WTF are people thinking?? I have a corporate laptop myself and there is NOTHING on it. No files with hundreds of names and SSN's on it. NOTHING. I could totally SCREW my hard drive and would loose nothing of value to the company. I could have my laptop stolen and there would be NO data of value to anyone on it(go ahead....take my pictures, I don't care). Anytime I need to work, I remote desktop to my desktop which, other then non secure departmental info, has NO COMPANY RECORDS ON IT! Granted, we have no policy that specifies what is ok and what is not ok. The problem is usually NOT the computer guys in this situation....it's clueless users trying to do a little work at home and WHUPS.....the laptop gets ganked....
Few things....
1. Treat the laptop like it's your own. Make sure it's always in a safe place. If you have to park in a shady area, take it with you.
2. If you absolutely MUST have data on the laptop, it should be corporate policy that the file is encrypted and passworded. The compny needs ot invest in security software. Maybe something that trashes the file once the password has been entered incorrectly more then 3 times.
It's apparant, to me, there's NO way to make the Shuttle 100 percent safe....there's no way to make ANY spacecraft 100 percent safe. Space is a hostile environment. The astronauts know this. One thing that cannot be disputed is that the shuttle has flown before with foam ramps falling off the shuttle. What happened to Columbia was very unfortunate, but in my book, it's a freak accident. There are so many variables that had to happen JUST RIGHT in order for the vehicle to be lost. All that can be done is try to minimize it. It can't be prevented. What happens if a Heron or some other big bird is in the way when the shuttle launches? Odds are, a BIRD can bring the shuttle down just as easy as a piece of foam. The odds are very low that this will happen but NOT zero. Does that mean we don't launch?? No.
What I do see happening is a return to the traditional capsule like format. It could even be done in a reusable format MUCH easier and less prone to problems then the shuttle. We have to keep in mind....space is different. We can't send airplanes into space. We have to send spacecraft into space.
In my opinion if I had to put companies on a list, Apple would stil be high on my openess with developer list. At least Apple has all of the developer tools (Xcode and others) free for the taking. You still have to pay Microsoft to write programs for windows unless it's a batch file.
Come now....Windows 98/98SE/ME use a kernel (DOS FOLKS!) that has not been impotant for quite sometime now. Do any Linux Kernel developers still work on the 2.0 kernel?? Does Red Hat still patch Red Hat 6?? NO!
Everyone ASSUMES that Microsoft is dropping support just because it's too broke and that probably isn't even CLOSE to the truth. The real reason is likely a combination of the two. From the archtecture basis, Windows 98/98SE/ME are UNSECURE! Microsoft has a much better chance of securing things with XP. That's not to say there's no holes in XP....there is. But the reason software is dropped from support is merely a business reason. When 99.9 percent of thier support calls are likely Windows XP or 2003 Server related, what sane person would choose to continue to patch something almost NOONE uses!
Native code is going to always be around. Someone has to WRITE the Virtual Machines. C is STILL valuable after all of this time.
What you WILL find is that applications programming may all switch to Java or C#. The reason is it is very hard to have some of the traditional problems with programs with a properly coded JVM. Sure, buffer overflows can happen in the JVM, but it's way less likely to happen in Java/C#. That means the applications will need less work over time. With that said, the JVM's and the.Net Virtual Machine will still need programmers to write them and add to them. Kernels will still need to be written and X windows will still need to exist.
I hate Sendmail. With that said, when properly configured, Sendmail is excellent. Getting it that way takes a metric tonne of work! This is one Open Source instance I would PAY to get the commercial version (which has a web admin interface). The sendmail.cf file has to be THE most convulted config file on ANY UNIX. Period. It's WAYYYY to easy to set this up unsecure also(open relay anyone??).
Overselling your bandwidth is what is wrong with the internet as it is now. You shoul dalways plan on your users ALL using the internet at the sametime because they CAN! You can be ok for a while overselling, but eventually it will bite you in the ass. Is that the users fault? No. The user is just using what he paid for. Net Neutrality is evening the field. Amazon is where it is today because of a neutral network. Ebay itself used to be a very small sight but is where it is because of a neutral network. All a tiered network does is make it so that the people who have money can have priority over those who don't.
Thank you for saying this and I agree with you. I am so sick of Open Source zealots putting down good software because it isn't "free" or "libre" or whatever. JUST because it's Open Source does not mean it's good or better then a closed product. I, for one, am willing to use closed software that works well for me.....ie if it did not read jpg's, I would not use it but since it does.....
Yes there's DigiKam. Yes there's Fspot. However people on Windows don't know how good those things are and when they move to Linux for the first time want to be as comfortable as they were in thier Windows World. Products like this allows you to stay functional and also allows you to be able to play and learn the new stuff. Maybe you will never use Digikam because Picasa is good enough. Maybe you will one day try Digikam or Fspot or whatever and decide you like it better. A win for Open Source. IN either case, you have a iwn for open source. Putting stuff down like this picasa release will only stop companies from wanting to make great software available on Linux. They will say well the linux community didn't appreciate us anyway so we're not going to spend the time and effort. You get more things with sugar then blood, spit and vinegar.
Have not had a device driver shipped on floppy in many years now. I don't need it for device drivers. I need it even less for BIOS updates, but sometimes it's used there too. Floppies ARE usesless to me now.
Um....huh??? Did you see the E3 reports?? The Wii is the hotness. Initially the name was made fun of. When they saw Nintendo was serious about games and doing something new and original instead of a hardware bump...
The true missionof Amateur Radio has naver changed...it was always supposed to be a service that would provide communications during a disaster. Ths disaster focus is more the focus today more then ever. With meager resources, I can setup a communications station that will work on a minimum of power and is capable of worldwide communications. The old focus used to be on the rag chew...case in point, in the 50's through the 70's how cool was it to talk to someone in Germany, Japan or Australia?? That's almost commonplace now, but the need for communicators still exists. Innovation still happens in Amateur Radio too. Digital Voice Modes (VoIP like protocols) are just now being deployed. Because there's always a need for straight analog FM transcievers, the digital modes are not taking off as fast but that's mostly because analog FM WORKS! IN any case, June 20th is Bring your HT to work day and I am going to try to get a new HT for it.....a Yaesu VX-2R. This radio is about the size of a recent cell phone and is very capable rig. Sure, it's not a high powered station but how cool is having a complete ham station that fits in your pocket??? HF rigs ain't going to get people interested....micro transcievers and digital modes will.
Hmmm....with Linux it took me HOURS to get that working and that's with ndiswrapper too(the first time anyway....). Ndiswrapper is NOT something we should even concentrate on if you want a better experience then Windows. Kernel drivers are what is needed and we also need the driver itself to be responsible for ANY encryption without having wpa_supplicant. I think it's already been pointed out that Krakow is on crack also. His experiences with Vista is NO different then MY experiences with XP. Period.
I don't think that it's a NIH problem....I just thing Miguel wanted to make something that just might make it EASIER for corps to choose between Microsoft and Linux. There are lots of similarities between Mono and Java, however with Mono your NOT stuck with JUST C#. You can use MANY other languages. With Sun's Java, you have to use Java to work wiht the JVM. With Mono and.Net you can use whatever your comfortable with almost.....
I have a thinkpad and there are no IBM/Lenovo specific drivers in my windows loadout. The Wifi driver is the standaed Intel one and almost everything else is the same driver that would be on a dell with the same device. In fact I don't even use IBM's wifi tools at all....they suck. I use XP's standard wifi support and it works fine. I would not hesitiate in the least to try installing Vista on my laptop also....on the other hand I KNOW WHAT THE HELL I AM DOING! This guy didn't even have a clue why his XP drivers would not be kept after doing a clean install. With that said, he has some VALID points.
Ever try to get wireless working on Linux? Probably not by your statement. Wireless support is THE WORST on Linux. It will be better soon, but it still ain't there yet.
Um....understand this...your typical office worker barely understands e-mail let alone "collaborative" environments. Most can barely understand what a network drive menas. Most still can't manage to use Exchange correctly to send appointments. Now sure, I ain't using every possible feature there is to use on Office 2004 or Office 2007 but who the bloody hell does?? I still can E-MAIL any Office Document and that's fine for 90 percent of the people out there. My point is your only tied to this if YOU CHOOSE TO BE! You CAN use Office 2007 just fine without Sharpoint and all the rest of that mularky.
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WTF are people thinking?? I have a corporate laptop myself and there is NOTHING on it. No files with hundreds of names and SSN's on it. NOTHING. I could totally SCREW my hard drive and would loose nothing of value to the company. I could have my laptop stolen and there would be NO data of value to anyone on it(go ahead....take my pictures, I don't care). Anytime I need to work, I remote desktop to my desktop which, other then non secure departmental info, has NO COMPANY RECORDS ON IT! Granted, we have no policy that specifies what is ok and what is not ok. The problem is usually NOT the computer guys in this situation....it's clueless users trying to do a little work at home and WHUPS.....the laptop gets ganked....
Few things....
1. Treat the laptop like it's your own. Make sure it's always in a safe place. If you have to park in a shady area, take it with you.
2. If you absolutely MUST have data on the laptop, it should be corporate policy that the file is encrypted and passworded. The compny needs ot invest in security software. Maybe something that trashes the file once the password has been entered incorrectly more then 3 times.
It's apparant, to me, there's NO way to make the Shuttle 100 percent safe....there's no way to make ANY spacecraft 100 percent safe. Space is a hostile environment. The astronauts know this. One thing that cannot be disputed is that the shuttle has flown before with foam ramps falling off the shuttle. What happened to Columbia was very unfortunate, but in my book, it's a freak accident. There are so many variables that had to happen JUST RIGHT in order for the vehicle to be lost. All that can be done is try to minimize it. It can't be prevented. What happens if a Heron or some other big bird is in the way when the shuttle launches? Odds are, a BIRD can bring the shuttle down just as easy as a piece of foam. The odds are very low that this will happen but NOT zero. Does that mean we don't launch?? No.
What I do see happening is a return to the traditional capsule like format. It could even be done in a reusable format MUCH easier and less prone to problems then the shuttle. We have to keep in mind....space is different. We can't send airplanes into space. We have to send spacecraft into space.
Hey you got your peanut butter on m chocolate.....thus Reese Cips was born.....or maybe not! :D
Apple hasn't released the kernel for x86...YET. See this forum post from a Apple Employee:
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/Fed-talk/2006/May
In my opinion if I had to put companies on a list, Apple would stil be high on my openess with developer list. At least Apple has all of the developer tools (Xcode and others) free for the taking. You still have to pay Microsoft to write programs for windows unless it's a batch file.
Come now....Windows 98/98SE/ME use a kernel (DOS FOLKS!) that has not been impotant for quite sometime now. Do any Linux Kernel developers still work on the 2.0 kernel?? Does Red Hat still patch Red Hat 6?? NO!
Everyone ASSUMES that Microsoft is dropping support just because it's too broke and that probably isn't even CLOSE to the truth. The real reason is likely a combination of the two. From the archtecture basis, Windows 98/98SE/ME are UNSECURE! Microsoft has a much better chance of securing things with XP. That's not to say there's no holes in XP....there is. But the reason software is dropped from support is merely a business reason. When 99.9 percent of thier support calls are likely Windows XP or 2003 Server related, what sane person would choose to continue to patch something almost NOONE uses!
Native code is going to always be around. Someone has to WRITE the Virtual Machines. C is STILL valuable after all of this time.
.Net Virtual Machine will still need programmers to write them and add to them. Kernels will still need to be written and X windows will still need to exist.
What you WILL find is that applications programming may all switch to Java or C#. The reason is it is very hard to have some of the traditional problems with programs with a properly coded JVM. Sure, buffer overflows can happen in the JVM, but it's way less likely to happen in Java/C#. That means the applications will need less work over time. With that said, the JVM's and the
Let alont that I WON'T buy a camera with ONLY a screen to frame the shot.
I hate Sendmail. With that said, when properly configured, Sendmail is excellent. Getting it that way takes a metric tonne of work! This is one Open Source instance I would PAY to get the commercial version (which has a web admin interface). The sendmail.cf file has to be THE most convulted config file on ANY UNIX. Period. It's WAYYYY to easy to set this up unsecure also(open relay anyone??).
Overselling your bandwidth is what is wrong with the internet as it is now. You shoul dalways plan on your users ALL using the internet at the sametime because they CAN! You can be ok for a while overselling, but eventually it will bite you in the ass. Is that the users fault? No. The user is just using what he paid for. Net Neutrality is evening the field. Amazon is where it is today because of a neutral network. Ebay itself used to be a very small sight but is where it is because of a neutral network. All a tiered network does is make it so that the people who have money can have priority over those who don't.
Amen to that! Drive letters are stupid in today's world and make EVERYTHING more difficult!
Thank you for saying this and I agree with you. I am so sick of Open Source zealots putting down good software because it isn't "free" or "libre" or whatever. JUST because it's Open Source does not mean it's good or better then a closed product. I, for one, am willing to use closed software that works well for me.....ie if it did not read jpg's, I would not use it but since it does.....
Yes there's DigiKam. Yes there's Fspot. However people on Windows don't know how good those things are and when they move to Linux for the first time want to be as comfortable as they were in thier Windows World. Products like this allows you to stay functional and also allows you to be able to play and learn the new stuff. Maybe you will never use Digikam because Picasa is good enough. Maybe you will one day try Digikam or Fspot or whatever and decide you like it better. A win for Open Source. IN either case, you have a iwn for open source. Putting stuff down like this picasa release will only stop companies from wanting to make great software available on Linux. They will say well the linux community didn't appreciate us anyway so we're not going to spend the time and effort. You get more things with sugar then blood, spit and vinegar.
Have not had a device driver shipped on floppy in many years now. I don't need it for device drivers. I need it even less for BIOS updates, but sometimes it's used there too. Floppies ARE usesless to me now.
Um....huh??? Did you see the E3 reports?? The Wii is the hotness. Initially the name was made fun of. When they saw Nintendo was serious about games and doing something new and original instead of a hardware bump...
Me thinks they forgot about Novell's Groupwise too.
The true missionof Amateur Radio has naver changed...it was always supposed to be a service that would provide communications during a disaster. Ths disaster focus is more the focus today more then ever. With meager resources, I can setup a communications station that will work on a minimum of power and is capable of worldwide communications. The old focus used to be on the rag chew...case in point, in the 50's through the 70's how cool was it to talk to someone in Germany, Japan or Australia?? That's almost commonplace now, but the need for communicators still exists. Innovation still happens in Amateur Radio too. Digital Voice Modes (VoIP like protocols) are just now being deployed. Because there's always a need for straight analog FM transcievers, the digital modes are not taking off as fast but that's mostly because analog FM WORKS! IN any case, June 20th is Bring your HT to work day and I am going to try to get a new HT for it.....a Yaesu VX-2R. This radio is about the size of a recent cell phone and is very capable rig. Sure, it's not a high powered station but how cool is having a complete ham station that fits in your pocket??? HF rigs ain't going to get people interested....micro transcievers and digital modes will.
Hmmm....with Linux it took me HOURS to get that working and that's with ndiswrapper too(the first time anyway....). Ndiswrapper is NOT something we should even concentrate on if you want a better experience then Windows. Kernel drivers are what is needed and we also need the driver itself to be responsible for ANY encryption without having wpa_supplicant. I think it's already been pointed out that Krakow is on crack also. His experiences with Vista is NO different then MY experiences with XP. Period.
That's the friggin point! Ndiswrapper is a friggin workaround. It's NOT a driver.
I don't think that it's a NIH problem....I just thing Miguel wanted to make something that just might make it EASIER for corps to choose between Microsoft and Linux. There are lots of similarities between Mono and Java, however with Mono your NOT stuck with JUST C#. You can use MANY other languages. With Sun's Java, you have to use Java to work wiht the JVM. With Mono and .Net you can use whatever your comfortable with almost.....
Mono is a GOOD project and it allows you to port .Net apps relatively easily from Windows to Linux. What's wrong with that??
I have a thinkpad and there are no IBM/Lenovo specific drivers in my windows loadout. The Wifi driver is the standaed Intel one and almost everything else is the same driver that would be on a dell with the same device. In fact I don't even use IBM's wifi tools at all....they suck. I use XP's standard wifi support and it works fine. I would not hesitiate in the least to try installing Vista on my laptop also....on the other hand I KNOW WHAT THE HELL I AM DOING! This guy didn't even have a clue why his XP drivers would not be kept after doing a clean install. With that said, he has some VALID points.
Let alone he said that the clean install didn't let him keep the drivers....DUH! A clean install usually formats the drive too!
Ever try to get wireless working on Linux? Probably not by your statement. Wireless support is THE WORST on Linux. It will be better soon, but it still ain't there yet.
Agreed. This pledge thing will carry little weight. It carries about as much weight as a Online Petitiion.
Um....understand this...your typical office worker barely understands e-mail let alone "collaborative" environments. Most can barely understand what a network drive menas. Most still can't manage to use Exchange correctly to send appointments. Now sure, I ain't using every possible feature there is to use on Office 2004 or Office 2007 but who the bloody hell does?? I still can E-MAIL any Office Document and that's fine for 90 percent of the people out there. My point is your only tied to this if YOU CHOOSE TO BE! You CAN use Office 2007 just fine without Sharpoint and all the rest of that mularky.
OOO....they have the symbols of total logic (Star Trek I).