...was to send an expedition to build a bridge between the two peaks...
[Obscure Python Referenced Linked Here] http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode09.htm#3
OK, so I gotta rant a little on this one (skip this if you're not easily amused):
So, Mr. Claiborne needed to be the absolute leader and when the group didn't agree with his philosophies, he took his ball and went home? Practical applications of Linux even by the government should be considered a victory.
Maybe he'll come down out of the ideological fog and come to realize that a user group for an esoteric operating system that relatively few really understand has little or no effect regarding change to the socio-political structure of the known universe.
Reality check: It's an OS not a radical discovery in quantum physics that releases the power of the atom. Even if Linux is, in fact, some sort of life-altering milestone in the evolution of mankind, save the arrogant Captain Nemo vigilante mystique for something more important than an OS, dude. Remember: computers don't kill people--users do.
(well, unless you count that unfortunate incident with HAL and that poor bastard who found the capacitor after opening his Mac Classic).
Hey, I hear that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are looking for a new fan club president...
Of course, this doesn't happen on the Mac because it lacks the density to spread like a Windows virus. If Macs were as ubiquitous as the IBM boxes, then a virus would be a problem. Without a reliable automated vector of infection, most Macs are few and far between enough to be isolated from infecting others (beyond their immediate vicinity).
So, to anwer the theoretical issue of the Trojan concept, yes, it is possible to circumvent any security barriers on the Mac and MacOS X, but theory does not always support practice.
It does, however, mean that the "concept" can be used for specific purposes by attackers much like "root kits" and other sploits are used against *nix and Windows hosts.
One advantage we have that the Windows community does not have is insight; we can do something now by learning from their mistakes and deploying appropriate measures to avoid repeating history.
This particular exploit, however, seems to rely upon the need for a resource fork to be preserved. The resource fork is becoming an endangered species on the Mac as it is usually stripped during a download via HTTP, etc. Unless the file is packaged in ways that specifically preserves this fork, this method of infection is unlikely to be found in the wild. However, you can bet there's somebody out there trying to figure out how to deliver his payload. Unfortunately, the bad guys usually figure it out before we do and security becomes reactionary rather proactive. C'est la guerre.
Why is this news? People have been predicting the demise of Apple for more then 10 years now.
I think Apple's business strategies are working--they have no debt and cash in the bank. Every other tech company copies what they do. So--what excactly is it that they're doing wrong?
I'm amazed that he can relax. I mean, after all the porn, viagra, levitra, botox, talking on new cell phones, re-financing, and helping Nigerians launder money into the US, that he has any free time to read e-mail.
My former.EDU employer switched to PeopleSoft a couple of years ago. It wasn't pretty. In fact, that's largely the reason I left.
Too bad Oracle can't buy them out and fix it like they've done for others.
Be sure to repair permissions or do any other disk maintenance voodoo that makes you feel best BEFORE applying this (or any other patches) from Apple. I'm pretty sure that's the official line from Apple regarding updates. If it isn't, it should be.
Immediately after applying the updates, I, and several other at MacFixit.com, reported kernel panics when changing locations on powerbooks.
This was fixed by repairing permissions with Disk Utility.
The problem was only with 10.3.2 not under 10.2.x.
Your mileage may vary. Caveat emptor!
we tried to implement this very method. it had very good results in drastically reducing the spam levels we were getting. Unfortunately, it also excluded small business and.orgs who didn't have their mail servers entered correctly if at all in the DNS. Although the "unclean" but legit mail servers were only about 2-3% of the total incoming mail, it was still enough "false positives" to make us have to open up the fort again.:(
until everyone jumps on the bandwagon of MX registration, this method won't work. Required SMTP auth would be nice--at least it would be a bit more traceable. As long as 1/10th of 1% of spammers reply to spam msgs, then those damn spammers will think it's profitable.
spammers die!
my namesake!
spam assassin on our mail servers helps bunches. x-headers that we add are so easy to filter. gets about 99% of the spam.
your milage may vary.
dude...I think Linux fanatics are even worse than Apple fanatics. You yourself poo-poo'd Apple 'zealotry' and went all out geek with a "GOOOOOO LINUXXXX..." tag.
I'm just sayin'...pot. kettle. black.
When linux survives the SCO FUD storm, you'll earn your bragging rights. Right now, you're in the "beleagured" category with Apple. So play nice;) Any positive news about Apple's finances are good. Any good legal news about SCO v IBM is also good. We all know the deal, but non-techs and corporate brass don't. Spin, dude. Spin.
Remember, as long as M$ doesn't win, the rest of us do.
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Legally unencumbered = we won't sue you if you pay us!
SCO: Let us build a solution for you or we'll sue you for using someone else.
Wow. Back in the day, we used to call that extortion. Now they call it "intellectual property." Nice to see that "the family" has moved away from old school "protection" to the high tech world. *cue theme to The Godfather*
Actually, I used fixed space fonts like courier to pad my papers in college. Times New Roman 14 will probably be just slightly smaller than the mono-space Courier New 12.
Try it in a Word document. I filled a page with Time's New Roman 14 and converted it to Courier New 12. Courier takes up slightly more space (adding 6 lines).
I support a whole campus full of PC and Mac Office users.
I disagree that the Mac version is better. My PC users don't complain much about some of the bugs we find in the Mac version. I find that there most common complaint is "unexpectedly quit" issues with office even with all the patches.
I find that Mac users are pretty happy with months of uptime but Windows 2K through XP seem pretty stable with a good patch and antivirus regimen. YMMV. Stability is an issue on any system that doesn't get checkups and patches. Windows is definitely high maintenance in comparison.
Linux is still far from "user-friendly" as a desktop solution. Stable or not, it's still has a huge "geek factor" to bridge before you can just give it to a user without your phone and pager going off every 5 minutes. Talk about high maintenance.
It seems that many of Disney's scripts are stolen or cleverly plagerized. They're legal team is a swampy moat around their castle to keep out any who might say otherwise. The entertainment they "Disney-fy" is way below the quality one would expect.
I wonder where I've seen that business model before?
Well, there's the cost of overtime for non-salaried computer monkeys that go from node to node patching and cleaning. There's the cost of downtime for the users who can't do anything because they're computer's hosed. There's the cost of replacing another system admin who's gone bonkers trying unf**k the Exchange server. You have to hire a new system admin but your budget is too small to hire someone with experience and to listen to his/her recommendations for replacing your aging beige equipment on the desktop and the rack. So, you hire a green and eager fresh MIS graduate from the local community college because he never thought he'd ever make over $25K so $33 is a fortune. So that costs you an extra $8K because you made the offer too soon in the interview.
Let's see...you review your EULA with Microsoft and you realize that you're stuck for another bundle of cash for the patches & service of your friggin' NT 4 server/workstations you still have to upgrade. Meanwhile, 3 of your 4 part time computer monkeys just got jobs down the street working for a Linux-based ISP. The fourth commits suicide after fighting with a blue screen of death caused by the dated version of McAfee you forgot to upgrade.
I work at a University. I had this professor call me into his office and he starts into me about being 7th on the list when he searched his name on Google.
He was genuinely pissed when I told him that I couldn't change that. He picked up the phone and raised his voice, "Who do I have to call to fix this!"
I told him to call Google. Still that wasn't good enough. I told him I'd come back at a better time.
I noticed that the first link was a dead link to one of his web old web pages. I hacked it with a refresh to his website. He was so happy that I fixed the problem and made him number one again.
I'm going to put a bumper sticker on his car that says, "Only you can prevent narcissism."
Business people don't give a crap about ethics, courtesy, privacy, or harassment. They do care an aweful lot about one thing: money.
I say that we organize boycotts for any website, advertiser, and products that use this method. The purpose of adverstising is to promote your product/service. If it's not returning an investment, they'll back off.
Hurt their bottom line by organizing counter-ad campaigns and complaint sheets. They'll hear you when the money stops chinking in their coffers.
There's no metrics for how these languages perform on various platforms. I think that would be more interesting. Of course, not all languages run on all platforms...maybe that's a disadvantage to certain languages.
I don't much care for the Redmond enclave myself, but this article was so blatenly biased--or outright hate mongering against Microsoft, I doubt that any reader not already embracing this attitude would take it seriously much less finish reading it.
The "article" assumes that the reader already loathes Microsoft and its acrid tone is less than professional. I also found that the writer's bold statements of linux victories had no authoritative citations or quotations. Basically, it sounded like some techno-elitist Linux zealot ranting rather than an open-minded, non-biased, and fair analysis of the situation.
Kudos to the writer's crusade for "trustworthy computing" and quality control. Shame on him for his poor forensics and inarticulate rantings.
You find what you're looking for in the not-so-exact science of punditry. In fanaticism, you lose sight of reality altogether. Caveat emptor.
[I do admit, however, that it was fun to live vicariously through his utter despising of MS for a moment or two--I played the Monkey Boy Dance video for a good laugh].
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An army of packet sniffers from around the world. Hmmmm. Hope these super powers stay in the hands of do-gooders...
...was to send an expedition to build a bridge between the two peaks... [Obscure Python Referenced Linked Here] http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode09.htm#3
OK, so I gotta rant a little on this one (skip this if you're not easily amused):
So, Mr. Claiborne needed to be the absolute leader and when the group didn't agree with his philosophies, he took his ball and went home? Practical applications of Linux even by the government should be considered a victory.
Maybe he'll come down out of the ideological fog and come to realize that a user group for an esoteric operating system that relatively few really understand has little or no effect regarding change to the socio-political structure of the known universe.
Reality check: It's an OS not a radical discovery in quantum physics that releases the power of the atom. Even if Linux is, in fact, some sort of life-altering milestone in the evolution of mankind, save the arrogant Captain Nemo vigilante mystique for something more important than an OS, dude. Remember: computers don't kill people--users do. (well, unless you count that unfortunate incident with HAL and that poor bastard who found the capacitor after opening his Mac Classic).
Hey, I hear that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are looking for a new fan club president...
Of course, this doesn't happen on the Mac because it lacks the density to spread like a Windows virus. If Macs were as ubiquitous as the IBM boxes, then a virus would be a problem. Without a reliable automated vector of infection, most Macs are few and far between enough to be isolated from infecting others (beyond their immediate vicinity).
So, to anwer the theoretical issue of the Trojan concept, yes, it is possible to circumvent any security barriers on the Mac and MacOS X, but theory does not always support practice.
It does, however, mean that the "concept" can be used for specific purposes by attackers much like "root kits" and other sploits are used against *nix and Windows hosts.
One advantage we have that the Windows community does not have is insight; we can do something now by learning from their mistakes and deploying appropriate measures to avoid repeating history.
This particular exploit, however, seems to rely upon the need for a resource fork to be preserved. The resource fork is becoming an endangered species on the Mac as it is usually stripped during a download via HTTP, etc. Unless the file is packaged in ways that specifically preserves this fork, this method of infection is unlikely to be found in the wild. However, you can bet there's somebody out there trying to figure out how to deliver his payload. Unfortunately, the bad guys usually figure it out before we do and security becomes reactionary rather proactive. C'est la guerre.
Why is this news? People have been predicting the demise of Apple for more then 10 years now.
I think Apple's business strategies are working--they have no debt and cash in the bank. Every other tech company copies what they do. So--what excactly is it that they're doing wrong?
I'm amazed that he can relax. I mean, after all the porn, viagra, levitra, botox, talking on new cell phones, re-financing, and helping Nigerians launder money into the US, that he has any free time to read e-mail.
My former .EDU employer switched to PeopleSoft a couple of years ago. It wasn't pretty. In fact, that's largely the reason I left.
Too bad Oracle can't buy them out and fix it like they've done for others.
Be sure to repair permissions or do any other disk maintenance voodoo that makes you feel best BEFORE applying this (or any other patches) from Apple. I'm pretty sure that's the official line from Apple regarding updates. If it isn't, it should be.
Immediately after applying the updates, I, and several other at MacFixit.com, reported kernel panics when changing locations on powerbooks. This was fixed by repairing permissions with Disk Utility. The problem was only with 10.3.2 not under 10.2.x. Your mileage may vary. Caveat emptor!
we tried to implement this very method. it had very good results in drastically reducing the spam levels we were getting. Unfortunately, it also excluded small business and .orgs who didn't have their mail servers entered correctly if at all in the DNS. Although the "unclean" but legit mail servers were only about 2-3% of the total incoming mail, it was still enough "false positives" to make us have to open up the fort again. :(
until everyone jumps on the bandwagon of MX registration, this method won't work. Required SMTP auth would be nice--at least it would be a bit more traceable. As long as 1/10th of 1% of spammers reply to spam msgs, then those damn spammers will think it's profitable. spammers die!
my namesake! spam assassin on our mail servers helps bunches. x-headers that we add are so easy to filter. gets about 99% of the spam. your milage may vary.
dude...I think Linux fanatics are even worse than Apple fanatics. You yourself poo-poo'd Apple 'zealotry' and went all out geek with a "GOOOOOO LINUXXXX..." tag.
;) Any positive news about Apple's finances are good. Any good legal news about SCO v IBM is also good. We all know the deal, but non-techs and corporate brass don't. Spin, dude. Spin.
I'm just sayin'...pot. kettle. black.
When linux survives the SCO FUD storm, you'll earn your bragging rights. Right now, you're in the "beleagured" category with Apple. So play nice
Remember, as long as M$ doesn't win, the rest of us do.
Dude...bitter mode:off
Legally unencumbered = we won't sue you if you pay us!
SCO: Let us build a solution for you or we'll sue you for using someone else.
Wow. Back in the day, we used to call that extortion. Now they call it "intellectual property." Nice to see that "the family" has moved away from old school "protection" to the high tech world. *cue theme to The Godfather*
So, if you're a computer geek and your name is "Andy" please don't be surprised when the FBI shows up to ask you some questions.
[I'm going out on a limb here to bet that "Andy" is short for "Andrea" ]
Seriously, though...why would h/she apologize? Kinda strange. "doing my job" --raising NAI stock I suppose? he he
Actually, I used fixed space fonts like courier to pad my papers in college. Times New Roman 14 will probably be just slightly smaller than the mono-space Courier New 12.
Try it in a Word document. I filled a page with Time's New Roman 14 and converted it to Courier New 12. Courier takes up slightly more space (adding 6 lines).
I support a whole campus full of PC and Mac Office users. I disagree that the Mac version is better. My PC users don't complain much about some of the bugs we find in the Mac version. I find that there most common complaint is "unexpectedly quit" issues with office even with all the patches.
I find that Mac users are pretty happy with months of uptime but Windows 2K through XP seem pretty stable with a good patch and antivirus regimen. YMMV. Stability is an issue on any system that doesn't get checkups and patches. Windows is definitely high maintenance in comparison.
Linux is still far from "user-friendly" as a desktop solution. Stable or not, it's still has a huge "geek factor" to bridge before you can just give it to a user without your phone and pager going off every 5 minutes. Talk about high maintenance.
It seems that many of Disney's scripts are stolen or cleverly plagerized. They're legal team is a swampy moat around their castle to keep out any who might say otherwise. The entertainment they "Disney-fy" is way below the quality one would expect.
I wonder where I've seen that business model before?
well, no they didn't because it was a hellish future and Trinity actually had to hack into one of them. (Grin) [smug Mac bigot mode=off]
Well, there's the cost of overtime for non-salaried computer monkeys that go from node to node patching and cleaning. There's the cost of downtime for the users who can't do anything because they're computer's hosed. There's the cost of replacing another system admin who's gone bonkers trying unf**k the Exchange server. You have to hire a new system admin but your budget is too small to hire someone with experience and to listen to his/her recommendations for replacing your aging beige equipment on the desktop and the rack. So, you hire a green and eager fresh MIS graduate from the local community college because he never thought he'd ever make over $25K so $33 is a fortune. So that costs you an extra $8K because you made the offer too soon in the interview.
Let's see...you review your EULA with Microsoft and you realize that you're stuck for another bundle of cash for the patches & service of your friggin' NT 4 server/workstations you still have to upgrade. Meanwhile, 3 of your 4 part time computer monkeys just got jobs down the street working for a Linux-based ISP. The fourth commits suicide after fighting with a blue screen of death caused by the dated version of McAfee you forgot to upgrade.
I'd say the costs are rising. he he he
I work at a University. I had this professor call me into his office and he starts into me about being 7th on the list when he searched his name on Google.
He was genuinely pissed when I told him that I couldn't change that. He picked up the phone and raised his voice, "Who do I have to call to fix this!"
I told him to call Google. Still that wasn't good enough. I told him I'd come back at a better time.
I noticed that the first link was a dead link to one of his web old web pages. I hacked it with a refresh to his website. He was so happy that I fixed the problem and made him number one again. I'm going to put a bumper sticker on his car that says, "Only you can prevent narcissism."
Business people don't give a crap about ethics, courtesy, privacy, or harassment. They do care an aweful lot about one thing: money.
I say that we organize boycotts for any website, advertiser, and products that use this method. The purpose of adverstising is to promote your product/service. If it's not returning an investment, they'll back off.
Hurt their bottom line by organizing counter-ad campaigns and complaint sheets. They'll hear you when the money stops chinking in their coffers.
dude...are you licensed by SCO to do that on linux!?
RUN, FOREST, RUN!
There's no metrics for how these languages perform on various platforms. I think that would be more interesting. Of course, not all languages run on all platforms...maybe that's a disadvantage to certain languages.
oh, yeah....you can find an archived copy of the monkey boy dance video here. [Quicktime Movie]. enjoy.
I don't much care for the Redmond enclave myself, but this article was so blatenly biased--or outright hate mongering against Microsoft, I doubt that any reader not already embracing this attitude would take it seriously much less finish reading it.
The "article" assumes that the reader already loathes Microsoft and its acrid tone is less than professional. I also found that the writer's bold statements of linux victories had no authoritative citations or quotations. Basically, it sounded like some techno-elitist Linux zealot ranting rather than an open-minded, non-biased, and fair analysis of the situation.
Kudos to the writer's crusade for "trustworthy computing" and quality control. Shame on him for his poor forensics and inarticulate rantings.
You find what you're looking for in the not-so-exact science of punditry. In fanaticism, you lose sight of reality altogether. Caveat emptor.
[I do admit, however, that it was fun to live vicariously through his utter despising of MS for a moment or two--I played the Monkey Boy Dance video for a good laugh].