That could be a good argument for opening everything. We would however need massive storage and financing for the webarchive project (and a mirror of it at least two other places on earth).
That's not so obvious... countries (and even corporations) has started to require ISO certified standards. That is partly MS own fault because of problems with backwards compatibility. If your government require a standard, you are out of business if you can't provide documents in that standard. ...and yes we have seen it before... when everybody shifted from the de-facto WordPerfect standard to the de-facto Word standard.
I dont get this... NSA is active SE Linux developer. Why would they require a backdoor to Windows ? That may make them untrustworthy as a development team/partner... is there a backdoor in SE Linux too ? I can't imagine NSA would be interested in that...
NSA got probably most raw computer power in the world, their building uses more electric power than a small city, they shouldn't need backdoors. I think it is DOJ/FBI requirement.
I wondered btw. why my 8 years old firewall supports AES encryption (for VPN) with 2048 bits strength but no currently available products supports more than 256 bits.
They are terrified... they don't have the control over the format (which they do in OOXML) so they can't force anyone to upgrade. Right now you are forced to upgrade a perfectly working MS Office installation when the amount of incoming documents arriving in the new format reaches a certain level (which is usually somewhere between 20% and 30%).
No, they can't... the courts in EU has already told MS (and OEM's) exactly how much Windows costs... and neither MS nor the OEM's were especially happy about it.
That is correct... but it is an issue when you use the disk to move data between different OS'es. When I use a NAS I just use nfs from my UNIX, Linux, OS X and use smb for my Windows machines... I do not need to install anything and I do not need to think about filesize limitations on the only one universally available filesystem.
You may unplug your PC from the wall and plug it in the NAS... another possibility is to use the other ethernet port on the PC. ...and storage devices are as dangerous on the network as they are on USB or FireWire in a corporate environment.
You should try robocopy from the resource kit... it can fix all your copying problems but you need to get the right version for your OS (I've got serious issues with ACL's when I used NT4 robocopy on W2K). You can download Robocopy from Microsoft.
The SATA solution is fine... but it does not fix any of the problems a NAS can fix.
That was my idea too... but for some freaking reason my PowerBook (with Mac OS X 10.4) wouldn't see the drive when it was ext3 formatted, I've tried with two different external drives a WD and a MaXtor, it just told me "New drive found. Do you want to format it now ?".
...they are slow and OS dependent, either you loose oceans of space (FAT formatted drives) or you can't write to them from some OS'es (NTFS formatted drives) or a Mac just reformats the whole drive because it can't read it. A NAS cost a little more and got all features you need without any of the problems... and you can get them almost as small as a external 3,5" drives....and they are fast... many af them now have gigabit ethernet.
Banking software for risk management like SunGard's Adaptiv (aka. Panorama). There are something like 4 commercial solutions worldwide and several in-house solutions developed by larger banks. The commercial packages are all based on Microsoft SQL server and.NET and are in fact a big reason for banks to switch to MS crapware.
"Are these the battle lines draw against Apple/ATT" Nope, it is the decoy... the real enemy has however spottet the threat: a Microsoft executive (Klaus Holse Andersen, corporate vice president of Microsoft Danmark) in Denmark has commented the Android "There is nothing new in Android" (link to danish Computerworld). I've roughly translated his statement from that article here: "Googles Android do not add anything new to the mobile platform. We can already do everything what Google tries to do with Android. I think Google will have a big problem getting operators and manufacturers to use their platform." ---so the enemy do know... and they can see the threat... and the danger for them in this situation is much worse than usually: people do not care what's inside their cell phone as long as it works.
Nope, that is true... but the long term success of the project has been somehow limited (which is quite obvious since we are the only 2 persons here to remember it).
The reason for those.com registrations back then is not what you assume... the reason was the need for human readable e-mail addresses. Most corporations wanted quick and easy way to exchange mails with.edu and.mil. You could either send snail-mail, call the university (or Pentagon) and hope somebody knew where the person you wanted to speak with were... or you could register on the net and send him an e-mail... and remember, this was the pre-cellular era. DEC was btw. very much involved in the whole (d)arpanet project (many universities used DEC computers to power the net back then). IBM was big iron for big business and tried btw. to build a global network based on SNA (read your SNA manual again, if you don't belive me). ...and yes you are right... the only reason for a pizzeria in Palo Alto to have a registered domain was for all those guys from HP, DEC and Cisco to order pizza by email... daily... tons of pizza every day... well, somebody just didn't see that option back then.
We were just busy removing Microsofts hack on Amazon which showed that Zune is selling better that iPod... We are back with you now... and Amazon shows the truth again.
"Secondly, isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery?"Yes but Intels product is not imitation it is a PC laptop in the same size as the OLPC XO but without the important features of the OLPC XO (mesh networking, rugged, screen readable in bright sunshine). "How can you be so sure that MS and Intel are saying "let's crush this program!" and not "hey, that's a good idea, let's try it."Simple, because the are losing money on it... lot of money... and they will let your taxes (if you live in US) pay for it.
The laptop gives the third world a way to figure out agriculture... that is the whole point of the project. Information (aka. knowledge) is the key to fix the third worlds problems (yes, also food problems).
"It's not like farming - if you can hold a stick, you can be a farmer." If that's your opinion on farming you wouldn't survive as a farmer - even not on good soil and with plenty of water. A farmer with a computer with access to the resources of the Internet may however become a more efficient farmer, which would help him and his village for years...
...no they haven't. Partly the price drop was caused by military and intelligence requirement for electronics... and the final drop came when the big and cheap industries in the far east (Korea, China) got free access to the western market and the western manufacturers could either drop the prices (and move the production to the far east) or be blown out of the market by cheap far east copies.
I f****** would, especially because I suggested something like this almost 2 years ago to the OLPC project (I suppose I wasn't the only nerd who came with that suggestion). ...but I can't... because I live in Europe and the G1G1 is only for US & Canada. ...but I'm looking for a relay station in Canada right now...
Both Windows NT4 Workstation and Windows 2000 Pro was offered in Europe as an alternative to Windows 95 and 98, you could choose which version you wanted on first startup. At least four HW manufacturers delivered this: Compaq, Dell (on Latitude and OptiPlex), Hewlett-Packard and IBM. We may of course argue what "Consumer Grade" is but the price difference was marginal at that point.
Oh no... they are not dumb. That is an assumption based on bad product = dumb manufacturer. They know however that they control the market and they can sell anything they want to as long as there are backward compatibility which is better than what other products offer and, for the private market, games.
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That could be a good argument for opening everything.
We would however need massive storage and financing for the webarchive project (and a mirror of it at least two other places on earth).
This is not an alternative universe, this is the beginning of the end of this universe.
That's not so obvious... countries (and even corporations) has started to require ISO certified standards. That is partly MS own fault because of problems with backwards compatibility. If your government require a standard, you are out of business if you can't provide documents in that standard.
...and yes we have seen it before... when everybody shifted from the de-facto WordPerfect standard to the de-facto Word standard.
I dont get this... NSA is active SE Linux developer. Why would they require a backdoor to Windows ?
That may make them untrustworthy as a development team/partner... is there a backdoor in SE Linux too ?
I can't imagine NSA would be interested in that...
NSA got probably most raw computer power in the world, their building uses more electric power than a small city, they shouldn't need backdoors. I think it is DOJ/FBI requirement.
I wondered btw. why my 8 years old firewall supports AES encryption (for VPN) with 2048 bits strength but no currently available products supports more than 256 bits.
...somewhere in between their competitors... between free, free and almost free.
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I've been using OpenOffice in a corporate, MS only, environment for 3 years now... go on and try to tell me that it is impossible.
They are terrified... they don't have the control over the format (which they do in OOXML) so they can't force anyone to upgrade.
Right now you are forced to upgrade a perfectly working MS Office installation when the amount of incoming documents arriving in the new format reaches a certain level (which is usually somewhere between 20% and 30%).
No, they can't... the courts in EU has already told MS (and OEM's) exactly how much Windows costs... and neither MS nor the OEM's were especially happy about it.
That is correct... but it is an issue when you use the disk to move data between different OS'es.
When I use a NAS I just use nfs from my UNIX, Linux, OS X and use smb for my Windows machines... I do not need to install anything and I do not need to think about filesize limitations on the only one universally available filesystem.
You may unplug your PC from the wall and plug it in the NAS... another possibility is to use the other ethernet port on the PC.
...and storage devices are as dangerous on the network as they are on USB or FireWire in a corporate environment.
You should try robocopy from the resource kit... it can fix all your copying problems but you need to get the right version for your OS (I've got serious issues with ACL's when I used NT4 robocopy on W2K). You can download Robocopy from Microsoft.
The SATA solution is fine... but it does not fix any of the problems a NAS can fix.
That was my idea too... but for some freaking reason my PowerBook (with Mac OS X 10.4) wouldn't see the drive when it was ext3 formatted, I've tried with two different external drives a WD and a MaXtor, it just told me "New drive found. Do you want to format it now ?".
...they are slow and OS dependent, either you loose oceans of space (FAT formatted drives) or you can't write to them from some OS'es (NTFS formatted drives) or a Mac just reformats the whole drive because it can't read it. ...and they are fast... many af them now have gigabit ethernet.
A NAS cost a little more and got all features you need without any of the problems... and you can get them almost as small as a external 3,5" drives.
Banking software for risk management like SunGard's Adaptiv (aka. Panorama). There are something like 4 commercial solutions worldwide and several in-house solutions developed by larger banks. .NET and are in fact a big reason for banks to switch to MS crapware.
The commercial packages are all based on Microsoft SQL server and
"Are these the battle lines draw against Apple/ATT" Nope, it is the decoy... the real enemy has however spottet the threat: a Microsoft executive (Klaus Holse Andersen, corporate vice president of Microsoft Danmark) in Denmark has commented the Android "There is nothing new in Android" (link to danish Computerworld).
I've roughly translated his statement from that article here: "Googles Android do not add anything new to the mobile platform. We can already do everything what Google tries to do with Android. I think Google will have a big problem getting operators and manufacturers to use their platform."
---so the enemy do know... and they can see the threat... and the danger for them in this situation is much worse than usually: people do not care what's inside their cell phone as long as it works.
Nope, that is true... but the long term success of the project has been somehow limited (which is quite obvious since we are the only 2 persons here to remember it).
A more useful sign would be "No Executives allowed !" they usually fuck things up even more in a crisis.
The reason for those .com registrations back then is not what you assume... the reason was the need for human readable e-mail addresses. Most corporations wanted quick and easy way to exchange mails with .edu and .mil.
You could either send snail-mail, call the university (or Pentagon) and hope somebody knew where the person you wanted to speak with were... or you could register on the net and send him an e-mail... and remember, this was the pre-cellular era.
DEC was btw. very much involved in the whole (d)arpanet project (many universities used DEC computers to power the net back then).
IBM was big iron for big business and tried btw. to build a global network based on SNA (read your SNA manual again, if you don't belive me).
...and yes you are right... the only reason for a pizzeria in Palo Alto to have a registered domain was for all those guys from HP, DEC and Cisco to order pizza by email... daily... tons of pizza every day... well, somebody just didn't see that option back then.
We were just busy removing Microsofts hack on Amazon which showed that Zune is selling better that iPod...
We are back with you now... and Amazon shows the truth again.
"Secondly, isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery?"Yes but Intels product is not imitation it is a PC laptop in the same size as the OLPC XO but without the important features of the OLPC XO (mesh networking, rugged, screen readable in bright sunshine).
"How can you be so sure that MS and Intel are saying "let's crush this program!" and not "hey, that's a good idea, let's try it."Simple, because the are losing money on it... lot of money... and they will let your taxes (if you live in US) pay for it.
The laptop gives the third world a way to figure out agriculture... that is the whole point of the project. Information (aka. knowledge) is the key to fix the third worlds problems (yes, also food problems).
"It's not like farming - if you can hold a stick, you can be a farmer." If that's your opinion on farming you wouldn't survive as a farmer - even not on good soil and with plenty of water.
A farmer with a computer with access to the resources of the Internet may however become a more efficient farmer, which would help him and his village for years...
...no they haven't. Partly the price drop was caused by military and intelligence requirement for electronics... and the final drop came when the big and cheap industries in the far east (Korea, China) got free access to the western market and the western manufacturers could either drop the prices (and move the production to the far east) or be blown out of the market by cheap far east copies.
I don't think the problem is "it is Linux" it is rather "it is not Windows"... Microsoft would probably react the same way if it was xBSD.
I f****** would, especially because I suggested something like this almost 2 years ago to the OLPC project (I suppose I wasn't the only nerd who came with that suggestion).
...but I can't... because I live in Europe and the G1G1 is only for US & Canada.
...but I'm looking for a relay station in Canada right now...
Both Windows NT4 Workstation and Windows 2000 Pro was offered in Europe as an alternative to Windows 95 and 98, you could choose which version you wanted on first startup. At least four HW manufacturers delivered this: Compaq, Dell (on Latitude and OptiPlex), Hewlett-Packard and IBM. We may of course argue what "Consumer Grade" is but the price difference was marginal at that point.
Oh no... they are not dumb. That is an assumption based on bad product = dumb manufacturer.
They know however that they control the market and they can sell anything they want to as long as there are backward compatibility which is better than what other products offer and, for the private market, games.