"The spyware could be _INSTALLED_ per say, but would only affect that one user"
Well..how is that different on Windows XP? a unprivileged account can not damage the whole system. Of course 99% of windows users run with Administrator privileges, but you're not that stupid, are you?
Worms/Viruses != spyware. You can't "fix your OS to prevent spyware". Kazaa for example contains a sh*tload of spyware, and it's a normal program. It doesn't use any vulnerability, they just make you to press a OK button in a license.
Id they'd port kazaa to linux, bsd, plan9, whatever, you'd get exactly the same spyware. You can't "fix your OS" for that.
(Yes, lot of spyware uses vulnerabilities to enter your computer. Nobody cares, the point is that spyware does not depend on "the OS")
Latest new from tux racer in the tux racer's news site is from 2001. It can be called very well "dead". Yes, lots of downloads, probably because there're no lots of better options..
I though anticonceptives were considered a good thing...I mean, what's wrong with not being able to have children? I'd rather have a powerbook than a children!
They'll keep their apps closed, but the kernel is another story. They don't have any significant advantage by keeping their modified kernels closed, the power is in the apps. In fact, trying to integrate your kernel changes in mainstream is a great idea, it means you don't have to maintain the patches.
My hope is that we'll see palmos engineers in the linux kernel mailing list just like we're seeing SGI/IBM engineers today.
Anyone who have seen engage or entice or any other E app based in the new EFL knows what it's. The real power seems to be behind evas/edje. Just go to http://www.rasterman.com/news.html and check the "Avalon vs E" topic, they have a sort of "UI markup language".
They're a couple of years ahead of Gnome/KDE/Longhorn/MacOSX in that field IMNSHO. Impressive.
You'd think that slashdot crew don't uses IE, but surveys in the past has show the contrary.
Besides, slashdot is now frequently cited as sources of news in multiple IT news sites around the world.
So why not putting a Firefox ad in the top of the page? I bet there're a lot of users who look at slashdot from a IE browser just because there was a link in other news site or because they're working or because they like lokking to slashdot. One would think that so many Firefox topics showld have convinced to many but...why not a firefox ad in the front page and in each one of the articles?
I think it's quite important sice lots of software have a license which says "this software is licensed under the GNU public license version 2 or later". AIUI, this means that all that software will be auto-licensed under version 3 as soon as it's available?
Buy hardware with opensource drivers. That's the whole purpose behind changing the driver API in a stable release.
If you open your driver you're giving something to the linux community, if not you aren't and we don't care. (Getting support for the hardware is a right I get when I bought your hardware)
Is not that Linus can't keep a stable API. It's just that he doesn't care. Keep using Solaris or RHEL, fixing interfaces even in stable series is what makes possible to run today in 512-CPU machines.
"Having a stable kernel ought to be some guarantee of a basic level of interface stability, IMNSHO"
Sorry, just on your opinion. Linux internal interfaces are know to change between version even on stable versions. It has been always that way, and it's done to make things better.
Yes, people could build a binary interface wich hides the changes, but linux was designed to be a good OS, not a bad one. OSs which have interface stability are much more difficult to make better.
Linux don't breaks nvidia drivers. Nvidia drivers just don't update their drivers.
Linux internals are *always* changing and interfaces are changed on _purpose_ to make things better. The drivers inside the kernel are updated, the ones outside of the kernel (nvidia) will need update from their owners (nvidia), so don't blame the kernel if nvidia can't develop linux kernel drivers properly...
"In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2128 blocks = 2137 bytes = 2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2140 bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
That's a lot of gear.
To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celcius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg * 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans."
Hah. Every damned country on earth (except perhaps sweden?) has missiles.
It'd have been nice that Bush had invaded Iraq to get Sadam. But he did because of some weird weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist and because of relations with Alqaeda, which didn't exit. Is not that I'm for Sadam, I'm against which was started too quick and ignoring the rest of the world. Oh, and if I were american I'd be against making a war against a powerless dictator instead of trying to catch Osama. Thanks to the distraction cause by the Iraq war Osama has probably run away to a safe place - making the world and particularly america a less safe place. Kerry is an asshole, and it'd had been nice if Bush were better, but he isn't.
Now the same man who didn't know to prevent the 11S murdering and didn't know how to catch Bin Laden because he was fighting a war which he didn't know how to fight has been reelected. He probably won't be able to know how to stop more terrorist attacks and fight more wars. Enjoy your 4-years government, call me when a terrorist asshole puts the bombs in your ass...
freebsd is DYING freebsd is DYING freebsd is DYING HAHA!!!
This delay in the 5.3 release process only CONFIRMS what netcraft had alread.......wait...D'OH!
"1. Why not fix the new schedular?"
"2. Why did it take so long for them to realise it wasn't going to work"
5.x has been too slow. They want to release a stable, functional operative system. Despite of the lack of the ULE scheduler there're a lot of stable areas and new features in FreeBSD 5.X which people need in the real world to solve real problems. Hence the "need" of a 5.x-based "stable" release, to leave 4.x behind (just for mainteinance) and start to work 100% with 5.X. The ULE scheduler has some problems but it also has a lot of good things that work, it'll be just delayed to get maximum stability for 5.3. It looks like they don't want to have Yet Another Delay. Other operative systems (linux 2.6, windows, other BSDs) are also a natural competition for freebsd and freebsd needs a stable 5.x to face them because 4.X is just old and misses lots of features. I'd guess the ULE scheduler will be fixed and enabled by default in 5.4.
Reading the daily firefox changelogs (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ ) "Because of the fix for bug 266221, these builds will not automatically update when Firefox 1.0 comes out. If you install 1.0 RC1 for friends, be sure to tell them to upgrade when 1.0 comes out, in case there are security fixes between now and Firefox 1.0.
Only one vulnerability affects to SP2.
In fact, the XP SP2 (desktop OS, you know) had less vulnerabilities than win 2k3/XPSP1, which shows the huge progress made in the SP2.
I don't know how to take this..."good" because SP2 is good, or "bad" because the server OS is more insecure than the desktop OS. In any case, they're porting the work they did in SP2 to win 2003, so we'll see. They've raised the bar with the SP2, IMHO.
The language doesn't matters, it's the platform!
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Java 1.5 vs C#
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So...who cares if java is better/worse than C#?
What Suns try to sell is Java and the Java platform. Sun tells you "Here you have Java, it's better than what you're using because we say so, and you should use it".
Instead, Microsoft sells you a *real* platform. Microsoft tells you "Here you have.NET, it's better than what you're using because we say so, we provide you a nice language likce C#, BUT YOU CAN USE WHATEVER LANGUAGE you want". Which is, to my eyes, looks much better.
Yes, I know, you can use other languages in java. But that's *not* what Sun wants to do, and it's *not* what it's really happening, and because Java is *not* a real standard (it's controlled by some weird committe) the picture doesn't seems like it's going to change. C# is a real open standard (the rest of the.NET platform, the APIs, etc isn't but...) with a open implementation (mono) which is good for people suffering from GPLitis and similar diseases. We can use C# in linux witout using the rest of the.NET platform (same goes for Java, but the sun's java VM license is so weird some distros can't even distribute it without pain...)
Plus, Microsoft has the power to say "here you have this lenguage, use it". Sun can try to say the same, but very few people will listen them. In fact, they've been doing it for 10 years and still everybody uses C++ for things like browsers, AIM clients... (don't tell me Java wasn't targetted to do that, if I can't write normal programs in Java - not because you can't but because Java sucks for that - why I would want to use it in first place?!?)
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"The spyware could be _INSTALLED_ per say, but would only affect that one user"
Well..how is that different on Windows XP? a unprivileged account can not damage the whole system. Of course 99% of windows users run with Administrator privileges, but you're not that stupid, are you?
Worms/Viruses != spyware. You can't "fix your OS to prevent spyware". Kazaa for example contains a sh*tload of spyware, and it's a normal program. It doesn't use any vulnerability, they just make you to press a OK button in a license.
Id they'd port kazaa to linux, bsd, plan9, whatever, you'd get exactly the same spyware. You can't "fix your OS" for that.
(Yes, lot of spyware uses vulnerabilities to enter your computer. Nobody cares, the point is that spyware does not depend on "the OS")
It's a real shame that such new was published the same day than
Isec's Two vulnerabilities that were published today.
It makes one think "It's not that good"
Latest new from tux racer in the tux racer's news site is from 2001. It can be called very well "dead". Yes, lots of downloads, probably because there're no lots of better options..
I though anticonceptives were considered a good thing...I mean, what's wrong with not being able to have children? I'd rather have a powerbook than a children!
They'll keep their apps closed, but the kernel is another story. They don't have any significant advantage by keeping their modified kernels closed, the power is in the apps. In fact, trying to integrate your kernel changes in mainstream is a great idea, it means you don't have to maintain the patches.
My hope is that we'll see palmos engineers in the linux kernel mailing list just like we're seeing SGI/IBM engineers today.
It's a beta Perhaps they'll add it back again.
Fully agree with you.
Anyone who have seen engage or entice or any other E app based in the new EFL knows what it's. The real power seems to be behind evas/edje. Just go to http://www.rasterman.com/news.html and check the "Avalon vs E" topic, they have a sort of "UI markup language".
They're a couple of years ahead of Gnome/KDE/Longhorn/MacOSX in that field IMNSHO. Impressive.
You'd think that slashdot crew don't uses IE, but surveys in the past has show the contrary.
Besides, slashdot is now frequently cited as sources of news in multiple IT news sites around the world.
So why not putting a Firefox ad in the top of the page? I bet there're a lot of users who look at slashdot from a IE browser just because there was a link in other news site or because they're working or because they like lokking to slashdot. One would think that so many Firefox topics showld have convinced to many but...why not a firefox ad in the front page and in each one of the articles?
I think it's quite important sice lots of software have a license which says "this software is licensed under the GNU public license version 2 or later". AIUI, this means that all that software will be auto-licensed under version 3 as soon as it's available?
Buy hardware with opensource drivers. That's the whole purpose behind changing the driver API in a stable release.
If you open your driver you're giving something to the linux community, if not you aren't and we don't care. (Getting support for the hardware is a right I get when I bought your hardware)
Is not that Linus can't keep a stable API. It's just that he doesn't care. Keep using Solaris or RHEL, fixing interfaces even in stable series is what makes possible to run today in 512-CPU machines.
"Having a stable kernel ought to be some guarantee of a basic level of interface stability, IMNSHO"
Sorry, just on your opinion. Linux internal interfaces are know to change between version even on stable versions. It has been always that way, and it's done to make things better.
Yes, people could build a binary interface wich hides the changes, but linux was designed to be a good OS, not a bad one. OSs which have interface stability are much more difficult to make better.
Linux don't breaks nvidia drivers. Nvidia drivers just don't update their drivers. Linux internals are *always* changing and interfaces are changed on _purpose_ to make things better. The drivers inside the kernel are updated, the ones outside of the kernel (nvidia) will need update from their owners (nvidia), so don't blame the kernel if nvidia can't develop linux kernel drivers properly...
Why? They can't. Look at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?catname=Z FS:
"In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2128 blocks = 2137 bytes = 2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2140 bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
That's a lot of gear.
To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celcius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg * 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans."
Winfs is not like Spotlight, it's not a "search engine". WinFS will be used to as a way of communicate apps. In fact I think it's a COM replacement.
Hah. Every damned country on earth (except perhaps sweden?) has missiles.
It'd have been nice that Bush had invaded Iraq to get Sadam. But he did because of some weird weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist and because of relations with Alqaeda, which didn't exit. Is not that I'm for Sadam, I'm against which was started too quick and ignoring the rest of the world. Oh, and if I were american I'd be against making a war against a powerless dictator instead of trying to catch Osama. Thanks to the distraction cause by the Iraq war Osama has probably run away to a safe place - making the world and particularly america a less safe place. Kerry is an asshole, and it'd had been nice if Bush were better, but he isn't.
Now the same man who didn't know to prevent the 11S murdering and didn't know how to catch Bin Laden because he was fighting a war which he didn't know how to fight has been reelected. He probably won't be able to know how to stop more terrorist attacks and fight more wars. Enjoy your 4-years government, call me when a terrorist asshole puts the bombs in your ass...
Defend from what, sadam's mass destruction weapons?
freebsd is DYING freebsd is DYING freebsd is DYING HAHA!!! This delay in the 5.3 release process only CONFIRMS what netcraft had alread.......wait...D'OH!
"1. Why not fix the new schedular?" "2. Why did it take so long for them to realise it wasn't going to work" 5.x has been too slow. They want to release a stable, functional operative system. Despite of the lack of the ULE scheduler there're a lot of stable areas and new features in FreeBSD 5.X which people need in the real world to solve real problems. Hence the "need" of a 5.x-based "stable" release, to leave 4.x behind (just for mainteinance) and start to work 100% with 5.X. The ULE scheduler has some problems but it also has a lot of good things that work, it'll be just delayed to get maximum stability for 5.3. It looks like they don't want to have Yet Another Delay. Other operative systems (linux 2.6, windows, other BSDs) are also a natural competition for freebsd and freebsd needs a stable 5.x to face them because 4.X is just old and misses lots of features. I'd guess the ULE scheduler will be fixed and enabled by default in 5.4.
Reading the daily firefox changelogs (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/
)
"Because of the fix for bug 266221, these builds will not automatically update when Firefox 1.0 comes out. If you install 1.0 RC1 for friends, be sure to tell them to upgrade when 1.0 comes out, in case there are security fixes between now and Firefox 1.0.
There're some services (like the RPC server) which can't be switched off if you wnat to run windows
Only one vulnerability affects to SP2. In fact, the XP SP2 (desktop OS, you know) had less vulnerabilities than win 2k3/XPSP1, which shows the huge progress made in the SP2. I don't know how to take this..."good" because SP2 is good, or "bad" because the server OS is more insecure than the desktop OS. In any case, they're porting the work they did in SP2 to win 2003, so we'll see. They've raised the bar with the SP2, IMHO.
So...who cares if java is better/worse than C#?
.NET, it's better than what you're using because we say so, we provide you a nice language likce C#, BUT YOU CAN USE WHATEVER LANGUAGE you want". Which is, to my eyes, looks much better.
.NET platform, the APIs, etc isn't but...) with a open implementation (mono) which is good for people suffering from GPLitis and similar diseases. We can use C# in linux witout using the rest of the .NET platform (same goes for Java, but the sun's java VM license is so weird some distros can't even distribute it without pain...)
What Suns try to sell is Java and the Java platform. Sun tells you "Here you have Java, it's better than what you're using because we say so, and you should use it".
Instead, Microsoft sells you a *real* platform. Microsoft tells you "Here you have
Yes, I know, you can use other languages in java. But that's *not* what Sun wants to do, and it's *not* what it's really happening, and because Java is *not* a real standard (it's controlled by some weird committe) the picture doesn't seems like it's going to change. C# is a real open standard (the rest of the
Plus, Microsoft has the power to say "here you have this lenguage, use it". Sun can try to say the same, but very few people will listen them.
In fact, they've been doing it for 10 years and still everybody uses C++ for things like browsers, AIM clients... (don't tell me Java wasn't targetted to do that, if I can't write normal programs in Java - not because you can't but because Java sucks for that - why I would want to use it in first place?!?)
I mean: guys, do you lose nuclear bombs very often?
So if this affects a small number of people why on earth the titular is named "File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP SP2"?