This is from Gartner, and they have credibility - even when they are only half right. Dilbert's boss has probably already suffered a Nimda coronary, and this may hurt MS.
The problem is you will still have Admins and developers accepting un-reviewed default configurations for Apache or iPlanet - transferring the arena of vulnerability.
This article reinforces the notion that security can be achieved with the right purchases - rather that the right process and personnel.
The fifth goal listed speaks volumes, in its choice of words: * Self-configuration. New machines, network links, and resources should be automatically assimilated.
1) Voice navigation - I think that I finally found an everyday use for this...
2) Run your own Spider - Jam the recording site with "Noise" web traffic associated with your cookie/session. A good spider/robot could simulate mouse coordinates, etc.
Just a couple of quick thoughts. I'm sure there are more...
We are from the NSA, and we're here to feed the FNORDs!!!!
Jeremiah
Will USB Become a Superstar?
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Do you think that USB 2.0 stands a chance of winning an Emmy?
Gosh I hope so! I want to visit the USB 2.0 star on Hollywood's "walk of fame"! Maybe it could replace one of the older, less visited dedications, like Ida Lupino or Jack Lord...
Strength of the platform is not simply an issue of raw CPU cycles. When discussing Sun, we are not talking about "ordinary" desktop computing. Sun excels in supporting the mid- to high-range of networked application services. To a lesser extent they also serve the needs of intensive engineering/visualization workstation applications.
A PC is still just a PC. There are massive I/O considerations that the PC architecture(s) just do not yet properly address for this arena. Intel has led PC designers in the effort to enhance the PC with fancy northbridges and burstable, high-speed, special purpose busses, etc... This is still arranged around a core that is descended from the original PC-AT.
If your machine uses are centered around desktop console use, or the simple servicing of an IP stack (like a web-server), then a PC is usually the best dollar/performance machine in the world. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that these are the only significant areas of computer application. They are probably not even the most significant.
Given the speedy implementation
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...Of IPv6, I have little worry about the immediate impact of this.
Tunneled traffic will also have to be worked out as a problem, as the flags have to be available in the visible header. Thisisi a headache waining for someone to iron out.
Also, what about networks other than your ISP? The peering agreements between providers are pretty fast and loose as it is... Have you looked into the problems in enforcing QOS bits outside of even your own network?
Inertia is not an impervious defense, but it looks like a comforting one for this issue into the near-to-mid future.
I wasn't playing Paul Revere to wake up the sleeping Americans, while foreign governments moved to coerce them from abroad!
It's clear that multinational corporations do things in one country that they are forbidden to in another - even with the same customer base. In the US, they call this "having their cake and eating it too."
Under the Bush régime, this is not only good business, it is an ideological imperitive.
What the Financial Times article makes very clear in its opening statement, is that this is directed principally at the US, in the face of deliberate foot-dragging over regulation.
How would you enable this kind of sanction?
"O.K., All ARIN numbers are filtered at the perimeter!"
>>Negative on the BSD x86 SMP only. MacOS X supports SMP on PowerPC G3 and G4 dual CPU systems,
>>and it's BSD all the way.
MacOS X is a NeXT Mach kernel, derived from the CMU code, and that's where its MPU smarts come from, no BSD about it.
The BSD part is the process accounting, device model, init configuration, userland and etc., above Mach. This has been implemented as what is called a "Mach Server" in the old CMU stuff.
MS wants desperately to untie themselves from the PC market, and extend themselves into the network on one end, and into the "appliance/device" space on the other. This is where the growth for them is, if they want to maintain expanding revenues. You can probably find lots of related analysis to this on the 'net.
How does this play for the USB/FireWire debate?
USB is a PC spec. It's existence was mid-wifed by Intel, and its adoption made possible mainly by Intel shipping chipsets and motherboards with USB built-in. USB has been a central part of the 3 successive "legacy free" PC specs that Intel sponsored. Intel does not have, nor do they plan to ever offer the same integration for
FireWire/IEEE1394. Why is this? Because USB is a "dumb" bus. It needs a PC (or a Mac, or a PlayStation) functioning as a "root hub"
to manage the device I/O. FireWire is a "smart" bus, which has devices that operate as peers, including PCs.
Because of this, a FireWire Camcorder can dump an MPEG file, over a simple cable, straight onto a FireWire hard-disk - no PC in the
middle! No fun for Intel, who would love to sell more CPUs in the middle. They'll only support FireWire if forced to by the market.
Also, Apple charges a dollar-per-port licensing fee to FireWire manufacturers. I don't see Intel volunteering $2 to Apple on every
motherboard they make, not when they can produce a competitive specification, which also reinforces their own market.
MS loved the idea of breaking away from Intel, almost as much as Intel relishes the idea of shedding MS. MS has plenty of specs for
embedded and set top machines based on WinCE - using Hitachi, ARM and MIPS processors. Talk of Embedded NT almost never occurs here.
If MS supports FireWire instead of USB, they can make plays with Sony and Panasonic and Phillips for getting CE into camcorders, DVD
players, and even Microwave ovens... The Camera/DVD world is already FireWire (called iLink in this space).
That techno-fantasy world that everyone is envisioning- the one with intelligent cell-phones and PDA's on the Internet, interacting as
meta-computer- MS wants to own this space. They want this world to be created as.NET, with MS software running on the endpoints. They
don't need Intel for this vision as much as they need the Sony's and Nokia's. Picking FireWire over USB is one of a number of small, defining positions they are taking here.
Bluetooth is stillborn after 2 years in the making. Vendors were unable to demonstrate the simplest interoperability at last month's
CeBit show in Europe. MS will go for 802.11 (which is already entering its 3rd iteration) and possibly support the nascent Wireless
IEEE1394.
I had gut feelings about USB/FireWire at the beginning of the year, and started buying FireWire devices and interfaces, not USB. We'll
see how this ends up playing out, but I am happily using FireWire as my backup transport, and am using FireWire dongles attached to SCSI
devices with 3 different OS's. I have very little of the driver issues that USB put me through, with non-compliant mass-storage
devices, etc.
There were some recent articles (where?) on the net, with interviews from folks at ILM, PDI and Click2. They were ALL talking about the port of their beloved IRIX and Solaris code onto Linux.
There were some folks with minor issues in comparing Linux PC's to Onyx2 and Origin boxes. Not bad for a platform that people were BEGGING for an alias port in '98!
Of course, I cringe at thinking about all of those C shells...
The Toy Story naming convention goes back to when Bruce Perens was head of the Debian Project...
Bruce was the Systems Admin/Engineer for Pixar's network and RenderFarm (tm). Bruce went on to more SPI related stuff, and the ESR flamewars. Debian stuck with the cute release names.
Sid - the horrible child who will blow your toys up - is the permanent name of the unstable package branch!
Jeremiah
Oh yeah, apt... Few team members agree on this one: A Package Tool/Advanced Package Tool/Aquisitive Package Tool. File this under FVWM.
Slashdot Mirror
I was just earlier...
jeremiah cornelius
That doesn't mean that you can't be falsely accused of over-stepping authorization, or of making unlawful use of discoveries.
jeremiah cornelius
All it takes is one bad customer relationship to cause a false accusation...
jeremiah cornelius
The problem is you will still have Admins and developers accepting un-reviewed default configurations for Apache or iPlanet - transferring the arena of vulnerability.
This article reinforces the notion that security can be achieved with the right purchases - rather that the right process and personnel.
jeremiah cornelius
* Self-configuration. New machines, network links, and resources should be automatically assimilated.
jeremiah cornelius
I suppose you are one of the few who recognize silent genius at work....
jeremiah cornelius
Linux was intended to be incompatible with "Free for me, but not for you."
jeremiah cornelius
Boxen as a plural usage is derived in imitation of the older "VAXen", a term hoary with lore from the Wizards of olde.
Both
Boxen
and
VAXen
have Jargon File file entries associated with these terms.
jeremiah cornelius
I assume that your use of "Stupidity" is an idiomatic expression, meaning MBA's?
jeremiah cornelius
2) Run your own Spider - Jam the recording site with "Noise" web traffic associated with your cookie/session. A good spider/robot could simulate mouse coordinates, etc.
Just a couple of quick thoughts. I'm sure there are more...
jeremiah cornelius
Jeremiah
Gosh I hope so! I want to visit the USB 2.0 star on Hollywood's "walk of fame"! Maybe it could replace one of the older, less visited dedications, like Ida Lupino or Jack Lord...
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
IPv6 is the future, and it always will be!
But the main thing is- unless your a fool-
Oh, you know,
Yeah, you know, yeah, you know,
Man, you got to be cool...
- Jeremiah Cornelius Still a Face in my Sun Microsystems shirt!
A PC is still just a PC. There are massive I/O considerations that the PC architecture(s) just do not yet properly address for this arena. Intel has led PC designers in the effort to enhance the PC with fancy northbridges and burstable, high-speed, special purpose busses, etc... This is still arranged around a core that is descended from the original PC-AT.
If your machine uses are centered around desktop console use, or the simple servicing of an IP stack (like a web-server), then a PC is usually the best dollar/performance machine in the world. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that these are the only significant areas of computer application. They are probably not even the most significant.
Jeremiah Cornelius
Bruce Schneier pointed out this "small comfort," as one of the principal flaws in digital security in Secrets and Lies.
Theory and application thereof, come rushing Slashback, Like the Hot Kiss at the end of a Wet Fist
Jeremaih Cornelius
Tunneled traffic will also have to be worked out as a problem, as the flags have to be available in the visible header. Thisisi a headache waining for someone to iron out.
Also, what about networks other than your ISP? The peering agreements between providers are pretty fast and loose as it is... Have you looked into the problems in enforcing QOS bits outside of even your own network?
Inertia is not an impervious defense, but it looks like a comforting one for this issue into the near-to-mid future.
Jeremiah Cornelius
I wasn't playing Paul Revere to wake up the sleeping Americans, while foreign governments moved to coerce them from abroad!
It's clear that multinational corporations do things in one country that they are forbidden to in another - even with the same customer base. In the US, they call this "having their cake and eating it too."
Under the Bush régime , this is not only good business, it is an ideological imperitive.
"Let 'em eat Arsenic!"
Jeremiah Cornelius
How would you enable this kind of sanction?
"O.K., All ARIN numbers are filtered at the perimeter!"
Jeremiah
MacOS X is a NeXT Mach kernel, derived from the CMU code, and that's where its MPU smarts come from, no BSD about it.
The BSD part is the process accounting, device model, init configuration, userland and etc., above Mach. This has been implemented as what is called a "Mach Server" in the old CMU stuff.
Jeremiah
I saw this on the street last Friday! I was laughing so hard.
I was walking with another sysadmin from my company, and commented that I couldn't believe that this was really IBM.
Jeremiah Cornelius
How does this play for the USB/FireWire debate? USB is a PC spec. It's existence was mid-wifed by Intel, and its adoption made possible mainly by Intel shipping chipsets and motherboards with USB built-in. USB has been a central part of the 3 successive "legacy free" PC specs that Intel sponsored. Intel does not have, nor do they plan to ever offer the same integration for FireWire/IEEE1394. Why is this? Because USB is a "dumb" bus. It needs a PC (or a Mac, or a PlayStation) functioning as a "root hub" to manage the device I/O. FireWire is a "smart" bus, which has devices that operate as peers, including PCs.
Because of this, a FireWire Camcorder can dump an MPEG file, over a simple cable, straight onto a FireWire hard-disk - no PC in the middle! No fun for Intel, who would love to sell more CPUs in the middle. They'll only support FireWire if forced to by the market. Also, Apple charges a dollar-per-port licensing fee to FireWire manufacturers. I don't see Intel volunteering $2 to Apple on every motherboard they make, not when they can produce a competitive specification, which also reinforces their own market.
MS loved the idea of breaking away from Intel, almost as much as Intel relishes the idea of shedding MS. MS has plenty of specs for embedded and set top machines based on WinCE - using Hitachi, ARM and MIPS processors. Talk of Embedded NT almost never occurs here. If MS supports FireWire instead of USB, they can make plays with Sony and Panasonic and Phillips for getting CE into camcorders, DVD players, and even Microwave ovens... The Camera/DVD world is already FireWire (called iLink in this space).
That techno-fantasy world that everyone is envisioning- the one with intelligent cell-phones and PDA's on the Internet, interacting as meta-computer- MS wants to own this space. They want this world to be created as .NET, with MS software running on the endpoints. They
don't need Intel for this vision as much as they need the Sony's and Nokia's. Picking FireWire over USB is one of a number of small, defining positions they are taking here.
Bluetooth is stillborn after 2 years in the making. Vendors were unable to demonstrate the simplest interoperability at last month's CeBit show in Europe. MS will go for 802.11 (which is already entering its 3rd iteration) and possibly support the nascent Wireless IEEE1394.
I had gut feelings about USB/FireWire at the beginning of the year, and started buying FireWire devices and interfaces, not USB. We'll see how this ends up playing out, but I am happily using FireWire as my backup transport, and am using FireWire dongles attached to SCSI devices with 3 different OS's. I have very little of the driver issues that USB put me through, with non-compliant mass-storage devices, etc.
--Jeremiah
The key words "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED",
"SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED", and "MAY"
in this document are to be interpreted
as described in [RFC-2119].
There were some folks with minor issues in comparing Linux PC's to Onyx2 and Origin boxes. Not bad for a platform that people were BEGGING for an alias port in '98!
Of course, I cringe at thinking about all of those C shells...
Bruce was the Systems Admin/Engineer for Pixar's network and RenderFarm (tm). Bruce went on to more SPI related stuff, and the ESR flamewars. Debian stuck with the cute release names.
Sid - the horrible child who will blow your toys up - is the permanent name of the unstable package branch!
Jeremiah
Oh yeah, apt... Few team members agree on this one: A Package Tool/Advanced Package Tool/Aquisitive Package Tool. File this under FVWM.