What people seem to be forgetting is that VirtualPC is a pentium emulator for the PowerPC chip. If MS wanted to do something like 'classic' they would not have to emulate the processor. What they COULD do with VirtualPC is write a version of windows that would run on a PowerPC chip, but still be backwards compatible with old versions of Windows, via emulation. If all they wanted to do was run an old version of windows inside of the current OS, it would be much simpler, and faster, to not go as in depth as a full processor emulator.
Well, the grandparent was implying that Secunia was reporting mostly bugs in OSS, and therefore should not be listened to, I was just pointing out that ANY news is good. If this exploit had been publicized 5 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about this now.
Let the debate begin: Life would be better/worse/the same if 90% of users used HTTP clients based on Mozilla because...
You are right to a point, having close to 100% saturation by any software is a security risk. That is why they took some of the root DNS servers off of bind. The biggest problem with IE is that they use their market share to impose standards that suit them on the world. If there was a more even distribution of browsers out there, no one would have a majority and all of the browsers would have to conform to standards, or fade away.
I've lost faith in Secunia, they seem to love pointing out security holes in open-source products. So I just ignore them now.
Does this make the point less valid? The open-source community seems to react quickly to criticism like this, so my guess is there will be a fix quickly.
When I go to see a movie in the theatre, I pay more for the 'experience' then the actual movie. Why would you ruin a potentially great movie like "Return of the King" by watching some crappy DIVX-over-compressed copy of it?
Ummm... There are a lot of people who don't live in an area that has broadband service. It's changing, quickly, but it's not 100% yet, so don't assume someone who uses dialup is just doing it to save money.
And then there are the people who get free dialup through their school or work.
I agree with cait56. Oil is a commodity, if you think there is a real difference between Texaco gas and Exxon Gas, you are fooling yourself.
Music, on the other hand, is not. If you like listening to Madonna, there is no real substitute for that, and Madonna's publishing company has a true monopoly on Madonna's music.
What I hope, is that this new form of distribution will allow for more independent artists to come out of the woodwork, they would really benefit from this form of distribution because they would not have to share as much money with the record companies.
But, the copyright holder of a GPLed work is willing to grant you the right to make copies of your own if you agree to do it by the terms of the GPL. If you don't agree to it, then just go right on ahead using the software however you like to the extent of the law.
But how would one obtain a 'copy' of the work without agreeing to the GPL in the firstplace. By your definition, by downloading the software, you are agreeing to the GPL.
That might be true if it is a EULA. But the GPL is an offer beyond copyright law. Code is copyrighted without any licence attached at all (Ãven the (c) is optional now under the standard rules), so it can certainly not be public domain.
Does anyone know what would happen if I wrote some code and put it on the 'net with a disclaimer saying "Don't download this unless you pay me $100" but did no effort to prevent anyone from doing so? If 10 million people downloaded it and started using it all over the place, and I tried to sue the 10 million and first person, I would assume that the lack of enforcement would be enough to put the code into the public domain. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Why is it bad business? I don't get why it would hurt Linksys to release the source code.
It is my guess that Linksys didn't realize what they were getting themselves into, and are not prepared to release the source. If pressure comes on from people like the FSF, they will probably release it and call it good, and life will go on.
The iPod looks just like a firewire HD, the mp3s are stored in a hidden directory. Came in handy when I had to use the iPod as a backup to my main collection of mp3s, just went to the command line and copied everything back over.
The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.
There are rumors of a windows version of iTunes in the work.
Similarly, they yanked at one point the Chimes Of Death(doo wee do doooooo) that accompanied the dead-mac(and error code dump), usually caused by severe hardware or software problems during booting in older macs. It genuinely freaked people out(I know it scared the shit out of me the first time i heard it.)
Heh, I remember my science teacher in high school getting those when he accidently plugged his keyboard into a s-video port (or something of the like) They were pretty cool. I do remember it took some real problems to get the sad mac.
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Somebody mentioned farther up the post that that is spelled "googol".
From WordNet (r) 1.7:
googol
n : a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros
(ten raised to the power of a hundred)
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02):
googol
The number represented in base-ten by a one with
a hundred zeroes after it.
According to Webster's Dictionary, the name was coined in 1938
by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American
mathematician, Edward Kasner.
See also googolplex.
(2001-03-29)
The article also mentions that a password would be needed in the token. So, if the token is a watch, I would assume that if you took it off, a new password entry would be needed.
The "switcher" versions of Mac where you could still see other windows is probably the first version seen by many people.
Yay, multifinder!
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And the idiocy extends into the GUI portion as well. They ship a utility called "Disk Copy" that does everything EXCEPT copy a disk. This is intuitive?
Ummm, I use disk copy to copy CDs all the time....
YES! That is it exactly....I am a mac user and I use a logitech cordless optical mouse, that has 3 buttons and a scroll on it. That is my preference, on the other hand, if I wanted to use a 1 button mouse, I CAN! How many PC users could use a 1 button mouse?
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What people seem to be forgetting is that VirtualPC is a pentium emulator for the PowerPC chip. If MS wanted to do something like 'classic' they would not have to emulate the processor. What they COULD do with VirtualPC is write a version of windows that would run on a PowerPC chip, but still be backwards compatible with old versions of Windows, via emulation. If all they wanted to do was run an old version of windows inside of the current OS, it would be much simpler, and faster, to not go as in depth as a full processor emulator.
Well, the grandparent was implying that Secunia was reporting mostly bugs in OSS, and therefore should not be listened to, I was just pointing out that ANY news is good. If this exploit had been publicized 5 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about this now.
Let the debate begin: Life would be better/worse/the same if 90% of users used HTTP clients based on Mozilla because...
You are right to a point, having close to 100% saturation by any software is a security risk. That is why they took some of the root DNS servers off of bind. The biggest problem with IE is that they use their market share to impose standards that suit them on the world. If there was a more even distribution of browsers out there, no one would have a majority and all of the browsers would have to conform to standards, or fade away.
I've lost faith in Secunia, they seem to love pointing out security holes in open-source products. So I just ignore them now.
Does this make the point less valid? The open-source community seems to react quickly to criticism like this, so my guess is there will be a fix quickly.
When I go to see a movie in the theatre, I pay more for the 'experience' then the actual movie. Why would you ruin a potentially great movie like "Return of the King" by watching some crappy DIVX-over-compressed copy of it?
Ummm... There are a lot of people who don't live in an area that has broadband service. It's changing, quickly, but it's not 100% yet, so don't assume someone who uses dialup is just doing it to save money.
And then there are the people who get free dialup through their school or work.
-Zeal17
I agree with cait56. Oil is a commodity, if you think there is a real difference between Texaco gas and Exxon Gas, you are fooling yourself.
Music, on the other hand, is not. If you like listening to Madonna, there is no real substitute for that, and Madonna's publishing company has a true monopoly on Madonna's music.
What I hope, is that this new form of distribution will allow for more independent artists to come out of the woodwork, they would really benefit from this form of distribution because they would not have to share as much money with the record companies.
-Zeal17
But, the copyright holder of a GPLed work is willing to grant you the right to make copies of your own if you agree to do it by the terms of the GPL. If you don't agree to it, then just go right on ahead using the software however you like to the extent of the law.
But how would one obtain a 'copy' of the work without agreeing to the GPL in the firstplace. By your definition, by downloading the software, you are agreeing to the GPL.
That might be true if it is a EULA. But the GPL is an offer beyond copyright law. Code is copyrighted without any licence attached at all (Ãven the (c) is optional now under the standard rules), so it can certainly not be public domain.
Does anyone know what would happen if I wrote some code and put it on the 'net with a disclaimer saying "Don't download this unless you pay me $100" but did no effort to prevent anyone from doing so? If 10 million people downloaded it and started using it all over the place, and I tried to sue the 10 million and first person, I would assume that the lack of enforcement would be enough to put the code into the public domain. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Why is it bad business? I don't get why it would hurt Linksys to release the source code. It is my guess that Linksys didn't realize what they were getting themselves into, and are not prepared to release the source. If pressure comes on from people like the FSF, they will probably release it and call it good, and life will go on.
They say that a langauge can be judged partly on how many people use it
...or, god forbid, COBOL.
Watch out, you might be seen as supporting Visual Basic (although the partly might give you some cover).
The iPod looks just like a firewire HD, the mp3s are stored in a hidden directory. Came in handy when I had to use the iPod as a backup to my main collection of mp3s, just went to the command line and copied everything back over.
And the Creative Nomads have been able to store it since before the iPod existed. So what?
His point is that being able to store files should not be listed as a feature of why the Creative product is better. (Read the parent)
The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.
There are rumors of a windows version of iTunes in the work.
Heh, I remember my science teacher in high school getting those when he accidently plugged his keyboard into a s-video port (or something of the like) They were pretty cool. I do remember it took some real problems to get the sad mac.
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The article also mentions that a password would be needed in the token. So, if the token is a watch, I would assume that if you took it off, a new password entry would be needed.
-Zeal
The article mentions that it encripts the disk cache.
-Zeal
I'm using OSX 10.2 on my G4 450 (AGP graphics) and it works great. I got 512 mgs of ram. So, I would check that out again...
-Zeal17
Ummm, maybe it was HP when they noticed that Sony's box was cheaper and more useful?
...like when you went shopping for that new sterio system and found that being able to play CD-Rs was a FEATURE that you had to pay extra for?
-Zeal17
Yeah, people didn't need more than 640K of RAM, either...
Thankfully people with your lack of vision don't run the company.
Heh, Bill Gates said the original quote. (Some time ago)
-Zeal17
The "switcher" versions of Mac where you could still see other windows is probably the first version seen by many people.
Yay, multifinder!
-Zeal17
And the idiocy extends into the GUI portion as well. They ship a utility called "Disk Copy" that does everything EXCEPT copy a disk. This is intuitive?
Ummm, I use disk copy to copy CDs all the time....
-Zeal17
YES! That is it exactly....I am a mac user and I use a logitech cordless optical mouse, that has 3 buttons and a scroll on it. That is my preference, on the other hand, if I wanted to use a 1 button mouse, I CAN! How many PC users could use a 1 button mouse?
-Zeal17