SCO already looked at the MyDoom code and have determined beyond a shadow of a doubt based on the opinions of their technical developers that MyDoom could not have been written by the open source community. They suspect IBM currently.
The message primarily comes from Michael Surkan. This IS NOT the first time he has tried this. Mr. Surkan is notorious for the article titled:
I Come Not to Praise Linux...
..written in 1998 (all links I believe are dead for this ZD article).
Claiming to be an "engineer", Mr. Surkan lures Linux people into responding either directly or to his survey. The information is then apparently used when discussing Microsoft products with companies that are using Linux or considering the use of Linux.
Mr. Surkan uses a similar technique for any market area for which Microsoft has a vested interest. Not just Linux.
This actually VERY interesting if true. Microsoft desperately needed to KILL VMware... a direct acquisition and kill might of been a bit too "obvious"... a takeover of EMC followed by a kill of VMware is indirect enough to avoid the "monopoly" police. Very, very interesting. It's a Get Out Jail Free card for Microsoft!! (if true)
Unlike Suse, they never used any gimmicks like shipping a closed source admin tool to keep the iso's from being copied....
...thus giving SUSE a viable business model at the consumer end.
BTW, you know if any other distro had contributed as much as RedHat has they'd crow a lot more about it....
...unless they are true contributors who are not looking at their ridiculous valuations, contributors that aren't just trying to get their names in lights!
I'm sorry, but RH is a very arrogant company, with a larger... HUGE... SUPER HUGE valuation. They don't offer good support for ISVs (you're on your own with RH).. their support is strictly web and email based... they are NOT interested in real enterprise level support.... and now... they're not interested in providing any true support for the general consumer.
RH used to be a company of inovation... now it is a PUBLIC company run by their investors. They only thing RH is interested in is their own financial bottom line... money is their primary focus.
Make a deal with RH and you get contracts first, substance later. Make a hand shake deal with SUSE and you get product, many times with no strings attached. Perhaps not the best big stinking corporation business model... but it's a model that builds a true trust relationship.
RH (as of late) has never impressed me as really wanting to help further GNU/Linux UNLESS RH can directly show substantive financial gain.
I'd rather pay SUSE for CDs than RH for promises of things to come.
For the record, I've been using various distros since '95 and though my memory isn't always the best, but you're going to have to dig up some cold hard facts to change my opinion of RedHat.
If RH works for you... USE THEM! Shoot, you can make your own choices. I use RH... they are not my preference, but if a customer wants RH, give them RH!! However, if it is a serious, large scale enterprise deployment, to me... there's only once choice... and that's SUSE. I have to do WAY to much work to get RH to do what I need it to do. I just don't have the time to fix up RH for a deployment.
Liberty Alliance is a way for BUSINESSES to establish trust relationships with regards to YOUR personal data. Yep.. trust one vendor, and if he's a friend to another vendor (duh) they get your info as well. Isn't that convenient.
One problem... you can't manage your own certificates!! HA!!
One group was intentionally left out of the Liberty Alliance... us!!
This just a Sun driven organziation whose goal is to make sure their rip-off of Passport succeeds. It may not use a server centric model, but the result is the same. Your information going to people you didn't want it to go to without any means by which you can shut it down.
In all fairness, I haven't seen this v2 thing. Maybe it has some fixes that protect the consumer in some way. When Sun did their presentation on this a year or so ago, EVERY major company in the audience RIPPED them apart with questions regarding the OWNERSHIP of their certificates.
This is all about B2B and giving the shaft to the C.
"Privacy and security are fundamental components of the identity issue, and Liberty's work has been developed with this in mind," said Piper Cole, chair of Liberty's Public Policy Expert Group and vice president of global public policy for Sun Microsystems. "Privacy is good for business and Liberty's mission is to provide the technology tools and business guidance to ensure good privacy."
Your privacy is gone with the first trust made to a company YOU don't want to have your information. Until Liberty Alliance specifies a means by which certificates can be controlled, time limited and revoked by the INDIVIDUAL... this is just a Passport wannabe.
If they don't pay up, he's going to have it towed away, possibly to Planet 10. This will cost NASA billions in recovery costs... just because they failed to pay a measly parking tab.
BTW: I have a friend a NASA that told me they turned the wheel all the way over to left, engaged the parking break and left the unit in GEAR!! Let's see them tow that!!
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What I remember is that with a little GW Basic, you could poke a value of 0x713 into address 0xfeedbad and presto!, instant full hardware accelerated 3d... even OpenGL. I remember playing quake with this config. Only having 4 colors really helped the performance out... I think I got 20 fps!! Case got hot though... really hot. You could even feel the heat in the all metal keyboard. Ouch!!
Now if I can only file down my GF5950 hsf to fit into one agp slot... getting close.... My Hercules EGA card is smaller, maybe time to convert.... I think there's a way to overclock that baby!!
Finally can use the digital port on my LCD panels!
I mean, what are you going to do.. you do a suicide move taking on IBM, alleniate every customer you have (all 5 of them) and now you dis on Hollywood... you could have been the 8 o'clock movie man!
I guess the National Enquirer will have to do... ooohh.. how about Jerry Springer!
This is to inform you that I have removed all music from my server. This means that you can no longer listen to songs using Kazaa or other P-2-P software sharing systems that might access my server.
I have done this to comply with the RIAA.
The disk the songs were on has been removed from the server....
[An audience member added: "HP has started QA with Linux on the laptop, shipping BIOS updates... Not in the old market, but in the commercial market. There needs to be pressure in the commercial market. Customers are stepping up and saying, "We're going to buy ten thousand Linux machines..." So the pressure is starting to be put on the larger vendors.]
I would warn severly against the thought that HP is actually supporting Linux in some way. This is the same company that made a full committment to JUST WINDOWS and JUST ITANIUM for its whole future. HP is a WINDOWS ONLY shop... check the record. All of this talk about Linux, though there have been some skunkworks Linux projects on the inside, is really just an HP marketing opp... do not believe ANYTHING that HP says until they actully DELIVER!! HP is a large VERY PRO MICROSOFT company... let's see the goods before listening to their oh so lovely words.
If Microsoft asks HP to stop all Linux development tomorrow, trust me... HP will stop ALL OF IT. They are 0wn3d. Their record speaks for itself.
My personal experience with HP/Compaq HW, even on the server side, is that it is somewhat problematic. If they can't get the servers to work right, do you really think they are seriously working on getting the laptop to work right?
I'm from Missourri on this one... SHOW ME HP... prove me wrong! I really, really want to be wrong.
I was walking down the alley and noticed some code listings from Netware. Some pretty good ideas, they just need to be GPL'd. There probably at least 100,000 lines of stuff we could add.
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Does 64-bit Windows mean that I'll have to reboot twice as often or half as often?
Goodnight, noble knight.
SCO already looked at the MyDoom code and have determined beyond a shadow of a doubt based on the opinions of their technical developers that MyDoom could not have been written by the open source community. They suspect IBM currently.
I just notice my Mars rover also has a bad flash. Anyone else? I smell a class action lawsuit on this one.
Sincerely yours,
Colin
I am Gravastar! Beware I live! Run! Run! Run!
I am Gravastar! I hunger! Run, Coward!
Run! Run! Run!
I wonder if XP is built on new NT technology?
Well.. almost anyway...
Unemployed. Hire me in NYC/Long Island area. Java-J2EE-PL/SQL-Pro*C-Perl-XML ...AND DCL!!
Looking forward to many more trailers! I just hope that Neo doesn't die again.
I Come Not to Praise Linux...
Claiming to be an "engineer", Mr. Surkan lures Linux people into responding either directly or to his survey. The information is then apparently used when discussing Microsoft products with companies that are using Linux or considering the use of Linux.
Mr. Surkan uses a similar technique for any market area for which Microsoft has a vested interest. Not just Linux.
You can read more: http://linuxtoday.com/news/1998111802110PS
The link I think is dead in the post... but look at the comments.
More...m l
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/23/2056205.sht
More... (guy really needs a psuedonym)a se/+0wo_qr+W_88Ks/zdisplay.html
http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/techinfobase/techinfob
(pay site link to original article)
Dig deeper and you find a lot more... a WHOLE LOT MORE. This guy has more titles than than the Library of Congress.
You can supposedly give input directly via email to lnq@microsoft.com or msurkan@microsoft.com
In case I'm not getting the reference right, robotic freezing isn't the answer either.
This actually VERY interesting if true. Microsoft desperately needed to KILL VMware... a direct acquisition and kill might of been a bit too "obvious"... a takeover of EMC followed by a kill of VMware is indirect enough to avoid the "monopoly" police. Very, very interesting. It's a Get Out Jail Free card for Microsoft!! (if true)
BTW, you know if any other distro had contributed as much as RedHat has they'd crow a lot more about it....
I'm sorry, but RH is a very arrogant company, with a larger... HUGE... SUPER HUGE valuation. They don't offer good support for ISVs (you're on your own with RH).. their support is strictly web and email based... they are NOT interested in real enterprise level support.... and now... they're not interested in providing any true support for the general consumer.
RH used to be a company of inovation... now it is a PUBLIC company run by their investors. They only thing RH is interested in is their own financial bottom line... money is their primary focus.
Make a deal with RH and you get contracts first, substance later. Make a hand shake deal with SUSE and you get product, many times with no strings attached. Perhaps not the best big stinking corporation business model... but it's a model that builds a true trust relationship.
RH (as of late) has never impressed me as really wanting to help further GNU/Linux UNLESS RH can directly show substantive financial gain.
I'd rather pay SUSE for CDs than RH for promises of things to come.
For the record, I've been using various distros since '95 and though my memory isn't always the best, but you're going to have to dig up some cold hard facts to change my opinion of RedHat.
If RH works for you ... USE THEM! Shoot, you can make your own choices. I use RH... they are not my preference, but if a customer wants RH, give them RH!! However, if it is a serious, large scale enterprise deployment, to me... there's only once choice... and that's SUSE. I have to do WAY to much work to get RH to do what I need it to do. I just don't have the time to fix up RH for a deployment.
Liberty Alliance is a way for BUSINESSES to establish trust relationships with regards to YOUR personal data. Yep.. trust one vendor, and if he's a friend to another vendor (duh) they get your info as well. Isn't that convenient.
One problem... you can't manage your own certificates!! HA!!
One group was intentionally left out of the Liberty Alliance... us!!
This just a Sun driven organziation whose goal is to make sure their rip-off of Passport succeeds. It may not use a server centric model, but the result is the same. Your information going to people you didn't want it to go to without any means by which you can shut it down.
In all fairness, I haven't seen this v2 thing. Maybe it has some fixes that protect the consumer in some way. When Sun did their presentation on this a year or so ago, EVERY major company in the audience RIPPED them apart with questions regarding the OWNERSHIP of their certificates. This is all about B2B and giving the shaft to the C.
"Privacy and security are fundamental components of the identity issue, and Liberty's work has been developed with this in mind," said Piper Cole, chair of Liberty's Public Policy Expert Group and vice president of global public policy for Sun Microsystems. "Privacy is good for business and Liberty's mission is to provide the technology tools and business guidance to ensure good privacy."
Your privacy is gone with the first trust made to a company YOU don't want to have your information. Until Liberty Alliance specifies a means by which certificates can be controlled, time limited and revoked by the INDIVIDUAL... this is just a Passport wannabe.
BTW: I have a friend a NASA that told me they turned the wheel all the way over to left, engaged the parking break and left the unit in GEAR!! Let's see them tow that!!
Now if I can only file down my GF5950 hsf to fit into one agp slot... getting close.... My Hercules EGA card is smaller, maybe time to convert.... I think there's a way to overclock that baby!!
Finally can use the digital port on my LCD panels!
I mean, what are you going to do.. you do a suicide move taking on IBM, alleniate every customer you have (all 5 of them) and now you dis on Hollywood... you could have been the 8 o'clock movie man! I guess the National Enquirer will have to do... ooohh.. how about Jerry Springer!
I have done this to comply with the RIAA.
The disk the songs were on has been removed from the server....
It's now on e-bay.. happy bidding and good luck!!
A free copy of Microsoft Money and MSN!! Oh boy!!
I'd throw a whole bunch of tomaccos at you for this... but at $379.50 a carton... who would ever do that!!
I thought they had attacked the RNC.
I would warn severly against the thought that HP is actually supporting Linux in some way. This is the same company that made a full committment to JUST WINDOWS and JUST ITANIUM for its whole future. HP is a WINDOWS ONLY shop... check the record. All of this talk about Linux, though there have been some skunkworks Linux projects on the inside, is really just an HP marketing opp... do not believe ANYTHING that HP says until they actully DELIVER!! HP is a large VERY PRO MICROSOFT company... let's see the goods before listening to their oh so lovely words.
If Microsoft asks HP to stop all Linux development tomorrow, trust me... HP will stop ALL OF IT. They are 0wn3d. Their record speaks for itself.
My personal experience with HP/Compaq HW, even on the server side, is that it is somewhat problematic. If they can't get the servers to work right, do you really think they are seriously working on getting the laptop to work right?
I'm from Missourri on this one... SHOW ME HP... prove me wrong! I really, really want to be wrong.
Can't believe they misanderstood the flash_cache command.
I was walking down the alley and noticed some code listings from Netware. Some pretty good ideas, they just need to be GPL'd. There probably at least 100,000 lines of stuff we could add.
Let's make sure that no one ports anything to the next generation of CPUs from Intel or AMD so I can learn GCC too!!