The article doesn't seem to mantion what actually makes up an attack. My apache logs are full of requests for cmd.exe - still... so yes someone attacked my web server, so what? Unless they're trying to DOS me by making the apache error log fill my hard disk it's not a very successful attack strategy.
The article reads to me like analyists out looking for new business. Maybe every major user of MS server software is already employing a security consultant so there's litttle market potential for growth. So the company grab some stats to make it look like there's an explosion in attacks on linux, show the stats to managers, not the IT department, and then get a nice consultancy fee to come in and tell IT that they should run red-carpet every day to check for upgrades.
SuSE have been pushing ReiserFS for some time. I've certainly been using it for what seems like ages with no noticeable problems.
I'm 110% sure it's saved more files when I've lost power or when something's hung requiring a hard reset than it'd deleted due to hash clashes. What's the likelihood of two files generating the same hash? You talk of increasing likeliness, but don't mention any figures. It's hard to judge without some stats.
As an aside, why didn't you restore your large project from your backup? What do you mean you didn't have...
Remember when they used to stick a handle on the back of a 14" TV and call it a portable?
How big can you make a laptop and still call it a laptop - surely anything with a 16.1" screen is going to be a pain to lug around?
Me? I'm quite happy with my tiny picturebook, and a clie for when even that's too big. If I want a big screen I'll sit at my desk, or my bedroom, or in my living room and use a proper computer - one that can also be upgraded on a whim and at a reasonable cost, rather than a huge brick that in 24 months time will be a huge slow brick with no upgrade options.
Why should I cycle a three and a half year old PII 300 which runs WinNT and Office 2k happily. The user types letters and messes with spreadsheets, they're not making your latest holywood blockbuster. The machine was fine when we bought it and is still fine today.
My laptop is a year and a bit old, and I sure hope it has more than another ten months life left in it. What am I going to be doing in ten months that a PIII 700 won't be up to?
We shouldn't be forced into any unnecessary upgrades, and by refusing to play the game they want us to we can keep balance sheets looking healthier. After all IT Departments only exist to make the company or organisation perform better. Unless there's an operational reason for an upgrade, surely there's no reason to upgrade.
There are a number of reasons that we in the UK are protected from this.
We don't pay for incoming calls. The result is the calling party pays the bill - and calling cell phones during the day can be expensive - circa 30p (40c)/min.
We have a regulated scheme by which you can opt out of all telemarketing calls - the telephone preference service Click to sign up now. Companies calling numbers listed on the TPS face a 2000 GBP fine.
So you have two things to pursue. Campaign for the calling party to pay the cost of their call, and campaign for the government to legislate to make one country wide telemarketing opt-out list with fines for companies that ignore your request. Sadly I don't see either happening in the US any time soon.
Did they - and if they didn't, why didn't they - demonstrate to the court the absurdity of what they are asking.
Simply pick half a dozen or so government sites and show how, within five or so links they too link to the pages the court wishes to censor. Even better if they can show such links from the court service's web site.
Would a Slashdot style system of user moderation of shared files be a solution? Perhaps public and private keys to sign files as your online handle. Well known names would sson spring up and their signature could be used to verify the quality of the shared file before downloading. Of course there are many reasons people wouldn't want to sign files they might be sharing or have downloaded...
well, perhaps. As you say faults will turn up in other software, but two points.
1. IE is an integral part of windows. As we all know, you can't uninstall it.
2. With an open source browser you don't have to wait for Microsoft to decide when and indeed if a browser upgrade is necessary.
So what role for anti-virus firms, like symantec and sophos - how would they feel if a publicly funded angency were producing effective countermeasures to worms?
I can see commercial interests taking priority over those of the internet at large.
Could there also be in increase in complacency amongst users to not use appropriate system security or anti-virus measures if they think there's a "control centre" waiting to bail them out from any misfortune they experience as a result of their own failures?
The idea seems attractive, I'm just unsure about the other implications.
Nope, you're wrong. Microsoft do make a loss on every xbox, but that doesn't hold true for other manufacturers - even at product launch. You should read Monday Morning CEO If you haven't already for a detailed breakdown on how the economics of selling games consoles works.
We've had a few problems earlier with interoperability, but our more recent wireless network hasn't encountered any problems. Isn't this the whole point of the Wi-Fi standard - everything bearing the Wi-Fi logo should be interoperable.
As you say though, the 10mbit bandwidth is often sufficient - after all, in the majority of implimentations, it's to allow access to the office network, and at least around here (Scotland) there aren't many offices with internet connections running at more than 1 or 2 mbits.
We were looking to deploy an avant go channel about six weeks ago, when this cropped up as an issue. I don't believe for a moment that we cuold raise advertising revenue to cover the expenditure, and we're not likely to be able to charge folk for content which they're used to getting for free.
The costs that avant go want are from another planet. For us to support 1,000 users we'd be paying twice as much to avant go as we do annualy to our hosting firm for co-location and 10 gig of data a month.
There is now a real need for a solution that will allow both PalmOS and Pocket PC users to use the same software to synchronise web pages for offline viewing. It's beyond my ability, but I hope someone in the free software community will take this need on board and provide a way for those of us that want to give information away, and for the users that want free [as in beer] information to download their daily fix.
Hasn't it been well established that that hardware detection bit at the start of the WinNT startup is where Microsoft Determine how much the OS should be slowed down after checking how fast the hardware is.
That way they can ensure it runs just as slowly on a PIII 800 as on a PII 400, and make folk always want to upgrade to the newest, fastest version... or perhaps I am a cynic.
It's a developer edition - perhaps they want folk to develop apps that run comfortably in 32MB, then when they release a production version with 64MB or even 128MB multiple tasks from multiple developers should be able to run side by side without memory problems.
Just my 2p worth.
Is it just me, or has no-one mentioned http://www.google.com/linux
It can be useful to add linux to all your searches automagically, and you do get a groovy tux in the google logo to boot.
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The article reads to me like analyists out looking for new business. Maybe every major user of MS server software is already employing a security consultant so there's litttle market potential for growth. So the company grab some stats to make it look like there's an explosion in attacks on linux, show the stats to managers, not the IT department, and then get a nice consultancy fee to come in and tell IT that they should run red-carpet every day to check for upgrades.
I'm 110% sure it's saved more files when I've lost power or when something's hung requiring a hard reset than it'd deleted due to hash clashes. What's the likelihood of two files generating the same hash? You talk of increasing likeliness, but don't mention any figures. It's hard to judge without some stats.
As an aside, why didn't you restore your large project from your backup? What do you mean you didn't have...
How big can you make a laptop and still call it a laptop - surely anything with a 16.1" screen is going to be a pain to lug around?
Me? I'm quite happy with my tiny picturebook, and a clie for when even that's too big. If I want a big screen I'll sit at my desk, or my bedroom, or in my living room and use a proper computer - one that can also be upgraded on a whim and at a reasonable cost, rather than a huge brick that in 24 months time will be a huge slow brick with no upgrade options.
Why should I cycle a three and a half year old PII 300 which runs WinNT and Office 2k happily. The user types letters and messes with spreadsheets, they're not making your latest holywood blockbuster. The machine was fine when we bought it and is still fine today. My laptop is a year and a bit old, and I sure hope it has more than another ten months life left in it. What am I going to be doing in ten months that a PIII 700 won't be up to? We shouldn't be forced into any unnecessary upgrades, and by refusing to play the game they want us to we can keep balance sheets looking healthier. After all IT Departments only exist to make the company or organisation perform better. Unless there's an operational reason for an upgrade, surely there's no reason to upgrade.
That is why your cellphone has an "off" button.
- We don't pay for incoming calls. The result is the calling party pays the bill - and calling cell phones during the day can be expensive - circa 30p (40c)
/min. - We have a regulated scheme by which you can opt out of all telemarketing calls - the telephone preference service Click to sign up now. Companies calling numbers listed on the TPS face a 2000 GBP fine.
So you have two things to pursue. Campaign for the calling party to pay the cost of their call, and campaign for the government to legislate to make one country wide telemarketing opt-out list with fines for companies that ignore your request. Sadly I don't see either happening in the US any time soon.Did they - and if they didn't, why didn't they - demonstrate to the court the absurdity of what they are asking. Simply pick half a dozen or so government sites and show how, within five or so links they too link to the pages the court wishes to censor. Even better if they can show such links from the court service's web site.
Would a Slashdot style system of user moderation of shared files be a solution? Perhaps public and private keys to sign files as your online handle. Well known names would sson spring up and their signature could be used to verify the quality of the shared file before downloading. Of course there are many reasons people wouldn't want to sign files they might be sharing or have downloaded...
well, perhaps. As you say faults will turn up in other software, but two points. 1. IE is an integral part of windows. As we all know, you can't uninstall it. 2. With an open source browser you don't have to wait for Microsoft to decide when and indeed if a browser upgrade is necessary.
As we all know, the great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from.
I can see commercial interests taking priority over those of the internet at large. Could there also be in increase in complacency amongst users to not use appropriate system security or anti-virus measures if they think there's a "control centre" waiting to bail them out from any misfortune they experience as a result of their own failures?
The idea seems attractive, I'm just unsure about the other implications.
Nope, you're wrong. Microsoft do make a loss on every xbox, but that doesn't hold true for other manufacturers - even at product launch. You should read Monday Morning CEO If you haven't already for a detailed breakdown on how the economics of selling games consoles works.
We've had a few problems earlier with interoperability, but our more recent wireless network hasn't encountered any problems. Isn't this the whole point of the Wi-Fi standard - everything bearing the Wi-Fi logo should be interoperable. As you say though, the 10mbit bandwidth is often sufficient - after all, in the majority of implimentations, it's to allow access to the office network, and at least around here (Scotland) there aren't many offices with internet connections running at more than 1 or 2 mbits.
putting your money where your mouth is?
We were looking to deploy an avant go channel about six weeks ago, when this cropped up as an issue. I don't believe for a moment that we cuold raise advertising revenue to cover the expenditure, and we're not likely to be able to charge folk for content which they're used to getting for free. The costs that avant go want are from another planet. For us to support 1,000 users we'd be paying twice as much to avant go as we do annualy to our hosting firm for co-location and 10 gig of data a month. There is now a real need for a solution that will allow both PalmOS and Pocket PC users to use the same software to synchronise web pages for offline viewing. It's beyond my ability, but I hope someone in the free software community will take this need on board and provide a way for those of us that want to give information away, and for the users that want free [as in beer] information to download their daily fix.
Hasn't it been well established that that hardware detection bit at the start of the WinNT startup is where Microsoft Determine how much the OS should be slowed down after checking how fast the hardware is.
That way they can ensure it runs just as slowly on a PIII 800 as on a PII 400, and make folk always want to upgrade to the newest, fastest version... or perhaps I am a cynic.
It's a developer edition - perhaps they want folk to develop apps that run comfortably in 32MB, then when they release a production version with 64MB or even 128MB multiple tasks from multiple developers should be able to run side by side without memory problems. Just my 2p worth.
Is it just me, or has no-one mentioned http://www.google.com/linux It can be useful to add linux to all your searches automagically, and you do get a groovy tux in the google logo to boot.
They'll never be as comfortable as a lilo