so MS has the final say in what businesses can do with open source software? funny, i don't remember electing them. i use and recommend the use of OSS on win32 for all sorts of things. and just HTF does MS get to "license linux"?
i never thought of it that way. i always looked at it as a drawback in windows that MS had no control over the arbitrary hardware that windows will be used with.
you're completely right tho, windows does nothing for hardware compatibility. the plug and play system and the APIs for it are a major source of the bloat and instability associated with windows. i wish there was some sort of incentive for hardware vendors to open up their designs so hardware support was faster and easier to build in to linux.
there are similar nasties in the XP EULA about not using any software to access an XP machine other than netmeeting or the remote desktop client from microsoft. many foretold this as being the end of VNC and gotomyPC and it wasn't. i do not believe that a single lawsuit has been filed despite the successes of noMachine, logmein.com and others.
my theory is that they want to stop people from using vmware player or other free VM's to run cheap windows installs on an Xsession or linux terminal server... you know, start VistaCheap in a VM hosted on a linux server then export the display to another machine that is not windows either, and is not in posession of a client access license. i think that they are doing this to protect windows terminal server (and the revenue generated by those Terminal Server Client Access Licenses) for running windows based thin clients. if that's true then it's ironic since TSCALS are priced to be more expensive than an OEM copy of windows when you factor in the cost of the terminal server. that way you will be more inclined to use traditional PCs and not thin clients. i know VMWare is cooking up something like this solution with WYSE and a couple of other vendors where you can use a thin client to access one of many windows VMs running on a server.
i would also imagine that they are doing this so that you cannot affordably use a cheap vista virtual machine to circumvent DRM on your non-windows PC. for enterprises adopting this "security" measure, they will have to choose between vista and macOS. i currently use Qemu and Q to run a win2k machine on my macbook at work. that way i can do all those windows things on AD and still use the mac for it's intended purpose.
MS may also want to use this provision to sue people who distribute the blue pill and similar virtualization attacks to create botnets.
install and run editpad classic on your XP pro machine and then scan it with defender. defender eats it without a warning. given a choice between defender and editpad, i chose editpad.
look up the mayor of chicago's involvment in the 1960 kennedy/nixon election. many believe that kennedy and his bunch stole the election due to voter fraud in texas and illinois. nixon didn't publicly call for a recount becuse he thought it would tear the nation apart.
all the news websites that ran like a hojillion articles about it... from gamespot all the way up to CNN. i am so freaking tired of the words "hot coffee" that even if the mod cured cancer and ran on linix i still wouldn't care.
in MS style shops there are two kinds of bugs... those that you fix in the documentation, and those that you fix in an update. the item described here sounds more like a "showstopper".
to go to a fun party and pick you up some "intimiate shave lotion". places like pure romance or passion parties sell it, it's for women to shave their junk. i use it to shave my face and it's the best. it's sort of scented, so you end up smelling like shaved pussy, and there are worse things to smell like:-)
The reality is that it will take less time for a hacker to take advantage of a potential exploit then it will for a company to fix an exploit so you should give a company the opportunity to fix the problem before you announce it to the world.
which is exactly why there are no secuirty issues with windows. big profit driven companies with huge brand images are always very quick to point out and fix flaws in their systems. i would imagine it is doubly so for politicians. thank god you can count on corporations and politicians to always do the right thing.
i think that 24 hour realtime coverage of paris hilton's reproductive habits is so functional... how else am i going to plan my day? besides, i love watching the 11 o'clock news with my mom and listen to her muse about how the world is going to hell.
i thought that buying routers from a jamaican guy in times square would be a great way to shave a few thousand from the budget and earn some points with the PHB. the rastaman told me that all the cisco reps use blankets to display thier gear, and that they routinely throw in a bag of weed with every catalyst.
wasn't ellison the guy in the 90's that tried to sell the world a $199 linux computer that ran off a CD and was called a thinknic? oracle and sun have always fantasized about non-windows powered thin clients that plugged in to their enterprise servers for call centers and hospitals and whatnot, but they really have yet to seal the deal with corporate IT.
you make an excellent point. one scenario where i think an oracle appliance might work well is with businesses that are just getting started and little or no existing data/apps to port over to linux. at that stage of the game, they probably can't afford a DBA of either the in-house or consultant variety, nor the many hours of installing and tweaking necessary to produce a well built enterprise app with oracle at it's heart.
i think that what they could afford is a windows client that is easily customized. if you have a backend that you pretty much plug in and configure with a webpage, and a client that is pretty much wizard based, you could have the best of both worlds: a brand name backend built (mass produced) by a professional DBA and unix sysadmin, and an easy to build front end for windows.
i think it is a very interesting idea. one thing to keep in mind is that a company with 1-10 people is not going to need an end to end enterprise application. most of the companies of that size that i have worked with are more likely to use an ugly cobbling of proprietary apps designed for their vertical market (software for running a vet's office for example, or one of the various travel agency applications) and off the shelf accounting/bookkeeping.
i think if they could make a lightweight (as in costs little or nothing) stack for small and medium sized integrators (the MCSE/VB dev for rent shops), with cool development tools, then they might have something.
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so MS has the final say in what businesses can do with open source software? funny, i don't remember electing them. i use and recommend the use of OSS on win32 for all sorts of things. and just HTF does MS get to "license linux"?
reminds me of the guy from "blackhawk down" talking about how americans "all live long, dull and uninteresting lives."
i never thought of it that way. i always looked at it as a drawback in windows that MS had no control over the arbitrary hardware that windows will be used with.
you're completely right tho, windows does nothing for hardware compatibility. the plug and play system and the APIs for it are a major source of the bloat and instability associated with windows. i wish there was some sort of incentive for hardware vendors to open up their designs so hardware support was faster and easier to build in to linux.
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadclassic.html
there are similar nasties in the XP EULA about not using any software to access an XP machine other than netmeeting or the remote desktop client from microsoft. many foretold this as being the end of VNC and gotomyPC and it wasn't. i do not believe that a single lawsuit has been filed despite the successes of noMachine, logmein.com and others.
my theory is that they want to stop people from using vmware player or other free VM's to run cheap windows installs on an Xsession or linux terminal server... you know, start VistaCheap in a VM hosted on a linux server then export the display to another machine that is not windows either, and is not in posession of a client access license. i think that they are doing this to protect windows terminal server (and the revenue generated by those Terminal Server Client Access Licenses) for running windows based thin clients. if that's true then it's ironic since TSCALS are priced to be more expensive than an OEM copy of windows when you factor in the cost of the terminal server. that way you will be more inclined to use traditional PCs and not thin clients. i know VMWare is cooking up something like this solution with WYSE and a couple of other vendors where you can use a thin client to access one of many windows VMs running on a server.
i would also imagine that they are doing this so that you cannot affordably use a cheap vista virtual machine to circumvent DRM on your non-windows PC. for enterprises adopting this "security" measure, they will have to choose between vista and macOS. i currently use Qemu and Q to run a win2k machine on my macbook at work. that way i can do all those windows things on AD and still use the mac for it's intended purpose.
MS may also want to use this provision to sue people who distribute the blue pill and similar virtualization attacks to create botnets.
install and run editpad classic on your XP pro machine and then scan it with defender. defender eats it without a warning. given a choice between defender and editpad, i chose editpad.
look up the mayor of chicago's involvment in the 1960 kennedy/nixon election. many believe that kennedy and his bunch stole the election due to voter fraud in texas and illinois. nixon didn't publicly call for a recount becuse he thought it would tear the nation apart.
i am totally buying one of these. i'll be the first kid on my block to have a greppvänlig!!
in other news:
water is wet
the sky is blue
size matters
yeah... still don't care :-)
all the news websites that ran like a hojillion articles about it... from gamespot all the way up to CNN. i am so freaking tired of the words "hot coffee" that even if the mod cured cancer and ran on linix i still wouldn't care.
in MS style shops there are two kinds of bugs... those that you fix in the documentation, and those that you fix in an update. the item described here sounds more like a "showstopper".
i don't know about real men, but straight guys aren't in to "manscaping" :-)
to go to a fun party and pick you up some "intimiate shave lotion". places like pure romance or passion parties sell it, it's for women to shave their junk. i use it to shave my face and it's the best. it's sort of scented, so you end up smelling like shaved pussy, and there are worse things to smell like :-)
The reality is that it will take less time for a hacker to take advantage of a potential exploit then it will for a company to fix an exploit so you should give a company the opportunity to fix the problem before you announce it to the world.
which is exactly why there are no secuirty issues with windows. big profit driven companies with huge brand images are always very quick to point out and fix flaws in their systems. i would imagine it is doubly so for politicians. thank god you can count on corporations and politicians to always do the right thing.
trumping redhat in any capacity makes me all weak in the knees.
death... i mean CAKE!!!
i think that 24 hour realtime coverage of paris hilton's reproductive habits is so functional... how else am i going to plan my day? besides, i love watching the 11 o'clock news with my mom and listen to her muse about how the world is going to hell.
i thought that buying routers from a jamaican guy in times square would be a great way to shave a few thousand from the budget and earn some points with the PHB. the rastaman told me that all the cisco reps use blankets to display thier gear, and that they routinely throw in a bag of weed with every catalyst.
wasn't ellison the guy in the 90's that tried to sell the world a $199 linux computer that ran off a CD and was called a thinknic? oracle and sun have always fantasized about non-windows powered thin clients that plugged in to their enterprise servers for call centers and hospitals and whatnot, but they really have yet to seal the deal with corporate IT.
you make an excellent point. one scenario where i think an oracle appliance might work well is with businesses that are just getting started and little or no existing data/apps to port over to linux. at that stage of the game, they probably can't afford a DBA of either the in-house or consultant variety, nor the many hours of installing and tweaking necessary to produce a well built enterprise app with oracle at it's heart.
i think that what they could afford is a windows client that is easily customized. if you have a backend that you pretty much plug in and configure with a webpage, and a client that is pretty much wizard based, you could have the best of both worlds: a brand name backend built (mass produced) by a professional DBA and unix sysadmin, and an easy to build front end for windows.
i think it is a very interesting idea. one thing to keep in mind is that a company with 1-10 people is not going to need an end to end enterprise application. most of the companies of that size that i have worked with are more likely to use an ugly cobbling of proprietary apps designed for their vertical market (software for running a vet's office for example, or one of the various travel agency applications) and off the shelf accounting/bookkeeping.
i think if they could make a lightweight (as in costs little or nothing) stack for small and medium sized integrators (the MCSE/VB dev for rent shops), with cool development tools, then they might have something.
Jpr0n FTW!!
windizupdate comes close.
I never received a reply, and they never received my business! I'm not taking any chances with my eyes, I'll stick with glasses.
glasses are nothing more than tiny little windows.