"We can compare notes this time next year and we can see if we actually do have a secure OS or you have a car that never breaks down.""
Aaah, but we have a new technology, a total paradigm shift. If you thought your whites were white before, you'll think you have been walking around in filth when you see our new radical breakthrough!! Our surveys show our miracle breakthrough is up to 15 percent better.
Have there actually been any successful exploits using a web browser as an attack mechanism. The ones that have had the worst effects seem to have been the ones which email an executable with a message saying "Oy dumbass run this executable". They seem to work far better than any thought out technical exploit.
Oh yeah I remember, every new OS since the beginning of operating systems. Incidentally we're bringing out a car that never breaks down. Real soon now, just you wait and see.
"Now, I know that Slashcode is inherently badly written, but I've got to assume that it's still dynamically driven, making the actual amount of HTML across all of Slashdot tiny, actually."
Yet you still come here everyday to complain. You're like Stadtler and Waldorf all rolled into one.
A freely available operating system for PCs. Why slashdot you've done it again!
Whatever will you chaps come up with next.
We dream of the day when telegrams may be sent around the world for the price of a local telephone call. God bless you technological pioneers and God speed to your radical new endeavours.
I just noticed you say it's available in "digital form" too. Why I almost vommited my evening dose of laudenum in excitement.
Once again slashdot has lowered me to the lowest form of wit.
"We have a handful of network admins and programmers who go out to client's offices to solve problems as needed."
This is how I would do it...
The people who go out on site, ask the client what the password is. If they are trusted then the password will be provided. If they are some halfwit who wants to "dump every client's administrator password into a text file" then they will be told to get the fuck away from my network and leave the building.
They could also carry the passwords in a file using a modern concept called encryption, a new invention, only a few thousand years old.
To think that I have recently been modding posters down for bitching about slashdot no longer being "News for nerds"
There are also sites on the internet which can provide links to software which can fulfill this need.
Sorry for being such a sarcastic twat but slashdot is sinking to the level of "My processor is running out of memory, should I buy a bigger monitor?"
People come here to get away from this stupid crap.
Yes, thank god no companies will still be using Windows 2000. Luckily they all scrap their entire infrastructure and upgrade as soon as a new version of windows comes out. OMG man we gotta update the PDC to XP the new themes are so cool.
"Want to run a webserver behind NAT? Forward the port through NAT. Want to run *two* webservers behind NAT? Say goodbye to half of your visitors behind stupid proxies that only relay requests to port 80."
If malicious software is installed by a user, when you type ps ax or use top or whatever gui tool you use to find out why the hell your machine is so slow you will see it running. Then you say "Oh shit! Rebuild time!". If the software gets onto your machine via the root user it can replace all these tools, or even insert a kernel module to intercept syscalls. It could then slowly corrupt all your data over several months (slowly screwing up all your backups along the way), or sit there spewing out spam and DDOS attacks. In the second case the only way to tell something is wrong is that your machine seems slower.
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"We can compare notes this time next year and we can see if we actually do have a secure OS or you have a car that never breaks down.""
Aaah, but we have a new technology, a total paradigm shift. If you thought your whites were white before, you'll think you have been walking around in filth when you see our new radical breakthrough!! Our surveys show our miracle breakthrough is up to 15 percent better.
Have there actually been any successful exploits using a web browser as an attack mechanism. The ones that have had the worst effects seem to have been the ones which email an executable with a message saying "Oy dumbass run this executable". They seem to work far better than any thought out technical exploit.
"The company I work for has a secure OS."
Where have I heard that before...
Oh yeah I remember, every new OS since the beginning of operating systems. Incidentally we're bringing out a car that never breaks down. Real soon now, just you wait and see.
"Now, I know that Slashcode is inherently badly written, but I've got to assume that it's still dynamically driven, making the actual amount of HTML across all of Slashdot tiny, actually."
Yet you still come here everyday to complain. You're like Stadtler and Waldorf all rolled into one.
Cue the Muppets theme tune...
A freely available operating system for PCs. Why slashdot you've done it again!
Whatever will you chaps come up with next.
We dream of the day when telegrams may be sent around the world for the price of a local telephone call. God bless you technological pioneers and God speed to your radical new endeavours.
I just noticed you say it's available in "digital form" too. Why I almost vommited my evening dose of laudenum in excitement.
Once again slashdot has lowered me to the lowest form of wit.
"We have a handful of network admins and programmers who go out to client's offices to solve problems as needed."
This is how I would do it...
The people who go out on site, ask the client what the password is. If they are trusted then the password will be provided. If they are some halfwit who wants to "dump every client's administrator password into a text file" then they will be told to get the fuck away from my network and leave the building.
They could also carry the passwords in a file using a modern concept called encryption, a new invention, only a few thousand years old.
To think that I have recently been modding posters down for bitching about slashdot no longer being "News for nerds"
There are also sites on the internet which can provide links to software which can fulfill this need.
Sorry for being such a sarcastic twat but slashdot is sinking to the level of "My processor is running out of memory, should I buy a bigger monitor?"
People come here to get away from this stupid crap.
"LOL. Grow up dude. XP has a much better kernel than Win2k. Win2k3 kernel is even better."
Whoa dude, 2k3 is like awesome to the max. Like totally radical.
Yes, thank god no companies will still be using Windows 2000. Luckily they all scrap their entire infrastructure and upgrade as soon as a new version of windows comes out. OMG man we gotta update the PDC to XP the new themes are so cool.
What the hell did you have in your CV that could cause incompatibility between MS-Office and OpenOffice?
Home taping is killing music!!!
"It's a great way to let people hear your music if you don't have the thousand$ to pay for play on the radio"
"...or enough talent to please a larger radio audience. "
Of course all the music played on the radio is the absolute zenith of human musical achievement.
"I switched to Mac OS X from Linux after 10 years because Linux sucks as a desktop OS."
And it only took you ten years to reach that conclusion.
Don't you think you were a little hasty?
Could you be any more sarcastic?
Would you like to buy this rock that keeps tigers away?
CentOS and WhitBox are basically the freely available source for Redhat enterprise recompiled with the trademark names/graphics replaced.
Fedora is a community based spin off of Redhat, used as a testing ground for new stuff such as SE Linux, Xen etc.
For a desktop I would use Fedora, personally I've found it is a nice balance between the latest goodies and stability.
For a server, I would use CentOS, of the Redhat enterprise clones it seems the best supported.
"Want to run a webserver behind NAT? Forward the port through NAT. Want to run *two* webservers behind NAT? Say goodbye to half of your visitors behind stupid proxies that only relay requests to port 80."
That's a limit of your NAT device, not NAT/PAT.
fw(config)# static ?
X.org isn't very user friendly, in fact all you get is an 'X' on a blank screen you can move around. What would you prefer, an 'o'?
"Start an X12 already. Why add all this crap to this ancient X11R--what--6? I really don't understand.
Why don't you start an X12 from scratch, perhaps then you will understand?
What colour is the sky in your world?
"Did you even read his post? Like this line:
The keypad would sometimes malfunction and require a reboot to get it to work again
He's saying that the hardware isn't very good."
Damn, if I'd known you could fix faulty hardware with a reboot I could have saved a fortune.
"Oh, and sue Africa too. I heard there were some critters trying to usurp the Tiger name, too."
A tiger? In Africa?
What?
A TIGER? In Africa?
Shhh!
If malicious software is installed by a user, when you type ps ax or use top or whatever gui tool you use to find out why the hell your machine is so slow you will see it running. Then you say "Oh shit! Rebuild time!". If the software gets onto your machine via the root user it can replace all these tools, or even insert a kernel module to intercept syscalls. It could then slowly corrupt all your data over several months (slowly screwing up all your backups along the way), or sit there spewing out spam and DDOS attacks. In the second case the only way to tell something is wrong is that your machine seems slower.
Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
'Cause it's fucking close to water!
Leela: "You're blackmailing me?"
Bender: "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The x makes it sound cool."
"When was the last time you purchased taylor made shoes? "
Who's this Taylor guy?