Use Thunderbird and you can send and receive email from anybody.
Use Outlook Express and you can send and receive email from your coworkers. Nobody else.
Besure to explain to management, that the switchover is due to Thunderbirds *security* - not it's features. People understand security - show them a stack of paper with all the Outlook expoloits printed on them, and show them a blank page with all the Thunderbird exploits on them. Scares the crap out of them.
SAE bolts are ususally for older cars - your average SAE bolts are of higher quality than your avererage Metric bolt for equivelent applications.
In the old days, the idea was to just use a high-quality bolt and hope it works. Now that there's so much price pressure on cars - manufactureres have learned what they can get away with as far as quality goes in order to save on costs.
One of the coolers things 'bout PF, is that you can add another layer of security to your systems - if you know that you'll never use a Windows box to SSH into your OpenBSD server - you can specifically deny Windows from connecting with a simple PF rule.
It's great of VPN stuff - all of my VPN equipment is OpenBSD - so I just don't allow any packets from any other OS. This mitigates any attack - now my attacker has to have and OpenBSD computer (or at least spoof one)
I can vouch for him! VNC on his desktop is actually responsive. I have to disable all the adware on his box, and when I fire up the spam-server things will slow to a crawl - but it's not *that* bad.
Clearly, there are benifits to putting speed over security.
I used to think that, but after doing some work with Win2003, I'm not so sure.
Win2003 is ok. It's just a version of Windows that sucks 20% less.
My main problem with Win2003 is that ther'es hardly any upgrade path.
With *nix you can grow as you need to from Linux to FreeBSD to Solaris to IRIX to AIX.
Hell, Linux has it's own upgrade path - Linux on ARM -> Linux on Intel -> Linux on PowerPC -> Linux on Sparc -> Linux on POWER5/6 etc.
With Windows, once you outgrow your 4 way Intel box - you're screwed. (We'll there Windows Advanced Server - but from what I've seen, its a bitch to keep running and the hardware it runs on sucks)
Not sure why this is hard for people to understand given that they buy cars rather then walk for free and buy/rent houses rather then live in the park for free.
What if we had a facotry that produced cars for free? And the factory was easy to duplicate, and the cars could be improved upon by anyone, and thoes improvements would could be availaible to all the other car owners for free.
Software is deferentant than material goods - the cost of duplication is almost nill and for that reason GNU/Open Source software will slowly-but-surely take over for commodity-like software.
, and as late as 1976 there were secret plans drafted by the USA to have NATO invade Italy if they voted communists into power in the 1976 election,
Did you know:
The USA has un-to-date plans to invade:
Canada,
Mexico,
Eastern Montanna,
Noam Chomsky's Bathroom.
The US Militairy has plans for just about any contingency - unfortunalty some of those plans are kept a bit *too* secret. Like NORADS plans for dealing with a hijacked airplane, where the hijackers inteneded to crash it into a 'famous building.' Nobody outside NORAD say those plane to our dismay.
It seems that the liberals, as a group, are normal like every other group - but it's unfortunalty peppered with the a few loudmouth obnoxious types that engage in ad hominum attacks at the outset.
The loonies in the conservitive groups seems more interested in swaying the rest of the conservitives into a more 'right' view. Whilst the left loonie are more interested in making a spectacle of themselves.
Hence, the name calling to draw addtention.
It's rather amusing that the other response to your post, Paul, makes my point for me.
a return to an IBM-dominated world is _not_ what you want.
IBM *has* really chaged for the better:
I got a bid from IBM to help out one of my clients - they did a great job (if expensive). And here's the kicker - at no time did they try to steal my customer away from me.
Not one did they go over my head. When the project was finished, IBM wen't home and diden't perster me or my customer one bit.
20 years ago IBM would have tried to push me out and pilfer my customer.
I trust them. Now.
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I agree myself too. I *like* Qmail better than Postfix... but I realise that Postfix has a gurenteed future so that's what I run.
One could alomst say that it was developers that drive the sucuess of a operating saystem. Without developers, Linux woulden be anwhere. It's time thank all the Linux and *BSD developers, and GNU developers and other Open-Source developers. We need more Developers! Developers! Developers!
The Win98 boxes do leave a lot of Desktop.ini files around. Win XP-2000-Me leas a lot of thumbs.db files when it finds images. Strangly RECYCLER directories pop up in the weiredes places from Windows.
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I gave people a choice:
Use Thunderbird and you can send and receive email from anybody.
Use Outlook Express and you can send and receive email from your coworkers. Nobody else.
Besure to explain to management, that the switchover is due to Thunderbirds *security* - not it's features. People understand security - show them a stack of paper with all the Outlook expoloits printed on them, and show them a blank page with all the Thunderbird exploits on them. Scares the crap out of them.
SAE bolts are ususally for older cars - your average SAE bolts are of higher quality than your avererage Metric bolt for equivelent applications.
In the old days, the idea was to just use a high-quality bolt and hope it works. Now that there's so much price pressure on cars - manufactureres have learned what they can get away with as far as quality goes in order to save on costs.
One of the coolers things 'bout PF, is that you can add another layer of security to your systems - if you know that you'll never use a Windows box to SSH into your OpenBSD server - you can specifically deny Windows from connecting with a simple PF rule.
It's great of VPN stuff - all of my VPN equipment is OpenBSD - so I just don't allow any packets from any other OS. This mitigates any attack - now my attacker has to have and OpenBSD computer (or at least spoof one)
For all my frinds, I will fix their Windows machine *once* for free.
After that, I charge my normal hourly rate.
If they migrate to Mac or FreeBSD - I'll set them up for free and suport them for free.
Windows is the Chevy Nova of the PC world - cheap, lots of them, and utter crap.
Hey! Just beacuse somone has an SUV doesen't mean they don't care
It's all aboout the caring
As a 1GHz user running XP, yes, I can.
I can vouch for him! VNC on his desktop is actually responsive. I have to disable all the adware on his box, and when I fire up the spam-server things will slow to a crawl - but it's not *that* bad.
Clearly, there are benifits to putting speed over security.
Is there a legal-defence fund set up for SpamCop? Of do we keep on giving money to the EFF?
I think people who make up these "techie" terms should be shot,
Techieterm: I like it.
Peprare to be shot.
I used to think that, but after doing some work with Win2003, I'm not so sure.
Win2003 is ok. It's just a version of Windows that sucks 20% less.
My main problem with Win2003 is that ther'es hardly any upgrade path.
With *nix you can grow as you need to from Linux to FreeBSD to Solaris to IRIX to AIX.
Hell, Linux has it's own upgrade path - Linux on ARM -> Linux on Intel -> Linux on PowerPC -> Linux on Sparc -> Linux on POWER5/6 etc.
With Windows, once you outgrow your 4 way Intel box - you're screwed. (We'll there Windows Advanced Server - but from what I've seen, its a bitch to keep running and the hardware it runs on sucks)
Not sure why this is hard for people to understand given that they buy cars rather then walk for free and buy/rent houses rather then live in the park for free.
What if we had a facotry that produced cars for free? And the factory was easy to duplicate, and the cars could be improved upon by anyone, and thoes improvements would could be availaible to all the other car owners for free.
Software is deferentant than material goods - the cost of duplication is almost nill and for that reason GNU/Open Source software will slowly-but-surely take over for commodity-like software.
Here's why:
If Office 2003 started asking the Win32 API - areYouReallyMicrosoftWindows(). Then MS Windows would return true...
What would Wine get to return?
, and as late as 1976 there were secret plans drafted by the USA to have NATO invade Italy if they voted communists into power in the 1976 election,
Did you know:
The USA has un-to-date plans to invade:
Canada,
Mexico,
Eastern Montanna,
Noam Chomsky's Bathroom.
The US Militairy has plans for just about any contingency - unfortunalty some of those plans are kept a bit *too* secret. Like NORADS plans for dealing with a hijacked airplane, where the hijackers inteneded to crash it into a 'famous building.' Nobody outside NORAD say those plane to our dismay.
MSDOS: General Failure.
I guess you'd have to say the same thing about Bush, then, too.
.. you made a funny.
nyuk nyuk..
Rush and Ann are entertainers, not conserviatives.
It seems that the liberals, as a group, are normal like every other group - but it's unfortunalty peppered with the a few loudmouth obnoxious types that engage in ad hominum attacks at the outset.
The loonies in the conservitive groups seems more interested in swaying the rest of the conservitives into a more 'right' view. Whilst the left loonie are more interested in making a spectacle of themselves.
Hence, the name calling to draw addtention.
It's rather amusing that the other response to your post, Paul, makes my point for me.
a return to an IBM-dominated world is _not_ what you want.
IBM *has* really chaged for the better:
I got a bid from IBM to help out one of my clients - they did a great job (if expensive). And here's the kicker - at no time did they try to steal my customer away from me.
Not one did they go over my head. When the project was finished, IBM wen't home and diden't perster me or my customer one bit.
20 years ago IBM would have tried to push me out and pilfer my customer.
I trust them. Now.
I agree myself too. I *like* Qmail better than Postfix... but I realise that Postfix has a gurenteed future so that's what I run.
Bush and his group of neo-Facists are in power
Neo-Facists??? Thats so 2003.
Try 'Weasel-Facists' for a new twist on an old favorite!
Or even better... Facist-Face! or even more better. Facist-Face Poopy Pants!
So what will happen?
It's not a problem! It'll just make Halo play like Myst.
To be fair..
Qmail is *very* well deigned and programmed. There's hasen't been a real need to issue a new package for a long time.
I still don't like the license - but it is damn fine software.
I DON`T L-I-K-E Sp'AM 2
For a limited to get our new SP-AM Fill-ter for F-R-E-E at http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook2003/.
It's guenenteed to let SP-AM and other VIRUSE in qhile still mangeling your normal email.
All these "programs" only run on M$ [ding!] Windoze [ding!] anyway.
Clippy: It look like you're attempting sarcasism. Would you like some help?
One could alomst say that it was developers that drive the sucuess of a operating saystem. Without developers, Linux woulden be anwhere. It's time thank all the Linux and *BSD developers, and GNU developers and other Open-Source developers. We need more Developers! Developers! Developers!
The Win98 boxes do leave a lot of Desktop.ini files around. Win XP-2000-Me leas a lot of thumbs.db files when it finds images. Strangly RECYCLER directories pop up in the weiredes places from Windows.