I'm really wondering how accurate these numbers are. Most servers that will be running linux will come with no OS installed. How are these counted? I'd assume Microsoft doesn't count them at all if no windows lisence is purchaced, and most other places probably count them as linux, but I can't be sure. Also, I really have to disagree with the article that says costs of migrating to linux on a server platform may be high because of adding a new OS to the mix. Any self respecting unix admin is running linux at home. I'm a unix admin at a shop that just started adding linux servers, and I feel MUCH more comfortable on the linux systems than on the hp-ux or solaris systems because I, as well as most of the other admins, run linux at home and have been able to play with every setting we can get out hands on in an environment where no one is going to ream us out for breaking somthing. I can't quite afford to get a HP-PA or ultrasparc system to do the same with the competition. Even the older guys who have been there forever agree that linux is easier to install and configure than hp-ux. Don't even get me started on the windows servers... we only have a few but they take up more than thier fair share of my time, and a text command is always easier then wading through menu after menu.
Depleted uranium is still uranium, and still highly radioactive. It is the u238 that is left over after the enrichment process to get reactor grade fuels. It still has a radition level 60% of natural uranium, so it is by no means safe. It seems like people try to make it sound like its not even uranium at all, or that everything harmful has been taken out, which is not true at all. WHO(UN) link
...compared with the open source community, which he called "all over the map," when it came to addressing vulnerabilities in Linux, Ballmer said.
So does he mean that the open source community has people all over the map searching for and fixing vulnerabilities, or that the open source community looking at the whole metaphoric "map" of code looking for vulnerabilities and fixing them?
"one nation under god" has no comma, it is one statement. Thats somthing that really ticks me off, no one actually knows how to correctly recite the pledge. It is meant more to display unity than a judeo/christian belief. I don't particularly like the inclusion of god at all in the official pledge of a secular goverment, but people really do misinterperet it.
the anti-war folks can't like that he's a decorated veteran even considering his later protests.
I really hope i'm not the only one that found that statement to be very wrong. I am very opposed to the war, but i do have a lot of respect for our veterans, so long as they weren't lunatics that loved killing everything in sight. I blame LBJ for vietnam, not the poor grunt that was drafted to go fight there. Just because someone is anti war does NOT mean they have anything againt the individual soldiers, especially if the soldier himself is anti-war. Kerry was actually there and put his ass on the line, making him so much more respectable than the average protester that would have done anything to get out of going. Bush was never actually in a war, but has no problem sending our soldiers out to be killed. Kerry may has a deeper understanding of what war actually is.
After a little research I found that download.com didn't have it and there are precious few reviews of this revolutionary software online, but that it was endorsed by McAfee/
I don't know if it was intended that way by the writer, but I took the "revolutionary" comment to be sarcasim. I really woulden't call this a rave review, it was an honest question about how these things work. The submitter admits he may be seeing a placebo effect, as commented on by the one poster talking about progress bars versus the busy hourglass.
This is exactly what I was thinking of. It would even be effective if it was possible to log into the modem and turn the reverse firewall off. Anyone who owns a zombie PC would have no idea how to do that, and therefore never would. People who actually know what they are doing would never have a spam zombie, and it would be a snap for them to disable the firewall.
If I understand correctly, partitioning using the 2.6 kernel could cause some problems. Simple solution- use knoppix running a 2.4 kernel to partition before you install, then just install onto your pre-made partitions. Knoppix comes with qtparted, a nice graphical partition utility that has been really valuable for me, since I tri-boot and am always trying out new distros and re-allocating space between them. So the point is, I have used it quite a bit, and it has worked flawlessly for me. As a note, i'v been using Knoppix 3.3, but I'd assume 3.4 would work fine also, assuming you boot the 2.4 kernel option. You've gotta love knoppix, it makes so many things easier/possible.
MSFT is paying a dividend now, though a tiny one. Also, for quite a long time they have been buying back huge amounts of stock, almost $6 billion in 2001, and ~4.5 billion in 02 and 03, and are on track for the same this year. They are still making a lot more money than they are paying out, but that is beside the point because no one can force them to continue to buy back stock if they hit financial troubles. Most tech companies sell stock on the open market and dilute thier shareholders' value to raise cash, and there is nothing illegal or against the rules about that. Cisco, which certainly wasn't a poor company at the time sold $3 billion in stock from 2000-2001, and no one complained.
I see everyone bashing this guy for being an idiot, and i'm not saying you are wrong, but I'm sure everyone who has done much inside the case has had a few fuckups here and there, and we learn from them. Fortunately, the only real mistake i'v made so was was back in 1997 or so. The BIOS chip in my box went bad. I was so excited to finally have the replacement so I could my computer back after having no internet access while the damn thing was being shipped for a week that i actually put it in backwards. After firing it up and hearing the bad bios beeps that I'd been getting all along, I was really dissapointed, and immediately smelled somthing burning. After burning my fingers pulling the chip back out, I realized my mistake and put it back in the right way. Incredibly I saved it in time, and the box actually still works. I now use that box just to play with the hardware and get a feel for removing/replacing/examining parts, so if i do bust somthing, its just on a worthless pentium 75 that I don't actually use anymore. Of corse most of the sockets and everything are different now, and the processor doesn't even have a fan, just a heatsink, but it helps to have somthing you woulden't care if you broke to experiment on. I don't know if this guy has an excuse since he appears to be a professional tech writer, but we were all noobs once. "Don't poke around inside your case unless you know what you are doing" doesn't fly, because the people who are saying this didn't know what they were doing once. Learn from your mistakes, and this guy's.
Price is a big factor to some people. We are poor college students. She isn't very interested in computers and doesn't want to spend more than $800, plus she isn't planning on doing anything with it that actually needs any computing power. Mostly just e-mail, spreadsheets, word processing and the like. If the (3 or 4 year old?) K6 is doing the job now with only mild complaints about speed, I really think the pentium M isn't worth the price to her. The cheapest Pentium M complete systems i usually see are in the $1200 range, which is way more than she wants to spend, making Athlon/Celeron the obvious choice. More speed for the price is always welcome though, in case some day she does decide she wants to play unreal with me.
...although $4000 sounds a little steep. Most hackers are probably self trained, as in $0. Every corporate network better have someone involved in its design and maintainance that has some knowledge of hacking though, or else it will be a sitting duck. I had a professor that was a consultant who hacked companies to discover thier vulnerabilities. Obviously nothing malicious, and he told them about everything he gained access to and fixed it. Sounds like one hell of a fun job.
One more point: I thought it was an interesting oddity that the Prescott architecture actually IMPROVED preforamance by a decent margin in a Celeron, while it caused a slight decline in the P4. It shows how the preformance gain from cache really is logarathmic, more then offsetting the preformance loss of the extra pipeline stages. Intel just made an interesting statement about the P4 extreme edition.
Disclaimer: I'm the submitter. I AM NOT an intel fanboy. If I was going to buy a budget processor today it would DEFIATELY be an Athlon. I think a new processor core is always somthing that should be discussed on slashdot. Also, Intel is moving in the right direction by not screwing people who buy Dell and nothing else, or don't know better and think AMD is crap. My girlfriend wants to buy a laptop, and when I told her to get an AMD she kinda sneered because it isn't the intel she is used to. Funny thing is that her desktop is an AMD K6-II, but she doesn't even know it. Like it or not the vast majority of people who don't know better have NO IDEA that the celeron sucks comapred to the Athlon, and that the intel chip is more expensive. This is at least a break to everyone out there who would buy a celeron over an Athlon just because of the vision that intel is the "trusted name brand." Think of it like toothpaste or somthing similar. Do you read up on toothpaste before you go to the store and buy it? I seriously doubt it, but I guarantee there is a dentist somewhere who is seriously pissed off about Crest's poor quality. Most people just want a computer that works, and they buy Intel, because that's what they had before, especially in the budget PC market, just like probably >90% of you just buy the same brand of toothpaste you always get. Woulden't it be nice if they improved Crest with really not much reason to do so, since you're going to buy it anyway? So consider this new celeron as less of a screwing of budget PC buyers, who generally have no clue what they are getting. People who actually follow processor preformance can probably scrape together the extra $100 to get an Athlon64. I personally would still definately go with AMD, but I woulden't have to get in a fight with my GF anymore if she insists on getting a Dell with a celeron in it. I would actually almost consider myself an AMD fanboy, but I found this interesting, and see it as intel throwing to bone to the ignorant.
There has been a _lot_ of censorship on the American media in this second Iraq war.
This is not a flame, as I believe you and am really truely interested in what you think is being censored. Its kind of hard to tell what you are not being told... Also, I really have to agree with you that Americans only worry about themselves, being related to a bunch of extreme right asshats that talk about how "it will take 30 years of war to make the world a safe place" (actual quote from both my father and brother-in-law) and act like this is a Good Thing. I also find it kind of ironic how they all get upset when someone they know gets shipped overseas.
Anyway, I am american, and am really interested in what you think is being censored. Parent poster, or anyone else please reply.
You are very correct that Moore is better than his conservative counterparts. O'Reily's "no spin zone" makes me laugh my ass off, because he is probably the most biased man on the news. I don't think most conservative media personalities recieve that much criticism simply because no one who disagrees can stand listening long enough to pick what they say apart, and expose it for the biased garbage most of it is. Moore at least admits he is biased. Limbaugh does too, which gives me a heck of a lot more respect for him then O'Reily. That man makes my blood boil.
I could not aggree more. Making new laws forbidding things is very rarely the best course or action. All of you would be up in arms if there was a law against somthing you supported. Just because somthing is not popular does not mean it should be illegal. Open source software is not popular among the propriatary gang, and they ARE attacking the legality of the GPL. If one type of software that you incidently dont have to pay [money] for is banned, it may add fuel to that fire. There are two things that can get a law passed: corporations with lots of money(lobbyists) and mass public support. Banning free software has the support of lobbyists, and banning spyware has the support of the public. Either are possible, but neither should be done. If you actually are concerned about spyware anyone with half a brain can download ad-aware or spyware search and destroy and run it. Most people in fact do not care, or are oblivious to the fact that they have spyware, which is thier own fault. If it does pass its just a constitutionally questionable law to protect the stupid, and I for one think stupidity is protected too much. If they want to fight the problem in a much smarter way, they can just force spyware containing products to make it clear that they contain spyware. Its already a requirement to disclose ingrediants and nutritional information of food, why not force the contents of software to be clearly labeled?
How is this Intel's problem? I woulden't blame intel if this happened to me, only the OEM. Intel is obviously doing this for some kind of profit, and as has been stated by a bunch of people I agree that it is so an upgrade has to be purchased when you need more power, instead of just overclocking which Intel gets no profit from. A 3.6ghz is quite a bit more pricy than a 3.4ghz, and more than likely it woulden't be much of a problem to overclock that extra 200mhz. This is about profit, not about protecting consumers. This will probably blow up in thier face, and will likely be changed with the next generation of chipsets.
From the article: The UK's Daily Telegraph, which broke the story, speculates that Microsoft - which delivers millions of security updates for its software over the Net - is one of the firms on BTG's hit list.
Since Microsoft is involved, I see 3 possible outcomes to this:
1) Microsoft challenges the patent and wins
2) Microsoft buys BTG and does not enforce the patent. Everyone lives happily ever after.
3) Microsoft buys BTG and milks the patents for all they are worth. Everyone looses.
If microsoft is forced to pay royalties, I have no doubt they will try to buy out BTG, and since BTG is not a software company, they will probaly not face many regulatory roadblocks. From the examples of patches and update downloads, possibly this only applies to automatic updates to things like windows or virus scanners. If MS does end up owning the patent, they will probly use it to put Symantic and co out of buisness, because they could then offer thier new antivirus product we've been hearing about at a lower price, and take a chunk of whatever symantic/mcafee still sells. Hopefully, this stupid patent will just be thrown out, and that whole mess can be avoided.
Supermount is not included in the vanilla kernel. If anyone is compiling a kernel for Mandrake, or any other distro that gives errors when trying to mount non-root filesystems, you need to apply the supermount patch. Just in case the parent poster's link doesn't work, I got mine here, (don't let the.cx scare you) and it definately works. There is no 2.6.7 patch on that site as of yet, but i used the 2.6.6 patch on the 2.6.7 source, only applying the supermount part of the patch (this patch does more then just supermount) and it compiled and worked fine. Another point to note, I am using Mandrake 10, and coulden't get my filesystems to mount even with supermount because I didn't select the loopback module under block devices. Make sure you select this as a module if you are using supermount.
There are Linux equivalents, more or less, but she doesn't want to learn them
I'm betting by the time Munich is actually ready to complete thier migration, WINE will be good enough to handle all the apps they have with no problem. Currently it is already good enough to handle most things you cant give up that have no linux equivelant.
Isn't Ohio also the state that checks the timestamps on your Ohio Turnpike ticket and cites you for speeding if you get to your exit "too soon"?
No, I drive on the ohio turnpike at least once a week sometimes averaging over 80, and the limit is 65. There are some areas that are really nasty speed traps, as some cities seem to have a thing for making a 50mph road 25 as soon as it enters the city limits and not posting it very clearly, but its probably like that everywhere.
Its not supported. Its a realtek 8180 cheap piece of junk. The drivers are stand-alone I believe, and not a kernel module. The driver from realtek's website is partly binary, and doesn't have a good reputation for working well.
How many people with ligit copies are really going to patch thier system? I recently round out that my parents win98 computer had NEVER been patched when my dad complained that IE had been hijacked. Average users just don't apply patches. Also, as pointed out earlier, most uninformed users are running the windows version that came pre-installed from the OEM, and is therefore legit, while most pirated copies are being run by people "in the know" who can keep thier computer clean. The average user who has an infected computer doesn't know the difference between win95 and XP, so they would never pirate it, but they won't patch it either. So the point is that a zombie computer is in no way indicative that the OS was pirated.
Because unless you can convince the government that being an "inconsiderate and stupid" computer user has actually physically harmed another user this won't happen. Now driving is a whole different story.
Its against the law to do lots of things that don't physically harm anyone else. I can't smoke weed, I get a huge fine if i get pulled over and am not wearing my seatbelt etc... I must say though that if I was forced to take some kind of dumbass class on how to secure my computer I'd be a little pissed at what a waste of time it is. It would certainly be a good idea to teach things like this at around a middle school level, but most computer teachers in middle schools probably don't even know how to secure thier own computers, muchless teach anyone else how to.
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I'm really wondering how accurate these numbers are. Most servers that will be running linux will come with no OS installed. How are these counted? I'd assume Microsoft doesn't count them at all if no windows lisence is purchaced, and most other places probably count them as linux, but I can't be sure. Also, I really have to disagree with the article that says costs of migrating to linux on a server platform may be high because of adding a new OS to the mix. Any self respecting unix admin is running linux at home. I'm a unix admin at a shop that just started adding linux servers, and I feel MUCH more comfortable on the linux systems than on the hp-ux or solaris systems because I, as well as most of the other admins, run linux at home and have been able to play with every setting we can get out hands on in an environment where no one is going to ream us out for breaking somthing. I can't quite afford to get a HP-PA or ultrasparc system to do the same with the competition. Even the older guys who have been there forever agree that linux is easier to install and configure than hp-ux. Don't even get me started on the windows servers... we only have a few but they take up more than thier fair share of my time, and a text command is always easier then wading through menu after menu.
Depleted uranium is still uranium, and still highly radioactive. It is the u238 that is left over after the enrichment process to get reactor grade fuels. It still has a radition level 60% of natural uranium, so it is by no means safe. It seems like people try to make it sound like its not even uranium at all, or that everything harmful has been taken out, which is not true at all. WHO(UN) link
...compared with the open source community, which he called "all over the map," when it came to addressing vulnerabilities in Linux, Ballmer said.
So does he mean that the open source community has people all over the map searching for and fixing vulnerabilities, or that the open source community looking at the whole metaphoric "map" of code looking for vulnerabilities and fixing them?
"one nation under god" has no comma, it is one statement. Thats somthing that really ticks me off, no one actually knows how to correctly recite the pledge. It is meant more to display unity than a judeo/christian belief. I don't particularly like the inclusion of god at all in the official pledge of a secular goverment, but people really do misinterperet it.
the anti-war folks can't like that he's a decorated veteran even considering his later protests.
I really hope i'm not the only one that found that statement to be very wrong. I am very opposed to the war, but i do have a lot of respect for our veterans, so long as they weren't lunatics that loved killing everything in sight. I blame LBJ for vietnam, not the poor grunt that was drafted to go fight there. Just because someone is anti war does NOT mean they have anything againt the individual soldiers, especially if the soldier himself is anti-war. Kerry was actually there and put his ass on the line, making him so much more respectable than the average protester that would have done anything to get out of going. Bush was never actually in a war, but has no problem sending our soldiers out to be killed. Kerry may has a deeper understanding of what war actually is.
After a little research I found that download.com didn't have it and there are precious few reviews of this revolutionary software online, but that it was endorsed by McAfee/
I don't know if it was intended that way by the writer, but I took the "revolutionary" comment to be sarcasim. I really woulden't call this a rave review, it was an honest question about how these things work. The submitter admits he may be seeing a placebo effect, as commented on by the one poster talking about progress bars versus the busy hourglass.
This is exactly what I was thinking of. It would even be effective if it was possible to log into the modem and turn the reverse firewall off. Anyone who owns a zombie PC would have no idea how to do that, and therefore never would. People who actually know what they are doing would never have a spam zombie, and it would be a snap for them to disable the firewall.
If I understand correctly, partitioning using the 2.6 kernel could cause some problems. Simple solution- use knoppix running a 2.4 kernel to partition before you install, then just install onto your pre-made partitions. Knoppix comes with qtparted, a nice graphical partition utility that has been really valuable for me, since I tri-boot and am always trying out new distros and re-allocating space between them. So the point is, I have used it quite a bit, and it has worked flawlessly for me. As a note, i'v been using Knoppix 3.3, but I'd assume 3.4 would work fine also, assuming you boot the 2.4 kernel option. You've gotta love knoppix, it makes so many things easier/possible.
MSFT is paying a dividend now, though a tiny one. Also, for quite a long time they have been buying back huge amounts of stock, almost $6 billion in 2001, and ~4.5 billion in 02 and 03, and are on track for the same this year. They are still making a lot more money than they are paying out, but that is beside the point because no one can force them to continue to buy back stock if they hit financial troubles. Most tech companies sell stock on the open market and dilute thier shareholders' value to raise cash, and there is nothing illegal or against the rules about that. Cisco, which certainly wasn't a poor company at the time sold $3 billion in stock from 2000-2001, and no one complained.
I see everyone bashing this guy for being an idiot, and i'm not saying you are wrong, but I'm sure everyone who has done much inside the case has had a few fuckups here and there, and we learn from them. Fortunately, the only real mistake i'v made so was was back in 1997 or so. The BIOS chip in my box went bad. I was so excited to finally have the replacement so I could my computer back after having no internet access while the damn thing was being shipped for a week that i actually put it in backwards. After firing it up and hearing the bad bios beeps that I'd been getting all along, I was really dissapointed, and immediately smelled somthing burning. After burning my fingers pulling the chip back out, I realized my mistake and put it back in the right way. Incredibly I saved it in time, and the box actually still works. I now use that box just to play with the hardware and get a feel for removing/replacing/examining parts, so if i do bust somthing, its just on a worthless pentium 75 that I don't actually use anymore. Of corse most of the sockets and everything are different now, and the processor doesn't even have a fan, just a heatsink, but it helps to have somthing you woulden't care if you broke to experiment on. I don't know if this guy has an excuse since he appears to be a professional tech writer, but we were all noobs once. "Don't poke around inside your case unless you know what you are doing" doesn't fly, because the people who are saying this didn't know what they were doing once. Learn from your mistakes, and this guy's.
Price is a big factor to some people. We are poor college students. She isn't very interested in computers and doesn't want to spend more than $800, plus she isn't planning on doing anything with it that actually needs any computing power. Mostly just e-mail, spreadsheets, word processing and the like. If the (3 or 4 year old?) K6 is doing the job now with only mild complaints about speed, I really think the pentium M isn't worth the price to her. The cheapest Pentium M complete systems i usually see are in the $1200 range, which is way more than she wants to spend, making Athlon/Celeron the obvious choice. More speed for the price is always welcome though, in case some day she does decide she wants to play unreal with me.
...although $4000 sounds a little steep. Most hackers are probably self trained, as in $0. Every corporate network better have someone involved in its design and maintainance that has some knowledge of hacking though, or else it will be a sitting duck. I had a professor that was a consultant who hacked companies to discover thier vulnerabilities. Obviously nothing malicious, and he told them about everything he gained access to and fixed it. Sounds like one hell of a fun job.
One more point: I thought it was an interesting oddity that the Prescott architecture actually IMPROVED preforamance by a decent margin in a Celeron, while it caused a slight decline in the P4. It shows how the preformance gain from cache really is logarathmic, more then offsetting the preformance loss of the extra pipeline stages. Intel just made an interesting statement about the P4 extreme edition.
Disclaimer: I'm the submitter. I AM NOT an intel fanboy. If I was going to buy a budget processor today it would DEFIATELY be an Athlon. I think a new processor core is always somthing that should be discussed on slashdot. Also, Intel is moving in the right direction by not screwing people who buy Dell and nothing else, or don't know better and think AMD is crap. My girlfriend wants to buy a laptop, and when I told her to get an AMD she kinda sneered because it isn't the intel she is used to. Funny thing is that her desktop is an AMD K6-II, but she doesn't even know it. Like it or not the vast majority of people who don't know better have NO IDEA that the celeron sucks comapred to the Athlon, and that the intel chip is more expensive. This is at least a break to everyone out there who would buy a celeron over an Athlon just because of the vision that intel is the "trusted name brand." Think of it like toothpaste or somthing similar. Do you read up on toothpaste before you go to the store and buy it? I seriously doubt it, but I guarantee there is a dentist somewhere who is seriously pissed off about Crest's poor quality. Most people just want a computer that works, and they buy Intel, because that's what they had before, especially in the budget PC market, just like probably >90% of you just buy the same brand of toothpaste you always get. Woulden't it be nice if they improved Crest with really not much reason to do so, since you're going to buy it anyway? So consider this new celeron as less of a screwing of budget PC buyers, who generally have no clue what they are getting. People who actually follow processor preformance can probably scrape together the extra $100 to get an Athlon64. I personally would still definately go with AMD, but I woulden't have to get in a fight with my GF anymore if she insists on getting a Dell with a celeron in it. I would actually almost consider myself an AMD fanboy, but I found this interesting, and see it as intel throwing to bone to the ignorant.
There has been a _lot_ of censorship on the American media in this second Iraq war.
This is not a flame, as I believe you and am really truely interested in what you think is being censored. Its kind of hard to tell what you are not being told... Also, I really have to agree with you that Americans only worry about themselves, being related to a bunch of extreme right asshats that talk about how "it will take 30 years of war to make the world a safe place" (actual quote from both my father and brother-in-law) and act like this is a Good Thing. I also find it kind of ironic how they all get upset when someone they know gets shipped overseas.
Anyway, I am american, and am really interested in what you think is being censored. Parent poster, or anyone else please reply.
You are very correct that Moore is better than his conservative counterparts. O'Reily's "no spin zone" makes me laugh my ass off, because he is probably the most biased man on the news. I don't think most conservative media personalities recieve that much criticism simply because no one who disagrees can stand listening long enough to pick what they say apart, and expose it for the biased garbage most of it is. Moore at least admits he is biased. Limbaugh does too, which gives me a heck of a lot more respect for him then O'Reily. That man makes my blood boil.
I could not aggree more. Making new laws forbidding things is very rarely the best course or action. All of you would be up in arms if there was a law against somthing you supported. Just because somthing is not popular does not mean it should be illegal. Open source software is not popular among the propriatary gang, and they ARE attacking the legality of the GPL. If one type of software that you incidently dont have to pay [money] for is banned, it may add fuel to that fire. There are two things that can get a law passed: corporations with lots of money(lobbyists) and mass public support. Banning free software has the support of lobbyists, and banning spyware has the support of the public. Either are possible, but neither should be done. If you actually are concerned about spyware anyone with half a brain can download ad-aware or spyware search and destroy and run it. Most people in fact do not care, or are oblivious to the fact that they have spyware, which is thier own fault. If it does pass its just a constitutionally questionable law to protect the stupid, and I for one think stupidity is protected too much. If they want to fight the problem in a much smarter way, they can just force spyware containing products to make it clear that they contain spyware. Its already a requirement to disclose ingrediants and nutritional information of food, why not force the contents of software to be clearly labeled?
How is this Intel's problem? I woulden't blame intel if this happened to me, only the OEM. Intel is obviously doing this for some kind of profit, and as has been stated by a bunch of people I agree that it is so an upgrade has to be purchased when you need more power, instead of just overclocking which Intel gets no profit from. A 3.6ghz is quite a bit more pricy than a 3.4ghz, and more than likely it woulden't be much of a problem to overclock that extra 200mhz. This is about profit, not about protecting consumers. This will probably blow up in thier face, and will likely be changed with the next generation of chipsets.
From the article: The UK's Daily Telegraph, which broke the story, speculates that Microsoft - which delivers millions of security updates for its software over the Net - is one of the firms on BTG's hit list.
Since Microsoft is involved, I see 3 possible outcomes to this:
1) Microsoft challenges the patent and wins
2) Microsoft buys BTG and does not enforce the patent. Everyone lives happily ever after.
3) Microsoft buys BTG and milks the patents for all they are worth. Everyone looses.
If microsoft is forced to pay royalties, I have no doubt they will try to buy out BTG, and since BTG is not a software company, they will probaly not face many regulatory roadblocks. From the examples of patches and update downloads, possibly this only applies to automatic updates to things like windows or virus scanners. If MS does end up owning the patent, they will probly use it to put Symantic and co out of buisness, because they could then offer thier new antivirus product we've been hearing about at a lower price, and take a chunk of whatever symantic/mcafee still sells. Hopefully, this stupid patent will just be thrown out, and that whole mess can be avoided.
Supermount is not included in the vanilla kernel. If anyone is compiling a kernel for Mandrake, or any other distro that gives errors when trying to mount non-root filesystems, you need to apply the supermount patch. Just in case the parent poster's link doesn't work, I got mine here, (don't let the .cx scare you) and it definately works. There is no 2.6.7 patch on that site as of yet, but i used the 2.6.6 patch on the 2.6.7 source, only applying the supermount part of the patch (this patch does more then just supermount) and it compiled and worked fine. Another point to note, I am using Mandrake 10, and coulden't get my filesystems to mount even with supermount because I didn't select the loopback module under block devices. Make sure you select this as a module if you are using supermount.
There are Linux equivalents, more or less, but she doesn't want to learn them
I'm betting by the time Munich is actually ready to complete thier migration, WINE will be good enough to handle all the apps they have with no problem. Currently it is already good enough to handle most things you cant give up that have no linux equivelant.
Isn't Ohio also the state that checks the timestamps on your Ohio Turnpike ticket and cites you for speeding if you get to your exit "too soon"?
No, I drive on the ohio turnpike at least once a week sometimes averaging over 80, and the limit is 65. There are some areas that are really nasty speed traps, as some cities seem to have a thing for making a 50mph road 25 as soon as it enters the city limits and not posting it very clearly, but its probably like that everywhere.
Its not supported. Its a realtek 8180 cheap piece of junk. The drivers are stand-alone I believe, and not a kernel module. The driver from realtek's website is partly binary, and doesn't have a good reputation for working well.
How many people with ligit copies are really going to patch thier system? I recently round out that my parents win98 computer had NEVER been patched when my dad complained that IE had been hijacked. Average users just don't apply patches. Also, as pointed out earlier, most uninformed users are running the windows version that came pre-installed from the OEM, and is therefore legit, while most pirated copies are being run by people "in the know" who can keep thier computer clean. The average user who has an infected computer doesn't know the difference between win95 and XP, so they would never pirate it, but they won't patch it either. So the point is that a zombie computer is in no way indicative that the OS was pirated.
Because unless you can convince the government that being an "inconsiderate and stupid" computer user has actually physically harmed another user this won't happen. Now driving is a whole different story.
Its against the law to do lots of things that don't physically harm anyone else. I can't smoke weed, I get a huge fine if i get pulled over and am not wearing my seatbelt etc... I must say though that if I was forced to take some kind of dumbass class on how to secure my computer I'd be a little pissed at what a waste of time it is. It would certainly be a good idea to teach things like this at around a middle school level, but most computer teachers in middle schools probably don't even know how to secure thier own computers, muchless teach anyone else how to.