Home users might want to do all kinds of crazy things with their computers, and customize them. This can be difficult with Linux. In the enterprise one doesn't have this problem because (1) the admins are probably Ghosting (or similar) the hard drives anyway, eliminating the install -- and (2) the user operate on a predefined, fixed set of apps (not always), which limits the installation and configuration. The It guys can even tune these apps to be more user-friendly.
The optimistic outlook (for OSS): 'power users' will be trained in Linux instead of windows, and might use that at home.
Well, people think that their old PC is slow and assume thay need a new, faster one. The new N+1GHz MultiCore system will run the spyware more efficiently, thus reassuring the user that buying a new computer was the right thing to do. Then it gradually becomes filled with malware and loses its speed. Repeat from top. Is malware and bloat fuelling the hardware industry?
Hi, I posted this before, but it's way down and a bit cryptic. I'm almost positive that the script does some kind of UA detection. It's fine for one personal page, but when you release a 'toolkit', I think you should be a bit more professional and less evangelical about the browser in use. I can't be 100% sure (there may be some relative href's or src's that IE didn't get), but FF displays the 'IE' page when saved locally from IE. Opera gets the IE page. 'Identify as Mozilla' in Opera doesn't change anything, so I might be wrong about the UA thing.
Did Irda work:P I'm still a little pist off about all the hours I spent with irattach, syslog, ppp and the likes to get mobile (GPRS) internet on my laptop. I got it working in the end, but then I had an accident and killed my laptop:/
We didn't use Linux, but the school standardized on OpenOffice. Sure, my fellow students bitched about it all the time, people just thought the school was cheap, and that was probably the case. I thought it was cool. Here (in norwegian) free!=free, and we use the "as in freedom" word for the software, still people don't get the whole ideology thing that foss is about.
Maybe this is why people use closed & commercial software -- they have someone to bitch to when it fails -- without fear of being attacked back by the devs:| Commerical software has more to lose on angry customers than foss (?).
Most malware would probably be happy with user access only -- they'd just have more trouble hiding. There isn't as much difference between the two os'es (linux, windows) as one would think. The OSS development process is the most obvious difference. Patches are made more quickly. The problems include the classical security vs. usability and PEBKS (sp?, dumb users anyway).
(I'm tired of posting anti-linux and looking like an M$ fanboi, I really like Linux, pro OSS propaganda coming up soon:P)
I don't think it is wise of the developers to use the default IE proxy settings! There's an enormous amount of data, and it is better and faster served directly from Google's server.
It will be really practical when small networked devices become more usable. I really like the fact that my phone can give me weather forecasts at my position, but I also wonder if my operator really needs that info at the 'web service' level.
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There are some with Linux too. It's the proxy's uptime, right? (go ahead and mod me redundant)
torrent, please :D
Home users might want to do all kinds of crazy things with their computers, and customize them. This can be difficult with Linux. In the enterprise one doesn't have this problem because (1) the admins are probably Ghosting (or similar) the hard drives anyway, eliminating the install -- and (2) the user operate on a predefined, fixed set of apps (not always), which limits the installation and configuration. The It guys can even tune these apps to be more user-friendly. The optimistic outlook (for OSS): 'power users' will be trained in Linux instead of windows, and might use that at home.
Sorry, I'm a newbie (check my UID :P )
"You" <==HTTP==> Phisher(mitm) <==HTTPS==> Bank
"You" Phisher Bank
Well, people think that their old PC is slow and assume thay need a new, faster one. The new N+1GHz MultiCore system will run the spyware more efficiently, thus reassuring the user that buying a new computer was the right thing to do. Then it gradually becomes filled with malware and loses its speed. Repeat from top. Is malware and bloat fuelling the hardware industry?
oh man, I shouldn't be posting today.. that is: Saving to disk in FireFox gives a ...
Update; Saving to disk in Opera gives a slightly broken version of the FF page. Either the code's or the browser's DTHML is broken.
Hi, I posted this before, but it's way down and a bit cryptic. I'm almost positive that the script does some kind of UA detection. It's fine for one personal page, but when you release a 'toolkit', I think you should be a bit more professional and less evangelical about the browser in use. I can't be 100% sure (there may be some relative href's or src's that IE didn't get), but FF displays the 'IE' page when saved locally from IE. Opera gets the IE page. 'Identify as Mozilla' in Opera doesn't change anything, so I might be wrong about the UA thing.
I browsed the page with Opera and saved it locally in FF -- I hate it when they do that!
seriously, webcams? I might be swhitching sooner than planned then! Any app support?
lol, I added AllowUsers fa2k,tflp (didn't RTFM) Now my box is extremely safe, but I just hope I don't have to do maintenance on it :S
define: "computer"?
It would be nice if they got their CSS/HTML right (opera)
Maybe i'm too young, but I had to google it ;)
Did Irda work :P I'm still a little pist off about all the hours I spent with irattach, syslog, ppp and the likes to get mobile (GPRS) internet on my laptop. I got it working in the end, but then I had an accident and killed my laptop :/
We didn't use Linux, but the school standardized on OpenOffice. Sure, my fellow students bitched about it all the time, people just thought the school was cheap, and that was probably the case. I thought it was cool. Here (in norwegian) free!=free, and we use the "as in freedom" word for the software, still people don't get the whole ideology thing that foss is about.
Maybe this is why people use closed & commercial software -- they have someone to bitch to when it fails -- without fear of being attacked back by the devs :| Commerical software has more to lose on angry customers than foss (?).
Most malware would probably be happy with user access only -- they'd just have more trouble hiding. There isn't as much difference between the two os'es (linux, windows) as one would think. The OSS development process is the most obvious difference. Patches are made more quickly. The problems include the classical security vs. usability and PEBKS (sp?, dumb users anyway). (I'm tired of posting anti-linux and looking like an M$ fanboi, I really like Linux, pro OSS propaganda coming up soon :P)
Yes, there is
won't is won it?? wonXt?
VLC crashed for the first time ever n000
I don't think it is wise of the developers to use the default IE proxy settings! There's an enormous amount of data, and it is better and faster served directly from Google's server.
It will be really practical when small networked devices become more usable. I really like the fact that my phone can give me weather forecasts at my position, but I also wonder if my operator really needs that info at the 'web service' level.
I want to be haxz0red ;) I have some spare time now and I would like to try IDA, ethereal and w32dasm on some BotWare. Any tips on getting infected?