Panera's became my home office for 3 months last year. Every day, constant free coffee refills, and plenty of lunch-crowd eye-candy from the local office complex.
Course, there was that time when someone sniffed/watched-over-my-shoulder while I was paying my bills and the next day I had to dispute a bunch of charges... but for just hanging out, a great place.
Had hoped they could force T-Mobile to be more competitive, but this isnt something new and last I looked Starbucks still had ridiculous fees.
Linux isn't "just another OS"... its proponents have hopes of it being installed on a substantial number of business servers.
And so on.
Linux is (if you read/. long enough) the best choice for the deployment of internet services. It wouldnt make much news if my desktop was compromised and my checking account drained. It would however be news if a server was compromised which led to someone having access to 10 thousand accounts.
Me, my home machines are wide open for services with just enough security to allow me to sleep at night knowing that my kids wont stumble across our porn collection. I do though have a decent firewall configuration to keep the neighbors out. I would say (and this is an obvious point) that anyone who plugs their desktop directly into the cable modem and has no firewall (external hardware, never trusted software firewalls) is the one who has the problem, doesnt matter what OS he is running. Firewall configuration is OS agnostic and is relatively painless. But the story isnt desktop home users, or at least shouldnt be, and your speaking of the masses having to learn about OS level security is, I think, not so relevant.
A server, by nature, isnt meant to restrict access. Which server OS is more secure? Dont know, I write code. I leave network access headaches to the guy down the hall from me. Which server OS is easier to secure? Dont know about you, but point-click-done works for me. Works for most companies ive worked for as well, knowing that they dont have to be sending the network guy off to conventions and doing security as a full time job (besides, the security freaks that I know all tend to be sweaty black-clad techno-snobs, but thats a pretty broad brush I know)
You have just satisfied my goal of one cool new find per day. Based on the lack of visibility for this via a google search, your post should be modded 'Informative'. I wouldnt hold my breath though
Whew. Glad you werent speaking for me. I wouldnt have to blame the homeless in a hypothetical slip. I would likely blame the homeless-advocate who would say lots of things like you just did, and would 'protect' the homeless person by helping him bring the case. Sorry that I have such an un-enlightened social consience, but screw that whole 'fucked over by the system' nonsense, ill keep my corporate greedy bastard system thank you very much
The only reason I came to the article was to brush up on my vocabulary. I thought for sure my kid was going to make a reference to 'fansubber' one day soon and i'd appear to be more out of touch than I actually am.
And here I immediately thought it was like a 'fluffer' or something.
At least I can still get off an upskirt shot N/T
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Um, where were you when the 'Introduction of the Mac' thread was going on?
<Diabolical>Or, hey, heres a thought, seed some Metalica - they're closet Republicans, along with U2 BTW; then we can begin our attack on P2P and all things great and good</Diabolical>
<Diabolical>Yes, yes. We will soon shut down all that is good (and of course, illegal), and that, as you say, will be the end of that. You are most clever. Ashcroft will be knocking on your door personally as you are clearly an intellect to be reckoned with.</Diabolical>
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Panera's became my home office for 3 months last year. Every day, constant free coffee refills, and plenty of lunch-crowd eye-candy from the local office complex.
Course, there was that time when someone sniffed/watched-over-my-shoulder while I was paying my bills and the next day I had to dispute a bunch of charges... but for just hanging out, a great place.
Had hoped they could force T-Mobile to be more competitive, but this isnt something new and last I looked Starbucks still had ridiculous fees.
Your point is valid, however...
... its proponents have hopes of it being installed on a substantial number of business servers.
/. long enough) the best choice for the deployment of internet services. It wouldnt make much news if my desktop was compromised and my checking account drained. It would however be news if a server was compromised which led to someone having access to 10 thousand accounts.
Linux isn't "just another OS"
And so on.
Linux is (if you read
Me, my home machines are wide open for services with just enough security to allow me to sleep at night knowing that my kids wont stumble across our porn collection. I do though have a decent firewall configuration to keep the neighbors out. I would say (and this is an obvious point) that anyone who plugs their desktop directly into the cable modem and has no firewall (external hardware, never trusted software firewalls) is the one who has the problem, doesnt matter what OS he is running. Firewall configuration is OS agnostic and is relatively painless. But the story isnt desktop home users, or at least shouldnt be, and your speaking of the masses having to learn about OS level security is, I think, not so relevant.
A server, by nature, isnt meant to restrict access. Which server OS is more secure? Dont know, I write code. I leave network access headaches to the guy down the hall from me. Which server OS is easier to secure? Dont know about you, but point-click-done works for me. Works for most companies ive worked for as well, knowing that they dont have to be sending the network guy off to conventions and doing security as a full time job (besides, the security freaks that I know all tend to be sweaty black-clad techno-snobs, but thats a pretty broad brush I know)
I just dont get 'art'.
Sclupture is only a close a second to poetry as something that just absolutely fails to make me give a rats ass.
You have just satisfied my goal of one cool new find per day. Based on the lack of visibility for this via a google search, your post should be modded 'Informative'. I wouldnt hold my breath though
Whew. Glad you werent speaking for me.
I wouldnt have to blame the homeless in a hypothetical slip. I would likely blame the homeless-advocate who would say lots of things like you just did, and would 'protect' the homeless person by helping him bring the case.
Sorry that I have such an un-enlightened social consience, but screw that whole 'fucked over by the system' nonsense, ill keep my corporate greedy bastard system thank you very much
Sniff. Sniff.
Except for the reality that the first one who slipped on the freshly polished floors would immediately sue the owner.
And here I though you were dead John.
Would the system help me find even better Armadillo porn?
which has been in use a lot longer
Kind of a critical fact, thanks.
The only reason I came to the article was to brush up on my vocabulary. I thought for sure my kid was going to make a reference to 'fansubber' one day soon and i'd appear to be more out of touch than I actually am.
And here I immediately thought it was like a 'fluffer' or something.
Nothing interesting here, move along