... when I thought I thoughy about applying for a job listed on their site, I was prompted on whether or not I wanted the employment information pulled from my Google+ profile. I declined.
...after you have cashed in your stock and made a not insubstantial sum of money. I wonder how much effort, if any, she will put into combating the type of issues she is now decrying.
I call bullshit.
From the article - "In all that time the service has never once failed - until today."
Perhaps it never failed for the author previously, but Skype has had several notable outages in its history. I'm not huge fan of M$, but the article shows nothing to justify blaming this on M$.
I'd say you aren't much of a real Windows admin if all you know if the "click click" side of things.
Even a halfway decent PC Tech knows how to effectively use things like ipconfig from a cmd prompt. I just recently did some online coursework for Windows Server 2008. Guess what? There are still PLENTY of tasks that can ONLY be done from the CLI, for managing DNS and number of other things. As much as Windows like to focus on the GUI for the average user, you will never get away from the CLI if you want to use all of the feature for managing a Windows machine. I have to use Windows on my work desktop, and I have always have a cmd prompt window open. Simply because its something faster for doing certain things, than trying to use the GUI.
Actually, when I worked briefly for a large company which I shall not name, I discovered that there are control systems which are running Windows 2000. The systems in were question were not in nuclear plants, but they were responsible for equipment which could lead to very bad things happening (think large explosions), if something went sufficiently wrong.
I did read the first few reviews. They were pretty superficial, based on solely on vendor supplied info or early prototypes. They need to write another article when they get some actual hands on experience with all of the models listed.
Or switch to ssh public key based authentication. I have done this for my linux machines at home. An attacker would need to have my certificate, along with knowing the password to even use the certificate.
There is still an open source version of Nessus which is maintained and updated. From the article to which you linked:
"Deraison said the existing version 2 of Nessus would continue to be available under the GPL license and receive bug fixes and regular updates. The large library of plug-ins to the software would also continue to distributed in a way that would allow parties to examine their source code."
I can see that you didn't read very carefully in regards to HDTV: "I've temporarily held off on HDTV tuners as I'm on special assignment in Europe, with no access to signal."
In the summary he even states that he is going to stick with Vista over MythTV for now.
While I agree that the package management still needs improvements, the obstacles you mention are hardly show stoppers. I play mp3s, dvds, and a variety of other audio/video files on my Fedora Core 6 system with no problem.
This seems like an unnecessary duplication of effort. There are already established providers of blacklists, such as spamcop. Why not work with them and help develop easier ways for users to report spam via their email client?
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... when I thought I thoughy about applying for a job listed on their site, I was prompted on whether or not I wanted the employment information pulled from my Google+ profile. I declined.
...after you have cashed in your stock and made a not insubstantial sum of money. I wonder how much effort, if any, she will put into combating the type of issues she is now decrying.
I was thinking along those lines. Has MS started adding code to Skype? :)
I call bullshit. From the article - "In all that time the service has never once failed - until today." Perhaps it never failed for the author previously, but Skype has had several notable outages in its history. I'm not huge fan of M$, but the article shows nothing to justify blaming this on M$.
My coverage with T-Mobile has been excellent. I've never had problems with reception, at home or elsewhere.
I'd say you aren't much of a real Windows admin if all you know if the "click click" side of things. Even a halfway decent PC Tech knows how to effectively use things like ipconfig from a cmd prompt. I just recently did some online coursework for Windows Server 2008. Guess what? There are still PLENTY of tasks that can ONLY be done from the CLI, for managing DNS and number of other things. As much as Windows like to focus on the GUI for the average user, you will never get away from the CLI if you want to use all of the feature for managing a Windows machine. I have to use Windows on my work desktop, and I have always have a cmd prompt window open. Simply because its something faster for doing certain things, than trying to use the GUI.
Hrmm. I think this was pretty much covered in this past article: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/01/06/2238228/A-Peek-At-DHSs-Files-On-You?art_pos=4 Perhaps a different person's records, but basically the same deal, from what I can see so far.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/12/1724230&from=rss
Bleh. Its just a simple substitution cipher. They didn't even change the grouping of the letters. Took me about 5 minutes to figure it out.
Also, when configuring ACLs 0.0.0.0 usually means all ip addresses.
Actually, when I worked briefly for a large company which I shall not name, I discovered that there are control systems which are running Windows 2000. The systems in were question were not in nuclear plants, but they were responsible for equipment which could lead to very bad things happening (think large explosions), if something went sufficiently wrong.
I did read the first few reviews. They were pretty superficial, based on solely on vendor supplied info or early prototypes. They need to write another article when they get some actual hands on experience with all of the models listed.
Or switch to ssh public key based authentication. I have done this for my linux machines at home. An attacker would need to have my certificate, along with knowing the password to even use the certificate.
I'd have to agree with this guy:
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/10/someone-please-explain-threats-to.html
Pull down the entire blacklist periodically, and then just query the local copy.
That may not be much better. According to a follow up comment by the discoverer of the exploit.
"Foxit is vulnerable as well, although the user is required to interact with the document in order to launch the exploit."
There is still an open source version of Nessus which is maintained and updated. From the article to which you linked:
"Deraison said the existing version 2 of Nessus would continue to be available under the GPL license and receive bug fixes and regular updates. The large library of plug-ins to the software would also continue to distributed in a way that would allow parties to examine their source code."
The man page for nmap is more detailed than their paraphrasing of it. Some of the article is flat out wrong.
Since there's no overhead of a TCP handshake, the UDP scan is inherently less "noisy."
Yeah right.
If you don't have nmap installed, just go here - http://insecure.org/nmap/man/
Part of freedom is not having to justify everything you want to with a reason.
for image spam. Great.
I can see that you didn't read very carefully in regards to HDTV: "I've temporarily held off on HDTV tuners as I'm on special assignment in Europe, with no access to signal." In the summary he even states that he is going to stick with Vista over MythTV for now.
While I agree that the package management still needs improvements, the obstacles you mention are hardly show stoppers. I play mp3s, dvds, and a variety of other audio/video files on my Fedora Core 6 system with no problem.
I would hope that most people who use appliances realize that they are paying for the electricity to run them. TANSTAAFL.
I think I can scrape up enough money for a new 64 bit PC in the 5 to 8 years it will take to see a successor to Vista. Oh wait...I run linux at home.
This seems like an unnecessary duplication of effort. There are already established providers of blacklists, such as spamcop. Why not work with them and help develop easier ways for users to report spam via their email client?