Read 'Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules' by Steve McConnell:
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rd.htm

I would _start_ with reading chapters 3 ("Classic Mistakes") & 11 ("Motivation")

Also, read these other books by Steve McConnell.
    "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art." A comprehensive set of tips and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to create more accurate estimates.

    "Code Complete 2. A practical handbook of software-construction practices." Updated for web development, object-oriented development, agile practices, and other modern construction issues.

Actually, Microsoft is big enough (more than 600 different product groups) that you need to ask: Which part of Microsoft are you talking about when discussing open source?

Here's Microsoft stance on Open Source:
http://thinktankblog.olliancegroup.com/?p=426

"Microsoft’s involvement with open source is visible and growing – including sponsoring the Outercurve Foundation, participating in events like Olliance Think Tank, Oscon and OSBC, and hosting hundreds of OSS projects on Codeplex.com, the open source project hosting site. Why is Microsoft interested in OSS?

We recognize the value of openness in working with others — including a variety of open source communities — to help customers and partners succeed in today’s heterogeneous IT environments. This includes increasing opportunities for our business partners to support our joint customers regardless of their underlying development model and for developers to learn and create by combining open source with traditional commercial approaches to software development.

Like many other participants in the OSS ecosystem, Microsoft supports open source communities and projects in order to make our products more accessible, as well as to enable our customers to deploy and manage interoperable solutions in mixed source environments. We have found the most success with open source projects rooted in these principles.

Change and innovation are often driven by customer demand. Many of our customers operate heterogeneous IT environments with commercial proprietary software, commercial open source software and community-based open source software working side-by-side. To support our customers and become a more open, innovative company, we’ve worked hard to make open source an increasingly important part of our DNA. We have a better appreciation today for the open source development model, and we have increased our efforts to explore potential ways in which Microsoft technologies may interoperate with open source solutions.

Our perspective on open source software continues to evolve based on many factors, including our increased technical experience and dialogue with customers, open source companies and open source communities. Events like the Open Source Think Tank present a rich environment for discussion among all of these audiences."

It can be done if you use a 'Tunnel Shield':
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/tunnel/challenge/sand/shield.html

...Which can be seen by viewing SUA based process in Windows's Task Manager.

Do this:
1. Install SUA
2. Run KSH (the command line shell that SUA installs)
3. Open Task Manager
4. Change the columns so that 'command line' is showing.

You will notice that the SUA processes have _wrong_ (corrupted?) information displayed. This is based on the fact SUA is a different _subsystem_ and stores process based information (specifically, command line information) in memory in a _different_ format than the _Win32_ subsystem.

So when a Win32 process tries to access a SUA process...and there's no checking for a process' system type...

Searching for "two way messaging" and limiting the date rate to _before_ 2005 reveals old web pages mentioning the subject.

For example, here's a web page from 2002:
http://www.wireless-location.com/fcc/tech.htm

Which says:
Along with the FCC's deregulation of telecommunications services, all three of these service providers now offer their customers Email, Internet, and Paging along with their traditional fleet dispatching services. Both Bellsouth and ARDIS (through third party manufacturers) offer small handheld messaging devices that have full function keyboards for two way messaging. Late in 1997 Bellsouth acquired 100% ownership of RAM and in March of 1998 changed the name to Bellsouth Mobile Data. ARDIS, which until recently was owned by Motorola, has been acquired by AMSC to complement its nationwide satellite data communications network by offering its customers lower cost service where ARDIS coverage is available.

Or this press release from 1994:
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ete-device-offers-2way-pda-messaging

...because all the WiFi channels are saturated. :-(

Even though my apartment is _below ground_ and I get _very poor_ AM/FM radio and cell phone service, I can't get _20 feet_ from my wireless access point.

Running the 'WiFi Analyzer' Android App shows 10 _different_ WiFi networks, and that's _only_ the networks that are broadcasting their ID's!

Our teletype was hooked into the school district's computer (dedicated land line) and was actually in a classroom, so kids could wander over and see how people were doing.

There was a printout to the left of the teletype (taped to the wall) which showed the complete game for the fastest trip to Oregon. (They made it by August!)

According to the linked story, Oregon Trail wasn't available for most of 1974, so I'd say that Styopa and I are remembering the 1975-1976 school year.

This is the memory I have in mind when I tell people, "...I've been doing computer games for 36 years..."

And, typing "Bang!" quickly was a problem, as the 'shift' and 'enter' keys are _not_ any bigger than the rest of the keys on the Teletype!

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/123194/sunday-marks-release-ubuntu-1010-no-towels-required

For me, at this very moment Google does this to me. I'm using Kaspersky, and recently went to their site to download the 2011 version since I had a current license for it. Now, in a lot of places I go to, I see an ad for Kaspersky in a 'Ads by Google' box.

So, this is not new, and the only reason people are noticing it is that you are being served up the exact same ad on different websites, for a website you only visited once.

For example: http://live.linux-gamers.net/

Or, if your distro has lots of installable packages available as a rule (like Ubuntu), try poking through it's 'games' section.

Yes, these levels of security from the 'orange book' is what I was thinking about when I made an earlier post that recommended an OS from Green Hills Software. They sell an 'A1' level OS, called 'Integrity'.

See http://cyberwarfaremag.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/integrity-os-to-be-released-commercially/ or http://www.ghs.com/security/security_home.html

To quote Green Hills Software's web site:

INTEGRITY has been deployed for 10 years in systems that require absolute security and total reliability:

- Flying the Boeing B1-B intercontinental nuclear bomber, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Lockheed Martin's F-16, F-22 & F-35, and dozens of other aircraft
- Securing military computers, networks, routers, cell phones, and radios
- Widespread adoption in medical, industrial, and networking products
- Running a multitude of consumer products from printers to kitchen ovens

INTEGRITY can secure virtually any computer or computer controlled device from attack, even systems running operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Palm OS, Symbian, or VxWorks, whether it is in a PC, server, networking equipment, embedded system, smart phone, or critical infrastructure. INTEGRITY has more than a decade of fielded deployment in the following industries:

Medical
Industrial
Avionics & Aerospace
Automotive
Financial
Consumer
Government
Defense

I found this place by wondering what was the most secure OS out there and did any OS get a TCSEC A1 security level rating? NT was built for a C2 level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenstone_(software)

-- From Grenstone's Web Site --
About Greenstone:
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections.

It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.

Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO.

It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the Greenstone Factsheet for more information.

The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.

Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries.

We hope that this software will encourage the effective deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Further information can be found in the book 'How to build a digital library', authored by two of the group's members.