Replying to this Flamebait Troll of an article? This is what I was doing when I refereshed my Slashdot page and found this chump spewing misinformation:
In our site, we've got Active Directory for a group of 700 systems, and about 1200 users. I think Craptive Directory is a better word for this piece of junk. We tried migrating from Win2K server to Win2K3, and the damn thing called domain-prep and forest-prep threw out an error page some 500 meters long. Smoke's coming outta' my ears just reading reams and reams of error messages. So, I ask the security chap..
What if we migrate to a better Directory server.. we're thinking of OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Services. I asked this bloke to backup Active Directory, just in case. He says It Can't Be Done!!! It's just not possible to take a backup of the bloody damn POS s/w that's used to store the company's most valuable information. It's JUST NOT POSSIBLE TO transfer it to a better config. or even upgrade to a higher version smoothly. Seriously, why people ever choose Crapware like Active Directory, Exchange, LookOut or Office is beyond me.
And so, we're sitting down, thinking long hard thoughts... wondering what we should be doing, to ensure we're fine, atleast 2 years from now... some points: (Actually this bloke Matt Hartley may have done us a big favour - he's made all the wrong arguments and points in one piece!)
I. Use ONLY open standards and specs. No compromise on this at any cost. 1a. We've decided to go in with HTML for 'documents'. Why do we need docs? We need to look at them, we need to print them, we need to email them so others can see, and we need to be able to write tools that can manipulate OUR data in OUR docs. And so, it's gonna be HTML from here on out. The Nvu editor seems the best suited for this thing, so we're going with it.
1b. We don't use spreadsheets a lot. For those rare cases, we've decided to go in for Gnumeric, and csv as the format. No more of those bloody macros in the a/cs dept. We've developed all their apps on a server, we're giving them Import and Export to cvf where needed, and that's it.
1c. PowerPoint: We've told the suits to go in with Impress for the time being... under OpenOffice. Until we figure out the best Open Source tool for presentations, that works to Open Standards, that is. All told, we have very few suits.. less than a dozen, so let them start picking up these skills NOW!
II. Groupware: No more fiddling around with the Exchange Server or the Notes server trying to figure out how to build some site-specific features we need. No point. We've figured the only thing MS or IBM care about is licensing money, not adherence to standards, delivering something useful to us, or anything. They just want license money, so we're looking elsewhere.
We're also trying to build in some CRM functions... we heard Dynamics works only under Craptive Directory, so we're giving it a miss. SugarCRM seems useless without their commercial license, so we're ditching it too.
We're experimenting with vTiger, Drupal, Mambo, phpBB and Moodle.. yes, Moodle. It looks the easiest of the lot to actually build community-oriented features, and has the most elegant of interfaces. No need for any client, no Evolution, no Zimbra, no nothing. Just a customised Groupware client that does the job for us. That works the way we like. That helps our users relate to what software we provide them.
So, we asked ourselves, what are we doing with our email system? 1. Announcements, Circulars and Notifications: We've decided to have them at the top of our Groupware page. Every intended recipient to indicate they've read the message.. some option for a feedback. No more tons of "Read" messages to the sender, no more Acknowledgement emails... no nothing. Just a one-page report to the Sender of which users have Read, Not Read, and Comments. That's it for this category of mails.
2. Calendaring: We figured out this is not really important for all users, and the few who need it, need it in diffe
Here's Martin Dougiamas' comments on this topic... he's Mr. Moodle, it seems. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50597#23 1617 very clearly states there's no need to panic. Surprisingly, Australia and New Zealand have already allowed this patetnt, though!
and I might agree. For the past 3 years, RedHat's activities have aroused quite a lot of suspicion and consternation. When they had the Desktop market ready for the taking (specially after Lindows aka Linspire bailed out, again suspiciously), RedHat went in for some shady dealings with SCO and generally fizzled out from the Desktop and Home user segment.
Ubuntu has taken these segments by storm, they have drivers for most Big Brand PCs that come with the Built For Windows crap sticker. The laptop segment, which has grown faster than desktops, is again well-served by Ubuntu, and RedHat just doesn't have any mindshare / marketshare on laptops.
Microsoft... well, they seem totally confused with laptops since 2000. The Tablet PC was botched... so many broken standards and half-assed attempts later, nobody seems to know or care what MS intends to do with these things, come Vista. How many laptops are gonna have 128MB VRAM or 2GB RAM on the motherboard? My guess is less than 10% of the market.
While RedHat has carved out it's own space in the server segment and has cut off Microsoft's top-end, Ubuntu has encroached on the lower end Desktops and the Laptops segments. With Vista's hardware specs (let alone drivers) still unknown, with about 6 months left... lack of clarity on certified Vista drivers etc., I think Microsoft has more reasons for worry than RedHat.
That's the big question... I guess Viagra and Service Packs would be fairly equal in terms of shipments, and together, they should account for 90% of the non-AOL-CD shipments.
Just wait a few months more... when all the lasses go in for the fancy, schmancy, kewl, cute, li'l stuff from Microsoft, you'll be busy Upgrading your Girlfriends to Linux. And it'll take a lifetime to sort out all those rpms, version conflicts, libraries, sockets etc. Enough time to develop your 'relationship', methinks!
Question is: How many Girlfriends can One Geek Man (TM) handle with his Linux expertise?
Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting."
Exactly what does this trouble-shooting mean? Downlaod patch, double-click, install, Say your prayers and Reboot?
Back in the Unix days, it used take Real Men (TM) to troubleshoot a computer!
Fedora Directory Services is a very robust implementation of LDAPv3, and is available under GPL. FDS also allows integration with Craptive Directory. Moodle and many other Courseware come with LDAP integration, so there's no problem if the school really wants to go in for Open Source.
What exactly do schools look for in "Computer curriculum"? Most I know only look for a browser, a HTML editor and some presentation s/w on the clients side. The servr side is mostly some Courseware s/w - Moodle or Drupal; LDAP; Centralised File System etc.
There has been no incentive for schools to upgrade from Windows 98, indeed many schools near me have about 80% of their systems running Win98, and the students are quite happy with what they're getting. There's absolutely no incentive to upgrade to WinXP (although a RAM upgrade might allow XP to run).
Schools in fact have every reason to ask Microsoft WHAT EXACTLY they get in return for Big $$ they need to shell out in MS upgrades. If they switch (the servers are already on Linux) the clients also to Linux, schools will have absolutely zero incentive to upgrade to Vista.
If you feel the need to control what your kid eats in high school through a system like this, you've allready failed as a parent.
Insightful? Okay, let's see some equivalents:
1. If you feel the need to control what your elected President decides, despite the checks and balances in the political system, then your country has already failed as a Democracy.
2. If you cannot legally play your DVDs without surrendering your rights, your laws are already screwed up.
3. If your child can succumb to false advertising, and becomes unhealthy, you must calmly accept it without doing anything about it.
4. If your child cannot surf the 'net without getting exposed to adult content, you must quietly accept the situation, or pay through your nose to do something about it.
Incidentally, at the end of the linked MSNBC article, there was an ad titled "Intimate Dating" featuring a topless lass in between sheets. I wonder why so much fuss is made about proper parental control, when we cannot control so many things we ought to be able to, in a democracy.
Such articles equating parental control to Big Brother is actually a dis-service to those righteous, caring parents who would actually take a stand to achieve something.
This is actually a welcome initiative...
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Big Mother Is Watching
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Too much is made about child's rights and too little is spoken about dubious advertising for unhealthy food items. In Japan, there is a huge promotional campaign to get kids eat Whale Meat for Lunch!
Obesity in kids is the no. 1 health problem facing the US today, and if parents can have a say on what their kids can order, it's great! The choice is between listening to one's parents and listening to (untrulthful) advertisemsnts. Parents ought to know better.
As usual, the title Big Mother is misleading and mischevous. Parents watching their children cannot be equated to the Government spying on citizens. The former is a duty, the latter is a violation of rights to privacy.
Too bad, Slashdot is resorting to Flamebait to ensure more replies.
Looks like I've made a BIG BIG mistake.... would love for Slashdot to have a Delete Post option... Just read a post a little below, about how Zend being an Israeli firm might've prompted his decision. An IRC transcript containing 'Sniper's' pots...
My sympathies with Jani. He's taken a stand, and a courageous one at that. My apologies for the haste.
He doesn't insult anybody in his post, although he obviously wants to and he refrains from whining about whatever he's unhappy about...
Exactly! I read the bit a coupla' times and the intensity of bitterness was obvious. With over 6 years at the top of a poster-child open-source project, what more could he want to achieve a financially rewarding career?
It's obvious he's been a part of a team, and it's also obvious something went wrong with the team. Looks like he didn't get his way / ideas implemented. Let's look at the biggr picture though, that of PHP, the project. Should it's success depend on a single person's views? There's other developers and even creators of the Zend engine.. so they should be able to steer things forward.
Now, I personally feel the recent Linux kernels are less secure (modular, dynamic libraries), and do not support legacy hardware... I feel this could be bcos of the directions / decisions at the top. I think a more balanced project-head would deliver better results for the community.
where's your wildly succesful open source project?
Huh... I made Linux-jkrise.. I once recompiled the kernel to fix some USB CDMA modem issue - does that count?
If they deliver the code and can keep the project together with their style, then can act how they want.
Actually, just a coupla' days back, I remember reading this stuff about a PHP book. "This book, written by my colleague, Andi Gutmans, and two very prominent PHP developers, Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans, holds the key to unlocking the riches of PHP 5. It thoroughly covers all of the features of this new version, and is a must have for all PHP developers interested in exploring PHP 5's advanced features"
Zeev Suraski, Co-Designer of PHP 5 and Co-Creator of the Zend Engine
Looks like there's more than one creator of the Zend Engine... not just Jani. And that's the reason why I think inflated egos are bad in Open Source development teams.
With an attitude like this, the fact that this chap's leaving, is actually a good news for the future of PHP. No open source project can afford devleopers with such bloated egos. And especially at the top, it's better to have less hot-headed souls, talking in a decent, humane manner.
I could not care less. Take care. Please do not reply to this email. --Jani
p.s. Delete my CVS account. I have no use for it anymore.
Sometimes I wonder when Linus uses phrases like 'Kicks Ass' 'Couldn't care less' etc., (I refer to his fruity prose in the debate on microkernels) whether he's really suited to his job. Projects like Linux and PHP have a very high reputation, it is unbecoming of bigwigs to talk and act like Ballsmers.
Several members have Linux-based software stacks available.
Much like the NVidia drivers though, these stacks might involve a GPL shim and a non-GPL binary that's checked and verified by the TPM. Probably why GPL3 is getting ready real quick.
You try customising the kernel and alter the stack, and your hardware (the TPM) refuses to run it. End of Linux as we know it.
"Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US Army will require hardware-based security via the Trusted Platform Module standard in all new PCs. They are a large-enough volume buyer that this might kickstart an adoption loop."
Let's say the US Army buys a million night-vision goggles. Would that mean bird-watchers would throw away their good old binoculars and go in for this one?
The TPM is actually a very sound functional and business requirement in the Army... it provides for centralised surveillance and cryptography. Businesses and civilians would indeed NOT TRUST such a technolgy in THEIR PERSONAL AND PRIVATE computers.
Doesn't mean this wouldn't get stuffed on them though, much like DRM.
Regressive idealogies, particularly the ones that think women are only good for babies tend to reject that kind of knowledge.
How many women Presidents has gthe US of A had in it's long democracy?
Any how many women have been Prime Ministers / Chief Ministers in India? (Incidentally President is a figure-head in India... the real power is vested in the Cabinet and the Prime Minister).
Instead of throwing chairs or tantrums, lecturing about security etc...
As part of a settlement earlier this year, Google agreed to have an independent expert examine their click fraud detection methods , policies, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not they were reasonable measures to protect advertisers. The report of the expert, NYU Information Systems Professor Alexander Tuzhilin, a Professor of Information Systems at NYU is now available....
Microsoft ought to have some independent experts studying their source code, and reporting whether the products are actually designed propoerly / elegantly / optimally / for best performance / buggily. Simply dishing out Service Packs and Lip Service cannot work for very long.
MS advocate: I work on.Net, MSMQ, SQL and Windows Vista by the day... OS Advocate: Any by the night??? MS advocate: Oh nothing.. I just Update, patch, reinstall and reboot. OS Advocate: What is reboot?
the 2006 Tour de France finished yesterday with an American , Floyd Landis, the overall winner
I wonder how Americans always keep winning in France.. these last few years. To hell with all this fancy schmancy technology carbon fiber bikes, serious aerodynamic studies to improve the bikes, the helmets... blah blah
As Alistair McLean figured out with Vyland and Royale... Fear is the Key. Americans are plain scared in France, methinks!
in what way George W. Bush has prevented the American public from remaining fat, ignorant and watching reality shows?
Okay, let's see how we can prevent people being: FAT: Impose exorbitant taxes on high fat, junk and non-wholesome food. Provide discounts to healthy foods. IGNORANT: Levy 300% taxes on Microsoft software. Like the Firefox initiative, every individual who converts another to Free Software gets $100. You will find ignorance vanishing overnight. WATCHING REALITY SHOWS: That's a tough one. I think a law should be introduced that permits reality shows only one day in a year... February 30th, for instance.
and we all know what happened from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP on RDP, right? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Although Xen would be lucky to survive after Vista server is launched.
Unless the end of support means that all copies will explode and stop working.
Watch out for a new worm / virus / tick / spyware that affects only Win98 systems, and MS won't issue patches. Standard Operating Procedure to get customers to upgrade. Meanwhile, have you observed how systems "Built for 98" happily run XP? Makes you wonder whether XP is anything but "Win98 - A few vulnerabilities + Some new Eye Candy", doesn' it?
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Replying to this Flamebait Troll of an article? This is what I was doing when I refereshed my Slashdot page and found this chump spewing misinformation:
In our site, we've got Active Directory for a group of 700 systems, and about 1200 users. I think Craptive Directory is a better word for this piece of junk. We tried migrating from Win2K server to Win2K3, and the damn thing called domain-prep and forest-prep threw out an error page some 500 meters long. Smoke's coming outta' my ears just reading reams and reams of error messages.
So, I ask the security chap..
What if we migrate to a better Directory server.. we're thinking of OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Services. I asked this bloke to backup Active Directory, just in case. He says It Can't Be Done!!! It's just not possible to take a backup of the bloody damn POS s/w that's used to store the company's most valuable information. It's JUST NOT POSSIBLE TO transfer it to a better config. or even upgrade to a higher version smoothly. Seriously, why people ever choose Crapware like Active Directory, Exchange, LookOut or Office is beyond me.
And so, we're sitting down, thinking long hard thoughts... wondering what we should be doing, to ensure we're fine, atleast 2 years from now... some points: (Actually this bloke Matt Hartley may have done us a big favour - he's made all the wrong arguments and points in one piece!)
I. Use ONLY open standards and specs. No compromise on this at any cost.
1a. We've decided to go in with HTML for 'documents'. Why do we need docs? We need to look at them, we need to print them, we need to email them so others can see, and we need to be able to write tools that can manipulate OUR data in OUR docs. And so, it's gonna be HTML from here on out. The Nvu editor seems the best suited for this thing, so we're going with it.
1b. We don't use spreadsheets a lot. For those rare cases, we've decided to go in for Gnumeric, and csv as the format. No more of those bloody macros in the a/cs dept. We've developed all their apps on a server, we're giving them Import and Export to cvf where needed, and that's it.
1c. PowerPoint: We've told the suits to go in with Impress for the time being... under OpenOffice. Until we figure out the best Open Source tool for presentations, that works to Open Standards, that is. All told, we have very few suits.. less than a dozen, so let them start picking up these skills NOW!
II. Groupware: No more fiddling around with the Exchange Server or the Notes server trying to figure out how to build some site-specific features we need. No point. We've figured the only thing MS or IBM care about is licensing money, not adherence to standards, delivering something useful to us, or anything. They just want license money, so we're looking elsewhere.
We're also trying to build in some CRM functions... we heard Dynamics works only under Craptive Directory, so we're giving it a miss. SugarCRM seems useless without their commercial license, so we're ditching it too.
We're experimenting with vTiger, Drupal, Mambo, phpBB and Moodle.. yes, Moodle. It looks the easiest of the lot to actually build community-oriented features, and has the most elegant of interfaces. No need for any client, no Evolution, no Zimbra, no nothing. Just a customised Groupware client that does the job for us. That works the way we like. That helps our users relate to what software we provide them.
So, we asked ourselves, what are we doing with our email system?
1. Announcements, Circulars and Notifications: We've decided to have them at the top of our Groupware page. Every intended recipient to indicate they've read the message.. some option for a feedback. No more tons of "Read" messages to the sender, no more Acknowledgement emails... no nothing. Just a one-page report to the Sender of which users have Read, Not Read, and Comments. That's it for this category of mails.
2. Calendaring: We figured out this is not really important for all users, and the few who need it, need it in diffe
Here's Martin Dougiamas' comments on this topic... he's Mr. Moodle, it seems. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50597#23 1617 very clearly states there's no need to panic. Surprisingly, Australia and New Zealand have already allowed this patetnt, though!
and I might agree. For the past 3 years, RedHat's activities have aroused quite a lot of suspicion and consternation. When they had the Desktop market ready for the taking (specially after Lindows aka Linspire bailed out, again suspiciously), RedHat went in for some shady dealings with SCO and generally fizzled out from the Desktop and Home user segment.
Ubuntu has taken these segments by storm, they have drivers for most Big Brand PCs that come with the Built For Windows crap sticker. The laptop segment, which has grown faster than desktops, is again well-served by Ubuntu, and RedHat just doesn't have any mindshare / marketshare on laptops.
Microsoft... well, they seem totally confused with laptops since 2000. The Tablet PC was botched... so many broken standards and half-assed attempts later, nobody seems to know or care what MS intends to do with these things, come Vista. How many laptops are gonna have 128MB VRAM or 2GB RAM on the motherboard? My guess is less than 10% of the market.
While RedHat has carved out it's own space in the server segment and has cut off Microsoft's top-end, Ubuntu has encroached on the lower end Desktops and the Laptops segments. With Vista's hardware specs (let alone drivers) still unknown, with about 6 months left... lack of clarity on certified Vista drivers etc., I think Microsoft has more reasons for worry than RedHat.
My $0.02, of course!
That's the big question... I guess Viagra and Service Packs would be fairly equal in terms of shipments, and together, they should account for 90% of the non-AOL-CD shipments.
Just wait a few months more... when all the lasses go in for the fancy, schmancy, kewl, cute, li'l stuff from Microsoft, you'll be busy Upgrading your Girlfriends to Linux. And it'll take a lifetime to sort out all those rpms, version conflicts, libraries, sockets etc. Enough time to develop your 'relationship', methinks!
Question is: How many Girlfriends can One Geek Man (TM) handle with his Linux expertise?
Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting."
Exactly what does this trouble-shooting mean? Downlaod patch, double-click, install, Say your prayers and Reboot?
Back in the Unix days, it used take Real Men (TM) to troubleshoot a computer!
Fedora Directory Services is a very robust implementation of LDAPv3, and is available under GPL. FDS also allows integration with Craptive Directory. Moodle and many other Courseware come with LDAP integration, so there's no problem if the school really wants to go in for Open Source.
What exactly do schools look for in "Computer curriculum"? Most I know only look for a browser, a HTML editor and some presentation s/w on the clients side. The servr side is mostly some Courseware s/w - Moodle or Drupal; LDAP; Centralised File System etc.
There has been no incentive for schools to upgrade from Windows 98, indeed many schools near me have about 80% of their systems running Win98, and the students are quite happy with what they're getting. There's absolutely no incentive to upgrade to WinXP (although a RAM upgrade might allow XP to run).
Schools in fact have every reason to ask Microsoft WHAT EXACTLY they get in return for Big $$ they need to shell out in MS upgrades. If they switch (the servers are already on Linux) the clients also to Linux, schools will have absolutely zero incentive to upgrade to Vista.
If you feel the need to control what your kid eats in high school through a system like this, you've allready failed as a parent.
Insightful? Okay, let's see some equivalents:
1. If you feel the need to control what your elected President decides, despite the checks and balances in the political system, then your country has already failed as a Democracy.
2. If you cannot legally play your DVDs without surrendering your rights, your laws are already screwed up.
3. If your child can succumb to false advertising, and becomes unhealthy, you must calmly accept it without doing anything about it.
4. If your child cannot surf the 'net without getting exposed to adult content, you must quietly accept the situation, or pay through your nose to do something about it.
Incidentally, at the end of the linked MSNBC article, there was an ad titled "Intimate Dating" featuring a topless lass in between sheets. I wonder why so much fuss is made about proper parental control, when we cannot control so many things we ought to be able to, in a democracy.
Such articles equating parental control to Big Brother is actually a dis-service to those righteous, caring parents who would actually take a stand to achieve something.
Too much is made about child's rights and too little is spoken about dubious advertising for unhealthy food items. In Japan, there is a huge promotional campaign to get kids eat Whale Meat for Lunch!
Obesity in kids is the no. 1 health problem facing the US today, and if parents can have a say on what their kids can order, it's great! The choice is between listening to one's parents and listening to (untrulthful) advertisemsnts. Parents ought to know better.
As usual, the title Big Mother is misleading and mischevous. Parents watching their children cannot be equated to the Government spying on citizens. The former is a duty, the latter is a violation of rights to privacy.
Too bad, Slashdot is resorting to Flamebait to ensure more replies.
I thought he spoke about His Solo Monkey Dance Act!
Looks like I've made a BIG BIG mistake.... would love for Slashdot to have a Delete Post option... Just read a post a little below, about how Zend being an Israeli firm might've prompted his decision. An IRC transcript containing 'Sniper's' pots...
My sympathies with Jani. He's taken a stand, and a courageous one at that. My apologies for the haste.
He doesn't insult anybody in his post, although he obviously wants to and he refrains from whining about whatever he's unhappy about...
Exactly! I read the bit a coupla' times and the intensity of bitterness was obvious. With over 6 years at the top of a poster-child open-source project, what more could he want to achieve a financially rewarding career?
It's obvious he's been a part of a team, and it's also obvious something went wrong with the team. Looks like he didn't get his way / ideas implemented. Let's look at the biggr picture though, that of PHP, the project. Should it's success depend on a single person's views? There's other developers and even creators of the Zend engine.. so they should be able to steer things forward.
Now, I personally feel the recent Linux kernels are less secure (modular, dynamic libraries), and do not support legacy hardware... I feel this could be bcos of the directions / decisions at the top. I think a more balanced project-head would deliver better results for the community.
where's your wildly succesful open source project?
Huh... I made Linux-jkrise.. I once recompiled the kernel to fix some USB CDMA modem issue - does that count?
If they deliver the code and can keep the project together with their style, then can act how they want.
Actually, just a coupla' days back, I remember reading this stuff about a PHP book.
"This book, written by my colleague, Andi Gutmans, and two very prominent PHP developers, Stig Bakken and Derick Rethans, holds the key to unlocking the riches of PHP 5. It thoroughly covers all of the features of this new version, and is a must have for all PHP developers interested in exploring PHP 5's advanced features"
Zeev Suraski, Co-Designer of PHP 5 and Co-Creator of the Zend Engine
Looks like there's more than one creator of the Zend Engine... not just Jani. And that's the reason why I think inflated egos are bad in Open Source development teams.
With an attitude like this, the fact that this chap's leaving, is actually a good news for the future of PHP. No open source project can afford devleopers with such bloated egos. And especially at the top, it's better to have less hot-headed souls, talking in a decent, humane manner.
I could not care less. Take care. Please do not reply to this email. --Jani
p.s. Delete my CVS account. I have no use for it anymore.
Sometimes I wonder when Linus uses phrases like 'Kicks Ass' 'Couldn't care less' etc., (I refer to his fruity prose in the debate on microkernels) whether he's really suited to his job. Projects like Linux and PHP have a very high reputation, it is unbecoming of bigwigs to talk and act like Ballsmers.
Several members have Linux-based software stacks available.
Much like the NVidia drivers though, these stacks might involve a GPL shim and a non-GPL binary that's checked and verified by the TPM. Probably why GPL3 is getting ready real quick.
You try customising the kernel and alter the stack, and your hardware (the TPM) refuses to run it. End of Linux as we know it.
"Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US Army will require hardware-based security via the Trusted Platform Module standard in all new PCs. They are a large-enough volume buyer that this might kickstart an adoption loop."
Let's say the US Army buys a million night-vision goggles. Would that mean bird-watchers would throw away their good old binoculars and go in for this one?
The TPM is actually a very sound functional and business requirement in the Army... it provides for centralised surveillance and cryptography. Businesses and civilians would indeed NOT TRUST such a technolgy in THEIR PERSONAL AND PRIVATE computers.
Doesn't mean this wouldn't get stuffed on them though, much like DRM.
Regressive idealogies, particularly the ones that think women are only good for babies tend to reject that kind of knowledge.
How many women Presidents has gthe US of A had in it's long democracy?
Any how many women have been Prime Ministers / Chief Ministers in India? (Incidentally President is a figure-head in India... the real power is vested in the Cabinet and the Prime Minister).
Think before you Troll.
What about using a meta tag like bush , and implying a fetish for pubic hair on an adult site?
Instead of throwing chairs or tantrums, lecturing about security etc...
As part of a settlement earlier this year, Google agreed to have an independent expert examine their click fraud detection methods , policies, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not they were reasonable measures to protect advertisers. The report of the expert, NYU Information Systems Professor Alexander Tuzhilin, a Professor of Information Systems at NYU is now available....
Microsoft ought to have some independent experts studying their source code, and reporting whether the products are actually designed propoerly / elegantly / optimally / for best performance / buggily. Simply dishing out Service Packs and Lip Service cannot work for very long.
MS advocate: I work on .Net, MSMQ, SQL and Windows Vista by the day...
OS Advocate: Any by the night???
MS advocate: Oh nothing.. I just Update, patch, reinstall and reboot.
OS Advocate: What is reboot?
the 2006 Tour de France finished yesterday with an American , Floyd Landis, the overall winner
... blah blah
I wonder how Americans always keep winning in France.. these last few years. To hell with all this fancy schmancy technology carbon fiber bikes, serious aerodynamic studies to improve the bikes, the helmets
As Alistair McLean figured out with Vyland and Royale... Fear is the Key. Americans are plain scared in France, methinks!
in what way George W. Bush has prevented the American public from remaining fat, ignorant and watching reality shows?
Okay, let's see how we can prevent people being:
FAT: Impose exorbitant taxes on high fat, junk and non-wholesome food. Provide discounts to healthy foods.
IGNORANT: Levy 300% taxes on Microsoft software. Like the Firefox initiative, every individual who converts another to Free Software gets $100. You will find ignorance vanishing overnight.
WATCHING REALITY SHOWS: That's a tough one. I think a law should be introduced that permits reality shows only one day in a year... February 30th, for instance.
and we all know what happened from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP on RDP, right? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Although Xen would be lucky to survive after Vista server is launched.
Unless the end of support means that all copies will explode and stop working.
Watch out for a new worm / virus / tick / spyware that affects only Win98 systems, and MS won't issue patches. Standard Operating Procedure to get customers to upgrade. Meanwhile, have you observed how systems "Built for 98" happily run XP? Makes you wonder whether XP is anything but "Win98 - A few vulnerabilities + Some new Eye Candy", doesn' it?