Linux does not need to keep track of my hardware for activation, reboot 5 times during install, phone home, or install an endless supply of (DRM'd) mainboard, cpu, sound, video and mouse software, it takes about 15 minutes on an 100 gig drive. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb.
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
1) If chimps can have human rights this also means they get to pay taxes. 2) The US will have a labor force that works cheaper than mexico. 3) If a chimp can throw a chair, Microsoft has a new pool to hire from. 4) Just in time for the US presedential elections.
I know a lot of people in the linux community (as well as being a LUG pres.) and I've only run across one person in the last 15 years that was a complete asshole about using Linux and nothing else. Actually, he didn't limit that idealism to just linux - it was basically whatever he was doing was the right way, and everyone else was wrong. That's a pretty small percentage of nut jobs. Take a good look through Bruce Peren's petition*, you'll see the exact opposite of what Opes is talking about. This is also something that has upset and angered a lot of people, but the vast majority of signees (3000+) have kept their comments reasonable. This seems to be more in line with the Linux community I know of.
So I wonder if this[0] was just a run-of-the-mill dare where nobody really cares if you do it or not, or a double-dog dare, or the greatly feared TRIPLE-dog dare? Especially since "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits" [1]
We are witnessing evolution and natural selection in the 48% polled. As people become increasingly more ignorant, they are slowly evolving back into lemmings which will, in turn, increase the number of people that are unable to comprehend simple scientific fundamentals such as evolution, natural selection, or formatting a floppy disk. I blame Clippy.
The biggest problems facing internet security are greed, laziness, ineptitude, apathy and general ignorance. expensive credit card hardware cant fix pebkac, all it does is make newegg raise their shipping charges.
I just bought 4 2gig Gskill sticks and the BIOS isn't stable unless the 4th slot is empty. From what I've heard[*], this is a pretty common problem with filling up all for slots. Nice speed, but tell marketing they need to deliver stability also.
Linux has already beaten Windows and Mac on price alone (free) as well as merit and marketing. If one-tenth of the marketing hype put into either of the aforementioned were put into Ubuntu (for instance) Linux would be that much farther ahead. There is a large population of windows users that are fed up but have no idea there is any other option. Most of that population could care less about anything more than solitare as well. It's too bad your Ubuntu upgrade didn't go perfectly. Most things with computers dont. Hey - look at it this way, you don't have to take it back to the store, you didn't need to enter in any license key during install, and you didn't have any AOL icons on your desktop when you were done. Oh - and one other thing, you can pretty much bet that when your Ubuntu box got port scanned today, the cracker went somewhere else and when that new windows trojan tried getting into port 2967, there was nothing listening there. I bet you also didn't spend $2500 on some sexy ipod-like hardware to run it on just because your brothers girlfriend, who is a part time artist, uses a mac.
When you explain that the company's Word and Powerpoint presentations are potentially locked up in a format that belongs solely to Microsoft and nobody else, it gets their attention quickly. Curiously enough, it's usually something they hadn't considered before.
wake-n-bake lets all take a look at microsoft half-baked hit the bong and sing this song windows got security wrong Around we go with disclosure fud Michael Howard please pass the bud
They find the quickest way to make money for the least amount of work. Whether it's building a reactor, managing it, or turning the little knobs, people eventually go for the Easy Button. That kind of mentality does not historically* mix well with nuclear power. Another problem is accountability. Nobody (sans the religeous nutjobs) wants to get blamed for contaminating the globe so problems like these will always be minimzed and covered up; if even made public at all.
Build your own. It's not that hard and only takes about 30 minutes to put together. Trick is to standardize on parts. Not too hard with socket AM2 (selection of cpu prices) and a 20/24 pin power supplies. If you get a board with 4 sata ports on it, it makes a nice raid server years down the road when you upgrade. Keep enough parts on the shelf to replace things when they go to hell. You get a lot more bang for your buck and no MegaCorp software bullshit to deal with. Better get your fill of it before it gets killed-off* though.
> It doesn't matter if it is only 1 function that IBM has copied in there.
RTFA. They are talking about function prototypes, not functions. Big difference. Without actually seeing what the beef is, SCO's claims could be as ridiculous as "int foo (void);"
> Just the fact that SCO has not been lying is vindication enough for me.
Where does it say SCO has not been lying? RBC, Microsoft, SCO and Baystar capital* have been in on this pump-n-dump since day one. As far as I'm concerned, they are all crooks and should be brought to court and tried as such. It's no different than Enron and the other MegaCorp swindlers.
Slashdot Mirror
15 minutes.
Linux does not need to keep track of my hardware for activation, reboot 5 times during install, phone home, or install an endless supply of (DRM'd) mainboard, cpu, sound, video and mouse software, it takes about 15 minutes on an 100 gig drive. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb.
like ever even...
i tch_to_linux_after_microsoft_piracy_case
"Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead."
http://www.secguru.com/link/russian_schools_to_sw
We put them next to our brains everyday.
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out
I D=1&threadID=30419&messageID=565878&start=143
with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that
once a month on the Windows machine."
-- Bill Gates, Newsweek interview, Feb. 3, 2007
[*] - http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10533-0.html?forum
1) If chimps can have human rights this also means they get to pay taxes.
2) The US will have a labor force that works cheaper than mexico.
3) If a chimp can throw a chair, Microsoft has a new pool to hire from.
4) Just in time for the US presedential elections.
I know a lot of people in the linux community (as well as being a LUG pres.) and I've only run across one person in the last 15 years that was a complete asshole about using Linux and nothing else. Actually, he didn't limit that idealism to just linux - it was basically whatever he was doing was the right way, and everyone else was wrong. That's a pretty small percentage of nut jobs. Take a good look through Bruce Peren's petition*, you'll see the exact opposite of what Opes is talking about. This is also something that has upset and angered a lot of people, but the vast majority of signees (3000+) have kept their comments reasonable. This seems to be more in line with the Linux community I know of.
[*] - http://techp.org/p/1
Why is biofuel taking off and leaving hydrogen in the dust? Is it the safety factor or the control factor?
So I wonder if this[0] was just a run-of-the-mill dare where nobody really cares if you do it or not, or a double-dog dare, or the greatly feared TRIPLE-dog dare? Especially since "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits" [1]
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[0] - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=422
[1] - http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=4
Anyone missing PST files from last tuesday can use this.
We are witnessing evolution and natural selection in the 48% polled. As people become increasingly more ignorant, they are slowly evolving back into lemmings which will, in turn, increase the number of people that are unable to comprehend simple scientific fundamentals such as evolution, natural selection, or formatting a floppy disk. I blame Clippy.
The biggest problems facing internet security are greed, laziness, ineptitude, apathy and general ignorance. expensive credit card hardware cant fix pebkac, all it does is make newegg raise their shipping charges.
That's all fine and well but when it's the mail (exchange) server that is compromised the egress filtering is pointless.
under 5% of the market share and 150 million in
a re-update/. miss/miss07.html
debt to ms - microsoft isn't worried.
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/06/01/mac-market-sh
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/web.whatnext/hit
"and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available"
Or did someone else add the (s) ?
is right twice a day; Doesn't mean it's working.
I just bought 4 2gig Gskill sticks and the BIOS isn't stable unless the 4th slot is empty. From what I've heard[*], this is a pretty common problem with filling up all for slots. Nice speed, but tell marketing they need to deliver stability also.
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[*] - http://groups.google.com/group/misc.forsale.compu
Linux has already beaten Windows and Mac on price alone (free) as well as merit and marketing. If one-tenth of the marketing hype put into either of the aforementioned were put into Ubuntu (for instance) Linux would be that much farther ahead. There is a large population of windows users that are fed up but have no idea there is any other option. Most of that population could care less about anything more than solitare as well. It's too bad your Ubuntu upgrade didn't go perfectly. Most things with computers dont. Hey - look at it this way, you don't have to take it back to the store, you didn't need to enter in any license key during install, and you didn't have any AOL icons on your desktop when you were done. Oh - and one other thing, you can pretty much bet that when your Ubuntu box got port scanned today, the cracker went somewhere else and when that new windows trojan tried getting into port 2967, there was nothing listening there. I bet you also didn't spend $2500 on some sexy ipod-like hardware to run it on just because your brothers girlfriend, who is a part time artist, uses a mac.
Manlaw! No more chicks allowed to enforce the DMCA!
technological terrorist brother?
When you explain that the company's Word and Powerpoint presentations are potentially locked up in a format that belongs solely to Microsoft and nobody else, it gets their attention quickly. Curiously enough, it's usually something they hadn't considered before.
wake-n-bake lets all take
a look at microsoft half-baked
hit the bong and sing this song
windows got security wrong
Around we go with disclosure fud
Michael Howard please pass the bud
They find the quickest way to make money for the least amount of work. Whether it's building a reactor, managing it, or turning the little knobs, people eventually go for the Easy Button. That kind of mentality does not historically* mix well with nuclear power. Another problem is accountability. Nobody (sans the religeous nutjobs) wants to get blamed for contaminating the globe so problems like these will always be minimzed and covered up; if even made public at all.
w er_Plant#Accidents
[*]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_mile_island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Po
Build your own. It's not that hard and only takes about 30 minutes to put together. Trick is to standardize on parts. Not too hard with socket AM2 (selection of cpu prices) and a 20/24 pin power supplies. If you get a board with 4 sata ports on it, it makes a nice raid server years down the road when you upgrade. Keep enough parts on the shelf to replace things when they go to hell. You get a lot more bang for your buck and no MegaCorp software bullshit to deal with. Better get your fill of it before it gets killed-off* though.
n g/20031001_tc.php
* http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computi
The same monkey that was going to fucking kill google and cannot get enough of the developers and has been bald since windows 1.0
> It doesn't matter if it is only 1 function that IBM has copied in there.
s oft-SCO+relationship+-+page+2/2100-7344_3-5450515- 2.htmld =36545
RTFA. They are talking about function prototypes, not functions. Big difference. Without actually seeing what the beef is, SCO's claims could be as ridiculous as "int foo (void);"
> Just the fact that SCO has not been lying is vindication enough for me.
Where does it say SCO has not been lying? RBC, Microsoft, SCO and Baystar capital* have been in on this pump-n-dump since day one. As far as I'm concerned, they are all crooks and should be brought to court and tried as such. It's no different than Enron and the other MegaCorp swindlers.
[*] http://news.com.com/Fact+and+fiction+in+the+Micro
http://www.newsforge.com/comments.pl?cid=87796&si