The goal here is to keep all software free. What hes saying is that no clown can take BSD licensed (very very available) code and make it LESS available by "adapting" it and relicensing it.
Thats why he mentions ethics.
Is there anyone, anyone at all, who doesn't think that hardening linux and hardening windows are the same exercise in futility?
Now from those people, should they exist, is there anyone actually skilled in security?
From this now impossible subset, why aren't we just moving to openbsd?
I'm a windows based engineer, and every time I look at linux I see the same great gaping security holes as the core system I use and less usability. So I stay with windows, where its easy. And strangely enough all my bastion hosts are Theo's work.
Another hardship Microsoft has run into is convincing people to move to the united states. I've traveled a great deal in the last 30 years and been to the states twice. I simply can't see myself ever going again. I had an offer from Microsoft to visit, fully paid. And I was going to go, if I could get diplomatic passage. No way am I submitting myself to the public entrance requirements. I'm not going to put up with draconian policies just to see some nice offices.
Canada on the other hand is one of my favourite counties. And I'm more than happy to go there. As is everyone I have ever spoken to about such things. Rail and whine against labor practices if you wish. Just know that its not the only factor.
Land of the free. Yeah... keep telling yourself that.
If users are getting to be more knowledgable then the IT team then the IT team is under skilled. Either replace them, or train them.
If the security model requires more freedom than a call center and privileges are being abused then put in auditing, find the abusers and weed them out. Of the organization. On to the street.
If the security model does not have to be that lax and is. Fire the CIO and as much of his team as you can and replace with a competant IT staff.
The article isn't really aimed to these components, its more pointing out that top down authority structures generally fail to properly support the workers. And thats fine, if you run an IT shop and you don't have a system that manages upwards with the client being the priority you're doomed to failure. The shadow IT system that is written off will pop up to fill a niche that you are failing to cover. Which is how it should be.
Too easy. Next!
IT worker - check
disgruntled - check
paranoid - not so much
generally show up late - double check
argue with colleagues - when neccesary
generally perform poorly - check
Sabotage the IT system? HELL NO! Theres no way I'd work against a system I've put so much bloody time into getting damn near perfect. Thats my reputation right there, and my reference, and the only thing I can point at and go "I built that."
The only people that would sabotage a system they were responsible require one further classification;
Fucking stupid - check.
Seriously, how can people even ask this? The majority of windows 98 use is by people handling older applications. SOME of those applications might function in newer windows with some wrangling.
The nightmare these folk would be up for getting them working on *nix is unfathomable. You might be able to pick up 5 percent of the windows 98 users. But even thats unlikely.
Face it, *nix needs a marketing plan. Not the wishful crap of "Oh oh! maybe THOSE people will come here!"
Its not a lemonade stand, you've got to go and GET the clients.
Comon people, catch up. We need MORE reasons for people to not use vista. I'm a long time MS user and implementer and I was really hoping for a good upgrade from XP. But with all the crap going on and it being even more bloat then MS usually manages its out of control.
If MS force activation on VL customers and do stupid things like have an 8GB install plus forced startup sound and every other dumb thing they've got going on its GOOD for everyone. What we need now is a massive unparalleled backlash against MS that forces them to actualy wise up and put up a refined, fast, cut down to bare basics OS that has a sweet, completely optional, GUI on top.
I refuse to draw comparisons to the other majorly used OS out there as I am in fact a pro ms junkie. But yeah, its vaguely possible they've got it completely right. Go and get a real good OS and kerplunk your interface and goodies over it. Smart.
I use the ultimate security system. I give my old phones to my baby daughter. Proof of the security is that her own mother won't touch it anymore.
Ferpect.
A lot of you folk are missing the brilliance here. If pacman is 62 percent violent and catepillar is 90+ percent violent then DAMN cos GTA must be a million percent violent and manhunt ga-mega-bazillion percent violent per second per second!
Now theres a false statement. If this was even slightly true there would be far far less windows install bases.
The ONLY selling point windows has is ease of management. When, or make that IF, another OS matches or beats it the market share numbers will dramaticly change. This article is just another bunch of fluff.
I've been doing SOE's lately using office 2003 and office 2000 and access 97. None of it in any combination has required a reboot ever.
This idiots not running a clean machine for testing. Those times are terrible, I've got 667Mhz P3's that are quicker for every "test" he pointed out.
These days if the "benchmarks" aren't done by tomshardware or anandtech they're just useless piles of bullshit rubbish.
All it really means is that the current scientific community is better than ever at crushing or ignoring the groundbreaking work of new minds.
As always before, what is currently accepted is not as right as some of the work being put forward. Its just that, like always before, no one is listening.
As a server administrator I'm now looking forward to the days when we get delivered the Rainbow Screen Of Death which will give the double effect of;
- Letting you know that absolutely positively NOTHING went right.
- Showing you a pretty image that may, if just for a second, distract you from how horrible your life is about to become.
You don't like using microsofts tools to develop for microsofts OS? You prefer to be able to alter things beyond what those tools give you? Smacks of incompetance to me. If you're incapable of using the tools provided to get the results you want then you're never going to be getting windows certification and you're probably using undocumented features that are unsupported and are destined to disappear forcing you to start over. If thats the case, you're bad for business.
I've quit a number of jobs, some after time periods of less than 3 weeks. Mostly for not getting the ability to do what I was hired to do. Constraints added after we had agreed on the role. Once I quit as the money was altered by 15 an hour after I started and the contract was signed. Who wouldn't walk away from that?
Having standards is fine. But leaving as the firm decided to do things properly? They're better off without you.
It amazes me how few people realize that to have a healthy house cat you should be feeding it nothing but biscuits and what it hunts itself.
An automated fish dispenser. Bet the cats fat, lazy and losing its teeth.
I'd like to meet you so that you owe me a LOT of jobs mate.
I am a network designer / implementer and I contract for the most part. My job role is always to do myself out of a job by automation. Designing highly supportable, predicatable networks and then leaving it to the cheaper support personel is what I do. If it weren't for the happy references the sheer number of jobs on my CV would make me unemployable.
are made by putting a dent in the highest cost to lowest benefit zone.
I.E. Cut management. The pyramid falls over when you chip too far at the bottom, but it stands just fine when you lop off the top.
So go back to your boss and tell him hes fired. Let me know how that works out for you.:)
Turning of computers and monitors? Oh please, you should already have a network system that enforces this where possible anyway and if you don't then theres an obvious money saving area that you haven't been addressing.
This is great news, the flip side is that it must also be legal for us to plant GPS tracking units on all police cars. Imagine the speeding we can now get away with.
I'm only being partially sarcastic here...
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The goal here is to keep all software free. What hes saying is that no clown can take BSD licensed (very very available) code and make it LESS available by "adapting" it and relicensing it. Thats why he mentions ethics.
Is there anyone, anyone at all, who doesn't think that hardening linux and hardening windows are the same exercise in futility?
Now from those people, should they exist, is there anyone actually skilled in security?
From this now impossible subset, why aren't we just moving to openbsd?
I'm a windows based engineer, and every time I look at linux I see the same great gaping security holes as the core system I use and less usability. So I stay with windows, where its easy. And strangely enough all my bastion hosts are Theo's work.
Another hardship Microsoft has run into is convincing people to move to the united states. I've traveled a great deal in the last 30 years and been to the states twice. I simply can't see myself ever going again. I had an offer from Microsoft to visit, fully paid. And I was going to go, if I could get diplomatic passage. No way am I submitting myself to the public entrance requirements. I'm not going to put up with draconian policies just to see some nice offices. Canada on the other hand is one of my favourite counties. And I'm more than happy to go there. As is everyone I have ever spoken to about such things. Rail and whine against labor practices if you wish. Just know that its not the only factor. Land of the free. Yeah... keep telling yourself that.
If users are getting to be more knowledgable then the IT team then the IT team is under skilled. Either replace them, or train them. If the security model requires more freedom than a call center and privileges are being abused then put in auditing, find the abusers and weed them out. Of the organization. On to the street. If the security model does not have to be that lax and is. Fire the CIO and as much of his team as you can and replace with a competant IT staff. The article isn't really aimed to these components, its more pointing out that top down authority structures generally fail to properly support the workers. And thats fine, if you run an IT shop and you don't have a system that manages upwards with the client being the priority you're doomed to failure. The shadow IT system that is written off will pop up to fill a niche that you are failing to cover. Which is how it should be. Too easy. Next!
IT worker - check disgruntled - check paranoid - not so much generally show up late - double check argue with colleagues - when neccesary generally perform poorly - check Sabotage the IT system? HELL NO! Theres no way I'd work against a system I've put so much bloody time into getting damn near perfect. Thats my reputation right there, and my reference, and the only thing I can point at and go "I built that." The only people that would sabotage a system they were responsible require one further classification; Fucking stupid - check.
Seriously, how can people even ask this? The majority of windows 98 use is by people handling older applications. SOME of those applications might function in newer windows with some wrangling. The nightmare these folk would be up for getting them working on *nix is unfathomable. You might be able to pick up 5 percent of the windows 98 users. But even thats unlikely. Face it, *nix needs a marketing plan. Not the wishful crap of "Oh oh! maybe THOSE people will come here!" Its not a lemonade stand, you've got to go and GET the clients.
Comon people, catch up. We need MORE reasons for people to not use vista. I'm a long time MS user and implementer and I was really hoping for a good upgrade from XP. But with all the crap going on and it being even more bloat then MS usually manages its out of control.
If MS force activation on VL customers and do stupid things like have an 8GB install plus forced startup sound and every other dumb thing they've got going on its GOOD for everyone. What we need now is a massive unparalleled backlash against MS that forces them to actualy wise up and put up a refined, fast, cut down to bare basics OS that has a sweet, completely optional, GUI on top.
I refuse to draw comparisons to the other majorly used OS out there as I am in fact a pro ms junkie. But yeah, its vaguely possible they've got it completely right. Go and get a real good OS and kerplunk your interface and goodies over it. Smart.
I use the ultimate security system. I give my old phones to my baby daughter. Proof of the security is that her own mother won't touch it anymore. Ferpect.
A lot of you folk are missing the brilliance here. If pacman is 62 percent violent and catepillar is 90+ percent violent then DAMN cos GTA must be a million percent violent and manhunt ga-mega-bazillion percent violent per second per second!
You'd have to be crazy to click on them while reading that article.
Now theres a false statement. If this was even slightly true there would be far far less windows install bases. The ONLY selling point windows has is ease of management. When, or make that IF, another OS matches or beats it the market share numbers will dramaticly change. This article is just another bunch of fluff.
I've been doing SOE's lately using office 2003 and office 2000 and access 97. None of it in any combination has required a reboot ever. This idiots not running a clean machine for testing. Those times are terrible, I've got 667Mhz P3's that are quicker for every "test" he pointed out. These days if the "benchmarks" aren't done by tomshardware or anandtech they're just useless piles of bullshit rubbish.
All it really means is that the current scientific community is better than ever at crushing or ignoring the groundbreaking work of new minds. As always before, what is currently accepted is not as right as some of the work being put forward. Its just that, like always before, no one is listening.
As a server administrator I'm now looking forward to the days when we get delivered the Rainbow Screen Of Death which will give the double effect of; - Letting you know that absolutely positively NOTHING went right. - Showing you a pretty image that may, if just for a second, distract you from how horrible your life is about to become.
How do I modify that +1 funny?
I come to work on the morning of april 1, and whats in slashdot? A post about the release of win server 2k3 sp1. Suspicious much? o_O
You don't like using microsofts tools to develop for microsofts OS? You prefer to be able to alter things beyond what those tools give you? Smacks of incompetance to me. If you're incapable of using the tools provided to get the results you want then you're never going to be getting windows certification and you're probably using undocumented features that are unsupported and are destined to disappear forcing you to start over. If thats the case, you're bad for business.
I've quit a number of jobs, some after time periods of less than 3 weeks. Mostly for not getting the ability to do what I was hired to do. Constraints added after we had agreed on the role. Once I quit as the money was altered by 15 an hour after I started and the contract was signed. Who wouldn't walk away from that?
Having standards is fine. But leaving as the firm decided to do things properly? They're better off without you.
Heh! True that...
:)
Luckily Sir Isaac Newton invented the catflap. A truely astounding invention. Douglas Adams says so.
It amazes me how few people realize that to have a healthy house cat you should be feeding it nothing but biscuits and what it hunts itself. An automated fish dispenser. Bet the cats fat, lazy and losing its teeth.
I'd like to meet you so that you owe me a LOT of jobs mate.
:)
I am a network designer / implementer and I contract for the most part. My job role is always to do myself out of a job by automation. Designing highly supportable, predicatable networks and then leaving it to the cheaper support personel is what I do. If it weren't for the happy references the sheer number of jobs on my CV would make me unemployable.
So anyway... hows about I buy you a beer?
are made by putting a dent in the highest cost to lowest benefit zone. I.E. Cut management. The pyramid falls over when you chip too far at the bottom, but it stands just fine when you lop off the top. So go back to your boss and tell him hes fired. Let me know how that works out for you. :)
Turning of computers and monitors? Oh please, you should already have a network system that enforces this where possible anyway and if you don't then theres an obvious money saving area that you haven't been addressing.
This is great news, the flip side is that it must also be legal for us to plant GPS tracking units on all police cars. Imagine the speeding we can now get away with. I'm only being partially sarcastic here...