There are very many situations where a virus could cause very serious human harm. Maybe we haven't seen it yet, but it is certainly possible. Say I write a virus that infects the city's computers that control traffic signals?
Anyway I think people are taking this article too seriously. I think it is mostly supposed to be a humorous article that shows rather bluntly the shear amount of damage viruses and worms cause.
It wasn't the best link sorry, my dad has the s2025c which you can get for around $500, I found two places on froogle that have it for $700 and I didn't even search hard.
The s2026c can be had for around $700 (retail is $900 from what I've seen)
My father is an attorney, he has a couple of high speed scanners from panasonic. They cost less than a thousand dollars (4-500) if I remember correctly, they scan at about 20 ppm, and the software that came with them will save each scanned group of pages as a separate document (pdf, tif, whatever). My dad uses this setup to scan all of the files that his cases generate (shrinking his document storage from about 1000 sq ft to 2 shelves in a bookcase). we are talking files that consist of 10,000+ pages, and normally he saves a years worth of cases on 3-4 cds. They can scan up to 500 pages at a time. Here is a link: High Speed Scanners
I suppose, why do you think Apple needs to charge $3500/seat for a license when no other OS company in the business gets even close to that??? How is that educated... Hmmmm MS sells their os for 300, so I guess we'll multiply that by 10 and thats how much apple would charge... nice thought process...
I have a 10/100 hub and when I connect 4 computers 3 with 100mbps nics and 1 with a 10mbps nic, the 3 computers with 100mbps still link up at 100mbps and get actual throughput between 2 nodes of close to 100mbps, now if all three start talking you get collisions and you don't get anywhere near 100mbps of actual throughput... but with just 2 of them talking and with a computer with a 10mbps link on the network I still get 100mbps between 100mbps cards. I only get 10mbps to the computer with 10mbps... but anyway maybe my "hub" is smarter and has some switch capabilities (but it is not a switch, a packet sent to 1 computer goes to all of the computers on the hub) which is the distinction I explained to the customer, that a switch is smart enough to only send packets destined for a computer to that computer, and not to all of the computers plugged in...
My favorite dell story... about 6 years ago now, my uncle gets a dell computer (1 of 5 that his family got so they could all get email and be connected)... Well open it up, plug it in, power it on... Nothing black screen, white letters "An unrecoverable error has occured, please restart windows. If the problem persists contact the computer manufacturer". We call Dell, give them the machine ID. And the answer is...
That machine is still in our warehouse, we haven't shipped it yet so you don't qualify for support. We spent at least 2 hours on the phone then trying to convince them that we really had the machine, that it arrived that day but to no avail (Even the UPS tracking/shipping numbers didn't convince them). Even the manager told us that they couldn't help us until their system showed that the systems had shipped. All 5 of the machines had the same problem... and Dell wouldn't help with any of them, even after 2 weeks their system still showed that these machines hadn't shipped yet.
I solved the problem myself managed to boot off of something (a floppy maybe I don't remember) and the geniuses at Dell had loaded a win98 image onto an NTFS formatted hard drive... Go Dell! My Uncle flew me around the country to all of his siblings and parents houses to fix all of their computers though so that was nice. I have never bought or recommended a Dell since that day.
I've had a few fun experiences as well at CompUSA... My favorite, I'm in the networking aisle picking up a couple switches for a small test cluster I was building... and I overhear the store rep talking to a guy about sharing his broadband internet between 2 computers....
First off, he's got 2 firewalls, a wireless access point, an 8 port switch, and 2 network cards in the guys hands already... and he's explaining to him that he needs to plug one of the firewalls into the cable modem, and then plug that cable into one of the network cards in one of the computer, then from the second nic to the second firewall, from there to the access point, and then to the wireless card in the second computer... ROFL....
I stepped in and said "No, thats a load of crap" picked up a wireless AP/switch/firewall handed it to him and said ok, from cable modem to here, from here to your computer thats close to the cable modem, and keep that wireless nic, from the wireless AP to your computer upstairs. Saved the guy about $250 in crap hardware he didn't need...
Then he asked the store rep what the difference between a hub and a switch was. The store rep said that a 10/100 hub will find the slowest connecting device on the network and then put everything at that speed, while a 10/100 switch will let everyone talk at the maximum speed they support. That was the kicker, I actually called him an idiot right there, explained the actual difference put down the 2 switches I was going to buy and left.
You are up in the night... I know sooooo many people that would buy OS X for x86 its not even funny. The port is at least 90% done, and as another poster stated, there are very many rumors that apple has a complete port of OS X that they already actively maintain.
They wouldn't care about piracy, and they don't make that much on their hardware (yes it is their main source of revenue, but margins even on their hardware are crap) There are so many reasons to do OS X for x86 is insane, they have a very nice office suite (called apple works) that does a good job of opening and saving office formats. They sell it for 40 bucks and it comes included with the ibooks.
Anyway, for home use, where you are mainly talking about internet browsing, hooking up digital cameras, printers, and the like, and maybe the occasional document/spreadsheet OS X is far superior to WinXP and I think they could sell 10-15 million copies at around $100 thats 1-1.5 billion in sales for work that is already at least 90% done. (see I can make up completely irrelevant numbers too like your 3500/seat, I'm sure you did alot of market research to come up with that)
Of course, the anology fails miserably in the case of copy prevention.
The village thieves = file sharers The tents = various DRM vendors
So, if the purpose of creating DRM is to keep your "house" (read copyrights) more protected than your neighbor's, well then all you've done is put yourself out of business because the thieves (file sharers) will all migrate to your neighbor's tents which are less secure.
Thus, no one will buy your DRM, because Apple, MS, Real, all of them will know if they use xyz DRM to distribute their files, no one will purchase from them, so they say lets use abc DRM, it works ok (read 230 lines of code can break it) and people will come to us to purchase music/movies/books/whatever else.
Thus, being more secure than your neighbors when it comes to DRM is simply saying "Hey, we don't really want to be in business, we don't like to sell things to customers".
This I feel is why iTMS has been so successful thus far, yeah the files are DRM, but you don't notice that, it is basically completely seemless, and you can burn cd's of the songs. Most of the other services don't allow burning or they only allow 1 copy to be burned or some other goofy thing. Making the DRM completely seemless like that of course makes it so the DRM can be broken with sub 300 lines of code.
You can't have both, hard to break security means people have to jump through hoops to get at the data. (IE the data center I work at, passcode entry, card entry, and hand scan entry at 3 different doors, just to get into the ante-room where you get another handscan that is much more picky, all of which set off the alarm after 3 repeated misses. All of the doors are time release on the way out, so getting out takes a good 3 minutes, anyway if someone wanted to steal something from inside there it would be a mission impossible type ordeal.
This is the vision that the RIAA and MPAA have for digital distribution... username/password, credit card, age verification, no deDRM software on your computer check, no file sharing programs on your computer check, no media players besides the one we sold you for 49.99 on your computer check, running an OS that we approve of check, and if you successfully pass all those tests ok now that we've charged you 4.99 you can listen to brittany spears again, if you fail any of those tests, they lock down your computer and send out the feds.
I nearly exclusively use packages because of the security implications of having a compiler installed on a production system. If I do build source I have one build box that I will build my own RPMs on, and then install them on the production system.
You've obviously never seen the contracts that television is distributed under, $1/sub is probably more than what dish pays for all of the viacom networks. generally channels run from between 5 cents and 15 cents per sub, except for ESPN (another satan of a channel at almost $2/sub).
Since we install in greenfield master planned communities, the land developer (a private company) owns the land, and they give us easements to trench and lay the fiber, we own the fiber, the conduit said fiber is in, and we pay a monthly fee to the land developer for the easement. The land is privately held it is not owned by the city. The city owns the streets, but we aren't under the streets, we are in an easement beside the street. As other poster's have stated, any company can get easements from the gov't for hanging cables or pulling them in most munis. There are also private companies that own polls that you can string on for a fee. The big cost is not the fee to hang the cabling, it is the fee for the cabling. That is why qwest/sbc et al have not installed FTTH because the cable is too expensive.
I agree, it would be the worst ruling ever, but stranger things have happened, judges are not good at understanding all of the issues, they make one decision in a clean room, and they don't know the ripple effects it will cause.
if IBM buys them ok, but there is no gaurantee of that. You do use RCU, everyone does, it is everywhere in the kernel, it is why 2.4/2.5/2.6 memory management is so much better. Purging that puts the VM system back to 2.2 days. And if they buy SCO's definition of derivative works, it is game over SCO owns every OS, everywhere.
I wonder, Could all of the kernel developers and other linux developers now sue the companies who have purchased these linux licenses? Buy purchasing them they are breaking the GPL, and therefore, are not allowed to use any of the software not owned by SCO (all of it in my opinion, but hey whatever). Why hasn't the FSF filed a suit against SCO? Where are they?
They will easily show that jfs, numa, and rcu were in AIX and Dynix and that they are now in Linux, and say that that is infringing. If the judge buys their definition of derivative works, this is the end IBM loses, and Linux is totally screwed
With all the municipalities building their own fiber network and alot of master planned communities doing the same, (I work for a company that builds fiber networks for master planned communities) believe me, getting qwest off our backs has been a pain, they demand that we give them access to our network even though we own it, we've had to spend more than 500,000 in attorney's fees just to keep them at bay, with this ruling maybe that issue will go away, municipalities and other private companies can build their networks and we don't have to worry about qwest/sbc et al demanding that we let them have access to our networks.
Well, of course what we geeks have loved for so long is now more mainstream, and we're all wishing something else had won...:) We are ahead of the curve remember.
I don't think evolution has the server side stuff at all.. which is what they should do, the problem with exchange is just the database store they use, if they used either a more open/debuggable data store, or just something that didn't corrupt data so often, I think it would be fine, I don't know but it seems that they could pretty easily use the SQL server engine to improve performance and reliability, but right now I think they just use some implimentation of MS Jet or something... You could easily set up a Horde solution to send alarms to a pager or a cell phone... which would be kinda useful.
Have you checked out Horde? its web based, but its Kronolith module for calendaring plus IMP for web mail do a pretty good job... If someone emails you a meeting from outlook you can click on the link in IMP and it will record the meeting in the calendar... Anyway, I've never had as many problems with exchange as at that one place, and I've admined 20-30 setups before... that was definately the worst case I don't know what those people were doing to their poor server. Anyway, still exchange has never been nearly as stable as a linux or solaris box managing email..
I have maintained exchange servers in the past for small businesses, and they are hideous. I used to spend between 2 and 4 hours a week fixing the databases on a server for a business with 15 employees, 15 accounts and the thing wouldn't run consistantly for more than about 3 days. The definately were paying a high premium so that their meetings would show up on each other's computer, hell it was so flaky no one ever used the collaboration features because chances were ify ou relied on it, people would miss important meetings.
Well, I'm not worried about all of the advantages of Exchange (its an ISP, we don't provide collaboration services, however, we do provide web based calendaring, task lists, and file storage, all based on free software)
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There are very many situations where a virus could cause very serious human harm. Maybe we haven't seen it yet, but it is certainly possible.
Say I write a virus that infects the city's computers that control traffic signals?
Anyway I think people are taking this article too seriously. I think it is mostly supposed to be a humorous article that shows rather bluntly the shear amount of damage viruses and worms cause.
It wasn't the best link sorry,
my dad has the s2025c which you can get for around $500, I found two places on froogle that have it for $700 and I didn't even search hard.
The s2026c can be had for around $700 (retail is $900 from what I've seen)
They stay on HD for a year, CD for 5-7, then they are gone.
My father is an attorney,
he has a couple of high speed scanners from panasonic. They cost less than a thousand dollars (4-500) if I remember correctly, they scan at about 20 ppm, and the software that came with them will save each scanned group of pages as a separate document (pdf, tif, whatever). My dad uses this setup to scan all of the files that his cases generate (shrinking his document storage from about 1000 sq ft to 2 shelves in a bookcase). we are talking files that consist of 10,000+ pages, and normally he saves a years worth of cases on 3-4 cds. They can scan up to 500 pages at a time.
Here is a link:
High Speed Scanners
no,
it is a full 8 port hub.
any machine be it 10 or 100 mbps can see all traffic from all hosts.
I suppose,
why do you think Apple needs to charge $3500/seat for a license when no other OS company in the business gets even close to that??? How is that educated... Hmmmm MS sells their os for 300, so I guess we'll multiply that by 10 and thats how much apple would charge... nice thought process...
I have a 10/100 hub and when I connect 4 computers 3 with 100mbps nics and 1 with a 10mbps nic, the 3 computers with 100mbps still link up at 100mbps and get actual throughput between 2 nodes of close to 100mbps, now if all three start talking you get collisions and you don't get anywhere near 100mbps of actual throughput... but with just 2 of them talking and with a computer with a 10mbps link on the network I still get 100mbps between 100mbps cards. I only get 10mbps to the computer with 10mbps... but anyway maybe my "hub" is smarter and has some switch capabilities (but it is not a switch, a packet sent to 1 computer goes to all of the computers on the hub) which is the distinction I explained to the customer, that a switch is smart enough to only send packets destined for a computer to that computer, and not to all of the computers plugged in...
My favorite dell story...
about 6 years ago now, my uncle gets a dell computer (1 of 5 that his family got so they could all get email and be connected)...
Well open it up, plug it in, power it on... Nothing
black screen, white letters "An unrecoverable error has occured, please restart windows. If the problem persists contact the computer manufacturer". We call Dell, give them the machine ID. And the answer is...
That machine is still in our warehouse, we haven't shipped it yet so you don't qualify for support. We spent at least 2 hours on the phone then trying to convince them that we really had the machine, that it arrived that day but to no avail (Even the UPS tracking/shipping numbers didn't convince them). Even the manager told us that they couldn't help us until their system showed that the systems had shipped. All 5 of the machines had the same problem... and Dell wouldn't help with any of them, even after 2 weeks their system still showed that these machines hadn't shipped yet.
I solved the problem myself managed to boot off of something (a floppy maybe I don't remember) and the geniuses at Dell had loaded a win98 image onto an NTFS formatted hard drive... Go Dell! My Uncle flew me around the country to all of his siblings and parents houses to fix all of their computers though so that was nice. I have never bought or recommended a Dell since that day.
I've had a few fun experiences as well at CompUSA...
My favorite, I'm in the networking aisle picking up a couple switches for a small test cluster I was building... and I overhear the store rep talking to a guy about sharing his broadband internet between 2 computers....
First off, he's got 2 firewalls, a wireless access point, an 8 port switch, and 2 network cards in the guys hands already... and he's explaining to him that he needs to plug one of the firewalls into the cable modem, and then plug that cable into one of the network cards in one of the computer, then from the second nic to the second firewall, from there to the access point, and then to the wireless card in the second computer... ROFL....
I stepped in and said "No, thats a load of crap" picked up a wireless AP/switch/firewall handed it to him and said ok, from cable modem to here, from here to your computer thats close to the cable modem, and keep that wireless nic, from the wireless AP to your computer upstairs. Saved the guy about $250 in crap hardware he didn't need...
Then he asked the store rep what the difference between a hub and a switch was. The store rep said that a 10/100 hub will find the slowest connecting device on the network and then put everything at that speed, while a 10/100 switch will let everyone talk at the maximum speed they support. That was the kicker, I actually called him an idiot right there, explained the actual difference put down the 2 switches I was going to buy and left.
You are up in the night...
I know sooooo many people that would buy OS X for x86 its not even funny. The port is at least 90% done, and as another poster stated, there are very many rumors that apple has a complete port of OS X that they already actively maintain.
They wouldn't care about piracy, and they don't make that much on their hardware (yes it is their main source of revenue, but margins even on their hardware are crap) There are so many reasons to do OS X for x86 is insane, they have a very nice office suite (called apple works) that does a good job of opening and saving office formats. They sell it for 40 bucks and it comes included with the ibooks.
Anyway, for home use, where you are mainly talking about internet browsing, hooking up digital cameras, printers, and the like, and maybe the occasional document/spreadsheet OS X is far superior to WinXP and I think they could sell 10-15 million copies at around $100 thats 1-1.5 billion in sales for work that is already at least 90% done. (see I can make up completely irrelevant numbers too like your 3500/seat, I'm sure you did alot of market research to come up with that)
Of course, the anology fails miserably in the case of copy prevention.
The village thieves = file sharers
The tents = various DRM vendors
So, if the purpose of creating DRM is to keep your "house" (read copyrights) more protected than your neighbor's, well then all you've done is put yourself out of business because the thieves (file sharers) will all migrate to your neighbor's tents which are less secure.
Thus, no one will buy your DRM, because Apple, MS, Real, all of them will know if they use xyz DRM to distribute their files, no one will purchase from them, so they say lets use abc DRM, it works ok (read 230 lines of code can break it) and people will come to us to purchase music/movies/books/whatever else.
Thus, being more secure than your neighbors when it comes to DRM is simply saying "Hey, we don't really want to be in business, we don't like to sell things to customers".
This I feel is why iTMS has been so successful thus far, yeah the files are DRM, but you don't notice that, it is basically completely seemless, and you can burn cd's of the songs. Most of the other services don't allow burning or they only allow 1 copy to be burned or some other goofy thing. Making the DRM completely seemless like that of course makes it so the DRM can be broken with sub 300 lines of code.
You can't have both, hard to break security means people have to jump through hoops to get at the data. (IE the data center I work at, passcode entry, card entry, and hand scan entry at 3 different doors, just to get into the ante-room where you get another handscan that is much more picky, all of which set off the alarm after 3 repeated misses. All of the doors are time release on the way out, so getting out takes a good 3 minutes, anyway if someone wanted to steal something from inside there it would be a mission impossible type ordeal.
This is the vision that the RIAA and MPAA have for digital distribution... username/password, credit card, age verification, no deDRM software on your computer check, no file sharing programs on your computer check, no media players besides the one we sold you for 49.99 on your computer check, running an OS that we approve of check, and if you successfully pass all those tests ok now that we've charged you 4.99 you can listen to brittany spears again, if you fail any of those tests, they lock down your computer and send out the feds.
Currently it looks like only a Windows client is available, though. Why would you need to monitor worm activity on a Linux box?
I nearly exclusively use packages because of the security implications of having a compiler installed on a production system. If I do build source I have one build box that I will build my own RPMs on, and then install them on the production system.
You've obviously never seen the contracts that television is distributed under, $1/sub is probably more than what dish pays for all of the viacom networks. generally channels run from between 5 cents and 15 cents per sub, except for ESPN (another satan of a channel at almost $2/sub).
Since we install in greenfield master planned communities, the land developer (a private company) owns the land, and they give us easements to trench and lay the fiber, we own the fiber, the conduit said fiber is in, and we pay a monthly fee to the land developer for the easement. The land is privately held it is not owned by the city. The city owns the streets, but we aren't under the streets, we are in an easement beside the street. As other poster's have stated, any company can get easements from the gov't for hanging cables or pulling them in most munis. There are also private companies that own polls that you can string on for a fee. The big cost is not the fee to hang the cabling, it is the fee for the cabling. That is why qwest/sbc et al have not installed FTTH because the cable is too expensive.
I agree, it would be the worst ruling ever,
but stranger things have happened, judges are not good at understanding all of the issues,
they make one decision in a clean room, and they don't know the ripple effects it will cause.
if IBM buys them ok, but there is no gaurantee of that. You do use RCU, everyone does, it is everywhere in the kernel, it is why 2.4/2.5/2.6 memory management is so much better. Purging that puts the VM system back to 2.2 days.
And if they buy SCO's definition of derivative works, it is game over SCO owns every OS, everywhere.
I wonder,
Could all of the kernel developers and other linux developers now sue the companies who have purchased these linux licenses? Buy purchasing them they are breaking the GPL, and therefore, are not allowed to use any of the software not owned by SCO (all of it in my opinion, but hey whatever). Why hasn't the FSF filed a suit against SCO? Where are they?
They will easily show that jfs, numa, and rcu were in AIX and Dynix and that they are now in Linux, and say that that is infringing. If the judge buys their definition of derivative works, this is the end IBM loses, and Linux is totally screwed
With all the municipalities building their own fiber network and alot of master planned communities doing the same, (I work for a company that builds fiber networks for master planned communities) believe me, getting qwest off our backs has been a pain, they demand that we give them access to our network even though we own it, we've had to spend more than 500,000 in attorney's fees just to keep them at bay, with this ruling maybe that issue will go away, municipalities and other private companies can build their networks and we don't have to worry about qwest/sbc et al demanding that we let them have access to our networks.
Well, :)
of course what we geeks have loved for so long is now more mainstream, and we're all wishing something else had won...
We are ahead of the curve remember.
I don't think evolution has the server side stuff at all.. which is what they should do, the problem with exchange is just the database store they use, if they used either a more open/debuggable data store, or just something that didn't corrupt data so often, I think it would be fine, I don't know but it seems that they could pretty easily use the SQL server engine to improve performance and reliability, but right now I think they just use some implimentation of MS Jet or something... You could easily set up a Horde solution to send alarms to a pager or a cell phone... which would be kinda useful.
Have you checked out Horde?
its web based, but its Kronolith module for calendaring plus IMP for web mail do a pretty good job... If someone emails you a meeting from outlook you can click on the link in IMP and it will record the meeting in the calendar...
Anyway, I've never had as many problems with exchange as at that one place, and I've admined 20-30 setups before... that was definately the worst case I don't know what those people were doing to their poor server. Anyway, still exchange has never been nearly as stable as a linux or solaris box managing email..
I have maintained exchange servers in the past for small businesses, and they are hideous. I used to spend between 2 and 4 hours a week fixing the databases on a server for a business with 15 employees, 15 accounts and the thing wouldn't run consistantly for more than about 3 days. The definately were paying a high premium so that their meetings would show up on each other's computer, hell it was so flaky no one ever used the collaboration features because chances were ify ou relied on it, people would miss important meetings.
Well, I'm not worried about all of the advantages of Exchange (its an ISP, we don't provide collaboration services, however, we do provide web based calendaring, task lists, and file storage, all based on free software)