People around here LOVE to proclaim that the industry model is dead, yet it's still around and the prevailing model. Premature declarations makes you look fanatical.
You clearly have a chip on your shoulder. Look at the furious anger inherent in your reply.
Ever look at your own sig? You're too stupid to realize that the security site linked to is a perfect example of what I said, 90% of those security updates are probably not even exploitable.
Apparently, 90% is your new made-up stat. Meanwhile, we'll ignore all the buffer overflows (particularly in Gentoo) and remote code exploits.
I've been working with Win, Linux, and BSD in a production enviornment for 7 years, and I'm not that stupid.
I've been working with them for much longer than you. Do I win?
Grow the hell up and learn about Linux before you mouth off about it.
This amazingly defensive attitude is a large problem of this community. Nobody admits faults, and if somebody dares go against the grain, they're flamed to death by Slashbots.
No, it was a recent article called "Linux Most Attacked Server?" The study was repeated on OSNews and several other sites. In it, a study showed over 60% of successful breaches are of Linux servers. ~30% was Windows machines.
This directly contradicts the spoon-fed mantra that "UGH UGH LINUX=GOOD MS=BAD." And if you bring into play that Apache is more used than IIS, you directly contradict all those people who say "Windows is more used yet less secure!!!!1"
Or, you could just be rational about it. Take your pick.
No, it wasn't. Slashdot even reported on it. The government announced it TWICE. People were well-informed and a patch was immediately available and put up as a Critical Update on Windows Update.
They happen in every single article, they are never any less unclever, and the mods never seem to stop falling over themselves modding them up fast enough.
It's not funny to say, "But wait until you have to pay $699 to SCO for it!" for *insert random topic* in every single article. When did the general sense of humor in Slashdot become so insanely moronic? It feels like Beavis and Butthead around here sometimes.
It's so predictable, and none of them are even clever. Yeah, let's just make extremely obvious references as fast as we can so as to get the first round of mod points near the top of the discussion threads.
As soon as I saw the headline, I swear my eyes rolled by themselves in preperation.
Besides, if you were even remotely clever you would have said "BSOD=Blue Screen of Derez?"
No, they just want to make a friggin' tarball. Without reading through a godawful horribly formatted man page that requires scrolling through tons of never-used parameters just to create one. It's easier to ask someone who knows (and also the prevailing attitude is that someone experienced would know a better or easier shortcut way to do it).
But I guess that wouldn't let people be elitist. That sort of elitism comes from geeks with no social skills. Normal people are willing to help out.
At least we find out when where vulnerable BEFORE the exploits start rolling out.
As opposed to what? The months before Blaster came out that the patch was available?
Things like this just illustrate that all software has bugs. OSS is not a magic solution, and Microsoft does not hire poor programmers. That won't stop rampant anti-"M$" trolls of course, but the more rational of us can look at this and move on.
Win2k is far superior to WinXP in every concievable way ever.
XP is 2k but with Windows File Protection, togglable theming, dynamically optimizing booting, fast user switching, and vastly increased laptop support. All that and more.
Windows automatically reboots itself now. Explorer crashes, then restarts itself. Granted this is progress, but lets get rid of the whole crashing thing, eh?
It's called "using stable drivers." Windows doesn't randomly crash over nothing anymore. The NT kernel is vastly stable.
Windows is the favorite whipping boy on this site, but deservidly(sp?) so. Rife with security holes, memory leaks, and intermitant and unexplained BSODs, its reputation preceeds it.
It's like Slashbots are stuck in the 90s. Have you even used a version of Windows other than the 9x series? There are no memory leeks and "intermitant" BSODs. I have never seen a BSOD on 2k or XP. I don't even know what they look like.
My windows box (at work) can't make it two weeks, with out the symptoms described by the parents comments about screens not redrawing and such.
You people are so technically shallow when it comes to Windows. I think it's on purpose. If you're having redraw problems, did you not stop to think that it really sounds a lot like a driver configuration problem? I never reboot the XP computers on our network, and they're up for months at a time. We have no "screens not redrawing and such."
Now my non-ms desktop at home stays up for several months at a time, it is always able to redraw the screen, and remains responsive even under heavy loads. Every few months or so I have to restart X to get it to stop piggin' up the RAM (but that is not the OSes fault).
X is a part of your OS. Unless you're staring at a command prompt all day, which isn't much of an OS, sorry.
I have to reboot it when I want to load a new kernel every 6 months or so. It might be easy to just "blame windows", but then again MS just makes it so easy.
Wow, someone just claims something and it's instantly "+5" because it's anti-Windows.
It still needs reboots.
No, it doesn't. This is the point in which I mention my machine runs every day without being rebooted. We just leave our machines on. Only when we patch do we reboot, but that's not often since we're behind a firewall anyway.
It acts better once rebooted.
I've noticed no difference whatsoever.
In generalm Win2k and XP get alower the longer they run, and start experiencing problems like randomized icon images, windows that don't redraw, loss of fonts, etc.
Complete bullshit. I have never experienced "randomized icon images, loss of fonts, etc." and neither have any of my co-workers or anyone else I know. XP and 2k don't just magically get slower as you use it and start randomizing icons. If so, it's a memory leak in some app you're using. If you're losing fonts and icons, that is an issue you need to take care of. Windows has nothing to do with it.
A reboot fixes all. When my Win2k laptop gets to where it's using >350MB of RAM, and I've closed all the apps, it's asking to be rebooted.
Sounds like a severe configuration error on your end, either in hardware or software. Want to know how much memory Windows XP is using on my laptop right now with Dreamweaver MX 2004, Publisher 2003, Opera, and Voyager2 open? 132MB.
Your problem is not a common problem at all. Fix it and stop blaming Windows.
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People around here LOVE to proclaim that the industry model is dead, yet it's still around and the prevailing model. Premature declarations makes you look fanatical.
I just did a search on eMule.
Guess who is wrong?
When did it say in the article that indie studios had decided to ban screeners? It didn't.
Funny, I thought SCO was hurting Linux during all this.
My girlfriend would argue otherwise.
You've been able to disable Clippy from the start. He's not even on by default anymore.
Wow. You said "Microsloth." That is clever, witty, and intelligent. You are an insightful person.
It is well-known that Microsoft hires some of the best programmers in the world.
Do all the recent blatant holes in OpenSSL/SSH mean the programmers aren't good?
Read my sig and breathe the free air.
You clearly have a chip on your shoulder. Look at the furious anger inherent in your reply.
Ever look at your own sig? You're too stupid to realize that the security site linked to is a perfect example of what I said, 90% of those security updates are probably not even exploitable.
Apparently, 90% is your new made-up stat. Meanwhile, we'll ignore all the buffer overflows (particularly in Gentoo) and remote code exploits.
I've been working with Win, Linux, and BSD in a production enviornment for 7 years, and I'm not that stupid.
I've been working with them for much longer than you. Do I win?
Grow the hell up and learn about Linux before you mouth off about it.
This amazingly defensive attitude is a large problem of this community. Nobody admits faults, and if somebody dares go against the grain, they're flamed to death by Slashbots.
No, it was a recent article called "Linux Most Attacked Server?" The study was repeated on OSNews and several other sites. In it, a study showed over 60% of successful breaches are of Linux servers. ~30% was Windows machines.
This directly contradicts the spoon-fed mantra that "UGH UGH LINUX=GOOD MS=BAD." And if you bring into play that Apache is more used than IIS, you directly contradict all those people who say "Windows is more used yet less secure!!!!1"
Or, you could just be rational about it. Take your pick.
Name a single example.
Microsoft puts out patches immediately once a vulnerability is announced.
Then why was it reported, even on Slashdot, that Linux is the most-breached server on the net?
Take off your anti-"M$" goggles and breathe the free air.
Actually, it was a couple of weeks.
No, it wasn't. Slashdot even reported on it. The government announced it TWICE. People were well-informed and a patch was immediately available and put up as a Critical Update on Windows Update.
They happen in every single article, they are never any less unclever, and the mods never seem to stop falling over themselves modding them up fast enough.
It's not funny to say, "But wait until you have to pay $699 to SCO for it!" for *insert random topic* in every single article. When did the general sense of humor in Slashdot become so insanely moronic? It feels like Beavis and Butthead around here sometimes.
It's so predictable, and none of them are even clever. Yeah, let's just make extremely obvious references as fast as we can so as to get the first round of mod points near the top of the discussion threads.
As soon as I saw the headline, I swear my eyes rolled by themselves in preperation.
Besides, if you were even remotely clever you would have said "BSOD=Blue Screen of Derez?"
No, they just want to make a friggin' tarball. Without reading through a godawful horribly formatted man page that requires scrolling through tons of never-used parameters just to create one. It's easier to ask someone who knows (and also the prevailing attitude is that someone experienced would know a better or easier shortcut way to do it).
But I guess that wouldn't let people be elitist. That sort of elitism comes from geeks with no social skills. Normal people are willing to help out.
Jesus, what a spin. An "OOS" hole, and it's still all about Microsoft. And then some baseless theft meme.
At least we find out when where vulnerable BEFORE the exploits start rolling out.
As opposed to what? The months before Blaster came out that the patch was available?
Things like this just illustrate that all software has bugs. OSS is not a magic solution, and Microsoft does not hire poor programmers. That won't stop rampant anti-"M$" trolls of course, but the more rational of us can look at this and move on.
As opposed to Linux, where a simplie "linux init=/bin/bash" at LILO gets you instant root access with no password.
Wow. That was hilarious. A random BSOD reference that had no relevance to the topic. It didn't even make sense. Ending with the requisite ellipses...
Win2k is far superior to WinXP in every concievable way ever.
XP is 2k but with Windows File Protection, togglable theming, dynamically optimizing booting, fast user switching, and vastly increased laptop support. All that and more.
Windows automatically reboots itself now. Explorer crashes, then restarts itself. Granted this is progress, but lets get rid of the whole crashing thing, eh?
It's called "using stable drivers." Windows doesn't randomly crash over nothing anymore. The NT kernel is vastly stable.
Windows is the favorite whipping boy on this site, but deservidly(sp?) so. Rife with security holes, memory leaks, and intermitant and unexplained BSODs, its reputation preceeds it.
It's like Slashbots are stuck in the 90s. Have you even used a version of Windows other than the 9x series? There are no memory leeks and "intermitant" BSODs. I have never seen a BSOD on 2k or XP. I don't even know what they look like.
My windows box (at work) can't make it two weeks, with out the symptoms described by the parents comments about screens not redrawing and such.
You people are so technically shallow when it comes to Windows. I think it's on purpose. If you're having redraw problems, did you not stop to think that it really sounds a lot like a driver configuration problem? I never reboot the XP computers on our network, and they're up for months at a time. We have no "screens not redrawing and such."
Now my non-ms desktop at home stays up for several months at a time, it is always able to redraw the screen, and remains responsive even under heavy loads. Every few months or so I have to restart X to get it to stop piggin' up the RAM (but that is not the OSes fault).
X is a part of your OS. Unless you're staring at a command prompt all day, which isn't much of an OS, sorry.
I have to reboot it when I want to load a new kernel every 6 months or so. It might be easy to just "blame windows", but then again MS just makes it so easy.
Read my sig.
Wow, someone just claims something and it's instantly "+5" because it's anti-Windows.
It still needs reboots.
No, it doesn't. This is the point in which I mention my machine runs every day without being rebooted. We just leave our machines on. Only when we patch do we reboot, but that's not often since we're behind a firewall anyway.
It acts better once rebooted.
I've noticed no difference whatsoever.
In generalm Win2k and XP get alower the longer they run, and start experiencing problems like randomized icon images, windows that don't redraw, loss of fonts, etc.
Complete bullshit. I have never experienced "randomized icon images, loss of fonts, etc." and neither have any of my co-workers or anyone else I know. XP and 2k don't just magically get slower as you use it and start randomizing icons. If so, it's a memory leak in some app you're using. If you're losing fonts and icons, that is an issue you need to take care of. Windows has nothing to do with it.
A reboot fixes all. When my Win2k laptop gets to where it's using >350MB of RAM, and I've closed all the apps, it's asking to be rebooted.
Sounds like a severe configuration error on your end, either in hardware or software. Want to know how much memory Windows XP is using on my laptop right now with Dreamweaver MX 2004, Publisher 2003, Opera, and Voyager2 open? 132MB.
Your problem is not a common problem at all. Fix it and stop blaming Windows.
Kind of like how doing "linux init=/bin/bash" at the LILO prompt gives you instant root access?