I'm add to this argument, as I think the insecurity we see in Windows is part of the Microsoft Mindset.
A large part of all the bugs that causes vulnerabilities can be through good design and good coding standard (starting with NOT using strcpy() ). Most of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft OS (and almost anywhere else) are buffer overflows. I'm pretty sure most of them could be squashed with good code audits...
What does Microsoft want, as a corporation? Money, profit! There is little insentive to actually correct those bugs BEFORE taken the product to market, because they would MAKE LESS PROFIT!... The only thing they lose with those vulnerabilities is credibility and image... maybe why they started the security thingy to improve their image... The security audit/training program is probably genuine though... (You can't fake that too much)
Think about it...
I though about that when I read this.. and it made me think of
this and
this.
Of course, I could be all wrong and Windows(R) could simply be too big to maintain....
Re-use the swap file to accelerate boot time? I haven't check, but I'm sure it's a possible explanation... It may be a design problem, but with a closed-source application this BIG we will probably never know... and we probalby won't care anymore when the nest installement comes up...
And don't forget about the Russian winters. Anything designed probably has to go trough though winter... I don't know about the exact temperatures, but I'm sure that we, in Canada, still have it easy compared to them...
"Oxygen is a very toxic gas and an extreme fire hazard. It is fatal in concentrations of as little as 0.000001 p.p.m. Humans exposed to the oxygen concentrations die within a few minutes. Symptoms resemble very much those of cyanide poisoning (blue face, etc.). In higher concentrations, e.g. 20%, the toxic effect is somewhat delayed and it takes about 2.5 billion inhalations before death takes place. The reason for the delay is the difference in the mechanism of the toxic effect of oxygen in 20% concentration. It apparently contributes to a complex process called aging, of which very little is known, except that it is always fatal.
However, the main disadvantage of the 20% oxygen concentration is in the fact it is habit forming. The first inhalation (occurring at birth) is sufficient to make oxygen addiction permanent. After that, any considerable decrease in the daily oxygen doses results in death with symptoms resembling those of cyanide poisoning.
Oxygen is an extreme fire hazard. All of the fires that were reported in the continental U.S. for the period of the past 25 years were found to be due to the presence of this gas in the atmosphere surrounding the buildings in question.
Oxygen is especially dangerous because it is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so that its presence can not be readily detected until it is too late.
-- Chemical & Engineering News February 6, 1956"
Enemy Territory (in seperate minimodule, but in the default iso)
BZflag
Frozen Bubble
Freeciv
Freecraft
pysol: solitaire
xmame (non-free): arcade games.
ZSNES: SNES games.
and heaps, heaps more. help me out and add to this list (ideas & suggestions are welcome too!)
"understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands"?
Maybe not, be user usually get the basic idea that the computer does what he is told and not what he suddenly wants to do... You would be suprised has to what people think on how the insides work when they never seen anything else than a GUI...
I had a girlfriend who thought that the icons on the desktop were there for artistic purposes and that the computer decided to do things on his own all the time (like it was sentient)
I simply told her: "On a computer, everything is there for a reason... everything happen for a reason... rational thinking mens builted this, not artists"
By comparaison, my father learned DOS back in the days(for fun), and immediatly understood that the explorer windows was a graphical representation of the directory...
I know someone who works at Hydro-Quebec and he told me that the while the current production meets the need, in the future it will not.
As for Hydro-quebec geeting into the car buiness, it's not they first time they tried... Car are not their buisness so they have to struck deal with automakers.... last time it flopped... The automaker seemed more interested in IP than actually making an electric car. (my memory is a bit rusted, could someone confirm this?)
I hope it turns out right this time... it's my taxpayer's money too...
(...)in countries like Finland where everyone has different sets of tires for summer and winter.
I'm sure they though of it. If Hydro-Quebec wants to use the car localy, They better use winter tires...
Slashdot Mirror
You can make numbers say whatever you want. You just have to use Simpson's paradox
At least, you're still lucky, I don't live in the US!
Granted, Vermont is a 30min drive south but still...
Like:
Moore's Law first correlation: The number of "Moore Law will soon end" talk double each 18 months.
right.... and you're gonna tell me the flame wars on the issue double each 18 months?
personnally i'm failing to see where this is a 'bad idea'(tm) for ms
Think money... They can't 'sell' the think anymore...
Or simply "all of the above"...
I'm add to this argument, as I think the insecurity we see in Windows is part of the Microsoft Mindset.
A large part of all the bugs that causes vulnerabilities can be through good design and good coding standard (starting with NOT using strcpy() ). Most of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft OS (and almost anywhere else) are buffer overflows. I'm pretty sure most of them could be squashed with good code audits...
What does Microsoft want, as a corporation? Money, profit! There is little insentive to actually correct those bugs BEFORE taken the product to market, because they would MAKE LESS PROFIT!... The only thing they lose with those vulnerabilities is credibility and image... maybe why they started the security thingy to improve their image... The security audit/training program is probably genuine though... (You can't fake that too much)
Think about it...
I though about that when I read this.. and it made me think of this and this.
Of course, I could be all wrong and Windows(R) could simply be too big to maintain....
Re-use the swap file to accelerate boot time? I haven't check, but I'm sure it's a possible explanation... It may be a design problem, but with a closed-source application this BIG we will probably never know... and we probalby won't care anymore when the nest installement comes up...
Mod -5 : Drunken comment...
Then it's obvious that you don't go to a real geek school.
Actually, I go to an Engineering school... But i was talking about those going in Nursing School.... Just a short distance from where I go...
But as the song says: 'But they don't even speak to me 'cause I'm an Engineer'
And a link to those HTTPanties' which are FOR REAL...
With Customer Action Shot!... I still can't believe they... with a camera.. to... %/%!T2E$"/"/!% BUFFER OVERFLOW
Hope you read the 'text' on it :)
:(
I would've bought one, but i'm kinda broke
Replace your windows with plasma screens. Works wonders, I can tell you.
I go to school (Uni), so I don't have to replace Women with porn... (or slashdot personnals)
"I'm guessing this new virus either forces script to execute via some exploit..."
Exploit?
Iframe!
Just use the Iframe tag with src="name_of_attached_file" and set the MIME type of the file to "x-audio" (executable audio) and Voila!
Instant exploit! Just add water and BOOM!
Note: This is all off the top of my head, the syntax might be wrong, but i'm sure you get the general idea
And don't forget about the Russian winters. Anything designed probably has to go trough though winter... I don't know about the exact temperatures, but I'm sure that we, in Canada, still have it easy compared to them...
And it can save to mp3 and ogg too! (with the right libraries)
Game developers could create a bootable liveCD distribution
Kind of like the Morphix Game CD?
Especially this week... St-Patrick is tomorrow... (or today, depending on where you are at this moment)
Right now it's not really posible to double-cup at your local Tim Hortons... They won't let you 'roll up the rim' twice with one coffee...
They could also do as Second cup and Starbuck does: add a ring a paper around the cup... less waste that way...
From the /usr/games/fortune database:
"Oxygen is a very toxic gas and an extreme fire hazard. It is fatal in
concentrations of as little as 0.000001 p.p.m. Humans exposed to the
oxygen concentrations die within a few minutes. Symptoms resemble very
much those of cyanide poisoning (blue face, etc.). In higher
concentrations, e.g. 20%, the toxic effect is somewhat delayed and it
takes about 2.5 billion inhalations before death takes place. The reason
for the delay is the difference in the mechanism of the toxic effect of
oxygen in 20% concentration. It apparently contributes to a complex
process called aging, of which very little is known, except that it is
always fatal.
However, the main disadvantage of the 20% oxygen concentration is in the
fact it is habit forming. The first inhalation (occurring at birth) is
sufficient to make oxygen addiction permanent. After that, any
considerable decrease in the daily oxygen doses results in death with
symptoms resembling those of cyanide poisoning.
Oxygen is an extreme fire hazard. All of the fires that were reported in
the continental U.S. for the period of the past 25 years were found to be
due to the presence of this gas in the atmosphere surrounding the buildings
in question.
Oxygen is especially dangerous because it is odorless, colorless and
tasteless, so that its presence can not be readily detected until it is
too late.
-- Chemical & Engineering News February 6, 1956"
In the mean time, you can try Morphix Gamer bootable CD... I think it's a good start...
From the Game module Page:
listing of games:
Enemy Territory (in seperate minimodule, but in the default iso)
BZflag
Frozen Bubble
Freeciv
Freecraft
pysol: solitaire
xmame (non-free): arcade games.
ZSNES: SNES games.
and heaps, heaps more. help me out and add to this list (ideas & suggestions are welcome too!)
Other games available as minimodules:
q3a demo
ut2k3 demo
Iso Download
Thats less than $10 per month. Per computer...
If your company has 20 licences, it may not be that bad (around 180$ per month) but at 115 employes, it's around 1000$/month for nothing yet
Now think about companies like IBM who has countless employes and paid a lot of money... for not much more than the status quo....
That is what the article is about... That is the real problem...
Windows may be a worthy OS, but the ROI is getting samller for thoses who took the wrong licencing...
"understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands"?
Maybe not, be user usually get the basic idea that the computer does what he is told and not what he suddenly wants to do... You would be suprised has to what people think on how the insides work when they never seen anything else than a GUI...
I had a girlfriend who thought that the icons on the desktop were there for artistic purposes and that the computer decided to do things on his own all the time (like it was sentient)
I simply told her: "On a computer, everything is there for a reason... everything happen for a reason... rational thinking mens builted this, not artists"
By comparaison, my father learned DOS back in the days(for fun), and immediatly understood that the explorer windows was a graphical representation of the directory...
I know someone who works at Hydro-Quebec and he told me that the while the current production meets the need, in the future it will not.
As for Hydro-quebec geeting into the car buiness, it's not they first time they tried... Car are not their buisness so they have to struck deal with automakers.... last time it flopped... The automaker seemed more interested in IP than actually making an electric car. (my memory is a bit rusted, could someone confirm this?)
I hope it turns out right this time... it's my taxpayer's money too...
(...)in countries like Finland where everyone has different sets of tires for summer and winter.
I'm sure they though of it. If Hydro-Quebec wants to use the car localy, They better use winter tires...
check the weather for Montreal and Quebec and compare with Finland or with Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland
There is one version with 'dot com' companies... altough I don't remember where I last saw it...