Well, it's not just 2 gig that you get for $20 at yahoo, even though that's probably the best thing about the upgrade for the paying customers like myself. The reason I paid yahoo for email in the first place are the things like POP access, ability to use different identities when sending emails, no ad tag lines for the outgoing emails, disposable email aliases for posting to public forums. There are a few others, yahoo has the comparison chart here.
Well, with the upgrade, I have to admit, gmail would have to come up with something extraordinary to convince me to switch. A few subtle differences here and there won't be worth it. Ahh, what a great example what good old helthy competition could do!:)
The Video URL posted is outdated: that site is designed for the older browsers (Netscape 4.7) and older players used within Cisco. Here's the link that points to the site that has better support for Mozilla/Firefox, Linux and Mac.
Very close, but not quite. "Capitalistic Communism" does not exist. Communism by definition does not recognize private property because the core of this theory considers it the source of inequality. As such, all property belongs to the government, which pretty much automatically makes it the sole major employer. No communist country has ever had a successful economy , which makes a pretty good argument that this theory has failed. There's still only 2 "communist" countries in the world that follow the "no private property" rule - Cuba and North Korea. Many other countries, however, do practice, what's probably much closer to Capitalistic Socialism - equalizing the income and opportunities through taxation and many government sponsored social programs. National Insurance subsidized by high taxes in Canada - mentioned by Rumblimo - is a good example. From my limited knowledge about India's economy, the government not only doesn't reject private property, but attempts to promote it. Which is one of the reasons why it has been so successful in getting outsourcing deals from the American and European businesses, ahead of Philippines, China, and Russia.
How's turning off ability to recover your password "fixing" it? It's not a fix, but disabling a feature that's esential for users who've forgotten their passwords. It's only temporary of course: it stops people from using the exploit while MS is working on really fixing it.
While Jon mentions Java once, I think it deserves more praises, especially when you talk about high level languages: java security (both virtual machine and the language) is so tightly implemented that there's no known exploit for a java buffer overflow. The worst that can happen to a java server is JVM can crash. This is solvable by a mere JVM restart, and nowhere close to gaining control of the box it's running on.
Sun never promissed native compilers, they just said it was possible to do using the available JVM specks. With the current JVM and JIT (just in time) compilation optimizations, running bytecode in most cases is similar in speed to running native code. However, if you insist, here's an article on IBM developerworks listing quite a few 3rd party native java compilers.
From thier FAQ it looks like it's a java-based device with a custom VM. It should be fairly easy to either port one of the existing java ssh clients or write a new one.
Try to come up with services related to your site's expertise business users would pay for.
An example of this model is www.dlsreports.com. They have a great collection of network troubleshooting tools (the kind usally run from the outside). Everything a residential user needs is free, but if somebody wants extra stuff such as 24 x 7 network monitoring, they charge for it.
Besides, selling services based on open source software, isn't it sweet?:)
I find this comparison between CueCat and software flawed, to say the least.
And not just because Red Hat broke even and Caldera showed profits this past quarter, but because you seem to miss a very important point about modern software business: THIS BUSINESS IS ALL ABOUT SERVICES. The days of selling software as a self-contained "product" are long gone. Look at Oracle, Microsoft and others as they are trying really hard to change themselves into business of selling their software as services.
I do agree that the open source companies don't seem to spend enough time thinking about what kind of paid services would be the most beneficial for their users to bring in enough revenue. How long did it take Red Hat to come up with such an obvious moneymaker as their Red Hat network?! A lot of companies using dozens of Linux boxes would love to pay for a unified automated way of tracking upgrades for all the Linux boxes on their network.
Same with Eazel and Ximian. Their business plans are very blurry about what services exactly they plan to make money on.
I do think that Eazel is positioned better than others to make Linux useable by your average PC user, which in turn would advance Linux position in server market as well, as more people become comfortable with using it.
I wonder if it's a first step in "embrace-and-extend". Yeah, right, it "had nothing to do with the success of the open-source movement and the Linux...". I think they're just testing the waters, and if open source software catches up with more and more enterprises, it'll just give them a chance to proclaim that they support open source. This may be enough for many IT managers who have heard the buzz word, but have very little idea what it actually is.
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Well, it's not just 2 gig that you get for $20 at yahoo, even though that's probably the best thing about the upgrade for the paying customers like myself. The reason I paid yahoo for email in the first place are the things like POP access, ability to use different identities when sending emails, no ad tag lines for the outgoing emails, disposable email aliases for posting to public forums. There are a few others, yahoo has the comparison chart here. Well, with the upgrade, I have to admit, gmail would have to come up with something extraordinary to convince me to switch. A few subtle differences here and there won't be worth it. Ahh, what a great example what good old helthy competition could do! :)
The Video URL posted is outdated: that site is designed for the older browsers (Netscape 4.7) and older players used within Cisco.
Here's the link that points to the site that has better support for Mozilla/Firefox, Linux and Mac.
"Reuters Television" has the video of the flight and preparations.
Very close, but not quite. "Capitalistic Communism" does not exist.
Communism by definition does not recognize private property because the core of this theory considers it the source of inequality. As such, all property belongs to the government, which pretty much automatically makes it the sole major employer. No communist country has ever had a successful economy , which makes a pretty good argument that this theory has failed. There's still only 2 "communist" countries in the world that follow the "no private property" rule - Cuba and North Korea. Many other countries, however, do practice, what's probably much closer to Capitalistic Socialism - equalizing the income and opportunities through taxation and many government sponsored social programs. National Insurance subsidized by high taxes in Canada - mentioned by Rumblimo - is a good example. From my limited knowledge about India's economy, the government not only doesn't reject private property, but attempts to promote it. Which is one of the reasons why it has been so successful in getting outsourcing deals from the American and European businesses, ahead of Philippines, China, and Russia.
How's turning off ability to recover your password "fixing" it? It's not a fix, but disabling a feature that's esential for users who've forgotten their passwords. It's only temporary of course: it stops people from using the exploit while MS is working on really fixing it.
While Jon mentions Java once, I think it deserves more praises, especially when you talk about high level languages: java security (both virtual machine and the language) is so tightly implemented that there's no known exploit for a java buffer overflow. The worst that can happen to a java server is JVM can crash. This is solvable by a mere JVM restart, and nowhere close to gaining control of the box it's running on.
Sun never promissed native compilers, they just said it was possible to do using the available JVM specks.
With the current JVM and JIT (just in time) compilation optimizations, running bytecode in most cases is similar in speed to running native code.
However, if you insist, here's an article on IBM developerworks listing quite a few 3rd party native java compilers.
Nope, it works. I ssh from my Zaurus connected to my T68 ericsson phone as a modem (via IR and/or bluetooth) on T-mobile network. Works like a charm.
From thier FAQ it looks like it's a java-based device with a custom VM. It should be fairly easy to either port one of the existing java ssh clients or write a new one.
- Ed Y.
And here's the thing in action
Try to come up with services related to your site's expertise business users would pay for. :)
An example of this model is www.dlsreports.com. They have a great collection of network troubleshooting tools (the kind usally run from the outside). Everything a residential user needs is free, but if somebody wants extra stuff such as 24 x 7 network monitoring, they charge for it.
Besides, selling services based on open source software, isn't it sweet?
I find this comparison between CueCat and software flawed, to say the least.
And not just because Red Hat broke even and Caldera showed profits this past quarter, but because you seem to miss a very important point about modern software business: THIS BUSINESS IS ALL ABOUT SERVICES. The days of selling software as a self-contained "product" are long gone. Look at Oracle, Microsoft and others as they are trying really hard to change themselves into business of selling their software as services.
I do agree that the open source companies don't seem to spend enough time thinking about what kind of paid services would be the most beneficial for their users to bring in enough revenue. How long did it take Red Hat to come up with such an obvious moneymaker as their Red Hat network?! A lot of companies using dozens of Linux boxes would love to pay for a unified automated way of tracking upgrades for all the Linux boxes on their network.
Same with Eazel and Ximian. Their business plans are very blurry about what services exactly they plan to make money on.
I do think that Eazel is positioned better than others to make Linux useable by your average PC user, which in turn would advance Linux position in server market as well, as more people become comfortable with using it.
I wonder if it's a first step in "embrace-and-extend". Yeah, right, it "had nothing to do with the success of the open-source movement and the Linux ...". I think they're just testing the waters, and if open source software catches up with more and more enterprises, it'll just give them a chance to proclaim that they support open source. This may be enough for many IT managers who have heard the buzz word, but have very little idea what it actually is.