One of the 'control' mechanisms that central repositories like Ubuntu and other Linux OS'es have is that the software that is added to the repository is vetted. The repository admins and the community behind the repository 'audit' the programs before they are added to the repository. Once they are deemed safe, they are signed and added. This removes the need for remote deletion privileges. A simple QA process for incoming software would help instead of saying that they could delete software from your phone.
When was the last tiem your Ubuntu system deleted a piece of software because the admins said it should?
I know this has probably been said before, but for a company that claims to 'do no evil' Google has really been doing some semi-shady boader line stuff lately.
Don't get me wrong, I still like Google in some aspects, but the stuff they've been sneaking into TOS'es and other legal docs has the faint smell of something almost Microsoft-esque, IMHO.
Wow, first he orders the company to allow the study, then he orders the results withheld from public record. Now either the results are just that bad that it would tank the company, and honestly hasn't there been enough of that lately?
I'm actually kind of surprised Microsoft has taken this long to take action against those "scareware" guys. It sort of makes one wonder how much of a legal leg they have to stand on. Any lawyers/other legal minds care to weigh in on that?
I'm sorry but THE email about the FAKES seems to be just another person who wants to HAVE his 15 minutes of fame. People like ME who can read in between the lines do not need HELP to see the real message.
Hello Efix,
My name is *High Powered Apple Lawyer* This piece of papers says we now own your souls. Would everyone please line up on this platform and proceed down the plank into the meat grinder.
Sincerely,
Apple.
(The following day a new 'security update' is released to Mac OS X rendering the dongles useless.)
... to all those sys. admins. and DBA's that once fought through an install of Oracle 8 on a Red Hat Linux platform because someone above them heard the buzz word "Oracle" and thought it would be a good idea?
Will there be a "Vetrans of Oracle Installers" day? Or perhaps a memorial wall?
The interesting point here is if you look at the last picture http://englishrussia.com/?p=2047 with the animated version of what they tried to achieve, it's a zoomed in snap shot of what's on google.
Nothing like giving the Marketing people a large vat of "Idea Flavored Jello" and having them hurl fist fulls of it against the wall to see what sticks...
This could definitely turn out bad. Wait for Microsoft to say "Here's our reasonable precautions. By default all web access in IE goes through our private proxies that screen illeagal content. Oh yeah and btw, we scan what sites you go to and sell the lists to advertisers. Which are conveniently ommitted from our adware detection software."
Now if you could get the frontend software of MythTV running on that little guy, and have yourself a nice beefy server running the backend video capture, you'ed have yourself a neat little setup.
I'm still waiting to Microsoft to grow a pair and try to buy out one of the Linux distributions. Although I really don't like Microsoft, it would be an interesting turn of events. Especially with Sun doing what it's doing with Linux(wait, what exactly are they doing? Re-branding SuSE and Redhat?), Novell buying SuSE and IBM funding RedHat out the arse.
So if Microsoft were to consider buying a Linux distro, who does that leave? Ahh yes, Debian or Gentoo. Now *there* is a dilly of a pickle.
You know Jobs was feeling left out of the whole IBM/SCO thing so you KNOW he dropped the anonymous hint to Apple Corp's Bottom Feeding Land Sharks. Now he's got a big case of his own and can feel all grown up. Just like IBM.
The developer was on the right track removing a user's home directory but he really should:
- after removing the home directory, installed an init script that re-removes the user's home directory on every reboot. - disable logins(if this is a *nix box) - linked all browsers on the system to reboot instead of the browswer binary. - made a popup that comes up with a "Naughty Pirate" message and an image of a pirate hanging from the ropes - on the fifth reboot, just plain blank the hard drive.
I mean, come on, if you're gonna go so far as removing someone's home directory, let's have some fun and really get creative.
Intel CEO: "So what can someone suggest as a way of bumping our revenue?"
Patrick Gelsinger: "I know, let's go public and say that the WWW is dying and that we have a solution."
Person with conscience: "But, but, but, what about IPv6 and such?"
CEO: "Who let him in here?!?!"
Slashdot sucks my balls. They don't post stories that need be posted. Selective censorships is their only game. suck my balls slashdot, suck them raw. (This had to be re-written cuz slashdot no only suck my balls but also sucks the balls of the elephant at the local zoo cuz they wouldn't let me use caps to yell about this. you are the ones who are the ball lickers slashdot. g'd d'mned uncle f'ckers.)
So far, in XFree86 4.2.x and according to one of the developers for Xinerama, the version in 4.2.x is actually an older version. Here is an excerpt from an email correspondence I had with one of the developers:
"The Xinerama code in the XFree86 cvs tree currently is not the same as the code in the tarball I gave you. The code available from
XFree86 is version 1.1 and includes PanoramiX named functions. What is being worked on is a new Standard that will end up as Xinerama version 2.0. Its a new api."
So it's a good thing that XFree86 has it, cuz I am running it and it works beautifully, but I might just have to start playing with the code from XFree86 4.2.x tree and see if I can get the new code in there. I am so happy that Linux is doing this. Larger Desktops spanning multiple monitors for more room for development apps.
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I wouldn't say that it is tech designers being too anxious to be creative. I would say it is probably a lack of creativity on the developers part. I mean, yes there comes a point where you might need to write new code to do the same old thing. Cuz the old way of doing it is just outdated. But if you are creative you would find a way to do the old thing and some cool new thing all at once. All in all, I'm glad someone has finally coined a phrase to identify Microsoft's Software Development Process.
I'm not normally one of those hardcore privacy advocates, but you wouldn't happen to know of any publically traded stock I should start checking out that is in the Lead or tarp/tent/awning business or any combination of the 2 would ya? Good ol' crazy al, he'll sell just about anything.
Some people like to use their cell phones in alot of odd places, but the person on the other end has no idea where they are. I kinda wouldn't want to see some of the stuff going on when you interrupt someone by calling their cell phone.
This is just an another example of the government using technology to out stretch the telescope that Big Brother uses to watch over us all. Now that is not to say that such things are not needed. In wake of last fall's events... umm yes we need some kind of surveillance system to catch the bad guys. But there comes a point where you have to stop and wonder, why are they getting so sophisticated with all of this? Is to to catch the bad guys? Or is it to catch a glimpse of what you and the milk man/woman are doing in the hot tub? Things that make ya go hmmm......
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One of the 'control' mechanisms that central repositories like Ubuntu and other Linux OS'es have is that the software that is added to the repository is vetted. The repository admins and the community behind the repository 'audit' the programs before they are added to the repository. Once they are deemed safe, they are signed and added. This removes the need for remote deletion privileges. A simple QA process for incoming software would help instead of saying that they could delete software from your phone.
When was the last tiem your Ubuntu system deleted a piece of software because the admins said it should?
I know this has probably been said before, but for a company that claims to 'do no evil' Google has really been doing some semi-shady boader line stuff lately.
Don't get me wrong, I still like Google in some aspects, but the stuff they've been sneaking into TOS'es and other legal docs has the faint smell of something almost Microsoft-esque, IMHO.
This is true. But with Linux the browser isn't integrated into the OS, so 'kill -9 firefox-bin' can be your friend if such a problem occurs.
Wow, first he orders the company to allow the study, then he orders the results withheld from public record. Now either the results are just that bad that it would tank the company, and honestly hasn't there been enough of that lately?
Or somehow the company got in the judge's pocket.
Curiouser and curiouser.....
I'm actually kind of surprised Microsoft has taken this long to take action against those "scareware" guys. It sort of makes one wonder how much of a legal leg they have to stand on. Any lawyers/other legal minds care to weigh in on that?
I'm sorry but THE email about the FAKES seems to be just another person who wants to HAVE his 15 minutes of fame. People like ME who can read in between the lines do not need HELP to see the real message.
Hello Efix,
My name is *High Powered Apple Lawyer* This piece of papers says we now own your souls. Would everyone please line up on this platform and proceed down the plank into the meat grinder.
Sincerely,
Apple.
(The following day a new 'security update' is released to Mac OS X rendering the dongles useless.)
... to all those sys. admins. and DBA's that once fought through an install of Oracle 8 on a Red Hat Linux platform because someone above them heard the buzz word "Oracle" and thought it would be a good idea?
Will there be a "Vetrans of Oracle Installers" day? Or perhaps a memorial wall?
The interesting point here is if you look at the last picture http://englishrussia.com/?p=2047 with the animated version of what they tried to achieve, it's a zoomed in snap shot of what's on google.
The file I actually had replaced was
/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
That file is not owned by caching-nameserver, but is owned by the bind-chroot package.
Nothing like giving the Marketing people a large vat of "Idea Flavored Jello" and having them hurl fist fulls of it against the wall to see what sticks...
This could definitely turn out bad. Wait for Microsoft to say "Here's our reasonable precautions. By default all web access in IE goes through our private proxies that screen illeagal content. Oh yeah and btw, we scan what sites you go to and sell the lists to advertisers. Which are conveniently ommitted from our adware detection software."
I CAN'T WAIT!
Now if you could get the frontend software of MythTV running on that little guy, and have yourself a nice beefy server running the backend video capture, you'ed have yourself a neat little setup.
"Chief Linux Strategist" eh?
I'm still waiting to Microsoft to grow a pair and try to buy out one of the Linux distributions. Although I really don't like Microsoft, it would be an interesting turn of events. Especially with Sun doing what it's doing with Linux(wait, what exactly are they doing? Re-branding SuSE and Redhat?), Novell buying SuSE and IBM funding RedHat out the arse.
So if Microsoft were to consider buying a Linux distro, who does that leave? Ahh yes, Debian or Gentoo. Now *there* is a dilly of a pickle.
You know Jobs was feeling left out of the whole IBM/SCO thing so you KNOW he dropped the anonymous hint to Apple Corp's Bottom Feeding Land Sharks. Now he's got a big case of his own and can feel all grown up. Just like IBM.
The developer was on the right track removing a user's home directory but he really should:
- after removing the home directory, installed an init script that re-removes the user's home directory on every reboot.
- disable logins(if this is a *nix box)
- linked all browsers on the system to reboot instead of the browswer binary.
- made a popup that comes up with a "Naughty Pirate" message and an image of a pirate hanging from the ropes
- on the fifth reboot, just plain blank the hard drive.
I mean, come on, if you're gonna go so far as removing someone's home directory, let's have some fun and really get creative.
Considering when I click their link in the post and get a "Document Contains No Data" message, I'm going to lean towards vaporware.
Intel CEO: "So what can someone suggest as a way of bumping our revenue?" Patrick Gelsinger: "I know, let's go public and say that the WWW is dying and that we have a solution." Person with conscience: "But, but, but, what about IPv6 and such?" CEO: "Who let him in here?!?!"
Forbidden Code... *drool*
Slashdot sucks my balls. They don't post stories that need be posted. Selective censorships is their only game. suck my balls slashdot, suck them raw. (This had to be re-written cuz slashdot no only suck my balls but also sucks the balls of the elephant at the local zoo cuz they wouldn't let me use caps to yell about this. you are the ones who are the ball lickers slashdot. g'd d'mned uncle f'ckers.)
So far, in XFree86 4.2.x and according to one of the developers for Xinerama, the version in 4.2.x is actually an older version. Here is an excerpt from an email correspondence I had with one of the developers:
"The Xinerama code in the XFree86 cvs tree currently is not the same as the code in the tarball I gave you. The code available from XFree86 is version 1.1 and includes PanoramiX named functions. What is being worked on is a new Standard that will end up as Xinerama version 2.0. Its a new api."
So it's a good thing that XFree86 has it, cuz I am running it and it works beautifully, but I might just have to start playing with the code from XFree86 4.2.x tree and see if I can get the new code in there. I am so happy that Linux is doing this. Larger Desktops spanning multiple monitors for more room for development apps.
I wouldn't say that it is tech designers being too anxious to be creative. I would say it is probably a lack of creativity on the developers part. I mean, yes there comes a point where you might need to write new code to do the same old thing. Cuz the old way of doing it is just outdated. But if you are creative you would find a way to do the old thing and some cool new thing all at once. All in all, I'm glad someone has finally coined a phrase to identify Microsoft's Software Development Process.
I'm not normally one of those hardcore privacy advocates, but you wouldn't happen to know of any publically traded stock I should start checking out that is in the Lead or tarp/tent/awning business or any combination of the 2 would ya? Good ol' crazy al, he'll sell just about anything.
Some people like to use their cell phones in alot of odd places, but the person on the other end has no idea where they are. I kinda wouldn't want to see some of the stuff going on when you interrupt someone by calling their cell phone.
This is just an another example of the government using technology to out stretch the telescope that Big Brother uses to watch over us all. Now that is not to say that such things are not needed. In wake of last fall's events... umm yes we need some kind of surveillance system to catch the bad guys. But there comes a point where you have to stop and wonder, why are they getting so sophisticated with all of this? Is to to catch the bad guys? Or is it to catch a glimpse of what you and the milk man/woman are doing in the hot tub? Things that make ya go hmmm......