GaryOlson

Flash? Really? I thought this was a trust service; not an entertainment service.

quote from the article:

...the music industry, when it began to feel the effects of the technological change coming, doubled down on stupid....

And the video industry is providing the sincerest form of flattery.

Scott Adams has made a fortune for decades documenting this development. I've never seen an MBA who comprehended or laughed or groaned with Dilbert.

The skills necessary to engineer and build effectively usually require a certain patience and humble appreciation. Unfortunately, this allows clueless MBAs and psychotics to run business in self destructive methods.

A completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users might want to wait unless you really need the Python updates.

Investment company buyouts of entrenched education infrastructure are all about cash. The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away. In the meantime, too many university administrations will waffle over the pain of moving to another platform for about 5 years. See how Oracle is abusing all the Sun education customers it inherited.

Current computer security for companies is analogous to medieval castles: large crude systems with large support requirements and little concern for the security of small individual contributors. Once computer infrastructure effectively moves to less crude large scale centralized forms and provides effective minimal security for every small contributor will the key be available.

My home is my castle; my community infrastructure supports that implementation. Therefore the community does not require a castle. When personal computing equipment is equally robust, large computing systems will not be as necessary and neither will the legal implementations.

Laws and lawyers at the individual level are the key to computer security.

makezombie.c is a fake. No processes called "zombie" are running on the system after I invoke this. Also, a real zombie program should randomly chew on other processes until the other process itself is a zombie. This needs more work.

If the flickr image is the actual size, then no wonder it was not noticed. No matter how much I customize all my interfaces -- and with the increasing pixel count of displays -- interfaces are constantly populated with immutable 8 point fonts. Any font less than 14 points is fine for 1985 and VGA displays; but not anymore.

Get FIOS Business service; not the residential. The technical help is more capable; but you pay for it.