Many linux distros still do not enable a firewall by default and run many deamons that open tcp ports. So it really depends on your distribution how safe you are. Patching & closing unnecessary ports are a good idea regardless of your OS.
I can only think of 1 Linux distribution that doesn't ship with a firewall by default. Ubuntu, but as a tribute to what they have done with the software it doesn't need it. All daemons are boun to localhost only so there are no open ports.
Some will not find this a fair comparison but consider what would happen if you'd install a linux distribution from late 2000 on a PC directly connected to the internet now. At the time, popular distributions like red-hat and mandrake launched a large number of deamons (e.g. openssh, sendmail and sometimes even bind) and did not by default enable a firewall.
This is not a fair comparison either, in that Windows XP was released in 2001, and Service Pack 1 was released in mid 2002. Now this is a stock install of Dell's, and probably includes patches up until mid 2004 sans SP2.
I'm not trying to knock you as a microsoftie or troll ya, I'm just trying to bring a little more balance to your point.
What if I have an Asian character with claws named "The China Wolf"? Am I infringing? What if Marvel decides next week to change Wolverine into an Asian girl?
Then you sue Marvel for infringing on your copyright.
I prefer competition, but I'd take an Apple "standard" over a Microsoft one any day!
I'm no Microsoft lover or anything, but I trust Apple a lot less than I do Microsoft. They are the KING of vendor lock in. Not even Microsoft is as bad as Apple.
At least with Microsoft you know where you stand . . .
That's all fine and good... Until you have multiple drives in the array fail. I used to think it was such a low possibility that it just wasn't worth worrying about.
Uhm, I think the parent poster did in fact cover that. Let me paste it back for you:
Software RAID on a bunch of different hard drives (preferably SCSI, but you can also use IDE/ATAPI/UDMA/USB) and automatic off-site (e.g. a remote ftp or scp) backup cron job should do the job.
I believe the two comments were unrelated. On the one hand the parent poster was talking about Qmail's security record. On the other hand he was talking about python as an environment where you can write bullet proof software.
Not that I agree or disagree with either statement, just pointing out what I believe was meant.
LOL, they still don't get it, do they? Sharing is not illegal. Selling is illegal. If I make a copy and give it to a friend, that will never be illegal. If I sell it, then that is illegal. Plus, ever since the RIAA started their hell, I have not purchased one CD. I refuse to support people who use KGB and Gastapo tactics.
How long until someone creates a friendster/napster hybrid (sterster) that allows people to share only in their "personal circle" of friends and friends of friends. It sounds to me like this would fall under fair use.
They connected their Asterisk PBX to the PSTN through a $500 card to a T1. How can I connect my Asterisk to my cablemodem (3/0.5Mbps)? What does it connect to over the WAN to complete calls to the global PSTN? Is it 100% reliable, with a complete footprint in urban areas, and failover to the rest of the POTS phones in the world?
Simple, use ethernet and get a voip provider instead of using a PSTN T1. I currently use http://connect.voicepulse.com/, and that works great for me. Pretty cool, because you can have multiple incoming calls over one connection.
Yeah you don't want to bring up the fact that all linux has is 1 object driver file to deal with. Because that's never really the end of story until it's compiled into the kernel as a module. And you mkinitrd the image and so on and so on. Windows may suck, but bragging about linux drivers being definitively better is far from the truth.
Uhm, no need. When I install a machine the driver is included in the default distro kernel. The nic is autodetected on boot, and shit just works. Windows may have more drivers, no doubt, but the quality is not on par with the Linux side of things.
And pretty soon things are going to change, guess who got better support for amd64? Not Winders, still in beta and no drivers....
That's like asking, "Why have a monitor when our speakers are so wonderful?" Because the OS is a necessary part of the computer. None of those things run without one. But! Maybe Google will be coming out with an OS. They have a now commonplace name, and they have the skills. Maybe they'll produce a Linux distro.
Although not stated, I believe the parent poster meant "Why bother with os and native apps, when you can access this from anywhere on any computer". Essentially taking the brain out of the box, and putting it availlabe from everywhere on the network.
Not that I think that's going to happen, but a lot of hosted apps are coming to fruition every day. E-mail was one that exploded quickly, I don't believe that word processing and spreadsheet are that far behind.
Why do things online? Easier to upgrade, install the upgrade on the server and you are done.
So, if you get your hardware the moment it is released to the public, you will probably find the windows drivers better. If you wait until things become affordable then you're probably going to find linux drivers at least as good.
This is so true in most cases. To this day it surprises me how the intel 10/100 card requires dozens of drivers on windows from model to model on Windows, but only the e100.o on Linux. Sometimes there is no interest or not enough information to create a Linux driver, such as with the 802.11g drivers. The ndiswrapper is a neat hack, but is very limited and unusable on amd64.
The only option left is to wait for a company to step up to the plate and write a driver from the start. This is why all my 802.11g cards are running Ralink chipsets, because they have a Linux driver.
So the license you had for the new version is wasted money, _and_ you need a license for the older version?
Either that or your transferring licenses, because you had a license for the machine that this one is replacing right?
Also you don't have to buy a dell with Office. With Windows you are paying twice if you already have a site license, but for Enterprise you usually have a choice to buy without licenses and save a few bucks.
Doesn't sound like you've worked at an Enterprise IT Support. Not that I have either, but I work with those guys quite a bit as a Sysadmin on the NIX side of things.
They changed the voice of the Emperor (when communicating with Vader) to be consistent with the actor who played him in ROTJ. They also changed the lines so that the less-observant could understand the story more easily. It was a bit disappointing.
Actually the guy who played the emperor in the original series is the same guy who plays Sen. Palpatine (R).
So why work extra hours if you're not getting paid for it and don't enjoy it?
Cuz if you don't, there are hundreds out there ready to take your job for less. May not be better than you at it, but the job market is seriously fucked enough that companies can demand more work for less money. It's called supply and demand. ..
Why on earth would anyone take a job as a deodorant taster? What possible good could tasting deodorant do? And why would it be tasted in the armpit? Why not from the dispenser? That's just an appalling career, and it sickens me. That's even worse than my career as an IT Manager.
Perhaps you misread parent poster, but he said tester, not taster. In the deoderant field there are testers to make sure that the deoderant is strong enough to counteract the stenches produced by some humans out there.
Such tests consist of putting fat asses on a treadmill with the deoderant in their pits, lettin em go at it as long as they can and then sniffing their pits. If smell is less than deadly, the product goes to market else it's back to the ol' drawing board.
No, but they should at least check that the file isnt 9.8mb (for the windows framework), and at least is a movie file and not an executable installer (as the case is for the windows version). Don't need people to filter out exe files, or files below a certian threshhold.
Some people forget that.rpm is not only "RedHat Package Manager", but "Real Player Movie" as well. I can see how an automated script could be fooled, but human error? What kind of retards to they have working for them. . .
Also, AT&T's telephone adapter sits on the internet side of your home network - this allows the device to perform QoS functions by prioritizing the voice packets. Vonage's device sits behind your router and therefore can't do anything about a busy connection. There will inevitably be dropped calls if you use your internet connection heavily while on the phone
The new vonage connectors use the motorola that does the same thing.
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Many linux distros still do not enable a firewall by default and run many deamons that open tcp ports. So it really depends on your distribution how safe you are. Patching & closing unnecessary ports are a good idea regardless of your OS.
I can only think of 1 Linux distribution that doesn't ship with a firewall by default. Ubuntu, but as a tribute to what they have done with the software it doesn't need it. All daemons are boun to localhost only so there are no open ports.
Some will not find this a fair comparison but consider what would happen if you'd install a linux distribution from late 2000 on a PC directly connected to the internet now. At the time, popular distributions like red-hat and mandrake launched a large number of deamons (e.g. openssh, sendmail and sometimes even bind) and did not by default enable a firewall.
This is not a fair comparison either, in that Windows XP was released in 2001, and Service Pack 1 was released in mid 2002. Now this is a stock install of Dell's, and probably includes patches up until mid 2004 sans SP2.
I'm not trying to knock you as a microsoftie or troll ya, I'm just trying to bring a little more balance to your point.
Hey Careful, you may get sued by Microsoft since they own MFC (Masochists Fulfillment Code). The similarities are uncanny. . .
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What if I have an Asian character with claws named "The China Wolf"? Am I infringing? What if Marvel decides next week to change Wolverine into an Asian girl?
Then you sue Marvel for infringing on your copyright.
I prefer competition, but I'd take an Apple "standard" over a Microsoft one any day!
I'm no Microsoft lover or anything, but I trust Apple a lot less than I do Microsoft. They are the KING of vendor lock in. Not even Microsoft is as bad as Apple.
At least with Microsoft you know where you stand . . .
That's all fine and good... Until you have multiple drives in the array fail. I used to think it was such a low possibility that it just wasn't worth worrying about.
Uhm, I think the parent poster did in fact cover that. Let me paste it back for you:
Software RAID on a bunch of different hard drives (preferably SCSI, but you can also use IDE/ATAPI/UDMA/USB) and automatic off-site (e.g. a remote ftp or scp) backup cron job should do the job.
See bold text if you still don't get it . . .
I believe the two comments were unrelated. On the one hand the parent poster was talking about Qmail's security record. On the other hand he was talking about python as an environment where you can write bullet proof software.
Not that I agree or disagree with either statement, just pointing out what I believe was meant.
LOL, they still don't get it, do they? Sharing is not illegal. Selling is illegal. If I make a copy and give it to a friend, that will never be illegal. If I sell it, then that is illegal. Plus, ever since the RIAA started their hell, I have not purchased one CD. I refuse to support people who use KGB and Gastapo tactics.
How long until someone creates a friendster/napster hybrid (sterster) that allows people to share only in their "personal circle" of friends and friends of friends. It sounds to me like this would fall under fair use.
It's nuke-ular. Just ask the president.
They connected their Asterisk PBX to the PSTN through a $500 card to a T1. How can I connect my Asterisk to my cablemodem (3/0.5Mbps)? What does it connect to over the WAN to complete calls to the global PSTN? Is it 100% reliable, with a complete footprint in urban areas, and failover to the rest of the POTS phones in the world?
Simple, use ethernet and get a voip provider instead of using a PSTN T1. I currently use http://connect.voicepulse.com/, and that works great for me. Pretty cool, because you can have multiple incoming calls over one connection.
Boost Mobile, otherwise known as Ghettophone. Have you seen their commercials?
Where ya at?
Yeah you don't want to bring up the fact that all linux has is 1 object driver file to deal with. Because that's never really the end of story until it's compiled into the kernel as a module. And you mkinitrd the image and so on and so on. Windows may suck, but bragging about linux drivers being definitively better is far from the truth.
Uhm, no need. When I install a machine the driver is included in the default distro kernel. The nic is autodetected on boot, and shit just works. Windows may have more drivers, no doubt, but the quality is not on par with the Linux side of things.
And pretty soon things are going to change, guess who got better support for amd64? Not Winders, still in beta and no drivers....
That's like asking, "Why have a monitor when our speakers are so wonderful?" Because the OS is a necessary part of the computer. None of those things run without one. But! Maybe Google will be coming out with an OS. They have a now commonplace name, and they have the skills. Maybe they'll produce a Linux distro.
Although not stated, I believe the parent poster meant "Why bother with os and native apps, when you can access this from anywhere on any computer". Essentially taking the brain out of the box, and putting it availlabe from everywhere on the network.
Not that I think that's going to happen, but a lot of hosted apps are coming to fruition every day. E-mail was one that exploded quickly, I don't believe that word processing and spreadsheet are that far behind.
Why do things online? Easier to upgrade, install the upgrade on the server and you are done.
So, if you get your hardware the moment it is released to the public, you will probably find the windows drivers better. If you wait until things become affordable then you're probably going to find linux drivers at least as good.
This is so true in most cases. To this day it surprises me how the intel 10/100 card requires dozens of drivers on windows from model to model on Windows, but only the e100.o on Linux. Sometimes there is no interest or not enough information to create a Linux driver, such as with the 802.11g drivers. The ndiswrapper is a neat hack, but is very limited and unusable on amd64.
The only option left is to wait for a company to step up to the plate and write a driver from the start. This is why all my 802.11g cards are running Ralink chipsets, because they have a Linux driver.
I liked Boiler Room.
I'm gonna have to agree with you, I can only think of craptastic action movies coming from him. At least The Rock's got personality.
P.S. Nice try with the slashdot username
So the license you had for the new version is wasted money, _and_ you need a license for the older version?
Either that or your transferring licenses, because you had a license for the machine that this one is replacing right?
Also you don't have to buy a dell with Office. With Windows you are paying twice if you already have a site license, but for Enterprise you usually have a choice to buy without licenses and save a few bucks.
Doesn't sound like you've worked at an Enterprise IT Support. Not that I have either, but I work with those guys quite a bit as a Sysadmin on the NIX side of things.
They changed the voice of the Emperor (when communicating with Vader) to be consistent with the actor who played him in ROTJ. They also changed the lines so that the less-observant could understand the story more easily. It was a bit disappointing.
Actually the guy who played the emperor in the original series is the same guy who plays Sen. Palpatine (R).
Offtopic it was, but I've got Karma to burn baby...
Bring on the assault!
You think 100,000's bad, try having one in the 10,000's. . .
So why work extra hours if you're not getting paid for it and don't enjoy it?
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Cuz if you don't, there are hundreds out there ready to take your job for less. May not be better than you at it, but the job market is seriously fucked enough that companies can demand more work for less money. It's called supply and demand. .
There are more tech-monkeys than there are jobs!
Why on earth would anyone take a job as a deodorant taster? What possible good could tasting deodorant do? And why would it be tasted in the armpit? Why not from the dispenser? That's just an appalling career, and it sickens me. That's even worse than my career as an IT Manager.
Perhaps you misread parent poster, but he said tester, not taster. In the deoderant field there are testers to make sure that the deoderant is strong enough to counteract the stenches produced by some humans out there.
Such tests consist of putting fat asses on a treadmill with the deoderant in their pits, lettin em go at it as long as they can and then sniffing their pits. If smell is less than deadly, the product goes to market else it's back to the ol' drawing board.
DP stands for *Dual* processors. Plus they're 64 bit, with specialized vector processors, and one VAST and FAST memory bandwidth.
Actually it stands for double penetration . . .
The protestors didn't break many laws, they were just trespassing.
Trespassing is against the law . . .
No, but they should at least check that the file isnt 9.8mb (for the windows framework), and at least is a movie file and not an executable installer (as the case is for the windows version). Don't need people to filter out exe files, or files below a certian threshhold.
.rpm is not only "RedHat Package Manager", but "Real Player Movie" as well. I can see how an automated script could be fooled, but human error? What kind of retards to they have working for them. . .
Some people forget that
Also, AT&T's telephone adapter sits on the internet side of your home network - this allows the device to perform QoS functions by prioritizing the voice packets. Vonage's device sits behind your router and therefore can't do anything about a busy connection. There will inevitably be dropped calls if you use your internet connection heavily while on the phone
The new vonage connectors use the motorola that does the same thing.