I don't have the expertise to comment on the validity or invalidity of their report, but from a marketing point of view, this article is the perfect way to generate interest in their reports. This company has a varity of businesses, one of which is to sell reports. If you choose to buy the report, it comes with some pretty intersting terms and conditions..
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Doesn't seem like this company is too confident in any of the claims made in these reports..
Their monthly intelligence has a quote that makes their "reseach methods" look shady:
The Monthly Intelligence analyses and collects data from over 7,000 hacker groups worldwide and provides detailed monthly and year-to-date information on:
Seems a little far fetched to me, I doubt many "hacker groups" are open to research companies doing data collection.
Probably the most shocking quote to come out of Cary Sherman's mouth was this:
Sherman responded that most people don't shoplift because they fear they'll be arrested.
Maybe I'm a sucker for humanity, but I believe most people don't shoplift because they think it is wrong, not because they will get caught. It's interesting to see that the RIAA has such a low opinion of human nature.
But he didn't just "look in", he went and altered files.
He didn't alter files, he put his Name and contact information in the editorial database to prove to the Nytimes that their system was vulnerable. You make it sound like he corrupted stuff.
Robertson said Microsoft has been working to have Japan participate in its Government Security Program, which gives national governments and international organizations access to Microsoft's source code, the underlying blueprint of its programs.
That must be some ugly source code, it seems like they got a look that and ran like hell.
hmm lets look at jobs on monster
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I grew up with TRS-80's, then Mac's, then Windows 3.x, for the past few years I've been using Linux. People often assume that just because a student uses a specific OS in school that they are going to use it forever, this is obviously not the case otherwise Apple for have a much larger share of the market.
While its certainly a good idea to have kids exposed and trained to use Linux and other oses at a young age, people must consider the rebellion factor. A lot of kids will hate whatever the school endorses. Considering this is an inner city school, I would just be happy that they are getting the money.
Ask Apple users how often they lose all their data to a hard drive crash.
Contrary to popular myth amongst Mac fanboys, Apple uses the same standard IDE and SCSI drives that are in PC systems. Apple systems are no less vulnerable to hard drive crashes than PC systems.
While this example does demonstrate one of the short comings of digital music services, I think a more important issue is redownloading. If an Apple iTunes music service user happens to experience a hard drive crash, they must repurchase all downloaded songs that were not backed up. That's right, even though Apple keeps track of your purchase history, and even prompts to tell you that you are buying a song that was purchased before, iTunes users must pay again for the song.
Apple Apologists argue that its the user's fault for not backing up the song immediately after downloading and that a hard crash is the same as having a CD scratched or stolen. While there are many steps a CD owner can take to prevent scratches and theft, there is very little an iTunes user can do to prevent a hard drive crash from occurring. Backups are important, but short of backing up every song the minute you download it, there is no way to prevent people from getting screwed.
One item of note on the topic of SCO is that the latest PC magazine has a opinion column by editor-in-chief Michael J. Miller that is completely biased against Linux.
From the Article
I was initially quite skeptical about these claims, but after talking with several of the principals in the case, I'm not so sure anymore. The history of SCO and Unix is complex.
That's when the copyright controversy emerged. Chris Sontag, a VP at SCO, recently visited PC Magazine's offices with a stack of documents he claims proves SCO's case. Some of these documents are compelling. Sontag explained that SCO owns the copyright to Unix System V. He said that through kernel 2.2, Linux was progressing fine under the GPL. But in the transition to kernel 2.4, code was added that violates SCO's copyrights.
Some of the evidence Sontag showed us is straightforward: Sections of the Linux kernel code relating to the journaling file system and multiprocessor support are identical to the Unix System V code. He offered to show us specific sections of the Unix code, but only under a nondisclosure agreement, which we refused. He said this code was not added to Linux by IBM but by someone else, and that it's a violation of SCO's copyright. I'm not a lawyer, but his argument seems convincing.
PC magazine may not be as relevant as it was a few years ago, but it is still where a lot of people get most of their computer news. I was pretty shocked to read this crap as the first story. I would encourage people to leave some feedback for Mr. Miller.
Just do a quick/. search to see what people think of ci host. I was a ci host customer back in 99/2000 when their whole accounting database was open to the internet, customer information and credit card numbers. There were $5000 of fraudulent charges on my check card around the turn of millenium from my information being readily available to any idiot with a web browser. The bank took care of everything but it was a pain the in ass.
Personally, I think the screenshots looke like shit. I like the concept of the bar on the right with im, tasks, etc, but it will only work with MS messenger and Outlook for sure.
Lots of posts are complaining about ripping off Apple, but I consider that to be evolutionary. Taking the good stuff from Apple and implementing it for use in standard x86 hardware is great. Too bad MS can't even steal right..
Linux is the fastest growing SERVER os, so web browser statistics are useless and especially dependent on the counter code, which is usually flawed. My website counter misreads mozilla and linux.
while linux has had over 400 discovered exploits.
The Linux kernel or software running on Linux? In case you didn't know there is a big difference. I love how every apache, wuftpd, bind, etc... vulnerability gets categorized as a "Linux exploit.." This reply is simply pure fud..
From what I recall, most of the OS X system defaults were set to reasonable, fairly secure settings, unlike Windows where a basic install will leave a zillion services running on your machine
For fun a decided to compare open ports on default but updated installs of OSX and XP.
Windows XP Box Port Scan
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.103: (The 1639 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 135/tcp open loc-srv 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 1025/tcp open NFS-or-IIS 5000/tcp open UPnP
Max OSX Port Scan
All 1644 scanned ports on 192.168.1.105 are: closed
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 20.910 seconds
Gentoo Port Scan
All 1644 scanned ports on 192.168.1.101 are: closed
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.357 seconds
The main thing that keeps Mac OSX secure is a market share in the single digits. Certainly OSX is more secure than windows by default, but the biggest advantage of OSX is that its not a juicy target.
I wasn't a big fan of the online book idea until I tried Safari for the first time a few months ago. A quick search for snort reveals 38 different books that focus on or have chapters dealing with snort, included the one book "Intrusion Detection with Snort" that was mentioned in this review. The retail cost of these three books alone would cover a safari subscription for a year (10 books out at any given time). There is a free 14 day trial, it got me hooked. I ended up selling 20+ books in my bookshelf that were already on Safari, covering my Safari fees for the next 2 years.
Powerful tools include cross-fader, 5-band parametric equalizer, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support, and a huge, backlit display capable of visualizations, animated menus, and 16 shades of gray.
Now this is a reason to celebrate! I can get rid of my audiotron and my portable for one system that supports OGG and FLAC. FLAC support is huge for the thousands of people who download and share legal lossless music.
One of the nice benefits of using OSS is not having to pay for every little small utility or eyecandy software you want to use permanently. Maybe a friendly mac hacker will write up a konfab compatible oss widget project.
I'm glad the good old days are gone, where in order to get a decent level of functionality with an OS such as windows 3.1, I had to get winzip, winrar vueprint, etc.
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Doesn't seem like this company is too confident in any of the claims made in these reports..
Their monthly intelligence has a quote that makes their "reseach methods" look shady:
The Monthly Intelligence analyses and collects data from over 7,000 hacker groups worldwide and provides detailed monthly and year-to-date information on:
Seems a little far fetched to me, I doubt many "hacker groups" are open to research companies doing data collection.
Sherman responded that most people don't shoplift because they fear they'll be arrested.
Maybe I'm a sucker for humanity, but I believe most people don't shoplift because they think it is wrong, not because they will get caught. It's interesting to see that the RIAA has such a low opinion of human nature.
He didn't alter files, he put his Name and contact information in the editorial database to prove to the Nytimes that their system was vulnerable. You make it sound like he corrupted stuff.
That must be some ugly source code, it seems like they got a look that and ran like hell.
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While its certainly a good idea to have kids exposed and trained to use Linux and other oses at a young age, people must consider the rebellion factor. A lot of kids will hate whatever the school endorses. Considering this is an inner city school, I would just be happy that they are getting the money.
Contrary to popular myth amongst Mac fanboys, Apple uses the same standard IDE and SCSI drives that are in PC systems. Apple systems are no less vulnerable to hard drive crashes than PC systems.
Apple Apologists argue that its the user's fault for not backing up the song immediately after downloading and that a hard crash is the same as having a CD scratched or stolen. While there are many steps a CD owner can take to prevent scratches and theft, there is very little an iTunes user can do to prevent a hard drive crash from occurring. Backups are important, but short of backing up every song the minute you download it, there is no way to prevent people from getting screwed.
From the Article
I was initially quite skeptical about these claims, but after talking with several of the principals in the case, I'm not so sure anymore. The history of SCO and Unix is complex.
That's when the copyright controversy emerged. Chris Sontag, a VP at SCO, recently visited PC Magazine's offices with a stack of documents he claims proves SCO's case. Some of these documents are compelling. Sontag explained that SCO owns the copyright to Unix System V. He said that through kernel 2.2, Linux was progressing fine under the GPL. But in the transition to kernel 2.4, code was added that violates SCO's copyrights.
Some of the evidence Sontag showed us is straightforward: Sections of the Linux kernel code relating to the journaling file system and multiprocessor support are identical to the Unix System V code. He offered to show us specific sections of the Unix code, but only under a nondisclosure agreement, which we refused. He said this code was not added to Linux by IBM but by someone else, and that it's a violation of SCO's copyright. I'm not a lawyer, but his argument seems convincing.
PC magazine may not be as relevant as it was a few years ago, but it is still where a lot of people get most of their computer news. I was pretty shocked to read this crap as the first story. I would encourage people to leave some feedback for Mr. Miller.
Just do a quick /. search to see what people think of ci host. I was a ci host customer back in 99/2000 when their whole accounting database was open to the internet, customer information and credit card numbers. There were $5000 of fraudulent charges on my check card around the turn of millenium from my information being readily available to any idiot with a web browser. The bank took care of everything but it was a pain the in ass.
Why buy the book when you read it on safari, along with thousands of other books with a free 14 day trial..
If you speak up again, Trotskyite, you will be sent to the gulag for crimes against the state.
Lots of posts are complaining about ripping off Apple, but I consider that to be evolutionary. Taking the good stuff from Apple and implementing it for use in standard x86 hardware is great. Too bad MS can't even steal right..
Ogg Vorbis? Real /. readers only encode in FLAC..
The gentoo portscan was to the localhost, the mac port scan went through a wifi, thats why there was a speed difference.
while linux has had over 400 discovered exploits.
The Linux kernel or software running on Linux? In case you didn't know there is a big difference. I love how every apache, wuftpd, bind, etc... vulnerability gets categorized as a "Linux exploit.." This reply is simply pure fud..
For fun a decided to compare open ports on default but updated installs of OSX and XP.
Windows XP Box Port Scan
Max OSX Port Scan
Gentoo Port Scan
The main thing that keeps Mac OSX secure is a market share in the single digits. Certainly OSX is more secure than windows by default, but the biggest advantage of OSX is that its not a juicy target.
The FSF, will say it should be SFS (Save Free Software), but you can use your orginal name as long as you put a GNU/ in front of it.
I wasn't a big fan of the online book idea until I tried Safari for the first time a few months ago. A quick search for snort reveals 38 different books that focus on or have chapters dealing with snort, included the one book "Intrusion Detection with Snort" that was mentioned in this review. The retail cost of these three books alone would cover a safari subscription for a year (10 books out at any given time). There is a free 14 day trial, it got me hooked. I ended up selling 20+ books in my bookshelf that were already on Safari, covering my Safari fees for the next 2 years.
Yes I don't understand why people are still using SHN. I will be converting all my SHN's to FLAC's when I put down the $$$ for this device..
Powerful tools include cross-fader, 5-band parametric equalizer, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC support, and a huge, backlit display capable of visualizations, animated menus, and 16 shades of gray.
Now this is a reason to celebrate! I can get rid of my audiotron and my portable for one system that supports OGG and FLAC. FLAC support is huge for the thousands of people who download and share legal lossless music.
I'm glad the good old days are gone, where in order to get a decent level of functionality with an OS such as windows 3.1, I had to get winzip, winrar vueprint, etc.
Well the 2 laptops on the right are from work. If you have the space, putting towers on top reduces dust buildup and improves airflow.
simpsons did it!