Out in the financial trading world, cost is now an issue. Reuters has now been ported to Linux. Also last I heard that certaincompanies consider Linux more than ready for running large databases. Other companies are coming across too. As there are already BSD versions of Adobe's stuff - a Linux port is relatively easy.
Unless you can convince them your heart and soul is behind them and their vision, they won't give you a good deal on the licenses you need like Windows and Office.
Even if you are selling your corporate soul to MS, never let them know it. Have an alternative plan sitting on the table featuring stuff like Linux and Open Office.
Now if your bosses are playing games with the MS rep, its a good idea that the salesdrroid thinks this is for real. So, just deploy a few Linux systems for 'evaluation'.
The post was pretty funny but actually, Mitnick knew more about telephones and was from the phreaking scene. He was also exceptionally good at convincing people to give him things, such as password resetting. He would use his skills with telephone switches to give himself an internal telephone extension so the usual callback check didn't work.
Actually Win9x to NT was a major leap as that was when the 16-bit stuff was ditched. There was no corresponding revolution in Linux, just a *lot* of incremental changes. Although some changes were big, their scopes were a lot smaller and as you say, Linux is just a kernel.
PJ must in the end cut the theatrical version according to what Newline say and that really depends upon their perception of the market.
The real reason is that when you have a war somewhere, there are side effects elsewhere. This is the point that Tolkein was making. Even though LOTR is not about WW2, it does reflect some experiences - you return from war as a victor to find much of what you were fighting to protect has been damaged, some of it even destroyed.
So put it down to political correctness. Someone does not want to show the true cost of warfare.
In reality, I agree. More minutes of Christopher Lee would be great, but this is an integral part of the story and is even foretold. Yes, Frodo and Sam triumph in the end but the shire has been badly damaged.
My version of the comment would be "the features of Office 97 debugged".
Actually Office 2K debugged most of the features of Office 97. By the same token, Office 2k3 should debug all of them and some of the new features introduced with Office 2K.
I agree with your mother. I updated much earlier but that was because O97 wasn't stable with larger documents or embedded objects. However, I now stick with O2K on my remaining Windows system.
One of the way that dictators (whether 'elected' or not) control their population is by limiting the access to information. I have seen places where the world price of sugar is a secret. Why, because government linked monopolies buy it from the farmers for a few dollars a ton then resell it on the international market.
In many cases they don't need access to the outside world, just the local market prices can be useful. Also, privatisation is great but unless people have a real idea of the value of the bits of the paper they receive, they are ready to be tricked out of them as happened in most of the former soviet union.
As users don't these nations also have a right to be part of the regulatory process?
You buy possibility and sell certainty. There is a remote chance that SCO may win, just as you may win the Powerball Lottery. However, a SCO win in the US is unlikely to translate worldwise and in any case would be limited to 'enterprise' level Linux and would not affect end-users. I consider this an extremely remote possibility, but to get a general win would be impossible. The analyst is merely reporting a possibility. You are essentially right, as long as people trade, the bank makes money.
I don't think it is a secret but Deutsche Bank do use Linux and they even have an internal user group. The analyst will almost certainly have a Windows desktop but probably doesn't realise that many backend services are provided from Unix and maybe even Linux services.
It appears that if we are american, whether white or black and have descendants over several generations in the US then you are related to someone of the 'wrong' color and probably through slavery. Human enslavement still unfortunately exists but not in the US and is nothing to do with the use of master/slave in engineering.
Technically, primary/secondary may work with IDE but it sucks for some of the other uses where there is a one/many relationship. For example, bus mastering.
The main thing about the older networks in particular was that the cables need space, lots of it and ducts get kind of full quickly.
Removing cable can be a little tricky (you don't really want to put new strain on the production cables), but it is generally recyclable which can pay for the operation. However, if you start removing things, you had better make sure that the cables are tagged.
I was on a consultancy gig for a while at a company that was suffering from a McKinsey infestation. Their idea was for staff that work mainly out with clients to share resources.
Desks were implemented using Citrix for the PCs and Sunray for Solaris. Lockable drawer units could be wheeled around easily between offices. Easy, but not what you want on a daily basis.
The economics for Citrix suck as it is always cheaper to have the mips in a workstation than a server for a PC. the telephone system allowed users to login and logout of the phone so you could take the phone wherever your desk was. If you really want to be mobile, but you don't need mobiles then DECT works quite well. For real mobiles, it depends upon your deal. We paid a much lower rate between the office and the mobile.
Cool idea for management consultants. Bad idea for almost anyone else that happen to be office based. Forget books, and as for leaving documents on the server, some very interesting docs were compromised their (Restricted supplier policies/bids, contract rates, etc).
As a developer, we ended up moving every couple of months or so. Still a tremendous upheaval and altogether a dumb idea.
On the other hand, it is probably useful for some staff who mainly work elsewhere or on the road. I was on one gig where I was out most of the time doing consultancy, seriously overseas. When I was in the office, I didn't need too many books as I was mainly there for face time and to organise office support (i.e., filing, copying and so on).
As a final point, if you build an open plan office without conference facilities - best employ deaf developers. Personally, in such environments, good headphones that exclude ambient noise are wonderful.
I note that your viterprative and ad hominem attacks do not comment about BillyG's methods of avoiding US tax.
I have no idea what you are talking about, and I have done disaster recovery on dozens of Exchange servers.
Someone with your vast experince would of course be aware that you couldn't install Exchange Server 5.5 on 2K, you could only install ES5.5 with service packs on 2K - unfortunately, it is hell on earth getting neat 5.5 to run well enough to accept the service packs.
However I guess you went straight to ES 2K when MS told you to. The fact that your users were then screwed if they wanted to communicate doesn't matter.
I guess Linux distros save money by expecting people to patch too... since every OS has security patches.
As a Micro$oftie, I guess you wouldn't know. Linux is sold as partially locked down out of the box. Most opther operating systems I have used would arrive with a series of mandatory patches which you applied before exposing your system. You were never more than six months out of date and on average about 3. How much would Billy have to pay to ensure that a patch CD was shipped with every copy of XP home? No, well he doesn't have to suffer the headaches.
How did you guess that I work on a help desk? I would be quite proud to work actually helping customers directly. However, that isn't exactly a Microsoft strong point so I guess you wouldn't know about it.
Anyway, good troll. Try to keep off the ad-hominem attacks and you might even end up with some karma.
The enemy seem to be driving a diesel truck with an AK47 at their side stuffed full with Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil on a fast burning fuse. A major disaster, attacked with one of these, the lights on the truck won't work!!!
Rumour has it that some of the older SAM installations from USSR times are stuffed with thermionic valves. Not much to go wrong there either.
There is still a large wage differential between the former DDR lander (states) and the rest. Dresden has not only been in the chip business (Infineon is also there), it has also been the home to some high precision instrument manufacture and research centres.
There is also an international school there which is a prerequisite to bringing over non-german execs with families. I don't work there myself but a friend has moved there and quite enjoys it. It may cost more than SE Asia, but there are other advantages.
You are right about tax breaks. The former DDR states still do quite well.
Actually the word 'telephone' is used explicitly in the majority of the claims.
If they want to specifically address the issue of trusted intermediaries, well they can start with many electronic exchanges with prior art back to the mid-eighties.
Technically, they are *not* guilty or innocent until they go in front of a court of law. They are not being charged with anything or being accused of anything.
Ask any retailer who is to blame for credit card fraud and the answer will be the same: Credit card companies.
It is expensive to chase after CC fraudsters, particularly if they are from another country. Any one merchant may only see a single crime from one fraudster and it may not even be enough to be interesting for the FBI. That single fraudster is typically comitting frauds against many merchants but it is only really the credit card companies who have the resources to go after these people.
I'm not an expert on the subject but I feel confident in saying that with a change of policy from credit card issuers, upwards of 90% of online card fraud could be stopped over-night. I also feel confident in saying that this change of policy will not happen.
Unless something moves the responsibility for dealing with fraud back on the card supplier, I agree with you.
The WTO disagrees. Look at the use of Foreign Sales Corps for tax evasion. The thing is that normally you pay tax where you earn the money (country where the sale occurred) or where you bank it (the registration district for your parent company). Gatesy is choosing to do neither by siphoning the cash offshore.
You may remember the old Crowther and Woods "Collosal Cave" Adventure game. Have you ever had a 'cannot get there from here' while trying to do a MS product reinstall. You can get that version of Exchange (for example) reinstalled on this version of NT but not another. You had to reinstall NT. Slowly, then reinstall Exchange starting with an earlier version and then cross patch each insequence so they weren't out of step. I have reduced my exposure to MS to a minimum now as a result.
The thing is that he seems to believe it is fine to sell defective products. He saves money by exepcting customers to patch. Great, but the guy is also selling to domestic users who don't have firewalls. By the time they have finished patching, they are owned. My systems are firewalled, but those owned systems are still hamnering away at my bandwidth before being thrown out.
The Gates and Balmer gang push snake oil. That is the real reason they are so scared by open source.
I was not aware of frequency hopping being in the GSM standard. I know that if you move between cells, the hand-over will allocate new frequencies.
The A5 cipher is standard and is turned on throughout western europe on the GSM network. Others get a strength reduced version and some have no encryption at all. Encrytion only works between the handset and base station. Law enforcement organisations normally have access at the switches but generally require warrants.
Encryption is a major problem for most organisations and you are essentially limited to GOST (which are only symmetrical ciphers). To use a GOST cipher you must obtain an implementation a license from FAPSI. FAPSI also require that some personnel are trained and certified. Keys must be generated by a FAPSI approved box, which you pay money for each time you use it. FAPSI is essentially the former communications security directorate of the KGB.
This does not apply to organisations regulated by the Central Bank of Russia, such as banks and currency exchanges. This allows them to use such things as PGP and SWIFT because the banks are open to authorised inspection at any time.
Communications between clients and banks or brokers, i.e., electronic banking and/or trading are an issue. Especially as some brokers are unregulated by the Central Bank.
If you are particularly interested, I can dig out the law references from some of my reports. Many do break the law, as happens in Russia, but this gives another good reason to be shaken down.
As the FSB is able to intercept almost anything (the primary exception is the military who do their own thing) without real control - it appears that they do. The information is also made commercially available to those who may be interested.
I work in corporate IT, and I really prefer dealing with MS.
I guess you work for Microsoft or have negligable experience. Microsoft has its place by giving the least possible support. On the whole, I find their people ignorant, unfortunately of their own products which explains why their incompatible product lines continue to conduct battles on my servers.
Gatesy can start by paying some proper taxes like everyone else. Offshore earnings should be credited on the balance sheet rather than filtered through FSCs.
Is he abusing workers in foreign counties, no. Is he abusing their economies, yes.
Regrettably when yyou actually want to convert that to cash terms, the result is zero, hense the dot bomb economy. Fiorina should stick to selling ink.
I don't even know what HP really wants to do with VMS. Compaq didn't no where to put it and HP really have it on the backburner. A shame, because an Alpha with VMS is reasonably fast and exceptionally reliable. The banking industry seems to have gone now to IBM and big Suns.
The word is that Itanium boots VMS now, but I don't particularly like the chip. The Alpha was cleaner and it was a real pity that it couldn't be mass-produced on the scale to bring costs down to desktop level (assuming that desktop
I was the system manager for the VMS Development group about 10+ years ago
Ah, thats where I know you from. I remember the name. I was somewhat active in DECUS Europe in the early nineties but later was too busy doing small consulting gigs mostly around exchange software. We had two platforms at the user end, AIX and VMS. This has now been replaced by Win and Solaris, driven mostly by the market.
Subsequently, I was working on a major gig out in the former USSR and got talking with people that knew VMS well from the Robotron days. HP got a very good foothold in Russia because after the fall of the USSR, Digital refused to give reasonable terms to license VMS (up until those days, their VAX/VMS was pirated). HP stepped in with some very attractive deals and they hoovered up the market. Another of Digital's marketing cockups.
Mike,
I used to work for DEC and API (Alpha Processor Inc)
Thats tough. Alphas are still going strong for two of the world's largest electronic financial exchanges running VMS. They are being promised a bug free Itanium which is good, because with the killing of the Alpha, they are relying on quiet markets to last until VMS/Itanium is ready. They are conservative too and it took until the mid nineties before they moved the hosts to Alpha, so I guess they won't move immediately.
To move to Linux/cheaper hardware at the host side would be extremely difficult. The new processors look great but Linux still lacks in some important areas (distributed lock manager).
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Your 2C has been devalued!
Now if your bosses are playing games with the MS rep, its a good idea that the salesdrroid thinks this is for real. So, just deploy a few Linux systems for 'evaluation'.
The post was pretty funny but actually, Mitnick knew more about telephones and was from the phreaking scene. He was also exceptionally good at convincing people to give him things, such as password resetting. He would use his skills with telephone switches to give himself an internal telephone extension so the usual callback check didn't work.
Actually Win9x to NT was a major leap as that was when the 16-bit stuff was ditched. There was no corresponding revolution in Linux, just a *lot* of incremental changes. Although some changes were big, their scopes were a lot smaller and as you say, Linux is just a kernel.
The real reason is that when you have a war somewhere, there are side effects elsewhere. This is the point that Tolkein was making. Even though LOTR is not about WW2, it does reflect some experiences - you return from war as a victor to find much of what you were fighting to protect has been damaged, some of it even destroyed.
So put it down to political correctness. Someone does not want to show the true cost of warfare.
In reality, I agree. More minutes of Christopher Lee would be great, but this is an integral part of the story and is even foretold. Yes, Frodo and Sam triumph in the end but the shire has been badly damaged.
How long before they rename it to ROTK?
Actually Office 2K debugged most of the features of Office 97. By the same token, Office 2k3 should debug all of them and some of the new features introduced with Office 2K.
I agree with your mother. I updated much earlier but that was because O97 wasn't stable with larger documents or embedded objects. However, I now stick with O2K on my remaining Windows system.
In many cases they don't need access to the outside world, just the local market prices can be useful. Also, privatisation is great but unless people have a real idea of the value of the bits of the paper they receive, they are ready to be tricked out of them as happened in most of the former soviet union.
As users don't these nations also have a right to be part of the regulatory process?
I don't think it is a secret but Deutsche Bank do use Linux and they even have an internal user group. The analyst will almost certainly have a Windows desktop but probably doesn't realise that many backend services are provided from Unix and maybe even Linux services.
Technically, primary/secondary may work with IDE but it sucks for some of the other uses where there is a one/many relationship. For example, bus mastering.
Removing cable can be a little tricky (you don't really want to put new strain on the production cables), but it is generally recyclable which can pay for the operation. However, if you start removing things, you had better make sure that the cables are tagged.
Desks were implemented using Citrix for the PCs and Sunray for Solaris. Lockable drawer units could be wheeled around easily between offices. Easy, but not what you want on a daily basis.
The economics for Citrix suck as it is always cheaper to have the mips in a workstation than a server for a PC. the telephone system allowed users to login and logout of the phone so you could take the phone wherever your desk was. If you really want to be mobile, but you don't need mobiles then DECT works quite well. For real mobiles, it depends upon your deal. We paid a much lower rate between the office and the mobile.
Cool idea for management consultants. Bad idea for almost anyone else that happen to be office based. Forget books, and as for leaving documents on the server, some very interesting docs were compromised their (Restricted supplier policies/bids, contract rates, etc).
As a developer, we ended up moving every couple of months or so. Still a tremendous upheaval and altogether a dumb idea.
On the other hand, it is probably useful for some staff who mainly work elsewhere or on the road. I was on one gig where I was out most of the time doing consultancy, seriously overseas. When I was in the office, I didn't need too many books as I was mainly there for face time and to organise office support (i.e., filing, copying and so on).
As a final point, if you build an open plan office without conference facilities - best employ deaf developers. Personally, in such environments, good headphones that exclude ambient noise are wonderful.
However I guess you went straight to ES 2K when MS told you to. The fact that your users were then screwed if they wanted to communicate doesn't matter.
As a Micro$oftie, I guess you wouldn't know. Linux is sold as partially locked down out of the box. Most opther operating systems I have used would arrive with a series of mandatory patches which you applied before exposing your system. You were never more than six months out of date and on average about 3. How much would Billy have to pay to ensure that a patch CD was shipped with every copy of XP home? No, well he doesn't have to suffer the headaches.How did you guess that I work on a help desk? I would be quite proud to work actually helping customers directly. However, that isn't exactly a Microsoft strong point so I guess you wouldn't know about it.
Anyway, good troll. Try to keep off the ad-hominem attacks and you might even end up with some karma.
Rumour has it that some of the older SAM installations from USSR times are stuffed with thermionic valves. Not much to go wrong there either.
There is also an international school there which is a prerequisite to bringing over non-german execs with families. I don't work there myself but a friend has moved there and quite enjoys it. It may cost more than SE Asia, but there are other advantages.
You are right about tax breaks. The former DDR states still do quite well.
If they want to specifically address the issue of trusted intermediaries, well they can start with many electronic exchanges with prior art back to the mid-eighties.
Technically, they are *not* guilty or innocent until they go in front of a court of law. They are not being charged with anything or being accused of anything.
You may remember the old Crowther and Woods "Collosal Cave" Adventure game. Have you ever had a 'cannot get there from here' while trying to do a MS product reinstall. You can get that version of Exchange (for example) reinstalled on this version of NT but not another. You had to reinstall NT. Slowly, then reinstall Exchange starting with an earlier version and then cross patch each insequence so they weren't out of step. I have reduced my exposure to MS to a minimum now as a result.
The thing is that he seems to believe it is fine to sell defective products. He saves money by exepcting customers to patch. Great, but the guy is also selling to domestic users who don't have firewalls. By the time they have finished patching, they are owned. My systems are firewalled, but those owned systems are still hamnering away at my bandwidth before being thrown out.
The Gates and Balmer gang push snake oil. That is the real reason they are so scared by open source.
The A5 cipher is standard and is turned on throughout western europe on the GSM network. Others get a strength reduced version and some have no encryption at all. Encrytion only works between the handset and base station. Law enforcement organisations normally have access at the switches but generally require warrants.
This does not apply to organisations regulated by the Central Bank of Russia, such as banks and currency exchanges. This allows them to use such things as PGP and SWIFT because the banks are open to authorised inspection at any time.
Communications between clients and banks or brokers, i.e., electronic banking and/or trading are an issue. Especially as some brokers are unregulated by the Central Bank.
If you are particularly interested, I can dig out the law references from some of my reports. Many do break the law, as happens in Russia, but this gives another good reason to be shaken down.
As the FSB is able to intercept almost anything (the primary exception is the military who do their own thing) without real control - it appears that they do. The information is also made commercially available to those who may be interested.
Gatesy can start by paying some proper taxes like everyone else. Offshore earnings should be credited on the balance sheet rather than filtered through FSCs.
Is he abusing workers in foreign counties, no. Is he abusing their economies, yes.
Regrettably when yyou actually want to convert that to cash terms, the result is zero, hense the dot bomb economy. Fiorina should stick to selling ink.
The word is that Itanium boots VMS now, but I don't particularly like the chip. The Alpha was cleaner and it was a real pity that it couldn't be mass-produced on the scale to bring costs down to desktop level (assuming that desktop
Ah, thats where I know you from. I remember the name. I was somewhat active in DECUS Europe in the early nineties but later was too busy doing small consulting gigs mostly around exchange software. We had two platforms at the user end, AIX and VMS. This has now been replaced by Win and Solaris, driven mostly by the market.Subsequently, I was working on a major gig out in the former USSR and got talking with people that knew VMS well from the Robotron days. HP got a very good foothold in Russia because after the fall of the USSR, Digital refused to give reasonable terms to license VMS (up until those days, their VAX/VMS was pirated). HP stepped in with some very attractive deals and they hoovered up the market. Another of Digital's marketing cockups.
To move to Linux/cheaper hardware at the host side would be extremely difficult. The new processors look great but Linux still lacks in some important areas (distributed lock manager).