The designer at my work came in one day and said her machine was running slow. She runs Norton AntiVirus and scans regularly. I asked her whether there were any strange Pop-Ups or browser redirections. She said "Yeah! How do I stop that?"
I said "You're computer is infested with Spyware. Install AdAware and Spybot: Search and Destroy"
She came back to me a couple of days later with a sheepish grin on her face and asked me to guess how many adbots/tracking cookies, etc were installed. I said, "Oh, I dunno, maybe 150?"
She said: "488"
I nearly fell off my chair.
I'm starting to think we need licences to drive computers.
Heh. It reminds me of those spams that start with "This is not spam".
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Again, very wrong. Linux is based on a UNIX OS design, one that assumes user groups and individual logins from the get-go. Windows is based on a single-user environment, where most applications won't even install correctly unless the user is root. This gives Linux a huge head start when it comes to security.
Users and groups aren't particularly effective when services running as root are exploited.
I agree with you that Linux is a lot more secure/ less exploitable than Windows but only a few weeks ago I had a server compromised via an ssh exploit. I had upgraded sshd only a few months ago after the PrivilegeSeparation issue. I *do* hold myself responsible for the compromise but your "Unix users and groups" is pretty cold comfort for someone like me who has to take a Linux server offline and rebuild it from scratch because of a compromise.
Also, I'd be pissed if there was, say, a Firefox exploit that did an rm -rf ~ I'd lose a lot of important stuff. Oh that reminds me, time to rsync:)
It is also very interesting to see how Gnome is developing Human Interface Guidelines. I wish programmers would stick to them.
The most amazing thing is a lot of Gnome developers are doing just that...
That may be partly due to the fact that if you're developing a new app people will resist including it in Gnome if it doesn't follow the HIG. It may also be a simple matter of "Give the developer a spec and they'll try to follow it" whereas before this aspect of the design was undefined so people invented their own interfaces.
The HIG is one of the best things to happen to Gnome. It's a vital step in making the "Linux on the Desktop" dream possible.
Unless we can start to incarcerate a larger percentage of the world's population for infringing on US IP, this strategy may not prove to be sustainable.
*Dons tinfoil hat*
I believe there are a number of influential men in the US that want to do exactly that.
Rest assured, they are _not_ doing it for the warm fuzzy feeling you get by doing something nice. OSS and GNU/Linux are part of their business strategy. They are in it for the money.
Sure but they do seem to get the idea of producing a good product/service that people will *want* to buy, rather than forcing their tolls and products down people's throats. Hi Unisys. Hi Microsoft. Hi SCO. Hi Apple. Hi BT. Hi BSA. Hi US Government.
I for one welcome our new decent-product-producing overlords.
Real has always treated the Mac has second class. We get RealPlayer after the Windows version. Their jukebox software has never worked on the Mac. And now they want us to sympathise?
So where's quicktime for Linux? I can find Realplayer.
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My god yeah.
The designer at my work came in one day and said her machine was running slow. She runs Norton AntiVirus and scans regularly. I asked her whether there were any strange Pop-Ups or browser redirections. She said "Yeah! How do I stop that?"
I said "You're computer is infested with Spyware. Install AdAware and Spybot: Search and Destroy"
She came back to me a couple of days later with a sheepish grin on her face and asked me to guess how many adbots/tracking cookies, etc were installed. I said, "Oh, I dunno, maybe 150?"
She said: "488"
I nearly fell off my chair.
I'm starting to think we need licences to drive computers.
Cheers
Stor
"Ghandi took my IT job." -- Me
:)
LOL
Don't blame the Indians for US corporate initiatives.
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Stor
Even Ghandi was wrong every once in a while. That quote doesn't even make sense in the context of the original meaning of the law.
Who says "the law" is right?
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Stor
...for giving people a target for their frustration.
People can vent their frustration by flaming poor ol' michael then return to coding in a better, self-righteous mood.
What a martyr, rolling with the punches for the Greater Good(tm). I mean... err... fuck you Michael!
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Stor
An eye for a fucking eye.
"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." --Ghandi
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Stor
Sounds like the only improvement necessary was a hookup to the car battery. Duh!
No. The only improvement necessary is to not do it in the first place. What a creep.
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Stor
Man Apache servers are attacked all the time. Thing is, we don't have default.ida installed.
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Stor
Heh. It reminds me of those spams that start with "This is not spam".
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Stor
Again, very wrong. Linux is based on a UNIX OS design, one that assumes user groups and individual logins from the get-go. Windows is based on a single-user environment, where most applications won't even install correctly unless the user is root. This gives Linux a huge head start when it comes to security.
:)
Users and groups aren't particularly effective when services running as root are exploited.
I agree with you that Linux is a lot more secure/ less exploitable than Windows but only a few weeks ago I had a server compromised via an ssh exploit. I had upgraded sshd only a few months ago after the PrivilegeSeparation issue. I *do* hold myself responsible for the compromise but your "Unix users and groups" is pretty cold comfort for someone like me who has to take a Linux server offline and rebuild it from scratch because of a compromise.
Also, I'd be pissed if there was, say, a Firefox exploit that did an rm -rf ~ I'd lose a lot of important stuff. Oh that reminds me, time to rsync
Cheers
Stor
Later, he admitted that he could also have put a text label on both buttons, but back then he thought that were ugly.
Text label? In what language?
Perhaps a couple of icons would have been more suitable... *shrug*
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Stor
It is also very interesting to see how Gnome is developing Human Interface Guidelines. I wish programmers would stick to them.
The most amazing thing is a lot of Gnome developers are doing just that...
That may be partly due to the fact that if you're developing a new app people will resist including it in Gnome if it doesn't follow the HIG. It may also be a simple matter of "Give the developer a spec and they'll try to follow it" whereas before this aspect of the design was undefined so people invented their own interfaces.
The HIG is one of the best things to happen to Gnome. It's a vital step in making the "Linux on the Desktop" dream possible.
Cheers
Stor
I hate to agree with you but I do.
The snide and brain-dead remarks/trolls/flamebait should be left to the posters, rather than be in full view on the front page.
Otherwise you end up with patronising posts such as this one =)
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They strap the knives to very long sticks. ;)
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Bart: "Seems like everywhere I go people are having fun with knives."
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And in other news: Boy is electrocuted after sticking tongue in mouse.
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Stor
Ahh go fuck yourself you fucking fuckety fuck. ;)
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Stor (an Aussie)
Ctrl-Z duh! Though none of my changes ever stick. Hrmmm
Shift-Z-Z.
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Stor
Unless we can start to incarcerate a larger percentage of the world's population for infringing on US IP, this strategy may not prove to be sustainable.
*Dons tinfoil hat*
I believe there are a number of influential men in the US that want to do exactly that.
They call it a "Free Trade Agreement"
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Stor
Rest assured, they are _not_ doing it for the warm fuzzy feeling you get by doing something nice. OSS and GNU/Linux are part of their business strategy. They are in it for the money.
Sure but they do seem to get the idea of producing a good product/service that people will *want* to buy, rather than forcing their tolls and products down people's throats. Hi Unisys. Hi Microsoft. Hi SCO. Hi Apple. Hi BT. Hi BSA. Hi US Government.
I for one welcome our new decent-product-producing overlords.
Cheers
Stor
We all knew the Pope was a Mac user already--
...the bullet-proof car windows...
C'mon, the big hat, all the jewelery, the dress...
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Stor
Real has always treated the Mac has second class. We get RealPlayer after the Windows version. Their jukebox software has never worked on the Mac. And now they want us to sympathise?
So where's quicktime for Linux? I can find Realplayer.
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Stor
Apple rarely fucks anyone over.
Except their customers of course.
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Stor
I won't be surprised when they come out with the Mozilla FireHose: a new XUL-based desktop environment for Linux.
Then it will be KDE vs Gnome vs FireHose. JOY. Can't wait.
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Stor
But the vast majority of useful software for Linux is usually both Free and free (and is usually installed with the base OS!).
;)
Indeed competing with, say Apache or squid would be a hard sell. It would be very hard to sell a commercial IRC client for Linux
There's plenty of room for games though.
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Stor
Again, availability of source code does not equal open source!
eh?
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Stor