I dont think you really can avoid snooping if its done by people with enough resources. Your best hope lies in masking the traffic as legit normal traffic. The problem with all of this is that someone can monitor your crt/lcd monitor and collect the keystrokes wich leaves all software based cloaking useless. If you are a dissident chances are high that people knows about this.
My best bet anyway would be to not use the internet at all since its so heavily monitored, even by the US and the EC.
Im just curius if anyone have any stats on how common *nix zombies are. My perception is that its only Windows boxes.
If that is true this isnt something that should be dealt with at the gaming site. The real solution would ofcourse be filtering at the ISP level to stop spoofed IP's and better security in Windows.
I do remember Apple and to my knowledge they didnt stomp around killing every sign of competition. Apple has been in its best behaviour all the time. Stupid yes, but evil? no.
Microsoft will has never been and will never be a cool company. Cant say that i have ever formed a sentance with both Microsoft and the word cool in it.
The skype protocol is a serious contender for IP telephony. While the others crave expensive hardware skype "just works". I think its just a matter of time before some of the big players swallows their pride and start using the skype protocol.
Best of all is that Skype works on multiple platforms and has full in/out routes to POTS in many countries.
I cant count how many times we have read that Google is tunring evil. Is it some kind of projection on the part of some people, they seem to WANT google to be evil somehow. I just dont understand why.
Try setting up a IPP or LPD printer in Windows. Its nothing for grandma. Setting up a printer in a mixed Windows enviroment isnt a blast either. Windows 95/98/2k/XP doesnt play that nice togheter.
I think aiming for Windows is to low. Apple MacOS X should be where we want to go.
There are tools avaliable that makes setting printers up a breeze. None of the ones i use are proprerity so any dist can use them. While i admit that the cups GUI should be better laid out and more userfriendly i think many users dont really see this problem.
The thing that pops into my mind is the question:
Why doesnt those who feel this is a real problem fix it?
All they have to do is to look to the industry or your local McDonalds for proper keyboards. They use flat keyboards that are easy to clean and doesnt have orifices where things can accumulate. I think this isnt as much a problem as it is an excellent example of "didnt think about that!".
Keyboards are not worse than door handles, handle bars or any other surface that many different people touch everyday.
I use it at my laptop right now at work and its nice and easy enough for most people in my opinion. Combine Novell Linux Destop with Novell Open Enterprise and you have a managed enviroment. Heck, combine it with NX Server and you have a full fledged secure terminal server ready to put onto the net ready for outside access. Cant wait for version 10 since it probably will have most of the lessons learned from Novells migration in it.
Actually im doing just that now as a project at work.
To me this sounds like a Java exploit and not something you can pin on either IE, Firefox or any other browser. It would be pretty lame to demand that Firefox should protect IE from a Java exploit, yes?
This is an IE problem, not Firefox. The only way of fixing it will be uninstalling Internet Explorer and i dont think Microsoft will find that amusing at all if Mozilla went ahead and did that!
I would love if the big media companies went tits up and left the internet allowing new media to rise. News today is a joke, heavily biased towards corporations and governments. Finding unbiased news involves stepping off the established media channels. The media companies cant afford to be left out so they will continue to offer free news.
That said i dont think this will ever happen and subscriptions on the internet will be a wet dream and nothing more.
Joe Surfer will continue to download music with the help of his friend the nerd. Freenet and such networks is functioning today and only needs a good gui and youre off to pirateland. Sharing will also increase over physical mediums like cdroms, dvds etc like in the old days. This will in no way stop piracy, just drive it underground where it cant be touched.
To really get to filesharing the media industry has to get their costomers to like them again and lower the prices so that piracy becomes a burdon and its easier to just buy the damn cd/dvd. Today, were miles away from that point.
I think you have mistaken criticize with flat out FUD campaigns. And to top it off, those campaigns is nothing at all compared to what some resellers of said "unnamed competitors" tend to spew out.
Linux needs feedback, both positive and negative but for feedback to be valid it has to have some grain of truth in it.
This is just Microsoft everyday competitor trashtalk, not critizism.
Press and hold the left mouse button. While still holding drag your cursor over the text you want to copy. Click your cursor at the location in the app you want to paste to.
Works on almost every app except some non native linux apps.
I have like 400 users who do manage to copy/paste in linux so i figure youre an odd user. That said, why the Bush Junior should Gnu/Linux take the blame for some apps that dont handle copy and paste? Its the damn developers of said applications you should be haunting with a torch. There are one perfect way of doing copy/paste in linux but some poor schmucks just had to do it the Windows way =P
Well to me it seems as if Google is held to a much higher standard than the other players on the market. Looking at them is good but all this looks like an orchestrated campaign to paint Google as some evil company bent on rimming their users. Its very suspicious to say the least.
If someone comes up with some substantial hard proof ill be the first to switch search engine but all ive seen so far is just plain silly, a damn farse.
I use Fedora, Gentoo, Debian and Mandrake on a daily basis. The only point where there is any significant difference is in the GUI tools for administering the computer. Under the hood i have no problem going from dist to dist. Its mostly a matter of the dists to choose the same packages but one size DONT fit all.
What one person find invaluable somebody else find utterly disturbing and thats the biggest beauty of Gnu/linux.
I really dont see what kind of drawbacks it has to be able to choose every possible flavour. Just choose one to use and stick with that dist, end of problem.
I think that more applications will be delivered by standard protocols like http/html and not by things that needs clients like Java,.Net and the likes.
Theese things are perfect for thin clients since you can run a local browser as the only interface.
Imagine the freedom of having your company running truly independant software? Change clients anyday and just continue working.
The biggest expense today when moving to linux from Windows isnt the cost of linux, its the cost of making your apps working on another platform that costs the bucks. If you make sure having an open applications framework the migration cost is near zero. Thats is really frightening to Microsoft since everyone can live without Windows but not many can live without their inhouse applications that is tied to Windows.
Bottom line is this:
Whenever you get a new system make sure as hell its truly platform independant. Never ever lock yourself into Java or.Net or anything you cant control yourself.
What if google makes a bunch of swell services that are server centric? All computing is made on google servers and the user is just presented with a web interface like for eg. cgiirc.blitzed.org. I think thats whats going on, extending the google concept of clean easy interfaces to other services like IM and stuff.
Things like theese makes it easier to later on make another OS since they pull code away from the client into the servers. I dont think Microsoft likes that, not one tiny bit...expecielly since theyve lost the battle of the web long ago.
God knows there are space left for plenty of more OS in the computing world. I for one would just love a simplified OS for x86, like BeOS. More competition might bring us a nice desktop OS for the PC at long last.
This shows that its wrong not to fix the underlying errors. The current way of just fixing things as they pop up is just a temporary solution. Microsoft should have spent their money on making Windows more secure instead of just put band aid ontop of the steaming pile.
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I dont think you really can avoid snooping if its done by people with enough resources. Your best hope lies in masking the traffic as legit normal traffic. The problem with all of this is that someone can monitor your crt/lcd monitor and collect the keystrokes wich leaves all software based cloaking useless. If you are a dissident chances are high that people knows about this.
My best bet anyway would be to not use the internet at all since its so heavily monitored, even by the US and the EC.
Im just curius if anyone have any stats on how common *nix zombies are. My perception is that its only Windows boxes.
If that is true this isnt something that should be dealt with at the gaming site. The real solution would ofcourse be filtering at the ISP level to stop spoofed IP's and better security in Windows.
I do remember Apple and to my knowledge they didnt stomp around killing every sign of competition. Apple has been in its best behaviour all the time. Stupid yes, but evil? no.
Microsoft will has never been and will never be a cool company. Cant say that i have ever formed a sentance with both Microsoft and the word cool in it.
The skype protocol is a serious contender for IP telephony. While the others crave expensive hardware skype "just works". I think its just a matter of time before some of the big players swallows their pride and start using the skype protocol.
Best of all is that Skype works on multiple platforms and has full in/out routes to POTS in many countries.
I cant count how many times we have read that Google is tunring evil. Is it some kind of projection on the part of some people, they seem to WANT google to be evil somehow. I just dont understand why.
Try setting up a IPP or LPD printer in Windows. Its nothing for grandma. Setting up a printer in a mixed Windows enviroment isnt a blast either. Windows 95/98/2k/XP doesnt play that nice togheter.
I think aiming for Windows is to low. Apple MacOS X should be where we want to go.
There are tools avaliable that makes setting printers up a breeze. None of the ones i use are proprerity so any dist can use them. While i admit that the cups GUI should be better laid out and more userfriendly i think many users dont really see this problem.
The thing that pops into my mind is the question:
Why doesnt those who feel this is a real problem fix it?
DIY?
All they have to do is to look to the industry or your local McDonalds for proper keyboards. They use flat keyboards that are easy to clean and doesnt have orifices where things can accumulate. I think this isnt as much a problem as it is an excellent example of "didnt think about that!".
Keyboards are not worse than door handles, handle bars or any other surface that many different people touch everyday.
I use it at my laptop right now at work and its nice and easy enough for most people in my opinion. Combine Novell Linux Destop with Novell Open Enterprise and you have a managed enviroment. Heck, combine it with NX Server and you have a full fledged secure terminal server ready to put onto the net ready for outside access. Cant wait for version 10 since it probably will have most of the lessons learned from Novells migration in it.
Actually im doing just that now as a project at work.
Life is good!
To me this sounds like a Java exploit and not something you can pin on either IE, Firefox or any other browser. It would be pretty lame to demand that Firefox should protect IE from a Java exploit, yes?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97690&cid=8349 470
This comment reflects what most people thinks outside USA. Ignore it all you want.
We arent afraid of Muslims in Europe, were afraid of trigger happy Americans.
This is an IE problem, not Firefox. The only way of fixing it will be uninstalling Internet Explorer and i dont think Microsoft will find that amusing at all if Mozilla went ahead and did that!
I would love if the big media companies went tits up and left the internet allowing new media to rise. News today is a joke, heavily biased towards corporations and governments. Finding unbiased news involves stepping off the established media channels. The media companies cant afford to be left out so they will continue to offer free news.
That said i dont think this will ever happen and subscriptions on the internet will be a wet dream and nothing more.
Nope.
Joe Surfer will continue to download music with the help of his friend the nerd. Freenet and such networks is functioning today and only needs a good gui and youre off to pirateland. Sharing will also increase over physical mediums like cdroms, dvds etc like in the old days. This will in no way stop piracy, just drive it underground where it cant be touched.
To really get to filesharing the media industry has to get their costomers to like them again and lower the prices so that piracy becomes a burdon and its easier to just buy the damn cd/dvd. Today, were miles away from that point.
You are flat out wrong here.
Linux on the desktop? Well ive been running that for 2 years, for about 400 users.
Cost?
The hardware and my time.
You see, linux on the desktop is a reality today. It can improve but its as ready as ever for the desktop.
Then again, i dont remember the goal of linux being that everybody should use it.
I thought one size fits all had been validated as [Not Working](tm).
If it has to become something we dont like for some people to like it, forget them and let them pay their software rent through their noose.
I think you have mistaken criticize with flat out FUD campaigns. And to top it off, those campaigns is nothing at all compared to what some resellers of said "unnamed competitors" tend to spew out.
Linux needs feedback, both positive and negative but for feedback to be valid it has to have some grain of truth in it.
This is just Microsoft everyday competitor trashtalk, not critizism.
Repeat after me:
Press and hold the left mouse button.
While still holding drag your cursor over the text you want to copy.
Click your cursor at the location in the app you want to paste to.
Works on almost every app except some non native linux apps.
I have like 400 users who do manage to copy/paste in linux so i figure youre an odd user. That said, why the Bush Junior should Gnu/Linux take the blame for some apps that dont handle copy and paste? Its the damn developers of said applications you should be haunting with a torch. There are one perfect way of doing copy/paste in linux but some poor schmucks just had to do it the Windows way =P
Well to me it seems as if Google is held to a much higher standard than the other players on the market. Looking at them is good but all this looks like an orchestrated campaign to paint Google as some evil company bent on rimming their users. Its very suspicious to say the least.
If someone comes up with some substantial hard proof ill be the first to switch search engine but all ive seen so far is just plain silly, a damn farse.
Is this some kind of witchhunt to try to paint google as evil? Much of this trashtalk started with MSN search relaunch wich makes me suspicious,
Wake me up when there is something worth looking at, this is just silly.
I use Fedora, Gentoo, Debian and Mandrake on a daily basis. The only point where there is any significant difference is in the GUI tools for administering the computer. Under the hood i have no problem going from dist to dist. Its mostly a matter of the dists to choose the same packages but one size DONT fit all.
What one person find invaluable somebody else find utterly disturbing and thats the biggest beauty of Gnu/linux.
I really dont see what kind of drawbacks it has to be able to choose every possible flavour. Just choose one to use and stick with that dist, end of problem.
I think i didnt explain myself clear enough.
.Net and the likes.
.Net or anything you cant control yourself.
I think that more applications will be delivered by standard protocols like http/html and not by things that needs clients like Java,
Theese things are perfect for thin clients since you can run a local browser as the only interface.
Imagine the freedom of having your company running truly independant software? Change clients anyday and just continue working.
The biggest expense today when moving to linux from Windows isnt the cost of linux, its the cost of making your apps working on another platform that costs the bucks. If you make sure having an open applications framework the migration cost is near zero. Thats is really frightening to Microsoft since everyone can live without Windows but not many can live without their inhouse applications that is tied to Windows.
Bottom line is this:
Whenever you get a new system make sure as hell its truly platform independant. Never ever lock yourself into Java or
Think about it for a minute.
What if google makes a bunch of swell services that are server centric? All computing is made on google servers and the user is just presented with a web interface like for eg. cgiirc.blitzed.org. I think thats whats going on, extending the google concept of clean easy interfaces to other services like IM and stuff.
Things like theese makes it easier to later on make another OS since they pull code away from the client into the servers. I dont think Microsoft likes that, not one tiny bit...expecielly since theyve lost the battle of the web long ago.
God knows there are space left for plenty of more OS in the computing world. I for one would just love a simplified OS for x86, like BeOS. More competition might bring us a nice desktop OS for the PC at long last.
Wake me up when the lo and behold, puts two SLI on one card and it becomes useful! Ohh wait, 3DFX...
This shows that its wrong not to fix the underlying errors. The current way of just fixing things as they pop up is just a temporary solution. Microsoft should have spent their money on making Windows more secure instead of just put band aid ontop of the steaming pile.