- More than 3000 people/companies have moved away from SuSE, OpenSuSE and Novell products [0] - Novell is going to incorporate GPL3 [1] - Vista still sucks
It's really nice to be a linux user for over a decade and sit back and say "ha ha". I don't believe Microsoft is capable of combating, or willing to combat, the problem. At the bottom of this issue however, is the fact that many users are clicktards. Infecting a linux or mac system is as easy as tricking a user into clicking something, or even simulating the pop-up password dialog box for a sudo event. Let's start with Fedora for instance. The ssh service, by default, allows root logins. How many users would enter their root password into a javascript popup that is titled "New updates for your Fedora system are available. Enter your root password to download and apply these updates"? I'm not picking on Fedora, it's a great distro. I certainly don't agree with PermitRootLogin yes as a default in sshd_config. Regardless of firewall settings, it's foolish. Alternative systems should be taking a cue from the shortcomings of Windows and doing what they can to minimize their own strike zone.
I've had 4 windows 2000 servers running under kvm[0] (on centos 5.0 host). The performance seemed about the same as vmware, albeit I wasn't able to get dnsmasq and VDE[1] running correctly. Anyway, kvm is rolled into the centos 5 kernel and it does GUI where Xen does not. It's a bit ragged to setup, but looks promising.
> Have you all truly lost touch with reality to the point that the loss of > human life is completely lost on you? Seriously?
I would say that's pretty accurate even though you got modded funny. Tragedy has turned into entertainment in the United States. Example blurb* from cnn.com this morning:
Don't Miss
* KCTV: Tornado kills 2 in Missouri
* WJXT: Tornado hits Pensacola
* I-Report: Send your photos, videos
They've had minimo for Windows for quite a while. I've built it for ARMedslack but it was a friggin nightmare and never did work quite right. Hopefully the changes will improve that process.
TFA article doens't mention if either kid has ties to any terrorist orgs or what. Maybe both kids have a history of wanting to kill. It could also be a bunch of lawmakers caught up in their own interpretation of sensibility. Don't make a bunch of assumptions only knowing part of the facts. Save that for witch hunting.
The only drawback is every few hundred years you need a lot of bloodshed so people remember why it was started and what it means. It would help immensely if they would let kids know about this in school.
The USA (and maybe other countries) isn't ready to be responsible enough with the technology to keep it safe. Chernobyl is a good example, and here is another*. Like everything else, after while, people start getting complacent, lazy and apathetic and then things get begin going to hell. Everyone starts pointing fingers at everyone else and the "it's not my job" syndrome sets in. Critical issues do not get dealt with because everyone else thinks someone else should be taking care of it. It's just like your job, only there is a larger potential for claiming a lot of lives.
> What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
I like to leave my id_dsa.pub key in her home directory and login once in a while and 'cat/dev/urandom >/dev/audio' for a few seconds. It is amazing how fast the phone rings:D
" Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, says it's not the companies' fault. He even says it's not IT's fault. The problem, he says, lies with the vendors."
I don't think so Alan. The means is there for an able bodied person to setup appropriate credentials within a few minutes. Most of these stupid logins are web based anyway. You click "Admin" and then "Change Password" and things are a lot better than they were a couple minutes ago. The biggest problem is unskilled technical people in positions where they are pressured to get grand things accomplished quickly with as little manpower as possible. Many admins I know (at least in the windows realm) are very complacent being getting by with a D- in everything. Very few attempt to strive for excellence. The ones I know recite idealisms all day long and complain about how broken things are but in the long run they consider the state of affairs acceptable because they are "too busy to fuck with it".
If you urinate in the well, don't complain when your coffee smells like piss.
> forever, or pay people off, than to stand up and admit when they were wrong.
Oh c'mon, who the *cough*sco*cough* heck would *cough*Microsoft*cough* ever do something like that? You're being paranoid and trollish. Are you one of those GNU shills?
Feature creep and inflation. The product has been in the works for several years since the $100 target was originally sought after. They hope the price will go down when volume sales go up.
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- More than 3000 people/companies have moved away from SuSE, OpenSuSE and Novell products [0]
- Novell is going to incorporate GPL3 [1]
- Vista still sucks
[0] - http://techp.org/p/1
[1] - http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3755005405.html
It's really nice to be a linux user for over a decade and sit back and say "ha ha". I don't believe Microsoft is capable of combating, or willing to combat, the problem. At the bottom of this issue however, is the fact that many users are clicktards. Infecting a linux or mac system is as easy as tricking a user into clicking something, or even simulating the pop-up password dialog box for a sudo event. Let's start with Fedora for instance. The ssh service, by default, allows root logins. How many users would enter their root password into a javascript popup that is titled "New updates for your Fedora system are available. Enter your root password to download and apply these updates"? I'm not picking on Fedora, it's a great distro. I certainly don't agree with PermitRootLogin yes as a default in sshd_config. Regardless of firewall settings, it's foolish. Alternative systems should be taking a cue from the shortcomings of Windows and doing what they can to minimize their own strike zone.
I've had 4 windows 2000 servers running under kvm[0] (on centos 5.0 host). The performance seemed about the same as vmware, albeit I wasn't able to get dnsmasq and VDE[1] running correctly. Anyway, kvm is rolled into the centos 5 kernel and it does GUI where Xen does not. It's a bit ragged to setup, but looks promising.
[0] - http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki
[1] - http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/index.php/VDE
"Hans Reiser, left, and his attorney, William Dubois"
I think the pic caption is wrong - isn't that Hans on the right side?
> How about "Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government
> and people in Nigeria and will continue to help meet their needs" ?
You've got things a tad confused. "help meet their needs" is referring to Microsoft's.
> Have you all truly lost touch with reality to the point that the loss of
> human life is completely lost on you? Seriously?
I would say that's pretty accurate even though you got modded funny.
Tragedy has turned into entertainment in the United States.
Example blurb* from cnn.com this morning:
Don't Miss
* KCTV: Tornado kills 2 in Missouri
* WJXT: Tornado hits Pensacola
* I-Report: Send your photos, videos
[*] - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/weather/10/18/midwest.storms/index.html?iref=topnews
> So how, exactly, is this *not* organized crime?
In organized crime, the supreme court is paid off before hand.
If you know, you don't need to be told. If you don't know, you won't notice.
They've had minimo for Windows for quite a while. I've built it for ARMedslack but it was a friggin nightmare and never did work quite right. Hopefully the changes will improve that process.
1,073 patches for chrissakes?
"Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with all-new features
not just patches and hotfixes, most of them backported from Windows Vista"
Sounds to me like Vista is being backported to XP.
Would be my next Linux choice. http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/
TFA article doens't mention if either kid has ties to any terrorist orgs or what. Maybe both kids have a history of wanting to kill. It could also be a bunch of lawmakers caught up in their own interpretation of sensibility. Don't make a bunch of assumptions only knowing part of the facts. Save that for witch hunting.
Microsoft brought us malware
Apple brought us debt
Linux brought us stability
amiga will bring us choice
Look at all the US botnets slamming russia.
what encryption?
as a cpu throttler.
On the bright side, he should encourage the thieves to put everything up on bittorrent. At least he'll finally have redundant, off-site, storage.
It was the echo of the Big Bang bouncing back from the North wall of the universe.
I think I have the draft here somewhere .... *rummage*.. ah, yes here it is.
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
The only drawback is every few hundred years you need a lot of bloodshed so
people remember why it was started and what it means. It would help immensely
if they would let kids know about this in school.
The USA (and maybe other countries) isn't ready to be responsible enough with the technology to keep it safe. Chernobyl is a good example, and here is another*. Like everything else, after while, people start getting complacent, lazy and apathetic and then things get begin going to hell. Everyone starts pointing fingers at everyone else and the "it's not my job" syndrome sets in. Critical issues do not get dealt with because everyone else thinks someone else should be taking care of it. It's just like your job, only there is a larger potential for claiming a lot of lives.
[*] - http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/22/scada-hackers-infrastructure-tech-security-cx_ag_0822hack.html
> What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
/dev/urandom > /dev/audio' for a few seconds. It is amazing how fast the phone rings :D
I like to leave my id_dsa.pub key in her home directory and login once in a while and 'cat
" Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, says it's not the companies' fault. He even says it's not IT's fault. The problem, he says, lies with the vendors."
I don't think so Alan. The means is there for an able bodied person to setup appropriate credentials within a few minutes. Most of these stupid logins are web based anyway. You click "Admin" and then "Change Password" and things are a lot better than they were a couple minutes ago. The biggest problem is unskilled technical people in positions where they are pressured to get grand things accomplished quickly with as little manpower as possible. Many admins I know (at least in the windows realm) are very complacent being getting by with a D- in everything. Very few attempt to strive for excellence. The ones I know recite idealisms all day long and complain about how broken things are but in the long run they consider the state of affairs acceptable because they are "too busy to fuck with it".
If you urinate in the well, don't complain when your coffee smells like piss.
check out elinks or lynx and apparently w3m
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lynx/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/links/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3m/
> forever, or pay people off, than to stand up and admit when they were wrong.
Oh c'mon, who the *cough*sco*cough* heck would *cough*Microsoft*cough* ever do something like that? You're being paranoid and trollish. Are you one of those GNU shills?
Feature creep and inflation. The product has been in the works for several years since the $100 target was originally sought after. They hope the price will go down when volume sales go up.