"The remainder, it's likely, will keep using 95/98 until their machine commits suicide. They will not update the system. If you find a 98 system somewhere, odds have got to be high some worm or virus is on it already. It's mere existence (today) screams "I don't update my software. I don't care about security or stability." 2000 or even NT4, sure, why not. But 98... nuh uh.
Au Contraire! I update my software I care about security and stability. I also do not pirate Microsoft software.
My Laptop and game box are running purchased copies of 98SE, I have a legal uninstalled copy of 2000 sitting on the shelf. ( came with the latop, never broke the shrink-wrap) The game box is secured by a Devil-linux firewall, and the laptop install is there just for officeXP-pro (also purchased, student discount). The primary OS on the laptop is Fedora Core-1, just dual-booting to 98SE when I have no choice but using OfficeXP instead of OpenOffice. No virus or worms, I don't use IE or Outlook on anything.
I see no rhyme nor reason to move to Win2k or XP or Win2003 as long as Open Source and 98 meets my requirements. So how does this scream "I don't update, or care about stability & security?"
I plan on using 98SE until it will no longer run on my new hardware. I will not buy another MS produce, Hell they are not even worth pirating, I can get cheap education editions and even free enterprise versions from less scrupulous associates, but why bother? I Like 98 on a 2.4GHz box. Talk about speed.... It is a nice thin game client when properly tweaked.
Now if Bill-G wants to seriously wound Linux, he can open the source to 98. That would strip a number of developers away from Linux and main-stream OSS as they dink around showing how Microsoft should have fixed the problems in 98.
The Boston tea party was in 1773, Lexington Green in 1775. The Declaration was signed in '76, and the constitution signed 17 sept 1787.
Pushing the Reset Button on a government takes thought, planning and time. Nothing to undertake lightly especially when there are ways to correct abuses built in to the present system.
"Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed."
That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule. You have to watch out for creeping bureaucracy. There are provisions to reset the whole mess, I just hope we can limp along for a few more decades before we have to remove all of the scum from power and start over.
Your aurgument is flawed since ALL of the regular contributing volunteers left, not "just a few". They took the logo they made and used they also took the layout they used. However they now have changed the layout and logo, since they do not have the deep pockets of their opponent.
You need to check out: I Cringley and read why Robert X Cringley does not even have the rights to his own name in a certain unscrupulous magazine. However he can write under his own name elsewhere and that magazine can't stop him.
If Slashdot decides to allow AOL-TimeWarner to host this site, that does not give the host rights to change Slashdot.org into a static webpage, or a subscription only clone of Time magazine.
It all boils down to who owns copyright, the creator of the work or the publisher of the work. SSC published what the LG volunteers created.
Not only is there an annual, but there is a 100 hour inspection. 100 hours can get eaten up pretty fast when you also use this as ground transport.
Most pilots I know have problems changing sparkplugs in accordance with the FARs, and catch hell from mechanics and inspectors like my father ( Pilot, A&P Mechanic, and IA). Who is going to sign the logbook that this is air-worthy after a minor fender-bender?
I live 5 miles from the local airport, 30 miles from the controlled airport. It is faster to drive the 30 miles than to spend the hour+ to properly preflight my dad's Cessna 172, file a VFR approach into the controlled airspace, and get a place in the pattern behind a passenger jet.
It is a toss up between flying or driving to the mid-sized regional airport for the FAA seminars; if the weather is nice the seminar doesn't start too early, we fly, if not, we drive.
General Aviation flying is fun, but if you want to get there with the minimal effort and maximum effeciency, either drive or fly commercial.
So when is Linus gonna set up a cam and get naked while coding some kernel schedulers? Can I buy him stuff from his wishlist while I read his blog about libc calls
Better Linus than Ballmer!
Live! Nude! Uncle Fester Uncut, Uncensored.....
Do You really want to start that kind of arms race?
Any Microsoft title sold in my campus bookstore such as Office XP-Pro ($208. for students) can be had by staff and faculty for $10. Now I haven't investigated, but the bookstore may be selling at a slight loss to S&F and raping the students. Like that would be a first!
I just use open office - the laser printer is vendor neutral.
There was a link way up there, if you would have read it before posting it would lead you to an interview with Gates. Here is his response on hardware taken from Interview with Bill Gates
BG: Microsoft was playing a much broader role[laughs] than just doing software for this machine. I mean whether it is the keyboard, the character set, the graphics adapter, or even the memory layouts. I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within -- oh five or six years people were complaining. (emphasis added for clarity)
Posted back in December 2000
This is from Microsoft's jobs page.
http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/search/jobDetail.asp ?fromPage=viewJobs&jobNumb
er=906950&page=1&msid1=-2049921163&msid2=-49202693 8&msid3=-2123347170&msid4=
2105645115 old link
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR [Job Code: N05rc-dc ]
Required skills: Strong inter-personal and communication skills; high skill
of most UNIX commands/utilities. Familiarity with most basic system
administration tools and processes; for example, can boot/shutdown a
machine, use backup programs and fsck, maintain system files (hosts, resolv.
conf, etc). Fundamental understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; for
example, understands job control, soft and hard links, distinctions between
the kernel and the shell. Job also requires occasional 24x7 on-call
availability. Required background: One to three years of system
administration experience. Desirable: A degree in computer science or a
related field. Familiarity with networked computing environment concepts;
for example, can use the route command, add a workstation to a network,
netstat, etc. Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl
or shell). Experience with Solaris and Sun hardware especially Enterprise
series Familiar with RAID technology Windows NT experience Experience in a
24x7 data center environment Special Note: Whoever we hire will have to be
able to function in a 24/7 production environment, be willing to be on call,
and be able to learn how to fix all of the problems that come up with the
site. The qualifications below give a good idea of what problems we find on
the site. I cant get any more specific than that since we see many unique
problems that we may have never seen before.
A group of volunteers that are the major source of content, if not the sole source of content are dissatisfied with the hosting companies decision to change the look/feel of the site it volunteered to host. (Note, hosting someone else's site does not give you editorial control over it, nor ownership of it!)
These volunteers have build and shaped the site for most of its existance.
The hosting company decides that it owns all the content on the site, and the copyright to all content on the site, no matter what the authors say. Hosting site goes as far as stripping copyright and removing authorship credit to articles as it reformats said articles to the new & improved format. Mirrors have the original articles in original format, some of these get changes in a alleged attempt to erase all references to the original copyright and formats.
The Authors rebel, take their IP find new hosting site, respectfully request transefer of the Domain names to new hosting site, and register a DOTNET version of the domain in addition to the DOTCOM they with transfered.
The Hosting company threatens for return of said IP that does not belong to it, corrects some but not all copyright infringement, and starts a FUD campaign.
Slashdot Non-RTFA-ACs complain about the authors and copyright holders fighting for their rights.
/. trolls bad-mouth the content authors for wanting credit for their work, and laud the Hosting company for trying to own the tradmark that other people have built over time. (Note, this is not an employment issue, where the employer claims IP and copyright to all works created by the corporate serf. This is a site that was published under OPL and similar licensing. Open Publication )
Random AC Windows guy said: "With Linux, you'd have to do one of the following:
a) apply a targeted patch to your code and rebuild b) find the right package-variant for your packaging system (i.e. Debian deb != Lindows deb, Mandrake RPM != RedHat RPM).
It gets worse with a kernel exploit - GRUB and/or LILO need to be updated for the system to even boot. Geek understand that - but Joe User?"
Joe user understands up2date -u That takes care of everything, including the bootloader of choice. I use grub on one RH and LiLo on another, and the same command will update both of them! How does it know? Must be Magical..
Now even better: Avihson Admin understands cron. Cron means never having to type up2date -u
I never lose sleep doing updates, neither do any of my clients.
This way they still have a life and can atone for their offenses. Better to have them registered like this than dying in jail, since child molesters have a very short life expectancy in the general prison population.
There is honor among thieves to a point, a social pecking order with the sex offenders on the bottom of the list; and pedophiles simply not tolerated.
No matter what you think of Michael Jackson, that is one reason they granted him bail. It would not be politically correct to have him killed before he had a chance to have a fair trial.
That sounds like a good MCSE Motto:
"If you cant be smart, you can at least act superior."
We understand how an OS and applications do things, that is why we prefer Linux. I do not need an abstraction layer protecting me from the horrors of the hardware/OS interface. I do not need a monopoly telling me what I can and can't do with the hardware I bought. I do not need forced upgrades, poor security, bloated code, and a GHz or better procesor to type a letter or browse the internet.
Most of all, I don't need Clippy to help me do my work!
Linus, Raymond, RMS, Cox and crew do not care if I upgrade my motherboard or get a new hard drive, so why do I have to get permission from Microsoft when I try it with XP?
Motorcycle stunt drivers are a lot different than the day to day commuter.
Every day, in every major city, someone fails to stop their 4 wheel car when all 4 wheels are in contact with the pavement. Blind faith in computerized ABS seems to have made matters worse. In my experience, a large number of the tailgating drivers rely on the ABS instead of good judgement to prevent 'accidents.'
Good engineering falls to the wayside when confronted by mass stupidity and apathy.
It differs from crotch-rockets in that it doesn't have a front wheel! I can think of many situations where you can end up eating highway with one of these. All bikes shift the rider's weight forward during hard deceleration, those 'training wheels' just do not look strong enough to survive a sudden gyro tumble during emergency stops. Better have a good full-face helmet.
I would buy one, but I don't think I would drive it during rush hour traffic. I've seen too many jerks opening doors on the lane splitting mountain bikers, I can just imagine the road rage as you flash by bumper-to-bumper trafic on a cool toy like this.
"Just because some fly-by-night hack can whip something up in a few hours doesn't mean its good."
Just because some highly paid hack in a corporate environment writes code doesn't mean it works...
OSS software is released in steps, I have the choice of downloading the bleeding edge or the stable version. I don't have that choice with Microsoft support packs.
I believe there is a preponderance of evidence in my favor in the software that is used daily. If you disagree, point me to some chronically broken Open Source Software.
Why do most of the Microsoft proponents post AC, and most of the OSS proponents post under their login?
Microsoft has been using the paying community as QA since at least MS-DOS 4.0 Have you been living in a cave all these years?
The whole premise behind FSF is that it is FREE, the user accepts some responsibility in the transaction, in this case by reporting bugs and helping to test beta versions before the code is released live. You seem to be saying that Microsoft has never released code that was not finished, 100% Quality Assured, no Security holes.....
If you believe so strongly in your statements, why do you post AC?
So I say Mod the Grandparent DOWN, MS whiners be damned!
You need to visit the real world a bit more, and spend less time online.
Have you ever experienced the solitude of camping in the great forests alone? Have you ever spent more than 8 hours free from civilization's grasp?
Your brain jacked into the net? With the current state of the net, you would spend all of your time ignoring Spam, blocking script kiddies "hacks" and modding down jerks from Slashdot trolling the FP, Yoda and goatse.cx posts. When will your overloaded braincells have time to experience Gibson's fantasies? How would you guard your innermost dreams from the omnipresent government and NGO watchdogs?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my simulated first person virtual world called "real life."
Simstim can never replace reality, I can hike a glacier in Alaska, sleep on a beach in Belize, shop the East gate Market in Seoul, or just drive in the first-snow traffic jam anywhere in North America, and I know that the experiences are unique to me.
Nothing can simulate the random chaos of nature, since everything is but a creation of nature.
Linus, Redhat, SuSE et al have a good libel cases against Darl and the other officers who made the unfounded written allegations. They also have slander cases for his trash talking at "news briefings". Some tests have to be met first, they have to be false, stated as facts (not opinions), and made with malice. SCO and their parent Canopy Group could be held responsible for all of the official statements that prove to be false and made with malice.
The "with malice" clause is the rough part to prove. Well in most cases it is. In this one, it looks like prima facie malice with forethought.
Or maybe you are enlightened enough to realize that Capitalism and Communism are considered diametrically opposed in the average person's mind. And their experiences show that the other economic models rarely scale well above the village level.
I just knew all those default.ida hits were meant for my apache server. I still can't find out why that file is missing and what it was supposed to contain, it must be a bis secret at apache.org
Can any of you MS gurus help out by telling me what I have been missing by not having default.ida?
I wonder if I put "protected by port80" in the conf if it will scare off the next worm, or will it actually check for vulnerablities and not care what lies the header tells it?/sarcasm off
Where is all of the third party security add-ons for Apache? I sense discrimination! I demand useless products to give me a false sense of security like my MSCE brethern.
Slashdot Mirror
"The remainder, it's likely, will keep using 95/98 until their machine commits suicide. They will not update the system. If you find a 98 system somewhere, odds have got to be high some worm or virus is on it already. It's mere existence (today) screams "I don't update my software. I don't care about security or stability." 2000 or even NT4, sure, why not. But 98... nuh uh.
Au Contraire! I update my software I care about security and stability. I also do not pirate Microsoft software.
My Laptop and game box are running purchased copies of 98SE, I have a legal uninstalled copy of 2000 sitting on the shelf. ( came with the latop, never broke the shrink-wrap)
The game box is secured by a Devil-linux firewall, and the laptop install is there just for officeXP-pro (also purchased, student discount). The primary OS on the laptop is Fedora Core-1, just dual-booting to 98SE when I have no choice but using OfficeXP instead of OpenOffice. No virus or worms, I don't use IE or Outlook on anything.
I see no rhyme nor reason to move to Win2k or XP or Win2003 as long as Open Source and 98 meets my requirements. So how does this scream "I don't update, or care about stability & security?"
I plan on using 98SE until it will no longer run on my new hardware. I will not buy another MS produce, Hell they are not even worth pirating, I can get cheap education editions and even free enterprise versions from less scrupulous associates, but why bother? I Like 98 on a 2.4GHz box. Talk about speed.... It is a nice thin game client when properly tweaked.
Now if Bill-G wants to seriously wound Linux, he can open the source to 98. That would strip a number of developers away from Linux and main-stream OSS as they dink around showing how Microsoft should have fixed the problems in 98.
The Boston tea party was in 1773, Lexington Green in 1775. The Declaration was signed in '76, and the constitution signed 17 sept 1787.
Pushing the Reset Button on a government takes thought, planning and time.
Nothing to undertake lightly especially when there are ways to correct abuses built in to the present system.
"Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed."
That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule. You have to watch out for creeping bureaucracy. There are provisions to reset the whole mess, I just hope we can limp along for a few more decades before we have to remove all of the scum from power and start over.
The opposite of democracy is bureaucracy.
Your aurgument is flawed since ALL of the regular contributing volunteers left, not "just a few".
They took the logo they made and used they also took the layout they used. However they now have changed the layout and logo, since they do not have the deep pockets of their opponent.
You need to check out:
I Cringley and read why Robert X Cringley does not even have the rights to his own name in a certain unscrupulous magazine. However he can write under his own name elsewhere and that magazine can't stop him.
If Slashdot decides to allow AOL-TimeWarner to host this site, that does not give the host rights to change Slashdot.org into a static webpage, or a subscription only clone of Time magazine.
It all boils down to who owns copyright, the creator of the work or the publisher of the work. SSC published what the LG volunteers created.
Not only is there an annual, but there is a 100 hour inspection. 100 hours can get eaten up pretty fast when you also use this as ground transport. Most pilots I know have problems changing sparkplugs in accordance with the FARs, and catch hell from mechanics and inspectors like my father ( Pilot, A&P Mechanic, and IA). Who is going to sign the logbook that this is air-worthy after a minor fender-bender? I live 5 miles from the local airport, 30 miles from the controlled airport. It is faster to drive the 30 miles than to spend the hour+ to properly preflight my dad's Cessna 172, file a VFR approach into the controlled airspace, and get a place in the pattern behind a passenger jet. It is a toss up between flying or driving to the mid-sized regional airport for the FAA seminars; if the weather is nice the seminar doesn't start too early, we fly, if not, we drive. General Aviation flying is fun, but if you want to get there with the minimal effort and maximum effeciency, either drive or fly commercial.
So when is Linus gonna set up a cam and get naked while coding some kernel schedulers? Can I buy him stuff from his wishlist while I read his blog about libc calls
Better Linus than Ballmer!
Live! Nude! Uncle Fester Uncut, Uncensored.....
Do You really want to start that kind of arms race?
Decent story, I believe by Niven. Check it out if you can find it in an anthology somewhere.
Any Microsoft title sold in my campus bookstore such as Office XP-Pro ($208. for students) can be had by staff and faculty for $10. Now I haven't investigated, but the bookstore may be selling at a slight loss to S&F and raping the students. Like that would be a first!
I just use open office - the laser printer is vendor neutral.
There was a link way up there, if you would have read it before posting it would lead you to an interview with Gates. Here is his response on hardware taken from Interview with Bill Gates
BG: Microsoft was playing a much broader role[laughs] than just doing software for this machine. I mean whether it is the keyboard, the character set, the graphics adapter, or even the memory layouts. I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within -- oh five or six years people were complaining.
(emphasis added for clarity)
Occasionally, I do RTFA in advance of posting!
Microsoft Hiring Unix Admins
p ?fromPage=viewJobs&jobNumb
er=906950&page=1&msid1=-2049921163&msid2=-49202693 8&msid3=-2123347170&msid4=
2105645115
Posted back in December 2000
This is from Microsoft's jobs page. http://www.microsoft.com/jobs/search/jobDetail.as
old link
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR [Job Code: N05rc-dc ]
Required skills: Strong inter-personal and communication skills; high skill of most UNIX commands/utilities. Familiarity with most basic system administration tools and processes; for example, can boot/shutdown a machine, use backup programs and fsck, maintain system files (hosts, resolv. conf, etc). Fundamental understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; for example, understands job control, soft and hard links, distinctions between the kernel and the shell. Job also requires occasional 24x7 on-call availability. Required background: One to three years of system administration experience. Desirable: A degree in computer science or a related field. Familiarity with networked computing environment concepts; for example, can use the route command, add a workstation to a network, netstat, etc. Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl or shell). Experience with Solaris and Sun hardware especially Enterprise series Familiar with RAID technology Windows NT experience Experience in a 24x7 data center environment Special Note: Whoever we hire will have to be able to function in a 24/7 production environment, be willing to be on call, and be able to learn how to fix all of the problems that come up with the site. The qualifications below give a good idea of what problems we find on the site. I cant get any more specific than that since we see many unique problems that we may have never seen before.
Job Location: Mountain View, California
they may know something now.
A group of volunteers that are the major source of content, if not the sole source of content are dissatisfied with the hosting companies decision to change the look/feel of the site it volunteered to host. (Note, hosting someone else's site does not give you editorial control over it, nor ownership of it!)
/. trolls bad-mouth the content authors for wanting credit for their work, and laud the Hosting company for trying to own the tradmark that other people have built over time. (Note, this is not an employment issue, where the employer claims IP and copyright to all works created by the corporate serf. This is a site that was published under OPL and similar licensing. Open Publication )
These volunteers have build and shaped the site for most of its existance.
The hosting company decides that it owns all the content on the site, and the copyright to all content on the site, no matter what the authors say. Hosting site goes as far as stripping copyright and removing authorship credit to articles as it reformats said articles to the new & improved format. Mirrors have the original articles in original format, some of these get changes in a alleged attempt to erase all references to the original copyright and formats.
The Authors rebel, take their IP find new hosting site, respectfully request transefer of the Domain names to new hosting site, and register a DOTNET version of the domain in addition to the DOTCOM they with transfered.
The Hosting company threatens for return of said IP that does not belong to it, corrects some but not all copyright infringement, and starts a FUD campaign.
Slashdot Non-RTFA-ACs complain about the authors and copyright holders fighting for their rights.
Random AC Windows guy said:
"With Linux, you'd have to do one of the following:
a) apply a targeted patch to your code and rebuild
b) find the right package-variant for your packaging system (i.e. Debian deb != Lindows deb, Mandrake RPM != RedHat RPM).
It gets worse with a kernel exploit - GRUB and/or LILO need to be updated for the system to even boot. Geek understand that - but Joe User?"
Joe user understands up2date -u
That takes care of everything, including the bootloader of choice. I use grub on one RH and LiLo on another, and the same command will update both of them! How does it know? Must be Magical..
Now even better:
Avihson Admin understands cron. Cron means never having to type up2date -u
I never lose sleep doing updates, neither do any of my clients.
This way they still have a life and can atone for their offenses.
Better to have them registered like this than dying in jail, since child molesters have a very short life expectancy in the general prison population.
There is honor among thieves to a point, a social pecking order with the sex offenders on the bottom of the list; and pedophiles simply not tolerated.
No matter what you think of Michael Jackson, that is one reason they granted him bail. It would not be politically correct to have him killed before he had a chance to have a fair trial.
That sounds like a good MCSE Motto:
"If you cant be smart, you can at least act superior."
We understand how an OS and applications do things, that is why we prefer Linux. I do not need an abstraction layer protecting me from the horrors of the hardware/OS interface. I do not need a monopoly telling me what I can and can't do with the hardware I bought. I do not need forced upgrades, poor security, bloated code, and a GHz or better procesor to type a letter or browse the internet.
Most of all, I don't need Clippy to help me do my work!
Linus, Raymond, RMS, Cox and crew do not care if I upgrade my motherboard or get a new hard drive, so why do I have to get permission from Microsoft when I try it with XP?
Motorcycle stunt drivers are a lot different than the day to day commuter.
Every day, in every major city, someone fails to stop their 4 wheel car when all 4 wheels are in contact with the pavement. Blind faith in computerized ABS seems to have made matters worse. In my experience, a large number of the tailgating drivers rely on the ABS instead of good judgement to prevent 'accidents.'
Good engineering falls to the wayside when confronted by mass stupidity and apathy.
It differs from crotch-rockets in that it doesn't have a front wheel! I can think of many situations where you can end up eating highway with one of these. All bikes shift the rider's weight forward during hard deceleration, those 'training wheels' just do not look strong enough to survive a sudden gyro tumble during emergency stops. Better have a good full-face helmet.
I would buy one, but I don't think I would drive it during rush hour traffic. I've seen too many jerks opening doors on the lane splitting mountain bikers, I can just imagine the road rage as you flash by bumper-to-bumper trafic on a cool toy like this.
ok, you got me there. Sendmail has had it's share of issues.
"Just because some fly-by-night hack can whip something up in a few hours doesn't mean its good."
Just because some highly paid hack in a corporate environment writes code doesn't mean it works...
OSS software is released in steps, I have the choice of downloading the bleeding edge or the stable version. I don't have that choice with Microsoft support packs.
I believe there is a preponderance of evidence in my favor in the software that is used daily. If you disagree, point me to some chronically broken Open Source Software.
Why do most of the Microsoft proponents post AC, and most of the OSS proponents post under their login?
Microsoft has been using the paying community as QA since at least MS-DOS 4.0 Have you been living in a cave all these years?
The whole premise behind FSF is that it is FREE, the user accepts some responsibility in the transaction, in this case by reporting bugs and helping to test beta versions before the code is released live. You seem to be saying that Microsoft has never released code that was not finished, 100% Quality Assured, no Security holes.....
If you believe so strongly in your statements, why do you post AC?
So I say Mod the Grandparent DOWN, MS whiners be damned!
You need to visit the real world a bit more, and spend less time online.
Have you ever experienced the solitude of camping in the great forests alone? Have you ever spent more than 8 hours free from civilization's grasp?
Your brain jacked into the net? With the current state of the net, you would spend all of your time ignoring Spam, blocking script kiddies "hacks" and modding down jerks from Slashdot trolling the FP, Yoda and goatse.cx posts. When will your overloaded braincells have time to experience Gibson's fantasies? How would you guard your innermost dreams from the omnipresent government and NGO watchdogs?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my simulated first person virtual world called "real life."
Simstim can never replace reality, I can hike a glacier in Alaska, sleep on a beach in Belize, shop the East gate Market in Seoul, or just drive in the first-snow traffic jam anywhere in North America, and I know that the experiences are unique to me.
Nothing can simulate the random chaos of nature, since everything is but a creation of nature.
Linus, Redhat, SuSE et al have a good libel cases against Darl and the other officers who made the unfounded written allegations. They also have slander cases for his trash talking at "news briefings". Some tests have to be met first, they have to be false, stated as facts (not opinions), and made with malice.
SCO and their parent Canopy Group could be held responsible for all of the official statements that prove to be false and made with malice.
The "with malice" clause is the rough part to prove. Well in most cases it is. In this one, it looks like prima facie malice with forethought.
This is one jury duty I would not try to dodge!
Or maybe you are enlightened enough to realize that Capitalism and Communism are considered diametrically opposed in the average person's mind. And their experiences show that the other economic models rarely scale well above the village level.
I just knew all those default.ida hits were meant for my apache server. I still can't find out why that file is missing and what it was supposed to contain, it must be a bis secret at apache.org
/sarcasm off
Can any of you MS gurus help out by telling me what I have been missing by not having default.ida?
I wonder if I put "protected by port80" in the conf if it will scare off the next worm, or will it actually check for vulnerablities and not care what lies the header tells it?
Where is all of the third party security add-ons for Apache? I sense discrimination! I demand useless products to give me a false sense of security like my MSCE brethern.
It was Frank Poole!
Janet Reno!
Such a paragon of compassion and maternal tenderness.
Democian or Republicrat, polar sides of the same corrupt coin.
But at least we think we have a choice, not like those deluded other countries!