I have to agree with him.. I'm due to have a tech from Covad come to my house tomorrow to install the DSL router. Covad is bringing DSL to Dayton, OH months ahead of Ameritech. Even though the Covad equipment is installed right in the Dayton CO's. Why? Because Ameritech has been pushing personal ISDN in Dayton and still charges per-minute usage for business ISDN customers.. This is their gravy train.. Why should they attempt to get rid of it for something cheaper/better when they make so much more money from ISDN??? So far, my personal impression of Covad has been nothing but top-notch people.. Not only have they been willing to work with me when Ameritech dropped the ball on installing my line, but they called me this morning to remind me that someone would be out to install the router tomorrow between 8am and noon and to make sure I had their number in case there were any problems. When was the last time your phone company did that? Your cable company? Your gas/electric company??? I'm willing to bet they never have... This just further proves that competition is a Good Thing(TM) and that we need more of it. Especially in the local phone company arena. If Covad is eventually able to offer local and long distance telephone service, I will probably end up switching to them.
My employer isnt shutting down, and i have to be at work in a couple of hours to watch things roll over.. Although, most of our mainframes are set to GMT, and GMT just hit midnight about 15 minutes ago..
But, we have taken extra measures to ward off hacks and exploits. IMO, things they should do all the time..
Not necessarily.. The corporate world is very shy about trying new things. And, the general public is also very tuned to commercials on their TVs.
The Intel Inside with the dancing bunny people and Homer Simpson as spokespersons has given Intel a huuuge amount of brand recognition.
People look at AMD and say "Who's that?"
Also, on the subject of BX shortages... Intel is seriously trying to push the new 810 and 820 chipsets. People havent been biting. So, what better way to switch than to create a "shortage" of the BX chipset. For those of you that don't remember, the HX chipset was the best chipset for Pentium processors, but Intel stopped making the HX in favor of the VX (total garbage) chipset and the TX (not much better) chipset. Intel will do whatever they deem necessary to get people off of the BX chip.
To observers outside the terd. Yes, it would take 4 years time to travel to the closest star. But, The terd itself would only experience a few days time because of the time compression effects at relativstic speeds.
Ummm.. I'm game. What does this have to do with radio astronomy and SETI@Home?
1 - The data is collected from Arecibo Observatory. A *radio* telescope, not optical. Radio telescopes don't need dark skies to do their observations.
2 - Participants in SETI@Home do not have to have their own telescope or know anything about the use of a telescope. The data is sent to them via the Internet (You know.. routers, TCP/IP.. etc...) and processed by a client application on a PC.
So, what does any of that have to do with your post????
--- Yep. And it happens all the time to CS students at colleges with unix shell accounts, but nothing truly awful seems to result. Oh that's right, in Windows, *everyone* is the superuser and has access to everything. Great design. --
Not in NT you don't.. Nice try.
Just because you have the common sense not to run all email attachemnts doesn't mean the whole world does too.
This is not a virus.. It is a trojan. It is not exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS, it exploits human beings that are stupid enough to run the attached executable. The only way to avoid it would be to reject all email attachemnts at the email gateway. Not run a different OS.
It also has nothing to do with Open Source vs. Closed Source. Ask Robert Tappan Morris.
And, if you think your system is completely hack-proof then you really are as silly as you sound.
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I have to agree with him.. I'm due to have a tech from Covad come to my house tomorrow to install the DSL router. Covad is bringing DSL to Dayton, OH months ahead of Ameritech. Even though the Covad equipment is installed right in the Dayton CO's. Why? Because Ameritech has been pushing personal ISDN in Dayton and still charges per-minute usage for business ISDN customers.. This is their gravy train.. Why should they attempt to get rid of it for something cheaper/better when they make so much more money from ISDN??? So far, my personal impression of Covad has been nothing but top-notch people.. Not only have they been willing to work with me when Ameritech dropped the ball on installing my line, but they called me this morning to remind me that someone would be out to install the router tomorrow between 8am and noon and to make sure I had their number in case there were any problems. When was the last time your phone company did that? Your cable company? Your gas/electric company??? I'm willing to bet they never have... This just further proves that competition is a Good Thing(TM) and that we need more of it. Especially in the local phone company arena. If Covad is eventually able to offer local and long distance telephone service, I will probably end up switching to them.
My employer isnt shutting down, and i have to be at work in a couple of hours to watch things roll over..
Although, most of our mainframes are set to GMT, and GMT just hit midnight about 15 minutes ago..
But, we have taken extra measures to ward off hacks and exploits. IMO, things they should do all the time..
Happy new year, Slashdot.
Not necessarily.. The corporate world is very shy about trying new things. And, the general public is also very tuned to commercials on their TVs.
The Intel Inside with the dancing bunny people and Homer Simpson as spokespersons has given Intel a huuuge amount of brand recognition.
People look at AMD and say "Who's that?"
Also, on the subject of BX shortages... Intel is seriously trying to push the new 810 and 820 chipsets. People havent been biting. So, what better way to switch than to create a "shortage" of the BX chipset.
For those of you that don't remember, the HX chipset was the best chipset for Pentium processors, but Intel stopped making the HX in favor of the VX (total garbage) chipset and the TX (not much better) chipset. Intel will do whatever they deem necessary to get people off of the BX chip.
To observers outside the terd. Yes, it would take 4 years time to travel to the closest star. But, The terd itself would only experience a few days time because of the time compression effects at relativstic speeds.
Ummm.. I'm game. What does this have to do with radio astronomy and SETI@Home?
1 - The data is collected from Arecibo Observatory. A *radio* telescope, not optical. Radio telescopes don't need dark skies to do their observations.
2 - Participants in SETI@Home do not have to have their own telescope or know anything about the use of a telescope. The data is sent to them via the Internet (You know.. routers, TCP/IP.. etc...) and processed by a client application on a PC.
So, what does any of that have to do with your post????
--- Yep. And it happens all the time to CS students at colleges with unix shell accounts, but nothing truly awful seems to result. Oh that's right, in Windows, *everyone* is the superuser and has access to everything. Great design. --
Not in NT you don't.. Nice try.
Just because you have the common sense not to run all email attachemnts doesn't mean the whole world does too.
This is not a virus.. It is a trojan. It is not exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS, it exploits human beings that are stupid enough to run the attached executable. The only way to avoid it would be to reject all email attachemnts at the email gateway. Not run a different OS.
It also has nothing to do with Open Source vs. Closed Source. Ask Robert Tappan Morris.
And, if you think your system is completely hack-proof then you really are as silly as you sound.