actually? that's precisely the distinction that Bill is making in the post.
The point is that the software itself is still the exact same thing (the genuine article) regardless of the legitimacy of its license. The *license* may not be genuine and Microsoft would be using the word 'genuine' in its dictionary sense if what we were talking about here were the "Microsoft Genuine Software Licenses Initiative". "Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative" implies that an unlicensed copy of Windows is somehow really a copy of some other operating system that's merely had MS branding applied to it to help it sell.
The Nation's Matt Bivens has an interesting take on the state of mind of the folks who would behave like this during the cold war: spooky triumphs. Of course, one could easily argue that this *was* the nature of the cold war.
I third this one. As the other folks have mentioned, the spire bag is rugged, has lots of pockets, etc. It is also insanely comfortable to wear. The laptop is safely suspended in the middle of the bag so it is not against your back when, say, riding a bike. I've ridden over 500 miles with mine on my back and it is terrific. I've carried a powerbook G4 (tibook), white ibook, and aluminum 12" powerbook all safely and snugly. great.
Why hasn't Disney ever sued SCO for having used a portion of Mickey's head in the Caldera logo for so long?
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My team runs just under 6 dozen web and database servers ( Solaris and Linux ) for the University of Michigan using an open source system management suite called 'radmind' and I can't say enough good things about it ( I'm not one of its developers, so I can get away with this ): fast, secure, stable, standards based, and makes a little thing like patching several dozen servers a breeze ( though... what kind of freak patches in the middle of the day? ).
Incidentally, the CTO of loudcloud ( a.k.a. opsware ) is Tim Howes, of LDAP fame and formerly of the UMich RSUG ( the same group that has since developed radmind ). small world.
Excluding mutually authenticated ssl sessions, how can I trust that the document I'm reading is the document I tried to download? The tangle service is already modifying the page to add its navigation links, so why not change the content too ( e.g. remove content that users might find offensive, replace ads on popular pages with ads that you've sold, change links to documents you host, etc. )? The same really goes for any proxy or cache service, and I'm not accusing these good people of doing this, but how do we protect ourselves from services that would as more of them appear?
This is a joke? Delete any of the X11 poop if it somehow got installed, turn off inetd, kill and delete anything that isn't part of the machine's intended use, remove any unnecessary hardware, strip down the kernel ( if necessary ) and boot scripts, patch, use something like radmind to push this out to all of your machines, and then monitor.
A vastly superior response, ( and significantly less carcinogenic ) if you feel so strongly about this, is to contact Pixar/Disney, let them know how upset you are, and that you won't be giving them any more money. Then sell your old DVDs and videotapes, unburned, on eBay ( or whatever ) to someone who might otherwise have given that money to the wrong Mouse.
as others have said, this is neither news nor specific to OSX. Solaris 2.6, Solaris 8, and AIX 3.4 all exhibit the same behavior.
Maybe this is a security issue, maybe it isn't. MacOS X comes with sshd and telnetd disabled. Unless you turn these on I'll need physical access to your box to even begin a brute force attack. Of course, if I have physical access to your machine I'm already done and don't give a hoot what your precious 8 character password was.
Point taken, but you may want to take a quick refresher course in IBM history and corporate culture. To say "the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" does not even begin to capture it. Something like "the right hand doesn't know what the giant squid banana fish love Neptune" would be more like it.
Seriously, big blue is huge. I'd say there's little chance that the folks who shut down the hard drive division knew (or cared) that some branch of the research division were about to make an announcment like this.
I am one of the webmasters for the University of Michigan and my servers have been blocked from China for over a year. First they blocked just the IP addresses of our main servers (http://www.umich.edu/ & http://www-personal.umich.edu/) but when we moved our hosts to other IPs they blocked at least the entire subnet we use for public web servers. We get frantic e-mail from Chinese students all the time looking for access to our site so they can come here to study.
I hope triangle boy will help with this, but does anyone know of anything more proactive *I* could be doing?
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actually? that's precisely the distinction that Bill is making in the post.
The point is that the software itself is still the exact same thing (the genuine article) regardless of the legitimacy of its license. The *license* may not be genuine and Microsoft would be using the word 'genuine' in its dictionary sense if what we were talking about here were the "Microsoft Genuine Software Licenses Initiative". "Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative" implies that an unlicensed copy of Windows is somehow really a copy of some other operating system that's merely had MS branding applied to it to help it sell.
it isn't saturday afternoon in Europe or Asia, you insensitive clod! ;)
By what stretch of the imagination is CDE *not* "something goofy?" :)
The Nation's Matt Bivens has an interesting take on the state of mind of the folks who would behave like this during the cold war: spooky triumphs. Of course, one could easily argue that this *was* the nature of the cold war.
I third this one. As the other folks have mentioned, the spire bag is rugged, has lots of pockets, etc. It is also insanely comfortable to wear. The laptop is safely suspended in the middle of the bag so it is not against your back when, say, riding a bike. I've ridden over 500 miles with mine on my back and it is terrific. I've carried a powerbook G4 (tibook), white ibook, and aluminum 12" powerbook all safely and snugly. great.
Blech... licenses.
Why hasn't Disney ever sued SCO for having used a portion of Mickey's head in the Caldera logo for so long?
Kevin
My team runs just under 6 dozen web and database servers ( Solaris and Linux ) for the University of Michigan using an open source system management suite called 'radmind' and I can't say enough good things about it ( I'm not one of its developers, so I can get away with this ): fast, secure, stable, standards based, and makes a little thing like patching several dozen servers a breeze ( though ... what kind of freak patches in the middle of the day? ).
Incidentally, the CTO of loudcloud ( a.k.a. opsware ) is Tim Howes, of LDAP fame and formerly of the UMich RSUG ( the same group that has since developed radmind ). small world.
If you get the owners with their dogs in there, I bet they'd pay double!
or sue you, take your kite, and give your camera to the dog.
Excluding mutually authenticated ssl sessions, how can I trust that the document I'm reading is the document I tried to download? The tangle service is already modifying the page to add its navigation links, so why not change the content too ( e.g. remove content that users might find offensive, replace ads on popular pages with ads that you've sold, change links to documents you host, etc. )? The same really goes for any proxy or cache service, and I'm not accusing these good people of doing this, but how do we protect ourselves from services that would as more of them appear?
This is a joke? Delete any of the X11 poop if it somehow got installed, turn off inetd, kill and delete anything that isn't part of the machine's intended use, remove any unnecessary hardware, strip down the kernel ( if necessary ) and boot scripts, patch, use something like radmind to push this out to all of your machines, and then monitor.
This is exactly how I run my servers.
congratulations, you're a high-tech book burner.
A vastly superior response, ( and significantly less carcinogenic ) if you feel so strongly about this, is to contact Pixar/Disney, let them know how upset you are, and that you won't be giving them any more money. Then sell your old DVDs and videotapes, unburned, on eBay ( or whatever ) to someone who might otherwise have given that money to the wrong Mouse.
as others have said, this is neither news nor specific to OSX. Solaris 2.6, Solaris 8, and AIX 3.4 all exhibit the same behavior.
Maybe this is a security issue, maybe it isn't. MacOS X comes with sshd and telnetd disabled. Unless you turn these on I'll need physical access to your box to even begin a brute force attack. Of course, if I have physical access to your machine I'm already done and don't give a hoot what your precious 8 character password was.
kevin
Point taken, but you may want to take a quick refresher course in IBM history and corporate culture. To say "the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" does not even begin to capture it. Something like "the right hand doesn't know what the giant squid banana fish love Neptune" would be more like it.
Seriously, big blue is huge. I'd say there's little chance that the folks who shut down the hard drive division knew (or cared) that some branch of the research division were about to make an announcment like this.
Chances are they don't even know now.
that would explain why it otherwise appears to be a honeypot. ;)
I get that it is a beta and everything, but did this app seem incredibly slow to anyone else?
moof!
I am one of the webmasters for the University of Michigan and my servers have been blocked from China for over a year. First they blocked just the IP addresses of our main servers (http://www.umich.edu/ & http://www-personal.umich.edu/) but when we moved our hosts to other IPs they blocked at least the entire subnet we use for public web servers. We get frantic e-mail from Chinese students all the time looking for access to our site so they can come here to study.
I hope triangle boy will help with this, but does anyone know of anything more proactive *I* could be doing?
will I need a building permit and a *wink wink* licensed electrician to add a new jack to my home network?
:)
what happens to the signal in my ups?
ooh... I can store slashdot in my laptop's battery for reading on the plane.