SHA-1 is not, well, exactly broken... it still takes 2^93 steps to break it which, nowadays, is somewhat an Herculean task. However, attacks do only get better, not worse, so there will be the day when SHA-1 can be broken in much less time.
KDE sports Cleartype-like subpixel font rendering since KDE 2.2 IIRC, and the result looks much better than those fuzzy fonts from Windoze. However, not even KDE can match font rendering in Mac OS X.
I have yet to see a Windows XP BSOD... However, XP SP2 keeps doing stupid things and is too unstable for me to use. For example, suspending my laptop and then resuming causes the network to stop working and forces me to reboot. This is not serious for a $300 product. Even my Linux boxes are able to correctly suspend without breaking anything.
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."
Large enterprises shouldn't use any product from Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft and Sun as they have already proven their software is insecure.
Gamers will be put off by the fact that games can't take advantage of SMP.
It seems absurd to me why a *gamer* would ever want something but a Playstation. Neither multicore CPUs nor 64-bit CPUs are intended for the gaming market.
Multicore and 64-bit CPUs are targeted to the high-end server market, not for a teenager wanting to kill off some zombies.
Well, 15 seconds isn't too much time if you are using Windows. Windows networks are sluggish per se, and you won't benefit from dual core CPU. You won't benefit even from a 10Gigabit Ethernet trunk as Windows networking is very noisy.
That doesn't have anything to do with encryption. Anytime you have physical access to a computer all bets are off as far as security. You can do the exact same thing in linux, and most of the time you don't even need a CD. Just add a 1 to the kernel boot options and boot into single user mode. No password required, immediate root access. Sure, you can put a password on changing those bootloader options, but just slap in a linux emergency boot CD, and suddenly you have root access to all files.
First, you need physical access. Second, booting into runlevel 1 asks for a password (except in some distributions like Fedora). Third, a savvy administrator would set up GRUB password protected.
UNIX is obsolete, Windows insecure, Linux incompatible... Mac OS is BEAUTIFUL.
Windows is a piece of shit, used for gaming and getting infected by a virus. Linux is powerful, secure, but has a myriad of distributions that make difficult to port software easily to it. I like Linux, I like UNIX, then I like Mac OS X. Windows is not UNIX, so I hate Windows.
You should configure IE properly. Maybe you will never use it, but its malicious code is sitting on you disk waiting for something to invoke it.
So, you'd better configure it to disable everything, from Passive Scriptin, to PassiveX and PassiveWorms. You can set the Insecurity Level to "High" in all zones (Internet, Restricted, LAN, Trusted, etc.).
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Just three words: Switch to Mac.
SHA-1 is not, well, exactly broken... it still takes 2^93 steps to break it which, nowadays, is somewhat an Herculean task. However, attacks do only get better, not worse, so there will be the day when SHA-1 can be broken in much less time.
1) To the Recycle Bin
2) To the nearest spammer
3) To the nearest phiser
4) To Microsoft itself
5) To the government
Oh! Good! Now my DVDs will self-destruct three times faster than my single layer ones.
You can think what you want, dude. Mac's coming.
... as I switched away from Micromoron Winblows five years ago.
We, in Europe, are also stupid... well, in fact the European Politics are stupid.
The way patents work is pathetic... they're only useful to have a couple of lawyers working all the day and getting rich based on the work of others.
Ein? Cleartype? You must be kidding!
KDE sports Cleartype-like subpixel font rendering since KDE 2.2 IIRC, and the result looks much better than those fuzzy fonts from Windoze. However, not even KDE can match font rendering in Mac OS X.
Whenever I work on somebody's computer, one of the first things I have to do is to make the file extensions visible. Why, Microsoft, why?
Cause they still don't have a clue... bunch of copycat makers.
I have yet to see a Windows XP BSOD... However, XP SP2 keeps doing stupid things and is too unstable for me to use. For example, suspending my laptop and then resuming causes the network to stop working and forces me to reboot. This is not serious for a $300 product. Even my Linux boxes are able to correctly suspend without breaking anything.
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."
Large enterprises shouldn't use any product from Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft and Sun as they have already proven their software is insecure.
WTF!
X-D
They must be kidding, mustn't they?
Remember when some "genius" said: Nobody will never need more than 640KB?
It seems absurd to me why a *gamer* would ever want something but a Playstation. Neither multicore CPUs nor 64-bit CPUs are intended for the gaming market.
Multicore and 64-bit CPUs are targeted to the high-end server market, not for a teenager wanting to kill off some zombies.
Well, 15 seconds isn't too much time if you are using Windows. Windows networks are sluggish per se, and you won't benefit from dual core CPU. You won't benefit even from a 10Gigabit Ethernet trunk as Windows networking is very noisy.
And who is accountable for the security of the Windows kernel?
Will Microsoft held accountable for all the flaws in Windows, for all the viruses, spam, spyware? Let me guess...
That doesn't have anything to do with encryption. Anytime you have physical access to a computer all bets are off as far as security. You can do the exact same thing in linux, and most of the time you don't even need a CD. Just add a 1 to the kernel boot options and boot into single user mode. No password required, immediate root access. Sure, you can put a password on changing those bootloader options, but just slap in a linux emergency boot CD, and suddenly you have root access to all files. First, you need physical access. Second, booting into runlevel 1 asks for a password (except in some distributions like Fedora). Third, a savvy administrator would set up GRUB password protected.
UNIX is obsolete, Windows insecure, Linux incompatible... Mac OS is BEAUTIFUL.
Windows is a piece of shit, used for gaming and getting infected by a virus. Linux is powerful, secure, but has a myriad of distributions that make difficult to port software easily to it. I like Linux, I like UNIX, then I like Mac OS X. Windows is not UNIX, so I hate Windows.
That's not always the case. I have hard drives still up and running dated back from 1999.
Absurd! What will do you when a new exploit appears that your Sophos antivirus doesn't detect yet?
:-)
Let me tell you: you will be screwed.
Switch browsers immediately!
You should configure IE properly. Maybe you will never use it, but its malicious code is sitting on you disk waiting for something to invoke it.
So, you'd better configure it to disable everything, from Passive Scriptin, to PassiveX and PassiveWorms. You can set the Insecurity Level to "High" in all zones (Internet, Restricted, LAN, Trusted, etc.).
That Linux is much better than Windows.