We could sit here and criticize everything but I just want to point one thing out. SP2 is the single biggest improvement MS has ever made to one of their OSes. Additionally, it is great that people like this find these things and bring them to their attention and further bring their market speak responses out to the 'public' (if/. et al can be called that).
I would like to see MS make a security programming kit which could access their APIs to a greater level. Even if this were only available to BIG select 'gold' partners. You would have options other than MS to report bugs to. Yes, that is somewhat a theft from the OSS movements model. But it would really improve security. Imagine this article if that were the case "Microsofts position was that this is a feature, however IBM released a patch early this morning that corrects the behavior for thos who don't share Windows design goals with MS"
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actually it's not available through Windows Update OR Automatic Update (yet). It's only available as a direct download from here
Actually it is available both ways. The auto update method is kind of neat because it does not show up as an available download but downloads as a background download. Eventually the computer advertises updates to install and SP2 is one of them. I do not know if there is a special way to cause this behavior or not. I administer about 70 PCs and of those SP2 has appeared on around 20 of them?
Yes... that's why if you reread the sentence you quote, it says "they seem to be doing absolutely everything possible to sabotage it short of bribing the judge".
I understood that and added that they wouldn't dare. Thank you for your assistance.
SCO's case hadn't been baseless in the first place, they seem to be doing absolutely everything possible to sabotage it short of bribing the judge.
In a case this big only bad come even for the bad guy out of bribing the judge. Two scenarios:
Sco "Here judge, here's ONE MILLION Dollars to help you think about this"
1. You are attempting to bribe a judge, go directly to jail.
2. "You are a piss-ant attempting to bribe a judge one million dollars to rule against one of the richest corporations in the world. Let me see if they make a counteroffer and I will get back to you"
I've been wondering why they haven't taken down the code from their servers. It just occurred to me that they may not have anyone in their company left who knows *how* to.
Don't be a fool, EVERYONE at SCO knows how to take it down:
TO:sco.com web server
FROM: SCO Legal
RE: Linux Download availability
It has come to our attention that you are offering Linux source code for download. This is a direct infringement of SCOs valuable IP portfolio. SCO (caldera) has worked hard to get credit for other peoples work, you are diminishing it. You are hereby ordered to CEASE AND DESIST.
May I please ask, for the benefit of those of use whose web URLs are logged at work
Might I ask that to avoid being a luser you look to see what you are clicking on and don't depend on the admins to hold your hand? Seriously, that attitude is WHY viruses and trojans spread (albeit different circumstances)
This is more evidence of why we still use "inefficient" heavy vehicles. It's not just the efficiency of the vehicle that counts, but survivability in a crash.
No, it is not. Mass produced gasoline engines are the reason for the current size but we could apply your logic anywhere. How well do you think a modern SUV would hold up in a head on with a 1978 Ford Monarch? How well would a Ford Monarch hold up against a dump truck? Should we all drive dump trucks? No, there is an average size on the road and that average has traditionally gone down over time. When it becomes truly feasible to use solar power, most cars will be that weight range.
We're more than halfway through the year 2004. Isn't it time people quit judging the quality of Microsoft software by what happened almost ten years ago?
Don't peruse the post...read for comprehension. The person posted that they were holding off on applying the service pack because it might break stuff and I said I had been doing this for ten years and could only produce one example and all I took from it was that you should test first. I did not say "don't apply the service pack" read the post you will also notice I have been running XPSP2 since its' beta. Don't call me Linux lover either I use the tools for which I am paid Linux is only one.
It's worth noting that I've never borked a windows box installing a service pack, all the way back to win 95.
It's been a while so I might have the numbers wrong...NT 4 SP4 was issued to fix NTFS which was horribly crippled by NT 4 SP3. I suffered through that. What did I learn from it...test ALL patches, just like they tell you in any network class. I have been using XPSP2 since pre RC1 and have liked it thus far. I put it on the internal boxes in one department yesterday and have had no complaints yet. I will continue a slow and steady roll out over the next couple of weeks. But yes the bad thing can happen but having adminned MS and Unix since 96 I have only seen it once.
I was seriously getting bummed by the low quality of todays script kiddie exploits. With the metasploits project finally real security minded people, tinkerers (hackers) and just plain good programmers can have a common place to post their hard won knowledge for "1337" kids online to use.
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I wonder how much of that $299 is for the Windows license?
60$ is the OEM price (per each) for a small distributor (couple thousand PCs) I have no idea what AOLs price point would be but 40-50$ sounds like a good guess.
He seems to be one of a handful of people who knows what the hell is going on.
Why would the US Government want someone who "knows what the hell is going on". Hell, who would manage him? What department would he report to? Come on, your country is run by a man who probably uses "12345" as the combination on his luggage (encrypted of course, with his Cap'n Crunch decoder ring)
I can agree with "so called" there. As an OS is supposed to be able to manage memory and schedule multiple processes to avoid contention issues etc... and Windows surely has demonstrated an inability to do that.
Why do I always see articles explain Linux as a 'so called' open source software. They make it sound as though Linux isn't really open source and that is the presses gripe about it. My gripe is about the 'so called' industry journalists not know what they are 'so called' writing about.
This is a gaming device. It is not a keyboard replacement. It has been around a long time. It also has no Linux drivers, so I'm not sure why it's in the "Linux" category.
That would be because it has no Linux drivers and close to a third of the content of the post (there was little content to the post) was about the fact that coding a driver would be a great project. Oh and the other reason, Bruce Perens could write about "the contemplation of my navel" and the editors would put it on linux./.
Advertizers need to use things that are understandable. The fact that their content jokes about MBAs indicates that the attitude has disseminated in to the populace and is now understandable.
Right, that is why CDW targets approx. 3% of the populatioin with their "Fred" ads. Oh and they also make fun of CEOs, does this mean that most companies are going to get rid of management. Hizza!!
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We could sit here and criticize everything but I just want to point one thing out. SP2 is the single biggest improvement MS has ever made to one of their OSes. Additionally, it is great that people like this find these things and bring them to their attention and further bring their market speak responses out to the 'public' (if /. et al can be called that).
I would like to see MS make a security programming kit which could access their APIs to a greater level. Even if this were only available to BIG select 'gold' partners. You would have options other than MS to report bugs to. Yes, that is somewhat a theft from the OSS movements model. But it would really improve security. Imagine this article if that were the case "Microsofts position was that this is a feature, however IBM released a patch early this morning that corrects the behavior for thos who don't share Windows design goals with MS"
actually it's not available through Windows Update OR Automatic Update (yet). It's only available as a direct download from here
Actually it is available both ways. The auto update method is kind of neat because it does not show up as an available download but downloads as a background download. Eventually the computer advertises updates to install and SP2 is one of them. I do not know if there is a special way to cause this behavior or not. I administer about 70 PCs and of those SP2 has appeared on around 20 of them?
Yes... that's why if you reread the sentence you quote, it says "they seem to be doing absolutely everything possible to sabotage it short of bribing the judge".
I understood that and added that they wouldn't dare. Thank you for your assistance.
SCO's case hadn't been baseless in the first place, they seem to be doing absolutely everything possible to sabotage it short of bribing the judge.
In a case this big only bad come even for the bad guy out of bribing the judge. Two scenarios:
Sco "Here judge, here's ONE MILLION Dollars to help you think about this"
1. You are attempting to bribe a judge, go directly to jail.
2. "You are a piss-ant attempting to bribe a judge one million dollars to rule against one of the richest corporations in the world. Let me see if they make a counteroffer and I will get back to you"
I've been wondering why they haven't taken down the code from their servers. It just occurred to me that they may not have anyone in their company left who knows *how* to.
Don't be a fool, EVERYONE at SCO knows how to take it down:
TO:sco.com web server
FROM: SCO Legal
RE: Linux Download availability
It has come to our attention that you are offering Linux source code for download. This is a direct infringement of SCOs valuable IP portfolio. SCO (caldera) has worked hard to get credit for other peoples work, you are diminishing it. You are hereby ordered to CEASE AND DESIST.
Any lawyer can do that!
Sorry to say this, but IBM is going down...
Yes they are! They are going down HARD on Sco. When they get up, they will brush SCO off their knees and do what they do.
814545 Registry Repair and Recovery May Inadvertently Delete a Subset of Keys
Where's my keys?
May I please ask, for the benefit of those of use whose web URLs are logged at work
Might I ask that to avoid being a luser you look to see what you are clicking on and don't depend on the admins to hold your hand? Seriously, that attitude is WHY viruses and trojans spread (albeit different circumstances)
Isn't that like bragging about your Packard Bell 486SX-25 running Windows 95 on a 14" grayscale monitor? With no mouse?
Why is everyone so jealous of my PC!
I posted halfway through the article regarding the graph....sigh. Right after that I realized I had been 0wned by humor.
Difficulty of owning windows versus difficulty of making this graph??? What the heck is that?
Until tablets are $500 or so, they will only be a niche market.
?!?! 500$ They are too expensive now by the order of 15-25% but if you wait for them to be 500$ you will wait a long time.
This is more evidence of why we still use "inefficient" heavy vehicles. It's not just the efficiency of the vehicle that counts, but survivability in a crash.
No, it is not. Mass produced gasoline engines are the reason for the current size but we could apply your logic anywhere. How well do you think a modern SUV would hold up in a head on with a 1978 Ford Monarch? How well would a Ford Monarch hold up against a dump truck? Should we all drive dump trucks? No, there is an average size on the road and that average has traditionally gone down over time. When it becomes truly feasible to use solar power, most cars will be that weight range.
...I just moved back to Texas TOO!
I don't see no horns
Thank you, I believe you are correct.
We're more than halfway through the year 2004. Isn't it time people quit judging the quality of Microsoft software by what happened almost ten years ago?
Don't peruse the post...read for comprehension. The person posted that they were holding off on applying the service pack because it might break stuff and I said I had been doing this for ten years and could only produce one example and all I took from it was that you should test first. I did not say "don't apply the service pack" read the post you will also notice I have been running XPSP2 since its' beta. Don't call me Linux lover either I use the tools for which I am paid Linux is only one.
It's worth noting that I've never borked a windows box installing a service pack, all the way back to win 95.
It's been a while so I might have the numbers wrong...NT 4 SP4 was issued to fix NTFS which was horribly crippled by NT 4 SP3. I suffered through that. What did I learn from it...test ALL patches, just like they tell you in any network class. I have been using XPSP2 since pre RC1 and have liked it thus far. I put it on the internal boxes in one department yesterday and have had no complaints yet. I will continue a slow and steady roll out over the next couple of weeks. But yes the bad thing can happen but having adminned MS and Unix since 96 I have only seen it once.
I was seriously getting bummed by the low quality of todays script kiddie exploits. With the metasploits project finally real security minded people, tinkerers (hackers) and just plain good programmers can have a common place to post their hard won knowledge for "1337" kids online to use.
I wonder how much of that $299 is for the Windows license?
60$ is the OEM price (per each) for a small distributor (couple thousand PCs) I have no idea what AOLs price point would be but 40-50$ sounds like a good guess.
He seems to be one of a handful of people who knows what the hell is going on.
Why would the US Government want someone who "knows what the hell is going on". Hell, who would manage him? What department would he report to? Come on, your country is run by a man who probably uses "12345" as the combination on his luggage (encrypted of course, with his Cap'n Crunch decoder ring)
I can agree with "so called" there. As an OS is supposed to be able to manage memory and schedule multiple processes to avoid contention issues etc... and Windows surely has demonstrated an inability to do that.
Why do I always see articles explain Linux as a 'so called' open source software. They make it sound as though Linux isn't really open source and that is the presses gripe about it. My gripe is about the 'so called' industry journalists not know what they are 'so called' writing about.
This is a gaming device. It is not a keyboard replacement. It has been around a long time. It also has no Linux drivers, so I'm not sure why it's in the "Linux" category.
That would be because it has no Linux drivers and close to a third of the content of the post (there was little content to the post) was about the fact that coding a driver would be a great project. Oh and the other reason, Bruce Perens could write about "the contemplation of my navel" and the editors would put it on linux./.
Advertizers need to use things that are understandable. The fact that their content jokes about MBAs indicates that the attitude has disseminated in to the populace and is now understandable.
Right, that is why CDW targets approx. 3% of the populatioin with their "Fred" ads. Oh and they also make fun of CEOs, does this mean that most companies are going to get rid of management. Hizza!!
Even FedEx commercials are now poking fun at them for being useless!
I missed something....when did FedEX commercials become a valid market indicator.