lol it's funny how people use that statistic without even checking to see what the holes are. If you actually did you'll see how pedantic linux kernal admins are about security.
But no, you get linux with patches already installed, and even if you had to download them that's better than the 20 unpatched known holes that Windows XP Pro has.
oh no. Please, if you value your life, don't go to the next linux conference - they throw things!
*sigh* being a linux user and having a brother with an MCSE is hard enough without having people with bloody PhDs in Microsoft products on the internet!
I'm not a total linux zealot, though I do use it as preference, and sorry, but you're wrong. IE isn't the only problem. Besides the fact that outlook [express] is a huge security hole (I'll count that under Internet Explorer, since you've probably changed to thunderbird as well) there are huge holes in Windows generally that makes it insecure.
There are a large number of security faults in Windows that make it inherently insecure, most of all default admin access.
Now besides the accepted fact that linux now has a higher market share than OSX, you seem to believe that should linux would magically gain new flaws and exploits with a higher market share. I am interested to know how that works. Even with more people looking for bugs and exploits, they are found not created by people looking for them, and more people looking for them usually doesn't really mean more security holes found when the security holes just aren't there.
When you look at other examples, most notably Apache vs IIS, where the OSS software has a higher market share than the commercial equivalent, the result seems much the same. OSS seems to win every time. Apache, looking at the market share theoretically should have more exploits than the OSS equivalent, but, looking at how a fifth of the internet goes down every so often, it is plainly not the case.
But otherwise, linux is fundamentally different from Windows in many ways, such that spyware is quite a bit harder to install on a linux box than a windows one. Besides the fact that grandma can't install Funnyshit.rpm without going onto root, it's quite hard to install spyware without the users knowledge, and impossible for it to affect other users.
As much as bittorrent is. I've used such devices legally quite a few times for various reasons, none of which had anything to do with violating copyright.
In the unlikely event that Slashdot would be forced to give over the grandparent poster's IP address (which, I hate to break it to you, is quite unlikely), it's still pretty much impossible to track that down to a single person. Impossible by law, in my case living in Australia, which is one of the organizations you listed, since (a) ISPs are under no obligation to reveal identities of specific IP addresses and (b) my data goes through the ISP's proxy anyway.
So stop trying to taunt people with your meaningless bullsh*t threats.
how much spyware can be installed on a Windows XP machine when the user simply visits a single Web site using Internet Explorer.
I'm a bit disappointed that he only came up with a site with 16 pieces of spyware. He should have gone right out for 42 pieces or something like a true geek.
Just look at the new Doom 3 benchmarks. You get 20% better frame rates between AMD64 Linux and Windows XP! You'll need to search on google for the sites where I got that stat, and that figure is conservative.
Please read the summary and article. The porn site isn't sueing because google is showing images from their servers, but because it is displaying images that have been stolen and hosted on "unortherized mirrors"
It's never going to (unless you count Crossover where it apparently already does). Gabe Newell has huge connections to Microsoft and is even a former Microsoft Windows Project Manager. Half Life 2 is written in Microsoft DirectX with close cooperation with ATI (who has notoriously bad linux drivers and, indeed, opengl drivers).
So add those together and it doesn't look like half-life 2 is coming to linux anytime soon.
But yes as a tech demo Doom 3 is quite good. It is also extremely good as an opengl benchmarking demo. And if linux starts to get higher benchmarks, that says something about it as a possible gaming platform.
A lot of people also download it and install it on multiple computers using the one copy (including me). Perhaps you should add 3 on there for my personal contribution!
I think the people who install it on multiple computers (including internet cafe's and workplaces etc) far outnumber people like you.
it rendered fine for me and I'm using linux with FF1.0 (I mean if they're going to sabotage their website wouldn't they do it properly so the real baddies can't read it?)
(This is off topic so I've forsaken karma bonus)
That seems to be changing quite quickly for linux at least. I was blown away when I saw someone post benchmarks for their Opterion that got 30% better frame-rates in Doom 3 on native 64-bit linux than on Windows XP.
I wish I'd kept the URL.
I'm not giving a critique on the reliability of SCO's version of events, but I'm just trying (and it seems failing with a very stubborn slashdot section) to point out that even if you disagree with an argument, there is always two sides to every story. If you blindly ignore and don't even try to empathise with what people have called the "enemy" then . . . well that's just stupid.
I'm not trying to incite contrivercy or be a troll (and I'm of the opinion that whoever marked me down before has a strange opinion of "troll") - I'm just trying to make a point.
Anyway you're not exactly teaching the uninformed. I use debian linux, read every article on groklaw (and have for quite a while now) and follow cases like this quite carefully. If I lived in America I might have travelled to the court in person.
Slashdot Mirror
nope, never heard of Kirefox.
Sorry I just had to make that joke.
lol it's funny how people use that statistic without even checking to see what the holes are. If you actually did you'll see how pedantic linux kernal admins are about security.
But no, you get linux with patches already installed, and even if you had to download them that's better than the 20 unpatched known holes that Windows XP Pro has.
I know that is a joke, but after the adsense plugin I keep thinking "perhaps there is an extension for that".
*sigh* let me guess: using Debian or Gentoo without knowing how to turn HD optimizations on? I do not have the same problem.
oh no. Please, if you value your life, don't go to the next linux conference - they throw things!
*sigh* being a linux user and having a brother with an MCSE is hard enough without having people with bloody PhDs in Microsoft products on the internet!
I'm not a total linux zealot, though I do use it as preference, and sorry, but you're wrong. IE isn't the only problem. Besides the fact that outlook [express] is a huge security hole (I'll count that under Internet Explorer, since you've probably changed to thunderbird as well) there are huge holes in Windows generally that makes it insecure.
There are a large number of security faults in Windows that make it inherently insecure, most of all default admin access.
Now besides the accepted fact that linux now has a higher market share than OSX, you seem to believe that should linux would magically gain new flaws and exploits with a higher market share. I am interested to know how that works. Even with more people looking for bugs and exploits, they are found not created by people looking for them, and more people looking for them usually doesn't really mean more security holes found when the security holes just aren't there.
When you look at other examples, most notably Apache vs IIS, where the OSS software has a higher market share than the commercial equivalent, the result seems much the same. OSS seems to win every time. Apache, looking at the market share theoretically should have more exploits than the OSS equivalent, but, looking at how a fifth of the internet goes down every so often, it is plainly not the case.
But otherwise, linux is fundamentally different from Windows in many ways, such that spyware is quite a bit harder to install on a linux box than a windows one. Besides the fact that grandma can't install Funnyshit.rpm without going onto root, it's quite hard to install spyware without the users knowledge, and impossible for it to affect other users.
*shrug* I'm tired now.
As much as bittorrent is. I've used such devices legally quite a few times for various reasons, none of which had anything to do with violating copyright.
he he ha ha ha. You're full of crap.
In the unlikely event that Slashdot would be forced to give over the grandparent poster's IP address (which, I hate to break it to you, is quite unlikely), it's still pretty much impossible to track that down to a single person. Impossible by law, in my case living in Australia, which is one of the organizations you listed, since (a) ISPs are under no obligation to reveal identities of specific IP addresses and (b) my data goes through the ISP's proxy anyway.
So stop trying to taunt people with your meaningless bullsh*t threats.
/me starts dreaming of an athlon FX with 4GB of ram and two GForce 6800 Ultras running SLI.
Imagine the frame rates on that machine.
how much spyware can be installed on a Windows XP machine when the user simply visits a single Web site using Internet Explorer.
I'm a bit disappointed that he only came up with a site with 16 pieces of spyware. He should have gone right out for 42 pieces or something like a true geek.
Just look at the new Doom 3 benchmarks. You get 20% better frame rates between AMD64 Linux and Windows XP! You'll need to search on google for the sites where I got that stat, and that figure is conservative.
Wait a second. According to the Press Release, "As part of this agreement, Microsoft will join the membership of CCIA".
This is extremely strange, especially seeing that CCIA are a member of te Open Source Development Labs.
So, though indirectly, Microsoft are now members of the Open Source Development Labs ! Could everyone repeat after me, wtf?
DVD is the true successor then. Who knows what DVD stands for?
Let me think . . . No.
*sigh* I'm starting to miss all of the extra features included with IE. Does anyone know if it can be run on Wine?
Please read the summary and article. The porn site isn't sueing because google is showing images from their servers, but because it is displaying images that have been stolen and hosted on "unortherized mirrors"
It's never going to (unless you count Crossover where it apparently already does). Gabe Newell has huge connections to Microsoft and is even a former Microsoft Windows Project Manager. Half Life 2 is written in Microsoft DirectX with close cooperation with ATI (who has notoriously bad linux drivers and, indeed, opengl drivers).
So add those together and it doesn't look like half-life 2 is coming to linux anytime soon.
But yes as a tech demo Doom 3 is quite good. It is also extremely good as an opengl benchmarking demo. And if linux starts to get higher benchmarks, that says something about it as a possible gaming platform.
A lot of people also download it and install it on multiple computers using the one copy (including me). Perhaps you should add 3 on there for my personal contribution!
I think the people who install it on multiple computers (including internet cafe's and workplaces etc) far outnumber people like you.
it rendered fine for me and I'm using linux with FF1.0 (I mean if they're going to sabotage their website wouldn't they do it properly so the real baddies can't read it?)
Professioal gamer
(This is off topic so I've forsaken karma bonus)
That seems to be changing quite quickly for linux at least. I was blown away when I saw someone post benchmarks for their Opterion that got 30% better frame-rates in Doom 3 on native 64-bit linux than on Windows XP.
I wish I'd kept the URL.
As long as you can get to D, aka the pub.
let me think . . . no. I'll just stick with this one
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Or perhaps this one
Is it just me, or are other heavy Firefox users noticing this sort of behavior?
Looking around at the other comments, I think it's just you.
Next time you feel like killing someone:
"Hey mate, here's a free trip to a texas ranch, though you'll have to walk along a medium length path to get there I've heard..."
I'm not giving a critique on the reliability of SCO's version of events, but I'm just trying (and it seems failing with a very stubborn slashdot section) to point out that even if you disagree with an argument, there is always two sides to every story. If you blindly ignore and don't even try to empathise with what people have called the "enemy" then . . . well that's just stupid.
I'm not trying to incite contrivercy or be a troll (and I'm of the opinion that whoever marked me down before has a strange opinion of "troll") - I'm just trying to make a point.
Anyway you're not exactly teaching the uninformed. I use debian linux, read every article on groklaw (and have for quite a while now) and follow cases like this quite carefully. If I lived in America I might have travelled to the court in person.