Your almost right. But Win and *nix are not equaly insecure out of the box. This is where the problem is located. It is called rights and permissions. In Windows you have everything, until someone takes it away. In *nix you have nothing, until someone gives it to you (root). The whole Windows philosophy is insecure.
Actually, some nuc boats use convetion/natural flow cooling at low power settings. With pumps running, a diesel/electric on batteries has always been quiter than any nuc with pumps on. They can be detected by passive sonar, but normally at knife fighting range (< 6000 yards). That is a very short torpedo run, time wise.
We detected Tangos in the late 70's, regularly. Lucky for us that Soviet sonar was so bad they couldn't hear us.
When you see the recomended specs for any M$ product there is one rule: Double it. That is where they all run best. Now in my experience Linux will run nicely on XP's recomended hardware.
Then I also think the desktops are getting slower in almost any OS.
In some areas this is the norm at NASA, think about voyager. If they could just bring everything else to this level of function. Software problem? Fix it and keep on, no big deal. The hardware for most explorations has always been top notch. Just need to elevate the manned program to this level.
It really wouldn't matter. They are going to get crushed anyway. If it lasts much longer there won't be enough money in SCO to pay all the legal fees and court costs.
The history of M$ is full of this. They buy out any competitor they can, remember stacker? That was useful until hard drives became so cheap that compressing a hard drive is a waste of time. This has happened to many companies that brought out products that did something better than the original. M$ buys company, faces no more competition in that area.
Then again maybe they got stuck with that one. Pay millions for a company and watch it become useless in four years. Someone might have smiled all the way to the bank.
They will also be proficient at Open Office and it is comming soon to business near you. There are at least two furniture makers that have switched to OO 1.1 in the last year. They don't want to pay the M$ tax any more. They are also looking hard at Linux for the next time they purchase new computers. Some of the smaller ones have switched too.
More businesses are heading that way, they don't need the expense of M$. They don't see any benifit in paying for Office. Functional and cheap are getting more important.
Thats my point. Short term greed seems to overcome common sense. These people don't know how to do "real" business. They can't be trusted to do the right thing, and the taxpayers end up taking a bath to bail them out.
The bankruptcy system doesn't help either. Example: Burlington, filed for bankruptcy protection, no problem. Then the judge gives a multi-million dollar bonus to keep upper management to save the company. These are the same clowns that ran it into the ground, and they get rewarded! This is common in all large companies that go this route.
The airlines are a complete joke. Service, times and the rest have gone down the tubes. You don't even want to know where the cuts are in maintenance to fund the failing business model. It's always the taxpayer that pays in the end.
Look at business history. I meant 10 years as a minimum. In the fifties the Japanese started looking in the 20-30 year range, in the mid 70's they were kicking our asses (USA). All because no one here would listen to Dennard and he went to Japan, they listened.
Look at the recent history (20 yrs). Any regulated industry that is deregulated turns into a chinese firedrill, or clusterfuck. We can deregulate savings and loans, these guys are conservative bankers they won't do anything stupid. $50 billion later, that mess is almost straightened out. Cable TV, prices are only going up at 10X the rate of inflation. Airlines, talk about failed business models, they can't survive without taxpayer subsidies. The list goes on and on... The cost of deregulating is unbearable because of endless greed and basic stupidity.
Can you imagine the traffic jam in the airwaves without the FCC?
That onslaught could easily be triggered when people see how poorly written windows is. That will show more of the backdoors that have been left open through stupidity or carelessness.
They mainly snoop for Windows and office. A friend has a legal XP home machine with Office XP, and a pirated copy of Visual Studio. Never had a Problem with updates. M$ does check for a valid Win XP even in manual update. The early versions did not work very well and were easy to bypass. I fixed my old Win 95 box so that M$ never checked anything.
The activation "feature" of XP is the only security related thing M$ evr did that worked the way they wanted., and most of us consider it a bug.
Everything from M$ since Win95, calls home if it's online in any way. Some firewalls can prevent this. Your box also gets snooped anytime you update. The Community College I just finised at was very careful about licenses due to fear. All classroom boxes were online. When it was time to update, the sysadmins did one box and then did the rest from ISO's, so M$ never snooped all the boxes. They also used deepfreeze, every time a box was rebooted, it was done from an approved image and anything downloaded or saved to the hard drive was lost. All boxes were shut down every night. They just didn't want to blow their discounts from M$.
That the problem in two words. They are afraid to change anything because it might cost a percent or two on the bottom line. A very shortsighted view. Didn't the 60's & 70's prove to all business that the short term view will do serious harm to maost industries? Anyone not thinking ten years down the road will loose in the end.
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Your almost right. But Win and *nix are not equaly insecure out of the box. This is where the problem is located. It is called rights and permissions. In Windows you have everything, until someone takes it away. In *nix you have nothing, until someone gives it to you (root). The whole Windows philosophy is insecure.
What Darl is swimming in, and the cesspool just gets deeper and deeper. When he goes under for the third time, someone please throw him an anvil.
Novell isn't German and they bought SUSE last year.
Actually, some nuc boats use convetion/natural flow cooling at low power settings. With pumps running, a diesel/electric on batteries has always been quiter than any nuc with pumps on. They can be detected by passive sonar, but normally at knife fighting range (< 6000 yards). That is a very short torpedo run, time wise.
We detected Tangos in the late 70's, regularly. Lucky for us that Soviet sonar was so bad they couldn't hear us.
Almost, but they do the best damn imitation of a hole in the ocean you've never heard.
A former bubblehead.
And the fact that we have made mistakes means we are the same as every other country in this world.
It depends on Novell's suit. SCO may not own the rights to anything, or at least a lot less than they claim.
When you see the recomended specs for any M$ product there is one rule: Double it. That is where they all run best. Now in my experience Linux will run nicely on XP's recomended hardware.
Then I also think the desktops are getting slower in almost any OS.
Because it's so much fun. The fact that they make it so easy is a bonus.
In some areas this is the norm at NASA, think about voyager. If they could just bring everything else to this level of function. Software problem? Fix it and keep on, no big deal. The hardware for most explorations has always been top notch. Just need to elevate the manned program to this level.
It really wouldn't matter. They are going to get crushed anyway. If it lasts much longer there won't be enough money in SCO to pay all the legal fees and court costs.
'liking it so much they wanted the company'
The history of M$ is full of this. They buy out any competitor they can, remember stacker? That was useful until hard drives became so cheap that compressing a hard drive is a waste of time. This has happened to many companies that brought out products that did something better than the original. M$ buys company, faces no more competition in that area.
Then again maybe they got stuck with that one. Pay millions for a company and watch it become useless in four years. Someone might have smiled all the way to the bank.
They will also be proficient at Open Office and it is comming soon to business near you. There are at least two furniture makers that have switched to OO 1.1 in the last year. They don't want to pay the M$ tax any more. They are also looking hard at Linux for the next time they purchase new computers. Some of the smaller ones have switched too.
More businesses are heading that way, they don't need the expense of M$. They don't see any benifit in paying for Office. Functional and cheap are getting more important.
Thats my point. Short term greed seems to overcome common sense. These people don't know how to do "real" business. They can't be trusted to do the right thing, and the taxpayers end up taking a bath to bail them out.
The bankruptcy system doesn't help either. Example: Burlington, filed for bankruptcy protection, no problem. Then the judge gives a multi-million dollar bonus to keep upper management to save the company. These are the same clowns that ran it into the ground, and they get rewarded! This is common in all large companies that go this route.
The airlines are a complete joke. Service, times and the rest have gone down the tubes. You don't even want to know where the cuts are in maintenance to fund the failing business model. It's always the taxpayer that pays in the end.
Look at business history. I meant 10 years as a minimum. In the fifties the Japanese started looking in the 20-30 year range, in the mid 70's they were kicking our asses (USA). All because no one here would listen to Dennard and he went to Japan, they listened.
Look at the recent history (20 yrs). Any regulated industry that is deregulated turns into a chinese firedrill, or clusterfuck. We can deregulate savings and loans, these guys are conservative bankers they won't do anything stupid. $50 billion later, that mess is almost straightened out. Cable TV, prices are only going up at 10X the rate of inflation. Airlines, talk about failed business models, they can't survive without taxpayer subsidies. The list goes on and on... The cost of deregulating is unbearable because of endless greed and basic stupidity.
Can you imagine the traffic jam in the airwaves without the FCC?
That onslaught could easily be triggered when people see how poorly written windows is. That will show more of the backdoors that have been left open through stupidity or carelessness.
Someone with a Doctorate degree looks at a University, where labs and resources are for research, but everything will be owned by the school.
Any major company that does research, where ownership is the companies.
Google, where it appears you can profit from your own side jobs. The regular job is doing cool research too!
Good choices, for different goals.
They mainly snoop for Windows and office. A friend has a legal XP home machine with Office XP, and a pirated copy of Visual Studio. Never had a Problem with updates. M$ does check for a valid Win XP even in manual update. The early versions did not work very well and were easy to bypass. I fixed my old Win 95 box so that M$ never checked anything.
The activation "feature" of XP is the only security related thing M$ evr did that worked the way they wanted., and most of us consider it a bug.
Everything from M$ since Win95, calls home if it's online in any way. Some firewalls can prevent this. Your box also gets snooped anytime you update. The Community College I just finised at was very careful about licenses due to fear. All classroom boxes were online. When it was time to update, the sysadmins did one box and then did the rest from ISO's, so M$ never snooped all the boxes. They also used deepfreeze, every time a box was rebooted, it was done from an approved image and anything downloaded or saved to the hard drive was lost. All boxes were shut down every night. They just didn't want to blow their discounts from M$.
That the problem in two words. They are afraid to change anything because it might cost a percent or two on the bottom line. A very shortsighted view. Didn't the 60's & 70's prove to all business that the short term view will do serious harm to maost industries? Anyone not thinking ten years down the road will loose in the end.
Mod me down all you want. I feel sorry for someone as negative as you. Read the new sig.
You know how you can tell when a politician is lieing? His lips are moving. Nationality doesn't matter.
The cowar modder strikes again, and my rating will not change.
Slashdot is not english class and you are not my mommy. So take your mod points and stick them you your cowardly faggot ass.