Assume I helped fixing a bug, therefore I own 1 line of code. This line is licensed under GPLv2. Samba is not allowed to just change the license without my permission...
I think it supports both Linux and Asterisk. If I read it right, it's not much more than a Sipura device with "the voip side soldered to a motherboard". It looks like it emulates an (USB) audio device, which can be used from pretty much any program, including the Asterisk ALSA plugin.
I don't believe it's a 3-day turnaround. As the software was designed to be able to plug holes, I think microsoft had the patch ready for months. Ready to protect their beloved partners against the "criminal crowd".
When the FairUse4WM software was anounced, some monkey called his boss, who in his turn called Billy G. Bill didn't answer the phone, as he was lying on the bahamas. But the second he called the office, they were all set to release the update.
Meaning: I believe this update could have been launched within minutes, all that delayed the release, was bureaucracy.
First, we've seen what happend to.eu. Big companies that have their trademarks registered get their domain names. But even a customer of mine, a 90-year old international transport company, does not have his name registered. Once the domains were fully available, the servers got overloaded, and most domains were taken by hijackers.
Second, the more domains, the more costs. Once we had ourcompany.nl and ourcompany.com. When.info.eu etc were introduced, this did not change the number of visitors, but does increase costs. How many domains do we need to register to keep our (registered or unregistered) trademarks safe?
The only new tld's I think we need the next decade, are.xxx and.kids, both to protect the kids.
Great initiative. But I have seen better performance of NTP servers...
Trying netdate nl.pool.ntp.org failed with a connection refused. So I decided to try some nl.pool.ntp.org servers one-by-one. Of the 8 servers I tried, 1 gave a connection refused error, 6 didn't reply at all. Only one gave the correct time.
Then I decided to try some more european servers: Of the 90 servers tested, only 7 gave a valid reply.
Now one could say that the servers have just been slashdotted. But NTP isn't really a protocol that uses a lot of bandwith, cpu or any other resources, is it? I can imagine a few HTTP (which uses major bandwidth) servers being slashdotted... but 500 NTP servers???
I'll try again in a few days. But it looks like i'll stick with my current favorite ntp server.
Or is it? For DeCSS to work, the drive must be recognised as a device. If windows keeps saying that the drive does not exist, DeCSS cannot fix the problem.
But what the heck, within months (or maybe even weeks), someone will come up with a patch. (Guess I'd better register vistadvdcrack.com today:-) )
What is the use of logging data, when you don't do anything with it?
Take for example Samir Azzouz (Dutch). At age 17 he went to Russia to fight in the jihad. A year later he is arrested again for planning a terrorist attack. At his home, the police found detailed maps of the primary Dutch airport and a nuclear power plant as well as explosives and weapons. The police has all the evidence.
Just the fact that Samir used the wrong fertilizer and that he does not have the financial resources to perform a big attack, was enough for the judge to release Samir.
What good is logging data, when you got all the proof and the terrorist, yet you release him because "he hasn't done it yet"?
That's not really a surprise. For home-users, having media player is almost a requirement. A media-player-less windows would be much more suitable in a business environment. But unfortunately, XP N is based on XP Home, which is not usable in a corporate network.
Besides, both the XP and XP N versions costing exactly the same makes XP N less interesting. The only ones who would be happy with people paying the same for less, would be Real etc.
Fine for you. I prefer both WM's to be threated equally like SuSE 10 does. So gnome lovers can use gnome, and kde lovers can use kde. I've been using KDE since version 1 on RedHat, on Slackware and recently I switched to SuSE. But the minute SuSE abandons KDE, I'll switch back to Slackware or Gentoo.
And for my users at the office: they just ajusted to KDE. I will NOT let them switch to yet another platform. If the next version of SuSE lacks perfect support of KDE, any new computer will probably have Mandriva installed.
Open source is open source, no matter what platform. But on windows it doesn't feel like open source. Because windows does not come with a compiler installed, most people don't even consider recompiling. And of course, the compiler is payware. Unless you use cygwin-GCC, which (if i'm correct) produces binaries that require cygwin.dll.
Other products that have rediculous taxes are imported by the thousands. DVD-R(W)s, CD-R(W)s, sigarettes, alcohol... You can order anything online. And receiving such stuff by mail is fully legal for a private person.
they suggest it's for use in public access Windows boxes
Great idea. There's only one problem with public access Windows boxes: they cannot be trusted.
Public access machines may have keyloggers, backdoors and stuff. I don't want anyone to see my password because I login from a windows box. Don't trust internet cafe's...
So, personally, I was thinking more of using this when I'm visiting family and friends.
who REALLY needs to be contacted IMMEDIATELY 24-7?
Actually, I do.
If one of my servers goes down, I get notified immediately. My phone is next to my bed when I'm asleep. It shouldn't be blocked, ever.
Also, I think people should take their own responsibility and switch their own phone off/to vibrating alarm. You just should not fix everything the tech way.
However I absolutely hate spam in every way, I think this ruling is rediculous. It's even restricting freedom of speech. Can the german government tell you how to answer to a http request?
Also: With regular email spam, the unwanted message is PUSHED to the victim, eating the victims bandwidth. Here, the victim (search engine spider) is pulling data from the server. If they don't want spam, don't use the meta tags.
Some dutch magazine visited the Lindows.com press release page. The url of that page was something like lindows.com/page?id=25. They increased the ID by 1 and tadaaa, hours before the official announcement, there it was.:)
Cool! I'll do it!
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$168 a week? Cool! I'll do it!
Psst.. don't tell the spammers: I'll fix the spamming problem by putting a black hole transparent proxy between the machine running their program and the internet...:) Anything they'll try to mail gets sent straight to/dev/null.
No, not really, but it'd be a nice way to cheat them...
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Is switching to GPLv3 legal in the first place?
Assume I helped fixing a bug, therefore I own 1 line of code. This line is licensed under GPLv2. Samba is not allowed to just change the license without my permission...
I think it supports both Linux and Asterisk.
If I read it right, it's not much more than a Sipura device with "the voip side soldered to a motherboard". It looks like it emulates an (USB) audio device, which can be used from pretty much any program, including the Asterisk ALSA plugin.
Governments just say it's about child porn or terrorism, and get away with anything...
I don't believe it's a 3-day turnaround. As the software was designed to be able to plug holes, I think microsoft had the patch ready for months. Ready to protect their beloved partners against the "criminal crowd".
When the FairUse4WM software was anounced, some monkey called his boss, who in his turn called Billy G. Bill didn't answer the phone, as he was lying on the bahamas. But the second he called the office, they were all set to release the update.
Meaning: I believe this update could have been launched within minutes, all that delayed the release, was bureaucracy.
Real men code in binary. Use your favorite hex editor.
No, we don't need a .tel TLD. Not now, not ever.
.eu. Big companies that have their trademarks registered get their domain names. But even a customer of mine, a 90-year old international transport company, does not have his name registered. Once the domains were fully available, the servers got overloaded, and most domains were taken by hijackers.
.info .eu etc were introduced, this did not change the number of visitors, but does increase costs. How many domains do we need to register to keep our (registered or unregistered) trademarks safe?
.xxx and .kids, both to protect the kids.
First, we've seen what happend to
Second, the more domains, the more costs. Once we had ourcompany.nl and ourcompany.com. When
The only new tld's I think we need the next decade, are
The door should knock back and perform a challenge-response authentication with the key ;-)
Great initiative. But I have seen better performance of NTP servers...
Trying netdate nl.pool.ntp.org failed with a connection refused. So I decided to try some nl.pool.ntp.org servers one-by-one. Of the 8 servers I tried, 1 gave a connection refused error, 6 didn't reply at all. Only one gave the correct time.
Then I decided to try some more european servers: Of the 90 servers tested, only 7 gave a valid reply.
Now one could say that the servers have just been slashdotted. But NTP isn't really a protocol that uses a lot of bandwith, cpu or any other resources, is it? I can imagine a few HTTP (which uses major bandwidth) servers being slashdotted... but 500 NTP servers???
I'll try again in a few days. But it looks like i'll stick with my current favorite ntp server.
Or is it? For DeCSS to work, the drive must be recognised as a device. If windows keeps saying that the drive does not exist, DeCSS cannot fix the problem.
:-) )
But what the heck, within months (or maybe even weeks), someone will come up with a patch. (Guess I'd better register vistadvdcrack.com today
What is the use of logging data, when you don't do anything with it?
Take for example Samir Azzouz (Dutch). At age 17 he went to Russia to fight in the jihad. A year later he is arrested again for planning a terrorist attack. At his home, the police found detailed maps of the primary Dutch airport and a nuclear power plant as well as explosives and weapons. The police has all the evidence.
Just the fact that Samir used the wrong fertilizer and that he does not have the financial resources to perform a big attack, was enough for the judge to release Samir.
What good is logging data, when you got all the proof and the terrorist, yet you release him because "he hasn't done it yet"?
That's not really a surprise. For home-users, having media player is almost a requirement. A media-player-less windows would be much more suitable in a business environment. But unfortunately, XP N is based on XP Home, which is not usable in a corporate network. Besides, both the XP and XP N versions costing exactly the same makes XP N less interesting. The only ones who would be happy with people paying the same for less, would be Real etc.
Fine for you. I prefer both WM's to be threated equally like SuSE 10 does. So gnome lovers can use gnome, and kde lovers can use kde. I've been using KDE since version 1 on RedHat, on Slackware and recently I switched to SuSE. But the minute SuSE abandons KDE, I'll switch back to Slackware or Gentoo.
And for my users at the office: they just ajusted to KDE. I will NOT let them switch to yet another platform. If the next version of SuSE lacks perfect support of KDE, any new computer will probably have Mandriva installed.
KDE is not an option, it's a requirement.
Open source is open source, no matter what platform. But on windows it doesn't feel like open source. Because windows does not come with a compiler installed, most people don't even consider recompiling. And of course, the compiler is payware. Unless you use cygwin-GCC, which (if i'm correct) produces binaries that require cygwin.dll.
You may put it as a joke, but that's so true.
Other products that have rediculous taxes are imported by the thousands. DVD-R(W)s, CD-R(W)s, sigarettes, alcohol... You can order anything online. And receiving such stuff by mail is fully legal for a private person.
Personally, my guess is that this has something to do with next friday... april 1st...
Just downloaded it. This CD is great! The "insert and go" character of the CD makes it very useful.
.ssh directory should not be placed on the desktop! :)
Only one comment: the
No, of course not. :(
You'll get sued for violating the DMCA if you even try
The article doesn't. But the source code at Securiteam.com shows you can insert any piece of code you like.
I don't see a link to the sample exploit in the article...
well, here is one link.
However I absolutely hate spam in every way, I think this ruling is rediculous. It's even restricting freedom of speech. Can the german government tell you how to answer to a http request?
Also: With regular email spam, the unwanted message is PUSHED to the victim, eating the victims bandwidth. Here, the victim (search engine spider) is pulling data from the server. If they don't want spam, don't use the meta tags.
Please, everybody! Please remove the source code from the internet ASAP before SCO sees it and claims ownership!!
I submitted that HOURS ago.
:)
Some dutch magazine visited the Lindows.com press release page. The url of that page was something like lindows.com/page?id=25. They increased the ID by 1 and tadaaa, hours before the official announcement, there it was.
$168 a week? Cool! I'll do it!
:) /dev/null.
Psst.. don't tell the spammers: I'll fix the spamming problem by putting a black hole transparent proxy between the machine running their program and the internet...
Anything they'll try to mail gets sent straight to
No, not really, but it'd be a nice way to cheat them...