Forget the laptop. Believe it or not you can survive two weeks without it.
Go see the 39 steps, see Dylan Moran, go to the mermaids tail in Leicester square and have a deep fried mars bar. Go to some pubs and try bitter, you won't like it but try it anyway.
Stay away from the soho clip joints. If a hot girl asks you to come in to see a show just smile politely and keep walking.
Go for the tourist bus ride and the London eye as well.
Just take your mind off computers for a while. You are not going to turn into an ignorant savage if you don't read slashdot for 2 weeks.
Yes yes... An operating system that can run on 95% of the available hardware, is a weak and poorly implemented technology...
Running on a large amount of hardware isn't proof of quality. It isn't really proof of anything.
Ever since XP the crashes I have seen was from Bad Drivers...
Lucky you. I saw plenty of crashes due to badly written code that doesn't validate input.
Windows Technology is actually rather sound and it works very well...
No. It's patched together junk that crashes at the first unexpected input and sometimes before then. I've seen it enough times. Userland crashes still bring kernel level code down.
Well, what's illegal is deceptive business practices.
You are talking about Microsoft. A company with weak and poorly implemented technology that would have gone bust 30 years ago if it wasn't for its deceptive business practices.
I worked for a national healthcare system which offered a Dell employee purchase program. My wife wanted a pink laptop, and I quickly found out I could get a better deal on a regular "sale" from Dell than the "12% employee purchase program discount" could ever give me. They're scams, which attempt to con people into thinking they are getting a deal.
Always compare prices. All sales and discount schemes are meant to deceive you.
First back everything up. Second test the backups. Third ensure there is good monitoring on everything important. Only then should you think about upgrades.
The only people still using internet exploder are people who don't care about security. They have ignored more than enough warnings and deserve what they get.
The rest of the world is already using firefox, opera, or whatever the OS X browser is called.
Lovecraft did something very odd in creating a pantheon of gods, most of which if not all are aliens, for nihilistic atheists.
You ought to pick up a copy of "Dead but Dreaming", a relatively recent collection of Lovecraftian short stories. Most of them are good and a few are quite excellent, like "Final Draft".
Thanks for the recommendation. "Dead but Dreaming" is ordered.
There hasn't been much real science fiction for years. There have been lots of alien invasions and many, many action movies with captivating visual effects but no real science fiction.
For quality storytelling and a good dose of horror refer to the works of HP Lovecraft. If you haven't read his work go order it on amazon or download it from somewhere, you will be impressed.
You are committing a logical fallacy, you are basing your opinion of a product's security on reported security vulnerabilities. But since vulnerabilities aren't only announced when an exploit is discovered, but simply when a vulnerability is patched, you're confusing exploits with vulnerabilities.
You are saying that it's OK for your site to have vulnerabilities as long as you don't believe they have been exploited yet.
The way I see it vulnerabilities are things that either should not happen or should be fixed immediately regardless of whatever else I had planned for my day. Nobody needs problems like that.
In the end, complaining about drupal because you got notifications of vulnerabilities in contributed modules (they're not in core!) seems unusually pathetic.
Why don't you try telling your boss he is being pathetic when he complains that a third party module has leaked half your database? These things have access to everything drupal core does. Drupal isn't much use without a few extra modules.
complexity, security, they have a relationship that you are ignoring.
It's dead easy to setup a default install of OpenBSD and connect it to the Internet. It's easy but that doesn't make it insecure.
I have linux boxes all over the place and there are literally thousands of ssh/sft/etc attempts on each box each day. None of them are successful though.
Can I claim that my boxes have more attacks than the US Military?
If the US government would give you a 100 dollars to investigate each attack you might be tempted to.
"The cost of such attacks is significant," the report notes. Citing data from the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, the report says that the military spent $100 million to fend off these attacks between September 2008 and March 2009
That's a lot of money... That's almost 8 full hours of what is being spent on Iraq.
Yes but they don't get any oil out of this.
The phrase 'fend off' network attacks is moronic. You don't 'fend off' cyber attacks you set things up right the first time around. They should be setting things up right before they get attacked not as some afterthought.
Of course if they run windows on any networked machine they will always have some risk.
The reporter at the "New York Times" completely misses the big picture. If Bing is censoring only simplified Chinese queries, then anyone in mainland China can do a search in any other language and obtain the full uncensored results.
In other words, Microsoft has cleverly created a big hole (in its agreement with Beijing) that allows uncensored information to flood into China. The only catch is that the query must be in some language (e. g., English) that is not simplied Chinese.
By contrast, Google censors everything in China, regardless of the language used for the query.
Besides, Microsoft's scheme will encourage ordinary Chinese to learn a foreign language: English., Japanese, etc. Doing so is always positive as many Western languages means many channels by which foreign ideas can enter China, thus modernizing it.
More likely google tried to do the wrong thing because they had to and succeeded. Microsoft tried to do the wrong thing because they had to and messed it up.
We have seen the results of Microsoft's work and Google's work. Google is an innovative technology company, Microsoft are a bunch of clowns with an innovative and sometimes illegal marketing strategy.
Personally I prefer software I can install and forget about not software I have to constantly worry about.
You're going to be looking for such software for a long time. Be happy that Drupal security updates are issued quickly and consistently.
You didn't have to post that as AC because you are totally right. Yes I rarely see software I'd be happy to use and yes I am forced to make compromises for the sake of getting software that does what I want.
Insecure software is a constant source of worry and better than windows is rarely good enough. Not all software is so insecure though. OpenBSD for instance just does its job day in day out without problems until the hardware fails. Correctly setup Linux systems are pretty good too. Complex frameworks ( like drupal ) are always a nightmare.
Ok, the following hit the security list this morning:
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-102 - PHPList Integration Module - Cross Site Request Forgery [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-103 - Strongarm - Cross Site Scripting [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-104 - Feed Element Mapper - Cross Site Scripting [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-105 - Subgroups for Organic Groups - Cross Site Scripting [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-106 - Agreement - Cross Site Scripting [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-107 - Ubercart - Access bypass, Cross site request forgery [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-108 - Gallery Assist - Cross Site Scripting [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-109 - Printfriendly - Cross Site Scripting
That's 8 alerts in one morning and that happens every two weeks or so. It's great they are fixing this stuff but it would be better if they had less security related bugs in the first place.
I love the way it's dead easy to setup complex and pretty sites with drupal but I can't help worrying about the security implications of using it.
Many of the modules don't seem to be written in any kind of secure way so need endless updates. The core has more than its share of security issues too
[citation needed]
There were the 8 security alerts on the security mailing list this very morning. Great on them for updating this stuff but it would be better if things like that didn't happen in the first place.
As opposed to building your own website, or using RoR/Plone to build a site, which cannot be easily checked for security updates? no thanks.
Drupal has a dedicated security team which is proactive on maintaining secure code. One reason the white house gave for using drupal is because of its diligence to security.
The white house uses windows too, windows has a dedicated security team. None of that makes it secure, you can't tack on security later.
I don't mean to say that drupal is worse than many other ways to do the same thing because I honestly don't know. I've only used ROR likely and drupal to develop a few websites.
Noone else has said it so I will. Drupal does let you make very pretty websites with tons of functionality quickly but it has endless security issues. Many of the modules don't seem to be written in any kind of secure way so need endless updates. The core has more than its share of security issues too.
Personally I prefer software I can install and forget about not software I have to constantly worry about.
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Steak at 'plane food' is awesome and so is the apple and blackberry crumble :)
Forget the laptop. Believe it or not you can survive two weeks without it.
Go see the 39 steps, see Dylan Moran, go to the mermaids tail in Leicester square and have a deep fried mars bar. Go to some pubs and try bitter, you won't like it but try it anyway.
Stay away from the soho clip joints. If a hot girl asks you to come in to see a show just smile politely and keep walking.
Go for the tourist bus ride and the London eye as well.
Just take your mind off computers for a while. You are not going to turn into an ignorant savage if you don't read slashdot for 2 weeks.
Yes yes... An operating system that can run on 95% of the available hardware, is a weak and poorly implemented technology...
Running on a large amount of hardware isn't proof of quality. It isn't really proof of anything.
Ever since XP the crashes I have seen was from Bad Drivers...
Lucky you. I saw plenty of crashes due to badly written code that doesn't validate input.
Windows Technology is actually rather sound and it works very well...
No. It's patched together junk that crashes at the first unexpected input and sometimes before then. I've seen it enough times. Userland crashes still bring kernel level code down.
Well, what's illegal is deceptive business practices.
You are talking about Microsoft. A company with weak and poorly implemented technology that would have gone bust 30 years ago if it wasn't for its deceptive business practices.
I worked for a national healthcare system which offered a Dell employee purchase program. My wife wanted a pink laptop, and I quickly found out I could get a better deal on a regular "sale" from Dell than the "12% employee purchase program discount" could ever give me. They're scams, which attempt to con people into thinking they are getting a deal.
Always compare prices. All sales and discount schemes are meant to deceive you.
Much as MS can't be trusted this isn't a new trick.
You don't seriously think that the shoes reduced from $300 to $100 this week only were ever really selling at $300 do you?
The answer is easy, never deal with retailers who will try to deceive you. Sadly that doesn't leave you with too much choice.
we drones then to have a human side :)
Syntax error, go reboot yourself.
Junta, get a life or start a blog about why Microsoft sucks...I'll even comment on it :) prick
Wow, abuse from a Microsoft marketing drone. Now that's not good PR for Microsoft now is it?
First back everything up.
Second test the backups.
Third ensure there is good monitoring on everything important.
Only then should you think about upgrades.
I can't believe nobody else has said this.
The only people still using internet exploder are people who don't care about security. They have ignored more than enough warnings and deserve what they get.
The rest of the world is already using firefox, opera, or whatever the OS X browser is called.
Lovecraft did something very odd in creating a pantheon of gods, most of which if not all are aliens, for nihilistic atheists.
You ought to pick up a copy of "Dead but Dreaming", a relatively recent collection of Lovecraftian short stories. Most of them are good and a few are quite excellent, like "Final Draft".
Thanks for the recommendation. "Dead but Dreaming" is ordered.
There hasn't been much real science fiction for years. There have been lots of alien invasions and many, many action movies with captivating visual effects but no real science fiction.
For quality storytelling and a good dose of horror refer to the works of HP Lovecraft. If you haven't read his work go order it on amazon or download it from somewhere, you will be impressed.
We are heading that way and eventually someone will figure out how to control the synthetic parts of us and the human race will become like a hive.
I hope not. Can you imagine the horror of having 3.5 billion voices in your head all telling you that you need more shoes?
You are committing a logical fallacy, you are basing your opinion of a product's security on reported security vulnerabilities. But since vulnerabilities aren't only announced when an exploit is discovered, but simply when a vulnerability is patched, you're confusing exploits with vulnerabilities.
You are saying that it's OK for your site to have vulnerabilities as long as you don't believe they have been exploited yet.
The way I see it vulnerabilities are things that either should not happen or should be fixed immediately regardless of whatever else I had planned for my day. Nobody needs problems like that.
In the end, complaining about drupal because you got notifications of vulnerabilities in contributed modules (they're not in core!) seems unusually pathetic.
Why don't you try telling your boss he is being pathetic when he complains that a third party module has leaked half your database? These things have access to everything drupal core does. Drupal isn't much use without a few extra modules.
complexity, security, they have a relationship that you are ignoring.
It's dead easy to setup a default install of OpenBSD and connect it to the Internet. It's easy but that doesn't make it insecure.
I have linux boxes all over the place and there are literally thousands of ssh/sft/etc attempts on each box each day. None of them are successful though.
Can I claim that my boxes have more attacks than the US Military?
If the US government would give you a 100 dollars to investigate each attack you might be tempted to.
hardening systems thru more secure software (abandon Windows -- whether you like it or not, it's the best target due to being used by everyone).
Not quite. Windows is the best target due to its low coding standards, the huge number of security holes it suffers from, and it's unmanageably.
The fact it is used heavily doesn't make it any more or less secure.
That's a lot of money... That's almost 8 full hours of what is being spent on Iraq.
Yes but they don't get any oil out of this.
The phrase 'fend off' network attacks is moronic. You don't 'fend off' cyber attacks you set things up right the first time around. They should be setting things up right before they get attacked not as some afterthought.
Of course if they run windows on any networked machine they will always have some risk.
The reporter at the "New York Times" completely misses the big picture. If Bing is censoring only simplified Chinese queries, then anyone in mainland China can do a search in any other language and obtain the full uncensored results.
In other words, Microsoft has cleverly created a big hole (in its agreement with Beijing) that allows uncensored information to flood into China. The only catch is that the query must be in some language (e. g., English) that is not simplied Chinese.
By contrast, Google censors everything in China, regardless of the language used for the query.
Besides, Microsoft's scheme will encourage ordinary Chinese to learn a foreign language: English., Japanese, etc. Doing so is always positive as many Western languages means many channels by which foreign ideas can enter China, thus modernizing it.
More likely google tried to do the wrong thing because they had to and succeeded. Microsoft tried to do the wrong thing because they had to and messed it up.
We have seen the results of Microsoft's work and Google's work. Google is an innovative technology company, Microsoft are a bunch of clowns with an innovative and sometimes illegal marketing strategy.
Am I the only one with a CPU lacking virtualization? :(
Yes, Support the economy by upgrading.
New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias
Oh the shock!!!!! Who would ever of expected Microsoft to pull a low-down dirty trick like that?
This is sarcasm. I'm being sarcastic.
Personally I prefer software I can install and forget about not software I have to constantly worry about.
You're going to be looking for such software for a long time. Be happy that Drupal security updates are issued quickly and consistently.
You didn't have to post that as AC because you are totally right. Yes I rarely see software I'd be happy to use and yes I am forced to make compromises for the sake of getting software that does what I want.
Insecure software is a constant source of worry and better than windows is rarely good enough. Not all software is so insecure though. OpenBSD for instance just does its job day in day out without problems until the hardware fails. Correctly setup Linux systems are pretty good too. Complex frameworks ( like drupal ) are always a nightmare.
Ok, the following hit the security list this morning:
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-102 - PHPList Integration Module - Cross Site Request Forgery
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-103 - Strongarm - Cross Site Scripting
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-104 - Feed Element Mapper - Cross Site Scripting
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-105 - Subgroups for Organic Groups - Cross Site Scripting
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-106 - Agreement - Cross Site Scripting
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-107 - Ubercart - Access bypass, Cross site request forgery
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-108 - Gallery Assist - Cross Site Scripting
[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-109 - Printfriendly - Cross Site Scripting
That's 8 alerts in one morning and that happens every two weeks or so. It's great they are fixing this stuff but it would be better if they had less security related bugs in the first place.
I love the way it's dead easy to setup complex and pretty sites with drupal but I can't help worrying about the security implications of using it.
[citation needed]
There were the 8 security alerts on the security mailing list this very morning. Great on them for updating this stuff but it would be better if things like that didn't happen in the first place.
As opposed to building your own website, or using RoR/Plone to build a site, which cannot be easily checked for security updates? no thanks.
Drupal has a dedicated security team which is proactive on maintaining secure code. One reason the white house gave for using drupal is because of its diligence to security.
The white house uses windows too, windows has a dedicated security team. None of that makes it secure, you can't tack on security later.
I don't mean to say that drupal is worse than many other ways to do the same thing because I honestly don't know. I've only used ROR likely and drupal to develop a few websites.
Noone else has said it so I will. Drupal does let you make very pretty websites with tons of functionality quickly but it has endless security issues. Many of the modules don't seem to be written in any kind of secure way so need endless updates. The core has more than its share of security issues too.
Personally I prefer software I can install and forget about not software I have to constantly worry about.