Rubbish. Cambridge has a very strong computer science department, for example.
Big McFucking Deal. The list of universities with "very strong computer science departments" that would, nevertheless, fail to elicit the description "most respected technical university" is volumous to say the least.
Just a list from the US would fill several megabytes.
The only future they see for Java is as a client in a client/server world where Sun makes all the servers. Um... Java runs great on AS/400s, System 390, RS/6000, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT and HPUX. Here's clue #1: Sun doesn't make all these servers.
They claim Java is a write-once-run-anywhere system, but they haven't worked very hard at getting other operating systems to run period. That's right, they haven't, but IBM, Microsoft, and HP have. What's your point again?
Sun is hedging their bets on the SunRay1, which is a Java thinclient, that will more than likely only work with Sun servers. Interesting. Let's see some actual information about the SunRay: "Sun Ray can run any kind of software, including Windows 98, Windows NT, Linux and Sun's own Solaris operating system." Wait a minute! It's not a Java thin client... you're just full of shit!
I stopped supporting Sun *long* ago... it's making me sick. Maybe if you took the nice pills the nice doctors give you, you'll get better and they'll let you out of the padded room.
Go to preferences and turn on the two "slashboxes" providing sidebars on OS/2. Now read them for a few days. You will see a steady stream of announcements about events, products and IBMs ongoing support of OS/2. Yes, Amigans, OS/2 is a shipping product with real users and new products and new OS releases.
Now ask yourself,"Why don't any of these news stories ever show up in regular slashdot rotation?"
The original poster is spot-on: the Amiga is a dead product with nothing to report. We'd all love to hear it when it or if it does actually do something but until then, how about a little equal time for other technologies that real nerds love?
As an OS/2 user, I am grateful for the slashboxes that are provided. The Amiga already gets more attention than it deserves. Stop whining.
A few months ago Brill's Content had an excellent article on how Microsoft has used access to Bill Gates as a "bribe" to journalists to gain the fawning press they've had. (I like Brill's Content: they actually edit what Jon Katz writes.:-)
Because Linux doesn't need a commercial following to keep doing what it does, there's no reason for Linus to take this manipulative approach. Hopefully, the "journalists" will stop bugging Linus for stupid sound bites and start bugging the likes of Bob Young. I think Mr. Young would be much more receptive, after all, Red Hat does have a commercial interest.
I listed several ways in white blacks have been denied upward mobility in our society (most of which were much much worse in the past).
Your rebuttal was to point out that whites face reverse discrimination in situations which can hardly be described as "upward", like when they move into the projects, or cruise neighborhoods looking to buy heroin.
Lame. BTW, the spelling flame was classic net.loser.
Many people have written here posts to the effect of "I'm white and I was born poor and I'm not whining."
Fine. Now please also mention which of the following burdens you also lived under:
Even if your family obtained the means to move to a better neighborhood, you may have been driven out by murderous, torch-wielding mobs in white hoods.
Many private institutions, critical to integrating into successful society, had policies barring you from joining whether or not you could afford it.
Many corporate decision makers had already decided that you were ineligable for high positions in their companies, regardless of whether or not you could perform the duties.
Law enforcement agencies had developed profiles stating that if someone like you were to achieve the trappings of material success, it was so likely to be through criminal means, that they should constantly harrass you.
There is a gross misrepresentation of digitital signatures. You can make all the CA certs you want claiming to be any number of well known CA's. The real CA's published public key is used to verify the user's cert, not it's name. Good luck guessing Verisign's private key. You're only hope is to hack the recipient of the email and replace Verisign's public key with the public key of your cert. (Note: I hope Microsoft's mail programs use PKC and not common names to verify certs. God help us!)
The idea of hiding a web server port amongst a bunch of trip-wire ports misses the fact that 80% of (corporate) cracking is internal. Trusted users don't have to port-scan to find your hidden port. Any what do you do if your traps go off? Take the server off line? Can you say "Denial of Service"? OpenSSL is free. Basic HTTP authentication is pretty secure over SSL. That would help me sleep at night...
The point about time-limited security is good, but (and not to be mean) who cares? Mr. Priestly cites an excellent example. Now cite one related to computers. Not very many good ones...
The author seems to be spiraling in on what those in the security biz call "enticement information." This is information that you don't have to give out that only makes cracker's jobs easier. For example, a telnet banner (and you should be using ssh!) that says "This is the MegaCorp Accounts Payable SAP server running on Windows NT 3.1 (never patched!). Authorized use only!" should be replaced with "This system is for authorized use only. All activity is monitored."
God help him if someone runs a remote root exploit against the Win98 box! Wait a minute.. there aren't any! Same thing as Linux with all the services disabled.
I'm such an idiot sometimes. Of course, you're right AC. In fact, you can make a system really secure by pulling out the CPU(s). Like, one time, I, like, had a like, 486 box with Linux, and I like, pulled out the 486 and crushed it into powder and no one could hack into it. I'm so 31337. You, on the other hand, have probably never cracked anything tougher than a peanut.
Seriously, the worst of Win98's services can be disabled, but most people don't have any idea how. Worse yet, the ease with which you can take down a Win9x box with DOS attacks makes them the worst possible choice for a gateway machine.
Hey, if you want to build your house out of straw, piggy, go ahead. Just don't whine to me when the B1g b4D W01F takes out your system.
This "cost of IP addresses" argument for NAT is bullshit. Circuit-level and application-level proxies such as squid and Socks also hide IP space. They also provide security.
NAT helps if there isn't a "socksified" client or an existing proxy. Otherwise, you are saving yourself a lot of potential IP headache...
Win98's NAT may work great and be easy to use, but remember that this probably means that you are using the world's least secure operating system as your firewall.
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Big McFucking Deal. The list of universities with "very strong computer science departments" that would, nevertheless, fail to elicit the description "most respected technical university" is volumous to say the least.
Just a list from the US would fill several megabytes.
I'm am now writing "Why don't you suck up to Bill Gates some more, I'm sure he could spare $100 more than I can."
I'm am placing it in an envelope...
I am applying a stamp.
I am feeling good.
- The only future they see for Java is as a client in a client/server world where Sun makes all the servers. Um... Java runs great on AS/400s, System 390, RS/6000, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT and HPUX. Here's clue #1: Sun doesn't make all these servers.
- They claim Java is a write-once-run-anywhere system, but they haven't worked very hard at getting other operating systems to run period. That's right, they haven't, but IBM, Microsoft, and HP have. What's your point again?
- Sun is hedging their bets on the SunRay1, which is a Java thinclient, that will more than likely only work with Sun servers. Interesting. Let's see some actual information about the SunRay: "Sun Ray can run any kind of software, including Windows 98, Windows NT, Linux and Sun's own Solaris operating system." Wait a minute! It's not a Java thin client... you're just full of shit!
- I stopped supporting Sun *long* ago... it's making me sick. Maybe if you took the nice pills the nice doctors give you, you'll get better and they'll let you out of the padded room.
BTW, who marked this guy's post "Insightful"?Go to preferences and turn on the two "slashboxes" providing sidebars on OS/2. Now read them for a few days. You will see a steady stream of announcements about events, products and IBMs ongoing support of OS/2. Yes, Amigans, OS/2 is a shipping product with real users and new products and new OS releases.
Now ask yourself,"Why don't any of these news stories ever show up in regular slashdot rotation?"
The original poster is spot-on: the Amiga is a dead product with nothing to report. We'd all love to hear it when it or if it does actually do something but until then, how about a little equal time for other technologies that real nerds love?
As an OS/2 user, I am grateful for the slashboxes that are provided. The Amiga already gets more attention than it deserves. Stop whining.
Because Linux doesn't need a commercial following to keep doing what it does, there's no reason for Linus to take this manipulative approach. Hopefully, the "journalists" will stop bugging Linus for stupid sound bites and start bugging the likes of Bob Young. I think Mr. Young would be much more receptive, after all, Red Hat does have a commercial interest.
I listed several ways in white blacks have been denied upward mobility in our society (most of which were much much worse in the past).
Your rebuttal was to point out that whites face reverse discrimination in situations which can hardly be described as "upward", like when they move into the projects, or cruise neighborhoods looking to buy heroin.
Lame. BTW, the spelling flame was classic net.loser.
Fine. Now please also mention which of the following burdens you also lived under:
- Even if your family obtained the means to move to a better neighborhood, you may have been driven out by murderous, torch-wielding mobs in white hoods.
- Many private institutions, critical to integrating into successful society, had policies barring you from joining whether or not you could afford it.
- Many corporate decision makers had already decided that you were ineligable for high positions in their companies, regardless of whether or not you could perform the duties.
- Law enforcement agencies had developed profiles stating that if someone like you were to achieve the trappings of material success, it was so likely to be through criminal means, that they should constantly harrass you.
C'mon, whitey! Share your tales of oppression!It does a lot more thank just virtual desktops!
- God help him if someone runs a remote root exploit against the Win98 box! Wait a minute.. there aren't any! Same thing as Linux with all the services disabled.
I'm such an idiot sometimes. Of course, you're right AC. In fact, you can make a system really secure by pulling out the CPU(s). Like, one time, I, like, had a like, 486 box with Linux, and I like, pulled out the 486 and crushed it into powder and no one could hack into it. I'm so 31337. You, on the other hand, have probably never cracked anything tougher than a peanut.Seriously, the worst of Win98's services can be disabled, but most people don't have any idea how. Worse yet, the ease with which you can take down a Win9x box with DOS attacks makes them the worst possible choice for a gateway machine.
Hey, if you want to build your house out of straw, piggy, go ahead. Just don't whine to me when the B1g b4D W01F takes out your system.
NAT helps if there isn't a "socksified" client or an existing proxy. Otherwise, you are saving yourself a lot of potential IP headache...
Caveat emptor!