If well looks like an interesting way to make "portable" html pages (something to store, mail, etc as an individual file) probably CHM is more used actually for that kind of task. Is against chm, not pdf, that they are competing.
But found interesting the point of bandwidth theft there, as in you encode with this your web pages and will be no way to link individual images or files inside your webpages. Its true, you cant link from outside an image if is only found encoded in a bigger web page. But also the resulting HTML files should be bigger than transfering the html and images as usual, and there is no sharing of resources, or taking advantages of client cache, if all pages in a site have the same logo, design elements and so on, all must be transfered every time, that will mean more bandwidth both for site and for users. If this becomes a trend bandwidth will be more damaged than helped.
Im still amazed of how seriously is taken the "We will improve security" reason to buy Vista. I think that since DOS 1.1 the Microsoft message on security was "you must upgrade to our next new version because you know that security of our actual product sucks badly". Was for sure between the reasons to upgrade to Windows 95, for Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003. And still people hopes that Microsoft this time do the things right.
Im not saying that Microsoft engineers can't do it right, i mean that there are usually things that end priorizing things that goes against security (drivers in ring 0, internet explorer integrated, needing to be admin to run games, the past is full of examples). Will that kind of things happen again? Dont want to bet that much being already very good alternative options.
Is available for most OSs as there are free implementations of it. But in OS/2 was very tighly integrated with the OS, in a way that gives to that implementation extra value.
Another thing i liked a lot about OS/2 is the WPS, that maybe by now there are better desktops, but back then was wonderful, still waiting some of their features in modern desktops like KDE.
Not always (or maybe almost never) remember when concious my last night dreams, and sometimes when i do and start to think on it, i think what im looking at in the dream dont match with the "script" of it, what in the sleep i interpret im doing or where i am. Maybe is not the dream by itself what is important, but the morning interpretation of it.
to idiocy what can be explained by malice. There are a lot of backdoors around, and Windows had functional ones for years (wmf anyone?) but the intentionality of them could have been in doubt. Now if is known, proved, and by design adding another backdoor, one that will not be removed by any hotfix because is a "feature", well, 2 things will probably happen: the bad guys will find how to exploit it making all backdoored windows a target, and the bad guys find know how to disable it, so the most harmed people will be the good ones that should not have anything to hide (and because of that, removing/disabling the backdoor would make them suspectful)
Is disabled by defaul, you must do very specific actions to enable that logging.
Now, if you think that one of the advantages of gmail was exactly remember and be able to do good and relevant searches in all your email, adding that to your chat, and even combined with mail (so i.e. you can check if someone said you something from either way), the potential is high.
If watching previous chats worries you, same could be thinked about previous messages, and as with them, you can or not have history at all, or delete the ones that you dont want to save or potentially expose in a future.
I take advantage of searching past gaim chats, but is not very comfortable to search if someone said you who knows when something, joining all in gmail looks like a good idea.
...when you search in google "how to reverse entropy", you press "i feel lucky" and the resulting web page only says "LET THERE BE LIGHT" (there is an interesting twist to the original asimov story in The last query, suspiciously related to google).
A lot of sci-fi books took already the idea of that the language in which we think changes us. If well is not exactly about a born language, reading Babel 17 of Samuel R. Delany is always an enjoyable experience.
Saying at the same time that will not bundle antivirus and that is more secure could imply people that will not need antivirus, or that be far safer than before to virus threats. While i'm not opposed to MS not bundling its own antivirus with it, i dont think the "improved security" will make Vista safe to virus, even maybe to old ones (think in the amount that is application related, even if that application if outlook or the user behind). Antivirus is still needed, and there are very good ones around, even if they are not from Microsoft itself.
World is not black and white, but a lot of shades of grey, no absolute good or absolute evil (ok, maybe Microsoft:), If google had to choose between giving censored result to chinese people, or just DONT give any result because is blocked, letting them only what the approved, with far less indexed content search engine, what is the less evil?
Sometimes you cant avoid harming, good intentions or not, but you can take a path that gives the minimum/less permanent damage.
FOSS is not short in support offers. In fact, if you have to pay for a commercial CMS, plus it support (that of course, usually dont include deep changing in code), vs paying to some developers of the FOSS (or whoever have deep enough knowledge of it) probably you will end paying less, giving more money to the people behind, helping to improve the product and even could get even the code changed for you specially.
Also, there are a lot of FOSS projects that give commercial (as in with support) version of their programs. MySQLor QT are not CMSs, but good examples, maybe a good example in the CMS arena could be Typo3.
... we are speaking here of different beasts. Yahoo started as directory, google as raw search engine. Then yahoo moved to community, and google keeped as mainly search engine... maybe a lot of services (mail, news, maps, groups) but one of the things that makes them bright is the search.
As search, i think is almost a monopoly. Not only their website is the default search for most people, but most browsers and desktop apps that have the possibility of an internet search use it, and is the default "plugin" for most websites. In fact, i think that google could be a good monopoly of not content by itself, but the generic "engine" behind (search, maps, talking, etc)
Yahoo focus is a bit different, they are building communities, portals, etc, and there they are the dominant party. They could switch to using google as search engine and dont lose visitors or value, because the target is different.
Of course, google can play a catch up game and really start to build competing communities and portals, but i dont think so, looks like they are building a minimum implementation of features to make those features the base that anyone related must reach to succeed (think in gmail 1gb space). In any case, is a good opportunity (for both and for whoever want to enter those games) to improve, both in reach (i.e. yahoo maps is too focused in us/canada) as in intelligence (making it easier/more integrated/more usable)
Ok, could be banned to bring an (very hard to see) USB drive... what about cell phones? banned too? PDAs? MP3/CD players? 10 years is a lot of time and even whatever will be used to carry what could be your "personal id" could potentially used to copy sensitive data i bet.
Also, the network is everything, there are not so much totally isolated computers with critical data, and most networks have some or several points of touch with internet, encripted traffic and then hard to trace what is happening with the information.
Ok, a bit im cheating here. TikiWiki is far more than just a "wiki" as it have blogs, articles, image/file galleries, trackers, and a LOT more. But for me the "center" of the features is the wiki itself, enhanced with a very flexible permission system and a lot of extensions that make it more useful and helps integrating it with the rest of the features.
Having a good permission system enables systems where you can decide how people interacts with the system (i.e. adding or viewing content) and where. The extensions enables i.e. drawings editing in a wiki-like scheme and its integration enables i.e. putting portions of blogs in wiki pages or including editables spreadsheets in.
My biggest use of it was for documentation, mixing blogs for tracking progress of projects, adding editable diagrams of networks, organizing and grouping the information in wiki pages and giving different kinds of priviledges to the development people (editors) from different kinds of viewers. But a lot of people gives a lot of different kinds of uses for it i.e. KDE project or voip-info.org.
How much of your job is involved in the process of creation (design, programming, etc) of Microsoft products vs detecting flaws (code/product testing for security probles) vs actually repairing bugs?
Some security problems could have been avoided picking right policies even in the design phase, others could have been checking legacy code (wmf anyone? since windows 3.1?), while the most visible action of the security section this last days is releasing patch for what was already done, released and then "discovered" to have poor design/programming/think around, sometimes a zero-day vulnerability.
Well, if we are doing a time distribution chart, i suppose i should ask too about percent of checking backward compatibility, is not the first time that customers had to wait like a week for fix of a bug actually being exploited (i remember a webdav problem in iis back in like 2002) and at least with the wmf one one of the explanations of the delay was checking compatibility.
Wonder what kind of repercussions had Microsoft because the multiples rootkits it bundled in his history (probably the latest WMF vulnerability could be called that way) and how much we can reach in the number of affected networks, but is far, far bigger than 350k, and is there since Windows 3.1, remotely explotable and without patches for most windows versions afaik.
If no problem yet for Microsoft, why should fear SONY?
Full names sometimes gives better understanding of managed concepts. To have the same word ("web") to name a lot of things is not making things clear.
Think that first was created the www, static pages, dynamic pages, etc, and in the last days of last decade was created InvestorWeb 1.0, the new gold fever, the boom, the "you must be here" next thing. No matter if you do a hello world plain html page or a fuzzy full graphic high bandwidth dynamic site, you could not miss it. Of course, it crashed, too much hype without understanding is a bad thing. Technologies advanced, a lot happened that changed how people see the web, and now is time for InvestorWeb 2.0, with the hype component of the 1.0, but with new gadgets, and, maybe, a few lessons learned from the past. Will it fail as the 1.0 version? time will tell.
There is a tech web 2.0 too, that is evolving into current form since last decade and still have a long road to go till reaching a final form, where the things will be more integrating than linking, where people is more colaborator than visitor, where "where" will be more "the net" than certain URL. I could call that target Web 2.0, not the call for investors to come.
there is one that dont remember exactly how it was, but was like an elephant is a butterfly designed by a comitee. Now, if we will have something elegant and minimal like google designed by a comitee of government agencies, how it will be?
They have a target audience because:
- is one book that rule them all (single book sized huge book collection?) you will not use it for reading just a book, you can use it for reading the entire guttenberg project library if you want)
- i think one single individual device is more environmental friendly than my collection of paper books, not sure how many trees i killed reading in my life.
- Some books are DRMd, some not, you can read them both with the device.
Not sure if this one would be the "right" implementation (maybe if it were a similar sized PDA/internet tablet with more memory would be more useful) or the right price, but for sure it is going in the right direction.
What kind of materials should be used in that kind of ships? Really strong magnetic fields could have some impact over current manufacturing components for space ships. Also would be nice to have some kind of magnetic isolation, tripulation and cargo could depend on that.
11bn dollars hurts, but... 3 years without using computers? Where are the human rights in US courts? Thats inhuman. I think this poor guy is watching for a fast suicide way, anything, but not 3 years without computers.
Maybe another thing we could worry about is not from where is coming, but where is going. 15 months of continuous eruption could have some consequence in global climate? What about expelled gas, dust, etc? Short but massive eruptions (i.e. Krakatoa) had global influence in climate, could a small but very long ones have generate global changes too?
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But found interesting the point of bandwidth theft there, as in you encode with this your web pages and will be no way to link individual images or files inside your webpages. Its true, you cant link from outside an image if is only found encoded in a bigger web page. But also the resulting HTML files should be bigger than transfering the html and images as usual, and there is no sharing of resources, or taking advantages of client cache, if all pages in a site have the same logo, design elements and so on, all must be transfered every time, that will mean more bandwidth both for site and for users. If this becomes a trend bandwidth will be more damaged than helped.
Im not saying that Microsoft engineers can't do it right, i mean that there are usually things that end priorizing things that goes against security (drivers in ring 0, internet explorer integrated, needing to be admin to run games, the past is full of examples). Will that kind of things happen again? Dont want to bet that much being already very good alternative options.
Another thing i liked a lot about OS/2 is the WPS, that maybe by now there are better desktops, but back then was wonderful, still waiting some of their features in modern desktops like KDE.
Be right or not, there are documented examples of people taking right choices or inspirations based on dreams, like i.e. Kekule's dream on benzene structure or other famous cases.
Want to give all of us some sort of shock treatment to see how bad we can react?
to idiocy what can be explained by malice. There are a lot of backdoors around, and Windows had functional ones for years (wmf anyone?) but the intentionality of them could have been in doubt. Now if is known, proved, and by design adding another backdoor, one that will not be removed by any hotfix because is a "feature", well, 2 things will probably happen: the bad guys will find how to exploit it making all backdoored windows a target, and the bad guys find know how to disable it, so the most harmed people will be the good ones that should not have anything to hide (and because of that, removing/disabling the backdoor would make them suspectful)
Now, if you think that one of the advantages of gmail was exactly remember and be able to do good and relevant searches in all your email, adding that to your chat, and even combined with mail (so i.e. you can check if someone said you something from either way), the potential is high.
If watching previous chats worries you, same could be thinked about previous messages, and as with them, you can or not have history at all, or delete the ones that you dont want to save or potentially expose in a future.
I take advantage of searching past gaim chats, but is not very comfortable to search if someone said you who knows when something, joining all in gmail looks like a good idea.
...when you search in google "how to reverse entropy", you press "i feel lucky" and the resulting web page only says "LET THERE BE LIGHT" (there is an interesting twist to the original asimov story in The last query, suspiciously related to google).
A lot of sci-fi books took already the idea of that the language in which we think changes us. If well is not exactly about a born language, reading Babel 17 of Samuel R. Delany is always an enjoyable experience.
Saying at the same time that will not bundle antivirus and that is more secure could imply people that will not need antivirus, or that be far safer than before to virus threats. While i'm not opposed to MS not bundling its own antivirus with it, i dont think the "improved security" will make Vista safe to virus, even maybe to old ones (think in the amount that is application related, even if that application if outlook or the user behind). Antivirus is still needed, and there are very good ones around, even if they are not from Microsoft itself.
Sometimes you cant avoid harming, good intentions or not, but you can take a path that gives the minimum/less permanent damage.
Also, there are a lot of FOSS projects that give commercial (as in with support) version of their programs. MySQLor QT are not CMSs, but good examples, maybe a good example in the CMS arena could be Typo3.
As search, i think is almost a monopoly. Not only their website is the default search for most people, but most browsers and desktop apps that have the possibility of an internet search use it, and is the default "plugin" for most websites. In fact, i think that google could be a good monopoly of not content by itself, but the generic "engine" behind (search, maps, talking, etc)
Yahoo focus is a bit different, they are building communities, portals, etc, and there they are the dominant party. They could switch to using google as search engine and dont lose visitors or value, because the target is different.
Of course, google can play a catch up game and really start to build competing communities and portals, but i dont think so, looks like they are building a minimum implementation of features to make those features the base that anyone related must reach to succeed (think in gmail 1gb space). In any case, is a good opportunity (for both and for whoever want to enter those games) to improve, both in reach (i.e. yahoo maps is too focused in us/canada) as in intelligence (making it easier/more integrated/more usable)
Also, the network is everything, there are not so much totally isolated computers with critical data, and most networks have some or several points of touch with internet, encripted traffic and then hard to trace what is happening with the information.
Having a good permission system enables systems where you can decide how people interacts with the system (i.e. adding or viewing content) and where. The extensions enables i.e. drawings editing in a wiki-like scheme and its integration enables i.e. putting portions of blogs in wiki pages or including editables spreadsheets in.
My biggest use of it was for documentation, mixing blogs for tracking progress of projects, adding editable diagrams of networks, organizing and grouping the information in wiki pages and giving different kinds of priviledges to the development people (editors) from different kinds of viewers. But a lot of people gives a lot of different kinds of uses for it i.e. KDE project or voip-info.org.
Some security problems could have been avoided picking right policies even in the design phase, others could have been checking legacy code (wmf anyone? since windows 3.1?), while the most visible action of the security section this last days is releasing patch for what was already done, released and then "discovered" to have poor design/programming/think around, sometimes a zero-day vulnerability.
Well, if we are doing a time distribution chart, i suppose i should ask too about percent of checking backward compatibility, is not the first time that customers had to wait like a week for fix of a bug actually being exploited (i remember a webdav problem in iis back in like 2002) and at least with the wmf one one of the explanations of the delay was checking compatibility.
If no problem yet for Microsoft, why should fear SONY?
Think that first was created the www, static pages, dynamic pages, etc, and in the last days of last decade was created InvestorWeb 1.0, the new gold fever, the boom, the "you must be here" next thing. No matter if you do a hello world plain html page or a fuzzy full graphic high bandwidth dynamic site, you could not miss it. Of course, it crashed, too much hype without understanding is a bad thing. Technologies advanced, a lot happened that changed how people see the web, and now is time for InvestorWeb 2.0, with the hype component of the 1.0, but with new gadgets, and, maybe, a few lessons learned from the past. Will it fail as the 1.0 version? time will tell.
There is a tech web 2.0 too, that is evolving into current form since last decade and still have a long road to go till reaching a final form, where the things will be more integrating than linking, where people is more colaborator than visitor, where "where" will be more "the net" than certain URL. I could call that target Web 2.0, not the call for investors to come.
there is one that dont remember exactly how it was, but was like an elephant is a butterfly designed by a comitee. Now, if we will have something elegant and minimal like google designed by a comitee of government agencies, how it will be?
- is one book that rule them all (single book sized huge book collection?) you will not use it for reading just a book, you can use it for reading the entire guttenberg project library if you want)
- i think one single individual device is more environmental friendly than my collection of paper books, not sure how many trees i killed reading in my life.
- Some books are DRMd, some not, you can read them both with the device.
Not sure if this one would be the "right" implementation (maybe if it were a similar sized PDA/internet tablet with more memory would be more useful) or the right price, but for sure it is going in the right direction.
What kind of materials should be used in that kind of ships? Really strong magnetic fields could have some impact over current manufacturing components for space ships. Also would be nice to have some kind of magnetic isolation, tripulation and cargo could depend on that.
11bn dollars hurts, but... 3 years without using computers? Where are the human rights in US courts? Thats inhuman. I think this poor guy is watching for a fast suicide way, anything, but not 3 years without computers.
Maybe another thing we could worry about is not from where is coming, but where is going. 15 months of continuous eruption could have some consequence in global climate? What about expelled gas, dust, etc? Short but massive eruptions (i.e. Krakatoa) had global influence in climate, could a small but very long ones have generate global changes too?
Hell?
Er... wait, where is the surprise in this?