I may as well post this: Guns And Crime. You'll see by the stats posted there that our robbery and other forms of crime are lower than England's and other countries, even though we have *gasp* guns. While we have a higher percentage of murder, our murder rates are declining while theirs are rising, narrowing the gap.
May as well bother reading the rest of the site, if you can handle actual pro-gun agenda established with hard facts without cowering and closing off your mind because of fear.
That seems a bit silly. What threat does SGI pose to Microsoft whatsoever? Don't you think they have bigger things they're concentrating on, like the countries converting to open source and the image of insecurity places like Slashdot are giving them? What purpose would crushing SGI serve? They don't care about that market.
It will take off within the next two years, considering the next version of Windows uses.NET exclusively, abandoning the Win32 library to a set of compatibility libraries. Everything about Windows will be completely.NET, including explorer.exe itself.
What are you talking about? Wouldn't you be more worried about the fact that plant computers may be exposed to the 'net? What does NT have to do with it, since it was patched two months ago?
I wonder if any of the MS worms that were circulating at the time actually were to blame for the outage as has been speculated here before?
If that's true, than the "MS worms" aren't actually to blame. The admins who left those machines open to the net and who also didn't patch two months ago are to blame.
Bloat has nothing to do with open source-ness. The problem is that windows/MS-only setups force you to use the bloated app, whereas many people like having the choice to use whatever app they like, bloated or not.
But people complain about Microsoft bloat constantly. And then, some even say that's why they use Linux products.
You can't complain about "Microsoft bloat" if you're going to ignore OSS bloat. The issue they're complaining about isn't being "forced" to use the bloat. People know that's BS and that you can use whatever you want. It's the bloat itself.
It's simply because they're supporting Linux. Otherwise, IBM is a big business and Slashbots would be all over them, because any big corporation is automatically bad in their eyes.
The list is shorter than the XP patch needed on a fresh install.
No, it's not. XP is shipped slipstreamed with service packs.
The other problem with MS releasing a new patch every other day is that you always have to reboot.
No, you don't always have to reboot, and they don't release a patch every other day.
Why in the hell do I need to reboot to fix a vba scripting error?
You don't. That's an Office patch. Next.
From your posts it is clear that you have never even seen the inside of an enterprise.
Heck, just in the past year I administered an old IBM mainframe and network that updated bank accounts and ATMs for the greater area.
Where servers are used 24/7 and rebooting at the whim of MS is just unacceptable. We used to be able to schedule a time to reboot, but now with windows exploits coming out at such a high rate we have been trying to patch and reboot ASAP. Rebooting == lost productivity == lost profit.
You're right. 10 minutes to reboot is a hassle, especially when you're dumb admin doesn't schedule it at midnight or on a non-working day.
So tell me again how people who push linux are just linux fanboys.
I didn't say people who push Linux are fanboys. Though, I will say the large percentage of them are, and the community as a whole is based entirely on reactive hatred for Microsoft, so they ignore how unusable or insecure their software may be because it's "not M$." It's a huge problem holding everything back.
Guess you've never subscribed to Red Hat's errata updates, have you? I don't even want to bother reinstalling 9 because I know I'll get a HUGE list...
Debian has more than 10 updates listed just for August alone, almost all buffer-overflows.
Anyone want me to go on? Because I could. Remember the filesystem-corrupting kernel "turkey" release? Heck, 2.4.x was riddled with problems its entire run. But that doesn't matter when we've got hatred to burn on Microsoft, right? Sigh.
NEWS FLASH--Companies issue patches for their software. The more used the software is, the more possible holes will be found to be patched. The more updated it will be. Why is it so surprising that something with 95+ marketshare is going to be given patches? Wouldn't be...I don't know...a good thing in people's eyes?
Here comes the ranting Linux fanboy to tell me I'm wrong, and that everything Microsoft does is wrong. Sigh.
Of course there's a reason. It's called getting page hits. Slashdot loves to post things like this and call it big news, yet ignore that Linux application vulnerabilities are announced almost every day. But, they say, this is MICROSOFT! It's somehow DIFFERENT!
Slashdot now has become a place for Microsoft-bashers to congregate and revel in their hatred with each other. It used to be a cool technology site that posted some great stories, but now it's got an agenda, which is to get page hits, and I think the fact that it's corporate-owned is a fact a lot of Slashbots conveniently ignore (while rattling against big business and corporations, no less).
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Yep. All for server use.
Again, it's a computer science toy for people whose hobby is using an OS.
Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then
How has that changed today? I'm not trolling.
What does this have to do with the article?
I may as well post this: Guns And Crime. You'll see by the stats posted there that our robbery and other forms of crime are lower than England's and other countries, even though we have *gasp* guns. While we have a higher percentage of murder, our murder rates are declining while theirs are rising, narrowing the gap.
May as well bother reading the rest of the site, if you can handle actual pro-gun agenda established with hard facts without cowering and closing off your mind because of fear.
More interesting facts about crime in general.
Wow. Another article saying how "SCO's claims are untruthful."
How many times have we been told this? We know already. This should have been in a Slashback.
And probably everyone on Slashdot knows what the obvious, technically-properly-done successor is, so I won't even mention it.
Actually paying for stuff?
I say, "Why did you have to break into my car to write me a note?"
That seems a bit silly. What threat does SGI pose to Microsoft whatsoever? Don't you think they have bigger things they're concentrating on, like the countries converting to open source and the image of insecurity places like Slashdot are giving them? What purpose would crushing SGI serve? They don't care about that market.
A link to ZDNet speculation about what might be SCO's next target. Slow news day? Needed another SCO fix?
It will take off within the next two years, considering the next version of Windows uses .NET exclusively, abandoning the Win32 library to a set of compatibility libraries. Everything about Windows will be completely .NET, including explorer.exe itself.
WinFS will be much different over the limited BeOS filesystem. Read up on it.
What are you talking about? Wouldn't you be more worried about the fact that plant computers may be exposed to the 'net? What does NT have to do with it, since it was patched two months ago?
I wonder if any of the MS worms that were circulating at the time actually were to blame for the outage as has been speculated here before?
If that's true, than the "MS worms" aren't actually to blame. The admins who left those machines open to the net and who also didn't patch two months ago are to blame.
Because you actually have application, hardware, and usability on Windows.
Bloat has nothing to do with open source-ness. The problem is that windows/MS-only setups force you to use the bloated app, whereas many people like having the choice to use whatever app they like, bloated or not.
But people complain about Microsoft bloat constantly. And then, some even say that's why they use Linux products.
You can't complain about "Microsoft bloat" if you're going to ignore OSS bloat. The issue they're complaining about isn't being "forced" to use the bloat. People know that's BS and that you can use whatever you want. It's the bloat itself.
And yet there is stuff like Mozilla, X, etc.
Yes. People bitch about Microsoft bloat yet tolerate OSS bloat. What's the problem again?
Look, you know they get SOME money for it. You're saying it's better they don't get that?
My concern is not the money so much as the lowered sales, and therefore, subsequent dropping from record label of the artists you claim to care about.
How about reading my sig and all the remote code exploits due to buffer overflows? Sorry to burst your bubble.
I'm not surprised my post was somehow modded as "Troll" just because Slashbots disagreed with it.
You know, July. A whole month before. Where it was reported on Slashdot and major news outlets. And the government warned about it TWICE.
Oh, that's right. Slashdot is trying to report as much as it can about this because there is an agenda you can't deny.
It's simply because they're supporting Linux. Otherwise, IBM is a big business and Slashbots would be all over them, because any big corporation is automatically bad in their eyes.
Sad, but can you really dispute it as the truth?
Yes. Most are running on BSD, though in the month of August, Linux websites had more security break-ins than Windows server. Look it up sometime.
The list is shorter than the XP patch needed on a fresh install.
No, it's not. XP is shipped slipstreamed with service packs.
The other problem with MS releasing a new patch every other day is that you always have to reboot.
No, you don't always have to reboot, and they don't release a patch every other day.
Why in the hell do I need to reboot to fix a vba scripting error?
You don't. That's an Office patch. Next.
From your posts it is clear that you have never even seen the inside of an enterprise.
Heck, just in the past year I administered an old IBM mainframe and network that updated bank accounts and ATMs for the greater area.
Where servers are used 24/7 and rebooting at the whim of MS is just unacceptable. We used to be able to schedule a time to reboot, but now with windows exploits coming out at such a high rate we have been trying to patch and reboot ASAP. Rebooting == lost productivity == lost profit.
You're right. 10 minutes to reboot is a hassle, especially when you're dumb admin doesn't schedule it at midnight or on a non-working day.
So tell me again how people who push linux are just linux fanboys.
I didn't say people who push Linux are fanboys. Though, I will say the large percentage of them are, and the community as a whole is based entirely on reactive hatred for Microsoft, so they ignore how unusable or insecure their software may be because it's "not M$." It's a huge problem holding everything back.
Look at my sig and see all the REMOTE CODE EXECUTION vulnerabilities. I'm not surprised you were modded up.
Guess you've never subscribed to Red Hat's errata updates, have you? I don't even want to bother reinstalling 9 because I know I'll get a HUGE list...
Debian has more than 10 updates listed just for August alone, almost all buffer-overflows.
Anyone want me to go on? Because I could. Remember the filesystem-corrupting kernel "turkey" release? Heck, 2.4.x was riddled with problems its entire run. But that doesn't matter when we've got hatred to burn on Microsoft, right? Sigh.
NEWS FLASH--Companies issue patches for their software. The more used the software is, the more possible holes will be found to be patched. The more updated it will be. Why is it so surprising that something with 95+ marketshare is going to be given patches? Wouldn't be...I don't know...a good thing in people's eyes?
Here comes the ranting Linux fanboy to tell me I'm wrong, and that everything Microsoft does is wrong. Sigh.
Welcome to Slashdot double-standard #64,787.
Of course there's a reason. It's called getting page hits. Slashdot loves to post things like this and call it big news, yet ignore that Linux application vulnerabilities are announced almost every day. But, they say, this is MICROSOFT! It's somehow DIFFERENT!
Slashdot now has become a place for Microsoft-bashers to congregate and revel in their hatred with each other. It used to be a cool technology site that posted some great stories, but now it's got an agenda, which is to get page hits, and I think the fact that it's corporate-owned is a fact a lot of Slashbots conveniently ignore (while rattling against big business and corporations, no less).