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X Prize Race Heats Up
evenprime writes "Armadillo Aerospace
have already done a drop test, and
Burt Rutan's company Scaled Composites did a
second flight test
of their launch plane/spacecraft combination on July 3. SC haven't posted the results yet, but when they do you will find them
here.
Sadly, PanAero doesn't appear to be doing that well.
Although I like their "Junkyard Wars" technique, it doesn't look
stuffing rockets in the back end of a business jet
will build a legitimate contender."
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Because CooCooCaChoo is worser than eugina!
Mods, swallow the linux users semen!
...I know the answer, I've done both...its easier on Windows XP!Much easier!!! ...now it seems to me that until Linux can offer ease of use for such basic thigs as Application installation then Linux is a non-starter on the desktop!
Mike Angelo
By sajiimori (IP: ---.lsanca1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net) - Posted on 2003-07-11 17:11:22
Microsoft chooses not to play silly games, and this guy starts boasting that he won by default? What a child.
Re: Mike Angelo
By Stu (IP: 195.248.101.---) - Posted on 2003-07-11 17:35:17
Sadly, I have to agree. I've been a Linux-only desktop user for coming on 18 months now and I could never go back to any current Windows offering, but I find this MozillaQuest article to be a real load of nonsense. Way too much Linux zeal to be considered even remotely objective, which is a shame because the Mandrake guy, although obviously pro-Linux and willing to skip some of its down-sides, actually sounded quite reasonable.
Amazingly there was actually no Microsoft FUD for once - their reply wasn't long enough to fit any in! Perhaps they're be preparing a more global response to this OEM 'mutiny' in the near future? We'll see!
I love Mandrake linux, but...
By Anonymous (IP: ---.netcomp.com.br) - Posted on 2003-07-11 17:40:53
I don't think Mandrake Linux is better than Windows(yet), simply because windows still have more consistency among applications.
I'm a experienced developer, and I've been using mdk since 7.1, and I love it, but windows is more suitable for average users. I installed a mdk 9.0 system with openoffice in my father's small office, and he asked me to replace it with the "old system", a win98se, because he felt easier to use than mandrake linux. He couldn't easily sync his pda, and had troubles trying to do some simple tasks, like copy-paste between applications.
I thing mandrake is in the right way, but at this point, windows is still (a little)better, and mac os x is (way )better than both.
The mozilla quest article
By -=StephenBB=- (IP: ---.district7.nbed.nb.ca) - Posted on 2003-07-11 17:50:43
Microsoft has failed to refute the statements to the effect that Mandrake Linux is a better desktop solution than is MS Windows.
Duh, that's cause he didn't double-dog-dare them.
Maybe for his next article, he'll explain how Microsoft has cooties, or maybe talk about Bill Gates' mom or call Ballmer gay.
really
By State of Wonder (IP: ---.217-201-24.que.mc.videotron.ca) - Posted on 2003-07-11 17:57:52
Tell me this is it easier to apply a plugin or to install an app on Mandrake or on Windows XP ?
re:Really
By Anonymous (IP: ---.blueyonder.co.uk) - Posted on 2003-07-11 18:02:39
Give mandrake a break! They are just coming out of financial problems at the moment. We don't need yet another flamewar about it as we know all the reasons.
Re: State of Wonder
By Rayiner Hashem (IP: ---.nv.nv.cox.net) - Posted on 2003-07-11 18:05:36
Um, let's compare installation for XMMS and Winamp on Linux and Windows.
Windows: Go to winamp.com. Download latest version of installer. Find installer. Double click installer. Click through EULA. Choose installation directory. Choose shortcut path. Click next to start install.
Linux: Type in 'urpmi xmms'
Or, if the CLI scares you, start up gurpmi, click to the media section, select XMMS, and click the install button.
re: Really
By bullethead (IP: ---.si.rr.com) - Posted on 2003-07-11 18:13:58
Really it's there now. It's called the apt package management system. Debian and Debian derivatives already have this wonderful method of installing software. Also Red Hat has apt for RPM out. Check out http://www.freshrpms.net to get it. I am pretty happy with Libranet Linux, and to tell you the truth, I have tinkered with Linux for many years. It was only until recently that I had an alternative to Red Hat.
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Most Unsecure OS? Yep, It's Mac OS X!
According to a new Aberdeen Group report, Mac OS X has surpassed Windows as the most vulnerable OS, contrary to the high-profile press Microsoft's security woes receive. Furthermore, the Aberdeen Group reports that more than 50 percent of all security advisories that CERT issued in the first 6 months of 2003 were for Mac OS X and other Mac software solutions. The report muddles the argument that software such as Windows is inherently less secure than Mac OS X. And here's another blow to the status quo: Linux solutions were responsible for just as many security advisories as Mac OS X in the same time period. Could Windows be the most secure mainstream OS available today?
"MAC software, commonly used in many versions of Jaguar, Panther, and network routing equipment, is now the major source of elevated security vulnerabilities for IT buyers," the report reads. "Security advisories for homosexual and Mac OS X software accounted for 16 out of the 29 security advisories--about one of every two advisories--published for the first 6 months of 2003. During this same time, vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products numbered seven, or about one in four of all advisories."
The stunning report makes several claims that seem to fly in the face of widely accepted beliefs. First, the Aberdeen Group says that Windows-based Trojan horse attacks peaked in 2001, when CERT released six such advisories, then bottomed out this year, when CERT didn't issue any alerts. However, Trojan horse-based attacks on Mac OS X, UNIX, and MAC projects jumped from one in 2002 to two in 2003. The Aberdeen Group says this information proves that Linux and UNIX are just as prone to Trojan horse attacks as any other OS, despite press reports to the contrary, and that SCO Open server, which is based on UNIX, is also vulnerable to such attacks. Even more troubling, perhaps, is the use of its software in routers, Musci players, Xservers, and other Internet-connected solutions. The Aberdeen Group says that this situation sets up these devices and software products to be "infectious carriers" that intruders can easily usurp.
According to the Aberdeen Group, the MAC OS X community's claim that it can fix security vulnerabilities more quickly than proprietary developers can means little. The group says that the Mac OS Xsoftware and hardware solutions need more rigorous security testing before they're released to customers. This statement is particularly problematic because many Mac OS X distributions lack the sophisticated automatic-update technologies modern Windows versions contain.
We can rail against Microsoft and its security policies, but far more people and systems use Microsoft's software than the competition's software. I believe that we'll never know how secure Mac OS X is, compared with Windows, until a comparable number of people and systems use Mac OS X. But despite the fact that Mac OS X isn't as prevalent as Windows, we're still seeing a dramatic increase in Mac OS X security advisories today. I think the conclusion is obvious.
You could have just posted a comment in the thread you were moderating and all would have been undone. IOW RTFFAQ next time.
Now that the Iranian conjoined twins are dead, the biggest question on our minds is... Were they ever fucked ever? I mean, imagine getting pussy off of a fucking conjoined fucking woman! What a rush, man! Hooo rah! Hoorah! I'm already gung ho and hard thinking about porking Islamic conjoined bitches for some good ole shizznozz. I would like to be the guy who ripped their clothing off, and fornicated with reckless abandon to deliver my spermic influx into their velvety crevasse! I mean, i would like to dirty Sanchez their mother and rip her fucking burka off and make her watch me fuck her conjoined daughters! Then I would wipe the cum off with Mohammed's shoal and throw it in a pile of pig shit.
If you are offended, let me know and reply to me here, I watch these threads.
SUPER SPORE. TRAVIS!
Hi clitoris chopper, ISLAM supports clitoris carving. You are Islamic, and of course are a fucking animal. I hate you you pull-start camel jockey lover. Towelheads, Camel Jockies, Sand Niggers, Ackmids, Abeebs, Carpet Flyers, Dune Coons, Rag Heads, Sand Scratchers, Habeebs, Abba-Dabbas, Camel-Humpers, Demi-niggers, Fig-Gobblers, Hucka-luckas (hucka hlacka ghalcka ghugh), Lefties (If you steal, you lose the right hand so, since they are thieves...) Ocnods, Pull-Start-ables (imagine pull starting Ossama's dirty rag like a Briggs and Stratton), Roach-Ranchers (habibs cant kill roaches by a tenant of Is-slum), Sand Moolies.
Shut up all you dirty fucking Islamic pigfucking swinehundts and the pigs, the communist fuckin Islamic terrorist supporter.
Take your fucking Koran and cram it up your ass. The sooner the earth sees Islam leave it, the better off it will be. Your Koran is Goat Piss.
I hope if there is a God and a Hell, you have to drink the liquidy shit from a Pig's ass, and Jewish Rabbis defecate on you.
I hate the stupid ISLAM fucks who read into the trash they come up with. Saddam Hussein [who needs to take a dirt nap] is higher on my sanity list than fucking Muslim "clerics." In fact, I like Saddam more than most of the other Arab leaders because he is secular. We should fucking nuke the Saudis and Mecca and Medina and turn it into rubble, then tell Saddam to remove the heads of all the buttfucking "royalty" in the area.
I want to wipe my ass with Mohammad's shroud. I want to grind his body up into bone meal and fertilize my garden with it.
Our tortured dead scream out in HORROR, asking for vengeance:
Nuke their countries to hell.
Nuke them again.
Death to Islam.
I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I shit upon Mohammed. I wipe the cum for a freshly fucked pussy with Mohammed's shroud then throw it in the pig sty so it can mire in pig shit as it decomposes.