I don't think this post is accurate. I've done many many things, like replace ram, HD, and processor and not had to re-activate. Just changing memory does not require it. When I did replace my motherboard, it did require re-activation, in which I called the 800 number, was on hold for under 5 minutes, told them what I did, and they gave me the activation key on the phone. It doesn't cost any more money to re-activate. You just have to tell them that you re-installed, and what you replaced. It was not a big deal.
Look at it this way. They bought an adware company because the see that this is a problem. If they suddenly "bundled" an adware solution, the zealots would say they are trying to drive adaware and spybot out of the market. But since they are selling the solution and hence giving the customers choice, they are trying to screw the customers. No matter how secure they make the OS, there WILL be people who will run as admins and click "yes" to everything. These are the solutions that they are going to sell.
It isn't the first time they've had security software either. Anyone remember MSAV.exe?
These machines are just for stamps, they allow you to ship packages. Before the machines you had to stand in line to ship any sort of package and then talk to a postal clerk face to face to ship it, who, probably retains a memory of your face. Now, there is a machine there to speed up the process, and still act as a deterrent to mail fraud or sending drugs/bombs/anthrax/chemicals.
Hmm...could this be an intentional "Slashdotting" of a competitor to Thinkgeek.com? This is a very effective legal DDOS attack on the e-commerce site of a competitor of a company owned by the same people that run Slashdot.
That is company expenses per employee, so it includes other things like buiding expenses, computers, electricity, leases, all the free coke, the shuttle service, and all the other little thing.
A total cost of an employee is typically 2.5 to 3 times salary.
What kind of really crappy admins are working on a system where servers go down 2 hours a week?
Also, 10 minutes for a reboot?? I reboot my XP machine maybe once a week (for installs usually). I've never had a blue screen (same machine for 8 months so far). It takes MAYBE 2 mintues to reboot.
If that is how an orginization's IT works, then they need to fire the admins for reading slashdot to much and get someone who will do their job.
Most of these concerns were FUD. I use XP Pro at home. I've added 2 hard drives, changed the video card, added an additional firewire card and memory, all with no problems with activation.
The only person that I know that had an issue with activation was someone who changed their motherboard out. After the re-activation failed, he just called the number that it told him to, explained what he did, and in 5 minutes he had a new activation code and no problems.
Product activation was just a Red Herring that fanatics used to spread FUD. Unless, of course, you are using priated software.
The point is in manufacturing. For example, you are a big metalworking company. You are extruding, think play-doh machine, pieces of metal, say aluminum Apache helocopter blades. In order to make the part, you need a header, a die, and a backer. The die is the exact shape of the thing you are extruding. The header and the backer don't need to be exactly the same shape, but just close. Now, it costs about $15,000 to build a custom design and manufacutre a backer. Now say you can seach all of your previously designed backers, very very quickly, to find one close enough to the new die that you are building, then you have just saved yourself $15,000. Most manufacturing plants have their plans in either micro-fiche, or scanned micro-fiche in a big pile of.tiff files. Searching those manually is VERY time prohibitive, so having a shape searching mechanism is very useful. Don't think about stuff average Joe User does, think industry and manufacturing.
That is functionally equivilent. The Catalina Marketing system that Kroger uses doesn't care if the identification came from your loyalty card, your phone number, your debit card, or your checking account number.
A lot of people are saying "organs should have gone to different kids." While this may be true, this is also a test bed for future technologies.
Think about stem cell research. If in the future (as it looks like it will be), it woudl be possible to grow those organs from a slightly modified version of the child's stem cells (with the smooth muscle disorder corrected), then those would all have to be transplanted into the body. The same applies for adults who say may have stomach cancer. A new stomach and gastrointestinal tract, just to be safe, would be grown and then transplanted in.
I am not so jaded as to thing that this is a publicity stunt, especially considering they did not release the fact that it was taking place until well after the surgery.
To the "natural selection" people: why even bother with any sort of medicine then? Any influence that we have is not "natural." The same arguments can be made for such simple things as pacemakers, dialysis, and insulin therapy.
Does anyone know of a H.323 solution that works on Mac? We use Polycom hardware to communicate for a variety of reasons. The only bad thing is that they are windows only.
I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering. Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?
I may not agree with their business practices often (one of the reason's that I didn't work there after interning there), but they don't just "buy" their way into the field. That would be if they did a hostile takeover of Google. They are spending lots of money hiring lots of programmers that have been laid off by other places. There are a lot of smart people at MS, and they get paid well, and hence need lots of money to explore an initially non-revenue generating venture.
The difference is that all the existing apps would need to be recompiled to fully use the 64bit. Even lowly DOS can use performance improvements with a larger cache. And with Hyperthreading the number of clocks per instruction is very small, this lends itself to using a larger cache more often.
Between April and December 2000, seven default installations of Red Hat 6.2 servers were attacked within three days of connecting to the Internet. Based on this, we estimate the life expectancy of a default installation of Red Hat 6.2 server to be less then 72 hours. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system was compromised in less than eight hours. The fastest time ever for a system to be compromised was 15 minutes. This means the system was scanned, probed, and exploited within 15 minutes of connecting to the Internet. Coincidentlly, this was the first honeypot we ever setup, in March of 1999.
Between April and December 2000, seven default installations of Red Hat 6.2 servers were attacked within three days of connecting to the Internet. Based on this, we estimate the life expectancy of a default installation of Red Hat 6.2 server to be less then 72 hours. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system was compromised in less than eight hours. The fastest time ever for a system to be compromised was 15 minutes. This means the system was scanned, probed, and exploited within 15 minutes of connecting to the Internet. Coincidentlly, this was the first honeypot we ever setup, in March of 1999.
Also, serious question because I'm not a Net Admin: Has Cisco fixed and how easy is it to patch the Cisco IOS IPv4 vulnerability?
I agree with you there. But the unfortunate thing is that we live in a non-perfect world where companies don't have the resources to pay for sysadms / coders. Any large orginization like Universities, and fortune 500 places should have that without a doubt.
Imagine that every Joe-Bob comany in the US used Linux instead of Windows. Then every person that has an exposed system would need to understand what the code does. How many script kiddies could never even install Linux if it wasn't for the Redhat / Mandrake installer tool? Most people could not get X set up much less the implications of a patch to.so. If it was that much work to patch each time, then they would never get done. Sure the Red-Hat auto-update thing is a start, but how many are no longer patched because the end user didn't buy the subscription.
When a patch breaks a 3rd party program, it is probably because they are most likely exploiting a "feature" that should never be in it anyways.
Almost all attacks can be solved by good system administration. All of the Blaster issues would have been mitigated if every windows machine was patched as soon as the patch was released.
Almost all software is insecure, if run poorly.
What is the life expectancy of a Redhat 7 default install not behind a firewall?
Why does a home user need it that is running Linux? Ximan Evolution uses it.
Almost any program that uses a client server model on the same machine will most likely use RPC to access things running in the different process quickly.
1. Using "crack" on passwords to "block" users from setting it to things like "password."
2. "Blocking" then end user from having C$ shared without a password.
3. "Blocking" the user from opening up.pif,.src,.bat,.com extensions in email without a virus scanner.
These are all things that everyone on here complains about, that end uses do, but you still blame MS for them. The only way that they can prevent things like this is to "block" the end user from doing things. But then you will complain about them taking functionality away from the user.
That isn't MS's problem, that is Dell's problem. Any company could ship with Linux with an Admin password like "password."
They are weighing the cost of support calls from people who want to know what this "Administrator" thing is, verses end customer security, guess which one Dell will always choose.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think this post is accurate. I've done many many things, like replace ram, HD, and processor and not had to re-activate. Just changing memory does not require it. When I did replace my motherboard, it did require re-activation, in which I called the 800 number, was on hold for under 5 minutes, told them what I did, and they gave me the activation key on the phone. It doesn't cost any more money to re-activate. You just have to tell them that you re-installed, and what you replaced. It was not a big deal.
I could not agree more, but unfortunatly, with that solution you have an unconscience body you have to work around to de-hack the machine.
Look at it this way. They bought an adware company because the see that this is a problem. If they suddenly "bundled" an adware solution, the zealots would say they are trying to drive adaware and spybot out of the market. But since they are selling the solution and hence giving the customers choice, they are trying to screw the customers. No matter how secure they make the OS, there WILL be people who will run as admins and click "yes" to everything. These are the solutions that they are going to sell.
It isn't the first time they've had security software either. Anyone remember MSAV.exe?
These machines are just for stamps, they allow you to ship packages. Before the machines you had to stand in line to ship any sort of package and then talk to a postal clerk face to face to ship it, who, probably retains a memory of your face. Now, there is a machine there to speed up the process, and still act as a deterrent to mail fraud or sending drugs/bombs/anthrax/chemicals.
This isn't a bad thing.
Passes out the tin-foil hats.
Hmm...could this be an intentional "Slashdotting" of a competitor to Thinkgeek.com? This is a very effective legal DDOS attack on the e-commerce site of a competitor of a company owned by the same people that run Slashdot.
If Altriusm is a measure of heroism then everyone here should worshipping Bill and Melinda Gates.
They are consistently the top philanthropists in the US. In 1999-2003 they pledged or gave away $23 Billion, or 54% of their wealth.
But since he is Gatus of Borg, everyone on here will call me a MS Apologist and say that he is evil.
That is company expenses per employee, so it includes other things like buiding expenses, computers, electricity, leases, all the free coke, the shuttle service, and all the other little thing.
A total cost of an employee is typically 2.5 to 3 times salary.
The goal is to have it already downloaded on every library computer. You then just log into the system and have access to your files.
What kind of really crappy admins are working on a system where servers go down 2 hours a week?
Also, 10 minutes for a reboot?? I reboot my XP machine maybe once a week (for installs usually). I've never had a blue screen (same machine for 8 months so far). It takes MAYBE 2 mintues to reboot.
If that is how an orginization's IT works, then they need to fire the admins for reading slashdot to much and get someone who will do their job.
Most of these concerns were FUD. I use XP Pro at home. I've added 2 hard drives, changed the video card, added an additional firewire card and memory, all with no problems with activation.
The only person that I know that had an issue with activation was someone who changed their motherboard out. After the re-activation failed, he just called the number that it told him to, explained what he did, and in 5 minutes he had a new activation code and no problems.
Product activation was just a Red Herring that fanatics used to spread FUD. Unless, of course, you are using priated software.
The point is in manufacturing. For example, you are a big metalworking company. You are extruding, think play-doh machine, pieces of metal, say aluminum Apache helocopter blades. In order to make the part, you need a header, a die, and a backer. The die is the exact shape of the thing you are extruding. The header and the backer don't need to be exactly the same shape, but just close. Now, it costs about $15,000 to build a custom design and manufacutre a backer. Now say you can seach all of your previously designed backers, very very quickly, to find one close enough to the new die that you are building, then you have just saved yourself $15,000. Most manufacturing plants have their plans in either micro-fiche, or scanned micro-fiche in a big pile of .tiff files. Searching those manually is VERY time prohibitive, so having a shape searching mechanism is very useful.
Don't think about stuff average Joe User does, think industry and manufacturing.
That is functionally equivilent. The Catalina Marketing system that Kroger uses doesn't care if the identification came from your loyalty card, your phone number, your debit card, or your checking account number.
A lot of people are saying "organs should have gone to different kids." While this may be true, this is also a test bed for future technologies.
Think about stem cell research. If in the future (as it looks like it will be), it woudl be possible to grow those organs from a slightly modified version of the child's stem cells (with the smooth muscle disorder corrected), then those would all have to be transplanted into the body. The same applies for adults who say may have stomach cancer. A new stomach and gastrointestinal tract, just to be safe, would be grown and then transplanted in.
I am not so jaded as to thing that this is a publicity stunt, especially considering they did not release the fact that it was taking place until well after the surgery.
To the "natural selection" people: why even bother with any sort of medicine then? Any influence that we have is not "natural." The same arguments can be made for such simple things as pacemakers, dialysis, and insulin therapy.
Does anyone know of a H.323 solution that works on Mac? We use Polycom hardware to communicate for a variety of reasons. The only bad thing is that they are windows only.
You forgot:
...
Final Fantasy X
Static-X
Active-X
Fragile X
Malcom X
I may not agree with their business practices often (one of the reason's that I didn't work there after interning there), but they don't just "buy" their way into the field. That would be if they did a hostile takeover of Google. They are spending lots of money hiring lots of programmers that have been laid off by other places.
There are a lot of smart people at MS, and they get paid well, and hence need lots of money to explore an initially non-revenue generating venture.
The difference is that all the existing apps would need to be recompiled to fully use the 64bit. Even lowly DOS can use performance improvements with a larger cache. And with Hyperthreading the number of clocks per instruction is very small, this lends itself to using a larger cache more often.
See also:
Ars Technia on Caching
From the Honeynet Project:
Between April and December 2000, seven default installations of Red Hat 6.2 servers were attacked within three days of connecting to the Internet. Based on this, we estimate the life expectancy of a default installation of Red Hat 6.2 server to be less then 72 hours. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system was compromised in less than eight hours. The fastest time ever for a system to be compromised was 15 minutes. This means the system was scanned, probed, and exploited within 15 minutes of connecting to the Internet. Coincidentlly, this was the first honeypot we ever setup, in March of 1999.
Also, serious question because I'm not a Net Admin: Has Cisco fixed and how easy is it to patch the Cisco IOS IPv4 vulnerability?
I agree with you there. But the unfortunate thing is that we live in a non-perfect world where companies don't have the resources to pay for sysadms / coders. Any large orginization like Universities, and fortune 500 places should have that without a doubt.
.so. If it was that much work to patch each time, then they would never get done. Sure the Red-Hat auto-update thing is a start, but how many are no longer patched because the end user didn't buy the subscription.
Imagine that every Joe-Bob comany in the US used Linux instead of Windows. Then every person that has an exposed system would need to understand what the code does. How many script kiddies could never even install Linux if it wasn't for the Redhat / Mandrake installer tool? Most people could not get X set up much less the implications of a patch to
When a patch breaks a 3rd party program, it is probably because they are most likely exploiting a "feature" that should never be in it anyways.
Almost all attacks can be solved by good system administration. All of the Blaster issues would have been mitigated if every windows machine was patched as soon as the patch was released.
Almost all software is insecure, if run poorly.
What is the life expectancy of a Redhat 7 default install not behind a firewall?
Why does a home user need it that is running Linux? Ximan Evolution uses it.
Almost any program that uses a client server model on the same machine will most likely use RPC to access things running in the different process quickly.
Behavior Blocking:
.pif, .src, .bat, .com extensions in email without a virus scanner.
1. Using "crack" on passwords to "block" users from setting it to things like "password."
2. "Blocking" then end user from having C$ shared without a password.
3. "Blocking" the user from opening up
These are all things that everyone on here complains about, that end uses do, but you still blame MS for them. The only way that they can prevent things like this is to "block" the end user from doing things. But then you will complain about them taking functionality away from the user.
That isn't MS's problem, that is Dell's problem. Any company could ship with Linux with an Admin password like "password."
They are weighing the cost of support calls from people who want to know what this "Administrator" thing is, verses end customer security, guess which one Dell will always choose.