I downloaded about ~ 300 kb (very slow) and did a zcat on the tar. So far it looks like automake stuff, so it looks like source code.
13 MB is quite a lot if you compare it to 22 MB for the source of MySQL itself. I also wondered that he took "create table april "... as example. That points toward a prank...
...it will make spoofing IP-addresses impossible...
No. It secures DNS. So you cant spoof domain names. It secures that the DNS Server is authorative so the DNS query was answered right. If somebody spoofes an IP in your network, you won't be saved.
Ok. They own the copyright. I was not clear about the term "ownership".
What I wanted to line out is, even if they "own" it, after being GPLv2 licensed, anybody can use it under GPLv2 terms. And only if all that tools get GPLv3 licensed AND contributions are done, Novell gets into trouble.
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much of the code that makes up a complete Linux distribution is owned by the FSF, which intends to re-license all its code to GPL v3 as soon as it is completed in early 2007
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WTF? I know its GNU/Linux...but it does not mean that FSF "owns" it. And I dont believe that the GPLv2 to GPLv3 transition will leed to a gap between GPLv2 and GPLv3 userlands.
But yes, Novell (and the SuSE distro they bought) will have to life with the stigma having a deal with MS.
One thing that may not be mentioned specifically in the article: it is recommended you NOT use the 32mb Memory Stick that came with the PSP, as the process creates alot of log files that can fill it up, possibly causing a brick.
How on earth could they code an update process that fills up an 32 MB Flash? A Firmware itself is about 18 Megs + a Loader (3 MB), a program (~5 MB), how on earth can you write a log file that grows on 5 Megabyte? Writing a bit for every byte going to the flash-rom? They could write them to RAM anyway.
If its turned to a brick, a log wouldnt help you with the Sony Support anyway.
Company president Ashwin Navin told ZDNet yesterday: "We're sensitive to people calling their software BitTorrent to achieve a certain level of popularity in order to distribute spyware and adware."
As long as the Software is not using the trade mark BitTorrent within its name, it should not be affected. And many have names distinct names... (like Azureus)
First, only the "orginal" wikipedia (not really orginal, there is still nupedia. the one with american english language) is using this semi-locking.
Sorry, but _there are_ other big wikipedias out there even without any control to american laws. Even CIA can't change pages on that (but they could kidnap wales of course).
Second, locking big pages that are changed daily by pranks does not mean you can't change them. Is registration such a big step? Even your IP is not really anonymous unless you use a proxy like tor.eff.org. Just give wikipedia and get editor yourself before moaning here on/.
Even if this are minor new features I would like them to implement new stuff only with major updates. This updates changes the GUI, imagine you deploy a Open Office version within a company network and minor updates (that might be required due to a bug) change important dialogs.
Many people will call IT support to get information for such minimal changes that have big impacts.
I like to have such improvements, but only within "real" version increments.
I ment ISP not only in the sense of beeing a customer on "the download side". The effects of such bandwith limits is even more interesting if you provide some service.
You are totally dependant from your upstream. If level3 would deside that AOL is a stupid ISP and does not pay its bill soon enough, my page would be served slower for some time.
It is so stupid to even think about having laws that have two (2) tiers. The internet IS already split to all the big transfer ISPs (level3, mci/uunet, cogent, etc) and giving them some room to legally limit transfer will leed to crazy rules within their routers (if they can overall do it with their current routers).
Of course access to your mailbox is faster if its your ISP. But if MSN starts slowing down Gmail, Google limits it Wireless (and more to come) *SP routes to Hotmail customers will ask, "do you limit my bandwith".
Customers rule to a creatin level and hey.....
We speak about America.
They researched the internet but it is not a reason to think some stupid bill will change the world. Just go to an canadian ISP (or server farm) than. Or Mexico. There are countrys with no cable internet at all.
Because so many feds are using blackberry, they won't shutdown their network anyway. They have plans to switch, so it does not matter how many silly patents are valid or not.
As European, i still don't get what is so new to the Blackbarry "called" push technology. We have text messaging for years (called SMS here) and now that it transmits eMail, they patent it.
It just shows that software patents suck by definition.
true. most of the anonymous IP edits are changed by the editors that monitor them.
only minimal changes, which can be dramatic, are not changed due to nobody knows that the fact is false.
There is a blocking feature already and it makes sense to protect some of the pages which are changed to often (Like GW Bush, or 9-11 and similar). Even on that pages you can still contribute.
It is a open dictionary, but nobody claimed ever that there would be no control on it.
btw. even slashdot adpoted some stupid graphics to protect posts just as everybody discusses it on WP.
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I must think about NAT and proxys if people tell me about IPs. Most of them don't know the difference between 127.0.0.1 and all the other crazy numbers that manage the internet and their LAN.
But suddendly, if money is involed, all this suit wearing managers start to say stuff like somebody has to do something. It seems to be true that they have been tricked. Even that it is indeed a problem of Google.
But only they can do a grep/sql statement on their little databases that stores all the cookie-ip-requests log data.
I like the idea but if it just a swarm of balls, they might inspect a cave one time only. If like 1000 Balls hop arround and 200 explore a cave, they might all roll down into a big hole all together. They need some rover or insect like master that collects their sensor information. If they are the size of a tennis ball they can't store much energy and can not send their data for long distance.
I tried RC1 and now I swichted at my work PC to RC3, too.
It checks if your plugins are working and gets you the latest updates (in my case adblock+ and pdf download).
Compared to the 1.4 debian package it renders pages much faster, but (at least with Linux) the font rendering changed a bit. Even this textarea text is now smoothed (a bit to much for my taste) but I enoy the speed.
Good work Mozilla. I can't wait to see the source to look if they cleaned it up yeat. Last time I built mozilla from scratch is was filled with switches which where not supported for ages (like native qt support).
Suns way of supporting Open Source Software on their architecture ist quite interesting. With Support for Apache and PostgreSQL they have a full suite to support websides from small to enterprise (as PostgreSQL is a bit more "enterprise" ready).
What I wonder is if you should get such support and just use it as fallback for your problems on different architectures. That way you could test if your problem is specific to your setup and if you can reproduce it, you can use Suns fix and port it back to your real problem.
Are there any other big vendors with such specific OSS support?
Most direct disc access (antivirus) or "personal firewall" products install theirself as driver between the physical and logical layer.
This leads to many problems like stuff found recently in almost all Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus products. Because Zonealarm licenced the same software, they were affected, too.
Just because Linus does not share the same opinion on the importance of this issue this does not mean that he is an dictator.
Colin needs to cool down a bit. At least the Linux distros (SuSE, Red Hat, etc are the ones which will get a problem from affected systems) are going to get patches for it. From Linus or any other Kernel developer.
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You should see this video (204 MB MPEG4) of a 23C3 Speech/Screening featuring biometric interfaces in SciFi movies.
13 MB is quite a lot if you compare it to 22 MB for the source of MySQL itself. I also wondered that he took "create table april "... as example. That points toward a prank...
No. It secures DNS. So you cant spoof domain names. It secures that the DNS Server is authorative so the DNS query was answered right. If somebody spoofes an IP in your network, you won't be saved.
I have four computer, but non of them shows bot-net activity!
thats an evil monopoly!
What I wanted to line out is, even if they "own" it, after being GPLv2 licensed, anybody can use it under GPLv2 terms. And only if all that tools get GPLv3 licensed AND contributions are done, Novell gets into trouble.
But I am not sure if all projects will do so.
WTF? I know its GNU/Linux...but it does not mean that FSF "owns" it. And I dont believe that the GPLv2 to GPLv3 transition will leed to a gap between GPLv2 and GPLv3 userlands.
But yes, Novell (and the SuSE distro they bought) will have to life with the stigma having a deal with MS.
How on earth could they code an update process that fills up an 32 MB Flash? A Firmware itself is about 18 Megs + a Loader (3 MB), a program (~5 MB), how on earth can you write a log file that grows on 5 Megabyte?
Writing a bit for every byte going to the flash-rom? They could write them to RAM anyway.
If its turned to a brick, a log wouldnt help you with the Sony Support anyway.
As long as the Software is not using the trade mark BitTorrent within its name, it should not be affected. And many have names distinct names ... (like Azureus)
There are of course some pros that wikipedia is based in america. but it could even exist if it would have been founded in mexico for example.
Sorry, but _there are_ other big wikipedias out there even without any control to american laws. Even CIA can't change pages on that (but they could kidnap wales of course).
Second, locking big pages that are changed daily by pranks does not mean you can't change them. Is registration such a big step? Even your IP is not really anonymous unless you use a proxy like tor.eff.org. Just give wikipedia and get editor yourself before moaning here on /.
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Many people will call IT support to get information for such minimal changes that have big impacts.
I like to have such improvements, but only within "real" version increments.
You are totally dependant from your upstream. If level3 would deside that AOL is a stupid ISP and does not pay its bill soon enough, my page would be served slower for some time.
Of course access to your mailbox is faster if its your ISP. But if MSN starts slowing down Gmail, Google limits it Wireless (and more to come) *SP routes to Hotmail customers will ask, "do you limit my bandwith".
Customers rule to a creatin level and hey.....
We speak about America.
They researched the internet but it is not a reason to think some stupid bill will change the world. Just go to an canadian ISP (or server farm) than. Or Mexico. There are countrys with no cable internet at all.
As European, i still don't get what is so new to the Blackbarry "called" push technology. We have text messaging for years (called SMS here) and now that it transmits eMail, they patent it.
It just shows that software patents suck by definition.
only minimal changes, which can be dramatic, are not changed due to nobody knows that the fact is false.
There is a blocking feature already and it makes sense to protect some of the pages which are changed to often (Like GW Bush, or 9-11 and similar). Even on that pages you can still contribute.
It is a open dictionary, but nobody claimed ever that there would be no control on it.
btw. even slashdot adpoted some stupid graphics to protect posts just as everybody discusses it on WP.
But suddendly, if money is involed, all this suit wearing managers start to say stuff like somebody has to do something. It seems to be true that they have been tricked. Even that it is indeed a problem of Google.
But only they can do a grep/sql statement on their little databases that stores all the cookie-ip-requests log data.
I like the idea but if it just a swarm of balls, they might inspect a cave one time only. If like 1000 Balls hop arround and 200 explore a cave, they might all roll down into a big hole all together. They need some rover or insect like master that collects their sensor information. If they are the size of a tennis ball they can't store much energy and can not send their data for long distance.
Good work Mozilla. I can't wait to see the source to look if they cleaned it up yeat. Last time I built mozilla from scratch is was filled with switches which where not supported for ages (like native qt support).
What I wonder is if you should get such support and just use it as fallback for your problems on different architectures. That way you could test if your problem is specific to your setup and if you can reproduce it, you can use Suns fix and port it back to your real problem.
Are there any other big vendors with such specific OSS support?
But Microsoft buying AOL would make a company more eval than.. (remember M$ is already the most evil company, or was it Google nowadays?)
No More AOL CDs would have send the Millions CDs to Redmond then...that would be fun indeed.
I can't wait for my AOL CD with Windows Vista trial on it.
This leads to many problems like stuff found recently in almost all Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus products. Because Zonealarm licenced the same software, they were affected, too.
This is just one example of many :
So many well known enterprice Antivurs/Firewall companys create drivers that lead to security flaws and it is not limited to Windows....
Colin needs to cool down a bit. At least the Linux distros (SuSE, Red Hat, etc are the ones which will get a problem from affected systems) are going to get patches for it. From Linus or any other Kernel developer.
The point is that most servers system don't allow you to execute system calls which you could exploit.
You need at least root/administrator privileges to get stuff from the OS memory.
So before you can exploit the system you must have access to the system it self.
It is an "local" kind of "root exploit" if you can read from the system memory of other processes if the claim is true.