While you're decrypting your Sup3rs3kr3t w4r3z on the usb key, any malware* you haven't found yet is potentially logging every keystroke. You need to choose windows, or security; you really can't have both.
Monsanto sounds like the RIAA of corn for chrissakes.
"They showed up at my door 6 o'clock in the morning. They flipped a badge
out," said Good, a Burlington County soybean grower. "It wasn't polite what
they were saying. They acted like FBI."
I admin about a dozen amd x86_64 workstations where I work (along with some sparc enterprise stuff and some ultras and blades). The Linux workstations replaced some aging Blade 2500 boxes. The only apps we run are (on KDE) Unigraphics NX, firefox, tbird, kopete, openoffice, acrobat and Citrix. Oh and UT2004 (demo). I can't say enough about how stable these boxes are. Initially, we had driver issues with the Nvidia fx1500 cards, but Nvidia worked out the bugs and things work really well. We installed ProE Wildfire3 last week, so the guys run that too now. It's really nice not to have to deal with all the problems that plague windows. We looked into macs, but we could build two amd 6000 boxes for the cost of one mac. Linux has been a perfect fit for us on the Desktop. The only time the boxes are down now is if they toss a hard drive or power supply. It's too bad more people can't make the switch.
It's entirely possible that the wm could run as the user "joeturd" and not root, as in windows. Still, yeah it's another example of sexy technology winning over common sense and security. Most people really don't care because they do not understand the implications of a cracked box. I've tried explaining "keylogger" to people before and they just look at me like I was talking to them in Estonian. They do not, and don't want to, "get-it"
It's pretty trivial to spoof a source ip. Just ask the folks at DenyHosts. If the attacker could care less about return packets and simply wants to create a lot of traffic (DoS) count on it. You really have to be careful with the data that's returned from tools like this. A lot of times it's useless. He should have scrubbed his IP from the screenshots too, poor bastard. This article would be perfect Diggchow except he never mentioned Apple in the article. Oh well.
The os has a lot more to do with power consumption than the CPU. If the OS says "give me power" the CPU will oblige. Shitty code can cause more power consumption problems than the CPU can try and mitigate. Running Windows under vmware sometime and watch the CPU peg to 100% when its sitting in a loop at the login dialog.
Ignorance in the supervision is where the blame lies. It's the same as if you gave a child a blowtorch to light a barbecue and the kid burns down the garage in the process. Only an idiot blames the torch.
This is the same old whore in new shoes. A javascript text entry masquerading as something else. You may as well point in apache's direction for htaccess too then.
As long as people do not think about what they are doing with their web browser, you will always have this problem. If people would think about web sites the same way they think about crossing a busy street the problem would be solved.
"Precisely how many distros there are is probably unknown"
How is that important, and who really cares?
It's a lot better than being roped into something you have no
way out of. At least with Open Source, you have options to
do things differently if they're not working.
"Ubuntu, which is clearly the flavor of the month "
Debian has been a favorite for a long time. It may be one
of the oldest distros. Ubuntu is merely icing on top of a
Debian based system. If you remove all the init 5 stuff, you
basically have a command line Debian system ready to be anything
you want it to be. As well as a robust update system and all
the great free stuff that makes linux so great.
Other distros follow this same paradigm. Centos, Fedora, Red Hat.
The underpinnings (since you are in an arcane mood) are the same,
It's the name that changes.
"Ah, so Linux is like a religion."
If you mean Linux is based on on the idea of something that works and
has a large following of people that understand it's advantages,
then yes.
"It is indeed true that the kernel hasn't forked in any significant way"
Other than XFree86, I haven't had any other forks impact me in the least.
And the xorg fork was a necessity. I think forking is good to the extent
that it drives people to come up with new ideas. The duplicating effort
argument I dont agree with. If we hadn't re-invented the wheel at least
once, we'd still be riding on round stones.
"There's no other way to put it: Linux is a forking mess."
And not under the control of a forking monopoly. Just because you find
duplicated effort in many different distros doesn't mean that's automatically
bad. You need to understand that people need to experiment. Distrowatch
is evidence of the experimenting people are doing. You should be glad
these people are putting alternatives out there for you. When you go to
write your column in Vista someday and you DRM key says your running a
pirated version and shuts you out, you'll consider it Linux again.
"So I'll grant readers that, if there's anything amiss with my argument"
Oh, there's plenty amiss. I think you got up on the wrong side of the
bed this morning. Everyone has bad days, it sounds like this is your's.
Since it's open source, anyone is free to pick up where they left off. It's not like the world of proprietary software where the company disappears along with it's software leaving users with *no* options whatsoever.
I expect an even better openMosix will emerge sometime down the road.
Given the plethora of issues with it, I wouldn't be surprised if the cdrom drive opens up and swallows your mouse someday. It would probably spit it back out though because it's about the only perepheral that doesn't need DRM to interface with vista.
> Vista is actually selling quite well No, Vista is being pre-installed on new computers. Vista is not selling well, people do not want it, and companies are being told to stay away from it*
> and many people I know are using it without any complaints. Many people I know are switching to Ubuntu. See how that statement works?
> Why are the good points about Vista never mentioned on Slashdot? Um because most of the people that come here just see history repeating itself.
Ever since wing commander III, the game industry has been turning games into drama. I really enjoyed wing commander but the cut scenes (with no way to skip them) really pissed me off. Same thing with Yuris revenge all the way to Ghost Recon III. If I wanted drama, I'd be watching TV. I just want to go in, blow up some shit, and have some mindless fun (like Kitten Cannon[*]). The other thing is the game companies put way too much emphasis on the graphics. Most people have to turn it all off to make it playable on their crappy hardware anyway - not to mention everyone has to buy a new video card just to play new directx 10 games. Yeah right, I'll do that... just so I can turn it all off anyway. Maybe EA should start fresh with something like Oregon Trail that required some amount of imagination (on the apple II) to really enjoy the game - hey that'd be different.
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fonts? Most of the time crappy CSS layouts makes the font face pointless anyway. Use fixed width for everything.
If we leave it to the government, we won't have to wait 7 million years for mass extinction.
While you're decrypting your Sup3rs3kr3t w4r3z on the usb key, any malware* you haven't found yet is potentially logging every keystroke. You need to choose windows, or security; you really can't have both.
P owered+Keylogger
[*] - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/malware/?Adware.Win32.
Monsanto sounds like the RIAA of corn for chrissakes.
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"They showed up at my door 6 o'clock in the morning. They flipped a badge
out," said Good, a Burlington County soybean grower. "It wasn't polite what
they were saying. They acted like FBI."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/bigbeans
I admin about a dozen amd x86_64 workstations where I work (along with some sparc enterprise stuff and some ultras and blades). The Linux workstations replaced some aging Blade 2500 boxes. The only apps we run are (on KDE) Unigraphics NX, firefox, tbird, kopete, openoffice, acrobat and Citrix. Oh and UT2004 (demo). I can't say enough about how stable these boxes are. Initially, we had driver issues with the Nvidia fx1500 cards, but Nvidia worked out the bugs and things work really well. We installed ProE Wildfire3 last week, so the guys run that too now. It's really nice not to have to deal with all the problems that plague windows. We looked into macs, but we could build two amd 6000 boxes for the cost of one mac. Linux has been a perfect fit for us on the Desktop. The only time the boxes are down now is if they toss a hard drive or power supply. It's too bad more people can't make the switch.
> So what is it that makes this any different?
It's entirely possible that the wm could run as the user "joeturd" and not root, as in windows. Still, yeah it's another example of sexy technology winning over common sense and security. Most people really don't care because they do not understand the implications of a cracked box. I've tried explaining "keylogger" to people before and they just look at me like I was talking to them in Estonian. They do not, and don't want to, "get-it"
It's pretty trivial to spoof a source ip. Just ask the folks at DenyHosts. If the attacker could care less about return packets and simply wants to create a lot of traffic (DoS) count on it. You really have to be careful with the data that's returned from tools like this. A lot of times it's useless. He should have scrubbed his IP from the screenshots too, poor bastard. This article would be perfect Diggchow except he never mentioned Apple in the article. Oh well.
> AMD is doing better at idle speeds
The os has a lot more to do with power consumption than the CPU. If the OS says "give me power" the CPU will oblige. Shitty code can cause more power consumption problems than the CPU can try and mitigate. Running Windows under vmware sometime and watch the CPU peg to 100% when its sitting in a loop at the login dialog.
Ignorance in the supervision is where the blame lies. It's the same as if you gave a child a blowtorch to light a barbecue and the kid burns down the garage in the process. Only an idiot blames the torch.
"an attacker may emulate the login form "
This is the same old whore in new shoes. A javascript text entry masquerading as something else. You may as well point in apache's direction for htaccess too then.
As long as people do not think about what they are doing with their web browser, you will always have this problem. If people would think about web sites the same way they think about crossing a busy street the problem would be solved.
I'm sure they laugh at our measly doughnuts.
"Precisely how many distros there are is probably unknown"
How is that important, and who really cares?
It's a lot better than being roped into something you have no
way out of. At least with Open Source, you have options to
do things differently if they're not working.
"Ubuntu, which is clearly the flavor of the month "
Debian has been a favorite for a long time. It may be one
of the oldest distros. Ubuntu is merely icing on top of a
Debian based system. If you remove all the init 5 stuff, you
basically have a command line Debian system ready to be anything
you want it to be. As well as a robust update system and all
the great free stuff that makes linux so great.
Other distros follow this same paradigm. Centos, Fedora, Red Hat.
The underpinnings (since you are in an arcane mood) are the same,
It's the name that changes.
"Ah, so Linux is like a religion."
If you mean Linux is based on on the idea of something that works and
has a large following of people that understand it's advantages,
then yes.
"It is indeed true that the kernel hasn't forked in any significant way"
Other than XFree86, I haven't had any other forks impact me in the least.
And the xorg fork was a necessity. I think forking is good to the extent
that it drives people to come up with new ideas. The duplicating effort
argument I dont agree with. If we hadn't re-invented the wheel at least
once, we'd still be riding on round stones.
"There's no other way to put it: Linux is a forking mess."
And not under the control of a forking monopoly. Just because you find
duplicated effort in many different distros doesn't mean that's automatically
bad. You need to understand that people need to experiment. Distrowatch
is evidence of the experimenting people are doing. You should be glad
these people are putting alternatives out there for you. When you go to
write your column in Vista someday and you DRM key says your running a
pirated version and shuts you out, you'll consider it Linux again.
"So I'll grant readers that, if there's anything amiss with my argument"
Oh, there's plenty amiss. I think you got up on the wrong side of the
bed this morning. Everyone has bad days, it sounds like this is your's.
> GPL is not the only real "Open Source" license.
No, but it's the only one beating microsoft at it's own game right now.
Since it's open source, anyone is free to pick up where they left off. It's not like the world of proprietary software where the company disappears along with it's software leaving users with *no* options whatsoever.
I expect an even better openMosix will emerge sometime down the road.
Given the plethora of issues with it, I wouldn't be surprised if the cdrom drive opens up and swallows your mouse someday. It would probably spit it back out though because it's about the only perepheral that doesn't need DRM to interface with vista.
for medicinal purposes of course.
> Vista is actually selling quite well
g -systems/features/why-nobody-wants-windows-vistav 2006/tc20061129_739121.htm7 721
No, Vista is being pre-installed on new computers.
Vista is not selling well, people do not want it, and
companies are being told to stay away from it*
> and many people I know are using it without any complaints.
Many people I know are switching to Ubuntu. See how that statement works?
> Why are the good points about Vista never mentioned on Slashdot?
Um because most of the people that come here just see history repeating
itself.
[*]
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/software/operatin
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/no
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
> the SRA anonymous ftp server has been shutdown indefinitely
Anonymous?... FTP? They may have as well put them on bitorrent and named them britneys_boobies.zip
it adds up fast when stuff is always broke.
Now just what in the hell is that? A rubber that comes with duct tape?
Ever since wing commander III, the game industry has been turning games into drama. I really enjoyed wing commander but the cut scenes (with no way to skip them) really pissed me off. Same thing with Yuris revenge all the way to Ghost Recon III. If I wanted drama, I'd be watching TV. I just want to go in, blow up some shit, and have some mindless fun (like Kitten Cannon[*]). The other thing is the game companies put way too much emphasis on the graphics. Most people have to turn it all off to make it playable on their crappy hardware anyway - not to mention everyone has to buy a new video card just to play new directx 10 games. Yeah right, I'll do that... just so I can turn it all off anyway. Maybe EA should start fresh with something like Oregon Trail that required some amount of imagination (on the apple II) to really enjoy the game - hey that'd be different.
[*] - http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html
> Back then, Linux was about as friendly to the average user as a dominatrix on a meth jag
damn, I got a new tagline!
> Why is this news?
Because each time an OSS project chooses GPL3, a chair somewhere in Redmond flies into a million pieces.
Note that the x6800 costs nearly 5 times more than the x2 6000.
8 2E168191037738 2E16819115001
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
reminds me of a dildo.