Last I heard, he was directly implicated in the supply of weapons to terrorists. Ok, he got immunity from a friendly regime, but Poindexter broke laws that any other person would spend a long time in prison for.
The original poster was referring to the slowness of the protocol. I was quite happy with TightVNC and X.
I was usingCitrix on my last project for access to the standard office facilities (MS Office, Lotus Notes, etc). It was slow and buggy. Perhaps we didn't have enough server power, but this seemed like skewed logic as the computers we were issued with were 1.6GHz Dells with Win2K pro.
VNC was not intended as a multiuser tool. There are ways to set up extra console sessions but they tend to be awkward hacks because of the absence of suitable documentation for Win. OTOH, I can understand Microsoft's reticence to hand out such documentation as running a single VNC session back to my WIndows box is well within the Windows licence. Running two users back to a Windows box requires licensing.
Citrix is not a particularly fast product. However, much of that can be put down to server power, which it eats alive. Have you ever seen TightVNC? not exactly as fast as Citrix (they don't have the Win source to hack) but it still works well enough to run most things (including both Windows and X). As for X, you seem to have forgotten that it was designed when most people weren't even directly on the 10Mbps LANs, and I have seen four thin-clients on the other side of a 64K LAN bridge working quite nicely.
On one project I was an MSDN Universal subscriber. Yep, several thousand dollars per year!!!! I still had to buy a PC with a license because MS didn't want the machines being sold on without a licence later. I therefore had to 'eat' the depreceation of the software bundle even though the components I used were all licensed under MSDN.
I want to buy a ready made computer but regrettably although the standard platform in the world forces me to buy a third-rate operating system.
If a car component failed as often as Windows has done over the years, then I shouldn't be forced to take it. Especially if the added cost can be 10-15% of the price of the system.
You want me to buy the package? No problem, just let me take the idiots who misengineered the thing to court in the same way that people have done over faulty automobile components.
I should hope so too. Dell were a RedHat partner at LinuxWorld in Germany. I would expect them to at least offer RH, if not a barebones system. It is also quite clear that MS can't force the sale of bundled operating systems in Europe.
In the bad old days, most of our archives would have to be on tape as disk capacity was very limited by comparison.
We used to always make two identical backups. The tapes would be automatically called up by the archive system and would be wound and checked. If a tape contained too many bad spots then it would be recovered by a copy from the remaining good tape. Note that bad spots were generally regarded as reoverable as each tape block was in a group protected by an XOR redundancy block which could recreate any single block dropped.
The winding/rewinding as the tape was checked got over any problems with tape settling and this process worked reasonably well with several media changes over about 20 years.
Banks is almost unique in writing mainstream modern novels as well. There he is known just as Iain Banks, that is without the initial. Many who enjoy his SF novels would also enjoy some of his mainstream stuff, which also shares his dark sense of humour, particularly "Complicity".
I used another text markup language, LaTeX for this and it does very nicely into an RCS. For very large documents, markup languages seem more stable than WYSIWYG.
Revision control system is really neat but is underused feature at best. You can still junk most of the MS Office licenses and keep a few where it is needed.
However, last I heard other tools have that capability. In any case, Word is a far from perfect tool when dealing with large documents, especially commercial contracts.
Other banks have Linux. It sort of crept in via the netadmins (Firewalls, etc.) sysadmins (internal web servers) but has kept before out of the limelight. In any case, Linux is, after all, Unix.
IBM is probably one of the few companies who are well enough equipped to deal with Microsoft FUD, probably because they were heavily into the FUD business themselves. IBM is also a major consulting company, and for such a move, they are well equiped to help.
I would guess that in reality, they would phase in Linux. Probbaly replacing certain internal servers and desktops running more specialised apps, after that it is just a metter of time.
Does it really take so long to retrain someone from MS Office to OpenOffice?
Mozilla's most serious bug is a show stopper for eCommerce and that is it sometimes refuses to allow access to cookies under https.
An important reason to use Mozilla is security. An important concern for anyone trying eCommerce on the web is security. eCommerce web sites often use cookies and they should use https.
The bug is reported in Bugzilla but it appears that some people can circumvent this with script preferences. Regrettably I can't. See also the slashdot thread from the original 1.2 announcement here.
I have kept my 1.1 installation under Linux and still have IE under Win 2K.
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It still doesn't work for Deutsche Bank. My settings defaulted to allowing the above permissions. This was Moz 1.2 running under Win 2K with https connection to www.db24.com, online banking portal.
You get my point, but note that I said all external interfaces. This means also any files or databases used by the module. For example, have you ever had to dig your way through a corrupt Exchange database? It's horrible and would be even with complete documentation. Without, it is very, very difficult.
Hmm, I wasn't being specific there but commenting upon the general disregard with which Ozzie politicians are kept. If expectations were higher, mybe better people would enter politics.
I agree the rot starts at the top and spreads downwards.
An aussie was heard to remark that anyone going to their parliament should first spend a couple of years in prison - it saves time later. Regrettably after a series of scandals, corruption and incompetence seems to be acceted as the norm of political life.
I would certainly agree that politician may be above child pornographer in the Australian list of professions, but not by much. I mean there are political scandals in every country, and incompetent politicians too (who can even be elected president) but the problem of disrespect seems particularly high in Australia.
Unfortunately, Microsoft does have a "Shared Source" program.
The source you get is not guaranteed to be part of the binaries and may be incomplete. It also does not tend to be updated as regularly as the binaries. The point being, if you are sufficiently paranoid that you want to audit and build in house, Microsoft's shared source is not the answer. If you want to guarantee that you or a third party can implement a replaceable system component, then Shared Source is an incomplete answer. You may have the source, but other vendors may not, and in any case, your source may be out of date.
The key point is codec technology. The first patent goes back to 91, but I'm sure people were compressing video digitally for longer than that, but I guess it was only the professionals then.
Open Source wouldn't be necessary if proprietary solutions had completly documented external interfaces and file formats. I think a major plaer like the government has the right to demand open interfaces and the implicit ability to replace a module from any vendor with another written to the same specification.
As we have seen with Microsoft's efforts to complicate other formats, the best way of wnsuring this is to demand source code. If Microsoft doesn't like it, well there is always OSS.
I guess that Moz 1.2 will affect other stuff installed. What I did before was to make a parallel installation from the tar ball under/usr/local, leaving the RH supplied version installed in/usr as normal. Having everything under/usr/local/mozilla means that you are independent of the lib dependencies. I then put a link in/usr/local/bin.Ok, it means that you have it twice but the RH RPM loaded version stays untouched and the rest of your system continues to work
Yes, I just saw this when I tried to go to my bank's ebanking site. Quite a serious error really and I'm surprised that 1.2 was released with it. It does kind of exclude secure ecommerce so seriously undermining how useful it can be.
Unfortunately the net installer will not find it, but there is a complete set of rpms (including SRPMs) for Redhat 8.0 here. It appears to install over Mozilla 1.0.1 (distributed by Redhat) quite nicely.
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Last I heard, he was directly implicated in the supply of weapons to terrorists. Ok, he got immunity from a friendly regime, but Poindexter broke laws that any other person would spend a long time in prison for.
I was usingCitrix on my last project for access to the standard office facilities (MS Office, Lotus Notes, etc). It was slow and buggy. Perhaps we didn't have enough server power, but this seemed like skewed logic as the computers we were issued with were 1.6GHz Dells with Win2K pro.
VNC was not intended as a multiuser tool. There are ways to set up extra console sessions but they tend to be awkward hacks because of the absence of suitable documentation for Win. OTOH, I can understand Microsoft's reticence to hand out such documentation as running a single VNC session back to my WIndows box is well within the Windows licence. Running two users back to a Windows box requires licensing.
Citrix is not a particularly fast product. However, much of that can be put down to server power, which it eats alive. Have you ever seen TightVNC? not exactly as fast as Citrix (they don't have the Win source to hack) but it still works well enough to run most things (including both Windows and X). As for X, you seem to have forgotten that it was designed when most people weren't even directly on the 10Mbps LANs, and I have seen four thin-clients on the other side of a 64K LAN bridge working quite nicely.
On one project I was an MSDN Universal subscriber. Yep, several thousand dollars per year!!!! I still had to buy a PC with a license because MS didn't want the machines being sold on without a licence later. I therefore had to 'eat' the depreceation of the software bundle even though the components I used were all licensed under MSDN.
If a car component failed as often as Windows has done over the years, then I shouldn't be forced to take it. Especially if the added cost can be 10-15% of the price of the system.
You want me to buy the package? No problem, just let me take the idiots who misengineered the thing to court in the same way that people have done over faulty automobile components.
I should hope so too. Dell were a RedHat partner at LinuxWorld in Germany. I would expect them to at least offer RH, if not a barebones system. It is also quite clear that MS can't force the sale of bundled operating systems in Europe.
We used to always make two identical backups. The tapes would be automatically called up by the archive system and would be wound and checked. If a tape contained too many bad spots then it would be recovered by a copy from the remaining good tape. Note that bad spots were generally regarded as reoverable as each tape block was in a group protected by an XOR redundancy block which could recreate any single block dropped.
The winding/rewinding as the tape was checked got over any problems with tape settling and this process worked reasonably well with several media changes over about 20 years.
It looks like these particular adapters take their power independently of the drive so you have to squeeze a power splitter into the drive container.
Banks is almost unique in writing mainstream modern novels as well. There he is known just as Iain Banks, that is without the initial. Many who enjoy his SF novels would also enjoy some of his mainstream stuff, which also shares his dark sense of humour, particularly "Complicity".
I used another text markup language, LaTeX for this and it does very nicely into an RCS. For very large documents, markup languages seem more stable than WYSIWYG.
However, last I heard other tools have that capability. In any case, Word is a far from perfect tool when dealing with large documents, especially commercial contracts.
Regrettably in this case, access by scripts is enabled (as recommended), but it still doesn't work.
IBM is probably one of the few companies who are well enough equipped to deal with Microsoft FUD, probably because they were heavily into the FUD business themselves. IBM is also a major consulting company, and for such a move, they are well equiped to help.
I would guess that in reality, they would phase in Linux. Probbaly replacing certain internal servers and desktops running more specialised apps, after that it is just a metter of time.
Does it really take so long to retrain someone from MS Office to OpenOffice?
An important reason to use Mozilla is security. An important concern for anyone trying eCommerce on the web is security. eCommerce web sites often use cookies and they should use https.
The bug is reported in Bugzilla but it appears that some people can circumvent this with script preferences. Regrettably I can't. See also the slashdot thread from the original 1.2 announcement here.
I have kept my 1.1 installation under Linux and still have IE under Win 2K.
It still doesn't work for Deutsche Bank. My settings defaulted to allowing the above permissions. This was Moz 1.2 running under Win 2K with https connection to www.db24.com, online banking portal.
You get my point, but note that I said all external interfaces. This means also any files or databases used by the module. For example, have you ever had to dig your way through a corrupt Exchange database? It's horrible and would be even with complete documentation. Without, it is very, very difficult.
I agree the rot starts at the top and spreads downwards.
I would certainly agree that politician may be above child pornographer in the Australian list of professions, but not by much. I mean there are political scandals in every country, and incompetent politicians too (who can even be elected president) but the problem of disrespect seems particularly high in Australia.
The key point is codec technology. The first patent goes back to 91, but I'm sure people were compressing video digitally for longer than that, but I guess it was only the professionals then.
As we have seen with Microsoft's efforts to complicate other formats, the best way of wnsuring this is to demand source code. If Microsoft doesn't like it, well there is always OSS.
I guess that Moz 1.2 will affect other stuff installed. What I did before was to make a parallel installation from the tar ball under /usr/local, leaving the RH supplied version installed in /usr as normal. Having everything under /usr/local/mozilla means that you are independent of the lib dependencies. I then put a link in /usr/local/bin.Ok, it means that you have it twice but the RH RPM loaded version stays untouched and the rest of your system continues to work
Yes, I just saw this when I tried to go to my bank's ebanking site. Quite a serious error really and I'm surprised that 1.2 was released with it. It does kind of exclude secure ecommerce so seriously undermining how useful it can be.
Unfortunately the net installer will not find it, but there is a complete set of rpms (including SRPMs) for Redhat 8.0 here. It appears to install over Mozilla 1.0.1 (distributed by Redhat) quite nicely.
Yes, Satte will settle such that all passports carry wording reflecting that the bearer is the citizen of the United States of America and Microsoft. Visa stickers will appear in gold, white and blue, reflecting the colors of the new trade mark owner.