It seems you've found a glaring Firefox security problem there, that ought to be reported immediately.
If it is possible to silently install add-ons, how long will it take until someone finds a way to send you one via Exchange? One that, say, logs your keystrokes whenever you visit a URL starting with "https://", such as your online banking site?
Firefox needs to validate its add-ons and make sure the list can't be manipulated without user interaction.
How the fuck do you expect any installed application to protect itself from being modified by Windows Update? Once you've come up with the solution, let us know what it is and we can also apply it to the general situation where we want to prevent an application being modified by another process running with root priveleges.
Please hurry! I am literally holding my breath here.
No admin should touch it as it is an unreliabel PoS. I haven't used it in probably 10+ years, but I can remember it dropping things into never never land more often than I'd like to recall.
I've used it for the last 10 years and never had an issue. Maybe you're the kind of idiot who blames tools for his own mistakes? I mean you seem to think that one poorly constructed sentence which barely even counts as an anecdote is going to sway the opinions of others, so it seems a fair assumption.
Smaller, faster, compiles fine on all platforms with any C compiler and it only requires curses. And most impportantly it doesn't crashes and it doesn't corrupsts files like MC does.
Blatant bullshit in order to promote an inferior GNU project.
Now if we can only get Red Hat to support FS other than ext3. That snafu on their parts is causing us all kinds of angst at our shop.
Oh, me too! I often gaze whistfully at all our servers and think, "Wow. If only we could get some experimental filesystems on these bitches, my job would be so much better."
In fact, my biggest grip with RedHat is that they always seem 2-3 revisions behind everyone else.
I don't think you've quite got your head around this "enterprise" thing.
I never really expected Slashdot to give Windows of any kind a fair shake
If you go away and have a good long think about why this bothers you, you will probably uncover some deep personal issues. In my opinion caring about whether major corporations are being treated unfairly is the best indicator of massive social inadequecy.
Every computing product sucks. The sooner you learn to deal with that fact, the sooner you'll stop being a pathetic faggot with a persecution complex. "Feel free to mod me down or whatever". No, I would rather everyone sees how worked up you get about this shit, because it is hilarious.
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Isn't Juniper's business plan to install FreeBSD on cheap embedded hardware and pretend that it's special-secret-proprietary-magic? I wouldn't be surprised if Google could undercut them, for in-house use at the very least.
Do you really think that FreeBSD has anything to do with routing packets and the other functionality on Juniper routers? In fact your comment suggests that you could put FreeBSD on the same hardware and acheive equivalent levels of features and performance, which really is incredibly uninformed.
I am running Vista x64 SP1 and Windows 7 build 7000 on the same machine and I had XP x64 SP1 installed a few months ago also and I can say without a doubt that Windows 7 is one of the best OS that I have ever used, it literally flies through all tasks without any lag whatsoever and I have tested it running multiple tasks, I had dozens of windows open from multiple apps running at the same time with dozens of processes and still experienced no lag time and I run some pretty heavy apps, currently at idle windows 7 Utilizes over 4 times less CPU and RAM. The average startup time is 3-4 time faster than vista and 2-3 time faster than XP. I am looking forward to the final release which is usually faster than the beta, and if Beta 1 is any indication of speed and stability then all the other OS on the market are royally screwed.
Christ, could you not even take the time to make a few innocuous comments on random stories first? If you're going to do this shit professionally, at least try not to be so fucking amateur about it.
However, after upgrading to the latest VMWare server, I REALLY hate the new server interface.
Hmm, yase. If only they provided some kind of thick client for managing your virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Infrastructure Client if you will.
They could even include a Server 2.0 compatible version in the Server 2.0 download. Wouldn't that be something?
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My company uses a router and we're all in a NAT environment. We just use simple Hamachi + VNC to get directly into my PC at night. No one notice and we're happy with that.
This is some real Enterprise level shit right here.
Sodding lameness filter won't let me post a 2048 bit PGP public key as an example.
How is posting 2048 bits of random garbage not lame? You'd better hope they never implement a stupid ideas filter because you're posting career will be over.
Then I stumbled upon the Electric Universe / Plasma Cosmology approach and I must say that I find it very intriguing:
That's all very interesting, but have you heard about colloidal silver? And what about chemtrails? Surely they are more important than the big bang conspiracy?
Its none of my employers business that I am a pagan, and I'm bi.
I definitely wouldn't hire a pagan. It's not religious discrimination, it's just that there's a 95% chance that they'll be really annoying.
Also by "bi" do you mean bisexual or bipolar? All pagans have to claim one of these attributes as it helps to balance out that whole fat, stupid and dull thing.
I think what I'm trying to say is fuck you and your Daddy issues. You should thank me really, because my dislike for you will help to reinforce your persecution complex just that little bit more.
If I was violated, I think I'd like to take a moment to do a "self-check" on all of my important bits before I started telling everyone all of the nitty-gritty details.
You're a Slashdot poster. You're unlikely to be getting violated anytime soon, no matter how hard you wish for it.
99.99 uptime isn't that hard to hit, we've managed it over the last 2 years in our Lotus Notes environment and now that we have clustering to our DR site fully configured we should easily get 99.999+% uptime.
You're proud that you manage to subject your users to Lotus Notes 99.99% of the time? You sick fuck.
Unless something has changed dramatically, an expired license won't bring down any already deployed VMs. It simply won't allow you to deploy undeployed ones. It doesn't shut down the VMs as the headline makes it sound nor is it a bug in the hypervisor. Yes it's embarrassing that this got out but can we have a less sensationalist headline and summary?
No it just makes it impossible to start up VMs, restart VMs or VMotion them. I can't imagine why everyone's getting upset.
Yes, there's a workaround - you just put back the date on the server. Unless you're in a business where randomly changing the dates on servers is frowned upon for compliance reasons.
Yes. Run Oracle 10.2.0.1 on SLES10 and wait for 49 days until the value returned by the times() syscall wraps around. Oracle shits itself. It can take up to 247 days on other distros.
I'm sure they've fixed it since, but holy shit that's a stupid bug. What was that other software that crashed after 49 days? Windows 95. Unbreakable indeed.
Instead, just use public, geo-distributed DNS servers which FOLLOW RFC and are patched. Here are the standard suggestions (Level7): 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6.
Those aren't actually public DNS servers though, are they? They are private DNS servers which just happen to publicly accessible at the moment. If at some point in the future they block all access from outside their network, which they have every right and incentive to do, you will lose DNS. They have in the past temporarily changed the reverse DNS names for those servers to please-do-not-steal-service.whatever.net, so don't say you weren't warned.
And when it comes to FOLLOWING RFC, I'm pretty sure that "don't use other people's DNS servers" is pretty high on the list.
The problem there is that you don't recompile DSL (and I'm sure Puppy either since, iirc, it was initially based on DSL).
I'm guessing he meant recompile the kernel to match the specific hardware. There's no point waiting for the kernel to scan for every SCSI device ever made if you don't have any. Also you can build a non-modular kernel and avoid the need to run module update scripts and eliminate the initrd. You can generally save several seconds this way if you really know what you're doing.
I'm totally in the dark when it comes to programming, and I remember someone telling me Macs were "Unix-based", rather than PCs which are "DOS-based
Fascinating. If you don't mind me asking, what exactly was it that drew you towards Slashdot? I assume it was because you feel at home here amongst your fellow computer nerds, yes?
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It seems you've found a glaring Firefox security problem there, that ought to be reported immediately.
If it is possible to silently install add-ons, how long will it take until someone finds a way to send you one via Exchange? One that, say, logs your keystrokes whenever you visit a URL starting with "https://", such as your online banking site?
Firefox needs to validate its add-ons and make sure the list can't be manipulated without user interaction.
How the fuck do you expect any installed application to protect itself from being modified by Windows Update? Once you've come up with the solution, let us know what it is and we can also apply it to the general situation where we want to prevent an application being modified by another process running with root priveleges.
Please hurry! I am literally holding my breath here.
No admin should touch it as it is an unreliabel PoS. I haven't used it in probably 10+ years, but I can remember it dropping things into never never land more often than I'd like to recall.
I've used it for the last 10 years and never had an issue. Maybe you're the kind of idiot who blames tools for his own mistakes? I mean you seem to think that one poorly constructed sentence which barely even counts as an anecdote is going to sway the opinions of others, so it seems a fair assumption.
... when GNUIT (previously GIT) is out there ?
Smaller, faster, compiles fine on all platforms with any C compiler and it only requires curses.
And most impportantly it doesn't crashes and it doesn't corrupsts files like MC does.
Blatant bullshit in order to promote an inferior GNU project.
Is that you Richard?
Now if we can only get Red Hat to support FS other than ext3. That snafu on their parts is causing us all kinds of angst at our shop.
Oh, me too! I often gaze whistfully at all our servers and think, "Wow. If only we could get some experimental filesystems on these bitches, my job would be so much better."
In fact, my biggest grip with RedHat is that they always seem 2-3 revisions behind everyone else.
I don't think you've quite got your head around this "enterprise" thing.
This is called defamation, which you can be put in sued for --- for much more than $400. Good job.
Shut up, you shit eating faggot.
I never really expected Slashdot to give Windows of any kind a fair shake
If you go away and have a good long think about why this bothers you, you will probably uncover some deep personal issues. In my opinion caring about whether major corporations are being treated unfairly is the best indicator of massive social inadequecy.
Every computing product sucks. The sooner you learn to deal with that fact, the sooner you'll stop being a pathetic faggot with a persecution complex. "Feel free to mod me down or whatever". No, I would rather everyone sees how worked up you get about this shit, because it is hilarious.
Isn't Juniper's business plan to install FreeBSD on cheap embedded hardware and pretend that it's special-secret-proprietary-magic? I wouldn't be surprised if Google could undercut them, for in-house use at the very least.
Do you really think that FreeBSD has anything to do with routing packets and the other functionality on Juniper routers? In fact your comment suggests that you could put FreeBSD on the same hardware and acheive equivalent levels of features and performance, which really is incredibly uninformed.
I am running Vista x64 SP1 and Windows 7 build 7000 on the same machine and I had XP x64 SP1 installed a few months ago also and I can say without a doubt that Windows 7 is one of the best OS that I have ever used, it literally flies through all tasks without any lag whatsoever and I have tested it running multiple tasks, I had dozens of windows open from multiple apps running at the same time with dozens of processes and still experienced no lag time and I run some pretty heavy apps, currently at idle windows 7 Utilizes over 4 times less CPU and RAM. The average startup time is 3-4 time faster than vista and 2-3 time faster than XP. I am looking forward to the final release which is usually faster than the beta, and if Beta 1 is any indication of speed and stability then all the other OS on the market are royally screwed.
Christ, could you not even take the time to make a few innocuous comments on random stories first? If you're going to do this shit professionally, at least try not to be so fucking amateur about it.
However, after upgrading to the latest VMWare server, I REALLY hate the new server interface.
Hmm, yase. If only they provided some kind of thick client for managing your virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Infrastructure Client if you will.
They could even include a Server 2.0 compatible version in the Server 2.0 download. Wouldn't that be something?
My company uses a router and we're all in a NAT environment. We just use simple Hamachi + VNC to get directly into my PC at night. No one notice and we're happy with that.
This is some real Enterprise level shit right here.
Sodding lameness filter won't let me post a 2048 bit PGP public key as an example.
How is posting 2048 bits of random garbage not lame? You'd better hope they never implement a stupid ideas filter because you're posting career will be over.
...and we're dispatching a carrier group to the area.
That would be a sight worth seeing.
Then I stumbled upon the Electric Universe / Plasma Cosmology approach and I must say that I find it very intriguing:
That's all very interesting, but have you heard about colloidal silver? And what about chemtrails? Surely they are more important than the big bang conspiracy?
Google Ron Paul.
Seriously guys, the place is a red-taped bureaucracy waste. They're too busy running background checks on people in non-sensitive jobs to do research.
This just screams, "I got fired from my NASA cleaning job for using meth".
Its none of my employers business that I am a pagan, and I'm bi.
I definitely wouldn't hire a pagan. It's not religious discrimination, it's just that there's a 95% chance that they'll be really annoying.
Also by "bi" do you mean bisexual or bipolar? All pagans have to claim one of these attributes as it helps to balance out that whole fat, stupid and dull thing.
I think what I'm trying to say is fuck you and your Daddy issues. You should thank me really, because my dislike for you will help to reinforce your persecution complex just that little bit more.
If I was violated, I think I'd like to take a moment to do a "self-check" on all of my important bits before I started telling everyone all of the nitty-gritty details.
You're a Slashdot poster. You're unlikely to be getting violated anytime soon, no matter how hard you wish for it.
99.99 uptime isn't that hard to hit, we've managed it over the last 2 years in our Lotus Notes environment and now that we have clustering to our DR site fully configured we should easily get 99.999+% uptime.
You're proud that you manage to subject your users to Lotus Notes 99.99% of the time? You sick fuck.
Unless something has changed dramatically, an expired license won't bring down any already deployed VMs. It simply won't allow you to deploy undeployed ones. It doesn't shut down the VMs as the headline makes it sound nor is it a bug in the hypervisor. Yes it's embarrassing that this got out but can we have a less sensationalist headline and summary?
No it just makes it impossible to start up VMs, restart VMs or VMotion them. I can't imagine why everyone's getting upset.
Yes, there's a workaround - you just put back the date on the server. Unless you're in a business where randomly changing the dates on servers is frowned upon for compliance reasons.
Anyway, enough blowing my own horn.
Judging by your attitude, I suspect you spend more time blowing the horns of others.
Is it possible to bring Oracle down?
Yes. Run Oracle 10.2.0.1 on SLES10 and wait for 49 days until the value returned by the times() syscall wraps around. Oracle shits itself. It can take up to 247 days on other distros.
I'm sure they've fixed it since, but holy shit that's a stupid bug. What was that other software that crashed after 49 days? Windows 95. Unbreakable indeed.
From the original article, by the owner of the list:
"It's like shooting a gun into a crowd of people, then walking away before seeing what happened."
So, marking an email as spam accidentally is "like" cold-blooded indiscriminate murder.
No, hold on a minute, I know -
it isn't!
Grow a sense of perspective, you self-important blowhard.
Here's another analogy for you. Double spacing all your lines for no reason is like being an annoying little prick.
Any objections to that one, faggot?
Instead, just use public, geo-distributed DNS servers which FOLLOW RFC and are patched. Here are the standard suggestions (Level7):
4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6.
Those aren't actually public DNS servers though, are they? They are private DNS servers which just happen to publicly accessible at the moment. If at some point in the future they block all access from outside their network, which they have every right and incentive to do, you will lose DNS. They have in the past temporarily changed the reverse DNS names for those servers to please-do-not-steal-service.whatever.net, so don't say you weren't warned.
And when it comes to FOLLOWING RFC, I'm pretty sure that "don't use other people's DNS servers" is pretty high on the list.
I wonder if it runs the PowerPC processor as it ships as 400Mhz.
No, it's MIPS. Sorry, PowerPC still sucks.
The problem there is that you don't recompile DSL (and I'm sure Puppy either since, iirc, it was initially based on DSL).
I'm guessing he meant recompile the kernel to match the specific hardware. There's no point waiting for the kernel to scan for every SCSI device ever made if you don't have any. Also you can build a non-modular kernel and avoid the need to run module update scripts and eliminate the initrd. You can generally save several seconds this way if you really know what you're doing.
I'm totally in the dark when it comes to programming, and I remember someone telling me Macs were "Unix-based", rather than PCs which are "DOS-based
Fascinating. If you don't mind me asking, what exactly was it that drew you towards Slashdot? I assume it was because you feel at home here amongst your fellow computer nerds, yes?