There's no reason codecs (or ANY SOFTWARE) installed on linux or any other OS can't own the user's data or operating system either.
There are three ways people get owned: remote exploits (count the number on 7 vs linux in the past 2 years - they're not so far apart), application exploits (again, count em) and user stupidity (no solution, other than sandboxing the user to contain the damage).
Even with a sandboxed app, it still has access to all of the data you have in the sandbox. If you've downloaded and installed a "virus scanner" and enabled it to access your entire filesystem, you're fucked.
he day you guys come up with something apart from "Blame the operator" is the day Microsoft has a chance of making a secure OS.
If you're running as a non-admin with UAC and firewall on, win7 is as secure as anything else.
If you're the type of person who sees "free shit" (trojans) and runs to install them because they're free, you're going to get owned irrespective of what you run. Linux (or OS X for that matter) doesn't get this type of infection yet because it isn't targeted in this manner yet.
... even with those figures, i'm still repairing a lot more Windows XP machines.
If you turn off UAC / run as admin, and put a retard at the controls, Windows 7 will get infected by "free antivirus" software just as easily as anything else.
This is more a symptom of it being adopted by regular end users rather than bleeding edge types than any new inherent security problems discovered in 7.
There have been 2 countries invaded, countless civilian casualties during 10 years of war, cities bombed back (further) into the stone age, and civil liberties destroyed over this guy. All of this is public record. As is guantanamo bay.
but we are expected to believe someone might get upset over a pic of a dead guy and we are so concerned over that, we cant release the pic. Bs. That is the least of their problems.
To back this up, I've still got a couple of Dell Latitude D510s in our fleet that are now 7+ years old. They are running Windows 7 + Office 2007 at an acceptable speed. No aero, but they never had that with Windows XP back in the day either.
gig-e is still slow. sure it might be fine for a single desktop port, but...
hook it up to a SAN, and before you know it you're running into the limits of a few gig-e ports bound into an etherchannel.
storage requirements are going to continue to grow. HD video / audio is going to continue to become more widespread. if you're dealing with limited numbers of cables to carry data for large (and increasing) numbers of users, there's no escaping the need for more bandwidth.
Linux is pretty much "meh" for me these days due to the lack of any sort of comparable technology in common use to the ObjC runtime.
If etoile` takes off, i'll be back. If GNUStep takes off, I'll be back. However both KDE and Gnome seem to be simply attempting to replicate the Windows way of doing things, maybe with some superficial UI elements from the Mac.
Yes, OS X has UI fauls. I agree, its not perfect. But it gives me a unix box with actual commercial software support that i don't have to think about whenever i want to get something to work.
I've spent years doing that for work, when i come home after work I don't want to be needlessly rooting around - but I do want the power of the command line. The hardware is nice too. Compared to my PC, the mac is silent.
Still. If they have 1000 users they're still going to be spending more than 10k on network hardware. Without more details, sweeping statements like "can't be more than 10k" are quite possibly false.
I suspect that intel/amd are sort of stuck here. They're running into clock speed limits, the most efficient way to go these days is to multi-core. ARM cores are much simpler/cheaper to make, so you could likely adapt the architecture far more easily to stamp out say, a 24 core ARM for similar cost to a quad core i7.
Whether its ARM or some other streamlined, easier to punch out en-masse core, that is the way things are going to head, I believe. Intel tried a "everything and the kitchen sink" route with itanic, and look how well that's succeeded.
maybe you're doing it wrong? i've been getting useful work done since they days of 486DX-33s. yes, sure if you were to benchmark it, it would get owned, but general office use, web browsing, etc it is plenty good enough and runs 7 just fine.
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There are three ways people get owned: remote exploits (count the number on 7 vs linux in the past 2 years - they're not so far apart), application exploits (again, count em) and user stupidity (no solution, other than sandboxing the user to contain the damage).
Even with a sandboxed app, it still has access to all of the data you have in the sandbox. If you've downloaded and installed a "virus scanner" and enabled it to access your entire filesystem, you're fucked.
If you're running as a non-admin with UAC and firewall on, win7 is as secure as anything else.
If you're the type of person who sees "free shit" (trojans) and runs to install them because they're free, you're going to get owned irrespective of what you run. Linux (or OS X for that matter) doesn't get this type of infection yet because it isn't targeted in this manner yet.
If you turn off UAC / run as admin, and put a retard at the controls, Windows 7 will get infected by "free antivirus" software just as easily as anything else.
This is more a symptom of it being adopted by regular end users rather than bleeding edge types than any new inherent security problems discovered in 7.
I'd rather take my chances with the torture than stalking.
but we are expected to believe someone might get upset over a pic of a dead guy and we are so concerned over that, we cant release the pic. Bs. That is the least of their problems.
pic isnt released because of other reasons.
You don't get the ability to run non-cloud apps on your shitty cr48. Thats gotta be worth at least $5-10 per month.
To back this up, I've still got a couple of Dell Latitude D510s in our fleet that are now 7+ years old. They are running Windows 7 + Office 2007 at an acceptable speed. No aero, but they never had that with Windows XP back in the day either.
Depends on your definition of "right"
But android is open source and iOS isn't, so google is good and apple are bad.
no you won't.
not unless you have an airport in your lap as well. And it will be the 450 megabit shared between every device, rather than switched 100 meg per port.
Besides, If you were in any way cluey, you would have used cat5e, and be pushing gigabit.
the 3 non-windows using linux users with working 3d hardware and accelerated audio await the answer with baited breath
depends what you're using it for, doesn't it?
gig-e is still slow. sure it might be fine for a single desktop port, but...
hook it up to a SAN, and before you know it you're running into the limits of a few gig-e ports bound into an etherchannel.
storage requirements are going to continue to grow. HD video / audio is going to continue to become more widespread. if you're dealing with limited numbers of cables to carry data for large (and increasing) numbers of users, there's no escaping the need for more bandwidth.
could also be that blizzard don't put out shit games
its unoriginal god damn it. why can't they make stuff nobody wants, it will sell like hotcakes based on its originality
Linux is pretty much "meh" for me these days due to the lack of any sort of comparable technology in common use to the ObjC runtime.
If etoile` takes off, i'll be back. If GNUStep takes off, I'll be back. However both KDE and Gnome seem to be simply attempting to replicate the Windows way of doing things, maybe with some superficial UI elements from the Mac.
Yes, OS X has UI fauls. I agree, its not perfect. But it gives me a unix box with actual commercial software support that i don't have to think about whenever i want to get something to work.
I've spent years doing that for work, when i come home after work I don't want to be needlessly rooting around - but I do want the power of the command line. The hardware is nice too. Compared to my PC, the mac is silent.
You mean like darwin, zeroconf, contributions to CUPS, launchd, etc?
ah well shit, it sounds dangerous. we all need to give up and go back to living like the amish.
Uninteresting your data may be, but it still may be useful for identity theft related purposes.
It always has been more hardcore than slashdot, at least since 1997 or so when i joined.
Still. If they have 1000 users they're still going to be spending more than 10k on network hardware. Without more details, sweeping statements like "can't be more than 10k" are quite possibly false.
Because ray tracing is so heavily used, thats what intel/amd should be focused on. :D
Get an old P4 and compare h.264 encoding rates to something recent and tell me CPUs aren't all that much faster.
Whether its ARM or some other streamlined, easier to punch out en-masse core, that is the way things are going to head, I believe. Intel tried a "everything and the kitchen sink" route with itanic, and look how well that's succeeded.
maybe you're doing it wrong? i've been getting useful work done since they days of 486DX-33s. yes, sure if you were to benchmark it, it would get owned, but general office use, web browsing, etc it is plenty good enough and runs 7 just fine.
it is specced up with nvidia 8800gt, 4gigs of ram and good disks.
You invalidated your advice by suggesting you arent able to distinguish between udp and tcp...