I don't believe VA Software (LNUX) is on the Fortune 1000 list. But at the moment I'm having trouble finding where I can look at the list without first paying $899 to fortune.com.
It assists content providers in exercising their freedom to control the distribution of their (their?) copyrighted works. If they want to sell a product of significantly reduced value at full retail price, they're free to go ahead and try, and see if they can trick, err, convince anyone to purchase their now worthless offering. There's no law saying a business can't close its doors to potential customers. It hurts both the business and the consumer but they're well within their rights.
And you can't really put much blame on the developers of the DRM software either. They're just meeting demands for increased support for copyright protection. It's still up to authors and content providers to use it.
I haven't read it since last year, but I think the USAPATRIOT act increased the minimum sentence for cyberterrorism to 10 years. That's 10 years for 11 crank 911 calls and obtaining 21 people's web browser history by getting them to run your script. The former is an annoyance to police and the latter happens all the time. That's hardly worthy of 10 days. If found guilty, that's 10 years that this guy won't be contributing to the economy or paying taxes, but rather he'll become a drain on our economy against his own will. All this for a prank. I doubt any of his victims will support the punishment he appears to be about to face.
Sun has little or nothing to gain from open sourcing Java, except for many thankyous from the open sourcce community. Sun would lose control of its most popular offering. Although Java free of price, they are able to use it to increase sales of their other offerings in various ways. And their tight control of it gives them the option of branching the project and charging for the better version.
You guys really need to update your "litigious bastards" links. www.sco.com is no longer in google's index, so linking to it does nothing. You need to link to sco.com or www.thescogroup.com for the campaign to become effective again. Now go tell your friends.
AT&T said in 1985 that additions to UNIX were not considered derivative works, only modifications to the actual code. IBM's license reiterates that IBM owns their contributions, and is perpetual and irrevocable. Novell backs up IBM's claims, and offers proof that SCO does not own UNIX. There was no written transfer of copyrights from Novell to SCO. SCO (old SCO, not Caldera/SCO) bought the UNIX business, not the UNIX copyrights. SCO failed under a court order to identify any code of "theirs" in Linux that IBM didn't write. They did identify hundreds of lines in Linux that IBM wrote, and own, far short of the millions of lines of UNIX code they claim were illegally copied in violation of SCO's copyrights. SCO does not even have a copy of the "derivative" AIX source code they claim to own. SCO has violated thousands of copyrights and broken many laws. SCO still offered the code in question under the GPL far into the discpute, and it's even digitally signed with their key. Etc. Groklaw explains it all.
Since they said they have 4.28 billion searchable pages in the index, and 32 bit integers have a range of about 4.29 billion possible values, I'd say they're pretty close to having to make another upgrade, unless they decide there will never be more than 4.29 billion pages online that searchers would be interested in.
I just thought he was unfairly modded down to -1, Troll. His experience developing with both Linux and Solaris on a sparc should make him more qualified than the average troll.
He's a Gentoo/Sparc developer, which makes him pretty well qualified to compare Linux to Solaris.
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I could imagine the discussion of which candidate to hire went something like "You asked him what? His sexuality? His race? If he's a terrorist because he's arab? You idiot! Now we have to hire him. We don't want another lawsuit on our hands."
These are some of the best security audit tools I know of. Using any of them without written permission, or without giving a good explanation of what they do and what impact they'll have on their network, could subject you to lawsuits or prison.
nessus will scan for known vulnerabilities. I've heard it's the best, but haven't tried it myself. Be aware that running it will most likely crash some servers. nmap will tell you all the open ports on all the systems on the network, and attempt to identify them. ethereal will spy on network traffic. Look for suspicious traffic and cleartext passwords that shouldn't be cleartext. The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer will identify missing patches and weak passwords. Though in my opinion simply running it requires you to be insecure, because it depends on "hidden" administrative shares to access the hard drives of all the systems on the network, which you may wish to disable. l0phtcrack and Hydra are popular password crackers, used to detect accounts with weak passwords.
And like always (assuming they run Windows): Check the firewall logs. Make sure all security updates are installed. Run the IIS lockdown tool on servers running IIS. Make sure workstations are free of spyware/adware and other unwanted startup programs. Look into the Windows gold standard and other popular security templates intended for locking down workstations and servers. Make sure your wireless routers use adequate encryption. WEP is encrypted but uses weak keys. Etc. Can go for hours.
Groklaw has warned that anyone who gains access to the Windows source, whether or not they actually read it, may legally impair their ability to make contributions to open source resembling anything that exists in Windows.
I used GEOS (C64 version) a few times on my great aunt's C128. It ran very well considering the hardware it was running on. You see color screenshots on the site, but it really had to do all that with 2 color tiles. It had a wysiwyg document editor. It was even able to load normal programs and then restore itself when the program exited.
Source code: http://www.mytsoftware.com/misc/bzsrc.zip Win32 binary: http://www.mytsoftware.com/misc/bzcheat.z ip
Note that I intentionally impaired the binary version to keep the kiddies off the servers used by the general public. It'll only function properly on 1.7e6 servers and below, and it'll advertise that they're using a cheat client. The source code version has 1.7g2 compatibility with most cheats. Most of the cheats are subtle, and can give a player a serious edge without being caught, hence the impaired binary release.
I do not advocate its use without permission from server owners.
And it won't work on the newest servers because I stopped playing before the recent protocol breaking release came out.
once I finally got it installed and working with my hardware, was the selection of text editors found in the Linux distributions I've tried. The graphical ones are getting better, but vi and emacs are very difficult for most newcomers to learn. mcedit is a bit more familiar, and comes with many distributions, but it wasn't until years later that I noticed it was there.
You beat me to it. I was moving my mouse to click reply, then saw that you already posted one.
I'm Dave, the lamer who wrote the most featureful bzflag cheat client out there, which I myself used on the cheat servers but was undoubtably used elsewhere after I released it.
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I don't believe VA Software (LNUX) is on the Fortune 1000 list. But at the moment I'm having trouble finding where I can look at the list without first paying $899 to fortune.com.
It assists content providers in exercising their freedom to control the distribution of their (their?) copyrighted works. If they want to sell a product of significantly reduced value at full retail price, they're free to go ahead and try, and see if they can trick, err, convince anyone to purchase their now worthless offering. There's no law saying a business can't close its doors to potential customers. It hurts both the business and the consumer but they're well within their rights.
And you can't really put much blame on the developers of the DRM software either. They're just meeting demands for increased support for copyright protection. It's still up to authors and content providers to use it.
So lets blame the lawyers!
Already happening.
If my host bought an SCO license they'd lose my business. I'd simply switch to another host.
I haven't read it since last year, but I think the USAPATRIOT act increased the minimum sentence for cyberterrorism to 10 years. That's 10 years for 11 crank 911 calls and obtaining 21 people's web browser history by getting them to run your script. The former is an annoyance to police and the latter happens all the time. That's hardly worthy of 10 days. If found guilty, that's 10 years that this guy won't be contributing to the economy or paying taxes, but rather he'll become a drain on our economy against his own will. All this for a prank. I doubt any of his victims will support the punishment he appears to be about to face.
Automated Japanese to English translations are always fun to read.
"Since >> Mario is a postscript, he is nothing to speak of."
"It is knowing if it is relatives."
Google's Britney Spears page?
Sun has little or nothing to gain from open sourcing Java, except for many thankyous from the open sourcce community. Sun would lose control of its most popular offering. Although Java free of price, they are able to use it to increase sales of their other offerings in various ways. And their tight control of it gives them the option of branching the project and charging for the better version.
You guys really need to update your "litigious bastards" links. www.sco.com is no longer in google's index, so linking to it does nothing. You need to link to sco.com or www.thescogroup.com for the campaign to become effective again. Now go tell your friends.
AT&T said in 1985 that additions to UNIX were not considered derivative works, only modifications to the actual code.
IBM's license reiterates that IBM owns their contributions, and is perpetual and irrevocable.
Novell backs up IBM's claims, and offers proof that SCO does not own UNIX.
There was no written transfer of copyrights from Novell to SCO. SCO (old SCO, not Caldera/SCO) bought the UNIX business, not the UNIX copyrights.
SCO failed under a court order to identify any code of "theirs" in Linux that IBM didn't write.
They did identify hundreds of lines in Linux that IBM wrote, and own, far short of the millions of lines of UNIX code they claim were illegally copied in violation of SCO's copyrights.
SCO does not even have a copy of the "derivative" AIX source code they claim to own.
SCO has violated thousands of copyrights and broken many laws.
SCO still offered the code in question under the GPL far into the discpute, and it's even digitally signed with their key.
Etc. Groklaw explains it all.
Since they said they have 4.28 billion searchable pages in the index, and 32 bit integers have a range of about 4.29 billion possible values, I'd say they're pretty close to having to make another upgrade, unless they decide there will never be more than 4.29 billion pages online that searchers would be interested in.
Just like all the odd numbered Star Trek movies. Ask any trekkie which of them were the best, they'll often say 2,4,6,8,10 in whatever order.
I just thought he was unfairly modded down to -1, Troll. His experience developing with both Linux and Solaris on a sparc should make him more qualified than the average troll.
I guess.
He's a Gentoo/Sparc developer, which makes him pretty well qualified to compare Linux to Solaris.
I could imagine the discussion of which candidate to hire went something like "You asked him what? His sexuality? His race? If he's a terrorist because he's arab? You idiot! Now we have to hire him. We don't want another lawsuit on our hands."
These are some of the best security audit tools I know of. Using any of them without written permission, or without giving a good explanation of what they do and what impact they'll have on their network, could subject you to lawsuits or prison.
nessus will scan for known vulnerabilities. I've heard it's the best, but haven't tried it myself. Be aware that running it will most likely crash some servers.
nmap will tell you all the open ports on all the systems on the network, and attempt to identify them.
ethereal will spy on network traffic. Look for suspicious traffic and cleartext passwords that shouldn't be cleartext.
The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer will identify missing patches and weak passwords. Though in my opinion simply running it requires you to be insecure, because it depends on "hidden" administrative shares to access the hard drives of all the systems on the network, which you may wish to disable.
l0phtcrack and Hydra are popular password crackers, used to detect accounts with weak passwords.
And like always (assuming they run Windows):
Check the firewall logs.
Make sure all security updates are installed.
Run the IIS lockdown tool on servers running IIS.
Make sure workstations are free of spyware/adware and other unwanted startup programs.
Look into the Windows gold standard and other popular security templates intended for locking down workstations and servers.
Make sure your wireless routers use adequate encryption. WEP is encrypted but uses weak keys.
Etc. Can go for hours.
Groklaw has warned that anyone who gains access to the Windows source, whether or not they actually read it, may legally impair their ability to make contributions to open source resembling anything that exists in Windows.
I used GEOS (C64 version) a few times on my great aunt's C128. It ran very well considering the hardware it was running on. You see color screenshots on the site, but it really had to do all that with 2 color tiles. It had a wysiwyg document editor. It was even able to load normal programs and then restore itself when the program exited.
Don't forget Duke Nukem Forever.
I used pico a lot before discovering mcedit. Pico just didn't meet my code editing needs. No auto-indent and word wrap is enabled by default.
Source code:
z ip
http://www.mytsoftware.com/misc/bzsrc.zip
Win32 binary:
http://www.mytsoftware.com/misc/bzcheat.
Note that I intentionally impaired the binary version to keep the kiddies off the servers used by the general public. It'll only function properly on 1.7e6 servers and below, and it'll advertise that they're using a cheat client. The source code version has 1.7g2 compatibility with most cheats. Most of the cheats are subtle, and can give a player a serious edge without being caught, hence the impaired binary release.
I do not advocate its use without permission from server owners.
And it won't work on the newest servers because I stopped playing before the recent protocol breaking release came out.
once I finally got it installed and working with my hardware, was the selection of text editors found in the Linux distributions I've tried. The graphical ones are getting better, but vi and emacs are very difficult for most newcomers to learn. mcedit is a bit more familiar, and comes with many distributions, but it wasn't until years later that I noticed it was there.
Same story here, but getting worse.
You beat me to it. I was moving my mouse to click reply, then saw that you already posted one.
I'm Dave, the lamer who wrote the most featureful bzflag cheat client out there, which I myself used on the cheat servers but was undoubtably used elsewhere after I released it.
I guess I worded that poorly.