just thought i'd throw this in. I'm an exchange 5.5 admin and my users all use outlook2k (not express). I've been using this solution for awhile and it works nicely (it's an outlook security patch)
The new version of outlook has this built in and it's a little more functional (allows you to easily edit the list of blocked attachments and view the attachment if you really really want to and your the admin).
Yeah, MS should write better software, but in the end, if the admin isn't paying attention then it won't matter who wrote the software.
People, people, calm down. This is a bit crazy. I've seen this 'bug' in newsgroups for a long long time now, it's nothing new and yes, it is silly and childish. However,.....
The biggest arguement i'm seeing here is that if macroshaft started altering the email they were sending we would go balistic. but it's not, it's just one guy. it's not like there is some huge conspiracy of people out there blocking users of outlook express from seeing the internet. it's one guy exploiting a bug in OE that makes it so some people can't read his posts (and you can fix it by viewing the full header). maybe if some large corporatation had a browser that millions of people used and then thousands of web sites started using tags that were only able to be displayed in that companies browser we would have reason to be angry. oh, wait.....
i can't even believe this made the front page, must be a slow day.
hmmm, according to the fish it means "monkey". I don't get it, but I'm neither quick of wit nor a speculater. Maybe he is "monkeying" around with Macro$oft? I always thought it was odd that they were trying to infect computers with mononucleosis (see, I told you about my lack of wit).
"most Slashdot readers simply read the word "Microsoft" and conclude that the man is incompetent, evil, or both."
if he were incompetent at being evil i wouldn't be worried;)
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I keep seeing people talk about all the money M$ has to throw around. Does anyone realize that Sony has a rather large bank account themselves? I serioulsy doubt M$ will be able to bully Sony Corp.
I'm a "computer guy" at a small manufacturing/sells company. In addition to being one of the two network admins i'm also the exchange admin (we use exchange 5.5 and outlook for clients), the admin the fax software, co-admin the altigen pbx system, admin for the accounting software, blah blah blah anything we do on the computer i'm involved in it, including currently learning & evaluating active directory & preparing to upgrade from btrieve to sql (although i'm against it, our accounting package requires it). In addition to the desktop support for all of that, fixing any printer or other piece of hardware that breaks, troubleshooting everything I'm also customer service for the sells department. When the 2 people who normally answer the phone's go to lunch, i cover them while I read/. and omm. I also go to conventions to talk about the products, setup and communicate daily with 8 external warehouses. Oh, I also do the website and adverts, and whatever else the boss asks me to do, which includes occasionally hitting the production line in the plant.
What I'm trying to say is that I'm a busy guy, and if I found the patches, the iis lockdown tool, and hfnetchk months ago anybody can. Seriously, I'm an idiot too. I do some really dumb shit, but in July, when I found one of our mail server was hit by sadmind I used vnc to fix it while on vacation. When I got back I downloaded a shitload of pacthes and went over our security policies (we're iso9001, so paperwork is familiar). The only reason it got hit was because someone else installed index server to run a document manager without telling me (hey, i don't look at every service everyday, i said i was busy). After that, we had hybris because someone ran the attachment, it was a user's fault. They ran the attachment even after they had been told not to (they're users, it's what they do). It took me two days to be satisfied that it was gone. BUT NO CODE RED AND NO NIMDA! I applied every patch I needed for every service that I needed and turned everything else off.
Now, as Bill Cosby put it "I told you that story so I could tell you this one." We only have a half-duplex ISDN line, and it's getting pummeled by those damn things, the logs are huge. If you haven't patched your sever by now you should be drug into the street and beaten while small children watch and laugh at you. Some people just aren't cut out to be admin's. Got to www.dshield.org, if your machine is listed slap yourself, if it's in the top 100 quit your job, if it's in the top 10, well, don't let me know who you are.......
I understand how you feel about the "suffering and death of innocent animals." I too am a card-carrying-tree-hugging-dirty-hippie, however your sig line is "You have not done your homework? Then you must fight the bear!" I find this tremendously offensive as my father was killed in one of these "refreshing and entertaining" exhibitions that you find so humorous. You obviously have something very wrong with you to find this a humorous statement and to flash it so blatently in my face.
With my father gone, I turned to the only authority figure I had left. The bear, JoJo. However, this didn't last long either as JoJo was killed by a ravenous group of my fathers logger buddies as my father lie still bleeding on the ground. Although I had only known JoJo for mere minutes I had already reached a deep bond with him as he tried to knaw my foot off and eat it. I felt that I had found a true friend and mentor, only to have him bludgened to death by cruel loggers.
In only minutes I had lost two fathers, so you see, even though you feel horrified because seanbaby finds humor in electrocuting animals, you have offended me in the exact same way (while you were trying to show your compassion even!).
I leave you with this, I believe seanbaby was only making fun of the people's reaction to the bear, not really the bear. well, ok, maybe he was making fun of the bear, but I only know what the loggers who keep me trapped inside an outhouse in Beaverton Or tell me, so I'm not likely a very good judge.
I think it would be nice if it were helping me to flash the bios. I've had trouble finding the right update before, but it doesn't, it's a marketing tool for other technologies! Like everything else, there are some good things that could come of this, but they won't because the marketing people got to it first.
also, I agree that it's not that bad because you can turn it off
from the faq:
"Q: What if I want to discontinue using the PhoenixNet resident application?
A: That's easy. You can disable or enable PhoenixNet at any time with a right-click on the PhoenixNet tool tray icon."
EDMUND
Certainly. Hat sales have increased, but not *pari passu... as our research -
BERT
When you say 'enough', enough for what purpose...?
GUNTHER
Can I ask with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... has anyone noticed that building there before?
so as you can see, hats are very important here..... or something....
my last year of college my network class went down to the local redcross office and set up a network with shared dial-up and a file server. they got what they needed and we got experience and something to put on a resume.
there will always be someone out there looking for experience so non-profit's should target them and get as much help as possible. it can work, i've seen it, at the school MY mom works at and at several redcross locations.
the downside is that occasionally you get bad advice. i've seen places buy expensive hardware on nonknowledgeable advice and networks get screwed, but the benefits outway the occasional problem, especially if you have no help at all.
it has been talked about, extensively. see http://www.google.com/search?q=nanotech+evil+discu ssion
"My continuing professional work is on improving the reliability of software. Software is a tool, and as a toolbuilder I must struggle with the uses to which the tools I make are put. I have always believed that making software more reliable, given its many uses, will make the world a safer and better place; if I were to come to believe the opposite, then I would be morally obligated to stop this work. I can now imagine such a day may come." Bill Joy
nanotech is a tool just as a hammer is a tool. tools can be used for good and bad purposes. just because a tool *may* be used to cause harm is no reason not to use the tool. I can beat you over the head with a hammer, but I can also build a house.
first i would just like to say that whatever 3rd grader posted the first post on that site should be drug into the street and beaten with frozen maceral.
now, maybe quantum computing is a swindle, I'm not smart enough to know, so I'll leave that judgement to you. what i do know is that there are numerous examples of 'science fiction' ridiculousness becoming real science. and i think there is a real need to research into every conceivable area of science, because what your looking for is not always what you find. there are also many examples of research in one area leading to advances in completly different subjects. your rant makes me think your one of those people who always say it can't be done, while others are working on ways to make it happen.
I think this quote is relevant here, and imho it's very interesting. I wish i had a link back to the/. article it was refering to, but i crtl c, crtl v'd this into my quote.txt file when i saw it in the comments, whoever it is, makes sense to me
On a similar note, it is implied by quantum physics, that quantum particles appear to be aware of eachother, and that this action at a distance has no time delay, such as the limit of the speed of light. I wonder if SETI is listining to the wrong thing. Imagine this technology coupled with the action at a distance principle, so that you could choose coupled quantum particles to communicate over vast distances with no time delay. Couple these technologies with virtual reality, and it could be possible for communities, seperated by vast distances of space, to communicate and interact in real time. Wouldn't it be surprising to find a universal (literally) quantum network that was in use, and that we have been looking in the wrong place all this time. I would imagine that any species entry in to the universal forum would be predicated by their discovery of the technologies, and their ability to apply them to interact with this universal network. Instead of physically traveling in a space ship to distant worlds, we instead project our consciousness over vast distances with the help of virtual reality and quantum communication. Perhaps ET isn't going to show up in a galactic cruiser, but instead is patiently waiting for us to pick up the damn quantum telephone. We just haven't heard it ring yet.
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
i don't want my tax money to pay for silliness that could win an ig nobel, but then again, how do you know what will lead to the next major advancement?
ok, i'm don't use java, so I'm not sure if this really applies, but here are my thoughts:
any programming language that runs on a proprietary operating system is going to have problems, not the least of which is the fact that the language is at the mercy of the operating system manufacturer. sun wants java to run on any platform, but must make some concessions to achieve this goal. it seems to me that it would be in the best interest of Sun to have the operating system open. it makes little difference to them if their software or their specification is open source.
i think everyone here agrees that it's the operating system that needs to be open, so that more programmers are able to write *good* code on top of that operating system. as many people have already noted, a few years from now (hopefully) the operating system will make little differnce to the user.
looking at the real world now, i think linux will reach it's saturation point soon because as much as i like it, it's a tool for people who like to know everything that's going on and like to configure every little detail (pretty much known as 'geeks'). Most people are happy with the/leading national brand/ operating system because it does most things for them, quickly and easily. this makes sense to me, when i buy a car, i don't want to install the engine myself, i just want it to go really fast when i push the gas peddle, wtf difference does it make to me if company a or company b made the engine? however, if company a made my engine, but i wanted to buy a stereo form company c, but that stereo didn't work with company a's engine i would be very upset (yes, that is ridiculous, but that's the way the software company works now isn't it?)
soooo.... companies like sun and aol/timewarner/glowfax mega corp that have software that they want as many people as possible to use would greatly benefit if the operating system made no differnce. i don't know about sun, but i'm pretty sure aol gets it, yes they have proprietary software, but they give it away. look at nullsoft, i'm sure aol is thrilled everytime j frankel and gang do something "subversive" and give it away to 50 million people, because it just gives them more and more users.
so basically this off topic (i don't think i've ever been on a topic) rant comes down to a question: what more can companies like sun and aol do to force operating systems open?
the enemy of your enemy is your friend, and i think our 'friends' need to band together to do something about/leading national brand/ operating system manufacturer forcing them to bow down to them in order to get a peice of software to actually work correctly.
ok, that got kinda long and disconnected, but i'm at work, and i'm doing 20 things at once. and nobody asked you to read this or agree with it. mod it down and it will go away.
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Ok, first, I'm for free/open software development, however, this piece gives no real reason for it's use. The arguement used is that *if* the programmer later deciedes to port an app to a free software platforms it may be more difficult for them. The only other point is that it's more difficult to reverse engineer proprietary software. weak guys, very weak. what about things like open standards, being able to review, edit and customize code, blah blah blah.... someone much more knowledgeable than me should make a big long list of reasons to write free code...oh, wait, they did
I suppose this is offtopic, but, Why does 'Open' or freesoftware movement have to exclude proprietary or paid for software? shoudn't this be about freedom of choice for the consumer? why must you oppose someone else's view when you express yours. Just because you believe your side is right doesn't mean the other side is wrong, they just have a different opinion. This is like an arguement between Chevy and Ford, which is better? it depends on your point of view and experience. developers should only care about what they are doing. make your own decision and don't worry about anyone else, let the consumer decide between 'open' or 'closed' and just concentrate on making your software better! quit arguing and just get it done!
I'd keep ranting, but i've got code to write. by the way, i don't get paid for my code, i get paid for my time spent solving problems for the company i work for.
The stupdity of the human race continues to astound me on a daily basis.
even completly outlawing file transfer would not stop copyright infringement of music/movies/whatever. as long as i can walk next door and ask my neighbor if he wants to trade music with me this kind of copyright infringement will not be stopped, napster just makes more people my neighbor.
Also, many of the current laws regarding copyright of intellectual property do not work. Many other laws (DMCA) are just ridiculous. Laws and business models should change to fit the society, not the other way around. an intelligent man once said that if you believe a law is wrong/unjust, it is your duty as a citizen to break that law. he said some other good things to:
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. " Thomas Jefferson
anonymity/privacy/freedom of speech are one and the same, you give them up and your basically giving in to being controlled by someone else. and as far as their being no anonymity on the internet now (tracking someone down via the ip address), how do you know I posted this? you know that someone at a certain ip address using a certain account posted it, but whether or not that was me is another question entirely. maybe i was at lunch and left the computer on.
ok, that's all.....i feel much better now, how about you?
I thought it said he had better sorting networks?? but it's been 5 minutes since I read it so it's very possible that i've already forgotten... but if Hillis' method does work well, why couldn't it be applied to the 'traveling salesman problem' (or any other mathmatical problem for that matter) mentioned in the feedmag link? Even though current methods don't scale well, wouldn't they be able to evolve into methods that do? just like in Hillis' expirement. I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so I'll just go back to my hole now...
If you notice bill says "If that's all it took" as a joke. I think he realizes Microsoft would be in a better position if the OS was free. As you say, in a few years Windows would be vastly more secure and stable, due to more people fixing things. The market is changeing and don't think Microsoft won't change to meet it. They still have plenty of Apps and "software solutions" to sell and think about new companies like All Advantage, that make money based on the number of "eyeballs" looking at there viewbar. Well, micorsoft has 95% of the market. And they really shouldn't hurt too much from not making money from the Os. Let's face it, you don't have to pay for it now, I'm using WIN98 se and didn't pay for it, it's registered along with everything else I have. If you have to pay for anything, sorry, you're not part of the "in" crowd then. I laugh at all the complaints about microsoft I see on/. because they have $0 of my money and I use tons of their products, and I even prefer some of them! Visual Basic gives me massive control over windows already, now if the OS code was open?? Sweet Candy Ass! Just think of the distribution channel that macroshaft owns, and doesn't use to full potential! I'm mean, that's all the Aol/time warner/glowfax megacorp merger was all about wasn't it? A really big distribution channel? I look for macroshaft to buy a broadband player soon, it's the future, and bill will be a part of it, he's a smart guy, really. And on that note, I'm out of Bacardi.........
best mouse i've ever used: kensington wheel mouse $19.99 from bestbuy. wheel is a little loose, but hey, it's 20 bucks. feels good and is ambidextrious (did i spell that right? no time to check) took me about 10 minutes to get used to the feel of it. I play unreal with it and have no problems, wheel is a must have for that type game. those of you who have complained about using the middle finger on the wheel, why not use your index finger for both left click and wheel, your not going to do both at the same time and it feels much, much more natural, i never considered using the middle finger on the wheel until i read the complaints here, why would you do that?
This is old news, most of the comments under the story on zdnet complain about this, actually, when I submitted the story to/. i said the most interesting part was the comments.
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just thought i'd throw this in. I'm an exchange 5.5 admin and my users all use outlook2k (not express). I've been using this solution for awhile and it works nicely (it's an outlook security patch)
The new version of outlook has this built in and it's a little more functional (allows you to easily edit the list of blocked attachments and view the attachment if you really really want to and your the admin).
Yeah, MS should write better software, but in the end, if the admin isn't paying attention then it won't matter who wrote the software.
People, people, calm down. This is a bit crazy. I've seen this 'bug' in newsgroups for a long long time now, it's nothing new and yes, it is silly and childish. However,.....
The biggest arguement i'm seeing here is that if macroshaft started altering the email they were sending we would go balistic. but it's not, it's just one guy. it's not like there is some huge conspiracy of people out there blocking users of outlook express from seeing the internet. it's one guy exploiting a bug in OE that makes it so some people can't read his posts (and you can fix it by viewing the full header). maybe if some large corporatation had a browser that millions of people used and then thousands of web sites started using tags that were only able to be displayed in that companies browser we would have reason to be angry. oh, wait.....
i can't even believe this made the front page, must be a slow day.
hmmm, according to the fish it means "monkey". I don't get it, but I'm neither quick of wit nor a speculater. Maybe he is "monkeying" around with Macro$oft? I always thought it was odd that they were trying to infect computers with mononucleosis (see, I told you about my lack of wit).
"most Slashdot readers simply read the word "Microsoft" and conclude that the man is incompetent, evil, or both."
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if he were incompetent at being evil i wouldn't be worried
I keep seeing people talk about all the money M$ has to throw around. Does anyone realize that Sony has a rather large bank account themselves? I serioulsy doubt M$ will be able to bully Sony Corp.
Just my opinion though.
I'm a "computer guy" at a small manufacturing/sells company. In addition to being one of the two network admins i'm also the exchange admin (we use exchange 5.5 and outlook for clients), the admin the fax software, co-admin the altigen pbx system, admin for the accounting software, blah blah blah anything we do on the computer i'm involved in it, including currently learning & evaluating active directory & preparing to upgrade from btrieve to sql (although i'm against it, our accounting package requires it). In addition to the desktop support for all of that, fixing any printer or other piece of hardware that breaks, troubleshooting everything I'm also customer service for the sells department. When the 2 people who normally answer the phone's go to lunch, i cover them while I read /. and omm. I also go to conventions to talk about the products, setup and communicate daily with 8 external warehouses. Oh, I also do the website and adverts, and whatever else the boss asks me to do, which includes occasionally hitting the production line in the plant.
What I'm trying to say is that I'm a busy guy, and if I found the patches, the iis lockdown tool, and hfnetchk months ago anybody can. Seriously, I'm an idiot too. I do some really dumb shit, but in July, when I found one of our mail server was hit by sadmind I used vnc to fix it while on vacation. When I got back I downloaded a shitload of pacthes and went over our security policies (we're iso9001, so paperwork is familiar). The only reason it got hit was because someone else installed index server to run a document manager without telling me (hey, i don't look at every service everyday, i said i was busy). After that, we had hybris because someone ran the attachment, it was a user's fault. They ran the attachment even after they had been told not to (they're users, it's what they do). It took me two days to be satisfied that it was gone. BUT NO CODE RED AND NO NIMDA! I applied every patch I needed for every service that I needed and turned everything else off.
Now, as Bill Cosby put it "I told you that story so I could tell you this one." We only have a half-duplex ISDN line, and it's getting pummeled by those damn things, the logs are huge. If you haven't patched your sever by now you should be drug into the street and beaten while small children watch and laugh at you. Some people just aren't cut out to be admin's. Got to www.dshield.org, if your machine is listed slap yourself, if it's in the top 100 quit your job, if it's in the top 10, well, don't let me know who you are.......
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Dear sir,
I understand how you feel about the "suffering and death of innocent animals." I too am a card-carrying-tree-hugging-dirty-hippie, however your sig line is "You have not done your homework? Then you must fight the bear!" I find this tremendously offensive as my father was killed in one of these "refreshing and entertaining" exhibitions that you find so humorous. You obviously have something very wrong with you to find this a humorous statement and to flash it so blatently in my face.
With my father gone, I turned to the only authority figure I had left. The bear, JoJo. However, this didn't last long either as JoJo was killed by a ravenous group of my fathers logger buddies as my father lie still bleeding on the ground. Although I had only known JoJo for mere minutes I had already reached a deep bond with him as he tried to knaw my foot off and eat it. I felt that I had found a true friend and mentor, only to have him bludgened to death by cruel loggers.
In only minutes I had lost two fathers, so you see, even though you feel horrified because seanbaby finds humor in electrocuting animals, you have offended me in the exact same way (while you were trying to show your compassion even!).
I leave you with this, I believe seanbaby was only making fun of the people's reaction to the bear, not really the bear. well, ok, maybe he was making fun of the bear, but I only know what the loggers who keep me trapped inside an outhouse in Beaverton Or tell me, so I'm not likely a very good judge.
I think it would be nice if it were helping me to flash the bios. I've had trouble finding the right update before, but it doesn't, it's a marketing tool for other technologies! Like everything else, there are some good things that could come of this, but they won't because the marketing people got to it first.
also, I agree that it's not that bad because you can turn it off
from the faq:
"Q: What if I want to discontinue using the PhoenixNet resident application?
A: That's easy. You can disable or enable PhoenixNet at any time with a right-click on the PhoenixNet tool tray icon."
my overall feeling is 'meh, whatever'
What was that about hats again?
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Is this true?
EDMUND
Certainly. Hat sales have increased, but not *pari passu... as our research -
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When you say 'enough', enough for what purpose...?
GUNTHER
Can I ask with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... has anyone noticed that building there before?
so as you can see, hats are very important here..... or something....
my last year of college my network class went down to the local redcross office and set up a network with shared dial-up and a file server. they got what they needed and we got experience and something to put on a resume.
there will always be someone out there looking for experience so non-profit's should target them and get as much help as possible. it can work, i've seen it, at the school MY mom works at and at several redcross locations.
the downside is that occasionally you get bad advice. i've seen places buy expensive hardware on nonknowledgeable advice and networks get screwed, but the benefits outway the occasional problem, especially if you have no help at all.
it has been talked about, extensively. see http://www.google.com/search?q=nanotech+evil+discu ssion
"My continuing professional work is on improving the reliability of software. Software is a tool, and as a toolbuilder I must struggle with the uses to which the tools I make are put. I have always believed that making software more reliable, given its many uses, will make the world a safer and better place; if I were to come to believe the opposite, then I would be morally obligated to stop this work. I can now imagine such a day may come." Bill Joy
nanotech is a tool just as a hammer is a tool. tools can be used for good and bad purposes. just because a tool *may* be used to cause harm is no reason not to use the tool. I can beat you over the head with a hammer, but I can also build a house.
first i would just like to say that whatever 3rd grader posted the first post on that site should be drug into the street and beaten with frozen maceral.
/. article it was refering to, but i crtl c, crtl v'd this into my quote.txt file when i saw it in the comments, whoever it is, makes sense to me
now, maybe quantum computing is a swindle, I'm not smart enough to know, so I'll leave that judgement to you. what i do know is that there are numerous examples of 'science fiction' ridiculousness becoming real science. and i think there is a real need to research into every conceivable area of science, because what your looking for is not always what you find. there are also many examples of research in one area leading to advances in completly different subjects. your rant makes me think your one of those people who always say it can't be done, while others are working on ways to make it happen.
I think this quote is relevant here, and imho it's very interesting. I wish i had a link back to the
On a similar note, it is implied by quantum physics, that quantum particles appear to be aware of eachother, and that this action at a distance has no time delay, such as the limit of the speed of light. I wonder if SETI is listining to the wrong thing. Imagine this technology coupled with the action at a distance principle, so that you could choose coupled quantum particles to communicate over vast distances with no time delay. Couple these technologies with virtual reality, and it could be possible for communities, seperated by vast distances of space, to communicate and interact in real time. Wouldn't it be surprising to find a universal (literally) quantum network that was in use, and that we have been looking in the wrong place all this time. I would imagine that any species entry in to the universal forum would be predicated by their discovery of the technologies, and their ability to apply them to interact with this universal network. Instead of physically traveling in a space ship to distant worlds, we instead project our consciousness over vast distances with the help of virtual reality and quantum communication. Perhaps ET isn't going to show up in a galactic cruiser, but instead is patiently waiting for us to pick up the damn quantum telephone. We just haven't heard it ring yet.
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
i don't want my tax money to pay for silliness that could win an ig nobel, but then again, how do you know what will lead to the next major advancement?
ok, i'm don't use java, so I'm not sure if this really applies, but here are my thoughts:
/leading national brand/ operating system because it does most things for them, quickly and easily. this makes sense to me, when i buy a car, i don't want to install the engine myself, i just want it to go really fast when i push the gas peddle, wtf difference does it make to me if company a or company b made the engine? however, if company a made my engine, but i wanted to buy a stereo form company c, but that stereo didn't work with company a's engine i would be very upset (yes, that is ridiculous, but that's the way the software company works now isn't it?)
/leading national brand/ operating system manufacturer forcing them to bow down to them in order to get a peice of software to actually work correctly.
any programming language that runs on a proprietary operating system is going to have problems, not the least of which is the fact that the language is at the mercy of the operating system manufacturer. sun wants java to run on any platform, but must make some concessions to achieve this goal. it seems to me that it would be in the best interest of Sun to have the operating system open. it makes little difference to them if their software or their specification is open source.
i think everyone here agrees that it's the operating system that needs to be open, so that more programmers are able to write *good* code on top of that operating system. as many people have already noted, a few years from now (hopefully) the operating system will make little differnce to the user.
looking at the real world now, i think linux will reach it's saturation point soon because as much as i like it, it's a tool for people who like to know everything that's going on and like to configure every little detail (pretty much known as 'geeks'). Most people are happy with the
soooo.... companies like sun and aol/timewarner/glowfax mega corp that have software that they want as many people as possible to use would greatly benefit if the operating system made no differnce. i don't know about sun, but i'm pretty sure aol gets it, yes they have proprietary software, but they give it away. look at nullsoft, i'm sure aol is thrilled everytime j frankel and gang do something "subversive" and give it away to 50 million people, because it just gives them more and more users.
so basically this off topic (i don't think i've ever been on a topic) rant comes down to a question: what more can companies like sun and aol do to force operating systems open?
the enemy of your enemy is your friend, and i think our 'friends' need to band together to do something about
ok, that got kinda long and disconnected, but i'm at work, and i'm doing 20 things at once. and nobody asked you to read this or agree with it. mod it down and it will go away.
Ok, first, I'm for free/open software development, however, this piece gives no real reason for it's use. The arguement used is that *if* the programmer later deciedes to port an app to a free software platforms it may be more difficult for them. The only other point is that it's more difficult to reverse engineer proprietary software. weak guys, very weak. what about things like open standards, being able to review, edit and customize code, blah blah blah.... someone much more knowledgeable than me should make a big long list of reasons to write free code...oh, wait, they did
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for
http://www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html
http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/fsvos.
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/12/11lis
http://www.opensource.org/faq.html
ok, i'm off the box....NEXT!
I suppose this is offtopic, but, Why does 'Open' or freesoftware movement have to exclude proprietary or paid for software? shoudn't this be about freedom of choice for the consumer? why must you oppose someone else's view when you express yours. Just because you believe your side is right doesn't mean the other side is wrong, they just have a different opinion. This is like an arguement between Chevy and Ford, which is better? it depends on your point of view and experience. developers should only care about what they are doing. make your own decision and don't worry about anyone else, let the consumer decide between 'open' or 'closed' and just concentrate on making your software better! quit arguing and just get it done!
I'd keep ranting, but i've got code to write. by the way, i don't get paid for my code, i get paid for my time spent solving problems for the company i work for.
The stupdity of the human race continues to astound me on a daily basis.
even completly outlawing file transfer would not stop copyright infringement of music/movies/whatever. as long as i can walk next door and ask my neighbor if he wants to trade music with me this kind of copyright infringement will not be stopped, napster just makes more people my neighbor.
Also, many of the current laws regarding copyright of intellectual property do not work. Many other laws (DMCA) are just ridiculous. Laws and business models should change to fit the society, not the other way around. an intelligent man once said that if you believe a law is wrong/unjust, it is your duty as a citizen to break that law. he said some other good things to:
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. " Thomas Jefferson
anonymity/privacy/freedom of speech are one and the same, you give them up and your basically giving in to being controlled by someone else. and as far as their being no anonymity on the internet now (tracking someone down via the ip address), how do you know I posted this? you know that someone at a certain ip address using a certain account posted it, but whether or not that was me is another question entirely. maybe i was at lunch and left the computer on.
ok, that's all.....i feel much better now, how about you?
I thought it said he had better sorting networks?? but it's been 5 minutes since I read it so it's very possible that i've already forgotten... but if Hillis' method does work well, why couldn't it be applied to the 'traveling salesman problem' (or any other mathmatical problem for that matter) mentioned in the feedmag link? Even though current methods don't scale well, wouldn't they be able to evolve into methods that do? just like in Hillis' expirement. I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so I'll just go back to my hole now...
If you notice bill says "If that's all it took" as a joke. I think he realizes Microsoft would be in a better position if the OS was free. As you say, in a few years Windows would be vastly more secure and stable, due to more people fixing things. The market is changeing and don't think Microsoft won't change to meet it. They still have plenty of Apps and "software solutions" to sell and think about new companies like All Advantage, that make money based on the number of "eyeballs" looking at there viewbar. Well, micorsoft has 95% of the market. And they really shouldn't hurt too much from not making money from the Os. Let's face it, you don't have to pay for it now, I'm using WIN98 se and didn't pay for it, it's registered along with everything else I have. If you have to pay for anything, sorry, you're not part of the "in" crowd then. I laugh at all the complaints about microsoft I see on /. because they have $0 of my money and I use tons of their products, and I even prefer some of them! Visual Basic gives me massive control over windows already, now if the OS code was open?? Sweet Candy Ass! Just think of the distribution channel that macroshaft owns, and doesn't use to full potential! I'm mean, that's all the Aol/time warner/glowfax megacorp merger was all about wasn't it? A really big distribution channel? I look for macroshaft to buy a broadband player soon, it's the future, and bill will be a part of it, he's a smart guy, really. And on that note, I'm out of Bacardi.........
best mouse i've ever used: kensington wheel mouse $19.99 from bestbuy. wheel is a little loose, but hey, it's 20 bucks. feels good and is ambidextrious (did i spell that right? no time to check) took me about 10 minutes to get used to the feel of it. I play unreal with it and have no problems, wheel is a must have for that type game. those of you who have complained about using the middle finger on the wheel, why not use your index finger for both left click and wheel, your not going to do both at the same time and it feels much, much more natural, i never considered using the middle finger on the wheel until i read the complaints here, why would you do that?
This is old news, most of the comments under the story on zdnet complain about this, actually, when I submitted the story to /. i said the most interesting part was the comments.
everytime someone asks you for something, ask if they want fries with that.