I've met any number of zealots and "priests" for different operating systems (Linux,BSD,Solaris,Windows etc)
Remove "Linux" and replace with "OS" and the article might be slightly closer to the mark.
No. It's already law
This is largely about giving powers that the Police and other security services already have to other organisations such as local councils, royal mail and others. About all they seem to have changed from when they tried to sneak this through last year is that they're promising "safeguards" and training.
Newer versions of pegasus mail won't let you run executables straight from the mail client, if you try it will bring up a message warning that the attachment might be dangerous and that you have to save it first.
That's not to say that some people won't do just that if sent a random virus executable.
This is what Akamai and the like are sold for.
It's almost certainly going to be cheaper than just buying bandwidth.
Or you could go for the approach of colocating your own box somewhere central for the heavily hit stuff. Even this will be a whole lot cheaper and won't impact on your normal traffic to your organisation.
Never mind that you might have been converting your machine from SCO Unixware to Linux and had a bona fide copy and wanted to run certain software, these articles are clear signs of "theft" dontchaknow...
The note is still good, you just don't have the right to expect shops and retailers to accept it. To get your money back you have to send it to the issuing authority instead.
By providing circuits to power substations and then setting up PLC kit there SSE have been able to provide such high speed access to an area that the telcos and cable companies are never going to cover in a million years.
They're not looking to be cheaper, they're looking to cover the areas that won't normally be reached.
One of the major problem's we've found is the next version of windows can cause problems for some clients for client-server based applications.
We currently have a custom application written using Oracle forms in which the printing is unreliable and crashes the client.
With a browser based soloution you can then assume the browser at the client end should be able to work properly across different versions as long as the platform has a suitable web browser
You just then need to work on making sure the server works properly and generates standards based output that any browser is able to render. As long as you can do that you've then eliminated a number of client headaches.
ja.net (The UK organisation for education networking) is currently trialing 2 way satellite and I'd have to say I was impressed at the network access conference I went to recently.
The guy was brave enough to do a live demo (The dish having been rigged up only a couple of hours earlier). ping times were a consistant 600ms and bandwidth was a symmetric 2M.
It seems like a very good solution for the rural, the only barriers are the latency (which isn't as bad as I thought it would be) and the high cost.
dc-sat.net are the company involved in the trial.
> And we'll get this in Europe when?
Erm... now. considering it's been available in the UK for over a year. Even seen large billboard ads at Clapham Junction to catch the eye of suits on their way into the city.
The fact that Blackberry's also have a keyboard as opposed to having to use a numeric keyboard SMS stylee or a roller makes them far more favourable for e-mail.
ja.net charges for transatlantic bandwidth partly because a great deal of ja.net's costs were on paying for transatlantic lines. Anything that doesn't travel via these lines (ie via LINX or GEANT is free which means most resources in the UK or europe.
Ja.net has also mitigated the need to use so much transatlantic traffic through the use of mirror.ac.uk and the National ja.net webcache.
If only more people were to use these, a number of smaller UK academic institutions are not aware of a number of services that ja.net can provide for them but this is changing in recent years.
Slashdot Mirror
Ross Anderson made an interesting presentation on the Economics of Dependability and Security at Networkshop this year which provides a good overview of the subject. The video and slides are linked from:w orkshop34/webprog.html
http://www.ja.net/services/events/networkshop/Net
The Memorability and Security of Passwords - Some Empirical Results
Sully
Swanage is a small town in Dorset close to Poole and Bournemouth.
Unless you're in scotland of course where you *can* get married at 16 without parental consent. Never heard of young couples eloping to Gretna Green?
I've met any number of zealots and "priests" for different operating systems (Linux,BSD,Solaris,Windows etc)
Remove "Linux" and replace with "OS" and the article might be slightly closer to the mark.
This is largely about giving powers that the Police and other security services already have to other organisations such as local councils, royal mail and others. About all they seem to have changed from when they tried to sneak this through last year is that they're promising "safeguards" and training.
I'm incredibly reassured
That's not to say that some people won't do just that if sent a random virus executable.
Arrrrgh, the top link from the link to the roundup is to the slashdot story that links to the roundup that links to the ....
>Sell your services to businesses in England.
Yeah, wouldn't want to have to deal with those tricky Scottish and Welsh accents.
This is what Akamai and the like are sold for.
It's almost certainly going to be cheaper than just buying bandwidth.
Or you could go for the approach of colocating your own box somewhere central for the heavily hit stuff.
Even this will be a whole lot cheaper and won't impact on your normal traffic to your organisation.
Is it just me or do people just pull stuff straight from NTK without attribution and submit it to slashdot these days?
As seen in NTK
Things linked to from the article are the use of SCO shared libraries and IBCS2 to:
Run Progress 8 under Linux
and Run versions of WordPerfect under Linux
Never mind that you might have been converting your machine from SCO Unixware to Linux and had a bona fide copy and wanted to run certain software, these articles are clear signs of "theft" dontchaknow...
Probably not quite the intention, probably more something along the lines of:
Withdrawal of old 10 pound note design by the Bank of England
The note is still good, you just don't have the right to expect shops and retailers to accept it.
To get your money back you have to send it to the issuing authority instead.
Am I missing the point or would be making the bills a different size the easiest way to kill this practice stone dead?
This practice has been common in the UK for as long as I can remember with each different note being a different size and in recent years colour.
It just seems that clinging on to the sacrosant colour is holding back security for the larger donomination notes.
A 707 mistakenly landed at RAF Northholt instead of London Heathrow many years ago:
Pan Am 707
And yes, the gas holders really do have signs painted on them...
By providing circuits to power substations and then setting up PLC kit there SSE have been able to provide such high speed access to an area that the telcos and cable companies are never going to cover in a million years.
They're not looking to be cheaper, they're looking to cover the areas that won't normally be reached.
Further Information as shown in a presentation I went to several months back
Added to the fact that Sky and cable were better and it was a recipe for disaster.
They overestimated how much money they could make.
One of the major problem's we've found is the next version of windows can cause problems for some clients for client-server based applications. We currently have a custom application written using Oracle forms in which the printing is unreliable and crashes the client.
With a browser based soloution you can then assume the browser at the client end should be able to work properly across different versions as long as the platform has a suitable web browser
You just then need to work on making sure the server works properly and generates standards based output that any browser is able to render. As long as you can do that you've then eliminated a number of client headaches.
ja.net (The UK organisation for education networking) is currently trialing 2 way satellite and I'd have to say I was impressed at the network access conference I went to recently.
The guy was brave enough to do a live demo (The dish having been rigged up only a couple of hours earlier). ping times were a consistant 600ms and bandwidth was a symmetric 2M.
It seems like a very good solution for the rural, the only barriers are the latency (which isn't as bad as I thought it would be) and the high cost.
dc-sat.net are the company involved in the trial.
> And we'll get this in Europe when? Erm ... now. considering it's been available in the UK for over a year. Even seen large billboard ads at Clapham Junction to catch the eye of suits on their way into the city.
The fact that Blackberry's also have a keyboard as opposed to having to use a numeric keyboard SMS stylee or a roller makes them far more favourable for e-mail.
Clarification:
ja.net charges for transatlantic bandwidth partly because a great deal of ja.net's costs were on paying for transatlantic lines. Anything that doesn't travel via these lines (ie via LINX or GEANT is free which means most resources in the UK or europe.
Ja.net has also mitigated the need to use so much transatlantic traffic through the use of mirror.ac.uk and the National ja.net webcache.
If only more people were to use these, a number of smaller UK academic institutions are not aware of a number of services that ja.net can provide for them but this is changing in recent years.