Traffic to or from port 25 is dropped at my router. My external email provider gives me SMTP-TLS on a high port, so I lose nothing.
This means that even if a worm gets through the NAT and manages to infect my patched-to current AV-running machines, it can't do what 90% of them want to. Thus, when the patch/AV database update arrives and kills it, I know I've not contribued to the problem.
This always confuses me. I've yet to find a human who wasn't guilty of something, and I see no reason to assume that animals are inherently more law-abiding.
I considered using this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney and cron to do something fun with the mailing list archives, but I figured people might notice. Perhaps they wouldn't...
Phil
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You need to look in either Andrew's arch repository or mine for a more up-to-date version of Y. It's still years away from being usable wherever you get it from, so don't bother unless you want to hack on it. See my other rant: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146748&cid=122 93465.
When Y gets to the slightly-usable stage I'll submit a story to/. myself.
Don't go there expecting anything you'll be able to use in the near future. I fully expect HURD 1.0 to be released before we're done.
Please don't join the mailing list and ask "is anyone still working on this?" or "when will feature x be included?", because I'm tired of telling people to fuck off. We're working on it, we'll work on the features _we_ want in the order we feel like doing them. If you want something done you can do it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you.
Apologies for the rant: the usual followup to that link being posted on/. is a stream of fools bitching at Mark/Andrew/me for not working hard enough on Y. I work on it in _my_ time, and people telling me what I ought to be doing usually causes me to go do something else entirely.
IBM can only force a company to determine if it is infringing one of their patents by bringing suit against them. To bring a lawsuit, they must list the patents they think are being infringed in the filing. If the company being sued ends up paying anything to IBM that implies that they _were_ infringing at least some of the patents in the lawsuit.
IBM would be breaking the law if they failed to use a patent which they knew could be profitably used -- publicly traded companies are obliged to do the best they can for their shareholders.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but IBM generally does what it _has to_ under the rules in place today; and I think it took a fair amount of corporate and personal courage to come out and say "we don't like the way things are". However, even if they don't like the rules, they still have to play the game.
The PowerPC chips Apple buys are cheaperer in bulk than the equivalent Athlon64/Opteron or P4/Xeon chips. It's the POWER series which are expensive, if you can even convince IBM to sell you one outside a pSeries/iSeries box. The 970FX (G5) is about as sophisticated as a POWER3+, which is now several generations out of date.
Indeed he would. And he might also have realised the reason it's a story: the Columbia disaster was caused by fragments of the foam insulation on the fuel tank knocking insulator tiles off the wings as the shuttle launched.
And people have been known to buy and sell votes before. I do not see why anyone is surprised that this has happened.
As soon as you have a process which is advantageous to a party if it comes out a certain way they will seek to influence the outcome in that direction. It happens that in this case the process is well-understood, and has an obvious manipulation strategy.
Frankly, I would be shocked and surprised if this type of thing didn't happen.
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Traffic to or from port 25 is dropped at my router. My external email provider gives me SMTP-TLS on a high port, so I lose nothing.
This means that even if a worm gets through the NAT and manages to infect my patched-to current AV-running machines, it can't do what 90% of them want to. Thus, when the patch/AV database update arrives and kills it, I know I've not contribued to the problem.
This is broadly my view. Since software is as difficult to innovate in as anything else, innovative software should be as patentable as anything else.
Whether anything should be patentable is another question. And one I will leave to the philosophers.
The synergy there was a joy to behold.
This always confuses me. I've yet to find a human who wasn't guilty of something, and I see no reason to assume that animals are inherently more law-abiding.
It works for me.
I'd avoid the ~amd64 keyword.
Mark's is linked off the website but RSI means he doesn't develop much these days.
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Mine is linked from here http://www.y-windows.org/pipermail/y-devel/2005-F
And Andrew doesn't seem to have linked his publicly.
Phil
I don't care if no-one else gives a shit about it. Doesn't stop me having fun. Market share, PR, and all that crap is for companies and egotists.
Phil
I guess I asked for that.
I considered using this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney and cron to do something fun with the mailing list archives, but I figured people might notice. Perhaps they wouldn't...
Phil
You need to look in either Andrew's arch repository or mine for a more up-to-date version of Y. It's still years away from being usable wherever you get it from, so don't bother unless you want to hack on it. See my other rant: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146748&cid=122 93465.
/. myself.
When Y gets to the slightly-usable stage I'll submit a story to
Phil
Don't go there expecting anything you'll be able to use in the near future. I fully expect HURD 1.0 to be released before we're done.
/. is a stream of fools bitching at Mark/Andrew/me for not working hard enough on Y. I work on it in _my_ time, and people telling me what I ought to be doing usually causes me to go do something else entirely.
Please don't join the mailing list and ask "is anyone still working on this?" or "when will feature x be included?", because I'm tired of telling people to fuck off. We're working on it, we'll work on the features _we_ want in the order we feel like doing them. If you want something done you can do it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you.
Apologies for the rant: the usual followup to that link being posted on
Phil
( phil -at- y -hyphen- windows -dot- org )
Sadly, only two of us got that.
Nope.
OK, let's dissect your post a bit.
IBM can only force a company to determine if it is infringing one of their patents by bringing suit against them. To bring a lawsuit, they must list the patents they think are being infringed in the filing. If the company being sued ends up paying anything to IBM that implies that they _were_ infringing at least some of the patents in the lawsuit.
IBM would be breaking the law if they failed to use a patent which they knew could be profitably used -- publicly traded companies are obliged to do the best they can for their shareholders.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but IBM generally does what it _has to_ under the rules in place today; and I think it took a fair amount of corporate and personal courage to come out and say "we don't like the way things are". However, even if they don't like the rules, they still have to play the game.
Since it would have expired before the start of recorded history, we can have no evidence either way for your statement.
The PowerPC chips Apple buys are cheaperer in bulk than the equivalent Athlon64/Opteron or P4/Xeon chips. It's the POWER series which are expensive, if you can even convince IBM to sell you one outside a pSeries/iSeries box. The 970FX (G5) is about as sophisticated as a POWER3+, which is now several generations out of date.
They're saying stealing cars is OK? Cool.
Up next "Pinch my ride!"
Whereas you are a regular moron.
Indeed he would. And he might also have realised the reason it's a story: the Columbia disaster was caused by fragments of the foam insulation on the fuel tank knocking insulator tiles off the wings as the shuttle launched.
Phil
Parent appears to know what he's talking about. I know that's against the site rules, but I won't grass him up if you don't.
The chap who moderated it interesting is in the same boat.
I generally find it's Maths grads who have the biggest problems with arithmetic.
5 bytes covers 1,099,511,627,776 possibilities, which is a little harder.
It rather depends on how difficult it is to test each possibility.
Yes, he did, I distinctly remember it. It may of course have been on page 2.
And people have been known to buy and sell votes before. I do not see why anyone is surprised that this has happened.
As soon as you have a process which is advantageous to a party if it comes out a certain way they will seek to influence the outcome in that direction. It happens that in this case the process is well-understood, and has an obvious manipulation strategy.
Frankly, I would be shocked and surprised if this type of thing didn't happen.
Meh. Troll away all you like, but emerge -e world takes under 12 hours on my desktop box. Many things take longer than that.
AMD64 architecture helps...