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From http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205204285 New Jersey Bars Some Sex Offenders From Internet: The new law prohibits anyone convicted of using a computer to commit a sex offense from using computers or accessing the Internet for part or all of their parole.

That's the price for an 11 inch diagonal OLED TV. I don't think I'd pay $1,750.00 for any 11-inch screen, no matter how nice it looks.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202103858

let me give you a hand here:

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/manufacturing/manufacturing_qa.htm

http://www.informationweek.com/outsourcing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174906797

I remember reading somewhere (sorry, no link) that Toshiba has taken over or would take over the factory where IBM produces the cell processor for Sony.

Most memory is produced outside the US, here is another interesting table:

http://svtc.igc.org/icrt/corps/inttable.htm

It's a pity that one is not broken down by $amount invested per country.

In this column:

http://informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903173

Where he suggests that technophobes in congress didn't understand the technology, and they were somehow sold the bogus bill of goods that IP like music/movies/software would somehow be more important than say, the manufacturing sector. Or, as doctorow phrased it, "as if 'police academy' sequels would somehow replace the rust belt in the US economy."

Given that there were powerful interests at work at the time that really really liked the idea of replacing UAW workers with slave labor in China, this was a convenient thing for lots of people to believe.

I know plenty about the subject -- heaps more than you, I'm sure.

Yet again, piles upon piles of arrogance. I could be Bruce Schneier for all you know. I'm not, but my point is you're making a shitload of assumptions of my ability based on....what? Nothing. Other than my statements not agreeing with your preconceived opinions.

Wow, you've written some software in Perl (I'm sure that's very efficient). Congratz, dude!111.

Not only arrogance, but childishness, also. Never once did I say that I had ever written software in Perl. I stated that cluster computing was easy enough to handle that it could be done in Perl. Big difference. You might want to get your head out of your ass before you keep reading, as you seem to have some serious mental confusion going on.

The point was hardly that software can't be written to take advantage of an array of machines. It was that your numbers of what comprises a feasible botnet are very, very skewed and childishly wrong.

Ok, so I didn't include sources. Sue me. I figured it was pretty commonly known, since it's been mentioned on /. numerous times. But, since you seem to have completely missed that month, here you go. Every one of these puts the size of the botnet at a maximum of 50 million computers, which is exactly what I used for a figure. Based on my own experience with security issues, I've come to realize that the worst possible security scenario is usually the most accurate one, so that's what I went with. And if it turns out it was 20% overestimated? Well, big deal. 20% isn't a crapload of leeway when you're talking about security issues.

My objection to your comment is entirely in the position of authority you seem to be taking, when it's clear you really aren't any sort of authority.

And how is it clear I'm not any sort of authority? Because you disagree with what I said? Maybe you'd prefer it if I'd added "but kayditty is an expert on all things everything, so you'd better ask for some confirmation over that way, somewhere." So you resort to a virtually ad hominem attack on me, hoping that.....what, exactly?

I might have been content to leave well enough alone had you not made ridiculous remarks about the feasibility of harvesting a 50 million computer botnet (which probably doesn't exist, and which certainly isn't going to happen for any random attacker), which I would still deny completely.

I'm not talking about it happening for any random attacker. I'm talking about the truly evil bastards who are trying to break into places like TJX and steal 90 some odd million credit card records. Your punk ass script kiddie neighbour is irrelevant. Deny it all you want, though. It's the truly hidden risks that you really have to be wary of, because they're usually the worst. Do you work for DHS, by any chance? Your attitude sounds remarkably similar to theirs.

But just because there's some ridiculously hypothetical 'perfect-world' where there are 50 million "bots" ripe for the taking by some script kid with a hard-on for some particular dude he's had his eye on, and, god damn it, he's managed to write the most efficient software in the world for managing 5.0 * 10^7 bots OVER THE FUCKING INTERNET to do it all...

Well, the "perfect world" probably exists, or at least, did for a while in September-October. And again...I'm not talking about the script kiddie who hates his neighbour for telling his parents he was smoking up in their back yard. I'm talking about the credit card thieves, and the other serious security risks. If your biggest security problem is script ki

Actually the link is an Australian repost of an American media story. Here's the original (as linked in the Australian repost): http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204800653&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

See it everywhere.
Overstock.com Divulges Secret To Its Cyber Monday Success
Their secret? They hired engineers. I shit you not, they were a .com with all the tech outsourced. Apparently if you kiss enough asses and make enough powerpoints you start to believe that that's what makes shit happen. The leaches go from one very important golf game to the next while the engineers are busy making shit and rolling their eyes at the douchebaggery. Engineers make the world go round. The eyerolling I mean, something about angular velocity or some shit. Kind of slept through physics class. I was a business major at the time, didn't think it was very practical.

Thereafter, when opened, ad-enabled documents will call out to Yahoo to fetch dynamic ads for display, provided the PDFs are being read on an Internet-connected device.

Cory Doctorow had a line about how "The United States traded its manufacturing sector's health for its entertainment industry, hoping that Police Academy sequels could take the place of the rust belt. The United States bet wrong."

http://informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903173&pgno=1&queryText=

Basically, ill-informed lawmakers in the US got tricked into believing that the declining manufacturing sector could be replaced by movies/software/music.

Ludicrous, of course, as any modern economist could tell you now, but it wasn't obvious to lawmakers in the 90's.

Hehe... I know, apparently, some even ask if Pamela is a boy or a girl. I am thinking of setting up a web page with, say, ten pictures where people can vote on what they think Pamela looks like. Could be funny... I just found out now that PJ was a kind of anonymous way to publish stuff. Apparently she gives interviews. although !
Cheers,

Actually, "NewYorkCountryLawyer" is the Slashdot ID of Ray Beckerman, attorney at Vandenberg & Feliu and long standing pain in ass of the RIAA. Charles Nesson and John Palfrey wrote the original Harvard response to the RIAA which was orignally covered at Information Week, then picked up by P2PNet and Ray Beckerman's own blog, amongst others.

Gyrogeerloose: Yes, Ubuntu is a bit bulky for older machines. There are all sorts of lightweight distros, take a look at: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=203100989&pgno=4&queryText= , this reviews some excellent low requirement distros. I have loaded DSL and also Puppy on really old laptops, they work fine. Try it, you will be surprised how little resources are needed to run these. ;-) Bob

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At least one company seems to show an interest in using the patent system to build a niche for itself. And that company seem to produce a lot of innovations that arguably advance the arts and sciences.

Innovating and seeking patent rights may be completely independent. Sure, there are potential strategies that might leverage the patent system. But, like any business strategy, how can anyone be sure success comes from the strategy or from other factors. You never know for sure that success was in spite of, not a result of, engaging a particular strategy.

Because there are so many other factors, it is hard to prove that a strategic tool, such as software patents, have real benefits. But, it is also hard to prove that they do not have real benefits. To accept either position based on little more than appeal to authority and assertion that the issue has been fully-decided is foolhardy, which is why such arguments are not particularly persuasive.

I did a little more digging and came up with this

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004081

which would imply that while Sony didn't seem to want porn on Beta, they did not actually forbid it. Indeed their blunder was that Beta was initially designed for a 1 hour format, which is fine for TV shows, but people were recording and watching a lot of movies, many pornographic. Sony was slow to come out with a longer format, so VHS won the day. They just guessed wrong on how people were going to use VCRs. An interesting thing to note here is that on both sides of the Beta-VHS issue, the engineers balked at longer tape formats for quality reasons. The JVC VHS engineers were overruled by parent company Matsushita, so there we are.

Mozilla Corporation doesn't care; they've already made plan to give Thunderbird the boot.

I'm not sure how the Mozilla Foundation feels about Thunderbird, though.

That's what everybody said about Apple and the iPhone, and we all see how that is working out.

Well yes, as a matter of fact they did. Now that is the truly rapacious face of MSFT showing.

One problem that's getting $380 million worth of attention in the president's budget: developing an INS database to identify foreigners who overstay their visits or are considered threats. The database would be linked to other agencies to keep tabs on foreigners.

Microsoft has had a lot to say about Vista and the market has been listening.

Gobsmacked. That's what the Brits call it when something jaw-dropping happens and you can't think of anything to say. Microsoft's blockbuster quarterly results kind of fall into that territory for me. The cash river keeps on flowing

Someone out there - or 88 million someones - bought a copy of Vista, 28 million of them in the last two months. This brought $4.14 billion in revenue in the quarter, making the Vista doom mongers look a tad silly. Sales of high-end Vista SKUs were the most popular. Vista helps Microsoft's quarterly profits rise 23 per cent"

Microsoft's chief financial officer said the company "outperformed expectations pretty much across the board." But it was led by robust performance of the company's PC software products. Sales in the Windows group rose 25 percent to more than $4.14 billion, while its Office division reported a 20 percent increase in sales to $4.11 billion. ...Growth was highest, he added, in international and consumer markets. ... Microsoft also sold a higher mix of its premium-priced versions of Windows and Office than a year earlier. And Mr. Liddell said the company's anti-piracy efforts were particularly successful, increasing desktop software sales by as much as 5 percent from a year earlier. Microsoft Earnings Send Stock Soaring

The company reported "robust demand" for Windows Vista, Office 2007, Windows Server, and SQL server. The combined revenue of Microsoft's client, business, and server and tools divisions grew by more than 20%. Revenue in the company's video game division soared by 91%, driven primarily by the success of the launch of Halo 3.
Microsoft said Vista sales have been increasing since the release of the Windows operating system to consumers in January. "Customer demand for Windows Vista this quarter continued to build with double-digit growth in multi-year agreements by businesses and with the vast majority of consumers purchasing premium editions," said Kevin Johnson, president of the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft.
A strong global PC market helped sales of Windows Vista and Office 2007 considerably. PC shipments worldwide grew by 15.5% in the third quarter, according to IDC. Much of the growth occurred outside the United States, where PC shipments increased by only 4.7%.
Chris Liddell, CFO for Microsoft, said sales growth was strongest in the international markets, such as Brazil, China and Russia. The fact that Windows sales grew faster than the PC market was an indication that customers were upgrading their PCs to Vista, and also buying the premium edition. Three quarters of Microsoft's customers bought the more expensive version. Microsoft Earnings Boosted By Windows Vista, Office, Halo

The more expensive versions of Vista and a new Office 2007 package also are spurring a larger than usual number of customers to renew three-year licensing agreements, according to Bellini, Institutional Investor magazine's top-rated software analyst. Microsoft earnigns expected to rise

• lower hardware requirements
• better reliability
• more appropriate feature set
• better interoperability with relevant systems

Just something I ran across that sort of illustrates my gripe about Groklaw. It's editorial masquerading as journalism.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/to_groklaws_pam.html

Google, the WayBack Machine, to say nothing of the 1.5 million machine bot-net we've been hearing about recently.

Good news. IBM that is taking aim at Microsoft with the release of a free office software suite called Lotus Symphony. IBM said Tuesday that Symphony, based on open source software from the OpenOffice.org project, will be made available as a free download essentially to whoever wants it. The package contains a word processor called Lotus Symphony Documents, as well as Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807146

I believe the judge already has ruled the money is Novell's, what needs to be determined is how much money Novell is going to get.

How could that have happened? The trial hasn't occurred yet. We are still in pre-trial. The only thing the judge has ruled on is what evidence will be admitted at trial to determine the facts.

Here goes:

"SCO claims it owns all copyrights over Unix and that Linux infringes on those copyrights. In what were widely seen as bet-the-company moves, SCO, beginning in 2003, launched a series of lawsuits against rivals and customers claiming their use of Linux was violating the copyrights. The campaign was dealt a crushing blow on Aug. 10 when federal court Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell, and not SCO, owns the copyrights to Unix."

"As a result, Kimball said that SCO must remit to Novell a portion of the fees it has collected from selling Unix licenses -- mostly to Sun and Microsoft. That could amount to as much as $25 million. The total is to be decided at a trial that's set to start today. The case is scheduled to proceed as a bench trial, meaning that Kimball -- not a jury -- will decide the outcome."

There's what judge Kimball said. Then this:

"Novell and SCO were slated to begin trial yesterday to determine the amount SCO would need to fork over, but SCO's last-minute bankruptcy filing prompted a postponement of the Novell trial."

I haven't seen one for the differences between Windows and Gnome, ubuntuguide.org was a great place for me when I was starting out. In addition, Automatix is a wonderful tool to install all of the proprietary formats, players, etc. Linux isn't for everybody, but I think that if more people gave it a chance, they would find out that it isn't as scary as a lot of reviewers make it. Walt's review was balanced, but it was also wrong on some accounts (e.g. not being able to adjust the mouse touchpad sensitivity). I cannot totally agree with his experiences, either, as I have had 100% success in dealing with external devices such as iPods. I have been able to rescue a few iPods that were Mac-formatted with Ubuntu, something that I wouldn't want to try on an XP machine.

The review wasn't as comical as some reviews have been. (Who can put Window's Add/Remove programs on the same level as Ubuntu's Add/Install programs?!?), but there was very little content to go with the fluff. I don't think this article really tells us anything we don't know, or really helps sway new computer buyers one way or another.

a hacker without prior access will get the machine to go to their server instead of the MS server,
 
DNS poisoning
 
present the correct authenication,
 
  Using "genuine" certificates from Verisign will get you much of the way to where you want to be, I suppose.

One fake security certificate, coming up:

http://www.informationweek.com/830/hacker.htm

Sure, all they need to do is forge all of Microsoft's digital certificates first.

Why don't you stop using Windows? I know that's not an option for everyone, but these days it's something you should consider. It's not like there aren't alternatives out there. There are! A Google search just turned up several blog posts that talk about Windows alternatives:

Langa Letter: Exploring Windows Alternatives
Avoid Windows Vista anti-piracy shenanigans by using BSD, OpenSolaris or Linux.
Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista
Dump Windows Update, use alternatives
Alternatives to Windows Software

I'm sure you could find a lot more information, too. So there's really no excuse for still using Windows, especially if there's really nothing keeping you from switching to one of the many alternatives.

Dell

RMS isn't writing much lately because he blew out his fingers with RSI writing as much as he did. He still has pain and can't help it. I'm sure it is a source of continuing sadness to him that he can't code as he once did.

I would be happy to recommend a good voice-to-text program to RMS.

IMO, if Linus had not come along with a working kernel, someone else would have.

I am confused why people espouse this "RMS is special but Linus is not" nonsense. The key idea behind the GPL -- that I will show you my source code if you agree to show me any derivatives you make -- is relatively simple. So simple that it is completely ridiculous to claim that only one man in the history of computing could possibly have thought of it. I will agree wholeheartedly that RMS was ahead of his time and deserves lots of credit for the GPL -- but in that case, by your own argument (who had "come along" by the time Linux was released? not Hurd), so was Linus.

Well, look at what Linus has said about GPL3 on a number of occassions. RMS is not responding in kind. RMS response is much more even-tempered than that of Linus.

Your revisionist view of history is somewhere between baffling and appalling. Linus heavily criticized the GPLv3 during its draft stages. Ultimately said he was "pretty pleased" and "much happier" with the final version (source). His most recent comment is that he thinks GPLv3 is okay, but does not support its philosophical outlook (source). Perhaps Linus' language was undiplomatic in his criticism, but his most recent comments are rather conciliatory. He has also expressed his "love" for GPLv2 (source).

The invective is certainly not one-way from Linus to FSF, proof of which is found in your own posts in this thread (as well as, I would argue, RMS's own comments that prompted this article).

You seem to be suggesting that it is not permissible to criticize even a draft version of an FSF publication. You furthermore seem to be suggesting that everyone in the open source movement must completely agree with the goals and philosophy of the FSF.

You have said previously that your job is to convince companies of the benefits of open source. Has it occurred to you that the bizarre RMS cult-of-personality, into which you appear to have bought, is one reason why companies need so much convincing?

And, before you attempt to criticize me as a corporate shill (as you did that anonymous coward above), you should be aware that I work for a not-for-profit organization.

There's no need to be derogatory towards anyone, but RMS is derogatory and every bit as manipulative as the unnamed OSDL gent. Information Week wanted to interview RMS and/or Moglen for their story about the GPLv3. "Stallman declined to be interviewed for this story, citing InformationWeek's refusal to refer to Linux consistently as GNU Linux." I think the biggest reasons that some people are resistant to RMS these days is that his ego is leading him to become incredibly difficult to work and deal with. Right there he declines a golden opportunity to speak to IT people around the world directly through a highly regarded news weekly delivered right to people's desks, all because they wouldn't spell it his way.

He's never been the most flexible of people, and anymore it's his way or the highway. I respect him for his accomplishments: the software he's written and helped write, the FSF and it's huge impact, and the GPL which has had an even larger impact. However the ideas that inspire a movement sometimes become a barrier to that movement's larger success. The FSF and Free Software in general should not be a cult of personality. I think today the Free Software movement has grown larger than RMS, and that to truly coexist, if not completely co-opt corporate software, Free software needs to be more flexible than RMS will allow. Compromise is not a dirty word, it's the key to success, because if you can't even get in the door, you're useless.

RMS demands credit even in the name of Linux. I personally would have had no real resistance to calling it "Linux/GNU" but frankly his insistence on coming first got under my skin. If it weren't for the Linux kernel GNU and the FSF would still be little known oddities, not the highly regarded institutions hundreds of millions of people interact with every day. If RMS was as socially savvy as he is technically inclined, he would do everything he could to bring Linus into the fold, not alienate him. But I fear RMS has raised his vision to a religious quest, and will not allow himself or his vision to be "diluted" by compromise. And that, ultimately, will be his failure.

Linux makes a lot of inroads against MS in the enterprise market..

I know this is the conventional wisdom around those parts, but it doesn't seem to be the case: here is an article that indicates the share of both Windows and Linux servers growing in businesses, while Unix usage dropped dramatically. And in related news, another recent article here shows IIS 6 making inroads against Apache. So Sun's decision does make economic sense.

This is not entirely true. The storm trojan/worm is now evolving to use new methods of spreading itself. It is overtaking commonly used websites [ Citation ] using iframes and javascript[ Citation ] to insert malicious code. I suppose you could interpret that to mean that the owners of the website are stupid for not properly securing there system, or that the user is stupid for visiting that site in the first place, but the worm is now using javascript to exploit vulnerabilities in the web browser to spread itself.

This is not entirely true. The storm trojan/worm is now evolving to use new methods of spreading itself. It is overtaking commonly used websites [ Citation ] using iframes and javascript[ Citation ] to insert malicious code. I suppose you could interpret that to mean that the owners of the website are stupid for not properly securing there system, or that the user is stupid for visiting that site in the first place, but the worm is now using javascript to exploit vulnerabilities in the web browser to spread itself.

If this is related to the news that Windows server has been delayed to get more production testing of the kernal?

Controversial Aspects Of GPLv3

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT GPLv3 seeks to bar users from incorporating restrictive technology in GPL-based applications

PROTECTION AGAINST PATENTS GPLv3 seeks to prevent patent lawsuits against users of GPL code, as well as prevent indemnification agreements for a select group of GPL users, as with the Microsoft-Novell deal

WEB SERVICES GPLv3 seeks to expand the giveback provision and may require Web service providers to share the code on which their network services are built

NEW DEFINITIONS To better address international copyright law, GPLv3 seeks to change the words it uses for copy (propagate) and distribute (convey)

"text document branch"? Sounds like rubbish to me.

Have another article on it if you want - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126331-page,1/ar ticle.html?tk=nl_dnxnws - no mention of partial implementations there, or otherwise there's always the good old community to help out - http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter

Also, as it turns out the UI for Office 2007 isn't so bad after all - http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=201800612&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Think logically for one second....Microsoft have in fairness spent a fair few billion on this new interface. That's more effort and investment than OO will ever get, ever, so the chances are it is going to be easier for users.

Glen: Outsiders have kidnapped some of our property. We must respond with our deadliest weapon.
Jane: [Sinister] The lawyers.

From the article: > For spam, a million-strong botnet might be overkill. > But botnets can do much more - like launching denial-of-service attacks. > These attacks aim to overwhelm a Web site or Internet server by sending > it a constant stream of garbage data at a particular Web site or Internet server.
A few years back there was a spate of DDOS attacks on root servers, for example: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=197004237 which were described at the time as "possibly featuring millions of computers".
So, is this really such an enormous number? There seems to be a precedent for botnets of this scale....

Print page:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=201202372

Funny:
One thing that became obvious to me as I looked at these various Web interfaces is that data speed isn't as important as good software.

You think????

The good news, as you might expect, is the Apple iPhone. The genius of Apple is its ability, over and over again, to completely reinvent, from the ground up, the user interface for hardware, and to support it with brilliant software. Web browsing on the iPhone is a paradigm shift, a completely different experience -- just as the BlackBerry was, in its time, a paradigm shift.

The elements of the technology that makes the iPhone so different will find their way into other devices, just as the BlackBerry's thumbpad and push e-mail have become more or less standard on smartphones. Touchscreens and direct interaction with the Web page will become standards of their own sort because they've come along just in time as computing, both personal and business, moves to the Web.

I've stated this to many people who've asked me about the iPhone. Even if it FAILS, it's technology, features, etc. will be copied into many other phones.

We can always depend on the government to help out.

IBM on Wednesday said it has consolidated 3,900 computer servers in six locations worldwide onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux, a move that the tech giant claims reduces computer-devoted floor space by 85% and will cut costs by $250 million.

.....Linux is definitely desktop ready.....

Are you sure about that? Maybe for the desktop of a /. reader but not your average uncle George or aunt Millie. I had no problem getting Windows XP or even VISTA to install and run on my Mac using Parallels, but it balked at Ubuntu. I did not have the time to hunt down the solution, although I am sure there is one.

There also was a link to a lengthy article from a fellow editor of Information Week, with his experience trying to get UBUNTU running on an HP laptop.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=201000451

A typical /. user would not have too much trouble finding and then figuring out the forum advice ond then editing a configuration file or two. If that were needed to get ANYYTHING working for aunt Millie, Linux would be out the door and Windows, warts and all, would be back. For /.ers who LOVE computers (otherwise you wouldn't be reading this) Linux is great, useful and fun, but for the Georges and Millies of this world, who just want to USE a computer as a means to an end, rather than somewhat as an end in and of itself, Linux is definitely out of the running. Any /.er who recommends any flavor of Linux to his/her computer illiterate friend or relative, better be prepared to be the help desk for such persons.

Easier to read print version:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=201002048

Imagine how much better an OS XP would be if MS had concentrated on improving it for the past five years, instead of sinking hundreds of millions into Vista. Hell, Vista hasn't even been declared seaworthy yet and they're already starting development on The Next Big Windows Release(tm).

I doubt businesses are putting this off because they think Vista sucks, but rather because XP works just fine, and it wouldn't make sense to spend money on something that isn't broken.

It's a little bit of both actually. My own company sent out a memo stating that no PC is allowed to be purchased with Vista and not to upgrade to IE7. They also cited a government response to this. (which I submitted posted here on /. back in March, but never got picked up that I noticed)

You see, the thing is NOT that Vista is broken but that other software breaks on Vista. You see the difference? We're not talking about some Video games or Office Suite programs but 3rd party business applications such as accounting software, medical software, etc. Along with IE7, my own companies IT department has been testing IE7 and Vista and have concluded that a lot of our 3rd party software that runs a lot of our day-to-days would not work or crash often on Vista or IE7 (for internet based apps.).

Given expectation of most people that a computer will 'just work' no matter what setup it is, it's much easier to just ban it altogether until there's a need for it. Also, there's the obvious reasoning for cost, which I due agree that it's the most important reason. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

Safe to say, they're waiting for for the cost to come down or until MS forces everyone to buy it by a) stopping XP support b) requiring Vista to run programs (such as Halo 2, Shadowrun, etc that they're trying to do with the gaming market... and I absolutely refuse to take part in and I hope Linux and open source can get something to compete with DX10 and supported by companies before that happens so I can happily switch to Linux for gaming.)

Cheers,
Fozzy

...Iron Mountain. They have repeatedly lost backup tapes as well as left them in a maintenance closet that ANYONE that decides to walk into the building could access. So if by 'like' you mean someone that has the same buisness but DOESN'T lose your tapes, yes I agree then.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=165701015

Also if you have any amount of data you want to backup you also need HARDWARE encryption, software encryption like you mention will take too long. And that is hard to setup and costs$$$, unless you have very little important data, in which case you are lucky!!

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day.