Buy the book for the people whom you know need it. Dogtag/highlight relevant pieces in highlighter.
Leave gift-wrapped in the vicinity of the bathroom. It may take awhile, but eventually somebody will probably pick it up and start perusing (bathroom is the best place to plant reading material). If you're lucky, they may find it interesting, or at least stay long enough to catch some important points.
Oh, and if you want, you could speed up the reading process by also lacing the Xmas cookies/etc with a little X-lax icing.
What I'd like to know, is what is good software to use for anti-worm security in a linux (server) windows (desktop) environment. There's a lot I can do on the server (firewall, proxy, mail-filter, etc), but not so much on the client... how about antivirus software, what's good, what's bad, and what's affordable or open-source (linked articles are informative, but don't cover specific apps).
Anyone got some feedback on this, or perhaps whether the book covers good apps in significant depth?
Anybody remember when GBC (GameBoy colour) came out? It was better than your old monochrome gameboy, and eventually prices made it drop into the same range.
I'd be looking for something in the future, but as a replacement to GBA (GameBoy Advanced). Perhaps an upgraded processor, more 3d support, a few extra options. The initial cost will be more than GBA, but it should tone down over time... and eventually games will move towards supporting the newer GB.
Just a hypothesis, but based on past-history not entirely unlikely
This is actually a real problem with many linux apps, both on desktops and servers. I just experienced it while trying to get perl-suid installed on a server, with deb (which is generally easier on install than RPM in my experience)...
So... base/stable version of perl-suid wasn't compatible with my newer Perl, so dipping into unstable I go, but then I also need to update Perl since unstable/testing perl-suid are newer than my Perl. So perl gets updated, which requires a new libc6...
This breaks the ogg/vorbis packages I have installed, so they have to get updated too... in total about 32 packages to install, 21MB.
Now, realistically this would be a HUGE pain in the butt for somebody with little experience to install for a single progam, on a regular basis. However, at 21MB you can probably fit most common updates on an install disc, and have your system automatically update on install as needed (windows does it with DLL's). The big thing is you'll probably need both.deb and.rpm to handle most common distros, as well as maybe source available.
So really, a common package format would be really nice. It would also be great if I could update my "unstable" packages, without moving entirely to unstable (I'm hybrid, and my servers stay as far in "stable" as possible).
For deb, maybe an updater that gives the option of "upgrade to "stable" if current "unstable" package installed is = available stable, or keep "unstable" packages at current "unstable" version. Most games, etc, nowadays have online updaters, so it shouldn't be a huge problem to have something similar to keep the required packages up-to-date, without mucking the rest of the system
a) Your comment implies that "free" software is not available to windows users, but this is not the case. Why not check out freshmeat with the win32 filter turned on?
b) Many users (myself included) use both. I'm using Debian on my laptop right now (work), but when I go home I'll use windows for my games, at least until I get WINEX to play most of them.
c) Please note the *until* in section B, and not that many of the "I won't switch until" statements are not quite realized, but we are closed than before. Even then, sometimes I might use windows, but my linux usage is starting to outdistance windows quite nicely.
I think Bill overlooks a big point. FUD might stall the spread of linux, but it won't kill off existing use. Of course, as long as people are using linux, it will continue to be developed... developers are the users. I really can't see anything stopping it, as some of the best projects are more a devotion of time and caring than corporate/profit orientation.
I think that MS is strongly underestimating both the power of linux, and more importantly, the draw and cohesiveness of the linux spirit/community.
You could consider, to some extent, a good slashdotting as a form DDOS... so I suppose it depends on how you are getting DDOS'ed. There are ways to stop a slashdotting, and also to stop certain forms of DDOS attacks.
Of course, the other solution is to employ somebody to track down the buggers doing the DDOS'ing....
For $50,000 a year, sounds like a decent wage for anyone who's currently unemployed. Why not just hire a good whitehat instead of caving into blackhat demands?
I thought the same. I'd love to host that on my server... but the moment a new DCMA-suxors article popped up on slashdot I'd probably have a hoard of post-happy geeks eating at my bandwidth faster than pacman gobbles up white dots.
I've had luck copying drives over using a bootCD and simply tarring or tar-gzipping the drive, but there's still annoyances with bootsectors, etc, etc.
Does anyone know a good tool for making/installing a bootsector image that is windows-friendly?
On a side-note, sometimes using images to move to upgraded hardware is a pain, especially with XP/2K/etc. You do get all your DLL's and program links, etc, but you also get a bunch of hardware drivers that don't match unless you move to pretty much an identical machine. Major hardware upgrades usually ensure that my PC gets a much-needed format+reinstall, at least for my windows drive anyhow...
Why not get started with a dual-method voting system. Those that trust the electronic method as of currently can go electronic, those that trust paper can go paper.
In the end, you can go with electronic once it catches on and becomes more secure... but why not at least have paper for backup? If a voting machine goes down, break out the pencils and pulped-dead-trees... you aren't supposed to play with machines once voting has started anyways.
I'd wholeheartedly agree that IBM should win on the Merits of their case. However, being as big as they are, I'm hoping that after winning they get a chance to thouroughly step on SCO like the bug they are.
A lot of times a little guy will win a case with a strong arguement, but they won't necessarily always get much for their win. With the size of IBM, we can hope for more than a "moral victory," we can hope to see IBM hit SCO like a sledgehammer to a cockroach....
I'd also have to throw in, if it still does the job, and it costs a lot of frickin' money to replace, why not leave it alone?
From my experience with some local businesses, many big corps cannot afford downtime. New computer systems in almost any form usually need allowance for some time to break them in. When you have an old COBOL system that is controlling your $100,000+/hr hardware/etc, you don't want to have to take that hardware offline in order to bring in a new system, especially with potential for errors. I wouldn't do this with linux, let alone an unstable and unpredictable monster like windows.
In addition to the downtime for replacement, you've also got downtime for spin-up, spin-down. Some systems are not capable of being shut off or turned on at the flip of a switch, there are things like power-buildup, heat, and many other factors involved, so even with a 100% successful replacement you're going to have a certain period down.
When a little time down time means a lot of money, you hold onto your pennies, and watch to make damn-sure that you're not replacing anything that doesn't need replacement. It's not the cost of the new technology that'll kill you, or even that you don't want something better, it's that what you have and how it runs is standing between your business and a lot of cash in downtime.
For all those that are "too cool" for SimCity... Microwave power was a great way to provide good-level, affordable-cost power to the citizens of your city. An array in space would power your land-bound power-station nicely, but the downside to this was that every so often it would miss the power station (oops) and fry something in your city.
Maybe if they play Simcity for awhile, they'll realize that this invention might work much better if they do, in fact, build such a power plant with a few fire-stations nearby... but I'd imagine a real-world application would have some form of laser-alignment system that has the array blocked until it's properly aligned with the receiving station.
If you take paragraph (a), you will find that in many movies it leads to paragraph (b). That is to say, you take a good idea that isn't quite complete, and do the fill with glitter and sparkles. Then, when the movie flops, you wonder why people weren't satisfied with your lack of plot when you threw so much into eye-candy.
Disney isn't much different from most other movie producers. Movies like "Terminator 3" and "Matrix Reloaded" don't go through the grinder simply because the producers don't care (they care enough that they must realize to some extent that sh*t content will eventually lead to profit loss), it's more that they can't connect the success of a movie with a plotline VS flashy effects.
As it stands, low-budget moviemaking is becoming more of a reality. You can make a movie with somewhat low-cost software, home PC's, and some real effort and time. In a few years, anyone with a video-camera (or a computer) and a good idea could be the next Kevin Smith or animated-movie creater (can't think of a specific reference at the moment).
Look at fan-made episodes, look at flash-movies. Disney is and other bloated dinosaurs are going to become extinct unless they change their focus, and the internet is going to make outside talent all the more apparent.
Doesn't it stand to reason that disney shouldn't really have gotten much of a cut from it. I mean, you can either have you cake or eat it:
a) Pixar makes TS2, disney gets their usual lions-share of the profits, and this it should count as a contributed story
b) Pixar makes TS2, takes the majority of profit for themselves, disney doesn't count it as a contribution.
Sounds like RIAA business-methodology to me: you make us a product that makes us a sh*tload of money, but we get to choose whether it counts towards your contract or not. Oh, and no you can't use the ones we don't choose for yourself, your brain is our property.
To do it any other way would be idiotic anyways. It's bad enough that one has to fight with a bunch of "visible" patents when bringing out a product, could you imagine fighting "invisible" ones.
If you bring out product X, then if you do a thourough search for any product ABC patenting X's technology/etc, or just prior art before patenting X yourself, you should be able to feel reasonably secure.
Finding out that some cash-grubbing university who ripped an idea from a student's work (and no, they shouldn't have rights to the students' work anyways) has invalidated your patent would be insane. The patent system needs to be fixed, but at least it's not allowing people to hide their work until a profiting idea springs from similar roots.
What point do they break even at, then? If they're making like 1c profit now... most people would accept raising cost to something akin to $1.10/song, which is in turn 11x the current profit margin. With microsales, small increase will lead to exponential profits.
They could have made the first HTTP request direct to a "configuring your router" or a "thanks for buying a Belkin Router" page like many pieces of software do. Alternately, they could have put this on the router config page (assuming it has an internal www config like many routers) which is more or less where it belongs.
Redirecting random packets is completely idiotic... but I'll admit I wouldn't be quite as pissed if it redirected to an initial "config" page on the first request...
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Subject: Belkin Routers - built in ads
Here's a good reason we should be wary of using Belkin equipment. One of their current products is known to covertly hijack an outgoing internet connection at certain intervals and redirect it to a site of Belkin's choice for advertising purposes..
Please see the article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
This is a bought-and-paid-for product, not a free advertising-supported product. The manual also doesn't fully inform the user of the connecting hijacking.
As such, please be wary when purchasing Belkin equipment, and feel free to let Belkin what you think of these deceptive practices:
http://www.belkin.com/contactus/index.html
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After all, not everyone reads slashdot, so I feel obligated to inform those that might otherwise by sh**ty Belkin products. Please feel free to use this message as a template to anyone you might want to inform.
Why not have both. Stem cell research and brain-interactive technology are both promising, and both might actually be able to interact with each other in the future as well.
If I had the choice between a new arm a robotic one... might actually be a tough call. How about terminator-style flesh-over-metal. You have surgical stainless bones and one hella strong grip, but you can still feel due to nerves in the overlaying flesh.
Technology can, and do, exist quite nicely in many situations.
In many movies, scenes are cut from the theatre showing and added to DVD or a later "special edition movie" simply to nab a few more bucks. I think in this case however, it was honestly that the movie was *damn long*, and they had to cut it somewhere.
For all those that were disappointed by some of those cuts, it does seem to catch certain plot-points that were not in the first release. Nice to see that sometimes they really do think of the fans. I mean, sure - they still want your money - but at least you're getting a little something bonus that is somewhat worth it
For all those that haven't seen the original movie but will see the Extended Edition, I'd recommend that you take a bathroom break just around the time the Ents get really angry. Otherwise, with all the extra footage, the flood scene later might remind you a little forcibly about how hard a full LOTR viewing is on one's bladder...
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Buy the book for the people whom you know need it. Dogtag/highlight relevant pieces in highlighter.
Leave gift-wrapped in the vicinity of the bathroom. It may take awhile, but eventually somebody will probably pick it up and start perusing (bathroom is the best place to plant reading material). If you're lucky, they may find it interesting, or at least stay long enough to catch some important points.
Oh, and if you want, you could speed up the reading process by also lacing the Xmas cookies/etc with a little X-lax icing.
What I'd like to know, is what is good software to use for anti-worm security in a linux (server) windows (desktop) environment. There's a lot I can do on the server (firewall, proxy, mail-filter, etc), but not so much on the client... how about antivirus software, what's good, what's bad, and what's affordable or open-source (linked articles are informative, but don't cover specific apps).
Anyone got some feedback on this, or perhaps whether the book covers good apps in significant depth?
Anybody remember when GBC (GameBoy colour) came out? It was better than your old monochrome gameboy, and eventually prices made it drop into the same range.
I'd be looking for something in the future, but as a replacement to GBA (GameBoy Advanced). Perhaps an upgraded processor, more 3d support, a few extra options. The initial cost will be more than GBA, but it should tone down over time... and eventually games will move towards supporting the newer GB.
Just a hypothesis, but based on past-history not entirely unlikely
This is actually a real problem with many linux apps, both on desktops and servers. I just experienced it while trying to get perl-suid installed on a server, with deb (which is generally easier on install than RPM in my experience)...
.deb and .rpm to handle most common distros, as well as maybe source available.
So... base/stable version of perl-suid wasn't compatible with my newer Perl, so dipping into unstable I go, but then I also need to update Perl since unstable/testing perl-suid are newer than my Perl. So perl gets updated, which requires a new libc6...
This breaks the ogg/vorbis packages I have installed, so they have to get updated too... in total about 32 packages to install, 21MB.
Now, realistically this would be a HUGE pain in the butt for somebody with little experience to install for a single progam, on a regular basis. However, at 21MB you can probably fit most common updates on an install disc, and have your system automatically update on install as needed (windows does it with DLL's). The big thing is you'll probably need both
So really, a common package format would be really nice. It would also be great if I could update my "unstable" packages, without moving entirely to unstable (I'm hybrid, and my servers stay as far in "stable" as possible).
For deb, maybe an updater that gives the option of "upgrade to "stable" if current "unstable" package installed is = available stable, or keep "unstable" packages at current "unstable" version. Most games, etc, nowadays have online updaters, so it shouldn't be a huge problem to have something similar to keep the required packages up-to-date, without mucking the rest of the system
but most sites aren't able to withstand those costs
Do they cost more than $50,000/yr?
Better investment than selling out to internet terrorists.
a) Your comment implies that "free" software is not available to windows users, but this is not the case. Why not check out freshmeat with the win32 filter turned on?
b) Many users (myself included) use both. I'm using Debian on my laptop right now (work), but when I go home I'll use windows for my games, at least until I get WINEX to play most of them.
c) Please note the *until* in section B, and not that many of the "I won't switch until" statements are not quite realized, but we are closed than before. Even then, sometimes I might use windows, but my linux usage is starting to outdistance windows quite nicely.
I think Bill overlooks a big point. FUD might stall the spread of linux, but it won't kill off existing use. Of course, as long as people are using linux, it will continue to be developed... developers are the users. I really can't see anything stopping it, as some of the best projects are more a devotion of time and caring than corporate/profit orientation.
I think that MS is strongly underestimating both the power of linux, and more importantly, the draw and cohesiveness of the linux spirit/community.
You could consider, to some extent, a good slashdotting as a form DDOS... so I suppose it depends on how you are getting DDOS'ed. There are ways to stop a slashdotting, and also to stop certain forms of DDOS attacks.
Of course, the other solution is to employ somebody to track down the buggers doing the DDOS'ing....
For $50,000 a year, sounds like a decent wage for anyone who's currently unemployed. Why not just hire a good whitehat instead of caving into blackhat demands?
I thought the same. I'd love to host that on my server... but the moment a new DCMA-suxors article popped up on slashdot I'd probably have a hoard of post-happy geeks eating at my bandwidth faster than pacman gobbles up white dots.
I've had luck copying drives over using a bootCD and simply tarring or tar-gzipping the drive, but there's still annoyances with bootsectors, etc, etc.
Does anyone know a good tool for making/installing a bootsector image that is windows-friendly?
On a side-note, sometimes using images to move to upgraded hardware is a pain, especially with XP/2K/etc. You do get all your DLL's and program links, etc, but you also get a bunch of hardware drivers that don't match unless you move to pretty much an identical machine. Major hardware upgrades usually ensure that my PC gets a much-needed format+reinstall, at least for my windows drive anyhow...
I believe they collect DCMA supoenas:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca-sub/
Why not get started with a dual-method voting system. Those that trust the electronic method as of currently can go electronic, those that trust paper can go paper.
In the end, you can go with electronic once it catches on and becomes more secure... but why not at least have paper for backup? If a voting machine goes down, break out the pencils and pulped-dead-trees... you aren't supposed to play with machines once voting has started anyways.
I'd wholeheartedly agree that IBM should win on the Merits of their case. However, being as big as they are, I'm hoping that after winning they get a chance to thouroughly step on SCO like the bug they are.
A lot of times a little guy will win a case with a strong arguement, but they won't necessarily always get much for their win. With the size of IBM, we can hope for more than a "moral victory," we can hope to see IBM hit SCO like a sledgehammer to a cockroach....
I'd also have to throw in, if it still does the job, and it costs a lot of frickin' money to replace, why not leave it alone?
From my experience with some local businesses, many big corps cannot afford downtime. New computer systems in almost any form usually need allowance for some time to break them in. When you have an old COBOL system that is controlling your $100,000+/hr hardware/etc, you don't want to have to take that hardware offline in order to bring in a new system, especially with potential for errors. I wouldn't do this with linux, let alone an unstable and unpredictable monster like windows.
In addition to the downtime for replacement, you've also got downtime for spin-up, spin-down. Some systems are not capable of being shut off or turned on at the flip of a switch, there are things like power-buildup, heat, and many other factors involved, so even with a 100% successful replacement you're going to have a certain period down.
When a little time down time means a lot of money, you hold onto your pennies, and watch to make damn-sure that you're not replacing anything that doesn't need replacement. It's not the cost of the new technology that'll kill you, or even that you don't want something better, it's that what you have and how it runs is standing between your business and a lot of cash in downtime.
For all those that are "too cool" for SimCity... Microwave power was a great way to provide good-level, affordable-cost power to the citizens of your city. An array in space would power your land-bound power-station nicely, but the downside to this was that every so often it would miss the power station (oops) and fry something in your city.
Maybe if they play Simcity for awhile, they'll realize that this invention might work much better if they do, in fact, build such a power plant with a few fire-stations nearby... but I'd imagine a real-world application would have some form of laser-alignment system that has the array blocked until it's properly aligned with the receiving station.
If you take paragraph (a), you will find that in many movies it leads to paragraph (b). That is to say, you take a good idea that isn't quite complete, and do the fill with glitter and sparkles. Then, when the movie flops, you wonder why people weren't satisfied with your lack of plot when you threw so much into eye-candy.
Disney isn't much different from most other movie producers. Movies like "Terminator 3" and "Matrix Reloaded" don't go through the grinder simply because the producers don't care (they care enough that they must realize to some extent that sh*t content will eventually lead to profit loss), it's more that they can't connect the success of a movie with a plotline VS flashy effects.
As it stands, low-budget moviemaking is becoming more of a reality. You can make a movie with somewhat low-cost software, home PC's, and some real effort and time. In a few years, anyone with a video-camera (or a computer) and a good idea could be the next Kevin Smith or animated-movie creater (can't think of a specific reference at the moment).
Look at fan-made episodes, look at flash-movies. Disney is and other bloated dinosaurs are going to become extinct unless they change their focus, and the internet is going to make outside talent all the more apparent.
Doesn't it stand to reason that disney shouldn't really have gotten much of a cut from it. I mean, you can either have you cake or eat it:
a) Pixar makes TS2, disney gets their usual lions-share of the profits, and this it should count as a contributed story
b) Pixar makes TS2, takes the majority of profit for themselves, disney doesn't count it as a contribution.
Sounds like RIAA business-methodology to me: you make us a product that makes us a sh*tload of money, but we get to choose whether it counts towards your contract or not. Oh, and no you can't use the ones we don't choose for yourself, your brain is our property.
To do it any other way would be idiotic anyways. It's bad enough that one has to fight with a bunch of "visible" patents when bringing out a product, could you imagine fighting "invisible" ones.
If you bring out product X, then if you do a thourough search for any product ABC patenting X's technology/etc, or just prior art before patenting X yourself, you should be able to feel reasonably secure.
Finding out that some cash-grubbing university who ripped an idea from a student's work (and no, they shouldn't have rights to the students' work anyways) has invalidated your patent would be insane. The patent system needs to be fixed, but at least it's not allowing people to hide their work until a profiting idea springs from similar roots.
Excuse me... but wouldn't offering financial incentives to not use a competetive product be illegal in some way?
I mean, it's legal to give incentives to use my product... but to drive a competitors business away...?
What point do they break even at, then? If they're making like 1c profit now... most people would accept raising cost to something akin to $1.10/song, which is in turn 11x the current profit margin. With microsales, small increase will lead to exponential profits.
They could have made the first HTTP request direct to a "configuring your router" or a "thanks for buying a Belkin Router" page like many pieces of software do. Alternately, they could have put this on the router config page (assuming it has an internal www config like many routers) which is more or less where it belongs.
Redirecting random packets is completely idiotic... but I'll admit I wouldn't be quite as pissed if it redirected to an initial "config" page on the first request...
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Subject: Belkin Routers - built in ads
Here's a good reason we should be wary of using Belkin equipment. One of their current products is known to covertly hijack an outgoing internet connection at certain intervals and redirect it to a site of Belkin's choice for advertising purposes..
Please see the article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.htm
This is a bought-and-paid-for product, not a free advertising-supported product. The manual also doesn't fully inform the user of the connecting hijacking.
As such, please be wary when purchasing Belkin equipment, and feel free to let Belkin what you think of these deceptive practices:
http://www.belkin.com/contactus/index.html
---------------
After all, not everyone reads slashdot, so I feel obligated to inform those that might otherwise by sh**ty Belkin products. Please feel free to use this message as a template to anyone you might want to inform.
Why not have both. Stem cell research and brain-interactive technology are both promising, and both might actually be able to interact with each other in the future as well.
If I had the choice between a new arm a robotic one... might actually be a tough call. How about terminator-style flesh-over-metal. You have surgical stainless bones and one hella strong grip, but you can still feel due to nerves in the overlaying flesh.
Technology can, and do, exist quite nicely in many situations.
In many movies, scenes are cut from the theatre showing and added to DVD or a later "special edition movie" simply to nab a few more bucks. I think in this case however, it was honestly that the movie was *damn long*, and they had to cut it somewhere.
For all those that were disappointed by some of those cuts, it does seem to catch certain plot-points that were not in the first release. Nice to see that sometimes they really do think of the fans. I mean, sure - they still want your money - but at least you're getting a little something bonus that is somewhat worth it
For all those that haven't seen the original movie but will see the Extended Edition, I'd recommend that you take a bathroom break just around the time the Ents get really angry. Otherwise, with all the extra footage, the flood scene later might remind you a little forcibly about how hard a full LOTR viewing is on one's bladder...