It is not Linus' fault that people think Operating System = GUI = window manager = kernel. This said, it is probably not CNET's fault that they think so as well, even though you would expect some better technical knowledge from them... I understand CNET's concern and unlike many claims, they aren't doing FUD on this story.
When Linus or another high profile person says something like "OS X Filesystem is crap", especially basing it to "case sensitivity" issue which can be really fixed by changing a SINGLE setting in easily accessible Application while installing (Select Case sensitive HFSX) and they ignore the industry Apple _has to_ stay compatible with (Quark, Adobe etc.), people gets very serious second thoughts about relying to open source on OS X.
I won't share some of random stuff I saw on various bugzillas just not to give ammo to the real professional FUD mongers but believe me, you always get question "What if the tool we choose instead of Adobe solution fails at some stage and Developer flames us as "Use a real OS, OS X is crap" ?
They should be understanding about how hard to move to OS X from an OS like OS9, Apple still has to care about backward compatibility, should care about that DTP guy having 4 different versions of Quark Express installed (since he has to!). It is not like Linux. It is a commercial OS. When they say "Eww Resources", Mac people automatically starts to hate open source idea. For average OS X user, Linus=Linux
yes, Hotmail 'works' on Linux, but it works better under Microsoft's OS
So does the Department of Justice need to declare Apple a monopoly within the online music and entertainment market in order for this same problem to apply to iTunes and QuickTime, both of which "work" on Windows, but work better on Mac OS X?
Is it Apple's fault to code real enhancements to their OS such as Corevideo, Coreimage, Quartz Extreme and sticking them to an industry standard like OpenGL which eventually makes ALL Applications (not only Qt) work faster on OS X?
Benchmark mplayer os x and mplayer linux/x11, you will be surprised.
So, is Yahoo the first and only company that dared to say "No" to Microsoft? I think it is. They were after Opera (software) for a long time, Opera Boss replied "1 dollar more than you can pay" many times. If they had such a slick code in their hand, IE for Mobile would be same as IE For Windows and later they would slowly abandon Symbian, Linux ports or make people hate them. We would end up begging some open source developer to code for our little memory, little screen devices which would never likely happen.
They made the best ever IE on OS 9/OS X and abandoned it. They abandoned Windows Media Player (DRM included, big deal) perfectly working on OS X 10.3.x ages. If you see "Sorry, windows only" on those pay per view etc. sites, that is the main reason.
Imagine a company who abandons their media player on a just taking off platform which there is almost no resistance to DRM only because... It doesn't use its OS. People tell "They wouldn't do such an insane thing to move Yahoo to Windows". I know both companies as user for a long time, they CAN do it. They did it with Hotmail already. Once on a time, people have actually chosen Hotmail over their ISP mail since it was more reliable. They moved _that_ to Windows.
I suggest Slashdot people who thinks Yahoo is lame because of their homepage check http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see what Yahoo actually is. Huge Flash sign thanks to Flashblock... lame side indeed. Considering a developer site lame just because they use flash is a bit childish, sorry. They are living in REAL WORLD, real people, serving to REAL developers some free SDKs which also includes Flash/Flex applications. It is not like some 133t wannabe thing, it is some part of a company who considers $46 _billion_ a cheap price for its worth.
The "huge flash sign" you speak about is some Yahoo developer explaining why OpenID, a vendor neutral, OPEN technology is a big step for Yahoo. You know, they adopted that technology for their 250 million accounts lately. Hopefully you didn't miss that news with whatever block you use.
FreeBSD doesn't work well with Windows. It is not a joke. If it worked (or works) it could be a huge disaster for both companies. Yahoo buyout is not some "dotcom startup invented something, lets buy it" thing, 46 billion is a huge money even for Microsoft. They can't say "Oh it didn't work" and turn their backs.
Companies are not compatible with each other. Yahoo is a open source powered services giant. MS is Windows maker who struggles to make Windows more credible in large installations. Would MS pay $46 billion to further advertise open source technologies and operating systems like FreeBSD?
I suggest Slashdot people who thinks Yahoo is lame because of their homepage check http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see what Yahoo actually is.
MS tried OpenID like service and failed miserably because industry giants like Sun, Novell (while they were real), IBM and every privacy organisation you can imagine have put their pressure against it.
Regarding FBI and if you are American citizen or any foreigner who made someone mad enough to get court order from American court, they don't need such "sci-fi" things like OpenID. Right papers presented to some lawyers is enough.
"In the event that SourceForge becomes aware that site security is compromised or nonpublic user information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to external security attacks, SourceForge shall take reasonable measures which it deems appropriate, including but not limited to internal investigation and reporting, and notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities, notwithstanding other provisions of this Privacy Statement." (click "Privacy"
If MS "Passport" (the REAL one, not current) worked, that was the time we would get real afraid. There could be things like "Not using Windows and IE? You can't read your mail". "We use Passport service to fill your taxes, please create an account".
If people focus on such real threats rather than clueless "M$" bashing, they would see real threats every time MS innocently proposes some standard. MS Passport you see today is a dinosaur evolving to a little bird after USA law system warned "don't even try".
I know I can play Halo 2 on XP using a third-party tool that basically tricks Halo 2 into thinking it's on Vista. I'd link to the site, but I just checked and it's been taken over by advertiser domain squatters. If it really works, someone should sue them for claiming false things about DirectX 10 and tricking people to buy/upgrade to Vista.
Sad thing is, directx junk somehow made into OS X thanks to Intel chips and lazy/lame developers. Those Cider based games from EA etc. stuff.
If you'd bothered to even finish reading the summary (let alone the article), you would have noticed the key word: SHARED. Nobody's talking about hosting this all on one physical computer any more than Gmail is hosted on one physical computer. Both setups are distributed clusters of smaller computers.
At which point you start to see were IBM's idea actually make sense--they are talking about building a worldwide, distributed, networked collection of cooperating computers... HEY, that sounds an awful lot like the Internet!!
(I swear, the comment quality on Slashdot gets more and more like YouTube every day.) They are in fact creating visions on paper, for theoretical future demands and how can current software scheme, development practices could deal with it. If you dig enough, I am sure there were some visionary IBM guys in 1960s who theorises about things similar to today's World. I also think Slashdot should put an end to this "You don't need Digg" type of image shift, it is getting more awful every day. Original racing with half lame copies doesn't make sense.
I nominate the IBM Model M keyboard and its brethren as being among the most bulletproof gadgets ever made. They weigh 5 pounds, mostly because the keys are mounted on a solid steel plate. And not only are they indestructible, but they're delightful to type on. I forgot their name but isn't there a keyboard company who produced even better keyboards than IBM Model M and went out of business because of low sales since their stuff never got broken?
Staring at my Logitech "iFeel" mouse which even includes a motor inside and works for 6 years, I read some horrible feedback regarding new Logitech stuff and I wonder if they carry some decision lately to stay in business?
I wouldn't wait a second to order IBM Model M (they are produced) if I didn't use a very strange layout's Mac strange version. Also shipping to my country will really cost.
I already come here to idly pass my time away with tech news, not shitty popularly selected pop-news articles. You will "idly" filter Slashdot idle section from your front page I think. Like the OSTG toolbar thing.
A few weeks ago a MS office opened in a small office park in Boulder CO (38th and Araphoe area). Then they put a large semi-trailer sized white box in the parking lot. They then put eight large air condition units on top the white box. Looks like an instant data center to me...
Anyone else seen one of these suddenly appear? If it is a small do-it-yourself datacenter, it is another example of them not going with "already invented" thing.
If Yahoo (with current management) needed such thing, they would call Sun to lease/buy one of these: http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp . As MS is allergic to that giant Sun Logo and they would fire the first sane guy suggesting "Solaris"... You get the deal.
While replying to your comment on Omniweb/OS X, I also have Kopete 0.2.17 running as my Leopard OS X instant messenger. Zero issues, in fact, it also remembers its window position on OS X desktop unlike many "native OS X" programs.
People yet doesn't get what Kopete.exe or Kopete.app running on Windows/OS X means. I am close to experience it since Leopard comes with rootless X11. Now imagine a native OS X/Windows application. It will really change things.
As Nokia didn't pay $150 M for nothing, now imagine Kopete (or any KDE app) running natively on Symbian/WinCE/iPhone. That is the plan.
Hotmail got acquired by MS and I was one of first to ask if there is a way to close my account;)
Why?
Is it an irrational hatred of all things microsoft?
The current hotmail is not actually that bad. The new live ui is pretty sleek, and it works as well in firefox as IE. I was using Windows that time, I knew what acquisition by MS means thanks to their hatred to my favorite browser at the time, Netscape.
Later they proved my point over and over while I was using Opera as my favourite browser.
That is the company we are talking about. They could do this even while they knew they are dealing with a browser vendor. Opera Bork Edition wasn't a meaningless joke. Some say, the cost could be $500M to MS.
You know the most compatible, Web 2.0 like, drag and drop webmail of today which will work in any modern browser, even Kopete running on OS X? AOL Webmail. Speaking about irrational hatred...
I report spams I receive since the day spamcop.net exists. Even Koreans started to do something about spam reports they receive while Google does nothing at all.
I am not a newbie to the internet, I don't really care if spam sent has @gmail from address, the thing is, there are people on Google mail uses Google's @gmail and sends actual spam from Google mail, Google does nothing about it.
Some Google servers actually made into Yahoo bulk mailing filter. With that massive datacenter, they don't offer "This is spam" for search results, Google Groups has become the most notorious spam source of Usenet, Blogger doesn't allow spam reports, I can continue on and on but we are discussing the only reliable alternative to Google being purchased by MS now...
Fair enough - but my understanding, based on what I've heard from people who work for MSN, is that MS is not particularly good at running large data centers. It's not one of their strengths. And I'm speculating that Yahoo may be better at it because data center ops are more central to their business. MS can't dare to say "FreeBSD looks like the right choice for this job" and use FreeBSD. They have also got locked to Windows in a different way.
They removed a perfectly running FreeBSD from Hotmail and installed (first fake than real) Windows instead. You have seen the results.
Well if you can't build a good search engine of your own, just buy one.
In fact just like about everything MS has ever done (eg SQL, IE, PowerPoint...) Yahoo's power and success comes from multi platform awareness, using right tools for job without caring about what OS it runs (mostly FreeBSD), giving the same service to everyone with a recent browser regardless of OS, being open to all developers even including competitors...
I checked Live.com the day it was announced. When it bitched about not using IE (when I tried to login my passport account) , I never visited it back. That is what makes every MS attempt unsuccessful. They can't live with the fact that there is a thing called HTML standard, TCPIP standard and Internet is platform neutral from beginning. They use every opportunity to alienate other OS/Browser users.
I could never see Yahoo as a great search engine although it seems spammers/blackhats/SEO junk targets them less. For the record, Google has always been a spammer heaven for me too.
So this means people will begin avoiding Yahoo with the same impunity they avoid MSN? Theoretically Microsoft could buy up anything good about the internet so we can all shut our computers down and settle in w/a trip to the library and a good book. I am sure Yahoo already lost a lot of users just because of the rumor/bid. I actually checked if closing/purging Yahoo account is still easy and my account exists there since 1998. Guess why that account was opened first time? Hotmail got acquired by MS and I was one of first to ask if there is a way to close my account;) Moved to Yahoo the day it was announced.
how odd. It is so strange to see a story like this not tagged as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong". Also where is "Putin" tag as there seems to be Cold War 2.0 going on lately?
Russian subs used to employ a cutting device on some of their submarines designed to cut the cables used in undersea sonar nets... I'm thinking it wouldn't take too much to start a war these days given how much we rely on these underwater communication cables. That said, it's more likely that a ship's anchor snagged it. It happened in Istanbul when a storm hit. Ping times went higher and higher and later, entire foreign IP communication crashed. Everyone thought it is because of storm. It was because of storm in a different way:)
A ship anchor. Captain decided to stop because of storm and anchored middle of nowhere. Anchor finds the underwater fiber cable, one in billion bad luck.
Underwater cables are important but the bandwidth can be offloaded to satellites. Very expensive solution but I don't think those petrol rich countries would care.
BTW, I wonder if it is the famous bad luck underwater Seabone as Italy mentioned.
I guessed a URL on Amazon replying at a different story on slashdot, http://www.amazon.com/topsellers , it gives an ordinary 404 which is not clever of any kind.
On sites with actual smart 404 , it will grab the / part and do a site search showing relevant results or if it is plain obvious like my guess, even forward the person to right URL.
From TFTA:
Notwithstanding the promotional noise, even Radioheads honesty box principle showed that if not constrained, the customer will steal music. Ok, not to state the obvious here, but if they're offering it free, that means it wasn't stealing. I would like to say, while there are some that obviously would try to steal it whether it was free or not, some may have been compelled to pick it up for free that wouldn't have even bothered to buy orsteal it in the first place. If it's free, might as well give it a try. That's not increased piracy-- that's increased exposure. Radiohead's huge, but a lot of my friends don't listen to them. This gave them a chance to join the Radiohead bandwagon.
Aside from that, Paul continues to show his disconnection from reality by using Radiohead's example. Radiohead made far more money distributing it this way than they ever did with a record label. His entire speech was nothing more than a "oh noes! Please help me save our dying business model."
Talk about profitting off the backs of other's work- he's using U2's name (and website) to push his agenda! Radiohead's old fashion CD/DVD is doing very well at Amazon.com BTW.
So, if whole planet "stole" it, who are buying it?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/25c5b8 (Amazon's huge top seller URL), currently number 2 on Amazon.com , it is a HUGE thing for any artist of any class.
Also if Bono is such a good guy who works for good of entire planet, is that guy fired yet? Guy bitches about system 24/7, he better take care of his own manager first.
I hope Radiohead does the next revolution by releasing next album in Creative Commons license.
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My guess is that the lack of security will do more harm than good.
The Net is an unforgiving beast. What suggests that those 1000 people have anything to do with security?
Yahoo and all major sites should start firing the ever infected, ever abused IP's from their network. Put the blame on ISP. Start with open proxies. People should see difference between using a stupid, non managed ISP vs. a real ISP which takes care about security issues on their network. "Based on our records, you are using a listed open proxy which generally means your machine is virus/worm infected. Please click this link for a free virus remover from (xxxx) brand". There, I even made sponsorship money for them:)
They allow open proxies, IP blocks known to be purchased by spammers to send junk to their network. Captcha, anything can happen. It is like opening a neighbourhood jail doors wide open and expecting nothing would happen.
South Korea didn't give a F to their thousands of spamcop.net reports until they figured Samsung started to have trouble sending mails to their own customers. They also figured millions of non geeks started to ban Korea entire net block. They started some security organization, did some good stuff (I guess) and magically, I haven't reported any spam originating from Korea for a long time.
Net is unforgiving, true. If you don't block thousands of malware distributing, captcha cracking (organically!) IP blocks just because some idiot trolls will attack you for "discrimination", your actual users will go nuts and switch to other portals/services. You will end up firing 1000 people too. I personally hope that IDIOT who can't code a filter for those Nigerian idiocy is fired though. I ended up writing my own filter, single liner... Does work!
But they're not going after small potatoes ClamAV for violating their patent. They're going after bigger potatoes, someone using a free service. This would be like if your computer uses an operating system, you've got to pay a fee to Microsoft no matter which OS you use--oh wait!
Seriously, it seems to me that this patent is another one of those overreaching ones. It's coming upon obvious technology, not created by itself and rushing to get a patent so that everyone who uses this technology to fight viruses has to pay a fee. I don't buy the "ClamAv will be sued" too. Last thing a security company needs is making near all server admins mad. Even OS X Server comes with Clamav installed, go figure.
I didn't see any notorious action from Trend Micro all these years, for example the offer OS X/Linux users free commercial quality antivirus running in Firefox via Java ( http://housecall.antivirus.com/ with Firefox/OSX ). Imagine what would happen if Symantec came with a similar solution. They never came up with the abuse of "Theoretical, click 20 things to get it installed" threats too.
If those multi million, billion companies really using their patented invention and making millions out of it, let them pay.
I hope Trend to go Real Networks path. They have awarded lots of streaming patents which if you are a closed source company, you cough money and if you are open source, it is free for you. For example, if you are Adobe and want auto sensing of network lag on Youtube and feed the client slower bandwidth until it is OK (which you also auto sense), you pay to them. That is what I understood from their own CTO's post on Slashdot years ago. Sadly, that story got flooded with stupid "spyware" "startup" etc. junk so the significance wasn't discussed. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/24/2016226 (story)
Didn't Apple just drop official PPC support too? No, Leopard in fact has even better PPC support like first time, you can run pure 64bit Apps on G5. Before it was "console only".
Some driver (GPU) issues exist, they mask the performance enhancements but based on my system monitoring, Leopard is way more faster and better running on PPC. If the Nvidia and ATI idiots care to ask Apple what the problem is, GPU issue will be fixed too. It is likely fixed on 10.5.2 though.
Ubuntu really lost a lot of enterprise respect karma by dropping PPC but anyway, I don't think IBM System P blades or G5 Workstations would be interested in Ubuntu.
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When Linus or another high profile person says something like "OS X Filesystem is crap", especially basing it to "case sensitivity" issue which can be really fixed by changing a SINGLE setting in easily accessible Application while installing (Select Case sensitive HFSX) and they ignore the industry Apple _has to_ stay compatible with (Quark, Adobe etc.), people gets very serious second thoughts about relying to open source on OS X.
I won't share some of random stuff I saw on various bugzillas just not to give ammo to the real professional FUD mongers but believe me, you always get question "What if the tool we choose instead of Adobe solution fails at some stage and Developer flames us as "Use a real OS, OS X is crap" ?
They should be understanding about how hard to move to OS X from an OS like OS9, Apple still has to care about backward compatibility, should care about that DTP guy having 4 different versions of Quark Express installed (since he has to!). It is not like Linux. It is a commercial OS. When they say "Eww Resources", Mac people automatically starts to hate open source idea. For average OS X user, Linus=Linux
So does the Department of Justice need to declare Apple a monopoly within the online music and entertainment market in order for this same problem to apply to iTunes and QuickTime, both of which "work" on Windows, but work better on Mac OS X?
Is it Apple's fault to code real enhancements to their OS such as Corevideo, Coreimage, Quartz Extreme and sticking them to an industry standard like OpenGL which eventually makes ALL Applications (not only Qt) work faster on OS X?Benchmark mplayer os x and mplayer linux/x11, you will be surprised.
They made the best ever IE on OS 9/OS X and abandoned it. They abandoned Windows Media Player (DRM included, big deal) perfectly working on OS X 10.3.x ages. If you see "Sorry, windows only" on those pay per view etc. sites, that is the main reason.
Imagine a company who abandons their media player on a just taking off platform which there is almost no resistance to DRM only because... It doesn't use its OS. People tell "They wouldn't do such an insane thing to move Yahoo to Windows". I know both companies as user for a long time, they CAN do it. They did it with Hotmail already. Once on a time, people have actually chosen Hotmail over their ISP mail since it was more reliable. They moved _that_ to Windows.
The "huge flash sign" you speak about is some Yahoo developer explaining why OpenID, a vendor neutral, OPEN technology is a big step for Yahoo. You know, they adopted that technology for their 250 million accounts lately. Hopefully you didn't miss that news with whatever block you use.
FreeBSD doesn't work well with Windows. It is not a joke. If it worked (or works) it could be a huge disaster for both companies. Yahoo buyout is not some "dotcom startup invented something, lets buy it" thing, 46 billion is a huge money even for Microsoft. They can't say "Oh it didn't work" and turn their backs.
Companies are not compatible with each other. Yahoo is a open source powered services giant. MS is Windows maker who struggles to make Windows more credible in large installations. Would MS pay $46 billion to further advertise open source technologies and operating systems like FreeBSD?
I suggest Slashdot people who thinks Yahoo is lame because of their homepage check http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see what Yahoo actually is.
Horah! Now the FBI can track me everywhere!
MS tried OpenID like service and failed miserably because industry giants like Sun, Novell (while they were real), IBM and every privacy organisation you can imagine have put their pressure against it.Regarding FBI and if you are American citizen or any foreigner who made someone mad enough to get court order from American court, they don't need such "sci-fi" things like OpenID. Right papers presented to some lawyers is enough.
"In the event that SourceForge becomes aware that site security is compromised or nonpublic user information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to external security attacks, SourceForge shall take reasonable measures which it deems appropriate, including but not limited to internal investigation and reporting, and notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities, notwithstanding other provisions of this Privacy Statement." (click "Privacy"
If MS "Passport" (the REAL one, not current) worked, that was the time we would get real afraid. There could be things like "Not using Windows and IE? You can't read your mail". "We use Passport service to fill your taxes, please create an account".
If people focus on such real threats rather than clueless "M$" bashing, they would see real threats every time MS innocently proposes some standard. MS Passport you see today is a dinosaur evolving to a little bird after USA law system warned "don't even try".
Sad thing is, directx junk somehow made into OS X thanks to Intel chips and lazy/lame developers. Those Cider based games from EA etc. stuff.
At which point you start to see were IBM's idea actually make sense--they are talking about building a worldwide, distributed, networked collection of cooperating computers... HEY, that sounds an awful lot like the Internet!!
(I swear, the comment quality on Slashdot gets more and more like YouTube every day.) They are in fact creating visions on paper, for theoretical future demands and how can current software scheme, development practices could deal with it. If you dig enough, I am sure there were some visionary IBM guys in 1960s who theorises about things similar to today's World. I also think Slashdot should put an end to this "You don't need Digg" type of image shift, it is getting more awful every day. Original racing with half lame copies doesn't make sense.
Staring at my Logitech "iFeel" mouse which even includes a motor inside and works for 6 years, I read some horrible feedback regarding new Logitech stuff and I wonder if they carry some decision lately to stay in business?
I wouldn't wait a second to order IBM Model M (they are produced) if I didn't use a very strange layout's Mac strange version. Also shipping to my country will really cost.
ps: This is just a guess
Anyone else seen one of these suddenly appear? If it is a small do-it-yourself datacenter, it is another example of them not going with "already invented" thing.
If Yahoo (with current management) needed such thing, they would call Sun to lease/buy one of these: http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp . As MS is allergic to that giant Sun Logo and they would fire the first sane guy suggesting "Solaris"
While replying to your comment on Omniweb/OS X, I also have Kopete 0.2.17 running as my Leopard OS X instant messenger. Zero issues, in fact, it also remembers its window position on OS X desktop unlike many "native OS X" programs.
People yet doesn't get what Kopete.exe or Kopete.app running on Windows/OS X means. I am close to experience it since Leopard comes with rootless X11. Now imagine a native OS X/Windows application. It will really change things.
As Nokia didn't pay $150 M for nothing, now imagine Kopete (or any KDE app) running natively on Symbian/WinCE/iPhone. That is the plan.
s/kopete/konqueror (sorry, if there are 300 things starting with K)
Why?
Is it an irrational hatred of all things microsoft?
The current hotmail is not actually that bad. The new live ui is pretty sleek, and it works as well in firefox as IE. I was using Windows that time, I knew what acquisition by MS means thanks to their hatred to my favorite browser at the time, Netscape.
Later they proved my point over and over while I was using Opera as my favourite browser.
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/02/14/
That is the company we are talking about. They could do this even while they knew they are dealing with a browser vendor. Opera Bork Edition wasn't a meaningless joke. Some say, the cost could be $500M to MS.
You know the most compatible, Web 2.0 like, drag and drop webmail of today which will work in any modern browser, even Kopete running on OS X? AOL Webmail. Speaking about irrational hatred...
I report spams I receive since the day spamcop.net exists. Even Koreans started to do something about spam reports they receive while Google does nothing at all.
I am not a newbie to the internet, I don't really care if spam sent has @gmail from address, the thing is, there are people on Google mail uses Google's @gmail and sends actual spam from Google mail, Google does nothing about it.
Some Google servers actually made into Yahoo bulk mailing filter. With that massive datacenter, they don't offer "This is spam" for search results, Google Groups has become the most notorious spam source of Usenet, Blogger doesn't allow spam reports, I can continue on and on but we are discussing the only reliable alternative to Google being purchased by MS now...
They removed a perfectly running FreeBSD from Hotmail and installed (first fake than real) Windows instead. You have seen the results.
In fact just like about everything MS has ever done (eg SQL, IE, PowerPoint
I checked Live.com the day it was announced. When it bitched about not using IE (when I tried to login my passport account) , I never visited it back. That is what makes every MS attempt unsuccessful. They can't live with the fact that there is a thing called HTML standard, TCPIP standard and Internet is platform neutral from beginning. They use every opportunity to alienate other OS/Browser users.
I could never see Yahoo as a great search engine although it seems spammers/blackhats/SEO junk targets them less. For the record, Google has always been a spammer heaven for me too.
Theoretically Microsoft could buy up anything good about the internet so we can all shut our computers down and settle in w/a trip to the library and a good book. I am sure Yahoo already lost a lot of users just because of the rumor/bid. I actually checked if closing/purging Yahoo account is still easy and my account exists there since 1998. Guess why that account was opened first time? Hotmail got acquired by MS and I was one of first to ask if there is a way to close my account
It is so strange to see a story like this not tagged as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong". Also where is "Putin" tag as there seems to be Cold War 2.0 going on lately?
A ship anchor. Captain decided to stop because of storm and anchored middle of nowhere. Anchor finds the underwater fiber cable, one in billion bad luck.
Underwater cables are important but the bandwidth can be offloaded to satellites. Very expensive solution but I don't think those petrol rich countries would care.
BTW, I wonder if it is the famous bad luck underwater Seabone as Italy mentioned.
http://etabeta.noc.seabone.net/cgi-bin/lg.pl Either their LG code is broken or something strange going on.
I guessed a URL on Amazon replying at a different story on slashdot, http://www.amazon.com/topsellers , it gives an ordinary 404 which is not clever of any kind.
On sites with actual smart 404 , it will grab the / part and do a site search showing relevant results or if it is plain obvious like my guess, even forward the person to right URL.
Aside from that, Paul continues to show his disconnection from reality by using Radiohead's example. Radiohead made far more money distributing it this way than they ever did with a record label. His entire speech was nothing more than a "oh noes! Please help me save our dying business model."
Talk about profitting off the backs of other's work- he's using U2's name (and website) to push his agenda! Radiohead's old fashion CD/DVD is doing very well at Amazon.com BTW.
So, if whole planet "stole" it, who are buying it?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/25c5b8 (Amazon's huge top seller URL), currently number 2 on Amazon.com , it is a HUGE thing for any artist of any class.
Also if Bono is such a good guy who works for good of entire planet, is that guy fired yet? Guy bitches about system 24/7, he better take care of his own manager first.
I hope Radiohead does the next revolution by releasing next album in Creative Commons license.
The Net is an unforgiving beast. What suggests that those 1000 people have anything to do with security?
Yahoo and all major sites should start firing the ever infected, ever abused IP's from their network. Put the blame on ISP. Start with open proxies. People should see difference between using a stupid, non managed ISP vs. a real ISP which takes care about security issues on their network. "Based on our records, you are using a listed open proxy which generally means your machine is virus/worm infected. Please click this link for a free virus remover from (xxxx) brand". There, I even made sponsorship money for them
They allow open proxies, IP blocks known to be purchased by spammers to send junk to their network. Captcha, anything can happen. It is like opening a neighbourhood jail doors wide open and expecting nothing would happen.
South Korea didn't give a F to their thousands of spamcop.net reports until they figured Samsung started to have trouble sending mails to their own customers. They also figured millions of non geeks started to ban Korea entire net block. They started some security organization, did some good stuff (I guess) and magically, I haven't reported any spam originating from Korea for a long time.
Net is unforgiving, true. If you don't block thousands of malware distributing, captcha cracking (organically!) IP blocks just because some idiot trolls will attack you for "discrimination", your actual users will go nuts and switch to other portals/services. You will end up firing 1000 people too. I personally hope that IDIOT who can't code a filter for those Nigerian idiocy is fired though. I ended up writing my own filter, single liner... Does work!
Seriously, it seems to me that this patent is another one of those overreaching ones. It's coming upon obvious technology, not created by itself and rushing to get a patent so that everyone who uses this technology to fight viruses has to pay a fee. I don't buy the "ClamAv will be sued" too. Last thing a security company needs is making near all server admins mad. Even OS X Server comes with Clamav installed, go figure.
I didn't see any notorious action from Trend Micro all these years, for example the offer OS X/Linux users free commercial quality antivirus running in Firefox via Java ( http://housecall.antivirus.com/ with Firefox/OSX ). Imagine what would happen if Symantec came with a similar solution. They never came up with the abuse of "Theoretical, click 20 things to get it installed" threats too.
If those multi million, billion companies really using their patented invention and making millions out of it, let them pay.
I hope Trend to go Real Networks path. They have awarded lots of streaming patents which if you are a closed source company, you cough money and if you are open source, it is free for you. For example, if you are Adobe and want auto sensing of network lag on Youtube and feed the client slower bandwidth until it is OK (which you also auto sense), you pay to them. That is what I understood from their own CTO's post on Slashdot years ago. Sadly, that story got flooded with stupid "spyware" "startup" etc. junk so the significance wasn't discussed.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/24/2016226 (story)
Kevin Foreman's comment
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183962&cid=15193581
Some driver (GPU) issues exist, they mask the performance enhancements but based on my system monitoring, Leopard is way more faster and better running on PPC. If the Nvidia and ATI idiots care to ask Apple what the problem is, GPU issue will be fixed too. It is likely fixed on 10.5.2 though.
Ubuntu really lost a lot of enterprise respect karma by dropping PPC but anyway, I don't think IBM System P blades or G5 Workstations would be interested in Ubuntu.