Microsoft has always been a customer focused...
The Mac crowd has always been a special...
We have always made an effort to provide highly functional...
... more than 20 years and you have always been able to get the source...
"Never say never." Microsoft is continually looking...
<yawn>
Nothing very enlightening here - pretty much standard Msft party line public relations stuff, like a politicians meaningless july 4 feel-good speech then heading back to the office for more backstabbing, bribes, payoffs, graft, corruption, vote fraud, etc.
Actually I would expect a massive "p2p sucks!" campaign to be waged by the major ip producers and distributors (riaa, mpaa, msft, etc etc) as a way to fight piracy by stigmatizing it (big billboards and ad campaigns insinuating that "p2p users are loosers" ala drug war type propaganda).
Who knows, maybe Katz was bought off by the industry to start dissing it, putting on negative spin, etc.
Only the paranoid.... a fellow at work was telling me about his Netzero(?) Internet access that was trying to run some distributed process without even asking his permission - he was ticked off about it, but it may be just a misunderstanding (not a compu-savvy employee).
Haven't checked - status: pure rumor.
7. You're reading a trade mag which tells you that a certain popular operating system of the 80s is making a comeback. In plain terms this means:
A. Serious development has produced results at OS/2 central
B. Serious money has produced results at VMS central
C. Guru Meditation has produced results at Amiga central
D. Alcohol has produced results at the editorial office
A media briefing will be held at 9 a.m., Tuesday, March 27, at the Pearl Young Theater Newsroom, Bldg. 12
Geez, I coulda gone to see this in person.
Offtopic Msft bash seen on 3COM:
"The performance of the server connection depends heavily on the network operating system and underlying protocols. UNIX operating systems appear better adapted to handling Gigabit Ethernet speeds, while the TCP/IP protocol running under Microsoft NT 4.0 still has much room for improvement. TCP/IP is a connection-oriented and complex protocol that requires high CPU bandwidth to process packets at gigabit per second rates. "
Goodness, hopefully they got all the Outlook CD's, manuals, boxes, EULA's, and everything else that Outlook has come into contact with, burned as well.
...and this stops others from misusing the fraudulently-obtained certificate... how
by putting them in jail:) IF the FBI can track them down. From the looks of all the lawyers involved in Verisign they're not playing around - they'd probably welcome the opportunity to make a high profile example of some poor schmuck as a warning to everyone else who might want to try forging certificates. Just try forging and passing a few bits of paper money and see how seriously the Treasury dept takes it - it'll get one a long stint in the federal pen.
Here's the Verisign Certification Practice Statement - from what little I read the person who fraudulently claimed to represent Msft might be in some serious trouble.
The last 5 or 6 upgrds I've smuggled into here have all been very affordable 800Mhz T-birds - as long as I NEVER mention that they're NOT Intel the users are VERY happy and they don't start quaking with fear, uncertainty and doubt. Ditto with the Linux mail server. Guerrila IT works if you can expunge the mktng bozo's and all the hypnotized suits under their command.
Not very likely - they've already got scads of publicity, but the odds have already been calculated and the insurance purchased. You might have better chances with the local lottery.
Ah come on, there's no compression in XYZmodem - X is just a checksum or crc check, Y the same with 1K blocks and batch transfers, Z opens up a window (can send blocks w/o having to wait for each one to be ack'd ala tcp) and can resume interrupted transfers (something I *wish* ftp could do!).
Was just playing with pgp Outlook plugin (because you need the paid version of Eudora to use pgp plugin) - pretty much a nobrainer to install, make your keys and publish the public one somewhere.
The real challenge was getting it to work thru a proxy server, but that turned out to be trivial too.
email your secrets to: chuck@schiller.tzo.com
key at pgpkeys.mit.edu
Windows 98, ME or soon to be XP or whatever + MSOffice. That's what a luser, who probably doesn't even want to use the damn thing should use. They should pay for it, and teach them how to reboot and not to bug the admin over every little issue that pops up - yes, we KNOW it buggy, just reboot and finish your assignment. Then thank Stallman and Linus and the supporting cast of millions that the rest of us don't have to use that crap.
Personally I wouldn't want to have to support a distro that's been bozofied with all kinds of semiautomatic help for lusers - it'd be worse than Windows - like I'm getting pissed at the RH "found new hardware" boot screen lately - just boot, give me total control and I'll take care of it.
I did the calculations once, a geosync sat is at, what, 22,300 Miles? At 186,000 miles per sec that's 120 millisecond lag just getting to the satellite.
Affordable broadband has been hijacked by the cable and telco monopolies - at least untill the Msft monopoly slaps them around to get.NET deployed.
Urizon Technology released a security advisory today outlining the potential pitfalls for security telephony. "Why, just any joe with a Radio Shack speaker-amp and a pair of clip leads can walk up to a patch panel and evesdrop on phone calls!" reported Clive Doppler of the "Urizon Group Grappling with Security" (UGGS) department. Urizon stock closed at 47.46, down 0.28.
Why were the broadcasters pirates? They were in international waters, beyond the jurisdiction of the FCC. In this case the claim was that the broadcasters signal was entering US territory - but this is just a case of unjust selective application of the law. Nobody was taking out Radio Moscow for beaming signals into the US territory.
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Microsoft has always been a customer focused ...
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The Mac crowd has always been a special
We have always made an effort to provide highly functional
... more than 20 years and you have always been able to get the source
"Never say never." Microsoft is continually looking
<yawn>
Nothing very enlightening here - pretty much standard Msft party line public relations stuff, like a politicians meaningless july 4 feel-good speech then heading back to the office for more backstabbing, bribes, payoffs, graft, corruption, vote fraud, etc.
</yawn>
Actually I would expect a massive "p2p sucks!" campaign to be waged by the major ip producers and distributors (riaa, mpaa, msft, etc etc) as a way to fight piracy by stigmatizing it (big billboards and ad campaigns insinuating that "p2p users are loosers" ala drug war type propaganda).
Who knows, maybe Katz was bought off by the industry to start dissing it, putting on negative spin, etc.
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Only the paranoid.... a fellow at work was telling me about his Netzero(?) Internet access that was trying to run some distributed process without even asking his permission - he was ticked off about it, but it may be just a misunderstanding (not a compu-savvy employee).
Haven't checked - status: pure rumor.
7. You're reading a trade mag which tells you that a certain popular operating system of the 80s is making a comeback. In plain terms this means:
A. Serious development has produced results at OS/2 central
B. Serious money has produced results at VMS central
C. Guru Meditation has produced results at Amiga central
D. Alcohol has produced results at the editorial office
now that'd be cool....
Hey, Jack. I'll trade you some magic bean seeds for that cow...
That uses both a sound and a video channel.
A media briefing will be held at 9 a.m., Tuesday, March 27, at the Pearl Young Theater Newsroom, Bldg. 12
Geez, I coulda gone to see this in person.
Offtopic Msft bash seen on 3COM:
"The performance of the server connection depends heavily on the network operating system and underlying protocols. UNIX operating systems appear better adapted to handling Gigabit Ethernet speeds, while the TCP/IP protocol running under Microsoft NT 4.0 still has much room for improvement. TCP/IP is a connection-oriented and complex protocol that requires high CPU bandwidth to process packets at gigabit per second rates. "
you mean like this ?
Goodness, hopefully they got all the Outlook CD's, manuals, boxes, EULA's, and everything else that Outlook has come into contact with, burned as well.
...and this stops others from misusing the fraudulently-obtained certificate... how
:) IF the FBI can track them down. From the looks of all the lawyers involved in Verisign they're not playing around - they'd probably welcome the opportunity to make a high profile example of some poor schmuck as a warning to everyone else who might want to try forging certificates. Just try forging and passing a few bits of paper money and see how seriously the Treasury dept takes it - it'll get one a long stint in the federal pen.
by putting them in jail
I was having that Deja Vu too
Here's the Verisign Certification Practice Statement - from what little I read the person who fraudulently claimed to represent Msft might be in some serious trouble.
The last 5 or 6 upgrds I've smuggled into here have all been very affordable 800Mhz T-birds - as long as I NEVER mention that they're NOT Intel the users are VERY happy and they don't start quaking with fear, uncertainty and doubt. Ditto with the Linux mail server. Guerrila IT works if you can expunge the mktng bozo's and all the hypnotized suits under their command.
Not very likely - they've already got scads of publicity, but the odds have already been calculated and the insurance purchased. You might have better chances with the local lottery.
that God has retired to a casino and is often heard to exclain, "Wow! I didn't know that would happen!!"
Ah come on, there's no compression in XYZmodem - X is just a checksum or crc check, Y the same with 1K blocks and batch transfers, Z opens up a window (can send blocks w/o having to wait for each one to be ack'd ala tcp) and can resume interrupted transfers (something I *wish* ftp could do!).
Just a few week's ago - whether due to the greed that got them into this mess, or the pride of not being able to admit a mistake, or whatever.
Was just playing with pgp Outlook plugin (because you need the paid version of Eudora to use pgp plugin) - pretty much a nobrainer to install, make your keys and publish the public one somewhere.
The real challenge was getting it to work thru a proxy server, but that turned out to be trivial too.
email your secrets to: chuck@schiller.tzo.com
key at pgpkeys.mit.edu
who's distribution is aimed at the average luser
Windows 98, ME or soon to be XP or whatever + MSOffice. That's what a luser, who probably doesn't even want to use the damn thing should use. They should pay for it, and teach them how to reboot and not to bug the admin over every little issue that pops up - yes, we KNOW it buggy, just reboot and finish your assignment. Then thank Stallman and Linus and the supporting cast of millions that the rest of us don't have to use that crap.
Personally I wouldn't want to have to support a distro that's been bozofied with all kinds of semiautomatic help for lusers - it'd be worse than Windows - like I'm getting pissed at the RH "found new hardware" boot screen lately - just boot, give me total control and I'll take care of it.
I did the calculations once, a geosync sat is at, what, 22,300 Miles? At 186,000 miles per sec that's 120 millisecond lag just getting to the satellite.
.NET deployed.
Affordable broadband has been hijacked by the cable and telco monopolies - at least untill the Msft monopoly slaps them around to get
the Internet community is revolting...
Urizon Technology released a security advisory today outlining the potential pitfalls for security telephony. "Why, just any joe with a Radio Shack speaker-amp and a pair of clip leads can walk up to a patch panel and evesdrop on phone calls!" reported Clive Doppler of the "Urizon Group Grappling with Security" (UGGS) department. Urizon stock closed at 47.46, down 0.28.
Why were the broadcasters pirates? They were in international waters, beyond the jurisdiction of the FCC. In this case the claim was that the broadcasters signal was entering US territory - but this is just a case of unjust selective application of the law. Nobody was taking out Radio Moscow for beaming signals into the US territory.