Because usability from a (sane) user's point of view means you don't need to know the make, model, bugs or vendor of an application (file extensions are an even greater offense). You need to identify quickly the file's content type - image, text, audio etc. and let the bloody computer handle its representation on the screen/printer. Apple's idea of "text" files which can very well be Unicode RTF and printing everything as PDF is very cool.
This is just shooting the messenger plain and simple. Any ISP having a >mbit connection in some obscure city ten thousand miles away in a country you cannot reach is a possible victim of SPAM. I'm talking zombie computers, rootkits and the sort. I'm talking $100 per month sysadmins with 10 computers connected. This is all it takes for an automated scanner to deliver its adverts. It may take two hours max until that network vanishes from the Internet, but it's too late. How many such networks exist? Plenty. I can find 50-100 hosts around me using just Nessus, Pepsi and a wireless card by midnight. The place to look if we want to eradicate SPAM is always at the money source. Blaming the carrier always triggers false alerts and useless restrictions (I still can't persuade my provider to allow acces to port 135 between our hosts dammit).
Please forgive me for not having inside information on US weddings stuff, but is it mandatory to carry a cake half a planet if you are invited?
Are NY confectioners' THAT bad?:P
My point will be - way too often airline passengers carry the weirdest stuff like liquids with the smell, taste and consistency of nytro (yes, in Soviet Russia vodka detonates YOU!), large boxes with fragile and useless contents (cakes) and they get oh so pissed off at customs. Just buy the darned booze after checkout on destination, will ya?
You're forgetting the market trend: 90% of the low-cost printers available (which would mean some 60-70% of the total) rely on the operating system to feed them PCL. I always have to do some serious digging when purchasing a new printer and have a hard time explaining why one must choose that inkjet model which costs 200-300 USD and not the other one which can go as low as 15 (yes, fifteen) for some very basic printing tasks. Heck, down here (Romania), inkjet printers are offered as BONUSES when purchasing a win xp licence or a new low-end computer. Those computers will never run a Linux copy for this single reason. YMMV.
FF 1.0, Slack 10 I opened the Secunia link in a tab, then went with the rest. Looks like I am vulnerable, and I also see now in the Secunia tab "Firefox has blocked this site from opening 708 (!!!) pop-up windows" No idea how this works so far..
I find running both of these and using the yahoo spyware blocker is pretty effective.
Whoa. Who the heck besides yourself runs three different anti-something (it's hard to define spy/trojan/malware globally) software packages just to be sure? And check that each of them is updated? Manually? Get a life, dude.
VMware DOES require some extensive testing of the guest operating system by THEIR team. If they can't figure out what's wrong, you are out of luck. Period. No way to fiddle with the internals and persuade it to even boot FreeBSD 5, while 4.7 runs smoothly. Also, VMware is very expensive for server usage. With an OSL license, I can have MS VPC for about 100 bucks/year, and a Slackware install has been running as a service inside W2K SRV for me quite nicely. No, this setup is in no way supported, but it does run, and with very good performance, with months of uptime regardless of the regular windows reboots, since VPC saves the machine state on shutdown. My only problem is that them darned logs don't get rotated when expected because the host machine is down:) Also, I am yet to try some buffer overflows and the kind on this virtual machine, no idea whether they would work in any way. So my point would be: having a choice is A Good Thing. VMware (server) is heavily optimized and carefully tested for specific setups, but also very expensive, while the consumer emulator (MS VPC) is way better, less resources-demanding and cheaper for my needs. I for one welcome our new, opensource, flexible, community-supported, not windows-biased emulator overlords.
Hmm.. who is usually installing all sorta crap from untrusted sources? Yes, you got it on the first guess - dumb win32 users with unpatched machines, which are pissed off by the sheer amount of spyware and SPAM already present on their system and who think "yeah, this one sure will get me rid of the annoyances, unlike the other 20 something apps I downloaded this month". What happens when a spammer with hackers on the payroll gets tens of thousands of IP addresses of gullible users with vulnerable machines in the web logs? God, I would keep my domain and happily pay the bill for the high bandwidth usage, just to keep them "retaliation attacks" coming. Give me all you got!
who here has jumped through the hoops of adding a linux server to an AD domain? Compare to adding a Windows server to an AD domain.
I have. It's just as difficult. No, it's more difficult with a Windows machine versus a Linux/Samba one. Think of the following:
1. You need to change the IP address or DNS name of (one of) the domain controller(s). The first is VERY difficult, the second is simply impossible with Win 2000 (and VERY difficult with Win 2003).
2. Your hardware fails and you want the HDD plugged quickly in the first available PC-style machine, just to keep things going. Should the mainboard chipset differ a little (VIA instead of Intel or SiS), and you'll get a wonderful crash, not being able to at least boot it in safe mode.
Samba couldn't care less how and where you move it.
3. You need to add a nt4/2k/2k3 server to a 2k3/nt4/2k domain (just shuffle the configurations a little). LOADS of fun will follow.
Samba pays a lot of attention to legacy clients, but you can anyway upgrade each machine for a very good price;)
4. You want to use several different OSs on clients/servers. All hell breaks loose when you get to the M$ ones.
Well, it seems a Romanian fellow wrote the thingie - "Inca un root frate belea:" means "Another root bro cool" "mama" means exactly what it seems "stii tu" = "you know" "Inca o roata" = "another wheel"
People in Russia have armed militia groups on the streets with a lack of respect for law and people that makes Al Capone look like an infant. We all now from the recent terrorist attacks how much concern their government shows for the well-being of the anonymous taxpayer (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/07/putin. us/).
They torture, rape, and subject to famine and diseases the troops who should help re-establish order even as we speak. (http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1224628.ht m, http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/27/armysuicide.shtml).
You think MUSIC PIRACY is a what concerns the average citizen out there?? On their scale, such trivial discussions are laughable.
http://ruggedpower.motorola.com/.. and that magnesium case super duper secure thingy sports a shiny Windows XP desktop in the ad.. why would anyone use a hammer, biometrics or even cryptography when them bloody files are http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;308993&sd=tech
just a few clicks away? The really cute and helpful part is - "Only the following people can decrypt an encrypted file: #4 Any user who has been granted access to the file". Yes, I know what this means, but please you try and explain to Joe Shmuck that his file is lost for good (hehehe, got beer?) when "but I did right click and said Susan can read it".
This kind of seemingly cheap solutions have been around for at least five years - I know I was selling some USB-connected thingie from an obscure Taiwan manufacturer that did this sometime before win98se appeared. Besides the huge performance impact that solution and everything "twin" MSI started selling later have, some critical issues were never adressed: how does such an environment handle file/record locking for concurrent usage? I tested with MS Access and some legacy MS-DOS accounting app, and they broke really really bad. How does the same setup work for apps that require hardware protection? Does it work at all? Did anyone test them with HASP keys? Did they test any form of network-aware aplications besides the usual "click iexplore.exe and see if web page loads"?
PS. no, I did not RTFA:) didn't expect to find anything relevant in it.
Think J2SDK (god forbid you would want two versions of this beast simultaneously), think Netscape vs. Firefox and try to install some darned plugin/extension so that it'll work in both and for all users, and also remember that if an extension refuses to install with a cryptic error maybe you didn't hit the exact 0.x.y version or maybe you were supposed to do it as root, restart browser two times and only after that it might work (Enigmail), think about some poor shmuck that goes to yahoo.com wanting to install the messenger thingie and after clicking on the download link expecting some installer to ask for permission is greeted with a message that states "What do you want to do with this x-audio-realplayer file?"...
One cool application of this good thing I stumbled upon was one of the so many trojans (don't remember the exact flavour, CWSShredder erased it) which added its own IP address in the hosts file for sitefinder.verisign.com - the result? It took the user several days to find out how the heck the trojan kept showing back, since he only visited 2 (two) sites with IE because of the usual incompatibilities. A small typo, a mhtml:// exploit and voila! The fellow actually thought that the site where he did some e-commerce stuff was hacking his machine.. talk about losing a customer and not know what hit you.
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Because usability from a (sane) user's point of view means you don't need to know the make, model, bugs or vendor of an application (file extensions are an even greater offense). You need to identify quickly the file's content type - image, text, audio etc. and let the bloody computer handle its representation on the screen/printer. Apple's idea of "text" files which can very well be Unicode RTF and printing everything as PDF is very cool.
This is just shooting the messenger plain and simple. Any ISP having a >mbit connection in some obscure city ten thousand miles away in a country you cannot reach is a possible victim of SPAM. I'm talking zombie computers, rootkits and the sort. I'm talking $100 per month sysadmins with 10 computers connected. This is all it takes for an automated scanner to deliver its adverts. It may take two hours max until that network vanishes from the Internet, but it's too late. How many such networks exist? Plenty. I can find 50-100 hosts around me using just Nessus, Pepsi and a wireless card by midnight. The place to look if we want to eradicate SPAM is always at the money source. Blaming the carrier always triggers false alerts and useless restrictions (I still can't persuade my provider to allow acces to port 135 between our hosts dammit).
Please forgive me for not having inside information on US weddings stuff, but is it mandatory to carry a cake half a planet if you are invited? :P
Are NY confectioners' THAT bad?
My point will be - way too often airline passengers carry the weirdest stuff like liquids with the smell, taste and consistency of nytro (yes, in Soviet Russia vodka detonates YOU!), large boxes with fragile and useless contents (cakes) and they get oh so pissed off at customs. Just buy the darned booze after checkout on destination, will ya?
You're forgetting the market trend: 90% of the low-cost printers available (which would mean some 60-70% of the total) rely on the operating system to feed them PCL. I always have to do some serious digging when purchasing a new printer and have a hard time explaining why one must choose that inkjet model which costs 200-300 USD and not the other one which can go as low as 15 (yes, fifteen) for some very basic printing tasks. Heck, down here (Romania), inkjet printers are offered as BONUSES when purchasing a win xp licence or a new low-end computer. Those computers will never run a Linux copy for this single reason. YMMV.
No, I say hit them at the money source - block all US IP blocks now!
Boy am I gonna get it..
Naah, if they were slashdot users the search hints would more likely be:
"how do i get a"
blo..
blog..
blow job..
blond jokes..
FF 1.0, Slack 10
I opened the Secunia link in a tab, then went with the rest. Looks like I am vulnerable, and I also see now in the Secunia tab "Firefox has blocked this site from opening 708 (!!!) pop-up windows"
No idea how this works so far..
Sure I can, but it's not a startup, it's a resume. The virtual machine is never rebooted.
Whoa. Who the heck besides yourself runs three different anti-something (it's hard to define spy/trojan/malware globally) software packages just to be sure? And check that each of them is updated? Manually? Get a life, dude.
VMware DOES require some extensive testing of the guest operating system by THEIR team. If they can't figure out what's wrong, you are out of luck. Period. No way to fiddle with the internals and persuade it to even boot FreeBSD 5, while 4.7 runs smoothly. Also, VMware is very expensive for server usage. With an OSL license, I can have MS VPC for about 100 bucks/year, and a Slackware install has been running as a service inside W2K SRV for me quite nicely. No, this setup is in no way supported, but it does run, and with very good performance, with months of uptime regardless of the regular windows reboots, since VPC saves the machine state on shutdown. My only problem is that them darned logs don't get rotated when expected because the host machine is down :)
Also, I am yet to try some buffer overflows and the kind on this virtual machine, no idea whether they would work in any way.
So my point would be: having a choice is A Good Thing. VMware (server) is heavily optimized and carefully tested for specific setups, but also very expensive, while the consumer emulator (MS VPC) is way better, less resources-demanding and cheaper for my needs. I for one welcome our new, opensource, flexible, community-supported, not windows-biased emulator overlords.
Hmm.. who is usually installing all sorta crap from untrusted sources? Yes, you got it on the first guess - dumb win32 users with unpatched machines, which are pissed off by the sheer amount of spyware and SPAM already present on their system and who think "yeah, this one sure will get me rid of the annoyances, unlike the other 20 something apps I downloaded this month". What happens when a spammer with hackers on the payroll gets tens of thousands of IP addresses of gullible users with vulnerable machines in the web logs? God, I would keep my domain and happily pay the bill for the high bandwidth usage, just to keep them "retaliation attacks" coming. Give me all you got!
You're there all right if you get the sysadmin to run your whatever.sh in rc.local ;)
Well, actually I would be delighted to pop in a conversation with something like "I'm a former MS AA"..
I have. It's just as difficult. No, it's more difficult with a Windows machine versus a Linux/Samba one. Think of the following:
1. You need to change the IP address or DNS name of (one of) the domain controller(s). The first is VERY difficult, the second is simply impossible with Win 2000 (and VERY difficult with Win 2003).
2. Your hardware fails and you want the HDD plugged quickly in the first available PC-style machine, just to keep things going. Should the mainboard chipset differ a little (VIA instead of Intel or SiS), and you'll get a wonderful crash, not being able to at least boot it in safe mode.
Samba couldn't care less how and where you move it.
3. You need to add a nt4/2k/2k3 server to a 2k3/nt4/2k domain (just shuffle the configurations a little). LOADS of fun will follow.
Samba pays a lot of attention to legacy clients, but you can anyway upgrade each machine for a very good price
4. You want to use several different OSs on clients/servers. All hell breaks loose when you get to the M$ ones.
Well, it seems a Romanian fellow wrote the thingie -
"Inca un root frate belea:" means "Another root bro cool"
"mama" means exactly what it seems
"stii tu" = "you know"
"Inca o roata" = "another wheel"
People in Russia have armed militia groups on the streets with a lack of respect for law and people that makes Al Capone look like an infant. We all now from the recent terrorist attacks how much concern their government shows for the well-being of the anonymous taxpayer (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/07/putin. us/).
They torture, rape, and subject to famine and diseases the troops who should help re-establish order even as we speak. (http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1224628.ht m, http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/27/armysuicide .shtml).
You think MUSIC PIRACY is a what concerns the average citizen out there?? On their scale, such trivial discussions are laughable.
http://ruggedpower.motorola.com/ .. and that magnesium case super duper secure thingy sports a shiny Windows XP desktop in the ad.. why would anyone use a hammer, biometrics or even cryptography when them bloody files are http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;308993&sd=tech
just a few clicks away? The really cute and helpful part is - "Only the following people can decrypt an encrypted file: #4 Any user who has been granted access to the file". Yes, I know what this means, but please you try and explain to Joe Shmuck that his file is lost for good (hehehe, got beer?) when "but I did right click and said Susan can read it".
This kind of seemingly cheap solutions have been around for at least five years - I know I was selling some USB-connected thingie from an obscure Taiwan manufacturer that did this sometime before win98se appeared. Besides the huge performance impact that solution and everything "twin" MSI started selling later have, some critical issues were never adressed: how does such an environment handle file/record locking for concurrent usage? I tested with MS Access and some legacy MS-DOS accounting app, and they broke really really bad. How does the same setup work for apps that require hardware protection? Does it work at all? Did anyone test them with HASP keys? Did they test any form of network-aware aplications besides the usual "click iexplore.exe and see if web page loads"? :) didn't expect to find anything relevant in it.
PS. no, I did not RTFA
Think J2SDK (god forbid you would want two versions of this beast simultaneously), think Netscape vs. Firefox and try to install some darned plugin/extension so that it'll work in both and for all users, and also remember that if an extension refuses to install with a cryptic error maybe you didn't hit the exact 0.x.y version or maybe you were supposed to do it as root, restart browser two times and only after that it might work (Enigmail), think about some poor shmuck that goes to yahoo.com wanting to install the messenger thingie and after clicking on the download link expecting some installer to ask for permission is greeted with a message that states "What do you want to do with this x-audio-realplayer file?"...
Actually, inside intel from Linux HQ state that Santa gave it to you.
One cool application of this good thing I stumbled upon was one of the so many trojans (don't remember the exact flavour, CWSShredder erased it) which added its own IP address in the hosts file for sitefinder.verisign.com - the result? It took the user several days to find out how the heck the trojan kept showing back, since he only visited 2 (two) sites with IE because of the usual incompatibilities. A small typo, a mhtml:// exploit and voila! The fellow actually thought that the site where he did some e-commerce stuff was hacking his machine.. talk about losing a customer and not know what hit you.
You must be new here.. sorry couldn't resist