The Tilt (8900) is passable but the 8500 and 8100 were famous for losing the network, or more accurately, not being able to regain the network. I remember rebooting the phone every morning at the bus stop to get a data connection. Voice was hit and miss with most calls going straight to VM. AT&T's timeout dropped the device off the network overnight and the phone wouldn't play nice until it was restarted.
Yah, you can cut the rate of bad connections down by about 50%+ if you force the sending host to follow the RFCs.
Yes, I initially thought that's a good idea so I did. Unfortunately, I found out about it blocked about 10% of valid e-mails from misconfigured systems.
The two of you took a stand and how many freshmen roll through every year? (BTW: You would have seen me at least twice.) How many of those had to scramble to find an alternate container? Is that really another layer a freshman needs? Since you expertise is physics... oops... sorry, *computational* physics, maybe the document format crusade should be carried on by, say, the computer department?
Also, off the top of my head, wasn't the newest Microsoft format released three years ago? And before that? (Sorry, Google is no longer my friend).
...that the report identifying Flash and Reader as the top vectors for 2010 is released in PDF format? At the risk of shouting "get off my lawn", what happened to good old plain text? The margins and logos did not add to the content. If you need all that then you probably should't have opened the PDF.
"According to this article at IT Expert Voice, Desktop and Linux: Useful at Last?, we've had so many predictions that this will be 'the year of Linux on the Desktop' that most of us have stopped listening. But Ubuntu may have new life breathed into it because Ubuntu is a requirement for my mom."
This is a HUGE part of the current problem in the States with health insurance.
It was already pointed out this incident is in Canada. Moving on...
Health insurance companies are not doctors.
No, but in the US they typically have doctors on staff.
You can't make a diagnosis by looking at pictures on someone's facebook account.
Congratulations, you got one right.
They teach you that in medical school, I think.
I assume that is a first year course? You gotta weed out the slow ones somehow.
Frankly, I think anyone who works for an organization as corrupt as an American health insurance company, has it coming, because nobody who works for one can possibly claim ignorance to the crap that goes on with them.
You didn't go into much detail but it certainly can't be the profits since Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo are all more profitable than the health insurance industry: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance
I would start with the financial institutions that nearly plunged the US into another great depression. Also at the top of my list would be the companies that poison people by contanimating the air/ground/water. Companies like Wal-Mart with illegal business practices that take advantage of workers is also a good start. And don't get me started on the telco's and cable TV.
And yes, the employees can claim ignorance because of some little things called federal laws that protect patient's information. The guy managing the routers does not know about Ms. Anderson's implants (ok, bad example but a lovely mental image). Heck, I know an Enron programmer who thought they were visionary until the wheels fell off.
Hop in your time machine and skip ahead two stories to the Lightweight Rootkit Protection post. TFA mentions nine real-world rootkits that target "that platform" (Ubuntu 8.04) and the 2.6 kernel. I know there are a cubic gazillion reasons to wear the "your OS sucks" t-shirt but I think some of that emotion should be put into action and get more eyes on the open code to identify issues before the bad girls do and/or trash your system (KK, I'm looking at you). I have the unrealistic goal of not having a problem in the first place as compared to patching it quickly.
If we had a system of publically accountable, transparent entities running health insurance (as we do with health *care*, thank you very much the hospitals are mostly fine,) then it would be crazy to propose a federal takeover. But the groups presently running the insurance scam in this country are the same financial institutions responsible for all the worst excesses of the commerce department.
+1 for gratuitous use of buzzwords/jargon that would make a realtor jealous
+1 for not using the word paradigm
-1 for failing to put them together to make a coherent point
I remember when JD and PCMagazine had some relevance and credibility. He must have signed a life-long contract to be still around at that TV-Guide wannabe rag.
...or you can speak up loudly and take them to court.
Let me guess. You're an attorney? 'Cause that's where all the dollars go when you take that action. But good luck and if you win, enjoy that coupon for a free cellphone with the purchase of another.
The vast majority of attacks out there are simple programs that install in the OS. They are not some uber VM root kits or the like. As such, a virus scanner running in the OS is perfectly capable of dealing with them. So no, it doesn't give you 100% defense but I bet it stops 99.99% of the attacks out there and that is worth something.
Absolutely agree. It's nice that she has a throwaway image because it isn't possible to proect herself from her definition of the critical threats, but those aren't the threats I'm necessarily worried about. My A/V keeps (among other things) the script kiddies out who do things that pi$$ me off and cause me to react. The bad guys/girls can have anything on my system which is why they probably won't bother with me. I'm wondering how much crap her system spews the day before she decides (la la la) to reimage. That's the stuff that's going after me.
From TFA: None of the strikes hit the shuttle or its external tank and solid rocket boosters, but there were strikes to the lightning mast and water tower.
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Which ones?
The Tilt (8900) is passable but the 8500 and 8100 were famous for losing the network, or more accurately, not being able to regain the network. I remember rebooting the phone every morning at the bus stop to get a data connection. Voice was hit and miss with most calls going straight to VM. AT&T's timeout dropped the device off the network overnight and the phone wouldn't play nice until it was restarted.
Openoffice is "irrelevant" on a netbook but a game most /.ers have probably never even heard of made the cut? Something is wrong here.
I suppose you're also going to tell me you've never heard of Purble Place?
Yah, you can cut the rate of bad connections down by about 50%+ if you force the sending host to follow the RFCs.
Yes, I initially thought that's a good idea so I did. Unfortunately, I found out about it blocked about 10% of valid e-mails from misconfigured systems.
You have a LaTeX fetish. Great.
The two of you took a stand and how many freshmen roll through every year? (BTW: You would have seen me at least twice.) How many of those had to scramble to find an alternate container? Is that really another layer a freshman needs? Since you expertise is physics... oops... sorry, *computational* physics, maybe the document format crusade should be carried on by, say, the computer department?
Also, off the top of my head, wasn't the newest Microsoft format released three years ago? And before that? (Sorry, Google is no longer my friend).
Not a problem at all for those of us who aren't forced to run Microsoft software.
Not a problem at all for those of us who choose to not use Adobe's software.
...that the report identifying Flash and Reader as the top vectors for 2010 is released in PDF format? At the risk of shouting "get off my lawn", what happened to good old plain text? The margins and logos did not add to the content. If you need all that then you probably should't have opened the PDF.
"According to this article at IT Expert Voice, Desktop and Linux: Useful at Last?, we've had so many predictions that this will be 'the year of Linux on the Desktop' that most of us have stopped listening. But Ubuntu may have new life breathed into it because Ubuntu is a requirement for my mom."
I kid, I kid.
just run the following command: sudo rm -rf / usr/bin/virus"
Thanks. I'm running that n
This is a HUGE part of the current problem in the States with health insurance.
It was already pointed out this incident is in Canada. Moving on...
Health insurance companies are not doctors.
No, but in the US they typically have doctors on staff.
You can't make a diagnosis by looking at pictures on someone's facebook account.
Congratulations, you got one right.
They teach you that in medical school, I think.
I assume that is a first year course? You gotta weed out the slow ones somehow.
Frankly, I think anyone who works for an organization as corrupt as an American health insurance company, has it coming, because nobody who works for one can possibly claim ignorance to the crap that goes on with them.
You didn't go into much detail but it certainly can't be the profits since Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo are all more profitable than the health insurance industry: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance I would start with the financial institutions that nearly plunged the US into another great depression. Also at the top of my list would be the companies that poison people by contanimating the air/ground/water. Companies like Wal-Mart with illegal business practices that take advantage of workers is also a good start. And don't get me started on the telco's and cable TV. And yes, the employees can claim ignorance because of some little things called federal laws that protect patient's information. The guy managing the routers does not know about Ms. Anderson's implants (ok, bad example but a lovely mental image). Heck, I know an Enron programmer who thought they were visionary until the wheels fell off.
Thank you. Looking at the website they actually have some credibility which is refreshing in the sensational knee-jerk world of IT security.
I haven't read your post yet but you're wrong.
Hop in your time machine and skip ahead two stories to the Lightweight Rootkit Protection post. TFA mentions nine real-world rootkits that target "that platform" (Ubuntu 8.04) and the 2.6 kernel. I know there are a cubic gazillion reasons to wear the "your OS sucks" t-shirt but I think some of that emotion should be put into action and get more eyes on the open code to identify issues before the bad girls do and/or trash your system (KK, I'm looking at you). I have the unrealistic goal of not having a problem in the first place as compared to patching it quickly.
If we had a system of publically accountable, transparent entities running health insurance (as we do with health *care*, thank you very much the hospitals are mostly fine,) then it would be crazy to propose a federal takeover. But the groups presently running the insurance scam in this country are the same financial institutions responsible for all the worst excesses of the commerce department.
+1 for gratuitous use of buzzwords/jargon that would make a realtor jealous
+1 for not using the word paradigm
-1 for failing to put them together to make a coherent point
Just type sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=4096 in your box (or any other number > 0) and you are safe.
sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=11
Now I'm safer than everyone else.
a bare-bone install, linux is likely to support more out of the box than Windows.
Thanks for that. It's been a long day and I needed a good laugh.
I remember when JD and PCMagazine had some relevance and credibility. He must have signed a life-long contract to be still around at that TV-Guide wannabe rag.
...or you can speak up loudly and take them to court.
Let me guess. You're an attorney? 'Cause that's where all the dollars go when you take that action. But good luck and if you win, enjoy that coupon for a free cellphone with the purchase of another.
Servers don't roam the net downloading porn and music.
Which is why I don't have a server at home.
All of the online backup strategies are a joke...and they don't offer enough space (seriously).
Carbonite offers unlimited storage which is enough for me. I'm not, however, familiar with your requirements.
The vast majority of attacks out there are simple programs that install in the OS. They are not some uber VM root kits or the like. As such, a virus scanner running in the OS is perfectly capable of dealing with them. So no, it doesn't give you 100% defense but I bet it stops 99.99% of the attacks out there and that is worth something.
Absolutely agree. It's nice that she has a throwaway image because it isn't possible to proect herself from her definition of the critical threats, but those aren't the threats I'm necessarily worried about. My A/V keeps (among other things) the script kiddies out who do things that pi$$ me off and cause me to react. The bad guys/girls can have anything on my system which is why they probably won't bother with me. I'm wondering how much crap her system spews the day before she decides (la la la) to reimage. That's the stuff that's going after me.
Performance numbers so far show the games to run at the same speed _or_slower_ under Win7.
Google begs to differ: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/25/windows-7-edges-out-vista-for-gaming-in-thorough-benchmark-tests/
However, common sense does tell you not to benchmark a beta OS.
Windows 7: There are so many versions to choose from...
As opposed to, say, Linux distributions?
From TFA: None of the strikes hit the shuttle or its external tank and solid rocket boosters, but there were strikes to the lightning mast and water tower.
Sheesh... You'd think it was Microsoft article.
Please site your references.
Also, FireFox compares itself to IE from 2006 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/security/.
Ahem. We still have 26 alpha and 10 numeric but about everything else has changed. Frequently. More like "largely unchanged since the 19th of June".