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win 2k and win xp properly maintained don't crash. anyone who says otherwise is spreading fud.
Rubbish. Anyone who uses 2000/XP for video editing or other high load applications will tell you it often has problems, crashes and lockups under heavy CPU/RAM utilisation. Likewise, there are plenty of applications, including MS Office, that can take down the OS when they fail.
You can make a rootkit for any OS, even a minimal microkernel, unless your OS runs out of ROM
This is part of the real answer to most of these security issues. Design an OS with a clear separation of OS, application and data spaces.
Make the OS space entirely ROM, and only updateable through a replacement ROM (DVD or similar cheap media), application space hardware locked to read only by default, but unlockable with a removable USB crypto key for installs. Make the data spaces RW, but include some form of versioning in the FS to protect the user from accidents.
Obviously, some applications need to autostart, so there needs to be a single, simple, clearly visible (to the user), autostart list in the data space. Likewise, config settings are also data, and need to be stored in non-geek human readable form in the data space. The emphasis must be on simple, readable config settings. It's the machine's job to read human data, not a human's job to read machine data.
If you remove the places in the operating system where malware can make itself invisible, you remove the malware.
Is the drunken Australian hooligan audio feed available for all TV shows?
Mate, if you line me up with a couple of cartons, munchies, a decent big screen and a comfy couch, you can have a live Aussie hooligan feed on whatever channel you want to tune in to...
Even if it is legal it is still a scam leeching off resources for little apparent gain to anyone other than the fee collector
I can't really argue with your assessment of the fee scale, but I wouldn't consider it particularly onerous. http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.html. In any case, it doesn't look like it's benefiting any individual (Linuxmark is registerd as a non-profit), so maybe they are using the cash to build a war chest in case litigation is required.
As stated in our articles of incorporation, The Linux Mark Institute ("LMI") is an organization established "to protect the public and Linux® users of the world from unauthorized and confusing use of the Linux mark and to issue proper licenses to authorized users of the Linux mark." LMI is not designed to generate profits for anyone, which is why Linus Torvalds has given LMI primary sub-license rights for the mark. We work to protect legitimate uses of the LINUX trademark without burdening Linus Torvalds or any one entity with the financial responsibility of protecting the LINUX community's use of the mark.
Why are we necessary?
The express and only purpose of this organization is to set up a simple, self-funding procedure by which interested companies and individuals developing Linux operating system products and those desiring to sell services, accessories and related Linux paraphernalia can obtain a non-exclusive and simple trademark license for the proper use of the mark.
The counsel that Linux Australia instructed, a jovial fellow (who also is a right proper geek) named Jeremy Malcolm, has been toiling away at this for some time now. He recently resolved some outstanding confusion (mostly just crossed wires between all the unpaid volunteers involved on various sides of whichever your favourite ocean is), and is putting together the final pieces of the puzzle that will resolve the issue properly. Part of that was a sending a letter to various people around the country who might happen to be using Linux professionally, asking them to indicate their knowledge of the international trademark and their support of it.
The law is the same in the USA, and you have to pay higher fees over there. http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.html
The requirement for payment to use the Linux trademark section of this story isn't an Australian issue, it's the freaky lawyer who sent out the letters of demand that make this story interesting. He's not all bad though, he's had some success fighting spammers http://zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Perth_man_wi ns_T3_spam_case/0,39023166,20269057,00.htm,
and it looks like this current venture is intended to protect the Linux trademark rather than being a scam. I'd say there's a fair chance the bulk of the fees collected in Australia will go to the US based parent organisation anyway.
Homicide rates are regarded as a key balanced metric for violent crime (ie, not heavily influenced by variants of law). US homicide rates vary widely by region, but their average of about 10 homicides per 100,000 people is high in the context of region and comparative wealth (Canada is 1.7/100,000, for example). Washington DC's homicide rate of 45.8/100,000 is more than a hundred times that of the capital of the European Union, Brussels http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/homtrnd.htm http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html#world
I have two main sites, one mostly corporate tech, (primarily risk management & reliability) and one recreational (our band and other local live music). The corporate site has been consistently between 85-90% IE and about 5-7% Mozilla variants for several months.
The music site has been much less consistent, but last month was about 60-65% IE, 25-30% Mozilla. Mozilla's been climbing, but this month's figures don't look like they'll be much higher than last month
The numbers there are too small to infer much, except that the type of site you're running has a huge impact on the type of browser your visitors use.
Aluminum cases keep your system cooler than standard steel cases.
Perhaps, but silver, gold and platinum have much better thermal conductivity than aluminium, and diamonds are best of all.
Any case modder worth their salt should be building silver cases inlaid with gold and platinum heatsinks, encrusted with diamonds for those thermally sensitive areas.
It would be a good way to encourage recycling as well.
Macromedia's own tool for converting Word etc to web pages is Contribute http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/prod uctinfo/overview/. It would be an easy tool to set up so the users could do their own updates, or you could keep it to yourself.
Another option would be to use Microsoft's own tools for the job. Infopath/Sharepoint are intended as a toolchain for getting Office documents to inter/intranets, but they'd be harder (and more expensive) to set up.
Where I come from, we keep our oceans alongside our seas. None of this fancy layers of ocean and sea stacked up like a pile of pancakes. That's just ostentatious, that is.
Only a few months ago I read from a respectable psychiatric source (and I wish I could find you a link right now) that more than 10% of those in 'political' life likely suffer from a form of narcassistic psychopathic personality disorder.
You're probably thinking of Dr. Sam Vaknin's, Narcissistic Leaders. My favorite topical quote;
"The typical narcissist has a short attention span and believes that the world is a random, menacing place."
C'mon...if someone wanted to know where their one and only power plant was
Lucas Heights isn't a power plant, and only barely qualifies as a nuclear reactor. It's a research reactor that's mostly used to make medical and industrial isotopes, and barely gets above 50 degrees Celsius when operating. I suspect it would be a very low priority target for anyone who wanted to do actual damage to Australia.
Someone who's a real VMS geek can probably offer more examples
I've been away from VMS too long to call myself a real geek, but what I miss most when I'm using other OSs is the consistency.
Commands mean what you think and work the way you expect. The Procedure Calling Standard makes coding in different languages a breeze. The versioning file system saved my arse more than once too...
And of course, there was always EDT..
Trouble is, most of that sort of stuff is the result of solid design, and can't just be ported over. Adding a clever command shell to Windows is a good step, and from what I've seen, Monad has potential to be a very clever CLI, but it's resting on a system which was never designed to be as solid as VMS.
I've heard Longhorn/Vista described as the result of a collision between VMS and OSX Tiger, and while there's an element of truth there, I'd say the bits that survived the impact aren't the ones which make VMS so rock solid.
A firewall is already built into any major distro.
He installs Office
Open Office or Koffice are already installed with any major distro.
He installs anti-virus software
What virus would that be for?
he installs games and filesharing programs and iTunes and a ton of other things
GTK Gnutella is normally installed, commercial games tend to have their own installers, don't know about iTunes, but there's probably a Linux equivalent already installed.
Unless you're talking about Linux. Then, may God bless his poor little soul, because if he doesn't have synaptic or smart set up properly, he's going to be SOL.
I suppose what you're saying here is that women won't have the same comprehension problems as us blokes. Still, it's not hard even for men. The Yast 2 package manager is used to install software on a Suse distro. It's not complicated, and has little pictures for people who don't read too well.
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win 2k and win xp properly maintained don't crash. anyone who says otherwise is spreading fud.
Rubbish. Anyone who uses 2000/XP for video editing or other high load applications will tell you it often has problems, crashes and lockups under heavy CPU/RAM utilisation. Likewise, there are plenty of applications, including MS Office, that can take down the OS when they fail.
Anyone who says otherwise is astroturfing.
You can make a rootkit for any OS, even a minimal microkernel, unless your OS runs out of ROM
This is part of the real answer to most of these security issues. Design an OS with a clear separation of OS, application and data spaces.
Make the OS space entirely ROM, and only updateable through a replacement ROM (DVD or similar cheap media), application space hardware locked to read only by default, but unlockable with a removable USB crypto key for installs. Make the data spaces RW, but include some form of versioning in the FS to protect the user from accidents.
Obviously, some applications need to autostart, so there needs to be a single, simple, clearly visible (to the user), autostart list in the data space. Likewise, config settings are also data, and need to be stored in non-geek human readable form in the data space. The emphasis must be on simple, readable config settings. It's the machine's job to read human data, not a human's job to read machine data.
If you remove the places in the operating system where malware can make itself invisible, you remove the malware.
Is the drunken Australian hooligan audio feed available for all TV shows?
Mate, if you line me up with a couple of cartons, munchies, a decent big screen and a comfy couch, you can have a live Aussie hooligan feed on whatever channel you want to tune in to...
I can't really argue with your assessment of the fee scale, but I wouldn't consider it particularly onerous. http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.html. In any case, it doesn't look like it's benefiting any individual (Linuxmark is registerd as a non-profit), so maybe they are using the cash to build a war chest in case litigation is required.
Other interesting links;
http://www.linuxmark.org/
http://builderau.com.au/program/work/soa/Suspicio
The law is the same in the USA, and you have to pay higher fees over there. http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.htmli ns_T3_spam_case/0,39023166,20269057,00.htm,
and it looks like this current venture is intended to protect the Linux trademark rather than being a scam. I'd say there's a fair chance the bulk of the fees collected in Australia will go to the US based parent organisation anyway.
The requirement for payment to use the Linux trademark section of this story isn't an Australian issue, it's the freaky lawyer who sent out the letters of demand that make this story interesting. He's not all bad though, he's had some success fighting spammers http://zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Perth_man_w
Homicide rates are regarded as a key balanced metric for violent crime (ie, not heavily influenced by variants of law). US homicide rates vary widely by region, but their average of about 10 homicides per 100,000 people is high in the context of region and comparative wealth (Canada is 1.7/100,000, for example).
Washington DC's homicide rate of 45.8/100,000 is more than a hundred times that of the capital of the European Union, Brussels
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/homtrnd.htm
http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html#world
How about posting some numbers?
I have two main sites, one mostly corporate tech, (primarily risk management & reliability) and one recreational (our band and other local live music). The corporate site has been consistently between 85-90% IE and about 5-7% Mozilla variants for several months.
The music site has been much less consistent, but last month was about 60-65% IE, 25-30% Mozilla. Mozilla's been climbing, but this month's figures don't look like they'll be much higher than last month
The numbers there are too small to infer much, except that the type of site you're running has a huge impact on the type of browser your visitors use.
OSRM is going to be the US agent for the insurance.
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I wonder if this had anything to do with Bruce Perens' attack on the Open Source Development Labs' patent commons project a few days ago.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/13/1
Aluminum cases keep your system cooler than standard steel cases.
Perhaps, but silver, gold and platinum have much better thermal conductivity than aluminium, and diamonds are best of all.
Any case modder worth their salt should be building silver cases inlaid with gold and platinum heatsinks, encrusted with diamonds for those thermally sensitive areas.
It would be a good way to encourage recycling as well.
The 64 hit ones appear to be supported. (I'm assuming that's a typo on the FreeBSD site) ;
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/
Oddly, ball pein users seem to be completely out of luck at this stage. Probably a driver issue
$300 * oodles = a drop in the ocean at Google. It's not about the money.
The money would add up to $25-30 million. That may not seem like a lot of cash to you, but I'd still get out of bed for it.
it'll be about having thousands of petabytes effectively as an extension of your brain.
What's the point of having a brain the size of a planet if you have a pain in all the diodes down your left side?
or straight to dreamweaver (code view)
d uctinfo/overview/. It would be an easy tool to set up so the users could do their own updates, or you could keep it to yourself.
Macromedia's own tool for converting Word etc to web pages is Contribute http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/pro
Another option would be to use Microsoft's own tools for the job. Infopath/Sharepoint are intended as a toolchain for getting Office documents to inter/intranets, but they'd be harder (and more expensive) to set up.
There are areas of the US where you could blow a crater the size of the whole state of RI and nobody would mind.
New Jersey's not that big.
Properly patched and firewalled Windows box is at no higher risk then a Linux box.
Sure it is, as long as you're using the Linux box to firewall it and download the patches.
Undersea oceans and ocean floors.
Where I come from, we keep our oceans alongside our seas. None of this fancy layers of ocean and sea stacked up like a pile of pancakes. That's just ostentatious, that is.
If you consider the earth a closed system, then it is a zero sum game.
Only once we've maxed out our resource use. I don't think we're there yet. Nice try at a copout though.
You're probably thinking of Dr. Sam Vaknin's, Narcissistic Leaders. My favorite topical quote;
Sound familiar?
C'mon...if someone wanted to know where their one and only power plant was
Lucas Heights isn't a power plant, and only barely qualifies as a nuclear reactor. It's a research reactor that's mostly used to make medical and industrial isotopes, and barely gets above 50 degrees Celsius when operating. I suspect it would be a very low priority target for anyone who wanted to do actual damage to Australia.
Someone who's a real VMS geek can probably offer more examples
I've been away from VMS too long to call myself a real geek, but what I miss most when I'm using other OSs is the consistency.
Commands mean what you think and work the way you expect. The Procedure Calling Standard makes coding in different languages a breeze. The versioning file system saved my arse more than once too...
And of course, there was always EDT..
Trouble is, most of that sort of stuff is the result of solid design, and can't just be ported over. Adding a clever command shell to Windows is a good step, and from what I've seen, Monad has potential to be a very clever CLI, but it's resting on a system which was never designed to be as solid as VMS.
I've heard Longhorn/Vista described as the result of a collision between VMS and OSX Tiger, and while there's an element of truth there, I'd say the bits that survived the impact aren't the ones which make VMS so rock solid.
How the hell this virus writers execute it on Vista B1 is a mystery to me.
Download it from beta.microsoft.com, install it, then run it, maybe?
I had some too just to say I did. It was actually pretty good.
I tried some as well. It was OK - better than koala bear, but dolphin is definitely nicer.
He installs Firefox
Already installed with any major distro.
He installs Zone Alarm
A firewall is already built into any major distro.
He installs Office
Open Office or Koffice are already installed with any major distro.
He installs anti-virus software
What virus would that be for?
he installs games and filesharing programs and iTunes and a ton of other things
GTK Gnutella is normally installed, commercial games tend to have their own installers, don't know about iTunes, but there's probably a Linux equivalent already installed.
Unless you're talking about Linux. Then, may God bless his poor little soul, because if he doesn't have synaptic or smart set up properly, he's going to be SOL.
I suppose what you're saying here is that women won't have the same comprehension problems as us blokes. Still, it's not hard even for men. The Yast 2 package manager is used to install software on a Suse distro. It's not complicated, and has little pictures for people who don't read too well.