Sitting here reading through this thread, checking the Intellivision-Lives site.. all of a sudden I get this pinched feeling and look down to see a thin, deep, curiously semi-circular bruise appearing on my thumb.
Re: security - I agree. However, I think we can both agree that the most secure system is the "air-gapped" system... and that sort puts a big kink in the usability of said system... So there has to be compromise at some point.
It would be interesting to determine exactly what is sudo-allowed in Lindows and what is not.
For a (presumably) very limited sub-set of available commands. That sounds reasonable to me. Again, this is an attempt to balance usability with security. I can't think of a single casual user who wouldn't bitch about having to enter a password every time he or she wanted to use an advanced command.
I think we are fast entering the "Hair-Splitting Zone"...
I'd consider that a proper use of "sudo" which, if you read the review, was installed and operational.
OSX uses sudo in this way so the user can do "root-level" work in the OS9 shell without ever having to become root (something the casual user, IMHO, should never need or want to do).
Personally, I'll take a sudo'd "apt-get" over a Windows "anything" any day of the week.
To be clear, SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) made a version of UNIX (SCOUnix?) which ran on i386 systems. They purchased UnixWare from Novell and ran with that in favor of their own stuff. When that failed, they sold off the UNIX portion of the business to Caldera and changed their name to Tarantella (selling a web application server in the same market as BEA, WebSphere, the now defunct Lutris, etc.).
Caldera then rebranded, a la SGI (used to be "Silicon Graphics, Inc."), and called itself SCO (no longer "Santa Cruz Operation" because they don't live here anymore). The scumbags even use the same old cypress pine (native to the Monterey Bay area) logo.. how many cypress do you see native in Utah, folks?
When a mouse tries to bite off your pubic hair, do you offer it a small hunk of cheese or do you bash the little fucker's head in with the heel of your boot?
Well pal.. as much as I love and support Linux, have you ever tried to run more than four processors with it?
I'd love to see an E-10000 or a pSeries690 with a full spread of processors running Linux.
Believe me, UNIX (Slowlaris, AIXistential) will be here for a _very_ long time.
SCO is just trying to sue a little extra income out of IBM, but I believe they're going to find they've kicked the wrong gorilla, and Microsoft isn't going to be riding in like some white knight to save them.
I had a graft system going for any "special" services. I was instrumental in designing a base (and I mean *BASE*) level of service the users could expect on a daily basis. Anything over and above that (like creating user accounts prior to start of employment) would require a bottle of wine. Depending on the severity of the service (directly related to the urgency of the user) the price tag on the bottle would be adjusted upward accordingly.
Your mouse is malfunctioning? That'll be a bottle of $10 Cabernet..
Your email is down and you're expecting a spreadsheet from a vendor? Hmm.. I'm thinking that's gonna take a bottle of Beaulieu De La Tour.
Your deleted your Powerpoint presentation and need an emergency restore for the Board meeting in 10 minutes? Oh... my man.. you're gonna need to cough up a Chateau Petrus, or two of the Rothschilds. I know you have them in your cellar because I hacked into your webcam last week...
I was known to make up "random" passwords (told to the userbase to be generated by a self-authored script). They would be something like I4a5lT! or Mbwm4RBa, depending on whether or not I liked the user. Sometimes, depending on mood, nothing could help the poor victi^H^H^H^H^Huser.
I4a5lT! = "I am a short little troll!" (vertically-challenged lab engineer.. ended up being a very good friend.)
Mbwm4RBa = "My butt wouldn't make a Reef Brazil ad" (the Brazilian wife of another engineer. She benefitted from nepotism to obtain her job. I still don't like her.)
After a while some of the more brilliant engineers started to catch on. Perhaps it was the drunken laughter as I created user accounts in the afternoons after lunch...
I have Potato running on a couple of public servers (one under pretty heavy load) and they've all been stable as rocks.. we're talking polished marble here.
The lone exception was the time I rebuilt the kernel and forgot to run lilo. A 40 mile drive in the middle of the night will quickly remind you to NOT do that again.
IIRC, the license or royalty fees aren't paid by the end-user, per se. In other words, you aren't going to have the JPEGestapo kicking in your doors because you put some images on your website. Your royalty fees are paid through your purchase of whatever software you used to create the images.
So, if I'm Mr. Penguinshit sitting up late at night coding a website with grainy, poorly-focussed 75-DPI JPEGs of Mrs. Penguinshit in the nude, I'm not concerned because I paid my license fees when I bought a copy of Photoshop.
However, if I'm Bruce Chizen over at Adobe I'm seething pissed because now I have to share my profit margin with a bunch of slacker vampires and their lawyers.
Sorry, but that's what we're dealing with. For sure for us it's no a big deal. But "The Masses" need to push buttons with pictures. It's just that simple.
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Sitting here reading through this thread, checking the Intellivision-Lives site.. all of a sudden I get this pinched feeling and look down to see a thin, deep, curiously semi-circular bruise appearing on my thumb.
Oh the joys of Intellithumb...
Re: security - I agree. However, I think we can both agree that the most secure
system is the "air-gapped" system... and that sort puts a big kink in the
usability of said system... So there has to be compromise at some point.
It would be interesting to determine exactly what is sudo-allowed in Lindows and
what is not.
For a (presumably) very limited sub-set of available commands.
That sounds reasonable to me. Again, this is an attempt to balance
usability with security. I can't think of a single casual user who
wouldn't bitch about having to enter a password every time he or
she wanted to use an advanced command.
I think we are fast entering the "Hair-Splitting Zone"...
I'd consider that a proper use of "sudo" which, if you read the review, was installed and operational.
OSX uses sudo in this way so the user can do "root-level" work in the OS9 shell without ever having to become root (something the casual user, IMHO, should never need or want to do).
Personally, I'll take a sudo'd "apt-get" over a Windows "anything" any day of the week.
Dude.. I love it best when they remove their dentures!
if you're counting Deep Thought, shouldn't it be "Terra Flops"?
I did play the original "Dungeon" (anyone remember the Zork trilogy?) on the Cray at Ames Research in California back in the early 80s.
Except for the fact that Microsoft was busy trying to pull a SCO on Sun vis-a-vis Java.
Remember MS's old "Embrace and Eviscerate" slogan...
To be clear, SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) made a version of UNIX (SCOUnix?) which ran on i386 systems. They purchased UnixWare from Novell and ran with that in favor of their own stuff. When that failed, they sold off the UNIX portion of the business to Caldera and changed their name to Tarantella (selling a web application server in the same market as BEA, WebSphere, the now defunct Lutris, etc.).
Caldera then rebranded, a la SGI (used to be "Silicon Graphics, Inc."), and called itself SCO (no longer "Santa Cruz Operation" because they don't live here anymore). The scumbags even use the same old cypress pine (native to the Monterey Bay area) logo.. how many cypress do you see native in Utah, folks?
Outstanding!
I don't usually count clusters because that's more "cooperative computing" than
a single kernel handling a large number of procs.
However, the links you provided are most encouraging. Thanks!
When a mouse tries to bite off your pubic hair, do you offer it a small hunk of cheese or do you bash the little fucker's head in with the heel of your boot?
I thought so.
Now go wash off your boots.
Well pal.. as much as I love and support Linux, have you ever tried to run more than four processors with it?
I'd love to see an E-10000 or a pSeries690 with a full spread of processors running Linux.
Believe me, UNIX (Slowlaris, AIXistential) will be here for a _very_ long time.
SCO is just trying to sue a little extra income out of IBM, but I believe they're going to find they've kicked the wrong gorilla, and Microsoft isn't going to be riding in like some white knight to save them.
Man, if I looked over and saw the Windoze sticker affixed to my respirator, I'd pull MY OWN plug...
fortunately for Micro$0pht, you're quite the exception to the rule.
It's still cheaper than paying ~$300 for every release of a known-broken OS commonly used on the x86 infrastructure....
OMFG.. I haven't seen a Grue in years!
I called a user "Frobozz" once. He of course had no idea what I meant.
There must be NT near; my sword is glowing a faint blue glow.
(and whether or not I'm at a hockey game).
No way. You kidz are the Freshmen on campus; you gotta take your lumps like we all did.
Now get back to work and quit bugging me; I'm busy on the Quake server.
I had a graft system going for any "special" services. I was instrumental in designing a base (and I mean *BASE*) level of service the users could expect on a daily basis. Anything over and above that (like creating user accounts prior to start of employment) would require a bottle of wine. Depending on the severity of the service (directly related to the urgency of the user) the price tag on the bottle would be adjusted upward accordingly.
Your mouse is malfunctioning? That'll be a bottle of $10 Cabernet..
Your email is down and you're expecting a spreadsheet from a vendor? Hmm.. I'm thinking that's gonna take a bottle of Beaulieu De La Tour.
Your deleted your Powerpoint presentation and need an emergency restore for the Board meeting in 10 minutes? Oh... my man.. you're gonna need to cough up a Chateau Petrus, or two of the Rothschilds. I know you have them in your cellar because I hacked into your webcam last week...
I was known to make up "random" passwords (told to the userbase to be generated by a self-authored script). They would be something like I4a5lT! or Mbwm4RBa, depending on whether or not I liked the user. Sometimes, depending on mood, nothing could help the poor victi^H^H^H^H^Huser.
I4a5lT! = "I am a short little troll!"
(vertically-challenged lab engineer.. ended up being a very good friend.)
Mbwm4RBa = "My butt wouldn't make a Reef Brazil ad"
(the Brazilian wife of another engineer. She benefitted from nepotism to obtain her job. I still don't like her.)
After a while some of the more brilliant engineers started to catch on. Perhaps it was the drunken laughter as I created user accounts in the afternoons after lunch...
sometimes some of us just like to do it a bit more manually. It helps us feel more in touch.
I know I just dropped a big hunk of troll-bait.. flame away.
Amen to the above.
I have Potato running on a couple of public servers (one under pretty heavy load) and they've all been stable as rocks.. we're talking polished marble here.
The lone exception was the time I rebuilt the kernel and forgot to run lilo. A 40 mile drive in the middle of the night will quickly remind you to NOT do that again.
IIRC, the license or royalty fees aren't paid by the end-user, per se. In other words, you aren't going to have the JPEGestapo kicking in your doors because you put some images on your website. Your royalty fees are paid through your purchase of whatever software you used to create the images.
So, if I'm Mr. Penguinshit sitting up late at night coding a website with grainy, poorly-focussed 75-DPI JPEGs of Mrs. Penguinshit in the nude, I'm not concerned because I paid my license fees when I bought a copy of Photoshop.
However, if I'm Bruce Chizen over at Adobe I'm seething pissed because now I have to share my profit margin with a bunch of slacker vampires and their lawyers.
In reality, no real difference.
In people's perception, a million miles.
Sorry, but that's what we're dealing with. For sure for us it's no a big deal. But "The Masses" need to push buttons with pictures. It's just that simple.
Agreed. Could you imagine what would happen if Crazy Larry and Dirty Mary tried to beat the train and it was a TGV?