What it means is that WMP10 will be used by many onlines music/video? stores, possibly using different Audio/Video? codecs. iTunes will most likely continue to cornering the market it already sucessfully has.
If you buy XP today it will come with SP2, either as a supplemental CD or rolled in. The same goes for New Computers.
My experince of connecting and un firewalled, unpatched Xp was that it lasted about 30 seconds before the service DCOM crashed due to virus.
If i connected an unpatched Linux distrubtion from say 2001 to the internet, if it would be compromised ?? The interesting question however is how would i even know i had been compromised? Or are such issues confined Windows ?
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Root? Unfortunately privilege escalation seems to very big problem which does not get as much attention as it deserves.
Its critical that you know and trust your users and take care of what applications you decide to run especially as plenty of exploits are readily available.
As for the spoofing "Security Center" it ignores the fact that evil.exe required a prerequisite compromise to have taken place.
Heh! I had a server, a Windows 2000 Server which we _had_ to run in 64Mb. It was a old machine and one of the chips failed. It ran for 4 months like that until someone remembered that it needed sorting.
Munich is migrating because of the 'openness' and unknown cost of having a Microsoft solution after 10 years. The initial cost of the Linux migration is much higher than upgrading to the offered Microsoft solution, to the extent that IBM has decided to partially subsidize it. Custom applications need to be ported and maintained, Linux engineers have to be found, staff have to be retrained, and no doubt IBM/Suse support contracts are not cheap either.
No one knows what the long term cost will be, because nothing has ever been done on that scale with Linux before.
Newham are sticking with MS because it's basically cheaper, at least initially, and forecast, there are other reasons which can be found in the register article.
It should be noted also that two studies were provided, one from an Open Source Group and the other by Cap Gemini.
Google is a very innovative and interesting company. But as soon as Terra purchased Lycos they got rid of most of the interesting and an innovative people. The point is that at time of merger Lycos was could have been successful if the new owners had had the right kind of imagination. As an example the original team for Sonique vanished after the merger...
You can get a Free CD from microsoft containing security updates for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE). It also includes 1 year free anti-virus software and a firewall.
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Just because WinNT uses hardware abstraction doesn't make it an innovative idea from Microsoft.
Recently noted:
* Linux Support for SMP
* Linux Adds HAL
* Linux Implements O(1) Sheduler
* Linux Now Has Asynchronous I/O
* Linux Gains Journaling Filesystem
I mean what next? How about fine grained security model/kernel level ACLs?
I mean these kind of new innovations make NT 3.5 (1991?) look really good.
What would be great is a way to easily convert playlists between mediaplayers.
Winamp ??
iTunes.exe 34.5 MB Ram
Wmp10 10.4 MB Ram
i don't have Winamp anymore... but i suspect that the light version would be less of a burden than both the above.
What it means is that WMP10 will be used by many onlines music/video? stores, possibly using different Audio/Video? codecs. iTunes will most likely continue to cornering the market it already sucessfully has.
No need to get your knickers in a twist.
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If you buy XP today it will come with SP2, either as a supplemental CD or rolled in. The same goes for New Computers.
My experince of connecting and un firewalled, unpatched Xp was that it lasted about 30 seconds before the service DCOM crashed due to virus.
If i connected an unpatched Linux distrubtion from say 2001 to the internet, if it would be compromised ?? The interesting question however is how would i even know i had been compromised? Or are such issues confined Windows ?
Web Servers Compromised
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FreeBSD (3.0%)
Unix (1.1%)
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Root? Unfortunately privilege escalation seems to very big problem which does not get as much attention as it deserves.
Its critical that you know and trust your users and take care of what applications you decide to run especially as plenty of exploits are readily available.
As for the spoofing "Security Center" it ignores the fact that evil.exe required a prerequisite compromise to have taken place.
Heh! I had a server, a Windows 2000 Server which we _had_ to run in 64Mb. It was a old machine and one of the chips failed. It ran for 4 months like that until someone remembered that it needed sorting.
You right of course. win95 wasn't very useful with the minimum 4mb.
But os2 was not very usable with 8mb either.
The recommendation was 16 mb, which just happened to be the same requirement for Windows NT 3.51.
OS/2 Warp Required 8mb of ram minimum to run.
Win95 Required 4mb.
That extra 4mb cost $300 10 years ago.
10 years ago spending $300 extra was alot more painful then than it is now.
I know about this because it was one of the products i used to sell. It didn't. I did hear however that OS/2 was pretty popular in germany.
Munich is migrating because of the 'openness' and unknown cost of having a Microsoft solution after 10 years. The initial cost of the Linux migration is much higher than upgrading to the offered Microsoft solution, to the extent that IBM has decided to partially subsidize it. Custom applications need to be ported and maintained, Linux engineers have to be found, staff have to be retrained, and no doubt IBM/Suse support contracts are not cheap either.
No one knows what the long term cost will be, because nothing has ever been done on that scale with Linux before.
Newham are sticking with MS because it's basically cheaper, at least initially, and forecast, there are other reasons which can be found in the register article.
It should be noted also that two studies were provided, one from an Open Source Group and the other by Cap Gemini.
Interestingly, many of the extensions proposed in "Web Forms 2.0" already exist as "proprietory extensions" in IE....
Technically all the plugins mentioned are ActiveX controls and can be easily reused in any other application which can act as a OLE2 Container.
Its important to understand that there is no weighty technical difference.
He is nota hypocrite. He is a businessman.
Its good for apples business to keep fairplay locked away.
Google is a very innovative and interesting company. But as soon as Terra purchased Lycos they got rid of most of the interesting and an innovative people. The point is that at time of merger Lycos was could have been successful if the new owners had had the right kind of imagination. As an example the original team for Sonique vanished after the merger...
Google is great. Try doing some research. The only 64bit Mac OS is Tiger which has had no public release. All other Mac OSes are 32 bit or worse...
Except that OS X is not a 64 bit OS. It has a few hacks to enable some extended 64 bit memory addressing...
A question:
You say OSX prompts you for your admin password everytime you do something remotely/possibly dangerous.
Imagine if Windows did the same?
How easy it would be for someone to spoof that prompt to harvest you root password?
Wow! from that graph *Linux*.* has twice the installed base as Windows 3.1 ...
Well i typed in http://www.@microsoft.com
It prompted me.
I said NO.
It continued to navigate to microsoft.com
Oh really. What you are saying is if browser receives the unknown instruction: FormatUserHardDrive:// its ok to just pass it along to the OS?
Oh dear...
I typed http://www.@google.com into Firefox.
It prompted me, i clicked No.
It continued to goto google.com anyway.
If you have disabled IE you can install and run the Security Baseline Advisor. It basically does the same thing as Windows update.
Actually there a couple of remote type vulnerabilities listed... look closer
You can get a Free CD from microsoft containing security updates for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE). It also includes 1 year free anti-virus software and a firewall.
Windows Security Update CD - i ordered 1 delivery was also free.
Yeah! Its So Obvious Linux Is More Secure Than Windows!
Just Don't Store Your Important Source Code On It.... :))))))))))))
No. Isn't the CPL a viral licence??
The real info can be found at the programmers weblog ....
Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset has released as Open Source on SourceForge.net