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GNOME Do and The Network Backed Plugin Architecture
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| So I like GNOME Do. That’s not exactly a secret. Nor am I the only one.
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| [...]
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| Anyhow, it is thus that I like Do personally for what it’s achieved, but
| follow it professionally for what it represents: the ongoing conflation of
| network and client. There’s a long way yet to travel, but we’re getting
| closer to applications that treat the network as an assumption rather than an
| afterthought, as the design and architectures increasingly reflect, both in
| the open source world and out of it.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/06/23/network-plugin-architecture/
Inside Users and Accounts
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| Linux allows multiple user accounts on the same installation. Here's how to
| set up multiple accounts during Ubuntu installation.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2320515,00.asp
In Windows, networking, security and multiple users are just an 'Ugly Hack'.
They ignored decades of UNIX lessons and it shows.
Related:
Did Microsoft just patent sudo?
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| 1985, huh? And when did this Microsoft patent happen? It was filed in
| 2000. Well gee, that doesn't make sense. How'd they get the patent?
| It certainly falls under the category of "obvious" if there's prior
| art such as sudo.
|
| What makes this whole thing funny, though, is something I saw a couple
| days ago. Head over to Builder-AU and listen to Peter Watson from
| Microsoft. He says,
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| "User Account Control is a great idea and strategically
| a direction that sort of all operating systems and all technology
| should be heading down"
|
| Excuse me? Does he really believe this is all Microsoft's great new
| idea?
|
| In the end, this seems like a patent that Microsoft will hold up and
| say "we have a patent and Linux is violating it!" They won't ever
| sue on it though (just leave the threat hanging to scare away
| potential users), because then they could have the patent revoked.
| It's better for them to just wave it around.
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http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/05/did-microsoft-just-patent-sudo.html
Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC
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| The most controversial aspect of Watson's comments all center around
| the idea that Microsoft is a leader with UAC, and that other OSes
| should follow suit. UAC is a cousin of myriad "superuser" process
| elevation strategies, which Mac OS X and all flavors of Linux
| already enjoy. The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party
| with their Microsoftized version of sudo. That's really what UAC
| is, after all: sudo with a fancy display mechanism (to make it hard
| to spoof) and extra monitoring to pick up on "suspicious" behavior.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070501-microsoft-uac-approach-is-so-good-other-oses-should-follow-suit.html
http://tinyurl.com/yw9ose
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