I have not yet run into a combination of permissions which is not simply addressable within the owner/group/world read/write/execute security space. NT's more complicated setup doesn't necessarily make for better security, actually invites less rigorous security decisions, is broken anyway.
If you want MACs, use SELinux. It rocks! If for some reason you want ACLs in your filesystem anyway, you have several FS options.
As to the original poster's question: switch anyway, and run your MS Windows apps under VMWare if WINE won't do it. Don't trust Linux, either. It is much more secure by default than MS Windows, but if you don't stay updated and do unnecessarily expose services, you will get cracked eventually.
If you also use the machine for gaming (which is the usual lame "can't"-abandon-doze excuse), power down or at least hardware write-protect your business drive(s) before rebooting into virus-land on your gaming drive, and/or pull the blue wire out. Better still, use a different machine and put it in its own DMZ.
Don't use 'doze for anything to do with networks if you can help it.
...is that MS Windows is not a modern operating system. It got a shot in the arm as a reincarnated MICA (VMS 5+) but Microsoft managed to hobble even that.
Swap partitions are even faster, but MS Windows can't do those.
I've also struggled occasionally to get a Mac to behave as I would expect, but J Random Dodo very seldom runs into the same issue (and refer back to the step count in your grandparent post).
For the record, I use Linux exclusively at work and at home, but I also fix lots of MS Windows machines. Today's spcial was an MS Windows 2000 box which had burped and done these things during the reboot following a hostname change:
Forgot that it had a network card
Threw away significant bits of MS Office (it now runs OpenOffice)
Threw away all but one real user
Locked both the Guest and Administrator accounts
While I was booting the dead 2000 box into Linux to splat the admin account and begin reassembling its brains (as a 2000 box for now, but the night of the long cables is coming), the same firm also had one Windows 2000 box start going spastic whenever a Zip disk was put in the drive. Sometime during the night another box (this one 98SE) had contracted MSBlast without human intervention and was now dedicated to constant rebooting. The same firm (two firms in one office, actually) has only ever had one showstopper with their Linux gateway box: one night someone kicked in the back door of the building and stole it.
They are now adopting OpenOffice and Firefox throughout, and by next week I expect them to have figured out that they don't use the calendaring functions in Lookout at all, so I'll begin switching them to Thunderbird. At least half of their users never use anything else, so may not even notice when I switch them to a Win2k-themed KDE setup.
PS, you can operate a Mac pretty well from the keyboard, too. And if you don't like KDE's keboard setup, try 3.2 - you'll be amazed.
...but the "wind" part of "kamikaze" is unquestionably there. It's a bit of an insult, really, since the WW2 kamikaze had courage, but D'ohl only has chutzpah.
Speaking of kamikaze, is anyone to willing to attach an "I break penguins" bumper sticker to D'ohl's car? Logo featuring a chained-down, angry penguin as it tears the first of the staples out of the wall...
"Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens" reads the original French. "Think of it as evolution in action" is the modern paraphrase. Either way, the whole idea sucks. Much better to do a surgical strike on a handful of TSG execs.
And of course, if you're thinking of rooting the Feds involved, think about this quote:
There we were; three against a thousand. We fought them for seven days and nights as the battle waxed and waned; neither side yielding. We exhausted our ammunition and were too far out to get support, so we fixed bayonets and charged. The fighting that ensued was fierce hand to hand combat and finally we overwhelmed them. They would have to be the toughest three we ever fought.
Nothing less would get Microsoft off their collective butts for such a small market. Iceland became something of a "martyr" to corporate indifference, so Microsoft was forced to localise for PR reasons (KDE has long had Icelandic). Linux and KDE (and probably GNOME, I don't normally use it) have long been fully or partially localised for much smaller "markets", so Microsoft is very much chasing the tail-lights here.
This is another reason for our dear friends, the convicted monopolists, to be hell-bent on stamping out all competition. Their competitors make them look bad in the same way sunlight shows up stains. The problems were there all along, but now they're obvious.
This is a perfectly legal way to treat PD works. PD is different to GPL. There is a reason RMS and co had to invent the GPL.
I'm guessing that the eBooks copyright might be kind of hard to actually enforce. And of course, if you don't like it, don't buy the service, just use the original PG texts.
No evidence of any decisions made even about DTDs, let alone books marked up.
<joking> Since he's a Utah'n and a Mormon, perhaps we should ask him to disavow D'ohl McBride and any ownership claims on these texts (or the principle of marking up PD texts) before we pitch in?</joking>
I'd be happy to see specs for the 8181. It's not as if Intel (think Centrino) is going to learn anything from them. RealTek hardware and/or software has traditionally sucked (random limitations, such as the lack of word-boundary DMA on the 8139s up to rev D, and flakiness). I don't think that counts as a trade secret.
Either way, real specs would give us FOSS vandals enough of an informational leg-up to get a rudimentary driver launched, which sooner or later will be more reliable and efficient than the closed commercial one. It's to RealTek's advantage to have that happen - unless they're both short-sighted (possible) and selling said secret code to developers for big bucks.
As to the gadget itself: wireless connectivity and programmable. How you say, remote sensor? Remote waldo? Cheap 802.11 camera cluster? Sometimes it's much cheaper to buy a working gadget and hack it than to buy the bits and build one.
Case in point, this here tiny optical scroll mouse cost me AUD$23 retail at BigW; the USB interface chip alone is nearly AUD$50 retail, then I have to buy and solder up a plug and cable, house the sucker and so on. If I wanted a few bits of USB digital input, it's simpler and cheaper to buy a mouse and wire the sensors across the button-switches than to build my own device from scratch. Simplifies testing, too. Who knows, the mouse chip might have some digital output as well if I'm lucky and can find docs for it.
The public have only said no once, when a loaded question was asked.
They've been asked many times more than just in that referendum, the last round was not the first time the question has come up, and the answer has always been a convincing "no" for any reasonable cross-section of the population.
You haven't addressed the issue of lack of functional differences between the republic we have now, and the proposed new one. I think that's a big sticking point for lots of people. Why leap out of the frying pan if there's likely to be a fire below?
There's also the risk of getting that colour-sick boomerang flag bundled into the deal. (-:
Also, the MS page linked above is for their optional "Plus" pack, not for the base XP system (which comes with, what? Solitaire, hearts, minesweeper? Do we now have a more advanced MCSEHS qualification? - Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert and Hearts Shark). I do notice an ominous counter to one FOSS advantage, though, a "365 tips from users like you" section.
Australia stopped being fair years ago. Now, thanks to John Howard, we are America's bitch. Huzzah!
It would be more correct to say that Australia and the USA are bitches for the same people.
Consider the frequently-resurrected drive to "become a republic". Repeatedly, the Ausralian public has said "No!" Yet the question still gets raised again and again. Why?
Now look closer at that whole "become a republic" idea:
By that definition, we are a republic (and thanks to Paul "get a job"/"pig farmer" Keating and a thousand other nest-lining empire builders, pretty much a banana republic). The only practical delta from a pure republic is a safety valve called "the Governer General". So what's the fuss all about? Somebody wants to take a safety valve out of our government, and it sure ain't the Australian people.
They released their Linux drivers with the 2D parts Opened, and they released the specs so we-the-community could re-write an Open 3D part if we wished (thank you, Jer Yuan Yan and those who helped him) and they released a working-but-closed 3D driver.
AFAICT, that's the best possible response to the issue of not having full ownership of your software technology.
Now all we need is enough XGI dealers around that I can actually buy one of the danged things, and we'll be away...
...is that he's apparently white-cane-and-glasses blind to a lesson which history should have burned deeply into our collective national psyches by now, one of the major reasons for the founding of the USA, and a problem which even Australia constitutionally recognises (although in practice we are, like the uSA, pretty much ignoring our own Constitution whenever it really counts).
I'm talking about blending religion and politics.
If he wants the Inquisition back, albeit named something harmless-sounding like "the department of Homeland Security", then George's going the right way about it. The Inquisition had a friendly-sounding name as well, "the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", but that didn't stop it from causing tens (possibly hundreds, they also liked destroying records) of millions of deaths or perverting the government in scores of countries so that competing faiths stood no chance. Mao's and Stalin's faith-based purges weren't as subtle but killed around about as many people and clearly exposed the fallacy of regarding humanism or atheism as in any way benevolent or "safe" faiths.
I think Microsoft counts as a religion, too. Pope Bill and Cardinals Steve, Paul and so on presiding over the congregation of money-worshippers. Whether you take that idea seriously or not, they're distorting government in pretty much the same way a religion does. The irony of them claiming to have any corporate rights should be pretty clear to anyone who's read one of their EULAs.
To say that Anderer's either off his tree or snowing like Alaska in January would be something of an understatement, but it's inumportant compared to the context in which all of this crap is happening. Bush may be unsubtle about how he lets the USA get pushed around by religious and corporate interests, but Clinton didn't exactly raise a rash of red flags against most of the related issues either. If I was a Yank, I'd be voting against both Bush and Clinton.
...then the next security update would have to remove it all, by definition.
IRL, the original author's off his tree. While the sharks could bend it, the law clearly starts out by saying: the person or organisation who did the actual including is entirely at fault.
If the code said something like "stolen from Microsoft" or obviously contained Microsoft headers and such, slap-in-the-face clues that the code was still albatrossed by non-Free copyright, responsibility could easily be pushed out as far as the last entity to compile it (likely the distributor), and more fool them for not knowing what they're compiling.
In order to make end-users vulnerable, the program would have to give out a fairly unmissable clue when run. Announcing Microsoft copyrights in the splash screen would do it, although doing so on an "About" screen that you have to go out of your way (but not know any secrets) to get to would probably be enough.
If such a thing did happen, someone at Microsoft would be in the unenviable position of explaining how the code got loose, and how they know exactly what got loose and what didn't, and how they know that some sour-grapes manager didn't actually release it under a GPL or some such as a parting gift to his/her employer.
The Flat Earth mythology only popped up a very few times in history, and the Medievel Church (AKA "the Church of the Dark Ages") imported the idea from the pagans rather than thinking it up themselves. Most people in most places and times have believed the Earth to be round.
Unfortunately, your smug almost-funny doesn't prove anything either way (because if it did, I'd be able to have a lot mroe fun with it:-).
(Worse, it wasn't even accepted dogma: Galileo was just rude about pointing out the mistakes of the then-incumbent scientists, which turned it into a political fracas. Other ideas pulled from paganism include indulgences, sacerdotal services, pageantry, "the saints" as disembodied and helpful spirits, Mary as "Mater Dio", Orders... well, a long list. They didn't fall for quite everything, but they had a fair stab at it).
I think you need to apply your constant-assertion misinterpretation to a lot of modern science. Only as scientific dogma is ploughed up can newer, better theories be planted. As it is, the pace of technical progress is forcing the overturning of incumbencies a lot faster than, say, fifty years ago. New technologies for testing (and breaking) theories are snowballing.
That should get y'all started. There's too much out there, consistently presented as factual down through the ages, to be all phantasm. Stuff like the dragons on the walls of Babylon alongside and not differentiated from the ordinary animals (lions etc) alongside them.
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I have not yet run into a combination of permissions which is not simply addressable within the owner/group/world read/write/execute security space. NT's more complicated setup doesn't necessarily make for better security, actually invites less rigorous security decisions, is broken anyway.
If you want MACs, use SELinux. It rocks! If for some reason you want ACLs in your filesystem anyway, you have several FS options.
As to the original poster's question: switch anyway, and run your MS Windows apps under VMWare if WINE won't do it. Don't trust Linux, either. It is much more secure by default than MS Windows, but if you don't stay updated and do unnecessarily expose services, you will get cracked eventually.
If you also use the machine for gaming (which is the usual lame "can't"-abandon-doze excuse), power down or at least hardware write-protect your business drive(s) before rebooting into virus-land on your gaming drive, and/or pull the blue wire out. Better still, use a different machine and put it in its own DMZ.
Don't use 'doze for anything to do with networks if you can help it.
...is that MS Windows is not a modern operating system. It got a shot in the arm as a reincarnated MICA (VMS 5+) but Microsoft managed to hobble even that.
Swap partitions are even faster, but MS Windows can't do those.
For the record, I use Linux exclusively at work and at home, but I also fix lots of MS Windows machines. Today's spcial was an MS Windows 2000 box which had burped and done these things during the reboot following a hostname change:
While I was booting the dead 2000 box into Linux to splat the admin account and begin reassembling its brains (as a 2000 box for now, but the night of the long cables is coming), the same firm also had one Windows 2000 box start going spastic whenever a Zip disk was put in the drive. Sometime during the night another box (this one 98SE) had contracted MSBlast without human intervention and was now dedicated to constant rebooting. The same firm (two firms in one office, actually) has only ever had one showstopper with their Linux gateway box: one night someone kicked in the back door of the building and stole it.
They are now adopting OpenOffice and Firefox throughout, and by next week I expect them to have figured out that they don't use the calendaring functions in Lookout at all, so I'll begin switching them to Thunderbird. At least half of their users never use anything else, so may not even notice when I switch them to a Win2k-themed KDE setup.
PS, you can operate a Mac pretty well from the keyboard, too. And if you don't like KDE's keboard setup, try 3.2 - you'll be amazed.
You can key a search directly from it, and that way I get a ten-second newsburst every time I start a browser.
I also have Google translation buttons on my corporate pages. Handy si usted sabe hablar solamente espanol (oder Deutscher).
They also get points for backing away from a public offering and the potential for all of that money in favour of doing things properly.
...but the "wind" part of "kamikaze" is unquestionably there. It's a bit of an insult, really, since the WW2 kamikaze had courage, but D'ohl only has chutzpah.
Speaking of kamikaze, is anyone to willing to attach an "I break penguins" bumper sticker to D'ohl's car? Logo featuring a chained-down, angry penguin as it tears the first of the staples out of the wall...
"Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens" reads the original French. "Think of it as evolution in action" is the modern paraphrase. Either way, the whole idea sucks. Much better to do a surgical strike on a handful of TSG execs.
And of course, if you're thinking of rooting the Feds involved, think about this quote:
Nothing less would get Microsoft off their collective butts for such a small market. Iceland became something of a "martyr" to corporate indifference, so Microsoft was forced to localise for PR reasons (KDE has long had Icelandic). Linux and KDE (and probably GNOME, I don't normally use it) have long been fully or partially localised for much smaller "markets", so Microsoft is very much chasing the tail-lights here.
This is another reason for our dear friends, the convicted monopolists, to be hell-bent on stamping out all competition. Their competitors make them look bad in the same way sunlight shows up stains. The problems were there all along, but now they're obvious.
Suddenly the cultural connection between D'ohl McBride and Microsoft snaps into focus!
...but their "arrangement" of it may not be.
This is a perfectly legal way to treat PD works. PD is different to GPL. There is a reason RMS and co had to invent the GPL.
I'm guessing that the eBooks copyright might be kind of hard to actually enforce. And of course, if you don't like it, don't buy the service, just use the original PG texts.
And there's no way to delete my posts so I can mod instead. +1 informative, David Moynihan.
<joking> Since he's a Utah'n and a Mormon, perhaps we should ask him to disavow D'ohl McBride and any ownership claims on these texts (or the principle of marking up PD texts) before we pitch in?</joking>
(I said...)
I'd be happy to see specs for the 8181. It's not as if Intel (think Centrino) is going to learn anything from them. RealTek hardware and/or software has traditionally sucked (random limitations, such as the lack of word-boundary DMA on the 8139s up to rev D, and flakiness). I don't think that counts as a trade secret.
Either way, real specs would give us FOSS vandals enough of an informational leg-up to get a rudimentary driver launched, which sooner or later will be more reliable and efficient than the closed commercial one. It's to RealTek's advantage to have that happen - unless they're both short-sighted (possible) and selling said secret code to developers for big bucks.
As to the gadget itself: wireless connectivity and programmable. How you say, remote sensor? Remote waldo? Cheap 802.11 camera cluster? Sometimes it's much cheaper to buy a working gadget and hack it than to buy the bits and build one.
Case in point, this here tiny optical scroll mouse cost me AUD$23 retail at BigW; the USB interface chip alone is nearly AUD$50 retail, then I have to buy and solder up a plug and cable, house the sucker and so on. If I wanted a few bits of USB digital input, it's simpler and cheaper to buy a mouse and wire the sensors across the button-switches than to build my own device from scratch. Simplifies testing, too. Who knows, the mouse chip might have some digital output as well if I'm lucky and can find docs for it.
They've been asked many times more than just in that referendum, the last round was not the first time the question has come up, and the answer has always been a convincing "no" for any reasonable cross-section of the population.
You haven't addressed the issue of lack of functional differences between the republic we have now, and the proposed new one. I think that's a big sticking point for lots of people. Why leap out of the frying pan if there's likely to be a fire below?
There's also the risk of getting that colour-sick boomerang flag bundled into the deal. (-:
Also, the MS page linked above is for their optional "Plus" pack, not for the base XP system (which comes with, what? Solitaire, hearts, minesweeper? Do we now have a more advanced MCSEHS qualification? - Minesweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert and Hearts Shark). I do notice an ominous counter to one FOSS advantage, though, a "365 tips from users like you" section.
...that may be enough. You need to sit down and watch Brewster's Millions again. (-:
It would be more correct to say that Australia and the USA are bitches for the same people.
Consider the frequently-resurrected drive to "become a republic". Repeatedly, the Ausralian public has said "No!" Yet the question still gets raised again and again. Why?
Now look closer at that whole "become a republic" idea:
By that definition, we are a republic (and thanks to Paul "get a job"/"pig farmer" Keating and a thousand other nest-lining empire builders, pretty much a banana republic). The only practical delta from a pure republic is a safety valve called "the Governer General". So what's the fuss all about? Somebody wants to take a safety valve out of our government, and it sure ain't the Australian people.
Oh, the irony!
AFAICT, that's the best possible response to the issue of not having full ownership of your software technology.
Now all we need is enough XGI dealers around that I can actually buy one of the danged things, and we'll be away...
...is one way to make him a front-runner. Not that Nader is without his faults, but he'd be a Godsend compared with his alternates.
...is that he's apparently white-cane-and-glasses blind to a lesson which history should have burned deeply into our collective national psyches by now, one of the major reasons for the founding of the USA, and a problem which even Australia constitutionally recognises (although in practice we are, like the uSA, pretty much ignoring our own Constitution whenever it really counts).
I'm talking about blending religion and politics.
If he wants the Inquisition back, albeit named something harmless-sounding like "the department of Homeland Security", then George's going the right way about it. The Inquisition had a friendly-sounding name as well, "the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", but that didn't stop it from causing tens (possibly hundreds, they also liked destroying records) of millions of deaths or perverting the government in scores of countries so that competing faiths stood no chance. Mao's and Stalin's faith-based purges weren't as subtle but killed around about as many people and clearly exposed the fallacy of regarding humanism or atheism as in any way benevolent or "safe" faiths.
I think Microsoft counts as a religion, too. Pope Bill and Cardinals Steve, Paul and so on presiding over the congregation of money-worshippers. Whether you take that idea seriously or not, they're distorting government in pretty much the same way a religion does. The irony of them claiming to have any corporate rights should be pretty clear to anyone who's read one of their EULAs.
To say that Anderer's either off his tree or snowing like Alaska in January would be something of an understatement, but it's inumportant compared to the context in which all of this crap is happening. Bush may be unsubtle about how he lets the USA get pushed around by religious and corporate interests, but Clinton didn't exactly raise a rash of red flags against most of the related issues either. If I was a Yank, I'd be voting against both Bush and Clinton.
...then the next security update would have to remove it all, by definition.
IRL, the original author's off his tree. While the sharks could bend it, the law clearly starts out by saying: the person or organisation who did the actual including is entirely at fault.
If the code said something like "stolen from Microsoft" or obviously contained Microsoft headers and such, slap-in-the-face clues that the code was still albatrossed by non-Free copyright, responsibility could easily be pushed out as far as the last entity to compile it (likely the distributor), and more fool them for not knowing what they're compiling.
In order to make end-users vulnerable, the program would have to give out a fairly unmissable clue when run. Announcing Microsoft copyrights in the splash screen would do it, although doing so on an "About" screen that you have to go out of your way (but not know any secrets) to get to would probably be enough.
If such a thing did happen, someone at Microsoft would be in the unenviable position of explaining how the code got loose, and how they know exactly what got loose and what didn't, and how they know that some sour-grapes manager didn't actually release it under a GPL or some such as a parting gift to his/her employer.
Dang, I had mod points yesterday, and another batch about 3 days ago, where are they when I actually need them?
The Flat Earth mythology only popped up a very few times in history, and the Medievel Church (AKA "the Church of the Dark Ages") imported the idea from the pagans rather than thinking it up themselves. Most people in most places and times have believed the Earth to be round.
:-).
Unfortunately, your smug almost-funny doesn't prove anything either way (because if it did, I'd be able to have a lot mroe fun with it
(Worse, it wasn't even accepted dogma: Galileo was just rude about pointing out the mistakes of the then-incumbent scientists, which turned it into a political fracas. Other ideas pulled from paganism include indulgences, sacerdotal services, pageantry, "the saints" as disembodied and helpful spirits, Mary as "Mater Dio", Orders... well, a long list. They didn't fall for quite everything, but they had a fair stab at it).
I think you need to apply your constant-assertion misinterpretation to a lot of modern science. Only as scientific dogma is ploughed up can newer, better theories be planted. As it is, the pace of technical progress is forcing the overturning of incumbencies a lot faster than, say, fifty years ago. New technologies for testing (and breaking) theories are snowballing.
A doctor from 500 years ago describes them, some interesting stuff amongst the debatable collection here and an account from 1706 of Alpine dragons.
That should get y'all started. There's too much out there, consistently presented as factual down through the ages, to be all phantasm. Stuff like the dragons on the walls of Babylon alongside and not differentiated from the ordinary animals (lions etc) alongside them.