So that's why it took them so long to find the Higgs Boson. They had to 'see' it.
If they'd had a properly working audio stack, they would have been able to hear it years ago...
if you're going to be a whore to studios who clearly have no intention of supporting Linux, you had may as well set up a Windows dual-boot and play your game software in Windows.
So what you're saying is it's better to chose the devil^H^H^H^Hwhore you know? And that Microsoft is a whore?
Please stay away from chair-filled rooms for a few months while the Ballmer settles down. (Avoid large conference rooms and movie theaters--they have large sources of chairs.)
I would much rather hear the 'whoosh' of a windmill all day, than feel that skin crawling, bone tingling, feeling when I cross under the high tension power lines.
Nothing but your own illogical nervous reaction. If you disagree, I'd love to see any peer reviewed scientific evidence to the contrary.
Because you can do everything with the command line. Keyboard text input. Spoken text output.
I guess we'll see a decrease in Perl programmers among non-visual users then.
It's so bad that Slashdot's filter bitched about junk characters until I but out about 50% of the program:
open(Q,$0);while(){if(/^#(.*)$/){for(split('-',$1)){$q=0;for(split){s/\|/:.:/xg;s/:/../g;$Q=$_?length:$_;$q+=$q?$Q:$Q*20;}print chr($q);}}}print"\n";
Presuming you can get sufficient detail in the message to make it useful. 911 Operators typically ask questions for a reason. I can just see a whole bunch of text like "I saw an accident on I-80" with no further detail in the messages. Then the operator may need to call to find out the details.
Don't you mean "I saw an accident on I-8*CRASH*^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcaused a second accident on I-80 by texting and driving"?
Well, I have "had" to use it in a corporate environment for 15 going on 20 years now, and I also feel that it's the best development environment that I've ever used, at least for C and C++ programming.
There, feel better now?
Aah--so you looked around 20 years ago, decided on Visual Studio because you were obviously a windows shop, and then have stuck with it--completely missing all the other environments that have sprouted up. No worries--after doing that for 20 years, you're pretty much obsolete too. You just have to wait for the old, monolithic, used-to-be-fortune-100 company you work for to finish tanking and you'll be gone too. Maybe you'll see a brief surge of usefulness next leap year or something when every realizes Microsoft can't account for leap-anything--kinda like the Cobol guys were suddenly valuable again for a brief period right around the year 2000...
Anyone with a brain would go over that system with a fine-toothed comb to look for such things, and then wipe the system and restore from a known-good backup, and diff update.
Trash the server, it's the only way to be sure. In fact, since they appear to have been in the datacenter, just nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Do you not sleep, or do you just like wasting electricity? Turn off windows updates, and you can keep it running for as long as you like.
Keeping your computer on 24/7 is not a badge of honour my friend....
Yeah--I love it when the internet shuts down in the evening at 8 PM (9 PM Central) when all the engineers go home for the evening and decide to stop 'wasting electricity'.
Or do they cover burying the public in excessive copies of useless physical media?
Oh the horror--Microsoft unleashing billions of CDs with 500 free minutes of Windows 8, after which you have to buy it or reformat just to get it off your system.
I'm a pretty technical user and have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade. Lately, even I am having trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to windows.
Try switching away from Ubuntu. Try Debian, Mint, Fedora, etc... That should stop your worry.
This is true for the same reasons that a decade ago Mac OSX was considered more secure than Windows. Its a function of install base. As soon as Windows Phone has 100's of million of users exploits will be published.
No, this is true for the same reason that NT 4 was considered 'secure' almost two decades ago--it was only secure when no network cable was plugged in to the machine.
Your Windows phone will be similarly secure as long as you a) don't have non-Microsoft apps installed, b) you are out of range of any and all radio emissions, and c) the battery has been removed from the device.
WTF does SSH vs. GUI have to do with security? If anything, once exploited SSH would be less secure, because its easier to inject commands into a command prompt than it is to automate a GUI.
This: I've spent all damn day doing roughly the following procedure for each of my Windows clients:
* Connect into the client's WSUS server, enter username and password, get to desktop
* For Windows 2003, go to start, admin tools, WSUS
* Click the link for security updates and approve all, then click the link for important updates and approve all
* If they have multiple sites, repeat the first two steps for each site and then click the 'sync now' link
* Wait while the WSUS server(s) download the updates
* Once updates have downloaded, connect in to each internet accessible server that has RDP enabled and enter the username and password
* If it's a 2003 server: go to Start and click run. Type in 'wuauclt/detectnow' and click OK.
* If it's a 2008 server: click the Start orb, search for 'Update', wait while it searches, click 'Windows Update', click 'check now'
* Wait for a few minutes for the Windows Update client to sync updates
* Click 'install' or whatever to start the install process
* Wait forever
* Reboot
* Wait longer
* Reconnect to all the servers, manually comb through the event logs to find out what failed.
Contrast that with my ability to patch my ~75 linux boxen during the SSH fiasco:
* cssh -c file_containing_my_list_of_servers
* Type 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && logout' and hit enter
* Wait a few moments while updates are downloaded and installed using a single command
* Look at any terminal windows that remain open as the && logout won't run if there were errors
* Done
(If there's a kernel update or something, && logout can be replaced with && shutdown -r now)
I can easily spend all day updating and patching 50 Windows servers. I spend about 10 minutes in the morning patching 75 Linux boxes while the coffee brews.
And yes, I know there are all sorts of programs I can *buy* that make patching Windows easier--but try convincing people they need to pay more money for something in this economy. cssh is free.
I'm sure Microsoft will fix this soon by adding the incredibly-easy-to-remember powershell command: Windows-Updates -DownloadListNowFromMicrosoft -AlsoInstallThemUpdates -GetListOfServersFromLDAP -IMeanLDAPWithProprietaryExtensions -NoWaitIMeanActiveDirectory -YesIAmAuthorizedToAgreeToAllTheLicensesWithoutLookingAtThem -PleaseRebootTheServersWhenDone | ReportOnUpdatedServers -OutputToDOCX report.docx -YesIPaidForAnOfficeSuite -MaybeEmbedSomeActiveXStuffForOldTimesSake
The post walks us through some of the basics of ear anatomy, sampling rates, and listening tests, finally concluding that lossless formats and a decent pair of headphones will do a lot more for your audio enjoyment than 24/192 recordings.
Do you have an instance where you experienced the positive (or negative) effects of a cell phone jammer?
The problem is bigger than you realize. I'm constantly dropping calls. If anyone is actually able to complete a call, tell AT&T their network is constantly being jammed.
(Maybe tell Blackberry their service is frequently jammed for days on end too)
Your grandma never sends you a birthday card with a check in it?
Not since I was 12ish and she was alive you insensitive clod!;)
If she were alive and sending me checks, it'd be a small price to pay for not having to sort through the 5 metric tons of junk mail that comes in every year. Or I could just start paying attention on my birthday.
Personally I'd rather pay for the fifty cent stamp than the buck fifty fee to pay my gas bill online.
But I agree, snail junk mail is worthless. But you (and I, even if I do still use the USPO) aren't normal people. We're nerds. Most people actually do still use the mail, or the Springfield Advertiser would have gone out of business long ago.
You seem to be implying that ignoring it means that my original statement doesn't/can't/won't happen. I never said it was bad, just substituted spam with shit. See no evil, eh?
I prefer 'hear no evil', that's why I read Slashdot.;)
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So that's why it took them so long to find the Higgs Boson. They had to 'see' it.
If they'd had a properly working audio stack, they would have been able to hear it years ago...
if you're going to be a whore to studios who clearly have no intention of supporting Linux, you had may as well set up a Windows dual-boot and play your game software in Windows.
So what you're saying is it's better to chose the devil^H^H^H^Hwhore you know? And that Microsoft is a whore?
Please stay away from chair-filled rooms for a few months while the Ballmer settles down. (Avoid large conference rooms and movie theaters--they have large sources of chairs.)
I would much rather hear the 'whoosh' of a windmill all day, than feel that skin crawling, bone tingling, feeling when I cross under the high tension power lines.
Nothing but your own illogical nervous reaction. If you disagree, I'd love to see any peer reviewed scientific evidence to the contrary.
Peer reviewed 2,109 times.
Home of the Evil Spock.
Yep. And guess where the 'missing matter' went? Beards.
What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?
We like fucking with surveys?
1) Bad guys love unarmed targets.
2) Government violence against citizens will go up.
Because you can do everything with the command line. Keyboard text input. Spoken text output.
I guess we'll see a decrease in Perl programmers among non-visual users then.
/:.:/xg;s/:/../g;$Q=$_?length:$_;$q+=$q?$Q:$Q*20;}print chr($q);}}}print"\n";
It's so bad that Slashdot's filter bitched about junk characters until I but out about 50% of the program:
open(Q,$0);while(){if(/^#(.*)$/){for(split('-',$1)){$q=0;for(split){s/\|
I cannot be wrong about this. Someone on an IRC server said so.
You got someone on IRC to agree with you? You must be a god...
Presuming you can get sufficient detail in the message to make it useful. 911 Operators typically ask questions for a reason. I can just see a whole bunch of text like "I saw an accident on I-80" with no further detail in the messages. Then the operator may need to call to find out the details.
Don't you mean "I saw an accident on I-8*CRASH*^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcaused a second accident on I-80 by texting and driving"?
Well, I have "had" to use it in a corporate environment for 15 going on 20 years now, and I also feel that it's the best development environment that I've ever used, at least for C and C++ programming.
There, feel better now?
Aah--so you looked around 20 years ago, decided on Visual Studio because you were obviously a windows shop, and then have stuck with it--completely missing all the other environments that have sprouted up. No worries--after doing that for 20 years, you're pretty much obsolete too. You just have to wait for the old, monolithic, used-to-be-fortune-100 company you work for to finish tanking and you'll be gone too. Maybe you'll see a brief surge of usefulness next leap year or something when every realizes Microsoft can't account for leap-anything--kinda like the Cobol guys were suddenly valuable again for a brief period right around the year 2000...
Anyone with a brain would go over that system with a fine-toothed comb to look for such things, and then wipe the system and restore from a known-good backup, and diff update.
Trash the server, it's the only way to be sure. In fact, since they appear to have been in the datacenter, just nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Do you not sleep, or do you just like wasting electricity? Turn off windows updates, and you can keep it running for as long as you like. Keeping your computer on 24/7 is not a badge of honour my friend....
Yeah--I love it when the internet shuts down in the evening at 8 PM (9 PM Central) when all the engineers go home for the evening and decide to stop 'wasting electricity'.
Or do they cover burying the public in excessive copies of useless physical media?
Oh the horror--Microsoft unleashing billions of CDs with 500 free minutes of Windows 8, after which you have to buy it or reformat just to get it off your system.
The obviousness of it should smack you in the face.
Well, normally it would--but the last time it happened he got a restraining order. Now obviousness can't come within 50 yards of him.
I'm a pretty technical user and have been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade. Lately, even I am having trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to windows.
Try switching away from Ubuntu. Try Debian, Mint, Fedora, etc... That should stop your worry.
I struggled for a moment, trying to figure out how this story could be argued as "news for nerds"
I thought Skittles powered the internet. Isn't that what they put in Cisco gear? Isn't that what makes 'em so expensive?
This is true for the same reasons that a decade ago Mac OSX was considered more secure than Windows. Its a function of install base. As soon as Windows Phone has 100's of million of users exploits will be published.
No, this is true for the same reason that NT 4 was considered 'secure' almost two decades ago--it was only secure when no network cable was plugged in to the machine.
Your Windows phone will be similarly secure as long as you a) don't have non-Microsoft apps installed, b) you are out of range of any and all radio emissions, and c) the battery has been removed from the device.
Windows Server 2008 64 bit is vulnerable to the POC, I've confirmshgo7xny3978ty78+++ATH NO CARRIER
Fixed that for you... ;)
http://www.putty.org/
The page is simple enough, I'll let you figure it out.
Note: I've never used it - yet.
I'd double-check that URL. The official site is and has always been: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Anyone who cares about security, would use vnc over SSH, and properly configure SSH as well.
In case anyone's wondering, here's how you 'properly' configure SSH: apt-get install openssh-server
Done.
WTF does SSH vs. GUI have to do with security? If anything, once exploited SSH would be less secure, because its easier to inject commands into a command prompt than it is to automate a GUI.
This: I've spent all damn day doing roughly the following procedure for each of my Windows clients: /detectnow' and click OK.
* Connect into the client's WSUS server, enter username and password, get to desktop
* For Windows 2003, go to start, admin tools, WSUS
* Click the link for security updates and approve all, then click the link for important updates and approve all
* If they have multiple sites, repeat the first two steps for each site and then click the 'sync now' link
* Wait while the WSUS server(s) download the updates
* Once updates have downloaded, connect in to each internet accessible server that has RDP enabled and enter the username and password
* If it's a 2003 server: go to Start and click run. Type in 'wuauclt
* If it's a 2008 server: click the Start orb, search for 'Update', wait while it searches, click 'Windows Update', click 'check now'
* Wait for a few minutes for the Windows Update client to sync updates
* Click 'install' or whatever to start the install process
* Wait forever
* Reboot
* Wait longer
* Reconnect to all the servers, manually comb through the event logs to find out what failed.
Contrast that with my ability to patch my ~75 linux boxen during the SSH fiasco:
* cssh -c file_containing_my_list_of_servers
* Type 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && logout' and hit enter
* Wait a few moments while updates are downloaded and installed using a single command
* Look at any terminal windows that remain open as the && logout won't run if there were errors
* Done
(If there's a kernel update or something, && logout can be replaced with && shutdown -r now)
I can easily spend all day updating and patching 50 Windows servers. I spend about 10 minutes in the morning patching 75 Linux boxes while the coffee brews.
And yes, I know there are all sorts of programs I can *buy* that make patching Windows easier--but try convincing people they need to pay more money for something in this economy. cssh is free.
I'm sure Microsoft will fix this soon by adding the incredibly-easy-to-remember powershell command: Windows-Updates -DownloadListNowFromMicrosoft -AlsoInstallThemUpdates -GetListOfServersFromLDAP -IMeanLDAPWithProprietaryExtensions -NoWaitIMeanActiveDirectory -YesIAmAuthorizedToAgreeToAllTheLicensesWithoutLookingAtThem -PleaseRebootTheServersWhenDone | ReportOnUpdatedServers -OutputToDOCX report.docx -YesIPaidForAnOfficeSuite -MaybeEmbedSomeActiveXStuffForOldTimesSake
The post walks us through some of the basics of ear anatomy, sampling rates, and listening tests, finally concluding that lossless formats and a decent pair of headphones will do a lot more for your audio enjoyment than 24/192 recordings.
Right--because if *you* can't see a use for it at the moment, there must not be one... ...or maybe you're just plain wrong.
Do you have an instance where you experienced the positive (or negative) effects of a cell phone jammer?
The problem is bigger than you realize. I'm constantly dropping calls. If anyone is actually able to complete a call, tell AT&T their network is constantly being jammed.
(Maybe tell Blackberry their service is frequently jammed for days on end too)
Your grandma never sends you a birthday card with a check in it?
Not since I was 12ish and she was alive you insensitive clod! ;)
If she were alive and sending me checks, it'd be a small price to pay for not having to sort through the 5 metric tons of junk mail that comes in every year. Or I could just start paying attention on my birthday.
Personally I'd rather pay for the fifty cent stamp than the buck fifty fee to pay my gas bill online.
But I agree, snail junk mail is worthless. But you (and I, even if I do still use the USPO) aren't normal people. We're nerds. Most people actually do still use the mail, or the Springfield Advertiser would have gone out of business long ago.
$1.50? Time to find a small credit union.
You seem to be implying that ignoring it means that my original statement doesn't/can't/won't happen. I never said it was bad, just substituted spam with shit. See no evil, eh?
I prefer 'hear no evil', that's why I read Slashdot. ;)