I wish it was that easy, I have disabled it on many a users system only to have them complain about the CDs not "starting" (actually had one complain that the CD drive was defective). Disabling AutoPlay whilst protecting the system doesn't provide the usuability some users expect and leaves us stuck without any obvious answer.
Also the title of Novell http://www.novell.com/ is "Novell Worldwide", not exactly European only?
I think you failed to make any point, I am certain that the free distributions outweigh the commerical and the commerical products that exist happily aim at a worldwide audience.
Lets hope you don't get a wormhole by accident and end up dumping on some superior aliens doorstep and cause WWIII (assuming we haven't already had that one by the time).
Seeing man made me wonder if there is a difference in male and female responses to website design. My first gut feeling would be yes but it would be interesting to see to what extent.
That is a question that maybe it fails to answer, is the 50ms a male response?
I am not stepping up to defend WinXP, sure it has issues, enough to keep me on Linux (close with the Unix guess:P) but I would not defend it. What Gibson is saying is ridiculous, cutting through the chaff: Microsoft delibrately compromised the security of their product. I mean I would happily blame them for many a thing but delibrately poking a hole in the OS, er no.
Gibson is talking out of turn to publicize himself, he has utterly no proof to actually show. Look back into the past, its all fear-mongering. Yes issues exist, when the hell don't they?
Agreed, this is simply an act of self promotion. Whilst Steve Gibson is plainly a smart guy and a skilled programmer, he is also very much of a "bomb thrower". I still remember the noise he made about raw sockets in WinXP (and continues to in fact).
There is no doubt in my mind that he has simply stolen this particular bandwagon, after all where is the proof?
...always thought that the command line was a user interface...
Absolutely it is and the best interface by far, however I believe the prefered term is "Command Line Interface" (cli) whereas UI is "Graphical User Interface" (gui/ui).
Damnit you almost had me.... oh wait your right! Time for me quit using/. and never return again.
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Interesting but could this just be a sympton of this article. I am certain that the demise of the magazine will not bring about the end of the language it, like C, has a very special place in the hearts of programmers.
Excellent list of mags, I subscribe to two of those (PCG and Edge, Future must love me) and regularly pick up a third (GTM) on occasions. Nice to see the total subscriptions though, thanks.
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I'll admit to the fact that Adblock+NoScript makes for a combination that really does improve my browsing experience. Furthermore the likes of Greasemonkey is now allowing me to "improve" on the layout shape type and item of content that I view. It isn't long before my favourite sites are ad free, annoyance free and a real joy to browse. Recently I have started to move over to using a proxy to filter out the content, mainly because I am now offering my local net to friends and I wish to enhance their experience without them even knowing.
I think that the most important thing on any site is content, if I can't view the content without huge amounts of ads I am must less likely to return.
Oh and you might be interested in the Filterset.G, a present group of filters (some quite advanced in style) for Adblock http://www.pierceive.com/
Classrooms: We build and create a new default image with all the new software that we require on the machines (most is actually provided via dfs) every year for the 'summer upgrades'. Paranoid policy settings to restrict access to as much as we can get away with without breaking software. These have an automated reboot every night and install whatever patches etc on the reload. This does create an issue where some users ignore the pop up warning of the reboot in 15mins/10.. etc and therefore lose the unsaved data, but those number are few.. and we need something to maintain our status as BOFH's.
Staff: Due to the differing variety of hw that goes through our hand we use simply scripting methods to automate installation of software. The AV solution we fell for is Sophos Antivirus. All the systems automate an auto-update from our Windows SUS at 16:00 everyday (which catches most of the systems).
As for spyware etc, nothing is installed by default, we have it available for the more interested user, but the fact is if it were installed who would update it? Answer noone.
As you indicate, one of the hardest jobs is to teach the users to be careful of what they click. After all the last virus attack that bred through our systems was started not by a general staff member but instead by one of our techinal documentation writers! Even the educated make misstakes.
One cup of hostname (with a pinch of subdomain as per taste) into a bowl, crack one master password into the bowl add and stir using an MD5 size spoon.
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I wish it was that easy, I have disabled it on many a users system only to have them complain about the CDs not "starting" (actually had one complain that the CD drive was defective). Disabling AutoPlay whilst protecting the system doesn't provide the usuability some users expect and leaves us stuck without any obvious answer.
Taking that stance, why is RH Europe in existance http://www.europe.redhat.com/ ? Or even better how about a reseller based in NZ ?
Also the title of Novell http://www.novell.com/ is "Novell Worldwide", not exactly European only?
I think you failed to make any point, I am certain that the free distributions outweigh the commerical and the commerical products that exist happily aim at a worldwide audience.
Lets hope you don't get a wormhole by accident and end up dumping on some superior aliens doorstep and cause WWIII (assuming we haven't already had that one by the time).
Seeing man made me wonder if there is a difference in male and female responses to website design. My first gut feeling would be yes but it would be interesting to see to what extent.
That is a question that maybe it fails to answer, is the 50ms a male response?
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/slashdot.org/
I plan on contesting the results, they plainly haven't investigated hard enough.
Besides doesn't it seem odd to create a backdoor that would require the user to first visit a website?
I think that is the best comment on the whole subject, what sort of backdoor is it when you require the user to activate it for you.
Yeah seen it on bugtraq recently, here's the url's
1 -09.xml= CVE-2006-0106
13-Jan-2006 07:12
From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20060
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name
I am not stepping up to defend WinXP, sure it has issues, enough to keep me on Linux (close with the Unix guess :P) but I would not defend it. What Gibson is saying is ridiculous, cutting through the chaff: Microsoft delibrately compromised the security of their product. I mean I would happily blame them for many a thing but delibrately poking a hole in the OS, er no.
Gibson is talking out of turn to publicize himself, he has utterly no proof to actually show. Look back into the past, its all fear-mongering. Yes issues exist, when the hell don't they?
Gibson is a bomb thrower
Agreed, this is simply an act of self promotion. Whilst Steve Gibson is plainly a smart guy and a skilled programmer, he is also very much of a "bomb thrower". I still remember the noise he made about raw sockets in WinXP (and continues to in fact).
There is no doubt in my mind that he has simply stolen this particular bandwagon, after all where is the proof?
Absolutely it is and the best interface by far, however I believe the prefered term is "Command Line Interface" (cli) whereas UI is "Graphical User Interface" (gui/ui).
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High level of QC!
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Damnit you almost had me.... oh wait your right! Time for me quit using /. and never return again.
Interesting but could this just be a sympton of this article. I am certain that the demise of the magazine will not bring about the end of the language it, like C, has a very special place in the hearts of programmers.
Excellent list of mags, I subscribe to two of those (PCG and Edge, Future must love me) and regularly pick up a third (GTM) on occasions. Nice to see the total subscriptions though, thanks.
I'll admit to the fact that Adblock+NoScript makes for a combination that really does improve my browsing experience. Furthermore the likes of Greasemonkey is now allowing me to "improve" on the layout shape type and item of content that I view. It isn't long before my favourite sites are ad free, annoyance free and a real joy to browse. Recently I have started to move over to using a proxy to filter out the content, mainly because I am now offering my local net to friends and I wish to enhance their experience without them even knowing.
I think that the most important thing on any site is content, if I can't view the content without huge amounts of ads I am must less likely to return.
Oh and you might be interested in the Filterset.G, a present group of filters (some quite advanced in style) for Adblock http://www.pierceive.com/
Similar to my work.
Classrooms:
We build and create a new default image with all the new software that we require on the machines (most is actually provided via dfs) every year for the 'summer upgrades'. Paranoid policy settings to restrict access to as much as we can get away with without breaking software. These have an automated reboot every night and install whatever patches etc on the reload. This does create an issue where some users ignore the pop up warning of the reboot in 15mins/10.. etc and therefore lose the unsaved data, but those number are few.. and we need something to maintain our status as BOFH's.
Staff:
Due to the differing variety of hw that goes through our hand we use simply scripting methods to automate installation of software. The AV solution we fell for is Sophos Antivirus. All the systems automate an auto-update from our Windows SUS at 16:00 everyday (which catches most of the systems).
As for spyware etc, nothing is installed by default, we have it available for the more interested user, but the fact is if it were installed who would update it? Answer noone.
As you indicate, one of the hardest jobs is to teach the users to be careful of what they click. After all the last virus attack that bred through our systems was started not by a general staff member but instead by one of our techinal documentation writers! Even the educated make misstakes.
One cup of hostname (with a pinch of subdomain as per taste) into a bowl, crack one master password into the bowl add and stir using an MD5 size spoon.
short sweet simple,
now just to change them all...