That's exactly SGI's niche - scientific and intensive engineering (simulation). They don't do well selling email or database servers, (buy a Sun or get an x86 with Linux ) and they are losing at the 3D Rendering that used to be their mass-market.
Are you a one man shop? A larger shop will have more overhead but reduces the companies risk. I.E there will be a programmer, another programmer to check his work and a manager to blow the whistle if the project gets off track or hire someone else if the programmer gets fed up and leaves.
With Business software figuring out what the client really means/wants/needs is the hardest piece. Typically it changes 3 or 4 times in the middle of any project. Technically the project is trivial but you have to be prepared to do it 2 or 3 times different ways or at least make major changes mid-stream. It always is easy, simple up front but if you don't put bloat in your bid or have a solid no changes provision your going to be eating the difference
Of course you might be like me and just opt out of TV entirely.
I just sent back my paper neilson diary blank with 0 minutes of TV watched this week. Sorry coporate america you'll have to barrage me with adverts some other way.
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But RAC IS increased performance - not just fail-over. Sure it doesn't scale as well as beowulf, but until now Relational DB's didn't scale at all.
You had to partition things out carefully in the application design (i.e. Google) or more typically buy a huge honking DB server hook all of your webservers to it and hope it doesn't peg.
This lets the Admin buy more boxes to increase performance and reliability.
We need to thank the virus authors that they didn't put serious payloads on Nimda or Code Red or I luv you. Thank them while they are in their jail cell of course, but thank them non the less.
As it was they were an annoyance to most, not fatal. They did get the message through to businesses that anti-virus security was serious business. I am sure that we are not the only organization that implemented a comprehensive anti-virus system last year.
It wasn't until we had to spend real man-hours fixing damage done by viruses that the threat was taken seriously and the ROI of the system justifiable by management. It took the potential risk out the equation and made it a simple "duh" cost cutting manuver.
Thats the classic problem with symetric key systems, especially the unbreakable OTP where the key size and the message are equal.
It does give you a logistical advantage that you can transfer the secret information at a time, place and method of your choosing and then send communication over an unsecure channel safely later.
I.e. load it on to the aircraft computer at the military base, or on your laptop inside the firewall at HQ, ect - assuming those networks are secure or at least more secure.
And then communicate it instantly over the insecure internet or radio when the time is right.
There is a finite number of setups for syncing the laser - that is your key - the noise output is simply an function of that syncing and setup.
I would expect that this is by no means secure.
A plaintext attack - sending through a message that you already know the contents of would give you the "noise" and that information could help you determine what kind of syncing setup they are using. - narrowing down your keyspace.
The point here is that OTP rely on truly random key pads where this one is an analog function of the laser syncing setup and so is not really random.
Only it is not a OTP, because it is not truly random. I.E. it is a psuedo-random stream that is reproducable at the other end.
So it violates one of the rules of a true OTP system
The "noise" generation is a function of the laser setup and can be replicated by another source.
With a known plaintext attack you could easily compute the desired "noise" and then find the appropriate laser configuration to create that noise and read the messages.
Other than being analog rather than a program and really fast, I don't see it as being all that secure.
You can get a Color Visor (Prism?) with a springboard compact flash adapter.
I have been using the FlashPlus adapter from innopocket, other than requiring a lot more power I haven't had any complaints about the extra 64mb of space on my palm.
I am sure there are plenty of options depending on your specific computer skills and values - (i.e. what type of charity work you would enjoy being a part of).
If you are a Christian, you might want to look at Wycliffe Bible Translators.
I spent a summer in Papua New Guinea doing volunteer computer work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They need network admin, office support stuff to help them with logistics. They also develop software to aid in translation.
I met a guy who left Silicon Valley and now spends a lot of his time in a small village in PNG with a Solar powered laptop working on an XML based software development project. Nice in quiet -- No roads, electricity, plumbing, etc. To distract you.
While his wife helped out the local schools, John worked building software to assist in making translations between related languages. The project was fairly cutting edge both from a technology and linguistic perspective. (yes much better than bablefish).
While their main goal is Bible translation, the educational work and small things like giving tribal groups an alphabet and written language, Do a ton to build the infrastructure of third world countries.
The Organization is also 100% volunteer, even up to the Director -- so know one is using it to make a buck!!
See
http://www.wycliffe.org/volunteer/needs.htm#opp7
for their current volenteer requests
Microsoft is so laden with fat there is no way they will be able to survive the economic downturn in its current state.
Come-on. Microsoft has more cash sitting around in their war chest than anyone. They could go a couple of years full pay, no fat trimming and no income. They will survive.
Now what they will look like in 5 years, after the effects of the economy, technology advances (including the opensource movement), and the enforcement of the settlement? That is open for debate.
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That's exactly SGI's niche - scientific and intensive engineering (simulation). They don't do well selling email or database servers, (buy a Sun or get an x86 with Linux ) and they are losing at the 3D Rendering that used to be their mass-market.
But they've still got the big iron
Are you a one man shop? A larger shop will have more overhead but reduces the companies risk. I.E there will be a programmer, another programmer to check his work and a manager to blow the whistle if the project gets off track or hire someone else if the programmer gets fed up and leaves.
With Business software figuring out what the client really means/wants/needs is the hardest piece. Typically it changes 3 or 4 times in the middle of any project. Technically the project is trivial but you have to be prepared to do it 2 or 3 times different ways or at least make major changes mid-stream. It always is easy, simple up front but if you don't put bloat in your bid or have a solid no changes provision your going to be eating the difference
Of course you might be like me and just opt out of TV entirely.
I just sent back my paper neilson diary blank with 0 minutes of TV watched this week. Sorry coporate america you'll have to barrage me with adverts some other way.
But RAC IS increased performance - not just fail-over. Sure it doesn't scale as well as beowulf, but until now Relational DB's didn't scale at all.
You had to partition things out carefully in the application design (i.e. Google) or more typically buy a huge honking DB server hook all of your webservers to it and hope it doesn't peg.
This lets the Admin buy more boxes to increase performance and reliability.
Now that's an idea, the problem with solutions around lead batteries in the developing world is that they are heavy hard to transport and wear-out.
We need to thank the virus authors that they didn't put serious payloads on Nimda or Code Red or I luv you. Thank them while they are in their jail cell of course, but thank them non the less.
As it was they were an annoyance to most, not fatal. They did get the message through to businesses that anti-virus security was serious business. I am sure that we are not the only organization that implemented a comprehensive anti-virus system last year.
It wasn't until we had to spend real man-hours fixing damage done by viruses that the threat was taken seriously and the ROI of the system justifiable by management. It took the potential risk out the equation and made it a simple "duh" cost cutting manuver.
Thats the classic problem with symetric key systems, especially the unbreakable OTP where the key size and the message are equal.
It does give you a logistical advantage that you can transfer the secret information at a time, place and method of your choosing and then send communication over an unsecure channel safely later.
I.e. load it on to the aircraft computer at the military base, or on your laptop inside the firewall at HQ, ect - assuming those networks are secure or at least more secure.
And then communicate it instantly over the insecure internet or radio when the time is right.
No, it is not an infinite one-time pad.
There is a finite number of setups for syncing the laser - that is your key - the noise output is simply an function of that syncing and setup.
I would expect that this is by no means secure.
A plaintext attack - sending through a message that you already know the contents of would give you the "noise" and that information could help you determine what kind of syncing setup they are using. - narrowing down your keyspace.
The point here is that OTP rely on truly random key pads where this one is an analog function of the laser syncing setup and so is not really random.
Only it is not a OTP, because it is not truly random.
I.E. it is a psuedo-random stream that is reproducable at the other end.
So it violates one of the rules of a true OTP system
The "noise" generation is a function of the laser setup and can be replicated by another source.
With a known plaintext attack you could easily compute the desired "noise" and then find the appropriate laser configuration to create that noise and read the messages.
Other than being analog rather than a program and really fast, I don't see it as being all that secure.
It's available,
You can get a Color Visor (Prism?) with a springboard compact flash adapter.
I have been using the FlashPlus adapter from innopocket, other than requiring a lot more power I haven't had any complaints about the extra 64mb of space on my palm.
Memplug also sells a compact flash adapter.
If you are a Christian, you might want to look at Wycliffe Bible Translators.
I spent a summer in Papua New Guinea doing volunteer computer work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They need network admin, office support stuff to help them with logistics. They also develop software to aid in translation.
I met a guy who left Silicon Valley and now spends a lot of his time in a small village in PNG with a Solar powered laptop working on an XML based software development project. Nice in quiet -- No roads, electricity, plumbing, etc. To distract you.
While his wife helped out the local schools, John worked building software to assist in making translations between related languages. The project was fairly cutting edge both from a technology and linguistic perspective. (yes much better than bablefish).
While their main goal is Bible translation, the educational work and small things like giving tribal groups an alphabet and written language, Do a ton to build the infrastructure of third world countries.
The Organization is also 100% volunteer, even up to the Director -- so know one is using it to make a buck!!
See http://www.wycliffe.org/volunteer/needs.htm#opp7 for their current volenteer requests
Come-on. Microsoft has more cash sitting around in their war chest than anyone. They could go a couple of years full pay, no fat trimming and no income. They will survive.
Now what they will look like in 5 years, after the effects of the economy, technology advances (including the opensource movement), and the enforcement of the settlement? That is open for debate.