You don't get it. If you have greasemonkey installed an exploit can read any world readable file on your disk - that is a lot of files.
Furthemore The files you are worried about being read are your personal files (bank data passwords etc) which are in your normal user account anyway. Do an ls -l on your home directory and see how many interesting files are world read enabled.
Most office drones that I know and work with seem to have rather simple needs on their business PC. They use Word for documents, Excel for spreadsheets, Outlook for email and IE for surfing the Web.
This seems to accurately describe the office drones I have meet at CEO, CIO, VP and director level what is higher up the food chain?
No you are not a libertarian nor is the american libertarian party or its members and supporters. They believe that the freedom of capital and property rights is supreme over the rights of individuals. They are anti-libertarian being effectively against the liberty of the individual They are just angry failed small businessmen that don't like paying taxes. "Information wants to be free" - That is not property. The fake american "libertarians" want us to be the slaves of property.
I think what he means by making longhorn obolete is to make it obsolete as a business desktop. I see IBM's strategy is to make Workplace2 and its Rich Client Platform (the RCP is based on Eclispse and is opens sourced) the basis of the corporate desktop. Being Java it is platform independant.
Corporations don't need to upgrade to Longhorn as the RCP runs on existing Win XP/2000, Linux and Macs. Plugins are delivered from central servers to give the functions that are needed on a desktop "on demand" as IBM puts it. Lonhorn just becomes unnecessary.
Listen jwz never liked Linux he is an old style Unix purist. He used to run SGI Irix on an O2 in preference to Linux. He programmed for *nixes rather than for Linux. It's not a defection from Linux it's a defection from Irix. I guess because SGI is letting Irix fall behind because of their emphasis on Linux.
There is a lot of Linux types who have moved to Apple hardware (Linus included) but they almost all install a Linux system on it - maybe keeping OSX on dual boot as a fun toy to play with. Hell I would love a powermac even an ibook, but I would have Linux running as my primary OS on it.
The situation is worse for engineering subjects than it is for the natural science . The field I did my Master's degree in (the crystallography of biological macromolecules) there are many prominent women and it is an area that requires computational competance and the ability to code. My research supervisor, a woman, later became the leading expert on massively parrallel computation for the molecular dynamics of macromolecules in Britain. She now holds the prestigous position of director of a government research council. One of the greatest mathematicians of the last century - Emmy Noether was a woman. All thoughout the numerate sciences more and more woment are coming in to leading positions.
It is only when the subject gets labelled engineering that this is not true. Engineeirng schools seem to be the place where male yahoo's predominate. In the natural sciences there seem to be be less of this kind of student and the men are more civilized - I was one.
In the US the Bush administration is dismantling what is left of the New Deal social security provisions yet through the "Patriot act" it is excercising more and more power over them.
Canada shares with the US the fact that politicians can be bought and sold like pork belly futures. The CRIA is just trying to buy the key politicians in the Canadian government the way it buys Senators in the US and our dubious security services are trying to extend their control on the back of this, just the same as in the US. In Canada it is just not quite so blatant. Due to the fact we are a Parliamentary democracy not an elective monarchy like the US, it can make the government a little more responsive to the people's wishes. But even here democracy is dying like in the US our voter turnouts are falling rapidly and are now nearly as low as the abysmal level in the US.
Though in both cases it could be seen as an active refusal to a system that is failing to deliver on the real needs of people - but maybe that's over-optimistic.
to damn right I have long been arguing that we should have a nuclear weapons program - after all Canada has only ever been invaded by one country. We whipped them then and sent them scuttling back across the border. Of course they don't tell it it that way in the U.S history books.
As someone outside IBM it seems to me that this must be in part a problem of internal accounting. If department's were forced to buy all new pc's without an operating system and then faced the choice of buying a copy of Windows to put on it or installing IBM ebiz for Linux for free, it might provide an added incentive.
It seems to me they are not pushing too hard to switch to Linux internally as they are waiting until they move from Notes to Workplace 2 a major task in itself. Then everything should become a lot more cross-platform.
Yeah ! your too damn right - the U.S. better play ball or China destroys the US dollar. Dubya better not hold a grudge becuase China paid of Bill but not him and refused to support his lunatic Iraq adventure.
Like most of the rest of the population of the world I am just sick of you american whingers.
Still it's all been said before in '77:
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
(Strummer/Jones)
Yankee soldier
He wanna shoot some skag
He met it in Cambodia
But now he can't afford a bag
Yankee dollar talk
To the dictators of the world
In fact it's giving orders
An' they can't afford to miss a word
I'm so bored with the U...S...A...
But what can I do?
Yankee detectives
Are always on the TV
'Cos killers in America
Work seven days a week
Never mind the stars and stripes
Let's print the Watergate Tapes
I'll salute the New Wave
And I hope nobody escapes
I'm so bored with the U...S...A...
But what can I do?
Move up Starsky
For the C.I.A.
Suck on Kojak
For the USA
Why should you ever have to make any decision in your life? You don't want choice, you don't want freedom, you want to be a slave, i.e. a typical american.
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Or better still buy US companies.
Alien from another country
Welcome to our hole
Just strap on a guitar
And we'll play some rock and roll
(apologies to Hugh Cornwall)
Welcome to Canada - eh!
Furthemore The files you are worried about being read are your personal files (bank data passwords etc) which are in your normal user account anyway. Do an ls -l on your home directory and see how many interesting files are world read enabled.
This seems to accurately describe the office drones I have meet at CEO, CIO, VP and director level what is higher up the food chain?
Nor have they ever installed Windows :)
Answer the German Government.
Maybe that is why the Bush regime wishes to retain control of the root servers. Makes you think !
No you are not a libertarian nor is the american libertarian party or its members and supporters. They believe that the freedom of capital and property rights is supreme over the rights of individuals. They are anti-libertarian being effectively against the liberty of the individual
They are just angry failed small businessmen that don't like paying taxes. "Information wants to be free" - That is not property. The fake american "libertarians" want us to be the slaves of property.
Corporations don't need to upgrade to Longhorn as the RCP runs on existing Win XP/2000, Linux and Macs. Plugins are delivered from central servers to give the functions that are needed on a desktop "on demand" as IBM puts it. Lonhorn just becomes unnecessary.
There is a lot of Linux types who have moved to Apple hardware (Linus included) but they almost all install a Linux system on it - maybe keeping OSX on dual boot as a fun toy to play with. Hell I would love a powermac even an ibook, but I would have Linux running as my primary OS on it.
Mathematica is a Java app - obviously no problem to port unlike native OSX apps.
No ! He talked about using Novell Desktop Linux.
No means 300,000 less downloads counted on the download counter eventually.
It is only when the subject gets labelled engineering that this is not true. Engineeirng schools seem to be the place where male yahoo's predominate. In the natural sciences there seem to be be less of this kind of student and the men are more civilized - I was one.
In the US the Bush administration is dismantling what is left of the New Deal social security provisions yet through the "Patriot act" it is excercising more and more power over them.
Canada shares with the US the fact that politicians can be bought and sold like pork belly futures. The CRIA is just trying to buy the key politicians in the Canadian government the way it buys Senators in the US and our dubious security services are trying to extend their control on the back of this, just the same as in the US. In Canada it is just not quite so blatant. Due to the fact we are a Parliamentary democracy not an elective monarchy like the US, it can make the government a little more responsive to the people's wishes. But even here democracy is dying like in the US our voter turnouts are falling rapidly and are now nearly as low as the abysmal level in the US.
Though in both cases it could be seen as an active refusal to a system that is failing to deliver on the real needs of people - but maybe that's over-optimistic.
to damn right I have long been arguing that we should have a nuclear weapons program - after all Canada has only ever been invaded by one country. We whipped them then and sent them scuttling back across the border. Of course they don't tell it it that way in the U.S history books.
"If God had to use a computer, it would be a Mac." - wrong God is a computer.
It seems to me they are not pushing too hard to switch to Linux internally as they are waiting until they move from Notes to Workplace 2 a major task in itself. Then everything should become a lot more cross-platform.
There is a much simpler way to get Windows users to upgrade to Linux - no longer update their anti-virus software.
IBM has to provide a JDK for Linux on Power now that they are selling Power servers with Linux. How else can they sell Websphere for it.
Yeah ! your too damn right - the U.S. better play ball or China destroys the US dollar. Dubya better not hold a grudge becuase China paid of Bill but not him and refused to support his lunatic Iraq adventure.
If you think the CBC is hard-left, I guess you must think that Attilla the Hun was a liberal.
Still it's all been said before in '77: I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. (Strummer/Jones) Yankee soldier He wanna shoot some skag He met it in Cambodia But now he can't afford a bag Yankee dollar talk To the dictators of the world In fact it's giving orders An' they can't afford to miss a word I'm so bored with the U...S...A... But what can I do? Yankee detectives Are always on the TV 'Cos killers in America Work seven days a week Never mind the stars and stripes Let's print the Watergate Tapes I'll salute the New Wave And I hope nobody escapes I'm so bored with the U...S...A... But what can I do? Move up Starsky For the C.I.A. Suck on Kojak For the USA
Why should you ever have to make any decision in your life? You don't want choice, you don't want freedom, you want to be a slave, i.e. a typical american.
SunOS was by fist Unix and it was great, they should have stuck with BSD