A cheap/old PC with Astaro Secure Linux firewall, http://www.astaro.com./ You can even download and install it on a test box. There is an online excellent online demo so you can also evaluate it.
There are a few priveleged companies that are always on the make and will spare no opportunity to rake off their customers. When the technology on mainframes changed from requiring the use of all the CPU's to do whatever minmal work was required by a software package to one where you could tailor the hardware resources to fit the package, these greedy companies still insisted that if you were using their application only on one CPU, you should pay them for 16 CPU's worth of processing if 16 processors were physically present. About time someone challenged them in court.
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Demanding money with menaces in this country is an offence. SCO had better be careful, they haven't got the latitude they have in US courts to lie and slander with impunity.
If Windows had the variation of software and Linux hadn't, the argument would be the other way around, Linux deemed too restrictive. Picking one window manager, that's what people do with Linux and in a corporate setting, there is nothing to stop that happening, e.g, my daughters wouldn't know what KDE or gnome is, they just click through and do whatever they need to, their machine boots up and does an autologin, then they get on with games, word processing, spreadsheets, playing CD's or whatever, the fact that multiple window managers are installed and multiple office apps are available doesn't figure, they know mozilla and konqueror, use konqueror mostly. At work they use Windows, at home Linux. What is and where is the problem? Perhaps someone can tell them.
I agree with every word, Sun support is lacking, only Sun thinks it's brilliant, their customers don't. Their hardware is outdated and time consuming to install. Solaris is not that easy to admin either. Judging by Sun's definition of open source, we wait to see the license they call open source.I've admired their talk over the years regarding how advanced their hardware is compared to the mainframe, yet I've seen their NEW features, the ones that were available on mainframes 20 years ago. Internally within Sun and with some of their longstanding customers, they may appear technologically advanced, I know of customers who know and say differently, including one who referred to his E10K's as "that Sh*T".
They are losing in court and their most effective stunts were performed in press comments. Fat lot of good it is going to do them - should be good for a laugh to see the SCO Information Minister in print.
Linus knocked back a bunch of IBM patches going back a while, that's nothing new and lots of other stuff that's now in the main kernel is stuff (reiserfs e.g) that was knocked back initially.
Present Linus with something that fits without detriment to the mainstream kernel and he will accept it.
It makes great headline and that is what publishing is all about, kernel development is a totally different ball game.
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I've been licensed as G3VBV since 1965 and I don't do as much hamradio as I used to, like designing gear, building complex transceivers and test equipment, but there is still some interesting stuff being done. We used to have a TCP/IP setup that used to deliver hamradio mail and news, head off to work and the stuff is there when you get home. The internet is also being used as an extension to hamradio, especially useful if you have broadband, I can connect to someone's VHF/UHF radio anywhere on the planet via internet links, computer to radio, radio to computer or radio to radio. There are some useful programs available for Linux that allow intercommunication with other hams using Linux/Windows/whatever, e.g echolinux and svxlink. I know that you can do much the same with e.g Skype, but there's still a hamradio community interested in hamradio topics of all kinds, satellites, moonbounce, TV etc. It's still a thriving industry, the companies making radios are introducing new radios and ancilliary equipment at a pace not seen before. People still get a buzz messing with antennas, my delight when I built a loop antenna last year and made contacts Stateside on the 3.5Mhz band for the first time, never having had the real estate to erect a normal wire antenna to span the pond on the low bands. If you get QST or any of the ham mags, you'll see it's still very alive and kicking with a good supply of youngsters as well as oldies taking up the hobby in retirement.
The word was spreading that the Fujitsu chips and architecture were superior to Sun's, I helped to educate both Fujitsu Marketing consultants, Customers and prospects on the differences and the widening gap. In addition to producing a better set of chips, a considerable amount of mainframe technology was also brought over to FJ Primepower machines, resiliance, reliability features, etc. and I could see in the architecture a hole that is a nice fit for Macrocode (Gene Amdahl's Baby on the Mainframe) that would have neutralised any obfuscations Sun subsequently put in Solaris to steal a temporary marketing advantage. We had missed the boat competing with IBM earlier through lack of foresight.
The only drawback to to SPARC is Solaris, but it's possible to hide it's weakness behind Macrocode which possibly explains the hole - Sun supporting 16 partitions and FJ only 15 for no other obvious reason.
It was only a matter of WHEN.
Some years ago NASA suffered a rocket fire when refuelling and that was attributed to static discharge, since then, craft have been earthed for refuelling, a practice we also adhere to when refuelling aeroplanes by providing a ground lead on a roll that is extended to connect to metal on the aeroplane during the process. I agree it's highly unlikely a cell phone could cause this.
Before I saw the company name, to me googly or google, also known as "the wrong 'un" was a term used for perhaps hundreds of years to describe a cricket ball delivered with the appearance that it would turn one way, but turning sharply in the other direction as it reached the batsman, when not read, the bastman is said to have been googled (or deceived) and is on his way back to the pavillion, his innings over, stumps shattered.
In the wee hours there was the pundit on BBC Radio 5 with the usual "turn on your firewall", "keep up with the updates", "the virus writers go for the big one, they are a couple around for Mac OSX, but nobody bothers much with Mac or Linux when writing viruses", all giving the impression that ALL OS's are equal and equally vulnerable. So my friend, the thinking of the herd says they put up with it as there is nothing better out there. I once responded to everyone in Europe at my employer when we received an email telling us to upgrade to the latest virus software, something along the lines that some people like living in a neighbourhood known for muggings, they travel with so much cash in the pocket, hide some in each shoe and wait for the next mugging, but I've happily moved out of that neighbourhood, I now live in Linux.
I got an email on Sun's mailing list today that had a URL to their presentation, quite slick and looks a great corporate desktop. They mentioned Linux (by accident ???) three times and SuSE once. They stated their intention to have a Solaris version out next year. They also added a nice touch where corporates buying the "Java" desktop are allowed installation on their employees' home machines.
Many years ago a colleague remarked that the lack of a good editor was the one thing holding Unix back and I had to agree. I've been using vi for over 21 years and I only use what I need and no more. Joe and basic emacs demand piano virtuoso skills and I can only play plectrum guitar, not having developed the dexterity with the right hand digits. I could in 5 minutes teach anyone to use the MVS editor SPF which was also ported to DOS as SPFPC. I now have cooledit in the locker for when I need to do some heavy editing, but there must be others providing the same ease of use. Yeeeeeeuuukkkkk!, many Solaris people use "ksh -o vi" to edit the command line, shunning bash, that's on par with texting on a mobile phone, it's a disgusting waste of time.
In that case, the designers of military hardware should choose Green Hills instead of Linux or Windows CE. What I suspect is that Linux is not so much a threat to Security as it is a DEATH threat to Green Hills.
The way it is, it's not beyond the bounds of designers to take a hardened version of the Linux kernel, e.g SELinux, modify it where necessary, certify it and deploy it or are they trying to say that Green Hills will supply a pig in a poke that has to be deplyed unquestionably.
IBM nearly killed the mainframe in an attempt to kill the competition, they used software pricing to give them the price advantage where they could bundle it in with the hardware, thereby making the competition's hardware plus IBM software pricy by comparison. The other mainframe vendors were also unable to match IBM on hardware development with the number of CPU's they could fit in a package. I've had the pleasure of supporting both Amdahl and IBM mainframes and they beat anything else out there, the likes of Sun's E10K and other Enterprise Servers which are about 20 years behind the mainframe in just about every technical aspect and are relatively dogs to maintain. When working on Sun servers, I've often said "come back the mainframe, all is forgiven", though there was nothing to forgive. The latest Z900's are slickly built also. Many years ago, a customer told us that reliability is not an issue, even before we noticed that these beasts would run forever. One other customer pointed to our mainframe and told us it was the workhorse in his shop and a bit later discussing equipment moves, he pointed to the E10K's and referred to them as that sh*t. The mainframe is still king and beats the hell out of whatever comes second, OS/390 or Linux, it's still tops.
Granted, any system needs to be kept current, but Windows is insecure by design and Linux is far more secure than Windows by design . BTW... wasn't Matrix rendered by Linux? Even Balmer&Gates are using Linux now?
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A cheap/old PC with Astaro Secure Linux firewall, http://www.astaro.com./ You can even download and install it on a test box. There is an online excellent online demo so you can also evaluate it.
There are a few priveleged companies that are always on the make and will spare no opportunity to rake off their customers. When the technology on mainframes changed from requiring the use of all the CPU's to do whatever minmal work was required by a software package to one where you could tailor the hardware resources to fit the package, these greedy companies still insisted that if you were using their application only on one CPU, you should pay them for 16 CPU's worth of processing if 16 processors were physically present. About time someone challenged them in court.
Demanding money with menaces in this country is an offence. SCO had better be careful, they haven't got the latitude they have in US courts to lie and slander with impunity.
If Windows had the variation of software and Linux hadn't, the argument would be the other way around, Linux deemed too restrictive. Picking one window manager, that's what people do with Linux and in a corporate setting, there is nothing to stop that happening, e.g, my daughters wouldn't know what KDE or gnome is, they just click through and do whatever they need to, their machine boots up and does an autologin, then they get on with games, word processing, spreadsheets, playing CD's or whatever, the fact that multiple window managers are installed and multiple office apps are available doesn't figure, they know mozilla and konqueror, use konqueror mostly. At work they use Windows, at home Linux. What is and where is the problem? Perhaps someone can tell them.
I agree with every word, Sun support is lacking, only Sun thinks it's brilliant, their customers don't. Their hardware is outdated and time consuming to install. Solaris is not that easy to admin either. Judging by Sun's definition of open source, we wait to see the license they call open source.I've admired their talk over the years regarding how advanced their hardware is compared to the mainframe, yet I've seen their NEW features, the ones that were available on mainframes 20 years ago. Internally within Sun and with some of their longstanding customers, they may appear technologically advanced, I know of customers who know and say differently, including one who referred to his E10K's as "that Sh*T".
The 2.4 kernel and glibc, but not the application code. Despite running Linux, communication is via Windows. I wonder if gpsdrive will handle it.
They are losing in court and their most effective stunts were performed in press comments. Fat lot of good it is going to do them - should be good for a laugh to see the SCO Information Minister in print.
Linus knocked back a bunch of IBM patches going back a while, that's nothing new and lots of other stuff that's now in the main kernel is stuff (reiserfs e.g) that was knocked back initially. Present Linus with something that fits without detriment to the mainstream kernel and he will accept it. It makes great headline and that is what publishing is all about, kernel development is a totally different ball game.
I've been licensed as G3VBV since 1965 and I don't do as much hamradio as I used to, like designing gear, building complex transceivers and test equipment, but there is still some interesting stuff being done. We used to have a TCP/IP setup that used to deliver hamradio mail and news, head off to work and the stuff is there when you get home. The internet is also being used as an extension to hamradio, especially useful if you have broadband, I can connect to someone's VHF/UHF radio anywhere on the planet via internet links, computer to radio, radio to computer or radio to radio. There are some useful programs available for Linux that allow intercommunication with other hams using Linux/Windows/whatever, e.g echolinux and svxlink. I know that you can do much the same with e.g Skype, but there's still a hamradio community interested in hamradio topics of all kinds, satellites, moonbounce, TV etc. It's still a thriving industry, the companies making radios are introducing new radios and ancilliary equipment at a pace not seen before. People still get a buzz messing with antennas, my delight when I built a loop antenna last year and made contacts Stateside on the 3.5Mhz band for the first time, never having had the real estate to erect a normal wire antenna to span the pond on the low bands. If you get QST or any of the ham mags, you'll see it's still very alive and kicking with a good supply of youngsters as well as oldies taking up the hobby in retirement.
The word was spreading that the Fujitsu chips and architecture were superior to Sun's, I helped to educate both Fujitsu Marketing consultants, Customers and prospects on the differences and the widening gap. In addition to producing a better set of chips, a considerable amount of mainframe technology was also brought over to FJ Primepower machines, resiliance, reliability features, etc. and I could see in the architecture a hole that is a nice fit for Macrocode (Gene Amdahl's Baby on the Mainframe) that would have neutralised any obfuscations Sun subsequently put in Solaris to steal a temporary marketing advantage. We had missed the boat competing with IBM earlier through lack of foresight. The only drawback to to SPARC is Solaris, but it's possible to hide it's weakness behind Macrocode which possibly explains the hole - Sun supporting 16 partitions and FJ only 15 for no other obvious reason. It was only a matter of WHEN.
Some years ago NASA suffered a rocket fire when refuelling and that was attributed to static discharge, since then, craft have been earthed for refuelling, a practice we also adhere to when refuelling aeroplanes by providing a ground lead on a roll that is extended to connect to metal on the aeroplane during the process. I agree it's highly unlikely a cell phone could cause this.
Before I saw the company name, to me googly or google, also known as "the wrong 'un" was a term used for perhaps hundreds of years to describe a cricket ball delivered with the appearance that it would turn one way, but turning sharply in the other direction as it reached the batsman, when not read, the bastman is said to have been googled (or deceived) and is on his way back to the pavillion, his innings over, stumps shattered.
In the wee hours there was the pundit on BBC Radio 5 with the usual "turn on your firewall", "keep up with the updates", "the virus writers go for the big one, they are a couple around for Mac OSX, but nobody bothers much with Mac or Linux when writing viruses", all giving the impression that ALL OS's are equal and equally vulnerable. So my friend, the thinking of the herd says they put up with it as there is nothing better out there. I once responded to everyone in Europe at my employer when we received an email telling us to upgrade to the latest virus software, something along the lines that some people like living in a neighbourhood known for muggings, they travel with so much cash in the pocket, hide some in each shoe and wait for the next mugging, but I've happily moved out of that neighbourhood, I now live in Linux.
I got an email on Sun's mailing list today that had a URL to their presentation, quite slick and looks a great corporate desktop. They mentioned Linux (by accident ???) three times and SuSE once. They stated their intention to have a Solaris version out next year. They also added a nice touch where corporates buying the "Java" desktop are allowed installation on their employees' home machines.
Many years ago a colleague remarked that the lack of a good editor was the one thing holding Unix back and I had to agree. I've been using vi for over 21 years and I only use what I need and no more. Joe and basic emacs demand piano virtuoso skills and I can only play plectrum guitar, not having developed the dexterity with the right hand digits. I could in 5 minutes teach anyone to use the MVS editor SPF which was also ported to DOS as SPFPC. I now have cooledit in the locker for when I need to do some heavy editing, but there must be others providing the same ease of use. Yeeeeeeuuukkkkk!, many Solaris people use "ksh -o vi" to edit the command line, shunning bash, that's on par with texting on a mobile phone, it's a disgusting waste of time.
In that case, the designers of military hardware should choose Green Hills instead of Linux or Windows CE. What I suspect is that Linux is not so much a threat to Security as it is a DEATH threat to Green Hills. The way it is, it's not beyond the bounds of designers to take a hardened version of the Linux kernel, e.g SELinux, modify it where necessary, certify it and deploy it or are they trying to say that Green Hills will supply a pig in a poke that has to be deplyed unquestionably.
IBM nearly killed the mainframe in an attempt to kill the competition, they used software pricing to give them the price advantage where they could bundle it in with the hardware, thereby making the competition's hardware plus IBM software pricy by comparison. The other mainframe vendors were also unable to match IBM on hardware development with the number of CPU's they could fit in a package. I've had the pleasure of supporting both Amdahl and IBM mainframes and they beat anything else out there, the likes of Sun's E10K and other Enterprise Servers which are about 20 years behind the mainframe in just about every technical aspect and are relatively dogs to maintain. When working on Sun servers, I've often said "come back the mainframe, all is forgiven", though there was nothing to forgive. The latest Z900's are slickly built also. Many years ago, a customer told us that reliability is not an issue, even before we noticed that these beasts would run forever. One other customer pointed to our mainframe and told us it was the workhorse in his shop and a bit later discussing equipment moves, he pointed to the E10K's and referred to them as that sh*t. The mainframe is still king and beats the hell out of whatever comes second, OS/390 or Linux, it's still tops.
Granted, any system needs to be kept current, but Windows is insecure by design and Linux is far more secure than Windows by design . BTW ... wasn't Matrix rendered by Linux? Even Balmer&Gates are using Linux now?