"OK there are two security models in place - one is the Windows NTN security model; which is actually a pretty - [pauses] - You've seen security holes in Microsoft products - buffer overflows - they're not problems in the security architecture - that happens with Unix too.
OK: old argument, old news... UNIX blah blah blah security blah blah blah happens to everybody blah blah blah...
Yeah, right.
Sounds like a typical M$FT apologist, don't he?
"...They happen to be really bad at managing their bugs, and not providing fixes on time, but that's another issue..."
Wait!
Stop right there, Miguel, that's the whole f*cking point!
You can't just blow off the single biggest issue there is with M$FT "security" just because you're sucking up to them...
...or well, maybe *you* can!
Security is a marketing issue to M$FT -- not a security issue, despite Unca Bill's recent homily.
Until M$FT demonstrates in a consistent manner, over an extended period of time that they're doing *anything* differently, anyone with an ounce of integrity wouldn't be sucking up to The Beast® this way...
Like someone already said, at least there's still KDE...
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"The only good extremist on either end of the political spectrum is a very dead one."
Oh, yeah, right.
What we need is the continued homogenization of all the world's cultures into one bland consumerist flock of sheep who's only interest is when they get to go shopping next...
Mac World, here we come!
Don't think for yourself, go buy something from a multinational...
After reading what little of substance (read: nothing) is available about this supposed DDoS at the link to ISPReview, and after reading the article about this deal at the Reg®, I've gotta say I'm not buying a bit of it.
""Firewall tightening prevented further intrusion beyond the firewalls. What followed was first a Firewall password brute force attack resulting in successful hash and destruction of the firewall," it said."
uh.. what?
Speaking to The Register a dejected Mr Miszti said: "This is terrorism - pure and simple. I never want to relive the last seven days again.
"We still don't know who's behind it - nor do we know who's next.
"This is not just an attack against us, but against all our customers."
Yeah.
Right.
Who's next? The next podunk ISP that needs to blame its poor business practices on "terrorism".
Face it: if DDoS was a real, true problem, *on this scale* it would have been all over for a lot of ISP's a long time ago...
is that here we go, down that same slippery slope:
"...Under the hood, the machine is downloading
the tip of the stable branch from a kernel.org mirror site..."
First we got stuff going on under the hood, then we got stuff going on behind our backs, and soon we got stuff calling home to the mothership every time we start up a particular app...
Wait!?
Doesn't this sound familiar?
Should...
It's what Window$ has been doing, more and more, for years.
As Mr Horse used to say: "Hmm.. Nope. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit."
"...The average weekly earnings of 80 per cent of Americans in gainful employment dropped by roughly 18 per cent between l973 and l995, he reports, from $315 to $258 a week..."
"...upgrading a customer's server from Red Hat 6.2 to Mandrake 8.0..."
"...when I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 (Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1), I had (still have) many stability problems..."
"...I don't know what compelled Joshua to choose Mandrake, whose "bleeding-edgeness" usually keeps them a bit unstable and unpolished..."
"...He's using MANDRAKE on a SERVER. For crying out loud, you don't use Mandrake on a server. Get something realistic like Slackware or Debian, and if you want to be a idiot use redhat, not Mandrake..."
"...First of all, who would used Mandrake for a server. We are talking about an installation that is meant for a laptop environment..."
"...i was running a 2.4 on mandrake 8.0 and had nothing but problems...."
"...I've noticed that most of the comments both in the article and others complaining about the 2.4.x kernels and various stability problems are running RedHat [redhat.com], Mandrake [mandrake.com], and even Debian [debian.org] Distros..."
huh..
Perhaps we have a Mandrake issue, here, and not really a 2.4.x kernel issue, and certainly not, as the few M$ trolls have tried to suggest, a Linux issue...
"Does HeUnique even read the messages on his own site? Folks here figured out pretty quickly that it's obviously a fake, and he
posts an update to the story asking someone to try it."
Ninety percent of the articles put up as "news" on/. are just to generate post volume.
The vast majority of the "news" that gets posted is really "olds", and the rest is just bait.
Take it from someone who's been on here a *long* time...
"Think of it as running on 'antique hardware' you get extra geek points for that."
Cool..
I've got Red Hat 5.2 running on a 1990 Gateway 2000 20mhz 80368 with 8mb RAM in separate, socketed DRAM chips, with an ATI OEM video card with a screaming 512kb video RAM going into an early '90s 13" Gateway 2K CrystalScan 1024NI monitor.
Only thing missing from the original box is the 5.25" floppy drive, which is now a CD-ROM, and the original 65mb rll HDD, which is now a 320mb WD HDD...
...that I expected this article to be by Jon Katz, the only part of the Internet that's "being commercialized" is that part patronized by consumerist sheep.
I haven't been to CNN, ESPN, EBay, MSNBC, Yahoo!, Excite!, ZDNet, Barnes and Noble, blah blah blah blah blah, etc etc etc, in months, and don't expect to for -- when?
Never.
Who cares?
Somebody needs to get beyond this kinda cr*p:
"In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found."
and realize that there's one whole hell of a lot to the Internet that Jupiter Media Metrix isn't even the faintest bit aware of, and that there's a whole lot more that you can do with the Internet than just buy sh*t.
Those "14 companies" don't "control" one second of the time I spend online.
The only people who take that kind of drivel seriously are those who don't do anything but consume, anyway, so the only Internet they know about is the "commercialized Internet"...
Slashdot Mirror
OK: old argument, old news... UNIX blah blah blah security blah blah blah happens to everybody blah blah blah...
Yeah, right.
Sounds like a typical M$FT apologist, don't he?
"...They happen to be really bad at managing their bugs, and not providing fixes on time, but that's another issue..."
Wait!
Stop right there, Miguel, that's the whole f*cking point!
You can't just blow off the single biggest issue there is with M$FT "security" just because you're sucking up to them...
Security is a marketing issue to M$FT -- not a security issue, despite Unca Bill's recent homily.
Until M$FT demonstrates in a consistent manner, over an extended period of time that they're doing *anything* differently, anyone with an ounce of integrity wouldn't be sucking up to The Beast® this way...
Like someone already said, at least there's still KDE...
t_t_b
"He also had praise for the new Microsoft security model.."
Based upon what?
"..dismissed the notion that Redmond was employing embrace and extend to its web services protocols.."
Oh, yeah, right. M$FT has certainly changed it's tune...
"..and put the message that the community should get over its beef with The Beast."
uh.. well... Maybe he's willing to "get over it"
It's plain he's intent on hopping into bed with Unca Bill: you can see that by the brown tones on Icaza's nose...
t_t_b
Aren't they all dead?
Or is that the Who?
t_t_b
Oh, yeah, right.
What we need is the continued homogenization of all the world's cultures into one bland consumerist flock of sheep who's only interest is when they get to go shopping next...
Mac World, here we come!
Don't think for yourself, go buy something from a multinational...
Idiot..
t_t_b
uh.. what?
"We still don't know who's behind it - nor do we know who's next.
"This is not just an attack against us, but against all our customers."
Yeah.
Right.
Who's next? The next podunk ISP that needs to blame its poor business practices on "terrorism".
Face it: if DDoS was a real, true problem, *on this scale* it would have been all over for a lot of ISP's a long time ago...
t_t_b
t_t_b
*We* can certainly tell from that, that *you* are not lame!
No, sir, not you...
But wait!
Shouldn't that be:
Or was that bit of 'l33tn3ss already taken by some other creative young soul?
heh... Kids these days... They say the darnd'est things!
t_t_b
"...Under the hood, the machine is downloading the tip of the stable branch from a kernel.org mirror site..."
First we got stuff going on under the hood, then we got stuff going on behind our backs, and soon we got stuff calling home to the mothership every time we start up a particular app...
Wait!?
Doesn't this sound familiar?
Should...
It's what Window$ has been doing, more and more, for years.
As Mr Horse used to say: "Hmm.. Nope. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit."
t_t_b
umm.. yeah. Right.
Hey! You want fries with that?
t_t_b
t_t_b
uh.. No.
Just an opportunity to buy a sucky teeshirt.
How *radical*
How *American*
How pretentious...
t_t_b
(A "..libertine, libertarian, privacy-mongering geek..")
For those who don't get what I'm talking about, there's a helluva difference between a distro and a kernel.
(hmm.. If you don't understand *that*, stick with Window$...)
t_t_b
"...when I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 (Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1), I had (still have) many stability problems..."
"...I don't know what compelled Joshua to choose Mandrake, whose "bleeding-edgeness" usually keeps them a bit unstable and unpolished..."
"...He's using MANDRAKE on a SERVER. For crying out loud, you don't use Mandrake on a server. Get something realistic like Slackware or Debian, and if you want to be a idiot use redhat, not Mandrake..."
"...First of all, who would used Mandrake for a server. We are talking about an installation that is meant for a laptop environment..."
"...i was running a 2.4 on mandrake 8.0 and had nothing but problems...."
"...I've noticed that most of the comments both in the article and others complaining about the 2.4.x kernels and various stability problems are running RedHat [redhat.com], Mandrake [mandrake.com], and even Debian [debian.org] Distros..."
huh..
Perhaps we have a Mandrake issue, here, and not really a 2.4.x kernel issue, and certainly not, as the few M$ trolls have tried to suggest, a Linux issue...
dunno..
Food for thought.
t_t_b
he prolly put on Win 2K by mistake...
t_t_b
The Linux Portaloo
and of course:
The more accurate diary. Really.
Good reading...
t_t_b
t_t_b
t_t_b
Ninety percent of the articles put up as "news" on /. are just to generate post volume.
The vast majority of the "news" that gets posted is really "olds", and the rest is just bait.
Take it from someone who's been on here a *long* time...
t_t_b
Sheesh..
t_t_b
t_t_b
Cool..
I've got Red Hat 5.2 running on a 1990 Gateway 2000 20mhz 80368 with 8mb RAM in separate, socketed DRAM chips, with an ATI OEM video card with a screaming 512kb video RAM going into an early '90s 13" Gateway 2K CrystalScan 1024NI monitor.
Only thing missing from the original box is the 5.25" floppy drive, which is now a CD-ROM, and the original 65mb rll HDD, which is now a 320mb WD HDD...
Uptime is currently a taste over 6 months...
How's that for cool?
t_t_b
Big ducking feel...
t_t_b
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are
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friends.
Get
to
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them.
t_t_b
I haven't been to CNN, ESPN, EBay, MSNBC, Yahoo!, Excite!, ZDNet, Barnes and Noble, blah blah blah blah blah, etc etc etc, in months, and don't expect to for -- when?
Never.
Who cares?
Somebody needs to get beyond this kinda cr*p:
and realize that there's one whole hell of a lot to the Internet that Jupiter Media Metrix isn't even the faintest bit aware of, and that there's a whole lot more that you can do with the Internet than just buy sh*t.
Those "14 companies" don't "control" one second of the time I spend online.
The only people who take that kind of drivel seriously are those who don't do anything but consume, anyway, so the only Internet they know about is the "commercialized Internet"...
t_t_b
hw.metku.net/rottaflekti/index_eng.html
Also take a step back up to root at hw.metku.net/ and look at the other cool stuff they've been doing...
t_t_b