Adds and banners don't work. Period. It has come to the point that I don't even SEE a banner when it is up, even if it is relevant to the site. One of my favorite online stores decided to put up a Specials section on their site. They promoted it by way of a banner add on the front page. I didn't even SEE it until someone pointed it out to me. The reality is that after you have spent enough time online you simply filter out the adds and garbage to focus in on the information that you came to find. Since the net went public and the Web was introduced, I belive I have clicked on exactly three adds and never spent a dime on any of the sites advertised.
While I am not going to go into the technical merits, never mind the security benifits of the BSD family of operating systems. Here is the biggest different between *BSD and the rest;
Copyright (c) ,
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The contents of this website are licensed under the Open Software License 2.1 or Academic Free License 2.1
OSI is a registered non-profit with 501(c)(3) status. Donating to OSI is one way to show your support.
That is the licence. The whole bit. There are no chapters, certainly it does without a three page preamble! Here is the link to the GNU licence licence. As you can see, it is many pages in length. The strength of the BSD licence is that it still allows an avenue for developers to make money from their creations. In this way it is the only Open Source alternative that can realisticly challenge the Microsofts of the world. Apple certainly has seen the light.
Yes it does, but it still works just fine (just takes a while to install all the Linux base libs). If you don't want to do that, you can always install MPlayer/Xine, which will run natively, and use the Win32 DLLs.
MPlayer: when you configure the args at compile time to compile the Realplayer codecs it pukes when it reaches them. I belive the problem I was having was that there was no codec avalible for it to download. It also won't compile them by default so you have to set the flag at compile time. Never did get it to work correctly, ditched it. As for Xine, not an app I am familiar with so I didn't install it.
That much is true, only because it has Java as a dependency. I can't see how that would cause it to fail to compile. Anyhow, you can always disable Java (hence the license agreements) with "-DWITHOUT_JAVA".
Tried this and it still borked. It was a problem with the compile script. (this was a good 8 or 9 months ago so I don't remember the exact error). I certainly don't feel like spending hours fixing their script so I just used Abbi Word. Which BTW compiled beautifully.
You strike me as someone who has never acctually installed Free yourself. Esspecially if you aren't aware of the installer problems. Even the FreeBSD diciples among my friends freely admit that the installer is a huge dog and a major downfall of the system. Esspecially it not resolving DNS correctly. Unless you only install off of CD media, a method I almost never use. FTP and HTTP installs are seriously borked in Free. At least the older versions. I heard rumors of a new installer being created but I have yet to see it. As for the slackware installer.. haven't used it since almost certainly before you knew what a computer was. When I last used slackware it came with a little red book with very small text and step by step instructions much like the current Gentoo CD FAQ. Back when 8 megs of ram cost $900. weee! I imagine it has changed a bit in the mean time. As for the OBSD installer... it works, everytime. Enough said.
Lastly, when I tried to boot up the computer behind my firewall without passing defining a local domain suffex it would hang on the sendmail script for 10 to 15 min before continueing on with the boot.
First legitimate complaint I've heard so far... Yes, that minor issue is very easily worked-around.
Okay, THAT was an issue that I had almost a year ago. That the developers are all high on their new bells and whistles and STILL haven't fixed OBVIOUS bugs.. that says alot about how I can expect future bugs to be treated.. if at all.
Sorry, but there is NO way that you will get me to agree that working on new features is more important then developing stable and bug free code. Once you have THAT dragon slayed, you can start looking at new bells and whistles. If you don't... well then free will end up being the spagetti nightmare that the windows code base now is.
Sorry, that is just wrong. Free is a not bad system, but I have seen more than a few broken ports problems. One of the big issues is binary drivers and programs in the ports tree that require signing licence agreements. Installing OpenOffice I had to stop and download three different licences before it finally puked and just wouldn't install. Realplayer doesn't run nativly and has to use Linux Binary compatiblity mode, Flash is a program that just doesn't work. The alternatives cause Firefox to crash randomly.
These are problems in ADDITION to the installer. It has been a while since I installed Free but we stopped using it a while ago due to one of the worst installers I have EVER seen. It wouldn't resolve DNS correctly and if you made a mistake, you are starting ALL over again. After 6 people (all OBSD people, so we are not talking n00bs) tried and failed to make the installer work correctly we took all our FreeBSD disks and threw them out the 18th floor of my friend's appartment building.
Lastly, when I tried to boot up the computer behind my firewall without passing defining a local domain suffex it would hang on the sendmail script for 10 to 15 min before continueing on with the boot. While these issues may have been fixed, what I saw was a dev team more instrested in programing SMP into the kernel then fixing the existing problems with their installer or their OS. Until that attitude changes, I will not be using FreeBSD again anytime soon.
Just my 2 cents, sorry about the spelling =P
Peace
This is a very very good thing. Vista is extremely pretty but not even close to ready for prime time. A huge amount of the beta testers (Including me) have had install problems and even after spending 4 hours on the phone with Redmond we were still unable to get the system up and running 100%. There is definitely some work that is needed to be done.
That being said, I am extremely impressed with the Vista Beta program! The Developer chats have been excellent and they work very hard to answer all our questions. They are working very closely with beta testers to insure that all issues are resolved. On top of that, the beta test group provided the biggest surprise of all. Not everyone was an MS disciple! In fact the Linux users out numbered the Windows peeps in the chats I have attended. Feed back has been excellent and MS has developed several new ideas so that beta testers can be more involved in the project on Microsoft Connect.
I obviously can't give too many details, but so far my reactions to Vista have been mixed. First off it is beautiful! One friend who is a die hard OSX user said "Wow, this is prettier then Mac!" to give you an idea. There is going to be a huge support cost attached to this product however. It is a revolution in the design of the interface. While it is much more intuitive, things that used to be a right click away are now buried several clicks deep inside wizards and the like making it hard to access certain commonly used administration tools (Network settings come to mind). Due to the interface changes the OS will require extensive retraining of IT Help desks before it can be implemented on the desktop in most large organizations. I think that will be it's main weakness in terms of acceptance in a business environment. This may make other OS's such as Linux more attractive to big business as now they will face retraining costs no mater which OS choice they go with. If MS discontinues support of XP after the release of Vista as it has with NT and 2000, businesses will be forced to face these costs one way or another.
It will be a interesting deployment in any event. Don't sweat the delays though. MS might just be making sure that the product isn't a beta when it hits the shelves this time. We will just have to wait and see.
Peace
pseudonym
Those are some really intresting results. I think we can discard results in this sample that differ by a million hits only when we are dealing in the hundreds of millions. I would submit that this could be put down to language and cultural bias. In the case of France, I would expect to see a million or so more hits (in 300-400 million total) due simply to the fact that France and Iraq have been close for many years and have been involved in that country for a far longer time then the US. But what is intresting is that it isn't a small difference. We are talking hundreds of millions of sites! Why would this be so? I think the question should be asked to Google and Yahoo that, while we can understand censorship in China where the political and econmonic situation make it simply a condition of doing business, but why the censorship in places that have traditionally been strong supporters of "Free Speech"?
Someone earlier said that perhaps unfiltered and unbiaed search results should be a matter of right, and I am beginning to belive them. The searchs I ran, I honestly didn't expect to get the results that I did. That we have all been exposed to censorship bothers me more than I can say. I want to know what "they" don't want me to know.. and more than that, I want to know who this "they" is! Who decides what to censor and what not to? Where are these people? What gives them the right to decide what I, or anyone, can learn and read about?
I guess this is a rant, but I think that, unlike the latest flaw in M$ software, this is a subject that is worth a rant or two! I would love to hear an answer from Yahoo and I think I will write and ask. Who knows, maybe I will even get an answer =).
odd that. I notice not two posts above mine that there is an almost identical post, but with results ONLY for China vs. the US. Perhaps we might wish to broaden our horizons a little bit and look at what OTHER data is available and what conclusions can be reached by that? China is China and Google, Yahoo and others are forced to operate with in the bounds of the laws of the land. So if the government of China says censor, the search engines MUST censor or loose access to a market of 2 billion people.
What we should be looking at is censorship where this kind of legal club isn't being held over the heads of companies. It is FAR more indicative of the general level of censorship in search engine results to look at search results from countries with a tradition of "free" speech. The results above are far more interesting. Here we have self censored results that aren't the result of governmental interference. It doesn't help us a bit to go and look for results we already know we will find. I.E. We expect censorship in China, so why are we so surprised when we find it? Here, however, are unexpected results.
Yahoo France came up with 29,000 more hits when searching for the term "Black Ops" than Yahoo US. Would anyone care to debate why this should be so? The same search on Google returns 7,000 MORE hits in the US. Why the massive discrepancy? The discrepancy is FAR greater when searching for more culturally sensitive topics. The first search I did found a discrepancy of 80,432 greater hits on the US Yahoo site then on the German Yahoo site.
I think we have FAR larger issues then censorship of China. Perhaps we should clean up our OWN backyards before going off and hunting garbage in someone else's
Mods, China isn't the only topic here, it CERTAINLY isn't the thrust of the article. Perhaps it would be of value to widen the discussion.
Read the results below and you will see proof of this. Yahoo is obviously far more prone to censor their results then google. A search for Hitler on the German Yahoo search comes up with 109 results. That same search term when typed into an American Yahoo Search comes up with over 80 THOUSAND results. Googles results were identical on that same search.
Forget China and Google, Yahoo is obviously worse and censoring even when there is no legal motive to do so. Worry about what these companies are doing in your OWN back yards.
Peace.
Search Term: Hitler
Search Engine: Yahoo
Germany: About 109 results (Fetching first 12 unique)
United States: About 80,541 results (Fetching first 20 unique)
Search Term: Hitler
Search Engine: Google
Germany: About 48,200,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 48,200,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Search Term: "Black Ops"
Search Engine: Yahoo
France: About 866,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 837,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Search Term: "Black Ops"
Search Engine: Google
France: About 890,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 897,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Only in the States would saying the work FUCK be not allowed on the air, while sex and violence is A-Okay. Come to Canada, we can say anything we want on TV AND we don't think that violence and gratuitous sex in public is appropriate. For God's sake, go to a massage parlor where that kind of thing is legal! sheesh
Americans, when will you realized that you stopped being the "Land of the Free" a long long time ago. Gulags, torture, wars of aggression, sounds more like Stalin's Russia to me.
Beaver Buzz! Caffeine puts me to sleep so that doesn't work. The active ingredient is niacin, or vitamin B. Best stuff around.
So go ahead, stuff that beaver!!
There is a hole in Windows, MASSIVE, ugly hole when you take a look at the RPC calls. The problem is that there is no brute force protection when these calls are made over the network. What this means, is that you can send an RPC shutdown command with the username "Administrator" in a script and then just brute force crack the password to bring the machine down and then have your script spit back the administrative password. While we were testing this hole we were taking down servers with strong passwords in less than 10 min. Obviously this is a huge concern and one that hasn't been dealt with even though I have brought it to the attention of software team leads at M$ and simply increasing wait time in the event of authentication failure would fix it. Will this hole be fixed for the release of VISTA or will it continue to be a glaring security problem? Also, what other authentication processes have no brute force protection?
The poster doesn't affect the information that is presented in the artical. Most of the time I don't even READ the full write up and just click on through to the artical. If you are holding something back because the children in the forums can't keep their personal bias under control I would very VERY much like to read it.
Post the story, if people complain mod them down so low they will never been seen again and to those of you who complain,
Well this just gives us a ligitimate reason NOT to buy music in this format. If you wish to support the artist, go to the concert, buy a t-shirt. If you want to listen to the music, just download it. Obviously companies like SONY don't want our business that baddly.
Well for some reason this stupid forum system lost my last post. It was detailed and had a great deal of insite into this issue. But I am lazy and don't belive in pandering to technical idiocy, so I will NOT retype pages of text. I made my feelings known in an artical for the BSD certification list. Here is the link. Comments are welcome.
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2005-Apr il/000338.html
This is rediculous. If I bought a car, and found out that someone could steal it because the manufacture only used one set of keys for every car I would blame the manufacturer of the car.. NOT the car thief.
Hackers are simply the symptom of the problem. The true problem is software companies who are devorced from the damage their bad planning and poor testing cause. Until Microsoft, and companies like it are held responcible, legally, for the quality of code they produce, hacking will remain a major problem.
To stop hackers, the only thing that will work is to force the big software companies to pay for their mistakes. After all, their mistakes cost us ALL.
Mathew Edlund
Edmonton, Alberta
I find that when someone points out spelling or gramatical errors, it is almost always to try and discredit the ideas that the author is putting forth. So the question is, would you rather have new inventive and creative ideas from ALL sources, or is your mind so limited that it can only accept those with pretty spelling.
PS: Oh, and I DO spell check and am very careful with all my writting.. AT WORK. There they pay me for it, on chat and forums they don't. End of story.
Theo is an ass. A brilliant ass but still an ass. Hell, most of us in the BSD community love him for it. Someone who is willing to stand out there and come out with conherant and educated critiques of the problems he sees with Linux, which lets face it is pretty much the sacred cow of the "geek" masses. I have often said that Linux is not an OS, but is instead a religion. I say a religion because it would seem that most of the belief in the OS is purely faith based. Faith that they will fix the holes, faith that they will tune the kernel.. faith that Linux will EVER be a mature OS. Before I switched to OBSD I kept that faith since 1994 when I first incountered Linux.. I haven't exactly been repaid by results. OBSD has a solid focus and is extreamly mature within the confines of that focus. Linux has little or no focus, it is trying to be a generalist OS. As a result it ends up being a jack of all trades and a master of none.
All this being said, it has come to a point where Theo's comments are having a detrimental effect on the OS. It is getting a name as a system where the developers are unapproachable and the founder is condensending and patronizing. That is just the way Theo is and, like I said, we do love him for it. However, it is time that OBSD got someone who can act as a media and community relations person. This shouldn't be a developer but someone choosen for both their technical skills and more importantly, their people skills. OBSD needs a friendly face that can explain our point of view without appearing hostile and confrontational. In addition it would free time up for Theo to do what he loves, develop and get him away from situations and questions that he obviously doesn't appreciate.
Theo, we love ya, but it seriously is time to take a back seat and let someone else be the public face of our beloved obsd. You just keep comming out with software that beats the hell out of anything avalble in ANY market. With systems like PF and OpenSSH the PR will write itself.
peace
So.. we are told to tune in wednesday for a responce from the BSD developers et. all... So is there any particular month or year that this is planned for? A search of the newsforge site for Joe Barr doesn't provide any references, obviously it hasn't been posted and wednessday is almost over (At least from a business sense). So is this going to happen or was Joe just blowing sunshine up our collective butts?
I have a huge problem with someone holding up Clifford Stoll as an example of how one should "take down" a hacker. Mr. Stoll broke into the CIA computers, the pentigon and other vaious sites all fully documented in his book. That book was often refered to as "The Hackers Handbook".
I am sorry, I have no respect for "cops" who break the same laws they are suposed to be enforcing.
This has all come at a rather good time for me. I am in the market to buy a new laptop! I was looking at the Sony Vaio S360 (Small form factor with a ATI 9700!Anyone know of any other 13.3" or smaller laptops with a decent vid card?? Preferably nvidia) and had been having an email correspondence with a Sony Sales rep about this exact same question. I was about to give up after they answered that they didn't think the laptop would work without Windows, but now have new hope.
I remebered vaguely something about this, and knew that being forced to buy a product that I don't want, won't use and can't sell wasn't right. I am going to talk to the store where I will purchace the laptop in advance so they can do their research and determine that I am not a crazy person and really am standing on solid ground. If nessisary I will go to court about this, as the money we are talking about here is substancial and well worth the cost of a small claims trial.
If anyone is intrested I will post my experiences on this when it happens. I should be getting new lappy in about a month or so if all goes well.
Thanx again for the reminder!
Slashdot Mirror
Adds and banners don't work. Period. It has come to the point that I don't even SEE a banner when it is up, even if it is relevant to the site. One of my favorite online stores decided to put up a Specials section on their site. They promoted it by way of a banner add on the front page. I didn't even SEE it until someone pointed it out to me. The reality is that after you have spent enough time online you simply filter out the adds and garbage to focus in on the information that you came to find. Since the net went public and the Web was introduced, I belive I have clicked on exactly three adds and never spent a dime on any of the sites advertised.
Ditch the adds. They simply don't work.
my, don't I feel foolish =P http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
While I am not going to go into the technical merits, never mind the security benifits of the BSD family of operating systems. Here is the biggest different between *BSD and the rest;
Copyright (c) ,
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Copyright © 2006 by the Open Source Initiative Technical questions about the website go to Steve M.: webmaster at opensource.org / Policy questions about open source go to the Board of Directors.
The contents of this website are licensed under the Open Software License 2.1 or Academic Free License 2.1
OSI is a registered non-profit with 501(c)(3) status. Donating to OSI is one way to show your support.
That is the licence. The whole bit. There are no chapters, certainly it does without a three page preamble! Here is the link to the GNU licence licence. As you can see, it is many pages in length. The strength of the BSD licence is that it still allows an avenue for developers to make money from their creations. In this way it is the only Open Source alternative that can realisticly challenge the Microsofts of the world. Apple certainly has seen the light.
Yes it does, but it still works just fine (just takes a while to install all the Linux base libs). If you don't want to do that, you can always install MPlayer/Xine, which will run natively, and use the Win32 DLLs.
MPlayer: when you configure the args at compile time to compile the Realplayer codecs it pukes when it reaches them. I belive the problem I was having was that there was no codec avalible for it to download. It also won't compile them by default so you have to set the flag at compile time. Never did get it to work correctly, ditched it. As for Xine, not an app I am familiar with so I didn't install it.
That much is true, only because it has Java as a dependency. I can't see how that would cause it to fail to compile. Anyhow, you can always disable Java (hence the license agreements) with "-DWITHOUT_JAVA".
Tried this and it still borked. It was a problem with the compile script. (this was a good 8 or 9 months ago so I don't remember the exact error). I certainly don't feel like spending hours fixing their script so I just used Abbi Word. Which BTW compiled beautifully.
You strike me as someone who has never acctually installed Free yourself. Esspecially if you aren't aware of the installer problems. Even the FreeBSD diciples among my friends freely admit that the installer is a huge dog and a major downfall of the system. Esspecially it not resolving DNS correctly. Unless you only install off of CD media, a method I almost never use. FTP and HTTP installs are seriously borked in Free. At least the older versions. I heard rumors of a new installer being created but I have yet to see it. As for the slackware installer.. haven't used it since almost certainly before you knew what a computer was. When I last used slackware it came with a little red book with very small text and step by step instructions much like the current Gentoo CD FAQ. Back when 8 megs of ram cost $900. weee! I imagine it has changed a bit in the mean time. As for the OBSD installer... it works, everytime. Enough said.
Lastly, when I tried to boot up the computer behind my firewall without passing defining a local domain suffex it would hang on the sendmail script for 10 to 15 min before continueing on with the boot.
First legitimate complaint I've heard so far... Yes, that minor issue is very easily worked-around.
Okay, THAT was an issue that I had almost a year ago. That the developers are all high on their new bells and whistles and STILL haven't fixed OBVIOUS bugs.. that says alot about how I can expect future bugs to be treated.. if at all.
Sorry, but there is NO way that you will get me to agree that working on new features is more important then developing stable and bug free code. Once you have THAT dragon slayed, you can start looking at new bells and whistles. If you don't... well then free will end up being the spagetti nightmare that the windows code base now is.
Sorry, that is just wrong. Free is a not bad system, but I have seen more than a few broken ports problems. One of the big issues is binary drivers and programs in the ports tree that require signing licence agreements. Installing OpenOffice I had to stop and download three different licences before it finally puked and just wouldn't install. Realplayer doesn't run nativly and has to use Linux Binary compatiblity mode, Flash is a program that just doesn't work. The alternatives cause Firefox to crash randomly. These are problems in ADDITION to the installer. It has been a while since I installed Free but we stopped using it a while ago due to one of the worst installers I have EVER seen. It wouldn't resolve DNS correctly and if you made a mistake, you are starting ALL over again. After 6 people (all OBSD people, so we are not talking n00bs) tried and failed to make the installer work correctly we took all our FreeBSD disks and threw them out the 18th floor of my friend's appartment building. Lastly, when I tried to boot up the computer behind my firewall without passing defining a local domain suffex it would hang on the sendmail script for 10 to 15 min before continueing on with the boot. While these issues may have been fixed, what I saw was a dev team more instrested in programing SMP into the kernel then fixing the existing problems with their installer or their OS. Until that attitude changes, I will not be using FreeBSD again anytime soon. Just my 2 cents, sorry about the spelling =P Peace
This is a very very good thing. Vista is extremely pretty but not even close to ready for prime time. A huge amount of the beta testers (Including me) have had install problems and even after spending 4 hours on the phone with Redmond we were still unable to get the system up and running 100%. There is definitely some work that is needed to be done. That being said, I am extremely impressed with the Vista Beta program! The Developer chats have been excellent and they work very hard to answer all our questions. They are working very closely with beta testers to insure that all issues are resolved. On top of that, the beta test group provided the biggest surprise of all. Not everyone was an MS disciple! In fact the Linux users out numbered the Windows peeps in the chats I have attended. Feed back has been excellent and MS has developed several new ideas so that beta testers can be more involved in the project on Microsoft Connect. I obviously can't give too many details, but so far my reactions to Vista have been mixed. First off it is beautiful! One friend who is a die hard OSX user said "Wow, this is prettier then Mac!" to give you an idea. There is going to be a huge support cost attached to this product however. It is a revolution in the design of the interface. While it is much more intuitive, things that used to be a right click away are now buried several clicks deep inside wizards and the like making it hard to access certain commonly used administration tools (Network settings come to mind). Due to the interface changes the OS will require extensive retraining of IT Help desks before it can be implemented on the desktop in most large organizations. I think that will be it's main weakness in terms of acceptance in a business environment. This may make other OS's such as Linux more attractive to big business as now they will face retraining costs no mater which OS choice they go with. If MS discontinues support of XP after the release of Vista as it has with NT and 2000, businesses will be forced to face these costs one way or another. It will be a interesting deployment in any event. Don't sweat the delays though. MS might just be making sure that the product isn't a beta when it hits the shelves this time. We will just have to wait and see. Peace pseudonym
Those are some really intresting results. I think we can discard results in this sample that differ by a million hits only when we are dealing in the hundreds of millions. I would submit that this could be put down to language and cultural bias. In the case of France, I would expect to see a million or so more hits (in 300-400 million total) due simply to the fact that France and Iraq have been close for many years and have been involved in that country for a far longer time then the US. But what is intresting is that it isn't a small difference. We are talking hundreds of millions of sites! Why would this be so? I think the question should be asked to Google and Yahoo that, while we can understand censorship in China where the political and econmonic situation make it simply a condition of doing business, but why the censorship in places that have traditionally been strong supporters of "Free Speech"?
Someone earlier said that perhaps unfiltered and unbiaed search results should be a matter of right, and I am beginning to belive them. The searchs I ran, I honestly didn't expect to get the results that I did. That we have all been exposed to censorship bothers me more than I can say. I want to know what "they" don't want me to know.. and more than that, I want to know who this "they" is! Who decides what to censor and what not to? Where are these people? What gives them the right to decide what I, or anyone, can learn and read about?
I guess this is a rant, but I think that, unlike the latest flaw in M$ software, this is a subject that is worth a rant or two! I would love to hear an answer from Yahoo and I think I will write and ask. Who knows, maybe I will even get an answer =).
Peace
odd that. I notice not two posts above mine that there is an almost identical post, but with results ONLY for China vs. the US. Perhaps we might wish to broaden our horizons a little bit and look at what OTHER data is available and what conclusions can be reached by that? China is China and Google, Yahoo and others are forced to operate with in the bounds of the laws of the land. So if the government of China says censor, the search engines MUST censor or loose access to a market of 2 billion people.
What we should be looking at is censorship where this kind of legal club isn't being held over the heads of companies. It is FAR more indicative of the general level of censorship in search engine results to look at search results from countries with a tradition of "free" speech. The results above are far more interesting. Here we have self censored results that aren't the result of governmental interference. It doesn't help us a bit to go and look for results we already know we will find. I.E. We expect censorship in China, so why are we so surprised when we find it? Here, however, are unexpected results.
Yahoo France came up with 29,000 more hits when searching for the term "Black Ops" than Yahoo US. Would anyone care to debate why this should be so? The same search on Google returns 7,000 MORE hits in the US. Why the massive discrepancy? The discrepancy is FAR greater when searching for more culturally sensitive topics. The first search I did found a discrepancy of 80,432 greater hits on the US Yahoo site then on the German Yahoo site.
I think we have FAR larger issues then censorship of China. Perhaps we should clean up our OWN backyards before going off and hunting garbage in someone else's
Mods, China isn't the only topic here, it CERTAINLY isn't the thrust of the article. Perhaps it would be of value to widen the discussion.
Sheesh!
Read the results below and you will see proof of this. Yahoo is obviously far more prone to censor their results then google. A search for Hitler on the German Yahoo search comes up with 109 results. That same search term when typed into an American Yahoo Search comes up with over 80 THOUSAND results. Googles results were identical on that same search.
Forget China and Google, Yahoo is obviously worse and censoring even when there is no legal motive to do so. Worry about what these companies are doing in your OWN back yards.
Peace.
Search Term: Hitler
Search Engine: Yahoo
Germany: About 109 results (Fetching first 12 unique)
United States: About 80,541 results (Fetching first 20 unique)
Search Term: Hitler
Search Engine: Google
Germany: About 48,200,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 48,200,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Search Term: "Black Ops"
Search Engine: Yahoo
France: About 866,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 837,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Search Term: "Black Ops"
Search Engine: Google
France: About 890,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
United States: About 897,000 results (Fetching first 10 unique)
Only in the States would saying the work FUCK be not allowed on the air, while sex and violence is A-Okay. Come to Canada, we can say anything we want on TV AND we don't think that violence and gratuitous sex in public is appropriate. For God's sake, go to a massage parlor where that kind of thing is legal! sheesh Americans, when will you realized that you stopped being the "Land of the Free" a long long time ago. Gulags, torture, wars of aggression, sounds more like Stalin's Russia to me.
Beaver Buzz! Caffeine puts me to sleep so that doesn't work. The active ingredient is niacin, or vitamin B. Best stuff around. So go ahead, stuff that beaver!!
There is a hole in Windows, MASSIVE, ugly hole when you take a look at the RPC calls. The problem is that there is no brute force protection when these calls are made over the network. What this means, is that you can send an RPC shutdown command with the username "Administrator" in a script and then just brute force crack the password to bring the machine down and then have your script spit back the administrative password. While we were testing this hole we were taking down servers with strong passwords in less than 10 min. Obviously this is a huge concern and one that hasn't been dealt with even though I have brought it to the attention of software team leads at M$ and simply increasing wait time in the event of authentication failure would fix it. Will this hole be fixed for the release of VISTA or will it continue to be a glaring security problem? Also, what other authentication processes have no brute force protection?
The poster doesn't affect the information that is presented in the artical. Most of the time I don't even READ the full write up and just click on through to the artical. If you are holding something back because the children in the forums can't keep their personal bias under control I would very VERY much like to read it.
Post the story, if people complain mod them down so low they will never been seen again and to those of you who complain,
GROW UP!
Well this just gives us a ligitimate reason NOT to buy music in this format. If you wish to support the artist, go to the concert, buy a t-shirt. If you want to listen to the music, just download it. Obviously companies like SONY don't want our business that baddly.
Well for some reason this stupid forum system lost my last post. It was detailed and had a great deal of insite into this issue. But I am lazy and don't belive in pandering to technical idiocy, so I will NOT retype pages of text. I made my feelings known in an artical for the BSD certification list. Here is the link. Comments are welcome. http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2005-Apr il/000338.html
This is rediculous. If I bought a car, and found out that someone could steal it because the manufacture only used one set of keys for every car I would blame the manufacturer of the car.. NOT the car thief. Hackers are simply the symptom of the problem. The true problem is software companies who are devorced from the damage their bad planning and poor testing cause. Until Microsoft, and companies like it are held responcible, legally, for the quality of code they produce, hacking will remain a major problem. To stop hackers, the only thing that will work is to force the big software companies to pay for their mistakes. After all, their mistakes cost us ALL. Mathew Edlund Edmonton, Alberta
I find that when someone points out spelling or gramatical errors, it is almost always to try and discredit the ideas that the author is putting forth. So the question is, would you rather have new inventive and creative ideas from ALL sources, or is your mind so limited that it can only accept those with pretty spelling. PS: Oh, and I DO spell check and am very careful with all my writting.. AT WORK. There they pay me for it, on chat and forums they don't. End of story.
Theo is an ass. A brilliant ass but still an ass. Hell, most of us in the BSD community love him for it. Someone who is willing to stand out there and come out with conherant and educated critiques of the problems he sees with Linux, which lets face it is pretty much the sacred cow of the "geek" masses. I have often said that Linux is not an OS, but is instead a religion. I say a religion because it would seem that most of the belief in the OS is purely faith based. Faith that they will fix the holes, faith that they will tune the kernel.. faith that Linux will EVER be a mature OS. Before I switched to OBSD I kept that faith since 1994 when I first incountered Linux.. I haven't exactly been repaid by results. OBSD has a solid focus and is extreamly mature within the confines of that focus. Linux has little or no focus, it is trying to be a generalist OS. As a result it ends up being a jack of all trades and a master of none. All this being said, it has come to a point where Theo's comments are having a detrimental effect on the OS. It is getting a name as a system where the developers are unapproachable and the founder is condensending and patronizing. That is just the way Theo is and, like I said, we do love him for it. However, it is time that OBSD got someone who can act as a media and community relations person. This shouldn't be a developer but someone choosen for both their technical skills and more importantly, their people skills. OBSD needs a friendly face that can explain our point of view without appearing hostile and confrontational. In addition it would free time up for Theo to do what he loves, develop and get him away from situations and questions that he obviously doesn't appreciate. Theo, we love ya, but it seriously is time to take a back seat and let someone else be the public face of our beloved obsd. You just keep comming out with software that beats the hell out of anything avalble in ANY market. With systems like PF and OpenSSH the PR will write itself. peace
So.. we are told to tune in wednesday for a responce from the BSD developers et. all... So is there any particular month or year that this is planned for? A search of the newsforge site for Joe Barr doesn't provide any references, obviously it hasn't been posted and wednessday is almost over (At least from a business sense). So is this going to happen or was Joe just blowing sunshine up our collective butts?
I have a huge problem with someone holding up Clifford Stoll as an example of how one should "take down" a hacker. Mr. Stoll broke into the CIA computers, the pentigon and other vaious sites all fully documented in his book. That book was often refered to as "The Hackers Handbook".
I am sorry, I have no respect for "cops" who break the same laws they are suposed to be enforcing.
This has all come at a rather good time for me. I am in the market to buy a new laptop! I was looking at the Sony Vaio S360 (Small form factor with a ATI 9700!Anyone know of any other 13.3" or smaller laptops with a decent vid card?? Preferably nvidia) and had been having an email correspondence with a Sony Sales rep about this exact same question. I was about to give up after they answered that they didn't think the laptop would work without Windows, but now have new hope. I remebered vaguely something about this, and knew that being forced to buy a product that I don't want, won't use and can't sell wasn't right. I am going to talk to the store where I will purchace the laptop in advance so they can do their research and determine that I am not a crazy person and really am standing on solid ground. If nessisary I will go to court about this, as the money we are talking about here is substancial and well worth the cost of a small claims trial. If anyone is intrested I will post my experiences on this when it happens. I should be getting new lappy in about a month or so if all goes well. Thanx again for the reminder!