You want to do something interesting, albeit fairly slow? Set up a bunch of ipsec tunnels and start routing traffic over that. We can tunnel ipV6 over our own network, using the current internet. It just takes some trust, some planning, and some spare computers. Set up non-conflicting TLD's ( think.geek, and sorry about the pun) and there you have it, the under-internet.
We could run our own internet, and try to run it right. We want a.xxx TLD, no problem. There's no reason not to. We could have a.porn,.anal,.hentai, whatever your kink. I'd love to have a.linux domain, and if I had the resources, I'd set it up. I'm on an unmetered connection, I could run a few 5k tunnels without hurting my gaming (Did I mention that it would be slow).
Oh shut the hell up. Seriously. Why not ask intelligent questions, instead of just blurting out your modern hardware bullshit? Here, I'll loan you a few.
Q) Are you currently using stored procedures to serve your web content? Q) If so, under what circumstance? Q) what was the perfomance increase from using stored procedures? Q) Are you using transaction? Q) How many database queries are there per page? Q) Do the database lookups span multiple tables? Q) If so, how many? Two? Three? More? Q) Are you using persistent database connections, or are you creating and destroying them per page view? Q) What is the size of your database? Q) What is your hardware platform? If using Raid, which level, why did you choose it, and what is your cluster size? Q) How many instances of apache (I assume that's what you're using) do you have running?
If everyone did that, you would all end up like the New Orleanians. Don't dare everybody to take their ball and go home, because if they do, they're going to want the money they gave you to pay for your silly little war.
Have you had to write software to load an excel spreadsheet into a proprietary accounting package running on a mainframe in the basement of a fortune 500 company, using high-level programming languages that only the underfunded library has books on in their computer section?
Now, on to your second point, the..even the most open format is considerably more proprietary if your customers don't use it. Why should they have to donwload openoffice to look at the state documents when they can just look at them on the web? Or download a pdf? Or have it delivered to them on their phone? It's an open document format, but more importantly, it's XML. The presentation is up to the program that you use, not up to the author of the data. Data and formatting are separated. If every copy of Office dissappeared, where would we be? We'd have lost ten years of records.
Okay, so you're trolling. But you do make a valid point. Except that if you want to emigrate to Austrailia, you very well can't take your PS2 games with you. You have to buy everything over, unless you get your PS2 shipped from your country of origin. And another one when it breaks.
Region encoding is an artificial limit set by the content producers. There is no legitimate purpose for it.
And we won't get into all the linux goodies X-box has just waiting to go on it.
No, and Novell's goal isn't to go out of business either. They made a few choice acquisitions, then went into an R&D cycle, and are now going into their sales cycle. Unfortunately the stock traders wanted it to happen faster.
Novell is doing great things for linux. Their integrators are second to none, and soon you'll see tools from both Novell and Red Hat that shape the linux server and desktop market. Novell's Hula project (thanks to whoever posted that link in the Groupware roundup), Red Hat's directory server, and the management tools that both of these companies have released under the GPL are set to create an easily managed platform without the prohibitive start-up costs of a pure MS platform for the SME market.
I guy at work just picked one up from the curb, and it had all of the previous owners info still on it. Resume's, banking info, the works.
Even a simple format would have saved that info, as this was not an IT worker that would try to get the data back, or could even get the data back. A simple trip to the local pc repair shop could have saved her her identity.
Remember folks, not all people are honest, many of them just lacked the opportunity.
This is a very interesting take on the subject, and something that I have been screaming for (but not willing to pony up either money or programming). I want a good middle-ware application that integrates into an office suite, like open-office, that you save to a repository like SVN, and it handles all of the drudgery for you. You could extend it to many different filesystems, make it platform agnostic, and extend the framework to work on all different types of files.
The pros of this would be
versioning of files
easily stored metadata
metadata that would spread across versions
No need to do internal versioning, eliminating the secret data problem
unified method of rights access
snapshotting and central back-up procedure
greater searchability, findability, and accountability
ability to span multiple volumes, filesystems, and even computers
redundant file systems
But of course, the cons would be a bit daunting
increased overhead of a client/server app
Would need a method of using heterogenous authentication types (NT, LDAP, Kerberos, AD)
Types of nodes that would allow or disallow versioning, i.e. No versioning of MP3 files or movies
Programs would have to make use of the repository*
Everyone would have to agree that it is a good idea**
* I think that Gnome and KDE would have a leg up on MS for this, as it would be easily incorporated into a file chooser, but for MS it would have to be custom coded, perhaps program by program. ** As with everything, I guess that's why I said SVN like, as svn is widely accepted
I've tried the web-apps and the biggest drawback is people don't like using the browser, and hate saving things locally then having to upload them. Especially in the latter case, it just won't make it there. It has to be integrated into the file->open and file-save option.
If I've missed any projects out there, somebody PLEASE hit me with a cluebat. I really want something like this, and I'm sure that I'm not alone!
but it is horrible for a large networked filestore. The heirarchies that the secretaries at work come up with are convoluted at best, and it takes a long weekend to even attempt to comprehend the logic of their naming convention. When they lose a file, or forget what it was named, when they last worked on it, but can tell you that it was an ISO file (which in itself is ironic), coupled with the fact that they often change the file extensions on their files to random numbers, or try to change it to.pdf to save it as a pdf file, metadata makes a lot of sense.
I speculate that Google will no longer be content with being an aggregator of information, they will become a supplier of information, then once that is not enough, a supplier of carefully crafted opinion and "news" articles, forever shaping humanity, and culminating in a run for the presidency of the Earth. ALL HAIL GOOGLE!
WPA is much better, but they can still grab your data. The main reason behind WPA is that the keys change before they can figure out the one that you're using. It has rolling keys, so if they manage to capture your data, they'll only have a small sample of it, as it is currently improbable that they will crack your encryption before the keys roll. WAP has one key, and all it takes is a wireless packet capture and time until he's hooking onto your network, or reading everything that you sent or received.
Yes, there were a lot of annoying and downright funny viruses out there. I had one that just slowly ate up more and more memory, one that would NOP to slow the machine down (I think that's what it did, never took it apart), and there were a rash of them that would display graphics on the screen. Those were the days.
Yes, jeru.b would infect com files once, some EXE's up to 5 times, and some EXE's indefinitely. That was a big error on the programmers part. However, it was 1808 bytes long, invoked heavy use of the stack, and prepended itself to the file. There were other ones that hid in the slack spaces of the executables, to avoid a simple detection, or ones like the Yankee virus that played music, but Jeru. B has just stuck as one of my favourites, especially being coded in 1808 bytes. I've seen VB method calls that go beyond 1808 bytes. There was as much elegance in it's complexity as there was in its simplicity.
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You want to do something interesting, albeit fairly slow? Set up a bunch of ipsec tunnels and start routing traffic over that. We can tunnel ipV6 over our own network, using the current internet. It just takes some trust, some planning, and some spare computers. Set up non-conflicting TLD's ( think .geek, and sorry about the pun) and there you have it, the under-internet.
.xxx TLD, no problem. There's no reason not to. We could have a .porn, .anal, .hentai, whatever your kink. I'd love to have a .linux domain, and if I had the resources, I'd set it up. I'm on an unmetered connection, I could run a few 5k tunnels without hurting my gaming (Did I mention that it would be slow).
We could run our own internet, and try to run it right. We want a
I say destroy it completely, and rebuild it right.
Oh shut the hell up. Seriously. Why not ask intelligent questions, instead of just blurting out your modern hardware bullshit? Here, I'll loan you a few.
Q) Are you currently using stored procedures to serve your web content?
Q) If so, under what circumstance?
Q) what was the perfomance increase from using stored procedures?
Q) Are you using transaction?
Q) How many database queries are there per page?
Q) Do the database lookups span multiple tables?
Q) If so, how many? Two? Three? More?
Q) Are you using persistent database connections, or are you creating and destroying them per page view?
Q) What is the size of your database?
Q) What is your hardware platform? If using Raid, which level, why did you choose it, and what is your cluster size?
Q) How many instances of apache (I assume that's what you're using) do you have running?
There you go.
If everyone did that, you would all end up like the New Orleanians. Don't dare everybody to take their ball and go home, because if they do, they're going to want the money they gave you to pay for your silly little war.
Because you have patent laws, and lock up everything for the forseeable future.
Have you had to write software to load an excel spreadsheet into a proprietary accounting package running on a mainframe in the basement of a fortune 500 company, using high-level programming languages that only the underfunded library has books on in their computer section?
..even the most open format is considerably more proprietary if your customers don't use it. Why should they have to donwload openoffice to look at the state documents when they can just look at them on the web? Or download a pdf? Or have it delivered to them on their phone? It's an open document format, but more importantly, it's XML. The presentation is up to the program that you use, not up to the author of the data. Data and formatting are separated. If every copy of Office dissappeared, where would we be? We'd have lost ten years of records.
Now, on to your second point, the
The E.U. hates Microsoft.
Slashcode development is a tad bit different than database development.
Okay, so you're trolling. But you do make a valid point. Except that if you want to emigrate to Austrailia, you very well can't take your PS2 games with you. You have to buy everything over, unless you get your PS2 shipped from your country of origin. And another one when it breaks.
Region encoding is an artificial limit set by the content producers. There is no legitimate purpose for it.
And we won't get into all the linux goodies X-box has just waiting to go on it.
Yes, that was the one. Thank you for refreshing my memory. It's been a few years since I looked at those.
PyQT and PyKDE bindings?
Thank you sir. You just made my day!
No, and Novell's goal isn't to go out of business either. They made a few choice acquisitions, then went into an R&D cycle, and are now going into their sales cycle. Unfortunately the stock traders wanted it to happen faster.
Novell is doing great things for linux. Their integrators are second to none, and soon you'll see tools from both Novell and Red Hat that shape the linux server and desktop market. Novell's Hula project (thanks to whoever posted that link in the Groupware roundup), Red Hat's directory server, and the management tools that both of these companies have released under the GPL are set to create an easily managed platform without the prohibitive start-up costs of a pure MS platform for the SME market.
I'd hazard to guess that if anybody can talk about computer security in the next 50 years, it'd be Alan.
I hate to compare him to Jesus, but he has the beard and sandals...
I guy at work just picked one up from the curb, and it had all of the previous owners info still on it. Resume's, banking info, the works.
Even a simple format would have saved that info, as this was not an IT worker that would try to get the data back, or could even get the data back. A simple trip to the local pc repair shop could have saved her her identity.
Remember folks, not all people are honest, many of them just lacked the opportunity.
The pros of this would be
But of course, the cons would be a bit daunting
* I think that Gnome and KDE would have a leg up on MS for this, as it would be easily incorporated into a file chooser, but for MS it would have to be custom coded, perhaps program by program.
** As with everything, I guess that's why I said SVN like, as svn is widely accepted
I've tried the web-apps and the biggest drawback is people don't like using the browser, and hate saving things locally then having to upload them. Especially in the latter case, it just won't make it there. It has to be integrated into the file->open and file-save option.
If I've missed any projects out there, somebody PLEASE hit me with a cluebat. I really want something like this, and I'm sure that I'm not alone!
but it is horrible for a large networked filestore. The heirarchies that the secretaries at work come up with are convoluted at best, and it takes a long weekend to even attempt to comprehend the logic of their naming convention. When they lose a file, or forget what it was named, when they last worked on it, but can tell you that it was an ISO file (which in itself is ironic), coupled with the fact that they often change the file extensions on their files to random numbers, or try to change it to .pdf to save it as a pdf file, metadata makes a lot of sense.
Her ya go!
But if you wanted to do all that you claimed to do, would you really devote the resources to supplying relevant metadata to your files?
I'd like to see your military make it to Mars. He'll I'd like to see your space program make it to Mars.
Ain't gonna happen.
Hmm, an executable? Will it work on any of the unices out there?
Cross platform and unencumbered? No.
...and this is the reason I also bought an iBook (well, besides the BSD inheritance).
With BSD Dying, you should be collecting that inheritance shortly.
I speculate that Google will no longer be content with being an aggregator of information, they will become a supplier of information, then once that is not enough, a supplier of carefully crafted opinion and "news" articles, forever shaping humanity, and culminating in a run for the presidency of the Earth. ALL HAIL GOOGLE!
Boy, this conjecture is fun, isn't it Cringely?
WAP secure? Not really.
WPA is much better, but they can still grab your data. The main reason behind WPA is that the keys change before they can figure out the one that you're using. It has rolling keys, so if they manage to capture your data, they'll only have a small sample of it, as it is currently improbable that they will crack your encryption before the keys roll. WAP has one key, and all it takes is a wireless packet capture and time until he's hooking onto your network, or reading everything that you sent or received.
Yes, there were a lot of annoying and downright funny viruses out there. I had one that just slowly ate up more and more memory, one that would NOP to slow the machine down (I think that's what it did, never took it apart), and there were a rash of them that would display graphics on the screen. Those were the days.
Now it's just spam and porn.
Yes, jeru.b would infect com files once, some EXE's up to 5 times, and some EXE's indefinitely. That was a big error on the programmers part. However, it was 1808 bytes long, invoked heavy use of the stack, and prepended itself to the file. There were other ones that hid in the slack spaces of the executables, to avoid a simple detection, or ones like the Yankee virus that played music, but Jeru. B has just stuck as one of my favourites, especially being coded in 1808 bytes. I've seen VB method calls that go beyond 1808 bytes. There was as much elegance in it's complexity as there was in its simplicity.