The customer is not *always* right. The business is not *always* right. No one is always right. That's why treating your customers with respect (which sometimes means saying "no" to the truly asinine requests) is the best way to be successful.
Exactly. Another way to put this that I've heard and liked is: The customer is not always right. But the customer is always the customer.
Last version of Netscape to support OS 9 was 7.02. I assume there's no OS 9 version of 7.1/7.2 because they're built on versions of Mozilla that don't support OS 9, the last one that did was 1.2.1.
Just make the first rules something along the lines of tcp localhost any localhost any allow and udp localhost any localhost any allow. Any firewall worth its source code executes rules top down until it finds a match, then executes the stated action.
Is that any different than how PayPal was being run before eBay bought them? I seem to remember the PayPal haters complaining about it long before eBay bought them.
Older versions of ICQ can't talk to AIM, and vice versa. Personally, I expect sooner or later ICQ will cease to be a separate service from AIM; ever since AOL purchased ICQ the two have gotten more and more alike... ICQ uses AIM's OSCAR protocol now.
Microsoft has included a programmatic interface for Windows Firewall that allows an application to do things like set FirewallEnabled to FALSE, add itself to the list of AuthorizedApplications, or change the configuration of GloballyOpenPorts. Our concern here is that a malicious application could turn off Windows Firewall or, more likely, mark itself as an authorized application. Corporate administrators can disable some or all local configurations, which will prevent programs from making changes; but ultimately, Microsoft maintains, individuals still have to be smart about what apps they run. Even the best deadbolt won't protect your house once you've let the bad guys in.
I agree with PCMag on this. Microsoft still doesn't get it. To continue the Microsoft analogy, they gave the bad guys a key to the deadbolt.
Looks like I'll be continuing to ignore the built in firewall in favor of a real one.
You're right. I just tried a print preview of it from Safari and it did look fine. I just haven't used Safari all that much. I started using IE at version 2.1, and finally moved away for good to OmniWeb 4 and more recently to Firebird/Firefox.
I do find Mac IE good for printing. It's become less and less of a problem, but there are still pages that IE does a far better job rendering for printing than Firefox.
Here's an example of a page I recently had to go into IE to get to print nicely -- Preview showed me that Firefox would have cropped off the right edge of the text. http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/interps-process.htm l
Motorola had another advantage over Apple -- a 5 year warranty. Motorola was about to ship the StarMax 6000 line when their licence was pulled. It would have been the first G3 Mac; Apple didn't announce the Power Mac G3 until four months after Motorola's announcement.
My parents still use their StarMax 3000/160MT, and it's an interesting beast. The Tanzania motherboard was initially used only in the clones, but Apple eventually used it in the Power Mac 4400. It was designed to be used with standard PC components, and included PS2 mouse and keyboard ports in addition to ADB. The motherboard and System Enabler even supported manual eject floppy drives, though Motorola used an auto eject drive. At the time my parents bought it, the other option under consideration was the Power Mac 6360.
And there's good news for current T-Mobile Sidekick customers: You will get a chance be one of the first to upgrade to the new device at a special price.
Sounds about like the reliability of the current Sidekick. I'm rather lucky, my first CSK lasted 11 months and was only replaced a week or so ago after the backlight developed problems.
Yeah, that's pretty much what they were doing. Their Windows Messenger popup spam was selling software that would block Windows Messenger popup spam. It's in the Union-Tribune link.
There is a very easy way to secure any operating system. Turn your computer off.
This alone isn't enough. You need physical security, too. If I can get physical access to the machine, I can walk out of the room with the whole thing, or just it's hard drive, or even just an image of it's hard drive, and start working on it.
The only truly secure computer is encased in concrete and sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, two thousand miles south of Honolulu.
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I had NAV 9 on Mac OS X report finding a Netsky variant in an email I received a few weeks ago. Specifically, it thought the Thunderbird inbox was infected when the email was written to that file.
False positives are problems with all pattern matching systems, but it doesn't seem to come up that often. The anti-virus vendors seem to do a pretty good job of finding unique strings to match on.
It is possible for anti-virus software to detect unknown viruses by monitoring for suspicious activity. Several viruses for classic Mac OS were file infectors that attached themselves to an existing application on your machine. Thus, you don't need to have specific rules to catch these viruses, you simply monitor for and alert on attempts to write to files of type APPL.
I'd disagree. Comparing my parents' 8 year old StarMax 3000/160 (160MHz PowerPC 603e... second generation PowerPC, so roughly equivalent to PPro or PII), to my 4 year old iBook (466MHz PowerPC G3) for web browsing on 56k dialup, the iBook is a notably better experience. Even over dialup, the processor just can't seem to keep up with rendering today's graphics/Flash/Java laden web pages.
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Exactly. Another way to put this that I've heard and liked is: The customer is not always right. But the customer is always the customer.
Last version of Netscape to support OS 9 was 7.02. I assume there's no OS 9 version of 7.1/7.2 because they're built on versions of Mozilla that don't support OS 9, the last one that did was 1.2.1.
I would guess that they mean better popup blocking than previous versions of Netscape, and probably IE SP2 as well.
Just make the first rules something along the lines of tcp localhost any localhost any allow and udp localhost any localhost any allow. Any firewall worth its source code executes rules top down until it finds a match, then executes the stated action.
Ah, I wasn't sure how they did it. On Mac OS, Mozilla Suite and Netscape are single applications.
Guess this hypothetical student will just have to use Mozilla Suite instead of the separate Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Darn. ;)
Is that any different than how PayPal was being run before eBay bought them? I seem to remember the PayPal haters complaining about it long before eBay bought them.
Older versions of ICQ can't talk to AIM, and vice versa. Personally, I expect sooner or later ICQ will cease to be a separate service from AIM; ever since AOL purchased ICQ the two have gotten more and more alike... ICQ uses AIM's OSCAR protocol now.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=257 91
Yes, that is correct.
I agree with PCMag on this. Microsoft still doesn't get it. To continue the Microsoft analogy, they gave the bad guys a key to the deadbolt.
Looks like I'll be continuing to ignore the built in firewall in favor of a real one.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1631256,00.as p
I think the Honda Civic Hybrid looks like a real car.
You're right. I just tried a print preview of it from Safari and it did look fine. I just haven't used Safari all that much. I started using IE at version 2.1, and finally moved away for good to OmniWeb 4 and more recently to Firebird/Firefox.
Here's an example of a page I recently had to go into IE to get to print nicely -- Preview showed me that Firefox would have cropped off the right edge of the text. http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/interps-process.htm l
My parents still use their StarMax 3000/160MT, and it's an interesting beast. The Tanzania motherboard was initially used only in the clones, but Apple eventually used it in the Power Mac 4400. It was designed to be used with standard PC components, and included PS2 mouse and keyboard ports in addition to ADB. The motherboard and System Enabler even supported manual eject floppy drives, though Motorola used an auto eject drive. At the time my parents bought it, the other option under consideration was the Power Mac 6360.
The SSH app (Terminal Client) is a downloadable program, it's not preinstalled on the device.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5592481/
Sounds about like the reliability of the current Sidekick. I'm rather lucky, my first CSK lasted 11 months and was only replaced a week or so ago after the backlight developed problems.
In Hawaii, they make it pretty simple:
"Any person registered to vote may cast an absentee ballot."
http://www.state.hi.us/elections/voteab.html
http://wwws.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/ind ex.html
Yeah, that's pretty much what they were doing. Their Windows Messenger popup spam was selling software that would block Windows Messenger popup spam. It's in the Union-Tribune link.
This alone isn't enough. You need physical security, too. If I can get physical access to the machine, I can walk out of the room with the whole thing, or just it's hard drive, or even just an image of it's hard drive, and start working on it.
The only truly secure computer is encased in concrete and sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, two thousand miles south of Honolulu.
False positives are problems with all pattern matching systems, but it doesn't seem to come up that often. The anti-virus vendors seem to do a pretty good job of finding unique strings to match on.
It is possible for anti-virus software to detect unknown viruses by monitoring for suspicious activity. Several viruses for classic Mac OS were file infectors that attached themselves to an existing application on your machine. Thus, you don't need to have specific rules to catch these viruses, you simply monitor for and alert on attempts to write to files of type APPL.
Editing text files?
I'd disagree. Comparing my parents' 8 year old StarMax 3000/160 (160MHz PowerPC 603e... second generation PowerPC, so roughly equivalent to PPro or PII), to my 4 year old iBook (466MHz PowerPC G3) for web browsing on 56k dialup, the iBook is a notably better experience. Even over dialup, the processor just can't seem to keep up with rendering today's graphics/Flash/Java laden web pages.