The issue there is that the server has to process it, not the client. So you could use JavaScript, which is also meant for this but works on the client side. (And woe unto those browsers that don't support it.)
Well, I don't doubt that it works. But I've actually used it. The whole concept of an ID file when it's merely going to hash something and send that to a central server (probably to combat the eight-character password foolishness), and trying to check someone else's mail unless you set up your own specific location at each and every computer you need to use, and the horrible menu system, and the fact that it's a horribly large and complex piece of software built on Java so it takes a Vista-ready system to run it at all--and on Linux, it requires 3GB of space on the hard drive.
On Linux, Lotus is not even an option. On Windows, it may be the only piece of software with all the required features, but even so, only masochists will willingly use it.
The RedHat support contract probably limits transfers and precludes sublicensing. The GPL, on the other hand, requires that you use the GPL in all derivative works and whenever you redistribute a GPL work. A support contract refers to a service; the GPL, to a text. They're largely incomparable.
The software and source code is indeed being given away for free. But that alone doesn't give anyone redistribution rights. You get redistribution rights exactly on the condition that you obey the licensing agreement.
More likely, we need an external force that acts as a brake on governments and societies. One that's willing to get its hands dirty, to act first, to do horrible things without asking for justification, not waiting until situations get out of control before intervening. But such a force would become a dictator unless it showed inhuman restraint.
Which suggests a workaround: Set the computers to June rather than December.
There are issues with this, of course--mainly, if lunar gravity is significant, then calculating it requires knowledge of its current position, which can be calculated based on the date (presumably). In which case you need to find an equivalent lunar period that doesn't fall on New Year's.
Still, it should be possible to update the code to handle the date issue, without much trouble.
Perhaps it is a trap, but you can't deny that Microsoft has been acting very strangely lately.
In the early days of Microsoft, they took care of the hackers and hobbyists, and gained market share against Apple partly for that. Two years ago, the situation was reversed: Visual Studio was expensive, and Apple offered cheaper development tools. Now Visual Studio Express is available for free, and is sufficient for most tasks.
For years, now, since the Halloween documents of 1998, Microsoft has been aware and wary of open source. In 1998, the issue was less pressing than it is today; Microsoft has responded by becoming more open with its newer file formats and starting its shared source initiative.
And now they're allying themselves with a popular, professional Linux distributor.
Things are changing at Microsoft. The bottom line is money, and that's going to be achieved through control of their projects. However, that control need not be so tight as it has been. And they don't need to be the originator of the product in order to have control--they don't even need to buy out the originator.
In short, Microsoft is changing rapidly and becoming more flexible. They're prepared to consider what they need to do to survive, and will do so. If that means not being the Great Devil, then so be it.
It should be simple enough to set up your upgrade system not to clobber everything in sight. Binary ATi/nVidia drivers and ndiswrappers are common enough that you should check for them at the least.
No doubt there are hundreds or thousands of such checks that could be run to make everyone's upgrade absolutely painless, but these two are quite important and common.
I could wait an eternity for everything to compile. I mean, worst case, I start it in the morning, pause it at night so my computer doesn't keep me awake, and restart the next morning.
However, editing config files requires my attention, and most of the time I didn't even need to touch the default files. I still had to review hundreds of files.
If you have the patience for it, go ahead. But it is quite possible to create a system that's friendly to hacking but not so painful to maintain and upgrade.
If the drivers are built in, there's not much you can do about it, as far as I know. If they're modules, then eth0 should be the card whose driver was loaded first, eth1 loaded second, and so forth--so you can specify which is which by putting the modules in modprobe.conf in the desired order.
Or you could use a more complex network script that checks the MAC address of each card and goes by that.
It's not a new authority, but there used to be restrictions on the President's ability to use it. Before, the President could only order troops to move within a state for any duties outside federal property with the permission of that state's legislature, or if the legislature could not convene, that of the government.
Now Bush can order troops to do anything at all without the consent of local authorities, and not get impeached for it. And you can believe that governors would be calling for his head if he declared martial law in their states.
Since when can you overwrite a used sector on a CD-RW? It'll end up costing you a bit less than 1p per song at 15p per CD-RW, since you can fit maybe 20 songs on each. The smaller available mp3 players can hold 2GB; that's about four thousand songs. Being generous, that's sixteen hundred CDs at 25 songs per CD. Do you want to sit there for three hours changing CDs in your CD burner? Do you want to spend a further $240 on your music collection in blank CDs?
And the larger iPods have a capacity of 30GB, not 2GB.
And so far, the covenant not to sue will only extend to hardware manufacturers and the like. Hell might be experiencing a cold front, but it's not nearly frozen.
That's the cost of claiming conformance to the OpenGL standard--I'm not sure how legal that is--or using OpenGL trademarks; or for closed-source implementations by hardware developers, or for implementations by hardware developers for closed-source platforms.
Check the SGI OpenGL FAQ for more information. It's ambiguous as to whether an open source driver project would require the fee; however, since the fees are associated closely with closed-source development, I'm guessing that there would be no additional charge.
The idiots that expose their renderfarms directly to the Internet deserve what they get.
For people on workstations using Maya or something similar, it's a serious problem. The article suggests that a document viewer (web browser or the like) could be a vector for the exploit. If that's true, then this is a serious problem. However, such an exploit (a malicious web page or the like) is far from obvious.
All in all, I'm not certain that this is a pressing issue, especially considering the limited scope of the vulnerability.
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Or you could use Server-Side Includes, which are meant for this and don't depend on a specific browser:
/MSIE/"-->
<!--#if expr="$http_user_agent =
<a href="http://getfirefox.com">Get Firefox</a>
<!--#endif-->
The issue there is that the server has to process it, not the client. So you could use JavaScript, which is also meant for this but works on the client side. (And woe unto those browsers that don't support it.)
That's inhumane by any standards.
It is easy to setup and it works.
Well, I don't doubt that it works. But I've actually used it. The whole concept of an ID file when it's merely going to hash something and send that to a central server (probably to combat the eight-character password foolishness), and trying to check someone else's mail unless you set up your own specific location at each and every computer you need to use, and the horrible menu system, and the fact that it's a horribly large and complex piece of software built on Java so it takes a Vista-ready system to run it at all--and on Linux, it requires 3GB of space on the hard drive.
On Linux, Lotus is not even an option. On Windows, it may be the only piece of software with all the required features, but even so, only masochists will willingly use it.
The RedHat support contract probably limits transfers and precludes sublicensing. The GPL, on the other hand, requires that you use the GPL in all derivative works and whenever you redistribute a GPL work. A support contract refers to a service; the GPL, to a text. They're largely incomparable.
The software and source code is indeed being given away for free. But that alone doesn't give anyone redistribution rights. You get redistribution rights exactly on the condition that you obey the licensing agreement.
Perhaps.
More likely, we need an external force that acts as a brake on governments and societies. One that's willing to get its hands dirty, to act first, to do horrible things without asking for justification, not waiting until situations get out of control before intervening. But such a force would become a dictator unless it showed inhuman restraint.
Perhaps the Borg?
Which suggests a workaround: Set the computers to June rather than December.
There are issues with this, of course--mainly, if lunar gravity is significant, then calculating it requires knowledge of its current position, which can be calculated based on the date (presumably). In which case you need to find an equivalent lunar period that doesn't fall on New Year's.
Still, it should be possible to update the code to handle the date issue, without much trouble.
Unless it's a five-year-old.
Perhaps it is a trap, but you can't deny that Microsoft has been acting very strangely lately.
In the early days of Microsoft, they took care of the hackers and hobbyists, and gained market share against Apple partly for that. Two years ago, the situation was reversed: Visual Studio was expensive, and Apple offered cheaper development tools. Now Visual Studio Express is available for free, and is sufficient for most tasks.
For years, now, since the Halloween documents of 1998, Microsoft has been aware and wary of open source. In 1998, the issue was less pressing than it is today; Microsoft has responded by becoming more open with its newer file formats and starting its shared source initiative.
And now they're allying themselves with a popular, professional Linux distributor.
Things are changing at Microsoft. The bottom line is money, and that's going to be achieved through control of their projects. However, that control need not be so tight as it has been. And they don't need to be the originator of the product in order to have control--they don't even need to buy out the originator.
In short, Microsoft is changing rapidly and becoming more flexible. They're prepared to consider what they need to do to survive, and will do so. If that means not being the Great Devil, then so be it.
I hear about Irina occasionally. How has she been? I haven't heard from her in, well, years.
It should be simple enough to set up your upgrade system not to clobber everything in sight. Binary ATi/nVidia drivers and ndiswrappers are common enough that you should check for them at the least.
No doubt there are hundreds or thousands of such checks that could be run to make everyone's upgrade absolutely painless, but these two are quite important and common.
I could wait an eternity for everything to compile. I mean, worst case, I start it in the morning, pause it at night so my computer doesn't keep me awake, and restart the next morning.
However, editing config files requires my attention, and most of the time I didn't even need to touch the default files. I still had to review hundreds of files.
If you have the patience for it, go ahead. But it is quite possible to create a system that's friendly to hacking but not so painful to maintain and upgrade.
If the drivers are built in, there's not much you can do about it, as far as I know. If they're modules, then eth0 should be the card whose driver was loaded first, eth1 loaded second, and so forth--so you can specify which is which by putting the modules in modprobe.conf in the desired order.
Or you could use a more complex network script that checks the MAC address of each card and goes by that.
It's not a new authority, but there used to be restrictions on the President's ability to use it. Before, the President could only order troops to move within a state for any duties outside federal property with the permission of that state's legislature, or if the legislature could not convene, that of the government.
Now Bush can order troops to do anything at all without the consent of local authorities, and not get impeached for it. And you can believe that governors would be calling for his head if he declared martial law in their states.
It only takes one nerd to defeat the CSS encryption on a DVD and upload it to a torrent site.
Does this mean that DVDs aid infringement and should be banned?
Yes, there is. It's called Plan 9.
Since when can you overwrite a used sector on a CD-RW? It'll end up costing you a bit less than 1p per song at 15p per CD-RW, since you can fit maybe 20 songs on each. The smaller available mp3 players can hold 2GB; that's about four thousand songs. Being generous, that's sixteen hundred CDs at 25 songs per CD. Do you want to sit there for three hours changing CDs in your CD burner? Do you want to spend a further $240 on your music collection in blank CDs?
And the larger iPods have a capacity of 30GB, not 2GB.
How many home users filter IRC traffic?
Simple solution, of course, to IRC filtering is to use SSL.
And if you give the employees different amounts of work to do, you shouldn't complain when they finish in different amounts of time.
And so far, the covenant not to sue will only extend to hardware manufacturers and the like. Hell might be experiencing a cold front, but it's not nearly frozen.
That's the cost of claiming conformance to the OpenGL standard--I'm not sure how legal that is--or using OpenGL trademarks; or for closed-source implementations by hardware developers, or for implementations by hardware developers for closed-source platforms.
Check the SGI OpenGL FAQ for more information. It's ambiguous as to whether an open source driver project would require the fee; however, since the fees are associated closely with closed-source development, I'm guessing that there would be no additional charge.
The idiots that expose their renderfarms directly to the Internet deserve what they get.
For people on workstations using Maya or something similar, it's a serious problem. The article suggests that a document viewer (web browser or the like) could be a vector for the exploit. If that's true, then this is a serious problem. However, such an exploit (a malicious web page or the like) is far from obvious.
All in all, I'm not certain that this is a pressing issue, especially considering the limited scope of the vulnerability.
This is TOTALLY bogus. I don't know a single hacker who even took the HURD seriously, or paid it any attention whatsoever.
Murder suspects shouldn't have to explain the reason for having cash on their person.
Sounds a bit different in that light, no?