It's not really a rootkit as there's no immediate root access, you just get to execute code as the user who views the file. Though with windows there's not that much difference.
Yep - gentoo installs the program from the tarball, but does it in such a way that it can resolve dependencies, uninstall if necessary, etc. Lyx is at 1.3.6 in gentoo at the moment.
Hmm.... I didn't realize that Gentoo can automatically update Oracle, vmware, and all the software out there in the universe that runs on gentoo???
One of the great things about gentoo is that it's really easy to write an ebuild - for a program that uses the standard./configure, make and make install it's just a few lines listing name, homepage and dependencies. There isn't one for every program, but there are for an awful lot - since the ebuild doesn't include the actual program, they can easily have them for programs that can't be freely downloaded.
The same thing you are complaining about applies to what you are praising. Every distro then should be trying to get every application into all the different installation methods.
Yes, but they're much further along than MS. I meant it when I said every program on my system is covered by emerge - I haven't had to look outside the system once.
I>Since you can't be certain WMP doesn't send your personal data even after you turn it off, how can you trust MS' claim they don't get any personal data?
I don't trust anyone's claim. I trust my own tcpdump.
Apple said it doesn't keep the data. What, other than marketing research could a bunch of artist and track names get you?
I'm sure the RIAA would be very interested in such a list, when combined with the IP addresses of the people who were playing them (which Apple could trivially log). Search through it for an unreleased song and you've got a list of very likely P2P users, there's no question of them having ripped it from their own CD or anything. If you have the IPs, just look through them and see if they're sharing it. And in return they drop the license fees for iTMS a little.
The people's tcpdump investigations proved (elsewhere) that nothing identifying you was sent (that "they could see"), just the song information (artist, title, year, I think... I can't remember what they found off the top of my head.)
But your IP will be enough - they will know what info goes with what address from iTMS.
But the key people are missing time and again is: You CAN turn it off
You can turn Gator off if you're persistent enough. The point is it's on by default.
What could the MP3 actually encode? Unless you told iTunes or OS X your shoe size, favorite color, and dream date, I'm certain your privacy isn't being compromised by Apple encoding your SSN into the comments field (I looked, it doesn't.)
If they're generating GUIDs the normal way, it has your MAC address at the least. Enough to identify your computer uniquely.
You can turn it off as easily as it was turned on. Of THAT fact, there is no argument..
It was turned on by you doing nothing. Turning it off requires you to do something. Not as easy.
That's why they're bugs. Seriously, I don't think the fact that it behaves differently from how it does in a printer is any indication it was deliberately written that way. More likely this was an attempt to disable the code that went wrong.
One difference - you mention office, but I suspect most software on a typical user's machine is not covered by windows update. Wheras as a gentoo user, everything on my machine is updated with one command. MS is doing well looking after their own products, but any application can compromise the system - they should try and get every windows program vendor using windows update.
http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.html is a much better alternative to DSL. Full version of abiword rather than the diddly rtf editor you get with DSL. Full spreadsheet (gnumeric). Full copy of the gimp, mplayer...I could go on.
Yes, if you read his post again you'll see he's talking about recording in full HD at 60Hz. Personally I don't see the point, but for some people you can never get good enough.
It does, because setting the qbit to both 0 and 1 allows you to do two calculations - the one you'd do if it was 0 and the one you'd do if it was 1 - at once.
I do the same things to the same machine under both linux and windows. And it crashed about twice an hour under win98, less now that I've replaced that with 2k but it's still a noticeable rate of crashing, wheras I have never had a full crash (worst thing to happen was X dieing and taking my screen with it, but I was able to ssh in and use the machine fine, though all I did was reboot) under linux.
Find one of the old Blue and White G3 or Graphite/Quicksilver/MDD G4 towers. Those things are tough. I could definitely stand or walk on one.
I've got one from just before, last of the Beige G3s. I wouldn't be happy standing on it - it would probably take it, certainly has more chance than my PC, but it doesn't strike me as a sure thing. (Though now it's broken, it doesn't really matter. I missed off a 0 when setting real-base and now it won't boot at all. Sigh)
More than capable, exactly - it would be a waste of the hardware. OSX is not and cannot be a good server OS, not without a fundamental rewrite, and I don't think the parts of Solaris that make it a good server OS are things that can be taken out and put into something else.
I don't think OSX is the best way to use such hardware. If you want that kind of power, it's not so things are pretty for the user, it's for the servers or number-crunching you're running. The sun desktop is basic for a reason - you can run KDE on solaris if you want to. Not many do - a glitzy desktop is not a good fit with that kind of hardware.
I can't see Sun being an OS maker. I think they're trying to make the same transformation IBM did, and become a solutions company. They may well even keep the hardware line, though probably using standard components - it enables them to sell the complete package to customers.
As for Apple, I don't know where they're heading. They make good software, but not enough to justify the OS, and I don't think the hardware has enough to differentiate it anymore. I can see them becoming a software and devices company - they still make the best laptops, and the ipods are an enormous success. They could go towards making phones and PDAs, and keeping the software line but running on other people's OSes.
No, but I do have old apple and sun machines, probably from closer to the times this was a possibility.
Damn, it is one heavy computer! I think "built like a tank" is a pretty fitting description.
I've never met an Apple I could compare to a tank. They're too...graceful, though that's not exactly what I mean.
When you open up the case, moreover, you can see the attention to detail. Everything fits together so well, cables are neatly tucked away, spare screws are provided for an additional drive, it's really nice. It is not just "slick."
Apples are built properly, something the PC world seems to have forgotten about. But just because they do actually seem to have been intelligently designed, doesn't make them solid in the same way. The Apple is a racecar rather than a tank. A friend habitually walks over my sun machine - the idea that it might be damageable by anything short of a JCB is utterly incomprehensible.
Again, I don't think they really fit. OSX wouldn't go with sun hardware, and I don't think using solaris on a non-sun platform would make OSX any better than currently.
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It's not really a rootkit as there's no immediate root access, you just get to execute code as the user who views the file. Though with windows there's not that much difference.
By putting 1 where you meant -1, say, if that's an error code. Or using the wrong kind of =. (I did read the article)
Not at all, it's disappointingly fast on my main system. I do have a 486 I'm going to try to install on - it looks like it'll take a month or two.
Yep - gentoo installs the program from the tarball, but does it in such a way that it can resolve dependencies, uninstall if necessary, etc. Lyx is at 1.3.6 in gentoo at the moment.
One of the great things about gentoo is that it's really easy to write an ebuild - for a program that uses the standard ./configure, make and make install it's just a few lines listing name, homepage and dependencies. There isn't one for every program, but there are for an awful lot - since the ebuild doesn't include the actual program, they can easily have them for programs that can't be freely downloaded.
The same thing you are complaining about applies to what you are praising. Every distro then should be trying to get every application into all the different installation methods.
Yes, but they're much further along than MS. I meant it when I said every program on my system is covered by emerge - I haven't had to look outside the system once.
I don't trust anyone's claim. I trust my own tcpdump.
Apple said it doesn't keep the data. What, other than marketing research could a bunch of artist and track names get you?
I'm sure the RIAA would be very interested in such a list, when combined with the IP addresses of the people who were playing them (which Apple could trivially log). Search through it for an unreleased song and you've got a list of very likely P2P users, there's no question of them having ripped it from their own CD or anything. If you have the IPs, just look through them and see if they're sharing it. And in return they drop the license fees for iTMS a little.
The people's tcpdump investigations proved (elsewhere) that nothing identifying you was sent (that "they could see"), just the song information (artist, title, year, I think... I can't remember what they found off the top of my head.)
But your IP will be enough - they will know what info goes with what address from iTMS.
But the key people are missing time and again is: You CAN turn it off
You can turn Gator off if you're persistent enough. The point is it's on by default.
What could the MP3 actually encode? Unless you told iTunes or OS X your shoe size, favorite color, and dream date, I'm certain your privacy isn't being compromised by Apple encoding your SSN into the comments field (I looked, it doesn't.)
If they're generating GUIDs the normal way, it has your MAC address at the least. Enough to identify your computer uniquely.
You can turn it off as easily as it was turned on. Of THAT fact, there is no argument..
It was turned on by you doing nothing. Turning it off requires you to do something. Not as easy.
Austrumi makes your point better though. DSL is clearly very stripped down, while austrumi is pretty much everything you want.
That's why they're bugs. Seriously, I don't think the fact that it behaves differently from how it does in a printer is any indication it was deliberately written that way. More likely this was an attempt to disable the code that went wrong.
Apple fucked them over, basically. Their products may look pretty, but they don't pull their punches on the business side.
One difference - you mention office, but I suspect most software on a typical user's machine is not covered by windows update. Wheras as a gentoo user, everything on my machine is updated with one command. MS is doing well looking after their own products, but any application can compromise the system - they should try and get every windows program vendor using windows update.
http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.html is a much better alternative to DSL. Full version of abiword rather than the diddly rtf editor you get with DSL. Full spreadsheet (gnumeric). Full copy of the gimp, mplayer...I could go on.
Yes, if you read his post again you'll see he's talking about recording in full HD at 60Hz. Personally I don't see the point, but for some people you can never get good enough.
It does, because setting the qbit to both 0 and 1 allows you to do two calculations - the one you'd do if it was 0 and the one you'd do if it was 1 - at once.
I do the same things to the same machine under both linux and windows. And it crashed about twice an hour under win98, less now that I've replaced that with 2k but it's still a noticeable rate of crashing, wheras I have never had a full crash (worst thing to happen was X dieing and taking my screen with it, but I was able to ssh in and use the machine fine, though all I did was reboot) under linux.
I've got one from just before, last of the Beige G3s. I wouldn't be happy standing on it - it would probably take it, certainly has more chance than my PC, but it doesn't strike me as a sure thing. (Though now it's broken, it doesn't really matter. I missed off a 0 when setting real-base and now it won't boot at all. Sigh)
It would work, I just don't think it'd be a good use of sun hardware - and solaris on non-sun platforms isn't really there yet.
More than capable, exactly - it would be a waste of the hardware. OSX is not and cannot be a good server OS, not without a fundamental rewrite, and I don't think the parts of Solaris that make it a good server OS are things that can be taken out and put into something else.
Hmm. I'm very surprised by that is all I can say.
They'd be in it by now if they'd combined. Either the whole joint thing (sapple?) sunk, or all traces of Sun gone from it.
Why not? My browser will not send any local file over the internet without an explicit confirmation. I would expect my media player to do the same.
I don't think OSX is the best way to use such hardware. If you want that kind of power, it's not so things are pretty for the user, it's for the servers or number-crunching you're running. The sun desktop is basic for a reason - you can run KDE on solaris if you want to. Not many do - a glitzy desktop is not a good fit with that kind of hardware.
As for Apple, I don't know where they're heading. They make good software, but not enough to justify the OS, and I don't think the hardware has enough to differentiate it anymore. I can see them becoming a software and devices company - they still make the best laptops, and the ipods are an enormous success. They could go towards making phones and PDAs, and keeping the software line but running on other people's OSes.
No, but I do have old apple and sun machines, probably from closer to the times this was a possibility.
Damn, it is one heavy computer! I think "built like a tank" is a pretty fitting description.
I've never met an Apple I could compare to a tank. They're too...graceful, though that's not exactly what I mean.
When you open up the case, moreover, you can see the attention to detail. Everything fits together so well, cables are neatly tucked away, spare screws are provided for an additional drive, it's really nice. It is not just "slick."
Apples are built properly, something the PC world seems to have forgotten about. But just because they do actually seem to have been intelligently designed, doesn't make them solid in the same way. The Apple is a racecar rather than a tank. A friend habitually walks over my sun machine - the idea that it might be damageable by anything short of a JCB is utterly incomprehensible.
Again, I don't think they really fit. OSX wouldn't go with sun hardware, and I don't think using solaris on a non-sun platform would make OSX any better than currently.
AIUI TIFF allows you to use any compression algorithm you like.