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  1. Re:Capabilities: older than 10 yrs on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    Since 1981 Novell Netware has and still has the ability to assign or deny the following rights to any object:
    WRMFACES+DI+RI+EI where:

    W=Write
    R=Read
    M=Modify
    F=Filescan
    A=Access Control
    C=Create
    E=Erase
    S=Supervisory
    DI=Delete Inhibit
    RI=Rename Inhibit
    EI=Execute Inhibit

    These rights can be applied in any combination. Want to create a drop box, assign a directory only the create right and the only thing you can do is create a file and that is it.

    Pretty damn fine grained if you ask me.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    The company has always been Novell, the product has always been NetWare.

  3. Re:Here is more prior art! on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    We need the site. The more prior art the better. Find specific examples and post them.

  4. MOD PARENT UP! on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Novell has current working prior art dating back to 1981!

  5. Here is more prior art! on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And this should be all it takes

    Novell Netware 286!

    The date is 1981!

    Once again it is up to Novell to save everyones ass!

  6. Re:Incorrect Headline on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Yes this is true...

    Most MTAs will not split up the e-mail into one incarnation per recipient when spooling it, but work on a single copy, and only transmit the e-mail once per unique MX

    And this behavior is starting to cause problems. In the never ending efforts to battle spam, e-mail floods and the like, lots of systems are starting to kick back with things like "Too Many Recipients" set to random amounts, at random times.

  7. Re:Get a better mail server... on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Exchange can process very very fast. You are forgetting PST's.

  8. Re:Incorrect Headline on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Well then you should have your submission privileges revoked.

    Any, and uhmm let me repeat that for emphasis, ANY MTA can be become overloaded. It is a simple fact of computers. There are only so many threads that can run on any one system ( limitations of cores, memory, all that sort of thing don'tcha-know ) and have every thread maxed out and have a thousands of messages backed up in the queue

    Your sensationalist headline was flat out wrong and was in point of fact simple karma-whoring, nothing more nothing less.

    Microsoft deserves a punch in the nose quite frequently, but in this case, they didn't, so do the right thing and say, "Opps I fucked up" and get on with your life.

    Fucking Karma whore that you are.

  9. How can the thing... on A Robotic Bartender, and How To Build One · · Score: 1

    properly muddle the mint in my Mojito? That takes human hands and a human eye to know when it is just right. And yes I do prefer my drink made by a lovely bar tender with a nice smile and even nicer breasts comfortably cradled in a low cut top. Animation is great for a lot of things, but this is not one of them. FAIL!

  10. Look at there numbers, they tell the tail... on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    MSFT stock is basically flat, from the one time high of around 56.00 it has languished between 20 and 30 USD but the average is around 20. They pay a .13 USD div, but that is not all of the story.

    As mentioned in many other posts, they have divisions that simply are eating away at their cash. Their cash is invested, and a lot of those investments are not doing so well.

    Butts in chairs are expensive, very very expensive when you see it from the total accounting POV. no matter if they are in CONUS or overseas.

    They invested massively in Vista and it just didn't go. Win 7 is basically Vista re-named and fixed ( hopefully ) and it may bring the XP downgrader's back into the upgrade fold, but only if it is really compelling.

    Even as big as MSFT is, it is not immune from the effects of this recession, it will weather it better then most, bat at the rate they are burning cash on un-profitable div's they have to do something to stem the tide. Wall Street, as much as they love MSFT will start to make noise sooner or later, and that is when their mediocre stock price will start to take the hit. They are being proactive to prevent this from happening.

    I think the management of MSFT, mostly in the form of Balmer is as evil as they get, but someone up in Redmond is doing math and saying, "Uhmmm guys, yeah we got all this cash, but we have to shore up out positions and make sure we can get through this and come out the other side, at least as strong as we are now.

  11. Re:Serves em Right on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    Huh?? I don;t understand your question in the current context. Now we are missing some information, like were both the HD's completely wiped? I don't think you can completely wipe a running systems HD without the OS complaining very loudly.

    Hence my my notion that the data file might have been simply un-linked or truncated, but for the DBMS to have overwritten every record, every index, in every table seems a bit on the fishy side.

    See my previous post on the subject.

  12. Re:Serves em Right on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see your point, but something about this does not pass the smell test.

    To have nothing on the HD(s) then someone had to very very carefully wipe the entire disk by overwriting every block and sector that the data occupied, and that would have made whatever DB system shit its pants as it started seeing data disappear so it would have been really obvious, really fast that something was amiss and as you relate would have more then likely caused a kernel panic and or at least a core dump of the DB system.

  13. Something is fishy here..... on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For everything to be just gone and I mean LONG gone, then something besides a truncation or un-linking of the file had to occur.

    Now I don't know all that much about the apple file system, but I would imagine it is like most file systems in that it links clusters and sectors of data together using some sort of allocation table, hash, b-tree or something.

    Now unless they had file scrubbing turned on and the OS purposefully went out and overwrote every segment of the file with 01010101 and 10101010 then the vast majority of the data should still be there, at least I would think it would be. I mean even the nastiest revenge oriented guy, would have to be able to invoke some kind of program to do that.

    I am assuming that it was an SQL database of some flavor. I don't know much about MySQL internals but I am pretty sure a

    delete from table

    simply goes through the index and marks pages deleted and does not physically go out and scrub ever page that has data on it. I know that is how Oracle works.

    So this leaves me wondering about the data recovery house.... I they were doing a sector by sector read on the entire drive ( either of them ) they should till see all sorts of data on the disk. Now I don't know if the database compresses data on the fly ( some do, some don't) and I don't know if drive compression is an option on OS-X. If so, I can see where they would see just mostly larges amounts of compressed data ( making things VERY difficult if not impossible to recover, but baring that, most OS's have the hooks built in do simply do a sector by sector read of the storage device and although your binary data ( images and the like ) might be unrecoverable, you could probably get most if not all of the text.

    Just a thought, but hey I might be crazy, it is just the hacker in me that brings these things to mind...

  14. Re:What would you wind up with then? on Google Releases Web Security Book · · Score: 1

    Hey there... The document pointed of a lot of problems from a security POV and those need to be fixed, and fixed quickly.

    The basics of the http protocol are pretty good, it just needs to be cleaned up, and I mean reviewed from the 1st to the last byte and fix all the kludges that have been piled on.

    HTML is a freaking mess as is The DOM and CSS. There are so many issues it is really hard to know where to start. I think a good place would be more closely couple the DOM to the browser. CSS needs to have its guts ripped out and start over. The very notion that there are things in HTML elements that cannot be affected by your style sheets is completely ludicrous. As an example take talbes for instance. Tables are a perfectly valid tool in HTML and yet you cannot set the number of columns, or their width from with CSS, if you want that to change that you have to encode in the HTML, which is utterly counter to the entire mission of CSS. Don't get me started on the whole "Its Structure" -v- "Its display" argument because it comes down to who shouts the loudest.

    Browsers are not ment to be FTP clients so you should not even be able to put "ftp://" in your browsers address bar. The notion that you can put in various munged address formats in there is also something that just needs to be removed. t either goes in in standard doted notation as in IPV4 or the standard notion of IPV6. Additionally the very notion that you can leaves whole segments of and IPV6 address out and just put in "::" is something the IPV6 gang should be slapped for.

    I could go on and on and on put you get the point. The basics are not that bad, it is the functionality that has been shoehorned in that needs to be ripped out and redesigned in a homogeneous form so its all works in concert.

  15. Re:A modest proposal on Google Releases Web Security Book · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, at some point I could agree with you, but not in this case.

    This document painfully illustrates the truly hosed nature of the web and most browsers in particular from a security POV, chrome included.

    The web in it's current form is one massive kludge piled on top of a pretty good idea.

    The time is long passed due to take what is there, screw backwards compatibility and rebuild it correctly.

  16. Re:English is the universal language! on OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You sir are completely and utterly wrong. The government was right, and your bunch of little "It eez our right to speek zee language we love" assholes were wrong as well.

    Yes sir, I am a pilot, I communicate with ATC a lot. I have caught ATC mistakes because I can understand the instructions given to other pilots. As only one of many other examples: I am on final, outer marker, 130 kts, dirty. When I hear the Tower say, "N-xxxxx position and hold, runway 28R". Hold the phone, that is the runway I am landing on! Now if that is not bad enough the next thing I hear, "N-xxxxx cleared for takeoff". To say the least I start screaming at ATC ( in english ) and we sort it out.

    Now if the tower controller had been speaking French to a French speaking pilot I doubt I would be sitting here writing this. The reason people who direct machines that are carrying human beings in the air speak a common language is so we don't get killed. But I guess you folks in Quebec don't give a shit about that, now do you.

    Now in the context of EULA's I think they should be translated into all possible languages. Why? Because it is not a safety issue!

  17. And yet another real winner of a name... on Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead · · Score: 1

    Are these people just daft! I mean NEPOMUK as in "Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge"!

    I mean WTF! Can the Linux community pull its head out of its ass long enough to see that names like this drive people AWAY!

  18. Re:Teach the machine first! on Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    I have never read the books you have mentioned, but I disagree about starting off in something like Ruby. FAR FAR to high level and way to much objectification, and you cant do things like poke around at memory addresses to see something actually happen right before their eyes when they press the enter key. THAT gets kids attention, not this.that.theother.some.this.somethingelse new.

  19. Teach the machine first! on Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    I have seen far far to many people doing "programming" who have not a clue about what is happening, much less why.

    Programing is providing a sequence of instructions to a physical device. If you have no idea about what that device does and how it does it you will never be able to do anything except parrot what someone has shown you. Start off with logic basics. Teach them why a computer can count. Show them why a bunch of JK flip flops strung together can represent and count numbers. Illustrate on a chalkboard why and how TTL and DRL gates work. I am not talking a course in EE here, but this base knowledge is IMO important.

    After they kind of get that, start off by using a DOS and debug in CUI mode, then move on to something a bit higher, build on a progression of simple blocks and move forward.

  20. Re:People on older distros on Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection · · Score: 1

    Yeah I read through that. Seems like a pretty hideous kludge, but I am going to try it when I next have time..

  21. Re:People on older distros on Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection · · Score: 1

    Not trolling, bad proof reading...

    Arrrggg I have been chastised.

  22. Re:People on older distros on Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep same problem here. Running SLES 10 sp1 and FF 3 requires GTK 7.x and GTK 7.x requires a whole host of lib updates. I tried valiantly to get them all updated and totally crapped my system. I had backed up everything so it was simple enough to boot from CD and restore back, but man what a PITA!

  23. Re:C. Just C. on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    have to agree with the parent, C is the language of *nix.. I love programming in Pascal, I use Lazarus/fpc but when it comes time to get down and dirty, to get speed or to get perfect portability, I just open up pico ( don't care for vi or emacs ) and just start coding. I keep Google handy for lib references, create a simple make file and just go.

  24. Re:oh god on Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer · · Score: 1

    kdawson is not known for accuracy, grammar, correct spelling, timeliness or any other attribute one might associate with someone using the title of "editor".

  25. Re:Reforming attitudes about sanitation??? on Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer · · Score: 1

    I presume you have references to support your slanderous remarks other then "Look it up", or are you simply someone who is being a -10 flame baiter or even quite possible just a -10 asshole?