M$ Update is great and works fine as long as you are on broadband. If your not, it takes hours to update your system from a clean install - IF the end server doesnt end up zapping your connection.
One of my clients are in this exact situation - they are on dialup simply because their business is in the sticks and there is no broadband avaliable. They got hacked into a few weeks ago because of these bugs and holes - the solution instead of serious money (compared to dialup), is to simply install Linux everywhere for them, and put Windows into a "clean room" implentation with VMWare...
Moral: M$ Update only works if you have the resources - otherwise your screwed and YOU WILL SUFFER!
RIAA is going after the screen name account holders, not the ISP account holders... And I seriously doubt her mom will have (if any) the same screen name as there 12 year old...
stocks: atleast if they do take a dive, you can get SOME of your money back. It's against the law to sell your cd's...
house: before you buy your house you would take a tour of it and look through each and every room to check it out (I hope you would atleast), you can even hire an independant inspector to make sure your NOT buying crap. You can't very well do that with CD's now can you...
Ports below 1024 SHOULD be blocked permanently from inbound traffic, no matter who you are - excluding business. Ports above 1024 cannot be blocked other wise no one would be able to get anywhere except to there own "subnet". When a client (pop3/http/smtp/ftp/etc..) connects to a server, it chooses a port at random above 1024 (obviously one that is not already used) and then connects to the servers port of say 80 for http, everything below 1024 is reserved for system level services (printing,http,ftp,ssh,telnet,smtp,pop3,etc..).
Also, you need to realize that having someone constantly changing the "firewall" to let individuals opting in and out of certain ports - leads to mistakes that will shut down the entire network - which no one wants... If you need an ssh server running on your home unix box for you to get into from work - and the ISP is doing a respectable job of blocking everything below 1024 - change the damn thing to listen on 2222, simple!
If I were one of his victims, I would sue his parents for leaving an unsecured gun around a mentally disabled child.
There are two types of parents; 1) they want to raise a healthy and productive kid or 2) they could care less, and do because they are suppose to/have to.
Someone who would raise a kid, and allow them to have access to guns (either by knowing where to get one, or by having theres accesible) are the ones who obviously dont care about raising them the right way. The loved ones of the victoms in these cases obviously want someone to pay (who would blame them, monetary or not), but suing someone into oblivion that has an attitude like that will get you know where - they could care less. When the victoms turn to someone else to make them pay for there loss - someone that has a consious, in a lot of ways it takes the blame off the carless parents that are responsible in the first place - the result? they keep being irresponsible and everyother dead beat parent out there follows in there foot steps...
For every action there is a reaction, if the reaction is pointless - the action will be deemed as pointless...
Guns are also actively promoted as being EXTREMELY dangerous.. Where are the tv comercials, radio spots and newpaper clippings about how dangerous a computer can be - about how a single click on a.pif file could ultimately bring a nuclear plant to it's knees or create havoc for the local 911 system...
EU's are ignorant and stupid morons, but that is no excuse for the people who actually do know what they are doing, and can prevent the morons from doing stupid shit in the first place..
/*
* Linux Socket Filter - Kernel level socket filtering
*
* Author:
* Jay Schulist
* * Based on the design of:
* - The Berkeley Packet Filter
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* Andi Kleen - Fix a few bad bugs and races.
*/
We (the linux community) can either sit back and cross our fingers that all this FUD will blow over soon and in the mean time not damage things to much. SCO has broght some serious law suits to the table and is using strong arm tactics (a lot like another corp that we all love to hate) to scare and bully OUR innocent end users into paying them for something the we did. For obvious reasons we can't really stand up to them and fight the normal fight - it will take a lot of money (for attorney fees and such) and a long time. SCO obviously isnt in this alone, McBride I dont believe is all that bright and because of such he wouldnt be able to figure out how to carry something like this for the years and years it is going to take to finilize.
Essentially, we are in for a fight. The corporations "for" linux are going to fight the battles on the front lines (in court), but as we all know that is going to take forever - we as a community needs to start supporting ourselves because this is not going to go away and is just going to get worse.
SCO (as the front man) is strong arming and scaring innocent linux users into paying them a lot of money. They expect you to pay if you use the 2.4 kernel and later - there are two sets of people; those listening to the FUD from SCO and those flipping them off. We dont nedcisarily need to worry about those flipping them off, its the ones listening to them. We need to focus on those that are worried about it, this is linux afterall and we can twist her into a pretzel and she will still sing and dance - its time to do so for those that are worried about this...
Solution: For those that are concerned, install the 2.2 kernel or if worse comes to worse an experimental 2.3 kernel that is stable for there setup. There are patches and everything else out there to make the 2.2 kernel work with what is neccesary like the ext3 journaling fs. And all the apps will still work just fine (most atleast). The fancy desktops will have issues, but the people worried about this wont be using linux in that way. We may have to do some serious patching to the 2.2 kernel - but it is very possible and it needs to be done.
This isn't going to stop - we have another 2 years before anything will begin to happen in our favor. In the mean time SCO (and there backers) are going to push this very hard and litterally scare users away from linux. From the way the letters sounded with regards to the case with RH adn SCO - this is just the tip of the ice berg. If we dont figure out a way to get around the scare tactics, they are going to win. We cant fight this battle on the front lines - and we dont need to...
It would be, except that they're still distributing said product.
But there is no kernel - with there distrobution... They have the source for everything - and a couple of kernel "addons" but no kernel source...I Wonder if the kernel source that is missing has there ever special code in it? If it did/does, could be worth doing a diff on the code from kernel.org with what ever there's are - and seeing what the difference really is (if anything)...
The column isnt about whiping MAC off the desktop, it is about surpassing MAC on the desktop... I have no idea what ther percentages are, but all LInux has to do is take away from the dominant giant (anyone, anyone?) enough to beet out the MAC.
Example (1)
M$ = 90%
Linux = 2%
MAC = 5%
-------
Example (2)
MAC=5%
Linux=6%
M$=86%
Reasons...
1) Users dont have to change hardware, only software
2) Linux is easy to obtain...
Linux has taken the market away from Gates, and at the same time beeting out MAC...
Apple will probably never loose there market share, probably only grom at a slow and steady pace...
What would be cool - is to have Apple and the OSS comunitee team up to take back the market shares together!
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M$ Update is great and works fine as long as you are on broadband. If your not, it takes hours to update your system from a clean install - IF the end server doesnt end up zapping your connection.
One of my clients are in this exact situation - they are on dialup simply because their business is in the sticks and there is no broadband avaliable. They got hacked into a few weeks ago because of these bugs and holes - the solution instead of serious money (compared to dialup), is to simply install Linux everywhere for them, and put Windows into a "clean room" implentation with VMWare...
Moral: M$ Update only works if you have the resources - otherwise your screwed and YOU WILL SUFFER!
RIAA is going after the screen name account holders, not the ISP account holders... And I seriously doubt her mom will have (if any) the same screen name as there 12 year old...
Comparing CD's to stock and buying a house.
stocks: atleast if they do take a dive, you can get SOME of your money back. It's against the law to sell your cd's...
house: before you buy your house you would take a tour of it and look through each and every room to check it out (I hope you would atleast), you can even hire an independant inspector to make sure your NOT buying crap. You can't very well do that with CD's now can you...
Well at least not all the way...
Ports below 1024 SHOULD be blocked permanently from inbound traffic, no matter who you are - excluding business. Ports above 1024 cannot be blocked other wise no one would be able to get anywhere except to there own "subnet". When a client (pop3/http/smtp/ftp/etc..) connects to a server, it chooses a port at random above 1024 (obviously one that is not already used) and then connects to the servers port of say 80 for http, everything below 1024 is reserved for system level services (printing,http,ftp,ssh,telnet,smtp,pop3,etc..).
Also, you need to realize that having someone constantly changing the "firewall" to let individuals opting in and out of certain ports - leads to mistakes that will shut down the entire network - which no one wants... If you need an ssh server running on your home unix box for you to get into from work - and the ISP is doing a respectable job of blocking everything below 1024 - change the damn thing to listen on 2222, simple!
If I were one of his victims, I would sue his parents for leaving an unsecured gun around a mentally disabled child.
There are two types of parents; 1) they want to raise a healthy and productive kid or 2) they could care less, and do because they are suppose to/have to.
Someone who would raise a kid, and allow them to have access to guns (either by knowing where to get one, or by having theres accesible) are the ones who obviously dont care about raising them the right way. The loved ones of the victoms in these cases obviously want someone to pay (who would blame them, monetary or not), but suing someone into oblivion that has an attitude like that will get you know where - they could care less. When the victoms turn to someone else to make them pay for there loss - someone that has a consious, in a lot of ways it takes the blame off the carless parents that are responsible in the first place - the result? they keep being irresponsible and everyother dead beat parent out there follows in there foot steps...
For every action there is a reaction, if the reaction is pointless - the action will be deemed as pointless...
Perfect analogy!
.pif file could ultimately bring a nuclear plant to it's knees or create havoc for the local 911 system...
Guns are also actively promoted as being EXTREMELY dangerous.. Where are the tv comercials, radio spots and newpaper clippings about how dangerous a computer can be - about how a single click on a
EU's are ignorant and stupid morons, but that is no excuse for the people who actually do know what they are doing, and can prevent the morons from doing stupid shit in the first place..
linux 2.4.19 source code
/usr/src/linux/net/core/filter.c
/*
* Linux Socket Filter - Kernel level socket filtering
*
* Author:
* Jay Schulist
*
* Based on the design of:
* - The Berkeley Packet Filter
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* Andi Kleen - Fix a few bad bugs and races.
*/
We (the linux community) can either sit back and cross our fingers that all this FUD will blow over soon and in the mean time not damage things to much. SCO has broght some serious law suits to the table and is using strong arm tactics (a lot like another corp that we all love to hate) to scare and bully OUR innocent end users into paying them for something the we did. For obvious reasons we can't really stand up to them and fight the normal fight - it will take a lot of money (for attorney fees and such) and a long time. SCO obviously isnt in this alone, McBride I dont believe is all that bright and because of such he wouldnt be able to figure out how to carry something like this for the years and years it is going to take to finilize.
Essentially, we are in for a fight. The corporations "for" linux are going to fight the battles on the front lines (in court), but as we all know that is going to take forever - we as a community needs to start supporting ourselves because this is not going to go away and is just going to get worse.
SCO (as the front man) is strong arming and scaring innocent linux users into paying them a lot of money. They expect you to pay if you use the 2.4 kernel and later - there are two sets of people; those listening to the FUD from SCO and those flipping them off. We dont nedcisarily need to worry about those flipping them off, its the ones listening to them. We need to focus on those that are worried about it, this is linux afterall and we can twist her into a pretzel and she will still sing and dance - its time to do so for those that are worried about this...
Solution: For those that are concerned, install the 2.2 kernel or if worse comes to worse an experimental 2.3 kernel that is stable for there setup. There are patches and everything else out there to make the 2.2 kernel work with what is neccesary like the ext3 journaling fs. And all the apps will still work just fine (most atleast). The fancy desktops will have issues, but the people worried about this wont be using linux in that way. We may have to do some serious patching to the 2.2 kernel - but it is very possible and it needs to be done.
This isn't going to stop - we have another 2 years before anything will begin to happen in our favor. In the mean time SCO (and there backers) are going to push this very hard and litterally scare users away from linux. From the way the letters sounded with regards to the case with RH adn SCO - this is just the tip of the ice berg. If we dont figure out a way to get around the scare tactics, they are going to win. We cant fight this battle on the front lines - and we dont need to...
It would be, except that they're still distributing said product.
But there is no kernel - with there distrobution... They have the source for everything - and a couple of kernel "addons" but no kernel source...I Wonder if the kernel source that is missing has there ever special code in it? If it did/does, could be worth doing a diff on the code from kernel.org with what ever there's are - and seeing what the difference really is (if anything)...
The column isnt about whiping MAC off the desktop, it is about surpassing MAC on the desktop... I have no idea what ther percentages are, but all LInux has to do is take away from the dominant giant (anyone, anyone?) enough to beet out the MAC. Example (1) M$ = 90% Linux = 2% MAC = 5% ------- Example (2) MAC=5% Linux=6% M$=86% Reasons... 1) Users dont have to change hardware, only software 2) Linux is easy to obtain... Linux has taken the market away from Gates, and at the same time beeting out MAC... Apple will probably never loose there market share, probably only grom at a slow and steady pace... What would be cool - is to have Apple and the OSS comunitee team up to take back the market shares together!