I think what VMware is open-sourcing relatively trivial products in their offerings that can only be used with their non-open-sourced products. They lose very little and gain the open-source distribution channels. i.e. vmware-view-open-client will end up probably end up in the Fedora/Ubuntu apt/yum repos. I think that was also the motivation behind open-vm-tools. Their ultimate goal being to use the apt and yum to maintain their hooks into the os and hopefully have the community maintain it. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything.
On ubuntu.... according to the vulnerability description..
Once the update is applied, weak user keys will be automatically rejected where possible (though they cannot be detected in all cases). If you are using such keys for user authentication, they will immediately stop working and will need to be replaced (see step 3). OpenSSH host keys can be automatically regenerated when the OpenSSH security update is applied. The update will prompt for confirmation before taking this step.
I've got about 300 albums in iTunes which I've bought the CD and ripped it so I don't have to worry about DRM. I buy through music clubs and figure I pay about $5 per CD on average. That's a price I'm willing to pay. If I can't get it for that, I'm not going to buy it, except in the case of a merch table at a live show.
Let's face it. The real issue here is that the entry level position has gone away. I went out to monster and did a quick search for IT/Computer Software jobs with less than 1 year of experience in the RTP, NC, one of the biggest tech areas in the US and I got 6 results. 6!! Companies want to hire people with 3-5 years of experience essentially expecting some other company to pay for the training but are unwilling to create entry level positions and provide on the job training to develop the sort of person they want to hire themselves. With the myriad of technologies in IT these days there are only a finite number of technologies that one can learn to any sort of depth. It's unrealistic to expect people to be 100% productive their first day of work. Companies cannot and should not expect to hire talent that they are not willing to develop themselves.
And since they were all engineers (except for the HR guy) there wasn't anybody making "cost saving" decisions to prevent them from running on the hardware they enjoyed. And there was much rejoicing.
I think this is another solution to the same semantic problem. That is how do I integrate my real digital worlds into my real world. I love my Mac G5's interface but it's not terribly portable. I love the remote graphics of X11. I love the lightweight powerful interface I get through a CLI in ssh. The problem as I see it is there are way to many solution verticals implemented without enough development done to mesh them all together. It's all pretty fragile. For me I want the same information availible on my cell phone, a website, a login, a desktop, and to those ends I have a myspace page, a flikr account, a linux box running a website with my blog and photo gallery and NX Server, a Laptop, a G5 and a G4. The all have pretty much the same information stored redundantly. It's way inefficient, since I'm duplicating processing power, storage, and memory just for different access features, it tends to break and it's difficult to keep in sync.
From what I can tell of this parakey.com it seems like a good idea but it sounds like another vertical framework. Until there are more horizontal interfaces designed and integrated into these personal computing verticals we're going to continue to reinvent a square wheel.
The technology involved in
making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine
hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a
billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and
do without it. The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his
life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal
entirely invisible.
Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense LuxO-Valves and
Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours
to go, that he wasn't going to make it.
So, he and his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends'
friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends' friends, and some rather
less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major stellar trucking
company, put in what now is widely recognized as being the hardest night's
work in history, and, sure enough, on the following day, Magramal was no
longer visible. Effrafax lost his bet - and therefore his life - simply
because some pedantic adjudicating official noticed (a) that when walking
around the area that Magramal ought to be he didn't trip over or break his
nose on anything, and (b) a suspicious-looking extra moon.
The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and
what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery.
This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything
they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had
painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else's
Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round
it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.
-Douglas Adams
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We have both interruptible and uninterruptible power supplies here. The difference is that IPS's take about a second to switch over to the batteries
I think what VMware is open-sourcing relatively trivial products in their offerings that can only be used with their non-open-sourced products. They lose very little and gain the open-source distribution channels. i.e. vmware-view-open-client will end up probably end up in the Fedora/Ubuntu apt/yum repos. I think that was also the motivation behind open-vm-tools. Their ultimate goal being to use the apt and yum to maintain their hooks into the os and hopefully have the community maintain it. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything.
On ubuntu.... according to the vulnerability description.. Once the update is applied, weak user keys will be automatically rejected where possible (though they cannot be detected in all cases). If you are using such keys for user authentication, they will immediately stop working and will need to be replaced (see step 3). OpenSSH host keys can be automatically regenerated when the OpenSSH security update is applied. The update will prompt for confirmation before taking this step.
I've got about 300 albums in iTunes which I've bought the CD and ripped it so I don't have to worry about DRM. I buy through music clubs and figure I pay about $5 per CD on average. That's a price I'm willing to pay. If I can't get it for that, I'm not going to buy it, except in the case of a merch table at a live show.
Let's face it. The real issue here is that the entry level position has gone away. I went out to monster and did a quick search for IT/Computer Software jobs with less than 1 year of experience in the RTP, NC, one of the biggest tech areas in the US and I got 6 results. 6!! Companies want to hire people with 3-5 years of experience essentially expecting some other company to pay for the training but are unwilling to create entry level positions and provide on the job training to develop the sort of person they want to hire themselves. With the myriad of technologies in IT these days there are only a finite number of technologies that one can learn to any sort of depth. It's unrealistic to expect people to be 100% productive their first day of work. Companies cannot and should not expect to hire talent that they are not willing to develop themselves.
And since they were all engineers (except for the HR guy) there wasn't anybody making "cost saving" decisions to prevent them from running on the hardware they enjoyed. And there was much rejoicing.
I think this is another solution to the same semantic problem. That is how do I integrate my real digital worlds into my real world. I love my Mac G5's interface but it's not terribly portable. I love the remote graphics of X11. I love the lightweight powerful interface I get through a CLI in ssh. The problem as I see it is there are way to many solution verticals implemented without enough development done to mesh them all together. It's all pretty fragile. For me I want the same information availible on my cell phone, a website, a login, a desktop, and to those ends I have a myspace page, a flikr account, a linux box running a website with my blog and photo gallery and NX Server, a Laptop, a G5 and a G4. The all have pretty much the same information stored redundantly. It's way inefficient, since I'm duplicating processing power, storage, and memory just for different access features, it tends to break and it's difficult to keep in sync. From what I can tell of this parakey.com it seems like a good idea but it sounds like another vertical framework. Until there are more horizontal interfaces designed and integrated into these personal computing verticals we're going to continue to reinvent a square wheel.
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it. The ultra-famous sciento-magician Effrafax of Wug once bet his life that, given a year, he could render the great megamountain Magramal entirely invisible. Having spent most of the year jiggling around with immense LuxO-Valves and Refracto-Nullifiers and Spectrum-Bypass-O-Matics, he realized, with nine hours to go, that he wasn't going to make it. So, he and his friends, and his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends' friends, and some rather less good friends of theirs who happened to own a major stellar trucking company, put in what now is widely recognized as being the hardest night's work in history, and, sure enough, on the following day, Magramal was no longer visible. Effrafax lost his bet - and therefore his life - simply because some pedantic adjudicating official noticed (a) that when walking around the area that Magramal ought to be he didn't trip over or break his nose on anything, and (b) a suspicious-looking extra moon. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else's Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there. -Douglas Adams
I don't work for Google either. Can I?
oh wait. my bad.