-Not allowing users to change uid (or using mechanisms to make sure they do it only to a handful of them) -Removing all external media from personal computers. Clog the USB ports. No laptops on the network (laptops go to a firewalled network considered hostile). -Having restriction lists of machines allowed to mount filesystems remotely. -Constantly generating reports of who is mounting what and when. -And so on and so forth.
Security is a way of life, not a protocol. NFS may be shite, but many other things are shite in WIndows (most of them actually) security wise. So you should secure your networks as much as possible irrespective of the technologies you are using.
... you can as well hand over your company to Microsoft and do something else. Like flipping burgers.
If you think the shares of a company going open about something like this would tank, I would like to see what would be the result for MS shares (whose price had remained pretty flat for some time now).
I think this article is baseless, but it is nice weekend speculation, conspiracy theories and all that.
But then again, if somebody would have described SCO's actions before they started their disgraceful charade, few would have believed it.
Baroque and Gregorian chants are firmly entrenched in the Westerm Classical tradition.
Most World music can be pigeonholed elsewhere, it is just a lazy name for "anything foreigner we know nothing about".
As for folk music, it is clearly popular music, one could make an argument about it being part of pop which coule be subdivide in commercial and folk kinds.
In any case, the original point was well made. progressive metal is clearly a type of rock, as is rap and perhaps hip-hop, which could be pop.
Modenr musicians and popular culture critics create these unnecessary artificial descriptions based in minuscule differences of style.
What do Sonos need? Direct access to the DRM specs? Ain't going to happen. Jobs explains very clearly why. Apple is the gatekeeper of the RIAA's basket of golden eggs, the cartel put onerous terms for them to fix any breakages, you don't want to keep a gate that anybody can leave fully open.
This gatekeeping would be close to impossible if the DRM implementation is licensed. MS realized this the hard way and now is mimicking the Apple model with the Zune (leaving in the cold all its licensees of their previous DRM scheme, how surprising, MS stabbing in the back bussiness partners), the movie companies learned this also with the debacle regarding DVD protection and stupid region coding (everybody and his dog now have multiregion DVD players).
Tapes and CDs were different mediums in the most physical sense: you can't stick a tape on a CD player,
Now, with digital formats, any "change of medium" as described by you is a complete artificial constructs, since the data is nothing but 0s and 1s arranges in accordance to a format that is documented.
To change to a new format (or medium, as you incorrectly equate it) is a programatic task, no longer physical objects are involved but the clever handling of information.
Now data is consolidated from many disparate places and we are beginning to see virutalization, for which Sun has a very good and simple offering (zones) at absolutely no extra cost.
Try virtualizing Windows. Soon you'll go mad figuring the licensing and legal issues, not to speak about performance.
With Sun you just type a few commands, have to ask permission to nobody, and are in bussiness. And using an OS that scales properly from prototype to full production and then to serving more clients than originally expected.
There are islands dissapearing in Bangladesh and the Pacific sea already.
As for the sea leveles not raising, please AC (or any other flat earth deniers, sorry, climate change deniers) explain to us how ice melting in the poles and the sea swelling due to higher temperatures (a basic fact of physics) will not be reflected in a rising of the sea levels.
It is not up to others to dictate if this engagements are desirable or not, most likely those dictating have some emotional angagements that would appear equally ridiculous to other people.
People in the IT industry or interested in computers are notorious for their lack of social responsibility and awarness. This may be perhaps because the pursuit of knowledge on this field is a mostly lonely affair (/. jokes aside please).
The few people that care about important social issues related to computing and technology are labeled with all kind of idiotic monikers. The one you just used is one of them.
If you don't care about steering how computing, the most important technology invented during the XXth century, is going to influence our lives, all the power to you.
If you think proselitizing in favour of free computing options is a waste of time, great, to each one his own.
But frankly trying to paint people with some principles and ideals as religious zealots is childish and idiotic. Some of us have a political and social agenda, but this is not borne out of an state of inexplicable enlightment or troubled phsycology.
In most cases an strong commtment to a social cause is borne out of reflection and cold examination of a political or social situation. If the situation changes then the informed person may change his point of view or attitudes. THis constrasts strongly with how areligious zealot operates, they are normaly monolithic in relation to their beliefs.
So stop ejaculating such nonsense please, use arguments if you have any.
All modern distros, all the fucking lot of them, have graphic installers.
You can search applications by name or by the description text explaining what the application does.
And if somebody tells an elderly person "please type yum install chess" I think it is mightly patronizing of you to assume that old people, which in most cases worked in professional environments with typewriters or computers (yes, computers, they have been commonplace for almost 30 years you know) will not be able to do such a simple task. They don't even have to type it, cut and paste is not necessarily the highest of skills after all.
If my mum can do it, she who never used a computer on her life, any normal elderly person surely can.
Perhaps what puts elderly people off from Linux (and computing in general) is the condescending attitude of people with a modicum of technical knolewdge but lack of patience for their elders.
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This includes measures like:
-Not allowing users to change uid (or using mechanisms to make sure they do it only to a handful of them)
-Removing all external media from personal computers. Clog the USB ports. No laptops on the network (laptops go to a firewalled network considered hostile).
-Having restriction lists of machines allowed to mount filesystems remotely.
-Constantly generating reports of who is mounting what and when.
-And so on and so forth.
Security is a way of life, not a protocol. NFS may be shite, but many other things are shite in WIndows (most of them actually) security wise. So you should secure your networks as much as possible irrespective of the technologies you are using.
... you can as well hand over your company to Microsoft and do something else. Like flipping burgers.
If you think the shares of a company going open about something like this would tank, I would like to see what would be the result for MS shares (whose price had remained pretty flat for some time now).
I think this article is baseless, but it is nice weekend speculation, conspiracy theories and all that.
But then again, if somebody would have described SCO's actions before they started their disgraceful charade, few would have believed it.
Baroque and Gregorian chants are firmly entrenched in the Westerm Classical tradition.
Most World music can be pigeonholed elsewhere, it is just a lazy name for "anything foreigner we know nothing about".
As for folk music, it is clearly popular music, one could make an argument about it being part of pop which coule be subdivide in commercial and folk kinds.
In any case, the original point was well made. progressive metal is clearly a type of rock, as is rap and perhaps hip-hop, which could be pop.
Modenr musicians and popular culture critics create these unnecessary artificial descriptions based in minuscule differences of style.
What do Sonos need? Direct access to the DRM specs? Ain't going to happen. Jobs explains very clearly why. Apple is the gatekeeper of the RIAA's basket of golden eggs, the cartel put onerous terms for them to fix any breakages, you don't want to keep a gate that anybody can leave fully open.
This gatekeeping would be close to impossible if the DRM implementation is licensed. MS realized this the hard way and now is mimicking the Apple model with the Zune (leaving in the cold all its licensees of their previous DRM scheme, how surprising, MS stabbing in the back bussiness partners), the movie companies learned this also with the debacle regarding DVD protection and stupid region coding (everybody and his dog now have multiregion DVD players).
Like eMusic.
I don;t need to send money that may get lost, when there are perfectly good alternatives to pay for music that you like that is not cirppled with DRM.
.... between a visionary and Bill Gates....
What about if the music labels play ball with Apple only if all music on iTunes is DRM crippled?
They have the upper hand, they surely would not allow a competitive advantage for any other music producers or copyright owners...
.... of music shops selling DRMed music compatible with the iPod?
None?
MMMMOk.
Thanks.
A minuscule amount of music is bought in shops.
The enormous majority of music on digital music plaoyers is non DRMed, either ripped from CDs ro downloaded from sharing networks.
And to say that the Zune is selling music, when the Zune itslef is not selling, is well, lets be nice to you, naive.
Tapes and CDs were different mediums in the most physical sense: you can't stick a tape on a CD player,
Now, with digital formats, any "change of medium" as described by you is a complete artificial constructs, since the data is nothing but 0s and 1s arranges in accordance to a format that is documented.
To change to a new format (or medium, as you incorrectly equate it) is a programatic task, no longer physical objects are involved but the clever handling of information.
That must be why they are dumping the DRM they licensed to many players in favour of the une used in the Zune.
Stupid me.
Sharing (as in licensing) DRM would mean that it would be broken faster than you can spell RIAA.
RTFA for once please.
Tell us how would you sell music for which you don't have the copyright and the holders demand to protect their wares.
Now data is consolidated from many disparate places and we are beginning to see virutalization, for which Sun has a very good and simple offering (zones) at absolutely no extra cost.
Try virtualizing Windows. Soon you'll go mad figuring the licensing and legal issues, not to speak about performance.
With Sun you just type a few commands, have to ask permission to nobody, and are in bussiness. And using an OS that scales properly from prototype to full production and then to serving more clients than originally expected.
Windows do not scale.
I know. Been there, seen others try to do it, got the bloody T shirt.
If you have a bussiness that is likely to grow fast, do yourself a favour and keep Windows out of your datacentre.
I thought the state was an organizational tool to protect people from each other and to aim for the common good.
You make it sound like if the state is an end on itself.
Very Sovietic attitude that of yours, unfortunately the history of the XXth century argue against your lame case.
In which planet please?
There are islands dissapearing in Bangladesh and the Pacific sea already.
As for the sea leveles not raising, please AC (or any other flat earth deniers, sorry, climate change deniers) explain to us how ice melting in the poles and the sea swelling due to higher temperatures (a basic fact of physics) will not be reflected in a rising of the sea levels.
.... its own costumers, has some serious rethinking to do regarding its strategy.
It is not up to others to dictate if this engagements are desirable or not, most likely those dictating have some emotional angagements that would appear equally ridiculous to other people.
Neither may be Windows Vista.
Or MacOS or whatever is called.
But your obligation as a knowledgable computer person is to let people know that there are options out there.
That is Linux problem.
All the rest of what you say is complete, unadultered nonsense.
People in the IT industry or interested in computers are notorious for their lack of social responsibility and awarness. This may be perhaps because the pursuit of knowledge on this field is a mostly lonely affair (/. jokes aside please).
The few people that care about important social issues related to computing and technology are labeled with all kind of idiotic monikers. The one you just used is one of them.
If you don't care about steering how computing, the most important technology invented during the XXth century, is going to influence our lives, all the power to you.
If you think proselitizing in favour of free computing options is a waste of time, great, to each one his own.
But frankly trying to paint people with some principles and ideals as religious zealots is childish and idiotic. Some of us have a political and social agenda, but this is not borne out of an state of inexplicable enlightment or troubled phsycology.
In most cases an strong commtment to a social cause is borne out of reflection and cold examination of a political or social situation. If the situation changes then the informed person may change his point of view or attitudes. THis constrasts strongly with how areligious zealot operates, they are normaly monolithic in relation to their beliefs.
So stop ejaculating such nonsense please, use arguments if you have any.
.... it becomes the normal behaviour.
All modern distros, all the fucking lot of them, have graphic installers.
You can search applications by name or by the description text explaining what the application does.
And if somebody tells an elderly person "please type yum install chess" I think it is mightly patronizing of you to assume that old people, which in most cases worked in professional environments with typewriters or computers (yes, computers, they have been commonplace for almost 30 years you know) will not be able to do such a simple task. They don't even have to type it, cut and paste is not necessarily the highest of skills after all.
If my mum can do it, she who never used a computer on her life, any normal elderly person surely can.
Perhaps what puts elderly people off from Linux (and computing in general) is the condescending attitude of people with a modicum of technical knolewdge but lack of patience for their elders.