Your comment is very interesting (now my opinion about Meucci is doubtful), but for your text in bold: who win the patent case vs who actually invents the thing... I can't care less for the former.
I'd have put emphasis on something like this other excerpt: After years of hard work, Bell succeeded in patenting the telephone using a principle of undulating current that had not been understood by other experimenters, including Philip Reis, Antonio Meucci, and Elisha Gray. The numerous courts that looked at the evidence found that the writings of these investigators all indicated that they didn't understand the principle of the telephone, and therefore could not have invented it (not to mention that their devices didn't work.)
... cause they're used to it. It's ok to provide something similar to windows to ease the transition to linux but people that get started now (that is, the Future) may want something simpler and better.
Coming from a classic mac os background i found the easiest systems to be:
1 Mac osx (no need to read any manual, of course)
2 Debian linux with gnome 2 (configuration needs some time and patience, then everything's downhill... until next major kernel update?)
3 Win2000 (system options are scattered in the most unlikely places, the whole idea of a window containing other windows for each application is not practical, starts having problem if you install 1/20 of the stuff you can put in the other systems, multibooting is mor difficult, gotta deal with pompous documentation and terminology for the simplest tasks...)
I think implementation is far more important than standards, when we speak about security issues. The best thing would be to have many compatible but different implementations working on strictly standard data formats.
Linux risks becoming omnipresent, but is also helping diversification because a new hardware company doesn't need to develop it's own OS and apps anymore, see the chinese CPU effort. Even alternatives to linux can use open source tools for their own kernels.
Svre, i can manage that. Lvcky that I, as one, live in Italy;)
Once we've settled the prior art dispvte vvith the Greeks (damn their alphas and betas, by Jove, vve'll have to invade them again), ovr nation shall rise again!
You have a point, but consider the real world situation: when big companies get big bucks for big defense contracts two things happen:
a state of war becomes a money making option for very influential people (I would really like to live in an imaginary country where nobody is allowed to make any profit with arms or supplies if the country is at war...)
companies that sell arms try mainly to increase their own profit, not to supply the country with the most effective weapons. Private research and development projects get their priority on potential profits and not on ultimate effectiveness.
These points, IMHO, outweight any good aspect you describe.
... from stenographic content. Either he knows it's there (so he won't report it, surely) or he doesn't know (so he does not extract the potentially dangerous content). A scan for steganographic content should be performed by ISPs or by something like carnivore.
Anyway the USAF initiative is more clever than it seems, because vital steganographic content (terrorist plans and so) must be hidden in "popular" files, to make it hard for the good guys to find out the intended audience of the message. So a user level scan might be somewhat helpful.
It will also give a good excuse to people caught surfing for porn ("I am just helping out the USAF, dear!").
You can download version 1.3 or later and try out for yourself.
You can also download free documentation and manuals here and start experimenting. You'll see gimp has enough functionality to keep you busy for some time. Most of the things you learn on gimp are still valid when (if) you switch to photoshop.
Personally, and regarding basic operations, i found the gimp easy enough, compared to photoshop, but the interface needs to get better on things like rotation. Let's see the 2.0, though.
I totally agree.
And it's not even a simple idea but requiring creativity, like a spreadsheet. You have digital tv, so you think, why not cache the recording to allow live pause for people needing a pause?
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To all the idiots that claim that OSS is the one and only way to "keep yourself supported"
So, what's the other way to keep yourself supported if you happen to own a low end pc, other than installing linux on it?
Uhhh, shut down the website that the "worm" is sending a link to?
You would need to prove that the virus author and the website are connected, what if shutting down sites becomes the rule and somebody creates virus that connects, let's say, to microsoft website to download a normal os update?
Lomborg's book has 2 930 footnotes which allows you to fact check every single assertion that he makes. I've never seen that level of detail from the environmentalist movement and I speak as someone who has read more than just their pamphlets.
The phenomenons environmentalists are talking about are so macroscopic that they don't require a great level of detail (climate changes, increase in skin diseases...). The interpretation of these phenomenons might be challenged but it's not a matter of "level of detail".
You can be sure that anything threatens either profit or marketshare they will try to beat it.
Even if it is The Law, i guess.
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The scary part comes if we reduce these forms of pollution, reduce cloudiness, and thus accelerate global warming.
(emphasis by me).
That can't happen, if pollution is the cause of global warming. Is it? I know only two things: a) we are changing the composition of the atmosphere b) the climate is undergoing sudden changes. Some say that you need to prove a) and b) are related, I think that before going further with a) we should prove they're unrelated.
I didn't find an easy way to boot load all without typing in openfirmware commands
Well i guess bsd (but not darwin) or BeOS needed open firmware commands, because in my experience booting any of the others needs just a keystroke in the yaboot bootloader. And the openfirmware commands to issue are just two, i think. Intricate syntax for the first but the default values are available with a mere printenv. Bash scripting is worse:)
Seriously tho' Almost all of them are running under virtual PC...
It is his personal choice, he could have installed more native stuff. Installing Linux on a mac (ydl debian mandrake suse...) is easier to do natively than in an emulator: Mac people used to partition HDs to use a smaller block size before the advent of HFS+, there have never been problems with the number of partitions (no primary vs. secondary, and every partition is bootable despite the position).
I was amazed with the many issues for multibooting PCs, on the other side, so i think this guy just wanted to take the most difficult route:)
This is the basis for something that I'm planing right now, long way off, but these are the keys to the next gen P2P network. Once in the wild, there is no way to take it down. =)
To avoid risks of reinventing the wheel, try looking at GNUnet
And just what do these childish OS hackers expect to gain from this?
Well I see no motive myself. In the endless stream of comments on SCO, here and in other news sites, i don't recall anybody proposing something as pointless (IMHO) as a DDos. If the motive is difficult to find it's time to look for a different suspect.
Which is cheaper, buying windows, or spending months in trial?
IMHO, this is a good explanation of SCO bizarre behaviour, now that i think of it. I don't see any reason why somebody should consider SCO as a viable business partner after these months, so why are they killing themselves? They work for somebody else.
There is the hfsplus (also called hfsplusutils?) package for that kind of partitions.
Else, one can directly "mount -t hfsplus...": in my experience on a mac with 2.4.22 reading works, writing many files or moving folders within the partition caused eventual kernel oops (X managed to survive btw) and corruption of directory data of hfsplus partition. (the mac disk warrior utility solved the problem)
The timing of the attack (just before the release of 3.0r2 and almost coincidental with the discovery of an OSX remote vulnerability) is interesting, too.
A resourceful black-hat hacker hitting debian just to boast "its" ego would have probably "signed" the attack somehow. On the other side, if i were trying to spread FUD about Linux with an attack, i'd do the same: pretending that a single immature highschooler could hax0r Debian would add insult to damage and hide the real motive.
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Your comment is very interesting (now my opinion about Meucci is doubtful), but for your text in bold: who win the patent case vs who actually invents the thing... I can't care less for the former.
I'd have put emphasis on something like this other excerpt:
After years of hard work, Bell succeeded in patenting the telephone using a principle of undulating current that had not been understood by other experimenters, including Philip Reis, Antonio Meucci, and Elisha Gray. The numerous courts that looked at the evidence found that the writings of these investigators all indicated that they didn't understand the principle of the telephone, and therefore could not have invented it (not to mention that their devices didn't work.)
... cause they're used to it. It's ok to provide something similar to windows to ease the transition to linux but people that get started now (that is, the Future) may want something simpler and better. Coming from a classic mac os background i found the easiest systems to be: 1 Mac osx (no need to read any manual, of course) 2 Debian linux with gnome 2 (configuration needs some time and patience, then everything's downhill... until next major kernel update?) 3 Win2000 (system options are scattered in the most unlikely places, the whole idea of a window containing other windows for each application is not practical, starts having problem if you install 1/20 of the stuff you can put in the other systems, multibooting is mor difficult, gotta deal with pompous documentation and terminology for the simplest tasks...)
Antonio Meucci.
Bell didn't invent the telephone, US rules
I think implementation is far more important than standards, when we speak about security issues. The best thing would be to have many compatible but different implementations working on strictly standard data formats.
Linux risks becoming omnipresent, but is also helping diversification because a new hardware company doesn't need to develop it's own OS and apps anymore, see the chinese CPU effort. Even alternatives to linux can use open source tools for their own kernels.
Exactly: the html vs. html + style or xml comparison is sure proof the guy is clueless.
I I NIHIL I I NIHIL NIHIL I I NIHIL
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DEFECTVS SEGMENTATIONIS
Svre, i can manage that. Lvcky that I, as one, live in Italy
Once we've settled the prior art dispvte vvith the Greeks (damn their alphas and betas, by Jove, vve'll have to invade them again), ovr nation shall rise again!
All your ascii are belong to vs.
Sounds like a situation where you could test some Extreme Programming techniques.
If your developing environment lets you easily refactor code, that is.
a state of war becomes a money making option for very influential people (I would really like to live in an imaginary country where nobody is allowed to make any profit with arms or supplies if the country is at war...)
companies that sell arms try mainly to increase their own profit, not to supply the country with the most effective weapons. Private research and development projects get their priority on potential profits and not on ultimate effectiveness.
These points, IMHO, outweight any good aspect you describe.
... from stenographic content. Either he knows it's there (so he won't report it, surely) or he doesn't know (so he does not extract the potentially dangerous content). A scan for steganographic content should be performed by ISPs or by something like carnivore.
Anyway the USAF initiative is more clever than it seems, because vital steganographic content (terrorist plans and so) must be hidden in "popular" files, to make it hard for the good guys to find out the intended audience of the message. So a user level scan might be somewhat helpful.
It will also give a good excuse to people caught surfing for porn ("I am just helping out the USAF, dear!").
You can download version 1.3 or later and try out for yourself.
You can also download free documentation and manuals here and start experimenting. You'll see gimp has enough functionality to keep you busy for some time. Most of the things you learn on gimp are still valid when (if) you switch to photoshop.
Personally, and regarding basic operations, i found the gimp easy enough, compared to photoshop, but the interface needs to get better on things like rotation. Let's see the 2.0, though.
I totally agree. And it's not even a simple idea but requiring creativity, like a spreadsheet. You have digital tv, so you think, why not cache the recording to allow live pause for people needing a pause?
To all the idiots that claim that OSS is the one and only way to "keep yourself supported"
So, what's the other way to keep yourself supported if you happen to own a low end pc, other than installing linux on it?
There is one good RPC system, and it's called HTTP. It works wonderfully when you can generate stuff from a database into some text-representation.
The people behind REST seem to agree with you, I think.
Uhhh, shut down the website that the "worm" is sending a link to?
You would need to prove that the virus author and the website are connected, what if shutting down sites becomes the rule and somebody creates virus that connects, let's say, to microsoft website to download a normal os update?
...is Mr. Saddam Hussein the best dictator of 2003?
Lomborg's book has 2 930 footnotes which allows you to fact check every single assertion that he makes. I've never seen that level of detail from the environmentalist movement and I speak as someone who has read more than just their pamphlets.
The phenomenons environmentalists are talking about are so macroscopic that they don't require a great level of detail (climate changes, increase in skin diseases...). The interpretation of these phenomenons might be challenged but it's not a matter of "level of detail".
You can be sure that anything threatens either profit or marketshare they will try to beat it.
Even if it is The Law, i guess.
The scary part comes if we reduce these forms of pollution, reduce cloudiness, and thus accelerate global warming.
(emphasis by me).
That can't happen, if pollution is the cause of global warming.
Is it? I know only two things: a) we are changing the composition of the atmosphere b) the climate is undergoing sudden changes.
Some say that you need to prove a) and b) are related, I think that before going further with a) we should prove they're unrelated.
I didn't find an easy way to boot load all without typing in openfirmware commands
:)
Well i guess bsd (but not darwin) or BeOS needed open firmware commands, because in my experience booting any of the others needs just a keystroke in the yaboot bootloader. And the openfirmware commands to issue are just two, i think. Intricate syntax for the first but the default values are available with a mere printenv. Bash scripting is worse
Seriously tho' Almost all of them are running under virtual PC...
:)
It is his personal choice, he could have installed more native stuff. Installing Linux on a mac (ydl debian mandrake suse...) is easier to do natively than in an emulator: Mac people used to partition HDs to use a smaller block size before the advent of HFS+, there have never been problems with the number of partitions (no primary vs. secondary, and every partition is bootable despite the position).
I was amazed with the many issues for multibooting PCs, on the other side, so i think this guy just wanted to take the most difficult route
This is the basis for something that I'm planing right now, long way off, but these are the keys to the next gen P2P network. Once in the wild, there is no way to take it down. =)
To avoid risks of reinventing the wheel, try looking at GNUnet
And just what do these childish OS hackers expect to gain from this?
Well I see no motive myself. In the endless stream of comments on SCO, here and in other news sites, i don't recall anybody proposing something as pointless (IMHO) as a DDos. If the motive is difficult to find it's time to look for a different suspect.
Which is cheaper, buying windows, or spending months in trial?
IMHO, this is a good explanation of SCO bizarre behaviour, now that i think of it. I don't see any reason why somebody should consider SCO as a viable business partner after these months, so why are they killing themselves? They work for somebody else.
There is the hfsplus (also called hfsplusutils?) package for that kind of partitions. Else, one can directly "mount -t hfsplus ...": in my experience on a mac with 2.4.22 reading works, writing many files or moving folders within the partition caused eventual kernel oops (X managed to survive btw) and corruption of directory data of hfsplus partition. (the mac disk warrior utility solved the problem)
Sir, you forgot to name of the conspirators. Who is it? SCO or MS?
If you didn't mean an XOR the answer is true.
Inquiring minds want to know!
So, the tinfoil hat works!? Great!
Seriously, I just pointed out things i find interesting, while waiting for some more detail.
The timing of the attack (just before the release of 3.0r2 and almost coincidental with the discovery of an OSX remote vulnerability) is interesting, too.
A resourceful black-hat hacker hitting debian just to boast "its" ego would have probably "signed" the attack somehow. On the other side, if i were trying to spread FUD about Linux with an attack, i'd do the same: pretending that a single immature highschooler could hax0r Debian would add insult to damage and hide the real motive.