Microsoft Germany spokesman Bernhard Grander said the company disagrees with the court's decision and said it "endangers the existence of live-chat and private (Internet) communities."
I thought MS had a monopoly on this (endangering live-chat... Messenger-bug... Internet communities... IE-bugs, proprietary standards); now they have to share that power with a court. That's funny...
But in al seriousness, as mich as I hate MS's bussiness practices, this time they are right; an ISP should not be held responsible for what their users post; if needed, they can remove the content, but they cannot garantuee that users won't do this again.
I still don't get what the deal is with all this Mhz.... Why can't they just do interleaving (call it stripping/RAID-0 for memory)? No need to crank up those Mhz's, but spread the load over a couple of DIMM's. Most large systems (at least Sun I know off) still use 100Mhz or so DIMM's but do 8-way interleaving (maybe even higher) to get their high memory bandwidths. The market seems to be demanding higher Mhz's and seems to forget there's other stuff involved. Just look at IBM's Power4, Sun's UltraSparcIII etc... Lower Mhz's (or Ghz's) but with a big level-2 cache and by using SMP they're able to beat whatever Intel/AMD system you put them up against.
So all those "bug hunters" are really malicious hackers? If so, why do they report their findings to the companies and make them public? Most "malicious hackers" don't browse through source code, they just use exploits discovered by others. Most of them wouldn't even know where to begin analyzing code, let alone understand what it does.
Could you point me to those core libraries that leak? If it's a well known fact, how come I've never heared of it and I have been dealing with SunOS/Solaris for the last 10 years. AFAIK XSun is based on the X-server from X11 and thus contains all problems/bugs that one has.
SPARC is indeed an open standard/architecture. Fujitsu for instance also build them (PrimePower if I'm not mistaken). So if something is an open standard, it sucks by definition? No wonder MS uses all sort of closed/proprietary stuff.
My main interest in Sun and Solaris is the nice technology Linux still cannot compare to. From the few things I've heared from the upcoming Solaris 9, it's going to be great; it might not change much on the surface (CDE is still there, OpenWindows is being faced out, Gnome will be available once 2.0 matures...) but under the hood, a lot has changed: Resource, Bandwith and Volume Managment built into the kernel, rewritten thread library, better memory managment (for those Gigabyte boxes). While Linux might look nice on the outside (I run it myself), it's kernel still cannot compare to the Solaris kernel.
I don't know about Linux (has anybody any information about Linux on one of the Sun Big Irons?), but a Sun Starfire (E10K) can run up to 16 Solaris domains, a Star Kitty (SF12K) can run up to 9 and a Star Cat (SF15K) can run up to 18 (event to lower mid-frames have this possibility). It's not running N clients in a VM but running x different OS'ses on 1 platform.The number of domains you run is limited by the number of system boards, i.e. hard partitioning. And I don't know if it's through, but I've heared rumors that Sun is working on soft partitioning as wel, so you're not limited to the number of system board anymore.
These domains can communicate with each other through their "Giga-plane" via IDN (Inter Domain Networking). So I guess they can communicate at Gigabit speed with each other.
So Unix/Sun boxes might not be able to do exactly what a z800 series can, but the 2 things you've explained are possible in some way or another.
Just this week, I discovered the "site navigation bar". This is a great feature and works on/. With next/previous you can easily browse through the different articles. This is a great feature. To activate it, go to "View->Show/Hide/Site Navigation Bar". To me, this can also be added to the list of "What's Mozilla got that IE doesn't have".
Eudora springs to mind. I personally use Mozilla for both browsing and mail-news. Works fine for me. No problems with virus-mails here. Attached executables are deleted by default.
64-bit processors tend to be slower than there 32-bit counterparts. One of the only advantages they have is the 64-bit address space which is necessary for very large databases. 64-bit instructions usually are slower than there 32-bit brothers because of the overhead. 64-bit also means you'll have to read twice the data of a 32-bit instruction.
To me, it's all just a marketing hype. In the Unix world, there are already many 64-bit processors and OS'ses (e.g. SPARCv9 and Alpha and Solaris and Tru64). The x86 chip-makers haven't been able to get foot in that market of large datacenters because of the lack of 64-bit address spacing.
Microsoft, Intel and AMD seem to want us to believe they are the 1st ones and if they'll make enough noise, people will start to believe it.
Didn't the Gnome Usability study done by Sun cover a lot of the shortcomings of the current GUI? It showed that the GUI was indeed created by geeks for geeks. The report can be found here.
Nope, but the techies run either linux or solaris x86 or both. And for what it's worth, just because it's not clear if Sun will release Solaris 9 x86, doesn't mean it doesn't exist....
I don't know who was first and I'm sure this is not the only other tool/compressor but here in Belgium, we've been using a tool called Bommanews (b-news.sourceforge.net) for a while now because of rediculous upload-limits by the local cable-ISP. We're not allowed to run servers (ports < 1024 are blocked), have un upload-speed-limit of 128kbit/s and only 15% of our total traffic can be upload so some guy came up with this to allow easy distribution of files through the news-server. Because it's so popular, our ISP finally had to setup a 2nd news-server just for binary postings as the other one was overloaded (serves them well).
AFAIK, Google uses several criteria:
It looks off course for the words from your search but also at the words close to those (so if you look search string is 3 words and it finds them next to each other it gets a higher score than the words randomly found in the text). It also look at the links. Pages about the same topic that are linking to your page give a "vote" for your page. This looks a lot like the "new" search algorithm. Or is the new one the inverse? In stead of giving a vote to, it receives votes if it links to pages about the same topic.
The one thing I'm thinking is that they miss a lot of pages just because they do not contain links.
Anyways, there isn't a lot I haven't found on Google yet (thanks to all it's search engines: regular, open directory, images, news...)
I read this before it was announced on./ On security bulletins, they're also worried about it. Microsoft might say they will not use the information but fact is that it's available and nobody can prevent them (or others) from using it in the future.
On the surface it might look like just a CDDB-a-like lookup, but why do they also send a WMP-unique ID? If it was just a lookup, there wouldn't be this much fuss about it. The use of the unique ID has only one purpose: collect user-specific data.
That's why Sun made this study to help Gnome (they are using it as their next desktop); I don't know if the Open Source movement is using the recommendations.
Did anybody else think it's nice touch of Microsoft to release this document in PDF (Portable Document Format) in stead of MS-Word (closed, proprietary, only to be viewed with our own software) format. Could it be? Are they actually starting to realize that some people don't run Windows?
There is a big difference between having an idea and actually have the product. AFAIK, the whole patent process is to protect your investment on developping the product, or at least it should be. This means that several companies/people can come up with a different solution to a problem and compete with each other. If one company develops a method and others just copy it, then they would be violating a patent, if there is one. I don't know the entire background of the Kodak self-developing photo (I remember some company having to take back all their products because of it) but if they got the patent just for the idea, then I can just say that IMHO the patent bureau screwed up again.
It would be to easy to have someone develop an entire proces to solve the problem/idea you have and then clame that you thought of it first.
Security and privacy just don't go together. Americans are soo keen on their "privacy" but they are also the country that has the nice systems like Carnivore and Echelon. And what do these systems do? Tap telephones, sniff email etc... It seems to me that privacy is alright as long as it's the American's privacy and then still, who can say that those systems (and others) aren't used today to spy on Americans as well?
I don't see why having a identity card is such a bad thing. Today, you already need a driver's license if you want to by alcohol or a social security number if you want a job. Tell me, what's the difference?
Now Microsoft forces you to upgrade every 1-2 years and you have to pay a fee... In the future you will only have to pay every 3 years...
So what's the difference???
There are a couple of items you need to consider:
1. If traffic is re-routed, that new route will get it's normal traffic AND the re-routed traffic which could cause the line to be very slow.
2. The backup-route could be a slower line which will have to handle the same traffic as the normal line.
There are probably some more limitations to the re-routing but I'm no expert.
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Microsoft Germany spokesman Bernhard Grander said the company disagrees with the court's decision and said it "endangers the existence of live-chat and private (Internet) communities."
I thought MS had a monopoly on this (endangering live-chat... Messenger-bug... Internet communities... IE-bugs, proprietary standards); now they have to share that power with a court. That's funny...
But in al seriousness, as mich as I hate MS's bussiness practices, this time they are right; an ISP should not be held responsible for what their users post; if needed, they can remove the content, but they cannot garantuee that users won't do this again.
I still don't get what the deal is with all this Mhz....
Why can't they just do interleaving (call it stripping/RAID-0 for memory)? No need to crank up those Mhz's, but spread the load over a couple of DIMM's. Most large systems (at least Sun I know off) still use 100Mhz or so DIMM's but do 8-way interleaving (maybe even higher) to get their high memory bandwidths.
The market seems to be demanding higher Mhz's and seems to forget there's other stuff involved. Just look at IBM's Power4, Sun's UltraSparcIII etc... Lower Mhz's (or Ghz's) but with a big level-2 cache and by using SMP they're able to beat whatever Intel/AMD system you put them up against.
So all those "bug hunters" are really malicious hackers? If so, why do they report their findings to the companies and make them public? Most "malicious hackers" don't browse through source code, they just use exploits discovered by others. Most of them wouldn't even know where to begin analyzing code, let alone understand what it does.
Could you point me to those core libraries that leak? If it's a well known fact, how come I've never heared of it and I have been dealing with SunOS/Solaris for the last 10 years.
AFAIK XSun is based on the X-server from X11 and thus contains all problems/bugs that one has.
SPARC is indeed an open standard/architecture. Fujitsu for instance also build them (PrimePower if I'm not mistaken). So if something is an open standard, it sucks by definition? No wonder MS uses all sort of closed/proprietary stuff.
My main interest in Sun and Solaris is the nice technology Linux still cannot compare to. From the few things I've heared from the upcoming Solaris 9, it's going to be great; it might not change much on the surface (CDE is still there, OpenWindows is being faced out, Gnome will be available once 2.0 matures...) but under the hood, a lot has changed: Resource, Bandwith and Volume Managment built into the kernel, rewritten thread library, better memory managment (for those Gigabyte boxes).
While Linux might look nice on the outside (I run it myself), it's kernel still cannot compare to the Solaris kernel.
I don't know about Linux (has anybody any information about Linux on one of the Sun Big Irons?), but a Sun Starfire (E10K) can run up to 16 Solaris domains, a Star Kitty (SF12K) can run up to 9 and a Star Cat (SF15K) can run up to 18 (event to lower mid-frames have this possibility). It's not running N clients in a VM but running x different OS'ses on 1 platform.The number of domains you run is limited by the number of system boards, i.e. hard partitioning. And I don't know if it's through, but I've heared rumors that Sun is working on soft partitioning as wel, so you're not limited to the number of system board anymore.
These domains can communicate with each other through their "Giga-plane" via IDN (Inter Domain Networking). So I guess they can communicate at Gigabit speed with each other.
So Unix/Sun boxes might not be able to do exactly what a z800 series can, but the 2 things you've explained are possible in some way or another.
Just this week, I discovered the "site navigation bar". This is a great feature and works on /. With next/previous you can easily browse through the different articles. This is a great feature. To activate it, go to "View->Show/Hide/Site Navigation Bar". To me, this can also be added to the list of "What's Mozilla got that IE doesn't have".
While it works very well on normal web-sites, it's very slow on SSL. I've got a hell of a time decyphering it...
Eudora springs to mind. I personally use Mozilla for both browsing and mail-news. Works fine for me. No problems with virus-mails here. Attached executables are deleted by default.
64-bit processors tend to be slower than there 32-bit counterparts. One of the only advantages they have is the 64-bit address space which is necessary for very large databases. 64-bit instructions usually are slower than there 32-bit brothers because of the overhead. 64-bit also means you'll have to read twice the data of a 32-bit instruction.
To me, it's all just a marketing hype.
In the Unix world, there are already many 64-bit processors and OS'ses (e.g. SPARCv9 and Alpha and Solaris and Tru64). The x86 chip-makers haven't been able to get foot in that market of large datacenters because of the lack of 64-bit address spacing.
Microsoft, Intel and AMD seem to want us to believe they are the 1st ones and if they'll make enough noise, people will start to believe it.
Didn't the Gnome Usability study done by Sun cover a lot of the shortcomings of the current GUI? It showed that the GUI was indeed created by geeks for geeks.
The report can be found here.
Nope, but the techies run either linux or solaris x86 or both. And for what it's worth, just because it's not clear if Sun will release Solaris 9 x86, doesn't mean it doesn't exist....
I don't know who was first and I'm sure this is not the only other tool/compressor but here in Belgium, we've been using a tool called Bommanews (b-news.sourceforge.net) for a while now because of rediculous upload-limits by the local cable-ISP. We're not allowed to run servers (ports < 1024 are blocked), have un upload-speed-limit of 128kbit/s and only 15% of our total traffic can be upload so some guy came up with this to allow easy distribution of files through the news-server. Because it's so popular, our ISP finally had to setup a 2nd news-server just for binary postings as the other one was overloaded (serves them well).
AFAIK, Google uses several criteria:
It looks off course for the words from your search but also at the words close to those (so if you look search string is 3 words and it finds them next to each other it gets a higher score than the words randomly found in the text). It also look at the links. Pages about the same topic that are linking to your page give a "vote" for your page. This looks a lot like the "new" search algorithm. Or is the new one the inverse? In stead of giving a vote to, it receives votes if it links to pages about the same topic.
The one thing I'm thinking is that they miss a lot of pages just because they do not contain links.
Anyways, there isn't a lot I haven't found on Google yet (thanks to all it's search engines: regular, open directory, images, news...)
I read this before it was announced on ./
On security bulletins, they're also worried about it. Microsoft might say they will not use the information but fact is that it's available and nobody can prevent them (or others) from using it in the future.
On the surface it might look like just a CDDB-a-like lookup, but why do they also send a WMP-unique ID? If it was just a lookup, there wouldn't be this much fuss about it. The use of the unique ID has only one purpose: collect user-specific data.
That's why Sun made this study to help Gnome (they are using it as their next desktop); I don't know if the Open Source movement is using the recommendations.
Not a bad move by Oracle; save on the Hardware and put it in our software.
That's what MS did with the new MSN site until they got enough bad publicity about it.
Did anybody else think it's nice touch of Microsoft to release this document in PDF (Portable Document Format) in stead of MS-Word (closed, proprietary, only to be viewed with our own software) format. Could it be? Are they actually starting to realize that some people don't run Windows?
There is a big difference between having an idea and actually have the product. AFAIK, the whole patent process is to protect your investment on developping the product, or at least it should be. This means that several companies/people can come up with a different solution to a problem and compete with each other. If one company develops a method and others just copy it, then they would be violating a patent, if there is one.
I don't know the entire background of the Kodak self-developing photo (I remember some company having to take back all their products because of it) but if they got the patent just for the idea, then I can just say that IMHO the patent bureau screwed up again.
It would be to easy to have someone develop an entire proces to solve the problem/idea you have and then clame that you thought of it first.
Security and privacy just don't go together. Americans are soo keen on their "privacy" but they are also the country that has the nice systems like Carnivore and Echelon. And what do these systems do? Tap telephones, sniff email etc... It seems to me that privacy is alright as long as it's the American's privacy and then still, who can say that those systems (and others) aren't used today to spy on Americans as well?
I don't see why having a identity card is such a bad thing. Today, you already need a driver's license if you want to by alcohol or a social security number if you want a job. Tell me, what's the difference?
One of the reasons is that KDE is written in C++ which still doesn't have a standard ABI. Gnome has been written in C which does.
You don't even have to buy it. You can just plain download the ISO-images...
Now Microsoft forces you to upgrade every 1-2 years and you have to pay a fee... In the future you will only have to pay every 3 years... So what's the difference???
There are a couple of items you need to consider:
1. If traffic is re-routed, that new route will get it's normal traffic AND the re-routed traffic which could cause the line to be very slow.
2. The backup-route could be a slower line which will have to handle the same traffic as the normal line.
There are probably some more limitations to the re-routing but I'm no expert.