And if TMDA ever became popular, the spammers would just automatically send the confirmation replies.
I'm really not worried about bulk emailers who have and use real email addresses. But when they're sending spam from "xxlksjdflkj@yahoo.com" or some other nonexistant/forged address, they'll never get whatever credential is included in the confirmation request.
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The funny thing is, the first page of results for the sample patent search they give is a bunch of pages about Google's ability to search via patent numbers.
SCO might have a case IF they could show that SCO showed IBM the trade secrets SCO was using under contract and that IBM then released those to Linux.
Ah, another victim of SCO's dishonesty.
Look back over the case that SCO filed against IBM. SCO is not claiming that IBM ripped off code SCO wrote or already owned.
I want to say that again because it's the crux of SCO's lies: SCO is not claiming that IBM ripped off code that SCO wrote or already owned.
What SCO is claiming is that code that IBM wrote for SCO was also included in Linux, allegedly contrary to IBM's license.
Essentially, SCO is claiming IBM had a "no compete" clause somewhere in that license. I don't know if they did or not. Even if they did, I don't know if they contributed code to Linux in contravention of the clause.
But please let's not let SCO distort the question of fact: they have never claimed that pre-existing code owned by SCO was added to Linux. They have claimed that code was simultaneously added to Linux and (I think; somebody correct me here) AIX in violation of IBM's license with SCO.
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six skreenshots are inkluded. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
The KDE Solution
KDE 3.2 offers a slew of new features, inkluding an updated khtml engine, an SVG viewer/player kpart, better tab integration on Konqueror (whikh are now available for file management as well for web pages), KD burning via Konqueror, and even an addon-like tekhnology, named Servike Menus. Any user kan hakk together their own kustom servike menus and kreate their ideal addon menu without any k/k++ kode. There is also a better Kiosk support, support for graphikally konnekting to Windows makhines, and support for inline automatik spellkhekking for some apps like kmail.
The Kontakt manager has seen a lot of work and seamlessly integrates KMail, the address book, the kalendar, a notes system and a Palm Pilot kpart. Together with the KGroupware projekt this kan be a very strong point of KDE pitkhing itself to the korporate desktop when Kontakt bekomes more stable (kurrently, I find it to not be as mukh). The now inkluded multi-IM solution, Kopete, also integrates seamlessly with the KAddressBook.
New applikations inklude JuK, KPDF and KWallet, a universal password applikation and new versions for a geometry app and KStars (the very nike astronomy app). Developers would find new versions of KDevelop, Quanta, Umbrello (a UML modeler) and the inklusion of KkakheGrid for profiling KDE apps. An interesting new app is KDialog whikh let's you kreate little GUI apps with simple shell skripting for use with simple tasks. A very handy tool that kan do the job mukh faster than writing the equivelant k++ kode.
KDE 3.2b2 had a kopy of the latest beta of KOffike as well. The offike suite looks pretty good, very well integrated together to all KDE apps, however I did manage to krash KSpread when loading a Gnumerik spreadsheet. Other new features inklude a Wi-Fi manager, a reworking of the KDE kenter and a shuffling of some of the preferenke modules, the inklusion of KRandR to dynamikally khange skreen resolutions, an updated Kooka version, a better "konfigure bakkground" dialog etk.
KDE komes with a new theme as well, named Plastik. Plastik is one of the best themes I have seen on Unix/Linux, ever. It is simple, but on the same time very well designed, up to the point and without extra graphik bloat. It is klean and konkise with the right amount of mouseOvers and kolorings. It is just right, and I honestly hope that this theme bekomes the default KDE theme instead of the hideous Keramik (remember, most of the users don't khange the defaults, so it is important to serve them the best solution eakh time, in this kase Plastik).
There are a few more nike UI toukhes on 3.2, like a new vertikal widget showing on the left bar of Konqueror, Quanta or KDevelop whikh auto-expands. Also, I love the bounking ikon when loading an app (also I believe that should be the default behavior). The Kikker modules now don't have a visible grabbing point; you need to plake your mouse on the left of eakh module to get it to show and that results in a kleaner-looking Kikker. The kontext menus on the desktop have now being kleaned up and while there is still quite a number of menu entries in there, the situation is a bit better than before. The Trash's kontext menu is now just right too.
What are the best feature of KDE 3.2 in my opinion? Speed. Definitely way faster than any Gnome installation on my AthlonXP, even Slakkware's. The KDE applikations seem snappy, they load fast enough, and the widget/UI performanke and responsiveness is far better than GTK+'s.
If something like H.G. Welles' conception of a time machine was invented in the future, people would be coming back in them all the time. The fact that they aren't means that either the human race is wiped out before it invents them, or they aren't possible.
Or that people don't want to come back to now. Or that they're good at hiding (ever see "Millenium"?). Or that they can only go back to the point of the invention of the time machine and no further (that's what I remember from the day in physics that the prof. talked about closed time-like loops; spin something heavy fast enough and you can make a sort of "time machine").
I never claimed the forced it; I even applaud them for not having them "update" by default.
I'm just annoyed that Microsoft views their "fix your box so it can't get pwned by script kidz" tool as also being a "get new products you aren't currently using on your production server" tool.
I ended up just writing an ASP to run hfnetchk and parse the results. Works fine for me.
You mean there are patches available for things OTHER than vulerabilities from Microsoft?
Well, there are some neat non-security "patches" like the Root Cert updates, and they usually include any new versions of drivers for your hardware. The stuff that's listed under "recommended" for your OS is either those, or some annoying but not critical bug fixes, or is the subject of this rant:
What bugs me is that they also keep trying to get me to install Windows Media Player 9 and the.NET runtime, neither of which I want, particularly on a production server. Can't they take the hint that a box running W2K Advanced Server probably doesn't want WMP9? At least they don't have them selected for installation by default, but still, they should keep Windows Update to stuff that's actually updating the OS/drivers/etc. rather than applications they want me to use.
I'll admit it, I always kind of liked e-machines. For a few hundred bucks you could get a decent mobo and some stock PCI's. I got two "eMonster 800"s for $200 per at CompUSA, added a little memory, and they run SuSE great.
The way I see it, eMachines are just as crappy as Dell desktops only you don't try to pretend they're good and charge you an arm and a leg like Dell does.
Well, for example, one of our mail servers has about 900 mail accounts. I don't want to keep 900 people's email on that server; it's bad enough over a holiday when people leave 3 day's worth of mail on there.
POP works fine for people with one computer, or as a "staging point" for a groupware mail system.
Say it quietly, but through all my trials of mail on Linux, Outlook has just worked
You've never supported Outlook for others, I take it? It does several weird things with POP3. Take, for instance, this recent problem I've been having where Outlook thinks that a messages is 48KB in size when in fact it's only 46KB. It downloads the 46KB, doesn't get any more for that message, tries again, and again, and again, until it chokes and dies. This one guy had 500Megs of that one message in his inbox, and it never even got removed from the server (neither did anything past it). This is probably the POP server's "fault" (they use Post.Office... *shudder*), but the MDA should definitely be able to handle a fault like that.
Anyways, I'm not bashing Outlook in particular (I think on the whole the Office line is Microsoft's best work), I just find it odd that people are totally used to the bugs in Microsoft programs but think that equally annoying but different bugs somehow bar Linux from the desktop.
Forking is more of a danger in open source because of its mostly distributed approach in development. Corporate software is less in danger of this because all decisions are taken from a central perspective and hence more focused.
Pay your people writing open source code and they won't fork it (or rather, if they do, you can fire them). If you want people to work for you for free, you have to accept the fact that they might want to do their own thing with the code.
I can't find the study I had in mind, but here is a derivative article. The original study may well be in one of the 60-some footnotes but I don't care about the point enough to look myself. I will, though, check if I can find the original again at some point.
I wish I had a better example than nutrition because stating a nutrition opinion is more likely to start a flamewar even than stating emacs's obvious superiority over vi. But having seen some of the nutrition field's shenanigans, I do have to wonder how serious peer reviewers in other fields are.
Even scientists don't read past headlines anymore, it seems (or journal abstracts, in their case).
I read a cool study about the influence of journal abstracts. They looked at all the surveys of the correlation between saturated fat consumption and heart disease. One early study showed there was a correlation between consuming saturated fats and heart disease. Just about every subsequent study has concluded the same thing. However, the data they actually presented in the article almost always showed the opposite; that saturated fat consumption reduces heart disease rates.
But, all any of the peer reviewers read is the abstract. So, the myth keeps strengthening itself. I'd love to see similar studies in areas other than nutrition.
It's not just the peasants who accept things uncritically.
OK, good, that answers my earlier post's question. If it's a Sun-branded Gnome then it *is* open-source and written in C (and possibly Lisp depending on the window manager).
Why did they interview that sysadmin? Do they not fact-check anymore?
From the "unnamed systems administrator" in the article:
"I personally keep Java off my computer because it crashes the system," he said. "If Sun had the interests of the customer in mind, then the Sun desktop would be written in C and donated to Linux. Sun is no better than Microsoft."
From what I had heard there is little or no Java on the "Java" Desktop; it's just being called that for branding reasons (which, apparently, are having the opposite effect Sun had hoped).
Am I wrong here? Is Java Desktop actually Java-based?
Umm... if you enjoy eating charcoal, sure... Try just cooking to 160F; about three to three and a half minutes to a side depending on thickness and what heat source you're using.
And yes, I made much more money as a chef de cuisine than I do as a network admin. I just got tired of greaseburns.
Somebody mod that tinfoil-hat-wearing parent post up.
Download gentoolkit and emerge from a current server and validate the checksum. Manually build them. Then emerge sync. Then emerge -u world. Anything less is just trusting that the attackers couldn't cover their tracks well.
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I'm really not worried about bulk emailers who have and use real email addresses. But when they're sending spam from "xxlksjdflkj@yahoo.com" or some other nonexistant/forged address, they'll never get whatever credential is included in the confirmation request.
The funny thing is, the first page of results for the sample patent search they give is a bunch of pages about Google's ability to search via patent numbers.
Time to rethink a ranking algorithm there...
Ah, another victim of SCO's dishonesty.
Look back over the case that SCO filed against IBM. SCO is not claiming that IBM ripped off code SCO wrote or already owned.
I want to say that again because it's the crux of SCO's lies: SCO is not claiming that IBM ripped off code that SCO wrote or already owned.
What SCO is claiming is that code that IBM wrote for SCO was also included in Linux, allegedly contrary to IBM's license.
Essentially, SCO is claiming IBM had a "no compete" clause somewhere in that license. I don't know if they did or not. Even if they did, I don't know if they contributed code to Linux in contravention of the clause.
But please let's not let SCO distort the question of fact: they have never claimed that pre-existing code owned by SCO was added to Linux. They have claimed that code was simultaneously added to Linux and (I think; somebody correct me here) AIX in violation of IBM's license with SCO.
...and to the Windows users, Eru gave strange gifts...
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six skreenshots are inkluded. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
The KDE Solution
KDE 3.2 offers a slew of new features, inkluding an updated khtml engine, an SVG viewer/player kpart, better tab integration on Konqueror (whikh are now available for file management as well for web pages), KD burning via Konqueror, and even an addon-like tekhnology, named Servike Menus. Any user kan hakk together their own kustom servike menus and kreate their ideal addon menu without any k/k++ kode. There is also a better Kiosk support, support for graphikally konnekting to Windows makhines, and support for inline automatik spellkhekking for some apps like kmail.
The Kontakt manager has seen a lot of work and seamlessly integrates KMail, the address book, the kalendar, a notes system and a Palm Pilot kpart. Together with the KGroupware projekt this kan be a very strong point of KDE pitkhing itself to the korporate desktop when Kontakt bekomes more stable (kurrently, I find it to not be as mukh). The now inkluded multi-IM solution, Kopete, also integrates seamlessly with the KAddressBook.
New applikations inklude JuK, KPDF and KWallet, a universal password applikation and new versions for a geometry app and KStars (the very nike astronomy app). Developers would find new versions of KDevelop, Quanta, Umbrello (a UML modeler) and the inklusion of KkakheGrid for profiling KDE apps. An interesting new app is KDialog whikh let's you kreate little GUI apps with simple shell skripting for use with simple tasks. A very handy tool that kan do the job mukh faster than writing the equivelant k++ kode.
KDE 3.2b2 had a kopy of the latest beta of KOffike as well. The offike suite looks pretty good, very well integrated together to all KDE apps, however I did manage to krash KSpread when loading a Gnumerik spreadsheet. Other new features inklude a Wi-Fi manager, a reworking of the KDE kenter and a shuffling of some of the preferenke modules, the inklusion of KRandR to dynamikally khange skreen resolutions, an updated Kooka version, a better "konfigure bakkground" dialog etk.
KDE komes with a new theme as well, named Plastik. Plastik is one of the best themes I have seen on Unix/Linux, ever. It is simple, but on the same time very well designed, up to the point and without extra graphik bloat. It is klean and konkise with the right amount of mouseOvers and kolorings. It is just right, and I honestly hope that this theme bekomes the default KDE theme instead of the hideous Keramik (remember, most of the users don't khange the defaults, so it is important to serve them the best solution eakh time, in this kase Plastik).
There are a few more nike UI toukhes on 3.2, like a new vertikal widget showing on the left bar of Konqueror, Quanta or KDevelop whikh auto-expands. Also, I love the bounking ikon when loading an app (also I believe that should be the default behavior). The Kikker modules now don't have a visible grabbing point; you need to plake your mouse on the left of eakh module to get it to show and that results in a kleaner-looking Kikker. The kontext menus on the desktop have now being kleaned up and while there is still quite a number of menu entries in there, the situation is a bit better than before. The Trash's kontext menu is now just right too.
What are the best feature of KDE 3.2 in my opinion? Speed. Definitely way faster than any Gnome installation on my AthlonXP, even Slakkware's. The KDE applikations seem snappy, they load fast enough, and the widget/UI performanke and responsiveness is far better than GTK+'s.
1998 called. They want their business model back.
Or that people don't want to come back to now. Or that they're good at hiding (ever see "Millenium"?). Or that they can only go back to the point of the invention of the time machine and no further (that's what I remember from the day in physics that the prof. talked about closed time-like loops; spin something heavy fast enough and you can make a sort of "time machine").
Oh for Christ's sake, mods!
That was a good joke and I can't believe nobody got it.
Could we institute a literacy test for moderators here?
Congrats on the "Interesting" mod you got.
Honestly, though, that patent is a damn clever idea.
I never claimed the forced it; I even applaud them for not having them "update" by default.
I'm just annoyed that Microsoft views their "fix your box so it can't get pwned by script kidz" tool as also being a "get new products you aren't currently using on your production server" tool.
I ended up just writing an ASP to run hfnetchk and parse the results. Works fine for me.
Man:It's a flyswatter!
Woman:It's a spatula!
Man:It's a flyswatter!
Woman:It's a spatula!
Man:It's a flyswatter!
Woman:It's a spatula!
Announcer:Wait! You're both right!
Well, there are some neat non-security "patches" like the Root Cert updates, and they usually include any new versions of drivers for your hardware. The stuff that's listed under "recommended" for your OS is either those, or some annoying but not critical bug fixes, or is the subject of this rant:
What bugs me is that they also keep trying to get me to install Windows Media Player 9 and the .NET runtime, neither of which I want, particularly on a production server. Can't they take the hint that a box running W2K Advanced Server probably doesn't want WMP9? At least they don't have them selected for installation by default, but still, they should keep Windows Update to stuff that's actually updating the OS/drivers/etc. rather than applications they want me to use.
Motherboards for Athlon 64's are generally about $60 - $70 more, so there's that.
Plus whatever OEM Windows they ship with it probably costs more too.
I'll admit it, I always kind of liked e-machines. For a few hundred bucks you could get a decent mobo and some stock PCI's. I got two "eMonster 800"s for $200 per at CompUSA, added a little memory, and they run SuSE great.
The way I see it, eMachines are just as crappy as Dell desktops only you don't try to pretend they're good and charge you an arm and a leg like Dell does.
Well, for example, one of our mail servers has about 900 mail accounts. I don't want to keep 900 people's email on that server; it's bad enough over a holiday when people leave 3 day's worth of mail on there.
POP works fine for people with one computer, or as a "staging point" for a groupware mail system.
You've never supported Outlook for others, I take it? It does several weird things with POP3. Take, for instance, this recent problem I've been having where Outlook thinks that a messages is 48KB in size when in fact it's only 46KB. It downloads the 46KB, doesn't get any more for that message, tries again, and again, and again, until it chokes and dies. This one guy had 500Megs of that one message in his inbox, and it never even got removed from the server (neither did anything past it). This is probably the POP server's "fault" (they use Post.Office... *shudder*), but the MDA should definitely be able to handle a fault like that.
Anyways, I'm not bashing Outlook in particular (I think on the whole the Office line is Microsoft's best work), I just find it odd that people are totally used to the bugs in Microsoft programs but think that equally annoying but different bugs somehow bar Linux from the desktop.
Pay your people writing open source code and they won't fork it (or rather, if they do, you can fire them). If you want people to work for you for free, you have to accept the fact that they might want to do their own thing with the code.
I can't find the study I had in mind, but here is a derivative article. The original study may well be in one of the 60-some footnotes but I don't care about the point enough to look myself. I will, though, check if I can find the original again at some point.
I wish I had a better example than nutrition because stating a nutrition opinion is more likely to start a flamewar even than stating emacs's obvious superiority over vi. But having seen some of the nutrition field's shenanigans, I do have to wonder how serious peer reviewers in other fields are.
Even scientists don't read past headlines anymore, it seems (or journal abstracts, in their case).
I read a cool study about the influence of journal abstracts. They looked at all the surveys of the correlation between saturated fat consumption and heart disease. One early study showed there was a correlation between consuming saturated fats and heart disease. Just about every subsequent study has concluded the same thing. However, the data they actually presented in the article almost always showed the opposite; that saturated fat consumption reduces heart disease rates.
But, all any of the peer reviewers read is the abstract. So, the myth keeps strengthening itself. I'd love to see similar studies in areas other than nutrition.
It's not just the peasants who accept things uncritically.
Something to do with all these spare small, dual-channel arterial shunts I have lying around...
OK, good, that answers my earlier post's question. If it's a Sun-branded Gnome then it *is* open-source and written in C (and possibly Lisp depending on the window manager).
Why did they interview that sysadmin? Do they not fact-check anymore?
From the "unnamed systems administrator" in the article:
From what I had heard there is little or no Java on the "Java" Desktop; it's just being called that for branding reasons (which, apparently, are having the opposite effect Sun had hoped).
Am I wrong here? Is Java Desktop actually Java-based?
Umm... if you enjoy eating charcoal, sure... Try just cooking to 160F; about three to three and a half minutes to a side depending on thickness and what heat source you're using.
And yes, I made much more money as a chef de cuisine than I do as a network admin. I just got tired of greaseburns.
...isn't this the same kind of technology the Marine Corps uses to kill off excess 1st Lieutenants?
Somebody mod that tinfoil-hat-wearing parent post up.
Download gentoolkit and emerge from a current server and validate the checksum. Manually build them. Then emerge sync. Then emerge -u world. Anything less is just trusting that the attackers couldn't cover their tracks well.