But that's completely ignoring the original question.
No,
being easier to use will NOT result in Linux being open to more attacks.
As long as the current security procedures are left in place.
As long as the user has his/her own area and does not have root authority by default, the secureness of Linux will continue.
Things will only go wrong if Linux programmers all suddenly lose their minds and start coding in a redmond stylee!
Easy doesn't have to mean stupid.
Mandrake 10 flies on my machine, been using it for nigh on 2 weeks with no crashes yet.
Whereas suse 9.0 is sluggish and buggy with frequent crashes.
Linux distros, up to a point, are like brands of jeans, if ya like the fit, wear them. But don't slag the other makes off just because you don't like the fit.
i don't get it
what have mandrake been doing for at least the last four releases?
gnome and kde menus are combined whichever desktop you're in
it works perfectly
punter = customer/user
freedom of expression does not mean you can publish any filth you feel like
there are limits and standards that have nothing whatsoever to do with the law
if you want to publish necrophillia, cannibalism et al then you should rightly expect the disgust and anger of other people
and you should rightly expect to be detained against your will while you are helped to get better
come on ppl
wake up!
here in the UK...
the problem is the same, government thinks that the more people go to college the better "we must be doing".
Computers are everywhere, so lets encourage computer courses. We don't want to have to pay proper money so get any old fool to teach. Since the course is a political excercise and NOT a genuine attempt to educate and prepare people for work it doesn't matter if the teacher's are pre-occupied with forms to fill in for the government, it doesn't matter if the pc's are useless and buggy and it doesn't matter if the software is several years out of date.
If the part time teachers engaged to teach the course (without their references being checked up on) are cluesless and inept, this also doesn't matter becuase the new college complaint procedures will ensure that a) no one with any power will hear your complaint and b) the alternative is a national minimum wage assured job moving boxes from A to B.
I was at a college in the UK doing an HND in business IT. What a joke. The teachers asked me for help on a regular basis, the network didnt work, there was a fault in the backup copy of the workstations so everytime they did a restore to remove the problem the problem remained. Teachers were pulled out of lessons to complete government paperwork, half the teaching staff were sacked half way through the spring term with no replacements arranged. When the students complained, one of the members of staff left and we were blamed.
I left in disgust in 2001 and am still involved in the legal battle to get financial redress.
To say mickey mouse courses is an insult to mickey mouse.
These courses were called for by politicians and greedy college workers now forced into this obscene place were education establishments are folced to run as profit making businesses. So they thought IT = cash.
I'm glasd that I left after 1 year, i know people who transferred to other colleges, went on to Uni' only to find the same, or now they are qualified with a degree in business IT (whatever that means?) and most are now unemployed.
Ripped off or what?
ok
how many people thought i was referring to the Tom Wolfe novel?
and how many realised i was talking about the time in Venice (Italy)when people gathered in public places and burnt "combs and brushes and mirrors and other things of useless vanity" because they realised (partly due to a spiritual awakening) that they didn't have to live like that anyore.
"bonfire of the windows anyone?"
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But that's completely ignoring the original question. No, being easier to use will NOT result in Linux being open to more attacks. As long as the current security procedures are left in place. As long as the user has his/her own area and does not have root authority by default, the secureness of Linux will continue. Things will only go wrong if Linux programmers all suddenly lose their minds and start coding in a redmond stylee! Easy doesn't have to mean stupid.
bah humbug.
Mandrake 10 flies on my machine, been using it for nigh on 2 weeks with no crashes yet.
Whereas suse 9.0 is sluggish and buggy with frequent crashes.
Linux distros, up to a point, are like brands of jeans,
if ya like the fit, wear them.
But don't slag the other makes off just because you don't like the fit.
mmmmm
they live on the slopes of a volcano and no ones mentioned the possibility of an impending eruption
question:
was there electronic equipment of todays sensitivity around when last she blowed up?
i don't get it what have mandrake been doing for at least the last four releases? gnome and kde menus are combined whichever desktop you're in it works perfectly
punter = customer/user freedom of expression does not mean you can publish any filth you feel like there are limits and standards that have nothing whatsoever to do with the law if you want to publish necrophillia, cannibalism et al then you should rightly expect the disgust and anger of other people and you should rightly expect to be detained against your will while you are helped to get better come on ppl wake up!
here in the UK... the problem is the same, government thinks that the more people go to college the better "we must be doing". Computers are everywhere, so lets encourage computer courses. We don't want to have to pay proper money so get any old fool to teach. Since the course is a political excercise and NOT a genuine attempt to educate and prepare people for work it doesn't matter if the teacher's are pre-occupied with forms to fill in for the government, it doesn't matter if the pc's are useless and buggy and it doesn't matter if the software is several years out of date. If the part time teachers engaged to teach the course (without their references being checked up on) are cluesless and inept, this also doesn't matter becuase the new college complaint procedures will ensure that a) no one with any power will hear your complaint and b) the alternative is a national minimum wage assured job moving boxes from A to B. I was at a college in the UK doing an HND in business IT. What a joke. The teachers asked me for help on a regular basis, the network didnt work, there was a fault in the backup copy of the workstations so everytime they did a restore to remove the problem the problem remained. Teachers were pulled out of lessons to complete government paperwork, half the teaching staff were sacked half way through the spring term with no replacements arranged. When the students complained, one of the members of staff left and we were blamed. I left in disgust in 2001 and am still involved in the legal battle to get financial redress. To say mickey mouse courses is an insult to mickey mouse. These courses were called for by politicians and greedy college workers now forced into this obscene place were education establishments are folced to run as profit making businesses. So they thought IT = cash. I'm glasd that I left after 1 year, i know people who transferred to other colleges, went on to Uni' only to find the same, or now they are qualified with a degree in business IT (whatever that means?) and most are now unemployed. Ripped off or what?
anyone noticed the similarity between certain areas of iraq and the recently shown "footage of mars"??
Thank God you do think like that. Cus God likes it.
ya got me there the old memory not working as it used to
not so it was a line spoken by the Susan Ivanova character dont' ask me which episode it may have originated in Alice ' tho'
ahhhhhhhhh i do miss babylon 5 nothing ever came close... boom yesterday, boom tomorrow, but never boom today
graduate network engineer job advertised in the UK job centre at "meets national minimum wage requirements" which was 3.75 per hour at the time
ok how many people thought i was referring to the Tom Wolfe novel? and how many realised i was talking about the time in Venice (Italy)when people gathered in public places and burnt "combs and brushes and mirrors and other things of useless vanity" because they realised (partly due to a spiritual awakening) that they didn't have to live like that anyore. "bonfire of the windows anyone?"
the bonfire of the windows anyone?