Remember it said excellent english and french skills.. in my experience, the indian support people aren't particularly good at english, let alone french.
(No, this isn't a stab at indians in general, it's just my own experience of attempting to talk to the staff on various outsourced helpdesks)
Points 10 - 13 explain what it is they are 'inventing' that is different from existing schemes. They list IE's auto complete, and say it has a failing in that anyone using the computer can autocomplete the form (thus it is not very secure), they mention quicken having a very similar method of requiring one master password to complete any password diaglog, but say that it is not ideal because the API is closed for quicken's exclusive use.
The crux of their solution is that they want to make a generic API that allows their 'invention' to provide a password where requested to any application, browser window or similar.
Of course, as other people have already pointed out, this too has already been done. Novell's single-signon pops to my mind, and I'm sure a lot of other people have done this as well.
True, although the parts will probably take a lot longer to get to you once the machine is out of warranty as most server warranties have a level of service attached to them.
In your case though, you're pretty covered because you've got redundancy in your design.
> Why wouldn't we use them instead of letting them lie around doing nothing?
Because when the drives/memory/scsi controller fails, you have no warranty or come back on it.
Unless of course, you're completely comfortable with having whatever service you have running on it killed off suddenly with no clear ETA on restoration time.
We used to run a few old things on old purchased hardware, but it just caused us too many problems. No matter how non-critical a system or service is, the users will always consider everything absolutely critical, and will moan loudly when it disappears.
Seriously, how often do you people actually get telemarketers calling ? I have to assume this is an american thing, because over here in tiny little New Zealand, I have received ooh.. two or three unsolicited telemarketing calls in the 10 years or so that I've had a landline phone (have two phone lines too), and never on my cellphone.
Obviously the US has quite a problem with them, but what are other countries like ?
christ.. I thought they were only resolving A entries, but no.. they are doing MX ones as well ! What *possible* reason could they have for claiming to be a valid mail exchange for any mistyped domain ? The fact that they then bounce the reply suggests that they don't want to claim to be that, so other than leeching valid email addresses.. I can't think of any purpose for doing this.
It's not just the open source community that are concerned about this proposal - Anyone writing commercial code has exactly the same problem.
Sure they might have money that could be paid to the ISO, but that doesn't mean that should or would be any more willing to pay it than an open-source developer.
"The family signed up for the Kazaa (search) music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.?
How exactly does one sign up for Kazaa ?
Do they mean they downloaded it from some dodgy site that charged for the download ?, or is kazaa actually expecting people to treat it as sharewre and register it, thus giving them a license to run it, but not actually use it for anything ?
Venus is damn hot, and by that I mean hot enough to melt just about anything you send there to take holiday snaps.
I believe the last Russian probe that went there landed on the surface and took lots of lovely black photos because the lens cap had melted to the camera .
Hehe.. I just realised that wireless ethernet gives back the original meaning of "ether"
Ether: 1 a : the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space b : the upper regions of space : HEAVENS 2 a : a medium that in the wave theory of light permeates all space and transmits transverse waves b : AIRWAVES
1. you should KILL the msblast process first, otherwise you won't be able to delete the file as it will be held open.
2. The file msblast.exe is marked as read-only. This generally won't be a problem, but can be a gottcha if you try and delete it from a CMD shell without running attrib -r msblast.exe first.
3. You should patch the system and reboot before attempting to remove the virus, otherwise you're open to reinfection from the moment you kill the msblast process.
4. This thing causes odd behaviour on different systems. When svchost.exe gets killed on w2k pro, that stops cut and paste working. If you're running office, word will behave VERY oddly. If you're browsing your hard drive, some directories may appear to have no files in them, when in fact they really do, and lastly, IE may fail to draw some of the images on some web sites.
Mod the parent up.. finally someone has stopped rehashing what those 'researchers' 'discovered' and done some thought of their own.
They are correct in the connection speed of closer stations is not affected. What is affected is the amount of free time that close stations have to transmit in.
Since 1500 bytes takes longer to transmit at 1mbps than it does at 11mbps, it follows that a 1mbps station that is, say copying a huge file, will give the 11mbps stations much less time to use, and since bandwidth is traffic over time, it affects bandwidth (but not line speed).
Why should I recognise them now. I sure as hell didn't vote for them. Did you? I doubt it!
Did you vote for that red traffic lights should eqate to stop and green to go ?.
If not, I sure as hell don't want to be on the road when you are
We may live in a democratic society (or at least one that tells us it is), but that doesn't mean that if you didn't vote for a law it doesn't apply to you.
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(No, this isn't a stab at indians in general, it's just my own experience of attempting to talk to the staff on various outsourced helpdesks)
The world needs honest lawyers
Then, for a joke, I tried the URL..
someone's already been there and done that.
Points 10 - 13 explain what it is they are 'inventing' that is different from existing schemes. They list IE's auto complete, and say it has a failing in that anyone using the computer can autocomplete the form (thus it is not very secure), they mention quicken having a very similar method of requiring one master password to complete any password diaglog, but say that it is not ideal because the API is closed for quicken's exclusive use.
The crux of their solution is that they want to make a generic API that allows their 'invention' to provide a password where requested to any application, browser window or similar.
Of course, as other people have already pointed out, this too has already been done. Novell's single-signon pops to my mind, and I'm sure a lot of other people have done this as well.
In your case though, you're pretty covered because you've got redundancy in your design.
Because when the drives/memory/scsi controller fails, you have no warranty or come back on it.
Unless of course, you're completely comfortable with having whatever service you have running on it killed off suddenly with no clear ETA on restoration time.
We used to run a few old things on old purchased hardware, but it just caused us too many problems. No matter how non-critical a system or service is, the users will always consider everything absolutely critical, and will moan loudly when it disappears.
Seriously, how often do you people actually get telemarketers calling ? I have to assume this is an american thing, because over here in tiny little New Zealand, I have received ooh.. two or three unsolicited telemarketing calls in the 10 years or so that I've had a landline phone (have two phone lines too), and never on my cellphone.
Obviously the US has quite a problem with them, but what are other countries like ?
Yes... apparently that's what happened.
I'm a little dumbfounded myself.
doh.. should have read the other replies first and realised that it is indeed using the A record when the MX doesn't exist.
christ.. I thought they were only resolving A entries, but no.. they are doing MX ones as well ! What *possible* reason could they have for claiming to be a valid mail exchange for any mistyped domain ? The fact that they then bounce the reply suggests that they don't want to claim to be that, so other than leeching valid email addresses.. I can't think of any purpose for doing this.
Sure they might have money that could be paid to the ISO, but that doesn't mean that should or would be any more willing to pay it than an open-source developer.
Isn't it a tad ironic that one of the warmest places in the world happens to have the coldest testing environement in the world ?
How exactly does one sign up for Kazaa ?
Do they mean they downloaded it from some dodgy site that charged for the download ?, or is kazaa actually expecting people to treat it as sharewre and register it, thus giving them a license to run it, but not actually use it for anything ?
ahhhh that makes sense :)
um.. 1991 + 76 != 2062...
or did I miss something important somewhere?
Venus is damn hot, and by that I mean hot enough to melt just about anything you send there to take holiday snaps.
I believe the last Russian probe that went there landed on the surface and took lots of lovely black photos because the lens cap had melted to the camera .
"liquid water on a dusty planet" ?
I guess it just doesn't sound as good if you say that they think they've found some mud.
my two cents worth:
1. Not entirely backwards compatible. 3DMark2001, for example, complains that it requires directx 8.1 or better and quits if DX 9 is installed.
2. Try obtaining any version of directx other than the latest one, or if you were lucky enough to have kept an old installer, try downgrading directx.
Have I completely missed something here ? In addition to the obvious port 135, I thought it attacked on the cifs port - tcp/445, not 444.
Hehe.. I just realised that wireless ethernet gives back the original meaning of "ether"
Ether:
1 a : the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space b : the upper regions of space : HEAVENS
2 a : a medium that in the wave theory of light permeates all space and transmits transverse waves b : AIRWAVES
(m-w.com)
just a a couple of extra points -
1. you should KILL the msblast process first, otherwise you won't be able to delete the file as it will be held open.
2. The file msblast.exe is marked as read-only. This generally won't be a problem, but can be a gottcha if you try and delete it from a CMD shell without running attrib -r msblast.exe first.
3. You should patch the system and reboot before attempting to remove the virus, otherwise you're open to reinfection from the moment you kill the msblast process.
4. This thing causes odd behaviour on different systems. When svchost.exe gets killed on w2k pro, that stops cut and paste working. If you're running office, word will behave VERY oddly. If you're browsing your hard drive, some directories may appear to have no files in them, when in fact they really do, and lastly, IE may fail to draw some of the images on some web sites.
Mod the parent up.. finally someone has stopped rehashing what those 'researchers' 'discovered' and done some thought of their own.
They are correct in the connection speed of closer stations is not affected. What is affected is the amount of free time that close stations have to transmit in.
Since 1500 bytes takes longer to transmit at 1mbps than it does at 11mbps, it follows that a 1mbps station that is, say copying a huge file, will give the 11mbps stations much less time to use, and since bandwidth is traffic over time, it affects bandwidth (but not line speed).
Did you vote for that red traffic lights should eqate to stop and green to go ?.
If not, I sure as hell don't want to be on the road when you are
We may live in a democratic society (or at least one that tells us it is), but that doesn't mean that if you didn't vote for a law it doesn't apply to you.
:P
Ironic quote from Aladdin Systems (Score:3, Funny)
:)
by extrarice (212683) on Saturday July 26, @11:37AM
Text compression (Score:3, Funny)
by smeenz (652345) on Saturday July 26, @11:37AM
Touche!