I agree. Whose to say that the last fingerprint left the DNA? Here's to hoping we stick to more concrete extractions of DNA. Otherwise, we'll have more innocents on death row and smuggly point to this type of extraction and say "Hey, his DNA was at the scene!"
JAV
Exactly. W3C has proposed more standards that will promptly be ignored by Microsoft...and subsequently, most webmasters and coders!
Don't get me wrong, I wish more people would adhere to standards from W3C, but unfortunately, they target IE users and that's about it.
JAV
Well, anyone with open RPC on the net is an idiot. We've known this for years. The only new thing here is the DCOM issue and being able to possibly use DCOM from a call to port 80. Seriously, if this becomes another slammer/code red at your office, someone needs to seriously re-think they're security strategy...and IT staff.
JAV
I totally agree. Using Windows as the yardstick is to miss the point largely. Unfortunately, it's a Windows world and these comparisons and arguments will be made for some time. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is to be pervasive enough in the enterprise that people start asking "How well is my Linux workstation going to integrate with my Linux backend?" We can only hope!
JAV....
Clear Channel is hardly a monopoly. I think there is something like 17,000 radio stations and they have around 1400. Hardly Microsoft-esque. Liberals are upset that they handle a lot of talk radio which is predominately conservative. They also own a lot of rock stations. They are not, by any stretch, a monopoly. Once again, liberals want someone else to fight their battles for them because they don't have the ideas that win (generally).
JAV
I love it when people just conveniently make your point for you. If you think Disney is not liberal, you have serious problems. Got some advice for ya: Don't skip your thorazine and when the nurse comes around with the paper cup full of goodies ask for seconds!
JAV
Look, baseless claims are often made in IP cases. But who's to say that InterTrust didn't come to M$, layout it's proposals and say "This would be a good integration into your software" M$ says "We'll get back to you on that" and simply takes the idea and runs!? If that's the case, and it certainly is viable, then that puts a whole other angle on this. It certainly would be typical M$ fashion, no?
JAV
Ditto on the biking. However, how many calories can I burn fucking the gas guzzler?
BTW: I'm glad you targetted only the fat American fucks, and not the hundreds of thousands of in-shape Americans out there securing peace where it matters (maybe even in a town near you once or someday!).
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Nearly every,though no all, version of RH I've run has been a boxed set. I buy it retail because I want to contribute to the idea that Linux is a great OS. Taking it off the shelves means that M$ has, in maybe a small way, won a battle. No, it may not be selling the best, but I doubt Windows XP sells off the shelf very well either, since most get it with their new PC. Okay, so it may help a bottom line on an expense sheet somewhere, but there are intangeables to consider. Not retailing your OS says to the world "we're not a serious OS contender." Frankly, in my mind, this sets at least RH back a few years in the publics perception.
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Not what I'm seeing. In the SysAdmin arena outsourcing is staying here, and teams are beiung trimmed in some cases. My feeling and hope is that once the reality of the failings of outsourcing sysadmin functions are realized (and revenues rise as the economy picks up) then the IT industry will likely turn around. This bust was not limited to IT. The economy was bound to react to inflated (and false) GDP and growth figures that were being released by the Clinton administration. In fairness, these government figures are often way off the mark and amendments are made later. However, their figures were inflated to over double the reality. Couple that with companies like Enron doing the same thing in the business sector, and you have all the ingredients for a bust.
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I agree. No one has ever clearly defined it to me. Developers seem to define it as a "programming framework." If that's true then why attach it's name to a server framework? or an OS? It sounds to me like a programming toolkit designed to implement new software in MS's proprietary OS nest. (The fact that Mono is able to interact to me is frightening because some in the OSS community seem to think that the Dog that bites is suddenly going to not bite.)
It's from MS, and as a company I am suspect of everthing they do from now on. Yes, I might be blindly categorizing everything MS as bad. Well, you know only the ignorant or the stupid buy a whore they know has the clap.
BTW: Don't tell me how stupid I am if you can't even define it yourself. Ignorant? Well, that I'll give you.:)
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Try explaining to someone that running out of storage doesn't mean they need more memory or that moving from dialup to DSL isn't going to make their programs run faster. I still know people who think the case is the hard drive or the "big thingy" is the modem and the monitor is the "computer."
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I would like to think that somebody somewhere is independingly going over the code and searching as well. I know it's a little difficult not knowing what they are calling "bad code" but nonetheless, some diligence on the Linux side might do some good. We are, however, not hearing about it.
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It's sad that good science is gettign trounced in this way. However, conversely, junk science is being used as a means of extortion for so many lawyers. The recent "Fast Food" trial calls are an example. Lawyers and Judges alike are to blame to a certain extent. Not enough are willing to say "We're not going to hear this case because it's baseless and meaningless." If given the chance good science should always win over junk science, but not always. Look at how many people have swallowed the "Greenhouse Theory" despite the vast amounts of good science that refutes it.
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I seriously doubt open relays are the big problem. With new trojans able to setup SMTP daemons on unsuspecting systems, you could easily drag someone into court or subject them to fines only to find out they had no idea a service was running on their machine. Now there's a good use of taxpayer money. The main culprit, besides trojans, is offshore SMTP servers I would guess. Yes there are some relays out there. ISP's already will shutdown connectivity to relaying hosts. What more do you want? What we need is a good way to filter them on one hand, and a way to stop the spammers at the head on the other. Spam is not the same as advertisement, as someone suggested. We get ads on web pages and other ways. Spam is more akin to someone broadcasting through a bullhorn outside your bedroom window. Unfortunately, most are out of gun range. Spammers eat up bandwidth, fill up mailboxes, and are a basic annoyance. I don't have an answer, but something needs to make it unprofitable for them; not worth the risk or money for them to spam.
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Damnit! As of the end of June, no more support for NT4 until the end of 2004! And I'm serious! No, I mean it this time! It's time to draw an 18 month-wide line in the sand and stick with it!
Am I the only one going, "Wha?" Which is it? June or December 2004?
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Let's see..they bastardize Java by implementing their own version illegally. What do they get? Nothing. At least they're getting the same punishment they got for their antitrust practices.
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I agree. While I'll admit that the GNU/Tools are an integral part, if not most, of Linux as a whole, RMS must realize that Linux (both kernel and name) brought a huge boost to GNU in general. The name is now ubiquitous. Furthermore, if Linux (the kernel) were to be removed, then GNU would be pushed back out of the mainstream. At least now it has a foothold. It would lose that without Linux. It would still exist, but to what end? It would be just another collection of utilities (BSD notwhithstanding).
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I agree. Whose to say that the last fingerprint left the DNA? Here's to hoping we stick to more concrete extractions of DNA. Otherwise, we'll have more innocents on death row and smuggly point to this type of extraction and say "Hey, his DNA was at the scene!" JAV
Exactly. W3C has proposed more standards that will promptly be ignored by Microsoft...and subsequently, most webmasters and coders! Don't get me wrong, I wish more people would adhere to standards from W3C, but unfortunately, they target IE users and that's about it. JAV
Well, anyone with open RPC on the net is an idiot. We've known this for years. The only new thing here is the DCOM issue and being able to possibly use DCOM from a call to port 80. Seriously, if this becomes another slammer/code red at your office, someone needs to seriously re-think they're security strategy...and IT staff. JAV
Yet another review of a product that few will ever see has been performed!? WOW! I can't wait to never be able to by this one! >
I totally agree. Using Windows as the yardstick is to miss the point largely. Unfortunately, it's a Windows world and these comparisons and arguments will be made for some time. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is to be pervasive enough in the enterprise that people start asking "How well is my Linux workstation going to integrate with my Linux backend?" We can only hope! JAV ....
They won't have to rely on registering the dead to vote anymore! JAV
Clear Channel is hardly a monopoly. I think there is something like 17,000 radio stations and they have around 1400. Hardly Microsoft-esque. Liberals are upset that they handle a lot of talk radio which is predominately conservative. They also own a lot of rock stations. They are not, by any stretch, a monopoly. Once again, liberals want someone else to fight their battles for them because they don't have the ideas that win (generally). JAV
I love it when people just conveniently make your point for you. If you think Disney is not liberal, you have serious problems. Got some advice for ya: Don't skip your thorazine and when the nurse comes around with the paper cup full of goodies ask for seconds! JAV
Look, baseless claims are often made in IP cases. But who's to say that InterTrust didn't come to M$, layout it's proposals and say "This would be a good integration into your software" M$ says "We'll get back to you on that" and simply takes the idea and runs!? If that's the case, and it certainly is viable, then that puts a whole other angle on this. It certainly would be typical M$ fashion, no? JAV
"Under the new provision, which took effect March 1" So this isn't the result of any of the SCO flap of the last few days, as it would appear. JAV
Now that is interesting. It must be nice to get free time on the major networks for a lobbying effort. JAV
Ditto on the biking. However, how many calories can I burn fucking the gas guzzler? BTW: I'm glad you targetted only the fat American fucks, and not the hundreds of thousands of in-shape Americans out there securing peace where it matters (maybe even in a town near you once or someday!). >
Nearly every,though no all, version of RH I've run has been a boxed set. I buy it retail because I want to contribute to the idea that Linux is a great OS. Taking it off the shelves means that M$ has, in maybe a small way, won a battle. No, it may not be selling the best, but I doubt Windows XP sells off the shelf very well either, since most get it with their new PC. Okay, so it may help a bottom line on an expense sheet somewhere, but there are intangeables to consider. Not retailing your OS says to the world "we're not a serious OS contender." Frankly, in my mind, this sets at least RH back a few years in the publics perception. >
Not what I'm seeing. In the SysAdmin arena outsourcing is staying here, and teams are beiung trimmed in some cases. My feeling and hope is that once the reality of the failings of outsourcing sysadmin functions are realized (and revenues rise as the economy picks up) then the IT industry will likely turn around. This bust was not limited to IT. The economy was bound to react to inflated (and false) GDP and growth figures that were being released by the Clinton administration. In fairness, these government figures are often way off the mark and amendments are made later. However, their figures were inflated to over double the reality. Couple that with companies like Enron doing the same thing in the business sector, and you have all the ingredients for a bust. >
I agree. No one has ever clearly defined it to me. Developers seem to define it as a "programming framework." If that's true then why attach it's name to a server framework? or an OS? It sounds to me like a programming toolkit designed to implement new software in MS's proprietary OS nest. (The fact that Mono is able to interact to me is frightening because some in the OSS community seem to think that the Dog that bites is suddenly going to not bite.) It's from MS, and as a company I am suspect of everthing they do from now on. Yes, I might be blindly categorizing everything MS as bad. Well, you know only the ignorant or the stupid buy a whore they know has the clap. BTW: Don't tell me how stupid I am if you can't even define it yourself. Ignorant? Well, that I'll give you. :)
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Try explaining to someone that running out of storage doesn't mean they need more memory or that moving from dialup to DSL isn't going to make their programs run faster. I still know people who think the case is the hard drive or the "big thingy" is the modem and the monitor is the "computer." >
That approaches brilliance! :)
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I would like to think that somebody somewhere is independingly going over the code and searching as well. I know it's a little difficult not knowing what they are calling "bad code" but nonetheless, some diligence on the Linux side might do some good. We are, however, not hearing about it. >
Do we submit our entries? >
It's sad that good science is gettign trounced in this way. However, conversely, junk science is being used as a means of extortion for so many lawyers. The recent "Fast Food" trial calls are an example. Lawyers and Judges alike are to blame to a certain extent. Not enough are willing to say "We're not going to hear this case because it's baseless and meaningless." If given the chance good science should always win over junk science, but not always. Look at how many people have swallowed the "Greenhouse Theory" despite the vast amounts of good science that refutes it. >
I seriously doubt open relays are the big problem. With new trojans able to setup SMTP daemons on unsuspecting systems, you could easily drag someone into court or subject them to fines only to find out they had no idea a service was running on their machine. Now there's a good use of taxpayer money. The main culprit, besides trojans, is offshore SMTP servers I would guess. Yes there are some relays out there. ISP's already will shutdown connectivity to relaying hosts. What more do you want? What we need is a good way to filter them on one hand, and a way to stop the spammers at the head on the other. Spam is not the same as advertisement, as someone suggested. We get ads on web pages and other ways. Spam is more akin to someone broadcasting through a bullhorn outside your bedroom window. Unfortunately, most are out of gun range. Spammers eat up bandwidth, fill up mailboxes, and are a basic annoyance. I don't have an answer, but something needs to make it unprofitable for them; not worth the risk or money for them to spam. >
Oh I should have actually read teh article. but then again, taking the blurb above at face value was more fun! >
Damnit! As of the end of June, no more support for NT4 until the end of 2004! And I'm serious! No, I mean it this time! It's time to draw an 18 month-wide line in the sand and stick with it! Am I the only one going, "Wha?" Which is it? June or December 2004? >
Let's see..they bastardize Java by implementing their own version illegally. What do they get? Nothing. At least they're getting the same punishment they got for their antitrust practices. >
I agree. While I'll admit that the GNU/Tools are an integral part, if not most, of Linux as a whole, RMS must realize that Linux (both kernel and name) brought a huge boost to GNU in general. The name is now ubiquitous. Furthermore, if Linux (the kernel) were to be removed, then GNU would be pushed back out of the mainstream. At least now it has a foothold. It would lose that without Linux. It would still exist, but to what end? It would be just another collection of utilities (BSD notwhithstanding). >