I've worked with it off and on for years. Back around 99 when I first started working with it in finance we had about a 1 day hit just to encrypt the drive and a noticeable loss of speed once it was done. We could only encrypt certain computers that were powerful enough and you really had to justify doing it on a case by case basis.
Fast forward several years and technology has improved to the point where frankly most users couldn't tell if you encrypted their drive or not.
The overhead to run encryption on a drive anymore in around 3-7% the last time I ran the numbers. Your guilty of neligigence if you don't run encryption on a laptop, with desktops is the small hassle to recover a key/really/ that big of a deal?
Where I work we actually get desktops stolen about as often as laptops, and with Bitlocker it's all transparent to the user. Why not? I'm looking for similar tools for my mac's (50/50 mix of mac's and windows if anyone has any good suggestions).
My normal Java upgrade packages first uninstall old versions of Java. Officially we only ran Java 6 to begin with, however we had a number of users who have admin privelages for political reasons and so we had to get all of the uninstall strings for Java 7 and test them on several platforms and test them on our management platform.
My irritation with Java is twofold. First it is very high maintenance and secondhand is that Oracle completely dropped the ball on communications with this.
I'm with you on management platforms, I made my living as a consultant / architect for them for many years in the enterprise space. Preaching to the choir on that one.....
Unfortunately for political reasons I have certain users that have admin rights and can install things anyways. I couldn't agree with you more, I really couldn't.
I killed Java 7 on Monday at my work. I won't bring it back any time soon. Oracle, in case you care this is how you messed this up royally:
1. You sat on this since April. 2. Exploits have been in the wild since last weekend and you didn't even acknowledge it until today. 3. The community was left to fend for themselves, and the only way to fend for themselves was to/remove/ your product.
This is how you should have had handled this: 1. You should have patched this during your normal patch release cycle that you had since April. 2. You should have immediately acknowledged the exploit. 3. You should have immediately acknowledged the breadth of the exploit. 4. A very simple note on your blog to the affect of "were working on this, expect something shortly" would have made all the difference.
As a result of your failure to take security half as seriously as Microsoft (I never could have imagined I would say that 10 years ago), I spent the first have of my week testing an emergency uninstall package of Java for multiple platforms. After getting it approved through an ECAB and rushing it into production - since I had no idea when you were going to release a patch I uninstalled Java 7 system wide at a very large institution this week.
After my emergency uninstall went into production it came up in a meeting with management today that an out of band patch got released today. At this point my response to management was simple, "too late". No one questioned my decision and Java 7 is now gone.
Learn from this Oracle, learn from this, you royally fucked this up.
It's Star Wars 2.0 and were going to bankrupt the commies into self destruction once more! They took the bait and will sink billions upon billions trying to do something that/should/ work.
/Star Wars 3.0 will involve convincing the Russians that fusion can be used as a weapons platform, that ought to do the trick
//Wait a second, I thought they weren't commies any more.....
Lexmark has long been the one of the leading banes of the inkjet printer business. Leading the charge with DRM built into inkjet cartridges that required you to buy/their/ ink. They were on of the worst vendors for lock in and lawsuits, getting lawyer happy and suing people who dared to try to bypass their DRM lock in.
They are an evil company and I have had great pleasure over the years steering many, many an IT purchase/away/ from Lexmark and towards other vendors that did not play their games. I would have to imagine that I was far from alone in steering business away from them.
Anyone got a good story about steering a sizable purchase away from lexmark they would like to share?
I used to travel for a living and I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I saw people leave their portable electronic devices on. Whether this was an accident or not I couldn't tell you of course, but I would have to imagine that if you were extrapolate a dozen cell phones a flight by a couple thousand flights a day etc.....
Point being that there is overwhelming real world evidence that portable electronic devices just don't bring airliners. If that was actually the case we would have had airliners falling out of the sky on a daily basis every day for many years now. The rules for turning the devices off have no basis in reality and are as outdated as the manual typewriter. They need overturned and left in the dustbin of history...
Of course they did this, they outsourced their soul when they thought their companies were nothing but machines with parts that could be replaced with parts from the cheapest provider. Once they did that they lost their soul and they lost their innovation. Nobody had a desire to take pride in their company anymore knowing that they could well be the next to replaced with someone in India next.
It was the rank and file of the old HP, Dell, Compaq etc that were so damn innovative that built the industry. Upper management came along and thought they could outsource them and still get the same results, failing to see how people would no longer/care/. People who are focused on surviving simply don't give a damn and the next thing you know companies like Acer and Samsung rise from being providers to the giants to the next giants themselves.
Here's the thing, if they do the same thing the American companies did, they too will fall and someone else will take their place. Seriously, can anyone ever give me a single example of where outsourcing actually worked out in the long term for someone other than the vendor?
Apple has already made clear that they going after other companies next.
Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens.
Those are the words from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple to the employees of Apple regarding the verdict of the Samsung case. I assure you that Apple's lawyers are offering pre-appeal deals to every android manufacturer you can think of and several you can't this very week. Apple will try to squeeze other vendors for as much money as they can before this is inevitably overturned or greatly reduced. That was the point of the lawsuit and you are naive if you think that about Samsung in particular.
Android is the most popular platform worldwide by a fair margin and Apple risks losing out. If you can't beat them in the market beat them in the courtroom and that is what Apple has done - for today. This case is about sheer and rampant greed and represents everything that is wrong with today's patent system. The idea that this verdict will stand is absurd and I haven't yet read a single third party analysis from any legal annalist that thinks it possibly can.
Only your the actor and the director is insane and drunk and on drugs just like the movies or Broadway. And just like in the movies and Broadway you are their for their amusement as they play God. Your playing a part and things may or may not go your pay way, that's partly up to the dice and partly up to how well your fellow players work together and handle things. The parallels are common which is why many actors and theater types are / were gamers over the years.
Like many things done well it can be a lot of fun. The influences of gaming are far larger on society than I think a lot of society has a clue. I would also imagine that there a probably many millions of more gamers than society realizes. Unfortunately like many things when politics or power trips get in the way the fun is ruined and I have seen more than one friendship damaged and or ruined over the years when people forgot to keep perspective on things.
Don't forget the fun. Really, seriously, don't forget the fun.
Cell phones and the like have been doing this for years. I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain Mac OS tells Apple about anything installed through the app store at a minimum. Frankly Microsoft will aggregate this information and use it to find out what causes thinks like crashes and system instability as well as malware and the like. For those kinds of uses I don't see a problem.
Potential abuses come in terms of using it for marketing purposes and if it can be subponead or requested by law enforcement and used to invade your privacy. Microsoft could resolve the privacy issues by abstracting the data with a simple hash of some kind so that your data can't be tracked back to you. In and of itself the concept isn't a bad one.
Microsoft, can you please hash this data to protect peoples privacy and still serve your otherwise legitimate needs?
How completely utterly boring. Are they/trying/ to be the old fashioned square to Apples new and chic demeanor? Seriously, Microsoft, why are you committing corporate suicide lately?
Simply put what has been happening isn't cause for alarm, were simply not in a state of crisis that we've been led to believe. There was another study that came out a while ago showing that temperatures were even warmer in the Roman era.
Before you get off thinking I'm some kind of Koch brothers shill you should know that I've been doing things like driving small cars with very good gas mileage for years before it was politically correct, have actually worked for a recycling company, drive a very low emission small vehicle now, compost, grow my own organic garden, take mass transit, use energy efficient appliances, have taught many people the finer arts of environmentalism and have been doing these kinds of things for the last few decades.
If the alarmist behavior doesn't stop the whole environmentalist movement is going to be discredited (it's already happening with the youngest generation - their environmental uptake is markedly lower than people just a few years older than them). The environmental movement needs to get grounded back in reality and lay off the panic button when the case simply isn't there. Focus on what is there like shutting down dirty coal power plants and things that actually do matter.
You know, Onyxruby here happened to have read that article before it appeared on Slashdot. Here is the part that I found particularly noteworthy that I will blockquote for you:
Although warming of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula began around 600 years ago, the high rate of warming over the past century is unusual (but not unprecedented) in the context of natural climate variability over the past two millennia.
There is no such thing as normal. Normal is only a concept that we as humans have because we live such pathetically short lives. Normal simply isn't a natural concept, and we need to quit thinking of nature as being "normal" and start accepting that "change" in part of the natural cycle and learn to adapt with it.
The climate always has gone from warmer to colder and back and forth. Mostly it has been warmer, but it has also spent a fair amount of time under ice ages as well. I live in a place where I am 2000 miles from the nearest ocean and yet can find sea shells in my back yard from time to time. Things change and we need to quit fighting change and learn to adapt to our environment as our environment changes around us.
The continents will shift (there's a museum in Paris with an exhibit I have heard about that depicts how far the North American plate moves away from the European plate each year). Antarctica will eventually move away from the pole and simply melt. Other natural phenomenon will occur and we have to accept that we are simply one part of nature and to learn to live as part of it.
That being said, there is no reason not be be responsible with the environment and fight pollution for the sake of fighting pollution. Living sustainably is something that we have to do as our population becomes ever larger and we need to increase efforts for green energy like nuclear, thorium, solar and geothermal power sources. I really wish people would set aside politics on this and let science do the talking.....
Looking back over 25 years of computer gaming modding has pretty much always improved sales. From the days of the original Civ games to Wolfenstein to Doom to NeverWinter Nights vs NeverWinter Nights 2 examples abound. Those games that support the community readily modding them have pretty much always had better sales than those that didn't.
Simple example would be NeverWinter Nights vs NeverWinter Nights 2 for an example in point. Embrace your user community and you will be rewarded in sales for years to come. Pull a Sony and you'l end up with a (what was the name of their PSP replacement again?)....
I think the shared core is a major reason and have to agree with you on that. After submitting that I thought of one additional reason as well. They want to transition to the Apple style marketplace where Metro Apps have to purchased through them and they get a cut of of that. It's going to make enterprise management a pain in the ass. That would has also got to be a huge incentive to push this.
I still maintain that the number one driving reason for the metro push is the one that I cited. This is coming from someone who is in a position of influencing whether or not Windows 8 get pushed out to a fair number of systems or not...
Using Metro aka Modern instead of the traditional desktop was never about usability. It was entirely about transitioning users to tablet interfaces and away from the traditional interface that people have used for years. Microsoft knows damn well that people will never voluntarily never make the change which is why they removed the ability to boot directly into the desktop.
By forcing you into "Modern" they are forcing you to use the new interface which/is/ usable - but only if your on a tablet. Obviously Microsoft thinks the future of computing is tablets and smartphones and not desktops. Witness the upcoming "Surface" computers and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Microsoft is afraid that the market is going to abandon the traditional desktop and is trying to position Windows as being an Operating System of choice for the tablets and smart phones. People simply don't think of Microsoft when they think of smart phones or tablets and that is what Microsoft is trying to change, public perception.
Windows 8 is a sacrificial operating system that is being produced entirely for this reason and we will see Windows 9 come in a very short time frame behind this.
While I'm normally one to hold Apple accountable where others often won't you hit the nail on the head with your summary. Self serving thieving douchebags ruin customer and Apple propertyhand data just to see who can be the biggest ass of all. That Apple had the restraint not to pursue felony charges against many of these employees is surprising.
Apple. You need to clean house or your genius bar is going to suffer a public loss of confiddata and you'll have a public relations situation you don't want.
I have to imagine that I am far from the only one that is disappointed in Google. Perhaps I expect too much, but they are one company I would think better of than to do pull something like that. I normally have a lot of respect for them in most things.
That rock can't stop armies from taking over nations in systematic order. At the end of WW2 the Russians systematically took over one eastern European nation after another in rapid succession because there was nothing to stop them. The same thing started to happen in Asia in rapid order as well.
The only thing that stopped those armies was the threat of nuclear weapons. Read up on your history and you'll see we had a death toll from Communism of about 100 million last century. Conventional army's with conventional weapons would have continued the forced spread of communism whether the world wanted it or not. It's the entire reason that NATO was founded and the cold was was spurned.
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I've worked with it off and on for years. Back around 99 when I first started working with it in finance we had about a 1 day hit just to encrypt the drive and a noticeable loss of speed once it was done. We could only encrypt certain computers that were powerful enough and you really had to justify doing it on a case by case basis.
Fast forward several years and technology has improved to the point where frankly most users couldn't tell if you encrypted their drive or not.
The overhead to run encryption on a drive anymore in around 3-7% the last time I ran the numbers. Your guilty of neligigence if you don't run encryption on a laptop, with desktops is the small hassle to recover a key /really/ that big of a deal?
Where I work we actually get desktops stolen about as often as laptops, and with Bitlocker it's all transparent to the user. Why not? I'm looking for similar tools for my mac's (50/50 mix of mac's and windows if anyone has any good suggestions).
My normal Java upgrade packages first uninstall old versions of Java. Officially we only ran Java 6 to begin with, however we had a number of users who have admin privelages for political reasons and so we had to get all of the uninstall strings for Java 7 and test them on several platforms and test them on our management platform.
My irritation with Java is twofold. First it is very high maintenance and secondhand is that Oracle completely dropped the ball on communications with this.
I'm with you on management platforms, I made my living as a consultant / architect for them for many years in the enterprise space. Preaching to the choir on that one.....
I work at one of the largest Universities in the world. Agree with you about Oracle being a disaster on many things.
Wholeheartedly agreed.
Unfortunately for political reasons I have certain users that have admin rights and can install things anyways. I couldn't agree with you more, I really couldn't.
I killed Java 7 on Monday at my work. I won't bring it back any time soon. Oracle, in case you care this is how you messed this up royally:
1. You sat on this since April. /remove/ your product.
2. Exploits have been in the wild since last weekend and you didn't even acknowledge it until today.
3. The community was left to fend for themselves, and the only way to fend for themselves was to
This is how you should have had handled this:
1. You should have patched this during your normal patch release cycle that you had since April.
2. You should have immediately acknowledged the exploit.
3. You should have immediately acknowledged the breadth of the exploit.
4. A very simple note on your blog to the affect of "were working on this, expect something shortly" would have made all the difference.
As a result of your failure to take security half as seriously as Microsoft (I never could have imagined I would say that 10 years ago), I spent the first have of my week testing an emergency uninstall package of Java for multiple platforms. After getting it approved through an ECAB and rushing it into production - since I had no idea when you were going to release a patch I uninstalled Java 7 system wide at a very large institution this week.
After my emergency uninstall went into production it came up in a meeting with management today that an out of band patch got released today. At this point my response to management was simple, "too late". No one questioned my decision and Java 7 is now gone.
Learn from this Oracle, learn from this, you royally fucked this up.
Give it 5 years and Apple will be suing other people for their patent on the "Irecorder".
Brilliant!
It's Star Wars 2.0 and were going to bankrupt the commies into self destruction once more! They took the bait and will sink billions upon billions trying to do something that /should/ work.
I'm out of mod points or you'd get one for the well put explanation.
Lexmark has long been the one of the leading banes of the inkjet printer business. Leading the charge with DRM built into inkjet cartridges that required you to buy /their/ ink. They were on of the worst vendors for lock in and lawsuits, getting lawyer happy and suing people who dared to try to bypass their DRM lock in.
They are an evil company and I have had great pleasure over the years steering many, many an IT purchase /away/ from Lexmark and towards other vendors that did not play their games. I would have to imagine that I was far from alone in steering business away from them.
Anyone got a good story about steering a sizable purchase away from lexmark they would like to share?
I used to travel for a living and I couldn't begin to tell you how many times I saw people leave their portable electronic devices on. Whether this was an accident or not I couldn't tell you of course, but I would have to imagine that if you were extrapolate a dozen cell phones a flight by a couple thousand flights a day etc.....
Point being that there is overwhelming real world evidence that portable electronic devices just don't bring airliners. If that was actually the case we would have had airliners falling out of the sky on a daily basis every day for many years now. The rules for turning the devices off have no basis in reality and are as outdated as the manual typewriter. They need overturned and left in the dustbin of history...
Of course they did this, they outsourced their soul when they thought their companies were nothing but machines with parts that could be replaced with parts from the cheapest provider. Once they did that they lost their soul and they lost their innovation. Nobody had a desire to take pride in their company anymore knowing that they could well be the next to replaced with someone in India next.
It was the rank and file of the old HP, Dell, Compaq etc that were so damn innovative that built the industry. Upper management came along and thought they could outsource them and still get the same results, failing to see how people would no longer /care/. People who are focused on surviving simply don't give a damn and the next thing you know companies like Acer and Samsung rise from being providers to the giants to the next giants themselves.
Here's the thing, if they do the same thing the American companies did, they too will fall and someone else will take their place. Seriously, can anyone ever give me a single example of where outsourcing actually worked out in the long term for someone other than the vendor?
Bad Shill!
Apple has already made clear that they going after other companies next.
Those are the words from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple to the employees of Apple regarding the verdict of the Samsung case. I assure you that Apple's lawyers are offering pre-appeal deals to every android manufacturer you can think of and several you can't this very week. Apple will try to squeeze other vendors for as much money as they can before this is inevitably overturned or greatly reduced. That was the point of the lawsuit and you are naive if you think that about Samsung in particular.
Android is the most popular platform worldwide by a fair margin and Apple risks losing out. If you can't beat them in the market beat them in the courtroom and that is what Apple has done - for today. This case is about sheer and rampant greed and represents everything that is wrong with today's patent system. The idea that this verdict will stand is absurd and I haven't yet read a single third party analysis from any legal annalist that thinks it possibly can.
Just curious, do you own stock in Apple?
Only your the actor and the director is insane and drunk and on drugs just like the movies or Broadway. And just like in the movies and Broadway you are their for their amusement as they play God. Your playing a part and things may or may not go your pay way, that's partly up to the dice and partly up to how well your fellow players work together and handle things. The parallels are common which is why many actors and theater types are / were gamers over the years.
Like many things done well it can be a lot of fun. The influences of gaming are far larger on society than I think a lot of society has a clue. I would also imagine that there a probably many millions of more gamers than society realizes. Unfortunately like many things when politics or power trips get in the way the fun is ruined and I have seen more than one friendship damaged and or ruined over the years when people forgot to keep perspective on things.
Don't forget the fun. Really, seriously, don't forget the fun.
Cell phones and the like have been doing this for years. I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain Mac OS tells Apple about anything installed through the app store at a minimum. Frankly Microsoft will aggregate this information and use it to find out what causes thinks like crashes and system instability as well as malware and the like. For those kinds of uses I don't see a problem.
Potential abuses come in terms of using it for marketing purposes and if it can be subponead or requested by law enforcement and used to invade your privacy. Microsoft could resolve the privacy issues by abstracting the data with a simple hash of some kind so that your data can't be tracked back to you. In and of itself the concept isn't a bad one.
Microsoft, can you please hash this data to protect peoples privacy and still serve your otherwise legitimate needs?
How completely utterly boring. Are they /trying/ to be the old fashioned square to Apples new and chic demeanor? Seriously, Microsoft, why are you committing corporate suicide lately?
Simply put what has been happening isn't cause for alarm, were simply not in a state of crisis that we've been led to believe. There was another study that came out a while ago showing that temperatures were even warmer in the Roman era.
Before you get off thinking I'm some kind of Koch brothers shill you should know that I've been doing things like driving small cars with very good gas mileage for years before it was politically correct, have actually worked for a recycling company, drive a very low emission small vehicle now, compost, grow my own organic garden, take mass transit, use energy efficient appliances, have taught many people the finer arts of environmentalism and have been doing these kinds of things for the last few decades.
If the alarmist behavior doesn't stop the whole environmentalist movement is going to be discredited (it's already happening with the youngest generation - their environmental uptake is markedly lower than people just a few years older than them). The environmental movement needs to get grounded back in reality and lay off the panic button when the case simply isn't there. Focus on what is there like shutting down dirty coal power plants and things that actually do matter.
You know, Onyxruby here happened to have read that article before it appeared on Slashdot. Here is the part that I found particularly noteworthy that I will blockquote for you:
There is no such thing as normal. Normal is only a concept that we as humans have because we live such pathetically short lives. Normal simply isn't a natural concept, and we need to quit thinking of nature as being "normal" and start accepting that "change" in part of the natural cycle and learn to adapt with it.
The climate always has gone from warmer to colder and back and forth. Mostly it has been warmer, but it has also spent a fair amount of time under ice ages as well. I live in a place where I am 2000 miles from the nearest ocean and yet can find sea shells in my back yard from time to time. Things change and we need to quit fighting change and learn to adapt to our environment as our environment changes around us.
The continents will shift (there's a museum in Paris with an exhibit I have heard about that depicts how far the North American plate moves away from the European plate each year). Antarctica will eventually move away from the pole and simply melt. Other natural phenomenon will occur and we have to accept that we are simply one part of nature and to learn to live as part of it.
That being said, there is no reason not be be responsible with the environment and fight pollution for the sake of fighting pollution. Living sustainably is something that we have to do as our population becomes ever larger and we need to increase efforts for green energy like nuclear, thorium, solar and geothermal power sources. I really wish people would set aside politics on this and let science do the talking.....
Looking back over 25 years of computer gaming modding has pretty much always improved sales. From the days of the original Civ games to Wolfenstein to Doom to NeverWinter Nights vs NeverWinter Nights 2 examples abound. Those games that support the community readily modding them have pretty much always had better sales than those that didn't.
Simple example would be NeverWinter Nights vs NeverWinter Nights 2 for an example in point. Embrace your user community and you will be rewarded in sales for years to come. Pull a Sony and you'l end up with a (what was the name of their PSP replacement again?)....
I think the shared core is a major reason and have to agree with you on that. After submitting that I thought of one additional reason as well. They want to transition to the Apple style marketplace where Metro Apps have to purchased through them and they get a cut of of that. It's going to make enterprise management a pain in the ass. That would has also got to be a huge incentive to push this.
I still maintain that the number one driving reason for the metro push is the one that I cited. This is coming from someone who is in a position of influencing whether or not Windows 8 get pushed out to a fair number of systems or not...
Using Metro aka Modern instead of the traditional desktop was never about usability. It was entirely about transitioning users to tablet interfaces and away from the traditional interface that people have used for years. Microsoft knows damn well that people will never voluntarily never make the change which is why they removed the ability to boot directly into the desktop.
By forcing you into "Modern" they are forcing you to use the new interface which /is/ usable - but only if your on a tablet. Obviously Microsoft thinks the future of computing is tablets and smartphones and not desktops. Witness the upcoming "Surface" computers and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Microsoft is afraid that the market is going to abandon the traditional desktop and is trying to position Windows as being an Operating System of choice for the tablets and smart phones. People simply don't think of Microsoft when they think of smart phones or tablets and that is what Microsoft is trying to change, public perception.
Windows 8 is a sacrificial operating system that is being produced entirely for this reason and we will see Windows 9 come in a very short time frame behind this.
I just ran out of mod points or you'd get a +1 informative.
While I'm normally one to hold Apple accountable where others often won't you hit the nail on the head with your summary. Self serving thieving douchebags ruin customer and Apple propertyhand data just to see who can be the biggest ass of all. That Apple had the restraint not to pursue felony charges against many of these employees is surprising.
Apple. You need to clean house or your genius bar is going to suffer a public loss of confiddata and you'll have a public relations situation you don't want.
I have to imagine that I am far from the only one that is disappointed in Google. Perhaps I expect too much, but they are one company I would think better of than to do pull something like that. I normally have a lot of respect for them in most things.
That rock can't stop armies from taking over nations in systematic order. At the end of WW2 the Russians systematically took over one eastern European nation after another in rapid succession because there was nothing to stop them. The same thing started to happen in Asia in rapid order as well.
The only thing that stopped those armies was the threat of nuclear weapons. Read up on your history and you'll see we had a death toll from Communism of about 100 million last century. Conventional army's with conventional weapons would have continued the forced spread of communism whether the world wanted it or not. It's the entire reason that NATO was founded and the cold was was spurned.