> They are a big company and will most likely find a way out (probably by completely > rewriting the code) but it's good to see that they are at least sweating it.
Microsoft doens't "completely rewrite" anything. They steal^Wbuy other people's products, re-stamp it (C) Microsoft 2007, call it IP, and put a different shade of lipstick on it every couple years. This is why we still have a DOS prompt.
1) pissy customer takes box home and plugs into 802.1 wfo router 2) goes to wack-the-monkey and reels in a trojan 3) all the shit on their box is p0wn3d anyway 4) They still dont know that they dont know
And the top five excuses are:
1) "I dont want to have to fuck around with it" 2) "I dont have time to set all that up" 3) "bah - whos going to want to steal my shit?" 4) "It's just stuff the kids use" 5)..*blink*....
Same here. I would much more expect they made a deal with the canadians to boycott the Open Document format if they agreed to build a Billmart in vancouver. Either that or it's related to lobbyists somehow.
> I'm guessing the majority of the applications written to target Linux are server applications.
Actually, the linux embedded scene has been growing like crazy. I know very little about embedded but I've been hacking C code, and linux, since about 1993. This has been enough to jump around embedded linux stuff as a consultant for awhile and have a lot of fun with it. Employers see the linux experience and the C coding as 2+2=4 - even after I tell them I don't know an IC from an ethernet chip. They just want C code pounded out on embedded linux. I've been working like a dog for the past year on a few different projects. Makes me wonder what people that really know what they are doing, are doing. As a footnote, I've had good luck with *Armedslack and Debian
We think we have it all figured out... dark matter, gravity, time and space. We even think the speed of light is the natural legal limit of all things in motion. In 100 billion years, if the human race hasn't fucked itself out of existence, I'm quite certain they will know much more than we do now. Discoveries will be made by that time which are simply out of our reach limited by our ignorance, understanding and perception of everything we know now right now. The statement that nobody will know how the universe happened in 100 billion years is just silly.
Why, for fucks sakes, does anyone need to print anything these days? Is emailing pictures not enough? Can you not just purchase a scanner? TEACH YOURSELF how to take advantage of technology and at least make it harder for this kind of crap to keep happening.
With the availability of PC power supplies* in excess of 1000 watts, and the mine's-bigger-than-your's demographic, I wonder what bearing this has on power consumption also. Perhaps peripheral manufacturers need to concentrate on power usage also.
the MMU simply does not operate as specified The way the cpu handles memory accesses is borked, or to put it another way:
Deer vey dee zpu verks ees borkin borked.
a write-protect or non-execute bit for a page table entry is ignored When the cpu is told not to execute the stack, it will anyway.
..outside of the range of permitted writing for the process This program has performed and illegal instruction. Please tell Microsoft about this problem..
All of this is just unbelievable to many of us. d00d wtf !?
> I would *love* to use it- but without Exchange calendaring support, it will be effectively a non starter for me
I guess you're using windows/IE/Outlook. Which problems *have* been starters for you then? Obviously they are working for you. The corrupt PST files? Or maybe the lack of address book export? Oh, maybe you're in love with not being able to function on Usenet, or maybe the vendor lock-in has you keyed in a masochistic way. Please tell us, thousands of geeks want to know.
> The only problem is that they also have a very high density of thoroughly toxic materials, stuff that you really > don't want disturbed if you can avoid it.
Ahh the good ole days of slinging rusty antifreeze and used motor oil right into the garbage next to the potatoe peels and last night's onion rings. Varnished gasoline out of the lawn mower went right down the gutter every spring and recycling was a term used which referred to using the crankshaft on a 400 in a 350 block. Pie crust was made out of lard, soda pop had real sugar in it, and bacon grease from breakfast was saved in a tin can in the fridge. Whatever sat around too long got hauled to the landfill to be run over by a bulldozer. Kinda makes me lonesome - I think I'll go throw some fertilizer in the creek.
[1] "By Jeffrey R. Jones Director, Microsoft Security Business and Technology Unit" [2] "Jeffrey R. Jones, a self-described "security guy" who works at Microsoft's security division" [3] "an overview of Microsoft's progress in improving security by Jeffrey R. Jones, Senior Director - Microsoft Security Business Unit."
> but would Google really be any better as the 800 lb gorilla on the block?
Here's the deal. Microsoft is able to get away with just about anything. If they can force google off the desktop with vista search (or whatever), there won't be any more google. Just like there isn't any more netscape. I don't think google is trying to strongarm microsoft but rather they are trying to deal with the shitty legal system microsoft is used to running. They need to start litigation early because they recognize this is what chair-chuckin-baldy meant by "going to fucking kill google"
Oh, and yes. google would be better being the 800 pound gorilla. I would much rather give the title to a company that hasn't run roughshod over it's entire user base yet. Once they do, we can hate them right alongside microsoft. Until that happens, I have a hell of a lot more faith in google than I do microsoft.
This is why they are running windows now, right? And nobody is using the internet on these stations, right? And nobody is getting email and they are all free from spyware and malware, right? And they have checksums checking in place to make sure files have not been modified since the install, right? bullshit.
There is nothing in Suse that makes it any more ready for the desktop than any of the other mentioned distros besides Fedora, which is a testbed. Unless of course you figure in the nice wad of cash novell paid out to have this article written.
There's no way in hell the US is equipped* to deal with 'cyberwar', let alone the government. What do they plan to do to "knock them out in the first round"?; make sure that Norton is running and that they have the latest service packs installed? Most people have no idea what they are up against with computer security. Unless they can find it at Walmart, it doesn't exist. A lot like to pass the buck too: "Why didn't microsoft protect me from this?" "Why can my ISP let this happen"?, "Do I really have to do all that?", "This is too hard". These same people are making decisions to put your personal information on laptops and dam controls on the internet. I suppose this is just natural selection in a digital form however.
- cutting velveeta cheese - deterring the neighbors cat from pissing in my garden - deterring my neighbor from pissing in my garden - frying wood tics - boiling water - removing warts - engraving my initials on the water tower, from across town - lighting a joint
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> I'm trying to get it to run more like XP.
If it's still running slow with all the eye-candy turned off, I'd say you've suceeded.
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> They are a big company and will most likely find a way out (probably by completely
> rewriting the code) but it's good to see that they are at least sweating it.
Microsoft doens't "completely rewrite" anything. They steal^Wbuy other people's products, re-stamp it (C) Microsoft 2007, call it IP, and put a different shade of lipstick on it every couple years. This is why we still have a DOS prompt.
I bet you a doughnut (jelly) that:
..*blink*....
1) pissy customer takes box home and plugs into 802.1 wfo router
2) goes to wack-the-monkey and reels in a trojan
3) all the shit on their box is p0wn3d anyway
4) They still dont know that they dont know
And the top five excuses are:
1) "I dont want to have to fuck around with it"
2) "I dont have time to set all that up"
3) "bah - whos going to want to steal my shit?"
4) "It's just stuff the kids use"
5)
> One might speculate that it's a good thing for linux (and mac) that China runs on Windows. Um no. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/04/red_flag_l inux_beats_out/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/04/HNredfla g_1.html
Same here. I would much more expect they made a deal with the canadians to boycott the Open Document format if they agreed to build a Billmart in vancouver. Either that or it's related to lobbyists somehow.
>Why is it that people insist on thinking that same-sex couples are exactly analogous to opposite-sex couples?
A need for validation.
> Would this be the formula: CnH2n+1OH?
acylic alcohol: http://alcohol.alto-infotech.com/
I'd prefer a nice fat marley.. no hangover. Natural too.
"Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the program `Gnomovision'
(which makes passes at compilers) written
by James Hacker.
signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice"
http://www.linux.org/info/gnu.html
> I'm guessing the majority of the applications written to target Linux are server applications.
a rm/
Actually, the linux embedded scene has been growing like crazy. I know very little about embedded but I've been hacking C code, and linux, since about 1993. This has been enough to jump around embedded linux stuff as a consultant for awhile and have a lot of fun with it. Employers see the linux experience and the C coding as 2+2=4 - even after I tell them I don't know an IC from an ethernet chip. They just want C code pounded out on embedded linux. I've been working like a dog for the past year on a few different projects. Makes me wonder what people that really know what they are doing, are doing. As a footnote, I've had good luck with *Armedslack and Debian
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/4.0_r0/
http://www.armedslack.org/
We think we have it all figured out... dark matter, gravity, time and space. We even think the speed of light is the natural legal limit of all things in motion. In 100 billion years, if the human race hasn't fucked itself out of existence, I'm quite certain they will know much more than we do now. Discoveries will be made by that time which are simply out of our reach limited by our ignorance, understanding and perception of everything we know now right now. The statement that nobody will know how the universe happened in 100 billion years is just silly.
Why, for fucks sakes, does anyone need to print anything these days? Is emailing pictures not enough? Can you not just purchase a scanner? TEACH YOURSELF how to take advantage of technology and at least make it harder for this kind of crap to keep happening.
...or rather Copyleft. All rights Reversed.
"..the tendancy of the market, if left free to itself, to extirpate ignorance and cultural deprivation."
"like all other monopolies, they obeyed the laws of the free market, they produced lousy goods at very high prices and they stifled innovation"
- Eben Moglen
With the availability of PC power supplies* in excess of 1000 watts, and the mine's-bigger-than-your's demographic, I wonder what bearing this has on power consumption also. Perhaps peripheral manufacturers need to concentrate on power usage also.
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[*] - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Su
In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether
his company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing
such a patent agreement.
"I can't answer the question," he said.
from what I gather...
..outside of the range of permitted writing for the process
the MMU simply does not operate as specified
The way the cpu handles memory accesses is borked, or to put it another way:
Deer vey dee zpu verks ees borkin borked.
a write-protect or non-execute bit for a page table entry is ignored
When the cpu is told not to execute the stack, it will anyway.
This program has performed and illegal instruction. Please tell Microsoft about this problem..
All of this is just unbelievable to many of us.
d00d wtf !?
> I would *love* to use it- but without Exchange calendaring support, it will be effectively a non starter for me
I guess you're using windows/IE/Outlook. Which problems *have* been starters for you then? Obviously they are working for you. The corrupt PST files? Or maybe the lack of address book export? Oh, maybe you're in love with not being able to function on Usenet, or maybe the vendor lock-in has you keyed in a masochistic way. Please tell us, thousands of geeks want to know.
> The only problem is that they also have a very high density of thoroughly toxic materials, stuff that you really
> don't want disturbed if you can avoid it.
Ahh the good ole days of slinging rusty antifreeze and used motor oil right into the garbage next to the potatoe peels and last night's onion rings. Varnished gasoline out of the lawn mower went right down the gutter every spring and recycling was a term used which referred to using the crankshaft on a 400 in a 350 block. Pie crust was made out of lard, soda pop had real sugar in it, and bacon grease from breakfast was saved in a tin can in the fridge. Whatever sat around too long got hauled to the landfill to be run over by a bulldozer. Kinda makes me lonesome - I think I'll go throw some fertilizer in the creek.
[1] "By Jeffrey R. Jones Director, Microsoft Security Business and Technology Unit"
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[2] "Jeffrey R. Jones, a self-described "security guy" who works at Microsoft's security division"
[3] "an overview of Microsoft's progress in improving security by Jeffrey R. Jones, Senior Director - Microsoft Security Business Unit."
[1] - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11
[2] - http://www.boxxet.com/Windows_Vista/Windows_Vista
[3] - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews
> I would rather see voting platforms built on microsoft trustworthy computing platforms
Here you are. Point the arrow at your candidate and pull the handle.
of course, a 1.5 meter tall Baldy jumping around the stage at a keynote doesn't seem very foreboding.
> but would Google really be any better as the 800 lb gorilla on the block?
Here's the deal. Microsoft is able to get away with just about anything. If they can force google off the desktop with vista search (or whatever), there won't be any more google. Just like there isn't any more netscape. I don't think google is trying to strongarm microsoft but rather they are trying to deal with the shitty legal system microsoft is used to running. They need to start litigation early because they recognize this is what chair-chuckin-baldy meant by "going to fucking kill google"
Oh, and yes. google would be better being the 800 pound gorilla. I would much rather give the title to a company that hasn't run roughshod over it's entire user base yet. Once they do, we can hate them right alongside microsoft. Until that happens, I have a hell of a lot more faith in google than I do microsoft.
>..life-and-death of people on his hands
This is why they are running windows now, right? And nobody is using the internet on these stations, right? And nobody is getting email and they are all free from spyware and malware, right? And they have checksums checking in place to make sure files have not been modified since the install, right? bullshit.
There is nothing in Suse that makes it any more ready for the desktop than any of the other mentioned distros besides Fedora, which is a testbed. Unless of course you figure in the nice wad of cash novell paid out to have this article written.
There's no way in hell the US is equipped* to deal with 'cyberwar', let alone the government. What do they plan to do to "knock them out in the first round"?; make sure that Norton is running and that they have the latest service packs installed? Most people have no idea what they are up against with computer security. Unless they can find it at Walmart, it doesn't exist. A lot like to pass the buck too: "Why didn't microsoft protect me from this?" "Why can my ISP let this happen"?, "Do I really have to do all that?", "This is too hard". These same people are making decisions to put your personal information on laptops and dam controls on the internet. I suppose this is just natural selection in a digital form however.
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I wonder how it would work with regards to:
- cutting velveeta cheese
- deterring the neighbors cat from pissing in my garden
- deterring my neighbor from pissing in my garden
- frying wood tics
- boiling water
- removing warts
- engraving my initials on the water tower, from across town
- lighting a joint
> I'm trying to get it to run more like XP.
If it's still running slow with all the eye-candy turned off, I'd say you've suceeded.
The Wild Stallions would be proud..
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