First, start up regedit.exe and look for "msblast". You should find two entries: one in HKeyLocalMachine and another in HKeyUser. Delete both of them.
This POS is residing in C:\WINNT\System32 as msblast.exe(on Win2k); you will not be able to delete it. It runs as a process on the system, and you also won't be able to shut it down. But you can cut off its legs by disabling its ability to inherit from the system. Right click and select properties, then select the Security tab, and unselect Allow This Program To Inherit From the System. I also selected the Advanced button and chose Deny for all users and permissions on the system. It's dead now.
Carl Zetie, an analyst with Forrester Research, said software companies need to focus on the importance of building up their brands...
I sense that this isn't the solution, it comprises much of the problem. Proprietary SW companies are all about upholding their brand, keeping their marketing mojo moving in the eyes of consumers. People don't know what the game is about, which is getting them to part with their money on a lick and a promise. Only if you screw people badly enough will your name be tarnished, if the SW is reasonably decent.
It has probably been supplanted by the
NCIC database, which is used by law enforcement agencies in every jurisdiction.
M.A.T.R.I.X. appears to go far beyond what's in NCIC, which is a database of wanted felons or felony suspects. It essentially is an implementation of Total Information Awareness on the state level. It figures that Bushie's brother Jebuzon would be overseeing its implementation, but the article also states that Sen. Bob Graham-- a presidential candidate and a leading critic of the federal government's handling of the intelligence they had surrounding the 9/11 attacks-- was also consulted while this system was being created.
An open source desktop OS of whatever kind won't succeed, either, if you can't demonstrate that you have apps that people need and want. As far as Linux, etc. have come, it still isn't as easy for what you might call 'stupid lusers' to run. Of course, I don't call my consulting clients 'stupid lusers', and I have to face the reality that they're still running Windows. In the migration path to open source, it's going to be the applications that come first, then the OS.
As a VB 6 developer currently, I couldn't disagree more with your view of Mono and.NET. I have made the decision not to move to.NET. My next development platform will be either Java or open source or a combination of both. I think it will be a better solution to go with Python/wxWindows, which is available for both Windows and Linux, for desktop development, and not be dependent on Microsoft. I think if this is the reason that Novell is buying Ximian, they have just become another lemming. I always thought that Ximian was making a mistake hitching its wagon to Microsoft's horse. People will not buy into Mono if it is a subset of.NET-- as it always will be. History has shown that if you are successful in playing the game against Microsoft, they will bite back hard. Novell should know by this time.
That's how you may feel, but if open source software is going to get more acceptance, a Windows port would be a good idea. That's the desktop OS that people are using now, and if desktop software is going to be created, you'd better have a Windows port, like it or not, if you want a user base of any size.
The author of the article describes a tactic that I have been using to get people interested in OSS: don't tell people about Linux, tell them about some great applications that are also free. People will be won over to open source apps, one user at a time, and the important point is exposing people to the software and what it can do, not telling them that it's "free as in beer".
I think the world has developed enough now, that we no longer need religion as a deterrent. It serves more as a tool for discrimination/fanaticism, rather than what it was intended for.
As one who is both unapologetically Christian and unapologetically free-thinking, it seems to me like our task is to develop our conception of God to catch up with the new picture of the world around us, instead of trying to make our world conform to the picture of God we find in the Bible or other sacred texts. I share your reservations about what religious conviction asks of people, in terms of exclusion and discrimination. For me, though, there can be no doubt about a higher power, but we must look to the mystics to give us an insight into something we will never completely know or understand, something beyond the anthropomorphic God.
As for The Matrix movies, anybody with a brain can't help but note that Neo takes on the role of the Messiah or Anointed One. His ability not to "die" even when he is "shot" stretches the bounds of what we perceive to be normal human capacities.
If you bothered to check the HarperCollins page you linked to, you would see that they are actually owned by News Corp.-- yes, the right wing folks who also run Fox Broadcasting. They are not owned by the Mormon Church.
Does this mean that SCO is a Mormon K-O-N-spiracy, too, because they are also headquartered in Utah? Not likely.
Interesting link. Just today, I have begun to look at the Qu'ran from a literary/historical angle, to find out more about Islam and the scripture that has so shaped much of the world. The work of the Jesus Seminar might interest campers who find the book on the KJV Bible to be interesting. Their book on the Five Gospels and The Complete Gospels (which includes the translation of the Five Gospels) provide an excellent look into the literary origins of the Gospels and a window into the nature of early Christianity. Finally, may I recommend the
HarperCollins Study Bible for those who want an annotated, historical view of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures-- with a modern translation, too.
"SSHHHH! You're giving away all our secrets!
The next thing you'll be telling people is that America was founded as a secular nation, not a "Christian country"".
--the Religious Right
You can sense that while he [Don Box] knows.NET version 1 is an improvement over COM, it's not as good as it could be and things are still be done in v2 and beyond
This could be an interesting read. The reviewer's comment on Box's impression of.NET confirms the wisdom of my decision not to be an early adopter of.NET, if I take it up at all. Although Box is a MS-centric developer, he discusses the issues involved in app development with candor as well as detail.
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I agree with the premise of your header, but some of the points you make are off-base. Namely:
However, trying to ARTIFICIALLY extend the monopoly past its possible lifespan or use your position to gouge customers is not allowed by antitrust laws.
Yes, but this is just what the baby bells are trying to do with local phone service-- lock out competition.
So who regulated the environment, but liberal legislators who wanted to promote (ding, ding, ding) FAIRNESS.
Correct, to keep said monopoly from abusing their monopoly power. I don't know that it is necessarily liberal lawmakers who were responsible for regulating utilities, but those who believed in regulating them as a matter of enlightened public good.
The irony is that the mess that is our current copyright law was introduced under the Carter administration.
The copyright law that Doc speaks of is the Sony Bono Copyright Extension Act, passed in 1998.
I kind of wonder if we are reading the same article. Doc isn't advocating the protection of any companies, least of all the large media conglomerates. He is advocating making the Internet a piece of public infrastructure, like the highways, instead of turning it into a private channel owned by the conglomerates as a way to "gorge people on goods and make them poop out dollars".
"jealous"? Which is what I am at the moment. Of course, Japan is a small, densely-populated nation, and I imagine this is a relatively easy network to set up and get customers for-- You'll have a lot of people close to the backbone. More power to Mr. Son-- I sincerely hope it works out as a business proposition.
For this kind of thing, you need a secure server. If the code for our vote server is open, then anybody can hack it. Great, we just elected Osama president because some terrorists hacked the Linux vote server.
Um, the issue is about what client machines online voters would be using. The voting apparently would be browser-based, so it really shouldn't matter which server is being used, much less which OS on the client, or which web browser. We're talking about a government system here, so anything that gets beyond the pilot program from the military should be browser- and OS- agnostic. Citizens shouldn't be required to use Windows to get government services.
I know a lot of people will respond to flame me, saying that couldn't ever happen because Muslims don't have computers or some racist garbage like that, but it's just not true. I think there are a lot of "hackers" out there who would be more than willing to help them. Remember, Linux is a european operating system. A lot of 'them' have it in for us...
...yadayadayada. Yeah, Guido van Rossum and Linus and Alan Cox are all in a big K-O-N-spiracy to bring down the U.S. And SuSE is a German company and Mandrake is a French company; boy, we know how much they dislike us. Puh-leez. If Francophobia or Europhobia is driving software decisions in our government, something is seriously wrong.
I gotta go with Microsoft security on this one
An oxymoron if I ever heard one. There's a much greater chance of an exploit happening with Windows/IE than there is with any other combination of OS and browser. It's a fact.
[forgive me Lord, I couldn't resist; after Matt. 3]
In those days, Richard Stallman appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming, "Repent, for the kingdom of free software has come near." This is the one of whom the prophet spoke when he said, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: prepare the way of Linus, make his paths straight". Now Stallman wore clothing consisting of worn-out jeans and a T-shirt with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was pizza and Jolt. Then the people of Berkeley and all of Silicon Valley were going out to him, and all of the region along the Bay, and they were baptized by him in the swimming pool, confessing their sins.
But when he saw many Microsofties and Appleites coming for baptism, he said to them, "You spawn of Satan! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentence. Do not presume to say to yourselves, "We have Altair as our ancestor"; for I tell you, The Computer God is able from these circuit boards to raise up children to Altair. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the btrees; every btree that does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire."
"I baptize you with water for repentence, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sneakers. He will baptize you with The Kernel and an email. His code fork is in his hand, and he will clear the threshing floor and gather the software into distros; but the vaporware he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Uh-huh. Sure. Good luck with that. What 'crimes' did Clinton commit again? Oh yeah, 'perjury'
Clinton not telling the truth in a civil case totally unrelated to carrying out the duties of the office of President pales in comparison to Nixon's crimes:
Attempting to dig up dirt on Daniel Ellsberg, the author of the Pentagon Papers, who was going to reveal Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969
In his utter paranoia over re-election, attempting to subvert the electoral process by approving the bugging of his political opponents, and engaging in skulduggery against Democratic candidates, Ed Muskie in particular
After the burglars who attempted this illegal monitoring were caught, he attempted to cover up his administrations connection to the burglars
Engaging in what essentially was bribe-taking (remember the milkmen?)
I think to this day it burns up the 'Publicans that they didn't get anything on Clinton, unless their aim was to drag his name through the mud-- and they can't really claim any credit for that. Clinton's mistakes in his private life are his own. That they ever became grounds for impeachment is totally ludicrous. Nixon, on the other hand, failed to do what Bushie is attempting to do: subvert our democracy. Bushie found a convenient excuse: the "war of Scare-orism". Only a diligent citizenry will keep him from succeeding.
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First, start up regedit.exe and look for "msblast". You should find two entries: one in HKeyLocalMachine and another in HKeyUser. Delete both of them.
This POS is residing in C:\WINNT\System32 as msblast.exe(on Win2k); you will not be able to delete it. It runs as a process on the system, and you also won't be able to shut it down. But you can cut off its legs by disabling its ability to inherit from the system. Right click and select properties, then select the Security tab, and unselect Allow This Program To Inherit From the System. I also selected the Advanced button and chose Deny for all users and permissions on the system. It's dead now.
From the article:
Carl Zetie, an analyst with Forrester Research, said software companies need to focus on the importance of building up their brands...
I sense that this isn't the solution, it comprises much of the problem. Proprietary SW companies are all about upholding their brand, keeping their marketing mojo moving in the eyes of consumers. People don't know what the game is about, which is getting them to part with their money on a lick and a promise. Only if you screw people badly enough will your name be tarnished, if the SW is reasonably decent.
It has probably been supplanted by the NCIC database, which is used by law enforcement agencies in every jurisdiction.
M.A.T.R.I.X. appears to go far beyond what's in NCIC, which is a database of wanted felons or felony suspects. It essentially is an implementation of Total Information Awareness on the state level. It figures that Bushie's brother Jebuzon would be overseeing its implementation, but the article also states that Sen. Bob Graham-- a presidential candidate and a leading critic of the federal government's handling of the intelligence they had surrounding the 9/11 attacks-- was also consulted while this system was being created.
LMAO-- I would mod you funny if I had points.
I see a lot of campers want to engage in "cyber-jihad" against SCO. I have just one thing to say to them:
SCO, GO STRAIGHT TO HELL
DO NOT PASS "GO"
DO NOT COLLECT $699
Actually, this would make a good body for some emails ;)
An open source desktop OS of whatever kind won't succeed, either, if you can't demonstrate that you have apps that people need and want. As far as Linux, etc. have come, it still isn't as easy for what you might call 'stupid lusers' to run. Of course, I don't call my consulting clients 'stupid lusers', and I have to face the reality that they're still running Windows. In the migration path to open source, it's going to be the applications that come first, then the OS.
As a VB 6 developer currently, I couldn't disagree more with your view of Mono and .NET. I have made the decision not to move to .NET. My next development platform will be either Java or open source or a combination of both. I think it will be a better solution to go with Python/wxWindows, which is available for both Windows and Linux, for desktop development, and not be dependent on Microsoft. I think if this is the reason that Novell is buying Ximian, they have just become another lemming. I always thought that Ximian was making a mistake hitching its wagon to Microsoft's horse. People will not buy into Mono if it is a subset of .NET-- as it always will be. History has shown that if you are successful in playing the game against Microsoft, they will bite back hard. Novell should know by this time.
That's how you may feel, but if open source software is going to get more acceptance, a Windows port would be a good idea. That's the desktop OS that people are using now, and if desktop software is going to be created, you'd better have a Windows port, like it or not, if you want a user base of any size.
The author of the article describes a tactic that I have been using to get people interested in OSS: don't tell people about Linux, tell them about some great applications that are also free. People will be won over to open source apps, one user at a time, and the important point is exposing people to the software and what it can do, not telling them that it's "free as in beer".
I'm impressed with the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. Categorized, and in color... I just might get the CD.
I think the world has developed enough now, that we no longer need religion as a deterrent. It serves more as a tool for discrimination/fanaticism, rather than what it was intended for.
As one who is both unapologetically Christian and unapologetically free-thinking, it seems to me like our task is to develop our conception of God to catch up with the new picture of the world around us, instead of trying to make our world conform to the picture of God we find in the Bible or other sacred texts. I share your reservations about what religious conviction asks of people, in terms of exclusion and discrimination. For me, though, there can be no doubt about a higher power, but we must look to the mystics to give us an insight into something we will never completely know or understand, something beyond the anthropomorphic God.
As for The Matrix movies, anybody with a brain can't help but note that Neo takes on the role of the Messiah or Anointed One. His ability not to "die" even when he is "shot" stretches the bounds of what we perceive to be normal human capacities.
If you bothered to check the HarperCollins page you linked to, you would see that they are actually owned by News Corp.-- yes, the right wing folks who also run Fox Broadcasting. They are not owned by the Mormon Church.
Does this mean that SCO is a Mormon K-O-N-spiracy, too, because they are also headquartered in Utah? Not likely.
Interesting link. Just today, I have begun to look at the Qu'ran from a literary/historical angle, to find out more about Islam and the scripture that has so shaped much of the world. The work of the Jesus Seminar might interest campers who find the book on the KJV Bible to be interesting. Their book on the Five Gospels and The Complete Gospels (which includes the translation of the Five Gospels) provide an excellent look into the literary origins of the Gospels and a window into the nature of early Christianity. Finally, may I recommend the HarperCollins Study Bible for those who want an annotated, historical view of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures-- with a modern translation, too.
"SSHHHH! You're giving away all our secrets!
The next thing you'll be telling people is that America was founded as a secular nation, not a "Christian country"".
--the Religious Right
You're right. So any doubt implied about how good the house's products are is interesting.
You can sense that while he [Don Box] knows .NET version 1 is an improvement over COM, it's not as good as it could be and things are still be done in v2 and beyond
This could be an interesting read. The reviewer's comment on Box's impression of .NET confirms the wisdom of my decision not to be an early adopter of .NET, if I take it up at all. Although Box is a MS-centric developer, he discusses the issues involved in app development with candor as well as detail.
I agree with the premise of your header, but some of the points you make are off-base. Namely:
However, trying to ARTIFICIALLY extend the monopoly past its possible lifespan or use your position to gouge customers is not allowed by antitrust laws.
Yes, but this is just what the baby bells are trying to do with local phone service-- lock out competition.
So who regulated the environment, but liberal legislators who wanted to promote (ding, ding, ding) FAIRNESS.
Correct, to keep said monopoly from abusing their monopoly power. I don't know that it is necessarily liberal lawmakers who were responsible for regulating utilities, but those who believed in regulating them as a matter of enlightened public good.
The irony is that the mess that is our current copyright law was introduced under the Carter administration.
The copyright law that Doc speaks of is the Sony Bono Copyright Extension Act, passed in 1998.
I kind of wonder if we are reading the same article. Doc isn't advocating the protection of any companies, least of all the large media conglomerates. He is advocating making the Internet a piece of public infrastructure, like the highways, instead of turning it into a private channel owned by the conglomerates as a way to "gorge people on goods and make them poop out dollars".
"jealous"? Which is what I am at the moment. Of course, Japan is a small, densely-populated nation, and I imagine this is a relatively easy network to set up and get customers for-- You'll have a lot of people close to the backbone. More power to Mr. Son-- I sincerely hope it works out as a business proposition.
[Please take the following mostly tongue-in-cheek]
Yes, and then the prophecies about the Antichrist will have come true.
Slightly OT, but have you ever read Revelation and substituted "Microsoft" for "Babylon"? Makes a mighty interesting read.
Um, the issue is about what client machines online voters would be using. The voting apparently would be browser-based, so it really shouldn't matter which server is being used, much less which OS on the client, or which web browser. We're talking about a government system here, so anything that gets beyond the pilot program from the military should be browser- and OS- agnostic. Citizens shouldn't be required to use Windows to get government services.
I know a lot of people will respond to flame me, saying that couldn't ever happen because Muslims don't have computers or some racist garbage like that, but it's just not true. I think there are a lot of "hackers" out there who would be more than willing to help them. Remember, Linux is a european operating system. A lot of 'them' have it in for us...
...yadayadayada. Yeah, Guido van Rossum and Linus and Alan Cox are all in a big K-O-N-spiracy to bring down the U.S. And SuSE is a German company and Mandrake is a French company; boy, we know how much they dislike us. Puh-leez. If Francophobia or Europhobia is driving software decisions in our government, something is seriously wrong.
I gotta go with Microsoft security on this one
An oxymoron if I ever heard one. There's a much greater chance of an exploit happening with Windows/IE than there is with any other combination of OS and browser. It's a fact.
My bud shadowbearer was just being helpful! I guess I'd better consult Bartlett's next time, to keep from bringing other people to grief.
In those days, Richard Stallman appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming, "Repent, for the kingdom of free software has come near." This is the one of whom the prophet spoke when he said, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: prepare the way of Linus, make his paths straight". Now Stallman wore clothing consisting of worn-out jeans and a T-shirt with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was pizza and Jolt. Then the people of Berkeley and all of Silicon Valley were going out to him, and all of the region along the Bay, and they were baptized by him in the swimming pool, confessing their sins.
But when he saw many Microsofties and Appleites coming for baptism, he said to them, "You spawn of Satan! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentence. Do not presume to say to yourselves, "We have Altair as our ancestor"; for I tell you, The Computer God is able from these circuit boards to raise up children to Altair. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the btrees; every btree that does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into a fire."
"I baptize you with water for repentence, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sneakers. He will baptize you with The Kernel and an email. His code fork is in his hand, and he will clear the threshing floor and gather the software into distros; but the vaporware he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Thanks. Forgot who it was. --mrk
Clinton not telling the truth in a civil case totally unrelated to carrying out the duties of the office of President pales in comparison to Nixon's crimes:
I think to this day it burns up the 'Publicans that they didn't get anything on Clinton, unless their aim was to drag his name through the mud-- and they can't really claim any credit for that. Clinton's mistakes in his private life are his own. That they ever became grounds for impeachment is totally ludicrous. Nixon, on the other hand, failed to do what Bushie is attempting to do: subvert our democracy. Bushie found a convenient excuse: the "war of Scare-orism". Only a diligent citizenry will keep him from succeeding.
A great man once said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels". To put it mildly.
[clicks heels, extends arm] Ja wohl! Heil Busch!