I know who he was, I know that he shared some similar interests to me.
Thre is a difference between the death that you never hear about, and the death that you do hear about, especially when you know things about them.
This is what I started my project for. And FS development.
If you trust your pr0n to code written by a 15-year-old that is. No? Well, I wouldn't either;) It really just makes a file of x size, and mounts it with a shell script. (You need to do mkfs on it first). This wouldn't stop the xploit, but would make recovery easier (as is my understanding).
If you made a disk image, mounted it, and then put your downloads there, if there was a problem, you've still got a chance to recover it. But that's assuming you used an image, it would be harder to recover a folder full of files than a file in a disk image.
Or a little of both. I just keep all my downloads in one folder (R:\home\lachlan\program downloads (you can see which OS I like to use)). No subfolders inside, because I find it easier to remember the names than multiple directory levels when I type in filenames (eg. cp ~/program\ downloads/jdk-1_5_5-windows-i586.exe H:\\ is easier than cp ~/program\ downloads/java/jdk/jdk-1_5_5-windows-i586.exe H:\\). But if I got hit with something like this, 5.6GB of downloads disappears. And up until yesterday, I was on 56k. Not a week's downloads.
13 security advisories in the last 6 or so months isn't a good look.
And how many are there in IE that we haven't found yet? The dangerous exploits are the ones we don't know about.
And besides, do you expect Secunia to have all the security flaws from when IE was in beta? Or do you find it strange that a beta product has had more security flaws found in the last 6 months than the one that's been around and insecure for years.
Not to mention that none of the advisories were ranked "extremely critical", and only 2 were critical.
Not to bad for a beta product. Also (from Secunia):
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Extremely critical Currently, 19 out of 60 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
Mozilla Firefox 0.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical Currently, 2 out of 13 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
It's either different in the Windows/Linux versions, or there's a difference between 0.9* versions and 1.0PR, because my 0.93 Windows install has tools->options, and the 1.0PR Linux version (running on Knoppix 3.6, but that doesn't really matter) has edit->preferences.
If this guy moves, or gets hit by a bus or his house burns down, there goes their TVs, phones and internet.
If he moves, he should give enough notice to let people get their phone reconnected. And there's always mobile phones if you want to call if something happens until you get your phone service back.
Outdoors, and after a few minutes to adjust, you can see well enough (as in, I can walk around and pick up rods that are on the ground with the mask on, and read number plates from 30m away). I use a shade 12 mask.
You can't expect the job to be done well entirely by the government - external organisations will need to help. Do you think that the government should be run without any oversight by the people?
He was a part of our community. Even though I didn't know him, I still take offense at the fact that you say things like that.
How the story got onto/. is irrelevant, death is not something to be treated trivially.
In 2008, Linux will account for 7.5 percent of PCs shipped, but only 2.6 percent of the installed base, about the same that Apple's installed base will be then.
A comparable lack of drivers, training costs and migration headaches will also retard desktop Linux growth.
So what they're saying is, in 4 years:
No hardware manufacturers will make linux drivers
It won't be as hard to learn Linux as Windows
New sysadmins who know Linux won't be able to migrate
I just think it's a bit pointless to say that Linux will have the same problems in 4 years as it does today.
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I know who he was, I know that he shared some similar interests to me.
Thre is a difference between the death that you never hear about, and the death that you do hear about, especially when you know things about them.
This is what I started my project for. And FS development.
;) It really just makes a file of x size, and mounts it with a shell script. (You need to do mkfs on it first). This wouldn't stop the xploit, but would make recovery easier (as is my understanding).
If you trust your pr0n to code written by a 15-year-old that is. No? Well, I wouldn't either
If you made a disk image, mounted it, and then put your downloads there, if there was a problem, you've still got a chance to recover it. But that's assuming you used an image, it would be harder to recover a folder full of files than a file in a disk image.
Or a little of both. I just keep all my downloads in one folder (R:\home\lachlan\program downloads (you can see which OS I like to use)). No subfolders inside, because I find it easier to remember the names than multiple directory levels when I type in filenames (eg. cp ~/program\ downloads/jdk-1_5_5-windows-i586.exe H:\\ is easier than cp ~/program\ downloads/java/jdk/jdk-1_5_5-windows-i586.exe H:\\). But if I got hit with something like this, 5.6GB of downloads disappears. And up until yesterday, I was on 56k. Not a week's downloads.
;)
Of course, I'm not really a representative of the general public. They probably won't be affected by this exploit. They just have the other 19 to deal with
And how many are there in IE that we haven't found yet? The dangerous exploits are the ones we don't know about.
And besides, do you expect Secunia to have all the security flaws from when IE was in beta? Or do you find it strange that a beta product has had more security flaws found in the last 6 months than the one that's been around and insecure for years.
Not to mention that none of the advisories were ranked "extremely critical", and only 2 were critical.
Not to bad for a beta product. Also (from Secunia):
Currently, 19 out of 60 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
Currently, 2 out of 13 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
Which would you trust?
It's either different in the Windows/Linux versions, or there's a difference between 0.9* versions and 1.0PR, because my 0.93 Windows install has tools->options, and the 1.0PR Linux version (running on Knoppix 3.6, but that doesn't really matter) has edit->preferences.
Reminds me of the old Netscape days.
My parents just told me when I got a virus (not from me, they use Outlook) "I dunno what to do, just fix it yourself". And I learnt from that.
Of course, if you want to get work done, cutting off tech support may not be a good thing.
If this guy moves, or gets hit by a bus or his house burns down, there goes their TVs, phones and internet.
If he moves, he should give enough notice to let people get their phone reconnected. And there's always mobile phones if you want to call if something happens until you get your phone service back.
Yes, but the traffic was going over the biggest ISP in Iceland, which makes it take up more bandwidth. ;)
Outdoors, and after a few minutes to adjust, you can see well enough (as in, I can walk around and pick up rods that are on the ground with the mask on, and read number plates from 30m away). I use a shade 12 mask.
You can't expect the job to be done well entirely by the government - external organisations will need to help. Do you think that the government should be run without any oversight by the people?
There is a difference when the person that has died is completely detached from me.
He was a part of our community. Even though I didn't know him, I still take offense at the fact that you say things like that. /. is irrelevant, death is not something to be treated trivially.
How the story got onto
Haven't used Macs much, but do they have X11, or another windowing system that I can redirect over a network?
Imagine if your father or brother or best friend died, and you see all these jokes. Would that be a good thing?
Take a look at -1. Those aren't people dealing, they're people who don't care about the lives of other people.
Seriously. Someone is dead. Two others are injured.
THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY???
Wake up, go outside, and maybe you'll realise that this isn't the kind of thing to joke about.
And whoever modded the parent funny is fucked up.
You can see how bad your country has become when a comment like that is modded funny.
A comparable lack of drivers, training costs and migration headaches will also retard desktop Linux growth.
So what they're saying is, in 4 years:
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No hardware manufacturers will make linux drivers
-
It won't be as hard to learn Linux as Windows
-
New sysadmins who know Linux won't be able to migrate
I just think it's a bit pointless to say that Linux will have the same problems in 4 years as it does today.I have noticed that, like Cats, Windows problems seem to be attracted to people who hate windows.
I don't know if this occured to you, but perhaps these people (including myself) hate Windows BECAUSE of these problems?
I call them curtains.
Here's what you meant
Here's my source
Unless I start jogging 2km a day, looks like I'll have to go for #1 ;)
As an Australian citizen, I was just wondering, what freedoms were you talking about exactly? Cos there isn't freedom of speech here.
I'd imagine so, but I doubt it'd happen with an election coming up.
And it's not like there's a shortage of teenagers who'll fuck other teens. Just the ones that'll fuck me.
I live in Australia too, but I think you're a bit paranoid.
Call Telstra and tell 'em to do a line quality check, it's probably something with your phone line.