1. Breaks alternate MX handling if the top priority mailserver's domain is/becomes unregistered. Instead of using a secondary MX record, the mail will bounce or get queued (see #2).
2. Verisign has put a faulty SMTP listener on port 25 that attempts to send a 550 back to the mailer. But it relies on a certain sequence of commands entered and can cause mail to sit queued for days if that sequence isn't just what it expects.
3. Various DNS-based spam checks now ineffective.
4. People with misconfigured systems using non-registered.com and.net domains having problems with sendmail.
It's just a poorly written mock SMTP server with canned responses for a sequence of commands. It looks like it's probably not even buffering the data, it just looks for a CR or LF and sends its next dummy response.
Still waiting for the front-page stories about the dozens of patents Sun holds on Java and its related technologies. Especially the one that applies to any three-tier database applications written in Java (5,899,990).
Just a reminder, but the law states if you own a trademark, and don't try to defend it, then no more trademark. Since Apple Corps. holds a trademark for that name in the music business, they'd be pretty stupid not to defend it by suing. Even if it ends up with another payoff and agreement, they've defended their trademark in the eyes of the law.
Just to add to the other replies, the first point was referring to a bug that was reproduced once in the now over 5-year old and four major revision old version of SQL Server.
Even more interesting is the fact that the Investor Relations area on their site (http://ir.sco.com/) uses ColdFusion running on IIS. That's just sad on many levels.
So, using this logic, IBM should say, "Linux doesn't have your code, stop being so mean to the open source community," and promptly sue them for being dorks.
Don't forget the part about calling them "fart-butt". That's a must.
Amen to that. Recently one of the profs at my school asked me, "What woud you think if we started teaching the data structures course in C#?" My response was, "I will transfer and tell all of my friends to transfer and start a campaign to actively discourage people from even applying to this school."
So was that overreaction based on your aversion to learning programming concepts in a language that's 90+% syntacically the same as Java? Or based on the more general "Microsoft is evil" philosophy?
I mean do you think that learning to program well in C# is going to prevent you from programming in any other language? Hell, I learned data structures using Pascal and Modula-2. And I've never had a paying job that used either.
Nope. You don't have to submit something to the LoC to claim a copyright. There's no such thing as a federal "registered" copyright. All you have to do is put Copyight 20xx, Your Name Here on it and you're set.
But SCO's McBride said that there are two companies he has no intention of going after: Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. "We have no problems with Sun and HP with regards to infringement as both have honored the conditions of their Unix license contracts and operated within these," he said.
Read: We think IBM is the most likely to buy us out.
It's still amazing how little underdtanding there is of the MS Java issue. First, the MS JVM did nothing to prevent compiling/executing "standard" Java code. I can take any Java 1.1.X (pre-Java2) code and it works just fine under both Sun and MS JVM's.
What they did do was to put MS-specific extensions into their Java implementation, such as J/Direct. That meant that you could end up writing Java code that didn't run on any JVM. So what? Java was/is a cool language. Why should I as a developer be restricted by my programming language to a least-common denominator of functionality and performance if I'm only writing to one platform?
The reality is that most of the business world uses Microsoft products. So it's not really in the students' best interests to shut them out completely.
Would you hire an accounting major that can't use Excel? A marketing/business major that can't use PowerPoint? A software developer who can't use VB? Many companies won't.
The article talks about how this priceless artifact as well as many others, from the same civilisation that invented writing and the wheel, could be threatened by the impending war.
This is the first war ever fought in the region in the last 2,000 years? Were people concerned about artifacts when Iran and Iraq were blowing the crap out of each other? Were people concerned when Saddam was constructing enormous builings for his personal use?
Perspective... It's not just for breakfast anymore.
So, in addition to downloading a list of all possible patches for all possible applications and all possible hardware configurations (pretty big list), it also has to download some sort of ruleset that goes around all of those to actually figure out locally what udpates are available and necessary. That's a lot of bandwidth.
Windows Update can be used for non-MS software, hence the need to send some info about non-MS software. And as you pointed out, they could "guess" most of the information that's being sent anyway.
It appears that most of the patent issues center around the data mart capabilities in Analysis Services and its multidimensional query processing capabilities for SQL Server. Timeline doesn't have a problem if you're not using AS.
So, for most SQL Server users it's not an issue, and since neither Postgres or MySQL have multidimensional capabilities, they're not really an alternative either.
It basically says that if you take a task that takes time T on one machine/process/thread and parallelize it over N machines/processes/threads, the time it takes to complete will be greater than T/N. And in some cases can be greater than T.
This is due to management overhead, ratio of parallelizable to non-parallelizable portions of the task, etc.
Very important stuff to consider when doing multi-threaded/process/tasking and clustered design and development.
I don't think VMWare has anything to worry about. My guess is that MS is going to use the technology to build a VM-based Terminal Services-type product (instead of the WinStation-based ones that exist today).
If you've got some money to spend, the best IDE for any language I've used it IntelliJ IDEA: http://www.intellij.com/idea/. After using it, nothing comes close.
Facts and balance have no meaning here. We're only interested in hysterical postings about how evil Microsoft is.
For instance, the fact that Sun owns several Java-related patents (including one that covers any 3-tier db applications) is meaningless. We like Java because it's not Microsoft and could care less that it's not open, GPL'd, or standardized even though we usually bitch about things that aren't.
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1. Breaks alternate MX handling if the top priority mailserver's domain is/becomes unregistered. Instead of using a secondary MX record, the mail will bounce or get queued (see #2).
2. Verisign has put a faulty SMTP listener on port 25 that attempts to send a 550 back to the mailer. But it relies on a certain sequence of commands entered and can cause mail to sit queued for days if that sequence isn't just what it expects.
3. Various DNS-based spam checks now ineffective.
4. People with misconfigured systems using non-registered .com and .net domains having problems with sendmail.
I know there's more, but it's a start.
We'll just have to wait and see if ICANN comes back and slaps them down
It's just a poorly written mock SMTP server with canned responses for a sequence of commands. It looks like it's probably not even buffering the data, it just looks for a CR or LF and sends its next dummy response.
Guess I shouldn't hold my breath.
Just a reminder, but the law states if you own a trademark, and don't try to defend it, then no more trademark. Since Apple Corps. holds a trademark for that name in the music business, they'd be pretty stupid not to defend it by suing. Even if it ends up with another payoff and agreement, they've defended their trademark in the eyes of the law.
Way to prove your case there.
Even more interesting is the fact that the Investor Relations area on their site (http://ir.sco.com/) uses ColdFusion running on IIS. That's just sad on many levels.
Don't forget the part about calling them "fart-butt". That's a must.
So was that overreaction based on your aversion to learning programming concepts in a language that's 90+% syntacically the same as Java? Or based on the more general "Microsoft is evil" philosophy?
I mean do you think that learning to program well in C# is going to prevent you from programming in any other language? Hell, I learned data structures using Pascal and Modula-2. And I've never had a paying job that used either.
Nope. You don't have to submit something to the LoC to claim a copyright. There's no such thing as a federal "registered" copyright. All you have to do is put Copyight 20xx, Your Name Here on it and you're set.
What they did do was to put MS-specific extensions into their Java implementation, such as J/Direct. That meant that you could end up writing Java code that didn't run on any JVM. So what? Java was/is a cool language. Why should I as a developer be restricted by my programming language to a least-common denominator of functionality and performance if I'm only writing to one platform?
Funniest thing I've read in a while. However, it seems that most of the replies took this as a serious question. They probably need to get out more.
Anyone remember the little feet you could get for the original Mac to make it look like the the Banana Jr. 9000?
Would you hire an accounting major that can't use Excel? A marketing/business major that can't use PowerPoint? A software developer who can't use VB? Many companies won't.
2. Dell has some of the worst-managed IT projects in existance.
3. Randy Mott is an idiot.
That about sums it up.
This is the first war ever fought in the region in the last 2,000 years? Were people concerned about artifacts when Iran and Iraq were blowing the crap out of each other? Were people concerned when Saddam was constructing enormous builings for his personal use?
Perspective... It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Windows Update can be used for non-MS software, hence the need to send some info about non-MS software. And as you pointed out, they could "guess" most of the information that's being sent anyway.
So, for most SQL Server users it's not an issue, and since neither Postgres or MySQL have multidimensional capabilities, they're not really an alternative either.
This is due to management overhead, ratio of parallelizable to non-parallelizable portions of the task, etc.
Very important stuff to consider when doing multi-threaded/process/tasking and clustered design and development.
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Facts and balance have no meaning here. We're only interested in hysterical postings about how evil Microsoft is.
For instance, the fact that Sun owns several Java-related patents (including one that covers any 3-tier db applications) is meaningless. We like Java because it's not Microsoft and could care less that it's not open, GPL'd, or standardized even though we usually bitch about things that aren't.
Results of Search in 1976 to present db for: ABST/java AND AN/sun: 32 patents. Hits 1 through 32 out of 32
And even more, including this one that pretty much covers any three-tier DB application development in Java: 5,899,990