"...Most security compromises are external attacks, not root vs. non-root issues...."
This evades the real root versus non-root user issue, and suggests a major ignorance of the *NIX operating system family.
root is all-powerful.
For a beginning user, this power can be absolutely fatal.
I started in UNIX in 1985; I've been working with Linux since the mid-90's; just 6 weeks ago, while working too hastily as root and with the indiscrminate use of a dot and a star, I managed to chown an entire file system to that of a mere user.
It wasn't the archtypical rm -rf * but it had an equivalent effect: all the files are *there* but almost nothing worked...
That's the real issue of root versus non-root: too much power, used with too little thought.
Poof! All gone!
How's the beginning user ever going to understand what went wrong? And if they do it once, will they ever come back to Linux again?
"...If Darl McBride and complainants did not know at the time of the complaint that their own company had played a lead role in the very development they accuse IBM of having unfairly and unlawfully pursued, they are incompetent. If they did know, their complaint appears to verge closely upon perjury..."
"...When OSDL spun up, IBM gained a choice: work with one small partner that lacks demonstrated expertise or focus on the enterprise market, or join a large consortium of industry heavyweights with man-centuries of relevant experience.
That seems just about enough time for an astute IBM strategist to conclude that SCO was the less likely alternative to sustain a serious Linux development and support effort over time. To any technical person, SCO's own failure to develop expertise beyond its small-business roots seems a more plausible explanation for the switch to OSDL than some nefarious anti-SCO conspiracy by top IBM executives..."
"...The author [ESR] personally ran two of these -- Microport and Yggdrasil -- and a third not listed, which was the Dell own-brand port.
SCO competed directly against these ports, and cannot fail to have been aware of their existence. SCO's claim to have been unique in supporting Unix for PCs is therefore not merely false, it is a deliberate and egregious lie."
Everyone who thinks they know anything about this issue but who is under -- say -- forty years of age owes it to themselves to read ESR's brief.
My first experience with UNIX was in '86 -- using SCO Xenix -- on an NEC 80386 in an auto parts store.
SCO as an "enterprise computing environment" UNIX?
"...Every Christian using the Internet should be NetAccountable and personally accountable. We must be part of the solution--not part of the problem..."
Yeah.
Sure.
At $3.95 a month.
As usual, behind the best intentions of American right-wing evangelical Christianity: the sweet stench of money.
...about the stupidest thing I've heard of in a long time.
"...The idea, according to Cotter, is that people will choose not to visit "sinful" websites if they know a close friend or family member will be aware of their actions..."
Further proof that people who worry about "sin" and "sinful" are getting just exactly what they deserve: a big, fat neurosis
With current nutritional knowledge, meat is simply irrelevant for a health diet; in fact, the current increasing levels of obesity in American society show that eating meat is contributory to very poor health.
Leave the goddam animals alone, whether they're of the real _or_ of the test tube variety.
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Why do I get the feeling that this post is somehow related to the article about education having suffered since the introduction of computers into the public schools?
This is another one of those/. trolls-for-posts articles.
It has been widely discussed, for years, that paying for support is completely in tune with the stated and unstated philosophy of the GNU Public License.
It won't be the police, it'll be done by the 100,000 United Nations soldiers, massed in the woods of norther Minnesota even now, just before they receive their commands from the Trilateral Commission to sweep into Washington DC and establish a One World Government(tm) under the direct control of the United Nations.
"...via its Ad Sizes Committee which includes AOL, MSN, Yahoo! and CNET Networks Inc., among its members, announced today the recommendation of a new larger sized unit..."
I don't *ever* go anywhere close to AOL, MSN, Yahoo! or anything related to CNet..
Slashdot Mirror
You write even more poorly than the NTBugtraq guy.
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Probably will again next year, too.
Buy Turbo Tax ever again?
feh...
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Can't be turned off?
Oh, really?
Do they use TCP/IP?
Do they originate from an IP address?
Do they connect to a port on my machine?
Are they played by an application that runs on my machine?
Give me just one out of the four above, and no problemo -- they're dead meat.
"..can't be turned off.."
Yeah, right.
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"Real Myth...and you will not be able to support it in-house..."
"Real Myth...Your existing desktop support staff are old dogs who can't learn new tricks..."
Which is it?
You can't support Linux yourself, or your "old dogs" really can learn a new (read: Linux) OS?
Od do we want to have it both ways?
And:
"...You will not be able to pay anyone else for [sic] provide support once it is no longer available from the original linux distributor..."
There's no aftermarket support industry?
Who the hell says?
Of course, inconsistency and the rush to write anything to support their own agenda are pretty common traits among Micr0$ft pimps...
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This evades the real root versus non-root user issue, and suggests a major ignorance of the *NIX operating system family.
root is all-powerful.
For a beginning user, this power can be absolutely fatal.
I started in UNIX in 1985; I've been working with Linux since the mid-90's; just 6 weeks ago, while working too hastily as root and with the indiscrminate use of a dot and a star, I managed to chown an entire file system to that of a mere user.
It wasn't the archtypical rm -rf * but it had an equivalent effect: all the files are *there* but almost nothing worked...
That's the real issue of root versus non-root: too much power, used with too little thought.
Poof! All gone!
How's the beginning user ever going to understand what went wrong? And if they do it once, will they ever come back to Linux again?
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When interogated by the salesman as to why I was being so extravagant, I replied "Well, I want to run VisiCalc."
"Ah..." came the reply, "then you probably do need 48k of RAM."
Of course, later I added the language card, which pumped that bad boy up to a state-of-the-art 64k.
How times change...
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You go, ESR...
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"...When OSDL spun up, IBM gained a choice: work with one small partner that lacks demonstrated expertise or focus on the enterprise market, or join a large consortium of industry heavyweights with man-centuries of relevant experience.
That seems just about enough time for an astute IBM strategist to conclude that SCO was the less likely alternative to sustain a serious Linux development and support effort over time. To any technical person, SCO's own failure to develop expertise beyond its small-business roots seems a more plausible explanation for the switch to OSDL than some nefarious anti-SCO conspiracy by top IBM executives..."
God, I love ESR...
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"...The author [ESR] personally ran two of these -- Microport and Yggdrasil -- and a third not listed, which was the Dell own-brand port.
SCO competed directly against these ports, and cannot fail to have been aware of their existence. SCO's claim to have been unique in supporting Unix for PCs is therefore not merely false, it is a deliberate and egregious lie."
Everyone who thinks they know anything about this issue but who is under -- say -- forty years of age owes it to themselves to read ESR's brief.
My first experience with UNIX was in '86 -- using SCO Xenix -- on an NEC 80386 in an auto parts store.
SCO as an "enterprise computing environment" UNIX?
Yeah, right...
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"...Every Christian using the Internet should be NetAccountable and personally accountable. We must be part of the solution--not part of the problem..."
Yeah.
Sure.
At $3.95 a month.
As usual, behind the best intentions of American right-wing evangelical Christianity: the sweet stench of money.
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"...The idea, according to Cotter, is that people will choose not to visit "sinful" websites if they know a close friend or family member will be aware of their actions..."
Further proof that people who worry about "sin" and "sinful" are getting just exactly what they deserve: a big, fat neurosis
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Start with learning about paragraphs.
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With current nutritional knowledge, meat is simply irrelevant for a health diet; in fact, the current increasing levels of obesity in American society show that eating meat is contributory to very poor health.
Leave the goddam animals alone, whether they're of the real _or_ of the test tube variety.
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It has been widely discussed, for years, that paying for support is completely in tune with the stated and unstated philosophy of the GNU Public License.
End of discussion.
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Methinks you _don't_ understand it.
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Get a life
I mean, really now.
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Some redwoods have been alive for a thousand years.
They most certainly don't grow back in "..a few years.."
You must be from the east coast, where they don't have any real trees...
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Blogging about logging.
Well.
I know I'm excited.
And shouldn't that be "tree-huggers", not "tree-sitters"?
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I don't *ever* go anywhere close to AOL, MSN, Yahoo! or anything related to CNet..
BFD, sez I..
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In a programming language, keyboarding skills as far as spelling and punctuation are critical.
I stressed accuracy over speed, and the kids got the point right away.
My point?
You'd be surprised how well kids would take to a CLI.
They get gooey enough at home with Window$...
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