Can you not see the advantage of Neuromancer/Matrix style war on the internet?
The ENTIRE U.S. east coast powergrid was shut down for 3 days, on an accident.
That seems like it would be a much better way for us to attack a country, rather than bombing the actual infrastructure out. Imagine if in Iraq we had simply rendered their utilies off, rather than blowing them up. Imagine how much faster the reconstruction would be.
The U.S. military's existing branches should stick to what they are good at. Meatspace combat. Why should their missions be diversified like that? Setup a new division, or retool an existing organization (NSA). The NSA, god knows, has quite a bit of sophistication when it comes to network security. I've read their cybersecurity articles, the stuff they release for 'civilians techies', and its good stuff.
Hmm.. Can't figure out why the links for the words 'http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modloa d&name=News&file=article&sid=13255&mode=thread&ord er=0&thold=0 is' and 'http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/25532/Fi ring_and_Hiring_Hackers.html good' don't show up.
There's a difference between sacrifices human lives and between some people's systems being compromised.
Constant drought conditions in Las Vegas encouraged Nevada to push forward Xenogardening regulations (gardening without grass). I'm sure more than a few dried, brown lawns encourages this.
This was quite a lot better, than, say, people dying of thirst in the front yards to encourage water conservation.
Microsoft has not yet learned that more onion layers != security.
I thought the Microsofties were supposed to be really smart, however, it seems to me that whenever a security problem emerges, Microsoft's first solution is an extra 'security management app' that watches the code in question.
AFAIK, that never, ever works. You'll never get _anywhere_. Each additional layer of protection code=more bugs.
But instead of putting them in the computer, I downloaded the songs from limewire.
I've heard too much about vulnerabilities and the like regarding these CDs. I bought the CDs, left them in the wrapper, and downloaded the music online. What's wrong with that?
Once your system is compromised, the ONLY way to return to _known_ clean is wipe and start from _known_ good.
When will these people GET IT THROUGH THEIR HEADS that the 'clean' 'wipe' 'quarantine' options are NOT sufficient.
Am I totally missing something? Have I been brainwashed? AFAIK, you NEED to keep your system clean, you shouldn't be cleaning up after malware. Never had any malware on my Unix-like boxes (Mac and Linux), and I never plan on having one.
A computer system is NOT like your body. There is no immune system that will clean up once the infection has been controlled. Rootkits CANNOT be safely removed. The analogies that these security companies make to biology do NOT make sense in the context of computing.
I understand filtering viruses at the firewall. I understand filtering viruses at the browser, or e-mail clients/gateways. I do NOT understand malware removal.
Intel will turn around their architectural decisions too, or else they will loose.
Why?
You can't just keep making things smaller/cooler forever. You hit physical limitations.
As-is, AMD is happy to lag behind Intel interms of fabrication technology, as long as they win everywhere else. Intel will change this, however; Intel is a rich, powerful, well-staffed company, they can turn it around.
France has been through a LOT of war. Some of it kicking ass, some it getting kicked. But either way, France has historically spent a lot of time fighting wars.
More so (over the longer perspective) than even the extremely violent superpower, the U.S.
Send me some French cheese and wine please. Not to mention some French women, and a few good French chefs.
But not, I'm definitely not jealous of the French wars:(
It costs, what.... +$1k for the Adobe Creative Suite package?
Even an low-grade developer (like myself) will make that back within 1-2 projects. The only problem is learning to use the damn thing. It's hard to justify purchasing such a software if you are unsure as to whether it will be useful to you. But if you are _sure_ that you will focus on it, and learn it, its a good investment.
It's fast, easy to use, very elegant. It suffer from the same problem most KDE apps have, far too many options, but once you get it setup the way you like it, its fantastic.
Video for Yahoo chat, as well. Jabber, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo, others that I haven't even heard of.
Where does Google's contribution to linux marketshare factor in?
The number one 'portal', and some might say the 'anchor' of the Web, Google.com, runs a custom home-brew linux. So do many large financial firms.
There are TWO linux markets. One is commercial vendors that sell you high-end server setups (RedHat, Novell). The other is custom stuff, where in-house or contracted developers build you a particular solution that is only loosely based on the commercial distributions.
There's nothing wrong with this setup, either. The beauty of the open source 'ecosystem' is that you have near-traditional software companies (RedHat), and you have the world of custom-OSS contractors, too.
The second is _never_ factored into these marketshare studies, even by groups that are pro-linux. Part of the reason is that these organization see no reason to publicize their inner workings. They build their own systems, and they work. Period.
My cousin bought a new 17" HP laptop. XP SP2 installed. This is a month ago. He's very software conservative; no warez, no installing much of anything, really. He put on guild wars, office 2003, openoffice.org, firefox, AV, and spybot.
In a month, he was at 60% fragmentation. This is an NTFS drive.
Properly administering windows requires registry hacking, manually deleting/creating files/directories/associations screwed up by errant packages, etc. And I don't want to hear it from you Unix people because you have to do all the same crap, except you have to compile stuff too.
nonsense.
no registry on linux. RPM or APT or whatever handle packages cleanly. Sourceinstall or the Kde source installer tool compiles/installs packages automatically, and they are cleaned up perfectly. not to mention running with the correct permissions keeps stuff much cleaner.
Stuff installed in ~ can't hose your system.
Unixy systems don't performance degrade over time. The file system may get cluttered if you don't use good install practices, but there is no risk of slowdowns, nor risks of stuff 'breaking' over time.
The install on my desktop is 5 years old, and has survived two motherboard replacements, and a hard drive crash. I don't need to do any kind of matinenance. No defrag, no virus scan, no spyware scan. No registry clean up. It just works.
Even though that has been done, it hasn't been done that much:) Samba deployment, although impressive, is not all that well known about on the enterprise level.
You might consider consulting with your company to release some kind of study on the migration. It's good publicity for your company, and a big resume builder for you.
It always helps with your references when the people you interview with have already ready your research:)
I would definitely use a FREE ad-supported Windows.
Why? I wouldn't mind running Windows in a QEMU environment for testing various things for people.
Why not? It'd be great; finally, any reason that you had not to switch to linux would go away.
Need a windows app? Fear-not; start it in your ad-supported Windows virtual machine. Sure, its ugly. Sure, it has ads. But it'll help you get your work done, and then you can go back to your sublime Linux environment.
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Are we misinterpreting it wrongly?
Can you not see the advantage of Neuromancer/Matrix style war on the internet?
The ENTIRE U.S. east coast powergrid was shut down for 3 days, on an accident.
That seems like it would be a much better way for us to attack a country, rather than bombing the actual infrastructure out. Imagine if in Iraq we had simply rendered their utilies off, rather than blowing them up. Imagine how much faster the reconstruction would be.
It seems like a far more civilized way to fight.
Meh.
a d&name=News&file=article&sid=13255&mode=thread&ord er=0&thold=0 is' and 'http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/25532/Fi ring_and_Hiring_Hackers.html good' don't show up.
The U.S. military's existing branches should stick to what they are good at. Meatspace combat. Why should their missions be diversified like that? Setup a new division, or retool an existing organization (NSA). The NSA, god knows, has quite a bit of sophistication when it comes to network security. I've read their cybersecurity articles, the stuff they release for 'civilians techies', and its good stuff.
The Airforce's track record is not good.
Hmm.. Can't figure out why the links for the words 'http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modlo
Come on now,
There's a difference between sacrifices human lives and between some people's systems being compromised.
Constant drought conditions in Las Vegas encouraged Nevada to push forward Xenogardening regulations (gardening without grass). I'm sure more than a few dried, brown lawns encourages this.
This was quite a lot better, than, say, people dying of thirst in the front yards to encourage water conservation.
Microsoft has not yet learned that more onion layers != security.
I thought the Microsofties were supposed to be really smart, however, it seems to me that whenever a security problem emerges, Microsoft's first solution is an extra 'security management app' that watches the code in question.
AFAIK, that never, ever works. You'll never get _anywhere_. Each additional layer of protection code=more bugs.
But instead of putting them in the computer, I downloaded the songs from limewire.
I've heard too much about vulnerabilities and the like regarding these CDs. I bought the CDs, left them in the wrapper, and downloaded the music online. What's wrong with that?
Once your system is compromised, the ONLY way to return to _known_ clean is wipe and start from _known_ good.
When will these people GET IT THROUGH THEIR HEADS that the 'clean' 'wipe' 'quarantine' options are NOT sufficient.
Am I totally missing something? Have I been brainwashed? AFAIK, you NEED to keep your system clean, you shouldn't be cleaning up after malware. Never had any malware on my Unix-like boxes (Mac and Linux), and I never plan on having one.
A computer system is NOT like your body. There is no immune system that will clean up once the infection has been controlled. Rootkits CANNOT be safely removed. The analogies that these security companies make to biology do NOT make sense in the context of computing.
I understand filtering viruses at the firewall. I understand filtering viruses at the browser, or e-mail clients/gateways. I do NOT understand malware removal.
The secondlife model controls some of these things.
:)
You can flag objects (avatars) with various aspects. Regions as well.
This land, that I own, does/does not permit combat. Avatars start killable/unkillable.
All you really need is a permissions system; think Unix
Honestly, I'm an AMD fan, but I try to overweigh by arguments in the other direction to cut off the trolls at the knees. :)
Sorry, I probably overdid it.
Intel will turn around their architectural decisions too, or else they will loose.
Why?
You can't just keep making things smaller/cooler forever. You hit physical limitations.
As-is, AMD is happy to lag behind Intel interms of fabrication technology, as long as they win everywhere else. Intel will change this, however; Intel is a rich, powerful, well-staffed company, they can turn it around.
Don't forget the early supreme court decision (this year) on emminent domain.
If New Orleans decides that building can be used more efficiently for the city, they have every right to buy it at market rates.
I cannot imagine that the New Orleans real estate market is particularly hot right now.
Jealous of the cheese? Yes.
:(
Jealous of the war? Are you kidding?
France has been through a LOT of war. Some of it kicking ass, some it getting kicked. But either way, France has historically spent a lot of time fighting wars.
More so (over the longer perspective) than even the extremely violent superpower, the U.S.
Send me some French cheese and wine please. Not to mention some French women, and a few good French chefs.
But not, I'm definitely not jealous of the French wars
Hear Hear!
It costs, what.... +$1k for the Adobe Creative Suite package?
Even an low-grade developer (like myself) will make that back within 1-2 projects. The only problem is learning to use the damn thing. It's hard to justify purchasing such a software if you are unsure as to whether it will be useful to you. But if you are _sure_ that you will focus on it, and learn it, its a good investment.
I get the same weird buddy list glitches in Kopete and Fire (on OS X)
:)
It's really annoying
Kopete does all this right now, except that for H.323 it calls Gnome-meeting (which is fair, IMHO).
e te/plugins.html
It also does MSN video, and I believe Yahoo video is coming, too. Haven't played with video much, no webcam.
Here's the plugin list, by the way:
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kop
Here's the full feature list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopete
Check out the plugin's dialogue.
e te/plugins.html#plugins-connection-status
e te/plugins.html#plugins-cryptography
Standard KDE problem. The functionality is there, just not perfectly documented, and WAY too many dialogues.
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kop
Should auto-reconnect, and
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kop
Gives you Cryptography.
Not to mention that kopete has video support now. And some other cool stuff like auto-translate through babelfish.
to be Kopete, for KDE.
http://kopete.kde.org/
It's fast, easy to use, very elegant. It suffer from the same problem most KDE apps have, far too many options, but once you get it setup the way you like it, its fantastic.
Video for Yahoo chat, as well. Jabber, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo, others that I haven't even heard of.
It's really nice; but only for Linux right now.
Where does Google's contribution to linux marketshare factor in?
The number one 'portal', and some might say the 'anchor' of the Web, Google.com, runs a custom home-brew linux. So do many large financial firms.
There are TWO linux markets. One is commercial vendors that sell you high-end server setups (RedHat, Novell). The other is custom stuff, where in-house or contracted developers build you a particular solution that is only loosely based on the commercial distributions.
There's nothing wrong with this setup, either. The beauty of the open source 'ecosystem' is that you have near-traditional software companies (RedHat), and you have the world of custom-OSS contractors, too.
The second is _never_ factored into these marketshare studies, even by groups that are pro-linux. Part of the reason is that these organization see no reason to publicize their inner workings. They build their own systems, and they work. Period.
My cousin bought a new 17" HP laptop. XP SP2 installed. This is a month ago. He's very software conservative; no warez, no installing much of anything, really. He put on guild wars, office 2003, openoffice.org, firefox, AV, and spybot.
In a month, he was at 60% fragmentation. This is an NTFS drive.
_shrug_
Properly administering windows requires registry hacking, manually deleting/creating files/directories/associations screwed up by errant packages, etc. And I don't want to hear it from you Unix people because you have to do all the same crap, except you have to compile stuff too.
nonsense.
no registry on linux.
RPM or APT or whatever handle packages cleanly.
Sourceinstall or the Kde source installer tool compiles/installs packages automatically, and they are cleaned up perfectly.
not to mention running with the correct permissions keeps stuff much cleaner.
Stuff installed in ~ can't hose your system.
Unixy systems don't performance degrade over time. The file system may get cluttered if you don't use good install practices, but there is no risk of slowdowns, nor risks of stuff 'breaking' over time.
The install on my desktop is 5 years old, and has survived two motherboard replacements, and a hard drive crash. I don't need to do any kind of matinenance. No defrag, no virus scan, no spyware scan. No registry clean up. It just works.
Show me a windows that hassle free.
Either way: Just desserts.
/evil on
/evil off
That'd be SO funny
Someday, an IE exploit is going to come along that wipes your HD. Then we'll see sparks fly.
Microsoft's total time of 0wnerzship continues to decrease.
Its important for MS to keep ahead in this area.
Ummm... I take it you leave your Windows apps unpatched then?
The other poster is correct.
:) Samba deployment, although impressive, is not all that well known about on the enterprise level.
:)
Even though that has been done, it hasn't been done that much
You might consider consulting with your company to release some kind of study on the migration. It's good publicity for your company, and a big resume builder for you.
It always helps with your references when the people you interview with have already ready your research
I would definitely use a FREE ad-supported Windows.
Why? I wouldn't mind running Windows in a QEMU environment for testing various things for people.
Why not? It'd be great; finally, any reason that you had not to switch to linux would go away.
Need a windows app? Fear-not; start it in your ad-supported Windows virtual machine. Sure, its ugly. Sure, it has ads. But it'll help you get your work done, and then you can go back to your sublime Linux environment.