Matthew has produced a suite of Oracle on Linux tools at http://www.orasoft.org. He doesn't have a replacement for Schema Manager for database synchronization, but his tools are catching up on SQL Navigator and TOAD (free version at http://www.toadsoft.com/toadfree.zip). I saw an MS Outlook Client at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo. Gotta get that one. I've been using StarOffice since I got my new machine in Dec 99 instead of MS Office. Almost there, stay on target... stay on target Got that demo disk of VMWare - going to run that on RH6.1 for awhile.
I'm glad to hear that your company plans to release a DVD decoding (MPEG-2) card in the future with Linux support. I'm dissappointed to hear that no support is planned for the existing Hollywood Magic card (I've bought 2 - xmas gifts).
It might be true that by putting Linux support in a future card could get users to buy a second card - if no other card supports Linux before you release the new card.
But - if the ATI Rage Fury card decode DVD's acceptably with Linux - I won't need any additional hardware for DVD decoding.
So just annoucing future Linux support for a future product doesn't get you any sales in my book - in fact, it causes me to recommend to friends to *not* buy your current cards.
But the idea of future Linux support a good start...
In order to hire competent staff in this area, you have to already have staff in place that knows how to hire competent people. Can HR do this?
When time to market is the most crucial factor, "Security? we can just add that on later".
Such places aren't going to deploy enough security the first time around. They can only react to this matter after the crack happens.
Security is always someone else's problem until it becomes their problem - on the front page of major news sites.
Would you now buy from CD Universe with a credit card? probably not. Should you? I'll be that within a month, they'll have the most secure setup in their business market. They will have thrown tons of money at the security hole, and try to market their newly increased security as a strength, not a weakness. So I'll look for their "check out our new, improved site, now with 'Security' coupons" soon.
I'd have to disagree on this one. If you have them using a Mac in college, when the student is graduating (and getting ca$h presents) the student might be picking up a new system. When the.edu discount is going to expire - that's the time to hit them. I almost picked up a Mac at that point several (okay, more than several) years ago.
Now I despise macs. Who ever heard of a 'named' hard drive that breaks your applications (that have to have hardcoded paths) when you 'rename' it?
Macs suck. Badly. File I/O is garbage. TCP/IP is awful. I don't give a !@#$ about photoshop.
Today I found out that I received 2 monitors from buy.com. One had a packing slip that was original - the other packing slip was marked clearly - DUPLICATE -
What I do know is that my Appian Pro Multi monitor card is getting a pair of monitors. Perfect for tracking bids at ubid.com at closing time while reading slashdot on the other. I know NT supports the 2 monitors, now I'll have to see how X runs on it.
The other time they sent 3 hard drives in response to 1 order (billed all 3). They credited my account for one of them. If they keep sending bonus stuff, I'll keep ordering:)
I'm tempted to disallow outbound access on my home firewall to www.ubid.com. Its just too tempting... unless I start picking up those stripped down compaq proliant 5500R Xeons and get all of my boxes up off of the floor and into a rack...
fwiw, I say lets talk about new features in RedHat 6.1, and the new features due out in the 2.4.x kernel. Get psyched for NetFilter.
Stay on target. Don't succumb to distraction. Talk about how much you like the features that are in Linux now. Pay attention to what Linus has to say tomorrow at Javits (Internet World Expo), not what Redmond has to say on the M$ site.
Get one more person you know to put a Linux box up as a personal firewall for their cable modem or DSL connection. At first, they won't bother it much. Later, they'll start poking around in X, and realize that they can do more than just try to keep people from cracking it. They'll start to allow their friends to use inbound ftp. Next they'll host their own web page, instead of putting up with banners and boxes from Tripod or GeoCities. Then they'll realize that they can use telnet when they're in Europe to read their mail instead of putting up with a hotmail account. Half a year after they've had it, their on their way to understanding networking a system administration, and finding out that they actually like a command line. They might even keep X up for Netscape just to have the TV-guide site up in their living room.
Why wouldn't a company block a domain? If they mange their own firewall, its just one entry in their config script, or one item in a list in their commerical-GUI Firewall/Proxy Server. What information does a company want to provide to its shareholders? The quarterly reports, where any meaningful info would require a beowulf cluster searching through the universe of legalese and verbage. Companies spend as much as hundreds of millions of dollars a year building a brand, and they're going to let that image be tarnished by what their employees purchased using the employers' computing system?
2. Instruct employees to use a generic e-mail address like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com
Uh, its not your email address they're using. Its the IP Address of the NAT, Masquerade or Firewall that they're tracking. Did you notice that little yellow lock in the corner of your browser when you gave them your credit card #? that was a secure connection (hopefully with the massive 128 bit key that the US Government still allows us to use). Have you ever heard of TCP/IP? Its not your email address they use to set up SSL. Think about it - if they didn't know where the packets were coming from, they couldn't return the data that you requested to your browser.
I completely agree with the Cash. Funny thing though, on last week's Law and Order, they nailed the guy with info obtained from a bookstore where the guy placed an order, but didn't even buy the books! Timed-stamped video cross-linked to the purchase stored in an Oracle8i database (enabling the information age) will soon strip your identity our of the cash purchases. Throw in an audio recording along with it, while you're at it. "How are you today" will mean - "Please identify your voiceprint for our records".
Can you legally walk into a place of business with a ski mask on and not be thought of as a robber?
"He was concealing his identity! Thief! How dare he steal our marketing data."
I've bought a shelf full of animals + 4 oracle books from FatBrain (Computer Literacy) - some of which I actually finished (still working on that copy of Sendmail...).
But who's to say that FatBrain will be any different from Amazon? Once the transaction is recorded, its there forever. The cost of storage has changed everything - the word 'expunge' should soon be leaving the venacular...
Your transaction history is going to follow you. Look at the other article about 2.3 Terabytes of storage for $50 in 2 years. IDE storage is now approaching $10/Gigabyte. Lets just assume that a tranaction required 100K.That's 10 transactions per megabyte. 1,000 Transactions per Gigabyte. Cost of storage is not a factor. A penny for your thoughts? How about it only costs a penny to store your purchase.
So even if your book vendor doesn't post the aggregate data on the net, who's to say that they won't resell said data to a third party? If you want anonymity, there's only one word in the USA: Cash. No extended warranty purchased along with the item, no warranty form filled out, no delivery address. Cash and carry.
Trade convenience for your identity. Its easy. Its fun. What time did you get on the train today? What time did you go through the EZ-Pass booth today. Where were you headed when you went through the Toll Booth at the State line on August 25th, 1999? Great Britain has radar detectors equippped with cameras mounted on overpasses. You speed, you get a photo taken of your license plate. You get a ticket in the mail. Add a transponder to the license plate (Don't you think that having GPS in your car will be cool? No.) and you could be tracked everywhere. What videos did you rent Today? What books, what TV shows did you watch? Which ones did you download for later? What CD's did you buy? How many pounds of unhealthy red meat did you buy this year at the Supermarket with your discount card? You Insurance company would love to know. "Your request for open heart surgery has been declined - too many bags of charcoal."
The credit card companies are doing the same thing. They know what you buy. "Double your warranty if you buy with our card". That also means "Identify all of your purchases with our card. We're just going to provide the info to our partners..."
Transactions will never be deleted. Archived, yes. Resold to another party where they won't be 'archived'? Yes. Mined. Expunged? What does that word mean again? I remember hearing that word mentioned 15 years ago when a friend of mine turned 18...
I don't mind letting the world know that I purchase Linux texts. I don't mind letting the world know that I buy computer hardware. If I have nothing to hide, why worry? But what if you take a trip to Europe. Can you imagine having to clear U.S Customs: "What? I see here on your passport that you traveled through the Netherlands? Step into this booth and provide a urine sample". 'But I don't understand, Sir. I have committed no crime here in the U.S.A.' "Yes, but we have reason to believe that you may have visited a Hash Bar while in Amsterdam". "It says here that you use Linux and that you bought 3 Pink Floyd, 2 Metalica and 1 Phish CD this year. You have been profiled". "Drugs are illegal here in the U.S. If you are carrying drugs in your bloodstream, in your body at all, you are in violation of U.S Law".
What if your next employer designs systems for the Government, or one of its Military contractors? I have been asked by FBI agents concerning the behavior of two friends, one from high school and one from college, concerning their worthiness of a U.S. Military Clearance. That's where it starts. Next, its the Teachers. Then its the Transportation workers. That employer won't be your next employer. Where would it stop?
The information is being amassed. No one can stop that. Developers are no longer limited by 255 entries in an "IN" clause. Create a temporary table on the fly. Throw it in a view. Everything "scales". I hope that XML fails. The last thing we want to accellerate is the interoperability of the various Fedreal, State and Local agencies. Combine that with the Insurance Industry. Feed that info to the Laywers. They will take that info and collectively shit out the little marble of dark matter... which will be powerful enough to fuel litigation into perpetuity. (yes, I watched Futurama this week).
I don't know who said it, but I've seen the sig "The Revolution will not be televised". I now know what that means. Don't rely on your government to protect you. Educate fellow Citizens to help protect each other from The Government, from the FUD.
Don't look for thorough coverage of this type of issue in the Media, as it will not be there. Who buys the Advertising? The New Media sites are buying up the 'Old Media' advertising vehicles as fast as you can say 'IPO'.
Don't just be a consumer. Use cryptography now, because someday you will need it for real - like tomorrow.
my apologies for the length of the rant, I hope you found something wothwhile in it...
I was reading an article about the outage on news.com on day 9 - when I got one of those "Hi, are you happy with your current long distance service?" calls. It was from Qwest, a company that I haven't heard much dirt about yet. Yet. My old housemate had moved to Europe and they offered decent international rates, so for once I said 'yes' to one of those telemarketers that I usually hate being bothered by. I did tell them that the only real reason that I was switching was because MCI really messed up. Of course, I was talking to a 3rd party telemarketer who probably has 1000 resumes our trying to get a real job and really doesn't care about telecommunications in the least bit.
thoughts from the shower... Set top boxes, Other embedded devices (mp3 in cars), Packaged software for business ($149 webserver) - this is just the beginning of more prepackaged apps for business. Maybe people think (market cap) will approach the value of M$. Revenue from support: Doug Adams might say ~ "RedHat is applying the time honored tradition of gaining revenue off of people's laziness (to not compile their own) and stupidity (when they do get under the hood, take it apart and break it)." OTOH, if code bug-free, support calls drop - RH may have to implement service packs... Market size - 'stand back Eve, I don't know how big this thing is going to get'.
Still, I'd have to agree that $85/share must bring the word 'exhuberance' to the tip of Alan Greenspan's toungue.
410 Precisions off the Dell Outlet are sweet. Press one button and its open. Ultra2SCSI, 3Com905B TX onboard. Dual CPU capable. Hard drive assembly slides out making install/removal (cold swap) easy (with a long LVD cable). Loads of room, good air flow pattern. Got rid of the FirePro GL card for a Voodoo 3000. Multi boot 98/NT/RH6.0. having the ability to boot off of different SCSI ID's better than messing with LILO.
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Matthew has produced a suite of Oracle on Linux tools at http://www.orasoft.org. ... stay on target
He doesn't have a replacement for Schema Manager for database synchronization, but his tools are catching up on SQL Navigator and TOAD (free version at http://www.toadsoft.com/toadfree.zip).
I saw an MS Outlook Client at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo. Gotta get that one. I've been using StarOffice since I got my new machine in Dec 99 instead of MS Office.
Almost there, stay on target
Got that demo disk of VMWare - going to run that on RH6.1 for awhile.
Paul
thanks. I'm opted out.
thanks for the code. I'll install it now on my PII350 Voodoo 3 3000 box now.
First feature: Enemy of the State (seriously).
Paul
I exorcised the Win98 and WinNT Wks partitions from this machine over the weekend.
18 GB of nothing but linux. Lots of room for Quake III Arena & Oracle 8.1.5.
congrats.
This evening I discovered that Yahoo supports gaming and messaging on Linux - small victory, but an enjoyable gaming experience.
Paul
Hi.
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I'm glad to hear that your company plans to release a DVD decoding (MPEG-2) card in the future with Linux support. I'm dissappointed to hear that no support is planned for the existing Hollywood Magic card (I've bought 2 - xmas gifts).
It might be true that by putting Linux support in a future card could get users to buy a second card - if no other card supports Linux before you release the new card.
But - if the ATI Rage Fury card decode DVD's acceptably with Linux - I won't need any additional hardware for DVD decoding.
So just annoucing future Linux support for a future product doesn't get you any sales in my book - in fact, it causes me to recommend to friends to *not* buy your current cards.
But the idea of future Linux support a good start
Paul
In order to hire competent staff in this area, you have to already have staff in place that knows how to hire competent people. Can HR do this?
When time to market is the most crucial factor, "Security? we can just add that on later".
Such places aren't going to deploy enough security the first time around. They can only react to this matter after the crack happens.
Security is always someone else's problem until it becomes their problem - on the front page of major news sites.
Would you now buy from CD Universe with a credit card?
probably not.
Should you?
I'll be that within a month, they'll have the most secure setup in their business market. They will have thrown tons of money at the security hole, and try to market their newly increased security as a strength, not a weakness.
So I'll look for their "check out our new, improved site, now with 'Security' coupons" soon.
If they're still around.
Paul
I'd have to disagree on this one. .edu discount is going to expire - that's the time to hit them. I almost picked up a Mac at that point several (okay, more than several) years ago.
If you have them using a Mac in college, when the student is graduating (and getting ca$h presents) the student might be picking up a new system.
When the
Now I despise macs. Who ever heard of a 'named' hard drive that breaks your applications (that have to have hardcoded paths) when you 'rename' it?
Macs suck. Badly.
File I/O is garbage.
TCP/IP is awful.
I don't give a !@#$ about photoshop.
use http://www.resellerratings.com and avoid the 1 person shops with poor records. The original link was through SysOpt - http://www.sysopt.com
8 online orders placed Saturday
9 packages delivered today.
They sent me an extra (free) monitor, so actually I'm batting 1.125.
No lines, excellent selection, shipped on time.
So for me, -12.5 % of orders fail.
Today I found out that I received 2 monitors from buy.com. One had a packing slip that was original - the other packing slip was marked clearly - DUPLICATE -
:)
...
What I do know is that my Appian Pro Multi monitor card is getting a pair of monitors. Perfect for tracking bids at ubid.com at closing time while reading slashdot on the other. I know NT supports the 2 monitors, now I'll have to see how X runs on it.
The other time they sent 3 hard drives in response to 1 order (billed all 3). They credited my account for one of them. If they keep sending bonus stuff, I'll keep ordering
I can feel the Geek factor increasing already
I'm tempted to disallow outbound access on my home firewall to www.ubid.com. Its just too tempting ... unless I start picking up those stripped down compaq proliant 5500R Xeons and get all of my boxes up off of the floor and into a rack ...
Can someone put up a fsck Amazon counter on a page somewhere?
I'll bet that anyone reading this thread would click through to register a hit.
It would be interesting to see how many people share the same thought, without requiring actual text to be typed by those (dis)interested.
Paul
Start attending LUNY or one of the many Free Software Users Groups in the NYC area.
then you'd know.
Yes, we celebrated Free Software with Free Beer.
thanks for the hospitality, Copyleft.
Paul
Flying in and out of Pittsburgh, its USAir's way or no way. Are they still at ~85% of the flights in/out of PIT?
This would seem like drinking coffee black wouldn't provide the calcium for the desired growth effect.
...
Latte vs. Expresso war?
gotta run, time to put on another pot
fwiw, I say lets talk about new features in RedHat 6.1, and the new features due out in the 2.4.x kernel. Get psyched for NetFilter.
...
Stay on target. Don't succumb to distraction. Talk about how much you like the features that are in Linux now. Pay attention to what Linus has to say tomorrow at Javits (Internet World Expo), not what Redmond has to say on the M$ site.
Get one more person you know to put a Linux box up as a personal firewall for their cable modem or DSL connection. At first, they won't bother it much. Later, they'll start poking around in X, and realize that they can do more than just try to keep people from cracking it. They'll start to allow their friends to use inbound ftp. Next they'll host their own web page, instead of putting up with banners and boxes from Tripod or GeoCities. Then they'll realize that they can use telnet when they're in Europe to read their mail instead of putting up with a hotmail account. Half a year after they've had it, their on their way to understanding networking a system administration, and finding out that they actually like a command line. They might even keep X up for Netscape just to have the TV-guide site up in their living room.
Looking forward to my LUG meeting tomorrow
Paul
Cranking along at 120 K/sec (and climbing).
I tried lots of the other mirrors, without any luck. An attempted download from ftp.redhat.com stalled out last night.
Rebuilding my firewall box will be a good sunday
Cranking along at 106 K/sec (and climbing).
...
I tried lots of the other mirrors, without any luck. An attempted download from ftp.redhat.com stalled out last night.
Rebuilding my firewall box will be a good sunday
Why wouldn't a company block a domain?
If they mange their own firewall, its just one entry in their config script, or one item in a list in their commerical-GUI Firewall/Proxy Server. What information does a company want to provide to its shareholders? The quarterly reports, where any meaningful info would require a beowulf cluster searching through the universe of legalese and verbage. Companies spend as much as hundreds of millions of dollars a year building a brand, and they're going to let that image be tarnished by what their employees purchased using the employers' computing system?
2. Instruct employees to use a generic e-mail address like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com
Uh, its not your email address they're using.
Its the IP Address of the NAT, Masquerade or Firewall that they're tracking. Did you notice that little yellow lock in the corner of your browser when you gave them your credit card #?
that was a secure connection (hopefully with the massive 128 bit key that the US Government still allows us to use). Have you ever heard of TCP/IP?
Its not your email address they use to set up SSL.
Think about it - if they didn't know where the packets were coming from, they couldn't return the data that you requested to your browser.
I completely agree with the Cash. Funny thing though, on last week's Law and Order, they nailed the guy with info obtained from a bookstore where the guy placed an order, but didn't even buy the books! Timed-stamped video cross-linked to the purchase stored in an Oracle8i database (enabling the information age) will soon strip your identity our of the cash purchases. Throw in an audio recording along with it, while you're at it. "How are you today" will mean - "Please identify your voiceprint for our records".
Can you legally walk into a place of business with a ski mask on and not be thought of as a robber?
"He was concealing his identity! Thief! How dare he steal our marketing data."
I've bought a shelf full of animals + 4 oracle books from FatBrain (Computer Literacy) - some of which I actually finished (still working on that copy of Sendmail ...).
...
..."
...
... which will be powerful enough to fuel litigation into perpetuity. (yes, I watched Futurama this week).
...
But who's to say that FatBrain will be any different from Amazon? Once the transaction is recorded, its there forever. The cost of storage has changed everything - the word 'expunge' should soon be leaving the venacular
Your transaction history is going to follow you.
Look at the other article about 2.3 Terabytes of storage for $50 in 2 years. IDE storage is now approaching $10/Gigabyte. Lets just assume that a tranaction required 100K.That's 10 transactions per megabyte. 1,000 Transactions per Gigabyte.
Cost of storage is not a factor. A penny for your thoughts? How about it only costs a penny to store your purchase.
So even if your book vendor doesn't post the aggregate data on the net, who's to say that they won't resell said data to a third party? If you want anonymity, there's only one word in the USA: Cash. No extended warranty purchased along with the item, no warranty form filled out, no delivery address. Cash and carry.
Trade convenience for your identity. Its easy. Its fun.
What time did you get on the train today?
What time did you go through the EZ-Pass booth today. Where were you headed when you went through the Toll Booth at the State line on August 25th, 1999?
Great Britain has radar detectors equippped with cameras mounted on overpasses. You speed, you get a photo taken of your license plate. You get a ticket in the mail. Add a transponder to the license plate (Don't you think that having GPS in your car will be cool? No.) and you could be tracked everywhere.
What videos did you rent Today? What books, what TV shows did you watch? Which ones did you download for later? What CD's did you buy?
How many pounds of unhealthy red meat did you buy this year at the Supermarket with your discount card? You Insurance company would love to know. "Your request for open heart surgery has been declined - too many bags of charcoal."
The credit card companies are doing the same thing. They know what you buy. "Double your warranty if you buy with our card". That also means "Identify all of your purchases with our card. We're just going to provide the info to our partners
Transactions will never be deleted. Archived, yes. Resold to another party where they won't be 'archived'? Yes. Mined.
Expunged? What does that word mean again? I remember hearing that word mentioned 15 years ago when a friend of mine turned 18
I don't mind letting the world know that I purchase Linux texts. I don't mind letting the world know that I buy computer hardware. If I have nothing to hide, why worry? But what if you take a trip to Europe. Can you imagine having to clear U.S Customs:
"What? I see here on your passport that you traveled through the Netherlands? Step into this booth and provide a urine sample".
'But I don't understand, Sir. I have committed no crime here in the U.S.A.'
"Yes, but we have reason to believe that you may have visited a Hash Bar while in Amsterdam".
"It says here that you use Linux and that you bought 3 Pink Floyd, 2 Metalica and 1 Phish CD this year. You have been profiled".
"Drugs are illegal here in the U.S. If you are carrying drugs in your bloodstream, in your body at all, you are in violation of U.S Law".
What if your next employer designs systems for the Government, or one of its Military contractors?
I have been asked by FBI agents concerning the behavior of two friends, one from high school and one from college, concerning their worthiness of a U.S. Military Clearance. That's where it starts. Next, its the Teachers. Then its the Transportation workers. That employer won't be your next employer.
Where would it stop?
The information is being amassed. No one can stop that. Developers are no longer limited by 255 entries in an "IN" clause. Create a temporary table on the fly. Throw it in a view. Everything "scales".
I hope that XML fails.
The last thing we want to accellerate is the interoperability of the various Fedreal, State and Local agencies. Combine that with the Insurance Industry. Feed that info to the Laywers. They will take that info and collectively shit out the little marble of dark matter
I don't know who said it, but I've seen the sig "The Revolution will not be televised". I now know what that means. Don't rely on your government to protect you. Educate fellow Citizens to help protect each other from The Government, from the FUD.
Don't look for thorough coverage of this type of issue in the Media, as it will not be there. Who buys the Advertising?
The New Media sites are buying up the 'Old Media' advertising vehicles as fast as you can say 'IPO'.
Don't just be a consumer. Use cryptography now, because someday you will need it for real - like tomorrow.
my apologies for the length of the rant, I hope you found something wothwhile in it
I was reading an article about the outage on news.com on day 9 - when I got one of those "Hi, are you happy with your current long distance service?" calls. It was from Qwest, a company that I haven't heard much dirt about yet. Yet.
My old housemate had moved to Europe and they offered decent international rates, so for once I said 'yes' to one of those telemarketers that I usually hate being bothered by.
I did tell them that the only real reason that I was switching was because MCI really messed up. Of course, I was talking to a 3rd party telemarketer who probably has 1000 resumes our trying to get a real job and really doesn't care about telecommunications in the least bit.
But it made me feel better.
thoughts from the shower ... ...
Set top boxes,
Other embedded devices (mp3 in cars),
Packaged software for business ($149 webserver) - this is just the beginning of more prepackaged apps for business.
Maybe people think (market cap) will approach the value of M$.
Revenue from support:
Doug Adams might say ~ "RedHat is applying the time honored tradition of gaining revenue off of people's laziness (to not compile their own) and stupidity (when they do get under the hood, take it apart and break it)."
OTOH, if code bug-free, support calls drop - RH may have to implement service packs
Market size - 'stand back Eve, I don't know how big this thing is going to get'.
Still, I'd have to agree that $85/share must bring the word 'exhuberance' to the tip of Alan Greenspan's toungue.
410 Precisions off the Dell Outlet are sweet. Press one button and its open. Ultra2SCSI, 3Com905B TX onboard. Dual CPU capable. Hard drive assembly slides out making install/removal (cold swap) easy (with a long LVD cable). Loads of room, good air flow pattern. Got rid of the FirePro GL card for a Voodoo 3000. Multi boot 98/NT/RH6.0.
having the ability to boot off of different SCSI ID's better than messing with LILO.
not a sucky box at all.
Paul
how about the initial velocity term in the equation? the body is not originally at rest ...
I think that you're referring to
d = v(0)t + 1/2 at^2