: Any nerd worth his salt knows to first check the headers of the e-mail and Lookup the IP [and do all kinds of complicated technowizardry] to see where the mail really came from
wow, that method is so complicated and prone to failure. Wouldn't it be simpler just to go to www.paypal.com or www.ebay.ca and login? If your id needed to be verified, they'd make sure to ask you when you logged in. As for hotmail, official messages from hotmail have a different icon than other emails. I would have moded the parent Funny, not Informative.
Emails should be treated as notification that important information is waiting on the web site. Be sure to use the URL you know, not the one in the email.
Oddly enough, the test says the email from paypal that talks about a credit card ending with the number 2008 is legit, even though I have no credit matching that criteria.
The point of the above is that I can't necessarily tell if an email sent to someone else is legit or not. If I were to have received the email (assuming I dealt with those companies), my response would be to login to the website (without following a link in the email) to take any necessary action. If the website doesn't ask/tell me the same thing as the email, the email is a fraud.
The GPL could be invalidated not only by Copyright law, but by contract law. All it takes is a small difference in US Copyright law or US contract law to have a different ruling in the US. Even if the law was identical, you could still get a different ruling in the US since it is people making these rulings.
Howver, it's nice to receive some recognition and vindication, even if it is abroad. It means the GPL has a solid foundation, and any problems can probably be worked out.
Keeping an open connection to the server may work with a 1000 clients, but the article is discussing scalability. Can servers handle a million silmultaneously open connections?
: [i]The JFS part was expected of course[/i]
Am I right when I guess JFS means Journaling File System? Why would it "of course" be mentioned by SCO? Could someone give us its history?
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: Any nerd worth his salt knows to first check the headers of the e-mail and Lookup the IP [and do all kinds of complicated technowizardry] to see where the mail really came from
wow, that method is so complicated and prone to failure. Wouldn't it be simpler just to go to www.paypal.com or www.ebay.ca and login? If your id needed to be verified, they'd make sure to ask you when you logged in. As for hotmail, official messages from hotmail have a different icon than other emails. I would have moded the parent Funny, not Informative.
Emails should be treated as notification that important information is waiting on the web site. Be sure to use the URL you know, not the one in the email.
Oddly enough, the test says the email from paypal that talks about a credit card ending with the number 2008 is legit, even though I have no credit matching that criteria.
The point of the above is that I can't necessarily tell if an email sent to someone else is legit or not. If I were to have received the email (assuming I dealt with those companies), my response would be to login to the website (without following a link in the email) to take any necessary action. If the website doesn't ask/tell me the same thing as the email, the email is a fraud.
I'm nearing 30 and I know half of the names at best X_X
: It keeps the writers of SP3 employed
Well, 40% of them...
The GPL could be invalidated not only by Copyright law, but by contract law. All it takes is a small difference in US Copyright law or US contract law to have a different ruling in the US. Even if the law was identical, you could still get a different ruling in the US since it is people making these rulings. Howver, it's nice to receive some recognition and vindication, even if it is abroad. It means the GPL has a solid foundation, and any problems can probably be worked out.
hum? I like our neighbours to the South. What makes you think I hate them?
Keeping an open connection to the server may work with a 1000 clients, but the article is discussing scalability. Can servers handle a million silmultaneously open connections?
: [i]The JFS part was expected of course[/i] Am I right when I guess JFS means Journaling File System? Why would it "of course" be mentioned by SCO? Could someone give us its history?
Pushed contents sounds like the obvious solution, but it's hard to push content to a client behind NAT (home "routers") or a firewall.