I use and admin Solaris systems every day, at work and at home, and in itself it's a great product. But its biggest problem is Java. More and more stuff is being java-ised, resulting in absolutely horrid performance. Examples: the SunScreen 3.2 commandline. Takes ages to load or do anything, especially viewing your firewall logs. Sun Managment Center: It does not perform. It becomes completely laughable when you try to display the screen on another Xserver. This is how Sun was demo-ing it at Lisa2001, and although the lead developers over there agreed that it didn't perform, they blamed this on Swing but had this scary religious fervor when it came to doing things in Java. The new patch-managment tools from Sun? Nice idea, very flawed implementation. Sloooooow, and so buggy that we ditched it, prefering to keep our Suns up to date by hand. Java installers are another fun item. Sun has a very nice packaging system, which makes it possible to jumpstart machines with identical software configurations etc. But more and more software becomes 'java installed'. It does not add any functionality apart from a badly drawn gui, but it breaks all the convenience of having one standard packaging tool for the os. Please stop this madness.
After all, it's the Americans and especially their movie-industry that came up with this insane region-system. And the main reason they got away with it is that their domestic audience would get the releases first anyway. So I think it's only fair that some Americans get to experience what it is like to be on the 'wrong' side of the region system, and I hope it happens more often. Who knows, they might even learn something from it. I mean, you can only get shafted by the big corporations so often in return for brown-nosing them, somebody is going to get the hint, right?
This shows that your private information may not be in the best hands when entrusted to a company
like Microsoft. But there are other 'takers'. Some even with the best of intentions.
If any of them ever gets to be the one and only 'central repository', they will be subject to just this kind of attack as well. If you can't compromise the service, then hack into the user's desktop. As soon as enough people use it, it becomes a very attractive target. In a similar vein, there have been viruses that target the client end of home-banking software.
Security is enhanced by redundancy, by having several distinct systems in place, preferably as dissimilar as possible. Monoculture and monopolies always form a fertile environment for viruses and other pests.
I feel this makes the whole idea of a centralized service like Passport or any of it's competitors an extremely dangerous development.
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If the past decade, and especially the past few years have thought us anything, it's that it is no longer about what feels right, if it ever was.
And any company but especially a tech company couldn't care less about your feelings of loyalty and 'right', or those of their empolyees, if it impacts their bottom line.
In the capitalist economy, the ever shrinking margins have long since squeezed conscience out of the corporate picture.
I'm serious here, folks. With the demise of Netscape, even more people will start thinking that "Internet" equals running IE, and Windows. Perhaps a little Linux and Mac thrown in, but the rest of us have just been told to shut the fuck up, roll over and die. We've been served our 'declaration of war', and it's at webstandards.org.
I propose a 'Ban Internet Explorer' day. Anyone of us who runs a webserver on any flavour of unix would be asked to, for one day, exclude IE-users from these websites, redirecting them to a page that tells *our* side of the story.
We've lost the browser-battle, but we may not have lost the war yet.
Get a *big* server from Sun, and a whole lot of SunRays. These make very sweet desktops: 24 bit colour 1280x1024, stereo 44kHz audio, and no internal harddisk or fan. This will save you incredible amounts of money when it comes to supporting the setup. I'm using a SunRay every day, and they are great. Once it's set up, it is as close to zero admin as you can get.
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I use and admin Solaris systems every day, at work and at home, and in itself it's a great product. But its biggest problem is Java. More and more stuff is being java-ised, resulting in absolutely horrid performance.
Examples: the SunScreen 3.2 commandline. Takes ages to load or do anything, especially viewing your firewall logs. Sun Managment Center: It does not perform. It becomes completely laughable when you try to display the screen on another Xserver. This is how Sun was demo-ing it at Lisa2001, and although the lead developers over there agreed that it didn't perform, they blamed this on Swing but had this scary religious fervor when it came to doing things in Java.
The new patch-managment tools from Sun? Nice idea, very flawed implementation. Sloooooow, and so buggy that we ditched it, prefering to keep our Suns up to date by hand.
Java installers are another fun item. Sun has a very nice packaging system, which makes it possible to jumpstart machines with identical software configurations etc. But more and more software becomes 'java installed'. It does not add any functionality apart from a badly drawn gui, but it breaks all the convenience of having one standard packaging tool for the os.
Please stop this madness.
After all, it's the Americans and especially their movie-industry that came up with this insane region-system. And the main reason they got away with it is that their domestic audience would get the releases first anyway. So I think it's only fair that some Americans get to experience what it is like to be on the 'wrong' side of the region system, and I hope it happens more often. Who knows, they might even learn something from it. I mean, you can only get shafted by the big corporations so often in return for brown-nosing them, somebody is going to get the hint, right?
I'm not trolling, I'm just bitter.
This shows that your private information may not be in the best hands when entrusted to a company
like Microsoft. But there are other 'takers'. Some even with the best of intentions.
If any of them ever gets to be the one and only 'central repository', they will be subject to just this kind of attack as well. If you can't compromise the service, then hack into the user's desktop. As soon as enough people use it, it becomes a very attractive target. In a similar vein, there have been viruses that target the client end of home-banking software.
Security is enhanced by redundancy, by having several distinct systems in place, preferably as dissimilar as possible. Monoculture and monopolies always form a fertile environment for viruses and other pests.
I feel this makes the whole idea of a centralized service like Passport or any of it's competitors an extremely dangerous development.
If the past decade, and especially the past few years have thought us anything, it's that it is no longer about what feels right, if it ever was.
And any company but especially a tech company couldn't care less about your feelings of loyalty and 'right', or those of their empolyees, if it impacts their bottom line.
In the capitalist economy, the ever shrinking margins have long since squeezed conscience out of the corporate picture.
I'm serious here, folks. With the demise of Netscape, even more people will start thinking that "Internet" equals running IE, and Windows. Perhaps a little Linux and Mac thrown in, but the rest of us have just been told to shut the fuck up, roll over and die. We've been served our 'declaration of war', and it's at webstandards.org. I propose a 'Ban Internet Explorer' day. Anyone of us who runs a webserver on any flavour of unix would be asked to, for one day, exclude IE-users from these websites, redirecting them to a page that tells *our* side of the story. We've lost the browser-battle, but we may not have lost the war yet.
Get a *big* server from Sun, and a whole lot of SunRays. These make very sweet desktops: 24 bit colour 1280x1024, stereo 44kHz audio, and no internal harddisk or fan. This will save you incredible amounts of money when it comes to supporting the setup. I'm using a SunRay every day, and they are great. Once it's set up, it is as close to zero admin as you can get.