Well, as I always say, you have freedom. The target market is anyone, who wants to have a handheld, since he can safely use applications, he/she wants. I loaded it with VIM, ssh and a lot of other things I like and want. I made my custom keyboard, I changed the way it boots, I changed almost everything. I use it as a remote controller for my home digital video (because of the CIR port), I can connect to my cellphone using gnokii, I can do whatever I want. As a sysadmin, this toy is great(!).
Actually, I think, it's the problem of your boss. I find girls and young girls especially very creative, so I would welcome them in the team (for professional reasons, I have my own girlfriend, she can start Netscape and browse and nothing more in the computer area).
What I think about is: wait, you'll find the right one. I realized, that I'm the important one in the job, not my job. I switched a lot of jobs recently and finally I found something I'm happy with. If I won't be, I'll change it. IT professionals are wanted everywhere, there's no problem to find a job in this area.
Maybe you remember the times, when Debian GNU/Linux project wanted to do a Debian GNU/FreeBSD or something like that. The reason was, that the FreeBSD kernel is known to scale good on higher loads. The reason, it was dropped: old libs (couldn't get glibc to work there), no PAM authentification, etc. It seems to me, that FreeBSD has a nice kernel, but is quite closed from new progress (like those of new libraries and PAM). What I like on FreeBSD is the ports system and that I can recompile it fully. What's the reason of the project to be closed from these new developments?
If I install NetFoo v.0.1, I may be in for more of an adventure. If NetFoo is critical to my financial success, I might want to buy the commercial offering.
I'm sure the better way is to invest those $100K to improve NetFoo v.0.1. You gather vendor independence and freedom for the same price. There are lots of programmers, that can suit the open-source software for your needs. And you can sell it then as a solution (while still being open-source), because your programmers know it and you'll get something from the $100K back. That's what I call buisness.
The point is, that byuing from a commercial vendor doesn't guarantee, that it will work with latest apache, latest radius, etc. It doesn't protect YOU from the company announcing a bankrot. If you have open-source code, you're protected against these kinds of stuff. Investing those $100K development is better than investing it to closed-source product.
Have you some RPMs built? I could be able to build it myself, but I just can't download new gcc, gdk-pixbuf, etc. over a slow 56Kbps microwave line. I could handle the RPM download. Do you have this? If yes, please contact me (juraj (at) bednar.sk)
Well, this actually works. Go to the Freedom.net page. Freedom.net is a product of Zero Knowledge. I actually tried this one when the product was in a beta stage. It is using a lot of anonymous proxies. The connection from your host to the endpoint is fully encrypted. You can choose the available routers if you want. ZeroKnowledge pays you money, if you make a server for them (the money is paid depending of traffic that goes through you).
So again: You choose the route. ZK promises, the logging is completely turned off on any of the machines. The machines are modified RedHat distributions with their software running. It _HAS_ to be a standalone machine. So it's at least nice.
It also masks your email address and indent identity (the email anonymizing is working even nicer than anon.penet.fi -> it's completely transparent to you)
As to technical use of Freedom.net, it is now only available for Windows, which makes me sad, because I don't use Windows. It attaches itself to the IP layer, so no other application-specific changes have to be made. Even sending/receiving e-mails is done on the POP3/IMAP/SMTP layer, not in the user's email agent.
They were promising the Linux version from the beginning, but I can't see it, which makes me sad. This announcement makes me happy, because I hope more people will develop software based on this (very wonderful) standard.
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Well, as I always say, you have freedom. The target market is anyone, who wants to have a handheld, since he can safely use applications, he/she wants. I loaded it with VIM, ssh and a lot of other things I like and want. I made my custom keyboard, I changed the way it boots, I changed almost everything. I use it as a remote controller for my home digital video (because of the CIR port), I can connect to my cellphone using gnokii, I can do whatever I want. As a sysadmin, this toy is great(!).
What I think about is: wait, you'll find the right one. I realized, that I'm the important one in the job, not my job. I switched a lot of jobs recently and finally I found something I'm happy with. If I won't be, I'll change it. IT professionals are wanted everywhere, there's no problem to find a job in this area.
Maybe you remember the times, when Debian GNU/Linux project wanted to do a Debian GNU/FreeBSD or something like that. The reason was, that the FreeBSD kernel is known to scale good on higher loads. The reason, it was dropped: old libs (couldn't get glibc to work there), no PAM authentification, etc. It seems to me, that FreeBSD has a nice kernel, but is quite closed from new progress (like those of new libraries and PAM). What I like on FreeBSD is the ports system and that I can recompile it fully. What's the reason of the project to be closed from these new developments?
I'm sure the better way is to invest those $100K to improve NetFoo v.0.1. You gather vendor independence and freedom for the same price. There are lots of programmers, that can suit the open-source software for your needs. And you can sell it then as a solution (while still being open-source), because your programmers know it and you'll get something from the $100K back. That's what I call buisness.
The point is, that byuing from a commercial vendor doesn't guarantee, that it will work with latest apache, latest radius, etc. It doesn't protect YOU from the company announcing a bankrot. If you have open-source code, you're protected against these kinds of stuff. Investing those $100K development is better than investing it to closed-source product.
Have you some RPMs built? I could be able to build it myself, but I just can't download new gcc, gdk-pixbuf, etc. over a slow 56Kbps microwave line. I could handle the RPM download. Do you have this? If yes, please contact me (juraj (at) bednar.sk)
So again: You choose the route. ZK promises, the logging is completely turned off on any of the machines. The machines are modified RedHat distributions with their software running. It _HAS_ to be a standalone machine. So it's at least nice.
It also masks your email address and indent identity (the email anonymizing is working even nicer than anon.penet.fi -> it's completely transparent to you)
As to technical use of Freedom.net, it is now only available for Windows, which makes me sad, because I don't use Windows. It attaches itself to the IP layer, so no other application-specific changes have to be made. Even sending/receiving e-mails is done on the POP3/IMAP/SMTP layer, not in the user's email agent.
They were promising the Linux version from the beginning, but I can't see it, which makes me sad. This announcement makes me happy, because I hope more people will develop software based on this (very wonderful) standard.