My logs show 46 attacks from 44 IP addresses, starting Aug 1. My site is not well known, so this is random scanning. If a machine is vulnerable and on the net, it's going to get this. That said, the cries of "the internet is going to meltdown" now sound like the dire Y2k predictions. (Or Bob Metcalfe's bleating about internet 'gigalapse'.)
The result is that the Dev crew maintains its loyalty,
and doesn't realize their inadvertant complicity
Not quite: from http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.s html: On November 18, 1998 the digital greeting card company
Blue Mountain Arts discovered that beta versions of
Microsoft's Outlook Express (which comes free with
Internet Explorer) were automatically filing Blue Mountain's
e-mail greeting cards into the "junk" folder rather than the
"inbox"...It turns out that after an
unsuccessful attempt to purchase Blue Mountain Arts,
Microsoft started its own electronic greeting card service.
So the developers are in on it too. This shows that the corruption spans the company hoizontally (the part that owns their own greeting card company can influence the part that produces software) and also vertically (the higher ups will get the guys who actually write the code to do sleazy stuff like this). In other words, they are rotten through and through. Kill 'em all and let god sort it out.
There was a fairly notorious incident in (I think) the 80's where a then-prominent datacommunications company staged a demo of equipment that included link encryptors. The link encryptors were exposed as boxes with flashing lights and no encryption at all. Big stink.
To be forced into releasing the source code for Microsoft Office + Windows (due to integration of now GPLd libraries) due to a minor infraction is completely unfair.
No, it's the consequence of using GPL'd code. MS has the resources to ensure that this doesn't happen. It's really simple - if you don't use GPL'd source code, you are not subject to the GPL. So if you don't want to open your source, don't use GPL'd code. Did I mention that it's really simple? They may PRETEND not to understand that, but they do.
Now why exactly is XP suddenly going to convince people to drop 1K on a new machine?
If I understand correctly, XP would be the 98/ME interface with underlying NT/2000 OS. So it might (for once) represent a more reliable OS for the home user, which would be truly new from MS. It will certainly be a bigger, more resource hungry OS, so when MS stop allowing sales of 98/ME and only allows sales of XP, anyone needing to buy a new OS will virtually be required to buy a heftier machine. Remember, with XP, you don't want to try upgrading too much after install, as this may require relicensing, and who knows what MS will do with that.
While you're not running mozilla, edit your prefs.js to say:
Like most things in mozilla, this works soemtimes and not others. Example: it works the first time I go to weather.com, but if I leave and go back (I think that's the sequence) a damn X10 popup appears.
note to X10: I will NEVER buy your fucking product. You suck big green donkey dicks.
Why does he keep treating these people like they are legititmate, in the face of such palpable absurdities as Alchin/Ballmer/Mundie on the GPL and the recent MIT EULA? MS cannot make an honest public statement - something in the corporate culture makes it impossible. There's nothing they have to say that I need to hear.
Ah, I see, so the missing data, itself, would not be helpful to those who might wish to determine what had happened to it?
would have been just as helpful on the other thread, with a pointer here. Especially since the folks 'who might wish to determine what had happend to it' (yeah, right) aren't the readers of either thread, so he could have just emailed it to whoever. Why are you so sensitive? I didn't moderate him down, I just made an offhand comment.
Actually, I was referring to the huge amount of other text, dealing with the Plato system and other stuff. It could have been reposted to the thread it was originally posted to ("the Cyc story") rather than here. Of course, so could have mine, but at least I said mine was offtopic.
What this has to do with Slashdot being down is anyone's guess...Amazing to hear about PLATO after all these years. For those who never had the pleasure (which is to say almost everyone) this was work on computer-aided education, started in the 70's (60s?) at University of Illinois Urbana. The terminals I worked with had translucent plasma screens. When photographic quality was needed, a projector on top of the unit was used - someone would insert a microfiche that had 256 different images on it and computer controlled pneumatic cylinders were used to select which image would be projected. I kid you not - I spent a couple of semesters making the electro-pneumatic assemblies. This was about 1973-74.
Its interesting how in the last few years we've gone from owning software to licensing it.
"Interesting" isn't the word I'd use. In any event, this is one of the key advantages of Free (as in FSF or 'liberated) software. It is why I am rapidly becoming opposed to the use of proprietary software of any kind. (Not that I don't use it, but I'm minimizing that use.)
Shrinkwrap licenses are generally considered binding.
No, lacking UCITA, my understanding (IANAL) is they are NOT, because they aren't visible until after the purchase is made. Lacking UCITA, retroactive changes (e.g. changing the terms after purchase) doesn't cut it. This is why UCITA is such an evil piece of shit. Under UCITA, crap like this would be legally binding.
As usual, they got it mostly wrong, probably intentionally.
The version of Apache that was being
used was not multi-threaded so each request was handled by another Apache process that was spawned off by the parent
process. Spawning a new process is costly
True, but misleading. Apache spawns multiple servers at startup, each process is then available to be handed hundreds or thousands (or millions) of requests, depending on configuration. It is NOT "spawn a new server process per request" as they attempt to imply.
and Perl is an interpreted language so the performance of these machines was not
optimal.
Perl need not be interpreted when run by Apache. The mod_perl apache module allows scripts to be precompiled by the apache server processes.
How many times do we have to say it? If you don't want your code under the GPL, don't include code already under GPL. Write from scratch, use code under BSD-like or some other license that lets you do what you want to do. That's all you have to do. SIMPLE, eh? The AUTHOR of the code gets to choose the license. This "Forced infectious" stuff is malicious nonsense - only fools fall for this argument. No one forces anyone to include GPL'd code in their own code.
From the following, looks like they have to send at least a management droid of some sort:
"The Illinois Supreme Court rules provide that a CORPORATION may not appear as a plaintiff without an attorney, but may appear as a defendant through an officer, director, manager or supervisor if the amount claimed does not exceed $1,500. Corporate officers should consult with their lawyers regarding interpretation of this rule."
Re:OT, was Re:Selling but not demanding payment
on
GPL FAQ
·
· Score: 2
Yeah, as if cars had seatbelts back in the 1940s.
It's a quote from "The Matrix" - DUH!.
BTW, if you're going to go offtopic and flamey at someone's sig, don't do it at score 2.
OT was intended to show Off topic (too bad the moderators were too dumb to catch that one. Oh well....). And I post at 2 because that's where slashcode puts me, based on my Karma, tho as an AC you probably wouldn't know about that.
Slashdot Mirror
...Pick any one.
The point, my friend, is that he wrote a program to enable other people to use something they hadn't
Bzzt! Thanx for playing. WRONG. The program only worked for those who had the passsword for the ebook, presumably the owner.
My logs show 46 attacks from 44 IP addresses, starting Aug 1. My site is not well known, so this is random scanning. If a machine is vulnerable and on the net, it's going to get this. That said, the cries of "the internet is going to meltdown" now sound like the dire Y2k predictions. (Or Bob Metcalfe's bleating about internet 'gigalapse'.)
The result is that the Dev crew maintains its loyalty, and doesn't realize their inadvertant complicity
s html: On November 18, 1998 the digital greeting card company
Blue Mountain Arts discovered that beta versions of
Microsoft's Outlook Express (which comes free with
Internet Explorer) were automatically filing Blue Mountain's
e-mail greeting cards into the "junk" folder rather than the
"inbox"...It turns out that after an
unsuccessful attempt to purchase Blue Mountain Arts,
Microsoft started its own electronic greeting card service.
Not quite: from http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.
So the developers are in on it too. This shows that the corruption spans the company hoizontally (the part that owns their own greeting card company can influence the part that produces software) and also vertically (the higher ups will get the guys who actually write the code to do sleazy stuff like this). In other words, they are rotten through and through. Kill 'em all and let god sort it out.
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There was a fairly notorious incident in (I think) the 80's where a then-prominent datacommunications company staged a demo of equipment that included link encryptors. The link encryptors were exposed as boxes with flashing lights and no encryption at all. Big stink.
http://bbspot.com/News/2001/04/flesh.html
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To be forced into releasing the source code for Microsoft Office + Windows (due to integration of now GPLd libraries) due to a minor infraction is completely unfair.
No, it's the consequence of using GPL'd code. MS has the resources to ensure that this doesn't happen. It's really simple - if you don't use GPL'd source code, you are not subject to the GPL. So if you don't want to open your source, don't use GPL'd code. Did I mention that it's really simple? They may PRETEND not to understand that, but they do.
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You can't legally use competing software either at circumvents the protection device by using another product instead.
Can someone translate that into english, please?
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Now why exactly is XP suddenly going to convince people to drop 1K on a new machine?
If I understand correctly, XP would be the 98/ME interface with underlying NT/2000 OS. So it might (for once) represent a more reliable OS for the home user, which would be truly new from MS. It will certainly be a bigger, more resource hungry OS, so when MS stop allowing sales of 98/ME and only allows sales of XP, anyone needing to buy a new OS will virtually be required to buy a heftier machine. Remember, with XP, you don't want to try upgrading too much after install, as this may require relicensing, and who knows what MS will do with that.
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While you're not running mozilla, edit your prefs.js to say:
Like most things in mozilla, this works soemtimes and not others. Example: it works the first time I go to weather.com, but if I leave and go back (I think that's the sequence) a damn X10 popup appears.
note to X10: I will NEVER buy your fucking product. You suck big green donkey dicks.
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Hrm. Never even heard of Ocaml.
It's the Irish version of Perl. (ouch.)
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Why does he keep treating these people like they are legititmate, in the face of such palpable absurdities as Alchin/Ballmer/Mundie on the GPL and the recent MIT EULA? MS cannot make an honest public statement - something in the corporate culture makes it impossible. There's nothing they have to say that I need to hear.
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Ah, I see, so the missing data, itself, would not be helpful to those who might wish to determine what had happened to it?
would have been just as helpful on the other thread, with a pointer here. Especially since the folks 'who might wish to determine what had happend to it' (yeah, right) aren't the readers of either thread, so he could have just emailed it to whoever. Why are you so sensitive? I didn't moderate him down, I just made an offhand comment.
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Actually, I was referring to the huge amount of other text, dealing with the Plato system and other stuff. It could have been reposted to the thread it was originally posted to ("the Cyc story") rather than here. Of course, so could have mine, but at least I said mine was offtopic.
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What this has to do with Slashdot being down is anyone's guess...Amazing to hear about PLATO after all these years. For those who never had the pleasure (which is to say almost everyone) this was work on computer-aided education, started in the 70's (60s?) at University of Illinois Urbana. The terminals I worked with had translucent plasma screens. When photographic quality was needed, a projector on top of the unit was used - someone would insert a microfiche that had 256 different images on it and computer controlled pneumatic cylinders were used to select which image would be projected. I kid you not - I spent a couple of semesters making the electro-pneumatic assemblies. This was about 1973-74.
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Its interesting how in the last few years we've gone from owning software to licensing it.
"Interesting" isn't the word I'd use. In any event, this is one of the key advantages of Free (as in FSF or 'liberated) software. It is why I am rapidly becoming opposed to the use of proprietary software of any kind. (Not that I don't use it, but I'm minimizing that use.)
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Shrinkwrap licenses are generally considered binding.
No, lacking UCITA, my understanding (IANAL) is they are NOT, because they aren't visible until after the purchase is made. Lacking UCITA, retroactive changes (e.g. changing the terms after purchase) doesn't cut it. This is why UCITA is such an evil piece of shit. Under UCITA, crap like this would be legally binding.
--
As usual, they got it mostly wrong, probably intentionally.
The version of Apache that was being used was not multi-threaded so each request was handled by another Apache process that was spawned off by the parent process. Spawning a new process is costly
True, but misleading. Apache spawns multiple servers at startup, each process is then available to be handed hundreds or thousands (or millions) of requests, depending on configuration. It is NOT "spawn a new server process per request" as they attempt to imply.
and Perl is an interpreted language so the performance of these machines was not optimal.
Perl need not be interpreted when run by Apache. The mod_perl apache module allows scripts to be precompiled by the apache server processes.
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Someone please mod this down - it's got a goatsex link.
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Our IT staff (excluding the database people) is 3 in number, and yet we average 99% uptime.
99% is actually a poor number for uptime for many organizations. That translates to 3.5 DAYs down per year. Even for MickySoft that's kinda high.
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How many times do we have to say it? If you don't want your code under the GPL, don't include code already under GPL. Write from scratch, use code under BSD-like or some other license that lets you do what you want to do. That's all you have to do. SIMPLE, eh? The AUTHOR of the code gets to choose the license. This "Forced infectious" stuff is malicious nonsense - only fools fall for this argument. No one forces anyone to include GPL'd code in their own code.
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From the following, looks like they have to send at least a management droid of some sort: "The Illinois Supreme Court rules provide that a CORPORATION may not appear as a plaintiff without an attorney, but may appear as a defendant through an officer, director, manager or supervisor if the amount claimed does not exceed $1,500. Corporate officers should consult with their lawyers regarding interpretation of this rule."
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OK with mozilla 0.9, tho.
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Yeah, as if cars had seatbelts back in the 1940s.
It's a quote from "The Matrix" - DUH!.
BTW, if you're going to go offtopic and flamey at someone's sig, don't do it at score 2.
OT was intended to show Off topic (too bad the moderators were too dumb to catch that one. Oh well....). And I post at 2 because that's where slashcode puts me, based on my Karma, tho as an AC you probably wouldn't know about that.
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Boy, aren't you one to judge, after looking at a single post.
He (You?) linked to goatsex, therefore he is (you are?) a slimeball. Only one post needed for that. Simple enough for you?
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