That isn't true, root exists it is just locked. You can sudo and change the root password and then log in as root, also isn't sshd on by default in OSX?;) I always thought that was a deadly combo when most users have no clue what a root account is and never need the pword for it and they had sshd running all the time. If anyone ever sudo'ed and changed the root password, they could log in all they want and the user would never know the difference.
Although I have used OSX for all of about 30 mins, and that was about the extent of what I found out:)
This is what I do. Then I blacklist the bad addresses. I do however have one problem with it. I sometimes get "randomchars231232@mydomain.com". Since they never match it isn't just something I can blacklist, and I don't want to have to make a freggin huge white list. Any tips on never seeing those? It would be hard to make a script that wouldn't generate false positives.
From a support standpoint floppies are still good to have. For example Dell's generally offer 3 types of BIOS flashes, you have floppy, Hard drive, and unpackaged. Hard drive is easiest, you just run the program from inside windows, but you have to be running windows, and your system has to be bootable at the time. The next easiest is floppy, just create a floppy disk and reboot, easy enough. The 3rd method is unpackaged you could put this on a USB key I imagine. But you have to have the bootable image on the USB key already (DOS image that is). Then you add the unpackaged files to that and run it manually at a DOS prompt. Now if I have to walk someone through this, which one can you guess I would NOT want to do?;)
Even with "up to" 2TB, this is still pretty amazing. Mainly because of that transfer rate. 120MB a sec it pretty damn quick and it runs on very low power. If the latency is good as well then this puts hard drives to same, esp since it would have less if any moving parts. If they can pull off cards like this of equal size to HDDs with not a HUGE price gap, we might see people start to turn away from old school HDD. We have heard talk about moving away from them for a long time because it is doubtfull that they will ever be able to hold enough data to satisfy us in the future.:) (although wouldn't want an IDE interface, that isn't fast enough to support this card. SATA maybe.)
wow you totally missed the spirit of the comment./. tends to put MS in a bad light any chance they get (can't say I blame them). The comment was to point out that MS isn't going to get the profit margin they want anymore so maybe they should rethink giving even more of their profit away. Thus the comment was trying to question MS business decisions. NO WHERE in there does the fact that this is a aussie company come into play. It was not intended to make MS look like a victim I assure you.
Oh yes, and you should also ask if they replied to your question on slashdot, and if so see what they put. You don't want a boss that thinks your slacking off when you stop to read slashdot do you? Even if you are:)
Ask about the shows he/she likes, what he/she reads, what they like to do. Try to find the person you get along the best with. If you 2 are friends it feels less akward to have a boss which you hired because you will have mutual respect for one another. Also, friends don't fire friends;). If they are uptight and have no social skills I would stear clear.
MS doesn't have to scam the customer directly. They just scam OEMS into forcing them to release windows on all their new machines and then the OEMs run their own scams to keep selling new machines and they both make their money. And if a OEM tries to offer other OSes MS can just pull out and basically kill that OEM.
Your problems are legitimate, but the drivers for the all in one cards suck in windows as well. It isn't just a linux issue. I always advise people agaist the all-in-wonders as I have seen all sorts of problems because of them. (working in tech support now and several weird calls end up being due to that card). I have used standard ATI cards in linux just fine. Would recommend in the future you keep the tuner card seperate, you get much better support out there. There are plenty of great TV tuners that work beautifully in linux.
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You are missing a big point here. The worms effect us all in a much more annoying way. Internet traffic clogging up my connection speed. Why do I care if stupid people can't use their computer? If there was an "Anti-Worm" it would still cause tons of traffic scanning the networks and even if it helped infected people, I don't give a damn. They were too stupid and didn't protect their systems or use something besides windows, not my fault. So basically in my book, the cure would be just as bad as the problem.
While I am not argueing with your post, I just wanted to point out that Dell systems have lifetime tech support on them. (I work there). The warranty is just for hardware replacement. Any dumbass user can call in 5 years later and get help reloading windows (and believe me, they do).
Even if a trojan did do that and opened a port above 1024 for others to log in, they would only have the access of that user. Yeah that does get them one step closer but they would still have work to do if they wanted to really damage the system. So while the user may be comprimised, at least the system still runs fine. The worse they could do that I could think of is fork bomb the system and read user documents.
Was I the only one that read the same paragraph over and over in different words? The article started to kind of drone on there like a high school student that just had to fill the rest of the page.
Or how about coming to grips with the fact there are never any guarantees? If someone is expecting guaranteed success for any reason they are sorely mistaken. You could be a genitically engineered superman and still end up being a Jerome Morrow. It happens, you can do everything right and still fail.
Do you honestly think gamers drive OS sales at all? They either get their OS as OEM, which doesn't drive in any major change, or they just rip it off entirely. Gamers are also probably one of the largest groups of pirates. I highly doubt they pull in the big bucks for MS. I say this as being a gamer myself (and linux user).
lol, I laughed my ass off at that. I would have just modded you up, but you were already at 5 so I felt the need to reply as to show graditude for such great humor:)
If your sense of morals is soley based on the punishment you may recieve for doing something then you have got something seriously wrong going on and I for one wouldn't feel comfortable being around such a person.
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That isn't true, root exists it is just locked. You can sudo and change the root password and then log in as root, also isn't sshd on by default in OSX? ;) I always thought that was a deadly combo when most users have no clue what a root account is and never need the pword for it and they had sshd running all the time. If anyone ever sudo'ed and changed the root password, they could log in all they want and the user would never know the difference.
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Although I have used OSX for all of about 30 mins, and that was about the extent of what I found out
This is what I do. Then I blacklist the bad addresses. I do however have one problem with it. I sometimes get "randomchars231232@mydomain.com". Since they never match it isn't just something I can blacklist, and I don't want to have to make a freggin huge white list. Any tips on never seeing those? It would be hard to make a script that wouldn't generate false positives.
From a support standpoint floppies are still good to have. For example Dell's generally offer 3 types of BIOS flashes, you have floppy, Hard drive, and unpackaged. Hard drive is easiest, you just run the program from inside windows, but you have to be running windows, and your system has to be bootable at the time. The next easiest is floppy, just create a floppy disk and reboot, easy enough. The 3rd method is unpackaged you could put this on a USB key I imagine. But you have to have the bootable image on the USB key already (DOS image that is). Then you add the unpackaged files to that and run it manually at a DOS prompt. Now if I have to walk someone through this, which one can you guess I would NOT want to do? ;)
Even with "up to" 2TB, this is still pretty amazing. Mainly because of that transfer rate. 120MB a sec it pretty damn quick and it runs on very low power. If the latency is good as well then this puts hard drives to same, esp since it would have less if any moving parts. If they can pull off cards like this of equal size to HDDs with not a HUGE price gap, we might see people start to turn away from old school HDD. We have heard talk about moving away from them for a long time because it is doubtfull that they will ever be able to hold enough data to satisfy us in the future. :)
(although wouldn't want an IDE interface, that isn't fast enough to support this card. SATA maybe.)
wow you totally missed the spirit of the comment. /. tends to put MS in a bad light any chance they get (can't say I blame them). The comment was to point out that MS isn't going to get the profit margin they want anymore so maybe they should rethink giving even more of their profit away. Thus the comment was trying to question MS business decisions. NO WHERE in there does the fact that this is a aussie company come into play. It was not intended to make MS look like a victim I assure you.
You forgot the backslash! Anyone else find it earie that the \ is an "escape" character, and he came up with the Esc key as well? ;)
mobo is hardly new. I have been using that term for like 10 years now.
Oh yes, and you should also ask if they replied to your question on slashdot, and if so see what they put. You don't want a boss that thinks your slacking off when you stop to read slashdot do you? Even if you are :)
Ask about the shows he/she likes, what he/she reads, what they like to do. Try to find the person you get along the best with. If you 2 are friends it feels less akward to have a boss which you hired because you will have mutual respect for one another. Also, friends don't fire friends ;). If they are uptight and have no social skills I would stear clear.
I think I would have posted that anonymously man ;)
MS doesn't have to scam the customer directly. They just scam OEMS into forcing them to release windows on all their new machines and then the OEMs run their own scams to keep selling new machines and they both make their money. And if a OEM tries to offer other OSes MS can just pull out and basically kill that OEM.
You can already get a CD from microsoft, free even! http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order .asp
I am no MS advocate, but I am a tech support guy, and I have recommended this CD to people in the past.
Your problems are legitimate, but the drivers for the all in one cards suck in windows as well. It isn't just a linux issue. I always advise people agaist the all-in-wonders as I have seen all sorts of problems because of them. (working in tech support now and several weird calls end up being due to that card). I have used standard ATI cards in linux just fine. Would recommend in the future you keep the tuner card seperate, you get much better support out there. There are plenty of great TV tuners that work beautifully in linux.
You are missing a big point here. The worms effect us all in a much more annoying way. Internet traffic clogging up my connection speed. Why do I care if stupid people can't use their computer? If there was an "Anti-Worm" it would still cause tons of traffic scanning the networks and even if it helped infected people, I don't give a damn. They were too stupid and didn't protect their systems or use something besides windows, not my fault. So basically in my book, the cure would be just as bad as the problem.
While I am not argueing with your post, I just wanted to point out that Dell systems have lifetime tech support on them. (I work there). The warranty is just for hardware replacement. Any dumbass user can call in 5 years later and get help reloading windows (and believe me, they do).
Even if a trojan did do that and opened a port above 1024 for others to log in, they would only have the access of that user. Yeah that does get them one step closer but they would still have work to do if they wanted to really damage the system. So while the user may be comprimised, at least the system still runs fine. The worse they could do that I could think of is fork bomb the system and read user documents.
Was I the only one that read the same paragraph over and over in different words? The article started to kind of drone on there like a high school student that just had to fill the rest of the page.
Or how about coming to grips with the fact there are never any guarantees? If someone is expecting guaranteed success for any reason they are sorely mistaken. You could be a genitically engineered superman and still end up being a Jerome Morrow. It happens, you can do everything right and still fail.
First santa and now Klingons?!! Man, you people are taking everything good away from me!
Everytime you masterbate you kill millions of "unborn people".
Do you honestly think gamers drive OS sales at all? They either get their OS as OEM, which doesn't drive in any major change, or they just rip it off entirely. Gamers are also probably one of the largest groups of pirates. I highly doubt they pull in the big bucks for MS. I say this as being a gamer myself (and linux user).
XP doesn't BSOD because they have it just reboot instead before you see the error in the first place. Such a nice fix MS gave us isn't it?
lol, I laughed my ass off at that. I would have just modded you up, but you were already at 5 so I felt the need to reply as to show graditude for such great humor :)
If your sense of morals is soley based on the punishment you may recieve for doing something then you have got something seriously wrong going on and I for one wouldn't feel comfortable being around such a person.
You people do realize that the topic at hand is planets right? ;)