Especially compared to the rest of the world.
My cousin went into a hospital in Kinshassa last week.
He died from blood poisoning from badly-cleaned equipment.
Life for most people, most places, sucks
In some respects that is what makes life worth living.
The GenXers were a generation on holiday.
Time to get back to work, fellows.
There are better ways to do this
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Than exposing your network and then trying to catch people who break in.
Since even a secured wireless network can be broken into in about 30 minutes,
it makes more sense to treat the wireless network as an external network.
All accesses to the 'real' internal network then go through the firewall as if they came from the Internet.
Doing anything less than this seems to be courting danger.
Okay, it's just the Brussels Regional Government.
That's not a billion heads, just a million or two.
Perhaps this is will be one of the positive legacies of this recession?
Once a certain fraction of organisations use Linux seriously, it will be an unstoppable movement.
Businesses and governments have no loyalties, only interests.
Then it sucks.
Being observed without the chance to watch back
is one of the worst things I can imagine.
At least when we lived in villages, and everyone
knew everything about everyone else,
things balanced out.
But this vision of tracking humanity like so many pigeons
is distasteful in the extreme.
Nonetheless, it will happen sooner or later.
Hopefully after I kick the bucket.
We wanted a Debian-based install for our workstations (because of apt) but it inevitably took most of a day to get a Debian up and running.
Lindows-OS is Debian with a pretty skin and it installs completely in about 10 minutes.
Yes, it runs entirely as root, but we don't mind this for workstations.
(I know that's bad but remember, we're comparing to Windows.)
Lindows-OS cost us $99 to download, but we've easily saved that several times over in install times alone.
Last year we decided to migrate off Windows.
We first moved to OpenOffice. Painful, when your clients all use MS Office, but it's possible.
Now we're moving to Mozilla-based browsers.
All our servers (except one) went to Linux in the last year or two.
Now we're killing the last Windows desktops, putting Lindows-OS in their place.
Apart from the license savings, everything just runs better.
There is a huge fear of change, and this works in Windows' favor.
But there is no doubt that open software is better built and cheaper to run.
Changing costs something. But there is no doubt about the TCO of Linux (and its applications) being lower.
Yes, just tried another LindowsOS install on a random box here. Insert CDROM, boot, click 'Ok', 'Next', 'Ok', 'Next', enter root password, confirm root password, click 'Ok', and wait for 4 minutes as it formats the disk and installs at the same time.
And that's it. Every device correctly detected, network and a firewall correctly installed, and the OS updated via Debian's apt and the network.
It is almost as fast to install from scratch as to boot a normal PC.
So, you can 'lock down' the PC simply by reinstalling at will. Say every Monday morning, at 6am. I'm sure this could be automated.:)
Look at the number of ways people have found to crack into software.
It is safe to predict that no software protection will ever work.
But hardware protection is already very hard to break.
And it is possible to make it unbreakable.
And IMHO truly we are not far from that point.
(But for a standardized hardware platform)
(and for an industrial application...)
Using DHCP and BOOTP, we loaded the OS and the applications across the network.
The PC had no hard disk, no drives.
The boot server was itself booted from a CDROM.
So there was nothing to break or mess with.
For word processing you'd have to use a network drive but that makes sense for backups anyhow.
Modern Linuxes are pretty good at detecting existing and especially legacy hardware.
So this approach would work for your problem.
Running Linux on the XBox helps no-one except Microsoft.
Microsoft are counting on this kind of project to test the XBox security.
And when all the weaknesses have been fixed we will find ourselves with a new closed PC platform.
Leave this thing alone, boycott it, let it rot.
It is an empty victory to help M$ improve this product.
"Why choose a (nearly) standard PC platform"?
Microsoft are long-distance players.
They are designing a Microsoft PC platform.
Let's call it 'Fritz 1'.
They would really like this to become the next standard.
And by trying this out in the XBox arena they are proofing the concept.
Whatever weaknesses get thrown up now will be closed in the next release.
After three releases, the design will be unbreakable.
After that, it's a minor matter to convince Dell and HP to base their PCs on this design.
And Windows XP 2003 will not run on anything else.
If the XBox does not scare you, perhaps you should consider a future where all PCs are designed by Redmond.
It would be smarter for people to leave the XBox alone and not contribute to M$'s strategy by hacking it.
Like (most likely) no case design yet.
Presumably they are still working on the innards.
The significance of this announcement is perhaps not that there is a 'product' ready somewhere.
Perhaps it is deeper than that... there are teams outside the US thinking seriously about how to design and build world-class systems like this.
It's the SCRABBLE PLANET!
Someone just wants to sneak this word into the dictionary so that he can beat his aged grandmother at Scrabble.
This is the only possible reason for the name.
Dunno, but I've racked my brains for the last five minutes
and I can't think of a single thing we could do with Quaoar (OSLT).
Nope. Zilch. Not a single damn use for another planet.
We still haven't figured out what we're going to do with the current lot.
Perhaps I'm an ignorant barbarian, but how is finding one more planet 'important'?
I mean... surely 'importance' has to have something to do with human aspirations?
They killed BYTE magazine and ran off with the subscription monies.
I'm not surprised they are having trouble now.
And I'm not moved in the least.
Sorry for the journalists, but your company stinks.
Come on, Perl Journal, it is time to go away.
Actually, there are enough sham companies with pretty and convincing websites to argue against this reasoning.
Just because they have not spent time on their marketing does not mean their product is vapourware.
It would cost you nothing to wait and see whether their product can live up to its specs before accusing them of being a 'sham'.
Good products do not need fancy marketing (though it helps), and an cheap Indian PDA that actually works well would get enough publicity to compensate for even the poorest web site.
European companies are all license-bound to implement W-CDMA2000
This is incorrect, as far as I'm aware: the EU licenses are for WCDMA, while CDMA2000 is a Qualcomm technology.
I've said this before and will say it again: the EU 3G licenses have caused Europe to lose its lead in mobile telephony, and will provoke the bankruptcy of much of the sector in Europe. The company to watch is Qualcomm, since they have the only actual functioning 3G technology.
DNA expresses a digital (quadrary) language.
I doubt that a human phenotype would fit onto 700 MB.
But it might well fit onto a future disc.
Consider some of the implications...
- p2p swapping of celebrity phenotypes - "psst, swap you a rare Marilyn Monroe for a Jucy Luicy"
- technology allowing us to create fertile eggs with any phenotype we happen to have in stock.
- a booming black market in stolen phenotypes.
- Clone Wars!!!
No thanks, I'll just copy my genes the old fashioned way.
This link was shown when I signed-in and paid $99 to become a 'Lindows Insider'. (I'm so happy. Actually I see this as a $99 fighting fund contribution. Go Michael, Go!!)
Lindows should package OpenOffice.org and make it very accessible.
In-Your-Face compatibility with Microsoft is crucial.
This is the first question people will ask: "does it do MS Office?"
and the second will be: "Can I use Outlook?"
I'm going to download and try Lindows. I can spare 7 minutes.
Re:Potential for a whole new genre of reality show
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You gotta aim at the audience...
Try this programme schedule:
Week 1: the Geeks try to hack the Pentagon. Will they survive the subsequent FBI raids?
Week 2: the Geeks have to water-proof their laptops and order pizza from 1m under in the Tropical Swimming Pool. See who gets TORCHED as 5000 VOLTS rip their laptops to shreds!!
Week 3: (female interest story). Geek survivors hack into the co-ed dorm closed circuit TV system. Check it out!!!
Week 4: the surviving Geeks try to hack the Pentagon again. This time they also hack the FBI. Laugh as fifty NSA ninjas show those geeks who's boss!!! (Warning: rectal probe scenes may offend younger viewers.)
Week 5: Bill Gates makes a guest appearance and helps the Geeks install Windows XP. Call during the show and you could win a FREE SERVICE PACK with all-new EULA!!!
Week 6: the Geeks try to escape. Watch in horror as a pack of hungry pitbulls tear one of the geeks to pieces. Giggle as the Geeks scamper! Warning: no televoting this week.
Week 7: the last surviving Geeks try to escape again by building a glider from old AOL CDROMS. Surprise ending.
Week 8: new guest appearance by pr0n starlet Jucy Luicy. The Geeks line up to get their five minutes of shame. YOU DECIDE who gets the finger!!
Week 9: The Final Countdown!!! Special extra prize for 3733t televoters!! Don't forget to check out the special offers on www.geeksurvivors.com!
Week 10: Last Geek Week. The last geek has to survive a whole week with no Net connection, no food or water. Entertainment will consist of a reading of Bill Gate's "Hard Drive" over the intercom. Will he make it?
Find out this fall on Fox.
Potential for a whole new genre of reality shows
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· Score: 5, Funny
"Geeks Alive!"
Watch as Geeks try to break the system!
Ten selected geeks are locked up in a Virtual House.
Each week one geek gets sued by Big Business.
You GET TO VOTE!!! with your browser!
Which geeks stay, which geek gets sued into oblivion!
And... Free...!!! Download all the pr0n and muzik you can cram onto your HD!
This fall on Fox.
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Especially compared to the rest of the world.
My cousin went into a hospital in Kinshassa last week.
He died from blood poisoning from badly-cleaned equipment.
Life for most people, most places, sucks
In some respects that is what makes life worth living.
The GenXers were a generation on holiday.
Time to get back to work, fellows.
Than exposing your network and then trying to catch people who break in.
Since even a secured wireless network can be broken into in about 30 minutes,
it makes more sense to treat the wireless network as an external network.
All accesses to the 'real' internal network then go through the firewall as if they came from the Internet.
Doing anything less than this seems to be courting danger.
Okay, it's just the Brussels Regional Government.
That's not a billion heads, just a million or two.
Perhaps this is will be one of the positive legacies of this recession?
Once a certain fraction of organisations use Linux seriously, it will be an unstoppable movement.
Businesses and governments have no loyalties, only interests.
Throw the entire world population into jail!
That would eliminate all criminal activity immediately!!
Then it sucks.
Being observed without the chance to watch back
is one of the worst things I can imagine.
At least when we lived in villages, and everyone
knew everything about everyone else,
things balanced out.
But this vision of tracking humanity like so many pigeons
is distasteful in the extreme.
Nonetheless, it will happen sooner or later.
Hopefully after I kick the bucket.
We wanted a Debian-based install for our workstations (because of apt) but it inevitably took most of a day to get a Debian up and running.
Lindows-OS is Debian with a pretty skin and it installs completely in about 10 minutes.
Yes, it runs entirely as root, but we don't mind this for workstations.
(I know that's bad but remember, we're comparing to Windows.)
Lindows-OS cost us $99 to download, but we've easily saved that several times over in install times alone.
Read my rant about Ites' Law below. It might give you some ideas about Microsoft's plans.
Last year we decided to migrate off Windows.
We first moved to OpenOffice. Painful, when your clients all use MS Office, but it's possible.
Now we're moving to Mozilla-based browsers.
All our servers (except one) went to Linux in the last year or two.
Now we're killing the last Windows desktops, putting Lindows-OS in their place.
Apart from the license savings, everything just runs better.
There is a huge fear of change, and this works in Windows' favor.
But there is no doubt that open software is better built and cheaper to run.
Changing costs something. But there is no doubt about the TCO of Linux (and its applications) being lower.
Yes, just tried another LindowsOS install on a random box here. Insert CDROM, boot, click 'Ok', 'Next', 'Ok', 'Next', enter root password, confirm root password, click 'Ok', and wait for 4 minutes as it formats the disk and installs at the same time. :)
And that's it. Every device correctly detected, network and a firewall correctly installed, and the OS updated via Debian's apt and the network.
It is almost as fast to install from scratch as to boot a normal PC.
So, you can 'lock down' the PC simply by reinstalling at will. Say every Monday morning, at 6am. I'm sure this could be automated.
Look at the number of ways people have found to crack into software.
It is safe to predict that no software protection will ever work.
But hardware protection is already very hard to break.
And it is possible to make it unbreakable.
And IMHO truly we are not far from that point.
(But for a standardized hardware platform)
(and for an industrial application...)
Using DHCP and BOOTP, we loaded the OS and the applications across the network.
The PC had no hard disk, no drives.
The boot server was itself booted from a CDROM.
So there was nothing to break or mess with.
For word processing you'd have to use a network drive but that makes sense for backups anyhow.
Modern Linuxes are pretty good at detecting existing and especially legacy hardware.
So this approach would work for your problem.
Running Linux on the XBox helps no-one except Microsoft.
Microsoft are counting on this kind of project to test the XBox security.
And when all the weaknesses have been fixed we will find ourselves with a new closed PC platform.
Leave this thing alone, boycott it, let it rot.
It is an empty victory to help M$ improve this product.
"Why choose a (nearly) standard PC platform"?
Microsoft are long-distance players.
They are designing a Microsoft PC platform.
Let's call it 'Fritz 1'.
They would really like this to become the next standard.
And by trying this out in the XBox arena they are proofing the concept.
Whatever weaknesses get thrown up now will be closed in the next release.
After three releases, the design will be unbreakable.
After that, it's a minor matter to convince Dell and HP to base their PCs on this design.
And Windows XP 2003 will not run on anything else.
If the XBox does not scare you, perhaps you should consider a future where all PCs are designed by Redmond.
It would be smarter for people to leave the XBox alone and not contribute to M$'s strategy by hacking it.
Like (most likely) no case design yet.
Presumably they are still working on the innards.
The significance of this announcement is perhaps not that there is a 'product' ready somewhere.
Perhaps it is deeper than that... there are teams outside the US thinking seriously about how to design and build world-class systems like this.
It's the SCRABBLE PLANET!
Someone just wants to sneak this word into the dictionary so that he can beat his aged grandmother at Scrabble.
This is the only possible reason for the name.
Dunno, but I've racked my brains for the last five minutes
and I can't think of a single thing we could do with Quaoar (OSLT).
Nope. Zilch. Not a single damn use for another planet.
We still haven't figured out what we're going to do with the current lot.
Perhaps I'm an ignorant barbarian, but how is finding one more planet 'important'?
I mean... surely 'importance' has to have something to do with human aspirations?
They killed BYTE magazine and ran off with the subscription monies.
I'm not surprised they are having trouble now.
And I'm not moved in the least.
Sorry for the journalists, but your company stinks.
Come on, Perl Journal, it is time to go away.
Actually, there are enough sham companies with pretty and convincing websites to argue against this reasoning.
Just because they have not spent time on their marketing does not mean their product is vapourware.
It would cost you nothing to wait and see whether their product can live up to its specs before accusing them of being a 'sham'.
Good products do not need fancy marketing (though it helps), and an cheap Indian PDA that actually works well would get enough publicity to compensate for even the poorest web site.
Apparently a matter of opinion.
See: this article on The Register.
I've said this before and will say it again: the EU 3G licenses have caused Europe to lose its lead in mobile telephony, and will provoke the bankruptcy of much of the sector in Europe. The company to watch is Qualcomm, since they have the only actual functioning 3G technology.
DNA expresses a digital (quadrary) language.
I doubt that a human phenotype would fit onto 700 MB.
But it might well fit onto a future disc.
Consider some of the implications...
- p2p swapping of celebrity phenotypes - "psst, swap you a rare Marilyn Monroe for a Jucy Luicy"
- technology allowing us to create fertile eggs with any phenotype we happen to have in stock.
- a booming black market in stolen phenotypes.
- Clone Wars!!!
No thanks, I'll just copy my genes the old fashioned way.
This link was shown when I signed-in and paid $99 to become a 'Lindows Insider'. (I'm so happy. Actually I see this as a $99 fighting fund contribution. Go Michael, Go!!)
Lindows should package OpenOffice.org and make it very accessible.
In-Your-Face compatibility with Microsoft is crucial.
This is the first question people will ask: "does it do MS Office?"
and the second will be: "Can I use Outlook?"
I'm going to download and try Lindows. I can spare 7 minutes.
Try this programme schedule:
Week 1: the Geeks try to hack the Pentagon. Will they survive the subsequent FBI raids?
Week 2: the Geeks have to water-proof their laptops and order pizza from 1m under in the Tropical Swimming Pool. See who gets TORCHED as 5000 VOLTS rip their laptops to shreds!!
Week 3: (female interest story). Geek survivors hack into the co-ed dorm closed circuit TV system. Check it out!!!
Week 4: the surviving Geeks try to hack the Pentagon again. This time they also hack the FBI. Laugh as fifty NSA ninjas show those geeks who's boss!!! (Warning: rectal probe scenes may offend younger viewers.)
Week 5: Bill Gates makes a guest appearance and helps the Geeks install Windows XP. Call during the show and you could win a FREE SERVICE PACK with all-new EULA!!!
Week 6: the Geeks try to escape. Watch in horror as a pack of hungry pitbulls tear one of the geeks to pieces. Giggle as the Geeks scamper! Warning: no televoting this week.
Week 7: the last surviving Geeks try to escape again by building a glider from old AOL CDROMS. Surprise ending.
Week 8: new guest appearance by pr0n starlet Jucy Luicy. The Geeks line up to get their five minutes of shame. YOU DECIDE who gets the finger!!
Week 9: The Final Countdown!!! Special extra prize for 3733t televoters!! Don't forget to check out the special offers on www.geeksurvivors.com!
Week 10: Last Geek Week. The last geek has to survive a whole week with no Net connection, no food or water. Entertainment will consist of a reading of Bill Gate's "Hard Drive" over the intercom. Will he make it?
Find out this fall on Fox.
"Geeks Alive!"
Watch as Geeks try to break the system!
Ten selected geeks are locked up in a Virtual House.
Each week one geek gets sued by Big Business.
You GET TO VOTE!!! with your browser!
Which geeks stay, which geek gets sued into oblivion!
And... Free...!!! Download all the pr0n and muzik you can cram onto your HD!
This fall on Fox.