if a domain's primary/sole purpose is a single service, it makes sense to default to that. If I host a wesbite, and my domain is used soley for that website(no email, ftp, etc...) then why add the extra layer of www to signify World-Wide Web? It is redundant.
If you are refering to THE Internet or THE Web, then they are proper nouns and SHOULD be capitalized. If you are refering to a corporation's private internet(intranet) then you do not capitalize it, because there are many of those networks, there is only one Internet.
I have had(posted in this before) a 2000 machine get an RPC virus within 10 minutes of a finished install... Type in the network settings, check connection... Typed in 1 more setting we forgot(dns, silly us) and checked again, connection worked... Said a few words to eachother and BAM, shutdown in 10,9,8... RPC viruses are great!
I actually won 20 bucks, as we bet to see if we could get a virus before we could patch a system. Sucker.
"Windows 98 is 6 years old and isn't sold with computers anymore. This test just shows remaining Windows 98 users they should keep up to date or upgrade to XP."
This sounds bad I guess, but if Microsoft would have released say 2 or 3 more services packs, 98se would have been a sweet desktop OS... It problems were bugs, DOS and a GUI shell are plenty scalable to desktop systems. The only reason Microsoft would need to get off the 9x bandwagon was when they wanted more money.
If 98se source was released, it could become probably a superior desktop machine to XP... better firewall, ad-aware, pop-up blocking.. services turned off, bug fixes, update protocols and such... If only.
In talking with a co-worker of mine, I told him of stories of people installing XP and getting viruses during install, or so soon after install that patches coulnd't be applied. He didn't believe me, so we tried it out.
Clean installed Win 2000 Pro(no XP disk on hand) in the DMZ of his router... Any traffic going to his ip(DHCP assigned) gets thrown to that box... that is as virgin a connection to the net as we could create.
We installed, did all the wizard crap, and finished. All was fine. Double checked network settings, and filled those in correctly. Check web connectivity, failed. Input DNS address(duh!) and tried again, it worked.
Once the default homepage came up, my friend turned in his chair and asked, 'so how do we want to track this?', 'how will we tell if it has a virus...?'
I pointed to the screen, and on it, was an RPC viruses' shutdown countdown window... From install to infected in (approximately) 10 minutes.
Windows NTFS, Mac's HFS+ and modern Linux file systems, all should be able to scale to the terabyte range... Now, if Longhorn's search/db features, Apple's Spotlight feature and Linux's... grep feature(cough) can scale that high, who knows?
I suspect that Longhorn, because of their database setup, would choke first, but Spotlight (using a flat xml index file?) might be the first to not choke on arbitrarily large systems...
If only I had a rack full of linked-xRaid's in RAID 0, full of small documents, I could find out. Donations accepted.
I assume their employee mail system used @google.com, along with support and webmaster-type mails. Any duplicates in a merger webmaster@gmail.com (random person) vs @google.com (google's web development team's email) , would become problematic.
"Google for porn and you get over 8 million hits..."
and Google Image search for porn and you get an evening of entertainment
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I always wondered if it were possible to build some sort of moderation/md5 checksum on files. It a file is actually an RIAA garbage file, then the client recieving that file can flag it somehow. That md5 should be red-flagged whenever found...
maybe it is just a trusted set of users, sharing a.txt file of md5 checksums of all corrupt files found on their p2p app of choice. And then have the search/download function of said p2p app filter out files that match those corrupt files.
A similar approach exists with blocking ranges of IP addresses that are known to be owned by RIAA and such, to avoid being traced by them... or so the thinking goes.
Your lack of knowledge makes me skeptical of your post... I mean, IBM hiring Computer Science guys? IBM/IS/ CS guys. Their entire business model is writing software, sold on their own hardware, and cashing in on big support and customization contracts... 3 of those 4 things(OS/software development, Hardware design/development, Software customization) are the core of CS. Supporting software and hardware isn't far off.
People talk like Linux and Solaris are on equal footing... They arn't. Linux is awesome, I am a big fan(though I still love my mac). However, Solaris(trusted solaris, in particular) is better refined, more secure, more stable, more tested, high government rating.
Solaris isn't the lowend solution to running a webserver, email server, or what not.. But then, if you have an Apple Xserve, why would you want Linux to do those tasks?
Solaris still has Linux beat hands down in the highend. Linux just isn't there yet... yet.
why couldn't he just properly site his source and use the clip? If I write an opinion or research paper, I can quote a corporation or news agency without consulting with them, why can't he?
What needs to happen is for the SCO cases to go to court, and for IBM/Novell/etc to win hands down... In one form or another, the GPL needs to be upheld in court to set precedince, even on a case as profoundly poor as the SCO case.
Then, Novell is welcome to buy SCO for a couple million... A fraction of what SCO is worth now, and only a percentage or two of what they were at the peak. But the case MUST go to court, and the GPL must be upheld.
but this feature will likely be turned on by default, dealing with a machine that only has a single Administrator account(as they put together by default) with a weak password(that they allow, and often have auto-login set)...
I don't mind cool new features or network-able crap, I mind that the crap is ON by default in a system that is top-down not secure out of the box, not even a little. It is wide friggin open.
1. These are not heart monitoring devices running windows, more client doctor/nurse workstations or terminals that pull information from those embedded systems. 2. NAT firewall? NO WAY. have them UNPLUGGED from the world. Have a secure, private LAN that has no physical(in any way) connection with internet machines...
On those workstations, lock them down as tight as possible... Have doc's and nurses not have admin rights... have virus scanners, firewall installed/configured and automated process to keep the machine clean. Unplug (floppy/CD-ROM drive) any device not needed for the machine.
Then ofcourse you have policies like 8+ char passwords, with no words and such. Short timeout periods that require a password to reenter, etc..
He must uh... run XP on his... Apple Powerbook in VirtualPC... Yea, thats it... he just has it installed to, you know... uh, find more reasons to hate microsoft!
freenet doesn't scale well, it has huge routing and discovery issues, making it very unusable... a WWW sized freenet would be crippled, not improved. These are bugs in the code, they need to be fixed.
Freenet doesn't allow the hosting of files, it only allows for submitting. I can't have freenet://wikipedia.org hosted on my own box, and thus ensuring that it is online. Freenet only lets me insert a file or website. That site has to be resubmitted repeatedly(daily, weekly, hourly even) creating multiple versions. PLUS, once a site is submitted, nothing gaurantees that it stays on the freenet, it only is in the user's caches until it gets replaces.
Searching and recieving files in freenet is crippled and broken. Even on good releases, when it 'works', the speed and reliability make it not even qualify as a novelty...
Freenet doesn't work... And this is coming from someone who would love to see freenet succeed.
using public key encryption means that John uses his private key to encrypt his article. Now, users who track John's articles can decrypt using his freely available public key. That means, anyone who wants can read John's articles, true, but it also means that when an article is said to be written by John, a user can prove it because only John can encrypt using his private key... it authenticates the author so you can't spoof someone's identity.
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Apple for many years has actively sought for movies to feature macs in them. Besides, macs generally are more appealing visually.
if a domain's primary/sole purpose is a single service, it makes sense to default to that. If I host a wesbite, and my domain is used soley for that website(no email, ftp, etc...) then why add the extra layer of www to signify World-Wide Web? It is redundant.
If you are refering to THE Internet or THE Web, then they are proper nouns and SHOULD be capitalized. If you are refering to a corporation's private internet(intranet) then you do not capitalize it, because there are many of those networks, there is only one Internet.
I have had(posted in this before) a 2000 machine get an RPC virus within 10 minutes of a finished install... Type in the network settings, check connection... Typed in 1 more setting we forgot(dns, silly us) and checked again, connection worked... Said a few words to eachother and BAM, shutdown in 10,9,8... RPC viruses are great!
I actually won 20 bucks, as we bet to see if we could get a virus before we could patch a system. Sucker.
"Windows 98 is 6 years old and isn't sold with computers anymore. This test just shows remaining Windows 98 users they should keep up to date or upgrade to XP."
This sounds bad I guess, but if Microsoft would have released say 2 or 3 more services packs, 98se would have been a sweet desktop OS... It problems were bugs, DOS and a GUI shell are plenty scalable to desktop systems. The only reason Microsoft would need to get off the 9x bandwagon was when they wanted more money.
If 98se source was released, it could become probably a superior desktop machine to XP... better firewall, ad-aware, pop-up blocking.. services turned off, bug fixes, update protocols and such... If only.
Quick Story:
In talking with a co-worker of mine, I told him of stories of people installing XP and getting viruses during install, or so soon after install that patches coulnd't be applied. He didn't believe me, so we tried it out.
Clean installed Win 2000 Pro(no XP disk on hand) in the DMZ of his router... Any traffic going to his ip(DHCP assigned) gets thrown to that box... that is as virgin a connection to the net as we could create.
We installed, did all the wizard crap, and finished. All was fine. Double checked network settings, and filled those in correctly. Check web connectivity, failed. Input DNS address(duh!) and tried again, it worked.
Once the default homepage came up, my friend turned in his chair and asked, 'so how do we want to track this?', 'how will we tell if it has a virus...?'
I pointed to the screen, and on it, was an RPC viruses' shutdown countdown window... From install to infected in (approximately) 10 minutes.
Windows NTFS, Mac's HFS+ and modern Linux file systems, all should be able to scale to the terabyte range... Now, if Longhorn's search/db features, Apple's Spotlight feature and Linux's... grep feature(cough) can scale that high, who knows?
I suspect that Longhorn, because of their database setup, would choke first, but Spotlight (using a flat xml index file?) might be the first to not choke on arbitrarily large systems...
If only I had a rack full of linked-xRaid's in RAID 0, full of small documents, I could find out. Donations accepted.
I assume their employee mail system used @google.com, along with support and webmaster-type mails. Any duplicates in a merger webmaster@gmail.com (random person) vs @google.com (google's web development team's email) , would become problematic.
I totally agree... except for the fact that Apple literally invented the PDA market, and the tablet is simply a merger of laptop and palmtop devices.
and Google Image search for porn and you get an evening of entertainment
I always wondered if it were possible to build some sort of moderation/md5 checksum on files. It a file is actually an RIAA garbage file, then the client recieving that file can flag it somehow. That md5 should be red-flagged whenever found...
.txt file of md5 checksums of all corrupt files found on their p2p app of choice. And then have the search/download function of said p2p app filter out files that match those corrupt files.
maybe it is just a trusted set of users, sharing a
A similar approach exists with blocking ranges of IP addresses that are known to be owned by RIAA and such, to avoid being traced by them... or so the thinking goes.
Your lack of knowledge makes me skeptical of your post... I mean, IBM hiring Computer Science guys? IBM /IS/ CS guys. Their entire business model is writing software, sold on their own hardware, and cashing in on big support and customization contracts... 3 of those 4 things(OS/software development, Hardware design/development, Software customization) are the core of CS. Supporting software and hardware isn't far off.
OR, the government could realize that this script kiddie isn't a terrorist, and give him a well deserved(but small) slap on the wrist... THEN...
HP, Dell, IBM, etc... install AVG anti-virus software on their machines and turn unneeded services off before shipping.
People talk like Linux and Solaris are on equal footing... They arn't. Linux is awesome, I am a big fan(though I still love my mac). However, Solaris(trusted solaris, in particular) is better refined, more secure, more stable, more tested, high government rating.
Solaris isn't the lowend solution to running a webserver, email server, or what not.. But then, if you have an Apple Xserve, why would you want Linux to do those tasks?
Solaris still has Linux beat hands down in the highend. Linux just isn't there yet... yet.
"You can also disable the GUI environment if it so pleases you (not like it hogs that much sitting at the login screen anyway)."
Beyond that, any processing power it DOES use is put on the video card, not the main processor.
why couldn't he just properly site his source and use the clip? If I write an opinion or research paper, I can quote a corporation or news agency without consulting with them, why can't he?
I would support this form of legal restructure, given the safety nets you just outlined. I think it is a great idea.
What needs to happen is for the SCO cases to go to court, and for IBM/Novell/etc to win hands down... In one form or another, the GPL needs to be upheld in court to set precedince, even on a case as profoundly poor as the SCO case.
Then, Novell is welcome to buy SCO for a couple million... A fraction of what SCO is worth now, and only a percentage or two of what they were at the peak. But the case MUST go to court, and the GPL must be upheld.
but this feature will likely be turned on by default, dealing with a machine that only has a single Administrator account(as they put together by default) with a weak password(that they allow, and often have auto-login set)...
I don't mind cool new features or network-able crap, I mind that the crap is ON by default in a system that is top-down not secure out of the box, not even a little. It is wide friggin open.
1. These are not heart monitoring devices running windows, more client doctor/nurse workstations or terminals that pull information from those embedded systems.
2. NAT firewall? NO WAY. have them UNPLUGGED from the world. Have a secure, private LAN that has no physical(in any way) connection with internet machines...
On those workstations, lock them down as tight as possible... Have doc's and nurses not have admin rights... have virus scanners, firewall installed/configured and automated process to keep the machine clean. Unplug (floppy/CD-ROM drive) any device not needed for the machine.
Then ofcourse you have policies like 8+ char passwords, with no words and such. Short timeout periods that require a password to reenter, etc..
"Linus will turn out to be secretly controlled by evil corporate overlord masters?"
Yea, but the weird thing is is that the corporation outsources to Sovient Russia!
He must uh... run XP on his... Apple Powerbook in VirtualPC... Yea, thats it... he just has it installed to, you know... uh, find more reasons to hate microsoft!
*phew* I think they bought it.
MS Usenet?! Oh god, the little clippy will notice i am reading a thread and ask to help...
well, almost... except not...
freenet doesn't scale well, it has huge routing and discovery issues, making it very unusable... a WWW sized freenet would be crippled, not improved. These are bugs in the code, they need to be fixed.
Freenet doesn't allow the hosting of files, it only allows for submitting. I can't have freenet://wikipedia.org hosted on my own box, and thus ensuring that it is online. Freenet only lets me insert a file or website. That site has to be resubmitted repeatedly(daily, weekly, hourly even) creating multiple versions. PLUS, once a site is submitted, nothing gaurantees that it stays on the freenet, it only is in the user's caches until it gets replaces.
Searching and recieving files in freenet is crippled and broken. Even on good releases, when it 'works', the speed and reliability make it not even qualify as a novelty...
Freenet doesn't work... And this is coming from someone who would love to see freenet succeed.
you are right, but let me clarify what i meant.
using public key encryption means that John uses his private key to encrypt his article. Now, users who track John's articles can decrypt using his freely available public key. That means, anyone who wants can read John's articles, true, but it also means that when an article is said to be written by John, a user can prove it because only John can encrypt using his private key... it authenticates the author so you can't spoof someone's identity.