Netware Loadable Module. If you didn't use old Netware and you didn't know how it could suck then the comment isn't applicable anyway. And the BSOD is a different take of the Microsoft _Blue_ Screen of Death. Different shade, same fubar result.
No doubt. I recall back in the day manually loading NLM's on one of my company's servers. Simply misspelling something could abend the server. No autoreboot either. Just the BSOD (black screen o' death).
A very flexible and useful tool with all of the available plug-ins. Everything from Ruby to Python to J2ME can be coded using it. A little OT, but why the check does the app consume 75-85 MB of RAM just sitting there idle when it's first launched? The slow and bloated camp of Java haters must be loving that:-)
I worked at a remote office for my previous employer. One time they flew me into their corporate headquarters to participate in a software replacement plan. I spent the better part of each day going from meeting to meeting. At the end of the last day I asked one of the people escorting me around "With all of these meetings how do y'all get any work done?" He looked at me seriously and said, "That's the idea." I went back to my remote world with even less respect for CHQ...
Good point. Looking at Sun's website they are eventually phasing out UNIX System V support by the middle of this year. I can't imagine what a PITA it must be to support software that old while supporting newer/different software concurrently. How about the VAX I used to admin back in the early 90's or my old Timex Sinclair with the membrane keyboard:-)
The new WINE code must somehow interface with the GDI32.DLL differently. That is the Windows file that is hooked into in order for this issue to present itself in WINE. Perhaps WINE strips off passing the length==1 parameter?
My company still has a couple of Win98 boxes and I still admin a WinNT4 box. So I feel the pain:-) But I don't think it's reasonable to expect a vendor to provide patches for operating systems that are well over 5 years old. Looking at Apple, Red Hat, Sun, etc. I don't see this happening either. The public has been given adequate time to migrate from these old operating systems. Sooner or later the vendor has to draw the line.
I browsed over several posts on his website and come away with the conclusion that he is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. Here's one posting that I found really amusing:
"Thank you Microsoft for blessing us with a patch to fix the products you currently sell. The products that compete with Linux and Macintosh. Excellent job at diverting the our attention away from the fact that Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT4 remain vulnerable. Neat trick convincing people that "the vulnerability is not critical because an exploitable attack vector has not been identified that would yield a Critical severity rating for these versions."
Lemme see here. Windows 95 is 11 years old. Windows 98 is 8 years old. Windows ME is 6 years old. And Windows NT4 is 9 years old. How many other operating systems offer patches and support product versions for software that is that old?
Good points. The last patch I recall that negatively affected our business environment was Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6. This patch basically broke the TCP/IP stack and left dozens of my company's servers on their knees. Of course it was partially our stupidity for not testing out the patch on a non-production box first:-) Good thing SP6a came out relatively quickly thereafter.
I know that as consumers we should expect Microsoft to test out there patches and since back in 1997 I think they are obviously doing a better job of it. Windows XP SP2 was controversial in that it potentially left certain third party apps incompatible, but the security holes it helped close were long coming...
Nice speech. For a moment I had a mental image of Capt. Kirk reciting this while dabbing the trickle of blood on the side of his mouth that always gets there after a fistfight...
Although this study is over a year old, it estimates 14% of the large enterprise market as having adopted OpenOffice. Just as Gartner studies are said to be Microsoft-biased, perhaps this study might be biased in the opposite direction. But it's a favorable indicator nevertheless to even view the number of Openoffice downloads that are recorded. It's making progress...
They will send the case to some collection agency, who will call Bill Gates at home and at work asking when payment will be made or at least a reason why it hasn't been made yet. Then Bill will have no other alternative than to write the check to keep the monkeys off his back.
Why in the hell was this modded down as 'Troll'? Anyone who is vaguely familiar with database systems knows that mySQL is one of the more entry-level players out there. Sure for hosting a bunch of select statements it's great. But it's barely catching up with the competition by providing such _groundbreaking_ items such as record level locking, triggers, stored procs, etc. now or perhaps in an upcoming version. Plus there still are the infamous mySQL gotchas, many of which apply today as they did back in 1997 or so. Gimme a break, people!
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If you delve into Ruby for such tasks and then take a look back at Perl perhaps you'll understand where I am coming from. For admin scripting, text parsing, etc. it's just as powerful. But easier to read, more logical, and more concise. I know I misspoke when I said Perl is irrelevant. It still has a big place in a lot of projects out there. But with languages like Ruby out there hopefully its days are numbered...
I have DamnSmallLinux on some older PC's at my work. In addition I have it on an Iomega mini USB key so I can boot DamnSmallLinux off the key or even run DamnSmallLinux under Windows using QEMU. I guess those options require a more up-to-date PC since older PC's 1) don't boot from a USB key and 2) would run dogslow under QEMU.
For a newer Mini-ITX that runs DamnSmallLinux, check out the DamnSmallMachine.
In the "grasping at straws" department we also have Harvey Danger releasing their next album as a 12 three-and-a-half-inch floppy box set. Also the Goo Goo Dolls are planning to cut a new album on recycled AOL CD's...
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And any other OS rather than return a syntax error message actually locks up the entire OS?
Netware Loadable Module. If you didn't use old Netware and you didn't know how it could suck then the comment isn't applicable anyway. And the BSOD is a different take of the Microsoft _Blue_ Screen of Death. Different shade, same fubar result.
No doubt. I recall back in the day manually loading NLM's on one of my company's servers. Simply misspelling something could abend the server. No autoreboot either. Just the BSOD (black screen o' death).
A very flexible and useful tool with all of the available plug-ins. Everything from Ruby to Python to J2ME can be coded using it. A little OT, but why the check does the app consume 75-85 MB of RAM just sitting there idle when it's first launched? The slow and bloated camp of Java haters must be loving that :-)
I worked at a remote office for my previous employer. One time they flew me into their corporate headquarters to participate in a software replacement plan. I spent the better part of each day going from meeting to meeting. At the end of the last day I asked one of the people escorting me around "With all of these meetings how do y'all get any work done?" He looked at me seriously and said, "That's the idea." I went back to my remote world with even less respect for CHQ...
"Everybody who's system" Ouch. Double whammy!
Touche. Checking their website I version 7 of Solaris that I used to admin back in the mid-90's is still on the list of patch downloads. Wow...
Good point. Looking at Sun's website they are eventually phasing out UNIX System V support by the middle of this year. I can't imagine what a PITA it must be to support software that old while supporting newer/different software concurrently. How about the VAX I used to admin back in the early 90's or my old Timex Sinclair with the membrane keyboard :-)
The new WINE code must somehow interface with the GDI32.DLL differently. That is the Windows file that is hooked into in order for this issue to present itself in WINE. Perhaps WINE strips off passing the length==1 parameter?
Beacuse WINE probably hooks into the same Microsoft DLL file that has the backdoor present.
My company still has a couple of Win98 boxes and I still admin a WinNT4 box. So I feel the pain :-) But I don't think it's reasonable to expect a vendor to provide patches for operating systems that are well over 5 years old. Looking at Apple, Red Hat, Sun, etc. I don't see this happening either. The public has been given adequate time to migrate from these old operating systems. Sooner or later the vendor has to draw the line.
I browsed over several posts on his website and come away with the conclusion that he is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. Here's one posting that I found really amusing:
"Thank you Microsoft for blessing us with a patch to fix the products
you currently sell. The products that compete with Linux and Macintosh.
Excellent job at diverting the our attention away from the fact that
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium Edition, and
Windows NT4 remain vulnerable. Neat trick convincing people that "the
vulnerability is not critical because an exploitable attack vector has
not been identified that would yield a Critical severity rating for
these versions."
Lemme see here. Windows 95 is 11 years old. Windows 98 is 8 years old. Windows ME is 6 years old. And Windows NT4 is 9 years old. How many other operating systems offer patches and support product versions for software that is that old?
Ridiculous.
Good points. The last patch I recall that negatively affected our business environment was Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6. This patch basically broke the TCP/IP stack and left dozens of my company's servers on their knees. Of course it was partially our stupidity for not testing out the patch on a non-production box first :-) Good thing SP6a came out relatively quickly thereafter.
I know that as consumers we should expect Microsoft to test out there patches and since back in 1997 I think they are obviously doing a better job of it. Windows XP SP2 was controversial in that it potentially left certain third party apps incompatible, but the security holes it helped close were long coming...
The Nazis made people wear pieces of flair...
Bet when he came back with the goods his boss looked at it and said, "Son what you got there is a big ole piece of poopie."
Nice speech. For a moment I had a mental image of Capt. Kirk reciting this while dabbing the trickle of blood on the side of his mouth that always gets there after a fistfight...
Although this study is over a year old, it estimates 14% of the large enterprise market as having adopted OpenOffice. Just as Gartner studies are said to be Microsoft-biased, perhaps this study might be biased in the opposite direction. But it's a favorable indicator nevertheless to even view the number of Openoffice downloads that are recorded. It's making progress...
They will send the case to some collection agency, who will call Bill Gates at home and at work asking when payment will be made or at least a reason why it hasn't been made yet. Then Bill will have no other alternative than to write the check to keep the monkeys off his back.
Why in the hell was this modded down as 'Troll'? Anyone who is vaguely familiar with database systems knows that mySQL is one of the more entry-level players out there. Sure for hosting a bunch of select statements it's great. But it's barely catching up with the competition by providing such _groundbreaking_ items such as record level locking, triggers, stored procs, etc. now or perhaps in an upcoming version. Plus there still are the infamous mySQL gotchas, many of which apply today as they did back in 1997 or so. Gimme a break, people!
If you delve into Ruby for such tasks and then take a look back at Perl perhaps you'll understand where I am coming from. For admin scripting, text parsing, etc. it's just as powerful. But easier to read, more logical, and more concise. I know I misspoke when I said Perl is irrelevant. It still has a big place in a lot of projects out there. But with languages like Ruby out there hopefully its days are numbered...
I figure this parent post will be flagged as Flamebait, but I agree. Perl != Relevant anymore.
I don't have any mod points to give but if I did I would throw some your way. True that!
For a newer Mini-ITX that runs DamnSmallLinux, check out the DamnSmallMachine.
"Well it's been five hundred weeks since you listened to me..."
In the "grasping at straws" department we also have Harvey Danger releasing their next album as a 12 three-and-a-half-inch floppy box set. Also the Goo Goo Dolls are planning to cut a new album on recycled AOL CD's...