Microsoft's ecosystem of local companies have to stay in business. So every now and then, they are screwing things up badly, in such a way that those "partners" can fix that... for the right price.
Apple could buy that Israelian company; problem solved. They have the money to do that. But I don't believe the iPhone was opened at all. It is just a statement to diverse the attention away from the FBI.
ACK. I couldn't care less about the differences in speed between brand X, model A and brand Y, model B. As long as it is fast enough, it will be my friend.
Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software which runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of popular OSes are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. Qubes is free and open-source software (FOSS). This means that everyone is free to use, copy, and change the software in any way. It also means that the source code is openly available so others can contribute to and audit it.
Why is OS security important?
Most people use an operating system like Windows or OS X on their desktop and laptop computers. These OSes are popular because they tend to be easy to use and usually come pre-installed on the computers people buy. However, they present problems when it comes to security. For example, you might open an innocent-looking email attachment or website, not realizing that you’re actually allowing malware (malicious software) to run on your computer. Depending on what kind of malware it is, it might do anything from showing you unwanted advertisements to logging your keystrokes to taking over your entire computer. This could jeopardize all the information stored on or accessed by this computer, such as health records, confidential communications, or thoughts written in a private journal. Malware can also interfere with the activities you perform with your computer. For example, if you use your computer to conduct financial transactions, the malware might allow its creator to make fraudulent transactions in your name.
Aren’t antivirus programs and firewalls enough?
Unfortunately, conventional security approaches like antivirus programs and (software and/or hardware) firewalls are no longer enough to keep out sophisticated attackers. For example, nowadays it’s common for malware creators to check to see if their malware is recognized by any popular antivirus programs. If it’s recognized, they scramble their code until it’s no longer recognizable by the antivirus programs, then send it out. The best antivirus programs will subsequently get updated once the antivirus programmers discover the new threat, but this usually occurs at least a few days after the new attacks start to appear in the wild. By then, it’s typically too late for those who have already been compromised. In addition, bugs are inevitably discovered in the common software we all use (such as our web browsers), and no antivirus program or firewall can prevent all of these bugs from being exploited.
How does Qubes OS provide security?
Qubes takes an approach called security by compartmentalization, which allows you to compartmentalize the various parts of your digital life into securely isolated virtual machines (VMs). A VM is basically a simulated computer with its own OS which runs as software on your physical computer. You can think of a VM as a computer within a computer.
This approach allows you to keep the different things you do on your computer securely separated from each other in isolated VMs so that one VM getting compromised won’t affect the others. For example, you might have one VM for visiting untrusted websites and a different VM for doing online banking. This way, if your untrusted browsing VM gets compromised by a malware-laden website, your online banking activities won’t be at risk. Similarly, if you’re concerned about malicious email attachments, Qubes can make it so that every attachment gets opened in its own single-use, “disposable” VM. In this way, Qubes allows you to do everything on the same physical computer without having to worry about a single successful cyberattack taking down your entire digital life in one fell swoop.
Windows 10 will be broken by design somehow. We just don't know what yet. But they will never get it right. Ever. Some proof: I tried "ls -l" this morning, and it did NOT work. There you have it!
Nobody cares about specs when it comes to iPhones, certainly not the speed of the CPU. They don't matter, trust me, they don't. Buying and owning an any iPhone is an emotional decision, not a rational one.
Yes. I have them all.
While we are at it, why don't we get rid of leap year correction at all?
Why do we still have leap year correction? I mean, 1 day every 4 years means a month every 120 years means a season shift every 360 years. People won't notice it during their 'normal' lifespan (apart from cryonics). What benefits does the leap year correction itself bring? What unforeseen consequences will occur when the leap year correction isn't applied anymore? Why is it important to have a perfect "seasonal year"/"seasonal calendar"?
From the FAQ: Downloading music via iTunes onto a ZFS target volume does not work yet. iTunes will complain it can't write to the volume. So there seems to be a link between iTunes and HFS+? Sounds like someone needs to do some reverse engineering...
Plz also note the number of features *removed* from Groove 3.x! E.g., I heavily used the 'take Sharepoint sites offline' feature to take documentation with me while working offline but it has vanished from the product. http://blogs.msdn.com/marco/archive/2005/12/02/499 513.aspx will give you more information.
I personally contacted our Microsoft representative and explained him very carefully why I think he sucks/they suck. Taking over Groove and consequently destroying it while integrating it with Office 2007 made me switch to OpenOffice and Groove 3.x. I won't switch back.
Hopefully someone will release a Groove 3.x keygen within the next few days.
I don't want a full blown PC at that remote location that needs an operating system, patch management, virus signatures, adware control, etc., etc., etc... Furthermore, I'm talking about 500+ remote locations, which then all have to be managed somehow, and are unmanaged today.
I don't want a full blown PC at that remote location that needs an operating system, patch management, virus signatures, adware control, etc., etc., etc... Furthermore, I'm talking about 500+ remote locations, which all have to be managed somehow.
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One here. Let's start counting by replying to your post.
Next question please.
JINI!
How to tell?
Microsoft's ecosystem of local companies have to stay in business. So every now and then, they are screwing things up badly, in such a way that those "partners" can fix that... for the right price.
Apple could buy that Israelian company; problem solved. They have the money to do that. But I don't believe the iPhone was opened at all. It is just a statement to diverse the attention away from the FBI.
ACK. I couldn't care less about the differences in speed between brand X, model A and brand Y, model B. As long as it is fast enough, it will be my friend.
In other news: Qubes 3.1 was released today. Get it at https://www.qubes-os.org/
What is Qubes OS?
Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software which runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of popular OSes are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. Qubes is free and open-source software (FOSS). This means that everyone is free to use, copy, and change the software in any way. It also means that the source code is openly available so others can contribute to and audit it.
Why is OS security important?
Most people use an operating system like Windows or OS X on their desktop and laptop computers. These OSes are popular because they tend to be easy to use and usually come pre-installed on the computers people buy. However, they present problems when it comes to security. For example, you might open an innocent-looking email attachment or website, not realizing that you’re actually allowing malware (malicious software) to run on your computer. Depending on what kind of malware it is, it might do anything from showing you unwanted advertisements to logging your keystrokes to taking over your entire computer. This could jeopardize all the information stored on or accessed by this computer, such as health records, confidential communications, or thoughts written in a private journal. Malware can also interfere with the activities you perform with your computer. For example, if you use your computer to conduct financial transactions, the malware might allow its creator to make fraudulent transactions in your name.
Aren’t antivirus programs and firewalls enough?
Unfortunately, conventional security approaches like antivirus programs and (software and/or hardware) firewalls are no longer enough to keep out sophisticated attackers. For example, nowadays it’s common for malware creators to check to see if their malware is recognized by any popular antivirus programs. If it’s recognized, they scramble their code until it’s no longer recognizable by the antivirus programs, then send it out. The best antivirus programs will subsequently get updated once the antivirus programmers discover the new threat, but this usually occurs at least a few days after the new attacks start to appear in the wild. By then, it’s typically too late for those who have already been compromised. In addition, bugs are inevitably discovered in the common software we all use (such as our web browsers), and no antivirus program or firewall can prevent all of these bugs from being exploited.
How does Qubes OS provide security?
Qubes takes an approach called security by compartmentalization, which allows you to compartmentalize the various parts of your digital life into securely isolated virtual machines (VMs). A VM is basically a simulated computer with its own OS which runs as software on your physical computer. You can think of a VM as a computer within a computer.
This approach allows you to keep the different things you do on your computer securely separated from each other in isolated VMs so that one VM getting compromised won’t affect the others. For example, you might have one VM for visiting untrusted websites and a different VM for doing online banking. This way, if your untrusted browsing VM gets compromised by a malware-laden website, your online banking activities won’t be at risk. Similarly, if you’re concerned about malicious email attachments, Qubes can make it so that every attachment gets opened in its own single-use, “disposable” VM. In this way, Qubes allows you to do everything on the same physical computer without having to worry about a single successful cyberattack taking down your entire digital life in one fell swoop.
Tried that but wasn't able to get something useful from "cat /proc/cpuinfo".
Windows 10 will be broken by design somehow. We just don't know what yet. But they will never get it right. Ever. Some proof: I tried "ls -l" this morning, and it did NOT work. There you have it!
Nobody cares about specs when it comes to iPhones, certainly not the speed of the CPU. They don't matter, trust me, they don't. Buying and owning an any iPhone is an emotional decision, not a rational one. Yes. I have them all.
While we are at it, why don't we get rid of leap year correction at all? Why do we still have leap year correction? I mean, 1 day every 4 years means a month every 120 years means a season shift every 360 years. People won't notice it during their 'normal' lifespan (apart from cryonics). What benefits does the leap year correction itself bring? What unforeseen consequences will occur when the leap year correction isn't applied anymore? Why is it important to have a perfect "seasonal year"/"seasonal calendar"?
Dear mr. Jobs,
You already killed Flash for iOS devices. Now it is time to kill PDF as well.
Kinds regards,
MessageDrivenBean.
You forgot "chmod a+x /bin/emacs".
Already /.-ed? Or do I have to use any of the mentioned browsers... :-)
No no, he ment Mandatory Access Control!
From the FAQ: Downloading music via iTunes onto a ZFS target volume does not work yet. iTunes will complain it can't write to the volume. So there seems to be a link between iTunes and HFS+? Sounds like someone needs to do some reverse engineering...
Plz also note the number of features *removed* from Groove 3.x! E.g., I heavily used the 'take Sharepoint sites offline' feature to take documentation with me while working offline but it has vanished from the product. http://blogs.msdn.com/marco/archive/2005/12/02/499 513.aspx will give you more information.
I personally contacted our Microsoft representative and explained him very carefully why I think he sucks/they suck. Taking over Groove and consequently destroying it while integrating it with Office 2007 made me switch to OpenOffice and Groove 3.x. I won't switch back.
Hopefully someone will release a Groove 3.x keygen within the next few days.
Aren't you the people from our local university in Gr.n.ng.n building that giant distributed satelite?
Two 300 dpi photos, probably some color, one is a photograph, the other is a hand-written signature. The ROI is consistant, no OCR.
I don't want a full blown PC at that remote location that needs an operating system, patch management, virus signatures, adware control, etc., etc., etc... Furthermore, I'm talking about 500+ remote locations, which then all have to be managed somehow, and are unmanaged today.
I don't want a full blown PC at that remote location that needs an operating system, patch management, virus signatures, adware control, etc., etc., etc... Furthermore, I'm talking about 500+ remote locations, which all have to be managed somehow.
Yes.
It is qmail, not QMail.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned.
The European Union offers a 148 page migration guide for going from Windows to GNU/Linux. The IDA-project produced this high-quality must-read.
You go now.