You make a very fair point - Thunderbird is a sound replacement for anyone usine OE at home.
However, the Moz suite - either as one application, Mozilla, or as a pick and choose set of Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird will, eventually pose a serious threat to Outlook's dominance on the corporate desktop.
One thing that I do wonder about though is syncing with other programs, especially mobile phones. Is there any pressure being put on Symbian etc to make their phones sync contacts with an LDAP server, email with thunderbird, calendar with iCal etc? Even when folk can book the meeting room, the next big problem will be all the other corporate stuff that intigrates with Outlook won't work with the Moz suite unless pressure starts getting applied now.
Of course you still need a box to receive the wireless stream, decode it and then output the video to the TV. Though this can, of course, havea slower (cooler) processor and be diskless so the noise can be toned down quite a bit.
The problem I have with city, county, or state provided wireless is that not everyone needs the service.
I have no kids, so I don't need schools. Perhaps government shouldn't provide schools?
Some folk sleep through the evening of July 4 - what are cities doing spending all that money on fireworks?
In case 1, schools are provided for the common good. Even without children we benefit. In case 2 most likely an economic analysis has been done - no one else will make it happena and it brings in lots of revenue ultimately recouped through tax.
If a city council can look at a scheme and say either, this will benefit our community overall, even those who are not directly using the service (perhaps through an economic assessment showing likely economic growth) then it's an investment.
Of course there are a number of ways that it could be done that keeps the big players happy. How about the city put in the infrastructure, then work out running costs, add the cost of recouping the capital outlay over, say, ten years and then let verizon et al piggyback on the network. If verizon can offer a vlaue added service folk want to pay for then they are welcome to. Other local (small businesses) might want to offer basic internet access at a low monthly fee, perhaps with a single pop mailbox. Let them join in too. Now everyone can take part, if verizon can convince the locals that their service is worth the fee then they will win the customers.
Reading the Axalto press release they talk about their cards as an additional form of security, not a password replacement. I've used smart cards for a few things and each of them has been protected by a password too. You enter the smart card and are then asked for a PIN to ensure you have the right to be using that smart card. As another poster said, if there's no password all they have to do is get to your wallet if they want to Get Root. Hopefully if we do see an open source implimentation it won't be passwordless!
Perhaps the downturn in jobs is a consequence of the downturn in IT innovation? Where are the big leaps that in the last two decades have given increasing numbers of people job security? There hasn't been a leap like the wholesale move to GUIs in the early 90s, or the rise and rise of the internet at the end of the 90s and start of this century. Applications have stopped making revolutionary leaps and are today slowly maturing. For those who choose to run Windows, many of us are still running Win2k, a 4 year old OS because it works. I doubt any of us would have chosen to upgrade from Office 2k to office XP, because office 2k does everything we need.
Unless we see something new, IT jobs are going the way of plumbers. Every town will have a few and if a company needs IT support they'll call one out. The rest of the time their computers will just work.
They bought a money-losing SuSE, but haven't done much to reposition it or sell it to their current customer base, yet.
Interested to find out where you got that information given SuSE were a private company at the time Novell bought them. Indeed they were anticipated as having a turnover of $35-40 million with a staff base of around 400, so if they were loss making I doubt it was by anything significant. Furthermore, the aquisition wasn't expected to immediatly impact on Novell's figures so I suspect they were running at either a very small loss or profit.
Nuclear power may be considered clean energy in light of hydrocarbon emissions, but it's hardly clean when you consider the environmental impact for the next few thousand years. That's not even considering that there's supposed to be a War on Terror taking place, and a nuclear power station must be one heck of a terrorism target. Why import a dirty bomb when the government just built 20 for you. And we're not just talking about the plants themselves, consider the ships and trains carrying new and spent fuel every four weeks, perhaps within a mile of your doorstep.
The US is a huge country with huge natural resources and a lot of wealth. With every other fuel resource being finite, wouldn't it make sense to try and lead the world in renewables. Tidal Power along that massive coastline, wind power along the sparsely populated plains, hydro power in the mountains. Those sort of developments would not only reduce reliance on foreign supplies in the short term, but would provide massive economic benefit in the medium to long term.
As ever, Coolermaster make some very nice cases also with more reasonable (circa $100) price tags that would be suited to such a PC. Here and here are some links. You do, of course, still need to add a PSU to these cases.
SMTP is wide open to the kind of attack that is being discussed here. Since there's no authentication of the sender, anybody can send out messages with the "From:" address of the desigated victim, and can smear their reputation into being anything from a spammer to a pornographer.
But we have technology that works almost perfectly with existing SMTP servers that combats this very threat. SPF, Sender ID et al are designed to confirm that the sender or sending domain is reflected accurately.
Why should we change every MUA & MTA, almost certainly handing control of email to big business in the process, when we hold a solution in our hands. If your ISP doesn't support SPF, point them to this and suggest they adopt it. If you don't publish SPF records, set some up. If you get a virus warning from another company where your email address was forged, email them and suggest they start SPF checking. There are alwyas going to be threats to internet protocols - this threat is one we can already deal with.
I don't see anyone but Al-Reuters calling it a 'declaration of war'. The headline alone is going to cause a flame war.
It's a fair point, but these headlines usually reflect the way it was spun by the government. You have to know how press teams work - they send out the press releases to Reuters etc, then they'll call the individual journalists and put their spin on it. Because they're then first to answer any questions the journalist might have they can influence the story.
Picture the conversation like this:
Journalist: so is this a real crackdown? WIll there be resources to back it up?
Apparatchik: Sure. Think of it like our war on IP theft.
You'll still find Mosaic credited if you loook in 'help > about' on Internet Explorer
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Corporation creates useless file format standard. Everyone grumbles, but switches over.
Actually no it's not useless, this would be very useful, especially if the format is open. Remember Adobe also cerated PDF - they know about making money from open standards.
You see proper digital cameras - especially the ones that cost $10,000 and are used by photojournalists and the like all let you save the image in raw format - that's a copy of the actual data that was captured before any processing. By doing so, you can take the image home and adjust it - white balance, satuaration and everything else - with photoshop et al. Rather than letting the camera make the adjustment and possibly messing things up, you know you still have the raw data so you can undo your changes. Trouble is, all the camera manufacturers ahev their own standard for raw data, so to get it into photoshop, the gimp or whatever you want to use, you must first run the raw image through software provided by your camera manufacturer - and you can bet that software won't run on Linux.
So this is good, 1 because it encourages interoperability and 2 because it further opens up proper image processing to Linux users.
So they are encoding a stream that was already captured in the background (I assume while other encoding could be going on) which would make for a SERIOUS CPU hit because they chose to save a couple extra bucks by not using the hardware MPEG encoder.
Isn't this why we can allocate nice values to processes? I actually transcode when I need to do so using Windows - I can set it to have a low priority, it takes twice as long and my machine remains completely usable. I'm sure with a suitable nice setting you can let the transcoding run away happily overnight with a suitable nice value meaning it has zero impact on any other recording.
Indeed, as the parent mentions, the WinTV 250 has hardware encoding anyway, so you can record in MPEG2 with the hardware encoding from the card and transcode overnight to save disk space.
This is going to be an ever bigger problem for small businesses that adopt Mozilla.
If I use Internet Explorer, I can deploy patches to every amchine on the domain automagically using software like Shavlik's HfNetChk - with Moz I'd have to take a trip round the desktops, forty or fifty upgrades is something I don't fancy.
The Moz team should be looking with urgency at how corporate customers can keep it up to date - I'm sure that would also make it a much easier sell to business.
When was the last time you've heard somebody complain about the Window's Media Player Messaging Center popping up with ads and shit?
But you paid perhaps $80-$100 for the right to use Windows Media Player when you bought Windows. Now if Microsoft paid Real for every copy I'm sure they could run an ad free service. However, Microsoft don't, Real pay programmers and therefore need revenue streams. If you don't like it, you can use community developed free alternatives. If you don't want to use them and do want to use Real, that's the cost. The software is free, as in beer, you just need to see the occasional advert. Mind you, you can turn most the ads off if you look in the message centre settings.
Does anyone know what the current state of play is with the Real / Helix funded extensions to Jabber that were supposed to be bringing voice / video to our favourite Instant messanger. I thought it was supposed to be released by now?
And what forms the majority of email folk get that has a forged sender address. Yep, spam and viruses.
While not designed to stop spam, I'm more than sure spam was a big consideration. Certainly it impacts on spam - either spammers have to use domains the have bought - which leaves a paper trail most spammers would rather didn't exist or not use SPF. If they are using SPF it makes using 0wned computers for bulk mailing a lot more difficult - either they need to do a DNS update for every new machine, ot use -all in the spf record, a flag that would probably then be used by spamassassin to increase the spam score.
You are correct in that SPF won't stop spam, but to suggest that it's not another tool diseigned to be used against spammers is, however, wrong.
I don't think he mentioned where he was from. In many countries you'll go to jail if you shoot an unarmed intruder. Kill them knowing they're unarmed and most European countries will see you on a murder charge.
There is a follow up article over at Tech News Live. Apparently they managed to find a way to use the link port as a serial device to communicate with other Gameboys running the same OS
So we really can/em? imagine a beowoulf cluster of these?
Overseas, at least here in the UK, if you lose a court case you generally have to pay the other parties court costs. I can understand why you want people to be free to sue, but it seems that these days this is more a tool in favour of the big boys rather than a safety net for the little guy. Not that I expect the law to change, just making an observation.
Spammers don't send spam, unpatched windows boxes do. Loads of folk here must be getting calls form folk saying "my net connection's slow" you take a look and the machine is infested.
All this means is that, as well as the net connection being slow, the processor will be running overtime calculating the checksums. The spammers will send as many emails as ever.
SPF has to be one of the easiest measures we can take to reduce spam. Spamassassin is about to hit 3.0 RC1 and many more of us will be able to easily associate scores with SPF records. As soon as mail has to originate from the correct domain we get better spam checking and a paper trail for the authorities to follow. If you don't have SPF records for your domain, head on over here or here and set them up.
They could waive their patent rights for software distributed under an OSS approved license, but to charge would probably fall foul of most licenses and halt distribution of the software. Not exactly desireably.
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However, the Moz suite - either as one application, Mozilla, or as a pick and choose set of Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird will, eventually pose a serious threat to Outlook's dominance on the corporate desktop.
One thing that I do wonder about though is syncing with other programs, especially mobile phones. Is there any pressure being put on Symbian etc to make their phones sync contacts with an LDAP server, email with thunderbird, calendar with iCal etc? Even when folk can book the meeting room, the next big problem will be all the other corporate stuff that intigrates with Outlook won't work with the Moz suite unless pressure starts getting applied now.
Of course you still need a box to receive the wireless stream, decode it and then output the video to the TV. Though this can, of course, havea slower (cooler) processor and be diskless so the noise can be toned down quite a bit.
I have no kids, so I don't need schools. Perhaps government shouldn't provide schools?
Some folk sleep through the evening of July 4 - what are cities doing spending all that money on fireworks?
In case 1, schools are provided for the common good. Even without children we benefit. In case 2 most likely an economic analysis has been done - no one else will make it happena and it brings in lots of revenue ultimately recouped through tax.
If a city council can look at a scheme and say either, this will benefit our community overall, even those who are not directly using the service (perhaps through an economic assessment showing likely economic growth) then it's an investment.
Of course there are a number of ways that it could be done that keeps the big players happy. How about the city put in the infrastructure, then work out running costs, add the cost of recouping the capital outlay over, say, ten years and then let verizon et al piggyback on the network. If verizon can offer a vlaue added service folk want to pay for then they are welcome to. Other local (small businesses) might want to offer basic internet access at a low monthly fee, perhaps with a single pop mailbox. Let them join in too. Now everyone can take part, if verizon can convince the locals that their service is worth the fee then they will win the customers.
Reading the Axalto press release they talk about their cards as an additional form of security, not a password replacement. I've used smart cards for a few things and each of them has been protected by a password too. You enter the smart card and are then asked for a PIN to ensure you have the right to be using that smart card. As another poster said, if there's no password all they have to do is get to your wallet if they want to Get Root. Hopefully if we do see an open source implimentation it won't be passwordless!
VOIP is now offering increadible value, and that's sure to drive uptake. are offering unlimited calls in North America and to most of Europe for $20 a month. It's also mostly compatible with asterisk (other than an ongoing voicemail problem I think), so makes a lovely linux project and saves cash at the same time.
Unless we see something new, IT jobs are going the way of plumbers. Every town will have a few and if a company needs IT support they'll call one out. The rest of the time their computers will just work.
Interested to find out where you got that information given SuSE were a private company at the time Novell bought them. Indeed they were anticipated as having a turnover of $35-40 million with a staff base of around 400, so if they were loss making I doubt it was by anything significant. Furthermore, the aquisition wasn't expected to immediatly impact on Novell's figures so I suspect they were running at either a very small loss or profit.
The US is a huge country with huge natural resources and a lot of wealth. With every other fuel resource being finite, wouldn't it make sense to try and lead the world in renewables. Tidal Power along that massive coastline, wind power along the sparsely populated plains, hydro power in the mountains. Those sort of developments would not only reduce reliance on foreign supplies in the short term, but would provide massive economic benefit in the medium to long term.
As ever, Coolermaster make some very nice cases also with more reasonable (circa $100) price tags that would be suited to such a PC. Here and here are some links. You do, of course, still need to add a PSU to these cases.
Yep, the BBC are also running a current story which was perhaps supposed to be included too.
But we have technology that works almost perfectly with existing SMTP servers that combats this very threat. SPF, Sender ID et al are designed to confirm that the sender or sending domain is reflected accurately.
Why should we change every MUA & MTA, almost certainly handing control of email to big business in the process, when we hold a solution in our hands. If your ISP doesn't support SPF, point them to this and suggest they adopt it. If you don't publish SPF records, set some up. If you get a virus warning from another company where your email address was forged, email them and suggest they start SPF checking. There are alwyas going to be threats to internet protocols - this threat is one we can already deal with.
It's a fair point, but these headlines usually reflect the way it was spun by the government. You have to know how press teams work - they send out the press releases to Reuters etc, then they'll call the individual journalists and put their spin on it. Because they're then first to answer any questions the journalist might have they can influence the story.
Picture the conversation like this:
Journalist: so is this a real crackdown? WIll there be resources to back it up?
Apparatchik: Sure. Think of it like our war on IP theft.
Journalist: Thanks.
Actually no it's not useless, this would be very useful, especially if the format is open. Remember Adobe also cerated PDF - they know about making money from open standards.
You see proper digital cameras - especially the ones that cost $10,000 and are used by photojournalists and the like all let you save the image in raw format - that's a copy of the actual data that was captured before any processing. By doing so, you can take the image home and adjust it - white balance, satuaration and everything else - with photoshop et al. Rather than letting the camera make the adjustment and possibly messing things up, you know you still have the raw data so you can undo your changes. Trouble is, all the camera manufacturers ahev their own standard for raw data, so to get it into photoshop, the gimp or whatever you want to use, you must first run the raw image through software provided by your camera manufacturer - and you can bet that software won't run on Linux.
So this is good, 1 because it encourages interoperability and 2 because it further opens up proper image processing to Linux users.
Me too!
Okay, that was bad. I'll go away now.
Isn't this why we can allocate nice values to processes? I actually transcode when I need to do so using Windows - I can set it to have a low priority, it takes twice as long and my machine remains completely usable. I'm sure with a suitable nice setting you can let the transcoding run away happily overnight with a suitable nice value meaning it has zero impact on any other recording.
Indeed, as the parent mentions, the WinTV 250 has hardware encoding anyway, so you can record in MPEG2 with the hardware encoding from the card and transcode overnight to save disk space.
If I use Internet Explorer, I can deploy patches to every amchine on the domain automagically using software like Shavlik's HfNetChk - with Moz I'd have to take a trip round the desktops, forty or fifty upgrades is something I don't fancy.
The Moz team should be looking with urgency at how corporate customers can keep it up to date - I'm sure that would also make it a much easier sell to business.
But you paid perhaps $80-$100 for the right to use Windows Media Player when you bought Windows. Now if Microsoft paid Real for every copy I'm sure they could run an ad free service. However, Microsoft don't, Real pay programmers and therefore need revenue streams. If you don't like it, you can use community developed free alternatives. If you don't want to use them and do want to use Real, that's the cost. The software is free, as in beer, you just need to see the occasional advert. Mind you, you can turn most the ads off if you look in the message centre settings.
Does anyone know what the current state of play is with the Real / Helix funded extensions to Jabber that were supposed to be bringing voice / video to our favourite Instant messanger. I thought it was supposed to be released by now?
While not designed to stop spam, I'm more than sure spam was a big consideration. Certainly it impacts on spam - either spammers have to use domains the have bought - which leaves a paper trail most spammers would rather didn't exist or not use SPF. If they are using SPF it makes using 0wned computers for bulk mailing a lot more difficult - either they need to do a DNS update for every new machine, ot use -all in the spf record, a flag that would probably then be used by spamassassin to increase the spam score.
You are correct in that SPF won't stop spam, but to suggest that it's not another tool diseigned to be used against spammers is, however, wrong.
I don't think he mentioned where he was from. In many countries you'll go to jail if you shoot an unarmed intruder. Kill them knowing they're unarmed and most European countries will see you on a murder charge.
So we really can/em? imagine a beowoulf cluster of these?
Overseas, at least here in the UK, if you lose a court case you generally have to pay the other parties court costs. I can understand why you want people to be free to sue, but it seems that these days this is more a tool in favour of the big boys rather than a safety net for the little guy. Not that I expect the law to change, just making an observation.
All this means is that, as well as the net connection being slow, the processor will be running overtime calculating the checksums. The spammers will send as many emails as ever.
SPF has to be one of the easiest measures we can take to reduce spam. Spamassassin is about to hit 3.0 RC1 and many more of us will be able to easily associate scores with SPF records. As soon as mail has to originate from the correct domain we get better spam checking and a paper trail for the authorities to follow. If you don't have SPF records for your domain, head on over here or here and set them up.
They could waive their patent rights for software distributed under an OSS approved license, but to charge would probably fall foul of most licenses and halt distribution of the software. Not exactly desireably.