MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (May 8, 2006)--Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced that it has reached an agreement with all of its Senior Secured bank lenders and with holders of a significant amount of its Senior Secured debt on the terms of a reorganization plan that will reduce its debt by approximately $250 million, greatly simplifying its capital structure.
As part of this agreement with many of its major stakeholders, and as the next step in its previously announced plan to reorganize its businesses, the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. SGI's non-U.S. subsidiaries, including European, Canadian, Mexican, South American and Asia Pacific subsidiaries were not included in the filing; will continue their business operations without supervision from the U.S. courts; and will not be subject to the requirements of chapter 11. The Company expects to file its Plan of Reorganization reflecting the agreement shortly, and to emerge from Chapter 11 within six months.
I don't know what you mean by "the kind of people"... This guy clearly wants to GPL the software but the decision isn't in his hands. He's trying to persuade someone else, hence the need for an argument.
Thanks for spelling it out for me. English is not my native language, and some essence may have been lost in the mental translation. This is exactly what I want to achieve. And if I get enough constructive feedback I will group the arguments together and feed them back to the community.
Keep the good tips flowing!:-)
Just to clear up the wrong assumption here: I'm not working in corporate America, though my company has a few offices there. We're located in sunny Norway (it's funny, laugh).
In Norway, the basic rules in IT is that whatever I code, whatever I construct while working is their property, and is not to be carried with me over to a new employer. And that is not a problem for me.
Sure. I have many reasons for publishing the sourcecode, but couldn't write them all up in the post. Here's a few reasons:
* Other people can gain knowledge from my code * I can gain knowledge by other people commenting/submitting patches to my code * Security vulnerabilities will be found under peer review * I will get Good Karma [tm].
But me wanting to publish the code is not reason good enough for a boss, of course. He needs to see what he (as in "the company") can gain from this, so I'd like to get as much input as possible on how to articulate myself.
How's sending.gif and asking to run cmd on Windows XP system is any different from sending.gif and asking to execute perl on Linux or BSD?
The permissions of the user executing the code in question, of course. Most XP users run with administrator privileges, which make the consequences of a n00b mistake a bit more devastating...
To all those of you who have published pages with a realistic/pessmisitic view of the Palladium security platform: Update those page's META-tags NOW include any or all of the new terminology created by the Microsoft Marketing Department (r). Or else those search-engines will fail miserably to find anything relevant when those company executives tries to find information about the-next-great-thing from Microsoft which has been told to be oh-so-secure.
What about this image, then - does it imply that we've got Solaris 9 running under Linux?
Right.
I don't say that it's 100% certain that they haven't got the game Americas Army running under Linux, but what about actually getting someone to comment this as well? Some news source or something?
What's important to note here is that far from all extensions which are being developed for Apache are in a production stable state on the 2.x platform. One every good example is PHP, which just recently with the 4.3-version was announced to be stable on the Unix-version. Windows webservers serving PHP should still use the 1.3.x-branch a little while.
As the download-page on php.net announces: "PHP 4.3.0 zip package [5,811Kb] - 27 December 2002 (CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache, Apache2 (experimental)"
This vulnerability was fixed a long time ago in WinAmp. It's only Windows XP that's a bit behind in patches at times:-). The files in the winamp281.exe archive has old dates.
clarifications anyone?
by proclus on Wednesday December 18, @07:05PM EST
Sorry, I just couldn't let the story to out this way, because truth is important to me.
All machines that are currently supported will continue to be supported in their current configurations, so we are not pulling out the rug as it were. The situation could be better than this, but the ball is now in Apple's court. I will say that Apple has been moving in the right direction with respect to these issues over the past few years. If projects like ours can stay engaged with them, there may be a chance. It is not easy, and may be overly optimistic, but there it is. I'd like to give some time for Apple to respond.
The main source for the Apple/DMCA story is at the following link, although it has been covered extensively on the web as an 'Apple DMCA' googlesearch will reveal.
Based on my experience with the Adobe boycott and other anti-DMCA activism, I consider Declan as a trusted source. Here are some good stories about the impact of the DMCA in general and on Apple users.
Until Darwin is freed, activists such as myself will be leading users away from it instead of toward it. This antagonism towards Apple in the free software community has been aggravated by the DMCA fiasco. For example, Slashdot coverage of Apple has soured considerably since that time. We added the caveat to our Darwin distribution CD's soon after that (see grey box).
Clearly it is in Apple's best interest to repudiate the DMCA, to remove the onerous anti-privacy clause from the APSL, and to meet the standards of GNU Project, so that users can have a truly free OS, and so that activists can support Darwin instead of undermining it.
The message for users is to educate yourself about software freedom. In this world of economic contraction, the DMCA, RIAA, and the patriot act, that might take some effort, but it will be worthwhile in the event that free software becomes more difficult to maintain. Here is the starting point.
The norwegian tech news website Digi.no reports (http://www.aasentunet.no/)that manager Grepstad and the other people at "Ivar Aasen-tunet" on monday even got emails from to parapsychological groups who intended to help to find the passwords. A new way of hacking (even more successful than social engineering; psychic engineering!)?
By monday they had recieved more than thirty emails from helpful people. I guess that number will rise a bit after being Slashdotted:)
By the way - their website is at http://www.aasentunet.no/.
The database is of type dBase4.
Grepstad claims that total amount of work to get all data catalogued again would exceed four years.
This explanation is available within the installer file (v1.6.0, english). All in all, this sounds very reasonable and plausible to me:
*** Important Note ***
Why was KaZaA Lite created?
For the same reason as the one why CNET has recently removed KaZaA from its download listings. Alongside the original KaZaA some third party software is distributed. This normally would not be an issue for me since it is mentioned in KaZaA's legal notice. But in this case this third party software severly threatens our privacy. The software from Brilliant Digital goes even beyond that point, acting more and more like a virus. The real workings of these third party software is not sufficiently explained to the end users by KaZaA. The legal notice is very long and difficult to understand, particularly for those whose native language is not English. Fact is that most users of KaZaA don't even know that there were some third party software installed by KaZaA, or more important what that software does. When KaZaA is uninstalled, the third party software is not removed. Removing all traces of this third party software is very difficult, even the biggest computer geeks have troubles with it. Virtually impossible for an average user.
KaZaA should make very clear what is installed alongside the KaZaA client itself and what that additional software does, before an end user downloads or installs the KaZaA client software. This way an end user has the choice of using the KaZaA client including all third party software, or not using the KaZaA at all.
Until this happens I am giving the average user a choice to be able to use the KaZaA client without being mislead by KaZaA. Those who have some real knowledge about computers were already able to make their own 'clean' KaZaA client software.
It is not my intention at all to stop KaZaA from earning advertising revenue. In fact, I am thankfull to KaZaA for creating their great software and the FastTrack network. I only want to make clear that KaZaA has to stop misleading the people who use their software. The majority of the users of KaZaA Lite abandoned KaZaA long before KaZaA Lite was created for the reasons I have outlined above. Or they previously did not wanted to use KaZaA because they were aware of its implications. KaZaA Lite users now are a part of the network. The increased number of users on the network due to KaZaA Lite is beneficial for KaZaA, since a large network attracts new users.
"KaZaA, the way P2P should be". I hope this becomes true in the future.
Instead of infecting the web browser in some intricate way, as indicated, why not just use the Windows DLL's to make a windowless browser client, submitting the automatically created web page with form included completely hidden? Should be rather easy, even for a VB novice as myself.
Slashdot Mirror
SGI Takes Action to Reduce Debt
SGI Announces Pre-Negotiated Reorganization
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (May 8, 2006)--Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced that it has reached an agreement with all of its Senior Secured bank lenders and with holders of a significant amount of its Senior Secured debt on the terms of a reorganization plan that will reduce its debt by approximately $250 million, greatly simplifying its capital structure.
As part of this agreement with many of its major stakeholders, and as the next step in its previously announced plan to reorganize its businesses, the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. SGI's non-U.S. subsidiaries, including European, Canadian, Mexican, South American and Asia Pacific subsidiaries were not included in the filing; will continue their business operations without supervision from the U.S. courts; and will not be subject to the requirements of chapter 11. The Company expects to file its Plan of Reorganization reflecting the agreement shortly, and to emerge from Chapter 11 within six months.
Read more at http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_rel eases/2006/may/sgi_reorg.html
Thank you very much. This is a great start! This will be very nice to include.
:-)
What licence do you have on these ideas?
The reasons for me wanting to GPL it was answered here.
And yes, what I need is good boss-convincing arguments besides what I've already outlined.
My company does not sell any IT products (we're in the shipping business).
Just to clear up the wrong assumption here: I'm not working in corporate America, though my company has a few offices there. We're located in sunny Norway (it's funny, laugh).
In Norway, the basic rules in IT is that whatever I code, whatever I construct while working is their property, and is not to be carried with me over to a new employer. And that is not a problem for me.
Sure. I have many reasons for publishing the sourcecode, but couldn't write them all up in the post. Here's a few reasons:
* Other people can gain knowledge from my code
* I can gain knowledge by other people commenting/submitting patches to my code
* Security vulnerabilities will be found under peer review
* I will get Good Karma [tm].
But me wanting to publish the code is not reason good enough for a boss, of course. He needs to see what he (as in "the company") can gain from this, so I'd like to get as much input as possible on how to articulate myself.
Anybody got a non-shockwave version of this trailer for us less fortunate? As if WMV and RAM-files wasn't bad enough.
My guess is that this is a troll. Please don't take it seriously.
Note! This upgrade is only relevant for those who have enabled the CLI (command line interface) of PHP. Me, Myself and I can at least relax.
To all those of you who have published pages with a realistic/pessmisitic view of the Palladium security platform: Update those page's META-tags NOW include any or all of the new terminology created by the Microsoft Marketing Department (r). Or else those search-engines will fail miserably to find anything relevant when those company executives tries to find information about the-next-great-thing from Microsoft which has been told to be oh-so-secure.
What about this image, then - does it imply that we've got Solaris 9 running under Linux?
Right.
I don't say that it's 100% certain that they haven't got the game Americas Army running under Linux, but what about actually getting someone to comment this as well? Some news source or something?
What's important to note here is that far from all extensions which are being developed for Apache are in a production stable state on the 2.x platform. One every good example is PHP, which just recently with the 4.3-version was announced to be stable on the Unix-version. Windows webservers serving PHP should still use the 1.3.x-branch a little while.
As the download-page on php.net announces: "PHP 4.3.0 zip package [5,811Kb] - 27 December 2002 (CGI binary plus server API versions for Apache, Apache2 (experimental)"
This vulnerability was fixed a long time ago in WinAmp. It's only Windows XP that's a bit behind in patches at times :-). The files in the winamp281.exe archive has old dates.
clarifications anyone?
by proclus on Wednesday December 18, @07:05PM EST
Sorry, I just couldn't let the story to out this way, because truth is important to me.
All machines that are currently supported will continue to be supported in their current configurations, so we are not pulling out the rug as it were. The situation could be better than this, but the ball is now in Apple's court. I will say that Apple has been moving in the right direction with respect to these issues over the past few years. If projects like ours can stay engaged with them, there may be a chance. It is not easy, and may be overly optimistic, but there it is. I'd like to give some time for Apple to respond.
The main source for the Apple/DMCA story is at the following link, although it has been covered extensively on the web as an 'Apple DMCA' googlesearch will reveal.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955805.html
Based on my experience with the Adobe boycott and other anti-DMCA activism, I consider Declan as a trusted source. Here are some good stories about the impact of the DMCA in general and on Apple users.
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-656.html# lnk3
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06901
As for the APSL, this has been a long standing issue with the Distribution, which dates back to the founding.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/12/01/20282 54&mode=thread
Darwin is not free software, because the APSL is not consistent with the free software definition. For more information, check GNU Project.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html
You may know Yves@gnu-darwin.org, who is a OSXFaq.com editorial contributor. His most recent installment is highly germain.
http://www.osxfaq.com/Editorial/open/index4.ws
Until Darwin is freed, activists such as myself will be leading users away from it instead of toward it. This antagonism towards Apple in the free software community has been aggravated by the DMCA fiasco. For example, Slashdot coverage of Apple has soured considerably since that time. We added the caveat to our Darwin distribution CD's soon after that (see grey box).
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/order.shtml
Clearly it is in Apple's best interest to repudiate the DMCA, to remove the onerous anti-privacy clause from the APSL, and to meet the standards of GNU Project, so that users can have a truly free OS, and so that activists can support Darwin instead of undermining it.
The message for users is to educate yourself about software freedom. In this world of economic contraction, the DMCA, RIAA, and the patriot act, that might take some effort, but it will be worthwhile in the event that free software becomes more difficult to maintain. Here is the starting point.
http://www.gnu.org
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
Nope. That's Jolt. See http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021123_snart_ dhw02.jpg and http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021126_jolt.j pg :-)
- NTP servers located geographically close to you. Free.
- NTP protocol. Free.
Why spend 25 bucks on something which is free? I'm located in Norway. I use ntp://fartein.ifi.uio.no, and it works great.Password is found, and it was... 'ladepujd'
The guy's last name was Djupedal.
:-)
Digi.no article: http://www.digi.no/digi98.nsf/pub/md20020603115059 _hb_20931563
Aasentunet website: http://www.aasentunet.no/
Damn the submit-button! That preview-button should be placed first!
The norwegian tech news website Digi.no reports (http://www.aasentunet.no/)that manager Grepstad and the other people at "Ivar Aasen-tunet" on monday even got emails from to parapsychological groups who intended to help to find the passwords. A new way of hacking (even more successful than social engineering; psychic engineering!)?
:)
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By monday they had recieved more than thirty emails from helpful people. I guess that number will rise a bit after being Slashdotted
By the way - their website is at http://www.aasentunet.no/
The database is of type dBase4.
Grepstad claims that total amount of work to get all data catalogued again would exceed four years.
Look at this picture: http://hard.zol.com.cn/2002/0511/images/20695.jpg
Isn't it rather strange that the scan lines for all three screens are exactly in the same height on the screen?
I believe this is a hoax. No more, no less.
Just mentioning that this can be achieved by downloading and installing the Opera Browser, developed by a great team of hackers in Norway.
And by the way, it's on version 6.01 on Win32 and 6 beta 2 on linux - a total of about five versions better than Mozilla!
This explanation is available within the installer file (v1.6.0, english). All in all, this sounds very reasonable and plausible to me:
Instead of infecting the web browser in some intricate way, as indicated, why not just use the Windows DLL's to make a windowless browser client, submitting the automatically created web page with form included completely hidden? Should be rather easy, even for a VB novice as myself.
You might have to delete /etc/adjtime after adjusting your clock. This file is updated now and then to prevent clock drift.
'man 8 hwclock' and 'The Adjust Function' might give you some answers.
Give it a shot, at least.