You cannot login to Mac OS X as root, unless you take the trouble to enable the root user (look under the Domain menu in the Netinfo Manager application). Otherwise, the first user setup has "Administrator" rights, along with any other user that you twiddle that checkbox for if using the Users preference pane to create new accounts. "Administrators" are simply folks in the admin group, which can modify large portions of the file system tree (/Applications comes to mind) due to the admin-group-write permissions Apple places all over the place.
Otherwise, the password being asked for is the login/pass for any user marked as Administrator, which does the equivalent of a sudo to root when something needs to write to normally unaccessible areas (e.g. to install Frameworks or the like).
Uh huh, no known security holes. Anyone can claim "no known" security holes, especially with their head buried in sand. Let us travel back down memory lane and see how W2K stood going gold...
Microsoft has a history of making grandiose claims with regard to the supposed security and functionality of their products; Bruce Schneier has covered such in the Crypto-Gram newsletter on several occasions.
What application running under Windows 3.1 are people still running without upgrading -- I'd like to know!
In my experience, lots of Medical devices are still running off of Windows 3, DOS 6.22, or similar. Probably due to the computer being bundled with the $50,000+ device
Luckily, newer devices come with Windows NT and a seething mass of Oracle, Java, and homegrown code. The software corrupts itself every month or so, and doesnt work if you put a password on the Administrator account.
So as far as Microsoft OS controlled devices go, I prefer ones running on older operating systems to dumb to be cracked.
Why yes, import anime DVD's generally do come with a Japanese language track. They also often come with several subtitle streams, English included. This allows one to watch shows that would never be ported over to the U.S., or works that certain American corporations are camping on.
Do not speak Japanese, do appreciate imports, never owned a SNES. Loath the typical English dubs with a passion.
So, what I'm trying to get at is the fact that there's no way in Hell that robots will ever be able to take over the human race
in the forseeable future.
The killer feature for me is Outlook's ability to export mailboxes to a single file.
Huh, Netscape stores "mailboxes" in single files on disk already. Text format too, so you can leverage all those nifty text-supporting tools as required, instead of the massive binary blob I hear Outlook uses.
As for Outlook vs. OE, I warn folks away from both (yay, another day, another damn worm), but have had many more problems with Outlook not working right with our local/the campus IMAP servers. C&C does not even officially support Outlook...
Windows XP is dramatically more
secure than Windows 2000 or any of the prior
systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the
attacks frequently used on the Internet. We have
gone through all code and, in an automated way,
found places where there could be buffer
overflow, and those have been removed in
Windows XP.
Responsibility may be better served through higher insurance rates for "known" buggy software, rather than Government red tape.
Though there is always the "utterly secure today, completely broken tomorrow" problem with software as new attack methods come to light, which would complicate insurance/government penalties...
While we all probably get junk mail in our 'snail' mailboxes, it takes no time on our part to sort through it.
Nope, I only get junk mail from a few wierd companies (AT&T), and when the mailman just gets lazy and shoves the general stack of daily junk into my box instead of the apartment next to mine.
To really reduce the junk mail you get (in the U.S.A., anyways), follow the instructions at junkbusters.com-- costs some money to send all the letters out ($5 in postage?), but the amount of general crap I receive in the mail went down dramatically after doing so.
On the email side of things, yes, procmail is nifty, though a better place for such filters is in the MTA (currently done with heavy-handed arbitrary blackhole lists), so that mail can be rejected as spam before even coming near the local delivery agent. You can do this in a proper user-specified fashion with PerlMX, however, that's $$$...
In other words, "All Your Bill of Rights are Belong to Us."
Not really... I think the "war on drugs" still leads the "war on terrorism" for damages done, though that may just be due to the longer span of time the former has been failing.
Now I have to rewrite my department's security policy to allow the likes of Carnivore (unencrypted unaudited black box? No, thanks) to infest my network...
True, but it is not only Microsoft doing this, Eudora (Pro or Adware) has a "Mood Watch" feature that is supposed to warn you should your email be deemed too "inflammatory" in nature. Luckily, you can turn the "feature" off.
My question is, how do these companies altering the language/screening your email/rating your TV shows (v-chip) know what is right for you?
Last I checked-- a while back, I'm running squid + squidGuard now as JunkBuster (JB) doesn't cache nor work right with OmniWeb on Mac OS X-- you had to define a string somewhere (unix version) and recompile to change the default broswer JB appears as, if you are mucking with the User-Agent.
Nitpick, Sendmail has a large commercial side. And numerous companies have commercial offerings "below" (RedHat Linux) or "from" (commercial webservers based on Apache) a project that kick back varying degrees of support to the open source development.
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You cannot login to Mac OS X as root, unless you take the trouble to enable the root user (look under the Domain menu in the Netinfo Manager application). Otherwise, the first user setup has "Administrator" rights, along with any other user that you twiddle that checkbox for if using the Users preference pane to create new accounts. "Administrators" are simply folks in the admin group, which can modify large portions of the file system tree (/Applications comes to mind) due to the admin-group-write permissions Apple places all over the place.
Otherwise, the password being asked for is the login/pass for any user marked as Administrator, which does the equivalent of a sudo to root when something needs to write to normally unaccessible areas (e.g. to install Frameworks or the like).
Uh huh, no known security holes. Anyone can claim "no known" security holes, especially with their head buried in sand. Let us travel back down memory lane and see how W2K stood going gold...
Microsoft has a history of making grandiose claims with regard to the supposed security and functionality of their products; Bruce Schneier has covered such in the Crypto-Gram newsletter on several occasions.
My brain for some reason indicates that it was Netscape who hoisted that evil header upon us, though I cannot find any supporting evidence.
Bad brain! More caffine for you!
We can to spell! Why, just the other day, I was adjusting my proxy to hide the Referer HTTP header and... damn. Nevermind.
What application running under Windows 3.1 are people still running without upgrading -- I'd like to know!
In my experience, lots of Medical devices are still running off of Windows 3, DOS 6.22, or similar. Probably due to the computer being bundled with the $50,000+ device
Luckily, newer devices come with Windows NT and a seething mass of Oracle, Java, and homegrown code. The software corrupts itself every month or so, and doesnt work if you put a password on the Administrator account.
So as far as Microsoft OS controlled devices go, I prefer ones running on older operating systems to dumb to be cracked.
In cases where pervasive computing is really useful, the lab rats (e.g. underpaid graduate students) will not have a say in the matter.
A few million years of corporate downsizing and committee meetings could easily account for the noted loss of maximum exoskeleton size...
Why yes, import anime DVD's generally do come with a Japanese language track. They also often come with several subtitle streams, English included. This allows one to watch shows that would never be ported over to the U.S., or works that certain American corporations are camping on.
Do not speak Japanese, do appreciate imports, never owned a SNES. Loath the typical English dubs with a passion.
but he set up all the evidence to indicate otherwise...
So you paint the current popular sky god variant as a charlatan in the fine tradition of Loki?
Some relevant reading.
So, what I'm trying to get at is the fact that there's no way in Hell that robots will ever be able to take over the human race in the forseeable future.
Digital Watch: Let's let them win at chess again.
Big Blue: Okay...
For fun with MIME at the mail-server level, try MIME Defang. Reject, bounce, delete, or mange those .doc as desired.
The killer feature for me is Outlook's ability to export mailboxes to a single file.
Huh, Netscape stores "mailboxes" in single files on disk already. Text format too, so you can leverage all those nifty text-supporting tools as required, instead of the massive binary blob I hear Outlook uses.
As for Outlook vs. OE, I warn folks away from both (yay, another day, another damn worm), but have had many more problems with Outlook not working right with our local/the campus IMAP servers. C&C does not even officially support Outlook...
Err, when was SSH ever based on SSL?
Look-at-the-numbers approach to "Why Open Source?"
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
You probably want the security section.
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
And the "XP Dramatically More Secure" article from a few months ago:
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526 a%253D16895,00.asp
Quoting Jim Allchin is fun:
D'oh...
Responsibility may be better served through higher insurance rates for "known" buggy software, rather than Government red tape.
Though there is always the "utterly secure today, completely broken tomorrow" problem with software as new attack methods come to light, which would complicate insurance/government penalties...
Heck, the original had subtitles in it.
And the original was in German, too-- "Aus Pass!" and a gun usually learned one which button to hit...
print 'Ho ' x 3;
print 'Ho ' for 1..3;
Mind you, I think it's great we have a handful of languages in the same problem domain-- diversity is spiffy.
While we all probably get junk mail in our 'snail' mailboxes, it takes no time on our part to sort through it.
Nope, I only get junk mail from a few wierd companies (AT&T), and when the mailman just gets lazy and shoves the general stack of daily junk into my box instead of the apartment next to mine.
To really reduce the junk mail you get (in the U.S.A., anyways), follow the instructions at junkbusters.com-- costs some money to send all the letters out ($5 in postage?), but the amount of general crap I receive in the mail went down dramatically after doing so.
On the email side of things, yes, procmail is nifty, though a better place for such filters is in the MTA (currently done with heavy-handed arbitrary blackhole lists), so that mail can be rejected as spam before even coming near the local delivery agent. You can do this in a proper user-specified fashion with PerlMX, however, that's $$$...
I dearly wish Microsoft would not empower the virus writer, as I am sick and tierd of dealing with the latest and greatest virus/worm of the month.
And I don't even use Microsoft OSs personally...
IANAA, but check out some of the dead tree pulications on the topic.
Especially "Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World"-- that was a fun read.
In other words, "All Your Bill of Rights are Belong to Us."
Not really... I think the "war on drugs" still leads the "war on terrorism" for damages done, though that may just be due to the longer span of time the former has been failing.
Now I have to rewrite my department's security policy to allow the likes of Carnivore (unencrypted unaudited black box? No, thanks) to infest my network...
True, but it is not only Microsoft doing this, Eudora (Pro or Adware) has a "Mood Watch" feature that is supposed to warn you should your email be deemed too "inflammatory" in nature. Luckily, you can turn the "feature" off.
My question is, how do these companies altering the language/screening your email/rating your TV shows (v-chip) know what is right for you?
Last I checked-- a while back, I'm running squid + squidGuard now as JunkBuster (JB) doesn't cache nor work right with OmniWeb on Mac OS X-- you had to define a string somewhere (unix version) and recompile to change the default broswer JB appears as, if you are mucking with the User-Agent.
Nitpick, Sendmail has a large commercial side. And numerous companies have commercial offerings "below" (RedHat Linux) or "from" (commercial webservers based on Apache) a project that kick back varying degrees of support to the open source development.