Same company, different products. Back in the later 1980's they released Design CAD as a low-cost alternative to AutoCAD. My parents' company actually used to by Corvus stuff from these guys.
If you've ever been to Pryor, OK, you'd be amazed that anything technical would have come from a town like that.
You would think by now that people wouldn't be ignoring the warning signs. However, there's a big difference in this case: Sun does actually have patents on Java technology. Including one that affects anyone with a web application accessing a backend database with Java code (
5,899,990).
So if Sun ever does "go SCO", they will have something to take to court.
A couple of years ago on a lark, I wrote a Z machine emulator for Java (Yes, I know there are already ones out there). It was a lot of fun and I got some great insight on what they had to do to pack such cool stuff onto 160 KB floppies.
Besides, it was just too cool to have Zork come up in an application I wrote.
Um, no. This is all code that IBM and/or Sequent wrote and incorporated into their own UNIX versions. It did not exist in any code originally from AT&T->Novell->SCO. SCO is attempting to claim that since it was written to work with SysV UNIX, they have the rights to it. Even AT&T specified almost 20 years ago that such code did not fall under the UNIX license.
Not to mention that the JFS code was originally written for OS/2 before it was ported to AIX.
When I got my first Mac, I got so tired of the "The wrong disk is in the drive, please insert Disk..." that I bought an external floppy within week. Great sales tactic don't you think?
Accoring to the article, code could be injected using character string and OID's that get copied without regard to length. All you would need to do is get the right stuff copied to the right place.
Astronomy may not be rocket science, but I still want to know who the genius is who decided to name a comet's tail a "coma". And who were the people who went along with this brilliant idea?
OK, fine, coma is Latin for hair.
You mean the people hundreds of years ago that wrote scientific papers in Latin?
Yep, same one. In fact I found it stashed in our storage room about a month ago. Got it about mid 1997. It was connected to a dedicated machine that I would disconnect from the network lest any incoming network traffic zap the resources needed to get a good disc.
And sometimes a resource hog. I was told by the admins of the public Sun boxes at UT (circa late 80's)not to use it any more since it kept using all of the CPU. Fun stuff.
Some in the Linus community don't understand why it's not making more headway onto the corporate desktop. The reason is that the vast majority of corporate computer users are like the people they show in those stupid Office 2003 commercials. They wear button-downs w/ ties, they work in big sterile buildings, and they want their software to have an easy-to-use GUI to lead them through their work. And this goes even more for the C-level people who make the IT spending decisions.
If something goes wrong, they don't want to hear about what a "luser" they are, or that they should jump into bash and run a script, or have to upgrade their OS after a year because the "old" one is no longer supported.
MS takes a lot of grief over their Service Packs, but truth be told, it's a pretty effective way to maintain things over a reasonable lifetime.
You may think I'm crazy, but lead drain pipes were considered a safe in their day.
I don't think lead drain pipes were/are a problem. Now lead water pipes...
Al I know is that I don't Wi-Fi for one reason: I get Headaches from it. I know I sound like a member of the tinfoil mafia, but I have had it happen to me too many time to ignore it.
So, you must not use a microwave either. Or have a cordless phone. Or a cell phone. Or a baby monitor. Or go to any public places with WiFi access points. Or go to any large retail stores with wireless inventory terminals. etc.
For the Record I am NO luddite, I work in IT! I just don't work on Wi-Fi any more,
Working in IT is no defense against being a Luddite.
Importantly too, IBM and Red Hat have been partnering on systems integration projects at large corporations that
involve integrating Linux systems with legacy UNIX software installations. Whether these legacy UNIX systems
are IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Silicon Graphics or SCO variants,
all such Linux / UNIX integration projects
require the UNIX shared libraries to port UNIX applications to Linux. Heretofore, many systems integrators have
made unlicensed copies of these shared libraries from other non-SCO sources, an illegal practice the SCOsource
initiative (unbundling the source code for sale) was designed to address.
220 RIAA Snubby Logic Rejector v 1.3 09/24/2003 500 Post contains excess logic, has been rejected. 500 Please limit posts to haX0r-speak threats that we can use 500 in our press releases and legal filings. 221 RIAA closing connection
People keep quoting that IAB response, but if you look at the date and actually read it, you'll see it's from back in January. And it was in response to Verisign's proposed wildcarding of only domains that contained non-ASCII characters, not all domains. Their point was that wildcarding based on a character set was against standards.
So I guess Verisign interpreted that as "we better wildcard everything then."
Slashdot Mirror
If you've ever been to Pryor, OK, you'd be amazed that anything technical would have come from a town like that.
So if Sun ever does "go SCO", they will have something to take to court.
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Besides, it was just too cool to have Zork come up in an application I wrote.
Not to mention that the JFS code was originally written for OS/2 before it was ported to AIX.
When I got my first Mac, I got so tired of the "The wrong disk is in the drive, please insert Disk..." that I bought an external floppy within week. Great sales tactic don't you think?
Accoring to the article, code could be injected using character string and OID's that get copied without regard to length. All you would need to do is get the right stuff copied to the right place.
http://www.go-mono.com/winforms.html
The Google page was listed on Fark yesterday. So that site has been: 1. Googled 2. Farked 3. Now /.'ed
The unintentional DDoS trifecta!
That was the most hilarious thing I've seen in a while. This guy needs to get with the Time Cube dude and solve all of our problems.
Try this. I don't have the patch installed, so nothing happens to me. But this should cause the buffer to overrun, and you might crash IE.
Yep, same one. In fact I found it stashed in our storage room about a month ago. Got it about mid 1997. It was connected to a dedicated machine that I would disconnect from the network lest any incoming network traffic zap the resources needed to get a good disc.
And sometimes a resource hog. I was told by the admins of the public Sun boxes at UT (circa late 80's)not to use it any more since it kept using all of the CPU. Fun stuff.
If I had any mod points, you'd get 'em.
Some in the Linus community don't understand why it's not making more headway onto the corporate desktop. The reason is that the vast majority of corporate computer users are like the people they show in those stupid Office 2003 commercials. They wear button-downs w/ ties, they work in big sterile buildings, and they want their software to have an easy-to-use GUI to lead them through their work. And this goes even more for the C-level people who make the IT spending decisions.
If something goes wrong, they don't want to hear about what a "luser" they are, or that they should jump into bash and run a script, or have to upgrade their OS after a year because the "old" one is no longer supported.
MS takes a lot of grief over their Service Packs, but truth be told, it's a pretty effective way to maintain things over a reasonable lifetime.
Uhh dude, how do you think real routers work? Just because the software is on a flash chip instead of a disk doesn't mean it's not software any more.
I don't think lead drain pipes were/are a problem. Now lead water pipes...
Al I know is that I don't Wi-Fi for one reason: I get Headaches from it. I know I sound like a member of the tinfoil mafia, but I have had it happen to me too many time to ignore it.
So, you must not use a microwave either. Or have a cordless phone. Or a cell phone. Or a baby monitor. Or go to any public places with WiFi access points. Or go to any large retail stores with wireless inventory terminals. etc.
For the Record I am NO luddite, I work in IT! I just don't work on Wi-Fi any more,
Working in IT is no defense against being a Luddite.
http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/archives/2003_10
Now, everybody get there and donate!
The web is not the internet.
So I guess Verisign interpreted that as "we better wildcard everything then."
Yep, I can't remember the last time I've seen so many uninformed rants in one place.