Why is there almost an endless number of malware for windows, and hardly any for mac. Is it because Mac has less holes? NO! It has nothing to do with this (I will moderate this statement later). The reason is that 95% (more or less) of users are running windows, and the rest is all other systems. What has this to do with it you ask? Try looking at it from Joe Hackers perspective. He wants to get lots of zombie computers to send spam to make money (this is a typical Hacker of 2006, hackers aren't what they used to be). The question he then asks himself is something like: "How can I get most zombies for the least amount of work? Lets see. If I make a website attacking all the visitors running safari on osx i'll get about 10-20, if I on the other hand attack IE on Windows I'll get 1-2 thousand. In other words: using 1 hour to attack safari on osx gives me a little money. Attacking ie on windows gives me MUCH money" I wonder what he chooses to do? Security is chiefly NOT a technical issue, its a human issue, as it is humans that initiate security-attacks. On the other hand, if it, technicaly, is a thousand times easier to attack mac than a windows, then it will be worth while to atack macs to. The biggest reason we have so much spam in our mailboxes is windows and its marketshare, and its userfriendlyness. I've stopped helping friends with windows that dont run an antivirusprogram. This I tell them is the hidden cost of running windows, and it has nothing to do with windows being technically inferior to mac securitywise, its purely numbers.
Lutefisk is nothing compared to some other norwegian "delicatesses": Smalahove and Rakafisk, and maybe gammelost (translates old-cheese). I really recomends the wikipedia-article on smalahove, verry funny description of how it is eaten.
I'm sitting on a windoze here, but i just ctrl-tab'ed and switched tabs (moz1.2.1). I'm not sure about moz on osx, but i'll try it when i get home. And whith mousegestures it gets even better. upp righ/left to change tab, upp starting at the link to open it in other tab. I've seriously considered using ie on school to reduse my surfing here (to get any reading done), becouse i get so much more iritated when surfing in ie. No tabs and no mousgestures, how am i going to use such a cripled browser?!?!;)
The road, or which side of it you drive on, is rellevant. Not that you can't drive on a road where they drive on the oposite side of the road of what the car has been made for, it's just not quite as optimal.
ok, lets compare this orange to some other oranges: the BSD's(maybe an other kind of oranges but oranges non the less). Just checked the FreeBSD kernel, and the sources is just below 12MB in tgz, the uncompressed GENERIC(the one with everything neaded by almost all people included) is 4MB uncompressed. I'm not sure (because i'm at school sitting on a winnt-box), but i believe the last kernels i kompiled is about 2-3MB uncompressed. NetBSD's (1.6) kernel has a 22MB tar.gz src-file. but then you have to remember that includes support for 53platforms using 18 different cpu-types (and all ibm-pc-clones is just one of these platforms and cpu-types). and the compiled generic-kernel for i386 is just about 6 meg in size uncompressed. and OpenBSD (3.1) has a kernelsource that is compressed down to 14MB. and uncompressed generic-kernel is 4.4MB.
and all of these (not 100% sure about NetBSD) has IPSEC in the kernel.
I'm a FreeBSD-user who once used redhat, then slackware, then suse. all those had something nice, but none of them had as coherent an userexperience as FreeBSD. I felt like linux was a lot of parts pathced together with tape, while FreeBSD was one thing that consisted of many nice parts. i cant explain it bether than this. Darwin is not my preferred unix, allthough it has more of the the coherent feeling (or had when i tried it 2 years ago) than linux but allso had the comersial-change-the-unix-to-be-more-like-our-comp anystratergy-feeling, but Aqua is my my preferred gui, and whith a mac running OS X and a pc running FreeBSD as a server i get the best of the best: all the basic things(like the clients, nfs, apache, mail, ++) just works and i can fiddle with what i add (like pgsql, bind, IPv6, dhcp, netatalk, nat, etc.) So you see not all love-unix-hate-redhat-types like slackware. i admitt it was the best (when it came to machine-controll) linux-distro i tried, but FreeBSD is better, both when you want control and when you want the machine to just work without you having to do everything.
I've just read the book (the UK version is already out, an i live in europe), and the story called The Salmon of Doubt is just a small part of the book (80 out of 300 pages). It is not the best part of the book, but it has it's funny parts. before you read it you should read the intro he wrote for Sunset at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse (included in the book SoD, p. 63). Amongst the stories I really liked was My Nose, Maggie and Trudie, Riding the Rays, Frank the Vandal, Cookies (those who have read hhgg will recognize this one), The Private Life of Genghis Khan, Young Zaphod plays It Safe and some chapters from The Salmon of Doubt. I also enjoyed the information about the film-project.
Don't you think compitition is a Good Thing(tm)? Why would MS need compitition when Linux don't? I know it is a difference when it is open-source, but I think it's still positive.
BSD-license is just as much about allowing other people to share your code as the firs ammendment is about suplying your rights to free speach. The first ammendment does not say: you can say anything you want except speaking against the free speach, no it gives you the rights to say anything you want. Free code is imo not code that others are free to use for anything but proprietary programs, but code you can do anything with.
The way I see it the GNU-license is about making the free programs as good as possible, but the BSD-type is about making the programs, free and proprietarry, as good as possible.
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Why is there almost an endless number of malware for windows, and hardly any for mac. Is it because Mac has less holes? NO! It has nothing to do with this (I will moderate this statement later). The reason is that 95% (more or less) of users are running windows, and the rest is all other systems. What has this to do with it you ask? Try looking at it from Joe Hackers perspective. He wants to get lots of zombie computers to send spam to make money (this is a typical Hacker of 2006, hackers aren't what they used to be). The question he then asks himself is something like: "How can I get most zombies for the least amount of work? Lets see. If I make a website attacking all the visitors running safari on osx i'll get about 10-20, if I on the other hand attack IE on Windows I'll get 1-2 thousand. In other words: using 1 hour to attack safari on osx gives me a little money. Attacking ie on windows gives me MUCH money" I wonder what he chooses to do?
Security is chiefly NOT a technical issue, its a human issue, as it is humans that initiate security-attacks.
On the other hand, if it, technicaly, is a thousand times easier to attack mac than a windows, then it will be worth while to atack macs to.
The biggest reason we have so much spam in our mailboxes is windows and its marketshare, and its userfriendlyness.
I've stopped helping friends with windows that dont run an antivirusprogram. This I tell them is the hidden cost of running windows, and it has nothing to do with windows being technically inferior to mac securitywise, its purely numbers.
Lutefisk is nothing compared to some other norwegian "delicatesses": Smalahove and Rakafisk, and maybe gammelost (translates old-cheese).
I really recomends the wikipedia-article on smalahove, verry funny description of how it is eaten.
you know that the ø is pronounced like the vowel in the words: her, fur, sir, just, cut, ehh.
I'm sitting on a windoze here, but i just ctrl-tab'ed and switched tabs (moz1.2.1). I'm not sure about moz on osx, but i'll try it when i get home. ;)
And whith mousegestures it gets even better. upp righ/left to change tab, upp starting at the link to open it in other tab.
I've seriously considered using ie on school to reduse my surfing here (to get any reading done), becouse i get so much more iritated when surfing in ie. No tabs and no mousgestures, how am i going to use such a cripled browser?!?!
And don't forget his fun quote: God doesn't play with dice
I've heard this was his argument against Niels Bohr and quantum theory.
The road, or which side of it you drive on, is rellevant. Not that you can't drive on a road where they drive on the oposite side of the road of what the car has been made for, it's just not quite as optimal.
ok, lets compare this orange to some other oranges: the BSD's(maybe an other kind of oranges but oranges non the less).
Just checked the FreeBSD kernel, and the sources is just below 12MB in tgz, the uncompressed GENERIC(the one with everything neaded by almost all people included) is 4MB uncompressed. I'm not sure (because i'm at school sitting on a winnt-box), but i believe the last kernels i kompiled is about 2-3MB uncompressed.
NetBSD's (1.6) kernel has a 22MB tar.gz src-file. but then you have to remember that includes support for 53platforms using 18 different cpu-types (and all ibm-pc-clones is just one of these platforms and cpu-types). and the compiled generic-kernel for i386 is just about 6 meg in size uncompressed.
and OpenBSD (3.1) has a kernelsource that is compressed down to 14MB. and uncompressed generic-kernel is 4.4MB.
and all of these (not 100% sure about NetBSD) has IPSEC in the kernel.
I'm a FreeBSD-user who once used redhat, then slackware, then suse. all those had something nice, but none of them had as coherent an userexperience as FreeBSD. I felt like linux was a lot of parts pathced together with tape, while FreeBSD was one thing that consisted of many nice parts. i cant explain it bether than this. Darwin is not my preferred unix, allthough it has more of the the coherent feeling (or had when i tried it 2 years ago) than linux but allso had the comersial-change-the-unix-to-be-more-like-our-comp anystratergy-feeling,
but Aqua is my my preferred gui, and whith a mac running OS X and a pc running FreeBSD as a server i get the best of the best: all the basic things(like the clients, nfs, apache, mail, ++) just works and i can fiddle with what i add (like pgsql, bind, IPv6, dhcp, netatalk, nat, etc.)
So you see not all love-unix-hate-redhat-types like slackware. i admitt it was the best (when it came to machine-controll) linux-distro i tried, but FreeBSD is better, both when you want control and when you want the machine to just work without you having to do everything.
I've just read the book (the UK version is already out, an i live in europe), and the story called The Salmon of Doubt is just a small part of the book (80 out of 300 pages). It is not the best part of the book, but it has it's funny parts. before you read it you should read the intro he wrote for Sunset at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse (included in the book SoD, p. 63). Amongst the stories I really liked was My Nose, Maggie and Trudie, Riding the Rays, Frank the Vandal, Cookies (those who have read hhgg will recognize this one), The Private Life of Genghis Khan, Young Zaphod plays It Safe and some chapters from The Salmon of Doubt. I also enjoyed the information about the film-project.
Just checked w2k (pro), and the exact same copyright message is in ftp.exe here.
On behal of the foreigners, the newbees and the underaged amongst the readers: what does CIS stand for.
(ps! i'm an foregner, that explains the typo's i'm sure in here somewhere)
Don't you think compitition is a Good Thing(tm)? Why would MS need compitition when Linux don't? I know it is a difference when it is open-source, but I think it's still positive.
BSD-license is just as much about allowing other people to share your code as the firs ammendment is about suplying your rights to free speach. The first ammendment does not say: you can say anything you want except speaking against the free speach, no it gives you the rights to say anything you want. Free code is imo not code that others are free to use for anything but proprietary programs, but code you can do anything with.
The way I see it the GNU-license is about making the free programs as good as possible, but the BSD-type is about making the programs, free and proprietarry, as good as possible.
just my opinions.