The general tenor of most of the posts is that big evil corporations don't have their user's interests at heart.
Researchers on the other hand do; but these (at least some) are the people that release exploits.
And I see those exploits flood into my inbox, swirl around my system pollute the web I visit.
Releasing exploit code frequently results in some degenerate somewhere making use of the release exploit to do real damage. How releasing an exploit can ever be seen as the action of anyone but an insane criminal is beyond me.
Researchers who release exploits should be shunned by everyone, they are being irresponsible in the extreme.
Take a real world example, I find that a door to a 'secure' building is unlocked and unguarded. Do I find the building owner/responsible person and tell them or do I erect a sign saying 'Unlocked door, cool stuff inside'. I take the former course of action because the later course is a criminal act.
Oh and my system, its a simple desktop running windows; attacked not infrequently because of security researchers and their vainty.
The FlashTrax in this review are awful. I brought one, It has apalling battery life, about enough for 5 or so 256 meg transfers.
The units are highly unreliable. Mine has the habbit of inverting its screen so it looks like a cheap 1980s VGA screen. This requires a reboot.
They periodically stop during transfers resulting in a broken directory that can't be deleted. They have a fragile and thouroughly unreliable USB connection. I have destroyed my desktop by not shutting the machine down in the correct order.
Their MP3 player only likes one type of format, it supports lots but all but 128bit MP#s have lots of hiss.
This is an Alpha product that is being sold to the public. Oh and the screen is so awful that you might as well not bother. So as a review device it fails miserably.
On the plus side, I have used mine for several long trips, outback Australia, albeit with frequent recharging of the pathetic battery, and not having a laptop is a godsend, you get to concentrate on photographs rather than futsing with laptops.
The outlook argument is just lame.
Lets suppose i go to my local 2 dollar shop and buy a padlock and lcok up my (insert item of huge value) and some crim breaks the lock then I have only myself to blame.
Now if the lock said 100% secure blah blah, I might have a case
But by now everyone knows or could know that msloth products are not secure. msloths poor manufacture and quality control (like the 2 dollar padlock) ensure they have no case to answer
I work in a smallish office (15 people) who range from rabid *nixers to 15 year win vets. We have tried migrating all of the staff from office to star office. Interestingly over time most people migrated back again. The reasons were interesting. Everyone except the people using redhat as their environment hated the way star office takes over. The accountants loathed the lack of spreadsheet functionality and after a good play I had to agree with them. Star is simply 3rd or 4th rate when it comes to replacing excel. The word processor is OK but is just not nearly as usable as word. The HTML editor is fine provided that you want to write vanilla HTML. It isn't a patch on Dream Weaver.
In our environment we have stabilised on a windows desktop and a mixture of RedHat and free BSD servers together with Win2K servers for running the database.
We use MS SQL Server. It is big fast efficient and very very easy to administer. We played with Sybase under Linux but it is a pig to set up and a pig to administer. Being experienced as a DBA with both I can set up a Sybase dbms on *nix woa to go in hours, why because I need lots of *nix knowledge which I don't have. Once it is set up then I can connect to it with the various horrible applications that come with Sybase. MS SQL Server on the other hand I pop in the CD, click click click and 10-15 minutes later I have a working database and a plethora of tools to work with that database.
For other platforms to really succeed as well as Win2K they have to get the ease of use down to what the win 2k products do.
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The general tenor of most of the posts is that big evil corporations don't have their user's interests at heart.
Researchers on the other hand do; but these (at least some) are the people that release exploits.
And I see those exploits flood into my inbox, swirl around my system pollute the web I visit.
Releasing exploit code frequently results in some degenerate somewhere making use of the release exploit to do real damage. How releasing an exploit can ever be seen as the action of anyone but an insane criminal is beyond me.
Researchers who release exploits should be shunned by everyone, they are being irresponsible in the extreme.
Take a real world example, I find that a door to a 'secure' building is unlocked and unguarded. Do I find the building owner/responsible person and tell them or do I erect a sign saying 'Unlocked door, cool stuff inside'. I take the former course of action because the later course is a criminal act.
Oh and my system, its a simple desktop running windows; attacked not infrequently because of security researchers and their vainty.
The FlashTrax in this review are awful. I brought one, It has apalling battery life, about enough for 5 or so 256 meg transfers.
The units are highly unreliable. Mine has the habbit of inverting its screen so it looks like a cheap 1980s VGA screen. This requires a reboot.
They periodically stop during transfers resulting in a broken directory that can't be deleted. They have a fragile and thouroughly unreliable USB connection. I have destroyed my desktop by not shutting the machine down in the correct order.
Their MP3 player only likes one type of format, it supports lots but all but 128bit MP#s have lots of hiss. This is an Alpha product that is being sold to the public. Oh and the screen is so awful that you might as well not bother. So as a review device it fails miserably.
On the plus side, I have used mine for several long trips, outback Australia, albeit with frequent recharging of the pathetic battery, and not having a laptop is a godsend, you get to concentrate on photographs rather than futsing with laptops.
The outlook argument is just lame. Lets suppose i go to my local 2 dollar shop and buy a padlock and lcok up my (insert item of huge value) and some crim breaks the lock then I have only myself to blame. Now if the lock said 100% secure blah blah, I might have a case But by now everyone knows or could know that msloth products are not secure. msloths poor manufacture and quality control (like the 2 dollar padlock) ensure they have no case to answer
I work in a smallish office (15 people) who range from rabid *nixers to 15 year win vets. We have tried migrating all of the staff from office to star office. Interestingly over time most people migrated back again. The reasons were interesting. Everyone except the people using redhat as their environment hated the way star office takes over. The accountants loathed the lack of spreadsheet functionality and after a good play I had to agree with them. Star is simply 3rd or 4th rate when it comes to replacing excel. The word processor is OK but is just not nearly as usable as word. The HTML editor is fine provided that you want to write vanilla HTML. It isn't a patch on Dream Weaver. In our environment we have stabilised on a windows desktop and a mixture of RedHat and free BSD servers together with Win2K servers for running the database. We use MS SQL Server. It is big fast efficient and very very easy to administer. We played with Sybase under Linux but it is a pig to set up and a pig to administer. Being experienced as a DBA with both I can set up a Sybase dbms on *nix woa to go in hours, why because I need lots of *nix knowledge which I don't have. Once it is set up then I can connect to it with the various horrible applications that come with Sybase. MS SQL Server on the other hand I pop in the CD, click click click and 10-15 minutes later I have a working database and a plethora of tools to work with that database. For other platforms to really succeed as well as Win2K they have to get the ease of use down to what the win 2k products do.