Reminds me of a Chinese place a friend and mine use to eat at. The waitresses would always ask, "You wanna fork?" Naturally, it sounded like fuck instead of fork.
Unlike MicroSoft, which decided to take the hard and painful route by attempting to turn a single-user, game-playing OS (Windows) into a multi-user, enterprise class OS, Apple tossed their legacy OS and embraced Unix/Darwin/OS X. It's one of the smartest things they've ever done. If not the smartest.
MS will continue trying to turn their little, historic, cute OS into something it was never designed to be while Apple will continue to do things right.
For example, look at the super-computing Mac cluster at Virginia Tech. There wasn't an Apple system on the top 500 list during the OS 9 days, but a mere two years after they release OS X, they're among the top 5 fastest systems in the world... talk about doing it right. Will MS ever learn?
Below is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Windows was originally designed as a single-user, game-playing operating system. It had no concept of networking or segmented user space or file permissions, etc. These things, among others, were added on later as the need arose.
Windows was originally marketed to home users who wanted to play games and small businesses who wanted to track a few dozen or perhaps a few hundred accounts/clients.
Today, MS has positioned Windows as an Enterprise class OS. People who grew up playing games on Windows should know that this doesn't make sense.
I used to laugh when looking for patches for an NT4 domain that I administered a few years ago. I'd skip all of the new video (DirectX) enhancements that were constantly avaiable. What did gaming/video drivers have to do with domain controllers?
In short, you can't make something into something it's not... at least not without many problems. MS Windows is a classic example of this.
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Yes, I know, it retails at Office Max for 89 bucks... very similar to their old RHL offerings. Why piss all of the personal users off by removing the much loved RHL product and then turn around (after tons of complaints) and position this as a personal product?
Hello, does anyone at RH have a brain? They just told their personal users that the no longer cared about them... and now they expect people to forget that and buy this crap for personal use? There's no way in hell that they'll ever be popular again... You don't stab a guy in the back and then offer to help him up... seems RH doesn't understand this.
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"Red Hat Professional Workstation... Enterprise Linux for personal use"
Seems they're rethinking their corporate focus after the backlash from the RHL screw up. So which is it RH, enterprise or personal? Thought you guys didn't want personal users? You've lost my business for good... business & personal.
Look at health care in Europe vs. America. Everyone in Europe can afford to have a root canal or an xray should they need one. The American government on the other hand allows hospitals, drug companies and doctors to charge exorbitant prices for drugs and services forcing poor people into more and more debt.
What's a single mother of two to do when she needs an abcessed tooth removed and one of her sons has a broken arm? In Europe, she'll be taken care of and she'll won't feel deprived of basic care that makes her life worth living... In America, she's at the mercy of over-priced physicans and the protected prescription drug cartel. She'll go into debt, file bankrupty or possible commit suicide.
Americans need to wake up to this reality. This is precisely why there is so much crime and depravity in your country. America is many things, but it is not "By the People or For the People"
Got any friends in NYC? Have one of them the laptop for you. Once it arrives, get on a plane for a visit, fly to NYC, pay them for their trouble (take them out to a nice dinner too), see the city and then go home... what's so hard about that?
Take a look at KDE and Gnome over the years and you'll see how they've become more idiot proof with each release. They're a hell of a lot younger than the Windows GUI, but IMO, they're at Windows 98/ME level of user friendliness and gaining quickly on XP and Mac OS X.
"Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury..."
To jury in closing args: "It must be our IP, and many others agree... we've already licensed it to several, large, well-respected technology companies."
Whether you agree with SCO or not (I don't), they're making a hell of an effort to control some key elements of open source software. We shouldn't laugh it off and expect them to go away... these guys are going for the kill... they're deadly serious. Their lawyers don't care whether they actually own any code or not. Wake up to this threat before it's too late.
Who are you going to call when some redneck, hick cop with a highschool equivelancy diploma and a gun and a badge does an illegal search of your apartment? You were intimadated and perhaps even threatened, now what are you going to do?
You're gonna call a lawyer.
Don't fear lawyers. Fear government agents (police officers) that think they can do whatever the hell they want because they have guns and badges and attitudes of playground bullies.
The Constitution has elements that require the government (Fed, state and local) to follow certian rules. Cops can't kick your door down w/o following the proper procedures. If they do, call a lawyer and bust their ignorant, uneducated asses. Cops can be bullys. Lawyers can bully them right back.
Lawyers give us (the common people) the chance to stand-up for ourselves. Don't deride them. Be thankful they're here to help us.
We turn IE off in the "Program Access & Preferences" window. Install Mozilla, turn on its built-in pop-up blocker and you're 100X less likely to get spyware.
I'm still doing the day-job thing. I'm a programmer and net/sys admin for a large university. But, I'm starting a rental business on the side. I buy homes and rent them out to the college kids. 100% rental, year-round. One day, I'll easily be able to quit work and still have a nice lifestyle... there's nothing like passive income. I like going to bed at night knowing that some renter is probably making a check out to me for $900;)
"Unlike some assholes, I'm quite happy helping people improve their lives without demanding something in return. Gee, imagine that."
If you owned an apartment building, would you allow people to live in it rent-free? How would you pay taxes on it? What about insurance and maintainence? Software is no different. There is no free lunch.
Card readers are like guns or software. They can be used by bad people in bad ways, but that doesn't make them bad. Technology is agnostic. It has no feelings as to what's good or bad. It simply does what it was designed to do. Think more like a machine and you'll understand.
I think what he was trying to say is that programs cannot execute themselves. They have to make system config changes so that they'll execute at boot or do something at regular intervals to cause execution (like cron jobs in Unix).
For example, I have a program that enables ssh on some Macs that I administer. When it runs, it searches for the phrase "disable = yes" in the ssh's config file. If that phrase is found, it replaces it with "disable = no". This program uses cron to run twice a day. If the cron job is canceled, the program won't run at all. So, the end user could disable ssh and delete the cron entry and the program would be helpless as it cannot start itself.
I could write another program that checks the cron table to be sure that my ssh-enable program has an entry there. I could use some sort of time function to make the program run once a day by itself. In this way, it would not rely on cron or at to be executed... it would be executed by a user once, then sleep for a period of time and then execute again. But, here too, you have the same problem. Someone has to executed this program... it cannot execute itself.
No legitimate purpose, but who says it has to be legit???
You can't use any of the code from it or you'll be nailed.
That is so not true.
And it's probably outdated enough that it doesn't even apply to the latest service pack versions.
Wrong again. Windows 2000 = NT5.0... XP = NT5.1... this code is the base of XP.
Again, who cares? This is a non-issue to everybody except those who collect crap like packrats.
You're pretty stupid. This is an issue to any NT 4/5/5.1 user. It's 200MB, that's a huge amount of code... we're talking source files here. For the pundits who say it was only 1% of the OS code, I say, who the hell writes a OS that's 20GB in size in a *zipped* file???? Oh no, this is a *significant* portion of the NT code base.
How do they turn IP addresses into home addresses? Wouldn't ISPs have to do a lot of leg work for them? What about ISPs like Verizon who are keen to protect their user's privacy? What about NAT routers? Sounds like a Pandora's Box to me.
I've heard rumors (from very reliable sources) that Google will be going to a "Pay Per Search" business model when they go Public... anyone else heard this?
Can't beat memtest86 for those hard to find memeory problems... it's free too.
http://memtest86.com/
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I beg to differ. Godel used math to show that math can be proven to be inconsistent, but cannot be proven to be consistent. Why do some people refer to it as Godel's Inconsistency Theorem?
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Reminds me of a Chinese place a friend and mine use to eat at. The waitresses would always ask, "You wanna fork?" Naturally, it sounded like fuck instead of fork.
Unlike MicroSoft, which decided to take the hard and painful route by attempting to turn a single-user, game-playing OS (Windows) into a multi-user, enterprise class OS, Apple tossed their legacy OS and embraced Unix/Darwin/OS X. It's one of the smartest things they've ever done. If not the smartest.
MS will continue trying to turn their little, historic, cute OS into something it was never designed to be while Apple will continue to do things right.
For example, look at the super-computing Mac cluster at Virginia Tech. There wasn't an Apple system on the top 500 list during the OS 9 days, but a mere two years after they release OS X, they're among the top 5 fastest systems in the world... talk about doing it right. Will MS ever learn?
Below is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Windows was originally designed as a single-user, game-playing operating system. It had no concept of networking or segmented user space or file permissions, etc. These things, among others, were added on later as the need arose.
Windows was originally marketed to home users who wanted to play games and small businesses who wanted to track a few dozen or perhaps a few hundred accounts/clients.
Today, MS has positioned Windows as an Enterprise class OS. People who grew up playing games on Windows should know that this doesn't make sense.
I used to laugh when looking for patches for an NT4 domain that I administered a few years ago. I'd skip all of the new video (DirectX) enhancements that were constantly avaiable. What did gaming/video drivers have to do with domain controllers?
In short, you can't make something into something it's not... at least not without many problems. MS Windows is a classic example of this.
Yes, I know, it retails at Office Max for 89 bucks... very similar to their old RHL offerings. Why piss all of the personal users off by removing the much loved RHL product and then turn around (after tons of complaints) and position this as a personal product?
Hello, does anyone at RH have a brain? They just told their personal users that the no longer cared about them... and now they expect people to forget that and buy this crap for personal use? There's no way in hell that they'll ever be popular again... You don't stab a guy in the back and then offer to help him up... seems RH doesn't understand this.
"Red Hat Professional Workstation... Enterprise Linux for personal use"
The above quote is from redhat.com
Seems they're rethinking their corporate focus after the backlash from the RHL screw up. So which is it RH, enterprise or personal? Thought you guys didn't want personal users? You've lost my business for good... business & personal.
This is so true.
Look at health care in Europe vs. America. Everyone in Europe can afford to have a root canal or an xray should they need one. The American government on the other hand allows hospitals, drug companies and doctors to charge exorbitant prices for drugs and services forcing poor people into more and more debt.
What's a single mother of two to do when she needs an abcessed tooth removed and one of her sons has a broken arm? In Europe, she'll be taken care of and she'll won't feel deprived of basic care that makes her life worth living... In America, she's at the mercy of over-priced physicans and the protected prescription drug cartel. She'll go into debt, file bankrupty or possible commit suicide.
Americans need to wake up to this reality. This is precisely why there is so much crime and depravity in your country. America is many things, but it is not "By the People or For the People"
Got any friends in NYC? Have one of them the laptop for you. Once it arrives, get on a plane for a visit, fly to NYC, pay them for their trouble (take them out to a nice dinner too), see the city and then go home... what's so hard about that?
LLC = Limited Liability Company
It just doesn't exist yet in the FOSS world, or in the Linux world.>br>
That's not true. K3B burns DVDs.
Dude, this is the *kernel* it's not a GUI...
Take a look at KDE and Gnome over the years and you'll see how they've become more idiot proof with each release. They're a hell of a lot younger than the Windows GUI, but IMO, they're at Windows 98/ME level of user friendliness and gaining quickly on XP and Mac OS X.
"Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury..."
To jury in closing args: "It must be our IP, and many others agree... we've already licensed it to several, large, well-respected technology companies."
Whether you agree with SCO or not (I don't), they're making a hell of an effort to control some key elements of open source software. We shouldn't laugh it off and expect them to go away... these guys are going for the kill... they're deadly serious. Their lawyers don't care whether they actually own any code or not. Wake up to this threat before it's too late.
Come on guys... stop bashing lawyers!
Who are you going to call when some redneck, hick cop with a highschool equivelancy diploma and a gun and a badge does an illegal search of your apartment? You were intimadated and perhaps even threatened, now what are you going to do?
You're gonna call a lawyer.
Don't fear lawyers. Fear government agents (police officers) that think they can do whatever the hell they want because they have guns and badges and attitudes of playground bullies. The Constitution has elements that require the government (Fed, state and local) to follow certian rules. Cops can't kick your door down w/o following the proper procedures. If they do, call a lawyer and bust their ignorant, uneducated asses. Cops can be bullys. Lawyers can bully them right back.
Lawyers give us (the common people) the chance to stand-up for ourselves. Don't deride them. Be thankful they're here to help us.
Wouldn't grsecurity provide protection for this?
We turn IE off in the "Program Access & Preferences" window. Install Mozilla, turn on its built-in pop-up blocker and you're 100X less likely to get spyware.
Report the bastards!!! Talk about a cheap shot... Getting some other company to execute their secret, illegal business agenda against a competing OS.
I'm still doing the day-job thing. I'm a programmer and net/sys admin for a large university. But, I'm starting a rental business on the side. I buy homes and rent them out to the college kids. 100% rental, year-round. One day, I'll easily be able to quit work and still have a nice lifestyle... there's nothing like passive income. I like going to bed at night knowing that some renter is probably making a check out to me for $900 ;)
"Unlike some assholes, I'm quite happy helping people improve their lives without demanding something in return. Gee, imagine that."
If you owned an apartment building, would you allow people to live in it rent-free? How would you pay taxes on it? What about insurance and maintainence? Software is no different. There is no free lunch.
"God help us if 100 million people are stupid enough to open and run an email attachment like that!"
I think you meant:
God help us if 100 million people are stupid enough to run Windows.
Card readers are like guns or software. They can be used by bad people in bad ways, but that doesn't make them bad. Technology is agnostic. It has no feelings as to what's good or bad. It simply does what it was designed to do. Think more like a machine and you'll understand.
I think what he was trying to say is that programs cannot execute themselves. They have to make system config changes so that they'll execute at boot or do something at regular intervals to cause execution (like cron jobs in Unix).
For example, I have a program that enables ssh on some Macs that I administer. When it runs, it searches for the phrase "disable = yes" in the ssh's config file. If that phrase is found, it replaces it with "disable = no". This program uses cron to run twice a day. If the cron job is canceled, the program won't run at all. So, the end user could disable ssh and delete the cron entry and the program would be helpless as it cannot start itself.
I could write another program that checks the cron table to be sure that my ssh-enable program has an entry there. I could use some sort of time function to make the program run once a day by itself. In this way, it would not rely on cron or at to be executed... it would be executed by a user once, then sleep for a period of time and then execute again. But, here too, you have the same problem. Someone has to executed this program... it cannot execute itself.
Besides, who would want it?
Lot's and lot's of people.
What legitimate purpose does it serve anyway?
No legitimate purpose, but who says it has to be legit???
You can't use any of the code from it or you'll be nailed.
That is so not true.
And it's probably outdated enough that it doesn't even apply to the latest service pack versions.
Wrong again. Windows 2000 = NT5.0... XP = NT5.1... this code is the base of XP.
Again, who cares? This is a non-issue to everybody except those who collect crap like packrats.
You're pretty stupid. This is an issue to any NT 4/5/5.1 user. It's 200MB, that's a huge amount of code... we're talking source files here. For the pundits who say it was only 1% of the OS code, I say, who the hell writes a OS that's 20GB in size in a *zipped* file???? Oh no, this is a *significant* portion of the NT code base.
Happy hacking!!!
How do they turn IP addresses into home addresses? Wouldn't ISPs have to do a lot of leg work for them? What about ISPs like Verizon who are keen to protect their user's privacy? What about NAT routers? Sounds like a Pandora's Box to me.
I've heard rumors (from very reliable sources) that Google will be going to a "Pay Per Search" business model when they go Public... anyone else heard this?
Can't beat memtest86 for those hard to find memeory problems... it's free too.
http://memtest86.com/
I beg to differ. Godel used math to show that math can be proven to be inconsistent, but cannot be proven to be consistent. Why do some people refer to it as Godel's Inconsistency Theorem?