I'm sorry but a 'FreeBSD r0x0rs so mUch tHan L1nux' post without any other 'proof' than 'If you are in the l33t BSD users circle, you already know this' IS flamebait!!! It's not even an argument, it's just there to begin a 'BSD vs linux' flamewar, which is, I'm sorry to say, offtopic.
You could argue than the first post was an opinion and that everybody's free to express his opinions, yada, yada, but this kind of opinion fall into the same category as the 'BSD is dead' opinions, that is 'troll/flamebait'...
Now you're right that sometimes stories bring interessant 'tangent' discussions, but I do not feel that would have been the case...
First, it's highly probable that these moderations were made by editors
Second, moderations were right, the first comment was flamebait, and the second offtopic. (Like this one, alas)
The discussion is not specifically about which free distribution should windows be based on, but it's about whether it is a good idea or not and what would be the implications...
I'd tend to agree. However, one also has to have skill to secure a Unix network. The details you look after are not the same, though.
To make things clear, I am not a fan of NT. I prefer linux/unix for servers. I think workstations are easier to work on when they have NT though. It has something to do with the UI, but linux is making progress in that domain, although I would prefer that it wouldn't be on eye-candy (l33t round & transparent windows) but more on old things that hurt me (clipboard, integrated file-explorer (with all the options!) in an 'Open file' dialog, etc)
I tend to agree with the previous poster: you can easily lock down any NT.
They did that at my universities and their NT-domain was the most well built I have ever encountered... far more robust than the one we have at work...
Anyway the only way we found to get around the policies was to open the case and boot from another OS to make our 'modifications'... So we succeeded but since ANY computer is vulnerable when you have physical access to it, you can't bash NT on that.
I also think that playing GTA2 on a university computer is no l33t hax0ring at all, so the other poster that bragged about that really proves nothing. On any computer, if you want to get some work done, you have to have write access somewhere and the ability to run binaries... once you have that, there's no reason why you couldn't play games, they are programs after all... and you are in CS-course to make programs... (Well of course there are many games that need to be installed but really I can't understand that! I mean, there's no fscking DLL to share with another prog, no need for special 'machine-wide' registry settings, so why require it to be 'installed'... Quake 3 r0x0rs!:) )
To be more specific about your post, I think it could refer to some lame special Win9x versions that were extended for multiuser and access restrictions but not to NT. I think that NT was multiuser from day-1. (With the special requirement to look like the 'lame, single user one'...)
Well maybe you have a different philosophy but what you argued was something more like "If you go that way, where do you stop?" than "I do not share this philosophy, here is why".
Guns are intended to kill someone/something. Other things you cited are not. This is where you stop... you stop when you think the 'idea' inherently attached to the object is bad.
It's true that there are so many uses of "-1" (You know "-1 Offtopic", "-1 Troll", etc...), that getting a ten trillion digits for it would be a great breakthrough!!
Granted, my posts weren't nice but, in my opinion, being so provocative (Is she really fascist?) asked for it! What did she (did you) expect by trolling in her own journal and then asking for comments?? No really? What kind of posts did she expect? "Great job!", "H1tl3r rulez!", "You are SO cute, writing all this shit on/."...
I pondered before replying in her journal (Not knowing what was true about her) and I did not want to go the easy way and saying "Shut up fat nazi bitch". If she's really fat that may have hurt her, and I don't like that. You can often be harmlessly rude in opposing ideas, but attacking someone's appearance is petty and truly not my style. I therefore decided (still not knowing much about her!) to clash on the aryan thing...
I'm sorry but I don't think that I really stick to your 'misogynist-ugly-geek-can't-get-a-date' stereotype.
Since you understand me so badly, it may be a good idea for you to keep the "Danger! Danger! Foe ahead" button for me.
That's why MS wants to make apps that upgrade themselves automagically
It's not a bad idea after all, too bad you can't trust MS on anything (They use a good idea bundled with a bad one and a EULA that grants them too much)
I think your dd'ed disks will not be identical, as HD might contains a unique key put when manufacturing it, key that could be used to decrypt the files...
(This might poses some interesting problems for RAID...)
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I'm sorry but a 'FreeBSD r0x0rs so mUch tHan L1nux' post without any other 'proof' than 'If you are in the l33t BSD users circle, you already know this' IS flamebait!!! It's not even an argument, it's just there to begin a 'BSD vs linux' flamewar, which is, I'm sorry to say, offtopic.
You could argue than the first post was an opinion and that everybody's free to express his opinions, yada, yada, but this kind of opinion fall into the same category as the 'BSD is dead' opinions, that is 'troll/flamebait'...
Now you're right that sometimes stories bring interessant 'tangent' discussions, but I do not feel that would have been the case...
First, it's highly probable that these moderations were made by editors
Second, moderations were right, the first comment was flamebait, and the second offtopic. (Like this one, alas)
The discussion is not specifically about which free distribution should windows be based on, but it's about whether it is a good idea or not and what would be the implications...
I agree, best interview in a long time!
By the way, I do not understand your sig, is it a joke from a movie or something?
... that was the point... mocking all those that cannot help boasting they knew it before everyone else.
it's been on the fileshare apps for ages... it came out approx October 2001
Oh you don't r0x0rs as much as I do, I got it from a uNd3rgrouNd warez s1te in June 2001!
I'd tend to agree. However, one also has to have skill to secure a Unix network. The details you look after are not the same, though.
To make things clear, I am not a fan of NT. I prefer linux/unix for servers. I think workstations are easier to work on when they have NT though.
It has something to do with the UI, but linux is making progress in that domain, although I would prefer that it wouldn't be on eye-candy (l33t round & transparent windows) but more on old things that hurt me (clipboard, integrated file-explorer (with all the options!) in an 'Open file' dialog, etc)
I tend to agree with the previous poster: you can easily lock down any NT.
:) )
They did that at my universities and their NT-domain was the most well built I have ever encountered... far more robust than the one we have at work...
Anyway the only way we found to get around the policies was to open the case and boot from another OS to make our 'modifications'... So we succeeded but since ANY computer is vulnerable when you have physical access to it, you can't bash NT on that.
I also think that playing GTA2 on a university computer is no l33t hax0ring at all, so the other poster that bragged about that really proves nothing. On any computer, if you want to get some work done, you have to have write access somewhere and the ability to run binaries... once you have that, there's no reason why you couldn't play games, they are programs after all... and you are in CS-course to make programs...
(Well of course there are many games that need to be installed but really I can't understand that! I mean, there's no fscking DLL to share with another prog, no need for special 'machine-wide' registry settings, so why require it to be 'installed'... Quake 3 r0x0rs!
To be more specific about your post, I think it could refer to some lame special Win9x versions that were extended for multiuser and access restrictions but not to NT. I think that NT was multiuser from day-1. (With the special requirement to look like the 'lame, single user one'...)
Well maybe you have a different philosophy but what you argued was something more like "If you go that way, where do you stop?" than "I do not share this philosophy, here is why".
Guns are intended to kill someone/something. Other things you cited are not. This is where you stop... you stop when you think the 'idea' inherently attached to the object is bad.
Of course a great proportion of guns will never kill anyone! But they were made to kill people!
Unlike cars...
They refuse to help selling things that were MADE TO KILL PEOPLE! It's a philosophical thing, see?
by volume in Gigabytes
And what about in MB or KB?
The same??
Ok, that was just to use a buzzword, I understand better now!
Very good... and what is the composition of a government? People.
Next bullshit please...
(I hope you will get elected in your company's director board this year)
...was a nice documentary, not too extreme and well done IMHO.
The movie director is a member of the NRA and has quite a good approach of always asking "Why the US is different from the other countries?"...
Mmh... funny...
It's true that there are so many uses of "-1" (You know "-1 Offtopic", "-1 Troll", etc...), that getting a ten trillion digits for it would be a great breakthrough!!
I hope you're not talking about converting your 15GB of MP3 into 100GB of FLAC!!
/. and you weren't clear enough...
Would be stupid, but hey we're on
Harass? Posted two or three posts to her journal?
/."...
Granted, my posts weren't nice but, in my opinion, being so provocative (Is she really fascist?) asked for it! What did she (did you) expect by trolling in her own journal and then asking for comments?? No really? What kind of posts did she expect? "Great job!", "H1tl3r rulez!", "You are SO cute, writing all this shit on
I pondered before replying in her journal (Not knowing what was true about her) and I did not want to go the easy way and saying "Shut up fat nazi bitch". If she's really fat that may have hurt her, and I don't like that. You can often be harmlessly rude in opposing ideas, but attacking someone's appearance is petty and truly not my style. I therefore decided (still not knowing much about her!) to clash on the aryan thing...
I'm sorry but I don't think that I really stick to your 'misogynist-ugly-geek-can't-get-a-date' stereotype.
Since you understand me so badly, it may be a good idea for you to keep the "Danger! Danger! Foe ahead" button for me.
I'm curious to know why I did end up on your foes list?
So what?
Why did you post this? And why at +2?
And what about Windows?
It has nothing to do with real windows! It's just a metaphor like Visa's.
Corporations trademark whatever please them, alas.
Mod him up!
*He* seems to have read the article!!
(I did not, shame on me)
That's why MS wants to make apps that upgrade themselves automagically
It's not a bad idea after all, too bad you can't trust MS on anything (They use a good idea bundled with a bad one and a EULA that grants them too much)
It's the same for me
I clicked on the CERT.org link and it did work...
I really hope I didn't fix something, I can be so clumsy sometimes...
I mean... other browsers use plugins, right??
/. article, and should RTFA...
I may be misleaded by the
But what about other browsers???
I think your dd'ed disks will not be identical, as HD might contains a unique key put when manufacturing it, key that could be used to decrypt the files...
(This might poses some interesting problems for RAID...)
Please explain!