Which I can't resist: " I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?""
Linux user not necessarily an idealist, though Debian folks exist;-)
cute little OS - well depending where it is used Linux can be neat and tiny or huge and scary, but cute little it is certainly not, I wonder if article submitter is perhaps BSD user as some of them feel so superior that they need to criticise other OSses but they are so clever that you don't notice it immediately.
It is like Finnish rules of "vittuilu" (irritating, flamebaiting, trolling another person) it is best when it takes the victim week or two before he/she suspects that he/she indeed is victim of "vittuilu" That line is done poorly as it irritates directly.
Better phrase could have been "Yo Linux Fans Now You Are Military Approved Isn't It Nice" or "What do you think of the choice of Linux in military system, real flower power ?" (of course that real flower power part should be linked to that graffiti ad campaign"
Comme prévu, l'affaire Guillermito est passée en jugement ce mardi 4 janvier. Le procureur de la République a requis quatre mois de prison avec sursis et 6000 euros d'amende à l'encontre de Guillaume Tena. Les dommages et intérêts sollicités par la partie civile (la modique somme de 900.000 euros) feront l'objet d'une audience ultérieure. Une peine que nous jugeons "démesurée" et qui pourrait, à l'avenir, s'avérer dangereuse pour l'ensemble des chercheurs et des professionnels du domaine de la sécurité informatique.
Le délibéré est fixé au 8 mars 2005. Nous espérons que le jugement définitif sera favorable à Guillaume Tena et au full-disclosure, ce qui évitera l'instauration d'une sécurité passive en France.
S*** forgot to use preview this is the text that my conclusion about misleading article is based on.
Though I don't have much experience reading France, but seems that he has not been sentenced yet:
Means that prosecution(Le procureur de la République a requis) is suggesting jail term and 900 000 euro damages, however final ruling will be 8 March 2005
You wrote: "Mozilla/Firefox is more secure than IE, virus/exploit-wise."
And it will be as long as it doesn't support active-x controls and is separete application not integrated with OS.
So I think that your writing: "Today, Firefox's security advantage lies in one single factor: The very little attention it is getting from the people who write exploits." is incredible bullshit also known as FUD.
Makes you wonder how well connected that Deutsche Securities analyst was with RBC before financing deal or was RBC lured because of DB analyst firms positive report of SCO.
There was no conspiracy there, they are currently just so unlucky, that they lose in IP disputes and courts, don't believe me ?
Well check last months MS submissions in Slashdot:
Microsoft's Patent Problem July 23rd 712 comments
Microsoft Settles With Immersion over Haptic Patent July 29th only 28 comments
Microsoft nailed by Software Patent August 11th
So their ass has been kicked, of course they like that the competition will be kicked as well and if paying SCO saved potentially their money plus allowed competitions ass kicked as well it was really brilliant deal.
Well today LKML seemed to have little OT talk about HURD and its origins, it look like that even the toughest Linux zealot is apprentice compared to HURD zealot, I think that some people in that discussion could have brilliant career in politics as they have ability to say that this is green though the thing were in reality red and if somebody points it out that it is red then they can say that actually it is painted green, unfortunately there is so little paint on it that to my eyes it still looks red;-)
Yes I managed to read some of the replies to RMS post and it is quite evident that this is somekind of trolling from his part, RMS really hates commercial Linux and suggest that developers should do illegal act copying Bitkeepers protocols and the whole product, so I think that he just got what he deserves as an answer.
Of course most of the slashdot Linux zealots don't want to find the truth according to Linus and developers, instead they want to break laws following Stallman and his ideas
"Their products seem easy to use, but they really aren't that easy."
I simply tried to say that when you start using MS products, they are quite easy to use before something out of ordinary happens, then it becomes quite difficult to troubleshoot system and find out what caused the crash.
Though I have to admit that most of my "old" WIN98SE crashes happen because of third party software, HP drivers for my digital camera and scanner are really annoying, because of them I can't shutdown this system correctly, though I have acquired patch from MS download which cured some of the original shutdown problems.
Though shutting down the computer properly seems quite common problem for 98 and ME users, it does work only about half of a time, however when I do
"shutdown -h now" with my Debian box it works every time:-)
You can start using MS products much faster than their Linux counterparts, but when problems strike they are much harder to troubleshoot, you don't have logs which could tell you what went wrong.
How come.doc made by MS Wordpad doesn't open with MS Word2000, 2000 says it is not.doc, but if I save as.rtf there is no problem.
Microsoft morals and motives is world domination and making lots of money for the Company and Bill G., congratulations to them for their success, they make barely acceptable products because MS is monopoly when Desktop systems are concerned.
Monopoly can screw its customers a lot, there is no real need for new MS OS every two years and new MS Office suite for every two years, except making MS more money.
Their products seem easy to use, but they really aren't that easy and they are full of security holes and other bugs when released.
Well web porn is currently quite difficult arena to make money if you are just starting out.
Non paying freeloaders are very easy to get to visit your sites, but filtering them is the hard part if you actually want to make some money by selling porn.
I have been doing porn part time two years now and if I want to make some money I need three times more traffic than year ago, basic problem is that there is so much free porn around, so you can only make real money by filtering your customers so that they can find such niche of porn they really want pay for.
People just starting out have illusions that this is an easy business, when the reality is that it is really competitive market place and if you want to make money you really got to work, make sites, galleries, thumbnailpostings, search engine submitting, buy content and feel the daily pulse of this market.
This is not good publicity if they are really serious about bringing in Linux inside big corporations, there those people who make decisions are much older and don't like graffitti at all.
So this "advertising campaign" did well for die-hard Linux fans, but really bad if they think that corporations take Linux seriously after this.
So I find nothing funny about this campaign, it is irresponsible and hurts Linux a lot, same way as really fanatic Linux fans.
MS Office files are big time waste for many companies, as they change file format every time they bring new office suite to the market.
So changes are that if you have MS Office 97 or older you cannot read docs that Office 2000 user has send to you, you have now two choices, choice one upgrade to 2000 or choice two try to find converter from microsofts website, both choices take away your most important asset, time, so MS products really cost a lot of money to small companies.
So if you really got to use MS Office products, please be decent and use.rtf when sending documents to other companies.
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Which I can't resist:
;-)
" I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?""
Linux user not necessarily an idealist, though Debian folks exist
cute little OS - well depending where it is used Linux can be neat and tiny or huge and scary, but cute little it is certainly not, I wonder if article submitter is perhaps BSD user as some of them feel so superior that they need to criticise other OSses but they are so clever that you don't notice it immediately.
It is like Finnish rules of "vittuilu" (irritating, flamebaiting, trolling another person) it is best when it takes the victim week or two before he/she suspects that he/she indeed is victim of "vittuilu" That line is done poorly as it irritates directly.
Better phrase could have been "Yo Linux Fans Now You Are Military Approved Isn't It Nice" or "What do you think of the choice of Linux in military system, real flower power ?" (of course that real flower power part should be linked to that graffiti ad campaign"
Parent is false, they can be found really easy from
http://www.iirgroup.com/
check out press releases for their stand on the matter.
Though I don't have much experience reading France, but seems that he has not been sentenced yet:
Means that prosecution(Le procureur de la République a requis) is suggesting jail term and 900 000 euro damages, however final ruling will be 8 March 2005
You wrote: "Mozilla/Firefox is more secure than IE, virus/exploit-wise."
And it will be as long as it doesn't support active-x controls and is separete application not integrated with OS.
So I think that your writing: "Today, Firefox's security advantage lies in one single factor: The very little attention it is getting from the people who write exploits." is incredible bullshit also known as FUD.
Lilienthal brothers also did remarkable work: http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/eotto.htm
Makes you wonder how well connected that Deutsche Securities analyst was with RBC before financing deal or was RBC lured because of DB analyst firms positive report of SCO.
There was no conspiracy there, they are currently just so unlucky, that they lose in IP disputes and courts, don't believe me ?
Well check last months MS submissions in Slashdot:
Microsoft's Patent Problem July 23rd 712 comments
Microsoft Settles With Immersion over Haptic Patent July 29th only 28 comments
Microsoft nailed by Software Patent August 11th
So their ass has been kicked, of course they like that the competition will be kicked as well and if paying SCO saved potentially their money plus allowed competitions ass kicked as well it was really brilliant deal.
Well today LKML seemed to have little OT talk about HURD and its origins, it look like that even the toughest Linux zealot is apprentice compared to HURD zealot, I think that some people in that discussion could have brilliant career in politics as they have ability to say that this is green though the thing were in reality red and if somebody points it out that it is red then they can say that actually it is painted green, unfortunately there is so little paint on it that to my eyes it still looks red ;-)
Yes I managed to read some of the replies to RMS post and it is quite evident that this is somekind of trolling from his part, RMS really hates commercial Linux and suggest that developers should do illegal act copying Bitkeepers protocols and the whole product, so I think that he just got what he deserves as an answer. Of course most of the slashdot Linux zealots don't want to find the truth according to Linus and developers, instead they want to break laws following Stallman and his ideas
"Their products seem easy to use, but they really aren't that easy."
:-)
I simply tried to say that when you start using MS products, they are quite easy to use before something out of ordinary happens, then it becomes quite difficult to troubleshoot system and find out what caused the crash.
Though I have to admit that most of my "old" WIN98SE crashes happen because of third party software, HP drivers for my digital camera and scanner are really annoying, because of them I can't shutdown this system correctly, though I have acquired patch from MS download which cured some of the original shutdown problems.
Though shutting down the computer properly seems quite common problem for 98 and ME users, it does work only about half of a time, however when I do
"shutdown -h now" with my Debian box it works every time
You can start using MS products much faster than their Linux counterparts, but when problems strike they are much harder to troubleshoot, you don't have logs which could tell you what went wrong.
How come .doc made by MS Wordpad doesn't open with MS Word2000, 2000 says it is not .doc, but if I save as .rtf there is no problem.
Microsoft morals and motives is world domination and making lots of money for the Company and Bill G., congratulations to them for their success, they make barely acceptable products because MS is monopoly when Desktop systems are concerned.
Monopoly can screw its customers a lot, there is no real need for new MS OS every two years and new MS Office suite for every two years, except making MS more money.
Their products seem easy to use, but they really aren't that easy and they are full of security holes and other bugs when released.
Non paying freeloaders are very easy to get to visit your sites, but filtering them is the hard part if you actually want to make some money by selling porn.
I have been doing porn part time two years now and if I want to make some money I need three times more traffic than year ago, basic problem is that there is so much free porn around, so you can only make real money by filtering your customers so that they can find such niche of porn they really want pay for.
People just starting out have illusions that this is an easy business, when the reality is that it is really competitive market place and if you want to make money you really got to work, make sites, galleries, thumbnailpostings, search engine submitting, buy content and feel the daily pulse of this market.
I can't approve "them" putting extra information to bit samples if it turns the quality of audio down.
"No inferior quality DVD for me"
So this "advertising campaign" did well for die-hard Linux fans, but really bad if they think that corporations take Linux seriously after this.
So I find nothing funny about this campaign, it is irresponsible and hurts Linux a lot, same way as really fanatic Linux fans.
So changes are that if you have MS Office 97 or older you cannot read docs that Office 2000 user has send to you, you have now two choices, choice one upgrade to 2000 or choice two try to find converter from microsofts website, both choices take away your most important asset, time, so MS products really cost a lot of money to small companies.
So if you really got to use MS Office products, please be decent and use .rtf when sending documents to other companies.