I've installed and tried to pick up/learn linux 5 times since I bought my first copy of Redhat 5.0 a while back. Every time was a complete disaster.
I'm not an idiot by any means, but I am a working professional, and don't have time to learn how to edit config files with vi or compile things, at least, I didn't before. I'm currently taking several months off from some of my duties just to learn linux (both on a consumer level and a admin level).
I wouldn't be able to do anything with *nix at all if it weren't fot my linux friend, who has so dillegetly tried to teach me linux the first bunch of times, and keeps coming back to try every time I found time to pick it back up. This time, my linux education is going much better, I can actually install programs now. Don't laugh. Windows, be it easier or buggier, is a crutch that the average user relies on, to suddenly be thrust into a OS where all the important stuff is done in a text window and your start button has been replaced by a giant foot, is hard to get used to for a lot of people.
Plus, it doesn't help that linux documentation is written in greek a lot of the time.
Be gentle, it's my second post.
Bo Bankson
Da-hah, I am the hand of fate, I will crush your dreams.
I haven't taken the time to read all 550+ topics in this thread, so please forgive me if this has been touched on already, but,... Conspiracy and paranoia theories aside, I think the possibility is there that this DoS attack was perpretated by some dissatified individuals on the internet. At a time where the RIAA and the MPAA are laying the proverbial smack-down all across the virtual board internet-wide, and in a age where there are a lot of unhappy people on the internet, I'm frankly surprised that a wide-scale attack like this hasn't happened sooner. But, on the flip side, the fact that neither Microsoft or AOL have been struck by a DoS attack is puzzling to me at the very least. Furthermore, the attack on the ZD sites and CNN.com does not strike me as a the actions of internet activists, those sites being largely journalism entities. (Although ZDTV was all over this story like a cheap suit last night with "special reports", with a few more special programming things being aired today. Maybe the hackers didn't like the way that ZD handled the story. On a personal note, I thought it was kind of pathetic when Kate on The Screen Savers begged on the show last night for the hackers to stop.) The sites that were hit don't really strike me as "big-name" sites in the sense that it is a political statement, like I said, where is MS, AOL, etoys.com, etc., etc. Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay I understand, but buy.com on its IPO day? e*trade? ZD and CNN? The sites hit seem to be the sites that would get the most *publicity and TV coverage*, which leads me to lend credit that maybe the Government made some kind of list that included two TV channels with huge internet sides to them, a IPO/big online store, and a few of the biggest portals on the web. It's too robotic and planned for my tastes, especially since no-one's taken credit. Anyways, I've rabled enough. I just discovered slashdot a month ago, and this is my first post, so be gentle. Bo Bankson
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Right on, man.
:)
I remember all the 80's stuff too that I'm not supposed to remember. I still have my smurfs record player.
May the 80's live on forever.
I should know, I am one.
I've installed and tried to pick up/learn linux 5 times since I bought my first copy of Redhat 5.0 a while back. Every time was a complete disaster.
I'm not an idiot by any means, but I am a working professional, and don't have time to learn how to edit config files with vi or compile things, at least, I didn't before. I'm currently taking several months off from some of my duties just to learn linux (both on a consumer level and a admin level).
I wouldn't be able to do anything with *nix at all if it weren't fot my linux friend, who has so dillegetly tried to teach me linux the first bunch of times, and keeps coming back to try every time I found time to pick it back up. This time, my linux education is going much better, I can actually install programs now. Don't laugh. Windows, be it easier or buggier, is a crutch that the average user relies on, to suddenly be thrust into a OS where all the important stuff is done in a text window and your start button has been replaced by a giant foot, is hard to get used to for a lot of people.
Plus, it doesn't help that linux documentation is written in greek a lot of the time.
Be gentle, it's my second post.
Bo Bankson
Da-hah, I am the hand of fate, I will crush your dreams.
I haven't taken the time to read all 550+ topics in this thread, so please forgive me if this has been touched on already, but,... Conspiracy and paranoia theories aside, I think the possibility is there that this DoS attack was perpretated by some dissatified individuals on the internet. At a time where the RIAA and the MPAA are laying the proverbial smack-down all across the virtual board internet-wide, and in a age where there are a lot of unhappy people on the internet, I'm frankly surprised that a wide-scale attack like this hasn't happened sooner. But, on the flip side, the fact that neither Microsoft or AOL have been struck by a DoS attack is puzzling to me at the very least. Furthermore, the attack on the ZD sites and CNN.com does not strike me as a the actions of internet activists, those sites being largely journalism entities. (Although ZDTV was all over this story like a cheap suit last night with "special reports", with a few more special programming things being aired today. Maybe the hackers didn't like the way that ZD handled the story. On a personal note, I thought it was kind of pathetic when Kate on The Screen Savers begged on the show last night for the hackers to stop.) The sites that were hit don't really strike me as "big-name" sites in the sense that it is a political statement, like I said, where is MS, AOL, etoys.com, etc., etc. Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay I understand, but buy.com on its IPO day? e*trade? ZD and CNN? The sites hit seem to be the sites that would get the most *publicity and TV coverage*, which leads me to lend credit that maybe the Government made some kind of list that included two TV channels with huge internet sides to them, a IPO/big online store, and a few of the biggest portals on the web. It's too robotic and planned for my tastes, especially since no-one's taken credit. Anyways, I've rabled enough. I just discovered slashdot a month ago, and this is my first post, so be gentle. Bo Bankson