Many managers have difficulties to understand that there really exists people that are better than them in some areas. It makes them thinking that there own decisions are the best. A good manager can spot good employees and give them responsibility. To manage a company in detail is like fighting several wars at once with multiple fronts. You never get a complete picture down to detail level when you have limited time to read up on everything. Better let someone else do that and check in occasionally to see that it works.
What a big company needs is a clear direction and not what_pen_to_buy decicions.
Well if we should take about numbers the holocaust is NOT the biggest slay of all times. Hitler pales in comparison to what happened to South America and the native indians in the USA. Their culture is pretty much exctinct by now. The Jewish culture flourish and seems to do rather good in comparison dont you think? Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin was other people we rarely hear about even if they did worse things than hitler ever had the time to do.
I have no problem setting theese things into perspective but no matter how someone rearrange the wordings you cant do one wrong and one right and come out even. What Microsoft has done to modern computing by killing off every brilliant idea out there in its infancy is pretty much the holocaust of computers.
The only still living viable competitor is Linux since all other has either been killed off or deminished. Not because MS is better but because it actively has killed every single would be competitor it has seen. If you follow news flows and current events in Washington you can see that they activly try to lobby for laws forbidding or crippling the GPL since linux cant be touched by MS normal means of killing competition. Economics dont bite as good at something that is free. Bill gates stands behind this and he surely knows that its utterly wrong and that it cripples the computer industry. Heck look at the figures, who is makeng silly amounts of money on the expence of the rest of the computer industry? I think this boils down to bad karma and an attempt to justify it.
I am by no definition anti jewish. Call me whatever you want i like to call myself big mouthed and i stand for that. No toe is to tender. The Jewish people is no exception.
Hitler did wonderful things for unemployment in germany but i have a hard time liking him better because of that. All the donations are also deductable and since Microsoft hardly pays any taxes it pretty much is a nullsum game.
The winners are ofcourse the poor bastards but if you read up on your history youll find that we the western countries put most of the into poverty by stripping their natural resources.
We still do this and if some little pile of money trickle back to them from what we steal well good but not good enough.
Microsoft still uses shoddy games and i think that is the reason for all the donations. A feeble attemt to clear Bills dirty Conscience .
I guess dust and fingerprints can make it hard to record so to keep them clean can extend the number of rewrites. Have you tried to null write the disk at lower speed? In general writing at lower speed should make the tracks better since all disks have balance problems and wows a bit.
My mom phones me weekly yapping about some new virus that has slipped into her computer. She is 50+ and i think she is doing a nice job learning her WinXP. What she is frustrated with is the fact that she has a firewall, a antivirus program and she updates often even if she is on a modem. Still she have gotten successful attacks into her machine and even viruses has slipped past her antivirus system. She is getting real paranoid and feels that its not fun anymore when you have to be a fully fledged sysadmin to surf and write mails. She is going for linux and i will try to install it as safe as possible for her. No services open and a default drop on incoming connections should keep her safe for a while. That is what i would call proactive security.
Security must be proactive and not reactive. MS is simplifying reactive security instead of focusing on proactive security. The old vuln ??? patch treadmill is stupid. I think some dists should stop making their default installs wide open aswell. Close all ports and code a nice simple app that makes it easy to open the ones you need to be open.
Often when you do all things by hand you end up with a much better system than if everything is done automagically. Because only you know what you want its hard for someone else to do it for you. Usually you only configure an application once and since i dont install/uninstall apps all day (isnt fun anymore, i use my apps instead) the time spent tweaking files is very small once you get the system flying.
I think there exists space for all variations of linux dists and together they provide an excellent path for some people like me to walk on. Start off with a nice easy dist and as you grow you go towards Debian/Slack/Gentoo etc. One of the many reasons that i left windows was that i felt stuck, squeezed between MS and its developers. The same apply for very userfriendly dists too. I like the control and system-knowledge it gives me when i build my own system from scratch.
I really dont think we should push all dists towards user friendly. There are disadvantages with that too as it tends to empower n00bs at the expence of experienced users. More flawors is better as long as they all follow the Linux Standard Base.
They cant get into their heads that many of the people looking at linux doesnt do it because of linux superiority. Microsoft has done a great job of alienating their own customers with high prices and shoddy quality. Not to mention how they have made a clear mark that anyone working together with them get a stab in the back.
If they had cared anything about their customers they wouldnt be in this situation.
All their talk about "fighting linux" is just BS. How big part of the market has linux? I think there are enough space to cater both but MS seems to think that ANY competition is dangerous.
Why do they have such little faith in their own ability to compete on fair grounds? It feels liek they are grasping for straws. Maybe times arent so easy when there arent many companies to steal ideas from any longer. Any smart person with a wild new idea for a killer app just think Netscape and then puts it in a drawer until MS gets under control.
How you word it wont change the simple truth, dont put all your risks in one single point of failure. Somewhere somehow a mistake is made and the wrong person gets access where he shouldnt. By that time the people that endorse this kind och things are gone like smoke or pretending like its raining.
"Which is why redundancy is so important for the security servers. Facilities like DCE use a distributed cluster of authentication/authorization based on Kerberos for just this reason."
In this case i was refering to the fact that if someone hack the central server all my passwords are out wild instead of just one password if they hack one shopping site.
"Client-based security implies that your clients are trusted systems, which is very, very bad as a security model. In the case of Mozilla, what it actually keeps is a copy of your passwords, which means that if that data file is stolen it can be decrypted. In the case of facilities like Kerberos, the password is only stored on disk after a one-way hash, which is much harder to crack."
If my client isnt trusted i wouldnt trust anything ever being made on it. Anyone with root/admin access can log and record everything you make on your computer. It would be possible to store records locally with high encryption, thus i said like mozilla not actually mozilla.
"If they break into your client computer and steal your Mozilla password file, they don't have to remain connected to crack your passwords, which minimizes their exposure to tracing. They also don't need to modify any files to do this, which makes it much harder to detect the intrusion in the first place."
If they get my password from a central site they dont have to visit my computer at all, not the other 200 000 they get the passwords for either. A target like that is much more likely to be cracked than my own computer. Spread the risks and dont centralise them.
I was thinking about why anyone would want to lock themselves into Passport when a free alternative axists? It seems so counter productive and stupid to me.
I totally agree with you there. If i have a centralised account on one company and they mess up all my accounts is screwed. Dont put all your eggs in one basket. I would much rather have an application that held all my accounts in it encryptet on the HD like in Mozilla. Then they have to break into my computer to get them. If they do that no Passport or liberty in the world will save me anyway since they can look at what i type and then logon by themselves with my account.
To centralise all passwords is just plain stupid and as i pointed out above it can be solved in better ways. A smartcard with all your accounts that you use with a single password or something.
I was under the impression that they did care about user input. Since they havent any money to do usability studies peoples opinions is probably all they have to go on.
As much as i like KDE i dont like the direction its taking. Personally i just want a working desktop that i can tweak and turn to my liking. What i dont want is applications and settings scattered all over and 10 ways to do the same thing. Integrating net enabled applications into the desktop is a sure way to bad security and should be avoided. Integrating everything and the kitchen sink has its disadvantage when it comes to bugs that are multi dimensional. They are very hard to find and sometimes impossible to fix without breaking stuff.
Kde should concentrate on doing a great desktop and stop from integrating applications deep down into the core. You can do the same things much more shallow and not at the expence of security. Soon KDE will be its own distribution and that cant be what they strive for.
To be dependant on any single company when doing open software is not that good. Changing licenses and strategies from comercial companies should not intervene with development.
To mix and blend GPL and proprearity software in kernel development is dangerous and can lead to lawsuits stopping up development. Im one of those that thinks keeping the kernel clean is uttely important.
First of all the slump in the overall economy will stop any significant new technologies in their crib. If current situation remains the only thing corporations havent saved money on is the IT departments. After they sacked half their staff and factories only IT and management is left to do any larger savings on. They will go after IT and not management for cost cuts. I presume that the biggest IT companies will have a hard time to withstand their high earnings if that will be the case.
On the good side this would open up a new area of buisiness that i think would thrive. Companies like IBM that saves money for their customers will be very popular among corporations.
New computer hardware wont be released with the same pace if no one is buying it. The current pace on uppgrades has been predicted to level off for quite some time now and its about time. At some point hardware is up to par with the tasks performed by 90% of people. The rest 10% cant hold the upgrade pace up by themselves.
Well i am using mostly GPL and other Open Source software but there are occasions where there arent any. Games spring to mind and there are other times when there just arent any viable alternatives. Im not into linux for the price but because i like it. Ill gladly pay for software that i find worth the money. To get support from hardware and software there need to be some consistency in how you install software on all dists. Preferebly an easy way too so that even 00:00 people can use it.
But hey, thats just my opinion, im not going to force it on anybody.
I know about debian and i think it works pretty well for GPL software that lies resident on ftp servers and such. What i am looking for is some better easier way of installing comercial software. Today most installs is hacks of various success. A unified system cant be that hard to gather around.
I cant understand all this ranting. Just run linux n a real PC or something else. The Xbox is so far away from open source that putting open source on it is near to result in a matter/antimatter explosion. Give the beast up and buy something else instead. Why dont put some effort on getting more games ut on linux? I understand that some people does mods because of the challange but in this case its just helping MS getting their Palladium/DRM system tested for free.
Ill say it again if you want to run linux buy a real computer instead of crippling it on an Xbox.
As of the ability of making games without paying licenses i would prefer an open gaming console instead. Todays system of paying licenses to sell games for Xbox, nintendo and PS is an artificial buisiness model and should go away.
The only thing i think needs attention is installing/uninstalling applications. Today that is a pain in linux and should be addressed. To get adoption on the desktop that have to be as easy as in Mac or Windows to install and uninstall software.
Besides that i really like RH 8.0 and it works just fine for me and my wife.
Big apps like sendmail and exchange that wants to do everything are always going to be bug ridden. Thats mainly because the code is so big that its impossible to have a complete picture of how everything interacts. Installing and hiding trojans in a large CVS tree is easier too than in a small tree. Learn from MS on this one. Do everything halfbad or one thing excellent.
Putting software on secure servers or better to put them on a community server would be nice. I can understand that coders dont want to tinker on their servers when they want to code but why not get some help?
You make it sound like they have a tough time doing profit. When almost all of the industry is suffering only MS i able to get even higher profit. Doesnt that ring a bell somewhere? They have more money than they can spend but they wont spend it on better products. Thats plain wrong and points to the fact that no real competition exists in the OS market today. Would apple have released MacOS X on intel if there was room for competition, hell yes!
Even if its nice and fun that they have made it possible why would i want to run linux on X-box? All they really do is helping MS finetuning their DRM system before it gets to he PC. It will be a cold day in hell before i buy an Xbox.
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Many managers have difficulties to understand that there really exists people that are better than them in some areas. It makes them thinking that there own decisions are the best. A good manager can spot good employees and give them responsibility. To manage a company in detail is like fighting several wars at once with multiple fronts. You never get a complete picture down to detail level when you have limited time to read up on everything. Better let someone else do that and check in occasionally to see that it works.
What a big company needs is a clear direction and not what_pen_to_buy decicions.
Well if we should take about numbers the holocaust is NOT the biggest slay of all times. Hitler pales in comparison to what happened to South America and the native indians in the USA. Their culture is pretty much exctinct by now. The Jewish culture flourish and seems to do rather good in comparison dont you think? Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin was other people we rarely hear about even if they did worse things than hitler ever had the time to do.
I have no problem setting theese things into perspective but no matter how someone rearrange the wordings you cant do one wrong and one right and come out even. What Microsoft has done to modern computing by killing off every brilliant idea out there in its infancy is pretty much the holocaust of computers.
The only still living viable competitor is Linux since all other has either been killed off or deminished. Not because MS is better but because it actively has killed every single would be competitor it has seen. If you follow news flows and current events in Washington you can see that they activly try to lobby for laws forbidding or crippling the GPL since linux cant be touched by MS normal means of killing competition. Economics dont bite as good at something that is free. Bill gates stands behind this and he surely knows that its utterly wrong and that it cripples the computer industry. Heck look at the figures, who is makeng silly amounts of money on the expence of the rest of the computer industry? I think this boils down to bad karma and an attempt to justify it.
I am by no definition anti jewish. Call me whatever you want i like to call myself big mouthed and i stand for that. No toe is to tender. The Jewish people is no exception.
So?
Hitler did wonderful things for unemployment in germany but i have a hard time liking him better because of that. All the donations are also deductable and since Microsoft hardly pays any taxes it pretty much is a nullsum game.
The winners are ofcourse the poor bastards but if you read up on your history youll find that we the western countries put most of the into poverty by stripping their natural resources.
We still do this and if some little pile of money trickle back to them from what we steal well good but not good enough.
Microsoft still uses shoddy games and i think that is the reason for all the donations. A feeble attemt to clear Bills dirty Conscience .
I guess dust and fingerprints can make it hard to record so to keep them clean can extend the number of rewrites. Have you tried to null write the disk at lower speed? In general writing at lower speed should make the tracks better since all disks have balance problems and wows a bit.
My mom phones me weekly yapping about some new virus that has slipped into her computer. She is 50+ and i think she is doing a nice job learning her WinXP. What she is frustrated with is the fact that she has a firewall, a antivirus program and she updates often even if she is on a modem. Still she have gotten successful attacks into her machine and even viruses has slipped past her antivirus system. She is getting real paranoid and feels that its not fun anymore when you have to be a fully fledged sysadmin to surf and write mails. She is going for linux and i will try to install it as safe as possible for her. No services open and a default drop on incoming connections should keep her safe for a while. That is what i would call proactive security.
Security must be proactive and not reactive. MS is simplifying reactive security instead of focusing on proactive security. The old vuln ??? patch treadmill is stupid. I think some dists should stop making their default installs wide open aswell. Close all ports and code a nice simple app that makes it easy to open the ones you need to be open.
Often when you do all things by hand you end up with a much better system than if everything is done automagically. Because only you know what you want its hard for someone else to do it for you. Usually you only configure an application once and since i dont install/uninstall apps all day (isnt fun anymore, i use my apps instead) the time spent tweaking files is very small once you get the system flying.
I think there exists space for all variations of linux dists and together they provide an excellent path for some people like me to walk on. Start off with a nice easy dist and as you grow you go towards Debian/Slack/Gentoo etc. One of the many reasons that i left windows was that i felt stuck, squeezed between MS and its developers. The same apply for very userfriendly dists too. I like the control and system-knowledge it gives me when i build my own system from scratch.
I really dont think we should push all dists towards user friendly. There are disadvantages with that too as it tends to empower n00bs at the expence of experienced users. More flawors is better as long as they all follow the Linux Standard Base.
They cant get into their heads that many of the people looking at linux doesnt do it because of linux superiority. Microsoft has done a great job of alienating their own customers with high prices and shoddy quality. Not to mention how they have made a clear mark that anyone working together with them get a stab in the back.
If they had cared anything about their customers they wouldnt be in this situation.
All their talk about "fighting linux" is just BS. How big part of the market has linux? I think there are enough space to cater both but MS seems to think that ANY competition is dangerous.
Why do they have such little faith in their own ability to compete on fair grounds? It feels liek they are grasping for straws. Maybe times arent so easy when there arent many companies to steal ideas from any longer. Any smart person with a wild new idea for a killer app just think Netscape and then puts it in a drawer until MS gets under control.
bla bla bla bla bla....
How you word it wont change the simple truth, dont put all your risks in one single point of failure. Somewhere somehow a mistake is made and the wrong person gets access where he shouldnt. By that time the people that endorse this kind och things are gone like smoke or pretending like its raining.
"Which is why redundancy is so important for the security servers. Facilities like DCE use a distributed cluster of authentication/authorization based on Kerberos for just this reason."
In this case i was refering to the fact that if someone hack the central server all my passwords are out wild instead of just one password if they hack one shopping site.
"Client-based security implies that your clients are trusted systems, which is very, very bad as a security model. In the case of Mozilla, what it actually keeps is a copy of your passwords, which means that if that data file is stolen it can be decrypted. In the case of facilities like Kerberos, the password is only stored on disk after a one-way hash, which is much harder to crack."
If my client isnt trusted i wouldnt trust anything ever being made on it. Anyone with root/admin access can log and record everything you make on your computer. It would be possible to store records locally with high encryption, thus i said like mozilla not actually mozilla.
"If they break into your client computer and steal your Mozilla password file, they don't have to remain connected to crack your passwords, which minimizes their exposure to tracing. They also don't need to modify any files to do this, which makes it much harder to detect the intrusion in the first place."
If they get my password from a central site they dont have to visit my computer at all, not the other 200 000 they get the passwords for either. A target like that is much more likely to be cracked than my own computer. Spread the risks and dont centralise them.
I was thinking about why anyone would want to lock themselves into Passport when a free alternative axists? It seems so counter productive and stupid to me.
I totally agree with you there. If i have a centralised account on one company and they mess up all my accounts is screwed. Dont put all your eggs in one basket. I would much rather have an application that held all my accounts in it encryptet on the HD like in Mozilla. Then they have to break into my computer to get them. If they do that no Passport or liberty in the world will save me anyway since they can look at what i type and then logon by themselves with my account.
To centralise all passwords is just plain stupid and as i pointed out above it can be solved in better ways. A smartcard with all your accounts that you use with a single password or something.
Liberty.
Why Passport?? *shudders*
I was under the impression that they did care about user input. Since they havent any money to do usability studies peoples opinions is probably all they have to go on.
As much as i like KDE i dont like the direction its taking. Personally i just want a working desktop that i can tweak and turn to my liking. What i dont want is applications and settings scattered all over and 10 ways to do the same thing. Integrating net enabled applications into the desktop is a sure way to bad security and should be avoided. Integrating everything and the kitchen sink has its disadvantage when it comes to bugs that are multi dimensional. They are very hard to find and sometimes impossible to fix without breaking stuff.
Kde should concentrate on doing a great desktop and stop from integrating applications deep down into the core. You can do the same things much more shallow and not at the expence of security. Soon KDE will be its own distribution and that cant be what they strive for.
To be dependant on any single company when doing open software is not that good. Changing licenses and strategies from comercial companies should not intervene with development.
To mix and blend GPL and proprearity software in kernel development is dangerous and can lead to lawsuits stopping up development. Im one of those that thinks keeping the kernel clean is uttely important.
First of all the slump in the overall economy will stop any significant new technologies in their crib. If current situation remains the only thing corporations havent saved money on is the IT departments. After they sacked half their staff and factories only IT and management is left to do any larger savings on. They will go after IT and not management for cost cuts. I presume that the biggest IT companies will have a hard time to withstand their high earnings if that will be the case.
On the good side this would open up a new area of buisiness that i think would thrive. Companies like IBM that saves money for their customers will be very popular among corporations.
New computer hardware wont be released with the same pace if no one is buying it. The current pace on uppgrades has been predicted to level off for quite some time now and its about time. At some point hardware is up to par with the tasks performed by 90% of people. The rest 10% cant hold the upgrade pace up by themselves.
Well i am using mostly GPL and other Open Source software but there are occasions where there arent any. Games spring to mind and there are other times when there just arent any viable alternatives. Im not into linux for the price but because i like it. Ill gladly pay for software that i find worth the money. To get support from hardware and software there need to be some consistency in how you install software on all dists. Preferebly an easy way too so that even 00:00 people can use it.
But hey, thats just my opinion, im not going to force it on anybody.
=)
I know about debian and i think it works pretty well for GPL software that lies resident on ftp servers and such. What i am looking for is some better easier way of installing comercial software. Today most installs is hacks of various success. A unified system cant be that hard to gather around.
Finally i have use for all pizza slices all over my desk. Must be a godsend for geeks.
I cant understand all this ranting. Just run linux n a real PC or something else. The Xbox is so far away from open source that putting open source on it is near to result in a matter/antimatter explosion. Give the beast up and buy something else instead. Why dont put some effort on getting more games ut on linux? I understand that some people does mods because of the challange but in this case its just helping MS getting their Palladium/DRM system tested for free.
Ill say it again if you want to run linux buy a real computer instead of crippling it on an Xbox.
As of the ability of making games without paying licenses i would prefer an open gaming console instead. Todays system of paying licenses to sell games for Xbox, nintendo and PS is an artificial buisiness model and should go away.
The only thing i think needs attention is installing/uninstalling applications. Today that is a pain in linux and should be addressed. To get adoption on the desktop that have to be as easy as in Mac or Windows to install and uninstall software.
Besides that i really like RH 8.0 and it works just fine for me and my wife.
Big apps like sendmail and exchange that wants to do everything are always going to be bug ridden. Thats mainly because the code is so big that its impossible to have a complete picture of how everything interacts. Installing and hiding trojans in a large CVS tree is easier too than in a small tree. Learn from MS on this one. Do everything halfbad or one thing excellent.
Putting software on secure servers or better to put them on a community server would be nice. I can understand that coders dont want to tinker on their servers when they want to code but why not get some help?
You make it sound like they have a tough time doing profit. When almost all of the industry is suffering only MS i able to get even higher profit. Doesnt that ring a bell somewhere? They have more money than they can spend but they wont spend it on better products. Thats plain wrong and points to the fact that no real competition exists in the OS market today. Would apple have released MacOS X on intel if there was room for competition, hell yes!
1. Release unsecure software.
2. Sell services to mend the broken software
3. Profit 2-ways!
Even if its nice and fun that they have made it possible why would i want to run linux on X-box? All they really do is helping MS finetuning their DRM system before it gets to he PC. It will be a cold day in hell before i buy an Xbox.