VMS still has a hobbyist license program, at least. Iâ(TM)ve got it up both in emulation and on real HW (DS 10). Really a great system, actually, and still shows how security should be done in some respects. The actual crypto may be a bit out of date, but the model is solid fir a multiuser system.
I'd like to know where you get 'double digits' from. BLS tracks a much broader measure of unemployment, U6, in addition to the headline figure. That measure is: "Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers". The most recent figure for that is 7.9%. Much higher than the most frequently reported measure, but not 'doubld digits'.
Yep, and it's almost usable, too. OTOH, Qubes is focused on the workstation. For network-level isolation, it's really hard to beat two firewalls from different manufacturers and code bases back-to-back.
Think Internet--PaloAlto--Sophos UTM--LAN (Substitute any two other unrelated NG firewalls)
Systems on the inside initiate all connections; no reaching in. That means having staging DBs, etc. on the outside that are polled from the inside by transfer routines that parse and validate everything outside of the application that receives the data. Anything that does not positively match expected input is dropped. If you really want to be serious, all systems log externally to a log host with WORM drives that has had the transmit pin on the NIC physically cut (mostly kidding -- hi Marcus!).
Remote access is terminal services or equivalent to a concentrator on the outside and a second hop internally with separate authentication at each hop. Absolutely no VPN or other tunneling that supports direct traffic flow from outside to inside.
SecureID or other token-based auth is mandatory.
Stupidly expensive and a pain to configure and maintain correctly, but very secure. If you need to ask, you probably don't need it and can't afford it.
My issue is that 'no tipping - it's included' is one of the major attractions of Uber. I don't mind paying whatever the fair cost of the service is, but don't ask me to rate and pay your employees, too.
To address the inevitable: I recognize reality and tip at restaurants, in cabs, Uber drivers, etc. I JUST DON'T LIKE IT. I was very much attracted to a service that factored lair cost in to the base fare, and took off my list of things to think about.
Yeah, except that my MacBook Pro more or less hits specs, also. I say more or less, but it's a 2012, so the battery isn't new. During a typical day for me (Outlook, Word, Excel, Safari), it still lasts a full workday. No compiling, VM usage, or other intense usage, so not everyone's use case, but not absurd, either. Apple estimates are not promises, but seem to me more accurate than others.
Mine too, probably. I've gotten interested in Qubes, and I can see where having the security/management firmware for the processor open and auditable would be a good fit for increasing overall system varefiability, reducing the need for trust.
I can sort-of agree with this, but I'd like to add something more specific: since the Internet has become ubiquitous, it seems like we spend almost as much time and effort patching and securing our computers as we do using them. When a personal computer was an island unto itself, and a LAN was truly local, security was mostly a matter of basic policies, procedures, and permissions applying to a known and reachable population.
Now, companies and even individuals are subjected to an asymmetrical threat environment were they need to be prepared to secure their systems from a never-ending stream of phishing attempts, drive-by malware, and possibly even targeted attacks. Playing defense is hard, since a defender has to be strong everywhere at all times. An attacker only has to find one weak point, one time to establish a penetration.
It's exhausting, and not even remotely fun unless you are in the infosec field, and can afford to treat it as a competition and source of business rather than a bottomless pit of time and effort with no return in productivity, fun, or profit.
It may be a cheaper, have better specs, be better designed, be better built, have a longer warranty, or even all of the above, but if it doesn't run OSX, it's not a replacement for an MBP.
Of course, if OSX isn't important to you for whatever reason, why would you buy a Mac? That is their only real differentiator, and has been since high DPI ultrabooks began shipping from quality manufacturers. I do include 'need OSX-only applications', 'don't like Windows high DPI handling', and 'need proper color calibration across HW and SW' as 'OSX is important to you'.
Basically, a System76 running Linux is only competitor for an MBP for the very small segment of the market that want's a nice UNIX-like preinstalled on laptop hardware designed to support it and doesn't want a Dell developer edition.
iPhone 7/7plus. HDR plus full color management to properly display sRGB content. PC monitors exist as well that can support 10-bit per channel color, but again, you'll need color management to avoid screwing up all of the content that assumes sRGB.
The 'rightsholder' question is what puzzles me, also.
I'm surprised that Google (and Apple) can do this. Are they paying out to the rightsholders for the additional copies? If not, I can see this making word-of-mouth a bad thing for artists and developers. I know that a lot of the apps and music that I've bought have come from recommendations from family, but if we can all just share one purchase, that really does cost the rightsholder money.
I'm sure this must be covered in the appropriate license agreements between Google/Apple and the rightsholders, but I suspect it's a case of 'let us do this or be excluded from our platform'.
Well, the computer at least needs to have a good idea of the printer capabilities. I suppose we could put that in a plain-text file, and call it 'printcap' or something. Of course, we'll also need to know how to trigger those capabilities. Maybe some sort of in-band signaling with special characters, like escape codes.
That's all good, but what if we want more advanced features like graphics. We could generate bitmaps, but that would be terribly device-specific and bandwidth-hungry. How about we use an encoding that can encapsulate the way we intend the page to look? We could call it a 'page description language'. Yeah, that'd be cool.
Well, now that we've got that, we do need some software to take the output from a program and encode it in out page description language. Otherwise, each and every program would need to know each and every common PDL. That's dumb -- we should use a standard intermediate representation that each program can speak to the OS, and let the OS transform that into the PDL of the printer it's talking to!
OK, now we've got it: a common, logical way for programs to describe their output to the OS, the OS providing a translation service to send that representation to the printer, and page description languages that let us produce sophisticated output without having to generate and transmit bitmaps and escape codes for every little thing.
That would be much better that this 'printer driver' crap, right;)
I've had a Sony Z3C for just over a year now, and in that time they have released upgrades from 4.4 all the way to 6.01, and I just received another security update two days ago. I've only had one 'bad' update in that time -- the original 5.0 release cut the battery life way down, and they fixed that reasonable quickly.
They don't get anywhere near the press of Samsung/HTC/LG, but I'd buy another one and have recommended them to others.
My phone is direct from B&H, not from a carrier, which certainly helps, but Sony has done the work to make the updates avaialble.
Yet another battery breakthrough article for what is essentially a lab demo. While I have not particular knowledge of whether or not this technology is manufacturable, it seems like an awful lot of battery breakthroughs don't really pan out once it comes to building them in to actual products.
Zayo and Level 3 don't just lay fiber and hope someone else will use it, they also provide ISP service to businesses. I've worked with both companies to light up buildings for either multi- or single-tenant use. Single tenant may require a multi-year commitment to make it worthwhile, but they can and will provide complete service from physical layer on up.
I don't see why it couldn't be used for/, as long as the appropriate module is present in initrd (or initramfs, etc.) As for unattended/scripted, the options you put in the script are still choices. As I understand it, the one thing you can't do is compile ZFS directly in to the kernel to avoid the GPL/CDDL incompatibility.
Every time I see news about ZFS and Linux, it's a little bit less of a mess. Eventually, I expect that all of the major distributions will go this route and sidestep the licensing issue by providing distro-supported modules that are installed by user request, sort of like the way that Nvidia drivers are provided.
Slashdot Mirror
If you insist, you can get something like this:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
All the buttons you could ever want, and no walled garden at all.
SPARC has been GPL for years (Score:?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:51PM
Risc-V never was the only game in town; SPARC has been avaialable under the GPLv2 since 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC
VMS still has a hobbyist license program, at least. Iâ(TM)ve got it up both in emulation and on real HW (DS 10). Really a great system, actually, and still shows how security should be done in some respects. The actual crypto may be a bit out of date, but the model is solid fir a multiuser system.
fing slashcode... imagine quotes where the garbage appears...
NetBSD4EVA!
OK, maybe an âoffâ(TM) definition of âbigâ(TM), but if you need an OS for an odd box, NetBSD is the go-to, so itâ(TM)s an important project.
I continue to be impressed by NetBSD's multiplatform support. Even as Linux has retreated from older architectures, NetBSD keeps support alive.
I'd like to know where you get 'double digits' from. BLS tracks a much broader measure of unemployment, U6, in addition to the headline figure. That measure is: "Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers". The most recent figure for that is 7.9%. Much higher than the most frequently reported measure, but not 'doubld digits'.
Yep, and it's almost usable, too. OTOH, Qubes is focused on the workstation. For network-level isolation, it's really hard to beat two firewalls from different manufacturers and code bases back-to-back.
Think Internet--PaloAlto--Sophos UTM--LAN (Substitute any two other unrelated NG firewalls)
Systems on the inside initiate all connections; no reaching in. That means having staging DBs, etc. on the outside that are polled from the inside by transfer routines that parse and validate everything outside of the application that receives the data. Anything that does not positively match expected input is dropped. If you really want to be serious, all systems log externally to a log host with WORM drives that has had the transmit pin on the NIC physically cut (mostly kidding -- hi Marcus!).
Remote access is terminal services or equivalent to a concentrator on the outside and a second hop internally with separate authentication at each hop. Absolutely no VPN or other tunneling that supports direct traffic flow from outside to inside.
SecureID or other token-based auth is mandatory.
Stupidly expensive and a pain to configure and maintain correctly, but very secure. If you need to ask, you probably don't need it and can't afford it.
My issue is that 'no tipping - it's included' is one of the major attractions of Uber. I don't mind paying whatever the fair cost of the service is, but don't ask me to rate and pay your employees, too.
To address the inevitable: I recognize reality and tip at restaurants, in cabs, Uber drivers, etc. I JUST DON'T LIKE IT. I was very much attracted to a service that factored lair cost in to the base fare, and took off my list of things to think about.
Yeah, except that my MacBook Pro more or less hits specs, also. I say more or less, but it's a 2012, so the battery isn't new. During a typical day for me (Outlook, Word, Excel, Safari), it still lasts a full workday. No compiling, VM usage, or other intense usage, so not everyone's use case, but not absurd, either. Apple estimates are not promises, but seem to me more accurate than others.
Mine too, probably. I've gotten interested in Qubes, and I can see where having the security/management firmware for the processor open and auditable would be a good fit for increasing overall system varefiability, reducing the need for trust.
I can sort-of agree with this, but I'd like to add something more specific: since the Internet has become ubiquitous, it seems like we spend almost as much time and effort patching and securing our computers as we do using them. When a personal computer was an island unto itself, and a LAN was truly local, security was mostly a matter of basic policies, procedures, and permissions applying to a known and reachable population.
Now, companies and even individuals are subjected to an asymmetrical threat environment were they need to be prepared to secure their systems from a never-ending stream of phishing attempts, drive-by malware, and possibly even targeted attacks. Playing defense is hard, since a defender has to be strong everywhere at all times. An attacker only has to find one weak point, one time to establish a penetration.
It's exhausting, and not even remotely fun unless you are in the infosec field, and can afford to treat it as a competition and source of business rather than a bottomless pit of time and effort with no return in productivity, fun, or profit.
If not, then it's not an MBP competitor.
It may be a cheaper, have better specs, be better designed, be better built, have a longer warranty, or even all of the above, but if it doesn't run OSX, it's not a replacement for an MBP.
Of course, if OSX isn't important to you for whatever reason, why would you buy a Mac? That is their only real differentiator, and has been since high DPI ultrabooks began shipping from quality manufacturers. I do include 'need OSX-only applications', 'don't like Windows high DPI handling', and 'need proper color calibration across HW and SW' as 'OSX is important to you'.
Basically, a System76 running Linux is only competitor for an MBP for the very small segment of the market that want's a nice UNIX-like preinstalled on laptop hardware designed to support it and doesn't want a Dell developer edition.
iPhone 7/7plus. HDR plus full color management to properly display sRGB content. PC monitors exist as well that can support 10-bit per channel color, but again, you'll need color management to avoid screwing up all of the content that assumes sRGB.
I know it's poor form to reply to myself, but I can see that, at least for Apple, Family Sharing was an opt-in:
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/04/apple-turns-on-family-sharing/
Any IOS developers care to comment on whether or not you opted in, and if it had a noticeable effect on sales?
The 'rightsholder' question is what puzzles me, also.
I'm surprised that Google (and Apple) can do this. Are they paying out to the rightsholders for the additional copies? If not, I can see this making word-of-mouth a bad thing for artists and developers. I know that a lot of the apps and music that I've bought have come from recommendations from family, but if we can all just share one purchase, that really does cost the rightsholder money.
I'm sure this must be covered in the appropriate license agreements between Google/Apple and the rightsholders, but I suspect it's a case of 'let us do this or be excluded from our platform'.
Well, the computer at least needs to have a good idea of the printer capabilities. I suppose we could put that in a plain-text file, and call it 'printcap' or something. Of course, we'll also need to know how to trigger those capabilities. Maybe some sort of in-band signaling with special characters, like escape codes.
That's all good, but what if we want more advanced features like graphics. We could generate bitmaps, but that would be terribly device-specific and bandwidth-hungry. How about we use an encoding that can encapsulate the way we intend the page to look? We could call it a 'page description language'. Yeah, that'd be cool.
Well, now that we've got that, we do need some software to take the output from a program and encode it in out page description language. Otherwise, each and every program would need to know each and every common PDL. That's dumb -- we should use a standard intermediate representation that each program can speak to the OS, and let the OS transform that into the PDL of the printer it's talking to!
OK, now we've got it: a common, logical way for programs to describe their output to the OS, the OS providing a translation service to send that representation to the printer, and page description languages that let us produce sophisticated output without having to generate and transmit bitmaps and escape codes for every little thing.
That would be much better that this 'printer driver' crap, right ;)
I've had a Sony Z3C for just over a year now, and in that time they have released upgrades from 4.4 all the way to 6.01, and I just received another security update two days ago. I've only had one 'bad' update in that time -- the original 5.0 release cut the battery life way down, and they fixed that reasonable quickly.
They don't get anywhere near the press of Samsung/HTC/LG, but I'd buy another one and have recommended them to others.
My phone is direct from B&H, not from a carrier, which certainly helps, but Sony has done the work to make the updates avaialble.
Yeah, I feel like Slashdot is on the way back, too. Maybe not to it's former glory, but not the craptastic level it hit for a while.
...when I say "Wait; you're killing what?"
Yet another battery breakthrough article for what is essentially a lab demo. While I have not particular knowledge of whether or not this technology is manufacturable, it seems like an awful lot of battery breakthroughs don't really pan out once it comes to building them in to actual products.
Zayo and Level 3 don't just lay fiber and hope someone else will use it, they also provide ISP service to businesses. I've worked with both companies to light up buildings for either multi- or single-tenant use. Single tenant may require a multi-year commitment to make it worthwhile, but they can and will provide complete service from physical layer on up.
I don't see why it couldn't be used for /, as long as the appropriate module is present in initrd (or initramfs, etc.) As for unattended/scripted, the options you put in the script are still choices. As I understand it, the one thing you can't do is compile ZFS directly in to the kernel to avoid the GPL/CDDL incompatibility.
Every time I see news about ZFS and Linux, it's a little bit less of a mess. Eventually, I expect that all of the major distributions will go this route and sidestep the licensing issue by providing distro-supported modules that are installed by user request, sort of like the way that Nvidia drivers are provided.
I'm expecting this to be showcase for VR (and VR sickness?)