Firefox 3 isn't ready for release in the first place. We tried it here at work and it is so buggy that we weren't even able to go to sites typed in the address bar.
Either that, or your IT department is full of incompetent and/or lazy amateurs.
I've installed FF3 on about 20 different computers, and never had that problem. My guess is the latter of the two possibilities, then.
It's got to do ONE simple, straight forward job. There are NO corner cases. There are NO race conditions. There is NO need for parallel execution. It is the simplest transactional system that one anyone could devise.
Playing Devil's Advocate here, but wouldn't a voting machine be a perfect example for a possible race condition?
Scenario: Both Voter 1 and Voter 2 choose Obama. Vote machine 1 reads current number of votes: 10
Vote machine 2 reads current number of votes: 10 Voter 1 and Voter 2 both cast their ballots for Obama simultaneously.
Vote machine 1 writes new vote tally for Obama: 11.
Vote machine 1 writes new vote tally for Obama: 11.
So, instead of receiving 2 votes, Obama is only credited for 1.
I'm just saying, almost ANYTHING can be explained by incompetence or stupidity.
It seems neither OS's repositories were compromised.
Fedora is changing their key as a precaution "because Fedora packages are distributed via multiple third-party mirrors and repositories". While it seems Red Hat doesn't care as much about people getting packages from non-RHN sources, so they just issued an advisory.
Your two statements seem to contradict each other, if you consider the third-party mirrors and distribution sources as "Fedora" repositories.
Highlighting? The functionality hasn't changed, but now FF... highlights. And you claim that it is a ripoff. I'm sorry, it's not exactly a breakthrough. I could look in my grandfather's college textbooks and find prior art for "highlighting."
Would you like to act on behalf of Apple and patent using a button with an "X" to close a window, while you're at it?
The Fedora repository and signed packages may or may not have been compromised. RHEL packages are believed to be safe. Ergo, it's not much of an issue for production (read: critical) servers, since they should not be running a non-production distro.
You might want to add that Mom and pop users should never go to a website using basic http
Really, now? So, you propose that the vast majority of internet servers are reconfigured to accept SSL connections? And then, should we upgrade the borderline-performance servers so the SSL encryption doesn't drag them down to the speed of an underclocked 486?
I'll tell you what: you foot the bill, then I'll get the ball rolling.
I could not RTFA (/.ed), but is there any indication of how this "compromise" occurred?
My hats off, though, to the Red Hat folks. Full disclosure and immediate positive action speaks volumes.
On a related note, you should not use Fedora in a production environment anyway. That's what RHEL is for. Fedora = Testing. RHEL = Stable. At least in theory.
Unless I'm missing something, the FF3 in-page search tool is very similar to the FF2 one, which in turn is very similar to the first one. The only addition I see is highlighting.
From what I can see, the current in-page search functionality in Safari was released long after Firefox's.
While the connection is secure, that doesn't tell me a darn thing about what they are going to do with my data, or weather or not they're going to try something malicious.
What, do you expect the CA to do a full background check on every employee in the business? What about if it's an individual? Should the CA kidnap the children of the certificate applicant and threaten to behead them if the applicant does something "malicious?"
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Kobe beef is easy. It looks like marble. I would think it would be much harder, though, to tell the difference between similar fish species.
Go old school, with the pre-NATO phonetic alphabet. It even screws up most military-types.
Your name is Dog-Item-Tare-Tare-Oboe-Baker-Oboe- X-ray.
For all intensive purposes, he could of meant it the way it was typed.
d'oh. Short fuse, today.
How about a local copy, synced on login and/or at midnight?
Firefox 3 isn't ready for release in the first place. We tried it here at work and it is so buggy that we weren't even able to go to sites typed in the address bar.
Either that, or your IT department is full of incompetent and/or lazy amateurs.
I've installed FF3 on about 20 different computers, and never had that problem. My guess is the latter of the two possibilities, then.
"Power-user"-friendly upgrades plz.
Methinks that our definitions of "power user" differ slightly.
Perhaps, it is because upgrading a computer to Vista is expensive?
Your vote machine should never EVER be keeping a running tally.
Of course it shouldn't. It also shouldn't drop votes. Come now, let's not overestimate DieBold, here.
It's got to do ONE simple, straight forward job. There are NO corner cases. There are NO race conditions. There is NO need for parallel execution. It is the simplest transactional system that one anyone could devise.
Playing Devil's Advocate here, but wouldn't a voting machine be a perfect example for a possible race condition?
Scenario: Both Voter 1 and Voter 2 choose Obama.
Vote machine 1 reads current number of votes: 10
Vote machine 2 reads current number of votes: 10
Voter 1 and Voter 2 both cast their ballots for Obama simultaneously.
Vote machine 1 writes new vote tally for Obama: 11.
Vote machine 1 writes new vote tally for Obama: 11.
So, instead of receiving 2 votes, Obama is only credited for 1.
I'm just saying, almost ANYTHING can be explained by incompetence or stupidity.
But, my vote's with you. Corruption.
Have you heard of that thing called "world", of which your country is only a small part... ;-)
In many parts of the world, you only need to remove the heat for 3 or 4 months out of the year... waste heat isn't wasted in the winter.
Perhaps the generous tax incentives?
It seems neither OS's repositories were compromised.
Fedora is changing their key as a precaution "because Fedora packages are distributed via multiple third-party mirrors and repositories". While it seems Red Hat doesn't care as much about people getting packages from non-RHN sources, so they just issued an advisory.
Your two statements seem to contradict each other, if you consider the third-party mirrors and distribution sources as "Fedora" repositories.
Highlighting? The functionality hasn't changed, but now FF ... highlights. And you claim that it is a ripoff. I'm sorry, it's not exactly a breakthrough. I could look in my grandfather's college textbooks and find prior art for "highlighting."
Would you like to act on behalf of Apple and patent using a button with an "X" to close a window, while you're at it?
The Fedora repositories are believed to have been compromised. The RHEL repositories appear to be safe.
Pray tell, which detail did I miss?
I didn't suggest any such thing, Coward.
The Fedora repository and signed packages may or may not have been compromised. RHEL packages are believed to be safe. Ergo, it's not much of an issue for production (read: critical) servers, since they should not be running a non-production distro.
Most whiny webmasters already do that.
If an e-business can't even put forth that effort, than they don't deserve my business.
Heck, if it's only 14 dollars and an email away, the only reason any website uses self-signed certs is philosophical at best.
You might want to add that Mom and pop users should never go to a website using basic http
Really, now? So, you propose that the vast majority of internet servers are reconfigured to accept SSL connections? And then, should we upgrade the borderline-performance servers so the SSL encryption doesn't drag them down to the speed of an underclocked 486?
I'll tell you what: you foot the bill, then I'll get the ball rolling.
I could not RTFA (/.ed), but is there any indication of how this "compromise" occurred?
My hats off, though, to the Red Hat folks. Full disclosure and immediate positive action speaks volumes.
On a related note, you should not use Fedora in a production environment anyway. That's what RHEL is for. Fedora = Testing. RHEL = Stable. At least in theory.
Unless I'm missing something, the FF3 in-page search tool is very similar to the FF2 one, which in turn is very similar to the first one. The only addition I see is highlighting.
From what I can see, the current in-page search functionality in Safari was released long after Firefox's.
At least most decent SSH clients store the certificate, and then throw an absolute fit if it changes.
My thoughts exactly.
What's next, a payroll system written in vbScript?
While the connection is secure, that doesn't tell me a darn thing about what they are going to do with my data, or weather or not they're going to try something malicious.
What, do you expect the CA to do a full background check on every employee in the business? What about if it's an individual? Should the CA kidnap the children of the certificate applicant and threaten to behead them if the applicant does something "malicious?"
Name one free signing authority that is accepted by default in FF or IE.