The Microsoft philosophy: Build something your grandmother could use, but don't concern yourself with minor details like security.
Seriously though, IMO one of the big differences that I seldom hear mentioned is the cultural difference between Windows and Linux developers. Security is a priorty to most Linux developers, but to many Windows developers its an afterthought. This is probably because most Windows developers were targeting 95/98/ME with their apps until just a few years ago.
How many Windows developers do you know that design their apps for use by unprivileged accounts? Almost every Windows user that I know STILL logs into their system as "Administrator." Even today, many apps break if you don't!
Microsoft got lucky and they were white hats that found them.
Are you sure about that? If some black hats found something like the Blaster hole, then they're going to keep it to themselves. I doubt that most of those guys would use it to create a worm that would get Microsoft's attention and therefore get the problem fixed.
Blaster goes all the way back to NT4. I doubt that the white hats were the first ones to find it.
I expect that it will run as a service just like other scanners. If you want to disable it, just stop the service and it to "Manual Start."
Running two virus scanners at the same time may slow your system down a bit if they both kick off a scan at the same time, but I don't see how it would hurt anything.
I'm sure microsoft will still charge their user's to get the latest virus definitions.
I doubt it. I think the whole point behind this initiative is to prevent viruses like Blaster, MyDoom, etc. from creating more bad publicity for Microsoft.
What I find most frustrating is working on a team with someone who does not follow number nine. If they can't reproduce a problem, then they assume it has gone away. Then a customer reports it, it becomes a major catastrophe, and we have to debug it using information from the customer because we can't reproduce it in the lab.
What exactly is the risk to Microsoft here? Since they started their big "security initiative," all of their programmers are writing secure code, right? RIGHT??? Then it should not matter if someone can easliy decomplie it.
Or perhaps the problem is that it will be too easy reverse engineer unpublished API calls.
.NET is not the reason that Windows security problems are being reported more frequently. In some cases (the RPC bug) these problems have existed for a several years! More security researches are looking for problems in Microsoft products than ever before, and that's why so many new problems are being discovered.
I think we agree on this. I'm not arguing that ProTools does not have its place in the studio. However, I think that it is often overused to cover up for an artist's complete lack of talent.
I agree with you 100%. The complete and utter lack of musicianship in almost all of today's popluar music disgusts me. Espically when there are lots of really talented bands out there that get no recognition.
ProSoundWeb has a series of articles written by a professional recording engineer working with a newly signed band with very little talent. I have no idea if anything written in these articles is true, but much of it would not surprise me.
Check out Progged Radio for some great independent bands. (I'm in no way affiliated with Progged Radio, just an avid listener.)
It's not just Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. It's damn near every so-called "singer" in the top 40 these days.
Real talent is seconday to image in this industry. The only reason that we don't see bands like Milli Vanilli these days is because studios can use technologies like autotune and Pro Tools to make any nice set of breasts sound like a pro.
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Perhaps this has something to do with the large RAM disk the government just purchased.
The Microsoft philosophy: Build something your grandmother could use, but don't concern yourself with minor details like security.
Seriously though, IMO one of the big differences that I seldom hear mentioned is the cultural difference between Windows and Linux developers. Security is a priorty to most Linux developers, but to many Windows developers its an afterthought. This is probably because most Windows developers were targeting 95/98/ME with their apps until just a few years ago.
How many Windows developers do you know that design their apps for use by unprivileged accounts? Almost every Windows user that I know STILL logs into their system as "Administrator." Even today, many apps break if you don't!
Umm... I'd like to know how Microsoft explains these.
I expect that it will run as a service just like other scanners. If you want to disable it, just stop the service and it to "Manual Start."
Running two virus scanners at the same time may slow your system down a bit if they both kick off a scan at the same time, but I don't see how it would hurt anything.
I doubt it. I think the whole point behind this initiative is to prevent viruses like Blaster, MyDoom, etc. from creating more bad publicity for Microsoft.
What I find most frustrating is working on a team with someone who does not follow number nine. If they can't reproduce a problem, then they assume it has gone away. Then a customer reports it, it becomes a major catastrophe, and we have to debug it using information from the customer because we can't reproduce it in the lab.
What exactly is the risk to Microsoft here? Since they started their big "security initiative," all of their programmers are writing secure code, right? RIGHT??? Then it should not matter if someone can easliy decomplie it.
.NET is not the reason that Windows security problems are being reported more frequently. In some cases (the RPC bug) these problems have existed for a several years! More security researches are looking for problems in Microsoft products than ever before, and that's why so many new problems are being discovered.
Or perhaps the problem is that it will be too easy reverse engineer unpublished API calls.
I think we agree on this. I'm not arguing that ProTools does not have its place in the studio. However, I think that it is often overused to cover up for an artist's complete lack of talent.
I agree with you 100%. The complete and utter lack of musicianship in almost all of today's popluar music disgusts me. Espically when there are lots of really talented bands out there that get no recognition.
ProSoundWeb has a series of articles written by a professional recording engineer working with a newly signed band with very little talent. I have no idea if anything written in these articles is true, but much of it would not surprise me. Check out Progged Radio for some great independent bands. (I'm in no way affiliated with Progged Radio, just an avid listener.)
It's not just Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. It's damn near every so-called "singer" in the top 40 these days. Real talent is seconday to image in this industry. The only reason that we don't see bands like Milli Vanilli these days is because studios can use technologies like autotune and Pro Tools to make any nice set of breasts sound like a pro.