BA allegedly favored Accenture in online job portal - does this still surprise anyone? The botched work on this thing knows no bounds. And now it's botched work and favoritism - which was to be expected with such a poor result.
What always makes me angry about this: if you yourself are active in the industry, you only wonder about the exorbitant prices that are charged for such deals - and how poor the performance is that is delivered. But you yourself have to invest three hours of documentation work for every hour you work to get your money, because with smaller deals, cheap is great.
The little blue elephant from the show with the mouse is turning 30. Let's all congratulate him very warmly: Trööööööööt
Funny. No matter how old I get, I still love the mouse and the elephant. I even have a picture of the two on the wall. Just no plush elephant. And no plush mouse.
Energy drink for RWE. Great, RWE makes profits despite shoddy management, and we finance their antics with higher energy prices. Fantastic. Let's all cheer for RWE.
Stock market news sometimes can't be beaten for stupidity - the fact that RWE simply exploits a monopoly and squeezes the market without creating real added value is all the same to them. As long as the stock price is right.
And the consumers? Their electricity bill has risen significantly more than the dividend they receive for their three shares, but we all dream of being the great stock market crooks ...
Artists of the Brücke in Essen and Münster. In Münster I will definitely go, but Essen is only a regional train ride away and I probably won't miss that either.
US-Ministerium hires adware manufacturer as privacy advisor - gives the saying of the goat made gardener a whole new dimension. Maybe they should also make the KKK chief an advisor for multicultural affairs? The Unabomber a security advisor? Bush president? Oh well, they've already done that ...
rHype is an IBM project that was recently published under an Open Source license (GPL). This project is essentially a virtualization machine for Linux. Comparable to IBM's LPARs for mainframes, but naturally designed for much smaller machines.
It could be the ideal complement to Xen - another GPL project for virtualization based on Linux. Taken together, both could become an interesting open source alternative to VMWare.
Virtualized servers are very interesting for many purposes, as usually only a virtual machine is lost in case of problems and the migration of services on virtual machines is easier than moving around real hardware. Better to have a few large boxes with virtualized servers on them than many smaller boxes with dedicated systems.
Virtualized servers in real use can be done with User Mode Linux today. In this case, a Linux kernel is operated as its own process under the actual hardware kernel via special APIs in user mode instead of directly on the hardware. Each virtualized machine has its own user mode kernel, its own memory, and its own virtual disk areas.
Beware of free SSL certificates - the criticism of the unchecked certificates is indeed correct. But the experts are sitting on a misconception here: why should I trust the CAs randomly delivered with my browser more than any other CA?
Of course, if I try to get a certificate from them (e.g., at the Trustcenter), I have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the certificate. That seems very secure. But who guarantees that all certificates from this CA were issued according to the same pattern? That someone didn't feel like checking and simply confirmed a certificate without verification? Or that something was rigged?
Exactly. There is only the guarantee of the issuer. The company that issues me the certificate essentially checks itself. Of course, in Germany there are regulations for certificate authorities and, as far as I know, these include audits - but who guarantees that everything runs smoothly there? Given the level of corruption going on ...
I don't want to accuse the Trustcenter of anything here - on the contrary, we use their services in the company. But central certification authorities have a serious problem: the security and trustworthiness depend solely on the trustworthiness of the central authority. And browsers come with various certification authorities deemed trustworthy by the browser manufacturer - I don't decide that, someone else does.
This is the classic conflict between centralized certification and decentralized certification via a Web of Trust as it exists with OpenPGP or GPG. Of course, I can't trust everyone there either - but if I trust someone, I set that locally for myself. And this trust is not dependent on whether it is a large company with great boilerplate documents.
Without a Web of Trust structure, certification is still more of a facade than substance. Alongside the pearls, there are also pigs - and that's exactly what ct has found out. Great insight - we've been saying this from the PGP camp for years.
