The issue is the track record and that it seems that Trustworthy computing is a marketing gimmick. Do just as much as needed not to be laughed out of the industry but nothing more. To gain a reputation to be secure Microsoft has stop making those idiotic mistakes that seems to be a part of their corporate culture. I think they are getting to the point where the size of the company makes a 180' u-turn about security very hard to perform.
Any company can make such a mistake but not many of them braggs about there "superior" products and has an illegally obtanied monopoly.
So just because you use windows you cant complain? Is that in the EULA nowadays?
I use linux and all the pretty gadgets and gizmo's but i also uses windows at work when im forced to. Does that forbid me to speak out against Microsoft? The reason most people on slashdot hates them is BECAUSE they use or have used Microsofts products. If the never touched windows then they shouldnt complain.
I dont think that it should be such a good idea if one wendor would control the backends to the cards. I do dislike directx. Not because it is a vorse standard than open gl but because its not avaliable on every platform. If microsoft has a finger in the game it sure smells funny, that finger is up someones butt if you ask me. Sure it can generate opengl but i would almost presume that the day it gets really widely used it stops or does that in a less efficient way.
Microsoft have never done anything without a hidden agenda (microsoft bob not included).
This is one of the biggest reasons that i have to use linux. The thought of someone else or some other company telling me how to use something ive paid for is to me absolutely absurd. We all know why software companies want to trick us into renting software. They would very much lika an neverending moneyflow like any other water, oil or electricity company. The thing is that software isnt fluid and it doesnt get consumed. They are really trying hard to make just that happen but i think it will nod others like myself over the edge into open source instead. Sure most people will oblige but if the companies begin to maintain there own software (open source) it will snowball. Im yet waiting for a group of companies start working togheter on a common software app.
Theese EULA is just sickening!
Is this really useful IRL? If say Ford decided to use some very old webserver they are a big enough target to warrant extensive research into what they run. A qualified hacker could poke at any system and get in by trial and error. Look at MS as an excellent example. Its possible to get in without any knowledge whatsoever about the system. Send some dirt to the server and examine whats returned.
The only time this works is when someone is running around portscanning looking for an easy target. Thats not the people im concerned about. Im more worried that someone really interested in my network tries to get in, like a competing compay.
duh?
VNCVIEWER?
There is a very good standalone vncclient both for x and windows that works just fine. No need to use the browser if it freezes mozilla. (which it dont do for me)
Do the RIAA/MPAA really stand a chance?
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I for one dont think so. First of all Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare etc is one of a wast number of ways to get illegal content from the internet. FTP, Friends, IRC, SMB shares, Usenet, maillists with ftp addresess sent out etc. etc. The dont stand a chance to close down much. Especially since they havent got a fixed target. They try to get the biggest players down but there are quickly someone else there to fill the gap. How can you shut gnutella? Shut bearshare and then someone else sets up a hosts cache in tanzania, uzbekistan or perhaps write the ip with laser on the moon where noone have jurisdiction.
They are fitghting a loosing battle and hsould rather think about how they can make money on this. To shut filesharing down is probably not possible.
This is beginning to look like a bad joke made by Monthy Python. Just the thought of all the silly patents that is granted in software is stunning. Sadly theese patents can be used both by big companies to get hold of a market by themselves even if said patents technology can be done in 100 other ways. I think that software patents is like beeing able to patent music or walking. Im going to patent my own Silly Walk(tm) soon.
"Madnick argued that perfect interoperability, which would allow products to be substituted for each other with no performance degradation, was a theoretical impossibility. "It would be surprising if two different products behaved exactly alike," he told the court Wednesday."
This is so pathetic coming from someone claming any sort of knowledge about computers. Where have he been the last 30 years? Never heard of networks, tcp/ip OSI model? What about mail applications?
Its fully possible to make two applications behave exactly the same if you supply an open standard that outlines exactly how, when and why things work. People have dome it for all times. The only thing that prevents this is fear of loosing marketshares. This man is a baboon but i dont think that many respected collegues of him would say theese things. Either he is totally out on a bike or he had a bad ghostwriter from Microsoft.
I have always seen programming as something magical but thats probably more because of lack of knowledge than because it really is magic. Maybe its time to straighten the myth behind big software projects and get a bit more grip on how it works and why. The intent is noble and given current state of software capabilities and performance in comparison to hardware its about time.
Imagine having an os that had evolved like your hardware?......
Think *SCREEEEAAAAMMMMM* woshing numbers like nothing you have EVER seen.
Anyone remember why the OSI model for the networks vas developed? The biggest problem then was that the big companies supplying network solutions didnt bother making their products compatible. Microsoft is in on good a path to get us all back to that steenkeen hole of sneakernetting =P...Standards are the consumers biggest friend and to great extent many companies very good friend. Anyone really thinks that the internet would have gotten off ground if it still was proprearity? The day TCP/IP was released to the public was the single biggest moment in the history of the internet. To release a standard and then trying to prevent certain competition from using it is probably illegal for a monopoly because it locks out competition by non competetive means. I hope this will be brought to the attention in the ongoing trial. This if anything shows just how far Microsoft is willing to go just to stomp out ANY competition. Best ofcourse IMHO would be an own OSS fileshare that had clients for all oss out there. Why play their game all the time? You think apache would have been good if it had been based on a reverse engineer of IIS? *LMAO*
I have seen this tecnology around in magazines for ages and there are lotsa gadgets using this since long time back. The concept of canceling sounds out with out of phase soundwaves is old as the amp. Balanced cables used in concerts and studios use this technology. The biggest problem has been when the room is too big and reflecting soundwaves start to echo out of phase with the noise and in phase with the noise killer. (big noise if you stand far away from the noise killer)
I have used win98lite on windows 98 and 2000 and they both works just fine without IE. The same is for MediaPlayer since its biggest involvement with the OS is just the mimetypes associated with mediafiles. Stripping out IE, WMA and Messenger is a nobrainer since there are Windows os capable of handling most apps availiable today without the latest IE, WMA or messenger. Windows 95 handles most apps that do not fiddle with the most inner workings of a specifik windows os (osutilities). Microsoft will have a very hard time convincing the judge that it cannot be done easily since it is alredy done in the past. Pure lies from the redmond camp as always.
Just because we havent proved it wrong doesnt prove it right, not until we have connected it to every other field of research successfuly. My perception of Einsteins work is that much of it was backwards engineered to be usable in real life. Some kind of philosphy/physical meltdown that uses some bits of physics and some purely theoretic. If that is the case then the bits that can be proved are because Einstein did base some of his thought on existing physics. I dont claim to be smarter than Einstain in any way, maybe im just to dumb to understand. I do have trouble getting the pieces to fit without a hammer and some glue though. We havent came so far as we would like to think when it comes to understand our world. Einstein was pretty smart but i doubt he was right in all of his theorys. Especielly considering many new facts about atoms has been discovered since he lived.
This is IF the theory of e=mc^2 is correct. I have serious concerns against that theory. Only time will tell as Einstein too had a hard time convincing ppl about his thougts.
For me it all boils down to the question of the mass of light. If light has so small mass that it is barely affected by gravity then i dont think black holes exist. If it do has some amount of mass it could be affected. But how big can a certain mass of materia be before it reaches critical mass and explodes? Is it big enough to affect light? Can gravity be strong enough to hold such extreme powers at bay as would have to exist inside a black hole?
I have been thinking of getting my PC4i up and running again just to be able to play KingsQuest 1. It runs in machine mode right from boot, no dos there to meddle with. I never did finish the game. Kings Quest was my first encounter with the foreign language english and i learned much by trial and error.
"put lard in bowl"
"jump tree"
"hump watermelon"
My english teacher newer liked my strange arrangement of english words, i wonder why?
As a server, linux has an advantage over some other OSes in the fact that it has a small overhead and requires little power to perform well. It would be sad to see that being tossed out the window (no phun intended) in favour of feture bloated izzy wizzy cool capabilities few ppl really need. On the base it performs extremely well but the same cant be said about Gnome. Kde and Gnome seems to be headed the same direction as windows has. Some sort of value in new fetures doo need to exist before tossing them in. Do i need seven mailclients or is what i really need an easy way to edit configs? Fetures should be scored and compared and some of them should be dropped or removed if they dont add what they cost in overhead. Else linux is going to bee the same bloated pile of endless code and fetures few ppl use. I would like to see more diversety and less similar fetures that all do the same thing but n a slightly different way.
There has been a standard called PC104 in use quite a while now. They are special mobo boards with very small form factor used in industrys and in embedded devices. Usually they have everything on a single board but they can be expanded easily. They arent top_of_the_line but for things like fileservers and routers/proxys they would do just dandy. Especially considering many cisco routers still in use have 68030s in them. There are boards for faster cpus too if you would need that. Cool that someone took this concept and made it mainstream atlast.
The reson that GPL apps dosnt have a single cooherent way of behaiving and arent user friendly is not because of the GPL license. Its rather a question of the diversity of the ppl developing for linux/bsd and others. Coherence is one way of gaining user friendlyness. Can anyone really call any now used OS really user friendly? Can it interpret your wishes and perform them as you like at all time? In time when you have learned one way you to do things you get custom of that way of doing things user friendly or not.
A way of getting to userfriendly is to focus on how someone unused to computers would do. They rather compare to something in real life. Like a newspaper, a book or irl talk. The desktop analogy isnt a good one since it has gone too far away from the desktop as it is used at an office. Startbuttons and folders arent a very good way of handling big amounts of information as in todays computers. Take a stroll around your linux box, is it easy to get the big picture of your files and folders? Is it intuitive? The same thing with windows, just plain non intuitive. A way of fixing this would be to separate whats really on the HD and what the user see. Simplify it stupid!
The final question is, can there be and OS for all? The technically gifted and those not_so_bright will have different opinions in the future too. I think that userfriendly linux and GPL apps would create a fork. One for technics and one for Joe. I think that thinking about endusers when creating apps is good but dont focus on it blindly.
Microsoft did intimidate OEM s into not loading BeOS together with windows under the treat of loosing their OEM licenses. I would imagine that having a great impact in the matter.
Maybe the DOJ could make it illigal to use windows ?
Do you think it would survive long?
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What linux do need is som sort of abstraction for the not-so-eperienced user. The GUI on linux is wery easy to learn and use but the new filestructure and all the apps can be hard to learn. If linux would get a distrobution that had most ususal setings assembled in one place and with abstraction and som widgets it would rock even for a newbie. Most ppl have problems installing network cards and other hardware issues so a common place with menus would help a lot. Even if the best way is to learn we have to accept the fact that most ppl takes their manual to their new stereo, car, moile or whatever and just toss it away.
If ppl could buy a computer alredy installed with linux that would be a big difference. An OEM could configure the system to perfection so that the user never had to bother.
The drivers issue is another thing that should be adressed. An esier way to install hardware could do much good.
I dont think linux need a new interface because there are alredy perfect ones out there.
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Any company can make such a mistake but not many of them braggs about there "superior" products and has an illegally obtanied monopoly.
I use linux and all the pretty gadgets and gizmo's but i also uses windows at work when im forced to. Does that forbid me to speak out against Microsoft? The reason most people on slashdot hates them is BECAUSE they use or have used Microsofts products. If the never touched windows then they shouldnt complain.
Microsoft have never done anything without a hidden agenda (microsoft bob not included).
Just post every site that has this exploit on slashdot and the /. effect seems to be able of handling the problem just fine.
This is one of the biggest reasons that i have to use linux. The thought of someone else or some other company telling me how to use something ive paid for is to me absolutely absurd. We all know why software companies want to trick us into renting software. They would very much lika an neverending moneyflow like any other water, oil or electricity company. The thing is that software isnt fluid and it doesnt get consumed. They are really trying hard to make just that happen but i think it will nod others like myself over the edge into open source instead. Sure most people will oblige but if the companies begin to maintain there own software (open source) it will snowball. Im yet waiting for a group of companies start working togheter on a common software app. Theese EULA is just sickening!
Is this really useful IRL? If say Ford decided to use some very old webserver they are a big enough target to warrant extensive research into what they run. A qualified hacker could poke at any system and get in by trial and error. Look at MS as an excellent example. Its possible to get in without any knowledge whatsoever about the system. Send some dirt to the server and examine whats returned.
The only time this works is when someone is running around portscanning looking for an easy target. Thats not the people im concerned about. Im more worried that someone really interested in my network tries to get in, like a competing compay.
duh? VNCVIEWER? There is a very good standalone vncclient both for x and windows that works just fine. No need to use the browser if it freezes mozilla. (which it dont do for me)
I for one dont think so. First of all Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare etc is one of a wast number of ways to get illegal content from the internet. FTP, Friends, IRC, SMB shares, Usenet, maillists with ftp addresess sent out etc. etc. The dont stand a chance to close down much. Especially since they havent got a fixed target. They try to get the biggest players down but there are quickly someone else there to fill the gap. How can you shut gnutella? Shut bearshare and then someone else sets up a hosts cache in tanzania, uzbekistan or perhaps write the ip with laser on the moon where noone have jurisdiction.
They are fitghting a loosing battle and hsould rather think about how they can make money on this. To shut filesharing down is probably not possible.
This is beginning to look like a bad joke made by Monthy Python. Just the thought of all the silly patents that is granted in software is stunning. Sadly theese patents can be used both by big companies to get hold of a market by themselves even if said patents technology can be done in 100 other ways. I think that software patents is like beeing able to patent music or walking. Im going to patent my own Silly Walk(tm) soon.
"Madnick argued that perfect interoperability, which would allow products to be substituted for each other with no performance degradation, was a theoretical impossibility. "It would be surprising if two different products behaved exactly alike," he told the court Wednesday."
This is so pathetic coming from someone claming any sort of knowledge about computers. Where have he been the last 30 years? Never heard of networks, tcp/ip OSI model? What about mail applications?
Its fully possible to make two applications behave exactly the same if you supply an open standard that outlines exactly how, when and why things work. People have dome it for all times. The only thing that prevents this is fear of loosing marketshares. This man is a baboon but i dont think that many respected collegues of him would say theese things. Either he is totally out on a bike or he had a bad ghostwriter from Microsoft.
I think you just explained what happened to Win3.1, Win 95 and win ME. It was bound to happen considering the tragic code building the foundation.
I have always seen programming as something magical but thats probably more because of lack of knowledge than because it really is magic. Maybe its time to straighten the myth behind big software projects and get a bit more grip on how it works and why. The intent is noble and given current state of software capabilities and performance in comparison to hardware its about time. Imagine having an os that had evolved like your hardware? ......
Think *SCREEEEAAAAMMMMM* woshing numbers like nothing you have EVER seen.
Anyone remember why the OSI model for the networks vas developed? The biggest problem then was that the big companies supplying network solutions didnt bother making their products compatible. Microsoft is in on good a path to get us all back to that steenkeen hole of sneakernetting =P...Standards are the consumers biggest friend and to great extent many companies very good friend. Anyone really thinks that the internet would have gotten off ground if it still was proprearity? The day TCP/IP was released to the public was the single biggest moment in the history of the internet. To release a standard and then trying to prevent certain competition from using it is probably illegal for a monopoly because it locks out competition by non competetive means. I hope this will be brought to the attention in the ongoing trial. This if anything shows just how far Microsoft is willing to go just to stomp out ANY competition. Best ofcourse IMHO would be an own OSS fileshare that had clients for all oss out there. Why play their game all the time? You think apache would have been good if it had been based on a reverse engineer of IIS? *LMAO*
I have seen this tecnology around in magazines for ages and there are lotsa gadgets using this since long time back. The concept of canceling sounds out with out of phase soundwaves is old as the amp. Balanced cables used in concerts and studios use this technology. The biggest problem has been when the room is too big and reflecting soundwaves start to echo out of phase with the noise and in phase with the noise killer. (big noise if you stand far away from the noise killer)
I have used win98lite on windows 98 and 2000 and they both works just fine without IE. The same is for MediaPlayer since its biggest involvement with the OS is just the mimetypes associated with mediafiles. Stripping out IE, WMA and Messenger is a nobrainer since there are Windows os capable of handling most apps availiable today without the latest IE, WMA or messenger. Windows 95 handles most apps that do not fiddle with the most inner workings of a specifik windows os (osutilities). Microsoft will have a very hard time convincing the judge that it cannot be done easily since it is alredy done in the past. Pure lies from the redmond camp as always.
Just because we havent proved it wrong doesnt prove it right, not until we have connected it to every other field of research successfuly. My perception of Einsteins work is that much of it was backwards engineered to be usable in real life. Some kind of philosphy/physical meltdown that uses some bits of physics and some purely theoretic. If that is the case then the bits that can be proved are because Einstein did base some of his thought on existing physics. I dont claim to be smarter than Einstain in any way, maybe im just to dumb to understand. I do have trouble getting the pieces to fit without a hammer and some glue though. We havent came so far as we would like to think when it comes to understand our world. Einstein was pretty smart but i doubt he was right in all of his theorys. Especielly considering many new facts about atoms has been discovered since he lived.
This is IF the theory of e=mc^2 is correct. I have serious concerns against that theory. Only time will tell as Einstein too had a hard time convincing ppl about his thougts.
For me it all boils down to the question of the mass of light. If light has so small mass that it is barely affected by gravity then i dont think black holes exist. If it do has some amount of mass it could be affected. But how big can a certain mass of materia be before it reaches critical mass and explodes? Is it big enough to affect light? Can gravity be strong enough to hold such extreme powers at bay as would have to exist inside a black hole?
I have been thinking of getting my PC4i up and running again just to be able to play KingsQuest 1. It runs in machine mode right from boot, no dos there to meddle with. I never did finish the game. Kings Quest was my first encounter with the foreign language english and i learned much by trial and error. "put lard in bowl" "jump tree" "hump watermelon" My english teacher newer liked my strange arrangement of english words, i wonder why?
As a server, linux has an advantage over some other OSes in the fact that it has a small overhead and requires little power to perform well. It would be sad to see that being tossed out the window (no phun intended) in favour of feture bloated izzy wizzy cool capabilities few ppl really need. On the base it performs extremely well but the same cant be said about Gnome. Kde and Gnome seems to be headed the same direction as windows has. Some sort of value in new fetures doo need to exist before tossing them in. Do i need seven mailclients or is what i really need an easy way to edit configs? Fetures should be scored and compared and some of them should be dropped or removed if they dont add what they cost in overhead. Else linux is going to bee the same bloated pile of endless code and fetures few ppl use. I would like to see more diversety and less similar fetures that all do the same thing but n a slightly different way.
There has been a standard called PC104 in use quite a while now. They are special mobo boards with very small form factor used in industrys and in embedded devices. Usually they have everything on a single board but they can be expanded easily. They arent top_of_the_line but for things like fileservers and routers/proxys they would do just dandy. Especially considering many cisco routers still in use have 68030s in them. There are boards for faster cpus too if you would need that. Cool that someone took this concept and made it mainstream atlast.
The reson that GPL apps dosnt have a single cooherent way of behaiving and arent user friendly is not because of the GPL license. Its rather a question of the diversity of the ppl developing for linux/bsd and others. Coherence is one way of gaining user friendlyness. Can anyone really call any now used OS really user friendly? Can it interpret your wishes and perform them as you like at all time? In time when you have learned one way you to do things you get custom of that way of doing things user friendly or not. A way of getting to userfriendly is to focus on how someone unused to computers would do. They rather compare to something in real life. Like a newspaper, a book or irl talk. The desktop analogy isnt a good one since it has gone too far away from the desktop as it is used at an office. Startbuttons and folders arent a very good way of handling big amounts of information as in todays computers. Take a stroll around your linux box, is it easy to get the big picture of your files and folders? Is it intuitive? The same thing with windows, just plain non intuitive. A way of fixing this would be to separate whats really on the HD and what the user see. Simplify it stupid! The final question is, can there be and OS for all? The technically gifted and those not_so_bright will have different opinions in the future too. I think that userfriendly linux and GPL apps would create a fork. One for technics and one for Joe. I think that thinking about endusers when creating apps is good but dont focus on it blindly.
Microsoft did intimidate OEM s into not loading BeOS together with windows under the treat of loosing their OEM licenses. I would imagine that having a great impact in the matter. Maybe the DOJ could make it illigal to use windows ? Do you think it would survive long?
What linux do need is som sort of abstraction for the not-so-eperienced user. The GUI on linux is wery easy to learn and use but the new filestructure and all the apps can be hard to learn. If linux would get a distrobution that had most ususal setings assembled in one place and with abstraction and som widgets it would rock even for a newbie. Most ppl have problems installing network cards and other hardware issues so a common place with menus would help a lot. Even if the best way is to learn we have to accept the fact that most ppl takes their manual to their new stereo, car, moile or whatever and just toss it away. If ppl could buy a computer alredy installed with linux that would be a big difference. An OEM could configure the system to perfection so that the user never had to bother. The drivers issue is another thing that should be adressed. An esier way to install hardware could do much good. I dont think linux need a new interface because there are alredy perfect ones out there.
"All standard stuff that any good lawyer would try." Ya, if the defendant was so obviusly guilty that the chance of winnig was zero to nothing.