Hmmm, nice editorial on Exchange, what should I use for a secure product - Sendmail?
And please stop quoting out of context, it was always said the focus on security was for new products. Exchange 5.5 is hardly a new product. Find a problem in Exchange 2003 and then you can complain./. people should know better than most that you can't retroactively flip a security bit and make past mistakes better, security is built into the product from the ground up. So why do you expect it from Microsoft?
I thought to get OS upgrades to the IPAQ you needed to have it flashed by a dealer (funny flashing comments to follow no doubt) - it's not just a simple "run a program" arrangement. So how do you update to Familiar? Or am I talking rubbish here and it is simply a software update?
"With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?"
This infers that open source == no mistakes. That's simply not true. It just means that there *may* be less mistakes as theoretically more people look at it. Think SendMail... that's open source, widely used, but that sure has had plenty of "mistakes".
What happens to IP which is, for example, at life + 60 years? It's been in the public domain for 10 years and there may well be people out there happily exploiting it - for example, a publisher publishing a public domain book. Do they suddenly need to withdraw it from sale or start paying royalties?
It seem bizarre to me that something could enter the public domain and then leave it again.
I'm sure a few very intelligent/.'ers have had some mechanic laugh at them behind their back - "can you believe they agreed to pay an extra $200 to have their air filter replaced? They can't be very intelligent".
Just because you know nothing about how much an airfilter costs doesn't mean you are stupid, and likewise with photoshop.
The cameras on phones I'm sure are rubbish compared to your Canon, and the audio on phones is rubbish compared to an audiophile system.
Horses for courses. There is a time and a place for audiophile systems and super quality photos, and there's a time and a place to just communicate in a "good enough" fashion. Superficially at least, it sounds like this phone does a great job of that.
I've been looking for a new media player, as I've been growing dissatisfied with my primary player, Winamp 2.x. I've tried a few others which I wasn't happy with, so I eagerly downloaded iTunes. With all the hype around the Mac version, my expectations were high.
To cut to the case, I was pretty dissapointed. Yes, it's a good media player, but that's all it is IMHO, not a *great* media player.
Things I liked: Easy to use Scanned my collection quickly and fairly accurately
Things I didn't like: The installer was very slow and made my machine unusable for the duration (1.3GHz Pentium M) A non standard windows UI. It's a windows program, so why break the windows UI standards? Let me maximise it!! No support for WMA, some of my media collection is WMA, so that's a big problem.
Why do the/. editors insist on putting such FUD in the titles? Certainly doesn't help their credibility any, nor of the causes they support. Their choice I suppose.
For those that didn't RTFM, the patent is about customising content (which may include weather reports).
Here's the facts, on the outside chance you are interested:
http://www.chguy.net/news/oct00/sue-oracle.html: "Our licensing agreement stipulates that no benchmarking can be published without permission -- not unusual. Oracle has the same licensing terms," Murchie added. "In an ongoing attempt to keep Larry Ellison honest, Microsoft issued Oracle a standard cease-and-desist letter."
It's always been there, nothing was changed as a result of Oracle.
You're working on the VERY unsafe assumption that the testers didn't have some bias - perhaps from an organisation that sells open source support services, or simply have a strong anti-MS bias.
Someone somewhere paid for those tests to be done - who and why? The publisher for just one article in a magazine? Seems unlikely in a cut throat environment.
We all know anytime someone publishes a benchmark favouring Windows (and there have been quite a few - tpc.org being a great example), it is instantly ripped to shreds, so why is this different?
We all know that it's impossible to do a benchmark that all parties think is fair and accurate.
To be Microsoft free for 5 years you are most likely to be either technically very simplistic and have your PC setup by someone else, or make a very concious choice & be quite competent (there are some exceptions). The author clearly falls into the second category - lunging straight for an IRC client is hardly the habit of joe average.
So why this rubbish such as
Another problem I noticed with Explorer is something called "popup ads." Apparently a lot of Web sites have these things and something related called "popunders" that also open browser windows you don't ask to open.
and other similar comments. The author is well aware of what a popup is, even if he hasn't seen them on his linux box for a while.
For me, this feigned ignorance just ruins any credibility the article has and makes its political slant even more obvious.
A serious question... how does MS play the patent game? Sure, they file lots of patents some of which are dubious (which is as much the systems fault as MS), but can you name one case where MS enforced a patent? How is it nice to "see it reversed"?
This article is also a great insight into how businesses view technology. He spoke about how it helped him build better designs, get to market better, improve communication, speed up production, etc. Not once did he mention Microsoft vs Linux, pros and cons of open source, etc. Doesn't mean he doesn't have an opinion, it's just not his focus. As someone who is a technology person, but spends most of my time talking to business people, this is pretty spot on.
Worth keeping in mind - for business, technology is just a means to an end.
While I appreciate the geek factor of the space program as much as the next guy, I sometimes struggle to understand the value of it. It seems this is great justification. Sometime in the next few hundred years, we'll quite possibly be in trouble with an asteroid, and unless we start playing around in space now we'll never be ready with a solution to stop it.
Let's just hope we have another decade or two to get ready before a big one is going to hit.
I still don't get this thing about MS dropping the ball. I've played with Office 2003, and the XML features in particular (mostly Word & Infopath, not the other programs) and I think they are quite well done.
Word has two different modes. One is where you can save an ordinary word document in an XML format. This is the one/. goes on about mostly. Yes, it's pretty ugly XML, but you are trying to represent non-structured data in a structured format - of course it's going to be ugly. But it is documented & there is a publicly available XSLT from Microsoft to work with it. The other mode is to import and XSD and tag up the document as you like. You can save this in "rich" mode (with all the office formatting - unstructured again) or "clean" mode in which the XML is as pure as your XSD is.
InfoPath simply rocks. Where else can you create a end user friendly UI that outputs clean XML (with XHTML islands if you choose) and will submit directly into a web service & make the whole thing start to end in a few minutes (for a simple form, of course).
I just don't get it. Seems like mindless MS bashing to me.
As someone who occassionally hires college graduates, they have a LOT more to fix before teaching people secure programming (although that would be great!). How about a graduate who can tell me the difference between a development environment and a production environment? Or is even aware of the concept of a production environment? What they teach in University seems to have such limited applicability in the real world as to be almost useless. I hate hiring graduates, complete pain in the rear for the first few months.
A complete list of Microsoft owned patents that have been the basis for legal action from Microsoft against a third party:
1.
Thankyou for reading.
Tongue in cheek, and I know this needs to be considered as part of risk planning, but as far as I'm aware, there has never been legal action based upon patent infringement from Microsoft - and not from lack of opportunity I suspect. Give some credit where credit is due.
But isn't using the word "spy" just sensationalising it? Spy infers it's unknown or sneaky. This may be unpopular, unethical, maybe even illegal, but it isn't spying - people know it is there.
But The Sun is there to sell newspapers (and doing a mighty fine job of it last I saw their sales figures) not to report accurately or fairly.
Just like no one would use an OS where you didn't have to compile the kernel yourself?
Blogging is still pretty niche and dominated by techie talk, and a LOT of meta-blogging. Something like this, the AOL blogging service and presumably MSN blogs (was in job ads a few months ago) will bring blogging to the masses, for better or worse.
I agree Vergil. Oh, and by the way, you're sacked, we're outsourcing your job to India.
I do happen to actually agree with you, but let's not pretend that globalisation is as simple as dropping trade barriers and allowing people to buy and sell where they choose. Globalisation changes peoples lives and many people don't want their lives changed. Long term, it's for the better (or that's the theory), but there is, for some, a pretty painful short term we have to try hard to minimise.
If I were you, I'd learn to distinguish between stupid and unknowledgeable. Those links should help you to distinguish between lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence.
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We've found a use for SCO at last!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm, nice editorial on Exchange, what should I use for a secure product - Sendmail?
/. people should know better than most that you can't retroactively flip a security bit and make past mistakes better, security is built into the product from the ground up. So why do you expect it from Microsoft?
And please stop quoting out of context, it was always said the focus on security was for new products. Exchange 5.5 is hardly a new product. Find a problem in Exchange 2003 and then you can complain.
Not covered in the FAQ (that I saw...)
I thought to get OS upgrades to the IPAQ you needed to have it flashed by a dealer (funny flashing comments to follow no doubt) - it's not just a simple "run a program" arrangement. So how do you update to Familiar? Or am I talking rubbish here and it is simply a software update?
"With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?"
This infers that open source == no mistakes. That's simply not true. It just means that there *may* be less mistakes as theoretically more people look at it. Think SendMail... that's open source, widely used, but that sure has had plenty of "mistakes".
What happens to IP which is, for example, at life + 60 years? It's been in the public domain for 10 years and there may well be people out there happily exploiting it - for example, a publisher publishing a public domain book. Do they suddenly need to withdraw it from sale or start paying royalties?
It seem bizarre to me that something could enter the public domain and then leave it again.
Don't confuse intelligence with knowledge.
/.'ers have had some mechanic laugh at them behind their back - "can you believe they agreed to pay an extra $200 to have their air filter replaced? They can't be very intelligent".
I'm sure a few very intelligent
Just because you know nothing about how much an airfilter costs doesn't mean you are stupid, and likewise with photoshop.
The cameras on phones I'm sure are rubbish compared to your Canon, and the audio on phones is rubbish compared to an audiophile system.
Horses for courses. There is a time and a place for audiophile systems and super quality photos, and there's a time and a place to just communicate in a "good enough" fashion. Superficially at least, it sounds like this phone does a great job of that.
I've been looking for a new media player, as I've been growing dissatisfied with my primary player, Winamp 2.x. I've tried a few others which I wasn't happy with, so I eagerly downloaded iTunes. With all the hype around the Mac version, my expectations were high.
To cut to the case, I was pretty dissapointed. Yes, it's a good media player, but that's all it is IMHO, not a *great* media player.
Things I liked:
Easy to use
Scanned my collection quickly and fairly accurately
Things I didn't like:
The installer was very slow and made my machine unusable for the duration (1.3GHz Pentium M)
A non standard windows UI. It's a windows program, so why break the windows UI standards? Let me maximise it!!
No support for WMA, some of my media collection is WMA, so that's a big problem.
Nice program, but I'm still looking.
Tin foil hat on? Check
Copy of Catcher in the Rye? Check
CIA agents in hollywood list? Check
Groundless rumours that MS is funding SCO? Check
Why do the /. editors insist on putting such FUD in the titles? Certainly doesn't help their credibility any, nor of the causes they support. Their choice I suppose.
For those that didn't RTFM, the patent is about customising content (which may include weather reports).
Nice troll - how did this get modded insightful?
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Here's the facts, on the outside chance you are interested:
http://www.chguy.net/news/oct00/sue-oracle.html
"Our licensing agreement stipulates that no benchmarking can be published without permission -- not unusual. Oracle has the same licensing terms," Murchie added. "In an ongoing attempt to keep Larry Ellison honest, Microsoft issued Oracle a standard cease-and-desist letter."
It's always been there, nothing was changed as a result of Oracle.
You're working on the VERY unsafe assumption that the testers didn't have some bias - perhaps from an organisation that sells open source support services, or simply have a strong anti-MS bias.
Someone somewhere paid for those tests to be done - who and why? The publisher for just one article in a magazine? Seems unlikely in a cut throat environment.
We all know anytime someone publishes a benchmark favouring Windows (and there have been quite a few - tpc.org being a great example), it is instantly ripped to shreds, so why is this different?
We all know that it's impossible to do a benchmark that all parties think is fair and accurate.
So why this rubbish such as and other similar comments. The author is well aware of what a popup is, even if he hasn't seen them on his linux box for a while.
For me, this feigned ignorance just ruins any credibility the article has and makes its political slant even more obvious.
A serious question... how does MS play the patent game? Sure, they file lots of patents some of which are dubious (which is as much the systems fault as MS), but can you name one case where MS enforced a patent? How is it nice to "see it reversed"?
This article is also a great insight into how businesses view technology. He spoke about how it helped him build better designs, get to market better, improve communication, speed up production, etc. Not once did he mention Microsoft vs Linux, pros and cons of open source, etc. Doesn't mean he doesn't have an opinion, it's just not his focus. As someone who is a technology person, but spends most of my time talking to business people, this is pretty spot on.
Worth keeping in mind - for business, technology is just a means to an end.
Apparently small businesses do very little surfing as Google linux usage is around 1%.
While I appreciate the geek factor of the space program as much as the next guy, I sometimes struggle to understand the value of it. It seems this is great justification. Sometime in the next few hundred years, we'll quite possibly be in trouble with an asteroid, and unless we start playing around in space now we'll never be ready with a solution to stop it.
Let's just hope we have another decade or two to get ready before a big one is going to hit.
I still don't get this thing about MS dropping the ball. I've played with Office 2003, and the XML features in particular (mostly Word & Infopath, not the other programs) and I think they are quite well done.
/. goes on about mostly. Yes, it's pretty ugly XML, but you are trying to represent non-structured data in a structured format - of course it's going to be ugly. But it is documented & there is a publicly available XSLT from Microsoft to work with it. The other mode is to import and XSD and tag up the document as you like. You can save this in "rich" mode (with all the office formatting - unstructured again) or "clean" mode in which the XML is as pure as your XSD is.
Word has two different modes. One is where you can save an ordinary word document in an XML format. This is the one
InfoPath simply rocks. Where else can you create a end user friendly UI that outputs clean XML (with XHTML islands if you choose) and will submit directly into a web service & make the whole thing start to end in a few minutes (for a simple form, of course).
I just don't get it. Seems like mindless MS bashing to me.
As someone who occassionally hires college graduates, they have a LOT more to fix before teaching people secure programming (although that would be great!). How about a graduate who can tell me the difference between a development environment and a production environment? Or is even aware of the concept of a production environment? What they teach in University seems to have such limited applicability in the real world as to be almost useless. I hate hiring graduates, complete pain in the rear for the first few months.
A complete list of Microsoft owned patents that have been the basis for legal action from Microsoft against a third party:
1.
Thankyou for reading.
Tongue in cheek, and I know this needs to be considered as part of risk planning, but as far as I'm aware, there has never been legal action based upon patent infringement from Microsoft - and not from lack of opportunity I suspect. Give some credit where credit is due.
But isn't using the word "spy" just sensationalising it? Spy infers it's unknown or sneaky. This may be unpopular, unethical, maybe even illegal, but it isn't spying - people know it is there.
But The Sun is there to sell newspapers (and doing a mighty fine job of it last I saw their sales figures) not to report accurately or fairly.
Just like no one would use an OS where you didn't have to compile the kernel yourself?
Blogging is still pretty niche and dominated by techie talk, and a LOT of meta-blogging. Something like this, the AOL blogging service and presumably MSN blogs (was in job ads a few months ago) will bring blogging to the masses, for better or worse.
I agree Vergil. Oh, and by the way, you're sacked, we're outsourcing your job to India.
I do happen to actually agree with you, but let's not pretend that globalisation is as simple as dropping trade barriers and allowing people to buy and sell where they choose. Globalisation changes peoples lives and many people don't want their lives changed. Long term, it's for the better (or that's the theory), but there is, for some, a pretty painful short term we have to try hard to minimise.
If I were you, I'd learn to distinguish between stupid and unknowledgeable. Those links should help you to distinguish between lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence.