And as the article reports, it breaks there CRM application. But don't you just love one of the workarounds...
"The Windows XP security firewall does not allow the Outlook client to open and you may encounter a security warning dialog. Workaround: When you open the Outlook client for the first time after installing Windows XP SP2, a security alert will appear. Select the option Unblock this program, despite the security risk, and then click OK"
Ahhh, so Sun is out of business now (as in finished) and is then going to be restarted as a small niche company that appears to be able to have a future? Obviously you have access to some very closely held information.
No, it is not like a VNC client, I should have been clearer in my earlier comment. There is no processing in the terminal, it is effectively all hardware.
No, it is not an X server. It has no real intelligence and is little more than a framebuffer, keyboard, mouse and smart card slot connected to a network interface.
"this isn't just Windows, but MS Office, Exchange CALs,"
Maybe windows and office, but likely not exchange. Telstra has bought Sun's Java Enterprise stack (unlike the Java Desktop System which they only talked about).
So it looks like Microsoft on the desktop, but Sun on the servers.
"That's because that's pretty much how it works. If their is no law that says it's illegal to speed, than guess what? I can't be charged with a crime of speeding."
No, you could not be charged with the crime of speeding. But you could be charged with dangerous driving, driving with reckless disregard, or what ever other relevant laws your environment has.
There is likely a higher statistical probability that the use of Microsoft products would create "future legal headaches."
Two reasons, first from the historical perspective Microsoft has taken action against end users.
Second, Microsoft is actively auditing end user organisations and causing no end of headaches.
The Open Source community (and Samba) has shown no indication of taking such action. While SCO has blustered about couty action agaist some Open Source users, it has not actually won a case yet.
On that basis, Open Source software is safer than Microsoft software.
PKI only does authentication. Single sign on requires acreditation: what is the user allowed to do or access when they are logged in. Passport and Liberty do acreditation, PKI (on its own) does not.
I use Star Office 7.2 and get higher than 95% of Documents opened correctly. I get 100% of Star office and open Office documents as well as valid xml documents. Even Microsoft proprietary format documents open OK better than 95% of the time. However I note that others around me with Microsoft Office XP do not enjoy the same success rate as me. They frequently stuggle with Microsoft office formats. So what is this MS standard? Obviously not from Microsoft.
"I think the reason why see those Sun is dying articles is because the 'Apple is dying' articles are starting to be really difficult to take seriously."
And what about SGI. It was supposed to have died years ago, nearer death than Apple actually, but it still seems to be surviving fairly well, albeit a bit smaller than it has been
"The issue is that some guy is tricking people into submitting info to his site instead of the Odeon site"
How did he trick them? The url for his accessable site clearly was part of his own site. If someone was using his Odeon page it was because they had deliberately gone there because they wanted an accessable site. Likely some disabled (or enabled if they used Mozilla) wanted to book a movie seat, but could not until their friend or what ever said "try Matthew Somerville's site, it has an accessable copy of the Odeon site".
If he had spoofed the address, or used a Microsoft "feature" to silently link to his site that would have been trickery.
The info appears against my Network Solutions domains, but not my Tucows ones.
And in some respects the Tucows approach is better. A Network Solutions query shows all my details directly. Tucows requires a query to input a grahpics based password so it is harder to harvest the info.
"About 36 percent of software installations worldwide are pirated copies, the study by trade group Business Software Alliance and market researcher IDC showed."
And the 36% is no doubt climbing higher by the hour at the moment. I am running a "pirated" copy of Mozilla. Nor to mention the "pirated" copy of Open Office. Didn't Microsoft classify Open Source as piracy.
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I can remember going from 8 bit 6502 based systems to a sort of 16 bit IBM XT. Boy was I disappointed.
And as the article reports, it breaks there CRM application. But don't you just love one of the workarounds...
"The Windows XP security firewall does not allow the Outlook client to open and you may encounter a security warning dialog.
Workaround: When you open the Outlook client for the first time after installing Windows XP SP2, a security alert will appear. Select the option Unblock this program, despite the security risk, and then click OK"
Ahhh, so Sun is out of business now (as in finished) and is then going to be restarted as a small niche company that appears to be able to have a future? Obviously you have access to some very closely held information.
Surprisingly the Requirements page says...
Supported browsers
* Mozilla 1.0 or better
* Netscape 6 or better
* Konqueror 3 or better
* Opera 6 or better
* MS Internet Explorer 5 or better
Oh my god! That is like Moses giving me an autographed copy of the ten commandmemts, or Andy Bechtolscheim over clocking my calculator.
No, it is not like a VNC client, I should have been clearer in my earlier comment. There is no processing in the terminal, it is effectively all hardware.
Only if it can render 503 errors!
No, it is not an X server. It has no real intelligence and is little more than a framebuffer, keyboard, mouse and smart card slot connected to a network interface.
"this isn't just Windows, but MS Office, Exchange CALs,"
Maybe windows and office, but likely not exchange. Telstra has bought Sun's Java Enterprise stack (unlike the Java Desktop System which they only talked about).
So it looks like Microsoft on the desktop, but Sun on the servers.
"That's because that's pretty much how it works. If their is no law that says it's illegal to speed, than guess what? I can't be charged with a crime of speeding."
No, you could not be charged with the crime of speeding. But you could be charged with dangerous driving, driving with reckless disregard, or what ever other relevant laws your environment has.
There is likely a higher statistical probability that the use of Microsoft products would create "future legal headaches."
Two reasons, first from the historical perspective Microsoft has taken action against end users.
Second, Microsoft is actively auditing end user organisations and causing no end of headaches.
The Open Source community (and Samba) has shown no indication of taking such action. While SCO has blustered about couty action agaist some Open Source users, it has not actually won a case yet.
On that basis, Open Source software is safer than Microsoft software.
Christchurch is the technology centre of New Zealand, and Tait is the largest technology exporter
PKI only does authentication. Single sign on requires acreditation: what is the user allowed to do or access when they are logged in. Passport and Liberty do acreditation, PKI (on its own) does not.
I use Star Office 7.2 and get higher than 95% of Documents opened correctly. I get 100% of Star office and open Office documents as well as valid xml documents. Even Microsoft proprietary format documents open OK better than 95% of the time. However I note that others around me with Microsoft Office XP do not enjoy the same success rate as me. They frequently stuggle with Microsoft office formats. So what is this MS standard? Obviously not from Microsoft.
"I think the reason why see those Sun is dying articles is because the 'Apple is dying' articles are starting to be really difficult to take seriously."
And what about SGI. It was supposed to have died years ago, nearer death than Apple actually, but it still seems to be surviving fairly well, albeit a bit smaller than it has been
Of course when the DHS recommends Mozilla over IE, that is not a conspiracy thing, it is a good thing???
"The issue is that some guy is tricking people into submitting info to his site instead of the Odeon site"
How did he trick them? The url for his accessable site clearly was part of his own site. If someone was using his Odeon page it was because they had deliberately gone there because they wanted an accessable site. Likely some disabled (or enabled if they used Mozilla) wanted to book a movie seat, but could not until their friend or what ever said "try Matthew Somerville's site, it has an accessable copy of the Odeon site".
If he had spoofed the address, or used a Microsoft "feature" to silently link to his site that would have been trickery.
I am surprised that there has not been the obligatory Aussie comment about NZ being at the back-end of the sheep by now....
"The whole world isn't out to screw you over"
Are you really, really sure about that.....
The info appears against my Network Solutions domains, but not my Tucows ones.
And in some respects the Tucows approach is better. A Network Solutions query shows all my details directly. Tucows requires a query to input a grahpics based password so it is harder to harvest the info.
How about this one...
http://secunia.com/advisories/12043/
It starts out as a "Sun Java Predictable File Location Weakness"
Then, further down in the advisory....
A PoC (Proof of Concept) exploit has been published, which:
1) Uses the weakness in Sun Java to create a temporary file.
2) Exploits a file enumeration vulnerability to find the name of the temporary file (100,000 possible combinations).
SA10820
3) Exploits a Cross-Zone vulnerability and uses the inherently insecure Windows "shell:" functionality:
SA11793
Solution:
Use another browser than Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Alternatively disable Active Scripting in Internet Explorer.
If you do not use Internet Explorer, this issue is not considered a security problem.
Yes printer are hard are they not...
In Yast2, go to add printer, click the extra printers box (This is the bit that is real hard, compared to Windoze), and select SMB printers.
Then either type in the printer and server details, or let Yast2 find it.
Much, much harder than Windoze.
"About 36 percent of software installations worldwide are pirated copies, the study by trade group Business Software Alliance and market researcher IDC showed."
And the 36% is no doubt climbing higher by the hour at the moment. I am running a "pirated" copy of Mozilla. Nor to mention the "pirated" copy of Open Office. Didn't Microsoft classify Open Source as piracy.
Isn't http-equiv a leading Microsoft bug finder recently? If this is the reason I am not sure if that would be humerous or serious....
Obviously there are more than 500 users in the group trying to read the Knowledge Base Articles now.....