There is a way to get a shell with root access so you can do a bunch of things without bothering with sudo, but I'm not gonna tell ya how.
Don't worry, I know about "sudo su", which will change the shell to root without having to know or change the default(random?) root password in Ubuntu. You can also go into a "recovery mode" during bootup that brings you to a bash prompt as root. If you are talking about getting into Gnome, KDE, or whatever your poison as root, I know there are workarounds. However, I'm not talking about what is possible, I'm talking about how these distributions are designed so someone doesn't accidentally "rm -rf/", or something equally stupid, when running as an Administrator level account.
Parent speaks truth. I'm currently troubleshooting a Windows 2003 server that is not accepting Remote Desktop connections. This is the error appearing in Event Viewer:
Faulting application , version 0.0.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x1003ac4e.
No, I did not remove the application name, there is just nothing there. How does the OS not even know what application faulted?
This is why better computer education is the only truly viable solution. Anti-Virus (aside from worms getting into system vulnerabilities) is only a stop-gap until users are better educated in computer administration. Moving the "low-hanging fruit" to UNIX and Linux-based OSes is another stop-gap until those users start getting targeted by malware writers also. While I don't contest that these OSes are far more secure than Windows architecturally, most malware out there preys on the user's ignorance.
Also, in OS X you can not create "root account", and login into your session as root. It is simply not allowed and impossible to do. On Linux you can.
Linux is an OS kernel, just like the UNIX one powering OS X. You are making an apples to oranges comparison. You need to look at the complete package. In most Linux distros that I have worked with, you are either not allowed to log in as root, or you are given ample warnings that you really shouldn't do that. Then, the only way for the hypothetical linux admin user to delete everything is to become root in the exact same manner you describe for OS X.
If you are worried about a foolish admin deleting everything on a *nix box, you need to pick a *nix distribution that limits root access intelligently, such as OS X or Ubuntu (SUSE and Red Hat may behave the same way, but I haven't used them in years).
Assuming replacing older machines and not new employees/new machines, they won't need additional XP licenses for this. However, they will need Citrix licenses, and possibly Microsoft Terminal Services licenses. I know with XenApp these are all needed for each user.
Yes, the technology was shot down in 1994 by our brilliant government. Lets hope this line of research is brought back so that we can both increase energy output and reduce harmful wastes.
Help files I am not sure of. But as far as I can tell, Automatic Updates uses wuauclt.exe to connect to the update website, not IE. Going to Tools->Windows Update from IE obviously uses IE. One thing that pisses me off, is when applications call "iexplore.exe programwebsite" instead of using the default browser. When I change the system to use a specific browser, the app should not override my preferences. I guess that's just bad programming though, something in abundance in Windows apps.
Best way would be to do something like $30 for the first 20 Gb or something like that and then an additional $1 for each 1 Gb over this. It could be pretty similar to how cell phone minute prices are structured. For $50, that would give you 40 Gb total. That way they can charge more for the heavy downloaders and less for someone who just checks their email and plays Punch the Monkey. Its great how I always win and I just have to sign up for all these other great deals to claim my prize...
This would be fine if they stopped advertising their service as "unlimited". Netflix doesn't sell you "unlimited" DVD rentals, but then caps you to a set amount per month with little to no notice. Spoofing RST packets to impede bittorrent and other P2P protocols sounds like a pretty big limit to me. Throttling you after a certain amount of data transfer is another pretty big limit. Capping your total download with no way to check how close you are to your limit is yet another. Good thing those are made known before you sign up. Oh, wait, they aren't. If they sold "6 Mb down/ 2 Mb up Internet Service*" or whatever with no mention of the word "unlimited" and put these details at the bottom next to another asterisk, there would be no issues. As it stands, they are guilty of at least false advertisement. Don't say that there are alternatives. In many areas there are very few broadband alternatives(likely all practicing the same level of deceit) or are too expensive for even the moderately affluent to afford. The big ISPs were given tons of tax dollars to upgrade the infrastructure to give Americans access to inexpensive broadband. I've yet to see that actually happen.
Can't tell if you are joking or serious. If joking, don't quit your day job. If serious, I think you need to go back to school and take a statistics class.
He's just an asshole troll posting links to zoy.org along with somewhat relevant BS. Seriously, don't click the link unless you want to be flooded with gay porn popups.
Let me start by saying that I do not disagree that most animal liberationists are crazy. The message board does not log IP addresses and pulled the offending comment before the police became involved. Seizing private equipment with no warrant is illegal. Also, entrapment is illegal in the US, and I would expect it is the same in the UK. While it may be possible for forensics experts to glean some information from the server about who posted the comment, they should have followed the proper channels. Police need to follow the law as well, otherwise the system breaks down.
Just because you grok computers does not give you the right to enable terrorists to hurt and maim ordinary citizens going about their lawful business. Screw the stupid animals, people come first.
Just because you shit your pants at the word "terrorist" doesn't mean everyone else needs to give up their rights so you can feel protected.
"Ray tracing" and "ray casting" were used interchangeably when ray casting was popular. Now, that ray tracing has become feasible for advanced real-time rendering, a distinction was made between the two phrases.
And suppose the repo's private key is compromised along with the repo server? Then again, I see where you are going with this. The same thing could happen with each app having its own updater.
I too was pissed at the size of the Ribbon when I first installed Office 2007. However, there is a minimize ribbon option that gives you even more vertical screen space than OOo and older versions of Office. Then, add your most used functions to the quick launch toolbar that sits at the very top.
Normally I see it as major.minor.bugfix. Major updates cause a huge change to the UI and feature list, minor causing minor UI and feature changes, and bug fix only fixing bugs while not making any real changes. This is important for software that has active plug-in development, like Firefox.
I think the installers are compressed, whereas the "update" packages might not be. Also, just a guess but an update download might include the changes for more than one release, like 3.0.5 update might include the update files for 3.0.1, 3.0.2, etc. Seems horribly inefficient to me.
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Because Microsoft does not consider this a bug. It is a "design change":
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090131/microsoft-dismisses-windows-7-uac-security-flaw-insists-by-design/
There is a way to get a shell with root access so you can do a bunch of things without bothering with sudo, but I'm not gonna tell ya how.
Don't worry, I know about "sudo su", which will change the shell to root without having to know or change the default(random?) root password in Ubuntu. You can also go into a "recovery mode" during bootup that brings you to a bash prompt as root. If you are talking about getting into Gnome, KDE, or whatever your poison as root, I know there are workarounds. However, I'm not talking about what is possible, I'm talking about how these distributions are designed so someone doesn't accidentally "rm -rf /", or something equally stupid, when running as an Administrator level account.
Parent speaks truth. I'm currently troubleshooting a Windows 2003 server that is not accepting Remote Desktop connections. This is the error appearing in Event Viewer:
Faulting application , version 0.0.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x1003ac4e.
No, I did not remove the application name, there is just nothing there. How does the OS not even know what application faulted?
This is why better computer education is the only truly viable solution. Anti-Virus (aside from worms getting into system vulnerabilities) is only a stop-gap until users are better educated in computer administration. Moving the "low-hanging fruit" to UNIX and Linux-based OSes is another stop-gap until those users start getting targeted by malware writers also. While I don't contest that these OSes are far more secure than Windows architecturally, most malware out there preys on the user's ignorance.
Also, in OS X you can not create "root account", and login into your session as root. It is simply not allowed and impossible to do. On Linux you can.
Linux is an OS kernel, just like the UNIX one powering OS X. You are making an apples to oranges comparison. You need to look at the complete package. In most Linux distros that I have worked with, you are either not allowed to log in as root, or you are given ample warnings that you really shouldn't do that. Then, the only way for the hypothetical linux admin user to delete everything is to become root in the exact same manner you describe for OS X.
If you are worried about a foolish admin deleting everything on a *nix box, you need to pick a *nix distribution that limits root access intelligently, such as OS X or Ubuntu (SUSE and Red Hat may behave the same way, but I haven't used them in years).
Assuming replacing older machines and not new employees/new machines, they won't need additional XP licenses for this. However, they will need Citrix licenses, and possibly Microsoft Terminal Services licenses. I know with XenApp these are all needed for each user.
Yes, the technology was shot down in 1994 by our brilliant government. Lets hope this line of research is brought back so that we can both increase energy output and reduce harmful wastes.
Help files I am not sure of. But as far as I can tell, Automatic Updates uses wuauclt.exe to connect to the update website, not IE. Going to Tools->Windows Update from IE obviously uses IE. One thing that pisses me off, is when applications call "iexplore.exe programwebsite" instead of using the default browser. When I change the system to use a specific browser, the app should not override my preferences. I guess that's just bad programming though, something in abundance in Windows apps.
Best way would be to do something like $30 for the first 20 Gb or something like that and then an additional $1 for each 1 Gb over this. It could be pretty similar to how cell phone minute prices are structured. For $50, that would give you 40 Gb total. That way they can charge more for the heavy downloaders and less for someone who just checks their email and plays Punch the Monkey. Its great how I always win and I just have to sign up for all these other great deals to claim my prize...
This would be fine if they stopped advertising their service as "unlimited". Netflix doesn't sell you "unlimited" DVD rentals, but then caps you to a set amount per month with little to no notice. Spoofing RST packets to impede bittorrent and other P2P protocols sounds like a pretty big limit to me. Throttling you after a certain amount of data transfer is another pretty big limit. Capping your total download with no way to check how close you are to your limit is yet another. Good thing those are made known before you sign up. Oh, wait, they aren't. If they sold "6 Mb down/ 2 Mb up Internet Service*" or whatever with no mention of the word "unlimited" and put these details at the bottom next to another asterisk, there would be no issues. As it stands, they are guilty of at least false advertisement. Don't say that there are alternatives. In many areas there are very few broadband alternatives(likely all practicing the same level of deceit) or are too expensive for even the moderately affluent to afford. The big ISPs were given tons of tax dollars to upgrade the infrastructure to give Americans access to inexpensive broadband. I've yet to see that actually happen.
My understanding is that the same restriction is in place for DMCA Safe Harbor. So his post is correct, he just used the wrong term.
I've never understood why they call it RAID 0. Striped Array would suffice. Why is it a Redundant Array of In(expensive|dependent) Disks 0(as in NOT)?
They must not have humor where you are from. The "Winchester drive" comment was obviously sarcasm, and the "watch" comment had "/sarcasm" at the end.
Can't tell if you are joking or serious. If joking, don't quit your day job. If serious, I think you need to go back to school and take a statistics class.
Its still $100,000 more than $0. There are many open-source projects that are lucky to get enough money to pay for their domain name.
So you are saying that AI needs to be able to answer math problems incorrectly? That means Intel invented the first AI with the Pentium bug!
He's just an asshole troll posting links to zoy.org along with somewhat relevant BS. Seriously, don't click the link unless you want to be flooded with gay porn popups.
Let me start by saying that I do not disagree that most animal liberationists are crazy. The message board does not log IP addresses and pulled the offending comment before the police became involved. Seizing private equipment with no warrant is illegal. Also, entrapment is illegal in the US, and I would expect it is the same in the UK. While it may be possible for forensics experts to glean some information from the server about who posted the comment, they should have followed the proper channels. Police need to follow the law as well, otherwise the system breaks down.
Just because you grok computers does not give you the right to enable terrorists to hurt and maim ordinary citizens going about their lawful business. Screw the stupid animals, people come first.
Just because you shit your pants at the word "terrorist" doesn't mean everyone else needs to give up their rights so you can feel protected.
CAT5-o-nine-tails?
"Ray tracing" and "ray casting" were used interchangeably when ray casting was popular. Now, that ray tracing has become feasible for advanced real-time rendering, a distinction was made between the two phrases.
And suppose the repo's private key is compromised along with the repo server? Then again, I see where you are going with this. The same thing could happen with each app having its own updater.
I too was pissed at the size of the Ribbon when I first installed Office 2007. However, there is a minimize ribbon option that gives you even more vertical screen space than OOo and older versions of Office. Then, add your most used functions to the quick launch toolbar that sits at the very top.
Normally I see it as major.minor.bugfix. Major updates cause a huge change to the UI and feature list, minor causing minor UI and feature changes, and bug fix only fixing bugs while not making any real changes. This is important for software that has active plug-in development, like Firefox.
Excellent point. If someone hijacked a repo server for a popular app, they could easily push out malware to thousands of users as an "update".
I think the installers are compressed, whereas the "update" packages might not be. Also, just a guess but an update download might include the changes for more than one release, like 3.0.5 update might include the update files for 3.0.1, 3.0.2, etc. Seems horribly inefficient to me.