...buy a SCO licence, have SCO slap a lawsuit on you anyway?? How do they expect to sell licences after this insanity?? Kinda a matter of shooting oneself in the foot.
And BTW, on the "up for quite some time now" subject, the site says "The Dell Linux Engineering team is pleased to announce the launch of a new web site" on 1/12/04, but they do also mention how much of the information has been out on the web and is migrating to the new site.
This story is hardly news. In fact, this site has been up for quite some time now. Dell's had a Linux on PowerEdge(servers) mailing list for quite some time now, and you can purchase a PowerEdge preloaded with RedHat Enterprise. They even mirror the LKML there. And, interestingly enough, a decent chunk of Dell Employees (myself included) subscribe to these mailing lists.
Yeah, since there's only 3 of them, and the nearest one to me is 11 hours away! Sounds like a wonderful plan! Spend $80+ on gas to get there to play games for a couple hours at $.05 or $.10 a pop! Heh!
However, I can't help but feel a bit ashamed that the largest OEM in the industry shifted all consumer phone support overseas,
Not paying attention, are you? Dell's closing all 3 call centers in India, and bringing all its support back to the US. Shame on the misinformed moron that modded this insightful. Dell doesn't support spyware removal because they don't support software. They only support software inasmuch as it is required for proper hardware functioning.
being called a minion. I think articles need to stop the little bits of piss-poor spin and just report the truth. Editorializing does nothing more than tell your readers they don't know how to think for themselves. At least find out the reasons behind the story before you post inflammatory articles.
Dell's got good reasons for not recommending a specific spyware package. Those reasons are....we don't support software! We support hardware and the restoration of software to the state in which it came from the factory. We don't reccommend spyware for the same reason that we don't take users into the registry, i.e. we've seen what happens then far too often. Some spyware removal tools blindly remove registry keys which may be used by actually useful programs, thus creating MORE tech support problems when users call us saying "Why won't my whizz-bang screensaver work anymore?? It worked before you had me run that spyware program!" So, in the end, our not recommending a spyware package saves us time, and prevents tech support calls dealing solely with software issues, which, as I already noted, we don't support. We only support software to the extent that software supports the hardware. Maybe, that's because we're a hardware manufacturer, not a software development firm. It's not our job.
Source: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [amazon.com], by investigative reporter Greg Palast.
Sounds more like the best Imagination money can buy. Seriously, you left-winger $#!+s with your extreme anti-republican conspiracy theories are bigger crackpots than the Area 51'ers and the 2'nd gunman-ers. Wake up to reality, folks.
These aren't the only two places with such reversals of fortune - how does your region fare?
Pretty badly, since most of my country's jobs are getting shipped out to Bangalore...
Let's hear a hooray for American capitalism!!
"Jose, would you say we had a 'plethora' of security holes?"
"Uhh...si...si, El Guapo, we have a plethora..."
"Jose, do you even know what a 'plethora' is??"
"Uhh...no, El Guapo..."
Don't know if Comcast (my ISP) ended up disabling it or not, nor do I know if my local mom'n'pop did, but I know I had it disabled within hours of hearing about it. Simple routing table rules in MacOSX and Linux, and an easy hostfile line for everything else took care of it. Glad to see it come down so soon after inception though.
Yeah, but the warning dialog is conspicuously missing a "Cancel" button.
But it's just a prototype, probably with no functionality, at this point. Knowing the MS "user experience", there'll probably be about 10 non-descriptive buttons on the thing by the time it's live code.
I, for one, particularly like the idea of being notified before my browser loads an ActiveX control. Sounds to me like a feature that should already be in the browser for security purposes anyway. Yes, I know it's a user changeable option, but honestly, how many "Joe Sixpack" users know the option's there anyway, much less what it means?
How long until we're able to moderate stories, as well as comments? Seriously, this article could be moderated as -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait, or -1 redundant in a heartbeat. Metamoderation would catch the mod points wasted by moderating it +1 insightful, or +1 informative. Let's see it happen.
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Wow! That's amazing! I have the same SSID on my luggage!!!
Text MMO....isn't that more commonly called a MUD??? O_o
When do I get to see the GODDAMN SAILBOAT!!!!
...buy a SCO licence, have SCO slap a lawsuit on you anyway?? How do they expect to sell licences after this insanity?? Kinda a matter of shooting oneself in the foot.
And BTW, on the "up for quite some time now" subject, the site says "The Dell Linux Engineering team is pleased to announce the launch of a new web site" on 1/12/04, but they do also mention how much of the information has been out on the web and is migrating to the new site.
This story is hardly news. In fact, this site has been up for quite some time now. Dell's had a Linux on PowerEdge(servers) mailing list for quite some time now, and you can purchase a PowerEdge preloaded with RedHat Enterprise. They even mirror the LKML there. And, interestingly enough, a decent chunk of Dell Employees (myself included) subscribe to these mailing lists.
Oh, I thought he was talking about the Sweedish Chef... (bork, bork, bork)
Grr...no link....let's try again.
webpagesthatsuck.com's demo of this exploit
webpagesthatsuck.com has a demonstration of this exploit already in action.
Find the closest Wunderland or Nickel City.
Yeah, since there's only 3 of them, and the nearest one to me is 11 hours away! Sounds like a wonderful plan! Spend $80+ on gas to get there to play games for a couple hours at $.05 or $.10 a pop! Heh!
The RIAA also claims that its tactics are actually working -- to increase awareness and reduce online piracy..."
...but not to increase sales...
However, I can't help but feel a bit ashamed that the largest OEM in the industry shifted all consumer phone support overseas,
Not paying attention, are you? Dell's closing all 3 call centers in India, and bringing all its support back to the US. Shame on the misinformed moron that modded this insightful. Dell doesn't support spyware removal because they don't support software. They only support software inasmuch as it is required for proper hardware functioning.
being called a minion. I think articles need to stop the little bits of piss-poor spin and just report the truth. Editorializing does nothing more than tell your readers they don't know how to think for themselves. At least find out the reasons behind the story before you post inflammatory articles.
Dell's got good reasons for not recommending a specific spyware package. Those reasons are....we don't support software! We support hardware and the restoration of software to the state in which it came from the factory. We don't reccommend spyware for the same reason that we don't take users into the registry, i.e. we've seen what happens then far too often. Some spyware removal tools blindly remove registry keys which may be used by actually useful programs, thus creating MORE tech support problems when users call us saying "Why won't my whizz-bang screensaver work anymore?? It worked before you had me run that spyware program!" So, in the end, our not recommending a spyware package saves us time, and prevents tech support calls dealing solely with software issues, which, as I already noted, we don't support. We only support software to the extent that software supports the hardware. Maybe, that's because we're a hardware manufacturer, not a software development firm. It's not our job.
Source: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [amazon.com], by investigative reporter Greg Palast. Sounds more like the best Imagination money can buy. Seriously, you left-winger $#!+s with your extreme anti-republican conspiracy theories are bigger crackpots than the Area 51'ers and the 2'nd gunman-ers. Wake up to reality, folks.
These aren't the only two places with such reversals of fortune - how does your region fare? Pretty badly, since most of my country's jobs are getting shipped out to Bangalore... Let's hear a hooray for American capitalism!!
Not so loud!! The DRM implementers will hear your ideas and actually put them into practice!
"Jose, would you say we had a 'plethora' of security holes?" "Uhh...si...si, El Guapo, we have a plethora..." "Jose, do you even know what a 'plethora' is??" "Uhh...no, El Guapo..."
Don't know if Comcast (my ISP) ended up disabling it or not, nor do I know if my local mom'n'pop did, but I know I had it disabled within hours of hearing about it. Simple routing table rules in MacOSX and Linux, and an easy hostfile line for everything else took care of it. Glad to see it come down so soon after inception though.
I, for one, particularly like the idea of being notified before my browser loads an ActiveX control. Sounds to me like a feature that should already be in the browser for security purposes anyway. Yes, I know it's a user changeable option, but honestly, how many "Joe Sixpack" users know the option's there anyway, much less what it means?
My first guess would be additional (front-panel style) USB ports and front panel connections such as the power switch, HDD LED's, etc.
.....Bwwaaaahhhh!!! Hahahahaha!!...ummm.....bwaah ha ha!! No..seriously...my response is...coming...as soon as I....can stop.......BWWAAAHHAHAHAHA!
How long until we're able to moderate stories, as well as comments? Seriously, this article could be moderated as -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait, or -1 redundant in a heartbeat. Metamoderation would catch the mod points wasted by moderating it +1 insightful, or +1 informative. Let's see it happen.
Damn good thing I got into the habit of starting with x++ when I was in college! for (int x; x numberOfSCOLawsuits(int); x++){ ignore(wildClaim); }
Aww, c'mon! It's easier than that to short stock! All you have to do is connect the positive end to the negative end...