It't not about the OS it's about the apps. Without a strong app store with applications the end user expects to be there, no new OS will gain market share.
We are Open Source at the server level, with a mix of Mac/Windows at the desktop.
You have to look and it helps to join local meet ups that do open source and like others say it helps to be involved in projects.
Ok, I read the entry and it looks like someone is installing Telnetd and it's doing what it is supposed to do. This is a "rooting" just like turning on terminal services on Windows allows remote access.
Little silly to setup with root access but this is not a flaw as such, just telnetd running as root without login.
What so cool about this. Any good Unix book on telnet would tell you the same thing?.
If you want to keep a group of 4th graders interested, do something they cannot do at home. Take apart a computer.
I have done this several times for my children s classes. Be sure to include the hard drives, take the cover off and if you can power it up with the cover off. (A great 4th grade crowd pleaser).
Then stop the disk and hand all the parts around. Motherboard, memory, disk drives. Be sure to have several if the class is big.
I know you have some old disk drives don't you? 800 meg drives are much use any more even working. I keep them now just for these class demonstrations.
It would be great if someone working with the new Open Moko phone could add a Open GPS mapping project. I understand the new phone will have GPS and have an open stack. Just need someone to sponsor the project.
DTS that is included with MS-SQL Server 2000 is a good option. I have done a lot of this type of thing, and it is quick and easy with an ETL (Extraction Translation tool) like DTS.
I wish I could find and Open Source replacement for this tool.
As a Open Source developer what I need is a set of web sites that centralize the Open Source resources for accessibility. I have needed to write interfaces for the blind but I was unable to find many good Open Resources. We need someone to take the lead and start centralizing information on how to build a good accessibility interfaces.
Ok, I have been at this working professionally with computers from 1988 on. I have worked on Prime, IBM Big Iron (VM/CMS), IBM Little Iron (RS6000), Unisys (Sperry and Burroughs), SUN, Windows, Unix and Linux.
The biggest cultural different is priorities. All the big mainframe shops I have worked at the goal was to keep thing running smoothly and be home by 5:00. All the PC shops (Unix and Windows) the goal seemed to be get it done fast but stay all night.
There is also a stronger separation of the programmer from the app. With the PC almost every user is responsible for programming (call it automation or whatever). Even the accountants are expected to write lots and lots of excel macros. In the mainframe world the goal is to just let the user enter the data and give her/him the answer.
There is also a stronger idea of operations; in the mainframe world there are programmers, system administrators, operators and users. Each with there assigned roles. In the PC world there are system administrators, power users and users, with the lines blurring at the edges.
These are just my general observations, and of course there are exceptions to every rule.
Funny thing, my wife and I have been reading the SCO vs. IBM stuff, and she has compared it to "All My Children".
Don't know who the writers are for this new Internet Drama, but we tune in every few days to see what is going on. O'Gara and McBride make Adam and JR look like amateurs.
Can't wait for the spin-offs to get started. "SCO vs. Novell" looks good but the "SCO vs. Chrysler" was a bust, McBride could have really use better dialog in that episode.
Can we donate using the Paypay on Sourceforge? With the current site being slashdotted I would like to donate using Sourceforge but I don't know if this would be the same?
Anyone know if the money will be used in the same way?
Say a company downloads some code from the Internet then decides to license this code to fortune 1000 companies, without having rights to license the code. Is this piracy?
No, it's SCO. The BSA is silent
Say another company downloads some code from the Internet, burns some CD, selling "licenses" of Windows 2003 server. Is this priacy?
Yes, it's piracy, because the BSA says so.
Piracy is piracy.
BSA get off your a** and look into it, or are you just MS lap dog.
BSA, the best justice money can buy.
Like most politicians Don Evans wants to criminalize the poor to support the rich.
I have been trying to get a web server up on Verizon FIOS in Keller, TX and it looks like port 80 is blocked. That is bad news, if they are playing with the ports what else are they doing?
It looks like all other ports are open even https, so I guess that only port 80 is viewed as a problem, but who knows how long until VoIP or some other "problem" service is blocked.:(
I have not called to see if it can be unblocked.
One Source a local cable company has all ports open. Looks like I may switch back.
Ok people if we want to strike back at SCO in a meaningful way we need to do it in an acceptable way.
DoS attacks against SCO will do little but make them look good and Open Source look wrong.
Idea to correct SCO view:
Write letters (Paper ones) to any company using SCO software threatening to boycott there products unless they stop using SCO products. Get your non technical friends to do the same. Then follow up.
Case in point. Pizza Planet uses SCO software, thousands of computer geeks write Pizza Planet letters threatening not to buy Pizza Planet pizza unless they stop using SCO. (I don't know about you but I eat a lot of pizza.) Then we all stop buying Pizza Planet pizza. We keep doing this with more and more companies until it is a corporate liability to use SCO software. Make sure as many reporters as possible know what we are up to.
This has dual effect. It should drop SCO's stock price as it becomes harder for companies to use there software and remain profitable, and removes SCO source of income. It also will send a message to the corporate world use SCO and we will stop using your product.
This is the old tried and true boycott activism. The catch is you must have the numbers and follow through to make it work. You have to affect the bottom line.
A website with a "wall of shame" (AKA Corporate SCO Users), form letters, postal addresses and email addresses would be a good way to coordinate the actions of many.
Then get the word out to as many people as possible. If we make it difficult for SCO to get and keep customers we can stop them. SCO runs on money, that is how you hurt them.
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It't not about the OS it's about the apps. Without a strong app store with applications the end user expects to be there, no new OS will gain market share.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
Wait there are really people developing for Windows 8?
I have two Nokia N900s and I think it would be possible to make these devices "secure". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
We are Open Source at the server level, with a mix of Mac/Windows at the desktop. You have to look and it helps to join local meet ups that do open source and like others say it helps to be involved in projects.
Ok, I read the entry and it looks like someone is installing Telnetd and it's doing what it is supposed to do. This is a "rooting" just like turning on terminal services on Windows allows remote access.
Little silly to setup with root access but this is not a flaw as such, just telnetd running as root without login.
What so cool about this. Any good Unix book on telnet would tell you the same thing?.
Get a free happy meal toy with each and every degree.
If you want to keep a group of 4th graders interested, do something they cannot do at home. Take apart a computer.
I have done this several times for my children s classes. Be sure to include the hard drives, take the cover off and if you can power it up with the cover off. (A great 4th grade crowd pleaser).
Then stop the disk and hand all the parts around. Motherboard, memory, disk drives. Be sure to have several if the class is big.
I know you have some old disk drives don't you? 800 meg drives are much use any more even working. I keep them now just for these class demonstrations.
This is what I have done.
It would be great if someone working with the new Open Moko phone could add a Open GPS mapping project. I understand the new phone will have GPS and have an open stack. Just need someone to sponsor the project.
http://www.openmoko.com/
DTS that is included with MS-SQL Server 2000 is a good option. I have done a lot of this type of thing, and it is quick and easy with an ETL (Extraction Translation tool) like DTS.
I wish I could find and Open Source replacement for this tool.
This book has been very helpful
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6525.asp
As a Open Source developer what I need is a set of web sites that centralize the Open Source resources for accessibility. I have needed to write interfaces for the blind but I was unable to find many good Open Resources. We need someone to take the lead and start centralizing information on how to build a good accessibility interfaces.
Ok, I have been at this working professionally with computers from 1988 on. I have worked on Prime, IBM Big Iron (VM/CMS), IBM Little Iron (RS6000), Unisys (Sperry and Burroughs), SUN, Windows, Unix and Linux.
The biggest cultural different is priorities. All the big mainframe shops I have worked at the goal was to keep thing running smoothly and be home by 5:00. All the PC shops (Unix and Windows) the goal seemed to be get it done fast but stay all night.
There is also a stronger separation of the programmer from the app. With the PC almost every user is responsible for programming (call it automation or whatever). Even the accountants are expected to write lots and lots of excel macros. In the mainframe world the goal is to just let the user enter the data and give her/him the answer.
There is also a stronger idea of operations; in the mainframe world there are programmers, system administrators, operators and users. Each with there assigned roles. In the PC world there are system administrators, power users and users, with the lines blurring at the edges.
These are just my general observations, and of course there are exceptions to every rule.
Funny thing, my wife and I have been reading the SCO vs. IBM stuff, and she has compared it to "All My Children".
:)
Don't know who the writers are for this new Internet Drama, but we tune in every few days to see what is going on. O'Gara and McBride make Adam and JR look like amateurs.
Can't wait for the spin-offs to get started. "SCO vs. Novell" looks good but the "SCO vs. Chrysler" was a bust, McBride could have really use better dialog in that episode.
SCO is not a real company is it?
Can we donate using the Paypay on Sourceforge? With the current site being slashdotted I would like to donate using Sourceforge but I don't know if this would be the same?
Anyone know if the money will be used in the same way?
Say a company downloads some code from the Internet then decides to license this code to fortune 1000 companies, without having rights to license the code. Is this piracy?
No, it's SCO. The BSA is silent
Say another company downloads some code from the Internet, burns some CD, selling "licenses" of Windows 2003 server. Is this priacy?
Yes, it's piracy, because the BSA says so.
Piracy is piracy.
BSA get off your a** and look into it, or are you just MS lap dog.
BSA, the best justice money can buy.
Like most politicians Don Evans wants to criminalize the poor to support the rich.
I am not sure if you are trying to criticize Linux or yourself. Maybe you should clarify.
Ok My bad. Port 80 is not blocked. Please ignore the previous posting.
I have been trying to get a web server up on Verizon FIOS in Keller, TX and it looks like port 80 is blocked. That is bad news, if they are playing with the ports what else are they doing?
:(
It looks like all other ports are open even https, so I guess that only port 80 is viewed as a problem, but who knows how long until VoIP or some other "problem" service is blocked.
I have not called to see if it can be unblocked.
One Source a local cable company has all ports open. Looks like I may switch back.
Ok people if we want to strike back at SCO in a meaningful way we need to do it in an acceptable way.
DoS attacks against SCO will do little but make them look good and Open Source look wrong.
Idea to correct SCO view:
Write letters (Paper ones) to any company using SCO software threatening to boycott there products unless they stop using SCO products. Get your non technical friends to do the same. Then follow up.
Case in point. Pizza Planet uses SCO software, thousands of computer geeks write Pizza Planet letters threatening not to buy Pizza Planet pizza unless they stop using SCO. (I don't know about you but I eat a lot of pizza.) Then we all stop buying Pizza Planet pizza. We keep doing this with more and more companies until it is a corporate liability to use SCO software. Make sure as many reporters as possible know what we are up to.
This has dual effect. It should drop SCO's stock price as it becomes harder for companies to use there software and remain profitable, and removes SCO source of income. It also will send a message to the corporate world use SCO and we will stop using your product.
This is the old tried and true boycott activism. The catch is you must have the numbers and follow through to make it work. You have to affect the bottom line.
A website with a "wall of shame" (AKA Corporate SCO Users), form letters, postal addresses and email addresses would be a good way to coordinate the actions of many.
Then get the word out to as many people as possible. If we make it difficult for SCO to get and keep customers we can stop them. SCO runs on money, that is how you hurt them.