--Yep. "Windows security" is kind of like "Military intelligence"... Especially if you're on the front lines. Fully patched Win boxes are still prone to probably hundreds of different exploits, not the least being social hacks and encryption malware.
--And don't forget the 0-day hax, 3rd-party software vulns, and shared DLL libraries that have been around since the 90's and never code-audited. Last but not least, they now have to worry about the WSL layer as a possible attack vector.
/ there's a reason I've been a Linux guy for a LONG time now // and an extra slashy for OSX/iMac being my primary desktop these days
> Linux doesn't have a killer app which would make anyone want to change
You're looking at things the wrong way. The "killer app" for Linux is Freedom.
Linux distros don't force updates and breakages on you that force you to reboot at the most inconvenient times and reinstall your OS, for one thing. The other side of it is the ability to modify the source code - and install pretty much anything you want to without having your default-program preferences overridden. Not to mention Linux is generally more secure.
"Cash, barter or trade" has been the standard for business since time out of mind. It's part of the *cost of doing business.* Paraphrasing a movie quote, you never go full cashless.
--There is NO WAY that an AMUSEMENT PARK should be requiring fingerprint scans or other biometric data (besides a picture ID.) What the hell were they thinking??
--Dude, you don't really want people showing up at the front door of your secret military facility looking for cheap goods and sales at the "new store"...
> I've taken to building my boxes with mirrored SSD's
--This may not actually help, especially if both SSDs are the same brand and model - because they will be experiencing the EXACT SAME load and wear patterns. They will likely both fail at the same time.
--Try putting in the mirror drive about a week after the initial drive, that should give you some leeway.
> They've also noticed that the percentage of their traffic costs used to move all of this "pr0n" around the internet is rather... high
Part of that is because their "reblog" button was STUPID - it reloaded the entire Dashboard page in the background. If they had changed it to "Instant reblog" and skipped entering extra notes, they could have saved quite a bit of bandwidth. But this is all academic at this point, whoever is in charge obviously doesn't want the site to survive.
> This autoupdating crap means that any given morning, my box may be broken in very strange ways, with little if any perceivable benefit
--Seriously, everyone should have full bare-metal backups going 3x/weekly by now. AOMEI and VEEAM provide free-as-in-beer software for this, and both are also capable of restoring to different hardware (think VM, or hard-drive-to-SSD.) And 2TB USB3 hard drives are under $90. Search for "2tb silicon power usb3".
--I haven't trusted Win10 since very early on. You would arguably be better served running it in a VM with a Linux or Mac-based host PC (or even Win7 if you're that hard up.) PROTIP - With VMs, snapshots are also easy to make and restore.
--Bare metal Win10 is a dumpster fire, has been for years, and I remain puzzled as to why ANYONE would continue to think it can be trusted without actively seeking alternatives.
It would be more interesting if they "enhanced" the matches for viewers - more like Battle Chess (or Wizard Chess from HP for you youngsters.) A little 5-second animation for pieces moving and being taken would spice it up a little.
--And riding a "modern" subway car in a big city can be a giant pain (WHAT is that SMELL) - not to mention overcrowded cars. Musk is at least trying to get away from the design mistakes of the past.
> I am so tired of Windows telling me I cannot unplug my USB drives because something is using them. But finding that something is almost impossible since process explorer either doesn't see it or just returns svchost
--More than likely, it is a virus scanner that is holding the drive hostage. One way around this is to get a USB drive that has a hardware-level write-lock switch such as Kanguru provides. Yanking the drive when it is doing a read operation shouldn't hurt it (CHKDSK if necessary), but everyone should have a backup of their USB drives justincase.
I remember Navy Pier in Chicago had similar. Killer app for VR back then was Mechwarrior multiplayer running on Apple - it was pretty cool, they had a full sitdown cockpit.
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--Yep. "Windows security" is kind of like "Military intelligence"... Especially if you're on the front lines. Fully patched Win boxes are still prone to probably hundreds of different exploits, not the least being social hacks and encryption malware.
https://thehackernews.com/2018...
--And don't forget the 0-day hax, 3rd-party software vulns, and shared DLL libraries that have been around since the 90's and never code-audited. Last but not least, they now have to worry about the WSL layer as a possible attack vector.
/ there's a reason I've been a Linux guy for a LONG time now
// and an extra slashy for OSX/iMac being my primary desktop these days
> Linux doesn't have a killer app which would make anyone want to change
You're looking at things the wrong way. The "killer app" for Linux is Freedom.
Linux distros don't force updates and breakages on you that force you to reboot at the most inconvenient times and reinstall your OS, for one thing. The other side of it is the ability to modify the source code - and install pretty much anything you want to without having your default-program preferences overridden. Not to mention Linux is generally more secure.
--Thanks for that! I double checked and hopefully won't have to change browsers since it can be disabled with that extension.
...is one kid with a BB gun or a slingshot, and BAM your delivery is pwn3d. Thank God for Amazon lockers and UPS store deliveries.
> For this to work, the Linux desktop has to be using the Wayland display server (some Linux-based OSes use X11)
MOST Linux-based OSes *still* use XOrg, and Wayland is still considered beta quality software that lacks support for remote access. FAIL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm dual booting it on iMacs, laptops and using it for ZFS+Samba. Kudos to the dev team! I just wish you'd drop SystemD
--LOL - I did the same thing with one of my teachers, only I wrote PUNSMENT.BAS to do it
He's not "just" naive. He wrote an article about it for USA Today and received money for doing it. That makes him a paid shill.
"Cash, barter or trade" has been the standard for business since time out of mind. It's part of the *cost of doing business.* Paraphrasing a movie quote, you never go full cashless.
--There is NO WAY that an AMUSEMENT PARK should be requiring fingerprint scans or other biometric data (besides a picture ID.) What the hell were they thinking??
--My mind was blown when I realized that a mouse is basically an extension of your hand on a computer screen.
--Let's be real tho, mice only became really useful/necessary when we switched away from ball mice to laser/optical.
/ Wordstar user - and still uses 'jstar' as my default editor in Linux
> Now, as for NASA's part... I'd say take the money and RUN!
--That was my take on it as well (in fact I have that song in my head right now.)
--Unlimited funding for space? YES SIR, SIR
--By the time our long national nightmare is over, $NASA-admin should already have his exit strategy in place
--Dude, you don't really want people showing up at the front door of your secret military facility looking for cheap goods and sales at the "new store"...
> I've taken to building my boxes with mirrored SSD's
--This may not actually help, especially if both SSDs are the same brand and model - because they will be experiencing the EXACT SAME load and wear patterns. They will likely both fail at the same time.
--Try putting in the mirror drive about a week after the initial drive, that should give you some leeway.
> They've also noticed that the percentage of their traffic costs used to move all of this "pr0n" around the internet is rather... high
Part of that is because their "reblog" button was STUPID - it reloaded the entire Dashboard page in the background. If they had changed it to "Instant reblog" and skipped entering extra notes, they could have saved quite a bit of bandwidth. But this is all academic at this point, whoever is in charge obviously doesn't want the site to survive.
> This autoupdating crap means that any given morning, my box may be broken in very strange ways, with little if any perceivable benefit
--Seriously, everyone should have full bare-metal backups going 3x/weekly by now. AOMEI and VEEAM provide free-as-in-beer software for this, and both are also capable of restoring to different hardware (think VM, or hard-drive-to-SSD.) And 2TB USB3 hard drives are under $90. Search for "2tb silicon power usb3".
--I haven't trusted Win10 since very early on. You would arguably be better served running it in a VM with a Linux or Mac-based host PC (or even Win7 if you're that hard up.) PROTIP - With VMs, snapshots are also easy to make and restore.
--Bare metal Win10 is a dumpster fire, has been for years, and I remain puzzled as to why ANYONE would continue to think it can be trusted without actively seeking alternatives.
It would be more interesting if they "enhanced" the matches for viewers - more like Battle Chess (or Wizard Chess from HP for you youngsters.) A little 5-second animation for pieces moving and being taken would spice it up a little.
With a 64-bit processor, why can't they at least standardize on 3-4GB of RAM minimum?
/ me puts forth that Chicago should be the 1st city to test implementation...
--And riding a "modern" subway car in a big city can be a giant pain (WHAT is that SMELL) - not to mention overcrowded cars. Musk is at least trying to get away from the design mistakes of the past.
> I am so tired of Windows telling me I cannot unplug my USB drives because something is using them. But finding that something is almost impossible since process explorer either doesn't see it or just returns svchost
--More than likely, it is a virus scanner that is holding the drive hostage. One way around this is to get a USB drive that has a hardware-level write-lock switch such as Kanguru provides. Yanking the drive when it is doing a read operation shouldn't hurt it (CHKDSK if necessary), but everyone should have a backup of their USB drives justincase.
I remember Navy Pier in Chicago had similar. Killer app for VR back then was Mechwarrior multiplayer running on Apple - it was pretty cool, they had a full sitdown cockpit.
...this thing will never pay for itself. One of the Big Five should put a monitor on their network traffic and see what they're *really* doing.
...your what, now?
--Try Deadbeef. Pretty close to the xmms/winamp experience on Linux.
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.ne...