The only way that makes any sense is if your reading from the disk more (ie doing more things) because your not waiting in disk reads. In which case its an unfair comparison.
Not that I doubt you, but I would appreciate if you would expand on "Red Hat makes this mistake a LOT" ?
It's never happened to me and I've been administering some RHEL boxes for about 5 years now.
I always do check my updates properly though, and even backup any configuration files again before updates are installed. (In addition to the nightly backup which has a special run for config files)
I will also add that this patch applied fine for me -- I do primary DNS for about 350 domains on one box and the patch worked 100% when applied with up2date.
I had a hard time accessing: - Some blogs as well - Some earthquake news in the days immediately following the event (Some was accessible, some not) - Some other misc news sites would not load. (Google world news page was out on me for days, while most other google news and google sites worked fine)... I didn't go looking to hard for anything that would raise flags.
FWIW I think the blocking is mostly keyword based.
I agree, most non-Chinese people are very ignorant about China. I just returned and can say for a fact most North Americans have *NO CLUE* what they are talking about when they talk about China. NA society could learn much from Chinese (and vice versa).
Though your statement -- "China was never influenced by foreign country from its history".... Sorry, there is *vast* western influence in China. You'd be blind to say otherwise.
As someone who just returned from China - China *is* quite foreigner friendly. Sure they keep their eye on the foreigners but they hardly made it a bad place to visit.
All the BS on SD about China is really just that - BS.
Just a few reasons: - Browser exploits are extremely common, and are not even close to limited to sites of questionable content. - You may think you know what you are downloading, but you don't. (How can you tell for sure that the copy of winzip or whatever you just downloaded is actually that? Checksums are only a mild help here) - Do you check your email on the computer? There is a prime attack point. - A "NAT router" barely qualifies as a "hardware firewall". If you want a simple hardware firewall for home use, take a look at the smaller sonicwall products or similar. (You want stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and real time AV scanning as features. Unless your "NAT router" is really high end, it doesn't have these features) - Even a good hardware firewall is not protecting you. Security is best done in layers. (End user practices being one important level, but hardly the end all layer)
Honestly there are so many reasons I could go on and on.
FWIW, I hate AV software, but realize it's pretty much necessity if you have any expectation of security or privacy on your computer.
I agree with what you say... But is anyone really going to do remote surgery over a $40/mo DSL or cable line?;) If so, they would deserve the resulting lawsuit.
Split screen can work on PCs as well as consoles... This is a software issue not a hardware issue. (And there are quite a few PC games that DO do it.). Split screen usually sucks though.
What generation of video card are you running that doesn't easily connect to a TV? Almost all TVs support HDMI these days, as do most video cards (At least as DVI). Prior to that, almost all decent gaming cards have had composite or component output for a long time.
I haven't owned a video card that couldn't be easily hooked up to a TV in at least 8 years.
(Currently I am using DVI->HDMI output to connect to my 47" HDTV)
Are you aware this is *CLOSED SOURCE* software? AND it WAS found by a third party even though it is closed source. My point was open source software is likely to have problems like this FOUND FASTER than closed source.
Even if he had sent it to an anonymous account, I suspect there are only one or a handful of developers working on the project... so pretty easy to track down anyway.
(Of course a counterpoint to that is the possibility of a hacked web server with the installer replaced with a malicious one..)
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Is this a joke?
The only way that makes any sense is if your reading from the disk more (ie doing more things) because your not waiting in disk reads. In which case its an unfair comparison.
Nice. I just compiled 2.6.27-rc4 on my notebook so I guess I'm safe for now. ;)
Yep this is exactly it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_moulding Enjoy.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about plastic injection molding, but assumes it's simple. (In typical slashdot fashion.)
Yep same here. Patch applied fine.
Not that I doubt you, but I would appreciate if you would expand on "Red Hat makes this mistake a LOT" ?
It's never happened to me and I've been administering some RHEL boxes for about 5 years now.
I always do check my updates properly though, and even backup any configuration files again before updates are installed. (In addition to the nightly backup which has a special run for config files)
I will also add that this patch applied fine for me -- I do primary DNS for about 350 domains on one box and the patch worked 100% when applied with up2date.
I must say - I'm amazed.
It's true. No honest people have ever gone bankrupt.
I wasn't even aware they supported windows? At least that has been my experience with their horrible drivers.
I was also in China last month.
... I didn't go looking to hard for anything that would raise flags.
I had a hard time accessing:
- Some blogs as well
- Some earthquake news in the days immediately following the event (Some was accessible, some not)
- Some other misc news sites would not load. (Google world news page was out on me for days, while most other google news and google sites worked fine)
FWIW I think the blocking is mostly keyword based.
I just returned from China, and the censorship is not total BS. It's not very effective at all, but it is definitely in place and functioning.
Trying to get news during the early days of the earthquake proved interesting especially.
I agree, most non-Chinese people are very ignorant about China. I just returned and can say for a fact most North Americans have *NO CLUE* what they are talking about when they talk about China. NA society could learn much from Chinese (and vice versa).
Though your statement -- "China was never influenced by foreign country from its history".... Sorry, there is *vast* western influence in China. You'd be blind to say otherwise.
As someone who just returned from China - China *is* quite foreigner friendly. Sure they keep their eye on the foreigners but they hardly made it a bad place to visit. All the BS on SD about China is really just that - BS.
I've got all 3. I like the laptop or desktop for most things, but the mini is just nice to travel with when I don't need the full size laptop.
This is not any more free than stealing a chocolate bar from the store is getting a free chocolate bar.
The fact that it's lame security is irrelevant. Theft is theft.
Way too easy.
Just a few reasons:
- Browser exploits are extremely common, and are not even close to limited to sites of questionable content.
- You may think you know what you are downloading, but you don't. (How can you tell for sure that the copy of winzip or whatever you just downloaded is actually that? Checksums are only a mild help here)
- Do you check your email on the computer? There is a prime attack point.
- A "NAT router" barely qualifies as a "hardware firewall". If you want a simple hardware firewall for home use, take a look at the smaller sonicwall products or similar. (You want stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and real time AV scanning as features. Unless your "NAT router" is really high end, it doesn't have these features)
- Even a good hardware firewall is not protecting you. Security is best done in layers. (End user practices being one important level, but hardly the end all layer)
Honestly there are so many reasons I could go on and on.
FWIW, I hate AV software, but realize it's pretty much necessity if you have any expectation of security or privacy on your computer.
I agree with what you say... But is anyone really going to do remote surgery over a $40/mo DSL or cable line? ;) If so, they would deserve the resulting lawsuit.
I think the current generation of windows (vista) pretty much does need its own core to run well.
To continue beating a dead horse...
Do you realize that a console is pretty much a PC with standardized hardware and very restrictive licensing as to what software can run on them?
Split screen can work on PCs as well as consoles... This is a software issue not a hardware issue. (And there are quite a few PC games that DO do it.). Split screen usually sucks though.
What generation of video card are you running that doesn't easily connect to a TV? Almost all TVs support HDMI these days, as do most video cards (At least as DVI). Prior to that, almost all decent gaming cards have had composite or component output for a long time.
I haven't owned a video card that couldn't be easily hooked up to a TV in at least 8 years.
(Currently I am using DVI->HDMI output to connect to my 47" HDTV)
For someone who has "repeatedly" mentioned the video... Why didn't you pursue the issue to find out why?
Here is a link to the bbc site video, which links to a reason why it is not available in the US.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00936pn.shtml
If you find the US "frightening", China must scare you shitless.
Ummm...
Are you aware this is *CLOSED SOURCE* software? AND it WAS found by a third party even though it is closed source. My point was open source software is likely to have problems like this FOUND FASTER than closed source.
Even if he had sent it to an anonymous account, I suspect there are only one or a handful of developers working on the project... so pretty easy to track down anyway.
(Of course a counterpoint to that is the possibility of a hacked web server with the installer replaced with a malicious one..)
Possibly for some kind of SMTP authentication.