Use OpenOffice instead. Copes with word documents ( including this one ) just fine.
Yes, yes, I know they shouldnt be using word documents in the first place, but they are, and given that they are a monolithic government department thats not likely to get changed in a hurry. By all means mail them, but dont expect any sense out of them.
I wonder who Kathleen Fyffe is......
Doesnt mean the community cant learn from commercial experiences. Especially if they want to compete with commercial vendors.
If some one in the same business as you gets it wrong, whether they are commercial or open source, its a good idea to make sure you dont do the same thing.
If this project gets off the ground and then stalls because it was badly thought out or under resourced, then it will make Debian generally look bad to those outside the community. Look at Mandrakes experiance, learn from it and avoid their mistakes. They may not cost Debian money, but they could still do harm if they are repeated.
Hmmmm, this follows on from the earlier posting of the interview with Gael Duval of Mandrake who said "GD: For one year, we had a so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on that. "
I wonder if this is the kind of project he was talking about and if Debian have taken on board the Mandrake experiance.
Seems to miss the fact that Dell are aiming these boxes to major customers, those ordering in the 1000's at a time. There is an option for Joe Public to buy online, but its one specific workstation model. How many home users are going to think "Ooooh, thats good, no OS!". Most are gonna think "What? No windows? I dont want that!" The up shot is that the guys buying these things are gonna be the big corporates who would strip and rebuild whatever OS came on it to start with to match their corporate config. So whatever its supplied with it gets what they use. There is no net change in OS usage as a result. At the end of the day I'd say its nothing more than Dell getting a bit of good publicity by putting up two fingers to MS's licencing terms rather than promoting OS choice.
Hmmmm, Identical bugs in IE and Konquerer. No chance of their being shared code involved so it must be down to implementation. What determines the implementation of a protocol? The API, as defined by Verisign who developed it in the first place. My guess is that this is Verisigns stuff up in incorectly specifying the protocol for handling certificates. IE and Konquerer were both written in accordance with Verisigns protocol and so both end up with the same bug.
he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer; the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at-
any particular program or data; a program or data of any particular kind; or a program or data held in any particular computer.
Note : The link isnt to the full act itself, but to the excerpted version provided by JANET/CERT as a referance for academic institutions in the UK with lots of nice hyper links. If you want the real Mcoy in one big lump it can be found here
The original source code was never posted on Bugtraq. What went up, and was then removed at Snosofts request, was a post by Phased containg a link to the code. In the same article Dave Ahmad goes on to say that pulling it at the request of the originating team was normal procedure but that it would remain in the archives untill a further decision was made.
It's a niche OS, so it gets less publicity than most other OS's - Solaris, Debian etc.. - so there are possibly fewer known OS specific issues, but the vast majority of the bugs and loopholes that affect other un*x systems affect Tru64 as well thanks to the amount of shared code involved. Tru64 is no more or less vulnerable to bof's and other security issues than any other OS ( except maybe OpenBSD et al that are designed to be secure).
Having said all that it's pretty obvious that HP/Compaq want rid of it, so migrating to a new platform is prolly a good idea anyway;)
Was never really a story to start with.
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"at least in this case it was an insignificant threat to the entire planet. "
Nope, not even close.
A scientist notes that an asteroid has a potentially interesting orbit that shows the vaugue possibility of a close flyby. He passes his observations on to the astronomical community for analysis and verification, along the way the media get wind of it and BOOM, its the end of the world as we know it. Before any data has been properly analysed the media has decided we are all going to die in a huge fiery impact. Cue ridiculous artists impressions etc. Two days later the scientific community has finished checking the figures and guess what, its not going to hit us after all.
Yet another example of the media silly season. Desperately looking for stories in the slow spells while every one they usually talk about is n holiday.
It does if the vehicle maintains velocity under its own power. At Mach 6.7 if there is no active thrust to maintain that velocity then deceleration will happen pretty quickly. What the flight team are looking for is data to show that the vehicle did indeed maintain velocity, indicating that thrust had been generated by the engine.
Not according to this press release from the Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnolds Air Force Base, Tennasee. They claim to have flown, albeit briefly, a scramjet vehicle in August of 2001. Acceleration to operating speeds was achieved using a very big gun!
The article is dated May 6th this year, over a month ago now. Anyone got anything more up to date on this? Or tech info on what hardware the eye-piece is based on? Depending on that the options for Sunglasses style or semi-transparent displays are open to development.
Not to emntion that its an infra-red laser so you wouldnt actually be able to see without augmented vison or some other detection technology. By the time you've figured out whats going on its all ready too late.
Its a great piece of work, but come on, the PDF format manual stinks. Scanner and OCR'd paper document, blurred text, misaligned characters, its almost impossible to read without inducing severe eyestrain. Don't these guys have an electronic copy somewhere?
Your missing the point. What Enron et al did was clearly and obviously illegal, at least to those in the Finacial world. Three companies working together to develop new standards and opening them up to others.... Thats a whole new ball game and one the lawyers can keep playing for years before anyone decides whats wrong or right. As I said before, it's one of those grey areas of business practice where legalities can be argued while the profits are being made. Cooking the accounts is clearly illegal, what MAN have done isnt. It _may_ be illegal but not obviously so, and they have taken the business decision that the money they stand to make from doing this outweighs what it _might_ cost them _if_ the SEC ( or whoever ) decide that they are going to investigate.
It's business, and big business at that. What MEN are doing is nothing more than standard commercial tactics. Dubious ones admittedly, but nothing that hasnt been done before or will be done again in the future.
The continuous pressures from the stock markets, share holders and investors to keep stock prices high means that companies are venturing further and further into the grey areas of business practice in order to achive and maintain high stock valuations.
Controlling technology is just another way of doing what Enron, Westcomm and KPNQWest did though dodgy financing. In this case its not quite as effective in terms of boosting share prices in the short term, but it's a whole lot more legal.
Now if this had AMD support I'd buy one in a flash. This plus a flat screen display would solve a lot of the space headaches I have ATM. (Full Tower case, 21" Monitor, scanner, printer, speakers etc). Anyone know why there is no AMD support? Heat problems? Problems getting the chipsets onto such a small form factor?
While mining this rock is a nice thought, especially as its mass suggests that lightweight hydrocarbons and other organics could make up the bulk of its mass, the practicalities are a fair way off yet.
Right now we are looking at a Perihelion of 0.817 AU, which equates to ~122,221,459 Km. The distance to the moon is 385,000 Km. So its gonna be a fair way out for a while yet. IIRC the last time we went to the Moon it took about 10 days to get there. Its gonna take a hell of a lot longer to get to this rock.
Ok, in a few years it will be getting closer but right now theres not really much to do about it except talk. Reaching it wont be practical, even with better technology, for at least another 15 years yet. Given the current state of Nasa funding for deep space manned flight, I can't see anyone getting enthusiastic about this in Government. Probably the only way it would happen would be for private enterprise to figure a way to make it profitable to go there.
OTOH it could just be a lump of mashed up rock with no redeeming features at all and not worth visiting. In which case I'm sure the US military would love to blow it up;)
The survey is badly designed if they want to measure reponce to spam. The message they sent was asking the recipiant to do something for someone else, to make an effort for no return.
The vast majority of, if not all, spam is offering something to the recipiant. Whether its a good deal on long distance phone calls, the ability to make money fast or unlimited pr0n in your inbox they are all offering a reward for whatever effort the recipient has to make. Human nature dictates that this is going to generate a much higher percentage of returns. We all want something for nothing, or as near to nothing as we think we can get away with.
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On my glasses! No more waiting till I can hardly see through them before I wipe them off and think "Jeez, I really should clean these more often!"
Use OpenOffice instead. Copes with word documents ( including this one ) just fine.
Yes, yes, I know they shouldnt be using word documents in the first place, but they are, and given that they are a monolithic government department thats not likely to get changed in a hurry. By all means mail them, but dont expect any sense out of them.
I wonder who Kathleen Fyffe is......
Here's the story on the BBC
Doesnt mean the community cant learn from commercial experiences. Especially if they want to compete with commercial vendors.
If some one in the same business as you gets it wrong, whether they are commercial or open source, its a good idea to make sure you dont do the same thing.
If this project gets off the ground and then stalls because it was badly thought out or under resourced, then it will make Debian generally look bad to those outside the community. Look at Mandrakes experiance, learn from it and avoid their mistakes. They may not cost Debian money, but they could still do harm if they are repeated.
"GD: For one year, we had a so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on that. "
I wonder if this is the kind of project he was talking about and if Debian have taken on board the Mandrake experiance.
/.'ing a house has to be a new one :)
Seems to miss the fact that Dell are aiming these boxes to major customers, those ordering in the 1000's at a time. There is an option for Joe Public to buy online, but its one specific workstation model. How many home users are going to think "Ooooh, thats good, no OS!". Most are gonna think "What? No windows? I dont want that!"
The up shot is that the guys buying these things are gonna be the big corporates who would strip and rebuild whatever OS came on it to start with to match their corporate config. So whatever its supplied with it gets what they use. There is no net change in OS usage as a result.
At the end of the day I'd say its nothing more than Dell getting a bit of good publicity by putting up two fingers to MS's licencing terms rather than promoting OS choice.
Hmmmm, Identical bugs in IE and Konquerer. No chance of their being shared code involved so it must be down to implementation. What determines the implementation of a protocol? The API, as defined by Verisign who developed it in the first place. My guess is that this is Verisigns stuff up in incorectly specifying the protocol for handling certificates. IE and Konquerer were both written in accordance with Verisigns protocol and so both end up with the same bug.
1.-(1) A person is guilty of an offence if-
he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at-
any particular program or data;
a program or data of any particular kind; or
a program or data held in any particular computer.
Note : The link isnt to the full act itself, but to the excerpted version provided by JANET/CERT as a referance for academic institutions in the UK with lots of nice hyper links. If you want the real Mcoy in one big lump it can be found here
The original source code was never posted on Bugtraq. What went up, and was then removed at Snosofts request, was a post by Phased containg a link to the code. In the same article Dave Ahmad goes on to say that pulling it at the request of the originating team was normal procedure but that it would remain in the archives untill a further decision was made.
Well, its around 4 Am, or earlier, in the States right now. I wonder how much sleep the HP execs are getting :)
No, not really.
;)
It's a niche OS, so it gets less publicity than most other OS's - Solaris, Debian etc.. - so there are possibly fewer known OS specific issues, but the vast majority of the bugs and loopholes that affect other un*x systems affect Tru64 as well thanks to the amount of shared code involved. Tru64 is no more or less vulnerable to bof's and other security issues than any other OS ( except maybe OpenBSD et al that are designed to be secure).
Having said all that it's pretty obvious that HP/Compaq want rid of it, so migrating to a new platform is prolly a good idea anyway
"at least in this case it was an insignificant threat to the entire planet. "
Nope, not even close.
A scientist notes that an asteroid has a potentially interesting orbit that shows the vaugue possibility of a close flyby. He passes his observations on to the astronomical community for analysis and verification, along the way the media get wind of it and BOOM, its the end of the world as we know it.
Before any data has been properly analysed the media has decided we are all going to die in a huge fiery impact. Cue ridiculous artists impressions etc. Two days later the scientific community has finished checking the figures and guess what, its not going to hit us after all.
Yet another example of the media silly season. Desperately looking for stories in the slow spells while every one they usually talk about is n holiday.
It does if the vehicle maintains velocity under its own power.
At Mach 6.7 if there is no active thrust to maintain that velocity then deceleration will happen pretty quickly. What the flight team are looking for is data to show that the vehicle did indeed maintain velocity, indicating that thrust had been generated by the engine.
Not according to this press release from the Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnolds Air Force Base, Tennasee.
They claim to have flown, albeit briefly, a scramjet vehicle in August of 2001. Acceleration to operating speeds was achieved using a very big gun!
The article is dated May 6th this year, over a month ago now. Anyone got anything more up to date on this? Or tech info on what hardware the eye-piece is based on? Depending on that the options for Sunglasses style or semi-transparent displays are open to development.
....thanks to Sony.
And thanks to kuiken for the leads...
.. a few months and the kits will turn up on www.iwantoneofthose.com
Not to emntion that its an infra-red laser so you wouldnt actually be able to see without augmented vison or some other detection technology.
By the time you've figured out whats going on its all ready too late.
Its a great piece of work, but come on, the PDF format manual stinks. Scanner and OCR'd paper document, blurred text, misaligned characters, its almost impossible to read without inducing severe eyestrain. Don't these guys have an electronic copy somewhere?
Your missing the point. What Enron et al did was clearly and obviously illegal, at least to those in the Finacial world.
Three companies working together to develop new standards and opening them up to others.... Thats a whole new ball game and one the lawyers can keep playing for years before anyone decides whats wrong or right.
As I said before, it's one of those grey areas of business practice where legalities can be argued while the profits are being made.
Cooking the accounts is clearly illegal, what MAN have done isnt. It _may_ be illegal but not obviously so, and they have taken the business decision that the money they stand to make from doing this outweighs what it _might_ cost them _if_ the SEC ( or whoever ) decide that they are going to investigate.
It's business, and big business at that. What MEN are doing is nothing more than standard commercial tactics. Dubious ones admittedly, but nothing that hasnt been done before or will be done again in the future.
The continuous pressures from the stock markets, share holders and investors to keep stock prices high means that companies are venturing further and further into the grey areas of business practice in order to achive and maintain high stock valuations.
Controlling technology is just another way of doing what Enron, Westcomm and KPNQWest did though dodgy financing. In this case its not quite as effective in terms of boosting share prices in the short term, but it's a whole lot more legal.
Now if this had AMD support I'd buy one in a flash. This plus a flat screen display would solve a lot of the space headaches I have ATM. (Full Tower case, 21" Monitor, scanner, printer, speakers etc).
Anyone know why there is no AMD support? Heat problems? Problems getting the chipsets onto such a small form factor?
Right now we are looking at a Perihelion of 0.817 AU, which equates to ~122,221,459 Km. The distance to the moon is 385,000 Km. So its gonna be a fair way out for a while yet. IIRC the last time we went to the Moon it took about 10 days to get there. Its gonna take a hell of a lot longer to get to this rock.
Ok, in a few years it will be getting closer but right now theres not really much to do about it except talk. Reaching it wont be practical, even with better technology, for at least another 15 years yet. Given the current state of Nasa funding for deep space manned flight, I can't see anyone getting enthusiastic about this in Government. Probably the only way it would happen would be for private enterprise to figure a way to make it profitable to go there.
OTOH it could just be a lump of mashed up rock with no redeeming features at all and not worth visiting. In which case I'm sure the US military would love to blow it up ;)
The message they sent was asking the recipiant to do something for someone else, to make an effort for no return.
The vast majority of, if not all, spam is offering something to the recipiant. Whether its a good deal on long distance phone calls, the ability to make money fast or unlimited pr0n in your inbox they are all offering a reward for whatever effort the recipient has to make. Human nature dictates that this is going to generate a much higher percentage of returns. We all want something for nothing, or as near to nothing as we think we can get away with.