In the longer term, set up all the desktops in your orkplace wth this Mandrake distro and use it for storage (Aka freenet) as well as processing, nothing unique to any particular desktop so you can add/delete from the LAN at will.
But more immediately;
So how about combininng all the no-fuss PVM setup stuff with the Gibraltar bootbale Debian CD?
OK, maybe not as neat as PXE, but imagine being able to convert the office LAN into a Beowulf cluster every night when people go home.:o)
Xix. P.S. Anyone notice how many more new ideas are popping up compared to "clone product X" ideas?
One evening we agreed that an interesting attack would be to randomly transpose digits inside predominantly numerical documents on very long intervals. On the chance that it *was* discovered, most poeple would assume a keying error. Keep it up for a month (most sites) and you have got the backup as well. If you do it at a low enough rate, your data is junk before anyone realises what is happening. The negaitive was machine generated sequences, which would be broken (and noticed) immediately by such a change (i.e. a credit card number would cease working).
The other option was popping random registry locations. At a low enough rate, it would not be distinguishable form the regular Windows bit-rot.
A BSD-like license is a better license for governmental projects, because it does give everybody the same rights to the code which was developed with public funds.
Unless I (as a government employee) *NEED* to use GPL code in my project (which I am doing now). There is no way I could release a derivative work without violating the GPL (by changing the terms). Forcing me to use a particulr licence would prevent me from considering not only GPL, but any other licences that impose restrictions on redistribution (for example, commercial source code licences)
Secondly, your example is flawed. You can do whatever you want with GPL code and not release the source *unless* you give/sell it to someone. This is where a BSD licence would be grossly unfair, if a person develops a novel tool, any other person or company could make no or minimal change to that tool and use superior resources to foist it on marketplace as the official version, at least with GPL, they'd still have their copyright.
It's important that this is not clever namecalling like "Treacherous Computing", but the names convey accurate firsthand meaning.
TCPA: Centralised Auhorisation. "Microsoft want to control what files and programs you can use by placing a control chip in your computer. If enough people can be persuaded to use CA for its useful functions, they hope it will become as essential as oil is today."
DRM: Access Constraints. "Microsoft wants to sell Centralised Authentication to companies like record labels so that they can control what music you can use on you computer and how you can use that music. For example, the hardware could forbid you from making a tape from your car, or delete music you forgoet to pay rent on.
Another example: As an artist, you will possibly need to pay Microsoft a tax before your music can be heard, unless the record companies pay a *larger* tax to Microsoft to make sure only they get to distribute music."
My GF users Debain and has never touched a CLI let alone installed *any* OS. How many Joe Average users install their OS anyway? If they do, it will be a product specific recovery disk, so the whinge in the original article about installation difficulty is a moot point anyway.
And professionals? Anyone installing an OS more than a few times a year needs consistant hardware and a drive imaging program. Different nichess? Do a base install image and an run a script with apt-gets in it.
This preoccupation with the installer is ridiculous.
He seems to have been involved with similar products in the past (so hopefully realises the megnitude of the task) and it's great to see some forward thinking (rather reactive development). Yeah, don't rely on it, but we're (hopefully) going to see more projects trying to create something better rather than reinventing wheels.
Isn't this *exactly* how M$ works? "Don't buy that, we're going to release something that does that next year!";o)
If I was Dimitry, I'd love to have this whole thing cleared up. Suppose he is found guilty (I agree with the conjecture that the intent is to make this debacle go away rather than to try him in-absentia), would such a verdict leave him open to being picked up in a 3rd country that has an extradiation agreement with the USA? Even if there's no intent to bring him in, I can see such a black mark making any international travel a series of lengthy interviews in various border protection offices.
Is he saying that computers are heading down the path of glorified televisions and that in the near future all that you will need to operate your computer is a remote control?
After the RIAA and MPAA are done, you won't need more than a remote control to access the allowable functions on a multimedia box.
Alas, with a decent amount of watertight compartments, you'd have to render a model to splinters to sink it. At least this way, a sunk sip can be repaired for a new engagement without too much effort.
I have set up few friends with older hardware bought and scrounged from various places. Then told them to tinker as much as they want, even if they slag the machine, they're not going to do more than $20 of damage.
This is a lot more ammenable to "having a go" than worrying about toasting a $500 sheet of fibreglass because you pressed on it too hard.
For a while now, IIS has been the h4X0r child because it is ubiquitous and easy to break. Mal-ware activity is a good indicator of the popularity of a platform (at least partially).
Fewer people did Linux mal-ware before this because there were relatively few machines and they were generally owned by clueful people. Now we have a far larger base of ignorant users/operators and far wider deployment, including high profile deployments. How many clueless people had 24/7 broadband connections even 3 years ago?
Expect to see greater interest in Linux Mal-ware as the popularity of Linux increases. With increased H4X0r attention, the delivery of security to the ignorant will determine how often we see headlines about Linux hosted exploits[1].
Xix. [1] OK, maybe OpenSSL screwed up, but surely the OS has *some* responsibility for looking after its own integrity? Imagine a distro that keeps your firewall, ppp connection, web server and stuff in seperate, minimal user-mode Linux virtual boxes.
Here's an interesting perspective from Ole Eichorn, the CTO of Aperio Technologies:
I bet in a few years we'll be able to track Apache's decline as the leading web server back to this point.
That or where it started to fork.If people are unwilling to go 2.x, they'll put the effort into adding new stuff into 1.x. Are we seeing Open Source at work?
OK, again and again, the RIAA say MP3s are responsibe for killing their industry. Then a company starts taxing MP3 installs.
A) If there's no connection, how long before RIAA decides they should the compensated out of these royalties for a product that is (apparently) only used for pirating music?
B)If there is a connection, wouldn't this be a most excellent stick for the RIAA? "No one can possibly be using MP3 unless they are using it in an un-approved manner, therefore we can sue anyone not implementing MP3 in an approved manner".
C) Yes, aquiring an interest in this would be a great way to force a shift to another format. What use is an MP3 file if writing or distributing a player for it will send you to jail? (similar to point B except for the goal)
This is the Unisys GIF thing, but with more interested parties on the top end.
But what's the point in designing open, DRM free hardware if the DEA busts down your door on the behalf of Hillary Rosen because you are not including government aproved DRM controls? That it's a PC or not is irrelevant, all the text I have seen says that an approved DRM would be applied to all electronics.
OK, Palladium is of corporate origin, but you can be sure that they will lobby hard to promote it as the final solution to the issues vexing Sen. Hollings et al. This issue needs to be faced and not ignored in the hope it will go away and bother someone else.
I can see it now, I get busted for carrying a traffickable quantity of Z80 chips...
If you had been watching Friend Computer you would realise that
strategic alliances can greatly educate students so that they are aware of products that may benefit them as adults.
Maybe you are upset because you thirsty? Maybe a refreshing drink will help?
Well it's not like they can just call the AAA and pop a wheel off to have a look. That things is kind of big. We had a D8 bulldozer, and never opened some of the heavier stuff (just getting the winch off was a task of herculean proportions). We'd open smaller tractor after about 15 years to put new rings and pistons in, plenty of time for lots of stuff to go wrong.
Maybe they got pulled up by the local police who put a defect notice on the windscreen? Not like the local sheriff could get them for speeding.;o)
Haven't you noticed? The hue of a discussion is based on a sophisticated algorithm that matches the nett rating of potty-mouth comments in an article against an RGB lookup table of faeces samples.
Sort of like the hot-chillis you see in Eudora, but brown.
I had the great pleasure of meeting SP at Gloranthacon Downunder a few years back, and was blown away by the breadth and depth of SP's knowledge, from Zombie movies to ancient history. I also got him to sign the inside cover of my 3rd ed. Call of Cthulhu rulebook.:o)
Do all RPG households now have a plush Cthulhu? I have a plush Cthulhu that Emma made for me at a Necronomicon some years ago, cute and teddybear like. But if you read the notes, such a shape is a totally legit avatar for Cthulhu.:o)
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In the longer term, set up all the desktops in your orkplace wth this Mandrake distro and use it for storage (Aka freenet) as well as processing, nothing unique to any particular desktop so you can add/delete from the LAN at will.
But more immediately;
So how about combininng all the no-fuss PVM setup stuff with the Gibraltar bootbale Debian CD?
OK, maybe not as neat as PXE, but imagine being able to convert the office LAN into a Beowulf cluster every night when people go home.:o)
Xix.
P.S. Anyone notice how many more new ideas are popping up compared to "clone product X" ideas?
In the same way that rewards are offered to disgruntled employees for information on illegal software installations.
Xix.
One evening we agreed that an interesting attack would be to randomly transpose digits inside predominantly numerical documents on very long intervals. On the chance that it *was* discovered, most poeple would assume a keying error. Keep it up for a month (most sites) and you have got the backup as well. If you do it at a low enough rate, your data is junk before anyone realises what is happening. The negaitive was machine generated sequences, which would be broken (and noticed) immediately by such a change (i.e. a credit card number would cease working).
The other option was popping random registry locations. At a low enough rate, it would not be distinguishable form the regular Windows bit-rot.
Xix.
And haven't we discussed this before?
Xix.
Unless I (as a government employee) *NEED* to use GPL code in my project (which I am doing now). There is no way I could release a derivative work without violating the GPL (by changing the terms). Forcing me to use a particulr licence would prevent me from considering not only GPL, but any other licences that impose restrictions on redistribution (for example, commercial source code licences)
Secondly, your example is flawed. You can do whatever you want with GPL code and not release the source *unless* you give/sell it to someone. This is where a BSD licence would be grossly unfair , if a person develops a novel tool, any other person or company could make no or minimal change to that tool and use superior resources to foist it on marketplace as the official version, at least with GPL, they'd still have their copyright.
Xix.
It's important that this is not clever namecalling like "Treacherous Computing", but the names convey accurate firsthand meaning.
TCPA:
Centralised Auhorisation.
"Microsoft want to control what files and programs you can use by placing a control chip in your computer. If enough people can be persuaded to use CA for its useful functions, they hope it will become as essential as oil is today."
DRM:
Access Constraints.
"Microsoft wants to sell Centralised Authentication to companies like record labels so that they can control what music you can use on you computer and how you can use that music. For example, the hardware could forbid you from making a tape from your car, or delete music you forgoet to pay rent on.
Another example:
As an artist, you will possibly need to pay Microsoft a tax before your music can be heard, unless the record companies pay a *larger* tax to Microsoft to make sure only they get to distribute music."
Xix.
Great, I can now win by getting all my opponents banned from the game server:
/usr/sbin/getmacuserbanned.sh
for i in $opponent_mac
do
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether $i
ifconfig eth0 up
done
Xix.
My GF users Debain and has never touched a CLI let alone installed *any* OS. How many Joe Average users install their OS anyway? If they do, it will be a product specific recovery disk, so the whinge in the original article about installation difficulty is a moot point anyway.
And professionals? Anyone installing an OS more than a few times a year needs consistant hardware and a drive imaging program. Different nichess? Do a base install image and an run a script with apt-gets in it.
This preoccupation with the installer is ridiculous.
Xix.
OTOH our economy has had great success with non-existant money. Just as Enron...
And M$ releaees non-existant killer apps all the time...
Xix.
He seems to have been involved with similar products in the past (so hopefully realises the megnitude of the task) and it's great to see some forward thinking (rather reactive development). Yeah, don't rely on it, but we're (hopefully) going to see more projects trying to create something better rather than reinventing wheels.
;o)
Isn't this *exactly* how M$ works? "Don't buy that, we're going to release something that does that next year!"
Xix.
If I was Dimitry, I'd love to have this whole thing cleared up. Suppose he is found guilty (I agree with the conjecture that the intent is to make this debacle go away rather than to try him in-absentia), would such a verdict leave him open to being picked up in a 3rd country that has an extradiation agreement with the USA? Even if there's no intent to bring him in, I can see such a black mark making any international travel a series of lengthy interviews in various border protection offices.
Xix.
After the RIAA and MPAA are done, you won't need more than a remote control to access the allowable functions on a multimedia box.
Xix.
So do the makers of the mobile phones own the distinctive sounds being made by these phones?
If this becomes amazingly popular, are they entitled to sue the creators for stealing music?
How long before other instrument makers start demanding performers pay royalties?
Digital mdeia is the quantum physics of law.
Xix.
Alas, with a decent amount of watertight compartments, you'd have to render a model to splinters to sink it. At least this way, a sunk sip can be repaired for a new engagement without too much effort.
Xix.
I have set up few friends with older hardware bought and scrounged from various places. Then told them to tinker as much as they want, even if they slag the machine, they're not going to do more than $20 of damage.
This is a lot more ammenable to "having a go" than worrying about toasting a $500 sheet of fibreglass because you pressed on it too hard.
Xix.
For a while now, IIS has been the h4X0r child because it is ubiquitous and easy to break. Mal-ware activity is a good indicator of the popularity of a platform (at least partially).
Fewer people did Linux mal-ware before this because there were relatively few machines and they were generally owned by clueful people. Now we have a far larger base of ignorant users/operators and far wider deployment, including high profile deployments. How many clueless people had 24/7 broadband connections even 3 years ago?
Expect to see greater interest in Linux Mal-ware as the popularity of Linux increases. With increased H4X0r attention, the delivery of security to the ignorant will determine how often we see headlines about Linux hosted exploits[1].
Xix.
[1] OK, maybe OpenSSL screwed up, but surely the OS has *some* responsibility for looking after its own integrity? Imagine a distro that keeps your firewall, ppp connection, web server and stuff in seperate, minimal user-mode Linux virtual boxes.
That or where it started to fork.If people are unwilling to go 2.x, they'll put the effort into adding new stuff into 1.x. Are we seeing Open Source at work?
Xix.
Xix.
OK, again and again, the RIAA say MP3s are responsibe for killing their industry. Then a company starts taxing MP3 installs.
A) If there's no connection, how long before RIAA decides they should the compensated out of these royalties for a product that is (apparently) only used for pirating music?
B)If there is a connection, wouldn't this be a most excellent stick for the RIAA? "No one can possibly be using MP3 unless they are using it in an un-approved manner, therefore we can sue anyone not implementing MP3 in an approved manner".
C) Yes, aquiring an interest in this would be a great way to force a shift to another format. What use is an MP3 file if writing or distributing a player for it will send you to jail? (similar to point B except for the goal)
This is the Unisys GIF thing, but with more interested parties on the top end.
Xix.
But what's the point in designing open, DRM free hardware if the DEA busts down your door on the behalf of Hillary Rosen because you are not including government aproved DRM controls? That it's a PC or not is irrelevant, all the text I have seen says that an approved DRM would be applied to all electronics.
OK, Palladium is of corporate origin, but you can be sure that they will lobby hard to promote it as the final solution to the issues vexing Sen. Hollings et al. This issue needs to be faced and not ignored in the hope it will go away and bother someone else.
I can see it now, I get busted for carrying a traffickable quantity of Z80 chips...
Xix.
Xix.
Well it's not like they can just call the AAA and pop a wheel off to have a look. That things is kind of big. We had a D8 bulldozer, and never opened some of the heavier stuff (just getting the winch off was a task of herculean proportions). We'd open smaller tractor after about 15 years to put new rings and pistons in, plenty of time for lots of stuff to go wrong.
;o)
Maybe they got pulled up by the local police who put a defect notice on the windscreen? Not like the local sheriff could get them for speeding.
Xix.
Haven't you noticed? The hue of a discussion is based on a sophisticated algorithm that matches the nett rating of potty-mouth comments in an article against an RGB lookup table of faeces samples.
Sort of like the hot-chillis you see in Eudora, but brown.
Xix.
(waiting for a baby-poo yellow thread)
I had the great pleasure of meeting SP at Gloranthacon Downunder a few years back, and was blown away by the breadth and depth of SP's knowledge, from Zombie movies to ancient history. I also got him to sign the inside cover of my 3rd ed. Call of Cthulhu rulebook. :o)
Xix.
Do all RPG households now have a plush Cthulhu? I have a plush Cthulhu that Emma made for me at a Necronomicon some years ago, cute and teddybear like. But if you read the notes, such a shape is a totally legit avatar for Cthulhu. :o)
Xix.