You are right on.
I am a 'certified' Dell hardware tech for my job (I work at a university), and many times when ordering a part under warranty I simply tell them the errors it gives me and they send out a new part that day. With linux it becomes much harder, will they take my word? or do they have bunches of people qualified to tell if something is actually wrong with the hardware based on the errors?
Product Maturity
By way of comparison, Oracle will hit the 30th anniversary of its first product shipment in 2009....
Mature or just long in the tooth?
If they are trying to maintain backwards compatiblity with older versions I would go for a newer fresher product.
And why is Perception of Scalability the only performance related complaint? The rest seem like excuses I hear from people who don't want to change.
I totally agree with you. We all tend to fear the wrong things.
For example children are much more likely to be abducted by someone they know, and something like 30x more likely to be abused by someone they are related to than by someone outside their family.
Seriously, they do teach evolution in the UK schools right?
What if they just put in a sidebar that some religions, despite all the evidence shown to the contrary, choose to be ignorant regardless of the topic?
Likewise privacy through obscurity is not true privacy at all.
He has just thrown off the illusion that we have privacy.
I think everyone can agree that if someone wants to find out something about you, or your past it can be done with sufficent effort/time/resources.
So why not live a wholesome life and keep it open. I imagine it would also lead oneself to make decisions in a much more dignified manner.
Listen, I smoke pot every day. I have a job. I pay my bills. I did well in college. I have a nice home. I'm friendly with the neighbors. I'm good with kids. I love my family.
And yet you're willing to risk all of this to get high?
Oh, but it's not addicting...and it won't ruin your life.
If it should be legal or not isn't the issue, it currently is illegal (now I'm assuming that you are in the United States).
I think games are getting much better about the offerings of their mod(ding) tools. With many of the older games it was simple level editors, now with games like NWN2 you get access to much of the underlying engine allowing mods as simple as maps or as complex as adding whole new graphics, game rules and more. And it's much easier than most non-programmers would think.
That is untrue. There are fewer security holes in Linux systems than Windows systems period. And far fewer ones that allow remote access to execute programs.
http://www.masuran.org/node/29
Also..
As far as "straight-out-of-box" conditions go, both Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X are ripe with remotely accessible vulnerabilities. Even before enabling the servers, Windows based machines contain numerous exploitable holes allowing attackers to not only access the system but also execute arbitrary code. Both OS X and Windows were susceptible to additional vulnerabilities after enabling the built-in services. Once patched, however, both companies support a product that is secure, at least from the outside. The UNIX and Linux variants present a much more robust exterior to the outside.
For most IT projects Open Source projects can be more expensive than their equivliant out of the box vendor specific solutions.
But....
The benifits are an increased level of compentancy of your IT staff (assuming you actually give them time to roll the software and train on it). And the one thing upper managment never likes to think of...an exit strategy (most open source projects are standards compliant) so you can get your information out when in a few years a better solution comes up that might be from a different vendor.
Of course just try and get managment to buy into that.....
This is great news on the drivers front. Will this mean that laptops will have the wireless pre-configured and working (even when you turn the radio off using the hot keys)? I think this is great news from that front. If they will have systems with the wireless and video drivers working flawlessly this will be a step forward to getting linux in the hands of average computer users.
When I read about this first thing this morning I fired off an email to SANS http://www.isc.sans.org/ and got a reply quite quickly.
According to F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com/weblog the Trojan doesn't currently work, and in fact rebooting rids the computer of the infection.
We have just analyzed the first malware (Breplibot.b) that is trying to hide on machines that have Sony DRM software installed.
Luckily, the bot has a design flaw. If the Sony DRM rootkit is active
(hiding) in the system during infection, the bot will not run at all.
Moreover, the bot cannot survive a reboot because of a programming error. In any case, this is a very good example of why software should not use rootkit hiding techniques.
I haven't tried it yet; but they seem to support a decent number of cell-phones, nearly every carrier (in the United States), nearly 40 channels, and it's only $10 bucks a month.
Of course in order to use it you will want a high speed data connection for your cell-phone and a unlimited data plan.
They should not.
That is one of the benifits of this technology, you only apply power when you wish to change the picture. Think of it like an electronic etcha-sketch.
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Then you must trust the CPU instruction set built into the x86?
And most of those chips are built overseas!!!
You are right on. I am a 'certified' Dell hardware tech for my job (I work at a university), and many times when ordering a part under warranty I simply tell them the errors it gives me and they send out a new part that day. With linux it becomes much harder, will they take my word? or do they have bunches of people qualified to tell if something is actually wrong with the hardware based on the errors?
By way of comparison, Oracle will hit the 30th anniversary of its first product shipment in 2009....
Mature or just long in the tooth?
If they are trying to maintain backwards compatiblity with older versions I would go for a newer fresher product.
And why is Perception of Scalability the only performance related complaint? The rest seem like excuses I hear from people who don't want to change.
I totally agree with you. We all tend to fear the wrong things.
For example children are much more likely to be abducted by someone they know, and something like 30x more likely to be abused by someone they are related to than by someone outside their family.
I thought the UK already had camera's everywhere.....
n ews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/
Well...
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2 + 2 = 5 'for extremely large values of 2'. So is math a god? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_plus_two_makes_f
Seriously, they do teach evolution in the UK schools right? What if they just put in a sidebar that some religions, despite all the evidence shown to the contrary, choose to be ignorant regardless of the topic?
Security through obscurity is no security at all.
Likewise privacy through obscurity is not true privacy at all.
He has just thrown off the illusion that we have privacy.
I think everyone can agree that if someone wants to find out something about you, or your past it can be done with sufficent effort/time/resources.
So why not live a wholesome life and keep it open. I imagine it would also lead oneself to make decisions in a much more dignified manner.
Oh, but it's not addicting...and it won't ruin your life.
If it should be legal or not isn't the issue, it currently is illegal (now I'm assuming that you are in the United States).
I think games are getting much better about the offerings of their mod(ding) tools. With many of the older games it was simple level editors, now with games like NWN2 you get access to much of the underlying engine allowing mods as simple as maps or as complex as adding whole new graphics, game rules and more. And it's much easier than most non-programmers would think.
One thing that stuck out to me when I heard it years ago.... With a landline you call a location, with a cellphone you call a person.
For most IT projects Open Source projects can be more expensive than their equivliant out of the box vendor specific solutions. But.... The benifits are an increased level of compentancy of your IT staff (assuming you actually give them time to roll the software and train on it). And the one thing upper managment never likes to think of...an exit strategy (most open source projects are standards compliant) so you can get your information out when in a few years a better solution comes up that might be from a different vendor. Of course just try and get managment to buy into that.....
This is great news on the drivers front. Will this mean that laptops will have the wireless pre-configured and working (even when you turn the radio off using the hot keys)? I think this is great news from that front. If they will have systems with the wireless and video drivers working flawlessly this will be a step forward to getting linux in the hands of average computer users.
When I read about this first thing this morning I fired off an email to SANS http://www.isc.sans.org/ and got a reply quite quickly.
According to F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com/weblog the Trojan doesn't currently work, and in fact rebooting rids the computer of the infection.
We have just analyzed the first malware (Breplibot.b) that is trying to hide on machines that have Sony DRM software installed. Luckily, the bot has a design flaw. If the Sony DRM rootkit is active (hiding) in the system during infection, the bot will not run at all. Moreover, the bot cannot survive a reboot because of a programming error. In any case, this is a very good example of why software should not use rootkit hiding techniques.
Company called MobiTV http://www.mobitv.com/.
I haven't tried it yet; but they seem to support a decent number of cell-phones, nearly every carrier (in the United States), nearly 40 channels, and it's only $10 bucks a month.
Of course in order to use it you will want a high speed data connection for your cell-phone and a unlimited data plan.
They should not. That is one of the benifits of this technology, you only apply power when you wish to change the picture. Think of it like an electronic etcha-sketch.