Oh my gosh, that movie totally rules. It doesn't get any better then Buckaroo Bonzai. I mean, seriously, the first five minutes show Buckaroo Bonzai performing brain surgery then driving the world's fastest rocket car into a mountain. Later he goes on to sing in his own rock band.
I completely agree. I use SBC DSL for a office in San Diego, CA. The speed is great, and the connection itself is fairly reliable, however, everything past that needs a lot of work. Their mail servers refuse about 15% of all attempted connections, and they go down completely for days at a time about once every 6 months. Their DNS servers went down for 24 hours once for no apparent reason. The worst part is a call to their support/customer service is always a complete waste of time. I have COX cable at home, the speed is about the same, but the service has none of the other issues, and they have very a helpful support staff.
Everyone knows OS X is by far the most secure mainstream desktop OS available right now. However, this should serve as a wake up call to all OS X users, especially those who are ignorant enough to believe they are completely protected from the dangers of computer viruses. It would be extremely simple to code a basic apple script that upon execution could spread to other systems via email, and completely destroy all data within the users home directory. It could also delete many application files or certain system settings depending upon the level of the compromised user account. Of course the user has to be tricked into opening in it, but that proves not to be a daunting task, at least based upon the recent wave of windows viruses that have been sweeping across the net. That being said, the total affect such a virus could have on a system and/or the net would be insignificant relative to a compromised windows box.
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Oh my gosh, that movie totally rules. It doesn't get any better then Buckaroo Bonzai. I mean, seriously, the first five minutes show Buckaroo Bonzai performing brain surgery then driving the world's fastest rocket car into a mountain. Later he goes on to sing in his own rock band.
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I completely agree. I use SBC DSL for a office in San Diego, CA. The speed is great, and the connection itself is fairly reliable, however, everything past that needs a lot of work. Their mail servers refuse about 15% of all attempted connections, and they go down completely for days at a time about once every 6 months. Their DNS servers went down for 24 hours once for no apparent reason. The worst part is a call to their support/customer service is always a complete waste of time. I have COX cable at home, the speed is about the same, but the service has none of the other issues, and they have very a helpful support staff.
Is there a rule on slashdot that it's bad to say I Told You So?
Everyone knows OS X is by far the most secure mainstream desktop OS available right now. However, this should serve as a wake up call to all OS X users, especially those who are ignorant enough to believe they are completely protected from the dangers of computer viruses. It would be extremely simple to code a basic apple script that upon execution could spread to other systems via email, and completely destroy all data within the users home directory. It could also delete many application files or certain system settings depending upon the level of the compromised user account. Of course the user has to be tricked into opening in it, but that proves not to be a daunting task, at least based upon the recent wave of windows viruses that have been sweeping across the net. That being said, the total affect such a virus could have on a system and/or the net would be insignificant relative to a compromised windows box.