How does this kind of crap getting modded up to +5?! Amazing. I recall years ago having a 450 MHz AMD K6-2 LINUX box with 128 MB of RAM consistently beating out a 900 MHz Athlon with 768 MB of RAM (running Windows) when it came to downloads over my broadband connection.
Quite the scientific study you did there. Case closed on the case of the kludge TCP/IP stack! This has nothing to do with served content from Apache versus IIS 6 running on hardware designed to serve content. Lets instead ask the important questions, like how much hardware is backing each site up? How many requests was each site receiving, and how much content was it serving for those requests? How much hardware does each site have backing it up? I'll bet that macworldexpo didn't have Akamai and their 3000 linux servers mirroring content like apple.com does. Microsoft runs Windows 2003 and IIS 6, and their web servers didn't choke while serving 100meg downloads of XP SP2 to how many millions of machines?
I might also point out that Hotmail for a time (and may very well still be) was using FreeBSD for its DNS servers... that's because when MS tried using their own "dogfood" (Windows 2000), it keeled over.
Maybe you should do a little fact checking before randomly repeating something you think you remember hearing something about.
Hotmail used a BSD variant and Apache before they were purchased by Microsoft in 1998. Since then they have moved over to Windows and IIS. As it took a while to switch over the entire production enviroment, the Microsoft runs Apache jokes surfaced. Hotmail also went from a subsrciption base of 9 million in 1998 to over 100 million in 2001 while they switched over. Microsoft fun "facts" regarding Hotmail
XP has some serious flaws, but Server 2003 is a pretty strong OS, and IIS 6 is rock solid compared to IIS 5 and even Apache. More Linkage
Hrm, let's see: EA controls for the next half-decade the exclusive rights to the NFL teams, players, logo, etc. They were trying to get the exclusive rights to the NBA teams, players, logo, etc. By WHAT stretch of any imagination does this sort of arrangement NOT meet definitions 1 and 3 above, if not 2 as well? If you define the commercial activity or commodity as "officially licensed football or basketball games with real life, actual players and teams", then you just defined a monopoly, whether you like it or not.
It is not a monopoly just as Ticketmaster is not a monopoly, and ABC isn't a monopoly. Courts have rules again and again that companies can engage in exclusive contracts without being a monopoly.
Also, there were no "Agressive takeover tactics" used by EA regarding their NFL contract. The NFL asked the different software companies to bid for exclusive rights, and EA's bid was the one they accepted. ESPN lost that bidding war the same way they won the NBA TV contract bidding war a couple of years ago.
In fact, if anyone was pressuring the NBA, I'd bet it was ABC / ESPN using the leverage of their massive television contract to stop the NBA from signing an exclusive deal.
But just like driving on the road you don't always need a Map common since and some exploring will help you get to your location as well, sometimes (usually) a little longer then normal but sometimes a lot quicker.
Your map must have led you on a detour around Grammarsville, straight through Run-On-Sentencetown.
I'm not sure if BlackBoxVoting has responded to that report, but it has been reported by Wired and elsewhere that the study is pretty much BS, and was released to the press before it was peer reviewed because it wouldn't stand up to scrutinty. Another Red Herring.
In addition to my SSN, they asked me which bank held a loan with me, and approximately what the monthly payment was for it. While this may be known by a spouse, it shouldn't be known by your family, employer or doctor.
"That's a nice car you got there." "Thanks, My Social Security Number is 555-80-7427, and I have a loan through Wells Fargo where I pay $350 per month."
Well, you are correct. I withdrawl my inaccurate statement about IIS 6not having any vulnerabilities. I was using CERT to look for incidents, and they do not list any of those three.
Anyhow, I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but the Server 2003 line is an exception to their normal substandard products.
Nice fuzzy logic there. How many of those 40 Microsoft vulnerabilities were related to Internet Explorer? Yes, it's Microsoft's fault for integrating it in the OS, but if you are using Server 2003 O/S to cruise the web with an admin rights role, you are the security problem, not the OS.
Why don't we look instead at security vulnerabilities in a Server OS that are relative to functions a server should be performing. How many vulnerabilities has IIS 6.0 had versus Apache in the year and a half Server 2003 has been out?
Hmmm one of those has had zero, and it sure the hell ain't Apache.
While the Nvidia driver are most likely better, their benchmarks used 64 bit drivers for Nvidia versus 32 bit drivers from ATI. I wish they would have tested 32 bit Nvidia drivers as well to compare Apples to Apples.
Adding young barf, lonestars father. (Could be darth helmet)
Darth helmet can't be Lonestar's Father. It was already revealed in the first movie that he is Lonestar's Father's Cousins' Newphew's Brother's former Roommate.
Black students and lower to middle class students are unfairly targeted, as wealthier students can afford tuition and need not apply for financial aid.
Don't try to make this a race issue. As you pointed out yourself, this is a class issue. Black people are not unfairly targeted because of the color of their skin, this just affects people who need financial aid. While a larger percentage of black and/or hispanic students may fall into this catagory, it has nothing to do with race.
I really hate seening class issues presented as race issues. Class issues are important, and when you ignore the root of the problem (distribution of wealth) and call it a race issue, you end up with solutions that are race based instead of class based. This does not help solve the problem.
Bohemian Grove in Northern California? I though the 5 riches people in the world were know as the Pentavert and that they met bi-annually at a secret location in Colorado known as "The Meadows".
I hate Colonal Sanders with his wee beety eyes! He puts an addictive chemical in his chicken to make you crave it nightly!
The media...print, radio, online...is mostly controlled by a few of the major conglomerates.
That's funny. When you read the article, their major complaint is that these big conglomerates are not represented enough. They are complaining about the second and third tier news sites that are showing up in Google, and how biased those sites are.
So which is it? Do you want to get away from megacorp controling your news, or do you want to get away from the tinfoil hat wearing news sites?
The fact is most people want to watch or read news that validates what they already believe. Noone wants to be told they are wrong. Beyond this though, once people find the news source that fits their personal bias, they expect everyone else to read and believe the same information.
The fact is, if someone wanted to report unbiased news, they should only report facts, or attribute who is making what assursion on both sides of the debate and give their readers the data needed to investigate the issue themselves. It's when assursions are made based on a lack of concrete evidence, and opnions are presented as facts that biases enters the news.
Now, to convince my company's managers to switch their userbase to Firefox
Using Firefox / Mozilla is fine and dandy unless site or sender includes not only a JPG, but a BMP as well.
There are patches out for both apps though, so everyone should be okay right?
Do you unplug your VCR when it's not in use as well to avoid the "energy wastage" of the time display?
Or maybe you unplug it when not in use so you don't have to stare at the blinking 12:00 all the time. I would delve into helping you fix that, but I don't believe I'd have the patience.
Are you trying to be funny or is this a serious question?
There is a power switch on the back which is very similiar to the switches on most PC Power Supplies. It only needs to be turned off if you plan on unplugging the thing. The Power button on the front of the PS2 can be used to turn it on, Reset it, and if you hold the button down for 1 entire second, it turns it off.
Any exploit that is found by someone malicious will be quickly fixed by the overwhelming majority that belongs to the benevolent OSS community. The lifetime of a virus attacking and open source OS would be very short, and wouldn't require the use of any third party virus protection software to fix.
That's funny, the "benevolent" Microsoft company fixes exploits long before virus are written to target them in most cases as well, yet the viruses continue to thrive. I guess that's different as the OSS community is so benevolent and super nice that we trust them to auto-update our Mother-in-Laws computer each day to ensure all known vulnerabilities are automatically patched.
Wait, you mean we don't do that? Well, I'm sure that once Linux is the mainstream OS, people will change and start using the super easy -apt get -apt emerge commands more consistantly that they do currnetly with windows when they have to go through that pesky process of pressing the "Update Now" button.
Apache is a perfect example of this. Patchy describes it very well. While the recent 2.0.51 release shows they are working on finding and fixing some of these problems, it has a long way to go.
Microsoft had problems for years with IIS. IIS 5 was a perfect example of how commercial software gets it wrong by letting their marketing people design the system, but IIS 6 is rock solid. It's out for over a year and a half now without a single vulnerability being found.
If making your software secure is a priority, it needs to be designed that way from the ground up. Using random bits of code from here or there is not going to cut it.
The article goes on to suggest that Sony is gearing up for another Betamax-style failure...
Remember Sony and Phillips created the audio CD standard, and get a small royalty for every CD sold. I'd trade the failure of the Betmax for the success of the audio CD any day of the week.
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Bzzzzt! Wrong...
How many exploits have been found for IIS 6 in the year + it has been available? That would be 0. IIS 5 is a just plain bad application, but IIS 6 has been rock solid so far.
Why is it you FOSS mouthpieces ignore this fact when spouting off your party line?
And how many exploits have been found in IIS 6.0? It's been out a year and a half, and has seen fewer exploits than Apache in that timeframe. IIS 5 is a disaster, but 6 is pretty solid.
Search on CERT for IIS 6 vulnerabilities. You'll find a whole lot fewer than Apache.
I doubt Bin Laden's grudge with the US dated back that far. He left Afganistan soon after the Soviets did to go back to work for Daddy. It wasn't until 1990 when the Saudi's allowed the US to put a base their soil that he started his campaign against the Saudi's which caused his ouster in 1991 to Sudan. It was only 2 short years after that til the first WTC bombings.
Of course I'm not in his head, so this is all speculation, but it seems to be he could give a shit less about the US as long as we weren't fouling up his "holy land" with our presence.
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How does this kind of crap getting modded up to +5?! Amazing.
I recall years ago having a 450 MHz AMD K6-2 LINUX box with 128 MB of RAM consistently beating out a 900 MHz Athlon with 768 MB of RAM (running Windows) when it came to downloads over my broadband connection.
Quite the scientific study you did there. Case closed on the case of the kludge TCP/IP stack! This has nothing to do with served content from Apache versus IIS 6 running on hardware designed to serve content. Lets instead ask the important questions, like how much hardware is backing each site up? How many requests was each site receiving, and how much content was it serving for those requests? How much hardware does each site have backing it up? I'll bet that macworldexpo didn't have Akamai and their 3000 linux servers mirroring content like apple.com does. Microsoft runs Windows 2003 and IIS 6, and their web servers didn't choke while serving 100meg downloads of XP SP2 to how many millions of machines?
I might also point out that Hotmail for a time (and may very well still be) was using FreeBSD for its DNS servers... that's because when MS tried using their own "dogfood" (Windows 2000), it keeled over.
Maybe you should do a little fact checking before randomly repeating something you think you remember hearing something about.
Hotmail used a BSD variant and Apache before they were purchased by Microsoft in 1998. Since then they have moved over to Windows and IIS. As it took a while to switch over the entire production enviroment, the Microsoft runs Apache jokes surfaced. Hotmail also went from a subsrciption base of 9 million in 1998 to over 100 million in 2001 while they switched over. Microsoft fun "facts" regarding Hotmail
XP has some serious flaws, but Server 2003 is a pretty strong OS, and IIS 6 is rock solid compared to IIS 5 and even Apache. More Linkage
Hrm, let's see: EA controls for the next half-decade the exclusive rights to the NFL teams, players, logo, etc. They were trying to get the exclusive rights to the NBA teams, players, logo, etc. By WHAT stretch of any imagination does this sort of arrangement NOT meet definitions 1 and 3 above, if not 2 as well? If you define the commercial activity or commodity as "officially licensed football or basketball games with real life, actual players and teams", then you just defined a monopoly, whether you like it or not.
It is not a monopoly just as Ticketmaster is not a monopoly, and ABC isn't a monopoly. Courts have rules again and again that companies can engage in exclusive contracts without being a monopoly.
Also, there were no "Agressive takeover tactics" used by EA regarding their NFL contract. The NFL asked the different software companies to bid for exclusive rights, and EA's bid was the one they accepted. ESPN lost that bidding war the same way they won the NBA TV contract bidding war a couple of years ago.
In fact, if anyone was pressuring the NBA, I'd bet it was ABC / ESPN using the leverage of their massive television contract to stop the NBA from signing an exclusive deal.
But just like driving on the road you don't always need a Map common since and some exploring will help you get to your location as well, sometimes (usually) a little longer then normal but sometimes a lot quicker.
Your map must have led you on a detour around Grammarsville, straight through Run-On-Sentencetown.
I'm not sure if BlackBoxVoting has responded to that report, but it has been reported by Wired and elsewhere that the study is pretty much BS, and was released to the press before it was peer reviewed because it wouldn't stand up to scrutinty. Another Red Herring.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In addition to my SSN, they asked me which bank held a loan with me, and approximately what the monthly payment was for it. While this may be known by a spouse, it shouldn't be known by your family, employer or doctor.
"That's a nice car you got there."
"Thanks, My Social Security Number is 555-80-7427, and I have a loan through Wells Fargo where I pay $350 per month."
Yes. Run OS X and you will never have to worry about spyware again.
Well, you are correct. I withdrawl my inaccurate statement about IIS 6not having any vulnerabilities. I was using CERT to look for incidents, and they do not list any of those three.
Anyhow, I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but the Server 2003 line is an exception to their normal substandard products.
Nice fuzzy logic there. How many of those 40 Microsoft vulnerabilities were related to Internet Explorer? Yes, it's Microsoft's fault for integrating it in the OS, but if you are using Server 2003 O/S to cruise the web with an admin rights role, you are the security problem, not the OS.
Why don't we look instead at security vulnerabilities in a Server OS that are relative to functions a server should be performing. How many vulnerabilities has IIS 6.0 had versus Apache in the year and a half Server 2003 has been out?
Hmmm one of those has had zero, and it sure the hell ain't Apache.
While the Nvidia driver are most likely better, their benchmarks used 64 bit drivers for Nvidia versus 32 bit drivers from ATI. I wish they would have tested 32 bit Nvidia drivers as well to compare Apples to Apples.
Adding young barf, lonestars father. (Could be darth helmet)
Darth helmet can't be Lonestar's Father. It was already revealed in the first movie that he is Lonestar's Father's Cousins' Newphew's Brother's former Roommate.
That kind of revisionism just won't play.
Black students and lower to middle class students are unfairly targeted, as wealthier students can afford tuition and need not apply for financial aid.
Don't try to make this a race issue. As you pointed out yourself, this is a class issue. Black people are not unfairly targeted because of the color of their skin, this just affects people who need financial aid. While a larger percentage of black and/or hispanic students may fall into this catagory, it has nothing to do with race.
I really hate seening class issues presented as race issues. Class issues are important, and when you ignore the root of the problem (distribution of wealth) and call it a race issue, you end up with solutions that are race based instead of class based. This does not help solve the problem.
Bohemian Grove in Northern California? I though the 5 riches people in the world were know as the Pentavert and that they met bi-annually at a secret location in Colorado known as "The Meadows".
I hate Colonal Sanders with his wee beety eyes! He puts an addictive chemical in his chicken to make you crave it nightly!
The media...print, radio, online...is mostly controlled by a few of the major conglomerates.
That's funny. When you read the article, their major complaint is that these big conglomerates are not represented enough. They are complaining about the second and third tier news sites that are showing up in Google, and how biased those sites are.
So which is it? Do you want to get away from megacorp controling your news, or do you want to get away from the tinfoil hat wearing news sites?
The fact is most people want to watch or read news that validates what they already believe. Noone wants to be told they are wrong. Beyond this though, once people find the news source that fits their personal bias, they expect everyone else to read and believe the same information.
The fact is, if someone wanted to report unbiased news, they should only report facts, or attribute who is making what assursion on both sides of the debate and give their readers the data needed to investigate the issue themselves. It's when assursions are made based on a lack of concrete evidence, and opnions are presented as facts that biases enters the news.
Now, to convince my company's managers to switch their userbase to Firefox
Using Firefox / Mozilla is fine and dandy unless site or sender includes not only a JPG, but a BMP as well. There are patches out for both apps though, so everyone should be okay right?
What you described already exists... Community Car
Do you unplug your VCR when it's not in use as well to avoid the "energy wastage" of the time display? Or maybe you unplug it when not in use so you don't have to stare at the blinking 12:00 all the time. I would delve into helping you fix that, but I don't believe I'd have the patience.
What? No need to bring race into this. I'm sure there are plenty of 1337 @RF1c@n-@m3R1c@n hAxxOrS about...
Are you trying to be funny or is this a serious question? There is a power switch on the back which is very similiar to the switches on most PC Power Supplies. It only needs to be turned off if you plan on unplugging the thing. The Power button on the front of the PS2 can be used to turn it on, Reset it, and if you hold the button down for 1 entire second, it turns it off.
That's funny, the "benevolent" Microsoft company fixes exploits long before virus are written to target them in most cases as well, yet the viruses continue to thrive. I guess that's different as the OSS community is so benevolent and super nice that we trust them to auto-update our Mother-in-Laws computer each day to ensure all known vulnerabilities are automatically patched.
Wait, you mean we don't do that? Well, I'm sure that once Linux is the mainstream OS, people will change and start using the super easy -apt get -apt emerge commands more consistantly that they do currnetly with windows when they have to go through that pesky process of pressing the "Update Now" button.
Apache is a perfect example of this. Patchy describes it very well. While the recent 2.0.51 release shows they are working on finding and fixing some of these problems, it has a long way to go. Microsoft had problems for years with IIS. IIS 5 was a perfect example of how commercial software gets it wrong by letting their marketing people design the system, but IIS 6 is rock solid. It's out for over a year and a half now without a single vulnerability being found. If making your software secure is a priority, it needs to be designed that way from the ground up. Using random bits of code from here or there is not going to cut it.
The article goes on to suggest that Sony is gearing up for another Betamax-style failure...
Remember Sony and Phillips created the audio CD standard, and get a small royalty for every CD sold. I'd trade the failure of the Betmax for the success of the audio CD any day of the week.
Bzzzzt! Wrong... How many exploits have been found for IIS 6 in the year + it has been available? That would be 0. IIS 5 is a just plain bad application, but IIS 6 has been rock solid so far. Why is it you FOSS mouthpieces ignore this fact when spouting off your party line?
And how many exploits have been found in IIS 6.0? It's been out a year and a half, and has seen fewer exploits than Apache in that timeframe. IIS 5 is a disaster, but 6 is pretty solid.
Search on CERT for IIS 6 vulnerabilities. You'll find a whole lot fewer than Apache.
I doubt Bin Laden's grudge with the US dated back that far. He left Afganistan soon after the Soviets did to go back to work for Daddy. It wasn't until 1990 when the Saudi's allowed the US to put a base their soil that he started his campaign against the Saudi's which caused his ouster in 1991 to Sudan. It was only 2 short years after that til the first WTC bombings.
Of course I'm not in his head, so this is all speculation, but it seems to be he could give a shit less about the US as long as we weren't fouling up his "holy land" with our presence.