Yes, lets get rid of all the gun manufacturers. In fact let's get rid of all the guns. Then we can all join hands, put flowers in our hair and sing together in peace and harmony. Why has nobody thought of this before?
Actually the whole problem stems from the fact that it works so well with spyware. Spyware authors have a vast array of sickening vulnerabilities with which to discreetly load their software onto a user's machine.
It is not MS's fault that SP2 doesn't work with spyware, but that have to take a healthy share of the blame for the spyware epidemic that exists on windows boxes today.
Legally, yes they are. It pretty much makes the clueless scum to do so, but they can.
However, it does not give them the right to use the domain name as a book, then use that as justification for attempting to steal your domain name (which lets face it, is exactly what this attack-dog lawyer is trying to do).
When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered. Therefore anybody was/is allowed to use the words "Katie.com" as the title of a book. (This is confirmed bt the fact that the owner of the domain never did anything against the publishers of the book.)
WTF? katie.com WAS registered at the time the book was written. The it has been registered since 1996, the book came out in 2000. Grab a calculator and do the math.
How does a single women failing to embark on a lawsuit against a multinational publisher confirm that a domain name was not registered when the book came out?
So you are saying that 90% of the computer-usin population NEVER encode video or audio?
Maybe not 90% (as with most stats, I just made that up on the fly) but certainly a large amount never encode anything. In my experience the average computer user struggles with simply playing these audio and video formats.
And regardless, you do not need a dual Opteron to encode media. You can do it with a 386 if you really want to, it just takes longer. Do you find yourself encoding media enough that it dictates your choice in computers? I rip CDs and pull from MiniDV cameras all the time, but it still accounts for less than 1% of the time I am using the computer.
Never use strong crypto (eg. SCP/SFTP)?
What algorithms are you using as a client that takes this much CPU power. Almost all popular symmetric and public key algorithms are designed to be implemented in minimal hardware as well as perform quickly in software. In the recent AES decision, Rijndael was chosen over the much stronger Serpent based mostly on performance concerns, and Serpent is pretty damn fast.
Never run a CPU-intensive program like Mozilla or Firefox?
Firefox performs admirably on the 450 AMD K6-2 based PC I built for my girlfriend. It certainly flys on any >1GHz processor (assuming you have enough memory to load it without paging)
Now if we were talking about servers, then CPU performance certainly becomes a large issue (or machines used to render graphics, etc). I would argue that IO is still the major bottleneck for most stuff (except Java, which continues to be a CPU hog, ESPECIALLY if you are sadistic enough to use it's ultra slow cryptographic functions).
For client PC's that spend most of their life ideling, and usually only spike in CPU usage when loading a program, or watching a video, or playing a video game, making a big deal out of the slight performance boost that Intel and AMD chips have over Apple's G4 offerings (the genesis of this thread) seems kinda silly.
Kerberos is generally the standard among Higher Education. PKI Certificate authentication is also explored quite a bit, but it suffers from being an architecture written almost entirely in Powerpoint.
We also use RSA Secure ID tokens, but only as a second form of auth and only required for highly sensitive operations.
We are also rolling out a web single sign on system which build off of Kerberos called Cosign.
Some of the more clueless departments (or those who simply do not know how to run anything else) are clamoring for a Windows Active Directory Domain, which we are going to provide, only it is going to be an authentication slave to our MIT Kerberos realm (There is no way in hell our access id and passwords will live on MS software)
As long as I have to wait for the OS to finish doing an activity, the system is insufficiently powered. When the hardware completes tasks so quickly that I can't tell I had to wait, then the computer power is sufficient.
I'm picturing you in front of a microwave, fuming like Yosemite Sam that a burrito takes 15 seconds to warm up:)
Then by all means, go buy it. But like cars where not everyone needs 500Hp engines, not everyone needs the absolute fastest computer. Ain't variety wonderful?
Yes, because keeping everything proprietary and under tight restrictions is guaranteed to make you rich and powerful.
(I'm going to use success rather than power from now on, since I imagine that is the goal for more people)
Success, alas, is the exception to anything. If any one strategy guaranteed success everyone would do it and nobody would be having this discussion.
Since success is a crap shoot anyway, I would rather become successful (which is a relative term anyway) doing something I believed in and enjoy doing. If I were working for a dilbertesque software company that tried to lock everyone into their proprietary solutions, litigate away competition, and produced crappy software I might be more successful. I might even be driving a Mercedes instead of a Civic and live in a huge house instead of renting a duplex. But you know what, I wouldn't be believing in what I do every day and I would likely be miserable. I might not even be that successful since I don't know where I would find motivation.
No thanks, I'll just keep my non-competitive University job where I love what I do, I get to play with coolopen sourcetechnology, and I get to keep my lofty ideals. I'm happier this way. And, dare I say, more successful:)
But what if you are like 90% of the population and do not need that computing power (in fact, will likely never even have oppertunity to use it)? Perhaps you value ease of use and productivity over raw cpu power?
I'm no apple fanboy ( I have one but I have more Linux and BSD boxes ), but this whole irrational obsession with raw CPU speed that Intel fans have is a little odd. There are other aspects in most people's computing experience how fast "openssl -speed" runs.
You are correct, what everyone is being trained to check for now (at least with the Red Cross CPR training I just took) is "signs of life", not a pulse. This includes breathing, possibly pulse, etc. This is probably due to the difficulty in checking for a pulse in obese people and those with a faint pulse.
This is gonna sound weird but water might help. I noticed that the last few years my sleep schedule was getting erratic, I was dead tired around 3-7pm and wide awake most of the evening to the point where I couldn't get too sleep easily until 3am. I was also gaining weight and getting some bad headaches regularly.
After someone mentioned to me that it might be dehydration I started drinking water all the time. Drinking two glasses when I get up, taking two liters to work every day to drink and a few more when I come home. Just doing this has made a major change in my health.
Suddenly I am never tired during the day, I have tons of energy and can go to sleep at normal hours (unless I stay up late trying to fight my way through "The Confusion"). My headaches are gone and I am beginning to lose weight.
I attribute the weight loss to either the excess of energy I get, the fact that drinking all that water makes me less hungry, or that until your body gets used to the additional water you will be walking to the bathroom every hour:)
This may not help you at all, but hey it is worth a shot. It is free and certainly couldn't hurt.
Yes, don't try to make money writing someone as general as a web browser. Like OSes, Word Processors, ftp clients, etc they are now commodities (unless you are Microsoft). Go find something someone actually needs and is willing to pay money for and write that.
I'm not sure how true that is anymore. After the recent IE debacles, just about every news source (printed, online, radio, tv) was talking about alternative browsers for a while. Firefox and Opera were always the two mentioned. I think more people have heard of it (although still probably never tried it) than you think.
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Yes, lets get rid of all the gun manufacturers. In fact let's get rid of all the guns. Then we can all join hands, put flowers in our hair and sing together in peace and harmony. Why has nobody thought of this before?
Finkployd
How often to do you need to make changes in the registry to load new device drivers?
Finkployd
So now MS has to make its OS work with spyware?
Actually the whole problem stems from the fact that it works so well with spyware. Spyware authors have a vast array of sickening vulnerabilities with which to discreetly load their software onto a user's machine.
It is not MS's fault that SP2 doesn't work with spyware, but that have to take a healthy share of the blame for the spyware epidemic that exists on windows boxes today.
Finkployd
Legally, yes they are. It pretty much makes the clueless scum to do so, but they can.
However, it does not give them the right to use the domain name as a book, then use that as justification for attempting to steal your domain name (which lets face it, is exactly what this attack-dog lawyer is trying to do).
Finkployd
Domain names do not have to be registered at the copyright office. Never have been.
Finkployd
When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered. Therefore anybody was/is allowed to use the words "Katie.com" as the title of a book. (This is confirmed bt the fact that the owner of the domain never did anything against the publishers of the book.)
WTF? katie.com WAS registered at the time the book was written. The it has been registered since 1996, the book came out in 2000. Grab a calculator and do the math.
How does a single women failing to embark on a lawsuit against a multinational publisher confirm that a domain name was not registered when the book came out?
Finkployd
Treo 600 and pssh work nicely for this.
Finkployd
So you are saying that 90% of the computer-usin population NEVER encode video or audio?
Maybe not 90% (as with most stats, I just made that up on the fly) but certainly a large amount never encode anything. In my experience the average computer user struggles with simply playing these audio and video formats.
And regardless, you do not need a dual Opteron to encode media. You can do it with a 386 if you really want to, it just takes longer. Do you find yourself encoding media enough that it dictates your choice in computers? I rip CDs and pull from MiniDV cameras all the time, but it still accounts for less than 1% of the time I am using the computer.
Never use strong crypto (eg. SCP/SFTP)?
What algorithms are you using as a client that takes this much CPU power. Almost all popular symmetric and public key algorithms are designed to be implemented in minimal hardware as well as perform quickly in software. In the recent AES decision, Rijndael was chosen over the much stronger Serpent based mostly on performance concerns, and Serpent is pretty damn fast.
Never run a CPU-intensive program like Mozilla or Firefox?
Firefox performs admirably on the 450 AMD K6-2 based PC I built for my girlfriend. It certainly flys on any >1GHz processor (assuming you have enough memory to load it without paging)
Now if we were talking about servers, then CPU performance certainly becomes a large issue (or machines used to render graphics, etc). I would argue that IO is still the major bottleneck for most stuff (except Java, which continues to be a CPU hog, ESPECIALLY if you are sadistic enough to use it's ultra slow cryptographic functions).
For client PC's that spend most of their life ideling, and usually only spike in CPU usage when loading a program, or watching a video, or playing a video game, making a big deal out of the slight performance boost that Intel and AMD chips have over Apple's G4 offerings (the genesis of this thread) seems kinda silly.
Finkployd
Kerberos is generally the standard among Higher Education. PKI Certificate authentication is also explored quite a bit, but it suffers from being an architecture written almost entirely in Powerpoint.
We also use RSA Secure ID tokens, but only as a second form of auth and only required for highly sensitive operations.
We are also rolling out a web single sign on system which build off of Kerberos called Cosign.
Some of the more clueless departments (or those who simply do not know how to run anything else) are clamoring for a Windows Active Directory Domain, which we are going to provide, only it is going to be an authentication slave to our MIT Kerberos realm (There is no way in hell our access id and passwords will live on MS software)
Finkployd
As long as I have to wait for the OS to finish doing an activity, the system is insufficiently powered. When the hardware completes tasks so quickly that I can't tell I had to wait, then the computer power is sufficient.
:)
I'm picturing you in front of a microwave, fuming like Yosemite Sam that a burrito takes 15 seconds to warm up
Finkployd
I need that power.
Then by all means, go buy it. But like cars where not everyone needs 500Hp engines, not everyone needs the absolute fastest computer. Ain't variety wonderful?
Finkployd
Doom 3 is arriving soon.
:)
Yes, and for the price of the video card required to run it comfortably, I'll just go buy an X-Box
(assuming you can use a keyboard and mouse to play it on the X-Box, if not, then fuck you ID Software, nobody wants to play an FPS with a controller)
Finkployd
Yes, because keeping everything proprietary and under tight restrictions is guaranteed to make you rich and powerful.
:)
(I'm going to use success rather than power from now on, since I imagine that is the goal for more people)
Success, alas, is the exception to anything. If any one strategy guaranteed success everyone would do it and nobody would be having this discussion.
Since success is a crap shoot anyway, I would rather become successful (which is a relative term anyway) doing something I believed in and enjoy doing. If I were working for a dilbertesque software company that tried to lock everyone into their proprietary solutions, litigate away competition, and produced crappy software I might be more successful. I might even be driving a Mercedes instead of a Civic and live in a huge house instead of renting a duplex. But you know what, I wouldn't be believing in what I do every day and I would likely be miserable. I might not even be that successful since I don't know where I would find motivation.
No thanks, I'll just keep my non-competitive University job where I love what I do, I get to play with cool open source technology, and I get to keep my lofty ideals. I'm happier this way. And, dare I say, more successful
Finkployd
Check out xfce4 or fluxbox.
But what if you are like 90% of the population and do not need that computing power (in fact, will likely never even have oppertunity to use it)? Perhaps you value ease of use and productivity over raw cpu power?
I'm no apple fanboy ( I have one but I have more Linux and BSD boxes ), but this whole irrational obsession with raw CPU speed that Intel fans have is a little odd. There are other aspects in most people's computing experience how fast "openssl -speed" runs.
Finkployd
Then of course it'll be blamed for putting a whole shitload of fat guys in suits out of work
You are going to have a hard time convincing fat lawyers in suits (Congress) to put other fat lawyers in suits (RIAA) out of business.
Finkployd
You are correct, what everyone is being trained to check for now (at least with the Red Cross CPR training I just took) is "signs of life", not a pulse. This includes breathing, possibly pulse, etc. This is probably due to the difficulty in checking for a pulse in obese people and those with a faint pulse.
Finkployd
This is gonna sound weird but water might help. I noticed that the last few years my sleep schedule was getting erratic, I was dead tired around 3-7pm and wide awake most of the evening to the point where I couldn't get too sleep easily until 3am.
:)
I was also gaining weight and getting some bad headaches regularly.
After someone mentioned to me that it might be dehydration I started drinking water all the time. Drinking two glasses when I get up, taking two liters to work every day to drink and a few more when I come home. Just doing this has made a major change in my health.
Suddenly I am never tired during the day, I have tons of energy and can go to sleep at normal hours (unless I stay up late trying to fight my way through "The Confusion"). My headaches are gone and I am beginning to lose weight.
I attribute the weight loss to either the excess of energy I get, the fact that drinking all that water makes me less hungry, or that until your body gets used to the additional water you will be walking to the bathroom every hour
This may not help you at all, but hey it is worth a shot. It is free and certainly couldn't hurt.
Finkployd
Macromedia is the company that gave us that other monstrosity (aka, Flash)
:)
Which brought us homestarrunner, so it can't be ALL bad
Yes, don't try to make money writing someone as general as a web browser. Like OSes, Word Processors, ftp clients, etc they are now commodities (unless you are Microsoft). Go find something someone actually needs and is willing to pay money for and write that.
Finkployd
I'm not sure how true that is anymore. After the recent IE debacles, just about every news source (printed, online, radio, tv) was talking about alternative browsers for a while. Firefox and Opera were always the two mentioned. I think more people have heard of it (although still probably never tried it) than you think.
Finkployd
Yes, because animals live in perfect harmony and never fight.
Yutz
Within 20 years from today would actually be "by 2024" since this is, in fact, 2004.
Since you didn't answer the question...
Follow-up question
What makes you think the popularity of an open source operating system is even remotely related to the economics of a stock market.
Finkployd
Ah I gotcha. That was a good scene.
"are you sure you are o-bee k-bee"
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