This is time number#2 that folks reported random logins into PCs running TeamViewer. Reddit has more details as not phone scammers but another round 2 of PCs getting logged into with malware being loaded and logged off!
A flame war with asshats system administrators denying it because there is no proof in a company statement. But to me evidence says otherwise if reports keep coming back. I have stopped using it and recommend others to stay away. Crappy and odd it's only TeamViewer that has that issue
You're making the assumption that these are professional people. The kind of Slashdot user who posts things like "Micro$haft sucks, most evil company ever" never makes it beyond the helpdesk or entry-level dev jobs in most companies. Their opinion is literally worthless to the company; they don't rise to become decision makers or budget holders, let alone C-level. So, while they seethe in their cubicles, their boss' boss' boss' boss' boss' boss signs an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and announces Visual Studio 2017 will be deployed to devs within the company.
People with a functioning brain don't expect software to be open source any more than they expect open-source cars, food, clothes, etc. Hell, pretty much all chip designs are closed source, as is pretty much all BIOS code - what's the point of being smug about a FOSS software stack if your hardware is proprietary?
FOSS' primary advantage is it incentivises companies to not act like buttholes - if the company's going off the rails, some random guy can fork the project and it gains traction. If they don't patch a security flaw, some guy forks it. It doesn't guarantee better quality code or better project management...indeed, some of the most poorly managed software projects of the last 10 years (Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, systemd) have been FOSS.
You know back in 2000 when Slashdot was young I was one of those guys who went into a job fair. I told one hiring IT manager that I only like free as it's the best and he rolled eyes and looked back. I said something similiar but less direct to the next hiring manager and he just smiled like I was retarded.
After that incident I questioned everything I read here and assumed corporate America didn't get it! Later on years later I realized it was ME who didn't get it!:-) A wife, bills, and tired of reinstalling everything because I made a mistake (though I have virtual machines now today) got me kind of sick of FOSS ONLY WINDOWS SUX way of things).
Oddly most slashdotters today are conservative now rather than freakish liberal like in the late 1990s and early 2000's but still think Windows = Windows 98 with the same problems as this was the last version they used at home. I have moved on myself. I have a FreeBSD VM and some Linux appliances for when I want to use something on another VM.
ANd yes replying to myself I also want to address the grand parent for things like SQL Server.
If you want the full thing go to www.technet.com and download it? It timebombs after 180 days but MS allows you to run it and Windows Server Enterprise editions free for non production or business use for IT professionals in virtual or stand alone machines. The Community Edition comes with SQL Server Express but I downloaded both the SQL Server for Linux 2016 and the regular win64 SQL Sever 2014 and Server 2012 R2 that I run in Hyper-V on my desktop.
The community edition is not the crippled express editions. You can even make professional software with it too. THe only difference is the MSDN subscription and corporate Team Foundation features for teams and groups.
THe Community Edition even comes with Git and Git tools to use for things like Github.
So why is everyone whining? Things are not free to make and like Redhat there is CentOS for those who do not need enterprise support but is there for those that do.
No I am not making this up either. Also a beta version of Visual Studio for Mac is available too as well as better Android and IOS support. VS since 2015 also comes with Java and Android emulators as well via Hyper-V.
The grandparent might be referring to coyotes. They were once only rural but have returned all the way to the east coast and suburban areas which was not the case when I was a kid.
Yes they are a threat and even wolves are a threat outside of suburbia to cattle and other livestock. Coyotes attack pets and even small children too
There is in fact ZERO documented reports of this actually happening.
There is quite some some evidence for even 1st world countries for prices like $40,000 a rhino tusk. If $40,000 was enough incentive in Paris to kill an animal in a freaking public zoo then how much is $40,000 in an African hutt with 5 starving kids all barefoot? You could live years without working for just one kill!
It doesn't guarantee your data will be there if data on the disk over time gets reset by Earth's magnetic field. Tapes too but last longer as they are designed to not detect but recover from errors.
What if your hardware raid card won't fit in a computer 10 years from now or have drivers that work?
They are not applications. They are protocols and whole platforms. If things were multiplatform there would be no integration.
Look at Java as an example. It had it's own awkward GUI components, fonts, threading, etc. Java was a mini OS and Sun even made it an OS with JavaOS. Windows is very tightly integrated with the registry, WMI, and group policy that ties both with AD so you can do amazing things with large amounts of systems. The Nintendo gameboy for example wouldn't be able to use a NO PRINT GPO even if it could read LPAD AD requests.
So Offices would still be MS shops. I guess you could argue Novell with it's eDirectory or NDS might still be around as the only reason it was dumped was because it wasn't Microsoft and PHB's assumed in 2000 that everyone would be using IE 6 by now and only MS would exist as a tech giant back in those days.
We are kind of sort of heading that way now with JavaScript. Ask anyone who has experienced the horrors of node.js and writting your own threading by using callbacks instead of the OS APIs?
Before that there was Java. How great would it be if Java won and we all were stuck using it?
Talk about a loss of freedom.
It gets worse....
Guess which OS you would use at work? Windows. Which OS would grandma still use? Windows. Why?
Active Directory, exchange, office 365, and other manageability means corporations would still use it for control and auditing compliance. Nothing comes close. Want to process credit cards? PCI lockdown has 20 Group policy objects to implement dictated by insurance. Grandma would still use Windows because it's idiot proof. Though some are using iPhones and iPads now but Facebook and email are the only needs she cares about. Not software
Hi. This is your client. Ever since you came over here with this GNU thingies I have been unable to open PDF files that work with DRM signing. Can you fix it?
Who cares. It's just a scale no different than celcius. Only difference is those who use it complain they cannot convert to F. Americans have the same problem vice versa. So what's your point?
Dude gamer GPU's are increasing in performance incredibly fast. THey double in speed every 2 years. The only reason desktop is not innovating is because Intel has a monopoly and won. But that is changing starting with Kaby Lake thanks to AMD Ryzen. It is back to 15% every year again and maybe even more as graphics shows no slow downs anytime soon.
Shoot for $185 you can get what a $399 did just in late 2014/2015 at all max settings in games.
The sole reason Kaby lakes got hot and clocked in so fast is because of AMD just around the corner and it worked to beat Ryzen. I expect the CPU race to heat back up again as physics has not killed innovation yet.
Proof is GPU's and Phones are still improving at breakneck speed. It is only because of an INtel monopoly that on the desktop it has went to a standstill.
Tell you what? I will visit your country and you visit Alaska (not in the summer) or Chicago in the middle of winter?:-)
Wind, snow, and you can tell the temperature on how quick the snots freeze up your nose. 6F which is around -10F you can feel your nostrils turn crunchy fun stuff:-)
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This is time number#2 that folks reported random logins into PCs running TeamViewer. Reddit has more details as not phone scammers but another round 2 of PCs getting logged into with malware being loaded and logged off!
A flame war with asshats system administrators denying it because there is no proof in a company statement. But to me evidence says otherwise if reports keep coming back. I have stopped using it and recommend others to stay away. Crappy and odd it's only TeamViewer that has that issue
Ah so it wasn't the microwave. She must of got her appliances confused and left the wrong one out. Doh
I just use cat. I guess Ed is secure too since no one else's it anymore
It runs slow for games.Everyone knows at 800 X 600 resolution gaming is the most important thing when evaluating a CPU.
Linux support for VC++ is mentioned seems pretty big.
Also a mac version is in preview and better Android and IOS development with Xamarin is included.
Go use Clang then? It is included in VS 2015 and VS 2017
You're making the assumption that these are professional people. The kind of Slashdot user who posts things like "Micro$haft sucks, most evil company ever" never makes it beyond the helpdesk or entry-level dev jobs in most companies. Their opinion is literally worthless to the company; they don't rise to become decision makers or budget holders, let alone C-level. So, while they seethe in their cubicles, their boss' boss' boss' boss' boss' boss signs an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and announces Visual Studio 2017 will be deployed to devs within the company.
People with a functioning brain don't expect software to be open source any more than they expect open-source cars, food, clothes, etc. Hell, pretty much all chip designs are closed source, as is pretty much all BIOS code - what's the point of being smug about a FOSS software stack if your hardware is proprietary?
FOSS' primary advantage is it incentivises companies to not act like buttholes - if the company's going off the rails, some random guy can fork the project and it gains traction. If they don't patch a security flaw, some guy forks it. It doesn't guarantee better quality code or better project management...indeed, some of the most poorly managed software projects of the last 10 years (Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, systemd) have been FOSS.
You know back in 2000 when Slashdot was young I was one of those guys who went into a job fair. I told one hiring IT manager that I only like free as it's the best and he rolled eyes and looked back. I said something similiar but less direct to the next hiring manager and he just smiled like I was retarded.
After that incident I questioned everything I read here and assumed corporate America didn't get it! Later on years later I realized it was ME who didn't get it! :-) A wife, bills, and tired of reinstalling everything because I made a mistake (though I have virtual machines now today) got me kind of sick of FOSS ONLY WINDOWS SUX way of things).
Oddly most slashdotters today are conservative now rather than freakish liberal like in the late 1990s and early 2000's but still think Windows = Windows 98 with the same problems as this was the last version they used at home. I have moved on myself. I have a FreeBSD VM and some Linux appliances for when I want to use something on another VM.
ANd yes replying to myself I also want to address the grand parent for things like SQL Server.
If you want the full thing go to www.technet.com and download it? It timebombs after 180 days but MS allows you to run it and Windows Server Enterprise editions free for non production or business use for IT professionals in virtual or stand alone machines. The Community Edition comes with SQL Server Express but I downloaded both the SQL Server for Linux 2016 and the regular win64 SQL Sever 2014 and Server 2012 R2 that I run in Hyper-V on my desktop.
The community edition is not the crippled express editions. You can even make professional software with it too. THe only difference is the MSDN subscription and corporate Team Foundation features for teams and groups.
THe Community Edition even comes with Git and Git tools to use for things like Github.
So why is everyone whining? Things are not free to make and like Redhat there is CentOS for those who do not need enterprise support but is there for those that do.
No I am not making this up either. Also a beta version of Visual Studio for Mac is available too as well as better Android and IOS support. VS since 2015 also comes with Java and Android emulators as well via Hyper-V.
MS is getting quite serious about being cross platform
The grandparent might be referring to coyotes. They were once only rural but have returned all the way to the east coast and suburban areas which was not the case when I was a kid.
Yes they are a threat and even wolves are a threat outside of suburbia to cattle and other livestock. Coyotes attack pets and even small children too
There is in fact ZERO documented reports of this actually happening.
There is quite some some evidence for even 1st world countries for prices like $40,000 a rhino tusk. If $40,000 was enough incentive in Paris to kill an animal in a freaking public zoo then how much is $40,000 in an African hutt with 5 starving kids all barefoot? You could live years without working for just one kill!
Both droids and Iphone have Sirii and Googlle Now
Cries that's that leaving Microsoft ... And going to Oracle?!!
Whom am I kidding at least Oracle s shitty expensive products are stable. Sadly Hyper-V seems to be my favorite so far between all of them sadly
Raid is not backup.
It doesn't guarantee your data will be there if data on the disk over time gets reset by Earth's magnetic field. Tapes too but last longer as they are designed to not detect but recover from errors.
What if your hardware raid card won't fit in a computer 10 years from now or have drivers that work?
RAID is not backup!
It's been said a million times from any competent system administrator.
They are not applications. They are protocols and whole platforms. If things were multiplatform there would be no integration.
Look at Java as an example. It had it's own awkward GUI components, fonts, threading, etc. Java was a mini OS and Sun even made it an OS with JavaOS. Windows is very tightly integrated with the registry, WMI, and group policy that ties both with AD so you can do amazing things with large amounts of systems. The Nintendo gameboy for example wouldn't be able to use a NO PRINT GPO even if it could read LPAD AD requests.
So Offices would still be MS shops. I guess you could argue Novell with it's eDirectory or NDS might still be around as the only reason it was dumped was because it wasn't Microsoft and PHB's assumed in 2000 that everyone would be using IE 6 by now and only MS would exist as a tech giant back in those days.
We are kind of sort of heading that way now with JavaScript. Ask anyone who has experienced the horrors of node.js and writting your own threading by using callbacks instead of the OS APIs?
Before that there was Java. How great would it be if Java won and we all were stuck using it?
Talk about a loss of freedom.
It gets worse ....
Guess which OS you would use at work? Windows. Which OS would grandma still use? Windows. Why?
Active Directory, exchange, office 365, and other manageability means corporations would still use it for control and auditing compliance. Nothing comes close. Want to process credit cards? PCI lockdown has 20 Group policy objects to implement dictated by insurance. Grandma would still use Windows because it's idiot proof. Though some are using iPhones and iPads now but Facebook and email are the only needs she cares about. Not software
Hi. This is your client. Ever since you came over here with this GNU thingies I have been unable to open PDF files that work with DRM signing. Can you fix it?
Except it's universal as email for group meetings and job interviews
Who cares. It's just a scale no different than celcius. Only difference is those who use it complain they cannot convert to F. Americans have the same problem vice versa. So what's your point?
Dude gamer GPU's are increasing in performance incredibly fast. THey double in speed every 2 years. The only reason desktop is not innovating is because Intel has a monopoly and won. But that is changing starting with Kaby Lake thanks to AMD Ryzen. It is back to 15% every year again and maybe even more as graphics shows no slow downs anytime soon.
Shoot for $185 you can get what a $399 did just in late 2014/2015 at all max settings in games.
The sole reason Kaby lakes got hot and clocked in so fast is because of AMD just around the corner and it worked to beat Ryzen. I expect the CPU race to heat back up again as physics has not killed innovation yet.
Proof is GPU's and Phones are still improving at breakneck speed. It is only because of an INtel monopoly that on the desktop it has went to a standstill.
Tell you what? I will visit your country and you visit Alaska (not in the summer) or Chicago in the middle of winter? :-)
Wind, snow, and you can tell the temperature on how quick the snots freeze up your nose. 6F which is around -10F you can feel your nostrils turn crunchy fun stuff :-)