I swear, same slashdotters looks at some device and automatically they think, maybe we can run Linux on that.
Slashdotter's Mom: Would you like a nice cuppa coffee from my new coffeemaker?
Slashdotter: Mooo oom, may be we can run Linux on the coffeemaker.
I have to concur. Microsoft is making unmistakabable moves away from server applications towards entertainment and household connectivity products, and giving away Windows would fit neatly into their plans. The appearance of the XBox coinciding with the appearance of XP and their presumed plans to embrace Palladium, and all that goes with it is why I think they are moving in that direction. I think MS is moving slowly away from the desktop computer to the appliance market but they still have to have a hand in the desktop market for the appliance business to work so as to ease migrations and to provide constant reminders to migrate. Giving away Windows would be a shrewd element of that strategy.
But I have to point out that MS will most likely not give away Windows in the sense they will package 200 million copies, but they will find a way to keep some revenue stream coming from their OS products offerings. Perhaps a reduced cost/reduced function OS with constant reminders, if you like this buy the all purpose Xbox! kinda thing.
But I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
Free Markets work and they work well, whether you are willing to admit it or not. They are the most efficient allocators of resources. In free markets there are winniers and there are losers. The market is a dual edge sword. This is not just a platitude but an economic fact. The open market has helped Microsoft become the lead-assed giant it is now, and the market will someday crush it unless it adapts to the market. Fortunes in a free market always rise and fall, but markets aren't just dollars and cents. It is the sum total of billions of individual decisions made every day by businesses and households, which can affect markets, just as they sometimes don't affect markets. I love Linux. It will and is having a profound impact on the software market, and Microsoft is aware of that. Their crappy, maladapted, hole-ridden server/business software is slowly forcing them away from the server/business market into the entertainment market, DRM, all the pretty bells and whistles on their software, plus the X-Box. But I also love Windows for the great games, inasmuch as I subscribe to transgaming to run games on Linux; whole clubs are dedicated to Windows PC games and MS is seeing PC games with as many games on the market are trending out from the economic profits have have experienced from their core software offerings: OS and Office Suites. Ask any IBM guy. The big dogs don't make decisions unless they think they can turn a buck on them: their lives and livelyhood depend on that, they depend on markets; and and those decisions are based upon those billions of decisions I mentioned earlier. So before you start trashing a time honored institute maybe you ought to think about how MS got to where it is today.
There is a great body of software to due a lot of hard work being done over the passed several years, and as long as congress doesn't do anything unconstitutional by outlawing legacy systems, this new Intel position may be more for the rubber knife crowd. But we will see.
I installed an AMD XP using 98lite, keeping out all the extra and dangerous stuff that comes with a typical Windows 98 installation. Now were I to use my DSL provider's software, the requirement would be for me to boot the machine every time I lost a connection, but with this installation, all I did was set the numbers and I am online, no booting required. Of course with the XP the machine boots up so quickly that it is not a problem, but the benefit the way I see it is I don't have to worry about problems which have arisen if I used the full Windows setup, and the DSL's software.
I saw the little jabs earlier about those who log on here having more knowledge about the requirements for getting a machine online, where that knowledge is greater than 99 percent of the rest of the population: So what? I log on here to learn from knowledgable people in the computer/IT industry and if the display of that knowledge bothers you, maybe you should forgo reading this material. Part of learning is displaying knowledge or, in my case, my understanding of something, and if I get called or corrected on something, I may look silly, but I learn something and can apply it. How is that irksome to some people? Enlighten me. Make me understand...
How can Microsoft, a company with a well-deserved reputation for sloppy security and maladapted software, expect to all of a sudden create and deploy a secure operating system? It seems with a $40 billion bank account, MS could clean up its act, but it hasn't. What makes MS think it can turn its security model around to actually be secure?
I primarily play military turned based games and the dearth of those games for Linux has led me to a mixed bag of solutions. One of them has been to use Freedos to run DOS games such as Steel Panthers (MBT) Main Battle Tank and Steel Panthers III. But is has been the Safedisc protected CD of the Talonsoft series of game which has been the most frustrating for me. I have spend a couple of years in a wargaming club working for a club wide game using East Front II running on a Linux box under Wine. Why not Win2000 or WinXP? Try the cost for starters, and then security issues and finally the EULAs and the service packs. I want, I NEED to run east Front II on a Linux box. To that end I have been a subscriber to Transgaming and even though I don't care for the voting system (only because East Front II isn't as popular as some of the others) I will continue to subscribe to transgaming on the hope they can finally get EFII to run. It has been a frustrating year for me, and I have gone as far as gaining some of the tools needed to crack EFII so I can run it on a Linux platform. Is Transgaming efforts doom to failure in a commercial sense? Who cares? For me the issue is to get these games running well on a true multitasking/multiuser platform and I will as well as hopefully more people will continue to subscribe to Transgaming. Microsoft's main strength has been in computer gaming but even that market is apparently moving onto the "more secure" Xbox. Windows games on Linux is an economic alternative to rising license/OS costs, and as I said before Transgaming is well worthy of continuing support. It's only $5.00 USD a month. Disclaimer: I have no financial stake in Transgaming.)
Absolutely the ADA is not a joke. It is a legal and social travesty. A better law would have been to fund technology that would have made buildings more accessable rather than to socialize the costs on small businesses, but nooooo. Law makers had to pass this legal monster, a gross form of legislative vanity. Your arguments in its favor sound wonderful but rather it is an example of an unfunded mandate being pushed on small businesses and individuals using nothing more than the power of the federal courts.
So to you, race is a handicap. Sounds as though you are a racist. Are you? If not then why use race as an example of alleged discrimination under the ADA. It doesn't wash in comparison but very few people today are willing to fight it because of all the unreasonable emotion attached to it. Race is used unfairly trying to push this absurd law. Try again, please. Don't place your argument on a moral plane you don't even occupy and place opposition to this travesty of justice on a moral plane none of us are.
Unless the CEO's lawyer is a true hothead, it will never get past the first consultation. The CEO will pay his lawyer's consultation fee and go away angry. Most lawsuits begin with a lawyer sending a letter to the putative defendant, usually a request for compensation and a request for any insurance information you have. Give the lawyer no information, but contact him, and calmly discuss your case with him You can hire a lawyer if you have the money but it is in your best interest to entertain the lawyer's contentions seriously and to state your case clearly: that he won't collect, and that there is a long road to go before he can prove you were the authorof Klez. Most lawyers won't push a case if they can't get a quick, big payoff right from the top. Another circumstance is how much you are worth. If you are a wealthy man and have holdings such as stocks, bonds and real estate, you could be in trouble regardless of your guilt because there is very little to stop the lawyer from getting even a nuisnace payoff.
BTW, IANAL, but I have learned from business lawsuits, that discussions will save a signifigant portion of a lawyer's claim if you deal with him reasonably.
With all the MS products coming on line the amount of Code Red probes are about to go through the roof. Maybe you could consider the DOI's decision as the first Unix/Linux SysAdmins Full Employment act.. in about six months with all the downtime and fried servers and work stations.
The Indian Trust fiasco dates back to the turn of the century but the recent court action those quotes came from was from a lawsuit against the previous Interior Department run by Clinton. Please get your facts straight...
To me, the only thing any database does, or should do is to provide at minimum a pointer to a passenger who is in a high risk group for causing problems aboard an airline. Such a person who fits a profile won't, as I understand it, be detained in secrecy while an investigation is conducted, unless there is good reason for doing so. I agree it is a Bad Thing to profile someone based on their race; it shouldnt be done, except that this nation is under attack by hostile elements inside and outside this country and such elements are represented by young men, age 20 to 35 of middle eastern descent or looks. A lot of the postings on this subject have come down to privacy issues, and as I pointed out: you are riding in a public transit system when you board an airplane; there never has been a presumption of privacy. Whether there should be: that's another matter and that there should be is a concept which has been mangled by middle eastern Islamist terrorists and their cheerleaders here in the USA as well as abroad. My whole thesis is: if I walk up to a ticket counter and I have an obvious bulge in the small of my back, regardless of my race, that should raise suspicions, but if there is no reason to conduct an more intensive search, but for a profiling score, then I should be subject to more scrutiny as well. And so it goes, if I appear to be of middle eastern descent. It is clear to the world that the my presence represents a sociological/national/racial group which is prone to making attacks on innocents primarily using common carriers such as airlines; and that these protests against profiling this middle eastern person, tracks perfectly with my purposes.
I love it when someone talks about something the government does to enhance security. It brings out all the slashdot crazies jerking off about how their rights are being violated.
When you board a common carrier you can throw your expectations to privacy out the window. They were never there to begin with and the governmewnt is being just a little nosier than they have before. What I don't understand why is profiling considered wrong. Consider the 911 terrorist attacks on the United States. They were committed by and had the material assistance of young men between the ages of 20 and 35 of middle eastern descent. NO WOMEN; NO WHITE FOLKS; NO BLACK FOLKS; NO OLD GUYS; Yet, the low standard at airports is that everyone is subject to search even if there is suspicion, and that when that awful standard is not followed, we have the idiots of the world complaining about their rights. If there is a common thread amoungst criminals more likely to carry out suicide attacks, why is it so objectionable to focus on those people when the percentages of preventing an attack are improved by profiling? And by the same token why impair chance of preventing an attack by ignoring that liklihood? I really think that stories like this are only posted to bring out the crazy people who want to move to Canada, etc. Well, I would like for you to move to Canada, too. At least when your rights are swallowed up by a hostile culture in Canada which worships multiculturalism to the extent it would wreck all other considerations, I hope you will at least have some pleasant memories of what it was like to have rights.
Look at US laws and describe an instance in which a legal product has been banned. This hand-wringing and panic-mongering concerning Palladium/TCPA, etc, is just plain silly. Distributors of music and software have a right to control how their product is distributed (and Intel and AMD are answering the call to a new market with this new chip), but it is very unlikely congress could approve a law to ban any technologies because of any putative effects on such a business model.
I found KDE ponderous to use along with its applications (koquerer as an example). I have always preferred Gnome. When redhat 7.3 came out, I was very impressed by the selection of GUI applications, mainly for ICQ and ABIWord. What I didnt like was the removal of Gnome Midnight commander. That application was so useful for a lot of things that Nautilus isn't. I installed GMC but its implementation is kinda ugly.
Remove the gcc compiler on web servers as the worm depends on the presence and availability of a c compiler to do its deeds. Simple fix really. What was that about Linux worms are like Windows worms again?
There are plenty of open source port scan detectors at sourceforge and freshmeat. If you want to see how vulnerable your Linux system is run netstat -ta (I think that's the right combo)to see what ports are open. ALso, it is useful to go to/etc/services and comment out EVERYTHING that you do not explicitly need. Check out http://linix.org in the documentations section. They have a very useful section of locking down your linux machine
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I swear, same slashdotters looks at some device and automatically they think, maybe we can run Linux on that. Slashdotter's Mom: Would you like a nice cuppa coffee from my new coffeemaker? Slashdotter: Mooo oom, may be we can run Linux on the coffeemaker.
People whom I have managed to get to try Mozilla love it and would change save for the weak plug-in support.
But I have to point out that MS will most likely not give away Windows in the sense they will package 200 million copies, but they will find a way to keep some revenue stream coming from their OS products offerings. Perhaps a reduced cost/reduced function OS with constant reminders, if you like this buy the all purpose Xbox! kinda thing.
But I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
Free Markets work and they work well, whether you are willing to admit it or not. They are the most efficient allocators of resources. In free markets there are winniers and there are losers. The market is a dual edge sword. This is not just a platitude but an economic fact. The open market has helped Microsoft become the lead-assed giant it is now, and the market will someday crush it unless it adapts to the market. Fortunes in a free market always rise and fall, but markets aren't just dollars and cents. It is the sum total of billions of individual decisions made every day by businesses and households, which can affect markets, just as they sometimes don't affect markets. I love Linux. It will and is having a profound impact on the software market, and Microsoft is aware of that. Their crappy, maladapted, hole-ridden server/business software is slowly forcing them away from the server/business market into the entertainment market, DRM, all the pretty bells and whistles on their software, plus the X-Box. But I also love Windows for the great games, inasmuch as I subscribe to transgaming to run games on Linux; whole clubs are dedicated to Windows PC games and MS is seeing PC games with as many games on the market are trending out from the economic profits have have experienced from their core software offerings: OS and Office Suites. Ask any IBM guy. The big dogs don't make decisions unless they think they can turn a buck on them: their lives and livelyhood depend on that, they depend on markets; and and those decisions are based upon those billions of decisions I mentioned earlier. So before you start trashing a time honored institute maybe you ought to think about how MS got to where it is today.
There is a great body of software to due a lot of hard work being done over the passed several years, and as long as congress doesn't do anything unconstitutional by outlawing legacy systems, this new Intel position may be more for the rubber knife crowd. But we will see.
What is wrong with preaching to the choir? Sometimes we need to be reminded why we gather to worship Microsoft.
I installed an AMD XP using 98lite, keeping out all the extra and dangerous stuff that comes with a typical Windows 98 installation. Now were I to use my DSL provider's software, the requirement would be for me to boot the machine every time I lost a connection, but with this installation, all I did was set the numbers and I am online, no booting required. Of course with the XP the machine boots up so quickly that it is not a problem, but the benefit the way I see it is I don't have to worry about problems which have arisen if I used the full Windows setup, and the DSL's software. I saw the little jabs earlier about those who log on here having more knowledge about the requirements for getting a machine online, where that knowledge is greater than 99 percent of the rest of the population: So what? I log on here to learn from knowledgable people in the computer/IT industry and if the display of that knowledge bothers you, maybe you should forgo reading this material. Part of learning is displaying knowledge or, in my case, my understanding of something, and if I get called or corrected on something, I may look silly, but I learn something and can apply it. How is that irksome to some people? Enlighten me. Make me understand...
How can Microsoft, a company with a well-deserved reputation for sloppy security and maladapted software, expect to all of a sudden create and deploy a secure operating system? It seems with a $40 billion bank account, MS could clean up its act, but it hasn't. What makes MS think it can turn its security model around to actually be secure?
I primarily play military turned based games and the dearth of those games for Linux has led me to a mixed bag of solutions. One of them has been to use Freedos to run DOS games such as Steel Panthers (MBT) Main Battle Tank and Steel Panthers III. But is has been the Safedisc protected CD of the Talonsoft series of game which has been the most frustrating for me. I have spend a couple of years in a wargaming club working for a club wide game using East Front II running on a Linux box under Wine. Why not Win2000 or WinXP? Try the cost for starters, and then security issues and finally the EULAs and the service packs. I want, I NEED to run east Front II on a Linux box. To that end I have been a subscriber to Transgaming and even though I don't care for the voting system (only because East Front II isn't as popular as some of the others) I will continue to subscribe to transgaming on the hope they can finally get EFII to run. It has been a frustrating year for me, and I have gone as far as gaining some of the tools needed to crack EFII so I can run it on a Linux platform. Is Transgaming efforts doom to failure in a commercial sense? Who cares? For me the issue is to get these games running well on a true multitasking/multiuser platform and I will as well as hopefully more people will continue to subscribe to Transgaming. Microsoft's main strength has been in computer gaming but even that market is apparently moving onto the "more secure" Xbox. Windows games on Linux is an economic alternative to rising license/OS costs, and as I said before Transgaming is well worthy of continuing support. It's only $5.00 USD a month. Disclaimer: I have no financial stake in Transgaming.)
When Phoenix reaches .9, sell.
Absolutely the ADA is not a joke. It is a legal and social travesty. A better law would have been to fund technology that would have made buildings more accessable rather than to socialize the costs on small businesses, but nooooo. Law makers had to pass this legal monster, a gross form of legislative vanity. Your arguments in its favor sound wonderful but rather it is an example of an unfunded mandate being pushed on small businesses and individuals using nothing more than the power of the federal courts.
So to you, race is a handicap. Sounds as though you are a racist. Are you? If not then why use race as an example of alleged discrimination under the ADA. It doesn't wash in comparison but very few people today are willing to fight it because of all the unreasonable emotion attached to it. Race is used unfairly trying to push this absurd law. Try again, please. Don't place your argument on a moral plane you don't even occupy and place opposition to this travesty of justice on a moral plane none of us are.
Unless the CEO's lawyer is a true hothead, it will never get past the first consultation. The CEO will pay his lawyer's consultation fee and go away angry. Most lawsuits begin with a lawyer sending a letter to the putative defendant, usually a request for compensation and a request for any insurance information you have. Give the lawyer no information, but contact him, and calmly discuss your case with him You can hire a lawyer if you have the money but it is in your best interest to entertain the lawyer's contentions seriously and to state your case clearly: that he won't collect, and that there is a long road to go before he can prove you were the authorof Klez. Most lawyers won't push a case if they can't get a quick, big payoff right from the top. Another circumstance is how much you are worth. If you are a wealthy man and have holdings such as stocks, bonds and real estate, you could be in trouble regardless of your guilt because there is very little to stop the lawyer from getting even a nuisnace payoff. BTW, IANAL, but I have learned from business lawsuits, that discussions will save a signifigant portion of a lawyer's claim if you deal with him reasonably.
I have found KDE and its applications ponderous to use. I prefer Gnome.
With all the MS products coming on line the amount of Code Red probes are about to go through the roof. Maybe you could consider the DOI's decision as the first Unix/Linux SysAdmins Full Employment act.. in about six months with all the downtime and fried servers and work stations.
The Indian Trust fiasco dates back to the turn of the century but the recent court action those quotes came from was from a lawsuit against the previous Interior Department run by Clinton. Please get your facts straight...
And that is all the more reason to profile.
To me, the only thing any database does, or should do is to provide at minimum a pointer to a passenger who is in a high risk group for causing problems aboard an airline. Such a person who fits a profile won't, as I understand it, be detained in secrecy while an investigation is conducted, unless there is good reason for doing so. I agree it is a Bad Thing to profile someone based on their race; it shouldnt be done, except that this nation is under attack by hostile elements inside and outside this country and such elements are represented by young men, age 20 to 35 of middle eastern descent or looks. A lot of the postings on this subject have come down to privacy issues, and as I pointed out: you are riding in a public transit system when you board an airplane; there never has been a presumption of privacy. Whether there should be: that's another matter and that there should be is a concept which has been mangled by middle eastern Islamist terrorists and their cheerleaders here in the USA as well as abroad. My whole thesis is: if I walk up to a ticket counter and I have an obvious bulge in the small of my back, regardless of my race, that should raise suspicions, but if there is no reason to conduct an more intensive search, but for a profiling score, then I should be subject to more scrutiny as well. And so it goes, if I appear to be of middle eastern descent. It is clear to the world that the my presence represents a sociological/national/racial group which is prone to making attacks on innocents primarily using common carriers such as airlines; and that these protests against profiling this middle eastern person, tracks perfectly with my purposes.
I love it when someone talks about something the government does to enhance security. It brings out all the slashdot crazies jerking off about how their rights are being violated. When you board a common carrier you can throw your expectations to privacy out the window. They were never there to begin with and the governmewnt is being just a little nosier than they have before. What I don't understand why is profiling considered wrong. Consider the 911 terrorist attacks on the United States. They were committed by and had the material assistance of young men between the ages of 20 and 35 of middle eastern descent. NO WOMEN; NO WHITE FOLKS; NO BLACK FOLKS; NO OLD GUYS; Yet, the low standard at airports is that everyone is subject to search even if there is suspicion, and that when that awful standard is not followed, we have the idiots of the world complaining about their rights. If there is a common thread amoungst criminals more likely to carry out suicide attacks, why is it so objectionable to focus on those people when the percentages of preventing an attack are improved by profiling? And by the same token why impair chance of preventing an attack by ignoring that liklihood? I really think that stories like this are only posted to bring out the crazy people who want to move to Canada, etc. Well, I would like for you to move to Canada, too. At least when your rights are swallowed up by a hostile culture in Canada which worships multiculturalism to the extent it would wreck all other considerations, I hope you will at least have some pleasant memories of what it was like to have rights.
Look at US laws and describe an instance in which a legal product has been banned. This hand-wringing and panic-mongering concerning Palladium/TCPA, etc, is just plain silly. Distributors of music and software have a right to control how their product is distributed (and Intel and AMD are answering the call to a new market with this new chip), but it is very unlikely congress could approve a law to ban any technologies because of any putative effects on such a business model.
You can restore programs in Gnome just the way they were when you logged off.
I found KDE ponderous to use along with its applications (koquerer as an example). I have always preferred Gnome. When redhat 7.3 came out, I was very impressed by the selection of GUI applications, mainly for ICQ and ABIWord. What I didnt like was the removal of Gnome Midnight commander. That application was so useful for a lot of things that Nautilus isn't. I installed GMC but its implementation is kinda ugly.
Remove the gcc compiler on web servers as the worm depends on the presence and availability of a c compiler to do its deeds. Simple fix really. What was that about Linux worms are like Windows worms again?
find / -name 'linux.slapper.worm' -exec rm {} \; should do the job. Run it as a cron daemon.
There are plenty of open source port scan detectors at sourceforge and freshmeat. If you want to see how vulnerable your Linux system is run netstat -ta (I think that's the right combo)to see what ports are open. ALso, it is useful to go to /etc/services and comment out EVERYTHING that you do not explicitly need. Check out http://linix.org in the documentations section. They have a very useful section of locking down your linux machine