LibreOffice the other fork of OpenOffice and NOT run by Oracle! Even smaller userbase and can still get the updates from OpenOffice(pulls by coders, not users)
Hypervisor to the rescue, sandbox the entire OS, and you will never have to worry about getting a virus, simply restart to an earlier snapshot.
Then the only problem is performance will be degraded because it's being virtualized, and we just have to make sure nothing(no malware) can figure out it is in a virtual machine(like blue pill? or was it red pill? and other VM aware exploits) and nothing can break out of the virtual machine and infect the hypervisor.
I still don't understand this attitude, but I can count myself (a Mac user) lucky as a consequence. If I were trying to profit from exploiting home PCs, I would target the Mac first and foremost, as the userbase is substantial (millions), demographically wealthy (compared to the whole market) and typically security-ignorant. That's a perfect storm for exploiting for profit, and I'm frankly astonished it hasn't happened on a large scale yet.
DING DING DING DING!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!
However for all of those people, like yourself that bought an Apple product in what the last 5 years they have been getting big, Windows users still outnumber you and when you are trying to get a bot net to steal information, the numbers matter more then how easy it is to get passed the user.
And let's face it there are dumb users on any platform (Win or Apple)
I believe we are seeing this rise in Apple malware because more and more people are buying Apple products, and if you were around 10 years ago, you are right no one would target Apple because no one owned them(companies but not everyone and your grandmother), but now everyone seems to get one and need the next new one.
Great part is (for malware makers, that is) a lot of these people buy them because they DO think they are impervious to malware, when in reality no one has really tested them as being safe or not. This is all because a lot of the ones that buy Apple have no idea how to use a computer let alone admin it.
Well I believe the OS is suppose to have safeguards so that userland apps cannot escalate it's privileges, but as you said no OS is absolutely secure, we just have to patch them as we find them. And finding them usually means a lot of users get hit with some new piece of malware.
The chips are placed underneath each school's coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says: "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people and people transform the world."
Well, challenge one done, location of the chips
Challenge two:
Moraes said adding that the chips have a "security system that makes tampering virtually impossible."
Challenge accepted! This is going to be LEGEND----- wait for it---- DARY!!! (-- Barney)
I have had many discussions about this, and most of the time it comes to this:
It's job promotion time at your company
You and a fellow employee are up for the spot with a decent pay raise
You work at home
Your fellow employee works in the office
Who gets the promotion?
The guy at the office usually because the person that has to make the decision, has to see him every day.
This is just one example and maybe you will get the promotion(the first time) but I think the guy in the office has a better chance
LOL, if Windows 8 Preview is anything to show for what they have in mind, then it will be Win 7 with a stupid Start screen which is not needed in a Desktop experience. I feel like the only devices they actually wanted Windows 8 to run on is tablets, and touch-screen netbooks.
Granted, they may not have released everything yet, but the article is right, they don't mesh well (yet?).
The desktop experience is Windows 7 sans the start Button, and then the home screen is the Start Button, sans the All Programs(well they have it it's just different and in my opinion not as easy to navigate with a mouse and keyboard).
I do like the new Task Manager though, it offers all the fields I wish XP and Windows 7 had.
At least the last time I picked up Slackware it was definitely not for beginners...
We are going to give a series of Linux lessons (from 'what is Linux' to installing, using and developing) for everybody in the company who is interested (including non-developers).
If they have non-developers joining in I would say something like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, something easy, that also looks familiar
If it turns out no non-developers join, then sure Slackware, but most people don't need to know that much just to get Linux to run, heck I doubt very few non-developers could even do a Windows 7 Install which is point-and-click.
I am also going with those distros because it gets you/and the company up and running quickly rather then still figuring out gparted or something.
Yeah, I just can't believe they really need to upgrade all 8000 computers at once. There can't be that many people in their journalism class.
Some of those computers are still probably good for basic work, hell my server is a 5 year old AMD dual-core system, all I did was give it more RAM and some more hard drives for storage space and it was good to go.
There is no reason a secretary needs the latest i5 with 4GB of ram, but she does probably need more than a P4. I guess I would need a list of all of the computers there are where they can go next that would determine how many computers they actually need
LOL, yeah how do people go around without knowing at least how to estimate tax and tip on a bill, or realize they are being overcharged for something because a salesman slipped in a $100 convenience charge just to get more money out of you.
I mean what if you don't get the correct change again, how would you know? Get your calculator and make sure $20 - $11.87 is actually $8.13, or is it $7.13? Hold on let me get my calculator.........
Right so it is $8.13, good thing I have a calculator to do simple math, NOT maths!!!
The first series would be for equipment and infrastructure improvements primarily, while the final two series are not entirely planned out yet, said district spokeswoman Liz Margolis.
More than half of the $45.8 million, about $25 million, would be spent to replace the district’s computers — both laptops and desktops.
They said they were going to spend $25 million just on computers alone. I took that as hardware only, no software, no employees working on them, just hardware.
Power and IT staff must be part of the 2nd year spending, to cover the extra power from all the new computers, laptops charging, and heating and cooling for their new and old servers, and all the extra maintenance and bugs
Let's run the numbers, just on their computers to start:
FTA:
More than half of the $45.8 million, about $25 million, would be spent to replace the district’s computers — both laptops and desktops.
The goal is to provide two laptop carts per elementary, three laptop carts per middle school and 12 carts per high school, according to emails and documents obtained by AnnArbor.com. The exception would be at Forsythe Middle School, which would receive four carts because it has less overall computer lab space.
Trent said 99 percent of Ann Arbor’s computers are three years old or older. Sixty-six percent are five to six years old and 34 percent are seven to eight years old, he said.
Let's say 30 laptops per laptop cart:
5 high schools[5 carts each], 5 middle schools[3 carts each], 1 middle school gets 4 carts(instead of 3), and 21 elementary schools[2 carts each]
( 30 * 12 * 5 ) + ( 30 * 3 * 5 ) + ( 30 * 4 * 1 ) + ( 30 * 2 * 21 ) =
1800 + 450 + 120 + 1260 = 3630 laptops just on laptop carts alone.
3630 * $1000(average cost of a laptop) = $3,530,000
You actually need the carts too, so let's say they buy expensive $250 carts:
( 12 * 5 ) + ( 3 * 5 ) + 4 + ( 2 * 21 ) = 121
121 * $250 = $30,250 just on the carts
Replacing 8,142 of the district’s approximately 8,250 computers
8142 * $1000(average cost of a desktop) = $8,142,000
So, let's total it up:
$8,142,000 + $3,530,000 + $30,250 = $11,702,250
Hmm, a little short of $25million, granted I was low-balling the cost of laptops and some desktops, so let's see what they would be spending on these computers for the numbers to make sense. Let's double up every price:
3630 * $2000 = $7,260,000 on laptops
8142 * $2000 = $16,284,000 on desktops
121 * $500 = $60,500 on the actual laptop carts
Total = $23,604,500
That's a little closer, but where are they getting their supplies from? that would mean they would need another $1.4 million of carts or on the computers which seems a bit much.
Ya 8 years is a long time for tech to go un-upgraded.
Those machines could barely run much anymore, and frankly all of those and any P4s they have(let's face it, everyone has one, but now they are just old and terrible) need to go.
Adobe CS products take lots of memory, and lots of processing power to run, and I wouldn't touch that without at least a hyperthreaded dual-core(probably more like a quad-core) with at least 4gb of RAM(probably 8GB)
Now will people change their views of: the cloud is for everything, we can put everything in the cloud.... well until it stops working and then we are sooo screwed =(
Just tried to install it on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and I got the following error: Unable to elevate, error 1814
I believe this to be related to the fact that I turned off the win7 feature to ask for permission but I cannot confirm that it just sounds like based on the error message
Ok I agree with some points, but on others, well maybe it's your generalizations that kill me.
1. Murder. It's a serious crime
2. Theft can be a serious crime, rob a bank, yes serious, steal a $0.99 song, not so much but stealing none the less.
3. Drugs dealers is a very serious crime and they commit lots of (See 1) especially in hmmm, Mexico for one.
4. Drugs lead to (See 2) by people who want more drugs, which leads to (See 1).
5. Artists are starving because of labels, hence why famous artists create their own label companies, because the big guys suck all the money for themselves so they can get super rich
6. Drug dealers are "large organizations with its tentacles all over the place" as well.... but with guns.... and drugs and (See 4)
7. Do you still see music everywhere? yes. why? Because even with the lost profits it can endure. In fact some artists give away their music, like lots of artist in the beginning of their career
8. When you keep charging 0.99 for the same digital copy of a song with no printed media, it doesn't just cover the costs, it exceeds them.
9. I would bet lots of music gets spread from one person buying the music and then distributing it through the web site, aka. a rip
10. There is more but I can't think of it right now, and the list just didn't seem right without 10 items on it.
See how interconnected drugs can become, a lot more then stealing a CD
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HAHAHA, awesome!
so true, and so awesome
HAHAHAHAH, I don't care that you posted as AC, I would have modded you if I had points
Number of people on Linux that will install Office, if they are in fact even making Office for Linux, small to null (I mean nil)
LibreOffice the other fork of OpenOffice and NOT run by Oracle! Even smaller userbase and can still get the updates from OpenOffice(pulls by coders, not users)
Hypervisor to the rescue, sandbox the entire OS, and you will never have to worry about getting a virus, simply restart to an earlier snapshot.
Then the only problem is performance will be degraded because it's being virtualized, and we just have to make sure nothing(no malware) can figure out it is in a virtual machine(like blue pill? or was it red pill? and other VM aware exploits) and nothing can break out of the virtual machine and infect the hypervisor.
Once it gets to the hypervisor it's all over
I still don't understand this attitude, but I can count myself (a Mac user) lucky as a consequence. If I were trying to profit from exploiting home PCs, I would target the Mac first and foremost, as the userbase is substantial (millions), demographically wealthy (compared to the whole market) and typically security-ignorant. That's a perfect storm for exploiting for profit, and I'm frankly astonished it hasn't happened on a large scale yet.
DING DING DING DING!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!
However for all of those people, like yourself that bought an Apple product in what the last 5 years they have been getting big, Windows users still outnumber you and when you are trying to get a bot net to steal information, the numbers matter more then how easy it is to get passed the user.
And let's face it there are dumb users on any platform (Win or Apple)
Besides how else is a company like: Vupen Security going to make money by selling exploits if we all used security-oriented OSs.
I mean jeez, you wanna take money from this guy's mouth? Why would you wanna do that? LoL
I believe we are seeing this rise in Apple malware because more and more people are buying Apple products, and if you were around 10 years ago, you are right no one would target Apple because no one owned them(companies but not everyone and your grandmother), but now everyone seems to get one and need the next new one.
Great part is (for malware makers, that is) a lot of these people buy them because they DO think they are impervious to malware, when in reality no one has really tested them as being safe or not. This is all because a lot of the ones that buy Apple have no idea how to use a computer let alone admin it.
Well I believe the OS is suppose to have safeguards so that userland apps cannot escalate it's privileges, but as you said no OS is absolutely secure, we just have to patch them as we find them. And finding them usually means a lot of users get hit with some new piece of malware.
Sneakers! Great movie!!!!
hahahah I was going to say the same thing!!!
The chips are placed underneath each school's coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says: "Education does not transform the world. Education changes people and people transform the world."
Well, challenge one done, location of the chips
Challenge two:
Moraes said adding that the chips have a "security system that makes tampering virtually impossible."
Challenge accepted! This is going to be LEGEND----- wait for it---- DARY!!! (-- Barney)
I have had many discussions about this, and most of the time it comes to this:
It's job promotion time at your company
You and a fellow employee are up for the spot with a decent pay raise
You work at home
Your fellow employee works in the office
Who gets the promotion?
The guy at the office usually because the person that has to make the decision, has to see him every day.
This is just one example and maybe you will get the promotion(the first time) but I think the guy in the office has a better chance
Fios anyone? Well really any fiber connection.
You get like 15Mbit constantly(for the cheapest plan, 25Mbit for the next plan up), and I have never had it go out yet. {Fingers Crossed}
LOL, if Windows 8 Preview is anything to show for what they have in mind, then it will be Win 7 with a stupid Start screen which is not needed in a Desktop experience. I feel like the only devices they actually wanted Windows 8 to run on is tablets, and touch-screen netbooks.
Granted, they may not have released everything yet, but the article is right, they don't mesh well (yet?).
The desktop experience is Windows 7 sans the start Button, and then the home screen is the Start Button, sans the All Programs(well they have it it's just different and in my opinion not as easy to navigate with a mouse and keyboard).
I do like the new Task Manager though, it offers all the fields I wish XP and Windows 7 had.
We are going to give a series of Linux lessons (from 'what is Linux' to installing, using and developing) for everybody in the company who is interested (including non-developers).
If they have non-developers joining in I would say something like Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, something easy, that also looks familiar
If it turns out no non-developers join, then sure Slackware, but most people don't need to know that much just to get Linux to run, heck I doubt very few non-developers could even do a Windows 7 Install which is point-and-click.
I am also going with those distros because it gets you/and the company up and running quickly rather then still figuring out gparted or something.
The first series would be for equipment and infrastructure improvements primarily
You are reading more into it then they are admitting they are spending money on.
Yeah, I just can't believe they really need to upgrade all 8000 computers at once. There can't be that many people in their journalism class.
Some of those computers are still probably good for basic work, hell my server is a 5 year old AMD dual-core system, all I did was give it more RAM and some more hard drives for storage space and it was good to go.
There is no reason a secretary needs the latest i5 with 4GB of ram, but she does probably need more than a P4. I guess I would need a list of all of the computers there are where they can go next that would determine how many computers they actually need
LOL, yeah how do people go around without knowing at least how to estimate tax and tip on a bill, or realize they are being overcharged for something because a salesman slipped in a $100 convenience charge just to get more money out of you.
I mean what if you don't get the correct change again, how would you know? Get your calculator and make sure $20 - $11.87 is actually $8.13, or is it $7.13? Hold on let me get my calculator.........
Right so it is $8.13, good thing I have a calculator to do simple math, NOT maths!!!
FTA:
The first series would be for equipment and infrastructure improvements primarily, while the final two series are not entirely planned out yet, said district spokeswoman Liz Margolis.
More than half of the $45.8 million, about $25 million, would be spent to replace the district’s computers — both laptops and desktops.
They said they were going to spend $25 million just on computers alone. I took that as hardware only, no software, no employees working on them, just hardware.
Power and IT staff must be part of the 2nd year spending, to cover the extra power from all the new computers, laptops charging, and heating and cooling for their new and old servers, and all the extra maintenance and bugs
More than half of the $45.8 million, about $25 million, would be spent to replace the district’s computers — both laptops and desktops.
The goal is to provide two laptop carts per elementary, three laptop carts per middle school and 12 carts per high school, according to emails and documents obtained by AnnArbor.com. The exception would be at Forsythe Middle School, which would receive four carts because it has less overall computer lab space.
Trent said 99 percent of Ann Arbor’s computers are three years old or older. Sixty-six percent are five to six years old and 34 percent are seven to eight years old, he said.
Let's say 30 laptops per laptop cart:
5 high schools[5 carts each], 5 middle schools[3 carts each], 1 middle school gets 4 carts(instead of 3), and 21 elementary schools[2 carts each]
( 30 * 12 * 5 ) + ( 30 * 3 * 5 ) + ( 30 * 4 * 1 ) + ( 30 * 2 * 21 ) =
1800 + 450 + 120 + 1260 = 3630 laptops just on laptop carts alone.
3630 * $1000(average cost of a laptop) = $3,530,000
You actually need the carts too, so let's say they buy expensive $250 carts:
( 12 * 5 ) + ( 3 * 5 ) + 4 + ( 2 * 21 ) = 121
121 * $250 = $30,250 just on the carts
Replacing 8,142 of the district’s approximately 8,250 computers
8142 * $1000(average cost of a desktop) = $8,142,000
So, let's total it up:
$8,142,000 + $3,530,000 + $30,250 = $11,702,250
Hmm, a little short of $25million, granted I was low-balling the cost of laptops and some desktops, so let's see what they would be spending on these computers for the numbers to make sense. Let's double up every price:
3630 * $2000 = $7,260,000 on laptops
8142 * $2000 = $16,284,000 on desktops
121 * $500 = $60,500 on the actual laptop carts
Total = $23,604,500
That's a little closer, but where are they getting their supplies from? that would mean they would need another $1.4 million of carts or on the computers which seems a bit much.
Ya 8 years is a long time for tech to go un-upgraded.
Those machines could barely run much anymore, and frankly all of those and any P4s they have(let's face it, everyone has one, but now they are just old and terrible) need to go.
Adobe CS products take lots of memory, and lots of processing power to run, and I wouldn't touch that without at least a hyperthreaded dual-core(probably more like a quad-core) with at least 4gb of RAM(probably 8GB)
Now will people change their views of: the cloud is for everything, we can put everything in the cloud.... well until it stops working and then we are sooo screwed =(
Careful of the windows installer (.exe version)
Just tried to install it on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and I got the following error:
Unable to elevate, error 1814
I believe this to be related to the fact that I turned off the win7 feature to ask for permission but I cannot confirm that it just sounds like based on the error message
Zip version worked fine though!
Good luck!
Ok I agree with some points, but on others, well maybe it's your generalizations that kill me.
1. Murder. It's a serious crime
2. Theft can be a serious crime, rob a bank, yes serious, steal a $0.99 song, not so much but stealing none the less.
3. Drugs dealers is a very serious crime and they commit lots of (See 1) especially in hmmm, Mexico for one.
4. Drugs lead to (See 2) by people who want more drugs, which leads to (See 1).
5. Artists are starving because of labels, hence why famous artists create their own label companies, because the big guys suck all the money for themselves so they can get super rich
6. Drug dealers are "large organizations with its tentacles all over the place" as well.... but with guns.... and drugs and (See 4) 7. Do you still see music everywhere? yes. why? Because even with the lost profits it can endure. In fact some artists give away their music, like lots of artist in the beginning of their career
8. When you keep charging 0.99 for the same digital copy of a song with no printed media, it doesn't just cover the costs, it exceeds them.
9. I would bet lots of music gets spread from one person buying the music and then distributing it through the web site, aka. a rip
10. There is more but I can't think of it right now, and the list just didn't seem right without 10 items on it.
See how interconnected drugs can become, a lot more then stealing a CD
{Rant over}
Have a Nice Day! =D