It should not matter what one iota if closed source handles errors better. Its only a question of whether open source handles them as perfectly as possible.
There is one factor of open source that seems to be over looked in the evangelism. Yes open source is subject to peer review, which is one of its primary strength. However, if no one reviews the code, the advantage is not gained. Even if the code is reviewed, if its not done by a competent programmer, false confidence in code quality could result.
Poor code reviewed by poor programmers is a dangerous combination, open or closed.
On my systems that require me to have a Microsoft OS (namely, my school laptop), its WIn98 - Its actually stable, and I didnt have to register anything.
Why does everyone think that Linux is 'at war' with Microsoft?
Microsoft is about coddling the masses, Linux is about choices and options for the power users.
As long as there are power users who don't like Microsofts condescending "your dumb, we're not, do it our way" control-freakish mentality, there will be Linux.
It might not be a huge user base, but it will be by the geeks, for the geeks.
Wouldn't it be easier just to tell syslogd to send the logs across the network to another computer? I believe that this is a native function of syslogd
Microsoft has been faced with the task of trying to make NT all
things to all people. In doing so, they have not been able to devote as many resources to
security as they would have liked, and as a result, NT has proven to be less secure than
originally hoped for
If thats not the nicest way to say that Microsoft has serious security issues, I don't know what is.
One thing I cannot understand... why would they access the information through a browser? I realize that browsers provide for a cheap interface, but its hardly conducive to real time information needs... not to mention the fact that I have come across no browser that is reliable.
The "real time" bit can probaly be done by Java applets... but then if your doing that, why not just
crate a stand alone client out of Java.
My $0.02
Well... consider the 1960 generation, which was about peace, love, freedom of expression and action. These are now the people who run corporations which make war, promote conformation, and generally go against everything their generation stood for 30 years ago...
In 30 years, The only thing that will have changed is the faces.
The worm increases activity in more of a biological pattern (ie geometric). 1 host infects another host. Those 2 hosts infect 2 more, the 4 hosts infect 4 more... etc
I believe the media expected the "attack" to happen like an artillery barrage, or the way the US attacked during the Gulf War - all at once.
If you think of it the way it really is, the way diseases spread, then you realize that the problem is only going to get worse. How worse remains to be seen.
My server logs have reported 400+ hits since 2am EST, and it is increasing in a ~geometric rate. From 2 - 8 I got 58 hits, from 10:30 to 11:30 I've had over 100.
How many times have we heard the defense of "Rights of Freedoms" spewed out of the mouths of people when they defend downloading music, commercial software, and movies? They say that the prices are immoral and unfair to artists. All the while proud as hell that they haven't paid for a CD or movie in 2 years. This is supposed to justify illegal acts.
The MPAA and the RIAA may be immoral, and it may be oppresive... but downloading songs that you have not paid for is illegal, and it is theft. And it gives the MPAA and the RIAA's arguments for stronger controls amazing amounts of credibility, while completely destroying the argument against.
The facts are that Napster was one big theft machine, and the RIAA and MPAA fought back the only way their corporate mentality would allow them... stronger controls over copyrights and distribution. Why? Because lawmakers took a look around, saw that people were stealing music at an amazing rate, and said "Yeah, your right, we need stronger controls".
Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree that the MPAA, RIAA are control-freak pirates, and the DMCA is the ultimate weapon for them, and should be abolished at all costs. However, continually downloading their stuff illegally is the WRONG WAY to do it.
A boycott of purchasing CD's is a good way to fight, but it is only effective if a boycott of accessing the music in all its forms is in effect.
If you don't buy music, but still listen to it, the lawmakers won't have any cause to look beyond the RIAA's claims of rampant theft because their is rampant theft, and the message of the RIAA being oppresive is not heard. Conversly, if you avoid the music completely, you force the lawmakers to ask why, and to listen to the arguments against oppression.
I know there are many people who do fight the RIAA without resorting to theft in the process, but the majority do not, and they are IMHO the worst enemy we have.
I am sure I have some facts wrong here, but think of the concept. You cannot gain the credibility needed to get the attention of lawmakers if you are breaking the very laws you are fighting against.
I am Canadian... and big business didn't seem to be that big of a factor in Canadian legislation, at least not as bad as it seems to be in the US. We don't really have lobby groups etc. (at least if we do, they are low key).
What we do have is an inability to elect people who actually understand the concept of governing a country.
I think the problem is that Canada has a political body has a hard time standing on its own on any given issue. We tend to bend to the will of others. Since we are basically an extension of the US as far as marketing products and the Media, our leaders (like the fucking sheep they are) look to the US for guidance.
Don't get me wrong, I am proud to be a Canadian in almost all respects... politics isn't one of them.
How long do you think, assuming that this new technique is valid, will it take for Google to catch up and provide similar results?
They already have 5 of the 6 requirements ( as I see em):
1. Existing, proven, scalable infrastructure
2. Gob-loads of search engine experience && the programmers/net admins to back it up
3. A better name (Marketing, sadly, does count)
4. ~1.3 billion pages already 'spidered' and waiting to be re-munched using any technique they deem appropriate
5. A lot of high-paying corporate customers (Yahoo!, RedHat etc) which helps pay for everything... and lets face it... money talks.
ALl they really need is an algorithm.... whish shouldn't be a problem from the guys that revolutionized searching in the first place.
Making it easier for people to do stupid things (like drive when tired) just encourages them... and unfortunately, the consequences affect more than the stupid (which otherwise would be a reaon to encourage them:)
Sleep deprivation is one reason why I *don't* drive... I get too tired to fast when I drive. I also tend to put the relatively mundane tasks of driving in the background, and think about more pressing matters, which is very dangerous, so I don't do it.
A lot of this article makes sense, but banging on Mozilla for not being released in 3 years? HELLO! They release daily, and release development milestones on a ~3-6month schedule.
Granted they haven't hit a 1.0 release yet, but on the other hand, it hasn't been 10 years yet...
I am not American, so I am not exactly versed in
the US Constitution, but you all do manage to send an awful lot of American content up across the border....
I was under the impression that the constitution also calls for a seperation between church and state, and that is the reason why prayer was not allowed as an official function of school. There is nothing stoping someone from praying in school by themselves.
I do find it ironic that the term "In God We Trust" is on US dollar bills considering the seperation of church and state thing... but then we call our dollars 'loonies' so there apparently is no accounting for taste in such matters:P
The telecom companies got on with the internet. Why can't RIAA do the same?
Well... The telecom industry *IS* the internet. They control the backbones, and every single fibre optic and copper cable that is used it its make-up(at least in North America). Napster is a Good Thing(tm) for the telecom industry in that Napster uses up bandwidth, and the telecom industry is in the business of selling bandwith. Q.E.D.
I agree that prices here in Canada are outrageous, but using the argument of artists not getting their fair cut from record companies as an excuse for Napster/Scour/Whatever is absurd. If you don't buy the album, the artists isn't getting his cut, even if it is way to little.
Now, if you were sending the artists a cheque directly, that would be a different story.
I think the real reason why Canadian music sales have dropped is largely due to the "Big" Canadian bands either not releasing decent albums in the last year or so.
A few years ago I was buying Canadian music left and right because there was a ton of great albums released, but lately there has been few new albums, and a lot of those... well... sucked.
Simple rule of business: If you want consumers to purchase your product, you must release product we want to buy.
My advice, let them know of the security risk, but I would NOT use it as a vehicle for getting them as customers unless they make the first move.
If you say "hey, your security sucks, why not be my customer?" they might take it as a sales pitch, and not as friendly advice.
At the very least, I would send a sales guy over a couple weeks after you inform them of the problem. This will distance the "problem" from the "sales pitch" but still maintain the "These guys care, and can be trusted with my data" image.
Hey! A fellow biker! And I assume, from your website URL, a fellow Canadian.
I walk or bike everywhere I go. (not an easy thing to do in Windsor, ON) Everyone around me complains about the price of gas, insurance, parking etc. and I just laugh at them. I spent $200.00 on my bike a year ago, hasn't cost me a single penny since, and I've lost 10Kg's to boot.
My bro-in-law's ex place of work seemed to be a fair arrangement. He shared being 'on-call' with a couple other techs, so he was only on call for 1 week, off for 2 or 3 weeks. The company he worked did contract work and charged 1.5 times the regular rate, and he go to keep the 0.5.
I personally think that there IS a moral problem with parents having kids with a very high chance of having defects. What gives someone the right to fuck up someone else? Just because something is possible, doesn't make it right.
My problem with cloning is the huge door it opens to new diseases. Anytime humans have seriously messed with nature it has caused problems. Clear-cutting caused enviromental problems, and changes in weather patterns, anti-biotics is causing so-called "super-bugs" to show up that modern medicine can't deal with. Mad Cow disease is another example.
I am all for banning human cloning until we know for sure that we understand it completely, and have genetics down cold. If we can't clone a viable sheep, what makes us think we can clone a vialble human?
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It should not matter what one iota if closed source handles errors better. Its only a question of whether open source handles them as perfectly as possible.
There is one factor of open source that seems to be over looked in the evangelism. Yes open source is subject to peer review, which is one of its primary strength. However, if no one reviews the code, the advantage is not gained. Even if the code is reviewed, if its not done by a competent programmer, false confidence in code quality could result.
Poor code reviewed by poor programmers is a dangerous combination, open or closed.
I agree
On my systems that require me to have a Microsoft OS (namely, my school laptop), its WIn98 - Its actually stable, and I didnt have to register anything.
Why does everyone think that Linux is 'at war' with Microsoft?
Microsoft is about coddling the masses, Linux is about choices and options for the power users.
As long as there are power users who don't like Microsofts condescending "your dumb, we're not, do it our way" control-freakish mentality, there will be Linux.
It might not be a huge user base, but it will be by the geeks, for the geeks.
I don't see a problem, Yahoo Serious does not have
an exclamation point anywhere in his name.
Wouldn't it be easier just to tell syslogd to send the logs across the network to another computer? I believe that this is a native function of syslogd
Microsoft has been faced with the task of trying to make NT all things to all people. In doing so, they have not been able to devote as many resources to security as they would have liked, and as a result, NT has proven to be less secure than originally hoped for
If thats not the nicest way to say that Microsoft has serious security issues, I don't know what is.
One thing I cannot understand... why would they access the information through a browser? I realize that browsers provide for a cheap interface, but its hardly conducive to real time information needs... not to mention the fact that I have come across no browser that is reliable. The "real time" bit can probaly be done by Java applets... but then if your doing that, why not just crate a stand alone client out of Java. My $0.02
Well... consider the 1960 generation, which was about peace, love, freedom of expression and action. These are now the people who run corporations which make war, promote conformation, and generally go against everything their generation stood for 30 years ago...
In 30 years, The only thing that will have changed is the faces.
The worm increases activity in more of a biological pattern (ie geometric). 1 host infects another host. Those 2 hosts infect 2 more, the 4 hosts infect 4 more... etc
I believe the media expected the "attack" to happen like an artillery barrage, or the way the US attacked during the Gulf War - all at once.
If you think of it the way it really is, the way diseases spread, then you realize that the problem is only going to get worse. How worse remains to be seen.
My server logs have reported 400+ hits since 2am EST, and it is increasing in a ~geometric rate. From 2 - 8 I got 58 hits, from 10:30 to 11:30 I've had over 100.
Dave
Richard Stevens books, the TCP/IP guru, has stood the test of time on the topic of TCP/IP.
TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1,2 & 3
Advanced PRogramming In The Unix Environment
Network Programming IN The Unix Environment
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
How many times have we heard the defense of "Rights of Freedoms" spewed out of the mouths of people when they defend downloading music, commercial software, and movies? They say that the prices are immoral and unfair to artists. All the while proud as hell that they haven't paid for a CD or movie in 2 years. This is supposed to justify illegal acts.
The MPAA and the RIAA may be immoral, and it may be oppresive... but downloading songs that you have not paid for is illegal, and it is theft. And it gives the MPAA and the RIAA's arguments for stronger controls amazing amounts of credibility, while completely destroying the argument against.
The facts are that Napster was one big theft machine, and the RIAA and MPAA fought back the only way their corporate mentality would allow them... stronger controls over copyrights and distribution. Why? Because lawmakers took a look around, saw that people were stealing music at an amazing rate, and said "Yeah, your right, we need stronger controls".
Don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree that the MPAA, RIAA are control-freak pirates, and the DMCA is the ultimate weapon for them, and should be abolished at all costs. However, continually downloading their stuff illegally is the WRONG WAY to do it.
A boycott of purchasing CD's is a good way to fight, but it is only effective if a boycott of accessing the music in all its forms is in effect.
If you don't buy music, but still listen to it, the lawmakers won't have any cause to look beyond the RIAA's claims of rampant theft because their is rampant theft, and the message of the RIAA being oppresive is not heard. Conversly, if you avoid the music completely, you force the lawmakers to ask why, and to listen to the arguments against oppression.
I know there are many people who do fight the RIAA without resorting to theft in the process, but the majority do not, and they are IMHO the worst enemy we have.
I am sure I have some facts wrong here, but think of the concept. You cannot gain the credibility needed to get the attention of lawmakers if you are breaking the very laws you are fighting against.
Flame away
Dave
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I am Canadian... and big business didn't seem to be that big of a factor in Canadian legislation, at least not as bad as it seems to be in the US. We don't really have lobby groups etc. (at least if we do, they are low key).
What we do have is an inability to elect people who actually understand the concept of governing a country.
I think the problem is that Canada has a political body has a hard time standing on its own on any given issue. We tend to bend to the will of others. Since we are basically an extension of the US as far as marketing products and the Media, our leaders (like the fucking sheep they are) look to the US for guidance.
Don't get me wrong, I am proud to be a Canadian in almost all respects... politics isn't one of them.
Dave
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I don't trust search engines that don't let me get lucky... um... feel lucky...
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
How long do you think, assuming that this new technique is valid, will it take for Google to catch up and provide similar results?
They already have 5 of the 6 requirements ( as I see em):
1. Existing, proven, scalable infrastructure
2. Gob-loads of search engine experience && the programmers/net admins to back it up
3. A better name (Marketing, sadly, does count)
4. ~1.3 billion pages already 'spidered' and waiting to be re-munched using any technique they deem appropriate
5. A lot of high-paying corporate customers (Yahoo!, RedHat etc) which helps pay for everything... and lets face it... money talks.
ALl they really need is an algorithm.... whish shouldn't be a problem from the guys that revolutionized searching in the first place.
My $0.02
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
Making it easier for people to do stupid things (like drive when tired) just encourages them... and unfortunately, the consequences affect more than the stupid (which otherwise would be a reaon to encourage them :)
Sleep deprivation is one reason why I *don't* drive... I get too tired to fast when I drive. I also tend to put the relatively mundane tasks of driving in the background, and think about more pressing matters, which is very dangerous, so I don't do it.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
A lot of this article makes sense, but banging on Mozilla for not being released in 3 years? HELLO! They release daily, and release development milestones on a ~3-6month schedule.
Granted they haven't hit a 1.0 release yet, but on the other hand, it hasn't been 10 years yet...
rant off...
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I am not American, so I am not exactly versed in
:P
the US Constitution, but you all do manage to send an awful lot of American content up across the border....
I was under the impression that the constitution also calls for a seperation between church and state, and that is the reason why prayer was not allowed as an official function of school. There is nothing stoping someone from praying in school by themselves.
I do find it ironic that the term "In God We Trust" is on US dollar bills considering the seperation of church and state thing... but then we call our dollars 'loonies' so there apparently is no accounting for taste in such matters
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
Well... The telecom industry *IS* the internet. They control the backbones, and every single fibre optic and copper cable that is used it its make-up(at least in North America). Napster is a Good Thing(tm) for the telecom industry in that Napster uses up bandwidth, and the telecom industry is in the business of selling bandwith. Q.E.D.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I agree that prices here in Canada are outrageous, but using the argument of artists not getting their fair cut from record companies as an excuse for Napster/Scour/Whatever is absurd. If you don't buy the album, the artists isn't getting his cut, even if it is way to little.
Now, if you were sending the artists a cheque directly, that would be a different story.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
A few years ago I was buying Canadian music left and right because there was a ton of great albums released, but lately there has been few new albums, and a lot of those... well... sucked.
Simple rule of business: If you want consumers to purchase your product, you must release product we want to buy.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I just started re-reading the Hitchhiker series a couple days ago.
My condolences to the family. He will be missed.
Mr Adams, say hello to the Great Prophet Zarquon for me.
Dave
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
My advice, let them know of the security risk, but I would NOT use it as a vehicle for getting them as customers unless they make the first move.
If you say "hey, your security sucks, why not be my customer?" they might take it as a sales pitch, and not as friendly advice.
At the very least, I would send a sales guy over a couple weeks after you inform them of the problem. This will distance the "problem" from the "sales pitch" but still maintain the "These guys care, and can be trusted with my data" image.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
Hey! A fellow biker! And I assume, from your website URL, a fellow Canadian.
I walk or bike everywhere I go. (not an easy thing to do in Windsor, ON) Everyone around me complains about the price of gas, insurance, parking etc. and I just laugh at them. I spent $200.00 on my bike a year ago, hasn't cost me a single penny since, and I've lost 10Kg's to boot.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
My bro-in-law's ex place of work seemed to be a fair arrangement. He shared being 'on-call' with a couple other techs, so he was only on call for 1 week, off for 2 or 3 weeks. The company he worked did contract work and charged 1.5 times the regular rate, and he go to keep the 0.5.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
I personally think that there IS a moral problem with parents having kids with a very high chance of having defects. What gives someone the right to fuck up someone else? Just because something is possible, doesn't make it right.
.02c
My problem with cloning is the huge door it opens to new diseases. Anytime humans have seriously messed with nature it has caused problems. Clear-cutting caused enviromental problems, and changes in weather patterns, anti-biotics is causing so-called "super-bugs" to show up that modern medicine can't deal with. Mad Cow disease is another example.
I am all for banning human cloning until we know for sure that we understand it completely, and have genetics down cold. If we can't clone a viable sheep, what makes us think we can clone a vialble human?
my
DOS is dead, and no one cares...