Well, RAID protects against disk faiulure, sure. But there are other ways one can lose data. Filesystem corruption, accidental deletion, etc. I've actually had RAID adapters corrupt the filesystem.
Sure, but how do you automate optical backups? Most people aren't willing to sit there swapping out media for the duration of a full backup. 200GB of data would take, what, 25 DVDs? Is this really practical when you could fit all that on a single tape?
I agree with you that it is probably better for a gang banger to join the military than to continue banging, but the reality is that there is a much broader set of disadvantaged kids who are being exploited by desparate recruiters. It is dishonest of you to focus solely on the small group who might benefit from the military.
Modern markets are filled with products that started out as solutions looking for problems. Successful marketing has a funny way of creating "problems." The issue here is that OSS, by its very nature, has little capacity for marketing beyond following current fads. BUt if the current anti-MS fad continues, OSS can do very well.
Have you even USED OpenOffice on Linux? It is so bloated and slow with its proprietary widget set and all. An Office suite that is integrated with a Linux desktop is much needed.
Viruses/worms are decidedly different than manually exploitable security problems. I think the point of having people running virus checkers was to prevent outbreaks of worms that scan the network.
For sure. But many people have multiple (different vendors) layers of defense. Linux gateway and Sybari on the Exchange server. Personally, I never even considered Antigen or whatever on a Linux gateway. There are plenty of other options. I can't say this is a big loss.
I knew a girl that was date raped 27 times. Now, one can give her some benefit of the doubt about the first few times, but after that you have to realize that she's putting herself in situations where she's likely to be raped.
One has to wonder what qualifies as rape in her case. I mean, is she more or less just getting drunk with someone and then regretting it the next morning? I've heard of this qualifying as date-rape at certain universities.
Just FYI, taking responsibility doesn't necessarily mean accepting blame. This is an especially important distinction concerning rape. You just can't tell a genuine rape victim that they are in any way to blame. You can suggest that they take more responsibility for their future circumstances, but casting blame is counter-productive, if not cruel.
Wrong. While many victims are victims through no fault of their own, there are plenty of people that are victims because of their own actions.
An example?
That's not to say the perpetrators aren't at fault either, but it's your responsibility to protect yourself. Otherwise you'll be a victim your entire life.
Sure, one is always responsible for protecting oneself. But who are you to decide what is sufficient self protection for others? Should we give a lesser sentence to a mugger who steals from a helpless old lady vs. someone who steals from a fit, well armed, Karate black belt? No. Of course not. Blame has nothing to do with how well the victim defends against being a victim. A thief who steals from an unlocked house is just as much of a theif as one who steals from a locked house. Your personal lack of sympathy for the owner of the unlocked house is, at best, irrelevant and at worst, disgusting.
Seriously. I know we all want to live in a nice and peaceful socieSeriously. I know we all want to live in a nice and peaceful society, but frankly society doesn't work that way. If you don't at least take basic precautions to protect yourself, you're at fault as much as the evil doer.
Never blame the victim. While it may be difficult to sympathize with someone who doesn't take minimal precautions, it is in no way their fault. Innocent is innocent.
Pardon me? Did I say anything about Windows being a universal failure because I, personally, have a problem with the way it is packaged? No. Did I say Linux was objectively "better" because of the contrast? No.
You know what is invalid? Measuring something's merits by its relative popularity. You might as well say that Britney Spears is good music because it is popular.
I decided to keep a log of applications that i install into windows xp (and also linux). Then when i run into some crap where i have to reinstall (often...).
You're doing things that most Windows users won't do. In fact, most Windows users have no reason to have even heard of most of the things you've listed
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Perhaps, but that doesn't make the criticism any less valid.
MS has..what, 50-60 billion in the bank and you guys are saying they've done something wrong?
I noticed how you singled out the driver part. What about all the little applications that one needs for a useful Windows system? Not that I can really blame Microsoft for not including many basic applications in a default installation, but that doesn't help me, as a user. After installing Windows, I need to install an archiver, CD burning app, SSH client, PDF reader, a good web browser, updated drivers for sound and video, virus scanner, spyware protection, etc, etc. All this stuff is eitehr included in Linux, or it is not needed. While this may seem like a trivial criticism to you, it is a valid one.
No kidding. It is so annoying to install Windows fresh and then have to hunt around for all those little apps and drivers that you take for granted on a standard Linux (or even OS X) installation. It is kind of ironic.
I can only assume they are looking for accidental information leaks. Obviously anyone interested in sending uncensored email would use Yahoo or Hotmail or something. Or a phone. Or whatever. Anything but corp email. Do they really think this will be useful? Is it really worth losing any good faith between management and employees? Forget about privacy. It seems like bad business.
If Apple sticks with OpenFirmware (I sure hope they do), it could make booting Windows a little tricky. If there is no "text mode" like in a PC, how would you use that nifty "F8" boot menu of Windows? And once booting, hardware drivers such as video may expect standard PC video BIOS and not OpenFirmware. They didn't say that Windows would, out of the box, run on an x86 Mac (it probably won;t). They just wouldn't do anything specifically to stop someone (Microsoft) from making it happen.
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Pincers? LIke Dr. Zoiberg?
-matthew
On a Mac, you wouldn't even need to do this. Audio Hijack can intercept any audio stream before it hits the sound card and save it to disk.
-matthew
Are you guys 14 y/o or what? Geez.
Well, RAID protects against disk faiulure, sure. But there are other ways one can lose data. Filesystem corruption, accidental deletion, etc. I've actually had RAID adapters corrupt the filesystem.
-matthew
Sure, but how do you automate optical backups? Most people aren't willing to sit there swapping out media for the duration of a full backup. 200GB of data would take, what, 25 DVDs? Is this really practical when you could fit all that on a single tape?
-matthew
Well, the article made it sound like this fraud was as simple as getting a social security number.
What I don't get is how you can cash fraudulent check and get away with it. Don't currency exchanges and the like require some ID?
-matthew
I agree with you that it is probably better for a gang banger to join the military than to continue banging, but the reality is that there is a much broader set of disadvantaged kids who are being exploited by desparate recruiters. It is dishonest of you to focus solely on the small group who might benefit from the military.
-matthew
Modern markets are filled with products that started out as solutions looking for problems. Successful marketing has a funny way of creating "problems." The issue here is that OSS, by its very nature, has little capacity for marketing beyond following current fads. BUt if the current anti-MS fad continues, OSS can do very well.
-matthew
Have you even USED OpenOffice on Linux? It is so bloated and slow with its proprietary widget set and all. An Office suite that is integrated with a Linux desktop is much needed.
-matthew
Viruses/worms are decidedly different than manually exploitable security problems. I think the point of having people running virus checkers was to prevent outbreaks of worms that scan the network.
-matthew
For sure. But many people have multiple (different vendors) layers of defense. Linux gateway and Sybari on the Exchange server. Personally, I never even considered Antigen or whatever on a Linux gateway. There are plenty of other options. I can't say this is a big loss.
-matthew
Yeah, you keep restating that argument, but it isn't a getting any stronger. Responsibility and blame are two different things.
One has to wonder what qualifies as rape in her case. I mean, is she more or less just getting drunk with someone and then regretting it the next morning? I've heard of this qualifying as date-rape at certain universities.
Just FYI, taking responsibility doesn't necessarily mean accepting blame. This is an especially important distinction concerning rape. You just can't tell a genuine rape victim that they are in any way to blame. You can suggest that they take more responsibility for their future circumstances, but casting blame is counter-productive, if not cruel.
-matthew
An example?
That's not to say the perpetrators aren't at fault either, but it's your responsibility to protect yourself. Otherwise you'll be a victim your entire life.
Sure, one is always responsible for protecting oneself. But who are you to decide what is sufficient self protection for others? Should we give a lesser sentence to a mugger who steals from a helpless old lady vs. someone who steals from a fit, well armed, Karate black belt? No. Of course not. Blame has nothing to do with how well the victim defends against being a victim. A thief who steals from an unlocked house is just as much of a theif as one who steals from a locked house. Your personal lack of sympathy for the owner of the unlocked house is, at best, irrelevant and at worst, disgusting.
-matthew
Never blame the victim. While it may be difficult to sympathize with someone who doesn't take minimal precautions, it is in no way their fault. Innocent is innocent.
-matthew
Long compared to Redhat, but not compared to, say, IBM. IBM supports their old systems for *decades*.
-matthew
That is what you assumed, anyway.
Pardon me? Did I say anything about Windows being a universal failure because I, personally, have a problem with the way it is packaged? No. Did I say Linux was objectively "better" because of the contrast? No.
You know what is invalid? Measuring something's merits by its relative popularity. You might as well say that Britney Spears is good music because it is popular.
-matthew
Methinks you might be doing something wrong.
-matthew
. Perhaps, but that doesn't make the criticism any less valid.
MS has..what, 50-60 billion in the bank and you guys are saying they've done something wrong?
And how much of that is from me? None.
-matthew
I noticed how you singled out the driver part. What about all the little applications that one needs for a useful Windows system? Not that I can really blame Microsoft for not including many basic applications in a default installation, but that doesn't help me, as a user. After installing Windows, I need to install an archiver, CD burning app, SSH client, PDF reader, a good web browser, updated drivers for sound and video, virus scanner, spyware protection, etc, etc. All this stuff is eitehr included in Linux, or it is not needed. While this may seem like a trivial criticism to you, it is a valid one.
-matthew
No kidding. It is so annoying to install Windows fresh and then have to hunt around for all those little apps and drivers that you take for granted on a standard Linux (or even OS X) installation. It is kind of ironic.
-matthew
I can only assume they are looking for accidental information leaks. Obviously anyone interested in sending uncensored email would use Yahoo or Hotmail or something. Or a phone. Or whatever. Anything but corp email. Do they really think this will be useful? Is it really worth losing any good faith between management and employees? Forget about privacy. It seems like bad business.
-matthew
If Apple sticks with OpenFirmware (I sure hope they do), it could make booting Windows a little tricky. If there is no "text mode" like in a PC, how would you use that nifty "F8" boot menu of Windows? And once booting, hardware drivers such as video may expect standard PC video BIOS and not OpenFirmware. They didn't say that Windows would, out of the box, run on an x86 Mac (it probably won;t). They just wouldn't do anything specifically to stop someone (Microsoft) from making it happen.
-matthew