Well boo fucking hoo. America would -- shock -- have to care! And, like, not shit on the rest of the world, but take a bit of shit _from_ the rest of the world.
By install, I mean after installation, you're logged in as root by default. So the user has no idea they are root - they just are. (Although a box does appear the first time they switch on saying 'Make a user account').
With regards to viruses, you'd have to drop to a terminal, chmod u+x a downloaded file, and./run it. Does the average Linspire user know what that means? No.
...By default.
When you install Linspire, it sets you up as root by default. I know this because I supported it from Lindows 4 to Linspire Five-Oh. You have to go and manually add a user account, should you want one.
That said, it is actually a lot more secure than people make out. There _is_ a lot of FUD about Linspire. For grannies and people who can't be bothered with technical things (including me, sometimes - I just want things that work) it's great.
Just for information, the problem in question needed a very specific, not available over the phone patch. It's a problem in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, with Terminal Services, where a user logging out causes the server to blue screen. It's been an issue for over 8 months, and there is still not an official patch for it - if you manage to obtain a fix from Microsoft 2nd line it has a debug version number on it and you are specifically told not to post it online.
There's a very big forum topic on brianmadden.com for the particular problem - it effects a lot of companies. One of MS's senior technical support managers actually posts in the topic to apologise for the service people are getting over the phone for the problem.
Redhat Enterprise support is quite cheap now, and the SLA on a cheap contract is 4 hours for a fix on phone support (you phone in and get somebody straight away). You also have bugzilla to file actual coding errors, and search for other online bug reports.
Which, by the way, pisses on Microsoft Technical Support.
Plus, you have hassle free and rapid support from Microsoft, which is a comforting feature for corporate customers.
I rang Microsoft the other day. It was a fantastic experience. After getting somebody on first line support who clearly had no idea what I was talking about, after 5 minutes he transfered me to 2nd line support - in India. With a several second phone lag, I explained the problem repeatedly. After 30 minutes - 30 MINUTES - I got the patch I first rang for.
> > So there apparently there won't be any references to the series.
Uhm, except for the fact the movie is called the ship name and TV series pilot episode name, and we have the same 9 crew members and actors, and the plot you described being about Reavers, which the TV series pilot was about...
The movie is 2 and a half hours long, in script form. Universal has a 3 movie deal, depending on success of first film. Fox holds the TV rights to Firefly for 10 years, so we have, what, 8 years left?
aintitcoolnews.com have a review of the Serenity script up, and say the first 10 minutes reexplains the Firefly 'verse - the rest is new story.
...Does anybody else spot a Merdian Mail phone on Darl's desk, there?
Oh, my!
That's totally THE most SECURE company phone system EVER! Not.
9 out of 10 companies I've seen Merdian Mail deployed suffer from issues such as employee extension numbers are also the voicemail passcodes, the fact you can outdial most of the time remotely... And you can reach internal extensions, externally.
Oh, my!
Well, just to inject into this one;
With Lindows, assuming you have a Click-N-Run account, you can installed 'Mplayer' - which is really mplayer, a huge big Win32 codec pack, and the mplayer GUI.
In fairness to Lindows - it is good. The GUI is a bit clunky, but from general pratting around it appeared to be able to play everything I could throw at it (Xvid, 3ivx, Divx yada).
In later versions of Lindows (eg 4.5), the mplayer package is included and installed by default.
shop.sco.com, the online "shop" where you can buy the "license" from, is of course dead as of 1am GMT. So, should I had actually want to give into SCO's extortion attempts, I couldn't anyway as their server is dead.
I wonder if it's running UnixWare?
To all the people adding comments saying it's not the DDoS as it's not timed to start until February 1st...
Is your VCR clock time set right? Your Microwave? Your PC?
Yours might be. Is your mothers, fathers, brothers, grannies? Say 2% of the infected computers have their clocks set wrong. How much is the total number of infected PCs? How much is 2% of that?
Lots of questions, but I'd suggest that misset clocks could be causing the effects to be seen early, on a much smaller scale.
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Cry me a river.
With regards to viruses, you'd have to drop to a terminal, chmod u+x a downloaded file, and ./run it. Does the average Linspire user know what that means? No.
He was channeling Bill Gates.
...By default. When you install Linspire, it sets you up as root by default. I know this because I supported it from Lindows 4 to Linspire Five-Oh. You have to go and manually add a user account, should you want one. That said, it is actually a lot more secure than people make out. There _is_ a lot of FUD about Linspire. For grannies and people who can't be bothered with technical things (including me, sometimes - I just want things that work) it's great.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/9347
Just for information, the problem in question needed a very specific, not available over the phone patch. It's a problem in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, with Terminal Services, where a user logging out causes the server to blue screen. It's been an issue for over 8 months, and there is still not an official patch for it - if you manage to obtain a fix from Microsoft 2nd line it has a debug version number on it and you are specifically told not to post it online. There's a very big forum topic on brianmadden.com for the particular problem - it effects a lot of companies. One of MS's senior technical support managers actually posts in the topic to apologise for the service people are getting over the phone for the problem.
Redhat Enterprise support is quite cheap now, and the SLA on a cheap contract is 4 hours for a fix on phone support (you phone in and get somebody straight away). You also have bugzilla to file actual coding errors, and search for other online bug reports. Which, by the way, pisses on Microsoft Technical Support.
Plus, you have hassle free and rapid support from Microsoft, which is a comforting feature for corporate customers.
I rang Microsoft the other day. It was a fantastic experience. After getting somebody on first line support who clearly had no idea what I was talking about, after 5 minutes he transfered me to 2nd line support - in India. With a several second phone lag, I explained the problem repeatedly. After 30 minutes - 30 MINUTES - I got the patch I first rang for.
Yes, that's hassle free and rapid.
Given that a lot of the Firefly episodes were written/directed by Joss, I'm not sure how he was trying to do an impression of himself.
80mb ultra high res XVID trailer
It's 80mb. Well above DVD quality.
Needs Xvid. In linux, use mplayer -framedrop (you may also need "-vo x11" in linux if your graphics card doesn't handle very mad resolutions).
Also, whilst I've got your attention: I've seen the movie in London last month with the UK distributors (UIP), and it was freakin' brilliant.
Incase anybody is wondering, serving this used 129gb of bandwidth in the first hour alone.
Every night I dream of megabits,
in codecs,
Oh yeah.
Book is in the film. Just not the trailer.
Anybody is welcome to, but the server should stay up.
...is here!
I realise you are probably a troll, but the guys name is spelt W-H-E-D-O-N. One whedon, two whedon, three whedon, ah-ah-ahhhhh.
> > So there apparently there won't be any references to the series.
Uhm, except for the fact the movie is called the ship name and TV series pilot episode name, and we have the same 9 crew members and actors, and the plot you described being about Reavers, which the TV series pilot was about...
Information:
The movie is 2 and a half hours long, in script form. Universal has a 3 movie deal, depending on success of first film. Fox holds the TV rights to Firefly for 10 years, so we have, what, 8 years left?
aintitcoolnews.com have a review of the Serenity script up, and say the first 10 minutes reexplains the Firefly 'verse - the rest is new story.
Why on earth wouldn't I want Windows to open Office documents by default? Just install MS Office with Windows as well, it'll be easier for my mum.
...Does anybody else spot a Merdian Mail phone on Darl's desk, there? Oh, my! That's totally THE most SECURE company phone system EVER! Not. 9 out of 10 companies I've seen Merdian Mail deployed suffer from issues such as employee extension numbers are also the voicemail passcodes, the fact you can outdial most of the time remotely... And you can reach internal extensions, externally. Oh, my!
Well, just to inject into this one; With Lindows, assuming you have a Click-N-Run account, you can installed 'Mplayer' - which is really mplayer, a huge big Win32 codec pack, and the mplayer GUI. In fairness to Lindows - it is good. The GUI is a bit clunky, but from general pratting around it appeared to be able to play everything I could throw at it (Xvid, 3ivx, Divx yada). In later versions of Lindows (eg 4.5), the mplayer package is included and installed by default.
shop.sco.com, the online "shop" where you can buy the "license" from, is of course dead as of 1am GMT. So, should I had actually want to give into SCO's extortion attempts, I couldn't anyway as their server is dead. I wonder if it's running UnixWare?
To all the people adding comments saying it's not the DDoS as it's not timed to start until February 1st...
Is your VCR clock time set right? Your Microwave? Your PC?
Yours might be. Is your mothers, fathers, brothers, grannies? Say 2% of the infected computers have their clocks set wrong. How much is the total number of infected PCs? How much is 2% of that?
Lots of questions, but I'd suggest that misset clocks could be causing the effects to be seen early, on a much smaller scale.
It's offline again now... Either the SCO network is dodgy, or it is actually being DoS'ed.
SCO have now pulled this server, too.