I've just tested it on 3 of my Server 2008 R2 machines here (final build, technet ftw). It was unable to crash any of them. I wonder if 2008R2 has any new SMB code we don't know about yet?
Note: all 3 2008R2 machines have open (guest-authable) fileshares available via SMB.
AC is especially hilarious today. MPC is an open-source, mplayer-based gui media player for windows. It takes it's name from its appearance which is similar to the "classic" versions of windows media player.
That is untrue. The Download Manager pops to front. The only situation in which it does not, is if it is already open from a previous download.
As for the Open/Save Dance somehow being the ultimate solution to this, what do you think the average user (read: almost all users) does when they see an Open/Save box? They jam that OK key until it goes away and stops asking them a hard question. This effectively nullifies the criticism of the feature. It is worth noting that Firefox by default downloads files to the desktop, so with an average user at the controls, the "bug" is just as dangerous.
I have no issue with a browser automatically downloading files. There is a reason quarantined dropboxes exist. If you're not smart enough to notice the difference between My Computer.exe and an authentic shortcut then that is entirely your fault.
This issue is about the execution of code WITHOUT user interaction.
You can have an argument about the pros and cons of the Safari Feature somewhere else. This is not the problem here.
Come on, how insanely insecure is it to run executable code from the desktop! Hasn't windows had protection on the windows and system32 directories for about 6 billion years now for this very reason? And then they go and make it pull executable code from just about the least secure place on any PC.
From where I'm sitting this is a massively Microsoft problem, but their suggested "fix" is still the easiest solution by far. But its a bandaid to a gaping oversight.
Safari on the mac defaults to/Users/user/Downloads. Wouldn't be hard to change WinSafari to do the same, but it would almost be an admission of fault to all the IE fanboys.
If the IT staff are worth their salt then these backup tapes wont be worth anything. Anything that is in danger of being stolen should be encrypted.
I work in Health IT, and it is standard practice for us to, at a minimum, GPG encrypt any backup going offsite. Infact a practice cannot pass accreditation unless this is the case.
If this wasn't the case in this situation, then all parties involved need to have a serious think about what they're doing.
They have explained this a number of times already, including in the very first speech in which they announced the class. The PC Death Knights will be former minions of the Lich King (aka the aforementioned scourge) who have exerted their own influence on their destiny and broken free of his control. No longer a mindless pawn they swore allegiance to a new faction (insert horde or alliance here).
They can be of any race, as all races are susceptible to the temptation and corruption of the lich king.
Because, as much as you may not like this, its either money coming from Apple or its money coming from somewhere else. And that somewhere else may use this "research" for more nefarious purposes. Its kinda the whole columbia situation again - you need to pay the farmers to grow corn or wheat or whatever, or you know what? Theyre going to grow cocaine. Don't like that? Well tough shit, its the reality of the world we live in. Give the guy cash if he's for real (which to an extent is fair enough - he must have at least _some_ semblance of skill to pull this off) and make him STFU.
He claims that these resources were provided by his unnamed "client". He also uses them as part of the excuse why he wont release the code, its paid for by his "client", who wanted it for some heretofore unknown reason. Shouldn't there be some kind of law against this? Paying money for a weaponized worm, sounds kinda like funding terrorism to me...damn patriot act throws people in jail for tonnes of ridiculous reasons, why is this guy not getting a bit of bumfun in the slammer?
Seriously, sit down with this guy. Put a suitcase full of large bills on the table, and tell him it's his if he can prove it works. And then, give the guy some incentive to continue to disclose his so-called "root causes". He is CLEARLY a total whore for cash, which means he is easily bought. You have pockets deep enough, you just sold a bojillion iphones, so buy this guy. If he's full of crap, make the fact that you wanted his "root cause" and he couldnt show you it publicly known, then he gets shamed into STFU and stops spreading FUD. If he does show the root cause, then great, put him on retainer and continue to have a fantastic OS. I know jobs likes to do things all secretive and on his own terms, but this is a public perception issue, it needs to be handled in the public eye. Get on the private jet and go see this guy in person, use the RDF to mess with him and get this shit cleared up. Microsoft got into the situation they're in now by ignoring things like this and pulling the secretive garbage, you don't wanna go down that road, otherwise this crap will get out of hand.
Yes! Oh god yes! Someone at apple, please! Listen to this man! I love my 12" to death, and dont go anywhere without it. Its 3 years old and still has a more powerful/useful video card than the current macbook revision! Give me a portable pro machine please!
That said, my understanding is that there was mutterings of a portable model coming along the pipeline, but it dissapeared, possibly shelved with all the iphone/appletv/leopard cafuffle. Also, afaik the 12" didnt actually sell that well, and was vastly outsold by the 15", but thats just what I am told, IANAAE.
Not sure if someone answered all this yet or not, and I cant be bothered to read all of the thread, but I work for a company whose name rhymes with shell, doing onsite installations, and so I've encountered the problems of which you speak. The explorer crashes are, believe it or not, caused by google desktop, for some reason its shipping with broken dlls which crash explorer/iexplore. Uninstall it, feel free to check the latest version and see if its fixed itself, but yeah. Slowness? Make sure youve got enough ram (I know i know its ridiculous, but if you have to work in vista, get 2gig) and then go and turn off all those pointless services like defender, desktop search and so on, can reduce the base memory usage by 400meg on some machines.
I just got a drive the same size as my internal hdd, and setup a scheduled clone of my drive, not as elegant, but if my drive dies, I just swap the new one in, and its like it never even died.
"The core mantra should be: "Simple and easy in everything we do, but give me a command line and I can move the world.""
I'm guessing he hasnt spent a lot of time in OS X then. Especially since he says in the article that Apple took the simplistic (ie not technical) approach.
Now the dupe is contained in the original post! Save the effort of reposting in a few days, just copy and paste the same text twice for maximum fun and efficiency.
Look youre getting confused here. If joe blogs can write an app which connects to the network, then the network is not closed. What you are talking about is interoperability. Its completely different to being "closed". An example of a closed system is Windows Update. You can ONLY connect to it using the specified software on the specified platform. Try and use it in firefox, or on linux, and it shuts you out. Hence it is closed. If the IM networks were closed, we would be limited to only using the standard clients which would suck for non-windows users.
And as for multi-protocol IM clients, Trillian IS terrible, there are far better clients out there. Miranda is you are windows bound, or adium on os x and gaim on linux.
So just because alternative clients have a small market share, that makes the networks closed? If you can connect to the network using a client OTHER than the manuf's, then at least by my reckoning, that makes it a not very closed system.
They want to keep their networks closed? If that's the case theyre doing about as good a job of it as they are at securing windows. The myriad of clients that are fully functional on each of the networks is evidence to this...
In an act of defiance, the US is holding their standards day in 3mths, 8 days, 4 hours and 22 minutes. Also they are referring to it as Standards for Freedom day. There will be no mention of the metric system, and people will come from _miles_ around to visit events that are dozens of feet across in size.
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I've just tested it on 3 of my Server 2008 R2 machines here (final build, technet ftw). It was unable to crash any of them. I wonder if 2008R2 has any new SMB code we don't know about yet?
Note: all 3 2008R2 machines have open (guest-authable) fileshares available via SMB.
They do use akamai, at least for the ISO links. When you fire up the technect downloader, it very clearly has an akamai URL.
I grabbed the RC today, and while the technet site itself was slow, once I got to the actual download it was fast enough.
AC is especially hilarious today. MPC is an open-source, mplayer-based gui media player for windows. It takes it's name from its appearance which is similar to the "classic" versions of windows media player.
No, it doesn't. Which is why its not installed by default.
2k8 is entirely "roles" based. DX10 comes along with the "desktop experience" role, which is not there by default.
This fixes it.
Chown the app to a non-root user, and the whoami returns that user.
Have tested ARD afterwards and it still worked for me (Leopard 10.5.3 Intel).
Who wants to bet a security update is out in the next week or so which fixes this?
Firefox, whose default download directory is where?
Granted it gives you an Open/Save dialog first, but since when do people read let alone understand dialog boxes?
That is untrue. The Download Manager pops to front. The only situation in which it does not, is if it is already open from a previous download.
As for the Open/Save Dance somehow being the ultimate solution to this, what do you think the average user (read: almost all users) does when they see an Open/Save box? They jam that OK key until it goes away and stops asking them a hard question. This effectively nullifies the criticism of the feature. It is worth noting that Firefox by default downloads files to the desktop, so with an average user at the controls, the "bug" is just as dangerous.
I have no issue with a browser automatically downloading files. There is a reason quarantined dropboxes exist. If you're not smart enough to notice the difference between My Computer.exe and an authentic shortcut then that is entirely your fault.
This issue is about the execution of code WITHOUT user interaction.
You can have an argument about the pros and cons of the Safari Feature somewhere else. This is not the problem here.
This is exactly what is happening.
/Users/user/Downloads. Wouldn't be hard to change WinSafari to do the same, but it would almost be an admission of fault to all the IE fanboys.
And yet this is listed as a Safari flaw?
Come on, how insanely insecure is it to run executable code from the desktop! Hasn't windows had protection on the windows and system32 directories for about 6 billion years now for this very reason? And then they go and make it pull executable code from just about the least secure place on any PC.
From where I'm sitting this is a massively Microsoft problem, but their suggested "fix" is still the easiest solution by far. But its a bandaid to a gaping oversight.
Safari on the mac defaults to
GPG. I don't quite understand your troll...
If the IT staff are worth their salt then these backup tapes wont be worth anything. Anything that is in danger of being stolen should be encrypted.
I work in Health IT, and it is standard practice for us to, at a minimum, GPG encrypt any backup going offsite. Infact a practice cannot pass accreditation unless this is the case.
If this wasn't the case in this situation, then all parties involved need to have a serious think about what they're doing.
So what you are saying is... (illidan voice)You are not prepared!
They have explained this a number of times already, including in the very first speech in which they announced the class. The PC Death Knights will be former minions of the Lich King (aka the aforementioned scourge) who have exerted their own influence on their destiny and broken free of his control. No longer a mindless pawn they swore allegiance to a new faction (insert horde or alliance here). They can be of any race, as all races are susceptible to the temptation and corruption of the lich king.
Because, as much as you may not like this, its either money coming from Apple or its money coming from somewhere else. And that somewhere else may use this "research" for more nefarious purposes. Its kinda the whole columbia situation again - you need to pay the farmers to grow corn or wheat or whatever, or you know what? Theyre going to grow cocaine. Don't like that? Well tough shit, its the reality of the world we live in. Give the guy cash if he's for real (which to an extent is fair enough - he must have at least _some_ semblance of skill to pull this off) and make him STFU.
He claims that these resources were provided by his unnamed "client". He also uses them as part of the excuse why he wont release the code, its paid for by his "client", who wanted it for some heretofore unknown reason. Shouldn't there be some kind of law against this? Paying money for a weaponized worm, sounds kinda like funding terrorism to me...damn patriot act throws people in jail for tonnes of ridiculous reasons, why is this guy not getting a bit of bumfun in the slammer?
Seriously, sit down with this guy. Put a suitcase full of large bills on the table, and tell him it's his if he can prove it works. And then, give the guy some incentive to continue to disclose his so-called "root causes". He is CLEARLY a total whore for cash, which means he is easily bought. You have pockets deep enough, you just sold a bojillion iphones, so buy this guy. If he's full of crap, make the fact that you wanted his "root cause" and he couldnt show you it publicly known, then he gets shamed into STFU and stops spreading FUD. If he does show the root cause, then great, put him on retainer and continue to have a fantastic OS. I know jobs likes to do things all secretive and on his own terms, but this is a public perception issue, it needs to be handled in the public eye. Get on the private jet and go see this guy in person, use the RDF to mess with him and get this shit cleared up. Microsoft got into the situation they're in now by ignoring things like this and pulling the secretive garbage, you don't wanna go down that road, otherwise this crap will get out of hand.
Yes! Oh god yes! Someone at apple, please! Listen to this man! I love my 12" to death, and dont go anywhere without it. Its 3 years old and still has a more powerful/useful video card than the current macbook revision! Give me a portable pro machine please!
That said, my understanding is that there was mutterings of a portable model coming along the pipeline, but it dissapeared, possibly shelved with all the iphone/appletv/leopard cafuffle. Also, afaik the 12" didnt actually sell that well, and was vastly outsold by the 15", but thats just what I am told, IANAAE.
Not sure if someone answered all this yet or not, and I cant be bothered to read all of the thread, but I work for a company whose name rhymes with shell, doing onsite installations, and so I've encountered the problems of which you speak. The explorer crashes are, believe it or not, caused by google desktop, for some reason its shipping with broken dlls which crash explorer/iexplore. Uninstall it, feel free to check the latest version and see if its fixed itself, but yeah. Slowness? Make sure youve got enough ram (I know i know its ridiculous, but if you have to work in vista, get 2gig) and then go and turn off all those pointless services like defender, desktop search and so on, can reduce the base memory usage by 400meg on some machines.
Hope that helps.
I just got a drive the same size as my internal hdd, and setup a scheduled clone of my drive, not as elegant, but if my drive dies, I just swap the new one in, and its like it never even died.
"The core mantra should be: "Simple and easy in everything we do, but give me a command line and I can move the world.""
I'm guessing he hasnt spent a lot of time in OS X then. Especially since he says in the article that Apple took the simplistic (ie not technical) approach.
Now the dupe is contained in the original post! Save the effort of reposting in a few days, just copy and paste the same text twice for maximum fun and efficiency.
Look youre getting confused here. If joe blogs can write an app which connects to the network, then the network is not closed. What you are talking about is interoperability. Its completely different to being "closed". An example of a closed system is Windows Update. You can ONLY connect to it using the specified software on the specified platform. Try and use it in firefox, or on linux, and it shuts you out. Hence it is closed. If the IM networks were closed, we would be limited to only using the standard clients which would suck for non-windows users. And as for multi-protocol IM clients, Trillian IS terrible, there are far better clients out there. Miranda is you are windows bound, or adium on os x and gaim on linux.
So just because alternative clients have a small market share, that makes the networks closed? If you can connect to the network using a client OTHER than the manuf's, then at least by my reckoning, that makes it a not very closed system.
They want to keep their networks closed? If that's the case theyre doing about as good a job of it as they are at securing windows. The myriad of clients that are fully functional on each of the networks is evidence to this...
In an act of defiance, the US is holding their standards day in 3mths, 8 days, 4 hours and 22 minutes. Also they are referring to it as Standards for Freedom day. There will be no mention of the metric system, and people will come from _miles_ around to visit events that are dozens of feet across in size.