Follow the rules. Tell your boss that your phone is really a tool for you, but don't put too much effort on changing their minds. Divert the alerts to your email and do the best you can to minimize the problems of not having your phone.
If your phone is as critical for you as you think, and it probably is, your boss will notice that something has changed after certain amount of downtime. If it will cost something for the company, hopefully not too much, it will be a lesson from which they will learn.
Hopefully companies like Intel will start to realize that Desktop Linux is here[...]
Where are you exactly?
[...]decision makers & influencer's in IT make up a significant portion of the desktop linux populous.
Stop ranting and do something about it - use your power as a decision maker and choose products from some other company. If there are so many of us, we'll see Intel's crashing and burining before end of this year - after that they'll probably only write drivers for linux, ignoring all other platforms, because that's the only way to keep decision makers happy.
Or could it be so that in reality Linux on desktop is still more curiosity than anything else?
If Linux usage becomes more wide spread among users with little knowledge in computers, networks and security, we might see similar problems in Linux in the future.
There is absolutelty nothing to protect your system from clueless superuser.
Restrictive default settings are good as long as the are not too restrictive. If the defaults are too restrictive users tend to allow everything.
I would rather suggest that you block all outbound traffic that is not destined to trusted servers. All dropped connections are logged for later analysis.
Of course there are scenarios in which this cannot be implemented. Also it's not a fool proof solution, as some of the spy/ad/malware may (will) use http proxy sending back the gatherred information.
There is a big difference, Microsoft presents search page for incorrectly type domain names in URLs. I think that the URL is the key here.
In this case Microsoft got it right, they only redirect you to their search page if you type incorrect URL in web browsers address bar - not when you try to resolve any domain name.
IMHO, VeriSign approach is sadly suggesting that DNS is only used by browsers and email.
"[...] the ability to also carry cargo, or additional functions besides crew transport, would eat into the vehicle's safety margin."
There are different aspects to take in account when you design transportation system for cargo, than there would be for personel carrier.
Probably it is cheaper/easier to build ship which can safely lift crew to orbit as long as it doesn't need to take anything else. Still, it's cheaper to build shuttle/plane for cargo, when you know that you don't have to build any life support systems into it.
But hell, what would I know. I'm not a rocket scientist.
No sexy PR means no funding from congress. Forget that the money might have been spent on a probe to detect gravity waves and thus discover the fundamental nature of the universe.
It's true that PR eats part of the funding but even if they would use 90% of the funding for PR stunts and total BS and only 10% for 'real' science, still the share that goes for real science is much larger than the funding it would otherwise get.
"Maybe it (manned space flights)will be cheaper in the (very) distant future"
How do you think it'll get cheaper, if it aint done now?
I think that people on board manned space flights should be considered as a part of the experiment. You simply cannot simulate the environment of the flight to Mars on the surface of Earth.
Technological advances are only possible after enough research is done. In this case, IMHO, people onboard are part of the research - no way getting around it.
One aspect is always that for media coverage it's not sexy enough to shoot couple of bots to orbit. Audience (excluding/. readers) wants to see people.
VM space has no effective limitation for the forseable future
In this context, what do you mean by "forseable future" ? 5 years, 10 or maybe 15 years ?
It's not that long ago, when people said that "640KB should be enough for everyone". And at that time, probably no one could imagine that we would have 1GB+ of memory on a normal PC (neither did we imagine to have 300GB+ disk space on the same PC).
The computer techs shouldn't need to know the business.
The business or 'customer' should clearly specify their requirements. The techs should build it.
I disagree. Techs should know about the business. It might be possible to provide a 'fix' to a problem or a solution without knoledge of the business, but to provide a true, elegant solution, you have to see the big picture.
It is true that customer (internal or external) should provide good specs, but techs should be able to recommed possible changes when they see that the request is conflicting with some existing components, or when techs know that there is a way to adjust the request in a way that it's more beneficial to customer. If techs know nothing about the business it self, it could be hard to suggest any changes.
And yes, I work also in design and I hate to implement stupid requests, though they are formally ok with very well detailed goals. That's why I sometimes suggest some changes.
And the easy solution to these Outlook Worms is to QUIT USING OUTLOOK.
At home, pine is enough for me, but at the office it's a different thing.
There are lot's of companies out there who are using Outlook just because they are using MS Exchange. They are using exchange because it has 'nice' group calendar (which isn't that bad, though I cannot say the same about Exchange itself) and there aren't that many good mail/calendar solutions available.
Agreed, part of the problem are IT managers who think world is revolving around windows, and they cannot see any other non-M$ solutions.
I, for one, agree. I don't think iris scanners are a good idea in airports because the invasion of the right to privacy of people in the airport is not good.
How come the Iris scanners violate your right to privacy more than checking your passport ?
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That's something like 0,00625 LoC/s
Follow the rules. Tell your boss that your phone is really a tool for you, but don't put too much effort on changing their minds. Divert the alerts to your email and do the best you can to minimize the problems of not having your phone.
If your phone is as critical for you as you think, and it probably is, your boss will notice that something has changed after certain amount of downtime. If it will cost something for the company, hopefully not too much, it will be a lesson from which they will learn.
Where are you exactly?
Stop ranting and do something about it - use your power as a decision maker and choose products from some other company. If there are so many of us, we'll see Intel's crashing and burining before end of this year - after that they'll probably only write drivers for linux, ignoring all other platforms, because that's the only way to keep decision makers happy.
Or could it be so that in reality Linux on desktop is still more curiosity than anything else?
Restrictive default settings are good as long as the are not too restrictive. If the defaults are too restrictive users tend to allow everything.
You are new around here, aren't you?
As you have worked with FAT12/16 and assembly, didn't you notice that it's pretty simple, and very well supported, file system?
I would rather suggest that you block all outbound traffic that is not destined to trusted servers. All dropped connections are logged for later analysis.
Of course there are scenarios in which this cannot be implemented. Also it's not a fool proof solution, as some of the spy/ad/malware may (will) use http proxy sending back the gatherred information.
There is a big difference, Microsoft presents search page for incorrectly type domain names in URLs. I think that the URL is the key here.
In this case Microsoft got it right, they only redirect you to their search page if you type incorrect URL in web browsers address bar - not when you try to resolve any domain name.
IMHO, VeriSign approach is sadly suggesting that DNS is only used by browsers and email.
I'd say you got it wrong. As the article says:
"[...] the ability to also carry cargo, or additional functions besides crew transport, would eat into the vehicle's safety margin."
There are different aspects to take in account when you design transportation system for cargo, than there would be for personel carrier.
Probably it is cheaper/easier to build ship which can safely lift crew to orbit as long as it doesn't need to take anything else. Still, it's cheaper to build shuttle/plane for cargo, when you know that you don't have to build any life support systems into it.
But hell, what would I know. I'm not a rocket scientist.
- Wings
- Safety
- Price
You can't have all, so choose any two.No sexy PR means no funding from congress. Forget that the money might have been spent on a probe to detect gravity waves and thus discover the fundamental nature of the universe.
It's true that PR eats part of the funding but even if they would use 90% of the funding for PR stunts and total BS and only 10% for 'real' science, still the share that goes for real science is much larger than the funding it would otherwise get.
How do you think it'll get cheaper, if it aint done now?
I think that people on board manned space flights should be considered as a part of the experiment. You simply cannot simulate the environment of the flight to Mars on the surface of Earth.
Technological advances are only possible after enough research is done. In this case, IMHO, people onboard are part of the research - no way getting around it.
One aspect is always that for media coverage it's not sexy enough to shoot couple of bots to orbit. Audience (excluding
In this context, what do you mean by "forseable future" ? 5 years, 10 or maybe 15 years ?
It's not that long ago, when people said that "640KB should be enough for everyone". And at that time, probably no one could imagine that we would have 1GB+ of memory on a normal PC (neither did we imagine to have 300GB+ disk space on the same PC).
So my friendly advice, never say never again
"C" is my default locale, so it should do fine for 'em also...
They are already doing this at Finland, though police has limited access to such information and they need court order to get it.
In this context, I think that we are rather talking about the (in)security of the operating systems than applications running on them.
It is true that customer (internal or external) should provide good specs, but techs should be able to recommed possible changes when they see that the request is conflicting with some existing components, or when techs know that there is a way to adjust the request in a way that it's more beneficial to customer. If techs know nothing about the business it self, it could be hard to suggest any changes.
And yes, I work also in design and I hate to implement stupid requests, though they are formally ok with very well detailed goals. That's why I sometimes suggest some changes.
Sorry, All your (Quaoar) base are belong to us.
At home, pine is enough for me, but at the office it's a different thing.
There are lot's of companies out there who are using Outlook just because they are using MS Exchange. They are using exchange because it has 'nice' group calendar (which isn't that bad, though I cannot say the same about Exchange itself) and there aren't that many good mail/calendar solutions available.
Agreed, part of the problem are IT managers who think world is revolving around windows, and they cannot see any other non-M$ solutions.
Gee, now I'm really surprised...
Everyone who has seen the "Demolition Man" knows how to bypass these things...