I've actually run into complications with both of my Microsoft mice. I got the Intellimouse Explorer Optical and I loved it. Until it started messing up:) If the cord isn't placed in the proper position, it won't work. It's like the power gets severed to it. Oddly enough, the way to get it to work is to make the cord run back along the side of the mouse out to my tower which is beside me. So the cord needs to be kinked to unkink the internals:S
And then I got the wireless one. I loved the design of the mouse and figured I just got a bum mouse. Now my optical one sometimes doesn't respond to movement until I physically bang it against my desk. Then it seems to smarten up.
As for the cord on my first one, a friend informed me that a friend of theirs also had the same problem and was able to send it back and get a new one to replace the defective one for free. So support is good although it seems to be a recurring issue with that set of mice.
"A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers."
Did you not read the article submission even let alone the article?
"A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers."
So what you're saying is they've eliminated the simple stupid mistakes that led to the embarrasing exploits of the past and are down to the ones that take people years to figure out that they exist? This is bad b/c.......?????
Though your analogy makes sense it's not quite the same. Hell, sometimes stealing a bike is harder than stealing a car. And sometimes bikes are more expensive than cars nowadays!
1. Open Source will have a fix out much more quickly than M$. Thus, once a flaw is discovered by anyone with an ounce of ethics it is fixed quickly.
As soon as you used the dollar sign, I discounted this argument although I'd be inclined to somewhat agree otherwise
2. You can turn off unused services like RPC on open source platforms which reduces your risk.
What does the source have to do with turning off services? If you mean compile it out, then sure you can do that with an open source system.
3. Just because it has been released now doesn't mean it has never been taken advantage of by someone without any ethics, morals, scruples, etc. It just means we didn't know about it until now.
Same can be said for an open source exploit.
Come on. These weren't counter arguments to his post. There were just general arguments.
Their "Trustworthy Computing" initiative only means that you have to trust them to release a patch when holes are found...
In general...well...yeah. that's bad? should we instead bitch and moan that patches aren't out? Instead the patch is out. Doesn't everybody whine that things don't get patched quick enough? Now they're patching as soon as possible it seems.
No OS is or likely ever will be totally secure. At least until humans become perfect anyways....
It's perpetuated b/c the vast majority believe it to be true. So is the way with most things. Instead of complaining that it's not true, give more info on why it's not true. For example, see this post
Wasn't the Book of D'ni actuall forward? The first one went back to just before the game Myst came out, the book of Ti'Ana was about Atrus and his grandmother and then D'ni was about Atrus and Catherine going back 70 years after D'ni was destroyed. Maybe I missed something in the final book? I mean, it definitely couldn't have gone back in time as it was about Atrus and Catherine. It couldn't have gone between the game and the book of Atrus.... Somebody fill me in if I'm missing something:)
Re:Dead? Well, probably not. Mostly.
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I recall reading one time that Swing (or maybe it was the AWT?? either way...) was tacked on in like 2 weeks before they pushed the latest release out the door. They felt that it was done so quickly b/c it was such a clean design. I think that was a little short-sighted:)
I'm inclined to agree here. I really like the C# language. The.NET libraries have yet to impress me. Granted, I haven't done any heavy development but the collections area is one that I felt was quite lackluster and I wasn't terribly impressed by WinForms either.
"..so I'm not locked into a particular operating system while I'm doing development. I can decide to work in Linux one day and Windows the next, and use the exact same toolset for both."
And one day thanks to Mono you will be able to do this with.NET too!
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So you've shown that.NET jobs are close to J2EE jobs, yet C# jobs are lower than Java which to me shows, in a way, how you can use the.NET platform and not be tied down to one specific language.
"Office 2003, the upcoming update of the company's market-dominating productivity package, for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date."
Note the keyword *can* there. If you want to use it, use it. If you don't, don't. I thought we liked choice....;)
Increasing the number of linux defacements would by nature of mathematics cause the percentage to go up would it not? If Linux has 25 out of 100 defacements, if an unknown becomes known to be linux, then it is now 26 out of 100. Even if you add a whole new linux entry to the numbers, 26/101 is greater than 25/100.
Isn't it mathematically impossible to prove something can't be done? Your last comment just made that come to my mind. Sort of like it's impossible to prove that a piece of software is completely bug free?? Maybe I'm just on crack....
A search from msn.ca on the term "linux" gave some reasonable results I think. There was Linux.com as the first, followed by sites like linuxcanada.com, some provincial/city linux organizations from places like Edmonton, BC and Alberta, some links to online linux certification classes.
Doesn't seem too unreasonable to me and it was interesting to see how tailored the results were given there were a lot of canadian sites up there and canadian area linux organization links. I have to say I was actually impressed given what I was ready to see from the headline of this article
This is not new. Doesn't anybody watch CSI? With the aid of computer technology they are able to zoom in on images taken from blurry security cameras to be able to tell if there is a carpet fiber on the jacket of the person in the very same picture! I'm sure they're able to fully rebuild a complete person from just the skeletal structure, muscles and all. They can probably interpolate from marks on the skeleton and thanks to that guy that knows everything he could probably help out b/c chances are he knew the guy.
TV wouldn't lie to me!! Would it...?? *cowers in the corner*
But it's the trilogy finale! We can't boycott yet!! I need to know what happens! Is he a machine? Is the matrix inside another matrix? Is it all "just a movie".
Can we get all pissy about the stuff you mentioned after this movie comes out? Ok, awesome. Thanks:)
Putting a bit too much faith in ol' Gibson are we? You do know that his site is not, nor should it ever be, a final word in security.
Check out http://grcsucks.com for some possible enlightenment. The man should be considered a marketing machine way before he should be thought of as a security "guru".
"It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after Oct. 15," Sundwall said. "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
So....then I guess third parties will likely not be able to use the service but apparently MS is fine with them contacting them to work things out. Doesn't seem so bad. Unless of course MS starts charging exorbatant fees for third-party users of the protocol. Which would be pretty insane. For now, benefit of the doubt is what I'll give. Partly b/c I'm crazy:)
Some hacks? It's not that hard to remove the adware for even an average computer user who understand the whole "executables" deal. To completely remove it, I believe it requires mucking in the registry but if the program isn't "there" when windows tries to "run" it, then it won't get "run"
Unless of course there is some reason that this is a smarter-than-average adware thing (oxymoron??) in which case when you try to delete it it causes the Y2K bug to be summoned out of hibernation and bitch slap you.
"Atleast they didn't do like the RIAA and say that piracy is reducing their profits"
They do do this, do they not (how's that for a good ration of "do" to non-"do" words in one sentence!) I've seen their ads with all the people from stunt coordinators down to gophers extolling how piracy is cutting into their livelihoods.
I think on numerous occasions it was debated here and in other places whether this was something that should be done or not. I think some people raised privacy concerns and other ethical things like that. Basically saying "a virus is a virus" (yeah, yeah it's a worm:)) However it can be sort of viewed in the way vaccines are. Harmless strains of virii used to boost the immune system. That's just what this worm does. It's a harmless strain that clears up an "infection"
I think this is a worm I wouldn't mind my parents having on their computer. I'm almost positive they haven't patched their machine and now that DSL is in their rural area they're all the more vulnerable to it. If this can clean it up for them without me pulling my hair out while going over the update process then so be it:)
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I've actually run into complications with both of my Microsoft mice. I got the Intellimouse Explorer Optical and I loved it. Until it started messing up :) If the cord isn't placed in the proper position, it won't work. It's like the power gets severed to it. Oddly enough, the way to get it to work is to make the cord run back along the side of the mouse out to my tower which is beside me. So the cord needs to be kinked to unkink the internals :S
And then I got the wireless one. I loved the design of the mouse and figured I just got a bum mouse. Now my optical one sometimes doesn't respond to movement until I physically bang it against my desk. Then it seems to smarten up.
As for the cord on my first one, a friend informed me that a friend of theirs also had the same problem and was able to send it back and get a new one to replace the defective one for free. So support is good although it seems to be a recurring issue with that set of mice.
Ah. Pardon my non-humorous post then :)
It must be. Enlighten me please.
"A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers."
Did you not read the article submission even let alone the article?
Maybe you didn't see this part:
"A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers."
So what you're saying is they've eliminated the simple stupid mistakes that led to the embarrasing exploits of the past and are down to the ones that take people years to figure out that they exist? This is bad b/c.......?????
Though your analogy makes sense it's not quite the same. Hell, sometimes stealing a bike is harder than stealing a car. And sometimes bikes are more expensive than cars nowadays!
1. Open Source will have a fix out much more quickly than M$. Thus, once a flaw is discovered by anyone with an ounce of ethics it is fixed quickly.
As soon as you used the dollar sign, I discounted this argument although I'd be inclined to somewhat agree otherwise
2. You can turn off unused services like RPC on open source platforms which reduces your risk.
What does the source have to do with turning off services? If you mean compile it out, then sure you can do that with an open source system.
3. Just because it has been released now doesn't mean it has never been taken advantage of by someone without any ethics, morals, scruples, etc. It just means we didn't know about it until now.
Same can be said for an open source exploit.
Come on. These weren't counter arguments to his post. There were just general arguments.
Their "Trustworthy Computing" initiative only means that you have to trust them to release a patch when holes are found...
In general...well...yeah. that's bad? should we instead bitch and moan that patches aren't out? Instead the patch is out. Doesn't everybody whine that things don't get patched quick enough? Now they're patching as soon as possible it seems.
No OS is or likely ever will be totally secure. At least until humans become perfect anyways....
It's perpetuated b/c the vast majority believe it to be true. So is the way with most things. Instead of complaining that it's not true, give more info on why it's not true. For example, see this post
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77804&cid=691
Complaining about lack of education does nothing to educate.
Wasn't the Book of D'ni actuall forward? The first one went back to just before the game Myst came out, the book of Ti'Ana was about Atrus and his grandmother and then D'ni was about Atrus and Catherine going back 70 years after D'ni was destroyed. Maybe I missed something in the final book? I mean, it definitely couldn't have gone back in time as it was about Atrus and Catherine. It couldn't have gone between the game and the book of Atrus.... Somebody fill me in if I'm missing something :)
I recall reading one time that Swing (or maybe it was the AWT?? either way...) was tacked on in like 2 weeks before they pushed the latest release out the door. They felt that it was done so quickly b/c it was such a clean design. I think that was a little short-sighted :)
I'm inclined to agree here. I really like the C# language. The .NET libraries have yet to impress me. Granted, I haven't done any heavy development but the collections area is one that I felt was quite lackluster and I wasn't terribly impressed by WinForms either.
.NET too!
"..so I'm not locked into a particular operating system while I'm doing development. I can decide to work in Linux one day and Windows the next, and use the exact same toolset for both."
And one day thanks to Mono you will be able to do this with
So you've shown that .NET jobs are close to J2EE jobs, yet C# jobs are lower than Java which to me shows, in a way, how you can use the .NET platform and not be tied down to one specific language.
"Office 2003, the upcoming update of the company's market-dominating productivity package, for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date."
;)
Note the keyword *can* there. If you want to use it, use it. If you don't, don't. I thought we liked choice....
Actually I have 3 grandparents, 3 parents and if there's only one of me.....who the hell keeps telling me to light things on fire?
Increasing the number of linux defacements would by nature of mathematics cause the percentage to go up would it not? If Linux has 25 out of 100 defacements, if an unknown becomes known to be linux, then it is now 26 out of 100. Even if you add a whole new linux entry to the numbers, 26/101 is greater than 25/100.
Or were you meaning something else??
Isn't it mathematically impossible to prove something can't be done? Your last comment just made that come to my mind. Sort of like it's impossible to prove that a piece of software is completely bug free?? Maybe I'm just on crack....
A search from msn.ca on the term "linux" gave some reasonable results I think. There was Linux.com as the first, followed by sites like linuxcanada.com, some provincial/city linux organizations from places like Edmonton, BC and Alberta, some links to online linux certification classes.
Doesn't seem too unreasonable to me and it was interesting to see how tailored the results were given there were a lot of canadian sites up there and canadian area linux organization links. I have to say I was actually impressed given what I was ready to see from the headline of this article
This is not new. Doesn't anybody watch CSI? With the aid of computer technology they are able to zoom in on images taken from blurry security cameras to be able to tell if there is a carpet fiber on the jacket of the person in the very same picture! I'm sure they're able to fully rebuild a complete person from just the skeletal structure, muscles and all. They can probably interpolate from marks on the skeleton and thanks to that guy that knows everything he could probably help out b/c chances are he knew the guy. TV wouldn't lie to me!! Would it...?? *cowers in the corner*
But it's the trilogy finale! We can't boycott yet!! I need to know what happens! Is he a machine? Is the matrix inside another matrix? Is it all "just a movie".
:)
Can we get all pissy about the stuff you mentioned after this movie comes out? Ok, awesome. Thanks
Putting a bit too much faith in ol' Gibson are we? You do know that his site is not, nor should it ever be, a final word in security.
Check out http://grcsucks.com for some possible enlightenment. The man should be considered a marketing machine way before he should be thought of as a security "guru".
from the article:
:)
"It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after Oct. 15," Sundwall said. "We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
So....then I guess third parties will likely not be able to use the service but apparently MS is fine with them contacting them to work things out. Doesn't seem so bad. Unless of course MS starts charging exorbatant fees for third-party users of the protocol. Which would be pretty insane. For now, benefit of the doubt is what I'll give. Partly b/c I'm crazy
Some hacks? It's not that hard to remove the adware for even an average computer user who understand the whole "executables" deal. To completely remove it, I believe it requires mucking in the registry but if the program isn't "there" when windows tries to "run" it, then it won't get "run"
Unless of course there is some reason that this is a smarter-than-average adware thing (oxymoron??) in which case when you try to delete it it causes the Y2K bug to be summoned out of hibernation and bitch slap you.
Either way...might as well give it a shot.
"Atleast they didn't do like the RIAA and say that piracy is reducing their profits"
They do do this, do they not (how's that for a good ration of "do" to non-"do" words in one sentence!) I've seen their ads with all the people from stunt coordinators down to gophers extolling how piracy is cutting into their livelihoods.
They also have a website: RespectCopyrights.org
I think on numerous occasions it was debated here and in other places whether this was something that should be done or not. I think some people raised privacy concerns and other ethical things like that. Basically saying "a virus is a virus" (yeah, yeah it's a worm :)) However it can be sort of viewed in the way vaccines are. Harmless strains of virii used to boost the immune system. That's just what this worm does. It's a harmless strain that clears up an "infection"
I think this is a worm I wouldn't mind my parents having on their computer. I'm almost positive they haven't patched their machine and now that DSL is in their rural area they're all the more vulnerable to it. If this can clean it up for them without me pulling my hair out while going over the update process then so be it :)