Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Wasting time, sure. But at least it's income. He's blaming other people for his problems, but there are many people in this world who would love to have a job at McDonalds, here in the land of opportunity. You can be short-sighted like this guy, or take what you have and make the best of it.
In short, life isn't fair. Blaming it on other people just isn't going to help.
To add to that, anyone could find a job if they really wanted to. It's just that too many Americans are too goddamn lazy to work jobs they don't like. If you're unemployed, I don't think you have a choice, now do you? McDonalds is always hiring. Sell magazines. Mow lawns. Clean toilets. Oh, but you don't like flipping burgers? Well too damn bad, quit whining about it on your blog and complaining about how GW Bush and "da man" is keepin' you down.
It all comes together in the last section: it's just another useless rant from another neo-communist who just wants a handout. This sap should be grateful that he, unlike others, still has a roof over his head.
Well, aside from your comment indicating you to be a total jackass, there is actually a good reason behind the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence in NT. It's a security feature.
"The CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination in NT disables user mode programs so a trojan program cannot intercept the user's name and password during the logon process. No user mode programs can be run until a valid logon has occurred. This is called restricted user mode. The CTRL-ALT-DEL key sequence indicates that there is a physically connected keyboard that the keystrokes are coming from. During the logon process, the Winlogon service passes the user's point of authentication, name, and password to the client/server (CSR) subsystem. The CSR passes the information to the security reference monitor which checks the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database against the received information to see if the user is authentic. If so, a valid access token is generated and returned back down the line to the processes that sent the information."
This is the same advice *nix people give eachother: turn off any services you don't intend to actually use
This is why a lot of Linux machines get rooted... they are running every service under the sun without a need for it. wu-ftpd comes to mind... although I don't think it's used very often anymore.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
A former boss of mine had a serious case of #12. He would babble incessantly each day to me about how much Microsoft sucked, Linux is better, blah blah, yet had an incredible difficulty using Office (i.e. Word for simple documents and Outlook for office mail). He always blamed his incompetence on "that stupid Microsoft crap." Yet he would speak every day of the wonders of using vi, and how the office would be so much better "if we all used elm."
That's a false statement. I guess you haven't heard about the concept of NTFS file permissions, which have been around since, oh, 1993.
Again, this isn't the case under MS Windows where a virus can wipe out the data for ALL users AND destroy the OS.
Again, another false statement. Why do you, obviously good with Linux, automatically assume you know everything about Windows when it's pretty obvious you haven't a clue?
Windows is just as secure as Linux, as the reverse is true -- it all depends on who is securing the machine. (Do a chmod -R 777/home and your whole security system has just gone down the tubes.)
If you run a malicious attachment, it will be pretty much harmless to the machine. It may be able to wipe out your home directory, but that is about it.
That is the *biggest* crock of shit ever, but I hear it time and time again on Slashdot./home is the most valuable part of the system! You can re-install Linux in under an hour, and recover/usr,/var, and pretty much everything else (with a slight exception of changed to/etc, but that's not important). If you lose/home, you are, simply put, FUCKED. Big time. Try reconstructing that data in under an hour. You can't. If you could back up *anything* on your system (assuming you had a choice), that choice should be/home.
Why on earth would would you care if your applications got borked? It's the data that's important.
If this spills over to other service industries, we'll be paying a 'fat guy sued us' tax on our McDonalds BigMac Meals... This has got to stop... it's one thing if the overall price for a service/product goes up to cover their costs, it's totally messed when they spell it out for you on a bill...
Really? Well do you realize that every time you go to McDonalds they ask you "Is this eat-in or to go?" Know why? If you say "eat-in," they add a "tax" of $0.25 or so for the privlege of eating in their establishment. Sure nothing stops you from taking your cheeseburgers (in a paper bag) over to a table and eat, but you don't get a tray.
I feel pretty damn safe under Linux, how do you feel worrying about when the next worm will take over your entire machine?
Gee, since I've never been infected by a virus or worm, and I've been using Windows since forever (both client and server side), I don't feel I have that much to worry about. Since I'm pretty confident I know how to use a computer and all its associated software properly, I don't think that Linux is that "magic snake oil" that will solve all my problems.
Because the only people who are susceptible to this worm are stupid people... none of which are candidates for another OS as they shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.
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Not just that but part of the OS kernel is written in assembly.
Python prevents buffer overrun exploits, too. Let's start writing everything in Python now that we're at it...
Maybe he should re-write the Solaris kernel in Jav--- oh wait you can't.
Java doesn't have the speed to do many things efficiently.
I guess that's why Sun makes those multi-processor sparcs... so you can run their ideal Java utopia on your desktop, right?
Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Yeah, whatever...>eyeroll
No they're different. They look similar (little i icon thingee, text message in verdana font) but the actual text is different.
"This page cannot be displayed" as opposed to "This page cannot be found" with "HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Explorer " at the bottom.
I believe it has to be running as a service.
Wasting time, sure. But at least it's income. He's blaming other people for his problems, but there are many people in this world who would love to have a job at McDonalds, here in the land of opportunity. You can be short-sighted like this guy, or take what you have and make the best of it.
In short, life isn't fair. Blaming it on other people just isn't going to help.
To add to that, anyone could find a job if they really wanted to. It's just that too many Americans are too goddamn lazy to work jobs they don't like. If you're unemployed, I don't think you have a choice, now do you? McDonalds is always hiring. Sell magazines. Mow lawns. Clean toilets. Oh, but you don't like flipping burgers? Well too damn bad, quit whining about it on your blog and complaining about how GW Bush and "da man" is keepin' you down.
It all comes together in the last section: it's just another useless rant from another neo-communist who just wants a handout. This sap should be grateful that he, unlike others, still has a roof over his head.
Oh yeah, the sound of Theo de Raadt crapping his pants.
Don't forget Linux's Magic SysRq Key!
Well, aside from your comment indicating you to be a total jackass, there is actually a good reason behind the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence in NT. It's a security feature.
"The CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination in NT disables user mode programs so a trojan program cannot intercept the user's name and password during the logon process. No user mode programs can be run until a valid logon has occurred. This is called restricted user mode. The CTRL-ALT-DEL key sequence indicates that there is a physically connected keyboard that the keystrokes are coming from. During the logon process, the Winlogon service passes the user's point of authentication, name, and password to the client/server (CSR) subsystem. The CSR passes the information to the security reference monitor which checks the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database against the received information to see if the user is authentic. If so, a valid access token is generated and returned back down the line to the processes that sent the information."
Read more here.
Ahh yes, alt-shift-shift-esc, brings up the Novell debugger. Only use this as a LAST resort, cause it doesn't cleanly unmount the disk volumes!
This is the same advice *nix people give eachother: turn off any services you don't intend to actually use
This is why a lot of Linux machines get rooted... they are running every service under the sun without a need for it. wu-ftpd comes to mind... although I don't think it's used very often anymore.
Any admin who checked the lsh mailing list in the morning would have seen the error and the fix, and been well ahead of the exploit.
Don't you mean "the admin," or is there really more than one person using lsh?
No. See this screenshot. It sandboxes the file and doesn't let you access it.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
A former boss of mine had a serious case of #12. He would babble incessantly each day to me about how much Microsoft sucked, Linux is better, blah blah, yet had an incredible difficulty using Office (i.e. Word for simple documents and Outlook for office mail). He always blamed his incompetence on "that stupid Microsoft crap." Yet he would speak every day of the wonders of using vi, and how the office would be so much better "if we all used elm."
Seriously.
If you're thinking of the RPC bug, he obviously didn't install it correctly.
Just
1) pull the ethernet cable
2) enable XP's built-in firewall
3) download patch
4) stir well and enjoy!
This is not the situation under MS Windows.
/home and your whole security system has just gone down the tubes.)
That's a false statement. I guess you haven't heard about the concept of NTFS file permissions, which have been around since, oh, 1993.
Again, this isn't the case under MS Windows where a virus can wipe out the data for ALL users AND destroy the OS.
Again, another false statement. Why do you, obviously good with Linux, automatically assume you know everything about Windows when it's pretty obvious you haven't a clue?
Windows is just as secure as Linux, as the reverse is true -- it all depends on who is securing the machine. (Do a chmod -R 777
If you run a malicious attachment, it will be pretty much harmless to the machine. It may be able to wipe out your home directory, but that is about it.
/home is the most valuable part of the system! You can re-install Linux in under an hour, and recover /usr, /var, and pretty much everything else (with a slight exception of changed to /etc, but that's not important). If you lose /home, you are, simply put, FUCKED. Big time. Try reconstructing that data in under an hour. You can't. If you could back up *anything* on your system (assuming you had a choice), that choice should be /home.
That is the *biggest* crock of shit ever, but I hear it time and time again on Slashdot.
Why on earth would would you care if your applications got borked? It's the data that's important.
Actually the latest Outlook doesn't even allow you to save an .exe unless you turn the filtering off (setting in the registry).
If this spills over to other service industries, we'll be paying a 'fat guy sued us' tax on our McDonalds BigMac Meals... This has got to stop... it's one thing if the overall price for a service/product goes up to cover their costs, it's totally messed when they spell it out for you on a bill...
;)
Really? Well do you realize that every time you go to McDonalds they ask you "Is this eat-in or to go?" Know why? If you say "eat-in," they add a "tax" of $0.25 or so for the privlege of eating in their establishment. Sure nothing stops you from taking your cheeseburgers (in a paper bag) over to a table and eat, but you don't get a tray.
So remember, from now on, it's always "to-go"
Please don't get me started....
I feel pretty damn safe under Linux, how do you feel worrying about when the next worm will take over your entire machine?
Gee, since I've never been infected by a virus or worm, and I've been using Windows since forever (both client and server side), I don't feel I have that much to worry about. Since I'm pretty confident I know how to use a computer and all its associated software properly, I don't think that Linux is that "magic snake oil" that will solve all my problems.
BTW, I don't use Zone Alarm.
Because the only people who are susceptible to this worm are stupid people... none of which are candidates for another OS as they shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.