I couldn't agree more wholehearted. Indeed, when I was 20, I thought that all software had to be free.
Now that I'm (past) 30, I sometimes wonder where all the paychecks get paid from.
Next they should put in their own Microbat PDF creator, Microshop Imaging suite, Windowszip, Microrar, Micro-aware spyware killer, Microzaa P2P client, and MSCD Creator burning client.
Then they can say consumer choice put all these other software companies out of business, not them
And what about a typical Linux distro? Doesn't that include these features as well, and even for free (as in beer)? I don't see a large difference. At least Microsoft is charging customers and paying royalties. (ducks for cover)
My only thought has been that the kind of person who implements Curious Yellow is sufficiently more skilled than the average worm writer that they choose to be subtle and slow
Unlikely: the virus will be detected within days so the infection speed must be high to gain momentum.
or those who cannot get past the registration links:
Amsterdam - There are signs that the computer virus MyDoom has been brought into circulation by organised crime syndicates. The wormvirus was accompanied yesterday by the evil program 'DeadHat'. Microsoft and software maker SCO have a quarter *billion* dollar in stock to reward the tip that will lead them to its creators.
According to the British research firm mi2g, deadhat is designed to provide its creator with sustaining, long-term control over a system. This power could be abused to hostage websites.
It is also possible to abuse the pc in sending spam e-mail, and the program is capable of harvesting passwords and other confidential information. Deadhat is an intelligent software agent, a program.....
[snip] the really boring part
According to mi2g, deadhat has encrypted intelligence, waiting to be activated. "This definitely looks like the work of organized crime"
Meanwhile, Soomjuice has come to surface. Another worm which seems to battle for control of the PC.
They are actually listing their clients!! (mcDonalds, TableTrac, etc
..Isn't it time for a PR offensive to get these clients to use Linux instead of SCo??:D
And on a side note: I know people-that-know-people-that-know-people who worked for the Greater Manchester Police dept.. and they reported Solaris as the server OS??
Grow some balls and sue them
Yeah right
That wold have cost about $1000 in expenses (at least: lawyer, bailiff/process server, more lawyer) and if the money would be rewarded, the tax would claim $1200 (at least).
There was no actual proof that I worked there during that last week or so.
Besides, the process would be so annoying that it seemed better to let them rot and move ahead.
Once I've been hired as a programmer for projects at *somebody's home*, with terribly annoying people. It turned out to be the project from hell.
They did not have coffee or anything to eat or drink, except for some mega-caffeinated drink, which resulted in programming with a rapidly beating heart and sweaty handpalms. No shops in the neighborhood to get food, either.
Did I mention the 12-hour workdays and total 3 hours+ travel.. the annoying and clueless sales-like types constantly looking over my shoulder, asking for progress and reports, smoking nonstop... and the project manager, who was introduced to me as 'experienced developer with golden hands': he turned out to be a nitwit who heard a few bells ring. He had spent 8 months developing a data layer with ADO, which I rewrote in about a day. After that, he did not like me very much.
The wage seemed ok; however, after a month or two, I was so fed up with the situation that I quit. They didn't pay the final bill ($3000) because they 'accidently forgot' to sign the timesheet. It still pisses me off..
Any version of the csh..... All of the/etc/rc* scripts are written in pdksh, but root's shell is tcsh. Go figure. ..use sudo and you're allmighty and powerful
There is no/etc/profile
Create your own, and setup/etc/skel to include it..
BSD inits are not runlevel friendly for reasons of nostalgia
Basically, you can go to runlevel 1 and back to 5 with a few keypresses?
Upgrading from 3.3 to 3.4 is extremely difficult...
I found it easy - upgrading is easy too; download a snapshot disk, upgrade your entire system in under 10 minutes and you're up to date.
Really, I've used linux for a few years, then switched to FreeBSD, then to OpenBSD over two years ago. It's been 'My Precious' ever since..
I work with both analogue and the digital photo production and can definitely confirm that this is a string global trend. However, the only apparent reasons for people to switch to digital are price and comfort; most pictures people shoot with their jpeg cameras are quite ugly and pixelated..
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It's even funnier, since Netcraft only counts public webservers. They do not include the zillion corporate intranet servers that used to be publicly available shielde by only NTLM authentication. Thanks to the blaster outbreaks and the growing number of vpns these servers are now shielded off the regular internet. And thus the number of IIS in Netcraft's reports declines..
I have 1024/512 ADSL without data limit for 39 excl. my phone subscription, which is about 25 per month. I could cancel that subscription but that would raise the DSL fee with about 10.
They recently doubled my ADSL speed unannounced and without extra costs. That was kinda cool:D
The story is not based on the I,Robot series. It is actually a movie based on 'The caves of steel' (or perhaps the Naked Sun) starring Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw.
When you are trying to fight cancer with an adenovirus, like a particularly nasty common cold, you get a mutated adenovirus that seems to copy itself only in cells that lack a functioning copy of a gene called p53 that repairs damaged or mutated DNA. If the DNA is then too smashed up to be repaired, p53 instructs the cell to self-destruct.
Since cancer occurs when DNA becomes so badly battered that it stops regulating cell growth and behavior, it is not surprising p53 has stopped working in more than half of human tumors..
Why do I still pay taxes? I could as well pay directly to the US Government since they control our defense. Bah. Shame on the EU for letting the US walk straight over them!!!!.. what if the US get caught by a coup d'etat? Not as unlikely as many think.. they will immediately control the EU as well.
And MS haven't made any l?[iu]n[ui]x software that I can recall
Well, I guess you haven't been around long enough... remember Microsoft Xenix? Microsoft was actually one of the largest UNIX vendors in the early eighties.
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I couldn't agree more wholehearted. Indeed, when I was 20, I thought that all software had to be free. Now that I'm (past) 30, I sometimes wonder where all the paychecks get paid from.
I'm very sure that a typical Linux distro would include a free virus scanner as well if there was a larger *user* base.
Next they should put in their own Microbat PDF creator, Microshop Imaging suite, Windowszip, Microrar, Micro-aware spyware killer, Microzaa P2P client, and MSCD Creator burning client.
Then they can say consumer choice put all these other software companies out of business, not them
And what about a typical Linux distro? Doesn't that include these features as well, and even for free (as in beer)? I don't see a large difference. At least Microsoft is charging customers and paying royalties.
(ducks for cover)
It just won't work. Any code that can be run can be reverse engineered. So-called sophisticated coding techniques only lead to unreadable code..
My only thought has been that the kind of person who implements Curious Yellow is sufficiently more skilled than the average worm writer that they choose to be subtle and slow Unlikely: the virus will be detected within days so the infection speed must be high to gain momentum.
or those who cannot get past the registration links:
.....
Amsterdam - There are signs that the computer virus MyDoom has been brought into circulation by organised crime syndicates. The wormvirus was accompanied yesterday by the evil program 'DeadHat'. Microsoft and software maker SCO have a quarter *billion* dollar in stock to reward the tip that will lead them to its creators.
According to the British research firm mi2g, deadhat is designed to provide its creator with sustaining, long-term control over a system. This power could be abused to hostage websites.
It is also possible to abuse the pc in sending spam e-mail, and the program is capable of harvesting passwords and other confidential information. Deadhat is an intelligent software agent, a program
[snip] the really boring part
According to mi2g, deadhat has encrypted intelligence, waiting to be activated. "This definitely looks like the work of organized crime"
Meanwhile, Soomjuice has come to surface. Another worm which seems to battle for control of the PC.
They are actually listing their clients!! (mcDonalds, TableTrac, etc
..Isn't it time for a PR offensive to get these clients to use Linux instead of SCo?? :D
And on a side note: I know people-that-know-people-that-know-people who worked for the Greater Manchester Police dept.. and they reported Solaris as the server OS??
...the ranking system sues YOU!!!
Grow some balls and sue them Yeah right That wold have cost about $1000 in expenses (at least: lawyer, bailiff/process server, more lawyer) and if the money would be rewarded, the tax would claim $1200 (at least). There was no actual proof that I worked there during that last week or so. Besides, the process would be so annoying that it seemed better to let them rot and move ahead.
It seems like I've always had shitty jobs..
Once I've been hired as a programmer for projects at *somebody's home*, with terribly annoying people. It turned out to be the project from hell.
They did not have coffee or anything to eat or drink, except for some mega-caffeinated drink, which resulted in programming with a rapidly beating heart and sweaty handpalms. No shops in the neighborhood to get food, either.
Did I mention the 12-hour workdays and total 3 hours+ travel.. the annoying and clueless sales-like types constantly looking over my shoulder, asking for progress and reports, smoking nonstop... and the project manager, who was introduced to me as 'experienced developer with golden hands': he turned out to be a nitwit who heard a few bells ring. He had spent 8 months developing a data layer with ADO, which I rewrote in about a day. After that, he did not like me very much.
The wage seemed ok; however, after a month or two, I was so fed up with the situation that I quit. They didn't pay the final bill ($3000) because they 'accidently forgot' to sign the timesheet. It still pisses me off..
Any version of the csh. .... All of the /etc/rc* scripts are written in pdksh, but root's shell is tcsh. Go figure.
..use sudo and you're allmighty and powerful
/etc/profile
/etc/skel to include it..
...
There is no
Create your own, and setup
BSD inits are not runlevel friendly for reasons of nostalgia
Basically, you can go to runlevel 1 and back to 5 with a few keypresses?
Upgrading from 3.3 to 3.4 is extremely difficult
I found it easy - upgrading is easy too; download a snapshot disk, upgrade your entire system in under 10 minutes and you're up to date.
Really, I've used linux for a few years, then switched to FreeBSD, then to OpenBSD over two years ago. It's been 'My Precious' ever since..
A clear vision, this Microsoft has!
- Buy Interix
- Give product away for free
- ????
- Profit!!
I work with both analogue and the digital photo production and can definitely confirm that this is a string global trend. However, the only apparent reasons for people to switch to digital are price and comfort; most pictures people shoot with their jpeg cameras are quite ugly and pixelated..
It's even funnier, since Netcraft only counts public webservers. They do not include the zillion corporate intranet servers that used to be publicly available shielde by only NTLM authentication.
Thanks to the blaster outbreaks and the growing number of vpns these servers are now shielded off the regular internet. And thus the number of IIS in Netcraft's reports declines..
I have 1024/512 ADSL without data limit for 39 excl. my phone subscription, which is about 25 per month. I could cancel that subscription but that would raise the DSL fee with about 10.
:D
They recently doubled my ADSL speed unannounced and without extra costs. That was kinda cool
The movie title is a bit deceptive.
The story is not based on the I,Robot series. It is actually a movie based on 'The caves of steel' (or perhaps the Naked Sun) starring Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw.
(and perhaps even Vasilia Fastolve!!)
That would kill the virus as well..
It seems to be a dupe of this article, though..
When you are trying to fight cancer with an adenovirus, like a particularly nasty common cold, you get a mutated adenovirus that seems to copy itself only in cells that lack a functioning copy of a gene called p53 that repairs damaged or mutated DNA. If the DNA is then too smashed up to be repaired, p53 instructs the cell to self-destruct.
Since cancer occurs when DNA becomes so badly battered that it stops regulating cell growth and behavior, it is not surprising p53 has stopped working in more than half of human tumors..
Come on, who uses passwords like '%33#Gt(;' nowadays.. especially with multiple logins.
The question was indeed rhetorical :(
Why do I still pay taxes? I could as well pay directly to the US Government since they control our defense. Bah. Shame on the EU for letting the US walk straight over them!!!! .. what if the US get caught by a coup d'etat? Not as unlikely as many think.. they will immediately control the EU as well.
A dark day for Europe, this is.
And MS haven't made any l?[iu]n[ui]x software that I can recall
Well, I guess you haven't been around long enough... remember Microsoft Xenix? Microsoft was actually one of the largest UNIX vendors in the early eighties.
What Nasa does today fuels the industries of tomorrow.
Talking about fuel: how are we going to get to mars or even the moon, after we've burned up all fossil fuel?
I Agree!
I always have the bad luck of accidently closing my browser with 20-30 tabs open when wanting to close just a single tab..