On the two major used-by-many operating systems that do a lot via sudo (Mac OS X and Ubuntu flavors) the user created at OS setup is given sudoer rights right off the bat.
I know some bright OS X users, but only a handful of them could explain to you what sudo does.
You're about to be told that no OS is safe from it's worst users. Okay, a root vulnerability. That's bad. Why is it still asking for a password? Since it is asking (and apparently getting it from some), it doesn't even need to exploit the vulnerability. This is the real news.
Local root is "business as usual" on out of the box Windows, and has been for a long time. (I'm about to be told a nag screen with a silly make-the-background-dark effect is a reasonable substitute for a real security hierarchy. )
Just because Mac users are used to a safe operating experience doesn't mean we think we're invulnerable and we don't know how to protect ourselves. I'm sorry all three Mac users you know are morons...
That is pretty funny, but interestingly enough, the original XBOX360 dev kits were Apple G5s (IBM PPC 970) running some kind of NT kernel. At some video game industry shows, playable game demos were actually running on Apple G5 workstations.
And if Microsoft took some time off from releasing half-baked features and put some time into kernel stability and overall security, I might buy one of their products again.
I'm not trying to flame bait here, but IMHO Windows isn't getting fixed because it's not broken to MS. Broken to them is "it stopped making money," not "there's a new 0-day vulnerability."
Pre-Katrina, gas in the Philadelphia area was about $2.40/gal for 87 octane. Directly after, it edged over $3 for the first time in my lifetime. The reason big oil gave was that the Hurricane knocked one of their major gulf-coast-region plants off line.
This more seemed to me like an attempt to see just how much they could charge acceptably. Legal? Yes. Scummy? Very.
Because their jurisdiction ends at what you carry. They'd have no right to connect to my company VPN and authenticate as me. The data would be on my company's servers, not on my laptop, and if they tried, I'd call back to network security at my company and have them suspend my ability to authenticate.
In fact, if you're worried about such a thing, this might not be a bad idea... tell IT to have your account re-activate the time your plane is supposed to touch down abroad, and deactivate again for when your flight leaves for home until you're back in the office.
It's funny you mention this. This is the one place where TimeMachine drives me up a wall. TimeMachine backs up when it notices a 10% change in a file. This ends up writing 5 or 6 or whatever GB files of your WinXP image again and again and again.
What I ended up doing was creating a share on the host Mac that Windows pulls -all- of it's files from. It was that or move the image file somewhere where TimeMachine couldn't find it.
It does seem more likely that the PPC company purchased won't be making chips that OS X proper will be running on. Don't expect to see a new line of Macbooks running on these PPC chips or anything. These will most likely find their way into hand held devices for which Mac OS X might find itself cross-compiled for.
Or a functional windows emulator would be nice Wha?
VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop, for my money, are 100% functional (and there's more out there than just those two.) 100+ % functional if you count the functions that a hardware PC couldn't do, like say, undo-disks (you have the choice to not commit any changes you made to a VM's boot volume when you shut down.)
As for things that aren't emulators, there's Wine. Wine supports tons of games and other Windows apps natively on Linux by making the Windows binary "feel at home" by simulating a Win32 environment.
1. Sign up for Netflix
2. Rip movies to hard drive
3. Tell chicks you're saving the planet, invite them over to watch something from your library of chick-flicks
In just a few days, Apple is set to release iPhone Software 2.0 (as well as maybe Hardware 2.0...) but sw 2.0 is slated to have many of the enterprise features listed above. Not to sound like an Apple commercial, but features will include:
-ActiveSync (with SSL..)
-Remote administration with remote wipe of a lost device
-Cisco VPN with RSA SecurID
And as far as the VPN question, it is pretty straight forward, just another pane in the settings menu. PPTP and IPSec.
So iPhone's release featureset wouldn't have satisfied your needs, but tune back in in a few days and see if it floats your boat.
Don't.
There's plenty of shops out there that have yet to let go of 2000 Pro / 2000 Server let alone XP Pro / 2003 server. I don't have a single Vista-shop client (though it's not to say I haven't talked a few folks out of it that really were thinking about it..) There's still plenty of common sense left in people to not fix what's not broken.
Or you could take a RHEL cert class, and broaden your horizons:)
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On the two major used-by-many operating systems that do a lot via sudo (Mac OS X and Ubuntu flavors) the user created at OS setup is given sudoer rights right off the bat.
I know some bright OS X users, but only a handful of them could explain to you what sudo does.
You're about to be told that no OS is safe from it's worst users. Okay, a root vulnerability. That's bad. Why is it still asking for a password? Since it is asking (and apparently getting it from some), it doesn't even need to exploit the vulnerability. This is the real news.
Local root is "business as usual" on out of the box Windows, and has been for a long time. (I'm about to be told a nag screen with a silly make-the-background-dark effect is a reasonable substitute for a real security hierarchy. )
Just because Mac users are used to a safe operating experience doesn't mean we think we're invulnerable and we don't know how to protect ourselves. I'm sorry all three Mac users you know are morons...
That is pretty funny, but interestingly enough, the original XBOX360 dev kits were Apple G5s (IBM PPC 970) running some kind of NT kernel. At some video game industry shows, playable game demos were actually running on Apple G5 workstations.
Seriously, stop with that M'$' thing. Come on.
And if Microsoft took some time off from releasing half-baked features and put some time into kernel stability and overall security, I might buy one of their products again.
I'm not trying to flame bait here, but IMHO Windows isn't getting fixed because it's not broken to MS. Broken to them is "it stopped making money," not "there's a new 0-day vulnerability."
Pre-Katrina, gas in the Philadelphia area was about $2.40/gal for 87 octane. Directly after, it edged over $3 for the first time in my lifetime. The reason big oil gave was that the Hurricane knocked one of their major gulf-coast-region plants off line.
This more seemed to me like an attempt to see just how much they could charge acceptably. Legal? Yes. Scummy? Very.
Because their jurisdiction ends at what you carry. They'd have no right to connect to my company VPN and authenticate as me. The data would be on my company's servers, not on my laptop, and if they tried, I'd call back to network security at my company and have them suspend my ability to authenticate.
In fact, if you're worried about such a thing, this might not be a bad idea... tell IT to have your account re-activate the time your plane is supposed to touch down abroad, and deactivate again for when your flight leaves for home until you're back in the office.
The old bitty always forgets the -i.
Jesus Christ, Grandma! How many times do I have to tell you, you have to be super user to use apt! Argh!
I kid because I love.
It's funny you mention this. This is the one place where TimeMachine drives me up a wall. TimeMachine backs up when it notices a 10% change in a file. This ends up writing 5 or 6 or whatever GB files of your WinXP image again and again and again. What I ended up doing was creating a share on the host Mac that Windows pulls -all- of it's files from. It was that or move the image file somewhere where TimeMachine couldn't find it.
Not exactly.
It does seem more likely that the PPC company purchased won't be making chips that OS X proper will be running on. Don't expect to see a new line of Macbooks running on these PPC chips or anything. These will most likely find their way into hand held devices for which Mac OS X might find itself cross-compiled for.
VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop, for my money, are 100% functional (and there's more out there than just those two.) 100+ % functional if you count the functions that a hardware PC couldn't do, like say, undo-disks (you have the choice to not commit any changes you made to a VM's boot volume when you shut down.)
As for things that aren't emulators, there's Wine. Wine supports tons of games and other Windows apps natively on Linux by making the Windows binary "feel at home" by simulating a Win32 environment.
1. Sign up for Netflix
...
2. Rip movies to hard drive
3. Tell chicks you're saving the planet, invite them over to watch something from your library of chick-flicks
Embedded devices/smartphones? Mini-notebooks? I guess everyone is supposed to want an 8lb desktop replacement?
In just a few days, Apple is set to release iPhone Software 2.0 (as well as maybe Hardware 2.0...) but sw 2.0 is slated to have many of the enterprise features listed above. Not to sound like an Apple commercial, but features will include:
-ActiveSync (with SSL..)
-Remote administration with remote wipe of a lost device
-Cisco VPN with RSA SecurID
And as far as the VPN question, it is pretty straight forward, just another pane in the settings menu. PPTP and IPSec.
So iPhone's release featureset wouldn't have satisfied your needs, but tune back in in a few days and see if it floats your boat.
Don't. There's plenty of shops out there that have yet to let go of 2000 Pro / 2000 Server let alone XP Pro / 2003 server. I don't have a single Vista-shop client (though it's not to say I haven't talked a few folks out of it that really were thinking about it..) There's still plenty of common sense left in people to not fix what's not broken. Or you could take a RHEL cert class, and broaden your horizons :)