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* You no longer need to have separate/lib,/lib32, and/lib64 trees.
* Third party packagers no longer have to publish multiple.deb/.rpm/etc for different architectures. Installers like MojoSetup benefit, too. [...]
* Ship a single shared library that provides bindings for a scripting language and not have to worry about whether the scripting language itself is built for the same architecture as your bindings.
* Ship web browser plugins that work out of the box with multiple platforms. [...]
* No more ia32 compatibility libraries! Even if your distro doesn't make a complete set of FatELF binaries available, they can still provide it for the handful of packages you need for 99% of 32-bit apps you want to run on a 64-bit system. [...]
I've configured Windows so that it's about as secure as it can get, and to actually use many of the important capabilities of the OS you HAVE to run a firewall.
To properly configure Windows so it can't potentially be exploited through these kind of holes without a firewall you have to turn off Windows Networking. You can't be a member of a domain. You can't access CIFS shares. You can't authenticate to services that use CIFS authentication like Exchange and Sharepoint.
In addition, you can't use Internet Explorer safely. Nor any of the applications that include shells around the Microsoft HTML control like Windows Media Player or even third party products like Realplayer.
Back in the early '90s when most UNIX systems came with telnetd and rsh and so on enabled by default you might have had an argument, but even the cruftiest traditional UNIX systems still on the market turn that stuff off or even leave it out.
Linux isn't THAT more secure, it is just less targeted since Windows is 90%+ of the computers.
A properly configured UNIX client system is significantly more secure than any comparable Windows system, even if you don't run a firewall. There are two significant differences: Internet Explorer, and Services.
The security model of IE is inherently flawed and can not be fixed without breaking existing applications. Microsoft is unwilling to take that step.
Windows services are neither run from a superserver nor in virtually all cases do they allow binding to specific ports, and Windows networking (LAN Manager) requires having services with open ports.
These are fairly significant problems that can not be addressed without changes to Windows APIs that are unlikely to happen.
I think Apple is about to learn a real lesson with the iPhone being hacked constantly.
If someone has physical access to the system, all the software security in the world is useless. The iPhone is being attacked by the device's *owners*. These are *local exploits*, much more common and of much less concern than remote ones.
.and what does this have to do with universal phone chargers?
The linked story was full of popups.
Firefox and Adblock Plus. 'nuff said.
Just remember they're pulling this shit when they start crowing about how many hits they're getting on Bing. They way they're doing it, people don't even have to click on anything to count as a hit.
Oh well, this just means we'll see overpriced micro-mini adapters from Monster Cable with oxygen free dual overhead cam gold plated contacts in every phone store.
This is getting as bad as X10 and Netflix, we've got Microsoft using those nasty Vibrant in-page popups, to generate hits on Bing I assume... every time someone's mouse drifts over one of those popups they get another hit on Bing to inflate their popularity.
You're doing a lot better than I would have expected, given my experience back in the early '80s when I was in college and EVERYONE seemed to have hundreds of times as many cracked games as bought ones.
Re: That's true for any licensee - in fact, Net App could adopt ZFS today and receive the same protection. The port is done to FreeBSD, the OS on which Net App's filers are built.
Last I checked NetApp was using some NetBSD-derived components in their Filer OS. I haven't heard that it's "based on FreeBSD".
Why did you reward Apple with your money, if you don't like their policies and don't want to run their OS? It's not like their hardware is all that exceptional. If I didn't like iTunes I sure as hell wouldn't have an iPod.
Oh yeh, they're logically a single connector. The SAS connector has extra contacts on the underside of where the gap on the SATA connector is, but they're otherwise the same form factor and (I think) pinout.
No, this isn't a preferences problem. This is a design flaw. The mighty mouse uses a capacitive sensor and triggers a left click unless there is nothing touching the left side of the mouse. If I lift my index finger every time I click it works, but that aggravates my ulnar nerve problem and keeps me from using the mouse without pain.
Such independent verification is important, particularly given the evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements.
Unfortunately, the article that story is pointing to claiming that it was fraud rather than error has expired from Yahoo's site. Do you have a better link?
You think two mice buttons had anything to do with NeXT's fate? It was all about licensing costs for AT&T UNIX and Adobe Display Postscript which meant that the mandatory license fees on a copy of OpenStep were more than competing products cost total.
My point was just that Jobs apparently didn't have a hissy-cow over two buttons at NeXT.
Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.
I have two Macs, and both of them have Microsoft's low end optical mouse connected... the best product Microsoft have put their name on since Xenix. I tried using the Mighty Mouse, and I've tried getting used to the two-finger tap on my Macbook Pro, and they just don't work for me. For example, I hold my mouse in three fingers, with two fingers resting on the buttons. I press with my middle or index finger, to click. On the Mighty Mouse this results in it being interpreted as a left click no matter which one I apply pressure with. On this mouse... who knows?
I have never in my experiences encountered that problem; someone who wanted a server but didn't want it to be set up by a knowledgable person - or even worse wanted to set it up themselves without knowing what they were doing.
I've had a few nice little short term contracts from people like that... or at least ones ones who only thought they were knowledgeable.
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Apple is still using it for x86/x86_64 fat binaries in Snow Leopard.
Letting stories like this show up outside "Idle"? He's pre-loading his karma.
I've configured Windows so that it's about as secure as it can get, and to actually use many of the important capabilities of the OS you HAVE to run a firewall.
To properly configure Windows so it can't potentially be exploited through these kind of holes without a firewall you have to turn off Windows Networking. You can't be a member of a domain. You can't access CIFS shares. You can't authenticate to services that use CIFS authentication like Exchange and Sharepoint.
In addition, you can't use Internet Explorer safely. Nor any of the applications that include shells around the Microsoft HTML control like Windows Media Player or even third party products like Realplayer.
Back in the early '90s when most UNIX systems came with telnetd and rsh and so on enabled by default you might have had an argument, but even the cruftiest traditional UNIX systems still on the market turn that stuff off or even leave it out.
One patched exploit is not "being hacked constantly".
The only place the iPhone is "being hacked constantly" is jailbreaking.
Linux isn't THAT more secure, it is just less targeted since Windows is 90%+ of the computers.
A properly configured UNIX client system is significantly more secure than any comparable Windows system, even if you don't run a firewall. There are two significant differences: Internet Explorer, and Services.
The security model of IE is inherently flawed and can not be fixed without breaking existing applications. Microsoft is unwilling to take that step.
Windows services are neither run from a superserver nor in virtually all cases do they allow binding to specific ports, and Windows networking (LAN Manager) requires having services with open ports.
These are fairly significant problems that can not be addressed without changes to Windows APIs that are unlikely to happen.
I think Apple is about to learn a real lesson with the iPhone being hacked constantly.
If someone has physical access to the system, all the software security in the world is useless. The iPhone is being attacked by the device's *owners*. These are *local exploits*, much more common and of much less concern than remote ones.
.and what does this have to do with universal phone chargers?
The linked story was full of popups.
Firefox and Adblock Plus. 'nuff said.
Just remember they're pulling this shit when they start crowing about how many hits they're getting on Bing. They way they're doing it, people don't even have to click on anything to count as a hit.
Oh well, this just means we'll see overpriced micro-mini adapters from Monster Cable with oxygen free dual overhead cam gold plated contacts in every phone store.
This is getting as bad as X10 and Netflix, we've got Microsoft using those nasty Vibrant in-page popups, to generate hits on Bing I assume... every time someone's mouse drifts over one of those popups they get another hit on Bing to inflate their popularity.
You're doing a lot better than I would have expected, given my experience back in the early '80s when I was in college and EVERYONE seemed to have hundreds of times as many cracked games as bought ones.
No, I wasn't aware of their new product.
Re: That's true for any licensee - in fact, Net App could adopt ZFS today and receive the same protection. The port is done to FreeBSD, the OS on which Net App's filers are built.
Last I checked NetApp was using some NetBSD-derived components in their Filer OS. I haven't heard that it's "based on FreeBSD".
Is he mixing up NetApp with Apple?
There are smaller and lighter alternatives as well, this is just the largest disk space and longest battery life I could find.
There was no other mp3 player I could find with 16+ hours battery life and 160GB capacity. :-/
Archos 7, 320GB, 39+ hours play time. It even runs Linux. And you can replace the battery.
Why did you reward Apple with your money, if you don't like their policies and don't want to run their OS? It's not like their hardware is all that exceptional. If I didn't like iTunes I sure as hell wouldn't have an iPod.
Oh yeh, they're logically a single connector. The SAS connector has extra contacts on the underside of where the gap on the SATA connector is, but they're otherwise the same form factor and (I think) pinout.
No, this isn't a preferences problem. This is a design flaw. The mighty mouse uses a capacitive sensor and triggers a left click unless there is nothing touching the left side of the mouse. If I lift my index finger every time I click it works, but that aggravates my ulnar nerve problem and keeps me from using the mouse without pain.
Oh look, an AC who doesn't read the thread before posting.
Thanks, I found more details in this paper.
Such independent verification is important, particularly given the evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements.
Unfortunately, the article that story is pointing to claiming that it was fraud rather than error has expired from Yahoo's site. Do you have a better link?
Yeah and look where those two buttons got them...
You think two mice buttons had anything to do with NeXT's fate? It was all about licensing costs for AT&T UNIX and Adobe Display Postscript which meant that the mandatory license fees on a copy of OpenStep were more than competing products cost total.
My point was just that Jobs apparently didn't have a hissy-cow over two buttons at NeXT.
On the flip side, what's our fascination with mouse buttons?
Apple's funky mice aggravate my ulnar nerve damage.
But Jobs put two buttons on the NeXT mouse!
Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.
I have two Macs, and both of them have Microsoft's low end optical mouse connected... the best product Microsoft have put their name on since Xenix. I tried using the Mighty Mouse, and I've tried getting used to the two-finger tap on my Macbook Pro, and they just don't work for me. For example, I hold my mouse in three fingers, with two fingers resting on the buttons. I press with my middle or index finger, to click. On the Mighty Mouse this results in it being interpreted as a left click no matter which one I apply pressure with. On this mouse... who knows?
I have never in my experiences encountered that problem; someone who wanted a server but didn't want it to be set up by a knowledgable person - or even worse wanted to set it up themselves without knowing what they were doing.
I've had a few nice little short term contracts from people like that... or at least ones ones who only thought they were knowledgeable.