"I'm still not entirely convinced that the free code + support business model works as well as the traditional licensing version.."
That's three companies out of how many that are making real money out of 'traditional licensing'. How many venture capitalists would be foolish to get into the Microsoft, Apple or Oracle market right now. As for 'traditional licensing', that was never the case. Software was originally given away with the hardware. I see the future of this business and the way for anyone else to make real money is a return to making money off of selling the hardware. If the OEMs only realized this, it is they who really control the market, not some software licenser...
"The Net Generation spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently while the iGeneration -- conceivably their younger siblings -- spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group, and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks"
They may spend considerably more time instant-messaging, but does anything of real value get communicated. Instant messages are invariably vacuous and shallow, contain no real value and tend to instantly vanish into the ether..
"Google Sync.. sent cancellation notices to hundreds of meeting invitees, erased all repeating calendar entries and generally caused astonishing mayhem. After investigating and finding many, many others with the same problem on a Google thread, I posted my $0.02 and subscribed to the thread. That was about 6 months ago. No one from Google has ever addressed the issue and it remains unsolved"
> Believe me, they they are tested. I know. But they are not always tested well.. They rewrote the spec based on actual data. Later, the 'controlling authorities' updated their specs to match our results..
Do you have any reliable third party citations for this ?
> Flash is working for me, in Ubuntu 9.10, out of the box, no need to fix anything (Opera mostly works, but misses clicks of the mouse, it makes Flash unusable, I haven't seen this solved or even reported yet).
On some hardware you may need to tweak your xorg.conf file, don't ask me why..
> companies may be wondering if they should conduct security tests of their customized open source software before deployment..
If they haven't already conducted penetration tests before deployment and implemented a secure irrevocable auditing system, then they shouldn't even be in the business..
"'Following the recommendations does not pose a significant threat as of now, but it has a very big potential of being one,' the company's researcher, David Sancho, writes on theTrend Micro blog."
It won't make a bit of difference,as AV software don't work already. A more realistic solution being to allow a whitelist of know good software.
'Why is "Enumerating Badness" a dumb idea? It's a dumb idea because sometime around 1992 the amount of Badness in the Internet began to vastly outweigh the amount of Goodness'
"I've had more than a few desktops with issues of Firefox 3.5.x causing blue screens of death on Windows 7 64bit. Not sure about other flavors of Windows 7"
When will Microsoft ever learn to design a Memory Manager that actually works..:)
But tell me, you are in a business (?) and are already on 64bit Windows 7, generally it's safest to wait for the third iteration of what-ever. That way most of the bugs will have been ironed out...
Use Public key infrastructure, register an email with a public directory. If the email sent from that address doesn't match the digital signature, then reject it - case closed...
"I will probably be modded down as troll, but not only I don't mind at all having ads in my Gmail account (after all, I am getting a "free" service, it is only fair they get something in return) but in a number of occasions I've actually found them useful, suggesting me relevant products that I didn't know about"
Yea, and no-one paid your for typing that;)
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The thing is - its the adverts fed to your correspondents., like this for instance, an advert for 'discount diapers', I have in no shape-way-or-form an interest in 'Diapers', what ever they are...
If the adverts weren't so annoying, then we wouldn't have to go to such trouble to suppress them. The most annoying is the audio ones that pop up in the middle of a new report, when are you advertisers going to ever learn. The INTERNET isn't like TELEVISION !!!
Secondly, when we arrive at a web site selling, for instance, contact lenses, we don't want to watch an advert, we want to know: do you carry our prescription and HOW MUCH DOES IT COST, that is all !!!!
"On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs"
.. the city had claimed it could not access the FiberWAN network's devices. But four days before that bail hearing, the city claimed it had scheduled a power outage at the 1 Market Street datacenter. That power outage would have affected routers and switches running the FiberWAN network.
In the court filing four days later, the city contended that Childs had "booby-trapped" the network to collapse during this power outage by not writing the device configurations to flash on some number of routers. A local news report stated that "experts caught the problem in time and transferred data to permanent files, [Assistant DA Conrad] del Rosario said."
This statement contradicts the city's stance that it had no access to these routers, as there is no way it could have written those configurations to flash, or save them anywhere, on July 19 if it could not access the devices..
"After moving up the ranks within my department from Intern to Technical Lead.. and will now be required to work 5 eight-hour days rather than 4 ten-hour days and be on call during the other two days of the week
If you still have to clock-on then you ain't a lead anything just another replaceable company drone. Time to move on. But don't tell them until you have the other job lined up. For your next job go for the donut downsizing executive position..
'Like Microsoft and other for-profit software companies, the GPL gang uses government-based aggression in order to enforce its so-called "intellectual property rights"'
What is the name(s) of this government-based, agreesive GPL gang, and did you type this BS yourself ?
"a Linux system can be turned into a botnet client by simply downloading BOINC and attaching it to a user account to help scientific projects"
Can you provide a link to a demonstration of this Linux 'malware'. One that - with no user action - can compromise my machine or by clicking on even a version of 'malware' that works by clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment.
As far as I can make out, users must first download and install BOINC and allow RPC calls. I mean if that's your definition of malware so is me putting a safe in the middle of the street with the combination numbers taped to it. No doubt you would then write a story about just how easy it is to crack that particualr model of safe.
"The study also showed most of the IT systems were aimed at improving efficiency for hospital management -- not doctors, nurses, and medical technicians"
"I still don't get the continuing obsession with the idea that everything on the internet should be free"
We don't object to adverts, what we do object to is intrusive ads that slide-in/pop-up all singing and talking irritating type of advert. And the ones that freeze the loading of the page because of some overloaded ad.server
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"I'm still not entirely convinced that the free code + support business model works as well as the traditional licensing version .."
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That's three companies out of how many that are making real money out of 'traditional licensing'. How many venture capitalists would be foolish to get into the Microsoft, Apple or Oracle market right now. As for 'traditional licensing', that was never the case. Software was originally given away with the hardware. I see the future of this business and the way for anyone else to make real money is a return to making money off of selling the hardware. If the OEMs only realized this, it is they who really control the market, not some software licenser
ten problems with the new Moonlight Covenant
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Novell-Only, OS limitiations, the Killswitch, overlapping Promises, Novell-Only, Novell-Only, Platform Limited, GPL-Hostile, expiration Date
Create an array of devices running firewall/VPN and gateway on embedded hardware and don't create 'millions of new access points' ...
"The Net Generation spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently while the iGeneration -- conceivably their younger siblings -- spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group, and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks"
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They may spend considerably more time instant-messaging, but does anything of real value get communicated. Instant messages are invariably vacuous and shallow, contain no real value and tend to instantly vanish into the ether
"Google Sync .. sent cancellation notices to hundreds of meeting invitees, erased all repeating calendar entries and generally caused astonishing mayhem. After investigating and finding many, many others with the same problem on a Google thread, I posted my $0.02 and subscribed to the thread. That was about 6 months ago. No one from Google has ever addressed the issue and it remains unsolved"
Do you mind posting a link to this thread ?
> Believe me, they they are tested. I know. But they are not always tested well .. They rewrote the spec based on actual data. Later, the 'controlling authorities' updated their specs to match our results ..
Do you have any reliable third party citations for this ?
> Flash is working for me, in Ubuntu 9.10, out of the box, no need to fix anything (Opera mostly works, but misses clicks of the mouse, it makes Flash unusable, I haven't seen this solved or even reported yet).
On some hardware you may need to tweak your xorg.conf file, don't ask me why ..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308754
> Personally, I didn't succeed in using Flash Player on Google Chrome beta 1 (I am using OpenSUSE 11.2) ..
Works OK here on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
> companies may be wondering if they should conduct security tests of their customized open source software before deployment ..
If they haven't already conducted penetration tests before deployment and implemented a secure irrevocable auditing system, then they shouldn't even be in the business ..
Shouldn't they built in some sort of redundancy and allow for failure modes. I mean just how difficult is it to move bits from A to B .. ?
LiveUsbPendrivePersistent ...
"'Following the recommendations does not pose a significant threat as of now, but it has a very big potential of being one,' the company's researcher, David Sancho, writes on theTrend Micro blog."
It won't make a bit of difference,as AV software don't work already. A more realistic solution being to allow a whitelist of know good software.
'Why is "Enumerating Badness" a dumb idea? It's a dumb idea because sometime around 1992 the amount of Badness in the Internet began to vastly outweigh the amount of Goodness'
"I've had more than a few desktops with issues of Firefox 3.5.x causing blue screens of death on Windows 7 64bit. Not sure about other flavors of Windows 7"
.. :)
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When will Microsoft ever learn to design a Memory Manager that actually works
But tell me, you are in a business (?) and are already on 64bit Windows 7, generally it's safest to wait for the third iteration of what-ever. That way most of the bugs will have been ironed out
Bing! and bing(TM) .. :)
What does the Android license say as compared to other licenses, the GPL, Apache, BSD, Apple and Microsoft for instance ?
Use Public key infrastructure, register an email with a public directory. If the email sent from that address doesn't match the digital signature, then reject it - case closed ...
"I will probably be modded down as troll, but not only I don't mind at all having ads in my Gmail account (after all, I am getting a "free" service, it is only fair they get something in return) but in a number of occasions I've actually found them useful, suggesting me relevant products that I didn't know about"
;)
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Yea, and no-one paid your for typing that
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The thing is - its the adverts fed to your correspondents., like this for instance, an advert for 'discount diapers', I have in no shape-way-or-form an interest in 'Diapers', what ever they are
If the adverts weren't so annoying, then we wouldn't have to go to such trouble to suppress them. The most annoying is the audio ones that pop up in the middle of a new report, when are you advertisers going to ever learn. The INTERNET isn't like TELEVISION !!!
Secondly, when we arrive at a web site selling, for instance, contact lenses, we don't want to watch an advert, we want to know: do you carry our prescription and HOW MUCH DOES IT COST, that is all !!!!
how about encrypting the downlink DOH!
Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case (InfoWorld)
"After moving up the ranks within my department from Intern to Technical Lead .. and will now be required to work 5 eight-hour days rather than 4 ten-hour days and be on call during the other two days of the week
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If you still have to clock-on then you ain't a lead anything just another replaceable company drone. Time to move on. But don't tell them until you have the other job lined up. For your next job go for the donut downsizing executive position
'Like Microsoft and other for-profit software companies, the GPL gang uses government-based aggression in order to enforce its so-called "intellectual property rights"'
What is the name(s) of this government-based, agreesive GPL gang, and did you type this BS yourself ?
"a Linux system can be turned into a botnet client by simply downloading BOINC and attaching it to a user account to help scientific projects"
Can you provide a link to a demonstration of this Linux 'malware'. One that - with no user action - can compromise my machine or by clicking on even a version of 'malware' that works by clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment.
As far as I can make out, users must first download and install BOINC and allow RPC calls. I mean if that's your definition of malware so is me putting a safe in the middle of the street with the combination numbers taped to it. No doubt you would then write a story about just how easy it is to crack that particualr model of safe.
kdawson, have you nothing else to write about ???
"The study also showed most of the IT systems were aimed at improving efficiency for hospital management -- not doctors, nurses, and medical technicians"
"I still don't get the continuing obsession with the idea that everything on the internet should be free"
We don't object to adverts, what we do object to is intrusive ads that slide-in/pop-up all singing and talking irritating type of advert. And the ones that freeze the loading of the page because of some overloaded ad.server