You sure about that? I think its a 'fantastic' example of everything that is wrong with proprietary softwware providers trying to passively adapt their products to the Linux environment. Take instead a mysql installation:
yum install mysqld
Or, if you're afraid of the command line, fire up synaptic click search type "mysql" , click the checkbox next to it, and click 'apply'.
Yes, we're a 40-employee engineering office in South Florida and are highly anticipating a move from Win2k Pro to some kind of LTSP-based setup. Unfortunately, AutoCAD support is minimal and the biggest encumberance to this kind of migration. I'm watching wine developments closely and have been getting very excited about its recent development
Besides, who wants to be deprived of all its documentation every time DSL is down?
People use to say the same of computers in regards to their power requirements. ie. "Who wants to be deprived of all its documentation every time the power is out?"
Down here in Sunny South Florida, I assure you that my power flickers out far more often than does my internet access.
You know , its not at all illegal to discrminate against a canadidate- and indeed that's most of he point behind hiring a person. You discrimate against all those candidates except for the one who meets your specific qualifications. The *only* exceptions to this rule is race , sex (sometimes! see the Hooter's case ), sexual orientation , and potentially medical conditions... Can someone correct me here if I'm wrong?
Why don't you just build them yourself? It takes me less than a couple hours to build them and I can charge at least $100/hr for that time and still way undercut the markup of the main server vendors. As an added bonus, I get to choose the parts I like working with , and can fix them much easier if/when they go down.
Are you serious? I purchase items that can grown in my backyard all the time. Certainly it would be nice to grow my organic vegetables and raise my own chickens, but time and monetary constraints cause me to purchase whatever's presented to me at my local grocery store. (Not to mention *MANY* americans don't even have the pre-requisite backyards.
Tobacco Cigarettes can be grown and rolled, but no one that I know goes through that trouble when a pack of twenty can be bought from around the corner for $3.00. And they can be purchased year-round instead of being limited to whatever the tobacco season is.
Economics 101 teaches the difficulties and benefits of commodity markets. Indeed with software development heading towards this direction, you should brush up on these concepts.
Though I'm sensitive to the drunk driving issue, (indeed I lost an aunt and cousin to a drunk driver) , how is it that the law sees fit to punish someone based on a their propensity to commit damage? Certainly Drunk drivers cause more accidents than sober ones. But so do elderly drivers, minorities, and teenagers.
Though certainly people's intentions are good here, it would seem to me that we encroach on Minority Report territory when we start to arrest people based on crimes that we *think* will be committed by them. If a drunk-driver is swerving, it makes sense to me that he should be pulled over and detained seeing that he's demonstarted an incapicity to drive. But if the driver is otherwise coherent and is stopped by a police driver in , say, a DUI checkpoint - than who's to say the threat is at-all legitimate? The driver may well have outperformed the average driver in their journey home (or even their own sober driving standards).
So what am I not getting here? Am I wrong to accept that there's the potential for disaster when I venture out of my home? I don't expect that the world around me be absolutely sanitized before I enter it, this is the risk I take when I leave the comfort of my home.
Is this really illegal? It seems like a great niche for amazon. Sure its quite obvious that 98% of people renting music will be burning copies, but the same argument can be made for Netflix and GameFly . (Or could be made in the not-so-distant future. ) Is someone offering this?
(DRM'd music downloads don't count.)
Can someone mod this parent flamebait? I wish I had points right now.
Why do people so often insist on labeling an opposing viewpoint as either left or right... as if all people belong to one of two groups of beliefs that make up the entire landscape of opinion within an issue. Don't let the world's propaganda machines convince you that *any* political issue is single dimensional. As soon as they have - your opinion is no longer rational and they have successfully acheived their end.
Moderators since you've read this far - please mod this comment up as insightful, slashdoters really need to understand this if our community is to provide any value in its dicscussion.
OK - long story made short, I live here in South Florida and was looking for a job sometime in the fall of 2001. Seisint placed a wanted ad on monster for a Unix Systems Administrator.
I sent my resume and never got response back from them. Being unemployed, and having a little time in my schedule, I started doing some nmap probes (just regular tcp scans) on their network. It was mostly curiousity at first, but I was shocked at how many open ports and machines were sitting there on the internet. Sure enough I found a Windows box with file-sharing on. Curiousity got the best of me, and I tried accessing the 'C$' share on this box with "Administrator" (nopassword) . It worked.
Okay, so as it turned out this machine had cuteftp installed on it, and the user had the passwords to his ftp sites in a (quasi-encrypted) file. I don't remember the file name, nor do I remember the version of CuteFTP they were using, but there was a cheap script-kiddie type program I found that 'decrypted' the passwords in this cuteftp file. (It took no time at all, cuteftp probably used something really stupid like XOR..) I found this user's passwords to something like 8 production oracle servers in that file. (The password was the same on all boxes - and I remember the user names being a little different , so for all I know root on those boxes was the same as all the other passwords)
Not wanting to cross any further boundrys than I already had, I figured I'd send my findings to Seisint, and see if that got them more interested in my application. In fact in had! They wanted to talk to me and hear more about what I had to say regarding their network - For a number of reasons (I decided to go back to school mostly) I declined and told some dude from the IT department over the phone the whole story from above. In hindsight , I was lucky they didn't get federal investigators involved (back then there was no homeland security! Nowadays I could be labeled a terrorist).
Yeah I know this is slashdot, and you all don't know me from shit, but I have the old emails somewhere I think. If anyone ever needed them for anything, I would go back and look for them. In all of this, I believe most of these large data repositories have shockingly poor secuirty procedures, I'm shocked there aren't more thefts like this one happening on a regular basis.
Allow companies to remove their 'trademark'-protected name from google... with the stipulation that ALL refrences to said trademark be removed. So in this case searching for 'vuitton' will *only* be bringing up the non-official search results, thus negating the utility of the removal in the first place. Google won't be making any money off the ad-words for the trademark, but then neither will vuitton.com .
Maybe someone can explain this to me. It would seem to me that there's no encryption being broken here. But let's say we wanted to play a WMV9 -drm'd movie in linux using this code. We would have to decrypt the DRMd content somehow no? So now I assume that this is where the whole downloadable license thing comes into play. So let's say DVD-John 's algorithm downloads a license to play the drm'd file. What's to stop a rogue programmer from outputting the decrypted video stream to file ? I would have assumed the protection previosuly lied in Windows Media Player and its closed sourcebase preventing this option from becoming practical to a user. Now if we have the ability to play back DRM'd files as easily as I outlined it above, doesn't that completely destroy the ability of content producers to provide DRM'd content? Or is that exactly what RMS' point has been the last few years.
All this time I've assumed there was something big that I was missing in this whole DRM scheme . It seems totally inconceivable to me that Microsoft/Apple/Real/etc honestly believes that they can coax all content players to respect the content provider's wishes.
Are you really serious? What would the splitting of these networks even do? Obviously people need access to the financial network , why would they refrain from mischief on the financial network and not on the other network?
And how exactly would you propose that we create two 'networks' ? Are we to mandate that no computer on Internet A be able to connect to Internet B ? Because if this isn't the mandate, then you'll have entirely defeated the purpose of the separation. And this mandate would be far from enforceable...
I read somewhere on the Lotus Developer Domain message boards that in fact IBM *is* planning on releasing some new os-independent uberplatform for all their Lotus Applications, including Notes and the horribly out-of-date SmartSuite. (and b/c of this IBM is not disclosing to Codeweavers some knowledge they need in order to add Notes 6 support). And Actually, Domino 6.5 is touting support for linux-based web browsers (well, Mozilla really) to connect to iNotes .
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You sure about that? I think its a 'fantastic' example of everything that is wrong with proprietary softwware providers trying to passively adapt their products to the Linux environment. Take instead a mysql installation: yum install mysqld Or, if you're afraid of the command line, fire up synaptic click search type "mysql" , click the checkbox next to it, and click 'apply'.
Yes, we're a 40-employee engineering office in South Florida and are highly anticipating a move from Win2k Pro to some kind of LTSP-based setup. Unfortunately, AutoCAD support is minimal and the biggest encumberance to this kind of migration. I'm watching wine developments closely and have been getting very excited about its recent development
People use to say the same of computers in regards to their power requirements. ie. "Who wants to be deprived of all its documentation every time the power is out?"
Down here in Sunny South Florida, I assure you that my power flickers out far more often than does my internet access.
You know , its not at all illegal to discrminate against a canadidate- and indeed that's most of he point behind hiring a person. You discrimate against all those candidates except for the one who meets your specific qualifications. The *only* exceptions to this rule is race , sex (sometimes! see the Hooter's case ), sexual orientation , and potentially medical conditions... Can someone correct me here if I'm wrong?
Why don't you just build them yourself? It takes me less than a couple hours to build them and I can charge at least $100 /hr for that time and still way undercut the markup of the main server vendors. As an added bonus, I get to choose the parts I like working with , and can fix them much easier if/when they go down.
Are you serious? I purchase items that can grown in my backyard all the time. Certainly it would be nice to grow my organic vegetables and raise my own chickens, but time and monetary constraints cause me to purchase whatever's presented to me at my local grocery store. (Not to mention *MANY* americans don't even have the pre-requisite backyards.
Tobacco Cigarettes can be grown and rolled, but no one that I know goes through that trouble when a pack of twenty can be bought from around the corner for $3.00. And they can be purchased year-round instead of being limited to whatever the tobacco season is.
Economics 101 teaches the difficulties and benefits of commodity markets. Indeed with software development heading towards this direction, you should brush up on these concepts.
Though I'm sensitive to the drunk driving issue, (indeed I lost an aunt and cousin to a drunk driver) , how is it that the law sees fit to punish someone based on a their propensity to commit damage? Certainly Drunk drivers cause more accidents than sober ones. But so do elderly drivers, minorities, and teenagers.
Though certainly people's intentions are good here, it would seem to me that we encroach on Minority Report territory when we start to arrest people based on crimes that we *think* will be committed by them. If a drunk-driver is swerving, it makes sense to me that he should be pulled over and detained seeing that he's demonstarted an incapicity to drive. But if the driver is otherwise coherent and is stopped by a police driver in , say, a DUI checkpoint - than who's to say the threat is at-all legitimate? The driver may well have outperformed the average driver in their journey home (or even their own sober driving standards).
So what am I not getting here? Am I wrong to accept that there's the potential for disaster when I venture out of my home? I don't expect that the world around me be absolutely sanitized before I enter it, this is the risk I take when I leave the comfort of my home.
The topic seems completely off to me , am I missing something?
Is this really illegal? It seems like a great niche for amazon. Sure its quite obvious that 98% of people renting music will be burning copies, but the same argument can be made for Netflix and GameFly . (Or could be made in the not-so-distant future. ) Is someone offering this? (DRM'd music downloads don't count.)
Can someone mod this parent flamebait? I wish I had points right now.
Why do people so often insist on labeling an opposing viewpoint as either left or right... as if all people belong to one of two groups of beliefs that make up the entire landscape of opinion within an issue. Don't let the world's propaganda machines convince you that *any* political issue is single dimensional. As soon as they have - your opinion is no longer rational and they have successfully acheived their end.
Moderators since you've read this far - please mod this comment up as insightful, slashdoters really need to understand this if our community is to provide any value in its dicscussion.
OK - long story made short, I live here in South Florida and was looking for a job sometime in the fall of 2001. Seisint placed a wanted ad on monster for a Unix Systems Administrator.
I sent my resume and never got response back from them. Being unemployed, and having a little time in my schedule, I started doing some nmap probes (just regular tcp scans) on their network. It was mostly curiousity at first, but I was shocked at how many open ports and machines were sitting there on the internet. Sure enough I found a Windows box with file-sharing on. Curiousity got the best of me, and I tried accessing the 'C$' share on this box with "Administrator" (nopassword) . It worked.
Okay, so as it turned out this machine had cuteftp installed on it, and the user had the passwords to his ftp sites in a (quasi-encrypted) file. I don't remember the file name, nor do I remember the version of CuteFTP they were using, but there was a cheap script-kiddie type program I found that 'decrypted' the passwords in this cuteftp file. (It took no time at all, cuteftp probably used something really stupid like XOR..) I found this user's passwords to something like 8 production oracle servers in that file. (The password was the same on all boxes - and I remember the user names being a little different , so for all I know root on those boxes was the same as all the other passwords)
Not wanting to cross any further boundrys than I already had, I figured I'd send my findings to Seisint, and see if that got them more interested in my application. In fact in had! They wanted to talk to me and hear more about what I had to say regarding their network - For a number of reasons (I decided to go back to school mostly) I declined and told some dude from the IT department over the phone the whole story from above. In hindsight , I was lucky they didn't get federal investigators involved (back then there was no homeland security! Nowadays I could be labeled a terrorist) .
Yeah I know this is slashdot, and you all don't know me from shit, but I have the old emails somewhere I think. If anyone ever needed them for anything, I would go back and look for them. In all of this, I believe most of these large data repositories have shockingly poor secuirty procedures, I'm shocked there aren't more thefts like this one happening on a regular basis.
You just made a big mistake! Expect a visit from the Homeland Security!
Allow companies to remove their 'trademark'-protected name from google... with the stipulation that ALL refrences to said trademark be removed. So in this case searching for 'vuitton' will *only* be bringing up the non-official search results, thus negating the utility of the removal in the first place. Google won't be making any money off the ad-words for the trademark, but then neither will vuitton.com .
Maybe someone can explain this to me. It would seem to me that there's no encryption being broken here. But let's say we wanted to play a WMV9 -drm'd movie in linux using this code. We would have to decrypt the DRMd content somehow no? So now I assume that this is where the whole downloadable license thing comes into play. So let's say DVD-John 's algorithm downloads a license to play the drm'd file. What's to stop a rogue programmer from outputting the decrypted video stream to file ? I would have assumed the protection previosuly lied in Windows Media Player and its closed sourcebase preventing this option from becoming practical to a user. Now if we have the ability to play back DRM'd files as easily as I outlined it above, doesn't that completely destroy the ability of content producers to provide DRM'd content? Or is that exactly what RMS' point has been the last few years.
All this time I've assumed there was something big that I was missing in this whole DRM scheme . It seems totally inconceivable to me that Microsoft/Apple/Real/etc honestly believes that they can coax all content players to respect the content provider's wishes.
Are you really serious? What would the splitting of these networks even do? Obviously people need access to the financial network , why would they refrain from mischief on the financial network and not on the other network?
And how exactly would you propose that we create two 'networks' ? Are we to mandate that no computer on Internet A be able to connect to Internet B ? Because if this isn't the mandate, then you'll have entirely defeated the purpose of the separation. And this mandate would be far from enforceable...
I read somewhere on the Lotus Developer Domain message boards that in fact IBM *is* planning on releasing some new os-independent uberplatform for all their Lotus Applications, including Notes and the horribly out-of-date SmartSuite. (and b/c of this IBM is not disclosing to Codeweavers some knowledge they need in order to add Notes 6 support). And Actually, Domino 6.5 is touting support for linux-based web browsers (well, Mozilla really) to connect to iNotes .
My Redhat 9 does : "up2date -uv" (Provided you registered your computer with the redhat network) And if your running debian there's always apt-get .