So 348 billion ntlm/sec, vs 77 million md5crypt/sec... ntlm as used in the latest versions of windows (vista was the first version to not use lm by default), and md5crypt which is already being deprecated by most linux distros...
Not that it matters, if you get the hashes for a windows box you can pass the hash (ie use it without cracking), you can't do that against typical unix boxes.
How exactly would they save on upkeep costs in the long run? Whoever they lease the building from is going to want the building properly maintained (especially considering nokia aren't likely to be around very long, so they will need to find replacement tenants soon), as well as making a profit from leasing it out,
Which at the time was not free, and could not render many of the broken sites designed specifically for ie... The fact that it was the sites that were broken and not the browser didn't matter to users, they blamed the browser.
Better browsers were out for quite some time before firefox started gaining traction, and most of that was not because firefox was a better browser but because ie was a massive security hole and people were getting owned with drive by exploits on a regular basis.
This won't reduce costs, day to day costs will increase as they will now be leasing the building and the new owners will want to profit from doing so, it will just give them a temporary injection of cash.
Protection on what recipents can do with mail you send (yes, can be useful in business context)
Like DRM, client side security... "features" like this are extremely dangerous because it makes people think they actually work and can't be trivially bypassed.
All of these depend on your uses... Do you require the paid for premium features of Zimbra or Zarafa? Exchange costs money even if you are using it purely as a basic email server (which a lot of places do, and it sucks very very badly at this job)...
Personally i have used both and find them greatly preferable, especially in an environment where you have any non windows clients... Exchange has poor imap support and no support for caldav or carddav, leaving anyone not running outlook with a second class experience. Also being able to back up all your data in a standardised way rather than requiring exchange-specific backup tools...
Putting the word "enterprise" before a piece of software makes me think that the software will be extremely expensive, bloated, designed to lock you in and horrendously buggy with no hope of ever getting those bugs fixed, and you will have to hire very expensive consultants to configure it and implement kludgy workarounds to all the bugs...
That's been my experience of "enterprise" applications anyway.
Worst case it will cause customers to stick with their older version of MS products for longer than they would have otherwise. Corporate customers are locked in so they will accept whatever shafting MS wants to give them.
As you say, corporations these days are only concerned with short term profits, and breaking the MS lockin while hugely beneficial in the long term, is very costly in the short term.
They will also consider that MS have raised the prices their competitors have to pay too, so they are not at a disadvantage relative to the competition.
Sure you can't run MSSQL on Linux, but you can run Postgres, MySQL, Oracle and DB2 just fine... Sure you can't run exchange, but there are plenty of alternatives many of which are a lot better. And an AD domain is only of any use if you have lots of windows machines, and even then its a security nightmare.
These are applications that noone *needs*, noone depends on, don't hold your data to ransom and just provide casual entertainment... Just keep them appropriately sandboxed away from any of your important data.
DRM is a separate issue, and a ridiculous one... Sooner or later they will realise it just doesn't and cannot work, and all they achieve is to irritate their paying customers while making the pirate copies more attractive.
You do make a good point however, code to software should always be made available even if under restrictive terms. I want to see how things work, debug problems and perhaps make minor changes or fix bugs for my own use.
These cars are not really designed purely for the quarter mile... They are designed to be able to handle round a track or a rally circuit rather than just go for straight line speed.
You can buy high-dpi displays from IBM and various others, they have been around for quite a long time and are no more proprietary than any other screen, they are just very expensive (far more expensive than apple)... Take a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors for instance
Check that X11 has worked out the correct DPI of the display, not all displays pass this information through correctly and i'm not sure if virtual machines do... You can see the current dpi by using xdpyinfo.
X11 itself is pretty good at resolution independence, but individual apps using bitmapped graphics all over the place are not.
I predict this will bomb, developers will simply buy the windows version and install their own version of ubuntu on it saving themselves $50... What possible reason could anyone have for paying $50 more for the exact same hardware?
And similarly, those paying the most often receive the least... I have seen all manner of extremely expensive products which are horribly buggy and with extremely expensive but ultimately useless support. I'm sure many of these free applications are installed by very expensive consultants, who charge a fortune and then wander off leaving their customer in the lurch. On the other hand, im sure there are competent consultants out there too who have installed the product for their clients and are more than capable of supporting it themselves.
While i agree with you 100%, some people just don't like email or live chat and will insist on calling, even if just calling to make you painstakingly confirm what you already told them via email...
Also depending on what your product is, email might not be available - what if the product you need support on is the mail server or router?
Let them enter the account number into the program at install time, so that all users of the program at that company have access to a "click here for support information" button which displays the contact details as well as instructions and the account number.
I do buy DRM-free media if it's available, the problem is that in many cases it's simply not available to buy - the only source of DRM-free media is warez groups.
We had non DRM rentals before in the form of VHS and VCD... We could copy our VHS tapes if we wanted, most people didn't anyway.
Now rentals are encumbered with DRM, those people who copied VHS tapes now crack the DRM while many of us who used to pay for VHS tapes now pirate because we detest the idea of DRM.
To reiterate, i will only pay for and/or put up with commercials on DRM-free media, if the content is encumbered with DRM i will either acquire a pirate copy where the DRM has been removed (and the commercials too as an f-you) or do without the content at all so you will never make any money from me so long as you try to force evils like DRM on me.
(and yes i do have a large collection of bought and paid for VHS tapes and audio CDs)
DRM will always be circumvented if there is any interest in doing so, it is purely security through obscurity... If the device is capable of decoding and displaying the stream then it's also capable of recording it and it's only a matter of someone working out how.
If such DRM hasn't been cracked already it's because noone has bothered, and why would they? The movies and tv shows on netflix are old and generally of inferior quality to high definition broadcast tv or bluray media, so the pirates will source their media from these sources instead. If silverlight drm encumbered files were the only or highest quality source of major films and tv shows then you can guarantee it would be cracked pretty quickly.
Regular TV is broadcast in a standard format that can be received on any compatible device, where the specifications required for compatibility are openly available for anyone to implement. VHS was the same...
Now media is delivered in drm-encumbered proprietary formats, all in the name of "preventing piracy", however piracy is now more common than ever.
I used to buy movies on VHS and/or watch them on broadcast TV, but if you try to force me to use a proprietary device to watch tv i will just find superior alternatives instead that can be viewed on devices of my choice.
The warez versions are massively superior to what netflix offers:
- you can watch the files on any device thats physically capable with no arbitrary restrictions - you can download at any time and watch later (eg if you have bandwidth caps during the day but not at night, or want to watch on a portable device)
I would pay for a legit service which offered the same quality of service as warez, but since such a service isn't available i can't... Those services which are available are clearly inferior and entirely unusable for me.
So instead of implementing SSH like everyone else, they create their own crufty proprietary protocol which is clearly far less secure than ssh if it needs to be run over a vpn... That's ridiculous, ssh is ubiquitous by now and very powerful, its stupid to come up with something else non standard.
Actually if the hardware is consistent (amiga, older games consoles etc) then drivers are unimportant too, since your game can program the hardware directly.. Doing so can result in significantly better performance due to eliminating the overhead of drivers, and was all but essential a few years ago when hardware was considerably slower.
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So 348 billion ntlm/sec, vs 77 million md5crypt/sec...
ntlm as used in the latest versions of windows (vista was the first version to not use lm by default), and md5crypt which is already being deprecated by most linux distros...
Not that it matters, if you get the hashes for a windows box you can pass the hash (ie use it without cracking), you can't do that against typical unix boxes.
How exactly would they save on upkeep costs in the long run?
Whoever they lease the building from is going to want the building properly maintained (especially considering nokia aren't likely to be around very long, so they will need to find replacement tenants soon), as well as making a profit from leasing it out,
Which at the time was not free, and could not render many of the broken sites designed specifically for ie... The fact that it was the sites that were broken and not the browser didn't matter to users, they blamed the browser.
Better browsers were out for quite some time before firefox started gaining traction, and most of that was not because firefox was a better browser but because ie was a massive security hole and people were getting owned with drive by exploits on a regular basis.
This won't reduce costs, day to day costs will increase as they will now be leasing the building and the new owners will want to profit from doing so, it will just give them a temporary injection of cash.
Protection on what recipents can do with mail you send (yes, can be useful in business context)
Like DRM, client side security... "features" like this are extremely dangerous because it makes people think they actually work and can't be trivially bypassed.
All of these depend on your uses...
Do you require the paid for premium features of Zimbra or Zarafa? Exchange costs money even if you are using it purely as a basic email server (which a lot of places do, and it sucks very very badly at this job)...
Personally i have used both and find them greatly preferable, especially in an environment where you have any non windows clients... Exchange has poor imap support and no support for caldav or carddav, leaving anyone not running outlook with a second class experience. Also being able to back up all your data in a standardised way rather than requiring exchange-specific backup tools...
Putting the word "enterprise" before a piece of software makes me think that the software will be extremely expensive, bloated, designed to lock you in and horrendously buggy with no hope of ever getting those bugs fixed, and you will have to hire very expensive consultants to configure it and implement kludgy workarounds to all the bugs...
That's been my experience of "enterprise" applications anyway.
Not dumb at all...
Worst case it will cause customers to stick with their older version of MS products for longer than they would have otherwise. Corporate customers are locked in so they will accept whatever shafting MS wants to give them.
As you say, corporations these days are only concerned with short term profits, and breaking the MS lockin while hugely beneficial in the long term, is very costly in the short term.
They will also consider that MS have raised the prices their competitors have to pay too, so they are not at a disadvantage relative to the competition.
And why would it?
Sure you can't run MSSQL on Linux, but you can run Postgres, MySQL, Oracle and DB2 just fine...
Sure you can't run exchange, but there are plenty of alternatives many of which are a lot better.
And an AD domain is only of any use if you have lots of windows machines, and even then its a security nightmare.
For most applications i would agree, but games?
These are applications that noone *needs*, noone depends on, don't hold your data to ransom and just provide casual entertainment... Just keep them appropriately sandboxed away from any of your important data.
DRM is a separate issue, and a ridiculous one... Sooner or later they will realise it just doesn't and cannot work, and all they achieve is to irritate their paying customers while making the pirate copies more attractive.
You do make a good point however, code to software should always be made available even if under restrictive terms. I want to see how things work, debug problems and perhaps make minor changes or fix bugs for my own use.
These cars are not really designed purely for the quarter mile... They are designed to be able to handle round a track or a rally circuit rather than just go for straight line speed.
You can buy high-dpi displays from IBM and various others, they have been around for quite a long time and are no more proprietary than any other screen, they are just very expensive (far more expensive than apple)...
Take a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors for instance
Check that X11 has worked out the correct DPI of the display, not all displays pass this information through correctly and i'm not sure if virtual machines do...
You can see the current dpi by using xdpyinfo.
X11 itself is pretty good at resolution independence, but individual apps using bitmapped graphics all over the place are not.
I predict this will bomb, developers will simply buy the windows version and install their own version of ubuntu on it saving themselves $50... What possible reason could anyone have for paying $50 more for the exact same hardware?
A printer still needs to report feedback, such as toner levels, problems like paper jams, success/failure of a job etc.
And similarly, those paying the most often receive the least... I have seen all manner of extremely expensive products which are horribly buggy and with extremely expensive but ultimately useless support.
I'm sure many of these free applications are installed by very expensive consultants, who charge a fortune and then wander off leaving their customer in the lurch. On the other hand, im sure there are competent consultants out there too who have installed the product for their clients and are more than capable of supporting it themselves.
While i agree with you 100%, some people just don't like email or live chat and will insist on calling, even if just calling to make you painstakingly confirm what you already told them via email...
Also depending on what your product is, email might not be available - what if the product you need support on is the mail server or router?
Let them enter the account number into the program at install time, so that all users of the program at that company have access to a "click here for support information" button which displays the contact details as well as instructions and the account number.
I do buy DRM-free media if it's available, the problem is that in many cases it's simply not available to buy - the only source of DRM-free media is warez groups.
We had non DRM rentals before in the form of VHS and VCD...
We could copy our VHS tapes if we wanted, most people didn't anyway.
Now rentals are encumbered with DRM, those people who copied VHS tapes now crack the DRM while many of us who used to pay for VHS tapes now pirate because we detest the idea of DRM.
To reiterate, i will only pay for and/or put up with commercials on DRM-free media, if the content is encumbered with DRM i will either acquire a pirate copy where the DRM has been removed (and the commercials too as an f-you) or do without the content at all so you will never make any money from me so long as you try to force evils like DRM on me.
(and yes i do have a large collection of bought and paid for VHS tapes and audio CDs)
DRM will always be circumvented if there is any interest in doing so, it is purely security through obscurity... If the device is capable of decoding and displaying the stream then it's also capable of recording it and it's only a matter of someone working out how.
If such DRM hasn't been cracked already it's because noone has bothered, and why would they? The movies and tv shows on netflix are old and generally of inferior quality to high definition broadcast tv or bluray media, so the pirates will source their media from these sources instead. If silverlight drm encumbered files were the only or highest quality source of major films and tv shows then you can guarantee it would be cracked pretty quickly.
Regular TV is broadcast in a standard format that can be received on any compatible device, where the specifications required for compatibility are openly available for anyone to implement.
VHS was the same...
Now media is delivered in drm-encumbered proprietary formats, all in the name of "preventing piracy", however piracy is now more common than ever.
I used to buy movies on VHS and/or watch them on broadcast TV, but if you try to force me to use a proprietary device to watch tv i will just find superior alternatives instead that can be viewed on devices of my choice.
The warez versions are massively superior to what netflix offers:
- you can watch the files on any device thats physically capable with no arbitrary restrictions
- you can download at any time and watch later (eg if you have bandwidth caps during the day but not at night, or want to watch on a portable device)
I would pay for a legit service which offered the same quality of service as warez, but since such a service isn't available i can't... Those services which are available are clearly inferior and entirely unusable for me.
So instead of implementing SSH like everyone else, they create their own crufty proprietary protocol which is clearly far less secure than ssh if it needs to be run over a vpn...
That's ridiculous, ssh is ubiquitous by now and very powerful, its stupid to come up with something else non standard.
Actually if the hardware is consistent (amiga, older games consoles etc) then drivers are unimportant too, since your game can program the hardware directly.. Doing so can result in significantly better performance due to eliminating the overhead of drivers, and was all but essential a few years ago when hardware was considerably slower.