What happens when someone gets fired? Is there a way to get around this feature? Can more than one fingerprint be stored? I have a fwe more questions but I think you get my point.
I think there is not enought information to really say either way.
I have seen Linux and FreeBSD run on systems that did not have enough resources to run Windows. To tell me that these users were so lost that the systems kept failing. Where did you find these people? My kids use FreeBSD with Gnome and not once have they managed to crash the system. This includes powering it off when they could NOT agree on who gets to use it. The system comes back every time. I have had powerfailures with Linux and not once have I had problems as drastic as you describe.
In our environment we have FreeBSD on all our desktops, not one system running Windows. Non tech staff have no problems using these systems. We hardly spend any time training these people and we never have any problems.
The way I read the article it seems that you would hold onto your information on your own system and somehow authenticate yourself through a third party. Something like SSL. It seems I read this somewhere but I can't recall where....
by people who know little about designing a secure OS
The problem is business not poor programing skills. Economically speaking the average user blames hackers and does not hold, or can not hold, the software Co. responsible. So there is no incentive to secure the system prior to its release. Let the masses find the bugs and they can charge them latter for the upgrades/fixes.
Win2k is not hard to secure; neither is any other MS system.
I have to disagree with you here. I also have to disagree with most of the comments in this thread. As far as windows 2K it has come a long way but there are still alot of undocumented holes. But this is not the issue. The problem is that W2K is being marketed as an easy to administer system. I have come across so may system admins who know windows only, but have no clue about security. Clients who purchase windows systems are under the impression that we need not train windows admins or just place the most knowledgable person in the company to create user accounts and reboot. Microsoft is selling a false sense of security in all levels of their marketing. Windows is NOT easy to use (ever have a problem that you know what needs to be corrected but it just doesn't allow you, plug and pray for one). True Windows administrators cost the same as UNIX admins, they only admins who settle are those that are not able to truely administer a system./RANT
I am tired of reading how great windows is. I'd like to experiance it, unfortunately every OS out of Microsoft has easy to use 'WIZARDS' that fail to acomplish simple tasks but make people feel that they have administered the system.
Bring in your laptop with a CD and try to play the CD. Once you show him that it doesn't work, put one in that works and show him that it's not a problem with your cd player. (by the way if you don't have a laptop try to borrow one from a friend)
Here's another thing. They take all your information and if you try to return a defective product you must bring in the receipt. They can't seem to find it in the !@#$%^ system.p.
I can see by your.sig you aren't looking for an intelligent conversation
My sig is a statement. I was soooo pro Micro$soft in the days of 8088's, XT's, 286's and 386. I came to realise that there are other better solutions for me. I'm tired of software companies hiding behind license agreements when their software fails. At least I know what to expect form open source software. What I find realy funny is that most beta Open Source software performs better than final release comercial software. I guess for you this is a flame...to me I just prefer reliability to useless features.
Thank you for reminding me to change the.sig it's been over a year since I wrote it.
So I guess the problem is marketing. We need to get the product out faster in order to create a demand for these services. We need to setup a Open Source marketing strategie. For all you geeks who own your own corporations,,, Why not link to other geeks who support Open Source.
We need to setup an OSDN for networking, as in MARKETING not TECH. We should be referring clients to one another. If I can't service an area who can I send this client to? Mabey split the revenue based on the work done. Mabey setup a service revenue sharing agreement. Have it as GPL and keep working on it till we have something we can trust.
How do you build a reputation in 18 months? How do you show your clients in 18 months that your solutions will help them?
Microsoft took three years to get IE to the level it's at now. They spent over 100 million (as per some old stories, don't have anything to backthis up with). How did they ever expect to get a stable client base in such a short time.
It takes 5 years to get a business started. Establish a reputation. Establish a client base. It's not easy, the only people who claim it's easy are those who are looking for VC funding. It requires hard work, marketing, money, and most of all satifying your clients.
So let's learn from this and buget, plan, and learn from these failures because one day in the not so distant futur we will have successfull Open Source Service providers.
Unfortunatly we have idiots in this world such as spammers. I could just see someone with a mail server connecting to one of these and starting to SPAM. The trouble that this would cause for the individual providing the network is unimaginable.
Gee... I forgot to tell my clients. Imagine that and they haven't complained...I wonder how the access the net if it doesn't work.......
It's should be called how to become an ISP.
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He's just described an ISP and conviniently left out all the other services/equipment required.
It sounds more like they miss Napster...
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Specifically, the dollar value of all music product shipments decreased from $6.2 billion at mid-year 2000 to $5.9 billion at mid-year 2001-a 4.4 percent decrease. Unit shipments dropped from 488.7 million at mid-year 2000 to 442.7 million units at mid-year 2001-a 9.4 percent decrease, according to figures released today by the RIAA.
I was wondering how they would explain the drop in revenue after they killed napster.
CD-R,...YEAH....Yeah... That's it. The new boogy man. (excuse the pun.)8^)
Sad but false. I for one. It is used for backups mostly and personal use.
Then again I hardly listen to CD's anymore. I haven't bought one in over three years. When something new that you like comes out it gets killed by radio stations to the point that you start hating the song or even wondering why you ever liked it.
I am torn here!!! While I understand the Brazilian government I can't stop to wonder if this trend continues what's going to happen?!?
Imagine that all contries decide not to respect IP on drug patents for whatever reason including saving lives. Then 2 to 10 years down the line a new Virus or epidemic, call it XYZ, comes along.
Now everyone remembers what happened to the AIDS IP and noone wishes to risk money in developing a cure in case the governments decide to confiscate this IP as well. So people start dying and nobody invests. People continue to die untill when????
The issue is we need to safeguard the research for a given period of time in order to have a return on investment after that anyone can produce a generic product.
But how can you tell it's a password and not something like ls -al | grep slash. The software would need some controle setting in order to simplify the search. ie when we login to a system we have the common:
SYSTEM login:
USER hello
SYSTEM password:
USER g0d
so we have a control to base our guess, but how would you know that i'm typing a password, all your seeing is my wasting company time responding to/. 8^)
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I wonder who on/. surfs at 640x480 cause the counter is increasing.
I agree and disagree with your point. In some cases it is much more efficient to use a CLI than a GUI. This may be due to the poor design of the GUI. The GUI helps when we do not use something very often and do not wish to read up on a certain subject.
All in all, I think that his statement is not wrong, its just that a computer USER can no longer be considered a geek.
This should read no one will loan you money in the near future. If Loki has a positive cash flow and can show that they were in the BLACK for over a couple of years (depends on the creditor), then there is a chance that they will lend you money at THEIR terms(ie. Prime +5 and such). Ch.11 is made to help business survive when there is a possibility for success. We will know more in the next couple of months.
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What happens when someone gets fired? Is there a way to get around this feature? Can more than one fingerprint be stored? I have a fwe more questions but I think you get my point.
I think there is not enought information to really say either way.
As for MI6 they should use handcuffs....
In terms of productivity, it all depends what your business requires.
I have not seen such a terrible experiance.
I have seen Linux and FreeBSD run on systems that did not have enough resources to run Windows. To tell me that these users were so lost that the systems kept failing. Where did you find these people? My kids use FreeBSD with Gnome and not once have they managed to crash the system. This includes powering it off when they could NOT agree on who gets to use it. The system comes back every time. I have had powerfailures with Linux and not once have I had problems as drastic as you describe.
In our environment we have FreeBSD on all our desktops, not one system running Windows. Non tech staff have no problems using these systems. We hardly spend any time training these people and we never have any problems.
The problem is business not poor programing skills. Economically speaking the average user blames hackers and does not hold, or can not hold, the software Co. responsible. So there is no incentive to secure the system prior to its release. Let the masses find the bugs and they can charge them latter for the upgrades/fixes.
I have to disagree with you here. I also have to disagree with most of the comments in this thread. As far as windows 2K it has come a long way but there are still alot of undocumented holes. But this is not the issue. The problem is that W2K is being marketed as an easy to administer system. I have come across so may system admins who know windows only, but have no clue about security. Clients who purchase windows systems are under the impression that we need not train windows admins or just place the most knowledgable person in the company to create user accounts and reboot. Microsoft is selling a false sense of security in all levels of their marketing. Windows is NOT easy to use (ever have a problem that you know what needs to be corrected but it just doesn't allow you, plug and pray for one). True Windows administrators cost the same as UNIX admins, they only admins who settle are those that are not able to truely administer a system.
I am tired of reading how great windows is. I'd like to experiance it, unfortunately every OS out of Microsoft has easy to use 'WIZARDS' that fail to acomplish simple tasks but make people feel that they have administered the system.
Here's another thing. They take all your information and if you try to return a defective product you must bring in the receipt. They can't seem to find it in the !@#$%^ system.p.
My sig is a statement. I was soooo pro Micro$soft in the days of 8088's, XT's, 286's and 386. I came to realise that there are other better solutions for me. I'm tired of software companies hiding behind license agreements when their software fails. At least I know what to expect form open source software. What I find realy funny is that most beta Open Source software performs better than final release comercial software. I guess for you this is a flame...to me I just prefer reliability to useless features.
Thank you for reminding me to change the
Tell that to Microsoft they gave away IE.
It's the business model. How do you make money? That is the question. Red Hat seems to have found a way.
We need to setup an OSDN for networking, as in MARKETING not TECH. We should be referring clients to one another. If I can't service an area who can I send this client to? Mabey split the revenue based on the work done. Mabey setup a service revenue sharing agreement. Have it as GPL and keep working on it till we have something we can trust.
If you have any other ideas just add them here...
Microsoft took three years to get IE to the level it's at now. They spent over 100 million (as per some old stories, don't have anything to backthis up with). How did they ever expect to get a stable client base in such a short time.
It takes 5 years to get a business started. Establish a reputation. Establish a client base. It's not easy, the only people who claim it's easy are those who are looking for VC funding. It requires hard work, marketing, money, and most of all satifying your clients.
So let's learn from this and buget, plan, and learn from these failures because one day in the not so distant futur we will have successfull Open Source Service providers.
Unfortunatly we have idiots in this world such as spammers. I could just see someone with a mail server connecting to one of these and starting to SPAM. The trouble that this would cause for the individual providing the network is unimaginable.
He's just described an ISP and conviniently left out all the other services/equipment required.
I was wondering how they would explain the drop in revenue after they killed napster.
CD-R,...YEAH....Yeah... That's it. The new boogy man. (excuse the pun.)8^)
Then again I hardly listen to CD's anymore. I haven't bought one in over three years. When something new that you like comes out it gets killed by radio stations to the point that you start hating the song or even wondering why you ever liked it.
Imagine that all contries decide not to respect IP on drug patents for whatever reason including saving lives. Then 2 to 10 years down the line a new Virus or epidemic, call it XYZ, comes along.
Now everyone remembers what happened to the AIDS IP and noone wishes to risk money in developing a cure in case the governments decide to confiscate this IP as well. So people start dying and nobody invests. People continue to die untill when????
The issue is we need to safeguard the research for a given period of time in order to have a return on investment after that anyone can produce a generic product.
SYSTEM login:
USER hello
SYSTEM password:
USER g0d
so we have a control to base our guess, but how would you know that i'm typing a password, all your seeing is my wasting company time responding to
All in all, I think that his statement is not wrong, its just that a computer USER can no longer be considered a geek.
This should read no one will loan you money in the near future. If Loki has a positive cash flow and can show that they were in the BLACK for over a couple of years (depends on the creditor), then there is a chance that they will lend you money at THEIR terms(ie. Prime +5 and such). Ch.11 is made to help business survive when there is a possibility for success. We will know more in the next couple of months.