its linux and you need to secure it as any other box
No, you don't. You might want to patch or disable some of the buggy programs that are distributed with it, but Linux itself (the ekrnel) is fairly secure. Probably more so than any other OS kernel (well, apart from some things like Solaris maybe), due to the amount of people and experience put into it.
If only more people had that attitude...
Windows is too expensive for me to run on my PC at home - the latest reliable (hehe) version is more than 200 bucks (XP Pro). I don't care, I use Linux.
I either got Mozilla from the Sun optional CD, or from www.sunfreeware.com. It was a Solaris Package. I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work. I got ZLib (which I seem to recall it needed) from the same place.
Despite Mozilla working fine, I use Konqueror 2.2.1 on Solaris because I think it looks nicer. I'd like to get version 3 running, but don't have the time to build it myself.
I think it would be ironic for a country claiming to be democratic. In a real democracy, people would vote against such a law being introduced. I'm sure the president has done things that would be considered illegal by other countries.
"If the district court decision stands, online publishers could be sued for defamation in any state or country that an online article is read."
How can a District Court decision affect what is considered to be right or wrong in Another Country? Not living in America, there is no rational or logical reason for what someone in a disctrict court that I've never heard of to punish me for something I've published on my web server in Another Country. If they want to sue me, they should come to my country and do so. What if I was to buy alcohol when I'm under 21? That's illegal in some states. Would they try to fine me even if I was consuming it in another country? This just seems silly to me.
I've had Mozilla running non-stop for over a week now with no crashes (Linux + Solaris). I've seen Netscape last maybe about a day (Linux). IE tends to crash 2 or 3 times a day (Windows 2000).
This is in reply to the last three comments...
i think that everyone should be treated in the same way when it comes to producing programs. As someone stated in a previous comment, the government should make companies withdraw products from the market when a major fault is found. This could also apply to any individual, not just large companies. The thing is that those individuals will actually care about fixing the fault, and allowing the public to use the fixed software, whereas MS seems to allow problems to exist and just hope that people don't find them. They would find these problems themselves if they employed suitable testing techniques. I'm confident that most geeks in their basements make a much better job of testing for security problems than the Internet Explorer development (ha!) team do.
So they think that just because they are Microsoft, they deserve to be treated differently? If they made crap software that is full of bugs, and it gets released to other companies who my possibly take advantage of those bugs, then it's their own fault. If a product is meant to be remotely secure, the software company should employ QA teams to *TRY* and break into it, at the VERY LEAST. Writing poor code is no excuse for avoiding your punishment, MS. Perhaps those using the buggy software should be informed of this, and given a grace period to switch to another system before MS is made to open their source.
I read the story on Slashdot's front page, and thought "great, an article about creating web services" and thought it would be about.NET XML-RPC type stuff and hacking together some programs that can make use of it, wishfully thinking that someone had written a good article about doing it on Linux. But oh no, someone just doesn't know what the word "hacking" means, and feels they should use it in the wrong way. That just ruined my day;-)
I use that machine as a file server, CVS repository and mail server. It could do with some more storage space (and probably a SCSI card). I'd say that 75MHz is perfectly adequate for it's purpose. It's amazing how useful an old computer can be with a lot of hard disk space and decent software:-)
I have a Pentium 75 with 2x17GB drives and 1x40GB drive. The BIOS can't detect them, so Windows probably wouldn't work on it, but this is one of the advantages of a real OS. The OS handles disk access, so what the BIOS finds is irrelevant. I had to format them using another computer, and makes sure the boot partition is within the 1st 2GB of the 1st disk for things to go smoothly.
Fingerprint scanners can be fooled with gelatin, but I heard on the radio this morning (BBC Radio 1) that George Bush wants to use them to control access to the United States. If it was my country, I'd rather a more secure method of access control was being looked into. Before this article, I wasn't aware of any problems with fingerprint scanners. As for using them to pay, I know they can be used for saying either: (1) Yes this person is who they say they are, or (2) No this person is not who they say they are, but thought that it wasn't feasible to use the fingerprint to look up an individual in a database.
I've just installed Opera 6.0 on Linux. I loaded a page containing a Java applet that works fine in Mozilla and Konqueror. using JRE 1.4, the applet begins loading in Opera, but only the first class starts to load, and never finishes. So, I'd say there are still some problems.
Ah, yeah, the majority of games I've played were only for Windows too, except Unreal Tournament and Quake. Even then, I still prefered to use a "real operating system" when surfing then net;-)
The majority of Windows users I know appreciate how Mozilla and the like are superior, but use IE simply "because it's there" and are too lazy to do anything about it.
p.s. I thought Max Payne was a Playstation game. I'm sure the Electronics Boutique shop my friend works in had a playable version in-store.
AFAIK, Konqueror has ALWAYS had the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open function. The only thing I can see that makes Konqueror worse than Opera, is that fact that it doesn't have tabbed browsing, oh and it needs the rest of KDE. Being a KDE user, I'm more than happy with Konqueror, although I use Opera for big downloads, as it has that nice download manager tightly integrated, and for browsing sites where I intend opening lots of pages at once (although I prefer Mozilla's implementation of tabs now I think - it can have multiple windows, each with its own set of tabs).
I'm keeping my Yahoo account because I use it solely for chatting using their chat protocol via Gaim. I don't care at all about what they do with their e-mail service, as I never use it, and Google is the only search engine i use, so I don't care what they do with their website. So, I'm a Yahoo account owner, and nothing they do bothers me. I guess a few more people will be in this position, and will also not want to delete their account.
Sorry, but please tell my exactly why this was off-topic. "Surround video pr0n" is perfectly on-topic - it's definitely a possibility with this new video card. JoeAverage with his BestBuy PC with 1 AGP port and 1 PCI port would never have been able to watch surround video pr0n on 3 screens before. This post was as on-topic as someone pointing out that the latest version of Open Office can edit word-art created in Word XP (not that I'm saying it can).
They're wrapping an API around some existing binary code for the MPlayer stuff, aren't they? Hence the reason it only works on the processor architecture that Windows Media Player works on. This is hardly a copyright issue, or an encryption issue is it? If the writers of the code they're wrapping hteir API around are bothered about it, it's just like, say, Microsoft being bothered about you using alternative software to read a word document, or something equally silly. Hmmm... come to think of it, they probably would be bothred by that!
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its linux and you need to secure it as any other box
No, you don't. You might want to patch or disable some of the buggy programs that are distributed with it, but Linux itself (the ekrnel) is fairly secure. Probably more so than any other OS kernel (well, apart from some things like Solaris maybe), due to the amount of people and experience put into it.
It's a single user system,if my memory serves me correctly.
If only more people had that attitude...
Windows is too expensive for me to run on my PC at home - the latest reliable (hehe) version is more than 200 bucks (XP Pro). I don't care, I use Linux.
I either got Mozilla from the Sun optional CD, or from www.sunfreeware.com. It was a Solaris Package. I didn't have to do anything special to get it to work. I got ZLib (which I seem to recall it needed) from the same place.
Despite Mozilla working fine, I use Konqueror 2.2.1 on Solaris because I think it looks nicer. I'd like to get version 3 running, but don't have the time to build it myself.
Interesting?
I think it would be ironic for a country claiming to be democratic. In a real democracy, people would vote against such a law being introduced. I'm sure the president has done things that would be considered illegal by other countries.
"If the district court decision stands, online publishers could be sued for defamation in any state or country that an online article is read."
How can a District Court decision affect what is considered to be right or wrong in Another Country? Not living in America, there is no rational or logical reason for what someone in a disctrict court that I've never heard of to punish me for something I've published on my web server in Another Country. If they want to sue me, they should come to my country and do so. What if I was to buy alcohol when I'm under 21? That's illegal in some states. Would they try to fine me even if I was consuming it in another country? This just seems silly to me.
I've had Mozilla running non-stop for over a week now with no crashes (Linux + Solaris). I've seen Netscape last maybe about a day (Linux). IE tends to crash 2 or 3 times a day (Windows 2000).
I see the theme to the next ten Budweiser commercials here ;-)
This song is dedicated to you, Mr Intellectual-Property Attorney
This is in reply to the last three comments...
i think that everyone should be treated in the same way when it comes to producing programs. As someone stated in a previous comment, the government should make companies withdraw products from the market when a major fault is found. This could also apply to any individual, not just large companies. The thing is that those individuals will actually care about fixing the fault, and allowing the public to use the fixed software, whereas MS seems to allow problems to exist and just hope that people don't find them. They would find these problems themselves if they employed suitable testing techniques. I'm confident that most geeks in their basements make a much better job of testing for security problems than the Internet Explorer development (ha!) team do.
If only this had come sooner...
So they think that just because they are Microsoft, they deserve to be treated differently? If they made crap software that is full of bugs, and it gets released to other companies who my possibly take advantage of those bugs, then it's their own fault. If a product is meant to be remotely secure, the software company should employ QA teams to *TRY* and break into it, at the VERY LEAST. Writing poor code is no excuse for avoiding your punishment, MS. Perhaps those using the buggy software should be informed of this, and given a grace period to switch to another system before MS is made to open their source.
I read the story on Slashdot's front page, and thought "great, an article about creating web services" and thought it would be about .NET XML-RPC type stuff and hacking together some programs that can make use of it, wishfully thinking that someone had written a good article about doing it on Linux. But oh no, someone just doesn't know what the word "hacking" means, and feels they should use it in the wrong way. That just ruined my day ;-)
I use that machine as a file server, CVS repository and mail server. It could do with some more storage space (and probably a SCSI card). I'd say that 75MHz is perfectly adequate for it's purpose. It's amazing how useful an old computer can be with a lot of hard disk space and decent software :-)
I have a Pentium 75 with 2x17GB drives and 1x40GB drive. The BIOS can't detect them, so Windows probably wouldn't work on it, but this is one of the advantages of a real OS. The OS handles disk access, so what the BIOS finds is irrelevant. I had to format them using another computer, and makes sure the boot partition is within the 1st 2GB of the 1st disk for things to go smoothly.
but I'm assuming they fixed 6 of the 14 known exploits listed at http://jscript.dk/unpatched/
What a silly thing to assume! You do realize this is Microsoft we're talking about?
Fingerprint scanners can be fooled with gelatin, but I heard on the radio this morning (BBC Radio 1) that George Bush wants to use them to control access to the United States. If it was my country, I'd rather a more secure method of access control was being looked into. Before this article, I wasn't aware of any problems with fingerprint scanners. As for using them to pay, I know they can be used for saying either: (1) Yes this person is who they say they are, or (2) No this person is not who they say they are, but thought that it wasn't feasible to use the fingerprint to look up an individual in a database.
I've just installed Opera 6.0 on Linux. I loaded a page containing a Java applet that works fine in Mozilla and Konqueror. using JRE 1.4, the applet begins loading in Opera, but only the first class starts to load, and never finishes. So, I'd say there are still some problems.
Ah, yeah, the majority of games I've played were only for Windows too, except Unreal Tournament and Quake. Even then, I still prefered to use a "real operating system" when surfing then net ;-)
The majority of Windows users I know appreciate how Mozilla and the like are superior, but use IE simply "because it's there" and are too lazy to do anything about it.
p.s. I thought Max Payne was a Playstation game. I'm sure the Electronics Boutique shop my friend works in had a playable version in-store.
AFAIK, Konqueror has ALWAYS had the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open function. The only thing I can see that makes Konqueror worse than Opera, is that fact that it doesn't have tabbed browsing, oh and it needs the rest of KDE. Being a KDE user, I'm more than happy with Konqueror, although I use Opera for big downloads, as it has that nice download manager tightly integrated, and for browsing sites where I intend opening lots of pages at once (although I prefer Mozilla's implementation of tabs now I think - it can have multiple windows, each with its own set of tabs).
You've got the wrong people looking at your site then ;-) Konqueror 2.2, followed by Mozilla, followed by IE5, followed by Konqueror 3.0.
And there was me thinking that you're billed by the megabyte.
I'm keeping my Yahoo account because I use it solely for chatting using their chat protocol via Gaim. I don't care at all about what they do with their e-mail service, as I never use it, and Google is the only search engine i use, so I don't care what they do with their website. So, I'm a Yahoo account owner, and nothing they do bothers me. I guess a few more people will be in this position, and will also not want to delete their account.
Sorry, but please tell my exactly why this was off-topic. "Surround video pr0n" is perfectly on-topic - it's definitely a possibility with this new video card. JoeAverage with his BestBuy PC with 1 AGP port and 1 PCI port would never have been able to watch surround video pr0n on 3 screens before. This post was as on-topic as someone pointing out that the latest version of Open Office can edit word-art created in Word XP (not that I'm saying it can).
They're wrapping an API around some existing binary code for the MPlayer stuff, aren't they? Hence the reason it only works on the processor architecture that Windows Media Player works on. This is hardly a copyright issue, or an encryption issue is it? If the writers of the code they're wrapping hteir API around are bothered about it, it's just like, say, Microsoft being bothered about you using alternative software to read a word document, or something equally silly. Hmmm... come to think of it, they probably would be bothred by that!
Imagine if the Trueman Show (like in the movie) was recorded as one huge MPEG video - you could store it one of of these! :-)
You could fit movies of everything anyone's ever seen on a Beowulf cluster of these filesystems!