As a linux user i can quite honestly say these worms were a nightmare, no i didn't get infected but i recieved lots of scans from these hosts and i got a canned email from my isp telling me i was running a webserver and that i should disable it.. It took several mails before they understood it wasn't vulnerable to worm of the month
Actually, as someone who uses msoffice on a daily basis (well, word 2003 and excel a little) i have to say it DOES stink, it is incredibly buggy and has poor support for its own file formats between versions (many of our excel spreadsheets from 2000 ceased working properly with 2003) it's only advantage is that openoffice is even worse.. I would love a decent stable office suite, one that doesnt randomly crash or otherwise fuck up.. or do incredibly strange things half the time.. I have so many niggling little problems with word, i have many documents that exhibit these problems too but unfortunately theyre private company documents or else i'd share them here. I seem to remember wordperfect being much better but i heard it's gone downhill in recent years, wordworth on the amiga was awesome but alas the amiga is no more and wordworth is no longer developed.
I do something similar, but i use a subdomain for each service signed up to or such.. i also use a different username, so mail to spamuser@domain.com wont work but mail to spamuser@spamsite.domain.com will.. The beauty of this approach is that i can remove the dns record for a subdomain, or point it somewhere invalid, such as the website who sold me out.
The instability and insecurity should never have existed in the first place... Being too hard? no way, their software is poorly designed and as a consequence of being fixed breaks compatibility with poorly designed apps designed to use poorly designed api's.. All this would never have been an issue had windows been designed properly in the first place, instead of being a kludged together pile of shit. If you want to break compatibility and have a much cleaner system, well thats what Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS etc are for
Firstly, djbdns provides tools such as add-host to easily add hosts to the dns list..
Also, the format has never been undocumented, there is documentation about the format right on the djbdns homepage..
As for multiple characters to do "nearly" the same thing... your saying there are multiple characters to do DIFFERENT (but similar) things.. Are you suggesting that it should use the same character to do different things? how would that work?
Also a lot of apps which had skin support added (windows media player for once) became much slower as a result.. There was one machine i saw which could play a video file just fine using the unskinned media player, but it stuttered using the skinned one.
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hdparm -W doesn't work on scsi drives anyway.. Infact, most hdparm functions don't work on scsi.. Even tho features like turning off the disk motor were supported on scsi first
Well, HP aren't marketting the pa-risc anymore, sgi are going down the pan and the itanic isn't really taking off, leaving the alpha to sell itself without any marketting, which is pretty much what it did all along.
Actually itanic would still be more expensive were it not for HP artificially inflating the price on alpha systems to try and drive customers to itanic. Aside from that, itanic servers are NOT as reliable as alpha... what about the bug lately where itanic chips couldn`t run at their rated clockrate and the recommended solution was to underclock them? Does this sound like a well designed machine to you? To me it sounds more like a cheap nasty back street clone that`s overclocked to sell for a higher price.
Not just the quality of the fans, but the design of the case.. cheap nasty x86 boxes typically have a fan on the cpu recirculating air around.. Alpha machines had fans to draw air in from outside of the case, push it over the cpu and other components, then a second fan to draw it out the back. Aside from that, i had an alpha where the fans failed and the machine just kept running for weeks.. it was however INCREDIBLY hot
Modern laptops dont overcharge the batteries anymore, so they last a lot longer.. Tho you could always just remove the battery if the machine is being used on AC power. Ofcourse, there are other benefits, such that laptops can more easily be moved around, they could be locked away somewhere when not in use, and the battery provides a power backup so people don't lose their work if the power fails, even a poor condition battery can last long enough for someone to save their work.
Well, its the NUMA architecture.. The fact that the memory is split between the two processors so half of the ram is directly connected to the memory controller on each cpu, thus the cpu can access the ram at full speed... This is how virtually all the highend 64bit cpus work. Contrast this to xeon (which cant be called high end by any stretch of the imagination) which uses a single bus shared by all the cpus, the more cpus you have the smaller share of the bus each one gets.
The better dual cpu performance of the opteron is down to the interlink between the processors and ram, while the xeon uses a shared bus system that gets overloaded with more cpus, each opteron has it's own block of memory that's directly connected by a dedicated bus, and then theres the hypertransport bus between the processors themselves.
That's simply a matter of conditioning tho, and has nothing to do with the quality of the browser.. Take for example, you could say a ferrari is shit because the controls aren't in the same place as on the skoda you drive every day.
Not to mention more complete support for CSS and other things.. Features like transparent PNG's are being held back by IE, web developers have to make a site that *Atleast* looks good to the majority of readers, currently this means ie.. consequently they can't use some of the more modern features of CSS, translucent PNG's or some other things, as this would make a site that looked shit on ie. IE is now doing what netscape 4.x has for the last few years, holding back innovation on the web and hindering website developers. A number of my websites don't look correct in IE: http://atm.ev6.net
- the menu bar at the top should remain static while the pictures scroll http://www.firenzee.com
- same problem, same code, also the menu bar down the side should hover over the background and be translucent http://www.firenzee.com/photos
- better test example of the translucent menu http://webchat.ev6.net
- this webchat program has its own module for ie, if you feed the module for opera/mozilla/safari etc into ie you get a blank page, the specific ie module still doesn't look as good as the mozilla/opera one
try these sites in firefox and ie side by side, you'l see what i mean..
Yeah, it's sad to see how commercial developers spend far more time and money on their copy-protection mechanisms than they do on the actual program. Some of the buggiest programs i've ever used had very sophisticated mechanisms for copy protection. If only they had spent more time fixing the program instead of trying to stop people pirating it, maybe it would actually be worth the money they demand.
We were talking about rebooting, and you only need to reboot if you patch the kernel, atleast on a sensible os, and in some cases you can fix a kernel vulnerability without rebooting... Such as the one found in Solaris some time ago.. So it's possible to have IRIX, Tru64, and i'm sure plenty of other os's fully patched without rebooting it.
Well then don't use an OS with kernel vulnerabilities. Linux isn't the only choice, there are many other OS's which will quite happily install and run your opensource unix apps with little more than recompilation.
Dynamic perhaps, lightweight no.. scripting languages have far more overhead than compiled code, you have to run the interpreter aswell as the actual program, you consume more ram and more cpu every time you run the program, as opposed to just once when you compile it.
X11 offers standard cut and paste, select with mouse and middle click to paste. Apps sometimes provide their own nonstandard methods of cut+paste such as windows style rsi-inducing select ctrl+c ctrl+v, some windows apps also do this the other way round, for example putty which provides X11-style cut+paste. Just because the system provides a standard method for cutting+pasting doesn't mean app developers will use it.
Insane uptimes? an uptime lasting from $installtime to $now or $lastpowerfailure to $now is normal, anything less than that is insanely bad. Any machine that has to reboot for anything less than a hardware problem/upgrade is insanely bad in my book.
// 3. drivers: of course it has become less of a problem during the last two years, but still there are problems especially with accelerated graphics drivers. this is more a problem of vendors not supporting their hardware for "minority" OSs, but it is still a pain in the ass being "forced" to use those binary nvidia drivers
As opposed to the opensource drivers you download and compile on windows? If you complain about binary drivers under linux/bsd why not complain about the same on windows? Aside from the fact that the whole of the os comes as binaries too, wether you like it or not.
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As a linux user i can quite honestly say these worms were a nightmare, no i didn't get infected but i recieved lots of scans from these hosts and i got a canned email from my isp telling me i was running a webserver and that i should disable it.. It took several mails before they understood it wasn't vulnerable to worm of the month
Actually, as someone who uses msoffice on a daily basis (well, word 2003 and excel a little) i have to say it DOES stink, it is incredibly buggy and has poor support for its own file formats between versions (many of our excel spreadsheets from 2000 ceased working properly with 2003) it's only advantage is that openoffice is even worse..
I would love a decent stable office suite, one that doesnt randomly crash or otherwise fuck up.. or do incredibly strange things half the time..
I have so many niggling little problems with word, i have many documents that exhibit these problems too but unfortunately theyre private company documents or else i'd share them here.
I seem to remember wordperfect being much better but i heard it's gone downhill in recent years, wordworth on the amiga was awesome but alas the amiga is no more and wordworth is no longer developed.
I do something similar, but i use a subdomain for each service signed up to or such.. i also use a different username, so mail to spamuser@domain.com wont work but mail to spamuser@spamsite.domain.com will.. The beauty of this approach is that i can remove the dns record for a subdomain, or point it somewhere invalid, such as the website who sold me out.
The instability and insecurity should never have existed in the first place... Being too hard? no way, their software is poorly designed and as a consequence of being fixed breaks compatibility with poorly designed apps designed to use poorly designed api's.. All this would never have been an issue had windows been designed properly in the first place, instead of being a kludged together pile of shit.
If you want to break compatibility and have a much cleaner system, well thats what Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS etc are for
You can use 2 lines if you wish, your free to totally ignore the A+PTR function if you wish, noone is forcing you to use it.
Firstly, djbdns provides tools such as add-host to easily add hosts to the dns list.. Also, the format has never been undocumented, there is documentation about the format right on the djbdns homepage.. As for multiple characters to do "nearly" the same thing... your saying there are multiple characters to do DIFFERENT (but similar) things.. Are you suggesting that it should use the same character to do different things? how would that work?
Also a lot of apps which had skin support added (windows media player for once) became much slower as a result.. There was one machine i saw which could play a video file just fine using the unskinned media player, but it stuttered using the skinned one.
hdparm -W doesn't work on scsi drives anyway..
Infact, most hdparm functions don't work on scsi.. Even tho features like turning off the disk motor were supported on scsi first
Well, HP aren't marketting the pa-risc anymore, sgi are going down the pan and the itanic isn't really taking off, leaving the alpha to sell itself without any marketting, which is pretty much what it did all along.
Actually itanic would still be more expensive were it not for HP artificially inflating the price on alpha systems to try and drive customers to itanic. Aside from that, itanic servers are NOT as reliable as alpha... what about the bug lately where itanic chips couldn`t run at their rated clockrate and the recommended solution was to underclock them? Does this sound like a well designed machine to you? To me it sounds more like a cheap nasty back street clone that`s overclocked to sell for a higher price.
Not just the quality of the fans, but the design of the case.. cheap nasty x86 boxes typically have a fan on the cpu recirculating air around.. Alpha machines had fans to draw air in from outside of the case, push it over the cpu and other components, then a second fan to draw it out the back.
Aside from that, i had an alpha where the fans failed and the machine just kept running for weeks.. it was however INCREDIBLY hot
Modern laptops dont overcharge the batteries anymore, so they last a lot longer.. Tho you could always just remove the battery if the machine is being used on AC power.
Ofcourse, there are other benefits, such that laptops can more easily be moved around, they could be locked away somewhere when not in use, and the battery provides a power backup so people don't lose their work if the power fails, even a poor condition battery can last long enough for someone to save their work.
Thats normal within a graphical interface, the local gui will bind keys for it's own use, and this they cant be sent to the remote app.
Well, its the NUMA architecture.. The fact that the memory is split between the two processors so half of the ram is directly connected to the memory controller on each cpu, thus the cpu can access the ram at full speed... This is how virtually all the highend 64bit cpus work.
Contrast this to xeon (which cant be called high end by any stretch of the imagination) which uses a single bus shared by all the cpus, the more cpus you have the smaller share of the bus each one gets.
The better dual cpu performance of the opteron is down to the interlink between the processors and ram, while the xeon uses a shared bus system that gets overloaded with more cpus, each opteron has it's own block of memory that's directly connected by a dedicated bus, and then theres the hypertransport bus between the processors themselves.
That's simply a matter of conditioning tho, and has nothing to do with the quality of the browser.. Take for example, you could say a ferrari is shit because the controls aren't in the same place as on the skoda you drive every day.
Not to mention more complete support for CSS and other things..
Features like transparent PNG's are being held back by IE, web developers have to make a site that *Atleast* looks good to the majority of readers, currently this means ie.. consequently they can't use some of the more modern features of CSS, translucent PNG's or some other things, as this would make a site that looked shit on ie. IE is now doing what netscape 4.x has for the last few years, holding back innovation on the web and hindering website developers.
A number of my websites don't look correct in IE:
http://atm.ev6.net
- the menu bar at the top should remain static while the pictures scroll
http://www.firenzee.com
- same problem, same code, also the menu bar down the side should hover over the background and be translucent
http://www.firenzee.com/photos
- better test example of the translucent menu
http://webchat.ev6.net
- this webchat program has its own module for ie, if you feed the module for opera/mozilla/safari etc into ie you get a blank page, the specific ie module still doesn't look as good as the mozilla/opera one
try these sites in firefox and ie side by side, you'l see what i mean..
Yeah, it's sad to see how commercial developers spend far more time and money on their copy-protection mechanisms than they do on the actual program. Some of the buggiest programs i've ever used had very sophisticated mechanisms for copy protection. If only they had spent more time fixing the program instead of trying to stop people pirating it, maybe it would actually be worth the money they demand.
We were talking about rebooting, and you only need to reboot if you patch the kernel, atleast on a sensible os, and in some cases you can fix a kernel vulnerability without rebooting... Such as the one found in Solaris some time ago.. So it's possible to have IRIX, Tru64, and i'm sure plenty of other os's fully patched without rebooting it.
Well then don't use an OS with kernel vulnerabilities. Linux isn't the only choice, there are many other OS's which will quite happily install and run your opensource unix apps with little more than recompilation.
Dynamic perhaps, lightweight no.. scripting languages have far more overhead than compiled code, you have to run the interpreter aswell as the actual program, you consume more ram and more cpu every time you run the program, as opposed to just once when you compile it.
The sourcecode to quake 3 was released? when? where do i get it?
X11 offers standard cut and paste, select with mouse and middle click to paste. Apps sometimes provide their own nonstandard methods of cut+paste such as windows style rsi-inducing select ctrl+c ctrl+v, some windows apps also do this the other way round, for example putty which provides X11-style cut+paste.
Just because the system provides a standard method for cutting+pasting doesn't mean app developers will use it.
Insane uptimes? an uptime lasting from $installtime to $now or $lastpowerfailure to $now is normal, anything less than that is insanely bad.
Any machine that has to reboot for anything less than a hardware problem/upgrade is insanely bad in my book.
// 3. drivers: of course it has become less of a problem during the last two years, but still there are problems especially with accelerated graphics drivers. this is more a problem of vendors not supporting their hardware for "minority" OSs, but it is still a pain in the ass being "forced" to use those binary nvidia drivers
As opposed to the opensource drivers you download and compile on windows? If you complain about binary drivers under linux/bsd why not complain about the same on windows? Aside from the fact that the whole of the os comes as binaries too, wether you like it or not.