>"It's been said on numerous occasions that the big things that are holding Linux back are Adobe [for >graphics software] and Intuit [for its personal finance software] because they write to Windows, and >people can't give up those two pieces of software. As soon as companies like that, or companies that >want to compete with them, start writing to LINA, things are going to change fast."
And how is the likelihood of big software houses starting to write to LINA bigger than big software houses staring writing to Mac or native Linux?
And no, I don't mean an MBA. I think in the future a lot of IT is very closely integrated with the business processes of the organization and less of a separate IT department/entity. If you can be in that interface, understanding both and translating between them, you're golden and unlikely to be outsourced or offshored.
For example 90% of internet traffic from Finland to international destinations goes through Sweden. Which means that Swedes may be able to spy on Finnish traffic as well.
This causes problems because in Finland your mailbox (and of course e-mail traveling to it) is protected by legislation to be your private space. For example your employer has no right to go and look at its contents without your permission even if they own the equipment and the disk space and it contains valuable company information. Of course there are provisions for accessing your e-mail if you happen to be run over by a truck, but in that case the employer has to document when the mailbox was opened, who were present, what was read/removed etc. This applies to e-mail logs to some extent as well.
Sooooo, if you are a company offering e-mail to your employees in Finland but hosting the e-mail servers in Sweden, this Swedish initiative may mean that you are in violation of Finnish laws because outsiders can get access to the mail traffic. The Finnish authorities have taken the view that if this becomes reality, the e-mail servers for Finns need to be moved to Finland.
I don't think a lot of organizations are running telnet open to the Internet, but from practical auditing experience I can say that lots of companies have failed to disable telnet in their internal network(s). Their security model is focused on keeping the perimeter secure by firewalls, IDS and whatnot, but internally all their systems run default installs without any security hardening. They really haven't yet realized that multilayer security is a must these days also in the IT area.
I'm not totally convinced this is a good idea. I'm only superficially knowledgeable about NAC and CTA, but we are talking about a trusted agent here. Open sourcing may cause malware versions of that agent being manufactured and distributed. This can cause problems not only to the host with the agent, but also to the infrastructure protected by NAC.
But maybe Cisco has taken this into account in their risk analysis and NAC features.
Sooo, civil liberties issue aside, will this actually remove the option of traveling overseas standby or on a very short notice? Or will DHS have politic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H officers on every international airport to validate people on the spot?
Hey Apple, where's the ultraportable laptop with max. 3lb weight?
You've shown with iPod nano that you can do wonders in small scale, but your laptops are not reflecting your capabilities in this regard. They are currently just waaayyy too big and heavy for everyday and everywhere portability. So no Mac switch for me.
You will not get any functionality either. I just installed it on my desktop XP and the installation itself went just fine, except that Evolution will not do anything. Yeah, the process is alive, but no GUI, no action.
>Should convicted felons on probation have privacy rights over their DNA? Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?
This is an interesting issue, but unfortunately not the one Lamo is raising. According to TFA, Lamo is refusing to give a blood sample, but is prepared to give other forms of DNA (nail clippings and hair). His reasons seem to be religious and aren't based on any privacy concerns.
>Blue?s operational team reports on more symptoms supporting PharmaMaster's claims that the backbone of the Internet was compromised (blackhole filtering at the backbone level).
No offence to the Blue guys' disrupted service, but I think this is the most interesting bit. I wonder whether this description is correct and if so, how the spammer achieved THAT.
In what way are the Google servers in China, which presumably serve predominantly Chinese crowd, "critical servers" for the American Google corporation? If the servers in China die/are confiscated, sure Google's revenues will suffer, but I don't think it will be a critical event.
KnoppMyth is not the uber-solution. I have built a KnoppMyth box and while some of the stuff worked out of the box, there were still a lot of things that required tweaking to get right. I had SATA problems, MythTV FULL SCAN problems, PID problems (PID as in DVB provider id), non-existing/usr/local/bin/mplayer, non-functional DVB subtitling etc. And in addition to Myth config, I also had to tweak xine config to get 5.1 passthru.
While this struggle was not epic (although I did document it in Finnish, 5 pages or so, instead of 1 in the article), I would not call KnoppMyth a SW that you "just drop a CD in the drive and install". But then again, I didn't expect that when deciding that KnoppMyth would be my HTPC SW.
And the more interesting question is whether the fix actually just blocks the current problem (Escape()/SetAbortProc()) or if they have really patched the root cause.
The F-secure blog http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-01 2006.html#00000761> suggests that there may be even more problems in the WMF handling than this issue. Considering that this hasn't been the first WMF problem, I think there will probably be even more. And considering that Microsoft has worked under a very tight deadline for this patch, they may have been going for the straight solution instead of fixing the root cause.
Interesting, the original article by Francesca didn't make it to the front page, but a dupe from the prestigious "anonymous reader" did. This wouldn't have anything to do with the obviously female name, would it? Naah, sure girls can write interesting stuff, but dupes by anonymous submitters are just soooo much more convincing.
When buying important servers, buy them with redundant power supply. Really. This applies to important networking components as well.
Hot-swappable RAID really doesn't help when you have a single point of failure in the power supply. I've experienced several power supply deaths over the years and they have always been major headaches. I've also prevented one major headache by buying a double powered system.
F-secure's BlackLight detects it, although they advise against using the removal tools to get rid of it - it might disable the access to that drive letter. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
First we had "it must be true, I read it in a book somewhere", then we had "it must be true, I read it in the internet somewhere". Now we have come a full circle - it must be true since it is in a printed encyclopedia.
I'm not a great supporter of disclaimers, but here I think it would serve well.
Ahh, I used to run Minix 1.X on an Atari ST ages ago, maybe it's time to take a nostalgia trip.
However, while I agree that microkernels are conceptually smarter, Linux has clearly won the "unix on a PC hardware" contest. But then again, as far as I could tell, that contest was never on AST's agenda anyway. For him the Minix system was a teaching tool.
>The US government, which funded the development of the internet in the 60s, said in June it intended to retain its role overseeing Icann, reneging on a pledge made during Bill Clinton's presidency.
and
>The commerce department does have the power to clear Icann's decisions.
As reported by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, this October so far has been warmest EVER in Finland. We've been basking in temperatures 6-7'C warmer than usual these past two weeks. Some people are still picking strawberries from the fields!
Unfortunately this joy is about to end, this weekend we'll finally get a major drop in temperature, sub-zero nights and rain.
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>"It's been said on numerous occasions that the big things that are holding Linux back are Adobe [for
>graphics software] and Intuit [for its personal finance software] because they write to Windows, and
>people can't give up those two pieces of software. As soon as companies like that, or companies that
>want to compete with them, start writing to LINA, things are going to change fast."
And how is the likelihood of big software houses starting to write to LINA bigger than big software houses staring writing to Mac or native Linux?
>fuel+fire+food+fat&juices+charcoal+smoke=flavour
c ancer.r illing-meat-and-your-cancer-risk)
No, fuel+fire+food+fat&juices+charcoal+smoke=flavour+
(see http://health.yahoo.com/experts/healthnews/4499/g
Yeah, we already have a McLaren buggy (http://www.ciao.co.uk/McLaren_Techno_Buggy__52819 92) amd a Porsche pushchair (http://shop3.porsche.com/international/kids/babyc arriage/wap04050016/), why not an Intel pram.
Oh, wait...
And no, I don't mean an MBA. I think in the future a lot of IT is very closely integrated with the business processes of the organization and less of a separate IT department/entity. If you can be in that interface, understanding both and translating between them, you're golden and unlikely to be outsourced or offshored.
For example 90% of internet traffic from Finland to international destinations goes through Sweden. Which means that Swedes may be able to spy on Finnish traffic as well.
This causes problems because in Finland your mailbox (and of course e-mail traveling to it) is protected by legislation to be your private space. For example your employer has no right to go and look at its contents without your permission even if they own the equipment and the disk space and it contains valuable company information. Of course there are provisions for accessing your e-mail if you happen to be run over by a truck, but in that case the employer has to document when the mailbox was opened, who were present, what was read/removed etc. This applies to e-mail logs to some extent as well.
Sooooo, if you are a company offering e-mail to your employees in Finland but hosting the e-mail servers in Sweden, this Swedish initiative may mean that you are in violation of Finnish laws because outsiders can get access to the mail traffic. The Finnish authorities have taken the view that if this becomes reality, the e-mail servers for Finns need to be moved to Finland.
Long live Nordic co-operation!
I don't think a lot of organizations are running telnet open to the Internet, but from practical auditing experience I can say that lots of companies have failed to disable telnet in their internal network(s). Their security model is focused on keeping the perimeter secure by firewalls, IDS and whatnot, but internally all their systems run default installs without any security hardening. They really haven't yet realized that multilayer security is a must these days also in the IT area.
I'm not totally convinced this is a good idea. I'm only superficially knowledgeable about NAC and CTA, but we are talking about a trusted agent here. Open sourcing may cause malware versions of that agent being manufactured and distributed. This can cause problems not only to the host with the agent, but also to the infrastructure protected by NAC.
But maybe Cisco has taken this into account in their risk analysis and NAC features.
Sooo, civil liberties issue aside, will this actually remove the option of traveling overseas standby or on a very short notice? Or will DHS have politic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H officers on every international airport to validate people on the spot?
Hey Apple, where's the ultraportable laptop with max. 3lb weight?
You've shown with iPod nano that you can do wonders in small scale, but your laptops are not reflecting your capabilities in this regard. They are currently just waaayyy too big and heavy for everyday and everywhere portability. So no Mac switch for me.
You will not get any functionality either. I just installed it on my desktop XP and the installation itself went just fine, except that Evolution will not do anything. Yeah, the process is alive, but no GUI, no action.
This could almost be modded funny...
This is an interesting issue, but unfortunately not the one Lamo is raising. According to TFA, Lamo is refusing to give a blood sample, but is prepared to give other forms of DNA (nail clippings and hair). His reasons seem to be religious and aren't based on any privacy concerns.
>Blue?s operational team reports on more symptoms supporting PharmaMaster's claims that the backbone of the Internet was compromised (blackhole filtering at the backbone level).
No offence to the Blue guys' disrupted service, but I think this is the most interesting bit. I wonder whether this description is correct and if so, how the spammer achieved THAT.
What tv-tuner cards (preferably digital, DVB) would you use with this new Mac mini? Without them it's several cards short of full deck.
In what way are the Google servers in China, which presumably serve predominantly Chinese crowd, "critical servers" for the American Google corporation? If the servers in China die/are confiscated, sure Google's revenues will suffer, but I don't think it will be a critical event.
KnoppMyth is not the uber-solution. I have built a KnoppMyth box and while some of the stuff worked out of the box, there were still a lot of things that required tweaking to get right. I had SATA problems, MythTV FULL SCAN problems, PID problems (PID as in DVB provider id), non-existing /usr/local/bin/mplayer, non-functional DVB subtitling etc. And in addition to Myth config, I also had to tweak xine config to get 5.1 passthru.
While this struggle was not epic (although I did document it in Finnish, 5 pages or so, instead of 1 in the article), I would not call KnoppMyth a SW that you "just drop a CD in the drive and install". But then again, I didn't expect that when deciding that KnoppMyth would be my HTPC SW.
And the more interesting question is whether the fix actually just blocks the current problem (Escape()/SetAbortProc()) or if they have really patched the root cause.
1 2006.html#00000761> suggests that there may be even more problems in the WMF handling than this issue. Considering that this hasn't been the first WMF problem, I think there will probably be even more. And considering that Microsoft has worked under a very tight deadline for this patch, they may have been going for the straight solution instead of fixing the root cause.
The F-secure blog http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-0
Interesting, the original article by Francesca didn't make it to the front page, but a dupe from the prestigious "anonymous reader" did. This wouldn't have anything to do with the obviously female name, would it? Naah, sure girls can write interesting stuff, but dupes by anonymous submitters are just soooo much more convincing.
When buying important servers, buy them with redundant power supply.
Really. This applies to important networking components as well.
Hot-swappable RAID really doesn't help when you have a single point of failure in the power supply. I've experienced several power supply deaths over the years and they have always been major headaches. I've also prevented one major headache by buying a double powered system.
From a crackling loudspeaker on the hummer's roof: "My hovercraft is full of eels!"
F-secure's BlackLight detects it, although they advise against using the removal tools to get rid of it - it might disable the access to that drive letter. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
First we had "it must be true, I read it in a book somewhere", then we had "it must be true, I read it in the internet somewhere". Now we have come a full circle - it must be true since it is in a printed encyclopedia.
I'm not a great supporter of disclaimers, but here I think it would serve well.
Ahh, I used to run Minix 1.X on an Atari ST ages ago, maybe it's time to take a nostalgia trip.
However, while I agree that microkernels are conceptually smarter, Linux has clearly won the "unix on a PC hardware" contest. But then again, as far as I could tell, that contest was never on AST's agenda anyway. For him the Minix system was a teaching tool.
What parts of the article didn't you read?
>The US government, which funded the development of the internet in the 60s, said in June it intended to retain its role overseeing Icann, reneging on a pledge made during Bill Clinton's presidency.
and
>The commerce department does have the power to clear Icann's decisions.
Isn't this WHY enough?
As reported by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, this October so far has been warmest EVER in Finland. We've been basking in temperatures 6-7'C warmer than usual these past two weeks. Some people are still picking strawberries from the fields!
Unfortunately this joy is about to end, this weekend we'll finally get a major drop in temperature, sub-zero nights and rain.
And you want to make your 1M mailbox corporate infrastructure dependent on a piece of software that is minimally maintained by a couple of persons?
IMHO, sometimes there are other considerations than performance.