A personal firewall is the biggest scam of all time.
The network stack of any reasonably up-to-date Microsoft operating system (say, Windows 98 or 2K on up) is impervious to the OOBNukes and Pings of Death of days yore. If you are concerned about possible trojan horses you should actually invest in a virus scanner and also install something like ad-aware.
If somebody actually wants to take you offline, any reasonably sized DDoS will flood your pipe and kill your connection--firewall or not.
There is no plausible need for a "personal firewall", period.
You can be paid to have them, or you can have them due to some deeply held beliefs with religious fervor, or you can arrive at your opinion through a process of reasoning.
On the other hand, reasoning that it's better to move to an open source product just because said OS product is currently attacked less, is fallacious.
Untrue. We did some memory usage tests the other day with Opera, Mozilla, and IE.
After 4 or 5 hours of going around and visiting the same sites, etc., the memory usage was around 15M for IE, 25M for Mozilla, and a whopping 35M for Opera.
Now, IE may be excused because a lot of the resources it uses are already factored into the rest of the system, but Opera using a whole 10M more than Mozilla is just unconscionable.
Now, I actually liked the novels--I liked them alot--but the first movie was pretty much crap. Here's why I think it's shit:
The scene changes are schizophrenic. Aside from a single one-minute laugh scene for each class, there's no indication that Harry Potter is at a school whatosever! For the remainder of the movie he might as well have been in a boarding house. Furthermore, the time changes are handled very ineptly, as in where it's halloween and then pretty much suddenly changes to christmas. Surely the kid's been doing something in the mean time? A little bit of exposition showing that he and Ron have been poring over books or doing their studies would be appropriate, yet why wasn't it done?
The whole movie feels like that in order to cram the high points of the plot into the movie they made a few too many excisions--and tried to squeeze the remaining story elements into time segments too small and disparate. Another great example is quidditch. In the book Harry Potter has to practice quidditch--and House Griffindor also plays a lot more games than just one against Slytherin. This would have been great to see on film, yet no extra sequences were shown... and more damningly not even any mentions of Harry's grueling practice sessions or the other games whatsoever!
And I'm not normally hard of hearing, mind, but am I the only one who's having trouble hearing Dumbledore?
I hope the second movie addresses my complaints with the first. I'm going to wait for the DVD.
Windows XP sp1 locked out WinXP installations using stolen keys from using WindowsUpdate or applying patches.
Will this new initiative reverse that practice?
Remember, it won't matter to most people if a Windows installation was pirated or not when it's the one being used as a DDoS zombie, spewing out viruses over SMTP, or something similar... just that it is Windows.
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Having worked extensively with networks using BIND and win2k's DNS server over the past few weeks, I can certainly say that win2k's DNS server GUI configuration makes things a helluva lot easier than BIND ever does.
IIS is almost the same way--it's quite a lot easier to add a site in IIS than to insert a vhost into Apache. Sure, you can get Apache to do more interesting stuff that would be a bit more difficult with IIS... but you can't disagree that the basic functionality is much more easily accessible in IIS. BIND doesn't even have that defense.
The very design of the whole system specifies that anyone can just turn on a machine, hook it up to a network somewhere, and start spewing out messages to smtp ports all over the world.
It doesn't have to be a sendmail, qmail, or exim server, remember. Some Windows viruses have taken advantage of that loophole to set up mini-SMTP servers in the network stack to continue propagating viruses without needing to connect to anything that provides authenticated external relay.
As we continue, expect the crosshairs to be levelled towards us. There's gonna be a conspiracy.
Why the hell not? The reverse has been true for a long long time. Now them evil Micro$haft Windo$e luser$ get a chance to strike back at a bunch of elitist whining pricks.
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At first I thought this article was about Doom 3.
They would have exceeded at least some expectations by selling maybe 100 of these. :)
... is that the editor apparently cannot spell apparent. And not only did he apparently misspell it once, he apparently misspelt it twice.
Why is this article news?
Unfortunately, they seem to have decided it's an Outlook issue rather than something they can implement.
The network stack of any reasonably up-to-date Microsoft operating system (say, Windows 98 or 2K on up) is impervious to the OOBNukes and Pings of Death of days yore. If you are concerned about possible trojan horses you should actually invest in a virus scanner and also install something like ad-aware.
If somebody actually wants to take you offline, any reasonably sized DDoS will flood your pipe and kill your connection--firewall or not.
There is no plausible need for a "personal firewall", period.
Because the first 19 releases of the 2.4 kernel panicked within the first minute and a half, I suppose. :)
You can be paid to have them, or you can have them due to some deeply held beliefs with religious fervor, or you can arrive at your opinion through a process of reasoning.
On the other hand, reasoning that it's better to move to an open source product just because said OS product is currently attacked less, is fallacious.
Surely you mean increased centralization, however.
Laugh, it's a joke! :)
Must ... wait ... till ... December ... 18th.
After 4 or 5 hours of going around and visiting the same sites, etc., the memory usage was around 15M for IE, 25M for Mozilla, and a whopping 35M for Opera.
Now, IE may be excused because a lot of the resources it uses are already factored into the rest of the system, but Opera using a whole 10M more than Mozilla is just unconscionable.
Hey, why not? That's how it's working for pimple-faced taped-up-glasses-wearing pocket-protector-using teens today.
The scene changes are schizophrenic. Aside from a single one-minute laugh scene for each class, there's no indication that Harry Potter is at a school whatosever! For the remainder of the movie he might as well have been in a boarding house. Furthermore, the time changes are handled very ineptly, as in where it's halloween and then pretty much suddenly changes to christmas. Surely the kid's been doing something in the mean time? A little bit of exposition showing that he and Ron have been poring over books or doing their studies would be appropriate, yet why wasn't it done?
The whole movie feels like that in order to cram the high points of the plot into the movie they made a few too many excisions--and tried to squeeze the remaining story elements into time segments too small and disparate. Another great example is quidditch. In the book Harry Potter has to practice quidditch--and House Griffindor also plays a lot more games than just one against Slytherin. This would have been great to see on film, yet no extra sequences were shown ... and more damningly not even any mentions of Harry's grueling practice sessions or the other games whatsoever!
And I'm not normally hard of hearing, mind, but am I the only one who's having trouble hearing Dumbledore?
I hope the second movie addresses my complaints with the first. I'm going to wait for the DVD.
Windows XP sp1 locked out WinXP installations using stolen keys from using WindowsUpdate or applying patches.
Will this new initiative reverse that practice?
Remember, it won't matter to most people if a Windows installation was pirated or not when it's the one being used as a DDoS zombie, spewing out viruses over SMTP, or something similar ... just that it is Windows.
(Btw: Plz 2 mod as +1 Insightful)
... if somebody does a good port of it to win32.
First get them to fix the US flag. :)
IIS is almost the same way--it's quite a lot easier to add a site in IIS than to insert a vhost into Apache. Sure, you can get Apache to do more interesting stuff that would be a bit more difficult with IIS ... but you can't disagree that the basic functionality is much more easily accessible in IIS. BIND doesn't even have that defense.
Two Words:
Native Americans.
Sure, we're apologetic now, but the damage's done. Similarly slavery--although we fought a rather large internecine war partly over the issue.
The very design of the whole system specifies that anyone can just turn on a machine, hook it up to a network somewhere, and start spewing out messages to smtp ports all over the world.
It doesn't have to be a sendmail, qmail, or exim server, remember. Some Windows viruses have taken advantage of that loophole to set up mini-SMTP servers in the network stack to continue propagating viruses without needing to connect to anything that provides authenticated external relay.
Then read `apt-cache show kdebase`.
Mozilla 1.1 is in unstable.
In any case, the "gnome" metapackage only suggests "gnome-office", it does not depend on it.
Debian will not even suggest you install gnome-office if you just install sawfish.
Get your terminology straight.
Define "significant". Processor architecture optimizations are not all they're cracked up to be.
Almost time to get a taste of our own medicine.