Active Directory != Passport (Microsoft single sign on)
Active directory is microsofts implementation of LDAP and is an enterprise level authentication protocol. Sun also has this sort of enterprise authentication protocol, also a derivative of LDAP as I understand it. The shareing would allow SUN os (and by extension maybe linux) more easily be part of a windows domain. This would be a huge win for linux as authentication to a windows domain is something that is often in flux and its a protocol that people have wanted shared for a long time.
My only point is that to get cheap mass market pc's we needed cheap mass market software. Microsoft was one of the first companies to do that in a widespread fashion. Other companies wanted to sell a few copies at ridiculous prices.
I think that without microsoft to commoditize software, we would not have commodity pcs at this point.
Now certainly some other company would have made commodity software, but it just would have been a microsoft by another name.
What MS did do is sell enough software cheap enough that nearly everyone had a computer. Who needs FreeBSD if they don't have a cheap computer to run it on?
BSD would definitely have existed, it was academics that built and used it, but FreeBSD probably wouldn't have happened. The fact that MS build an os that could be thrown on every x86 built for a pittance is why there are millions of computers on peoples desks. Face it, if you had to pay 2x the price of a current computer in order to have an OS with it too, you wouldn't be happy.
I love hope people fail to realize that the open source movement became a really big deal AFTER computers were a commodity. There were always hobby circles sharing software with each other, but until there was a huge common platform it didn't take off as a worldwide phenomena.
And so have many of the companies in that list. Single sign on is awesome so you only have to remember 1 piece of information to have access to all of your other information from anywhere. Single sign on sucks because you have to trust someone to hold that information for you.
I'm confused as to why there hasn't been a disel hybrid. Part of the reason that the US doesn't like diesel is that it runs best at costant RPM, in a hyrbrid the engine could run at that constant RPM generating power and the eletric motor could handle the variable speed for us. Couple that together with some of the new radicle designs for light weight compact (and highly efficient) diesel engines and I think you have a winner.
That page should list a great number of things that MS is working on in the pure R&D arena. Many of these things won't see a place in products for 6 to 10 years and certainly won't make MS a great deal of money for at least that long.
You are a not the target user of windows, though I must say that as time goes on windows is getting easier to administrate as far as installing software cross enterprise. Takes some work though, not nearly as easy as writing some shell scripts to do it.
For the single inexperienced user I think getting a software package to install is probably easier on windows. Since windows machines are all more or less set up the same the install scripts can be better tested on the mainstream install cases whereas with linux there are so many different install configurations the scripts are more complicated. On the downside for windows, because they are all the same and also all set up with max permission, expliots are often easier to create.
This will be more or less true under properly configured win2k as well. Services run in a machine account with minimal privledges and applications should run in a useraccount with minimal privledges.
The problem with windows wasn't that it couldn't be configured securely (expliots excluded) its that it wasn't configured securely.
I don't actually know this, but wasn't one of the critical updates released on windows update one that moved you over to IE6, in which case IE6 is the fix for IE5 vulnerabilities.
These "easy to find" bugs were probably fixed in the huge code audit that MS did as part of thier security initiative that happened AFTER the date of the leaked code.
Not to say your point isn't valid, just that the real question is how do you get more intelligent eyes reading the code looking for this stuff. OSS isn't necessarily better, its just that highly popular projects have lots of eyes. I know plenty of projects that get far fewer eyes and have TONS of bugs. Now that MS is being forced to be secure they are having lots of eyes so we will see in longhorn if this improved anything.
I will say this, its easier to trust something that you can look through yourself, it may not be safer but you like it better because if you wanted you could see what was wrong. Its like driving a car vs riding with someone. You are often more at ease when you are behind the wheel because you can see/make/correct the mistakes whereas with another person driving you just have to trust. It has nothing to do with which driver is better.
I will say that linux and apache are just great projects with hoards of great developers. Its a testament to the possiblities of the open source model, but its not proof that the model is better. There are plenty of OSS projects that just suck, and those don't show me that the model is broken.
Finally I will say there isn't the same incentive to make perfect code in a corporation that there is in the OSS community. The corporation is only going to do enough to get th money rolling in because the money is the reward. The OSS programmer is going to write to the very best of his ability because the code itself is the reward. Still doesn't make one model necessarily better than the other. The way we will make microsoft improve its products is quit upgrading until they can prove they have a superior product. It seems from the press releases that the pressure of Linux may actually be forcing MS to improve.
Wow, in the states we only get 120V. It is dangerous, though not in the same league burn wise as the large capacitors in the microwave. Those are bad even when the device is unplugged, whereas the 120v in the tivo is gone when you unplug it.
true, I guess I unconciously use some safety rules when dealing with 120v that I learned early on, such as the one hand rule you mention, and wearing some good rubber bottomed shoes.
I guess my point is that its not nearly so bad as getting the VERY high dc current that a large capacity capacitor can put off.
I guess I also always unplug my tivo before I open it up which further reduces the chance you will get nuked by the AC though the capacitors would still be a fear.
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Yeah, but I've been hit by standard household current and its not that bad really. I don't know if there are any large capacity capacitors in the tivo PSU but that would be the only extreme danger.
I agree with you with one big but. I think the complaint is when you get a phone and find out you can't activate it on the "economy plan" because it has a camera and PTT feature which costs and extra $30 a month. Its worse when you never plan to use those features but have to pay for them anyway.
Personally I just wish the web browser in my phone would load up my hotmail and I'd be happy. I guess I need to set up my own site that shows e-mail in wml or whatever it is my phone can read.
Hopefully the e-mail servers not on the official white list will also start thier own whitelist and the "for pay" e-mail groups can send and recieve e-mail from themeselves. I know if I had a choice I'd prohibit receiving e-mail from anyone on a white list that charged per e-mail like that.
The only signal loss I've gotten is when snow piled up on the dish and then got wet. Snow by itself had only minimal effect. You need to drop below like 70% signal strength before you actually start seeing the problems.
The DirectTV PVR (called DirecTivo by many) is in my opinion the best PVR available. I've tried the dishnetwork PVR and stand alone tivo, I haven't tried replay tv or ultimate tv. Its really nice having the tivo functionality built right into the sattelite reciever and as mentioned before it rocks that you get to record the stream with no transcoding so you get identical quality to the original broadcast.
mikerowesoft is not a near miss. Its a very far miss at best, plus its his own damn name. I think MS was sort of out of line on this one, though he provoked them by posting (at least some at the time I saw the site) anti-MS content on the site. Shows that corporations (whether legally or though monetary means) are far more powerful than any individual which may not be a good thing.
Turns out that the downloads aren't beaten on too badly by bad weather though the weather affects internet more than it does TV. The bigger problem is uploads (if you get the two-way version) since they are transmitted with far lower power. From everything I've read, get the version that does uploads over the phone instead of over the satellite, its far less prone to breaking down.
That has nothing to do with it, what embrace and extend would mean in this situation is MS implement a unix-like extension as part of SFU thats not available in unix that becomes popular as a replacement to something common in unix. At that point you have to buy windows or not interact with people using that feature.
In my opinion that won't happen, anything that MS builds as an extension of the server will apply to the windows side because thats what MS wants to promote.
I agree, I liked the large 2x4 thick bricks. I bought a cheap little kids universal set with like 900 pieces and much to my dismay it hardly had any of these handy bricks.
I'm hoping they don't get rid of the technic line of product, I loved that when I was a kid, its all I got. I just hope they go back to the more regular technic brick types instead of all the custom single use type pieces. I'm excited to see what the changes bring, I'm getting to that age where I'll have kids and I fully expect them to play with legos.
And a bridge and a jumper are exactly the same thing electronically, its just that connection in a jumper is made out of a couple of tiny connected loops of metal encased in plastic that slide over pins and a bridge is just a gap in the circuit board that you connect with whatever you think will work. (You can bridge jumper pins with a blob of solder if you work at it)
Seems more likely they would use http on a port other than 80 because its a bit easier to implement. But the data in the body wouldn't be hidden in any special way.
Eh, its probably just a raw mpeg2 or mpeg4 stream, I'm sure its not that hard to handle. Since its all on a private network where there isn't supposed to be any fear of "signal theft" I doubt they would put any special wrappings around the data.
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Active directory is microsofts implementation of LDAP and is an enterprise level authentication protocol. Sun also has this sort of enterprise authentication protocol, also a derivative of LDAP as I understand it. The shareing would allow SUN os (and by extension maybe linux) more easily be part of a windows domain. This would be a huge win for linux as authentication to a windows domain is something that is often in flux and its a protocol that people have wanted shared for a long time.
I think that without microsoft to commoditize software, we would not have commodity pcs at this point.
Now certainly some other company would have made commodity software, but it just would have been a microsoft by another name.
BSD would definitely have existed, it was academics that built and used it, but FreeBSD probably wouldn't have happened. The fact that MS build an os that could be thrown on every x86 built for a pittance is why there are millions of computers on peoples desks. Face it, if you had to pay 2x the price of a current computer in order to have an OS with it too, you wouldn't be happy.
I love hope people fail to realize that the open source movement became a really big deal AFTER computers were a commodity. There were always hobby circles sharing software with each other, but until there was a huge common platform it didn't take off as a worldwide phenomena.
And so have many of the companies in that list. Single sign on is awesome so you only have to remember 1 piece of information to have access to all of your other information from anywhere. Single sign on sucks because you have to trust someone to hold that information for you.
I'm confused as to why there hasn't been a disel hybrid. Part of the reason that the US doesn't like diesel is that it runs best at costant RPM, in a hyrbrid the engine could run at that constant RPM generating power and the eletric motor could handle the variable speed for us. Couple that together with some of the new radicle designs for light weight compact (and highly efficient) diesel engines and I think you have a winner.
http://research.microsoft.com
That page should list a great number of things that MS is working on in the pure R&D arena. Many of these things won't see a place in products for 6 to 10 years and certainly won't make MS a great deal of money for at least that long.
For the single inexperienced user I think getting a software package to install is probably easier on windows. Since windows machines are all more or less set up the same the install scripts can be better tested on the mainstream install cases whereas with linux there are so many different install configurations the scripts are more complicated. On the downside for windows, because they are all the same and also all set up with max permission, expliots are often easier to create.
The problem with windows wasn't that it couldn't be configured securely (expliots excluded) its that it wasn't configured securely.
I don't actually know this, but wasn't one of the critical updates released on windows update one that moved you over to IE6, in which case IE6 is the fix for IE5 vulnerabilities.
These "easy to find" bugs were probably fixed in the huge code audit that MS did as part of thier security initiative that happened AFTER the date of the leaked code.
Not to say your point isn't valid, just that the real question is how do you get more intelligent eyes reading the code looking for this stuff. OSS isn't necessarily better, its just that highly popular projects have lots of eyes. I know plenty of projects that get far fewer eyes and have TONS of bugs. Now that MS is being forced to be secure they are having lots of eyes so we will see in longhorn if this improved anything.
I will say this, its easier to trust something that you can look through yourself, it may not be safer but you like it better because if you wanted you could see what was wrong. Its like driving a car vs riding with someone. You are often more at ease when you are behind the wheel because you can see/make/correct the mistakes whereas with another person driving you just have to trust. It has nothing to do with which driver is better.
I will say that linux and apache are just great projects with hoards of great developers. Its a testament to the possiblities of the open source model, but its not proof that the model is better. There are plenty of OSS projects that just suck, and those don't show me that the model is broken.
Finally I will say there isn't the same incentive to make perfect code in a corporation that there is in the OSS community. The corporation is only going to do enough to get th money rolling in because the money is the reward. The OSS programmer is going to write to the very best of his ability because the code itself is the reward. Still doesn't make one model necessarily better than the other. The way we will make microsoft improve its products is quit upgrading until they can prove they have a superior product. It seems from the press releases that the pressure of Linux may actually be forcing MS to improve.
Wow, in the states we only get 120V. It is dangerous, though not in the same league burn wise as the large capacitors in the microwave. Those are bad even when the device is unplugged, whereas the 120v in the tivo is gone when you unplug it.
I guess my point is that its not nearly so bad as getting the VERY high dc current that a large capacity capacitor can put off.
I guess I also always unplug my tivo before I open it up which further reduces the chance you will get nuked by the AC though the capacitors would still be a fear.
Yeah, but I've been hit by standard household current and its not that bad really. I don't know if there are any large capacity capacitors in the tivo PSU but that would be the only extreme danger.
Personally I just wish the web browser in my phone would load up my hotmail and I'd be happy. I guess I need to set up my own site that shows e-mail in wml or whatever it is my phone can read.
Hopefully the e-mail servers not on the official white list will also start thier own whitelist and the "for pay" e-mail groups can send and recieve e-mail from themeselves. I know if I had a choice I'd prohibit receiving e-mail from anyone on a white list that charged per e-mail like that.
The DirectTV PVR (called DirecTivo by many) is in my opinion the best PVR available. I've tried the dishnetwork PVR and stand alone tivo, I haven't tried replay tv or ultimate tv. Its really nice having the tivo functionality built right into the sattelite reciever and as mentioned before it rocks that you get to record the stream with no transcoding so you get identical quality to the original broadcast.
mikerowesoft is not a near miss. Its a very far miss at best, plus its his own damn name. I think MS was sort of out of line on this one, though he provoked them by posting (at least some at the time I saw the site) anti-MS content on the site. Shows that corporations (whether legally or though monetary means) are far more powerful than any individual which may not be a good thing.
Turns out that the downloads aren't beaten on too badly by bad weather though the weather affects internet more than it does TV. The bigger problem is uploads (if you get the two-way version) since they are transmitted with far lower power. From everything I've read, get the version that does uploads over the phone instead of over the satellite, its far less prone to breaking down.
Isn't setting a minimum price called "price fixing"? I thought we didn't allow that in the US.
In my opinion that won't happen, anything that MS builds as an extension of the server will apply to the windows side because thats what MS wants to promote.
I agree, I liked the large 2x4 thick bricks. I bought a cheap little kids universal set with like 900 pieces and much to my dismay it hardly had any of these handy bricks.
I'm hoping they don't get rid of the technic line of product, I loved that when I was a kid, its all I got. I just hope they go back to the more regular technic brick types instead of all the custom single use type pieces. I'm excited to see what the changes bring, I'm getting to that age where I'll have kids and I fully expect them to play with legos.
And a bridge and a jumper are exactly the same thing electronically, its just that connection in a jumper is made out of a couple of tiny connected loops of metal encased in plastic that slide over pins and a bridge is just a gap in the circuit board that you connect with whatever you think will work. (You can bridge jumper pins with a blob of solder if you work at it)
Seems more likely they would use http on a port other than 80 because its a bit easier to implement. But the data in the body wouldn't be hidden in any special way.
I would still rather see an unaltered visible light picture from mars so I could really imagine being there. Would be sort of cool.
Eh, its probably just a raw mpeg2 or mpeg4 stream, I'm sure its not that hard to handle. Since its all on a private network where there isn't supposed to be any fear of "signal theft" I doubt they would put any special wrappings around the data.