I'm a student at Notre Dame and work for the IT people and get to go clean compromised machines. generally any machine spewing spam gets picked up by university sniffers relatively quickly and their machine is disconnected before much harm could be done. also anything reported as spamming would be disconnected as well. they keep mac address records and such so that finding the computers is more or less easy. of course a lot of the stuff the IT people do is ass backwards at times and i'm sure at an engineering school like purdue they tend to do things a bit more sensically, so the chances of spam originating from a university with any sense at all is extremely small.
wow, who taught you US history? we are a FEDERATION of states and have been since the Articles of Confederation failed miserably. as such the federal government can trump the states in any areas where the state's aren't given powers by the constitution.
wow if they bring back barbosa in the sequel it really will turn into monkey island. scrawny clean cut kid ends up being a pirate, voodoo ghost captains, mysterious ships, curses. all it needs now is an annoying ship salesman, vegitarian canibals, and a three headed monkey.
i'm one of the student techs so i've been dealing with this since move in time. what the networking people did was purge all the computer registrations from the database and updated the registration page with instructions and downloads on how to protect/fix systems and told people to run them before they registered. of course not everyone could figure it out/ bothered and got infected. to handle that they've been blocking all the problem ports across network segments to minimize the spread and traffic. then the packet sniffers have been identifying infected computers and emailing the owners notifying them that they have 72 hours to get the computer cleaned or have their ethernet jack disabled. i've been having to make a lot of dorm visits to clean up systems but so far our network hasn't taken a noticeable hit. also with the recently installed webserver, every attachment is scanned for known viruses and those are deleted, and every suspect attachement has _unknown appended to them so that they can't be "accidently" run.
that might work fine for small colleges but it doesn't scale very well to medium and large schools. especially when the IT department want to do as little limiting of freedom as possible
except getting every student computer logged into a windows domain can be an absolute nightmare. we tried that here last year and it broke more computers than it fixed.
what the sysadmins tried this year was to segment the vlans even more and block the blaster ports between segments so the virus can only spread across a floor or so. then to use DNS every ethernet card has to be registered otherwise the only site you can surf to is the registration page, so they purged the registration database and added steps to the process like install our virus software, enable your windows firewall, enable auto updates, etc. of course right now there are still a few hundred infected students but they've been detected with packet sniffers and an email was sent to them giving them 72 hours to get it cleaned or their ethernet jack will be disabled till they bring it in to be cleaned. obviously not the simplest way to go about things but it's kept the network from being swamped. i heard uconn forced students to run a java aplet that did a virus scan and enabled all the proper settings and then left a digital signiture file and their computer couldn't be registered until that signature file was found. that was probably the best way to go about it.
what about the seniors who are still running 98. then you also end up slowing down student machines and you get a bunch of unhappy students. micromanaging a few thousand computers who's specs are all over the board will cause more headaches than it solves
SCO is very well shooting themselves in the foot by continuing to disribute linux with full knowledge that their code is in there. that means SCO's code is GPLed, unless the courts throw out the GPL. in that case all hell will break loose
that's actually not a bad idea. seeing as sco is trying to sell licenses for something they don't own the copyright to everyone who's contributed to linux should sue sco for damages. talk about the litigation being on the other foot...
IBM has always agressively defended their IP and they have a shitload of it. a lot more of it is in hardware R&D though. I think IBM puts out more pattents in a week than SCO has in it's entire portfolio. it's like fighting a guy with a knife when he has a tank. there's nothing inherantly wrong with what IBM is doing, they invest a lot in IP so they should be able to defend what they develop. they definately do let a lot of people slide who violate IBM IP rights, it's not like they're going to sue everyone, it's not worth it to them. and besides SCO started the pissing contest, now IBM is just going to finish it.
that would depend on how detailed the comment is as well as whether or not it's a common algorithm. if the comments are just a bunch of preconditions and postcondiitons or a generic explaination copied and pasted from somewhere else then it doesn't prove that much, other than both parties stole from someone else.
i also have an hp jornada pocketpc, i don't use it to nearly it's full potential but i keep my assignments in it and it's very useful as an address book. although any of that stuff could be done with a pen and paper based system i have trouble reading my handwriting if i write fast so digital copies are always nice:) it's also helpful when i want to type a paper and don't want any distractions to go find a secluded spot and break out the keyboard.
if you're going to be doing Computer science or engineering you'll definitley want at least one reasonably powerful desktop to be able to do coding in your room rather than having to spend all night in one of the clusters coding. i have two, one running XP where i do most of my work and one running linux that i mess around running servers and stuff. at my school there's usually a lot of free sofrware available that can make your life a lot easier. thanks to the school providing f-secure and x-win, i almost never have to go to the Unix cluster anymore. also hold off on buying any software till you get to school, there's usually a good discount available. i got visual studio.net for $40.
any of my friends who are arts & letters or buisness can get away with using just a laptop and a lot of science people don't really need anything more either. any engineer should have a desktop though unless you don't mind walking halfway across campus in a snow storm to work on a project.
what probably happened was that once the legal department at AOLTW got wind of what WASTE was capable of they thought supporting a P2P network would make it harder for them to defend their anti-piracy efforts and told the people in charge over at nullsoft to make it go away or your job will go away. just a move to cover their legal arse; i doubt they'd go after anyone redistributing or reverse engineering it because they might be smarter than SCO and decide not to fuck with the GPL
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I'm a student at Notre Dame and work for the IT people and get to go clean compromised machines. generally any machine spewing spam gets picked up by university sniffers relatively quickly and their machine is disconnected before much harm could be done. also anything reported as spamming would be disconnected as well. they keep mac address records and such so that finding the computers is more or less easy. of course a lot of the stuff the IT people do is ass backwards at times and i'm sure at an engineering school like purdue they tend to do things a bit more sensically, so the chances of spam originating from a university with any sense at all is extremely small.
"the name is 'DU-MAS'"
wow, who taught you US history? we are a FEDERATION of states and have been since the Articles of Confederation failed miserably. as such the federal government can trump the states in any areas where the state's aren't given powers by the constitution.
you're from the south aren't you?
wow if they bring back barbosa in the sequel it really will turn into monkey island. scrawny clean cut kid ends up being a pirate, voodoo ghost captains, mysterious ships, curses. all it needs now is an annoying ship salesman, vegitarian canibals, and a three headed monkey.
Isn't that, like, when your condom bursts?
no that's more like a jimmy-hat pop
you also showed a total lack of understanding when it comes to the actual legal issues. that didn't help your cause much either
i'm one of the student techs so i've been dealing with this since move in time. what the networking people did was purge all the computer registrations from the database and updated the registration page with instructions and downloads on how to protect/fix systems and told people to run them before they registered. of course not everyone could figure it out/ bothered and got infected. to handle that they've been blocking all the problem ports across network segments to minimize the spread and traffic. then the packet sniffers have been identifying infected computers and emailing the owners notifying them that they have 72 hours to get the computer cleaned or have their ethernet jack disabled. i've been having to make a lot of dorm visits to clean up systems but so far our network hasn't taken a noticeable hit. also with the recently installed webserver, every attachment is scanned for known viruses and those are deleted, and every suspect attachement has _unknown appended to them so that they can't be "accidently" run.
that might work fine for small colleges but it doesn't scale very well to medium and large schools. especially when the IT department want to do as little limiting of freedom as possible
except getting every student computer logged into a windows domain can be an absolute nightmare. we tried that here last year and it broke more computers than it fixed. what the sysadmins tried this year was to segment the vlans even more and block the blaster ports between segments so the virus can only spread across a floor or so. then to use DNS every ethernet card has to be registered otherwise the only site you can surf to is the registration page, so they purged the registration database and added steps to the process like install our virus software, enable your windows firewall, enable auto updates, etc. of course right now there are still a few hundred infected students but they've been detected with packet sniffers and an email was sent to them giving them 72 hours to get it cleaned or their ethernet jack will be disabled till they bring it in to be cleaned.
obviously not the simplest way to go about things but it's kept the network from being swamped. i heard uconn forced students to run a java aplet that did a virus scan and enabled all the proper settings and then left a digital signiture file and their computer couldn't be registered until that signature file was found. that was probably the best way to go about it.
what about the seniors who are still running 98. then you also end up slowing down student machines and you get a bunch of unhappy students. micromanaging a few thousand computers who's specs are all over the board will cause more headaches than it solves
cellophane dude, you know saranwrap...
SCO is very well shooting themselves in the foot by continuing to disribute linux with full knowledge that their code is in there. that means SCO's code is GPLed, unless the courts throw out the GPL. in that case all hell will break loose
that's actually not a bad idea. seeing as sco is trying to sell licenses for something they don't own the copyright to everyone who's contributed to linux should sue sco for damages. talk about the litigation being on the other foot...
i'd like to see you download the patch in under 60 seconds, and without a tinfoil beanie
ok that's one, now where is the other hiding?
IBM has always agressively defended their IP and they have a shitload of it. a lot more of it is in hardware R&D though. I think IBM puts out more pattents in a week than SCO has in it's entire portfolio. it's like fighting a guy with a knife when he has a tank. there's nothing inherantly wrong with what IBM is doing, they invest a lot in IP so they should be able to defend what they develop. they definately do let a lot of people slide who violate IBM IP rights, it's not like they're going to sue everyone, it's not worth it to them. and besides SCO started the pissing contest, now IBM is just going to finish it.
i thought them meant that it makes the top of your desk physically smaller...
that would depend on how detailed the comment is as well as whether or not it's a common algorithm. if the comments are just a bunch of preconditions and postcondiitons or a generic explaination copied and pasted from somewhere else then it doesn't prove that much, other than both parties stole from someone else.
and i didn't use a cheat sheet, i used a memory priming sheet.
i also have an hp jornada pocketpc, i don't use it to nearly it's full potential but i keep my assignments in it and it's very useful as an address book. although any of that stuff could be done with a pen and paper based system i have trouble reading my handwriting if i write fast so digital copies are always nice :) it's also helpful when i want to type a paper and don't want any distractions to go find a secluded spot and break out the keyboard.
any of my friends who are arts & letters or buisness can get away with using just a laptop and a lot of science people don't really need anything more either. any engineer should have a desktop though unless you don't mind walking halfway across campus in a snow storm to work on a project.
i'm partial to T flip-flops myself, i'm also a big fan of the 74ls175 quad d flip-flop. nothing says fun like a ripple counter
if being a real man means i have to walk barefoot anywhere near the showers then slap my ass and call me lucy
i believe the name is cousie?
what probably happened was that once the legal department at AOLTW got wind of what WASTE was capable of they thought supporting a P2P network would make it harder for them to defend their anti-piracy efforts and told the people in charge over at nullsoft to make it go away or your job will go away. just a move to cover their legal arse; i doubt they'd go after anyone redistributing or reverse engineering it because they might be smarter than SCO and decide not to fuck with the GPL