"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Kernkraft400 writes, " I can't wait for the next Windows virus or worm to take down all the cash machines."
In my defence I didn't expect the article to actually get submitted so fired it off in a couple of minutes without much thought; it was a throwaway comment and not supposed to be taken any more seriously.:-/ The full text I submitted was definitely not so biased against Windows but hey, this is slashdot!
Anyway, did you actually read the article?
"Last August, the Nachi (Welchia) worm contaminated the cash machines at two financial institutions. When the Slammer virus hit the back end systems of the Bank of America in January 2003, 13,000 US ATMs became unavailable."
I also linked to the recent report that the UK government has said that linux is "viable", http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3960025.stm but that got dropped too. Maybe my anti-Windows comment wasn't the most tactful thing to write, but resulting to a personal attack is a bit strong even if this is only the internet.
Myth Windows only gets attacked most because it's such a big target, and if Linux use (or indeed OS X use) grew then so would the number of attacks. FactWhen it comes to web servers, the biggest target is Apache, the Internet's server of choice. Attacks on Apache are nevertheless far fewer in number, and cause less damage. And in some case Apache-related attacks have the most serious effect on Windows machines. Attacks are of course aimed at Windows because of the numbers of users, but its design makes it a much easier target, and much easier for an attack to wreak havoc. Windows' widespread (and often unnecessary) use of features such as RPC meanwhile adds vulnerabilities that really need not be there. Linux's design is not vulnerable in the same ways, and no matter how successful it eventually becomes it simply cannot experience attacks to similar levels, inflicting similar levels of damage, to Windows.
Don't be so pedantic because you obviously DID know what the guy meant, It's not like the internet isn't already full of spelling mistakes and that's not even an english word
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It's a a decent read if you want to get the book...
Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millions - Ben Mezrich
Sorry, I'm just too damn lazy! Plus I use an extension to Firefoz which automatically converts any links / emails to hyperlinks for me.
Have a look at http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/ (*ahem* http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/) - converts text links to genuine, bona fide hyperlinks.
Try this to get round sites that check for the user agent and blcok non-IE browsers (it works a treat for me with Firefox 0.9.3)...
*User Agent Switcher Extension*
"The User Agent Switcher extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds a menu to switch the user agent of the browser. It is designed to provide functionality similar to the 'Browser Identification' feature of Opera and allows configuration of the list of user agents to display in the menu."
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/userag en tswitcher/
Stop your whining, along with the rest of the "oh my god this is the end of linux" slashdot knee-jerk response readers.
NO-ONE forces you to upgrade to the latest 'stable' kernel. If your only requirement from an OS is stability then I suggest that you stay away from the latest 2.6.x release; anyone with common sense can realise that you should only upgrade when you feel that an acceptable level of testing has occured. If you want to be really safe why not stick with 2.4.x until 2.6 has been in use for as long and has been 'tested' by thousands.
I'll say keep the updates coming as I like to live life 'on the edge', even dabling with the latest love sources if I want to try their "open heart sugery" approach to updating the kernel... but it does rock like ninja!
I for one will sleep safely at night even with this 'almost' news story. Why don't the rest of you slashdot haters / war mongerers relax and realise it's not the start of the apocalypse. If you could do better job than linux I'll point you in the direction of the source code; you could even produce your own 'slashdot+turgid stability certified' kernel if you like.
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Well at least we get 4 more years of Bushisms!
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Kernkraft400 writes, " I can't wait for the next Windows virus or worm to take down all the cash machines."
:-/ The full text I submitted was definitely not so biased against Windows but hey, this is slashdot!
In my defence I didn't expect the article to actually get submitted so fired it off in a couple of minutes without much thought; it was a throwaway comment and not supposed to be taken any more seriously.
Anyway, did you actually read the article?
"Last August, the Nachi (Welchia) worm contaminated the cash machines at two financial institutions. When the Slammer virus hit the back end systems of the Bank of America in January 2003, 13,000 US ATMs became unavailable."
I also linked to the recent report that the UK government has said that linux is "viable", http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3960025.stm but that got dropped too. Maybe my anti-Windows comment wasn't the most tactful thing to write, but resulting to a personal attack is a bit strong even if this is only the internet.
Do we have to repeat this every time?
i ndows_security/
Myth Windows only gets attacked most because it's such a big target, and if Linux use (or indeed OS X use) grew then so would the number of attacks.
FactWhen it comes to web servers, the biggest target is Apache, the Internet's server of choice. Attacks on Apache are nevertheless far fewer in number, and cause less damage. And in some case Apache-related attacks have the most serious effect on Windows machines. Attacks are of course aimed at Windows because of the numbers of users, but its design makes it a much easier target, and much easier for an attack to wreak havoc. Windows' widespread (and often unnecessary) use of features such as RPC meanwhile adds vulnerabilities that really need not be there. Linux's design is not vulnerable in the same ways, and no matter how successful it eventually becomes it simply cannot experience attacks to similar levels, inflicting similar levels of damage, to Windows.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_w
Don't be so pedantic because you obviously DID know what the guy meant, It's not like the internet isn't already full of spelling mistakes and that's not even an english word
It's a a decent read if you want to get the book...
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Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millions - Ben Mezrich
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/00994682
Maybe not running Microsoft's latest software but quite happy to get by with; http://www.microsoft.com/xbox/ and then http://www.xbox-linux.org/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/
Or you could...
$ emerge rsnapshot
(rsnapshot is a filesystem backup utility based on rsync - http://www.rsnapshot.org/)
Sorry, I'm just too damn lazy! Plus I use an extension to Firefoz which automatically converts any links / emails to hyperlinks for me.
Have a look at http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/ (*ahem* http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/) - converts text links to genuine, bona fide hyperlinks.
The link to PDFCreator you gave is a dead site, try the Sourceforge project page instead... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Try this to get round sites that check for the user agent and blcok non-IE browsers (it works a treat for me with Firefox 0.9.3)...
g en tswitcher/
*User Agent Switcher Extension*
"The User Agent Switcher extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds a menu to switch the user agent of the browser. It is designed to provide functionality similar to the 'Browser Identification' feature of Opera and allows configuration of the list of user agents to display in the menu."
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/usera
> I typed out a long reply to this just now, but the browser crashed, so this reply will be a bit more brief. Still using IE on Windows are we?
One OS to rule them all, one bug / virus / worm to ownZ them all! Have you tried Windows lately and been getting ideas?
Stop your whining, along with the rest of the "oh my god this is the end of linux" slashdot knee-jerk response readers.
NO-ONE forces you to upgrade to the latest 'stable' kernel. If your only requirement from an OS is stability then I suggest that you stay away from the latest 2.6.x release; anyone with common sense can realise that you should only upgrade when you feel that an acceptable level of testing has occured. If you want to be really safe why not stick with 2.4.x until 2.6 has been in use for as long and has been 'tested' by thousands.
I'll say keep the updates coming as I like to live life 'on the edge', even dabling with the latest love sources if I want to try their "open heart sugery" approach to updating the kernel... but it does rock like ninja!
I for one will sleep safely at night even with this 'almost' news story. Why don't the rest of you slashdot haters / war mongerers relax and realise it's not the start of the apocalypse. If you could do better job than linux I'll point you in the direction of the source code; you could even produce your own 'slashdot+turgid stability certified' kernel if you like.
> So insightful. Wow. Viruses raise TCO!!! What a revelation!!
This was like trying to nail jelly to the ceiling