Forgot to say that even though they say nobody hacked them (yeah right) I am sure that is exactly what happened. They lied once... I still can't drink this water, it's as dirty as they are.
First a nuclear power plant is compromised because soe mother F#@Tr was browing the internet. Then Microsoft comes up with things like Windows is more secure than Linux kind of crap, then Microsoft admits that Windows is not secure and that one must not plug PCs to the internet... Now this???
I say that whoever is responsible for this didn't have his/her/their record(s) stolen - just sayin.
I just want to see the hanging. Yes roman style with all the torture. They DO deserve it for being stupid.
Your identity are belong to us... get it?
Have a... well guess now nobody can have a good one now. Burn them!!!
I reimage my coputer almost every week. On a sign of virus, key logger, trojan, screen flikering, mouse moving by itself... I reimage my PC, boot with BartPE, use ClamAV + other couple of antivirus programs to check the harddrives that do contain my data (I don't keep anything good on the system partition - at least). Then zero fill the system hard drive. THEN I boot into the reimaged sytem that is clean. Phew...
If I can do it, why can't other people do it? By making an image I avoid having to reactivate windows. That's it.
If Motorola is making it then it might just happen.
Most of you out there are thinking that it will require a WiFi hot spot, maybe it does. Now, what about the possibility of the internet becoming a public service like the street cleaning or garbage collection, just saying, that it will become a part of our every day lives, it will be available everywhere. If it becomes available everywhere, then most mobile phone service providers will include internet service free of charge or low cost. Paying a low monthly fee and being able to make long distance calls under that same fee sounds good to me.
Now, can somebody make a Point to Point tunnel with SSH for phones so that uncle sam can't packet sniff your conversation about whether you are going to wear a tin foil hat or not in your birth-day with a giant penguin coming out of the cake?
Anyways, why add more wood to the fire? aren't there enough jobs being outsorced to India?? The solution: create more need for IT people... right? So more americnas are hired... right?? So we just add more spammers to the world so that administrators, executives and the like who know jack shit about computers and only care for saving a buck or two... millions just go out and guess what??? Let's outsource to india because it is cheap!!!
Next thing you know you end up calling tech support and you get a friendly, heavy accent english speaking person from India who can't give you his last name (DELL), makes you call back again and again (DELL anyone?) until after 10 calls you finally get a person who's first language is english. THEN they can tell you: ohh, yes you are right... you are screwed (just an example).
Now picture this... a lot of people actually sing up for those virus, spyware, spam classes and ten years later you wake up in your all modern, fully electronic and automatized house... flat screens and digital panels everywhere, you go to the kitchen to get somethin to eat, get the newspaper, sit down and the computer that controls the house asks you... "What would you like with your spam today sir?"... AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Yes, very Microsnotish (MicroSnot, I mean M$) All of this while being watched by the cameras and every movement scrutinized by sensors that know exactly what you do all day, every day, the whole year. The "smart" fridge with the 20" plasma display that tells you when the milk is about to run out shows 25 different comercials about milk... just because you have the right to choose (yeah right) The last thing I want is to be hit by spam every day so PLEASE make clases so that people can learn how to better hit SPAM in my face as much as possible.
Shouldn't there be a law that prohibits the waste of resources? I mean, even just paper spam that you get in the mail is bad enough because not every body recycles that paper. Now what about wasted bandwidth? What about buisesses loosing money because their employees now also have to worry about sorting out spam? And the idiots who fall for scams about their banks asking them for the ID and password? What about stoping "unwated" spam? What about living in a world where people actually spend their time making something worthy of recognition? Where is dignity in these days of commertialism, the days of money and power?
Why not actually make a way that consumers actually look for the ads rather than throwing it to their faces like if they were stupid?
The Opt out for the X-10 spam on websites was a hell of a thing that annoyed many, frustrated others and provided the basis for many others to follow up on just that: making the internet a scary place where one may not know anymore what is good and wat is not, what is safe and waht not. I am saddened by the ongoing destruction of a vast resource such as the internet.
I guess that the problem is actually that there are one or two billion to many in this world. YES! that has to be it!! Start a war, control the amount of population, make them drink victory gin and the partie's coffee... After all all you need is a telescreen to spam just about everybody.... NO WAIT!!!! I've seen one in many people's living room already... A TV!!!!
We are doomed.
Man I had to much Coke, ohh, mmmm, need more Bawls... nahh...not really. Too much caffeine might not be good.
when all the wanto-lick eye candy comes in bitmaps for OS X?
I know vector based GUI may reduce file sizes but to the cost of performance? I mean bitmap = load and display, vector = load and process then display not to mention that windows can be resized, be transparent, transform (maybe) and all of this needs CPU power. This is not counting that if it is done right then we all want a piece of it.
The tendency nowadays is to make files smaller and smaller which requires more and more processing power. When will we stick to something that has good speed and then just make it look good? Of course generally speaking. It's like always buying the latest processor chip, the biggest hard drive and the super thin and large monitor. There is always a faster one, bigger one, smaller... Whe do we stop to make something good out of what we have and then move to the next step??
No I didn't RTFA
No I will not fix your super computer
No I don't care about drivers being bundled with linux or not
Your bitmap are belong to us... got it?
Man I can't sleep!!!!
Have a good one.
Have a good one.
Gentoo is too MUCH WORK!!!! At least when it came to the Desktop install. I am not so concerned with optimizations and the like for performance. I have the time, enough computers even to leave one alone while it compiles and everything but I do not always keep the same computer for the same thing all the time. Servers change, application change and of course the needs that required that solution change. Why use Gentoo in my environment? This is why I mention soemthing such as a Live CD that if updated you just burn the new one, reboot server with it and done.
The idea is right. A modular LiveCD is what I want. Perhaps what most people might want. As I said to the other guys that repplied... Slax is what I wanted.
So how would this attract people from the Windows side (dark side as I see it) to the Linux side (the bright side of course.)
Many IT people still need a little encouragement to even look at linux. It is sad but true. Why would I invest time in something that needs more time, and more time for customization?.
Thankfully I found Slax and dicovered that it has "Modules" and it is exactly what I was talking about. I know my english is not so... good. What the heck.
Anyways, Slax is what I was looking for. Easy to use and customize. I can actually recommend it to replace Windoze file servers. Heck, even web servers.
Have a good one and thatnk you for the ideas. I will look into that.
Missed the point. I asked for one that already exists or that one does not have to goof around with. The idea is to move people from windows to linux not scare the heck outa them.
replace a windows server that does file sharing, web server, ACLs, backup, that also can partition a hard drive, can authenticate using active directory, network configuration, email server with a minimal graphical desktop, that fits on a miniCD that if it is ever hacked all you do is restart the computer and the server is back to it's "clean" read only state.
If you have a "live" CD then updates take as little as burning the updated CD and rebooting the server with it. Configuration files can reside on a floppy to avoid unwanted changes, facilitate backups, etc. Processes can run on sandboxes to avoid total system compromise in case of a hack attack.
I mean, how many out there?
Domainix sounds good but still needs a lot of typing. Not easy enough to brag about infront of windows only people. Slax has an add-on for samba and it is small enough... But how many out there??
If there would be one that does all that.. I would even pay for it!!!
a division of IP addresses per country and each country gets it's own share of IPs?
I mean, if there is such division, distribution, assignments, etc. of ip addresses why not just poll a stinkin DNS server that knows how the IPs are distributed by country and ISP??
I read that somewhere, too lazy to look without loosing my place in the first replys for this one.
Have a good one.
There are now DVD, DivX players that support video on demand files...
You download the movie, burn it and play it on you Digital projector to a big wall in the living room, turn up the volume in your home theater system...
It is certainly cheaper than having to go out in the cold to rent a movie that is not yet in the satellite or cable channels. You download the movie, make a few snacks, burn it ro DVD while you get your cute neightborg (that cute chick always smilng at you) and BAM!!!
It is somewhat the future of movies so to speak. We are already isolating ourselves from the world by using our "capsules" called cars to go pretty much anywhere so why not move to the next step and stay home isolated from everything.
Have a good one.
"Then, by drawing attention to the problem, they can actually get the server operator to fix it. There is a huge difference between:
"I think your server might have a security exploit. You can find the patch at http://whatever.net""
I guess that if it doesn't stink enough why care? right? But if people make it sound too stinky then they get sued for either slander or difamation or simply giving a bad image to a company. I know that, I visit/. a lot.
Now, shouldn't there be an entity that actually regulates the way the shit hits the fan? I mean, if whoever discovers a flaw in a program, website, etc, had the option to be able to tell that regulatory entity and THEN let that enity deal with the mess, more people would do it. And not just that but in a way commercial software would have a relatively "safe" way of getting their software fixed for free. Sort of like the way open source software works. The sort of organization that not only keeps an eye on security but also on the quality of the software. How many times have companies made bad software or lemon software that just doesn't do as they say it does? Get to birds in one shot. It would be nice to see a company paying a fee or a fine for releasing crap to the world and for putting your identity, credit, health records, etc, etc, at risk. It would be nice to get some cash back when the marvelous software you just got to make your work easier and crashed fifteen times and amde you lose your time (time is money). The same with websites, like in this case.
I guess I had to many Bawls... @_@
Why would then a bad guy flag himself saying that he discovered the flaw in the first place?? Makes no sense. Why draw attention to yourself if you are doing something bad? (besides bragging for hacking into it of course but in this case it's not worth sayin so because it was sooo easy...)
It has been my experience that sometimes IT is left out of the process of selecting a solution for the company. Leaving the decision making to burocrats who know jack sh@t about computers (a Mac scares the crap out of them). For example Who the heck would buy SAP for a college!!!!!??? Millions of dollars in a big fiasco that creates ten times the work for people!!!! But it looked nice when the consultants presented it... right?
It's like when you go and buy a car, the sales man asks yuo how much you want to "pay" and he sells it tou you for just that... a month plus all the little nasty things in the small print, extra charges...
People, administrators, burocrats, etc, don't understand that if they don't know what they are doing they can ask their OWN IT DEPARTMENT and not a stupid consultant that is simply a salesman.
(Note: not all consultants are bad, I know. I am one and I am also part of the IT in my second job)
There's e-text reader to read any text file like an ebook.
http://www.premier-programming.com/elib/etext_read er.htm
As a person that works in the Disabled Students Program and Services dep. I would like to see a more standard format for ebooks. I like Microsoft's format.lit and the reader works great for non protected (no text to speech) e-books. Other than that Acrobat Reader does an ok job with the Read Aloud feature it has. It sucks too if you have PDF based ebook with DRM restrictions but for educational use I guess that there is a little PDF program to remove the DRM and crap.
Commercialism sucks but it gives me ajob so I guess I have to keep my mouth shut and let companies come up with more and more e-book formats.
Whatever...
So now instead of being lured into clicking into something you just voluntarily download a hack and install it as a screen saver???
yeah right.... Like people is stupid enought to do that...
(sarcasm anyone?)
We all know Windoze is bad enough pathech or unpatched.
Having said that... where is my penguin to stop the bad packets?
iPCop anyone???
I mean I used iPCop to protect more than 2000 pcs in a college, why can't MicroSnot do the same??
I am just waiting for those four riders that come when the end of the world gets here!!!!!!
-> Me runs around like crazy with tin foil hat. -
But can it actually be good?? I mea lots of sites are ie only and swithcing to ie's engine can't hurt... right???
Slashdot Mirror
Forgot to say that even though they say nobody hacked them (yeah right) I am sure that is exactly what happened. They lied once... I still can't drink this water, it's as dirty as they are.
I'm sure of it!!!
First a nuclear power plant is compromised because soe mother F#@Tr was browing the internet. Then Microsoft comes up with things like Windows is more secure than Linux kind of crap, then Microsoft admits that Windows is not secure and that one must not plug PCs to the internet... Now this???
I say that whoever is responsible for this didn't have his/her/their record(s) stolen - just sayin.
I just want to see the hanging. Yes roman style with all the torture. They DO deserve it for being stupid.
Your identity are belong to us... get it?
Have a... well guess now nobody can have a good one now. Burn them!!!
I reimage my coputer almost every week. On a sign of virus, key logger, trojan, screen flikering, mouse moving by itself... I reimage my PC, boot with BartPE, use ClamAV + other couple of antivirus programs to check the harddrives that do contain my data (I don't keep anything good on the system partition - at least). Then zero fill the system hard drive. THEN I boot into the reimaged sytem that is clean. Phew...
If I can do it, why can't other people do it? By making an image I avoid having to reactivate windows. That's it.
Your rootkit are belong to us... get it?
Have a good one.
Encrypted as on no one has a backdoor? I read somewhere that the government has a collection of "keys" to the "back doors" of many encryption formats.
Just sayinn.
Have a good one.
If Motorola is making it then it might just happen.
Most of you out there are thinking that it will require a WiFi hot spot, maybe it does. Now, what about the possibility of the internet becoming a public service like the street cleaning or garbage collection, just saying, that it will become a part of our every day lives, it will be available everywhere. If it becomes available everywhere, then most mobile phone service providers will include internet service free of charge or low cost. Paying a low monthly fee and being able to make long distance calls under that same fee sounds good to me.
Now, can somebody make a Point to Point tunnel with SSH for phones so that uncle sam can't packet sniff your conversation about whether you are going to wear a tin foil hat or not in your birth-day with a giant penguin coming out of the cake?
Have a good one.
If motorola is making a phone that works with both maybe it will work with both, both ways.
Why bother with making something that nobody will support. This means that it is closer than we think.
Youre VoIP are belong to us... get it?
Have a good one
And other scan engines running in crossroad points in the network. If Syamentec ignores it is because sophos already deleted the virus.
Tal about putting all your eggs in one basket.\
Have a good one.
Is that what goes with my ham?
Anyways, why add more wood to the fire? aren't there enough jobs being outsorced to India?? The solution: create more need for IT people... right? So more americnas are hired... right?? So we just add more spammers to the world so that administrators, executives and the like who know jack shit about computers and only care for saving a buck or two... millions just go out and guess what??? Let's outsource to india because it is cheap!!!
Next thing you know you end up calling tech support and you get a friendly, heavy accent english speaking person from India who can't give you his last name (DELL), makes you call back again and again (DELL anyone?) until after 10 calls you finally get a person who's first language is english. THEN they can tell you: ohh, yes you are right... you are screwed (just an example).
Now picture this... a lot of people actually sing up for those virus, spyware, spam classes and ten years later you wake up in your all modern, fully electronic and automatized house... flat screens and digital panels everywhere, you go to the kitchen to get somethin to eat, get the newspaper, sit down and the computer that controls the house asks you... "What would you like with your spam today sir?"... AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Yes, very Microsnotish (MicroSnot, I mean M$) All of this while being watched by the cameras and every movement scrutinized by sensors that know exactly what you do all day, every day, the whole year. The "smart" fridge with the 20" plasma display that tells you when the milk is about to run out shows 25 different comercials about milk... just because you have the right to choose (yeah right) The last thing I want is to be hit by spam every day so PLEASE make clases so that people can learn how to better hit SPAM in my face as much as possible.
Shouldn't there be a law that prohibits the waste of resources? I mean, even just paper spam that you get in the mail is bad enough because not every body recycles that paper. Now what about wasted bandwidth? What about buisesses loosing money because their employees now also have to worry about sorting out spam? And the idiots who fall for scams about their banks asking them for the ID and password? What about stoping "unwated" spam? What about living in a world where people actually spend their time making something worthy of recognition? Where is dignity in these days of commertialism, the days of money and power?
Why not actually make a way that consumers actually look for the ads rather than throwing it to their faces like if they were stupid?
The Opt out for the X-10 spam on websites was a hell of a thing that annoyed many, frustrated others and provided the basis for many others to follow up on just that: making the internet a scary place where one may not know anymore what is good and wat is not, what is safe and waht not. I am saddened by the ongoing destruction of a vast resource such as the internet.
I guess that the problem is actually that there are one or two billion to many in this world. YES! that has to be it!! Start a war, control the amount of population, make them drink victory gin and the partie's coffee... After all all you need is a telescreen to spam just about everybody.... NO WAIT!!!! I've seen one in many people's living room already... A TV!!!!
We are doomed.
Man I had to much Coke, ohh, mmmm, need more Bawls... nahh...not really. Too much caffeine might not be good.
Have a good one.
when all the wanto-lick eye candy comes in bitmaps for OS X?
I know vector based GUI may reduce file sizes but to the cost of performance? I mean bitmap = load and display, vector = load and process then display not to mention that windows can be resized, be transparent, transform (maybe) and all of this needs CPU power. This is not counting that if it is done right then we all want a piece of it.
The tendency nowadays is to make files smaller and smaller which requires more and more processing power. When will we stick to something that has good speed and then just make it look good? Of course generally speaking. It's like always buying the latest processor chip, the biggest hard drive and the super thin and large monitor. There is always a faster one, bigger one, smaller... Whe do we stop to make something good out of what we have and then move to the next step??
No I didn't RTFA
No I will not fix your super computer
No I don't care about drivers being bundled with linux or not
Your bitmap are belong to us... got it?
Man I can't sleep!!!!
Have a good one. Have a good one.
Audio Lunch Box Here
MP3 and OGG, NO DRM!!!!!
It has been out for a while you know.
Have a good one.
Its called a MAC!!!!!!!!
Gentoo is too MUCH WORK!!!! At least when it came to the Desktop install. I am not so concerned with optimizations and the like for performance. I have the time, enough computers even to leave one alone while it compiles and everything but I do not always keep the same computer for the same thing all the time. Servers change, application change and of course the needs that required that solution change. Why use Gentoo in my environment? This is why I mention soemthing such as a Live CD that if updated you just burn the new one, reboot server with it and done.
The idea is right. A modular LiveCD is what I want. Perhaps what most people might want. As I said to the other guys that repplied... Slax is what I wanted.
Thank you and have a good one.
So how would this attract people from the Windows side (dark side as I see it) to the Linux side (the bright side of course.)
Many IT people still need a little encouragement to even look at linux. It is sad but true. Why would I invest time in something that needs more time, and more time for customization?.
Thankfully I found Slax and dicovered that it has "Modules" and it is exactly what I was talking about. I know my english is not so... good. What the heck.
Anyways, Slax is what I was looking for. Easy to use and customize. I can actually recommend it to replace Windoze file servers. Heck, even web servers.
Have a good one and thatnk you for the ideas. I will look into that.
Missed the point. I asked for one that already exists or that one does not have to goof around with. The idea is to move people from windows to linux not scare the heck outa them.
Thank you though.
replace a windows server that does file sharing, web server, ACLs, backup, that also can partition a hard drive, can authenticate using active directory, network configuration, email server with a minimal graphical desktop, that fits on a miniCD that if it is ever hacked all you do is restart the computer and the server is back to it's "clean" read only state.
If you have a "live" CD then updates take as little as burning the updated CD and rebooting the server with it. Configuration files can reside on a floppy to avoid unwanted changes, facilitate backups, etc. Processes can run on sandboxes to avoid total system compromise in case of a hack attack.
I mean, how many out there? Domainix sounds good but still needs a lot of typing. Not easy enough to brag about infront of windows only people. Slax has an add-on for samba and it is small enough... But how many out there??
If there would be one that does all that.. I would even pay for it!!!
Have a good one.
a division of IP addresses per country and each country gets it's own share of IPs?
I mean, if there is such division, distribution, assignments, etc. of ip addresses why not just poll a stinkin DNS server that knows how the IPs are distributed by country and ISP??
I read that somewhere, too lazy to look without loosing my place in the first replys for this one.
Have a good one.
There are now DVD, DivX players that support video on demand files... You download the movie, burn it and play it on you Digital projector to a big wall in the living room, turn up the volume in your home theater system... It is certainly cheaper than having to go out in the cold to rent a movie that is not yet in the satellite or cable channels. You download the movie, make a few snacks, burn it ro DVD while you get your cute neightborg (that cute chick always smilng at you) and BAM!!! It is somewhat the future of movies so to speak. We are already isolating ourselves from the world by using our "capsules" called cars to go pretty much anywhere so why not move to the next step and stay home isolated from everything. Have a good one.
"Then, by drawing attention to the problem, they can actually get the server operator to fix it. There is a huge difference between: "I think your server might have a security exploit. You can find the patch at http://whatever.net"" I guess that if it doesn't stink enough why care? right? But if people make it sound too stinky then they get sued for either slander or difamation or simply giving a bad image to a company. I know that, I visit /. a lot.
Now, shouldn't there be an entity that actually regulates the way the shit hits the fan? I mean, if whoever discovers a flaw in a program, website, etc, had the option to be able to tell that regulatory entity and THEN let that enity deal with the mess, more people would do it. And not just that but in a way commercial software would have a relatively "safe" way of getting their software fixed for free. Sort of like the way open source software works. The sort of organization that not only keeps an eye on security but also on the quality of the software. How many times have companies made bad software or lemon software that just doesn't do as they say it does? Get to birds in one shot. It would be nice to see a company paying a fee or a fine for releasing crap to the world and for putting your identity, credit, health records, etc, etc, at risk. It would be nice to get some cash back when the marvelous software you just got to make your work easier and crashed fifteen times and amde you lose your time (time is money). The same with websites, like in this case.
I guess I had to many Bawls... @_@
Why would then a bad guy flag himself saying that he discovered the flaw in the first place?? Makes no sense. Why draw attention to yourself if you are doing something bad? (besides bragging for hacking into it of course but in this case it's not worth sayin so because it was sooo easy...)
It has been my experience that sometimes IT is left out of the process of selecting a solution for the company. Leaving the decision making to burocrats who know jack sh@t about computers (a Mac scares the crap out of them). For example Who the heck would buy SAP for a college!!!!!??? Millions of dollars in a big fiasco that creates ten times the work for people!!!! But it looked nice when the consultants presented it... right? It's like when you go and buy a car, the sales man asks yuo how much you want to "pay" and he sells it tou you for just that... a month plus all the little nasty things in the small print, extra charges... People, administrators, burocrats, etc, don't understand that if they don't know what they are doing they can ask their OWN IT DEPARTMENT and not a stupid consultant that is simply a salesman. (Note: not all consultants are bad, I know. I am one and I am also part of the IT in my second job)
There's e-text reader to read any text file like an ebook. http://www.premier-programming.com/elib/etext_read er.htm
As a person that works in the Disabled Students Program and Services dep. I would like to see a more standard format for ebooks. I like Microsoft's format .lit and the reader works great for non protected (no text to speech) e-books. Other than that Acrobat Reader does an ok job with the Read Aloud feature it has. It sucks too if you have PDF based ebook with DRM restrictions but for educational use I guess that there is a little PDF program to remove the DRM and crap.
Commercialism sucks but it gives me ajob so I guess I have to keep my mouth shut and let companies come up with more and more e-book formats.
Whatever...
its not bad but can't make columns out of selcted text only. It makes the whole document columns!!!
I'll stick with OOo for a while.
So now instead of being lured into clicking into something you just voluntarily download a hack and install it as a screen saver??? yeah right.... Like people is stupid enought to do that... (sarcasm anyone?)
We all know Windoze is bad enough pathech or unpatched. Having said that... where is my penguin to stop the bad packets? iPCop anyone??? I mean I used iPCop to protect more than 2000 pcs in a college, why can't MicroSnot do the same??
I am just waiting for those four riders that come when the end of the world gets here!!!!!! -> Me runs around like crazy with tin foil hat. - But can it actually be good?? I mea lots of sites are ie only and swithcing to ie's engine can't hurt... right???