What is a fair price for a cd?
1. Music is life, it's immeasurable
2. I am happy with the current price
3. Cut the price in half
4. $3
5. $1
6. FREE
7. charge it to CowboyNeal
Re:Not dead, just unstable and insecure....
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Unix Isn't Dead
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Do note that he says:
"The competitive choice to Windows 2000, back when ARGO was choosing an
operating system platform, would have been Unix. The Unix platform has more recently
morphed into the Linux platform, Linux being the "industry standard" version of Unix, so
we can compare Windows 2000 to Unix/Linux."
He is very careful not to lump together all versions of windows, yet he lumps together all versions of unix. If he really intended to only be talking about a single version of unix, he should have made that clear. But he didn't. Isn't it nice how he says "back when" they were choosing competition for windows 2000 there was only unix. And it has "more recently morphed into the Linux platform". Doesn't it sound like way back when windows 2000 came out, there was no linux. Or that linux JUST came out recently.
Not dead, just unstable and insecure....
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Unix Isn't Dead
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at least compared to windows. Just read this article.
"Windows NT was redesigned from the ground up to have reliability, scalability,
and security. Windows 2000 builds on the Windows NT base, not the Windows
95/98/ME base. It should be no surprise, then, that Windows 2000 has proven itself to be
much more reliable than either Unix or Windows 95/98/ME."
"In short, the Windows 9X [95/98/ME] operating system was not designed for
today's networking environments... Unix, which was developed by and for
scientific researchers and computer scientists, was not designed with security in
mind either..."
No, I don't believe this FUD, I just can't believe some of the crap that people say...
Microsoft has released source code to their.NET CLI for Windows XP and FreeBSD. It has been released under their shared source license. Article and download available here.
I am a (java)developer, so this is a huge deal to me. I submitted it to slashdot yesterday and it was rejected. It is posted over on kuro5shin somewhere. I would think this would be VERY helpful for the mono team.
And even in the case of 80% (or so) of developers it's useless. For any given piece software that is sufficiently complex, it takes a lot of effort just to learn the code to be able to modify it. If you were given the code for ms word, how many developers have the time to go through it and attempt to modify it? Not many.
My company recently ran into this same thing. We dedicated resources to looking into ways to make our java code more difficult to decompile. I brought up the fact that they were wasting their time. Why? Because our product is quite large. If someone were to decompile it they would spend months trying to document the overrall design and engineering behind it, to the point where they would be competent enough to modify it or use it. Even with complete documentation and source code, it takes a long time for someone to be able to grasp the whole system.
``However, it shows that virus writers are paying close attention to the new.NET architecture from Microsoft and are attempting to understand the framework that eventually will be available on most systems,'' Symantec said.
Seems like we may need to check the symantec domain for votes in the.NET voting.
One day a crowded network with plenty of users. The next day a competitive market struggling just to keep going. Granted, the causes of these things are different, but the result is likely to be the same. Pull the plug and the majority will not be coming back...
10. Assume nothing.
Question all assumptions and choices you make when you develop software. It's very hard not to be shortsighted. So it's really good to get other people to assess your design and help you with risk analysis. Something that goes along with this is: Never trust security claims people make. Computer security these days is chock full of snake oil.
For one, who the hell is this guy? What qualifications or experience does he have that make him a security expert? I could care less about his doctorate or his java security book. Security has nothing to do with a programming language. You can write secure, or insecure programs in any language. As Bruce Schneier says, security is a process, not a product.
Let's assume we take all the authors advice and read his book. Write some "secure" software that meet his requirements and for all intents and purposes the software is "secure". Now take this piece of secure software and put it in an insecure environment. With no physical security, no network security, no security policies in place to use the software, etc. Suddenly your "secure" software is not secure anymore. So obviously, the problem is not software. Perfectly secure software will not solve security problems.
Let's use an example. Let's say somebody keeps breaking in my front door. I add locks and chains and somebody keeps getting in. So I go out and spend $10k on a front door that is bulletproof and guaranteed to be secure. Haha, I've got them now. The next day, they break my window and walk climb through. The door was just the easiest way to break in. Secure the door and there will be another weakness. The problem is much bigger than just the software.
In the same way you should not trust a newly invented crypto algorithm, you should not trust some random joe blow's opinion who got published on cnet.
It will probably work well until your fan happens to go out, then it catches your house on fire. Are they selling fire extinguishers with these things? Or case smoke detectors?
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If you read the article, it wasn't Oracle who should be blamed for this. It was the sales people from Logicon Inc who scammed them.
What is a fair price for a cd?
1. Music is life, it's immeasurable
2. I am happy with the current price
3. Cut the price in half
4. $3
5. $1
6. FREE
7. charge it to CowboyNeal
WOW, look how much money I can save! Thanks to the authors guild for bringing this excellent service to my attention!
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Do note that he says:
"The competitive choice to Windows 2000, back when ARGO was choosing an operating system platform, would have been Unix. The Unix platform has more recently morphed into the Linux platform, Linux being the "industry standard" version of Unix, so we can compare Windows 2000 to Unix/Linux."
He is very careful not to lump together all versions of windows, yet he lumps together all versions of unix. If he really intended to only be talking about a single version of unix, he should have made that clear. But he didn't. Isn't it nice how he says "back when" they were choosing competition for windows 2000 there was only unix. And it has "more recently morphed into the Linux platform". Doesn't it sound like way back when windows 2000 came out, there was no linux. Or that linux JUST came out recently.
at least compared to windows. Just read this article.
"Windows NT was redesigned from the ground up to have reliability, scalability, and security. Windows 2000 builds on the Windows NT base, not the Windows 95/98/ME base. It should be no surprise, then, that Windows 2000 has proven itself to be much more reliable than either Unix or Windows 95/98/ME."
"In short, the Windows 9X [95/98/ME] operating system was not designed for today's networking environments... Unix, which was developed by and for scientific researchers and computer scientists, was not designed with security in mind either..."
No, I don't believe this FUD, I just can't believe some of the crap that people say...
Microsoft has released source code to their .NET CLI for Windows XP and FreeBSD. It has been released under their shared source license. Article and download available here.
I am a (java)developer, so this is a huge deal to me. I submitted it to slashdot yesterday and it was rejected. It is posted over on kuro5shin somewhere. I would think this would be VERY helpful for the mono team.
The article is now on Yahoo. I hope the truth gets out to everyone about what the cult that the CoS is!
Are here and here. It looks like not everyone is buying into the hype of this thing.
You can still vote on this poll here
The story points back to a story previously on slashdot
And even in the case of 80% (or so) of developers it's useless. For any given piece software that is sufficiently complex, it takes a lot of effort just to learn the code to be able to modify it. If you were given the code for ms word, how many developers have the time to go through it and attempt to modify it? Not many.
My company recently ran into this same thing. We dedicated resources to looking into ways to make our java code more difficult to decompile. I brought up the fact that they were wasting their time. Why? Because our product is quite large. If someone were to decompile it they would spend months trying to document the overrall design and engineering behind it, to the point where they would be competent enough to modify it or use it. Even with complete documentation and source code, it takes a long time for someone to be able to grasp the whole system.
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http://www.geocities.com/heavenstrash/gnomeicon.j
Can be found here. In the article, Sklyarov comments about copyright laws, the prison system and about his background.
Here, symantec states:
.NET architecture from Microsoft and are attempting to understand the framework that eventually will be available on most systems,'' Symantec said.
.NET voting.
``However, it shows that virus writers are paying close attention to the new
Seems like we may need to check the symantec domain for votes in the
Jihad of Death
has found the following phrase:
"!seineeW era tnemnrevoG SU"
I don't really care how they got started, they should ban that damn thong song!
Let me see that thong, thong, tha, thong, thong, tha, thong... t
One day a crowded network with plenty of users. The next day a competitive market struggling just to keep going. Granted, the causes of these things are different, but the result is likely to be the same. Pull the plug and the majority will not be coming back...
You should take your own advice:
10. Assume nothing. Question all assumptions and choices you make when you develop software. It's very hard not to be shortsighted. So it's really good to get other people to assess your design and help you with risk analysis. Something that goes along with this is: Never trust security claims people make. Computer security these days is chock full of snake oil.
For one, who the hell is this guy? What qualifications or experience does he have that make him a security expert? I could care less about his doctorate or his java security book. Security has nothing to do with a programming language. You can write secure, or insecure programs in any language. As Bruce Schneier says, security is a process, not a product.
Let's assume we take all the authors advice and read his book. Write some "secure" software that meet his requirements and for all intents and purposes the software is "secure". Now take this piece of secure software and put it in an insecure environment. With no physical security, no network security, no security policies in place to use the software, etc. Suddenly your "secure" software is not secure anymore. So obviously, the problem is not software. Perfectly secure software will not solve security problems.
Let's use an example. Let's say somebody keeps breaking in my front door. I add locks and chains and somebody keeps getting in. So I go out and spend $10k on a front door that is bulletproof and guaranteed to be secure. Haha, I've got them now. The next day, they break my window and walk climb through. The door was just the easiest way to break in. Secure the door and there will be another weakness. The problem is much bigger than just the software.
In the same way you should not trust a newly invented crypto algorithm, you should not trust some random joe blow's opinion who got published on cnet.
Redhat will also be responsible for cleaning up the linux graffiti ads that IBM did in SF. That's not my definition of "linux support"
There is probably an AMD processor with a burnt out fan or a heatsink that slid over. Be careful with these things.
It will probably work well until your fan happens to go out, then it catches your house on fire. Are they selling fire extinguishers with these things? Or case smoke detectors?
Asta La Vista Altavista. I too jumped ship and I am now a googler.