I said keep copper, not remove copper. You go with FiOS, you'll lose your copper pair unless you raise holy hell, and while the pedantic among us might say that's your exception, it proves the rule.
Mod parent +1 insightful. Verizon is one of the worst incumbent/ monopolies in the US. SBC are amateurs compared to how badly you can be treated at Verizon. Case in point: what other telco has customer service available only from 8a-6p M-F? How do they even get away with such blatant disregard for their customers? Because they aren't customers, they are ratepayers, locked into a forced agreement if they want a landline.
Try to order FiOS and keep your copper pair, see what that gets you. That price for FiOS assumes you're using it for voice and data.
No, what's really missing from this or any other Linux distro is a suitable MUA to Exchange, without using WebDAV. Once I can ditch Outlook, I can ditch the corp OS. Until that day, no dice.
I work in a regulated industry, and this is an ongoing topic at pharmaceuticals. Basically, you weigh the cost of non-compliance versus compliance, figure out what that risk is worth to your business, then try to spend as little as possible to mitigate the risk until the cost is acceptable.
There is no such thing as 100% compliance or security. Oracle makes a big deal out of their data vault tech, but there's someone out there who can circumvent it. You need to figure out your comfort level for the risk, and in big corps, this is a financial decision.
Which leads me to this: there is no "roll your own" compliance software. You do not want to assume the responsibility of proving to auditors that your software is correct and fully-functional. That is a difficult process to behold, and it will make your dev team crazy with paperwork. This is why people buy commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and then configure it, as they can then point to the COTS vendor and say "He vouches for the software". Auditors already versed in the COTS solution will then look to see examples of your configuration to see if it's sufficient, then move on.
Sure, it's a nice intellectual exercise and certainly worthy of development, by a dedicated team willing to tackle all of the issues around securing the data, providing secure authentication and controls, proving non-repudiation and temporal consistency, etc, all of which a one-man show cannot achieve, all of which a half-assed token effort cannot achieve.
Really, it boils down to this: you wanna roll the dice on your company being under a consent decree from the DoJ because you were too cheap to buy a system? That cost can shutter your doors.
mod parent +1 insightful, that's exactly the corporate issue. A Fortune 500 makes a deal with Verizon for all cells, for example, and isn't going to switch carriers just for an iPhone, no matter how much the sales and marketing babies cry. AT&T is banking on the iPhone to create enough envy that people will just add a new personal line just for the phone.
Me? I'll wait until HTC creates a clone that crushes it, and buy it unlocked.
if you have a math degree, it'd better be with applied math or Pharma won't even bother with you. Prob&Stat, plus some real experience with SPSS or SAS, will get you anywhere you want to be: insurance, finance, R&D (because those results don't regress themselves!)
Science, well, I know a few chem engineers, and it's not really all that much fun unless you're a PhD with an attractive agenda (to acquire research funding) and good networking skills (to keep the funding).
I was looking for some human-wear testing along the lines of flexibility when worn and its insulating properties. It might be lighter in weight but if it leads to greater insulation or is more of a vapor barrier, it will fail the open market test. Cops wearing vests generally don't bitch about the weight as much as the intolerable heat, moisture, and smell of summertime wear.
IANACop, but I know enough of them to state this without fear of reprisal or shenanigans.
mod parent up +1 informative, this is exactly what the CPU announcement means. Apple has nothing to do with a CPU replacement for mid-range computers (RS/6000 and AIX). Apple and Microsoft have nothing that can take advantage of all that it offers.
Second off, it should be hot, and third off, it should be black, no sugar.
I can understand, but not relate, to the cult of coffee to this extent. I've had awful coffee, and gotten used to it, purely out of necessity (having to work overnights and go to school during the day), so perhaps my standards are much lower than average.
Still, I know good coffee from bad, and this is what an admittedly dogged-palate person does:
one can Lavazza Espresso or Medaglio D'Oro or El Pico (espressos only) one drip coffee maker, Krupps, permanent filter, carafe (so once brewed, no add'l heat) filtered water
I drink it with no sugar, no milk, nothing. If it can't stand on its own, it isn't worth drinking. Anything else is dessert.
which is why I don't use it. We use Oracle here, and I've written for Sybase and DB2 in the past. I can't bring myself to use MySQL, it's still half-baked in all the parts I need.
Nice, looks like it is well on its way to being a true competitor, but the Wiki mentioned no dynamic memory for Linux yet, and that would be a deal-breaker for my dev/test box, since I want dynamic memory for the dev partition(s) most of the time, but a full grab for test during system test runs.
I counter you anecdote with my own. We can run AIX, HP/UX, or Linux at my company, a large pharma. Internally, the staff prefers AIX because when things go sideways, IBM will stand behind AIX and the p550 it's using for h/w. I can't say that about Linux on Dell yet (if ever), and wouldn't even bother saying it about Linux on the same p550. Why?
Because: what's the point of using a generic kernel/OS if I can use a highly-optimized kernel/OS on a p550? Have you seen what AIX can do on that platform? Linux isn't even close to that yet, and may never get that close in a fully-supported way. And we use all of that cool micropartitioning and make it part of our system design for new apps.
Sorry, that kind of power is worth a little more wait on actual IBM expertise. Usenet might be faster for minor things but once you get IBM's support staff headed in the right direction, you get a complete solution.
MySQL is the poster child for open-source RDBMS (sorry Firebird, sorry Postgres), and if nothing else, buying MySQL stock will eventually get you some Google shares when they inevitably absorb.
All replies should be links or pointers to prior art for the above patent. It's not overly-obvious, but I think the exercise will prove the point that patents are far too easy to obtain.
The ODF argument can negate or blunt most of the proprietary lock-in with Excel and Word, the primary document formats of Office and the ones most critical to internal migration from Office. For highly-regulated industries it offers the ability to save information in a neutral format, thus sparing them at least one headache when regulators come by for a spot inspection (I work in pharma, so this is a Big Deal).
The Exchange argument will probably persist. Email has to be stored in the event of litigation now, and *that* is a tougher nut to crack. I would tend to agree that lock-in with Exchange makes a drop-in Outlook replacement almost impossible, but there may still be some hope for a clever indie solution.
However, moving away from the Exchange Server is even tougher than changing db platforms, and that's almost impossible for big companies who've negotiated enterprise licenses.
Thunderbird Outlook and in some cases, *nothing* = Outlook for calendaring, contact management, etc. When Linux has a drop-in replacement for Outlook that connects to Exchange Servers and can handle PSTs, they'll have the killer app needed to crush Office. Until then, it'll be no sale. Believe me, programmers would probably love to switch but they still need to get email at work from the Exchange Server.
And no, solutions that require interdiction with Exchange administration do not count. Drop-in replacement is exactly that, just your Windows domain username and password.
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...because as anyone who's been to traffic court will tell you, ignorance is no excuse.
-BA
No bet, he'd never choose an open-source db.
-C
How come you haven't hired Joe Celko yet?
-C
...and then, in order, Doom, Apache, and sendmail.
-BA
That's not the current offer on the table for Essex County, NJ. You have to take both.
Cablevision was doing the same thing until one month ago: no Optimum Voice without their video services. Forced bundling.
-BA
I said keep copper, not remove copper. You go with FiOS, you'll lose your copper pair unless you raise holy hell, and while the pedantic among us might say that's your exception, it proves the rule.
-BA
Mod parent +1 insightful. Verizon is one of the worst incumbent/ monopolies in the US. SBC are amateurs compared to how badly you can be treated at Verizon. Case in point: what other telco has customer service available only from 8a-6p M-F? How do they even get away with such blatant disregard for their customers? Because they aren't customers, they are ratepayers, locked into a forced agreement if they want a landline.
Try to order FiOS and keep your copper pair, see what that gets you. That price for FiOS assumes you're using it for voice and data.
-BA
No, what's really missing from this or any other Linux distro is a suitable MUA to Exchange, without using WebDAV. Once I can ditch Outlook, I can ditch the corp OS. Until that day, no dice.
-BA
I work in a regulated industry, and this is an ongoing topic at pharmaceuticals.
Basically, you weigh the cost of non-compliance versus compliance, figure out
what that risk is worth to your business, then try to spend as little as possible
to mitigate the risk until the cost is acceptable.
There is no such thing as 100% compliance or security. Oracle makes a big deal out
of their data vault tech, but there's someone out there who can circumvent it. You
need to figure out your comfort level for the risk, and in big corps, this is a
financial decision.
Which leads me to this: there is no "roll your own" compliance software. You do not
want to assume the responsibility of proving to auditors that your software is correct
and fully-functional. That is a difficult process to behold, and it will make your
dev team crazy with paperwork. This is why people buy commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
software and then configure it, as they can then point to the COTS vendor and say
"He vouches for the software". Auditors already versed in the COTS solution will
then look to see examples of your configuration to see if it's sufficient, then
move on.
Sure, it's a nice intellectual exercise and certainly worthy of development, by a
dedicated team willing to tackle all of the issues around securing the data, providing
secure authentication and controls, proving non-repudiation and temporal consistency,
etc, all of which a one-man show cannot achieve, all of which a half-assed token effort
cannot achieve.
Really, it boils down to this: you wanna roll the dice on your company being under a
consent decree from the DoJ because you were too cheap to buy a system? That cost can
shutter your doors.
-BA
mod parent +1 clueless and +1 physics major with no job prospects
mod parent +1 insightful, that's exactly the corporate issue. A Fortune 500 makes a deal with Verizon for all cells, for example, and isn't going to switch carriers just for an iPhone, no matter how much the sales and marketing babies cry. AT&T is banking on the iPhone to create enough envy that people will just add a new personal line just for the phone.
Me? I'll wait until HTC creates a clone that crushes it, and buy it unlocked.
-BA
if you have a math degree, it'd better be with applied math or Pharma won't even bother with you. Prob&Stat, plus some real experience with SPSS or SAS, will get you anywhere you want to be: insurance, finance, R&D (because those results don't regress themselves!)
Science, well, I know a few chem engineers, and it's not really all that much fun unless you're a PhD with an attractive agenda (to acquire research funding) and good networking skills (to keep the funding).
-BA
I was looking for some human-wear testing along the lines of flexibility when worn and its insulating properties. It might be lighter in weight but if it leads to greater insulation or is more of a vapor barrier, it will fail the open market test. Cops wearing vests generally don't bitch about the weight as much as the intolerable heat, moisture, and smell of summertime wear.
IANACop, but I know enough of them to state this without fear of reprisal or shenanigans.
-BA
mod parent up +1 informative, this is exactly what the CPU announcement means. Apple has nothing to do with a CPU replacement for mid-range computers (RS/6000 and AIX). Apple and Microsoft have nothing that can take advantage of all that it offers.
-BA
Second off, it should be hot, and third off, it should be black, no sugar.
I can understand, but not relate, to the cult of coffee to this extent. I've had awful coffee, and gotten used to it, purely out of necessity (having to work overnights and go to school during the day), so perhaps my standards are much lower than average.
Still, I know good coffee from bad, and this is what an admittedly dogged-palate person does:
one can Lavazza Espresso or Medaglio D'Oro or El Pico (espressos only)
one drip coffee maker, Krupps, permanent filter, carafe (so once brewed, no add'l heat)
filtered water
I drink it with no sugar, no milk, nothing. If it can't stand on its own, it isn't worth drinking. Anything else is dessert.
-BA
which is why I don't use it. We use Oracle here, and I've written for Sybase and DB2 in the past. I can't bring myself to use MySQL, it's still half-baked in all the parts I need.
-BA
Nice, looks like it is well on its way to being a true competitor, but the Wiki mentioned no dynamic memory for Linux yet, and that would be a deal-breaker for my dev/test box, since I want dynamic memory for the dev partition(s) most of the time, but a full grab for test during system test runs.
-BA
I counter you anecdote with my own. We can run AIX, HP/UX, or Linux at my company, a large pharma. Internally, the staff prefers AIX because when things go sideways, IBM will stand behind AIX and the p550 it's using for h/w. I can't say that about Linux on Dell yet (if ever), and wouldn't even bother saying it about Linux on the same p550. Why?
Because: what's the point of using a generic kernel/OS if I can use a highly-optimized kernel/OS on a p550? Have you seen what AIX can do on that platform? Linux isn't even close to that yet, and may never get that close in a fully-supported way. And we use all of that cool micropartitioning and make it part of our system design for new apps.
Sorry, that kind of power is worth a little more wait on actual IBM expertise. Usenet might be faster for minor things but once you get IBM's support staff headed in the right direction, you get a complete solution.
-BA
MySQL is the poster child for open-source RDBMS (sorry Firebird, sorry Postgres), and if nothing else, buying MySQL stock will eventually get you some Google shares when they inevitably absorb.
-BA
yup, which makes it even more of an exercise with practical application
-BA
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20070027706.html
All replies should be links or pointers to prior art for the above patent. It's not overly-obvious, but I think the exercise will prove the point that patents are far too easy to obtain.
-BA
There is no POP3/ IMAP access allowed on my corp LAN. Maybe you should hesitate to offer guesses about corporate LANs to which you are not a member.
-BA
The ODF argument can negate or blunt most of the proprietary lock-in with Excel and Word, the primary document formats of Office and the ones most critical to internal migration from Office. For highly-regulated industries it offers the ability to save information in a neutral format, thus sparing them at least one headache when regulators come by for a spot inspection (I work in pharma, so this is a Big Deal).
The Exchange argument will probably persist. Email has to be stored in the event of litigation now, and *that* is a tougher nut to crack. I would tend to agree that lock-in with Exchange makes a drop-in Outlook replacement almost impossible, but there may still be some hope for a clever indie solution.
However, moving away from the Exchange Server is even tougher than changing db platforms, and that's almost impossible for big companies who've negotiated enterprise licenses.
So, the challenge is still there.
-BA
I'll explain it to you.
Thunderbird Outlook and in some cases, *nothing* = Outlook for calendaring, contact management, etc. When Linux has a drop-in replacement for Outlook that connects to Exchange Servers and can handle PSTs, they'll have the killer app needed to crush Office. Until then, it'll be no sale. Believe me, programmers would probably love to switch but they still need to get email at work from the Exchange Server.
And no, solutions that require interdiction with Exchange administration do not count. Drop-in replacement is exactly that, just your Windows domain username and password.
-BA
The beauty of distros is that I can easily test this out -- and I will, thanks!
-BA