I work as a network administrator for a national architectural research institution. Recently, we replaced several dozen aging Windows XP workstations with Sun thin-clients running the JDS system for to run the proprietary topographic software our employees use and I am very impressed. The integrated system managment tools are bar-none the best I've ever used, and a distributed system offers users much more power than they would ever need, without the extra cost of running an NT-based domain. Sun really has built an excellent product.
Most Windows viruses will just need to be executed by Joe Clueless Luser. Upon execution, they will exploit some aspect of Windows or Office or another userland program (such as an ActiveX exploit in Outlook Express, for example.) It can then gain superuser-level priveladges and do whatever destruction it wants to the system (remove core files, modify registry entries, install keyloggers, etc.)
Now, going back to your scenario, say we have Joe Clueless Luser in front of a Linux box, logged in as a regular system user. He opens your Brittney\ Spears\ Nekkid.jpg.sh e-mail attachment, which executes and runs a rootkit that exploits a local hole in GNU screen. Now the virus has root-level access to the system and begins wreaking havoc, installing ircds and backdoor FTP daemons. Now we're screwed.
As someone who is responsible for the security of several thousand computer systems every day (in a Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware mixed environment), I can tell you that just protecting the users from their own stupidity is not going to keep you safe. Any hacker worth his or her salt will tell you that every system can be exploited and used to whatever potential you have in mind.
I don't think the costs are entirely subjective. When you say "I spent $2000 on a new computer," what exactly did you spend that $2000 on? Did you re-use your old case and power supply? Did you buy new speakers? Are you using the same 15" Sony monitor that looks like it was Gulf War surplus?
For example, about 6 months ago I built a new computer for around $3000. Now, a lot of you may say that is a lot, or even too much to spend. But, not only did that include a top-of-the-line motherboard, processor, and videocard, I also added 2 gigabytes of Corsair ECC RAM. In addition, I bought a brand-new 21" Viewsonic flat-panel LCD monitor for $700, a wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse combo for $100, and new Logitech 5.1 speakers for $150. Oh, and an external Firewire disk drive for all my files, and did I mention the Ultra3 SCSI disks and card to speed up rendering the large CAD drawings I work with? All of these things add up quick.
Now, maybe I went a little overboard, and I could have gotten away with a $1500 budget system. But considering that I hadn't upgraded my system at all in nearly three years, I was still using the same old beat-ass Pentium III with the same-old beat-ass monitor and beat-ass mouse and keyboard and beat-ass speakers. I donated the entire damn system to a school (let the kids beat it up) and then spent a good month or so getting exactly what I want: a top-end system that will last me for a good while.
I don't remember where I found this script, I think it posted on the SuSE mailing list a few years ago. Anyway, it's a bash program that allows you to create your own SuSE DVD iso from an FTP.
I could never get it to work properly, and I'm not the original author, but I'll post it here anyway.
SuSE deserves our money for the work they do, so please only use this for testing purposes, and plan on paying for the box set, as I did.
(I had to encode it base64 to get past the lameness filter. Released under GPL, YMMV, don't yell at me if it breaks your box, etc.)
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Well, this silly rule doesn't apply in my jurisdiction, but in my network rounds I always carry my trusty CyberTool. Bought mind at an airport in Belguim. Haven't met a machine this knife couldn't take.
Boy Scouts always taught me to carry a pocket knife, either in your car or pocket, you never know how useful it will be.
Any website you see with a search function that says "Powered by Google" under it, means that site is most likely paying Google a fee to use that, and make sure their site is indexed. Two I know for sure are AOL and MSN for their ISP software, they license their search functions from Google.
Ritalin is a stimulant. "Speed" is used by people to basically mean anything that stimulates the brain chemicals. In the case of someone who has ADHD, they lack a certain brain chemical. Ritalin replaces that brain chemical to normalize the level in the brain and help with ADHD. In the case of a child without ADHD (they have a normal balance of the chemical) the excess amount causes stimulation in the same way that "speed" causes you to become blitzed. Perhaps you had a low-grade or nonexistant ADHD and the Ritalin was excessive, causing you to be wired when medicated as a kid. I don't know the name of this chemical, and I'm too lazy to Google for it (damn ADD.) Ooh look, a butterfly!
By the way, this is from someone who took Ritalin and Depakote for 10 years, and now takes Lithium and Effexor.
My side hobby is auto-repair and restoration. Together, my father and I have restored several vehicles (1970 Pontiac GTO Judge, 1969 Triumph Bonneville T120R, 1968 Chevrolet Corvair convertible, and a 1982 Volvo GL to Mustang 5.0 conversion, if anyone here cares,) and one of the best things we did was to scavenge junkyards for 95%-complete vehicles that were just rusting away. If we got one with a good body, but a blown engine, then that would be our project car, and we would just scavence a rustbucket that was still good under the hood and swap out the drivetrain.
When I took a job in the IT field and began repairing computers, I applied this same logic. If I had a laptop with a cracked case, but the internals were still fine, then I would try and scavenge a laptop with a dead motherboard that still had a good case and was discarded because it just didn't work. You can easily swap out things like that. I've done it on several Dell Inspirons and IBM ThinkPads, you can have a couple "parts" machines going at once and just get replacements from those. Sometimes on eBay you get lucky and find an auction for something like "Pallet of 100 Broken ThinkPads" for $50 and you can get some serious finds. If you want to take a bit of a risk you can even try "dumpster diving" outside of office buildings, schools and libraries. Often times when something breaks or is very obsolete these places will just toss it out. My favorite find so far was an IBM ThinkPad 486, complete, with two working batteries and all the cables in a case, that was just sitting in a dumpster because it was too old to run modern software.
Meaning Microsoft footed the bill for the study, which was conducted by IDC. Interpret that however you will. Now before the Linux zealots and the Windows users start a holy flamewar here, understand this: the AIM of this campain is to demonstrate that Windows has a lower TCO (total cost of operation) than Linux. So don't get started flaming "This article is FUD FUD FUD" when you don't realize that Microsoft isn't marketing Windows to US, the Slashdot-reading Linux-using IT professionals, but rather they are marketing to the upper managment and accountants who need to focus on costs. When the PHBs see reports from Microsoft, who THEY see as a trusted name in the industry, that show how Windows costs less, and it does it in "rich dummy terms," as opposed to a highly-technical Linux-biased article from OSDN, for example, which do you think the boss is going to go with? Microsoft simply has better marketing than many Linux companies, which is why they will continue to dominate the industry, unless Linux kicks up its advertising campaign and targets the big guys.
I sure hope you never drive around where I live, lest you get distracted while you are reading and driving and crash into me. Can you say 'lawsuit'?
Driving is NOT a simple mental process. If it was, don't you think we would have built a robotic system based on a series of simple algorithms to do the driving for us? (Yes I know the military has a few prototypes but that's not my point.) Driving is the process of several visual, audible, and physical processes. You have to be able to see down the road and around your car, you need to hear other drivers' warning and emergency vehicles, and you need to be able to properly physically operate all the controls of your car. In addition, there are many other variables to account for. Weather conditions, traffic conditions, other drivers, animals, children, police and other emergency vehicles, and there are NUMEROUS others. By reading your book, or yapping on your phone, or poking at your laptop, you are taking mental ability AWAY, for whatever duration and capacity, from a particular task for driving. Operating a vehicle SAFELY requires most, if not all of your attention span, and skills that are only acquired with years of experience.
By the way, does anyone here live in the DC Metro area? I moved here from the Philadelphia area a few months ago and the FUCKERS AROUND HERE CANNOT DRIVE! Good Lord, people, get off your phones while you're driving your minivans full of nine kids! Only in northern Virginia do I have to watch the traffic IN FRONT OF ME while I do a high-speed merge onto the Beltway! JESUS, people, find a hole and stick yourself in it! OK I'm done.
What game? I beat up those Linux weenies on a daily basis with my trusty LART. Their pitiful moans amuse me as I crush their frail bodies. I also steal their souls and sell them to Bill Gates to help build his evil empire of uber-soldats.
OK so I got completeytl drunk at teh holaiday party here and totalyl hooked up with htis hot asiian girl who works here so whhat do i do? thats right i visti slashdot! OMG so i come to slahdost and i see this thign about wiundows xp and the patches so here's what i do oK part of,my job is to help fixc these windows boxes (GOD I HGHATE THEM SO MUCH) so waht i did to sawve time is to download all the serviec parks and pathces and burnded them toi a CD now along with wll the drivers and fixblast and fixmiimal and shit reight so then afetr i hadda reinstall XP i just pop this disc in right then i install all the dirvers and patches so everythigns good ta go then i connect it back to hte nwetork and eveyrhthings cool! so you gottaa be a smart admin liek that see and BE PREPAREDED!! OK imma gotta drive hoem now oh shit AND MERRY CHRSIMAS! k sroroy for me spellgin and typign i'm way fucking drunk WOOT iimnma get this girls NUMERB
On the Windows side of things, I favor Renamer for organizing my MP3s. I've used it since version 3.5 and it's a godsend for large collections. You can really make file listings look professional and easy to read in just a few minutes if you set it up right.
I have an identical pair of SPARCstation IPX's that I picked up on eBay for $10 each about a year ago. From what I can see everything is an original part in these machines, one even still had a copy of SunOS 4.1.1 on it. I installed NetBSD/sparc 1.6 on them and they now run BIND and act as my nameservers. They are plenty powerful for serving DNS and with NetBSD they are very secure. Much faster disc accessing than under Linux/sparc because NetBSD seems to have better support for the SCSI chipsets.
I've never had one fail due to a hardware problem, they run for months at a time without a reboot. They're geographically and network seperate so, barring some world catastrophe, the DNS for some 40 domains is always available. Sun hardware is very reliable, and the older hardware is almost always faster than its Intel counterpart from the same vintage.
I had a friend that built a TiVO with an Athlon 650Mhz (old Slot-A board), an 80Gb drive and an ATi All-In-Wonder. It would record the show and then encode it to a saved DivX or VCD. It even had a PHP interface he wrote that allowed you to program it from any webbrowser. So I'd think that the 1Ghz Nehemiah should be plenty fast for encoding.
If you pay by Paypal they only can see your e-mail. Since you're not paying for a product that has to be delivered to a residence Paypal doesn't include your address in the transaction. It's a part of Paypal's privacy guidelines for payment of services.
Make sure you enable "Initial ramdisk support" in your kernel config and once you have your bzImage built and installed in/boot and your kernel modules built and installed, you can then
That will build a nice ramdisk for your kernel which will preload any necessary modules. Then you just need to add a line to/etc/lilo.conf under your kernel section:
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
And of course reinstall lilo to the MBR by running/sbin/lilo.
The reason is NOT because Windows is more insecure, or easier to write viruses for, even if that is the case. The reason is the market saturation. 90% of the worlds desktops are running some 32-bit version of Windows, that's a helluva lot of machines to infect. People who write viruses with malicious intentions do it to bring down major infrastructure, and they can do this easily if they infect a few hundred thousand Windows boxes. And the more people that use Windows, the more viruses there will be.
What if everyone used Linux or Macintosh, and there was no Windows boxes left? Then virus coders would work night and day on exploits and trojans for Linux and Mac. It's a matter of deciding on a goal ("to bring down a whole chunk of the global network infrastructure") and then forming a plan ("get all Windows machines to spew out compressed UDP packets of dumbass to every known host").
In conclusion, don't be so smug with your Linux machine during the next round of Welchia or Klez, because if Linux had the desktop market share of Windows, then YOU'D be feeling the pain.
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I work as a network administrator for a national architectural research institution. Recently, we replaced several dozen aging Windows XP workstations with Sun thin-clients running the JDS system for to run the proprietary topographic software our employees use and I am very impressed. The integrated system managment tools are bar-none the best I've ever used, and a distributed system offers users much more power than they would ever need, without the extra cost of running an NT-based domain. Sun really has built an excellent product.
Are you even aware how most Windows viruses work?
Most Windows viruses will just need to be executed by Joe Clueless Luser. Upon execution, they will exploit some aspect of Windows or Office or another userland program (such as an ActiveX exploit in Outlook Express, for example.) It can then gain superuser-level priveladges and do whatever destruction it wants to the system (remove core files, modify registry entries, install keyloggers, etc.)
Now, going back to your scenario, say we have Joe Clueless Luser in front of a Linux box, logged in as a regular system user. He opens your Brittney\ Spears\ Nekkid.jpg.sh e-mail attachment, which executes and runs a rootkit that exploits a local hole in GNU screen. Now the virus has root-level access to the system and begins wreaking havoc, installing ircds and backdoor FTP daemons. Now we're screwed.
As someone who is responsible for the security of several thousand computer systems every day (in a Windows/Linux/Solaris/Netware mixed environment), I can tell you that just protecting the users from their own stupidity is not going to keep you safe. Any hacker worth his or her salt will tell you that every system can be exploited and used to whatever potential you have in mind.
I don't think the costs are entirely subjective. When you say "I spent $2000 on a new computer," what exactly did you spend that $2000 on? Did you re-use your old case and power supply? Did you buy new speakers? Are you using the same 15" Sony monitor that looks like it was Gulf War surplus?
For example, about 6 months ago I built a new computer for around $3000. Now, a lot of you may say that is a lot, or even too much to spend. But, not only did that include a top-of-the-line motherboard, processor, and videocard, I also added 2 gigabytes of Corsair ECC RAM. In addition, I bought a brand-new 21" Viewsonic flat-panel LCD monitor for $700, a wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse combo for $100, and new Logitech 5.1 speakers for $150. Oh, and an external Firewire disk drive for all my files, and did I mention the Ultra3 SCSI disks and card to speed up rendering the large CAD drawings I work with? All of these things add up quick.
Now, maybe I went a little overboard, and I could have gotten away with a $1500 budget system. But considering that I hadn't upgraded my system at all in nearly three years, I was still using the same old beat-ass Pentium III with the same-old beat-ass monitor and beat-ass mouse and keyboard and beat-ass speakers. I donated the entire damn system to a school (let the kids beat it up) and then spent a good month or so getting exactly what I want: a top-end system that will last me for a good while.
You can rot in Hell, too.
Just fucking die already.
I have posted a copy of the censored paragraph on my weblog. Enjoy!
In case of Slashdotting, here's a Freecache link.
I don't remember where I found this script, I think it posted on the SuSE mailing list a few years ago. Anyway, it's a bash program that allows you to create your own SuSE DVD iso from an FTP.
I could never get it to work properly, and I'm not the original author, but I'll post it here anyway.
SuSE deserves our money for the work they do, so please only use this for testing purposes, and plan on paying for the box set, as I did.
(I had to encode it base64 to get past the lameness filter. Released under GPL, YMMV, don't yell at me if it breaks your box, etc.)
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Well, this silly rule doesn't apply in my jurisdiction, but in my network rounds I always carry my trusty CyberTool. Bought mind at an airport in Belguim. Haven't met a machine this knife couldn't take.
Boy Scouts always taught me to carry a pocket knife, either in your car or pocket, you never know how useful it will be.
Any website you see with a search function that says "Powered by Google" under it, means that site is most likely paying Google a fee to use that, and make sure their site is indexed. Two I know for sure are AOL and MSN for their ISP software, they license their search functions from Google.
Ritalin is a stimulant. "Speed" is used by people to basically mean anything that stimulates the brain chemicals. In the case of someone who has ADHD, they lack a certain brain chemical. Ritalin replaces that brain chemical to normalize the level in the brain and help with ADHD. In the case of a child without ADHD (they have a normal balance of the chemical) the excess amount causes stimulation in the same way that "speed" causes you to become blitzed. Perhaps you had a low-grade or nonexistant ADHD and the Ritalin was excessive, causing you to be wired when medicated as a kid. I don't know the name of this chemical, and I'm too lazy to Google for it (damn ADD.) Ooh look, a butterfly!
By the way, this is from someone who took Ritalin and Depakote for 10 years, and now takes Lithium and Effexor.
My side hobby is auto-repair and restoration. Together, my father and I have restored several vehicles (1970 Pontiac GTO Judge, 1969 Triumph Bonneville T120R, 1968 Chevrolet Corvair convertible, and a 1982 Volvo GL to Mustang 5.0 conversion, if anyone here cares,) and one of the best things we did was to scavenge junkyards for 95%-complete vehicles that were just rusting away. If we got one with a good body, but a blown engine, then that would be our project car, and we would just scavence a rustbucket that was still good under the hood and swap out the drivetrain.
When I took a job in the IT field and began repairing computers, I applied this same logic. If I had a laptop with a cracked case, but the internals were still fine, then I would try and scavenge a laptop with a dead motherboard that still had a good case and was discarded because it just didn't work. You can easily swap out things like that. I've done it on several Dell Inspirons and IBM ThinkPads, you can have a couple "parts" machines going at once and just get replacements from those. Sometimes on eBay you get lucky and find an auction for something like "Pallet of 100 Broken ThinkPads" for $50 and you can get some serious finds. If you want to take a bit of a risk you can even try "dumpster diving" outside of office buildings, schools and libraries. Often times when something breaks or is very obsolete these places will just toss it out. My favorite find so far was an IBM ThinkPad 486, complete, with two working batteries and all the cables in a case, that was just sitting in a dumpster because it was too old to run modern software.
Meaning Microsoft footed the bill for the study, which was conducted by IDC. Interpret that however you will. Now before the Linux zealots and the Windows users start a holy flamewar here, understand this: the AIM of this campain is to demonstrate that Windows has a lower TCO (total cost of operation) than Linux. So don't get started flaming "This article is FUD FUD FUD" when you don't realize that Microsoft isn't marketing Windows to US, the Slashdot-reading Linux-using IT professionals, but rather they are marketing to the upper managment and accountants who need to focus on costs. When the PHBs see reports from Microsoft, who THEY see as a trusted name in the industry, that show how Windows costs less, and it does it in "rich dummy terms," as opposed to a highly-technical Linux-biased article from OSDN, for example, which do you think the boss is going to go with? Microsoft simply has better marketing than many Linux companies, which is why they will continue to dominate the industry, unless Linux kicks up its advertising campaign and targets the big guys.
I sure hope you never drive around where I live, lest you get distracted while you are reading and driving and crash into me. Can you say 'lawsuit'?
Driving is NOT a simple mental process. If it was, don't you think we would have built a robotic system based on a series of simple algorithms to do the driving for us? (Yes I know the military has a few prototypes but that's not my point.) Driving is the process of several visual, audible, and physical processes. You have to be able to see down the road and around your car, you need to hear other drivers' warning and emergency vehicles, and you need to be able to properly physically operate all the controls of your car. In addition, there are many other variables to account for. Weather conditions, traffic conditions, other drivers, animals, children, police and other emergency vehicles, and there are NUMEROUS others. By reading your book, or yapping on your phone, or poking at your laptop, you are taking mental ability AWAY, for whatever duration and capacity, from a particular task for driving. Operating a vehicle SAFELY requires most, if not all of your attention span, and skills that are only acquired with years of experience.
By the way, does anyone here live in the DC Metro area? I moved here from the Philadelphia area a few months ago and the FUCKERS AROUND HERE CANNOT DRIVE! Good Lord, people, get off your phones while you're driving your minivans full of nine kids! Only in northern Virginia do I have to watch the traffic IN FRONT OF ME while I do a high-speed merge onto the Beltway! JESUS, people, find a hole and stick yourself in it! OK I'm done.
What game? I beat up those Linux weenies on a daily basis with my trusty LART. Their pitiful moans amuse me as I crush their frail bodies. I also steal their souls and sell them to Bill Gates to help build his evil empire of uber-soldats.
Now quit staring at me like that.
OK so I got completeytl drunk at teh holaiday party here and totalyl hooked up with htis hot asiian girl who works here so whhat do i do? thats right i visti slashdot! OMG so i come to slahdost and i see this thign about wiundows xp and the patches so here's what i do oK part of ,my job is to help fixc these windows boxes (GOD I HGHATE THEM SO MUCH) so waht i did to sawve time is to download all the serviec parks and pathces and burnded them toi a CD now along with wll the drivers and fixblast and fixmiimal and shit reight so then afetr i hadda reinstall XP i just pop this disc in right then i install all the dirvers and patches so everythigns good ta go then i connect it back to hte nwetork and eveyrhthings cool! so you gottaa be a smart admin liek that see and BE PREPAREDED!! OK imma gotta drive hoem now oh shit AND MERRY CHRSIMAS! k sroroy for me spellgin and typign i'm way fucking drunk WOOT iimnma get this girls NUMERB
Move to India
On the Windows side of things, I favor Renamer for organizing my MP3s. I've used it since version 3.5 and it's a godsend for large collections. You can really make file listings look professional and easy to read in just a few minutes if you set it up right.
I have an identical pair of SPARCstation IPX's that I picked up on eBay for $10 each about a year ago. From what I can see everything is an original part in these machines, one even still had a copy of SunOS 4.1.1 on it. I installed NetBSD/sparc 1.6 on them and they now run BIND and act as my nameservers. They are plenty powerful for serving DNS and with NetBSD they are very secure. Much faster disc accessing than under Linux/sparc because NetBSD seems to have better support for the SCSI chipsets.
I've never had one fail due to a hardware problem, they run for months at a time without a reboot. They're geographically and network seperate so, barring some world catastrophe, the DNS for some 40 domains is always available. Sun hardware is very reliable, and the older hardware is almost always faster than its Intel counterpart from the same vintage.
Sorry, won't work. EZ-Pass is a passive electronic transponder. There's no closed powered circuit to "shut off" with a switch.
I had a friend that built a TiVO with an Athlon 650Mhz (old Slot-A board), an 80Gb drive and an ATi All-In-Wonder. It would record the show and then encode it to a saved DivX or VCD. It even had a PHP interface he wrote that allowed you to program it from any webbrowser. So I'd think that the 1Ghz Nehemiah should be plenty fast for encoding.
If you pay by Paypal they only can see your e-mail. Since you're not paying for a product that has to be delivered to a residence Paypal doesn't include your address in the transaction. It's a part of Paypal's privacy guidelines for payment of services.
Make sure you enable "Initial ramdisk support" in your kernel config and once you have your bzImage built and installed in /boot and your kernel modules built and installed, you can then
/boot/initrd.img /lib/modules/[kernel-version]
/etc/lilo.conf under your kernel section:
/sbin/lilo.
mkinitrd -o
That will build a nice ramdisk for your kernel which will preload any necessary modules. Then you just need to add a line to
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
And of course reinstall lilo to the MBR by running
No, No, NO.
The reason is NOT because Windows is more insecure, or easier to write viruses for, even if that is the case. The reason is the market saturation. 90% of the worlds desktops are running some 32-bit version of Windows, that's a helluva lot of machines to infect. People who write viruses with malicious intentions do it to bring down major infrastructure, and they can do this easily if they infect a few hundred thousand Windows boxes. And the more people that use Windows, the more viruses there will be.
What if everyone used Linux or Macintosh, and there was no Windows boxes left? Then virus coders would work night and day on exploits and trojans for Linux and Mac. It's a matter of deciding on a goal ("to bring down a whole chunk of the global network infrastructure") and then forming a plan ("get all Windows machines to spew out compressed UDP packets of dumbass to every known host").
In conclusion, don't be so smug with your Linux machine during the next round of Welchia or Klez, because if Linux had the desktop market share of Windows, then YOU'D be feeling the pain.
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