In the unix world, we make distinctions between processes that run as root, safe binaries installed as root, etc..
There is a difference between the phenomenon of malicious code in general, esp. trojans, and virii. The fact that any idiot can install malicious code as root does not make that a virus.
Read up on your unix so that you may be better informed.
Virii are the result of bad operating systems and applications design. Period. Anyone with atleast half of a brain realizes that virii are the unique problem of a certain family of operating systems. If you want to be cattle, then deal with the consequences. Like many, I couldn't care less about what happens to these people who suffer from their "calamitous" effects.
I tried R2 when it came out to the bay area.
It sucked. I was hoping to have enough
qos to make a remote shell usable. I was wrong.
I couldn't even reach anyone over there that
knew the diff. between latency and bandwidth.
Sorry but I consider 2 second latencies atleast
every couple of minutes awful. If you're a
braindead web-surfer, maybe it's ok, though.
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You clearly do not know what we are talking about.
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/bliss/
What a ridiculous rebuttal.
In the unix world, we make distinctions between processes that run as root, safe binaries installed as root, etc..
There is a difference between the phenomenon of malicious code in general, esp. trojans, and virii. The fact that any idiot can install malicious code as root does not make that a virus.
Read up on your unix so that you may be better informed.
Virii are the result of bad operating systems and applications design. Period. Anyone with atleast half of a brain realizes that virii are the unique problem of a certain family of operating systems. If you want to be cattle, then deal with the consequences. Like many, I couldn't care less about what happens to these people who suffer from their "calamitous" effects.
yeah, so what, are you used to proprietary serial port technology ?
I tried R2 when it came out to the bay area. It sucked. I was hoping to have enough qos to make a remote shell usable. I was wrong. I couldn't even reach anyone over there that knew the diff. between latency and bandwidth. Sorry but I consider 2 second latencies atleast every couple of minutes awful. If you're a braindead web-surfer, maybe it's ok, though.