Just a small comment, though most people know real from the realplayer and helixserver, Real is primarily a content-broker. Their players support their business to buy and sell content to the likes of BT and DT. To me it therefore seems that want to move (part) the SW business (the development of which is a cost-centre) to the outside world, thereby increasing their overall operating margins.
I think this is a smart way to work (from a business point of view) but ethically questionable.
I've had Plaxo running for a while, and it didn't always update my records correctly,and I had problems in syncing my outlook with my phone afterwards. But those are just technical limitations, probably also due to my lack of knowledge in working with Plaxo (though I did see I wasn't the only one, many of my friends/colleagues forgot to enter either a '+' of '00' sign infront of their phone number-> the phonebook in my phone (which I sync automatically via bluetooth) got messed up.
A much greater risk is security, all my contact list people job titles/internal phone number. mobile phone numbers, email addresses... hacking the (global) plaxo datase (lets assume that they don't sell it) would give marketeers, job hunters, etc. the ideal entry into the company. Now I know that this can be done by hacking a computer (or stealing it), but this is not worth the effort since one would only get a small fraction of a companies user-base... hacking plaxo however, is proably a worthwhile exercise... This is the reason why my company forbade the use of Plaxo.
This is not really new info is it ?! There are multiple companiesd out there how have done this and who are making money out of this in the web-hosting market.
This is not even limited to Linux, there are also Sun VMs arround (I've got a SUN VM hosted by NTT/Verio - which works great).
The thing is that this does not always get what you need, if you need direct root access, you won't get it (if it is hosted). I've not really run into these issues, even though I do development on these systems.
IBM would be a mistake, just ask youself what their core-business is... its not hosting, so hosting is the first thing to go in a restructuring excersise (like Intel Online Services)
Which Hosting Centre with Global Reach is left after so many went the way of the dodo - PSINet sang the same tune a while ago "our European operations are not affected" (read "if you want to buy our European operations you can do so with little debt cos' the US operation takes it all in)
Hmmm it is fairly obvious that you have never admin-ed more than say 100 machines... imagine 100 times a machine installation of Office.... so you'd have to visit every machine one by one (or ofcource you buy the extremly and not very scalable CCC solutions...) Believe you me Cytrix is one of the best products I've seen for the M$ market in the last years. Bye
Just a short comment on this particular movie. I thought it was oke, but that it was not real enough. In the movie the 'normal' guy makes it, at least as far as his goals are concered, this implies that there are quitte a lot of people who disagree with the 'system' and are willing to help him. In reality I don't think this is the case at all. People will never endanger a system that works for them. I though this was a mistake in the movie and an all to american mistake at that. Real live hardly has happy endings and Gattica would have been beter of as a film-noir without a happy ending (or at least on open one)
couldn't we figure out what they are up to by looking who is working there ? I mean by looking at the capabilites of these people what do we know ? Do we have an idea of the company structure, ie who many (and which) people are working in which department.
Yes this is true, for space station we have estimated a 3-4 second delay on some of the experiments using tele robotics. Oke granted that is maybe to much but our problem was not the the downlink from ISA but rather the time it took from one of the earth stations (NASA ground stations) trough the whole infrastructure (switches etc.) to our little lab in the Netherlands
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Just a small comment, though most people know real from the realplayer and helixserver, Real is primarily a content-broker. Their players support their business to buy and sell content to the likes of BT and DT. To me it therefore seems that want to move (part) the SW business (the development of which is a cost-centre) to the outside world, thereby increasing their overall operating margins.
I think this is a smart way to work (from a business point of view) but ethically questionable.
I've had Plaxo running for a while, and it didn't always update my records correctly,and I had problems in syncing my outlook with my phone afterwards. But those are just technical limitations, probably also due to my lack of knowledge in working with Plaxo (though I did see I wasn't the only one, many of my friends/colleagues forgot to enter either a '+' of '00' sign infront of their phone number-> the phonebook in my phone (which I sync automatically via bluetooth) got messed up.
... hacking the (global) plaxo datase (lets assume that they don't sell it) would give marketeers, job hunters, etc. the ideal entry into the company. Now I know that this can be done by hacking a computer (or stealing it), but this is not worth the effort since one would only get a small fraction of a companies user-base ... hacking plaxo however, is proably a worthwhile exercise ... This is the reason why my company forbade the use of Plaxo.
A much greater risk is security, all my contact list people job titles/internal phone number. mobile phone numbers, email addresses
brrrrrr
This is not really new info is it ?! There are multiple companiesd out there how have done this and who are making money out of this in the web-hosting market.
This is not even limited to Linux, there are also Sun VMs arround (I've got a SUN VM hosted by NTT/Verio - which works great).
The thing is that this does not always get what you need, if you need direct root access, you won't get it (if it is hosted). I've not really run into these issues, even though I do development on these systems.
cheers.
brrrrrr.
IBM would be a mistake, just ask youself what their core-business is ... its not hosting, so hosting is the first thing to go in a restructuring excersise (like Intel Online Services)
just my 2ct
Which Hosting Centre with Global Reach is left after so many went the way of the dodo - PSINet sang the same tune a while ago "our European operations are not affected" (read "if you want to buy our European operations you can do so with little debt cos' the US operation takes it all in)
The only names I can come up with right now are:
- UUNet
- NTT/Verio
- C&W
- ????
Cheers,
brrrrrr
Hmmm it is fairly obvious that you have never admin-ed more than say 100 machines ... imagine 100 times a machine installation of Office .... so you'd have to visit every machine one by one (or ofcource you buy the extremly and not very scalable CCC solutions...) Believe you me Cytrix is one of the best products I've seen for the M$ market in the last years. Bye
Just a short comment on this particular movie. I thought it was oke, but that it was not real enough. In the movie the 'normal' guy makes it, at least as far as his goals are concered, this implies that there are quitte a lot of people who disagree with the 'system' and are willing to help him. In reality I don't think this is the case at all. People will never endanger a system that works for them. I though this was a mistake in the movie and an all to american mistake at that. Real live hardly has happy endings and Gattica would have been beter of as a film-noir without a happy ending (or at least on open one)
my 2c
Hi all,
couldn't we figure out what they are up to by looking who is working there ? I mean by looking at the capabilites of these people what do we know ? Do we have an idea of the company structure, ie who many (and which) people are working in which department.
Just a guess
Yes this is true, for space station we have estimated a 3-4 second delay on some of the experiments using tele robotics. Oke granted that is maybe to much but our problem was not the the downlink from ISA but rather the time it took from one of the earth stations (NASA ground stations) trough the whole infrastructure (switches etc.) to our little lab in the Netherlands