(Warning: long rant) that we're getting sick tired of having to run windows update every 2 months. We've been doing that since about 2 years ago. Frankly, I'm sick.
When I opened my shrinkwrap, the EULA it didn't tell me that I had to connect to Microsoft every N months or else I wouldn't be attacked by a hacker or virus. This was supposed to be a finished product, not a pre-beta >:S
How long will this happen? Until Longhorn? You know, for a lot of time I had complained about Microsoft because of what OTHER users had to endure: Spyware, viruses, crashes... but now it's starting to annoy me. I mean, an uncareful person can be bothered with this stuff. But the fear and tension associated with "oh no, another vulnerability" can't let anyone escape if (s)he runs Windows.
It's not the security updates themselves that annoy me. It's knowing that the thing is so defective that it has to be given maintenance every 2 months or so. If I was running a car, I'd return it (but I can't). I just want to find out who were the morons who designed it and humilliate them publicly. Oh yeah. A bunch of people with clubs and torches wouldn't be bad;-P
I'm just sick tired of this.:-/ When's ReactOS going to be ready, dammit? Some millionaire please invest some money and start paying the guys. You know, the government should invest in free software development if they keep failing at punishing Microsoft for monopoly.
Without Antivirus, how do you know it's "clean as a whistle"? It's kind of a schrodinger's cat scenario; you haven't looked.
That's not the point. Windows is more like an abandoned building with open doors and windows, and wait! It has a friggin' bag of CAT FOOD inside. This isn't Schroedinger's cat... it's much more like "Garfield and Friends".
If Windows had been truly well-designed, we wouldn't need antiviruses IN THE FIRST PLACE.
In my times, you caught a virus because you copied some friend's warez game floppy. NOT because you accidentally left your PC connected to the internet.
Wanna know why windows sucks?
*AHEM!* (clears throat)
I searched about "automatic" services on windows. For instance, almost all of the windows services run on something called RPC (Remote Procedure Call service - and this means network). And many of them are turned on by default (unless you're BlackViper, and 99.9% of the Windows users haven't even heard of the guy).
Furthermore, the default protocol for networks is TCP/IP, meaning anyone can access your network (or machine) directly from the internet. There's no "drawbridge" that could be turned off or something to keep you safe.
Windows is naturally an INTERNET-VULNERABLE operating system. Is it the Joe users' fault that his machine is practically a virus lighthouse with lotsa services running on the background, listening to specific ports, _AND_ being vulnerable to buffer overflows, for Norton's sake?
Furthermore. BillyGates and company, have always had this "run code on data" fetish. Why do you think Microsoft Word viruses came to life? A text file cannot infect your machine because it's data, not code.
And don't get me started on ActiveX, i'm sick enough of this filth and i just finished eating.
If this was a "why Linux doesn't get popular" story, the same post would have been modded as -1, Troll. I know it because i've seen it.
Now can someone answer me why "Linux is counterintuitive and F'ing darn hard for the average Joe user" is +5 Insightful on a windows thread, but -1 Troll on a Linux thread?
And more important - WHEN will Linux become user-friendly?
Yes, Linux friendliness sucks. We all know that. But why nobody (who knows to program in Linux) does anything about it?
I was just reading the DeCSS Haiku noticing how the guy managed to use a mnemonic encryption of PI (words with 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5 length), and I wondered.
How about doing the same thing like say... encoding the full DeCSS source code in plaintext steganography, using words' length?
For example: a) Encode to octal. 010205000506030102 b) Add 1. 2/3/6/1/6/4/2/3 c) Encode. "My fav. mangas: I wonder what is erm..." etc.
It's a simple cost to benefit ratio, as long as enough people buy things off spam, spammers will continue to operate.
I live in Mexico. Here (in Mexico city) there are thousands illegal taxis running. People don't care just as long as they get to their destination. Of course, the number of innocents being raped, kidnapped or assaulted in these illegal cabs.
If people stopped using them, our taxi assault problems would be over.
Generalizing, if people don't care about promoting assaults and rapes in illegal cabs, do you think they'll give a sh*t about SPAM?
to have a wide addoption of GNU/HURD as a Desktop OS? From what you say, it sounds like the dream OS - at least regarding security and stability - to me.
Before this, well it was just out of the radar, but now... I'm starting to think that maybe in some years, there could be a viable alternative to Windows AND Linux.
Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent, you can expect to see developers turn their energies to better gaming support under Linux.
"Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent"... isn't this what we've been waiting for, all these years?:-/
After all, the recent comparison of operating systems (published also on/.), said that "Linux had trouble with a very basic task: installing new apps".
re: Tipping Points 2/3/2005 1:00 PM Stuart Ballard
I guess I put it the other way around: the corporate interest in Linux was fueled *by* its undeniable technical and grassroots-level adoption success.
Remember that in the real world IBM picked up Linux despite having its own Unix brand. Linux beat out IBM's best efforts (AIX and the stillborn Project Monterey) on *merit*, so convincingly that IBM themselves decided to scrap their own work in favor of it. I have a hard time thinking of any corporate involvement (on the scale you're contemplating) before that point that could be said to explain IBM's decision to adopt it. So I'm forced to conclude that if not IBM, one of the other hardware/Unix vendors would have done what they did. The other hardware/Unix vendors, in the no-Windows scenario, would be in the same place that IBM was in today's world, with the same options available.
I'd definitely add one to your list of things that fueled Linux's success, although it doesn't affect the "what if" because neither of our future-histories modify it: the widespread availability of the Internet. Linux is an (IMHO inevitable) product of the fact that suddenly anyone with programming talent can easily get the latest version, submit a code patch, and see it integrated into new versions within days, if not *hours*. Linux couldn't have happened if the developers had to mail around 3.5" floppies:) My guess is that the absence of the Internet is pretty much the only thing that really *would* have erased Linux out of history. -------- (end of comments)
Frankly I think this is much more plausible. Thank God for the "reply" button in the blogs!:)
Well, there's been cases of repeated last names in science... I just never thought that a person both prominent and low-profile (who in here has studied information theory and text searching algorithms?) would appear on a popular site such as/.
I've been studied algorithms for years, and this close encounter...
"If we are right, each single one of these filaments is connected to a cloud of dark matter," said Nicastro. "If there wasn't dark matter there, or something with strong gravity that pulled on the matter in these filaments, we wouldn't have galaxies or filaments." Rather, the baryons would be pulled into galaxies and the galaxies into each other.
In other words, baryons in those clouds are the *EVIDENCE* of dark matter, but not the dark matter itself.
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Dude, you're supposed to spam people OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL, YOU MORON!
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Official sites should have to be registered in something called "The google directory". And they would have to appear first in the search results.
Of course, the official site would say if it could allow targetted ads on a specific search (or something).
Don't forget to use steganography to hide possible websites ;-)
Frankly this seems like the typical space invaders anime, as in "As long as they don't kill us all, we'll still fight".
Oh no! They bombarded the main HQ! We have to be more careful guys. Hey there's this huge cave! We can start operating from here!
Tssssk. Alpha to Beta. We found a potential HQ location in sector C. Over.
Roger. Over.
(Warning: long rant)
;-P
:-/ When's ReactOS going to be ready, dammit? Some millionaire please invest some money and start paying the guys. You know, the government should invest in free software development if they keep failing at punishing Microsoft for monopoly.
that we're getting sick tired of having to run windows update every 2 months. We've been doing that since about 2 years ago. Frankly, I'm sick.
When I opened my shrinkwrap, the EULA it didn't tell me that I had to connect to Microsoft every N months or else I wouldn't be attacked by a hacker or virus. This was supposed to be a finished product, not a pre-beta >:S
How long will this happen? Until Longhorn? You know, for a lot of time I had complained about Microsoft because of what OTHER users had to endure: Spyware, viruses, crashes... but now it's starting to annoy me. I mean, an uncareful person can be bothered with this stuff. But the fear and tension associated with "oh no, another vulnerability" can't let anyone escape if (s)he runs Windows.
It's not the security updates themselves that annoy me. It's knowing that the thing is so defective that it has to be given maintenance every 2 months or so. If I was running a car, I'd return it (but I can't). I just want to find out who were the morons who designed it and humilliate them publicly. Oh yeah. A bunch of people with clubs and torches wouldn't be bad
I'm just sick tired of this.
Allowing C++ programing in .NET, or calling .NET programs from C++?
Frankly I have no F'ing idea of what's this "biggest mistake" to begin with (IMHO, the biggest mistake was bundling IE with Windows).
Don't push your luck. Look at today's article in Technology Review: "The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet" O.o
Illegal cabs in here have particular-use plaques (3 numbers, 3 letters). Example: 835KEF
Legal ones have an L followed by 5 digits. Example: L23642.
Without Antivirus, how do you know it's "clean as a whistle"? It's kind of a schrodinger's cat scenario; you haven't looked.
That's not the point. Windows is more like an abandoned building with open doors and windows, and wait! It has a friggin' bag of CAT FOOD inside. This isn't Schroedinger's cat... it's much more like "Garfield and Friends".
If Windows had been truly well-designed, we wouldn't need antiviruses IN THE FIRST PLACE.
In my times, you caught a virus because you copied some friend's warez game floppy. NOT because you accidentally left your PC connected to the internet.
Wanna know why windows sucks?
*AHEM!* (clears throat)
I searched about "automatic" services on windows. For instance, almost all of the windows services run on something called RPC (Remote Procedure Call service - and this means network). And many of them are turned on by default (unless you're BlackViper, and 99.9% of the Windows users haven't even heard of the guy).
Furthermore, the default protocol for networks is TCP/IP, meaning anyone can access your network (or machine) directly from the internet. There's no "drawbridge" that could be turned off or something to keep you safe.
Windows is naturally an INTERNET-VULNERABLE operating system. Is it the Joe users' fault that his machine is practically a virus lighthouse with lotsa services running on the background, listening to specific ports, _AND_ being vulnerable to buffer overflows, for Norton's sake?
Furthermore. BillyGates and company, have always had this "run code on data" fetish. Why do you think Microsoft Word viruses came to life? A text file cannot infect your machine because it's data, not code.
And don't get me started on ActiveX, i'm sick enough of this filth and i just finished eating.
If this was a "why Linux doesn't get popular" story, the same post would have been modded as -1, Troll. I know it because i've seen it.
Now can someone answer me why "Linux is counterintuitive and F'ing darn hard for the average Joe user" is +5 Insightful on a windows thread, but -1 Troll on a Linux thread?
And more important - WHEN will Linux become user-friendly?
Yes, Linux friendliness sucks. We all know that. But why nobody (who knows to program in Linux) does anything about it?
He won't answer you, but I bet that the question will REALLY piss him off :P
I was just reading the DeCSS Haiku noticing how the guy managed to use a mnemonic encryption of PI (words with 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5 length), and I wondered.
How about doing the same thing like say... encoding the full DeCSS source code in plaintext steganography, using words' length?
For example:
a) Encode to octal. 010205000506030102
b) Add 1. 2/3/6/1/6/4/2/3
c) Encode. "My fav. mangas: I wonder what is erm..." etc.
Just a thought.
I *do* run my own domain
Please, don't tell me you used your REAL e-mail as the domain registrar. That's the #2 source of SPAM (website mail harvesting is the #1)
It's a simple cost to benefit ratio, as long as enough people buy things off spam, spammers will continue to operate.
I live in Mexico. Here (in Mexico city) there are thousands illegal taxis running. People don't care just as long as they get to their destination. Of course, the number of innocents being raped, kidnapped or assaulted in these illegal cabs.
If people stopped using them, our taxi assault problems would be over.
Generalizing, if people don't care about promoting assaults and rapes in illegal cabs, do you think they'll give a sh*t about SPAM?
If SPAM costs $22B to companies, can't they invest another $22B to push the govt into making a DECENT law vs SPAM?
The problem with the broadcast flag is that it will be illegal to sell hardware which does not honor the broadcast flag,
Hellooooooooo.... modchips?
to have a wide addoption of GNU/HURD as a Desktop OS? From what you say, it sounds like the dream OS - at least regarding security and stability - to me.
Before this, well it was just out of the radar, but now... I'm starting to think that maybe in some years, there could be a viable alternative to Windows AND Linux.
What do you think ppl?
Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent, you can expect to see developers turn their energies to better gaming support under Linux.
:-/
/.), said that "Linux had trouble with a very basic task: installing new apps".
"Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent"... isn't this what we've been waiting for, all these years?
After all, the recent comparison of operating systems (published also on
No wonder...
(from comments posted after TFA: )
:) My guess is that the absence of the Internet is pretty much the only thing that really *would* have erased Linux out of history.
:)
re: Tipping Points 2/3/2005 1:00 PM Stuart Ballard
I guess I put it the other way around: the corporate interest in Linux was fueled *by* its undeniable technical and grassroots-level adoption success.
Remember that in the real world IBM picked up Linux despite having its own Unix brand. Linux beat out IBM's best efforts (AIX and the stillborn Project Monterey) on *merit*, so convincingly that IBM themselves decided to scrap their own work in favor of it. I have a hard time thinking of any corporate involvement (on the scale you're contemplating) before that point that could be said to explain IBM's decision to adopt it. So I'm forced to conclude that if not IBM, one of the other hardware/Unix vendors would have done what they did. The other hardware/Unix vendors, in the no-Windows scenario, would be in the same place that IBM was in today's world, with the same options available.
I'd definitely add one to your list of things that fueled Linux's success, although it doesn't affect the "what if" because neither of our future-histories modify it: the widespread availability of the Internet. Linux is an (IMHO inevitable) product of the fact that suddenly anyone with programming talent can easily get the latest version, submit a code patch, and see it integrated into new versions within days, if not *hours*. Linux couldn't have happened if the developers had to mail around 3.5" floppies
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Frankly I think this is much more plausible. Thank God for the "reply" button in the blogs!
Actually... if you want to search multiple substrings in one HUGE string, it's much faster to make a suffix tree. Recommended by genetists :)
Yes. You mean there's another Knuth?
/.
Well, there's been cases of repeated last names in science... I just never thought that a person both prominent and low-profile (who in here has studied information theory and text searching algorithms?) would appear on a popular site such as
I've been studied algorithms for years, and this close encounter...
I'M NOT WORTHY! _o_
I'M NOT WORTHY! \o/
Is this the same Knuth that wrote along with Morris and Pratt the famous string matching algorithm?
In other words, baryons in those clouds are the *EVIDENCE* of dark matter, but not the dark matter itself.
Biometrics are naturally flawed. Biology was meant for self-replication, not security.
Biometrics are strong only in combination with passwords, perhaps in an even stronger combination with a smart card.
i.e.
1) the smartcard will fail to work for anyone but you.
2) The smartcard has its private key to transfer
3) the password that you enter.
1) Something you are
2) Something you have
3) Something you know.
Of course, 1) is added only for convenience.
$making $all $passwords $into $perl $variables??
In that case, you should be much more worried about injection attacks than of weak passwords.