I got two brand new machines with Vista Business for 2 of my developers. What was the first thing they did? They installed XP on the 2nd disk, called Microsoft and asked for an activation key based on the Vista license they have. Yes you are allowed to "downgrade" to an older version of Windows if you have a legitimate copy and an authentic media of the old/other OS you want to install. If you don't believe be read the EULA. How many people did that? Bought a brand new machine with Vista, downgraded..etc? Looks to me that Microsoft can claim $40M in Vista "sales", but can they report on "usage"?
I just don't get it, do they really think that they will shut down all P2P networks by suing users? How long have the software companies been trying to shut down warez sites? Did they succeed? No. As far as I'm concerned, file sharing is here to stay, it is impossible to kill a technology once its out there, they tried to kill VHS and failed, and right now they are making billions from something that they once tried to eliminate, they are better off stopping wasting resources trying to stop file sharing and putting all that money and brain power into trying to find a way to gain from it. I am not a marketer, so I have no idea just how they can do that, but there must be a way. There is no "bad" technology, there is only technology that haven't learned to use to its full potential yet.
I'm sorry, but I for one don't believe that AV companies write viruses just to make money.
I mean think about it, 1st off, if they do that, they won't have the virus writers in the same setting as the other company employees, it's too risky.
2nd, with the number of AV companies out there, why hasn't one of them figured this out by now and gone public.
3rd, what is the propability of these employees staying silent all those years? No one has yet come forward AFAIK.
Correct me if I am wrong, but we already have the means of tracing an outbreak to its source, and in fact it was used before for locking up the original writer.
IF (big IF) AV companies actually do that, then they certainly would not allow the virus writers to mingle with the other employees over drinks, and we all know how much virus writers like to boast.
Having worked for serveral ISPs and hosting providers, I can tell you that this will cause more headache to the sysadmin than you imagine.
If you re-read the original post, you will notice that this is about a hosting provider.
Most hosted websites provide some sort of forum or feedback page or something that requires access to an SMTP server to send back replies or notifications or similar.
On average, I noticed that 85% of hosted sites require SMTP, so blocking ALL and then ALLOWING a subset will be a long tideous job, I don't know if the original author has the time/manpower to do it, but it will not work in a large(ish) environment.
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I got two brand new machines with Vista Business for 2 of my developers.
What was the first thing they did? They installed XP on the 2nd disk, called Microsoft and asked for an activation key based on the Vista license they have.
Yes you are allowed to "downgrade" to an older version of Windows if you have a legitimate copy and an authentic media of the old/other OS you want to install.
If you don't believe be read the EULA.
How many people did that? Bought a brand new machine with Vista, downgraded..etc?
Looks to me that Microsoft can claim $40M in Vista "sales", but can they report on "usage"?
I just don't get it, do they really think that they will shut down all P2P networks by suing users? How long have the software companies been trying to shut down warez sites? Did they succeed? No.
As far as I'm concerned, file sharing is here to stay, it is impossible to kill a technology once its out there, they tried to kill VHS and failed, and right now they are making billions from something that they once tried to eliminate, they are better off stopping wasting resources trying to stop file sharing and putting all that money and brain power into trying to find a way to gain from it.
I am not a marketer, so I have no idea just how they can do that, but there must be a way.
There is no "bad" technology, there is only technology that haven't learned to use to its full potential yet.
I'm sorry, but I for one don't believe that AV companies write viruses just to make money.
I mean think about it, 1st off, if they do that, they won't have the virus writers in the same setting as the other company employees, it's too risky.
2nd, with the number of AV companies out there, why hasn't one of them figured this out by now and gone public.
3rd, what is the propability of these employees staying silent all those years? No one has yet come forward AFAIK.
Correct me if I am wrong, but we already have the means of tracing an outbreak to its source, and in fact it was used before for locking up the original writer.
IF (big IF) AV companies actually do that, then they certainly would not allow the virus writers to mingle with the other employees over drinks, and we all know how much virus writers like to boast.
just my 2 (canadian) c.
wget http://www.slashdot.org/thought_be_gone.patcht ch -p1 thought_be_gone.patch
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make clean
make depend
make all
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Having worked for serveral ISPs and hosting providers, I can tell you that this will cause more headache to the sysadmin than you imagine.
If you re-read the original post, you will notice that this is about a hosting provider.
Most hosted websites provide some sort of forum or feedback page or something that requires access to an SMTP server to send back replies or notifications or similar.
On average, I noticed that 85% of hosted sites require SMTP, so blocking ALL and then ALLOWING a subset will be a long tideous job, I don't know if the original author has the time/manpower to do it, but it will not work in a large(ish) environment.
Just my 2c.