There's about 25 pages on the forum with Linux IT people pleading for a Linux client. Maybe, just maybe, bringing on a "long time microsoft executive" as ceo wasn't such a good thing...maybe.
After setting up an Ubuntu laptop for my wife; who really only knows win2k and xp, she now can't wait for me to convert her workstation to Ubuntu. She really does not like to change and yet she now loves Ubuntu. It's a lot less work for me (for support) at home and in the office too. We now have 20% of the workforce on Ubuntu, and growing, at my company. By year end that number should be 80% (or more).
Windows 7 taskbar is exactly like OSX taskbar, only different.
In reality all the other ones (OSX, KDE, WindowMaker, GDesklett, etc.) actually work.
The more people like Ars Technica tell them what's wrong with their beta products unleashed on the general public as usable products, the more Microsoft f&cks up those products trying to fix them. Most Microsoft end users just want Microsoft to finish making a stable and usable ANYTHING.
I know about 150 people who have vista and hate it. I almost count as the 151st except I am now windows free. - 100%. For all those saying throw up a vm of vista - I did and it sucked just as bad as the real machine I put it on. I now put challenge back to you and ask you throw up a vm of Linux. BTW: You can do this with a few different versions to find the one you are most comfortable with ON as many vm instances you want to because they will all outperform vista and they are all free.
I am a recovering windows developer and a current card carrying Linux fanboy.
I'm sure they have more ip addresses "laying around", however as a starting point: deny from 74.220.192.0/19 in at least everyone's.htaccess file could be nice.
If the giants would center around a free version of Linux it would benefit a larger group of people including themselves. Imagine if IBM, Dell and HP all offered an Ubuntu solution with one of their screaming machines? I know there are *other* favorites here in slashdot, however Ubuntu - for the most part (IMHO) has the best chance to work out of the box for *new* users. This would also drive some to other OS's like SuSe, RedHat and others. The sooner more of the masses see the power, stability and security of something outside windbloze - the better.
Am I the only one wondering why this was done for the iPhone instead of the gPhone?
I guess it was the same brilliant mind who decided to make chrome for windows first instead of linux and mac.
Please don't use the SANS policy. As someone who performs risk assessments for a large company I am tired of vendors sending me SANS policies to review. They are old and outdated...some of them contain typos and it really tells me as an auditor that you really don't take security seriously because you can't take the time to tailor a document to your business needs.
They are generic reference documents to use as a guide not as a final product. Even the guy who wrote the Remote Access policy for SANS thinks it's a joke.
How about some links to the right ones then. Most people here don't give much weight to someone who says "Don't use THAT" and do not offer some better solution.
Not exactly, as it's horribly unfair to Microsoft. Think about it, if the contract was released, then all of Microsoft's competitors know just how much they need to undercut Microsoft's price to make the sale on a huge (HUGE) contract. You're putting Microsoft at a competitive disadvantage. This is why most (if not all) government contracts are sealed in this manner.
Signed
Someone who works for a government contractor
Unless of course the competition is FREE - as in Ubuntu.
"Ubuntu automagically WON'T connect to unsecured AP's. This is a pain in the ass."
Read that out loud. It's LINUX. It's not supposed to connect to ANYTHING unsecure by default. That's Microsofts job.
BTW: My Lenovo T61 worked out of the box. Everything, including WiFi. Since you have three kids, I've probably been laid more than you.
1. Microsoft getting involved in cloud computing brings up images of pollution - for some reason.
2. Why doesn't Microsoft just fix XP and Vista instead of spreading their viral programming practices into a cloud?
I'd like to completely nullify what you have said. The first sentence is actually YOUR libertarian view.
So instead of "As a libertarian I am reluctantly forced to concede that it can be acceptable to sell ones and zeroes..." It should actually read: "I am a libertarian (in which case no one here cares) and I am reluctantly forced (why?) to concede that it can be acceptable to sell ones and zeroes...
By your own definition of rights violation "violate people's rights (namely, initiation of force and/or fraud)" you are being violated by your perception of the Libertarian party, and I don't think that is the case.
BTW: I am a Libertarian too (and no one here cares...)
ARRG!
I emailed both the dnc and cnn. Here's the response from cnn:
Greetings,
CNN.com Live Video is not currently available for Linux users because of the
Windows Media elements. While we don't have a specific date when it will be
compatible with your platform, we will make your request known to the
development team.
Thanks for your interests in CNN.com video content.
Sincerely,
CNN.com Technical Operations
Summary: VCM Technical Issue Email Request
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Any reply to this email will be copied to the IT Service
Management System for tracking purposes
whitelisting a domain, email address or ip address means that you are trusting someone else to make sure their message server (and accompanying mail admin) is doing things right. There's also the possibility, due to pressure from your boss, you're allowing a known spam machine to send you mail and then it's up to you to regex out the spam. Whitelisting allows otherwise blockable items through.
Email and webhosting rule #1: "You get what you pay for."
If you're using something free to do business, you are sharing machines used by a thousand other computers.
How many of those thousand other computers are running some form of a compromised/infected (read: microsoft) computer?
Hotmail is a petri-dish. The pretty blue and green colors are symbolic.
Yeah, you can quote that.
Comodo uses some of the proceeds to make very good anti-virus, anti-malware, firewall, etc. software. I have used their anti-virus software for some time and it does a better job than McAfee. It's free and less of a resource hog, especially the "on access scanning engine". Best of all, every application is separate, however ties in well with the others if you choose to install more than one. If you want everything except a software firewall on your windblows box (like most of Slashdot, right?)(because we have one running as a separate machine - right?), then you can just download the individual packages. Comodo is doing it right: Good product, good service and they use proceeds to provide free software.
Slashdot Mirror
The don't buy it. They download it and remove the name, logos and they offer support.
There's about 25 pages on the forum with Linux IT people pleading for a Linux client. Maybe, just maybe, bringing on a "long time microsoft executive" as ceo wasn't such a good thing...maybe.
After setting up an Ubuntu laptop for my wife; who really only knows win2k and xp, she now can't wait for me to convert her workstation to Ubuntu. She really does not like to change and yet she now loves Ubuntu. It's a lot less work for me (for support) at home and in the office too. We now have 20% of the workforce on Ubuntu, and growing, at my company. By year end that number should be 80% (or more).
Replace it with an Ubuntu machine. Here's some dell machines with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Or maybe a smaller company that's been doing it longer:
http://system76.com/
Or maybe you don't really need to replace it. Maybe just put Ubuntu on it. It will probably be good for quite awhile longer.
Windows 7 taskbar is exactly like OSX taskbar, only different.
In reality all the other ones (OSX, KDE, WindowMaker, GDesklett, etc.) actually work.
The more people like Ars Technica tell them what's wrong with their beta products unleashed on the general public as usable products, the more Microsoft f&cks up those products trying to fix them. Most Microsoft end users just want Microsoft to finish making a stable and usable ANYTHING.
I know about 150 people who have vista and hate it. I almost count as the 151st except I am now windows free. - 100%. For all those saying throw up a vm of vista - I did and it sucked just as bad as the real machine I put it on. I now put challenge back to you and ask you throw up a vm of Linux. BTW: You can do this with a few different versions to find the one you are most comfortable with ON as many vm instances you want to because they will all outperform vista and they are all free.
I am a recovering windows developer and a current card carrying Linux fanboy.
What version of Earth do you live on where Vista IS stable? There; fixed it for you.
www.internetevolution.com is running on a ms web server and asp.
Maybe they don't know what they're talking about? Didn't asp die already?
Processing nexiconinc.com (74.220.215.80)
.htaccess file could be nice.
nexiconinc.com. is in Abuse.net Contacts as 0.0.0.1
* "postmaster@nexiconinc.com"
74.220.215.80 is host280.hostmonster.com.
host280.hostmonster.com. is in Abuse.net Contacts as 0.0.0.2
* "postmaster@hostmonster.com"
* "abuse@hostmonster.com"
74.220.215.80 is in Blars Block List as 208.43.232.224
* Hosts spamers web sites
* Hosts spammers email dropboxes
* breakin attempts
* Knowingly supports spammers
* attepted mail relay
* attepted formmail exploit
* carreer spammer support
* provides connection to rogue isp
74.220.215.80 is in lagengymnastik as 127.0.0.2
* "Please refer to http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting/msg/9fc547194276c164"
74.220.215.80 is in they.com spambait as 209.198.142.156
74.220.215.80 in ASN11798 74.220.192.0/19
IPQuery: 74.220.215.80 Server: whois.arin.net
OrgName: Bluehost Inc.
OrgID: BLUEH-2
Address: 1215 N. Research Way Q-3500
City: Orem
StateProv: UT
PostalCode: 84097
Country: US
NetRange: 74.220.192.0 - 74.220.223.255
CIDR: 74.220.192.0/19
OriginAS: AS11798
NetName: BLUEHOST-NETWORK-2
NetHandle: NET-74-220-192-0-1
Parent: NET-74-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.BLUEHOST.COM
NameServer: NS2.BLUEHOST.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2007-01-09
Updated: 2007-11-05
I'm sure they have more ip addresses "laying around", however as a starting point:
deny from 74.220.192.0/19
in at least everyone's
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Using the page: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/index.html I am making a short suggestion to pre-install Ubuntu. Maybe you should also.
If the giants would center around a free version of Linux it would benefit a larger group of people including themselves. Imagine if IBM, Dell and HP all offered an Ubuntu solution with one of their screaming machines? I know there are *other* favorites here in slashdot, however Ubuntu - for the most part (IMHO) has the best chance to work out of the box for *new* users. This would also drive some to other OS's like SuSe, RedHat and others. The sooner more of the masses see the power, stability and security of something outside windbloze - the better.
Am I the only one wondering why this was done for the iPhone instead of the gPhone? I guess it was the same brilliant mind who decided to make chrome for windows first instead of linux and mac.
Please don't use the SANS policy. As someone who performs risk assessments for a large company I am tired of vendors sending me SANS policies to review. They are old and outdated...some of them contain typos and it really tells me as an auditor that you really don't take security seriously because you can't take the time to tailor a document to your business needs.
They are generic reference documents to use as a guide not as a final product. Even the guy who wrote the Remote Access policy for SANS thinks it's a joke.
How about some links to the right ones then. Most people here don't give much weight to someone who says "Don't use THAT" and do not offer some better solution.
Not exactly, as it's horribly unfair to Microsoft. Think about it, if the contract was released, then all of Microsoft's competitors know just how much they need to undercut Microsoft's price to make the sale on a huge (HUGE) contract. You're putting Microsoft at a competitive disadvantage. This is why most (if not all) government contracts are sealed in this manner. Signed Someone who works for a government contractor
Unless of course the competition is FREE - as in Ubuntu.
Libertarian Party - The other right meat.
Will it run Linux?
"Ubuntu automagically WON'T connect to unsecured AP's. This is a pain in the ass."
Read that out loud. It's LINUX. It's not supposed to connect to ANYTHING unsecure by default. That's Microsofts job.
BTW: My Lenovo T61 worked out of the box. Everything, including WiFi. Since you have three kids, I've probably been laid more than you.
1. Microsoft getting involved in cloud computing brings up images of pollution - for some reason.
2. Why doesn't Microsoft just fix XP and Vista instead of spreading their viral programming practices into a cloud?
I'd like to completely nullify what you have said. The first sentence is actually YOUR libertarian view. So instead of "As a libertarian I am reluctantly forced to concede that it can be acceptable to sell ones and zeroes..." It should actually read: "I am a libertarian (in which case no one here cares) and I am reluctantly forced (why?) to concede that it can be acceptable to sell ones and zeroes... By your own definition of rights violation "violate people's rights (namely, initiation of force and/or fraud)" you are being violated by your perception of the Libertarian party, and I don't think that is the case. BTW: I am a Libertarian too (and no one here cares...) ARRG!
I emailed both the dnc and cnn. Here's the response from cnn: Greetings, CNN.com Live Video is not currently available for Linux users because of the Windows Media elements. While we don't have a specific date when it will be compatible with your platform, we will make your request known to the development team. Thanks for your interests in CNN.com video content. Sincerely, CNN.com Technical Operations Summary: VCM Technical Issue Email Request IMPORTANT NOTICE: Any reply to this email will be copied to the IT Service Management System for tracking purposes
There ya go: http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=13223 and http://secunia.com/graph/?type=imp&period=all&prod=13223
whitelisting a domain, email address or ip address means that you are trusting someone else to make sure their message server (and accompanying mail admin) is doing things right. There's also the possibility, due to pressure from your boss, you're allowing a known spam machine to send you mail and then it's up to you to regex out the spam. Whitelisting allows otherwise blockable items through. Email and webhosting rule #1: "You get what you pay for." If you're using something free to do business, you are sharing machines used by a thousand other computers. How many of those thousand other computers are running some form of a compromised/infected (read: microsoft) computer? Hotmail is a petri-dish. The pretty blue and green colors are symbolic. Yeah, you can quote that.
Comodo uses some of the proceeds to make very good anti-virus, anti-malware, firewall, etc. software. I have used their anti-virus software for some time and it does a better job than McAfee. It's free and less of a resource hog, especially the "on access scanning engine". Best of all, every application is separate, however ties in well with the others if you choose to install more than one. If you want everything except a software firewall on your windblows box (like most of Slashdot, right?)(because we have one running as a separate machine - right?), then you can just download the individual packages. Comodo is doing it right: Good product, good service and they use proceeds to provide free software.