he is just attempting to scam people, there is a great different between selling a IT product called "linux something" and linuxchix.com.
the spirit of linuxmark is to prevent the misuse of the linux name in cases such as linuxchix.com, so that it's legitimate use won't be ruined. money has nothing to do with this. this guy is a con artist.
i don't know what land of milk and honey you live in, but i'm quite well off and even i would have to go well into hooky to pay for a $200k space flight, and it would mostly be a debt that would take the rest of my life to pay off.
people who blab that shit generally have no real technical insight into why these worms become such a problem.
thats why the fall back on "windows is more popular, therefore it has more attackers" what they view fails to take into account is there are millions of linux boxes installed on fat pipes doing unoffical mail servers and website, they DO MAKE A BIG TARGET. as an attacker why would i care about infecting someones cable internet with a shitty 25kb/sec upstream, when i can infect a linux box with 100mbit upstream? and i simply don't buy these market share figures, they are all bogus. how do they manage to take into account for boxes built and installed by admins themselfs? those figures of 5% only take into account PURCHASED systems.
so as you can see, the idea that windows has a much larger virus potential is bullshit.
are just something for management to mentally masturbate over, they are meaningless.
so what if we were are WankerCon green, if your getting DDOS'd to death why will you care? what has it done for you?
electric motors are many magnitudes more efficent then combustion engines, thats why they are considered environmentaly friendly. distance to $ value on them is far higher. also, you can produce electricity in non polluting ways, granted the technology to do so in a method that could supply our needs is a little way off, it WILL get there.
i believe mostly due to cost, america has it good with petrol prices, but the rest of the world is really hurting under high prices. people will factor in the saving the make on petrol when buying an electric car, once we can get them for $60k AUD i will definately consider one.
another thing i wish makers of electric cars would do, is stop trying to make them look futurisic ffs. make a normal looking car i can drive without getting beaten up for it.
thats some serious distance. how does it handle and take off? that is the main barrier stopping your average polluting american slob using them. that and price
if i buy an xbox, are they seriously contending i cant' do as i please with the hardware. if i want to strap a vibrator shaped controller to my xbox, what fucking business is it of microsofts.
how can this seriously be allowed, are consumer watch dogs and competition agencies totaly blind and defanged?
lexmark i believe tried this exact same rubbish with their printer carts, got sued and lost.
it really does beg the question why would they have an intrest in asserting that gpl code is public domain - possibly because they have been rampantly stealing gpl code as the article suggests? it'd make perfect sense in a SCO kind of way.
different versions of IE break different things. without a doubt 6 - 7 will break things.
this is the whole problem with web apps, and why they aren't a replacement for a well written binary.
i maintain an inhouse app written in python/wxpython. and i know it works perfectly under ANY platform. it also automaticly updates when the user logs in, so the problem of updating is moot. i use large data entry grids and hot keys etc. i know these won't work under the various IE's out there.
like it or not some people are still stuck with win95 ffs. i do this for a living i'm not just spouting rubbish either btw.
companys seem to think just because they make people pay for something, someone else isn't allowed to offer the same thing for free - oh the HORROR!!
i really hope the airline sticks to it guns on this, and looks after thier customers.
"Microsoft in a way made the PC revolution possible, with all its negative side-effects."
when people say that, it pisses me off. MS did NOT, i repeat did NOT make pc's cheap and affordable. all they did was sell DOS to IBM, who first manufacured the x86 platform. what made it affordable and revolutionised computers in a way that ment we could all have one, the CLONES. all the companys making ibm compatable clones. BG just got it handed to him on a platter then because DOS was used on ibm's, so the clones put DOS on all their pc's.
becuase people are retards and would click "no don't allow access" then proceed to whinge to tech support that their internet is broken, nothing works, blah blah...
then i say terminate it and get on with your life. if you want another one, then go make one. making babies isn't rocket science it's very very easy.
naturally i'm against late terminations, but seriously, before then it's no more aware and intelligent then a fish or a dog.
that wasn't even a very good effort you idiot. even a passing knowledge of bsd is enough to laugh at that.
i'd liken that post to the enlarge my penis spam i get every day
since i'm sure trolls like you always come back to check on your handy work, let me take the time to let you know how great it was to have my way with your mum last night.
saying they will replace you is a bluff 99% of the time. it costs far more to replace you then to just let you do your alloted hours and have the work done in that time.
and if it's not a bluff, then i'd wager your better off working for someone else, because managment with that kind of shit attitude is a sinking ship
i couldn't agree more.
i worked in a busy 24/7 environment for 3 years. i started out fixing pc's and learning about their in house application. by the end of it i was the network administrator, jnr dev, printer service tech. pretty much everything. on top of this they had somehow pushed me into this position where everyone expected me to be on call 24/7.and my pay had not increased dispite countless promises of reviews.
well, inspite of this i really enjoy working with computers, and the experience was good for me, so i never complained. UNTIL one day some management dickhead got this idea that they could push me even furthur and not pay me call out or over time.
i snapped hulk style when i saw my pay slip and was told i was no longer to write my over time down.
fromt hat day forward i didn't answer my phone if it was work. i never did anything outside my alotted hours. i stopped all development work and stuck to my assigned role.
and you know what? no one ever said a word. managment knew they had no right to be doing what they had done, and so i cruised out my term there and moved on to better things
let me ak you this, and consider it seriously. in this day and age, if you were muslim and ran a website that put forward views that were pro al-qaeda, BUT you never actually engaged in any illegal activites or corrispondence with criminals, would put up your fucking hand? you wouldn't get a fair trial, you wouldn't get anything but a one way card to jail without any hope of escape.
this is how it begins.
i tend to agree with education being important, apart from letting them choose their own passwords, since people will always choose crap passwords.
i have found the most help thing you can do to enforce security polices is to get the staff on your side. a fun demonstration or something to keep them involved and not feeling like the enemy. often when people instigate security policies staff end up in a them vs you situation. and in that case your going to lose, because insiders will always find a way to thwart the best laid security.
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i did fuckhead. how am i wrong? i love how slashdrones just repeat "RTFA"
he is just attempting to scam people, there is a great different between selling a IT product called "linux something" and linuxchix.com. the spirit of linuxmark is to prevent the misuse of the linux name in cases such as linuxchix.com, so that it's legitimate use won't be ruined. money has nothing to do with this. this guy is a con artist.
i don't know what land of milk and honey you live in, but i'm quite well off and even i would have to go well into hooky to pay for a $200k space flight, and it would mostly be a debt that would take the rest of my life to pay off.
people who blab that shit generally have no real technical insight into why these worms become such a problem. thats why the fall back on "windows is more popular, therefore it has more attackers" what they view fails to take into account is there are millions of linux boxes installed on fat pipes doing unoffical mail servers and website, they DO MAKE A BIG TARGET. as an attacker why would i care about infecting someones cable internet with a shitty 25kb/sec upstream, when i can infect a linux box with 100mbit upstream? and i simply don't buy these market share figures, they are all bogus. how do they manage to take into account for boxes built and installed by admins themselfs? those figures of 5% only take into account PURCHASED systems. so as you can see, the idea that windows has a much larger virus potential is bullshit.
are just something for management to mentally masturbate over, they are meaningless. so what if we were are WankerCon green, if your getting DDOS'd to death why will you care? what has it done for you?
electric motors are many magnitudes more efficent then combustion engines, thats why they are considered environmentaly friendly. distance to $ value on them is far higher. also, you can produce electricity in non polluting ways, granted the technology to do so in a method that could supply our needs is a little way off, it WILL get there. i believe mostly due to cost, america has it good with petrol prices, but the rest of the world is really hurting under high prices. people will factor in the saving the make on petrol when buying an electric car, once we can get them for $60k AUD i will definately consider one. another thing i wish makers of electric cars would do, is stop trying to make them look futurisic ffs. make a normal looking car i can drive without getting beaten up for it.
thats some serious distance. how does it handle and take off? that is the main barrier stopping your average polluting american slob using them. that and price
the only way to deal with these companies, is to blast them with so much bad press they back down. and hopfully fire the moron who thought of this.
your forgetting that that $300 is just for a useless paper license. it doesn't do what they want, so you still need that butt in the seat....
if i buy an xbox, are they seriously contending i cant' do as i please with the hardware. if i want to strap a vibrator shaped controller to my xbox, what fucking business is it of microsofts. how can this seriously be allowed, are consumer watch dogs and competition agencies totaly blind and defanged? lexmark i believe tried this exact same rubbish with their printer carts, got sued and lost.
it really does beg the question why would they have an intrest in asserting that gpl code is public domain - possibly because they have been rampantly stealing gpl code as the article suggests? it'd make perfect sense in a SCO kind of way.
different versions of IE break different things. without a doubt 6 - 7 will break things. this is the whole problem with web apps, and why they aren't a replacement for a well written binary. i maintain an inhouse app written in python/wxpython. and i know it works perfectly under ANY platform. it also automaticly updates when the user logs in, so the problem of updating is moot. i use large data entry grids and hot keys etc. i know these won't work under the various IE's out there. like it or not some people are still stuck with win95 ffs. i do this for a living i'm not just spouting rubbish either btw.
companys seem to think just because they make people pay for something, someone else isn't allowed to offer the same thing for free - oh the HORROR!! i really hope the airline sticks to it guns on this, and looks after thier customers.
"Microsoft in a way made the PC revolution possible, with all its negative side-effects." when people say that, it pisses me off. MS did NOT, i repeat did NOT make pc's cheap and affordable. all they did was sell DOS to IBM, who first manufacured the x86 platform. what made it affordable and revolutionised computers in a way that ment we could all have one, the CLONES. all the companys making ibm compatable clones. BG just got it handed to him on a platter then because DOS was used on ibm's, so the clones put DOS on all their pc's.
becuase people are retards and would click "no don't allow access" then proceed to whinge to tech support that their internet is broken, nothing works, blah blah...
then i say terminate it and get on with your life. if you want another one, then go make one. making babies isn't rocket science it's very very easy. naturally i'm against late terminations, but seriously, before then it's no more aware and intelligent then a fish or a dog.
that wasn't even a very good effort you idiot. even a passing knowledge of bsd is enough to laugh at that. i'd liken that post to the enlarge my penis spam i get every day
since i'm sure trolls like you always come back to check on your handy work, let me take the time to let you know how great it was to have my way with your mum last night.
saying they will replace you is a bluff 99% of the time. it costs far more to replace you then to just let you do your alloted hours and have the work done in that time. and if it's not a bluff, then i'd wager your better off working for someone else, because managment with that kind of shit attitude is a sinking ship
there is no such thing as free trade with the usa. they play by their own rules, when it suits them. america is nothing but a big bully boy
i couldn't agree more. i worked in a busy 24/7 environment for 3 years. i started out fixing pc's and learning about their in house application. by the end of it i was the network administrator, jnr dev, printer service tech. pretty much everything. on top of this they had somehow pushed me into this position where everyone expected me to be on call 24/7.and my pay had not increased dispite countless promises of reviews. well, inspite of this i really enjoy working with computers, and the experience was good for me, so i never complained. UNTIL one day some management dickhead got this idea that they could push me even furthur and not pay me call out or over time. i snapped hulk style when i saw my pay slip and was told i was no longer to write my over time down. fromt hat day forward i didn't answer my phone if it was work. i never did anything outside my alotted hours. i stopped all development work and stuck to my assigned role. and you know what? no one ever said a word. managment knew they had no right to be doing what they had done, and so i cruised out my term there and moved on to better things
let me ak you this, and consider it seriously. in this day and age, if you were muslim and ran a website that put forward views that were pro al-qaeda, BUT you never actually engaged in any illegal activites or corrispondence with criminals, would put up your fucking hand? you wouldn't get a fair trial, you wouldn't get anything but a one way card to jail without any hope of escape. this is how it begins.
i tend to agree with education being important, apart from letting them choose their own passwords, since people will always choose crap passwords. i have found the most help thing you can do to enforce security polices is to get the staff on your side. a fun demonstration or something to keep them involved and not feeling like the enemy. often when people instigate security policies staff end up in a them vs you situation. and in that case your going to lose, because insiders will always find a way to thwart the best laid security.
that when this is all over, darl will blame the fanatical open source crowd for his company failing.
big arnie will sort them out