For those of you that dream of taking your Big Idea and getting rich on government contracts, this is how getting a government contract works in most countries.
The U.S. situation isn't that different. In the U.S. all parties are very mindful of the law and work around them or only break the rules with no penalties.
What the democracies also need to is to issue X509 certificates, free, to everyone at birth
Absolutely.
Furthermore, forbid the use of the cert in any government service. Permit citizens to use the certs as they please and industry to rely on them as they please. It's done to some extent with EMV already. Everyone in the global payments industry knows that's been very successful.
For many generations a college education generally fulfilled the promise of class mobility. E.G. Dad's a gardener, daughter a lawyer. The key to this dream was two-fold.
1. Cost of tuition/loans were capable of repaying in +/- 10 years.
2. Job you leveraged yourself into PAID the loan + decent standard of living over the 10 year payback.
Neither 1 or 2 hold true any more.
Discussions about class in the U.S. are generally forbidden, but I'll throw it out anyway. I find it almost impossible to see how decades of "winner take all" economics ISN'T creating a massive, permanent, underclass. Economic conditions suggest this is so already.
Our test deployment system still has this problem despite being up to date. This office moves *big* files around. Which is one reason why I can't make the technical recommendation to upgrade. If management wants to upgrade despite my findings, then that's fine. Any professional system admin should take the same line. I have no such hope that the next version of Windows will be any better.
I still find it mind boggling that an OS can be so resource intensive, take so long to release, and yet have no increase in perceived value. It reminds me of a few big companies I work with.
the thing they want to see improved is those moments lost "when they click a button and nothing seems to happen"
So true. I've found the bouncing cursor on many Linux distros is enough of a cue to keep the most attention deficit disordered user on track.
That is time that has been taken from me. We're talking about 1-2 seconds right? Except the time wasted on slashdot and in front of the television isn't wasted? Seriously, what are the priorities here?
The specs you casually throw out are just astounding. Granted I don't try to run it on crap systems To use Dell as the brand, you mean I can't run it on a Dimension/Vostro?? I've GOT to spec Precision boxes?
with less than 2GB of RAM, either. Granted 64-bit is *the* future, WTF is consuming all those resources? I'd guess it's some DRM/crypto nightmare, but I don't know.
Although my 7 test box only has 1GB of RAM. Only? I've got a Thinkpad T42 running Debian Lenny and KDE4 will ALL of the eye candy on 512MB RAM with no problems. Disclaimer: 1/2 my mobile work is telnet/serial interface, so my productivity gains are faster CLI-fu and good systems topography.
All of this is to conclusively state that something is seriously wrong at Microsoft when a machine is a dog with only 1GB RAM.
I could have modded you down, but I feel a point deserves to be made.
Mandatory community service?
The "mandatory" part is what you added to the idea to poison any possibility that the generally lazy citizens like yourself would get up and do something. FYI, voting is not doing something.
If there are problems with the government that you can identify and pay attention to longer than your entertainment saturated mind can handle, then I'm positive there is a special interest group out there pursuing the same kind of changes you want. Who else will change them? McCain? Obama? Paul? You.
When you get home from work, keep the tv turned off and find a cause to volunteer for. Commit 1/4 of the time you would otherwise spend consuming entertainment on giving something back to this country. I don't care what your politics are, find something that you believe in and volunteer. THAT is what makes a vibrant Republic.
Your shangri la is full of suppositions that have no relationship with human nature.
First and foremost, government rules and regs are a reflection of the values held by the nation. American history is full of government initiated sideways excursions into moralistic hubris.
Your sorry notion of 'highest bidder' somehow solving any problem is also deeply problematic. One of many problems with 'highest bidder' models in government is that it doesn't translate into anything useful for the citizens.
Maybe you are not old enough to remember when government's role was to provide services, not maximize "profit centers" like the Patent Office?
Historically, other closed systems rely on running security/lockout things in some kind of root such that should the user elevate their privileges to root, they can screw around with the closed system.
I don't know enough about the platform in question to know if getting to root gives you the freedom to defy the carrier's wishes.
Even if getting root privileges opens the phone up in ways Google did not plan, what are the actual long-term benefits? I don't see any.
I wouldn't fight the jokers defending ridiculous specs like low-latency low-bandwidth remote windows implementations. Use telnet, only call it secur-link 2008 in the specs. The joke is right back at them.
There are plenty of commercial ssh implementations for windows.
http://www.bitvise.com/winsshd It does the job connecting all kinds of platforms/client implementations. It does PKI too.
HP's Compaq line of servers has **excellent** remote admin capabilities.
Push the whole thing over an stunnel and you are good to go.
Implementation is another issue. Publish an email if your budget supports consultants. Errmm. Well, it looks like slashdot is taking the place of a qualified expert, so good luck with that.
Sadly, both candidates senior campaign workers have long histories in government promoting the most conventional positions in American government. Look where that's gotten the country.
This is your Republic. I'm not sure why all of you dissatisfied citizens think that participating in a single election cycle will change very much. One needs to participate in your government. That means more than a few minutes once every two to four years.
1. it's very primitive. If you've got a VM to try it on, then go for it.
2. As AC on another post correctly listed the projects like this that have come before it. So, before everyone starts beating-up on X11, they need to check out the ample supply of unpopular alternatives.
The framebuffer is rarely discussed as yet another alternative to X11.
First and most importantly, I genuinely despise "speeds and feeds" metrics. It does nothing but harm the distro world when it's reduced to dumb metrics like this.
Second, money talks and specs walk. Right now, Microsoft is the failsafe meme for most PHB's. There are a million reasons for this. Over time this will change as Microsoft tightens the noose. Microsoft's customer is not the admin, but the buyer. The buyer is indifferent to almost all specs and usually overrules engineering with their "business case".
It seems to me this is available in *some* hardware. Maybe the parent wants to check into that?
I've got racks of Compaq DL380's and I don't even know if they have Wake on LAN, but they've got other features that do the same thing.
In my environment, service response time is the primary performance metric, saving money by limiting power consumption is viewed as counter productive.
But you can't be trusted for providing your own identification. An identification credential relies on some sort of certifying authority.
True. I didn't make that part clear. Once you are certified as you, from then on it's your responsibility to manage it. Your mobile phone already does it and it's why the carriers should be charging ahead on these identity issues. We know they are too stupid to do anything novel.
Do you want my PC to answer the question of "Is this guy mpapet?
Not an operating system, no. A smart card token passing through the OS? Sure, no problem.
It might be okay for joe-shmoe consumer, but there are still common-sense issues standing in the way.
First and foremost is the dead-simple notion, "You mean I'm going to trust a single source for EVERY password for every site I go to? No thanks! I've had my identity stolen already."
If I was in charge of the Right Brigade, I would change the nexus from some server-in-the-sky to your PC storing/providing authentication. I know that's crazy-talk, being responsible for your own identity and everything. Just call me old-fashioned.
Summary author doesn't understand the role that judges in her position play. One of their jobs is to enforce the law, as it stands. She cannot reinterpret the law or rule along the notion of "what's fair" and expect to keep her job. Especially with the entertainment conglomerates so capable of funding another, more entertainment friendly replacement in the next judicial appointment cycle.
This kind of summary just burns bridges where they are needed most, as in, deep inside the legal system.
Please rewrite the summary praising the judge for committing, to paper, sound social and legal commentary that will make her next election/appointment cycle very, very tough.
Sure, it may look pretty, but what's the EULA going to be on this hit of the Microsoft crack pipe? The gradual tightening of their EULA's is another reason the company I work for won't entertain budget spent for new Microsoft licenses.
Have you read the silverlight EULA? Since it's job-related I did, and let me tell you it's not pretty.
We're a small business that has purchased Microsoft site licenses over the years. I gotta wonder how long Microsoft can alienate customers like us before it starts affecting their top and bottom lines.
Could they jam ANY more information into the start menu? The ribbons pose similar problems. Too much information and no priorities. Which, is worse than their old menus that simply lacked priorities.
I have window previews in KDE4 right now running nicely on old hardware too. (T41 thinkpad!) Most of the other features look like what I've got now, except complicated with either too much information or none at all.
I'm happy supporting it at work, but I'm glad my family is off Microsoft for good.
Let's say there are two banks, BA and WTF. Every day they have debits and credits flying back and forth.
A protocol like AMQP makes exchanging messages (aka transaction) robust. Bank's IT guy gets mad and pulls the T1 out the wall at BA? Messages do a few things like wait in a queue at BA.
The messages that were sent to WTF before the cable was pulled were processed by WTF and wait in a queue at WTF unti BA comes back online.
That's a simple example. There is lots of information outside of the banking world where robust messaging is required.
1. We all know this is the Treasury and the Fed playing the blame game. Obviously they aren't going to blame their former and future peers.
2. The financial securities system is optimized to run as efficiently as possible. Unlike the banking world, (ex. WaMu) contagion spreads swiftly and takes down many players all at once. It is **not** designed to fail gracefully. Chances are excellent it never will be robust given the tenor of the discussion at this point.
3. This is the downside of "leverage." Now people know it's ugly, will anyone actually change any of their consumption behavior? Will derivatives ever make it into a more transparent market?
I think it would have been more succinct if they just said, "My dog ate my homework"
Long ago, being having compatibility with Microsoft's file sharing backend would have been a big win, but the target has moved and, let's face it, Samba still isn't very easy to set up.
In this case, Microsoft knows the knife is cutting both ways. The low-end license buyers won't bother paying for a Linux admin, so it doesn't harm Microsoft one bit.
Microsoft's biggest customers buy the whole mess that includes their mail server and a bunch of other back office crap that remains totally closed.
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For those of you that dream of taking your Big Idea and getting rich on government contracts, this is how getting a government contract works in most countries.
The U.S. situation isn't that different. In the U.S. all parties are very mindful of the law and work around them or only break the rules with no penalties.
What the democracies also need to is to issue X509 certificates, free, to everyone at birth
Absolutely.
Furthermore, forbid the use of the cert in any government service. Permit citizens to use the certs as they please and industry to rely on them as they please. It's done to some extent with EMV already. Everyone in the global payments industry knows that's been very successful.
For many generations a college education generally fulfilled the promise of class mobility. E.G. Dad's a gardener, daughter a lawyer. The key to this dream was two-fold.
1. Cost of tuition/loans were capable of repaying in +/- 10 years.
2. Job you leveraged yourself into PAID the loan + decent standard of living over the 10 year payback.
Neither 1 or 2 hold true any more.
Discussions about class in the U.S. are generally forbidden, but I'll throw it out anyway. I find it almost impossible to see how decades of "winner take all" economics ISN'T creating a massive, permanent, underclass. Economic conditions suggest this is so already.
Our test deployment system still has this problem despite being up to date. This office moves *big* files around. Which is one reason why I can't make the technical recommendation to upgrade. If management wants to upgrade despite my findings, then that's fine. Any professional system admin should take the same line. I have no such hope that the next version of Windows will be any better.
I still find it mind boggling that an OS can be so resource intensive, take so long to release, and yet have no increase in perceived value. It reminds me of a few big companies I work with.
the thing they want to see improved is those moments lost "when they click a button and nothing seems to happen"
So true. I've found the bouncing cursor on many Linux distros is enough of a cue to keep the most attention deficit disordered user on track.
That is time that has been taken from me.
We're talking about 1-2 seconds right? Except the time wasted on slashdot and in front of the television isn't wasted? Seriously, what are the priorities here?
The specs you casually throw out are just astounding.
Granted I don't try to run it on crap systems
To use Dell as the brand, you mean I can't run it on a Dimension/Vostro?? I've GOT to spec Precision boxes?
with less than 2GB of RAM, either.
Granted 64-bit is *the* future, WTF is consuming all those resources? I'd guess it's some DRM/crypto nightmare, but I don't know.
Although my 7 test box only has 1GB of RAM.
Only? I've got a Thinkpad T42 running Debian Lenny and KDE4 will ALL of the eye candy on 512MB RAM with no problems. Disclaimer: 1/2 my mobile work is telnet/serial interface, so my productivity gains are faster CLI-fu and good systems topography.
All of this is to conclusively state that something is seriously wrong at Microsoft when a machine is a dog with only 1GB RAM.
I could have modded you down, but I feel a point deserves to be made.
Mandatory community service?
The "mandatory" part is what you added to the idea to poison any possibility that the generally lazy citizens like yourself would get up and do something. FYI, voting is not doing something.
If there are problems with the government that you can identify and pay attention to longer than your entertainment saturated mind can handle, then I'm positive there is a special interest group out there pursuing the same kind of changes you want. Who else will change them? McCain? Obama? Paul? You.
When you get home from work, keep the tv turned off and find a cause to volunteer for. Commit 1/4 of the time you would otherwise spend consuming entertainment on giving something back to this country. I don't care what your politics are, find something that you believe in and volunteer. THAT is what makes a vibrant Republic.
Please, stop poisoning good ideas.
Your shangri la is full of suppositions that have no relationship with human nature.
First and foremost, government rules and regs are a reflection of the values held by the nation. American history is full of government initiated sideways excursions into moralistic hubris.
Your sorry notion of 'highest bidder' somehow solving any problem is also deeply problematic. One of many problems with 'highest bidder' models in government is that it doesn't translate into anything useful for the citizens.
Maybe you are not old enough to remember when government's role was to provide services, not maximize "profit centers" like the Patent Office?
Historically, other closed systems rely on running security/lockout things in some kind of root such that should the user elevate their privileges to root, they can screw around with the closed system.
I don't know enough about the platform in question to know if getting to root gives you the freedom to defy the carrier's wishes.
Even if getting root privileges opens the phone up in ways Google did not plan, what are the actual long-term benefits? I don't see any.
I wouldn't fight the jokers defending ridiculous specs like low-latency low-bandwidth remote windows implementations. Use telnet, only call it secur-link 2008 in the specs. The joke is right back at them.
There are plenty of commercial ssh implementations for windows.
http://www.bitvise.com/winsshd It does the job connecting all kinds of platforms/client implementations. It does PKI too.
HP's Compaq line of servers has **excellent** remote admin capabilities.
Push the whole thing over an stunnel and you are good to go.
Implementation is another issue. Publish an email if your budget supports consultants. Errmm. Well, it looks like slashdot is taking the place of a qualified expert, so good luck with that.
Sadly, both candidates senior campaign workers have long histories in government promoting the most conventional positions in American government. Look where that's gotten the country.
This is your Republic. I'm not sure why all of you dissatisfied citizens think that participating in a single election cycle will change very much. One needs to participate in your government. That means more than a few minutes once every two to four years.
1. it's very primitive. If you've got a VM to try it on, then go for it.
2. As AC on another post correctly listed the projects like this that have come before it. So, before everyone starts beating-up on X11, they need to check out the ample supply of unpopular alternatives.
The framebuffer is rarely discussed as yet another alternative to X11.
C'mon now, I can't believe no one has bothered to mention an SIP server.
Absolutely, positively the way to go because there's multimedia capabilities in there ready to go.
http://www.opensips.org/
First and most importantly, I genuinely despise "speeds and feeds" metrics. It does nothing but harm the distro world when it's reduced to dumb metrics like this.
Second, money talks and specs walk. Right now, Microsoft is the failsafe meme for most PHB's. There are a million reasons for this. Over time this will change as Microsoft tightens the noose. Microsoft's customer is not the admin, but the buyer. The buyer is indifferent to almost all specs and usually overrules engineering with their "business case".
It seems to me this is available in *some* hardware. Maybe the parent wants to check into that?
I've got racks of Compaq DL380's and I don't even know if they have Wake on LAN, but they've got other features that do the same thing.
In my environment, service response time is the primary performance metric, saving money by limiting power consumption is viewed as counter productive.
But you can't be trusted for providing your own identification. An identification credential relies on some sort of certifying authority.
True. I didn't make that part clear. Once you are certified as you, from then on it's your responsibility to manage it. Your mobile phone already does it and it's why the carriers should be charging ahead on these identity issues. We know they are too stupid to do anything novel.
Do you want my PC to answer the question of "Is this guy mpapet?
Not an operating system, no. A smart card token passing through the OS? Sure, no problem.
It might be okay for joe-shmoe consumer, but there are still common-sense issues standing in the way.
First and foremost is the dead-simple notion, "You mean I'm going to trust a single source for EVERY password for every site I go to? No thanks! I've had my identity stolen already."
If I was in charge of the Right Brigade, I would change the nexus from some server-in-the-sky to your PC storing/providing authentication. I know that's crazy-talk, being responsible for your own identity and everything. Just call me old-fashioned.
Summary author doesn't understand the role that judges in her position play. One of their jobs is to enforce the law, as it stands. She cannot reinterpret the law or rule along the notion of "what's fair" and expect to keep her job. Especially with the entertainment conglomerates so capable of funding another, more entertainment friendly replacement in the next judicial appointment cycle.
This kind of summary just burns bridges where they are needed most, as in, deep inside the legal system.
Please rewrite the summary praising the judge for committing, to paper, sound social and legal commentary that will make her next election/appointment cycle very, very tough.
Sure, it may look pretty, but what's the EULA going to be on this hit of the Microsoft crack pipe? The gradual tightening of their EULA's is another reason the company I work for won't entertain budget spent for new Microsoft licenses.
Have you read the silverlight EULA? Since it's job-related I did, and let me tell you it's not pretty.
We're a small business that has purchased Microsoft site licenses over the years. I gotta wonder how long Microsoft can alienate customers like us before it starts affecting their top and bottom lines.
Could they jam ANY more information into the start menu? The ribbons pose similar problems. Too much information and no priorities. Which, is worse than their old menus that simply lacked priorities.
I have window previews in KDE4 right now running nicely on old hardware too. (T41 thinkpad!) Most of the other features look like what I've got now, except complicated with either too much information or none at all.
I'm happy supporting it at work, but I'm glad my family is off Microsoft for good.
I've seen the same thing done with server 2003 site licenses.
Admittedly, it sounds a little backwards and building the install image entails disabling/removing server applications, but that's Microsoft's fault.
I strongly recommend it over Vista in the workplace. Migration and user issues are non-existent compared to Vista.
Here's a real-world application for AMQP.
Let's say there are two banks, BA and WTF. Every day they have debits and credits flying back and forth.
A protocol like AMQP makes exchanging messages (aka transaction) robust. Bank's IT guy gets mad and pulls the T1 out the wall at BA? Messages do a few things like wait in a queue at BA.
The messages that were sent to WTF before the cable was pulled were processed by WTF and wait in a queue at WTF unti BA comes back online.
That's a simple example. There is lots of information outside of the banking world where robust messaging is required.
1. We all know this is the Treasury and the Fed playing the blame game. Obviously they aren't going to blame their former and future peers.
2. The financial securities system is optimized to run as efficiently as possible. Unlike the banking world, (ex. WaMu) contagion spreads swiftly and takes down many players all at once. It is **not** designed to fail gracefully. Chances are excellent it never will be robust given the tenor of the discussion at this point.
3. This is the downside of "leverage." Now people know it's ugly, will anyone actually change any of their consumption behavior? Will derivatives ever make it into a more transparent market?
I think it would have been more succinct if they just said, "My dog ate my homework"
Long ago, being having compatibility with Microsoft's file sharing backend would have been a big win, but the target has moved and, let's face it, Samba still isn't very easy to set up.
In this case, Microsoft knows the knife is cutting both ways. The low-end license buyers won't bother paying for a Linux admin, so it doesn't harm Microsoft one bit.
Microsoft's biggest customers buy the whole mess that includes their mail server and a bunch of other back office crap that remains totally closed.