Better than an app, if it were just a 'site' that was part of some larger networker, like, a web of sites. And when you did a proximity search you could see which sites were close to you. That'd be awesome.
Too bad hitchhikers guide to the galaxy had this a thousand years ago, prior art, suckers!
DNS server - If your ISP does NXDOMAIN redirection this is one way to avoid it, also makes your internet connection seem faster if the lookups are cached.
LDAP server - Don't run Apple's OpenLDAP, it's crashy, if you can muster the time to set up your own - centralized authentication for desktops and file service.
Internal Wiki - Doesn't take a lot of juice to run, provides good centralized documentation (even if that documentation is just how the network is setup)
Squid Proxy - Another internet-speedup by caching content users will get peppier response time from their browsers
Your mac mini has a lot of juice for a tiny little box, and cycles you don't use disappear into the ether. May as well be using it as much as you can.
Seagate's offered a similar product that has the SSD built into the same form-factor that contains the mechanical for a while. There have even been 'caching' solutions that front-end mechanical NASs with memory or SSD drives. OCZ just paid for a little marketing to get their name at the front of the queue for a couple days.
It seems more likely to me that the decision to partner with Microsoft was because they knew they wouldn't be making a profit and something had to change.
I think the real reason they're not making a profit is their phones are so dreadfully out of date with what people want now that they aren't selling as well. Nokia's had a branding and model issue for quite some time - go to nokia.com and see how many different phones you can find. Different colors, shapes, too many options. Too many OSs, no clear dev schemes for third parties.
Compare that against apple's previous 'We have one phone that comes in black' and current 'We have one phone that comes in black or white'.
First and foremost, Nokia is losing money because of Nokia.
Secondly Apple / Android is why Nokia is losing money.
Thirdly, Microsoft is why Nokia will continue to lose money.
How many times have we heard from the cable news or politicians, completely new and original ideas about how to wreak havoc against people, airports or government infrastructure that describe in enough detail that a teenager could follow the instructions and research the rest on their own.
I honestly think that the fear and insecurity reaped from those efforts is much more damaging than anything Bruce Schneier has to say.
Actually, Apple did have an innovation with ipods. In the early days most mp3 players were small storage (512mb-1024mb) and nobody was 'going big' - Apple put a 1.8" ZIF drive into the ipod giving gigabytes of storage, it put the ipod in a completely different class of device. Then, instead of standing on the sidelines innocently whistling while their customers pirated music - Apple jumped into the music distribution business when their entire company was built on computing. A huge risk that put them in the front of the pack - not only did they have the superior product, they had the superior way of using it. (If you bought into the whole technology stack around it)
And, way back in 1987 - Apple brought out the Newton, Palm didn't show up until 1996, Blackberry?.. 1998.
I'm inclined to give credit where credit is due. Apple innovates.
It's not like when crackers hang out on IRC they freely share every exploit available to them. They hoard the secrets, share when it's advantageous or trade when someone has something they want. There's always 'something' out there waiting to be hacked. Especially if you're using off the shelf forum, services, or linux distros.
Also, it's a lot easier to preach being secure than it is to actually be secure. Since for anonymous to function without everyone getting clinked up in FPYITA prison they're missing out on the whole 'authentication' part of authorization how secure can anything be? You authenticate that I'm the fake person I say I am? Great. That'll do you a lot of good.
So thats how. There's no such thing as hack-proof, and really, no such thing as anonymity. The FBI is probably monitoring the 'interesting' parts of anonymous and will kick down doors en mass in 6 months or a year after they've rooted out who's a teenager and who's actually a foreign agent. (Sorry teenagers, your doors will be kicked down too, tough lesson but you know not what you do..)
Consider this: If you were part of an foreign agency intent on disrupting American commerce (or committing crime) - wouldn't it be easier to just infiltrate anonymous and rile them up to go attack targets to spread cyberterrorism investigators thinner so that your agency could conduct their activity with that much less attention?
The non-car analogy would be calling in a bunch of fake 911 calls on the east side of town 30 minutes before you rob a bank on the west side.
A company will send out press releases to media outlets (magazines, newspapers, tv shows / stations, bloggers) to inform them of new products or offerings.
In some cases, marketing people will directly contact the magazine or newspaper by calling up and pitching a story based on their product or offering.
Depending on the media outlet, thinly veiled advertising is achieved by the marketing person making a good impression on the media outlet, or by offering a free unit, and in some cases gifts. In some seedier situations money is exchanged so that the media outlet will portray the product in a favorable light, so that the reader's distrust of direct advertising can be circumvented through the illusion of new or useful information.
And while I certainly don't mean to suggest that RockMelt paid off PC Pro for this story, more-so, I'd posit that PC Pro is just happy to get the hits.
A good IT manager would mosey over and have a sit-down to explain the IT policy concerning servers, lay out all the reasons why IT is responsible for them - backups, security scans, keeping antivirus up to date, tracking hardware assets, etc.
By the end of the conversation, the owner of said rogue device would be thinking 'Wow, I really should hand this over, this guy is much more capable than I am at maintaining a server.. and why would I _want_ to maintain a server anyway?'
No need for threats or derision for being ignorant. (note: ignorance isn't a bad trait as long as it isn't willful and repeat, it just means you don't know)
The real answer to this is - Drupal looks good from the outside and there are many, many Drupal consultants who will talk your ear off about how great Drupal is and be even happier to charge you 1.35m for a website.
The same people who love PHP and Drupal are the same folks who couldn't figure out how XML works so they instead opted to adopt schema-less JSON and whatever other made up flavor of the month solutions required less book-learnin' to implement. One need only look at the nested blob datastructures that Drupal add-ons inject into custom tables as a regular practice to 'get' the joke.
But god bless them. The only thing better than being paid 1.35m for a website is being paid 2m to fix it. Without Drupal, opportunities like that wouldn't be available to real software developers.
Except.. lets be honest. Bing is probably self-preferential in any search result whereas I don't think Google probably cares since they're already #1.
The guy in second place is always the loudest advocate of why they should 'really' be in first place and the current state of things (reality) is just a misunderstanding.
Slashdot Mirror
Jealous much? ..
Should CERT issue an advisory on outsourcing as a hot new attack vector?
Better than an app, if it were just a 'site' that was part of some larger networker, like, a web of sites. And when you did a proximity search you could see which sites were close to you. That'd be awesome.
Too bad hitchhikers guide to the galaxy had this a thousand years ago, prior art, suckers!
Windows 7 phones are _the best smart phones on the market_. They exceed far beyond the capabilities of the iphone or any android device.
Bing it yourself if you don't believe me.
Apple is selling Mac Mini's with OSX Server now.. They're not getting rid of OSX. They're just solidifying their foundation for iOS devices.
Sky isn't falling.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/75
Your mac mini has a lot of juice for a tiny little box, and cycles you don't use disappear into the ether. May as well be using it as much as you can.
Seagate's offered a similar product that has the SSD built into the same form-factor that contains the mechanical for a while. There have even been 'caching' solutions that front-end mechanical NASs with memory or SSD drives. OCZ just paid for a little marketing to get their name at the front of the queue for a couple days.
It seems more likely to me that the decision to partner with Microsoft was because they knew they wouldn't be making a profit and something had to change.
I think the real reason they're not making a profit is their phones are so dreadfully out of date with what people want now that they aren't selling as well. Nokia's had a branding and model issue for quite some time - go to nokia.com and see how many different phones you can find. Different colors, shapes, too many options. Too many OSs, no clear dev schemes for third parties.
Compare that against apple's previous 'We have one phone that comes in black' and current 'We have one phone that comes in black or white'.
First and foremost, Nokia is losing money because of Nokia.
Secondly Apple / Android is why Nokia is losing money.
Thirdly, Microsoft is why Nokia will continue to lose money.
How many times have we heard from the cable news or politicians, completely new and original ideas about how to wreak havoc against people, airports or government infrastructure that describe in enough detail that a teenager could follow the instructions and research the rest on their own.
I honestly think that the fear and insecurity reaped from those efforts is much more damaging than anything Bruce Schneier has to say.
Actually, Apple did have an innovation with ipods. In the early days most mp3 players were small storage (512mb-1024mb) and nobody was 'going big' - Apple put a 1.8" ZIF drive into the ipod giving gigabytes of storage, it put the ipod in a completely different class of device. Then, instead of standing on the sidelines innocently whistling while their customers pirated music - Apple jumped into the music distribution business when their entire company was built on computing. A huge risk that put them in the front of the pack - not only did they have the superior product, they had the superior way of using it. (If you bought into the whole technology stack around it)
And, way back in 1987 - Apple brought out the Newton, Palm didn't show up until 1996, Blackberry? .. 1998.
I'm inclined to give credit where credit is due. Apple innovates.
It's not like when crackers hang out on IRC they freely share every exploit available to them. They hoard the secrets, share when it's advantageous or trade when someone has something they want. There's always 'something' out there waiting to be hacked. Especially if you're using off the shelf forum, services, or linux distros.
Also, it's a lot easier to preach being secure than it is to actually be secure. Since for anonymous to function without everyone getting clinked up in FPYITA prison they're missing out on the whole 'authentication' part of authorization how secure can anything be? You authenticate that I'm the fake person I say I am? Great. That'll do you a lot of good.
So thats how. There's no such thing as hack-proof, and really, no such thing as anonymity. The FBI is probably monitoring the 'interesting' parts of anonymous and will kick down doors en mass in 6 months or a year after they've rooted out who's a teenager and who's actually a foreign agent. (Sorry teenagers, your doors will be kicked down too, tough lesson but you know not what you do..)
Consider this: If you were part of an foreign agency intent on disrupting American commerce (or committing crime) - wouldn't it be easier to just infiltrate anonymous and rile them up to go attack targets to spread cyberterrorism investigators thinner so that your agency could conduct their activity with that much less attention?
The non-car analogy would be calling in a bunch of fake 911 calls on the east side of town 30 minutes before you rob a bank on the west side.
Not to toot your own horn of course, but..
toot toot.
Bing much?
A company will send out press releases to media outlets (magazines, newspapers, tv shows / stations, bloggers) to inform them of new products or offerings.
In some cases, marketing people will directly contact the magazine or newspaper by calling up and pitching a story based on their product or offering.
Depending on the media outlet, thinly veiled advertising is achieved by the marketing person making a good impression on the media outlet, or by offering a free unit, and in some cases gifts. In some seedier situations money is exchanged so that the media outlet will portray the product in a favorable light, so that the reader's distrust of direct advertising can be circumvented through the illusion of new or useful information.
And while I certainly don't mean to suggest that RockMelt paid off PC Pro for this story, more-so, I'd posit that PC Pro is just happy to get the hits.
A good IT manager would mosey over and have a sit-down to explain the IT policy concerning servers, lay out all the reasons why IT is responsible for them - backups, security scans, keeping antivirus up to date, tracking hardware assets, etc.
By the end of the conversation, the owner of said rogue device would be thinking 'Wow, I really should hand this over, this guy is much more capable than I am at maintaining a server.. and why would I _want_ to maintain a server anyway?'
No need for threats or derision for being ignorant. (note: ignorance isn't a bad trait as long as it isn't willful and repeat, it just means you don't know)
The real answer to this is - Drupal looks good from the outside and there are many, many Drupal consultants who will talk your ear off about how great Drupal is and be even happier to charge you 1.35m for a website.
The same people who love PHP and Drupal are the same folks who couldn't figure out how XML works so they instead opted to adopt schema-less JSON and whatever other made up flavor of the month solutions required less book-learnin' to implement. One need only look at the nested blob datastructures that Drupal add-ons inject into custom tables as a regular practice to 'get' the joke.
But god bless them. The only thing better than being paid 1.35m for a website is being paid 2m to fix it. Without Drupal, opportunities like that wouldn't be available to real software developers.
Had I really been on the ball I would have titled my post - "Because I'm Rough and Tufte with my Afro Pufftes"
The Cognative Style of Powerpoint Essay
* http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
Also
PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports
* http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1
Since they're not the fastest, they're claiming their the most power-friendly.
"We did it on purpose.. see?"
A CEO not taking a $1 salary isn't a noble gesture demonstrating their commitment to the company and faith in the stock value going up.
It's a tax dodge to limit their 'personal income'
Except .. lets be honest. Bing is probably self-preferential in any search result whereas I don't think Google probably cares since they're already #1.
The guy in second place is always the loudest advocate of why they should 'really' be in first place and the current state of things (reality) is just a misunderstanding.
Great. Now we have to listen to grandpa talk about the olden days having to push http headers up-hill, both ways, in a packet storm.
30% is NOTHING.
A common misconception unless the value you're taking 30% from is also nothing.
Otherwise if you round up, it's about a third.
The difference between John Dvorak and a stopped clock:
A a stopped clock is right 730 times per year.
John Dvorak is right 0 times per year.