I think button 1 does something, button 2 does something else is a lot more intuitive than button one does something if you press it for a short time and something else if you press it for a long time
Pet peeve: the "hold button for context menu" only works in the dock. How inconsitant. Doesn't work in the finder, doesn't work in safari.. doesn't work anywhere but the dock.
accesible? if you're using the provided one button mouse (and i know very few people who do), you just hold down one key, and you get your context menu.
I'm not sure which context the parent poster was using when he said "accessible". When I read it, I thought of accessibility.
Which makes your response hilarious in the context of, say, people with one arm. Just hold down one key with your nose, then use your good hand to click the button, boom your context menu.
By that logic Apache should have more exploits than Microsoft's web server, since Apache has the major market share. Since that's not so, it seems that vulnerability is a bigger factor than market share when it comes to picking targets.
You've misunderstood what the "Apache versus IIS" example represents.
It shows that open source can be secure. Apache is indeed a more attractive target because it does have a larger marketshare. However, attacks are unsuccessful because Apache is more secure than IIS.
This doesn't mean that marketshare is irrelevant. Quite the opposite. It means that good code can withstand the added attention a marketleader attracts.
You cannot make a parallel between Apache and OSX however. Apache is a product that proves a concept is sound; that open source can be secure even when it is a very attractive target. This doesn't mean all open source is secure, and it certainly doesn't mean that OSX won't be targetted more as its marketshare increases. OSX will be targetted more.
Though most of the directly network-exposed stuff seems to be generally open source (well, dunno about Rendevous).
There's an simple rendezvous implementation that's open source called mDNSResponder. This is the library released for linux and darwin.
However, this is not what OSX apps use for rendezvous. They call functions in the core services. The code in the core services is not opensource and probably uses little of the mDNSResponder library.
But even if it did use the mDNSResponder library, just because it's open source doesn't mean it is secure.
At the core of mDNSResponder is a single 318k file called mDNS.c
It is really tough to work on because it is such a huge mess.. and this is the code they released to the public.
OTP will always remain a viable means of private key cryptography
OTP is not viable. The reason is that the pad has to be at least as long as the data you're encrypting. Both parties must have the pad. If you can deliver the pad securely to both parties.. you can deliver the data securely the exact same way.
In other words, the places where OTP would be secure are the exact same places where OTP is redundant.
Indeed, this looks AWESOME, but it's lack of the magical iPod Click Wheel will be the singular feature that kills this product. The click wheel really is the best hardware UI, ever.
If you say so. I hate the click wheel. You cannot operate an ipod one handed.. it's too hard. Give me a thumbwheel anyday.
I would pay the same amount for a linux distro as I do for MS XP pro ($200+/-) if that distro supported ACPI just as well as the MS operating systems.
heh. The ironic thing is that linux supports my ASUS AMD64 motherboard just peachy.. while XP has problems. Suspend is sometimes greyed out, sometimes not, regardless it doesn't work even when it's not greyed out.
It doesn't shutdown or reboot correctly (just hangs on "windows is shutting down...").
It's really crippling being able to run a variety of commercial software including all the latest games.
Not true. I happen to have XP64 installed, and you cannot run all the latest games and commercial software. A lot of software doesn't work. Even firefox refuses to run on XP64 without turning off NX protection.
And Doom3 won't run at all.. there is no way to run Doom3 on XP64.
The general public are stupid and would not even be able to handle that level of security! They'd want to know why their new mouse cursors can't be installed, why their IE search bar needs a password, etc, etc
Good. It's time for the general public to suck it up.
If the general public can handle OSX (and presumably they can), then they can handle this. OSX installers require the admin password.
This is an oldschool virus, it works by appending itself to the end of an.EXE, the Linux "proof-of-concept" viruses worked this same way.
MS actually has some safeguards to prevent this thing, but it could use some minor tweaks to make it even better.
I propose that XP should require you to create a user account by default.
I propose that all software should be distributed as.MSI files instead of.exe installers. (They work the same, double click the.MSI and it runs MS's Installer, but the MSI can't run arbitrary code.. it works like an RPM in this regard).
The installer should prompt for the Admin password and install the.exe so that only admin can write to it.
Any.exe not installed by the MS Installer should be marked as "dirty", and windows should refuse to run it.
This would prevent this type of virus. Coupled with XP64s support for NX, you'd actually have some semblance of security.
For anyone that needs Office. No. (and please don't say OpenOffice is the same)
Did you even read his post? He specificially mentions crossover office. You know... MS Office.
Photoshop also runs just peachy under Wine.
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Hell, you can get a dual-proc G5 or an Xserve and use them as pure unix servers.
I wouldn't recommend it though. Darwin has horrible performance. Especially for unix related tasks like file IO, network IO, pipes, and building and tearing down processes.
There's no comparing Linux versus OSX when it comes to the server space. On the exact same hardware, linux outperforms OSX.
As far as I'm concerned, OSX's "power of unix" is no different than installing Cygwin on WinXP.
One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
I'm going to be a git and spoil this one
I hate that urban legend, whenever I hear it I point out the corrolary. Kia sells fairly well here in the states, even though KIA means Killed In Action.
People aren't stupid. This urban legend implies that spanish speakers are so stupid that they confuse a warning "doesn't go!" with a name.
The guy is missing something. They're trying so hard to beat softice.. but they forget that pros don't need to use breakpoints, thus they don't need to actually run the app to disassemble it.
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I think button 1 does something, button 2 does something else is a lot more intuitive than button one does something if you press it for a short time and something else if you press it for a long time
Pet peeve: the "hold button for context menu" only works in the dock. How inconsitant. Doesn't work in the finder, doesn't work in safari.. doesn't work anywhere but the dock.
accesible? if you're using the provided one button mouse (and i know very few people who do), you just hold down one key, and you get your context menu.
I'm not sure which context the parent poster was using when he said "accessible". When I read it, I thought of accessibility.
Which makes your response hilarious in the context of, say, people with one arm. Just hold down one key with your nose, then use your good hand to click the button, boom your context menu.
By that logic Apache should have more exploits than Microsoft's web server, since Apache has the major market share. Since that's not so, it seems that vulnerability is a bigger factor than market share when it comes to picking targets.
You've misunderstood what the "Apache versus IIS" example represents.
It shows that open source can be secure. Apache is indeed a more attractive target because it does have a larger marketshare. However, attacks are unsuccessful because Apache is more secure than IIS.
This doesn't mean that marketshare is irrelevant. Quite the opposite. It means that good code can withstand the added attention a marketleader attracts.
You cannot make a parallel between Apache and OSX however. Apache is a product that proves a concept is sound; that open source can be secure even when it is a very attractive target. This doesn't mean all open source is secure, and it certainly doesn't mean that OSX won't be targetted more as its marketshare increases. OSX will be targetted more.
Though most of the directly network-exposed stuff seems to be generally open source (well, dunno about Rendevous).
There's an simple rendezvous implementation that's open source called mDNSResponder. This is the library released for linux and darwin.
However, this is not what OSX apps use for rendezvous. They call functions in the core services. The code in the core services is not opensource and probably uses little of the mDNSResponder library.
But even if it did use the mDNSResponder library, just because it's open source doesn't mean it is secure.
At the core of mDNSResponder is a single 318k file called mDNS.c
It is really tough to work on because it is such a huge mess.. and this is the code they released to the public.
OTP will always remain a viable means of private key cryptography
OTP is not viable. The reason is that the pad has to be at least as long as the data you're encrypting. Both parties must have the pad. If you can deliver the pad securely to both parties.. you can deliver the data securely the exact same way.
In other words, the places where OTP would be secure are the exact same places where OTP is redundant.
Do I use my PC for FPS games? No, I'd rather use the money I saved on video cards to buy a standalone console.
What, $50? I bought a 5700 a month ago for $99. A 5200 is $50.. so you saved $50.. big deal.
Indeed, this looks AWESOME, but it's lack of the magical iPod Click Wheel will be the singular feature that kills this product. The click wheel really is the best hardware UI, ever.
If you say so. I hate the click wheel. You cannot operate an ipod one handed.. it's too hard. Give me a thumbwheel anyday.
or a tilt switch.
Yes! Dangerous eye melting lasers combined with mercury! I like your style.
Now let's just make it small enough to be a choking hazard.
I say outsource her job, then see what she has to say about it.
Nah, let's just wait until someone in India, working for peanuts, makes a computer simulation that replaces her.
Well how do you get those years of experience if all the low level jobs have been shipped overseas?
There's an analogy you can use to describe this to people who just don't get it.
It's like taking a ladder, and cutting off all the bottom rungs. I mean, how useful is a rung that's only a foot off the ground anyway?
I'm running Win98SE without any trouble. Why should I upgrade to Longhorn?
Well, because software has stopped supporting win9x? iTunes an Doom3 are two products that come immediately to mind. Both require 2000 or XP.
Sorry, I just don't understand why the sequel consistently seems to rate higher with the general public
Because it had Newt.. and Bill Paxton. Ok, never mind.
I have a script here that hoses your entire Linux system. All you have to do is run it as root.
rm -rf *
Please explain how this is different than any other program on any operating system being run as root.
Actually, a distro with selinux will protect against this. Fedora Core2 was supposed to have selinux but there were problems.. maybe FC3.
I would pay the same amount for a linux distro as I do for MS XP pro ($200+/-) if that distro supported ACPI just as well as the MS operating systems.
heh. The ironic thing is that linux supports my ASUS AMD64 motherboard just peachy.. while XP has problems. Suspend is sometimes greyed out, sometimes not, regardless it doesn't work even when it's not greyed out.
It doesn't shutdown or reboot correctly (just hangs on "windows is shutting down...").
The strange thing is that XP64 works just fine.
There is continually talk that OO.org will eventually include a Grammar checker module
I can see that you desperately need one.
It's really crippling being able to run a variety of commercial software including all the latest games.
Not true. I happen to have XP64 installed, and you cannot run all the latest games and commercial software. A lot of software doesn't work. Even firefox refuses to run on XP64 without turning off NX protection.
And Doom3 won't run at all.. there is no way to run Doom3 on XP64.
The general public are stupid and would not even be able to handle that level of security! They'd want to know why their new mouse cursors can't be installed, why their IE search bar needs a password, etc, etc
Good. It's time for the general public to suck it up.
If the general public can handle OSX (and presumably they can), then they can handle this. OSX installers require the admin password.
This is an oldschool virus, it works by appending itself to the end of an .EXE, the Linux "proof-of-concept" viruses worked this same way.
.MSI files instead of .exe installers. (They work the same, double click the .MSI and it runs MS's Installer, but the MSI can't run arbitrary code.. it works like an RPM in this regard).
.exe so that only admin can write to it.
.exe not installed by the MS Installer should be marked as "dirty", and windows should refuse to run it.
MS actually has some safeguards to prevent this thing, but it could use some minor tweaks to make it even better.
I propose that XP should require you to create a user account by default.
I propose that all software should be distributed as
The installer should prompt for the Admin password and install the
Any
This would prevent this type of virus. Coupled with XP64s support for NX, you'd actually have some semblance of security.
His name is Ewan McGregor who at the time was an unknown but very talented actor.
He wasn't unknown! Everyone knew him as "the dude from Trainspotting".
I propose the following titles:
A New Hope for Income
The Finance Department Strikes Back
Return of the Money Grubber
For anyone that needs Office. No. (and please don't say OpenOffice is the same)
Did you even read his post? He specificially mentions crossover office. You know... MS Office.
Photoshop also runs just peachy under Wine.
Hell, you can get a dual-proc G5 or an Xserve and use them as pure unix servers.
I wouldn't recommend it though. Darwin has horrible performance. Especially for unix related tasks like file IO, network IO, pipes, and building and tearing down processes.
There's no comparing Linux versus OSX when it comes to the server space. On the exact same hardware, linux outperforms OSX.
As far as I'm concerned, OSX's "power of unix" is no different than installing Cygwin on WinXP.
Also, most programs for System 6 required how many libs? Count 'em... YES, THAT'S RIGHT: ZERO! They simply used Toolbox calls
What do you think the toolbox was? A library.
One of my wife's favorite stories is about Chevrolet being puzzled that their Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
I'm going to be a git and spoil this one
I hate that urban legend, whenever I hear it I point out the corrolary. Kia sells fairly well here in the states, even though KIA means Killed In Action.
People aren't stupid. This urban legend implies that spanish speakers are so stupid that they confuse a warning "doesn't go!" with a name.
The guy is missing something. They're trying so hard to beat softice.. but they forget that pros don't need to use breakpoints, thus they don't need to actually run the app to disassemble it.
http://hte.sf.net would work just peachy.