This was part of my argument for the ridiculousness of a developer making an app delete a user's home directory when a pirated key is found.
1. user buys shareware. one of the honest 1%, if statistics can be believed. 2. user loses unique use of the shareware key to worm/keygen 3. shareware key spreads, and is labelled a pirate version 4. original user updates their shareware app, shareware app nukes their home folder.
"One "little" problem. 95% of the worlds desktops run some kind of Windows. Microsoft will not follow this open standard, and since they control the desktop, they control your email."
is perceived stress. ever come across a difficult coding problem that needs to be implemented asap, but you've become lost in it, perhaps for 2 days straight and come out the other end going "wow" at yourself?
Some people are like that when dealing with people, dealing with law, public speaking, managing teams, groups, or entire corporations. It's just not 'stress' in the way that many would imagine the stress of a responsibility for many people or millions of dollars.
IMHO completely dropping email as we have it now is the only way against spam. No matter what's been done so far has kept existing email infrastructure as legacy. A new extension on top of email might get some play, but it's all irrelevant while the same system is still able to be used for spam.
Drop email. Drop SMTP. Change the ports it uses. Change the entire system, and scrap what's gone before and start again. Make it PURPOSELY incompatible.
Unless of course you want to keep getting spam. If so, keep using email as it is.
>> I'd think that interesting too, maybe, but it's wrong. There are >> no air holes in the top of it.
> Wrong.
You must be the hundredth person I've come across online who looks at that picture and presumes the bottom of the imac is the top, because of the cooling holes. I don't get it. What's so hard to understand about a picture? OK I shouldn't get annoyed just because of what other people think but really, I wonder how much anyone is really THINKING about what they see. Are you all just taking a half second glance at an image and then seeing what you want to without making conscious thought? sheeeeesh!
A new virus, named W64.Shruggle.1318 by Symantec, is being 'tested' on AMD64 machines running 64-bit Windows. While it is not currently a danger to 64-bit Windows users, it does show that virus writers are looking toward the future. The exploitable software in questions is currently unreleased outside of beta
So... not only did SP2 suffer delay upon delay until its release, we now have to put up with the same delays for our windows viruses?
Some would be, yes. However throughout europe, especially parts of france, the odd unexploded WWII bomb still goes off after being buried more than 50 years in a field, by a road, under housing etc.
1. make linux distro+sw package so complicated only your team of tech support reps know how to get it to work. 2. charge a lot for support 3. profit!
You might have said that in jest, but there's some truth behind it. If you implement a new facility in your distro, let's call it Britix - then you know it, you train your techs to know it, and your company knows it inside out. Then you release it to the world and immediately you're the only people who know how to best use it, and what purposes its best suited for.
For a short time, your company are the experts on that facility. You pick up work from that, and before the next guys are up to speed, innovate a bit more, add new facilities in.
This, I see, would lead to specialisation in distros for certain markets. None of this WindowsXP for business, desktops, servers, medical, space, manufacturing, but instead specialist linux distros tailored for just the industry you service.
Just because you go into a linux service business does not mean you have to support ALL linux systems and run into spirals of madness therein.
Make your own. Make it specifically yours. Make it free to the world if you like, but also make it so you only do paid support for the system from people who have your exact defined distro.
You're in a service business, not a software business then. It doesn't matter if people copy your software, or improve on it, or spread it worldwide. You still provide services to your customers. They still pay you to maintain.
That';s the bit most of the big boys don't get. "The software is free! Free for anyone else to use! Free for all! Free and they can copy it!". True. But you the service company knows that your services are not free. Your time is not free, and you spend your time keeping your customers running smoothly and you earn from that.
What's better about a Linux service economy than a Win one - a service business based on proprietary software may come up against roadblocks. limitations in the software that their proprietary vendor does not address. Limitations that may make your clients go elsewhere, "switch" as it were.
With linux, you can implement that change. You can make the product you give away perform as they need, and keep supplying service from then on.
Linux - It's a service economy now guys. The only money to be made is in serving free software and in being the service provider known to be the best for a situation. Implement functions your clients need first, get paid first. TRUE market driven innovation.
(thank you this marketing rant was brought to you by 3 straight days awake and sixty coffees)
It's good to see benchmarks between processors in the same family, but is there anywhere that regularly tests CPUs across families? x86, PPC, Sparc, VIA etc. I'd like to see comparisons like that to see how various architectures strengths & weaknesses stack up
I want Mac OS's interface on Linux! I've done what I consider to be as good of a job as I can, but it's not the best knock-off in the world.
They should be concentrating on making quick & efficient UIs like the Amiga had, or the early Macs, not bloat upon bloat upon bloat.
Both the original mac and Amiga UI systems fit inside 512k RAM or less, leaving everything else for the App's functionality. When some of those early machines were expanded from 68000 CPUs to 68040s and 32MB of ram or more they flew faster than any 2 or 3GHz cpu in GUI feel. Nothing could outclass them
Didn't they lay of 50,000 over the past 5 years? So 50,000 american jobs leave. 18,000 jobs come back, but only 6,000 american? "Lift your chin up so I can punch you in the face."
First there was the dot.com bubble... then it burst...
now corporations are intent on seeing that movement continue. Watch for the new dot.com suck. First SCO making a side business of OS production and concentrating on making their own customers hate them, now Roxio going for an even bigger/quicker dive.
Next up, watch Dell decide to sell off their computer production business and go into making bathmats. or something.
Almost all security is simply a means of raising the cost of hacking it to a level above it's value.
You are completely correct, and I have implemented a cunning plan that has made the effort of hacking me not worth doing.
I have no life, no job, no financial prospects and no worth to my identity. I plan to soon get a criminal record and become a terror suspect. Eventually I will also return my internet connection to a 2400bps modem, and will be insanely secure, as there will be no worth in breaking my security
If all you're looking for is speed, fine... but RAID artrays are typically installed not just for performance, but redundancy/data protection.
RAID 0 may provide the former, but the loss of a single disk = bye bye data.
As opposed to having a single disk which, when it goes byebye preserves your data? I don't think so.
Raid 0 is no different to having a single disk for most practical purposes. If hardware fails, restore from the last night's backups. easy. Where's the problem?
From the statement in the article it really sounds like someone has an excess of corporatespeak.
"Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'"
translates to
"Those chips weren't selling cos they were too slow"
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It attempts to steal CD keys for some games.
This was part of my argument for the ridiculousness of a developer making an app delete a user's home directory when a pirated key is found.
1. user buys shareware. one of the honest 1%, if statistics can be believed.
2. user loses unique use of the shareware key to worm/keygen
3. shareware key spreads, and is labelled a pirate version
4. original user updates their shareware app, shareware app nukes their home folder.
> Who mentioned desktops?
The poster I replied to. From their message:
"One "little" problem. 95% of the worlds desktops run some kind of Windows. Microsoft will not follow this open standard, and since they control the desktop, they control your email."
This standard applies to mail servers.
Desktops are irrelevant here.
Not long after DVD Jon writes the chip emulator.
I'm figuring by October at the latest.
I managed to download & re-encode the mp3 to under 1/4 its size. It's mirrored here. Someone else help with the mirroring please.
is perceived stress. ever come across a difficult coding problem that needs to be implemented asap, but you've become lost in it, perhaps for 2 days straight and come out the other end going "wow" at yourself?
Some people are like that when dealing with people, dealing with law, public speaking, managing teams, groups, or entire corporations. It's just not 'stress' in the way that many would imagine the stress of a responsibility for many people or millions of dollars.
IMHO completely dropping email as we have it now is the only way against spam. No matter what's been done so far has kept existing email infrastructure as legacy. A new extension on top of email might get some play, but it's all irrelevant while the same system is still able to be used for spam.
Drop email. Drop SMTP. Change the ports it uses. Change the entire system, and scrap what's gone before and start again. Make it PURPOSELY incompatible.
Unless of course you want to keep getting spam. If so, keep using email as it is.
Liebermann has been selling 4.2GHz rigs with watercooling for a while now too.
They have P4 boxes overclocked to 4.2GHz and watercooled Athlon64 "4200+" boxes as well, for the AMD equivalent
>> I'd think that interesting too, maybe, but it's wrong. There are
>> no air holes in the top of it.
> Wrong.
You must be the hundredth person I've come across online who looks at that picture and presumes the bottom of the imac is the top, because of the cooling holes. I don't get it. What's so hard to understand about a picture? OK I shouldn't get annoyed just because of what other people think but really, I wonder how much anyone is really THINKING about what they see. Are you all just taking a half second glance at an image and then seeing what you want to without making conscious thought? sheeeeesh!
The guy who faked the pics admitted to it. Yesterday. They're photos of a LaCie LCD in a powerbook box.
A new virus, named W64.Shruggle.1318 by Symantec, is being 'tested' on AMD64 machines running 64-bit Windows. While it is not currently a danger to 64-bit Windows users, it does show that virus writers are looking toward the future. The exploitable software in questions is currently unreleased outside of beta
So... not only did SP2 suffer delay upon delay until its release, we now have to put up with the same delays for our windows viruses?
Some would be, yes. However throughout europe, especially parts of france, the odd unexploded WWII bomb still goes off after being buried more than 50 years in a field, by a road, under housing etc.
really like the idea that I can pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the latest news and sports scores in an instant.
I've been doing that for decades. l use a radio. It's free.
1. make linux distro+sw package so complicated only your team of tech support reps know how to get it to work.
2. charge a lot for support
3. profit!
You might have said that in jest, but there's some truth behind it. If you implement a new facility in your distro, let's call it Britix - then you know it, you train your techs to know it, and your company knows it inside out. Then you release it to the world and immediately you're the only people who know how to best use it, and what purposes its best suited for.
For a short time, your company are the experts on that facility. You pick up work from that, and before the next guys are up to speed, innovate a bit more, add new facilities in.
This, I see, would lead to specialisation in distros for certain markets. None of this WindowsXP for business, desktops, servers, medical, space, manufacturing, but instead specialist linux distros tailored for just the industry you service.
Linux is not Just One Big Thing.
Just because you go into a linux service business does not mean you have to support ALL linux systems and run into spirals of madness therein.
Make your own. Make it specifically yours. Make it free to the world if you like, but also make it so you only do paid support for the system from people who have your exact defined distro.
You're in a service business, not a software business then. It doesn't matter if people copy your software, or improve on it, or spread it worldwide. You still provide services to your customers. They still pay you to maintain.
That';s the bit most of the big boys don't get. "The software is free! Free for anyone else to use! Free for all! Free and they can copy it!". True. But you the service company knows that your services are not free. Your time is not free, and you spend your time keeping your customers running smoothly and you earn from that.
What's better about a Linux service economy than a Win one - a service business based on proprietary software may come up against roadblocks. limitations in the software that their proprietary vendor does not address. Limitations that may make your clients go elsewhere, "switch" as it were.
With linux, you can implement that change. You can make the product you give away perform as they need, and keep supplying service from then on.
Linux - It's a service economy now guys. The only money to be made is in serving free software and in being the service provider known to be the best for a situation. Implement functions your clients need first, get paid first. TRUE market driven innovation.
(thank you this marketing rant was brought to you by 3 straight days awake and sixty coffees)
It's good to see benchmarks between processors in the same family, but is there anywhere that regularly tests CPUs across families? x86, PPC, Sparc, VIA etc. I'd like to see comparisons like that to see how various architectures strengths & weaknesses stack up
Use the DMCA to... I don't know, scare them or something. Mention RIAA and MPAA to their ISPs too.
I want Mac OS's interface on Linux! I've done what I consider to be as good of a job as I can, but it's not the best knock-off in the world.
They should be concentrating on making quick & efficient UIs like the Amiga had, or the early Macs, not bloat upon bloat upon bloat.
Both the original mac and Amiga UI systems fit inside 512k RAM or less, leaving everything else for the App's functionality. When some of those early machines were expanded from 68000 CPUs to 68040s and 32MB of ram or more they flew faster than any 2 or 3GHz cpu in GUI feel. Nothing could outclass them
So why do we need this bloat?
Didn't they lay of 50,000 over the past 5 years? So 50,000 american jobs leave. 18,000 jobs come back, but only 6,000 american? "Lift your chin up so I can punch you in the face."
Was it 50,000 american jobs that were lost?
We all should be using png anyway. Easy fix.
Roxio commits corporate suicide. Film at 11...
First there was the dot.com bubble... then it burst...
now corporations are intent on seeing that movement continue. Watch for the new dot.com suck. First SCO making a side business of OS production and concentrating on making their own customers hate them, now Roxio going for an even bigger/quicker dive.
Next up, watch Dell decide to sell off their computer production business and go into making bathmats. or something.
I'm not really sure I want to be looking to make contact with aliens who are pointing FRICKEN LASERS at us.
Almost all security is simply a means of raising the cost of hacking it to a level above it's value.
You are completely correct, and I have implemented a cunning plan that has made the effort of hacking me not worth doing.
I have no life, no job, no financial prospects and no worth to my identity. I plan to soon get a criminal record and become a terror suspect. Eventually I will also return my internet connection to a 2400bps modem, and will be insanely secure, as there will be no worth in breaking my security
Take that, evil hackers of the world, TAKE THAT!
If all you're looking for is speed, fine... but RAID artrays are typically installed not just for performance, but redundancy/data protection.
RAID 0 may provide the former, but the loss of a single disk = bye bye data.
As opposed to having a single disk which, when it goes byebye preserves your data? I don't think so.
Raid 0 is no different to having a single disk for most practical purposes. If hardware fails, restore from the last night's backups. easy. Where's the problem?
From the statement in the article it really sounds like someone has an excess of corporatespeak.
"Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'"
translates to
"Those chips weren't selling cos they were too slow"