"while Microsoft has sold 300 million Windows 7 licenses and reported record second-quarter revenue of nearly $20 billion, Zemlin said Linux people aren't giving up on the desktop market just yet" link
The desktop is totally owned by MS. Whenever anything innovative appears it invariably pops up in the next version of Windows and given away, in the process sucking the lifeblood out of whatever third party company MS has decided to eliminate off its Desktop. You notice that where Open Source or other non_windows systems have made advances is where Microsoft hasn't managed to achieve an effective monopoly similar to the Microsoft desktop monoculture.. er... ecosystem.
CLI is best for admin work, a few scripts and you've semi-automated most of the admin work. Compare that to the click here-and-here-and-here method. That's why it takes less staff to admin a Linux service than a Win er.. GUI one. Even on the desktop, BASH and a few scripts achieves more in a few seconds than minutes of clicking...
"Armed with printouts of the spreadsheet, the.. admins sit down.. and painstakingly go through each record.. one by one, typing in each address manually for each record.. It takes several hours at least -- and unbeknownst to them, they've managed to fat-finger a few addresses and swap a digit here or there in the blear of a late Friday night"
"Meanwhile, an admin over at CLI Inc takes the two address columns from the spreadsheet, copies them to a clipboard, and pastes them into a file on a Linux box. It's the work of 10 seconds to parse that into a usable sed script" link
What ever you do, don't mention Windows, but do mention Apple even though it isn't affected:
"fast-spreading SQL injection attack.. scareware attack.. malicious file then sells a software.. bogus scareware [ is there any other kind ?].. Apple iTunes were also infected"...
> RSA confirmed on Friday that the attack that compromised the company's high-value SecurID product was essentially a small, targeted phishing campaign that included a payload of a malicious Flash object embedded in an Excel file."..
Don't open email attachments on a Windows computer that is used to control your SecurID product...
> Microsoft, of course, filed its own antitrust action against Google this week, and even commented publicly on the irony of its doing so, noting that Microsoft has 'spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot.'"
How is what Google does equivilent to Microsoft strongarming the OEMS to make iExplorer the default browser on the desktop, coercing the OEMs into removing third party browsers, hacking the API to make using third party browsers a jolting experience etc...
He single handedly destroyed a whole industry and replaced it with the Microsoft ecosystem. It's telling that the only real innovation going on now is in markets that MS isn't dominent, search and the mobile sector.
"Microsoft.. has filed a complaint with the European Commission, saying that Google is using its market dominance to prevent Microsoft from gaining market share."
Translation: We can't beat Google in the marketplace lets go after them in the Courts..
'The supervisor.. confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."'
I don't see anything in the article saying Allen 'understood' Gates decision to bilk Allen out of his share of Micro-Soft..
"One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill’s office.. It was clear that they’d been thinking about this for some time. Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, “This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all”
"In January, I met with Bill one final time as a Microsoft executive. As he sat down with me on the couch in his office, I knew that he’d try to make me feel guilty and obliged to stay. But once he saw he couldn’t change my mind, Bill tried to cut his losses"
“It’s not fair that you keep your stake in the company” he said. He made a lowball offer for my stock: five dollars a sharelink
"We found that computer servers on NASA's agency-wide mission network had high-risk vulnerabilities that were exploitable from the Internet. Specifically, six computer servers associated with IT assets that control spacecraft and contain critical data had vulnerabilities that would allow a remote attacker to take control of or render them unavailable" link
By any chance, would these 'computer servers' be running on Microsoft Windows?
"a recent audit report.. cited a 2009 incident in which cybercriminals.. caused the computer system to make 3,000 unauthorized connections to domestic and international IP addresses"
Wouldn't it be a good idea to put these 'computer systems' behind a firewall and only allow access through authenticated VPN connections?
"Power consumption is an important consideration in building a modern browser and one objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to responsibly lead the industry in power requirements"
This is technological BS, power consumption is a function of the Operating System. This article is just an excuse to trash the other browsers. A better title would be, Microsoft tweaks Windows to give own browser better benchmarks..
People don't want to pay for what they consider they have already payed for, to the ISP. What would work is some kind of micro-payment system where the ISP adds the cost of access onto your bill and channeled payment upstream to the content provider.
> the glitch happened March 14, right after the spacecraft issued a network interface card (NIC) reset command to implement a computer program update..
Like, why would a NIC reset command corrupt a 'computer program'', why would you need to reset the NIC to update a 'computer program' ?
> Researchers.. are undertaking an in-depth study of energy consumption.. with the aim of demonstrating that running a large network of devices on DC rather than AC is.. more energy efficient..
Well, it would be as , instead of doing the conversion individually in each switch-mode power supply the conversion is done in one single unit. Of course you then need to factor in the losses in transferring DC over distances, something high-tension distribution AC was designed to overcome.
"Just because something existed in the 70's doesn't necessarily mean people should have known about it or that it had any impact on future developments"..
They should know if they are in the business of making pronouncements on such..
“I think you just got a glimpse of the future of education,” said Mr. Gates, as Mr. Khan left the stage.
"Actually it would make more sense for NASA to license their software under BSD than GPL. As a taxpayer funded organization they should not be discriminating against commercial organization who are also taxpayers"..
A scene about two thirds of the way through the film finds Carrie-Anne Moss's leather-clad superhacker setting her sights on a power grid computer, for plot reasons better left unrevealed.
But at exactly the point where audiences would normally be treated to a brightly-colored graphical cartoon of a computer intrusion, ala the 2001 Travolta vehicle Swordfish, or cheer as the protagonist skillfully summons a Web browser and fights valiantly through "404 Errors," like the malnourished cyberpunk in this year's "The Core," something completely different happens: Trinity runs "Nmap." link
"Since WebOS applications is just web apps run in a V8 javascript environment with some nice javascript api:s for notifications, window management aso"..
"webOS is a proprietary mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by HP" link
Slashdot Mirror
"There's always Xfce" ..
Lubuntu is even more lightweight ..
"while Microsoft has sold 300 million Windows 7 licenses and reported record second-quarter revenue of nearly $20 billion, Zemlin said Linux people aren't giving up on the desktop market just yet" link
The desktop is totally owned by MS. Whenever anything innovative appears it invariably pops up in the next version of Windows and given away, in the process sucking the lifeblood out of whatever third party company MS has decided to eliminate off its Desktop. You notice that where Open Source or other non_windows systems have made advances is where Microsoft hasn't managed to achieve an effective monopoly similar to the Microsoft desktop monoculture .. er ... ecosystem.
CLI is best for admin work, a few scripts and you've semi-automated most of the admin work. Compare that to the click here-and-here-and-here method. That's why it takes less staff to admin a Linux service than a Win er .. GUI one. Even on the desktop, BASH and a few scripts achieves more in a few seconds than minutes of clicking ...
"Armed with printouts of the spreadsheet, the .. admins sit down .. and painstakingly go through each record .. one by one, typing in each address manually for each record .. It takes several hours at least -- and unbeknownst to them, they've managed to fat-finger a few addresses and swap a digit here or there in the blear of a late Friday night"
"Meanwhile, an admin over at CLI Inc takes the two address columns from the spreadsheet, copies them to a clipboard, and pastes them into a file on a Linux box. It's the work of 10 seconds to parse that into a usable sed script" link
Saddam: Did you miss me, buttercup?
Satan: No, it can't be! You're dead! I killed you!
What ever you do, don't mention Windows, but do mention Apple even though it isn't affected:
"fast-spreading SQL injection attack .. scareware attack .. malicious file then sells a software .. bogus scareware [ is there any other kind ?] .. Apple iTunes were also infected" ...
> RSA confirmed on Friday that the attack that compromised the company's high-value SecurID product was essentially a small, targeted phishing campaign that included a payload of a malicious Flash object embedded in an Excel file." ..
Don't open email attachments on a Windows computer that is used to control your SecurID product ...
> Microsoft, of course, filed its own antitrust action against Google this week, and even commented publicly on the irony of its doing so, noting that Microsoft has 'spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot.'"
How is what Google does equivilent to Microsoft strongarming the OEMS to make iExplorer the default browser on the desktop, coercing the OEMs into removing third party browsers, hacking the API to make using third party browsers a jolting experience etc ...
What was in the terms regarding storage of the data and CyberLynk and World Network, the show's creator?
He single handedly destroyed a whole industry and replaced it with the Microsoft ecosystem. It's telling that the only real innovation going on now is in markets that MS isn't dominent, search and the mobile sector.
"Microsoft .. has filed a complaint with the European Commission, saying that Google is using its market dominance to prevent Microsoft from gaining market share."
Translation: We can't beat Google in the marketplace lets go after them in the Courts ..
'The supervisor .. confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."'
I don't see anything in the article saying Allen 'understood' Gates decision to bilk Allen out of his share of Micro-Soft ..
"One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill’s office .. It was clear that they’d been thinking about this for some time. Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, “This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all”
"In January, I met with Bill one final time as a Microsoft executive. As he sat down with me on the couch in his office, I knew that he’d try to make me feel guilty and obliged to stay. But once he saw he couldn’t change my mind, Bill tried to cut his losses"
“It’s not fair that you keep your stake in the company” he said. He made a lowball offer for my stock: five dollars a share link
"We found that computer servers on NASA's agency-wide mission network had high-risk vulnerabilities that were exploitable from the Internet. Specifically, six computer servers associated with IT assets that control spacecraft and contain critical data had vulnerabilities that would allow a remote attacker to take control of or render them unavailable" link
By any chance, would these 'computer servers' be running on Microsoft Windows?
"a recent audit report .. cited a 2009 incident in which cybercriminals .. caused the computer system to make 3,000 unauthorized connections to domestic and international IP addresses"
Wouldn't it be a good idea to put these 'computer systems' behind a firewall and only allow access through authenticated VPN connections?
"Power consumption is an important consideration in building a modern browser and one objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to responsibly lead the industry in power requirements"
This is technological BS, power consumption is a function of the Operating System. This article is just an excuse to trash the other browsers. A better title would be, Microsoft tweaks Windows to give own browser better benchmarks ..
People don't want to pay for what they consider they have already payed for, to the ISP. What would work is some kind of micro-payment system where the ISP adds the cost of access onto your bill and channeled payment upstream to the content provider.
> the glitch happened March 14, right after the spacecraft issued a network interface card (NIC) reset command to implement a computer program update ..
Like, why would a NIC reset command corrupt a 'computer program'', why would you need to reset the NIC to update a 'computer program' ?
> Researchers .. are undertaking an in-depth study of energy consumption .. with the aim of demonstrating that running a large network of devices on DC rather than AC is .. more energy efficient ..
Well, it would be as , instead of doing the conversion individually in each switch-mode power supply the conversion is done in one single unit. Of course you then need to factor in the losses in transferring DC over distances, something high-tension distribution AC was designed to overcome.
Going on the map there are more nutjobs per-square-mile in the advanced west than the rest of the planet. link
You mean someone opened an email attachment on their Windows computer?
> This is a review of 10 movies that the reviewer hasn't seen, because they haven't come out yet?
That's because he used the Large Hadron Collider to send back reviews from the future ..
Oh, I get it, you're being ironic .. nice one CmdrTaco .. for a minute there you really had me going. I wonder where Ethisphere makes its money ..
"Just because something existed in the 70's doesn't necessarily mean people should have known about it or that it had any impact on future developments" ..
They should know if they are in the business of making pronouncements on such ..
“I think you just got a glimpse of the future of education,” said Mr. Gates, as Mr. Khan left the stage.
"Actually it would make more sense for NASA to license their software under BSD than GPL. As a taxpayer funded organization they should not be discriminating against commercial organization who are also taxpayers" ..
I don't think so ...
A scene about two thirds of the way through the film finds Carrie-Anne Moss's leather-clad superhacker setting her sights on a power grid computer, for plot reasons better left unrevealed.
But at exactly the point where audiences would normally be treated to a brightly-colored graphical cartoon of a computer intrusion, ala the 2001 Travolta vehicle Swordfish, or cheer as the protagonist skillfully summons a Web browser and fights valiantly through "404 Errors," like the malnourished cyberpunk in this year's "The Core," something completely different happens: Trinity runs "Nmap." link
"Since WebOS applications is just web apps run in a V8 javascript environment with some nice javascript api:s for notifications, window management aso"..
"webOS is a proprietary mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by HP" link