The iPad does run OSX, albeit a somewhat stripped down version of it... If you jailbreak it, you can restore the unix userland tools which apple removed.
They already have an app store, that's effectively what the package manager has been all along... I believe they are working on extending it to allow paid app purchases, while still having the benefits of centralised updating etc.
If you're going to do a costly migration, why do a costly migration to windows 7 which is just more of the same... It makes sense to think long term and migrate away from windows entirely so that you break the cycle of lock-in.
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Many people do the same with Linux or OSX, they try to use it as if it was and don't take advantage of the relative advantages...
That's the biggest problem, MS is able to release inferior products and then drive user's expectations down to match. When you tell people that they wouldn't have these problems using something else they don't believe you because it sounds "too good to be true".
Apple don't come out with anything new, they take existing and somewhat failing ideas and create far superior implementations of them... Mobile web browsing was around long before the iphone, but the iphone was the first phone with a decent usable mobile browser for instance.... Mobile phones could run apps before the iphone, but the app store makes it easy for users to find and install the apps.
Only now you've solved the terrorists' problem of how to get a gun *onto* the plane, they just need to work out how to steal it from the armed officer now. Aside from the fact that a legitimate officer would not fire his gun on a plane for fear of depressurising the aircraft.
Most ISPs won't keep logs beyond when they connected and when they disconnected, they won't log the actual traffic to show that the user connected to the first in a series of systems leading to the botnet ommand&control server... And even if they did get logged connecting to the command&control server, it would be hard to prove they were in control of it and not just another bot.
And it's all still just digitally created logfiles, trivial to forge such that a half decent lawyer would easily be able to create reasonable doubt in the jury's minds.
How conclusive is the evidence? If it's all digital log files, how do you prove they haven't been manually created? If they pick the guy up and he denies it, then what? Even if they do successfully bust him, he's a minor and likely the first time he's been caught so not much is going to happen anyway... And if you take matters into your own hands, it's likely you that will get busted for harassing a minor. But most of all the feds don't care because you aren't paying them enough to care... If you were a big company with lots of money to throw around that kid would get hauled over the coals (google for mafiaboy).
Hardware can be inexpensive, but it still incurs per unit costs to produce so can never be free... Software can be reproduced without per unit costs, so can easily be distributed for free.
The idea of "politeness" is completely artificial, and it only hurts morale because people are conditioned to think that way.
This whole idea of politeness is extremely inefficient, you don't type please when entering commands to a computer for instance, and yet the computer will still comply with your commands just fine. Programming a computer to require extra "politeness" statements appended to every command would be utterly ridiculous...
In other areas where efficiency matters, for instance in the army, when orders are issued they don't waste their time trying to be "polite"... They just issue the orders in an efficient manner, and the subordinates follow them.
Their goal has always been to ride the desire for commodity hardware and slip their proprietary software in through the back door... It worked because compared to the cost of hardware, software was irrelevant.. By the time that changed, MS were too entrenched so now people are screwed. Now they are pushing this ridiculous idea that hardware should be free and given away with expensive software, when in reality it needs to be the other way around.
Aros didn't seem all that quick (tried it on a dell latitude c610, (1.2ghz cpu and 512mb ram - it wouldnt boot on my regular desktop)... Also when trying to rebuild the OS out of curiosity when it first became self hosting, it got slower and slower until it basically froze.
Having to restart every 30 minutes is far from adequate and gives you no ability to test the long term stability...
MS gives you 180 days on their trial versions - a lot more useful than 30 minutes!
I remember the trial TCP stacks on amigaos - had the same issue, disconnected you after 30 minutes... On a slow dialup, 30 minutes wasn't enough to download anything (like another tcp stack without such limitations).
Incidentally, for those of us with old amigas, its no longer possible to register any of this software... you can download the trials, but they're useless 30 minute affairs with no way to legitimately get a full version... finding a cracked copy (and thats not very easy either) is the only option. I have an A4000 and an A3000 sitting around somewhere.
Would anyone seriously use this for anything more than the odd nostalgia kick? If this was free i might consider installing it and might use it once in a blue moon, but it certainly isn't worth 111 euros..
If i want to play with old Amiga software, i can install UAE and while i don't doubt MorphOS has some very efficient emulation code the fact that it only runs on fairly obsolete processors nullifies that advantage.
Modern Amiga software really has very little appeal, a lot of it consists of ports of open source apps (eg they got a webkit based browser quite recently) which are always several years behind the more mainstream ports.
Apple products are more open source than morphos, and they don't intentionally cripple themselves after 30 minutes (i think even microsoft is more generous than that with suspected pirate copies)...
Costs nothing Runs on a much wider array of hardware Is open source Has a much wider array of useful applications - enough to be usable on a day to day basis
And i imagine that despite the efficiency of morphos, a 2ghz g4 (does it even support the g5?) will not outperform a modern quad core system...
Cost has been the undoing of AmigaOS for many years... When i first got an Amiga, it was because the machine was relatively cheap while still being pretty capable. It was capable of gaming with the simplicity of a console, while also having an OS allowing serious and/or educational work to be done... You could buy one for your kids and they would enjoy playing games on it, but could also hook up a printer and do their school work.
However, once i started trying to get the amiga online that all fell apart... Even simple things like a tcp stack, telnet client or web browser cost money and all these costs soon added up. After a while it simply wasn't worth keeping the Amiga anymore.
More recently, i tried MorphOS on a mac mini and found it fun to play with for a few minutes, but certainly not worth 111 euro.. Same goes for AmigaOS 4, it's certainly not worth the price of the OS plus having to buy low spec but relatively expensive hardware to run it on.
Problems like this are common because reader and flash are ubiquitous, flash because it has no viable alternatives and reader because most users don't realise that there are far superior pdf viewers out there (i've even seen people install reader on macs where a far superior pdf viewer comes by default)...
The word "please" doesn't add any information to a statement, and is actually a quite ridiculous waste of (time/ink/bandwidth/whatever)... To endanger patients lives over something so trivial should be criminal. People are there to work, "politeness" is irrelevant, just do your job... Most of the people i work with on a daily basis do not add arbitrary words like "please" to their requests and it doesn't change the fact that they have made a request and it is my job to fulfil it.
That's entirely the point, on paper windows has a very impressive set of security features, but once you get down to trying to use them the cracks show...
The password hashing is trivially weak compared to what other systems have... The authentication system is tied in to the hashing algorithm so it cant easily be changed without breaking things... The authentication system is designed such that you never need to send the plain text password over the network, but you don't need the plain text password - you can just use the hash (google for hash spraying or the windows auth model is broken)... Many of the group policy restrictions are implemented in userland applications and are easily bypassed... Windows and its associated network protocols are extremely complex (greater complexity leads to greater chance of bugs) and in those network protocols there is often no clear demarcation between what functions can be accessed pre-auth and whats available post-auth... RDP for instance establishes a full gui session *before* you log in meaning any of those gui functions are open to attack by unauthenticated attackers... File extensions are used to differentiate between types of file and wether a file can be executed or not, although windows does implement execute permissions through acls they usually allow execute by default. a remote web/ftp/whatever server can control the filename but not the permissions... The complexity of the windows security system means that very few people try to use it fully, and those who do need to expend significant effort to get things working with it. Because so few people harden their systems in this way, very few applications are designed to run in such an environment and many simply don't. Windows is generally not modular, so removing things you don't need is far more difficult than it should be, win2k8 has gone some way in this regard but its still a long way from the package managed modularity of linux. Windows has a very messy filesystem layout, files are randomly lumped together in the windows and system32 dirs, unix has a far more sensible design which lets you do things like keep core parts of the system on read-only media.
Windows is an unholy over complicated mess, consisting of parts of a relatively well designed OS (NT), merged with parts of an extremely poorly designed OS (win9x) and various poorly designed subsystems on top...
Unix on the other hand keeps it simple, its easy to know exactly whats going on with a unix system, and the more you understand about a system the better you can monitor and harden it.
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The iPad does run OSX, albeit a somewhat stripped down version of it...
If you jailbreak it, you can restore the unix userland tools which apple removed.
They already have an app store, that's effectively what the package manager has been all along... I believe they are working on extending it to allow paid app purchases, while still having the benefits of centralised updating etc.
If you're going to do a costly migration, why do a costly migration to windows 7 which is just more of the same... It makes sense to think long term and migrate away from windows entirely so that you break the cycle of lock-in.
Many people do the same with Linux or OSX, they try to use it as if it was and don't take advantage of the relative advantages...
That's the biggest problem, MS is able to release inferior products and then drive user's expectations down to match. When you tell people that they wouldn't have these problems using something else they don't believe you because it sounds "too good to be true".
Why? phones have had vibrators, which are moving parts, for quite some time...
Apple don't come out with anything new, they take existing and somewhat failing ideas and create far superior implementations of them...
Mobile web browsing was around long before the iphone, but the iphone was the first phone with a decent usable mobile browser for instance.... Mobile phones could run apps before the iphone, but the app store makes it easy for users to find and install the apps.
Only now you've solved the terrorists' problem of how to get a gun *onto* the plane, they just need to work out how to steal it from the armed officer now.
Aside from the fact that a legitimate officer would not fire his gun on a plane for fear of depressurising the aircraft.
Most ISPs won't keep logs beyond when they connected and when they disconnected, they won't log the actual traffic to show that the user connected to the first in a series of systems leading to the botnet ommand&control server...
And even if they did get logged connecting to the command&control server, it would be hard to prove they were in control of it and not just another bot.
And it's all still just digitally created logfiles, trivial to forge such that a half decent lawyer would easily be able to create reasonable doubt in the jury's minds.
And most attacks of this kind are using spoofed packets, so finding the actual nodes in the first place can be quite difficult.
How conclusive is the evidence?
If it's all digital log files, how do you prove they haven't been manually created? If they pick the guy up and he denies it, then what? Even if they do successfully bust him, he's a minor and likely the first time he's been caught so not much is going to happen anyway... And if you take matters into your own hands, it's likely you that will get busted for harassing a minor.
But most of all the feds don't care because you aren't paying them enough to care... If you were a big company with lots of money to throw around that kid would get hauled over the coals (google for mafiaboy).
Hardware can be inexpensive, but it still incurs per unit costs to produce so can never be free...
Software can be reproduced without per unit costs, so can easily be distributed for free.
The idea of "politeness" is completely artificial, and it only hurts morale because people are conditioned to think that way.
This whole idea of politeness is extremely inefficient, you don't type please when entering commands to a computer for instance, and yet the computer will still comply with your commands just fine. Programming a computer to require extra "politeness" statements appended to every command would be utterly ridiculous...
In other areas where efficiency matters, for instance in the army, when orders are issued they don't waste their time trying to be "polite"... They just issue the orders in an efficient manner, and the subordinates follow them.
Their goal has always been to ride the desire for commodity hardware and slip their proprietary software in through the back door... It worked because compared to the cost of hardware, software was irrelevant.. By the time that changed, MS were too entrenched so now people are screwed.
Now they are pushing this ridiculous idea that hardware should be free and given away with expensive software, when in reality it needs to be the other way around.
Aros didn't seem all that quick (tried it on a dell latitude c610, (1.2ghz cpu and 512mb ram - it wouldnt boot on my regular desktop)... Also when trying to rebuild the OS out of curiosity when it first became self hosting, it got slower and slower until it basically froze.
Having to restart every 30 minutes is far from adequate and gives you no ability to test the long term stability...
MS gives you 180 days on their trial versions - a lot more useful than 30 minutes!
I remember the trial TCP stacks on amigaos - had the same issue, disconnected you after 30 minutes... On a slow dialup, 30 minutes wasn't enough to download anything (like another tcp stack without such limitations).
Incidentally, for those of us with old amigas, its no longer possible to register any of this software... you can download the trials, but they're useless 30 minute affairs with no way to legitimately get a full version... finding a cracked copy (and thats not very easy either) is the only option. I have an A4000 and an A3000 sitting around somewhere.
Would anyone seriously use this for anything more than the odd nostalgia kick?
If this was free i might consider installing it and might use it once in a blue moon, but it certainly isn't worth 111 euros..
If i want to play with old Amiga software, i can install UAE and while i don't doubt MorphOS has some very efficient emulation code the fact that it only runs on fairly obsolete processors nullifies that advantage.
Modern Amiga software really has very little appeal, a lot of it consists of ports of open source apps (eg they got a webkit based browser quite recently) which are always several years behind the more mainstream ports.
Apple products are more open source than morphos, and they don't intentionally cripple themselves after 30 minutes (i think even microsoft is more generous than that with suspected pirate copies)...
Unlike MorphOS, Linux:
Costs nothing
Runs on a much wider array of hardware
Is open source
Has a much wider array of useful applications - enough to be usable on a day to day basis
And i imagine that despite the efficiency of morphos, a 2ghz g4 (does it even support the g5?) will not outperform a modern quad core system...
Cost has been the undoing of AmigaOS for many years...
When i first got an Amiga, it was because the machine was relatively cheap while still being pretty capable. It was capable of gaming with the simplicity of a console, while also having an OS allowing serious and/or educational work to be done... You could buy one for your kids and they would enjoy playing games on it, but could also hook up a printer and do their school work.
However, once i started trying to get the amiga online that all fell apart... Even simple things like a tcp stack, telnet client or web browser cost money and all these costs soon added up. After a while it simply wasn't worth keeping the Amiga anymore.
More recently, i tried MorphOS on a mac mini and found it fun to play with for a few minutes, but certainly not worth 111 euro.. Same goes for AmigaOS 4, it's certainly not worth the price of the OS plus having to buy low spec but relatively expensive hardware to run it on.
Problems like this are common because reader and flash are ubiquitous, flash because it has no viable alternatives and reader because most users don't realise that there are far superior pdf viewers out there (i've even seen people install reader on macs where a far superior pdf viewer comes by default)...
The word "please" doesn't add any information to a statement, and is actually a quite ridiculous waste of (time/ink/bandwidth/whatever)...
To endanger patients lives over something so trivial should be criminal. People are there to work, "politeness" is irrelevant, just do your job... Most of the people i work with on a daily basis do not add arbitrary words like "please" to their requests and it doesn't change the fact that they have made a request and it is my job to fulfil it.
Yes they do:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36299/discuss
And then people take these bad habits to work, where that computer is now in an open plan office that many people have access to...
That's entirely the point, on paper windows has a very impressive set of security features, but once you get down to trying to use them the cracks show...
The password hashing is trivially weak compared to what other systems have...
The authentication system is tied in to the hashing algorithm so it cant easily be changed without breaking things...
The authentication system is designed such that you never need to send the plain text password over the network, but you don't need the plain text password - you can just use the hash (google for hash spraying or the windows auth model is broken)...
Many of the group policy restrictions are implemented in userland applications and are easily bypassed...
Windows and its associated network protocols are extremely complex (greater complexity leads to greater chance of bugs) and in those network protocols there is often no clear demarcation between what functions can be accessed pre-auth and whats available post-auth... RDP for instance establishes a full gui session *before* you log in meaning any of those gui functions are open to attack by unauthenticated attackers...
File extensions are used to differentiate between types of file and wether a file can be executed or not, although windows does implement execute permissions through acls they usually allow execute by default. a remote web/ftp/whatever server can control the filename but not the permissions...
The complexity of the windows security system means that very few people try to use it fully, and those who do need to expend significant effort to get things working with it. Because so few people harden their systems in this way, very few applications are designed to run in such an environment and many simply don't.
Windows is generally not modular, so removing things you don't need is far more difficult than it should be, win2k8 has gone some way in this regard but its still a long way from the package managed modularity of linux.
Windows has a very messy filesystem layout, files are randomly lumped together in the windows and system32 dirs, unix has a far more sensible design which lets you do things like keep core parts of the system on read-only media.
Windows is an unholy over complicated mess, consisting of parts of a relatively well designed OS (NT), merged with parts of an extremely poorly designed OS (win9x) and various poorly designed subsystems on top...
Unix on the other hand keeps it simple, its easy to know exactly whats going on with a unix system, and the more you understand about a system the better you can monitor and harden it.