The page linked to in your sig really pisses me off. I don't understand how you can write such intelligent and insightful posts and also write the same old tired anti-Microsoft FUD that we see here everyday.
Code Red was awful, yes. I do not deny that. But let's set the record straight. First, the Code Red bug was patched before the Code Red infection got into full swing. The reason it got so bad was because of clueless IIS admins who didn't follow security news. Please don't blame Microsoft unless you can show me an open-source alernative whose history is free from security flaws. Apache has them too, despite the fact that Slashdot does not publicize them as heavily as Microsoft's bugs. Let he who is without sin yadda yadda yadda.
Second, I do not deny the fact that IIS seems to have more problems, but I'm going to defend Microsoft again for a second and note that IIS 5 on Win2k includes a hell of a lot more functionality than a base Apache install. I know that gobs of functionality and tight system integration may offend your delicate Linux-asshole sensibilities, but there are millions of people who find them to be benefits of Microsoft's application platform. I'm not trying to excuse security flaws, but I believe that one reason why IIS has had a greater densitity of incidents than Apache is because of the incredible pace at which Microsoft develops new technology. (And their customers like that.) If you can't accept the fact that there are people with different -- not better or worse, just different -- opinions than yours, then you're no better than that dipshit Rob Malda.
Third, and most importantly, IIS is used by a hell of a lot more people than Apache. Many of these people are not qualified to administrate an HTTP server, but we'll discuss that in a second. Before that, I want to remind you that Microsoft has always tried to keep these kind of people from running a web server without knowing it. WinNT4 Workstation does not come with IIS, and Win2k Pro does not install it by default. The only potentially problematic situation is when a user upgrades from Win98 with Personal Web Server installed to Win2k Pro -- then IIS is automatically installed as a replacement. But even in that case, the user had to have known enough to install PWS on Win98.
As I was saying, the real reason that IIS is installed on so many machines is that Windows is popular. And the IIS graphical interface is much simpler for users who don't have time to learn the details of HTTP server administration. Yes, there is a good argument that such users shouldn't be running servers, but are you going to stop them? Who are you to decide who can and cannot run a web server? If you can blame Microsoft for being bother popular and easy to use, you're nothing but an elitist who is bitter that what you once considered technical work can now be accomplished by "mere" businesspeople.
And Mopar, when will you tire of your childish anti-IIS rants? I have plenty of complaints about pro-Microsoft bigots, but at least they have a sense of perspective. I don't hear Bill Gates blasting UNIX because of the original Internet worm, do I? Are anti-Microsoft bigots really so starved for factual arguments that they will beat a dead horse until it is pulp and bones?
I'm trying to do you a favor. Try to look at that IIS page with an objective eye. The logfile itself isn't the problem; it's your sneering, condescending attitude. If your Linux/Apache platform were perfect, such arrogance might be justified, but it is not. It's just a different choice. There are advantages and disadvantages to all systems. That's why even though I run my personal website on the same Linux/Apache combination as yours, I don't look down on Windows or IIS as a platform. You're making yourself look stupid, and whatever truth there is in your open-source advocacy is lost when you promote open-source in such a disgusting manner. You would do well to study the former Representative Traficant's case -- you both have poor attitudes that make it difficult for an audience to listen to your message.
Now, then... I found your post very Interesting and Informative. If I weren't a member of the Troll underclass, I would mod you up. Instead, I've crafted this post in the hope that it will make you think, and perhaps even improve your technical advocacy.
You may email me at trolltuesday@yahoo.com if you have any comments.
Whether the story had anything to do with VeriSign or not -- I don't know; Slashdot stories are usually irrelevant to the real world and thus I never read them -- VeriSign is guilty of this type of annoyance. Despite the fact that I have never had any business with either Network Solutions or Verisign, I routinely received junk mail -- as in real world, paper junk mail -- from them regarding my many registered domain names. The junk mail reminds me to "renew" my domain names, and is worded to imply that my domain names are currently registered through VeriSign. (Which they are not. I use Register.com, a company that is even lamer than VeriSign, but that is the subject of another post.) That means that VeriSign partakes in the thoroughly reprehensible practice of mining WHOIS records for names, mailing addresses, and email addresses.
It's amusing to see that even though Network Solutions lost its government-mandated monopoly on domain name registration, they still find ways to let everyone know what assholes they are.
In conclusion, VeriSign is operated by racist child-molesting terrorists who deserve to be buttfucked by Jason Mewes while running Linux.
But... no one except a posing ricer wannabe would "race" a Civic or a Mustang, so why are you even having that conversation?
Oh. You're posing ricer wannabes. I see. Well, run off and add some more stickers to your 5' spoiler. I'm sure they'll increase your horsepower, you ignorant fuck.
Methinks the original poster was just trying to make himself feel better about being a fat porker.
Sort of like how most people think the average American male penis is 5.5" inches long. In reality, the average penis is 14" long, but unfortunately a large percentage of men with penises under 10" are the "scientists" responsible for the bogus 5.5 figure.
Prefacing any argument with I live in California makes your entire argument worthless. You and your eco-freak mentality are why California's energy politics make absolutely no sense whatsoever. I certainly hope that you don't move out of the state, not only because the rest of the country doesn't want exposure to your patented Californian variety of insanity, but also because I doubt your ability to survive in the real world.
If you have to move, why not go to Afghanistan? If your delicate ecological sensitivities can take the shock of seeing animals exploited as a mode of transportation, I'm sure that your wonderful brand of hypocrisy will be welcomed by Afghanis looking for some form of entertainment to take their minds off of the daily pain of living.
So, are you vegan, too? And are you posting from an iMac?
VA Software publicly supports FUD, hypocrisy, and censorship. If you're going to buy a source control package, buy one from folks who've been in the business for years, not some lame open-source startup that gave up on l337 Lunix b0X0rz and is now trying to pretend that it's a real software company!
I'd be inclined to say it's myth, too, but consider this -- it's a well known fact that the average porn star has a larger penis than the average man. Pornmakers search for the biggest cocks in whatever region they are employed. Now I watch a lot of gay pornography -- for research purposes, only, of course -- and I have never seen a Japanese porn star with a penis more than five inches in length.
I estimate that the average American porn star's penis is 7" inches in length, compared with the average American man's 5.5" penis. If Japanese porn features an equivalent 40% increase, then that means that the average Japanese man's penis is just over 3.5" long.
Even considering that the average Japanese women has the figure of a scrawny monkey, 3.5" is barely enough to get past the butt cheek, let alone up some chick's ass.
Yeah, seriously. Apparently they've never even heard that *BSD is dying! So, I've taken the liberty of translating that classic informational post into Japanese English -- does someone want to go post this on slashdot.jp?
Netcraft confirm: *BSD are dying!
Crippring bombsherr hit bereaguered *BSD community. Recentry IDC confirmed *BSD account for ress than fraction of 1 percent arr server.Ratest Netcraft survey prainry state *BSD rost more market share! This news reinforce what we know arr arong. *BSD corrapsing in comprete disarray, further exemprified by fairing dead rast in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive network test.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. Hand writing is on warr: *BSD faces break future. In fact there is no future for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are rooking very bad for *BSD. *BSD continues to ruse market share. Red ink frow rike river of brood! FreeBSD most endangered of them arr, ruse 93% of core deveropers.
Ret's keep to the facts and rook at the numbers.
OpenBSD reader Theo state 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Ret's see. Number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD post on Usenet roughry in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD user. BSD/OS post on Usenet about harf of the vorume NetBSD posts. Therefore about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent articre put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This are consistent with number of FreeBSD Usenet post.
Due to troubres of Warnut Creek, abysmar sares and so on, FreeBSD out of business and was take over by BSDI who serr another troubred OS. Now BSDI arso dead, corpse turned over to yet another charner house.
Arr major survey show *BSD has steadiry decrined in market share. *BSD very sick and rong term survivar prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survives at arr it wirr be among OS hobbyist dabbrers. *BSD continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracre courd save it at this point in time. For arr practicar purpose, *BSD are dead.
And of course, if you want to build Lego scupltures without taking a second job to support your brick budget, there are a plethora of freeware Lego design applications on the Web. A great place to start is LDraw, probably the best central collection of 3D Lego-style brick design tools on the web. This awesome site offers software downloads for a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux. LDraw also features tutorials.
For those folks who have never played with Lego, it's never too late to start, and LDraw's resources allow one to do so for virtually no cost. I encourage Lego newbies to start their journey by looking for inspirational Lego galleries much like the one posted in this article. (It's interesting, though, to see how large the percentage of computer graphics-only galleries are starting to appear on the Web.) Here are a few of my favorite links:
El Lutzo's site has photos of real creations, images of virtual creations, and pictures from a tour of Legoland.
Probably because you aren't enough of a sheep. Only bitter, inexperienced, hypocritical Slashbots are given modpoints. In the next article, try posting a "M$" joke. That will surely bring your conformity to the attention of the homosexual elite who run this shithole.
Considering that this flamer is just now learning about vi's regexp search-and-replace functionality, maybe we should save the "open-source networking utilites" discussion for a future article. We wouldn't want to damage his cute little mind!
Instead, I think that he study the "cd" command next.
Sorry, I guess you didn't get the news -- Mozilla sucks silly faggot ass!
With any luck, my latest change request -- the permanent deletion of the entire codebase and the development of a worm to systematically fuck all machines with Mozilla installed -- will soon be implemented.
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Code Red was awful, yes. I do not deny that. But let's set the record straight. First, the Code Red bug was patched before the Code Red infection got into full swing. The reason it got so bad was because of clueless IIS admins who didn't follow security news. Please don't blame Microsoft unless you can show me an open-source alernative whose history is free from security flaws. Apache has them too, despite the fact that Slashdot does not publicize them as heavily as Microsoft's bugs. Let he who is without sin yadda yadda yadda.
Second, I do not deny the fact that IIS seems to have more problems, but I'm going to defend Microsoft again for a second and note that IIS 5 on Win2k includes a hell of a lot more functionality than a base Apache install. I know that gobs of functionality and tight system integration may offend your delicate Linux-asshole sensibilities, but there are millions of people who find them to be benefits of Microsoft's application platform. I'm not trying to excuse security flaws, but I believe that one reason why IIS has had a greater densitity of incidents than Apache is because of the incredible pace at which Microsoft develops new technology. (And their customers like that.) If you can't accept the fact that there are people with different -- not better or worse, just different -- opinions than yours, then you're no better than that dipshit Rob Malda.
Third, and most importantly, IIS is used by a hell of a lot more people than Apache. Many of these people are not qualified to administrate an HTTP server, but we'll discuss that in a second. Before that, I want to remind you that Microsoft has always tried to keep these kind of people from running a web server without knowing it. WinNT4 Workstation does not come with IIS, and Win2k Pro does not install it by default. The only potentially problematic situation is when a user upgrades from Win98 with Personal Web Server installed to Win2k Pro -- then IIS is automatically installed as a replacement. But even in that case, the user had to have known enough to install PWS on Win98.
As I was saying, the real reason that IIS is installed on so many machines is that Windows is popular. And the IIS graphical interface is much simpler for users who don't have time to learn the details of HTTP server administration. Yes, there is a good argument that such users shouldn't be running servers, but are you going to stop them? Who are you to decide who can and cannot run a web server? If you can blame Microsoft for being bother popular and easy to use, you're nothing but an elitist who is bitter that what you once considered technical work can now be accomplished by "mere" businesspeople.
And Mopar, when will you tire of your childish anti-IIS rants? I have plenty of complaints about pro-Microsoft bigots, but at least they have a sense of perspective. I don't hear Bill Gates blasting UNIX because of the original Internet worm, do I? Are anti-Microsoft bigots really so starved for factual arguments that they will beat a dead horse until it is pulp and bones?
I'm trying to do you a favor. Try to look at that IIS page with an objective eye. The logfile itself isn't the problem; it's your sneering, condescending attitude. If your Linux/Apache platform were perfect, such arrogance might be justified, but it is not. It's just a different choice. There are advantages and disadvantages to all systems. That's why even though I run my personal website on the same Linux/Apache combination as yours, I don't look down on Windows or IIS as a platform. You're making yourself look stupid, and whatever truth there is in your open-source advocacy is lost when you promote open-source in such a disgusting manner. You would do well to study the former Representative Traficant's case -- you both have poor attitudes that make it difficult for an audience to listen to your message.
Now, then... I found your post very Interesting and Informative. If I weren't a member of the Troll underclass, I would mod you up. Instead, I've crafted this post in the hope that it will make you think, and perhaps even improve your technical advocacy.
You may email me at trolltuesday@yahoo.com if you have any comments.
I find it exceedingly appropriate that if Slashbots have to meet somewhere, it's a venue called the "Virgin Megastore."
It's amusing to see that even though Network Solutions lost its government-mandated monopoly on domain name registration, they still find ways to let everyone know what assholes they are.
In conclusion, VeriSign is operated by racist child-molesting terrorists who deserve to be buttfucked by Jason Mewes while running Linux.
Oh. You're posing ricer wannabes. I see. Well, run off and add some more stickers to your 5' spoiler. I'm sure they'll increase your horsepower, you ignorant fuck.
Sort of like how most people think the average American male penis is 5.5" inches long. In reality, the average penis is 14" long, but unfortunately a large percentage of men with penises under 10" are the "scientists" responsible for the bogus 5.5 figure.
If you have to move, why not go to Afghanistan? If your delicate ecological sensitivities can take the shock of seeing animals exploited as a mode of transportation, I'm sure that your wonderful brand of hypocrisy will be welcomed by Afghanis looking for some form of entertainment to take their minds off of the daily pain of living.
So, are you vegan, too? And are you posting from an iMac?
Moron.
And, of course, it will be marketed as the Thunderchicken 2300.
Now I'll have to hear a bunch of inane "lol u r teh WROGN!" whining from a bunch of AC and CLIT losers.
And this is it!
You must be thinking of BoycowSqueal.
VA Software publicly supports FUD, hypocrisy, and censorship. If you're going to buy a source control package, buy one from folks who've been in the business for years, not some lame open-source startup that gave up on l337 Lunix b0X0rz and is now trying to pretend that it's a real software company!
Amiga has been "coming back" for about twenty years now. Where are they coming from, Jupiter?
I estimate that the average American porn star's penis is 7" inches in length, compared with the average American man's 5.5" penis. If Japanese porn features an equivalent 40% increase, then that means that the average Japanese man's penis is just over 3.5" long.
Even considering that the average Japanese women has the figure of a scrawny monkey, 3.5" is barely enough to get past the butt cheek, let alone up some chick's ass.
It's getting old, man. Give in the the dark side and post a Goatse.cx link for us, okay?
That's just about the dumbest excuse I've heard since Kathleen Fent claimed to be marrying Rob for his personality. Do you have any shame?
For those folks who have never played with Lego, it's never too late to start, and LDraw's resources allow one to do so for virtually no cost. I encourage Lego newbies to start their journey by looking for inspirational Lego galleries much like the one posted in this article. (It's interesting, though, to see how large the percentage of computer graphics-only galleries are starting to appear on the Web.) Here are a few of my favorite links:
- El Lutzo's site has photos of real creations, images of virtual creations, and pictures from a tour of Legoland.
- A lighthouse and a castle. Simple but cool.
- Fantek galleries. Interesting. Be warned, though, the gallery images are very large files.
- DMS personal gallery. DMS is a Linux kernel developer, and the gallery includes a Lego Tux!
- Brickshelf, one of the largest photo archives on the web.
Have fun, and keep on building!Well, I do, you goofy turdburglers!
HTH!
Instead, I think that he study the "cd" command next.
With any luck, my latest change request -- the permanent deletion of the entire codebase and the development of a worm to systematically fuck all machines with Mozilla installed -- will soon be implemented.
Say it with me, now! New... bie. New... bie. Come on, now!
Please, sir, answer this question for all of us lowly Slashbots: were you born a complete fucking moron, or did you have to work at it?