"I was a consultant at Lotus at the time Microsoft started winning in desktop applications"
Yea and I was a consultant at IBM and helped out the developers on VLSI architecture..;)
"Bill Gates is essentially correct"
Other people remember it differently. MS wilfully acted to sabotage Lotus on winDOS and also withheld technical information.
"I believe that Microsoft application developers have been given earlier and more detailed access to OCX specifications than we have had here at Lotus"
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions.. We can't compete with Lotus and
Wordperfect/Novell without this"
"I'd be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral"
SuSEs firewall isn't a firewall, is a piece of software emulating a firewall. A firewall should run on embedded hardware between the desktop computer and the Internet. Does a Linux system even need a firewall. All you have to do is disable all Internet facing services apart from port 80 that is. With the current use of Web 2 and RPC over HTML type services, this renders the use of a firewall dilute.
"yes, but even an enduser can obviate a lot of so called secure systems"
No, you have to make it so as the end user don't have to do anything, like verifying a color coded URL or verifying an email is really from the sender, without opening it first..:)
"The move isn't from Windows to Linux but from Solaris to Linux"
Yes, I got the msg, don't you dare move the client from anything except Windows, not even a diskless workstation that would save the IT honcho endlessly traveling round the orgination reinstalling, patching, reinstalling, updating the AV software.. again and again and again...
Imagine breaking a diskless workstation out a box, plugging it it - and it just works. Thing of al l the man hours saved, not to mention the cost in saleries...
"the fact remains that a ton of those guys are wedded to Excel. Many have spent years fine tuning massive VB macros.. Some of our macros can take upwards of twenty minutes to run"
In that case they need to be moved to a database on a server. Run all the number crunching on the server and display the results on the client. And they can still use the spreadsheet as a viewer. Come on what has the IT dept been doing up to now. It involves installing an ODBC driver on the clients. Should be a doddle on Windows..
"Winboxen are so deeply interlaced with compliance"
Isn't there a Linux boxen out there that's just as compliant.. and compliant to what exactly ? I do know that's it's very difficult for a Linux boxen to get a virus, does that count as compliance?
"they've got us wrappers for all the usual Linux commands (grep, cat, pipes, etc) so we can use them in the Windows command line. However, every single person's desktop is a WinXP with all the usual MSFT goodies"
I don't know of a single Windows desktop jockey that even knows what a PIPE is . OK, got the msg, only use Linux to replace UNIX and only use Windows on the DeskTop..:)
What do you actually do that requires the use of grep, cat, pipes, etc.. ?
"All of them were tired of being locked into the hardware that Solaris required (i.e., Sun's vertical stack), and paying Veritas Foundation Suite licensing on top of that"
In the examples you gave, couldn't it also be said that Linux is replacing Windows and AIX and what ever.Do you have any figures as to who on Wall Street replaced their systems with Linux and what were they running on before.
link is broken. but then again, what is the post of your posting?
My point is that none of these would be a problem if they innovated a computer thaat was secure, by default, without the poor sufering end user having to: Take steps to protect against phishing and spyware, identity theft, viruses and malware, e-mail, web surfing and Internet use, instant messaging. Add a 'personal firewall' which is next to useless, endlessly downoad and install patches that break something.. and so on ad nauseum...
"Except Yahoo's stock was at $19 before the Microsoft bid and now it's $23.50. How does causing its stock to rise by 24% qualify as 'tanking'?"
That is immediately before the offer and yea just who bought/sold the Yahoo stock in the preceding months? I'm talking about the secret offer made in 2007 at $40 a share..
* Phishing and spyware
* Identity theft
* Workplace access
* Passwords
* Viruses and malware
* Remote access
* E-mail
* Web surfing and Internet use
* Instant messaging
* Personal firewalls and patches
* Hand-held devices
* Data backup
* Management of sensitive information
* Social engineering tactics
* Use of corporate resources
- unquote -
If they let their own IT staff get on with the job, instead of ordeing in the latest innovative fad, then we wouldn't even need a security policy architecture, what ever that is..:)
"So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization"
No amount of security policies is going to protect the 'computer', unless and until they can come up with a design that don't get 'infected' merely by clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment.
Seriously, imagine if Apple were trying to acquire, for instance Transmeta, (purely hypothetical) and offering a 45%+ premium. And Transmeta in response turned it down and set up internal policies to make generous severence payments to employees who chose to leave after the acquisition.
Imagine that Apple made a 100% offer on $40 offer for the die making division of Transmeta and then after the refusal Apple got some corporate raider to quietly buy up the stock and then sell it off causing it to tank at which Apple stepped in at 60% of of $20
"The Pentagon acknowledged last month at a closed House Intelligence committee meeting that its vast computer network is scanned or attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times each day"
How about designing a VPN network that runs on embedded hardware that provides end-to-end encryption and identity management. That way none of these hacks would even work as they wouldn't be able to get on the network.
To all the certified sandwich makers reading this: For each excuse that follows as to how this isn't feasible, just shorten it to - I'm too stupid to figure it out..:)
An autistic sixteen year old could hack the wests security and I know I've seen him do it. He would be dangerous if he wasn't so totally absorbed in Manga comic and his hamster..:)
'There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the laws actually reduce identity theft,'
Because it's a technological problem that requires a technological fix. A totally new kind of online trading system, one that don't require the use of Credit Cards. I mean does any of this fix the software, err.. NO. Then what use is it, oh.. it makes the lawyers richer..:)
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"I was a consultant at Lotus at the time Microsoft started winning in desktop applications"
.. ;)
.. We can't compete with Lotus and
Wordperfect/Novell without this"
Yea and I was a consultant at IBM and helped out the developers on VLSI architecture
"Bill Gates is essentially correct"
Other people remember it differently. MS wilfully acted to sabotage Lotus on winDOS and also withheld technical information.
"I believe that Microsoft application developers have been given earlier and more detailed access to OCX specifications than we have had here at Lotus"
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions
"I'd be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral"
SuSEs firewall isn't a firewall, is a piece of software emulating a firewall. A firewall should run on embedded hardware between the desktop computer and the Internet. Does a Linux system even need a firewall. All you have to do is disable all Internet facing services apart from port 80 that is. With the current use of Web 2 and RPC over HTML type services, this renders the use of a firewall dilute.
Microsoft pays people 50$ to take Vista ..
"yes, but even an enduser can obviate a lot of so called secure systems"
.. :)
No, you have to make it so as the end user don't have to do anything, like verifying a color coded URL or verifying an email is really from the sender, without opening it first
"The move isn't from Windows to Linux but from Solaris to Linux"
.. again and again and again ...
...
Yes, I got the msg, don't you dare move the client from anything except Windows, not even a diskless workstation that would save the IT honcho endlessly traveling round the orgination reinstalling, patching, reinstalling, updating the AV software
Imagine breaking a diskless workstation out a box, plugging it it - and it just works. Thing of al l the man hours saved, not to mention the cost in saleries
"the fact remains that a ton of those guys are wedded to Excel. Many have spent years fine tuning massive VB macros .. Some of our macros can take upwards of twenty minutes to run"
..
In that case they need to be moved to a database on a server. Run all the number crunching on the server and display the results on the client. And they can still use the spreadsheet as a viewer. Come on what has the IT dept been doing up to now. It involves installing an ODBC driver on the clients. Should be a doddle on Windows
"Winboxen are so deeply interlaced with compliance"
.. and compliant to what exactly ? I do know that's it's very difficult for a Linux boxen to get a virus, does that count as compliance?
Isn't there a Linux boxen out there that's just as compliant
"they've got us wrappers for all the usual Linux commands (grep, cat, pipes, etc) so we can use them in the Windows command line. However, every single person's desktop is a WinXP with all the usual MSFT goodies"
.. :)
.. ?
I don't know of a single Windows desktop jockey that even knows what a PIPE is . OK, got the msg, only use Linux to replace UNIX and only use Windows on the DeskTop
What do you actually do that requires the use of grep, cat, pipes, etc
"All of them were tired of being locked into the hardware that Solaris required (i.e., Sun's vertical stack), and paying Veritas Foundation Suite licensing on top of that"
In the examples you gave, couldn't it also be said that Linux is replacing Windows and AIX and what ever.Do you have any figures as to who on Wall Street replaced their systems with Linux and what were they running on before.
link is broken. but then again, what is the post of your posting?
.. and so on ad nauseum ...
My point is that none of these would be a problem if they innovated a computer thaat was secure, by default, without the poor sufering end user having to: Take steps to protect against phishing and spyware, identity theft, viruses and malware, e-mail, web surfing and Internet use, instant messaging. Add a 'personal firewall' which is next to useless, endlessly downoad and install patches that break something
Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know
"Except Yahoo's stock was at $19 before the Microsoft bid and now it's $23.50. How does causing its stock to rise by 24% qualify as 'tanking'?"
..
That is immediately before the offer and yea just who bought/sold the Yahoo stock in the preceding months? I'm talking about the secret offer made in 2007 at $40 a share
From the Back Cover
.. :)
* Phishing and spyware
* Identity theft
* Workplace access
* Passwords
* Viruses and malware
* Remote access
* E-mail
* Web surfing and Internet use
* Instant messaging
* Personal firewalls and patches
* Hand-held devices
* Data backup
* Management of sensitive information
* Social engineering tactics
* Use of corporate resources
- unquote -
If they let their own IT staff get on with the job, instead of ordeing in the latest innovative fad, then we wouldn't even need a security policy architecture, what ever that is
"So too with information security policies. They are sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with them. And in many firms, they are not even trained in what they have to do. But failure to have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an organization"
No amount of security policies is going to protect the 'computer', unless and until they can come up with a design that don't get 'infected' merely by clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment.
Seriously, imagine if Apple were trying to acquire, for instance Transmeta, (purely hypothetical) and offering a 45%+ premium. And Transmeta in response turned it down and set up internal policies to make generous severence payments to employees who chose to leave after the acquisition.
Imagine that Apple made a 100% offer on $40 offer for the die making division of Transmeta and then after the refusal Apple got some corporate raider to quietly buy up the stock and then sell it off causing it to tank at which Apple stepped in at 60% of of $20
What do you call that? I call that shady dealings
and what about the memory management problems .. :)
"The Pentagon acknowledged last month at a closed House Intelligence committee meeting that its vast computer network is scanned or attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times each day"
.. :)
How about designing a VPN network that runs on embedded hardware that provides end-to-end encryption and identity management. That way none of these hacks would even work as they wouldn't be able to get on the network.
To all the certified sandwich makers reading this: For each excuse that follows as to how this isn't feasible, just shorten it to - I'm too stupid to figure it out
"Are you sure this protects anyone other than Red Hat, Inc.?"
.. In addition, derivative works .. are protected"
"Upstream developers receive a perpetual, fully paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable worldwide license to the patents in suit"
"All products distributed under a Red Hat brand are covered
"Or the people behind the tubes..."
..
The people running the tubes aren't responsible for some URL taking control of 'my computer' and sending my credit card details to where-ever
An autistic sixteen year old could hack the wests security and I know I've seen him do it. He would be dangerous if he wasn't so totally absorbed in Manga comic and his hamster .. :)
It's people like you that give trolls a bad name ..
.. :)
please mod me up +5, or if I said something to upset you, mod me down =5
"a more direct method of breaking the encryption: track down the people who wrote the virus and force them to talk."
How about tracking down the people behind the Operating System and holding them to account.
"These seemed to be Chinese government sponsored attacks"
.. !!
"Although Canadian authorities refused to identify the perpetrators of this attack, they leave doubts on Chinese hackers"
what proof was provided or are we just supposed to take their word for it. Just who is the source for this cyber-bullshit
"yet people are murdered all the time"
.. :)
.. :)
No, its guns that kill people, or more specifically bullets that kill people, go ask the NRA
What we need is an RFDI chip in each gun that won't fire unless it's fully licensed
'There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the laws actually reduce identity theft,'
.. NO. Then what use is it, oh .. it makes the lawyers richer .. :)
Because it's a technological problem that requires a technological fix. A totally new kind of online trading system, one that don't require the use of Credit Cards. I mean does any of this fix the software, err
How about selling it to the martians .. :)