I've been working on a project: macs, that provides (among other things) a protocol neutral authorization mechanism for hierarchical sets of resources. Featuring things like delegated administration mentioned in the article. We have been using this to control user access to things like web sites and file servers, but it would be trivial to adapt it to protect APIs instead.
Do people really leave their APIs dangling out there for all to call? Would this be a feature people would find useful?
A good helping of Howard Zinn's fantastic A People's History of the United States would do this discussion (and most Americans for that matter) a lot of good. It describes how those documents were created for the benefit of the wealthy, to protect them and their fortunes. The corporation just happens to be the best means for accumulating wealth these days. Frankly, we're better off now that many of of the countries more barbaric practices have been eliminated.
I recently contacted RSA about this, an internal BSAFE licess (meaning that you can use it within your orgaization) is $50,000 US per year, $100,000 for their SSL library. Needless to say, we went with Raven. I have nothing but good things to say about Raven and Covalent in general.
So far I have no love for RSA, but doesn't their patent expire soon anyway?
We have a cluster of Exchange servers for our ~4000 workers here, and even Microsoft can't get it to work properly. There's a crew of Microsoft folks here, almost all the time, and our staff of full time admins. Just for Exchange. This is an "upgrade" from the single sendmail/imap server that handled the load of the entire company with very little problems. The main problem with Exchange is it's terrible performace, and the way it makes Outlook (or Outrage as we like to call it) hang while doing such complex operations as reading the next message in your inbox. On the bad days, it takes me as much as 5 minutes to switch messages. On the best days it's just irratic. This doesn't even bring up the problems with the feature set. For example, you can't check your mail from 'nix any more, sorry. Frankly, I can't see reason one to use Exchange. Even if you have to run on NT, you do have other options.
I think it may be the "more sophisticated motherboard" that saves AMDs butt in the end. Whatever part of the Alpha architecture they could bring in and still maintain the sacred cow of the wintel market (backward compatability), the better off they are. DEC did some amazing things with the Alpha, and the more of us that can reap the rewards the better. Anyway, it's a marginal speed gain, and people will continue to buy AMD processors for the same reason they always did. They're cheap. Besides, Linux already runs on the Alpha, let's just ditch CISC and be done with it.
When I was living in Palo Alto last year they had a fiber to the home trial. Not enough people signed up so the whole thing was scrapped. I see at their web site that they are doing it again. Better luck this time. One thing that was promising about the Palo Alto fiber loop is that it runs right through the Digital Internet Exchange. This way the bandwidth could be available to support the 100Mbps data service.
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I've been working on a project: macs, that provides (among other things) a protocol neutral authorization mechanism for hierarchical sets of resources. Featuring things like delegated administration mentioned in the article. We have been using this to control user access to things like web sites and file servers, but it would be trivial to adapt it to protect APIs instead.
Do people really leave their APIs dangling out there for all to call? Would this be a feature people would find useful?
While I see we have the same taste in prompts, I go about it a little different, plus I throw in a few colors for easy recognition.
\ ]@\[\033[31m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\[\033[33m\w\[\033[0m\ ]\$ '
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xterm|xterm-*)
export PS1='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\[\033[32m\]\u\[\033[0m
A good helping of Howard Zinn's fantastic A People's History of the United States would do this discussion (and most Americans for that matter) a lot of good. It describes how those documents were created for the benefit of the wealthy, to protect them and their fortunes. The corporation just happens to be the best means for accumulating wealth these days. Frankly, we're better off now that many of of the countries more barbaric practices have been eliminated.
Nope, the license doesn't work that way. I sure wish it did.
I recently contacted RSA about this, an internal BSAFE licess (meaning that you can use it within your orgaization) is $50,000 US per year, $100,000 for their SSL library. Needless to say, we went with Raven. I have nothing but good things to say about Raven and Covalent in general.
So far I have no love for RSA, but doesn't their patent expire soon anyway?
We have a cluster of Exchange servers for our ~4000 workers here, and even Microsoft can't get it to work properly. There's a crew of Microsoft folks here, almost all the time, and our staff of full time admins. Just for Exchange. This is an "upgrade" from the single sendmail/imap server that handled the load of the entire company with very little problems. The main problem with Exchange is it's terrible performace, and the way it makes Outlook (or Outrage as we like to call it) hang while doing such complex operations as reading the next message in your inbox. On the bad days, it takes me as much as 5 minutes to switch messages. On the best days it's just irratic. This doesn't even bring up the problems with the feature set. For example, you can't check your mail from 'nix any more, sorry. Frankly, I can't see reason one to use Exchange. Even if you have to run on NT, you do have other options.
I think it may be the "more sophisticated motherboard" that saves AMDs butt in the end. Whatever part of the Alpha architecture they could bring in and still maintain the sacred cow of the wintel market (backward compatability), the better off they are. DEC did some amazing things with the Alpha, and the more of us that can reap the rewards the better. Anyway, it's a marginal speed gain, and people will continue to buy AMD processors for the same reason they always did. They're cheap. Besides, Linux already runs on the Alpha, let's just ditch CISC and be done with it.
When I was living in Palo Alto last year they had a fiber to the home trial. Not enough people signed up so the whole thing was scrapped. I see at their web site that they are doing it again. Better luck this time. One thing that was promising about the Palo Alto fiber loop is that it runs right through the Digital Internet Exchange. This way the bandwidth could be available to support the 100Mbps data service.