When I check my Google analytics account I see more people using Windows 98 than Vista when surfing my web sites. How long has Vista been out now? Can I call its launch a complete failure? Yeah I hate fuggin M$. Linux is king in my world but the results speak for themselves. Vista is not popular and stupid moves like this are some of the reasons I will never go back.
Peace!
For those at Bank of America or any other place where this is occuring. Make sure you get your severance pay but do not pass on any more information that you have to. You may even considering passing on wrong information. B of A deserves getting screwed by you. If database maintenance has to happen every 12 hours tell them every 12 days. If they call you tell them the idiot you were training wrote it down wrong. Leave critical steps out. Dont provide key contact info or personal tricks. Get ride of any source code, documentation, or scripting that may make someone elses job easier. You get the idea. Remember still have the right to resist this through less obvious tactics. They screwed you and expect you to help them move on. WTF were they thinking. Thats like divorcing your wife and then asking her to teach you new wife how to blow you correctly or she won't get her alimony.
For those who don't work at B of A you need to make sure you never do business with them again. Tell your family not to do business with them either. Explaing to them that they are taking jobs from away from people in your field.
This really pisses me off. More to come soon.
Ok, Your suspicions were correct. Now what are you going to do about it? Probably nothing. The fact that our goverment (which ever agency or sitting president) autorized it is a major problem. Letting it happen with out holding them accountable is the real tragedy.
There was not much on the mainstream news sites other than the initial news story last week so I googled ["electronic frontier foundation" narus]. The first link was to a no longer available article at siliconvalley.com. The good news is that the google cache was still there.
The article appears to be a lead in for a round table discussion where both the EFF and Narus participated but I can not find the details of the conversation. Anyone else able to get their hand on it? Please post it to slashdot.
Just like online gaming.... Teams were not balanced. From what I heard the top 3 teams all had 20+ people. Some 30..... 4th place had 7 people.
Also heard the points system was a little skewed. Basicly if you owned someone else's server then you scored points for the length of time you owned it. B ut then the team that was being hacked would take it off line and you would be out of luck. The penalties for off line boxes were less sever than the rewards for owning someone.
The contest was run by a group called Kenshoto. The story goes that they are an anonymous bunch and that is the alias they are using. I was there and the set up was ultra cool. A few improvements and next year will be even better.
Check out this link for more info. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11269
According to an article at ZDNet, Cisco's web site has been hacked and they are advising users to change their passwords. As someone who was at Ciscogate (Michael Lynn's Blackhat presentation) I can not go without wondering if this event is related. Lynn stated in his presentation last week that the older IOS archives were removed from the download site due to his research. That begs the question, did someone hack Cisco's site in an attempt to get at those versions of IOS? BTW, if you are still looking for the orginal presentation this previous slashdot story mentions an article at Wired, which has a link to lynn-cisco.pdf
Its my opinion that Apple's decision to switch to Intel processors may be good for their business provided they make an important strategic decision. Apple is going to have allowed people to run OS X on any Intel based PC. They can do this one of two ways. They can officially support OS X on any hardware or they can do it unofficially. I think they will take the unofficial route. If Apple makes it simple for the hacker community to circumvent any security measures that force users to run OS X on MAC hardware only then people will run it on other hardware without support from Apple. This will increase the adoption rate of OS X and when users need a high end OS X PC then they will buy the supported MAC hardware. A couple of years down the road when OS X adoption has grown sufficiently then Apple will begin to officially support OS X on other manufactures PCs.
If this happens the UNIX based desktop market will no longer be up for grabs. Apple will have won and there will be three tiers to UNIX desktops. At the top will be OS X running on MAC hardware. Second will be OS X on unsupported hardware. Coming in a distant third will be Linux.
Why will Linux come in third? This is due to the fact that it is still a difficult operating system to administer. Even the most advanced RPM based distributions are difficult to manage once you go beyond what is included with the installation CDs. Device drivers are also an issue. Vendors have not developed drivers on a large scale. It's not likely to happen either because the key people in the Linux community will not embrace closed source drivers and hardware manufactures can not afford to release the intellectual property due to the competitive nature of their businesses. Finally, open source drivers remain too difficult for the average user to configure and install.
I am not the only one with this opinion. OS X is on the minds of other Linux users as well. I was at my local LUG meeting recently only to see several Linux enthusiasts running MACs and OS X instead. I was a little embarrassed by this because I have considered running OS X too.
There is still hope for Linux. It could come out on top but that would take a couple of smart moves by influential Linux companies and some big miracles. The main Linux distribution makers need to partner with some major hardware vendors and come up with Linux certified hardware for the desktop and notebook market and compete head to head with Apple's supported Mac/OS X products. Second, the device driver issues with Linux will need to be resolved. Some how the open source community will have to find a way to accept close source device drivers. Finally, major vendors who currently write software for the Microsoft and Apple platforms will have to be convinced to also publish their software for Linux.
Thanks for taking the time to ready my rant. One more thing......I also forgot to mention that all of this is a battle for second place. None of this will displace Microsoft's dominance in the desktop market. At least in the foreseeable future.
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Its bad enough that we are addicted to the play by play of technology and spend day after day reading slashdot. Even if you are smart enough to recognize that you a slave to news you need more.
Then along comes the online news organizations. They know your an addict and there is not enough news to suck you in on a consistent basis. So they sepeculate. They adopt the play by play just like sports. They hype up the controversy. And now they make up fictional stories about the future.
The first step to beating your addiction is admitting that you have one.
Cerner, one of the largest vendors in the clinical marketplace, is porting to Java and Websphere right now. Their java base product should hit in 2006.
Think about the reasons they would choose Java. If they go with.net then they are tied to a M$ OS and M$ tools. By developing in Java they can run on M$, Linux, UNIX, OS/390. Their code will scale and will port when one or more of the platforms is no longer popular or effective.
So you need to ask yourself. Are you targeting low hanging fruit or planning to grow and have your code grow with you?
It was meant to funny and true....maybe even irony....not flamebait.
I live near a sprint co but somehow they choose not to provide DSL. My digital cable bill plus road runner is $100.
Dont waste your time. LDAP and eDirectory are an unstable match. Their latest patches f**ked it up even more. Search for a user over ldap and you get a response next search for the same use come back as user unknown. They have had too many years to get it right and still F**K it up.
Simple solution. Tie the use of all M$ blogs to an OS and browser that you wrote. Sure other browsers and OS may be able to view certian parts but full functionality will only work with M$ products.......
Where better to get the 1st round of canidates. Admins are going to be worse of than developers. They seem to be a more certification happy bunch. If you have your CCIE you are almost guaranteed to get drafted.....hehe
Write legal@redhat.com for a copy of their license agreement for ES or AS. I have a feeling that its mostly intimidation and not really stopping anything.
RedHat has never wanted to displace M$. If you have to argue between M$ and Linux at your place of work then you are amatures. Redhat has know that their business model works when they compete for the same business as Sun Solaris, HP UX, and IBM AIX. There they can make the argument that RedHat Linux is cheaper, more stable, and usually faster.
While I think that Redhat completely screwed this up they are still a good product when compaired to the large commercial unix choices. You can not compare any Linux disto to M$. You do not deserve to run Linux if you think that its comparable to M$.
Amen, brother! You are exactly right. As an RHCE who feels screwed by RedHat's latest move, I agree with your comment:
"It sure would be nice if individual developers focused some more attention on Debian GNU/Linux. Perhaps with Red Hat ceasing development (them being what rpm was originally named for), individual independant volunteer developers will think more carefully about supporting forked distros, and going back to the roots of what "Linux" really is, the Linux kernel, and all the GNU applications combined to make a workable product."
I agree. I did the same thing.
If I was in a room with Redhat right now I would use a line from Vin Disel in Fast and the Furious.
Redhat, "YOU EMBARASS ME!"
1. Redhat set it up. Why support a company that just screwed you? Fedor is bound to be different from the Redhat Enterprise distro enough so that you can not test products that require Redhat Enterprise.
2. History. I spent to much time learning Linux and RedHat. I started at this on RedHat Linux 4.0. I know have a RHCE. If I would have picked Debian back then my knowledge would still be useful in a totally free environment and at work. Why would I want to set my self up to be screwed again?
3. Redhat has deliberately screwed its users. Think back to the release of Redhat 9. Why did they move from 8 to 9. May speculated that it was a gcc version change and it was no big deal. Todays anouncement proves that they have been planning for a long time.
If you call RedHat their customer service recorded message is still trying to sell the old business model products like RHN and RH9 Professional. NICE!
A few weeks ago they sent me a nasty past due notice and I renewed my RHN account till Dec of 2004. The past due notice was because they implmented a new billing system and were sending out email notices for the first time. Kind of funny that they went and collected as much RHN dollars as possible before they made this anouncement. Only had to wait 10 minutes to get through to cancel it! I don't think keeping my RHN account is worth it for an eval copy of WS.
Now what do I do with my RHCE?
Great web page. I enjoyed reading your comments.
I agree that RedHat is being ridiculous. This is not a business decision. Its corporate terrorism. Mark my words. RedHat will back off on this decision to a less radical policy but that was probably their plan from the beginning. This is just a mental game they are playing. If RedHat backs off from this strategy plan then everyone is going to accept the second idea they propose and think it is a huge improvement.
I think someone at RedHat has gone to the Apple Inc. School of Business. More decisions like this one and you will be nothing more that a small player in the OS industry.
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When I check my Google analytics account I see more people using Windows 98 than Vista when surfing my web sites. How long has Vista been out now? Can I call its launch a complete failure? Yeah I hate fuggin M$. Linux is king in my world but the results speak for themselves. Vista is not popular and stupid moves like this are some of the reasons I will never go back. Peace!
For those at Bank of America or any other place where this is occuring. Make sure you get your severance pay but do not pass on any more information that you have to. You may even considering passing on wrong information. B of A deserves getting screwed by you. If database maintenance has to happen every 12 hours tell them every 12 days. If they call you tell them the idiot you were training wrote it down wrong. Leave critical steps out. Dont provide key contact info or personal tricks. Get ride of any source code, documentation, or scripting that may make someone elses job easier. You get the idea. Remember still have the right to resist this through less obvious tactics. They screwed you and expect you to help them move on. WTF were they thinking. Thats like divorcing your wife and then asking her to teach you new wife how to blow you correctly or she won't get her alimony.
For those who don't work at B of A you need to make sure you never do business with them again. Tell your family not to do business with them either. Explaing to them that they are taking jobs from away from people in your field. This really pisses me off. More to come soon.
Ok, Your suspicions were correct. Now what are you going to do about it? Probably nothing. The fact that our goverment (which ever agency or sitting president) autorized it is a major problem. Letting it happen with out holding them accountable is the real tragedy.
There was not much on the mainstream news sites other than the initial news story last week so I googled ["electronic frontier foundation" narus]. The first link was to a no longer available article at siliconvalley.com. The good news is that the google cache was still there.
w ww.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/sp ecial_packages/security/2579675.htm+electronic+fro ntier+foundation%22+narus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 "
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:nc4cgqbKTjoJ:
The article appears to be a lead in for a round table discussion where both the EFF and Narus participated but I can not find the details of the conversation. Anyone else able to get their hand on it? Please post it to slashdot.
Just like online gaming.... Teams were not balanced. From what I heard the top 3 teams all had 20+ people. Some 30..... 4th place had 7 people. Also heard the points system was a little skewed. Basicly if you owned someone else's server then you scored points for the length of time you owned it. B ut then the team that was being hacked would take it off line and you would be out of luck. The penalties for off line boxes were less sever than the rewards for owning someone. The contest was run by a group called Kenshoto. The story goes that they are an anonymous bunch and that is the alias they are using. I was there and the set up was ultra cool. A few improvements and next year will be even better. Check out this link for more info. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11269
Cisco Web Site Hacked 3:18 PM
According to an article at ZDNet, Cisco's web site has been hacked and they are advising users to change their passwords. As someone who was at Ciscogate (Michael Lynn's Blackhat presentation) I can not go without wondering if this event is related. Lynn stated in his presentation last week that the older IOS archives were removed from the download site due to his research. That begs the question, did someone hack Cisco's site in an attempt to get at those versions of IOS? BTW, if you are still looking for the orginal presentation this previous slashdot story mentions an article at Wired, which has a link to lynn-cisco.pdf
I can only get broadband from my cable provider. No DSL in my hood. If I can only get one provider are they the worst or the best?
Its my opinion that Apple's decision to switch to Intel processors may be good for their business provided they make an important strategic decision. Apple is going to have allowed people to run OS X on any Intel based PC. They can do this one of two ways. They can officially support OS X on any hardware or they can do it unofficially. I think they will take the unofficial route. If Apple makes it simple for the hacker community to circumvent any security measures that force users to run OS X on MAC hardware only then people will run it on other hardware without support from Apple. This will increase the adoption rate of OS X and when users need a high end OS X PC then they will buy the supported MAC hardware. A couple of years down the road when OS X adoption has grown sufficiently then Apple will begin to officially support OS X on other manufactures PCs.
If this happens the UNIX based desktop market will no longer be up for grabs. Apple will have won and there will be three tiers to UNIX desktops. At the top will be OS X running on MAC hardware. Second will be OS X on unsupported hardware. Coming in a distant third will be Linux.
Why will Linux come in third? This is due to the fact that it is still a difficult operating system to administer. Even the most advanced RPM based distributions are difficult to manage once you go beyond what is included with the installation CDs. Device drivers are also an issue. Vendors have not developed drivers on a large scale. It's not likely to happen either because the key people in the Linux community will not embrace closed source drivers and hardware manufactures can not afford to release the intellectual property due to the competitive nature of their businesses. Finally, open source drivers remain too difficult for the average user to configure and install.
I am not the only one with this opinion. OS X is on the minds of other Linux users as well. I was at my local LUG meeting recently only to see several Linux enthusiasts running MACs and OS X instead. I was a little embarrassed by this because I have considered running OS X too.
There is still hope for Linux. It could come out on top but that would take a couple of smart moves by influential Linux companies and some big miracles. The main Linux distribution makers need to partner with some major hardware vendors and come up with Linux certified hardware for the desktop and notebook market and compete head to head with Apple's supported Mac/OS X products. Second, the device driver issues with Linux will need to be resolved. Some how the open source community will have to find a way to accept close source device drivers. Finally, major vendors who currently write software for the Microsoft and Apple platforms will have to be convinced to also publish their software for Linux.
Thanks for taking the time to ready my rant. One more thing......I also forgot to mention that all of this is a battle for second place. None of this will displace Microsoft's dominance in the desktop market. At least in the foreseeable future.
Its bad enough that we are addicted to the play by play of technology and spend day after day reading slashdot. Even if you are smart enough to recognize that you a slave to news you need more.
Then along comes the online news organizations. They know your an addict and there is not enough news to suck you in on a consistent basis. So they sepeculate. They adopt the play by play just like sports. They hype up the controversy. And now they make up fictional stories about the future.
The first step to beating your addiction is admitting that you have one.
Cerner, one of the largest vendors in the clinical marketplace, is porting to Java and Websphere right now. Their java base product should hit in 2006.
.net then they are tied to a M$ OS and M$ tools. By developing in Java they can run on M$, Linux, UNIX, OS/390. Their code will scale and will port when one or more of the platforms is no longer popular or effective.
Think about the reasons they would choose Java. If they go with
So you need to ask yourself. Are you targeting low hanging fruit or planning to grow and have your code grow with you?
It was meant to funny and true....maybe even irony....not flamebait. I live near a sprint co but somehow they choose not to provide DSL. My digital cable bill plus road runner is $100.
I can't get DSL.......
Dont waste your time. LDAP and eDirectory are an unstable match. Their latest patches f**ked it up even more. Search for a user over ldap and you get a response next search for the same use come back as user unknown. They have had too many years to get it right and still F**K it up.
Simple solution. Tie the use of all M$ blogs to an OS and browser that you wrote. Sure other browsers and OS may be able to view certian parts but full functionality will only work with M$ products.......
Where better to get the 1st round of canidates. Admins are going to be worse of than developers. They seem to be a more certification happy bunch. If you have your CCIE you are almost guaranteed to get drafted.....hehe
USE IPCOP ITS A FREE PROJECT
Write legal@redhat.com for a copy of their license agreement for ES or AS. I have a feeling that its mostly intimidation and not really stopping anything.
RedHat has never wanted to displace M$. If you have to argue between M$ and Linux at your place of work then you are amatures. Redhat has know that their business model works when they compete for the same business as Sun Solaris, HP UX, and IBM AIX. There they can make the argument that RedHat Linux is cheaper, more stable, and usually faster. While I think that Redhat completely screwed this up they are still a good product when compaired to the large commercial unix choices. You can not compare any Linux disto to M$. You do not deserve to run Linux if you think that its comparable to M$.
Amen, brother! You are exactly right. As an RHCE who feels screwed by RedHat's latest move, I agree with your comment: "It sure would be nice if individual developers focused some more attention on Debian GNU/Linux. Perhaps with Red Hat ceasing development (them being what rpm was originally named for), individual independant volunteer developers will think more carefully about supporting forked distros, and going back to the roots of what "Linux" really is, the Linux kernel, and all the GNU applications combined to make a workable product."
I called and they refunded mine earlier today.
I agree. I did the same thing. If I was in a room with Redhat right now I would use a line from Vin Disel in Fast and the Furious. Redhat, "YOU EMBARASS ME!"
1. Redhat set it up. Why support a company that just screwed you? Fedor is bound to be different from the Redhat Enterprise distro enough so that you can not test products that require Redhat Enterprise. 2. History. I spent to much time learning Linux and RedHat. I started at this on RedHat Linux 4.0. I know have a RHCE. If I would have picked Debian back then my knowledge would still be useful in a totally free environment and at work. Why would I want to set my self up to be screwed again? 3. Redhat has deliberately screwed its users. Think back to the release of Redhat 9. Why did they move from 8 to 9. May speculated that it was a gcc version change and it was no big deal. Todays anouncement proves that they have been planning for a long time.
If you call RedHat their customer service recorded message is still trying to sell the old business model products like RHN and RH9 Professional. NICE! A few weeks ago they sent me a nasty past due notice and I renewed my RHN account till Dec of 2004. The past due notice was because they implmented a new billing system and were sending out email notices for the first time. Kind of funny that they went and collected as much RHN dollars as possible before they made this anouncement. Only had to wait 10 minutes to get through to cancel it! I don't think keeping my RHN account is worth it for an eval copy of WS. Now what do I do with my RHCE?
Great web page. I enjoyed reading your comments. I agree that RedHat is being ridiculous. This is not a business decision. Its corporate terrorism. Mark my words. RedHat will back off on this decision to a less radical policy but that was probably their plan from the beginning. This is just a mental game they are playing. If RedHat backs off from this strategy plan then everyone is going to accept the second idea they propose and think it is a huge improvement. I think someone at RedHat has gone to the Apple Inc. School of Business. More decisions like this one and you will be nothing more that a small player in the OS industry.