What hard drive has the bandwidth to run at 2.5Gbits a second? Ultrascsi320 disks don't, Fibrechannel arrays can have connectors that are 2Gb, but they still have invidual disks which are much slower, just with a large RAM cache to provide the bursting speed.
Why? you can easily write a userspace smtp client for linux, which is what this virus is. add it to.bash_rc or similar and away you go, each time the user logs in they start hammering away with copies of itself. Then, after 2 weeks, have it wipe out every file it can on the system - sure the OS will survive but plenty of what the user considers vital information will be lost.
Backups are just as required in Linux as they are in Windows.
No, because in another part of the same email they have an image embedded which contains the real spam message - outlook express users (the huge majority) see the image not the text.
I suspect you're right, but what about if Playstation3 (out at the end of 2005) supports Blu-ray but not HD-DVD. Then, Sony would bring in the early adopters to the blu-ray standard as they sell the playstation. The games developers would be happy with the masses of extra storage and the additional costs would be relatively low.
An additional couple of million users at the start of the battle could be what swings it towards blu-ray permanently.
Hmm, well the fundamental difference is that eyetoy works, the intel webcam didn't, at least when i tried it. You had to be right up close, and the games (hitting a basketball into a hoop for example) were very random and inaccurate.
Eyetoy is revolutionary compared to the old stuff, simply because it has changed from a neat tech demo to a fully developed system.
When was the last time someone wanted to stream media or rich-content at 10 dollars an hour? these services are for people using email, web access, etc.
and since gprs is up to 144kbps, its faster than either modems or isdn, which 90% of the world still has to use. it really is an apples to apples comparison, especially with 3G mobile services already running in the uk and italy giving access at speeds comparable to wifi.
Here in the UK it's now possible to get unlimited GPRS for 25UK pounds (40 us dollars?) a month from Orange, with these kind of prices the wifi for 10 dollars an hour simply will not get customers, and since the equipment is already bought, surely the suppliers will just cut prices rather than drop the service completely?
Redhat have promised fixes for the next 5 years on redhat enterprise, Suns own solaris 8 is still supported after 3 years, and will be a couple of years yet I'm sure, windows nt4 is only just being dropped from support by microsoft after a long 7 years of patches.
5 years really is the minimum amount of time for support of an enterprise system.
Linux doesn't rely on FAT32, never has. What it has is the ability to read and write from a fat32 partition if the users wants to.
Linux has support for dozens of other operating systems' filesystems such as FAT32 and NTFS from Windows, JFS from IBMs OS/2 and AIX, XFS from SGIs Irix, as well as several developed specifically for Linux - such as ext2, ext3, and reiserfs.
Of all the filesystems available for Linux, XFS is probably the most advanced of any mainstream operating system in the world, with far more in the way of features and reliability as NTFS.
A lot of corporate laptops now have "dial-home" software installed, and if you don't login every x (normally about 14) days without getting authorisation in advance, then the company will consider the laptop stolen and lock out any accounts stored on it.
It operates much like spyware, and hides itself in the same way. This could be what happened here, and after the x number of days the system starts logging which IP address and time the computer logged in at and flags the information for further investigation. Once you have an IP address and a timestamp, it's relatively trivial for most ISPs to find out which user was online at that time.
It was also obscenely expensive, I read something like $2million an episode, just because of the special effects - the actors certainly weren't getting paid for it.
Because of the high cost, you need a high viewing figure to support it, unfortunately a sci-fi show isn't going to get these kind of numbers.
I guess today, 7 years later, the cost of all those effects would be much less, but I don't suppose there's any chance of it being picked up again.
They are, but Itanic is still very expensive compared to Xeons, so for these "quick n dirty" boxes, Xeon (and now Opteron or Powerpc970) is the way to go.
There is a separate patent license available to parties interested in implementing software programs that can read and write files that conform to the Specification. This patent license is available at this location: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpaten tlicense.asp.
Unless you were doing a complete clean room reverse implememtation, you'd definitely be caught by this, and even then you could have issues, after all patents can apply to completely seperate implementations if they use the same methods.
The ITC also banned the Microsoft X-Box "Life is short" adverts which showed a birth to a death in 30 seconds, so if they banned the Apple advert because of Windows zealots, I imagine they banned the X-Box advert because of Apple zealots, right?:)
I know you don't mean it this way, but your post sounds just like people who were talking about SCO starting to sell Linux, large support and sales teams, name recognition, existing server migrations...
This discussion is about the supported Redhat Linux not the new unsupported Fedora, as the original story and the comments previous to mine made clear.
The point is, people wanted the "official" guaranteed and tested updates without getting phone and email support, which Redhat are dropping from their range. Of course you can get a replacement up2date, or use apt4rpm, but that's always been available anyway. The problem is that with Fedora and the yum and apt repositories the maintainer of a package could be on holiday, be busy, just be plain bored, and not update one of the packages he maintains.
People were willing to pay a small amount each year to get a fairly solid promise that if the main maintener of a package wasn't around, the package would remain up to date. That's no longer available from Redhat, which is a shame.
You have to pay to use up2date on more than 1 machine - each user is allowed 1 "demo" licence, for which you have to fill in a marketing form every 60 days. However, the up2date licence will not let you use the same account on 2 machines, you need to pay for the 2nd one.
Unfortunately the KDE and Gnome cut and pastes are both different again, KDEs one in particular confused the hell out of most users until they dropped the "intelligent" cut and paste as the default - you'd drag the text, and have a menu appear which offered about 10 different alternatives, somewhere in the middle was "cut".
The backups are done to another area on the same cluster - it can be in a different country, 20 miles down the road, or another disk in the same raid array, depending on how much you want to spend to protect your data.
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What hard drive has the bandwidth to run at 2.5Gbits a second? Ultrascsi320 disks don't, Fibrechannel arrays can have connectors that are 2Gb, but they still have invidual disks which are much slower, just with a large RAM cache to provide the bursting speed.
Ewan
For a while lavasoft didn't update the signatures, but they recently upgraded their engine and are releasing updates again.
Ewan
Why? you can easily write a userspace smtp client for linux, which is what this virus is. add it to .bash_rc or similar and away you go, each time the user logs in they start hammering away with copies of itself. Then, after 2 weeks, have it wipe out every file it can on the system - sure the OS will survive but plenty of what the user considers vital information will be lost.
Backups are just as required in Linux as they are in Windows.
Ewan
No, because in another part of the same email they have an image embedded which contains the real spam message - outlook express users (the huge majority) see the image not the text.
Ewan
Dell is the worlds best and most efficient logistics company, it's barely a computer company.
The skill competiting with them would be getting your suppliers to do the work, and you manage to survive (and prosper) on razor thin margins.
Ewan
I suspect you're right, but what about if Playstation3 (out at the end of 2005) supports Blu-ray but not HD-DVD. Then, Sony would bring in the early adopters to the blu-ray standard as they sell the playstation. The games developers would be happy with the masses of extra storage and the additional costs would be relatively low.
An additional couple of million users at the start of the battle could be what swings it towards blu-ray permanently.
Ewan
Eyetoy is revolutionary compared to the old stuff, simply because it has changed from a neat tech demo to a fully developed system.
Ewan
When was the last time someone wanted to stream media or rich-content at 10 dollars an hour? these services are for people using email, web access, etc.
and since gprs is up to 144kbps, its faster than either modems or isdn, which 90% of the world still has to use. it really is an apples to apples comparison, especially with 3G mobile services already running in the uk and italy giving access at speeds comparable to wifi.
Ewan
Ewan
Sorry works fine in firebird 0.7 here, so stupid stupid user is the correct cry :)
Ewan
Redhat have promised fixes for the next 5 years on redhat enterprise, Suns own solaris 8 is still supported after 3 years, and will be a couple of years yet I'm sure, windows nt4 is only just being dropped from support by microsoft after a long 7 years of patches.
5 years really is the minimum amount of time for support of an enterprise system.
Ewan
Linux doesn't rely on FAT32, never has. What it has is the ability to read and write from a fat32 partition if the users wants to.
Linux has support for dozens of other operating systems' filesystems such as FAT32 and NTFS from Windows, JFS from IBMs OS/2 and AIX, XFS from SGIs Irix, as well as several developed specifically for Linux - such as ext2, ext3, and reiserfs.
Of all the filesystems available for Linux, XFS is probably the most advanced of any mainstream operating system in the world, with far more in the way of features and reliability as NTFS.
Ewan
Weirdly, in the UK it's pretty near impossible to dial into an ISP when you have the caller ID disabled on your line...
A lot of corporate laptops now have "dial-home" software installed, and if you don't login every x (normally about 14) days without getting authorisation in advance, then the company will consider the laptop stolen and lock out any accounts stored on it.
It operates much like spyware, and hides itself in the same way. This could be what happened here, and after the x number of days the system starts logging which IP address and time the computer logged in at and flags the information for further investigation. Once you have an IP address and a timestamp, it's relatively trivial for most ISPs to find out which user was online at that time.
Ewan
It was also obscenely expensive, I read something like $2million an episode, just because of the special effects - the actors certainly weren't getting paid for it.
Because of the high cost, you need a high viewing figure to support it, unfortunately a sci-fi show isn't going to get these kind of numbers.
I guess today, 7 years later, the cost of all those effects would be much less, but I don't suppose there's any chance of it being picked up again.
Ewan
it's like hp openview, it tries to provide a nice looking interface for managing your network, both monitoring and configuring.
They are, but Itanic is still very expensive compared to Xeons, so for these "quick n dirty" boxes, Xeon (and now Opteron or Powerpc970) is the way to go.
Well would you not fall under:
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There is a separate patent license available to parties interested in implementing software programs that can read and write files that conform to the Specification. This patent license is available at this location: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpate
Unless you were doing a complete clean room reverse implememtation, you'd definitely be caught by this, and even then you could have issues, after all patents can apply to completely seperate implementations if they use the same methods.
Ewan
http://prism54.org/
There aren't a hell of a lot of them, but that site tells you which ones they are.
Ewan
The ITC also banned the Microsoft X-Box "Life is short" adverts which showed a birth to a death in 30 seconds, so if they banned the Apple advert because of Windows zealots, I imagine they banned the X-Box advert because of Apple zealots, right? :)
I know you don't mean it this way, but your post sounds just like people who were talking about SCO starting to sell Linux, large support and sales teams, name recognition, existing server migrations...
Ewan
This discussion is about the supported Redhat Linux not the new unsupported Fedora, as the original story and the comments previous to mine made clear.
The point is, people wanted the "official" guaranteed and tested updates without getting phone and email support, which Redhat are dropping from their range. Of course you can get a replacement up2date, or use apt4rpm, but that's always been available anyway. The problem is that with Fedora and the yum and apt repositories the maintainer of a package could be on holiday, be busy, just be plain bored, and not update one of the packages he maintains.
People were willing to pay a small amount each year to get a fairly solid promise that if the main maintener of a package wasn't around, the package would remain up to date. That's no longer available from Redhat, which is a shame.
Ewan
You have to pay to use up2date on more than 1 machine - each user is allowed 1 "demo" licence, for which you have to fill in a marketing form every 60 days. However, the up2date licence will not let you use the same account on 2 machines, you need to pay for the 2nd one.
Ewan
Unfortunately the KDE and Gnome cut and pastes are both different again, KDEs one in particular confused the hell out of most users until they dropped the "intelligent" cut and paste as the default - you'd drag the text, and have a menu appear which offered about 10 different alternatives, somewhere in the middle was "cut".
Ewan
The backups are done to another area on the same cluster - it can be in a different country, 20 miles down the road, or another disk in the same raid array, depending on how much you want to spend to protect your data.