I never clicked "I agree". Not for WinNT+. Even so, I received about 20 SoBig.Fs and maybe 10 mailer daemons about SoBog.F. This isn't enough to really count as serious damage, but if my server had been seriously DOSed (which could happen) might I have standing then?
I'd write a windows worm that DOSed known anti-microsoft fanatics, except that the Win32 API is so ugly I don't wan't to touch it.:-)
I'll grant that what goes in/proc is pretty random and unorganized, but it's still immensely useful. Much better than throwing more cruft into ioctl (which is a heap of cruft to begin with. I can see real arguments for moving that stuff to another directory (/sys or something), and I can't comment on the API for modules, but I definately wouldn't want to give up Linux's/proc. It's what I miss most on Solaris and Tru64.
I suppose I'm getting further off topic, and probably feeding a troll too, but do you know if *BSD has the same/proc powers that Linux does? Things like/proc/pci and/proc/pid/fd? I've always had the impression that those were unique to Linux (and plan9).
The point is that the news media pick the two sides to balance between, without regard for what's reasonable. They might (if they cared) have SCO and the BSA debate how horibly Linux users needed to suffer.
Sort of like how CNN held debates over whether or not to go to war with Afganistan between people who wanted to and people who wanted to also attack Iraq simultaneously.
You can't demand that they take down all their photos because you're too embarressed to say which are of you, and you can't demand damages unless you givet them a good-faith oppurtunity to take them down.
This standard should be easy to carry over to SCO (after all, they're assholes:-) )
Well, off the top of my head (i.e. not the original poster's):
Volutary copyright: Tell your real fans only to buy the copy that gives you royalties. This worked well for Tolkien regarding U.S. sales of LotR. Admittedly, Tolkien fans are more loyal than most, but this was done with no preperation or organization.
Performance: Musicians can use recordings to gain mindshare and then make money on performances. Admittedly, it's just for musicians. OTOH, it's basically what they do now.
Custom works: ruch people or corporations pay for works specifically tailored to them. Often proposed for software, was once common in other art forms as well. It could potentially be broken down with micropayments. Allows the wealthy to overly influence art. This can be somewhat counteracted by:
Government and charatible patronage: you know what this is.
Contractual copyright: the true free-market option, and the immediate predecessor to modern copyright. Each work comes with an NDA. When you consider buying a work, you decide if you're willing to abide by it. Artists will guess what NDA length is acceptable to the market. This fails utterly in the face of oligopolies/monopolies.
Direct voluntary payments: make it easy to toss the artist a few dollars, however you got the material, and then distribute as widely as possible on P2P. Think of it like street performers.
Keep in mind that these options can be combined, that there are others I haven't thought of, and that the most common way for an artist to support him/herself is, always has been, and will continue to be a day job.
I haven't read the code yet, but that strikes me as suspicious. printf is implemented in libc, against which Linux is not linked (nor is any other kernel). Linux has a printk function which has a similar purpose.
Not all comprimised machines need to be rebuilt, nor will they. There are millions of boxen out there which are vulnerable to Blaster, but not maintained at that sort of level. Personal computers and lowly workstations aren't rebuilt that way, nor should they be.
They are, however, perfectly effective at DOSing, and that effects responcible netizens too. This new worm protects us from that -- those who don't want it can secure their systems in the first place.
OTOH, I do realize that Nichi style worms have a destructive potential. I think they're called for only when a Blaster style worm is growing large and planning a DOS or similar attack. In other words, no pre-emptive worms.
Microsoft also switched their main website to a decentralized GNU/Linux cluster. This is why we can all still get through. Admittedly, they didn't choose GNU/Linux themselves, they choose Akamai, a professional webhosting service, and Akamai chose GNU/Linux. Even so, must be embarrising for them....
Quite right, the performance penalty of network transparency is insignificant under normal usage. Under abnormal usage (displaying giant pixmaps repeatedly) there exists a special extension to use shared memory (I think this is the difference between the xvideo and plain x options in xine).
The actual reason for X's poor performance, AFAICT, is that it doesn't expose all the hardware acceleration. Most recent video cards (including cheap ones like i810) have things like textures and gradients available at the hardware level. Xlib doesn't have such things though, it's full of primitives like "draw an arc", which comes up a whole lot less in modern GUI programming. So when GTK wants to create a shaded background, it passes it to X pixel by pixel (well, line-by-line) and X passes it to the card that way. A faster system would make the card do the work.
This is difficult because not all cards have the same acceleration, and widget systems are going to need to support both this and the original X. Even so, we do it for 3d with opengl, so why not here?
Redhat has repeatedly expressed a commitment to shipping only free software. Also free graphics, sounds, etc. With everything free, all they can do is withold mirror space. Anyone who wants (e.g. ibiblio) can image the CD and mirror it. At worst, they'll have to call it "Maroon Beret" or something.
The grid could (read should) isolate these problems. If, say, the heavy industry of New Jersey got cut off as soon as the plants started running in the red, there would have been enough capacity. Everyone else could have kept their power, and when the usage dropped low enough, they could have come back too.
As it is, the entire network tried to support eachother, and failed as one. Nearly a dozen generators are still offline, because they went down in the failure and need an outside kick to start them. This shouldn't happen.
I'm not sure if this has to do with deregulation or not. On the surface, it seems to be related to hubris -- the system is designed on the assumption that it can hold if it just shuffles everything right. We need a "give up" routine and high-usage low-priority areas to use it on.
Now, this problem is old, and can't be blamed on deregulation. Nonetheless, had our best engineers been trying to improve the system, instead of trying to convert it to capitalism, this might have been taken care of.
Seriously, I don't think the power companies have been significantly harmed here. They won't lose customers, seeing as the outage was purely geographic. All bad will is directed against the power companies equally.
Let's face it: the only thing power companies compete on under deregulation is price. They have the same product, the same reliability, etc. This means the only viable business model is to cut every corner you can.
But money is the one true god, and questioning deregulation is unamerican, so we don't see a problem here, right?
You posted with a karma bonus, so no one has modded you up, and no one is now likely to. Grandparent said he'd pull the mirror if the post was modded above 1.
Google wins again! It has six.bash_historys with su in them, though none show sensitive information and at least one was clearly posted intentionally as an example.
It all comes down to knowing google (the inurl: tag, in this case)
If they follow through on their promise to anonimize it, they're funding terrorism. If they don't, or people even suspect they don't, no one will be willing to place unpopular bets. If you return from a business trip to Saudi Arabia and discover that not only is the government crrupt, inefficient, and unpopular, but that most people you meet have machine guns hidden away 'just in case', but no one else has put much money on the House of Saud being overthrown, are you really going to bet on it? When the FBI might well assume you were participating in the overthrow?
Unrelatedly, what if you discover that Al queda is plotting to blow up downtown Damascus. Do you give the FBI or Syrian government your information, possibly preventing it? Or do you keep it to yourself and place a generic bet (Al-queda strikes Syria) and collect big?
Ah well, for a few moments it sounded like a good (if horribly offensive) idea...
The "viral" licensing thing occurs under a different circumstance. If the duplicated code exists, and was originally written for Linux under GPL, and SCO copied it into their own kernel, then Unixware would have to be GPL. However, it's unlikely that McBride et al are that dumb, and if they are, then SCO will also have the choice of ceasing to distribute Unixware until the code is removed, and paying monetary damages to the original authors, who are probably sufficiently pissed off to be vindicative now.
Either way, SCO probably ends up bankrupt, good riddance!
Remeber, these are intended as pure-client machines. They have no servers, and they're probably software firewalled so that accidental servers (if, for example, you're playing freeciv) don't get exposed. If there are no open ports, you pretty much need physical access to corrupt anything, and it'll become uncorrupted with a reboot. Sounds pretty secure to me!
I think it sounds less lame in German. It is a largely German project, after all (though it clearly runs fine in English). At least, I hope it sounds less lame in German -- it can hardly sound more!
Funny, late time I saw this troll it was about Mac OS classic.
If you're going to post unrealistic complaints, at least be original, maybe the BSD bootup screen contains the ancient sigil Mua which means "hail the great beast, destroyer of worlds." Now that would be amusing!
Slashdot Mirror
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
Not sure what it achieves, but it's there.
I'd write a windows worm that DOSed known anti-microsoft fanatics, except that the Win32 API is so ugly I don't wan't to touch it. :-)
I'll grant that what goes in /proc is pretty random and unorganized, but it's still immensely useful. Much better than throwing more cruft into ioctl (which is a heap of cruft to begin with. I can see real arguments for moving that stuff to another directory (/sys or something), and I can't comment on the API for modules, but I definately wouldn't want to give up Linux's /proc. It's what I miss most on Solaris and Tru64.
Thanks in Advance
Here's the whole thing
Thanks a lot!
(if you're serious, I'm serious)
Sort of like how CNN held debates over whether or not to go to war with Afganistan between people who wanted to and people who wanted to also attack Iraq simultaneously.
This standard should be easy to carry over to SCO (after all, they're assholes :-) )
Um, In Soviet Russia....
...Ah, forget it it.
Keep in mind that these options can be combined, that there are others I haven't thought of, and that the most common way for an artist to support him/herself is, always has been, and will continue to be a day job.
I haven't read the code yet, but that strikes me as suspicious. printf is implemented in libc, against which Linux is not linked (nor is any other kernel). Linux has a printk function which has a similar purpose.
They are, however, perfectly effective at DOSing, and that effects responcible netizens too. This new worm protects us from that -- those who don't want it can secure their systems in the first place.
OTOH, I do realize that Nichi style worms have a destructive potential. I think they're called for only when a Blaster style worm is growing large and planning a DOS or similar attack. In other words, no pre-emptive worms.
GNU/Linux: for when it actually has to work!
The actual reason for X's poor performance, AFAICT, is that it doesn't expose all the hardware acceleration. Most recent video cards (including cheap ones like i810) have things like textures and gradients available at the hardware level. Xlib doesn't have such things though, it's full of primitives like "draw an arc", which comes up a whole lot less in modern GUI programming. So when GTK wants to create a shaded background, it passes it to X pixel by pixel (well, line-by-line) and X passes it to the card that way. A faster system would make the card do the work.
This is difficult because not all cards have the same acceleration, and widget systems are going to need to support both this and the original X. Even so, we do it for 3d with opengl, so why not here?
Redhat has repeatedly expressed a commitment to shipping only free software. Also free graphics, sounds, etc. With everything free, all they can do is withold mirror space. Anyone who wants (e.g. ibiblio) can image the CD and mirror it. At worst, they'll have to call it "Maroon Beret" or something.
As it is, the entire network tried to support eachother, and failed as one. Nearly a dozen generators are still offline, because they went down in the failure and need an outside kick to start them. This shouldn't happen.
I'm not sure if this has to do with deregulation or not. On the surface, it seems to be related to hubris -- the system is designed on the assumption that it can hold if it just shuffles everything right. We need a "give up" routine and high-usage low-priority areas to use it on.
Now, this problem is old, and can't be blamed on deregulation. Nonetheless, had our best engineers been trying to improve the system, instead of trying to convert it to capitalism, this might have been taken care of.
Seriously, I don't think the power companies have been significantly harmed here. They won't lose customers, seeing as the outage was purely geographic. All bad will is directed against the power companies equally.
Let's face it: the only thing power companies compete on under deregulation is price. They have the same product, the same reliability, etc. This means the only viable business model is to cut every corner you can.
But money is the one true god, and questioning deregulation is unamerican, so we don't see a problem here, right?
You posted with a karma bonus, so no one has modded you up, and no one is now likely to. Grandparent said he'd pull the mirror if the post was modded above 1.
It all comes down to knowing google (the inurl: tag, in this case)
If they follow through on their promise to anonimize it, they're funding terrorism. If they don't, or people even suspect they don't, no one will be willing to place unpopular bets. If you return from a business trip to Saudi Arabia and discover that not only is the government crrupt, inefficient, and unpopular, but that most people you meet have machine guns hidden away 'just in case', but no one else has put much money on the House of Saud being overthrown, are you really going to bet on it? When the FBI might well assume you were participating in the overthrow?
Unrelatedly, what if you discover that Al queda is plotting to blow up downtown Damascus. Do you give the FBI or Syrian government your information, possibly preventing it? Or do you keep it to yourself and place a generic bet (Al-queda strikes Syria) and collect big?
Ah well, for a few moments it sounded like a good (if horribly offensive) idea...
Either way, SCO probably ends up bankrupt, good riddance!
But when, if ever, did SCO run on PPC? If not, then how could it be copied from them?
Remeber, these are intended as pure-client machines. They have no servers, and they're probably software firewalled so that accidental servers (if, for example, you're playing freeciv) don't get exposed. If there are no open ports, you pretty much need physical access to corrupt anything, and it'll become uncorrupted with a reboot. Sounds pretty secure to me!
I think it sounds less lame in German. It is a largely German project, after all (though it clearly runs fine in English). At least, I hope it sounds less lame in German -- it can hardly sound more!
If you're going to post unrealistic complaints, at least be original, maybe the BSD bootup screen contains the ancient sigil Mua which means "hail the great beast, destroyer of worlds." Now that would be amusing!