Two weeks ago I was running Mythbuntu 9.04 with MythTV 0.21. I upgraded first to 9.10 with myth 0.22 and then immediately to 10.04 with myth 0.23.
I was very surprised how smoothly the upgrade process went. All I had to do after the upgrades were to fix DVD udev rules and reconfigure the 5.1 audio. Nothing got majorly broken.
That said, I'm having some LiveTV stability issues with 0.23, which nobody else seems to be experiencing. I also had an issue with DVD mount crashing the mythtv frontend but that has now been fixed in the daily auto-builds.
Weeeelll... Alternatively you could store your stuff in an online backup/sync service, such as Mozy, JungleDisk or Dropbox. Remove your critical stuff from your laptop before boarding and sync them back when you've arrived. This assumes the availability of a network connection and some extra time at your destination, though.
And if you don't want to rely on the encryption offered by Mozy and JungleDisk but want to be REALLY sure about security of your files, use TrueCrypt containers for holding your stuff and backup/sync only the containers.
Technology to the rescue!
Next time you buy groceries why don't you glance at all the mags at the checkout. Count how many have something about "Lose weight in 2 weeks" or "See how J-Lo dropped the pounds" or similar. Then come back and tell me again, sincerely, that women don't want to hear dieting tips.
...but we generally don't want to hear them from our boyfriends when we try out new outfits.
There's time, place and a good way of bringing up potentially unpleasant issues, telling your spouse that "you look fat in those jeans" is not going to net you any karma points.
You are mistaken!
Open source implementations also got it wrong, it isn't just Adobe. See for example problems in poppler here.
Since there are apparently different problems in several independent JBIG2 format implementations, maybe the format specification isn't as clear as it should be?
You hit the spot, although not in the way you seem to think. Everyone seems to think CS/CE degree is about programming and produces only programmers. While CS is fundamentally about finding out what can be automated and how, programming is just a small subset of all possible CS career paths.
If we start marketing CS degree as a stepping stone to interesting careers and not just as a quick route to a cubicle farm somewhere, women will be interested. We need project managers with people skills who understand programming, we need UI designers who are familiar with the underlying technology, we need architects who know how to get management support for good quality initiatives etc.
I do have a CS degree but have always found programming mostly boring. I know how to do it and after graduating have taught myself a couple of new languages, but I'm not a programmer at heart. Thus I don't usually do coding, I do computer and network security.
For a runner or a dedicated walker, shoes are extremely important. Much more important than the brand of their mp3 player. Active people tend to pick their shoes first, accessories next.
For example, I can't use Nike brand running shoes, their basic last has bumps where my feet don't have a suitable dent. This has nothing to do with the brand, it's just a physical fact. My feet just fit better into Adidas or Asics running shoes.
So, Apple is basically telling a large group of people that Apple doesn't want their money. Which is fine by me, but in my opinion stupid from the Apple shareholders' point of view.
Your users really shouldn't have to know the name of any server, anyway. That's what shortcuts and mapped drives are for (pushed down via login scripts/GPOs).
However, DNS is used for other things than servers, too. Networked printers, for example. People need to interact with printers in a very different manner than with servers.
I've never found a printer naming scheme I'm really happy with. Most organizations I've seen use some kind of location based naming (printertype_building_floor_room), which creates very very cryptic names (for example LJ4BWST2B19). And knowing the algorithm (which most basic users don't) doesn't always help.
Also, if I need to call service desk and say a certain printer is out of ink, spelling that name is a PITA. Besides, there is a major risk of names getting outdated. "Oh, yeah, we had to move LJ4BWST2B19 to fourth floor because of the renovation, but we haven't had the time to change the name..."
At one small company, we used author names for printers (Gutenberg was the first, although he wasn't an author) but that did not help locate the device.
To quote the NYT article: "...law made it a goal to reduce the gap separating low-scoring, poor and minority students from higher-scoring white students."
So, while there is a major effort to get struggling kids better scores, which is very good, this goal of NARROWING the gap can only be achieved if the top students don't get even better scores.
I'm disappointed that there is no option to disable conversations either globally or per conversation. This really sucks and shows that the Google people assume way too much on how people handle their e-mail.
For example, I regularly get a bunch of e-mails from an automated bot over which I have no control. For some reason the e-mail bot gives all sent mail the same subject line although the message contents varies. So GMail automatically decides to group these e-mails into few conversations (not one conversation but one per day or something like that). This in turn prevents me from handling these messages by tags, because tag scope is the whole conversation, not a single message.
The only solution for this is to handle these e-mails in Thunderbird via IMAP, where conversations don't exist and I can just take the messages and tag them one by one.
The answer is not just to give more money to security consultants (like me, a CISSP + GSNA) nor hw/sw vendors.
The answer is to develop a good security management framework that works for the organization. Security is not a product or a consultant or a service. Security is a process. Invest into developing the process and the organization is set to survive whatever the Chinese/Government/God throws at it.
While I agree in principal that security should be embedded as a core component in the services sold and puchased, I hope organizations realize security cannot really be bought simply like "..and add 1kW of power, thank you".
The correct amount and nature of security is very much relative to the risks the organisation is facing. Those risks are dependent on the kind of business they're doing and also on their business model.
However, as a security professional I still see people who say "It must be... mmm... secure" when I ask them what are their security requirements for any particular target. They would be really ready to purchase "security as infrastructure" and not think of security at all, but unfortunately in that case their organisations would eventually face an EPIC SECURITY FAIL.
No amount of "security as infrastructure" will help if organisations do not have a good risk management and analysis framework or do not understand what kind of security they need and how much. If they don't understand it, they cannot ask it of the vendors and thus they will get either nothing or something random.
ActiveX is a way to extend the browser.... ActiveX gets the bum rap because it is the entry point (a generic API). The real culprits are third party programmers. I strongly disagree. ActiveX has a bad reputation for a reason: it has a very poor security model for its intended use.
Securitywise, Flash isn't as good as it could be. It seems that the security features have been a gradual add-on features over the years instead of being designed as an integral part of the system from day one. And that approach has never really worked well. For example, as far as I know, you can't digitally sign SWF files.
>If you are using company email servers and equipment, they do own the email.
This is much dependent on your location and may be quite true in the US. However, there are quite civilized countries in the world where this is not true. For example, in Finland, your e-mail box on the corporate servers is protected by privacy laws to be your personal area.
In practice this means that if anyone else wants to access your e-mail, you must be asked consent. If you get hit by a car and end up comatose and thus incapable of giving consent, there must be a clear policy in the organization who can give an order to open your e-mail. If you happen to recover from your coma and return to work, a log of who opened your e-mail and why and what was done, has to be given to you.
The reason for this restrictive ruling is simple. Even if the organization has forbidden you from using the company e-mail for personal matters, nobody can actually prevent your buddies sending you personal e-mail to the company e-mail address. This theoretical possibility of personal contents taints your e-mail box as private area in the Finnish system. I know Finland is pretty unique in this view and is causing major problems when global organizations must navigate the global legal jungle.
From my experience people who do grossly inappropriate things get usually kicked out of the company. If these two get just this minor punishment it might be because the organization did not have clear enough policies and procedures for storing and handling the data. If there are no rules or employees do not know them, people can not be held accountable for any wrongdoing. If this is the case, even this vacation time punishment is too severe.
On the other hand, maybe the organization subscribes to the principle of giving people a second chance.
I've used Evolution since pre-1.0 and I agree, it's very very good. Several years back it was practically my only e-mail client.
However, nowadays I use a mixture of Windows and Linux environments and because of that constant change I'd like some things to stay stable. So I have switched to Thunderbird as my e-mail client. Just because it's similar in both Windows and Linux environments.
I have tried to install the win32 Evolution to a Windows XP box but that bombed pretty hard. If they get a stable and supported Windows install of Evolution, I'm willing to try again but until that I'm sticking to Thunderbird.
The article has a link to a Finnish news item. There have been a few comments on the news and one of them was from Jaakko Lehtinen, who was apparently also present at the Finnish OOXML meeting. He said in his comment (freely translated) that he has seldom seen such a well and professionally chaired meeting. Apparently the chairman also asked the meeting whether he can voice his private opinion and the SFS people granted the request.
So it's not like Nirhamo (the fired chairman) tried to ram his opinion through the meeting.
She won the Campbell award for Best New Writer with her first Temeraire book, "His Majesty's Dragon". It's basically a Horatio Hornblower book with dragons and interesting social commentary. Highly recommended.
The fun part is that Peter Jackson has optioned for the movie rights. The book(s) would really make a great adventure film(s).
A client of mine had years ago an exactly similar button in their server room, but in this case the button was accidentally pressed by a maintenance worker who fell from a ladder. I don't know what somersaults the poor guy had to do to accomplish this, but there it was - a freak accident.
If reliability is your biggest gripe with Symbian, how do you think that a phone a) with a brand new HW & SW combination and b) which has been just released will be significantly better?
I have had a Nokia E70 about a year and it crashes/reboots about once in 3 months. While I would prefer zero crashes, this rate is in the acceptable range to me. I could be persuaded to play with a MokoPhone (whoever designed the name Neo 1973 has no clue about marketing), but I would not have it as my primary phone for a loooong time.
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I was very surprised how smoothly the upgrade process went. All I had to do after the upgrades were to fix DVD udev rules and reconfigure the 5.1 audio. Nothing got majorly broken.
That said, I'm having some LiveTV stability issues with 0.23, which nobody else seems to be experiencing. I also had an issue with DVD mount crashing the mythtv frontend but that has now been fixed in the daily auto-builds.
No, I think the correct Nobel prize for him is Literature. People have got it by writing in weirder languages.
Weeeelll... Alternatively you could store your stuff in an online backup/sync service, such as Mozy, JungleDisk or Dropbox. Remove your critical stuff from your laptop before boarding and sync them back when you've arrived. This assumes the availability of a network connection and some extra time at your destination, though. And if you don't want to rely on the encryption offered by Mozy and JungleDisk but want to be REALLY sure about security of your files, use TrueCrypt containers for holding your stuff and backup/sync only the containers. Technology to the rescue!
There's time, place and a good way of bringing up potentially unpleasant issues, telling your spouse that "you look fat in those jeans" is not going to net you any karma points.
You are mistaken! Open source implementations also got it wrong, it isn't just Adobe. See for example problems in poppler here. Since there are apparently different problems in several independent JBIG2 format implementations, maybe the format specification isn't as clear as it should be?
It really makes me wonder where they're getting them.
Keyloggers.
If we start marketing CS degree as a stepping stone to interesting careers and not just as a quick route to a cubicle farm somewhere, women will be interested. We need project managers with people skills who understand programming, we need UI designers who are familiar with the underlying technology, we need architects who know how to get management support for good quality initiatives etc.
I do have a CS degree but have always found programming mostly boring. I know how to do it and after graduating have taught myself a couple of new languages, but I'm not a programmer at heart. Thus I don't usually do coding, I do computer and network security.
Well if you say in Finnish "se prakaa", you mean that it breaks. Fitting...
For example, I can't use Nike brand running shoes, their basic last has bumps where my feet don't have a suitable dent. This has nothing to do with the brand, it's just a physical fact. My feet just fit better into Adidas or Asics running shoes.
So, Apple is basically telling a large group of people that Apple doesn't want their money. Which is fine by me, but in my opinion stupid from the Apple shareholders' point of view.
...was Cory Doctorow in the balloon blogging? http://xkcd.com/239/
Your users really shouldn't have to know the name of any server, anyway. That's what shortcuts and mapped drives are for (pushed down via login scripts/GPOs).
However, DNS is used for other things than servers, too. Networked printers, for example. People need to interact with printers in a very different manner than with servers.
I've never found a printer naming scheme I'm really happy with. Most organizations I've seen use some kind of location based naming (printertype_building_floor_room), which creates very very cryptic names (for example LJ4BWST2B19). And knowing the algorithm (which most basic users don't) doesn't always help.
Also, if I need to call service desk and say a certain printer is out of ink, spelling that name is a PITA. Besides, there is a major risk of names getting outdated. "Oh, yeah, we had to move LJ4BWST2B19 to fourth floor because of the renovation, but we haven't had the time to change the name..."
At one small company, we used author names for printers (Gutenberg was the first, although he wasn't an author) but that did not help locate the device.
So, while there is a major effort to get struggling kids better scores, which is very good, this goal of NARROWING the gap can only be achieved if the top students don't get even better scores.
For example, I regularly get a bunch of e-mails from an automated bot over which I have no control. For some reason the e-mail bot gives all sent mail the same subject line although the message contents varies. So GMail automatically decides to group these e-mails into few conversations (not one conversation but one per day or something like that). This in turn prevents me from handling these messages by tags, because tag scope is the whole conversation, not a single message.
The only solution for this is to handle these e-mails in Thunderbird via IMAP, where conversations don't exist and I can just take the messages and tag them one by one.
Bollocks.
The answer is not just to give more money to security consultants (like me, a CISSP + GSNA) nor hw/sw vendors.
The answer is to develop a good security management framework that works for the organization. Security is not a product or a consultant or a service. Security is a process. Invest into developing the process and the organization is set to survive whatever the Chinese/Government/God throws at it.
While I agree in principal that security should be embedded as a core component in the services sold and puchased, I hope organizations realize security cannot really be bought simply like "..and add 1kW of power, thank you".
... mmm ... secure" when I ask them what are their security requirements for any particular target. They would be really ready to purchase "security as infrastructure" and not think of security at all, but unfortunately in that case their organisations would eventually face an EPIC SECURITY FAIL.
The correct amount and nature of security is very much relative to the risks the organisation is facing. Those risks are dependent on the kind of business they're doing and also on their business model.
However, as a security professional I still see people who say "It must be
No amount of "security as infrastructure" will help if organisations do not have a good risk management and analysis framework or do not understand what kind of security they need and how much. If they don't understand it, they cannot ask it of the vendors and thus they will get either nothing or something random.
Securitywise, Flash isn't as good as it could be. It seems that the security features have been a gradual add-on features over the years instead of being designed as an integral part of the system from day one. And that approach has never really worked well. For example, as far as I know, you can't digitally sign SWF files.
>If you are using company email servers and equipment, they do own the email.
This is much dependent on your location and may be quite true in the US. However, there are quite civilized countries in the world where this is not true. For example, in Finland, your e-mail box on the corporate servers is protected by privacy laws to be your personal area.
In practice this means that if anyone else wants to access your e-mail, you must be asked consent. If you get hit by a car and end up comatose and thus incapable of giving consent, there must be a clear policy in the organization who can give an order to open your e-mail. If you happen to recover from your coma and return to work, a log of who opened your e-mail and why and what was done, has to be given to you.
The reason for this restrictive ruling is simple. Even if the organization has forbidden you from using the company e-mail for personal matters, nobody can actually prevent your buddies sending you personal e-mail to the company e-mail address. This theoretical possibility of personal contents taints your e-mail box as private area in the Finnish system. I know Finland is pretty unique in this view and is causing major problems when global organizations must navigate the global legal jungle.
From my experience people who do grossly inappropriate things get usually kicked out of the company. If these two get just this minor punishment it might be because the organization did not have clear enough policies and procedures for storing and handling the data. If there are no rules or employees do not know them, people can not be held accountable for any wrongdoing. If this is the case, even this vacation time punishment is too severe.
On the other hand, maybe the organization subscribes to the principle of giving people a second chance.
I've used Evolution since pre-1.0 and I agree, it's very very good. Several years back it was practically my only e-mail client.
However, nowadays I use a mixture of Windows and Linux environments and because of that constant change I'd like some things to stay stable. So I have switched to Thunderbird as my e-mail client. Just because it's similar in both Windows and Linux environments.
I have tried to install the win32 Evolution to a Windows XP box but that bombed pretty hard. If they get a stable and supported Windows install of Evolution, I'm willing to try again but until that I'm sticking to Thunderbird.
The article has a link to a Finnish news item. There have been a few comments on the news and one of them was from Jaakko Lehtinen, who was apparently also present at the Finnish OOXML meeting. He said in his comment (freely translated) that he has seldom seen such a well and professionally chaired meeting. Apparently the chairman also asked the meeting whether he can voice his private opinion and the SFS people granted the request.
So it's not like Nirhamo (the fired chairman) tried to ram his opinion through the meeting.
She won the Campbell award for Best New Writer with her first Temeraire book, "His Majesty's Dragon". It's basically a Horatio Hornblower book with dragons and interesting social commentary. Highly recommended.
The fun part is that Peter Jackson has optioned for the movie rights. The book(s) would really make a great adventure film(s).
A client of mine had years ago an exactly similar button in their server room, but in this case the button was accidentally pressed by a maintenance worker who fell from a ladder. I don't know what somersaults the poor guy had to do to accomplish this, but there it was - a freak accident.
If reliability is your biggest gripe with Symbian, how do you think that a phone a) with a brand new HW & SW combination
and b) which has been just released will be significantly better?
I have had a Nokia E70 about a year and it crashes/reboots about once in 3 months. While I would prefer zero crashes, this rate is in the acceptable range to me. I could be persuaded to play with a MokoPhone (whoever designed the name Neo 1973 has no clue about marketing), but I would not have it as my primary phone for a loooong time.