who pays sales tax on easily mailed items in the US? 49 states in the US can order direct from Apple's store without paying sales tax.
Well all of Texas does, and I think they are one of the top three states iPads have been selling in. Are there really that few states that don't require you to pay sales tax online when the company has a physical presence?
I don't know, man... the one you posted is notorious for pretending to be a bank but taking unexplained fees out whenever they feel like it. Reverse psychology, good show.
I really hope a CA doesn't issue an EV certificate for that, and I doubt they would. Maybe you could get some ghetto CA to sign it with a normal cert, but a pervasive "green bar is good!1" thought process will kick in eventually, and at least minimize the attack.
I can only hope... but I don't hold my breath for 'random joe on the Internets' security to ever match his expectations.
Because people who develop and release open source software are clearly doing so out of pure, unadulterated selfishness?
The freedom to not care what potential users want or that there are any at all, and to scratch one's own itch are an awful big part of what open source is. I don't think I'm the only one that sees that open source is by and large not a charity.
Oh, so there's a real Apple somewhere which lets me actually own my own hardware? Or a real Facebook which lets me own my own data?
I guess I understand where you are coming from, but we really aren't entitled to have all our gadgets decked out with whatever knobs and controls we wish. Suppose Apple wanted to sell hardware with no firmware loaded at all, no app store, nothing? What if they sold devices with no external IO ports with which to hack it? As soon as Apple sets up an app publishing system, are we entitled to do whatever we want with it? Does any gadget we own with a programmable microchip entitle us with the right to program it? Now, to what extent must the vendor go to enable us do do whatever we feel we're entitled to? Are they not allowed to use ROM chips? Can they make devices without external ports? I just don't get some of these geek arguments.. like you all know deep down inside that it's OK that not everything has all the twiddly knobs you want, but God help them if it does and the manufacturer doesn't bend over backwards to make them available to you.
I love car analogies. No, Ford does not prohibit you from installing a Chevy engine in your Mustang. They also do _NOTHING_ to enable you. If that freedom is acceptable, then why doesn't everyone complaining about their freedoms being trampled by Apple go learn whatever soldering skills are necessary to make an iPhone do what they want. I have a hunch it'll be easier than swapping different model engines in a car.
I know what the answer is all ready "That's not worth the effort, I just wont buy one." Then I have to wonder what everyone's problem is with _other_ people buying gadgets with knobs glued in place that they apparently thought had enough value in other areas.
Arg... this is so painful to read. What is with the mods? +1 Long post?
If I want top notch security and not trusting some firm (possibly a CA that is offshore and is hostile to anything the country I reside in anyway), I will be using a PGP/gpg web of trust.
I'm not a big defender of the big CAs, but trust chains serve a purpose. In a WOT, who first decides that someone really is associated with a given name, and why on Earth do you trust _them_? Sure, you will all be talking to the same person, but who is that? The point of the chain model is that at least someone is responsible for verifying a certificate holder's identity in some minimal way. To what length they go depends on what the next link in the chain of trust requires.. MS, Apple, Firefox, etc, then you trust them, and so on.
I will either get a copy of the public key of someone face to face printed physically with a fingerprint (and will download and verify the public key and has from a keyserver),
An in person key exchange is the best you could possibly do, and does away with the other complex trust models. This is what the financial industry mostly does, a bunch of P2P symmetric key exchanges. You do have to change keys now and then (you do right?) so P2P gets very expensive. This is why your debit cards have different processor logos on them, because each bank only talks to a couple big processors, and not every other bank in the world. There is no need to use a public keyserver (why would you trust _that_?) if you meet the message recipient in person...
or I will agree on a passphrase that is used only once, and that is to send and receive a copy of the public key.
Uh.. why a passphrase? You were only going to give the passphrase over a secure channel or in person right? Then you'd only need to send the key. Try to think all that through..
I also don't like keeping my public key that would be needed for S/MIME on an online machine.
Im not going to explain PKI here. Just wow.
My secure private key resides on a machine that isn't Internet connected, it will reside on a smart card, or it will be on a smart card and used on an offline machine, so an attack would have to be done on a physical/local level in order to compromise my private key material.
Good. At least you understand the important half of PKI I guess..
I do use S/MIME and a client key, but that is mainly a stopgap, better than nothing measure, compared to actual end to end manual encryption of data with gpg or PGP.
Just wow.
PGP WOTs were in use a lot in the early to mid 1990s by cypherpunks, but for the most part, convenience won over security and it is extremely rare for someone to use a public key of someone to send mail.
Yah...?
A good WOT is far better than a CA. I have more trust in a public key claimed to be someone that is 3-4 links out from me on my PGP/gpg keyring than I do a key that is signed by a CA and told "hey, trust us." Of course, creating a WOT is a lot harder than just letting a CA do the work, but like Phil Zimmermann said, it is better to pack your own parachute when security is critical.
Look, I'm not going to hawk webs, chains or direct or whatever trust schemes.. the only thing that matters is how keys are exchanged, and why you trust them. Just because a CA makes money, that doesn't make the chain model wrong..
Another use for PGP over S/MIME is signing of files. A signed E-mail is difficult to forward and keep the integrity intact. However, if I have a file and a PGP/gpg signature of it (or just a PGP signed file), I can forward it, archive the two files, back them up to whatever backup media, and all it takes is a validation in the future to ensure that the file and the signature were not tampered with
option not included included with purchase of the base unit. Sure, they might offer free unlocks for some abilities but those won't be on or in the packaging of the console itself.
You say that as if its a bad thing...I would bet that the majority of gamers would rather have a less expensive console purely for gaming than the expensive swiss army knife consoles we have today....why do you think the Wii is absolutely crushing the PS3 and 360.
ROFL, queue up all the "I bought product blah with features x, y, and z AAAArrrrrtificially disabled, I am entitled to use them for free" buttholes.
I like my iPhone a lot, but Apple runs a ridiculously closed, proprietary system. So Steve's criticism of Flash as being closed and proprietary is so obscene as to be ridiculous.
Well, I've already said it, but a pot can call a kettle black and be justified because cast iron tea kettles are a lot more useless in this day and age than pots.
Steve's criticism stems from wanting ONE closed proprietary system, instead of layers of them they can't control. Sure, SWF might be open, but that's moot if the only implementations are essentially Adobe's. People joke about Java being open even WITH multiple implementations and competing inter-operable development tool chains.
There's a lot more competition for HTML5 authoring & rendering than there is for Flash I guess. Am I wrong?
While incredibly insightful towards the true meaning of Job's words, your argument against hypocrisy is based on a lie.
Simply put Steve Jobs did not say "it is closed to Apple" Steve Jobs stated "Flash is a closed system"
YOU said it is closed to Apple, not Steve.
Theoretically, Flash is an open system. In practice, unless Apple wants to implement Flash players and development tools of its own, it is not. For another example see Java. And IBM Java. And JRockit... And.. you get my drift?
This is like a pot calling a kettle black because... a cast iron tea kettle in 2010 is stupid.
My dictionary says: open-source - adjective - Computing denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available.
Actually there are two meanings for that term because the word "free" has two meanings in English (libre vs. gratis).
Oh right, I forgot the meaning of "free software" overloaded, so "open source software" was declared to mean explicitly "free of cost & open" http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
THAT really clarifies things!/sarcasm
The weirdest part is how OSI set out to be more business friendly than free (only open) software.
Megaman drove it's franchise into the ground, Mario got lucky with timing and just as it was getting stale along came 3D.
What what?? "Lucky"? The timing of the first 3D Mario was not lucky, it was completely planned and deliberate. Platformers basically ceased to exist with the advent of N64. Nintendo said "Let there be 3D games" and the big game houses said "OK". Some franchises just weren't worth hoisting into 3D worlds, like Megaman. Be very glad you weren't assaulted with BattleToads Avoid Fast Moving 3D Objects, or Double Dragon Shootout, or Donkey Kong Country Jumping in 3D Edition. Mega Man wasn't driven into the ground, it was left to RIP where it belonged, and it's life was stretched out the entire lifetime of the SNES from what I remember. Now, platformers are 'in' again because of a shakeup in distribution channels. PC games were driven into the ground chasing silly trends.. Puzzle, Sim, RPG, RTS, FPS, console ports... I'm still waiting for those glory days to come back:\
True, Macs generally work well, but even they have problems sometimes. When my iMac lost its internal hard drive I was faced with a fairly difficult task to service it myself. But for a lot of computer professionals like me, thats the exciting part. A service manual download later and I could take my iMac apart and fix it myself.
I always have a lot of trouble accepting that someone is a true computer professional if they aren't driven to continually learn more about computers and try new things. Thats why windows only because thats all we know tech support desks bug me so much.
Yah they do have their problems, as does anything if you step back enough. The GP was comparing them to whitebox PC's, and even the low end brand name stuff sucks to be honest. If I can make a broad generalization, high end HP, IBM, Sony, etc PCs are probably at least as reliable as Apple's, but that's not most consumer PCs, and not what's on Walmart shelves.. Apple is waaaaay more successful than any other PC manufacturer at selling higher quality stuff to consumers. I think the open competition in the PC market is really good on one hand, but with lower prices comes lower quality, and due to the complex nature of computer industry (evolving standards, back stabery, negligence) the race for lower prices affects quality across the board. There are just things that Apple can do for QC that HP cannot - without MS at least.
Apple is LCD (lowest common denominator) computing with aesthetics that are light-years ahead of everyone else. What a beautiful way to have a LCD flashlight. If they could mesh with people who actually perform work, it would be epic.
Wha? Come on, be honest, do you actually have any experience using Apple computers? You don't have to _work_ with them very long to understand there's quite a bit more than just form to them. Maybe there is a terminal emulator better than Terminal.app, or a UI that gets in your way less; I'd love to know. What line of work did you have in mind that doesn't mesh with Apple computers though? Agro!? I mean even the most utter bullshit jobs mesh well with Apple computers, AM political talk show hosting! zing
I know, I know, your line of work requires you to have full awareness of the separation of application, window manager, and OS. The ability to pick a new one of each, every day. A UI that sorely reminds you at every opportunity, there is an almost insulting intermediate layer of interaction between you and the workflow you wish to execute. Sorry, how dare I disrespect your profession. What is that again?
Most of these issues were resolves years (or decades) ago; it's only now with Windows and developers coming from the broken Windows platform that these issues are coming up again.
The only reason you're having "so many issues" is because you're trying to apply a Windows mindset to Unix, as seen in your comment about spaces in filenames. All the stuff in Unix (and now Linux) has been built up over 40 years of use and development.
The problems of using spaces in filenames were resolved by unanimous consent not to use them? Really?
7-bit ACSII is probably good enough for everyone too, huh? I18n _solved_, on Slashdot - you saw it here first folks.
What if your clock had a more complete display on it (1024x768 LCD), and you wanted to use it to do something the manufacturer did not think it should be used for -- would it be OK for the manufacturer to actively prevent you from doing so?
You mean by epoxying chips to boards, or using parts that suck for any use beyond what the device was intended for, or not doing anything to make using the device for unintended purposes easier, maybe even obfuscating things by not labeling chips, pins or wires, etc?
Yes. What planet are you from?
If it were beneficial to the manufacturer to do so, they will obfuscated, glue, use non-reusable parts all they want, they can and will do this as we speak, and it aint a new concept, bozo. The only reason most gizmos are somewhat hackable and have no obvious, outward appearances of being designed to discourage hardware hacking is that it costs $$$ per unit to implement, and the manufacturer is willing to take on the risks of customers doing stupid things with their products, shirking as much responsibility as legally possible with carefully written warranties or licensing agreements. Most places just don't care or are not worried about you doing weird shit to their product. Software, has no such costs.
In addition, some OSes, such as Linux, support copy-on-write semantics for memory pages in child processes created with fork (note, Solaris is an example of an OS that *doesn't* do this).
What year do you live in? Solaris _9_ had COW and multiple page size support, over half a decade ago. Linux large page size support is a joke, Solaris x86 even does it better on Linux's home turf.
Most modern OSes have a native fibre channel stack, except notably, Linux which doesn't have userland utilities for managing SCSI devices or even fibre channel drivers for that matter.
Not that complex... relatively friendly to newb's and other people who aren't super technically adept... and does a nice job. If you need more security, it's time to switch to SecurID and give everyone a token.
I was going to chime in about smart cards being more appropriate for local access than SecurID tokens, but I just discovered this =D http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1215
In my opinion it is impossible for either Apple or MS to be considered a Monopoly. Just having a huge percentage of the market doesn't make you a monopoly. You have to have the backing of a government federal, state, local. So my utility company is a monopoly because I can't shop around. Same with water, sewer, roads, ect. But a company that makes a product can't have a monopoly because there is no barrier to entry into the marketplace except for consumers. So say Apple becomes this tyrannical company and people get angry. They can start their own company or buy from another company. But if my sewer company wants to triple their rates there is nowhere for me to go.
I think it depends on what you consider a marketplace. PC software, smart phone software, Internet services, Internet advertising... what are they? Is it worthwhile to regulate them, or let the the next marketplace higher up the chain decide? I think the jury is very much still out on that one. Any of those "markets" could vanish if the underlying platform was obsoleted. PC's & general purpose computing are still very young & immature. It's not safe to assume any of it is written in stone and waste time protecting the next mini-market unless it's responsible for a significant chunk of the economy. Like, say PC software/services circa 2000... If you think PC's are fairly well done and cooked, then ok, start nurturing the app markets I guess. I personally don't think so.. Apple, Microsoft [yes them] and others should have the flexibility to compete at a higher level still. Only a fool would look at the last ten years of computing devices and think the platforms are cooked enough to protect the spun off markets. Christ, look at this past _year_ alone!
Sure, if your attackers will never try to crack any of your users' passwords...
A username could be anything, but root is always root. Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target. Not a particularly large step, perhaps, but a step nonetheless.
Or, you could just disable remote root logins.
If you're talking about an application already running locally, then they obviously can read/etc/passwd to identify other account names.
You're all missing the real reason behind this. It's merely to have one less password to remember, and make Ubuntu (in that respect) as easy to use as Windows and OS X. You don't need a second password when the computer knows which users are also admins and only needs to verify they are themselves..
what a croc. I tried sleep/resume on both linux and windows vista and in both cases there were sometimes issues, and when it DID work, it took just as long to reach a useable state as just cold-booting in the first place. What a useless piece of crap idea that is...
Either boot your pc normally or use a sometimes iffy mechanism that takes just as long...
Usually when people refer to using sleep/hibernate as a reliable and quicker alternative to booting, the Mac is implied.
Solaris is free to download and install and to use for ONLY 90 DAYS!
The registration process to receive an Entitlement Document is part of the Solaris download process, with the Entitlement Document being returned to you via e-mail. For this reason, YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING E-MAIL ADDRESS AS PART OF YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER ACCOUNT. If you fail to do so, you will not receive an Entitlement Document and will only have the right to evaluate Solaris for 90 days.
The reality of it is, Oracle is just putting the nails in the Solaris coffin without actually saying thats what they are doing.
Really?
What argument would you use to get customers to pay for OEL subscriptions if they got OpenSolaris + updates for free? I thought they might be trying to you know, make money from it. That may well end up being the same as what you said, but I doubt it is the intent.
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iSCSI boot from a Linux SAN
If you call that a SAN, my calculator is a computer.
who pays sales tax on easily mailed items in the US? 49 states in the US can order direct from Apple's store without paying sales tax.
Well all of Texas does, and I think they are one of the top three states iPads have been selling in. Are there really that few states that don't require you to pay sales tax online when the company has a physical presence?
I don't know, man... the one you posted is notorious for pretending to be a bank but taking unexplained fees out whenever they feel like it. Reverse psychology, good show.
Isn't that the definition of a bank??
I really hope a CA doesn't issue an EV certificate for that, and I doubt they would. Maybe you could get some ghetto CA to sign it with a normal cert, but a pervasive "green bar is good!1" thought process will kick in eventually, and at least minimize the attack.
I can only hope... but I don't hold my breath for 'random joe on the Internets' security to ever match his expectations.
Because people who develop and release open source software are clearly doing so out of pure, unadulterated selfishness?
The freedom to not care what potential users want or that there are any at all, and to scratch one's own itch are an awful big part of what open source is.
I don't think I'm the only one that sees that open source is by and large not a charity.
Oh, so there's a real Apple somewhere which lets me actually own my own hardware? Or a real Facebook which lets me own my own data?
I guess I understand where you are coming from, but we really aren't entitled to have all our gadgets decked out with whatever knobs and controls we wish.
Suppose Apple wanted to sell hardware with no firmware loaded at all, no app store, nothing? What if they sold devices with no external IO ports with which to hack it? As soon as Apple sets up an app publishing system, are we entitled to do whatever we want with it? Does any gadget we own with a programmable microchip entitle us with the right to program it? Now, to what extent must the vendor go to enable us do do whatever we feel we're entitled to? Are they not allowed to use ROM chips? Can they make devices without external ports? I just don't get some of these geek arguments.. like you all know deep down inside that it's OK that not everything has all the twiddly knobs you want, but God help them if it does and the manufacturer doesn't bend over backwards to make them available to you.
I love car analogies. No, Ford does not prohibit you from installing a Chevy engine in your Mustang. They also do _NOTHING_ to enable you.
If that freedom is acceptable, then why doesn't everyone complaining about their freedoms being trampled by Apple go learn whatever soldering skills are necessary to make an iPhone do what they want. I have a hunch it'll be easier than swapping different model engines in a car.
I know what the answer is all ready "That's not worth the effort, I just wont buy one."
Then I have to wonder what everyone's problem is with _other_ people buying gadgets with knobs glued in place that they apparently thought had enough value in other areas.
Arg... this is so painful to read. What is with the mods? +1 Long post?
If I want top notch security and not trusting some firm (possibly a CA that is offshore and is hostile to anything the country I reside in anyway), I will be using a PGP/gpg web of trust.
I'm not a big defender of the big CAs, but trust chains serve a purpose. In a WOT, who first decides that someone really is associated with a given name, and why on Earth do you trust _them_? Sure, you will all be talking to the same person, but who is that? The point of the chain model is that at least someone is responsible for verifying a certificate holder's identity in some minimal way. To what length they go depends on what the next link in the chain of trust requires.. MS, Apple, Firefox, etc, then you trust them, and so on.
I will either get a copy of the public key of someone face to face printed physically with a fingerprint (and will download and verify the public key and has from a keyserver),
An in person key exchange is the best you could possibly do, and does away with the other complex trust models. This is what the financial industry mostly does, a bunch of P2P symmetric key exchanges. You do have to change keys now and then (you do right?) so P2P gets very expensive. This is why your debit cards have different processor logos on them, because each bank only talks to a couple big processors, and not every other bank in the world. There is no need to use a public keyserver (why would you trust _that_?) if you meet the message recipient in person...
or I will agree on a passphrase that is used only once, and that is to send and receive a copy of the public key.
Uh.. why a passphrase? You were only going to give the passphrase over a secure channel or in person right? Then you'd only need to send the key. Try to think all that through..
I also don't like keeping my public key that would be needed for S/MIME on an online machine.
Im not going to explain PKI here. Just wow.
My secure private key resides on a machine that isn't Internet connected, it will reside on a smart card, or it will be on a smart card and used on an offline machine, so an attack would have to be done on a physical/local level in order to compromise my private key material.
Good. At least you understand the important half of PKI I guess..
I do use S/MIME and a client key, but that is mainly a stopgap, better than nothing measure, compared to actual end to end manual encryption of data with gpg or PGP.
Just wow.
PGP WOTs were in use a lot in the early to mid 1990s by cypherpunks, but for the most part, convenience won over security and it is extremely rare for someone to use a public key of someone to send mail.
Yah...?
A good WOT is far better than a CA. I have more trust in a public key claimed to be someone that is 3-4 links out from me on my PGP/gpg keyring than I do a key that is signed by a CA and told "hey, trust us." Of course, creating a WOT is a lot harder than just letting a CA do the work, but like Phil Zimmermann said, it is better to pack your own parachute when security is critical.
Look, I'm not going to hawk webs, chains or direct or whatever trust schemes.. the only thing that matters is how keys are exchanged, and why you trust them. Just because a CA makes money, that doesn't make the chain model wrong..
Another use for PGP over S/MIME is signing of files. A signed E-mail is difficult to forward and keep the integrity intact. However, if I have a file and a PGP/gpg signature of it (or just a PGP signed file), I can forward it, archive the two files, back them up to whatever backup media, and all it takes is a validation in the future to ensure that the file and the signature were not tampered with
And so on. I wonder what I'll get out of the PS3 class action deal?
A shitty Linux live CD?
option not included included with purchase of the base unit. Sure, they might offer free unlocks for some abilities but those won't be on or in the packaging of the console itself.
You say that as if its a bad thing...I would bet that the majority of gamers would rather have a less expensive console purely for gaming than the expensive swiss army knife consoles we have today....why do you think the Wii is absolutely crushing the PS3 and 360.
ROFL, queue up all the "I bought product blah with features x, y, and z AAAArrrrrtificially disabled, I am entitled to use them for free" buttholes.
I like my iPhone a lot, but Apple runs a ridiculously closed, proprietary system. So Steve's criticism of Flash as being closed and proprietary is so obscene as to be ridiculous.
Well, I've already said it, but a pot can call a kettle black and be justified because cast iron tea kettles are a lot more useless in this day and age than pots.
Steve's criticism stems from wanting ONE closed proprietary system, instead of layers of them they can't control. Sure, SWF might be open, but that's moot if the only implementations are essentially Adobe's. People joke about Java being open even WITH multiple implementations and competing inter-operable development tool chains.
There's a lot more competition for HTML5 authoring & rendering than there is for Flash I guess. Am I wrong?
While incredibly insightful towards the true meaning of Job's words, your argument against hypocrisy is based on a lie.
Simply put Steve Jobs did not say "it is closed to Apple" Steve Jobs stated "Flash is a closed system"
YOU said it is closed to Apple, not Steve.
Theoretically, Flash is an open system. In practice, unless Apple wants to implement Flash players and development tools of its own, it is not. For another example see Java. And IBM Java. And JRockit... And.. you get my drift?
This is like a pot calling a kettle black because... a cast iron tea kettle in 2010 is stupid.
My dictionary says: open-source - adjective - Computing denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available.
Actually there are two meanings for that term because the word "free" has two meanings in English (libre vs. gratis).
Oh right, I forgot the meaning of "free software" overloaded, so "open source software" was declared to mean explicitly "free of cost & open" http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
THAT really clarifies things! /sarcasm
The weirdest part is how OSI set out to be more business friendly than free (only open) software.
Megaman drove it's franchise into the ground, Mario got lucky with timing and just as it was getting stale along came 3D.
What what?? "Lucky"? The timing of the first 3D Mario was not lucky, it was completely planned and deliberate. Platformers basically ceased to exist with the advent of N64. Nintendo said "Let there be 3D games" and the big game houses said "OK". Some franchises just weren't worth hoisting into 3D worlds, like Megaman. Be very glad you weren't assaulted with BattleToads Avoid Fast Moving 3D Objects, or Double Dragon Shootout, or Donkey Kong Country Jumping in 3D Edition. Mega Man wasn't driven into the ground, it was left to RIP where it belonged, and it's life was stretched out the entire lifetime of the SNES from what I remember. Now, platformers are 'in' again because of a shakeup in distribution channels. PC games were driven into the ground chasing silly trends.. Puzzle, Sim, RPG, RTS, FPS, console ports... I'm still waiting for those glory days to come back :\
True, Macs generally work well, but even they have problems sometimes. When my iMac lost its internal hard drive I was faced with a fairly difficult task to service it myself. But for a lot of computer professionals like me, thats the exciting part. A service manual download later and I could take my iMac apart and fix it myself.
I always have a lot of trouble accepting that someone is a true computer professional if they aren't driven to continually learn more about computers and try new things. Thats why windows only because thats all we know tech support desks bug me so much.
Yah they do have their problems, as does anything if you step back enough. The GP was comparing them to whitebox PC's, and even the low end brand name stuff sucks to be honest. If I can make a broad generalization, high end HP, IBM, Sony, etc PCs are probably at least as reliable as Apple's, but that's not most consumer PCs, and not what's on Walmart shelves.. Apple is waaaaay more successful than any other PC manufacturer at selling higher quality stuff to consumers. I think the open competition in the PC market is really good on one hand, but with lower prices comes lower quality, and due to the complex nature of computer industry (evolving standards, back stabery, negligence) the race for lower prices affects quality across the board. There are just things that Apple can do for QC that HP cannot - without MS at least.
+10 Lives in the real world
Apple is LCD (lowest common denominator) computing with aesthetics that are light-years ahead of everyone else. What a beautiful way to have a LCD flashlight. If they could mesh with people who actually perform work, it would be epic.
Wha? Come on, be honest, do you actually have any experience using Apple computers? You don't have to _work_ with them very long to understand there's quite a bit more than just form to them. Maybe there is a terminal emulator better than Terminal.app, or a UI that gets in your way less; I'd love to know. What line of work did you have in mind that doesn't mesh with Apple computers though? Agro!? I mean even the most utter bullshit jobs mesh well with Apple computers, AM political talk show hosting! zing
I know, I know, your line of work requires you to have full awareness of the separation of application, window manager, and OS. The ability to pick a new one of each, every day. A UI that sorely reminds you at every opportunity, there is an almost insulting intermediate layer of interaction between you and the workflow you wish to execute. Sorry, how dare I disrespect your profession. What is that again?
Just playing..
Most of these issues were resolves years (or decades) ago; it's only now with Windows and developers coming from the broken Windows platform that these issues are coming up again.
The only reason you're having "so many issues" is because you're trying to apply a Windows mindset to Unix, as seen in your comment about spaces in filenames. All the stuff in Unix (and now Linux) has been built up over 40 years of use and development.
The problems of using spaces in filenames were resolved by unanimous consent not to use them? Really?
7-bit ACSII is probably good enough for everyone too, huh? I18n _solved_, on Slashdot - you saw it here first folks.
What if your clock had a more complete display on it (1024x768 LCD), and you wanted to use it to do something the manufacturer did not think it should be used for -- would it be OK for the manufacturer to actively prevent you from doing so?
You mean by epoxying chips to boards, or using parts that suck for any use beyond what the device was intended for, or not doing anything to make using the device for unintended purposes easier, maybe even obfuscating things by not labeling chips, pins or wires, etc?
Yes. What planet are you from?
If it were beneficial to the manufacturer to do so, they will obfuscated, glue, use non-reusable parts all they want, they can and will do this as we speak, and it aint a new concept, bozo. The only reason most gizmos are somewhat hackable and have no obvious, outward appearances of being designed to discourage hardware hacking is that it costs $$$ per unit to implement, and the manufacturer is willing to take on the risks of customers doing stupid things with their products, shirking as much responsibility as legally possible with carefully written warranties or licensing agreements. Most places just don't care or are not worried about you doing weird shit to their product. Software, has no such costs.
In addition, some OSes, such as Linux, support copy-on-write semantics for memory pages in child processes created with fork (note, Solaris is an example of an OS that *doesn't* do this).
What year do you live in? Solaris _9_ had COW and multiple page size support, over half a decade ago. Linux large page size support is a joke, Solaris x86 even does it better on Linux's home turf.
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0304/817-5917.pdf
Most modern OSes have a native fibre channel stack, except notably, Linux which doesn't have userland utilities for managing SCSI devices or even fibre channel drivers for that matter.
See what I did?
Not that complex... relatively friendly to newb's and other people who aren't super technically adept... and does a nice job. If you need more security, it's time to switch to SecurID and give everyone a token.
I was going to chime in about smart cards being more appropriate for local access than SecurID tokens, but I just discovered this =D
http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1215
In my opinion it is impossible for either Apple or MS to be considered a Monopoly. Just having a huge percentage of the market doesn't make you a monopoly. You have to have the backing of a government federal, state, local. So my utility company is a monopoly because I can't shop around. Same with water, sewer, roads, ect. But a company that makes a product can't have a monopoly because there is no barrier to entry into the marketplace except for consumers. So say Apple becomes this tyrannical company and people get angry. They can start their own company or buy from another company. But if my sewer company wants to triple their rates there is nowhere for me to go.
I think it depends on what you consider a marketplace. PC software, smart phone software, Internet services, Internet advertising... what are they? Is it worthwhile to regulate them, or let the the next marketplace higher up the chain decide? I think the jury is very much still out on that one. Any of those "markets" could vanish if the underlying platform was obsoleted. PC's & general purpose computing are still very young & immature. It's not safe to assume any of it is written in stone and waste time protecting the next mini-market unless it's responsible for a significant chunk of the economy. Like, say PC software/services circa 2000... If you think PC's are fairly well done and cooked, then ok, start nurturing the app markets I guess. I personally don't think so.. Apple, Microsoft [yes them] and others should have the flexibility to compete at a higher level still. Only a fool would look at the last ten years of computing devices and think the platforms are cooked enough to protect the spun off markets. Christ, look at this past _year_ alone!
Sure, if your attackers will never try to crack any of your users' passwords...
A username could be anything, but root is always root. Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target. Not a particularly large step, perhaps, but a step nonetheless.
Or, you could just disable remote root logins.
If you're talking about an application already running locally, then they obviously can read /etc/passwd to identify other account names.
You're all missing the real reason behind this. It's merely to have one less password to remember, and make Ubuntu (in that respect) as easy to use as Windows and OS X. You don't need a second password when the computer knows which users are also admins and only needs to verify they are themselves..
Byfield concludes that 'the FOSS community excels at communication. However, in this instance, that ability was used irresponsibly.'"
Tricky wording here. Yes, excelling at communication.. not to be confused with excelling at responsible communication.
what a croc. I tried sleep/resume on both linux and windows vista and in both cases there were sometimes issues, and when it DID work, it took just as long to reach a useable state as just cold-booting in the first place. What a useless piece of crap idea that is...
Either boot your pc normally or use a sometimes iffy mechanism that takes just as long...
Usually when people refer to using sleep/hibernate as a reliable and quicker alternative to booting, the Mac is implied.
Just sayin...
Solaris is free to download and install and to use for ONLY 90 DAYS!
The registration process to receive an Entitlement Document is part of the Solaris download process, with the Entitlement Document being returned to you via e-mail. For this reason, YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING E-MAIL ADDRESS AS PART OF YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER ACCOUNT. If you fail to do so, you will not receive an Entitlement Document and will only have the right to evaluate Solaris for 90 days.
Registration is free, ass.
The reality of it is, Oracle is just putting the nails in the Solaris coffin without actually saying thats what they are doing.
Really?
What argument would you use to get customers to pay for OEL subscriptions if they got OpenSolaris + updates for free?
I thought they might be trying to you know, make money from it. That may well end up being the same as what you said, but I doubt it is the intent.