I'm kind of surprised that this doesn't seem to have impacted their stock, not even a little bit. I guess people are waiting on their earnings, expected today. The best press release Corel could hope for at this point would be 'Cowpland Vaporises' or 'Cowpland falls off of a cliff' or something of that nature......
spielberg has actually been make some decent film in the last several years - let's hope he doesn't poison this kubrick piece by trying to sneak Grover's voice in it or some other muppet trip....
If you think about it, the only thing this "script kiddy" did, in the big picture, to your network was make it stronger. Sure, he made you work hard for a weekend, but, if you're network was weak enough to go down from this in the first place, it was going to happen eventually. And now, I'm sure, you got the network back up, and at sufficient enough strength to withstand the same kind of attack in the future.
That is true, and is what I pointed out to the client - 'you may be in a bit of a huff from this happening, but you are better from it.'
In this particular case I was brought in as a consultant by a nonprofit organization, so I didn't charge my usual rates. What really ticked me off was law enforcement's unwillingness to help a non-corporate entity solely because of a lack of sufficient financial damage. That's not what they're about - making money - but they were significantly crippled operationaly, and needy people were hurt by it. As a side note, another aspect that pissed me off about the episode is why it happened: an older gentleman that does most of their tech stuff thought he would give linux a try as their file server in a windows environment and was delighted that he was able to get it configured and working by himself without much pain.... well, he simply had no idea that the red hat installation had opened up ports he just didn't need (or what a port is for that matter) and that by default it is pretty freaking insecure after installation. So he got a bad impression of linux. I explained that NT was flawed by a factor more, but it ticked me off a bit. Open bsd and linuxppc seem to have the right idea in having most services basically shut down until someone comes along and enables them. Mandrake, I've noticed, has a security level setup as part of their install - I hope to see this kind of thing become more of a standard....
I spend a week unfucking and securing a network that a script kiddy got a hold of and the fbi's response is basically 'we don't get involved in anything where less than $40k damage happened.' What's the recourse? Getting someones dial up account cancelled by kerking around with their isp? Whoopty doo......
How succesful has appealing to netizens for help with the gore200 web site been? How many non-gore staffers are currently involved and what unforseen challenges have running the web site this what posed?
I'm really digging this laptop. Got mandrake 7.0 up at linux expo and thought i'd try it out - quite nice on this laptop. Only a couple problems. The modem is a winmodem, so I'll have to replace that. For some reason, when I connect a monitor to it x won't display on the second monitor. Anyone know why this is? Haven't really started looking into why yet. Had to run sndconfig to get sound up - the soundconfig utility that comes with mandrake didn't pick up on the neomagic. Otherwise, it's great. Oh, there is one more thing - the thing has 2 pixels that are always red. Called sony and they say that's standard and wouldn't do an exchange for less than 10 percent of the display being hosed! Not really a big deal. This is the first time I've had a dual boot machine, so I've been messing with wine - very hip. This model has a dvd, so I guess I'll start nosing around for dvd on linux stuff. anyone got any clues? i saw there was a booth at expo in.org pavillion, but never really got a chance to talk to those people.
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do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot? i could really care less. but what the fuck do you think? like you said - they own the shit and can do whatever they want with it. i would think that you'd be grateful to VA for not linux.commifying slashdot.
That will definitely be something to check out in San Fran when they transfer ownership and do whatever it is they're going to do to it. I picture an exploratorium on lsd with a bar. How have other clubs integrated technology into the environment to make it fun for hacker/tech types?
Yeah, nice little browser. Speedy, renders attractively. The no plug in thing kind of sucks. I'm curious what would make it display a happy face though - nothing - not even www.w3.org - is getting anything besides a frown. Waaaaah.
Nice to see this solid build (it rocks - check it out!) come out right as Shaver is stepping down as project leader. Any word on who his replacement will be?
One thing to keep in mind is that 90% of new artists fail, and that they do not get lucrative contracts because they are so risky. The few who do succeed make up for the rest. There's no 'making up for' about it - failed deals make a great write off for labels. What I'd be interested in seeing is how many bands that sign a deal and get and advance actually make it through the production process to get a release out. I'd bet, just on observation, that something like 20% of the recording deals in the last 10 years have failed before release. I don't know the stats, but of the successful artists out there, the ones that have come away strongest, financially, are the ones who were shrewd when getting their publishing deals together. Like Michael Jackson - (who owns some percentage of the Beales music now) - he had mega hits in the 80's that he (I believe) has principal publishing on, but think of the early seventies with the Jackson 5 - those kids didn't make shit for their efforts besides unit sales - it was the Motown publishing machine that garnered performance royalties - and still does today.
one thing for sure is that corel is getting in front of peoples faces. yesterday i was at best buy compusa and frys (i'm not proud of it but it's true) and corel was front and center at eye level with their slick looking packaging at each place. lots of print advertising too. i wonder what the numbers are like on sales and how many desktop joe's really are using linux for the first time since corel hit the shelves.
I think you'll need 8.6, or a real (not newworld) rom, which only works from a small selection of machines. Aha. I got some new set of errors last night off 8.5 (forget exactly what - in mac os at the moment) - so 8.6, eh? Shoot, I just downloaded the upgrade for that off apples site, I suppose I'll need the cd - maybe someone I know has it. 9.0 should work though... the CD's not bootable? Nope, no system folder to boot from, BUT -this is from a GM that a friend that works for apple brought over. I'm going to go ahead and buy it - still running 8.6 on my macos side and should upgrade anyway. Thanks again- I'll get it going, by cracky! The only bummer about this is that at home I'm locked down to 1 ip address dues to the pipe50 router being thus restricted, but I suppose I could use IP Masq on the linux side to get the mac-on-linux deal on the network. That could be interesting.
Didn't know any better. Was so impressed with Dos 3.2 and felt that applesoft should be part of every gentle human's life that I used locksmith 5.0 and gave it to several of my friends for free. They had trs-80's, so it didn't mean much to them, but I broke the law. Should I make annual payments? Air Guitar! Drow dow bau brauoom
Went to check mac-on-linux out with an OS9 cd last night on my linuxppc box, it complained about the lack of a system folder (the OS9 cd isn't bootable), so I'll check it out this evening with an 8.5 CD. It sounds great! It's a wonder I haven't heard of this before - there was much talk about something called sheepshaver a while back, but haven't heard much about it lately...
This doesn't really address what you're talking about, but listening to the engineering briefing, a guy just asked about where the mac os fits/will fit in, and it was stated that code morphing could and possibly would be developed that would allow the chip to handle mac instruction sets. so, i guess this means the same thing for sparc, arm, alpha, etc.. that's what i want to see. screw emulators, i want to see it apps running side by side that are meant for different architectures. vmware for macintosh? haven't seen that yet - does it exist?
I downloaded the corel draw trial version for macintosh, and it's I liked it - not enough to get me away from using illustrator and photoshop, but still pretty cool. On windows, i primarily use the gimp for graphics these days (i forget where i got this from, but some guy ported it), but that isn't often as i hate working in windows. Hey Gimp folks, are you listening? Port to mac, port to mac! And hey quark people- port to linux, port linux! If the publishing apps were as rockin' on linux as they are on mac, i would probably forget about booting into mac os and just hang with linuxppc when i'm at home.
The AC's are validating Mr. Katz's point of view in this very discussion. I usually ride with my threshold set low - I think some AC posts are quite good, but the gross anonymous flaming is just chickencrap. Too noisy, crank it back up...
That penguin isn't inflatable - it is made of foam rubber. I think that bundling Civ:CTP with their deluxe distro (as well as wordperfect) wasn't such a bad move either.
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I'm kind of surprised that this doesn't seem to have impacted their stock, not even a little bit. I guess people are waiting on their earnings, expected today. The best press release Corel could hope for at this point would be 'Cowpland Vaporises' or 'Cowpland falls off of a cliff' or something of that nature......
spielberg has actually been make some decent film in the last several years - let's hope he doesn't poison this kubrick piece by trying to sneak Grover's voice in it or some other muppet trip....
If you think about it, the only thing this "script kiddy" did, in the big picture, to your network was make it stronger. Sure, he made you work hard for a weekend, but, if you're network was weak enough to go down from this in the first place, it was going to happen eventually. And now, I'm sure, you got the network back up, and at sufficient enough strength to withstand the same kind of attack in the future.
That is true, and is what I pointed out to the client - 'you may be in a bit of a huff from this happening, but you are better from it.'
In this particular case I was brought in as a consultant by a nonprofit organization, so I didn't charge my usual rates. What really ticked me off was law enforcement's unwillingness to help a non-corporate entity solely because of a lack of sufficient financial damage. That's not what they're about - making money - but they were significantly crippled operationaly, and needy people were hurt by it.
As a side note, another aspect that pissed me off about the episode is why it happened: an older gentleman that does most of their tech stuff thought he would give linux a try as their file server in a windows environment and was delighted that he was able to get it configured and working by himself without much pain.... well, he simply had no idea that the red hat installation had opened up ports he just didn't need (or what a port is for that matter) and that by default it is pretty freaking insecure after installation. So he got a bad impression of linux. I explained that NT was flawed by a factor more, but it ticked me off a bit. Open bsd and linuxppc seem to have the right idea in having most services basically shut down until someone comes along and enables them. Mandrake, I've noticed, has a security level setup as part of their install - I hope to see this kind of thing become more of a standard....
I spend a week unfucking and securing a network that a script kiddy got a hold of and the fbi's response is basically 'we don't get involved in anything where less than $40k damage happened.' What's the recourse? Getting someones dial up account cancelled by kerking around with their isp? Whoopty doo......
any g4 owners that got the dvd-rom scene have any comments on it as a removable media?
How succesful has appealing to netizens for help with the gore200 web site been? How many non-gore staffers are currently involved and what unforseen challenges have running the web site this what posed?
yeah, tried that. it displays fine on the second monitor until i fire up X, and then it just goes blank.
I'm really digging this laptop. Got mandrake 7.0 up at linux expo and thought i'd try it out - quite nice on this laptop. Only a couple problems. The modem is a winmodem, so I'll have to replace that. For some reason, when I connect a monitor to it x won't display on the second monitor. Anyone know why this is? Haven't really started looking into why yet. Had to run sndconfig to get sound up - the soundconfig utility that comes with mandrake didn't pick up on the neomagic. Otherwise, it's great. Oh, there is one more thing - the thing has 2 pixels that are always red. Called sony and they say that's standard and wouldn't do an exchange for less than 10 percent of the display being hosed! Not really a big deal. This is the first time I've had a dual boot machine, so I've been messing with wine - very hip. This model has a dvd, so I guess I'll start nosing around for dvd on linux stuff. anyone got any clues? i saw there was a booth at expo in .org pavillion, but never really got a chance to talk to those people.
do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
i could really care less. but what the fuck do you think? like you said - they own the shit and can do whatever they want with it. i would think that you'd be grateful to VA for not linux.commifying slashdot.
That will definitely be something to check out in San Fran when they transfer ownership and do whatever it is they're going to do to it. I picture an exploratorium on lsd with a bar.
How have other clubs integrated technology into the environment to make it fun for hacker/tech types?
impressive. got root? we do. goy poot? we foo.
shazam! oh mighty isis!
Yeah, nice little browser. Speedy, renders attractively. The no plug in thing kind of sucks. I'm curious what would make it display a happy face though - nothing - not even www.w3.org - is getting anything besides a frown. Waaaaah.
Sounds interesting. Where can I get it to check it out?
Nice to see this solid build (it rocks - check it out!) come out right as Shaver is stepping down as project leader. Any word on who his replacement will be?
Ooooh, scary thought: Merger of Microsoft and Seagrams International. They're both big enough that one couldn't swallow the other, but ya never know.
One thing to keep in mind is that 90% of new artists fail, and that they do not get lucrative contracts because they are so risky. The few who do succeed make up for the rest.
There's no 'making up for' about it - failed deals make a great write off for labels. What I'd be interested in seeing is how many bands that sign a deal and get and advance actually make it through the production process to get a release out. I'd bet, just on observation, that something like 20% of the recording deals in the last 10 years have failed before release.
I don't know the stats, but of the successful artists out there, the ones that have come away strongest, financially, are the ones who were shrewd when getting their publishing deals together. Like Michael Jackson - (who owns some percentage of the Beales music now) - he had mega hits in the 80's that he (I believe) has principal publishing on, but think of the early seventies with the Jackson 5 - those kids didn't make shit for their efforts besides unit sales - it was the Motown publishing machine that garnered performance royalties - and still does today.
one thing for sure is that corel is getting in front of peoples faces. yesterday i was at best buy compusa and frys (i'm not proud of it but it's true) and corel was front and center at eye level with their slick looking packaging at each place. lots of print advertising too. i wonder what the numbers are like on sales and how many desktop joe's really are using linux for the first time since corel hit the shelves.
I think you'll need 8.6, or a real (not newworld) rom, which only works from a small selection of machines.
Aha. I got some new set of errors last night off 8.5 (forget exactly what - in mac os at the moment) - so 8.6, eh? Shoot, I just downloaded the upgrade for that off apples site, I suppose I'll need the cd - maybe someone I know has it.
9.0 should work though... the CD's not bootable?
Nope, no system folder to boot from, BUT -this is from a GM that a friend that works for apple brought over. I'm going to go ahead and buy it - still running 8.6 on my macos side and should upgrade anyway. Thanks again- I'll get it going, by cracky! The only bummer about this is that at home I'm locked down to 1 ip address dues to the pipe50 router being thus restricted, but I suppose I could use IP Masq on the linux side to get the mac-on-linux deal on the network. That could be interesting.
Didn't know any better. Was so impressed with Dos 3.2 and felt that applesoft should be part of every gentle human's life that I used locksmith 5.0 and gave it to several of my friends for free. They had trs-80's, so it didn't mean much to them, but I broke the law. Should I make annual payments?
Air Guitar! Drow dow bau brauoom
Went to check mac-on-linux out with an OS9 cd last night on my linuxppc box, it complained about the lack of a system folder (the OS9 cd isn't bootable), so I'll check it out this evening with an 8.5 CD. It sounds great! It's a wonder I haven't heard of this before - there was much talk about something called sheepshaver a while back, but haven't heard much about it lately...
This doesn't really address what you're talking about, but listening to the engineering briefing, a guy just asked about where the mac os fits/will fit in, and it was stated that code morphing could and possibly would be developed that would allow the chip to handle mac instruction sets. so, i guess this means the same thing for sparc, arm, alpha, etc..
that's what i want to see. screw emulators, i want to see it apps running side by side that are meant for different architectures.
vmware for macintosh? haven't seen that yet - does it exist?
I downloaded the corel draw trial version for macintosh, and it's I liked it - not enough to get me away from using illustrator and photoshop, but still pretty cool.
On windows, i primarily use the gimp for graphics these days (i forget where i got this from, but some guy ported it), but that isn't often as i hate working in windows. Hey Gimp folks, are you listening? Port to mac, port to mac! And hey quark people- port to linux, port linux! If the publishing apps were as rockin' on linux as they are on mac, i would probably forget about booting into mac os and just hang with linuxppc when i'm at home.
The AC's are validating Mr. Katz's point of view in this very discussion. I usually ride with my threshold set low - I think some AC posts are quite good, but the gross anonymous flaming is just chickencrap. Too noisy, crank it back up...
I noticed more than usual expired usenet postings over the last week... was this partially a result of the udp? did it ever go into effect?
That penguin isn't inflatable - it is made of foam rubber.
I think that bundling Civ:CTP with their deluxe distro (as well as wordperfect) wasn't such a bad move either.