You can't have it both ways; don't criticize Microsoft for favoring usability over security for years, then flip-flop when they finally listen.
Oh c'mon dude - it was a joke!
And the real laugh is microsoft's late, humorous, bolted on implementation of fairly simple access controls. Attempting to get users to not run as superuser at this late stage is going to be an absolute laugh riot - personally, I can't wait for vista:-)
He says that MS has favored security over end-user productivity, making the user feel like a rat caught in a maze with all the protect-you-from-yourself password-entry and 'Continue' boxes required by the User Account Controls feature."
Interesting - I'm reading an article on slashdot that's criticising MS for favouring security over..... well anything!
The install took a while, but required basically no intervention...
Did you have to put the CD in the drive to start? Did you have to burn a CD from the download?
Windows upgrades are quite easy (in a few years they'll be ready for the desktop), but compared to ubuntu, they are really, really hard. (login, wait for upgrade manager to say ready, click upgrade).
Not in the linked slashdot article, I read this from PC World this morning:
Typically, a virus using macros infects a template, which is then read when opening other documents and infects those also, Schouwenberg said. The Stardust virus is contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects a global template.
If a user opens a document infected with Stardust, every StarOffice text document, with a ".sxw" extension, or document template, with a ".stw" extension, will be infected, Schouwenberg said.
Global Template! Typical MO for an old skool macro virus.... (if true).
That said - it is a pretty ineffective virus - it has to ask the user if it's allowed to execute the basic macro & then *still* only has access to user files.
Yes, it shows all the characteristics of a virus - it attaches itself to something & self propagates. It's not a particularly malicious or effective Virus, but it's most certainly a virus.
But I have to say that I believe the ubuntu colors to be chosen for warmth, readability & usability, rather then out of some nebulous fashion need.
Other operating systems can have their bling, colors everywhere, metallic nonsense if they like. I think ubuntu's scheme looks great & more importantly, my eyes feel great after working with it for hours.
Kitten Auth looks interesting - but I would say that it wouldn't take long to build a database of images, with associated animals and just do a lookup against that.
Basically, it suffers from the same problem for any non-dynamically generated captcha (and if you add distortions, etc to the images, you're just going to make them harder to identify & remove the point of it).
For those of us who are running 5.10 or one of the 6.06 betas, what is the upgrade procedure?
If you're running a 6.06 beta, you don't have to do anything. Boot up, log in & wait for the update manager to let you know its finished updating.
If you're running 5.10 (or earlier), the short, easy instructions are available here - cli instructions are:
1) Change your sources.list to reflect the sources.list as shown on http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/6666 2)Save the file and then type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
After installing dapper, I highly reccommend grabbing easyubuntu - it's a little package to get mp3s, wmvs, flash, java, crappy non-free nvidia/ati drivers etc all automagically installed.
The submission asks whether people are afraid of science. The question should be, are people afraid to use caustic, explosive, and potentially fatal chemicals without safety procedures or training? I sure hope the answer is yes, and I would consider that a good thing.
Read the entire article. It talks about lots of aspects about how society has come to fear chemistry - this quote about the decline of labs in schools made for particularly depressing reading for me:
More than half of the suggested experiments in a multimedia package for schools called "You Be the Chemist," created in 2004 by the Chemical Educational Foundation, are to be performed by the teacher alone, leaving students to blow up balloons (with safety goggles in place) or answer questions like "How many pretzels can you eat in a minute?"
Goggles for balloons? Pretzels? They can't be serious....
unreasonable fears about chemicals and home experimentation reflect a distrust of scientific expertise taking hold in society at large. "People who want to make meth [or weapons -wmf] will find ways to do it that don't require an Erlenmeyer flask. But raising a generation of people who are technically incompetent is a recipe for disaster."
You are willing to impoverish future generations in exchange for a false sense of security.
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You can't have it both ways; don't criticize Microsoft for favoring usability over security for years, then flip-flop when they finally listen.
:-)
Oh c'mon dude - it was a joke!
And the real laugh is microsoft's late, humorous, bolted on implementation of fairly simple access controls. Attempting to get users to not run as superuser at this late stage is going to be an absolute laugh riot - personally, I can't wait for vista
OO2 users are not affected (apparantly)
He says that MS has favored security over end-user productivity, making the user feel like a rat caught in a maze with all the protect-you-from-yourself password-entry and 'Continue' boxes required by the User Account Controls feature."
Interesting - I'm reading an article on slashdot that's criticising MS for favouring security over..... well anything!
Is there ANY market segment where Yahoo! isn't playing second-fiddle to somebody else?
Huge integrated portal?
Not exactly my cup of tea, but lots of people seem to like it....
The install took a while, but required basically no intervention...
Did you have to put the CD in the drive to start?
Did you have to burn a CD from the download?
Windows upgrades are quite easy (in a few years they'll be ready for the desktop), but compared to ubuntu, they are really, really hard. (login, wait for upgrade manager to say ready, click upgrade).
That said - it is a pretty ineffective virus - it has to ask the user if it's allowed to execute the basic macro & then *still* only has access to user files.
Yes, it shows all the characteristics of a virus - it attaches itself to something & self propagates. It's not a particularly malicious or effective Virus, but it's most certainly a virus.
What is the official way for those with a pathological fear of the command line and/or a fixation on doing everything via the GUI ?
;-)
Can I also assume you have a pathological fear of reading the entire thread?
Anyway, you boot, wait for the update manager to tell you there's a new release, then choose upgrade. Not too hard huh?
Precisely.
But I have to say that I believe the ubuntu colors to be chosen for warmth, readability & usability, rather then out of some nebulous fashion need.
Other operating systems can have their bling, colors everywhere, metallic nonsense if they like. I think ubuntu's scheme looks great & more importantly, my eyes feel great after working with it for hours.
Thank you for the correction - I misread the OP as saying he'd installed one of the dapper betas.
I just don't understand why Linux has not caught on with non-technical folks.
I gave technical advice for a technical forum. Here's how you do it if you're non-techie:
1) Boot.
2) Go to update manager. It will tell you there's a new release.
3) Choose upgrade.
Can you tell me any other operating system that's easier to upgrade between major releases? I seriously fucking doubt it.
Looking over your comments history, I'd say you deserve my nickname more then I do (have you read my diary yet?)
Call me a lazy windows user
:-)
Yes, I will - 'cause you didn't finish reading my post:
Alternatively, you could just boot & wait - the updater will update everything in the background for you
Oh, and upgrading between major releases of windows has always needed physical media as far as I can tell, no updating via windows update for you!
Kitten Auth looks interesting - but I would say that it wouldn't take long to build a database of images, with associated animals and just do a lookup against that.
Basically, it suffers from the same problem for any non-dynamically generated captcha (and if you add distortions, etc to the images, you're just going to make them harder to identify & remove the point of it).
Oh my god. I think I love you.
:-)
Well, read my journal and make me your friend then
exorbinent amounts of time and energy figuring out ways to get it quickly and freely!
Your name really suits you if you have trouble using bittorrent & the pirate bay huh?
*grins*
Good point - but I do consider the mp3 stuff free (they're under the GPL after all, just covered by patents that don't apply to most of the world)
wmvs, flash & java, are all non-free & crappy, yes.
But the nvidia/ati drivers are non-free and run in kernel space with the ability to crash my machine far harder then anything in user space.
That's why they got the 'crappy' prefix.
ThePirateBay, who are a group of well respected Swedish lawyers, said so, so it must be true!
*sighs* The piratebay have legal advice saying its OK to link to torrents.
I haven't seen any legal opinions to the contrary (other then from the IFPI, who said it may be a "contributing infringment").
Remember this is a country where personal downloads where not illegal until a year ago....
Dude, that joke hasn't been funny for years. (I mean why didn't you pull out BSD is dying?)
This looks like a job for Captain Copyright!
Seriously - of course the pirate bay will rise again - what they were doing was not illegal under Swedish law.
If you're running a 6.06 beta, you don't have to do anything. Boot up, log in & wait for the update manager to let you know its finished updating.
If you're running 5.10 (or earlier), the short, easy instructions are available here - cli instructions are:
After installing dapper, I highly reccommend grabbing easyubuntu - it's a little package to get mp3s, wmvs, flash, java, crappy non-free nvidia/ati drivers etc all automagically installed.
Takes one of the niggles out of ubuntu.
Bother. I just installed Ubuntu a few days ago. Now I'll have to test its upgrade procedure :-)
:-)
I've been tracking Dapper since flight 3, its as easy as:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -yqq dist-upgrade
(and wait)
Alternatively, you could just boot & wait - the updater will update everything in the background for you
Over 100 civilians were massacred at Waco.
Whoa, whoa! What happenned at Waco was pretty sad, but lets not exaggerate!
This is not about gun rights, stop threadjacking.
Read the entire article. It talks about lots of aspects about how society has come to fear chemistry - this quote about the decline of labs in schools made for particularly depressing reading for me:Goggles for balloons? Pretzels? They can't be serious....