As far as all the articles I've read say, there's no actual proof that anybody has done any kind of a DoS attack against SCO. There's mention of someone talking to a group of people that said that were doing it and would stop, which personally, I think if they knew who was doing it, they'd go after them and we'd hear about it. There's some downtime on sco.com. Woo. Everytime I see downtime, someone must be getting DoS'd.......
Hmm, you mean like the samples that most CD ordering sites have? You can get an idea if the CD is decent or not even just by the first few tracks.
And maybe you were talking about Apple's music store or AOL's new store, where you can purchase individual tracks or the whole CD, downloadable and burnable.
Or maybe you're just clueless about current technology and should refrain from criticizing someone's comments on the matter.
What parts of web development require one process to still be using up your CPU when you've switched to another app? I do web development/programming for a living and I never have more than one program actively doing anything at one time, with the exception of ftp'ing an entire directory in the background.
The one thing that really makes a difference in how many apps you can have open and still be able to switch between apps quickly is the amount of RAM you have available. I noticed a huge difference when I went from 512M to 1G. If you don't have enough RAM for all of the applications to be loaded at the same time, you have to do a lot of disk swapping and your HD is a lot slower than your RAM.;)
While Psychology might play a role, I think you're off on the wrong track about it.
The psychology of "hit the largest target, make the most amount of noise" is amplified by the simple fact that most windows boxes are configured almost identical as far as security/exploits go. *nix on the other hand, especially Linux boxes have a really wide range of configurations. Each distribution version has a new set of binaries with it, different distributions have sometimes largely varying tools, sometimes even tools unique to that one distribution.
So considering *nix as a target comparable to Windows is a mistake. You're really comparing lots of little targest to one huge target made of almost completely uniform installs (as far as most of the recent exploits go anyway).
Also, look at the number of windows developers in the world compared to the number of *nix developers for all distributions as a whole. I'd be willing to bet there are a considerable amount more Windows developers. So even if you just took a random sampling of developers and looked for ones willing/wanting to write virii, you'd probly hit more Windows developers. Which, I think the uniformity of "The Windows distribution" itself makes for a more attractive development platform to a lot of people. Write your software once, sell to a LOT more people. (instead of writing for say Solaris and porting to a bunch of other *nix platforms and possibly Windows)
Do any of you stop to think about what % of those webservers are running linux vs some other operating system? The ratio of defaced web servers running linux is probably proportional to the number of web servers running linux, if not lower in proportion (just a guess).
"61% of the defaced servers run linux" as a stat by itself means precisely jack. You need some context.
Yet everybody is quick to start a massive argument about the security of windows vs linux, when really, this isn't even about platform security, it's about web site defacement, which doesn't even directly corelate to platform security.
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As far as all the articles I've read say, there's no actual proof that anybody has done any kind of a DoS attack against SCO. There's mention of someone talking to a group of people that said that were doing it and would stop, which personally, I think if they knew who was doing it, they'd go after them and we'd hear about it. There's some downtime on sco.com. Woo. Everytime I see downtime, someone must be getting DoS'd.......
Hmm, you mean like the samples that most CD ordering sites have? You can get an idea if the CD is decent or not even just by the first few tracks.
And maybe you were talking about Apple's music store or AOL's new store, where you can purchase individual tracks or the whole CD, downloadable and burnable.
Or maybe you're just clueless about current technology and should refrain from criticizing someone's comments on the matter.
What parts of web development require one process to still be using up your CPU when you've switched to another app? I do web development/programming for a living and I never have more than one program actively doing anything at one time, with the exception of ftp'ing an entire directory in the background.
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The one thing that really makes a difference in how many apps you can have open and still be able to switch between apps quickly is the amount of RAM you have available. I noticed a huge difference when I went from 512M to 1G. If you don't have enough RAM for all of the applications to be loaded at the same time, you have to do a lot of disk swapping and your HD is a lot slower than your RAM.
While Psychology might play a role, I think you're off on the wrong track about it.
The psychology of "hit the largest target, make the most amount of noise" is amplified by the simple fact that most windows boxes are configured almost identical as far as security/exploits go. *nix on the other hand, especially Linux boxes have a really wide range of configurations. Each distribution version has a new set of binaries with it, different distributions have sometimes largely varying tools, sometimes even tools unique to that one distribution.
So considering *nix as a target comparable to Windows is a mistake. You're really comparing lots of little targest to one huge target made of almost completely uniform installs (as far as most of the recent exploits go anyway).
Also, look at the number of windows developers in the world compared to the number of *nix developers for all distributions as a whole. I'd be willing to bet there are a considerable amount more Windows developers. So even if you just took a random sampling of developers and looked for ones willing/wanting to write virii, you'd probly hit more Windows developers. Which, I think the uniformity of "The Windows distribution" itself makes for a more attractive development platform to a lot of people. Write your software once, sell to a LOT more people. (instead of writing for say Solaris and porting to a bunch of other *nix platforms and possibly Windows)
It's all about the logistics.
Do any of you stop to think about what % of those webservers are running linux vs some other operating system? The ratio of defaced web servers running linux is probably proportional to the number of web servers running linux, if not lower in proportion (just a guess).
"61% of the defaced servers run linux" as a stat by itself means precisely jack. You need some context.
Yet everybody is quick to start a massive argument about the security of windows vs linux, when really, this isn't even about platform security, it's about web site defacement, which doesn't even directly corelate to platform security.
heh....
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