I make money because I tell my clients that I can replace their NT servers with something that doesn't crash, and will do everything their old servers do. And I can do it for far less than they paid for the original server.
I've set up Primary Domain Controllers with Samba, web servers, SQL servers, multi-port cards (far more than 4 ports), etc., and they all work as advertised.
If they ask what it is, I tell them about Open Source. Otherwise, I don't even bother.
And I keep getting those darned support contracts to maintain those systems.
So, keep doing what you're doing. It only makes us linux consultants get more contracts.
[Background: Someone hacked the win.tue.nl ftp site and installed versions of various packages that would forward user login/uid information to Hotmail addresses.]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code. I also forwarded the offending code.
The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft of passwords and hacking does not violate their terms of service.
Daniel -- /\/ Daniel P. Stasinski/\/ Karemor International, Inc./\/ /\/ Software Engineer/\/ 2406 South 24th Street/\/ /\/ dannys@karemor.com/\/ Phoenix, AZ 85034/\/
Is there any way to be able to contact some sort of server somewhere and authenticate a package by using a digital ID somehow?
This opens up a whole big can of worms. We need more/bigger use of digital ID's and signing of documents to verify that people are really who they say they are.
This could take away some of the credibility of OSS if we don't find some way to curtail this.
Imagine if a news source jumped on this and gave these problems the wrong kind of spin?
Speaking of industry giants supporting Linux, how well do the Dell Poweredge servers with RAID and all work with Linux?
I heard that Dell was pre-installing Linux on some of these beasts, so I suppose it works. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm hoping to set up a 100 client samba PDC using one of these things..
As more and more vendor support rallies behind Linux, critical mass will soon be achieved and vendors will be forced to write both Linux and Windows versions of their software, especially since Linux is seen as the next big thing.
Vendors will have to consider that they can increase the number of sales significantly by porting or writing for Linux. Once that happens, and Linux can compete more fairly with Windows on the desktop, Microsoft will lose on the subpar quality of their operating systems.
Even with such a tiny desktop installed base, Word Perfect took off (500,000 attempted downloads in one month), because there is a demand for desktop applications for Linux. A demand will create supply, if not from the current large software companies then from somewhere completely new, and new companies will start commanding a growin market share as Linux grows.
Perception is behind us. Linux is almost seen as inevitable, just like Microsoft was. Linux is heading in the right direction, if we can keep the FUD from overtaking us.
The way I see it, free music can become very similar to free software.
Imagine for instance, that we allow free redistribution of the music, and that very little of it is actually sold.
Imagine, for instance, that the artists make their money from tangible goods that come as a result of their popularity.. Selling concert tickets, T Shirts, Merchandising their craft.
Certainly, if I had a lot of music from an artist, I would want to support them in many ways, especially if I knew most of my money was going to him.
Let's cut out the record companies and allow really great music to thrive. I'd like artists to make money from something physical they give me, not just a string of digital 1's and 0's.
Do you think it could work? Do you think people who were really good could still live off their music? I think so.
Hmm, as I recall, in the DOJ trials, a letter that was written to the DOJ from Compaq came out (or something like that), which suggested that they were displeased with the fact that since their relationship had soured a bit with Microsoft, they were being charged significantly more than other vendors like Dell were. In fact, some resellers were even charged up to $95 for Windows 95, instead of the $50 that Microsoft claims they charged.
At any rate, Compaq is probably the first to do this because they're getting shafted by MS as compared to the other OEM's.
Surveys, Polls, Opinion Polls, etc., mean nothing, especially when the questions are worded such that you have to agree to something because you only see one side of the issue.
I'm not surprised that Microsoft uses tactics like this, but it would be nice if more people noticed this type of manipulation. And it comes from the government, from other media sources.
People lie with statistics all the time. Unfortunately, they only teach you how to really read into statistics in college. Sure, you can learn this yourself, but this is why I think college is important. There is a lack of critical thinking, and college helps foster that.
Most people believe these surveys and use them to defend a poorly research opinion of theirs. It's unfortunate, but it happens all the time.
What I'd like is for companies to reveal the survey questions, as well as the results, as well as the sample that they sent it to for all of their surveys. That might help foster some sort of fairness.
This is the kind of technology that needs to be integrated somehow into GNOME/KDE so that a significant number of people are using strong encryption, so that the government's attack on privacy can be curtailed. With strong encryption, the government cannot eavesdrop, and that is something that you don't get with many technologies.
How can GnuPG be integrated into GNOME without breaking certain laws. Is there any way to have GNOME/KDE-aware programs that can be downloaded and installed easily off of foreign sites?
Is there any way to link the installation of these as part of the installation of GNOME/KDE on a desktop?
I think this should be one area that should be explored, because stronger encryption means we get authenticated E-mail, etc., and this should all be an integral part of the user experience. This is something that Microsoft cannot offer and something that, if done right, could really be a selling point for OSS.
MP4 is there just as a distribution media for advertisements.
Do you know why it's in.EXE? So you can't just put it in a car mp3 player and not listen to the ads.
I wonder how long before someone makes an mp4 player that plays without anyone actually running the executable. Even if that is illegal, there is very little they can do about public domain code that is not attributed to anyone...
What has the world come to, when someone that has submitted kernel patches also uses Frontpage to design web pages?
Maybe it's just me, but I can see why Linus would have rejected his patches. Frontpage, or most any HTML editor is no substitute for coding it yourself and knowing exactly what is on the page.
Anyone can put money into Linux. Redhat does. Corel does. All of that money gets used to develop the operating system even further.
Direction? You know where Linux should go? Make it go there yourself and reap the profits. Or let RedHat do it, with all that money from Intel and Netscape coming in, and every other company that would like to see Microsoft's power be dropped a notch or two.
Slashdot Mirror
The internet killed BBS's, but before the Internet there were plenty of pay bbs's offering either warez or porn or both.
Ben
Everyone's insane, I tell you! We're the only sane ones left. Some of us.
Ben
We already have 27% market share in server OS's shipped, from 6% last year, according to some recent study done by IDG, as I recall.
I make money because I tell my clients that I can replace their NT servers with something that doesn't crash, and will do everything their old servers do. And I can do it for far less than they paid for the original server.
I've set up Primary Domain Controllers with Samba, web servers, SQL servers, multi-port cards (far more than 4 ports), etc., and they all work as advertised.
If they ask what it is, I tell them about Open Source. Otherwise, I don't even bother.
And I keep getting those darned support contracts to maintain those systems.
So, keep doing what you're doing. It only makes us linux consultants get more contracts.
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/\/ Karemor International, Inc. /\/ /\/ 2406 South 24th Street /\/ /\/ Phoenix, AZ 85034 /\/
>From: glen mccready
Forwarded-by: Nev Dull
[Background: Someone hacked the win.tue.nl ftp site and installed
versions
of various packages that would forward user login/uid information to
Hotmail
addresses.]
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From: "Daniel P. Stasinski"
Subject: Microsoft Hotmail
I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account
that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code. I
also forwarded the offending code.
The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft
of passwords and hacking does not violate their terms of service.
Daniel
--
/\/ Daniel P. Stasinski
/\/ Software Engineer
/\/ dannys@karemor.com
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Make your own conclusions
Is there any way to be able to contact some sort of server somewhere and authenticate a package by using a digital ID somehow?
This opens up a whole big can of worms. We need more/bigger use of digital ID's and signing of documents to verify that people are really who they say they are.
This could take away some of the credibility of OSS if we don't find some way to curtail this.
Imagine if a news source jumped on this and gave these problems the wrong kind of spin?
Ben
This is probably slightly off topic...
Speaking of industry giants supporting Linux, how well do the Dell Poweredge servers with RAID and all work with Linux?
I heard that Dell was pre-installing Linux on some of these beasts, so I suppose it works. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm hoping to set up a 100 client samba PDC using one of these things..
They're the ones who've been in bed so long with Microsoft, they're bound to get venereal diseases.
They're just asking for it.. If they don't take this seriously, this could be ammunition against them and potentially a very bad PR move.
Actually, I hope they don't take this seriously, and this thing blows in their faces.
You're missing something here, though.
As more and more vendor support rallies behind Linux, critical mass will soon be achieved and vendors will be forced to write both Linux and Windows versions of their software, especially since Linux is seen as the next big thing.
Vendors will have to consider that they can increase the number of sales significantly by porting or writing for Linux. Once that happens, and Linux can compete more fairly with Windows on the desktop, Microsoft will lose on the subpar quality of their operating systems.
Even with such a tiny desktop installed base, Word Perfect took off (500,000 attempted downloads in one month), because there is a demand for desktop applications for Linux. A demand will create supply, if not from the current large software companies then from somewhere completely new, and new companies will start commanding a growin market share as Linux grows.
Perception is behind us. Linux is almost seen as inevitable, just like Microsoft was. Linux is heading in the right direction, if we can keep the FUD from overtaking us.
Let's take all of the money Microsoft has, invest it in Yahoo, and then build a space ship in a few years. :-)
Ben
Have you been hibernating all winter? :-)
QT 2.0 will be Open Source compatible.
Software encryption is the only way to go, since it takes away the power from other entities.
Imagine if the OS were built into ROM, and you couldn't run anything but the Operating System that comes with the computer..
If you have a compiler and open source, you never need to worry about back doors in a particular encryption algorithm.
The way I see it, free music can become very similar to free software.
Imagine for instance, that we allow free redistribution of the music, and that very little of it is actually sold.
Imagine, for instance, that the artists make their money from tangible goods that come as a result of their popularity.. Selling concert tickets, T Shirts, Merchandising their craft.
Certainly, if I had a lot of music from an artist, I would want to support them in many ways, especially if I knew most of my money was going to him.
Let's cut out the record companies and allow really great music to thrive. I'd like artists to make money from something physical they give me, not just a string of digital 1's and 0's.
Do you think it could work? Do you think people who were really good could still live off their music? I think so.
Hmm, as I recall, in the DOJ trials, a letter that was written to the DOJ from Compaq came out (or something like that), which suggested that they were displeased with the fact that since their relationship had soured a bit with Microsoft, they were being charged significantly more than other vendors like Dell were. In fact, some resellers were even charged up to $95 for Windows 95, instead of the $50 that Microsoft claims they charged.
At any rate, Compaq is probably the first to do this because they're getting shafted by MS as compared to the other OEM's.
What I'd like is to see when the IPO of mp3.com happens.
;)
I've seen too many internet stocks jump up, and this is one area that stands to have a __LOT__ of growth in the future.
I'm not going to let another internet stock pass me up and go into the range of unaffordability before I can make it rich with stocks
Ben
Surveys, Polls, Opinion Polls, etc., mean nothing, especially when the questions are worded such that you have to agree to something because you only see one side of the issue.
I'm not surprised that Microsoft uses tactics like this, but it would be nice if more people noticed this type of manipulation. And it comes from the government, from other media sources.
People lie with statistics all the time. Unfortunately, they only teach you how to really read into statistics in college. Sure, you can learn this yourself, but this is why I think college is important. There is a lack of critical thinking, and college helps foster that.
Most people believe these surveys and use them to defend a poorly research opinion of theirs. It's unfortunate, but it happens all the time.
What I'd like is for companies to reveal the survey questions, as well as the results, as well as the sample that they sent it to for all of their surveys. That might help foster some sort of fairness.
Ben
This is the kind of technology that needs to be integrated somehow into GNOME/KDE so that a significant number of people are using strong encryption, so that the government's attack on privacy can be curtailed. With strong encryption, the government cannot eavesdrop, and that is something that you don't get with many technologies.
How can GnuPG be integrated into GNOME without breaking certain laws. Is there any way to have GNOME/KDE-aware programs that can be downloaded and installed easily off of foreign sites?
Is there any way to link the installation of these as part of the installation of GNOME/KDE on a desktop?
I think this should be one area that should be explored, because stronger encryption means we get authenticated E-mail, etc., and this should all be an integral part of the user experience. This is something that Microsoft cannot offer and something that, if done right, could really be a selling point for OSS.
Any comments?
I've been able to run the mp4 player under Wine...
MP4 is there just as a distribution media for advertisements.
.EXE? So you can't just put it in a car mp3 player and not listen to the ads.
Do you know why it's in
I wonder how long before someone makes an mp4 player that plays without anyone actually running the executable. Even if that is illegal, there is very little they can do about public domain code that is not attributed to anyone...
I hope she doesn't patent it. Really.
As I recall, Dave Miller got Linux running on a sparc or something with 20 processors in it, with one of the newest kernels.
SMP support in Linux has dramatically improved for 2.2
What has the world come to, when someone that has submitted kernel patches also uses Frontpage to design web pages?
Maybe it's just me, but I can see why Linus would have rejected his patches. Frontpage, or most any HTML editor is no substitute for coding it yourself and knowing exactly what is on the page.
Anyone can put money into Linux. Redhat does. Corel does. All of that money gets used to develop the operating system even further.
Direction? You know where Linux should go? Make it go there yourself and reap the profits. Or let RedHat do it, with all that money from Intel and Netscape coming in, and every other company that would like to see Microsoft's power be dropped a notch or two.
Microsoft has nothing on Linux.
Is it just me, or has the site been slashdotted?