It actually sounds quite likely to me, and makes sense a bit. If you go by the stereotypes you've got:

Safari: Mac users, i.e. not a huge amount of brains but lots of cash, easily duped, faithful.

MSIE: Windows users, i.e. stupid, plus they're using the browser that came with their machine and is known for poor security, so not tech-savvy at all, Joe Public make be lower income.

Firefox: Linux users, i.e. more intelligent, possibly not as much disposable income. If its Windows FF then more brains than MSIE users.

Chrome: see Firefox, plus could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.

Opera: well who uses Opera these days, very niche, so possibly used to paying more for things. Could be smartphone users so tech-savvy possibly business people and higher income.

These are pretty stereotypical (and I expect I sound like an arsehole) but I expect that's what the ratings are based on, not scientific research.

I agree its very naughty to bias, but I wouldn't put it past the credit industry.

yes, this is the only time i've ever seen the problem myself - apply a patch cluster to a solaris vm or compile xbmc in a win2003 vm and watch the other vm's just crawl. doesn't affect the host though, so i assumed it a virtualbox bug.

I tried to sell Plone as an alternative to SharePoint once, everyone was very impressed with Plone and shocked at the hardware requirements of SharePoint (and shitty performance of the VirtualServer setup the Microsoft salesmen demoed!) and the fact that the whole company would have to upgrade from MSIE6.

The factor that killed Plone was no Single Sign On via AD, which SharePoint had out of the box of course.

There was a commercial Plone plugin for SSO which required Samba3 and all sorts of OpenLDAP hacks (or it had to run on Windows) to even partially work, but then the FOSS argument and reuse of existing *Sun* hardware went out of the window.

Until Plone integrates with Enterprisey vendor lock-in stuff like AD/Exchange, it isn't going to be gaining any traction. Still you've got to give it to Microsoft, SharePoint is rubbish but somehow they still manage to sell it.

#1. Getting management to say "OK we'll let the deadline slide, max out the budget and reduce some functionality/ease-of-use so we can fix the security flaws".

#2. Getting minimum wage Java programmers to understand/care about securing their code.

Things are not helped by the sad state of so-called security products by the likes of Symantec that seem very popular with PHB's, they must have a lot of sales reps hanging around golf courses.

Its also a bit much Google bitching about other people's security - wardriving streetview anyone?

Well yeah except HP is the other company who is buying up all the crap software; so now we only have Symantec and HP to hate, oh and I guess Novell (kernel) Microsoft (everything), Apple (Flash), Google (Streetview), IBM (malware) and Oracle (OpenSolaris). Wow, thinking about it, can any company do anything right?

I actually tried PGP Desktop 10 the other day and it really is rubbish for 180 quid. Their registration server has been offline for 5 years their software won't work with any OpenPGP keyservers.

Seahorse on Linux is a much better frontend, GnuPG2 a better backend, and I expect LUKS is a better full disk encryption system too (PGP's one is bound to have a backdoor) all for free too.

a security "ninja" who uses windows xp for everything? its a bit like a design "guru" who uses mspaint on a monochrome monitor.

and yeah its kind of obvious its not really down to the language, its down to the programmer. a little surprised by the stats though - i'd have thought perl hackers would have more security know-how than your average java monkey.

Erm, i'd say its totally *unsurprising* given what we've seen of how oracle is handling sun nowadays - you tried to get a patch cluster (or even patch info!) lately?

i'm not even going to mention killing off opensolaris or charging for odf plugins.

You can still download the DVD ISO's of Solaris 10u8, so it still works, so is it just patch cluster access (as reported last week) that's no longer free (hasn't been for years has it?) or are they saying that the next version of Solaris (11 I guess, based on OpenSolaris) will have some type of 90 day timeout upon which we get WGA-esque warning popups?

Not really sure I understand this move, with hoards of people moving to x86_64 from SPARC, the obvious move would be to use that x86_64 hardware to run Linux instead.

So it was basically putting in two sticks of RAM incorrectly (no dual channel for him - assuming he hasn't already fried the chips) and plugging in a couple of molex connectors that took 50secs.

It would be remotely interesting if it included fitting the motherboard and HSF, which are the only time-consuming parts.

March 15th 2010: Slow News Day

It was Acorn RISC Machine way before it became Advanced RISC Machines Ltd; by almost a decade, when Furber ran the show.

I thought Sarkoszy was essentially a dictator when it comes to all things MAFIAA.

he pushes in laws that have been voted against all the way up to the european parliament.

What are they?

How 1980's. Only incompetent bankers get bonuses these days.

I remember working for some prick who actually said "your bonus is still having a job" in a meeting once; well actually my bonus was leaving them and getting paid 15k more elsewhere.