If you want a handle on how a weazel can modify his software to make the world think something that's not, read here:

Intellectual Property Protection and Code Obfuscation
By Adnan Masood @ http://www.15seconds.com/issue/040310.htm

• Introduction
• PEManifest
• Code Obfuscation
• How Open Source Works?
• Conclusion
• download source code

"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?"

The recent Microsoft Windows source code leak has raised serious concerns in security intellectual property protection circles. Software, being an intangible yet highly valuable commodity, is now indigenous to organisations in various forms. But its theft and disassembling is more dangerous to an organisation than any other replaceable entity being burgled. Its theft or leakage, in part or in full, impacts an organization's credibility and increases the risk of exploitation of bugs, which may be found inside the code and improperly gives a leading edge to competitors.

It's rare that a proprietary OS's source code gets posted on the Internet, but if this worries you, how about distributing a program, which retains most or all of the information present in original source? With constant advancements in operating systems architectures, we are now living in a world where major platforms, .NET and J2EE, rely on virtual machines (VM) to facilitate the generation of intermediate code, which could be executed on any machine, in principle. The slogan of 'Write Once Run Anywhere' sounds very attractive but considering the code is exposed through a virtual machine, there are various security measures that need to be taken. Since the intermediate language can be disassembled back into source, your highly valued commodity is in danger. In this article, I'll discuss the potential perils in the VM arena, how virtual machines work, what code obfuscation is, how open source reacts to intellectual property and what the steps in execution of a CLR based program are. In this article we'll also discuss how .NET's Reflection APIs work and how we can read a Portable Executable using it. Let us explore these topics in detail. Welcome to the uncharted waters of .NET.

A virtual machine, as its name depicts, emulates a hardware machine by using software. However, the architecture is not bound to any physical machine but instead is supported through an interpreter, which executes the code. A VM provides a security "sandbox" to protect the underlying resources. The idea of a VM is not new; it dates as far back as 1965 with Andrew Tenenbaum and the IBM VM emulation, which is now IBM System 370 (S/370) and IBM System 390 (S/390). This chronology is discussed by Tennenbaum and William Stallings as well as at GMU's Web site under the history of Virtual Machines. Knuth's famous MMIX is another example of 64 bit RISC VMs used in his three volumes "The Art of Computer Programming", a classical text in computer science.

 More at URL

Now, Imagine a virtual machine being virtualized. Kinda kinky, eh? What's got them stumped in the Microsoft laboratories? Can't screw the bolts back in to Frankestein's neck? Stripped a thread? Crossthreaded the little bugger so bad the nut can take both ways home at the same time? Ouch. Does anybody know how to separate them? No? Start over? Ouch.

Graph of nuglet to pain ratio inherent in pocket pinching and non-funded research. 

This was the day they put my poor nuglets to rest.... they were the best... color them messed. 

The secret to life is not misbehaving when endeavouring as a node and ..."As in real life, nodes try to earn as much nuglets as possible.".

This chart shows how to make sure the spy v spy stays in black and white.

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Updated: Friday, 11 May 2007 7:24 PM EDT

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If you folks ever want to get more adrenaline and emotion per poke than participating in a Texas TittyTwister you should log on and opineonate on RagingBull. It's guerilla investment at it's finest.

By: RapidRobert2
11 May 2007, 01:35 PM EDT
Msg. 184968 of 184983
(This msg. is a reply to 184960 by DC-Steve.)

Steve: Duh! "I really don't get it"...So why are you here, again?

Why are you attacking supporters of VCSY? Why are you making 'WILD' accusations against supporters of VCSY? WHY have you in the past stated VCSY wouldn't make it, they were going out of business? WHY ARE YOU HERE! And, you are soooo concerned supporters are responding to NONSENSE from bashers that you are now here daily posting the same NONSENSE as you have for YEARS..and YOU 'really don't get it'? Duh! I 'don't get' why you are here again, except you have an uncanny way of showing up right before a BIG EVENT FOR VCSY!

"What is it you guys are protecting your investment from again?'..

From bashers like you posting false information and making accusations against supporters of VCSY while throwing in negatives against VCSY. Misstatements and 'TWISTING' of information so you can post junk against the company...pleze do NOT respond that you haven't done it...ALL of YOU BASHERS are and have.

"Several of you have been making statements to the effect that you have to respond to so-called "bashers" so they won't succeed in hurting your investment in VCSY"

LONGS respond to correct the misstatements and FALSE information posted by BASHERS, like YOURSELF. I KNOW some of the bashers would like to HARM VCSY...Just like you have over the years because you are 'disgruntled' and your 'ego' bruised by LONGS and you simply can't take it.

"How, exactly, could these "bashers" - most of whom are actually long time VCSY investors themselves - possibly hurt your investment in VCSY?"

Excuse me, but HOW DO YOU KNOW they are 'actually long time VCSY investors'? I doubt if many even own ANY shares, just because someone says they own stock doesn't mean they do and the FACT they are posting attacks against VCSY is a pretty good sign they NEVER owned any shares and are HERE FOR THEIR OWN AGENDA...LIKE YOU! WHY are you here? Why are you attacking honest LONGS and making up WILD accusations against some of us? Again, YOUR MOTIVES are indeed questionable.

""Bashers" can't stop VCSY from prevailing in their patent litigation and "bashers" can't affect the amount of money VCSY might get from the litigation."

YOU and the other bashers would love to try...and ARE trying, just failing in your poor efforts, that is a FACT! WHY are you posting false information? Why are you attacking supporters of VCSY? Why are you here? WHY do you show up when an important EVENT is about to happen? HOW do you KNOW when to return and start the same NONSENSE you have for YEARS?

""Bashers" can't stop VCSY from making billions of dollars liscensing their IP to MSFT, IBM, Verizon and every other Fortune 500 company."

But, YOU and the other BASHERS are certainly trying to harm VCSY with your CONSTANT attacks and MISINFORMATION about the company AND supporters of VCSY. WHY are YOU here, again? Why are you using so much of YOUR TIME if it isn't worth it and doesn't have any effect on the stock or supporters of VCSY...WHY are you using your worktime to post here so often these days? WHY!

"You all claim to be very confident - or in RR's case absolutely positive - that VCSY is on the verge of making billions from liscensing their IP. If you're anywhere close to being right, then the Pope himself could bash 24/7 and it would not stop VCSY's share price from experiencing what would have to be one of the fastest and largest price increases in the history of the stock market."

MORE misstatements of what is posted by LONGS. I stated over and over to correct your misstatements that MSFT will sign the license agreements for less than the 'billions' but if they don't and it goes to court...then look for 'BILLIONS' to be awarded by the court for the INFRINGEMENT by MSFT of VCSY technology over SIX YEARS and the FUTURE profit MSFT will make off of illegally using the VCSY Tech. WHY are you and the other BASHERS POSTING HERE 24/7? You have NO REASON to bash the stock or supporters but yet...YOU are NOW POSTING DAILY and during your WORK HOURS and other BASHERS ARE POSTING SEVEN DAYS 24 HOURS A DAY ON THIS BOARD TO HARM VCSY? WHY? You question why LONGS with an INVESTMENT ARE HERE TO RESPOND TO THE NONSENSE OF BASHERS but then throw a question of WHY LONGS post here. WHY are you here, again? IF you don't understand WHY LONGS ARE POSTING HERE then YOU CERTAINLY MUST QUESTION WHY A BASHER, LIKE YOURSELF ARE HERE 24/7 or all day during their work day, like YOU. Don't YOU actually HAVE OTHER work to do rather than spend your DAY writing and POSTING NONSENSE on this board?

"So why do you waste your time attacking and trying to discredit "bashers" - and typically employing dishonest tactis in these attacks - when they can't possibly have any significant impact on how VCSY and its stock price will perform? What logic leads you to the conclusion that you have to take on the "bashers" to protect your investment?"

SO, WHY DO YOU WASTE YOUR TIME ATTACKING AND TRYING TO DISCREDIT LONGS AND SUPPORTERS OF VCSY? Why worry about why LONGS are posting here since you DO NOT WONDER why BASHERS ARE HERE! I sincerely think you MUST KNOW WHY YOU AND THE BASHERS ARE HERE since you aren't questioning WHY YOU ARE POSTING HERE AND WASTING YOUR TIME!

WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME POSTING HERE to ATTACK supporters of VCSY and HARM THE COMPANY? That should be the QUESTION...it should be OBVIOUS WHY LONGS are here.


"I really don't get it. Can any of you Defenders of the Faith explain what you mean when you say it's necessary to defend your investment in VCSY against "bashers"?"

CAN ANY OF YOU BASHERS, ESPECIALLY STEVE, EXPLAIN WHY IT IS NECESSARY FOR YOU TO ATTACK LONGS, SUPPORTERS OF THE COMPANY AND TRY TO HARM OUR INVESTMENT AND THE COMPANY, VCSY?. WHY do you BASHERS of HATE post here? Why are you attempting to HARM our INVESTMENT? WHY are you posting FALSE information, MISinformation, and make up FALSE accusations against LONGS and SUPPORTERS of the company? WHY are you
BASHERS 'TWISTING' the words of LONGS and management to post NONSENSE?

I REALLY DON'T GET IT? EXPLAIN again why you are wasting your time, with lil invested, if ANY, to post on this board?

I REALLY DON'T GET IT? And there is only one reason...YOU HAVE AN AGENDA TO BE HERE AND BE NEGATIVE AGAINST THE COMPANY AND LONGS!

Steve: Thanks for the laughs! That is the most funny post you have ever done! And, shows you are even MORE in a FRANTIC PANIC than I could even imagine.

Thanks for showing yourself.
RR
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Would somebody just clear up a problem for me? If old Direct Current is getting paid to post on VCSY Raging Bull , why is he spending so much time defeneding what he's doing. I thought he was supposed to 'bash' but he throws a gravel shotgun then puts up the garbage can lid and gets pummeled into the dirt with boulders. HA HA HEEE 

Not having fun in the neighborhood. He broke wind for the little newpaper kerfuffel about Microsoft Buys Yahoo! Thursday night... when he should have been home kissin' missis chicken. Instead, he's moonlighting for the wolf. Nice guy. He rolls through the VCSY message board at night and over the weekend to distract the natives and... baboom... they wake up and roll him into a Roy Roger's lunch box.

Meatloaf in a lunchbox... not a pretty sight. It means carelessness and lack of planning and awareness. It speaks to perhaps somebody drinking and then thinking "heck, why not take a spin through the old neighborhod and get even with those little bastids fer tweaking me like that the last time. Skint up the paint on the old Olds."

And then it happens, somebody rolls over you with a Buick.

Question is... which dumbass let his kid ride out in the skreet? 

But, and this is the salient question for so many traders out there, why is such a high dollar guy going to waste so much time on there if all he's going to do is try to patch up the public impression of himself and make off back to thhis other places of enjoyment with a shred of dignity? 

He's arguing with a religious cult about why he should be allowed to post on their site or not? Is it a constitutional question for old Doc Cobbin  and is he going for the politick? Maybe the boy is more into the legal occupation than we thimk. Maybe he knows a reputation is a terrible thing to waste and now he's seing what skillful fire ants can do to your weekend pleasure.

Whoap... nevermind. Somebody called the ambulance already.

By: arthurarnsley
11 May 2007, 02:22 PM EDT
Msg. 184996 of 184999
(This msg. is a reply to 184983 by DC-Steve.)

DC-Steve - Actually Steve he needs therapy. eom


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Hold; LT Rating- Hold)

Ewwww Guts.

By: DC-Steve
11 May 2007, 02:23 PM EDT
Msg. 184997 of 185020
(This msg. is a reply to 184992 by dfl_15.)

dfl, you skipped a critical step in the logical thought process there.

You assumed RR is correct in stating that I and other "bashers" show up just in advance of big news or big developments, and you concluded this suggests the possession of inside information.

Problem: you didn't verify the assumption RR gave you. If you attempt to do so and you're more careful in your analysis than you were when jumping the the conclusion RR lured you toward, then you'll find that the assumption is invalid. i??
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Whoops here comes some alchohol and peroxeyed. THAT's gonna hurt.

By: beachbumlb
11 May 2007, 01:43 PM EDT
Msg. 184973 of 185000

Persistent aren't they?

By: bhaas2
28 Jan 2005, 10:18 PM EST
Msg. 345624 of 346262
(This msg. is a reply to 345623 by DC-Steve.)
Jump to msg. #


Hey, DC, what stock are you bashing now? I do have to admit that you have a very smooth, and effective, style.


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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Poor baby dinkycurrency got boobos.

Color me Crumpled

Hey look... he's talking. I think that's his mouth... it's all bloody and puckered...

By: DC-Steve
11 May 2007, 03:27 PM EDT
Msg. 185056 of 185064
(This msg. is a reply to 185042 by arthurarnsley.)

arthur,

You're very perceptive and wise for a VCSY investor! Praise not intended to be faint, I added the caveat for the benefit of others.

Yes, I have previously allowed the flaky character of VCSY's most vocal supporters to influence my attitude about the company. I figured that out a while ago and I don't think I harbor that unconscious bias any longer.

I've been thinking about buying some shares at these prices. I figure if MSFT just settles for, let's say, $20 million the news is likely to generate a spike that goes beyond a rational valuation for a little while. In the event the cult turns out to be right, which would be a matter of coincidence more so than insight, and VCSY generates billions from the patents, so much the better. i??

Hot damm he done figgered it out. Y'all call his mama and tell her he be walking and wiping all by hisself in a couple more months at this rate.

Who's kid is that anyway? Nobody knows this kid from out of nowhere but he's supposed to be well known in the rest of the city.

Hey WAIT! That's the little $#!@head that stuck that broom handle through my mailbox! Darlene! Go get your mama's keys and tell her Jilly needs 'em. 

Hey Look all y'all. He says he learnt which side of the skreet to ride on when he comes through this neighborhood. Musta knocked some sense into him or it was that religious pamphlet. Hey, bring me mama's turkey baster and some mangowango koolaid out the refrigeraider. We'll get him liquidated for when the Sun comes out behind that cloud.

Whoa whut's that brown stuff comin' out of his mouth?

eeeeewwwwwwww 

That ain't his mouth, y'all!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk

Well, he's still kicking but this time he's kicking about posts getting deleted on the Raging Bull message board. Now, why woul dthis kid be so upset about people saying Raging Bull makes a practice of accommodating folks (certain special folks, that is) by deleting posts they've made that may have words in them that woul dprove ... shall we sayyyy... uncomfortable for later reading?

http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=185313

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:26 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 3:59 PM EDT

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And now it's that time in the Funny Funk Frickaseed playhouse to read a few letters from you all out there. Here's one from a little fricknseed.... in west Orange, Texas... and she writes... 

Dear Mister Frickaseed,

My sister Jilly says Bill Gates  can't hook up one computer with another because he don't know how to virtualize because he got that shot off in the war. Can you virtualize? What did you get shot off in the war?

Yers Truly, Darlene

 PS - Love what you done with the new playhouse.

Hey mama! They's reading Darlene's letter on Mister Frickaseed!

...heh heh I think I got my social security bennyfits shot off in the war... heh heh heeeee... But that's right boys and girls. Computers need to be connected to make more computers. It's a process called virtualization. Mister Gates had a computer company back in 2001 to 2004 that could virtualize pretty well, but, lately, as it is with most aging codgers, Mister Gates company can't virtualize nothing.

Rumors are it got stepped on by a longhorn but some say that's a lot of bull. Some say the longhorn is a lot of bull and the virtualization venture went off track back in 2004 when Mister Ballmer, who is one of Mister Gates' best friends, threw a chair and punched a hole in his office wall. Well, after that, the saying around the company was the wall is 'probably the ONLY thing that got poked hard enough at Microsoft to make a hole'... heh heh heh... just a little grown up humor kids. You shouldn't know what that means. heh heh heh

Anyway... Mister Frickaseed has read the New Nork Times and come to the conclusion that if Sun can virtualize with their Indiana and Yahoo can virtualize with their Panama and Apple can Virtualize with their Leopard and Microsoft just can't virtualize to save their life, I would say somebody must of cut off Microsoft's virtualizer for everybody because without that, Microsoft computers will be just like the man in this article here says; either a whole lot of servers you can pop in and out of your server needs in a jiffy or a whole lot of boxes you're supposed to hook up with each other and they sit and use not very much when nobody needs them. What that means is you either have your stuff virtualized or you have to have special programs to translate what the other computers are trying to do with you... the other ones that are already virtualized, that is, and here you go sitting there dumb like a pumpkin...

Here's one way to say it here: "The “one box per application” mentality—along with continuous hardware upgrades with greater computing power—has driven a proliferation of diverse servers that are increasingly underutilized." You can read the rest of what this guy says in this article called:

Make sure virtualization isn't the next big mess

By Andrew Hillier, CiRBA, Special to ZDNet
Published on ZDNet News: May 10, 2007, 11:20 AM PT
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6182873.html

Here's one excerpt from that:

Most organizations don’t have a strong enough discipline around purchasing or asset management, making it difficult to inventory servers. Once organizations move into the virtual world—where you can create a logical machine without having any paper trail—this problem grows exponentially. Organizations will be caught in the same trap as they currently are with physical servers: not knowing which servers exist, who created them, which applications they support and whether or not they need them.

What that means is it's not enough to simply have a way of enabling your proprietary data into a deterministic form to exchange with other XML-based virtualized services. You can get that in the VCSY patent 7,076,521

But it doesn't do you any good if you have no way to manage all these virtualized services like 6,826,744 does. Of course, you'll have to have other things too to make your computers do what you really want them to do real architected managed services, but you AT LEAST have to have these two basic frameworks in XML services to make a web services system really work. Sure you can go parading around town in your momma's high heels, but that don't mean your momma's walking the skreet. Sure, you can go waltzing around town in your dady's boxers, but that don't mean you got the factory for making bread and butter in there.

In the computer world isn't like the theatrical world. See what you're looking at? All this you're looking at really doesn't exist. It's all in front of your head. Stick your hand out and touch the screen, little heathen, and now THAT is real... and so is the operations and work being done inside that thing. THAT's real. But, you want to talk REAL reality, it's sitting on your lumpy ass writing children's pap when you could be authoring web systems that would change the wor...

I think Mister Gates' company doesn't have the where-with-all to virtualize so they're finally saying to hell with it. We'll sit on our islands of automation and live with it.

I do think somebody told Mister Gates' the words he never really thought he would hear from anyone... no matter how big. No. Go away and crawl under a rock and die.

In this business, boys and girls of all ages, it's either do it yourself or pay for it or find somebody kind enough to give it to you. Paying for it is embarrassing but sometimes that's the way life is. If you don't pay for it... you get a reputation as somebody who takes without following the rules everybody else laid down.

And THEN, if you get caught trying to sneak a peak or leak the teak, oil the boil, get the let, or any of a hundred other ways to say 'I'm above the law', you get nailed because nobody wants to let their reputation and company and family names lean on your shed.

When your farm gets prospected and surveyed and turned into a parking lot, you have only yourself to blame for not following rules that are so clear, they are written down in the office of every politician we give enough money to to get an office. THOSE are the people who should know. But how can they know if the subject uses the same names and tactics of those who HAVE to be a HAVE NOT YET LOOK LIKE?

Remember the server center in a container Sun put out last year. Weirdest piece of genius I've ever seen. I have to say I myself didn't get it until a couple days ago when somebody jogged my memory. OF COURSE. Brilliant use of putting a computer where the computer NEEDS to be with ALL the power of every computer in the world. I wonder if Ray Noorda got to see a real NOW? A NOW that can span the globe to bring all the computing power available IN the world in for consultation when needed.

It's going to take an awful lot to astound me at this rate. OKAAAAYYYY can I bring this rocket ship in for anything more than a crash landing? I can guess every parent out there is horrified and the kids are out making soda-straw villages with the fire ants.

The point? Microsoft version of the server center in a box doesn't fair too well.

Certainly you can transact between disparate software bodies, but the interaction will be a poor imitation just as the 'server in a container' idea is... for controlling distributed commerce. For doing commerce at the local place, it is applied as a proper use of the island of automation theory. What am I talking about? Read this and do some noodling with crayons on your momma's living room walls and see what kind of attention you get for the weekend:

No matter how the struggle ends, the fact remains today that Microsoft is having to gut (again) their vaunted .Net platform to make it more... what? for the future? More compact? Hardly. More flexibile? Maybe if you don't mind buying different servers anytime you want to do the laundry. Heck, they're virtual right? So the only real thing is the money! Yeahhh... great idea. Gut em.

You still have to provide the management to govern all these conglomerated islands of automation. I mean YOU will have to with your littlecadre' of gnome developers using 20th century tools work on 21st century metal. Hack hack hack.

It's like what we found out when we were standing out in the skreet when the nice Amazon people paid the nice IBM lawyers for 'services rendered' this past Toosday. There's always something else when it comes to software. And, if you don't have it, you can always say you do and you can fake it in a demo, but, when it comes to standing up in front of people and telling the truth, you know Mister Frickies motto: tell the truth even if it hurts because the lie will hurt a lot more for a longer time. You parents can get that saying bronzed on your own shoes one day for $39.95.

HA Mister Frickaseed don't need to tell you kiddies what happens if a computer can't virtualize. HA "Can Bobby come out and play?" "Jimmy, you know Bobby lost both arms and legs in that train accident." "Yes ma'am, but we need something for third base. You got any seat cushions?" Even if a server is special enough to end up being used for home plate, everybody's still either running away from it or running towards it but nobody makes any points just standing there. You gotta PLAY and virtualization makes it easier to play with anybody for any pretend or real game...

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Woops... here's a Frickofeed from the old Frickophone that says.... mmfmfffm fmff fmffmmf fmfmffmf fmfff ffhsuihefffmmmttlll mfmfmfmf ffm fffmm fapapaaa fmmmmmss shshss ... hole $#!@!

Boys and girls THIS is so big old Lawrance Frickaseed just HAS to put this up on the screem for you to get it:

Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualization technology.

The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server "Longhorn" operating system, due to be finalized before the end of the year. The features will be included in a future version of Viridian, formally called Windows Server Virtualization, the company said.

The first feature that is being taken out of the initial Viridian release is so-called live migration, which enables people to move a running virtual machine from one physical server to another. The initial release of Viridian also won't support on-the-fly, or "hot," adding of memory, storage, processors or network cards. And it will only support computers with a maximum of 16 processing cores--for example, eight dual-core chips or four quad-core chips.

The move limits Viridian's initial scope and gives more breathing room to competing projects--most notably Xen and VMware.

"Those guys just can't get a product out the door to save their lives. Not having live migrate a year from now--talk about 'behind the times.' Windows development is just broken," Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said. "For a (version) 1.0 virtualization offering to be missing critical features a year hence puts Microsoft in a truly bad market position, perhaps to the point where they should seriously consider partnering with VMware."

In a blog posting, the general manager of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, Mike Neil, said the company is making some "tough decisions" to meet its schedule.

"Shipping is a feature too," Neil said.

In April, Microsoft delayed the first beta version of Viridian from the first half of this year to the second half. The company said on Thursday that a public beta of Viridian will be introduced with the release to manufacturing of Longhorn Server.

"We had some really tough decisions to make," Neil said. "We adjusted the feature set of Windows Server virtualization so that we can deliver a compelling solution for core virtualization scenarios while holding true to desired timelines."

With no live migration support, Viridian will be useful for a common early use of virtualization, replacing several underutilized servers with a smaller number of more efficiently used ones. But it means that Viridian won't be immediately useful for a more sophisticated virtual-computing environment in which tasks are shuttled from computer to computer to adjust to changing work priorities or faulty hardware.

VMware, the leading x86 virtualization company, has supported live migration since 2003 with its VMotion software. And the EMC subsidiary's Virtual Infrastructure 3 software--available for more than a year--enables much of the higher-level incarnation of virtualization that treats multiple servers as a pool of computing power.

Xen supports live migration with versions of Linux that have been specifically adapted for the virtualization software. The next version of the Xen hypervisor, 3.1, due within days, will add live migration support for Windows and unmodified Linux, said XenSource Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby.

Capping Viridian support at 16 is a less significant change because the vast majority of x86 servers don't exceed that limit. That reality is likely to prevail, even after the second half of this year, when 16-core servers will become more common by virtue of new Intel and Advanced Micro Devices quad-core chips for servers with four processor sockets.

Being able to add new resources to servers as they run through "hot-add" capability significantly improves a server's reliability. However, it's not common for most administrators today.

Live migration can help reduce the need for hot-add technology because customers could move virtual machines to a second system while the first is upgraded or repaired.

Xen today supports hot-add capability for memory, disks, network cards and processors.

Why heck! Whadya think of THEM rode apples, folks?

Wow. 

"We had some really tough decisions to make" What were they 'Who gets fired for incompetence?' 'Why can't we use the old stuff?' 'Why can't we use the new stuff?' 'Why can't we get anything right the first... or second or third time?'

Tell me just one thing... were there LAWYERS involved in any of these tough questions? Now, THOSE become tough questions. Sometimes TOO tough and the poop hits the props, as it were, and then 'show's over'. Who wants to watch a production what's got poop on the props. The curtains... the set... the actors... the makeup... god what a mess. Maybe somebody can come up with a way to virtualize a mess and then you can at least sell something out of the pile. They did it with crappy rubber and fake doggy poop. But, then, THAT's an example of something 'real' a company can produce.

Like I said... "it's not real until it runs on  Mister Frickaseeds' computer."

click 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:54 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 11 May 2007 4:43 PM EDT

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Tonight in our BBP studios we have noted explorer and professor of anthropology Colonel Smithely Worthington Crumweld the third Earl of Dowdy, Duke of Cobbin and Fourth Godson to the Archbishop Pinkel T. Piddling of Counting Alworth.

Colonel, welcome.

brack... ahem... phfsstt... you're quite welcome, my dear.

Professor, perhaps you can relate to our viewers what exciting times you've had living, as it were, amongst  the heathen Wanga Pangy of Catalina. I hear they are a fiercely competitive tribe.

Ah... blubboom... living, as it were is quite the description as these foolish heathen have no respect for decent deliberation and doting. One must make decisions very carefully, especially in the jungle...

I see. It must have been a...

THERE WE WERE... poised... to enter... our portered canoes to risk the treacherous passage down Goneanddoneit Creak which empties out into Lake Wwwhadafkhapend  and we were mesmerized by the hypnotic ritual dance of the Getdafkowtahe tribe of tree-dwellers taking over the general commerce on the piece of land known as the 'Mooka maka wika wonka shempa groopa pooh' or 'Place where bufallo butt get stuck in twin tree fork'.

Charming name, Professor, but I was wonder... 

THE CULTISTS... as they must be called for they are fanatically dedicated to their homeland and property having endured many incursions and insults over the years... are solidly socialized under a loose system of drums and smoke signals which allow them to stay informed on a community wide basis. Their knowledge of ancient events and names and stories is fanatcial, their celebration of key ancestral milestones is keen and enthuriastic and their vision for a utopia filled with pineapple breezes and fiberglass boats ... these people with primitive social skills and quick wits and even quicker recall of facts and historical events are usually quite mellow and calm.

I see... wha....

BUT, WHEN ONE COMES THROUGH their areas making so much as to give a "smell your stink" type of expression or as the Pangy call it  'pucka wookie noka noogoo ninka wachit etdomorow' the tribe erupts like a nest of nak-nak fleas infesting the entire hill with gnawing commentary and provocative jabs. A nest the size of this on that dead bull carcass over there is big enough to infest every gnawing doubt in any crevice within a hundred miles of here... you see.

Ahhh.. THEY ARE PRONE!... to head shrinking and many have found themselves witlessly defending less and less of their original intellectual standing and self-respect in hopes of escaping the confrontation with a shred of previous form or favor. Defense of a posting position quickly becomes a fight for social survival and dignity once in the jaws of the ever vigilant and noble Getdafkowtahe.

How nice... wel....

THE DANCE is called 'wha nook nook no maka poka binga wanga wook' better known in this country as the 'blue suede booboo' and is performed whenever territorial disputes are brought foreward. The dances themselves may be highly unique but usually result in impassioned posturing, highly accurate and effective spear throwing, often degenerating to mudslinging and perhaps scatological displays of varying repugnance but all with a strategy from the socialized mass and watchers ready to steer the mass in the direction of the tenderest meats... uhhh... as it were... and the...

FASCINATING, PROFESSOR. I'm sure we all hope you will be returning to that lovely land soon...

Well, my dear, I am a bit too old for the rigours of the trail, as it were, but I do like to shake a nook nook here and there and I am wont to pick up a handful of mud or other pulpy mass to aid whatever defense I might need press against an enemy's thrusts, so to speak. But, I can assure you, in the end, you will find that scoundrel's head will be far smaller than my own... which I might say, is quite promin...

THANK YOU Professor  and for the BBP... good night.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:02 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 7:03 PM EDT

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Mood:  don't ask

Come in Car 30. Green Wienie calling.

Uhhh... Car 30 here.

What's your 20?

Twenty?

Location.

Oh. Right. My twenty is outside the cult headquarters. They got some music blaring on the loudspeaker and it's really groovy... hey sweety, what's your name. Wanna talk to Mister Mikerphone?... heh heh... what's your friend's na... click

Car 20. Green Wienie. Over... Car 20 Green Weinie... Damn it. Lost another patrol to that damn Cult of the Denuded Treefort. They're Satarists, I tell ya. Ever last damn one of them is out to piss me off. Wha... wha... what's THAT? Up in the sky?. 

See THAT? It's a omen! Them cultists are coming after me. Aaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. 

Was that the Police Commissioner? 

I think so.

Hmmm... Looks like THIS stakeout is blown. You going over to the cult party tonight?

Yep. Soon as I can drop off my nightstick.

Hey, look. Here's a pamphlet the Commissioner dropped. Looks like it was put out by his church, The Recrustificated Church of the Piously Puckered. Here's their deacon Brother Nosterinuimus Bumfustead DD pFUD and no JOB.

By: DC-Steve
10 May 2007, 03:46 PM EDT
Msg. 184844 of 184859

Courtesy of Wikipedia [with my commentary in brackets]:

Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. During Groupthink, members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside the comfort zone of consensus thinking. A variety of motives for this may exist such as a desire to avoid being seen as foolish, or a desire to avoid embarrassing or angering other members of the group. Groupthink may cause groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the group's balance. The term is usually used as a derogatory term after the results of a bad decision.


Symptoms of groupthink

-- A feeling of invulnerability creates excessive optimism and encourages risk taking. [invulnerability - as in the belief one can see the future in precise detail and this vision is not vulnerable to error. Even when it's obvious to almost everyone there are too many variables to have great confidence in any predictions about the specific scenario in question]

-- Discounting warnings that might challenge assumptions. [as in warnings that no one knows with any certainty what the future holds in store for us . . . other than death]

-- An unquestioned belief in the group's morality, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. [Your group's cause is noble and your vision of the future is irrefutably destined to come true, so without even really thinking about it you decide it's morally OK to follow the leaders by practicing random character assassination when you have no reason to believe any of your accusations are true and by intentionally deceiving random strangers who read a message board. It's for their own good, after all.]

-- Stereotyped views of enemy leaders. [including IMAGINARY enemies I would add]

-- Pressure to conform against members of the group who disagree. [any former Friends of Portuno and RapidRob who got kicked out of their VCSY club for your acts of apostasy will immediately recognize this symptom]

-- Shutting down of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus. [no need for this any more - everyone left in the club is not currently capable of independently forming their own ideas]

-- An illusion of unanimity with regards to going along with the group. [may not be an illusion any more in the case of the VCSY cult]

-- Mindguards — self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting opinions. [Hey, sounds like they've met RapidRob!]
 

Bwaaaahh ha ha haaa that's too funny. Hey, bring that with you tonight and we can let some of the treefort sisters give us their interpretation of "Pressure to conform against members of the group who disagree". Bring the cuffs.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:58 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 6:03 PM EDT

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Mood:  chillin'

Heck, you all didn't get to see a slice of ProgrammersHeaven in the past posts: ajaxamine.tripod.com/index.blog/1666399/no-xml-bad-smell/ March 31, 2007 No XML Bad Smell.

Ya see that little fanny warmer? They don't make them no more. This one's gonna be pricells one day. Priceless.

And y'all came by on a lucky day. The kid ain't hrere so we can have a converstin'. Now, if my grandpapy was here to see me flaunt the family joules as it were he would have my head with his Cornfederate cutlass. But... he ain't here so damn his compost pile and here's his pride and joy. THE FIRST except for a few cussin's a might earlier, post of the famous Portuna_Dynamo.

That there's a original Clearstation. Must be near eight years old by now. Worth a pretty penny at a pawn shop if you bring a vacuum cleaner or a tv with you.

Oh... this is a good one. This is right after VCSY stock crashed http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1104164&usernm=Portuno_Diamo. 
You can still smell kind of like burnt hair when you unfold it.  

Here's some stuff about the roadmap and if you compare that with developmentgateway.org it looks like the same idea. AND THIS WAS 2000!

http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1110343&usernm=Portuno_Diamo 

This is grandpa when he found gold in a box of papers:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1114211&usernm=Portuno_Diamo
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1157645&usernm=Portuno_Diamo 

Here;s grandpa after he ate at some hole in the wall place:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1122392&usernm=Portuno_Diamo

Here's a box of maps:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1131679&usernm=Portuno_Diamo
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1132951&usernm=Portuno_Diamo
 

Here's his badge:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1167521&usernm=Portuno_Diamo 

And a nightstick:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1152271&usernm=Portuno_Diamo 

Here's a noodlenuckel:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1157645&usernm=Portuno_Diamo

This here's grandpa on a tirade:
http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1999464&usernm=Portuno_Diamo 

Here's a citation for surviving the grungion data war in ought three:

By: keeasha
06 Jun 2003, 08:50 AM EDT
Msg. 113876 of 184849

OT: Portuno D. You appear to have correctly called the msft failed attempt re; biz apps, biz talks,, Linux coupled with ####/## is proving to be a far more IT superior prod service line,,, Merely an observation, Ki??

Don't see many like this anymore. Wait a minute that ain't right we see a whole bunch like this around now. But one thing's changed. Microsoft can't do this sort of stuff anymore unless it gets the blue craps, So how much will you give me for the whole truckload?. 

Daddy what's the blue craps?

Uhhh... damn... Jilly you scared the crusty crabs off me. Where'd y'all come from?

We was gone to visit grandpa at the congo essence home.

Huh? Oh. Whats in the paper bag?

Don't open it!

Aaaacckkkkkkkk oh god My Darth Vader Helmet! 

It's Darlene's throwup. She filled it like a bucket of chicken.

gggggnnnnnnnacccckk oh god please

Yep. Chunks like oyster fondew.

aaeeeeyyccckk gnaaaah

Why you wrenching? Mama! Daddy's throwed up on the rose bushes. Sara go get a wet rag and a beer.

Why do I always have to take orders from you?

Because you're afraid of what can happen while you're asleep.

If you want any more posts by portuno_diamo pushed the button next to: Messages By Member: Portuno_Diamo

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 4:31 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 4:32 PM EDT

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Mood:  quizzical

And Microsoft is all, like, 'we can do that too'. So where is it June 2003? IBM said they were into Web Services. MSFT said they were in too Web Services too.

We see IBM's web services all the way back from here to there consistently engaged. We's been watching Microsoft duck and weave from here back to there but we STILL don't see MSFT's web services.

What gives?

By: 4sirius1
07 Jun 2003, 10:53 AM EDT
Msg. 113966 of 184832
(This msg. is a reply to 79186 by ÿinvalid_sender.)

***A VERTICAL FUTURE***

Take a look at this older but descriptive article to remind you of the vision and the opportunities before
Vertical. See post# 71968.

I've heard it also means $7 trillion in business
conducted on the Net over the next several years. The article underlines the net effect on business as 12%
added to revenues and 42% reduction in labor costs.

What companies will be able to afford not to have that capability in the future???

Vertical is worth many times more than it's current market cap of $3 million using the pocket calculator. But we're using it to look forward.

Now use some judgment after you consider what Vertical offers to Global E-Commerce.


By the way, it has become old research that Web Services
from IBM, MSFT and others would begin to ramp up in the
3rd quarter 2003--we may be on the cusp.

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sniff sniff bbblllllaaaaattt fried oysters

Makes me nostalgic when I was posting on Raging Bull. It's like gettting run out of the tenements but I'd a much rather walked out on my own. That 79186 by ÿinvalid_sender. That's me. I used to call myself ÿinvalid when I went into bars full of Svedish waitresses.

No I'm kidding, silly. Svedish is not a real word. You can see 79186 isn't a valid message either. That's because it was removed. I was once a proud portuno_diamo on raging bull but they took me off at recy43's insistence and silenced the tomes for ever... well, not exactly, I went over to PHeaven (my card: http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/authorpage.asp?AuthorID=118252 ) where I was joined by a grope of likeminded RB longs and made a public site there As VCSY - A Laughing Place [aka the treefort, Port Uno, Winky's Wicked Wicker aimed at a special audience and a backchannel [most likeely still as I see many still log on - no doubt to likewise backchannel pro and con - pheaven was a delight for wringing out speculation - much of the long cockiness you see on RB is due to the degree of certainty they've reached  in their DD and projection of facts they have found with the likelihood of scenarios. It to conversate what they call managed risk in a consensus weighted skylark of an 'investment'. The 'you gotta be crazy' quotient somehow or someway clicks across the 'I once was blind but now i see' line on the Figgerdair and it's a whole new world of stations.] about VCSY but he followed us there and insisted the webmaster get rid of the site. We went private as a forum after that, got socialized with our stufy habits and background and now that's 100 ants from a mound that were just recently kicked out right after the lawsuit against .Net by VCSY. I guess being a .Net developer, the webmaster didn't want to see what was going to hit.

So we get shoveled out to other venues like this one and Number 2.

And now we burrow even deeper because we gain a more widely spread coverage with an already deepened social structure content and efficient with messages laid down by a scent trail - some may pick it up some may not but it guides you to the riches that will guranatee the next generation of eggs. 

And to give you a sense of history and prospective, I offer you this trail sign from a little outpost on the edge of reality called ... the highlight zone.

Color me Curious 

Not the cat, stupid, this:

http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1069916 better known as: 

WARNING: Speed Bump... Maintain Truth 

311

Emily is a perfect fit

Portuno_Diamo

Mar 7 11:47P

Then tell us we haven't been talking about all this 'new technology' stuff like web services, XML and extensible dynamic languages and framworks since the dotcom days. Where the hell has Microsoft and the information technology industry BEEN for all these years? Have they been wandering in the green fields of illgotten money while we property owners have had to water our lawns with our tears, sweat and, dare I say, wringing out the bedsheets after a long desperate night. Woe is me, woe is ... VIOLA! Gimme a beer! Woe is me.

So if your engine and tranny fall out from under yer ride , it ain't my fault you drive through this here residential neighborhood so fast.

You should stay a little longer and read a bit. You certainly will be doing that later trying to figger out where you missed your chance..

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:26 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 2:34 PM EDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

MAMA! Jilly said I can't sit in the back seat because I stole her peanut butter and jilly sandmich.

Jilly let Sara. Sara stick your tongue back in. Let Sara sit back there with you or y'all take turns.

click

Something to twiddle your unthinkables... dun dun duhhnnnn du duhhnnnnnnnnnnn ... In this episode of Canoles in the Dessert, Field Marshalk Rummel finds himself in a pickle as the Italian troops defect enmasse'...

'Vait! Du haben nicht das osterizergestoffen mit dem toasterputzen fur das consolink prischevershitinkenmakken mit snoopeas!'.

Ya'll turn that down. I can't hear Connie Francis up here.

Yes ma'am. 

'Commandant Plink! Der Panzers aust mit dem proopsbegorken aber nicht so das pinklesmakenschitnken!'

'Gut Gott das plinkenschitinen ist das muggermaken von der plaschtiknederber!' 

'Aul ist los alt ist los mitten dem ctrl under del vershtocken plumetingen.' 

dun dun duuuunnnnnnnnnn... dun duhhnnnnnnn

Don't color on that.

Oh yeah? I can color it if I want to because it... is...... mine and mama said so. Nyah.

click 

Come with us now to yester year when men had fuzzies and women kept tarantulas for pets. In this episode of 'Whipping Post' we join Madam Bruteskink and her slave Herr Plaken Shpiken as they endure grueling interrogation following the death of Claude N. Stanken. 

TURN IT DOWN OR SO HELP ME I'LL STOP THIS CAR RIGHT NOW! Y'all are making me miss Patsy Cline.

Yes ma'am. 

BEGIN THE BEGUINE POST 

By: ajax203
17 May 2006, 04:42 PM EDT
Msg. 159136 of 184813 aka http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=159136

Some Microsoft XML background:

Microsoft used this concept called Silkroute to build relational data in flat files into SQL/ML:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/39135020%2C389137%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://coblitz.codeen.org:3125/citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/18742/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.washington.eduzSzhomeszSzsuciuzSzfileszSz_F1523759225.pdf/fernndez99silkroute.pdf
Summary:
We describe a general framework for mapping relational databases to XML views, to be used in data exchange.

We describe a new query language, RXL, for mapping relational sources to XML views.

We describe a sound and complete query composition algorithm that, when given an RXL query and an XML-QL query, generates a new RXL query equivalent to their composition.

We describe a technique by which most of the work in an RXL query can be shipped to the underlying database engine.

MSFT got a patent on the SilkRoute method in 2003. Does anybody from PH (me - PH doesn't exist anymore. From July 6, 2003 http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/authorpage.asp?AuthorID=118252 ) have the link please? This was the patent used to challenge the VCSY Emily XML Enabler Agent. The XML Enabler Agent demonstrated the ability to do transformations in BOTH directions where SilkRoute only did one direction.

The VCSY/Emily XML Enabler Agent received an allowance from the Patent Office March 29, 2006 saying the XML Enabler Agent patent is granted. http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=96371

Just a week before that Microsoft announced Vista would be delyaed.

More than likely SilkRoute was something they were using starting around 2000 and probably building into their software development. Just funny I think maybe irony that VCSY announced the XMLAgent two weeks before Microsoft announced Hailstorm in 2001. And here it is 5 years later and Microsoft is takign a swan dive into the technology toilet again and the XMLAgent is going to be granted in a few more weeks.

Some Vista background:

WinFS is a way to make organize and manage relationships in files the way you would make records in a database. I think WinFS probably had the SilkRoute stuff in it. Why would they not? They had to move data around from one form to another and or to XML and I dont think they had many other patents for that sort of thing. Anybody else?

Microsoft axed WinFS out of Longhorn (Vista) in 2004 - this is a writeup from January 2004 (when WinFS was a go) updated in August 2004 to show when WinFS was pulled.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/WinFS/

Now theyre a go again. Theyre looking for people.
http://blogs.msdn.com/WinFS/default.aspx
"Hopefully by now, most of you have already seen some of the very cool WinFS demos...Microsoft recently made a decision to productize some of these ideas into a new application"

And there is probably more to the story than anybody knows why Vista and a bunch of other things happened and why Lukovsky and others headed for the hills. Read for yourself and decide. I know what I think.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1820607,00.asp
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The 'Dirty Little Secret' About Longhorn
By Mary Jo Foley

Contrary to what many believe, Longhorn won't be built on top of the .Net Framework, we hear. But that might not be a bad thing.

Developers say there's a dirty little secret about Longhorn that few Softies are discussing publicly: Longhorn won't be based on the .Net Framework.

We're still expecting that the .Net Framework will ship with Longhorn ? on the CD and/or "in the box" in some way. But the .Net Framework won't be at Longhorn's core, we hear.

Will Microsoft ever go public on this shift? Or are the Redmondians hoping this is just more insider baseball that will end up relegated to the "ancient history" files? One thing we know is this: Developers are talking. So, what's your two cents on how Longhorn's shaping up?



http://www.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=20972&messageID=400752&start=-1
05/13/06
Anything in the shell related to .NET was ripped out
Anything that was based on .NET as an end-user feature was ripped out, for one. Lots of snazzy contact and shell features using Avalon and such. It was pretty and fun, but you can't go and have your shell based on .NET at this point. Maybe with CLR 3.0.

Lots of good people moved on after that decision.

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THE BEGUINE DON'T END BUT THE BEGIN DO: END POST 

[Let's move on, shall we?]

CADILLAC!!!

I got that one.

No you didn't, you were pointing at the Buick.

Did so.

Did not. 

Mama Darlene's getting car sick.

(its going to be a long trip to visit grandpa) 

... waging war on a daily basis...

... walk in through this lovely foyer into the pastel sunken living room. Bob calls it the tripinsa... Oh my! What a bold statement THAT was ha ha ha.

... defeated Nazism and Fascism for all time. Or did it?...

... necking with Junior, her one true love in the drive in. They embraced each other tenderly. 'Oh Junior. I want to have your baby, sugar. What's so hard to understand about that?' 'But Wanda Lynn, I ain't ready to settle down. I learnt me how to cipher. And they says a good education will take you far. I got airplanes to fly and fish to catch and scalps to take.' 'But Junior sweety you can do that... just stay closer to home, that's all ... and I can make us a real home with a weedeater and a crockpot and a tv and a bed. You remember what the bed is for, don't you junior? It's for making...

Jilly!

Yes ma'am. Darlene wanted to watch it.

...click 

Darlene has her daddy's helmet on her head. How can she be watching anything?

She said she got used to it being so dark.

Mama? Is that a police man?

What? 

... and in Zooperior Court of the State of Fuzzy Nuglets: 

AOL-Time Warner and Chinadotcom (CDC) parted ways beginning in earnest in late July:

Negotiations between chinadotcom and AOL July 18, 2003 09:33:00 AM ET
HONG KONG, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA; website: www.corp.china.com) announced today that chinadotcom and America Online, Inc. ("AOL") are seeking to negotiate the resolution of all outstanding claims that chinadotcom has against AOL and related parties, as well as the disposition of AOL's existing holding of 6,795,200 shares of chinadotcom. In addition, AOL attempted to exercise a portion of its warrant to acquire additional shares in chinadotcom. The current negotiations also encompass the attempted exercise of a portion of AOL's warrant. There can be no assurance that any agreement will be reached with respect to any of these matters, and even if an agreement is reached, there can be no assurance of the effect of such agreement on chinadotcom or its stock price.

And a scant 10 days later (things happen so FAST these days):
Chinadotcom, AOL reach settlement Reuters, 07.28.03, 9:34 AM ET
CHICAGO, July 28 (Reuters) - Chinadotcom Corp. (nasdaq: CHINA - news - people) said on Monday it has resolved claims it has against America Online, the Internet division of AOL Time Warner Inc. Inc. (nyse: CHINA - news - people)

Under the settlement terms, AOL would be able to sell 6.795 million of Chinadotcom shares. AOL's two warrants to buy more Chinadotcom shares would be canceled.
chinadotcom Shareholding Disposal by AOL Completed
September 25, 2003
HONG KONG September 25, 2003 chinadotcom corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA; website: www.corp.china.com) announced today that based upon SEC filings, America Online, Inc. ("AOL") has disposed of its entire holding of 6,795,200 chinadotcom shares as of September 11, 2003.

For all news items see:
http://www.corp.china.com/newsroom/newsroom.html
Chinadotcom expressed gladness to be free of the AOL-Time Warner relationship which tied them to the pursuit of entertainment bent portal work in favor of the pursuit of manufacturing and mobile software efforts:

http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/technology/aol_china.reut/
"We're pleased to have an overhang on our stock removed and finality reached on this issue, and look forward to pursuing our software strategy focused on two of the fastest growing sectors in China -- export manufacturing and mobile applications," Chinadotcom Chief Financial Officer Daniel Widdicombe said in a statement.
"Barry Diller Is Focused"
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/805251
Barry Diller and AOL-Time Warner strategies
 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:48 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:54 PM EDT

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Mood:  spacey

But mainly watching Microsoft not supply their developer base year after year while the XML Web Services future extends out of reach for them. I was counting on doing a lot of stuff on Apple but it kind of looks like Apple has resolved their 'virtualization' problems early this year. Huzzah.  A ray of light and a Ray of darkness. We shall see how dark it do get.

http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/05/finally-2008.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Finally... unstructured support... 2008????

http://slashdot.org/~rastamafoo
Current favowrit: Rasta faces the slashdotties down using the RR² Method... or else they're all quietly sneaking up behind me. 

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_V/threadview?m=mm&bn=33693&tid=74&mid=74&tof=1&rt=2&frt=1&off=1
VCSY Intellectual Property Track 

http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/04/reply-to-challenges-to-siteflash-patent.html 

http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/04/well-be-talking-about-agent-patent.html

http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/05/ibm-ceo-palmisano-client-server.html

On AJAX http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/programming/xmlhttprequest 
By: ajax203  (me - what can I say? I like my writing. I crack me up and I edify meself.) CIRCA May 2006 http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=159997
About XMLhttpRequest (aka The Microsoft Way) and why not.

http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=159995
Compare what Sun was saying then with what Sun is saying now. Big change for such a little period of time, isn't it? At least Sun got theirs out in the fresh air before MSFT. Maybe MSFT was letting Sun play with it all along.

I dare say, old bean. It appears you have a crinkled winky! Edgar, come look at this individual's 'assets', as it were.
http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=159746

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 10:23 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:52 AM EDT

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