I'm guessing that war driving will get *really* easy after this... It will probably increase the number of "war walkers" as well, and I'd bet we'd even start to see "war sitters" on the curbs!;)
...and what was featured in "Back to the Future" (II, I think)...
What I want is a big screen monitor covering the wall that can be divided up into quadrants and can be used to watch multiple channels all at once, with a few quadrants for terminals and some Gnome programs! This brings us one step closer...;)
No, I'm not selling, but here is a link at O'Reilly's website.
If you know PHP to a certain degree, this book is very useful, and presents real world examples. It is very up to date, and even covers things like PHP OOP and PEAR.
..as would any organisation. No matter how much we might want them to get rid of Windows, they will only do so in areas it makes sense to do so.
In all likelihood, I would suspect that the vast majority of their servers already run Linux... Domino runs on Linux (and has for a while), and most of their webservers are likely to run Linux.
However, while desktops may get replaced, I would think that the engineers would be a prime target for Linux desktops well before, say, secretaries. But I wouldn't think it impossible that "where appropriate" will include Ms. Jane Q. Secretary in another year or two...
...for instance, I pay much more than most people, as I require SDSL for hosting. In fact, on the occasions that I tell people what I pay, the shock on their face is priceless. However, when I explain to them that their cable upload speed is 96k, and that mine is 8.5 times that, it makes a little more sense to them.
Cable around here (NY suburbs) runs about $40-$50 per month, and ADSL is about the same. SDSL can run from that to $399, and a T1 costs about $500 a month.
While we can practice (as this version of the story at Yahoo! suggests) a possible Mars mission by going to the moon, we have already done that! We did it in the 60s... that was almost 35 years ago!! What's on the moon? While a nice place for an observatory, we should go straight to Mars.
Everyone today wants to be "safe". And while there is certainly no justification for recklnessness, this country didn't get to where it is today by being overly cautious. I hope that President Bush has the courage and conviction to challenge America to take our space program to the next level and plan a mission direct to Mars.
For those of you that don't know, Dr. Robert Zubrin, in his book "The Case for Mars" has shown that a mission to Mars is not only feasible, but that it is feasible with much of the technology that existed in the 60s! For more information, see here. With the technology we have today, and the ingenuity, fortitude, and bravery that America has demonstrated for almost 230 years, we should go straight to Mars!
root@server username# emerge -s maestro Searching... [ Results for search key : maestro ] [ Applications found : 0 ]
root@server username# emerge -s mae Searching... [ Results for search key : mae ] [ Applications found : 1 ]
* games-action/maelstrom
Latest version available: 3.0.6-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 983 kB
Homepage: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
Description: An asteroids battle game
Hhhmmm...;)::forgets all about Mars and ends up in the asteroid belt instead::
While Tablet PCs aren't that great, from what I know, they have hard drives, screens, and can play media such as these do......only these won't have the added benefit of also being PCs.
And with "real" (ie non-Tablet) laptop prices coming down to $700 - $800, I think it will be hard to justify less functional devices for roughly the same amount of money!
They can download the updates now, and save them to CD.
Yes, I know they won't, but they can.;)
People will keep using it, regardless...
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Windows 98 Phased Out
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Why? People don't typically switch until they get a new PC. Witness the Google zeitgeist; though people are using Windows XP more, it is more than likely due to it being bundled with new PCs. (Consider how long XP has been out, as compared to how much it has been used. Also factor in that those XP and 2000 numbers liekly account for most of the corporate world.) There are a considerable number of people still using Windows 98, and it is likely to stay that way.
For home users who need Office, internet, and a gaming platform, Windows 98SE upgraded and patched does everything they need. It also runs reasonably fast on today's hardware, and there are a lot of "ain't broke, don't fix" people out there. There's really no compelling reason for people to switch, so they won't until they get a new PC.
...and I think that any CXO of a "mainstream" company would have his eyes glazed over by the "Fundamentals of Copyright Law" section.
I suggest excerpting the article, to start with the "Myths of Open Source Section", as that looks short enough for most CXOs to handle, and then go with the rest if the CXO expresses further interest.
I never said it was the only competitive advantage, I said it was the main one. And it's a barrier to entry for anyone who wants to become a white box seller.
When I lived in California, I worked for a small computer store that sold computers that were custom built. Building computers (while I was there) went from being barely profitable to a loss section of the store. Why? Because people stopped buying better custom built computers, and started buying HPs at the Best Buy that opened 30 miles away. People were driving an hour (round trip) to save $200 on a computer. From what I've heard, the store no longer sells custom built PCs - they can't compete with that.
However, their tech support division is making record cash fixing HPs.;)
...and while it is tempting to get into the whitebox market, it requires a significant amount of capital. Why? Bulk purchasing (ie for processors) is only really worth it pricewise if you do it in the thousands. Dell et al. do that easily now, but for "the next Dell", unless he/she/them are able to take advantage of those discounts by purchasing parts in huge multiples, it will always be cheaper for the end user to buy from current whitebox manufacturers, even if "the next Dell" provides better quality. The vast majority of people are willing to save a buck, and unless "the next Dell" can compete on price as well as everything else, it is unlikely that there would be "another Dell".
The companies obviously got bad press. And the article states that at least one customer had his account hacked into, and those entries he kept private were posted publicly, embarassing both him and his friends.
All it takes is for that to happen to someone who has a good lawyer as a relative, and all of a sudden lack of security translates into legal expenses.
Secondly, it is easy to let security go slack. And that is my point. I have seen way too many places do just that. Everyone starts small. But how many people plan to stay that way?
How hard is it to use two commands to generate a CSR? If you don't know how to do it, Google for it. GeoTrust has step-by-step instructions, as it's in their interest. Don't know how to run Apache securely? Pay a consultant, or ask a knowledgeable friend. By posting to craigslist or slashdot, they could have found someone willing to trade services for potential profit sharing or even a free account for life.
I'm not saying that things like memcache or the databases aren't important, and shouldn't have been prioritised. But they ignored security, and their customers have already payed the price in some instances. There comes a point where the diminishing returns of working on everything *but* security will start to directly affect everything else, and that is what has happened here.
...it is rather scary how little attention people pay to security. The article even states: "...site performance is our highest priority, and SSL is a pain." While it can be costly to set up security (ie, paying security consultants;) ), if done right from the start it is less expensive than trying to fit it in after the fact.
It is certainly less expensive than having your site hacked and/or having users leave when people post their private thoughts publicly!
Any CD that is sold containing email addresses invariably has some that work, but the vast majority are just generated. I once knew someone (and I no longer communicate with that person) who insisted that spam was the only way to sell his products. He paid $400 to some marketing company, and they sold him a CD with a million addresses. He asked me to look at it, and my conclusions were that he got ripped off. He didn't want to believe me, but the sheer number of addresses that were obviously generated proved to me that someone had written a quick script to create addresses. A good portion of the addresses were also old-school, with lots of "71532.4532@compuserve.com" type addresses.
Spammers aren't just evil for selling addresses, they are evil for making up about 3/4 of the ones that they do sell, and anyone who buys a CD with email addresses on it should be aware of that.
...I must say that I am looking forward to 2004! As time goes on, their products get better and better, and if being able to convince my cow orkers to use Mozilla is any indication, MS could learn a thing or two about what to put in a free browser.;)
What does this mean for the Workstation version?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
One of the great things about VMware was that it was priced for home users, too... after the initial expense of the first copy, upgrades were available every version for only $100.
I hope "getting more into server management" doesn't mean limited (or non-existent) availablity of a great product for a great price in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
..."professional women" with wirless enabled PDAs? Possible slogan: "The newest technology for the world's oldest profession." ;)
I'm guessing that war driving will get *really* easy after this... It will probably increase the number of "war walkers" as well, and I'd bet we'd even start to see "war sitters" on the curbs! ;)
...and what was featured in "Back to the Future" (II, I think)...
;)
What I want is a big screen monitor covering the wall that can be divided up into quadrants and can be used to watch multiple channels all at once, with a few quadrants for terminals and some Gnome programs! This brings us one step closer...
No, I'm not selling, but here is a link at O'Reilly's website.
If you know PHP to a certain degree, this book is very useful, and presents real world examples. It is very up to date, and even covers things like PHP OOP and PEAR.
The really funny part is that I didn't even see that until you pointed it out...
...doesn't concern whether "Pink" is a colour or a singer, but whether "Paris Hilton" is a hotel in France or an oft downloaded video... ;)
..as would any organisation. No matter how much we might want them to get rid of Windows, they will only do so in areas it makes sense to do so.
In all likelihood, I would suspect that the vast majority of their servers already run Linux... Domino runs on Linux (and has for a while), and most of their webservers are likely to run Linux.
However, while desktops may get replaced, I would think that the engineers would be a prime target for Linux desktops well before, say, secretaries. But I wouldn't think it impossible that "where appropriate" will include Ms. Jane Q. Secretary in another year or two...
...for instance, I pay much more than most people, as I require SDSL for hosting. In fact, on the occasions that I tell people what I pay, the shock on their face is priceless. However, when I explain to them that their cable upload speed is 96k, and that mine is 8.5 times that, it makes a little more sense to them.
Cable around here (NY suburbs) runs about $40-$50 per month, and ADSL is about the same. SDSL can run from that to $399, and a T1 costs about $500 a month.
...as the vendors might fight back! Those guys can be *mean** if you piss them off...
While we can practice (as this version of the story at Yahoo! suggests) a possible Mars mission by going to the moon, we have already done that! We did it in the 60s... that was almost 35 years ago!! What's on the moon? While a nice place for an observatory, we should go straight to Mars.
Everyone today wants to be "safe". And while there is certainly no justification for recklnessness, this country didn't get to where it is today by being overly cautious. I hope that President Bush has the courage and conviction to challenge America to take our space program to the next level and plan a mission direct to Mars.
For those of you that don't know, Dr. Robert Zubrin, in his book "The Case for Mars" has shown that a mission to Mars is not only feasible, but that it is feasible with much of the technology that existed in the 60s! For more information, see here. With the technology we have today, and the ingenuity, fortitude, and bravery that America has demonstrated for almost 230 years, we should go straight to Mars!
root@server username# emerge -s maestro
;) ::forgets all about Mars and ends up in the asteroid belt instead::
Searching...
[ Results for search key : maestro ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
root@server username# emerge -s mae
Searching...
[ Results for search key : mae ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* games-action/maelstrom
Latest version available: 3.0.6-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 983 kB
Homepage: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
Description: An asteroids battle game
Hhhmmm...
Here is where he began...
While Tablet PCs aren't that great, from what I know, they have hard drives, screens, and can play media such as these do... ...only these won't have the added benefit of also being PCs.
And with "real" (ie non-Tablet) laptop prices coming down to $700 - $800, I think it will be hard to justify less functional devices for roughly the same amount of money!
...not only is there a fix already, but I didn't have to badger anyone to get it - it was announced! Off to emerge my new kernel... ;)
They can download the updates now, and save them to CD.
;)
Yes, I know they won't, but they can.
Why? People don't typically switch until they get a new PC. Witness the Google zeitgeist; though people are using Windows XP more, it is more than likely due to it being bundled with new PCs. (Consider how long XP has been out, as compared to how much it has been used. Also factor in that those XP and 2000 numbers liekly account for most of the corporate world.) There are a considerable number of people still using Windows 98, and it is likely to stay that way.
For home users who need Office, internet, and a gaming platform, Windows 98SE upgraded and patched does everything they need. It also runs reasonably fast on today's hardware, and there are a lot of "ain't broke, don't fix" people out there. There's really no compelling reason for people to switch, so they won't until they get a new PC.
...and I think that any CXO of a "mainstream" company would have his eyes glazed over by the "Fundamentals of Copyright Law" section.
I suggest excerpting the article, to start with the "Myths of Open Source Section", as that looks short enough for most CXOs to handle, and then go with the rest if the CXO expresses further interest.
I never said it was the only competitive advantage, I said it was the main one. And it's a barrier to entry for anyone who wants to become a white box seller.
;)
When I lived in California, I worked for a small computer store that sold computers that were custom built. Building computers (while I was there) went from being barely profitable to a loss section of the store. Why? Because people stopped buying better custom built computers, and started buying HPs at the Best Buy that opened 30 miles away. People were driving an hour (round trip) to save $200 on a computer. From what I've heard, the store no longer sells custom built PCs - they can't compete with that.
However, their tech support division is making record cash fixing HPs.
...and while it is tempting to get into the whitebox market, it requires a significant amount of capital. Why? Bulk purchasing (ie for processors) is only really worth it pricewise if you do it in the thousands. Dell et al. do that easily now, but for "the next Dell", unless he/she/them are able to take advantage of those discounts by purchasing parts in huge multiples, it will always be cheaper for the end user to buy from current whitebox manufacturers, even if "the next Dell" provides better quality. The vast majority of people are willing to save a buck, and unless "the next Dell" can compete on price as well as everything else, it is unlikely that there would be "another Dell".
Both.
The companies obviously got bad press. And the article states that at least one customer had his account hacked into, and those entries he kept private were posted publicly, embarassing both him and his friends.
All it takes is for that to happen to someone who has a good lawyer as a relative, and all of a sudden lack of security translates into legal expenses.
That is true, however:
;)
I wasn't scoffing.
Secondly, it is easy to let security go slack. And that is my point. I have seen way too many places do just that. Everyone starts small. But how many people plan to stay that way?
How hard is it to use two commands to generate a CSR? If you don't know how to do it, Google for it. GeoTrust has step-by-step instructions, as it's in their interest. Don't know how to run Apache securely? Pay a consultant, or ask a knowledgeable friend. By posting to craigslist or slashdot, they could have found someone willing to trade services for potential profit sharing or even a free account for life.
I'm not saying that things like memcache or the databases aren't important, and shouldn't have been prioritised. But they ignored security, and their customers have already payed the price in some instances. There comes a point where the diminishing returns of working on everything *but* security will start to directly affect everything else, and that is what has happened here.
...it is rather scary how little attention people pay to security. The article even states: "...site performance is our highest priority, and SSL is a pain." While it can be costly to set up security (ie, paying security consultants ;) ), if done right from the start it is less expensive than trying to fit it in after the fact.
It is certainly less expensive than having your site hacked and/or having users leave when people post their private thoughts publicly!
Any CD that is sold containing email addresses invariably has some that work, but the vast majority are just generated. I once knew someone (and I no longer communicate with that person) who insisted that spam was the only way to sell his products. He paid $400 to some marketing company, and they sold him a CD with a million addresses. He asked me to look at it, and my conclusions were that he got ripped off. He didn't want to believe me, but the sheer number of addresses that were obviously generated proved to me that someone had written a quick script to create addresses. A good portion of the addresses were also old-school, with lots of "71532.4532@compuserve.com" type addresses.
Spammers aren't just evil for selling addresses, they are evil for making up about 3/4 of the ones that they do sell, and anyone who buys a CD with email addresses on it should be aware of that.
...I must say that I am looking forward to 2004! As time goes on, their products get better and better, and if being able to convince my cow orkers to use Mozilla is any indication, MS could learn a thing or two about what to put in a free browser. ;)
One of the great things about VMware was that it was priced for home users, too... after the initial expense of the first copy, upgrades were available every version for only $100.
I hope "getting more into server management" doesn't mean limited (or non-existent) availablity of a great product for a great price in the future.