The real question is, how much of Microsoft's code is being 'copied' into the Linux kernel, and what would the community say if this was pointed out???
Certain code, although originally discovered/written by one individual will look a lot like the code of others, especially when that code is interfacing with hardware. I can only initialize a video card one way, with all the registers being set in the same order... Now if I don't consult the web, or anyone elses source code, and write a video driver, someone else, who wrote one for the same hardware first, could claim that I cut and paste his code... Even though I haven't even seen it.
Just because the code looks the same, doesn't mean it was stolen... There are only a limited number of ways to get certain hardware to work in software, and most code reflects this.
yeah, and it's just way to convinient for the government to drop the microsoft case, completely cut back on most of the major 'government oriented' activities and pump up the 'join the army/navy/other military group' ads on pretty much all media... Just too damn convinient...
Now of course, I'm sure one of the major intelligence groups, be it the FBI/CIA/etc. will no doubt read this, and if we're on to something, make us disappear without a trace...
Either that, or years of using Windows, and eating caffene tablets has somehow impared my higher brain functions...:P
I'm not saying that it couldn't affect the network, but it shouldn't bring it down... If there is a physical break in the ring, or a terminator is missing, then sure, it'll bring it down. But those are hardware issues, this is a simple driver, the worst it can do is cause re-transmits to have to occur on the rest of the network, degrading performance.
I think, the US knew there was going to be some sort of 'military crisis' (but they didn't know exactly what, where, etc.), and they wanted to tie up all loose ends before this 'military crisis' happend... It had nothing to do with who gave money to whom, etc... it is simply the fact that the US government had fore-knowledge of what was to come (again, not specifics, but they had a good clue they were going to war), so they cleaned up the internal affairs of the country nice and fast...
Oh, and on a side note, anyone notice the huge increase in ARMY and NAVY ads on TV in the last 3 months??? hmmm...
Setting aside for a moment that the linux driver is faulty, what kind of an idiot (windows or linux) developer doesn't write code to handle errors on the network? I don't see how one lone NIC can bring down an entire network... even if it is flooding it, it can slow it down at most. I have written many network drivers for windows in my time, and never, ever have I ever released a driver that would not be able to accept garbage data and still work.
I can see this linux driver causing problems on the corporate network, but I don't understand how it could bring it down. Windows, Linux, or any other OS's drivers should be able to handle crap on the network... Any network protocol design book will have that in bold letters on the first page...
yeesh... Whatever happend to good NIC drivers (independent of OS)?
Open source is great 'n all... but it doesn't do too much good for job security... Anyone and everyone can replace you... your code is available for all to see... My question is why did it take so long for layoffs to hit this sector???
I can see it now, Microsoft pays $10 billion to Sony, to place wireless transmitters and covert programming into the pets.
Then at night, when everyone's asleep, the pets power on, go over to the family PC, and make sure that there is a valid license for Windows on it... if not, it transmits its GPS coordinates to Microsoft and then turns vicious and attacks its human owners...
Your supervisors probably aren't blind, they most likely know the quality of the work being released, if they're happy with it, don't push your luck.
If the stuff you are doing is not mission critical, then who cares... your company will take the blame if it doesn't work right. They seem to be happy with the quality of your 'hacks', so why push it...
If on the other hand your code is mission critical, and your company still doesn't care that the quality is lacking, time to jump ship, 'cause when sh*t hits the fan, your bosses are gonna use you as a scape-goat.
...non-profit corporation since its inception in 1998...
Ok, so what went on before 1998??? Utter chaos? No... I recall having used the web back in 1994... So then I must ask... why can't we fall back on the pre-ICANN-watchyamacallit days???
It's nice n' all, but I remember transmeta being about revolutionary new technology, blah blah blah... Where is this revolutionary technology??? There are other products on the market that are about the same, heck it's being compared to a Pentium 3...
We've all heard the hype, now it's time to deliver the goods... a Pentium 3 category machine is not good enough damn it!
What?
Good programming is about writing GOOD CODE! Whether or not I choose to remember all the command line switches, or if I entrust a GUI to do it for me, the GUI isn't going to write my code for me... it is simply a tool to help the build process, much like a batch file... do you call people who use a batch file pansy too?
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The real question is, how much of Microsoft's code is being 'copied' into the Linux kernel, and what would the community say if this was pointed out???
Certain code, although originally discovered/written by one individual will look a lot like the code of others, especially when that code is interfacing with hardware. I can only initialize a video card one way, with all the registers being set in the same order... Now if I don't consult the web, or anyone elses source code, and write a video driver, someone else, who wrote one for the same hardware first, could claim that I cut and paste his code... Even though I haven't even seen it.
Just because the code looks the same, doesn't mean it was stolen... There are only a limited number of ways to get certain hardware to work in software, and most code reflects this.
yeah, and it's just way to convinient for the government to drop the microsoft case, completely cut back on most of the major 'government oriented' activities and pump up the 'join the army/navy/other military group' ads on pretty much all media... Just too damn convinient...
:P
Now of course, I'm sure one of the major intelligence groups, be it the FBI/CIA/etc. will no doubt read this, and if we're on to something, make us disappear without a trace...
Either that, or years of using Windows, and eating caffene tablets has somehow impared my higher brain functions...
I'm really curious as to how this post got modded up to a 2, and not 'offtopic'... How does it relate in any way to the original article???
I'm not saying that it couldn't affect the network, but it shouldn't bring it down... If there is a physical break in the ring, or a terminator is missing, then sure, it'll bring it down. But those are hardware issues, this is a simple driver, the worst it can do is cause re-transmits to have to occur on the rest of the network, degrading performance.
I think, the US knew there was going to be some sort of 'military crisis' (but they didn't know exactly what, where, etc.), and they wanted to tie up all loose ends before this 'military crisis' happend... It had nothing to do with who gave money to whom, etc... it is simply the fact that the US government had fore-knowledge of what was to come (again, not specifics, but they had a good clue they were going to war), so they cleaned up the internal affairs of the country nice and fast...
Oh, and on a side note, anyone notice the huge increase in ARMY and NAVY ads on TV in the last 3 months??? hmmm...
Setting aside for a moment that the linux driver is faulty, what kind of an idiot (windows or linux) developer doesn't write code to handle errors on the network? I don't see how one lone NIC can bring down an entire network... even if it is flooding it, it can slow it down at most. I have written many network drivers for windows in my time, and never, ever have I ever released a driver that would not be able to accept garbage data and still work.
I can see this linux driver causing problems on the corporate network, but I don't understand how it could bring it down. Windows, Linux, or any other OS's drivers should be able to handle crap on the network... Any network protocol design book will have that in bold letters on the first page...
yeesh... Whatever happend to good NIC drivers (independent of OS)?
Open source is great 'n all... but it doesn't do too much good for job security... Anyone and everyone can replace you... your code is available for all to see... My question is why did it take so long for layoffs to hit this sector???
I can see it now, Microsoft pays $10 billion to Sony, to place wireless transmitters and covert programming into the pets.
Then at night, when everyone's asleep, the pets power on, go over to the family PC, and make sure that there is a valid license for Windows on it... if not, it transmits its GPS coordinates to Microsoft and then turns vicious and attacks its human owners...
Your supervisors probably aren't blind, they most likely know the quality of the work being released, if they're happy with it, don't push your luck.
If the stuff you are doing is not mission critical, then who cares... your company will take the blame if it doesn't work right. They seem to be happy with the quality of your 'hacks', so why push it...
If on the other hand your code is mission critical, and your company still doesn't care that the quality is lacking, time to jump ship, 'cause when sh*t hits the fan, your bosses are gonna use you as a scape-goat.
...non-profit corporation since its inception in 1998...
Ok, so what went on before 1998??? Utter chaos? No... I recall having used the web back in 1994... So then I must ask... why can't we fall back on the pre-ICANN-watchyamacallit days???
It's nice n' all, but I remember transmeta being about revolutionary new technology, blah blah blah... Where is this revolutionary technology??? There are other products on the market that are about the same, heck it's being compared to a Pentium 3...
We've all heard the hype, now it's time to deliver the goods... a Pentium 3 category machine is not good enough damn it!
What? Good programming is about writing GOOD CODE! Whether or not I choose to remember all the command line switches, or if I entrust a GUI to do it for me, the GUI isn't going to write my code for me... it is simply a tool to help the build process, much like a batch file... do you call people who use a batch file pansy too?