Hell Outlook even displays a warning that attachments can contain virii or have malicous intent, but people still click on them.
True, but most of the Outlook users I can speak for have a pretty simple philosophy about network security. It goes like this:
If it says "forward this to everyone in your address book", do that.
If you have to click on a button that says "OK" to proceed, do that then.
case default: {call(support)}
None of them want to miss out on a joke, and rather than refrain from opening exe's in case they're malicious, they open everything they see save missing out on some cute kitten picture.
And of course, it's never their fault when a worm brings their system down. For some reason they believe that the world of computing not particularly unique or special, and that it's not free from criminals, conartists and general vandals. The rapists and murders get such a break from them whenever a *shock* computer virus is doing the rounds.
Imagine if people went about life the way they worked computers.
Please, leave it alone. Even if you're right, it means 10 other people who have posted addresses for one "S Atkinson" are wrong, and innocent people will be getting annoyed.
Just because it's New Zealand doesn't mean there'll only be one "S Atkinson". These +5 informative mods are certainly not verified, and not fair. I'll be making sure I show this in any metamoderation.
Anybody who follows up on these phone numbers is just as bad as the spammer. I don't wish him pain or suffering, I'm just glad he's (for the moment_ OUT OF A JOB!
Yeah, but at the moment it's configured to do nothing. The Mac at work I use, which I got the same problem on, has a plain mac mouse, only one button and no wheel.
After posting that comment, I modded another two which worked fine. I dunno.
Save me! I always shudder when I see gtk's version go up a bump.
Without looking at the changelog, what do I expect from it?
Apps that use gtk get even slower still.
A simple checkbox and a piece of text need even more space still.
1024 x 768 is about enough room to run a clock and terminal in
And many other features we've been crying out for, like translucent everythings, shadows and lens flare on our pointer. Opaque moves and resizes you can't choose to turn off.
And people ask me why I do as much as I can in an xterm... I think we need a linux dist that makes a point of avoiding gnome and gtk.
Gnome - up with XP for eye candy, down with 3.11 for a productive, even comfortable desktop.
"A new Gnome Release? What features are left to remove?" you ask...
Gnome is an embarassment to any OS that can run it. What are you thinking Sun? I mean, CDE sucked, you know it, we know it. But Gnome? Nautilus?
Even unrelated programs lose features as they become gnome compliant. One that used to be my favourite was Pan. Now it's useless for me.
"But it's nicely integrated with the rest of the desktop"
Well, yes, it runs as slow as the rest of Gnome does now. My system takes 20 seconds just to pop up a requester asking me for the root password.
Not necessarily.
The "uniqueness" in these urls is usually at the end as a string of hex digits or some such, and could usually be easily popped out of the string while still presenting a valid enough url on the server to hit it, make it read in a script or something gernerally annoying for it.
I think it could _just_ work if enough care is taken. Having had said that, I don't think it'll work.
1. No more unsolicited email - anything that is not properly encrypted with one of my public keys is dropped in the bit bucket...
...including prospective employers, clients etc. And those who didn't read your three page pdf on how
to actually encrypt the message with their key etc.
Parent is informative, but just to add a bit to the discussion:
About the easiest way to set Gentoo up is on a system with free space already up and running any
other Linux system. You simply partition and format the space, and using your existing system download a stage1 and unpack it there.
You then "chroot" into this new install (of course still running RedHat or whatever) using a terminal and being building your system, Gentoo's install docs are pretty good these days.
One thing makes me wonder about Gentoo though, just how much redundant compilation is going on here - surely many people compile effectively identical binaries every day, it's not as if there's a million different instruction sets / archs / etc, and I wonder how much collective cpu time could be saved (read: not wasted) by using platform-specific binaries.
You can say all you like about rpm, but installs of them are sometimes hours faster. But at the end of the day, the only thing I'd change about Gentoo is it's extensive use of Python, I think it's a slow dog. Bite me.
We need oxygen only so the food we eat can "combust" to produce energy from it. Any form of combustion, be they fossil fuels or otherwise, needs oxygen.
In our case, and many others, the oxygen combines with Carbon in our "fuel" for a Carbon Dioxide byproduct.
Parent is correct.
As soon as you nfs export something, you're trusting
whatever ip / hostname you're exporting to always represent its UID truthfully, and this can be fudged a number of ways.
Depending on whatever access you allow in the first place, you will allow up to that much at any UID the h4x0R at the client end wants to use.
NFS requires complete (read: including physical) network security.
Well done
According to your source of "proof", UNIX operating systems make up "0%" of the global OS share, with Linux leading ever so slightly at 0%.
While I previously though at least 5% of the machines out there had be unixish, "thecounter.com" has proven me wrong.
There's nothing on that page that says what it is a counter of. And before others do, I remind you that my browser can tell a webserver that it is whatever OS I want it to be.
Webserver stats (if that's what your link is) are not a definitive summary of what OS's are out there. It's a summary of what OS people who hit your website are using. A slashdot poll would probably be more accurate here *.
* were the article about Cowboy Neal SP4
Number of Slashdot UID's taken = approx 680,000.
680,000 / 365.25 = probably about 1,862 slashdotters enjoying their birthday with DNS today.
Sorry, you can carry on feeling special now.
Thats why when working with electrical equipment, you should keep your left hand in your pocket, there's a lower chance of current going thgough your heart, as it will go up your right arm, and hopefully down your right leg.
you insensitive clod!
Slashdot Mirror
True, but most of the Outlook users I can speak for have a pretty simple philosophy about network security. It goes like this:
- If it says "forward this to everyone in your address book", do that.
- If you have to click on a button that says "OK" to proceed, do that then.
- case default: {call(support)}
None of them want to miss out on a joke, and rather than refrain from opening exe's in case they're malicious, they open everything they see save missing out on some cute kitten picture.And of course, it's never their fault when a worm brings their system down. For some reason they believe that the world of computing not particularly unique or special, and that it's not free from criminals, conartists and general vandals. The rapists and murders get such a break from them whenever a *shock* computer virus is doing the rounds.
Imagine if people went about life the way they worked computers.
Just because it's New Zealand doesn't mean there'll only be one "S Atkinson". These +5 informative mods are certainly not verified, and not fair. I'll be making sure I show this in any metamoderation.
Anybody who follows up on these phone numbers is just as bad as the spammer. I don't wish him pain or suffering, I'm just glad he's (for the moment_ OUT OF A JOB!
I can't believe everyone missed the simpsons reference! Anybody?!?! This post belongs at (+5, Simpsons Ref)
After posting that comment, I modded another two which worked fine. I dunno.
At first I thought I was going mad, but the last four of my moderations have been changed from an upper to a downer - usually "Overrated"
Different computers, browsers, locations, my uid is the only common thing - anybody else have the same problem?
Yes, this is offtopic, I only post it here because it's the only way to nullify the unintened moderation.
Without looking at the changelog, what do I expect from it?
- Apps that use gtk get even slower still.
- A simple checkbox and a piece of text need even more space still.
- 1024 x 768 is about enough room to run a clock and terminal in
And many other features we've been crying out for, like translucent everythings, shadows and lens flare on our pointer. Opaque moves and resizes you can't choose to turn off.And people ask me why I do as much as I can in an xterm... I think we need a linux dist that makes a point of avoiding gnome and gtk.
Gnome - up with XP for eye candy, down with 3.11 for a productive, even comfortable desktop.
"A new Gnome Release? What features are left to remove?" you ask...
Gnome is an embarassment to any OS that can run it. What are you thinking Sun? I mean, CDE sucked, you know it, we know it. But Gnome? Nautilus?
Even unrelated programs lose features as they become gnome compliant. One that used to be my favourite was Pan. Now it's useless for me.
"But it's nicely integrated with the rest of the desktop"
Well, yes, it runs as slow as the rest of Gnome does now. My system takes 20 seconds just to pop up a requester asking me for the root password.
The "uniqueness" in these urls is usually at the end as a string of hex digits or some such, and could usually be easily popped out of the string while still presenting a valid enough url on the server to hit it, make it read in a script or something gernerally annoying for it.
I think it could _just_ work if enough care is taken. Having had said that, I don't think it'll work.
With the same level of enthusiasm they verify the details of, erm, other things on the front page I wonder?
1. No more unsolicited email - anything that is not properly encrypted with one of my public keys is dropped in the bit bucket...
Is your mom 1337 enough to get hold of you?
About the easiest way to set Gentoo up is on a system with free space already up and running any other Linux system. You simply partition and format the space, and using your existing system download a stage1 and unpack it there.
You then "chroot" into this new install (of course still running RedHat or whatever) using a terminal and being building your system, Gentoo's install docs are pretty good these days.
One thing makes me wonder about Gentoo though, just how much redundant compilation is going on here - surely many people compile effectively identical binaries every day, it's not as if there's a million different instruction sets / archs / etc, and I wonder how much collective cpu time could be saved (read: not wasted) by using platform-specific binaries.
You can say all you like about rpm, but installs of them are sometimes hours faster. But at the end of the day, the only thing I'd change about Gentoo is it's extensive use of Python, I think it's a slow dog. Bite me.
We need oxygen only so the food we eat can "combust" to produce energy from it. Any form of combustion, be they fossil fuels or otherwise, needs oxygen.
In our case, and many others, the oxygen combines with Carbon in our "fuel" for a Carbon Dioxide byproduct.
don't run the h.v. electric fence near your scsi, ethernet or video!
Bout' a year after 911, I went to mapquest to find a buddies office in downtown Manhattan.
A year after 911, that'd make it, erm 911 again wouldn't it?
r31 is special though isn't it? It's always null so anything affecting is is as good as a NOP.
As soon as you nfs export something, you're trusting whatever ip / hostname you're exporting to always represent its UID truthfully, and this can be fudged a number of ways.
Depending on whatever access you allow in the first place, you will allow up to that much at any UID the h4x0R at the client end wants to use.
NFS requires complete (read: including physical) network security.
Anyone who has access to my Mac can't even remember their own 6 character passwords - I don't think they'll manage a 2000 char overflow.
Well done
According to your source of "proof", UNIX operating systems make up "0%" of the global OS share, with Linux leading ever so slightly at 0%.
While I previously though at least 5% of the machines out there had be unixish, "thecounter.com" has proven me wrong.
There's nothing on that page that says what it is a counter of.
And before others do, I remind you that my browser can tell a webserver that it is whatever OS I want it to be.
Webserver stats (if that's what your link is) are not a definitive summary of what OS's are out there. It's a summary of what OS people who hit your website are using. A slashdot poll would probably be more accurate here *.
* were the article about Cowboy Neal SP4
Number of Slashdot UID's taken = approx 680,000.
680,000 / 365.25 = probably about 1,862 slashdotters enjoying their birthday with DNS today.
Sorry, you can carry on feeling special now.
You muZZZZt reZZZZZtart your computer for the chaZZZZZZes to take eZZZZZect.
Thats why when working with electrical equipment, you should keep your left hand in your pocket, there's a lower chance of current going thgough your heart, as it will go up your right arm, and hopefully down your right leg. you insensitive clod!
No, but by the sounds of things, a writable CD instead. They'll probably dust it for your fingerprints if you ever mail it in, too
Come on mods!
Ah well, you get my vote anyway.
Looks like the ENTER key is broken on your current keyboard!
*ducks*
You just gave me an idea as to how I can get the SO to do the lawns- thanks!