He also pointed out that not everyone can be converted just yet because of a single application (the City Council's Agenda Management System) requires MS Office to run.
Basically, people outside the City COuncils direct organisation use MS office proprietry format, so they can't make a complete switch because of the lock in effect.
Camperstrike blows goats in an online context, but may be okay for a LAN play. Day of Defeat is undoubtedly a better Halflife mod for online play.
If you are using STEAM (which is actually reasonably stable now), the ricochet mod is fun
Shame about HL2's problems
Especially since they are an enterprise scale company with a professional background in Unix(tm|c|$699) and we are a bunch of howling barbarian commie pinko liberal leftist joint smoking scum who have to steal their code to make a web worthy competitior.
I submitted a version of this story with links to Groklaw and various technical resources and got rejected. Wish the/. editors team would pick decent story writers.
Anyhow folks, the consensus at Groklaw is that either SCO are lying through their teeth and this is all FUD, or their network admin staff are a bunch of incompetents.
There are no prizes for guessing what the/. theory will be.
In specific, the outage at www.sco.com started before the reported time by several hours, was already under analysis by Groklaw before the claimed time, the pattern of the servers shutoff is NOT consistent with a SYN DDOS (the claimed attack), but it is consistent with either a planned shutdown, or a network cable being unplugged.
There was no slowdown of service - see netcraft for the stats. SCO claim e-mail and other services were compromised which do not use the TCP SYN/ACK and are not therefore vulnerable to this attack (when on different servers (which they are, see groklaw for a list). ftp.sco.com remained up, despite being on the same subnet, and smtp.sco.com would respond throughout the duration of the supposed 'attack'.
The above is a synopsis of Work presented for analysis at Groklaw, any mistakes are my own, any credit is due to the authors on Groklaw and to PJ.
This is a load of rubbish. See Groklaw for a much deeper and more insightful look at what really happened, a full explanation of the technicalities of the DDOS attack (claimed as a SYN attack that took up all the bandwidth and flattened their e-mail - and yet you can still get to ftp.sco.com (on same subnet), smtp.sco.com all other XO.net fed servers. Groklaw also noticed that the machine was down well before the press release claims and that it went straight down - no hiccups or other indications of a DDOS attack, just a straight gone - switched off or unplugged most likely.
See the netcraft stats for that little bit. If SCO make any claim that this is a DDOS, they are lying through their teeth and the evidence was collected as it happened - see the members zone at Groklaw for the raw Traceroute returns.
I think its likely Walmart has the resources to finance this, and to finance specific development to compete with the MS compatable products, particually in terms of drivers. Walmart is a big company and a hefty push. Bear in mind that while it may not be 100% open, a lot of it is going to be craftily portable to the more professional Linux distros used by the likes of the/. crowd.
If you want a game where the variations are endless, try Nomic, where the aim of the game is to alter the rules. From one of the FAQ's:
Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be changed. (Peter Suber, The Paradox of Self-Amendment, Appendix 3, p. 362)
The game was developed from political science theory as an example - but it turned out to be a lot of fun!
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If Computer Games had any effect on childrens behaviour we would be running around a darkened room, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
An IP has to be assigned, and one assumes the ISP either keep logs of dynamically assigned IPs or statically assign IP's to Cable lines (I know my last cable had a static IP). Therefore knowing the IP has at least some chance of determining the theifs location, or at least narrowing the search.
People are hoping to make a quick buck on speculation and get out before the risky part. Someone is going to get burned, but it won't be the guys holding the stock right now.
The comes under the same heading as TCP/IP over bongo drums and Evil bob the builder toys - pointless, but exceptionally cool and well worth wasting your time on:)
Hell, it doesn't even have to be your own wireless access point! In London there are spots where the frequency and IP ranges are noted on the walls of buildings for use.
The flipside to your point is that they are putting all duplicate domains down to a single machine... how many servers does google run on? according to this slashdot.org would be a single item - its actually 2 IP addresses (1 for the main area, 1 for sections).
Basically they have a point regarding domant and multiple domains, but they miss as there is no weighting by usage and impotance of the servers content. How many people do you think actually go to www.GreedyCorp.com compared to www.HotTeenSluts.com ?
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Lets face it, there are far more destructive ways to waste money than by attempting to make the fastest Home PC on the Planet.
Why climb the mountain? Because it is there.
Doing it just for the sake of having done it is enough, if that is what you want to do.
Camperstrike blows goats in an online context, but may be okay for a LAN play. Day of Defeat is undoubtedly a better Halflife mod for online play. If you are using STEAM (which is actually reasonably stable now), the ricochet mod is fun Shame about HL2's problems
No, sco.com is hosted on Apache over Linux. You see why I am veering towards the pure FUD interpretation here.
i said OR, not XOR - it is completely possible it is both
Especially since they are an enterprise scale company with a professional background in Unix(tm|c|$699) and we are a bunch of howling barbarian commie pinko liberal leftist joint smoking scum who have to steal their code to make a web worthy competitior.
The above was humour. Laugh, damn your eyes.
D'harl may be smarter than we thought - the majority of GPL'd distros have vanished from ftp.sco.com
Ahhh, but you see the sco.com website runs on Linux...
I submitted a version of this story with links to Groklaw and various technical resources and got rejected. Wish the /. editors team would pick decent story writers.
/. theory will be.
Anyhow folks, the consensus at Groklaw is that either SCO are lying through their teeth and this is all FUD, or their network admin staff are a bunch of incompetents.
There are no prizes for guessing what the
In specific, the outage at www.sco.com started before the reported time by several hours, was already under analysis by Groklaw before the claimed time, the pattern of the servers shutoff is NOT consistent with a SYN DDOS (the claimed attack), but it is consistent with either a planned shutdown, or a network cable being unplugged.
There was no slowdown of service - see netcraft for the stats. SCO claim e-mail and other services were compromised which do not use the TCP SYN/ACK and are not therefore vulnerable to this attack (when on different servers (which they are, see groklaw for a list). ftp.sco.com remained up, despite being on the same subnet, and smtp.sco.com would respond throughout the duration of the supposed 'attack'.
The above is a synopsis of Work presented for analysis at Groklaw, any mistakes are my own, any credit is due to the authors on Groklaw and to PJ.
This is a load of rubbish. See Groklaw for a much deeper and more insightful look at what really happened, a full explanation of the technicalities of the DDOS attack (claimed as a SYN attack that took up all the bandwidth and flattened their e-mail - and yet you can still get to ftp.sco.com (on same subnet), smtp.sco.com all other XO.net fed servers. Groklaw also noticed that the machine was down well before the press release claims and that it went straight down - no hiccups or other indications of a DDOS attack, just a straight gone - switched off or unplugged most likely.
See the netcraft stats for that little bit. If SCO make any claim that this is a DDOS, they are lying through their teeth and the evidence was collected as it happened - see the members zone at Groklaw for the raw Traceroute returns.
I think its likely Walmart has the resources to finance this, and to finance specific development to compete with the MS compatable products, particually in terms of drivers. Walmart is a big company and a hefty push. Bear in mind that while it may not be 100% open, a lot of it is going to be craftily portable to the more professional Linux distros used by the likes of the /. crowd.
If Computer Games had any effect on childrens behaviour we would be running around a darkened room, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Oh, hang on...
An IP has to be assigned, and one assumes the ISP either keep logs of dynamically assigned IPs or statically assign IP's to Cable lines (I know my last cable had a static IP). Therefore knowing the IP has at least some chance of determining the theifs location, or at least narrowing the search.
People are hoping to make a quick buck on speculation and get out before the risky part. Someone is going to get burned, but it won't be the guys holding the stock right now.
Did you have to link Groklaw? Its not fair to /. the happy fun (para)legal site.
For your information, the text of the letter has been available here for a few months.
The only reason this is news is that its a document attached to the court docket for the December the 5th hearing on the motions to compel discovery.
The comes under the same heading as TCP/IP over bongo drums and Evil bob the builder toys - pointless, but exceptionally cool and well worth wasting your time on :)
Wireless access points are your friend. Surprisingly easy to fool.
Is a Laptop, a Wireless point and a coffee bar.
Hell, it doesn't even have to be your own wireless access point! In London there are spots where the frequency and IP ranges are noted on the walls of buildings for use.
82.93% of statistics are made up on the spot.
MWAHAHAHA
Gentlemen, I propose a toast. To Evil!
The flipside to your point is that they are putting all duplicate domains down to a single machine... how many servers does google run on? according to this slashdot.org would be a single item - its actually 2 IP addresses (1 for the main area, 1 for sections).
Basically they have a point regarding domant and multiple domains, but they miss as there is no weighting by usage and impotance of the servers content. How many people do you think actually go to www.GreedyCorp.com compared to www.HotTeenSluts.com ?
So.... If you are running MS IIS your best security measure is to pretend to be running Apache?
Errrrr.... Just run Apache?
Is there any service that ranks by counting a server only once, no matter how many domain names actually point there, but then biases by traffic?
IMHO traffic is far more important than actual names.