I liked the quote - "And while Torvalds and Linux have recently faced legal issues about whether Linux might have some proprietary code embedded in it, that distraction is dwarfed by the time and energy Gates has devoted to battling the U.S. Justice Dept. That antitrust case clearly diverted resources away from innovation and making sure his organization was operating at top efficiency."
Yeah, that distraction is dwarfed all right. The page replies alone from/. on any given day shows just how distracting it all is.
I just can't wait for the 5036 replies to the article "Bill Gates tells Linus to FO".
We're geeks. Driven to distraction - and here it is. B
I think it's an interesting twist that a hacker-genremovie would come to name the first full country to attempt secede from the Microsoft union.
I wish them well and hope that they contribute back;)
-B
Whenever I'm feeling constipated, I read this paper on.NET.. Whenever I'm running low on toilet paper, the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation... Yeah I'm out of the academia loop and don't read too much published works aside from whatever gets noticed here...
-B
Two areas of society drive technology inovations - porn and the military. The military guys are too busy dropping lithium batteries in water and anything else would drive the fun factor out of batteries. Porn? Well... D cells rock the vibrators, and there's no need in decreasing the size of those clam shuckers. The only step up from there is an A/C adaptor and discount pricing with your local power company. -B
Here.. Quote from Ballmer "Why should code submitted randomly by some hacker in China and distributed by some open source project, why is that, by definition, better?"
Check that Nigerian 419 article (this was in last week's/.).. "These folks are some of the same great people who are supposed to be working for you anyway, plus a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure."
The marching orders have been given.. -B
Re:Talk about shooting yourself in the foot
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Security FUD On Linux
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· Score: 4, Funny
There are 5 stages of denial - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Wonder which stage this PR campaign fits?
Take a look at his previous work... (1998 and talking about portals) here, 2002 and more portals. How many damn classes can you teach about web portals? Those who cannot do, teach.... Here's a debrief from EduCAUSE that summarizes some of his ideas -
No more institution centric home page
There should only be one portal. (don't want the students using Yahoo! or
Excite - we want them to use our portal)
There must exist -complete- customization available to the user. Otherwise, they will continue to use another portal that allows them to do what they want.
Replaces your desktop
Some of the neat terminology Howard creates:
Cameos: Small pieces of data from larger data set
and most important, the most important challenge isn't technical, it is requiring all data owners to work together.
Congrats Howard, get your closed source, proprietary formats working together. GOD this guy is listed as a futurist! Here's another damn article about portals in 2015. JEEZ give it a break.
Microsoft scratched SCO's back - SCO is just scratching back. It's pretty odd that SCO would license Microsoft's protocols and them and then incorporate Samba3 into SCOServer. That whole "we respect IP" crap isn't flying
I don't think it's fair that they're counting this puppet when trying to go after the puppet master.
-B
I quit UO immediately after AoS was released. UO has been rapidly declining into the world of "bright and shiny" object acquisition, and the players were eating it up. West Britain Bank looked like someone ate a case of playdough (all the colors) and vomited on screeen. Over the past 2 years, they've made more unstackable items and the players went on a frenzy to have one of everything of the new items. Then AoS brought out the housing database with completely customized houses (think 1-3 graphic objects per square). Between the unique items, the number of items that couldn't be stacked, the number of items that a house pushed out, they probably created 10-20x the amount of data that the database and the client had to process.
The Lag monster was always nipping at your heels before AoS, but AoS really put some teeth into him - of course it didn't help that Magic Resist was completely nuked as well.
Lag + No Effective Resist = Death = 4 year player quitting because I could never solo the lag monster.
-B
Do we need this? Preaching to the choir?
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Software Exorcism
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· Score: 2, Interesting
This review makes it sound like "Tin Foil Hats for Dummies". Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. Yes, HR has to reply to me via email, perticularly how they can justify working salaried employees past 40 hours a week while paying them less than $27/hour in direct violation of the FSLA. Yes I move all of my personal/HR emails offsite. Yes, I encrypt when necessary... but TEMPEST? Cmon, TEMPEST shielding is like putting up a grounded copper cage around my cube. I don't necessarily trust my management to make sound IS/IT decisions, but some common sense will go a long way in covering your ass. No, I'm not new here, but I must have missed the memo that said Tues/Thurs is Feed The Trolls day ( TIFTD ?) -B
I think it's pretty funny that he's comparing one userbase against a corporation's practices/products. He should write an article on trojans, spyware, security, and operating system resilience and bring out the true windows users. You know why I like Linux? More than often, you have to read the docs to set stuff up. That shows initiative on the user's behalf. When windows users rtfm as much as linux users and get a clue, then we can compare the userbase.
Within both camps there will be idiots. Those that can't figure out Linux will be back on Windows and the average IQ of both groups will rise.
One thing that makes it much easier is the fact that some of the project names are not very good. MoinMoin?
This was the first time I've heard of Subversion and I can appreciate the clever file naming reference, but no PHB will have an app named subversion because I'm sure he'll believe it's already being used.
Those are the only 2 project names that really stand out as being bad.... -B
Nah, Their order fulfillments are placed on candle trucks. If Google can only find one candle truck, what chance does Mississippi have?
Re:Keep putting it off. Please !
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Longhorn in 2006
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I hope you're not using Microsoft's licensing 6.0... I couldn't find anything about MS's S/A or licensing program so here some of the register's articles about windows expiration dates and licenses, and Microsoft's License to Confuse. As you'll remember there were a few key dates (Aug 1, 2002) that you had to enroll by to be part of Licensing 6.0. With a 3 year subscription rate - that'll put you almost in longhorn territory when it comes time to renew.
I'm betting that they delayed the publicly communicated release date and will somehow manage to "release it early" in time for the subscriptions to gobble Longhorn up.
"Second, the GSP entails involvement of the Microsoft team for rectification of any flaw detected in the Company's software. Any such correction carried out would be the intellectual property of the company. "
Free bugfixes, no IP, Still paying too much. That and the fact that there are no major Indian software houses that have engaged Microsoft in any previous trust-building exercises.
"the ability to replicate, to communicate information, and to metabolise and grow.
He found that the spheres could replicate by splitting into two. Under the right conditions they also got bigger, taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers.
Finally, they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency. The spheres are not the only self-organising systems to meet all of these requirements. But they are the first gaseous "cells".
Is a form of eletronic harmonic resonance communication? Is breaking apart in two and merging together reproduction? Given that water has surface tension (boundry layer), can communicate (ooh it vibrates), and reproduce (really vague definition here), water's alive by this vague definition.
Sanduloviciu may have found something interesting, maybe he didn't, but the wordplay and generalizations don't cut it.
-B
You know with all this apocolyptical nonsense about terrorism and readiness, you should at least have the foresight to do it right... Two things will survive a full scale nuclear war.. Cockroaches and COBOL. Plan for the future. Get your seal.
Just did a basic search on Simson Garfinkel I didn't know who he was... He's a writer for O'Reilly and has penned/contributed to some of their books "Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition","Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition","Database Nation (Paperback) "... damn he's been writing Unix security books since '91...
Slashdot Mirror
I liked the quote - "And while Torvalds and Linux have recently faced legal issues about whether Linux might have some proprietary code embedded in it, that distraction is dwarfed by the time and energy Gates has devoted to battling the U.S. Justice Dept. That antitrust case clearly diverted resources away from innovation and making sure his organization was operating at top efficiency."
/. on any given day shows just how distracting it all is.
Yeah, that distraction is dwarfed all right. The page replies alone from
I just can't wait for the 5036 replies to the article "Bill Gates tells Linus to FO".
We're geeks. Driven to distraction - and here it is.
B
I think it's an interesting twist that a hacker-genre movie would come to name the first full country to attempt secede from the Microsoft union. I wish them well and hope that they contribute back ;)
-B
Whenever I'm feeling constipated, I read this paper on .NET.. Whenever I'm running low on toilet paper, the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation...
Yeah I'm out of the academia loop and don't read too much published works aside from whatever gets noticed here...
-B
Two areas of society drive technology inovations - porn and the military. The military guys are too busy dropping lithium batteries in water and anything else would drive the fun factor out of batteries. Porn? Well... D cells rock the vibrators, and there's no need in decreasing the size of those clam shuckers. The only step up from there is an A/C adaptor and discount pricing with your local power company.
-B
Here.. Quote from Ballmer "Why should code submitted randomly by some hacker in China and distributed by some open source project, why is that, by definition, better?" /.).. "These folks are some of the same great people who are supposed to be working for you anyway, plus a smattering of teenagers too young to work at Redmond, hackers, virus creators, and a menagerie of others with whom you will feel great pride in entrusting your IT infrastructure."
Check that Nigerian 419 article (this was in last week's
The marching orders have been given..
-B
There are 5 stages of denial - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Wonder which stage this PR campaign fits?
I could have sworn Microsoft was a monolith... It said "All These Architectures Are Yours, Except x86. Attempt No Landing There."
-B
- No more institution centric home page
- There should only be one portal. (don't want the students using Yahoo! or
Excite - we want them to use our portal)
- There must exist -complete- customization available to the user. Otherwise, they will continue to use another portal that allows them to do what they want.
- Replaces your desktop
Some of the neat terminology Howard creates: Cameos: Small pieces of data from larger data set and most important, the most important challenge isn't technical, it is requiring all data owners to work together.Congrats Howard, get your closed source, proprietary formats working together. GOD this guy is listed as a futurist! Here's another damn article about portals in 2015. JEEZ give it a break.
Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"... I fell into a burning ring of fire.. I went down down down and the flames crept higher...and it burns burns burns.
Maybe it's cause the solar flares cause my bald head to dry out and itch and burn. I should know better to go outside without my foil lined cap.
B
Microsoft scratched SCO's back - SCO is just scratching back. It's pretty odd that SCO would license Microsoft's protocols and them and then incorporate Samba3 into SCOServer. That whole "we respect IP" crap isn't flying
I don't think it's fair that they're counting this puppet when trying to go after the puppet master.
-B
I quit UO immediately after AoS was released. UO has been rapidly declining into the world of "bright and shiny" object acquisition, and the players were eating it up. West Britain Bank looked like someone ate a case of playdough (all the colors) and vomited on screeen. Over the past 2 years, they've made more unstackable items and the players went on a frenzy to have one of everything of the new items. Then AoS brought out the housing database with completely customized houses (think 1-3 graphic objects per square). Between the unique items, the number of items that couldn't be stacked, the number of items that a house pushed out, they probably created 10-20x the amount of data that the database and the client had to process.
The Lag monster was always nipping at your heels before AoS, but AoS really put some teeth into him - of course it didn't help that Magic Resist was completely nuked as well.
Lag + No Effective Resist = Death = 4 year player quitting because I could never solo the lag monster.
-B
This review makes it sound like "Tin Foil Hats for Dummies". Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist. Yes, HR has to reply to me via email, perticularly how they can justify working salaried employees past 40 hours a week while paying them less than $27/hour in direct violation of the FSLA. Yes I move all of my personal/HR emails offsite. Yes, I encrypt when necessary... but TEMPEST?
Cmon, TEMPEST shielding is like putting up a grounded copper cage around my cube. I don't necessarily trust my management to make sound IS/IT decisions, but some common sense will go a long way in covering your ass. No, I'm not new here, but I must have missed the memo that said Tues/Thurs is Feed The Trolls day ( TIFTD ?)
-B
Other links in the pdf -
1. The OSS Fact Sheet
2. The Report on OSS usage
3. The Report on market structure and issues related to public procurement
All three of the above documents can be found here in other formats as well as PDF.
-B
The pdf is 148 pages ~850k , but I'm sure that won't stop the comments from coming... *reads onward*
-B
I think it's pretty funny that he's comparing one userbase against a corporation's practices/products. He should write an article on trojans, spyware, security, and operating system resilience and bring out the true windows users. You know why I like Linux? More than often, you have to read the docs to set stuff up. That shows initiative on the user's behalf. When windows users rtfm as much as linux users and get a clue, then we can compare the userbase.
Within both camps there will be idiots. Those that can't figure out Linux will be back on Windows and the average IQ of both groups will rise.
-B
PHP nuke lets you choose a theme so it's not that bad... but the default themes need a visit from that tv show... Queer Eye for the straight GUI.
One thing that makes it much easier is the fact that some of the project names are not very good. MoinMoin?
....
This was the first time I've heard of Subversion and I can appreciate the clever file naming reference, but no PHB will have an app named subversion because I'm sure he'll believe it's already being used.
Those are the only 2 project names that really stand out as being bad
-B
Nah, Their order fulfillments are placed on candle trucks. If Google can only find one candle truck, what chance does Mississippi have?
I hope you're not using Microsoft's licensing 6.0... I couldn't find anything about MS's S/A or licensing program so here some of the register's articles about windows expiration dates and licenses, and Microsoft's License to Confuse. As you'll remember there were a few key dates (Aug 1, 2002) that you had to enroll by to be part of Licensing 6.0. With a 3 year subscription rate - that'll put you almost in longhorn territory when it comes time to renew.
I'm betting that they delayed the publicly communicated release date and will somehow manage to "release it early" in time for the subscriptions to gobble Longhorn up.
-B
"Second, the GSP entails involvement of the Microsoft team for rectification of any flaw detected in the Company's software. Any such correction carried out would be the intellectual property of the company. "
Free bugfixes, no IP, Still paying too much. That and the fact that there are no major Indian software houses that have engaged Microsoft in any previous trust-building exercises.
Bad deal all around.
-B
"the ability to replicate, to communicate information, and to metabolise and grow. He found that the spheres could replicate by splitting into two. Under the right conditions they also got bigger, taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers.
Finally, they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency. The spheres are not the only self-organising systems to meet all of these requirements. But they are the first gaseous "cells".
Is a form of eletronic harmonic resonance communication? Is breaking apart in two and merging together reproduction? Given that water has surface tension (boundry layer), can communicate (ooh it vibrates), and reproduce (really vague definition here), water's alive by this vague definition.
Sanduloviciu may have found something interesting, maybe he didn't, but the wordplay and generalizations don't cut it.
-B
You know with all this apocolyptical nonsense about terrorism and readiness, you should at least have the foresight to do it right... Two things will survive a full scale nuclear war.. Cockroaches and COBOL. Plan for the future. Get your seal.
-B
I'll tell you what suspicious behavior is... When a terrorist overlord has factions in 82 countries wages a campaign of shock and awwwww upon a target demographic....
The squeaky wheels of justice need greasing...
-B
Seems like an appropriate title.. Thieving bastards...
-B
Just did a basic search on Simson Garfinkel I didn't know who he was... He's a writer for O'Reilly and has penned/contributed to some of their books "Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition","Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition","Database Nation (Paperback) "... damn he's been writing Unix security books since '91...