Certain applications, e.g. Oracle and DB2, highly recommend or even force an X based installation procedure.
Oracle installation runs as an X11 client, and requires that only the client libraries be installed. The X11 server runs on the administrator's desktop.
Of course, TFA doesn't bother to explain if the hole is in the server or the client libraries. I'm assuming they mean the server, but who the hell knows?
No kidding. The linked article is ten days old, all this was on the Daily Show last week, and Fark mocked it the week before that. Moreover, news about this has been bouncing around in various "news of the wierd" sites for the last six months.
Of course, it doesn't suprise me at all that this is brand new to CmdrTaco, or that he doesn't realize that it's absolute bunk.
The poor suckers who buy an IBook, that's who. I still don't see why Apple has such a tendency to skip on relatively cheap upgrades such as extra RAM and a faster HD, even on mid-range models.
The iBook is the bottom-of-the-line model, not the mid-range model. The midrange PowerBook has a 5400 RPM drive, and the top-of-the-line MacBook has a 7200 RPM drive option.
I don't see why consumers have such a tendency to skip on relatively cheap upgrades such as extra RAM and faster HD.
most laptop manufacturers persist in saving a buck by outfitting their units with a low-end, low-cache, low-capacity, low-spindle-speed HDD
That's because rational consumers 'persist' in saving a buck by buying the least expensive thing they think will fill their needs.
Most people buying PCs have absolutely no idea how to compare one computer to another. Even most Jeff K's understand nothing beyond screen dimensions and clock speed (and I've worked with enough IT people toto understand that Jeff K is the rule, not the exception). Of course, even the bottom of the line $650 Dell XPS comes with a 7200 RPM 8MB Cache HD, so I'm not sure what kind of poor sucker is still getting the 4200 RPM dog described in the article.
Why not just unplug your UPS on your PC during the peak hours?
Why is this modded funny? Thats exactly what the device described in the article does, except they've added a computer to unplug the UPS automatically.
As for everything about it "shouting" press release, I'm only giving my opinion, and I don't think it "shouts" press release.
Anyone who knows what a press release looks like instantly recognized what the linked article was. And now that you know what a press release looks like, you'll be able to recognize them in the future too.
Dude, that is seriously AWESOME. A claim that Somalia is a successful example of Anarcho-Capitalism is perhaps the single most batshit insane thing I have ever read on Slashdot. More than anything else you have ever written, it exemplifies the absolute absurdity of "dadaism". You are to be congratulated, sir.
I will build a shrine in your honor if you can put together a successful troll with Somalia, the gold standard, minimum wage, and Abraham Lincoln, all in the same post. I'm not kidding -- I will build an actual physical shrine if you can write a post spawning a thread of 100+ total replies, using each of those elements. And if you can do it in an article about the Apple iPod, I will create a website to document that shrine.
I know you can do it, too. You are the single greatest troll on Slashdot.
It's hard to think of more obvious logical fallacies
I guarantee that if a more obvious logical fallacy were possible, it will be found in one of dada's many, many trolls.
It's hilarious to see how far he can push the absolute absurdity of his posts and still appear be taken seriously by the majority of slashdot readers and moderators.
Seriously, how did this make it on/.? The article is only a few paragraphs long, doesn't really even touch on hardware virtualization support or why its necessary...
I have to agree. Compared to most Slashdot articles, this one really sucks. It's not an obvious advertisement or media troll, the article mistakes are fairly minimal, it has nothing to do with AJAX, Web 2.0, or the Sony Playstation, and there's no obvious "Microsoft $ux0rs!" response.
I wish Slashdot would stop posting crappy articles, and go back to what it does best -- posting dupes, broken links, April Fools jokes, lame blogs, psuedo-science, and Register articles.
There's a name long forgotten. Did Yggdrasil ever actually have a working distribution? I remember them as "open source vaporware", i.e. a product that consist primarily of usenet posts. But I could be wrong.
Slackware in the beginning (this is back in the 1.0 days, 13+ years ago). Basically there wasn't anything else.
You came to linux fairly late, then.
There were several distributions before slackware. In fact, more than a handful of people ran linux even before ready-to-install distributions existed.
You have innumerable wild-ass insane trolls about the gold standards and Abraham Lincoln, but the best thing you can come up with for Bill Clinton is the freaking food pyramid? Why not complain about the management structure FDR imposed on the Civilian Conservation Core, or James Watt's handling of the department of the interior?
Your quality is slipping. If you keep this up, your once-clever trolls will be less interesting than the GNAA crapfloods and ASCII text penis birds.
Slashdot is counting on you dada. Don't let us down.
Academia and cash go hand in hand. Cash is nothing something ethereal or complex, money is merely a store of your time-worked to be redeemed to save you time in the future.
No, dada, it's not.
Seriously, are you really this mind numbingly stupid, or do you just get far, far too much satisfaction in your life reading the responses to intentionally provactive and invariably wrong posts on public message boards?
Pretty much everything in this article seems to be a complete rehash of things most web developers should already know
Pretty much everything in this article seems to be a complete rehash of things most web developers should already know is wrong.
Seriously, I don't think I've ever read a more clueless, half-baked article about web security in my entire life. Most of the advice is misleading or just plain wrong, the author seems to only partially understand even the most basic threats, and clearly has no idea how to describe, recognize, or fix any of them.
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Certain applications, e.g. Oracle and DB2, highly recommend or even force an X based installation procedure.
Oracle installation runs as an X11 client, and requires that only the client libraries be installed. The X11 server runs on the administrator's desktop.
Of course, TFA doesn't bother to explain if the hole is in the server or the client libraries. I'm assuming they mean the server, but who the hell knows?
Wait till the XBox 360 comes out and see what happens.
Should I read that to mean wait until Microsoft starts selling them, or wait until people start buying them?
Because unfortunately for Microsoft, reading one of those ways makes sense.
only Linux monkeys would call the original XBox a failure.
I agree, if by "Linux monkeys" you mean "accountants and businessmen."
Always right on top of things, eh, editors?
No kidding. The linked article is ten days old, all this was on the Daily Show last week, and Fark mocked it the week before that. Moreover, news about this has been bouncing around in various "news of the wierd" sites for the last six months.
Of course, it doesn't suprise me at all that this is brand new to CmdrTaco, or that he doesn't realize that it's absolute bunk.
The poor suckers who buy an IBook, that's who. I still don't see why Apple has such a tendency to skip on relatively cheap upgrades such as extra RAM and a faster HD, even on mid-range models.
The iBook is the bottom-of-the-line model, not the mid-range model. The midrange PowerBook has a 5400 RPM drive, and the top-of-the-line MacBook has a 7200 RPM drive option.
I don't see why consumers have such a tendency to skip on relatively cheap upgrades such as extra RAM and faster HD.
most laptop manufacturers persist in saving a buck by outfitting their units with a low-end, low-cache, low-capacity, low-spindle-speed HDD
That's because rational consumers 'persist' in saving a buck by buying the least expensive thing they think will fill their needs.
Most people buying PCs have absolutely no idea how to compare one computer to another. Even most Jeff K's understand nothing beyond screen dimensions and clock speed (and I've worked with enough IT people toto understand that Jeff K is the rule, not the exception). Of course, even the bottom of the line $650 Dell XPS comes with a 7200 RPM 8MB Cache HD, so I'm not sure what kind of poor sucker is still getting the 4200 RPM dog described in the article.
Why not just unplug your UPS on your PC during the peak hours?
Why is this modded funny? Thats exactly what the device described in the article does, except they've added a computer to unplug the UPS automatically.
You clearly didn't bother to read the article. Why are you complaining about the summary?
As for everything about it "shouting" press release, I'm only giving my opinion, and I don't think it "shouts" press release.
Anyone who knows what a press release looks like instantly recognized what the linked article was. And now that you know what a press release looks like, you'll be able to recognize them in the future too.
Wow, they made a game for the N-Gage and then lost a bunch of money. Who ever could have forseen that?
I'm glad you found the time to write this useful and insightful commentary, Zonk.
It's just such a shame you couldn't be bothered to read the article.
...Somalia...
Dude, that is seriously AWESOME. A claim that Somalia is a successful example of Anarcho-Capitalism is perhaps the single most batshit insane thing I have ever read on Slashdot. More than anything else you have ever written, it exemplifies the absolute absurdity of "dadaism". You are to be congratulated, sir.
I will build a shrine in your honor if you can put together a successful troll with Somalia, the gold standard, minimum wage, and Abraham Lincoln, all in the same post. I'm not kidding -- I will build an actual physical shrine if you can write a post spawning a thread of 100+ total replies, using each of those elements. And if you can do it in an article about the Apple iPod, I will create a website to document that shrine.
I know you can do it, too. You are the single greatest troll on Slashdot.
I deliberately fish tailed my car, and I was about a foot from her rear bumper. If I had ABS or anti-fishtailing, I would have been in an accident.
Fishtailing increases your total stopping distance in almost every situation.
Who's modding this insightful?
Trolls.
Seriously. Dada is the Slashdot answer to Kellie Pickler.
Actually, according to them they are relying on interactivity and storyline, rather than just eye candy (i.e. graphics)
Yeah, they're done with the textures, physics engines, and most of the guns, and now they're trying to figure out the story, monsters, and levels.
Apparently, they think storyline and interactivity are so important, they decided to do them last.
It's hard to think of more obvious logical fallacies
I guarantee that if a more obvious logical fallacy were possible, it will be found in one of dada's many, many trolls.
It's hilarious to see how far he can push the absolute absurdity of his posts and still appear be taken seriously by the majority of slashdot readers and moderators.
Seriously, how did this make it on /.? The article is only a few paragraphs long, doesn't really even touch on hardware virtualization support or why its necessary...
I have to agree. Compared to most Slashdot articles, this one really sucks. It's not an obvious advertisement or media troll, the article mistakes are fairly minimal, it has nothing to do with AJAX, Web 2.0, or the Sony Playstation, and there's no obvious "Microsoft $ux0rs!" response.
I wish Slashdot would stop posting crappy articles, and go back to what it does best -- posting dupes, broken links, April Fools jokes, lame blogs, psuedo-science, and Register articles.
Yggdrasil
There's a name long forgotten. Did Yggdrasil ever actually have a working distribution? I remember them as "open source vaporware", i.e. a product that consist primarily of usenet posts. But I could be wrong.
Slackware in the beginning (this is back in the 1.0 days, 13+ years ago). Basically there wasn't anything else.
You came to linux fairly late, then.
There were several distributions before slackware. In fact, more than a handful of people ran linux even before ready-to-install distributions existed.
Let's hear from someone who knows what he's talking about.
You must be new here.
The food pyramid? That's the best you can do?
You have innumerable wild-ass insane trolls about the gold standards and Abraham Lincoln, but the best thing you can come up with for Bill Clinton is the freaking food pyramid? Why not complain about the management structure FDR imposed on the Civilian Conservation Core, or James Watt's handling of the department of the interior?
Your quality is slipping. If you keep this up, your once-clever trolls will be less interesting than the GNAA crapfloods and ASCII text penis birds.
Slashdot is counting on you dada. Don't let us down.
You spent 8 years studying japanese, and you learned to count, and to speak and write at a first grade level.
You're supporting the grandparent, not contradicting him.
Academia and cash go hand in hand. Cash is nothing something ethereal or complex, money is merely a store of your time-worked to be redeemed to save you time in the future.
No, dada, it's not.
Seriously, are you really this mind numbingly stupid, or do you just get far, far too much satisfaction in your life reading the responses to intentionally provactive and invariably wrong posts on public message boards?
Pretty much everything in this article seems to be a complete rehash of things most web developers should already know
Pretty much everything in this article seems to be a complete rehash of things most web developers should already know is wrong.
Seriously, I don't think I've ever read a more clueless, half-baked article about web security in my entire life. Most of the advice is misleading or just plain wrong, the author seems to only partially understand even the most basic threats, and clearly has no idea how to describe, recognize, or fix any of them.
I really wish I was kidding, the first response to "we should never do this" was "oh, so we should be using POST instead?"
I really wish I was kidding, but the first thing the article suggests is using POST instead.