there are a ton of anti-Microsoft people out there who would love to see Microsoft go down in flames, and Linux take its place.
So... exit Microsoft Corp, stage left; enter Linux Corp, stage right? Have I got the picture?
But Linux isn't a corporation; and Linus would happily agree that Linux isn't a person. It has, in its enemies' words, "no centre of gravity", no central bastion to attack. It has no war-chest, no lawyers, no production facilities. If it is distributed from France or Germany, it isn't because of some strategic global plan, it's just where the distributors happened to live.
In short, while you can happily replace MS-Windows with Linux, there is nothing to replace Microsoft itself.
Microsoft IS the biggie out there, and Linux isn't, but we all [...] would like to see that reversed?
There are twice as many Apache sites as IIS sites, so one would expect to see twice as many Apache defacements if they were attacked equally often and defended equally well.
IRL, the Apache machines will more often be doing multiple duties (e.g. Internet gateway, email server), further skewing the results against themselves because there are simply more services to break into on those machines.
If I was a selfish, destructive little cracker, I'd be breaking into Linux boxes simply because they're more useful than a corresponding MS-Windows box once you 0\/\/|\|3rZ them.. A lot more stuff will install off-the-shelf in scripted fashion, or already be installed.
...and this works with programs that don't support `--': rm./--help.
You could also use wildcards, as in rm ??help, providing you weren't too fond of files called "myhelp" or "xxhelp" in the same directory. Use the -i option if there's a few matches, and say yea/nay to zapping each.
You could move everything else out of the directory then rm -rf it.
You could tell an app that didn't accept long options to use it as a temp file.
echo -e '#include <stdio.h>\nmain(){unlink("--help");}\n' >zaphelp.c; make zaphelp;./zaphelp; rm zaphelp zaphelp.c
if you call it a "hole in GNU/Linux", you are referring to a hole in the OS
Not quite. You're referring to a hole in the kernel and/or that subset of userland tools written by or assigned to the FSF such as the C compiler and awk interpreter. You're not referring to holes in Apache, SendMail, PHP, PostFix, Mozilla, KDE, SaMBa, OpenSSH, SquirrelMail, AMaViS, ProFTPd, OpenLDAP, bzflag, The GIMP or any one of (literally) thousands of other packages.
If you were a potential investor and didn't notice that, you might be decieved by the river of positive "press", not noticing that it was 95% masturbatory; so... do any of you happen to have contact with a company possessing write access to PR Newsire, Dow, Reuters, PrimeZone or any of the other news sources listed?
I'd be delighted to see an item appear there occasionally with a headline like "SuperMegaCorp laughs collective ass off at SCOX evidence blunder", "IBM respects, defends GPL; SCOX tramples BSD licence" or "Is MSFT preparing to disown SCOX?".
The parent page has links to a fair few interesting snippets of information on food, most of which y'all cola-guzzling caffeine-addicted drunkards don't want to know. (-:
Well over 200, and climbing fast... not only that, my web-exposed boxes are getting a whack per IP address on port 135 about every 15 seconds (equals 17 a second for a Class C) - including many scans on Port 0? Does anybody have any idea why said worm might be scanning port 0?
Next they'll be including copies of UnixWare in the writs they send out ("Is that really grey paper? It looks like very, very fine print to me... my goodness, they've taken almost all of the whitespace out... but it does look like a winner from the Obfuscated C competition...") so they can be sure that all recipients have unlicenced copies of their code.
...and it's not routed through a single set of servers, doesn't (in general) use any patented protocols, can be simply and portably encrypted, and (if set up right) is as fast as and and considerably more robust than MSM or any other common messenger.
The next step is kind of obvious. (-:
Perhaps DOSBox will do what you want?
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...and it's so simple, but most people get it backwards. When you recieved a GPLed program, you do not lose rights. The rights granted to you by the GPL are the only rights granting you access to that software.
I've been running Linux longer than you have, so I want first dibs! (-:
The chutzpah of The SCO Group never ceases to amaze me: here are the extortioners beating up on thousands-to-millions of Linux users, and they complain the IBM wants to lean on them! Feh! Lean, IBM, lean, squash 'em and do it legally, fairly and completely above board. When D'ohl and co get their ticket to a third-world no-extradition-treaty refuge, make sure it's one-way for life!
I don't get it: their core evidence is shown to be hopeless, opening them to all manner of countersuits, and their stock goes... back up by 40%? Wha...? Are their shareholders suicidal, or what?
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So... exit Microsoft Corp, stage left; enter Linux Corp, stage right? Have I got the picture?
But Linux isn't a corporation; and Linus would happily agree that Linux isn't a person. It has, in its enemies' words, "no centre of gravity", no central bastion to attack. It has no war-chest, no lawyers, no production facilities. If it is distributed from France or Germany, it isn't because of some strategic global plan, it's just where the distributors happened to live.
In short, while you can happily replace MS-Windows with Linux, there is nothing to replace Microsoft itself.
Yeehah! (-:
There are twice as many Apache sites as IIS sites, so one would expect to see twice as many Apache defacements if they were attacked equally often and defended equally well.
IRL, the Apache machines will more often be doing multiple duties (e.g. Internet gateway, email server), further skewing the results against themselves because there are simply more services to break into on those machines.
If I was a selfish, destructive little cracker, I'd be breaking into Linux boxes simply because they're more useful than a corresponding MS-Windows box once you 0\/\/|\|3rZ them.. A lot more stuff will install off-the-shelf in scripted fashion, or already be installed.
I can introduce you to at least four. One of them writes anti-trojan software for his living.
Keep upgrading your tagline, one day you'll find one that is both witty and worthwhile.
You could also use wildcards, as in rm ??help, providing you weren't too fond of files called "myhelp" or "xxhelp" in the same directory. Use the -i option if there's a few matches, and say yea/nay to zapping each.
You could move everything else out of the directory then rm -rf it.
You could tell an app that didn't accept long options to use it as a temp file.
echo -e '#include <stdio.h>\nmain(){unlink("--help");}\n' >zaphelp.c; make zaphelp; ./zaphelp; rm zaphelp zaphelp.c
...and so on. Welcome to Unix. (-:
Not quite. You're referring to a hole in the kernel and/or that subset of userland tools written by or assigned to the FSF such as the C compiler and awk interpreter. You're not referring to holes in Apache, SendMail, PHP, PostFix, Mozilla, KDE, SaMBa, OpenSSH, SquirrelMail, AMaViS, ProFTPd, OpenLDAP, bzflag, The GIMP or any one of (literally) thousands of other packages.
...I notice that all of the "PR Newswire" press releases listed under the SCOX symbol at Yahoo are sourced by - tahdaah! - The SCO Group.
If you were a potential investor and didn't notice that, you might be decieved by the river of positive "press", not noticing that it was 95% masturbatory; so... do any of you happen to have contact with a company possessing write access to PR Newsire, Dow, Reuters, PrimeZone or any of the other news sources listed?
I'd be delighted to see an item appear there occasionally with a headline like "SuperMegaCorp laughs collective ass off at SCOX evidence blunder", "IBM respects, defends GPL; SCOX tramples BSD licence" or "Is MSFT preparing to disown SCOX?".
...light reading. (-:
The parent page has links to a fair few interesting snippets of information on food, most of which y'all cola-guzzling caffeine-addicted drunkards don't want to know. (-:
Take the Google shortcut and read about:
Germane in recent days are such gems as "preparing food suring a power failure" (linked from this health articles index).
...but it's true. (-: "FAQland, FAQland, uber alles?" :-)
...you whoosh over concept's head... (-:
RTFF (Read The ...er... Fine Faq)
Or...
...are an insensitive clod! (-:
...there's plenty of other kinds of Outlook viruses around to take up the slack. (-:
And it don't, so it ain't. QED. (-:
Well over 200, and climbing fast... not only that, my web-exposed boxes are getting a whack per IP address on port 135 about every 15 seconds (equals 17 a second for a Class C) - including many scans on Port 0? Does anybody have any idea why said worm might be scanning port 0?
...will be called SCObig?
Next they'll be including copies of UnixWare in the writs they send out ("Is that really grey paper? It looks like very, very fine print to me... my goodness, they've taken almost all of the whitespace out... but it does look like a winner from the Obfuscated C competition...") so they can be sure that all recipients have unlicenced copies of their code.
...but can't find any old enough hardware.
Either that or the recievers got there early and the racks are now vacant. (-:
Thanks for that link, it's currently off doing the rounds. (-:
The next step is kind of obvious. (-:
The screenshots look encouraging, and the Mandrake people reckon it's much easier to compile, and its main focus is running Very Old (dos) Games On New Systems (-: nice acronym :-).
...and it's so simple, but most people get it backwards. When you recieved a GPLed program, you do not lose rights. The rights granted to you by the GPL are the only rights granting you access to that software.
I've been running Linux longer than you have, so I want first dibs! (-:
The chutzpah of The SCO Group never ceases to amaze me: here are the extortioners beating up on thousands-to-millions of Linux users, and they complain the IBM wants to lean on them! Feh! Lean, IBM, lean, squash 'em and do it legally, fairly and completely above board. When D'ohl and co get their ticket to a third-world no-extradition-treaty refuge, make sure it's one-way for life!
I don't get it: their core evidence is shown to be hopeless, opening them to all manner of countersuits, and their stock goes... back up by 40%? Wha...? Are their shareholders suicidal, or what?