That gave them the ability to put LINUX into the enterprise as it was easier to deploy than a "roll your own solution."
Given that Compaq was bought by HP, would it not be logical to assume that HP would simply keep doing this (although maybe they wouldn't broadcast it as loudly as Compaq did)?
.... is it as simple as going to add and remove programs to uninstall the two components for WGA or does it "break" something when you try to uninstall it? Or worse, does it leave anything behind?
IIRC, Apple laptops didn't explode with the same frequency that Dells did for whatever reason. That leads me to believe that the Apple recall was more for optics than anything else.
They are NOT making their entire offering DRM free. If they did, then I would care. This is simply being done to make them look like "leaders" in this industry.
Face it. The satellite-radio business is one that won't last. The idea of paying for commercial-free radio service is NOT going to generate enough customers to cover the cost of operating the business. Period! How many customers of XM or Sirrus are trial customers who got satellite-radio free for a year when they bought a new car? Lots I would suspect. How many of these people are really going to re-new their contracts? Not many I suspect.
This is simply a last ditch effort to keep themselves afloat. Nothing more. They'll be dead shortly. But at least Howard Stern would have made a pile of money.
.... as it seems to balance privacy (the ISP's don't share personal info, or at least that's what they say) with the MAFIAA's need to stamp out piracy. And it's not as if the ISP's don't get a benefit from this as well as (insert your file sharing client here) traffic drops and users don't get slowdowns as soon as the kiddies come home from school since they're not sucking up all of the bandwidth in a network segment downloading MP3's and pron.
That's why They've begun to issue a remote access product called the MobiKEY. It is a USB token with a smart card that creates an SSL tunnel with 2 factor authentication (some sort of PKI based scheme) to your work computer. The company that makes this has a managed service called MobiNET that helps to broker the connection so that even Joe Sixpack can connect anywhere there is a net connection. The beauty of this is that all the corporate data stays behind the co there's no data to lose. If you do lose the token, the human that has it has four attempts to guess the password before the SIM fries itself. So assuming your password isn't "password" or something stupid like that, it's secure.
... As several times over the last couple of years we've had AntiVir flag the odd.DLL as being infected. The upshot is that every time we've had this issue, we've e-mailed them and they've fixed their def files within a day or two. But the downside is that we spend the next week to 10 days telling customers that anything that AntiVir finds in our products is a false alarm.
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.... That is truly defective by design.
Compaq had LINUX support as early as 1999. In fact Compaq had an alliance with Red Hat:
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http://www.chguy.net/news/jun99/press_compaq.html
And some models of their servers came pre-installed with Red Hat:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
That gave them the ability to put LINUX into the enterprise as it was easier to deploy than a "roll your own solution."
Given that Compaq was bought by HP, would it not be logical to assume that HP would simply keep doing this (although maybe they wouldn't broadcast it as loudly as Compaq did)?
.... is it as simple as going to add and remove programs to uninstall the two components for WGA or does it "break" something when you try to uninstall it? Or worse, does it leave anything behind?
.... as they'd have to deal with this all of the time.
- A plane is about to land. Cancel or Allow?
- A plane is about to take off. Cancel or Allow?
- A transport truck is about to crash. Cancel or Allow?
You'd get sick of having to click Cancel or Allow all of the time too.
Oh wait.
You must be new here.
.... but wasn't this just fixed?
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http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta/entry/the_in_telnetd_
Apple came out with a patch that addresses this issue:
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http://news.com.com/New+Apple+patch+plugs+Wi-Fi+h
The article doesn't mention if the machine he used in the demo had this patch. And if so, that may imply that the patch has holes.
IIRC, Apple laptops didn't explode with the same frequency that Dells did for whatever reason. That leads me to believe that the Apple recall was more for optics than anything else.
.... as there have been others:
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C
http://www.techspot.com/news/23809-sanyo-faces-13
I guess this proves that it's not just Sony that puts the "boom" into laptops.
.... That you can read here: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/187051
Note this quote from the above story:
"This is a company which apparently does not like to have to conform with antitrust decisions," said EU Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd.
Next they'll be saying that the sky is blue and fish swim. Thanks for stating the obvious.
....clicking Cancel or Allow so freaking often.
.... Made Rogers cable do this a while ago. The decision from the CRTC (Canada's version of the FCC) is here:
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http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/eng/Decisions/1999/
I'm pretty sure they forced Bell Canada to do the same thing as well.
.... More detail here:
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http://news.com.com/Black+Hat+talk+on+RFID+access
They are NOT making their entire offering DRM free. If they did, then I would care. This is simply being done to make them look like "leaders" in this industry.
... need online pr0n too.
..... A few chairs will go flying in Redmond over this.
Face it. The satellite-radio business is one that won't last. The idea of paying for commercial-free radio service is NOT going to generate enough customers to cover the cost of operating the business. Period! How many customers of XM or Sirrus are trial customers who got satellite-radio free for a year when they bought a new car? Lots I would suspect. How many of these people are really going to re-new their contracts? Not many I suspect.
This is simply a last ditch effort to keep themselves afloat. Nothing more. They'll be dead shortly. But at least Howard Stern would have made a pile of money.
..... Just look at what's happening to the guys who do DRM for the MAFIAA. Face it, ANYTHING can be cracked if you try hard enough.
... On how to deal with this is below:
http://www.reganfamily.ca/dst/
This is likely more useful than the original article. It has resources for everything from Blackberries to UNIX.
.... What about having a fully functional subnotebook like this Fujitsu:
s bean.do?series=P7120
http://store.shopfujitsu.com/ca/EcomCA/buildserie
Plus by using off the shelf stuff in it, they lower the cost. Works for me.
.... as it seems to balance privacy (the ISP's don't share personal info, or at least that's what they say) with the MAFIAA's need to stamp out piracy. And it's not as if the ISP's don't get a benefit from this as well as (insert your file sharing client here) traffic drops and users don't get slowdowns as soon as the kiddies come home from school since they're not sucking up all of the bandwidth in a network segment downloading MP3's and pron.
.... Is it not time for the media companies to drop this silly DRM crap? Seriously!
That's why They've begun to issue a remote access product called the MobiKEY. It is a USB token with a smart card that creates an SSL tunnel with 2 factor authentication (some sort of PKI based scheme) to your work computer. The company that makes this has a managed service called MobiNET that helps to broker the connection so that even Joe Sixpack can connect anywhere there is a net connection. The beauty of this is that all the corporate data stays behind the co there's no data to lose. If you do lose the token, the human that has it has four attempts to guess the password before the SIM fries itself. So assuming your password isn't "password" or something stupid like that, it's secure.
... As several times over the last couple of years we've had AntiVir flag the odd .DLL as being infected. The upshot is that every time we've had this issue, we've e-mailed them and they've fixed their def files within a day or two. But the downside is that we spend the next week to 10 days telling customers that anything that AntiVir finds in our products is a false alarm.
Perhaps it's switchers like him that makes Bill Gates react like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmOmdYPKJQ&eurl=
Face it Bill, there's no place to go but DOWN for you.