As I mentioned in a reply before: we did supply our internal clients - management - and our external clients with what they wanted. That's our job and I'm well aware of it. The question was asked to see what's the status of reporting and if it is loosing grounds to dashboards, and how the IT community feels about it. From the comments it seems that the question was well worth asking.
I'm sorry you read that in my question - I thought it was clear that we did, in fact, provide the reporting services they were used to. We integrated ElasticSearch with the reporting system - Jasper Reporting - that they already used. My way - as a provider of solutions - is to do just that: provide a solution to the clients' requests. - wether the clients are internal or external.
What I was asking - and the debate that followed shows that it's not such a clear-cut vision - was the experience of other IT professionals in this field and what was the trend, and if reporting is being replaced by dashboards. You could also read it as: what are dashboards missing that reports have? And the discussion pointed to several issues with dashboard based solutions.
My understanding of the issue makes things look better for Wolfe.
He contributed code to the project - licensed as LGPL - before the Bukkit team was aquired by Mojang. At that time the server code - decompiled and deobfuscated - included in the releases was not falling under the LGPL license because it was not owned by the releasing team.
Forward to when the Bukkit team is aquired by Mojang - who owns the copyrights to the server code - and a new release is made. At this point the server code included in the release, which is copyrighted by Mojang, falls under the LGPL.
I am not saying that this is what's the legal reality of the case, but I think this is what Wolfe thinks and why he issued th DMCA takedown notice.
Hi. I'm a handwringing euro. Now, I would like you to point any article from the european press that blames the terrorist act on anyone else but Al Queida. I hope you were not too brainwashed by your media to think on your own, so I invite you to try and find the difference between "The muslims attacked us for no reason, we'll bomb them out of existence" and "A terrorist group attacked us, let's find out why and how can we avoid this happening again, and actually think back so that we don't make the same mistakes that brought us to this point again."
The people who use terrorism to make a point are people who don't deserve to be considered human. ANY person who uses ANY form of terrorism falls into that category.
Do you think we should feel safer after the attack on Afghanistan? Do you think we can feel safer after an attack on Iraq? How do you think civilians killed in a bombing are different from civilians killed in a terrorist act? Think for a while before answering that their was an unprompted act, because I don't really think many man, women and children in Afghanistan were involved in the voting for the 9/11 act of terror.
Terrorists, from wichever religious or political origin, find their soldiers in areas dominated by despair and rage. Try to understand the reasons for their despair and their rage, try to solve their problems. A terrorist group with no men has no power.
The situation in the middle east is very complicated and very fragile. In addition to that it's the place from where we take our fuel, and we do have some interest in having non-democratic forms of government in there, after all the fewer people you have to pay the cheaper the oil is.
Often we, as western countries, have messed around those areas to get benefit from it, not really thinking about consequences or the good of people leaving there.
Just some food for your brain: do you remember the students of Kandahar, the heroes that were fighting against the evil russians? Do you remember CIA training and supporting them to get to power in Afghanistan? Do you know how they are called nowadays? (Check out one good form of archive of popular feelings in time: movies. May I suggest Rambo III?) Do you know the evil northern alliance of Afghanistan? How do they differ from the peace keeping good hearted northern alliance we (us Europeans and you americans) just put in charge in Afghanistan?
One last question: could you help me try to remember who put Saddam Hussein in charge in Iraq and armed to fight against Iran?
Will we ever learn from history?
Sorry about this rant, but I spent the last month in the states having to deal daily with people thinking that Europeans were siding for the terrorists. No we don't! There is only one difference: after condemning the acts we tried to use our brains to understand what happened. I'm sorry, but I don't think I have seen many of the people in the states I talked to go any further that "we are good, they are bad, we kill them". And many had absolutely no idea who was "them".
When we started going down the flexible office path here in Italy people were not really happy about it. Expecially in Rome, where I work.
I must first of all admit that this kind of solution would not work for people that spend every single day of their worklife at the office or people that need, for the kind work they do, a well specified place to sit and think. On the other hand to most of these people flexible office simply doesn't apply.
I'm a project engineer. As such I spend most of my days sitting at the clients' site, or having meetings with colleagues to organise and plan our work, sometimes I do test installations in our labs, but at times I end up at the office. More often than not I go to the office simply to keep in touch with colleagues and to feel what's going on, other times to print documentation to be given to clients.
All that I need to work it's there. I read about people that were worried about their manuals, and I really don't see the problem. My own manuals are on the public shelf we have, and it's even better than having my own shelf, since I can lookup also books that other people have brought in. It may be some thing about us down here in Southern Europe, but I don't think anyone has had a problem about it so far.
When I arrive at the office I simply pick an empty spot near colleagues from my same team, plug in my laptop (yes, I do have a laptop, as all the people working on the field most of the time), put the smartcard in the SRay and at this point I have two workstations at hand!
But, "Oh My God!!", some of my colleagues was on this very same seat before me, and used this mouse and keyboard. He could have had a deadly virus, or a cold!!
Mmm. Let me think: I shake hand, hug, pat on the shoulders plenty of people everyday. I use often public transportation to move around, and damn: the ones I hang on are very dirty railings. And I'm doing still quite fine.
I don't know about the people who showed these sort of concerns, but I use to wash my hands before eating. And I wash my hands when I get home. Sometimes I even wash my hands _before_ I go to the toilet. See, I've always seen personal hygiene just like that: personal. I really don't rely much on others when it comes to it.
The point I'm trying to make is simple: I can't judge globally, but I have to admit that flexible office made my work better. I can't say it's the solution for anything, but it made my day better, because I can move near the people I'm working with at that point in time, and compared to a fixed office I can now choose in which office I want to go and work of the two we have here in Rome.
What I can say about it is that, for higher security, you don't usually make copies of the private key, even if possible. I won't enter the details of it, but put simply: how much would you trust a key that you can make copies of?
More to it: in high end security solutions the key is held in hardware, be it a smartcard or a more complex CA card or box. This pieces of hardware are initialized and they keep the key in such a way that is, virtually, impossible to copy out of it.
The bugger being: you loose the card, you loose the key. I even understand the double key, giving them a backup plan in case the first key is lost, and I see nothing wrong with it.
There is a problem in all this, and Microsoft didn't answer that bit, the most important bit of the issue: if it's so easy to change one of the trusted keys, as the original article showed, how can we trust the crypto units "certified" by Microsoft?
An scenario could be the following: Eve wants to see what's going on between Bill and Laura, ships to them bot a piece of software "signed by Microsoft", this piece of software, during the installation, changes the backup key to a key known by Eve, and installs the evil CAPI that makes a copy of all the communication going on between Bill and Laura, encrypts it with the public key of EVE and sends it to her.
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As I mentioned in a reply before: we did supply our internal clients - management - and our external clients with what they wanted. That's our job and I'm well aware of it. The question was asked to see what's the status of reporting and if it is loosing grounds to dashboards, and how the IT community feels about it. From the comments it seems that the question was well worth asking.
Why would I buy a /. id?
I'm sorry you read that in my question - I thought it was clear that we did, in fact, provide the reporting services they were used to. We integrated ElasticSearch with the reporting system - Jasper Reporting - that they already used. My way - as a provider of solutions - is to do just that: provide a solution to the clients' requests. - wether the clients are internal or external.
What I was asking - and the debate that followed shows that it's not such a clear-cut vision - was the experience of other IT professionals in this field and what was the trend, and if reporting is being replaced by dashboards. You could also read it as: what are dashboards missing that reports have? And the discussion pointed to several issues with dashboard based solutions.
My understanding of the issue makes things look better for Wolfe.
He contributed code to the project - licensed as LGPL - before the Bukkit team was aquired by Mojang. At that time the server code - decompiled and deobfuscated - included in the releases was not falling under the LGPL license because it was not owned by the releasing team.
Forward to when the Bukkit team is aquired by Mojang - who owns the copyrights to the server code - and a new release is made. At this point the server code included in the release, which is copyrighted by Mojang, falls under the LGPL.
I am not saying that this is what's the legal reality of the case, but I think this is what Wolfe thinks and why he issued th DMCA takedown notice.
Hi. I'm a handwringing euro. Now, I would like you to point any article from the european press that blames the terrorist act on anyone else but Al Queida. I hope you were not too brainwashed by your media to think on your own, so I invite you to try and find the difference between "The muslims attacked us for no reason, we'll bomb them out of existence" and "A terrorist group attacked us, let's find out why and how can we avoid this happening again, and actually think back so that we don't make the same mistakes that brought us to this point again."
The people who use terrorism to make a point are people who don't deserve to be considered human. ANY person who uses ANY form of terrorism falls into that category.
Do you think we should feel safer after the attack on Afghanistan? Do you think we can feel safer after an attack on Iraq? How do you think civilians killed in a bombing are different from civilians killed in a terrorist act? Think for a while before answering that their was an unprompted act, because I don't really think many man, women and children in Afghanistan were involved in the voting for the 9/11 act of terror.
Terrorists, from wichever religious or political origin, find their soldiers in areas dominated by despair and rage. Try to understand the reasons for their despair and their rage, try to solve their problems. A terrorist group with no men has no power.
The situation in the middle east is very complicated and very fragile. In addition to that it's the place from where we take our fuel, and we do have some interest in having non-democratic forms of government in there, after all the fewer people you have to pay the cheaper the oil is.
Often we, as western countries, have messed around those areas to get benefit from it, not really thinking about consequences or the good of people leaving there.
Just some food for your brain: do you remember the students of Kandahar, the heroes that were fighting against the evil russians? Do you remember CIA training and supporting them to get to power in Afghanistan? Do you know how they are called nowadays? (Check out one good form of archive of popular feelings in time: movies. May I suggest Rambo III?) Do you know the evil northern alliance of Afghanistan? How do they differ from the peace keeping good hearted northern alliance we (us Europeans and you americans) just put in charge in Afghanistan?
One last question: could you help me try to remember who put Saddam Hussein in charge in Iraq and armed to fight against Iran?
Will we ever learn from history?
Sorry about this rant, but I spent the last month in the states having to deal daily with people thinking that Europeans were siding for the terrorists. No we don't! There is only one difference: after condemning the acts we tried to use our brains to understand what happened. I'm sorry, but I don't think I have seen many of the people in the states I talked to go any further that "we are good, they are bad, we kill them". And many had absolutely no idea who was "them".
Fabio
When we started going down the flexible office path here in Italy people were not really happy about it. Expecially in Rome, where I work.
I must first of all admit that this kind of solution would not work for people that spend every single day of their worklife at the office or people that need, for the kind work they do, a well specified place to sit and think. On the other hand to most of these people flexible office simply doesn't apply.
I'm a project engineer. As such I spend most of my days sitting at the clients' site, or having meetings with colleagues to organise and plan our work, sometimes I do test installations in our labs, but at times I end up at the office. More often than not I go to the office simply to keep in touch with colleagues and to feel what's going on, other times to print documentation to be given to clients.
All that I need to work it's there. I read about people that were worried about their manuals, and I really don't see the problem. My own manuals are on the public shelf we have, and it's even better than having my own shelf, since I can lookup also books that other people have brought in. It may be some thing about us down here in Southern Europe, but I don't think anyone has had a problem about it so far.
When I arrive at the office I simply pick an empty spot near colleagues from my same team, plug in my laptop (yes, I do have a laptop, as all the people working on the field most of the time), put the smartcard in the SRay and at this point I have two workstations at hand!
But, "Oh My God!!", some of my colleagues was on this very same seat before me, and used this mouse and keyboard. He could have had a deadly virus, or a cold!!
Mmm. Let me think: I shake hand, hug, pat on the shoulders plenty of people everyday. I use often public transportation to move around, and damn: the ones I hang on are very dirty railings. And I'm doing still quite fine.
I don't know about the people who showed these sort of concerns, but I use to wash my hands before eating. And I wash my hands when I get home. Sometimes I even wash my hands _before_ I go to the toilet. See, I've always seen personal hygiene just like that: personal. I really don't rely much on others when it comes to it.
The point I'm trying to make is simple: I can't judge globally, but I have to admit that flexible office made my work better. I can't say it's the solution for anything, but it made my day better, because I can move near the people I'm working with at that point in time, and compared to a fixed office I can now choose in which office I want to go and work of the two we have here in Rome.
Just my twopence,
a smile,
MrWHO
What I can say about it is that, for higher security, you don't usually make copies of the private key, even if possible. I won't enter the details of it, but put simply: how much would you trust a key that you can make copies of?
More to it: in high end security solutions the key is held in hardware, be it a smartcard or a more complex CA card or box. This pieces of hardware are initialized and they keep the key in such a way that is, virtually, impossible to copy out of it.
The bugger being: you loose the card, you loose the key. I even understand the double key, giving them a backup plan in case the first key is lost, and I see nothing wrong with it.
There is a problem in all this, and Microsoft didn't answer that bit, the most important bit of the issue: if it's so easy to change one of the trusted keys, as the original article showed, how can we trust the crypto units "certified" by Microsoft?
An scenario could be the following: Eve wants to see what's going on between Bill and Laura, ships to them bot a piece of software "signed by Microsoft", this piece of software, during the installation, changes the backup key to a key known by Eve, and installs the evil CAPI that makes a copy of all the communication going on between Bill and Laura, encrypts it with the public key of EVE and sends it to her.
Do you see the hole?
A smile,
Fabio