How would they know that they could break into the system if they hadn't already? (I'm sure the 'IT' staff are bound to think that way.) So calling the 'IT' staff for a "controlled" demonstration wouldn't work either. So the (twisted) moral seems to be: The best way out of trouble is never to get caught (either by never attempting it, or doing it without getting caught.) Techie or Non-Techie, announced or unannounced, someone breaking into a system always triggers fear in the keeper.
I've tried switching individual users abruptly to linux and found that it didn't work. They required constant support and when that wasn't always there, they decided to switch back. For kids, the best thing is to get them "try it out" on a PC at home (starting with a dual boot). They usually like tinkering and learning. It's more likely that if the kids themselves want it, they'll somehow make sure it's around in their school networks. Imposing a switch top-down usually requires an enthusiastic instructor. Such people aren't easy to come by unless more/.ers take to teaching (even if it's little time they can spare.)
Wine (isn't an Operating System, isn't an Emulator [wine is not an emulator]). It sure doesn't call itself Microsoft Windows XX to be a counterfeit of what is mentioned.
Report counterfeit (pirated) software and you will be assimilated. Pay $149 to the Bill's Dollars scheme. So, you get the pricey carrot (gulp), and you now get the green label. The pirates (can we call them a group among terrorists in cyberspace) will be given the chase.
Optionally, we could get rid of counterfeit software, the moment you learnt about it. Get your favorite linux distribution (I'm sure this could reach you lesser than $149) and get a better user experience.
The whole idea seems to be asking people to take notice of "counterfeit" software they are not allowed to posses and replace it with software they are allowed to posses (think: Linux, FreeBSD,...) Giving a little thought to this, people would find why Microsoft is about to make a selfless sacrifice and open its own doors to heaven. And nay, this ain't spontaneous evangelism of...
What happens if you encrypt/+sign e-mail? (thinking PGP,...) Using encrypted email with clients does make things a little more secure (or so I thought). But if the companies want to snoop all e-mails, they'll have to ban encrypted email! Either ways, Convincing their employees to use Shared IMAP folders for official mail that others should be aware of, should help them better than such rigorous snooping.
Companies using servers like MS Exchange or Lotus Domino archive all mail, even if they don't employ people to read them. They claim that this helps in archiving and backing up information that can be retreived later. Whatever is done, at least in small/mid-sized companies trusting employees works better.
If this Virus (however smart or otherwise) can be sent across by email, then isn't it a threat for MSN/IM clients too (not just those who derive their IM servers from MS' software?) Or is this incident telling us that MS does not license out it's current MSN/IM s/w + security patches? (looks more like the case.) Time will definitely tell.
We should all be able to hack away at something if we acquire that device learning whatever we can about it. IMO, while referring to cyphers, secure communication and cryptography we should be using "crack" as the more appropriate term. Dunno if it's too dumb to say this, but seemingyl sets terminology to the right category. The other term I could think of was "reverse-engineering-proof" though that too doesn't seem appropriate. (Just a thought.)
It looks like most operating systems like relying on C. Wouldn't C# or Java require a VM and hence a little shakedown on the OS architecture? And wait, what would the VM be implemented with? There seems to be a strong case that a good hardware architecture can only be of help. The bad one, irrespective of what runs on top of it might always provide a source for trouble. Application developers have always tried to rely on a nice language + compiler + framework as they are evolving.
I have been involved with many startups at pre/post incubation stages and on the road to (what the startup's regarded as "the holy grail") funding.
The core team of the startup already cultivates a business idea. The core team and their advisors make the toughie decision to Opensource parts or the whole of their "software". Before going to the VCs, they consult a lawyer on the impact of what is opensourced and the VCs interest.
Finally, the agreement is met, the pie is split between the "investment team" and the "founding/working team" and things go on as in any other investment. The Phases of equity investment are discussed and the returns are discussed vis a vis performance requirements.
Opening/Closing source does not play a quintessential role here, as long as what is actual property of the company, "hardware design" or "algorithm" or "implementation of mathematical concept" is protected as IP (if you are gunning products [software/hardware]) and not just services. A good consulting lawyer plus further help from say Ernst&Young[miscellaneously typed] helps in these stages.
It would be very difficult to actually classify a company on business model of their final product and term it open/close source and further statistically plot performance. As such entities blend into the landscape of the vertical / horizontal they are targeting.
My dad adamantly likes to use Microsoft Windows XP because he got used to it. I saw the machine crawling as a result of running too many antivirii programs.
I managed to get him to convert to Redhat Linux 9, however being a photography enthusiast and sharing his collection with his friends, his window photo sharing applications/sites(Webshots,etc.) wasn't providing linux viewer clients and upload clients. He ran into problems trying to get the printer(HP) reconfigured with a different set of catridges. There were some issues when the softmodem had to operate while music was playing with the lin(nish)modem driver I could lay my hands on.
I had to be around for almost every fix required, a LUG non-existent in my town for now. While I was away for another three months, he reverted back to Windows.
I came back and realised that the best answer was to give him part of what he needed and also try to give better features+performance for what he was doing. I got him to download Firefox+Thunderbird+Gaim for his windows box. Added a reconfigurable firewall outside the machine (to make configuration easier for me.) and now he's quite happy. The whole network connectivity and application usage is quite transparent to him.
So, providing smoother usage with less troublesome and (probably better written) applications is the way to go. This does not essentially mean, pulling out a linux installation and replacing the whole thing.
So, do we get to see Microsoft products using Bitkeeper? I don't get the message here. If Larry goes ahead with this "no competing products" thing (as if he has no idea about the opensource community), extinction would probably be inevitable as has started happening to someone who owned almost every PC.
Sorry Larry, thought you had it all worked out. This seems to have nosedived. The opensource community made a better OS platform "GNU/Linux" against one that was "freely" available in India (when piracy couldn't be checked.) Are we trying to say we can't create a "better than bitkeeper" versioning system? We made so much progress with just CVS.
I was given to believe that there are textbooks on UI design, much the way Mac goes about it. It tells you left-to-right cognition, widget distances among the few. And the most critical piece being mapping functions built into the software into the user interface.
And I'm bound to ask, does slashdot have a good UI in any of these terms. Sometimes people just start habitually getting used to UIs and stop complaining.
and enforce it with sypware (arent't they in a catch 22 here). Ban OCDs, cameras and everything and get draconian or use spyware to stop others using spyware. The latter is the only way and a dead end. Can we get a few gray cells to think about why it exists before getting rid of it.
Sensible or not, they got the general idea: The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means to lay open (to public inspection) and the term letters patent, which originally denoted royal decrees granting exclusive rights to certain individuals or businesses. [src:wikipedia]. So enough sensibility that we aren't royalty forms of governments and as francis bacon once said, knowledge (today information) in itself is power.
The Treo600 is definitely _the_ PDA phone in many ways. I use it with 'kontact', using kpilot to do the synching and things seem to be working really well. I am yet to try running palm applications on the phone. It looks like it's got an OMAP variant on it (based on an ARM9). I'll be trying to build custom palm apps for the phone with a arm-elf toolchain over the weekend. That should make it amazing. The one problem is that it's got really poor resolution (8-bit):P, I wish it had more.
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How would they know that they could break into the system if they hadn't already? (I'm sure the 'IT' staff are bound to think that way.) So calling the 'IT' staff for a "controlled" demonstration wouldn't work either. So the (twisted) moral seems to be: The best way out of trouble is never to get caught (either by never attempting it, or doing it without getting caught.) Techie or Non-Techie, announced or unannounced, someone breaking into a system always triggers fear in the keeper.
I've tried switching individual users abruptly to linux and found that it didn't work. They required constant support and when that wasn't always there, they decided to switch back. For kids, the best thing is to get them "try it out" on a PC at home (starting with a dual boot). They usually like tinkering and learning. It's more likely that if the kids themselves want it, they'll somehow make sure it's around in their school networks. Imposing a switch top-down usually requires an enthusiastic instructor. Such people aren't easy to come by unless more /.ers take to teaching (even if it's little time they can spare.)
Wine (isn't an Operating System, isn't an Emulator [wine is not an emulator]). It sure doesn't call itself Microsoft Windows XX to be a counterfeit of what is mentioned.
Report counterfeit (pirated) software and you will be assimilated. Pay $149 to the Bill's Dollars scheme. So, you get the pricey carrot (gulp), and you now get the green label. The pirates (can we call them a group among terrorists in cyberspace) will be given the chase.
...) Giving a little thought to this, people would find why Microsoft is about to make a selfless sacrifice and open its own doors to heaven. And nay, this ain't spontaneous evangelism of...
Optionally, we could get rid of counterfeit software, the moment you learnt about it. Get your favorite linux distribution (I'm sure this could reach you lesser than $149) and get a better user experience.
The whole idea seems to be asking people to take notice of "counterfeit" software they are not allowed to posses and replace it with software they are allowed to posses (think: Linux, FreeBSD,
What happens if you encrypt/+sign e-mail? (thinking PGP, ...) Using encrypted email with clients does make things a little more secure (or so I thought). But if the companies want to snoop all e-mails, they'll have to ban encrypted email! Either ways, Convincing their employees to use Shared IMAP folders for official mail that others should be aware of, should help them better than such rigorous snooping.
Companies using servers like MS Exchange or Lotus Domino archive all mail, even if they don't employ people to read them. They claim that this helps in archiving and backing up information that can be retreived later. Whatever is done, at least in small/mid-sized companies trusting employees works better.
If this Virus (however smart or otherwise) can be sent across by email, then isn't it a threat for MSN/IM clients too (not just those who derive their IM servers from MS' software?) Or is this incident telling us that MS does not license out it's current MSN/IM s/w + security patches? (looks more like the case.) Time will definitely tell.
We should all be able to hack away at something if we acquire that device learning whatever we can about it. IMO, while referring to cyphers, secure communication and cryptography we should be using "crack" as the more appropriate term. Dunno if it's too dumb to say this, but seemingyl sets terminology to the right category. The other term I could think of was "reverse-engineering-proof" though that too doesn't seem appropriate. (Just a thought.)
It looks like most operating systems like relying on C. Wouldn't C# or Java require a VM and hence a little shakedown on the OS architecture? And wait, what would the VM be implemented with? There seems to be a strong case that a good hardware architecture can only be of help. The bad one, irrespective of what runs on top of it might always provide a source for trouble. Application developers have always tried to rely on a nice language + compiler + framework as they are evolving.
I have been involved with many startups at pre/post incubation stages and on the road to (what the startup's regarded as "the holy grail") funding.
The core team of the startup already cultivates a business idea. The core team and their advisors make the toughie decision to Opensource parts or the whole of their "software". Before going to the VCs, they consult a lawyer on the impact of what is opensourced and the VCs interest.
Finally, the agreement is met, the pie is split between the "investment team" and the "founding/working team" and things go on as in any other investment. The Phases of equity investment are discussed and the returns are discussed vis a vis performance requirements.
Opening/Closing source does not play a quintessential role here, as long as what is actual property of the company, "hardware design" or "algorithm" or "implementation of mathematical concept" is protected as IP (if you are gunning products [software/hardware]) and not just services. A good consulting lawyer plus further help from say Ernst&Young[miscellaneously typed] helps in these stages.
It would be very difficult to actually classify a company on business model of their final product and term it open/close source and further statistically plot performance. As such entities blend into the landscape of the vertical / horizontal they are targeting.
My dad adamantly likes to use Microsoft Windows XP because he got used to it. I saw the machine crawling as a result of running too many antivirii programs.
I managed to get him to convert to Redhat Linux 9, however being a photography enthusiast and sharing his collection with his friends, his window photo sharing applications/sites(Webshots,etc.) wasn't providing linux viewer clients and upload clients. He ran into problems trying to get the printer(HP) reconfigured with a different set of catridges. There were some issues when the softmodem had to operate while music was playing with the lin(nish)modem driver I could lay my hands on.
I had to be around for almost every fix required, a LUG non-existent in my town for now. While I was away for another three months, he reverted back to Windows.
I came back and realised that the best answer was to give him part of what he needed and also try to give better features+performance for what he was doing. I got him to download Firefox+Thunderbird+Gaim for his windows box. Added a reconfigurable firewall outside the machine (to make configuration easier for me.) and now he's quite happy. The whole network connectivity and application usage is quite transparent to him.
So, providing smoother usage with less troublesome and (probably better written) applications is the way to go. This does not essentially mean, pulling out a linux installation and replacing the whole thing.
So, do we get to see Microsoft products using Bitkeeper? I don't get the message here. If Larry goes ahead with this "no competing products" thing (as if he has no idea about the opensource community), extinction would probably be inevitable as has started happening to someone who owned almost every PC.
Sorry Larry, thought you had it all worked out. This seems to have nosedived. The opensource community made a better OS platform "GNU/Linux" against one that was "freely" available in India (when piracy couldn't be checked.) Are we trying to say we can't create a "better than bitkeeper" versioning system? We made so much progress with just CVS.
I was just reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity I thought this was true, and then I realised it was an illusion.
I was given to believe that there are textbooks on UI design, much the way Mac goes about it. It tells you left-to-right cognition, widget distances among the few. And the most critical piece being mapping functions built into the software into the user interface.
And I'm bound to ask, does slashdot have a good UI in any of these terms. Sometimes people just start habitually getting used to UIs and stop complaining.
Just the place you've already visited probably is Amazon A9 link on Xerox PARC and their UI work.
and enforce it with sypware (arent't they in a catch 22 here). Ban OCDs, cameras and everything and get draconian or use spyware to stop others using spyware. The latter is the only way and a dead end. Can we get a few gray cells to think about why it exists before getting rid of it.
Sensible or not, they got the general idea: The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means to lay open (to public inspection) and the term letters patent, which originally denoted royal decrees granting exclusive rights to certain individuals or businesses. [src:wikipedia]. So enough sensibility that we aren't royalty forms of governments and as francis bacon once said, knowledge (today information) in itself is power.
The Treo600 is definitely _the_ PDA phone in many ways. I use it with 'kontact', using kpilot to do the synching and things seem to be working really well. I am yet to try running palm applications on the phone. It looks like it's got an OMAP variant on it (based on an ARM9). I'll be trying to build custom palm apps for the phone with a arm-elf toolchain over the weekend. That should make it amazing. The one problem is that it's got really poor resolution (8-bit) :P, I wish it had more.