True but selling software is an inherently flawed business model anyway, that requires extensive propping up by the law and heavy investment in anti-copying technology. It is an industry held together by tape and bubble gum, which is why most software companies have been moving toward other business models, like selling support or selling indemnification against patent lawsuits (or just becoming patent trolls, in the case of smaller companies).
One way of solving the issue is to integrate open source development with another line of work. For example, a paid researcher at a university might fix a bug in Octave, which would help his work, and then send that patch upstream (barring, of course, the university's management telling him that he cannot, which is unfortunately the case in some institutions).
"-Smart text parsing. The OS should know that xxxx@yyyy.zzz is an email. Mail does something like this, but I don't use it for other reasons."
Please, let us not have this added to anything. That is the format used for Jabber screennames, ssh/sftp logins, finger, and a variety of other network services new and old.
"-Real transparent server file systems. No, XP/Vista/OS X/Linux do not have this."
Wait, let me check...yes, Dolphin from KDE4, and Konqueror in KDE3, and the file dialog in KDE, and so forth all supported ftp/sftp/webdav browsing, saving, editing, and so on. I fail to see how we can get more transparent than that, short of the computer learning to read minds.
Actually, the security of a system should not depend on hiding the operating details of the system. The EAL levels are based on things like audit logs, privilege separation, the ability to kick a user off the system and kill all their processes, etc. The availability of the source is neither a positive nor a negative on EAL ratings.
Unfortunately, patent trolling is in the best interests of most universities in the United States. Since the 1980s, everything in America has become increasing profit-centric, including education, and there is no sign of that slowing down any time soon. Just look at how most people view college these days: a ticket to a job. Gone are the days when going to college was about studying, learning, and becoming an intellectual. The schools themselves have adopted a new attitude as well, based on making money on patents and copyrights. The copyrights to my senior design project are held by my university, and for a while, they even had a legal fight with a local company that sponsored the project in order to retain those copyrights.
It will not be long before colleges start partitioning their students' access to journals based on those students' majors.
Toyota is probably trying to protect its trademarks. The USPTO would not renew Toyota's trademarks if Toyota did not actively work to prevent unauthorized uses of its trademarks. I did not hear anyone complain when Red Hat or Mozilla enforced their trademarks.
Pet peeve number two: people who take down perfectly functional websites and replace them with AJAX monsters that are not any more useful. Usually, the new website will be even less useful than the old one, but who wants the embarrassment of going back to the older design?
This mistake is commonly combined with the "let me take down the website and then upgrade it" mistake, and usually by "web designers" whose background includes an associates degree in IT and two weeks of basic HTML. We recently had this very thing happen at my university with the meal plan system; students can get a meal plan, and are able to add money to the plan online. Then one day, some idiot realized that this system could never work without an AJAX interface, and convinced management to pay thousands of dollars for an upgrade. This same idiot, or possibly one of his moron friends, then proceeds to completely disable the previous system, during an off-peak time of the year (one week in August when there are no classes), but apparently underestimated the time it would take to write the new system (three months). So for half a semester, students had to find the meal plan office (which had been moved due to building renovations) every time they needed to added money to their meal plans.
I like to bring up the Debian website in these discussions. It has not significantly changed since...actually, I cannot remember a significant change to it, but I am more of a Red Hat Linux guy, so maybe at some point over the past few years there has been some sort of change. Anyone want to cite one?
It is really more of a conditional scholarship, since it only applies to people currently enrolled in college. Frankly, it seems like a great idea, but if it is poorly implemented it could turn into a nightmare of paperwork or an utter failure because of low quality jobs. I wonder if it will also apply to graduate students...
I do not agree with that. DNS hijacking should be considered illegal criminal activity, regardless of what the reason was. We have enough problems with DNS attacks, the last thing we need is for a company like D-Link to try and legitimize it.
If I buy a router, I wanted the router. I would not buy a router if I wanted a security stack; I would buy security software.
ghostscript for the win. I can do this in even less time using ghostscript and reasonably advanced shell. The best part is not having to pay for Acrobat pro.
Makes perfect sense. This is the same company that is calling an XP to Vista migration an "upgrade," and the same company that took 20 years to realize that a functional CLI was actually relevant in the IT world.
Where did the idea that Democrats would have reacted differently to the September 11 attacks come from? Allow me to repeat it from a previous post: No president since the 1950s, from either party, has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign military conflict. No president has reduced the size or power of the military. No president has cut defense spending. Both parties have voted in favor of increased globalization, and the use of signals intelligence to spy on foreign businesses and pass their trade secrets to US businesses has occurred during periods of control from both parties. Involvement with foreign nations has only happened in those nations that appear to have strategic or economic value to the US (so do not go around expecting the US to intervene in Congo or Sudan), regardless of which party is in office.
A person who lived through the collapse of the soviet union once pointed out that in America, the only relevant political parties are the Capitalist party and the Capitalist party. Democrats and Republicans disagree on a handful of very minor issues, despite all the media trumpeting about one being "left" and one being "right." The Democrats will still pass legislation that favours big businesses, just a different group of businesses. No president since the 1950s has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign conflict. The use of signals intelligence operations to spy on foreign businesses and pass along their trade secrets to US businesses has occurred during both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and during both Democrat and Republican control of Congress.
If America wanted serious change, change that was not just superficial, then one of the third party candidates would have one.
At the very least, it is a good thing that the neoconservative movement appears to have weakened a bit in this election. Do not confuse neoconservative and Republican -- while most neocons are Republicans, most Republicans are not neoconservative and many Republicans found the neoconservatives to be embarrassing.
Like software, VLSI circuits have bugs on release day. The Core i7 CPU is HUGELY complex, and will undoubtedly have bugs. I would rather know the severity of those bugs before spending hundreds of dollars on a new CPU.
I would wait several months before buying from Newegg. This CPU will undoubtedly have some major errata, and you'll probably want to know about it before you go ahead and throw down hundreds of dollars. Personally, I'll be waiting until at least April before I even consider it to be a viable option.
I'll take the cynical stance and say that this is a good thing. We need fewer people on the Internet. We need to return the 'net to the state it was in circa '92.
Except that financially destroying the USA would not destroy the USA's military capabilities. When the USA is faced with a catastrophic economic failure, the course of action will be military intervention, conquering some other nation and using its resources to boost our economy. Case in point, 30 year predictions on oil show major supply shortages, so we invade Iraq.
This is not exactly a new strategy; in the history of the world, whenever a powerful nation/empire is in need of resources, it conquers some other nation in order to obtain those resources.
I completely agree. Sitting there glued to your TV on election night, watching as each vote gets counted, is hardly a productive use of your time. Cast your vote, go to sleep, and see the aftermath when you wake up the next day. Really, this election will not be decided Tuesday night, it will be very close and involve a lot of lawyers; in fact, both parties have already hired lawyers in Ohio, ready to contest what is likely to be an extremely close race.
Managing software installs, at least in Red Hat, is just a matter of setting up a local Red Hat Satellite repository. In Fedora, there is also Cobbler, which lets you spin a Fedora installer with customized software packages.
As for logins, there are a variety of mechanisms. You can go with old school NIS, or even just use Samba, which can be especially useful during migration when you will probably have a heterogeneous environment (assuming the migration is away from Windows). Also, there is autofs, which can automatically mount a network mapped home directory when a user logs in...
Use Pidgin with OTR. It is a good balance of security and convenience, you just need to be careful about not having your hardware stolen (OTR keys are not symmetrically encrypted the way PGP keys are). You might be able to resolve that by also using whole disk encryption...
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True but selling software is an inherently flawed business model anyway, that requires extensive propping up by the law and heavy investment in anti-copying technology. It is an industry held together by tape and bubble gum, which is why most software companies have been moving toward other business models, like selling support or selling indemnification against patent lawsuits (or just becoming patent trolls, in the case of smaller companies).
One way of solving the issue is to integrate open source development with another line of work. For example, a paid researcher at a university might fix a bug in Octave, which would help his work, and then send that patch upstream (barring, of course, the university's management telling him that he cannot, which is unfortunately the case in some institutions).
"-Smart text parsing. The OS should know that xxxx@yyyy.zzz is an email. Mail does something like this, but I don't use it for other reasons."
Please, let us not have this added to anything. That is the format used for Jabber screennames, ssh/sftp logins, finger, and a variety of other network services new and old.
"-Real transparent server file systems. No, XP/Vista/OS X/Linux do not have this."
Wait, let me check...yes, Dolphin from KDE4, and Konqueror in KDE3, and the file dialog in KDE, and so forth all supported ftp/sftp/webdav browsing, saving, editing, and so on. I fail to see how we can get more transparent than that, short of the computer learning to read minds.
Actually, the security of a system should not depend on hiding the operating details of the system. The EAL levels are based on things like audit logs, privilege separation, the ability to kick a user off the system and kill all their processes, etc. The availability of the source is neither a positive nor a negative on EAL ratings.
Unfortunately, patent trolling is in the best interests of most universities in the United States. Since the 1980s, everything in America has become increasing profit-centric, including education, and there is no sign of that slowing down any time soon. Just look at how most people view college these days: a ticket to a job. Gone are the days when going to college was about studying, learning, and becoming an intellectual. The schools themselves have adopted a new attitude as well, based on making money on patents and copyrights. The copyrights to my senior design project are held by my university, and for a while, they even had a legal fight with a local company that sponsored the project in order to retain those copyrights.
It will not be long before colleges start partitioning their students' access to journals based on those students' majors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermos
People began to use the word "Thermos" to refer to any container which could keep liquids warm, and so the trademark was lost in the 1960s.
Toyota is probably trying to protect its trademarks. The USPTO would not renew Toyota's trademarks if Toyota did not actively work to prevent unauthorized uses of its trademarks. I did not hear anyone complain when Red Hat or Mozilla enforced their trademarks.
Pet peeve number two: people who take down perfectly functional websites and replace them with AJAX monsters that are not any more useful. Usually, the new website will be even less useful than the old one, but who wants the embarrassment of going back to the older design?
This mistake is commonly combined with the "let me take down the website and then upgrade it" mistake, and usually by "web designers" whose background includes an associates degree in IT and two weeks of basic HTML. We recently had this very thing happen at my university with the meal plan system; students can get a meal plan, and are able to add money to the plan online. Then one day, some idiot realized that this system could never work without an AJAX interface, and convinced management to pay thousands of dollars for an upgrade. This same idiot, or possibly one of his moron friends, then proceeds to completely disable the previous system, during an off-peak time of the year (one week in August when there are no classes), but apparently underestimated the time it would take to write the new system (three months). So for half a semester, students had to find the meal plan office (which had been moved due to building renovations) every time they needed to added money to their meal plans. I like to bring up the Debian website in these discussions. It has not significantly changed since...actually, I cannot remember a significant change to it, but I am more of a Red Hat Linux guy, so maybe at some point over the past few years there has been some sort of change. Anyone want to cite one?
In a way, this particular patent makes it easier, because patent trolls must now pay in order to troll...
It is really more of a conditional scholarship, since it only applies to people currently enrolled in college. Frankly, it seems like a great idea, but if it is poorly implemented it could turn into a nightmare of paperwork or an utter failure because of low quality jobs. I wonder if it will also apply to graduate students...
I do not agree with that. DNS hijacking should be considered illegal criminal activity, regardless of what the reason was. We have enough problems with DNS attacks, the last thing we need is for a company like D-Link to try and legitimize it.
If I buy a router, I wanted the router. I would not buy a router if I wanted a security stack; I would buy security software.
ghostscript for the win. I can do this in even less time using ghostscript and reasonably advanced shell. The best part is not having to pay for Acrobat pro.
Makes perfect sense. This is the same company that is calling an XP to Vista migration an "upgrade," and the same company that took 20 years to realize that a functional CLI was actually relevant in the IT world.
Where did the idea that Democrats would have reacted differently to the September 11 attacks come from? Allow me to repeat it from a previous post: No president since the 1950s, from either party, has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign military conflict. No president has reduced the size or power of the military. No president has cut defense spending. Both parties have voted in favor of increased globalization, and the use of signals intelligence to spy on foreign businesses and pass their trade secrets to US businesses has occurred during periods of control from both parties. Involvement with foreign nations has only happened in those nations that appear to have strategic or economic value to the US (so do not go around expecting the US to intervene in Congo or Sudan), regardless of which party is in office.
As I pressed 'submit,' I noticed that...and unfortunately, the form data was posted before I could fix the error. Should have hit 'preview...'
A person who lived through the collapse of the soviet union once pointed out that in America, the only relevant political parties are the Capitalist party and the Capitalist party. Democrats and Republicans disagree on a handful of very minor issues, despite all the media trumpeting about one being "left" and one being "right." The Democrats will still pass legislation that favours big businesses, just a different group of businesses. No president since the 1950s has served an entire term without engaging America in some foreign conflict. The use of signals intelligence operations to spy on foreign businesses and pass along their trade secrets to US businesses has occurred during both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and during both Democrat and Republican control of Congress.
If America wanted serious change, change that was not just superficial, then one of the third party candidates would have one.
At the very least, it is a good thing that the neoconservative movement appears to have weakened a bit in this election. Do not confuse neoconservative and Republican -- while most neocons are Republicans, most Republicans are not neoconservative and many Republicans found the neoconservatives to be embarrassing.
Halfway through that process, the rest of the forest is cut down for paper by machines powered with the diesel from the first half...
...year of Linux at last?
Like software, VLSI circuits have bugs on release day. The Core i7 CPU is HUGELY complex, and will undoubtedly have bugs. I would rather know the severity of those bugs before spending hundreds of dollars on a new CPU.
I am more into ambiguous anger:
"I am angry at the parade I saw coming through the window!"
I would wait several months before buying from Newegg. This CPU will undoubtedly have some major errata, and you'll probably want to know about it before you go ahead and throw down hundreds of dollars. Personally, I'll be waiting until at least April before I even consider it to be a viable option.
I'll take the cynical stance and say that this is a good thing. We need fewer people on the Internet. We need to return the 'net to the state it was in circa '92.
Except that financially destroying the USA would not destroy the USA's military capabilities. When the USA is faced with a catastrophic economic failure, the course of action will be military intervention, conquering some other nation and using its resources to boost our economy. Case in point, 30 year predictions on oil show major supply shortages, so we invade Iraq.
This is not exactly a new strategy; in the history of the world, whenever a powerful nation/empire is in need of resources, it conquers some other nation in order to obtain those resources.
I completely agree. Sitting there glued to your TV on election night, watching as each vote gets counted, is hardly a productive use of your time. Cast your vote, go to sleep, and see the aftermath when you wake up the next day. Really, this election will not be decided Tuesday night, it will be very close and involve a lot of lawyers; in fact, both parties have already hired lawyers in Ohio, ready to contest what is likely to be an extremely close race.
Managing software installs, at least in Red Hat, is just a matter of setting up a local Red Hat Satellite repository. In Fedora, there is also Cobbler, which lets you spin a Fedora installer with customized software packages.
As for logins, there are a variety of mechanisms. You can go with old school NIS, or even just use Samba, which can be especially useful during migration when you will probably have a heterogeneous environment (assuming the migration is away from Windows). Also, there is autofs, which can automatically mount a network mapped home directory when a user logs in...
Use Pidgin with OTR. It is a good balance of security and convenience, you just need to be careful about not having your hardware stolen (OTR keys are not symmetrically encrypted the way PGP keys are). You might be able to resolve that by also using whole disk encryption...