I already play Valve games on my Linux computer using PlayOnLinux (http://www.playonlinux.com/). That's been very stable for me, but I'm hoping that a native Valve client will allow even better system performance while gaming.
Great points made in your post. And I always chuckle at all the complaining about a free piece of software that is so prolifically used. I mean, if this community spent less time complaining and more time contributing to the bug fixes, we'd be in a much different place, eh?
An excellent point. That's why I think OpenDNS is a better option. They at least appear to give you a choice in the matter. I'm not sure Google's services are equitable. There's a good blog post from the founder of OpenDNS where he critiques Google's service. It's a good read.
Sandra Whitley Ryals, director of Virginia's Department of Health Professions, declined to discuss details of the hacker's claims, and referred inquires to the FBI. "There is a criminal investigation under way by federal and state authorities, and we take the information security very serious," she said.
Nice grammar, chump. `I'm not on the email. I don't trust the email.`
Your post is great, and well thought-out. The only concern I have with plan C is for folks like myself who are work-at-home employees. I can't really predict how much bandwidth I use for work, and I also have a tough time separating out my work bandwidth versus my personal use bandwidth...
Here at IBM, our company has just decided to stop reimbursing work-from-home employees for Internet access. Combined with this new data transfer capping trend, I fully anticipate having to explain to a customer why I can't take care of that server problem until next month because my daughter used up our bandwidth allocation on the Playhouse Disney web site. That's going to go over really well...
Richard Stallman has done a lot for the open source movement and GNU/Linux through the Free Software Foundation. But honestly he's pushing into an area where not many people care to follow.
This is absolutely the best advice. Keeping the PC in a common, open family location is the #1 deterrent. I also agree with what others said, with regards to OpenDNS. Their service is free, and high quality!
I agree with parent; the problem is parameterized queries don't exist for every type of SQL statement you'd want to write, that's why folks get trapped into escaping user input. The only foolproof solution is to not accept user input.:-)
I absolutely agree. I bought an iPhone 3 months ago, and it sucks. I hate the thing and am shopping around for a replacement Blackberry. I don't care if I have to pay $175 to get rid of the iPhone or not.
I'm glad to know about this new beta, but frankly I care a lot less about perfect ACID scores than I do a workable solution for blocking ads.
And I'm not talking about the lame ass right-click-block-content function, I want a solution that will block ads across my browsing experience, like the Firefox Adblock Plus extension.
I'm a big fan of TrueCrypt, and have used it for about 3 years. In that same time, my company has rolled out PGP Full Disk encryption. Honestly, we've had nothing but positive feedback about how unintrusive the product is. This is easily the security tool with the highest positive employee feedback we've ever deployed, hands down.
If there was ever any doubt that the NSA has the ability to monitor all our communications, this should squash the last hangers-on... I, for one, welcome our new NSA overlords.
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I see lots of replies about ISO mirrors and download sites, but has anyone tried to perform a distribution upgrade from 7.10 yet? Any news on that? I assumed I'd give that a shot maybe tomorrow when server loads aren't quite as busy...
I'm a little shy on facts and links to information, but I'm sure I read not long ago about attacks against GMail and Google Accounts where passwords were compromised, etc. It seems to me that tying this authentication into health care information is just asking for trouble...
Security assessment of software by source code auditing is expensive and laborious. There are only a few methods for security analysis without access to the source code, and they are usually limited in scope.
If source code auditing is so expensive, and there are so few ways to analyze these code packages, where are all the holes coming from? Yikes, if external parties can find holes in 90% of the setups out there, imagine what they could do if the stuff was open source!?!
I completely agree with you that the 5% shouldn't be penalized. However, you know as well as I that the media companies have absolutely zero incentive to reduce prices for the masses who use less bandwidth. They already have you paying $50/month -- why would big media put a dent in their own revenue stream if they don't have to do so?
I'm concerned about this from a corporate perspective. The trend nowadays is for more and more folks work from home. I don't think I can separate my work and home bandwidth use on the same cable modem. My company reimburses me on a flat rate basis for broadband access. What's going to happen when work at home users are given bigger bills? How will they determine how much `personal use` of bandwidth is a chunk of the whole? For example, how can I control it if some dude sends me an [unsolicited] mp3 file in an e-mail that jacks up my bandwidth?
Some of what you say is true; however, we at IBM have been using the Firefox CCK for about 3 years now. The primary developer, Michael Kaply, is an IBM employee.
I beg to differ. Check out the Firefox Client Customization Kit (CCK).
The CCK project will produce a set of tools that help distributors customize and distribute the client. Support is provided for creating CD and download installers. Wizards are provided to simplify customization, installation, and ISP signup.
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I already play Valve games on my Linux computer using PlayOnLinux (http://www.playonlinux.com/). That's been very stable for me, but I'm hoping that a native Valve client will allow even better system performance while gaming.
Great points made in your post. And I always chuckle at all the complaining about a free piece of software that is so prolifically used. I mean, if this community spent less time complaining and more time contributing to the bug fixes, we'd be in a much different place, eh?
An excellent point. That's why I think OpenDNS is a better option. They at least appear to give you a choice in the matter. I'm not sure Google's services are equitable. There's a good blog post from the founder of OpenDNS where he critiques Google's service. It's a good read.
http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Whatever. OpenDNS.
Sandra Whitley Ryals, director of Virginia's Department of Health Professions, declined to discuss details of the hacker's claims, and referred inquires to the FBI. "There is a criminal investigation under way by federal and state authorities, and we take the information security very serious," she said.
Nice grammar, chump. `I'm not on the email. I don't trust the email.`
Your post is great, and well thought-out. The only concern I have with plan C is for folks like myself who are work-at-home employees. I can't really predict how much bandwidth I use for work, and I also have a tough time separating out my work bandwidth versus my personal use bandwidth...
Here at IBM, our company has just decided to stop reimbursing work-from-home employees for Internet access. Combined with this new data transfer capping trend, I fully anticipate having to explain to a customer why I can't take care of that server problem until next month because my daughter used up our bandwidth allocation on the Playhouse Disney web site. That's going to go over really well...
Or perhaps block the thing with your desktop firewall?
I agree.
Richard Stallman has done a lot for the open source movement and GNU/Linux through the Free Software Foundation. But honestly he's pushing into an area where not many people care to follow.
This is absolutely the best advice. Keeping the PC in a common, open family location is the #1 deterrent. I also agree with what others said, with regards to OpenDNS. Their service is free, and high quality!
I agree with parent; the problem is parameterized queries don't exist for every type of SQL statement you'd want to write, that's why folks get trapped into escaping user input. The only foolproof solution is to not accept user input. :-)
And use what, Opera with no AdBlock extension? Or, did you mean for us to use Epiphany or Konqueror?
I absolutely agree. I bought an iPhone 3 months ago, and it sucks. I hate the thing and am shopping around for a replacement Blackberry. I don't care if I have to pay $175 to get rid of the iPhone or not.
I'm glad to know about this new beta, but frankly I care a lot less about perfect ACID scores than I do a workable solution for blocking ads. And I'm not talking about the lame ass right-click-block-content function, I want a solution that will block ads across my browsing experience, like the Firefox Adblock Plus extension.
Yah srsly. Just download the CDE theme for your Linux box and be done with it. Same result.
I'm a big fan of TrueCrypt, and have used it for about 3 years. In that same time, my company has rolled out PGP Full Disk encryption. Honestly, we've had nothing but positive feedback about how unintrusive the product is. This is easily the security tool with the highest positive employee feedback we've ever deployed, hands down.
If there was ever any doubt that the NSA has the ability to monitor all our communications, this should squash the last hangers-on... I, for one, welcome our new NSA overlords.
I see lots of replies about ISO mirrors and download sites, but has anyone tried to perform a distribution upgrade from 7.10 yet? Any news on that? I assumed I'd give that a shot maybe tomorrow when server loads aren't quite as busy...
Not trolling for karma points, but this might be the best comment I've ever seen on Slashdot. Great job, submitter!
I'm a little shy on facts and links to information, but I'm sure I read not long ago about attacks against GMail and Google Accounts where passwords were compromised, etc. It seems to me that tying this authentication into health care information is just asking for trouble...
So, I focused on this quote:
Security assessment of software by source code auditing is expensive and laborious. There are only a few methods for security analysis without access to the source code, and they are usually limited in scope.If source code auditing is so expensive, and there are so few ways to analyze these code packages, where are all the holes coming from? Yikes, if external parties can find holes in 90% of the setups out there, imagine what they could do if the stuff was open source!?!
I completely agree with you that the 5% shouldn't be penalized. However, you know as well as I that the media companies have absolutely zero incentive to reduce prices for the masses who use less bandwidth. They already have you paying $50/month -- why would big media put a dent in their own revenue stream if they don't have to do so?
I'm concerned about this from a corporate perspective. The trend nowadays is for more and more folks work from home. I don't think I can separate my work and home bandwidth use on the same cable modem. My company reimburses me on a flat rate basis for broadband access. What's going to happen when work at home users are given bigger bills? How will they determine how much `personal use` of bandwidth is a chunk of the whole? For example, how can I control it if some dude sends me an [unsolicited] mp3 file in an e-mail that jacks up my bandwidth?
`That Hideous Strength`, by C. S. Lewis.
Some of what you say is true; however, we at IBM have been using the Firefox CCK for about 3 years now. The primary developer, Michael Kaply, is an IBM employee.
I beg to differ. Check out the Firefox Client Customization Kit (CCK).
The CCK project will produce a set of tools that help distributors customize and distribute the client. Support is provided for creating CD and download installers. Wizards are provided to simplify customization, installation, and ISP signup.http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/