I was more on about the codebase (in the way that the virtual server codebase wasn't originally developed my MS, the post I replied to kinda implied that Windows came from Apple in a similar way) - but thanks for refreshing my memory on the xerox issue... does make me wonder how Apple did things like force MS to pay to be able to allow their windows to overlap (which I guess means they patented z-order), but I'll try not to get too much into the patent thing, it's kinda been rinsed out here.
I was talking about when inserting it into someone elses comp, not your own. You can advise they turn off their autorun, or just hold down shift. (Although the easy solution sounds like just removing the autorun.inf file).
Your attitude to just getting off using windows is a little naive, things unfortunately aren't that simple out here in the real world. Companies can lock down Windows much more easily than migrating (and often rewriting) software over to another OS, they just often don't.
"1) create non privliged testuser account on your linux (or other non standard OS) box (pref' non x86). 2) view drive contents. 3) remove testuser account when done."
A person who can do that isn't gonna be the kinda person this article's talking about.
They might be cheaper, but far less interesting, and less discrete. With a USB drive, even if you're not interested in potentially routing through someone's files, you can still wipe it and use it yourself... which involves putting it into your machine.
Actually I think for another reason... Linux makes a better host. When colocating servers running Windows, I will *only* do so with the Windows machine running virtually on a Linux host. How else can you fix things when it goes wrong? Trust the employees at the datacenter? No, you connect to the outer system and do things yourself.
I'm not a VMware employee. I don't work in marketing. Please hurt me (I kinda like it). I've just installed vmware server onto one of my dedicated servers to run Windows (a customer needs a windows server, be I'll be damned if I'm installing Windows directly onto hardware. Now if Windows spazzes out, I can vmware-console in, and recover). VMware's a rarity in software, it works better than expected. Definitely a fanboy here.
"Nothing states what the sum of Apache was. Are they just assuming it's Linux only?"
Why would any assumtion need to be made? Surely Apache figures are just that; servers that return the string Apache. The survey is on hosting software, not underlying OS.
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I'd disagree, things are changing. As computers become more powerful, the number of sites you can host on a single machine increases, which means there are more people to spread the cost of the software to drive them across.
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"And if you think you must work with Microsoft to make a living then you're very ignorant"
That's not true, you can be unskilled without being ignorant.
"Is the gain in convenience of having many gadgets in one device worth the loss of quality of each of those individual devices comapared to individual items?"
That's like saying car stereo's aren't as good as a home cinema, so are they really worth having at all? I have so many friends who take pictures and share them in a couple of key presses, who wouldn't go out to buy a high quality just-a-camera because for them, it's just a toy, it's fun, not something they feel the need to actively pursue. And likewise, I know people who have spent a little extra buying a decent quality camera, but will still fall back to using the camera on their phone as (as with most people) they don't carry their camera around all the time.
I probably spend an average of around an hour every week or two listening to mp3s from my phone. I don't feel it's worth me spending money on a seperate mp3 player that's going to get so little use.
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and then having to keep track of keeping them all charged up too. Also, many of my friends households have at least one charger that will charge my phone. What's the chances my friends who have seperate digital cameras and mp3 players can say the same about them? Something being as ubiquitous (in ways as this) has value just from being ubiquitous alone.
I could go on. So please, lets put this "i just want a phone that rings" thing that hits slashdot everytime mobile phones are mentioned to rest, it's far too backward an attitude for a site that's supposed to be what this site's supposed to be.
The lightening strike itself doesn't even need to travel; the enormous short lived current creates a huge equally short lived (read: fast changing) magnetic field, which generates a current in anything metal around it, which can be pretty devastating itself. Basically like a transformer, except you don't need coils of wire as the current is so high and short lived (being as it's not the strength of a magnetic field that generates a current, but how much it changes over a given time).
So I guess you basically need the lightening rod inside a faraday cage:-p
It is if you're microsoft:-p they should accept their limits!
But yeah I'd have to agree with you really, I think insecurities in windows is due to implementation rather than design, but tying IE in with the shell is an example of where many claim insecurity by design. Yeah they might be wrong, but I think the thread was about people complaining whatever MS do (although at 2:25am my motivation for re-reading parent posts is rather low).
I personally use Win2K on my laptop rather than a newer windows because I know what I'm doing, and so ms's recent ideas about security get in my way and slow me down, just as on linux I always log in as root, and err... I don't have problems with either.
tying IE into the shell? That's something that a lot of people complain about (I personally find it quite handy, but then I don't surf dodgy websites so security in IE isn't an issue for me)
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This is exactly what I've come to expect from the register to be honest, and from the general population for that matter. People are very quick to believe someone has done something bad, whether they have or not. If the person's ever cleared, either nobody hears about it, or people believe they "got away with it" due to a failure in the legal system or whatever. "Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't exist in the real world, the uneducated masses have made sure of that, it's far too easy to damage or even ruin somebody's life. I think there should be harsher consequences for people who do it.
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MS actually /did/ release it 3 years ago, but you know how slashdot is for posting old/dupe stories ;-)
"MS will have to think long and hard before they come up with something equally easy to install and manage as Rocks"
MS introduces New Windows 2003 Paper(tm)!
(just watch out for Mosix Scissors)
ME wasn't just bad, ME was the WORST... ME makes everything else MS has ever done, software and tactics wise, look like the work of angels.
(sorry, had to throw that one in)
I was more on about the codebase (in the way that the virtual server codebase wasn't originally developed my MS, the post I replied to kinda implied that Windows came from Apple in a similar way) - but thanks for refreshing my memory on the xerox issue... does make me wonder how Apple did things like force MS to pay to be able to allow their windows to overlap (which I guess means they patented z-order), but I'll try not to get too much into the patent thing, it's kinda been rinsed out here.
I was on about vmware server, but esx I thought just ran on a modified linux (redhat based, anyone?)
I was talking about when inserting it into someone elses comp, not your own. You can advise they turn off their autorun, or just hold down shift. (Although the easy solution sounds like just removing the autorun.inf file).
Your attitude to just getting off using windows is a little naive, things unfortunately aren't that simple out here in the real world. Companies can lock down Windows much more easily than migrating (and often rewriting) software over to another OS, they just often don't.
"1) create non privliged testuser account on your linux (or other non standard OS) box (pref' non x86).
2) view drive contents.
3) remove testuser account when done."
A person who can do that isn't gonna be the kinda person this article's talking about.
They might be cheaper, but far less interesting, and less discrete. With a USB drive, even if you're not interested in potentially routing through someone's files, you can still wipe it and use it yourself... which involves putting it into your machine.
Hold shift key while inserting?
"This article has anything to do with "lunch"? Give me a break"
what... like... a lunch break?
(it's 4am!)
Actually I think for another reason... Linux makes a better host. When colocating servers running Windows, I will *only* do so with the Windows machine running virtually on a Linux host. How else can you fix things when it goes wrong? Trust the employees at the datacenter? No, you connect to the outer system and do things yourself.
I date myself... a between you and me, I *never* hold out for the third date
I'm not a VMware employee. I don't work in marketing. Please hurt me (I kinda like it). I've just installed vmware server onto one of my dedicated servers to run Windows (a customer needs a windows server, be I'll be damned if I'm installing Windows directly onto hardware. Now if Windows spazzes out, I can vmware-console in, and recover). VMware's a rarity in software, it works better than expected. Definitely a fanboy here.
Wasn't that more IBM than Apple?
Slashdot doesn't need a webserver, it runs on the pure knowitallism and smug self satisfaction of it's members :-p
"Nothing states what the sum of Apache was. Are they just assuming it's Linux only?"
Why would any assumtion need to be made? Surely Apache figures are just that; servers that return the string Apache. The survey is on hosting software, not underlying OS.
"they both are dominated by denial"
No they're not!
hahahaahaaa
I'd disagree, things are changing. As computers become more powerful, the number of sites you can host on a single machine increases, which means there are more people to spread the cost of the software to drive them across.
"And if you think you must work with Microsoft to make a living then you're very ignorant"
That's not true, you can be unskilled without being ignorant.
"Is the gain in convenience of having many gadgets in one device worth the loss of quality of each of those individual devices comapared to individual items?"
...
That's like saying car stereo's aren't as good as a home cinema, so are they really worth having at all? I have so many friends who take pictures and share them in a couple of key presses, who wouldn't go out to buy a high quality just-a-camera because for them, it's just a toy, it's fun, not something they feel the need to actively pursue. And likewise, I know people who have spent a little extra buying a decent quality camera, but will still fall back to using the camera on their phone as (as with most people) they don't carry their camera around all the time.
I probably spend an average of around an hour every week or two listening to mp3s from my phone. I don't feel it's worth me spending money on a seperate mp3 player that's going to get so little use.
and then having to keep track of keeping them all charged up too. Also, many of my friends households have at least one charger that will charge my phone. What's the chances my friends who have seperate digital cameras and mp3 players can say the same about them? Something being as ubiquitous (in ways as this) has value just from being ubiquitous alone.
I could go on. So please, lets put this "i just want a phone that rings" thing that hits slashdot everytime mobile phones are mentioned to rest, it's far too backward an attitude for a site that's supposed to be what this site's supposed to be.
...can you play it on linux?
The lightening strike itself doesn't even need to travel; the enormous short lived current creates a huge equally short lived (read: fast changing) magnetic field, which generates a current in anything metal around it, which can be pretty devastating itself. Basically like a transformer, except you don't need coils of wire as the current is so high and short lived (being as it's not the strength of a magnetic field that generates a current, but how much it changes over a given time).
:-p
So I guess you basically need the lightening rod inside a faraday cage
It's not "insecure by design"
:-p they should accept their limits!
It is if you're microsoft
But yeah I'd have to agree with you really, I think insecurities in windows is due to implementation rather than design, but tying IE in with the shell is an example of where many claim insecurity by design. Yeah they might be wrong, but I think the thread was about people complaining whatever MS do (although at 2:25am my motivation for re-reading parent posts is rather low).
I personally use Win2K on my laptop rather than a newer windows because I know what I'm doing, and so ms's recent ideas about security get in my way and slow me down, just as on linux I always log in as root, and err... I don't have problems with either.
tying IE into the shell? That's something that a lot of people complain about (I personally find it quite handy, but then I don't surf dodgy websites so security in IE isn't an issue for me)
This is exactly what I've come to expect from the register to be honest, and from the general population for that matter. People are very quick to believe someone has done something bad, whether they have or not. If the person's ever cleared, either nobody hears about it, or people believe they "got away with it" due to a failure in the legal system or whatever. "Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't exist in the real world, the uneducated masses have made sure of that, it's far too easy to damage or even ruin somebody's life. I think there should be harsher consequences for people who do it.