Kuwait had a similar dream in the 60's. Flush with oil money and the increasing air-conditioning of households, someone came up with the idea that it would be easier to aircondition the whole city instead. They wanted to build a dome that would enclose the entire city and make the hot summer months bearable. Fortunately, that just fizzled out.
SMTP, that grand-daddy of email protocols, was designed to be a client-server system with a large number of servers. HotMail changed all that and concentrated the servers in the hands of a few. With PGP at the client end and more server end-points we could improve the situation considerably. To fool metadata collecting systems every forwarded email transaction should also send dummy messages to two other random servers that will presumably get rejected.
No one switches for just the operating system. It is the applications that run atop it that make the difference. In your case it was Asterisk. Glad to hear that you have crossed the bridge.
The Windows registry is nothing more than a glorified file system. It is in fact a set of files that gets loaded. But, there is one difference: permissions. One can assign full NT ACLs to registry keys. One cannot lock down a part of Apache httpd.conf file on Unix, for example. One would have to set file permission on the whole file which, in some cases, is too coarse-grained.
NT did not bother too much about locking down the registry though the facilities were there. Sure, there were whole trees that were off-limits to mere mortals but they could have done a much better job. I hear that Windows XP does a decent job in this department.
These guys are offering mp3 at ridiculously low prices: mp3search.ru. They do not have most things that I want but that might be due to my twisted taste rather than their selection. They claim that it is all legit. You decide. Their network speed has been good in the past and pretty much kept up with my cable connection speed.
Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts in the ill-fated shuttle was of Indian descent. The Columbia accident was front-page news in India and many of the weekly magazines had cover articles on it. Ok, I admit, the Indian astronaut had a lot to do with it. In any case, India did mourn.
The article may have been a troll or not well thought out as someone pointed out. But, I'd say that the author has a point and the open source community should keep their eyes open and even offer tools to prevent possible attacks. The most difficult to detect as well as most far-ranging attack will be in the compiler or the kernel. Which is not to say that the other applications/daemons should be neglected. After all, many of them run as root. Another thing is user education; users should be made to distrust binaries by default. Only signed apps or those that can be traced back to the original sources should be worthy of acceptance.
A DEC PC (Digital Equipment Company, remember them?) is my firewall machine. 25MHz with 16 MB of RAM but it is almost always at 0.1 load or below. Does admirable service - even after 11 years. I bought it as my Windows machine where I ran Chicago (the beta of what later came to be called Windows 95).
The article is a bit lean on how GPS is used and frankly I don't see how GPS can prevent collisions with a stationary object on the rails. Of course, collisions between trains can be avoided if someone monitors the positions of trains.
The ones on an H1 permit that you might have seen toiling away in companies across the US do not have much time for OSS. However, there are a substantial number in US universities that are contributors to open source projects and, as will become more popular in the future, there will be a mass of programmers in India who will be working on interesting tools.
... an astounding Rs. 74,10,00,000/- (rupees seventy four crores and ten lakhs) ...
For the benefit of those who might think that there might be missing digits in the numbers: in India, after the thousand position (3 digits) they are grouped in two's as shown. Here are the powers of 10 as a guide.
The first place I would expect SVG to appear in is the browser. In Mozilla the beta SVG provided by Adobe does not work. Mozilla's own implementation[mozilla.org] is stuck due to licensing issues (LGPL vs MPL). When can we expect a decent one on our beloved platform? Windows users at least a decent one from Adobe.
Most of the answers so far indicate that Flash should not be used and why. That, however, was not the question. I have been been using Swish from http://www.swishzone.com/ for those simple animations with fade in/out, slide in/out of text and images for the little banner-type images. I would stay away from Flash for constructing a whole page or a site (yes, those exist!).
Oldies might remember that AM radios used to get placed next to mini-computers to serve as monitoring devices. The hiss, crackle and pop emanating from radio would be a good indication of the activity on the machine. After a while you would be able to listen to the sound and say, for instance, that the backup job was running, etc. Current machines being much faster and better shielded are probably not amenable to such monitoring.
The author is right: WAP currently running over GSM is circuit-switched. Later this year GPRS will become available. As that is packet-switched, WAP devices running on GPRS will also be packet-switched. However, the current crop of WAP phones (i.e., GSM based) will need to be discarded when GPRS comes along. Yet another purchase, I'm afraid.
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Kuwait had a similar dream in the 60's. Flush with oil money and the increasing air-conditioning of households, someone came up with the idea that it would be easier to aircondition the whole city instead. They wanted to build a dome that would enclose the entire city and make the hot summer months bearable. Fortunately, that just fizzled out.
SMTP, that grand-daddy of email protocols, was designed to be a client-server system with a large number of servers. HotMail changed all that and concentrated the servers in the hands of a few. With PGP at the client end and more server end-points we could improve the situation considerably. To fool metadata collecting systems every forwarded email transaction should also send dummy messages to two other random servers that will presumably get rejected.
> ... let Google worry about all of that for you - and in return you just have to pay them...nothing.
You pay by handing over your email conversations over years, ie your soul.
How will the ruling affect web sites that offer public domain content but use SSL?
No one switches for just the operating system. It is the applications that run atop it that make the difference. In your case it was Asterisk. Glad to hear that you have crossed the bridge.
Shouldn't that be "...my wife and me...". Just being pedantic this morning.
Whaaat??? Which mainframe might that be?
The Windows registry is nothing more than a glorified file system. It is in fact a set of files that gets loaded. But, there is one difference: permissions. One can assign full NT ACLs to registry keys. One cannot lock down a part of Apache httpd.conf file on Unix, for example. One would have to set file permission on the whole file which, in some cases, is too coarse-grained.
NT did not bother too much about locking down the registry though the facilities were there. Sure, there were whole trees that were off-limits to mere mortals but they could have done a much better job. I hear that Windows XP does a decent job in this department.
These guys are offering mp3 at ridiculously low prices: mp3search.ru. They do not have most things that I want but that might be due to my twisted taste rather than their selection. They claim that it is all legit. You decide. Their network speed has been good in the past and pretty much kept up with my cable connection speed.
Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts in the ill-fated shuttle was of Indian descent. The Columbia accident was front-page news in India and many of the weekly magazines had cover articles on it. Ok, I admit, the Indian astronaut had a lot to do with it. In any case, India did mourn.
The article may have been a troll or not well thought out as someone pointed out. But, I'd say that the author has a point and the open source community should keep their eyes open and even offer tools to prevent possible attacks. The most difficult to detect as well as most far-ranging attack will be in the compiler or the kernel. Which is not to say that the other applications/daemons should be neglected. After all, many of them run as root. Another thing is user education; users should be made to distrust binaries by default. Only signed apps or those that can be traced back to the original sources should be worthy of acceptance.
A DEC PC (Digital Equipment Company, remember them?) is my firewall machine. 25MHz with 16 MB of RAM but it is almost always at 0.1 load or below. Does admirable service - even after 11 years. I bought it as my Windows machine where I ran Chicago (the beta of what later came to be called Windows 95).
The article is a bit lean on how GPS is used and frankly I don't see how GPS can prevent collisions with a stationary object on the rails. Of course, collisions between trains can be avoided if someone monitors the positions of trains.
But listening to one of the true innovaters of our time is not something I would want to miss if I was in the area.
The ones on an H1 permit that you might have seen toiling away in companies across the US do not have much time for OSS. However, there are a substantial number in US universities that are contributors to open source projects and, as will become more popular in the future, there will be a mass of programmers in India who will be working on interesting tools.
For the benefit of those who might think that there might be missing digits in the numbers: in India, after the thousand position (3 digits) they are grouped in two's as shown. Here are the powers of 10 as a guide.
10
100
1,000
10,000
1,00,000 (one lakh)
10,00,000
1,00,00,000 (one crore)
And 50 Rupees (INR) is approx. USD 1.
The first place I would expect SVG to appear in is the browser. In Mozilla the beta SVG provided by Adobe does not work. Mozilla's own implementation[mozilla.org] is stuck due to licensing issues (LGPL vs MPL). When can we expect a decent one on our beloved platform? Windows users at least a decent one from Adobe.
Most of the answers so far indicate that Flash should not be used and why. That, however, was not the question. I have been been using Swish from http://www.swishzone.com/ for those simple animations with fade in/out, slide in/out of text and images for the little banner-type images. I would stay away from Flash for constructing a whole page or a site (yes, those exist!).
Oldies might remember that AM radios used to get placed next to mini-computers to serve as monitoring devices. The hiss, crackle and pop emanating from radio would be a good indication of the activity on the machine. After a while you would be able to listen to the sound and say, for instance, that the backup job was running, etc. Current machines being much faster and better shielded are probably not amenable to such monitoring.
Sorry to disappoint you: I-mode also runs at 9600 baud. However, it is packet switched and not circuit-switched which is a critical difference.
The author is right: WAP currently running over GSM is circuit-switched. Later this year GPRS will become available. As that is packet-switched, WAP devices running on GPRS will also be packet-switched. However, the current crop of WAP phones (i.e., GSM based) will need to be discarded when GPRS comes along. Yet another purchase, I'm afraid.