It's the industry that's broken. They cling to their old ways of doing business and only delay what is inevitable... their demise. It's way easier today for a musician to record his/her own stuff and that is what actually scares the industry but they don't say that;)
Lastpass, uses a unique generated grid that one can print on paper. It asks for certain points on that grid identified by column and row as an added security measure. Why the heck Blizz did not think of something like this beats me.
Watch this youtube vid to see how it works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcgzf1KvZlg
RAV was a great AV engine and MS bought it, many voices say, because it was a very good/mature solution for having and antivirus on a linux mail server as opposed to bitdefender. They (Microsoft) let the technology rot, and now they have a patchy AV solution as a result
Also note that GeCad sold only RAV to MS. Checkout http://www.gecad.com/ if you want to see what they've been doing since then.
I really can't say. Thing is, MS Office 2000 is snapier and loads faster (almost instantly) than OO 1.1.3 or OO 2.0 on my P II @ 333Mhz machine with 256 MB of RAM. Oh yeah, I run MS Office with Wine.
It has given us Windows, sure, it was buggy earlier and a lot of things didn't work like they were supposed to (plug and play springs to mind) but it was a pioneering effort.
A pioneering effort in what? The plug'n'play was just a sorry way of immitating what apple was offering to its custommers. I can imagine Bill screaming to Balmer "Steve! I WANT THAT!"
One comment here said that DirectX works pretty well. I won't argue that it does not,but you only get it on windows. You want crossplatform? You go OpenGL, and most game makers offer both OpenGL and DirectX capable software.
I could give some credit to MS for bringing the PC in many (many, many...) homes. But they are still guilty of making the average PC user think that rebooting and reinstalling and crashing of an OS is actually how things should be.
It's wrong to love MS. Their OS would be great, if they gave a damn about it and the tech savvy users, but since there are many more Joe Sixpacks than techies, MS will listen only to the former. And the state the OS is in shows just that.
I'm afraid there's something very wrong here. And I'm sure many of the/. crowd have this gut feeling too.
In one of the Halloween Documents http://www.opensource.org/halloween/ ESR talks about Microsoft being asleep at the switch. They are waking up it seems.
Just embrace and extend? That too.
They're cooking something alright. This time it won't be just FUD campaigns.
However, the flaw is with USB, not Windows, said David Dewey, a research engineer at SPI. Standards developed by the USB Implementers Forum Inc., the nonprofit corporation that governs USB, don't consider security, he said.
For example, an attacker who knows of a vulnerability in a USB device driver can program one USB devicesay a portable memory stickto pose as the kind of device that uses the vulnerable driver, then plug the device into the host system and trigger the exploit when the host system loads the flawed driver, said Darrin Barrall, another SPI researcher.
Yeah, an attacker that knows about a buffer overflow condition in apache can program a way to exploit it. Is this a flaw in apache or in the RFC?
Vendors don't put java in the "community" releases because of licensing issues (hint: not free). It's more of a philosophical thing. For the same reason you don't find mp3 players in some of them.
I don't understand why you try to make a connection to spreading java by including it in a distro and spreading windows by pirating it. It's not the same thing. I have java on my linux system and I got legally from Sun's webpage.
What I get from reading the interview is basicaly data we already knew. I did not expect to see that guy giving any solid proof that might work as grounds to SCOs lawsuit and indeed I did not eyeball any. All I managed to get was a raise of my blood pressure from reading SCOs crap once again:/
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It's the industry that's broken. They cling to their old ways of doing business and only delay what is inevitable... their demise. It's way easier today for a musician to record his/her own stuff and that is what actually scares the industry but they don't say that ;)
This guy is trolling. An many here fell for it. check this article on wikipedia about him, relax, and have a few laughs.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorne_(writer)
Lastpass, uses a unique generated grid that one can print on paper. It asks for certain points on that grid identified by column and row as an added security measure. Why the heck Blizz did not think of something like this beats me. Watch this youtube vid to see how it works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcgzf1KvZlg
It's not about your "digital" rights or any kind of rights. You do not have any, anyway. It's about their rights. You are just a sheep.
RAV was a great AV engine and MS bought it, many voices say, because it was a very good/mature solution for having and antivirus on a linux mail server as opposed to bitdefender. They (Microsoft) let the technology rot, and now they have a patchy AV solution as a result
Also note that GeCad sold only RAV to MS. Checkout http://www.gecad.com/ if you want to see what they've been doing since then.
It's quite amazing that everytime the RIAA trolls the press with sutff like this everybody gets a fit and it's like "can you believe them? bla bla"
Please, don't feed the trolls and lets get on to more interesting subjects.
I really can't say. Thing is, MS Office 2000 is snapier and loads faster (almost instantly) than OO 1.1.3 or OO 2.0 on my P II @ 333Mhz machine with 256 MB of RAM. Oh yeah, I run MS Office with Wine.
Come, say it with me
Out go the dogs of FUD
In comes the vaporware...
Out go the dogs of FUD
In comes the vaporware...
See, you already feel better!
Regarding SCO vs. Linux users/IBM/Novell/RedHat :
Hey guys, you've been PUNKED!
Love,
Darl
It has given us Windows, sure, it was buggy earlier and a lot of things didn't work like they were supposed to (plug and play springs to mind) but it was a pioneering effort.
A pioneering effort in what? The plug'n'play was just a sorry way of immitating what apple was offering to its custommers. I can imagine Bill screaming to Balmer "Steve! I WANT THAT!"
One comment here said that DirectX works pretty well. I won't argue that it does not,but you only get it on windows. You want crossplatform? You go OpenGL, and most game makers offer both OpenGL and DirectX capable software.
I could give some credit to MS for bringing the PC in many (many, many...) homes. But they are still guilty of making the average PC user think that rebooting and reinstalling and crashing of an OS is actually how things should be.
It's wrong to love MS. Their OS would be great, if they gave a damn about it and the tech savvy users, but since there are many more Joe Sixpacks than techies, MS will listen only to the former. And the state the OS is in shows just that.
http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/01-may/o31linu x.html
or
http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/01-feb/p11linu x.html
I'm afraid there's something very wrong here. And I'm sure many of the /. crowd have this gut feeling too.
In one of the Halloween Documents http://www.opensource.org/halloween/ ESR talks about Microsoft being asleep at the switch. They are waking up it seems.
Just embrace and extend? That too.
They're cooking something alright. This time it won't be just FUD campaigns.
However, the flaw is with USB, not Windows, said David Dewey, a research engineer at SPI. Standards developed by the USB Implementers Forum Inc., the nonprofit corporation that governs USB, don't consider security, he said. For example, an attacker who knows of a vulnerability in a USB device driver can program one USB devicesay a portable memory stickto pose as the kind of device that uses the vulnerable driver, then plug the device into the host system and trigger the exploit when the host system loads the flawed driver, said Darrin Barrall, another SPI researcher.
Yeah, an attacker that knows about a buffer overflow condition in apache can program a way to exploit it. Is this a flaw in apache or in the RFC?
C'mon , who is this guy trying to fool ?
...and the VMS/NT guy.
The question is why doesn't Sun let Java "go" ?
Vendors don't put java in the "community" releases because of licensing issues (hint: not free). It's more of a philosophical thing. For the same reason you don't find mp3 players in some of them.
I don't understand why you try to make a connection to spreading java by including it in a distro and spreading windows by pirating it. It's not the same thing. I have java on my linux system and I got legally from Sun's webpage.
Toilet paper is cheaper you know ;)
Humm, I guess this reveals my intentions when it comes to their licenses.
Ka-Woooshhhh!
... I'm running MSAV for Linux! Aren't Micro$oft the greatest ?
What I get from reading the interview is basicaly data we already knew. I did not expect to see that guy giving any solid proof that might work as grounds to SCOs lawsuit and indeed I did not eyeball any. All I managed to get was a raise of my blood pressure from reading SCOs crap once again :/
I'm expecting big speedups for my SETI@home work. Now lemme get my hands on those ISOs...