Since there are 60% Windows 2000 out there, and 11% Windows 98SE too!
Your Longhorn will at best put a 1% dent in the first year (or whats left of a year).
Not enough to stop the steady but absolutely sure eroding slide of Internet Explod^Hrer's market share.
The only way out the Microsoft conudrum is to FIX INTERNET EXPLORER right the first time, on all Windows platforms (oh, and Mac as well; Oh, didn't IE appear on Sun/OS?).
Any economist can tell you that when your infrastructure is eroding due to lack of maintenance, it will REACH the point of no-return due to inaction.
Larger the infrastructure or user-installed base, the larger the inertia of motion required to change the tide. Me think, this is what occurred to IE.
As if anyone care, the Internet bandwidth utilization will be lower by more than the same percentage that Firefox captured in marketshare.
On the client side, Firefox, as a default, utilizes gzip/deflate over HTTP. Internet Explodrer cannot.
On the server side; IIS, as a default (never mind their latest server technology), does not promote easy to use compression of their web content and is usually not utilized fully, or at all. Apache provides for easy to use compression and in some distros, is offered as a default. Savvy webmasters do and should take full advantage to speed their end-users' surfing experience.
If you do the probability matrix math, the bandwidth saving gain is rather significant.
The USA death penalty, as much as I advocate them, does have a strong State litmus test throughout its member of the union.
What if the hacking resulting in a failure of a mass transportation system resulting in large amount of casualties. Does the hacker deserve it? Me definitely think so.
But just to cause commerce glitches, minor or major; not strong enough of a litmus test.
Now, how about those chain-gangs of the white-collar variety? We can put them to work re-installing PCs after PCs after PCs.... after.....PCs.
Wait until you hear about a 1,000 watt for a typical 1Gbps Intrusion Prevention System.
Expect to see the wattage to go ten-fold increase once we go to 10Gbps Ethernet IPS/IDS.
On a side note....
All that powerful high-speed packet examination, and alas, sorry to say, that signature-delivery is a failing model for the IPS/IDS industry. Put stock in HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System) as its the right way to go.
Running Linux? SELinux or GRSecurity is one such HIPS-derivative.
Top 10 things you're likely to hear shortly after the bell.
10. Canius Virii ate my homework.
9. Not now, I'm IM'ing with my broker
8. Press me and I'll press this button erasing your server
7. Road crew didn't blog their detours.
6. PDF Midterms -- Fresh off the teacher's home server, send $$ to PayPal.
5. Check out Mr. Crabapple's latest decline at RateMyTeacher.Com
4. Acrobat Reader is crashing... I couldn't bone up on it overnite.
3. Microsoft locked out PDF in favor of XML. Do you have an XML reader?
2. Not enough memstick-space
1. I can't read.
Short! Short! Let it ride out These are the things you can do without Come on I'm shorting on you Come on
In crapping times You shouldn't have to pump up your stocks In up and downs We really ought to know Those one track minds That took you for a sucker boy Kiss your ass goodbye
We shouldn't have to jump for joy but we will defintely will short your joy
(Chorus)
Unix gave you life And in return you gave them hell As cold as ice I hope you live to tell the tale I hope you live to tell the tale
(Chorus)
And when you've think you've got it locked IBM could wear you down We really love to break your heart We really love to break your heart
Took a Damn Small Linux, Qt-Embedded, Wireless USB, Firefox browswer and poof. A real looker that I can use in my Kitchen for my browsing needs. This is in clear violation of my Acceptable Usage Policy set forth by now defunct Netpliance.
Is the AUP enforceable? Why is it that we have to wait for the company to belly up before we can raid the hardware?
If we bought it, damn the license. Same goes for my DVD players, WinTV-HDTV, Tivos, Trio cellphones and iPODs. We're consumers who wish to spread around what we call "a GOOD THING".
The correct path for SMTP community users and providers is to abandon 'forwarding' support.
This small but major step is the last holdout for proper (but still incomplete) verification using SPFv1, Sender-ID or SPFv2 (not including the simple one line insertion of TXT record into your DNS server. Incomplete, until DNS-SEC is widely adopted.
Microsoft strategy is to steer the Internet community toward a more proprietary (and patent) route using their arsenal (however small it may be) which is HOTMAIL.
Rest assured, Sender-ID will be crushed under their own weight once the dual (or tri) system of SPF/Sender-ID is massively deployed side-by-side.
So, nothing to worry about. Darwinism at its best. Let nature run its course.
To do this like the olden days of computing yores (before email was in vogue), try the following:
1. post bulletin/flyers at the
a. Computer Swap meets,
b. Flea Markets,
c. computer stores (talk to managers)
2. Visit stores, approach people staring at components, thrust the flyer in their hand after confirm their hobby interest.
a. computer stores
b. electronic stores
3. Take a classified Ad in the paper (that still works)
4. University bulletin boards, those are great but usually
requires Student Union approvals.
Check the QUADs/square or engineering department boards.
5. Visit other user groups
6. Try Craigs List. (exception to the email yores)
Justs alot of footwork, before the word of mouth gets around.
If you really want to demonstrate technical proweness, then construct a Bat Signal and advertise lightbeam-writing on the nite clouds.
If this fairly recent Schlash/Smashdot story on Bittorrent delivery of malwares is any indication, doesn't this mean that Microsoft Avalanche will SNOWBALL us to death... quicker?
The spammers, indubitably, have been alerted to yet another advertising medium (Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the spamship, Gator...).
These are the products that Microsoft PR engine machine once called a "killer product" and believe me, these MSFT PR "DID" uses these two words literally.
Xenix
DOS 3.1 (kills competing DR-DOS and IBM-DOS)
OS/2
Windows 98 (it should have been 95.1)
IE (all versions)
Clippy
IIS (reminds me of SpongeBob SquarePants, porous, isn't he?)
FrontPage
Barney ActiMates
Windows Millinieum Edition (ME)
JVM
C##.NET
Longhorn??
Not to mention the biggest revenue making...
OEM Licensing Restrictions
Or their vaporwares...
Spyware Killer (yes, this one is STILL ineffectual)
iPOD
UNIX-replacement to Xenix
Google
Looking back in retrospective... it seems rather bland and porous to me nowaday.
"One World, One Web, One Program." -- Advertisement for Internet Exploder "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." -- Adolf Hitler
44,513 publicized bugs since Windows 3.11. If this were an automobile manufacturer, they be sued out of existance.
Slashdot Mirror
And I have a multi-link to my home page.
... ... ...
...
A page for Leanne,
a page for Thomas,
a page for Christy,
a page for (shuddering) JIM,
Hold on, I'm not done switching into my 12 different personalities...
a page for
WHOA! Most faulty!
Since there are 60% Windows 2000 out there, and 11% Windows 98SE too!
Your Longhorn will at best put a 1% dent in the first year (or whats left of a year).
Not enough to stop the steady but absolutely sure eroding slide of Internet Explod^Hrer's market share.
The only way out the Microsoft conudrum is to FIX INTERNET EXPLORER right the first time, on all Windows platforms (oh, and Mac as well; Oh, didn't IE appear on Sun/OS?).
Any economist can tell you that when your infrastructure is eroding due to lack of maintenance, it will REACH the point of no-return due to inaction.
Larger the infrastructure or user-installed base, the larger the inertia of motion required to change the tide. Me think, this is what occurred to IE.
As if anyone care, the Internet bandwidth utilization will be lower by more than the same percentage that Firefox captured in marketshare.
On the client side, Firefox, as a default, utilizes gzip/deflate over HTTP. Internet Explodrer cannot.
On the server side; IIS, as a default (never mind their latest server technology), does not promote easy to use compression of their web content and is usually not utilized fully, or at all. Apache provides for easy to use compression and in some distros, is offered as a default. Savvy webmasters do and should take full advantage to speed their end-users' surfing experience.
If you do the probability matrix math, the bandwidth saving gain is rather significant.
For the visually-oriented minds:
g range.html
o ints.html
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ob_techorbit1.html
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/la
For the mathametically inclined:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/LagrangeP
Those alligators can look rather fetching (only if you're armed with a hunting rifle)
The USA death penalty, as much as I advocate them, does have a strong State litmus test throughout its member of the union.
.... after .....PCs.
What if the hacking resulting in a failure of a mass transportation system resulting in large amount of casualties. Does the hacker deserve it? Me definitely think so.
But just to cause commerce glitches, minor or major; not strong enough of a litmus test.
Now, how about those chain-gangs of the white-collar variety? We can put them to work re-installing PCs after PCs after PCs
Wait until you hear about a 1,000 watt for a typical 1Gbps Intrusion Prevention System.
Expect to see the wattage to go ten-fold increase once we go to 10Gbps Ethernet IPS/IDS.
On a side note....
All that powerful high-speed packet examination, and alas, sorry to say, that signature-delivery is a failing model for the IPS/IDS industry. Put stock in HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System) as its the right way to go.
Running Linux? SELinux or GRSecurity is one such HIPS-derivative.
Top 10 things you're likely to hear shortly after the bell.
10. Canius Virii ate my homework.
9. Not now, I'm IM'ing with my broker
8. Press me and I'll press this button erasing your server
7. Road crew didn't blog their detours.
6. PDF Midterms -- Fresh off the teacher's home server, send $$ to PayPal.
5. Check out Mr. Crabapple's latest decline at RateMyTeacher.Com
4. Acrobat Reader is crashing... I couldn't bone up on it overnite.
3. Microsoft locked out PDF in favor of XML. Do you have an XML reader?
2. Not enough memstick-space
1. I can't read.
If they can beat 12 minutes, then we're talking.
Short!
Short!
Let it ride out
These are the things you can do without
Come on
I'm shorting on you
Come on
In crapping times
You shouldn't have to pump up your stocks
In up and downs
We really ought to know
Those one track minds
That took you for a sucker boy
Kiss your ass goodbye
We shouldn't have to jump for joy
but we will defintely will short your joy
(Chorus)
Unix gave you life
And in return you gave them hell
As cold as ice
I hope you live to tell the tale
I hope you live to tell the tale
(Chorus)
And when you've think you've got it locked
IBM could wear you down
We really love to break your heart
We really love to break your heart
(Chorus)
I, for one, tweaked my NetPliance (now Tippingpoint) I-Opener.
Took a Damn Small Linux, Qt-Embedded, Wireless USB, Firefox browswer and poof. A real looker that I can use in my Kitchen for my browsing needs. This is in clear violation of my Acceptable Usage Policy set forth by now defunct Netpliance.
Is the AUP enforceable? Why is it that we have to wait for the company to belly up before we can raid the hardware?
If we bought it, damn the license. Same goes for my DVD players, WinTV-HDTV, Tivos, Trio cellphones and iPODs. We're consumers who wish to spread around what we call "a GOOD THING".
A lump of coal in my stocking...
I wish I had gotten something else...ANYTHING else would do.
RIGHT STUFF!
The correct path for SMTP community users and providers is to abandon 'forwarding' support.
This small but major step is the last holdout for proper (but still incomplete) verification using SPFv1, Sender-ID or SPFv2 (not including the simple one line insertion of TXT record into your DNS server. Incomplete, until DNS-SEC is widely adopted.
Microsoft strategy is to steer the Internet community toward a more proprietary (and patent) route using their arsenal (however small it may be) which is HOTMAIL.
Rest assured, Sender-ID will be crushed under their own weight once the dual (or tri) system of SPF/Sender-ID is massively deployed side-by-side.
So, nothing to worry about. Darwinism at its best. Let nature run its course.
If you know what cookie is good for you while you're surfing the Internet to kingdom's come... You'll check out that I have...
Original OREO, Mini OREO, Chocolate Creme OREO, Golden OREO Original, Reduced Fat OREO, OREO Double Stuf, Fudge Covered OREO, Fudge Mint OREO, Golden OREO Chocolate Creme, Double Delight OREO MintCreme, 100 Calorie Pack OREO Thin Crisps, Double Delight OREO Peanut Butter and Chocolate, Milk Chocolate Covered OREO, Milk Chocolate Covered Mint OREO memories and...
(ba da bing!) Oreo crumbs all over my keyboards.
To do this like the olden days of computing yores (before email was in vogue), try the following:
1. post bulletin/flyers at the
a. Computer Swap meets,
b. Flea Markets,
c. computer stores (talk to managers)
2. Visit stores, approach people staring at components, thrust the flyer in their hand after confirm their hobby interest.
a. computer stores
b. electronic stores
3. Take a classified Ad in the paper (that still works)
4. University bulletin boards, those are great but usually
requires Student Union approvals.
Check the QUADs/square or engineering department boards.
5. Visit other user groups
6. Try Craigs List. (exception to the email yores)
Justs alot of footwork, before the word of mouth gets around.
If you really want to demonstrate technical proweness, then construct a Bat Signal and advertise lightbeam-writing on the nite clouds.
Never fails for me.
And doesn't Spirent Communication own the trademark word "Avalanche" for their high-speed HTTP packet accelerator?
NO, YOU DO NOT WANT BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER!
... REVOKABLE ...! Totally useless by itself.
Once your biometric pattern is stolen, it is not revokable. Repeat after me, NOT
Smartcard identification, personal PIN and account/serial id number are best form of 3-factor identification.
I'll vouch for the "Universes collide!"
We have a couple of windows admins that regularly reboots Unix platforms. It took a management directives to tell them "hands-off, buzzards!"
These souless guys (and gals) don't have a clue what Telecom industry have been touting for so long, the holy grail of six 9s (99.9999%) uptime.
Oh brother...
The spammers, indubitably, have been alerted to yet another advertising medium (Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the spamship, Gator...).
Why? why? why, did you open your mouth, FCC?
Oh boy, Netscape now has to watch both sides of the flaming candle stick, less they get burned with additional vulnerability (from EITHER side).
If we approach 4GHz bus rate, thar be a core meltdown!
This regulation is equivalent of a slippery tube child toy such as this
It's harder to get a grip on, much less tax on it.
For the uninitiated... ROT13 encoder/decoder is available as a FireFox plugin over at MNenhy
These are the products that Microsoft PR engine machine once called a "killer product" and believe me, these MSFT PR "DID" uses these two words literally.
.NET
Xenix
DOS 3.1 (kills competing DR-DOS and IBM-DOS)
OS/2
Windows 98 (it should have been 95.1)
IE (all versions)
Clippy
IIS (reminds me of SpongeBob SquarePants, porous, isn't he?)
FrontPage
Barney ActiMates
Windows Millinieum Edition (ME)
JVM
C##
Longhorn??
Not to mention the biggest revenue making...
OEM Licensing Restrictions
Or their vaporwares...
Spyware Killer (yes, this one is STILL ineffectual)
iPOD
UNIX-replacement to Xenix
Google
Looking back in retrospective... it seems rather bland and porous to me nowaday.
"One World, One Web, One Program." -- Advertisement for Internet Exploder
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." -- Adolf Hitler
44,513 publicized bugs since Windows 3.11. If this were an automobile manufacturer, they be sued out of existance.