They're in use throughout Edinburgh, Scotland. I guess solar technology has improved a bit, as we don't get that much sun and daylight hours in the winter are quite short.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that the company has launched a lawsuit claiming German firm SuSE LINUX AG are in breach of the company's patent on random capitalisation in product names. "Random capitalisation is an exciting and innovative use of letters pioneered by NeXT and the rights to this technology are now owned by Apple Inc" said Jobs as he promised to vigorously pursue this action.
Isn't this why we need a replacement for passwords? I'm sure we've discussed before using a series of images that users can click on in sequence - that's easier for users to remember and also much more difficult to write down or even tell someone.
If I write on a sticky note evEry0ne that's quite easy for a malicious passer by to remember or for me to give someone when bribed. If however I have to click on a series of eight icons - say smiley face, then a fish then a dog etc etc that's easier than a complex passwords with upper/lower case numerals and to remember and quite difficult to write down or explain over the phone.
As some others have said, this technology has been around for a while now. Shazam were (iirc) the first to offer it in the UK. They charge 59p or about the same 99 cents. The Shazam service was covered in Scientific American in June 2003 and has been mentioned on/. a few times in the last year.
It was sent in March not April!
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To make it worse, the date isn't even correct. The spam was sent on 5th March according to archive.org and a quick check at google groups finds references even older than that.
Seems they just picked a date so they could say today is the tenth aniversary.
They clearly discussed the announcment with their international partners - half of Europe are on holiday today, Good Friday and again on Monday.
I'd imagine lots of the IT bods that are stil working will have had major work scheduled for this weekend for weeks. Just as well there isn't a patch to be deployed!
Come on Sun. Make a good archetecture, and put your best efforts into making BSD / Linux run well on it. Solaris may possibly be destined to the dead path of SCO Unix. Learn from IBM.
Sure, because the world will be so much better with fewer operating systems to choose from? IBM still offer commercial, propriety Unix alongside Linux. Sun offer exactly the same with Solaris and the Sun Java Desktop.
Choice isn't a bad thing. We should be glad Sun are around and the choice is still there. For big companies (think banks or car manufacturers) who have reputations and $billions on the line, there will always be a market for big iron with a custom *nix to run on top of it. IBM offer it, as do Sun.
Sun seem to have ahd a really hard time over their settlement with / victory over Microsoft. Folk need to remember that Sun is a public company. That means the Board cannot turn down a settlement on the basis of not liking Microsoft. The directors are legally required to deliver the best value for their shareholders. That means is Microsoft offer to settle on better terms than Sun were demanding they have no choice but to accept that settlement. Not to do so would see them lose their jobs and possibly end up in court.
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Red Hat is way to costly in this cut throat environment to compete with small business server so I don't even consider it.
redhat Server costs $350 a year and can be compared to, say, Microsoft Small Busines Server which is a snip at $1,250. Yet MS shops are undercutting you?
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Yeah, and you aren't a student right now are you? $200 will be change later on in life for me, but not at this time. Consider other situations before running your mouth.
Unless you're concerned about your local network, surely the fact that any email you received arrived at your ISP means that GPG would be a better solution to your paranoia?
If you really do want to encryot the mail you receive, you should probably chekc your ISP is using TLS as well to make sure the encryption goes as far as the sender/recipient too - of course their ISP needs to support that too!
As for an ISP that offers that lot, sorry I don't know of any. You could always co-locate and set it up yourself.
Perhaps Freeswan went into retirement a bit too soon. Freeswan offered ubiquitous encryption throughout the internet where computers would negotiate secure transport mechanisms with each other on an opportunistic rather than pre defined basis.
I upgraded in a couple of hours after the last round of security issues. Got caught out by a couple of things that made one or other network card run, but not both. Still it didn't take more than booting back into 2.4, checking websites, recompile and reboot.
If you're running a kernel provided by your distro, you probably don't need the upgrade. Just apply security patches as they send them to you. If you run a kernel you built yourself, you probably know whether or not you need or want 2.6. I didn't need it, but the speed boost it gave definately places it in the want category. Compared to 2.4 where lots changed with filesystems and ipchains/tables and so much else, this upgrade was painless.
Spamhaus reckon less than 200 spam outfits make up 90% of spam. So 6% would be a bit more than a drop in the ocean - and if they get caught and face big fines (or jail time) we could see an even bigger impact.
I know of at least one ISP in the UK who respond promptly to omplaints about spamming and worm infections. Their response is that user gets informed of the situations and port 25 gets blocked. No outgoing mail.
It's about the easiest thing ion the world for the ISP to and it's _very_ effective. Another option would be for ISP's to force all SMTP traffic through their own mailserver and virus scan it. They could easily spot a home user sending a couple of thousand messages in an hour or one spreading infected email everywhere.
If you want unfettered access you can pay for a co-lo box and take the responsibility too. People can't keep hiding behind their ISP and dynamic IPs. I'm all for personal freedoms on the net, but with freedom comes responsibility. Deal with it.
If they forced them to open up the WMA format, that would really be something - and much more substantial than getting rid of Media Player.
With media player gone, they'll still leave all the API stuff so every other media player will still be tied to Microsoft's format, and as a consequence tied to Windows.
Even insisting they release an x86 binary library for playing WMA on *nix and upgrade it at the same time as any changes to the Windows version would open up all the DRM infected stuff to linux users. We might not like the DRM, but in two years time when most folk get their music that way, it's going to be abig obsticle for Linux adoption if folk can't buy tunes.
There's been a whole host of developments in the ongoing SCO
saga over the past couple of days. SCO have now filed law suits against Autozone
and DaimlerChrysler on the
same day as announcing growing operating
losses. Despite securing a deal to license their IP with ev1servers,
SCOsource only generated an income of $20,000 for the quarter. Today it has
been revealed
that Computer Associates, Questar
Corp. and manufacturer Leggett & Platt
Inc have all joined the ranks of SCO source licensees. Over at the Nasdaq the publicity
stunts are beginning to wane thin with investors who sent SCO shares plummeting
by almost 14% yesterday. In
the courtroom, SCO was yesterday given 45 days to identify all specific
lines of code they allege IBM put into Linux from AIX or Dynix; identify
and provide with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims
rights to.
The lack of availability of their forums suggests they are a former hosting company.
Are there any other implications. I.e. they have a license for a binary kernel - does that mean it's okay for Linux et al to keep making the kernel, 'cause SCO are licensing people to use it? Of course they're only allowed to use a binary version - does that mean it's okay for RedHat and others to keep selling Linux, 'cause that's the only way SCO licensees can get hold of the binary kernel they've paid for?
You really don't want to try and run a PS2 or similar through a PC TV Card. There's a nasty lag in getting the signal processed and on to your computer screen. It doesn't matter if TV is running half a second behind the broadcast, but if you use your controller and you don't see your character move for half a second.
You need a monitor with a scart input or a games console with a monitor output. Don't try putting a PC in the middle.
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They're in use throughout Edinburgh, Scotland. I guess solar technology has improved a bit, as we don't get that much sun and daylight hours in the winter are quite short.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that the company has launched a lawsuit claiming German firm SuSE LINUX AG are in breach of the company's patent on random capitalisation in product names. "Random capitalisation is an exciting and innovative use of letters pioneered by NeXT and the rights to this technology are now owned by Apple Inc" said Jobs as he promised to vigorously pursue this action.
If I write on a sticky note evEry0ne that's quite easy for a malicious passer by to remember or for me to give someone when bribed. If however I have to click on a series of eight icons - say smiley face, then a fish then a dog etc etc that's easier than a complex passwords with upper/lower case numerals and to remember and quite difficult to write down or explain over the phone.
I think this is the first recorded instance of the ship leaving the sinking rats
As some others have said, this technology has been around for a while now. Shazam were (iirc) the first to offer it in the UK. They charge 59p or about the same 99 cents. The Shazam service was covered in Scientific American in June 2003 and has been mentioned on /. a few times in the last year.
Seems they just picked a date so they could say today is the tenth aniversary.
Why not just change your sig to "Don't trust a word I say"?
I'd imagine lots of the IT bods that are stil working will have had major work scheduled for this weekend for weeks. Just as well there isn't a patch to be deployed!
Sure, because the world will be so much better with fewer operating systems to choose from? IBM still offer commercial, propriety Unix alongside Linux. Sun offer exactly the same with Solaris and the Sun Java Desktop.
Choice isn't a bad thing. We should be glad Sun are around and the choice is still there. For big companies (think banks or car manufacturers) who have reputations and $billions on the line, there will always be a market for big iron with a custom *nix to run on top of it. IBM offer it, as do Sun.
Sun seem to have ahd a really hard time over their settlement with / victory over Microsoft. Folk need to remember that Sun is a public company. That means the Board cannot turn down a settlement on the basis of not liking Microsoft. The directors are legally required to deliver the best value for their shareholders. That means is Microsoft offer to settle on better terms than Sun were demanding they have no choice but to accept that settlement. Not to do so would see them lose their jobs and possibly end up in court.
redhat Server costs $350 a year and can be compared to, say, Microsoft Small Busines Server which is a snip at $1,250. Yet MS shops are undercutting you?
Redhat and SuSE both offer discounts to students.
Redhat
SuSE
Prices start at $25. Consider those facts before running your mouth.
As for the MAC address...
should pretty much take care of it should they start to be used for tracking stolen laptops.
If you really do want to encryot the mail you receive, you should probably chekc your ISP is using TLS as well to make sure the encryption goes as far as the sender/recipient too - of course their ISP needs to support that too!
As for an ISP that offers that lot, sorry I don't know of any. You could always co-locate and set it up yourself.
Perhaps Freeswan went into retirement a bit too soon. Freeswan offered ubiquitous encryption throughout the internet where computers would negotiate secure transport mechanisms with each other on an opportunistic rather than pre defined basis.
impliment the existing solution to problems with IPv4 before creating a new solution to old problems?
If you're running a kernel provided by your distro, you probably don't need the upgrade. Just apply security patches as they send them to you. If you run a kernel you built yourself, you probably know whether or not you need or want 2.6. I didn't need it, but the speed boost it gave definately places it in the want category. Compared to 2.4 where lots changed with filesystems and ipchains/tables and so much else, this upgrade was painless.
Spamhaus reckon less than 200 spam outfits make up 90% of spam. So 6% would be a bit more than a drop in the ocean - and if they get caught and face big fines (or jail time) we could see an even bigger impact.
It's about the easiest thing ion the world for the ISP to and it's _very_ effective. Another option would be for ISP's to force all SMTP traffic through their own mailserver and virus scan it. They could easily spot a home user sending a couple of thousand messages in an hour or one spreading infected email everywhere.
If you want unfettered access you can pay for a co-lo box and take the responsibility too. People can't keep hiding behind their ISP and dynamic IPs. I'm all for personal freedoms on the net, but with freedom comes responsibility. Deal with it.
With media player gone, they'll still leave all the API stuff so every other media player will still be tied to Microsoft's format, and as a consequence tied to Windows.
Even insisting they release an x86 binary library for playing WMA on *nix and upgrade it at the same time as any changes to the Windows version would open up all the DRM infected stuff to linux users. We might not like the DRM, but in two years time when most folk get their music that way, it's going to be abig obsticle for Linux adoption if folk can't buy tunes.
There's been a whole host of developments in the ongoing SCO saga over the past couple of days. SCO have now filed law suits against Autozone and DaimlerChrysler on the same day as announcing growing operating losses. Despite securing a deal to license their IP with ev1servers, SCOsource only generated an income of $20,000 for the quarter. Today it has been revealed that Computer Associates, Questar Corp. and manufacturer Leggett & Platt Inc have all joined the ranks of SCO source licensees. Over at the Nasdaq the publicity stunts are beginning to wane thin with investors who sent SCO shares plummeting by almost 14% yesterday. In the courtroom, SCO was yesterday given 45 days to identify all specific lines of code they allege IBM put into Linux from AIX or Dynix; identify and provide with specificity all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to.
So exciting stuff, but probably not any microbes.
Are there any other implications. I.e. they have a license for a binary kernel - does that mean it's okay for Linux et al to keep making the kernel, 'cause SCO are licensing people to use it? Of course they're only allowed to use a binary version - does that mean it's okay for RedHat and others to keep selling Linux, 'cause that's the only way SCO licensees can get hold of the binary kernel they've paid for?
I lost many evenings with network play on GTA2 on the PC.
That'll just be the sales tax on space.com's bandwidth bill after a couple of mentions on /.
You need a monitor with a scart input or a games console with a monitor output. Don't try putting a PC in the middle.