Sorry, but I've never found any real stability in Microsoft products. I installed a DVD Ripper. Windows couldn't handle it. I've had internet explorer kill it. Sometimes, actually quite frequently, when I transfer files across my network, explorer decides to go suicidal.
Now before I get marked flamebate or troll, no, I don't taunt Linux as immortal or undestroyable, but I also don't believe Windows has gotten near achieving Linux's stability.
>>> No software is 100% secure, and I'll agree that MS has had their fair share of security exploits, however, suggesting that MS is solely responsible for incidents such as this is like saying that that the maker of a knife is solely responsible for a stabbing, completely ignoring the fact that there are criminals who take advantage of certain products.
No, a more accurate sounding comparison would be getting mad at a knife maker for goofing up and putting blades at both ends and no handle.
Or getting mad at a tire manufacturer, I'll make up a name - firestone. Getting mad because these firestone tires blow out randomly and make people have all sorts of wrecks. Yeah, that sounds more like it.
Let the patent law follow Moore's law. For technology patents you get 1 1/2 years for algorithms, 3 for concept, and 6 for hardware, unless it can be proven that the technology is not obsolete. Or just forget about that last part, even if it isn't obsolete, still let it fall into public domain.
Unless you preformed the transformation enough that you could afford to buy a few votes in congress changing the law and/or doing a hostile take-over, buying all the stock in the company with your new found riches.
Okay, go ahead and mod me "Offtopic", but I have a question I've been wondering about.
Suppose someone created a virus that had a list of vulerabilities for Win9x / WinXP / Win2K / RedHatx.x / Mandrake x.x / etc.
Now, would it be possible to compile two copies of the virus? One that ran on windows and one that ran on linux? Now, couldn't one of the viruses be packaged inside the other?
Windows Virus[Linux Virus]
Now, couldn't the virus have a network scanner, to tell what OS other hosts use, and if they had any applicable flaws? Basically a normal network scanner, souped up a notche.
Now if this scanner found a vulnerable linux host couldn't it put the Linux Virus on the host and put a copy of the Windows Virus packaged inside that?
Linux Virus[Windows Virus]
Couldn't it be done with some assembley?
Windows Virus[Linux Virus]
Create New Buffer
Copy Linux Virus to Buffer
Linux Virus
Copy the Windows Virus into storage
Linux Virus[Windows Virus]
Wouldn't that be possible?
Something like that might be needed for both the Windows and Linux community, the realization that neither of us are perfect.
Well, a lot of people trust the government a great deal more than their neighborhood geek whose been using linux since 1995.
Those of us who are around tech alot have a way of telling everyone about this new security flaw and that new security flaw. For a great deal, we've just been crying wolf (or so the non-techies think).
Now the US Government says "Microsoft OS's have a serious vulnerablity in them". In the eyes of a number of Non-tech and Tech users alike, that is more reputable than hearing one, or even the majority of us say "There's a new hole in Microsoft OS's..."
I installed Linux on my desktop box. Has a huge ammount of odd hardware. Had a problem or two. Searched for several minutes, got everything fixed. I do all the work I did in Windows. In the same ammount of time. I don't have any problems anymore. I install all sorts of software. I chat. I browse. I share files (well, until the RIAA started get ticked). I program. I type. No problems. And best of all it works the way I want it to. (Or just saying it works, would be enough to make many people cry.)
Not trying to be flaimbait, but, uh, if someone had a desire to compile a program, couldn't they just download MingW32 or DJGPP or something else? I don't know about your company, but at my school (I was resident Geek), we set it up so that the DHCP server would automatically set the proxy up as a gateway. We never had any problem about people accessing the internet without going through a proxy. And aren't the chances actually better of getting some form of backdoor greater for windows? Picking them up via email, bad downloads, even browser security flaws.
I see where having an unauthorized anything running could be a problem, but just linux in general, no, danger isn't in the software as much as it is in the hands of the user.
If it makes it any easier for you, we could sum all the rules up:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
God created all that is, all that has been and all that will be. He knows the past, present and the future. How much more reliable can you get than that?
Well, I just figured it up, and at 2.25% interest for cost of living per year, compounded over time, I believe that every dollar of our great-great grandchildrens would be worth 130.70 dollars now. So if they sue for $1000 now, buy the time our offspring gets to court, it would be the equivilent of about 7 and a half dollars. (Still over half the cost a CD)
And in other news, the Microsoft corperation has just moved itself to number 1 space on its list of greatest threats. According to rumor, MS Chairman, Bill Gates is said to hold position number 2, with Linux weighing in at a distant third....
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Sorry, but I've never found any real stability in Microsoft products. I installed a DVD Ripper. Windows couldn't handle it. I've had internet explorer kill it. Sometimes, actually quite frequently, when I transfer files across my network, explorer decides to go suicidal.
Now before I get marked flamebate or troll, no, I don't taunt Linux as immortal or undestroyable, but I also don't believe Windows has gotten near achieving Linux's stability.
No, a more accurate sounding comparison would be getting mad at a knife maker for goofing up and putting blades at both ends and no handle.
Or getting mad at a tire manufacturer, I'll make up a name - firestone. Getting mad because these firestone tires blow out randomly and make people have all sorts of wrecks. Yeah, that sounds more like it.
No, his company does have something. 521 Million dollars. That's definately something.
This, coming from a community who wanted to shutdown Kazaa, Morpheus, etc...
So why would they want to shut down P2P networks if they (the P2P networks) couldn't practially control the users private conduct.
Why not try and shut down the colleges also?
We need to find a way to make it easy to configure a system, without requiring the use of manual editing.
"Allow all users read write priveleges to everything this computer can possibly access" was just an example.
Suppose someone created a virus that had a list of vulerabilities for Win9x / WinXP / Win2K / RedHatx.x / Mandrake x.x / etc.
Now, would it be possible to compile two copies of the virus? One that ran on windows and one that ran on linux? Now, couldn't one of the viruses be packaged inside the other?
Windows Virus[Linux Virus]
Now, couldn't the virus have a network scanner, to tell what OS other hosts use, and if they had any applicable flaws? Basically a normal network scanner, souped up a notche.
Now if this scanner found a vulnerable linux host couldn't it put the Linux Virus on the host and put a copy of the Windows Virus packaged inside that?
Linux Virus[Windows Virus]
Couldn't it be done with some assembley?
Windows Virus[Linux Virus]
Create New Buffer
Copy Linux Virus to Buffer
Linux Virus
Copy the Windows Virus into storage
Linux Virus[Windows Virus]
Wouldn't that be possible?
Something like that might be needed for both the Windows and Linux community, the realization that neither of us are perfect.
Nice cross-platform virus?
Those of us who are around tech alot have a way of telling everyone about this new security flaw and that new security flaw. For a great deal, we've just been crying wolf (or so the non-techies think).
Now the US Government says "Microsoft OS's have a serious vulnerablity in them". In the eyes of a number of Non-tech and Tech users alike, that is more reputable than hearing one, or even the majority of us say "There's a new hole in Microsoft OS's..."
Thanks man. It's the thought that counts.
Course if you're not doin your job, then I could see how it could slip under your radar...
I don't know about your company, but at my school (I was resident Geek), we set it up so that the DHCP server would automatically set the proxy up as a gateway. We never had any problem about people accessing the internet without going through a proxy.
And aren't the chances actually better of getting some form of backdoor greater for windows? Picking them up via email, bad downloads, even browser security flaws.
I see where having an unauthorized anything running could be a problem, but just linux in general, no, danger isn't in the software as much as it is in the hands of the user.
Yeah, probably helps that they basically wrote the laws.
You mean they published music to begin with!?
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
God created all that is, all that has been and all that will be. He knows the past, present and the future. How much more reliable can you get than that?
Well, I just figured it up, and at 2.25% interest for cost of living per year, compounded over time, I believe that every dollar of our great-great grandchildrens would be worth 130.70 dollars now. So if they sue for $1000 now, buy the time our offspring gets to court, it would be the equivilent of about 7 and a half dollars. (Still over half the cost a CD)
Yeah. Tickin' off the RIAA and MPAA wasn't enough. Now ya gotta go for Microsoft, Macromedia and Adobe.
Great.