Someone earlier said companies cannot afford downtime. True but in most corporate enviroments there are plenty of boxes to take over the job of the hacked box most times and in the event that there's no backup most serious hackings will require the downtime anyways to investigate and fix the issue.
Can you imagine if a credit card database was hacked and they said just bring it back up?
Nope? Who cares then? Apple can continue to hide on their PPC platform, charge exorbant prices for their products and remain the yuppy can only afford a MAC.
How about Steve Jobs get a clue, move to the x86 or AMD64 even and get in the mainstream. It's never been the Apple hardware makes it what it is it's always been the software and it's time for that software to run with the rest of the mainstream PC's.
Otherwise I guess those people at Apple just dont like money.
This more or less shows the fact that many companies have group passwords to their critical equipment instead of inplementing a choke system to allow users to login into it to show them where they can go and cant go.
Since they probably dumped the company involved and not changed any of those passwords then this guy was allowed to basically walk around at will inside the databases.
Such lax security in itself should also be criminal especially when it concerns consumer data and financial information of consumers.
True windows does not do playback off the bad.. MP9 may do it but I dont have it handy.
However the average user installing Xine and the plugins required to get it running is just way too much for them to do and get it to work off the bat.
Also you'll notice that RH9 Mandrake9 Rpm's dont exist.. and I think recompiles of the src's failed on redhat 9 at least.
For me to say out of the box even if it's download then it has to be 1 self executing RPM.
I dont think it's the OS mostly though I would of preferred to see Redhat or SuSE installed. The hardware of the machine is subpar to the extreme IMO. But what can you expect for 200 dollars which is the common sales price for that PC.
I hate to knock fry's since I'm a regular at the new Irving TX store but Wal-Mart ships better Linux pc's.
I'd rather see PC's shipped without a OS installed and leave it up to the consumer. However there needs to be a few desktop app's that are not on Linux at the moment such as out of the box DVD playback (Even if it's commercial).
Literally prices are way too high for laptops and has anyone looked at used laptops? I swear they've averaged at 1 dollar per mhz for any decent laptop without any serious defects. I wish my truck had that kind of depreciation.
He's not realizing the fact that many people that would use voice chat in MMO's would only do so between friends and established guild members people can stand to talk to. I've played Asheron's Call with voice chat in the early days with 3 or 4 players and I can tell you we worked like a well oiled machine while in combat. You hurting just scream MEDIC! hehe..
But seriously I can also understand the other side who thinks it's a problem. If they allowed everyone to hear everyone in the bazzar that may be cool only in a perfect world where little johnny has his gag in place. Otherwise you'll have some of the most annoying things going on. I would give such a system 10 minutes before someone started playing the soundtrack to a pr0n or worse. And the bad part there is in that type of situation how do you find out who's doing it?
Our company have several Cisco VoIP phones deployed in various departments. We even have the ability for them to interface with the PTSN through special hardware attached to a 5ESS switch.
The only thing that prevents us from doing any massive rollouts is the utter fact that price per user and the nature of data networks make the phones more subject to unusability due to network problems than a normal phone.. This is not latency issues were more worried about something like a OSPF/Firewall or something along those lines wiping out a whole department's ability to communicate.
Windows: Secure depending on which set of patches you've applied today. And depending on what exploits Microsoft has admitted to and are willing to fix.
Feature Complete
Linux: New things every day and there's diversity so you can get a system styled to you. Though there are still a few sticky issues such as out of the box home usability such as dvd playback and games.
Windows: Asorbs features of other companies and puts them out of business. Takes standards and makes their own standard, deploys it to all their OS systems thus forcing those who learned the standard to use the MS version of the standard and killing off the interoperability.. *cough* HTML *cough*
Even Windows does not have out of the box usability. It cant play DvD's out of the box though MP 9 might do it. Games... well refer to the above paragraph they've taken over the gaming world with DirectX thus stifiling out any hopes of most games working on Mac or Linux OS's
TCO good one.
There are several schools of thought.. however for stock deployments to a business who need these things..
Common Desktop, Mail, Web, and Exchange then your TCO is the cost of what you pay Linux Admins to get it all setup. Plus a per machine cost if you decide on corporate versions which even then are not some crazy license requirements and have good support and updates.. SuSE and RedHat have both made great strides in this sector.. MS on the other hand have techies you have to wade through with the common customer says this, you look in the idiot book and tell customer this.
Microsoft: is quick to point out that it costs more in the long run but that's only when you get into the world of custom application programming which you may or may not have to do with Windows. How many people will finally have to dump legacy 16 bit apps for Windows when Longhorn shows up? Many of those customers will either 1 port to 64bit Linux or 32bit.. or just stick with what they have on Windows and only use the latest OS where it's required. I know many companies who've finally dumped their DOS programs re-written them into Linux compatible code and went that route. Others are still sticking to what they have until it completely falls off teh companies backs.
I'd type more but it's time to toss the pizza into the oven!
Other than price for those who cant afford it, the IPOD ppMp3 cannot be beat.. You can only get about 10-20 songs on a 128 meg device though the battery life on it may be longer compared to a Ipod I'm not sure since I have yet to buy a Mp3 player though I'd like to have one for riding my bike on back trails.
Tell them that SCOX a company that had a stock price of less than 5 dollars before this mess started now has prices over 15 dollars and the owners are selling their own stock.
Ask them to stop the ImClone syndrome before it starts!
Haha, what I submitted was still in my paste buffer 12 hours later (Yeah nerds do sleep).. This story according to CNN counterdicts what the main story says. Linux only got a rating for low to moderate security not the highest security.
In a article on CNN it is reported that the Common Criteria organization, an international technology standards body, certified Linux for the first time on "mission critical" computers, including those in America's top-secret spy agencies and those used to deliver ammunition, food and fuel to soldiers.
While only certified for Low to Moderate security Linux is still under testing for higher security ratings. IBM says this is good since it gives them a footing in a area that has been dominated by Windows sales. Of note is the fact that IBM paid over $500,000 for testing and was also supported and jointly by SuSE
Things being the way they're are I'd consider XP ahead of the game in the Home Desktop area for several reasons.
Drivers Video Card support Cant play dvd's out of the box for 2 distro's that are mostly used.. Mandrake and Redhat Video Game's (Transgaming helps here)
Now other than that it's mostly elemental on how the computer works.. Normal user accounts should not be able to see anything above their/home/user directory as far as they're saving things and when they search for their files it should be done in there. Installation really needs a revamp such as the user want's X functionality it presents them choices and they click 1 button.. downloads and installs and works perfectly the first time! Otherwise it's just a mess of download compile install and pray for many applications.
It would be better if all distro makers got behind one format for installations and bundle all applications to work that way.. then a install would be essentially the same for a RedHat/Mandrake/SuSE/Gentoo or whatever else someone run's.
Those torrents I pointed out are from mandrake themselves.. They're running the tracker appareently.. I have not looked but I bet BT is installed in 9.2b.
Now I'm curious what bandwidth savings Mandrakesoft made with using Bt to distribute the files!
I've seen Time Warner's digital cable.. yes you dont have to compress it becuase it's already compressed. And it's horrible at that.. Just look into a dark area of a picture and you'll see the compression adjusting and all kinds of artifacts.
DirectDvr for DirectTv is much better becuase the picture quality is higher due to the extra bandwidth the satelite can play with.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone earlier said companies cannot afford downtime. True but in most corporate enviroments there are plenty of boxes to take over the job of the hacked box most times and in the event that there's no backup most serious hackings will require the downtime anyways to investigate and fix the issue.
Can you imagine if a credit card database was hacked and they said just bring it back up?
Nope? Who cares then? Apple can continue to hide on their PPC platform, charge exorbant prices for their products and remain the yuppy can only afford a MAC.
How about Steve Jobs get a clue, move to the x86 or AMD64 even and get in the mainstream. It's never been the Apple hardware makes it what it is it's always been the software and it's time for that software to run with the rest of the mainstream PC's.
Otherwise I guess those people at Apple just dont like money.
You can read it here with links to the images and their comments section.
Mirror of Story
This more or less shows the fact that many companies have group passwords to their critical equipment instead of inplementing a choke system to allow users to login into it to show them where they can go and cant go.
Since they probably dumped the company involved and not changed any of those passwords then this guy was allowed to basically walk around at will inside the databases.
Such lax security in itself should also be criminal especially when it concerns consumer data and financial information of consumers.
True windows does not do playback off the bad.. MP9 may do it but I dont have it handy.
However the average user installing Xine and the plugins required to get it running is just way too much for them to do and get it to work off the bat.
Also you'll notice that RH9 Mandrake9 Rpm's dont exist.. and I think recompiles of the src's failed on redhat 9 at least.
For me to say out of the box even if it's download then it has to be 1 self executing RPM.
I dont think it's the OS mostly though I would of preferred to see Redhat or SuSE installed. The hardware of the machine is subpar to the extreme IMO. But what can you expect for 200 dollars which is the common sales price for that PC.
I hate to knock fry's since I'm a regular at the new Irving TX store but Wal-Mart ships better Linux pc's.
I'd rather see PC's shipped without a OS installed and leave it up to the consumer. However there needs to be a few desktop app's that are not on Linux at the moment such as out of the box DVD playback (Even if it's commercial).
Literally prices are way too high for laptops and has anyone looked at used laptops? I swear they've averaged at 1 dollar per mhz for any decent laptop without any serious defects. I wish my truck had that kind of depreciation.
Can it tell the difference between the Iraqi embassy and the Chinese Embassy?
He's not realizing the fact that many people that would use voice chat in MMO's would only do so between friends and established guild members people can stand to talk to. I've played Asheron's Call with voice chat in the early days with 3 or 4 players and I can tell you we worked like a well oiled machine while in combat. You hurting just scream MEDIC! hehe..
But seriously I can also understand the other side who thinks it's a problem. If they allowed everyone to hear everyone in the bazzar that may be cool only in a perfect world where little johnny has his gag in place. Otherwise you'll have some of the most annoying things going on. I would give such a system 10 minutes before someone started playing the soundtrack to a pr0n or worse. And the bad part there is in that type of situation how do you find out who's doing it?
Private chat channels YES.
General chat NO!
That has probably said:
"They're just now figuring this out?"
Looks like he tried to use Win95 to run the site maybe?
/.'d
Error: No site configured at this address.
Our company have several Cisco VoIP phones deployed in various departments. We even have the ability for them to interface with the PTSN through special hardware attached to a 5ESS switch.
The only thing that prevents us from doing any massive rollouts is the utter fact that price per user and the nature of data networks make the phones more subject to unusability due to network problems than a normal phone.. This is not latency issues were more worried about something like a OSPF/Firewall or something along those lines wiping out a whole department's ability to communicate.
Looks like SCO hired Baghdad Bob Aka Iraqi Information Minister.
"There is no Linux in Baghdad!"
Now if they thought they were under the SEC's radar they're about to find theirselves sorely mistaken.
They better stay out of my Tvio for damn sure!
Security,
Linux: Secure from the get go.
Windows: Secure depending on which set of patches you've applied today. And depending on what exploits Microsoft has admitted to and are willing to fix.
Feature Complete
Linux: New things every day and there's diversity so you can get a system styled to you. Though there are still a few sticky issues such as out of the box home usability such as dvd playback and games.
Windows: Asorbs features of other companies and puts them out of business. Takes standards and makes their own standard, deploys it to all their OS systems thus forcing those who learned the standard to use the MS version of the standard and killing off the interoperability.. *cough* HTML *cough*
Even Windows does not have out of the box usability. It cant play DvD's out of the box though MP 9 might do it. Games... well refer to the above paragraph they've taken over the gaming world with DirectX thus stifiling out any hopes of most games working on Mac or Linux OS's
TCO good one.
There are several schools of thought.. however for stock deployments to a business who need these things..
Common Desktop, Mail, Web, and Exchange then your TCO is the cost of what you pay Linux Admins to get it all setup. Plus a per machine cost if you decide on corporate versions which even then are not some crazy license requirements and have good support and updates.. SuSE and RedHat have both made great strides in this sector.. MS on the other hand have techies you have to wade through with the common customer says this, you look in the idiot book and tell customer this.
Microsoft: is quick to point out that it costs more in the long run but that's only when you get into the world of custom application programming which you may or may not have to do with Windows. How many people will finally have to dump legacy 16 bit apps for Windows when Longhorn shows up? Many of those customers will either 1 port to 64bit Linux or 32bit.. or just stick with what they have on Windows and only use the latest OS where it's required. I know many companies who've finally dumped their DOS programs re-written them into Linux compatible code and went that route. Others are still sticking to what they have until it completely falls off teh companies backs.
I'd type more but it's time to toss the pizza into the oven!
Other than price for those who cant afford it, the IPOD ppMp3 cannot be beat.. You can only get about 10-20 songs on a 128 meg device though the battery life on it may be longer compared to a Ipod I'm not sure since I have yet to buy a Mp3 player though I'd like to have one for riding my bike on back trails.
Tell them that SCOX a company that had a stock price of less than 5 dollars before this mess started now has prices over 15 dollars and the owners are selling their own stock.
Ask them to stop the ImClone syndrome before it starts!
Maybe it's time to fork the code in case what Novell plans does not run well with the regular users of Ximian.
Their plans only talked about bundled versions with novell's products noting about any standalone versions.
We'll have to wait for the announcements at linuxworld I guess.
Haha, what I submitted was still in my paste buffer 12 hours later (Yeah nerds do sleep).. This story according to CNN counterdicts what the main story says. Linux only got a rating for low to moderate security not the highest security.
In a article on CNN it is reported that the Common Criteria organization, an international technology standards body, certified Linux for the first time on "mission critical" computers, including those in America's top-secret spy agencies and those used to deliver ammunition, food and fuel to soldiers.
While only certified for Low to Moderate security Linux is still under testing for higher security ratings. IBM says this is good since it gives them a footing in a area that has been dominated by Windows sales. Of note is the fact that IBM paid over $500,000 for testing and was also supported and jointly by SuSE
Things being the way they're are I'd consider XP ahead of the game in the Home Desktop area for several reasons.
/home/user directory as far as they're saving things and when they search for their files it should be done in there. Installation really needs a revamp such as the user want's X functionality it presents them choices and they click 1 button.. downloads and installs and works perfectly the first time! Otherwise it's just a mess of download compile install and pray for many applications.
Drivers
Video Card support
Cant play dvd's out of the box for 2 distro's that are mostly used.. Mandrake and Redhat
Video Game's (Transgaming helps here)
Now other than that it's mostly elemental on how the computer works.. Normal user accounts should not be able to see anything above their
It would be better if all distro makers got behind one format for installations and bundle all applications to work that way.. then a install would be essentially the same for a RedHat/Mandrake/SuSE/Gentoo or whatever else someone run's.
Actually the torrents were on the announcements page.. The portion of the story I posted was a exact copy of that announcement.
Those torrents I pointed out are from mandrake themselves.. They're running the tracker appareently.. I have not looked but I bet BT is installed in 9.2b.
Now I'm curious what bandwidth savings Mandrakesoft made with using Bt to distribute the files!
Will these new standards only be 100% compatible with Internet Exploder or will we finally have something that will be fully xBrowser?
I'm kinda tired of nitpicking webpages due to various "features" being handled differently.
Personally I'm tired of the Redmond HTML/Java standard and am ready for a Internet Standard.
Next time Windows gets hit with a big virus/worm I wonder if they'll notice that the Linux machines dont catch it :)
I've seen Time Warner's digital cable.. yes you dont have to compress it becuase it's already compressed. And it's horrible at that.. Just look into a dark area of a picture and you'll see the compression adjusting and all kinds of artifacts.
DirectDvr for DirectTv is much better becuase the picture quality is higher due to the extra bandwidth the satelite can play with.