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MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities
nandemoari writes "A hole allowing hackers to take control of Microsoft Exchange was just one 'critical' issue the Redmond-based company promises it has fixed with a patch correcting a total of eight vulnerabilities in its programs, including the Internet Explorer browser, Office, and its SQL Server.
Three of the eight vulnerabilities patched yesterday were marked 'critical.' The most concerning is an issue with Exchange that would allow attackers to take over an Exchange server by simply forwarding a carefully crafted message to a corporate mail server. Microsoft has admitted that the vulnerability can be exploited when a user opens or previews an email in the Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF)."
OO.org is pretty cool. Some parts of it are definitely NOT as good, definitely ont better, than MS Office. MS Office is actually, in my opinion, a pretty good product. Impress vs. PPT, PPT wins hands down. Writer vs. Word ... well, writer is actually pretty good, though Word 2007 has some default nice-looking document stuff going for it. Me personally? I use OO.org. But I can definitely see how it isn't for everyone.
Slick, beautiful, and easy to use. Let's see, I just installed openSuSE 11.1 on a Dell E1505. It works pretty well (had 10.3 before that, by the way). First problem: knetworkmanager and WEP: fail. It wouldn't put in the write key; had to use iwconfig to manually configure it. Has never worked for me. Windows could do WEP fine. (note: I use WEP just to keep my neighbors off. I know it's easily cracked, I've cracked WEP myself). Second problem: ATI Mobility x1400 drivers. Downloaded ATI installer; fail. Tried various things. Finally installed RPM, that worked. I think what happened was the kernel source wasn't installed, thus the ATI installer didn't compile the driver, etc. But all I got was a black screen. Oh, you want users to dig through logs in random directories? Easy to use... Windows drivers worked fine.
Third problem: can't turn off the annoying PC speaker. I could with Windows. Fourth problem: Suspend to Disk doesn't work with Compiz/XGL, it comes back up with a black screen and a mouse cursor. Have to kill X and start it again. It worked fine with Xorg but not with XGL. Unfortunate, too, since I kinda like suspending and have to do it to disk because the battery is completely dead. Windows worked fine.
It's working now, and I like it. I've always liked Linux. Interestingly, though, my wife said this (she is not a tech person): "I don't think I like Linux... it doesn't do what you expect it to." She can use it, when it's working. When it stops working, she has no clue what to do. When X doesn't boot up for whatever reason, she doesn't know the "startx" command. If that doesn't work, she doesn't know about the kernel bootoption "x11failsafe." Easy to use!
I haven't tried Ubuntu specifically on my laptop, so I can't comment on its compatibility.
All this to say: switching completely from Windows to Linux is NOT for the person who doesn't have time to fiddle with stuff (i.e., spends maybe an hour a day on their computer) and doesn't have someone that can do it for them/fix it for them. Me? I can use Linux, and my wife can, because I can fix it. My parents? Same thing. I can set it up and fix it. Other people may not be able to.
(*waits for mod -5 Doesn't support Linux in all situations. :) )
Last final note: I work with Linux all day at work, and I've used quite a few versions (including Puppy Linux, tinyMe, Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, Slackware, and a few others that I tried out on some old hardware to see which ran best). I really like it. I have also used Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, XP x64, 2003, 2003 x64, 2008, 2008 x64, Vista, Vista x64, and 7 x64.
Lastly, Wine does not work for all applications, virtualization is not "easy" to use, and I have a few other gripes about the easy to use camp but this is long enough :) hehe.
I sound bitter. Oh well, I'm not. I'm happily using Linux+KDE4.2+XGL+Amarok as my cool little media center!
I run Mac OS X mail server (cyrus/postfix) with about 400 users on a small server with no problems, a simple interface(ServerAdmin), a complicated interface if you want it(CLI), and a shit load less cost than 400 CALs.
I'd say it compares quite nicely to what you have.
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