This HHS contract could be a big shot in the arm to Evolution and Evolution development, if folks at NIH start using the Novell Linux Desktop.
This NIH support page shows they're definately using Outlook on Win2k. Perhaps they're going to opt going to Suse/OpenExchange/NLD instead of the XP/2k3 upgrade?
I'd be interested to see which departments/agencies under NIH opt to go with SuSe/OpenExchange first and why, besides the obvious licensing savings.
Im in troll mode this morning dammit, I don't care. I'm gonna go off about this article.
First, this article is gdamn stale! I spotted on it both on digg and the newsforge daily email 2 weeks ago. Old! boring........
Second. BFD! WTF? No discussion about the different features? What about getting into comparing enterprise extensibility???????
Outlook/AD/Exchange vs. Evolution/Evolution Connector/SuSe SLOX?
Third, I've seen what each of these looks like, whoopti f-ing doo! Shocker----Their GUIs are identical. They've been so for a while. C'mon man, we get a chance to check out a good article shootout between Outlook/Exchange and Evolution/SuSe Slox and it just shoots blanks.
can demonstrate such through some kind of certification...
...then every other Joe Sixpack who gets charged twice as much for his broadband connection to cover the cost of the sensible users having to clean up their PCs because he doesn't.
Good idea with the tiered service. I'd jump on that.
does Microsoft have to tell people that they DO NOT EMAIL PATCHES OR UPDATES? They even set up Windows Update to run with the "Automatic Update" as default. What do we need, M$ to issue pain collars for these folks to mentally condition them to not open any attachment claiming to be from M$?
with the Challenger and Columbia crashes, I can't imagine this "Global Strike" space plane really being a viable defense system for at least 30 yrs. , and of course by then, as with the shuttle, it will be obsolete. The comparison of an orbital launch platform to a "death star" is appropriate. The country that launches the first one will be the enemy of the free world, and the biggest threat to all of humanity. What is pretty clear is way too much time was spent watching Babylon 5 at the USAF Academy dorms during the 1990s.
This campaign - How frightening, like invasion of the thought snatchers.
A farm truck pulls up outside of your kid's school, chock full of football size pods, and school administrators hand them out to the little children. Then, they walk them into the gymnasium, where they are told to lie down with their pod for a nap.
Corporations don't use Tanks to Shut Down Protest.
No, they just eviscerate their worker's pensions and leave them penniless. Stay tuned, China 2020 Tour Keynote speaker:Ken Lay "Guns and Butter: What I learned from screwing other capitalists"
Leo makes "Random Taco" call on Slashdot vs Digg
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At 23:30 into the 34:44 min podcast mp3, Kevin starts taking about a DVI lcd deal he scooped, and Leo weighs in asking if he'd seen it on digg.com. About 24:00, Leo makes the ""Random Taco" call concerning/. editors, while discussing the differences between/. and digg. Shhwweeet! I love this podcast.
excerpt from M$ press relase about Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1......
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Today we have available Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. We'll deliver SP 1 later in the year. It is in beta today. We have a Management Pack available for Virtual Server for MOM today. When we release Virtual Server SP 1 you'll see a number of improvements. We've added support for non-Windows virtual machines being hosted on top of our Virtual Server product, including support for Linux. Remember what I said earlier about interoperability? We're really believing that. We know folks are going to want to run Windows systems and Linux systems and other systems together on top of our Virtual Server and Windows. You'll see support for that later in the year.
We're dramatically improving our performance and you'll see us support 64-bit hosts now that we have 64-bit support in the Windows Operating System. We're licensing our VHD format broadly. You'll see that in the fall, and there's a large amount of support going into all of our Windows Server System products to support the Virtual Server in a very strong way.
Today I would tell you the following: If you are looking for a virtualization environment to improve cost and quality of any person in your environment or any set of people in your environment doing software development for tests, we have absolutely a blow-away product, and I encourage you to take a look at Virtual Server 2005.
Virtual PC and Virtual Server are two different products. Virtual Server can run on XP, but (a) not as a production machine and (b)it's a pain in the ass on slower systems, and creates more security problems if it's your personal workstation, considering Virtual Server requires IIS be installed on XP. VMWare Workstation is more stable and secure on XP.
I had to see if it was real after I read it. Struck me like some post-apocalyptic "The Prisoner"..."I've escaped the Village" delusion. I wonder why more whackos don't try and build their own citadels of defiance like Sealand.
In August of 1978, a number of Dutch men came to Sealand in the employ of a German businessman. They were there to discuss business dealings with Sealand. While Roy was away in Britain, these men kidnapped Prince Roy's son Michael, and took Sealand by force. Soon after, Roy recaptured the island with a group of his own men and held the attackers as prisoners of war.
During the time that he held the prisoners, the Governments of the Netherlands and Germany petitioned for their release. First they asked England to intervene in the matter, but the British government cited their earlier court decision as evidence that they made no claim to the territory of Sealand. Then, in an act of de facto recognition of Sealand's sovereignty, Germany sent a diplomat directly to Sealand to negotiate for the release of their citizen.
Roy first released the Dutch citizens, as the war was over, and the Geneva Convention requires the release of all prisoners. The German was held longer, as he had accepted a Sealand Passport, and therefore was guilty of treason. Prince Roy, who was grateful that the incident had not resulted in a loss of life, and did not want to bloody the reputation of Sealand, eventually released him as well.
It's a new year, so time for a predictions column. But first,we'll do a review of last year's predictions to see what I got right - and what I got wrong.
1)Software and movie companies embrace P2P = Cheaper products for consumers
Some entertainment companies are using P2P to deliver TV-quality video and games through companies like RedSwoosh. But sadly, the majority are seemingly following in the footsteps of the music labels by trying to sue to slow or block the technology rather than figure out how to use it to make more money. This is a miss.
2)Microsoft moves from growth to profit
This year, Microsoft announced the biggest ever one-time dividend, which is the classic move of a "value" company. Growth companies never pay dividends because they use their cash to continue to grow. In spite of a wide range of efforts spanning TV, PDA, game consoles, etc. Microsoft cannot find another profitable venture outside their core operating system and office suite business. This was a hit.
3)$499 Linux laptops under the Christmas tree
On December 17th, Walmart.com began selling a Linspire laptop for $498. I was $1 off, but this is a definite hit.
4) Microsoft announces plans for Microsoft Office for Linux
This was my President, Kevin Carmony's prediction. Microsoft has not yet announced any products for Linux. With OpenOffice continuing to make great strides and OpenOffice 2.0 on the horizon, there will be more pressure for Microsoft to respond. But for now, this is a miss. Remember that OpenOffice 2.0 will be on display at the Desktop Summit on February 9-11th, in San Diego. So, register now!
50% accuracy from 2004, so let's look at 2005.
1) After buying IBM, Lenovo leans toward Linux
China-based Lenovo just received US government clearance to purchase IBM's PC business. IBM executives have assured the IT world that the quality and service will remain, and I hope it does because I'm a big Thinkpad fan and own several of the X series laptops. But something must change or Lenovo will have paid $1.75 billion for the right to lose money on every IBM PC they sell. Over the last 3.5 years, IBM has sold about 30 million computers and lost $965 million dollars - or approximately $33 per computer. To reverse their fortune, Lenovo needs to find a way to have $50 better economics on every PC so will they not only break even, but they will generate some profits. IBM already uses Chinese labor in their plant in Shenzen to manufacture their PCs - so there won't be much savings there. Lenovo may be able to buy hard disks, memory or other parts slightly cheaper than IBM because of greater economies of scales, but at best this will be less than $10 per machine. The only place where significant savings can be generated to turn their PC business around is the operating system and office suite. Instead of paying Microsoft $100-$300 per machine for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office, they will ship Linux with an office suite and pay just $5-$10 on some of their product line. This will give them distinction from the well-entrenched Dell and HP computers they must compete with.
2) Windows Media Center suffers BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)
You don't have one mega kitchen appliance, you have dedicated appliances tuned to each task. The same is true in your living room. The Windows Media Center is an admirable goal, but misguided implementation. They are trying to cram every function into one box and it makes the device expensive and unreliable. That was illustrated with Bill Gates' recent high-profile demo at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) of Windows Media Center, which suffered an embarrassing BSOD. Remember this i
I can't take this guy seriously. He's the Billy Mays of the Linux world.
Just read his responses....[a few of my repiles]
Jo: On the security front, I noticed during the presentation that you were running everything as root. Is that really a wise idea, to train users to run everything as the one user who can mess everything up whenever they feel like it? Should you not try to teach one basic UNIX security idea, that you really don't want to run things as root?
Michael: I think, like everything, it's a question of balance. Ease of use, versus security. I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root. Nobody really has a good answer. They say "oh, yeah, it is!", but it really isn't. Here's why: What's the most important thing on your desktop? It's the data.[Mikey, that's like saying the people in my car are important, but to hell with the rest of the motorist on the highway. Pretty reckless and selfish. Maybe Linspire should should start "LinNet-Home of the Bots and Trojans] If someone gets access to your libraries or whatever, who cares? Your data is the most precious thing on your computer. And whether you log in as root or log in as user, you have access to that data, technically anyone who's compromising your account has access to your data as well.[Mikey, what is a bot? And how are they born?]
Michael: Then you could say "Well, it's not really about your data, it's that people could accidentally mess things up!". Well, you could accidentally drive into a wall as well, it doesn't mean we should make all cars drive at 10 miles an hour. So, I don't see the added benefit. I DO see it's an added pain in the ass when grandma tries to change her wallpaper, and it tells her "you don't have root privileges". What are you talking about, man? I'm just trying to use my computer, or change the clock, or any one of a hundred other things. So, people always say "it's less secure", but I defy anyone to point out a single instance, and people all go "Well, I, erm, it's theoretical!". There's no one area I think you can point out - In this instance, a machine that's run with the root user could be compromised, in this instance one couldn't be compromised.
Michael: I know the hardcore geeks feel differently, that's fine. When somebody installs Linspire, we say "do you want to set up users, yes or no", we give them the choice, right there when they start up for the first time. If they want to set up multiple users, they're welcome to do that, but we don't force them to. That's the difference we have.
Local biotech company Ventria Bioscience has agreed to plant genetically modified rice at least 120 miles away from other rice fields in Missouri, defusing a showdown with brewing giant Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., which had said it would not buy Missouri rice if biotech rice was grown in the state.
Sacramento-based Ventria, which faced opposition in California and has announced plans to move to Missouri, has a permit pending to grow genetically modified rice in southeast Missouri. The rice would produce two types of human proteins which help boost the immune system. Anheuser-Busch and Ventria agreed that Ventria would not plant genetically modified crops any closer than 120 miles from other Missouri rice fields. Anheuser-Busch plans to continue buying Missouri rice.
Missouri is the nation's sixth-largest rice producing state.
Ventria has a collaboration agreement with Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Mo., to further develop the life sciences industry in the state.
It struck me reading this headline that the Firefox dev team is under tremendous recruitment pressure, and it makes me wonder how all this cherrypicking of developers from the Firefox team, by the likes of Google and Big Blue, will impact the project's future development cycle.
Is this brain drain going to cripple the project eventually or contribute to the problems we've read in March about the Firefox development review process?
A little refresher.... The Mozilla Release Process Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, @06:25AM
from the every-time-you-ask-we-delay-it-one-hour dept.
David Gerard writes "Asa Dotzler from the Mozilla Foundation invited questions on his blog on the Mozilla release process. The answers are up."
Firefox Lead Now Working For Google Posted by michael on Monday January 24, @03:50PM
from the speculate-all-you-want-we'll-make-more dept.
zmarties writes "In a very low key announcement on his blog, Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee. In practice his day to day job won't change that much, in that he will still lead Firefox through its forthcoming releases, but with Google paying his wages, we can be sure that new and interesting overlap between the Mozilla Foundation's browsers and Google's services are sure to develop."
Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy Posted by michael on Monday January 31, @03:05AM
from the cathedral-or-bazaar dept.
wikinerd writes "A Firefox developer talks about the project's controversial invitation-only developer recruitment policy and explains why Firefox will never grow up."
Problems With the Firefox Development Process Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 06, @11:39PM
from the eyes-on-the-prize dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mike Connor, one of the core Firefox developers, is raising a flag concerning the Mozilla Firefox methodology of development. From his blog: "In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think were in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews." In an earlier entry, he raised concrete concerns about the community involvement. Asa Dotzler recently elaborated on the process, as previously covered on Slashdot."
Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 10, @07:44AM
from the who-will-get-the-kids dept.
sebFlyte writes "After the reports of problems with Firefox' development earlier this week there are now rumblings about more serious problems with the Mozilla Suite. Some developers want to spin the suite out as a community project that the foundation has no responsibility for, and others want to create a Firefox Foundation to deal with the success of the standalone browser."
Slashdot Mirror
doesn't Visual Studio come on a dvd now?
This NIH support page shows they're definately using Outlook on Win2k. Perhaps they're going to opt going to Suse/OpenExchange/NLD instead of the XP/2k3 upgrade?
I'd be interested to see which departments/agencies under NIH opt to go with SuSe/OpenExchange first and why, besides the obvious licensing savings.
cherry OS v1 (chappelle)
what's important is per capita. US isn't the worst offender, but the krauts could improve.
Im in troll mode this morning dammit, I don't care. I'm gonna go off about this article.
First, this article is gdamn stale! I spotted on it both on digg and the newsforge daily email 2 weeks ago. Old! boring........
Second. BFD! WTF? No discussion about the different features? What about getting into comparing enterprise extensibility???????
Outlook/AD/Exchange vs. Evolution/Evolution Connector/SuSe SLOX?
Third, I've seen what each of these looks like, whoopti f-ing doo! Shocker----Their GUIs are identical. They've been so for a while. C'mon man, we get a chance to check out a good article shootout between Outlook/Exchange and Evolution/SuSe Slox and it just shoots blanks.
Argh, I need more coffee.....
mvps.org has a lot of the registry hacks needed to make security policy changes. So does windows registry guide, labmice, elder geek, and technet.
Good books to get are the XP Registry Guide and xp hacks. But the easiest thing to do is to run a copy of XP Pro.
XP Pro needs a paired down version of Windows 2003 Server "Security Configuration Wizard (SCW)"
Good idea with the tiered service. I'd jump on that.
does Microsoft have to tell people that they DO NOT EMAIL PATCHES OR UPDATES? They even set up Windows Update to run with the "Automatic Update" as default. What do we need, M$ to issue pain collars for these folks to mentally condition them to not open any attachment claiming to be from M$?
with the Challenger and Columbia crashes, I can't imagine this "Global Strike" space plane really being a viable defense system for at least 30 yrs. , and of course by then, as with the shuttle, it will be obsolete. The comparison of an orbital launch platform to a "death star" is appropriate. The country that launches the first one will be the enemy of the free world, and the biggest threat to all of humanity. What is pretty clear is way too much time was spent watching Babylon 5 at the USAF Academy dorms during the 1990s.
Karma, he'll lose karma:)
A farm truck pulls up outside of your kid's school, chock full of football size pods, and school administrators hand them out to the little children. Then, they walk them into the gymnasium, where they are told to lie down with their pod for a nap.
when they wake up, they're obedient, EULA-ized little drones, and in the podding process, have divulged their little grade school p2p supernodes.
Corporations don't use Tanks to Shut Down Protest.
No, they just eviscerate their worker's pensions and leave them penniless. Stay tuned,
China 2020 Tour
Keynote speaker:Ken Lay
"Guns and Butter: What I learned from screwing other capitalists"
At 23:30 into the 34:44 min podcast mp3, Kevin starts taking about a DVI lcd deal he scooped, and Leo weighs in asking if he'd seen it on digg.com. About 24:00, Leo makes the ""Random Taco" call concerning /. editors, while discussing the differences between /. and digg. Shhwweeet! I love this podcast.
I didn't read that in the article or press release about Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1.
Virtual PC and Virtual Server are two different products. Virtual Server can run on XP, but (a) not as a production machine and (b)it's a pain in the ass on slower systems, and creates more security problems if it's your personal workstation, considering Virtual Server requires IIS be installed on XP. VMWare Workstation is more stable and secure on XP.
This Tech Republic Article:
Understanding the difference between Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC 2004 lists an overview of the differences. I'd love to see Virtual PC 2005 support Linux and perhaps even Solaris 10, but I doubt it will be added until the end of next year.
I had to see if it was real after I read it. Struck me like some post-apocalyptic "The Prisoner" ..."I've escaped the Village" delusion. I wonder why more whackos don't try and build their own citadels of defiance like Sealand.
you have to worry about attacks.........
Sealand Fights Off Invaders (Wins War)
In August of 1978, a number of Dutch men came to Sealand in the employ of a German businessman. They were there to discuss business dealings with Sealand. While Roy was away in Britain, these men kidnapped Prince Roy's son Michael, and took Sealand by force. Soon after, Roy recaptured the island with a group of his own men and held the attackers as prisoners of war.
During the time that he held the prisoners, the Governments of the Netherlands and Germany petitioned for their release. First they asked England to intervene in the matter, but the British government cited their earlier court decision as evidence that they made no claim to the territory of Sealand. Then, in an act of de facto recognition of Sealand's sovereignty, Germany sent a diplomat directly to Sealand to negotiate for the release of their citizen.
Roy first released the Dutch citizens, as the war was over, and the Geneva Convention requires the release of all prisoners. The German was held longer, as he had accepted a Sealand Passport, and therefore was guilty of treason. Prince Roy, who was grateful that the incident had not resulted in a loss of life, and did not want to bloody the reputation of Sealand, eventually released him as well.
And to think, all my hard work in Wiltshire wasted. At least we got cool tin foil hats.
Mikey, what is a bot? And how are they born?
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_ar chives.php?id=153
Michael "Root" Robertson is appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Board.
Just read his responses....[a few of my repiles]
Sacramento Business Journal - 1:10 PM PDT Monday
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/200
It struck me reading this headline that the Firefox dev team is under tremendous recruitment pressure, and it makes me wonder how all this cherrypicking of developers from the Firefox team, by the likes of Google and Big Blue, will impact the project's future development cycle.
Is this brain drain going to cripple the project eventually or contribute to the problems we've read in March about the Firefox development review process?
A little refresher....
The Mozilla Release Process
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, @06:25AM
from the every-time-you-ask-we-delay-it-one-hour dept.
David Gerard writes "Asa Dotzler from the Mozilla Foundation invited questions on his blog on the Mozilla release process. The answers are up."
Firefox Lead Now Working For Google
Posted by michael on Monday January 24, @03:50PM
from the speculate-all-you-want-we'll-make-more dept.
zmarties writes "In a very low key announcement on his blog, Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee. In practice his day to day job won't change that much, in that he will still lead Firefox through its forthcoming releases, but with Google paying his wages, we can be sure that new and interesting overlap between the Mozilla Foundation's browsers and Google's services are sure to develop."
Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy
Posted by michael on Monday January 31, @03:05AM
from the cathedral-or-bazaar dept.
wikinerd writes "A Firefox developer talks about the project's controversial invitation-only developer recruitment policy and explains why Firefox will never grow up."
Problems With the Firefox Development Process
Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 06, @11:39PM
from the eyes-on-the-prize dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mike Connor, one of the core Firefox developers, is raising a flag concerning the Mozilla Firefox methodology of development. From his blog: "In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think were in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews." In an earlier entry, he raised concrete concerns about the community involvement. Asa Dotzler recently elaborated on the process, as previously covered on Slashdot."
Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 10, @07:44AM
from the who-will-get-the-kids dept.
sebFlyte writes "After the reports of problems with Firefox' development earlier this week there are now rumblings about more serious problems with the Mozilla Suite. Some developers want to spin the suite out as a community project that the foundation has no responsibility for, and others want to create a Firefox Foundation to deal with the success of the standalone browser."
Oh and it could look like some smart guy too which would make it really cool!
Perhaps like Hannibal Lecter?