Am I the only one feeling nervous about having my documents residing on an application service provider where their accessibility is beyond my control?
I spent some time researching internet cafes recently. A surprising number of people transact a lot of business through webmail in internet cafes.
If you take a single use case: a job seeker emailing emploment agencies, they are going to want to have their resume in a rich text format and available from their desktop, wherever it is.
On the desktop email is considered an office application along with word processing. I think online word processing is a natural extension of webmail.
OTH I would be interested to see if they have ripped software from OO.org for their office application. As an online service they don't have to release code under GPL2.
Oh absolutely but I think it takes a particular kind of person to hunt down a bunch of people in this way, and not to be able to brag too much about what they have done.
And if I got hacked by such an individual I could at least live on with the knowledge that I have a life and he doesn't.
If you are just a guy who runs a few BSD boxen at home or small companies you never get the picture on how much impact java has had in the enterprise area.
In my day job I spent all last year developing a significant engineering tool in java. I am currently working on a new product development which will probably cost $5M by the time it is finished, and it only got going because I recommended java for the project.
But java doesn't get taken seriously in the open source/free software world because it is not really portable in the same way that something which you can compile from scratch is portable.
This portability is keeping c++ going. Java will do even better if sun take the next big step.
had begun writing their passwords down at their desks.
The ITS department where I used to work had a similar policy. One time I had to get a file or something from one of the civil engineering teams. The team leader was out but one of his staff knew the algorithm they had decided on for the password. It was something like initials+year+month.
I have found that using APG is a great way to generate passwords
In OpenVMS you can go set password/generate which combines the generation with normal passwd functionality. When I moved to unix I was surprised that you can't do this as standard.
We all know that its stupid. People write it down on post it notes etc. But when the luser gets hacked he is going to be gunning for the sysadmin who needs to be able to prove that he is serious about security so that he can put the onus back where it belongs.
Thats just how politics work in a corporate environment. People will cover their arses first, do the sensible thing second.
Except nowadays, Optus blocks outbound 25 so your system works while they're up - and when they're down, you can remove the route all you like, you're not going to get anywhere.
Ah I didn't know that. I can still ssh to my co-lo. Thats how I get my email. I don't use optus for inbound mail.
The flood is pretty widely accepted. Every culture dating back to then (and conveniently located in the middle east/N Africa/Mediteranian) has its own flood myths, and the geologic record supports it.
The flood myth came to mind when I saw pictures from the 26 December 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
I also bet that this bone was washed out to the ocean from a river, as Norway was covered in rivers during this time.
Which would also account for the depth at with the fossil was found. The rivers deposit a continous flow of silt on to the bottom of the ocean so the fossil gets buried quickly.
Most sys admins would still rather use Linux and all the cool toys it comes with compared to Solaris.
Java started out as a loss leader for solaris, which is why I can compile python up on NetBSD, but not java.
Now that their OS business is a lost cause sun should release the java sources under a license which lets people port it to different platforms. The user base will increase and they may be able to compete with C#
The days of running your own mail server on a residential account are over
I do but I set a static smtp route to the outgoing smtp server of the provider I am using. I get the best of both worlds that way. If optus goes down I can always remove the route with a one line conf change.
He was browsing porn during the night shift. He bookmarked the pages which makes sure the evidence will be backed up. He printed the bookmarks out and used a low traffic printer which is a good way to be noticed then he forgot to pick up the print out so that the IT guy (me) found in on the printer in the morning.
Lucky for him that I didn't care about it. But I think he was very lucky.
Hasn't anyone here ever dreamed of using your tongue as an I/O device for computing?
In Jeff Noon's novel Vurt the virtual reality device is called a vurt feather. You put it in your mouth and it embedds you in a virtual world. In the book vurt feathers were a kind of addictive drug.
because if you've ever worked for the government - you'll know that it's not as simple to fire a person
When I worked for the state road authority. We had a 24 hour control room and I caught one of the control room guys using the low traffic color laser printer to print out his bookmarks. I wouldn't have noticed if he had used the high traffic mono one.
I can run KDE applications under fvwm and Gnome, as long as the runtime libraries are there. I don't see why it is hard to have QT and GTK libraries on each system.
The only remaining issue is cut and paste with rich content but the article doesn't talk about that.
Take a hint from 3D games. They have had to deal with the same problems for years.
...which have been adopted all over the place. So if control is the major problem its been solved and we can move on.
But I take your point about metaphors. I want to try Croquet because I would like to see if it can improve collaboration between people who can never meet but have to do complex work, as opposed to using video conference and business class tickets to the other side of the world.
I have had a look at Croquet and have considered downloading and compiling it a few times but I was put off by the amount of code I had to download. Now that they are making a release I might reconsider.
I wonder how many people are actually using it? It would be a shame to be the only one.
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I have never heard Henry Spencer say that. If you have doubts you could always ask him what he thinks about Linux.
I spent some time researching internet cafes recently. A surprising number of people transact a lot of business through webmail in internet cafes.
If you take a single use case: a job seeker emailing emploment agencies, they are going to want to have their resume in a rich text format and available from their desktop, wherever it is.
On the desktop email is considered an office application along with word processing. I think online word processing is a natural extension of webmail.
OTH I would be interested to see if they have ripped software from OO.org for their office application. As an online service they don't have to release code under GPL2.
Oh absolutely but I think it takes a particular kind of person to hunt down a bunch of people in this way, and not to be able to brag too much about what they have done.
And if I got hacked by such an individual I could at least live on with the knowledge that I have a life and he doesn't.
Somebody else said that Linspire is derived from Debian, but the diagram does not show this.
Who is right about this? I can't really see the linspire people rolling their own, somehow.
In my day job I spent all last year developing a significant engineering tool in java. I am currently working on a new product development which will probably cost $5M by the time it is finished, and it only got going because I recommended java for the project.
But java doesn't get taken seriously in the open source/free software world because it is not really portable in the same way that something which you can compile from scratch is portable.
This portability is keeping c++ going. Java will do even better if sun take the next big step.
Maybe honeypots will become a standard security thing. The password will always work but it won't get you anywhere useful.
The ITS department where I used to work had a similar policy. One time I had to get a file or something from one of the civil engineering teams. The team leader was out but one of his staff knew the algorithm they had decided on for the password. It was something like initials+year+month.
In OpenVMS you can go set password/generate which combines the generation with normal passwd functionality. When I moved to unix I was surprised that you can't do this as standard.
We all know that its stupid. People write it down on post it notes etc. But when the luser gets hacked he is going to be gunning for the sysadmin who needs to be able to prove that he is serious about security so that he can put the onus back where it belongs.
Thats just how politics work in a corporate environment. People will cover their arses first, do the sensible thing second.
Ah I didn't know that. I can still ssh to my co-lo. Thats how I get my email. I don't use optus for inbound mail.
The flood myth came to mind when I saw pictures from the 26 December 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Which would also account for the depth at with the fossil was found. The rivers deposit a continous flow of silt on to the bottom of the ocean so the fossil gets buried quickly.
Rephrase: they may be even better able to compete with C#
I don't know really. This was in the days when hotmail was a novel idea so moving information around might have been different then.
Java started out as a loss leader for solaris, which is why I can compile python up on NetBSD, but not java.
Now that their OS business is a lost cause sun should release the java sources under a license which lets people port it to different platforms. The user base will increase and they may be able to compete with C#
I installed ubuntu linux on my sisters home system on a holiday. DSL didn't work straight way so I called the provider on the next business day
Me: My sisters DSL router is not accepting her password through its web interface.
Tech: OK can you give me the account details? Thanks [pause] no I can see that its connected now.
Me: what was wrong?
Tech: Nothing was wrong. It must have started working a minute ago when you switched it on.
Me: But I'm not home at the moment. We left it running.
Tech: I think I'll end the conversation now...
I do but I set a static smtp route to the outgoing smtp server of the provider I am using. I get the best of both worlds that way. If optus goes down I can always remove the route with a one line conf change.
He was browsing porn during the night shift. He bookmarked the pages which makes sure the evidence will be backed up. He printed the bookmarks out and used a low traffic printer which is a good way to be noticed then he forgot to pick up the print out so that the IT guy (me) found in on the printer in the morning.
Lucky for him that I didn't care about it. But I think he was very lucky.
In Jeff Noon's novel Vurt the virtual reality device is called a vurt feather. You put it in your mouth and it embedds you in a virtual world. In the book vurt feathers were a kind of addictive drug.
When I worked for the state road authority. We had a 24 hour control room and I caught one of the control room guys using the low traffic color laser printer to print out his bookmarks. I wouldn't have noticed if he had used the high traffic mono one.
That was three pages of porn URL's.
Just curious. Do you know of any good CAD software for Linux other than qcad?
I can run KDE applications under fvwm and Gnome, as long as the runtime libraries are there. I don't see why it is hard to have QT and GTK libraries on each system.
The only remaining issue is cut and paste with rich content but the article doesn't talk about that.
best.....nz.....movie.....ever
But not very popular. Maybe Peter Jackson could be pursuaded to remake it.
The book was pretty good in a academic kind of way. Not really SF like the film was.
...which have been adopted all over the place. So if control is the major problem its been solved and we can move on.
But I take your point about metaphors. I want to try Croquet because I would like to see if it can improve collaboration between people who can never meet but have to do complex work, as opposed to using video conference and business class tickets to the other side of the world.
I have had a look at Croquet and have considered downloading and compiling it a few times but I was put off by the amount of code I had to download. Now that they are making a release I might reconsider.
I wonder how many people are actually using it? It would be a shame to be the only one.