A possible software exploit that could possibly be exploited on a linux system (or windows..)gets discoverd and it gets major air time and citizens running screaming in the streets...
If someone finds a virus/worm/trojan on the windows platform that has definantly comprimised thousands of systems and all you get is a little alert to say please update your virus definitions
This Should say more about linuxs reputation and record for security for security than anything.This will already be patched i imagine (must check that and apt-get an update) and there are no known exploit sofar as linux virii being around the corner . they are already here but if we keep our systems up to date (most linux distros aimed at non power user will have an auto update feature (most aimed at power users do now too)) and the kernel carrys on getting updated and patched and secured we have nothing to worry about.
The people who do have to worry are the makers of distros for new non tech users who do not have the best record for out of the box security
We had a raitings and do you know what they ment to me when i was 12 , 13 or 14 (UK ratings) U-(univeraly safe) Boring no chance of nudity of cool fights UC(universal for children) yawn even less chance of nakidness or violence pg-(parental guidance)possibly someone will say sh*t , or someone will bleed , yawn still no nudity
12:(age min) hm this could be ok , perhaps some blood and explosions , still no nakedness though
15:(age min)could be some really cool gore , not much chance of nakedness but we may see a nipple WOOO
18:(Age min) wow must see this , this film is for 18 year olds so it must have some great naked women in it and/or some cool violance with exploding heads... You see this is why raitings don't work , you slap an 18 or mature on it and kids are going to go out of there way to play it or whatch it . you ban it and you make it a cult. Gouverment sanctioned censorship just does not work. I say slap a PG on everything , as honestly it is up to parents to raise their children. When i have children i will decide what they whatch not some rating designed by a bored that does not know my child , Children mature at difrent rates, alot of children will be fine playing a game like GTA 3 when they are 11 or , but some may be disturbed by a film like Ghostbusters when they are 17.
Hm perhaps your right although you can get an old imac for around 100-150 euros (not sure about the USA , I picked up an old g3 400mhz imac and have it now running as a media server for about 150)with OS X on it , and if you want to learn the BSD core its open to examine from the a very comfertable chair (Aqua).
This is exactly why i switched to using Debian from using SuSE a few years ago on my desktop. apt-get repositorys may have some scalability issues , though it's the best package managment i have ever used and its a true plesure to have this type of usability at hand. Debian package managment is extremly solid (Respect also to gentoo based distros and the BSD world , i just prefer debian and apt) and windows can'nt hold a candle to it. its a matter of a few words typed into the term for me to upgrade my system or install new software , and if you dont know what you want exactly then you have the excelent synaptic to browse the repositorys from the comfert of a GUI with a nice search function. Microsoft may have some nicely engenieerd products that are a plesure to use (? examples please.. as I honestly couldnt call any of the ones i have used a plesure ) though compared to the ease of use and power i have with a debian base for my GNU software i really am not convinced about MSs superior useability. I use debian styled linux(ubuntu) and BSD on x86.. and linux and BSD(net and OS X) on ppc . I do occasionaly need to use computers with varying windows versions for work and it honestly does not hold a candle to OS X or debian to me on a desktop useability front , Fair enough some people prefer windows but honestly i cant see why (other than games) (This is my opinion,nothing more)
On a side note , you can have linux on your legos or legos on your linux http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Lego/ Its funny to think how simmilar linux and legos are , i mean i build space-ships out of legos and NASA builds space-ships(OS) out of linux
Bingo bango bongo the nail is hit on the head.If everyone took time out to read the manual for things they are using i assure you that 90% of regular computer problems would vanish overnight.Another 5% would vanish if people trained themselves in the use of a unix type OS (The remainder being mainly misc bugs,hardware problems and the like)
two reasons this does not occur as far as i see it.
1:) people are lazy and expect things just to work or do not have the time and can't see the long term benifits of this
2:) support is big bussiness , for many people in the IT industry.Training people how to properly use a PC means a potential loss of profits/jobs.
So untill we find some middle ground we are stuck with all the problems that under-trained computer users cause .
Sorry hit save instead of preview and extrans messed it up
"Gott erhalte Linux den Kaiser"
Linux,Linux über alles,
Über alles in der Windows Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
als unix zusammenhält,
Von der GNU bis zu Herr Linus,
Von G.R.U.B bis IPTables
-
Linux , Linux über alles,
Über alles in der Windows Welt.
Linux,Linux über alles,, Über alles in der Windows Welt, Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze als unix zusammenhält, Von der GNU bis zu Herr Linus, Von G.R.U.B bis IPTables - Linux , Linux über alles, Über alles in der Windows Welt.
The names being bad enough but do you know how often i have ranted about scotti. Now i lived 17 years of life in Aberbeen and Scotti did not have anything even close to resembeling a Scottish accent let alone a Doric/aberdeenshire accent. And that eppisode where Dr Crusher goes to her familys planet was so offensive that i nearly threw something at the TV.....
jean luc picard being played by the excelent patric stewart sounds about as French as Sean Connery sounds spanish in Highlander.
O'brian atleast is played by a guy from Irland and is the only authentic accent i can remember in the entire shows history apart from some parts of the USA even then i think these people often sound like they come from difrent states (although i must admit im less familliar with accents from much of the USA).
So they may be representing alot of coutnrys but they are doing in really really bad ways... If your going to pretend to be from another country its alot better if you get your facts straight/Rant...
I also noticed the name thing and i belive im not the only person in the world to find this PC leaning highly offensively half baked... not to mention the lack of overweight people , people with difrent builds of fiqures other than aliens and the total lack of gay people bar some trill but that doesn't even count. oh wait i think my rant continued for a paragraph
sudo *inset filemanager*
if you really must.. but its rare that you will need a root account for filemanagment. Though any filemanagement you need root to perform,but find it tricky via shell..would hint to me that you require a better knowlidge of the shell,Though phrasing this to not sound insulting is hard I honestly do not mean to. Alot of people dont realise the full potential of the shell for file management.
The problem as i see it with DVD based all in one distros is quite simple. If I am going to want to install a large ammount of software with my distro then i would rather get it from package repository..
With a DVD ISO based distro you first have an hour or two(or more)downloading a DVD ISO and burning it , instaling it and all the software you want from the CD.. then being a person with the bandwidth to easily download a DVD ISO i spend the next 3 hours downloading updated packages to replace the ones I installed from the DVD ISO in the first place.
Now a DVD iso is great if your passing it on to someone without the bandwith who wants a large install but otherwise after the first week or two that the Distro has been avaliable in its current form the disk is totaly out of date and requires you download the mountain of updates
a small 1 cd or net install CD is alot more usefull for people with large bandwidth (and possibly no DVD burner at hand)
honestly if you want the easiest newbie freindly BSD then get yourself a mac mini or an old imac with OS X. Other than that FreeBSD or one of the live cds http://www.freesbie.org/ or livecd.sourceforge.net(not sure how far along this one is) Though they are nowhere near as **newbie-freindly** as OS X.
if you have the cash for two 30" monitors then im fairly sure you could find the deskspace.. Personaly my desk on which i sit right now is about 1.5M long and would have plenty of space for these to sit at the back(if i moved the clutter/ mess), It is a big desk but not much above average i would think.
1: buy two rather wonderfull but epensive monitors 2: buy expensive graphics card with duel dvi conectors and a framebuffer to support massive displays such as these 3: install graphics card(driver setup etc ) and then plug in new monitors ( if you buy one with conectors too close either, use an adaptor cable or slice up the one on your 3000 grand monitors... i know which i would do) 4: turn on system and configure your windowing system to use both monitors at a comfertable size.... in other words do exactly the same thing you would do(read:Should do) normaly
Eurogamer.com has some more details on the mini-expansion cum tech demo
you know they say the porn industry drives technoligy but this is too far im sure water effects will sufice and do we really need a gorden freeman money shot...
1: They do not swear when your doing it 2: You dont see any skin associated with the lower back / chest/crotch 3: They do not say "Save me *deity or scientific theory*" 4: The person does not make any racial or gender related comments
so basicaly when you have the guys spine ripped out the script should be changed from " aghhhh sh*t...You alien bast*rd,Ill see you in Hell aghhhh" to a much more demographicaly freindly "Oh fiddle-dee-dee , I am upset with you species of unkown origion..ugh i am dying.. possible universal question of what is next agh"
Because it runs wonderfully,I have done a test install on my Mini and it ran without any major hitch -ubuntu runs on my older imac g3 wonderfully too. It deserves mentioning because it has an excelent repository and support for the PPC/Mac platform thus i think it deserves credit..
1: Sell faulty products with crappy gaurentee then hide 2: advertise newer laptops after origional expires 3: profit 4: (the reason gateway keeps going bankrupt) Customers get pissed off and move elsewhere
Ouch non were willing to do it.. hm have you contacted gateway i would imagine they would charge you a premium though.. ? you should check with gateway as the 30 day gaurentee is void if the part was faulty (the metal).. though that may require some pushing and angry threats of a lawyer
It should be a simple case of replacing the pin if it has snapped off or been pushed back.. after all its just a thin metal pin or if the worst comes to the worst(i have no idea about the specific machine but it's all pretty much the same thing) you will need to solder on a replacment socket(far more likely and far eassier,plus these socketts cost hardly anything). However you are going to need to open the laptop up and if your not used to working on laptops or simmilarly spaced devices then save yourself the stress and take it to a repairs shop and pay the 30 quid to have it done for you
;) They know what they are doing doing with AMD im guessing it involves
1: Buying shares of AMD when they drop 2: submit story to difrent news sources about using AMD chips 3: Sell shares of AMD stock after the shares skyrocket 4: Profit
*Cough* but you did'nt hear that from me.. oh that and the getting intel to lower prices for Dell and raise prices for smaller competitors so as to gobble a larger market share
Ofcourse they will , however they will never be able to compete with the wests social engineering hackers. To prove this point all I need you to do is send me your credit card details and password for your PC and i can check the list of hacked PCs and stolen credit card numbers to see if your on it and cross reference it with the method that was used to hack it
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A possible software exploit that could possibly be exploited on a linux system (or windows
If someone finds a virus/worm/trojan on the windows platform that has definantly comprimised thousands of systems and all you get is a little alert to say please update your virus definitions
This Should say more about linuxs reputation and record for security for security than anything.This will already be patched i imagine (must check that and apt-get an update) and there are no known exploit sofar as linux virii being around the corner . they are already here but if we keep our systems up to date (most linux distros aimed at non power user will have an auto update feature (most aimed at power users do now too)) and the kernel carrys on getting updated and patched and secured we have nothing to worry about.
The people who do have to worry are the makers of distros for new non tech users who do not have the best record for out of the box security
We had a raitings and do you know what they ment to me when i was 12 , 13 or 14
/or some cool violance with exploding heads ... . .
(UK ratings)
U-(univeraly safe) Boring no chance of nudity of cool fights
UC(universal for children) yawn even less chance of nakidness or violence
pg-(parental guidance)possibly someone will say sh*t , or someone will bleed , yawn still no nudity
12:(age min) hm this could be ok , perhaps some blood and explosions , still no nakedness though
15:(age min)could be some really cool gore , not much chance of nakedness but we may see a nipple WOOO
18:(Age min) wow must see this , this film is for 18 year olds so it must have some great naked women in it and
You see this is why raitings don't work , you slap an 18 or mature on it and kids are going to go out of there way to play it or whatch it . you ban it and you make it a cult
Gouverment sanctioned censorship just does not work.
I say slap a PG on everything , as honestly it is up to parents to raise their children
When i have children i will decide what they whatch not some rating designed by a bored that does not know my child , Children mature at difrent rates, alot of children will be fine playing a game like GTA 3 when they are 11 or , but some may be disturbed by a film like Ghostbusters when they are 17.
Hm perhaps your right although you can get an old imac for around 100-150 euros (not sure about the USA , I picked up an old g3 400mhz imac and have it now running as a media server for about 150)with OS X on it , and if you want to learn the BSD core its open to examine from the a very comfertable chair (Aqua).
This is exactly why i switched to using Debian from using SuSE a few years ago on my desktop. . . ,nothing more)
apt-get repositorys may have some scalability issues , though it's the best package managment i have ever used and its a true plesure to have this type of usability at hand
Debian package managment is extremly solid (Respect also to gentoo based distros and the BSD world , i just prefer debian and apt) and windows can'nt hold a candle to it.
its a matter of a few words typed into the term for me to upgrade my system or install new software , and if you dont know what you want exactly then you have the excelent synaptic to browse the repositorys from the comfert of a GUI with a nice search function.
Microsoft may have some nicely engenieerd products that are a plesure to use (? examples please.. as I honestly couldnt call any of the ones i have used a plesure ) though compared to the ease of use and power i have with a debian base for my GNU software i really am not convinced about MSs superior useability
I use debian styled linux(ubuntu) and BSD on x86.. and linux and BSD(net and OS X) on ppc . I do occasionaly need to use computers with varying windows versions for work and it honestly does not hold a candle to OS X or debian to me on a desktop useability front , Fair enough some people prefer windows but honestly i cant see why (other than games)
(This is my opinion
On a side note , you can have linux on your legos or legos on your linux http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Lego/
Its funny to think how simmilar linux and legos are , i mean i build space-ships out of legos and NASA builds space-ships(OS) out of linux
Bingo bango bongo the nail is hit on the head .If everyone took time out to read the manual for things they are using i assure you that 90% of regular computer problems would vanish overnight.Another 5% would vanish if people trained themselves in the use of a unix type OS (The remainder being mainly misc bugs ,hardware problems and the like)
.
.Training people how to properly use a PC means a potential loss of profits/jobs.
two reasons this does not occur as far as i see it
1:) people are lazy and expect things just to work or do not have the time and can't see the long term benifits of this
2:) support is big bussiness , for many people in the IT industry
So untill we find some middle ground we are stuck with all the problems that under-trained computer users cause .
It didnt make me think of the children but after playing it I really felt like a sandwich..
Sorry hit save instead of preview and extrans messed it up
,Linux über alles,
"Gott erhalte Linux den Kaiser"
Linux
Über alles in der Windows Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
als unix zusammenhält,
Von der GNU bis zu Herr Linus,
Von G.R.U.B bis IPTables
- Linux , Linux über alles,
Über alles in der Windows Welt.
"Gott erhalte Linux den Kaiser"
,Linux über alles, ,
Linux
Über alles in der Windows Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
als unix zusammenhält,
Von der GNU bis zu Herr Linus,
Von G.R.U.B bis IPTables -
Linux , Linux über alles,
Über alles in der Windows Welt.
ok heres a nice little survey for you
..
.....
Q1: Which would you rather have
A: Blog censorship
B: Pins shoved through your eyeballs
This survay would clearly show that 99% of people are for blog censorship(1% margin of error)
Lies , Dammed lies and Statistics
The names being bad enough but do you know how often i have ranted about scotti. .....
/Rant...
Now i lived 17 years of life in Aberbeen and Scotti did not have anything even close to resembeling a Scottish accent let alone a Doric/aberdeenshire accent.
And that eppisode where Dr Crusher goes to her familys planet was so offensive that i nearly threw something at the TV
jean luc picard being played by the excelent patric stewart sounds about as French as Sean Connery sounds spanish in Highlander.
O'brian atleast is played by a guy from Irland and is the only authentic accent i can remember in the entire shows history apart from some parts of the USA even then i think these people often sound like they come from difrent states (although i must admit im less familliar with accents from much of the USA).
So they may be representing alot of coutnrys but they are doing in really really bad ways... If your going to pretend to be from another country its alot better if you get your facts straight
I also noticed the name thing and i belive im not the only person in the world to find this PC leaning highly offensively half baked... not to mention the lack of overweight people , people with difrent builds of fiqures other than aliens and the total lack of gay people bar some trill but that doesn't even count. oh wait i think my rant continued for a paragraph
sudo *inset filemanager* .. but its rare that you will need a root account for filemanagment . ,but find it tricky via shell ..would hint to me that you require a better knowlidge of the shell ,Though phrasing this to not sound insulting is hard I honestly do not mean to .
if you really must
Though any filemanagement you need root to perform
Alot of people dont realise the full potential of the shell for file management.
The problem as i see it with DVD based all in one distros is quite simple .
.. then being a person with the bandwidth to easily download a DVD ISO i spend the next 3 hours downloading updated packages to replace the ones I installed from the DVD ISO in the first place.
If I am going to want to install a large ammount of software with my distro then i would rather get it from package repository..
With a DVD ISO based distro you first have an hour or two(or more)downloading a DVD ISO and burning it , instaling it and all the software you want from the CD
Now a DVD iso is great if your passing it on to someone without the bandwith who wants a large install but otherwise after the first week or two that the Distro has been avaliable in its current form the disk is totaly out of date and requires you download the mountain of updates
a small 1 cd or net install CD is alot more usefull for people with large bandwidth (and possibly no DVD burner at hand)
honestly if you want the easiest newbie freindly BSD then get yourself a mac mini or an old imac with OS X. .
Other than that FreeBSD or one of the live cds
http://www.freesbie.org/ or livecd.sourceforge.net(not sure how far along this one is) Though they are nowhere near as **newbie-freindly** as OS X
if you have the cash for two 30" monitors then im fairly sure you could find the deskspace .. Personaly my desk on which i sit right now is about 1.5M long and would have plenty of space for these to sit at the back(if i moved the clutter/ mess), It is a big desk but not much above average i would think.
1: buy two rather wonderfull but epensive monitors .... in other words do exactly the same thing you would do(read:Should do) normaly
2: buy expensive graphics card with duel dvi conectors and a framebuffer to support massive displays such as these
3: install graphics card(driver setup etc ) and then plug in new monitors ( if you buy one with conectors too close either, use an adaptor cable or slice up the one on your 3000 grand monitors... i know which i would do)
4: turn on system and configure your windowing system to use both monitors at a comfertable size
You can rip out a persons spine so-long as
...You alien bast*rd ,Ill see you in Hell aghhhh" ..ugh i am dying .. possible universal question of what is next agh"
1: They do not swear when your doing it
2: You dont see any skin associated with the lower back / chest/crotch
3: They do not say "Save me *deity or scientific theory*"
4: The person does not make any racial or gender related comments
so basicaly when you have the guys spine ripped out the script should be changed from
" aghhhh sh*t
to a much more demographicaly freindly
"Oh fiddle-dee-dee , I am upset with you species of unkown origion
first patent...
Because it runs wonderfully ,I have done a test install on my Mini and it ran without any major hitch -ubuntu runs on my older imac g3 wonderfully too.
It deserves mentioning because it has an excelent repository and support for the PPC/Mac platform thus i think it deserves credit..
1: Sell faulty products with crappy gaurentee then hide
2: advertise newer laptops after origional expires
3: profit
4: (the reason gateway keeps going bankrupt) Customers get pissed off and move elsewhere
Ouch non were willing to do it .. hm have you contacted gateway i would imagine they would charge you a premium though..
? you should check with gateway as the 30 day gaurentee is void if the part was faulty (the metal).. though that may require some pushing and angry threats of a lawyer
It should be a simple case of replacing the pin if it has snapped off or been pushed back .. after all its just a thin metal pin or if the worst comes to the worst(i have no idea about the specific machine but it's all pretty much the same thing) you will need to solder on a replacment socket(far more likely and far eassier ,plus these socketts cost hardly anything) .
However you are going to need to open the laptop up and if your not used to working on laptops or simmilarly spaced devices then save yourself the stress and take it to a repairs shop and pay the 30 quid to have it done for you
;) They know what they are doing doing with AMD im guessing it involves
1: Buying shares of AMD when they drop
2: submit story to difrent news sources about using AMD chips
3: Sell shares of AMD stock after the shares skyrocket
4: Profit
*Cough* but you did'nt hear that from me.. oh that and the getting intel to lower prices for Dell and raise prices for smaller competitors so as to gobble a larger market share
Ofcourse they will , however they will never be able to compete with the wests social engineering hackers. To prove this point all I need you to do is send me your credit card details and password for your PC and i can check the list of hacked PCs and stolen credit card numbers to see if your on it and cross reference it with the method that was used to hack it