is there _any_ valid reason to use closed format files? what is the benefit of using a closed format for pictures? does it help te product? can somebody do something very bad when the file format is open? i can't find any good idea not to open up your formats, files are just the end product of a process.
i'm from belgium too, so this is my view on your points:
1. to warn his parents/wife/etc? i was hit by a car once, but rather very badly. at least they could identify me; warn my parents, the ER could look up my past medical records _fast_. they guy that hit me, was also identified and he could _not_ lie about it, just because of his ID. What is stopping anybody from giving fake information. Perhaps in a car accident you can ask for the drivers license, but what about a street brawl where somebody gets hurt, you can't ask a pedestrian for his drivers license (who says he has one, and then if he has, he can lie about it anyway, but he _must_ have an ID).
2. maybe, because your card can get stolen? at least with an ID they can see you are not the person you are posing to be (in case you are a thief). perhaps all this info is on bank cards in the UK, which is pretty silly if you ask me.
your example of the woman returning lost property is very strange. i know nothing of an incident like this in belgium and it is not like they pick random people of the street and ask them to show their ID. Also there is _no_ information on that ID card that can help other people know something important about you, except your address, name, birth date and your picture. Nobody can check your income, medical information, education, criminal record etc. when they have your ID.
here: Most people realize, as PubPat.org's Dan Ravicher has pointed out, that proprietary software is every bit as likely to have contaminated code, if not more so.
I'm sure those games will have _no_ slowdown what so ever running an intensive virus scanner on all the files on disk while playing your games. ah yes, that is why you should have an extra disk for games only and exclude it from your scanner, well of course! Or, or when you are surfing the web, the spyware detector _needs_ to be running on a 2nd cpu, because, well you know browsing is very very cpu intensive... Dual cores are cool, but not for the examples given above. The people who will benefit from them are using dual cpu systems already.
PJ in the article says everybody knows that GPL software has no risks (or no more risks then other software). Well it's not true, a lot of of CIO still don't know and/or are still thinking of linux as if it was 1995. If they were not like that, the article she wrote would not have been necessary. So, it is a good thing she wrote it, but there is no boomerang effect, just yet.
indeed, some om my colleagues in the 'windows' side of our dept. have the same attitude as his sister. i realy don't understand those guys. keep using IE, don't care for spy/adware and just reinstall every x months because all is too slow. when asking them why they don't use this or that for protection they say - hey, i can't be bothered with all that, and plainly i don't care, what is the problem with reinstalling anyway?
other reports have indicated that windows and linux will probably be the only survivors (that still mather). ofcourse linux is not going to kill off windows, at least not during our life.
...in this one. other backup software has been doing this already for years. i have been doing it for a year now. the article mentions CA and Veritas as two of the companies with backup software which is capable. so, this is news because; microsoft released something?
she says. *BSSSSST* wrong, it is not just software. If she hasn't figured it out yet that it is more then 'just software', she deserves nothing more but being called DiDiot.
so the midsize companies of today are not using Linux much, they were probably small 10 years ago when indeed it was cheaper to invest in Windows then buying stuff from SUN of IBM (aix) or HP (hpux) with support. the article also agrees that small companies are using linux a lot because it makes sense for them, so in maybe 10 years all of these small companies will be mid size and have a Linux infrastructure where it will be more expensive to add Windows and the tables get turned (perhaps this is what MS is already seeing, hence the open source attacks?) Ofcourse some of those mid sized might have gotten large (or bought up:| ) which will allow them to add Linux yet again because as the article says, large companies have no problems with adding Linux to the mix. the future is looking good!
Perhaps long term, but remember the trail is not over yet, it has hardly begun it seems. Anyway, why would i make this statement? Because right now in the company i work for there is a full OSS stop, to the extreme! It is not only Linux that is infected, but all project using bits of OSS. We already had unfinished web apps rewritten from PHP/MySQL to Java/Oracle (for no other reason then to move away from OSS). Next my colleagues courses for Perl got cancelled because Perl is OSS. No use trying to explain that if we would have to remove all OSS on our unix servers we would have almost nothing left, let alone we would have to redesign about 90% of our projects already in place. At our company there is an OSS scare, perhaps it is not all SCO related and a lot probably has to do with Patents/IP but still, the SCO trail is doing no good right _now_! (ofcourse i tried to explain that closed software can also infringe patents but they believe they will be protected by the company backing the product, never mind that most high profile OSS these days has company backing as well). allmost made me cry, but now i'm just angry instead, damn lawers!
you'll tell me to switch to Firefox, but we can't; I work in an artistic company with 1000+ PC and non-tech-savyy users, and tons of internal apps that were developped either with.Net or massive ACtiveX and other MS-only stuff, so we can't switch everything to Firefox, and having 2 browsers isn't a viable option either, since most of our users would simply get confused.
perhaps he could configure the system to use firefox as the default browser. then make seperate program icons that launch a limited IE for those specific activex-apps only. (be sure to disable the url input fiels etc.), i don't know if this can be done with IE or not, but that is the way i would do it. to the user, those websites would become just 'another' program.
i believe the complexity of things is the cause that betas get released to the public more and longer. the days when everything was simple and easy to control and predict are over, it is almost impossible for in-house-testers to come up with every scenario possible, and so things are made available to the public to help test and seek out those 'strange cases'. beta runs will become more important i think, even in games. i think beta periods in mmorpgs are important in every ascept and not only bugs but also performance etc.
it is best for any person working on linux or another gpl project not to take a look at _any_ of the source code that sun is/will be releasing. we will have to be carefull as it is, and i'm sure they are on the lookout waiting for us to make a single mistake. and a single mistake will be all it takes...
you are worried about korea, but not about europe, arghfl. anyway we'll get our own servers, so depending what the problem is exactly, we could run into the same issues when the game is released over here. still, it will probably be fixed by then (i hope).
Even 'apt-get update' needs a reboot when you change big things like kernels or major libraries
this has got nothing to do with apt, you can patch your linux system with rpm without rebooting even if it is a kernel, library or some daemon update. it has nothing to do with your package manager
ok, now that we have that out of the way, the reason why daemons are restarted or why it is good to reboot after these updates is because... you don't want to leave the insecure kernel/daemon/etc running...otherwise you could just as well not patch or wait until you get to your outage window.
Ofcourse you can disable the services, but that is not the point here. We are talking about default installation security. Which is just horrible on solaris (but just so on hpux i might add).
There are still security settings to change on both systems after install, i just know that on linux (red hat) there will less left to close.
If you do not acknowledge this fact, then it is you who is ignorant.
The MS product finds more stuff in the registry and other hidden crapware then the other 2 could find. Perhaps it's because MS knows its own products best? I mean, wouldn't it be a gigantic failure if other companies are better at protecting Windows then MS?
Didn't we all hang out at warez places when we were young(er)? I remember in the beginning the real hot boards had 0-3 days warez, after a few years this changed into 0-3 hour warez. This day and age they talk about minutes or even seconds... If you can keep up with stuff like that, you should go work as a stock broker or something:P
but if all commercial software contains 30 bugs every 1000 lines, does their analysing tool also contain these amount of bugs? they could have debuged it with their own program, ofcourse that first version checking itself would have had bugs of its own that it would not detect because of the bugs. so how do we know that the result is not bugged? this is too complicated and unreliable!
also, since their software is commercial does that mean that the linux kernel has less bugs then their own software?:P
I'm working for a american company based in europe (we have english classes at school, but they are minimal!!). All the 'important' communications have to be in english and sometimes it gets far beyond the point of sanity.
My favourites are when local sayings are translated directly into english like;
- some of the slides i will walk faster through (during a powerpoint presentation) - the server is _sitting_ in that room - we have to keep our heads stiff! - we have to watch our passes down the road
like any english speaking person will ever understand what they are talking about.
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is there _any_ valid reason to use closed format files? what is the benefit of using a closed format for pictures? does it help te product? can somebody do something very bad when the file format is open?
i can't find any good idea not to open up your formats, files are just the end product of a process.
i'm from belgium too, so this is my view on your points:
1. to warn his parents/wife/etc? i was hit by a car once, but rather very badly. at least they could identify me; warn my parents, the ER could look up my past medical records _fast_. they guy that hit me, was also identified and he could _not_ lie about it, just because of his ID. What is stopping anybody from giving fake information. Perhaps in a car accident you can ask for the drivers license, but what about a street brawl where somebody gets hurt, you can't ask a pedestrian for his drivers license (who says he has one, and then if he has, he can lie about it anyway, but he _must_ have an ID).
2. maybe, because your card can get stolen? at least with an ID they can see you are not the person you are posing to be (in case you are a thief). perhaps all this info is on bank cards in the UK, which is pretty silly if you ask me.
your example of the woman returning lost property is very strange. i know nothing of an incident like this in belgium and it is not like they pick random people of the street and ask them to show their ID. Also there is _no_ information on that ID card that can help other people know something important about you, except your address, name, birth date and your picture. Nobody can check your income, medical information, education, criminal record etc. when they have your ID.
because email made our IQ drop 10 points...
here:
Most people realize, as PubPat.org's Dan Ravicher has pointed out, that proprietary software is every bit as likely to have contaminated code, if not more so.
I'm sure those games will have _no_ slowdown what so ever running an intensive virus scanner on all the files on disk while playing your games. ah yes, that is why you should have an extra disk for games only and exclude it from your scanner, well of course!
Or, or when you are surfing the web, the spyware detector _needs_ to be running on a 2nd cpu, because, well you know browsing is very very cpu intensive...
Dual cores are cool, but not for the examples given above. The people who will benefit from them are using dual cpu systems already.
PJ in the article says everybody knows that GPL software has no risks (or no more risks then other software). Well it's not true, a lot of of CIO still don't know and/or are still thinking of linux as if it was 1995.
If they were not like that, the article she wrote would not have been necessary. So, it is a good thing she wrote it, but there is no boomerang effect, just yet.
indeed, some om my colleagues in the 'windows' side of our dept. have the same attitude as his sister. i realy don't understand those guys. keep using IE, don't care for spy/adware and just reinstall every x months because all is too slow. when asking them why they don't use this or that for protection they say - hey, i can't be bothered with all that, and plainly i don't care, what is the problem with reinstalling anyway?
...for linux in 2005. So many things are happening and changing, i'm already looking forward to the 'linux in 2005' overview at the end of the year ;)
other reports have indicated that windows and linux will probably be the only survivors (that still mather).
ofcourse linux is not going to kill off windows, at least not during our life.
...in this one. other backup software has been doing this already for years. i have been doing it for a year now. the article mentions CA and Veritas as two of the companies with backup software which is capable.
so, this is news because; microsoft released something?
she says.
*BSSSSST* wrong, it is not just software. If she hasn't figured it out yet that it is more then 'just software', she deserves nothing more but being called DiDiot.
so the midsize companies of today are not using Linux much, they were probably small 10 years ago when indeed it was cheaper to invest in Windows then buying stuff from SUN of IBM (aix) or HP (hpux) with support. :| ) which will allow them to add Linux yet again because as the article says, large companies have no problems with adding Linux to the mix.
the article also agrees that small companies are using linux a lot because it makes sense for them, so in maybe 10 years all of these small companies will be mid size and have a Linux infrastructure where it will be more expensive to add Windows and the tables get turned (perhaps this is what MS is already seeing, hence the open source attacks?)
Ofcourse some of those mid sized might have gotten large (or bought up
the future is looking good!
Perhaps long term, but remember the trail is not over yet, it has hardly begun it seems.
Anyway, why would i make this statement? Because right now in the company i work for there is a full OSS stop, to the extreme! It is not only Linux that is infected, but all project using bits of OSS. We already had unfinished web apps rewritten from PHP/MySQL to Java/Oracle (for no other reason then to move away from OSS). Next my colleagues courses for Perl got cancelled because Perl is OSS. No use trying to explain that if we would have to remove all OSS on our unix servers we would have almost nothing left, let alone we would have to redesign about 90% of our projects already in place.
At our company there is an OSS scare, perhaps it is not all SCO related and a lot probably has to do with Patents/IP but still, the SCO trail is doing no good right _now_! (ofcourse i tried to explain that closed software can also infringe patents but they believe they will be protected by the company backing the product, never mind that most high profile OSS these days has company backing as well).
allmost made me cry, but now i'm just angry instead, damn lawers!
perhaps he could configure the system to use firefox as the default browser. then make seperate program icons that launch a limited IE for those specific activex-apps only. (be sure to disable the url input fiels etc.), i don't know if this can be done with IE or not, but that is the way i would do it. to the user, those websites would become just 'another' program.
i believe the complexity of things is the cause that betas get released to the public more and longer.
the days when everything was simple and easy to control and predict are over, it is almost impossible for in-house-testers to come up with every scenario possible, and so things are made available to the public to help test and seek out those 'strange cases'.
beta runs will become more important i think, even in games. i think beta periods in mmorpgs are important in every ascept and not only bugs but also performance etc.
it is best for any person working on linux or another gpl project not to take a look at _any_ of the source code that sun is/will be releasing.
we will have to be carefull as it is, and i'm sure they are on the lookout waiting for us to make a single mistake. and a single mistake will be all it takes...
you are worried about korea, but not about europe, arghfl.
anyway we'll get our own servers, so depending what the problem is exactly, we could run into the same issues when the game is released over here. still, it will probably be fixed by then (i hope).
this has got nothing to do with apt, you can patch your linux system with rpm without rebooting even if it is a kernel, library or some daemon update. it has nothing to do with your package manager ... you don't want to leave the insecure kernel/daemon/etc running ...otherwise you could just as well not patch or wait until you get to your outage window.
ok, now that we have that out of the way, the reason why daemons are restarted or why it is good to reboot after these updates is because
Ofcourse you can disable the services, but that is not the point here. We are talking about default installation security. Which is just horrible on solaris (but just so on hpux i might add).
There are still security settings to change on both systems after install, i just know that on linux (red hat) there will less left to close.
If you do not acknowledge this fact, then it is you who is ignorant.
The MS product finds more stuff in the registry and other hidden crapware then the other 2 could find.
Perhaps it's because MS knows its own products best?
I mean, wouldn't it be a gigantic failure if other companies are better at protecting Windows then MS?
Didn't we all hang out at warez places when we were young(er)? :P
I remember in the beginning the real hot boards had 0-3 days warez, after a few years this changed into 0-3 hour warez. This day and age they talk about minutes or even seconds...
If you can keep up with stuff like that, you should go work as a stock broker or something
Hey, that is my sig!
but if all commercial software contains 30 bugs every 1000 lines, does their analysing tool also contain these amount of bugs? they could have debuged it with their own program, ofcourse that first version checking itself would have had bugs of its own that it would not detect because of the bugs. so how do we know that the result is not bugged? this is too complicated and unreliable!
:P
also, since their software is commercial does that mean that the linux kernel has less bugs then their own software?
help yourself to maintain sanity and put firefox on a usb stick and run it from there, no software installed on the pc, no harm done.
I'm working for a american company based in europe (we have english classes at school, but they are minimal!!). All the 'important' communications have to be in english and sometimes it gets far beyond the point of sanity.
My favourites are when local sayings are translated directly into english like;
- some of the slides i will walk faster through (during a powerpoint presentation)
- the server is _sitting_ in that room
- we have to keep our heads stiff!
- we have to watch our passes down the road
like any english speaking person will ever understand what they are talking about.