Any.ism ever has been greatly misused by the same type of people no matter what the underlying philosophy has been. The compulsion part comes from people who loves power but really just for its own sake and the wealth it brings to them and their kin.
The greatest threat to freedom are those people, not any.ism ever. Just look at what the neocons managed to do with the GOP party.
I have never seen any software thats even close to what you mention above. Im a network admin working with AD and those traits arent even on the same planet as Windows server 2008/2003.
Policies are an ugly hack of distributing disturbingly ugly and crude register hacks onto remote computers. The amount of bugs are staggering.
Remote installation with msi packages sometimes make me wake up screaming in the night. Its hellish work and sometimes an app breaks when installing a new one.
Microsoft doesnt run any office version properly, period.
Active Directory, pray tell, have you ever used it or its 100 different management tools? Seen it grow out of proportion, watched it crash and then had an allnighter trying to get it understand that yes, the backup is from yesterday and yes, it really is older than the current database? AD sucks compared to any LDAP service in existance and it sucks so bad you have to have two copies running at all times. Not for failover but for normal use.
Anyone claiming Windows and AD is a good product hasnt worked with it ever except maybe selling it. That or its someone who has never used anything else.
The only "problem" with linux is that it doesnt run windows applications. Managing many linux computers on a large network is a piece of cake and not at all a problem that needs to be solved.
Yes and i suspect many more will in a few years time once burned by SAAS and all of its implications. Other than software freedom there are countless liability and accountability issues thats totally unresolved right now.
As for software freedom RMS has done more for most of us than we see before we really think about it. Even if you dont run for example Linux its effect on Microsofts and their pricing, quality and security has been more than visible.
Sure he has an on the edge view of things but not at all any different or worse than on the other side where people are viewed upon as wallets to lure their savings from.
I dont have the same views as Richard Stallman but i strongly respect his views and the reasoning behind them is sometimes pretty solid. Its just that the world right now is ran by a bunch of greedy bastards that has nothing but themselves in view.
If you take your time and crimp the connections right nobody will be able to distinguish your cables from any machine made cables anywhere. Not by measurement or other tests. I have had much more bad cables bought from stores actually. Cables are rarely slightly worse, they either works just fine or not at all. You can make a cable run suck but more often by putting a cable next to high power wires than by fault in the wire itself.
This guy is probably the same type of people who buy a 600$ speaker cable not realizing he has a much longer and thinner cable with much worse impendance and other values inside the speaker and is made of much worse copper than his expensive cable. This guy has a level of idiocy youd better not start communicating with because you can never win. Just buy a special cable for whatever it costs.
Its fairly common in sweden that the first instance of the court system (Tingsrätten) is viewed upon as a bunch of clowns you have to pass to get to the real court. They consists of local politicians and if your local ones are anything like ours you know they suck on a professional level in every way possible when it comes to just about anything they do.
Im fairly sure the TPB lawyers has been set for going to the highest level court from the beginning and planned accordingly. This little gem with a clearly biased judge doesnt really help the TPB guys other than for PR since whatever a retrial will result in the trial will be taken higher up in the court system.
Its just a huge PR win for us in the PirateParty and the public opinion. It paints a very clear and vivid picture of us small ones against greedy, corrupt, self-loving, elite and above-the-law politicians.
Microsoft has already been undercut on the desktop but recoups the losses on the server side of things. Their licenses arent at all that cheap once you really start to add it all together. They have understood what the Linux vendors cant get into their thick skull, that the path to the server market goes through the Desktop and thats why they are more than willing to continue even if they loose money on every desktop license sold.
Until some other OS vendor really steps up to the plate and really commit to the desktop Microsoft will keep their hold on the market for desktops and make serious inroads on the servers.
While the technologies in Vista sounds promising on paper all they really do is take away one attack vector out of many possible. Windows has been extremely easy to own historically wich has made the exploits for it pretty trivial. As the arms race continue hackers will still be ahead of Microsoft and all the companies doing applications for windows. The hackers will have to dig deeper into Windows but as always there will be plenty of bugs to go around. As long as Microsoft has a reactive aproach to security instead of a proactive one the hackers have the upper hand.
DRM is what has brought a bit more security but mostly as a side effect and not as an intended goal. Also keep in mind that UAC puts the blame for every possible breach on the user regardless of whos at fault wich is the reason Microsoft makes theese kinds of statements. "Its not a security hole, the user has to press ok for it to work!"
When every possible action demands that keypress UAC is utter useless from a security standpoint.
I think the next logical step is to bring to market something between the mobile/PDA and a netbook. I thought the 7" screen of the eeepc was more than enough for me.
I want something small to bring with me to read the internet, check mail, write mail and do simple online tasks. What i dont want in any way, shape or form is a small Windows computer. I want it to just work and no computer has ever done that for me like a mobile phone can.
An android phone with a bigger screen, about 5-6" would suite my needs perfect for this. I dont want something like a laptop that you drag between power outlets, its got to have good battery time. I have android on my openmoko and i love the UI, the apps and the general structure and thinking behind it. For a handheld computer its just perfect.
Sadly the netbooks took the wrong development thanks to Microsofts heavy subsidising and marketing preassure, from small to bigger to ordinary Windows laptops. The market for small cheap Mobilephones/PDA with constant uplink is still there untapped. Whoever comes first with a priceworthy gadget will win that race.
I have been in the business since the late 80s and my hobby has been Microsoft and their rampage in the industry. I cant think of a single competitor that was beaten fair and square, ever. This is just business as usual.
If previous actions is any guidline google wont get as much as a slap at the wrist whatever they do. Just get enough senators and lobbyists under your belt and you can do whatever you want. Power is for sale in the US, its just a matter of haggling the price.
Anyone can digitize books and put them in a database. Its just that Google is the first to do it in a grand scale but that does not in any way hinder anyone else doing the same. The "monopoly" is just Googles exclusive access to their own database, not the books in themselves.
Whenever i read these things i always wonder what astroturfer from Microsoft is behind the complaints. Until Google proves half as bad as Microsoft i will regard them as a company i can trust. I strongly suspect thats the thorn in Microsofts eye they so desperately is trying to change.
I read all this multicore sales pitch as just whining about not being able to deliver faster cores in todays CPUs. Having a couple of cores at hand is nice on a deskop. Having four on a server is nice. But, most workloads arent easily ran on multiple cores. Virtualization wont have that much help from a 16 core chip since the I/O subsystem in a normal server will be long overused before the you have stressed an 8-way CPU to the max in most cases.
What we need is faster CPU-cores, not more of them. Since neither Intel nor AMD can deliver that they are trying their best making people believe what they really need is more cores and that the software people are the ones who has hit the wall. Its just an intricate blame-game where the real issue is that Mores law has slammed into a concrete wall in 200Mph. The upgrade threadmill is on the verge of slowing down and we cant have that can we?
There isnt any lack of critisism against Linux at all. Its all over mailing lists, irc channels, blogs and whatnot and much of it is very down to earth and true.
The problem is that it drowns out in the torrent of FUD coming from Microsofts, its apologists, astroturfers and partners. Its like shouting next to a freight train.
If the incentive to send out spam was removed spam would slow down to a tiny trickle. Right now its just easy money with all to little effort and next to no chance of getting caught. The only way to stop spam is targeting the companies behind it. Seize all goods sold by spam at the border and charge any company affiliating with spam. If you can hunt filesharers around like dogs it should be no problem finding people hacking thousands of computers and sending millions of spam a day.
Why dont they just use robots.txt and exclude themselves from any search engines? If they dont want to be aggregated the solution is right there.
Micropayments/subscription wont ever work for online media, period. The printing business is not applicable on the internet but the old media moguls wont accept it. This is just another feeble attempt at getting cash from publication where the cost to publizise is close to zero.
I would think movies, magazines and books are next. The real problem today, total lack of future outlooks for our youngs will continue to be overlooked.
People with no hope, future or money are much more likely to give up and some of them want to get revenge on the world and take people with them.
The issue is that an Xbox360 is less sturdy than anything else on the market right now. Compared to Wii and PS3 its a pile of manure disguised as a gaming console.
Its just shitty hardware Q&A from the same company that excels in bad quality software.
This is what i hear, "waa waaa please use more cores so people see a need to get a new 8 way CPU!"
I don't think this is a problem that programmers should solve. Sure its nice if they utilize multiple cores as much as possible but i don't want cores to be used just for the sake of it. If adding another core to an application gives a 30% gain im pretty sure i could use that power for better things in most cases.
The problem in my mind is that core speed has hit a brick wall and tossing more cores at the problem is just a desperate attempt to keep the upgrade treadmill going. Beyond four cores i personally wouldnt see any performance gains other than in rare occasions where i browse, watch movies, encode movies and unzip some large file. I would in those cases also hit the HD and i/o much more than the CPU.
I wonder if javascript and html 5 can make Silverlight become as useless as video in flash made Windows Media Player. Javascript is pretty close if not already there to be able to replace.net, java and flash in most online applications. If enough sites appear thats useful or fun and demands a fast javascript engine this could erode IE marketshare at the same time as it erodes its developer community.
Once you turn your Adamo on your qickly back in the office staring at the same screen youre used to. Apple has software thats cool but all Dell has is Windows. Despite all the efforts by MS Vista is still just XP with some spitshine ontop. Until Dell can do something different with the software they will never be able to compete with apple.
Most hickups when running exchange is because of crappy software, not faulty hardware. Putting a virtualised Windows on good hardware wont help a bit. You also loose a fairly good percentage of the computing power to the virtualization. A much better route would be to optimize and debug the software since exchange and dotnet really are unusually big resource-pigs.
Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Getting services running is sometimes hopelessly hard without any reason really. For some server roles its mostly about letting the users start with the most common setup already configured instead of leaving it all up to the admin to figure out.
I think many Windows admins are put off because they are used to getting atleast something running and then gradually go from there instead of doing everything from page one.
I revently took a course in Microsoft AD after having been a linux guy since RH 5. I couldnt in my wildest dreams think that Microsofts server products are such pile of manure that they are. The more i learn about Windows the more surprised i get that people stand for all the shortcomings, the bad usability, the lack of customer centric solutions and the costs.
In my mind there are just some small things that needs to be pieced in for Linux to be a really dangerous threat to Windows. Most of the things already exists for a Linux solution to completely replace a Microsoft centric network.
I have run Linux Terminal Servers, Linux Fileservers, Linux webservers, Novell, Windows various solutions and Novell Linux solutions. The only thing really needed is an easier and faster way of setting a Linux solution up. Novell and Windows is very hard and tedious to manage once setup but its really easy to get a minimal system up and running. Linux on the other hand is very hard to setup but very easy to manage on a daily basis.
If someone packages a solution where you can get a file, print, ldap and policy handling up and running without much fuss i think Linux would explode. Windows integration is from my view overrated, its much more important of making it easier to get up to speed with a pure linux network. Right now to much work is put into following Microsofts whims around with AD and whatnot instead of building a better solution on linux. A copy can only be so good as its original.
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Any .ism ever has been greatly misused by the same type of people no matter what the underlying philosophy has been. The compulsion part comes from people who loves power but really just for its own sake and the wealth it brings to them and their kin.
The greatest threat to freedom are those people, not any .ism ever. Just look at what the neocons managed to do with the GOP party.
I have never seen any software thats even close to what you mention above. Im a network admin working with AD and those traits arent even on the same planet as Windows server 2008/2003.
Policies are an ugly hack of distributing disturbingly ugly and crude register hacks onto remote computers. The amount of bugs are staggering.
Remote installation with msi packages sometimes make me wake up screaming in the night. Its hellish work and sometimes an app breaks when installing a new one.
Microsoft doesnt run any office version properly, period.
Active Directory, pray tell, have you ever used it or its 100 different management tools? Seen it grow out of proportion, watched it crash and then had an allnighter trying to get it understand that yes, the backup is from yesterday and yes, it really is older than the current database? AD sucks compared to any LDAP service in existance and it sucks so bad you have to have two copies running at all times. Not for failover but for normal use.
Anyone claiming Windows and AD is a good product hasnt worked with it ever except maybe selling it. That or its someone who has never used anything else.
The only "problem" with linux is that it doesnt run windows applications. Managing many linux computers on a large network is a piece of cake and not at all a problem that needs to be solved.
"Does anyone give a shit anymore?"
Yes and i suspect many more will in a few years time once burned by SAAS and all of its implications. Other than software freedom there are countless liability and accountability issues thats totally unresolved right now.
As for software freedom RMS has done more for most of us than we see before we really think about it. Even if you dont run for example Linux its effect on Microsofts and their pricing, quality and security has been more than visible.
Sure he has an on the edge view of things but not at all any different or worse than on the other side where people are viewed upon as wallets to lure their savings from.
I dont have the same views as Richard Stallman but i strongly respect his views and the reasoning behind them is sometimes pretty solid. Its just that the world right now is ran by a bunch of greedy bastards that has nothing but themselves in view.
If you take your time and crimp the connections right nobody will be able to distinguish your cables from any machine made cables anywhere. Not by measurement or other tests. I have had much more bad cables bought from stores actually. Cables are rarely slightly worse, they either works just fine or not at all. You can make a cable run suck but more often by putting a cable next to high power wires than by fault in the wire itself.
This guy is probably the same type of people who buy a 600$ speaker cable not realizing he has a much longer and thinner cable with much worse impendance and other values inside the speaker and is made of much worse copper than his expensive cable. This guy has a level of idiocy youd better not start communicating with because you can never win. Just buy a special cable for whatever it costs.
Its fairly common in sweden that the first instance of the court system (Tingsrätten) is viewed upon as a bunch of clowns you have to pass to get to the real court. They consists of local politicians and if your local ones are anything like ours you know they suck on a professional level in every way possible when it comes to just about anything they do.
Im fairly sure the TPB lawyers has been set for going to the highest level court from the beginning and planned accordingly. This little gem with a clearly biased judge doesnt really help the TPB guys other than for PR since whatever a retrial will result in the trial will be taken higher up in the court system.
Its just a huge PR win for us in the PirateParty and the public opinion. It paints a very clear and vivid picture of us small ones against greedy, corrupt, self-loving, elite and above-the-law politicians.
Microsoft has already been undercut on the desktop but recoups the losses on the server side of things. Their licenses arent at all that cheap once you really start to add it all together. They have understood what the Linux vendors cant get into their thick skull, that the path to the server market goes through the Desktop and thats why they are more than willing to continue even if they loose money on every desktop license sold.
Until some other OS vendor really steps up to the plate and really commit to the desktop Microsoft will keep their hold on the market for desktops and make serious inroads on the servers.
While the technologies in Vista sounds promising on paper all they really do is take away one attack vector out of many possible. Windows has been extremely easy to own historically wich has made the exploits for it pretty trivial. As the arms race continue hackers will still be ahead of Microsoft and all the companies doing applications for windows. The hackers will have to dig deeper into Windows but as always there will be plenty of bugs to go around. As long as Microsoft has a reactive aproach to security instead of a proactive one the hackers have the upper hand.
DRM is what has brought a bit more security but mostly as a side effect and not as an intended goal. Also keep in mind that UAC puts the blame for every possible breach on the user regardless of whos at fault wich is the reason Microsoft makes theese kinds of statements. "Its not a security hole, the user has to press ok for it to work!"
When every possible action demands that keypress UAC is utter useless from a security standpoint.
Look ma i can give away things for free!
I think the next logical step is to bring to market something between the mobile/PDA and a netbook. I thought the 7" screen of the eeepc was more than enough for me.
I want something small to bring with me to read the internet, check mail, write mail and do simple online tasks. What i dont want in any way, shape or form is a small Windows computer. I want it to just work and no computer has ever done that for me like a mobile phone can.
An android phone with a bigger screen, about 5-6" would suite my needs perfect for this. I dont want something like a laptop that you drag between power outlets, its got to have good battery time. I have android on my openmoko and i love the UI, the apps and the general structure and thinking behind it. For a handheld computer its just perfect.
Sadly the netbooks took the wrong development thanks to Microsofts heavy subsidising and marketing preassure, from small to bigger to ordinary Windows laptops. The market for small cheap Mobilephones/PDA with constant uplink is still there untapped. Whoever comes first with a priceworthy gadget will win that race.
"They don't even try to compete anymore."
What, Microsoft have tried to compete? Where?
I have been in the business since the late 80s and my hobby has been Microsoft and their rampage in the industry. I cant think of a single competitor that was beaten fair and square, ever. This is just business as usual.
If previous actions is any guidline google wont get as much as a slap at the wrist whatever they do. Just get enough senators and lobbyists under your belt and you can do whatever you want. Power is for sale in the US, its just a matter of haggling the price.
Anyone can digitize books and put them in a database. Its just that Google is the first to do it in a grand scale but that does not in any way hinder anyone else doing the same. The "monopoly" is just Googles exclusive access to their own database, not the books in themselves.
Whenever i read these things i always wonder what astroturfer from Microsoft is behind the complaints. Until Google proves half as bad as Microsoft i will regard them as a company i can trust. I strongly suspect thats the thorn in Microsofts eye they so desperately is trying to change.
I read all this multicore sales pitch as just whining about not being able to deliver faster cores in todays CPUs. Having a couple of cores at hand is nice on a deskop. Having four on a server is nice. But, most workloads arent easily ran on multiple cores. Virtualization wont have that much help from a 16 core chip since the I/O subsystem in a normal server will be long overused before the you have stressed an 8-way CPU to the max in most cases.
What we need is faster CPU-cores, not more of them. Since neither Intel nor AMD can deliver that they are trying their best making people believe what they really need is more cores and that the software people are the ones who has hit the wall. Its just an intricate blame-game where the real issue is that Mores law has slammed into a concrete wall in 200Mph. The upgrade threadmill is on the verge of slowing down and we cant have that can we?
There isnt any lack of critisism against Linux at all. Its all over mailing lists, irc channels, blogs and whatnot and much of it is very down to earth and true.
The problem is that it drowns out in the torrent of FUD coming from Microsofts, its apologists, astroturfers and partners. Its like shouting next to a freight train.
If the incentive to send out spam was removed spam would slow down to a tiny trickle. Right now its just easy money with all to little effort and next to no chance of getting caught. The only way to stop spam is targeting the companies behind it. Seize all goods sold by spam at the border and charge any company affiliating with spam. If you can hunt filesharers around like dogs it should be no problem finding people hacking thousands of computers and sending millions of spam a day.
Why dont they just use robots.txt and exclude themselves from any search engines? If they dont want to be aggregated the solution is right there.
Micropayments/subscription wont ever work for online media, period. The printing business is not applicable on the internet but the old media moguls wont accept it. This is just another feeble attempt at getting cash from publication where the cost to publizise is close to zero.
I would think movies, magazines and books are next. The real problem today, total lack of future outlooks for our youngs will continue to be overlooked.
People with no hope, future or money are much more likely to give up and some of them want to get revenge on the world and take people with them.
The issue is that an Xbox360 is less sturdy than anything else on the market right now. Compared to Wii and PS3 its a pile of manure disguised as a gaming console.
Its just shitty hardware Q&A from the same company that excels in bad quality software.
This is what i hear, "waa waaa please use more cores so people see a need to get a new 8 way CPU!"
I don't think this is a problem that programmers should solve. Sure its nice if they utilize multiple cores as much as possible but i don't want cores to be used just for the sake of it. If adding another core to an application gives a 30% gain im pretty sure i could use that power for better things in most cases.
The problem in my mind is that core speed has hit a brick wall and tossing more cores at the problem is just a desperate attempt to keep the upgrade treadmill going. Beyond four cores i personally wouldnt see any performance gains other than in rare occasions where i browse, watch movies, encode movies and unzip some large file. I would in those cases also hit the HD and i/o much more than the CPU.
I wonder if javascript and html 5 can make Silverlight become as useless as video in flash made Windows Media Player. Javascript is pretty close if not already there to be able to replace .net, java and flash in most online applications. If enough sites appear thats useful or fun and demands a fast javascript engine this could erode IE marketshare at the same time as it erodes its developer community.
Once you turn your Adamo on your qickly back in the office staring at the same screen youre used to. Apple has software thats cool but all Dell has is Windows. Despite all the efforts by MS Vista is still just XP with some spitshine ontop. Until Dell can do something different with the software they will never be able to compete with apple.
Most hickups when running exchange is because of crappy software, not faulty hardware. Putting a virtualised Windows on good hardware wont help a bit. You also loose a fairly good percentage of the computing power to the virtualization. A much better route would be to optimize and debug the software since exchange and dotnet really are unusually big resource-pigs.
Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Getting services running is sometimes hopelessly hard without any reason really. For some server roles its mostly about letting the users start with the most common setup already configured instead of leaving it all up to the admin to figure out.
I think many Windows admins are put off because they are used to getting atleast something running and then gradually go from there instead of doing everything from page one.
I revently took a course in Microsoft AD after having been a linux guy since RH 5. I couldnt in my wildest dreams think that Microsofts server products are such pile of manure that they are. The more i learn about Windows the more surprised i get that people stand for all the shortcomings, the bad usability, the lack of customer centric solutions and the costs.
In my mind there are just some small things that needs to be pieced in for Linux to be a really dangerous threat to Windows. Most of the things already exists for a Linux solution to completely replace a Microsoft centric network.
I have run Linux Terminal Servers, Linux Fileservers, Linux webservers, Novell, Windows various solutions and Novell Linux solutions. The only thing really needed is an easier and faster way of setting a Linux solution up. Novell and Windows is very hard and tedious to manage once setup but its really easy to get a minimal system up and running. Linux on the other hand is very hard to setup but very easy to manage on a daily basis.
If someone packages a solution where you can get a file, print, ldap and policy handling up and running without much fuss i think Linux would explode. Windows integration is from my view overrated, its much more important of making it easier to get up to speed with a pure linux network. Right now to much work is put into following Microsofts whims around with AD and whatnot instead of building a better solution on linux. A copy can only be so good as its original.
I bought it and its very interesting and challenging =)
The problem for me personally is that i gladly buy things for Linux but its really damn hard to find stuff to pay for.