Well, since they don't seem to offer this software for Linux, I would need to wipe my hard drive and buy a copy of Windows. But wait, my machine is too slow to run XP (can you even still buy 2000 off the shelf anymore?) so I better go get a new machine too. Which is good, since I would hate to wipe this machine, since I use it every day as a desktop, as well as the machine that provides our internal web server (low volume) and houses the CD burner. Not bad for an old tired machine with software that cost about $1 (for the cds we used to burn the OS onto).
CHaN_316 (696929) If the 2 in your user ID was a 6 I would have totally freaked out when I saw your post. I wonder who has all the cool user IDs anyway? And yes, Viva Nuevo Mexico!
"Is Linux More Secure Than Windows?" Laura Koetzle with Charles Rutstein, Natalie Lambert, and Stephan Wenninger Forrester Research
After collecting a year's worth of vulnerability data, Forrester analyzed Windows and four key Linux distributors on key metrics of responsiveness to vulnerabilities, severity of vulnerabilities, and thoroughness in fixing flaws.
* Responsiveness: On average, Microsoft had a fix available 25 days after a security issue was publicly disclosed.
* Thoroughness: Microsoft was the only vendor to have corrected 100% of the publicly known flaws during the study's time period.
* Relative Severity: Windows has the fewest vulnerabilities and the fewest "high severity" vulnerabilities of any platform measured.
"Server OS Licensing & Support Cost Comparison -- Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Novell/SUSE Linux 8"
Read the report (2.12 MB Microsoft Word file)
Ironically if it wasn't for the pile of open source tools that can read that on my harddrive right now, I would have to go spend about $600 just to read this file (think OS+Office+new machine to run the OS).
Cheap as in "look at all the free software that gets downloaded to your computer" cheap. Or maybe cheap as in the type of shots that will be flying around here soon:-)
Carry this around with you as you ride your favorite form of mass transit to work, as it is a sure-fire way to attract the opposite sex! Keep them entranced as you explain the plot in detail!*
*Publisher not responsible for any mental or physical anguish caused by this book.
-> Log into your Linux box. -> Type: date -u This shows the current UTC time. -> Now that you know what the UTC time is, figure out how many hours off you are and baddabingbaddaboom, you know how to covert UTC to localtime. I suppose I could post a shell script but I am too lazy.
I simply turn it to a space between stations and listen to static. If I actually want music, I get out the ol' mp3 player with music ripped from CDs I purchased used. No commercials, no music I hate, and I am not feeding the corporate monsters. Sadly I am not feeding the artists either, but for them to eat well the corporate monsters must die first. Why the artists haven't banded together to form a non-profit label I have no idea.
I have to admit I would think of Howard Stern as being more obscene in general, I mean who would you invite over to dinner with grandma, Howard Stern or Oprah??? Then again, if you were expecting a big inheritence, maybe Howard Stern....
Sadly I missed the half-time show, but thank god for the replay action of the internet, since for some reason the evening news wouldn't show the un-edited version:-). Then again, censoring TV is pretty absurd considering all the insane things you can find on the internet. I can't wait until some dimbulb in Congress gets the idea that the FCC should try making the internet family friendly too.
I want to estimate the day on which they will be out of dough.
The day after Darl and company get on a flight to some country that doesn't have extradition treaties with the U.S.? Seriously, I keep expecting to see in the news any day now that Carl has taken a midnight flight to Elbonia with a briefcase full of cash.
We need either tiny little nuclear power plants, or maybe genetically engineered micro-hamsters.
On the upside, I wonder if we could turn a swarm of these guys loose on Mars and let them terraform it (assuming we could make them release useful gases into the atmosphere instead of turning it into gray goo)?
Don't forget the nuclear power plant to keep this thing going forever until it finally finds a path to the target, or maybe solar panels for a more eco-friendly robot-car-of-death(tm).
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a field test designed to accelerate research and development in autonomous ground vehicles that will help save lives on the future battlefield.
I can't wait to see all the new automated field medic designs. Wait, why does that one have a big gun sticking out of the top....
I'm looking forward to only needing one memory card to store all the 5Mbit pictures that I'll take for the rest of my life.
I don't empty my 8MB card to the computer often enough already, so if the card never got full the family pictures wouldn't get seen by anyone else until I died and someone else inherited my camera.
I can understand this in a commercial setting, but for personal pictures? We are talking family photos here. I mean heck, why not start adding in dead relatives to your pictures of your next family trip????
I guess the point I am getting at here is that at least in my pictures, I want them to be a record of what was actually there, with as little fiddling with the picture as possible. Other folks probably feel differently.
I have a friend who takes digital pics, and then when he downloads them at home he changes them at a whim. For example, he moves Fred from the left hand side of the picture to the right to fill in a blank space in a group photo for example, or moves an outcropping that doesn't "balance" the photo. This practice seems totally bizarre, I mean if you are willing to do that to your pictures, why not just download pictures of places off the net and doctor up a whole set of family pictures in exotic locations???
Yep, thats why I bought my PS2 when my old DVD player broke. I was sick of trying to get games to work under MS Windows, plus my daughter could now play while I got work done on my PC. And considering I have only had something like 3 crashes with the PS2 in the year and a half I have owned it, I am a pretty happy camper. Plus now they are selling the PS2 with a network adapter.......
...but that would essentially require that the system read my mind.
But this could lead to other problems, such as your brain causing the machine to start browsing porn sites when that pretty secretary from across the hall walks in.
...they've now converted their investment to $13 million in cash and $13.7 million of common stock...
So when do they plan on dumping the common stock too? Waiting for the shares to plunge below $4 maybe? (Still waiting for the firesale so I can get my cat a $2000 office chair to sleep on).
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Well, since they don't seem to offer this software for Linux, I would need to wipe my hard drive and buy a copy of Windows. But wait, my machine is too slow to run XP (can you even still buy 2000 off the shelf anymore?) so I better go get a new machine too. Which is good, since I would hate to wipe this machine, since I use it every day as a desktop, as well as the machine that provides our internal web server (low volume) and houses the CD burner. Not bad for an old tired machine with software that cost about $1 (for the cds we used to burn the OS onto).
CHaN_316 (696929) If the 2 in your user ID was a 6 I would have totally freaked out when I saw your post. I wonder who has all the cool user IDs anyway? And yes, Viva Nuevo Mexico!
Look at this tidbit from the website:
"Is Linux More Secure Than Windows?"
Laura Koetzle with Charles Rutstein, Natalie Lambert, and Stephan Wenninger
Forrester Research
After collecting a year's worth of vulnerability data, Forrester analyzed Windows and four key Linux distributors on key metrics of responsiveness to vulnerabilities, severity of vulnerabilities, and thoroughness in fixing flaws.
* Responsiveness: On average, Microsoft had a fix available 25 days after a security issue was publicly disclosed.
* Thoroughness: Microsoft was the only vendor to have corrected 100% of the publicly known flaws during the study's time period.
* Relative Severity: Windows has the fewest vulnerabilities and the fewest "high severity" vulnerabilities of any platform measured.
Read the report (2.12 MB Microsoft Word file)
Ironically if it wasn't for the pile of open source tools that can read that on my harddrive right now, I would have to go spend about $600 just to read this file (think OS+Office+new machine to run the OS).
Cheap as in "look at all the free software that gets downloaded to your computer" cheap. Or maybe cheap as in the type of shots that will be flying around here soon :-)
*Publisher not responsible for any mental or physical anguish caused by this book.
-> Log into your Linux box.
-> Type: date -u
This shows the current UTC time.
-> Now that you know what the UTC time is, figure out how many hours off you are and baddabingbaddaboom, you know how to covert UTC to localtime. I suppose I could post a shell script but I am too lazy.
I simply turn it to a space between stations and listen to static. If I actually want music, I get out the ol' mp3 player with music ripped from CDs I purchased used. No commercials, no music I hate, and I am not feeding the corporate monsters. Sadly I am not feeding the artists either, but for them to eat well the corporate monsters must die first. Why the artists haven't banded together to form a non-profit label I have no idea.
I have to admit I would think of Howard Stern as being more obscene in general, I mean who would you invite over to dinner with grandma, Howard Stern or Oprah??? Then again, if you were expecting a big inheritence, maybe Howard Stern....
You should have heard me screaming after I started to read that site you listed. I will never be able to walk by a lipstick counter again.
Sadly I missed the half-time show, but thank god for the replay action of the internet, since for some reason the evening news wouldn't show the un-edited version :-). Then again, censoring TV is pretty absurd considering all the insane things you can find on the internet. I can't wait until some dimbulb in Congress gets the idea that the FCC should try making the internet family friendly too.
The day after Darl and company get on a flight to some country that doesn't have extradition treaties with the U.S.? Seriously, I keep expecting to see in the news any day now that Carl has taken a midnight flight to Elbonia with a briefcase full of cash.
On the upside, I wonder if we could turn a swarm of these guys loose on Mars and let them terraform it (assuming we could make them release useful gases into the atmosphere instead of turning it into gray goo)?
Don't forget the nuclear power plant to keep this thing going forever until it finally finds a path to the target, or maybe solar panels for a more eco-friendly robot-car-of-death(tm).
I can't wait to see all the new automated field medic designs. Wait, why does that one have a big gun sticking out of the top....
You are new here aren't you? After all if it was good enough for an article one time, it will be even better again later!!!
I don't empty my 8MB card to the computer often enough already, so if the card never got full the family pictures wouldn't get seen by anyone else until I died and someone else inherited my camera.
I guess the point I am getting at here is that at least in my pictures, I want them to be a record of what was actually there, with as little fiddling with the picture as possible. Other folks probably feel differently.
I have a friend who takes digital pics, and then when he downloads them at home he changes them at a whim. For example, he moves Fred from the left hand side of the picture to the right to fill in a blank space in a group photo for example, or moves an outcropping that doesn't "balance" the photo. This practice seems totally bizarre, I mean if you are willing to do that to your pictures, why not just download pictures of places off the net and doctor up a whole set of family pictures in exotic locations???
Yep, thats why I bought my PS2 when my old DVD player broke. I was sick of trying to get games to work under MS Windows, plus my daughter could now play while I got work done on my PC. And considering I have only had something like 3 crashes with the PS2 in the year and a half I have owned it, I am a pretty happy camper. Plus now they are selling the PS2 with a network adapter.......
My first life is already too expensive to afford a second life, you insensitive clod!
Now all we need is a small motherboard, lcd display + keyboard + network card, and we have a nice (cheap?) QUIET portable xterminal.
But this could lead to other problems, such as your brain causing the machine to start browsing porn sites when that pretty secretary from across the hall walks in.
Ahh, but that is what Control-t (new tab) in mozilla/firefox is for :-) Nice new blank tab with no URL.
So when do they plan on dumping the common stock too? Waiting for the shares to plunge below $4 maybe? (Still waiting for the firesale so I can get my cat a $2000 office chair to sleep on).