I don't think you a rich enough to pay for a full analysis on how to use VMWare to implement the above solution in secure way.
While you are getting richer you can always encrypt the Virtual Disk file(s) using an encrypted file system! Now if you want to know how, just google it up or search past slashdot articles.
This should not be a big problem as the VM is isolated from the host (it would take far more serious hacking, that what was done to get HL2 code, to get inside VMWare internals). One could always snif the physical ethernet card for packed, but having the VM connect through VPN to the "DEV" network would solve the problem. The host could be a barebone linux Install without any open ports. That would limit the risk of having the Host being hacked. Now you have a closed down host with two VM. One on a "private" network, and the other on "public" network.
Having a seperate machine on a seperate physical network would be more secure, but would cost much more than the VMWare approach.
One can use VMWare to do that. All VMs can have a virtual networks which will not be accessible from the host. No need for many computers and/or physical connection.
The folks at the NSA use VMWare for this purpose (they do have a special version with additional security features)
I bet that they will try to enforce that kind of separation (virtual or physical) anyway. By missing the Holiday season, they will loose a bundle on sales.
Any news if GIMP now (or will) retain properties embeded in JPG images when saving as JPG?
V1.2.4 does not support this which make it an inconvenient choice to edit pictures taken with a digital camera. All JPG properties like date the picture was shot and other parameters get lost when saving.
Wow... That's some HUGE document you lost. At 4KB per fragment times 50 millions that's 200K millions bytes that's a 200GB document. I'm not even certain that NTFS can have that a large document in one file (unless it's block size is greater than 4KB, but that would also mean that the document would be larger than my estimate - which is already on the lower size by assuming that each fragment is only 4KB!)
You know. You should NOT write everything in the same document;-)
The two premises can be both thrue. The fact that it's a research project does NOT conflict with the fact that information can be published and consumed without fear of censorship.
LITERATURE John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about specific annoyances and anomalies of daily life, such as: What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attache cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket's express checkout lane; and What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.
That's what marketing people do when they do a market study!
We have a fully functional port of Linux 2.4 running over Xen
With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete, and are planning a FreeBSD 4.8 port in the near future (volunteers welcome!).
If one need to port an OS to make it work within Xen, then I will NOT compare it to VMWare. VMare can run your stock OS on a VM whithout the need to tweak it.
The performance advantage it has over VMWare is probably related to that. By having a few restriction on the OS, they can probably offer better performances.
Why so many research is done trying to wire many components into some clothes.
We can already wear computers (Palm devices) and we do not need any wires bewteen it and other component such as network access devices (GSM Phone) thank's to Bluetooth.
The only thing that may be missing is lightweight glasses with a display (something that look like a glass) that connect without wires to the computer and maybe some input device (voice would be nice and already exists with bluetooth headset. We just miss the voice recognition in a Palm device) and we are set.
All these things can be worn with existing clothes and are not very intrusives.
It kinda amaze me that these guy are only complaining.
I'm pretty sure that if they really wanted to do something about it, they would create a fund (given they big shot status, it should not be that difficult) to sue Linksys/Cisco for the violation. Why does the FSF do nothing about that matter?
They should also publish their correspondance with Linksys (if they had any) about the issue. What we are earing is just one side of the story!
I own a Palm Tungsten T and I bough many e-books from PDM. While reading on a small screen is not the best thing since slice bread, I still enjoy it. Note that the screen quality of the T|T is very good. I would not even try reading a book on a device with a low quality screen (older Palm or Handspring devices). Color screen or B&W screen should be ok.
The convenience (I always have my T|T in my pocket, si I can read a book almost anywhere and anytime) of having a book in electronics format far outweight the small inconvenience of reading on a small screen.
The only things that annoys me about e-books, is that you do not have a great deal of choice. The selection they have on PDM is nice, but is still far from the selection availlable at a small bookstore. The other thing is that your bookshelve don't grow with the number of books you read. I like, when I go to somebody else home, to take a look at their bookshelve to see what they read. You loose that ability when you have an electronic bookshelve.
My EE instructor always said that they could improve performance by doing one simple thing: make the interconnects on the motherboard between the motherboard and RAM rounded instead of cornered. You could then increase bus speed as you wouldn't have magnetic loss at the corners like you do now.
I hope that you instructor applied for a patent for this... If he did, he will be rich soon just be licensing this incedible breakthrough in interconnecting chips.
The actual good consequence is that he will stop teaching soon. I hate crappy instructor who think they have great idea to make stuff better, but do nothing with it... Especially, easy to implement improvements. If what he said to you was not full of crap, you can be sure that someone would have implemented this!
They seems to support POP3. That means that all the e-mail that someone receive are in plaintext on his harddisk. Not very secure!
For this approach to work, someone would have to BCC himself instead of putting a copy in the sent folder to keep the e-mail he sent. Also, it can be secure only if using IMAP (mail stays on server) and the folder used to as the IMAP cache on the computer should be encrypted.
I don't know what their target market is. Most large corporation use Notes or Exchange, which already support encryption.
Not so great, they'll have to encrypt each spam they send using the recipient public key. This will make them a lot less efficient (a lot more CPU time will be required on their part and they need to fetch you public key somewhere).
The guy who wrote the article does understand end-users.
Who is going to win is not the one with better technology. Technology is not important to the end-users. The user interface and convenience is what matter.
Why do you think that Kazaa is more popular that Gnutella. That's because the search engine is more convenient... You can search meta data in addition to filenames. The underlying protocol or matching engine has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, if I search for "Evanescence" music files, even the most crappy search engine will yield good results (especially if sorted by the number of hosts who have it - automatic google ranking!)
The one who are going to win are the ones who are going to make filesharing part of their OS or services. The winner will be Microsoft, Apple, and maybe AOL could be a distant second (in the MS space).
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While you are getting richer you can always encrypt the Virtual Disk file(s) using an encrypted file system! Now if you want to know how, just google it up or search past slashdot articles.
Why not! One can code on one machine and test on another one!
Having a seperate machine on a seperate physical network would be more secure, but would cost much more than the VMWare approach.
One can use VMWare to do that. All VMs can have a virtual networks which will not be accessible from the host. No need for many computers and/or physical connection.
The folks at the NSA use VMWare for this purpose (they do have a special version with additional security features)
I bet that they will try to enforce that kind of separation (virtual or physical) anyway. By missing the Holiday season, they will loose a bundle on sales.
V1.2.4 does not support this which make it an inconvenient choice to edit pictures taken with a digital camera. All JPG properties like date the picture was shot and other parameters get lost when saving.
Answer: Halloween!
Wow... That's some HUGE document you lost. At 4KB per fragment times 50 millions that's 200K millions bytes that's a 200GB document. I'm not even certain that NTFS can have that a large document in one file (unless it's block size is greater than 4KB, but that would also mean that the document would be larger than my estimate - which is already on the lower size by assuming that each fragment is only 4KB!)
;-)
You know. You should NOT write everything in the same document
The two premises can be both thrue. The fact that it's a research project does NOT conflict with the fact that information can be published and consumed without fear of censorship.
John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about specific annoyances and anomalies of daily life, such as: What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attache cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket's express checkout lane; and What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.
That's what marketing people do when they do a market study!
Once you have the source code... Who cares about CD-Key. They can just produce a binary without any CD key requirements.
And they composed an entire song on a calculator way back!
With assistance from Microsoft Research, we have a port of Windows XP to Xen nearly complete, and are planning a FreeBSD 4.8 port in the near future (volunteers welcome!).
If one need to port an OS to make it work within Xen, then I will NOT compare it to VMWare. VMare can run your stock OS on a VM whithout the need to tweak it.
The performance advantage it has over VMWare is probably related to that. By having a few restriction on the OS, they can probably offer better performances.
Someone mod this guy up. He's actually right! There is 6 books in the Lord of the Ring "trilogy". Plus a whole lot of other books related to it.
We can already wear computers (Palm devices) and we do not need any wires bewteen it and other component such as network access devices (GSM Phone) thank's to Bluetooth.
The only thing that may be missing is lightweight glasses with a display (something that look like a glass) that connect without wires to the computer and maybe some input device (voice would be nice and already exists with bluetooth headset. We just miss the voice recognition in a Palm device) and we are set.
All these things can be worn with existing clothes and are not very intrusives.
The future is in wireless PAN, not wired PAN.
Funny thing is that if I come back tomorrow (or the day after or in a few hours), the link title will not match the information in the linked page ;-)
The book is about web standards!
It kinda amaze me that these guy are only complaining.
I'm pretty sure that if they really wanted to do something about it, they would create a fund (given they big shot status, it should not be that difficult) to sue Linksys/Cisco for the violation. Why does the FSF do nothing about that matter?
They should also publish their correspondance with Linksys (if they had any) about the issue. What we are earing is just one side of the story!
I own a Palm Tungsten T and I bough many e-books from PDM. While reading on a small screen is not the best thing since slice bread, I still enjoy it. Note that the screen quality of the T|T is very good. I would not even try reading a book on a device with a low quality screen (older Palm or Handspring devices). Color screen or B&W screen should be ok.
The convenience (I always have my T|T in my pocket, si I can read a book almost anywhere and anytime) of having a book in electronics format far outweight the small inconvenience of reading on a small screen.
The only things that annoys me about e-books, is that you do not have a great deal of choice. The selection they have on PDM is nice, but is still far from the selection availlable at a small bookstore. The other thing is that your bookshelve don't grow with the number of books you read. I like, when I go to somebody else home, to take a look at their bookshelve to see what they read. You loose that ability when you have an electronic bookshelve.
It is actually quite pleasant to live a life like this. I really enjoy it... You made my day!
I hope that you instructor applied for a patent for this... If he did, he will be rich soon just be licensing this incedible breakthrough in interconnecting chips.
The actual good consequence is that he will stop teaching soon. I hate crappy instructor who think they have great idea to make stuff better, but do nothing with it... Especially, easy to implement improvements. If what he said to you was not full of crap, you can be sure that someone would have implemented this!
... I'm already running a desktop on my laptop!
They seems to support POP3. That means that all the e-mail that someone receive are in plaintext on his harddisk. Not very secure!
For this approach to work, someone would have to BCC himself instead of putting a copy in the sent folder to keep the e-mail he sent. Also, it can be secure only if using IMAP (mail stays on server) and the folder used to as the IMAP cache on the computer should be encrypted.
I don't know what their target market is. Most large corporation use Notes or Exchange, which already support encryption.
Not so great, they'll have to encrypt each spam they send using the recipient public key. This will make them a lot less efficient (a lot more CPU time will be required on their part and they need to fetch you public key somewhere).
The guy who wrote the article does understand end-users.
Who is going to win is not the one with better technology. Technology is not important to the end-users. The user interface and convenience is what matter.
Why do you think that Kazaa is more popular that Gnutella. That's because the search engine is more convenient... You can search meta data in addition to filenames. The underlying protocol or matching engine has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, if I search for "Evanescence" music files, even the most crappy search engine will yield good results (especially if sorted by the number of hosts who have it - automatic google ranking!)
The one who are going to win are the ones who are going to make filesharing part of their OS or services. The winner will be Microsoft, Apple, and maybe AOL could be a distant second (in the MS space).
It cool that P2P United is actually paying the bill.