Security of Computers

Thursday January 5, 2006 - 3:40PM EDT

Each time I make a design upgrade to this site I like admiring my work. This time is no different. I need more pictures for the top banner. I also need to replace some I had before with the new type. What I really need more is a redesign for my web development website. It has become stagnant. I also need to break up archives by Month and Year along with the pages. I'll be adding image uploading capability soon. It actuall goes along with another project so I'll get a two for one here.

I am actually pretty pumped for the new Windows. Windows XP is pretty stable but they rebuilt the whole sytem and adjusted the way the build their OS with windows Vista so I expect it to be better than XP. The thing I am most excited about is the interface enhacnements. Finnally something that looks as good as MacOSx from Microsoft. I tend to agree with Gates' assement of Google right now. That they are overhyped. Search is their best game and they do it well. But so far nothing else really impressive has come from them yet. What I am really waiting for is the semantic speech recognition technology that will change everything about computers. You could feasibly interact with a computer for many tasks without a screen. It would be huge. I think security of computer systems will continue to get better and better until it reaches a point that they are virtually unhackable except by really brillant individuals or groups with a lot of resources. If you look at the ways computers are hacked and viruses spread almost all of it is the result of what can be called poor design. Basically it boils down to that when computers were first being created they didn't worry about filtering input. It was unfeasable at the time and would have created more headaches in the early years. Think about it. Computers were created by relatively small specialzed groups who knew the intimate details of the system and what to put into it to get it to work for them. When computers became mainstream and added networking we now had people who didn't know the inner workings putting in all different kinds of input and expected it to work for them. It will take some time but computers will become much more secure in general.

The OS user interfaces are finnaly catching up with those beautiful interfaces we see in movies.