Well,
according to eeye's Marc Maiffret, the predecessor of Code-Red was a.htr worm that went more or
less unnoticed because Microsoft quitely released
a patch.
While in the past a worm followed more or less closely after the exploit, this may not be the case in the future. Just imagine if the exploit-coder and the worm writer were the same person ! Would you release the exploit while you have the worm in the works ?
there may be a (substantial) fraction of people
inside the German government and administration
that wants to go the open-source route.
But in the end, they just want to hit Microsoft with a big stick and threat them into lower
licence-costs.:-)
They have already strong-armed them into a special upgrade program with "confidental" price-reductions that allows to minimize the impact of the subscription-model that is now slowly moving in.
I use FreeBSD almost exclusively, but I must say, it has its limits:
Just consider something like KDE2 - I can't imagine compiling this beast on my home system
(Dual P2-450/512 10K RPM Barracuda) without letting the computer run for at least the whole weekend - if that is enough.
We can't have Joe Newuser let his computer run for a week or two during initial install.
Also, the ports-system seems to break the packages in that upon installing a release from CD you realize that the pkg-plist was incorrect or some script is not run correctly.
your mom shouldn't download or install anything on your computer. independant of the OS. my mother also doesn't have the root password of her linux computer, just as nobody else. i also wouldn't give out the nt-admin password. why should I ? she couldn't do anything useful with it anyway !
and "installshield"... if you do a rpm -e pkgname, doesn't it remove the package ?
if you install something with configure et.al - it's the same as if you're developing something with Visual Studio - you don't get an uninstaller for these apps neither !
> A> The OS can only protect itself from
> applications whose permissions are limited.
> (IE, as root, I can hose a Linux system, not
> matter how stable it is supposed to be).
Not per-se on FreeBSD.
chflags has saved me once in a while from
It is ported to other platforms (Unix, GNU/Linux).
Software AG did it, IIRC.
It's just a multi-megabyte download
I don't know if many people acutally use it...
cheers,
Rainer
Well,
in a way, this problem will solve itself, over time.
The fossile energy-resources will be used up
very quickly. Or at least those, that are easy
to exploit.
Then, energy will get way more expensive.
Unfortunately, this might crash the whole
system we live in, so there might be some adverse
effects...
This is all very obvious. Just consider all those
devices that will end-up always-on when the ip-space is large enough.
Or think what would happen if China had the same
car-density as US or Europe (>1 car on two people).
With the current system, I see no way out, unless energy gets way more expensive.
(and here in Germany, it is expensive already, thanks to "Green" government. But if
you don't offer an alternative, people will really
just go mad - witness the strikes/blockades of
UK/French petrol-stations)
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Can sombody post a comparison ?
Java Developer Essentials is about 50 USD per year, IIRC.
But what else do you get for 1000 USD ? Or 10000 ?
Well, according to eeye's Marc Maiffret, the predecessor of Code-Red was a .htr worm that went more or
less unnoticed because Microsoft quitely released
a patch.
While in the past a worm followed more or less closely after the exploit, this may not be the case in the future.
Just imagine if the exploit-coder and the worm writer were the same person !
Would you release the exploit while you have the worm in the works ?
Try the qmail FreeBSD Mail-Toaster.
;-)
Great performance, no cost, no egomaniac comments in the source.
FreeBSD is so stable, I've already forgotten where my colo-facility is (sort-of)...
there may be a (substantial) fraction of people
inside the German government and administration
that wants to go the open-source route.
But in the end, they just want to hit Microsoft with a big stick and threat them into lower
licence-costs.
They have already strong-armed them into a special upgrade program with "confidental" price-reductions that allows to minimize the impact of the subscription-model that is now slowly moving in.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I've heard a story where a large, CNC-type
machine with a LC-display had a special
"exhibition-mode".
Putting the machine in this mode would halt normal operations and you could play a "snake"-type
game on the display.
When the workers discovered this, the late-night-shifts tended to halt production for
some time just to play the game...;-)
And you thought, only crypto-backdoors were dangerous !
To me, this is a sign, that there are still some
0-day exploits out there, that they want to catch.
That, or they are busy with all those XP-things...
Yes, it's great.
I use FreeBSD almost exclusively, but I must say, it has its limits:
Just consider something like KDE2 - I can't imagine compiling this beast on my home system
(Dual P2-450/512 10K RPM Barracuda) without letting the computer run for at least the whole weekend - if that is enough.
We can't have Joe Newuser let his computer run for a week or two during initial install.
Also, the ports-system seems to break the packages in that upon installing a release from CD you realize that the pkg-plist was incorrect or some script is not run correctly.
This story is now the absolute leader in the Slashdot Hall of Fame.
I don't think we can top this.
your mom shouldn't download or install anything on your computer. independant of the OS.
my mother also doesn't have the root password of her linux computer, just as nobody else. i also wouldn't give out the nt-admin password. why should I ? she couldn't do anything useful with it anyway !
and "installshield"... if you do a rpm -e pkgname, doesn't it remove the package ?
if you install something with configure et.al - it's the same as if you're developing something with Visual Studio - you don't get an uninstaller for these apps neither !
Which Linux distros are as easy to upgrade as FreeBSD ?
chflags has saved me once in a while from in the root-Directory...
Rainer
--
yeah, right.
It is ported to other platforms (Unix, GNU/Linux).
Software AG did it, IIRC.
It's just a multi-megabyte download
I don't know if many people acutally use it... cheers, Rainer
in a way, this problem will solve itself, over time.
The fossile energy-resources will be used up very quickly. Or at least those, that are easy to exploit.
Then, energy will get way more expensive. Unfortunately, this might crash the whole system we live in, so there might be some adverse effects...
This is all very obvious. Just consider all those devices that will end-up always-on when the ip-space is large enough.
Or think what would happen if China had the same car-density as US or Europe (>1 car on two people).
With the current system, I see no way out, unless energy gets way more expensive.
(and here in Germany, it is expensive already, thanks to "Green" government. But if you don't offer an alternative, people will really just go mad - witness the strikes/blockades of UK/French petrol-stations)
cheers,
Rainer
With such a codebase, it's rather surprising they got it to work at all
But the best quote is: ;-)
Our goal for the next release... is to have zero bugs
. Maybe they also have some Bugzilla T-Shirts or so.