Find some packet kiddies, and have them attack 5% of your ISP's customers, so that they're receiving at flat out line speed all month... Then, whatever you use, you wont be in the top 5%. Also, they probably count traffic usage higher up, so you can flood them with far more traffic than their line would ever be able to legitimately handle.
Because then they would be admitting to selling a "limited" service, which atleast in europe people have been campaigning against for years. It's not so long ago we only had dialup, with per minute metering on the phonecalls, people were heaving campaigning to get rid of this metering, so now we just have a new kind of metering. If an ISP admits to usage limits up front on the service, it will drive a lot of customers away to isp's who are less up front.
> The iPod should publish it's interfaces so that people can make competing iPod software.
You mean usb-storage? iTunes just uploads the data via usb storage, and i believe it creates a playlist too but there are already free tools for creating those anyway... Also, you can buy a different kind of MP3 player without being at a disadvantage. If you use something other than windows you will often find you have issues interoperating with poorly designed services.
> Sony should be forced to reveal all of the hardware interfaces in the PS/3 so that people can make their own add-on devices.
Yes they should, unfortunately that would cause games manufacturers to leave the PS3 (PS/3 is what IBM would have called it) and develop for the other more proprietary consoles. On the other hand, you can buy a cell based machine from IBM and connect an nvidia videocard to it, and thus you have a similar machine which you can program.
> Google should be forced to publish their search engine core to prevent vendor lock-in to Google search.
Google is a service rather than a product, you can choose to use it or not, and if you choose not to you aren't at a disadvantage to others. People don't send you files that "require google". Also, google has no method to lock their customers in, if someone else creates a better search engine then google will have no choice but to improve or die. windows on the other hand, keeps customers locked in using proprietary protocols and formats, regardless of how superior any of the competitors are.
And wouldnt even be necessary if they had complied with standards in the first place. The EU should force microsoft to comply with published standards, or if necessary extend and publish the extensions to those standards (and propose the standard be updated accordingly).
I found the constant hassle of having to have the latest version of windows, video drivers, sufficient hd space for bloat, having to keep the hardware up to date and conversely having to tweak settings to get optimal performance all too much... I game exclusively on consoles now, although someone should make a keyboard and mouse for consoles so you can play FPS games properly... The side effect of this, is that i no longer have any need for windows at all.
I will add that.... When you run a lot of boxes, having a scriptable workstation is invaluable, you can easily write scripts to login to multiple hosts and execute certain commands...
The ability to pipe things back and forth over ssh is very useful, you can pipe things both ways over ssh, you can even pipe mp3s over ssh and listen to them locally, example: ssh user@host cat file.mp3 | mpg123 - This isn't the most appropriate example, but it illustrates how useful and flexible it is.
The window manager of windows is _NOT_ suited to having lots of apps open, it becomes very difficult to use when you do that, your taskbar buttons either get very small or they get grouped together meaning you have to click multiple times to get what you want, and hitting alt+tab repeatedly is also very awkward. Multiple workspaces. with the ability to lay your apps out (usually lots of shells) how you want them, and flipping immediately to your chosen workspace instead of hitting alt+tab repeatedly is much easier.
Also rebooting, i very rarely have to reboot my unix workstation, windows on the other hand either crashes or needs to reboot at least once a month to install patches. This is incredibly annoying when you have loads of apps open, reloading 50+ programs is not my idea of fun.
Cups only listens on localhost by default until you turn on printer sharing... Cups is always running, wether you have a printer configured or not. And in order to share printers with other systems, of course it needs to listen on the network, there's no way around that.
Some of those nessus issues identified are false positives... Like the rpc.cmsd hole on solaris etc, this is a really old vulnerability that existed in solaris versions 7 and earlier. Also, they missed the recent solaris telnet vulnerability (telnet -l -froot host). Finally, they say that OSX was insecure out of the box, even tho it had no services turned on by default and they had to explicitely enable them.
Some customers don't like the idea of doing that... Also, Apache normally runs all the sites as the same user, which is terrible from a security perspective. There are alternatives here, but all have their downsides.
It's unusual for UK viewers to get anything first, usually the UK is in the situation you describe, and lagging 6 months behind the US. People tend to advocate piracy more when they're being shafted by the networks...
But as you said, for the first few minutes after boot, windows is thrashing the disk and running slower... Sometimes it even does ridiculous things, like closing the start menu while your trying to select something from it, or ignoring some mouse clicks. You could make linux start in the same way, modify the init scripts to start XDM first, and everything else later, in which case you'd have the same appearance of fast booting.
The issues with windows often become more severe because of how things are tied together where they shouldnt be (ie).
You also have to remember that OSX and to a much greater extent Redhat come with a _LOT_ more packages than windows. There's bound to be more issues discovered, simply due to the larger amount of code, but:
A windows system will typically require extra software to be useable, users will typically have such software but this article doesnt discuss their issues Redhat comes with a lot of software that is optional, and thus wont be installed by a typical user. Redhat comes with pretty much everything a typical user will require, so there is far less chance of the user installing additional third party software
And despite all of this, windows still had more serious vulnerabilities.
You also have to take into account the development model... Redhat being based on open source, which will typically disclose all security issues found publicly... Microsoft on the other hand, will quietly fix any issues which are found in-house, the only issues that go public are ones found by third parties.
And how do you remove all these gaming related libs from supposedly "server" versions of windows? Who's gonna play games on a server? even dedicated game servers wont use the music/video apis.
Both of these clients access exchange by hooking on top of the web interface... Even microsoft's own entourage accesses exchange this way, they don't use the same protocol that outlook does, and don't work if the web interface is turned off.
On the contrary... MSN is one of the most widely viewed websites in the world, simply because it's the default page for a new windows box. Their search engine may suck, and have market share way behind google of yahoo, but some people still use it and that use is increasing. MSN messenger is also widely used, despite arriving many years after AOL and Yahoo's offerings. MSN offers nothing new, and yet in many parts of europe appears to be the most widely used messaging system.
A lot of anti piracy advertising often states that the money from selling copied media goes into drugs and other forms of crime. If you download for free, your not giving money to anyone, not the pirates who finance drug dealers, nor the software companies and whoever they might be financing.
Release better products? Compete on product quality? That's not the Microsoft way... Do you really think they will spend all that money and effort to produce better products than google/yahoo/etc ? No, they will leverage their desktop monopoly to push their search. Their search engine may be crap, just like IE is crap, but when 95% of desktop computers sold comes with their search engine as the default, very few people will ever bother looking for anything better. Aside from that, how will they find something better when the search engine they use is designed to lock customers in?
Search engines would never have even got off the ground were it not for the opt-out method. Who would have bothered opting in to the first search engines?
Her site is also indexed by google, search for her name and it's the first result. Why isn't she suing google? The site is also poorly designed, and looks like crap in safari. She's clearly not competent enough to create a properly html compliant site, nor to create a robots.txt file. If you know so little about how the web works, you really shouldnt be creating websites, and certainly shouldnt be trying to screw with other people.
This is ludicrous... The concept of robots.txt is well understood and widely published. Virtually all the search engines mention it, as does documentation for most web server software. Having a robots.txt file is just a standard part of creating a site. The method by which you distribute (HTTP) and code (HTML) your site has already been dictated to you, why not the method by which you controll what automated processes can access it?
If indexing becomes opt-in, then spammers will just create thousands of opt-in sites, and legitimate useful information may never get opted in.
Also, without dictating a method by which you opt in, how do you propose to do it? If search engines have to employ people to manually trawl sites looking for "you may index this site" notices in any possible language, then search engines will just disappear.
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Find some packet kiddies, and have them attack 5% of your ISP's customers, so that they're receiving at flat out line speed all month...
Then, whatever you use, you wont be in the top 5%.
Also, they probably count traffic usage higher up, so you can flood them with far more traffic than their line would ever be able to legitimately handle.
Because then they would be admitting to selling a "limited" service, which atleast in europe people have been campaigning against for years.
It's not so long ago we only had dialup, with per minute metering on the phonecalls, people were heaving campaigning to get rid of this metering, so now we just have a new kind of metering. If an ISP admits to usage limits up front on the service, it will drive a lot of customers away to isp's who are less up front.
Uninstall it how?
Last time i tried to uninstall the half-baked bundled apps, all it did was remove the icon and leave the apps on the system.
> The iPod should publish it's interfaces so that people can make competing iPod software.
You mean usb-storage? iTunes just uploads the data via usb storage, and i believe it creates a playlist too but there are already free tools for creating those anyway...
Also, you can buy a different kind of MP3 player without being at a disadvantage. If you use something other than windows you will often find you have issues interoperating with poorly designed services.
> Sony should be forced to reveal all of the hardware interfaces in the PS/3 so that people can make their own add-on devices.
Yes they should, unfortunately that would cause games manufacturers to leave the PS3 (PS/3 is what IBM would have called it) and develop for the other more proprietary consoles.
On the other hand, you can buy a cell based machine from IBM and connect an nvidia videocard to it, and thus you have a similar machine which you can program.
> Google should be forced to publish their search engine core to prevent vendor lock-in to Google search.
Google is a service rather than a product, you can choose to use it or not, and if you choose not to you aren't at a disadvantage to others. People don't send you files that "require google". Also, google has no method to lock their customers in, if someone else creates a better search engine then google will have no choice but to improve or die. windows on the other hand, keeps customers locked in using proprietary protocols and formats, regardless of how superior any of the competitors are.
And wouldnt even be necessary if they had complied with standards in the first place.
The EU should force microsoft to comply with published standards, or if necessary extend and publish the extensions to those standards (and propose the standard be updated accordingly).
If they win this case, will the chimp then be liable to pay taxes?
It may also need to be deported, since it doesn't carry a valid human passport.
I found the constant hassle of having to have the latest version of windows, video drivers, sufficient hd space for bloat, having to keep the hardware up to date and conversely having to tweak settings to get optimal performance all too much...
I game exclusively on consoles now, although someone should make a keyboard and mouse for consoles so you can play FPS games properly...
The side effect of this, is that i no longer have any need for windows at all.
I will add that....
When you run a lot of boxes, having a scriptable workstation is invaluable, you can easily write scripts to login to multiple hosts and execute certain commands...
The ability to pipe things back and forth over ssh is very useful, you can pipe things both ways over ssh, you can even pipe mp3s over ssh and listen to them locally, example:
ssh user@host cat file.mp3 | mpg123 -
This isn't the most appropriate example, but it illustrates how useful and flexible it is.
The window manager of windows is _NOT_ suited to having lots of apps open, it becomes very difficult to use when you do that, your taskbar buttons either get very small or they get grouped together meaning you have to click multiple times to get what you want, and hitting alt+tab repeatedly is also very awkward. Multiple workspaces. with the ability to lay your apps out (usually lots of shells) how you want them, and flipping immediately to your chosen workspace instead of hitting alt+tab repeatedly is much easier.
Also rebooting, i very rarely have to reboot my unix workstation, windows on the other hand either crashes or needs to reboot at least once a month to install patches. This is incredibly annoying when you have loads of apps open, reloading 50+ programs is not my idea of fun.
Cups only listens on localhost by default until you turn on printer sharing... Cups is always running, wether you have a printer configured or not.
And in order to share printers with other systems, of course it needs to listen on the network, there's no way around that.
Some of those nessus issues identified are false positives... Like the rpc.cmsd hole on solaris etc, this is a really old vulnerability that existed in solaris versions 7 and earlier.
Also, they missed the recent solaris telnet vulnerability (telnet -l -froot host).
Finally, they say that OSX was insecure out of the box, even tho it had no services turned on by default and they had to explicitely enable them.
Some customers don't like the idea of doing that...
Also, Apache normally runs all the sites as the same user, which is terrible from a security perspective. There are alternatives here, but all have their downsides.
I saw an interesting case where someone had an image hotlinked...
He replaced it with:
http://www.ev4.org/hotlink.jpeg
It's unusual for UK viewers to get anything first, usually the UK is in the situation you describe, and lagging 6 months behind the US.
People tend to advocate piracy more when they're being shafted by the networks...
But as you said, for the first few minutes after boot, windows is thrashing the disk and running slower... Sometimes it even does ridiculous things, like closing the start menu while your trying to select something from it, or ignoring some mouse clicks.
You could make linux start in the same way, modify the init scripts to start XDM first, and everything else later, in which case you'd have the same appearance of fast booting.
The issues with windows often become more severe because of how things are tied together where they shouldnt be (ie).
You also have to remember that OSX and to a much greater extent Redhat come with a _LOT_ more packages than windows. There's bound to be more issues discovered, simply due to the larger amount of code, but:
A windows system will typically require extra software to be useable, users will typically have such software but this article doesnt discuss their issues
Redhat comes with a lot of software that is optional, and thus wont be installed by a typical user.
Redhat comes with pretty much everything a typical user will require, so there is far less chance of the user installing additional third party software
And despite all of this, windows still had more serious vulnerabilities.
You also have to take into account the development model... Redhat being based on open source, which will typically disclose all security issues found publicly...
Microsoft on the other hand, will quietly fix any issues which are found in-house, the only issues that go public are ones found by third parties.
which instructions are these?
i also remember intel not implementing all the functions of amd64 on their first 64bit capable x86 chips...
And how do you remove all these gaming related libs from supposedly "server" versions of windows? Who's gonna play games on a server? even dedicated game servers wont use the music/video apis.
Both of these clients access exchange by hooking on top of the web interface... Even microsoft's own entourage accesses exchange this way, they don't use the same protocol that outlook does, and don't work if the web interface is turned off.
On the contrary...
MSN is one of the most widely viewed websites in the world, simply because it's the default page for a new windows box. Their search engine may suck, and have market share way behind google of yahoo, but some people still use it and that use is increasing.
MSN messenger is also widely used, despite arriving many years after AOL and Yahoo's offerings. MSN offers nothing new, and yet in many parts of europe appears to be the most widely used messaging system.
A lot of anti piracy advertising often states that the money from selling copied media goes into drugs and other forms of crime.
If you download for free, your not giving money to anyone, not the pirates who finance drug dealers, nor the software companies and whoever they might be financing.
Release better products? Compete on product quality? That's not the Microsoft way...
Do you really think they will spend all that money and effort to produce better products than google/yahoo/etc ?
No, they will leverage their desktop monopoly to push their search. Their search engine may be crap, just like IE is crap, but when 95% of desktop computers sold comes with their search engine as the default, very few people will ever bother looking for anything better.
Aside from that, how will they find something better when the search engine they use is designed to lock customers in?
Search engines would never have even got off the ground were it not for the opt-out method. Who would have bothered opting in to the first search engines?
Her site is also indexed by google, search for her name and it's the first result. Why isn't she suing google?
The site is also poorly designed, and looks like crap in safari. She's clearly not competent enough to create a properly html compliant site, nor to create a robots.txt file. If you know so little about how the web works, you really shouldnt be creating websites, and certainly shouldnt be trying to screw with other people.
This is ludicrous...
The concept of robots.txt is well understood and widely published. Virtually all the search engines mention it, as does documentation for most web server software. Having a robots.txt file is just a standard part of creating a site.
The method by which you distribute (HTTP) and code (HTML) your site has already been dictated to you, why not the method by which you controll what automated processes can access it?
If indexing becomes opt-in, then spammers will just create thousands of opt-in sites, and legitimate useful information may never get opted in.
Also, without dictating a method by which you opt in, how do you propose to do it? If search engines have to employ people to manually trawl sites looking for "you may index this site" notices in any possible language, then search engines will just disappear.
The same can be said for windows relative to linux... People are still using it because they always have.