After reading articles like this every second week, I ask my self, when will people learn NOT to use any M$ toy "OS" beside using it for something like playing games, not attachet to the internet of course.
Yes, NT got once C2 security, if it was in a locked room, all network devices ripped of and floppy/CD removed, guess why?
It's a piece of crap....
May be true where you live, but in other countries, Ie. Germany you'll find that most cars don't have automatic transmissions, german driver don't like them, a used car is always cheaper, if it has automatic, as no one wants it.
Wait for the car to "warm up" (recommended but not necessary for most cars on the road today)
Common miss-beleave, you shouldn't warm up any car build in the last 30 years, just drive.
It was always a piece of crap, the BTX search engine mostly found links to some hardcore site, where you should press 19 (for OK) to pay 9,99 DM to see the page, no matter what your search really was. It was expensive, I heard in france they have/had something similar, which was a big success, as the france telekom gave the terminals you needed, before it was possible to use it with a PC, for free. Where the German Telekom (former Deutsche Post), as always, ripped you off and took a fortune for those dummy terminals.
From what I've seen so far, it looks more to me, that it was the usage of those old B-52 bomber, which finally made the Taliban collapse, not those high precision weapons. Just the enormous payload of these old machines....
What's going on? Clicked on the URL in/.'s new design (http://jobs.osdn.com/), wondered about all those.asp inside, finally went to netcraft.com and it tells me:
The site jobs.osdn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
Wow, this really sounds like "Open Source Development Network", the stats show of course constant rebooting, whatelse would be expected from this setup.
Moderators may mod my post down as they like, but I would really like to know (Rob or someone else from/.) how this is possible?
Thx, for your post, I was afraid there would have been something happened to/.. First, I only read about some new M$ "OS" and always thought this would be/. and none here would use this crap.
Ok, not everyone is able to handle the power a real OS (Ie. Linux) may deliver...:-)
Perhaps Germany, and other nations will start using alternate software.
According to netcraft, the german armed forces (Bundeswehr) www-server:
>bR>
The site www.bundeswehr.de is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux.
It might be right that on corporate/private dektop M$ is used up to 99%, but do you think someone would trust, his mission critical services to systems made in Richmond?
Nope.
Michael
I have been a/. reader for while now and I have to say -- I have thought about stopping.
Why? Because (almost without fail) whenever I read/., I become depressed for a while. When the DMCA first came out I thought
-- "well, this should be interesting.. wonder how long it will take for it to be destroyed" and it is still giving me bad feelings today.
Thx, for your post, I have the same thoughts. Has anyone actually tried to read one of the books from Ron Hubbard? I tried a few times, but could never get past the first few pages. Why? It's such a shitload of crap, written be someone who totaly lost his brain, even M$ Help pages could be considerd getting some Nobel price against this!
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As cars were engineerd around 100 years ago, there were many electric powered cars, but due to the reason, that you couldn't impress women with this "no sound from your electric car" or sound like a "washing-machine" (or men thought they couldn't - I don't know), no one wanted to buy one. Electric cars were not longer developed, I asume if they had be, we would have much better rechargables today.
Michael
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This is even more true the larger the system gets. For example, how many people in the world understand, line by line, exactly how the entire linux kernel operates? Even Linus himself doesn't;
Yeaaah....I imagine it would be rather hard for Linus or someone else who knows about UNIX to write a one liner in bash that uses diff to see any changes, that NSA made against the sources from kernel.org, instantly.
I hate this cybersquatting perhaps more than everyone else here.
Once, I stumbled accidently about this URL:
http://www.wildapache.net/
I don't know about this organization, looks like it would belong to native americans (Apache), probably they could have the right to get the apache.org domain, but it doesn't look as they would like, instead they have this nice icon on their first page, telling you that it's powered by the apache www server.
Yeah, I knew this, but how much is this worth
if you have this in your silly MS-DOS box, before
you reply, I should install cygwin to have bash handy, I know this and have used it too!
My first thought was, wow not very complicated with the upcoming UTMS mobile standart to send back where you drive to some kind of central DB, that gathers nice data where/when you drove.
I know that car rentals like Sixt use such systems in germany, if you rent an expensive (ie. Mercedes S 600) car, you are not allowed to drive to some countries in eastern europe with, if you try the engine will just stop working if you get to close to the boarder, cause GPS is build in...
Driving on an highway (Autobahn) with not much traffic, at speeds up to 250 Km/h is no problem
and AFAIK highways in germany were you are allowed to drive with this speed, or even more as fast as you can, is secure. Statistics show no evidence that there are more accidents due to having no speed limit.
Of course this is asuming you are not driving one of those cheap crap US cars.
From my personal driving expirience (~10 times around this planet) this stop and go or creeping around 90 - 120 Km/h, which is normal were I live on duty highways, is much more dangerous.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds himself.
Windows, in contrast, is the trademark of Microsoft.
Wow, that's a real reason, those techweb authors should not hassle and install W2K on their computers...
has considerable professional obligations outside his open-source activities
He even had the time to answer an email I send him sometimes ago, regarding the Sony Picturebook PCG-C1VN & X 4.0.2., I don't know how he does all this, but in opposite: Techweb can't even write a descent article?
Some Linux solution providers view the constantly evolving process of the posting of Linux libraries, patches, and updates to the Internet as inefficient and cumbersome, Davison said
Maybe Davidson should at least upgrade his approx.
300 baud modem, or why else does someone think that using lightspeed for transport sources over the internet would be inefficient and cumbersome?
"I don't believe open source works well for commercial companies because they can't control schedules," said Michael Cusumano,
In my opinion it doesn't work well because you can't really make big bucks in short time and that's what those commercial companies are after...
You can make money from it, but you have to offer great support...
Thanks, actually it's more a kind of double planet
system, as the central point they both turn around, is far away from plutos center.
Michael
The name of the moon is my/. account -.de (silly me that I don't got the domain as I could), it's athough the name of a ferryman in an acient greek story, the one who gets the dead people over this river called sticks...
I tried the same, having an old P133 cheap crap PC
with a original new haupage Bt878 and a small Sony CCD Cam, as test object.
Webcam is no problem, but streaming is not easy, I tried the free testversions (max. 25 User) of real player, after you get this realproducer setup you start streaming and you see only blue in RealPlayer X.X on your Linux powered desktop, you check the options for the server and OK, there is an option to enable compatibility for the free players you may find on real.com...
But on realserver startup you get the message that, hey this option can only be used with the pay version of realproducer...
Wow a few hours lost, reading the docs, setting this sw up...
This Mac thing would only be an option if there is a player for linux available, which isn't AFAIK. In my opinion, if linux serves it, it should at least be able to view it.
My last try was a small java/hack which worked slow as hell, even on a fast LAN, and only worked with NS 4.x...:-(
Last days I read somewhere on heise.de about a DVi??? project which could enable you to store a
movie on one CD-R, the sw will be GPL'd soon.
Wouldn't that be a starting point for a superior codec, as I think something important as delivering streaming video/audio over the internet should only be done using something GPL?
being on many schools/edu I can only remember very few teacher, those that were really great and I enjoyed the class...:-)
There was one physic teacher, a really old one, who always liked to make something with the laser we had, cause he could smoke than during the lesson, you couldn't see the laser otherwise...
Everybody in the class had problems with math and always short before a test, someone asked him in his hour if he could explain it. He did, and after
10 min everyone had understood the stuff, which the real math teacher couldn't explain in weeks...
The other one was a historic teacher, you could ask him what you wanted about historic, he could always tell you some interesting story that sounded, as if he would have been there himself...:-)You could hear this needle fall in classroom if he spoke...Just because it was so interesting to listen to him...:-)
Another physic teacher had the abiltity to compute everything in his head, faster than you could even type it in your calculator, quite impressive...
Most teacher had no clue of course, they were just doing this job, because of the long holidays they had and most teachers in germany are paid by the state and can't loose their job, which is another big reason for many to become one...
Exactly why people are speaking out against blocking port 25. It takes away their right to use other e-mail providers
If you would be a busy admin you would think different.The worst spammer always seem to be UUNET customer by the way.
Some times ago I was asked to make relaying possible for the big boss, who wanted to get/send his mail through the Internet with his normal account. Nice, if you get only a few hours to get it working (So don't complain I could have made it much better/more secure, I know, but I had no time). I first thought, don't muck up with the sendmail.cf of the primary mailserver, so I choose another machine, compiled POP3 with APOP support and created a new sendmail.cf with m4 and this nice POP_before_SMTP hack, opened at least the firewall 25/110 for this machine, I could only test it twice, but it worked...:-)
Next day I had to regocnize that my server would not just relay for the one who was allowed, no I had one of those UUNET spammers who may have scanned our network just after I opened the firewall, the only good things was, I had this access.db feature build in and blocked the whole UUNET, something like 63.48 and after 50 times changing his IP, it even looked sometimes in the logs as if he would use a script, he finally gave up as everything was rejected...you know this:
550 We don't accept mail from spammers...
With some help of the sendmail newsgroup I could get it setup right/secure, but I had to wait until my boss came back. This way I had some difficult weeks, always looking at the logs and hopping this small bastard or someone else wouldn't try it from a different side than UUNET.
I can only tell you if you would have gone through all those spam problems, where you sometimes can't do anything, cause the spammer is using some open relays on the other side of this planet, you would say that blocking port 25 for dialup users is a good thing, they can use there own ISPs mailserver, as somebody else pointed out!
If someone needs this feature, he should pay a few bucks more, in order to give ISPs the money to control those say "special accounts" that are allowed to transmit on port 25, sure signning up for such an account should be a bit harder, but those who really need it (and don't abuse), would get it.
The only good about that story: I learnd much more about sendmail...:-)
Michael
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You're right that.xxx would be better a better choice.
But I don't understand why you think there was conspiracy?
I had no problems to sign up, got the snail mail a few weeks later...
Even one of the two canidates I thought who would be the best, was elected...:-)
Of course, I will check now if he deserves that I gave him my vote.
Perhaps, you tried to late, at the point where their servers got/.'ed. Which they could have easly avoided, but...?
Michael
What means this.ie in your mail, sorry I don't have a TLD list handy, and you know those severe hands, if you're this user with UID 0 on your job...
Slashdot Mirror
After reading articles like this every second week, I ask my self, when will people learn NOT to use any M$ toy "OS" beside using it for something like playing games, not attachet to the internet of course.
Yes, NT got once C2 security, if it was in a locked room, all network devices ripped of and floppy/CD removed, guess why? It's a piece of crap....
Michael
Manually shift gears (some)
May be true where you live, but in other countries, Ie. Germany you'll find that most cars don't have automatic transmissions, german driver don't like them, a used car is always cheaper, if it has automatic, as no one wants it.
Wait for the car to "warm up" (recommended but not necessary for most cars on the road today)
Common miss-beleave, you shouldn't warm up any car build in the last 30 years, just drive.
Michael
It was always a piece of crap, the BTX search engine mostly found links to some hardcore site, where you should press 19 (for OK) to pay 9,99 DM to see the page, no matter what your search really was. It was expensive, I heard in france they have/had something similar, which was a big success, as the france telekom gave the terminals you needed, before it was possible to use it with a PC, for free. Where the German Telekom (former Deutsche Post), as always, ripped you off and took a fortune for those dummy terminals.
Michael
From what I've seen so far, it looks more to me, that it was the usage of those old B-52 bomber, which finally made the Taliban collapse, not those high precision weapons. Just the enormous payload of these old machines....
Michael
What's going on? Clicked on the URL in /.'s new design (http://jobs.osdn.com/), wondered about all those .asp inside, finally went to netcraft.com and it tells me:
/.) how this is possible?
The site jobs.osdn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
Wow, this really sounds like "Open Source Development Network", the stats show of course constant rebooting, whatelse would be expected from this setup.
Moderators may mod my post down as they like, but I would really like to know (Rob or someone else from
Michael
Is it that you guys just /.ed msnbc, or is just not working with Linux & NS-Crashicator?
I would really like to read about the new set, as I do own the first one, well bought it for my son, but that's another story...:-)
Michael
Thx, for your post, I was afraid there would have been something happened to
Ok, not everyone is able to handle the power a real OS (Ie. Linux) may deliver...:-)
Wow, /. gets more and more boring, first I read a post that tells me:
" It's still to buggy for the next version of slack."
I mean it's ready for prime time if Linus says it is!
And now your post:
yet its Linux coming out with constant revisions and patches (which to me are equivalent to MS service packs or updates)
I mean things are improving with every kernel version, with your shitty M$ service packs you normaly get 2 bugs fixed but 3-4 new ones...
What are some modarators smoking?
Michael
Check your facts: That site is a privately run site arguing/counseling young people how to evade the draft.
According to whois bundeswehr.de
domain: bundeswehr.de
descr: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung
descr: Presse- und Informationsstab
descr: Postfach 1328
descr: D-52003 Bonn
descr: Germany
[...]
Doesn't look like a bunch of young people..
Better you check your facts before you reply!
Michael
Why is this PREVIEW button next to the SUBMIT?
Damn...
Michael
Perhaps Germany, and other nations will start using alternate software. According to netcraft, the german armed forces (Bundeswehr) www-server: >bR> The site www.bundeswehr.de is running Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.3pl1 on Linux.
It might be right that on corporate/private dektop M$ is used up to 99%, but do you think someone would trust, his mission critical services to systems made in Richmond?
Nope.
Michael
I have been a /. reader for while now and I have to say -- I have thought about stopping.
/., I become depressed for a while. When the DMCA first came out I thought
Why? Because (almost without fail) whenever I read
-- "well, this should be interesting.. wonder how long it will take for it to be destroyed" and it is still giving me bad feelings today.
Thx, for your post, I have the same thoughts. Has anyone actually tried to read one of the books from Ron Hubbard? I tried a few times, but could never get past the first few pages. Why? It's such a shitload of crap, written be someone who totaly lost his brain, even M$ Help pages could be considerd getting some Nobel price against this!
Michael
Moderation:2 funny; 3 troll; 2 interesting; finally removed cause of infringement of something, I don't know, only lawyers do...
Thx, for your post.
As cars were engineerd around 100 years ago, there were many electric powered cars, but due to the reason, that you couldn't impress women with this "no sound from your electric car" or sound like a "washing-machine" (or men thought they couldn't - I don't know), no one wanted to buy one. Electric cars were not longer developed, I asume if they had be, we would have much better rechargables today.
Michael
This is even more true the larger the system gets. For example, how many people in the world understand, line by line, exactly how the entire linux kernel operates? Even Linus himself doesn't;
Yeaaah....I imagine it would be rather hard for Linus or someone else who knows about UNIX to write a one liner in bash that uses diff to see any changes, that NSA made against the sources from kernel.org, instantly.
Michael
Hello,
I hate this cybersquatting perhaps more than everyone else here.
Once, I stumbled accidently about this URL:
http://www.wildapache.net/
I don't know about this organization, looks like it would belong to native americans (Apache), probably they could have the right to get the apache.org domain, but it doesn't look as they would like, instead they have this nice icon on their first page, telling you that it's powered by the apache www server.
I thought, wow these are really tuff guys...:-)
Michael
Yeah, I knew this, but how much is this worth if you have this in your silly MS-DOS box, before you reply, I should install cygwin to have bash handy, I know this and have used it too!
Michael
Administering a Window 2000 machine is trivial when compared to a linux server.
Depends on your expirience, I always think, when clicking like crazy in M$ NT-Server blah,blah, where is my bash?
A few keystrokes expanded via TAB and I would be done...:-)
Michael
My first thought was, wow not very complicated with the upcoming UTMS mobile standart to send back where you drive to some kind of central DB, that gathers nice data where/when you drove.
I know that car rentals like Sixt use such systems in germany, if you rent an expensive (ie. Mercedes S 600) car, you are not allowed to drive to some countries in eastern europe with, if you try the engine will just stop working if you get to close to the boarder, cause GPS is build in...
Driving on an highway (Autobahn) with not much traffic, at speeds up to 250 Km/h is no problem
and AFAIK highways in germany were you are allowed to drive with this speed, or even more as fast as you can, is secure. Statistics show no evidence that there are more accidents due to having no speed limit.
Of course this is asuming you are not driving one of those cheap crap US cars.
From my personal driving expirience (~10 times around this planet) this stop and go or creeping around 90 - 120 Km/h, which is normal were I live on duty highways, is much more dangerous.
Michael
Thx...
My first thoughts on this article. Where is the problem?
You can run apache even local on a laptop with all those mod_xxxx, others metioned, without a problem, having a 100% equal development platform...
Michael
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds himself. Windows, in contrast, is the trademark of Microsoft.
Wow, that's a real reason, those techweb authors should not hassle and install W2K on their computers...
has considerable professional obligations outside his open-source activities
He even had the time to answer an email I send him sometimes ago, regarding the Sony Picturebook PCG-C1VN & X 4.0.2., I don't know how he does all this, but in opposite: Techweb can't even write a descent article?
Some Linux solution providers view the constantly evolving process of the posting of Linux libraries, patches, and updates to the Internet as inefficient and cumbersome, Davison said
Maybe Davidson should at least upgrade his approx. 300 baud modem, or why else does someone think that using lightspeed for transport sources over the internet would be inefficient and cumbersome?
"I don't believe open source works well for commercial companies because they can't control schedules," said Michael Cusumano,
In my opinion it doesn't work well because you can't really make big bucks in short time and that's what those commercial companies are after...
You can make money from it, but you have to offer great support...
Nuff said...
Michael
large enough to keep its own moon
/. account - .de (silly me that I don't got the domain as I could), it's athough the name of a ferryman in an acient greek story, the one who gets the dead people over this river called sticks...
Thanks, actually it's more a kind of double planet system, as the central point they both turn around, is far away from plutos center.
Michael
The name of the moon is my
I tried the same, having an old P133 cheap crap PC with a original new haupage Bt878 and a small Sony CCD Cam, as test object.
Webcam is no problem, but streaming is not easy, I tried the free testversions (max. 25 User) of real player, after you get this realproducer setup you start streaming and you see only blue in RealPlayer X.X on your Linux powered desktop, you check the options for the server and OK, there is an option to enable compatibility for the free players you may find on real.com...
But on realserver startup you get the message that, hey this option can only be used with the pay version of realproducer...
Wow a few hours lost, reading the docs, setting this sw up...
This Mac thing would only be an option if there is a player for linux available, which isn't AFAIK. In my opinion, if linux serves it, it should at least be able to view it.
My last try was a small java/hack which worked slow as hell, even on a fast LAN, and only worked with NS 4.x...:-(
Last days I read somewhere on heise.de about a DVi??? project which could enable you to store a movie on one CD-R, the sw will be GPL'd soon. Wouldn't that be a starting point for a superior codec, as I think something important as delivering streaming video/audio over the internet should only be done using something GPL?
Michael
Hello,
being on many schools/edu I can only remember very few teacher, those that were really great and I enjoyed the class...:-)
There was one physic teacher, a really old one, who always liked to make something with the laser we had, cause he could smoke than during the lesson, you couldn't see the laser otherwise...
Everybody in the class had problems with math and always short before a test, someone asked him in his hour if he could explain it. He did, and after 10 min everyone had understood the stuff, which the real math teacher couldn't explain in weeks...
The other one was a historic teacher, you could ask him what you wanted about historic, he could always tell you some interesting story that sounded, as if he would have been there himself...:-)You could hear this needle fall in classroom if he spoke...Just because it was so interesting to listen to him...:-)
Another physic teacher had the abiltity to compute everything in his head, faster than you could even type it in your calculator, quite impressive...
Most teacher had no clue of course, they were just doing this job, because of the long holidays they had and most teachers in germany are paid by the state and can't loose their job, which is another big reason for many to become one...
Michael
Exactly why people are speaking out against blocking port 25. It takes away their right to use other e-mail providers
If you would be a busy admin you would think different.The worst spammer always seem to be UUNET customer by the way.
Some times ago I was asked to make relaying possible for the big boss, who wanted to get/send his mail through the Internet with his normal account. Nice, if you get only a few hours to get it working (So don't complain I could have made it much better/more secure, I know, but I had no time). I first thought, don't muck up with the sendmail.cf of the primary mailserver, so I choose another machine, compiled POP3 with APOP support and created a new sendmail.cf with m4 and this nice POP_before_SMTP hack, opened at least the firewall 25/110 for this machine, I could only test it twice, but it worked...:-)
Next day I had to regocnize that my server would not just relay for the one who was allowed, no I had one of those UUNET spammers who may have scanned our network just after I opened the firewall, the only good things was, I had this access.db feature build in and blocked the whole UUNET, something like 63.48 and after 50 times changing his IP, it even looked sometimes in the logs as if he would use a script, he finally gave up as everything was rejected...you know this:
550 We don't accept mail from spammers...
With some help of the sendmail newsgroup I could get it setup right/secure, but I had to wait until my boss came back. This way I had some difficult weeks, always looking at the logs and hopping this small bastard or someone else wouldn't try it from a different side than UUNET.
I can only tell you if you would have gone through all those spam problems, where you sometimes can't do anything, cause the spammer is using some open relays on the other side of this planet, you would say that blocking port 25 for dialup users is a good thing, they can use there own ISPs mailserver, as somebody else pointed out!
If someone needs this feature, he should pay a few bucks more, in order to give ISPs the money to control those say "special accounts" that are allowed to transmit on port 25, sure signning up for such an account should be a bit harder, but those who really need it (and don't abuse), would get it.
The only good about that story: I learnd much more about sendmail...:-)
Michael
You're right that .xxx would be better a better choice.
/.'ed. Which they could have easly avoided, but...?
.ie in your mail, sorry I don't have a TLD list handy, and you know those severe hands, if you're this user with UID 0 on your job...
But I don't understand why you think there was conspiracy?
I had no problems to sign up, got the snail mail a few weeks later...
Even one of the two canidates I thought who would be the best, was elected...:-)
Of course, I will check now if he deserves that I gave him my vote.
Perhaps, you tried to late, at the point where their servers got
Michael
What means this