Did no one else notice that he comments that "degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous" and then in the very next line he says "It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox".
seems to me he should follow his own advice.
Actualy there are and have been mactintosh viruses. I have not taken time to research this signficantly, but a google search turned the following up for the second or third entry. In the future I suggest you research your statements before you make such an implicit statement as saying that there are no Mac viruses.
Anti virus
The Mac Anti virus is thought to have orginated in France. Anti virus infects System 6 Macintoshes running Finder.
AutoStart Worm
The AutoStart worm infects Macintosh systems by taking advantage of the CD-ROM AutoStart feature.
ANTI
ANTI is a Macintosh virus. ANTI.A is a variant that removed ANTI.B from Macintosh computers.
Code 252 virus
Code 252 is a Macintosh System 6 and System 7 virus.
CDEF virus
CDEF is a Macintosh System 6 file infector.
Code 1 virus
Code 1 is a Macintosh System 6 and System 7 System file and application infector.
Virus Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia of general virus and malware descriptions. Includes PC, Macintosh, Unix, Active Content, and Wireless infectors.
Is mac really an alternative? Mac is susceptible to viruses as well, there simply are not as many written for it because it is not as popular a system. Many people have touted macintosh as a solution to escaping windows viruses, but if mac becomes as pouplar as windows then viruses will just be written as well. Macintosh does not have fewer viruses because it is more secure, it has fewer viruses because it is not as popular. Let people use the OS that they prefer rather than trying to force a different OS on them to give some false sense of security against viruses or spyware.
The thing holding us back from faster processors is not the ability to make them smaller but the ability to cool the smaller components. To make a small processor work we need to make it work with less energy so it generates less heat...the idea of making the components small to make it faster is over now...we can make them plenty smaller, we just can't cool them. When you put that many transistors in one place not only do you generate more heat because of the added energy (and resistance) of traveling through the resistors but you also decrease the surface area that you can cool off of and thus increase the heat even more.
I did not realize that explaining what a nuclear reaction was tells people where to dig and how to refine the ore. Apparently by knowing what a nuclear reaction is that tells you how to refine the ore to do it. Or was it the line "highly refined ore is required" that informed us of how to refine the uranium? Good job, you made an alarmist article that managed to get on slashdot.
install programs "deemed necessary", force windows updates? seems to me like your school needs a better network structure rather than playing big brother on your users. I can understand requiring a specific antivirus software (get a deal with norton or some other antivirus company where you can provide students w/ the software for free and require them to run it to be on the network) but I feel that "monitoring the status" of a students computer is an unforgiveable intrusion on their privacy
I work as a network technician for my small liberal arts college and we have yet to have our network go down. we employ vlans to segregate computers, there is an on campus vlan, an off campus vlan, a staff vlan, and a lockdown vlan (and numerous other small vlans for different departments). the lockdown vlan is a vlan where the computer doesnt even have permision to request an ip from the dhcp server. the result is that the computer cannot infect any other computers other than the computers in that building which are on lockdown, and those are already infected anyway. We have 7 student network technicians working 20 hours a week or less and we have yet to have our network go down due to a virus for more than a few minutes. our gateway has dropped once or twice because of a veritable dos from msblast when it first came out but a few setting changes and we had it up and running in an hour or less. we've implemented a system that automaticaly detects infected computers and adds them to lockdown and creates a log of their ip and user if they are a registered computer.
my suggestion to your college would be to find a better network solution to remove infected computers before they can infect others rather than invading the privacy of its users.
I have used both a palm m505 and a sony clie nx70 for reading the PDA's and the sony clie blows any palm out there away
first off:: the sony clie screen is the only high resolution screen on the market, it is also larger than any other screen out there. to further increase the size, rather than having the writing area permamently affixed to the window, you can put it down on the "taskbar" so that you have even more window space.
pluss it has the ability to put a wireless card in (which i did, and use all the time) so you can sync up your books from anywhere with wireless
also it has a 200mhz proc. (several times faster than most out there) so there are no delays when you scroll down (my m505 had delays and it was top of the line when i bought it)
also, the battery life is great, and if your batteries do wear out replacements are only like 25 bucks off ebay (including shipping) so that's nice and affordable
the backlight on the PDA can not only be turned on and off, but also adjusted from dim to very bright and i have not found any conditions where the screen is not easily readable
overall i would give the nx70 a five star rating, i couldnt ask for more. I read a lot, and every book i read is on the clie.
if you dont care to use dvi you can always just convert it to vga easily enough, that's what i did with my kvm. the adaptors are cheap and easy to find (and often come with the monitor).
Water is a by-product of the engines on the shuttle so they dont pay for the extra weight, i dont know if this is the same for the systems the russians and the ISS use or not.
I would not recomend a linksys router. You want a quality wireless network and for that you will need to get the wireless routers used in industry, not consumer grade. The industry routers run about 300 dollars each. also note that you cannot have more than 3 overlaping networks due to frequency interference. this means you run one on the low channel, one medium, one high. Keep this in mind when you are deciding on where to place the routers, if you need to use more than three then you need to make sure you dont have two overlapping service areas on near channels. I would recomend the RoamAbout models because it is what we implemented at my university and it works well. I believe they total about 350 each and if you pull cable to them you can power them through the cable you pull with a nifty little adapter.
If he charges 20 dollars a month he will most likely be breaking his TOS (unless he gets a business broadband account). in fact, even if he doesnt charge he will probably be breaking his tos.
VLAN's are in use, unfortunately you must remember that computers on the same vlan are still able to contact each other, and short of a tcp dump it is not possible to tell if a computer is infected. the result is that you put vulnerable computers on the same vlan as infected computers and the infected computers infect the vulnerable ones within 20 seconds of being put on the same vlan. additionaly locking down a fair portion of the school is not a viable option because you then must go through, check, patch, and certify several thousand computers.
it scans for the vulnerability, at least in the case of most universities. the result is that since linux does not have this vulnerability resnet will allow you to register ( assuming resnet is still up at your university.)
don't want people to know that the movie is shitty, let them pay and find out that they didnt get what their money is worth right? sounds to me like they're complaining that texting is making it harder to rip people off, boo hoo.
the way he claimed they were linked was by modifying them at the same time, i.e. changing their spin at the same time and in that way when one electron's spin is changed so is the other. i dont claim to know the physics behind it, i'm not that far along yet.
another handy property of an electron is the ability to link it to another electron. by manipulating both electron spins at the same time they are linked. when one electron's spin is changed the other's is changed as well instantaneously. or so my physics professor claims. thus far there appears to be no dependance on distance. just think, instantaneous communications with a space probe using electron spin techniques, no more sending a probe out and then giving up on it when it goes out of communication range. since this technique does not use radio waves then you no longer have to worry about the blackout time durring space shuttle landing etc. etc. real potential here for massive technological jumps.
Yet again SCO pulls a stupid one and goes after the wrong target. The users are not responsible. the users did not make the system, the TiVO company is. thus TiVo is responsible, not the user. I see a class action lawsuit coming on.
I concur. even if it turns out there is copyrighted code in rh SCO is taking part in extortion by threatening institutions without providing proof (notice that they have started asking for money before they even bothered to prove that what they say is true). SCO's tactics sound distinctly ms to me.
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Did no one else notice that he comments that "degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous" and then in the very next line he says "It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox". seems to me he should follow his own advice.
Actualy there are and have been mactintosh viruses. I have not taken time to research this signficantly, but a google search turned the following up for the second or third entry. In the future I suggest you research your statements before you make such an implicit statement as saying that there are no Mac viruses. Anti virus The Mac Anti virus is thought to have orginated in France. Anti virus infects System 6 Macintoshes running Finder. AutoStart Worm The AutoStart worm infects Macintosh systems by taking advantage of the CD-ROM AutoStart feature. ANTI ANTI is a Macintosh virus. ANTI.A is a variant that removed ANTI.B from Macintosh computers. Code 252 virus Code 252 is a Macintosh System 6 and System 7 virus. CDEF virus CDEF is a Macintosh System 6 file infector. Code 1 virus Code 1 is a Macintosh System 6 and System 7 System file and application infector. Virus Encyclopedia An encyclopedia of general virus and malware descriptions. Includes PC, Macintosh, Unix, Active Content, and Wireless infectors.
Is mac really an alternative? Mac is susceptible to viruses as well, there simply are not as many written for it because it is not as popular a system. Many people have touted macintosh as a solution to escaping windows viruses, but if mac becomes as pouplar as windows then viruses will just be written as well. Macintosh does not have fewer viruses because it is more secure, it has fewer viruses because it is not as popular. Let people use the OS that they prefer rather than trying to force a different OS on them to give some false sense of security against viruses or spyware.
The thing holding us back from faster processors is not the ability to make them smaller but the ability to cool the smaller components. To make a small processor work we need to make it work with less energy so it generates less heat...the idea of making the components small to make it faster is over now...we can make them plenty smaller, we just can't cool them. When you put that many transistors in one place not only do you generate more heat because of the added energy (and resistance) of traveling through the resistors but you also decrease the surface area that you can cool off of and thus increase the heat even more.
I did not realize that explaining what a nuclear reaction was tells people where to dig and how to refine the ore. Apparently by knowing what a nuclear reaction is that tells you how to refine the ore to do it. Or was it the line "highly refined ore is required" that informed us of how to refine the uranium? Good job, you made an alarmist article that managed to get on slashdot.
about 80% of all major internet servers run on freebsd, and hopefully everyone knows that FreeBSD is unix :). just seems an unfair statement to me.
install programs "deemed necessary", force windows updates? seems to me like your school needs a better network structure rather than playing big brother on your users. I can understand requiring a specific antivirus software (get a deal with norton or some other antivirus company where you can provide students w/ the software for free and require them to run it to be on the network) but I feel that "monitoring the status" of a students computer is an unforgiveable intrusion on their privacy I work as a network technician for my small liberal arts college and we have yet to have our network go down. we employ vlans to segregate computers, there is an on campus vlan, an off campus vlan, a staff vlan, and a lockdown vlan (and numerous other small vlans for different departments). the lockdown vlan is a vlan where the computer doesnt even have permision to request an ip from the dhcp server. the result is that the computer cannot infect any other computers other than the computers in that building which are on lockdown, and those are already infected anyway. We have 7 student network technicians working 20 hours a week or less and we have yet to have our network go down due to a virus for more than a few minutes. our gateway has dropped once or twice because of a veritable dos from msblast when it first came out but a few setting changes and we had it up and running in an hour or less. we've implemented a system that automaticaly detects infected computers and adds them to lockdown and creates a log of their ip and user if they are a registered computer. my suggestion to your college would be to find a better network solution to remove infected computers before they can infect others rather than invading the privacy of its users.
we use it extensively in our ericson telecom switches when we interface via winfiol
I have used both a palm m505 and a sony clie nx70 for reading the PDA's and the sony clie blows any palm out there away first off:: the sony clie screen is the only high resolution screen on the market, it is also larger than any other screen out there. to further increase the size, rather than having the writing area permamently affixed to the window, you can put it down on the "taskbar" so that you have even more window space. pluss it has the ability to put a wireless card in (which i did, and use all the time) so you can sync up your books from anywhere with wireless also it has a 200mhz proc. (several times faster than most out there) so there are no delays when you scroll down (my m505 had delays and it was top of the line when i bought it) also, the battery life is great, and if your batteries do wear out replacements are only like 25 bucks off ebay (including shipping) so that's nice and affordable the backlight on the PDA can not only be turned on and off, but also adjusted from dim to very bright and i have not found any conditions where the screen is not easily readable overall i would give the nx70 a five star rating, i couldnt ask for more. I read a lot, and every book i read is on the clie.
if you dont care to use dvi you can always just convert it to vga easily enough, that's what i did with my kvm. the adaptors are cheap and easy to find (and often come with the monitor).
Water is a by-product of the engines on the shuttle so they dont pay for the extra weight, i dont know if this is the same for the systems the russians and the ISS use or not.
I would not recomend a linksys router. You want a quality wireless network and for that you will need to get the wireless routers used in industry, not consumer grade. The industry routers run about 300 dollars each. also note that you cannot have more than 3 overlaping networks due to frequency interference. this means you run one on the low channel, one medium, one high. Keep this in mind when you are deciding on where to place the routers, if you need to use more than three then you need to make sure you dont have two overlapping service areas on near channels. I would recomend the RoamAbout models because it is what we implemented at my university and it works well. I believe they total about 350 each and if you pull cable to them you can power them through the cable you pull with a nifty little adapter.
If he charges 20 dollars a month he will most likely be breaking his TOS (unless he gets a business broadband account). in fact, even if he doesnt charge he will probably be breaking his tos.
I would be interested to know exactly how many companies SCO has managed to talk into buying licenses without offering proof of their claims.
the article he posted suggested using sysprep.exe and even said microsoft would provide support for it?
am I missreading the article or is this a case where the poster did not read the article himself?
"thier" what is up with the misspellings on slashdot lately? they've been all over the place.
VLAN's are in use, unfortunately you must remember that computers on the same vlan are still able to contact each other, and short of a tcp dump it is not possible to tell if a computer is infected. the result is that you put vulnerable computers on the same vlan as infected computers and the infected computers infect the vulnerable ones within 20 seconds of being put on the same vlan. additionaly locking down a fair portion of the school is not a viable option because you then must go through, check, patch, and certify several thousand computers.
it scans for the vulnerability, at least in the case of most universities. the result is that since linux does not have this vulnerability resnet will allow you to register ( assuming resnet is still up at your university.)
Don't forget to pay your Dues to SCO! ;)
don't want people to know that the movie is shitty, let them pay and find out that they didnt get what their money is worth right? sounds to me like they're complaining that texting is making it harder to rip people off, boo hoo.
simply do an add deny tcp and add deny udp in ipfw on ms's address on your gateway and you don't have to worry about it.
the way he claimed they were linked was by modifying them at the same time, i.e. changing their spin at the same time and in that way when one electron's spin is changed so is the other. i dont claim to know the physics behind it, i'm not that far along yet.
another handy property of an electron is the ability to link it to another electron. by manipulating both electron spins at the same time they are linked. when one electron's spin is changed the other's is changed as well instantaneously. or so my physics professor claims. thus far there appears to be no dependance on distance. just think, instantaneous communications with a space probe using electron spin techniques, no more sending a probe out and then giving up on it when it goes out of communication range. since this technique does not use radio waves then you no longer have to worry about the blackout time durring space shuttle landing etc. etc. real potential here for massive technological jumps.
Yet again SCO pulls a stupid one and goes after the wrong target. The users are not responsible. the users did not make the system, the TiVO company is. thus TiVo is responsible, not the user. I see a class action lawsuit coming on.
I concur. even if it turns out there is copyrighted code in rh SCO is taking part in extortion by threatening institutions without providing proof (notice that they have started asking for money before they even bothered to prove that what they say is true). SCO's tactics sound distinctly ms to me.