but would you rather pin your business on a 50 node cluster of failure-prone DELL boxes (that may catch fire at any minute) or a slick, bulletproof mainframe?
Wow, I think someone must tell that to the half billion people around the world who owns a x86 "flamethrower" computer.
BTW, if they are failure-prone, thank gawd they are used in *clusters* (well, you know the concept of clusters, do you?).
demonstrating the kinds of things that COULD happen should Outlook's holes and bugs not be patched up.
What holes? Stupid users or allowing those stupid users to open attachments? Should Microsoft release some kind of version of Windows that doesn't allow stupid users to execute whatever they want?
I don't think so, people should just stop executing unknown e-mail attachments.
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
I've always wondered why someone never wrote a virus that takes advantage of some Linux users false sense of absolute security about Linux and open-source applications. I think most people here is going to say that I am wrong, but the average Linux user (specially the ones that think they are really 1337 and run scanners with packet fingerprinting) runs a considerable number of new applications under the root uid.
The virus could even look like it was sent from a security-related mailing list.
Gnucleus is a honest, well writen client. Please dont let this action by StreamCast tarnish your impression of us. We will continue as usual working on the next version of Gnucleus. Thanks for your support.
"honest"? And how any action from StreamCast can change people's opinions about them? I believe that this comment changed more opinions than any of StreamCast action.
Nope, PHP goes back to 95', when it was just some thoughts about the future, and a small parsing engine written in perl by Rasmus Lerdorf. ASP first "stable" version was released in late 96', so you are comparing the "release" dates from two different versions, while PHP was "0.none" in 95', ASP was 1.0 in 96'. Anyway, it can't be a PHP ripoff, because PHP wasn't a known product back when Microsoft started to design ASP.
Yay! Microsoft finally has the ability to make things work the way they're supposed to, like it's been in the *nix world for what, 30+ years now? Another victory for innovation, to be sure.
Can you patch kernel 2.4 with a patch designed for kernel 2.0 *and make the kernel work*, without changing the patch?
BTW, a little secret about.ASP and.JSP...they are both ripoffs of each other. The back end guy at the same site showed me how easy it was to convert.ASP to.JSP. And BOTH are ripoffs of PHP v.2!:P
I don't think so: ASP came before JSP, JSP came before PHP. So they can't be a PHP ripoff...
No, it doesn't support AOL or Compuserve because there is no AOL Kit for Microsoft Windows CE. You know that you can't just dial to AOL, you have to use their protocols and stuff, don't you?
Actually you're wrong. The issues that caused the rise of Free Software have nothing to do with having to recompile your application for different architectures and everything to do users being free to fix bugs in software they have been sold.
No, you are wrong: Open Source is not just about Stallman, GNU and FSF. BTW, Open Source itself is a lot older than FSF.
Who wants to place bets on how long it will be until someone hacks a way to play X-BOX games on your PC? (And who wants to bet that they'll run better on a non-staticly configured home system with the latest and greatest hardware?)
Microsoft will love that: More people will be able to buy xbox licensed games, and they will not need to loose money with xbox consoles.
"I know this sounds like something of an absurd project, but then again, there once was a day when building a desktop PC was an absurd project."
What day was that? 1950? First Desktop PCs were sold as kits, you realise.
Leave him alone, he submitted this article just to show how 1337 he is, he wants to be recognised as the big revolutionary he pretends to be.
This is not flamebait, I am just tired of the "I am 1337" kind:
"If you're a Linux user, and spend most of your time in emacs windows (er, frames), most of that fancy stuff is more of a liability than an asset. In other words, I'm talking about coders, admins and other Linux hackers more than I'm talking about the 'average user'." "This is OK if you are, say, the CEO, and don't do any real work in the first place."
This kind of attitude that makes us look like a bunch of arrogant loosers. Who this guy think he is?
"Decent 2D video performance. I might just be editing text, but at least it should look good while doing it. In any event, with decent a framebuffer and hardware acceleration, I can use nice anti-aliases fonts and play around with the window settings."
So he basically wants 24 bit video, I believe that there's no such thing as a "window settings" hardware aceleration and you don't need any kind of special hardware to obtain anti-aliased fonts. BTW, "decent framebuffer"?
That's exactly what VA Software is doing with SF: Releasing closed-source "add-ons".
So who's wrong? Apple and VA Soft (they can't be profitable producing open-source only soft) or RMS (who says that GPL-oriented businesses can be profitable)?
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but would you rather pin your business on a 50 node cluster of failure-prone DELL boxes (that may catch fire at any minute) or a slick, bulletproof mainframe?
Wow, I think someone must tell that to the half billion people around the world who owns a x86 "flamethrower" computer.
BTW, if they are failure-prone, thank gawd they are used in *clusters* (well, you know the concept of clusters, do you?).
demonstrating the kinds of things that COULD happen should Outlook's holes and bugs not be patched up.
What holes? Stupid users or allowing those stupid users to open attachments? Should Microsoft release some kind of version of Windows that doesn't allow stupid users to execute whatever they want?
I don't think so, people should just stop executing unknown e-mail attachments.
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
lol, read this please...
I've always wondered why someone never wrote a virus that takes advantage of some Linux users false sense of absolute security about Linux and open-source applications. I think most people here is going to say that I am wrong, but the average Linux user (specially the ones that think they are really 1337 and run scanners with packet fingerprinting) runs a considerable number of new applications under the root uid.
The virus could even look like it was sent from a security-related mailing list.
I believe that the holier than thou part is:
Gnucleus is a honest, well writen client. Please dont let this action by StreamCast tarnish your impression of us. We will continue as usual working on the next version of Gnucleus. Thanks for your support.
"honest"? And how any action from StreamCast can change people's opinions about them? I believe that this comment changed more opinions than any of StreamCast action.
It's not me who's saying that, that's just how things are, you can seet it here
You can also find good stuff about it at google.
..It's a MAN, not a WAN.
Nope, PHP goes back to 95', when it was just some thoughts about the future, and a small parsing engine written in perl by Rasmus Lerdorf. ASP first "stable" version was released in late 96', so you are comparing the "release" dates from two different versions, while PHP was "0.none" in 95', ASP was 1.0 in 96'. Anyway, it can't be a PHP ripoff, because PHP wasn't a known product back when Microsoft started to design ASP.
Yay! Microsoft finally has the ability to make things work the way they're supposed to, like it's been in the *nix world for what, 30+ years now? Another victory for innovation, to be sure.
Can you patch kernel 2.4 with a patch designed for kernel 2.0 *and make the kernel work*, without changing the patch?
The vulnerabilities that it found originally had been patched. BUT THE PATCHES OPENED UP OTHER VULNERABILITIES THAT WEREN'T THERE BEFORE!!!
Q 296/8/61.asp
That happened because you act like a kiddie as much as you administrate as a kiddie: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/
BTW, a little secret about .ASP and .JSP...they are both ripoffs of each other. The back end guy at the same site showed me how easy it was to convert .ASP to .JSP. And BOTH are ripoffs of PHP v.2! :P
I don't think so: ASP came before JSP, JSP came before PHP. So they can't be a PHP ripoff...
3. For some reason, it is not yet widely appreciated that the public SOAP specification already has a proprietary MS extension called .NET Remote.
1. You mean "remoting"
2. Remoting is not even XML-Based, so it can't be an extension to SOAP.
lol, Under Windows: Get the environment variable 'USERPROFILE'.
Not a problem, only gigabit connections use all 4 pairs
No, it doesn't support AOL or Compuserve because there is no AOL Kit for Microsoft Windows CE. You know that you can't just dial to AOL, you have to use their protocols and stuff, don't you?
That's why you can't use AOL.
When was the last time you donated something (big) for your children's scholl?
Shouldn't somebody else have a chance?
So if Oracle starts selling videogames, you would be the first to buy their new product, huh?
1. He wasn't talking about Open Source, but about Free Software.
Is doesn't matter what Carnage was talking about, the other poster was talking about *Open Source*.
Actually you're wrong. The issues that caused the rise of Free Software have nothing to do with having to recompile your application for different architectures and everything to do users being free to fix bugs in software they have been sold.
No, you are wrong: Open Source is not just about Stallman, GNU and FSF. BTW, Open Source itself is a lot older than FSF.
Who wants to place bets on how long it will be until someone hacks a way to play X-BOX games on your PC? (And who wants to bet that they'll run better on a non-staticly configured home system with the latest and greatest hardware?)
Microsoft will love that: More people will be able to buy xbox licensed games, and they will not need to loose money with xbox consoles.
Maybe some we'll be able do upload animated GIFs to our eletronic paper printer.
This is not flamebait, I am just tired of the "I am 1337" kind:
"If you're a Linux user, and spend most of your time in emacs windows (er, frames), most of that fancy stuff is more of a liability than an asset. In other words, I'm talking about coders, admins and other Linux hackers more than I'm talking about the 'average user'."
"This is OK if you are, say, the CEO, and don't do any real work in the first place."
This kind of attitude that makes us look like a bunch of arrogant loosers. Who this guy think he is?
"Decent 2D video performance. I might just be editing text, but at least it should look good while doing it. In any event, with decent a framebuffer and hardware acceleration, I can use nice anti-aliases fonts and play around with the window settings."
So he basically wants 24 bit video, I believe that there's no such thing as a "window settings" hardware aceleration and you don't need any kind of special hardware to obtain anti-aliased fonts. BTW, "decent framebuffer"?
Apple sells the GUI on top of Darwin.
That's exactly what VA Software is doing with SF: Releasing closed-source "add-ons".
So who's wrong? Apple and VA Soft (they can't be profitable producing open-source only soft) or RMS (who says that GPL-oriented businesses can be profitable)?
I vote for RMS.
Actually, the speed of electricity is a little less than the speed of light in silicon
:P)
So you mean less than 0 m/s? (I know, I know