MSSE isn't perfect. But it's simple, free, and good enough for many people. Some people report issues with it, but every AV product has issues of some sort with a particular os rev/application/hardware/user combination.
I certainly would recommend it over any paid one for a home user. For an enterprise, support is typically what you're paying for, and there is no enterprise support for MSSE, so you'd want a different product.
Kind of late replying, but you won't be able to do what you want unfortunately. Well, you can but it requires the more expensive active DP DVI adapter, not the passive ones you're looking at. The reason is that the video card only has 2 TMDS units, which are needed for DVI. DP doesn't use that piece anymore, which is why they can hang so many monitors off it.
There were rumors that AMD was going to release some inexpensive ($30 instead of $100) active adaptors, but I don't know if they ever came out.
I don't own one, so my experiences are based upon using my girlfriend's macbook. However, I thought I'd try and explain why I feel OSX is inferior to Linux. This is what I feel of course, and reflect my own priorities on what is important to me.
1. A modern unix. Using OSX is like using Solaris 2.4. Most of the commands I want are either missing, or are the limited functionality non-GNU versions. 2. A better GUI. You may laugh at this, but I find a simple GUI like lxde to be much easier to use than OSX. I especially dislike closing an application and not having it actually close, just hide the main window. If I'm closing it, I expect it to close. 3. A functional keyboard. Her macbook is missing useful keys like page up and home. And a delete key (backspace != delete) 4. Customization. I can make linux act and look just how I want. With OSX I'm limited to what Apple allows me to change. And since it's not my laptop anyway, I can't even do that, just suffer with an OS that tries to prevent me from doing what I want to do. 5. Software selection. With portage, I can quickly and easily install just about anything I could want with a simple command. As Apple likes to say, it just works.
Sounds similar to a book I read called 'Dies the Fire'. Basic plot is that in about 1999 or so everything electronic suddenly stops working. Along with gunpowder and internal combustion engines. Pretty extreme chaos, and the guy who wrote it did a good job of constructing a believable outcome from the circumstances.
I just visited 6 weeks ago or so. You're correct that the normal tour doesn't allow you to get anywhere near, but they also have a tour option that allows you to go around the ropes and wander around the stones themselves. It's limited to sunrise/sunset, and they only allow 26 people per tour. You need to sign up for it a few months in advance, but it's well worth the hassle and small expense.
Why accept the cookies in the first place? Most sites work just fine with a reject by default policy, and at the very least you can reject cookies from doubleclick and so on.
That is exactly what Paradox does. No drm at all. No cd checks, nothing. You don't even need the cdkey to install the software. If you want to do multiplayer however, you need a cdkey. In addition, if you want support on the forums, you need a valid cd key for that game (it puts a little icon next to your name, so it's immediately obvious if you have a registered cd key for the game you're trying to get support on).
Wait, are you stating that ubuntu has modified the default web browsers to explicitly make some files downloaded executable? Seriously, wtf? You should *always* be forced to manually flip the permissions on a downloaded file to make it executable. That you are getting excited that some things downloaded *aren't* executable worries me.
Why would I ever want to run a pre-installed OS? Aside from the security implications, it's incredibly unlikely to be installed the way *I* want.
As much I like seeing companies out there trying to make money off of promoting and selling Linux, I think a good portion of the lunix users wouldn't ever run/trust a pre-installed OS.
links scales to whatever size your xterm window is set to. Xterm (and compatible terminal emulators) have a handy little property they can pass which states the rows + columns of the current window. Applications such as links can read that property, and scale their size appropriately.
I'm late reading this article, but there *are* products out there that do exactly what you state. I can't recall any company names off-hand (and it'd sound too much like an advertisement anyway), but I think one of them was mentioned earlier by someone. The ones I've seen will take 6 sticks of ECC-R DDR2, and have a small external connector for power to maintain the contents of RAM while the computer is off. You're still limited by how many PCI-E slots you have in your servers (most 1U servers have 1-2 for instance), but it's a cheaper alternative to SSD.
I'm pretty sure you were able to force them to take out a loan, and then transfer the money to you. Do that until they can't take out any loans, then sell the stock. They'll then take out a bunch of loans, you buy them up again, take out some more, sell the stock, etc. As you said, eventually they'd go under, but it gave you piles of money.
It's been just over 10 years since I drove there, but there were stretches of road in Arizona/New Mexico/West Texas that were 50+ miles of perfect straight, where you could easily hit 130-140. You generally wouldn't even see another car for 20 mintures at a time, and I saw 1 cop in almost 800 miles. My car was electronically limited to 142, and I only had 150mph tires on, so 130-140 was just fine. Good roads because it never (or rarely) froze, and little traffic.
Certs are managed via our internal PKI implementation, and our internal CAs are trusted by all internal clients.
PKI is a big nasty can of worms, but it can be useful if you actually have a need for it. We finally put ours in after many years of debating, because it got to the point where the administrative overhead was outweighed by the benefit. If you don't want to go down the PKI route, you can just use GPOs to push out the proxy certs to all Windows clients, and then Linux/OSX ones can manually import them.
I'm not the original person you replied to, but I'll answer a few of your questions that I'm familiar with.
The easy one is the 'ssh on 443'. In our environment, we use authenticated proxies to get to the Internet, which also are doing SSL MITM attacks, ie terminating the client's ssl session on the proxy, inspecting the traffic, and then re-encrypting it to send out. We feed it via ICAP to a couple of boxes that do virus scanning, data loss prevention, etc. There are two key bits here. First, everything goes through the proxy. *Everything*. Physically, the proxies are inline, so there is no way around them short of installing your own circuit inside (or tethered phones, we've actually run into that one a few times). Actually, almost as important is the authentication bit. It has saved us from so much pain and anguish because most malware doesn't know how to capture and use the proxy authentication to get out and download more nasty stuff. The few largest instances of malware propogating inside have been from individual users plugging their already infected personal laptops into the network (which they aren't allowed to do, but some do regardless).
The proxies have full logging as well, which we can then provide to management when they request an audit of a particular user. You should see the eyebrows raise when we pull the logs for a supervisor only to find that the majority of their time was spent on furry bondage porn.
I ended up running out of time to write the rest of this, but yes there are some viable technical methods to 'lock down the network' as you say, and they can actually provide useful functions too.
That's kind of my point. It'll be illegal for normal users to have them, but the criminals will keep doing what they always do, ignore the law. People who have one because it's old and they can't afford a new one, or like a limited feature-set or whatever would be screwed by the law, but the criminals who are already breaking the law would continue to do so.
The lag isn't too bad these days. With ~800 people in i1y over the weekend, module lag was in the 3-5 second range. Once 400 angry russians had logged off, it was just fine, and we had an easy time ganking those who logged off with aggro.
I have Win7 build 7100 running on a Compaq Presario 2800. This is a laptop with a 1.4 Ghz P4M, and 384 MB of RAM. It takes a little while to boot, but once it's up and running it's usable. All I'm doing with it is random web browsing and serving up audio to a HT, and it works for that. If I can find some more RAM for it I'll try serving up video, but for now streaming audio works well enough.
As someone who has played with Firefox since it was a patch bundle you had to apply to the Mozilla source tree, I disagree. Firefox was considerably faster than the Mozilla of the day (M9 or so I think?). I don't think it started as Phoenix either, I thought there was something earlier, but whatever.
It was faster, and more stable than the Mozilla bundle. That alone made it worth using. By the time it hit 0.3 or so, it was actually good enough for everyday use. By the time it hit the 0.8/0.9 range, the Mozilla Foundation had realized that it was so much better a browser than the full suite that it was able to compete with IE, and that's when the advertising started. The Mozilla Suite was competitive with the Netscape Communicator suite, not IE. And Netscape was in a rapid downward spiral, so it wasn't exactly difficult to take market share from it even without advertising. IE is where the real battle was, which is why they didn't start advertising until Firefox was actually good enough to compete with IE.
FAT32 should have died a silent death with Win7, I'm sad that they are actually bringing back support for it. It's a terrible filesystem, and needs to go the way of the dodo. If you're actually still using it, please move to a better filesystem. Even NTFS 1.0 would be better.
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MSSE isn't perfect. But it's simple, free, and good enough for many people. Some people report issues with it, but every AV product has issues of some sort with a particular os rev/application/hardware/user combination.
I certainly would recommend it over any paid one for a home user. For an enterprise, support is typically what you're paying for, and there is no enterprise support for MSSE, so you'd want a different product.
Kind of late replying, but you won't be able to do what you want unfortunately. Well, you can but it requires the more expensive active DP DVI adapter, not the passive ones you're looking at. The reason is that the video card only has 2 TMDS units, which are needed for DVI. DP doesn't use that piece anymore, which is why they can hang so many monitors off it.
There were rumors that AMD was going to release some inexpensive ($30 instead of $100) active adaptors, but I don't know if they ever came out.
I don't own one, so my experiences are based upon using my girlfriend's macbook. However, I thought I'd try and explain why I feel OSX is inferior to Linux. This is what I feel of course, and reflect my own priorities on what is important to me.
1. A modern unix. Using OSX is like using Solaris 2.4. Most of the commands I want are either missing, or are the limited functionality non-GNU versions.
2. A better GUI. You may laugh at this, but I find a simple GUI like lxde to be much easier to use than OSX. I especially dislike closing an application and not having it actually close, just hide the main window. If I'm closing it, I expect it to close.
3. A functional keyboard. Her macbook is missing useful keys like page up and home. And a delete key (backspace != delete)
4. Customization. I can make linux act and look just how I want. With OSX I'm limited to what Apple allows me to change. And since it's not my laptop anyway, I can't even do that, just suffer with an OS that tries to prevent me from doing what I want to do.
5. Software selection. With portage, I can quickly and easily install just about anything I could want with a simple command. As Apple likes to say, it just works.
Sounds similar to a book I read called 'Dies the Fire'. Basic plot is that in about 1999 or so everything electronic suddenly stops working. Along with gunpowder and internal combustion engines. Pretty extreme chaos, and the guy who wrote it did a good job of constructing a believable outcome from the circumstances.
I just visited 6 weeks ago or so. You're correct that the normal tour doesn't allow you to get anywhere near, but they also have a tour option that allows you to go around the ropes and wander around the stones themselves. It's limited to sunrise/sunset, and they only allow 26 people per tour. You need to sign up for it a few months in advance, but it's well worth the hassle and small expense.
You're blaming Acer's modification to the OS on the OS itself? That's pretty funny.
Why accept the cookies in the first place? Most sites work just fine with a reject by default policy, and at the very least you can reject cookies from doubleclick and so on.
How can you have a 5 digit UID and not know about Theo de Raadt?
That is exactly what Paradox does. No drm at all. No cd checks, nothing. You don't even need the cdkey to install the software. If you want to do multiplayer however, you need a cdkey. In addition, if you want support on the forums, you need a valid cd key for that game (it puts a little icon next to your name, so it's immediately obvious if you have a registered cd key for the game you're trying to get support on).
Wait, are you stating that ubuntu has modified the default web browsers to explicitly make some files downloaded executable? Seriously, wtf? You should *always* be forced to manually flip the permissions on a downloaded file to make it executable. That you are getting excited that some things downloaded *aren't* executable worries me.
Why would I ever want to run a pre-installed OS? Aside from the security implications, it's incredibly unlikely to be installed the way *I* want.
As much I like seeing companies out there trying to make money off of promoting and selling Linux, I think a good portion of the lunix users wouldn't ever run/trust a pre-installed OS.
I don't think you understand how the +1 Karma bonus works.
You've been able to get it off of msdn for years actually.
File Name: en_winfs_beta1_refresh.exe Date Posted (UTC): 8/29/2005 9:56:55 AM
SHA1: B955F8645766BFDD43D2C8CBCE03A143D0F921A6 ISO/CRC: CE3B9B0E
That's an early beta obviously, but the basics have been available for just over 4 years now.
links scales to whatever size your xterm window is set to. Xterm (and compatible terminal emulators) have a handy little property they can pass which states the rows + columns of the current window. Applications such as links can read that property, and scale their size appropriately.
I'm late reading this article, but there *are* products out there that do exactly what you state. I can't recall any company names off-hand (and it'd sound too much like an advertisement anyway), but I think one of them was mentioned earlier by someone. The ones I've seen will take 6 sticks of ECC-R DDR2, and have a small external connector for power to maintain the contents of RAM while the computer is off. You're still limited by how many PCI-E slots you have in your servers (most 1U servers have 1-2 for instance), but it's a cheaper alternative to SSD.
I'm pretty sure you were able to force them to take out a loan, and then transfer the money to you. Do that until they can't take out any loans, then sell the stock. They'll then take out a bunch of loans, you buy them up again, take out some more, sell the stock, etc. As you said, eventually they'd go under, but it gave you piles of money.
It's been just over 10 years since I drove there, but there were stretches of road in Arizona/New Mexico/West Texas that were 50+ miles of perfect straight, where you could easily hit 130-140. You generally wouldn't even see another car for 20 mintures at a time, and I saw 1 cop in almost 800 miles. My car was electronically limited to 142, and I only had 150mph tires on, so 130-140 was just fine. Good roads because it never (or rarely) froze, and little traffic.
Certs are managed via our internal PKI implementation, and our internal CAs are trusted by all internal clients.
PKI is a big nasty can of worms, but it can be useful if you actually have a need for it. We finally put ours in after many years of debating, because it got to the point where the administrative overhead was outweighed by the benefit. If you don't want to go down the PKI route, you can just use GPOs to push out the proxy certs to all Windows clients, and then Linux/OSX ones can manually import them.
I'm not the original person you replied to, but I'll answer a few of your questions that I'm familiar with.
The easy one is the 'ssh on 443'. In our environment, we use authenticated proxies to get to the Internet, which also are doing SSL MITM attacks, ie terminating the client's ssl session on the proxy, inspecting the traffic, and then re-encrypting it to send out. We feed it via ICAP to a couple of boxes that do virus scanning, data loss prevention, etc. There are two key bits here. First, everything goes through the proxy. *Everything*. Physically, the proxies are inline, so there is no way around them short of installing your own circuit inside (or tethered phones, we've actually run into that one a few times). Actually, almost as important is the authentication bit. It has saved us from so much pain and anguish because most malware doesn't know how to capture and use the proxy authentication to get out and download more nasty stuff. The few largest instances of malware propogating inside have been from individual users plugging their already infected personal laptops into the network (which they aren't allowed to do, but some do regardless).
The proxies have full logging as well, which we can then provide to management when they request an audit of a particular user. You should see the eyebrows raise when we pull the logs for a supervisor only to find that the majority of their time was spent on furry bondage porn.
I ended up running out of time to write the rest of this, but yes there are some viable technical methods to 'lock down the network' as you say, and they can actually provide useful functions too.
That's kind of my point. It'll be illegal for normal users to have them, but the criminals will keep doing what they always do, ignore the law. People who have one because it's old and they can't afford a new one, or like a limited feature-set or whatever would be screwed by the law, but the criminals who are already breaking the law would continue to do so.
The fun little loopholes people find are always interesting to see. I'm guessing it won't take long for these phones to be outlawed in the EU though.
The lag isn't too bad these days. With ~800 people in i1y over the weekend, module lag was in the 3-5 second range. Once 400 angry russians had logged off, it was just fine, and we had an easy time ganking those who logged off with aggro.
I have Win7 build 7100 running on a Compaq Presario 2800. This is a laptop with a 1.4 Ghz P4M, and 384 MB of RAM. It takes a little while to boot, but once it's up and running it's usable. All I'm doing with it is random web browsing and serving up audio to a HT, and it works for that. If I can find some more RAM for it I'll try serving up video, but for now streaming audio works well enough.
As someone who has played with Firefox since it was a patch bundle you had to apply to the Mozilla source tree, I disagree. Firefox was considerably faster than the Mozilla of the day (M9 or so I think?). I don't think it started as Phoenix either, I thought there was something earlier, but whatever.
It was faster, and more stable than the Mozilla bundle. That alone made it worth using. By the time it hit 0.3 or so, it was actually good enough for everyday use. By the time it hit the 0.8/0.9 range, the Mozilla Foundation had realized that it was so much better a browser than the full suite that it was able to compete with IE, and that's when the advertising started. The Mozilla Suite was competitive with the Netscape Communicator suite, not IE. And Netscape was in a rapid downward spiral, so it wasn't exactly difficult to take market share from it even without advertising. IE is where the real battle was, which is why they didn't start advertising until Firefox was actually good enough to compete with IE.
FAT32 should have died a silent death with Win7, I'm sad that they are actually bringing back support for it. It's a terrible filesystem, and needs to go the way of the dodo. If you're actually still using it, please move to a better filesystem. Even NTFS 1.0 would be better.