I cannot imagine buying the Coraid devices: as others have mentioned, the savings over iSCSI are too small and you risk single vendor lock-in. However, I am intrigued by the possibilities provided by vblade. As I understand it, this module allows you to change a dirt cheap Linux machine into an AoE controller for regular ATA/SATA disks. This would not replace FC based SANs for latency critical applications, but could apparently provide a very nice, low-cost backup device.
Does anyone here have experience with vblade? Is my understanding correct?
how would you implement a secure facility to change passwords?
Best is to allow the user to create their own question. The only issue here is that some people will choose questions that others could easily find the answer to. However, it is secure for those who know what they are doing.
Leaving aside some of the specifics mentioned (which were misguided) the basic question is a good one, for which there is no clearcut answer.
Some arguments for concentrating on a quick, inexpensive initial implementation:
the application cannot help the business make and/or save money until it is running; a two month delay in initial implementation may cost a fortune;
even applications you expect to use for a long time often do not work out that way; further, the longer you take giving the user a solution, the more likely some manager is to "reconsider" the value of the project part way through;
the time value of money; money spent early in a application life cycle is more "expensive" money than money spent later.
The other side of the coin:
an inflexible application may mean that opportunities are lost later; the ability to react quickly to changing requirements is very important;
developer morale; if your development team feels they are being forced by PHBs to do shoddy work, the impact on motivation and staff turnover can hurt badly.
The various factors must be weighed carefully on a case-by-case basis. Once the decision on approach is taken (especially if "quality" is being compromised) it is important to transmit to the development team why this is the correct approach, from a business standpoint, on this occasion.
Often the best answer is to use different strategies for different parts of the project. Availability of reuseable code from earlier projects is sometimes important to the decision process.
Bottom line: speed and cost of initial deployment is important, but can be overdone.
The method I have been using is a barebones Linux host running VMware Player with a single Windows/XP VM (with restore to a snapshot after each user session). Of course, this does incur some overhead, but it is convenient using a standard Windows configuration on all kinds of different hardware.
How much overhead does DeepFreeze imply? What are the opinions of those you who have used both solutions?
Note that the new version of Xen is also interesting. They claim very low overhead, though it is not clear if this applies to older hardware also or only the new Intel chips that have builtin VM support.
When Joe sees the message "Sorry, you need administrator rights to install this application" he isn't going to know to log back in as administrator
Have you used a recent Linux distribution? I use Windows about 50% of the time (most of my customers use Windows) and Linux most of the rest. I literally cannot remember the last time I logged on as root under Linux (except during initial installs). In pretty much all modern Linux systems, the system knows when administrative rights are needed and prompts for the requisite password (no special login needed). If Joe cannot handle the typing in of a password, then Vista is toast, because (finally) Microsoft has seen the need to move in the same direction.
This is probably true. On the other hand it has been claimed about every version of MS Windows since Windows NT 3.1. The bottom line is: will it be as secure (out of the box) as competing products such as Linux, BSD, Solaris and OSX? I personally doubt it. Microsoft has built itself into a box, through decisions taken years ago, from which it is hard for them to escape. I am trying to keep an open mind though.
It's a shame that there aren't more companies like google that do everything they can to put their customers first and their profits later.
Generally, those companies that produce what the market wants do OK in terms of profits also. Google is certainly no exception.
I think their challenge will be to stay true to their beliefs if they have a few disappointing quarters. The way they are going right now, they have a real shot at meeting their founders' extravagent ambition of changing the world.
We shall probably need to wait until patents expire before any significant commercialisation of this occurs, but does this, in principle, mean that we can replace diseased teeth new natural ones, rather than replacing them with dentures?
If the data on the HDD was encryptyed using appropriate algorythms and a strong enough key, then the data would be safe without the need to erase it. Depending on the operating system used, and presence or absence of a swap file, there may be a few details to resolve, but nothing insoluble. It would be possible to create an encryption system that relies on a time sensitive key transmitted from a base station (using some kind of challenge response method) and easily disabled from the base station when necessary.
Are you saying that the worst murderous mobsters can operate massive criminal enterprises on a website hosted in an anarchistic country and their registrar should be prevented from denying them service?
Some people may have valid reasons to access government sites.
When my parent's post referred to "a negative number", I do not think he was referring to the PE ratio. I agree that Google stock seems awfully expensive, but that is different than "total revenue made by the company over it's entire life and then subtract all the money invested in the company since it was created".
Take the total revenue made by the company over it's entire life and then subtract all the money invested in the company since it was created. In the case of Google, the result is a negative number.
Do you have a link to back that statement up? I find it highly unlikely. Google, as a start-up, exercised good cost controls. Google has existed for less than eight years. I cannot recall any point in that time where they were bleeding billions of dollars.
How is the San Fransisco wireless experiment going? If the telcos decide to try to muscle Google, might not Google create free wireless networks everywhere they try? From Google's point of view, if they must spend money, better on their own network rather than someone else's.
There are good reasons, other than colonisation, for expansion into space: some of them potentially helping with the survival of earth. If we can move dirty manuafacturing, mining activities and some food production into space, the pressure on our own ecology will become much less severe.
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I have worked around the world, and the US has the most cynical and political business environment I have seen anywhere. A few principled organisations, that will try to do the right thing for their employees, still exist, but most will see you as just a special kind of IT tool.
The best I can suggest, to avoid the politics and bureaucracy, is to have a specialised technical job and to work for a manager who is also technical and will understand your contribution. Hopefully, your relationship with him can then be based on results and he can fight the political games: keeping you out of it.
The situation is better in other countries: you might consider moving abroad, though that will probably mean lower pay.
A mouse moves in 2 dimimensions (x and y coordinates only, no z or orientation information)
Actually, a wheelmouse can be used for rudimentary 3D navigation (usually, the wheel moves you forwards or backwards in whatever direction you are currently pointing, while mouse movement changes the orientation).
They are pretty safe adding completely ridiculous new claims now because the court can be trusted to throw them out on procedural grounds: the date for final-last-no-more-chances disclosure of all allegedly infringing code was last December. Thus, they will never have to try to justify such claims as copyright on Posix and ELF; and rights to the general filesystem layout of SVR4.
The real question is why bother making the claims at all? I think the answer is a combination of
bury the court in paper in an attempt to delay proceedings;
try to salvage some of the original claims: there is a pending motion to throw out the bulk of SCO's items from last December on the basis of lack of specificity; they probably hope that, faced with a mountain of SCO claims, the judge may be reluctant to disallow absolutely everything and will allow some of the vague "methods and concepts" items on SCO's December list;
material that can be used to spread FUD about UNIX IP in Linux; they can claim that these broad claims were thrown out on a "technicality", but they are "comfortable going to court with what remains".
IMHO, the whole legal system in the US is past ridicule, and I cannot imagine the legal firms will worry too much about being laughed at. If they are "good" lawyers, they will probably see this as an opportunity rather than an embarrassment. They should be able to charge quite a few hours in preparation for this contest. After all, they will have no boilerplate to use as a basis.
Previously, I believe the RPS game with the most on the line has been the world championship with a prize of US$10,000. I could imagine the combined legal costs for this upcoming game exceeding that.
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Does anyone here have experience with vblade? Is my understanding correct?
We shall need to wait a few years to see if anything practical comes out of the research.
Some arguments for concentrating on a quick, inexpensive initial implementation:
- the application cannot help the business make and/or save money until it is running; a two month delay in initial implementation may cost a fortune;
- even applications you expect to use for a long time often do not work out that way; further, the longer you take giving the user a solution, the more likely some manager is to "reconsider" the value of the project part way through;
- the time value of money; money spent early in a application life cycle is more "expensive" money than money spent later.
The other side of the coin:- an inflexible application may mean that opportunities are lost later; the ability to react quickly to changing requirements is very important;
- developer morale; if your development team feels they are being forced by PHBs to do shoddy work, the impact on motivation and staff turnover can hurt badly.
The various factors must be weighed carefully on a case-by-case basis. Once the decision on approach is taken (especially if "quality" is being compromised) it is important to transmit to the development team why this is the correct approach, from a business standpoint, on this occasion.Often the best answer is to use different strategies for different parts of the project. Availability of reuseable code from earlier projects is sometimes important to the decision process.
Bottom line: speed and cost of initial deployment is important, but can be overdone.
How much overhead does DeepFreeze imply? What are the opinions of those you who have used both solutions?
Note that the new version of Xen is also interesting. They claim very low overhead, though it is not clear if this applies to older hardware also or only the new Intel chips that have builtin VM support.
This is probably true. On the other hand it has been claimed about every version of MS Windows since Windows NT 3.1. The bottom line is: will it be as secure (out of the box) as competing products such as Linux, BSD, Solaris and OSX? I personally doubt it. Microsoft has built itself into a box, through decisions taken years ago, from which it is hard for them to escape. I am trying to keep an open mind though.
I think their challenge will be to stay true to their beliefs if they have a few disappointing quarters. The way they are going right now, they have a real shot at meeting their founders' extravagent ambition of changing the world.
We shall probably need to wait until patents expire before any significant commercialisation of this occurs, but does this, in principle, mean that we can replace diseased teeth new natural ones, rather than replacing them with dentures?
(Getting away from family viewing, can you imagine what those closeup porn photos would look like on a 150" LCD monitor at this resolution?)
- by explicitly invoking the new calls directly in your program;
- indirectly, when the implementation of old calls changes to make use of the new functionality internally.
Thus, even old programs are likely to benefit to some extent because the efficiency of the system generally will improve.Try entering an invalid page for openlinux.org (e.g. this) Note that repeated requests result in different responses.
I am amused, but worry that this may get Linux adherents some unwelcome publicity. Presumably, someone has hacked the openlinux.org DNS info.
If the data on the HDD was encryptyed using appropriate algorythms and a strong enough key, then the data would be safe without the need to erase it. Depending on the operating system used, and presence or absence of a swap file, there may be a few details to resolve, but nothing insoluble. It would be possible to create an encryption system that relies on a time sensitive key transmitted from a base station (using some kind of challenge response method) and easily disabled from the base station when necessary.
When my parent's post referred to "a negative number", I do not think he was referring to the PE ratio. I agree that Google stock seems awfully expensive, but that is different than "total revenue made by the company over it's entire life and then subtract all the money invested in the company since it was created".
How is the San Fransisco wireless experiment going? If the telcos decide to try to muscle Google, might not Google create free wireless networks everywhere they try? From Google's point of view, if they must spend money, better on their own network rather than someone else's.
There are good reasons, other than colonisation, for expansion into space: some of them potentially helping with the survival of earth. If we can move dirty manuafacturing, mining activities and some food production into space, the pressure on our own ecology will become much less severe.
The best I can suggest, to avoid the politics and bureaucracy, is to have a specialised technical job and to work for a manager who is also technical and will understand your contribution. Hopefully, your relationship with him can then be based on results and he can fight the political games: keeping you out of it.
The situation is better in other countries: you might consider moving abroad, though that will probably mean lower pay.
Good luck!
FoxitReader can open that PDF file fine: ensure you do not have a truncated download.
The real question is why bother making the claims at all? I think the answer is a combination of
- bury the court in paper in an attempt to delay proceedings;
- try to salvage some of the original claims: there is a pending motion to throw out the bulk of SCO's items from last December on the basis of lack of specificity; they probably hope that, faced with a mountain of SCO claims, the judge may be reluctant to disallow absolutely everything and will allow some of the vague "methods and concepts" items on SCO's December list;
- material that can be used to spread FUD about UNIX IP in Linux; they can claim that these broad claims were thrown out on a "technicality", but they are "comfortable going to court with what remains".
They really are arseholes.Previously, I believe the RPS game with the most on the line has been the world championship with a prize of US$10,000. I could imagine the combined legal costs for this upcoming game exceeding that.