I would have to agree with you, even if I don't use Ubuntu. In any case, I don't use the default UI for my distribution either (CentOS), but IceWM. I just want something that will hold my freaking xterms, and I'm happy.
There are ways to make it next to impossible (if not impossible) for a driver to crash the whole OS. Also, it is entirely possible to make drivers marked as "trusted" only after they've got tested by Microsoft. Didn't Apple have something like this in the past ?
When a driver (and not the hardware) crashes the OS, it is because the OS allows it.
However, increasing quality control over those drivers will make most hardware pieces unavailable to Windows, which would hurt Microsoft. It would not be cheap to have a driver "certified by Microsoft Labs".
If I know that, you can be pretty sure people at Microsoft knows it too. It is not hard to figure it out. So, in that regard, Microsoft made a decision to allow that to happen. Was it the right decision FOR THEM ? The money they are making say it was. For the users ? Maybe. It does make hardware cheaper. How much cheaper, I really can't say, so I can't answer that question.
I don't know how you define "a very large" company. But one of my clients had about 800 desktops on my country alone. Not only you will find lots of Windows 95 here (most are XP), but the same is true for almost every site they have around the world. I can't give specific worldwide numbers for this company but, on my country, I would say that about 90% of the desktops/notebooks are XP, with the other 10% composed of 95 and Vista.
GM (worldwide) has been working on dozens, if not hundreds of different projects. The real question is not how long they have been working on this, but why they decided to advertise this NOW.
I don't think you read what I wrote. Lemme try asking in a different way:
Can you point me a country where, given X as the total money the government gets through taxes, the government is not expending at least X/2 (half of X) just to keep the government running ?
Can anyone point to be a single government, of any country, that doesn't send more than 50% of the tax money just to keep the government running ? (I know some places as little as 20% only gets back to the people)
Not trolling here. I just want to know if that is even possible.
I finally managed to find some infected hosts on one of the networks. Weird enough, I'm feeling much better now, knowing I can trust the results I've got on the others.
I actually installed both Impacket and Crypto, just to get rid of that warning.
In any case, I'm running this on LANs, so there are no firewalls on the way. I'm not randomly scanning people on the internet. And yes, I am authorized to do this kind of thing on these networks.
Considering how much publicity this is getting, how many news reports, talk shows etc are commenting and discussing it, is anyone here naive enough to believe that, if it ever comes to trial, the sentence won't be set before they even step into the courtroom ?
Has anyone manage to find an infect machine this way ? All I get is "No resp.".
Since I'm a bit paranoid, my first reaction is that the tool is not working. Trusting ALL networks I scanned (about 2000 computers, including several notebooks) are not infected is just not in my nature.
Ok, there were several replies to my post and, since I'm not going to reply to all of them, I decided to pick one that is clear and definitively worth discussing with.
I do agree with your backup strategy. It is sound. I use that one some sites, having backup made to tapes, and a secondary storage area (or a pre-backup staging area) on a NAS, for fast recovery of trivial files. Restoring files from the NAS is usually fasted, as you stated, than from a tape.
Using BOTH HDDs and tapes to supplement each others, specially for added redundancy is very sound.
However, HDDs don't replace tapes. They are too prone to fail, specially if left powered off for long periods of time. It is a catch 22 if I ever saw one. If you keep them powered on, they will fail sooner. If you keep them powered off, they will also fail sooner (than tapes). Also HDs are much more sensitive than tapes to storage condition. Although if you are worth your salt, you probably have a storage vault/room/facility with controlled humidity, temperature, EM-free and all that.
Not can stop you from calling your HDD "a backup", the same it we can't stop you from calling it "Bob".
Yes, as a side note, (newer) HDDs are more reliable than some old tape backup technologies, like DDS. At least on my experience. But if you are running backups on DDS tapes, you are in enough trouble already.
For those that want to argue that tape technologies change too much, I would like to invite them to read the data from a RLL HDD I have here on my cabinet. I also have a MFM HDD, but I don't want to push the issue too much.
I'm sorry, but however recommends using an HD as a backup solution, shouldn't be talking about backup.
HDs are NOT backup media.
If you want to encrypt your tape backups, you can use openssl, pgp or several other solution for it. I have opeessl encrypted backups on one of my sites, and they work great.
To make things worse, the rubber sheet is effectively 2D in a 3D universe. In our 3D universe, what form does the curvature take?
I'm not a physics , but even I can spot that one.
4D universe, please. We are talking "space-time" here. Any 3D based analysis will be wrong, so you just can't do it and expect to have realistic results.
Yes, I know they use a 2D sheet to represent/illustrate the concept, but that is the only option we have right now.
So I would venture to say that your physics teacher was having a problem with the idea because he was trying to analyze it using the picture, and not the math and theories. The whole "rubber sheet" thing is just an analogy.
Wow. Someone has been reading too many Dilbert strips.
You are completely wrong. Please don't give advice based on comic strips.
Yes, there is the right and wrong way to do anything. Including proposing changes, questioning and everything. It might take years for people to learn it, so at the beginning it is better to keep a low profile. But overall, you have no idea what you are talking about.
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Ok, so you have seconds to react.
I can only imagine one single way for you to evacuate a building in seconds. And I don't think you would survive it.
I would have to agree with you, even if I don't use Ubuntu. In any case, I don't use the default UI for my distribution either (CentOS), but IceWM. I just want something that will hold my freaking xterms, and I'm happy.
There are ways to make it next to impossible (if not impossible) for a driver to crash the whole OS. Also, it is entirely possible to make drivers marked as "trusted" only after they've got tested by Microsoft. Didn't Apple have something like this in the past ?
When a driver (and not the hardware) crashes the OS, it is because the OS allows it.
However, increasing quality control over those drivers will make most hardware pieces unavailable to Windows, which would hurt Microsoft. It would not be cheap to have a driver "certified by Microsoft Labs".
If I know that, you can be pretty sure people at Microsoft knows it too. It is not hard to figure it out. So, in that regard, Microsoft made a decision to allow that to happen. Was it the right decision FOR THEM ? The money they are making say it was. For the users ? Maybe. It does make hardware cheaper. How much cheaper, I really can't say, so I can't answer that question.
I never saw a company upgrading their computers because they were switching Windows versions. Yes, it can happen, but I never saw it.
On the other hand, I saw several companies switching Windows versions WHILE upgrading their computers.
I don't know how you define "a very large" company. But one of my clients had about 800 desktops on my country alone. Not only you will find lots of Windows 95 here (most are XP), but the same is true for almost every site they have around the world. I can't give specific worldwide numbers for this company but, on my country, I would say that about 90% of the desktops/notebooks are XP, with the other 10% composed of 95 and Vista.
Yes but, which one is the worst: Nemesis or Generations ?
GM (worldwide) has been working on dozens, if not hundreds of different projects.
The real question is not how long they have been working on this, but why they decided to advertise this NOW.
Forget hackers.
All it takes is 1 car with a malfunctioning system, and boom.
We really don't need hackers for this to turn into a catastrophe.
Could be. Either that, or you alone is not "the people".
Either can be equality true on this particular case.
I don't think you read what I wrote. Lemme try asking in a different way:
Can you point me a country where, given X as the total money the government gets through taxes, the government is not expending at least X/2 (half of X) just to keep the government running ?
Or you could ... I don't know .... get elected, go there and do a better job ?
Can anyone point to be a single government, of any country, that doesn't send more than 50% of the tax money just to keep the government running ? (I know some places as little as 20% only gets back to the people)
Not trolling here. I just want to know if that is even possible.
I admit I might have misunderstood your post but ...
Are you really so naive that you think the only reason D or R are winning is because people are voting for "the lesser evil" ?
Right now, even if everyone simply voted on the candidate they like the most (and not the lesser evil), either D or R would still win.
The people, on a democracy, don't get the government they want. They get the government they deserve.
http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html
I finally managed to find some infected hosts on one of the networks. Weird enough, I'm feeling much better now, knowing I can trust the results I've got on the others.
Looks like the tool works nicely, as advertised.
I actually installed both Impacket and Crypto, just to get rid of that warning.
In any case, I'm running this on LANs, so there are no firewalls on the way. I'm not randomly scanning people on the internet. And yes, I am authorized to do this kind of thing on these networks.
It is good to see someone who realizes that.
Considering how much publicity this is getting, how many news reports, talk shows etc are commenting and discussing it, is anyone here naive enough to believe that, if it ever comes to trial, the sentence won't be set before they even step into the courtroom ?
What is happening right now IS the trial.
Has anyone manage to find an infect machine this way ? All I get is "No resp.".
Since I'm a bit paranoid, my first reaction is that the tool is not working. Trusting ALL networks I scanned (about 2000 computers, including several notebooks) are not infected is just not in my nature.
Ok, there were several replies to my post and, since I'm not going to reply to all of them, I decided to pick one that is clear and definitively worth discussing with.
I do agree with your backup strategy. It is sound. I use that one some sites, having backup made to tapes, and a secondary storage area (or a pre-backup staging area) on a NAS, for fast recovery of trivial files. Restoring files from the NAS is usually fasted, as you stated, than from a tape.
Using BOTH HDDs and tapes to supplement each others, specially for added redundancy is very sound.
However, HDDs don't replace tapes. They are too prone to fail, specially if left powered off for long periods of time. It is a catch 22 if I ever saw one. If you keep them powered on, they will fail sooner. If you keep them powered off, they will also fail sooner (than tapes). Also HDs are much more sensitive than tapes to storage condition. Although if you are worth your salt, you probably have a storage vault/room/facility with controlled humidity, temperature, EM-free and all that.
Not can stop you from calling your HDD "a backup", the same it we can't stop you from calling it "Bob".
Yes, as a side note, (newer) HDDs are more reliable than some old tape backup technologies, like DDS. At least on my experience. But if you are running backups on DDS tapes, you are in enough trouble already.
For those that want to argue that tape technologies change too much, I would like to invite them to read the data from a RLL HDD I have here on my cabinet. I also have a MFM HDD, but I don't want to push the issue too much.
I'm sorry, but however recommends using an HD as a backup solution, shouldn't be talking about backup.
HDs are NOT backup media.
If you want to encrypt your tape backups, you can use openssl, pgp or several other solution for it. I have opeessl encrypted backups on one of my sites, and they work great.
Yes but ... paypal ?
Errr. A physics institute that takes paypal donations ?
I'm not a physics , but even I can spot that one.
4D universe, please. We are talking "space-time" here. Any 3D based analysis will be wrong, so you just can't do it and expect to have realistic results.
Yes, I know they use a 2D sheet to represent/illustrate the concept, but that is the only option we have right now.
So I would venture to say that your physics teacher was having a problem with the idea because he was trying to analyze it using the picture, and not the math and theories. The whole "rubber sheet" thing is just an analogy.
Oh, another important fact to consider.
Whatever you learn on college, by the fact they are teaching it on college alone, is considered by companies as baseline knowledge.
Wow. Someone has been reading too many Dilbert strips.
You are completely wrong. Please don't give advice based on comic strips.
Yes, there is the right and wrong way to do anything. Including proposing changes, questioning and everything. It might take years for people to learn it, so at the beginning it is better to keep a low profile. But overall, you have no idea what you are talking about.