I can imagine it went something like this: SCO: Here's all the evidence we've found. Boies: OMG you stupid hacks. This "evidence" is worthless. It's worse than worthless. It'd be better if we gave the judge nothing at all. So they did.
People in all sorts of desk jobs spend hours, days, or weeks performing boring repetitive tasks that should take a programmer minutes. Subjects like computer science and economics should be taught at an early age.
Where is Jeeves? After ten years of service, helping millions of users find what they want, Jeeves has decided to finally retire from his duties. He felt the time was right, convinced by the vastly-evolved technology of the new Ask.com that he could take a well-earned rest from his work of the previous decade. All of us at Ask.com wish him well in his next adventure.
If Diebold sends them an invoice for $40k, they had better not pay it. It'd be like someone watering my lawn while I'm at work, without being asked, and billing me a week's wages for it.
"I will say it here -- if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH, Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." - Theo de Raadt
I'm sure they'll find out when everyone else does.
If a company wants to wait to install patches on a fixed schedule, long after the patches have been released, nobody can stop them. There is some benefit to patching unpublicized vulnerabilities on a schedule, but if the details of a vulnerability is already public knowledge, then there's nothing to be gained by any of Microsoft's customers by delaying the availability of a patch.
If it was just a testing thing, they wouldn't wait until the 2nd Tuesday of the following month. Minor patches can wait, but delaying critical patches is inexcusable.
If third parties can regularly patch your bugs before you do, without access to the source, after giving you a generous head start... Well, I guess that could mean a lot of things. They're definitely lazy, to say the least.
Return the HD/BluRay DVD back to where you bought it. Make a lot of noise if they don't give you a full refund. If the picture looks like crap, it's defective, and they're intentionally selling a product they know is defective.
Hundreds of comments from Microsoft employees AND unaffiliated outsiders. Most of them anonymous. And Microsoft has what, about 64000 employees these days?
You can't completely remove IE without breaking things. A lot of third party programs use IE to display html, or use HTML Help (.chm) files. Without IE, Windows would have trouble running many of the programs Wine has trouble with (unless IE is installed).
Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I don't remember seeing a slashdot article when RHEL4 U3 was released. CentOS is beating RHEL on distrowatch though. Good, stable distro, perfect for most uses, just like all the other major distros. I have it installed on most of our servers at work and one desktop at home.
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I can imagine it went something like this:
SCO: Here's all the evidence we've found.
Boies: OMG you stupid hacks. This "evidence" is worthless. It's worse than worthless. It'd be better if we gave the judge nothing at all.
So they did.
My latest Dell came with FreeDOS preinstalled.
My mod points expired.
Is FLAC too complicated?
People in all sorts of desk jobs spend hours, days, or weeks performing boring repetitive tasks that should take a programmer minutes. Subjects like computer science and economics should be taught at an early age.
The book in my sig is already the #1 bestselling book on Amazon, despite having not been released yet.
No matter how much you have, you can always use a little more.
It's still the 1st where I am. And tomorrow's my birthday (no joke).
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Where is Jeeves?
After ten years of service, helping millions of users find what they want, Jeeves has decided to finally retire from his duties. He felt the time was right, convinced by the vastly-evolved technology of the new Ask.com that he could take a well-earned rest from his work of the previous decade. All of us at Ask.com wish him well in his next adventure.
If Diebold sends them an invoice for $40k, they had better not pay it. It'd be like someone watering my lawn while I'm at work, without being asked, and billing me a week's wages for it.
I'm pretty sure he's heard of it. While they do appreciate source code contributions, what they're really asking now for is money.
"I will say it here -- if an OpenSSH hole is found that applies to SunSSH, Sun will not be informed. Or maybe that has happened already." - Theo de Raadt
I'm sure they'll find out when everyone else does.
If a company wants to wait to install patches on a fixed schedule, long after the patches have been released, nobody can stop them. There is some benefit to patching unpublicized vulnerabilities on a schedule, but if the details of a vulnerability is already public knowledge, then there's nothing to be gained by any of Microsoft's customers by delaying the availability of a patch.
If it was just a testing thing, they wouldn't wait until the 2nd Tuesday of the following month. Minor patches can wait, but delaying critical patches is inexcusable.
If third parties can regularly patch your bugs before you do, without access to the source, after giving you a generous head start... Well, I guess that could mean a lot of things. They're definitely lazy, to say the least.
Return the HD/BluRay DVD back to where you bought it. Make a lot of noise if they don't give you a full refund. If the picture looks like crap, it's defective, and they're intentionally selling a product they know is defective.
Hundreds of comments from Microsoft employees AND unaffiliated outsiders. Most of them anonymous. And Microsoft has what, about 64000 employees these days?
A 60% Windows rewrite requires pushes the release date back only about another 3 months?
You can't completely remove IE without breaking things. A lot of third party programs use IE to display html, or use HTML Help (.chm) files. Without IE, Windows would have trouble running many of the programs Wine has trouble with (unless IE is installed).
Find the books you expect to read again and put them on their own shelf. Store the rest out of sight, out of mind, or simply discard them.
Support is good, but no matter who is to blame, it's your responsibility to ensure it gets fixed.
Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I don't remember seeing a slashdot article when RHEL4 U3 was released. CentOS is beating RHEL on distrowatch though. Good, stable distro, perfect for most uses, just like all the other major distros. I have it installed on most of our servers at work and one desktop at home.
How many users has Microsoft lost to Samba?
We're all just looking for ideas that can make us rich. There's plenty of those left.