"Yes, existing Athlon owners are at a SLIGHT risk of failure if their heatsinks fall off (I'd love to see REAL stats on how often THAT happens)"
This happens a lot with computers that are shipped (eg from Dell, etc). Thats probably one of the reasons why Dell doesn't do AMD, replacing all the chips that get fried by a heatsink coming off in shipping would be a lot more expensive.
(and I've had this happen to me before actually, although it was with a P3, which of course didn't fry because Intel put some thought into the design)
But it *does* work in Netscape 6.1 according to reports. So that doesn't make any sense. If they were trying to do that, they would block Netscape and Mozilla, not just Mozilla.
It won't work in Opera because Opera still tacks "Opera 5.x" at the end of of the User Agent string when spoofing IE, it doesn't fully spoof it.
same thing with Mozilla actually. So if you search the string for "Opera", you can find it no matter what mode Opera is in. That was why the CEO of Opera Software mentioned in the article that if you change a single letter in 'Opera' (to say "Opero"), it will work fine. You can't find "Opera" anymore.
eg: Opera includes the ability to spoof certain other ones, but still tacks "Opera 5.xx" somewhere in the UA. So if you simply search it for "Opera", you can block it. If they change the string to Opero for example, it will work again.
The interesting thing is that I'm not sure what would happen if you made a copy of IE using the IEAK that contained a custom UA string that had the word "Opera 5" in it. I wonder if it'd get blocked too.:)
Considering just how important Real Networks is these days in the marketplace, I don't see how Apple or Microsoft are being hurt by ignoring the Linux market. It certainly isn't doing Real any good. (maybe your comment should say "the companies that ignore markets that actually matter should go out of business"
This says nothing about the character of IIS Admins, its about admins in general. And more importantly, people running this thing who don't even know that they have it running.
Here is what they should have done to get this thing patched quickly.
"Everybody running a version of Windows on their computer should go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com , and download all of the items in 'Critical Updates' (which has the security patches selected by default when you first load it anyway)."
If you are vulnerable to Code Red and your a home user, the patch appears in the list of updates and will be installed. If not, well no harm done.
Thats the whole point of Windows Update, if we could just get people to go to it even if they don't think they are open to Code Red, we could put a stop to this thing really fast.
Thats the problem here, not IIS. A bunch of clueless home users who don't know whats going on and have no reason to check because of the way its being reported will not be the downfall of IIS. If Linux had any amount of home users to speak of, we'd see the same sort of problem among them eveuntally.
But its so easy to install a trained monkey could do it. In 2k its just "Add/Remove Programs" and hit a checkbox. Its more difficult in NT in my experience, I've had horrible experiences trying to install IIS4 with anything other then SP3 as the current service pack level. IIS4 is also part of the Option Pack, and not included in NT itself (thats IIS2, which afaik is not vulnerable to Code Red).
They should be telling people who are running NT/2k of any variety to install the patch, that would go a lot farther towards solving the problem.
I don't understand why some networks still insist on getting an ident reply before letting you connect. I mean really, that just means I need to map a port on ICS to allow mIRC to send back a random fake ident response.
As people get better at ignoring ads, new more invasive ads are going to be more "effective". Of course, the audience will become better trained again, and they'll have to get even more invasive, while driving more and more people to use ad filtering proxies because the ads went too far.
I read through pretty much all of the comments as of when I clicked the link (which was a while ago), and AFAIK nobody has brought this up yet.
What about the point in the article where it mentions that the most packed booths at E3 weren't the ones with lots of skin showing, but ones like Blizzard's. Ones that had actual interesting games.
Could it be that the game makers mistakenly think that sex sells? In actuality the best selling games out there are games like Starcraft and The Sims, neither of which has any real sex appeal. They're just flat out good games.
If you control the webserver itself somewhat, you can just use mod_gzip, which can compress pretty much everything and doesn't have the same problems that the compression in PHP sometimes has.
http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_g zi p/
Slashdot really does hate linking to The Register, even though they broke this story last week and have been credited in every other article about it I've seen. They even used the All your Base reference in their original story. There is no mention of any of that here at all.
Haven't you ever seen Independance Day? When they fly up to the alien mothership, David's Apple Notebook is somehow able to negotiate a compatable protocol with the alien mainframe (maybe they run TCP/IP because they don't have enough lesbian porn on their planet?). Not only that, he also gets enough access to upload a virus.
They make the clients and run the central servers which tie the whole thing together. This is not a fully distributed Network like gnutella (thank god). So there is nothing wrong with them trying to make some money from it.
Yes, all of the changes are included in the file. the pre# just shows when it was changed. Its also useful to know what changed when if you are using the pre versions.
Well... Companies don't have much loyalty to their employees either, bear that in mind.
I'm kind of surprised that almost every reply has been "leave", or some other form thereof. So in that respect, I agree with you.
Leaving may not necessarily be a bad choice, but it can't be as simplistic as "you get a better offer somewhere else, jump ship".
Of course, this person obviously doesn't appear to be doing that, so I don't see a problem. Incompetitant Management is a good reason to leave a company, as I'm facing that problem myself. Thanks to Management's amazing skill, I figure this place will be bankrupt in six months.
Of course, we have a laser printer for every three employees now, because Management wanted faster printing. This being despite that the one printer we had before sat idle nearly all day, and has not had more then two jobs queued up at once in about nine months.
If he is dealing with Management like I have to contend with, I can understand his wanting to leave. People like that don't deserve loyalty.
First of all, the real question isn't loyalty to the company. From the way you write it, it sounds like loyalty to those non-moronic co-workers, some of which may even be friends? Your not sounding worried about the company itself, you sound worried about them. Those are people. Thats an admirable trait.
Some questions you can ask yourself would include things like:
- Can I take some of them with me, and get them out of here into a better place?
- If I stay, am I just prolonging the inevitable, or can I actually save this place?
- Can they find better jobs easily if I leave, or are they going to be more or less fucked?
- How much do I really care about what happens to them?
My *advice* would be to sit down and quietly think about it (or pace, or whatever you do that helps you think). If you can take several of them with you, you could be doing them a huge favor, as well as yourself at the same time. If not, will your staying really make a difference, or will it just make it take that much longer for the incompetitant management to drive the company straight into the ground?
As I said, nobody can really answer this question for you, because it depends too much on what kind of person you are. Some people would do anything to protect their friends, others arent. Look at if you care. If you do care, look at how much good you can do in each situation, and try to pick the best one that you can live with doing.
Hopefully some of the posts in this thread get you thinking, maybe that will help you find the answers your looking for.
I've seen the same problem in some pages that I've made before, when I try to use something like CSS, it just usually doesn't work properly in Netscape.
So I simply gave up, and put a item in the FAQ explaining why I wasn't going to write crappy code just to make it work with Netscape.
Of course the difference is that my pages were all made to be HTML 4 and CSS 1 compliant, so they for the most part work great in Moz. They also work in IE, Opera, Lynx, and apparently are usable on a cellphone (if the person who claimed he tried it can be believed anyway).
The sentiment of not wanting to dumb code down to work in Netscape 4 isn't a new one, and you can expect it to get popular very quickly. The idea of using all this wacky Microsoft stuff to make pages that only work in IE is something thats limited primarily to MS type developers (who tend to do a lot of ASP work), and most likely won't last as the use of set top boxes and cellphones for browsing begins to pick up.
So I wouldn't really worry, market forces will force things to not go that way for very long. Of course if your using Netscape 4 still, then it might be time to worry, since its about time that died off. (now if only they could make Moz not slow, we'd be set.)
Back when he started this project, I bet he could not have just walked into say slashcode's development group and rewritten the entire mod system without somebody stopping him. You have a lot more freedom when you write your own project to do whatever you want with it.
Well, I'm on Undernet right *now*, and I can tell you that it looks fairly legit to me. The network is something of a total mess. I haven't talked to any Opers about what is going on yet (they're probably busy), but from what my friends online tell me, and what I'm seeing, the information at Undernet.org is basically right.
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"Yes, existing Athlon owners are at a SLIGHT risk of failure if their heatsinks fall off (I'd love to see REAL stats on how often THAT happens)"
This happens a lot with computers that are shipped (eg from Dell, etc). Thats probably one of the reasons why Dell doesn't do AMD, replacing all the chips that get fried by a heatsink coming off in shipping would be a lot more expensive.
(and I've had this happen to me before actually, although it was with a P3, which of course didn't fry because Intel put some thought into the design)
But it *does* work in Netscape 6.1 according to reports. So that doesn't make any sense. If they were trying to do that, they would block Netscape and Mozilla, not just Mozilla.
It won't work in Opera because Opera still tacks "Opera 5.x" at the end of of the User Agent string when spoofing IE, it doesn't fully spoof it.
same thing with Mozilla actually. So if you search the string for "Opera", you can find it no matter what mode Opera is in. That was why the CEO of Opera Software mentioned in the article that if you change a single letter in 'Opera' (to say "Opero"), it will work fine. You can't find "Opera" anymore.
They're blocking specific ones.
:)
eg: Opera includes the ability to spoof certain other ones, but still tacks "Opera 5.xx" somewhere in the UA. So if you simply search it for "Opera", you can block it. If they change the string to Opero for example, it will work again.
The interesting thing is that I'm not sure what would happen if you made a copy of IE using the IEAK that contained a custom UA string that had the word "Opera 5" in it. I wonder if it'd get blocked too.
Considering just how important Real Networks is these days in the marketplace, I don't see how Apple or Microsoft are being hurt by ignoring the Linux market. It certainly isn't doing Real any good. (maybe your comment should say "the companies that ignore markets that actually matter should go out of business"
Actually it works in Opera too. :)
This says nothing about the character of IIS Admins, its about admins in general. And more importantly, people running this thing who don't even know that they have it running.
Here is what they should have done to get this thing patched quickly.
"Everybody running a version of Windows on their computer should go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com , and download all of the items in 'Critical Updates' (which has the security patches selected by default when you first load it anyway)."
If you are vulnerable to Code Red and your a home user, the patch appears in the list of updates and will be installed. If not, well no harm done.
Thats the whole point of Windows Update, if we could just get people to go to it even if they don't think they are open to Code Red, we could put a stop to this thing really fast.
Thats the problem here, not IIS. A bunch of clueless home users who don't know whats going on and have no reason to check because of the way its being reported will not be the downfall of IIS. If Linux had any amount of home users to speak of, we'd see the same sort of problem among them eveuntally.
No, its not installed by default.
But its so easy to install a trained monkey could do it. In 2k its just "Add/Remove Programs" and hit a checkbox. Its more difficult in NT in my experience, I've had horrible experiences trying to install IIS4 with anything other then SP3 as the current service pack level. IIS4 is also part of the Option Pack, and not included in NT itself (thats IIS2, which afaik is not vulnerable to Code Red).
They should be telling people who are running NT/2k of any variety to install the patch, that would go a lot farther towards solving the problem.
I don't understand why some networks still insist on getting an ident reply before letting you connect. I mean really, that just means I need to map a port on ICS to allow mIRC to send back a random fake ident response.
Whats the point?
I agree. I opened a hotmail account and was recieving spam within 10 minutes.
I've had it for a week and now have over 100 pieces of spam (a lot of it caught by the spam filters mind you). I haven't used it for anything at all.
As people get better at ignoring ads, new more invasive ads are going to be more "effective". Of course, the audience will become better trained again, and they'll have to get even more invasive, while driving more and more people to use ad filtering proxies because the ads went too far.
Nothing new here.
I read through pretty much all of the comments as of when I clicked the link (which was a while ago), and AFAIK nobody has brought this up yet.
What about the point in the article where it mentions that the most packed booths at E3 weren't the ones with lots of skin showing, but ones like Blizzard's. Ones that had actual interesting games.
Could it be that the game makers mistakenly think that sex sells? In actuality the best selling games out there are games like Starcraft and The Sims, neither of which has any real sex appeal. They're just flat out good games.
If you control the webserver itself somewhat, you can just use mod_gzip, which can compress pretty much everything and doesn't have the same problems that the compression in PHP sometimes has.
g zi p/
http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_
Slashdot really does hate linking to The Register, even though they broke this story last week and have been credited in every other article about it I've seen. They even used the All your Base reference in their original story. There is no mention of any of that here at all.
Geez.
Haven't you ever seen Independance Day? When they fly up to the alien mothership, David's Apple Notebook is somehow able to negotiate a compatable protocol with the alien mainframe (maybe they run TCP/IP because they don't have enough lesbian porn on their planet?). Not only that, he also gets enough access to upload a virus.
So its obvious, the way of the future is the Mac.
That was amusing.
I still haven't forgiven WotC for forcing the itis.com/deckmaster/ site to shut down a few years ago. That site was awesome as a resouce for the game.
Stupid copyright lawyers.
Yes, it does.
They make the clients and run the central servers which tie the whole thing together. This is not a fully distributed Network like gnutella (thank god). So there is nothing wrong with them trying to make some money from it.
Yes, all of the changes are included in the file. the pre# just shows when it was changed. Its also useful to know what changed when if you are using the pre versions.
Well... Companies don't have much loyalty to their employees either, bear that in mind.
I'm kind of surprised that almost every reply has been "leave", or some other form thereof. So in that respect, I agree with you.
Leaving may not necessarily be a bad choice, but it can't be as simplistic as "you get a better offer somewhere else, jump ship".
Of course, this person obviously doesn't appear to be doing that, so I don't see a problem. Incompetitant Management is a good reason to leave a company, as I'm facing that problem myself. Thanks to Management's amazing skill, I figure this place will be bankrupt in six months.
Of course, we have a laser printer for every three employees now, because Management wanted faster printing. This being despite that the one printer we had before sat idle nearly all day, and has not had more then two jobs queued up at once in about nine months.
If he is dealing with Management like I have to contend with, I can understand his wanting to leave. People like that don't deserve loyalty.
Nobody here can answer a question like that.
First of all, the real question isn't loyalty to the company. From the way you write it, it sounds like loyalty to those non-moronic co-workers, some of which may even be friends? Your not sounding worried about the company itself, you sound worried about them. Those are people. Thats an admirable trait.
Some questions you can ask yourself would include things like:
- Can I take some of them with me, and get them out of here into a better place?
- If I stay, am I just prolonging the inevitable, or can I actually save this place?
- Can they find better jobs easily if I leave, or are they going to be more or less fucked?
- How much do I really care about what happens to them?
My *advice* would be to sit down and quietly think about it (or pace, or whatever you do that helps you think). If you can take several of them with you, you could be doing them a huge favor, as well as yourself at the same time. If not, will your staying really make a difference, or will it just make it take that much longer for the incompetitant management to drive the company straight into the ground?
As I said, nobody can really answer this question for you, because it depends too much on what kind of person you are. Some people would do anything to protect their friends, others arent. Look at if you care. If you do care, look at how much good you can do in each situation, and try to pick the best one that you can live with doing.
Hopefully some of the posts in this thread get you thinking, maybe that will help you find the answers your looking for.
Good luck!
I've seen the same problem in some pages that I've made before, when I try to use something like CSS, it just usually doesn't work properly in Netscape.
So I simply gave up, and put a item in the FAQ explaining why I wasn't going to write crappy code just to make it work with Netscape.
Of course the difference is that my pages were all made to be HTML 4 and CSS 1 compliant, so they for the most part work great in Moz. They also work in IE, Opera, Lynx, and apparently are usable on a cellphone (if the person who claimed he tried it can be believed anyway).
The sentiment of not wanting to dumb code down to work in Netscape 4 isn't a new one, and you can expect it to get popular very quickly. The idea of using all this wacky Microsoft stuff to make pages that only work in IE is something thats limited primarily to MS type developers (who tend to do a lot of ASP work), and most likely won't last as the use of set top boxes and cellphones for browsing begins to pick up.
So I wouldn't really worry, market forces will force things to not go that way for very long. Of course if your using Netscape 4 still, then it might be time to worry, since its about time that died off. (now if only they could make Moz not slow, we'd be set.)
Just wanted to say thanks for the info about this. :)
:)
I'm curious though, whats the third A for?
I Am A ? Lawyer?
I Am An Accented Lawyer?
Accentuated?
Audacious?
Amazing?
Arcane?
help me out here.
Back when he started this project, I bet he could not have just walked into say slashcode's development group and rewritten the entire mod system without somebody stopping him. You have a lot more freedom when you write your own project to do whatever you want with it.
Well, I'm on Undernet right *now*, and I can tell you that it looks fairly legit to me. The network is something of a total mess. I haven't talked to any Opers about what is going on yet (they're probably busy), but from what my friends online tell me, and what I'm seeing, the information at Undernet.org is basically right.