Only on Slashdot does a "Right to Porn" issue get front page billing. Strange. It's as if the current slashdot crowd would contend that there is absolutely nothing wrong with pornography. Somehow I don't think any of the framers of the Constitution had pornography in mind. Lincoln probably wouldn't have thought of the "right to porn" as an inalienable right. Sigh...
Knoppix? Who cares. Not like it gets you very far without passwords.
Knoppix can get you plenty far without passwords. Boot Knoppix on the PC and then clear out/reset the root or system administrator passwords. Rootkit it... whatever. Reboot. Now depending on the level of trust that machine has, nfs security, etc... One (under *nix) can su as any user.
The passworded BIOS doesn't protect much. Just pull the drive out and put it temporarily in another machine. Do the stuff. Put it back in. Done. One needs to have encrypted file systems and more to render these common hacks obsolete. And most companies do not use encrypted file systems.
Securing a machine that has a bootable device (i.e. floppy/CD/USB) is problematic. If a machine is not behind a locked door. You cannot really
secure it. (I'm not, however, buying the notion that IS employees need offices.)
Our company used to be nearly a complete Sun shop. I see Sun's problem as hanging on to their beloved Sparc CPU technology and Scott McNealy too long. It didn't work out as they planned (open Sparc technology did not get adopted). Then Dell came in cut the legs from under Sun. Now we use NetApp filers. And Exchange (I know. I dislike it too. Our company is in so cozy with Microsoft that Melinda gets jealous.) The most recent Google/Sun media presentation left me with the feeling that Scott McNealy no longer has the vision or inspiration to lead Sun. He has only buzz words and little passion and blue jeans. Jonathan Schwartz with a hair cut might be a more inspiring leader.
However, the tide seems to be turning a little. While Management has been sucking up to Dell and Microsoft, our little trench workers are learning and liking Linux. The AMD Galaxy boxes from Sun (specifically the 4200) have our manufacturing folk interested. Cost is good. Redundant power supplies with separate power to each. Solaris 10, Redhat, SuSE, and Windows support. Way faster (seriously... quite a bit) than comparably priced servers from Dell. You mileage may vary, but our use of them for our CPU intensive tasks look promising. Reliability yet to be determined.
Gone are the days of Veritas and Sun Clustering. The NetApps cover the file storage, and the Sun Galaxy may be the CPU to run our stuff. However, I don't see where Sun is going to get rich off the new hardware. They used to soak us for support. Our dept stopped forking over money for that years ago and took care of it themselves. I don't see Sun making money without extensive support contracts... but the blindly paid-for support contracts of old have dried up. I own Sun stock and am upside down in it. Here's to hoping that it will turn around.
You underestimate the power of our new Hydrogen Bomb. We'll nuke the hurricane, and then laser the remaining pieces with the Star Wars defense system.
Nature has been enslaved.
The expectation of your visitors will only be
what they have seen in movies. You meet or exceed that... excellent. If you are below that, visitors will think the system is below par.
Personally. I like glass, lights, and large screens. Screens like NASA has. For the glass, I think machines behind glass like in the movie Sneakers is neat. Large glass windows like one sees in a shopping mall. Depends what you want the visitors to be impressed with. Security? Cool security things. Not some exit door alarm like the local bookstore has. First define the impression you want to make on visitors, then work from there.
We need more murder details to determine motive...
If:
strangled with underwear or nylons - wife/sex related
beat to death with high heel shoe - wife/sex related
strangled with mouse cable - spam related
beat to death with keyboard - spam related
beat to death with baseball bat - mafia related
shot 8 times in the head - terrorist related (007)
body disappears - Gulag related
Take your spoon. Go to http://google.com/ or http://wikipedia.com/. Feed yourself. It has taken you longer to complain at others here for not feeding you than it would to find it yourself. You're demonstrating the Lazy Silver Spoon effect... (and I don't have the link for that. Sorry.)
Sir, you're wasting your breath and effort on folks here that don't understand human nature. In any confrontation with people (whether as an individual or as a country), one must present more than "just enough" force. Otherwise the other will not feel overwhelmed and will not give up. Ask a policeman how much applied force is necessary to obtain surrender. Obviously the amount of force required for surrender varies between individuals as much as it does between countries. Hindsight in this case is not 20/20. We know that the bombing obtained surrender. Would less have been necessary? Perhaps, but that is unknown. For one to make a statement that the bombing of Japan was unnecessary cannot back up the statement... unless they have their time machine tuned up real well. As PakProtector has stated in many posts, war is evil for everyone involved.
The AC is saying they don't appreciate the line of work you are in. He/she believes it to have an overall negative impact on search engine sites. Now you can try and justify that you're not doing anything wrong by just providing a service to a paying client, but... that's not going to negate the accurate point AC is making. The clear point (that you still won't get or accept) is that SEO, spam, porn, etc. It's all gutter stuff. Leeches on society. You've chosen to be part of that.
You're telling me that who I buy things from
and how much I pay really means something?
If you want the corner grocery to stay in business it might be in your best interests to shop there.
Buying strawberries from the tailgate of some mangy looking dude because it's $1 a flat cheaper isn't a good value decision.
Price isn't everything. Quality counts from a reliable vendor where you get what you pay for.
Walmart is slowly finding this out. Customers will stop shopping there after enough screw-over stories get out.
Like the Better Business Bureau advises: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Google Galactic Gargle Blaster rolls off the tongue much better. Leave "Pan" out. People just associate it too much with the words pancreas and pandemic.
As soon as 3dsmax and photoshop ship for linux, I'll be on linux.
I'm completely with you on this one. I finally got tired of hoping and bought a PowerMac. Unix underneath and great for graphics with the added plus of my wife just liking how things work. I bought Photoshop and couldn't be happier. I still use SuSE Linux but have completely negated my need for Windows. Articles like this that tell of Microsoft's latest debacle still make me cranky. My family members are still using Windows, and it affects them very much (and me indirectly). But you can be sure my recommendation for their latest ailment is... "switch". Costs money to switch, but it costs blood, sweat, tears, and money to stay.
I have chattr man pages. The immutable flag can be changed at will by root while in multiuser mode. Not secure. Period. Read and digest my whole comment before coming back with an anonymous "wrong".
OSX is more secure in many ways. For those that know what they are doing... (they usually don't get infected but that's beside the point) you can use the "chflags schg " command as root to lock a file so that it cannot be modified. The flag can only be cleared in single-user mode. Standard linux distros with ext2/ext3/reiserfs don't have that. I'm not real up to speed on WinXP or 2003, so I don't know if they have a single user mode (or a real multi-user mode ). But OSX can be hardened to where you can be sure the kernel or critical libs cannot be updated.
Based on the reviews I have read, Antec builds pretty good supplies. That is what I used to replace a failed Enermax in my dad's PC. The Enermax was supposedly a robust power supply. We didn't have it even close to being fully loaded, and it died after two years (in a cool environment with good airflow). I tend to believe that Enermax is higher priced with poor quality. The review lends some support to this.
Agree with all of the above. I use Linux exclusively at work (to the distress of our mostly Microsoft IS dept). I have refused to buy anything Microsoft since Win98se. Back when Apple stock was $19, I bought $2500 of it with the goal that when it reached $40, I'd sell it and buy a PowerMac. Finally the stock reached my target. I sold and bought a PowerMac with the profit. So I'm a loser for not holding out longer and selling at the current price of $73. But... My family has been enjoying a PowerMac. No regrets except that I could have also gotten a 30" flat panel with the profits had I held out longer . I just believe that anything *nix is better than something that is not. I'm a convert. And I'll be getting a Mac Mini when Tiger comes out (so that I can use the PowerMac in the evenings when I get home).
My recommendation as to when to switch... now. You'll always find something better to wait for. When you buy, you'll always have something to regret... but leaving Microsoft forever won't be one of them. Enjoy OSX!
You can maybe match the price & size if you install Linux. A PC the size of the Mac Mini with Windows will have a price point quite a bit higher. We'll see what Dell and others answer with, but I bet it will have something less than the capability of iMovie/iPhoto/iDVD/GarageBand.
For what you get (software/hardware/size), it is going to be tough to match let alone beat the Mac Mini setup for some time.
You know who deserves a large chunk of the blame for SPAM in my honest opinion?
The 1% of the people who respond to it. For without them, there would be no spam at all.
Agreed. We need to annihilate those that are looking for a 0% mortgage and have a small penis with no libido.
Slashdot Mirror
Only on Slashdot does a "Right to Porn" issue get front page billing. Strange. It's as if the current slashdot crowd would contend that there is absolutely nothing wrong with pornography. Somehow I don't think any of the framers of the Constitution had pornography in mind. Lincoln probably wouldn't have thought of the "right to porn" as an inalienable right. Sigh...
This removed "fearless" gene might instead be an I.Q. gene.
Knoppix can get you plenty far without passwords. Boot Knoppix on the PC and then clear out/reset the root or system administrator passwords. Rootkit it... whatever. Reboot. Now depending on the level of trust that machine has, nfs security, etc... One (under *nix) can su as any user.
The passworded BIOS doesn't protect much. Just pull the drive out and put it temporarily in another machine. Do the stuff. Put it back in. Done. One needs to have encrypted file systems and more to render these common hacks obsolete. And most companies do not use encrypted file systems. Securing a machine that has a bootable device (i.e. floppy/CD/USB) is problematic. If a machine is not behind a locked door. You cannot really secure it. (I'm not, however, buying the notion that IS employees need offices.)
However, the tide seems to be turning a little. While Management has been sucking up to Dell and Microsoft, our little trench workers are learning and liking Linux. The AMD Galaxy boxes from Sun (specifically the 4200) have our manufacturing folk interested. Cost is good. Redundant power supplies with separate power to each. Solaris 10, Redhat, SuSE, and Windows support. Way faster (seriously... quite a bit) than comparably priced servers from Dell. You mileage may vary, but our use of them for our CPU intensive tasks look promising. Reliability yet to be determined.
Gone are the days of Veritas and Sun Clustering. The NetApps cover the file storage, and the Sun Galaxy may be the CPU to run our stuff. However, I don't see where Sun is going to get rich off the new hardware. They used to soak us for support. Our dept stopped forking over money for that years ago and took care of it themselves. I don't see Sun making money without extensive support contracts... but the blindly paid-for support contracts of old have dried up. I own Sun stock and am upside down in it. Here's to hoping that it will turn around.
Independent Province of China has my vote.
Would have made total sense. Firefox browser along with Mozilla suite. Foxzilla suite.
You underestimate the power of our new Hydrogen Bomb. We'll nuke the hurricane, and then laser the remaining pieces with the Star Wars defense system. Nature has been enslaved.
The expectation of your visitors will only be what they have seen in movies. You meet or exceed that... excellent. If you are below that, visitors will think the system is below par. Personally. I like glass, lights, and large screens. Screens like NASA has. For the glass, I think machines behind glass like in the movie Sneakers is neat. Large glass windows like one sees in a shopping mall. Depends what you want the visitors to be impressed with. Security? Cool security things. Not some exit door alarm like the local bookstore has. First define the impression you want to make on visitors, then work from there.
We need more murder details to determine motive...
If:
strangled with underwear or nylons - wife/sex related
beat to death with high heel shoe - wife/sex related
strangled with mouse cable - spam related
beat to death with keyboard - spam related
beat to death with baseball bat - mafia related
shot 8 times in the head - terrorist related (007)
body disappears - Gulag related
Take your spoon. Go to http://google.com/ or http://wikipedia.com/. Feed yourself. It has taken you longer to complain at others here for not feeding you than it would to find it yourself. You're demonstrating the Lazy Silver Spoon effect... (and I don't have the link for that. Sorry.)
Sir, you're wasting your breath and effort on folks here that don't understand human nature. In any confrontation with people (whether as an individual or as a country), one must present more than "just enough" force. Otherwise the other will not feel overwhelmed and will not give up. Ask a policeman how much applied force is necessary to obtain surrender. Obviously the amount of force required for surrender varies between individuals as much as it does between countries. Hindsight in this case is not 20/20. We know that the bombing obtained surrender. Would less have been necessary? Perhaps, but that is unknown. For one to make a statement that the bombing of Japan was unnecessary cannot back up the statement... unless they have their time machine tuned up real well. As PakProtector has stated in many posts, war is evil for everyone involved.
The AC is saying they don't appreciate the line of work you are in. He/she believes it to have an overall negative impact on search engine sites. Now you can try and justify that you're not doing anything wrong by just providing a service to a paying client, but... that's not going to negate the accurate point AC is making. The clear point (that you still won't get or accept) is that SEO, spam, porn, etc. It's all gutter stuff. Leeches on society. You've chosen to be part of that.
Good idea! And while they are arguing, it will leave the pdf link free for those that desire the facts!
If you want the corner grocery to stay in business it might be in your best interests to shop there.
Buying strawberries from the tailgate of some mangy looking dude because it's $1 a flat
cheaper isn't a good value decision.
Price isn't everything. Quality counts from a reliable vendor where you get what you pay for.
Walmart is slowly finding this out. Customers will stop shopping there after enough screw-over stories get out.
Like the Better Business Bureau advises: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Google Galactic Gargle Blaster rolls off the tongue much better. Leave "Pan" out. People just associate it too much with the words pancreas and pandemic.
I'm completely with you on this one. I finally got tired of hoping and bought a PowerMac. Unix underneath and great for graphics with the added plus of my wife just liking how things work. I bought Photoshop and couldn't be happier. I still use SuSE Linux but have completely negated my need for Windows. Articles like this that tell of Microsoft's latest debacle still make me cranky. My family members are still using Windows, and it affects them very much (and me indirectly). But you can be sure my recommendation for their latest ailment is... "switch". Costs money to switch, but it costs blood, sweat, tears, and money to stay.
I have chattr man pages. The immutable flag can be changed at will by root while in multiuser mode. Not secure. Period. Read and digest my whole comment before coming back with an anonymous "wrong".
OSX is more secure in many ways. For those that know what they are doing... (they usually don't get infected but that's beside the point) you can use the "chflags schg " command as root to lock a file so that it cannot be modified. The flag can only be cleared in single-user mode. Standard linux distros with ext2/ext3/reiserfs don't have that. I'm not real up to speed on WinXP or 2003, so I don't know if they have a single user mode (or a real multi-user mode ). But OSX can be hardened to where you can be sure the kernel or critical libs cannot be updated.
Based on the reviews I have read, Antec builds pretty good supplies. That is what I used to replace a failed Enermax in my dad's PC. The Enermax was supposedly a robust power supply. We didn't have it even close to being fully loaded, and it died after two years (in a cool environment with good airflow). I tend to believe that Enermax is higher priced with poor quality. The review lends some support to this.
My recommendation as to when to switch... now. You'll always find something better to wait for. When you buy, you'll always have something to regret... but leaving Microsoft forever won't be one of them. Enjoy OSX!
Somehow I get the feeling that his good investments have outweighed the bad.
For what you get (software/hardware/size), it is going to be tough to match let alone beat the Mac Mini setup for some time.
Agreed. We need to annihilate those that are looking for a 0% mortgage and have a small penis with no libido.
Spam targets the insecure and insatiable.
Same here. I 0wn any PC that will boot my Knoppix CD.