Company executive chairman DK Matai said: "The swift adoption of Linux last year within the online government and non-government server community, coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers. Migration to Open Source can be fool's gold without adequate training and understanding of the impact that third party applications have on overall safety and security."
Well, let's see here.
1. Government. Stupid is as stupid does. 2. Inadequate training. 3. Inadequate knowledge.
Three strikes and you're out. The VAST majority of government workers are NOT highly educated people, and as a matter of fact, most of them are former welfare workers placed into government jobs to get them off the welfare log books.
When you factor in all these things you should expect the results they came up with.
But I say this, you put a GOOD, trained, educated, and skilled sys admin behind those same Linux systems and those numbers will flip.
Why is it that Windows can be explotied so handily by exposing the source code and Linux is so hard to exploit despite it's source code being 100% open to everyone on earth??
No way in hell, ever. These people have no concept of sanitation. They throw their dead in the same river they bathe in, drink from, and wash clothes in.
I would rather DIE than go to that country for even a paper cut...
The US Congress is considering legislation designed to close a number of legal loopholes often allowing counterfeiters to get away with their activities, specifically prohibiting trafficking in genuine authentication components.
WTF does genuine authentication components mean??
Something stinks here, me thinks there's a fish in the panties...
Re:You have my condolences you pathetic extrovert.
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Thank you for your ANALysis, herr Fraud..
Re:What a bunch of friggin nerds!
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Actually, you speak out of ignorance. I have been married once before and raised two children on my own. I'm now a grandfather. My son is a minister. And all this despite everything.
I divorced my ex because she turned out to be a slut and a whore and would not accept responsiblity for her own actions.
So you see, I'm far from naive and I do not go into my new marriage blindly. I stayed single for 10 years after I divorced the ex, feeling that I did not want to ever do it again. But love has struck and I care not how or why. I will not look the gift horse in the mouth. I am just happy that things have taken the turn that they have and I don't give a *SHIT* what anyone else thinks.
And to all the "need-a-life" mods that flagged my OP as a troll, get a life.. You're pathetic...
I'm in love and it ain't with a damn computer! I just had roses delivered to my sweetheart since I couldn't be there with her today but next week I'm going to ask her to marry me.
You pricks want to talk shit about hormones and chemicals and prairie dogs and rats and labs.
Fuck all that shit. I don't need or want it explained or examined. Leave it alone for gods sake! Enjoy it because it's hard to find and hard to keep and oh so rare in this world now.
I don't give a rat's ass about chemicals or lab tests or pyschoANALysis..
People that want to break everything down and examine it under a microscope need to get a fucking life, maybe if they had someone to love they would be trying to fuck everything up for everyone else...
Damn...
Yeah, kiss that karma bye-bye.. But at least *I'm* in love with a beautiful lady.....
You don't understand. I know it's there. But I *make* them look it up the old fashioned way. If they want the info, they have to work for it.
The idea is that the DL is no longer machine readable, it *IS* human readable and they have to read the number with their eyes and go through a pain in the ass procedure to get the info.
It's a form of semi-passive protest of machine readable ID...
I took my DL and dropped it on the concrete, stood on it and twisted it on the concrete to render the bar code un-readable.
Then I took a LARGE degausser and nuked the mag-stripe into absolute oblivion. And everytime I present my DL to any institution at their request/demand, I degauss it all over again, just to be sure in case they reprogrammed the mag-stripe.
When I go to the bank they have to use the phone and verify my license by reading the numbers over the phone since it is no longer machine readable. Same thing when Mr. Busy Body policeman pulls me over to see if I have illegal farts in my pants or something. They tell me my license is "not working right" and that I need to have it replaced. I just tell them yeah, I dropped it and it got ran over in the driveway and that I am going to take care of it right away.. Yeah right.
Soo sorry, I don't play their game, I play the game my own way..
I don't dislike Mandrake but after a year and a half I decided to try Suse 9.0 Pro and I'm glad I did. It works, right out of the box.
Mandrake, otoh, was a constant struggle to get all the features to function properly. It was OK for someone that never fiddles with their system, I have a friend using MDK 9.1 and it's fine for him but he does very little with it. For heavy duty users, it's a battle.
My money now goes to Suse.. Matter of fact, I'm looking into becoming a Suse VAR..
I put ads in the local papers that I pick up and recycle computer and electronic equipment.
I offer my services free of charge. Everyone else charges money to pick up stuff. I do not. That THRILLS corporate customers to no end. They sign me up as their permanent "sucker" that they dump their old stuff on. And beleive me, I'm thrilled to get the stuff for free. It's almost always working equipment, just obsolete.
So, I clean it up, service it, make it look like brand new, make it work like brand new and turn it around. Joe average can now get industrial grade equipment at garage sale prices. Work horse laser printers made in the USA that are designed to print 30,000 pages a month for $300 in brand new condition, where a Chinese made laserjet that is a POS and has a duty cycle of 1,000 pages a month and a 2 year life span for the same price.
I just sold a PC with a 17" Compaq display, an HP color inkjet (US made!) speakers, etc, full package with Suse 9.0 installed for $300 to a guy that is thrilled to get a full system that cheap. And he's thrilled at the promise of a system that won't be plauged with the typical, never ending MS headaches. He's getting an internet appliance that is 100% reliable that will also handle his WP needs (Open Office 1.1)...
This is just ONE example of a small time turn around. I have all sorts of goodies to suit any needs, I have a ROLM CBX II that I got for free, configured to handle 10,000 lines, a DG Calriion mini computer, two 18 wheeler loads of Compaq PC's, countless 21" monitors, even more countless numbers of 13-15-17" monitors, E size plotters, truckloads of laserjets, trailer loads of band printers, there's just no end to it. It's freaking insane. I have so much stuff that I can't walk around here. I have little tunnels to crawl through from room to room. I'm looking at getting a LARGE, climate controlled building to wharehouse this stuff as I process it and find new homes for it all. So far, very, very little of it has been broken, it all needs cleaning and minor service but it's all good stuff..
So far, so good. I have the potential to turn this into a very good thing, if I don't fsck it up.
Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that it would get like this. I just started doing this because I'm handicapped and un-employable otherwise. I wanted to do ANYTHING but get on SSI so I thought I would do a few PC's here and there to get by on. Damn! And the best thing is that this is something that I enjoy doing, I love working on stuff and I get to do it on my own terms..
I recycle used computers, I have a contract with a *large* corporation to pick up their old PC's and other "goodies"..
They wipe the drives in them, which is FINE with me, so I take them all and install Linux on them, clean them up like brand new and resell them at rock botton prices that EVERYONE can afford, with a 30 day warranty.
I offer them only with Linux installed, take it or leave it. They are Internet appliances and they do a magnificent job of it, leaving the new owners to enjoy the computer without the headaches of using windows.
I give them 15 minutes free instructions on using it, if they want FULL instructions then I set up an appointment and charge $20 an hour which is $15 an hour cheaper than anyone else in town charges.
If they don't want Linux, that's tough. I don't offer any other options. They can install windows when they take it home but I won't help them if they have problems.
Like it or not, people around here are getting introduced to Linux. They want a cheap computer, they get one but they are at least going to play with Linux a little before they wipe it out. But if they wipe out Linux and install anything else they void *my* 30 day warranty and they are own their own from them on..
for a $100 textbook for a mandatory "Windows" class. He uses Suse and found no need to take this class. They tried to make him buy the book anyway and told him he could skip the class if he bought the book and took a $35 test and passed it.
He smoked the test, he said it was for drooling retards and that only vegetables on life support could fail the class.
What a waste of time, money and resources. I was *NOT* happy over this..
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I was on the front porch the other day and one of my neighbors went next door to my other neighbor and said, "Hi, I just got a new computer screen, would like like my old one? It works fine and all you need to get is the hard drive and you'll have a whole computer!"
Um, yep.. Pure genius at work. EVERYONE calls the computer one of the following, 1. hard drive 2. hard disk 3. hard thing 4. tower drive 5. main tower 6. pee-cee thingy
#6 is my favorite, it's always a cute woman that calls them that. I can live with that...:-)
But really, most people are clueless.
I speak from experiance. I've been a tech for 25 years and own my own ROLM system and a DG Clariion system. I've dealt with countless thousands of people over the years and most of them are dangerous behind the keyboard, much less with a screwdriver..
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http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001
Company executive chairman DK Matai said: "The swift adoption of Linux last year within the online government and non-government server community, coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers. Migration to Open Source can be fool's gold without adequate training and understanding of the impact that third party applications have on overall safety and security."
Well, let's see here.
1. Government. Stupid is as stupid does.
2. Inadequate training.
3. Inadequate knowledge.
Three strikes and you're out. The VAST majority of government workers are NOT highly educated people, and as a matter of fact, most of them are former welfare workers placed into government jobs to get them off the welfare log books.
When you factor in all these things you should expect the results they came up with.
But I say this, you put a GOOD, trained, educated, and skilled sys admin behind those same Linux systems and those numbers will flip.
or whatever they call them now if they would divest themselves of Microsoft.
But as long as MS has it's hooks in Apple, there's just no way in the world I would consider it for one second..
Suse 9.0 Professional.
Rock solid. Works out of the box.
Very nice package.
I strongly recommend it to anyone thinking about getting into Linux.
Why is it that Windows can be explotied so handily by exposing the source code and Linux is so hard to exploit despite it's source code being 100% open to everyone on earth??
no way..
No way in hell, ever. These people have no concept of sanitation. They throw their dead in the same river they bathe in, drink from, and wash clothes in.
I would rather DIE than go to that country for even a paper cut...
The US Congress is considering legislation designed to close a number of legal loopholes often allowing counterfeiters to get away with their activities, specifically prohibiting trafficking in genuine authentication components.
WTF does genuine authentication components mean??
Something stinks here, me thinks there's a fish in the panties...
Thank you for your ANALysis, herr Fraud..
Actually, you speak out of ignorance.
I have been married once before and raised two children on my own. I'm now a grandfather.
My son is a minister. And all this despite everything.
I divorced my ex because she turned out to be a slut and a whore and would not accept responsiblity for her own actions.
So you see, I'm far from naive and I do not go into my new marriage blindly. I stayed single for 10 years after I divorced the ex, feeling that I did not want to ever do it again. But love has struck and I care not how or why. I will not look the gift horse in the mouth. I am just happy that things have taken the turn that they have and I don't give a *SHIT* what anyone else thinks.
And to all the "need-a-life" mods that flagged my OP as a troll, get a life.. You're pathetic...
I'm in love and it ain't with a damn computer!
I just had roses delivered to my sweetheart since I couldn't be there with her today but next week I'm going to ask her to marry me.
You pricks want to talk shit about hormones and chemicals and prairie dogs and rats and labs.
Fuck all that shit. I don't need or want it explained or examined. Leave it alone for gods sake! Enjoy it because it's hard to find and hard to keep and oh so rare in this world now.
I don't give a rat's ass about chemicals or lab tests or pyschoANALysis..
People that want to break everything down and examine it under a microscope need to get a fucking life, maybe if they had someone to love they would be trying to fuck everything up for everyone else...
Damn...
Yeah, kiss that karma bye-bye.. But at least *I'm* in love with a beautiful lady.....
is there an option for Linux?
I went all through the site and can not find any mention of Linux. Anyone know what the work around is on this??
on the "A day with SCO is like a day without sunshine" issue.
I was thinking it was more like,
A day with SCO is like a day without gas..
I would really rather that SCO just go ahead and pass on, like a bad case of gas, if you know what I mean..
I would buy it but only if it comes in it's original format, without the added in CG crap.
I saw it both ways and I like the way it was to begin with, like it was when I saw it 100 times at the theatre when I was 15...
Leave it alone man, we don't like no steenking CG !!
You don't understand. I know it's there. But I *make* them look it up the old fashioned way. If they want the info, they have to work for it.
The idea is that the DL is no longer machine readable, it *IS* human readable and they have to read the number with their eyes and go through a pain in the ass procedure to get the info.
It's a form of semi-passive protest of machine readable ID...
I took my DL and dropped it on the concrete, stood on it and twisted it on the concrete to render the bar code un-readable.
Then I took a LARGE degausser and nuked the mag-stripe into absolute oblivion.
And everytime I present my DL to any institution at their request/demand, I degauss it all over again, just to be sure in case they reprogrammed the mag-stripe.
When I go to the bank they have to use the phone and verify my license by reading the numbers over the phone since it is no longer machine readable.
Same thing when Mr. Busy Body policeman pulls me over to see if I have illegal farts in my pants or something. They tell me my license is "not working right" and that I need to have it replaced. I just tell them yeah, I dropped it and it got ran over in the driveway and that I am going to take care of it right away.. Yeah right.
Soo sorry, I don't play their game, I play the game my own way..
I don't dislike Mandrake but after a year and a half I decided to try Suse 9.0 Pro and I'm glad I did. It works, right out of the box.
Mandrake, otoh, was a constant struggle to get all the features to function properly.
It was OK for someone that never fiddles with their system, I have a friend using MDK 9.1 and it's fine for him but he does very little with it. For heavy duty users, it's a battle.
My money now goes to Suse..
Matter of fact, I'm looking into becoming a Suse VAR..
I put ads in the local papers that I pick up and recycle computer and electronic equipment.
I offer my services free of charge. Everyone else charges money to pick up stuff. I do not. That THRILLS corporate customers to no end. They sign me up as their permanent "sucker" that they dump their old stuff on. And beleive me, I'm thrilled to get the stuff for free. It's almost always working equipment, just obsolete.
So, I clean it up, service it, make it look like brand new, make it work like brand new and turn it around. Joe average can now get industrial grade equipment at garage sale prices. Work horse laser printers made in the USA that are designed to print 30,000 pages a month for $300 in brand new condition, where a Chinese made laserjet that is a POS and has a duty cycle of 1,000 pages a month and a 2 year life span for the same price.
I just sold a PC with a 17" Compaq display, an HP color inkjet (US made!) speakers, etc, full package with Suse 9.0 installed for $300 to a guy that is thrilled to get a full system that cheap.
And he's thrilled at the promise of a system that won't be plauged with the typical, never ending MS headaches. He's getting an internet appliance that is 100% reliable that will also handle his WP needs (Open Office 1.1)...
This is just ONE example of a small time turn around. I have all sorts of goodies to suit any needs, I have a ROLM CBX II that I got for free, configured to handle 10,000 lines, a DG Calriion mini computer, two 18 wheeler loads of Compaq PC's, countless 21" monitors, even more countless numbers of 13-15-17" monitors, E size plotters, truckloads of laserjets, trailer loads of band printers, there's just no end to it. It's freaking insane. I have so much stuff that I can't walk around here. I have little tunnels to crawl through from room to room. I'm looking at getting a LARGE, climate controlled building to wharehouse this stuff as I process it and find new homes for it all. So far, very, very little of it has been broken, it all needs cleaning and minor service but it's all good stuff..
So far, so good. I have the potential to turn this into a very good thing, if I don't fsck it up.
Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that it would get like this. I just started doing this because I'm handicapped and un-employable otherwise. I wanted to do ANYTHING but get on SSI so I thought I would do a few PC's here and there to get by on. Damn! And the best thing is that this is something that I enjoy doing, I love working on stuff and I get to do it on my own terms..
Fun, fun, fun!!
http://www.linmodems.org/
It's not 100% guaranteed every time but it takes care of the most of them...
I recycle used computers, I have a contract with a *large* corporation to pick up their old PC's and other "goodies"..
They wipe the drives in them, which is FINE with me, so I take them all and install Linux on them, clean them up like brand new and resell them at rock botton prices that EVERYONE can afford, with a 30 day warranty.
I offer them only with Linux installed, take it or leave it. They are Internet appliances and they do a magnificent job of it, leaving the new owners to enjoy the computer without the headaches of using windows.
I give them 15 minutes free instructions on using it, if they want FULL instructions then I set up an appointment and charge $20 an hour which is $15 an hour cheaper than anyone else in town charges.
If they don't want Linux, that's tough. I don't offer any other options. They can install windows when they take it home but I won't help them if they have problems.
Like it or not, people around here are getting introduced to Linux. They want a cheap computer, they get one but they are at least going to play with Linux a little before they wipe it out.
But if they wipe out Linux and install anything else they void *my* 30 day warranty and they are own their own from them on..
And all I can say is that a certain Nancy Sinatra song comes to mind when I think of SCO..
This is going to be FUN...
for a $100 textbook for a mandatory "Windows" class. He uses Suse and found no need to take this class. They tried to make him buy the book anyway and told him he could skip the class if he bought the book and took a $35 test and passed it.
He smoked the test, he said it was for drooling retards and that only vegetables on life support could fail the class.
What a waste of time, money and resources.
I was *NOT* happy over this..
I was on the front porch the other day and one of my neighbors went next door to my other neighbor and said, "Hi, I just got a new computer screen, would like like my old one? It works fine and all you need to get is the hard drive and you'll have a whole computer!"
:-)
Um, yep.. Pure genius at work.
EVERYONE calls the computer one of the following,
1. hard drive
2. hard disk
3. hard thing
4. tower drive
5. main tower
6. pee-cee thingy
#6 is my favorite, it's always a cute woman that calls them that. I can live with that...
But really, most people are clueless.
I speak from experiance. I've been a tech for 25 years and own my own ROLM system and a DG Clariion system. I've dealt with countless thousands of people over the years and most of them are dangerous behind the keyboard, much less with a screwdriver..
It's a good thing this died in infancy before these damn things filled up the land fills and leached toxic chemicals into the water supply..
Good ridance to a totally crap idea..
after you look in the mirror.
We *know* you paid a North Korean hacker to do it..
This SMACKS of SCO.
I would lay BIG MONEY on it that SCO paid some Russian 1337357 to do this.
How much you wanna bet??