That's a fault of the toolkits in use, a lot of older X11 apps were perfectly useable over dialup and very quick on dsl speed connections, i remember running netscape in college over a 2mb line, and i did so because the unix server i had access to that was 150 miles away was MUCH faster than the workstations on which netscape was terribly slow.
There are X servers for doze on which you can run apps from a unix system. As for monitoring processes you can use a text terminal, or just run an xterm inside of an X server, that way you have only one window and not a full desktop... VNC on unix is POINTLESS... native X11 is faster and more flexible.. Infact, it's rather pointless on windows too, RDP is supported on modern versions and is much faster than vnc, and there are rdp clients for unix.
And virtually all non x86 boxes have things like this built in, sun's have had serial consoles for years and the netra t1's among others have full LOM.
Or you could use decent firmware and a serial console, which everything except x86 has supported for years.. Infact i was severely disappointed to see amd64 machines using a kludgy intel style bios when they could have gone for a good firmware, or atleast a hybrid of the two like alphabios/srm.
Not atall, it works like LBX... You can run nxproxy and it creates a virtual Xserver on a machine, you run your apps with the $DISPLAY set to that, and they're automatically compressed and sent over to another copy of nxproxy running on your local machine, which converts it back to standard X11 and displays the app on your local screen.. Just like running X over an ssh tunnel, except this tunnel does compression.
Actually, it's a newer and better version of LBX, which predates windows RDP by many years... This is just an improved version of something that has long existed.. its windows which copies from others and never has anything innovative (aside from email viruses)
Perhaps a project should be started to improve the efficiency of these commonly used toolkits.. Older X11 apps were useable over a 128k line, now i have 512kb dsl and modern apps are useless... With widespread broadband X11 apps should be awesome over the network, instead theyre even slower than they were back in the days of dialup!
Ofcourse theres no way to beat well designed toolkits, unfortunately most of the common toolkits are NOT well designed and cause massive amounts of network load.. This may be fine on localhost or over a 100mb switched lan, but over a wan link it's terrible.. I used to use X11 apps over dialup (very slowly) and a 2mb line (very responsive) a few years ago, but modern apps over another 2mb line with slightly less latency are unuseable.
And yet the number of worms targetting IIS (code red, nimda, others?) massively outnumbers the amount of worms targetting Apache regardless of platform, despite Apache having over 60% market share.
Actually, the kernel exploits have all been local, you can't exploit them without an existing non root account on the system. As for remote exploits, all these are distribution specific and recently haven't been found in the most common daemons, only in a few less commonly used ones. Not to mention the fact that these are exploits in third party applications/daemons, most of which are also capable of running on windows via cygwin.. Only the kernel exploits can really be considered to be linux exploits, everything else is a vulnerability in a specific app and 99% of the time is exploitable on any os running that app, unlike exploits in inbuilt windows functionality like rpc or ie. As for not taking steps to be secure, many linux distributions are remotely-secure by default nowadays, you dont need to do anything extra, you actually have to go out of your way (turn off the firewall, turn on remote services, add remote users etc) to render yourself exploitable.
So they could point at firefox and sya "look! it's just as insecure as IE" The fact that the firefox developers had to work around a security hole because microsoft wouldn't fix it properly is totally unacceptable tho.
Well XP is the most secure windows ever! Haven't you read the blurb during installation? it also starts much faster than any previous version of windows... Lets forget about 3.1, which on any machine capable of running XP loads almost instantly and doesn't even support tcp/ip by default, so no chance of getting owned on the internet.
Expiring licenses are just BAD.. Example, i use a program for my work that has a new license every month. I had to go to a client site shortly before the end of the month and stay for 2 weeks, during this time my license expired and i had to search around for hours to find a cybercafe where i could login to my mailserver and retrieve a new license, something which i was loathed to do from a public terminal.
That's so true.. maybe a bit bluntly put but it is true, copyrights and patents are artificial ways for weaker players to remain in the market, totally anti-capitalist... Had i not already posted in this story i would mod you up
With pure capitalism the USA would fall to pieces much faster than it already is... It's ironic that pure capitalism would aid the destruction of the american economy primarily by the communist nation of china. Put it this way, can american companies compete with the low wages and massive human resources of china?
But then such things as patents and copyrights are also against free market capitalism.. Patents and copyrights artificially allow a weaker player to remain in the market when otherwise they would have been driven out.. Do you think microsoft would last very long if there was nothing to stop people taking the already leaked windows source and producing their own version? or how about reverse engineering it and producing a compatible os for a fraction of the cost..
I did, no response.. Besides, that would require him to open up his precious sourcecode to me.. I really wonder why the dvd recording portion of cdrecord is closed source and requiring 6 month expiring licenses when the cd recording portion is open source..
But if people steal your lemonade you actually lose out, it costs money to produce lemonade... If someone pirates your software then it costs you nothing, and chances are those people who pirated it wouldn't have bought it anyway.. The alternative to people pirating microsoft software is these people downloading software for free from another source, such as linux.. And as i said in the earlier post, the more people who use alternatives the more third parties will support them, and thus the more end-users who actually pay for software will see and recognise the free options.
Well i always do my burning on an alphaserver, on which cdrecord-prodvd won't run.. Not because it couldn't compile, cdrecord compiles perfectly on it, but simply because the author doesnt see fit to produce a binary for my platform.
However your then still adding to their market share, which is exactly what they want. The less that people use alternatives, the more they can deny that alternatives exist and prevent people from supporting them. If linux got a huge boost in market share today you can bet all the non-microsoft software companies would start porting their programs to it and hardware makers would be far more inclined to make drivers... The best way to thumb your nose at microsoft, is to increase awareness of the alternatives... This will have the side effect of microsoft actually improving their products and lowering prices too.
Only when misconfigured, or running a beta version... I have never had a non development-series linux kernel crash on me... I have also had beta versions of windows that were terribly unstable but thats not important... The fact that versions of windows labelled as "release quality" crash on a regular basis is terrible, admittedly it's got a lot better recently but it still happens..
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That's a fault of the toolkits in use, a lot of older X11 apps were perfectly useable over dialup and very quick on dsl speed connections, i remember running netscape in college over a 2mb line, and i did so because the unix server i had access to that was 150 miles away was MUCH faster than the workstations on which netscape was terribly slow.
There are X servers for doze on which you can run apps from a unix system.
As for monitoring processes you can use a text terminal, or just run an xterm inside of an X server, that way you have only one window and not a full desktop...
VNC on unix is POINTLESS... native X11 is faster and more flexible.. Infact, it's rather pointless on windows too, RDP is supported on modern versions and is much faster than vnc, and there are rdp clients for unix.
And virtually all non x86 boxes have things like this built in, sun's have had serial consoles for years and the netra t1's among others have full LOM.
Or you could use decent firmware and a serial console, which everything except x86 has supported for years.. Infact i was severely disappointed to see amd64 machines using a kludgy intel style bios when they could have gone for a good firmware, or atleast a hybrid of the two like alphabios/srm.
How do they visit that webpage without an IP? HTTP over raw ethernet frames?
Not atall, it works like LBX... You can run nxproxy and it creates a virtual Xserver on a machine, you run your apps with the $DISPLAY set to that, and they're automatically compressed and sent over to another copy of nxproxy running on your local machine, which converts it back to standard X11 and displays the app on your local screen.. Just like running X over an ssh tunnel, except this tunnel does compression.
Actually, it's a newer and better version of LBX, which predates windows RDP by many years... This is just an improved version of something that has long existed.. its windows which copies from others and never has anything innovative (aside from email viruses)
Perhaps a project should be started to improve the efficiency of these commonly used toolkits.. Older X11 apps were useable over a 128k line, now i have 512kb dsl and modern apps are useless...
With widespread broadband X11 apps should be awesome over the network, instead theyre even slower than they were back in the days of dialup!
Ofcourse theres no way to beat well designed toolkits, unfortunately most of the common toolkits are NOT well designed and cause massive amounts of network load.. This may be fine on localhost or over a 100mb switched lan, but over a wan link it's terrible..
I used to use X11 apps over dialup (very slowly) and a 2mb line (very responsive) a few years ago, but modern apps over another 2mb line with slightly less latency are unuseable.
And yet the number of worms targetting IIS (code red, nimda, others?) massively outnumbers the amount of worms targetting Apache regardless of platform, despite Apache having over 60% market share.
Actually, the kernel exploits have all been local, you can't exploit them without an existing non root account on the system.
As for remote exploits, all these are distribution specific and recently haven't been found in the most common daemons, only in a few less commonly used ones.
Not to mention the fact that these are exploits in third party applications/daemons, most of which are also capable of running on windows via cygwin.. Only the kernel exploits can really be considered to be linux exploits, everything else is a vulnerability in a specific app and 99% of the time is exploitable on any os running that app, unlike exploits in inbuilt windows functionality like rpc or ie.
As for not taking steps to be secure, many linux distributions are remotely-secure by default nowadays, you dont need to do anything extra, you actually have to go out of your way (turn off the firewall, turn on remote services, add remote users etc) to render yourself exploitable.
So they could point at firefox and sya "look! it's just as insecure as IE"
The fact that the firefox developers had to work around a security hole because microsoft wouldn't fix it properly is totally unacceptable tho.
Well XP is the most secure windows ever!
Haven't you read the blurb during installation? it also starts much faster than any previous version of windows...
Lets forget about 3.1, which on any machine capable of running XP loads almost instantly and doesn't even support tcp/ip by default, so no chance of getting owned on the internet.
Expiring licenses are just BAD..
Example, i use a program for my work that has a new license every month. I had to go to a client site shortly before the end of the month and stay for 2 weeks, during this time my license expired and i had to search around for hours to find a cybercafe where i could login to my mailserver and retrieve a new license, something which i was loathed to do from a public terminal.
That's so true.. maybe a bit bluntly put but it is true, copyrights and patents are artificial ways for weaker players to remain in the market, totally anti-capitalist... Had i not already posted in this story i would mod you up
With pure capitalism the USA would fall to pieces much faster than it already is... It's ironic that pure capitalism would aid the destruction of the american economy primarily by the communist nation of china.
Put it this way, can american companies compete with the low wages and massive human resources of china?
But then such things as patents and copyrights are also against free market capitalism.. Patents and copyrights artificially allow a weaker player to remain in the market when otherwise they would have been driven out..
Do you think microsoft would last very long if there was nothing to stop people taking the already leaked windows source and producing their own version? or how about reverse engineering it and producing a compatible os for a fraction of the cost..
I did, no response..
Besides, that would require him to open up his precious sourcecode to me..
I really wonder why the dvd recording portion of cdrecord is closed source and requiring 6 month expiring licenses when the cd recording portion is open source..
But if people steal your lemonade you actually lose out, it costs money to produce lemonade... If someone pirates your software then it costs you nothing, and chances are those people who pirated it wouldn't have bought it anyway.. The alternative to people pirating microsoft software is these people downloading software for free from another source, such as linux.. And as i said in the earlier post, the more people who use alternatives the more third parties will support them, and thus the more end-users who actually pay for software will see and recognise the free options.
They can take other filesystems too, true about audio tho.. ISO images are just for a single track
Hey, remember the text you get when installing XP that tells you windows was designed from the ground up for the internet?
Why exactly does every windows dvd/cd burning tool have to create its own propriatory format for the images? What's wrong with standard iso images?
Well i always do my burning on an alphaserver, on which cdrecord-prodvd won't run.. Not because it couldn't compile, cdrecord compiles perfectly on it, but simply because the author doesnt see fit to produce a binary for my platform.
However your then still adding to their market share, which is exactly what they want. The less that people use alternatives, the more they can deny that alternatives exist and prevent people from supporting them.
If linux got a huge boost in market share today you can bet all the non-microsoft software companies would start porting their programs to it and hardware makers would be far more inclined to make drivers...
The best way to thumb your nose at microsoft, is to increase awareness of the alternatives... This will have the side effect of microsoft actually improving their products and lowering prices too.
Only when misconfigured, or running a beta version... I have never had a non development-series linux kernel crash on me... I have also had beta versions of windows that were terribly unstable but thats not important... The fact that versions of windows labelled as "release quality" crash on a regular basis is terrible, admittedly it's got a lot better recently but it still happens..