I agree with the shoddy components. My dad (who is a programmer/admin etc) killed 3 dell Optiplex mobos just by plugging a USB device into them. He had to put a hub inline and it took care of the problem.
Yeah. 10k systems is the average size of a botnet. It would be simple to command 10 times that many systems for a fairly small sum. If the data you have stolen is worth a lot (nuclear launch codes etc) then there are many many people who are willing to either:
1. Hire hackers to create a botnet.
2. Buy/steal a botnet.
3. Purchase 10,000 systems and secure them to do the hacking.
In order for mass defections to occur, there has to be a viable alternative to defect to. In the case of Windows, there really isn't one. Linux is still nowhere near viable as a desktop system for most people, and MacOS X is just barely getting into the Intel market.
Oh wow. You did not just say what I thought you said. Did you? *reads your post again* Yes you did. Linux isn't a viable alternative for most users huh? Well lets see. My wife uses it. I have multiple clients on it. It is used by thousands of people (city of munich,city of garden grove, a massive number of non us contries,the public schools in Mexico). The list goes on and on and on. Its viable.
I agree. They set there own deadlines and marketing schedules. I don't see why everyone makes a big deal about delays. Any major product takes time. If Microsoft shipped the product when they said they would every time, they would be really really really bad. Microsoft does do QA. They do testing. Etc etc. It takes time. Yes they could improve and need to. But they are trying to do a decent job. Granted they are only doing it because there customers demanded it for years (witness the Trusted Computing initiave a year or so ago). They will never get to the same level of quality as apache/linux et al unless they have a fundemental change at all levels of the company. I don't really think this will happen though. I mean what incentive exists for them to become an open source shop? Would the community at large really be interested in a massive wholesale adoption of a ginormous code base? Microsoft would have to stop all of there development for a considerable amount of time to do an open source release while they work out IP issues etc.
But I am rambling now.
I remember back when everyone was abuzz about the fact that Longhorn/Vista was going to require a whole terabyte of harddrive space.
I never heard that. A terabyte is quite a bit of space. Microsoft would never have said it required that. I am pretty sure you don't know what you are talking about.
I have been following your comments throughout this thread. While most of them have been spot on I have to disagree with;
by the fact that it's way too easy to run as administrator on an XP machine (and in fact that's the default for most corporate environments
When you say corporate environment what do you mean? A small business? ( 30 people) A medium business ~100-500 users or a large business (1000+ users).
I have worked in a wide variety of environments both full time and as a consultant. Every place I have worked the desktops have been secured. They are generally managed from a central place (even NT4 allowed this). Active Directory is even more fine grained and easier to use.
So I wouldn't say most corporate environments are running as Admin. They know its not a good idea and take steps to make it secure.
I run an open source project that is building an exchange replacement. http://www.thewybles.com/~charles/oser is the project homepage. It will be highly available (supporting both hardware (cisco/webmux load balancers) and software based load balancing.
Along with a whole host of other groupware functionality.
I have done high availability e-mail solution deployments. I am in the SoCal area but am willing to travel if necessary. There are others who can help you as well. Your choice.
My blog covers a lot of the progress of the project and details.
I would be happy to work with you to complete this task.
Just e-mail me and we can work out an arrangement.
I agree with this. It is how every large scale (and even smaller scale) environments work. Make sure you setup a multi master LDAP server with replication.
This can be a very intense process that requires a lot of work. It is not for the faint of heart.
While many of you might be huge linux advocates, the fact remains that many of the bigger companies still use windows server solutions.
Most of us are supporters of the best tool for the job. And as far as companies using windows server solutions. Well yes. For ancilliarlly/non critical services (e-mail/ftp/web etc). And no e-mail/ftp/web is not critical for most companies. All that is to support a core business function. For core systems (database/payroll/hr) it will be Linux or UNIX.
Every time.
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I just added that password to my cracking dictionary. I will post a message to /. every time my cracker gets in using that PW :)
Then again I would imagine your computer desk doesn't get as much traffic as the backseat of a Taxi. Oh I could take that so many places....
What messages? The ones on /.? If so I highly doubt it :)
Do a search on flickr for ubuntu logo.
I agree with the shoddy components. My dad (who is a programmer/admin etc) killed 3 dell Optiplex mobos just by plugging a USB device into them. He had to put a hub inline and it took care of the problem.
Yeah. 10k systems is the average size of a botnet. It would be simple to command 10 times that many systems for a fairly small sum. If the data you have stolen is worth a lot (nuclear launch codes etc) then there are many many people who are willing to either: 1. Hire hackers to create a botnet. 2. Buy/steal a botnet. 3. Purchase 10,000 systems and secure them to do the hacking.
Um. Most people at work reading slashdot probably have the authority/rights to install firefox on there machine....
I agree. They set there own deadlines and marketing schedules. I don't see why everyone makes a big deal about delays. Any major product takes time. If Microsoft shipped the product when they said they would every time, they would be really really really bad. Microsoft does do QA. They do testing. Etc etc. It takes time. Yes they could improve and need to. But they are trying to do a decent job. Granted they are only doing it because there customers demanded it for years (witness the Trusted Computing initiave a year or so ago). They will never get to the same level of quality as apache/linux et al unless they have a fundemental change at all levels of the company. I don't really think this will happen though. I mean what incentive exists for them to become an open source shop? Would the community at large really be interested in a massive wholesale adoption of a ginormous code base? Microsoft would have to stop all of there development for a considerable amount of time to do an open source release while they work out IP issues etc. But I am rambling now.
I fully agree with this. It even runs under bochs on a somewhat older laptop. A tad slow but thats to be expected.
*giggles*
*giggles*
Good one.
I run an open source project that is building an exchange replacement. http://www.thewybles.com/~charles/oser is the project homepage. It will be highly available (supporting both hardware (cisco/webmux load balancers) and software based load balancing. Along with a whole host of other groupware functionality. I have done high availability e-mail solution deployments. I am in the SoCal area but am willing to travel if necessary. There are others who can help you as well. Your choice. My blog covers a lot of the progress of the project and details. I would be happy to work with you to complete this task. Just e-mail me and we can work out an arrangement.
I agree with this. It is how every large scale (and even smaller scale) environments work. Make sure you setup a multi master LDAP server with replication. This can be a very intense process that requires a lot of work. It is not for the faint of heart.
Ha Ha Ha I like it.
How are you going to ship a file system as an addon?
Heehee. I like it. *chuckles*
Um ok. It was meant as a joke.
You forgot: Paying all that money and watching your business die when Windows does. Priceless.