Comment All the remaining Vista installs were infected? (Score 0, Troll) 353
So wait, they are admitting that all the remaining Vista installs were infected by this malware?
Comment Re:uh, no? (Score 1) 255
part of that is due to the MS/IBM colaboration on OS/2 before MS came out with Win3 and NT. From the colaboration MS got NT and IBM got OS/2 1.3. Balmer even called OS/2 "Windows PLUS" and MS insisted the future belonged to OS/2.
Comment Oh boy... (Score 1) 250
From their website...:
Our Mission
To bring the power of computer technology to business through the use of advanced products and technical consulting services.
To provide computer technology solutions to our clients using our proven process of identifying, simplifying and comunicating a better way to get the most from their technology investments.
Committed to: Customer service, Individual ability and creativity, professional responsibility, human touch experience.
It also looks like their logo is prior art too. It must get REALLY lonely up there in Michigan. I wonder if their customers are automakers not paying their bills. Before the SpellingNazi begins, that is a direct quote from their "Corporate Mission" page http://www.cygnus-sys.com/OurCorporateMission.
Comment Re:What is the actual implosion point (Score 1) 542
i thought Mr. Beckerman Esq. was just that Recording Industry Vs. The People It is my belief that he has become a very large boulder in their collective shoe.
Comment Re:Secrecy or Transparency? (Score 1) 145
realistically, she is afraid the Linksys BEFSR41W made in 2001(firmware circa 2002), which they do not have the password to, "might" be "taken over" (snicker), and they would lose their "routes"... they would also lose the High encryption (WEP -- double teehee), wireless connection they use.
Comment Re:Not just them (Score 3, Interesting) 142
Of course they do, it's just that if they don't do as NSA says, then they don't get to continue to rebuild their monopoly. It be Bidness, and the constitution gets in the way of Bidness.
Comment In other 'MAY' news... (Score 0, Troll) 339
George Bush MAY be an idiot;
Congress MAY be bought and paid for;
Your mother MAY have put out;
OJ MAY be a murderer;
BuggyWhip makers MAY be pissed;
Dick Cheney MAY be an asshole;
Slashdot MAY be entertaining.
Comment so let me get this straight... (Score 1) 331
The state will increase it's IT staff (more geeks who will likely usurp their bandwidth doing what they are paid to stop
Now I realize that not ALL the IT staff will be anti-dmca but the possibilities make the mind wobble. Where do I send my resume?
Submission + - Germany Bans "Hacking Tools" (theregister.co.uk)
Sfing_ter writes: "This may be a bit late but German lawmakers have decided to ban "hacking tools", fta:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/30/garmany_an ti-hacking_law/
"Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called 'hacking tools' have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.
The revamp to the German criminal code is designed to tighten definitions, making denial of service attacks and attempts to sniff data on third-party wireless networks, for example, clearly criminal. Attacks would be punishable by a fine and up to 10 years imprisonment."
Sysadmins will be hard pressed to not break the law inadvertently. How long before our sena-tards and congre-tards in the US try something like this? Would Ted Stevens allow a pipe-wrench to be used on the tubes?
When Hacking Tools are banned only hackers will have Hacking Tools.... :)"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/30/garmany_a
"Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called 'hacking tools' have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.
The revamp to the German criminal code is designed to tighten definitions, making denial of service attacks and attempts to sniff data on third-party wireless networks, for example, clearly criminal. Attacks would be punishable by a fine and up to 10 years imprisonment."
Sysadmins will be hard pressed to not break the law inadvertently. How long before our sena-tards and congre-tards in the US try something like this? Would Ted Stevens allow a pipe-wrench to be used on the tubes?
When Hacking Tools are banned only hackers will have Hacking Tools....
Submission + - Linux for small organizations
chris1646 writes: Currently we are a small organization that is entirely a Windows shop. Next year much of the server and desktop hardware we run will need replacing. I am looking for creative ways to introduce Linux as my desktop and server OS of choice, however a couple of our core applications run exclusively on Windows. Has anyone had any success hosting Windows applications via terminal server while using Linux as the client OS? Has anyone handled a AD to open source LDAP migration?
