Anybody who ever read an official document will know that a typical official 200 page document may have one paragraph of tangential information. The rest is sign-off pages, configuration management, tables of contents, referenced documents and indexes...
Obviously MS is paying off companies to avoid getting sued in future. Marketing spin is used to make it look like it is the other way around, but if it is unclear, follow the money. MS paid Novell M$40 not the other way around. What exactly it is that MS did that is making them scared of getting sued, I don't know, but it will probably come out in the next ten years or so. I guess they misappropriated a bunch of GPL code and is feeling guilty.
It appears to me that Vista is aimed squarely at the home market. I can only assume that the business market is inconsequential to MS since it is heavily discounted. Anyhoo, Vista is useless for the military market. We can't allow stuff that keeps trying to phone home on military networks. XP is already a PITA since it needs to be activated every 6 months, so if you put a system in storage for a long time it is broken when you take it out. Vista is permanently broken. So MS cut themselves completely out of the armed forces.
You need to read up on Samba version 4. SLES (or any Linux) can be either an Active Directory client or a server. Linux can just as easily replace Windows servers without anyone being any the wiser. It works both ways.
America is a Federation. This means that most Americans don't give a rat's ass about what happens in Washington. Their state and local governments are more important to them.
So what kind of bizarre Linux are you using? Maybe you should dump your 10 year old copy of Slackware and get a modern Mandriva, Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse version. You could also buy a machine that has Linux pre-installed from Dell and use that. If you don't change anything, it should keep working for years on end.
In practise you can never deliver a system that is exactly the same as the reference design. However, all equipment delivered to the military has to be certified by their own security people. This is a long process which takes months to years. It helps a lot if you can tell them that you followed the reference design up to a point and show exactly where you deviated. Therefore the certification of the reference design is very useful.
Sort-of. It depends on your contractual requirements. I always try to sneak in a provision to the effect that 'The system will use the CAPP/EAL4 reference design as a guideline'. Schtuff delivered to the military needs to be certified by their own security people anyway, but it helps a lot if you can show that you followed the CAPP/EAL4 configuration and point out where you had to deviate.
Hmm, steam trains regularly ran at speeds of 80 to 100km/h or more in the middle of the 19th century. The fastest trains were in the UK and Germany, but mail routes between Chicago and New York also clocked very high speeds in excess of 50 miles and hour more than 100 years ago. The main reason passenger rail travel declined in the 20th century is because trains became much slower than they used to be and aircraft stepped into the void. Now that high speed trains are coming back, people are using rail travel again:
George S. Bangs, Railway Mail Service General Superintendent (1871-1876), proposed the need for fast and exclusive mail trains between the nation's two commercial centers, New York and Chicago. According to Bangs, the service would "expedite the movement of mail from the east to the west and cover the distance in about twenty-four hours," a dramatic savings in time (Annual Report, 1874). The first Fast Mail train carried over thirty tons of mail from New York to Chicago on September 16, 1875, traveling at an average speed of 50 miles per hour.
The first Fast Mail five-car train traveled from New York City to Chicago via Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Toledo over the New York Central plus Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads. The Fast Mail never missed a connection from September 16, 1875, to July 22, 1876. It failed to arrive in Chicago on time only three times and was delayed traveling to New York only once. Although the Fast Mail was successful and a remarkable break-through, this first Fast Mail was discontinued in July 1876 when Congress instituted a 10-percent reduction in service. Date:
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Yup, pretty soon Americans will be sneaking across the border into Mexico to find work...
Well, there is dust everywhere and it had to come from somewhere. So the exact same mechanism that caused the existing dust will cause new dust.
I guess these liquids are practically solid like ordinary glass.
Anybody who ever read an official document will know that a typical official 200 page document may have one paragraph of tangential information. The rest is sign-off pages, configuration management, tables of contents, referenced documents and indexes...
You feel suicidal? Here you go: http://suicidegirls.com/
You missed 'now now' and 'now then', but you already scored 10 bonus points for the use of 'just now'. :)
Yup, be sure to build it right under your pyramid and keep wearing that armadillo hat and asbestos underwear... :)
So the projects with the most bugs are at the top and the stable ones that just work and don't need updates are at the bottom - duh...
Obviously MS is paying off companies to avoid getting sued in future. Marketing spin is used to make it look like it is the other way around, but if it is unclear, follow the money. MS paid Novell M$40 not the other way around. What exactly it is that MS did that is making them scared of getting sued, I don't know, but it will probably come out in the next ten years or so. I guess they misappropriated a bunch of GPL code and is feeling guilty.
have been doing that in urban areas for many years already...
It appears to me that Vista is aimed squarely at the home market. I can only assume that the business market is inconsequential to MS since it is heavily discounted. Anyhoo, Vista is useless for the military market. We can't allow stuff that keeps trying to phone home on military networks. XP is already a PITA since it needs to be activated every 6 months, so if you put a system in storage for a long time it is broken when you take it out. Vista is permanently broken. So MS cut themselves completely out of the armed forces.
Cars are the best examples of recycling we have. Have you ever passed by a junk yard? Next time, take a better look.
You need to read up on Samba version 4. SLES (or any Linux) can be either an Active Directory client or a server. Linux can just as easily replace Windows servers without anyone being any the wiser. It works both ways.
You are not alone. There are lots of misinformed people thinking like you do.
America is a Federation. This means that most Americans don't give a rat's ass about what happens in Washington. Their state and local governments are more important to them.
Doesn't matter what you do, it is always indirect. That is the nature of sound.
What??? We'll contact our Congress Critter and have the copyright extended retroactively. RIAA.
One dollar a century ago, mut have been some serious coin.
The Common Criteria is a joint project between several governments including Australia: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/
If you need to supply computer equipment to a government agency then you better start reading. If not, then don't bother.
So what kind of bizarre Linux are you using? Maybe you should dump your 10 year old copy of Slackware and get a modern Mandriva, Ubuntu, RedHat or Suse version. You could also buy a machine that has Linux pre-installed from Dell and use that. If you don't change anything, it should keep working for years on end.
In practise you can never deliver a system that is exactly the same as the reference design. However, all equipment delivered to the military has to be certified by their own security people. This is a long process which takes months to years. It helps a lot if you can tell them that you followed the reference design up to a point and show exactly where you deviated. Therefore the certification of the reference design is very useful.
Sort-of. It depends on your contractual requirements. I always try to sneak in a provision to the effect that 'The system will use the CAPP/EAL4 reference design as a guideline'. Schtuff delivered to the military needs to be certified by their own security people anyway, but it helps a lot if you can show that you followed the CAPP/EAL4 configuration and point out where you had to deviate.
Holding your data ransom? Use BartPE to free it: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
If you boot off the CDROM then you can copy any Winders data over the network or to another partition or disk drive or whatever.
Well, I guess Linux is finally ready for the desktop - certified by Microsoft no less.
Hmm, steam trains regularly ran at speeds of 80 to 100km/h or more in the middle of the 19th century. The fastest trains were in the UK and Germany, but mail routes between Chicago and New York also clocked very high speeds in excess of 50 miles and hour more than 100 years ago. The main reason passenger rail travel declined in the 20th century is because trains became much slower than they used to be and aircraft stepped into the void. Now that high speed trains are coming back, people are using rail travel again:
George S. Bangs, Railway Mail Service General Superintendent (1871-1876), proposed the need for fast and exclusive mail trains between the nation's two commercial centers, New York and Chicago. According to Bangs, the service would "expedite the movement of mail from the east to the west and cover the distance in about twenty-four hours," a dramatic savings in time (Annual Report, 1874). The first Fast Mail train carried over thirty tons of mail from New York to Chicago on September 16, 1875, traveling at an average speed of 50 miles per hour.
The first Fast Mail five-car train traveled from New York City to Chicago via Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Toledo over the New York Central plus Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads. The Fast Mail never missed a connection from September 16, 1875, to July 22, 1876. It failed to arrive in Chicago on time only three times and was delayed traveling to New York only once. Although the Fast Mail was successful and a remarkable break-through, this first Fast Mail was discontinued in July 1876 when Congress instituted a 10-percent reduction in service.
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