Agreed, but the irony is that, although lazy, the majority of the people signing the petition sound like very intellectual software users/developers.
The government officials the petition is going to, however, are lazy AND couldn't understand the legal implications of what they are doing without a petition stating the obvious to them.
For them it's a slab of white paper they got the RIAA, or a similiar orginisation, to write - which they gladly sign and run off with the cheque.
For us it's a pain in the backside which needs fixing before it gets too far ahead.
This is gonna land me in deep water but it's definetly a two way affair -
if the CEO's spend the required money hiring people to take on the responsibility of securing a network then why is it the ceo's fault?
If the people being hired are not competant, but played the 'i know what im doing' role then it is still their fault.
The only time I see it as acceptable that the ceo gets the blame is when the ceo him/herself directly contributes to the lack of security or employee laxness.
The article, imho, is hinting that if a company was to go down due to security problems then it's the ceo who gets the blame if, and when, they are led to believe their networks are (or were in this case) secure/d by an (incompetent) tech-support guy.
I say it truthfully AND before I become flamebait: I have the utmost confidence for *most* IT people, it's usually the users who contribute to the problem not IT departments, but I truly do, in this case, feel sorry for the CEO (with their huge paychecks and massive perks) when they get the blame for something that they did honestly have a go at fixing/preventing.
Worms/Virii are designed to be destructive and disruptive and there is little to no way that most users will ever learn that they need to be more cautious about security without having their credit card details exposed by a black-hat or their personal PC brought to a halt by the worlds least advanced virus - becausethe user hadn't patched their virus scanner.
It's a case of once bitten twice afraid - and if it's kept that way by the community, as long as it doesn't affect me, then I'm all for it - I just hate cleaning up after one has hit.
New rule for virii - release a strain to the public and release a quick-repair tool at the same time to slashdot!
I have an agreement with family and friends to embedd a codeword in any document that contains a file attachment. It is usually a fairly esoteric work not likely to come up in casual conversation. However, I have damn near been fooled by a few emails because they seemd very legitimate. Oh, well.
That sounds like a wonderfully good idea. I have converted most of my folks to mozilla to bypass most of the problems embedded within the e-mail but obviously if they click an dodgy attachment it is still an issue. I know this sounds like flamebait material but Microsoft's idea about digitally signing all applications does sound like the best way to avoid these potential problems. Acknowledging, however, that developers like myself will find this tedious and annoying.
So, there is no currently better and more viable solution to virus-propogation other than having an up-to-date antivirus at this point in time - which in turn is it's own problem as virii seem to be targeting anti-virus software more frequently - shutting them down and allowing mass-distribution to continue.
Recently we have been given the opportunity to take a look at one of the first S-ATA drives that is under development. The drive we received was a test model and will probably never ever reach the market. It was still intresting to see this new development and we took the opportunity to make some early tests. From our tests it seems that current available S-ATA controllers are not yet ready to be used with optical storage drives and we expect that this will improve when more S-ATA chipsets will be released.
S-ATA will be the follow up of the current ATAPI/IDE drives that have dominated the hard disk and optical storage market for years. The technology brings easier to attach and smaller cables, no more master/slave settings, theoretically more speed and hot swappability, meaning you can replace the drive will the computer is on.
The coming time we will probably see more releases of S-ATA drives but expectations are that large OEM orders from the likes of Dell and HP will speed up the process of the development in the end of 2004. Market expectations are that the entire market will be S-ATA in 2007, according to our sources. Check out here our first look
Just the default Red Hat or Mandrake config has always done just fine. No extra tweaking as long as it has a text editor and, as I've stared putting on, a version of Open Office!:)
Keep in mind the function. Red means danger, here on Earth
Ignoring the sarcasm intended when traffic lights were designed there must have been more thought put into them than just 'Make it red to make them realise it's dangerous to go through'. Red was chosen because it was easy to spot - primarily. That is, safety first.
We've been living in a society where red means stop for so long that we refuse to listen to alternative points of view such as 'why not green for stop?'. Call it insane but if green was used 200 odd years ago as the default for 'stop' then your frame of mind would have been different.. "Green means stop, here on earth".
Just try to see outside the square for once! What you call 'normal' is totally backwards to some other cultures. And if you refuse to see that then your pure ignorance is an indication as to why there are so many problems in today's society.
My mother got a laptop which was literally covered in blue LED's... I understand they have low power consumption but I really wonder if they're not chewing up her processing power as the laptop is seriously slow!
But seriously, there was a study a long time ago showing that green taffic lights were easier to spot than red, contrary to the article which states that red lights were swapped with green ones due to the fact they were less invasive. Conflict here???
Are there any/.'ers out there with some opinions to be shared as to whether green or red is easier to spot?
Why do I care? These sort of results matter for a whole range of issues, mainly for grabbing attention --- ala advertising (especially the one at the top right now which seems to use a lot of red in it to grab attention - but I hadn't noticed for quite some time. The default garbage green that slashdot uses seems to work better!).
But honestly those purple lights modders use on their cases stand out a lot more imho. And they look wicked!
Doing help and support you end up fixing MOST of the problems when people are attempting to download music / videos - not doing casual browsing of the internet. When someone purposely looks for 'free music downloads' or something similiar then they are bound to run into sites that are bloating out the seams with popup advertising and activeX scripts that do everything but butter your toast. Actually, telling the average user note to download *anything* seems to work the best. 6 months virus free as a result down here!
Actually, I work for a charity and we send the old 386's off to the highlands in Papua New Guinea.
They don't use anything more than notepad and I've begun installing Linux on the computers because we had a compaint from the teachers there that student's were playing minesweeper too much. (We had 2 win95 licenses left over from our purchase of two new pc's which came with XP)
But for a bit of fun I left a full cd of games bzipped up on the hard drive for whatever kid is smart enough to figure out how to use bzip but I doubt they'll ever get that far;)
But honestly even the 386's are most welcomed by ours (and hopefully most other) charities. The real issue, though, is whether it is indeed cheaper to buy them a newish computer from the nearest city or to pay for the air-drop of an old computer. It works our, in our estimation, almost to be the same price. But the real worry is attempting to get some donations to purchase these computers.
But it does all go to good use - we have people training the kids in how to use word processors (sounds easy, I know - but work in a help-desk some day and multiply the 'I can't get it to work' level by 10 to get an idea about how little these people have used computers).
The idea is that they are then trained in a lot of different areas (like farming and word processing), and can then train other villages. We then help them to learn a trade and they manage to earn enough money to get themselves out of poverty.
And all you need is a generous donor wanting to get rid of their mp3 server;)
When was the last time IE was updated????
Hey that's a bad call.
Microsoft updates IE almost every other week!!!
What you meant was...
"When was he last time IE was updated for reasons other than a security patch?"
But is open source really 'picking up the slack' that fully blown, say again **paid** research is?
Most people who contribute to open source have other jobs and can't spend huge amounts of time with the project they start/help out at. And when they move on to other projects someone else has to play catchu-up and figure out the source before any more progress is made.
Open source projects need a constant revenue stream and the model needs to acknowledge that as donations don't seem to crack the honey-pot enough. If companies like AT&T, IBM, AOL and, heaven forbid, Microsoft supported the open-source initiative and gave projects a certain amount of funding then of course more people would support it. But the real question is 'how do you get that sort of funding?' (You can't... it's generosity)
Now what if those projects who have an open-source root, like Poseidon UML just off the top of my head, all donate a portion of THEIR earnings to a generic project each month? Again, another reliance on generosity.
I don't mind the idea of commercial versions of Open-source software as well as free versions, it makes sense - but the advantage is that she's not only a revenue stream but in addition it's one that gives you money thats an indication of how much effort you put into good ideas.... and at least it will help support Open-Source stay afloat.
On the other hand, since generosity is hard to come by... what about commitment?
Firefox/Thunderbird, TightVNC, AngBand, Apache, MySQL+MySQL Front, PHP and most definetly Open Office - the top 7 things I love about free source - all staying afloat and continuing their 'good work'. All Free, All being updated regularly enough to keep people happy with.
But when you go to sourceforge and see 'Stage 1 - planning: December 2001' (and nothing put out since then) it makes me wonder whether some people are REALLY dedicated to what they do.
And oh bugger.. it didn't take even nearly long enough to write this up.../me goes back to watching Mozilla compile...Only 30 minutes to go!!!!
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Agreed, but the irony is that, although lazy, the majority of the people signing the petition sound like very intellectual software users/developers.
The government officials the petition is going to, however, are lazy AND couldn't understand the legal implications of what they are doing without a petition stating the obvious to them.
For them it's a slab of white paper they got the RIAA, or a similiar orginisation, to write - which they gladly sign and run off with the cheque.
For us it's a pain in the backside which needs fixing before it gets too far ahead.
This is gonna land me in deep water but it's definetly a two way affair -
if the CEO's spend the required money hiring people to take on the responsibility of securing a network then why is it the ceo's fault?
If the people being hired are not competant, but played the 'i know what im doing' role then it is still their fault.
The only time I see it as acceptable that the ceo gets the blame is when the ceo him/herself directly contributes to the lack of security or employee laxness.
The article, imho, is hinting that if a company was to go down due to security problems then it's the ceo who gets the blame if, and when, they are led to believe their networks are (or were in this case) secure/d by an (incompetent) tech-support guy.
I say it truthfully AND before I become flamebait: I have the utmost confidence for *most* IT people, it's usually the users who contribute to the problem not IT departments, but I truly do, in this case, feel sorry for the CEO (with their huge paychecks and massive perks) when they get the blame for something that they did honestly have a go at fixing/preventing.
Worms/Virii are designed to be destructive and disruptive and there is little to no way that most users will ever learn that they need to be more cautious about security without having their credit card details exposed by a black-hat or their personal PC brought to a halt by the worlds least advanced virus - becausethe user hadn't patched their virus scanner.
It's a case of once bitten twice afraid - and if it's kept that way by the community, as long as it doesn't affect me, then I'm all for it - I just hate cleaning up after one has hit.
New rule for virii - release a strain to the public and release a quick-repair tool at the same time to slashdot!
I have an agreement with family and friends to embedd a codeword in any document that contains a file attachment. It is usually a fairly esoteric work not likely to come up in casual conversation. However, I have damn near been fooled by a few emails because they seemd very legitimate. Oh, well.
That sounds like a wonderfully good idea. I have converted most of my folks to mozilla to bypass most of the problems embedded within the e-mail but obviously if they click an dodgy attachment it is still an issue. I know this sounds like flamebait material but Microsoft's idea about digitally signing all applications does sound like the best way to avoid these potential problems. Acknowledging, however, that developers like myself will find this tedious and annoying.
So, there is no currently better and more viable solution to virus-propogation other than having an up-to-date antivirus at this point in time - which in turn is it's own problem as virii seem to be targeting anti-virus software more frequently - shutting them down and allowing mass-distribution to continue.
Ease up on their servers ;)
Shows all the pictures as well as text
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Text from site as follows:
Recently we have been given the opportunity to take a look at one of the first S-ATA drives that is under development. The drive we received was a test model and will probably never ever reach the market. It was still intresting to see this new development and we took the opportunity to make some early tests. From our tests it seems that current available S-ATA controllers are not yet ready to be used with optical storage drives and we expect that this will improve when more S-ATA chipsets will be released. S-ATA will be the follow up of the current ATAPI/IDE drives that have dominated the hard disk and optical storage market for years. The technology brings easier to attach and smaller cables, no more master/slave settings, theoretically more speed and hot swappability, meaning you can replace the drive will the computer is on. The coming time we will probably see more releases of S-ATA drives but expectations are that large OEM orders from the likes of Dell and HP will speed up the process of the development in the end of 2004. Market expectations are that the entire market will be S-ATA in 2007, according to our sources. Check out here our first look
Wonderful thank you!
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Just the default Red Hat or Mandrake config has always done just fine. No extra tweaking as long as it has a text editor and, as I've stared putting on, a version of Open Office!
Red means stop in nature to a lot of different animals, man included
And that's why bulls, famous for charging at red sheets, are colour blind - to red.... ?
Double dumbass to you..... The average persons ignorance is amazing.
Keep in mind the function. Red means danger, here on Earth Ignoring the sarcasm intended when traffic lights were designed there must have been more thought put into them than just 'Make it red to make them realise it's dangerous to go through'. Red was chosen because it was easy to spot - primarily. That is, safety first.
We've been living in a society where red means stop for so long that we refuse to listen to alternative points of view such as 'why not green for stop?'. Call it insane but if green was used 200 odd years ago as the default for 'stop' then your frame of mind would have been different.. "Green means stop, here on earth".
Just try to see outside the square for once! What you call 'normal' is totally backwards to some other cultures. And if you refuse to see that then your pure ignorance is an indication as to why there are so many problems in today's society.
My mother got a laptop which was literally covered in blue LED's... I understand they have low power consumption but I really wonder if they're not chewing up her processing power as the laptop is seriously slow!
/.'ers out there with some opinions to be shared as to whether green or red is easier to spot?
But seriously, there was a study a long time ago showing that green taffic lights were easier to spot than red, contrary to the article which states that red lights were swapped with green ones due to the fact they were less invasive. Conflict here???
Are there any
Why do I care?
These sort of results matter for a whole range of issues, mainly for grabbing attention --- ala advertising (especially the one at the top right now which seems to use a lot of red in it to grab attention - but I hadn't noticed for quite some time. The default garbage green that slashdot uses seems to work better!).
But honestly those purple lights modders use on their cases stand out a lot more imho. And they look wicked!
And probably get better ping times too :)
Doing help and support you end up fixing MOST of the problems when people are attempting to download music / videos - not doing casual browsing of the internet. When someone purposely looks for 'free music downloads' or something similiar then they are bound to run into sites that are bloating out the seams with popup advertising and activeX scripts that do everything but butter your toast. Actually, telling the average user note to download *anything* seems to work the best. 6 months virus free as a result down here!
11:42:21 User's heart rate goes up 11:45:50 User's eyes are bouncing up and down due to interaction between long stick and hand
Actually, I work for a charity and we send the old 386's off to the highlands in Papua New Guinea.
;)
;)
They don't use anything more than notepad and I've begun installing Linux on the computers because we had a compaint from the teachers there that student's were playing minesweeper too much. (We had 2 win95 licenses left over from our purchase of two new pc's which came with XP)
But for a bit of fun I left a full cd of games bzipped up on the hard drive for whatever kid is smart enough to figure out how to use bzip but I doubt they'll ever get that far
But honestly even the 386's are most welcomed by ours (and hopefully most other) charities. The real issue, though, is whether it is indeed cheaper to buy them a newish computer from the nearest city or to pay for the air-drop of an old computer. It works our, in our estimation, almost to be the same price. But the real worry is attempting to get some donations to purchase these computers.
But it does all go to good use - we have people training the kids in how to use word processors (sounds easy, I know - but work in a help-desk some day and multiply the 'I can't get it to work' level by 10 to get an idea about how little these people have used computers).
The idea is that they are then trained in a lot of different areas (like farming and word processing), and can then train other villages. We then help them to learn a trade and they manage to earn enough money to get themselves out of poverty.
And all you need is a generous donor wanting to get rid of their mp3 server
When was the last time IE was updated???? Hey that's a bad call. Microsoft updates IE almost every other week!!! What you meant was... "When was he last time IE was updated for reasons other than a security patch?"
But is open source really 'picking up the slack' that fully blown, say again **paid** research is?
... and at least it will help support Open-Source stay afloat.
/me goes back to watching Mozilla compile...Only 30 minutes to go!!!!
Most people who contribute to open source have other jobs and can't spend huge amounts of time with the project they start/help out at. And when they move on to other projects someone else has to play catchu-up and figure out the source before any more progress is made.
Open source projects need a constant revenue stream and the model needs to acknowledge that as donations don't seem to crack the honey-pot enough. If companies like AT&T, IBM, AOL and, heaven forbid, Microsoft supported the open-source initiative and gave projects a certain amount of funding then of course more people would support it. But the real question is 'how do you get that sort of funding?' (You can't... it's generosity)
Now what if those projects who have an open-source root, like Poseidon UML just off the top of my head, all donate a portion of THEIR earnings to a generic project each month? Again, another reliance on generosity.
I don't mind the idea of commercial versions of Open-source software as well as free versions, it makes sense - but the advantage is that she's not only a revenue stream but in addition it's one that gives you money thats an indication of how much effort you put into good ideas.
On the other hand, since generosity is hard to come by... what about commitment?
Firefox/Thunderbird, TightVNC, AngBand, Apache, MySQL+MySQL Front, PHP and most definetly Open Office - the top 7 things I love about free source - all staying afloat and continuing their 'good work'. All Free, All being updated regularly enough to keep people happy with.
But when you go to sourceforge and see 'Stage 1 - planning: December 2001' (and nothing put out since then) it makes me wonder whether some people are REALLY dedicated to what they do.
And oh bugger.. it didn't take even nearly long enough to write this up...