Services should not default to listening state. Nobody has ever been able to write secure services yet people keep saying "I think we've got it this time"
Leave it off, if I need it I will turn it on. If I am too stupid to turn it on than maybe it shouldn't be on, or at least not accepting connections and data from any IP address on the net. This common sense and they are just now adding it to SP2. And before you step in and call me a Linux zealot, most Linux destroys do this wrong also.
BTW, I suspect the incomplete will be reevaluated on after the release of SP2, which I admit, is a large improvement.
emerge is a step forward but still not the answer. Bandwidth is expensive and it does not scale.
Backwards compatibility for libraries, often times there are packages I cannot install without installing a newer version of a library that breaks other packages. This is a useful feature if you are using more than one package that uses the same library.
The idea of placing desktop applications on a handful of/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin/usr/sbin directories is in bad taste. ping, traceroute, fdisk fine. But there is no directory set aside for GUI applications. It would be like taking every file on a windows machine and moving it to either/windows or/system32. This is not a requirement for POSIX compliance, but hey, the current method sucks and of you are saying is NEEDS to stay that way than you are just reinforcing my point.
It would take all of 2 minutes for someone to add one line to FHS 2.3 that says "3.4/apps : Optional directory for graphical applications" but that will never happen. There are 59 sections in FHS that state where to put everything but GUI applications are not even mentioned. That might have something to do with the reason people seem to throw them all over the disk.
Figuring out where shit is requires checking the package manager DB or running locate, which, whereis, or something like 'find / -name application 2/dev/null' THAT is intuitive. On my windows box I can tell you Trillian is in/program files/trillian without having to look.
The patent (6,671,714) was filed on December 30, 2003
Several people have been using this same idea since long before then. Is that not what "prior art" is for?
It is a patent for an idea that is essentually public domain.
Maybe I should file a patent for the idea of using hosting.com/~user and user@hosting.com while we are at it. If this patent is not tossed because of this case the system is broken.
The same thing happened with VoIP a few years back, the hype died and 3 years later you can get make unlimited VoIP calls for $20/month
My only critique is that there are technical reasons that Linux is not yet desktop ready. People keep making this claim that Linux is taking over the desktop without any workaround in sight for things an installer, backwards compatibility, a more desktop friendly directery structure. It is 2004 right now, where are these required improvements?
The answer to that is thay are several years off, as is desktop Linux.
It is a 2 part case, the parts they say are in Linux they have. They are also claiming some of IBM's System V code made it into Linux, Since SCO does not have a copy of the system V source, they need IBM to submit source to SCO to audit. Hence "UNIX derived code".
Althouh much of the Linux code that has been audited has been debunked, it is possible that IBM may have added system V code.
True, and here it states that it uses QT from trolltech and open inventor from SGI. Many government organizations use IRIX so there is probably a strong possibility they are running IRIX. Government contracts currently make up most of SGI's revenue. I have seen many military computer systems running IRIX for things like large scale battle simulation.
*BSD could pick up where Linux leaves off tomorrow if it needed to. There will always be an OSS operating system to hack away at. I for one would like to see an operating system based on L4/Hurd, DirectFB, and Fresco as mature as current Linux.
The problem is that we all have copies of this code already. The IP is question is already in the wild. PS SCOX stock price looks like it's taking a dive...
I've added an entry in my journal, but I don't believe the slashdot community bloggs. If you read a blog, maybe you can email and ask them to blog it for you.
It amazes me how many people don't know this. I see people get accused of violating GPL simply because they don't have a free download link for the source on the webpage.
Zebra Mussels are good for cleaning water and polution. A high population of them is one of the reasons the St. Lawrence is one of the cleanest rivers in the world. I once heard a stat to the effect that they filter every galon of water in the river about every 2 or 3 days (not sure how true this is). I do know that each Zebra Mussel can filter about a quart of water per day. They are pests but they do lower water pollution levels.
AOL = $24.95 + a ton of free spam and shitty software.
Mom @ pop = $9.95, no crappy software required.
AOL is currently losing customers at a rate in the millions/year. Even broadband is only $7 - $10 more than AOL dialup and you don't have to tie up the phone line.
Soften the fall, SCO has a pile of enemies that want nothing more than its death. Even if they do prove that they own some of the Linux code, people will throw money and time at having those portions of code rewitten and everybody will just move to SCO Free(tm) versions of Linux.
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Yes but if the key does not "phone home" or prevent online gaming why even have one? I suspect this is the case > 90% of the time.
C:\>netstat -a | findstr LISTENING >file.txt
C:\>wc -l file.txt
file.txt: Lines: 12
C:\>ver
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
C:\>
wc binary link here
It's security 101
Services should not default to listening state. Nobody has ever been able to write secure services yet people keep saying "I think we've got it this time"
Leave it off, if I need it I will turn it on. If I am too stupid to turn it on than maybe it shouldn't be on, or at least not accepting connections and data from any IP address on the net. This common sense and they are just now adding it to SP2. And before you step in and call me a Linux zealot, most Linux destroys do this wrong also.
BTW, I suspect the incomplete will be reevaluated on after the release of SP2, which I admit, is a large improvement.
There are Installers out there for gGntoo also.
Translation: Pirst Fost!
Backwards compatibility for libraries, often times there are packages I cannot install without installing a newer version of a library that breaks other packages. This is a useful feature if you are using more than one package that uses the same library.
The idea of placing desktop applications on a handful of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin /usr/sbin directories is in bad taste. ping, traceroute, fdisk fine. But there is no directory set aside for GUI applications. It would be like taking every file on a windows machine and moving it to either /windows or /system32. This is not a requirement for POSIX compliance, but hey, the current method sucks and of you are saying is NEEDS to stay that way than you are just reinforcing my point.
It would take all of 2 minutes for someone to add one line to FHS 2.3 that says "3.4 /apps : Optional directory for graphical applications" but that will never happen. There are 59 sections in FHS that state where to put everything but GUI applications are not even mentioned. That might have something to do with the reason people seem to throw them all over the disk.
Figuring out where shit is requires checking the package manager DB or running locate, which, whereis, or something like 'find / -name application 2/dev/null' THAT is intuitive. On my windows box I can tell you Trillian is in /program files/trillian without having to look.
Several people have been using this same idea since long before then. Is that not what "prior art" is for? It is a patent for an idea that is essentually public domain.
Maybe I should file a patent for the idea of using hosting.com/~user and user@hosting.com while we are at it. If this patent is not tossed because of this case the system is broken.
My only critique is that there are technical reasons that Linux is not yet desktop ready. People keep making this claim that Linux is taking over the desktop without any workaround in sight for things an installer, backwards compatibility, a more desktop friendly directery structure. It is 2004 right now, where are these required improvements?
The answer to that is thay are several years off, as is desktop Linux.
Althouh much of the Linux code that has been audited has been debunked, it is possible that IBM may have added system V code.
True, and here it states that it uses QT from trolltech and open inventor from SGI. Many government organizations use IRIX so there is probably a strong possibility they are running IRIX. Government contracts currently make up most of SGI's revenue. I have seen many military computer systems running IRIX for things like large scale battle simulation.
I searched linux site:sco.com and got one match linking to this article ripping on Linux Zealots, good read.
*BSD could pick up where Linux leaves off tomorrow if it needed to. There will always be an OSS operating system to hack away at. I for one would like to see an operating system based on L4/Hurd, DirectFB, and Fresco as mature as current Linux.
Maybe the 60 page doc is the cliff notes version?
The problem is that we all have copies of this code already. The IP is question is already in the wild. PS SCOX stock price looks like it's taking a dive...
I've added an entry in my journal, but I don't believe the slashdot community bloggs. If you read a blog, maybe you can email and ask them to blog it for you.
That is becasue slashcode is OSS and those kind of features only come with closed code. kidding.
It amazes me how many people don't know this. I see people get accused of violating GPL simply because they don't have a free download link for the source on the webpage.
The iPod is nearly the only success story in paid music, why would HP select anything else?
Zebra Mussels are good for cleaning water and polution. A high population of them is one of the reasons the St. Lawrence is one of the cleanest rivers in the world. I once heard a stat to the effect that they filter every galon of water in the river about every 2 or 3 days (not sure how true this is). I do know that each Zebra Mussel can filter about a quart of water per day. They are pests but they do lower water pollution levels.
Maybe Katz should post all the Cringely articles so Slashdot does not have to create a seperate filter
How much put could throughput put if throughput could put through?
Mom @ pop = $9.95, no crappy software required.
AOL is currently losing customers at a rate in the millions/year. Even broadband is only $7 - $10 more than AOL dialup and you don't have to tie up the phone line.
Soften the fall, SCO has a pile of enemies that want nothing more than its death. Even if they do prove that they own some of the Linux code, people will throw money and time at having those portions of code rewitten and everybody will just move to SCO Free(tm) versions of Linux.
Who cares about Linux, going after Google is a crime against humanity. Besides, maybe they can go after MS for using BSD for hotmail for so long.
From 130nm to 90nm is a 30% reduction, usually requiring less power. I am suprised that this thing uses 50% more power.