Re:Disk operating systems.
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FreeDOS
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Seems like IBM had DOS for the IBM/360. This was before PCP which was before MFT which was before MVT.
DOS is Disk Operating System, as contrasted with Tape Operating System. Pretty generic, actually.
Microsoft has been looking at their hype for too long. The're believing it.
What's the least secure part of a bank vault?
The big, heavy, impressive door to the vault.
Adding stuff won't help if the side windows are open or broken.
Once a vulnerability has been discovered, and until it's fixed, it is a liability waiting to be exploited.
Wrong.
Once a vulnerability has been created, and until it's fixed, it is a liability waiting to be exploited.
The best metric is the number of undiscovered bugs, but there is no direct way to measure that.
Discovered bugs measures a lot of things, but is a lously indicator of how many bugs remain. For example, find an exploitable bug. Stop when you've found one.
Better measure is how hard it is to find a bug, any bug. An approximation is how long it takes someone to find an exploitable bug once they start looking.
Right.
Dusty corners where the current "old-timers" know to stay far away from. The dusty corners may be where the problems are, but anyone trying to mess with them quickly learns they have opened a can of worms. Very hard to repackage worms.
Right.
Use a bug to catch a bug.
Works perfectly the first time. All the bugs are hiding and you're flying blind.
That's what's so hideous about band-aid patches.
RedHat might be more secure than OpenBSD, but that's pretty long odds.
Without testing everything against all possible combinations, the reputation of the vendor is probably the best and maybe the only reasonable guide to future performance.
"We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing." --Bill Gates internal memo, 15 January 2002. Well, he didn't say it would be a better level.
Since there are already such as OpenBSD, TrustedSolaris(sp?), VMS, MVS, you have to wonder just what this whole new level really is. Scary.
if the software fails to perform as advertised Most OSS performs better than advertised. Even without recourse to the sources.
Typing redhat.com/errata in my browser (IE on NT) takes me where I want to go. I'm sure a bunch of other guesses would also work. Other than something willful and malicious, which would be rather hard to escape notice and a very fast fix, I'd say they were off the hook for whatever the system would do. The've done more than just take reasonable precautions. Anything that surfaces later is readily accessable to someone who doesn't really even know where to start.
Or if Microsoft decides to store it anyway.
If it's stored as a temporary prior to making it permanent.
What little security there is is more the fault of lazy crackers.
FUD. Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Where does your data want to go today?
Am I just not using it correctly? Fatal mistake. You actually care what it looks like. Word is designed for slopping some stuff in and having it look halfway decent. But do not examine it closely.
Remember, these are the folks bringing you.NET.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27986&op=Reply &threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=155&mode=nested&pi d=3011804
is NOT a hyperlink.
To be a hyperlink it would need the proper escape sequences.
Do you mean the CONCEPT of something that takes you somewhere and occupies zero space to do it? Or upper case is text and lower case is hyperlink? Or tagged text as in tntotrtmtatlt tttetxtt or hhhyhphehrhlhihnhk?
Yes the escapes have a syntax.
Without the syntax, nothing knows it's an escape.
English has escapes so you can talk about the period at the end of this sentence.
HTML has escapes, otherwise scripts and comments would show up as text.
Shifted a is A, but both are the letter 'A'. Greek Alpha would be a shifted 'A' if you had a Greek shift. Shifted 6 is ^. Looks like an escape that everybody is accustomed to. Probably called an escape because it escapes from the corner the designer had painted himself into.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of Windows Update. It's purpose is to preserve the breeding ground for worms. It really gets to be fun when Windows Update starts removing the security patches.;-)
What? a beta release doesn't work correctly? And this surprises you?
Try it under a non-beta release before you start whining about something not working.
Hell, we expect alpha releases to work correctly for the most part.
Re:The kicker's in the tail
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SuSE 7.3 vs XP
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Seems like IBM had DOS for the IBM/360. This was before PCP which was before MFT which was before MVT.
DOS is Disk Operating System, as contrasted with Tape Operating System. Pretty generic, actually.
Microsoft has been looking at their hype for too long. The're believing it.
What's the least secure part of a bank vault?
The big, heavy, impressive door to the vault.
Adding stuff won't help if the side windows are open or broken.
"pride" ???
Microsoft makes mediocrity an aspiration.
Once a vulnerability has been discovered, and until it's fixed, it is a liability waiting to be exploited.
Wrong.
Once a vulnerability has been created, and until it's fixed, it is a liability waiting to be exploited.
The best metric is the number of undiscovered bugs, but there is no direct way to measure that.
Discovered bugs measures a lot of things, but is a lously indicator of how many bugs remain. For example, find an exploitable bug. Stop when you've found one.
Better measure is how hard it is to find a bug, any bug. An approximation is how long it takes someone to find an exploitable bug once they start looking.
Right.
Dusty corners where the current "old-timers" know to stay far away from. The dusty corners may be where the problems are, but anyone trying to mess with them quickly learns they have opened a can of worms. Very hard to repackage worms.
Right.
Use a bug to catch a bug.
Works perfectly the first time. All the bugs are hiding and you're flying blind.
That's what's so hideous about band-aid patches.
RedHat might be more secure than OpenBSD, but that's pretty long odds.
Without testing everything against all possible combinations, the reputation of the vendor is probably the best and maybe the only reasonable guide to future performance.
"We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing." --Bill Gates internal memo, 15 January 2002.
Well, he didn't say it would be a better level.
Since there are already such as OpenBSD, TrustedSolaris(sp?), VMS, MVS, you have to wonder just what this whole new level really is. Scary.
if the software fails to perform as advertised
Most OSS performs better than advertised. Even without recourse to the sources.
Typing redhat.com/errata in my browser (IE on NT) takes me where I want to go. I'm sure a bunch of other guesses would also work. Other than something willful and malicious, which would be rather hard to escape notice and a very fast fix, I'd say they were off the hook for whatever the system would do. The've done more than just take reasonable precautions. Anything that surfaces later is readily accessable to someone who doesn't really even know where to start.
Steel security door on a tar paper shack.
Can't add your own chicken wire even if you know how.
Beginning to smell like a disaster brewing.
Or if Microsoft decides to store it anyway.
If it's stored as a temporary prior to making it permanent.
What little security there is is more the fault of lazy crackers.
FUD. Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Where does your data want to go today?
Am I just not using it correctly? .NET.
Fatal mistake. You actually care what it looks like. Word is designed for slopping some stuff in and having it look halfway decent. But do not examine it closely.
Remember, these are the folks bringing you
concept of hyperlink, not the encoding
Ever used an index? It's usually at the back of the book.
[n] references to a bibliography?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27986&op=Reply &threshold=-1&commentsort=3&tid=155&mode=nested&pi d=3011804
is NOT a hyperlink.
To be a hyperlink it would need the proper escape sequences.
Do you mean the CONCEPT of something that takes you somewhere and occupies zero space to do it? Or upper case is text and lower case is hyperlink? Or tagged text as in tntotrtmtatlt tttetxtt or hhhyhphehrhlhihnhk?
Deskview?
Yes the escapes have a syntax.
Without the syntax, nothing knows it's an escape.
English has escapes so you can talk about the period at the end of this sentence.
HTML has escapes, otherwise scripts and comments would show up as text.
Shifted a is A, but both are the letter 'A'. Greek Alpha would be a shifted 'A' if you had a Greek shift. Shifted 6 is ^. Looks like an escape that everybody is accustomed to. Probably called an escape because it escapes from the corner the designer had painted himself into.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of Windows Update. It's purpose is to preserve the breeding ground for worms. It really gets to be fun when Windows Update starts removing the security patches. ;-)
For funzees, watch someone trying to use Word when they actually care what the stuff looks like. Outlook's HTML editing gets pretty demented too.
it's time to accept Microsoft as an industry leader. You just have to think of them in the same way that you do a clueless PHB.
A clueless PHB is an industry leader. Buggy whip industry maybe?
I do think of Microsoft in the same way that I do a clueless PHB. As something I would be better off without.
Impressive funeral music for the damned. Somebody had a wicked sense of humor. Thanks.
The Microsoft emblem. Doesn't the trailing edge look like it's been out in the elements too long. Shattered. (Well it is Windows)
"Microsoft servers for small business let you connect with customers in ways you never have before." Somehow that sounds omnious.
My guess is that he has to say something, has nothing to say, and starts blithering.
It might be the only microsoft new site that's actually worth anything, but well under 10 percent of /. is Microsoft related.
Of course, MS would move the source somewhere else for safe keeping.
And THEN the worms come out of the woodwork.
Fear Uncertainty Doubt
What? a beta release doesn't work correctly? And this surprises you?
Try it under a non-beta release before you start whining about something not working.
Hell, we expect alpha releases to work correctly for the most part.
It's designed for professional suckers!