BTW, am I the only person that thinks Slashdot's one sided "sun is dying" post is an attack on Sun? They settle with MS and the OSS crowd turns their back on them almost over night.
So well stated that you have inspired me to use the "friend" button. It is nice to see that there are people on the internet that see the way things are and not just how they want them to be.
In my experience even the free windows replacements for most of that software is better than the free Linux versions of it. Many of the OSS windows replacements are under a "do what ever you want with it license" also. It is my opinion that GPL is restrictive, I prefer LGPL or BSD. Linux is not an operating system for end users. Trying to make Linux something it is not will only hold it back for those of us that accept it for whar it is.
Well, yeah. Considering Cisco's market penetration and popularity it is amazing they have had so few security problems. They have a track record that even Apache should envy. One mistake and some of that slashdot mind-droids are spouting "well, that is because they are not open source".
I am sure being American compaqnies has nothing to do with it. Who's up for raiding Honda's US offices? I heard they are doing pretty good in the auto industry.
This reminds me of 2600.com vs Verizon when they registered verizonsucks.com. The got mad and registered something like Verizon-should-spend-more-money-fixing-their-netwo rk-and-less-money-on-layers.com
Sounds time consuming. I have actually spent all day trolling IRC to download something at 3KB, only to realize I could have worked just for 2 hours and paid for it.
You are the person companies hire just so you can walk up to the water cooler, tell a joke, have everyone stare blankly at you, and then go back to working.
To be honest, almost all of the people I have met in upper level IT positions (communications) have a millitary backround. Now they are all gaming couch potatoes though.
This comment is definately worthy of an Informative, I have been saying for a long time that there should be a standard DNS record for SMTP servers to simplify blocking them from mail exchangers. Anyway, thank you for the link, does anyone reading this know of other solutions (aside from write one) to block dynamic IP addresses from the mail exchangers?
Re AC: The problem is not actually that they are stupid, the problem has more to do with the fact that they don't care to learn. The PC is an appliance, they don't care who the extra network traffic is affecting, as long as it still gets email and downloads porn they are content.
The article only says that 6 times as many were written. I wonder if the number of infected users has changed, of if the same number of users now has more infections?
I don't have any on my Windows box using outlook or IE either. It is the same stupid people that keep getting them, now they just have more. My friend scanned a computer the other day that had 300 infections!
Slashdot Mirror
BTW, am I the only person that thinks Slashdot's one sided "sun is dying" post is an attack on Sun? They settle with MS and the OSS crowd turns their back on them almost over night.
The Register has it here. Sun Kills off Sparc V and Gemini and releases Niagara and Rock. Not as big a deal as most of you make it out to be.
The ones showering outside anyway. The people building these planes probably get chicks like people that read slashdot.
and you will save time for all
the useless people
Remove this person
and you will save time for all
the people that never knew
How much money do you suppose AOL's mail platform is worth? I bet the cost of this Porche is less then even the electric bill to run it.
So well stated that you have inspired me to use the "friend" button. It is nice to see that there are people on the internet that see the way things are and not just how they want them to be.
In my experience even the free windows replacements for most of that software is better than the free Linux versions of it. Many of the OSS windows replacements are under a "do what ever you want with it license" also. It is my opinion that GPL is restrictive, I prefer LGPL or BSD. Linux is not an operating system for end users. Trying to make Linux something it is not will only hold it back for those of us that accept it for whar it is.
And PS, it is a good thing is can be spotted by a newbie C coder, because for most OSS, that is exactly who will be looking at it.
Well, yeah. Considering Cisco's market penetration and popularity it is amazing they have had so few security problems. They have a track record that even Apache should envy. One mistake and some of that slashdot mind-droids are spouting "well, that is because they are not open source".
I am sure being American compaqnies has nothing to do with it. Who's up for raiding Honda's US offices? I heard they are doing pretty good in the auto industry.
This reminds me of 2600.com vs Verizon when they registered verizonsucks.com. The got mad and registered something like Verizon-should-spend-more-money-fixing-their-netwo rk-and-less-money-on-layers.com
I thought this was cool, you can pick up a Joystick with a built in Atari and 10 games for 20 bucks at walmart. Larger picture here
Maybe they know something we don't?
/me puts tinfoil hat back on
Were you expecting the meaning of life?
Ok, living in your mom's basement posting from a dead badger running Linux might just be the only thing worse than homelessness. You poor thing.
In Soviet Russia, a flashmob of dead badgers that must be new here imagine a beowolf cluster of you.
I am glad yuo queston it, becase eye dont'
Sounds time consuming. I have actually spent all day trolling IRC to download something at 3KB, only to realize I could have worked just for 2 hours and paid for it.
You are the person companies hire just so you can walk up to the water cooler, tell a joke, have everyone stare blankly at you, and then go back to working.
To be honest, almost all of the people I have met in upper level IT positions (communications) have a millitary backround. Now they are all gaming couch potatoes though.
This comment is definately worthy of an Informative, I have been saying for a long time that there should be a standard DNS record for SMTP servers to simplify blocking them from mail exchangers. Anyway, thank you for the link, does anyone reading this know of other solutions (aside from write one) to block dynamic IP addresses from the mail exchangers?
Re AC: The problem is not actually that they are stupid, the problem has more to do with the fact that they don't care to learn. The PC is an appliance, they don't care who the extra network traffic is affecting, as long as it still gets email and downloads porn they are content.
The article only says that 6 times as many were written. I wonder if the number of infected users has changed, of if the same number of users now has more infections?
Start writing more harmful virii?
I don't have any on my Windows box using outlook or IE either. It is the same stupid people that keep getting them, now they just have more. My friend scanned a computer the other day that had 300 infections!