Netscape and M$ both support SMIME, so most of us use Netscape under Linux while some of the others use OE under M$. Its a mixed shop. Verisign has a personal cert available for $14.95 a year and everyone at the shop has one, even the secretary.
Plus, we try to be a bit terse with the subject so that it will not provide targeting information.
At our company we encrypt all email. Since a lot of the discussions are about patented or patent pending ideas, due dilligence requires that any email going over the net be encrypted. We expanded that to be all email to add to the noise factor should someone be watching.
Try using VMware under Linux (or whatever you use) and run Windows as a virtual machine. Our shop is all Linux with the evil M$ stuff running as virtual. We're under the gun to convert to Linux completely before the next round of M$ OS'es come out. The rationale for that is that we will agree to a 'like a book' license, but will not agree to having a $500 Office package on each of 50 machines when it only gets used rarely.
All of our app tools are Linux, its just that some folks we work with don't understand that DOC format is not needed for communication.
Been doing this programming thing for over 30 years. I am a Programmer. I direct other Programmers. Note the caps. We're not C++ programmers, Java programmers, or any other "tool-set" programmers. We talk to machines given whatever language happens to be available on the machine. I hire other Programmers. Tool-set programmers need not apply.
Once you've picked up a couple of languages, the others come in less that two weeks, if you're a Programmer. That implies a good education and a flexible mind.
I used to work at Texas Instruments. We had mandatory core hours for communication purposes, but flex time otherwise. Not a problem until my group ran into a new manager that wanted everyone there by 8:30! Our answer, we left at 5:00 on the button. Projects started slipping and he got bent out of shape. We explained several times that anchors worked both ways, they kept the boat from moving backwards, they also keep the boat from moving forwards. A shift assignment is an anchor, no matter what you call it. Bottom line, after 3 months we were back to flex time and he was blamed for project slippage.
I'm voting with my lungs. Ever since Bush gutted the Texas environmental laws my lungs have been getting worse and worse and may force me to move out of a high tech area to find cleaner air. To me a vote for Bush would send a message that the environment is not at all important. A vote for Nader is a throw-away and a vote for Gore at least gets cleaner air for the rest of the country.
There really is a shortage of progrmmers, with the particular tool set of experience that HR likes to flog as being the only kind of people to hire. If your resume does not match exactly the particular tool set that they are looking for, then you are out the door.
There are currently two kinds of programmers:
One is a "Tool Set programmer" (notice the lower case). This person only knows how to program in one tool set and has no clue as to what the machine itself is doing underneath. A lot of recent graduates fall into that category. They reimplement the C Standard Library in C++ since they never bothered to learn C when learning the Tool Set. Probably limited to MSVC as well. These are greatly loved by HR.
The other kind of the programmer is the Real Programmer (notice the case). Talks to the machine in whatever language is needed (about a week or so to learn a new language, maybe a week more for OOP based language), knows what's going on inside the machine and has solved some really nasty problems in their time. It takes time to raise a Real Programmer, they are an eccentric and highly volatile quantity and just don't fit the mold that HR departments tries to put on everyone. They are worth their weight in gold, but first they have to get past HR.
What we have is a shortage of Real Programmers. The Tool Set programmer just does not have the background to solve the problems thrown at him.
Ah but the interesting part of this is that they can take the cost of their own licenses off on taxes. Cost of doing business. The taxes they save will probably pay for most of the hardware.
In 1987 we presented a proposal, in Redmond, to Bill G. and crew. The presentation was done on one of his machines and the negotiations were going very well when we hit a sticking point, we wanted to maintain control of the source. After convincing himself that we could not be swayed, Bill got up from the table and said, "We don't need you, we have your demo!", and walked out of the room. We were escorted out and not allowed to clean the demo off the system. All he got was an executable, but given enough time he could figure out how it worked.
With an attitude like that coming from the top, I can understand how M$ got itself in trouble.
I have no problems with a company holding or enforcing a patent for something it has developed. What I wish we could do away with is the patent speculation companies, i.e. the people that get together to buy patents then 'enforce' those patents on others. My feeling is that patents should not be transferrable in cases like this.
You have to accelerate to pass on 2-lane roads (still plenty in south Texas) and when you pass a line of 4 vehicles all moving well below the speed limit, you will be going well over the limit when you get past. Why do you have to pass them all? They don't leave enough room for you to pull back in, and some will even try to keep you from pulling back in by speeding up. Aggressive driving, No. Once you commit to pass in Texas, its all or nothing in 90% of the cases.
One more case -- I have been chased by people intending to do me harm (about 30 years ago), as has my wife (less than 5 years ago). I will not submit to being powerless in such a situation and the same goes double for my wife.
In Texas, the ink would not even be dry on the bill before the idiot that wrote it would be hanged. Don't need guns to keep the congresscritters in line, just enough real men.
Thanks to previous warnings in this forum, I can say that I have both decss.zip and livid_tar.gs on my home and work systems. Take those two away and they can be found elsewhere as well. I can guarantee that even if my pseudonym is discovered, there will be other copies where "I don't seem to remeber..." would take effect (if Reagan can use that, so can anyone). Multiply this by the thousands and anyone can see the futility of what they are trying to do.
No legal proceedings can ever put the cat back in the bag now that its out.
The reason? Simple. It should go to them to decrease their operating costs and allow them to either provide better services or reduce rates. It would be easy for a large company like that to spend then entire $600,000 award just trying to determine who received the particular SPAM and that would be a waste.
Lets go get more of those lowly SPAMmers! A few cases like this and the net will be much nicer.
The best option I heard from a friend. Declare them a benevolent monopoly, treat them like a utility, and put them under the PUC. That would take Gates down a peg or two.
Having it in software only expedited the process since the hardware is so hard to hack for most people. I have a friend who loves to break the dongle security. Its easy enough if you have the proper hardware and the knowlege.
I've seen no reduction in job offers or other forms of discrimination and I'm 50. I think the secret has been that I've never tried to expand past the title of "Programmer". I'm not a "C++ Programmer" or a "VB Programmer" or even an "Intel Programmer". I do it all. If its a machine, I talk to it and make it beg. That flexibility has great rewards; no boredom in the job, not locked into one language or one platform. If Intel and MickeySoft both went out of business, I'd have a job tomorrow. I think that's where some of the other "old folks" have gone wrong. They've locked themselves into a language or a platform. Frankly, 5 years experience in one mix is about all I can tolerate. After that, there has to be something new.
I can see setting up CyberPatrol to filter porn from kids (up to about age 5 when they can break it easier than you set it up), but why would an adult do that in a business? I think that both the ISP and CyberPatrol are on target and that someone is using CyberPatrol in an illogical manner.
For the internet domain names, there needs to be one and _only_ one governing body. I think it should be a not-for-profit organization. NIC has been doing a good job so far, so lets not rock the boat and create a load of confusion.
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Besides, if everyone uses Verisign, then NSA does not have to work so hard to break into our communications.
Its a large, closed source, company. I trust it about as far as I can throw it.
Netscape and M$ both support SMIME, so most of us use Netscape under Linux while some of the others use OE under M$. Its a mixed shop. Verisign has a personal cert available for $14.95 a year and everyone at the shop has one, even the secretary.
Plus, we try to be a bit terse with the subject so that it will not provide targeting information.
At our company we encrypt all email. Since a lot of the discussions are about patented or patent pending ideas, due dilligence requires that any email going over the net be encrypted. We expanded that to be all email to add to the noise factor should someone be watching.
Try using VMware under Linux (or whatever you use) and run Windows as a virtual machine. Our shop is all Linux with the evil M$ stuff running as virtual. We're under the gun to convert to Linux completely before the next round of M$ OS'es come out. The rationale for that is that we will agree to a 'like a book' license, but will not agree to having a $500 Office package on each of 50 machines when it only gets used rarely.
All of our app tools are Linux, its just that some folks we work with don't understand that DOC format is not needed for communication.
Been doing this programming thing for over 30 years. I am a Programmer. I direct other Programmers. Note the caps. We're not C++ programmers, Java programmers, or any other "tool-set" programmers. We talk to machines given whatever language happens to be available on the machine. I hire other Programmers. Tool-set programmers need not apply.
Once you've picked up a couple of languages, the others come in less that two weeks, if you're a Programmer. That implies a good education and a flexible mind.
I used to work at Texas Instruments. We had mandatory core hours for communication purposes, but flex time otherwise. Not a problem until my group ran into a new manager that wanted everyone there by 8:30! Our answer, we left at 5:00 on the button. Projects started slipping and he got bent out of shape. We explained several times that anchors worked both ways, they kept the boat from moving backwards, they also keep the boat from moving forwards. A shift assignment is an anchor, no matter what you call it. Bottom line, after 3 months we were back to flex time and he was blamed for project slippage.
I'm voting with my lungs. Ever since Bush gutted the Texas environmental laws my lungs have been getting worse and worse and may force me to move out of a high tech area to find cleaner air. To me a vote for Bush would send a message that the environment is not at all important. A vote for Nader is a throw-away and a vote for Gore at least gets cleaner air for the rest of the country.
When you go to the LinuxToday site you get:
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Huh?
There really is a shortage of progrmmers, with the particular tool set of experience that HR likes to flog as being the only kind of people to hire. If your resume does not match exactly the particular tool set that they are looking for, then you are out the door.
There are currently two kinds of programmers:
One is a "Tool Set programmer" (notice the lower case). This person only knows how to program in one tool set and has no clue as to what the machine itself is doing underneath. A lot of recent graduates fall into that category. They reimplement the C Standard Library in C++ since they never bothered to learn C when learning the Tool Set. Probably limited to MSVC as well. These are greatly loved by HR.
The other kind of the programmer is the Real Programmer (notice the case). Talks to the machine in whatever language is needed (about a week or so to learn a new language, maybe a week more for OOP based language), knows what's going on inside the machine and has solved some really nasty problems in their time. It takes time to raise a Real Programmer, they are an eccentric and highly volatile quantity and just don't fit the mold that HR departments tries to put on everyone. They are worth their weight in gold, but first they have to get past HR.
What we have is a shortage of Real Programmers. The Tool Set programmer just does not have the background to solve the problems thrown at him.
...Alpha
Ah but the interesting part of this is that they can take the cost of their own licenses off on taxes. Cost of doing business. The taxes they save will probably pay for most of the hardware.
Doen't that just frost you?
...Alpha
In 1987 we presented a proposal, in Redmond, to Bill G. and crew. The presentation was done on one of his machines and the negotiations were going very well when we hit a sticking point, we wanted to maintain control of the source. After convincing himself that we could not be swayed, Bill got up from the table and said, "We don't need you, we have your demo!", and walked out of the room. We were escorted out and not allowed to clean the demo off the system. All he got was an executable, but given enough time he could figure out how it worked.
With an attitude like that coming from the top, I can understand how M$ got itself in trouble.
---Alpha
I have no problems with a company holding or enforcing a patent for something it has developed. What I wish we could do away with is the patent speculation companies, i.e. the people that get together to buy patents then 'enforce' those patents on others. My feeling is that patents should not be transferrable in cases like this.
You have to accelerate to pass on 2-lane roads (still plenty in south Texas) and when you pass a line of 4 vehicles all moving well below the speed limit, you will be going well over the limit when you get past. Why do you have to pass them all? They don't leave enough room for you to pull back in, and some will even try to keep you from pulling back in by speeding up. Aggressive driving, No. Once you commit to pass in Texas, its all or nothing in 90% of the cases.
One more case -- I have been chased by people intending to do me harm (about 30 years ago), as has my wife (less than 5 years ago). I will not submit to being powerless in such a situation and the same goes double for my wife.
In Texas, the ink would not even be dry on the bill before the idiot that wrote it would be hanged. Don't need guns to keep the congresscritters in line, just enough real men.
Thanks to previous warnings in this forum, I can say that I have both decss.zip and livid_tar.gs on my home and work systems. Take those two away and they can be found elsewhere as well. I can guarantee that even if my pseudonym is discovered, there will be other copies where "I don't seem to remeber..." would take effect (if Reagan can use that, so can anyone). Multiply this by the thousands and anyone can see the futility of what they are trying to do.
No legal proceedings can ever put the cat back in the bag now that its out.
The reason? Simple. It should go to them to decrease their operating costs and allow them to either provide better services or reduce rates. It would be easy for a large company like that to spend then entire $600,000 award just trying to determine who received the particular SPAM and that would be a waste.
Lets go get more of those lowly SPAMmers! A few cases like this and the net will be much nicer.
...Alpha
The best option I heard from a friend. Declare them a benevolent monopoly, treat them like a utility, and put them under the PUC. That would take Gates down a peg or two.
...Alpha
Having it in software only expedited the process since the hardware is so hard to hack for most people. I have a friend who loves to break the dongle security. Its easy enough if you have the proper hardware and the knowlege.
...Alpha
I've seen no reduction in job offers or other forms of discrimination and I'm 50. I think the secret has been that I've never tried to expand past the title of "Programmer". I'm not a "C++ Programmer" or a "VB Programmer" or even an "Intel Programmer". I do it all. If its a machine, I talk to it and make it beg. That flexibility has great rewards; no boredom in the job, not locked into one language or one platform. If Intel and MickeySoft both went out of business, I'd have a job tomorrow. I think that's where some of the other "old folks" have gone wrong. They've locked themselves into a language or a platform. Frankly, 5 years experience in one mix is about all I can tolerate. After that, there has to be something new.
I can see setting up CyberPatrol to filter porn from kids (up to about age 5 when they can break it easier than you set it up), but why would an adult do that in a business? I think that both the ISP and CyberPatrol are on target and that someone is using CyberPatrol in an illogical manner.
Plus, its hardly an open system, lots of back doors and secret passages.
...Alpha
For the internet domain names, there needs to be one and _only_ one governing body. I think it should be a not-for-profit organization. NIC has been doing a good job so far, so lets not rock the boat and create a load of confusion.
...Alpha