Things have changed for the better. I am not a programmer so I don't pay attention to errata. I remember that published and unpublished errata was an issue at about the time the Pentium 90 floating point bug was discovered. Since that major voluntary recall, Intel has taken steps to make CPU's patchable so minor bugs can be fixed. This patch is a good example of that working.
If you're claiming that that MAC isn't yours and we could see that you'd logged into the mail server daily from there... well, that'd be problematic, to say the least.
How far does dual boot and dual NIC go? Windows, wireless, e-mail and campus stuff. Ubuntu, wired, no login, web and bittorrent may help.
It's close to having 2 machines to the network, one annon.
Last time I heard, Intel publishes errata sheets unlike many other suppliers. Microsoft may have a fix or patch simply becasue the data is known and published.
Why can't you share like crazy, take out student loans, get sued, and then declare bankruptcy to clean the slate?
Leaving school, having a student loan expempt from bankruptcy, having a bankrubtcy on the books, and looking for employment is hardly having a clean slate.
Leaving school and going underground with a stolen identity is more likely. It's no way to live life. Either way, they win. They destroyed your future.
The chilling effects is if I were attending school, I simply would not be on the campus network unless the school provided privacy to its users. Positive ID logging of all users is a privacy issue.
Many places I can get internet without a login. I would use them instead.
I wonder if they sell enough to make a living. The number of people with high disposable income and low intelegince is a small group. I doubt they get enough volume to make a living.
RIAA, meet MPAA. Sony, Universal, Warner - you're competing with yourselves
Excellent point. The CD is generaly compressed to sound loud. The DVD has THX cert in most cases. In most cases a 5 year old film is marked down while a 5 year old CD is still at full retail. I buy DVD's pre-viewed for either 2,3, or 4 for $20. CD's are lower quality, have higher prices, have dropped technical standards for quality and the industry is attacking their best customers.
I bought more DVD's last week than I bought CD's all of last year. Guess why? The music cartel has failed to compete for the entertainment dollar.
How about some new permissions given in the legal copies of their product? Say a public performance license? I have a good sound system. The CD's come with a license which prohibits taking my CD's and DJ'ing a school dance or other performance. I used to do some DJ type stuff at a hobby level until I found out it was in violation of the terms. To get legal was way too expensive for 3-6 gigs a year, so I simply folded. Needless to say this reduces the need to buy CD's by reducing their value simply because their use is restricted.
That one item is one of many restricting the usefuleness of CD's and reduces their value. Inspite of the reduced value, the price remains quite high. Then they wonder why sales are poor. They need a cluestick. I'm watching u-tube at the moment watching Pink Floyd Live. I don't need the shiny disc to enjoy music anymore. Give me a valid reason to part with lots of hard earned cash for a restricted use item. I find more value elsewhere. I spend more on monthly internet than I ever used to spend on LP's and cassettes.
Money I used to spend on music is spent on better values elsewhere.
Nice Generalization!! You've never seen a student failing because of bad home life, or dislexia and etc. And that student acting out.
Actualy, I've based my post on first hand experiance. I've adopted two. I had a 2 month sabbatical and had grand plans for visits to the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad, etc. Due to behavior problems, I wound up staying home and doing gardening. No child left behind means least risk programs. Trips with close quarters and everyone getting along is only a pipe dream.
When growing up myself, we went camping, boating, and even spent a full month on a sailboat cruising the inland passage. There is no way to survive that type of trip with these kids.
Again, no child left behind curtails opertunities for the advanced students. No child left behind is 4 broken computers in the lab. Budget is spent keeping them patched, repaired, and mice/keyboards, etc replaced. Advanced classes don't have the extensive vandalism and can instead spend resources on scanners, photoshop licenses, etc. We are not running the hot tub this year because they punched holes in the cover and it is much too hard to keep clean. We drained it and will do repairs after they leave home.
We took them out of the ghetto, but we haven't gotten the ghetto out of them yet on how they treat others and anything of quality. We have mush of our nice stuff put in storrage and it will remain there until they leave home. A class to help those who need the basics in part of no child left behind is fine, but it should not be at the expense of the entire rest of the student body. There is a reason the US is way behind in math and science. The programs have been gutted to the pace of the slowest.
No child left behind does not mean the slow kid will be the next chemical engineer at Texaco. It does mean the next chemical engineer at Texaco will probably have come from a non-US school. Check the number of applications for engineering visas for the likes of Intel, Texas Instrument, etc. The USA doesn not manufacture much high end chip manufacturing equipment. Most of it comes from Japan. Look up KLA Tencore, Hitachi, Tokyo Electron, Nikkon, etc. What is Japan doing in their schools that the USA is not doing. For a small country with limited resources, they quite well.
They will help students with better grades and essentially leave the students with worse grades to the sharks
Lets rephrase that..
They will help students with better grades and leave the class clowns and drop-outs out of the way of thosw who have ambition to succeed. I have been in too many classes where 50% of the class time was simply wasted dealing with class attention and control problems and not on learning. The best classes I have had were the classes without the disruptive zoo in attendance. What sharks are you talking about.. The kids left behind are the sharks.
No child left behind is simply a rope to delay the leaders by making them drag along with the dead weight. Many are critical of the program because they see many missed opertunities to exceed due to the large amount of drag on the leaders. No child left behind should not mean the leaders have to follow the lead of the crippled and lame. There are sports and there is olympics. There is wheelchair basketball and there is pro-basketball. No child left behind is like putting an overweight geek on the pro-team and having him play center as a requirement to play in the league.
It's a sick system where they help those who don't need help and punish those who do need help.
That statement makes as much sense as the basketball team members don't need a coach because they made it and don't need the help. Even the best need help to do even better. Don't confuse passing grades with not needing help. There are two sides of the coin. The glass is half empty, the failing students need help, and the glass is half full, the good students can do better and exceed.
Let's move past the band-aid solution of just fixing the system where it is bleeding to death. Let's fine tune it so the best can also do better.
Some cars need a valve job while others need a tweak to the nitros system to do better in the quarter mile. No child left behind is helping all to pass DEQ even though some have not had an oil change in the last 50K miles. (drugs, FAS, broken homelife, domestic violence, poor nutrition, etc.)
Dollar rental car lets you pay cash, even in Hawaii.
When did they change. Hertz, Avis, and Dollar wouldn't consider permitting a rental without a credit card impression. Maybe you can pay cash at checkout, but last time I was there you couldn't get it in the first place without a credit card. That has been over a decade ago, so things may have changed. I haven't tried to rent without a credit card since I left the service.
It took me a while to figure out the link. I was looking for information on some poor configuration, but the link was to a mild flamewar. Then I got it. It's emotional kids setting up servers. Got it.
I'll concede that gamers and hackers aren't the best admins much of the time and fall prey to games, pranks, and exploits. They are the ones you tell you have penetrated their machine, here take a look this address; file://127.0.0.1/ I can see all the stuff on their hard drive. It's not amazing how many of these kids fall for it.
One of the comments in your link sums it up well.
"Never underestimate the ignorance of a noob. In America we have Drive-Up ATM's with BRAILLE buttons."
"Check the percentage of pwned IIS servers and the uptime of Apache on Linux" - by Technician (215283) on Wednesday June 20, @01:12AM (#19574975)
I tell you what, I will use the # of vulnerabilities found in BOTH webservers, because I could find it easily enough!
Bookmark this page; http://isc.sans.org/ The SANS Internet Storm Center keeps track of data swarms caused by worms, bots, and other out of control threats. When they occur, pay attention to what machines are exploited. It's not always workstations on cable modems.
I know they were nice and didn't bother to mention the OS, but I think it's very likely the monoculture OS. If you have any data on the number of non Windows bots in the herds, let me know. I'm looking for any data on the breakdown of OS on exploited bots.
Current June 2007 exploit list... http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0706-exploits/ From the list.. 06072007-CVE-2007-2237.zip Description:
Microsoft Windows GDI+ ICO file remote denial of service exploit.
comicsense-sql.txt Description:
Comicsense suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability in index.php.
CVE-2007-2815.txt Description:
Exploit that takes advantage of the Microsoft IIS5 NTLM and basic authentication bypass vulnerability. I wonder if this is one of the patched MS ones?
Many of the exploits are php / SQL exploits. I don't think MSSQL is immune.
Funnily enough MS sent me Vista for free for watching some technical videos.
The high price was the #2 and #3 reason not to get it. You got it for free. That knocked 2 items off the list.
http://apcmag.com/5049/10_reasons_not_to_get_vista
I have never been able to get an answer. Why won't people just accept cash? Isn't all money the same?
Most of the time it boils down to liability and proof of identity. Let's say I rent a lawnmower for the day for $5. It's picked up an never returned.
Let's say I rent an apartment, dorm room, hotel room and get no ID. After a week stay I find they had 500 cats and no litterbox and didn't use an ashtray so there are burn marks on the counter in the bathroom. They pack up and leave me the mess.
With a credit card, I have ID and can persue a collection action and ding the credit report. I'm much more likely to have a good rental experiance.
If you stop in the grocery store and pick up a 10 lb sack of potatos, cash is fine.
Why won't people just accept cash? Isn't all money the same?
I feel your pain. I was in the same boat when I was in the military. I took vacation and went to Hawaii. No amount of money would rent a car. It was a credit card or nothing. I toured the island by city bus. I missed going out to a few places and spent way too much time in the hotel bar. It's like being grounded while on vacation. Their failue to provide transportation saved me a lot of money I would have spent on entertainment.
What I learned is a credit card is a type of finance ID. When done with the rental, most of the time you can pay cash. The card is the best way to telephone shop. Getting flowers to a wedding or funeral is easy. For a long time I had just one card and it got used about twice a year for several years.
Whitelists will prevent 1. your stranded grandma from calling you 2. friends calling from their friends house 3. that cute girl you just met 4. various official phone calls that you really needed to receive
Luckily, whitelists will still allow your mom to call from upstairs when dinner is ready.
I use a programmable fax switch. A cold call goes to the answering machine. A fax tone goes to the fax. A dialed 22 at the answering machine rings the phone on port 3. My friends and family know to buzz me if the machine gets it.
So, why hasn't Toyota started shipping them? Conspiracy theories abound...
New tech.. Conservative company.. no long term track record. The 2001 Prius released in the US was old tech with a proven track record by the time they introduced it in the USA in 2001. I believe it had a 5 year test in Japan first. The consumers biggest concern was $5,000 extra for hybrid tech and the battery will be dead in 3-5 years requiring a $5,000 replacement. That $10,000 will buy a lot of gas at $1.50/gallon. A hybrid will never payback the investment.
Now you have a new battery and because it's not deployed in full scale yet, it's a conspiracy theory. I'd rather believe they are trying to avoid the SONY Li-Ion syndrone. The SONY battery problem could bankrupt Toyota and they know it. A few fried laptops is one thing. A few battery packs going into Li-Ion meltdown next to the fuel tank on the freeway is a litigation lawyers dream and an engineer's nightmare. Remember, this is a high density energy battery. There is a large energy release in failure mode.
I'm not on the conspriacy theory side this time. I'm on the conservative engineer's side on this one. Even though I may get better performance with Li-Ion instead of the battery Toyota uses now, I feel safer with this battery. After 5 years in a limited test, maybe they will be safe to deploy on a large scale. For safety, I wouldn't want one untested on the freeway next to my gas tank. The current batteries have been crash tested.
Remember, It's plug in technology. You will plug in the data cable to keep tabs on the battery condiditon and update road closure information (and nearby businesses) while recharging. Keeping tabs on road paving and other closures in the NAV system will be nice.
And all it takes to find it is pretty much a google search with the word "linux" in it. For example, "Linux video editing software" or "linux accounting software", ad nauseam.
So when it the last time you authored a DVD movie on Linux? How about using a TOPO map program such as Back Roads Explorer? How about the bundled program to upload maps and POI to your GPS Nav unit? What do you recommend to replace Turbo Tax Small Business Edition?
Ouch! Ouch!.... I feel like I supporting the MS monoculture.... No! No!.. I'm supporting a diverse environment.
My router, servers, and most desktops run Linux. My favorite desktop distro is Ubuntu. My old 386 is dual-boot for when I need to upload maps to a new area to the NAV unit. (Windows 98 assigned a blocked by the router IP address for obvious reasons..It is not permitted online). I picked up a new (larger) hard drive for my laptop. I stuff the old Win 2K drive in it when hitting the backroads and I want to use Back Roads Explorer in the country or when doing a lightshow using Freestyler. For online, it's back to Ubuntu. Someday the old Windows 98 and 2K applications will go with the old hardware, but in the meantime it's dual boot or Hard Drive swap.
In summary.. Find the hardware and software to meet your needs. You can no longer expect it to all run on a single general purpose computer. You may need other hardware. Prime evidence of this is MS released Vista. They also released X-Box. Neither is a replacement for the other.
If I need to/want to introduce a Linux server one day, am I going to look at a version that has MS's blessing, and will work with my stuff, or would I look at a product that has no kind of guarantees that it'll work with my existing systems? Hmmm... Tough decision there.
You are in business. Make business decisions. Do your cost analisis. Check the percentage of pwned IIS servers and the uptime of Apache on Linux. Check the SQL exploits of both MS and My. Check the per seat license cost. Check the time from 0 day to patch cycle. Check interopobility. Not all your clients in expansion (you do have future plans for expansion?) will be running an all MS shop. Will your server support Safari on Apple? Firefox on Linux? or are you stuck in requiring IE on XP or Vista?
Make business decisions based on business needs. I have.
We have Linux servers. We have Ubuntu desktops with one XP machine and one dual boot machine. Per seat license was a biggie here. We upgraded from Win 2K, kept older hardware, avoided per seat OS and office application costs. We also avoided additional per machine costs for photo editing, AV software, and CD burning utilities. This has reduced our IT costs greatly. The only problem I've had with is simply running out of disk space. Windows would not have fixed that.
Very few need Turbo Tax and other Windows only software. We kept our Windows machine to run it instead of trying to putz with Wine. If we have downtime later, we may invest the time in training. In the meantime, everything just works and works well.
I wish I had a better way to articulate the question ATM, but the jist is that maybe the whole 'divide and conquer' plan may work more than most folks think it will, in that either by necessity of 'patent deals' or by necessity of what-have-you, the coders @ Novell won't or can't spread their improvements to RH and vice-versa.
With the battle lines drawn, I see danger as do many. As with many big battles, there is danger to both sides. I was thinking about the vice-versa bit and thought now would be a lousy time to not be into open formats. More and more they are being required for interopibility. This divide and conquer plan may be working in reverse for MS. They have closed standards to lock others out. Others have open standards that make closed standards undersiable and unimportant. Guess who has a huge risk of being hurt. This is a 2 sided battle. It is no longer a Monopoly crushing the competition.
No, I mean, to criticize comcast in a public forum.. there must be a law against making libelous comments directed at corporate america.
There is. It's called Libel. However to be Libel, it has to be untrue. Posting the truth in your consumer relations is call Freedom of Speech.
If I said Comcast cut 50% of my channels and doubled my fee only halfway through the 1 year subscription agreement and it was false, that would be Libel. If it were true, that would be freedom of speech.
The above is an example only. There is no intent to Libel Comcast in this post. Opinions are permitted. It is my opinion they charge too much for internet service if you don't bundle services. Posting my opinion of their prices is not Libel.
New generation, next chapter. When I was a kid, the flame wars were on CB radio. Being anonymous and untouchable made some pretty tough bullies who were unafraid to stir the pot and hit below the belt. It has simply moved online now. In the old day, a Radio Direction Finder was the great equalizer.
In the new day, insulting comments have greater than a 15 mile range and are still there days/weeks/months later. It's harder to catch the abuser and the damage is greater. The AC bully is still with us. IP logging helps some.
There is a disconnect from the abuser and the victem. The victem sees just the grafiti on the forum and does not have the advantage of the raw transmission to obtain the source data such as login info and IP address. That is why that abuse info has to be required from the site owner if it was ever logged.
Online humiliation of posting an abusers IP address doesn't have the same impact as announcing a radio abuser's street address. I had more than one online radio bully call my DF bluff and had the misfortune to find out I wasn't bluffing. When that realisation became clear, he tried keying on the top of me. I was very patient and simply re-broadcast when he un-keyed. After 40 minutes, he went silent in defeat.
Unfortunately, the only way to clean up the mess is either moderation, or validation. Un-moderated forum space permitting anonymous posting is a bully's paridise. A flame war can quickly fry the place. It has spilled into the legal system. I don't post on un-moderated boards./. permits, AC posts, but they are subject to moderation which helps keep the GNAA and goatse to low levels and personal flamewars almost non-existant.
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Everybody publishes errata.
Things have changed for the better. I am not a programmer so I don't pay attention to errata. I remember that published and unpublished errata was an issue at about the time the Pentium 90 floating point bug was discovered. Since that major voluntary recall, Intel has taken steps to make CPU's patchable so minor bugs can be fixed. This patch is a good example of that working.
If you're claiming that that MAC isn't yours and we could see that you'd logged into the mail server daily from there ... well, that'd be problematic, to say the least.
How far does dual boot and dual NIC go? Windows, wireless, e-mail and campus stuff. Ubuntu, wired, no login, web and bittorrent may help.
It's close to having 2 machines to the network, one annon.
Debian AMD64: Check. AMD X2: Check. Clear
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Last time I heard, Intel publishes errata sheets unlike many other suppliers. Microsoft may have a fix or patch simply becasue the data is known and published.
With your chips, do you prefer open or closed?
The advantage is bugs can be fixed.
Here is a forum on Conroe errata.
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/general-intel-platf
Does AMD publish this?
Why can't you share like crazy, take out student loans, get sued, and then declare bankruptcy to clean the slate?
Leaving school, having a student loan expempt from bankruptcy, having a bankrubtcy on the books, and looking for employment is hardly having a clean slate.
Leaving school and going underground with a stolen identity is more likely. It's no way to live life. Either way, they win. They destroyed your future.
The chilling effects is if I were attending school, I simply would not be on the campus network unless the school provided privacy to its users. Positive ID logging of all users is a privacy issue.
Many places I can get internet without a login. I would use them instead.
And for people who think that optical cables do make a difference..They sell one for $1495 for 1ft.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_bor
I wonder if they sell enough to make a living. The number of people with high disposable income and low intelegince is a small group. I doubt they get enough volume to make a living.
RIAA, meet MPAA. Sony, Universal, Warner - you're competing with yourselves
Excellent point. The CD is generaly compressed to sound loud. The DVD has THX cert in most cases. In most cases a 5 year old film is marked down while a 5 year old CD is still at full retail. I buy DVD's pre-viewed for either 2,3, or 4 for $20. CD's are lower quality, have higher prices, have dropped technical standards for quality and the industry is attacking their best customers.
I bought more DVD's last week than I bought CD's all of last year. Guess why?
The music cartel has failed to compete for the entertainment dollar.
How about some new permissions given in the legal copies of their product? Say a public performance license? I have a good sound system. The CD's come with a license which prohibits taking my CD's and DJ'ing a school dance or other performance. I used to do some DJ type stuff at a hobby level until I found out it was in violation of the terms. To get legal was way too expensive for 3-6 gigs a year, so I simply folded. Needless to say this reduces the need to buy CD's by reducing their value simply because their use is restricted.
That one item is one of many restricting the usefuleness of CD's and reduces their value. Inspite of the reduced value, the price remains quite high. Then they wonder why sales are poor. They need a cluestick. I'm watching u-tube at the moment watching Pink Floyd Live. I don't need the shiny disc to enjoy music anymore. Give me a valid reason to part with lots of hard earned cash for a restricted use item. I find more value elsewhere. I spend more on monthly internet than I ever used to spend on LP's and cassettes.
Money I used to spend on music is spent on better values elsewhere.
Ohhh. really. I have a pair of thousand dollar cables to sell you.....
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Are you a Kimber cable rep? The silver low resistance cables rock!
http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=AU
The link is for those who don't believe anyone would pay a grand for a patch cord.
It is real.
Nice Generalization!! You've never seen a student failing because of bad home life, or dislexia and etc. And that student acting out.
Actualy, I've based my post on first hand experiance. I've adopted two. I had a 2 month sabbatical and had grand plans for visits to the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad, etc. Due to behavior problems, I wound up staying home and doing gardening. No child left behind means least risk programs. Trips with close quarters and everyone getting along is only a pipe dream.
When growing up myself, we went camping, boating, and even spent a full month on a sailboat cruising the inland passage. There is no way to survive that type of trip with these kids.
Again, no child left behind curtails opertunities for the advanced students. No child left behind is 4 broken computers in the lab. Budget is spent keeping them patched, repaired, and mice/keyboards, etc replaced. Advanced classes don't have the extensive vandalism and can instead spend resources on scanners, photoshop licenses, etc. We are not running the hot tub this year because they punched holes in the cover and it is much too hard to keep clean. We drained it and will do repairs after they leave home.
We took them out of the ghetto, but we haven't gotten the ghetto out of them yet on how they treat others and anything of quality. We have mush of our nice stuff put in storrage and it will remain there until they leave home. A class to help those who need the basics in part of no child left behind is fine, but it should not be at the expense of the entire rest of the student body. There is a reason the US is way behind in math and science. The programs have been gutted to the pace of the slowest.
No child left behind does not mean the slow kid will be the next chemical engineer at Texaco. It does mean the next chemical engineer at Texaco will probably have come from a non-US school. Check the number of applications for engineering visas for the likes of Intel, Texas Instrument, etc. The USA doesn not manufacture much high end chip manufacturing equipment. Most of it comes from Japan. Look up KLA Tencore, Hitachi, Tokyo Electron, Nikkon, etc. What is Japan doing in their schools that the USA is not doing. For a small country with limited resources, they quite well.
They will help students with better grades and essentially leave the students with worse grades to the sharks
Lets rephrase that..
They will help students with better grades and leave the class clowns and drop-outs out of the way of thosw who have ambition to succeed. I have been in too many classes where 50% of the class time was simply wasted dealing with class attention and control problems and not on learning. The best classes I have had were the classes without the disruptive zoo in attendance. What sharks are you talking about.. The kids left behind are the sharks.
No child left behind is simply a rope to delay the leaders by making them drag along with the dead weight. Many are critical of the program because they see many missed opertunities to exceed due to the large amount of drag on the leaders. No child left behind should not mean the leaders have to follow the lead of the crippled and lame. There are sports and there is olympics. There is wheelchair basketball and there is pro-basketball. No child left behind is like putting an overweight geek on the pro-team and having him play center as a requirement to play in the league.
It's a sick system where they help those who don't need help and punish those who do need help.
That statement makes as much sense as the basketball team members don't need a coach because they made it and don't need the help. Even the best need help to do even better. Don't confuse passing grades with not needing help. There are two sides of the coin. The glass is half empty, the failing students need help, and the glass is half full, the good students can do better and exceed.
Let's move past the band-aid solution of just fixing the system where it is bleeding to death. Let's fine tune it so the best can also do better.
Some cars need a valve job while others need a tweak to the nitros system to do better in the quarter mile. No child left behind is helping all to pass DEQ even though some have not had an oil change in the last 50K miles. (drugs, FAS, broken homelife, domestic violence, poor nutrition, etc.)
Dollar rental car lets you pay cash, even in Hawaii.
When did they change. Hertz, Avis, and Dollar wouldn't consider permitting a rental without a credit card impression. Maybe you can pay cash at checkout, but last time I was there you couldn't get it in the first place without a credit card. That has been over a decade ago, so things may have changed. I haven't tried to rent without a credit card since I left the service.
That always comes down to WHO is setting the systems up & admin'ing them, can you concede this?
E.G.-> http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=78
It took me a while to figure out the link. I was looking for information on some poor configuration, but the link was to a mild flamewar. Then I got it. It's emotional kids setting up servers. Got it.
I'll concede that gamers and hackers aren't the best admins much of the time and fall prey to games, pranks, and exploits. They are the ones you tell you have penetrated their machine, here take a look this address; file://127.0.0.1/ I can see all the stuff on their hard drive. It's not amazing how many of these kids fall for it.
One of the comments in your link sums it up well.
"Never underestimate the ignorance of a noob.
In America we have Drive-Up ATM's with BRAILLE buttons."
"Check the percentage of pwned IIS servers and the uptime of Apache on Linux" - by Technician (215283) on Wednesday June 20, @01:12AM (#19574975)
I tell you what, I will use the # of vulnerabilities found in BOTH webservers, because I could find it easily enough!
Bookmark this page;
http://isc.sans.org/ The SANS Internet Storm Center keeps track of data swarms caused by worms, bots, and other out of control threats. When they occur, pay attention to what machines are exploited. It's not always workstations on cable modems.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_go_ca_st _pe/dhs_computer_security
Care to guess the OS exploited?
Nice try.
IIS (first URL) shows less bugs/vulnerabilities than Apache (2nd URL) does (and less critical ones) & in fact, 10 TIMES LESS!
They tested Apache version 2.0.x. The current versions are 2.2.x. I can declare Windows 98 full of unpatched problems.. and be right.
IIS secure? Apache secure?
They both have exploits. The number of exploits is one thing. The number of exploited machines is another.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IIS+exploits& btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Apache+exploi ts
To make you feel good, here is a current Linux exploit;
http://www.scanit.be/uploads/php-file-upload.pdf
And Windows exploits
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_respon se/weblog/2007/05/mpack_packed_full_of_badness.htm l
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2994
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2985
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2979
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2976
A Safari exploit;
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2982 (It's on Windows, not Apple)
To be fair some Linux worms and exploits;
http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/unix-exploits/l inux-exploits/
For workstations which visit the web, I avoid Windows. Just seeing the headlines is enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6465833.stm
I know they were nice and didn't bother to mention the OS, but I think it's very likely the monoculture OS. If you have any data on the number of non Windows bots in the herds, let me know. I'm looking for any data on the breakdown of OS on exploited bots.
Current June 2007 exploit list... http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0706-exploits/
From the list.. 06072007-CVE-2007-2237.zip
Description:
Microsoft Windows GDI+ ICO file remote denial of service exploit.
comicsense-sql.txt
Description:
Comicsense suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability in index.php.
CVE-2007-2815.txt
Description:
Exploit that takes advantage of the Microsoft IIS5 NTLM and basic authentication bypass vulnerability. I wonder if this is one of the patched MS ones?
Many of the exploits are php / SQL exploits. I don't think MSSQL is immune.
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if this is the future of IT, stop the fucking room, i want off.
So do a lot of people. That's why Ubuntu, Apache, Red Hat, and Apple are doing well and Vista is doing poorly.
Funnily enough MS sent me Vista for free for watching some technical videos. The high price was the #2 and #3 reason not to get it. You got it for free. That knocked 2 items off the list. http://apcmag.com/5049/10_reasons_not_to_get_vista
What's so "nonstandard" about that?!
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Maybe not MS standard as in compatible with Exchange.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exch
Look at the chart in the link. Even some versions of Outlook are incompatable with some versions of Exchange.
Only Outlook 2002/XP and 2003 are compatible with all the versions of exchange listed. Everything else is incompatible with at least one version.
So what versions is the phone compatible with?
I have never been able to get an answer. Why won't people just accept cash? Isn't all money the same?
Most of the time it boils down to liability and proof of identity. Let's say I rent a lawnmower for the day for $5. It's picked up an never returned.
Let's say I rent an apartment, dorm room, hotel room and get no ID. After a week stay I find they had 500 cats and no litterbox and didn't use an ashtray so there are burn marks on the counter in the bathroom. They pack up and leave me the mess.
With a credit card, I have ID and can persue a collection action and ding the credit report. I'm much more likely to have a good rental experiance.
If you stop in the grocery store and pick up a 10 lb sack of potatos, cash is fine.
Why won't people just accept cash? Isn't all money the same?
I feel your pain. I was in the same boat when I was in the military. I took vacation and went to Hawaii. No amount of money would rent a car. It was a credit card or nothing. I toured the island by city bus. I missed going out to a few places and spent way too much time in the hotel bar. It's like being grounded while on vacation. Their failue to provide transportation saved me a lot of money I would have spent on entertainment.
What I learned is a credit card is a type of finance ID. When done with the rental, most of the time you can pay cash. The card is the best way to telephone shop. Getting flowers to a wedding or funeral is easy. For a long time I had just one card and it got used about twice a year for several years.
Whitelists will prevent
1. your stranded grandma from calling you
2. friends calling from their friends house
3. that cute girl you just met
4. various official phone calls that you really needed to receive
Luckily, whitelists will still allow your mom to call from upstairs when dinner is ready.
I use a programmable fax switch. A cold call goes to the answering machine. A fax tone goes to the fax. A dialed 22 at the answering machine rings the phone on port 3. My friends and family know to buzz me if the machine gets it.
So, why hasn't Toyota started shipping them? Conspiracy theories abound...
New tech.. Conservative company.. no long term track record.
The 2001 Prius released in the US was old tech with a proven track record by the time they introduced it in the USA in 2001. I believe it had a 5 year test in Japan first. The consumers biggest concern was $5,000 extra for hybrid tech and the battery will be dead in 3-5 years requiring a $5,000 replacement. That $10,000 will buy a lot of gas at $1.50/gallon. A hybrid will never payback the investment.
Now you have a new battery and because it's not deployed in full scale yet, it's a conspiracy theory. I'd rather believe they are trying to avoid the SONY Li-Ion syndrone. The SONY battery problem could bankrupt Toyota and they know it. A few fried laptops is one thing. A few battery packs going into Li-Ion meltdown next to the fuel tank on the freeway is a litigation lawyers dream and an engineer's nightmare. Remember, this is a high density energy battery. There is a large energy release in failure mode.
I'm not on the conspriacy theory side this time. I'm on the conservative engineer's side on this one. Even though I may get better performance with Li-Ion instead of the battery Toyota uses now, I feel safer with this battery. After 5 years in a limited test, maybe they will be safe to deploy on a large scale. For safety, I wouldn't want one untested on the freeway next to my gas tank. The current batteries have been crash tested.
I like how Google Maps updates all the time.
Remember, It's plug in technology. You will plug in the data cable to keep tabs on the battery condiditon and update road closure information (and nearby businesses) while recharging. Keeping tabs on road paving and other closures in the NAV system will be nice.
And all it takes to find it is pretty much a google search with the word "linux" in it. For example, "Linux video editing software" or "linux accounting software", ad nauseam.
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So when it the last time you authored a DVD movie on Linux? How about using a TOPO map program such as Back Roads Explorer? How about the bundled program to upload maps and POI to your GPS Nav unit? What do you recommend to replace Turbo Tax Small Business Edition?
Compare Q-Light to Freestyler. Compare TOPO State series on Back Roads Explorer with anything Linux.
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/1488.h
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Artistic-Software/
I'm hoping someday Freestyler will be ported to Linux.
http://users.pandora.be/freestylerdmx/
Ouch! Ouch!.... I feel like I supporting the MS monoculture.... No! No!.. I'm supporting a diverse environment.
My router, servers, and most desktops run Linux. My favorite desktop distro is Ubuntu. My old 386 is dual-boot for when I need to upload maps to a new area to the NAV unit. (Windows 98 assigned a blocked by the router IP address for obvious reasons..It is not permitted online). I picked up a new (larger) hard drive for my laptop. I stuff the old Win 2K drive in it when hitting the backroads and I want to use Back Roads Explorer in the country or when doing a lightshow using Freestyler. For online, it's back to Ubuntu. Someday the old Windows 98 and 2K applications will go with the old hardware, but in the meantime it's dual boot or Hard Drive swap.
In summary.. Find the hardware and software to meet your needs. You can no longer expect it to all run on a single general purpose computer. You may need other hardware. Prime evidence of this is MS released Vista. They also released X-Box. Neither is a replacement for the other.
If I need to/want to introduce a Linux server one day, am I going to look at a version that has MS's blessing, and will work with my stuff, or would I look at a product that has no kind of guarantees that it'll work with my existing systems? Hmmm... Tough decision there.
You are in business. Make business decisions. Do your cost analisis. Check the percentage of pwned IIS servers and the uptime of Apache on Linux. Check the SQL exploits of both MS and My. Check the per seat license cost. Check the time from 0 day to patch cycle. Check interopobility. Not all your clients in expansion (you do have future plans for expansion?) will be running an all MS shop. Will your server support Safari on Apple? Firefox on Linux? or are you stuck in requiring IE on XP or Vista?
Make business decisions based on business needs. I have.
We have Linux servers. We have Ubuntu desktops with one XP machine and one dual boot machine. Per seat license was a biggie here. We upgraded from Win 2K, kept older hardware, avoided per seat OS and office application costs. We also avoided additional per machine costs for photo editing, AV software, and CD burning utilities. This has reduced our IT costs greatly. The only problem I've had with is simply running out of disk space. Windows would not have fixed that.
Very few need Turbo Tax and other Windows only software. We kept our Windows machine to run it instead of trying to putz with Wine. If we have downtime later, we may invest the time in training. In the meantime, everything just works and works well.
I wish I had a better way to articulate the question ATM, but the jist is that maybe the whole 'divide and conquer' plan may work more than most folks think it will, in that either by necessity of 'patent deals' or by necessity of what-have-you, the coders @ Novell won't or can't spread their improvements to RH and vice-versa.
With the battle lines drawn, I see danger as do many. As with many big battles, there is danger to both sides. I was thinking about the vice-versa bit and thought now would be a lousy time to not be into open formats. More and more they are being required for interopibility. This divide and conquer plan may be working in reverse for MS. They have closed standards to lock others out. Others have open standards that make closed standards undersiable and unimportant. Guess who has a huge risk of being hurt. This is a 2 sided battle. It is no longer a Monopoly crushing the competition.
No, I mean, to criticize comcast in a public forum.. there must be a law against making libelous comments directed at corporate america.
There is. It's called Libel. However to be Libel, it has to be untrue. Posting the truth in your consumer relations is call Freedom of Speech.
If I said Comcast cut 50% of my channels and doubled my fee only halfway through the 1 year subscription agreement and it was false, that would be Libel. If it were true, that would be freedom of speech.
The above is an example only. There is no intent to Libel Comcast in this post. Opinions are permitted. It is my opinion they charge too much for internet service if you don't bundle services. Posting my opinion of their prices is not Libel.
New generation, next chapter. When I was a kid, the flame wars were on CB radio. Being anonymous and untouchable made some pretty tough bullies who were unafraid to stir the pot and hit below the belt. It has simply moved online now. In the old day, a Radio Direction Finder was the great equalizer.
/. permits, AC posts, but they are subject to moderation which helps keep the GNAA and goatse to low levels and personal flamewars almost non-existant.
In the new day, insulting comments have greater than a 15 mile range and are still there days/weeks/months later. It's harder to catch the abuser and the damage is greater. The AC bully is still with us. IP logging helps some.
There is a disconnect from the abuser and the victem. The victem sees just the grafiti on the forum and does not have the advantage of the raw transmission to obtain the source data such as login info and IP address. That is why that abuse info has to be required from the site owner if it was ever logged.
Online humiliation of posting an abusers IP address doesn't have the same impact as announcing a radio abuser's street address. I had more than one online radio bully call my DF bluff and had the misfortune to find out I wasn't bluffing. When that realisation became clear, he tried keying on the top of me. I was very patient and simply re-broadcast when he un-keyed. After 40 minutes, he went silent in defeat.
Unfortunately, the only way to clean up the mess is either moderation, or validation. Un-moderated forum space permitting anonymous posting is a bully's paridise. A flame war can quickly fry the place. It has spilled into the legal system. I don't post on un-moderated boards.
continuing in that stream.... Looks like Allofmp3 is winning!
Except in the USA.. Check the data below. I'm sure the USA numbers are in regards on fighting RIAA legal action, not finding music.