We used to let one of our non-technical friends, who hasn't had a single hour of computer education in his life, install Red Hat, Mandrake, FreeBSD, openBSD and Windows. -For fun, to see him struggle, but also out of interest which would succeed and where he'd get stuck.
Guess what????? He managed to install Mandrake and Readhat, had a lot of trouble with windows (but succeeded mostly, only display & audio drivers were 'forgotten'), and absolutely failed at FreeBSD and OpenBSD, because of the disk partitioning (slicing) procedure.
The reason he succeeded at both Readhat and Mandrake: these installations only required the user to press enter a few times and seemingly randomly installs packages, based on available disk space.
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Please tell me where these figures can be verified. If 99% of the computer users use Windows and 1% uses linux, and there is a 9:1 exploit, statistically, Windows is safer.
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Watch out when downloading the 'shatter' application!!!!!!! It contains a virus!
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Actually, on a pro-rated basis (exploits vs platform count), MS exploits occur at a rate 9 times more frequently than Linux exploits. Linux exploits make news because of their relative rarity
Hm, compare this to the installed user base. Are there 9 times as many windows users as lunix users? or more? how many sploits would there be if everone was running lunix/sendmail/bind/apache/php?
More handy than booting: use the floppy drive to install the NIC drivers before you are networked. Pain in the ass to burn a CD for that, especially if the system doesn't have a CD drive, or when I'm out of CDRs.
I've got an old SparcStaion LX lying around that looks just similar, featuring LAN, sound, ISDN, a Sparc CPU and a woppin' 800 mb harddrive. Same case, though obviously a bit slower (and louder)
People playing music for their friends, without purchasing records. Walking in parks with just trees and no shops. Reading books without advertising. Come on people, these models are just not viable anymore.
I totally agree. Free software should be banned! It hurts the economy. Also, there should be a tax on dreaming and possible sponsoring of these activities. (I dreamt of Microsoft Office last night)
On Windows, you can do the same by using CloneCD to create an image. You can then mount these images with Daemon tools including copy protection mechanisms.
What's the fun in watching interactive movies? The thing is that you walk around by yourself to get a 'personal experience'. Its like watching someone else play Quake; a lot of people get sick from that..
Will this open the possibility for 3D tv using multiple transparant layers?
Or perhaps the multi-channel edition where you have a book with 100 pages: every page is another chanel. Nice and convenient during the commecial breaks:)
For this concept to work you can see that you need to exclude every copy of Dos95/Office from being backed-up. The basis of P2P is the the service users are also the service provides, thus every participating node needs free HD space. Depending on the crypto overhead and your non-backup portion, you still need a lot of free space for this concept. What is the added value above a reduntant RAID server? Is the total cost of ownership really lower?
No, your reasoning is what's flawed;). IMHO with this system, you won't need that RAID server at all. A local copy of the installer for your favourite OS should be about the only local software you'll need. The rest is divided on all your peers' computers. (Could this work for network installations of e.g. Office?)
I do wonder about security, and about using multi-user files like databases. What if I do a bulk INSERT and everybody else is shutting down their PC's?
The issues that OpenBSD works around by being based in Canada are solely related to the restrictions (since relaxed) the USA had on the export of encryption. So yes, we are 'a bastion of unregulated encryption', but like any nation, we don't like our citizens providing weapons to enemies of the state.
Maybe the phrase "Prison of unregulated crypto" would be better in place?;)
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We used to let one of our non-technical friends, who hasn't had a single hour of computer education in his life, install Red Hat, Mandrake, FreeBSD, openBSD and Windows. -For fun, to see him struggle, but also out of interest which would succeed and where he'd get stuck. Guess what????? He managed to install Mandrake and Readhat, had a lot of trouble with windows (but succeeded mostly, only display & audio drivers were 'forgotten'), and absolutely failed at FreeBSD and OpenBSD, because of the disk partitioning (slicing) procedure. The reason he succeeded at both Readhat and Mandrake: these installations only required the user to press enter a few times and seemingly randomly installs packages, based on available disk space.
Please tell me where these figures can be verified. If 99% of the computer users use Windows and 1% uses linux, and there is a 9:1 exploit, statistically, Windows is safer.
Watch out when downloading the 'shatter' application!!!!!!! It contains a virus!
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This is not a troll. Check it yourself: This an infected file
Norton reports:
Scan type: Realtime Protection Scan
Event: Virus Found!
Virus name: W32.Beavuh
File: H:\Documents and Settings\Username\Desktop\shatter\sploit.bin
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Computer: MACH5
User: Username
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine succeeded : Access denied
Date found: Wed Aug 07 13:26:14 2002
Hm, compare this to the installed user base. Are there 9 times as many windows users as lunix users? or more? how many sploits would there be if everone was running lunix/sendmail/bind/apache/php?
More handy than booting: use the floppy drive to install the NIC drivers before you are networked. Pain in the ass to burn a CD for that, especially if the system doesn't have a CD drive, or when I'm out of CDRs.
Hm, nice weapon. Especially for the local wildlife, they'll truly appreciate being blinded.
I've got an old SparcStaion LX lying around that looks just similar, featuring LAN, sound, ISDN, a Sparc CPU and a woppin' 800 mb harddrive. Same case, though obviously a bit slower (and louder)
:)
This looks just like the right replacement
People playing music for their friends, without purchasing records. Walking in parks with just trees and no shops. Reading books without advertising. Come on people, these models are just not viable anymore.
I totally agree. Free software should be banned! It hurts the economy. Also, there should be a tax on dreaming and possible sponsoring of these activities. (I dreamt of Microsoft Office last night)
We're lucky that they weren't planning any terrorist activities with the rocks!
On Windows, you can do the same by using CloneCD to create an image. You can then mount these images with Daemon tools including copy protection mechanisms.
What's the fun in watching interactive movies? The thing is that you walk around by yourself to get a 'personal experience'. Its like watching someone else play Quake; a lot of people get sick from that..
I will answer a poll not in the way that I actually feel, but in the way that interests me the most at that particular moment
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Even worse, it's a lot of fun just to screw the poll and prove statistics wrong
Will this open the possibility for 3D tv using multiple transparant layers?
:)
Or perhaps the multi-channel edition where you have a book with 100 pages: every page is another chanel. Nice and convenient during the commecial breaks
For this concept to work you can see that you need to exclude every copy of Dos95/Office from being backed-up. The basis of P2P is the the service users are also the service provides, thus every participating node needs free HD space. Depending on the crypto overhead and your non-backup portion, you still need a lot of free space for this concept. What is the added value above a reduntant RAID server? Is the total cost of ownership really lower?
;). IMHO with this system, you won't need that RAID server at all. A local copy of the installer for your favourite OS should be about the only local software you'll need. The rest is divided on all your peers' computers. (Could this work for network installations of e.g. Office?)
No, your reasoning is what's flawed
I do wonder about security, and about using multi-user files like databases. What if I do a bulk INSERT and everybody else is shutting down their PC's?
The issues that OpenBSD works around by being based in Canada are solely related to the restrictions (since relaxed) the USA had on the export of encryption. So yes, we are 'a bastion of unregulated encryption', but like any nation, we don't like our citizens providing weapons to enemies of the state.
;)
Maybe the phrase "Prison of unregulated crypto" would be better in place?
Excuse me, aren't the US crypto regulations cause for Canadian-based OpenBSD, trouble with PGP, 128-bit-SSL, and more?
...? Oh come on..
Did you *actually* call the US 'one of the few bastions of unregulated encryption'
"Based on the Linux Kernel."