Once my mid-age aunt called me, asking what should she do to access the web. I already knew she was very limitted when it calls for IT, so I stood patient.
Me: Aunt, is the computer on?
Aunt: Yes, it on. The power light is on
Me: Is the monitor on?
Aunt: Yes, I can see the screen
Me: Can you move the cursor and everything?
Aunt: Yes, sure.
Me: Is the Internet Explorer installed and working?
Aunt: Of couse! You are not talking to a beginner.
Me: OK then. Is the window open?
Aunt: Yes, it is. I can see all the people passing by the street. But what does it has to do with internet?
Me: Nevermind.
Money USA have to warn their millions about illegally cut wood: Trilions.
Money Brazil hato to avoid illegaly cut wood: millions.
USA care about enviroment? No. Why do I say that? Kioto protocol.
Not to be a flamewar, but it would be easier to stop destroing the rainforest if USA and Europe stop to buy wood cutted ilegally. And Colombia would stop producing drugs if US citizens stop consuming it.
As I said at another post, the rainforest is ANOTHER issue to a developing country, and the cost to buy proprietary software is unacceptable. GPL'd software is a bless: gives us technology, knowledge and the chance to be at the heads of computer development.
Of course GPL is not the only open source license...
But all this is a metter of trust. I may use a BSD-licensed library to build my own proprietary app, but would you collaborate to a guy that used your costless software, and than asks you money for the part of the software it had developed?
It's a two-way line. I help you, you help me. Partners, as I have mentioned.
Sun's president say that the pour countrie would be obligated to return they Intelectual Propriety(IP) to rich countries with GPL, but does he know a way pour countries can buy the necessary startup IP to later develop its own?
Remember: if it's a pour contry it lacks money for food, for education, for health. Technology is luxury.
A Developing Country like Brazil had two choices:
- Buy proprietary software and do not get knowledge to develop its own technoligy later, thus always buy techonology or...
- Get free open source software, develop its own techonology and be "forced" to return its enhancements to Developed countries.
First choise make you a slave forever. Second makes you a partner.
"Once we have reached our subscription goals, we plan to release all of the WineX source code under the Wine license"
One of the main excuses at USSR to suppress individual rights was to "consolidate" the Soviet Union, against capitalism. They said all individual rights would be given back when they were safe of the any "western" threats.
As we all know, the individual rights came back only with the fall of USSR, about eighty years later.
My point: do not thurst these promisses like "when the right time comes". There will never be the rigth time to Transgaming. If they reach "subscriptio goals", their goals will get bigger.
The problem was not about the browser itself. At the time Windows 98 was released with IE 4 embed, Netscape 4 was out, with some restrictions as expire time to its version. I guess it was about 1 month before you should download another version.
IE4 and Netscape4 were both crap, but the first one was free and came with the OS. Why would you pay for something that comes free?(ordinary user thought)
The release of IE 5, a good browser, was just the final shot.
I can't blame no one for this bug, but the adoption of BitKeeper as the kernel control version system.
Besides the joke, has anyone realised how the dates match? (since 2.4.18 release)
The way you show things it seems that freedom could be reached with BSD license only.
John Loiacono is right. GPL is a "freedom level" lower than BSD, but still free. And LGPL is another "freedom level" lower than GPL, and it is still free.
If Solaris really goes open source, Sun will have no alternative, but to accept comments. Otherwise the project may fork.
I tell this believing Sun will release Solaris code under GPL, because they have few reasons to hide the code of a doomed OS. Sun's focus is linux and its java platform. Not OS market.
I have used GR Security for quite some time, and its not that great loss.
OpenWall was mentioned, but I preffer LIDS as a replacement to GRSecurity.
The itens below where taken from GRSecurity site. All listed features are at LIDS either:
# Change root (chroot) hardening
#/tmp race prevention
# Extensive auditing
# Prevention of entire classes of exploits related to address space bugs (from the PaX project)
# Additional randomness in the TCP/IP stack
# A restriction that allows a user to only view his/her processes
# Every security alert or audit contains the IP address of the person that caused the event
Besides, LIDS has a clever ACL schema for file protection and a master password, that if an attacker gets root privileges, it could not exploit the machine completly.
DSPAM has a strong focus on providing better data to already existing algorithms (Bayesian, Chi-Square, etcetera) Combination algorithms work inherently well, but depend on the quality of data. Some of the approaches deployed in DSPAM towards this goal include Chained Tokens, Inoculation Groups, Classification Groups, advanced de-obfuscation techniques, and a new noise reduction algorithm called Bayesian Noise Reduction. The goal is to incorporate processing algorithms that can withstand the long haul of ever increasing message complexity. So far we're doing a great job.
The idea of combining more than one anti-spam heuristic is not new. But one thing that cant be denied is that all methods are just complementar to Bayesian analysis, that can reach up to 95% precision by itself. Chi-Square, itself, can reach up to 85% precision
No one is against commercial use of GPL code in commercial software. You can tell this by Transgamings Winex, ou Crossoffice, just to mention Wine-related projects.
The problem with the David project is that it is kinda misterious, promising a brand new thing, when it is just a Wine evolution. An the worst part: it does not gives Wine its credits.
You may say that it will give the credits further, when they release the product. Ok, but until then we can speculate two things: David project is vaporware or just wine evolution, with minor changes
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Once my mid-age aunt called me, asking what should she do to access the web. I already knew she was very limitted when it calls for IT, so I stood patient. Me: Aunt, is the computer on? Aunt: Yes, it on. The power light is on Me: Is the monitor on? Aunt: Yes, I can see the screen Me: Can you move the cursor and everything? Aunt: Yes, sure. Me: Is the Internet Explorer installed and working? Aunt: Of couse! You are not talking to a beginner. Me: OK then. Is the window open? Aunt: Yes, it is. I can see all the people passing by the street. But what does it has to do with internet? Me: Nevermind.
Money USA have to warn their millions about illegally cut wood: Trilions. Money Brazil hato to avoid illegaly cut wood: millions. USA care about enviroment? No. Why do I say that? Kioto protocol.
Not to be a flamewar, but it would be easier to stop destroing the rainforest if USA and Europe stop to buy wood cutted ilegally. And Colombia would stop producing drugs if US citizens stop consuming it. As I said at another post, the rainforest is ANOTHER issue to a developing country, and the cost to buy proprietary software is unacceptable. GPL'd software is a bless: gives us technology, knowledge and the chance to be at the heads of computer development.
Of course GPL is not the only open source license... But all this is a metter of trust. I may use a BSD-licensed library to build my own proprietary app, but would you collaborate to a guy that used your costless software, and than asks you money for the part of the software it had developed? It's a two-way line. I help you, you help me. Partners, as I have mentioned.
Sun's president say that the pour countrie would be obligated to return they Intelectual Propriety(IP) to rich countries with GPL, but does he know a way pour countries can buy the necessary startup IP to later develop its own? Remember: if it's a pour contry it lacks money for food, for education, for health. Technology is luxury.
A Developing Country like Brazil had two choices: - Buy proprietary software and do not get knowledge to develop its own technoligy later, thus always buy techonology or... - Get free open source software, develop its own techonology and be "forced" to return its enhancements to Developed countries. First choise make you a slave forever. Second makes you a partner.
Does anyone knows if this text is replicated anywhere else?
Way to go Soneca! A dupe, but still a post! BTW, how did you get moderated?
That totaly explains why he is a CD salesman, not a computer programmer.
I wonder if they would agree to do the same with those infected servers, spreading IE virus.
Not to mention that most of those servers shall be Windows NT and 2000
"Once we have reached our subscription goals, we plan to release all of the WineX source code under the Wine license"
One of the main excuses at USSR to suppress individual rights was to "consolidate" the Soviet Union, against capitalism. They said all individual rights would be given back when they were safe of the any "western" threats.
As we all know, the individual rights came back only with the fall of USSR, about eighty years later.
My point: do not thurst these promisses like "when the right time comes". There will never be the rigth time to Transgaming. If they reach "subscriptio goals", their goals will get bigger.
Codewearves gives back to community as much as Trasgaming: almost nothing.
Don't forget that Codeweavers products are closed source, different from Transgaming.
OK, Winex CVS version is not that compatible as commercial, but it is because of the proprietary parts.
The only true OS project is Wine.
I liked it a lot. The real-time scoreboard was a java client, connecting to a DB2 database on linux. This database was updated by the referee PDA.
The Roland Garros site describes the solution.
...After that, Microsoft seeked for IE's lost soul at Android Dungeon, and there the comig guy would not give it back.
The problem was not about the browser itself. At the time Windows 98 was released with IE 4 embed, Netscape 4 was out, with some restrictions as expire time to its version. I guess it was about 1 month before you should download another version.
IE4 and Netscape4 were both crap, but the first one was free and came with the OS. Why would you pay for something that comes free?(ordinary user thought)
The release of IE 5, a good browser, was just the final shot.
I disagree.
Most web developers don't even know what a standard is.
I can't blame no one for this bug, but the adoption of BitKeeper as the kernel control version system.
Besides the joke, has anyone realised how the dates match? (since 2.4.18 release)
The way you show things it seems that freedom could be reached with BSD license only.
John Loiacono is right. GPL is a "freedom level" lower than BSD, but still free. And LGPL is another "freedom level" lower than GPL, and it is still free.
If Solaris really goes open source, Sun will have no alternative, but to accept comments. Otherwise the project may fork.
I tell this believing Sun will release Solaris code under GPL, because they have few reasons to hide the code of a doomed OS. Sun's focus is linux and its java platform. Not OS market.
I have used GR Security for quite some time, and its not that great loss.
/tmp race prevention
OpenWall was mentioned, but I preffer LIDS as a replacement to GRSecurity. The itens below where taken from GRSecurity site. All listed features are at LIDS either:
# Change root (chroot) hardening
#
# Extensive auditing
# Prevention of entire classes of exploits related to address space bugs (from the PaX project)
# Additional randomness in the TCP/IP stack
# A restriction that allows a user to only view his/her processes
# Every security alert or audit contains the IP address of the person that caused the event
Besides, LIDS has a clever ACL schema for file protection and a master password, that if an attacker gets root privileges, it could not exploit the machine completly.
DSPAM has a strong focus on providing better data to already existing algorithms (Bayesian, Chi-Square, etcetera) Combination algorithms work inherently well, but depend on the quality of data. Some of the approaches deployed in DSPAM towards this goal include Chained Tokens, Inoculation Groups, Classification Groups, advanced de-obfuscation techniques, and a new noise reduction algorithm called Bayesian Noise Reduction. The goal is to incorporate processing algorithms that can withstand the long haul of ever increasing message complexity. So far we're doing a great job.
The idea of combining more than one anti-spam heuristic is not new. But one thing that cant be denied is that all methods are just complementar to Bayesian analysis, that can reach up to 95% precision by itself. Chi-Square, itself, can reach up to 85% precision
No one is against commercial use of GPL code in commercial software. You can tell this by Transgamings Winex, ou Crossoffice, just to mention Wine-related projects.
The problem with the David project is that it is kinda misterious, promising a brand new thing, when it is just a Wine evolution. An the worst part: it does not gives Wine its credits.
You may say that it will give the credits further, when they release the product. Ok, but until then we can speculate two things: David project is vaporware or just wine evolution, with minor changes
Which jail will Buffalo go? A farm at Iowa, a corral?
In case he gets death penalty, will his execution be at a slaughter house?
Although we love FS and Linux we may agree that Windows isn't that generic word, expecialy at computer world.
If the law does not protect the 'windows' name trademark, so no new product/enterprise can be named with any word at the dictionary.
Robbie Williams did not sell a single file at Apple's iPod service.
Maybe this is his first chance to sell some music on-line. After all, we all know that only britains would buy such music