I agree, it really sucks! apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade only takes a couple of minutes, I can't claim overtime because I had to wait for 3hrs of updates to come through.
ubuntu is pretty lame as liveCDs go, slax is the route you want to go down for a liveCD, knoppix was the best, but i don't think they've released any CDs in a while.
Virtually all of those had patches issued through Windows Update to address the flaw BEFORE the malware was in the wild and the only
1) conficker was defiantly out there before the patch was released, it was just not very big.
So you can't really go blaming Microsoft when they took PROACTIVE action to prevent exploits.
2) Microsoft update's failure to provide only security updates, is the main reason many computer's aren't patched. 3) AFAIK the patch's for conficker, only stop remote infection, they do nothing to stop the bruteforce OR usb attacks
And before you bleat on about Linux being holier than thou, it has its own fair share of vulnerabilites (as seen on Securityfocus.com) but the difference is the piss poor market share doesn't make exploiting them worth the effort.
4) Linux dosen't have a piss poor market share in servers, yet there are still no worms on Linux servers (you know, the computers with high-uptime and services available to other computers).
netbooks have changed from a nerds' thing into a mainstream thing.
I mean that as an open question. Why the hell, as a linux user, should i care if my neighbor is using windows or Linux? While more geeks defiantly help improve things and report bugs, how does it help if there are more ex-windows newbs on ubuntu? There is the hardware support, but even there I'm gradually seeing even supported hardware (atheros and flgrx) get nudged out by community drivers.
All i can think of are games, is that the main advantage of having more users?
So what your saying is that if we modified the conficker payload to be OS X or Linux, most windows users would be helpless/clueless and would end up using Linux/OS X? That my friend seams like a plan!
No but it would be a lot harder to exploit and that is GP point. Additionally in a heterogeneous system all the computers have to stick very strictly to well defined protocols (to avoid incompatibility) which makes it easier for firewalls to block any strange behavior.
Because if your doing it write, it doesn't take much work to port it. DRM is a lost cause, but anti-cheating tools ONLY work if you don't trust the operating system, if you want to make it hard to cheat on a game, you could require signed openGL stacks for the game to run, that stops 90% of the aimbots and wallhacks out there. Sure you lose out on Gentoo users and its not full proof but no anti cheat method ever is.
I only use CFLs and the startup problem isn't noticeable, even at double the power usage 26 is still less than the 60 or 100 bulbs i replaced them with. hell even the sitting room that went from using 1x100W to 2x'60w' is still saving 48w. I'm fairly sure the initial investment of >£30 has paid off already.
Unless the military are doing drills, which is why people have been campaigning for the drills to be done further out where there are less dolphins. But people like fox news, take offense to the idea of caring about anything when national security is involved!
I don't think it works like that anyway: picking up one of my only CDs i can see 20m14s = 204.2MB if you extrapolate that to the max size of a cdr (80m/700MB) you get 80m = 807MB
comparing.wavs files to CDs is still apples to oranges, because the data is encoded in a totaly dfferent way on an audio cd (uses the red book ~= "The format is a two-channel 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate per channel.") to a data cd with wav files(which may or may not be the same format as CDs) on ISO 9660.
If i could re-download all my music when i break my computer, i'd seriously consider not-pirating my music. Hell give me a nice service like being able to access my music collection from anywhere with an internet connection, I'd be damn likely to.
Its something like nvidia(p)>glgrx(p)>intel>radeon|usability|>nvidia. I quite like the radeon open driver, its a damn site more stable than the last nvidia one i used even if it is too slow for compositing and 3d games.
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I agree, it really sucks! apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade only takes a couple of minutes, I can't claim overtime because I had to wait for 3hrs of updates to come through.
ubuntu is pretty lame as liveCDs go, slax is the route you want to go down for a liveCD, knoppix was the best, but i don't think they've released any CDs in a while.
Funny, I dunno if you've heard of this little site that hosts a few videos link
Option 3: There was no organized hack and some specialists wanted more government funding!
Virtually all of those had patches issued through Windows Update to address the flaw BEFORE the malware was in the wild and the only
1) conficker was defiantly out there before the patch was released, it was just not very big.
So you can't really go blaming Microsoft when they took PROACTIVE action to prevent exploits.
2) Microsoft update's failure to provide only security updates, is the main reason many computer's aren't patched.
3) AFAIK the patch's for conficker, only stop remote infection, they do nothing to stop the bruteforce OR usb attacks
And before you bleat on about Linux being holier than thou, it has its own fair share of vulnerabilites (as seen on Securityfocus.com) but the difference is the piss poor market share doesn't make exploiting them worth the effort.
4) Linux dosen't have a piss poor market share in servers, yet there are still no worms on Linux servers (you know, the computers with high-uptime and services available to other computers).
your clipboard doesn't support http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=map%20your%20mum&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl? I regularly just copy url's straight to IMs, the other persons just has to click it, who cares if its 'ugly' atleast they know where they're going.
netbooks have changed from a nerds' thing into a mainstream thing.
I mean that as an open question. Why the hell, as a linux user, should i care if my neighbor is using windows or Linux? While more geeks defiantly help improve things and report bugs, how does it help if there are more ex-windows newbs on ubuntu?
There is the hardware support, but even there I'm gradually seeing even supported hardware (atheros and flgrx) get nudged out by community drivers.
All i can think of are games, is that the main advantage of having more users?
So what your saying is that if we modified the conficker payload to be OS X or Linux, most windows users would be helpless/clueless and would end up using Linux/OS X? That my friend seams like a plan!
So much is wrong in the bittorrent world, but so little can be done due to utorrent's closed nature :(
google cache still works.
only the 3 important images will load though. if they don't you may be infected (or you may have a bad connection)
Remove the stone of geek!...Append the stone of evil genius!
Although if that does happen, expect a call from some well dressed men in a nice car, with blacked out windows, on Monday afternoon.
Even basic shareware has counter measures against messing with clock like that.
Yet somehow the windows vista beta didn't :o
No but it would be a lot harder to exploit and that is GP point. Additionally in a heterogeneous system all the computers have to stick very strictly to well defined protocols (to avoid incompatibility) which makes it easier for firewalls to block any strange behavior.
It must have been the fault of the relative lack of Solar sun spots.
I'm sure that has been disproved, I mean I read it on slashdot, but the article seamed legit!
Because if your doing it write, it doesn't take much work to port it. DRM is a lost cause, but anti-cheating tools ONLY work if you don't trust the operating system, if you want to make it hard to cheat on a game, you could require signed openGL stacks for the game to run, that stops 90% of the aimbots and wallhacks out there. Sure you lose out on Gentoo users and its not full proof but no anti cheat method ever is.
I only use CFLs and the startup problem isn't noticeable, even at double the power usage 26 is still less than the 60 or 100 bulbs i replaced them with. hell even the sitting room that went from using 1x100W to 2x'60w' is still saving 48w. I'm fairly sure the initial investment of >£30 has paid off already.
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Unless the military are doing drills, which is why people have been campaigning for the drills to be done further out where there are less dolphins. But people like fox news, take offense to the idea of caring about anything when national security is involved!
I don't think it works like that anyway: picking up one of my only CDs i can see
20m14s = 204.2MB
if you extrapolate that to the max size of a cdr (80m/700MB) you get
80m = 807MB
comparing .wavs files to CDs is still apples to oranges, because the data is encoded in a totaly dfferent way on an audio cd (uses the red book ~= "The format is a two-channel 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate per channel.") to a data cd with wav files(which may or may not be the same format as CDs) on ISO 9660.
If i could re-download all my music when i break my computer, i'd seriously consider not-pirating my music.
Hell give me a nice service like being able to access my music collection from anywhere with an internet connection, I'd be damn likely to.
10*20(resonably big album)*5(large tracks) = 1000MB, how are you getting 7GB?
700MB != an audio album
copyright-violation, not considered as serious as physical crimes?! now that's a legal system i could get behind!
It wouldn't be the first time somebody got +5 for linking to goatsem im just waiting for the editors to let it slip into a summary.
OFC hes guilty, but now a black guy is in charge, the police have to concentrate on fucking up the trials of blatantly guilty rich white guys.
Its something like nvidia(p)>glgrx(p)>intel>radeon|usability|>nvidia. I quite like the radeon open driver, its a damn site more stable than the last nvidia one i used even if it is too slow for compositing and 3d games.