As a school sysadmin who designed and runs the student email system I can assure you that this type of thing happens *far* more often than once a year, and the faculty and deans take the ability to track down individual messages for granted. If they lost this ability, I imagine they would be upset.
Of course when higher ups propose solutions like this, they tend not to think of things like that until it's too late.
I've been a T-Mobile customer for five years and their customer service is decent IMO. It certainly isn't what I would call great (some of them are a bit "dumb" and we've had a couple of instances where they didn't seem to know enough about their own products), but this is not far from the experience I've had with any other company.
As for not being able to set up other email accounts, on my Blackberry I can set up any email account that has pop/Imap access with no trouble, and Google maps and opera mini work great.
And from RTFA, apparently this software restriction policy does not apply to "smartphones", like the Blackberry and Windows mobile phones, only the cheaper "feature phones".
The main reason I've stuck with Tmobile for so long is that their prices are lower than any other carrier. My wife and I have actively looked for a better deal every time our contract comes up, but so far no carrier we've ever looked into had ever been able to touch tmobiles prices.
Runas was more akin to su than sudo, which made for a bit of frustation when you ran a program as "administrator" that program would save files to the Administrator's My Documents folder instead of your My Documents folder.
I wrote a very kludgey program awhile back called winsudo that solved this problem, and later some others who could program wrote proper implementations that bring sudo functionality to Windows 2000 and XP.
1) It's okay, but I've had it crash several times when using it to connect over a serial port (*hyperterminal* actually works better) 2) Not everyone uses Linux you insensitive clod! 3) Not "y" - "y" *and* "Enter" 4) Time is money. That extra 500ms helps me to achieve One Degree Of Separation®. Can you say that about your business? 5) Guess I should have included the sarcasm tags?
1) Every OS comes with a ready to use client by default (even Windows) 2) On some commercial UNIXES it's the default; no having to turn it on! 3) No waiting for annoying "key exchange" mumbo-jumbo, and no having to accept keys on first connect 4) No cumbersome overhead from encryption; It's fast! 5) If you use a client that saves your password, and you forget your password, you can have the client log you in and sniff it. 6) ???
All over the place. Rooted linux servers knock on the door of my router every day.
If you're talking about *desktop* machines only, neither Linux nor OS X have reached the critical mass (Probably ~10-15% install base) necessary for socially engineered malware to spread. Network based worms that exploit services would be possible, but both Linux and OS X come with no daemons listening by default.
The person I replied to was told that the law would lower the cost of motorcycle insurance. Politicians could have sold the law to the public as something that would help the greater good, but instead they made up some bullshit about lowering the cost of motorcycle insurance.
From TFA...
"Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack." Wow.
It seems a defensive reaction to being indirectly labeled a crook by your boss would be natural, even for honest employees. How about skipping the threatening rhetoric, and just implementing an automated password management policy. If your IT folks are worth their salt, they'll "get it" without having to be called criminals. If you skip the indirect threats, and they argue against an automated password management policy alone, then maybe you should worry.
"That should save all the public from paying higher insurance rates because of increased safety and survivability right?...I've yet to see my insurance rates go down......" A person who survives a motorcycle crash because they wore a helmet, but sustains multiple fractures and internal bleeding will more costly to treat than a corpse.
"If the open project has a huge community (e.g. Apache) there tend to be even fewer exploits than in commercial software. May I remind you of IIS?" In the last four years, there there have been far fewer exploits discovered for IIS than Apache.
You may be right that their drivers have gotten better, but to say their drivers are now better than Nvidia's just doesn't jive with my experience. Here is a list of every graphics card I've owned or had to deal with at work, in chronological order. Notice which brand I've always had trouble with.
Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Extreme - Besides being slow as hell, no problems 3DfX Voodoo3 3000 - No problems (I loved this card. It's in my FreeBSD router right now) ATI Rage fury Maxx - shitty OpenGL support/missing textures in many direct3d and OpenGL games/no NT support. Despite having a clock that was twice as fast and four times as much memory, my 3dfx card outperformed it in many games. Complete waste of money. Ended up binning this card and going back to my Voodoo3. ATI TV Wonder - TV would hang frequently, and refuse ot start without a reboot/BETA driver to supposedly fix the problems registered itself with Windows system file protection and could not be uninstalled; forced me to reinstall the OS. GeForce3 - No problems GeForce4 ti4800 - No problems in both Windows and FreeBSD ATI Mobility 9600 - Stock drivers caused Blue Screens/GPU hangs. Updated driver crashed svchost.exe on boot. Fixed by installing Vista and using stock Vista driver. No FreeBSD support. ATI x800 - Shipping driver caused blue screens/hanging. Updated driver worked. My best experience with ATI yet. GeForce 7800GT - No problems (both Windows and FreeBSD)
Over time the number and severity of problems I've experienced with ATI cards has decreased, but never gone away completely. The x800 is the latest I've dealt with and will likely be the last for quite some time. We've banned them at work, and ATI doesn't support FreeBSD so they are out of the question for me at home.
ATI's drivers have ***NOT*** improved. Just recently we had major problems at work with a semi-recent (x800) ATI model. The computers were hanging and blue-screening out of the box. An updated driver fixed the issue. I have an Alienware laptop with a mobility 9600 and the driver would cause bluescreens from time to time in XP. I downloaded the updated driver from ATI's website and it would cause svchost.exe to crash seconds after boot, making the computer useless. I was forced to revert back to the old driver and live with the occasional bluescreens. Finally when Vista was release to businesses (the laptop is my work laptop) I was able to load Vista on the laptop and so far I've not had single problem with the video card - using the stock Vista driver of course.
Those 140,000 "exploits" are largely redundant and exploit a small number of actual vulnerabilities - most of them being the user.
That may be... but if so the number of vulnerabilities is in the hundreds of millions. Careful there. With that logic you're heading down the slipperly slope towards the "The Large install base plays a major role in Windows security" argument which will get you flamed/modded down.
Lets see: 140,000 known Windows exploits, most of them surfacing in the last 12 years makes that at least one exploit released every 45 minutes Malware != Vulnerability
Those 140,000 "exploits" are largely redundant and exploit a small number of actual vulnerabilities - most of them being the user.
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As a school sysadmin who designed and runs the student email system I can assure you that this type of thing happens *far* more often than once a year, and the faculty and deans take the ability to track down individual messages for granted. If they lost this ability, I imagine they would be upset. Of course when higher ups propose solutions like this, they tend not to think of things like that until it's too late.
I've been a T-Mobile customer for five years and their customer service is decent IMO. It certainly isn't what I would call great (some of them are a bit "dumb" and we've had a couple of instances where they didn't seem to know enough about their own products), but this is not far from the experience I've had with any other company.
As for not being able to set up other email accounts, on my Blackberry I can set up any email account that has pop/Imap access with no trouble, and Google maps and opera mini work great.
And from RTFA, apparently this software restriction policy does not apply to "smartphones", like the Blackberry and Windows mobile phones, only the cheaper "feature phones".
The main reason I've stuck with Tmobile for so long is that their prices are lower than any other carrier. My wife and I have actively looked for a better deal every time our contract comes up, but so far no carrier we've ever looked into had ever been able to touch tmobiles prices.
MSN uses Flash for video if you visit with Firefox.
Runas was more akin to su than sudo, which made for a bit of frustation when you ran a program as "administrator" that program would save files to the Administrator's My Documents folder instead of your My Documents folder.
I wrote a very kludgey program awhile back called winsudo that solved this problem, and later some others who could program wrote proper implementations that bring sudo functionality to Windows 2000 and XP.
1) It's okay, but I've had it crash several times when using it to connect over a serial port (*hyperterminal* actually works better)
2) Not everyone uses Linux you insensitive clod!
3) Not "y" - "y" *and* "Enter"
4) Time is money. That extra 500ms helps me to achieve One Degree Of Separation®. Can you say that about your business?
5) Guess I should have included the sarcasm tags?
Benefits to using Telnet:
1) Every OS comes with a ready to use client by default (even Windows)
2) On some commercial UNIXES it's the default; no having to turn it on!
3) No waiting for annoying "key exchange" mumbo-jumbo, and no having to accept keys on first connect
4) No cumbersome overhead from encryption; It's fast!
5) If you use a client that saves your password, and you forget your password, you can have the client log you in and sniff it.
6) ???
"where are the actual security breaches?
All over the place. Rooted linux servers knock on the door of my router every day.
If you're talking about *desktop* machines only, neither Linux nor OS X have reached the critical mass (Probably ~10-15% install base) necessary for socially engineered malware to spread. Network based worms that exploit services would be possible, but both Linux and OS X come with no daemons listening by default.
Assuming you haven't already, please do the world a favor and do not breed.
Correct.
The person I replied to was told that the law would lower the cost of motorcycle insurance. Politicians could have sold the law to the public as something that would help the greater good, but instead they made up some bullshit about lowering the cost of motorcycle insurance.
I was talking in the context of the cost of Motorcycle insurance, not society in general.
It seems a defensive reaction to being indirectly labeled a crook by your boss would be natural, even for honest employees. How about skipping the threatening rhetoric, and just implementing an automated password management policy. If your IT folks are worth their salt, they'll "get it" without having to be called criminals. If you skip the indirect threats, and they argue against an automated password management policy alone, then maybe you should worry.
Or you could just not say stupid things.
So...you were saying?
"So yes, IIS on Windows is more insecure than Apache on Linux. "
And what do you base that on? Are you basing that off of IIS6 or previous versions which contained the trivial insecurities you described?
You've got issues.
MacOS is not based on Linux you tool.
"So your anecdotal evidence says that the drivers have not improved? "
My anecdotal evidence shows that while they may have improved somewhat, they are still not very good. See my post above.
You may be right that their drivers have gotten better, but to say their drivers are now better than Nvidia's just doesn't jive with my experience. Here is a list of every graphics card I've owned or had to deal with at work, in chronological order. Notice which brand I've always had trouble with.
Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Extreme - Besides being slow as hell, no problems
3DfX Voodoo3 3000 - No problems (I loved this card. It's in my FreeBSD router right now)
ATI Rage fury Maxx - shitty OpenGL support/missing textures in many direct3d and OpenGL games/no NT support. Despite having a clock that was twice as fast and four times as much memory, my 3dfx card outperformed it in many games. Complete waste of money. Ended up binning this card and going back to my Voodoo3.
ATI TV Wonder - TV would hang frequently, and refuse ot start without a reboot/BETA driver to supposedly fix the problems registered itself with Windows system file protection and could not be uninstalled; forced me to reinstall the OS.
GeForce3 - No problems
GeForce4 ti4800 - No problems in both Windows and FreeBSD
ATI Mobility 9600 - Stock drivers caused Blue Screens/GPU hangs. Updated driver crashed svchost.exe on boot. Fixed by installing Vista and using stock Vista driver. No FreeBSD support.
ATI x800 - Shipping driver caused blue screens/hanging. Updated driver worked. My best experience with ATI yet.
GeForce 7800GT - No problems (both Windows and FreeBSD)
Over time the number and severity of problems I've experienced with ATI cards has decreased, but never gone away completely. The x800 is the latest I've dealt with and will likely be the last for quite some time. We've banned them at work, and ATI doesn't support FreeBSD so they are out of the question for me at home.
ATI's drivers have ***NOT*** improved. Just recently we had major problems at work with a semi-recent (x800) ATI model. The computers were hanging and blue-screening out of the box. An updated driver fixed the issue. I have an Alienware laptop with a mobility 9600 and the driver would cause bluescreens from time to time in XP. I downloaded the updated driver from ATI's website and it would cause svchost.exe to crash seconds after boot, making the computer useless. I was forced to revert back to the old driver and live with the occasional bluescreens. Finally when Vista was release to businesses (the laptop is my work laptop) I was able to load Vista on the laptop and so far I've not had single problem with the video card - using the stock Vista driver of course.
Or he could just use Media Center, which works great.
No, I got that. I was just doing a bit trolling.
That may be
I was leaning more towards "bitch", but that works too. ;)
Those 140,000 "exploits" are largely redundant and exploit a small number of actual vulnerabilities - most of them being the user.