Ill take any darn OS if i just can avoid paying the Microsoft tax. The common misconception that nobody wanted Linux on netbooks is utter bullshit. They sold boatloads of netbooks before they started shipping them with a heavily discounted XP and suddenly, despite consumer demand they also yanked any Linux loaded netbook.
The real problem with to few women in FOSS is the same as in many other places. Girls are mostly uninterested in computers in general and the inner workings in particular. The solution isnt to fundamentally change the enviroment to be "girly" but to get more women interested in technology in general. If the interest is there things sorts themselves out. I havent ever seen a girl being welcomed with anything but open arms in my line of work (sysadmin). They are judged by their knowledge and ability, nothing more nothing less.
To single out this as a FOSS problem is just insane since the "problem" exists in technology in general and is not confined to open source. The reason i write "problem" is that i dont see any defiances with people doing what interests them the most. Get more women interested and they will be welcomed just like anyone else jumping into FOSS, prove yourself first and then get the respect you deserve. Not the other way round.
Personally i have thought about learning SSL from the ground up the "right way" countless times. The problem is finding a course thats general about implementation but dives down into the gritty details of SSL. I dont want to know howto meddle with SSL on a specifik product, i want to understand its inner workings so i can manage any implementation through good knowledge about wtf im doing.
Hey, English is not my native language. If you think i write as a monkey on chrystal meth please show me the right spelling/sentence i should have used.:D
It would be fair if you could snoop on politicians and the rest of the wealthy. Problem is, its extremely focused on poor and uneducated people who desperately needs help getting up from poverty, not surveillance.
Why arent the same extreme mesures taken out to challenge corporate crimes? The society value of stopping moneylandry, tax evasion and such is much much higher than to get at some idiot shoplifting or doing other petty crimes.
Its clearly people in power bashing poor and powerless people. Stasi and KGB must be pretty miffed when the people lambasting them the most in the 90s is stealing their work.
Shouldn't the question the judge would be asking himself be, wtf are a bank doing sending highly classified and sensitive information unencrypted, over frigging e-mail? Google and the customer should really be last in line, long after the excecs at the bank have had their bottoms spanked.
No wonder the bank system collapses every now and then.
Dos is really interesting because as history goes Bill Gates licensed it and cheated Seattle Computer Products on the terms. Later on it is revealed that Dos is not only a clone but also contains sourcecode from CP/M of Digital Research fame. Sadly for Digital Research they strike a deal out of court and let Microsoft of the hook.
Not only didnt Microsoft make Dos, it was stolen code from another company, imagine that happening today? For that matter, imagine Microsoft starting out today and how many nanoseconds they would survive.
How long does it take before the desktop is usable? Did they login all the way or just stopped the clock at the login prompt? Vista for eg. boots quickly but it takes a while until its usable.
Its fairly easy to speed up the bios if you just scrap all internal testing, key pauses and such. Does it recognize a new ide/sata disk/other devices without going into bios manually?
Internet Explorer 7 and 8 is nothing like Firefox. If you compare them the differences is very big. While Firefox use the old menustyle IE 7 and 8 is a clutter of buttons and garbled UI elements. I hate everytime i have to adjust a policy for IE and have to sit with it to test them out. The UI in IE sucks, hard. Firefox doesnt need Microsofts brand of suckiness.
Most of all, if you want to redo the whole UI with all the work that implies, ffs do it right instead of borrowing ultimate suckiness from the worst HID in the world.
Here we have Firefox taking marketshare from IE by being just that, NOT Internet Explorer.
To follow IE or Microsofts whims makes Firefox second fiddle just like OpenOffice.
Add ontop that ribbon must be the silliest menu interface known to man. Contextual menues doesnt work because 90% of all users use their placement memory instead of really reading what the menus say. Thats why people gets all confused if you move a couple of icons on their desktop, their icon isnt that red ball, its that icon next to some other icon. Its stupid, works very badly on normal users and potentially an infringement problem begging for a real good footdown from Microsoft.
I goddamn hate ribbon, especially supporting it is a nightmare.
The win situation would be that everyone would have got easy access to orphaned books. Having the ability to search them would be very beneficial for any researcher in the world. Especially if work was put to scanning old books held in small amounts by collectors and institutions.
The only win i can see is lobbyism from a few parties that felt left out and couldnt tag along on googles settlement money. I hope Google just drop this and let someone else foot the bill and then make the same demand for equal access as Microsoft makes now.
Reporting on Microsoft vapourware is just plain silly considering how little of their announcements that reach the market. Considering how much specs that gets tossed out the window to get it out after delays upon delays makes it even more pointless.
I believed the customers had spoken out clearly enough about DRM. All sites i have seen lately that sells music are totally into mp3.
I dont think people will take it up the shute any more willingly just because its movies thats DRM tainted. Especially not now when movies is getting into all sorts of gadgets like mobile phones, media players, netbooks and game devices etc.
DRM only do one thing from the paying customer perspective, severely limits the portability of paid content. It does not bring any benefits whatsoever. It also makes pirated/cracked content better than bought content and thats really not a good selling point. My kid really hates Microsoft because of how bad the DRM in GTA4 was and how many hoops he had to jump through to get it installed and working. He actually d/l a pirated version even if he has a legit copy, just to avoid the DRM stuff. I have a really hard time explaining to him why he should pay for his games after stuff like this.
The reason Microsoft is so into this is pretty obvious. They want to be the gatekeeper between people and their content so that any content will demand Microsoft licenses to be usable.
I could se myself pay for high quality articles where the reporters go out on a limb, do research and investigation resulting in unbiased and correct reporting.
Problem is most media today are highly biased, write stuff any blogger can do better and wouldnt dare touch a sensitive topic if its anything but 100% PK with upper management. The product arent worth the money and why should i pay for what is essentially propaganda aimed at me?
Im the one who should get money for all the ads, both in normal papers and in write-for-rent rags where a big ad gets you a nice article about your company.
Ive encountered that numerous times when doing large imports and exports. Often the problem i have had is that the export from the source system has been incomplete because of missing info on the accounts or just corruption in the DB. cut -fn and pals does not like such things very much.
Its a common problem in most mail systems. You often have a couple of accounts on acid, be it by corruption, useless tools or human error. The university side should definately have checked their system before the migration.
"I'm sorry, perhaps you missed the part where students could read each others emails."
If we are to be true, students could not reach other students inboxes. During migration mails wore put in wrong inboxes. Its a pretty big difference if the source system is on crack or if there is a security breach in the target system. In this case the problem could lie in the software used to migrate the users mails but it did not lie in Google Apps itself.
"Why are you diverting a serious matter like this into smearing a company that most likely had nothing to do with it?"
Because Microsoft is running a big campaign in portraying Google as bad. Google is a really hard hit target right now for FUD. The fact that this was a big Microsoft Exchange customer before makes my radar tingle a bit extra for that reason.
"E-mail accounts can contain very sensitive data, ranging from bank papers to personal issues. And especially if people you know get access to this, it makes the problem more serious than ever. "
Yes, and the problem wasnt Google Apps in itself but getting mails out from exchange and into Google Mail to the right account. It was more a migration error than any security problem. Most times the problem with migrations lies in broken accounts in the source system.
"And the fact that it is free doesn't make it more acceptable. It's like saying that someone volunteering for a non-paid job can act whichever way he or she wants just because it's free. No, you still have to follow rules. "
The fact that its free does make it more acceptable. Where talking free market here, not soviet russia.
"Comments like this make me realize why there are so many extremists in this world."
My impression is that this incident is a fuckup at the customer end of things. The problem was getting the emails out of Exchange into the right account in Google Apps.
This is something where i personally have missed a couple of times and its very common since there are always some accounts that are broken in an exchange system.
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Ill take any darn OS if i just can avoid paying the Microsoft tax. The common misconception that nobody wanted Linux on netbooks is utter bullshit. They sold boatloads of netbooks before they started shipping them with a heavily discounted XP and suddenly, despite consumer demand they also yanked any Linux loaded netbook.
Ill take your account on Google Wave any day!
The real problem with to few women in FOSS is the same as in many other places. Girls are mostly uninterested in computers in general and the inner workings in particular. The solution isnt to fundamentally change the enviroment to be "girly" but to get more women interested in technology in general. If the interest is there things sorts themselves out. I havent ever seen a girl being welcomed with anything but open arms in my line of work (sysadmin). They are judged by their knowledge and ability, nothing more nothing less.
To single out this as a FOSS problem is just insane since the "problem" exists in technology in general and is not confined to open source. The reason i write "problem" is that i dont see any defiances with people doing what interests them the most. Get more women interested and they will be welcomed just like anyone else jumping into FOSS, prove yourself first and then get the respect you deserve. Not the other way round.
Personally i have thought about learning SSL from the ground up the "right way" countless times. The problem is finding a course thats general about implementation but dives down into the gritty details of SSL. I dont want to know howto meddle with SSL on a specifik product, i want to understand its inner workings so i can manage any implementation through good knowledge about wtf im doing.
When i first read the headline i also thought, "wtf, is that still around?".
I do miss Norton Commander but Midnight Commander is really nice as a replacement.
Hey, English is not my native language. If you think i write as a monkey on chrystal meth please show me the right spelling/sentence i should have used. :D
It would be fair if you could snoop on politicians and the rest of the wealthy. Problem is, its extremely focused on poor and uneducated people who desperately needs help getting up from poverty, not surveillance.
Why arent the same extreme mesures taken out to challenge corporate crimes? The society value of stopping moneylandry, tax evasion and such is much much higher than to get at some idiot shoplifting or doing other petty crimes.
Its clearly people in power bashing poor and powerless people. Stasi and KGB must be pretty miffed when the people lambasting them the most in the 90s is stealing their work.
I dont know what to say, im just so damn sad. Democracy is a hollow word that has forever lost its meaning.
Windows 7 IS Windows Vista.
I just run Linux instead.
Shouldn't the question the judge would be asking himself be, wtf are a bank doing sending highly classified and sensitive information unencrypted, over frigging e-mail? Google and the customer should really be last in line, long after the excecs at the bank have had their bottoms spanked.
No wonder the bank system collapses every now and then.
Dos is really interesting because as history goes Bill Gates licensed it and cheated Seattle Computer Products on the terms. Later on it is revealed that Dos is not only a clone but also contains sourcecode from CP/M of Digital Research fame. Sadly for Digital Research they strike a deal out of court and let Microsoft of the hook.
Not only didnt Microsoft make Dos, it was stolen code from another company, imagine that happening today? For that matter, imagine Microsoft starting out today and how many nanoseconds they would survive.
How long does it take before the desktop is usable? Did they login all the way or just stopped the clock at the login prompt? Vista for eg. boots quickly but it takes a while until its usable.
Its fairly easy to speed up the bios if you just scrap all internal testing, key pauses and such. Does it recognize a new ide/sata disk/other devices without going into bios manually?
Internet Explorer 7 and 8 is nothing like Firefox. If you compare them the differences is very big. While Firefox use the old menustyle IE 7 and 8 is a clutter of buttons and garbled UI elements. I hate everytime i have to adjust a policy for IE and have to sit with it to test them out. The UI in IE sucks, hard. Firefox doesnt need Microsofts brand of suckiness.
Most of all, if you want to redo the whole UI with all the work that implies, ffs do it right instead of borrowing ultimate suckiness from the worst HID in the world.
Here we have Firefox taking marketshare from IE by being just that, NOT Internet Explorer.
To follow IE or Microsofts whims makes Firefox second fiddle just like OpenOffice.
Add ontop that ribbon must be the silliest menu interface known to man. Contextual menues doesnt work because 90% of all users use their placement memory instead of really reading what the menus say. Thats why people gets all confused if you move a couple of icons on their desktop, their icon isnt that red ball, its that icon next to some other icon. Its stupid, works very badly on normal users and potentially an infringement problem begging for a real good footdown from Microsoft.
I goddamn hate ribbon, especially supporting it is a nightmare.
The win situation would be that everyone would have got easy access to orphaned books. Having the ability to search them would be very beneficial for any researcher in the world. Especially if work was put to scanning old books held in small amounts by collectors and institutions.
The only win i can see is lobbyism from a few parties that felt left out and couldnt tag along on googles settlement money. I hope Google just drop this and let someone else foot the bill and then make the same demand for equal access as Microsoft makes now.
Reporting on Microsoft vapourware is just plain silly considering how little of their announcements that reach the market. Considering how much specs that gets tossed out the window to get it out after delays upon delays makes it even more pointless.
I believed the customers had spoken out clearly enough about DRM. All sites i have seen lately that sells music are totally into mp3.
I dont think people will take it up the shute any more willingly just because its movies thats DRM tainted. Especially not now when movies is getting into all sorts of gadgets like mobile phones, media players, netbooks and game devices etc.
DRM only do one thing from the paying customer perspective, severely limits the portability of paid content. It does not bring any benefits whatsoever. It also makes pirated/cracked content better than bought content and thats really not a good selling point. My kid really hates Microsoft because of how bad the DRM in GTA4 was and how many hoops he had to jump through to get it installed and working. He actually d/l a pirated version even if he has a legit copy, just to avoid the DRM stuff. I have a really hard time explaining to him why he should pay for his games after stuff like this.
The reason Microsoft is so into this is pretty obvious. They want to be the gatekeeper between people and their content so that any content will demand Microsoft licenses to be usable.
Its on its way to Linux. Chromium has been stable for a couple of weeks so now here is a dev release of Chrome. Works very well on debian at least.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
I could se myself pay for high quality articles where the reporters go out on a limb, do research and investigation resulting in unbiased and correct reporting.
Problem is most media today are highly biased, write stuff any blogger can do better and wouldnt dare touch a sensitive topic if its anything but 100% PK with upper management. The product arent worth the money and why should i pay for what is essentially propaganda aimed at me?
Im the one who should get money for all the ads, both in normal papers and in write-for-rent rags where a big ad gets you a nice article about your company.
Ive encountered that numerous times when doing large imports and exports. Often the problem i have had is that the export from the source system has been incomplete because of missing info on the accounts or just corruption in the DB. cut -fn and pals does not like such things very much.
Its a common problem in most mail systems. You often have a couple of accounts on acid, be it by corruption, useless tools or human error. The university side should definately have checked their system before the migration.
"I'm sorry, perhaps you missed the part where students could read each others emails."
If we are to be true, students could not reach other students inboxes. During migration mails wore put in wrong inboxes. Its a pretty big difference if the source system is on crack or if there is a security breach in the target system. In this case the problem could lie in the software used to migrate the users mails but it did not lie in Google Apps itself.
"Why are you diverting a serious matter like this into smearing a company that most likely had nothing to do with it?"
Because Microsoft is running a big campaign in portraying Google as bad. Google is a really hard hit target right now for FUD. The fact that this was a big Microsoft Exchange customer before makes my radar tingle a bit extra for that reason.
"E-mail accounts can contain very sensitive data, ranging from bank papers to personal issues. And especially if people you know get access to this, it makes the problem more serious than ever. "
Yes, and the problem wasnt Google Apps in itself but getting mails out from exchange and into Google Mail to the right account. It was more a migration error than any security problem. Most times the problem with migrations lies in broken accounts in the source system.
"And the fact that it is free doesn't make it more acceptable. It's like saying that someone volunteering for a non-paid job can act whichever way he or she wants just because it's free. No, you still have to follow rules. "
The fact that its free does make it more acceptable. Where talking free market here, not soviet russia.
"Comments like this make me realize why there are so many extremists in this world."
Different view = extremist? Yay for talibans!
My impression is that this incident is a fuckup at the customer end of things. The problem was getting the emails out of Exchange into the right account in Google Apps.
This is something where i personally have missed a couple of times and its very common since there are always some accounts that are broken in an exchange system.