It also tells you how
you can distribute copies of this etext if you want to.
i'm not sure i could afford the lawyers required to do so, even if i wanted to throw a few months away doing so
i thought some of his points would be fairly obvious to a broader group of individuals than computer geeks (the teach your aibo to dance jazz, and the you cant print any pages of this public domain work of Aristotle's e-book for example)...
sure the whole thing makes more sense to people who actually really care about the issue, but it's not so narrow that an average person might not get a grasp on the scope of it either.
i didn't get the impression that he is totally against copyright in any form, just that the state of where copyright is right now really does suck.
I could not tolerate that without a radio or some mind-altering drug or *something* to relieve the boredom.
... it's quite a hilarious read, and isn't too far off from what i encountered when i used to cook professionally.
Don't worry then, you will fit right in. I highly recommend Kitchen Confidential
when Hollings proposed that hardware be restricted everyone cried that why should our computers be crippled to stop the thieves. A common sentiment was that it should be the record companies responsibility to seek out and bring charges against infringers, not hardware makers.
Well you can't have it both ways, now that they want to actually go after the copyright infringers directly, people don't seem to happy about that either.
They *are* going to do something about all of this, and this solution sure beats the hell out of everyone having to buy crippled hardware... if you really dont think a 20$ CD is worth buying then it shouldn't bug you too much not being able to download it either.
you have to remember that Alaska (once you get north of Anchorage) is as close as it comes to the old west, their license plates don't say "last frontier" for nothing.
;)
i remember working up there one summer and wanting to fly to a non-dry town for the weekend so i could get liquored up... the guy who flew me literally pulled his plane out of a barn for the flight. they don't even have real roads between many towns up there, bush planes are very common.
this ain't American Airlines they are reffering to with those stats, but it is pretty cool getting to sit up in the cockpit next to the pilot and learn a bit about flying (assuming you survive)
i know that if i go pay a man to kill my wife that i can be charged with murder.
if Rosen pays someone to hack for her why shouldn't she be responsible for it in the same fashion
either that, or a whole slew of checks made payable to Aussie politicians insuring that those "silly" pro-consumer laws get fixed
that would be pointless, the MIT guy didn't even attempt to break MS's 128 bit RC4 encryption in the first place.
their weakness was that the data actually travels un-encrypted along a high speed bus on the mainboard for a very short run, and is checked after that run for a 32 bit "magic number" at the end of their plaintext stream... that is the spot he watched, he made a lil device that plugged into that bus and read the data as it streamed unencrypted.
unless they encrypted traffic on that bus it would be totally pointless, and the MIT guy who did the research also points out all the complications that doing so would cause (latency, power consumption, reliability)
his research (pdf warning) really is a good read if you havent gone through it yet.
i don't particularly care for ICANN either, but in regards to what this article is about i basically support them.
Verisign and the other registrars want control over how much they can charge per domain instead of being capped.
VeriSign runs dot-com, dot-net and dot-org under agreements with ICANN that prevent VeriSign from raising the wholesale price of the addresses it sells ($6), or substantially changing the way it runs the domains.
how much you think they would want to charge for their Ultra-Premium DOT.COM domains if they were free to choose their own rates... they made their deal to charge that price, let em stick with it
speaking of individually listing congressmen who are for/against these things. is there any easy way to get voting records for what they actually did in previous congressional votes? i'd like to know what my representatives voted for last term before i go to the polls.
Don't know if there is any easy way to check on it, but you can find records of any bill's vote in the senate here, and in the house here
it takes a little time though, gotta go through and click which session the bill was voted on during, then click the number of the bill itself, then click "Bill status", then wade thru all the different yea and nays it goes through till it ends (they vote on some of these things a LOT of times as various ammendments are proposed, and finding the real final vote can be a fair bit of work)
It's all there, but it's far from user friendly and designed for the masses, doubt many people spend much time doing it. Probably mostly done by reporters and politicians looking to dig up dirt on their opponents. An easy to use site that made it all fairly quick to check on would be sweet, but it would likely entail a lot of time and effort.