Mozilla was more like Firefox and had less features. Hasn't Aol/Netscape learned its lesson? I mean, Mozilla, Opera, etc went years without putting a dent in the IE market share and it seems FireFox did it with ease because its small and fast.
I don't think the community wants MS to open up the Windows source. Even MS said that doing so would be 'a threat to national security'. What we do want is for MS products to better interopate with open source.
Complaining to your Congressmen just gets you on the 'watch this guy, he's a possible terrorist' list. In the US, if you don't shut up and like it, there is something wrong withy ou.
I agree. HT causes more problems than its worth. I've gotten in the habit of just disabling it on all P4 machines I admin. The developers at my office disable it because it locks thier XP machines. I can't even get Linux to run tne without a kernel panic or strange issue every few weeks. Once I disable HT everything works fine.
The same can be said?? What I said was vulnerabilies are not being found by Microsoft but by crackers or security groups. The vuln with exploit code is then released into the wild, then MS patches days, weeks, even months after the exploit code is out. Name an open source project that waits even a week to patch a critical hole?
With open source, the vuln is usually found by the ones developing the project or a group that has forked the code. The patch and new version is released before the exploit code. So, when an exploit comes out, you have a place to go to get a patch.
These vulnerabilies are STILL not fixed. Its been like 4 or 5 days.
PHPBB/PHP bug hit a lot of people hard because many people go with the default apache configuration and file system permissions which are not suitable for a public server.
I'm not talking about that though. I'm talking about the fact that when a critical exploit exists for an open source software product, its usually disovered by people involed with the product. The fix is made, vendors are notified, updates are released. THEN, the exploits come out. With Windows, many times the exploits are out before the patch and people are left high and dry.
....even for a Windows XP system patched with Service Pack Two.
Hey, let me give you all a tip.....even if the future service packs for XP reaches version 10, it will alway be insecure and full of critical issues that are discovered by people other than Microsoft.
At least with Linux, the community usually discovers them first and before the problem is made public there is already a patch available. Now, these poor saps with Windows machines will probably have to wait weeks for a patch. Meanwhile, thier machines are being zombified as I type and turned into spam gateways.
You sure do make a lot of assumptions in you posts. Truthfully, I haven't used Windows since NT4 and I only had about 10 machines at most although they were very high traffic, thousands of users. Before 2000 came out, I migrated them all to Linux and BSD. But, Maybe the rest of the world is as stupid as I am and this Linux thing that is thrashing microsoft is just a figment of my imagination.
Unfortunatly, my gaming is limited to whats available on Linux since its my desktop as well. Why would Windows need Samba?
The point is my post was that many people, and I'm sure even you, break the law on a constant basis without even knowing it. There are laws hundreds of years old still on the books that basically outlaw breathing. I mean, it wasn't till a couple years ago that Christmas became legal again in Virginia because of a law made in the 1800s.
Of course they don't. If anything,unsubsribing will triple the spam you do get.
Besides filtering spam I started creating a seperate email alias for every website I need an email address on. When that alias starts to get spam I delete it, and I know where its coming from.
The most surprising place I ever get spam from is sears. I think they have someone on the inside selling their customer list because I will start getting spam about 2 weeks after ordering something.
My point, is that as a Linux/Windows admin for quite some time, I was always dealing with Windows machine problems. Dr. Watson popping up for strange reasons, never ending security patches I would have to install on each machine, 1 by 1, reboot after reboot after reboot after reboot. After I rebooted them, I would have to reboot them some more, reapply service packs, etc. Windows is a piece of shit, thats my point.
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Hey, Gentoo user, thanks for helping to do all that alpha testing! The linux community needs more bleeding edge testers
I'd expect it to be much higher, I always considered at least 90% of americans to be morons.
I haven't read the paper but I'm guessing it suggests you simply ignore the community and route all their emails to /dev/null.
Mozilla was more like Firefox and had less features. Hasn't Aol/Netscape learned its lesson? I mean, Mozilla, Opera, etc went years without putting a dent in the IE market share and it seems FireFox did it with ease because its small and fast.
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Apple! vendor lock in? You have to be kidding!!! Thats never happened before.
Yeah, by sophisticated they mean its one where they put @citibank.com in the reply-to address of the email so you know its legit!
I don't think the community wants MS to open up the Windows source. Even MS said that doing so would be 'a threat to national security'. What we do want is for MS products to better interopate with open source.
Complaining to your Congressmen just gets you on the 'watch this guy, he's a possible terrorist' list. In the US, if you don't shut up and like it, there is something wrong withy ou.
I agree. HT causes more problems than its worth. I've gotten in the habit of just disabling it on all P4 machines I admin. The developers at my office disable it because it locks thier XP machines. I can't even get Linux to run tne without a kernel panic or strange issue every few weeks. Once I disable HT everything works fine.
Unauthorized copying is not stealing. Stealing: criminal law. Copyright: Civil.
Heh, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? Your not a criminal till you get convicted.
The same can be said?? What I said was vulnerabilies are not being found by Microsoft but by crackers or security groups. The vuln with exploit code is then released into the wild, then MS patches days, weeks, even months after the exploit code is out. Name an open source project that waits even a week to patch a critical hole?
With open source, the vuln is usually found by the ones developing the project or a group that has forked the code. The patch and new version is released before the exploit code. So, when an exploit comes out, you have a place to go to get a patch.
These vulnerabilies are STILL not fixed. Its been like 4 or 5 days.
PHPBB/PHP bug hit a lot of people hard because many people go with the default apache configuration and file system permissions which are not suitable for a public server.
I'm not talking about that though. I'm talking about the fact that when a critical exploit exists for an open source software product, its usually disovered by people involed with the product. The fix is made, vendors are notified, updates are released. THEN, the exploits come out. With Windows, many times the exploits are out before the patch and people are left high and dry.
heh, woops. Just a typo.
Hey, let me give you all a tip.....even if the future service packs for XP reaches version 10, it will alway be insecure and full of critical issues that are discovered by people other than Microsoft.
At least with Linux, the community usually discovers them first and before the problem is made public there is already a patch available. Now, these poor saps with Windows machines will probably have to wait weeks for a patch. Meanwhile, thier machines are being zombified as I type and turned into spam gateways.
Or, try gentoo. "emerge mod_php"
You sure do make a lot of assumptions in you posts. Truthfully, I haven't used Windows since NT4 and I only had about 10 machines at most although they were very high traffic, thousands of users. Before 2000 came out, I migrated them all to Linux and BSD. But, Maybe the rest of the world is as stupid as I am and this Linux thing that is thrashing microsoft is just a figment of my imagination.
Unfortunatly, my gaming is limited to whats available on Linux since its my desktop as well. Why would Windows need Samba?
Uhh, yeah...I'm so ashamed.
The point is my post was that many people, and I'm sure even you, break the law on a constant basis without even knowing it. There are laws hundreds of years old still on the books that basically outlaw breathing. I mean, it wasn't till a couple years ago that Christmas became legal again in Virginia because of a law made in the 1800s.
You have to be really dumb to get caught war driving, your already in the get away car!
Its 44 security holes we won't have anymore in the near future. Probably better than 3 months of work at Microsoft.
Of course they don't. If anything,unsubsribing will triple the spam you do get.
Besides filtering spam I started creating a seperate email alias for every website I need an email address on. When that alias starts to get spam I delete it, and I know where its coming from.
The most surprising place I ever get spam from is sears. I think they have someone on the inside selling their customer list because I will start getting spam about 2 weeks after ordering something.
Your telling me you never rolled a stop sign? You've never gone 5mph over the speed limit? You never drank a beer under age or smoked pot? Please.
I can pick up Friends re-runs with an antenna, why not with the internet?
My point, is that as a Linux/Windows admin for quite some time, I was always dealing with Windows machine problems. Dr. Watson popping up for strange reasons, never ending security patches I would have to install on each machine, 1 by 1, reboot after reboot after reboot after reboot. After I rebooted them, I would have to reboot them some more, reapply service packs, etc. Windows is a piece of shit, thats my point.
Notice the have to at least obtain a warrent. In the US there is no such requirement.
I always find it funny when windows users gloat over a 30 day uptime.....