Not really. If you tell users that apps have been scanned, they install them with a [false] sense of security, beliving that the scanning process is protecting them. If you tell them stuff isn't scanned, they'll probably tend to be slightly more careful (lots will still screw up though).
Support doesn't always end there. Someone once told me that a really big lab he'd worked for used 100% MS stuff. They had a special support contract with MS, and the lab also had a nuclear reactor inside.
If something went wrong - and it wasn't a user error - it would have been pretty easy to make MS liable for it. That's the main reason they kept using MS, because of liability.
Again, I belive they had a special contract, but still, for big corporations, support also includes someone to blame and grab by the balls (or wallet) in case something goes really wrong.
I don't know about the lateste couple of games, but older games were C, C++ and OpenGL, o there wouldn't be much issue porting them to linux. Heck, they've even made OS X ports for some of them, so porting to *nix shouldn't be too much work.
Windows supports WebDAV since windows98 IIRC. And I think *nix users tend to avoid windows employers/clients. There's plenty of jobs to get picky about the ones you choose.
Use SSH. If you're stuck with windows on the client side, just install cygwin. Why is this on the frontpage? Is it meant to be a "ask slashdot"? Or just really lame news?
Indeed. I remember recently reading that marc (an OpenBSD dev) recently said that he wants people to re-shared their modified code, but he wants them to do so because they want to, not because the license forces them to.
Do we actually need economy at all if you continue down this road? Ideas like The Venus Project suggest we don't - if there's no need for humans to actually work, there comes a point were it makes little sense to use economics as we know it. And the only reason humans NEED to work nowadays in 90% of the jobs, is because it's cheaper than machines.
You can encrypt your disk with a password AND a physical USB token - requiring both to be present. Hence, a theif would need to install a keylogger, AND steal your USB token, AND then have access to your PC again, to retrieve the keyloggers results - unless a pre-OS keylogger can somehow survive the entire boot (meaning it can survive a new kernel being loaded into memory).
If you're really paranoid, you should keep in mind that encryption doesn't really provide data integrity, it only provides confidentiality. That is, if someone steals your laptop and looks at your hard drive, they should get no information, provided your passphrase is sufficiently unguessable. It does not necessarily protect you against someone changing the data on your hard drive, though that might be rather inconvenient. Do not treat an encrypted hard drive as protection against physical attacks!
It's protected in the sense that information cannot be stolen. Also, it does offer some level of integrity protection - if someone alters encrypted data, it's very likely that I will be able to tell, since it would mean that parts of my disk now contain rubbish.
Actually, there's plenty of reason why this is pretty valid. Amongst them, that you can. There's also the fact that it's good practice - the day you have private stuff (even homemade pr0n), you don't have to worry about additional security. If your laptop get stolen, you know nothing has been compromised, including sensitive financial information, work stuff, etc.
Indeed - I guess that if your "Jury of peers" have actually ever had to install any Adobe software, you've got a pretty good chance of being in the clear.
Indeed, it is. However, you only read the GPL, Apache license and BSD liceses ONCE, and use several dozen pieces of software that reuse those licenses. Adobe's products may change their EULA on every version, so you'd need to re-read them over and over.
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You don't care about stuff like that, I don't, but the ones who pull the strings in big corporations, regrettable, do.
Not really.
If you tell users that apps have been scanned, they install them with a [false] sense of security, beliving that the scanning process is protecting them.
If you tell them stuff isn't scanned, they'll probably tend to be slightly more careful (lots will still screw up though).
I'd mod this informative if I hadn't already commented as GP. :)
Support doesn't always end there.
Someone once told me that a really big lab he'd worked for used 100% MS stuff. They had a special support contract with MS, and the lab also had a nuclear reactor inside.
If something went wrong - and it wasn't a user error - it would have been pretty easy to make MS liable for it. That's the main reason they kept using MS, because of liability.
Again, I belive they had a special contract, but still, for big corporations, support also includes someone to blame and grab by the balls (or wallet) in case something goes really wrong.
I don't know about the lateste couple of games, but older games were C, C++ and OpenGL, o there wouldn't be much issue porting them to linux. Heck, they've even made OS X ports for some of them, so porting to *nix shouldn't be too much work.
Starcraft? Diablo II? Only for PC, AFAIK.
WarCraft II was available for some consoles. And it sucked enormously!
Not really, because it gives users a false sense of security - they belive the apps have been scanner, but they've been scanner rather poorly.
It looks like not-using Exchange wasn't amogst your precautions! ;)
Windows supports WebDAV since windows98 IIRC. And I think *nix users tend to avoid windows employers/clients. There's plenty of jobs to get picky about the ones you choose.
Why do you state that linux "should be supported by Linux"? And why should I, as a *nix user, care about what windows supports.
They may be evading sums as large as $99!!!
Use SSH. If you're stuck with windows on the client side, just install cygwin.
Why is this on the frontpage? Is it meant to be a "ask slashdot"? Or just really lame news?
Indeed. I remember recently reading that marc (an OpenBSD dev) recently said that he wants people to re-shared their modified code, but he wants them to do so because they want to, not because the license forces them to.
Do we actually need economy at all if you continue down this road?
Ideas like The Venus Project suggest we don't - if there's no need for humans to actually work, there comes a point were it makes little sense to use economics as we know it. And the only reason humans NEED to work nowadays in 90% of the jobs, is because it's cheaper than machines.
Why is this downvoted? If it's plain wrong, a reply clarifying that would have been better than a downvote!
Those same companies were probably never MS clients, so I don't see anyone being displaced.
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Or any other form of encryption for that matter - I see no reason to use PGP in particular.
You can encrypt your disk with a password AND a physical USB token - requiring both to be present.
Hence, a theif would need to install a keylogger, AND steal your USB token, AND then have access to your PC again, to retrieve the keyloggers results - unless a pre-OS keylogger can somehow survive the entire boot (meaning it can survive a new kernel being loaded into memory).
If you're really paranoid, you should keep in mind that encryption doesn't really provide data integrity, it only provides confidentiality. That is, if someone steals your laptop and looks at your hard drive, they should get no information, provided your passphrase is sufficiently unguessable. It does not necessarily protect you against someone changing the data on your hard drive, though that might be rather inconvenient. Do not treat an encrypted hard drive as protection against physical attacks!
It's protected in the sense that information cannot be stolen.
Also, it does offer some level of integrity protection - if someone alters encrypted data, it's very likely that I will be able to tell, since it would mean that parts of my disk now contain rubbish.
Actually, there's plenty of reason why this is pretty valid.
Amongst them, that you can. There's also the fact that it's good practice - the day you have private stuff (even homemade pr0n), you don't have to worry about additional security.
If your laptop get stolen, you know nothing has been compromised, including sensitive financial information, work stuff, etc.
Organized crime will, you can count on that.
Windows makes gaming easier, but isn't even required generally, given how wine works generally.
Indeed - I guess that if your "Jury of peers" have actually ever had to install any Adobe software, you've got a pretty good chance of being in the clear.
Indeed, it is. However, you only read the GPL, Apache license and BSD liceses ONCE, and use several dozen pieces of software that reuse those licenses.
Adobe's products may change their EULA on every version, so you'd need to re-read them over and over.