If this isn't a load of hot air, this is a milestone in OSS software. A major unix vendor open sourcing their code would do several things.
1) It would lend more credence against the SCO argument. "It's my unix and I'll GPL if I want to..."
The bad thing is that I'm gonna be looking at/. tomorrow for the retraction. Either that, or it's Sun's CEO tempting us again, to jerk it away at the last minute.
It says that good passwords are a good defense.
We know this.
No more default last 4 digits of SSN as a password.
Make them use something more secure! And disable telnet, for goodness sakes.
Inconvieience (sp?) your students in order to secure your system. It's all fun and games until someone uses a rootkit to play with GPAs.
1) Since you're so dumb, we're gonna show you how to configure your BIOS to boot off the CD.
2) Even though the installer is self-explanitory, we're going to include, not one, but TWO pages of screenshots and mindless blather so we can rake in advertising $$$.
3) Linux sucks because every program doesn't have a setup.exe. You actually have to think. God forbid we take the 5 minutes to install apt to shoot everyone of our "dependency hell" arguments out of the water.
4) Linux is good! We promise! Ignore all the negative stuff in this article!
(This is not meant to be funny. In fact, I think it's quite insightful.)
Verizon began taking steps yesterday to better protect New York City's 911 emergency line after a data error by an employee brought down the system in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island for about two hours on Friday night, city and Verizon officials said.
The emergency system broke down about 7:20 p.m. after a Verizon engineer who was making service changes to a bank's telephone numbers in Brooklyn inadvertently included numbers that are used to carry 911 calls, city and telephone company officials said. The numbers were close in sequence, the officials said.
The 911 calls then ended up being rerouted to the bank's phone system, and callers heard a busy signal. City and Verizon officials said that while the backup system in place for 911 was functioning properly, it failed to pick up the calls because it was designed to catch a technical error, not a human error that would be interpreted as simply a change of instruction.
Daniel Diaz Zapata, a Verizon spokesman, said the telephone company would now require a second person to double-check any entry of data that could affect the 911 system, and said the company planned a thorough review of its procedures that would be documented in a report to the city within a few days.
"We determined that a human error resulted in the accidental rerouting of phone calls during a procedure to upgrade service for a corporate client," Mr. Zapata said. "We have immediately altered our processes to ensure this type of situation does not reoccur. We have assured the city that we took immediate steps to make sure this doesn't happen again."
Citing privacy concerns, Mr. Zapata declined to identify the Verizon engineer, except to say that he was a veteran of the company. Mr. Zapata said it was unlikely that disciplinary action would be taken against him.
Police and fire officials said yesterday that they had no reports of injuries during the 911 failure. Fire officials said that about 60 firefighters responded to a major fire, at 3301 Foster Avenue in Brooklyn, which was called in at 8:49 p.m. by someone using a fire alarm box on the street. There were no injuries in the fire.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's deputy commissioner for public information, said the department immediately adopted emergency procedures, like requiring e officers on patrol to turn on their flashing lights so people could find them easily and increasing staffing at precinct station houses to answer phone calls. But he said there was no reported increase in crime.
"This didn't present an opportunity for the criminally minded - like the blackout did - because probably most people were unaware that it was out of service," he said.
However, several City Council members expressed anger that the 911 system could have been so easily disabled, and called for creating a more effective backup procedure.
"It's an emergency wakeup call," said Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., the chairman of the Public Safety Committee, who plans to hold a hearing about the incident. "We don't have an adequate backup system for 911, which is more important than ever as we fight the war against terrorism."
Gino P. Menchini, the commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, said city officials were working with Verizon to ensure that the emergency system's numbers were clearly identified, and that its software and equipment were protected from similar human errors.
But Mr. Menchini emphasized that the emergency system already had many built-in safeguards, such as the ability to route 911 calls through either of two central offices and their 911 answering centers. "The bottom line is, 911 works very well, and it's worked very well for a long time," Mr. Menchini said.
Several emergency services experts agreed yesterday with Mr. Menchini, saying that New York 911 system compared favorably with those in other large cities and that an error like the one made by Verizon could not necessaril
First of all, it's OpenOffice.org, not Open Office (trademark issues).
Secondly, even though I am a participant on the Marketing list for OOo, I must say that the disk space comparison between OOo and MSO is unfair. MSO comes with fonts + clipart, which OOo lacks. Maybe SO vs. MSO would've been more fair. (we want our products to win through honesty, not FUD).
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If this isn't a load of hot air, this is a milestone in OSS software. A major unix vendor open sourcing their code would do several things.
/. tomorrow for the retraction. Either that, or it's Sun's CEO tempting us again, to jerk it away at the last minute.
1) It would lend more credence against the SCO argument. "It's my unix and I'll GPL if I want to..."
The bad thing is that I'm gonna be looking at
Wait a second. In Free America You MegaByte the songs? Hm.
1) This is just the mascot for OOOEdu, not OOo.
2) It was a childs drawing, who won a competition.
I think it's quite cute.
I'm one of the poor saps who goes "how bad can it be" and clicks on it.
Damn slashdot trolls.
I'm no insurance salesman, but this doesn't sound very practical.
I mean, how much does the average lawsuit cost? Like a million dollars?
$1,000 X $1,000 == $30,000 worth of insurance.
Might as well buy MS if you're gonna pay that.
1867!!
http://www.hormel.com/brands/brandview3.asp?id=2
I like it fried on a sandwich with honey mustard.
It says that good passwords are a good defense.
We know this.
No more default last 4 digits of SSN as a password.
Make them use something more secure! And disable telnet, for goodness sakes.
Inconvieience (sp?) your students in order to secure your system. It's all fun and games until someone uses a rootkit to play with GPAs.
1) Since you're so dumb, we're gonna show you how to configure your BIOS to boot off the CD. 2) Even though the installer is self-explanitory, we're going to include, not one, but TWO pages of screenshots and mindless blather so we can rake in advertising $$$. 3) Linux sucks because every program doesn't have a setup.exe. You actually have to think. God forbid we take the 5 minutes to install apt to shoot everyone of our "dependency hell" arguments out of the water. 4) Linux is good! We promise! Ignore all the negative stuff in this article! (This is not meant to be funny. In fact, I think it's quite insightful.)
But do they run linux?
Is not a new thing.
Hey, and if you're hungry, eat your bandwidth!
COMPUTERS sue YOU!
How can they sue file sharers in Canada? I thought they had a media tax to make it legal to share files?
but I'm too smart.
Verizon began taking steps yesterday to better protect New York City's 911 emergency line after a data error by an employee brought down the system in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island for about two hours on Friday night, city and Verizon officials said.
The emergency system broke down about 7:20 p.m. after a Verizon engineer who was making service changes to a bank's telephone numbers in Brooklyn inadvertently included numbers that are used to carry 911 calls, city and telephone company officials said. The numbers were close in sequence, the officials said.
The 911 calls then ended up being rerouted to the bank's phone system, and callers heard a busy signal. City and Verizon officials said that while the backup system in place for 911 was functioning properly, it failed to pick up the calls because it was designed to catch a technical error, not a human error that would be interpreted as simply a change of instruction.
Daniel Diaz Zapata, a Verizon spokesman, said the telephone company would now require a second person to double-check any entry of data that could affect the 911 system, and said the company planned a thorough review of its procedures that would be documented in a report to the city within a few days.
"We determined that a human error resulted in the accidental rerouting of phone calls during a procedure to upgrade service for a corporate client," Mr. Zapata said. "We have immediately altered our processes to ensure this type of situation does not reoccur. We have assured the city that we took immediate steps to make sure this doesn't happen again."
Citing privacy concerns, Mr. Zapata declined to identify the Verizon engineer, except to say that he was a veteran of the company. Mr. Zapata said it was unlikely that disciplinary action would be taken against him.
Police and fire officials said yesterday that they had no reports of injuries during the 911 failure. Fire officials said that about 60 firefighters responded to a major fire, at 3301 Foster Avenue in Brooklyn, which was called in at 8:49 p.m. by someone using a fire alarm box on the street. There were no injuries in the fire.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's deputy commissioner for public information, said the department immediately adopted emergency procedures, like requiring e officers on patrol to turn on their flashing lights so people could find them easily and increasing staffing at precinct station houses to answer phone calls. But he said there was no reported increase in crime.
"This didn't present an opportunity for the criminally minded - like the blackout did - because probably most people were unaware that it was out of service," he said.
However, several City Council members expressed anger that the 911 system could have been so easily disabled, and called for creating a more effective backup procedure.
"It's an emergency wakeup call," said Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., the chairman of the Public Safety Committee, who plans to hold a hearing about the incident. "We don't have an adequate backup system for 911, which is more important than ever as we fight the war against terrorism."
Gino P. Menchini, the commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, said city officials were working with Verizon to ensure that the emergency system's numbers were clearly identified, and that its software and equipment were protected from similar human errors.
But Mr. Menchini emphasized that the emergency system already had many built-in safeguards, such as the ability to route 911 calls through either of two central offices and their 911 answering centers. "The bottom line is, 911 works very well, and it's worked very well for a long time," Mr. Menchini said.
Several emergency services experts agreed yesterday with Mr. Menchini, saying that New York 911 system compared favorably with those in other large cities and that an error like the one made by Verizon could not necessaril
What? There is no spoon? What...
WHOA! The moon just turned into a square for a surreal second then went back to spherical... freeky (/cheepmatrixreference)
What? The noBEL prize... wait... no
Wait.. is that singer? Is this a grammy... wait... no
What... it's an Abel award. What is that? An award you get when your brother kills you (/biblical reference).
Ok, so I'm the dork. I was talking about the /. article, you were talking about the NF article.
But when a products' name is its URL, it seems sacreligious not to link it.
First of all, it's OpenOffice.org, not Open Office (trademark issues).
Secondly, even though I am a participant on the Marketing list for OOo, I must say that the disk space comparison between OOo and MSO is unfair. MSO comes with fonts + clipart, which OOo lacks. Maybe SO vs. MSO would've been more fair. (we want our products to win through honesty, not FUD).
There's only one link, ya dork.
I bet you think the moon landing actually happened, too.
(FYI, insmod is staff at oldos)
You insensitive clod...
I was wondering why my entire month's worth of b/w had been taken up in one day. Also, I made some mad jack from google. :)
On a side note, damn, I've been meaning to un-BMP those screenies, for, eh, about 1 year. lol.
But for TODAY ONLY, I'm licensing it out to you for just $699.
Paypal it to me.
In reality, please do send me some jack -- my bandwidth bill is gonna be painful. I accept donations at jason@slscanada.com.
Sorry the links on my download page were bad *blush*. All bugs have been fixed now.
Here
Go to Windows 32 bit Downloads....