that poet/author Sherman Alexie (ever see 'smoke signals', or read 'the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven'?) is from... i wonder if he had anything to do w/ this, or what his thoughts on it are.
I can just imagine his next story... "and thomas builds the fire had taken over the computer lab, and was passing out frybreads to all of the children, who before the lab was built would have been out playing basketball"
I browse w/ Mozilla FireFox. I block ad servers religiously, and I have the FlashBlock extension installed, which prevents flash from playing w/o my explicit consent. As far as my browsing goes, Microsoft is dumping revenue into a pro-Linux news site for content that/I never see/.
I got my current gig via CareerBuilder, at a software consulting firm. Took about 2 weeks to land this gig after leaving my last one.
There are so many variables involved in finding a job, though - experience, skill, education, locale, competition, time of year, etc etc - I don't know that you can patently say that any one methodology for finding employment is faulty, given the myriad variables involved.
Comcast wants $56 / month in my area, and they force their basic cable service on you with their broadband. If you don't want their illegally bundled product package, you can get just broadband for around $75/mo., which is totally idiotic. I filed a complaint w/ the FCC, which was followed up on by the FCC and Comcast, and in the end completely ignored by both parties. Comcast is allowed to illegally bundle their products according to the FCC. Yea FCC.
So, I took my complaint to one of Comcast's phone reps, who lowered my monthly broadband/cable charge to about $34/mo. Not quite sure how I talked her into doing that, but whatever a discount is a discount.
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Actually, Sequel was the name for the original Standard English Query language invented by IBM. SQL was the name of the second version of the language, also invented by IBM.
but the chip as well: http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,6106 5,00.ht ml?tw=wn_culthead_4
So, the new XBox will be called Next, and will be running a G5 chip.
Only thing left to happen now is for Apple to come out with a video game console running on an Intel P4 called "Apple ME", and we'll know for a fact that the whole world has gone to hell.
I *really* hope that IBM either aquires or buries this company. If MS is so overly interested in SCO, isn't there a threat that MS could purchase SCO? What if SCO *wants* to be purchased by MS? What would happen to Linux if MS owned the rights to UNIX? If IBM doesn't aquire them, perhaps RedHat, or Novell... any company other than MS.
Thats true - the banks/VCs might want a large portion of ownership for bankrolling the IPO.
However, given the personal nature of the company to the cofounders, it stands to reason that they would want to maintain ownership of it post-IPO. After all, the cofounders are still the owners, even though they've turned the CEO position over to an 'outsider'... why would they treat the IPO any differently?
Microsoft is a pretty bad double entendre - but, then again so is UNIX (which has almost the exact same pronunciation as eunuchs, which means "a castrated man".
Additionally, internet search is already imbedded into WindowsXP. MS can redevelop the user interface for this integration, but the integration is already there, and few are using it.
Right, but Google is only releasing 10 to 15 % of their shares, making it impossible for a hostile takeover to occur (at least, impossible on the street). MS would still need to 'bribe' senior management into selling their shares. MS can always go directly to serg/brin (who will be the majority shareholders) and offer to buy their shares, and thus the company... but they won't be able to do it over the market.
Compuserve, which is wholly owned by AOL, and branded as their 'aol - lite and cheaper' ISP service? Or, will 'netscape' be the new name for 'compuserve'?
Still playing Castle Wolfenstein, Archon and various Infocom games on my old Apple ][. I even have the case that you could get to haul the keyboard/diskdrive part around in, predating laptops. Actually, fwiw, its rather amusing using the old apple ][ c case for carrying modern laptops in... it has such an 80s look to it.
They should just paint the chip pink and put an SEP (Somebody Else's Problem) field around it - saves mucking about with all of that improbability stuff.
Doesn't Microsoft remember the.NET update fiasco they caused 2 years ago?
Installation of the.NET updates to XP, 2K, etc caused Windows PCs to lose the ability to access the web, launch certain applications (including little things like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express), and even raised stability issues with certain PCs. In certain cases, the rollback feature would not resolve the issue, and the OS had to be reinstalled.
Even the OEMs were *not* installing the.NET update patch on new PCs - Dell, HP, Compaq, et al - all recommended that users *stay away* from the.NET updates.
Given that even Microsoft cannot predict how their patches will behave once installed on their own OS, what are they thinking even considering updating automatically?
At first, I couldn't figure out why Task Manager suddenly stopped working. Launching TaskMan.exe resulted in an error message "Task Manager has been disabled by the Administrator".
Odd, I thought. I *am* the administrator.
I realized I had been hit by a virus or worm when I rebooted and the autoexec.bat file opened up during my login. Not good.
Norton didn't pick up on this one at all; furthermore, McAfee's online virus/worm searching tool found a related virus, but not the actual baddie.
The virus that McAfee located - which probably came in after the worm opened up all those ports in my firewall - were in \WINNT\msagent\intl. Basically, anything in that directory that *isn't* a.dll file, delete them.
The worm itself is in \WINNT\system32\, and is called 'msconfig[nn].exe', where [nn] is interchangeable with two numbers. Mine was 'msconfig35.exe', I've read reports on various forums of others w/ '32' and '33' after the 'msconfig'.
Be careful here, as this app will spawn identical, hidden copies of itself with random names (like 'dwigjenjig.exe' or 'zajdfanltef.exe'). The easiest way I found to discern between real MS files and the worm was by looking at the last modified date displayed by Explorer, vs the last modified date that pops up when you mouse over the file name. All of the worm files had discrepancies between the two.
A key aspect in IBM's countersuit is the fact that they are paying to enforce - in the courts - the GPL.
IANAL, but to my knowledge, IBM vs. SCO is the first such case where the legality of the GPL has been tested in the courts.
Should IBM be victorious (actually, 'when' IBM is victorious), it would be a momentous occassion for the GPL - any future litigation involving the GPL would have an established, well-known legal case from which to draw references.
The net outcome of this entire ordeal could be the overall strengthening of open source software w/in the US legal system. If the GPL has withstood court scrutiny, it could act as a 'selling point' for countless corporations, government agencies, et al in consideration of OSS deployment w/in their organizations, as now the unassuredness of the legality of such software would have been resolved.
Thank you for writing to us. We apologize for any problems you have encountered with BuyMusic.com. We appreciate your comments and suggestions and will use them to help improve our products and services when making future decisions. Thanks again for your feedback.
I just sent this email to Buy.com using your link: ------------------- I've purchased plenty of items from Buy.com in the past, but I have to let you know something.
I don't *ever* use Internet Explorer to do it.
In this day and age of web standards and the growing concern that all browsers and all websites comply, don't you think that Buy.com could be in a position to set a clear example in the business community on how to develop & deliver a web-based application that uses those standards?
Without standards, we *all* run the risk of one company creating a 'tax' on the internet. Seeing as the internet has grown and survived on a spirit of openness, anyone who creates a browser or website that does not follow the W3C standards is not only increasing the risk that one company could own or control the internet, but they develop in the face of the internet's very open nature.
Beyond losing a potential customer due to Buy.com's browser restrictions - I *never* use Internet Explorer - the example that you're setting in the online community and business community as a whole is a poor one at best... at worst, by playing favorites to a known monopolist company, Buy.com is thereby increasing the risk of a "Microsoft Internet Tax" becoming a reality.
On behalf of developers everywhere, I strongly encourage your to open your web sites and web services to *all* W3C standards-compliant web browsers, as well as to offer your downloadable music products in formats other than Microsoft's proprietary format.
In order to be compliant with web browsers, please refer to the free online information provided by the W3C at http://www.w3.org. A good way to test your site for standards compliance is to use a Mozilla/Gecko based browser, such as Mozilla Firebird v0.6, or Mozilla v1.4 - these can be downloaded at http://www.mozilla.org.
Suggested formats for your music products - in addition to Microsoft's proprietary format - would be MP3, Ogg Vorbis, et al.
Thank you for your time and attention. I hope you take these points seriously, and bring your site and services into compliance with the rest of the world, rather than isolating yourself in seclusion using only Microsoft techonologies.
------------------- thanks, btw for the link... hopefully they listen!!! (I realize the language isn't perfect... just wrote it out really fast, didn't edit it... anyhow)
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that poet/author Sherman Alexie (ever see 'smoke signals', or read 'the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven'?) is from... i wonder if he had anything to do w/ this, or what his thoughts on it are.
... "and thomas builds the fire had taken over the computer lab, and was passing out frybreads to all of the children, who before the lab was built would have been out playing basketball"
I can just imagine his next story
:)
I browse w/ Mozilla FireFox. I block ad servers religiously, and I have the FlashBlock extension installed, which prevents flash from playing w/o my explicit consent. As far as my browsing goes, Microsoft is dumping revenue into a pro-Linux news site for content that /I never see/.
guess no one @ MS has ever heard of xerox, or apple ...
I got my current gig via CareerBuilder, at a software consulting firm. Took about 2 weeks to land this gig after leaving my last one.
There are so many variables involved in finding a job, though - experience, skill, education, locale, competition, time of year, etc etc - I don't know that you can patently say that any one methodology for finding employment is faulty, given the myriad variables involved.
Actually, Leonardo Divinci invented the parachute, as well as the tank, machine gun, helicopter, and more.
Comcast wants $56 / month in my area, and they force their basic cable service on you with their broadband. If you don't want their illegally bundled product package, you can get just broadband for around $75/mo., which is totally idiotic. I filed a complaint w/ the FCC, which was followed up on by the FCC and Comcast, and in the end completely ignored by both parties. Comcast is allowed to illegally bundle their products according to the FCC. Yea FCC.
So, I took my complaint to one of Comcast's phone reps, who lowered my monthly broadband/cable charge to about $34/mo. Not quite sure how I talked her into doing that, but whatever a discount is a discount.
Actually, Sequel was the name for the original Standard English Query language invented by IBM. SQL was the name of the second version of the language, also invented by IBM.
r y/ techarticle/0301jones/0301jones.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/libra
but the chip as well:6 5,00.ht ml?tw=wn_culthead_4
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,610
So, the new XBox will be called Next, and will be running a G5 chip.
Only thing left to happen now is for Apple to come out with a video game console running on an Intel P4 called "Apple ME", and we'll know for a fact that the whole world has gone to hell.
Microsoft-funded initiative from SCO?
I *really* hope that IBM either aquires or buries this company. If MS is so overly interested in SCO, isn't there a threat that MS could purchase SCO? What if SCO *wants* to be purchased by MS? What would happen to Linux if MS owned the rights to UNIX? If IBM doesn't aquire them, perhaps RedHat, or Novell... any company other than MS.
Thats true - the banks/VCs might want a large portion of ownership for bankrolling the IPO.
... why would they treat the IPO any differently?
However, given the personal nature of the company to the cofounders, it stands to reason that they would want to maintain ownership of it post-IPO. After all, the cofounders are still the owners, even though they've turned the CEO position over to an 'outsider'
Microsoft is a pretty bad double entendre - but, then again so is UNIX (which has almost the exact same pronunciation as eunuchs, which means "a castrated man".
Additionally, internet search is already imbedded into WindowsXP. MS can redevelop the user interface for this integration, but the integration is already there, and few are using it.
lol - I think you beat me to the punch by a few seconds there Molt :)
Right, but Google is only releasing 10 to 15 % of their shares, making it impossible for a hostile takeover to occur (at least, impossible on the street). MS would still need to 'bribe' senior management into selling their shares. MS can always go directly to serg/brin (who will be the majority shareholders) and offer to buy their shares, and thus the company... but they won't be able to do it over the market.
Compuserve, which is wholly owned by AOL, and branded as their 'aol - lite and cheaper' ISP service? Or, will 'netscape' be the new name for 'compuserve'?
Still playing Castle Wolfenstein, Archon and various Infocom games on my old Apple ][. I even have the case that you could get to haul the keyboard/diskdrive part around in, predating laptops. Actually, fwiw, its rather amusing using the old apple ][ c case for carrying modern laptops in... it has such an 80s look to it.
They should just paint the chip pink and put an SEP (Somebody Else's Problem) field around it - saves mucking about with all of that improbability stuff.
Doesn't Microsoft remember the .NET update fiasco they caused 2 years ago?
.NET updates to XP, 2K, etc caused Windows PCs to lose the ability to access the web, launch certain applications (including little things like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express), and even raised stability issues with certain PCs. In certain cases, the rollback feature would not resolve the issue, and the OS had to be reinstalled.
.NET update patch on new PCs - Dell, HP, Compaq, et al - all recommended that users *stay away* from the .NET updates.
Installation of the
Even the OEMs were *not* installing the
Given that even Microsoft cannot predict how their patches will behave once installed on their own OS, what are they thinking even considering updating automatically?
"Otherwise, how will they exchange documents?"
XML ?
At first, I couldn't figure out why Task Manager suddenly stopped working. Launching TaskMan.exe resulted in an error message "Task Manager has been disabled by the Administrator".
.dll file, delete them.
Odd, I thought. I *am* the administrator.
I realized I had been hit by a virus or worm when I rebooted and the autoexec.bat file opened up during my login. Not good.
Norton didn't pick up on this one at all; furthermore, McAfee's online virus/worm searching tool found a related virus, but not the actual baddie.
The virus that McAfee located - which probably came in after the worm opened up all those ports in my firewall - were in \WINNT\msagent\intl. Basically, anything in that directory that *isn't* a
The worm itself is in \WINNT\system32\, and is called 'msconfig[nn].exe', where [nn] is interchangeable with two numbers. Mine was 'msconfig35.exe', I've read reports on various forums of others w/ '32' and '33' after the 'msconfig'.
Be careful here, as this app will spawn identical, hidden copies of itself with random names (like 'dwigjenjig.exe' or 'zajdfanltef.exe'). The easiest way I found to discern between real MS files and the worm was by looking at the last modified date displayed by Explorer, vs the last modified date that pops up when you mouse over the file name. All of the worm files had discrepancies between the two.
Hope that helps someone out there!
intelligent Post Office Employees...
A key aspect in IBM's countersuit is the fact that they are paying to enforce - in the courts - the GPL.
IANAL, but to my knowledge, IBM vs. SCO is the first such case where the legality of the GPL has been tested in the courts.
Should IBM be victorious (actually, 'when' IBM is victorious), it would be a momentous occassion for the GPL - any future litigation involving the GPL would have an established, well-known legal case from which to draw references.
The net outcome of this entire ordeal could be the overall strengthening of open source software w/in the US legal system. If the GPL has withstood court scrutiny, it could act as a 'selling point' for countless corporations, government agencies, et al in consideration of OSS deployment w/in their organizations, as now the unassuredness of the legality of such software would have been resolved.
given by Ryan Lackey, former CTO of HavenCo, at DefCon
Even their ex-CTO was a Lackey!
Here is Buy.com's totally generic response:
- ---
------------------
Hello,
Thank you for writing to us. We apologize for any problems you have
encountered with BuyMusic.com. We appreciate your comments and
suggestions and will use them to help improve our products and services
when making future decisions. Thanks again for your feedback.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
BuyMusic.com
www.BuyMusic.com
---------------
What kind of canned bullshit is that???
I just sent this email to Buy.com using your link:
-------------------
I've purchased plenty of items from Buy.com in the past, but I have to let you know something.
I don't *ever* use Internet Explorer to do it.
In this day and age of web standards and the growing concern that all browsers and all websites comply, don't you think that Buy.com could be in a position to set a clear example in the business community on how to develop & deliver a web-based application that uses those standards?
Without standards, we *all* run the risk of one company creating a 'tax' on the internet. Seeing as the internet has grown and survived on a spirit of openness, anyone who creates a browser or website that does not follow the W3C standards is not only increasing the risk that one company could own or control the internet, but they develop in the face of the internet's very open nature.
Beyond losing a potential customer due to Buy.com's browser restrictions - I *never* use Internet Explorer - the example that you're setting in the online community and business community as a whole is a poor one at best... at worst, by playing favorites to a known monopolist company, Buy.com is thereby increasing the risk of a "Microsoft Internet Tax" becoming a reality.
On behalf of developers everywhere, I strongly encourage your to open your web sites and web services to *all* W3C standards-compliant web browsers, as well as to offer your downloadable music products in formats other than Microsoft's proprietary format.
In order to be compliant with web browsers, please refer to the free online information provided by the W3C at http://www.w3.org. A good way to test your site for standards compliance is to use a Mozilla/Gecko based browser, such as Mozilla Firebird v0.6, or Mozilla v1.4 - these can be downloaded at http://www.mozilla.org.
Suggested formats for your music products - in addition to Microsoft's proprietary format - would be MP3, Ogg Vorbis, et al.
Thank you for your time and attention. I hope you take these points seriously, and bring your site and services into compliance with the rest of the world, rather than isolating yourself in seclusion using only Microsoft techonologies.
-------------------
thanks, btw for the link... hopefully they listen!!! (I realize the language isn't perfect... just wrote it out really fast, didn't edit it... anyhow)