This actually causes LARGE problems for people operating over VPN connections.
What normally happens is this:
People do a request for a site, e.g. intranet.internal.foo.org.
The external DNS servers fail in that they don't come back with an answer, and then the client continues through its list of DNS servers until it gets to the internal servers where it gets an answer.
What's happening now is that they ARE getting a good answer from the external servers, and the client is trying to connect to the 64.x.x.x address of Sitesearch. Now in most organisations the client isn't able to connect to that box (because its firewalled or whatever else), so it isn't a problem for VeriSign, however, it is a problem for the organisation, as the clients who are trying to work are getting given IP addresses for internal servers that are incorrect.
I have had to change dial up settings on a few clients and change others over to using static IPs at the moment until a better solution comes around. Or even better till VeriSign stop doing this.
I am running a P3 laptop, and I don't have to wait this long for Linux to boot. Buy a faster HDD! The 40GB 5400RPM Hitachi / IBM disks with 8 MB cache absolutely fly! Do this in conjunction with the parallel boot stuff mentioned above, and you are going to be in for one sweet boot time.
When getting the drive, you even get a performance boost for Windows too.
Loki *ported* existing games, I don't necessarily think that was the way to do it, if they were porting for a userbase of a few of hundred million people, then sure it could have worked, but otherwise I don't think that there was enough Linux gamers to justify this business at the time (4 years time? Sure!)
Nobody is going to forget Loki and what they did.
Lets move onto the next point, Linux users are just as willing to fork out the cash, just as the Windows users are. I know plenty of tight arsed windows users who are going to be just as unwilling to pay for a game no matter the platform it's played on. Unfortunately these users exist on all platforms, windows, mac, linux and consoles.
What we are trying to get at here is what we are after:
The people who *produce* the games in the first place should be looking at doing the port themselves or originally developing an engine / game for Linux. This not only gives them a potential for a bigger market, but given that they support these games for a few years, and with the expansion of linux why not develop for it now?
You don't seem to understand, by VeriSign doing there there never will be a failure for a mis-typed URL for you to get re-directed to a search page for google.
I think though that they could be doing this if nothing else but to shut them up. What happens if they turn around and come up with zero? (After sorting through the stuff that was already released as public)
Other reason for all this would be to let us get back to what we do best (coding and whinging:P) and to stop worrying about the current problem.
I knew that something was coming when ESR turned around and said:
"Take that offer while you still can, Mr. McBride. So far your so-called 'evidence' is crap; you'd better climb down off your high horse before we shoot that sucker entirely out from under you. How you finish the contract fight you picked with IBM is your problem. As the president of OSI, defending the community of open-source hackers against predators and carpetbaggers is mine -- and if you don't stop trying to destroy Linux and everything else we've worked for I guarantee you won't like what our alliance is cooking up next."
If we are going to run Microsoft and Sun into the same group here (i.e. potentially against Linux in that nothing on this front has been proven) how much does Sun want to get rid of Linux?
And on the flip side of the coin, if they win, and they pay dividends they are going to be up for a little bit of cash too.
I think even if Microsoft did exercise this warrant they would only get something like ~1.5% of the company (If Microsoft did buy into SCO anything larger than this they would have to file with the SEC, read from above posts), however, some money back that couldn't be sneezed at.
From Microsoft's point of view, NT is close to a unix in regards to it's POSIX compliance, maybe this is their excuse for buying a license? Otherwise my only other theory would be their "Services for Unix".
Yes, yes, this is the conspiracy theorist in me sure, but read this and make up your own mind.
" We initiated the SCOsource effort to review the status of these licensing and sublicensing agreements and to identify others in the industry that may be currently using our intellectual property without obtaining the necessary licenses. This effort resulted in the execution of two license agreements during the April 30, 2003 quarter. The first of these licenses was with a long-time licensee of the UNIX source code which is a major participant in the UNIX industry and was a "clean-up" license to cover items that were outside the scope of the initial license. The second license was to Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") and covers Microsoft's UNIX compatibility products, subject to certain specified limitations. These license agreements are typical of those we expect to enter into with developers, manufacturers, and distributors of operating systems in that they are non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, paid up licenses to utilize the UNIX source code, including the right to sublicense that code.
The amount that we receive from any such licensee will generally depend on the license rights that the licensee previously held and the amount and level of our intellectual property the licensee desires to license. The two licensing agreements signed by us to date resulted in revenue of $8,250,000 during the quarter ended April 30, 2003, and provide for an aggregate of an additional $5,000,000 to be paid to us over the next three quarters. These contracts do not provide for any payments beyond 2003, except that Microsoft was granted the option to acquire expanded licensing rights, at its election, that would result in additional payments to us if exercised. In connection with the execution of the first license agreement, we granted a warrant to the licensee to purchase up to 210,000 shares of our common stock, for a period of five years, at a price of $1.83 per share. This warrant has been valued, using the Black-Scholes valuation method, at $500,000. Because the warrant was issued for no consideration, $500,000 of the license proceeds have been recorded as warrant outstanding and the license revenue associated with this arrangement has been reduced for the fair value of the warrant. "
"I have only had ONE linux box 0wned in the last 5 years, about 4 years ago, because of not updating wuftp quickly enough. It was a learning experience, and a mistake I am not likely to make again. I learned the most important component to securing your computers is the person doing the securing."
I second that motion, I have subscribed to RHN and update the box regularly as well. I actually dumped using WU-FTPD and moved to ProFTPD.
That's the thing, there is very little that is allowed to come inbound, so even if I didn't have something patched, any inbound connectivity at home can only come from "trusted" hosts. Usually other networks that I administer and can vouch for their security.
I have to say that my box has been attacked plenty too. I see ~20 attacks per day, people scanning etc. I also haven't had one break in, I built with all it needed and setup firewall rules on it. The only thing that is touching it, is what I allowed.
Actually, from my own experience, I have found that Installshield 4.5 does.
It checks the web site for updates, basically to download patches etc. What it does though, is it includes the serial number in the HTTP GET. I would presume that if they went through the logs of the web server, they could see excessively used serial numbers and figure out if one has been leaked.
Simple. People who want out of their business who can ditch the stock straight away.
If there is enough trading of the stock (turnover) then it's quite possible that they can sell their company, get the hell out, and immediately cash in. Yes, there is some risk to it going downhill fast, but if you can ditch it quickly you might be able to make more money than if you sold the company for cash.
1) Microsoft changes default browser back to IE. 2) Mozilla foundation setup.
As far as I could see, the writing was on the wall for the Netscape coders at AOL as soon as they stopped using it. Why keep the coders if they aren't adding business benefit any longer?
Or they are just a script kiddie that is trying to get a million and one bots out there for his 1337 DDoS attacks.
Most attacks on home systems that I have seen are common trojans for the purpose of attacking larger sites as another poster has already put it. Most of these trojans get onto a system by exploits in Windows, not from other trojans.
actually, not true, the boards do use the NForce2 chipset I believe, they don't run 400Mhz properly.
They don't have Firewire, SATA and a couple of other things (not that this bothers me greatly) but certainly IDE channels, AGP, sound and ethernet are provided by the NF2 chipset.
I have the A7N8X (Not the Deluxe) and I couldn't stand the onboard audio. I used the latest drivers and everything, but when even listening to MP3s the sound quality was just plain ordinary (My previous sound card by 24 hours was a SB Live Platinum, which crapped itself) and I went out and forked out the dough for a Audigy 2 after that.
Even when listening to MP3s the difference was chalk and cheese, sounds became clearer and less muffled, bass sounded better too.
I am running a Sony amp and some Tannoy Mercury mX1-Ms for speakers.
I think the best thing as well is that the Audigy 2 actually takes processing AWAY from my CPU as opposed to passing it to it. In any games that I play, I can use hardware support for audio with EAX and decrease my CPU utilization.
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This actually causes LARGE problems for people operating over VPN connections.
What normally happens is this:
People do a request for a site, e.g. intranet.internal.foo.org.
The external DNS servers fail in that they don't come back with an answer, and then the client continues through its list of DNS servers until it gets to the internal servers where it gets an answer.
What's happening now is that they ARE getting a good answer from the external servers, and the client is trying to connect to the 64.x.x.x address of Sitesearch. Now in most organisations the client isn't able to connect to that box (because its firewalled or whatever else), so it isn't a problem for VeriSign, however, it is a problem for the organisation, as the clients who are trying to work are getting given IP addresses for internal servers that are incorrect.
I have had to change dial up settings on a few clients and change others over to using static IPs at the moment until a better solution comes around. Or even better till VeriSign stop doing this.
Berny
hahahahaha
Don't forget the wire cutters and the adjustable wench while you are at it!
I am running a P3 laptop, and I don't have to wait this long for Linux to boot. Buy a faster HDD! The 40GB 5400RPM Hitachi / IBM disks with 8 MB cache absolutely fly! Do this in conjunction with the parallel boot stuff mentioned above, and you are going to be in for one sweet boot time.
When getting the drive, you even get a performance boost for Windows too.
It also reduces the requirement on burning coal something we do WAY to much of here in Aus.
Basically it would also be a comparison in producing the same amount of energy from burning coal vs. macadamia shells.
I don't agree with you there...
Loki *ported* existing games, I don't necessarily think that was the way to do it, if they were porting for a userbase of a few of hundred million people, then sure it could have worked, but otherwise I don't think that there was enough Linux gamers to justify this business at the time (4 years time? Sure!)
Nobody is going to forget Loki and what they did.
Lets move onto the next point, Linux users are just as willing to fork out the cash, just as the Windows users are.
I know plenty of tight arsed windows users who are going to be just as unwilling to pay for a game no matter the platform it's played on. Unfortunately these users exist on all platforms, windows, mac, linux and consoles.
What we are trying to get at here is what we are after:
The people who *produce* the games in the first place should be looking at doing the port themselves or originally developing an engine / game for Linux. This not only gives them a potential for a bigger market, but given that they support these games for a few years, and with the expansion of linux why not develop for it now?
(Forgetting the goodwill side of things atm)
hahahahahaha, nice work!
You don't seem to understand, by VeriSign doing there there never will be a failure for a mis-typed URL for you to get re-directed to a search page for google.
Well, AC, announce who you really are, and what you are doing for the Open Source movement.
You point all you are doing is as much as SCO, spreading FUD. Until you are doing better, don't whinge about somebody else.
Hear hear. I was thinking some kind of suit...
:P) and to stop worrying about the current problem.
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I think though that they could be doing this if nothing else but to shut them up. What happens if they turn around and come up with zero? (After sorting through the stuff that was already released as public)
Other reason for all this would be to let us get back to what we do best (coding and whinging
I knew that something was coming when ESR turned around and said:
"Take that offer while you still can, Mr. McBride. So far your so-called 'evidence' is crap; you'd better climb down off your high horse before we shoot that sucker entirely out from under you. How you finish the contract fight you picked with IBM is your problem. As the president of OSI, defending the community of open-source hackers against predators and carpetbaggers is mine -- and if you don't stop trying to destroy Linux and everything else we've worked for I guarantee you won't like what our alliance is cooking up next."
(Quoted whole from: http://www.armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2003_08_1
OK, and running with the conspiracy theory again.
If we are going to run Microsoft and Sun into the same group here (i.e. potentially against Linux in that nothing on this front has been proven) how much does Sun want to get rid of Linux?
Do they really consider Solaris that sacred?
Berny
And on the flip side of the coin, if they win, and they pay dividends they are going to be up for a little bit of cash too.
I think even if Microsoft did exercise this warrant they would only get something like ~1.5% of the company (If Microsoft did buy into SCO anything larger than this they would have to file with the SEC, read from above posts), however, some money back that couldn't be sneezed at.
From Microsoft's point of view, NT is close to a unix in regards to it's POSIX compliance, maybe this is their excuse for buying a license? Otherwise my only other theory would be their "Services for Unix".
Yes, yes, this is the conspiracy theorist in me sure, but read this and make up your own mind.
" We initiated the SCOsource effort to review the status of these licensing and sublicensing agreements and to identify others in the industry that may be currently using our intellectual property without obtaining the necessary licenses. This effort resulted in the execution of two license agreements during the April 30, 2003 quarter. The first of these licenses was with a long-time licensee of the UNIX source code which is a major participant in the UNIX industry and was a "clean-up" license to cover items that were outside the scope of the initial license. The second license was to Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") and covers Microsoft's UNIX compatibility products, subject to certain specified limitations. These license agreements are typical of those we expect to enter into with developers, manufacturers, and distributors of operating systems in that they are non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, paid up licenses to utilize the UNIX source code, including the right to sublicense that code.
The amount that we receive from any such licensee will generally depend on the license rights that the licensee previously held and the amount and level of our intellectual property the licensee desires to license. The two licensing agreements signed by us to date resulted in revenue of $8,250,000 during the quarter ended April 30, 2003, and provide for an aggregate of an additional $5,000,000 to be paid to us over the next three quarters. These contracts do not provide for any payments beyond 2003, except that Microsoft was granted the option to acquire expanded licensing rights, at its election, that would result in additional payments to us if exercised. In connection with the execution of the first license agreement, we granted a warrant to the licensee to purchase up to 210,000 shares of our common stock, for a period of five years, at a price of $1.83 per share. This warrant has been valued, using the Black-Scholes valuation method, at $500,000. Because the warrant was issued for no consideration, $500,000 of the license proceeds have been recorded as warrant outstanding and the license revenue associated with this arrangement has been reduced for the fair value of the warrant. "
"I have only had ONE linux box 0wned in the last 5 years, about 4 years ago, because of not updating wuftp quickly enough. It was a learning experience, and a mistake I am not likely to make again. I learned the most important component to securing your computers is the person doing the securing."
I second that motion, I have subscribed to RHN and update the box regularly as well. I actually dumped using WU-FTPD and moved to ProFTPD.
That's the thing, there is very little that is allowed to come inbound, so even if I didn't have something patched, any inbound connectivity at home can only come from "trusted" hosts. Usually other networks that I administer and can vouch for their security.
I have to say that my box has been attacked plenty too. I see ~20 attacks per day, people scanning etc. I also haven't had one break in, I built with all it needed and setup firewall rules on it. The only thing that is touching it, is what I allowed.
Actually, from my own experience, I have found that Installshield 4.5 does.
It checks the web site for updates, basically to download patches etc. What it does though, is it includes the serial number in the HTTP GET. I would presume that if they went through the logs of the web server, they could see excessively used serial numbers and figure out if one has been leaked.
This is something that I couldn't believe.
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/80/4661.html
BROUGHTON, REGINALD C
Senior Vice President
Sold 70,000 shares over the past two months to the total of ~$843,000.
He still has 120,000 shares, but at the same time... Rats leaving a sinking ship?
"Who would trade their company for SCO stock? "
Simple. People who want out of their business who can ditch the stock straight away.
If there is enough trading of the stock (turnover) then it's quite possible that they can sell their company, get the hell out, and immediately cash in. Yes, there is some risk to it going downhill fast, but if you can ditch it quickly you might be able to make more money than if you sold the company for cash.
Who cares? It's their money to begin with.
I would suggest it would just get paid to the bank account where the money is, at the end of the day does it matter?
Sorry my mistake, this is what you get for typing at 1:39AM.
Sorry, but who couldn't see this happening??
1) Microsoft changes default browser back to IE.
2) Mozilla foundation setup.
As far as I could see, the writing was on the wall for the Netscape coders at AOL as soon as they stopped using it. Why keep the coders if they aren't adding business benefit any longer?
(Forgetting the benefit to the community here)
Or they are just a script kiddie that is trying to get a million and one bots out there for his 1337 DDoS attacks.
Most attacks on home systems that I have seen are common trojans for the purpose of attacking larger sites as another poster has already put it. Most of these trojans get onto a system by exploits in Windows, not from other trojans.
Never doubt the stupidity of man kind.
actually, not true, the boards do use the NForce2 chipset I believe, they don't run 400Mhz properly.
They don't have Firewire, SATA and a couple of other things (not that this bothers me greatly) but certainly IDE channels, AGP, sound and ethernet are provided by the NF2 chipset.
I have the A7N8X (Not the Deluxe) and I couldn't stand the onboard audio. I used the latest drivers and everything, but when even listening to MP3s the sound quality was just plain ordinary (My previous sound card by 24 hours was a SB Live Platinum, which crapped itself) and I went out and forked out the dough for a Audigy 2 after that.
Even when listening to MP3s the difference was chalk and cheese, sounds became clearer and less muffled, bass sounded better too.
I am running a Sony amp and some Tannoy Mercury mX1-Ms for speakers.
I think the best thing as well is that the Audigy 2 actually takes processing AWAY from my CPU as opposed to passing it to it. In any games that I play, I can use hardware support for audio with EAX and decrease my CPU utilization.
MOD PARENT UP!
Score -1 off-topic, but use one of your other points to give a +1 funny to parent.
If previous reactions out there are anything to go buy, SCO pushing this one is bound to earn them another DDoS.