If monocultures are bad, then why does the 'linux camp' only advocate Linux? Why do firms that have names for parts of them like the Open Source Development Network or Open Source Development Labs spend their money on GNU/Linux - thus creating a new monoculture?
Someone has to focus on it. There will always be those groups of people who want to specialize in one area, and advocate the same specialization. But that's ok, as long as there are different groups doing different things. When everyone starts doing the same thing *cough* Windows *cough*, then we have a problem.
the cable/dsl modems themselves should have built in firewalls. setup secure by default. if the user wants to reconfigure or disable it, they should be allowed to do so.
Oh wow.. Thanks for paying attention, I forgot about that one.. I didn't realize I got modded +5 Funny or that I posted it a total of 3 times. If it got +5 three times in a row, it must've been funny. Next SCO article I'll have to post it again.
I have to give some credit to this guy who gave me the idea for the joke.
BTW I'm well aware that Funny mods don't get karma:P
Look, angry one: it works. Better than anything else. And, the few things a few loud voices are crying about are the very things that make (made) SPEWS work. It's really kind of funny to watch the round-and-round: "I don't spam but SPEWS blocked me!", "OK, change ISP's", "I can't", "Why not?", "I signed a contract", "Oh, too bad. Try smarthosting", "But it's not fair", "Yes, it is. Effective too.", "I hate SPEWS", "SPEWS loves you, though. It wants to be your friend. Pick a good ISP so that it can be your friend", "I want to keep my ISP", "OK, that's fine too. We just don't want your emails then", "But that's not fair! You should only block the actual spammers", "No, this way works. We like it this way; it stops spam.", "Well, I don't spam but SPEWS blocked me anyway", . . . lather rinse repeat.
Hmmmmm... This SPEWS guy seems like a real prick. No wonder he's getting DoSed.
Welcome to the real world. Hate to break it to you, but this is how software is made. Many companies can't afford to test software for lengthy periods of time, and customers expect the product to be ready immediately, so of course they are going to get buggy software. If you are not paying extra for tech support, don't expect it to be good. Want good support? Pay large amounts of money for it.
This is the way things are. Don't like it? Just try to find another source that does a better job. You probably won't.
Its the old saying: 1) Low-cost 2) Quality 3) Fast
Well, sure. But the whole point is that file-sharing is above ground. Its out in the open for everyone to see. I remember the days of private warez BBSes, that is underground. Then ftp lists downloaded off of IRC; underground, but a little more out in the open depending on how private the channels were (and risky since then FTP sites could log your IP address). Then list of ftps posted on web pages, not underground anymore. Then Hotline (more of a Mac thing), underground depending on how private the sharers were, but many were public. Then P2P file-sharing networks, which was not underground at all, and you expose your IP address to everyone.
The only way to go underground is to go private. I'm surprised things are so open these days and how much people can get away with while being completely careless doing things out in the open.
You'd be surprised at how even intelligent people (for example, an experienced software developer I know fell for a spam) will fall for stuff like spam, telemarketing calls, etc.
There is generally a zoom feature in word processors so this should be an issue anyways. Increasing the font size does not affect your word processor's document fonts.
I guess I am in the 1% of geeks who do not use Mozilla at all, then. I've used the 1.0 series, and while there are some nice features I have no compelling reason to switch.
I would hope that 99% of geeks were using a browser other than IE. But considering the existance of Opera, Konqueror, etc, this non-IE browser does not need to be a Mozilla-based browser.
Unfortunately, this statistic is probably not correct, and there are a lot of geeks using IE. But can they really call themselves geeks then?
Even to, e.g. apache? I mean, not *could* they, but *has* MS actually distributed patches for Netscape or Apache when it needed doing?
Ah, so very true. I find Apache/PHP/MySQL so much easier to install and maintain in Debian then in Windows. Makes me wonder why people always say Debian is so difficult; it makes things so simple to the point where I would expect people to criticise it for being too easy to use.
WinAmp 2.92? I'm using WinAmp 3.0c -- am I in the future or something?
No, WinAmp 2.92 is newer than the current Winamp 3 release. Winamp 3 was more of an experiment that pretty much failed and they are scrapping it for the most part. They are taking some of the Winamp 3 features and adding them to 2. This new version is tentatively going to be called Winamp 5 (2 + 3), and to be released end of summer 2003. This is what I read on the message boards a while ago, their plans may have changed.
I'm kinda pissed that Winamp 3 for Linux pretty much disappeared. The alpha version, though really buggy, sounded much better than XMMS. Hopefully they will release a Linux player some time in the future, but I don't see it happening.
As time went by, I noticed most of the sites dedicated to warezing started shrinking, and not many I know still have all the latest and greatest (some DO still run ftp's) wheather this is because of p2p apps or what - I don't know - but most of the big time warezers I used to know went legit a few years ago.
1. Commercial software started sucking and free software replaced it in many cases; the need for it diminished and it became a waste of storage space.
they've given up in the browser war. They understand that Mozilla / KHTML / Opera (and derivatives) is far superior to IE, so there is no longer a demand for new features in IE. The best they can do is force it on the user by including in the OS, but don't expect any major user interface changes. People will continue to use it because it is part of the OS.
Back in the early nineties playing TradeWars, the sysop for some reason misconfigured the games menu and I was able to enter the TradeWars editor. I didn't mess with much (though I could've modified anything I wanted), but I did take a peek at what all my enemies were doing and where their planets were.
There were plenty of exploitable bugs in Tradewars as well, and a lot of those actually became part of the gameplay.
Dreamcast is a dead console, if I'm going to put work into developing for a console at all would I be better served to work on one that has a future?
1) Dreamcast is very easy to develop for. And the fact that there are many tools to aid in development help this.
2) Dreamcast can boot a CD-R without a modchip or some kind of circumvention device. This means anyone who owns a Dreamcast can play your game. You can reach a much greater audience with DC homebrew than you could with PS2/XBox/Gamecube homebrew. DC consoles are cheap these days. It may be a dead console, but for homebrew, it makes much more sense than any of the other current-generation consoles.
And there's just something wrong about open-source games.
What might that be? Other than they are generally not all that great.
From what I could tell from reading the article, it's not exactly the same as typical remote access. This basically allows for applications to be developed with a remote access interfaces, using plugins. But you can't use any apps on your PCs unless they are developed with the plugins.
Personally all I would need is SSH and remote X, though...
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If monocultures are bad, then why does the 'linux camp' only advocate Linux? Why do firms that have names for parts of them like the Open Source Development Network or Open Source Development Labs spend their money on GNU/Linux - thus creating a new monoculture?
Someone has to focus on it. There will always be those groups of people who want to specialize in one area, and advocate the same specialization. But that's ok, as long as there are different groups doing different things. When everyone starts doing the same thing *cough* Windows *cough*, then we have a problem.
In most work environments, pc's get turned off over night, and sometimes even at lunch.
No way. I need VPN access to my machine even at 2AM.
ms dos boot 2 seconds
When I was running MS DOS, I was booting off a 360k floppy disk and I assure you that it did NOT boot in 2 seconds.
Even when I had a hard drive, my autoexec.bat and config.sys had enough in them that it took a while to boot.
Sure, any OS will boot quickly if you don't load any services. But what are you going to use it for if you don't load anything?
how is this a troll? does someone not understand sed?
he is correctly pointing out that it is OpenBSD (not FreeBSD) who claims one remote root exploit in 7 years.
the cable/dsl modems themselves should have built in firewalls. setup secure by default. if the user wants to reconfigure or disable it, they should be allowed to do so.
SCO 10q and just how much has Microsoft agreed to pay SCO?
Take name "MICROSOFT" and rearrange the letters and you get "SCO FROM IT"
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oh wow.. Thanks for paying attention, I forgot about that one.. I didn't realize I got modded +5 Funny or that I posted it a total of 3 times. If it got +5 three times in a row, it must've been funny. Next SCO article I'll have to post it again.
:P
I have to give some credit to this guy who gave me the idea for the joke.
BTW I'm well aware that Funny mods don't get karma
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Look, angry one: it works. Better than anything else. And, the few things a few loud voices are crying about are the very things that make (made) SPEWS work. It's really kind of funny to watch the round-and-round: "I don't spam but SPEWS blocked me!", "OK, change ISP's", "I can't", "Why not?", "I signed a contract", "Oh, too bad. Try smarthosting", "But it's not fair", "Yes, it is. Effective too.", "I hate SPEWS", "SPEWS loves you, though. It wants to be your friend. Pick a good ISP so that it can be your friend", "I want to keep my ISP", "OK, that's fine too. We just don't want your emails then", "But that's not fair! You should only block the actual spammers", "No, this way works. We like it this way; it stops spam.", "Well, I don't spam but SPEWS blocked me anyway", . . . lather rinse repeat.
Hmmmmm... This SPEWS guy seems like a real prick. No wonder he's getting DoSed.
Welcome to the real world. Hate to break it to you, but this is how software is made. Many companies can't afford to test software for lengthy periods of time, and customers expect the product to be ready immediately, so of course they are going to get buggy software. If you are not paying extra for tech support, don't expect it to be good. Want good support? Pay large amounts of money for it.
This is the way things are. Don't like it? Just try to find another source that does a better job. You probably won't.
Its the old saying:
1) Low-cost
2) Quality
3) Fast
Pick 2.
You can't fight a system that goes underground.
Well, sure. But the whole point is that file-sharing is above ground. Its out in the open for everyone to see. I remember the days of private warez BBSes, that is underground. Then ftp lists downloaded off of IRC; underground, but a little more out in the open depending on how private the channels were (and risky since then FTP sites could log your IP address). Then list of ftps posted on web pages, not underground anymore. Then Hotline (more of a Mac thing), underground depending on how private the sharers were, but many were public. Then P2P file-sharing networks, which was not underground at all, and you expose your IP address to everyone.
The only way to go underground is to go private. I'm surprised things are so open these days and how much people can get away with while being completely careless doing things out in the open.
You'd be surprised at how even intelligent people (for example, an experienced software developer I know fell for a spam) will fall for stuff like spam, telemarketing calls, etc.
There is generally a zoom feature in word processors so this should be an issue anyways. Increasing the font size does not affect your word processor's document fonts.
Now, it's true that "iexplore.exe" will still be around somewhere, and if people really want to use IE, they can find it.
They can just type in a URL in Explorer.
Lynx works quite well for browsing Slashdot. I am posting this message from it. The default colors need to be changed though.
I guess I am in the 1% of geeks who do not use Mozilla at all, then. I've used the 1.0 series, and while there are some nice features I have no compelling reason to switch.
I would hope that 99% of geeks were using a browser other than IE. But considering the existance of Opera, Konqueror, etc, this non-IE browser does not need to be a Mozilla-based browser.
Unfortunately, this statistic is probably not correct, and there are a lot of geeks using IE. But can they really call themselves geeks then?
Take the letters from MICROSOFT, rearrange them, you get "SCO FROM IT"
Coincidence? I think not...
Even to, e.g. apache?
I mean, not *could* they, but *has* MS actually distributed patches for Netscape or Apache when it needed doing?
Ah, so very true. I find Apache/PHP/MySQL so much easier to install and maintain in Debian then in Windows. Makes me wonder why people always say Debian is so difficult; it makes things so simple to the point where I would expect people to criticise it for being too easy to use.
WinAmp 2.92? I'm using WinAmp 3.0c -- am I in the future or something?
No, WinAmp 2.92 is newer than the current Winamp 3 release. Winamp 3 was more of an experiment that pretty much failed and they are scrapping it for the most part. They are taking some of the Winamp 3 features and adding them to 2. This new version is tentatively going to be called Winamp 5 (2 + 3), and to be released end of summer 2003. This is what I read on the message boards a while ago, their plans may have changed.
I'm kinda pissed that Winamp 3 for Linux pretty much disappeared. The alpha version, though really buggy, sounded much better than XMMS. Hopefully they will release a Linux player some time in the future, but I don't see it happening.
As time went by, I noticed most of the sites dedicated to warezing started shrinking, and not many I know still have all the latest and greatest (some DO still run ftp's) wheather this is because of p2p apps or what - I don't know - but most of the big time warezers I used to know went legit a few years ago.
1. Commercial software started sucking and free software replaced it in many cases; the need for it diminished and it became a waste of storage space.
2. The warez d00ds running those sites grew up
3. p2p
they've given up in the browser war. They understand that Mozilla / KHTML / Opera (and derivatives) is far superior to IE, so there is no longer a demand for new features in IE. The best they can do is force it on the user by including in the OS, but don't expect any major user interface changes. People will continue to use it because it is part of the OS.
and look! if you rearrange microsoft a bit you can get sco rimoft
Interesting, and to take it a step further, you rearrange "microsoft" and you get "sco from it"
It is many different sections of code ranging from five to 10 to 15 lines of code in multiple places that are of issue
10 to 15 lines of code? That's such a small amount that similar code could be entirely coincidental.
Back in the early nineties playing TradeWars, the sysop for some reason misconfigured the games menu and I was able to enter the TradeWars editor. I didn't mess with much (though I could've modified anything I wanted), but I did take a peek at what all my enemies were doing and where their planets were.
There were plenty of exploitable bugs in Tradewars as well, and a lot of those actually became part of the gameplay.
Dreamcast is a dead console, if I'm going to put work into developing for a console at all would I be better served to work on one that has a future?
1) Dreamcast is very easy to develop for. And the fact that there are many tools to aid in development help this.
2) Dreamcast can boot a CD-R without a modchip or some kind of circumvention device. This means anyone who owns a Dreamcast can play your game. You can reach a much greater audience with DC homebrew than you could with PS2/XBox/Gamecube homebrew. DC consoles are cheap these days. It may be a dead console, but for homebrew, it makes much more sense than any of the other current-generation consoles.
And there's just something wrong about open-source games.
What might that be? Other than they are generally not all that great.
From what I could tell from reading the article, it's not exactly the same as typical remote access. This basically allows for applications to be developed with a remote access interfaces, using plugins. But you can't use any apps on your PCs unless they are developed with the plugins.
Personally all I would need is SSH and remote X, though...