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For a change, I think that someone from Cisco is making sense: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1009_22-202297.html?tag=nl.e622 He's sadly right. The only way I'd work with a blacklist anti-virus system is if it did not use signatures, but worked very similar to UAC on Vista or sudo on *Nix. In other words, certain behaviors were blacklisted. And even that is risky, because the bad guys are always finding new ways to abuse even relatively innocent system commands. Malware is a war that we're losing, and losing badly. The only answer are systems that are either thin clients (or effectively thin clients) that the IT department can lock down on the server side, or clients that are so limited in their usage that they can't do much other than the basics.&l ... Read More »
For a change, I think that someone from Cisco is making sense: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1009_22-202297.html?tag=nl.e622
He's sadly right. The only way I'd work with a blacklist anti-virus system is if it did not use signatures, but worked very similar to UAC on Vista or sudo on *Nix. In other words, certain behaviors were blacklisted. And even that is risky, because the bad guys are always finding new ways to abuse even relatively innocent system commands. Malware is a war that we're losing, and losing badly. The only answer are systems that are either thin clients (or effectively thin clients) that the IT department can lock down on the server side, or clients that are so limited in their usage that they can't do much other than the basics.&l ...
A few months ago, I discovered a neat little toy/edu-game/app called "Phun". I have to say, it really lives up to it's name! The gentleman who put this together is named Emil Ernerfeldt as a Master's Thesis. I'll tell you, give this guy his MA today, he's earned it. The shop that picks him up post-graduation will get someone who not only knows how to code, but someone who knows how to put a piece of software together that is enjoyable to use, has an intuitive interface, is practical, and at the same time, provides a sandbox for educational exploration. Read More »
A few months ago, I discovered a neat little toy/edu-game/app called "Phun". I have to say, it really lives up to it's name! The gentleman who put this together is named Emil Ernerfeldt as a Master's Thesis. I'll tell you, give this guy his MA today, he's earned it. The shop that picks him up post-graduation will get someone who not only knows how to code, but someone who knows how to put a piece of software together that is enjoyable to use, has an intuitive interface, is practical, and at the same time, provides a sandbox for educational exploration.
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I never liked the design of the original OLPC XO laptop, but the design of the XO-2 looks fantastic and very futuristic. It looks like two oversized iPhones connected in a clamshell design and it's using a soft touch-screen keyboard. It can be used in vertical book mode or in laptop mode with a virtual keyboard. Read More »
I never liked the design of the original OLPC XO laptop, but the design of the XO-2 looks fantastic and very futuristic. It looks like two oversized iPhones connected in a clamshell design and it's using a soft touch-screen keyboard. It can be used in vertical book mode or in laptop mode with a virtual keyboard.
My former colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pondered whether it was feasible to rip (to digitally archive) his entire DVD collection in to a computer. Adrian estimates that he has at least 600 DVDs and that each would take 30 minutes to rip which works out to 12.5 days of non-stop ripping. So I popped Adrian an instant message telling him that it's actually nowhere near as bad and that it could be done 6 DVDs at a time and each batch would probably take no more than 15 minutes which works out to 25 hours of solid ripping time. Read More »
My former colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pondered whether it was feasible to rip (to digitally archive) his entire DVD collection in to a computer. Adrian estimates that he has at least 600 DVDs and that each would take 30 minutes to rip which works out to 12.5 days of non-stop ripping. So I popped Adrian an instant message telling him that it's actually nowhere near as bad and that it could be done 6 DVDs at a time and each batch would probably take no more than 15 minutes which works out to 25 hours of solid ripping time.
This weekend, I had the chance to try to install a wide variety of OS's on my server here. Now that I got the last paying customer off, I decided to see if the problems were OS/driver specific, or hardware specific. Unfortunately, I only got to actually install 2 OS's. What went wrong? Linux still has lousy driver support. (continued) Read More »
This weekend, I had the chance to try to install a wide variety of OS's on my server here. Now that I got the last paying customer off, I decided to see if the problems were OS/driver specific, or hardware specific. Unfortunately, I only got to actually install 2 OS's. What went wrong? Linux still has lousy driver support.
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The whole Comcast issue is being kicked around in the press in recent days because the Max Planck Institute released a study showing the rates of TCP resets happening throughout the world. But this whole issue is being mischaracterized as the "blocking" of BitTorrent and it's being portrayed as a free speech issue when it is nothing of a sort. Richard Bennett explained why this shouldn’t be considered blocking and Andrew Orlowski wrote a pretty good editorial raising the concern that this is trivializing real free spe Read More »
The whole Comcast issue is being kicked around in the press in recent days because the Max Planck Institute released a study showing the rates of TCP resets happening throughout the world. But this whole issue is being mischaracterized as the "blocking" of BitTorrent and it's being portrayed as a free speech issue when it is nothing of a sort. Richard Bennett explained why this shouldn’t be considered blocking and Andrew Orlowski wrote a pretty good editorial raising the concern that this is trivializing real free spe
I started using Go Daddy as my registrator ages ago, because they had domain names super cheap. If I recall, Network Solutions was still using "management by email" at the time, and I hated that as well. Over the years, I only had to call Go Daddy once, and it was to get the information I needed to set up some DNS stuff on my end. Even from that one call, I was pretty impressed with their support and service people. (continued) Read More »
I started using Go Daddy as my registrator ages ago, because they had domain names super cheap. If I recall, Network Solutions was still using "management by email" at the time, and I hated that as well. Over the years, I only had to call Go Daddy once, and it was to get the information I needed to set up some DNS stuff on my end. Even from that one call, I was pretty impressed with their support and service people.
Here's a video clip showing Windows XP on the OLPC XO. To get Windows XP on the OLPC XO, an additional SD flash card slot had to be added to supply enough storage for Windows. A fully functional version of Microsoft Office is also included and I'm sure that is a huge incentive for buyers of these notebooks to choose Windows. Read More »
Here's a video clip showing Windows XP on the OLPC XO.
To get Windows XP on the OLPC XO, an additional SD flash card slot had to be added to supply enough storage for Windows. A fully functional version of Microsoft Office is also included and I'm sure that is a huge incentive for buyers of these notebooks to choose Windows.
My former colleagues Larry Dignan and Christopher Dawson have voiced their concerns about the OLPC foundation's decision to offer a choice between Windows XP or Linux plus Sugar interface on the XO laptop. Both of them point out that it will be Governments and purchasing agencies that will most likely make the decision to go with Windows XP and that children won't have a say in the decision when may instead pick the Linux plus Sugar interface. Read More »
My former colleagues Larry Dignan and Christopher Dawson have voiced their concerns about the OLPC foundation's decision to offer a choice between Windows XP or Linux plus Sugar interface on the XO laptop. Both of them point out that it will be Governments and purchasing agencies that will most likely make the decision to go with Windows XP and that children won't have a say in the decision when may instead pick the Linux plus Sugar interface.