Digital keys and house or car keys are not the same thing. If I lose my keys someplace whoever finds them in most cases has little idea what they open. So just because the keys are missing security is not immediately compromised. If it takes me three hours to realize these items are missing chances are pretty good I am ok. Now if you lose your certificate private key there is a list of popular sites to attack chances are good you use or have used one, you are immediately compromised. First thing a thief finds a key he goes to Amazon, ebay, Five of the biggest US banks, Netflix, etc etc.
Yes; but don't you think they'd freak out just as often when $616 or $6.16 comes up? I really don't see what difference it makes. All I know is one day I tempted fate and spent $6.66 at the gas station and need a new transmission before I got from there to office. I don't do that any more. Now I will always buy a pack of gum or a coke or something whenever that happens.
Just because they have branded it does not mean they have changed any source. I have never seen one of these things so I don't know anything about them; but they may not be obligated to distribute any source. Also you don't have to provide the source with your binaries to satisfy the gpl. You just have to make the source available in a useful format if someone wants it. Has anyone asked Telstra or any of the manufacturers for the code?
What if the power company started throttling electricity to all...
Perhaps not grow lamps but they do offer lots of customers "throttled connections" Utilities in most major US cities sell power at discounted rates to customers who will all them to put a remote controlled breaker on things like air conditioners and heat pumps, that allow them to turn these devices off at peak load hours. This "service" is pretty popular; so it would seem the market has spoken and does not want electrical neutrality. Now I don't anyplace where you can't opt out, though.
Most serial "adapters" are pretty doggy. I found most of them work great for a low speed console 9600bps. If you crank the speed up and try to say copy an IOS image to it you run into trouble. I have tried a couple different serial "chips" Linux and Windows on a few laptops. Its never fun, there is something to be said for a real PCI or ISA connected serial port. Considering all the issues I have had with USB adapters I can't imagine bluetooth would be any fun at all.
I understand what you are saying and I agree their is some value in forgetting. Trouble is we have a wheat and chaff problem here. How do you separate what is worthy of preservation from what is best forgotten.
All those photos and posts on social media sites might seem like garbage today but some of them also might give insight to some distant future historian about some future political leader.
At the core of this as you mentioned is an economics issue. It costs us near zero to preserve and persist this information. Your challenge if you don't think keeping it all is right, than becomes find a way to sort and categorize at near zero cost so we can decide what to keep. Determining what is worth keeping must be less costly than keeping it or people will just keep all of it. I don't think that is impossible either Google has done some sorting and categorizing of Internet data that many of us would not have thought possible in say 1997.
The only alternative is to keep nothing which I doubt anyone thinks is a good idea.
Virtualizing it won't do much; good in most cases. I have seen a number of companies deploy a Citrix server or two to their farms to host IE6. That is probably a much better solution than running VM on the desktops around the organization just for IE. It just makes much more sense from a cost and support perspective. The typical corporate desktop is a bit anemic for VMs and supporting the users would just be one more thing to try and tech the helpdesk drones.
Neither virtualizing or Citrix will really work in a lot of situations though. Most of the truly web based, web based applications that had IE6 dependencies probably have been fixed. Its the ones that have that huge mess of custom activeX controls that do all sorts of client side stuff like interact with other applications that are not getting ported because the barriers to doing so are much higher. That won't work in VM unless those other applications and what not are also in the VM for the most part. It will also be really confusing for typical office users to get documents in and out where say the application saves out a report or something.
Finally how the heck to you just virtualize IE6 any way? Its not like IE does not depend on just about all of Windows. The best you could do is a cut down install of 2k or XP with IE as the shell. Maybe than you use Unity or something to make it look like a "local" application. Still its not going to be 100% intuitive.
Paralysis by analysis is what we always called it. You can't get anything done because you have to large amount of information about every decision available to decide and even if you can you want to wait for more data in hopes making a better decision. Eventfully you just end up feeling impotent because nothing is happening; next you just start doing stuff without considering any information just to see something actually happen.
Yea, what is even more irritating is they keep subjecting us to it. Even thought the boxes stay checked I have had to go to my user preferences and turn on and then back off the new comment system several times in the last two weeks. I hate it, based on the comments I read here on Slashdot just about everyone else hates it two. Some of them are just Luddites that want the Slashdot of 1997 period but the rest of us just hate because its an awful way to browse and read comments, awful (GET IT TACO AWFUL) so many other sites have gotten it write, if you feel he need to update the look and feel of Slashdot go look at what others are doing!
Shadow copy is a good bit of technology from the windows world too. You do need something to drive it. Microsoft gives you MSBackup which is a marginal at best on the restore side and won't use custom VSS providers from other vendors when it makes backups. Until rather recently this was true of even VSS providers contributed by other Microsoft teams such as the Exchange IS store provider. They have fixed that though after enough people complained and you can backup E2k7+ with MSBackup again properly.
The good news if you don't like MSBackup or it wont do what you want you can use VSS from powershell or vbscript, easily if you are too lazy to break out Visual Studio.
Generally Windows runs badly without a swap. Don't listen to people who tell you to disable it. You should have a swap file on Windows no matter how much memory you have.
Tweakers who don't really understand anything about Windows paging often conclude turning off the swap is a good idea, because they only run trivial applications and don't experience certain memory backed I/O operation failing with it off. They do see an initial speed boost though. The reason is NT is very pessimistic about memory. Windows assumes you will need to page out to disk. It therefore flush the set of static pages to disk almost right away. This is why there is so much more disk thrashing on Windows than say Linux when you start an application and plenty of memory is free. It will do its best to keep the working set out of the page file of course. This does give Windows a performance advantage under memory pressure however. When there is not enough memory to start a new application Windows can just drop the pages from memory of the application being paged out without the need to flush them to disk because they are already there; Linux will need to write those pages.
Given that Windows boxes (desktops anyway) tend to have large numbers proccess running in the background so they usually are under that memory pressure.
Juan Williams is an idiot for so many reasons but; I have to agree with your post. Its not as if he said we should be afraid when Muslims get on a plane we us, he said he is. Its a statement that is not against Muslims or anyone. He even goes on to offer the idea that its an irrational fear. I don't see what NPR's issue is other than that he admitted to be less than a perfect liberal/progressive. Based on this working at NPR must be like working in soviet Russia, with the Party representative constantly watching over your shoulder.
Frankly some people naturally probably have some fear of people who look different and you know what I would only call them racist if they don't recognize that and try using their higher reason to overcome those instincts and treat people fairly. You are only a racist or a bigot if you give into those instincts and there should be no shame in admitting you have them. I say shame on NPR and their PC ilk treating someone so unfairly. He should be judged on his deeds.
Freedom of speech is about expressing beliefs and opinions and facts, that is what the ruling about "FIRE" is all about you are not free to tell blatant false hoods when they could case clear and present danger. This is also how liable, defamation, and slander laws are still permissible.
Beyond this there is no reason to curb freedoms of speech. The whole corporate campaign donations thing is a red herring. That ruling in and of it self is correct. The problem there if you will is the legal fiction that corporations are people and therefore can hide behind the bill of rights in the first place. Corporations are nothing like people:
they don't die eventually as people do
you can't jail them when the misbehave
because their size, wealth, and resources vary so widely as compared with individuals they don't have an equal sensitivity to fines and other defined civil penalties.
If you want to fix this country (USA) for real one place to start would be getting rid of the legal fiction corporations are people, drafting up a fare corporate bill of rights, which might leave some limitations on things like speech.
There will be a big java market for a long time independent of if Oracle works at it or not. Firstly there is an entire generation of software developers out there that cut their teeth on Java. Those people are not going to just stop writing applications in their first language; especially when the best thing that language has going for it is a fantastic set of standard libraries. Second there is the entire mid-range and mainframe world out there for which all the new development has been being doing in Java for the past decade replacing COBOL, and RPG. Just as COBOL and RPG are still very much alive that huge Java code base is not going to just vanish.
But out side of ERP systems which almost always get customized, getting a commercial vendor to modify the product to suit your specific needs is nearly impossible, unless your are an F500. That is where Open Source can be a win.
Open source is great when you want some special behavior in the sales quoting tool that only a tiny fractions of others anywhere would want but you otherwise want the base set of features the mass market wants. If you select an open source tool you can make those modifications. If you select a product with a fairly mature code base its probably not even that costly in terms of developer time to keep your patch set applying cleaning against version latest.
yes sometimes its a bit of a headache if I want to upload a file or anything I usually have to chmod it long enough to accomplish that and than put it back.
Its reasons like this and others I no longer run my browser under my own user account. I have a separate account I run the browser as, actually two there is one I use just to access my bank, and give it permissions on my X server. It has no group memberships that will let it do anything other than read access to system binaries and libraries, basically its only a member of users. I than give my own user account permission to run the browser as the other user with sudo.
This way I can delete the entire home directory from time to time, or anytime I suspect something fishy has happened.
See, I don't see that as any specific kindness. Honestly that sounds like the thief was less dickish than they might of been but there is nothing kind about stealing your property.
Now if say he broke into you car and all he took was the bag of groceries out of the trunk you were on the way home with well, we might say they must have been hungry and it was kind of them to do the littlest damage possible, I guess, but there is nobody who "needs" a CD changer, that is just theft and vandalism and I really don't feel much need to excuse the guy the perp.
I don't know where you work but unless you are certified with the vendor there is no way you are getting an RMA for anything that fast. Hell try getting Dell to take your word for it an RMA even server products without dragging you through two layers of tech support starting with "is the monitor connected" and ending swapping the memory modules in and out.
Completing and RMA will takes easily an hour and half.
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Look at it this way. The operating system is becoming more and more a commodity. Most of the content "desktop" users want is online, and is going to be accessed via browsers. The other things they want to do are pretty much play video disks (blue-ray is a problem right now) and do pretty basic document editing and e-mail. There are some users that want do basic video work and like as well.
None of these things require a finely tuned OS any more, even Linux with its recent advances in hardware detection and automatic configuration do a good enough job that all this is possible with little technical know how. I don't even have an xorg.conf on the system I am using right now. Android phones are more capable than the PCs most of us were using less than a decade ago. Linux certainly can be the platform on which an end user interface is build and its proven it can host the ever more limited selection of applications.
There is not going to be a market for Operating systems that have licensing costs for home users pretty soon. Look how popular the IPAD is! More and more people are realizing what they want is a smart phone with a word processor and some games, a PIM, and financial package of some type; not a "home PC". Linux devices are perfect for that role; as Droid has already proven. Just wait until some of the tablet manufacturers like Motion Computing marry their existing hardware (tablets with stands and removable keyboards) to a droid like platform and target consumers. My guess is they will have the same success Apple is enjoying.
Actually its pretty damn easy to do what you are asking with kerb5. 1997 called they want you lame Enterprise SSO argument back; which I would point out at the time was bunk too because there was yellow pages back then and it worked fine.
Linux servers can be easily cloned; just like windows servers. If you are in an Enterprise environment chances are you have moved into virtualization.
Having done that you build a couple images of GNU/Linux machines as templates, and then just clone them. Once you have done that you probably can boil it down to a few small changes like hostname, ip address, running net join ads, etc etc. At my last job I could have a new Linux AD member server up in moments ready and waiting for whatever application its going to host to be installed.
I had templates for slightly more complex infrastructure roles as well. The extra config time should be a non issue in the enterprise because its something you are doing ONCE. If that is not the case you are already doing it wrong.
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Digital keys and house or car keys are not the same thing. If I lose my keys someplace whoever finds them in most cases has little idea what they open. So just because the keys are missing security is not immediately compromised. If it takes me three hours to realize these items are missing chances are pretty good I am ok. Now if you lose your certificate private key there is a list of popular sites to attack chances are good you use or have used one, you are immediately compromised. First thing a thief finds a key he goes to Amazon, ebay, Five of the biggest US banks, Netflix, etc etc.
Yes; but don't you think they'd freak out just as often when $616 or $6.16 comes up? I really don't see what difference it makes. All I know is one day I tempted fate and spent $6.66 at the gas station and need a new transmission before I got from there to office. I don't do that any more. Now I will always buy a pack of gum or a coke or something whenever that happens.
Just because they have branded it does not mean they have changed any source. I have never seen one of these things so I don't know anything about them; but they may not be obligated to distribute any source. Also you don't have to provide the source with your binaries to satisfy the gpl. You just have to make the source available in a useful format if someone wants it. Has anyone asked Telstra or any of the manufacturers for the code?
What if the power company started throttling electricity to all ...
Perhaps not grow lamps but they do offer lots of customers "throttled connections" Utilities in most major US cities sell power at discounted rates to customers who will all them to put a remote controlled breaker on things like air conditioners and heat pumps, that allow them to turn these devices off at peak load hours. This "service" is pretty popular; so it would seem the market has spoken and does not want electrical neutrality. Now I don't anyplace where you can't opt out, though.
Kwh is not the dumbest unit ever. Edison started selling electricity in Horsepower/hours.
Most serial "adapters" are pretty doggy. I found most of them work great for a low speed console 9600bps. If you crank the speed up and try to say copy an IOS image to it you run into trouble. I have tried a couple different serial "chips" Linux and Windows on a few laptops. Its never fun, there is something to be said for a real PCI or ISA connected serial port. Considering all the issues I have had with USB adapters I can't imagine bluetooth would be any fun at all.
I understand what you are saying and I agree their is some value in forgetting. Trouble is we have a wheat and chaff problem here. How do you separate what is worthy of preservation from what is best forgotten.
All those photos and posts on social media sites might seem like garbage today but some of them also might give insight to some distant future historian about some future political leader.
At the core of this as you mentioned is an economics issue. It costs us near zero to preserve and persist this information. Your challenge if you don't think keeping it all is right, than becomes find a way to sort and categorize at near zero cost so we can decide what to keep. Determining what is worth keeping must be less costly than keeping it or people will just keep all of it. I don't think that is impossible either Google has done some sorting and categorizing of Internet data that many of us would not have thought possible in say 1997.
The only alternative is to keep nothing which I doubt anyone thinks is a good idea.
Virtualizing it won't do much; good in most cases. I have seen a number of companies deploy a Citrix server or two to their farms to host IE6. That is probably a much better solution than running VM on the desktops around the organization just for IE. It just makes much more sense from a cost and support perspective. The typical corporate desktop is a bit anemic for VMs and supporting the users would just be one more thing to try and tech the helpdesk drones.
Neither virtualizing or Citrix will really work in a lot of situations though. Most of the truly web based, web based applications that had IE6 dependencies probably have been fixed. Its the ones that have that huge mess of custom activeX controls that do all sorts of client side stuff like interact with other applications that are not getting ported because the barriers to doing so are much higher. That won't work in VM unless those other applications and what not are also in the VM for the most part. It will also be really confusing for typical office users to get documents in and out where say the application saves out a report or something.
Finally how the heck to you just virtualize IE6 any way? Its not like IE does not depend on just about all of Windows. The best you could do is a cut down install of 2k or XP with IE as the shell. Maybe than you use Unity or something to make it look like a "local" application. Still its not going to be 100% intuitive.
Paralysis by analysis is what we always called it. You can't get anything done because you have to large amount of information about every decision available to decide and even if you can you want to wait for more data in hopes making a better decision. Eventfully you just end up feeling impotent because nothing is happening; next you just start doing stuff without considering any information just to see something actually happen.
Yea, what is even more irritating is they keep subjecting us to it. Even thought the boxes stay checked I have had to go to my user preferences and turn on and then back off the new comment system several times in the last two weeks. I hate it, based on the comments I read here on Slashdot just about everyone else hates it two. Some of them are just Luddites that want the Slashdot of 1997 period but the rest of us just hate because its an awful way to browse and read comments, awful (GET IT TACO AWFUL) so many other sites have gotten it write, if you feel he need to update the look and feel of Slashdot go look at what others are doing!
Shadow copy is a good bit of technology from the windows world too. You do need something to drive it. Microsoft gives you MSBackup which is a marginal at best on the restore side and won't use custom VSS providers from other vendors when it makes backups. Until rather recently this was true of even VSS providers contributed by other Microsoft teams such as the Exchange IS store provider. They have fixed that though after enough people complained and you can backup E2k7+ with MSBackup again properly.
The good news if you don't like MSBackup or it wont do what you want you can use VSS from powershell or vbscript, easily if you are too lazy to break out Visual Studio.
Generally Windows runs badly without a swap. Don't listen to people who tell you to disable it. You should have a swap file on Windows no matter how much memory you have.
Tweakers who don't really understand anything about Windows paging often conclude turning off the swap is a good idea, because they only run trivial applications and don't experience certain memory backed I/O operation failing with it off. They do see an initial speed boost though. The reason is NT is very pessimistic about memory. Windows assumes you will need to page out to disk. It therefore flush the set of static pages to disk almost right away. This is why there is so much more disk thrashing on Windows than say Linux when you start an application and plenty of memory is free. It will do its best to keep the working set out of the page file of course. This does give Windows a performance advantage under memory pressure however. When there is not enough memory to start a new application Windows can just drop the pages from memory of the application being paged out without the need to flush them to disk because they are already there; Linux will need to write those pages.
Given that Windows boxes (desktops anyway) tend to have large numbers proccess running in the background so they usually are under that memory pressure.
Juan Williams is an idiot for so many reasons but; I have to agree with your post. Its not as if he said we should be afraid when Muslims get on a plane we us, he said he is. Its a statement that is not against Muslims or anyone. He even goes on to offer the idea that its an irrational fear. I don't see what NPR's issue is other than that he admitted to be less than a perfect liberal/progressive. Based on this working at NPR must be like working in soviet Russia, with the Party representative constantly watching over your shoulder.
Frankly some people naturally probably have some fear of people who look different and you know what I would only call them racist if they don't recognize that and try using their higher reason to overcome those instincts and treat people fairly. You are only a racist or a bigot if you give into those instincts and there should be no shame in admitting you have them. I say shame on NPR and their PC ilk treating someone so unfairly. He should be judged on his deeds.
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Freedom of speech is about expressing beliefs and opinions and facts, that is what the ruling about "FIRE" is all about you are not free to tell blatant false hoods when they could case clear and present danger. This is also how liable, defamation, and slander laws are still permissible.
Beyond this there is no reason to curb freedoms of speech. The whole corporate campaign donations thing is a red herring. That ruling in and of it self is correct. The problem there if you will is the legal fiction that corporations are people and therefore can hide behind the bill of rights in the first place. Corporations are nothing like people:
they don't die eventually as people do
you can't jail them when the misbehave
because their size, wealth, and resources vary so widely as compared with individuals they don't have an equal sensitivity to fines and other defined civil penalties.
If you want to fix this country (USA) for real one place to start would be getting rid of the legal fiction corporations are people, drafting up a fare corporate bill of rights, which might leave some limitations on things like speech.
There will be a big java market for a long time independent of if Oracle works at it or not. Firstly there is an entire generation of software developers out there that cut their teeth on Java. Those people are not going to just stop writing applications in their first language; especially when the best thing that language has going for it is a fantastic set of standard libraries. Second there is the entire mid-range and mainframe world out there for which all the new development has been being doing in Java for the past decade replacing COBOL, and RPG. Just as COBOL and RPG are still very much alive that huge Java code base is not going to just vanish.
But out side of ERP systems which almost always get customized, getting a commercial vendor to modify the product to suit your specific needs is nearly impossible, unless your are an F500. That is where Open Source can be a win.
Open source is great when you want some special behavior in the sales quoting tool that only a tiny fractions of others anywhere would want but you otherwise want the base set of features the mass market wants. If you select an open source tool you can make those modifications. If you select a product with a fairly mature code base its probably not even that costly in terms of developer time to keep your patch set applying cleaning against version latest.
If you have a Windows license it will run under dosbox
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yes sometimes its a bit of a headache if I want to upload a file or anything I usually have to chmod it long enough to accomplish that and than put it back.
Its reasons like this and others I no longer run my browser under my own user account. I have a separate account I run the browser as, actually two there is one I use just to access my bank, and give it permissions on my X server. It has no group memberships that will let it do anything other than read access to system binaries and libraries, basically its only a member of users. I than give my own user account permission to run the browser as the other user with sudo.
This way I can delete the entire home directory from time to time, or anytime I suspect something fishy has happened.
See, I don't see that as any specific kindness. Honestly that sounds like the thief was less dickish than they might of been but there is nothing kind about stealing your property.
Now if say he broke into you car and all he took was the bag of groceries out of the trunk you were on the way home with well, we might say they must have been hungry and it was kind of them to do the littlest damage possible, I guess, but there is nobody who "needs" a CD changer, that is just theft and vandalism and I really don't feel much need to excuse the guy the perp.
I don't know where you work but unless you are certified with the vendor there is no way you are getting an RMA for anything that fast. Hell try getting Dell to take your word for it an RMA even server products without dragging you through two layers of tech support starting with "is the monitor connected" and ending swapping the memory modules in and out.
Completing and RMA will takes easily an hour and half.
Look at it this way. The operating system is becoming more and more a commodity. Most of the content "desktop" users want is online, and is going to be accessed via browsers. The other things they want to do are pretty much play video disks (blue-ray is a problem right now) and do pretty basic document editing and e-mail. There are some users that want do basic video work and like as well.
None of these things require a finely tuned OS any more, even Linux with its recent advances in hardware detection and automatic configuration do a good enough job that all this is possible with little technical know how. I don't even have an xorg.conf on the system I am using right now. Android phones are more capable than the PCs most of us were using less than a decade ago. Linux certainly can be the platform on which an end user interface is build and its proven it can host the ever more limited selection of applications.
There is not going to be a market for Operating systems that have licensing costs for home users pretty soon. Look how popular the IPAD is! More and more people are realizing what they want is a smart phone with a word processor and some games, a PIM, and financial package of some type; not a "home PC". Linux devices are perfect for that role; as Droid has already proven. Just wait until some of the tablet manufacturers like Motion Computing marry their existing hardware (tablets with stands and removable keyboards) to a droid like platform and target consumers. My guess is they will have the same success Apple is enjoying.
Actually its pretty damn easy to do what you are asking with kerb5. 1997 called they want you lame Enterprise SSO argument back; which I would point out at the time was bunk too because there was yellow pages back then and it worked fine.
Linux servers can be easily cloned; just like windows servers. If you are in an Enterprise environment chances are you have moved into virtualization.
Having done that you build a couple images of GNU/Linux machines as templates, and then just clone them. Once you have done that you probably can boil it down to a few small changes like hostname, ip address, running net join ads, etc etc. At my last job I could have a new Linux AD member server up in moments ready and waiting for whatever application its going to host to be installed.
I had templates for slightly more complex infrastructure roles as well. The extra config time should be a non issue in the enterprise because its something you are doing ONCE. If that is not the case you are already doing it wrong.