The determined pirate, of course, will not be affected by the new CDs. She will simply connect her stereo to her computer, then press "record" on her ripping software as she presses "play" on her conventional CD player.
Now we know lil' chubby had no date for the prom when he was growing up....
I saw a Red Hat exec. on Fox News the other day talking with Neil Cavuto (sp?) about their just released financial results. He was rather unimpressive in his answers about Red Hat's results, its future, its business plan, competition from MS, etc. This is not meant as flamebait at all, but if I was a RH shareholder, I would have been very nervous after watching that interview.
As the "flagship" company for Linux, with all eyes upon it, I hope RH has some top notch execs working behind the scenes. Running a business takes *alot* more than just great coders and passion. Especially when competing against one of the most ruthless companies on the planet.
The states aren't really rallying around the other 9. What they are concerned with, isn't this case, but their ability to bring antritrust cases in the future. Hence they are supporting the 9 states bringing of the case regardless of what they feel about the merits of the MS case.
They are blocking inbound connections to port 80, hence no one can reach your web server, unless you run it on 8080 or 8010 or something other than the traditional port.
his makes Google searching even easier since you can have the search window open on the left and hit your search results on the right. (Yay for "tabbed browsing", IE style.)
This is about the farthest thing from "tabbed browsing" as I can imagine. You can't have two main windows open at the same time...well, I guess you could drag the slider over...but c'mon, that's pretty weak, Slashperson.
Hmm, thanks for clearing that up for me. I, for sure would think that running SQL "underneath" as the file system would almost definitely require people to upgrade to at least 1Ghz/256 (preferrably 512) to have reasonable levels of performance.
First, they claim that Microsoft has effectively monopolized (through illegal actions) the OS market for Intel machines, the web browser market, and the Office suite market. Yeah, what a ridiculous claim. The fact that MS has found to be a monopoly which uses their monopoly to crush competition in other markets and LOST all their appeals somehow escapes you.
While they may have engaged in questionable activities regarding the OS, They are NOT questionable, they are ILLEGAL, and have been proven so in a court of law.
the web browser is a core part of the computing experience today, just like a graphical user interface, TCP/IP and network connectivity, etc (all of which were separately purchased products at one point in the x86 history.) Uh-huh, network connectivity and a full featured internet browser are equivalent. One is a protocol (layer 2/3 in the OSI model) the other is an application (layer 7).
Sun is also claiming that they tried to monopolize (using illegal tactics) the workgroup server OS market. This one is absolutely silly and absurd. Until some recent blunders by Novell, Microsoft did have hefty competition. Yeah, and things like forcing Office (oh, 90+ %market share - another monopoly) workgroup intranet publishing to REQUIRE IIS which ONLY RUNS on a MS Server, that is just peachy with you, huh? That doesn't smack of abusing a monopoly in one area to force your way into another area. Should we delve into the relationship between W2K AD & W2K pro?
However, I doubt anyone can argue that there is anything which is better than Microsoft's solutions for the workgroup and small business market. Of course! The reboot-a-week club and the endless security patches that define the ver MS solutions you describe are just WONDERFUL for business. The TCo of running MS crapware is ridiculous because you have to hire 483 trained reboot monkeys just to keep the crapware running.
Next, Sun claims they illegally tied IE to the operating system. As noted above, web browsing is now an essential part of the PC expierence; it only follows naturally that it should be included as part of the OS. And one you can remove and replace with a competing product if you wish. Which you can't. THAT PLUS THE EXCLUSIONARY CONTRACTS IS THE ISSUE. Keep reapeating that until it sinks in.
Sun has been milking political sources behind the scenes throughout this whole antitrust situation for their own benefit. Oh, and Microsoft's political contributions have remained entirely unchanged during said time period huh? What a bunch of drivel. MS has increased their political contributions on both sides of the aisle EXPONENTIALLY during this time.
What scares me the most though is the idea that they might be successful. I would dred to live in a world where Sun controlled the desktop and server. Like most rational people, I dread to live in a world where ANY ONE COMPANY controlled both the desktop and the server.
How this guy's post isn't modded as a troll I will never know.
We have things like Network Undelete running to prevent just this sort of thing (and the more frequent bozo user who deletes data he shouldn't by accident) - so that we can restore a deleted file in a matter of minutes. An encrypted file would require restoring from tape, which would be an enormous nightmare with multiple files/applications hosed.
Part of the issue with widespread adoption of PGP isyou can't deploy it in a corporate environment. Imagine one disgruntled employee who encrypts a bunch of mission critical files, takes his keys, and goes home (resigns).
Yeah, we will su his a$$! Well, in the meantime, you are SOL and out of business for all intents and purposes.
PGP is great for individual use. It is a far too risky for corporate use.
I agree with almost everything you wrote, except: "Microsoft rose to its position of dominance because the market wants a single company in that position."
I don't think that is quite accurate. While that is part of the reason for MS's dominance, much of it was gained by illegal tactics (hence the court cases in the first place)...and also by a good deal of bungling from Apple in the early days.
Bill gave almost nothing as a percentage of his income to charity prior to around 1996, when he/his company first started running into their legal problems.
Since that time he has exponentially increased his charitable contributions. Coincidence? I'll leave judgement to the reader.
The velociraptor firewall by Symantec uses Linux 2.4 as well. It has a very easy to use Microsoft Management Console (MMC) based GUI to manage it. It also has a proprietary process that runs on it that proactively kills any other processes that are not supposed to be running.
A nice combination of usability and stability, imho.
What qualifies as a standard is highly debatable. The cli and description of C# have been passed by ECMA, for whatever that is worth, but that is a far cry from say, TCP/IP which is fully open and can be implemented on any platform.
As for mono, there are other people working on office file formats so that they can be created/read/used on other platforms....that hardly makes them interoperable or cross-platform.
If you think.net is MS's plan to be the good guy and support "open standards" so that developers can develop on whatever platform they want and users can use whatever platform they like...well, I sugges you take a long look at their history. Either that or give me a call so we can negotiate a price for this nice bridge in Brooklyn i have.:-)
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Wow, modded twice as a troll. Who would I have been trolling for? Does Roger Ebert read slashdot?
I guess nobody around here has the ability to detect sarcasm.
Phooey.
The determined pirate, of course, will not be affected by the new CDs. She will simply connect her stereo to her computer, then press "record" on her ripping software as she presses "play" on her conventional CD player.
Now we know lil' chubby had no date for the prom when he was growing up....
I saw a Red Hat exec. on Fox News the other day talking with Neil Cavuto (sp?) about their just released financial results. He was rather unimpressive in his answers about Red Hat's results, its future, its business plan, competition from MS, etc. This is not meant as flamebait at all, but if I was a RH shareholder, I would have been very nervous after watching that interview.
As the "flagship" company for Linux, with all eyes upon it, I hope RH has some top notch execs working behind the scenes. Running a business takes *alot* more than just great coders and passion. Especially when competing against one of the most ruthless companies on the planet.
The states aren't really rallying around the other 9. What they are concerned with, isn't this case, but their ability to bring antritrust cases in the future. Hence they are supporting the 9 states bringing of the case regardless of what they feel about the merits of the MS case.
Because responses from a web server's port 80 come back on a randomly assigned upper port (>1500) when you connect to the server.
You can use netstat -an|more to see what you are connected to and what ports.
HTH.
They are blocking inbound connections to port 80, hence no one can reach your web server, unless you run it on 8080 or 8010 or something other than the traditional port.
his makes Google searching even easier since you can have the search window open on the left and hit your search results on the right. (Yay for "tabbed browsing", IE style.)
This is about the farthest thing from "tabbed browsing" as I can imagine. You can't have two main windows open at the same time...well, I guess you could drag the slider over...but c'mon, that's pretty weak, Slashperson.
Can you imagine how many people would upgrade their Windows if they knew that MS would be liable thereafter if it screwed up?
Heck, I'd format all my linux machines and put Windows LE (Liabilty Edition) on 'em. The chance to sue Billy boy is just too great a temptation....
Hmm, thanks for clearing that up for me. I, for sure would think that running SQL "underneath" as the file system would almost definitely require people to upgrade to at least 1Ghz/256 (preferrably 512) to have reasonable levels of performance.
Don't forget about the massive overhead needed, thus driving another round of hardware upgrades.
Just pick up a copy of Orwell's 1984 and you will find the answers you are looking for.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Don't use it. Uninstall NS6 and use Mozilla instead. Same browser - without the unnecessary extra crud AOL bundles into it anyhow.
First, they claim that Microsoft has effectively monopolized (through illegal actions) the OS market for Intel machines, the web browser market, and the Office suite market.
Yeah, what a ridiculous claim. The fact that MS has found to be a monopoly which uses their monopoly to crush competition in other markets and LOST all their appeals somehow escapes you.
While they may have engaged in questionable activities regarding the OS,
They are NOT questionable, they are ILLEGAL, and have been proven so in a court of law.
the web browser is a core part of the computing experience today, just like a graphical user interface, TCP/IP and network connectivity, etc (all of which were separately purchased products at one point in the x86 history.)
Uh-huh, network connectivity and a full featured internet browser are equivalent. One is a protocol (layer 2/3 in the OSI model) the other is an application (layer 7).
Sun is also claiming that they tried to monopolize (using illegal tactics) the workgroup server OS market. This one is absolutely silly and absurd. Until some recent blunders by Novell, Microsoft did have hefty competition.
Yeah, and things like forcing Office (oh, 90+ %market share - another monopoly) workgroup intranet publishing to REQUIRE IIS which ONLY RUNS on a MS Server, that is just peachy with you, huh? That doesn't smack of abusing a monopoly in one area to force your way into another area. Should we delve into the relationship between W2K AD & W2K pro?
However, I doubt anyone can argue that there is anything which is better than Microsoft's solutions for the workgroup and small business market.
Of course! The reboot-a-week club and the endless security patches that define the ver MS solutions you describe are just WONDERFUL for business. The TCo of running MS crapware is ridiculous because you have to hire 483 trained reboot monkeys just to keep the crapware running.
Next, Sun claims they illegally tied IE to the operating system. As noted above, web browsing is now an essential part of the PC expierence; it only follows naturally that it should be included as part of the OS.
And one you can remove and replace with a competing product if you wish. Which you can't. THAT PLUS THE EXCLUSIONARY CONTRACTS IS THE ISSUE. Keep reapeating that until it sinks in.
Sun has been milking political sources behind the scenes throughout this whole antitrust situation for their own benefit.
Oh, and Microsoft's political contributions have remained entirely unchanged during said time period huh? What a bunch of drivel. MS has increased their political contributions on both sides of the aisle EXPONENTIALLY during this time.
What scares me the most though is the idea that they might be successful. I would dred to live in a world where Sun controlled the desktop and server.
Like most rational people, I dread to live in a world where ANY ONE COMPANY controlled both the desktop and the server.
How this guy's post isn't modded as a troll I will never know.
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We have things like Network Undelete running to prevent just this sort of thing (and the more frequent bozo user who deletes data he shouldn't by accident) - so that we can restore a deleted file in a matter of minutes. An encrypted file would require restoring from tape, which would be an enormous nightmare with multiple files/applications hosed.
Part of the issue with widespread adoption of PGP isyou can't deploy it in a corporate environment. Imagine one disgruntled employee who encrypts a bunch of mission critical files, takes his keys, and goes home (resigns).
Yeah, we will su his a$$! Well, in the meantime, you are SOL and out of business for all intents and purposes.
PGP is great for individual use. It is a far too risky for corporate use.
"Microsoft rose to its position of dominance because the market wants a single company in that position."
I don't think that is quite accurate. While that is part of the reason for MS's dominance, much of it was gained by illegal tactics (hence the court cases in the first place)...and also by a good deal of bungling from Apple in the early days.
Are you sure the foam wasn't actually developed here?
I believe Quarterdeck pioneered this with their QEMM product, and MS's versions were a knock-off that came out later.
Surprise, surprise.
Bill gave almost nothing as a percentage of his income to charity prior to around 1996, when he/his company first started running into their legal problems.
Since that time he has exponentially increased his charitable contributions. Coincidence? I'll leave judgement to the reader.
The velociraptor firewall by Symantec uses Linux 2.4 as well. It has a very easy to use Microsoft Management Console (MMC) based GUI to manage it. It also has a proprietary process that runs on it that proactively kills any other processes that are not supposed to be running.
A nice combination of usability and stability, imho.
I agree.
I am sure that came from a web-site form/automatic mailer. Maybe even from the "Freedom to Innovate" (*cough*) site itself.
I don't think it is a bunch of Microsofties...at least I hope not.
Heck, MS execs are even talking about how http's days are coming to an end...
.net is MS's plan to be the good guy and support "open standards" so that developers can develop on whatever platform they want and users can use whatever platform they like...well, I sugges you take a long look at their history. Either that or give me a call so we can negotiate a price for this nice bridge in Brooklyn i have. :-)
You got a link to back that up?
Try here
What qualifies as a standard is highly debatable. The cli and description of C# have been passed by ECMA, for whatever that is worth, but that is a far cry from say, TCP/IP which is fully open and can be implemented on any platform.
As for mono, there are other people working on office file formats so that they can be created/read/used on other platforms....that hardly makes them interoperable or cross-platform.
If you think
I just used up my thousand page views reading the flood of comments on this article alone!!!