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40hz have you tried it yourself?-kartal (April 01, 2009, 10:00 AM)
In the last few months, I've used system restore a bunch of times,-cyberdiva (April 01, 2009, 09:53 AM)
Re-Router™ Technology
Network Protection from any Windows Machine
Re-Router™ Technology is a breakthrough from Untangle that provides network-wide protection from any Windows XP desktop. Running transparently in the background without sacrificing any desktop functionality (word processing, spreadsheets, web browsing, etc.), Re-Router™ Technology enables users to:
* Provide network gateway protection without buying new hardware
* Protect the entire network from just 1 PC (Unlike Norton or McAfee)
* Get started in minutes… No network reconfiguration, re-cabling or extra NICs to install
* Leverage the best open source networking apps on the familiar Windows platform
These days, the web is a dangerous place, but buying an expensive security appliance just isn’t an option for everyone. Re-Router™ Technology finally enables organizations with less than 25 PCs to protect their whole network, from online threats like spam, spyware, viruses, phishing and inappropriate websites, right from one Windows XP desktop. It’s the same great Untangle Gateway… but without the gateway!
How it works
Re-Router™ Technology leverages virtualization and layer 2 protocols to dynamically reconfigure the network so that all in/outbound traffic flows through the Untangle “server” before reaching its intended destination. The physical network gateway thinks the Untangle “server” is each of the desktops and the desktops think it’s the gateway. There’s no need to physically re-cable the network and if the host PC ever shuts down, Re-Router™ Technology elegantly restores the network’s original configurations without any downtime. Dynamic network reconfiguration sounds geeky and complex (and under the hood it really is) but to the user, it's 100% automatic and seamless. Some might call it Magic!
What's Free?
About 95% of Untangle’s software is free under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL v2). In a nutshell that means it's free to use, modify and even distribute. Specifically all the software in the Untangle Server, including applications like Web Filtering, Spam Blocking, Spyware and Virus Blocking, and VPN are free. You can check out the list on our Products Overview Page.
And when it comes to servers - if you know what you are doing there is no disadvantage to windows. If I consider the uptime for servers in my last, say, 8 years, BSD and windows actually win over linux-iphigenie (April 01, 2009, 04:19 AM)
)To me, this whole incident seems to be a vintage Ballmer move.
I think MonkeyBoy flipped out and decided to do something to make people pay more attention to him now that Mr. Bill has moved towards the background.
But I'm guessing that Microsoft now realizes it has put its hand in a vise, and will be looking for a quiet way to claim victory through an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with TomTom.
They've hinted as much in some of their statements that followed the filing.
Otherwise, they're going to face the risk of having each of the patents they're claiming infringement on being reviewed by the courts. And if this does goes to court, Microsoft faces the very real possibility of having those eight patents revoked or more narrowly defined.
I think TomTom knows that and is calling their bluff.
It will be interesting to see if TomTom has the fortitude and financial resources to see it all the way through. But again, I'm guessing that TomTom will ultimately work out some token licensing deal with Redmond (like Novell did) just to get it out of the way.-40hz (February 27, 2009, 01:34 PM)
To wit: TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement dispute
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:27 am
Microsoft and TomTom have settled the patent-infringement suits (and countersuits) between the two vendors, Microsoft announced March 30.
Microsoft is not paing TomTom, but TomTom is paying Microsoft an undisclosed amount as part of the deal.
Here is Microsoft’s official statement:
“The cases have been settled through a patent agreement under which TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage under the eight car navigation and file management systems patents in the Microsoft case. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives coverage under the four patents included in the TomTom countersuit. The agreement, which has a five-year term, does not require any payment by Microsoft to TomTom. It covers both past and future U.S. sales of the relevant products. The specific financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”
“The agreement includes patent coverage for Microsoft’s three file management systems patents provided in a manner that is fully compliant with TomTom’s obligations under the General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). TomTom will remove from its products the functionality related to two file management system patents (the “FAT LFN patents”), which enables efficient naming, organizing, storing and accessing of file data. TomTom will remove this functionality within two years, and the agreement provides for coverage directly to TomTom’s end customers under these patents during that time.”
If you are providing a worthwhile service (which you are!), it is perfectly reasonable to ask people to support it. People respect legitimate requests for donations.
How many "necro-spams" has the forum received lately? Any kind of hindrance to usability would be an over-reaction, IMO.-nosh (March 27, 2009, 01:41 AM)
are exceptionally good at getting rid of spam before most of us see it - or I'm going blind blind, because I haven't noticed all that many spam messages being posted. But if you knew GNU EMACSIf you Gnu EMACS, like I gnow EMACS-40hz (March 26, 2009, 09:12 PM)
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a Perl
-cranioscopical (March 26, 2009, 10:12 PM)
)Google searches for holy grail of Python performance
Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster. The project is being implemented as a branch of the conventional CPython runtime and will be fully source-compatible with regular Python applications and native extensions. This will make it possible to eventually merge the improvements into Python trunk.
The goal of the Unladen Swallow project is to use LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure, to build a just-in-time (JIT) compilation engine that can replace Python's own specialized virtual machine. This approach offers a number of significant advantages. As the developers describe in the project plan, the project will make it possible to transition Python to a register-based virtual machine and will pave the way for future optimizations.
The Unladen Swallow developers hope that the project will eventually make it possible to use Python instead of C for a wider range of performance-sensitive tasks. They are building it on top of Python 2.6 (2.x is not dead yet) because it will allow many existing projects to adopt it and will also provide a clean glide path to Python 3.
zridling uploaded his post no. 2.000-Curt (March 26, 2009, 02:58 AM)
We really don't need that. We already have this image to use:-app103 (March 25, 2009, 09:30 AM)
Is this one of the "fake outs"? As in you are really a mogul posing as a regular guy?-MilesAhead (March 25, 2009, 12:27 AM)
Is this one of the "fake outs"?
Here's a cody-failOh boy, now it starts. A Moody Duck!-40hz (March 24, 2009, 05:22 PM)-cranioscopical (March 24, 2009, 06:56 PM)
Mody Dick does look related - adds another dimension to the failure part.Moody Dick?-nudone (March 24, 2009, 11:09 AM)-f0dder (March 24, 2009, 12:10 PM)
Yes. But aren't they all?-Gwen7 (March 24, 2009, 02:17 PM)
Can't believe I almost missed it!Yes, classic lines like 'And don't call me Shirley' are greatGo ahead, be Frank.-rgdot (March 25, 2009, 12:41 AM)-cranioscopical (March 25, 2009, 08:13 AM)
