You have an employer, and its customer is Microsoft. Your greatest accomplishment in life is copypasta karma whoring on Slashdot, and the best you can do for the rest of mankind is to die in a fire.
I do embedded systems development, an area where your masters failed miserably and Linux succeeded.
(Someone, please, write a virus in a System Management Interrupt handler. Then people will start caring about NOT HAVING GIANT SECURITY HOLES IN THEIR SYSTEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE).
If you know exactly what kind of virus you've been hit with, in many cases you can just scrub it away
But how do you know if it's not a new variant of the virus that also does something different? It's also possible that virus changed so much, an antivirus would have to contain most of the OS installation just to restore the modified files.
NICs & VGA cards have stopped having flash ever since they moved from ISA to PCI: at that point, in order to cut costs, they moved their firmware storage to the motherboard BIOS flash.
Wrong. All graphics cards have traditional CGA/EGA/VGA BIOS interface implemented for their hardware in their flash. They wouldn't initialize properly without it.
That's because you have installed a binary package from Mozilla instead of Ubuntu package. Binary packages of Firefox and Thunderbird are supposed to be installed under user's home directory, and then built-in update will work, however this mechanism only makes sense if you are running betas instead of releases.
But that's not Microsoft fanfiction, it does not describe fictional events happening with real (a real-life equivalent of "canon" Microsoft), written by fans if Microsoft. OS-tans are original fiction, that refers to real-life things through allegory. A story about Steve Ballmer and Rick Belluzzo having sex (that I have mentioned before), would be slash fanfiction if written by someone who likes Microsoft.
The article is something that I have never seen before -- Microsoft fanfiction.
What creates an interesting problem -- since Microsoft fanfiction exists, according to the rule 34 there must be Microsoft slash fanfiction. But since there is only one instance of Microsoft fanfiction and it is not slash, someone on the Internet must write Microsoft slash fanfiction.
are you aware that the foremost method to break into servers is ddosing them, causing normally unexploitable bugs and exploits become vulnerable
No. This is a complete, undiluted bullshit. Everything can be harmed by DDoS, it's only a matter of DDoS being large enough -- though distributed servers can withstand a truly massive DDoS. Consequences of DDoS are limited -- at very worst, server becomes unusable for the duration of DDoS.
Though completely offtopic, "Sergej Ostroumow" is a now-unusual Cyrillic romanization of what would be "Sergey Ostroumov" -- it is based on matching Cyrillic and Roman characters in KOI-7 and KOI-8 charsets.
A terminal made in Fryazino in 80's would show one in place of another if program omitted SO or SI control character (to be precise, also switching around uppercase and lowercase), so it became associated with this kind of transliteration. It is currently alive in form of "Phonetic" keyboard layouts that allow Cyrillic input on keyboards with no Cyrillic labels, though "Phonetic" is kind of a misnomer, considering that it includes such mappings as "v" to "zhe" and "q" to "ya".
Driver interface does exist. It just isn't, and is not supposed to cater to proprietary drivers that exist only in the form of binary blobs. Not that it prevent such things from being developed whenever a hardware vendor wants to do so (by adding a driver-specific wrapper), but it's a stupid idea and this is why it is not done.
This has also absolutely nothing to do with ARM -- with ARM most problems are related to configuration that Linux reads or detects at initialization or somehow stores in itself -- ad-hoc BSPs vs. device tree vs. PCI and other bus-specific auto-configuration mechanisms. And this has less to do with ARM itself and more with variety of bus architectures used with ARM and long history of the platform.
You don't need a single, world-controlling currency if international trade is performed in a more sophisticated manner. Just don't rack up massive trade deficit, and any country can achieve stable exchange rate if infrastructure is in place. Problems happen when trade is lopsided thanks to deformed monstrosities like dollar or US economy being jammed in the middle of everything.
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You are a moron.
You have an employer, and its customer is Microsoft. Your greatest accomplishment in life is copypasta karma whoring on Slashdot, and the best you can do for the rest of mankind is to die in a fire.
I do embedded systems development, an area where your masters failed miserably and Linux succeeded.
Hi hairyfeet.
HEY, LOOK GUYS, THAT'S hairyfeet, A KNOWN MICROSOFT SHILL.
Feed Lockheed, probably. It's not like anyone is stupid enough to use this outside of the US military.
...and the amount of energy, approximately the same as one going to the helicopter, is going to be dissipated as heat at the base of this contraption.
SMI
(Someone, please, write a virus in a System Management Interrupt handler. Then people will start caring about NOT HAVING GIANT SECURITY HOLES IN THEIR SYSTEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE).
If you know exactly what kind of virus you've been hit with, in many cases you can just scrub it away
But how do you know if it's not a new variant of the virus that also does something different?
It's also possible that virus changed so much, an antivirus would have to contain most of the OS installation just to restore the modified files.
NICs & VGA cards have stopped having flash ever since they moved from ISA to PCI: at that point, in order to cut costs, they moved their firmware storage to the motherboard BIOS flash.
Wrong. All graphics cards have traditional CGA/EGA/VGA BIOS interface implemented for their hardware in their flash. They wouldn't initialize properly without it.
That's because you have installed a binary package from Mozilla instead of Ubuntu package.
Binary packages of Firefox and Thunderbird are supposed to be installed under user's home directory, and then built-in update will work, however this mechanism only makes sense if you are running betas instead of releases.
So this time a watchman...
(puts on the glasses) ..was watched.
YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!
"It" being Microsoft fanfiction, therefore porn of it would be Microsoft slash fanfiction.
But that's not Microsoft fanfiction, it does not describe fictional events happening with real (a real-life equivalent of "canon" Microsoft), written by fans if Microsoft. OS-tans are original fiction, that refers to real-life things through allegory. A story about Steve Ballmer and Rick Belluzzo having sex (that I have mentioned before), would be slash fanfiction if written by someone who likes Microsoft.
Now, honest question: why in the world would someone want to dual-boot their PHONE?
For development, or to import-export data in some asshole format that is only accessible through a library that runs under some particular system.
And thankfully all hardware in Android phones has Linux drivers.
It will run on rooted Android phones. Or will even dual-boot on them.
I am sure, there will be plenty of unlockable Android phones.
Wouldn't it have to be Microsoft backslash fanfiction?
Steve Ballmer \ Rick Belluzzo?
(can't unthink...)
The article is something that I have never seen before -- Microsoft fanfiction.
What creates an interesting problem -- since Microsoft fanfiction exists, according to the rule 34 there must be Microsoft slash fanfiction. But since there is only one instance of Microsoft fanfiction and it is not slash, someone on the Internet must write Microsoft slash fanfiction.
Go, Internet, go!
I am a developer, you idiot (and you seem to have absolutely no idea how security vulnerabilities look like)!
'harm' and 'compromise' are two different things.
DDoS (or any kind of DoS) has absolutely nothing to do with compromising systems. What you claimed, doesn't and can't happen.
are you aware that the foremost method to break into servers is ddosing them, causing normally unexploitable bugs and exploits become vulnerable
No.
This is a complete, undiluted bullshit. Everything can be harmed by DDoS, it's only a matter of DDoS being large enough -- though distributed servers can withstand a truly massive DDoS. Consequences of DDoS are limited -- at very worst, server becomes unusable for the duration of DDoS.
Though completely offtopic, "Sergej Ostroumow" is a now-unusual Cyrillic romanization of what would be "Sergey Ostroumov" -- it is based on matching Cyrillic and Roman characters in KOI-7 and KOI-8 charsets.
A terminal made in Fryazino in 80's would show one in place of another if program omitted SO or SI control character (to be precise, also switching around uppercase and lowercase), so it became associated with this kind of transliteration. It is currently alive in form of "Phonetic" keyboard layouts that allow Cyrillic input on keyboards with no Cyrillic labels, though "Phonetic" is kind of a misnomer, considering that it includes such mappings as "v" to "zhe" and "q" to "ya".
Would you play completely through a game that had half naked men and only men that were half naked in it?
Someone should make a game based on Happatai Yatta! video...
Oh, for fuck sake!
Driver interface does exist. It just isn't, and is not supposed to cater to proprietary drivers that exist only in the form of binary blobs. Not that it prevent such things from being developed whenever a hardware vendor wants to do so (by adding a driver-specific wrapper), but it's a stupid idea and this is why it is not done.
This has also absolutely nothing to do with ARM -- with ARM most problems are related to configuration that Linux reads or detects at initialization or somehow stores in itself -- ad-hoc BSPs vs. device tree vs. PCI and other bus-specific auto-configuration mechanisms. And this has less to do with ARM itself and more with variety of bus architectures used with ARM and long history of the platform.
My ancestors are religious nuts, you insensitive clod!
You don't need a single, world-controlling currency if international trade is performed in a more sophisticated manner. Just don't rack up massive trade deficit, and any country can achieve stable exchange rate if infrastructure is in place. Problems happen when trade is lopsided thanks to deformed monstrosities like dollar or US economy being jammed in the middle of everything.