I don't use Windows at home anymore and I prefer to use the browser at work that I use at home.
In the long run, it may actually make sense to program a browser for someone else's operating system. Making a browser for your own OS is a recipe for security problems. If someone steals from you, how did they get into the house? I've been stolen because of occupants more that from random breakins. I have no control over who my daughter brings in while I'm not at home. My daughter is the user, the home the OS and the thief is the program she decided to run. That will teach me to leave my tax folder lying around. "How did this pr0no get in here?" "Why are these pr0no sites charging my bank account?" "Why are they using my daughter's email address?" "Who debited $300 from my account from an ATM I didn't visit that day?"
Build a browser for someone elses house and it will help prevent you from integrating the browser in ways that make huge security holes. Then you can release it for your own system without adding those things that integrate it too much. I disabled my daughter's email and changed the permissions for some other things. Then she had the nerve to bother me while I was trying to get some sleep for the next day expecting me to turn all of those things back on. NO.
I don't know. Did I just need to vent? Maybe, but to make a long story short, I don't use Windows at home and I won't be using IE in any version at work if it's not available for the OS I use at home.
The funny thing is, at work we run PC's with XP, but all of our design programs are unix based. From my PC I use an Oracle Program and another that runs off of an AIX server. I don't know why they won't let me run Linux. Even our certification server is using Apache. With all of this *nix going on, you would think that we would be trusted to handle Linux. Maybe they just don't trust the MIS guys. Some of them have tried Linux, but so long ago that they don't realize how much it's come along.
Another funny thing is that there has just been an upgrade to the AIX machines and they now have Firefox installed. After all that time I wasted trying to find a way to install it for myself, they did it for me. Even our specs are now on an Apache server. I can view them from Hummingbird--->AIX-->Firefox--->Apache web server.
Either they are letting them in on the security holes that are already there, that there is a MS Product you have to pay more for or a subscription for, or...Wait. Was there a second one?
It's as simple as this, if the owner of the computer is allowed to install programs, then the computer will fill up with spyware. I refuse to believe that spyware(marketing) will ever go away, so it's as simple as this. You're going to have to pay $500 for an operating system, then it will only run on the hardware that comes with DRM. Big business has control of your computer, you don't.
What scares me is that I've seen signs of some distros conforming to DRM and other laws that place the control of your computer into the hands of the corporations. I remember paying for all of my hardware and I remember all of my hard drives coming empty of anyones OS. I don't need an OS babysitting me.
My Windows XP install is so full of spyware that it has become unuseable. Debian works just fine. There are only a couple of things it doesn't yet support, but will eventually. I think I can hang on to my P3 a little longer. 1 GHz is enough to play DVD's and to burn recordings onto DVD. It's a little slow, but faster than Windows.
That's why we took out the sun. Whole batches were lost.
On a serious note, cancer is no joke in any of it's variations. I had a year of chemo to treat a brain tumor. I was one of the lucky ones. Most people that get a brain tumor are only treated for 3 months. A brain tumor is a death sentence most of the time and even when the treatment works the first time, there is a 98% chance of a recurance. Tick, tick, tick,...
Way to go Mizzou! Don't let all the jokesters dampen your spirits.
$500,000 for the installation of a 128K High Speed Data Satcom system
$12/min for each 64K ($24/min)
Trust me, the airlines are losing money on this. What is the cost for the flight for the airline when the internet connection is probably up for the whole trip? It's more than I'd be willing to spend.
There is no useable ground based option, yet. If there was, it would probably cost $3+/min.
Satcom Direct charges $12/min for each 64K connection. The airlines truly can't find a market for it because the people that can afford those rates buy their own plane and half of them can't afford it. Imagine paying $24/min and not even getting a true 128K connection. It's not the airlines that are charging huge rates for this service. It's the Satellite providers. I'm not aware of any ground based high speed connection. There is one planned by Aircell, but it's not available yet.
Security is good if I am the one in control of it. You may want (insert your government here) monitoring you, but I don't. Trusted computing is only good if it's controlled by someone I trust. That would be me. It's funny how Microsoft puts out the most insecure system out there, but vendors are worried about security in unix boxes? Keep your security to yourself.
You can have a paycheck if you don't mind working with VPM by DGSI and being more-or-less a wire harness engineer. You also would need to move to Little Rock. Look up Dassault Falcon. You will be overworked for mediocre pay, but I'm pretty sure you can get a job here.
The more mainstream Linux(actually applies in this case because it was a kernel vulnerability) gets, the more hackers that will be trying to get in. This can only help make the kernel/OS better. Essentially, you have more people testing your security for free. Of course, in this case, it was a known hole and they just failed to update.
I have had someone break into my Debian system once. I got cocky and left a few ports open on my router. I left the ftp and ssh ports open and my slackware partition mounting automatically. Later, I realized my user account in slackware was showing up as user "ftp" in Debian. That will never happen again. I noticed in the log files that someone was trying to break in and was keeping an eye on my gkrellm. Finally they figured it out, and instantly high internet traffic was going both ways. I had to turn the router off to give myself time to think. Those ports have been closed ever since. Accessing my computer from work is not that important. I haven't been hacked since. I keep an eye on all ports I use including Bittorrent.
Of course, my computer is not a server, so I'm not too worried. I try to keep sensitive information off of any computer. That is what the safe is for.
What I'm wondering is:
Did the laptop have the information on it or did it have a "secure" connection to the database. Typically, people who work from home are on some kind of network. That might be worse than if the info was on the hard drive.
It wasn't on the news for a while, so it stands to reason it had already changed hands. I wonder if there was a finders fee? I have a coworker that had his truck stolen. The next day it was spotted near our work site and somebody let him know. (The idiots didn't see the parking hang tag?) Anyways, the truck had already changed hands and had already become either a meth lab or meth RV. (It was a suburban) In one day, it was traded for drugs and smoked in. It was nasty. Sometimes you don't want the car back. I think the final recipients of the laptop probably had clear signs of what it was and got real nervous. You don't want 26 million veterans angry at you.
I did have a VA loan for my last house, so perhaps that's one way to find me. I don't remember if the SS Statement came to the apartment address or the house address. It's kind of scary that I'm so easy for them to find. Who should I fear, the thief or the government?
Think about it. What do you think takes more power, sending information over a wire or transmitting by radio?
I use my cell more than my land line and I pay less for the cell.
Why do you have to pay extra for calling someone on their mobile phone instead of on their land line? Seems a bit of a rip off to me.
Maybe I don't understand the question. Is this a response to someone? I've never heard of someone paying more for a call on the basis of the recipient being on a cell. Is that what you actually meant?
Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC and sold it cheaper. That started the compatible market and drove prices down. Bill just took advantage of the cheaper PC's by selling illegal software to the compatibles. They started off with MS-DOS, their own version of DOS that they sold independant of the one they sold to IBM. The only reason Bill did as well as he did was because of the cheaper hardware.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple bought the GUI rights from Xerox and Microsoft stole that from Apple. Apple's problem is that they always had the most expensive hardware, that and less software. So, the IBM compatible sold more because it was cheaper and MS was your only real option at the time.
I wonder why nobody tried to reverse engineer the Apple.
I have never bought a computer with pre-installed software. I did actually buy Windows 95. That was a lot of floppys and I eventually figured out how to reinstall the OS from disk 2 and on off of the hard drive. This was before my introduction to the internet or Unix, so I didn't know any better. Windows 98 rolled around and I went to college. I got introduced to the Internet and Unix machines. I discovered Linux and haven't bought MS software since.
It's ironic that Microsoft is busy trying to protect their OS from piracy, but the GUI is pirated from Apple(Xerox). It's also ironic that Apple moved to a unix(BSD) and MS is still trying to hang on to DOS.
Piracy made computers affordable. That's all there is to it. Asta la Vista, Bill.
VNC to home, download it to home, ftp to home to download it to work, install to my own personal folder in a non-standard location. My Documents and my programs are in C:\GNU\. I can't install quicktime, though. When I first got XP, I quickly set up the admin password before MIS thought about doing it. When I got the new machine that they had set the admin password for, I still have mine on D: along with all my files from the previous computer. When a DSmallLinux install failed to boot properly, I had to log in to drive D: to restore the MBR.
We have a couple of people that everyone calls the twins (because they are twins) that administer about 900 XP machines. There really needs to be about 4 more of them if the company is going to keep our computers locked down. Our computers are so secure that they are protected from running the company software properly. Of course, I'm the only one that seems to care. I guess apathy is the only way to stay sane.
This news is so old, the fin has already fallen over. The fin was reaching heights as high as part of the lowest parts of the crater rim, but has now fallen over. I didn't bother to read the article because I've been following this since the mountain became active again. It's errupting about a truckload of lava/rock a second. If memory serves, at the current rate, it will rebuild in something like 20 years.
I was in Eugene, Oregon when it blew in the 80's. I heard and felt a double blow all the way from there. All the Windows in the neighborhood were rattling. The news may keep saying it blew the top off, but that's wrong. Most of the mountain came down in a landslide. Once the landslide started, the pressure blew up and in the direction of the slide. It's the biggest landslide in recorded history. Watch out because when Rainier slides, it will be bigger. Scientists believe it's overdue. There are deposits from a previous slide in Seattle.
There is a cold war going on between China and the West. China is preparing for a war that we aren't instigating. Why shouldn't the West do its part in the prewar buildup to spread propaganda and interfere with their Communist activities? I suspect this might be more for travelers than the residents of China anyways. I say undermine the Chinese government any chance we get. Our greatest weapon would be their own huge population against them. Interfere on!
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I don't use Windows at home anymore and I prefer to use the browser at work that I use at home.
In the long run, it may actually make sense to program a browser for someone else's operating system. Making a browser for your own OS is a recipe for security problems. If someone steals from you, how did they get into the house? I've been stolen because of occupants more that from random breakins. I have no control over who my daughter brings in while I'm not at home. My daughter is the user, the home the OS and the thief is the program she decided to run. That will teach me to leave my tax folder lying around. "How did this pr0no get in here?" "Why are these pr0no sites charging my bank account?" "Why are they using my daughter's email address?" "Who debited $300 from my account from an ATM I didn't visit that day?"
Build a browser for someone elses house and it will help prevent you from integrating the browser in ways that make huge security holes. Then you can release it for your own system without adding those things that integrate it too much. I disabled my daughter's email and changed the permissions for some other things. Then she had the nerve to bother me while I was trying to get some sleep for the next day expecting me to turn all of those things back on. NO.
I don't know. Did I just need to vent? Maybe, but to make a long story short, I don't use Windows at home and I won't be using IE in any version at work if it's not available for the OS I use at home.
The funny thing is, at work we run PC's with XP, but all of our design programs are unix based. From my PC I use an Oracle Program and another that runs off of an AIX server. I don't know why they won't let me run Linux. Even our certification server is using Apache. With all of this *nix going on, you would think that we would be trusted to handle Linux. Maybe they just don't trust the MIS guys. Some of them have tried Linux, but so long ago that they don't realize how much it's come along.
Another funny thing is that there has just been an upgrade to the AIX machines and they now have Firefox installed. After all that time I wasted trying to find a way to install it for myself, they did it for me. Even our specs are now on an Apache server. I can view them from Hummingbird--->AIX-->Firefox--->Apache web server.
Either they are letting them in on the security holes that are already there, that there is a MS Product you have to pay more for or a subscription for, or...Wait. Was there a second one?
It's as simple as this, if the owner of the computer is allowed to install programs, then the computer will fill up with spyware. I refuse to believe that spyware(marketing) will ever go away, so it's as simple as this. You're going to have to pay $500 for an operating system, then it will only run on the hardware that comes with DRM. Big business has control of your computer, you don't.
What scares me is that I've seen signs of some distros conforming to DRM and other laws that place the control of your computer into the hands of the corporations. I remember paying for all of my hardware and I remember all of my hard drives coming empty of anyones OS. I don't need an OS babysitting me.
My Windows XP install is so full of spyware that it has become unuseable. Debian works just fine. There are only a couple of things it doesn't yet support, but will eventually. I think I can hang on to my P3 a little longer. 1 GHz is enough to play DVD's and to burn recordings onto DVD. It's a little slow, but faster than Windows.
That's why we took out the sun. Whole batches were lost. On a serious note, cancer is no joke in any of it's variations. I had a year of chemo to treat a brain tumor. I was one of the lucky ones. Most people that get a brain tumor are only treated for 3 months. A brain tumor is a death sentence most of the time and even when the treatment works the first time, there is a 98% chance of a recurance. Tick, tick, tick,... Way to go Mizzou! Don't let all the jokesters dampen your spirits.
so there
Or does it make it a Comet, a meteor?
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Trust me, the airlines are losing money on this. What is the cost for the flight for the airline when the internet connection is probably up for the whole trip? It's more than I'd be willing to spend.
There is no useable ground based option, yet. If there was, it would probably cost $3+/min.
Satcom Direct charges $12/min for each 64K connection. The airlines truly can't find a market for it because the people that can afford those rates buy their own plane and half of them can't afford it. Imagine paying $24/min and not even getting a true 128K connection. It's not the airlines that are charging huge rates for this service. It's the Satellite providers. I'm not aware of any ground based high speed connection. There is one planned by Aircell, but it's not available yet.
If anyone wants to throw their 250 or 500 Mbyte sticks away, let me know. I was ignorant when I bought the motherboard. Please help.
Security is good if I am the one in control of it. You may want (insert your government here) monitoring you, but I don't. Trusted computing is only good if it's controlled by someone I trust. That would be me. It's funny how Microsoft puts out the most insecure system out there, but vendors are worried about security in unix boxes? Keep your security to yourself.
You can have a paycheck if you don't mind working with VPM by DGSI and being more-or-less a wire harness engineer. You also would need to move to Little Rock. Look up Dassault Falcon. You will be overworked for mediocre pay, but I'm pretty sure you can get a job here.
I have had someone break into my Debian system once. I got cocky and left a few ports open on my router. I left the ftp and ssh ports open and my slackware partition mounting automatically. Later, I realized my user account in slackware was showing up as user "ftp" in Debian. That will never happen again. I noticed in the log files that someone was trying to break in and was keeping an eye on my gkrellm. Finally they figured it out, and instantly high internet traffic was going both ways. I had to turn the router off to give myself time to think. Those ports have been closed ever since. Accessing my computer from work is not that important. I haven't been hacked since. I keep an eye on all ports I use including Bittorrent.
Of course, my computer is not a server, so I'm not too worried. I try to keep sensitive information off of any computer. That is what the safe is for.
I want on the lawsuit. Does anyone know how to get on it?
What I'm wondering is: Did the laptop have the information on it or did it have a "secure" connection to the database. Typically, people who work from home are on some kind of network. That might be worse than if the info was on the hard drive.
It wasn't on the news for a while, so it stands to reason it had already changed hands. I wonder if there was a finders fee? I have a coworker that had his truck stolen. The next day it was spotted near our work site and somebody let him know. (The idiots didn't see the parking hang tag?) Anyways, the truck had already changed hands and had already become either a meth lab or meth RV. (It was a suburban) In one day, it was traded for drugs and smoked in. It was nasty. Sometimes you don't want the car back. I think the final recipients of the laptop probably had clear signs of what it was and got real nervous. You don't want 26 million veterans angry at you.
I did have a VA loan for my last house, so perhaps that's one way to find me. I don't remember if the SS Statement came to the apartment address or the house address. It's kind of scary that I'm so easy for them to find. Who should I fear, the thief or the government?
I use my cell more than my land line and I pay less for the cell.
Maybe I don't understand the question. Is this a response to someone? I've never heard of someone paying more for a call on the basis of the recipient being on a cell. Is that what you actually meant?Nah, he's going to be the next commisioner of the NFL.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple bought the GUI rights from Xerox and Microsoft stole that from Apple. Apple's problem is that they always had the most expensive hardware, that and less software. So, the IBM compatible sold more because it was cheaper and MS was your only real option at the time.
I wonder why nobody tried to reverse engineer the Apple.
I have never bought a computer with pre-installed software. I did actually buy Windows 95. That was a lot of floppys and I eventually figured out how to reinstall the OS from disk 2 and on off of the hard drive. This was before my introduction to the internet or Unix, so I didn't know any better. Windows 98 rolled around and I went to college. I got introduced to the Internet and Unix machines. I discovered Linux and haven't bought MS software since.
It's ironic that Microsoft is busy trying to protect their OS from piracy, but the GUI is pirated from Apple(Xerox). It's also ironic that Apple moved to a unix(BSD) and MS is still trying to hang on to DOS.
Piracy made computers affordable. That's all there is to it. Asta la Vista, Bill.
Why use a browser in the first place? I use pop mail and an email client. Of course, that comes with my DSL with AT&T.
We have a couple of people that everyone calls the twins (because they are twins) that administer about 900 XP machines. There really needs to be about 4 more of them if the company is going to keep our computers locked down. Our computers are so secure that they are protected from running the company software properly. Of course, I'm the only one that seems to care. I guess apathy is the only way to stay sane.
I guess I should have RTFA.
I was in Eugene, Oregon when it blew in the 80's. I heard and felt a double blow all the way from there. All the Windows in the neighborhood were rattling. The news may keep saying it blew the top off, but that's wrong. Most of the mountain came down in a landslide. Once the landslide started, the pressure blew up and in the direction of the slide. It's the biggest landslide in recorded history. Watch out because when Rainier slides, it will be bigger. Scientists believe it's overdue. There are deposits from a previous slide in Seattle.
It's an Ice Age. Wait, it's global warming. Hold on, it's an Ice age...global warming...
There is a cold war going on between China and the West. China is preparing for a war that we aren't instigating. Why shouldn't the West do its part in the prewar buildup to spread propaganda and interfere with their Communist activities? I suspect this might be more for travelers than the residents of China anyways. I say undermine the Chinese government any chance we get. Our greatest weapon would be their own huge population against them. Interfere on!