"We are confident that our lawsuit against them will be successful because the law is on our side."
That bit actually gave me pause for thought. They're not saying "we didn't do this", or "we're right", they're saying "the law is on our side". Nowhere do they state that they're not engaged in illegal practises.
And the law is probably on their side because that's what hired protection rackets are for.
I was always of the impression that the customers paid the ISP, the ISP paid the NSP, the NSP paid their provider, and so on and so forth all the way through the backbone providers up to the line owners (well, more or less anyway). It's always been that way, sort of a trickle-up effect.
To say Google and the like are getting a "free lunch" is untruthful, to say the least.
Ditto. My desktops have been living in 2.6.x since.0, and every 3 or 4 releases I notice a speed boost in some part of the OS - be it encodes are quicker from the CPUs being more efficient, disk I/O isn't as hoggy, or it's just generally more responsive. When I have to use one of work's servers on 2.4.x they just feel SLOW in comparison...
That said, I'll be waiting for 13.2 or.3 to come out before patching up =)
Ok, so IBM just handed over the total, complete and entire source history (since 1991 anyway) of their two premier Unices to SCO....
Anyone feeling else more than a little uncomfortable about that? I mean, this code is the holy grail of Big Iron, and now SCO have their grubby little mitts all over it....
Isn't this exactly what SCO wanted to get right from the start (apart from the obvious stock pump-n-dump)?
*tinfoil hat goes on* More to to point - who's hands will this code find it's way into?
The only thing not working out of the box with a Debian testing 'linux26' install was the ATI 3d graphics acceleration. No need for it on a laptop used mainly for coding anyway, so I simply haven't bothered with it.
Longer battery life than in Windows on the same machine, too - which is weird.
That is one of the best idea's I've heard in a long time... wouldn't it induce a considerable overhead to scan all those packet headers and then process the decryption on the content though?
It's that "eye-candy crap", as you put it, that is needed to help shift Linux onto the desktop of your average, "ooooh, lookit da purdy!" Joe User./me didn't sleep last night and can't be arsed writing an argument to back this up. You know it's true.
I'm not sure whether it's hilarious or very, very sad that this is just turning into a huge "php sucks, ha ha, use perl instead you n00bs" thread.
It's actually throwing a bad light on perl developers (and I am one, so I'm not flaming here) that they can't even be bothered reading even the _summary_ and see it was the perl function open() in AWstats that got used to exploit the server, not a php script.
Personally, I code in perl and php. I use whichever's right for the task, and like 'em both.
Oh, and I code my perl and php in Dreamweaver MX, too. Under Wine.
The compound you're thinking of is Thujone (spelling?). It's removed from the absinthe we can get over here in NZ, but it's easy to distill back in with a bit of wormwood...
And it frequently gets me quite 'out of the box', let me tell you... =P
'Tis true, IMHO. If I have a big project to do and a deadline looming, I go home, put some loud music on (Hanzel Und Gretyl is good) and make sure I have a bottle of absinthe or vodka at hand, as well a pack or two of clove cigarettes...
There's a wonderful little program for downloading mms: streams called mimms. Get the.asx, find the.wmv link, fire mimms at is, and watch your drive whirr.
it's in debian unstable for sure, a quick google will find it for distros without it.
"Bruce Lagerman, president of DE Technologies and a former patent attorney..."
That means he can (and most likely will) represent himself in court to a much better degree than you or I could, and perraps even give Dell's lawyers a run for their money.
In other words, no legal expenses. He could drag Dell out for years and not pay a cent to a law firm.
Yup. And make *insert network you're flooding with this crap* completely useless in the process, because there's now 1,000,000 false-named files on it.
Perraps more than a cursory mental examination of the problem next time, hmmm?
One of the companies my place of work provides connectivity for got a C&D from the MPAA (i think, might have been the production company) for downloading and re-sharing "Season 3 of Charmed" on eDonkey.
It was, in fact, the first ISO of Debian Sarge, it was just misnamed on the network. so it's obvious they're just doing the whole "scattershot" approach to this: search, get IP's, send letter, repeat.
Managed to be amusing and worrysome at the same time.
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Yah - was referring to the law and the lawmakers, rather than the county sherrif's department...
"We are confident that our lawsuit against them will be successful because the law is on our side."
That bit actually gave me pause for thought. They're not saying "we didn't do this", or "we're right", they're saying "the law is on our side". Nowhere do they state that they're not engaged in illegal practises.
And the law is probably on their side because that's what hired protection rackets are for.
I was always of the impression that the customers paid the ISP, the ISP paid the NSP, the NSP paid their provider, and so on and so forth all the way through the backbone providers up to the line owners (well, more or less anyway). It's always been that way, sort of a trickle-up effect.
To say Google and the like are getting a "free lunch" is untruthful, to say the least.
Ditto. My desktops have been living in 2.6.x since .0, and every 3 or 4 releases I notice a speed boost in some part of the OS - be it encodes are quicker from the CPUs being more efficient, disk I/O isn't as hoggy, or it's just generally more responsive. When I have to use one of work's servers on 2.4.x they just feel SLOW in comparison...
.3 to come out before patching up =)
That said, I'll be waiting for 13.2 or
Ok, so IBM just handed over the total, complete and entire source history (since 1991 anyway) of their two premier Unices to SCO....
Anyone feeling else more than a little uncomfortable about that? I mean, this code is the holy grail of Big Iron, and now SCO have their grubby little mitts all over it....
Isn't this exactly what SCO wanted to get right from the start (apart from the obvious stock pump-n-dump)?
*tinfoil hat goes on*
More to to point - who's hands will this code find it's way into?
I don't know why everyone whinges about Debian's slow release cycle - I live in unstable, and it's truly the bleeding edge....
(Apart from X.org, but that's easy to patch in...)
The really scary thing is that I can read that without even pausing to think about it. It parses the same way English does to my brain.
*thunderous godzilla geek*
yeah, i'm running enlightenment with kde/gnome bits added on (like kicker and gkrellm), so that's probably a bit more lightweight than the XP desktop.
Although Linux is only recently viable on laptops, so I was sort of expecting XP to beat it there. Pleasant suprise, that was.
Compaq Presario 1500.
The only thing not working out of the box with a Debian testing 'linux26' install was the ATI 3d graphics acceleration. No need for it on a laptop used mainly for coding anyway, so I simply haven't bothered with it.
Longer battery life than in Windows on the same machine, too - which is weird.
That is one of the best idea's I've heard in a long time... wouldn't it induce a considerable overhead to scan all those packet headers and then process the decryption on the content though?
Your sig just made me spit coffee at my screen.
Well done sir.
It's that "eye-candy crap", as you put it, that is needed to help shift Linux onto the desktop of your average, "ooooh, lookit da purdy!" Joe User. /me didn't sleep last night and can't be arsed writing an argument to back this up. You know it's true.
what do ducks have to do with it?
=)
Love ya see you do it with Windows, buddy....
Turn Strict off and try it again, buddy... =)
I'm not sure whether it's hilarious or very, very sad that this is just turning into a huge "php sucks, ha ha, use perl instead you n00bs" thread.
It's actually throwing a bad light on perl developers (and I am one, so I'm not flaming here) that they can't even be bothered reading even the _summary_ and see it was the perl function open() in AWstats that got used to exploit the server, not a php script.
Personally, I code in perl and php. I use whichever's right for the task, and like 'em both.
Oh, and I code my perl and php in Dreamweaver MX, too. Under Wine.
*cue flaming*
The compound you're thinking of is Thujone (spelling?). It's removed from the absinthe we can get over here in NZ, but it's easy to distill back in with a bit of wormwood...
And it frequently gets me quite 'out of the box', let me tell you... =P
'Tis true, IMHO. If I have a big project to do and a deadline looming, I go home, put some loud music on (Hanzel Und Gretyl is good) and make sure I have a bottle of absinthe or vodka at hand, as well a pack or two of clove cigarettes...
For some reason, I do my best work that way.
(The green fairy codes me!)
Eyeballs.... bleeding....
For the love of all that's holy, tell me you're not serious.
There's a wonderful little program for downloading mms: streams called mimms. Get the .asx, find the .wmv link, fire mimms at is, and watch your drive whirr.
it's in debian unstable for sure, a quick google will find it for distros without it.
From the article:
"Bruce Lagerman, president of DE Technologies and a former patent attorney..."
That means he can (and most likely will) represent himself in court to a much better degree than you or I could, and perraps even give Dell's lawyers a run for their money.
In other words, no legal expenses. He could drag Dell out for years and not pay a cent to a law firm.
Yup. And make *insert network you're flooding with this crap* completely useless in the process, because there's now 1,000,000 false-named files on it.
Perraps more than a cursory mental examination of the problem next time, hmmm?
One of the companies my place of work provides connectivity for got a C&D from the MPAA (i think, might have been the production company) for downloading and re-sharing "Season 3 of Charmed" on eDonkey.
It was, in fact, the first ISO of Debian Sarge, it was just misnamed on the network. so it's obvious they're just doing the whole "scattershot" approach to this: search, get IP's, send letter, repeat.
Managed to be amusing and worrysome at the same time.
Will 'fluid programmers' give new meaning to "flowchart"?"
Worst. Pun. Ever.
But do we get to interrogate any gazelles?