I work at a big company with a big, world-wide intranet. I installed WinXP on a machine at work from a pre-SP1 CD. The machine survived about 30 minutes on the intranet before a Sasser-like thing found it, which is not enough time to get through the Windows Update process. I eventually figured out that if I stick the machine behind a NAT, I could get the OS installed and patched before releasing it into the "wild" of our network.
Whenever I'm building something on VxWorks, I'm mainly cursing about having to work from a Win or Sun machine. No Tornado for Linux. I would be really, really pleased if they would just release a host-tools-suite for Linux. That would make building stuff for VxWorks a much more pleasant experience. Jumping straight to "embedded linux" support sounds a little like jumping the gun, actually. They've spent 20 years developing VxWorks, it seems to me the most natural and useful Linux support would be to release a Linux-native development kit for it.
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So the US is basically just trusting that whoever puts the network in won't take advantage of the situation? That's frightening.
I work at a big company with a big, world-wide intranet. I installed WinXP on a machine at work from a pre-SP1 CD. The machine survived about 30 minutes on the intranet before a Sasser-like thing found it, which is not enough time to get through the Windows Update process. I eventually figured out that if I stick the machine behind a NAT, I could get the OS installed and patched before releasing it into the "wild" of our network.
I think I did it in five. But, the rest of the debugging and profiling tools, for which source code is not available...
Whenever I'm building something on VxWorks, I'm mainly cursing about having to work from a Win or Sun machine. No Tornado for Linux. I would be really, really pleased if they would just release a host-tools-suite for Linux. That would make building stuff for VxWorks a much more pleasant experience. Jumping straight to "embedded linux" support sounds a little like jumping the gun, actually. They've spent 20 years developing VxWorks, it seems to me the most natural and useful Linux support would be to release a Linux-native development kit for it.