Aramis was the high tech automated subway developed in Paris in the 1980s. After its sudden demise an investigation was requested into the reasons of this failure. Bruno Latour. While writing about Aramis's demise Latour describes ANT (Actor-Network Theory). In this book he argues that Aramis failed not because any particular Actor killed it but because it was not sustained through negotiation and adaptation to a changing social situation.
See http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/106
I guess I'll be able to write the same about this project in a few years time.... and HS2... etc.......
There is an arms race between companies like Nebula and Eucalyptus, backed by VCs, as to who can stay in the game long enough to be the defacto clound management environment for companies who want an open alternative to VMWare/Microsoft but need on-premise or have a specific use-case so can't choose EWS or Google.
Eucalyptus, for all the partner-with-amazon, are loosing market share and shedding staff. Nebula are still struggling to get a viable product out of the door.
(I know senior people in both companies)
Who will win? Who cares! Because as its 'open' at least when the VCs behind Euca/Neubla shut up shop (or they are bought by HP/IBM) and go home customer will still have the code, and in the example of Nebula also own a box in the mid rack as a cloud controller.
ICO issues guidance about private emails, reminding the public sector that the Freedom of Information Act covers private emails if they are used for business matters.
"Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, said: "It should not come as a surprise to public authorities to have the clarification that information held in private email accounts can be subject to freedom of information law if it relates to official business."
Not really a device thing... but related none the less.
I work for a large confectionary manufacture who have one of the best password policies I've come across in the 7 years of my IT career.
8x90. It's simple. Eight characters with forced policies on every system to change them every 90 days. Splash screens at startup give advice on choosing stronger passwords. We advise choosing a six letter word, breaking it in half and inserting a two digit number.
e.g. let01ter
Simple and effective.
Of course, without running a cracker over the password lists I guess we'll never know if the policy actually works!
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Yes, irony was my point. I got replies and moderation points by censoring a quotation to suit my purpose.
All censorship is wrong and an insult to our intelligence as it supposes that we are all too dumb to make up our own minds.
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"...blocking out objectionable signs or covering up a competitor's logo, he says...meets CBS' journalistic guidelines."
Is this an admission of censorship from CBS? Are they admitting that the news is watered down and censored to meet the needs of whoever is paying the most in sponsorship and advertising that quarter?
I watch the news. I need the news. I enjoy the news. I don't need someone elses idea of what the news should be.
I know this is a little muddled but I know what I mean!
Following recent discussions on/. about the apparent perceived demise of the Mozilla project, this is a much needed 'shot in the arm' for the project team.
Having read the cover letter and the text of the complaint I was wondering if the DVD CCA peeps have cited themselves in their complaint for producing such an excellent resource for people like us who wish to mirror the source code and other material.
Right. Enough of this messing about from people saying they should have sent more cheques or they should have traced cheques or paid in cash of whatever.
I had an account with Demon Internet (UK) which was cut off without notice after a Direct Debit system screwed up and didn't take any money from my account. I had been a customer of Demon for about three years and was in the middle of my fourth year when one day I could no longer get out of my network! As Demons accounting software had screwed up and not taken any money for my quarterly subsciption for my leased line I was disconnected.
It took almost two weeks to get everything back up and working again and this was only resolved by delivering a bankers draft for a full years charges to their offices in London.
This shit happens each and every day. You can not seriously tell me that cheques never get lost in the post or misplaced on desks. You can not expect me to believe that people within large corporations are all trustworthy and honest. And you can not tell me that fraud doesn't happen!
I was not a customer of MassLinux but I understand what they are going through and I offer any support that I can give them.
Somethings in life are never easy. Doing something like ground breaking is one of them. MassLinux must have been one of the first people offering hosting services on Linux. Look at the banners on/. and see how many people are doing it now.
They will have lost the respect and faith that a lot of their customers had placed in them but that is sometimes just how these things work out.
There are lessons that can be learn't here, let's hope that everyone can see them and ensures that the big guy doesn't fuck over the little guy in the future.
The NSA aren't the only people suffering from information overload. What about Jo Public?
Each day I've got access to around 120 channels of television, 40 radio stations, over 200 trade publications and some 400 hours of music and 230 books that I can choose from each day.
And then there's the internet. Gig upon gig upon gig of data available for my consumption. Perhaps I should start employing people just to absorb and review information for me each day and email me a digest!
This reminds me of a story I was told in Sunday School about David and Goliath.
The bigger they come the harder they fall?
Seriously though, look at the numbers on the link "...in 1984, UPS billed its customers $99.8 million for insurance and paid out claims of about $22 million." which is a large profit margin!
Time to switch industries I think. I quite like the idea of all the money around in the insurance game of "fuck the little guy" - hang on, there's money to be made in the technology game of "fuck the little guy"
Since copy protection was invented, there have been ways around it.
With DAT there was some sort of digital signature (i forget the TLA) that was written to the tape that ment that the tape had to copied by the machine that produced the master. A box of tricks costing £100 (ish) got rid of that and you could freely copy DATs.
The duplication of CD's used to be protected by the high cost of CD writters but we just copied them to tape and all was fine. CD writters now cost around £180 and everyone is freely coping CD's (either audio or MP3) and distributing copywritted material.
The MP3 audio format was one of the final nails in the coffin. Fast, high quality and small audio files distributed freely are rapidly killing off sales of CD's. Well, so we are lead to believe by the music industry.
All this little application does is break the current encryption/protection method used. I'm sure that within a few months a new format will come out and all the DVD hardware/software/content vendors will adopt it and proclaim it to be secure. A few months later someone will break it and announce who easy it was and how stupid the industry is for using such a weak encryption/protection method. Repeat the cycle. Do until end.
You would have thought that a service release for any OS would under go testing by the OS vendors prior to it's release. If I were a server OS vendor then I would want to make damm sure that all the software partnerships that I had formed were not killed off by something as stupid as this.
I am very suprised that this service release ever made it into 'the wild' so to speak. They issue beta CD's to all their major partners before anyone else gets them. Surely someone somewhere noticed this before today! Lotus/IBM must be a major Microsoft partner and must have seen this! If they did and they can prove that they did then the DOJ case could get all the more serious for Microsoft.
I previously worked in Quality Assurance within the a life sciences company. Whenever any modifications were made to the QA managment system, the golden rule was test, test and test again. Okay, the service patch may well work great of the QA managment system but that's no good if it fucks up internal email!
I was under the impression that these sort of "accidents" or "mishaps" would rapidly come to an end following the DOJ 'Findings of Fact' but I was obviously wrong. Microsoft need to take a good long hard look at all aspects of every group in every department within each and every division of it's self in order to ensure that things like this do not happen again.
When all is said and done...wouldn't we all like to see an IBM/Lotus vs Microsoft law suit?
Okay, the $20 reduction is probably not going to filter down to customers and the installation time isn't going to get any better but at least you guys in the US have got DSL available!
BT's ADSL site tells us nothing other than "exchanges will be upgraded by March 2000" and that most of the major cities will have access to the service shortly afterwards.
It's still going cost a bomb and installation lead times are probably going to be in the region of 6+ weeks if their budget ISDN (HomeHighway) service is anything to go by.
I'm looking forward to a 2mb downstream and a 640k upstream internet connection and I admit to some jealousy to you guys in the US who already have access to this technology.
For the consumer market, products based on the VSA-100 deliver from 333 megatexels/megapixels per second up to 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second fill rates using 16-128 MB of video memory and one to four processors per board.
This has got to be the greatest bit of kit I've seen in a long time!
"In five to 10 years, we'll look back and wonder how software was developed in any other way than (like Linux, via) open source. The Internet has changed the way software gets developed."Alex Daly, President and CEO, Cygnus Solutions,Investor's Business Daily, 9/24/99
This buyout by RedHat has to have been designed to create a one-stop shop for Linux solutions for the corporate market. Do RedHat feel that need to emulate Microsoft by providing such an environment?
Microsoft - "We sell the OS, the DB and the development tools RedHat - "We sell the OS and the development tools...were buying a DB company next week"
And yes, I know the quote and the comment don't go together. It just seemed poetic that Cygnus is now being bought by RedHat less that two months after that interview.
Roblimo is right. This test is not about "bang for bucks" it's about sheer performance. The tests speak for themselves. NT beat a RedHat Linux installation fair and square.
The important question here is not "Are Microsoft behind this?" but "What can we learn from this?". All the kernal hackers and module developers need to read this very carefully and work out a stratergie for development on a global scale. Were does Linux progress from here? What should be the main focus for development in the future? What can be done to overcome these test results?
We all have the answers to these questions but do we all know where to send them?
I have never experianced any issues from using quad-ethernet in the past.
RedHat and Dell made a press release stating that the Dell server used in the test was a "Red Hat Ready" configuration.
The hardware and network configuration were agreed upon by all parties.The test showed which performed best under the configuraiton.
Roblimo is right. This test is not about "bang for bucks" it's about sheer performance. The tests speak for themselves. NT beat a RedHat Linux installation fair and square.
The important question here is not "Are Microsoft behind this?" but "What can we learn from this?". All the kernal hackers and module developers need to read this very carefully and work out a stratergie for development on a global scale. Were does Linux progress from here?
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Aramis was the high tech automated subway developed in Paris in the 1980s. After its sudden demise an investigation was requested into the reasons of this failure. Bruno Latour. While writing about Aramis's demise Latour describes ANT (Actor-Network Theory). In this book he argues that Aramis failed not because any particular Actor killed it but because it was not sustained through negotiation and adaptation to a changing social situation.
See http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/106
I guess I'll be able to write the same about this project in a few years time.... and HS2... etc.......
I've played with this a few times, never used it in anger though.
http://www.mayan-edms.com/
I might take up your challenge on going paperless too and give Mayan a go.
There is an arms race between companies like Nebula and Eucalyptus, backed by VCs, as to who can stay in the game long enough to be the defacto clound management environment for companies who want an open alternative to VMWare/Microsoft but need on-premise or have a specific use-case so can't choose EWS or Google.
Eucalyptus, for all the partner-with-amazon, are loosing market share and shedding staff.
Nebula are still struggling to get a viable product out of the door.
(I know senior people in both companies)
Who will win? Who cares! Because as its 'open' at least when the VCs behind Euca/Neubla shut up shop (or they are bought by HP/IBM) and go home customer will still have the code, and in the example of Nebula also own a box in the mid rack as a cloud controller.
ICO issues guidance about private emails, reminding the public sector that the Freedom of Information Act covers private emails if they are used for business matters.
"Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, said: "It should not come as a surprise to public authorities to have the clarification that information held in private email accounts can be subject to freedom of information law if it relates to official business."
Not really a device thing... but related none the less.
I work for a large confectionary manufacture who have one of the best password policies I've come across in the 7 years of my IT career.
8x90. It's simple. Eight characters with forced policies on every system to change them every 90 days. Splash screens at startup give advice on choosing stronger passwords. We advise choosing a six letter word, breaking it in half and inserting a two digit number.
e.g. let01ter
Simple and effective.
Of course, without running a cracker over the password lists I guess we'll never know if the policy actually works!
Yes, irony was my point. I got replies and moderation points by censoring a quotation to suit my purpose.
All censorship is wrong and an insult to our intelligence as it supposes that we are all too dumb to make up our own minds.
"...blocking out objectionable signs or covering up a competitor's logo, he says...meets CBS' journalistic guidelines."
Is this an admission of censorship from CBS? Are they admitting that the news is watered down and censored to meet the needs of whoever is paying the most in sponsorship and advertising that quarter?
I watch the news. I need the news. I enjoy the news. I don't need someone elses idea of what the news should be.
I know this is a little muddled but I know what I mean!
Following recent discussions on /. about the apparent perceived demise of the Mozilla project, this is a much needed 'shot in the arm' for the project team.
Having read the cover letter and the text of the complaint I was wondering if the DVD CCA peeps have cited themselves in their complaint for producing such an excellent resource for people like us who wish to mirror the source code and other material.
Thank you.
Right. Enough of this messing about from people saying they should have sent more cheques or they should have traced cheques or paid in cash of whatever.
/. and see how many people are doing it now.
I had an account with Demon Internet (UK) which was cut off without notice after a Direct Debit system screwed up and didn't take any money from my account. I had been a customer of Demon for about three years and was in the middle of my fourth year when one day I could no longer get out of my network! As Demons accounting software had screwed up and not taken any money for my quarterly subsciption for my leased line I was disconnected.
It took almost two weeks to get everything back up and working again and this was only resolved by delivering a bankers draft for a full years charges to their offices in London.
This shit happens each and every day. You can not seriously tell me that cheques never get lost in the post or misplaced on desks. You can not expect me to believe that people within large corporations are all trustworthy and honest. And you can not tell me that fraud doesn't happen!
I was not a customer of MassLinux but I understand what they are going through and I offer any support that I can give them.
Somethings in life are never easy. Doing something like ground breaking is one of them. MassLinux must have been one of the first people offering hosting services on Linux. Look at the banners on
They will have lost the respect and faith that a lot of their customers had placed in them but that is sometimes just how these things work out.
There are lessons that can be learn't here, let's hope that everyone can see them and ensures that the big guy doesn't fuck over the little guy in the future.
I can't think of any web sites that take anywhere near $18m/day. Maybe Amazon.com is close but not now that we are boycotting it...
"...governments should not be over-regulating this brand-new commercial dimension..."
Why? Because they just don't understand it.
W2K may be banned in Germany because a portion of the operating system (sic) was produced by a company owned/partly owned by the Scientologists?
Thats one in the eye for M$ but I can never see this standing up!
"Other PC makers did not immediately return calls from ZDNN"
The NSA aren't the only people suffering from information overload. What about Jo Public?
Each day I've got access to around 120 channels of television, 40 radio stations, over 200 trade publications and some 400 hours of music and 230 books that I can choose from each day.
And then there's the internet. Gig upon gig upon gig of data available for my consumption. Perhaps I should start employing people just to absorb and review information for me each day and email me a digest!
This reminds me of a story I was told in Sunday School about David and Goliath.
The bigger they come the harder they fall?
Seriously though, look at the numbers on the link "...in 1984, UPS billed its customers $99.8 million for insurance and paid out claims of about $22 million." which is a large profit margin!
Time to switch industries I think. I quite like the idea of all the money around in the insurance game of "fuck the little guy" - hang on, there's money to be made in the technology game of "fuck the little guy"
Since copy protection was invented, there have been ways around it.
With DAT there was some sort of digital signature (i forget the TLA) that was written to the tape that ment that the tape had to copied by the machine that produced the master. A box of tricks costing £100 (ish) got rid of that and you could freely copy DATs.
The duplication of CD's used to be protected by the high cost of CD writters but we just copied them to tape and all was fine. CD writters now cost around £180 and everyone is freely coping CD's (either audio or MP3) and distributing copywritted material.
The MP3 audio format was one of the final nails in the coffin. Fast, high quality and small audio files distributed freely are rapidly killing off sales of CD's. Well, so we are lead to believe by the music industry.
All this little application does is break the current encryption/protection method used. I'm sure that within a few months a new format will come out and all the DVD hardware/software/content vendors will adopt it and proclaim it to be secure. A few months later someone will break it and announce who easy it was and how stupid the industry is for using such a weak encryption/protection method. Repeat the cycle. Do until end.
You would have thought that a service release for any OS would under go testing by the OS vendors prior to it's release. If I were a server OS vendor then I would want to make damm sure that all the software partnerships that I had formed were not killed off by something as stupid as this.
I am very suprised that this service release ever made it into 'the wild' so to speak. They issue beta CD's to all their major partners before anyone else gets them. Surely someone somewhere noticed this before today! Lotus/IBM must be a major Microsoft partner and must have seen this! If they did and they can prove that they did then the DOJ case could get all the more serious for Microsoft.
I previously worked in Quality Assurance within the a life sciences company. Whenever any modifications were made to the QA managment system, the golden rule was test, test and test again. Okay, the service patch may well work great of the QA managment system but that's no good if it fucks up internal email!
I was under the impression that these sort of "accidents" or "mishaps" would rapidly come to an end following the DOJ 'Findings of Fact' but I was obviously wrong. Microsoft need to take a good long hard look at all aspects of every group in every department within each and every division of it's self in order to ensure that things like this do not happen again.
When all is said and done...wouldn't we all like to see an IBM/Lotus vs Microsoft law suit?
I don't know...Service Pack 4 was alright...eventually.
Okay, the $20 reduction is probably not going to filter down to customers and the installation time isn't going to get any better but at least you guys in the US have got DSL available!
BT's ADSL site tells us nothing other than "exchanges will be upgraded by March 2000" and that most of the major cities will have access to the service shortly afterwards.
It's still going cost a bomb and installation lead times are probably going to be in the region of 6+ weeks if their budget ISDN (HomeHighway) service is anything to go by.
I'm looking forward to a 2mb downstream and a 640k upstream internet connection and I admit to some jealousy to you guys in the US who already have access to this technology.
For the consumer market, products based on the VSA-100 deliver from 333 megatexels/megapixels per second up to 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second fill rates using 16-128 MB of video memory and one to four processors per board.
This has got to be the greatest bit of kit I've seen in a long time!
Powerful? Without question!
Linux support? I sincerly hope so!
"In five to 10 years, we'll look back and wonder how software was developed in any other way than (like Linux, via) open source. The Internet has changed the way software gets developed."Alex Daly, President and CEO, Cygnus Solutions,Investor's Business Daily, 9/24/99
This buyout by RedHat has to have been designed to create a one-stop shop for Linux solutions for the corporate market. Do RedHat feel that need to emulate Microsoft by providing such an environment?
Microsoft - "We sell the OS, the DB and the development tools
RedHat - "We sell the OS and the development tools...were buying a DB company next week"
And yes, I know the quote and the comment don't go together. It just seemed poetic that Cygnus is now being bought by RedHat less that two months after that interview.
Let's just hope (and pray) that this is not a Microsoft style embrace-destroy buy out.
Roblimo is right. This test is not about "bang for bucks" it's about sheer performance. The tests speak for themselves. NT beat a RedHat Linux installation fair and square.
The important question here is not "Are Microsoft behind this?" but "What can we learn from this?". All the kernal hackers and module developers need to read this very carefully and work out a stratergie for development on a global scale. Were does Linux progress from here? What should be the main focus for development in the future? What can be done to overcome these test results?
We all have the answers to these questions but do we all know where to send them?
Flawed benchmarking?
I have never experianced any issues from using quad-ethernet in the past.
RedHat and Dell made a press release stating that the Dell server used in the test was a "Red Hat Ready" configuration.
The hardware and network configuration were agreed upon by all parties.The test showed which performed best under the configuraiton.
Roblimo is right. This test is not about "bang for bucks" it's about sheer performance. The tests speak for themselves. NT beat a RedHat Linux installation fair and square.
The important question here is not "Are Microsoft behind this?" but "What can we learn from this?". All the kernal hackers and module developers need to read this very carefully and work out a stratergie for development on a global scale. Were does Linux progress from here?