You might check out Teamviewer, and Skype for Linux is in beta.
Also, I'd recommend running a Windows VM. Often you might need to use your client's tools (like GoToMeeting, etc). Having access to these and being flexible for their needs makes them much more likely to get the warm fuzzies that keep them as clients.
If you read the brief, it's actually not quite as simple as Google "does not have FISMA certification."
FISMA certification is per-agency, and Google *has* FISMA certification for GSA.
Google *does not* have FISMA certification for any other agency. Each agency makes its own determination.
It also appears that FISMA is a minimum for information security, so agencies can require more than FISMA if they want to.
(Refer to brief pages 37-39 for the details on FISMA.)
If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine.
I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, and maybe not many people know, but this statement is completely false. A BIG part of the financial support for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox comes from Google. Google pays Mozilla per download for the benefit of being the default search engine in the browser.
Does this change who's right and who's wrong? Maybe not. But it keeps me from having the blind faith in Google's altruism that most of these other posts are littered with.
After poking around the comments on the other site, I came across this one from eremini, one of the PG devs. I've included it verbatim below. This is the most believeable version of the story I've heard.
(Background: cerberius, a.k.a. William Erwin, is the one who they claim "hijacked" methlabs.org. Cerberius, eremini, fox, and Gambit2011 were claimed to be on one side, with the rest of the devs, and the "owner", on the other. Gambit2011 posted to take himself off that list.)
Actual Post:
eremini here. I am gonna post exactly what happened, since there's no need to hide it now.
As some of you know cerberius has always been the one that did technicall things on methlabs, set up the servers, updated server software, etc... So it only naturaly the servers were registered to him. Now about a week ago, Furi and Phrosty decided to kick cerb out, right now they are going around forums truying to say that they wanna be professional, but how do profesionals fire peope? They talk to them, explain the reasons, etc. Did they do that? No. Did they try to do that? No. Just one day all of a sudden, they changed the methlabs.org server root password, wiped all the data off it and hijacked a google adsence account, which was registered to cerb's social security number. Now about the domain. Yes, cerb did transfer the domain to him, a couple of months before that (Miles might call this keep all your balls in one sack), but he did not hijack anything, he transfered it with complience to all ICANN rules, which state that the preveious owner gets send an email, to which he gets to reply 60 days (!) if you want to reject the transfer, that didn't happen. So its transfered fair and square. Now about stealing money. What money? The google adsence money (which cerb got back with google being ready to press charges against hijackers for fraud) is still there, no money transfered. Same with paypal, the money, like always, will be used to pay hosting costs and other fees concerning methlabs. There thats the end of the store. Now you decide who to trust, but please don't trust them, just because they put their real names in some attemp to "be profesional"
I don't think you understand. The main payload of those viruses was not the one listed on the McAfee's site under "payload". The huge problem was that it brought coorperations and isp's computers to a screeching halt because of the sheer volume of traffic they generated. The members of the linux world using those servers suffered as well.
A solution that monitors traffic through linux servers for Windows viruses warrents an opening like that, since 99.9% of the viruses it catches will be windows viruses. If they were mainly targeting the product at linux desktops, I don't think there would be many sales. Well, except to coorperations whose IT departments need antivirus software to make managers comfortable, which I guess could be a healthy number.
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You might check out Teamviewer, and Skype for Linux is in beta.
Also, I'd recommend running a Windows VM. Often you might need to use your client's tools (like GoToMeeting, etc). Having access to these and being flexible for their needs makes them much more likely to get the warm fuzzies that keep them as clients.
"Google ... today moved to silence dissent and lock comments on the issue."
That's ridiculous; closing a bug doesn't silence anyone's opinion. The dissenting opinion on that bug will now stand forever, for all to see.
Google didn't silence dissent. If anything, they immortalized it.
Err, I definitely read "Google" in the parent post instead of "Microsoft". Stupid dyslexia.
Right.
Google doesn't have the FISMA certification *for DOI*, which is the only FISMA certification that really matters in this case.
Google *could* argue that they should have been given the certification, since they have FISMA for GSA, but I think that would be a stretch.
If you read the brief, it's actually not quite as simple as Google "does not have FISMA certification." FISMA certification is per-agency, and Google *has* FISMA certification for GSA. Google *does not* have FISMA certification for any other agency. Each agency makes its own determination. It also appears that FISMA is a minimum for information security, so agencies can require more than FISMA if they want to. (Refer to brief pages 37-39 for the details on FISMA.)
If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine.
I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, and maybe not many people know, but this statement is completely false. A BIG part of the financial support for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox comes from Google. Google pays Mozilla per download for the benefit of being the default search engine in the browser.
Does this change who's right and who's wrong? Maybe not. But it keeps me from having the blind faith in Google's altruism that most of these other posts are littered with.
After poking around the comments on the other site, I came across this one from eremini, one of the PG devs. I've included it verbatim below. This is the most believeable version of the story I've heard.
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(Background: cerberius, a.k.a. William Erwin, is the one who they claim "hijacked" methlabs.org. Cerberius, eremini, fox, and Gambit2011 were claimed to be on one side, with the rest of the devs, and the "owner", on the other. Gambit2011 posted to take himself off that list.)
(reference URL: http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14191
Actual Post:
eremini here. I am gonna post exactly what happened, since there's no need to hide it now. As some of you know cerberius has always been the one that did technicall things on methlabs, set up the servers, updated server software, etc... So it only naturaly the servers were registered to him. Now about a week ago, Furi and Phrosty decided to kick cerb out, right now they are going around forums truying to say that they wanna be professional, but how do profesionals fire peope? They talk to them, explain the reasons, etc. Did they do that? No. Did they try to do that? No. Just one day all of a sudden, they changed the methlabs.org server root password, wiped all the data off it and hijacked a google adsence account, which was registered to cerb's social security number. Now about the domain. Yes, cerb did transfer the domain to him, a couple of months before that (Miles might call this keep all your balls in one sack), but he did not hijack anything, he transfered it with complience to all ICANN rules, which state that the preveious owner gets send an email, to which he gets to reply 60 days (!) if you want to reject the transfer, that didn't happen. So its transfered fair and square. Now about stealing money. What money? The google adsence money (which cerb got back with google being ready to press charges against hijackers for fraud) is still there, no money transfered. Same with paypal, the money, like always, will be used to pay hosting costs and other fees concerning methlabs. There thats the end of the store. Now you decide who to trust, but please don't trust them, just because they put their real names in some attemp to "be profesional"
The installer chokes under cedega, but the Eclipse.zip would probably work. Anyone have a link?
I don't think you understand. The main payload of those viruses was not the one listed on the McAfee's site under "payload". The huge problem was that it brought coorperations and isp's computers to a screeching halt because of the sheer volume of traffic they generated. The members of the linux world using those servers suffered as well.
A solution that monitors traffic through linux servers for Windows viruses warrents an opening like that, since 99.9% of the viruses it catches will be windows viruses. If they were mainly targeting the product at linux desktops, I don't think there would be many sales. Well, except to coorperations whose IT departments need antivirus software to make managers comfortable, which I guess could be a healthy number.