Read a part of the MS EULA to your customers, without telling them which OS it applies to. At the point when MS disclaim every liability and all warranties, ask them if they would buy a car or kitchen appliance if it had a similar warranty? Only when they gasp with horror, reveal it's the MS EULA.
Ask your customers how many people have independently audited Microsoft's code and published the full results?
Ask them whether MS's code hasn't leaked out, so that its insecurities can't have been explored by untrusted parties (answer: no).
Ask them how long critical security vulnerabilities have typically lasted in Windows, especially IE, before being patched. http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/
Ask your customers if they know how many people across how many companies have worked on the linux kernel and have verified code quality independently.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6925891609.html
Ask them if they know how long the average security flaw in Firefox has lasted before being fixed?
I've found I've never needed to use printouts when programming either, even in the days when an editor only showed 40 rows of text or so (ah, the good old days of VT100s!)
print? very rarely - only if I need to file a record (e.g. tax).
if the information isn't accessible through free text search, it might as well not exist!
I hate to say this, but in this respect I have a tiny, tiny smidgen of sympathy for MS. People have been used to computers which are trivial to use and perform basic administration functions, and unfortunately when they are being forced to modify their behaviour (like not running as admin, not putting files in silly places), all they do is bitch rather than thinking "hey, I've been wrong all this time, now I'm working smarter".
So, MS have to introduce backwards-compatibility hacks, like UAC, to keep people happy, and of course the idiot users simply turn off security.
The other problem MS have had is that in order to keep people on the rolling treadmill of updates and upgrades (fuelled by file format changes), they have had to maintain backwards compatibility beyond what would normally make any sense. OK, linux hasn't been the model of API stability, but because it's OSS, it means people can build old apps from gcc2.95/kernel 2.2 & 2.4 on gcc3 and gcc4 with kernel 2.6. Windows users can't do this, they are often utterly dependent on proprietary applications and if they needed a recompiled version would have to pray the authors would be willing to do it at a fair price or even were still in business.
OK, having had a tiny grain of sympathy, it's blown away because MS brought this situation about through their own inaction and short-sighted corporate greed.
(in the UK) sadly, it's no surprise that when someone retires as an MP, they nearly always end up becoming a director on the board of the very large consultancies which used to be their customers.
we have the best government that big corporates can buy!
a well designed security system will take typical users into account, e.g. two-factor authentication, to avoid security breaking by stupidity... but it can only mitigate some of the problems unless the user wants to cooperate with the security.
define zombie.. machine running undesirable code
anything that came on a disk with "(C) Microsoft" would be the main candidate!
ok, slightly more seriously. if Windows were banned and all computers running windows were disconnected, for how long would the internet be clean until the blackhats succesfully targeted OSX and Linux. My guess is about a month till they were able to take control of older unpatched machines. They might get a small percentage of OSX, linux and FreeBSD boxes, but it'd still be enought to be a nuisance!
an old trick among die-hard NT3.5 users was to create a separate partition, fat16, specifically for the swap file and not allow it to put a swapfile anywhere else.
I don't know if this still applies or not.
If you have swap fragmentation, simply tell windows to delete it, reboot, defrag the hard drive with a decent tool - not just window's own, then re-add swapping.
Police are currently questioning a Mr Hans Reiser as to the whereabouts of the body; Mr Reiser denies any involvement stating that the police can fsck off.
most of the procurve medium end stuff is wire-speed gigabit; we just dropped GB£5300 (about US$8000) on a 5412zl - a bundle deal of chassis + dual PSUs plus 96 ports giga switching with PoE option. You can't get modular/chassis cisco stuff of that capability for anything like that price, and the cisco stuff is very power hungry too.
that said, I prefer cisco configuration by far to procurve; we have some very nice 3650E's which provide very impressive performance with the 10G uplinks!
Do you want to keep converting someone else's stuff when you have a few terabytes of your own to attend to?
When my uncle died, we inherited photos in boxes, photos in albums, and negatives, some 50+ years old. We don't know who many of the people are. I have scanned many of the significant photos - I assume they're significant because they're enlargements which would have been costly. The chances of the people being identified reduce every year as relatives die off.
The above problem is relatively small, as we're talking less than a hundred photos. One day someone might inherit many thousands of photos and hundred of video snippets that I created. The only information on them is the date and EXIF data. That means in 50 years the person inheriting the collection, if it were preserved, would have a massive problem deciding what's important or not! Even if the camera had a GPS for geo-tagging it would only give a small clue.
There's a reason we change jobs, a reason we get new friends and lose old ones, a reason we grow old and die: it's because it's important to not be burdened by the past, burdened by our own legacy, to forget, to move on...
consider, say an Intel CPU - the fabrication plant alone costs billions, and yet when make in volume they can sell them for tens or hundreds of dollars.
the whole point of diamonds is that they're "rare" and "special" in the minds of the buyers.
neadiamonds synthetics are damn expensive when you consider the equipment is dirt cheap compared to a semi foundry!
the 6502 did have integer multiplication, provided one of the operands was precisely 2 or 0.5. It's called shift left or shift right!:-)
I once worked on a 4 bit NEC 75xx microcontroller which didn't actually have a shift left; you had to clear carry and add the number to itself!
I visit AZ twice or more a year, and it confused the hell out of me trying to understand how the airline flight to another state changed duration, until someone told me AZ didn't do DST!
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Read a part of the MS EULA to your customers, without telling them which OS it applies to. At the point when MS disclaim every liability and all warranties, ask them if they would buy a car or kitchen appliance if it had a similar warranty? Only when they gasp with horror, reveal it's the MS EULA.
Ask your customers how many people have independently audited Microsoft's code and published the full results?
Ask them whether MS's code hasn't leaked out, so that its insecurities can't have been explored by untrusted parties (answer: no).
Ask them how long critical security vulnerabilities have typically lasted in Windows, especially IE, before being patched. http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/
Ask your customers if they know how many people across how many companies have worked on the linux kernel and have verified code quality independently. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6925891609.html
Ask them if they know how long the average security flaw in Firefox has lasted before being fixed?
I've found I've never needed to use printouts when programming either, even in the days when an editor only showed 40 rows of text or so (ah, the good old days of VT100s!)
print? very rarely - only if I need to file a record (e.g. tax). if the information isn't accessible through free text search, it might as well not exist!
I hate to say this, but in this respect I have a tiny, tiny smidgen of sympathy for MS. People have been used to computers which are trivial to use and perform basic administration functions, and unfortunately when they are being forced to modify their behaviour (like not running as admin, not putting files in silly places), all they do is bitch rather than thinking "hey, I've been wrong all this time, now I'm working smarter".
So, MS have to introduce backwards-compatibility hacks, like UAC, to keep people happy, and of course the idiot users simply turn off security.
The other problem MS have had is that in order to keep people on the rolling treadmill of updates and upgrades (fuelled by file format changes), they have had to maintain backwards compatibility beyond what would normally make any sense. OK, linux hasn't been the model of API stability, but because it's OSS, it means people can build old apps from gcc2.95/kernel 2.2 & 2.4 on gcc3 and gcc4 with kernel 2.6. Windows users can't do this, they are often utterly dependent on proprietary applications and if they needed a recompiled version would have to pray the authors would be willing to do it at a fair price or even were still in business.
OK, having had a tiny grain of sympathy, it's blown away because MS brought this situation about through their own inaction and short-sighted corporate greed.
(in the UK) sadly, it's no surprise that when someone retires as an MP, they nearly always end up becoming a director on the board of the very large consultancies which used to be their customers. we have the best government that big corporates can buy!
a well designed security system will take typical users into account, e.g. two-factor authentication, to avoid security breaking by stupidity... but it can only mitigate some of the problems unless the user wants to cooperate with the security.
define zombie.. machine running undesirable code
anything that came on a disk with "(C) Microsoft" would be the main candidate!
ok, slightly more seriously. if Windows were banned and all computers running windows were disconnected, for how long would the internet be clean until the blackhats succesfully targeted OSX and Linux. My guess is about a month till they were able to take control of older unpatched machines. They might get a small percentage of OSX, linux and FreeBSD boxes, but it'd still be enought to be a nuisance!
but, but, how the hell? that's the combination to my luggage, you insensitive clod!
an old trick among die-hard NT3.5 users was to create a separate partition, fat16, specifically for the swap file and not allow it to put a swapfile anywhere else. I don't know if this still applies or not. If you have swap fragmentation, simply tell windows to delete it, reboot, defrag the hard drive with a decent tool - not just window's own, then re-add swapping.
Police are currently questioning a Mr Hans Reiser as to the whereabouts of the body; Mr Reiser denies any involvement stating that the police can fsck off.
I think the problem is that the Iranians thought they had an answer to the old question "how do I set my laser printer to stun".
what's a rouge certificate - why does the colour matter? ah, I see, maybe the OP mean a rogue certificate!
http://xkcd.com/488/
dunno, but cisco have this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/ps9512/Data_Sheet_C78-437757.html 32 ports of 10Gb with 80Gb fabric.
most of the procurve medium end stuff is wire-speed gigabit; we just dropped GB£5300 (about US$8000) on a 5412zl - a bundle deal of chassis + dual PSUs plus 96 ports giga switching with PoE option. You can't get modular/chassis cisco stuff of that capability for anything like that price, and the cisco stuff is very power hungry too.
that said, I prefer cisco configuration by far to procurve; we have some very nice 3650E's which provide very impressive performance with the 10G uplinks!
Do you want to keep converting someone else's stuff when you have a few terabytes of your own to attend to?
When my uncle died, we inherited photos in boxes, photos in albums, and negatives, some 50+ years old. We don't know who many of the people are. I have scanned many of the significant photos - I assume they're significant because they're enlargements which would have been costly. The chances of the people being identified reduce every year as relatives die off.
The above problem is relatively small, as we're talking less than a hundred photos. One day someone might inherit many thousands of photos and hundred of video snippets that I created. The only information on them is the date and EXIF data. That means in 50 years the person inheriting the collection, if it were preserved, would have a massive problem deciding what's important or not! Even if the camera had a GPS for geo-tagging it would only give a small clue.
There's a reason we change jobs, a reason we get new friends and lose old ones, a reason we grow old and die: it's because it's important to not be burdened by the past, burdened by our own legacy, to forget, to move on...
to solve the problem, I am going to pay the hack who wrote the article $279/hour for it! Since I figured it took 10s to make it up, that's 70c
consider, say an Intel CPU - the fabrication plant alone costs billions, and yet when make in volume they can sell them for tens or hundreds of dollars.
the whole point of diamonds is that they're "rare" and "special" in the minds of the buyers.
neadiamonds synthetics are damn expensive when you consider the equipment is dirt cheap compared to a semi foundry!
John Sladek's "mechasm" was probably first, and is more amusing.
a good programmer can write a script which does the same thing whether run in perl or executed as sendmail.cf
Me, I just use a Sony battery and hope the thief doesn't know they explode spontaneously!
I could care less
you mean you couldN'T care less.
FFS, if you're going to use cliched statements at least get them fucking right!
the 6502 did have integer multiplication, provided one of the operands was precisely 2 or 0.5. It's called shift left or shift right! :-)
I once worked on a 4 bit NEC 75xx microcontroller which didn't actually have a shift left; you had to clear carry and add the number to itself!
some wise person once said: "twitter, for bloggers so mediocre they can't even come up with a full paragraph worth writing".
I visit AZ twice or more a year, and it confused the hell out of me trying to understand how the airline flight to another state changed duration, until someone told me AZ didn't do DST!