Speaking as the "guy who knows cars", i'd just like to say that it would be lovely if you guys who make cars could ship them with engines that require no maintenance.
Network security is a trade. If you're not qualified, don't pretend. If you need internet facing services, get someone qualified to secure them. If you don't feel this is required, and you want to run the gauntlet, be my guest. Just don't cry when many many malicious hosts on the internet have a field day with your network.
Leaving it open, irrespective of encryption still leaves you prone to DOS due to account lockout. And you're also relying on microsoft, with a rather checkered security history, to have made the service secure. Multi-layered defense is a good (nay, necessary) thing.
Having 3389 open to the world is inherently bad, because you're placing your trust in the service to be secure. And its from microsoft. When VPNs or IPSec between hosts is so easily configured, leaving 3389 open to the internet without any second or third line(s) of defense is just grossly negligent.
its the amoount of creative freedom you have. you can wire up pretty much anything in redstone, and the landscape is, for all intents and purposes, infinite (at least in terms of X and Y).
The requirements for an iphone, listed on the box are either a Windows PC or a Mac. Linux is not supported. If you want to use Linux, then buy a phone that supports it?
What music would i want to copy from my iphone if i had legally obtained it? CDs - i have the originals. Itunes - i can re-download the originals whenever i like. I'm not saying I like itunes or the way it works, but unless you're trying to rip music off someone else's idevice that you have not purchased, there's no reason to *need* to do what you are complaining about.
If it is legit purchased music, then it is (will be with iOS 5) synched to the cloud and on all your devices automatically. next complaint? If it is ripped, then presumably you have the original purchased CD. If its warez, then sorry if you're a pirate you can figure it out yourself.
We'll see. I'm not sure that there are a lot of companies who are going to remain happy to give up ownership of ALL OF THEIR DATA once this "cloud" media buzz blows over.
Yes agreed,/i/ know linus was saying it in jest. My post was more in response to the clueless noobs (e.g. original story author) who presume that anything linus says is the literal word of god, and to be obeyed as gospel.
... those of us building real networks and corporate infrastructure today will be re-hired at great expense to migrate company data AWAY from "the cloud" and back under corporate control.
Between now and then might be a little bit interesting.
"Linus said in an interview that he thinks virtualization is 'evil' because he prefers to deal with the real hardware.
In the real world, people other than Linus want to be independent from one particular box failing, deal with live migration for the purposes of better utilising purchased hardware resources, portability to emergency hardware, etc.
Just because Linus doesn't like it, because he's not programming on real hardware, it doesn't mean it's "evil".
Thing is, neither firefox nor chrome do sufficient badware filtering. Neither is as configurable via group policy to allow scripts to run on sites that you need to run scripts, yet put other sites in less trusted zones.
Out of the box your assertion may hold water, but in the real world where you're trying to enable crappy internal third party web applications to work, I suggest that IE is easy to secure.
Telling users to totally turn off scripting, etc isn't really feasible if they need that functionality to work.
Well actually their problem as far as catering to end users goes, even if they're not the author of the software. The ONLY reason i've seen to actually prefer firefox to one of the many webkit based alternatives is for the plug-in/extension support.
Extensions are Firefox's drawcard. Without usable extensions, there's very little point in using Firefox. The end user doesn't care who broke their shit, the fact that it is broken will encourage them to consider more "stable" (in terms of platform, not necessarily resistance to crashes) alternatives.
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I believe the largest use of LDAP only auth is actually in.... free software. Anything semi-professional generally uses kerberos for auth...
Yeah, they're called girls.
Well i guess if you like playing ASCII based terminal games, Dwarf Fortress is superior. Minecraft's graphics are retro enough for me thanks.
Welcome to 2006. Windows has disabled services by default for quite a long time now.
Speaking as the "guy who knows cars", i'd just like to say that it would be lovely if you guys who make cars could ship them with engines that require no maintenance.
Network security is a trade. If you're not qualified, don't pretend. If you need internet facing services, get someone qualified to secure them. If you don't feel this is required, and you want to run the gauntlet, be my guest. Just don't cry when many many malicious hosts on the internet have a field day with your network.
Leaving it open, irrespective of encryption still leaves you prone to DOS due to account lockout. And you're also relying on microsoft, with a rather checkered security history, to have made the service secure. Multi-layered defense is a good (nay, necessary) thing.
Having 3389 open to the world is inherently bad, because you're placing your trust in the service to be secure. And its from microsoft. When VPNs or IPSec between hosts is so easily configured, leaving 3389 open to the internet without any second or third line(s) of defense is just grossly negligent.
No, he just said there is a lot of shitty ones out there. He didn't say they are ALL bad, just that there are a heap that are.
its the amoount of creative freedom you have. you can wire up pretty much anything in redstone, and the landscape is, for all intents and purposes, infinite (at least in terms of X and Y).
Evidently, these days a lot of them are people who make ill-informed decisions on hardware purchases, and then whine about it.
in any future endeavours, and cheers for providing an interesting diversion during the quiet times at work all these years. Its been fun.
The requirements for an iphone, listed on the box are either a Windows PC or a Mac. Linux is not supported. If you want to use Linux, then buy a phone that supports it?
What music would i want to copy from my iphone if i had legally obtained it? CDs - i have the originals. Itunes - i can re-download the originals whenever i like. I'm not saying I like itunes or the way it works, but unless you're trying to rip music off someone else's idevice that you have not purchased, there's no reason to *need* to do what you are complaining about.
If it is legit purchased music, then it is (will be with iOS 5) synched to the cloud and on all your devices automatically. next complaint? If it is ripped, then presumably you have the original purchased CD. If its warez, then sorry if you're a pirate you can figure it out yourself.
Oh yeah. You must remember the previous "cloud computing" then. Timesharing mainframes. How did that work out?
We'll see. I'm not sure that there are a lot of companies who are going to remain happy to give up ownership of ALL OF THEIR DATA once this "cloud" media buzz blows over.
Yes agreed, /i/ know linus was saying it in jest. My post was more in response to the clueless noobs (e.g. original story author) who presume that anything linus says is the literal word of god, and to be obeyed as gospel.
Between now and then might be a little bit interesting.
In the real world, people other than Linus want to be independent from one particular box failing, deal with live migration for the purposes of better utilising purchased hardware resources, portability to emergency hardware, etc.
Just because Linus doesn't like it, because he's not programming on real hardware, it doesn't mean it's "evil".
That doesn't explain why they're cheaper in the US, when they're made in CHINA.
my new macbook pro came direct from china (high res screen so online order only).
because everytihng is the same sort of markup here. i'm not sure why apple have been singled out (perhaps because they're a high profile target).
You've never seen a magsafe connector?
Thing is, neither firefox nor chrome do sufficient badware filtering. Neither is as configurable via group policy to allow scripts to run on sites that you need to run scripts, yet put other sites in less trusted zones.
Out of the box your assertion may hold water, but in the real world where you're trying to enable crappy internal third party web applications to work, I suggest that IE is easy to secure.
Telling users to totally turn off scripting, etc isn't really feasible if they need that functionality to work.
Well actually their problem as far as catering to end users goes, even if they're not the author of the software. The ONLY reason i've seen to actually prefer firefox to one of the many webkit based alternatives is for the plug-in/extension support.
Extensions are Firefox's drawcard. Without usable extensions, there's very little point in using Firefox. The end user doesn't care who broke their shit, the fact that it is broken will encourage them to consider more "stable" (in terms of platform, not necessarily resistance to crashes) alternatives.