"The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. "
So, I only run my machine 12 hours a day and turn it off at night, this is a workstation after all. In that time of opportunity, I have had 100% reliable uptime. Same with my Solaris box in my farm, Same with my Linux machines on the farm. It's cause I manage them professionally and have had no (knock on silicon) hardware failures.
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My XP workstation, a Dell 9100 has had 6-sigma level uptime, not data loss, etc for almost 2 years. Then again, I'm a professional.:)
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How long did it take for you to install extra patches, etc to get these features? What distro gives you all this "out of the box" with out a lot of fiddling? Can anyone else back this gentleman's claims? I use Linux daily for my *servers* and I'm getting *this* close to change my crappy XP machine to Linux....
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How can that be? I'm honestly curious - how does linux improve your productivity? What, are you still running Linux on a 386 laptop and only Linux will run at a decent speed? Or do you do significant scientific calculations?
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For all of the quirks and problems that Vista has (I bought a Dell laptop with Vista but installed XP instead), it is still much, much simpler than Linux for your average user With respect I submit that Windows is easier to use than Linux for even advanced Linux users. We don't choose to run and install Linux because its the EASY choice, we choose it cause its free, fast and stable.
In other words, until they stop creating that "hackety crap", security lies in less widely spread software. Although your logic is reasonable, it's not 100% sound - take a look at any of the small small e-commerce websites. Are you going to trust some no name website with your credit card information and the like? No way! Throw AppScan, Cenzic or Spi at any small e-commerce website and you will find all kinds of holes. Track the BugTraq mailing list and you will see holes in small websites and minor products on a daily basis. And now with the advent of fuzzing software, even no name products or proprietary systems can be (at least) DOS'ed in a trivial way. Only use well written, pier reviewed software that is deployed as part of a defense-in-depth strategy.
As soon as I saw Yeltsin dance on stage in front of the camera very drunk, I immediately though, "I LIKE THIS GUY, PASS THE VODKA!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-lal2MUKw
If there is a safety recall because the car explodes when someone throws a rock at it Yes, I hear where you are coming from. But driving your computer on the internet without patches is like driving your cat without oil. Security problems with the internet is a reality, not an exception like your rock throwing example.
What I'm saying is that patching your computer is like the need to change your oil - except I want OS manufactures to have self-changing oil systems that work better instead of forcing that on the consumer.:)
I'm talking about ignorant people (folks who just don't know - the OS Vendor needs to help them) and you are talking about idiots (folks who purposely do something foolish - no one can help these folks, maybe ISP's should be noting this at the network level and shut down their service?).
Btw, so far I don't know any "security" software worth the name... that would turn off any of the system's auto-update features. I agree. But in the past Symantec, Kespersky, McAffee - all the big vendors (since they are large targets) have been the targets of vulnerabilities in the products themselves that would render even a fully patched machine vulnerable for a reasonable windows of time. In short, the security industry is "poor" at best at writing software. We are just fucked until folks start to consider writing software as an engineering task instead of the hackety crap we see today.
Then why do machines exist that don't get updated? Why do people turn off that feature? These features are turned on by default. Grandma does NOT even KNOW how to turn this off. It's that lack of a robust OS that causes this problem. It's very easy for malware, network software bloat, poor 3rd party "security" software or default crapware that OEM's install that really shuts this stuff down, not an intentional action by the end user. It's still the burden of the OS vendor IMBFO.
It's the duty of every user of the internet to keep his machine from being a danger to it. With respect, I disagree. Do you really expect grandma to understand the necessity of patching their operating system? No way! It's the duty of OPERATION SYSTEM VENDORS to build products that auto-patch in a robust way. Sadly, Windows update is one of the best out there - but still, we need a lot more work in this direction.
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iPods still suck with little innovation as of late. Generic 10$ flash mp3 players from walmart so the same damn thing.
So it goes.....
We're not talking about an unfixable problem, Excuse me? I don't know about you, but I'm not going to be the one to globetrot to every idiots winblows machine and patch them up! Better bring extra underwear for that trip....
Yea, but I hear that battery technology is just not keeping up with this new tech. Is this true at all? Is progress in the battery world finally happening?
Industry programming certification means only one thing: that you can pass their cert exam. It has very little to do with the ability to actually write production quality, secure code.
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Nope, I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. MS obviously got a silly little span on the wrist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Micr osoft is a decent read. Sorry, I was wrong. What a joke. :(
Although your comment is funny, the poster is RIGHT ON. It just takes an intelligent mind to grock it.
I agree, fantastic reduction. We need an English language hack where all words are reduced to be written as they sound. Good show, chap!
Is it really that hard to hack satellites? Is the security not so great since there are few people who actually have the capacity to try such tricks?
"The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. "
So, I only run my machine 12 hours a day and turn it off at night, this is a workstation after all. In that time of opportunity, I have had 100% reliable uptime. Same with my Solaris box in my farm, Same with my Linux machines on the farm. It's cause I manage them professionally and have had no (knock on silicon) hardware failures.
My XP workstation, a Dell 9100 has had 6-sigma level uptime, not data loss, etc for almost 2 years. Then again, I'm a professional. :)
How long did it take for you to install extra patches, etc to get these features? What distro gives you all this "out of the box" with out a lot of fiddling? Can anyone else back this gentleman's claims? I use Linux daily for my *servers* and I'm getting *this* close to change my crappy XP machine to Linux....
How can that be? I'm honestly curious - how does linux improve your productivity? What, are you still running Linux on a 386 laptop and only Linux will run at a decent speed? Or do you do significant scientific calculations?
Isn't that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act?
As soon as I saw Yeltsin dance on stage in front of the camera very drunk, I immediately though, "I LIKE THIS GUY, PASS THE VODKA!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-lal2MUKw
iPods still suck with little innovation as of late. Generic 10$ flash mp3 players from walmart so the same damn thing. So it goes.....
Yea, but I hear that battery technology is just not keeping up with this new tech. Is this true at all? Is progress in the battery world finally happening?
Industry programming certification means only one thing: that you can pass their cert exam. It has very little to do with the ability to actually write production quality, secure code.
Smart worms take over your machine and then implement security to block out other worms.
Eastern block countries....?
He was talking about 5 worms on 5 different machines.
.. And they might charge you 5$ or more a month extra for this line, but to escape the evils of Comcast it seems to be worth it.