Comment Perfidious Albion... (Score 1) 81
There is no hope that anyone there can effect any change, as with the US.
Refuse to hire ex-GCHQ or NSA employees. Make sure they know they're personally accountable for this.
Submission + - Amazon base new AWS Directory Service on Samba4 (amazon.com)
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...
"The New AWS Directory Service
Today we are introducing the AWS Directory Service to address these challenges! This managed service provides two types of directories. You can connect to an existing on-premises directory or you can set up and run a new, Samba-based directory in the Cloud."
Best news for Samba all year !
"The New AWS Directory Service
Today we are introducing the AWS Directory Service to address these challenges! This managed service provides two types of directories. You can connect to an existing on-premises directory or you can set up and run a new, Samba-based directory in the Cloud."
Best news for Samba all year !
Submission + - Storage firms need to pay open-source debts (theregister.co.uk)
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: The Register points out the debt storage companies owe to Open Source projects (Samba amongst them). How does your storage vendor shape up in their Open Source contributions ?
The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict 402
Taco Cowboy writes The Israel — Hamas conflict in Gaza is not only about bombs, missiles, bullets, but also about cyberwarfare, battles of the mind over social media, smart underground tunnels and cloud-based missile launching systems. The tunnels that Hamas has dug deep beneath Gaza are embedded with high tech gadgets, courtesy of Qatar, which has funded Hamas with billions to equipped their tunnels with intelligent sensors which are networked to control centers enabling the command and control staff to quickly notify operatives nearby that IDF units are advancing inside a certain tunnel, allowing for rapid deployment of attack units and the setting up of bobby traps inside the tunnel.
In addition, Hamas has automated its rocket firing system using networked, cloud-based launching software provided by Qatar which can set off a rocket from any distance, and set them to go off at a specific time, using timers. "Anyone who thinks they have dozens of people sitting next to launchers firing rockets each time there is a barrage is mistaken," said Aviad Dadon, a senior cyber-security adviser at several Israeli government ministries. While Doha is allowing Hamas to use its technology to fight Israel, it's their own cyber-security the leaders of Qatar are worried about. For the Qataris, the war between Israel and Hamas is a proving ground to see how their investments in cyber systems have paid of — Qatar is very worried that one of its Gulf rivals — specifically Saudi Arabia — will use technology to attack it, and Qatar spends a great deal of money each year on shoring up its cyber-technology.
In addition, Hamas has automated its rocket firing system using networked, cloud-based launching software provided by Qatar which can set off a rocket from any distance, and set them to go off at a specific time, using timers. "Anyone who thinks they have dozens of people sitting next to launchers firing rockets each time there is a barrage is mistaken," said Aviad Dadon, a senior cyber-security adviser at several Israeli government ministries. While Doha is allowing Hamas to use its technology to fight Israel, it's their own cyber-security the leaders of Qatar are worried about. For the Qataris, the war between Israel and Hamas is a proving ground to see how their investments in cyber systems have paid of — Qatar is very worried that one of its Gulf rivals — specifically Saudi Arabia — will use technology to attack it, and Qatar spends a great deal of money each year on shoring up its cyber-technology.
Comment Re:How has slashdot come to this? (Score 1) 150
Utter crap. Codenomicon are very friendly to FLOSS and FLOSS developers. They're also great guys. They have been providing free test services to the Samba project for many years now, and have helped us fix many many bugs.
In case you hadn't noticed, the code they're reporting on here is closed source proprietary code...
Submission + - UK to use Open Document Format for government documents (themukt.com)
sfcrazy writes: UK has decided to use ‘open standards’ for sharing and viewing government documents. The announcement was made by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude. One of the primary objectives of this move is to create a level playing field for suppliers of all sizes. The move must put some pressure on Google to offer full support for ODF in Chrome, Android and Google Docs.
Submission + - U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF as Exclusive Standard for Sharable Documents (consortiuminfo.org)
Andy Updegrove writes: The U.K. Cabinet Office accomplished today what the Commonwealth of Massachusetts set out (unsuccessfully) to achieve ten years ago: it formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) by software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies. Compliance with any of the existing versions of OOXML, the competing document format championed by Microsoft, is neither required nor relevant. The announcement was made today by The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude. Henceforth, ODF compliance will be required for documents intended to be shared or subject to collaboration. PDF/A or HTML compliance will be required for viewable government documents. The decision follows a long process that invited, and received, very extensive public input – over 500 comments in all.
Comment Re:Don't do it. Linux sucks as an XP workgroup (Score 1) 452
I think Ubuntu has user shares turned on. In which case you right click on the directory and click on the 'share' menu item, just like Windows.
Disclaimer. I wrote the Samba code for this feature...
Comment Oh Microsoft, oh Microsoft.. (Score 1) 742
"Guys, I know we've been punching you in the face for 20+ years but we've *stopped* now !
Why don't you love us ?"
As someone who works very well with Microsoft these days and has many friends there, the lack of self-awareness in the posts on the article is staggering
You have to do more than stopping being bad. Being *good* is required.
I know you can do it ! Stop being a patent troll for starters.
Submission + - Hacker Public Radio audio interview with Jeremy Allison @ FOSDEM. (hackerpublicradio.org)
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: Here's a (long:-) interview that Ken Fallon of Hacker Public Radio did with me at FOSDEM. Covers a variety of subjects, from the Sinclair QL interview with Linus to how Samba got started (and how to steal programming time from your employer :-), to the Microsoft/EU lawsuit !
Submission + - Google Developers Interview with Jeremy Allison (google.com)
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: (From the shameless-self-promotion department :-). Here's an interview Cat Allman did with me about the Samba project and its history.
https://developers.google.com/...
https://developers.google.com/...
Comment Re:Heaven (Score 1) 420
The thing you have to understand is that this isn't a technical problem.
All of these things are well understood, and there are Free Software libraries that will do all of these things (indeed the proprietary commercial solutions are often built with these very self-same libraries).
No, this is a *legal* problem, with patents on software destroying the opportunity to create many wonderful things that consumers would love to buy, if the legal framework allowed it, which it doesn't.
It's almost unimaginable how much damage one simple thing (allowing patents on software) has done to the industry.
Comment Re:USB mass storage network file share (Score 1) 420
This looks like what you wanted:
http://hsti.com/products/wirelessmediastick
disclaimer, I haven't tried this at all...
Jeremy.
Submission + - Ian Hickson (author of HTML5 spec.) on the real purpose of DRM. (google.com)
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: "Ian Hickson, author and maintainer of the HTML5 specification, comments about the real reasons for DRM. They're not what you might think. Ian nails it in my opinion."
Submission + - Deleted cloud files can be recovered from smartphones, researchers find (infoworld.com)
tsamsoniw writes: "Researchers from the University of Glasgow have discovered that they could fully recover images, audio files, PDFs, and Word documents deleted from Dropbox, Box, and SugarSync, using both an HTC Android smartphone and an iPhone. They created 20 different test files, including Words docs, PDFS, and JPGs, uploaded them via a PC to the various services, and synced the services with the mobile devices. They accessed and manipulated the files in varying ways (e,g accessing them online once, saving them offline), then used a forensics toolkit to attempt to reconstruct files with artifacts saved to the phone."
