I know it's trendy to argue as if the past does not matter but both companies have a reputation and that is VERY OBVIOUSLY what is being referred to. Being a fanboy is cute even if it means writing stupid things. Being a "social media worker" paid to write such stupid things is a lot less cute. When the obvious is being ignored it's sometimes a bit hard to work out if the perpetrator should be pitied like a puppy that has pissed on the kitchen floor or a source of anger such as a crackhead who has walked in and is pissing on the kitchen floor.
Having to jump through hoops to try to trick the OS into not running updates when you dont want them to run is asinine. The OS should simply allow you to disable automatic updates. It can even be an opt out thing, but the option should be there. Taking control away from the owners of the hardware is garaunteed to piss off said owners, and at the end of the day, they have the ultimate veto power...
It's certainly limited the usefulness of my win7 partition as a gaming machine when the entire point of having it at home is to run games. You can either disable updates until you decide to get them or have to put up with fullscreen games rebooting without warning. Hence so many systems out there that have not been updated for more than a year.
I wish you'd been more selective about sharing your treasonous 9/11 tinfoil conspiracy shit about the US military killing all the passengers in the jets and the people in the towers.
But the MS guys have been telling us for years that linux is broken because it has that "stupid" command line thing:) Thanks for the info - good to see it's an easy fix.
All I can conclude is that there is a serious drug problem in Redmond otherwise someone would have ripped this out and run the idiot who proposed it out of town.
"Many users -- especially on somewhat under-powered systems -- may find Win10 to be a painfully slow experience compared with Win7, irrespective of MS' claims."
Big citation needed. There's no evidence that Windows 10 performs worse on low power systems and there's significant evidence that it performs better.
Win8 certainly fits that slow description for many things, most noticably file copying (how did they fuck up so badly?), so unless that has been fixed it makes sense. We need to see benchmarks either way and there seems to be a distinct lack of them from those claiming a faster speed as well.
As an aside there was a direct clone of the Letterman thing in Australia. The presenter (Steve Vizard) would even wander around with an empty coffee cup at the start of the show to copy what Letterman did. The presenter was one of the owners of the network that thought he was funny and decided he would play at being Letterman, but somehow he failed to copy the entertaining bits and made sure that he was not upstaged by any guests with actual talent by frequently interupting them. I have no idea how he got away with it for four years, but he was a lawyer with a LOT of political connections as well as being a part owner of the network he was broadcasting on.
I didn't do anything embarrasing unless you think getting into fights
Just the sort of thing a potential employer would throw your resume out for. Didn't you hear about the teacher that was sacked over a "drunken pirate" photo?
That's one of the reasons I don't use sudo on internet facing machines or have a KVM exposed to the internet, but that's another story. To sum up I just have the opinion that one step root access from out on the internet is an accident waiting to happen - especially if you are likely to log on from anywhere and not a known trusted address.
Make a good policy, no passwords, only keys, and every employee has one.
And that laptop thief that is going to get an employees machine eventually is going to have one click access to root on your server - now that's a major fuckup isn't it?
However if an employee has to do "sudo" all the time, they just start turning their brain off while doing it.
I prefer "su" so as to keep things entirely separate although others swear by "sudo" for user tracking - either way if they can't keep track of context they should lay off the drugs.
Only about 3% of what other countries call "nuclear waste" gets turned into actual waste. The rest is converted back into more fuel.
Clearly a major error which I addressed and you embraced as propaganda with a disgusting little goalpost shift trick. If you want to be taken seriously I suggest less deliberate dishonesty.
You didn't get far in reading my post above - "That thief with a stolen laptop can't use a key to get full access remotely" was mentioned, but maybe I should add another. The tiny amount of extra effort required by disabling root logins covers a lot of possibilities. I've gained access to a former workplace as much as three years after leaving by running the wrong old script - whoops! That human intervention of cancelling accounts depends on things like those HR people talking to IT people (Eloi vs Moorlocks in some places). Having a procedure that does not have an unreliable person as a vital part of the chain is a better idea than the latter - or in more diplomatic terms keeping it simple with one less thing to go wrong.
Next step, laugh at the 'hackers' wasting all that effort trying to guess the root password
Logs get full of such attempts even when root is not able to login. Once it gets tedious you can install sshgaurd or similar to block them and not be bothered by so many of such fruitless attempts clogging up the logs.
Now that's nice - blaming me for your deliberate misleading shift of the goalposts. Politeness is wasted on "ends justifies the means" extremists like you that just see it as weakness.
That's the way it goes, stuff from papers takes years to make it into set textbooks. See also the "personality test" shit that HR people are using. Debunked decades ago. About all it tells you is who is good at gaming those tests.
disabling root logins has no security benefit at al
Of course it does. That former employee that knows the root password or has the keys can't get to it. The current employee that fat fingers a command to the wrong host can't do much damage. That thief with a stolen laptop can't use a key to get full access remotely. There is a very very long list and it's just inexperience, laziness or lack of sleep that's stopping you from thinking of entries in it.
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I know it's trendy to argue as if the past does not matter but both companies have a reputation and that is VERY OBVIOUSLY what is being referred to.
Being a fanboy is cute even if it means writing stupid things. Being a "social media worker" paid to write such stupid things is a lot less cute. When the obvious is being ignored it's sometimes a bit hard to work out if the perpetrator should be pitied like a puppy that has pissed on the kitchen floor or a source of anger such as a crackhead who has walked in and is pissing on the kitchen floor.
But you decided to push it a bit more via strawman. Pathetic.
Having to jump through hoops to try to trick the OS into not running updates when you dont want them to run is asinine. The OS should simply allow you to disable automatic updates. It can even be an opt out thing, but the option should be there. Taking control away from the owners of the hardware is garaunteed to piss off said owners, and at the end of the day, they have the ultimate veto power...
It's certainly limited the usefulness of my win7 partition as a gaming machine when the entire point of having it at home is to run games. You can either disable updates until you decide to get them or have to put up with fullscreen games rebooting without warning. Hence so many systems out there that have not been updated for more than a year.
I wish you'd been more selective about sharing your treasonous 9/11 tinfoil conspiracy shit about the US military killing all the passengers in the jets and the people in the towers.
But the MS guys have been telling us for years that linux is broken because it has that "stupid" command line thing :)
Thanks for the info - good to see it's an easy fix.
Side request: Has anyone has seen an OSTan for Windows 10 yet? Reading this thread got me thinking about it.
The cutified female version of Bill Gates in the "Neptune" series has scared me away from the entire OSTan idea.
All I can conclude is that there is a serious drug problem in Redmond otherwise someone would have ripped this out and run the idiot who proposed it out of town.
Win8 certainly fits that slow description for many things, most noticably file copying (how did they fuck up so badly?), so unless that has been fixed it makes sense. We need to see benchmarks either way and there seems to be a distinct lack of them from those claiming a faster speed as well.
As an aside there was a direct clone of the Letterman thing in Australia. The presenter (Steve Vizard) would even wander around with an empty coffee cup at the start of the show to copy what Letterman did. The presenter was one of the owners of the network that thought he was funny and decided he would play at being Letterman, but somehow he failed to copy the entertaining bits and made sure that he was not upstaged by any guests with actual talent by frequently interupting them.
I have no idea how he got away with it for four years, but he was a lawyer with a LOT of political connections as well as being a part owner of the network he was broadcasting on.
But "Start" was the only obvious choice after Microsoft paid off The Rolling Stones to use Start Me Up in their advertising.
"It makes a grown man cry"
Very fitting choice.
Later on I'm surprised the Win7 advertisements didn't go like this:
"I'm a PC and looking like a Mac was my idea."
Since you can't even get the gender of the teacher right you are clearly just bluffing with no cards and no clue.
He was sacked because a person with power decided to sack him. If this is the excuse given so be it. But he was not sacked over a photo.
He was sacked? You have no idea what I'm writing about do you.
Just the sort of thing a potential employer would throw your resume out for. Didn't you hear about the teacher that was sacked over a "drunken pirate" photo?
Embarrassing : Being forced to work for an employer who checks your facebook page or cares that you donâ(TM)t have one .
It's going to be the norm in a few years instead of just an excuse for HR people caught wasting too much time on Facebook.
That's one of the reasons I don't use sudo on internet facing machines or have a KVM exposed to the internet, but that's another story.
To sum up I just have the opinion that one step root access from out on the internet is an accident waiting to happen - especially if you are likely to log on from anywhere and not a known trusted address.
And that laptop thief that is going to get an employees machine eventually is going to have one click access to root on your server - now that's a major fuckup isn't it?
I prefer "su" so as to keep things entirely separate although others swear by "sudo" for user tracking - either way if they can't keep track of context they should lay off the drugs.
Clearly a major error which I addressed and you embraced as propaganda with a disgusting little goalpost shift trick. If you want to be taken seriously I suggest less deliberate dishonesty.
Logs get full of such attempts even when root is not able to login. Once it gets tedious you can install sshgaurd or similar to block them and not be bothered by so many of such fruitless attempts clogging up the logs.
Now that's nice - blaming me for your deliberate misleading shift of the goalposts.
Politeness is wasted on "ends justifies the means" extremists like you that just see it as weakness.
scientists say it should be called oleogustus
Yeah, that rolls right off the tongue, just like "sweet" or "sour".
Umami just rolls off the tongue.
They are right, "yo mama's" jokes all the way down.
Only two tastes for me - chilli and bland.
That's the way it goes, stuff from papers takes years to make it into set textbooks. See also the "personality test" shit that HR people are using. Debunked decades ago. About all it tells you is who is good at gaming those tests.
I think you're confusing sixth taste with sixth sense.
I taste dead ... ok let's not go there. That way lies madness
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Of course it does. That former employee that knows the root password or has the keys can't get to it. The current employee that fat fingers a command to the wrong host can't do much damage. That thief with a stolen laptop can't use a key to get full access remotely. There is a very very long list and it's just inexperience, laziness or lack of sleep that's stopping you from thinking of entries in it.