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The advantage of a centralised VDI infrastructure is stabilisation of the desktop environment by using server grade hardware and better utilisation of resources (who ever uses that 320Gb HDD in their workstation or all their processor. However, of course, if you then roll out 100,000 desktops you save little except the Windows licenses (that you now have on the VDI platform). The main advantage is hardware reuse - you can use any old PCs and laptops with a VD I platform (or people's home computers as disater recovery, given the right VPN infrastructure) and provide the latest OS builds and software. Also, patching is easier as you d not need the desktops to come online and update, it is done centrally.

It is all about the support costs at the end of the day. The capital costs for a project come out of a different fund to the support costs, which are ongoing and variable. If you need to send an engineer to a desk (and, shudder, one that has the skills to replace a component) that is a big big cost.

Don't focus on the hardware savings (though, for a refresh, it can be significant).

I stand corrected :) thx marcansoft, that's useful to know

Are you sure that there isn't an su and you just don't have any ability to run ie (ie command line access) - I don't think the jailbreak updates the OS to include su, you just can't access the terminal.

Either way, thats not my point, what I meant was that if you have an exploit like the PDF exploit and are able to run arbitrary code, then you can su and the root password is known

Does anyone know if the jailbreak requires the root password to be alpine to work?

..I'm going to drop into my bank and offer to clear my overdraft with some herbs I found in the fridge. Why did I never think of that before?!

Govt official: Prsident, I have secured payment of north korea's debts. I have 300 thousand tonnes of ginseng arriving tomorrow
President: We make heavy machinery. We make trucks. We make trams. WHat do we want a life supply of dietary supplements for? If we wee in Korea you would be doing hard labor now.

AFAIK comex's jailbreak isn't patched, just the delivery method used on his web site

I still am amazed that Apple releases the iPhone code with simple, easy to discover passwords that are the same across every device. That is UNIX rule 101 - "protect root". Knowing the password means that if you can execute arbitrary code on the iPhone via any means, you can su to root and break out of the user space security protection. User priviledge controls have been the basis of UNIX security for as long as UNIX has been around (as it has been for most OSs to more or less a degree)

If the iPhone had random root passwords on each device, and used certificates to trust iTunes, the risk of a driveby attack doing permanent (ie surviving reboot) damage must be lower? Or have I missed something obvious here?

And my Audi A3 (2.0 TD) does 0.60 in 7.2 and has similar mpg to these. I have had it for 2 years, I generally drive at 5mph in cities (sigh) or 100mph everywhere else and hve an average (according to the trip computer) of 43mpg over that time.

What amazes me about this poll, being from the UK, is that the most common result in the poll was mid 20s. Over here, to get mid 20s you have to be driving an very old Jeep or a seriously fast car.

Now, I know that /. is an IT hangout but surely not everyone is driving Ferraris?!

My new petrol A3 (1.8T automatic) will average over 45mpg, and thats bad these days for a new car

There never was cake. The cake is a lie

So true. I left uni with a 2:1 in CS with a Networks specialisation and got a job, walked in and found I knew nothing about networks. In hindsight what use was a networks degree when I had never touched a router or heard of Cisco?! Yes, i could draw an IP packet structure and explain the TCP/IP protocol, not something I have ever had to do in the real world.

It is wasnt for the grad scheme, I could never have got a job in networks. I may as well have skipped uni, saved the beating my liver got, and done a CCIE

When I left 8 years ago, most of the best grads were in sponsorship schemes with the likes of Nortel and Marconi - and as it turned out they all left with no job to go to.

Given the number of people who came out of these courses, and given the number of brilliant grads in my dept who had no job for months at that time, what hope have the 60% who scraped by?

Mutliply that by the huge rise in these courses available from UK unis and ex-polys today and it isnt a surprise that McDonald's has a continuous employment pool.

And the ridiculous thing is that I have been involved in trying to fill a backlog in recruitment for about a year and there are no candidates with decent experience in the market (it would seem). So its all about that first job still.