It will be back with a vengeance. If not at release at SP1 (same as with E2003).
The reason for its appearance is MSFT diversification into the mobile markets along with its loss of ground in the security area especially the complete loss of the VPN market to ISVs. Neither of that has not gone away.
So no matter how much certain parts of MSFT would like to "deemphasize" it it will be back. Otherwise they will have to invent a new protocol for the same markets where RPC is not an option for a number of reasons. Add to that the fact that if they "deemphasize" it too much they will flop MacOffice 2008 which IMO is not going to happen. We are long past the point where MSFT was toying with the idea of killing Mac by f*** up the support for its Office. It now is afraid as there is competition and it will not do something as silly as killing its flagship mail client for it (Entourage).
If you do not have a suitable SMTP relay unfortunately your choice is between Evolution and Evolution. You will have to live with a mail client that cannot even determine if it has new mail correctly. I am not even talking about loss of sync with the exchange server, random deaths of the data server components, being unable to cope correctly with people logging in and out over X to the same Xterm and so on. Classic example of crapware written by people who do not know how to spell "finite state machine".
If you have a suitable SMTP server to send mail you can use fetcExc to get your mail and after that read it with a client of your choice.
Full exchange capability currently does not depend on Microsoft mercy at all.
The old exchange protocol which was nearly impossible to emulate is on its way out for a number of reasons. All newer Microsoft clients are aiming to switch from this original RPC driven protocol to WebDAV through OWA. The protocol is reasonably well documented. The parts that are not have been reverse engineered long ago. This is the "native" protocol of the current Evolution connector and the problems with it are entirely Evolution's fault.
Namely, Evolution is written in an illiterate manner from a software engineering perspective. It is a hacked together piece of bugware where most of the major components do not have proper state machines. Just look at the "new mail" notifications - they are a total joke, wrong 20% of the time.
I looked it at one point (and at least one other open source implementation. IIRC, WebDAV/OWA requires a very strict implementation of a state machine in order not to f*** it up. This is not impossible. Other opensource (fetchExc) and non-opensource projects manage to do that. Evolution should not try to blame Microsoft for failing to do that (I use it to get mail off exchange and send but I do not dare keeping it there while using it).
In countries that do not have suitable retail legislation (UK) you should buy via mail order or over the Internet. That gives you a 14 days by law to decide if you want to shovel the item back up the retailer's backside. Similar laws apply in most of the EU as a part of the distance selling regulations.
Dunno... Both of them seriously suck as scalability for data. O(exp(-N)) scalability or worse (N number of clients per radio site). This is valid for all except the Chinese homebrew 3G variety which can have quite sane capacity models.
The old fonts were more or less multipurpose while these are quite obviously designed for a screen, LCD and Cleartype used together.
If we print them the difference will be considerably less pronounced. In fact I suspect ole good Helvetica will look better in print.
I agree the numeral choice is not just dumb. It is playing straight into the hands of phishers of all sorts. So much for Microsoft being security aware top to bottom.
What is surprising is that they RST on anything going over TCP from any of their customers to another of their customers. It is not just P2P. Lotus notes gets whacked in a similar manner and so on. Cable Internet Engineering at its best.
Cable companies are not carriers. They are information providers (or the equivalent status) in the USA and almost everywhere else. They are not subject to any of the limitations to which carriers have to comply.
Excuse me but how exactly do I get my linux kernel i compiled myself signed?
SelfSign it. It is not the fact that it signed, it is who sign it which matters. From there on an access request goes down the chain with everyone signing it. The access control for A may like your selfsigned kernel. Similarly, it may not and it will invalidate everything down from it as untrusted. It is A-s "owner" choice.
And if you are talking about DRM for media, forget it, it is not here to stay.
You have mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck about signed MP3s. Now a document sitting on a corporate CMS encrypted individually on every release and with an associtated cert chain for each revision is something I do care about. A lot. A lost laptop in this case no longer means stolen data. The entire problem of document access control also more or less goes away. Same for revision and change control. While it is a hassle it solves quite a few real world problems.
I would say that the owner should be allowed to do anything he likes provided that he cannot fake the keychain.
Example in a pre-baked trusted environment when accessing resource A I sign up with a chain which shows that it is done by me, through software X on kernel Y and hardware Z.
I should not be allowed to fake kernel Y, but there should be nothing to prevent me from installing an alternative signed kernel Y1. Similarly, I should be able to run Y on Z1 or X1 on Y as long as the chain is correctly reported when accessing A.
In other words no tivoisms at least for consumer systems. Z should not be able to prevent me from running Y1, Y should not be able to prevent me from running X1. It should be the access control on resource A which says "I do not like the (Z)(Y1)(X) chain you use, in order to access me you need (Z)(Y)(X) or (Z)(Y2)(X)".
Does not compute. Neither financially, nor strategically.
Whatever people say about MSFT it actually has a very good M&A group. If we discount one stupid affair in France it has a nearly spotless record. It has to be in a company that does not innovate and buys most of its "innovation". I do not quite see this M&A finding a sound reason to buy Novell. It is a huge can of anticompetition worms which once opened will crawl all over the place, not particularly enticing financials along with a number of trademarks which Microsoft has spend decades to rubbish in the press.
Now Microsoft PHP or to be more exact "Zend, a Microsoft (TM) company" is a completely different story... It actually makes a lot of sense in many ways. There are a few other similar size players which it may be interested in as well. After an initial success with PPTP and ISA Microsoft is now mostly out of the edge security/VPN market. So openvpn as the next windows VPN platform does not actually sound implausible. A couple of other SSL/TLS/PKI related companies also probably make sense.
And so on. Small, juicy bits that and can be digested in one bite (if you are Microsoft).
Journalist to George Bush (senior): Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are Atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Current stats:
85% of Americans self-identify as Christians. (2002)
7% of US adults classify as evangelicals (2004) (see Evangelical category for more information)
38% of US adults classify as born again, but not evangelical. (2004)
37% are self-described Christians but are neither evangelical nor born again
Atheists and agnostics comprise 12% of adults nationwide. (2004)
11% of the US population identify with a faith other than Christianity (2004)
s/Christian/Muslim/g
Do not bother. Classic case of Cable Rage. Happens on a daily basis around the world.
The interesting bit is at the end - she is no longer a Comcast customer. She is now on Verizon.
I am very interested on how this has happened. In my experience the only way out of a Cable Company contract prior to its expiry is to be carried out feet forward in a casket. It does not matter do they deliver, how badly it sucks, how badly it fails to work and so on. They still get to collect their money and all regulators and busybodies like the BBB in the US or TS in the UK turn a blind eye on them. Further to this, it is a standard practice for them continue to collect their money even after the contract has expired and has been correctly terminated sending collection agencies and shitting on your credit rating if you do not pay up.
Personally, I am curious on how much did Verizon pay her for this publicity stunt. Even if they did not do it in advance they surely did it after that to show her as a "happy customer".
1. The current end-to-end RTT over SAT broadband which these will use is 900ms+. Voice will be horrible. To add insult to injury this is comparable to some of the call setup timers in GSM so there will be excessive paging and a large percentage of call setup failures.
2. The bandwidth is just about enough to let SMS and GPRS.
3. The real revenue spinner the airlines have got in their sites is the roaming data for the crackberry addicts. They can charge for it 10 times more than they will get off voice calls which can be handled by the in-plane system more efficiently anyway.
Nowdays they have a worthy replacement. As anyone who has been unfortunate enough to buy Vodafone 3G Broadband can testify NTL can in some cases seem competent by comparison.
Wrong comparison - both apples and watermelons are edible.
Comparing the N800 or the EE to a 300£ Vista laptop is like comparing an apple to a one of those pumpkins used for making traditional Mexican flasks. It may look edible, but it ain't. And it weights a ton.
Russia? Serbia? What are you smoking dude. And France is not a full member. It is an observer at the headquarters and its forces are not formally part of Nato. And as far as Greece its firefighting aircraft do not report to the military. That makes exactly 0 NATO aircraft on the scene initially.
Is it me being daft, or this is the same region where all of the so called "dissidents" dwell? So I do not quite see your argument.
You do not get to hear "cittizen journalism" from Li Average (assuming he is the counterpart of Joe Average) from a village on the outskirts of the Inner Mongolia deserts where 30%+ of the population has AIDS from selling their blood to dodgy companies for a living 5-10 years ago. You do not get to hear "cittizen journalism" from Chang "Average" from a village downwind of Harbin where 10%+ of the newborn are born with deformities from the uncontrolled pollution blown on top of them from the big metropolis and the poisoned water they have to drink. You do not get...
Frankly, as someone who has lived behind the Iron Curtain in the days when it was still up and someone who was involved in some of the unrest which followed for the next 5 or so years I can tell you this for sure: half of the so called dissidents are on the payroll of the west, the other half are on the payroll of the local KGB/KDS/Stazi equivalent. The ones that actually do that because of their ideas, beliefs and morals are a minority. Probably less than 10% and they do not tend to last. Sooner or later they have to chose which briefcase with cash to take unless they want to walk the plank.
If you want to allow hobby and personal software development you need to alter the above sequence so that the phone is used like a crypto module and you make all key generation there. In fact, I bet that it does some of that already, so this should be trivial to add.
This will allow any hobbyist to write and test software for _his_ phone. At the same time the software will not be installable on other people's phones. For that you will need to register with apple and get a proper certificate.
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It will be back with a vengeance. If not at release at SP1 (same as with E2003).
The reason for its appearance is MSFT diversification into the mobile markets along with its loss of ground in the security area especially the complete loss of the VPN market to ISVs. Neither of that has not gone away.
So no matter how much certain parts of MSFT would like to "deemphasize" it it will be back. Otherwise they will have to invent a new protocol for the same markets where RPC is not an option for a number of reasons. Add to that the fact that if they "deemphasize" it too much they will flop MacOffice 2008 which IMO is not going to happen. We are long past the point where MSFT was toying with the idea of killing Mac by f*** up the support for its Office. It now is afraid as there is competition and it will not do something as silly as killing its flagship mail client for it (Entourage).
If you do not have a suitable SMTP relay unfortunately your choice is between Evolution and Evolution. You will have to live with a mail client that cannot even determine if it has new mail correctly. I am not even talking about loss of sync with the exchange server, random deaths of the data server components, being unable to cope correctly with people logging in and out over X to the same Xterm and so on. Classic example of crapware written by people who do not know how to spell "finite state machine".
If you have a suitable SMTP server to send mail you can use fetcExc to get your mail and after that read it with a client of your choice.
Full exchange capability currently does not depend on Microsoft mercy at all.
The old exchange protocol which was nearly impossible to emulate is on its way out for a number of reasons. All newer Microsoft clients are aiming to switch from this original RPC driven protocol to WebDAV through OWA. The protocol is reasonably well documented. The parts that are not have been reverse engineered long ago. This is the "native" protocol of the current Evolution connector and the problems with it are entirely Evolution's fault.
Namely, Evolution is written in an illiterate manner from a software engineering perspective. It is a hacked together piece of bugware where most of the major components do not have proper state machines. Just look at the "new mail" notifications - they are a total joke, wrong 20% of the time.
I looked it at one point (and at least one other open source implementation. IIRC, WebDAV/OWA requires a very strict implementation of a state machine in order not to f*** it up. This is not impossible. Other opensource (fetchExc) and non-opensource projects manage to do that. Evolution should not try to blame Microsoft for failing to do that (I use it to get mail off exchange and send but I do not dare keeping it there while using it).
It is not a question of "decent amount of energy". It is a question of where do you put it.
While it is a sci-fi book (and an old one to boot), it gets this topic perfectly right:
http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Makers-Ben-Bova/dp/045105329X/ref=sr_1_88/102-9788775-0435313?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193034359&sr=1-88
In countries that do not have suitable retail legislation (UK) you should buy via mail order or over the Internet. That gives you a 14 days by law to decide if you want to shovel the item back up the retailer's backside. Similar laws apply in most of the EU as a part of the distance selling regulations.
And a big gun nut: http://www.catb.org/~esr/geeks-with-guns/
Have you seen the comic. I would suggest nobody to do the next steps.
A raid on ESR is likely to have look like a gameplay video from "Soldier of Fortune 2" (with the Ninjas being used for target practice).
Yes, but this gives you 1 level of granularity in access. Encrypted/signed on per document basis can give you any granularity you like.
Dunno... Both of them seriously suck as scalability for data. O(exp(-N)) scalability or worse (N number of clients per radio site). This is valid for all except the Chinese homebrew 3G variety which can have quite sane capacity models.
Exactly.
The old fonts were more or less multipurpose while these are quite obviously designed for a screen, LCD and Cleartype used together.
If we print them the difference will be considerably less pronounced. In fact I suspect ole good Helvetica will look better in print.
I agree the numeral choice is not just dumb. It is playing straight into the hands of phishers of all sorts. So much for Microsoft being security aware top to bottom.
What is surprising is that they RST on anything going over TCP from any of their customers to another of their customers. It is not just P2P. Lotus notes gets whacked in a similar manner and so on. Cable Internet Engineering at its best.
Cable companies are not carriers. They are information providers (or the equivalent status) in the USA and almost everywhere else. They are not subject to any of the limitations to which carriers have to comply.
Excuse me but how exactly do I get my linux kernel i compiled myself signed?
SelfSign it. It is not the fact that it signed, it is who sign it which matters. From there on an access request goes down the chain with everyone signing it. The access control for A may like your selfsigned kernel. Similarly, it may not and it will invalidate everything down from it as untrusted. It is A-s "owner" choice.
And if you are talking about DRM for media, forget it, it is not here to stay.
You have mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck about signed MP3s. Now a document sitting on a corporate CMS encrypted individually on every release and with an associtated cert chain for each revision is something I do care about. A lot. A lost laptop in this case no longer means stolen data. The entire problem of document access control also more or less goes away. Same for revision and change control. While it is a hassle it solves quite a few real world problems.
Err...
I would say that the owner should be allowed to do anything he likes provided that he cannot fake the keychain.
Example in a pre-baked trusted environment when accessing resource A I sign up with a chain which shows that it is done by me, through software X on kernel Y and hardware Z.
I should not be allowed to fake kernel Y, but there should be nothing to prevent me from installing an alternative signed kernel Y1. Similarly, I should be able to run Y on Z1 or X1 on Y as long as the chain is correctly reported when accessing A.
In other words no tivoisms at least for consumer systems. Z should not be able to prevent me from running Y1, Y should not be able to prevent me from running X1. It should be the access control on resource A which says "I do not like the (Z)(Y1)(X) chain you use, in order to access me you need (Z)(Y)(X) or (Z)(Y2)(X)".
Neah...
Does not compute. Neither financially, nor strategically.
Whatever people say about MSFT it actually has a very good M&A group. If we discount one stupid affair in France it has a nearly spotless record. It has to be in a company that does not innovate and buys most of its "innovation". I do not quite see this M&A finding a sound reason to buy Novell. It is a huge can of anticompetition worms which once opened will crawl all over the place, not particularly enticing financials along with a number of trademarks which Microsoft has spend decades to rubbish in the press.
Now Microsoft PHP or to be more exact "Zend, a Microsoft (TM) company" is a completely different story... It actually makes a lot of sense in many ways. There are a few other similar size players which it may be interested in as well. After an initial success with PPTP and ISA Microsoft is now mostly out of the edge security/VPN market. So openvpn as the next windows VPN platform does not actually sound implausible. A couple of other SSL/TLS/PKI related companies also probably make sense.
And so on. Small, juicy bits that and can be digested in one bite (if you are Microsoft).
Journalist to George Bush (senior): Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are Atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Current stats:
85% of Americans self-identify as Christians. (2002)
7% of US adults classify as evangelicals (2004) (see Evangelical category for more information)
38% of US adults classify as born again, but not evangelical. (2004)
37% are self-described Christians but are neither evangelical nor born again
Atheists and agnostics comprise 12% of adults nationwide. (2004)
11% of the US population identify with a faith other than Christianity (2004)
s/Christian/Muslim/g
Nuff said... No further comment...
Do not bother. Classic case of Cable Rage. Happens on a daily basis around the world.
The interesting bit is at the end - she is no longer a Comcast customer. She is now on Verizon.
I am very interested on how this has happened. In my experience the only way out of a Cable Company contract prior to its expiry is to be carried out feet forward in a casket. It does not matter do they deliver, how badly it sucks, how badly it fails to work and so on. They still get to collect their money and all regulators and busybodies like the BBB in the US or TS in the UK turn a blind eye on them. Further to this, it is a standard practice for them continue to collect their money even after the contract has expired and has been correctly terminated sending collection agencies and shitting on your credit rating if you do not pay up.
Personally, I am curious on how much did Verizon pay her for this publicity stunt. Even if they did not do it in advance they surely did it after that to show her as a "happy customer".
It is not a conspiracy. Nope it is not. Until you start removing offending photographs.
That is likely to be the case anyway.
1. The current end-to-end RTT over SAT broadband which these will use is 900ms+. Voice will be horrible. To add insult to injury this is comparable to some of the call setup timers in GSM so there will be excessive paging and a large percentage of call setup failures.
2. The bandwidth is just about enough to let SMS and GPRS.
3. The real revenue spinner the airlines have got in their sites is the roaming data for the crackberry addicts. They can charge for it 10 times more than they will get off voice calls which can be handled by the in-plane system more efficiently anyway.
Neah, they will just merge
Nowdays they have a worthy replacement. As anyone who has been unfortunate enough to buy Vodafone 3G Broadband can testify NTL can in some cases seem competent by comparison.
Wrong comparison - both apples and watermelons are edible.
Comparing the N800 or the EE to a 300£ Vista laptop is like comparing an apple to a one of those pumpkins used for making traditional Mexican flasks. It may look edible, but it ain't. And it weights a ton.
Russia? Serbia? What are you smoking dude. And France is not a full member. It is an observer at the headquarters and its forces are not formally part of Nato. And as far as Greece its firefighting aircraft do not report to the military. That makes exactly 0 NATO aircraft on the scene initially.
Err...
Is it me being daft, or this is the same region where all of the so called "dissidents" dwell? So I do not quite see your argument.
You do not get to hear "cittizen journalism" from Li Average (assuming he is the counterpart of Joe Average) from a village on the outskirts of the Inner Mongolia deserts where 30%+ of the population has AIDS from selling their blood to dodgy companies for a living 5-10 years ago. You do not get to hear "cittizen journalism" from Chang "Average" from a village downwind of Harbin where 10%+ of the newborn are born with deformities from the uncontrolled pollution blown on top of them from the big metropolis and the poisoned water they have to drink. You do not get...
Frankly, as someone who has lived behind the Iron Curtain in the days when it was still up and someone who was involved in some of the unrest which followed for the next 5 or so years I can tell you this for sure: half of the so called dissidents are on the payroll of the west, the other half are on the payroll of the local KGB/KDS/Stazi equivalent. The ones that actually do that because of their ideas, beliefs and morals are a minority. Probably less than 10% and they do not tend to last. Sooner or later they have to chose which briefcase with cash to take unless they want to walk the plank.
This does not defeat the malware part.
If you want to allow hobby and personal software development you need to alter the above sequence so that the phone is used like a crypto module and you make all key generation there. In fact, I bet that it does some of that already, so this should be trivial to add.
This will allow any hobbyist to write and test software for _his_ phone. At the same time the software will not be installable on other people's phones. For that you will need to register with apple and get a proper certificate.