actually he is doing it right. You need a wired backbone to link all your APs since every other solution, in an enterprise env, will either choke the network or kill security.
But wifi is wrong for critical infrastructure anyway since you can DoS it with just about anything that has an antenna.
It really doesn't seem logical to switch whole office spaces to fully wifi operated networks. first of: the "baud" will be 1960s values second: enterprise wifi has magnitudes more expensive equipment. third: your it guys will run into meltdown until they can figure an opperational plan that is robust enough to handle any incompetent acountant's infected windows lapotp. "But no mr IT guy I didn't run analSexNowDLFreeSuck.exe promise!" wireless networks don't require physical access to the network to be penetrated if you have the keys whereas physical networks can be monitored for intruders much easier, the only possible access point is the Internet facing machine. I'm not saying that they are secure but wifi has more entry vectors once you have certain info. fourth: there is no spoon
So I guess corporate IT by means of networking guys is quite safe.
To put my two cents about the story: I believe the IT landscape will change more for software developers and less so for hardware guys. Just look at how many new apis surface the web daily. hw IT might get a nice bump from nfc devices/inventions and wider usage of rfid tech but there doesn't seem to be much more game changing comming in the adjacent couple of years. sw IT seems to be changing much much faster these days with more and more infrastructure being based on the cloud and saas booming it now seems as classical software development is kind of lingering in the background. I don't mean that standalone programs are extinct. Obviously demand for standalone software (sw that runs on bare metal, OS, etc) will perpetuate but it looks like classic software and cloud software will at some point become two different places just because of the layers of api's ind interfaces (abstractions) that lie in between them.
As a summary: I think the only way IT will follow in the next decade is up. More and more devices(and services) will come into the mainstream lifestyle of joe and mary and that will generate more and more demand for people to design, implement, program, interconnect, manufacture, test these devices(and services). The only thing that will change is the requirements in the skill set. But if you thought that computers were a learn once eat for a lifetime thing you were mislead, Sorry.
OMG you can highlight->paste in linux????? I remember doing this on some prehistoric machines at scool in the early 90s! Never thought it had survived the windowsification of everything.
Ok, I have to say that now it is a bit weird since the middle button is a wheel. It just doesn't feel right.
He found the secret secret place where they keep the apps, that people want so badly that they'll dump Windows for, which when publicized will lead to a huge increase in linux users and finally begin the "year of the liinux desktop";-)
Well, then there is the point of: Do you really want some OS to beat windows?
I personally like the fact that the FOSS OSes are a bit of a niche on the desktop. I don't care that much that I need to pull up terminals to do some stuff, actually on some occasions it is quite relaxing to go the minimal and info oriented route to troubleshoot something instead of getting encumbered with gui hell.
In addition to this using a solution that is not in the mainstream generally means that you will get a much more knowledgeable community which helps productivity and learning. just go to yahoo answers (picked this because it very well represents the skills/abilities of people on the Internet today) and ask a question about a medium complexity computing task, in both the win7 category and the linux one. Then wait a day or two and compare the answers you will get. Not really the same quallity? That's the expected outcome. The win7 thread will have about 2^20 answers of which but a handful will be of any value. on the linux thread you might get just the one answer but it will help you complete your task.
On another note, I am running a complete FOSS web development studio and we are beating the hell out of our local competition that relies on proprietary software. As an added bonus screening/interviewing job applicants is much easier with a pure foss setup, people who don't want to hop into a new computing environment and get out of their comfort zone (or haven't already) are usually sub par material in the IT world.
So as a conclusion I would like to suggest that the FOSS variants should not become mainstream maybe a slight increase in market share might help but in desktop world 1-2% sounds perfect imo. (go Windows!!!)
any ignorance in the above text is mine. MINE!!!! you can't have it. go get your own.
I am really, really tired of these 'news' which by now are about two years old.
HEY! APPLE! we live in a FREE economy! we operate FREE markets. You made a product that sells? Good for you but don't act surprised that similar products exist or will exists.
Jesus.... I'm bored again
as always: "all the ignorance|arrogance|misinformation|typos|"errors in logic"|idiocy in this text are mine. MINE!!! you can't have them, go get your own."
I had the opportunity to play with haiku on a weekend trip to a friend (I never had bothered to try it but he had) about a month ago. I have to say that the OS has some very very strong points. I loved the window pinning in window management and the easy ramdisk functionality.
As a product I am afraid it isn't complete enough to be used in production env but I really had to wonder how come no one in the FOSS OS communities ever tried to copy some of its frankly brilliant functionality.
I don't know if the IT world needs one more open source OS, imo bsd and all the linux distros can cover all the needs anyone could ever have from an integrated circuit. I respect haiku's divergence and the (new) ideas it brings to the OS table but I think that the devs time would have been time better spent trying to integrate ramdisk functionality into the linux kernel (or just evolve the already existing one) and the remainder of said time could have ben used to hit gnome devs on their heads with a hardcopy telephone catalog.
And no, I'm not a gnome hater. I predominantly use gnome on my workstations but you simply can't ignore that fact that sticking windows together should be a standard feature of any window management system.
ohh and as always: "any misinformation/error/ignorance/arrogance in this text is mine. MINE!!!! you can't have it"
Is it just me or is that commitment thing really really yesterday? I mean, first nokia pissing themselves and running towards Redmond's $ and thenHP (who were already some billions into webOS) giving up....
WERE ARE YOUR BALLS SW PEOPLE??????
it's not even like meego and webOS don't have new ideas to bring to the table. they are distinct OSes, not just android ripoffs.
I really don't get it why the touch pad is an unmitigated disaster.
first of: the UI is very, very powerful second: it is not as locked down a system as android and ios are third: it is really howmbrew friendly
I mean, ok these are things that might not appeal to the casual content consumer but from all the stuff that's out there it really seems to be the most poweruser/geek friendly device that came out the last couple of years. I really don't get why it is getting such a bashing from the geek world...
On another note. Nobody in their right mind would expect such a niche device to sell well in it's first iteration. Such things need heavy heavy investments, promo campaigns, QA cycles, propaganda and evangelists. You can't really sell such devices without having some big personalities behind them, or ship without a solid amount of quality assurance and marketing.
I am pretty sure that insurers have a different policy on people that willingly infect themselves with HIV...
But on the other hand since the article states "modified version of the virus" there might be no lasting HIV in the patient... Also I think I have heard somewhere that HIV medication is actually quite cheap to produce. I might be getting this mixed up though.
I mean, patents were invented in an epoch were information traveled with pigeons. Nowadays information gets instantaneous world wide publicity. Patents where designed to be a protection mechanism for makers, not the industry. Today makers can just broadcast their new invention and monetize on it directly or with the way they wish what need is there for Patents in this space?
nice now I can't buy a cheaper tablet, that I like more than the stoooopid eeepad, that is more user friendly to programming literates, that has a better homebrew community, that won't try to lock me in with a shitload of fruits of a Rosaceae plant; because no one still imports it into my country...
the guy even has his own appliaces that you can just spin up in ec2. I am trying to do a similar thing on a fedora JEOS instance but had no luck up to now...
And no, this is not a joke. The simple fact of the matter is that the glacial speed of evolution in goverments, their agencies and multinational monetary institutions has left them way behind from an administrative point of view. In a state in which they cannot anymore supervise their own mass and activities and because of the internal mechanisms that link them all together they turn to solutions too inefficient from their inception on. These choices that are being made and have been being made since the end of WW1 are leading everyone into the same vicious cycle of approving more and more inefficient countermeasures that end up inflating them even more and perpetuating the problem.
Nature millenia ago developed a very good mechanism to take care of such mishaps, it's called SPECIATION and surprisingly it is the only one behavior our economic society has to copy from nature.
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actually he is doing it right. You need a wired backbone to link all your APs since every other solution, in an enterprise env, will either choke the network or kill security.
But wifi is wrong for critical infrastructure anyway since you can DoS it with just about anything that has an antenna.
It really doesn't seem logical to switch whole office spaces to fully wifi operated networks.
first of: the "baud" will be 1960s values
second: enterprise wifi has magnitudes more expensive equipment.
third: your it guys will run into meltdown until they can figure an opperational plan that is robust enough to handle any incompetent acountant's infected windows lapotp. "But no mr IT guy I didn't run analSexNowDLFreeSuck.exe promise!" wireless networks don't require physical access to the network to be penetrated if you have the keys whereas physical networks can be monitored for intruders much easier, the only possible access point is the Internet facing machine. I'm not saying that they are secure but wifi has more entry vectors once you have certain info.
fourth: there is no spoon
So I guess corporate IT by means of networking guys is quite safe.
To put my two cents about the story:
I believe the IT landscape will change more for software developers and less so for hardware guys. Just look at how many new apis surface the web daily.
hw IT might get a nice bump from nfc devices/inventions and wider usage of rfid tech but there doesn't seem to be much more game changing comming in the adjacent couple of years.
sw IT seems to be changing much much faster these days with more and more infrastructure being based on the cloud and saas booming it now seems as classical software development is kind of lingering in the background. I don't mean that standalone programs are extinct. Obviously demand for standalone software (sw that runs on bare metal, OS, etc) will perpetuate but it looks like classic software and cloud software will at some point become two different places just because of the layers of api's ind interfaces (abstractions) that lie in between them.
As a summary: I think the only way IT will follow in the next decade is up. More and more devices(and services) will come into the mainstream lifestyle of joe and mary and that will generate more and more demand for people to design, implement, program, interconnect, manufacture, test these devices(and services).
The only thing that will change is the requirements in the skill set. But if you thought that computers were a learn once eat for a lifetime thing you were mislead,
Sorry.
OMG you can highlight->paste in linux????? I remember doing this on some prehistoric machines at scool in the early 90s! Never thought it had survived the windowsification of everything.
Ok, I have to say that now it is a bit weird since the middle button is a wheel. It just doesn't feel right.
Why would somebody post that as AC?
Anyway, that's a possibility. That's why I prefaced it with 'might' :-)
She Ra
shotgun!!!
He found the secret secret place where they keep the apps, that people want so badly that they'll dump Windows for, which when publicized will lead to a huge increase in linux users and finally begin the "year of the liinux desktop" ;-)
tinfoil hat?
Well, then there is the point of: Do you really want some OS to beat windows?
I personally like the fact that the FOSS OSes are a bit of a niche on the desktop. I don't care that much that I need to pull up terminals to do some stuff, actually on some occasions it is quite relaxing to go the minimal and info oriented route to troubleshoot something instead of getting encumbered with gui hell.
In addition to this using a solution that is not in the mainstream generally means that you will get a much more knowledgeable community which helps productivity and learning. just go to yahoo answers (picked this because it very well represents the skills/abilities of people on the Internet today) and ask a question about a medium complexity computing task, in both the win7 category and the linux one. Then wait a day or two and compare the answers you will get. Not really the same quallity? That's the expected outcome. The win7 thread will have about 2^20 answers of which but a handful will be of any value. on the linux thread you might get just the one answer but it will help you complete your task.
On another note, I am running a complete FOSS web development studio and we are beating the hell out of our local competition that relies on proprietary software. As an added bonus screening/interviewing job applicants is much easier with a pure foss setup, people who don't want to hop into a new computing environment and get out of their comfort zone (or haven't already) are usually sub par material in the IT world.
So as a conclusion I would like to suggest that the FOSS variants should not become mainstream maybe a slight increase in market share might help but in desktop world 1-2% sounds perfect imo. (go Windows!!!)
any ignorance in the above text is mine. MINE!!!! you can't have it. go get your own.
I am really, really tired of these 'news' which by now are about two years old.
HEY!
APPLE!
we live in a FREE economy!
we operate FREE markets.
You made a product that sells? Good for you but don't act surprised that similar products exist or will exists.
Jesus....
I'm bored again
as always: "all the ignorance|arrogance|misinformation|typos|"errors in logic"|idiocy in this text are mine. MINE!!! you can't have them, go get your own."
I had the opportunity to play with haiku on a weekend trip to a friend (I never had bothered to try it but he had) about a month ago.
I have to say that the OS has some very very strong points. I loved the window pinning in window management and the easy ramdisk functionality.
As a product I am afraid it isn't complete enough to be used in production env but I really had to wonder how come no one in the FOSS OS communities ever tried to copy some of its frankly brilliant functionality.
I don't know if the IT world needs one more open source OS, imo bsd and all the linux distros can cover all the needs anyone could ever have from an integrated circuit. I respect haiku's divergence and the (new) ideas it brings to the OS table but I think that the devs time would have been time better spent trying to integrate ramdisk functionality into the linux kernel (or just evolve the already existing one) and the remainder of said time could have ben used to hit gnome devs on their heads with a hardcopy telephone catalog.
And no, I'm not a gnome hater. I predominantly use gnome on my workstations but you simply can't ignore that fact that sticking windows together should be a standard feature of any window management system.
ohh and as always: "any misinformation/error/ignorance/arrogance in this text is mine. MINE!!!! you can't have it"
... committed more to WebOS ...
Is it just me or is that commitment thing really really yesterday? I mean, first nokia pissing themselves and running towards Redmond's $ and thenHP (who were already some billions into webOS) giving up....
WERE ARE YOUR BALLS SW PEOPLE??????
it's not even like meego and webOS don't have new ideas to bring to the table. they are distinct OSes, not just android ripoffs.
I really don't get it why the touch pad is an unmitigated disaster.
first of: the UI is very, very powerful
second: it is not as locked down a system as android and ios are
third: it is really howmbrew friendly
I mean, ok these are things that might not appeal to the casual content consumer but from all the stuff that's out there it really seems to be the most poweruser/geek friendly device that came out the last couple of years. I really don't get why it is getting such a bashing from the geek world...
On another note. Nobody in their right mind would expect such a niche device to sell well in it's first iteration. Such things need heavy heavy investments, promo campaigns, QA cycles, propaganda and evangelists. You can't really sell such devices without having some big personalities behind them, or ship without a solid amount of quality assurance and marketing.
or a taxonomy major :-)
No, it's an active matrix LCD screen! A million psychedelic colours!
I am pretty sure that insurers have a different policy on people that willingly infect themselves with HIV...
But on the other hand since the article states "modified version of the virus" there might be no lasting HIV in the patient...
Also I think I have heard somewhere that HIV medication is actually quite cheap to produce. I might be getting this mixed up though.
Is the 10" Galaxy tab that good a machine? I thought that android tablets were (allegedly) years behind the iDap
can't we just do away with patents altogether?
I mean, patents were invented in an epoch were information traveled with pigeons. Nowadays information gets instantaneous world wide publicity. Patents where designed to be a protection mechanism for makers, not the industry. Today makers can just broadcast their new invention and monetize on it directly or with the way they wish what need is there for Patents in this space?
I am replying to myself because I can't be bothered to reply to an anonymous coward:
dear anonymous coward: I can't be bothered to take your reply seriously, sorry.
nice now I can't buy a cheaper tablet, that I like more than the stoooopid eeepad, that is more user friendly to programming literates, that has a better homebrew community, that won't try to lock me in with a shitload of fruits of a Rosaceae plant; because no one still imports it into my country...
clarification: where appliances I mean AMIs ;-)
You could use a free ec2 instance and go with this tutorial (not mine)
postfix_server+a_lot_of_sw on ec2
the guy even has his own appliaces that you can just spin up in ec2.
I am trying to do a similar thing on a fedora JEOS instance but had no luck up to now...
well, I grant You that they have done some preposterous things from time to time. Agreed
Quite valid points.
I disagree with all of them :-)
And no, this is not a joke. The simple fact of the matter is that the glacial speed of evolution in goverments, their agencies and multinational monetary institutions has left them way behind from an administrative point of view. In a state in which they cannot anymore supervise their own mass and activities and because of the internal mechanisms that link them all together they turn to solutions too inefficient from their inception on. These choices that are being made and have been being made since the end of WW1 are leading everyone into the same vicious cycle of approving more and more inefficient countermeasures that end up inflating them even more and perpetuating the problem.
Nature millenia ago developed a very good mechanism to take care of such mishaps, it's called SPECIATION and surprisingly it is the only one behavior our economic society has to copy from nature.
So: Sorry but everything you said is irrelevant
The internet is worse off thanks to "Anonymous".
Fed
what's wrong with anti-corporatism when the corporations you rally against the source of your pain?
Why is this comment moderated -1?
sorry, I'm new here