So how does this take the place of having permisions be part of the file system? Why is it so difficult for them to make their kernel respect them by default, or even to have reasonable default permisions put on every file as it is created? Next they can try to put groups on, as the current junk they have makes no distiction between groups and users. What a mess it all is. That junky right click produces a mile long mixed user and group list in any decent sized company. It is not hard thing to add a few bytes to every file, maintain user and group databases and make the freaking kernel respect it all!
The reason M$ does not do this is because they don't want your computer to be secure. If it were they would not be able to force adverts and upgrades on people.
Microsoft executives said the memorandum resembled previous broadsides that have been fired off by Mr. Gates, the company's co-founder and chairman, when he thought that the company's strategic direction needed radical changes.
In 1995, for example, Mr. Gates sent a companywide e-mail message exhorting employees to turn the direction of the Microsoft "battleship" and focus all the company's efforts on the threat of the Internet to Microsoft's business.
They viewed the free comunications media that was growing as a threat. This is why they did not rush to embrace it, but fought to destroy or dominate it. Sure, billg made a vanity web page and company policy was to tell everyone that was all it was good for. I remember it from being there. They rolled netbios out on the majority of their victims and tried to hold off TCP/IP for freaking ever, or at least till winsock was ported from BSD for free and they could steal and sell it. Since then they have done everything in their power to cram their stupid propriatory formats over it by buying out companies and perverting them to spam sites. Like bolshivicks, they seek to disrupt the medium until they can control it. They are evil, and we have yet to see if the internet will win this one but freedom has a way of ignoring snake oil until there is nothing left but a fringe market for fools.
Security on M$ platforms is impossible. There are no real user ID's, nor file permisions built into the kernel or the file system. The PNP hole on port 5000 iw a great example of this. Why did it take so long to find it? Where were the comercial firewall companies that so many trolls like to tout here? You would think that they would have spotted it and closed it if such things were possible on an OS that does not really keep track of all the processes that are running.
As I lost two karma points for in an earlier post, the only M$ is going to be able to provide any kind of security is to follow the Apple example and dump Windows. I imagine they will roll a BSD and make some kind of WINE like compatibility mode. It's not going to work. They are far to behind, after all Apple bought up Next and it still took them years. They canned all their good VAX people and gutted the majority of their work as they shifted focus from their failed Unix killer, NT. I don't think so much as their mediocre korn shell made it to win 2000. The ridiculous proposition of a month long "focus" on security by all of their employees shows that they have an impossible task on their hands. Their sins are all looking them in the face and laughing. Had they spent as much time working with other platforms as they did breaking interfaces, swapping print methods and ruining other companies in general, they would be in a much better position today.
Maybe they should have thought of this BEFORE they rewrote the OS?
Rewrite? What rewrite? The one that killed the last 16 bit code, again? When we have seen former M$ programers talking about the "wisdom" that age brings to old code, and then mentioning horrible kludges for device drivers under the awful variety of M$ muck. Their public versioning is nonsensical and makes you wonder if they were ever able to make consistent all of the code from all of the companies they swollowed and chewed up. There's a reason that the 98 souce code had more lines than it takes to run a space shuttle, and it was not useful features.
Even if they had the desire to rewrite things, they could not. I doubt they have the resources to do so much as an audit. How many people do they have employed right now, a few thousand? How many lines of code are there, 100 million? Let's see if they can impliment something as useful as user ID's and file system permisions in the next two years. All of their sins will look down upon them and laugh as they strugle.
If history is any guide, they will once again follow the Macintosh crowd and try to impliment a BSD with a "compatiblility mode". If they follow this path, Lindows, WINE, will be targeted for destuction or assimilation.
My poor little cable box. It's been disabled by this DoS. While it's not a big deal, and I can fix it quickly, and it does not represent a fundamental design flaw, such as not having real users which could have made it much worse, it's humbling. For all the work people have put in, a problem emerged. Some stupid troll can claim that the problem was obvious, and I'm not sure a judge could tell the difference.
What's obvious malpractice to you and me, might not be so obvious to others.
I'm happy to think that this would mostly apply to people who tried to SELL software, but I worry for all my friends in the Open Sofware movement and those who consult. Where does the liablility begin?
Is Red Hat responsible for a collection of packages that they put together or just for the fine things they author and then sell? In other words, if I charge a fee for my ability to put things together for you, am I liable when those things don't work together?
I also worry for consultants. Can I deny the implied mechantability if I install Debian for you? Obviously you have hired me for a specific purpose and I'm supplying you with tools to meet that need.
There is a fine line here, and I'm not encourged by my government's recent direction on other matters such as DMCA. They can't be counted on to get the difference, or can they? Surely there are meat space equivalents to elucidate the problem, but I worry that common sense may be just as lost here as it is in the confidentiality of email vrs US post and phone calls.
A couple of years ago certian destabilizing influences were not on the net. Today, the net is littered with cracked coppies of win2k on cable modems, not to mention serving "the enterprise" whatever that is. The venerability demonstrated by all those crippled machines did start to desabilize routers all around the world. You did not miss all the fun, did you?
Unless people get smart and dump M$, it's hard for anyone to gaurantee any service. It's kind of like planning to meet someone on Burbon Street for Mardi Grass, your voice will be lost in the noise. All the resources in the world won't protect you from irresponsible net usage.
It's about what we want. As long as the greed heads have to use the public right of way, they owe us. Money, what, they want my money? So what's new? They can behave or have their bankrupt asses nationalized. The telcos are going under as their services are becoming desperatly obsolete. Nothing could be more public than telco networks and roads. Fight for what is yours.
We owe it to Joe Homeowner to keep the bastards from raping us all. If we don't Joe is going to ask where his leaders were and why they failed him.
$100/month? Funny you should mention power.
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Broadband Obstacles
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I'd easily pay $100 for something that was under my control, I could have control over the dns, etc. 4 sets of numbers. That's all I want/need to ever hear from the provider.
I agree, but you seem to be off by an order of magnitude. Let's look at some other wires that come into your house.
How about the phone line? It can be argued that it took more equipment and more cost to set up the smart network that was the phone system that it will take to set up the dumb wires that is the internet. How much does it cost to support the phone system? Basic subscription, $12/month.
What is your electric bill each month? $100? Wow, I feel for you, but at least you get something out of it. You don't think it costs more to run co-ax and a few routers than it does to run power plants and all really fat lines all around do you?
Such a move will further entrench software development into the hands of a few large companies.
Is it good? I don't know, I guess it depends on what your priorities are. If what you really want is rock solid quality software, then yes it's good.
Rock solid, yep that's what M$ makes computers, kind of like a paperwheight that blinks and makes noises between blue screens. Wooohooo, don't do nothin for yourself folks, Sheldon is going to save us all with solid software. Pththth-fiiit!
Sheldon is not a real person. Sheldon is actually the name of a highschool debate team in Tel-Aviv. Not quite as interesting as signall11, but more comments. As dispair.com reminds us, when you redouble your efforts to make up for ineptitude, there is no limit to what you can't get done.
Great. The Clintons are murderers and everyone who is not a Republican is a Communist. Iran-Contra never happened, nor did anything involving the words "Bush" or "Enron". Your world sure is interesting...
Don't project you blindness on me. Read my posts and you will see that I'm a friend of truth and freedom, not any political party. I will and have beat on Bush, and Ashcroft for all the bonhead things they do, but I'm not going to forget that the tools they are abusing were all forged by Democrats whoring to Hollywood and big publishers. Where would John Ascroft be without Jannet Reno's great Carnivore and Magic Lantern work. The DMCA layed the groundwork for computer slavery by establishing that you do not own the contents of your computer, demanding databases without warrent is the logical extension. Last but not least, it would be much more difficult for all of this to be shoved down our throats if it were not for the greedhead Clinton erra media consolidation that has left the airwaves as property of GE, Westinghouse and Disney.
That stupid article from the NYT is just part of the Democrat's little smear campaign. You know, like the convicted fellon author who made so much noise about fictional drug abuse. Trying to link Iran-Contra with the current Enron scandal is as pathetic as it is innefective and dishonest. No one really gave a shit about giving arms to the contras and it happened 15 years ago. You might as well say that Bush is dishonest because Richard Nixon lied to Congress. Don't you think it's a little funny that the historical perspective did not include, White Water where the President was accused of using his influence to bankrupt others for his own personal enrichment? Don't you think it's a little strange that all of the people besides the man who made money are dead or in jail? We shall see if Bush enriched himself at the public expense, but pissant articles like that don't do much to sway me.
Now we'll be subjected to extra windows spam from MS.
Give the usual MicroSquish business ethics, you will be signed up for "product information and news" for everything from X-10 to porn. Good luck, your mail box will soon look like my AOL account. I wonder if M$ have anything to do with that as well, there can'nt be that many dumb asses who buy a penis enarger sales kit. It would not be beyond the company that pays to have dead people write congressmen. Such is the stuff of software ownership and "aggesive" marketing.
As an internal email from M$ once told, there were two conditions for a new NT product that interfaced with Unix, that it make money for M$ and that it kill Unix. Needless to say, that project useful project did not happen.
Thanks, I was going to ask him if he thought inviting people into his dorm room was a "major copyright" violation. I'm waiting for Hilary and friends to demand that people watch DVDs on personal headsets, with blinders in dark windowless rooms.
90% of Stupid Urban Vehicle owners are office workers that will never see an unpaved road. They buy these moster machines because they have been taught to fear their neighbors. In reality, the world has them to fear as the stupid things are difficult to handle and much less stable than the simple 4 door sedan that would fill all of their automotive needs.
The flicker in my eye is a reflection of burning karma.
it's only used to confront a witness who may not be telling the whole truth, and cannot be used to directly establish that what the evidence shows *is* true.
That's good, as the information might just as well have been edited, or even created. A +4 funny post talked about what "easy money" this was. That's not exactly the kind of morals most people want in an independent third party witness, but the kind you can expect from one that's paid. Think about being confronted with all of your email, selectively edited, and not having access to the documents yourself! This kind of evidence will never be as good as hard copy that everyone can look at and study soberly,
and even that is not enough on it's own. There are two parties in any dispute, both parties need to be impeeched to get at the truth.
You forgot that you need to forge a suicide note in your own unique prose about, "not being able to live in the spotlight", and posting gaurds around his office while all incriminating evidence is removed. Get with the program.
I'm stunned that both you and the New York Times are so behind the times. Freaking Oliver North? give me a break, that was fifteen years ago. The techonology of covering your ass was dramatically improved durring the innovative Clinton years. Such an ommision can not be due to ignorance, it must be politically motivated. Hmmmm.
Well, for any of you out there who might not be in the know, never write things you don't want other people to know. Never ever ever use M$ for confidential information, and alway encrypt your email. This works just as well for private correspondence and corporate work that you might not want to share with your competitors, as it does for politicians who want to murder their best friends.
The license requires giving Borland the right to enter your property, search your systems and records for license compliance. The license also requires the waiving of a jury trial by all parties for all suits including class action suits.
So what is new? This really is part and parcel of any license in the US isn't it? I mean, the BSA thinks it has the right to search you if someone told them that you have "pirated" software. If you dissagree, they will get a court order for it and then charge you the cost of the search. Most people, when faced with that evil oganization, surrender all rights to a trial and settle when threatened with the full cost of resistance. The Borland folks have been up front with what they expect.
More power to free software.
and article was wrong here too.
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Let's have a look at that again:
Microsoft's only downside exposure would be the potential demise of IIS, which has no financial impact because the Web server is bundled as part of the OS.
The finacial impact would be huge. Microsoft's desktop is inferior and free software continues to march ahead. Really, who does not feel like a veneralbe cripple on the M$ box they have to use at work? Microsoft's only hope for maintianing their monopoly is to extend it to the internet where their servers will then inconvienence all those who don't use M$IE. If this does not happen, Microsoft will be forced to, gasp, compete with free software's features.
The final $70 can easily be made up by extras to phone service like voice mail, caller id, etc. Add in long distance and you can make up the final $70 dollars easy.
Long distance is not part of the bargain yet, and they had better make that servive free as it will be no better than any current voice over IP. Unless they tap into the local phone sytem they will you will not be able to place calls to anyone except those who have another stupid AOL modem. If they follow their own goofey propriatory stuff there like they do with their ISP service, then it will be worse than the usual voice over IP stuff as you will not be able to place calls to friends who you give software to. I want them to compete in the telco market, but I want others to be able to compete in the cable market and shake these turkeys down to real expectations.
As for the rest of it, fat chance. For seventy bucks, I can buy one kick ass answering machine, and people generally leave their number on an answering machine. For seventy bucks a month, I'm sure I could get a real ansering service staffed by people who will screen my calls for me, endure direct marketers and other garbage. Will AOL do that? Not if their email service is any guide, "You've got spam!". For movies, the local rental store is lucky if they can squeze $8/month from me. I doubt that AOL can match the local video store for variety and ease of use. They would have to have EVERYTHING and a good search engine. Nice as that would be, it won't be worth more than $8/month.
It is certainly possible to be successful using Linux on the desktop, as I do, but from a commercial perspective, as long as there is a monopolist who continues to behave in a way that violates antitrust law, I don't think there's much hope for an alternative desktop. The desktop market is not an exciting market. It has reached a point of saturation.
Translation: we could do it, but we won't make any money on it, M$ has effectivly blocked us there so we are going to look elsewhere.
He's wrong. Packaging a slick easy to install set of desktop software was a great Red Hat strength, and there is great demand for what they offer. They need to position themselves as the solution to the problems of propraitory code: programs that don't talk to each other, shifting "standards" that waste work, poor security, and massive IT budgets that churn junk all day without being able to fix anything. They have not done a good job of getting the word out about specific issues and how they have a solution. No one else in the US has the training network, name recognition and ability to do what they can. The market is there, you just have to make it happen. Think of Sony and the Walkman. The demand was there, despite a downturn in consumer electronics. Sony just created the product that people really wanted. Red Hat will only be defeated if they give up, or start acting like M$ themselves.
If M$ charges 90% of it's "customers" $40, and 10% of them $250, you can say that 10% of all their cusomers were overcharged $190. $40 must be what they consider fair, or they would not be charging that for the vast majority of their sales.
There are other blatant screw you effects of the M$ price structure as well. Consider corporate sales. If the purchasing department has only authorized computer purchases from certian OEMs and all of those OEMs are forced to charge you the M$ $40 cut regardless of the OS that comes with the computer, you can argue that the corporate victim has been overcharged $40 times the number of computers they wish to buy, say 2000 per year. That adds up to $40,000 per year per company. Wowser.
When you add it all up, you get the billions of M$ bucks in the bank that M$ employees think they will get for their stock. Enron's implosion makes me worry for them. Get out while you can!
If you check MS RTF documentation, you will see that.doc is actually just the binary format of RTF.
You know, that might be true but M$.DOC is much extended and constantly varying.
This brings us to another problem, RTF too is a M$ file format that's constantly being "extended", and is therefore imposible to catch. I've read many times here that the RTF format specifications provided by M$ are incomplete and won't work. I know from experience that M$ Write, also known as WordPad, will not always read a RTF produced by Word. If you check MS RTF documentation, you will see that.doc is actually just the binary format of RTF.
Heck, these days M$ can?t even get ASCII right MSDash they add strange characters to their fonts when perfectly good American Standard Code for Information Interchange exists.
Post Script, Portable Document File specifications are much much better than RTF. If you check MS RTF documentation, you will see that.doc is actually just the binary format of RTF. The result, as all of us know, is formating that changes with fonts available on the local machine and what printer is being used. PDF and PS don't have these problems.
Only a M$ shill would propose the use of inferior, propraitory and secret formats as M$ produces.
It seems that the night and weekend belongs to M$ tolls.
It's kind of fun, really, like shooting fish in a barrel. The choice is so easy, and the trolls lack creativity. Anyone who's used anything other than M$ junk knows how crippled the stuff from Redmond is, and it's just so fun to point it out. Secure Shell remote logon, with fast graphical exports? You won't see that from M$ as long as they stick to their stupid single user model force by their obsolete licensing and distribution schemes. But here I sit in bed with woefully underpowered laptop, logged into a nice speedy machine. There you go, point out the abilty to install your software on specific purpose machines that you can share out to your friends and office mates. One machine in each virtual terminal or mixed, M$ "integration" never had it remotly close. Hell their idea of desktop integration is getting their bloated word processor to share text with their bloated browser, HA HA HA. Oh yeah, you would think that Belgian would want a nice web server like Apache. I suppose they can get it for Win32, but how can you run something like that on such a flimsy foundation? How much easier apt-get is. They might also like pro-ftp. Access and administer your machine from somewhere else, I do it and I've yet to be cracked. My mighty 66MHz 486 gateway sits on a cable modem 24/7. People using M$ get cracked just connecting to the internet. They lose everything thanks to all the stupid scattered places M$ keeps information. Me, I'm backed up and can be back up in less than an hour if need be. The list of things that are nice to have that are easy to get for Linux goes on and on. Hell, even paid M$ trolls have to wonder in frustration at their single virtual screens. I just love to rub it in.
Here's the biggest rub of all: It was easy. That's right, easy. I'm just a bone headed mechanical engineer and I've got my house networked with Debian. My wife uses it, no problem. Are we leet or what? NFW, we are simple users who have put a fraction of the time we used to spend on left handed M$ shortcuts toward learning something real and constant. Give a person a preconfigured Debian box and they will never look back. Give them a Red Hat box and the difference will sink in slowly until they ask theselves, "How did I ever put up with all that cranky junk?" Tech support calls will cease to be an easy $50/hour. Easy, easy easy.
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The reason M$ does not do this is because they don't want your computer to be secure. If it were they would not be able to force adverts and upgrades on people.
Microsoft executives said the memorandum resembled previous broadsides that have been fired off by Mr. Gates, the company's co-founder and chairman, when he thought that the company's strategic direction needed radical changes.
In 1995, for example, Mr. Gates sent a companywide e-mail message exhorting employees to turn the direction of the Microsoft "battleship" and focus all the company's efforts on the threat of the Internet to Microsoft's business.
They viewed the free comunications media that was growing as a threat. This is why they did not rush to embrace it, but fought to destroy or dominate it. Sure, billg made a vanity web page and company policy was to tell everyone that was all it was good for. I remember it from being there. They rolled netbios out on the majority of their victims and tried to hold off TCP/IP for freaking ever, or at least till winsock was ported from BSD for free and they could steal and sell it. Since then they have done everything in their power to cram their stupid propriatory formats over it by buying out companies and perverting them to spam sites. Like bolshivicks, they seek to disrupt the medium until they can control it. They are evil, and we have yet to see if the internet will win this one but freedom has a way of ignoring snake oil until there is nothing left but a fringe market for fools.
Security on M$ platforms is impossible. There are no real user ID's, nor file permisions built into the kernel or the file system. The PNP hole on port 5000 iw a great example of this. Why did it take so long to find it? Where were the comercial firewall companies that so many trolls like to tout here? You would think that they would have spotted it and closed it if such things were possible on an OS that does not really keep track of all the processes that are running.
As I lost two karma points for in an earlier post, the only M$ is going to be able to provide any kind of security is to follow the Apple example and dump Windows. I imagine they will roll a BSD and make some kind of WINE like compatibility mode. It's not going to work. They are far to behind, after all Apple bought up Next and it still took them years. They canned all their good VAX people and gutted the majority of their work as they shifted focus from their failed Unix killer, NT. I don't think so much as their mediocre korn shell made it to win 2000. The ridiculous proposition of a month long "focus" on security by all of their employees shows that they have an impossible task on their hands. Their sins are all looking them in the face and laughing. Had they spent as much time working with other platforms as they did breaking interfaces, swapping print methods and ruining other companies in general, they would be in a much better position today.
Rewrite? What rewrite? The one that killed the last 16 bit code, again? When we have seen former M$ programers talking about the "wisdom" that age brings to old code, and then mentioning horrible kludges for device drivers under the awful variety of M$ muck. Their public versioning is nonsensical and makes you wonder if they were ever able to make consistent all of the code from all of the companies they swollowed and chewed up. There's a reason that the 98 souce code had more lines than it takes to run a space shuttle, and it was not useful features.
Even if they had the desire to rewrite things, they could not. I doubt they have the resources to do so much as an audit. How many people do they have employed right now, a few thousand? How many lines of code are there, 100 million? Let's see if they can impliment something as useful as user ID's and file system permisions in the next two years. All of their sins will look down upon them and laugh as they strugle.
If history is any guide, they will once again follow the Macintosh crowd and try to impliment a BSD with a "compatiblility mode". If they follow this path, Lindows, WINE, will be targeted for destuction or assimilation.
What's obvious malpractice to you and me, might not be so obvious to others.
Is Red Hat responsible for a collection of packages that they put together or just for the fine things they author and then sell? In other words, if I charge a fee for my ability to put things together for you, am I liable when those things don't work together?
I also worry for consultants. Can I deny the implied mechantability if I install Debian for you? Obviously you have hired me for a specific purpose and I'm supplying you with tools to meet that need.
There is a fine line here, and I'm not encourged by my government's recent direction on other matters such as DMCA. They can't be counted on to get the difference, or can they? Surely there are meat space equivalents to elucidate the problem, but I worry that common sense may be just as lost here as it is in the confidentiality of email vrs US post and phone calls.
Unless people get smart and dump M$, it's hard for anyone to gaurantee any service. It's kind of like planning to meet someone on Burbon Street for Mardi Grass, your voice will be lost in the noise. All the resources in the world won't protect you from irresponsible net usage.
By the way, 13 is 1.08333... dozen.
We owe it to Joe Homeowner to keep the bastards from raping us all. If we don't Joe is going to ask where his leaders were and why they failed him.
I agree, but you seem to be off by an order of magnitude. Let's look at some other wires that come into your house.
How about the phone line? It can be argued that it took more equipment and more cost to set up the smart network that was the phone system that it will take to set up the dumb wires that is the internet. How much does it cost to support the phone system? Basic subscription, $12/month.
What is your electric bill each month? $100? Wow, I feel for you, but at least you get something out of it. You don't think it costs more to run co-ax and a few routers than it does to run power plants and all really fat lines all around do you?
It moves me, really it does. Telco is a rape.
>Ohh yes there is, browse at -1 ;-)
Must account for the high MSIE stats we see logging into Slashdots. 9.99 of 10 automated trollbots use MSIE.
If that and Outlook won't kill Unix (Solaris in this case) I'm not sure what will. Silly M$ all your plans have come to nothing.
Is it good? I don't know, I guess it depends on what your priorities are. If what you really want is rock solid quality software, then yes it's good.
Rock solid, yep that's what M$ makes computers, kind of like a paperwheight that blinks and makes noises between blue screens. Wooohooo, don't do nothin for yourself folks, Sheldon is going to save us all with solid software. Pththth-fiiit!
Sheldon is not a real person. Sheldon is actually the name of a highschool debate team in Tel-Aviv. Not quite as interesting as signall11, but more comments. As dispair.com reminds us, when you redouble your efforts to make up for ineptitude, there is no limit to what you can't get done.
Don't project you blindness on me. Read my posts and you will see that I'm a friend of truth and freedom, not any political party. I will and have beat on Bush, and Ashcroft for all the bonhead things they do, but I'm not going to forget that the tools they are abusing were all forged by Democrats whoring to Hollywood and big publishers. Where would John Ascroft be without Jannet Reno's great Carnivore and Magic Lantern work. The DMCA layed the groundwork for computer slavery by establishing that you do not own the contents of your computer, demanding databases without warrent is the logical extension. Last but not least, it would be much more difficult for all of this to be shoved down our throats if it were not for the greedhead Clinton erra media consolidation that has left the airwaves as property of GE, Westinghouse and Disney.
That stupid article from the NYT is just part of the Democrat's little smear campaign. You know, like the convicted fellon author who made so much noise about fictional drug abuse. Trying to link Iran-Contra with the current Enron scandal is as pathetic as it is innefective and dishonest. No one really gave a shit about giving arms to the contras and it happened 15 years ago. You might as well say that Bush is dishonest because Richard Nixon lied to Congress. Don't you think it's a little funny that the historical perspective did not include, White Water where the President was accused of using his influence to bankrupt others for his own personal enrichment? Don't you think it's a little strange that all of the people besides the man who made money are dead or in jail? We shall see if Bush enriched himself at the public expense, but pissant articles like that don't do much to sway me.
Give the usual MicroSquish business ethics, you will be signed up for "product information and news" for everything from X-10 to porn. Good luck, your mail box will soon look like my AOL account. I wonder if M$ have anything to do with that as well, there can'nt be that many dumb asses who buy a penis enarger sales kit. It would not be beyond the company that pays to have dead people write congressmen. Such is the stuff of software ownership and "aggesive" marketing.
As an internal email from M$ once told, there were two conditions for a new NT product that interfaced with Unix, that it make money for M$ and that it kill Unix. Needless to say, that project useful project did not happen.
Thanks, I was going to ask him if he thought inviting people into his dorm room was a "major copyright" violation. I'm waiting for Hilary and friends to demand that people watch DVDs on personal headsets, with blinders in dark windowless rooms.
That's because they knew how. Murder was part of it.
90% of Stupid Urban Vehicle owners are office workers that will never see an unpaved road. They buy these moster machines because they have been taught to fear their neighbors. In reality, the world has them to fear as the stupid things are difficult to handle and much less stable than the simple 4 door sedan that would fill all of their automotive needs.
The flicker in my eye is a reflection of burning karma.
That's good, as the information might just as well have been edited, or even created. A +4 funny post talked about what "easy money" this was. That's not exactly the kind of morals most people want in an independent third party witness, but the kind you can expect from one that's paid. Think about being confronted with all of your email, selectively edited, and not having access to the documents yourself! This kind of evidence will never be as good as hard copy that everyone can look at and study soberly, and even that is not enough on it's own. There are two parties in any dispute, both parties need to be impeeched to get at the truth.
I'm stunned that both you and the New York Times are so behind the times. Freaking Oliver North? give me a break, that was fifteen years ago. The techonology of covering your ass was dramatically improved durring the innovative Clinton years. Such an ommision can not be due to ignorance, it must be politically motivated. Hmmmm.
Well, for any of you out there who might not be in the know, never write things you don't want other people to know. Never ever ever use M$ for confidential information, and alway encrypt your email. This works just as well for private correspondence and corporate work that you might not want to share with your competitors, as it does for politicians who want to murder their best friends.
The license requires giving Borland the right to enter your property, search your systems and records for license compliance. The license also requires the waiving of a jury trial by all parties for all suits including class action suits.
So what is new? This really is part and parcel of any license in the US isn't it? I mean, the BSA thinks it has the right to search you if someone told them that you have "pirated" software. If you dissagree, they will get a court order for it and then charge you the cost of the search. Most people, when faced with that evil oganization, surrender all rights to a trial and settle when threatened with the full cost of resistance. The Borland folks have been up front with what they expect.
More power to free software.
The finacial impact would be huge. Microsoft's desktop is inferior and free software continues to march ahead. Really, who does not feel like a veneralbe cripple on the M$ box they have to use at work? Microsoft's only hope for maintianing their monopoly is to extend it to the internet where their servers will then inconvienence all those who don't use M$IE. If this does not happen, Microsoft will be forced to, gasp, compete with free software's features.
Long distance is not part of the bargain yet, and they had better make that servive free as it will be no better than any current voice over IP. Unless they tap into the local phone sytem they will you will not be able to place calls to anyone except those who have another stupid AOL modem. If they follow their own goofey propriatory stuff there like they do with their ISP service, then it will be worse than the usual voice over IP stuff as you will not be able to place calls to friends who you give software to. I want them to compete in the telco market, but I want others to be able to compete in the cable market and shake these turkeys down to real expectations.
As for the rest of it, fat chance. For seventy bucks, I can buy one kick ass answering machine, and people generally leave their number on an answering machine. For seventy bucks a month, I'm sure I could get a real ansering service staffed by people who will screen my calls for me, endure direct marketers and other garbage. Will AOL do that? Not if their email service is any guide, "You've got spam!". For movies, the local rental store is lucky if they can squeze $8/month from me. I doubt that AOL can match the local video store for variety and ease of use. They would have to have EVERYTHING and a good search engine. Nice as that would be, it won't be worth more than $8/month.
Translation: we could do it, but we won't make any money on it, M$ has effectivly blocked us there so we are going to look elsewhere.
He's wrong. Packaging a slick easy to install set of desktop software was a great Red Hat strength, and there is great demand for what they offer. They need to position themselves as the solution to the problems of propraitory code: programs that don't talk to each other, shifting "standards" that waste work, poor security, and massive IT budgets that churn junk all day without being able to fix anything. They have not done a good job of getting the word out about specific issues and how they have a solution. No one else in the US has the training network, name recognition and ability to do what they can. The market is there, you just have to make it happen. Think of Sony and the Walkman. The demand was there, despite a downturn in consumer electronics. Sony just created the product that people really wanted. Red Hat will only be defeated if they give up, or start acting like M$ themselves.
There are other blatant screw you effects of the M$ price structure as well. Consider corporate sales. If the purchasing department has only authorized computer purchases from certian OEMs and all of those OEMs are forced to charge you the M$ $40 cut regardless of the OS that comes with the computer, you can argue that the corporate victim has been overcharged $40 times the number of computers they wish to buy, say 2000 per year. That adds up to $40,000 per year per company. Wowser.
When you add it all up, you get the billions of M$ bucks in the bank that M$ employees think they will get for their stock. Enron's implosion makes me worry for them. Get out while you can!
You know, that might be true but M$.DOC is much extended and constantly varying.
This brings us to another problem, RTF too is a M$ file format that's constantly being "extended", and is therefore imposible to catch. I've read many times here that the RTF format specifications provided by M$ are incomplete and won't work. I know from experience that M$ Write, also known as WordPad, will not always read a RTF produced by Word. If you check MS RTF documentation, you will see that .doc is actually just the binary format of RTF.
Heck, these days M$ can?t even get ASCII right MSDash they add strange characters to their fonts when perfectly good American Standard Code for Information Interchange exists.
Post Script, Portable Document File specifications are much much better than RTF. If you check MS RTF documentation, you will see that .doc is actually just the binary format of RTF. The result, as all of us know, is formating that changes with fonts available on the local machine and what printer is being used. PDF and PS don't have these problems.
Only a M$ shill would propose the use of inferior, propraitory and secret formats as M$ produces.
It's kind of fun, really, like shooting fish in a barrel. The choice is so easy, and the trolls lack creativity. Anyone who's used anything other than M$ junk knows how crippled the stuff from Redmond is, and it's just so fun to point it out. Secure Shell remote logon, with fast graphical exports? You won't see that from M$ as long as they stick to their stupid single user model force by their obsolete licensing and distribution schemes. But here I sit in bed with woefully underpowered laptop, logged into a nice speedy machine. There you go, point out the abilty to install your software on specific purpose machines that you can share out to your friends and office mates. One machine in each virtual terminal or mixed, M$ "integration" never had it remotly close. Hell their idea of desktop integration is getting their bloated word processor to share text with their bloated browser, HA HA HA. Oh yeah, you would think that Belgian would want a nice web server like Apache. I suppose they can get it for Win32, but how can you run something like that on such a flimsy foundation? How much easier apt-get is. They might also like pro-ftp. Access and administer your machine from somewhere else, I do it and I've yet to be cracked. My mighty 66MHz 486 gateway sits on a cable modem 24/7. People using M$ get cracked just connecting to the internet. They lose everything thanks to all the stupid scattered places M$ keeps information. Me, I'm backed up and can be back up in less than an hour if need be. The list of things that are nice to have that are easy to get for Linux goes on and on. Hell, even paid M$ trolls have to wonder in frustration at their single virtual screens. I just love to rub it in.
Here's the biggest rub of all: It was easy. That's right, easy. I'm just a bone headed mechanical engineer and I've got my house networked with Debian. My wife uses it, no problem. Are we leet or what? NFW, we are simple users who have put a fraction of the time we used to spend on left handed M$ shortcuts toward learning something real and constant. Give a person a preconfigured Debian box and they will never look back. Give them a Red Hat box and the difference will sink in slowly until they ask theselves, "How did I ever put up with all that cranky junk?" Tech support calls will cease to be an easy $50/hour. Easy, easy easy.
This is one sale that's unlikely.