Of course, now that more people are using Linux, hackers are getting better at hacking it. Everyone agrees, however, that good software is safer than bad software.
isn't it wonderfully diplomatic how they avoid mentioning the "bad software" by name. we all know that win admins are the ones planning their firefighting, while the rest of us just plan our new deployments. at least these guys are eating the dogfood they are shouting.
17 years after Challenger our capacity to gather and analyze more data faster should mean a shorter space grounding. this will be an interesting test of the progress made by the scientific community in efficiency of operations since the Challenger.
this is more bold action, but this time in an appropriate fashion. well, at least it would make me feel better to see things moving again. i'm sure the nasa engineers are shitting their pants right now wondering if they are going to fire off another shuttle before they know some definate answers.
didn't they say that they were the security flaw?? did i miss something???
now i remember, since everything that is sold generates money, and money buys guns. everything sold outside the US supports terrorism if the MPAA or M$ feel threatened. jeez.
actually, if someone hacked your fridge, wouldn't they steal your bud light before they rotted out your food???
as far as NATing goes, first, these things are just reporting devices, not controllers. a world viewable fridge, sure, why not, as long as there aren't any hooks to change settings.
i just have a hard time thinking about my kitchen nat. what's next, a wireless bed station (oops, my secret is out:)
have a 667 tibook, get like 2.5-3 hours of battery depending on use ( or an hour and one cd burned with my external:) . i upgraded to 10.2.4 and haven't had a single complaint. even leave the airport card running non-stop.
fact is, camino made a huge jump in stability and usability for its first non-chimera release. kudos!
the fact is, every time i turn on a regular L-user to Mozilla as an alternative to IE, they make the switch and never go back. they love the pop-up blocking, and the control they have been given back. lets face it IE allows those drive-bye shooting like viruses (spyware) to be presented for install so fast, it is the worst security risk out there today, and the biggest dump on useability (cuz spyware is obnoxious as hell) in the entire os.
what you get when you choose a security through obscrurity strategy within an open source deployment. how many script kiddies know MIPS assembler? my little cobalt raq2 is a lovely server running a 2.0 kernel:)
ok, there are some limitations, but, on the whole, i get great performance out of the little beast.
actual security, computers or otherwise is just an illusion. the concept of security relies entirely on trust. just the way it is, has been and will always be.
i knew i wasn't the only one who needed the reverse aol spam filter! i think i'm going to send your post to her so she knows i'm not alone in hating "mommy-spam" mail!
unfortunately, i would guess that half of their spam is legitimate communications that get blocked. i have alot of email addys. but apparently, only my mac.com address gets through.
every other letter i write to my mom gets rejected. if i am not allowed to spam my mom, who else should be????
if there's one thing that's truly fucking evil about XP it is the requirement that certan programs have about using the administrator account. have another program, video security cameras, same way. sure, its nice to limit access for certain items, but my poor L-users have to get into their stuff.
frankly, i'm just glad that they know only enough to do quick books and word, and that their router has all incoming ports explicitly blocked:)
people. you may have forgotten already, but Connectix also made the Virtual PlayStation emulator for the Macintosh.
take your heads off of your PCs and see this for what it could really be! yes, m$ wants to run PS 1 roms on the XBOX.
ok, well, maybe not, but its as good a reason as any for their purchase, unless they plan to fuse virtual server with windows just to make extra bloat. hmmm. i keep thinking back to Cartman's trapper keeper. microsoft insorping virtualization. . . . .
read something a little more descriptive of the winblows development process. Mark Lucovsky wrote this ppt presentation to share with the world why windows has "issues". paul's junk looks like its ready to go into third grade readers and whatnot. though i do like the colorful metaphors like "bowels of microsoft".
actually, get this right. rendezvous is based on (and quite heavily supported) by the zeroconf working standards group. yes, it can even work on winblows, theoretically speaking, of course.
Sell the install disk. Maybe eBay won't let you, under MS pressure, but people managed to sell things before eBay cam along. You have the right to
Actually, you don't...that's the whole idea behind an OEM license, it's not to be separated from the computer it came with.
depending on which manufacturer it comes from, the separation of manufacturer and disk becomes more and more dicey. some OEMs, usually the smaller ones will give you a fairly generic windows disk, that could theoretically install on any machine. many OEMs however, give you a very cusomized disk (like HP, IBM, Sony) that only works on the model of machine you get the disk with. it scans for something probably in the BIOS to figure out if it is the right machine and blocks much from happening on non-OEM equipment for that disk.
sounds to me like you wanna be running OS X and Debian PPC brother. forget the x86 garbage. didn't you see, even with emperor linux, you'll be buying a copy of windows from sony.
the heinlen novel "Friday" which describes a system with space elevators that go to the lagrangian points. worth a read any way you cut it though.
leave dan marino out of this . . . .
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us long suffering dolphins fans have heard it enough, and this year was truly depressing. the dolphins just make us cry:(
as an aside. i think everyone out there who has contact with sun somehow sees this one in the works. i have a cobalt server, and the guy who was the engineer in charge of the list got canned. i'm sure they're aware of the implications of keeping managers and canning engineers, but you can only get away with so much of it before your company goes, POOF, and becomes a Geek Story. "There used to be this company that made . . ... " We'll miss em, hope that maybe IBM buys em out or somethin.
i killed my karma bonus. somehow this was on topic before i started talking, but i wanna post it anyway. feel free to skip this if you only speak french.
liberty, equality, fraternity.
well great, fraternity is always nice (course women really aren't part of that, and it aint by accident). but if you know anything, you've known from the get go that liberty is the root of inequality. in the USA people typically equate equality to the equality of opportunity (like mortgage lending, or head football coaching gigs for blacks and other minorities). over in france, they seem to prefer a more absolute version of equality, but that kind of equality comes solely at the expense of freedom!
why this long rant, when this stuff is about blogging, not about france???
i can't answer that either, but if you're upset that nobody reads your blog, maybe you're just having alot of gallic thoughts that day, poor you.
Finally, the improved back remembers pages visited days ago. Explorer and Netscape both delete back memory when the program is closed. Not so with Cockburn's improved version.
oh, it's been improved to be that way? in the early days of the internet, all the questions i ever fielded from the computarded were, "how do i erase where i've been so nobody else knows?".
kids don't want their parents to know. guys definately don't want their women to know. and nobody at all wants their government to know where they've been surfing. does the super back button have an erase the back button feature built in???? that's all anyone really wants anyway.
figures, academia always seems to nail their heads right on all the internet hits.
best back buttons around today are on Mac revs of Mozilla, IE and most mac browsers. CMD + -- = go back . i jones for it on pc's, it rules. course it did wear out the left arrow key on my keyboard after a few years of going back:)
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isn't it wonderfully diplomatic how they avoid mentioning the "bad software" by name. we all know that win admins are the ones planning their firefighting, while the rest of us just plan our new deployments. at least these guys are eating the dogfood they are shouting.
neophyte non-apple user:"is yours the big one"
me:"yes it is sweetheart, come over to my place and let me show it to you"
nnu:"what about mini-me?"
me:"there's nothing mini about it"
etc. . . . . .
this is more bold action, but this time in an appropriate fashion. well, at least it would make me feel better to see things moving again. i'm sure the nasa engineers are shitting their pants right now wondering if they are going to fire off another shuttle before they know some definate answers.
now i remember, since everything that is sold generates money, and money buys guns. everything sold outside the US supports terrorism if the MPAA or M$ feel threatened. jeez.
as far as NATing goes, first, these things are just reporting devices, not controllers. a world viewable fridge, sure, why not, as long as there aren't any hooks to change settings.
i just have a hard time thinking about my kitchen nat. what's next, a wireless bed station (oops, my secret is out:)
have a 667 tibook, get like 2.5-3 hours of battery depending on use ( or an hour and one cd burned with my external:) . i upgraded to 10.2.4 and haven't had a single complaint. even leave the airport card running non-stop.
the fact is, every time i turn on a regular L-user to Mozilla as an alternative to IE, they make the switch and never go back. they love the pop-up blocking, and the control they have been given back. lets face it IE allows those drive-bye shooting like viruses (spyware) to be presented for install so fast, it is the worst security risk out there today, and the biggest dump on useability (cuz spyware is obnoxious as hell) in the entire os.
ok, there are some limitations, but, on the whole, i get great performance out of the little beast.
up above the clouds so high, like i'm sitting in a tree with a child. twinkle twinkle little knife, how i wonder who i are.
see what happens when you post when you're drunk and struck out at a club!
actual security, computers or otherwise is just an illusion. the concept of security relies entirely on trust. just the way it is, has been and will always be.
i knew i wasn't the only one who needed the reverse aol spam filter! i think i'm going to send your post to her so she knows i'm not alone in hating "mommy-spam" mail!
every other letter i write to my mom gets rejected. if i am not allowed to spam my mom, who else should be????
frankly, i'm just glad that they know only enough to do quick books and word, and that their router has all incoming ports explicitly blocked :)
here in miami, that thing might get 100 miles to the gallon during rush hour. . . .
take your heads off of your PCs and see this for what it could really be! yes, m$ wants to run PS 1 roms on the XBOX.
ok, well, maybe not, but its as good a reason as any for their purchase, unless they plan to fuse virtual server with windows just to make extra bloat. hmmm. i keep thinking back to Cartman's trapper keeper. microsoft insorping virtualization. . . . .
read something a little more descriptive of the winblows development process. Mark Lucovsky wrote this ppt presentation to share with the world why windows has "issues". paul's junk looks like its ready to go into third grade readers and whatnot. though i do like the colorful metaphors like "bowels of microsoft".
actually, get this right. rendezvous is based on (and quite heavily supported) by the zeroconf working standards group. yes, it can even work on winblows, theoretically speaking, of course.
Actually, you don't...that's the whole idea behind an OEM license, it's not to be separated from the computer it came with.
depending on which manufacturer it comes from, the separation of manufacturer and disk becomes more and more dicey. some OEMs, usually the smaller ones will give you a fairly generic windows disk, that could theoretically install on any machine. many OEMs however, give you a very cusomized disk (like HP, IBM, Sony) that only works on the model of machine you get the disk with. it scans for something probably in the BIOS to figure out if it is the right machine and blocks much from happening on non-OEM equipment for that disk.
sounds to me like you wanna be running OS X and Debian PPC brother. forget the x86 garbage. didn't you see, even with emperor linux, you'll be buying a copy of windows from sony.
the heinlen novel "Friday" which describes a system with space elevators that go to the lagrangian points. worth a read any way you cut it though.
as an aside. i think everyone out there who has contact with sun somehow sees this one in the works. i have a cobalt server, and the guy who was the engineer in charge of the list got canned. i'm sure they're aware of the implications of keeping managers and canning engineers, but you can only get away with so much of it before your company goes, POOF, and becomes a Geek Story. "There used to be this company that made . . . .. " We'll miss em, hope that maybe IBM buys em out or somethin.
liberty, equality, fraternity.
well great, fraternity is always nice (course women really aren't part of that, and it aint by accident). but if you know anything, you've known from the get go that liberty is the root of inequality. in the USA people typically equate equality to the equality of opportunity (like mortgage lending, or head football coaching gigs for blacks and other minorities). over in france, they seem to prefer a more absolute version of equality, but that kind of equality comes solely at the expense of freedom!
why this long rant, when this stuff is about blogging, not about france???
i can't answer that either, but if you're upset that nobody reads your blog, maybe you're just having alot of gallic thoughts that day, poor you.
i mean, how else can you show off all the money you have, but by using lots of expensive stock photography from the photo library you absorbed.
is it just me, or is m$ just like Cartman's Trapper Keeper?? windows, combine with crappy media player, windows insorping . . . . . .
yes, this is what happens when you post at 3 am after you came home from a bar.
WARNING!! UNFAIR USE OF GOOGLE TO MAKE A POINT BELOW. THIS IS NOT FOR THE WEEK OF HEART OR MIND, THAT MEANS YOU WINDOWS USERS.
compare the amount of programs to erase internet history and the accompanying advertising to the amount of programs to add internet history to back button. If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does . . . .
oh, it's been improved to be that way? in the early days of the internet, all the questions i ever fielded from the computarded were, "how do i erase where i've been so nobody else knows?".
kids don't want their parents to know. guys definately don't want their women to know. and nobody at all wants their government to know where they've been surfing. does the super back button have an erase the back button feature built in???? that's all anyone really wants anyway.
figures, academia always seems to nail their heads right on all the internet hits.
best back buttons around today are on Mac revs of Mozilla, IE and most mac browsers. CMD + -- = go back . i jones for it on pc's, it rules. course it did wear out the left arrow key on my keyboard after a few years of going back :)