While Democrats tend to favor more government involvement and regulation, the general Republican philosophy favors less government and deregulation. What you are dealing with here is the same human corruption seen in both parties. The politician is selling out to lobbyists for personal gain in contradiction to his party's stated goals.
A good question for liberals: What do you see in Democrats these days? How are they better or even different from Republicans? They say one thing (i.e. what you want to hear), but they typically do something completely different (i.e. something that personally benefits him) after the election. You are deluding yourselves, if you believe otherwise. I can't even figure out what Kerry's positions are. He waffles more than Clinton did.
new ones just keep coming along. What is the point. We cured polio and smallpox, but now we have HIV. We should have left well enough alone.
Maybe it is just me, but I think linking bubonic plague to flea infested rats was a beneficial advancement in progressing the human situation, for multiple reasons.
First, let's not confuse the OS with the window manager/desktop environment, although I know typical Windows and Mac users have difficulty understanding this. Fluxbox, Xfce, Windowmaker, and others still offer stellar performance on older hardware.
Regarding KDE and GNOME, I have noticed that KDE's performance has improved on the same hardware over the last few releases while GNOME's performance has degraded.
I spend most of my time on Gentoo with KDE, but I use a variety of window managers, from time to time. My system is very nice so I have not noticed any problems. I did recently retire a Pentium 200 Linux server, not because it couldn't do the job but because I no longer needed it. I don't run a GUI on my servers, though.
Or minesweeper for that matter? Honestly, I wondered when this day would come. I knew Microsoft was embarrassed that Linux is taking HPC by storm and ruling the roost in clustering. Meanwhile, Microsoft makes no showing at all in HPC and a relatively poor one in clustering.
Now, does it make sense for Microsoft to try to be first in everything? No. Will they try like some sort of neurotic overachiever? Yes. They can't win this one on merit, though, unless they open the source code, eliminate licensing fees, and ditch the GUI and tons of other crap they force into every installation. Only bribery, PHBs or sheer Microsoft cheerleading would get someone to pay to load Windows Server 2003 on a HPC cluster. There are people that dumb, but few of them are scientists.
I definitely agree with your comment about Apple. OS X is really nice, especially coupled with a PowerBook, but it feels like half of their updates require reboots, which is silly considering what is being updated in most cases.
I have been using Windows for 12 years (and Linux for 10), and this is the first time I have heard of the obscure registry hacks you just listed. Besides, I thought Windows users argue they should not have to find, learn or research anything at all. It should just work, right?
When I just searched for '/proc linux vm swap' in Google,/proc/sys/vm/swappiness was in the fourth hit from the top. There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
I can tell you one thing. I would rather poke around the/proc filesystem than wander through the Windows registry any day.
By the way, if you are not shutting your XP system down often, you must not be rebooting for the security patches, and that can be a problem for everyone. (Yes, I am aware that Microsoft has gone to a monthly release cycle now while simultaneously claiming to release within hours versus the weeks they claim FOSS takes.)
Your time is worth money. You should not waste it on helping others, unless they will pay you. After all, what's in it for you?
Don't join the Peace Corps. Don't help your friends move their furniture. Let those bums pay someone else to do it. Don't share knowledge or teach anyone, especially kids. In fact, children are expensive so don't have any unless you can work out some kind of profit angle. Don't help your spouse or your community. Don't make your bed or wash the dishes unless you get paid for it. If you see a problem like a fire or an accident, don't stop to help. That would just waste your valuable time.
Unless you can get paid for it, don't waste time on sports, even if you enjoy it. You could be spending the time making money or perhaps suing someone instead. Also, don't give any of your money to charities. They are freeloaders.
So please don't volunteer because you will make the rest of us look like shallow, money-grubbing toads.
Why just last October, Bill Gates swore that Microsoft bug fixes have "gone from little over 40 hours on average to 24 hours. With Linux, that would be a couple of weeks on average." Strangely, Microsoft was still somehow able to go to monthly patch releases at about the same time,... but the facts are irrelevant! Do you expect me to believe that Bill Gates would be less than honest with us?! Wait until I tell Rob Enderle and Paul Thurrott what you have said. Then you'll be sorry.:-)
I know; sarcasm is unbecoming. I apologize for holding monopolist billionaires accountable for their ludicrous rantings.
>>Maybe someone should start working on Desktop OpenBSD.:-P
Then the servers hosting the ports system will be compromised.
If you change OS everytime something like this happens, you will wear out your CD drive (and yourself) installing new OS. No OS or organization is immune to being compromised. Even highly secure OS are vulnerable to poor processes and procedures. There are no guarantees in life.
Just be thankful that the recent OSS attacks were quickly detected and handled in an honest, open and effective manner because the sysadmins understand and care about security more than about marketing.
That is not accurate based upon the benchmarks I have seen. Virtual PC has ~10-15% more overhead than VMWare. I have used VMWare for years. It is an excellent product. The ESX version has the best performance of any x86 VM technology I have seen including User Mode Linux (UML). VMWare also has features that put Virtual PC to shame. I also run VMWare under Linux because I believe in having a concrete foundation instead of a glass one.
That certainly is a nice pro-Microsoft spin you put on things, but perhaps you can explain the logic behind your statements. How did they "out-open-source" Open Source software? How can they be more open that what is already completely open?
I am still skeptical that Microsoft has truly made this open. Excuse me, but I don't just blindly accept what Microsoft says at face value. Microsoft has a serious credibility problem from lying about so much for so long. Even if Microsoft has finally caught up to the Open Source community regarding the openness of file formats, that helps OpenOffice and its users. It would make me feel even better about NOT spending hundreds of dollars on an office suite every few years.
Microsoft just cut our legs off over security issues? Do you think opening a Word file format just magically makes all of their security issues go away?
I saw some other Microsoft cheerleader congratulate Microsoft for "leapfrogging" Linux by finally providing a decent (remains to be seen) shell, but this person did not explain how this infant shell surpassed bash, pdksh, or zsh. Just because someone makes some wildly unsubstantiated claim about Microsoft's superiority does not make it true. Why should I believe this is anything more than PR and spin? I'm not convinced they have joined us, let alone beat us, at anything. Honestly, please explain your rationale.
Why would you be surprised that HP is throwing their weight behind it? Also, Alpha technology has been trickling into Intel processors for years.
Yes, the biggest things Intel has going for it is fab capacity, economies of scale, and the natural trend toward commodization. Of course, that is a tough hand to beat. Intel is also famous for superior management and some of the best quality control processes in the world. Companies like AMD aspire to have quality control like Intel.
I've been doing firewalls for a while, and I like the syntax, although I probably wouldn't mind something more beginner friendly. If syntax is the only shortcoming, write a layer of abstraction like a "nice" GUI. No kernel changes needed here.
Everyone who is a Microsoft troll who sits quietly under a rock while major Microsoft security holes are reported weekly just so they can bray like jackasses a couple of times each year when high-profile OSS bugs are announced, please raise your hand so we can continue to ignore you.
I would think that the facts discovered during the anti-trust trial would make it painfully obvious to everyone that Microsoft is not overly concerned with things like ethics or laws. For them, it is an accounting decision. What are the chances we will get caught AND convicted, and what will it cost if we are convicted. Intentionally break our competitors' products, even if it hurts our own customers? Sounds like a good idea to me!
I still hear people complain that they tried to get help learning Linux, and someone was mean and insulting to them on a forum or mailing list. Of course the last person that told me that is an inveterate liar (Oops. I mean he exaggerates.) so I took it with a grain of salt.
It still concerns me that elitist attitudes will turn talented people away from Linux and thus inevitably undermine its growth potential. Almost all of the really cool things in and out of security are being done on Linux, and I want it to stay that way. So be nice to everyone! You don't know if you are insulting the next Alan Cox.
I thought Microsoft already claimed to have fixed "DLL Hell" once or twice before with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. How many times are they going to "fix" the same problem?
One of the really annoying things about Microsoft is they always promise to fix something in the next version. It's always "next time" with them, but the problems never seem to go away.
I started using VMWare when it was pre-1.0 beta. At that time, I was using Windows NT 4 and Linux fairly equally. I decided to purchase the Linux version of VMWare for hosting Windows because it made more sense to run a glass house on a concrete foundation than a concrete house on a glass foundation.
The funny thing is I can't remember the last time I installed Windows under VMWare. I primarily use VMWare now to install other Linux distros, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris x86 under Linux. Having migrated from Windows to Linux years ago, there is just not much value for me to run Windows anymore. Most of my favorite apps are on Linux, and Windows bores me.
The one exception is some games. Since VMWare does not offer the DirectX support or performance required for most games, I have to boot a Windows box for some games anyway. Since that is inconvenient, I try to avoid such games. Native ports and Transgaming WineX have been a big help.
Most Internet content is crap these days, and this is especially true for the content churned out by the brain-dead web "developers" who aren't smart enough to adhere to standards. I never have problems with any of the sites targeting topics for the technically gifted such as Linux users. Let Windows users speak ebonix. I don't frequent "their" type of bar.
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"Um, the fiscally conservative response would be to cut government spending, not raise taxes."
Amen, brother.
While Democrats tend to favor more government involvement and regulation, the general Republican philosophy favors less government and deregulation. What you are dealing with here is the same human corruption seen in both parties. The politician is selling out to lobbyists for personal gain in contradiction to his party's stated goals.
A good question for liberals: What do you see in Democrats these days? How are they better or even different from Republicans? They say one thing (i.e. what you want to hear), but they typically do something completely different (i.e. something that personally benefits him) after the election. You are deluding yourselves, if you believe otherwise. I can't even figure out what Kerry's positions are. He waffles more than Clinton did.
new ones just keep coming along. What is the point. We cured polio and smallpox, but now we have HIV. We should have left well enough alone.
Maybe it is just me, but I think linking bubonic plague to flea infested rats was a beneficial advancement in progressing the human situation, for multiple reasons.
First, let's not confuse the OS with the window manager/desktop environment, although I know typical Windows and Mac users have difficulty understanding this. Fluxbox, Xfce, Windowmaker, and others still offer stellar performance on older hardware.
Regarding KDE and GNOME, I have noticed that KDE's performance has improved on the same hardware over the last few releases while GNOME's performance has degraded.
I spend most of my time on Gentoo with KDE, but I use a variety of window managers, from time to time. My system is very nice so I have not noticed any problems. I did recently retire a Pentium 200 Linux server, not because it couldn't do the job but because I no longer needed it. I don't run a GUI on my servers, though.
Or minesweeper for that matter? Honestly, I wondered when this day would come. I knew Microsoft was embarrassed that Linux is taking HPC by storm and ruling the roost in clustering. Meanwhile, Microsoft makes no showing at all in HPC and a relatively poor one in clustering.
Now, does it make sense for Microsoft to try to be first in everything? No. Will they try like some sort of neurotic overachiever? Yes. They can't win this one on merit, though, unless they open the source code, eliminate licensing fees, and ditch the GUI and tons of other crap they force into every installation. Only bribery, PHBs or sheer Microsoft cheerleading would get someone to pay to load Windows Server 2003 on a HPC cluster. There are people that dumb, but few of them are scientists.
I definitely agree with your comment about Apple. OS X is really nice, especially coupled with a PowerBook, but it feels like half of their updates require reboots, which is silly considering what is being updated in most cases.
I have been using Windows for 12 years (and Linux for 10), and this is the first time I have heard of the obscure registry hacks you just listed. Besides, I thought Windows users argue they should not have to find, learn or research anything at all. It should just work, right?
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness was in the fourth hit from the top. There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
/proc filesystem than wander through the Windows registry any day.
When I just searched for '/proc linux vm swap' in Google,
I can tell you one thing. I would rather poke around the
By the way, if you are not shutting your XP system down often, you must not be rebooting for the security patches, and that can be a problem for everyone. (Yes, I am aware that Microsoft has gone to a monthly release cycle now while simultaneously claiming to release within hours versus the weeks they claim FOSS takes.)
I was tempted, but I don't drink Pepsi. I wish I could get the same deal with Coke.
"[I] believe that the system's cultural influence as a social entertainment brand has only just begun."
I agree. I also believe the system's cultural influence as a social entertainment brand has also peaked.
Your time is worth money. You should not waste it on helping others, unless they will pay you. After all, what's in it for you?
Don't join the Peace Corps. Don't help your friends move their furniture. Let those bums pay someone else to do it. Don't share knowledge or teach anyone, especially kids. In fact, children are expensive so don't have any unless you can work out some kind of profit angle. Don't help your spouse or your community. Don't make your bed or wash the dishes unless you get paid for it. If you see a problem like a fire or an accident, don't stop to help. That would just waste your valuable time.
Unless you can get paid for it, don't waste time on sports, even if you enjoy it. You could be spending the time making money or perhaps suing someone instead. Also, don't give any of your money to charities. They are freeloaders.
So please don't volunteer because you will make the rest of us look like shallow, money-grubbing toads.
Why just last October, Bill Gates swore that Microsoft bug fixes have "gone from little over 40 hours on average to 24 hours. With Linux, that would be a couple of weeks on average." Strangely, Microsoft was still somehow able to go to monthly patch releases at about the same time,... but the facts are irrelevant! Do you expect me to believe that Bill Gates would be less than honest with us?! Wait until I tell Rob Enderle and Paul Thurrott what you have said. Then you'll be sorry. :-)
I know; sarcasm is unbecoming. I apologize for holding monopolist billionaires accountable for their ludicrous rantings.
>>Maybe someone should start working on Desktop OpenBSD. :-P
Then the servers hosting the ports system will be compromised.
If you change OS everytime something like this happens, you will wear out your CD drive (and yourself) installing new OS. No OS or organization is immune to being compromised. Even highly secure OS are vulnerable to poor processes and procedures. There are no guarantees in life.
Just be thankful that the recent OSS attacks were quickly detected and handled in an honest, open and effective manner because the sysadmins understand and care about security more than about marketing.
That is not accurate based upon the benchmarks I have seen. Virtual PC has ~10-15% more overhead than VMWare. I have used VMWare for years. It is an excellent product. The ESX version has the best performance of any x86 VM technology I have seen including User Mode Linux (UML). VMWare also has features that put Virtual PC to shame. I also run VMWare under Linux because I believe in having a concrete foundation instead of a glass one.
That certainly is a nice pro-Microsoft spin you put on things, but perhaps you can explain the logic behind your statements. How did they "out-open-source" Open Source software? How can they be more open that what is already completely open?
I am still skeptical that Microsoft has truly made this open. Excuse me, but I don't just blindly accept what Microsoft says at face value. Microsoft has a serious credibility problem from lying about so much for so long. Even if Microsoft has finally caught up to the Open Source community regarding the openness of file formats, that helps OpenOffice and its users. It would make me feel even better about NOT spending hundreds of dollars on an office suite every few years.
Microsoft just cut our legs off over security issues? Do you think opening a Word file format just magically makes all of their security issues go away?
I saw some other Microsoft cheerleader congratulate Microsoft for "leapfrogging" Linux by finally providing a decent (remains to be seen) shell, but this person did not explain how this infant shell surpassed bash, pdksh, or zsh. Just because someone makes some wildly unsubstantiated claim about Microsoft's superiority does not make it true. Why should I believe this is anything more than PR and spin? I'm not convinced they have joined us, let alone beat us, at anything. Honestly, please explain your rationale.
Why would you be surprised that HP is throwing their weight behind it? Also, Alpha technology has been trickling into Intel processors for years.
Yes, the biggest things Intel has going for it is fab capacity, economies of scale, and the natural trend toward commodization. Of course, that is a tough hand to beat. Intel is also famous for superior management and some of the best quality control processes in the world. Companies like AMD aspire to have quality control like Intel.
I've been doing firewalls for a while, and I like the syntax, although I probably wouldn't mind something more beginner friendly. If syntax is the only shortcoming, write a layer of abstraction like a "nice" GUI. No kernel changes needed here.
What does Packet Filter have that Netfilter does not?
Everyone who is a Microsoft troll who sits quietly under a rock while major Microsoft security holes are reported weekly just so they can bray like jackasses a couple of times each year when high-profile OSS bugs are announced, please raise your hand so we can continue to ignore you.
I just went to Zone-H, and it said that 100% of the defacements were on Windows 2000.
Microsoft was convicted of software piracy in France in 2001. They were fined 3 million francs.
You can check out the details here. - Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick
I would think that the facts discovered during the anti-trust trial would make it painfully obvious to everyone that Microsoft is not overly concerned with things like ethics or laws. For them, it is an accounting decision. What are the chances we will get caught AND convicted, and what will it cost if we are convicted. Intentionally break our competitors' products, even if it hurts our own customers? Sounds like a good idea to me!
When I search for Linux howtos, I don't want all of the links pointing me to anti-Linux FUD or Microsoft ads. Smart-tags, anyone?
I still hear people complain that they tried to get help learning Linux, and someone was mean and insulting to them on a forum or mailing list. Of course the last person that told me that is an inveterate liar (Oops. I mean he exaggerates.) so I took it with a grain of salt.
It still concerns me that elitist attitudes will turn talented people away from Linux and thus inevitably undermine its growth potential. Almost all of the really cool things in and out of security are being done on Linux, and I want it to stay that way. So be nice to everyone! You don't know if you are insulting the next Alan Cox.
I thought Microsoft already claimed to have fixed "DLL Hell" once or twice before with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. How many times are they going to "fix" the same problem?
One of the really annoying things about Microsoft is they always promise to fix something in the next version. It's always "next time" with them, but the problems never seem to go away.
I started using VMWare when it was pre-1.0 beta. At that time, I was using Windows NT 4 and Linux fairly equally. I decided to purchase the Linux version of VMWare for hosting Windows because it made more sense to run a glass house on a concrete foundation than a concrete house on a glass foundation.
The funny thing is I can't remember the last time I installed Windows under VMWare. I primarily use VMWare now to install other Linux distros, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris x86 under Linux. Having migrated from Windows to Linux years ago, there is just not much value for me to run Windows anymore. Most of my favorite apps are on Linux, and Windows bores me.
The one exception is some games. Since VMWare does not offer the DirectX support or performance required for most games, I have to boot a Windows box for some games anyway. Since that is inconvenient, I try to avoid such games. Native ports and Transgaming WineX have been a big help.
Most Internet content is crap these days, and this is especially true for the content churned out by the brain-dead web "developers" who aren't smart enough to adhere to standards. I never have problems with any of the sites targeting topics for the technically gifted such as Linux users. Let Windows users speak ebonix. I don't frequent "their" type of bar.