Compare this with giving the root password to everyone, which requires the password to be changed whenever someone leaves the company (or someone's root privs are revoked).
You're in trouble anyway if the person leaving had enough privileges to do something like this:
It used to be there, but I'm more than glad they moved off. The problem with FeeNode is that it's operated by someone who thinks he can make people pay him for sending wallops and causing netsplits every day. I wish more people would decide to leave that playground, so I can only thank Google and/or chrisd for making this switch!
Sure, it has some nice software, but you don't pull million/billion dollar deals if your boss has to ask the IT department why the company's Macs can't open a Microsoft Office file.
What are you talking about? Microsoft made their own Mac version of office, so surely it should be able to open those files. Shouldn't give more problems than exchanging documents between different Win32 Office versions.
The few companies that do support Linux get bashed by the Linux community no matter what they do (Doom 3 and Quake 4 were both bashed because they weren't on par with Windows graphics, wth?)
Computer games.. Can you maybe take something that actually matters as an example?
theres nothing similar to Plug-and-Play, you MUST know a certain level of programming in order to self-maintain your system, etc etc etc...
You didn't touch a Linux box during the last five years, did you?:-)
I forsee Open Office using this to their advantage, perhaps making a deal with Apple to include Open Office in Mac OS.
Ever tried running OpenOffice on OS X? To be honest, I didn't. But I do know that there is no native OS X port of OpenOffice yet (except NeoOffice, which isn't doing very well), so this sounds extremely unlikely to me.
Yeah, it's indeed user stupidity (as I said the installer exploits user failure instead of software failure), but in the end the user thinks (s)he's installing some "cool flash game". The game distributor tries very hard to hide the fact that it also installs some spyware.
Maybe rogue isn't the right word. But it's certainly sneaky.
Well you know when you, or somebody else, installs that addictive new flash game? Well one of the 15 yes buttons that you click is your permission to install that spyware and adware.
Yeah, saw that. But I'd consider that a rogue installation too, by exploiting the user instead of his/her software.
But what if they find a bug that "accidentally" got fixed already two/three years ago already? Maybe they won't announce it, since they always recommend to run recent versions anyway. (They do, right?)
Hmm, now I'm getting curious. I know this is off-topic, but I can't resist.;-) What does that amount of time mean to you exactly? I would certainly need some time to answer it, because I hate both guys.:-)
Although in the end I'd go for Theo, since at least he isn't helping in making the spam problem bigger by writing crappy MTAs.
Furthermore, what makes Theo think that people want to run OpenSSH? At this point, it's as entrenched as Windows--nobody has a choice.
Actually, it isn't. You can also use LSH or Dropbear, and for SSH clients there are even more alternatives (PuTTY is available for Linux, for example).
This article almost makes me consider using one of them...
> Who would want to run an iTune on anything other than an iPod anyway, it would be like putting a lawnmower engine in a Ferrari.
Does the iTMS add some special, errr, "magic" to a song to make it different from any other version of the very same song? It's the same damn song, and it certainly won't mind if you play it on a non-Apple device.
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FWIW, I just found this blog post, which explains where the names come from.
According to this screenshot she's called Jonita. Man, she's everywhere on that website, so I almost feared you were right. I saw her on FOSDEM, and all the guys drooling around her. Oh well, I guess it's all a matter of taste.;-)
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I use Twinkle together with a SipDiscount account, FWIW. Works quite well for me so far. Will think of buying real SIP hardware later, maybe.
Well, if they want something really stable, they certainly shouldn't push Ubuntu to release in April already, right?;-)
But okay, this is getting a bit redundant, so never mind. But really, I can't imagine the new GNOME version is so cool that waiting a bit longer is unacceptable...
> With this step they could lose major selling point to causal Linux geeks.
I can hardly imagine that those Linux geeks mind those six weeks. And if they do, they're probably already running a pre-release version (don't know how that's called in Ubuntu).
It will have all the security that they promised us for Win2K, WinXP, etc.;-)
But seriously, I hope they'll indeed get rid of this stupid Administrator-by-default thing, and let's hope the Windows users will understand (and use) it. I have my doubts about that last thing, unfortunately.:-(
My thoughts exactly. But probably it should be just as easy to replace the conditional jump that follows the CPUID call with NOPs or an unconditional jump.
Exactly. I don't really see the point. What would be the use of giving search results full of dead links for them anyway? To show the Chinese people tiny bits of those pages they're not supposed to see? I'm sure it'd make them very happy...
> Sure, it may take a few days (quite literally) to compile your app. Or you could wait for a precompiled binary. When's that coming again? No one knows? Oh, I guess that means it could be never?
You're trying to tell us that, five seconds after the official release, Gentoo has the version in portage? Now I'm impressed...
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Compare this with giving the root password to everyone, which requires the password to be changed whenever someone leaves the company (or someone's root privs are revoked).
/bin/sh ~/bin
You're in trouble anyway if the person leaving had enough privileges to do something like this:
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sudo chown 0:0 ~/bin/sh
sudo chmod u+s ~/bin/sh
It's pretty hard to put useful limits in sudoers...
It used to be there, but I'm more than glad they moved off. The problem with FeeNode is that it's operated by someone who thinks he can make people pay him for sending wallops and causing netsplits every day. I wish more people would decide to leave that playground, so I can only thank Google and/or chrisd for making this switch!
Sure, it has some nice software, but you don't pull million/billion dollar deals if your boss has to ask the IT department why the company's Macs can't open a Microsoft Office file.
:-)
What are you talking about? Microsoft made their own Mac version of office, so surely it should be able to open those files. Shouldn't give more problems than exchanging documents between different Win32 Office versions.
The few companies that do support Linux get bashed by the Linux community no matter what they do (Doom 3 and Quake 4 were both bashed because they weren't on par with Windows graphics, wth?)
Computer games.. Can you maybe take something that actually matters as an example?
theres nothing similar to Plug-and-Play, you MUST know a certain level of programming in order to self-maintain your system, etc etc etc...
You didn't touch a Linux box during the last five years, did you?
I forsee Open Office using this to their advantage, perhaps making a deal with Apple to include Open Office in Mac OS.
Ever tried running OpenOffice on OS X? To be honest, I didn't. But I do know that there is no native OS X port of OpenOffice yet (except NeoOffice, which isn't doing very well), so this sounds extremely unlikely to me.
Yeah, it's indeed user stupidity (as I said the installer exploits user failure instead of software failure), but in the end the user thinks (s)he's installing some "cool flash game". The game distributor tries very hard to hide the fact that it also installs some spyware.
Maybe rogue isn't the right word. But it's certainly sneaky.
Well you know when you, or somebody else, installs that addictive new flash game? Well one of the 15 yes buttons that you click is your permission to install that spyware and adware.
Yeah, saw that. But I'd consider that a rogue installation too, by exploiting the user instead of his/her software.
But what if they find a bug that "accidentally" got fixed already two/three years ago already? Maybe they won't announce it, since they always recommend to run recent versions anyway. (They do, right?)
Hmm, now I'm getting curious. I know this is off-topic, but I can't resist. ;-) What does that amount of time mean to you exactly? I would certainly need some time to answer it, because I hate both guys. :-)
Although in the end I'd go for Theo, since at least he isn't helping in making the spam problem bigger by writing crappy MTAs.
Furthermore, what makes Theo think that people want to run OpenSSH? At this point, it's as entrenched as Windows--nobody has a choice.
Actually, it isn't. You can also use LSH or Dropbear, and for SSH clients there are even more alternatives (PuTTY is available for Linux, for example).
This article almost makes me consider using one of them...
I doubt that every German from back then supported the nazi regime... Sounds a bit unlikely to me, don't you think?
Sounds effective. Although I think it'll be quite a support hell if someone magically succeeds in getting a semi-working installation. ;-)
> Who would want to run an iTune on anything other than an iPod anyway, it would be like putting a lawnmower engine in a Ferrari.
Does the iTMS add some special, errr, "magic" to a song to make it different from any other version of the very same song? It's the same damn song, and it certainly won't mind if you play it on a non-Apple device.
FWIW, I just found this blog post, which explains where the names come from.
According to this screenshot she's called Jonita. Man, she's everywhere on that website, so I almost feared you were right. I saw her on FOSDEM, and all the guys drooling around her. Oh well, I guess it's all a matter of taste. ;-)
I use Twinkle together with a SipDiscount account, FWIW. Works quite well for me so far. Will think of buying real SIP hardware later, maybe.
What he said above. I'm listening to it right now, and I feel completely warm inside. :-D It's so great that they'll tour again this year.
;-)
I know it's off-topic, but I just can't resist.
Well, if they want something really stable, they certainly shouldn't push Ubuntu to release in April already, right? ;-)
But okay, this is getting a bit redundant, so never mind. But really, I can't imagine the new GNOME version is so cool that waiting a bit longer is unacceptable...
> With this step they could lose major selling point to causal Linux geeks.
I can hardly imagine that those Linux geeks mind those six weeks. And if they do, they're probably already running a pre-release version (don't know how that's called in Ubuntu).
Yes, I heard about that before, it just doesn't sounds like a very attractive thing to do. ;-) But I guess DOS can survive it, thanks to Shadow RAM...
You got a point, but if you got only one socket, how are you supposed to restore the broken BIOS chip, once booted from the spare chip?
And well, I guess people won't be able to keep that little chip on a safe place and lose it pretty quickly.
It will have all the security that they promised us for Win2K, WinXP, etc. ;-)
:-(
But seriously, I hope they'll indeed get rid of this stupid Administrator-by-default thing, and let's hope the Windows users will understand (and use) it. I have my doubts about that last thing, unfortunately.
> Incidently, for all the superiority of Open Firmware, most Macs of the past few years can't even boot from USB.
However, they boot from FireWire very well (which PCs don't do *AFAIK*). This is more a matter of Apple caring more about FireWire than about USB.
My thoughts exactly. But probably it should be just as easy to replace the conditional jump that follows the CPUID call with NOPs or an unconditional jump.
Exactly. I don't really see the point. What would be the use of giving search results full of dead links for them anyway? To show the Chinese people tiny bits of those pages they're not supposed to see? I'm sure it'd make them very happy...
> Sure, it may take a few days (quite literally) to compile your app. Or you could wait for a precompiled binary. When's that coming again? No one knows? Oh, I guess that means it could be never?
You're trying to tell us that, five seconds after the official release, Gentoo has the version in portage? Now I'm impressed...