Many IE users are forced to spoof their user-agent strings to represent themselves as Mozilla/FireFox users to make themselves looks hip and socially conscious. Or not.
Or less like an easy mark. The problem is that it's easier to change your browser and easier still to change out your whole OS for something that works. Oh dear, that's what these statistics mean isn't it?
Just one thing, w3schools.com is a site for people who write websites, so they'd naturally have a much higher percentage of non-IE browsers than the more general browsing population.
Sure, people with the most basic web knowledge know to avoid IE. If you filter out people with a clue you are left with 99.999% winblows users. I'm happy the cluefull are migrating in increasing numbers. It shows that whatever real and perceived barriers there are to using non M$ software are going away.
Do you suggest we get all our stats from the clueless and deluded? Perhaps we should just get the facts from Bill Gates.
Oh yeah, this is what they claim about their study:
The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures.
My stress used to come from the not so always on world of Winblows. Simple things, like uptime greater than a day without lost work, getting files to different physical locations without elaborate set up, filtering email without losing any, email and other work that just vanished from the "servers" and other little things that the computers and the network was supposed to do. Knowing that my tools could let me down at any instant added much to daily stress.
My world is soooooo much easier with software like KDE that uses ssh, sftp graphically without crashes, worms or other losing stuff. I don't know how people get by without easy and secure access to their data.
UK Data Protection Act states that fixed cameras are ok, but if they can zoom or move, then you must comply with the act.
Tilt and zoom are a stupid waste of money. It's cheaper, easier and better to put cameras on everything you want to watch and record it 24/7 than it is to use the tilt and zoom models to miss what you wanted to see. Two cameras looking at what you care about are much better than one that might be watching and requires an operator. You can typically buy two or three good cameras for the price of one tilt and zoom model.
Why don't they do this test with an OS like *BSD (or Linux), with its highly-tuned networking stack?
They needed data. They started with DVDs they owned, but a few dozen only added up to about 1/8 of what they wanted. Renting was too expensive and they were worn out from ripping the first 12. The solution was obvious...
The connected the Winblows 2003 server and used it to collect data. Within minutes, it was rooted and it's reputation for good network connectivity spread quickly. In a day or two, the multiple terabyte array was filled with music, movies, porn and warez. The data was then transfered to reasonable hardware and the test was performed.
The shift in the US from manufacturing to service jobs has been going on since the 1950's...the same thing is happening in every other developed country that has made it past the agricultural and industrial phases.
Manufacturing in the US did not start declining until 1975 or so. Service sector jobs may have been increasing too, but the bad news started in the mid 70s.
You must either be paid exceptionally badly or deploying a huge number of FileMaker licenses if a year of your salary is a realistic alternative to upgrading to FM7.
he's faced with spending a lot of his time any way he goes, stay, upgrade or convert. He said that moving to 7 would require him to rebuild all of his databases. So he and others will spend plenty of time on the upgrade train and it might add up to more than one man year of effort.
The reason he's bothering is the binary blues. Sooner or later, the equipment that runs his current version will die as will his binary install media and then the conversion will be harder.
There are obvious benefits to using a free database, so he's looking for advice.
This is not a complicated decision. Millions of businesses make similar decisions every day.
That's what makes investment so difficult. What you said sounds reasonable but it's dead wrong. I've had PHBs like that, yuck, who don't know shit and then make you explain why they did things to begin with. Companies with too many people like that are a bad bet.
I have no idea how they can find that the tech turnover rate has declined.
Most companies are loath to admit how many jobs they are sending overseas. They might brag to Wall Street and other lack of clue people about "reduced costs" but they still hide the offshoring in public and to government for fear of a backlash.
The accounting is simple but not honest. They don't move a job, they retire someone and open a "different" job overseas. They can then say they simply did not hire someone they did not need anymore. The fact that job descriptions are identical because the company still does the same things does not bother those who fear public reactions.
Government statistics pick it up as a contraction in various sectors, but even that masks a lot of information.
The Revolution was not televised and things are getting worse.
Also, the 25 year shift to a "service economy" continued as manufacturing, engineering, transcription, and even high quality service jobs were all exported. Construction teetered on the brink of the collapse that will inevitably come. Training for your next job is memorizing the question, "would you like fries with that?"
Care to make a zealot-less point which actually attacks a real design flaw?
If any of what you said was true stupid stuff like midi and wav file attachment attacks would not work. Oh yeah, that reminds me of another flaw or two. How about that stupid extention based file typing? Also, zero choice or change in system files makes for exploits that nail everyone. I assume that any winblows computer connected to a network has been rooted.
I'm not a zealot, I've simply got a memory. Windows gets a new auto root every month or so. None of your blind apologies or praise of ACLs will change that.
[security is] a gradual process of refining your design principles.
In the case of Winblows, it should be a complete and radical rebuild. They can start with a kernel that really keeps track of memory usage, has real PIDs, users and file based permissions for user, group, world, read, write, execute and force it on applications. Lord knows, they've broken enough of their erstwhile competitor's programs to have done this already. Other nifty ideas would be not running email clients and web browsers that auto-open anything as close to root with permissions to overwrite system files. People have been telling them that their single user mode junk was not internet ready since DOS and winblows 3.1, you would think they understood by now and would implement some of the features of the OSes they coppied, VMS, Unix, etc.
What would happen to Windows if it was stagnant while every line of code was scrutinized: it'll lose.
That's happening now, but I doubt every line is being "scrutinized" while they blunder along with DRM features and database filesystems. A rebuild would be quicker than such scrutiny anyway.
Compare (honestly) the security of 2003 against XP
You mean that thing that banks and others run that just got totally owned by the makers of download.ject? I don't have to honestly compare that to that other OS I don't run because others have done it for me.
Why do people listen to Microsoft anymore? Due to monumental arrogance, they never listen to anyone else. "Best Windows Ever" again? Who's going to believe that?
Having someone say "it's more of a 10-year timeline" does not equate to "MS not expected secure until 2011"...much less "MS says" 2011. The phrase "more of a..." connotes a generality.
You are right, he did not make any promises other than to work on it.
In ten years Winblows will still be the easiest to exploit OS around. Three years ago, they promissed to make security "job #1" more important than new features. Yesterday, they promissed new features for a new OS that will be out two years from now, but are here saying that security may be here in 10 years. If your memory allows you to put those two statements in your head at once, you should conclude that M$ lied three years ago and that security is nothing but an empty promise for M$ three years ago, now and ten years into the future.
Microsoft, however, might not be around to worry about it.
Microsoft is... the biggest fish in the sea. Every 'fisherman' is out to get them.
As yes, as someone else so well put it, "Finding a vulnerability is like finding a fish. If the pond is overfished, it's harder to find them. Hackers are rather evenly split between running Linux and running Mac OSX. As much as a few professional NASCAR drivers drive Dodge Neons, a negligible amount of skilled hackers use Windows as their primary OS. Not to mention, many Win32 fish are given out for free by Microsoft when releasing patches. Here, there can be only one option. Even extremely modern versions of Windows have a TC0 much lower than older Linuxes" Why is it that the Microsoft sea never seems to run out of big, ugly fish?
I've been curious to hear more about when and where that's actually going to show up.
I thought that M$ was allready working with BIOS makers on this and that it was already here. This could be an admission that trusted computing is not secure computing.
Yes, as you know a 486 should be sufficient to run any large multinational corporation, as long as you're not using Micro$oft crap.
At least not the new crap. I've been told that Gulf States Utility's first non mainframe billing system ran off a 386 running DOS. It was connected to a big printer, but the hardware requirements were modest.
Free software's hardware requirements have not grown the same way M$'s has. You do not need a fancy graphics card, GUI, or tons of RAM to make most real work go.
Tell me, if you need a staff of sys admins and floor support people to keep, let's say. your network of 26 servers running Lotus Notes on Linux, 13 application and database servers running Linux, plus a few web servers, along with several hundred client machines in several dispersed buildings, how you're gonna support that with Google??
If you have bought into Lotus Notes, IBM will be telling you how to run things.
If you want to run free software instead, there's plenty of it available. Key Largo is a good example of how things should run. It's a lot easier and cheaper than Winblows.
he always uses his submissions to drive traffic to his own site, where he uses plagiarized and/or stolen content to gain ads revenue. Note that all his submissions to Slashdot include a link to his own site.
Now we have something serious, if true. You should have made that part of your public service announcement to begin with. Because you are so familiar with this, it should not be so hard to provide links.
The search you linked to pulled up a pile of cool articles. What "spam" are you talking about in this off-topic, flamebait troll of yours? What's self serving about any of those stories?
Do you have anything interesting to say about this interesting looking workstation?
"Allchin's unbiased memo" promises high quality, reliability, diagnostics, RAD and graphics tools, as well as developer excitement. That's quite a list.
Note, if you will, that that isn't an argument in favor of using MS. It's just a statement of fact.
Your "facts" are less than convincing and your opinion, that software is no help or unimportant in developing markets, is simply wrong.
MS, if it chooses, can give Windows away and cut the cost of its paid support.
No they can't because they would quickly go out of business. Google has quicker and better answers than any paid "support" does anyway. Microsoft will never be cheaper for anyone to use than free software.
F/OSS, on the other hand, cannot reduce the acquisition cost of its products and has no real control over the cost of support.
You must have been reading some of those M$ "Get the Facts" publications to think that free software ever costs more than Microsoft based junk. I can't think of anyplace that's true.
Many nations cannot (or do not care enough to) provide their populations with safe drinking water, minimal health care, and sufficient caloric intake. Rather than conjuring visions of besting Microsoft in these markets, the F/OSS community would be of better service if it conjured ways to use its products to enable these nations to tackle those more pressing problems.
Free software provides tools for people to solve their own problems and does so with much leaner hardware. Once a free driver for a piece of hardware is made, that hardware is never obsoleted by an OS version change. Free compilers for working hardware are useful in providing food, water and health care. From administration and records keeping to equipment automation, free software can do anything and more than Microsoft can, but better and cheaper. That's why the UN is starting to push it over commercial software.
Free software use may be another area, like cell phones instead of POTS, where developing markets are more efficient than developed ones.
Scribble over traffic markings, problem. Markings on the street have meaning. Confusion leads to accidents, injury and death. The street is not free paper for your publication.
I like the bike. It's a nifty trick.
He should be able to ride it on his own property without problems. If he wants to ride it on public property, he needs to be ready for that arrest.
The infraction is minor, but confusing. Chances are that he will be held while the police consult with the DA to figure out what, if anything, to charge him with.
First of all, this guy does no permanent damage to public property.
No graffiti is ever permanent. I still don't want to look at it. Put your message on private property, avoid detection or pay the price.
I hated the M$ sticker dorks and I don't like this guy. The sticker dorks put their garbage in my face without permission. I hate that more than I hate paid billboards. This guy chalked up the street. It's no big deal, unless he covers up traffic markings and that confuses someone and they have a wreck that kills someone, woops. Messing with the street is a bad idea.
I don't like the bike ride being used as an anti-Bush statement. According to a NYT article I read, the purpose of Critical Mass is to promote cycling rights and has nothing to do with any political party. The Critical Mass website agrees as does the Manhattan chapter site. I doubt that a majority of the people on that ride set out to make some kind of anti-Bush statement.
Did the NYC police get out of hand? Sure they did. That does not, however, make me any happier about the way this is being reported.
The ride was about bike riding not presidential candidates and no one but M$NBC has dropped the ball.
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Or less like an easy mark. The problem is that it's easier to change your browser and easier still to change out your whole OS for something that works. Oh dear, that's what these statistics mean isn't it?
Just one thing, w3schools.com is a site for people who write websites, so they'd naturally have a much higher percentage of non-IE browsers than the more general browsing population.
Sure, people with the most basic web knowledge know to avoid IE. If you filter out people with a clue you are left with 99.999% winblows users. I'm happy the cluefull are migrating in increasing numbers. It shows that whatever real and perceived barriers there are to using non M$ software are going away.
Do you suggest we get all our stats from the clueless and deluded? Perhaps we should just get the facts from Bill Gates.
Oh yeah, this is what they claim about their study:
The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures.
My world is soooooo much easier with software like KDE that uses ssh, sftp graphically without crashes, worms or other losing stuff. I don't know how people get by without easy and secure access to their data.
Tilt and zoom are a stupid waste of money. It's cheaper, easier and better to put cameras on everything you want to watch and record it 24/7 than it is to use the tilt and zoom models to miss what you wanted to see. Two cameras looking at what you care about are much better than one that might be watching and requires an operator. You can typically buy two or three good cameras for the price of one tilt and zoom model.
They needed data. They started with DVDs they owned, but a few dozen only added up to about 1/8 of what they wanted. Renting was too expensive and they were worn out from ripping the first 12. The solution was obvious ...
The connected the Winblows 2003 server and used it to collect data. Within minutes, it was rooted and it's reputation for good network connectivity spread quickly. In a day or two, the multiple terabyte array was filled with music, movies, porn and warez. The data was then transfered to reasonable hardware and the test was performed.
Manufacturing in the US did not start declining until 1975 or so. Service sector jobs may have been increasing too, but the bad news started in the mid 70s.
he's faced with spending a lot of his time any way he goes, stay, upgrade or convert. He said that moving to 7 would require him to rebuild all of his databases. So he and others will spend plenty of time on the upgrade train and it might add up to more than one man year of effort.
The reason he's bothering is the binary blues. Sooner or later, the equipment that runs his current version will die as will his binary install media and then the conversion will be harder.
There are obvious benefits to using a free database, so he's looking for advice.
This is not a complicated decision. Millions of businesses make similar decisions every day.
That's what makes investment so difficult. What you said sounds reasonable but it's dead wrong. I've had PHBs like that, yuck, who don't know shit and then make you explain why they did things to begin with. Companies with too many people like that are a bad bet.
Most companies are loath to admit how many jobs they are sending overseas. They might brag to Wall Street and other lack of clue people about "reduced costs" but they still hide the offshoring in public and to government for fear of a backlash.
The accounting is simple but not honest. They don't move a job, they retire someone and open a "different" job overseas. They can then say they simply did not hire someone they did not need anymore. The fact that job descriptions are identical because the company still does the same things does not bother those who fear public reactions.
Government statistics pick it up as a contraction in various sectors, but even that masks a lot of information.
The Revolution was not televised and things are getting worse.
If any of what you said was true stupid stuff like midi and wav file attachment attacks would not work. Oh yeah, that reminds me of another flaw or two. How about that stupid extention based file typing? Also, zero choice or change in system files makes for exploits that nail everyone. I assume that any winblows computer connected to a network has been rooted.
I'm not a zealot, I've simply got a memory. Windows gets a new auto root every month or so. None of your blind apologies or praise of ACLs will change that.
In the case of Winblows, it should be a complete and radical rebuild. They can start with a kernel that really keeps track of memory usage, has real PIDs, users and file based permissions for user, group, world, read, write, execute and force it on applications. Lord knows, they've broken enough of their erstwhile competitor's programs to have done this already. Other nifty ideas would be not running email clients and web browsers that auto-open anything as close to root with permissions to overwrite system files. People have been telling them that their single user mode junk was not internet ready since DOS and winblows 3.1, you would think they understood by now and would implement some of the features of the OSes they coppied, VMS, Unix, etc.
What would happen to Windows if it was stagnant while every line of code was scrutinized: it'll lose.
That's happening now, but I doubt every line is being "scrutinized" while they blunder along with DRM features and database filesystems. A rebuild would be quicker than such scrutiny anyway.
Compare (honestly) the security of 2003 against XP
You mean that thing that banks and others run that just got totally owned by the makers of download.ject? I don't have to honestly compare that to that other OS I don't run because others have done it for me.
Why do people listen to Microsoft anymore? Due to monumental arrogance, they never listen to anyone else. "Best Windows Ever" again? Who's going to believe that?
You are right, he did not make any promises other than to work on it.
In ten years Winblows will still be the easiest to exploit OS around. Three years ago, they promissed to make security "job #1" more important than new features. Yesterday, they promissed new features for a new OS that will be out two years from now, but are here saying that security may be here in 10 years. If your memory allows you to put those two statements in your head at once, you should conclude that M$ lied three years ago and that security is nothing but an empty promise for M$ three years ago, now and ten years into the future.
Microsoft, however, might not be around to worry about it.
As yes, as someone else so well put it, "Finding a vulnerability is like finding a fish. If the pond is overfished, it's harder to find them. Hackers are rather evenly split between running Linux and running Mac OSX. As much as a few professional NASCAR drivers drive Dodge Neons, a negligible amount of skilled hackers use Windows as their primary OS. Not to mention, many Win32 fish are given out for free by Microsoft when releasing patches. Here, there can be only one option. Even extremely modern versions of Windows have a TC0 much lower than older Linuxes" Why is it that the Microsoft sea never seems to run out of big, ugly fish?
I thought that M$ was allready working with BIOS makers on this and that it was already here. This could be an admission that trusted computing is not secure computing.
At least not the new crap. I've been told that Gulf States Utility's first non mainframe billing system ran off a 386 running DOS. It was connected to a big printer, but the hardware requirements were modest.
Free software's hardware requirements have not grown the same way M$'s has. You do not need a fancy graphics card, GUI, or tons of RAM to make most real work go.
If you have bought into Lotus Notes, IBM will be telling you how to run things.
If you want to run free software instead, there's plenty of it available. Key Largo is a good example of how things should run. It's a lot easier and cheaper than Winblows.
Now we have something serious, if true. You should have made that part of your public service announcement to begin with. Because you are so familiar with this, it should not be so hard to provide links.
Do you have anything interesting to say about this interesting looking workstation?
Are they going to ship a Linux distro?
Your "facts" are less than convincing and your opinion, that software is no help or unimportant in developing markets, is simply wrong.
MS, if it chooses, can give Windows away and cut the cost of its paid support.
No they can't because they would quickly go out of business. Google has quicker and better answers than any paid "support" does anyway. Microsoft will never be cheaper for anyone to use than free software.
You must have been reading some of those M$ "Get the Facts" publications to think that free software ever costs more than Microsoft based junk. I can't think of anyplace that's true.
Many nations cannot (or do not care enough to) provide their populations with safe drinking water, minimal health care, and sufficient caloric intake. Rather than conjuring visions of besting Microsoft in these markets, the F/OSS community would be of better service if it conjured ways to use its products to enable these nations to tackle those more pressing problems.
Free software provides tools for people to solve their own problems and does so with much leaner hardware. Once a free driver for a piece of hardware is made, that hardware is never obsoleted by an OS version change. Free compilers for working hardware are useful in providing food, water and health care. From administration and records keeping to equipment automation, free software can do anything and more than Microsoft can, but better and cheaper. That's why the UN is starting to push it over commercial software.
Free software use may be another area, like cell phones instead of POTS, where developing markets are more efficient than developed ones.
Scribble over traffic markings, problem. Markings on the street have meaning. Confusion leads to accidents, injury and death. The street is not free paper for your publication.
I like the bike. It's a nifty trick.
He should be able to ride it on his own property without problems. If he wants to ride it on public property, he needs to be ready for that arrest.
The infraction is minor, but confusing. Chances are that he will be held while the police consult with the DA to figure out what, if anything, to charge him with.
No graffiti is ever permanent. I still don't want to look at it. Put your message on private property, avoid detection or pay the price.
I hated the M$ sticker dorks and I don't like this guy. The sticker dorks put their garbage in my face without permission. I hate that more than I hate paid billboards. This guy chalked up the street. It's no big deal, unless he covers up traffic markings and that confuses someone and they have a wreck that kills someone, woops. Messing with the street is a bad idea.
Did the NYC police get out of hand? Sure they did. That does not, however, make me any happier about the way this is being reported.
The ride was about bike riding not presidential candidates and no one but M$NBC has dropped the ball.