It's enough that I know at least 6 people at work (out of 20 co-workers) that have electric cars or plugin hybrids and for the most part aren't buying gasoline anymore - just 3-4 years ago it was zero - you'd be a fool not to wake up and smell the batteries if your making cars.
Thats the issue though - say I made an installer - I could make a bit of code on Windows/Mac that draws Icons into Applications on the Mac or the Start Menu on Windows - on Linux I'd have to have separate code bases for every desktop UI - XFCE or whatever else is standard.
But you say - well I don't need that - I'll customize it myself - but that's the point - it doesn't scale well in an enterprise or at home.
Or take fonts - most articles about installing fonts on Linux can't be reduced down to a single sentence (put the file in this folder) - you have to have pages of pages about this method, or that method or if your using this X-Serv - do this, run that tool etc.
I would say a big reason Linux doesn't conquer the enterprise desktop is management frameworks - Windows has arguably had a pretty good one since Windows 2000, but Microsoft had been developing since 92 (ConfigMgr/WMI). Most of the apps I've been deploying and configuring also have Linux counterparts.
That said - its getting much better on Linux very rapidly and I can see the Linux desktop being a thing where I work:).
The Outlook thing I don't think matters as much anymore since its also a pretty good web app that works on Chrome/Linux/Mac - plus the plethora of native mobile device clients for it.
Not sure I agree actually - for instance its perfectly legal to order a pizza over ham radio (say via a phone patch) because the pecuniary interest isn't a ham. Pecuniary interest is basically being paid to operate the radio or radio service - there's a single exception for this - school teachers.
I would say this violates rules against using ciphers over ham radio frequencies to obscure messages though: 97.309.
Name one patch that MS has ever released that was bigger than the whole OS? Not even the Windows 10 service releases are as big as the OS is - and they are the biggest patches I've ever seen from them.
Before fat pipes I remember getting service packs for Windows NT on CD in the mail - those weren't as big as the OS either.
Back during the.com boom - I worked for a company that training porn filters - luckily in IT, but the people they hired to grade content all day all quickly became perverts.
I've found most creative cloud apps (photoshop, premier, after effects) use threads pretty effectively. One of the issues with GPU acceleration - yes it works quite well, but it also reduces the performance of the display significantly.
One thing I'd like with CC is maybe some cloud rendering option or network rendering options like Cinema 4D has.
Linux doesn't really support on boot hardware crypto does it? All my Linux admins always tell me to turn that stuff off before they install anything:(.
But your right - this whole virus scare is as silly as that whitepaper on how to exploit wsus - which was posted on slashdot as well - and step 1 was turn off ssl... (which by default is on).
That's really interesting actually - I've heard about them used for all kinds of things where real-time applications are necessary. The first Amiga I ever saw was an Amiga 2000 as well - in high school. It had Amilink, Video Toaster, and Kitchen Sync TBC - I think it cost (with all those addons) about $15,000-$20,000 USD (it had the DKB Megachip and GVP 68030 CPU with 8 megs of ram as well - which were super expensive) - not even counting the VLAN capable vcr's. But that may have been only around 1/3rd the annual salary of an engineer here.
The PC wasn't designed to be upgraded by 3rd parties at all though - in fact there was no official ISA-Bus spec until Compaq made one (and they didn't invent ISA).
Something strange - I used to use an Amiga professionally during their heyday (really the early 90s) so I know a fair amount about them, but there are a lot of retro gaming fan boys who have created this strange mythology about what they were capable of. Ultimately what killed it was a crippling lack of leadership and money, but the way the Amiga was designed it would have had a rough transition to a more modern architecture.
It didn't have the VGA style chunky pixel mode that you needed to play Doom - and that kinda didn't help either.
I do miss AmigaDOS assigns and its real time response, but most any modern computer has that (the real time response - not the assigns).
Could go the Windows route and deem certain files critical to the system (ie - only trusted publishers are allowed to update the OS files), but then you'd have to have a list of publishers (based on certs) allowed to update the system. I don't think it's an entirely bad idea.
I would add too this is a legacy application - which isn't really sandboxed. I suspect they installed this to work-around not signing their drivers properly (there's an easier solution - just add the public key to the trusted publisher store).
Modern apps - ie windows store apps can't modify the trusted root.
So typically in Windows - to install software you need local admin rights - once your running as admin you can modify the trusted root in the Windows Certificate Store - that's the security model.
There are limitations though - you can't use the patch engine unless the patch is signed by Microsoft or you have the trusted publisher setup via GPO. Depending on the type of driver as well if it's not Microsoft signed you can't install it at all (short of disabling OS code signing, which you can do as admin as well).
Does Linux work differently? I know OS-X doesn't. I know Android doesn't - ie if you have root you're allowed to a certain extent to fuck up the machine and make it way less secure. You can setup Windows using policies to disable modifying the trusted root as well - even as admin (but an admin is setting up the policy on the server side).
That said - all windows clients - whether consumer or commercial update their revocation lists automagically out of the box and Microsoft has been very on top of doing this for as long as I've used the OS.
I think it came to a head in this election (ie people were a tad more involved as the Republicans didn't want Trump and the Democrats wanted Clinton), but honestly - even in the 90s - in polysci classes we used to jokingly refer to the national conventions as "love fests". By the time the convention comes - everyone knows who the nominee is going to be - it was decided months ago - and short of violating a bunch of party bylaws there's nothing illegal about the party saying "we want this guy/gal" via backroom meetings.
The only real way to change this is for all of us to be way more involved.
You wouldn't feel that way if you yourself were running a commercial software company. If someone pirates your video game - the people who pay mortgages/rent, put food on the table for their family don't get paid.
Sure you didn't take anything physical, but the net result is the same - something you should have bought didn't generate any revenue for the company who made it.
And yes I agree some companies go way to far overboard when it comes to licensing, but then - it's their software not yours - I don't see why you feel entitled to own it.
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It's enough that I know at least 6 people at work (out of 20 co-workers) that have electric cars or plugin hybrids and for the most part aren't buying gasoline anymore - just 3-4 years ago it was zero - you'd be a fool not to wake up and smell the batteries if your making cars.
Thats the issue though - say I made an installer - I could make a bit of code on Windows/Mac that draws Icons into Applications on the Mac or the Start Menu on Windows - on Linux I'd have to have separate code bases for every desktop UI - XFCE or whatever else is standard.
But you say - well I don't need that - I'll customize it myself - but that's the point - it doesn't scale well in an enterprise or at home.
Or take fonts - most articles about installing fonts on Linux can't be reduced down to a single sentence (put the file in this folder) - you have to have pages of pages about this method, or that method or if your using this X-Serv - do this, run that tool etc.
It used to be worse - you'd have some Motif application - could only copy and paste to other Motif applications. Same with any UI toolkit.
These are simply problems the Mac and Windows have never had :(.
Oh come on - according to Distrowatch - there's only been 800 distributions of Linux since 2001.
I would say a big reason Linux doesn't conquer the enterprise desktop is management frameworks - Windows has arguably had a pretty good one since Windows 2000, but Microsoft had been developing since 92 (ConfigMgr/WMI). Most of the apps I've been deploying and configuring also have Linux counterparts.
That said - its getting much better on Linux very rapidly and I can see the Linux desktop being a thing where I work :).
The Outlook thing I don't think matters as much anymore since its also a pretty good web app that works on Chrome/Linux/Mac - plus the plethora of native mobile device clients for it.
Not sure I agree actually - for instance its perfectly legal to order a pizza over ham radio (say via a phone patch) because the pecuniary interest isn't a ham. Pecuniary interest is basically being paid to operate the radio or radio service - there's a single exception for this - school teachers.
I would say this violates rules against using ciphers over ham radio frequencies to obscure messages though: 97.309.
Not sure if its still true, but at point to have a ham radio license in Saudi Arabia you had to be a member of the royal family.
US State Dept has a list of countries your allowed to handle 3rd party traffic for as well that is kind of interesting:
http://www.arrl.org/third-part...
Name one patch that MS has ever released that was bigger than the whole OS? Not even the Windows 10 service releases are as big as the OS is - and they are the biggest patches I've ever seen from them.
Before fat pipes I remember getting service packs for Windows NT on CD in the mail - those weren't as big as the OS either.
Back during the .com boom - I worked for a company that training porn filters - luckily in IT, but the people they hired to grade content all day all quickly became perverts.
Are they? Because he would have paid the same whether he was there or not. In terms of book-keeping - they lost nothing.
I mean put it this way - if you pay for a flight and don't show up at all - would they take you to court?
I've found most creative cloud apps (photoshop, premier, after effects) use threads pretty effectively. One of the issues with GPU acceleration - yes it works quite well, but it also reduces the performance of the display significantly.
One thing I'd like with CC is maybe some cloud rendering option or network rendering options like Cinema 4D has.
In the article it says he prefers Excel for doing work - so I assume he uses that.
My sister became a nurse with a few years of community college - I'm pretty sure it didn't cost her 140k.
It will make it more easily portable to Linux and MacOS.
Well smuggled in I'm sure - I suspect that's why they cost so much.
Linux doesn't really support on boot hardware crypto does it? All my Linux admins always tell me to turn that stuff off before they install anything :(.
But your right - this whole virus scare is as silly as that whitepaper on how to exploit wsus - which was posted on slashdot as well - and step 1 was turn off ssl... (which by default is on).
That's really interesting actually - I've heard about them used for all kinds of things where real-time applications are necessary. The first Amiga I ever saw was an Amiga 2000 as well - in high school. It had Amilink, Video Toaster, and Kitchen Sync TBC - I think it cost (with all those addons) about $15,000-$20,000 USD (it had the DKB Megachip and GVP 68030 CPU with 8 megs of ram as well - which were super expensive) - not even counting the VLAN capable vcr's. But that may have been only around 1/3rd the annual salary of an engineer here.
The PC wasn't designed to be upgraded by 3rd parties at all though - in fact there was no official ISA-Bus spec until Compaq made one (and they didn't invent ISA).
Something strange - I used to use an Amiga professionally during their heyday (really the early 90s) so I know a fair amount about them, but there are a lot of retro gaming fan boys who have created this strange mythology about what they were capable of. Ultimately what killed it was a crippling lack of leadership and money, but the way the Amiga was designed it would have had a rough transition to a more modern architecture.
It didn't have the VGA style chunky pixel mode that you needed to play Doom - and that kinda didn't help either.
I do miss AmigaDOS assigns and its real time response, but most any modern computer has that (the real time response - not the assigns).
Could go the Windows route and deem certain files critical to the system (ie - only trusted publishers are allowed to update the OS files), but then you'd have to have a list of publishers (based on certs) allowed to update the system. I don't think it's an entirely bad idea.
I would add too this is a legacy application - which isn't really sandboxed. I suspect they installed this to work-around not signing their drivers properly (there's an easier solution - just add the public key to the trusted publisher store).
Modern apps - ie windows store apps can't modify the trusted root.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adh...
Fuck off.
So typically in Windows - to install software you need local admin rights - once your running as admin you can modify the trusted root in the Windows Certificate Store - that's the security model.
There are limitations though - you can't use the patch engine unless the patch is signed by Microsoft or you have the trusted publisher setup via GPO. Depending on the type of driver as well if it's not Microsoft signed you can't install it at all (short of disabling OS code signing, which you can do as admin as well).
Does Linux work differently? I know OS-X doesn't. I know Android doesn't - ie if you have root you're allowed to a certain extent to fuck up the machine and make it way less secure. You can setup Windows using policies to disable modifying the trusted root as well - even as admin (but an admin is setting up the policy on the server side).
That said - all windows clients - whether consumer or commercial update their revocation lists automagically out of the box and Microsoft has been very on top of doing this for as long as I've used the OS.
I think it came to a head in this election (ie people were a tad more involved as the Republicans didn't want Trump and the Democrats wanted Clinton), but honestly - even in the 90s - in polysci classes we used to jokingly refer to the national conventions as "love fests". By the time the convention comes - everyone knows who the nominee is going to be - it was decided months ago - and short of violating a bunch of party bylaws there's nothing illegal about the party saying "we want this guy/gal" via backroom meetings.
The only real way to change this is for all of us to be way more involved.
You wouldn't feel that way if you yourself were running a commercial software company. If someone pirates your video game - the people who pay mortgages/rent, put food on the table for their family don't get paid.
Sure you didn't take anything physical, but the net result is the same - something you should have bought didn't generate any revenue for the company who made it.
And yes I agree some companies go way to far overboard when it comes to licensing, but then - it's their software not yours - I don't see why you feel entitled to own it.