Technical abilities always have a direct impression on business interests. For example with NSS I can assign rights to a folder and the users will automatically see the patch to the files they have access to, but not any other files or folders on the way. More secure, less breaches, better compliance.
No manager will listen to any talk of "but this what everyone uses" when the server crashed again due to memory allocation issues or yet another virus attack. They don't care, they just want the services to employees and customers running.
You are also confusing NDS with Netware - they are seperate products. NDS (now EDirectory) runs on Netware, Windows, Linux, AIX and Solarius.
Novell's products such as eDirectory (LDAP & x.500 compliant directory service), Groupwise (Exchnage equivilent), Zenworks (application management), etc all run on Netware, SuSE linux and Windows.
One ability I would like to see is the management of multiple downloads. I would like to be able to queue downloads in any order I choose (even chnage them on the fly) and tell FF to only download x files at once. I want to pause any download and come back to it later, or as FF to start downloading this file at a certain time on a certain day.
I agree with you 100%, but I suspect government there is the same as here in Australia. Terms such as effeciency, IIR, ROI, etc are not in the vocabulary of government. The measure of success for any public offical is how many people they manage and how big their budget is. This is totally at odds with private enterprise.
You should proably replace the word "novell" with "the server" as this has nothing to do with Netware. Any server would act in the same way when dealing with such a poorley written application.
The number of posts throwing around terms like "safe", "dangerous", "risk" and "hazard" does not really surprise me - society at large do this with no real understanding or definitions of the terms.
Safe is an acceptable level of risk, but acceptable to whom? There is always a level of risk in any activity and zero risk is impossible. There is a chance (albeit vanishing small) that the roof above your head will collapse and kill you. The term "hazard" refers to the presence of a potentially damaging energy source, and may be chemical, electrical, physical, etc. A lot of argument occurs around what constitutes "potentially damaging", although people almost never realise this is what they are arguing. What is "damaging" anyway?
Safety is a science, not a human behavioural problem, to spite many companies putting there OHS personnel in the HR or insurance department. "Unsafe" behaviour does not injure, harm or kill anyone. Inevitably there is an energy source that changes the state of the target; this is physical fact that cannot be denied.
In the case of a car there is kinetic energy when the car is in motion. Combined with the mass of the car and we have an amount of energy that must be dissipated during a crash. It may be converted to heat in the breaks, or peel rubber of the tyres, of deform the body/chassis of the car, or absorbed by the occupants. The latter is to be prevented where ever possible and car companies spend billions to try and ensure this, as do road engineers. Driving faster means more energy and more damage in a crash situation.
This does not mean that people do not drive near the limits of their abilities, or inattentiveness is not a contributing factor. People are ultimately to blame in any accident, but this does not help us to prevent them. Many studies have been done on the reliability of humans - and we are not that reliable. It is far better to engineer the risks out of the equation where possible - these have a much higher rate of success.
Collapsible steering columns, radial tyres, bumper bars, seat belts, air bags, etc have had a far greater effect on safety than advertisement asking people to "be careful" will ever have.
You are correct; there is a relationship between resolution, screen size and viewing distance.
I have had numerous discussions with people who swear black and blue that HD will always be better, even when viewed on their 20 year old crap TV.
In my opinion HD does ou no good in perceptible viewing quality unless the source is HD all the way from recording through editting and broadcasting to viewing and your display is either very large (have a look at the recent apple keynotes to an idea), or you site very close (but mum said I would ruin my eyes).
By storing all the items you administer (users, workstations, applications, printers, files, phones, handhelds, etc) you can build a a directory that can store and describe the relationships between everything. True policy based management.
You are right about the growing requirements of firewall solutions, but have a look at Astaro (http://www.astaro.com/). Linux based firewall/proxy/VPN appliance with a nice web front end.
The reason we download TV shows here is simple - the networks don't have their shit together!
The world according to Networks Australia:
The TV guides are just that - a rough guide to what we think we might be airing, but don't take it as gospel, we will alter it at a moments notice and air your favorite programs at 3 in the morning when we suddenly discover every other crap has been played 4 times already.
When we do play a season, we will constantly move its time slot and play them back to back to finish it when the footy season starts.
Once we discover a program that earns good ratings we will repeat it at every opportunity and buy all the spins offs and flog them to death until you are sick of it. See CSI as a good example.
We will try new program material at 11pm when nobody is watching. When it starts to build a following we will move it to 4:15am every time the planets align. When you find it again we'll axe it citing poor ratings.
I am sick of trying to find my favorite programs (what the fuck happened to West Wing?) and decided to download them and watch them whenever I have the time or inclination. (side note - we have Tivo type technology that will automatically record shows I like whenever they are on - dammit).
Stop bitching about the customer and give them what they want!
I am a law abiding citizen of Australia and am shocked that our politicians could pass such a bill.
The law seems to make it legal for authorities to exploit vulnerabilities in an operating system to gain intelligence. What they fail to realize is it is trivial to remove their ability to install spyware.
Change operating systems (use Linux), stay behind a packet filtering firewall, use a secure browser, do not run as a user with install capabilities, use encrypted communications, use encryption technologies that do not require you to type in passwords (cards, biometrics, etc) - the list goes on.
It's a shame our government once again displays its lack of understanding regarding technology.
1) Realtime dynamic lighting across all entities in the environment (not some hack as all previous games have done).
2) Real physics engine, so things act as you expect.
3) Rag doll models which allow "proper animation" and interaction with the environment.
4) Full 5.1 surround sound (awesome on by Z680!)
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Technical abilities always have a direct impression on business interests. For example with NSS I can assign rights to a folder and the users will automatically see the patch to the files they have access to, but not any other files or folders on the way. More secure, less breaches, better compliance.
No manager will listen to any talk of "but this what everyone uses" when the server crashed again due to memory allocation issues or yet another virus attack. They don't care, they just want the services to employees and customers running.
You are also confusing NDS with Netware - they are seperate products. NDS (now EDirectory) runs on Netware, Windows, Linux, AIX and Solarius.
Close.
Novell's products such as eDirectory (LDAP & x.500 compliant directory service), Groupwise (Exchnage equivilent), Zenworks (application management), etc all run on Netware, SuSE linux and Windows.
One ability I would like to see is the management of multiple downloads. I would like to be able to queue downloads in any order I choose (even chnage them on the fly) and tell FF to only download x files at once. I want to pause any download and come back to it later, or as FF to start downloading this file at a certain time on a certain day.
They are working on management - checkout Zenworks. They are currently developing it to be as fully featured as the Windows version.
I agree with you 100%, but I suspect government there is the same as here in Australia. Terms such as effeciency, IIR, ROI, etc are not in the vocabulary of government. The measure of success for any public offical is how many people they manage and how big their budget is. This is totally at odds with private enterprise.
You should proably replace the word "novell" with "the server" as this has nothing to do with Netware. Any server would act in the same way when dealing with such a poorley written application.
Hi All,
The number of posts throwing around terms like "safe", "dangerous", "risk" and "hazard" does not really surprise me - society at large do this with no real understanding or definitions of the terms.
Safe is an acceptable level of risk, but acceptable to whom? There is always a level of risk in any activity and zero risk is impossible. There is a chance (albeit vanishing small) that the roof above your head will collapse and kill you. The term "hazard" refers to the presence of a potentially damaging energy source, and may be chemical, electrical, physical, etc. A lot of argument occurs around what constitutes "potentially damaging", although people almost never realise this is what they are arguing. What is "damaging" anyway?
Safety is a science, not a human behavioural problem, to spite many companies putting there OHS personnel in the HR or insurance department. "Unsafe" behaviour does not injure, harm or kill anyone. Inevitably there is an energy source that changes the state of the target; this is physical fact that cannot be denied.
In the case of a car there is kinetic energy when the car is in motion. Combined with the mass of the car and we have an amount of energy that must be dissipated during a crash. It may be converted to heat in the breaks, or peel rubber of the tyres, of deform the body/chassis of the car, or absorbed by the occupants. The latter is to be prevented where ever possible and car companies spend billions to try and ensure this, as do road engineers. Driving faster means more energy and more damage in a crash situation.
This does not mean that people do not drive near the limits of their abilities, or inattentiveness is not a contributing factor. People are ultimately to blame in any accident, but this does not help us to prevent them. Many studies have been done on the reliability of humans - and we are not that reliable. It is far better to engineer the risks out of the equation where possible - these have a much higher rate of success.
Collapsible steering columns, radial tyres, bumper bars, seat belts, air bags, etc have had a far greater effect on safety than advertisement asking people to "be careful" will ever have.
Just select "text mode" on the initial screen and away you go.
(The graphical install borks).
You are correct; there is a relationship between resolution, screen size and viewing distance. I have had numerous discussions with people who swear black and blue that HD will always be better, even when viewed on their 20 year old crap TV. In my opinion HD does ou no good in perceptible viewing quality unless the source is HD all the way from recording through editting and broadcasting to viewing and your display is either very large (have a look at the recent apple keynotes to an idea), or you site very close (but mum said I would ruin my eyes).
Not true. Novell eDirectory has been proven to scale to at least 1 billion objects in 2000. Administration involved breaking the users into 4 groups of 250,000 each and replicating them between the servers. With Novell's management tools, this is trival.
By storing all the items you administer (users, workstations, applications, printers, files, phones, handhelds, etc) you can build a a directory that can store and describe the relationships between everything. True policy based management.
Novell eDirectory has been available on Linux for sometime and has features Netscape, OpenLDAP, Active Directory and Sun One lack.
Now that Novell own SuSE I except eDirectory to be the number one Linux LDAP compliant directory available.
...and it's been open sourced by Novell (it was previously SuSDE IP)
It's about choice which increases market penetration.
You are right about the growing requirements of firewall solutions, but have a look at Astaro (http://www.astaro.com/). Linux based firewall/proxy/VPN appliance with a nice web front end.
The reason we download TV shows here is simple - the networks don't have their shit together!
The world according to Networks Australia:
The TV guides are just that - a rough guide to what we think we might be airing, but don't take it as gospel, we will alter it at a moments notice and air your favorite programs at 3 in the morning when we suddenly discover every other crap has been played 4 times already.
When we do play a season, we will constantly move its time slot and play them back to back to finish it when the footy season starts.
Once we discover a program that earns good ratings we will repeat it at every opportunity and buy all the spins offs and flog them to death until you are sick of it. See CSI as a good example.
We will try new program material at 11pm when nobody is watching. When it starts to build a following we will move it to 4:15am every time the planets align. When you find it again we'll axe it citing poor ratings.
I am sick of trying to find my favorite programs (what the fuck happened to West Wing?) and decided to download them and watch them whenever I have the time or inclination. (side note - we have Tivo type technology that will automatically record shows I like whenever they are on - dammit).
Stop bitching about the customer and give them what they want!
"It's going to put control of digital IDs into the hands of an end-user, the end-user will be in full control," said Mr Stephenson.
Microsoft - get with the program and impliment liberty - here's the info you need http://www.projectliberty.org/.
I am a law abiding citizen of Australia and am shocked that our politicians could pass such a bill.
The law seems to make it legal for authorities to exploit vulnerabilities in an operating system to gain intelligence. What they fail to realize is it is trivial to remove their ability to install spyware.
Change operating systems (use Linux), stay behind a packet filtering firewall, use a secure browser, do not run as a user with install capabilities, use encrypted communications, use encryption technologies that do not require you to type in passwords (cards, biometrics, etc) - the list goes on.
It's a shame our government once again displays its lack of understanding regarding technology.
This is a client issue and no system I know of currently does this nicely. Wish they would.
Ahh - sorry, misunderstood. Not likely knowing Microsoft history.
Actually, Netware does emaulate a CIFS server (http://www.novell.com/info/collateral/docs/462120 2.01/4621202.html#file)
You can have more than one GC, but no more than one of each FMSO (one for each role). Now you have multiple SPOFs :)
Yes - try Novell eDirectory (http://www.novell.com.edirectory/). It's light years ahead of MAD.
Umm.... the whole place has just been invaded and destroyed by demons from Hell. I don't think duct tape will fix that.
1) Realtime dynamic lighting across all entities in the environment (not some hack as all previous games have done).
2) Real physics engine, so things act as you expect.
3) Rag doll models which allow "proper animation" and interaction with the environment.
4) Full 5.1 surround sound (awesome on by Z680!)