That's an interesting hypothetical; but from a realistic point of view the license doesn't matter; it's the platform. The only people who are going to want to switch to Windows as a hosting platform for Apache are those who already have a large investment in Windows infrastructure; corporates generally. And making Apache Linux only wouldn't solve that; it just means that those users aren't even going to evaluate Apache based products. What would drive Apache adoption (and FireFox adoption) is to allow these things to be managed through the current Windows management tools (FireFox is a good example here, you just can't use AD policies to manage it; there are some 3rd party attempts at this, but they suck). It's interesting you didn't leap up when Microsoft made PHP a first class citizen for IIS; why isn't that as dangerous (simple, it's the same thing, it's not going to move anyone that didn't already want to move). Heck who says the donation is to improve Apache at all? After all Apache sponsors log.net, probably the most population logging and instrumentation framework for the.NET platform.
Of course it's all down to viewpoint, you don't seem to believe something is truly Open Source unless it runs on a completely open source stack; I disagree, but then I believe open standards are a lot more important.
Dell are releasing BIOS upgrades for their laptops to cope with the Nvidia weak component problem (basically the fan will spin up sooner). This includes the laptop models that come with Linux preinstalled. Except there's no BIOS updater that will run under Linux; they're all Windows based (although if you have a DOS floppy knocking around you can use that)
<tongue location="cheek"> Of course that might be ok as lets face it 3d gaming under Linux is as likely as Stallman shaving and looking respectable</tongue>
And it, of course, shows a stunning lack of understanding of geography or other countries. The UK has no enshrined right to free speech, the right to assembly has been slowly curtailed since the 1980s, starting with laws to stop raves, and then to stop political demonstrations in certain areas (like outside parliament) and cutting off a personal internet account doesn't stop journalists reporting.
The three strikes "solution" is problematic however; because suddenly a corporation is policing something. And that is more worrying than anything else.
I have the sort of the same problem; but my little project is terribly specialist and outside of the US I'm the only person who really seems to care about Information Cards. So I just potter along, slowly adding features when I have time and dealing with emails asking when it will be ready. The people that are using it are simply customising it for their own needs (which is the general idea, there's a provider model for this and everyone assumes the core is correct; ah, how I wish I could be sure of that). But I don't view it as a bad thing; I know it's specialised, it's just a hobby for me and research which increases my knowledge and gets me the odd conference presentation now and again. Do I want other people to contribute to the core? I'm not sure; it's security related, so there's a responsibility implied. Am I happy that people just customise it via the provider model? Yes, that's why I did it that way? Do I want fame and fortune from it? Nope; I'm not daft enough to expect that. But girls would be... naw, I'm really not that stupid.
No but it doesn't show "Sun's continued commitment to Open Source" as the summary makes out. If anything it shows quick back-pedalling in the face of vociferous criticism from one of the louder, more vocal IT communities. If no-one had complained do you think Sun would have changed their mind?
asp.net sanitises by default; in fact it won't let certain strings be submitted as part of a form to protect against XSS. you have to specifically turn that off. c# also provides parametrised queries specifically to escape strings properly with any.net data provider.
A belief in the superiority of php developers isn't helpful, nor is it correct. I give a bunch of talks each year on this very topic and the amount of shocked php developers is pretty much the same as the amount of shocked asp.net developers. Part of the problem is no school teaches this stuff; security does not seem to be a part of any degree course I've encountered. Part of it is that the basic teach yourself books don't cover it either; asp.net/php for dummies will not list it, and database texts certainly don't, as it's not part of their domain. WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla! have all had SQL injection problems; Oracle has a great one right now which is a database level problem which defensive coding may not even catch to do with date parsing. It's not a question of one platform's developers being dumber, it's because no-one has ever warned them.
A mild correction; no-one runs a SQL injection attack against a web server, it's against the software that runs on that web server. So strictly no-one runs a SQL injection attack against apache, apache by default does not use any sql database; it's the same situation with IIS.
Software is never perfect; releases tend to be when it's "good enough". If you wait for perfection it never gets released. Linux is still a work in progress, if it wasn't there would be no more kernel updates. As long as there are patches then a system isn't finished. MS even released a feature pack for Vista this week for bluetooth and networking. SP1 improved sleep and startup times. Visual Studio is getting regular feature additions these days, the asp.net ajax stuff is a good example.
When *isn't* something that is still "alive" and used a work in progress? Heck if you shouldn't release work in progress goggle wouldn't have any apps; and putting daily builds/feature based check ins on sourceforge wouldn't happen either.
Disclaimer: I was in the audience; the conference in question was the MVP summit.
Now, Microsoft comes out with XAML, rolls it out with Vista, waits a few years and suddenly 90% of the internet has XAML support. Thats good enough for many people to start using it to replace the portion of "normal" technologies people are stuck with because its all IE supports.
XAML has nothing to do with Vista; its part of the.net framework and as such runs on XP, 2003 etc.
All IE supports? So what, Flash, Shockwave, Air etc. don't exist? They don't work in IE? REALLY?
Google gears? That doesn't work in IE?
Paranoia is all very well, but outright untruths don't help anyone.
Well partly satellite footprints take care of this, but no, it's not illegal because broadcasters purchase rights per country, and it would be illegal for them to allow viewing outside of that country. Indeed there's an entire directive, 93/83/EEC over this. Copyright and licensing trump the free movement of goods.
As a subject of Her Majesty the Queen I've been watching the US race with some interest (and lots of spam from idiot US activists, thanks guys). I must admit to liking Obama not for any real reason, but because his slogan "Yes we can" is in fact a very British phrase taken from one of our most popular entertainers, Bob the Builder. Who would have thought the slogan from a pre-school edu-tainment star would reach the heady heights of US political office?
And worse, it's a one time download link. So if your connection dies or, as has happened to me, the servers are just too overloaded, time out and you don't even get to start the download then you're screwed until customer support responds. Which at 12 hours so far doesn't look to be speedy. So off to bit-torrent I go, that'll be faster than waiting for customer services to wake up, reset my download count, for the download server to die again, get my download count reset and so on.
Currently wikileaks is at http://88.80.13.160, which belongs to "prq Inet - Access" based in Sweden. Greenham Common itself has been returned to civilian use, and most of it is being turned back into countryside and held in trust. The missile silos are being turning into a historical monument. There is a small business park, which does have a company providing secure hosting in one of the old bunkers (which I guess is sort of "an abandoned US nuclear weapons base at Greenham Common", but not quite, saying abandoned gives the idea of secret hackers stringing ethernet at night whilst no-one sees). The same company also hosts in an old radar station in Kent, at, Marshborough Road, Sandwich.
However the UK is not a good choice for hosting this sort of thing; our libel laws are open to all sorts of abuse these days, there's a tendency right now for individuals to sue in the UK high court for libel over publications which aren't even available in the UK, so called "libel holidays". Whilst secure hosting is all very nice marketing speak when the laws of the land will conspire against you then the security of your hosting is secondary; after all, really, what are they worried about? A company hiring a rogue agent to fire bomb the hosting? Most hosting facilities have large fences, gates and security, and a bunch are undergound. Being ex-military land doesn't improve security that much.
See it's weird; I thought that the google proposed partnership was a spoiler and a non-serious offer just made to burn up more of Microsoft's warchest by giving Yahoo a plausible reason to drive the price up. And the goggle thing dissolved away very quickly, whereas the Microsoft offer is still on the table.
Actually it hit MSDN last night. It's in the top downloads section. But yes, the summary is telling lies. But hey, it's Microsoft bashing, so don't worry about it!
In the UK you can get CEng (Certified Engineer) as part of the certification process through the British Computer Society. I did think about myself, but it's been years since I did anything that mrchaotica rants about above (I wrote software for medical heart monitors as my first job. Scary stuff); so I just applied for CITP instead.
Microsoft will attempt to quash any attempts to provide inter operability between different IM providers
Except Microsoft and Yahoo already interoperate; I believe they were the first networks to do so in 2005. Their Corporate IM offering talks to AOL as well (both AIM and ICQ) and they've been in talks to do with the consumer offerings (but AOL was/is refusing to play)
Right now, with the three companies separate, we see quite some innovation,
Actually we don't. We see people playing catchup with each other's services (search being the obvious one, maps being another, where frankly Microsoft do it best). That's not innovation. The one hint at innovation comes from companies that one of the big 3 buy, blogger for example, or flickr. What has goggle done outside search and context sensitive advertising that's innovative? Even search wasn't innovative, it was just a honed approach improving on what went before. The same with gmail.
A bigger competitor might encourage google to pay nice, to be more open, to respect privacy more. For me, because it's what I do as a day job, I'll be interested to see how a large OpenID player will merge with Information Cards; that can't be a bad thing IMO.
Indeed; I'm somewhat amused that this is described as a "minor" security flaw in the summary and blamed on the user interface. If it was a Microsoft web site it would be described as a major flaw and the foaming at the mouth would begin. Nor is it a user interface problem; by using session cookies closing the browser would logout the user, with or without a logout button.
The site listed (but not linked) in the summary doesn't describe the issue as minor, or a UI problem, so one can only assume that description comes from the summary author.
he's fighting against a culture where most people have no idea what OSS is, and where all the social mechanisms the Linux/BSD community has developed don't exist
Why yes, because linux and bsd code have never been ripped off. That's never happened. No. Not at all. What utter nonsense. Nor does the author talk about taking the software closed source; if you read the article he talks about distributing part of the project as a binary, the bits that people can easily use to just change the copyright messages, the installer and other small bits. The removal of the current source is a stopgap until he decides which option to take.
But hey, lets not let facts get in the way of a good Microsoft bash. Where you went wrong is you said Windows instead of Windoze, and forgot to use Micro$oft. Then you may have been marked insightful.
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That's an interesting hypothetical; but from a realistic point of view the license doesn't matter; it's the platform. The only people who are going to want to switch to Windows as a hosting platform for Apache are those who already have a large investment in Windows infrastructure; corporates generally. And making Apache Linux only wouldn't solve that; it just means that those users aren't even going to evaluate Apache based products. What would drive Apache adoption (and FireFox adoption) is to allow these things to be managed through the current Windows management tools (FireFox is a good example here, you just can't use AD policies to manage it; there are some 3rd party attempts at this, but they suck). It's interesting you didn't leap up when Microsoft made PHP a first class citizen for IIS; why isn't that as dangerous (simple, it's the same thing, it's not going to move anyone that didn't already want to move). Heck who says the donation is to improve Apache at all? After all Apache sponsors log.net, probably the most population logging and instrumentation framework for the .NET platform.
Of course it's all down to viewpoint, you don't seem to believe something is truly Open Source unless it runs on a completely open source stack; I disagree, but then I believe open standards are a lot more important.
Dell are releasing BIOS upgrades for their laptops to cope with the Nvidia weak component problem (basically the fan will spin up sooner). This includes the laptop models that come with Linux preinstalled. Except there's no BIOS updater that will run under Linux; they're all Windows based (although if you have a DOS floppy knocking around you can use that)
<tongue location="cheek"> Of course that might be ok as lets face it 3d gaming under Linux is as likely as Stallman shaving and looking respectable</tongue>
$27 a year? (GoDaddy) $50 a year? (InstantSSL) etc.
Sorry, but if an organisation can't swallow around $50 a year then they have more serious problems that wanting SSL.
The three strikes "solution" is problematic however; because suddenly a corporation is policing something. And that is more worrying than anything else.
Availability != Willingness
I have the sort of the same problem; but my little project is terribly specialist and outside of the US I'm the only person who really seems to care about Information Cards. So I just potter along, slowly adding features when I have time and dealing with emails asking when it will be ready. The people that are using it are simply customising it for their own needs (which is the general idea, there's a provider model for this and everyone assumes the core is correct; ah, how I wish I could be sure of that). But I don't view it as a bad thing; I know it's specialised, it's just a hobby for me and research which increases my knowledge and gets me the odd conference presentation now and again. Do I want other people to contribute to the core? I'm not sure; it's security related, so there's a responsibility implied. Am I happy that people just customise it via the provider model? Yes, that's why I did it that way? Do I want fame and fortune from it? Nope; I'm not daft enough to expect that. But girls would be ... naw, I'm really not that stupid.
No but it doesn't show "Sun's continued commitment to Open Source" as the summary makes out. If anything it shows quick back-pedalling in the face of vociferous criticism from one of the louder, more vocal IT communities. If no-one had complained do you think Sun would have changed their mind?
asp.net sanitises by default; in fact it won't let certain strings be submitted as part of a form to protect against XSS. you have to specifically turn that off. c# also provides parametrised queries specifically to escape strings properly with any .net data provider.
A belief in the superiority of php developers isn't helpful, nor is it correct. I give a bunch of talks each year on this very topic and the amount of shocked php developers is pretty much the same as the amount of shocked asp.net developers. Part of the problem is no school teaches this stuff; security does not seem to be a part of any degree course I've encountered. Part of it is that the basic teach yourself books don't cover it either; asp.net/php for dummies will not list it, and database texts certainly don't, as it's not part of their domain. WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla! have all had SQL injection problems; Oracle has a great one right now which is a database level problem which defensive coding may not even catch to do with date parsing. It's not a question of one platform's developers being dumber, it's because no-one has ever warned them.
A mild correction; no-one runs a SQL injection attack against a web server, it's against the software that runs on that web server. So strictly no-one runs a SQL injection attack against apache, apache by default does not use any sql database; it's the same situation with IIS.
Why not?
Software is never perfect; releases tend to be when it's "good enough". If you wait for perfection it never gets released. Linux is still a work in progress, if it wasn't there would be no more kernel updates. As long as there are patches then a system isn't finished. MS even released a feature pack for Vista this week for bluetooth and networking. SP1 improved sleep and startup times. Visual Studio is getting regular feature additions these days, the asp.net ajax stuff is a good example.
When *isn't* something that is still "alive" and used a work in progress? Heck if you shouldn't release work in progress goggle wouldn't have any apps; and putting daily builds/feature based check ins on sourceforge wouldn't happen either.
Disclaimer: I was in the audience; the conference in question was the MVP summit.
Paranoia is all very well, but outright untruths don't help anyone.
Well partly satellite footprints take care of this, but no, it's not illegal because broadcasters purchase rights per country, and it would be illegal for them to allow viewing outside of that country. Indeed there's an entire directive, 93/83/EEC over this. Copyright and licensing trump the free movement of goods.
But anyone who wants to disapprove of OOXML had better dot every 'i' and cross every 't' if they want their vote to count
Or anyone that has been "bought" (if that is going on) and wants to change their mind has it hard too; but we shouldn't mention that should we?
As a subject of Her Majesty the Queen I've been watching the US race with some interest (and lots of spam from idiot US activists, thanks guys). I must admit to liking Obama not for any real reason, but because his slogan "Yes we can" is in fact a very British phrase taken from one of our most popular entertainers, Bob the Builder. Who would have thought the slogan from a pre-school edu-tainment star would reach the heady heights of US political office?
And worse, it's a one time download link. So if your connection dies or, as has happened to me, the servers are just too overloaded, time out and you don't even get to start the download then you're screwed until customer support responds. Which at 12 hours so far doesn't look to be speedy. So off to bit-torrent I go, that'll be faster than waiting for customer services to wake up, reset my download count, for the download server to die again, get my download count reset and so on.
Well the Guardian isn't known for fact checking.
Currently wikileaks is at http://88.80.13.160, which belongs to "prq Inet - Access" based in Sweden. Greenham Common itself has been returned to civilian use, and most of it is being turned back into countryside and held in trust. The missile silos are being turning into a historical monument. There is a small business park, which does have a company providing secure hosting in one of the old bunkers (which I guess is sort of "an abandoned US nuclear weapons base at Greenham Common", but not quite, saying abandoned gives the idea of secret hackers stringing ethernet at night whilst no-one sees). The same company also hosts in an old radar station in Kent, at, Marshborough Road, Sandwich.
However the UK is not a good choice for hosting this sort of thing; our libel laws are open to all sorts of abuse these days, there's a tendency right now for individuals to sue in the UK high court for libel over publications which aren't even available in the UK, so called "libel holidays". Whilst secure hosting is all very nice marketing speak when the laws of the land will conspire against you then the security of your hosting is secondary; after all, really, what are they worried about? A company hiring a rogue agent to fire bomb the hosting? Most hosting facilities have large fences, gates and security, and a bunch are undergound. Being ex-military land doesn't improve security that much.
See it's weird; I thought that the google proposed partnership was a spoiler and a non-serious offer just made to burn up more of Microsoft's warchest by giving Yahoo a plausible reason to drive the price up. And the goggle thing dissolved away very quickly, whereas the Microsoft offer is still on the table.
Actually it hit MSDN last night. It's in the top downloads section. But yes, the summary is telling lies. But hey, it's Microsoft bashing, so don't worry about it!
In the UK you can get CEng (Certified Engineer) as part of the certification process through the British Computer Society. I did think about myself, but it's been years since I did anything that mrchaotica rants about above (I wrote software for medical heart monitors as my first job. Scary stuff); so I just applied for CITP instead.
Except Microsoft and Yahoo already interoperate; I believe they were the first networks to do so in 2005. Their Corporate IM offering talks to AOL as well (both AIM and ICQ) and they've been in talks to do with the consumer offerings (but AOL was/is refusing to play)
Actually we don't. We see people playing catchup with each other's services (search being the obvious one, maps being another, where frankly Microsoft do it best). That's not innovation. The one hint at innovation comes from companies that one of the big 3 buy, blogger for example, or flickr. What has goggle done outside search and context sensitive advertising that's innovative? Even search wasn't innovative, it was just a honed approach improving on what went before. The same with gmail.
A bigger competitor might encourage google to pay nice, to be more open, to respect privacy more. For me, because it's what I do as a day job, I'll be interested to see how a large OpenID player will merge with Information Cards; that can't be a bad thing IMO.
Buy a tie, set impossible time scales and grow a fringe/bangs; they will cover the lobotomy scars.
Apple is using the lingerie model : pay more for a lot less, but it looks sexier.
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Indeed; I'm somewhat amused that this is described as a "minor" security flaw in the summary and blamed on the user interface. If it was a Microsoft web site it would be described as a major flaw and the foaming at the mouth would begin. Nor is it a user interface problem; by using session cookies closing the browser would logout the user, with or without a logout button.
The site listed (but not linked) in the summary doesn't describe the issue as minor, or a UI problem, so one can only assume that description comes from the summary author.
Why yes, because linux and bsd code have never been ripped off. That's never happened. No. Not at all. What utter nonsense. Nor does the author talk about taking the software closed source; if you read the article he talks about distributing part of the project as a binary, the bits that people can easily use to just change the copyright messages, the installer and other small bits. The removal of the current source is a stopgap until he decides which option to take.
But hey, lets not let facts get in the way of a good Microsoft bash. Where you went wrong is you said Windows instead of Windoze, and forgot to use Micro$oft. Then you may have been marked insightful.