How many remote root exploits did redhat 6.2 have? Linux is supposed to be "secure" after all, isn't it? Look how many update rpms there are. You act as though linux never had a buffer overflow (chuckle).
They are doing it with soybean and corn seeds, so every year you must buy new ones. What really scares me is how the government controls these seeds. The farmer can't afford to buy from a normal company, but he can sure get a deal on the one time use government seeds.
It will be secure until the latest release of redhat shows up and then a dozen remote root exploits. To tell the truth for a desktop I don't really have a use for the multi user stuff. Maybe ppp for a dialup, but certainly not a ftp/www server. I don't need user security if I'm the only one who uses it.
You seem to have mistaken my sig as some kind of anti law anarchist. I am all about having less government control, but that does not change the fact that DeCSS is illegal, and so is 90% of the mp3s on napster. If you claim napster is for finding unsigned bands, how am I supposed to find them? There is no search or index by music type. Am I supposed to type in random words in hope of finding a cool band?
And thats breaking the encryption on dvds. Call it what you want, but its still illegal. If you want a dvd player for linux why not get together and do it legally? All DeCSS does is dump a 4 gig file on your hard drive. The DeCSS legal team wasn't too smart with their defense of "nyah nyah we broke j00r encryption" to a billion dollar global industry. What do you think the outcome will be?
Does anyone else think hate crime laws are incredibly stupid? Anti hate laws are a form of mind control, you can't tell me how to like or not like something. Say I spray paint some guys car because I don't like him, is that a hate crime? After all, I hate that guy.
"3. There is little practical reason to own a swastika or other Nazi or neo-Nazi symbol. Chances are about 99.99999999% that if you own such a symbol, you're a hate-mongering, jew/black/gay beating fascism-loving jerk."
This brings me to my previous post. Ok I'm a stamp collector and buy some stamps with a swastika on them, am I a nazi? Its not hate speech anymore, its the past, get over it. You can't erase what happened. By your logic any museum with nazi uniforms and objects is a symbol for "hate-mongering, jew/black/gay beating fascism-loving" ?
Its war memorabilia, do you think the people who buy it walk around wearing swastikas and saluting the fuhrer? Most of them are probably WW2 veterans. Does that mean that germany should ban any auctions of US war items? Why should you censor the past? Is it too scary?
I run NT4 on an Abit BP6 with dual cpus and NT has *never* crashed or blue screened. It locked up when I was pushing the limits of overclocking, but in all it has never crashed. Sure occasionally an app will hang and need killed, but it will never take down the OS. How often does netscape segfault in linux? According to stastistics linux is near last on the unix list of uptimes. FreeBSD and all the real unixes rank pretty high. Don't knock something you have no experience with. At work we have win95/NT boxes with many days of uptime, they're not servers but do have high cpu usage. We use them for data acquisition and control. I admit that NT does not handle high server loads well, but with good hardware and drivers it can be as stable as linux.
civil disobediance does not mean breaking the law, that means protesting or starting a campaign or lobby. How about changing the laws you don't like instead of breaking them?
this seems like a cleverly crafted troll, but I'll contribute.
Time is relative to the observer. While it may be sunday here, it could be saturday or even monday in some other time zone. Is god aware of this? Does he keep track of joe who is +6GMT or mary who is orbit on the space shuttle and in no particular zone?
HY: Hmmm. Then tell me what you think about pirated software.
RMS: I don't call this copying "piracy", because that is a propaganda word. I don't think it is wrong to copy and share information. Governments can pass laws against it, but that does not make it wrong, just illegal.
An unauthorized copy of a proprietary program has the same drawbacks as an authorized copy. If you want to make more copies and share them, you have to do it in secret; and you cannot get the source code.
So I think that unauthorized copies are not much better than authorized copies. The only good thing about the unauthorized copy is that you avoid giving money to the owner. This is good, because the owner does not deserve a reward for making software proprietary.
However, I can achieve the same thing by *not using the program at all*. I use free software instead.
HY: (!! Wow!!) Umm... now, you're ideas are really far-fetched. How do you evaluate your succe....
RMS: (cuts in) I don't understand what you're saying. Far fetched? How can you say it's far fetched? Far fetched means that it can't be done, but I have been doing it for the last 15 years, which proves that it can be done. And the users of free software are increasing.
HY: But...isn't that because you occupy just a very small fringe of the society? It can't be generalized, can it?
RMS: You know, that's basically bull shit. Sheer speculation masquerading its knowledge. It's a cheap shot that someone may make. Of course, I don't have a time machine, so I can't tell if it's going to take over the world. But the free software movement was often claimed to be totally impossible, and yet we managed to continue and grow. This is positive evidence. And what do you have on the negative?
So RMS thinks its alright to break laws because he doesn't like them? You know these murder laws are unjust, I should kill a few people to prove my point. Look how he interrupts the interview guy. Some guy write a little shareware program for windows that proves useful, according to RMS he should receive nothing for his work.
What makes you think OS/2 is(was) lame? Back when you could run dos and win 3.1 or OS/2 the choice was clear. You had a fully 32 bit OS that ran all the win3.1 programs and was truly multi tasking. It had the HPFS filesystem and a pretty sweet GUI.
I bet you thought linux was hard to use when coming from a dos enviroment. VMS is different, and I *like* having a choice of how the OS is designed and laid out. VAXen are extremely reliable, how many boxes have spanned a decade of operation? Theres plenty of VAXen from the 80's still chugging away in closets. Why? Because it continues to work.
I use windows and will never get affected. Why? Because I don't use outlook, I use good old Eudora. In fact I've been using Eudora since version 1.x and never been bothered by an email attachment.
I'm suprised no one has even thought of not associating.vbs files as executables with explorer, have notepad open them instead. You keep the useful scripting and end up with harmless text files.
you moderators are dumbasses, this is an obvious troll. Some people might like a legal licensed actual player instead of a hack that dumps a 4 gig file on my drive.
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How many remote root exploits did redhat 6.2 have? Linux is supposed to be "secure" after all, isn't it? Look how many update rpms there are. You act as though linux never had a buffer overflow (chuckle).
You're also screwing the bands whose cds you are not paying for. How nice to show your support.
He has some valid points. Is your average 13 year old with a cable modem going to download the new xxxxxxxxx cd in 10 minutes or spend $15 and buy it?
Most of which is horribly out of date. Its seriously time to overhaul most of these documents. Who really cares about the 1.x kernel series?
They are doing it with soybean and corn seeds, so every year you must buy new ones. What really scares me is how the government controls these seeds. The farmer can't afford to buy from a normal company, but he can sure get a deal on the one time use government seeds.
All my cuban cigars come from canada :)
If everyone thought like you there would be no linux. I can think of some things windows has that linux doesn't.
It will be secure until the latest release of redhat shows up and then a dozen remote root exploits. To tell the truth for a desktop I don't really have a use for the multi user stuff. Maybe ppp for a dialup, but certainly not a ftp/www server. I don't need user security if I'm the only one who uses it.
You seem to have mistaken my sig as some kind of anti law anarchist. I am all about having less government control, but that does not change the fact that DeCSS is illegal, and so is 90% of the mp3s on napster. If you claim napster is for finding unsigned bands, how am I supposed to find them? There is no search or index by music type. Am I supposed to type in random words in hope of finding a cool band?
And thats breaking the encryption on dvds. Call it what you want, but its still illegal. If you want a dvd player for linux why not get together and do it legally? All DeCSS does is dump a 4 gig file on your hard drive. The DeCSS legal team wasn't too smart with their defense of "nyah nyah we broke j00r encryption" to a billion dollar global industry. What do you think the outcome will be?
How will you deal with network latency and traffic? You will have to use at least gigabit ethernet and the associated equipment. Copper or fiber?
Does anyone else think hate crime laws are incredibly stupid? Anti hate laws are a form of mind control, you can't tell me how to like or not like something. Say I spray paint some guys car because I don't like him, is that a hate crime? After all, I hate that guy.
"3. There is little practical reason to own a swastika or other Nazi or neo-Nazi symbol. Chances are about 99.99999999% that if you own such a symbol, you're a hate-mongering, jew/black/gay beating fascism-loving jerk."
This brings me to my previous post. Ok I'm a stamp collector and buy some stamps with a swastika on them, am I a nazi? Its not hate speech anymore, its the past, get over it. You can't erase what happened. By your logic any museum with nazi uniforms and objects is a symbol for "hate-mongering, jew/black/gay beating fascism-loving" ?
Its war memorabilia, do you think the people who buy it walk around wearing swastikas and saluting the fuhrer? Most of them are probably WW2 veterans. Does that mean that germany should ban any auctions of US war items? Why should you censor the past? Is it too scary?
Try it on a Sparc IPC (25Mhz) with the 2.0.36 kernel before they finally fixed the mmu slowdown bug. It took somewhere around 5 hours :)
I run NT4 on an Abit BP6 with dual cpus and NT has *never* crashed or blue screened. It locked up when I was pushing the limits of overclocking, but in all it has never crashed. Sure occasionally an app will hang and need killed, but it will never take down the OS. How often does netscape segfault in linux? According to stastistics linux is near last on the unix list of uptimes. FreeBSD and all the real unixes rank pretty high. Don't knock something you have no experience with. At work we have win95/NT boxes with many days of uptime, they're not servers but do have high cpu usage. We use them for data acquisition and control. I admit that NT does not handle high server loads well, but with good hardware and drivers it can be as stable as linux.
civil disobediance does not mean breaking the law, that means protesting or starting a campaign or lobby. How about changing the laws you don't like instead of breaking them?
Did I say they were perfect? No, but just because I don't like them or feel they meet my standards doesn't give me the right to break them.
this seems like a cleverly crafted troll, but I'll contribute.
Time is relative to the observer. While it may be sunday here, it could be saturday or even monday in some other time zone. Is god aware of this? Does he keep track of joe who is +6GMT or mary who is orbit on the space shuttle and in no particular zone?
HY: Hmmm. Then tell me what you think about pirated software.
RMS: I don't call this copying "piracy", because that is a propaganda word. I don't think it is wrong to copy and share information. Governments can pass laws against it, but that does not make it wrong, just illegal.
An unauthorized copy of a proprietary program has the same drawbacks as an authorized copy. If you want to make more copies and share them, you have to do it in secret; and you cannot get the source code.
So I think that unauthorized copies are not much better than authorized copies. The only good thing about the unauthorized copy is that you avoid giving money to the owner. This is good, because the owner does not deserve a reward for making software proprietary.
However, I can achieve the same thing by *not using the program at all*. I use free software instead.
HY: (!! Wow!!) Umm... now, you're ideas are really far-fetched. How do you evaluate your succe....
RMS: (cuts in) I don't understand what you're saying. Far fetched? How can you say it's far fetched? Far fetched means that it can't be done, but I have been doing it for the last 15 years, which proves that it can be done. And the users of free software are increasing.
HY: But...isn't that because you occupy just a very small fringe of the society? It can't be generalized, can it?
RMS: You know, that's basically bull shit. Sheer speculation masquerading its knowledge. It's a cheap shot that someone may make. Of course, I don't have a time machine, so I can't tell if it's going to take over the world. But the free software movement was often claimed to be totally impossible, and yet we managed to continue and grow. This is positive evidence. And what do you have on the negative?
So RMS thinks its alright to break laws because he doesn't like them? You know these murder laws are unjust, I should kill a few people to prove my point. Look how he interrupts the interview guy. Some guy write a little shareware program for windows that proves useful, according to RMS he should receive nothing for his work.
Why must you convert the unsaved? Leave them alone.
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What makes you think OS/2 is(was) lame? Back when you could run dos and win 3.1 or OS/2 the choice was clear. You had a fully 32 bit OS that ran all the win3.1 programs and was truly multi tasking. It had the HPFS filesystem and a pretty sweet GUI.
I bet you thought linux was hard to use when coming from a dos enviroment. VMS is different, and I *like* having a choice of how the OS is designed and laid out. VAXen are extremely reliable, how many boxes have spanned a decade of operation? Theres plenty of VAXen from the 80's still chugging away in closets. Why? Because it continues to work.
I use windows and will never get affected. Why? Because I don't use outlook, I use good old Eudora. In fact I've been using Eudora since version 1.x and never been bothered by an email attachment.
.vbs files as executables with explorer, have notepad open them instead. You keep the useful scripting and end up with harmless text files.
I'm suprised no one has even thought of not associating
you moderators are dumbasses, this is an obvious troll. Some people might like a legal licensed actual player instead of a hack that dumps a 4 gig file on my drive.
You burn linux and freebsd images, right? Well download the files you need and make your own image.