Compare the number of Apache exploits to IIS, and then tell me that MS code is of equal quality or as easily maintained. The price of a secure Windows server is eternal vigilance, and even then you can never be sure. This true for other platforms, just much moreso for Win32.
I like to run sendmail on my cable modem. Don't give my ISP any ideas about blocking this port. They have screwed with me enough already (i.e. AT&T @Home blocking port 80).
I run OpenBSD, and I'd really rather not be punished for some Win32 idiot that opens every EXE in Outlook.
There is ZERO binary compatibility between HPPA and Itanium. PA binaries run under Itanium HP-UX invoke the "Aries" emulator, at a 2-6x slowdown.
Itanium will suffer if Intel implements AMD64
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If Intel begins pushing two 64-bit architectures, HP is going to look pretty stupid porting HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows to the Superdome Itanium.
If Intel pushes the Pentium to 64 bits, HP's enterprise systems are finished. SGI's Altix effort will also be dealt a death blow.
Carly Fiorina was supposedly present at the Opteron launch for closed door meetings with AMD executives. It is a shame that she did not take the opportunity to announce AMD64 ports of the above DEC/HP OSes.
I would love to pay RedHat $50/year, receive the media in the mail (not the box set, just the cds in a paper sleeve), and have access to up2date.
RedHat isn't going to offer that to me. Instead, they want $50 from me simply for access to their security updates, and they now support their OS for a much shorter duration than Microsoft. They also complain about the bandwidth requirements, but they certainly haven't implemented torrent within up2date.
RedHat now has Oracle's ring securely in their nose. This is a good thing, and it will make them a lot of money, as we have seen. However, a good database server is not necessarily a good desktop or a good general purpose server. RedHat Linux is specializing on enterprise applications.
I'd love to pay RedHat a few bucks, if they had a product that I wanted to buy. They don't.
Please note, if you are working overtime hours and are not being compensated at time and a half, you should consult a labor attorney. I believe in my locale that any skilled IT worker must be paid time and a half for overtime if they are making less than $27/hr.
I've seen local doctor's offices get sued by employees who came in 1/2 early every day and could document it. The office was forced to pay back wages at time and a half all the way to the hire date.
If you are working uncompensated overtime and you are in any way unhappy with the arrangement, see a labor attorney.
I appear to be wrong; Arabic was an established language and is the native tongue of the Koran.
However, I have discovered a resource that indicates that the word "Koran" itself is of Syraic origin and that Syraic teachings have had a profound influence upon Islam. From this we must deduce one of the following:
God found the language of Arabic wanting in expressing certain concepts, and so borrowed from other languages to convey nuance,
The other languages were introduced by Mohammed or other men (if Mohammed were exposed to Syraic Christian teachings, a great deal would be explained),
The other languages were introduced by Satan a la the Satanic Verses of al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat (it is interesting that Islam and the Koran addresses corruption of the text directly; many Christians find the Bible to be unquestionably infallible).
I was impressed by many aspects of the Koran, but none moreso than the assertion that some Christians and Jews will be allowed into paradise along with good Muslims. I wish that this fact about Islam were stressed more; perhaps all of this current violence would be reduced if the faithful among us believed that we would be dealing with the consequences of violence (and confronting those we had harmed) in heaven.
AFAIK, Arabic did not exist as a language at the time of Mohammed. The prophet spoke Syraic.
The original Koran would have been recorded in the language of the prophet (in the legendary haphazard order). The Arabic Koran is a translation of this original document. AFAIK, the original Koran was lost. I could be wrong, of course.
The problem confronting the Koran in this context is the same as is faced by the readers of the Gospel of Thomas - the only extant version is in Coptic, which was a translation from Greek. Can an English translation be faithful to the original Greek? Christianity and Judism are both well acquainted with the perils of (mis)translation.
I read the Dawood translation of the Koran some years ago. The points made by Luxenberg, especially regarding the chilled versus boiling water, seem to be much more reasonable than what I saw printed. I would love to read an English translation of the German text.
Just imagine for a moment what might happen if Sun released some version of the Solaris kernel under the GPL.
Solaris is far more scalable than Linux; Linux would begin bleeding enterprise market share, and would probably never recover. Solaris doesn't seem to scale down very well, so it is probable that Linux would retain its embedded systems market share.
The moment that Linux becomes a real threat to the software environment of an E15k, I have to believe that Sun will do whatever is necessary to protect this segment.
Of course, the sooner that Sun does this, the sooner that the question of enterprise Linux is put to rest. Sun is probably dragging its feet because they don't want to see Solaris running on the HP Superdome (especially since HP is killing their own UNIX and thereby depressing sales). They already have to contend with Solaris running on Fujitsu Primepower (which are arguably better machines than an E15k), but I am convinced that eventually, Sun will have to level the playing field by truly opening the Solaris source.
If that scrunch had not happened, vi would have multiple windows, and I might have put in some programmability - but I don't know.
Since I sort of invented the editor that was most complicated, I thought I would compensate by also designing the editor that was most simple. But I got distracted. If I had just spent another day on it... I could actually edit a file on it. I actually used it to edit itself and scrunched the source code - sort of old home day, because we used to do that all the time.
I wonder what sort of UNIX we might have if Bill Joy hadn't lost so much source code.
What is the difference between MI5 and MI6 anyway?
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I hear them referred to as Brittish foreign intelligence all the time.
Hydrogen Fluoride supposedly passes right through your skin and attacks your bones. He had an interesting trip to the emergency room.
Semiconductor work involves some severely toxic chemicals - arsenic is used both as a dopant and a substrate, for example. Imagine an accidental release of a cloud of it from a CVD process.
While semiconductor work can be especially dangerous, I've heard that chemical engineers in general have low life expectancies because of constant exposure to toxic materials (a good reason to work in software).
Things may be improving. We had lots of benzene around the chemistry lab in high school, for example, but now I understand that benzene is completely banned because it was proved carcinogenic.
Zero punishment? Their stock immediately lost half its value. That, plus the findings of fact (that make them an open target for lawsuits if you can prove damages), was stern punishment indeed.
Kotelly also knew that they were guilty as sin, but the damage done by Jackson was so profound that further punishment wasn't necessary. That, plus Microsoft getting their throat cut in the enterprise by Linux, is quite sufficient punishment, and justification for the wrist slapping they received from the DOJ. The goal was not a Carthaginian victory here.
This is all from memory; should be easy to document.
Microsoft rigged demos of IE and Netscape in the Jackson antitrust trial. Netscape was on a 14.4 modem while IE was on a 56k. Jackson's wrath in the guilty verdict slashed Microsoft's share price in half (and had the unintended side effect of triggering the dotcom collapse).
Jackson's findings of fact allow many companies to skip directly to damages when they sue Microsoft for illegal antitrust violations.
Microsoft was losing the Caldera case, and settled.
Microsoft lost the contractor benefits case before the Supreme Court (where the contractors argued that they should be treated as employees), which cost them billions. Contractors' durations at most companies are now limited because of Microsoft's loss.
Microsoft has lost several patent infringement suits, which will cost them billions. Big ones were on SQL Server, the XBox, the recent IE plugin case, etc.
Most nations do not have a DMCA. The decryption work will simply be performed outside the sphere of influence of this facism.
Microsoft could choose to emulate Adobe and trigger an FBI investigation of OOO within the borders of the US. In doing so, they would trigger a fight with Sun.
Sun is much larger than Elcomsoft, and it would be the fight of the century. It might actually be the key moment where the IT industry overthrows the DMCA (as should have happened some time ago).
When Sun wins (Microsoft legal will find a way to screw it up), the DMCA will suffer a mortal blow. Congress would be extremely unwise to attempt to strengthen it; those who endorse such an action will face the wrath of some well-organized lobbiests.
If everyone in town parks a Mercedes in front of their house with the doors open, the keys in the ignition and a welcome mat thrown down, does anybody in town have a right to complain when their cars are gone in the morning?
In the same way, people are running an OS platform with a truly horrible security record. It's their own fault.
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Some telecommunications taxes have been around for a long, long time. Do you think that we should just plop them down on top of TCP/IP? I don't.
Compare the number of Apache exploits to IIS, and then tell me that MS code is of equal quality or as easily maintained. The price of a secure Windows server is eternal vigilance, and even then you can never be sure. This true for other platforms, just much moreso for Win32.
When was the last time that a blaster-type worm hit either a) samba or b) nfs. Windows is unarguably weaker.
This guy has written so much stuff, and all of it is unusable by most major Linux/BSD distributions because of his licensing.
His software has about the same reputation as OpenBSD for security, but it is extremely difficult to configure.
A preconfigured distribution, maintained by Bernstein himself, would get his software in the hands of many more people.
I like to run sendmail on my cable modem. Don't give my ISP any ideas about blocking this port. They have screwed with me enough already (i.e. AT&T @Home blocking port 80).
I run OpenBSD, and I'd really rather not be punished for some Win32 idiot that opens every EXE in Outlook.
There is ZERO binary compatibility between HPPA and Itanium. PA binaries run under Itanium HP-UX invoke the "Aries" emulator, at a 2-6x slowdown.
If Intel begins pushing two 64-bit architectures, HP is going to look pretty stupid porting HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows to the Superdome Itanium.
If Intel pushes the Pentium to 64 bits, HP's enterprise systems are finished. SGI's Altix effort will also be dealt a death blow.
Carly Fiorina was supposedly present at the Opteron launch for closed door meetings with AMD executives. It is a shame that she did not take the opportunity to announce AMD64 ports of the above DEC/HP OSes.
That's about when I dumped them for good, and either locked down my remaining 6.2 servers or fdisked them.
The bigger pipe was unnecessary; they could have integrated bittorrent.
...if you move seminal fluid daily by whatever means necessary.
Occasionally? Toward the end with 6.2, the only time that I could use up2date was on Saturday at 3am.
up2date is unusable as a free service.
I would love to pay RedHat $50/year, receive the media in the mail (not the box set, just the cds in a paper sleeve), and have access to up2date.
RedHat isn't going to offer that to me. Instead, they want $50 from me simply for access to their security updates, and they now support their OS for a much shorter duration than Microsoft. They also complain about the bandwidth requirements, but they certainly haven't implemented torrent within up2date.
RedHat now has Oracle's ring securely in their nose. This is a good thing, and it will make them a lot of money, as we have seen. However, a good database server is not necessarily a good desktop or a good general purpose server. RedHat Linux is specializing on enterprise applications.
I'd love to pay RedHat a few bucks, if they had a product that I wanted to buy. They don't.
Please note, if you are working overtime hours and are not being compensated at time and a half, you should consult a labor attorney. I believe in my locale that any skilled IT worker must be paid time and a half for overtime if they are making less than $27/hr.
I've seen local doctor's offices get sued by employees who came in 1/2 early every day and could document it. The office was forced to pay back wages at time and a half all the way to the hire date.
If you are working uncompensated overtime and you are in any way unhappy with the arrangement, see a labor attorney.
I appear to be wrong; Arabic was an established language and is the native tongue of the Koran.
However, I have discovered a resource that indicates that the word "Koran" itself is of Syraic origin and that Syraic teachings have had a profound influence upon Islam. From this we must deduce one of the following:
I was impressed by many aspects of the Koran, but none moreso than the assertion that some Christians and Jews will be allowed into paradise along with good Muslims. I wish that this fact about Islam were stressed more; perhaps all of this current violence would be reduced if the faithful among us believed that we would be dealing with the consequences of violence (and confronting those we had harmed) in heaven.
AFAIK, Arabic did not exist as a language at the time of Mohammed. The prophet spoke Syraic.
The original Koran would have been recorded in the language of the prophet (in the legendary haphazard order). The Arabic Koran is a translation of this original document. AFAIK, the original Koran was lost. I could be wrong, of course.
The problem confronting the Koran in this context is the same as is faced by the readers of the Gospel of Thomas - the only extant version is in Coptic, which was a translation from Greek. Can an English translation be faithful to the original Greek? Christianity and Judism are both well acquainted with the perils of (mis)translation.
I read the Dawood translation of the Koran some years ago. The points made by Luxenberg, especially regarding the chilled versus boiling water, seem to be much more reasonable than what I saw printed. I would love to read an English translation of the German text.
As you can see here.
Just imagine for a moment what might happen if Sun released some version of the Solaris kernel under the GPL.
Solaris is far more scalable than Linux; Linux would begin bleeding enterprise market share, and would probably never recover. Solaris doesn't seem to scale down very well, so it is probable that Linux would retain its embedded systems market share.
The moment that Linux becomes a real threat to the software environment of an E15k, I have to believe that Sun will do whatever is necessary to protect this segment.
Of course, the sooner that Sun does this, the sooner that the question of enterprise Linux is put to rest. Sun is probably dragging its feet because they don't want to see Solaris running on the HP Superdome (especially since HP is killing their own UNIX and thereby depressing sales). They already have to contend with Solaris running on Fujitsu Primepower (which are arguably better machines than an E15k), but I am convinced that eventually, Sun will have to level the playing field by truly opening the Solaris source.
I wonder what sort of UNIX we might have if Bill Joy hadn't lost so much source code.
I hear them referred to as Brittish foreign intelligence all the time.
Hydrogen Fluoride supposedly passes right through your skin and attacks your bones. He had an interesting trip to the emergency room.
Semiconductor work involves some severely toxic chemicals - arsenic is used both as a dopant and a substrate, for example. Imagine an accidental release of a cloud of it from a CVD process.
While semiconductor work can be especially dangerous, I've heard that chemical engineers in general have low life expectancies because of constant exposure to toxic materials (a good reason to work in software).
Things may be improving. We had lots of benzene around the chemistry lab in high school, for example, but now I understand that benzene is completely banned because it was proved carcinogenic.
Hard to undo 20 years of exposure, though.
Zero punishment? Their stock immediately lost half its value. That, plus the findings of fact (that make them an open target for lawsuits if you can prove damages), was stern punishment indeed.
Kotelly also knew that they were guilty as sin, but the damage done by Jackson was so profound that further punishment wasn't necessary. That, plus Microsoft getting their throat cut in the enterprise by Linux, is quite sufficient punishment, and justification for the wrist slapping they received from the DOJ. The goal was not a Carthaginian victory here.
This is all from memory; should be easy to document.
Microsoft has lost most of its major court cases.
A DRM push by Microsoft might drive a few more OEMs into this camp.
Most nations do not have a DMCA. The decryption work will simply be performed outside the sphere of influence of this facism.
Microsoft could choose to emulate Adobe and trigger an FBI investigation of OOO within the borders of the US. In doing so, they would trigger a fight with Sun.
Sun is much larger than Elcomsoft, and it would be the fight of the century. It might actually be the key moment where the IT industry overthrows the DMCA (as should have happened some time ago).
When Sun wins (Microsoft legal will find a way to screw it up), the DMCA will suffer a mortal blow. Congress would be extremely unwise to attempt to strengthen it; those who endorse such an action will face the wrath of some well-organized lobbiests.
Microsoft, choose your battles carefully.
At which point the software costs drop to zero.
If everyone in town parks a Mercedes in front of their house with the doors open, the keys in the ignition and a welcome mat thrown down, does anybody in town have a right to complain when their cars are gone in the morning?
In the same way, people are running an OS platform with a truly horrible security record. It's their own fault.