Have to say I am with you on this one. And there is only one free product you can put on business PCs, so the only competitor is ClamWin in that (not small) market.
Let me know when they make one. And connect it to a perfect and secure network, on perfect and secure fiber. In a city with no natural disasters, too... And I want a pony.
I haven't gotten a DTV tuner yet and I don't think I'm stupid or lazy. There's so little worth watching on TV that I've decided to give up on it all together.
Yeah! How could he leave out the "I just don't give a damn" people?
(hint, most of the spam is still generated in US).
Signal to noise... Most of the traffic is from the US as well. (At least on my servers here in the US. However, we get damn little valid traffic from China and the Ukraine. Not fair, but I can go home before midnight.
Having lived in Houston, post Ike, and seeing first had what a few days with no power in a large city can do... You might want to hear about it. And generators work very well when the gas station has no power to refill it.
Of course it is being built in the opposite direction with identity management and tracking built into the core. It is almost as if the designers want to eliminate anonymity... That, and if no one knows where it is, how do you get there? Ohh... Whitehouse.gov points here now? Take it down. Massive, geographic, and resilient redundancy, on the other hand, fixes a lot of problems.
So? You and Cringely are still thinking in brick and morter terms. If you bomb a factory, it takes a while to rebuild. With a warm standby, you can rebuild a server in minutes. Easier to take down, yes, but also easier to put back up somewhere else. (If you plan ahead)
Size helps. It takes far fewer people to make an impact when the electorate is the size of some cities in the US. Here we had a few million people protest rampant overspending, and it was blown off...
The digital entertainment industry in its current form might depend on copyright, but abolishing copyright would result in a new digital entertainment industry that separates producing content (their job) from making copies (not their job).
And how do they get paid if anyone can replicate their content for free? Just hope for donations? There's a guy with a guitar on the corner of my street who does that. It doesn't seem to be working all that well for him.
Cold Case, NCIS, Bones, and others seem to be surviving by giving me stuff for free. Just because YOU have not thought of a way to make money with free and open bit torrent, that does not mean that no one will.
Also, most of the big players in the Arm market have no Windows product. "If you don't quit that we won't sell you Windows cheaply anymo... Oh..." It is hard to influence someone who is not your customer. It is like Paris Hilton, denying you sex. Not really gonna impact your life, now is it?
For them Windows is much better, because all the Chinese software that everybody around them is already using will work, and they don't give a hoot about piracy. In fact, lots of them don't even have a concept of "software piracy". Software is just something you copy from someone else, or buy from the street vendor for a dollar.
But the box to run it on is 3 months pay... The "Free" WinXP gets very expensive that way. This is one place MS can't just get market share with Piracy. But they will try with WinCE. They can not just abandon the market... And WinCE can't run WINE and Windows apps either...
Democrats: Hollywood, the movies and recording industry
_Never_ be surprised at Democratic support for DRM, the RIAA or MPAA.
You still miss the point...
Republicans - Get all the power they can while paying lip service to conservitives.
Democrats - Get all the power they can while paying lip service to liberals.
They just play off each other to distract the public. There is no difference between them.
The providers of the media are left floundering around trying to stick to the capitalist system but it is in itself obsolete.
The capitalist system is fine, and works well. If the government wasn't propping up the content industry with restrictive regulation, the capitalist system would have shattered the industry by now. The capitalist system rewards the most efficient provider of a wanted item. That would be The Pirate Bay, if the government did not interfere. And yet, there are many software companies doing very well "selling" free software. Get the politicians out of the way, and let the invisible had do it's job.
First, the "Prohibited User Operations" generally take longer than 10 seconds.
Second, they happen every time you start the damn CD. This gets annoying as hell for TV based CDs where you only watch one episode at a time.
Third, it is my time, and I can keep it by breaking the DRM. Pirates and Linux users don't have to wait.
Or IPcop, pfSense, m0n0wall, Shorewall, etc. Why? Because they're not appliances.
monowall is not a UTM, it is a firewall. I am a dev on it, and I should know.
pfSense is also not a UTM, but it has a lot of plugins that can get close. But since it is a lot of plugins, it is not really "Unifiied."
Untangle, and both of the above are available as supported appliances, or installable on standard x86 hardware, or appliance like hardware.
I have not used IPcop or shorewall, so I can't speak on them.
> It would have been nice to see how the ASA5500 series appliances stood up to the test.
If you send them one I'm sure they'll test it. It appears that Cisco wouldn't.
They also didn't include Untangle, http://www.untangle.com/ which is available free, and is a direct competitor to the things tested. So it might be other reasons...
Part of the solution is the tool, and part is how you use it. The Pix firewall can be very secure, but it is very hard to configure correctly. So many people just opened it up, making it very insecure... If a unified tool can be more easily configured securely than many best of bread applications, it will produce a better result every time. It will also have better cross communication than other applications as it is designed that way, not tacked on to support many other things.
Now could you personally out do that? Probably. Could your typical business person? Not likely...
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It gets confusing when Norton and McAffe are the evil entrenched duopoly, and Microsoft is the plucky young upstart. Reminds me of the early 80s.
Have to say I am with you on this one. And there is only one free product you can put on business PCs, so the only competitor is ClamWin in that (not small) market.
Let me know when they make one. And connect it to a perfect and secure network, on perfect and secure fiber. In a city with no natural disasters, too... And I want a pony.
Wait until the greenies found out that they all use power, and all the time! Probably the carbon footprint of a few thousand Prisuses.
I haven't gotten a DTV tuner yet and I don't think I'm stupid or lazy. There's so little worth watching on TV that I've decided to give up on it all together.
Yeah! How could he leave out the "I just don't give a damn" people?
I take it you and none of your peers use wireless?
Not there own, so it doesn't count.
(hint, most of the spam is still generated in US).
Signal to noise... Most of the traffic is from the US as well. (At least on my servers here in the US. However, we get damn little valid traffic from China and the Ukraine. Not fair, but I can go home before midnight.
Having lived in Houston, post Ike, and seeing first had what a few days with no power in a large city can do... You might want to hear about it. And generators work very well when the gas station has no power to refill it.
Of course it is being built in the opposite direction with identity management and tracking built into the core. It is almost as if the designers want to eliminate anonymity... That, and if no one knows where it is, how do you get there? Ohh... Whitehouse.gov points here now? Take it down. Massive, geographic, and resilient redundancy, on the other hand, fixes a lot of problems.
So? You and Cringely are still thinking in brick and morter terms. If you bomb a factory, it takes a while to rebuild. With a warm standby, you can rebuild a server in minutes. Easier to take down, yes, but also easier to put back up somewhere else. (If you plan ahead)
Size helps. It takes far fewer people to make an impact when the electorate is the size of some cities in the US. Here we had a few million people protest rampant overspending, and it was blown off...
The digital entertainment industry in its current form might depend on copyright, but abolishing copyright would result in a new digital entertainment industry that separates producing content (their job) from making copies (not their job).
And how do they get paid if anyone can replicate their content for free? Just hope for donations? There's a guy with a guitar on the corner of my street who does that. It doesn't seem to be working all that well for him.
Cold Case, NCIS, Bones, and others seem to be surviving by giving me stuff for free. Just because YOU have not thought of a way to make money with free and open bit torrent, that does not mean that no one will.
A text based script verses a recompiled binary? Yep... No difference there.
Also, most of the big players in the Arm market have no Windows product. "If you don't quit that we won't sell you Windows cheaply anymo... Oh..." It is hard to influence someone who is not your customer. It is like Paris Hilton, denying you sex. Not really gonna impact your life, now is it?
For them Windows is much better, because all the Chinese software that everybody around them is already using will work, and they don't give a hoot about piracy. In fact, lots of them don't even have a concept of "software piracy". Software is just something you copy from someone else, or buy from the street vendor for a dollar.
But the box to run it on is 3 months pay... The "Free" WinXP gets very expensive that way. This is one place MS can't just get market share with Piracy. But they will try with WinCE. They can not just abandon the market... And WinCE can't run WINE and Windows apps either...
One more time:
Republicans: Oil and gas
Democrats: Hollywood, the movies and recording industry
_Never_ be surprised at Democratic support for DRM, the RIAA or MPAA.
You still miss the point...
Republicans - Get all the power they can while paying lip service to conservitives.
Democrats - Get all the power they can while paying lip service to liberals.
They just play off each other to distract the public. There is no difference between them.
This is a good example... http://www.carmenscalls.com/
Don't forget risk. You get more Trojans from legitimate software these days. Just ask Sony.
The providers of the media are left floundering around trying to stick to the capitalist system but it is in itself obsolete.
The capitalist system is fine, and works well. If the government wasn't propping up the content industry with restrictive regulation, the capitalist system would have shattered the industry by now. The capitalist system rewards the most efficient provider of a wanted item. That would be The Pirate Bay, if the government did not interfere. And yet, there are many software companies doing very well "selling" free software. Get the politicians out of the way, and let the invisible had do it's job.
First, the "Prohibited User Operations" generally take longer than 10 seconds.
Second, they happen every time you start the damn CD. This gets annoying as hell for TV based CDs where you only watch one episode at a time.
Third, it is my time, and I can keep it by breaking the DRM. Pirates and Linux users don't have to wait.
I keep all three (Untangle, m0n0wall, and pfSense) in my toolbox. In some cases I have used 2 of the above.
Or IPcop, pfSense, m0n0wall, Shorewall, etc. Why? Because they're not appliances.
monowall is not a UTM, it is a firewall. I am a dev on it, and I should know.
pfSense is also not a UTM, but it has a lot of plugins that can get close. But since it is a lot of plugins, it is not really "Unifiied."
Untangle, and both of the above are available as supported appliances, or installable on standard x86 hardware, or appliance like hardware.
I have not used IPcop or shorewall, so I can't speak on them.
> It would have been nice to see how the ASA5500 series appliances stood up to the test.
If you send them one I'm sure they'll test it. It appears that Cisco wouldn't.
They also didn't include Untangle, http://www.untangle.com/ which is available free, and is a direct competitor to the things tested. So it might be other reasons...
Part of the solution is the tool, and part is how you use it. The Pix firewall can be very secure, but it is very hard to configure correctly. So many people just opened it up, making it very insecure... If a unified tool can be more easily configured securely than many best of bread applications, it will produce a better result every time. It will also have better cross communication than other applications as it is designed that way, not tacked on to support many other things.
Now could you personally out do that? Probably. Could your typical business person? Not likely...
As it will be a year before it is evaluated, tested, patched, and approved, they have time... Look how long it took Vista to get stable.