I could write a virus attached to an executable that deleted your favorites file or all of the documents in your user's document folders. This would still be a nasty virus and would not be classified as an administrative activity, thus not triggering UAC. This would not indicate any flaw in the OS or it's level of security. This is no different from any other platform, running as admin or not, if you run untrusted code, it will be able to do anything your logged in user can do.
It's not a virus if it doesn't replicate, it's a Trojan. Virii often using administrative functions and/or OS bugs to spread and hide. UAC should at least make some difference but it's unclear if it makes any.
If you got the balls to start a new life in another country, then you probably have a high testosterone level which can be a key ingredient is driving douche baggery.
Thats the most flawed reasoning I've seen for a long time.
It's a well known thing that people with two X chromosomes are very bad drivers, they are prone to panic attacks in any adverse conditions, and have no sense of direction or consideration for other drivers. They also can't read maps.
If we can get these potential killers off the roads and perhaps isolate the boy-racer gene and get them off the roads too it will save many, many, lives.
I don't mean parasite as an emotive term, I mean it as a practical assessment of that profession.
The kind of investment banking that involves quants takes money out of stock exchanges without contributing anything. They are gaming the system and don't contribute even the smallest thing back.
How good is your math? If it's reasonably good, then together with those IT skills you can try your hand at quant/algo trading, either from home (risky but fun), or working for some hedge fund or bank (initially as a quant developer, probably). In the latter case you certainly will have a better income than now;) After all the firing of last year, right now there is quite a high demand in finance for experienced IT people.
It is high-stress, of course, but financially quite well-rewarded.
It's takes a pretty crooked person to work in investment banking. Most people would have a moral problem with being a parasite on the working world and money really is no compensation.
I am still on dial-up, CD and DVD are pretty much the only way I could do this distro. Same with XP service packs. Spent the past two months to try to get DSL but the apartment's wiring is too old.
When I was on dial up I used to download iso images. It took 2 weeks at about 14 hours a day, that could still be faster than waiting for a free CD to get to you.
Right up until someone decides that "misbehaving" includes "submitting content of which we do not approve." The last thing we need is for the internet to give some powermonger the tools to easily silence dissent.
It does not have to be human controlled. I was thinking of a system to throttle down bandwidth or connections for hosts that connect to a large number of different hosts on the same port in a short time.
i.e. A bot would start sending mail out as fast as it can, the network would see this and slow it down to limit the problem. It would slow SSH password guessing, worms, and all kinds of bad stuff. Bittorrent clients would have to adapt by limiting their connection rate though.
Don't touch my Ubuntu, you power grabbing Microsoft Shill!;)
Only the name is African. I don't think any significant part of any Linux distribution was developed in Africa.
The problem is that there is no region that has nothing anyone wants. And malware, spam, botnets, come from everywhere.
Malware and botnets certainly come from everywhere. The email scams and fake craigslist adverts that mention Jesus and western union always seem to come from Nigeria. It's like that's all they use their Internet connections for over there. It's really sad but it does seem to be true.
Surely good enough in all the right places would suffice. It would be cheaper that way.
Not if you take the TCO into account. Look at the huge costs of dealing with botnets, network worms, and spam that we are already paying. If we could disconnect misbehaving nodes automaticly people would have a real reason to make sure their machines don't misbehave.
What? That's exactly why market-share is so important. You're assuming they can find other linux machines. And how would they do this? How would it discover other machines? This is hard enough to do with a windows host, let alone one that has ~1/100 the market-share.
Nmap can guess IPs, it can find thousands of windows and linux machines in not very much time.
Linux viruses could find many other hosts to infect at least as fast as nmap can but they don't. The market share argument really does not add up.
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So...what's the best anti-virus software for Windows 7?
Disconnect it from the network.. You asked..
A machine without AV is vulnerable to viruses!
News at 11!
Talk about a useless piece of FUD...
My Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and OpenBSD machines don't run antivirus software. Yet they have never had a virus.
It's not the 'machine' that gets the virus, it's the badly written operating system.
In other news, running "sudo rm -rf /" as may cause migraines in up to 90% of linux administrators.
Only in linux administrators with really old coreutils.
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
I could write a virus attached to an executable that deleted your favorites file or all of the documents in your user's document folders. This would still be a nasty virus and would not be classified as an administrative activity, thus not triggering UAC. This would not indicate any flaw in the OS or it's level of security. This is no different from any other platform, running as admin or not, if you run untrusted code, it will be able to do anything your logged in user can do.
It's not a virus if it doesn't replicate, it's a Trojan. Virii often using administrative functions and/or OS bugs to spread and hide. UAC should at least make some difference but it's unclear if it makes any.
You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7
There's a classic example of abductive reasoning. I do not have to run anti-virus on Windows 7 because I don't, nor do I ever plan to run Windows 7.
On the subject of Gentoo.... I shudder to contemplate how long it will take to compile even the smallest base system on a 486.
Pretty fast if you use distcc and do the heavy work on a more powerful machine. That needs a network but a PCMCIA NIC, slip, or plip are all options.
If you got the balls to start a new life in another country, then you probably have a high testosterone level which can be a key ingredient is driving douche baggery.
Thats the most flawed reasoning I've seen for a long time.
We call it the "X" chromosome.
So... that's everyone, then. Based on my observations, I wouldn't argue with that.
Indeed. But half the population are twice as bad.
It's a well known thing that people with two X chromosomes are very bad drivers, they are prone to panic attacks in any adverse conditions, and have no sense of direction or consideration for other drivers. They also can't read maps.
If we can get these potential killers off the roads and perhaps isolate the boy-racer gene and get them off the roads too it will save many, many, lives.
Pot? Kettle is on the phone...
It's only wrong when other people do it.
No matter what it is it's only wrong when other people do it.
parasite on the working world
Please explain.
I don't mean parasite as an emotive term, I mean it as a practical assessment of that profession.
The kind of investment banking that involves quants takes money out of stock exchanges without contributing anything. They are gaming the system and don't contribute even the smallest thing back.
How good is your math? If it's reasonably good, then together with those IT skills you can try your hand at quant/algo trading, either from home (risky but fun), or working for some hedge fund or bank (initially as a quant developer, probably). In the latter case you certainly will have a better income than now;) After all the firing of last year, right now there is quite a high demand in finance for experienced IT people.
It is high-stress, of course, but financially quite well-rewarded.
It's takes a pretty crooked person to work in investment banking. Most people would have a moral problem with being a parasite on the working world and money really is no compensation.
This is about Ubuntu, it's Linux for Humans which often includes morons.
What kind of paradise do you live in which only 'often' includes morons? And where the hell do I apply for a visa?
I am still on dial-up, CD and DVD are pretty much the only way I could do this distro. Same with XP service packs. Spent the past two months to try to get DSL but the apartment's wiring is too old.
When I was on dial up I used to download iso images. It took 2 weeks at about 14 hours a day, that could still be faster than waiting for a free CD to get to you.
Sancho, You have totally lost this argument. Give it up and move on with your life.
cat /proc/cpuinfo | less
That gets modded interesting these days? The use of a pipe?
If that's not too basic to be considered interesting then moderators have got a odd idea about what interesting actually means.
News flash: There are PLENTY of resources for everyone, if only we weren't wasteful and/or greedy.
Assuming that's true now it won't be true for long as population keeps growing exponentially.
At best your plant eating solution will keep humanity from facing the real problem for another few years.
You know what they say about men and their sportscars, right?
No, nobody has the slightest clue what you're talking about.
They say men who buy flashy impressive cars do it to make up for a lack of self esteem caused by having a small penis.
Right up until someone decides that "misbehaving" includes "submitting content of which we do not approve." The last thing we need is for the internet to give some powermonger the tools to easily silence dissent.
It does not have to be human controlled. I was thinking of a system to throttle down bandwidth or connections for hosts that connect to a large number of different hosts on the same port in a short time.
i.e. A bot would start sending mail out as fast as it can, the network would see this and slow it down to limit the problem. It would slow SSH password guessing, worms, and all kinds of bad stuff. Bittorrent clients would have to adapt by limiting their connection rate though.
Don't touch my Ubuntu, you power grabbing Microsoft Shill! ;)
Only the name is African. I don't think any significant part of any Linux distribution was developed in Africa.
The problem is that there is no region that has nothing anyone wants. And malware, spam, botnets, come from everywhere.
Malware and botnets certainly come from everywhere. The email scams and fake craigslist adverts that mention Jesus and western union always seem to come from Nigeria. It's like that's all they use their Internet connections for over there. It's really sad but it does seem to be true.
I think there should be a sub-forum for those with UIDs of less than 10^6
That's actually a really good idea.
'better than the previous'??
Surely good enough in all the right places would suffice. It would be cheaper that way.
Not if you take the TCO into account. Look at the huge costs of dealing with botnets, network worms, and spam that we are already paying. If we could disconnect misbehaving nodes automaticly people would have a real reason to make sure their machines don't misbehave.
If they turn off the internet , we will create our own version, which will be better than the previous.
Keep the marketers and all of Africa off it.
Replace flash with something less nasty.
Devise some auto-healing thing that disconnects misbehaving ( windows ) machines. No more botnets or DDOS attacks.
If we had to we could not only rebuild it but build something far better.
Now they can claim a 100% emulation of Windows.
No. They still need to add the random blue-screen feature.
What? That's exactly why market-share is so important. You're assuming they can find other linux machines. And how would they do this? How would it discover other machines? This is hard enough to do with a windows host, let alone one that has ~1/100 the market-share.
Nmap can guess IPs, it can find thousands of windows and linux machines in not very much time.
Linux viruses could find many other hosts to infect at least as fast as nmap can but they don't. The market share argument really does not add up.