In my (sometimes not so humble) opinion, 5 of the last 7 linux machines that have been compromised at my location (not centrally managed ones) have been Mandrake. Its either the users or the OS.. and I'm not ruling the users out... but still.
first, I'd love to see a distro be faster than "up2date package_name" or even "aptget package_name".
Next, they said right in the article that they used an identical copy of the kernel source on each machine, so patches shouldn't make a difference.
Finally, its not that I dont agree with you, their tests did have flaws, it just seems that some of your facts are wrong in attacking them. There are some points that need to be examined, even if some of their conclusions are premature.
From the network admin mailing list at Penn State:
"<i>...I was also led to believe that I am the first on-campus complaint where the RIAA allegations were not legitimate. We have a professor Peter Usher, and an mp3 file in another directory that was done a cappella by our employees and extols the capabilities of the Swift Gamma Ray Burst satellite that is scheduled to go into orbit later this year. Nothing else that would even come close to infringement.</i>"
NTLM is fine.. if all you use is windows. Imagine a campus network where a grade reporting and class material server is protected by an NTLM auth system. Then imagine that there are equal parts windows, mac os (many versions), solaris, linux, and other random flavors.
NTLM is not a solution in this environment. If MS was truly trying to make it a standard, they should do just that.. and then let others use it to.
And now for the requisite 4 steps: 1) Come up with a good idea 2) ????? 3) shoot self in foot by being greedy 4) profit?
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bah.. I was almost excited.. until I noticed that NTLM was only for windows.
NTLM in linux.. now that would be sweet... esp for those sites which refuse to write web front-end systems that are actually cross platform.
Age old measure of the usefulness of an object, known as the MPFP (more porn, faster pron) factor.
Most any opject has an MPFP rating... take a toaster oven for example... its obvious that the faster you can heat a hot-pocket... the faster you can get back to one of the 16 hard core porn streams that you had recorded.
Imagine the MPFP rating of a fully reclining office chair... Unthinkable!
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I think the stack the reporter is referring to is a stack (box) of 8.5 x 11 tractor feed paper, which is indeed about the size of the mac in question.
In my (sometimes not so humble) opinion, 5 of the last 7 linux machines that have been compromised at my location (not centrally managed ones) have been Mandrake. Its either the users or the OS.. and I'm not ruling the users out... but still.
Duh?
first, I'd love to see a distro be faster than "up2date package_name" or even "aptget package_name".
Next, they said right in the article that they used an identical copy of the kernel source on each machine, so patches shouldn't make a difference.
Finally, its not that I dont agree with you, their tests did have flaws, it just seems that some of your facts are wrong in attacking them. There are some points that need to be examined, even if some of their conclusions are premature.
From the network admin mailing list at Penn State:
"<i>...I was also led to believe that I am the first on-campus complaint where the RIAA allegations were not legitimate. We have a professor Peter Usher, and an mp3 file in another directory that was done a cappella by our employees and extols the capabilities of the Swift Gamma Ray Burst satellite that is scheduled to go into orbit later this year. Nothing else that would even come close to infringement.</i>"
NTLM is fine.. if all you use is windows. Imagine a campus network where a grade reporting and class material server is protected by an NTLM auth system. Then imagine that there are equal parts windows, mac os (many versions), solaris, linux, and other random flavors.
NTLM is not a solution in this environment. If MS was truly trying to make it a standard, they should do just that.. and then let others use it to.
And now for the requisite 4 steps:
1) Come up with a good idea
2) ?????
3) shoot self in foot by being greedy
4) profit?
bah.. I was almost excited.. until I noticed that NTLM was only for windows.
NTLM in linux.. now that would be sweet... esp for those sites which refuse to write web front-end systems that are actually cross platform.
Ha Ha :-P
Age old measure of the usefulness of an object, known as the MPFP (more porn, faster pron) factor.
Most any opject has an MPFP rating... take a toaster oven for example... its obvious that the faster you can heat a hot-pocket... the faster you can get back to one of the 16 hard core porn streams that you had recorded.
Imagine the MPFP rating of a fully reclining office chair... Unthinkable!
Money?? :-P
I thought linux decided years ago that it didnt care about money.
From the company who brought you Lindows, comes Licrosoft like management decisions.
Its not like microsoft is selling music or anything (yet).. but isnt this along the same lines?
Besides the M$ goal of owning the world, what do they have to benefit from this? And isnt this just asking for more court trouble>
It is interesting that we are in place today where we need export restrictions to be placed on a gaming system... for security reasons of all things.
Whats next? Not allowing the lstest Tom Clancy movie to be released in countries who might want to blow us up?