Slackware is usually considered the most BSD-like Linux distro. When I found the BSDs impractical for home use (insufficient ACPI support) I went with Slackware. That was about 8 years ago, and I've never looked back.
Slackware doesn't use those. They're available as an optional add-on, if needed for compatibility with something you installed. Personally, I've never had any need for them in many years on Slack.
Thank you. I'm really sick of this petty manipulative technique used by/. and more and more news sites.
As if it weren't obvious what they're constantly trying to do: create "buzz" and searches and clicks through lack of explanation. I'm sure they think they're so clever.
You know what, I unsubscribed from the/. RSS feed just now. Fuck them, really.
Whenever making that kind of statement towards any sort of business you're telling them that there's no point to try to correct whatever upset you, as all resources spent to that end are going to be in vain anyway.
At the very least, heads should have rolled. And one of them had better be the CEO's. Better yet, the whole chain of command that made and approved the decision to install the malware.
Since this hasn't happened, we can safely conclude that Lenovo is in bad faith and unwilling to do what is right.
1) You don't know what it is, therefore they have the power because you have to ask them WTF they are talking about.
On the web, that translates to "clickbait". A well-edited news aggregator site should counteract these petty tricks by providing notes. Slashdot didn't, of course.
I have a thriving little business upgrading people who are still on XP over to either XUbuntu or Mint. I've gotten calls after an upgrade with the user saying "I got this weird error when I open this email", and it turned out that the user had an email with the Cryptolocker vector, and the odd error was the malware *trying* (and failing) to encrypt files on an ext4 filesystem...
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FTR, the article is from December 20, 2016.
TFA doesn't say... Then again, IT reporting is difficult stuff.
ITYM "laws protecting passengers and workers".
Hm. Interesting theory...
Whaaaat?!
But their meaning was OS-dependent, wasn't it? IIRC they didn't have a standardized purpose.
Can you expand on this?
Cleartext SSH keys (or, say, EncFS passwords) in memory would be news to me. Can you confirm?
They all have root access to your virtual disk. Good luck finding one that will allow you to encrypt your whole partition.
Slackware is usually considered the most BSD-like Linux distro. When I found the BSDs impractical for home use (insufficient ACPI support) I went with Slackware. That was about 8 years ago, and I've never looked back.
Translation: "I'm a Vim user, therefore I'm a slouch at real Vi and have no clue about Ex".
Vim is for wimps. Nvi is the real deal.
> Then again, I hate managing the S/K file pairs
Slackware doesn't use those. They're available as an optional add-on, if needed for compatibility with something you installed. Personally, I've never had any need for them in many years on Slack.
Thank you. I'm really sick of this petty manipulative technique used by /. and more and more news sites.
As if it weren't obvious what they're constantly trying to do: create "buzz" and searches and clicks through lack of explanation. I'm sure they think they're so clever.
You know what, I unsubscribed from the /. RSS feed just now. Fuck them, really.
You want me to go look it up and help make it "trending", don't you.
Forget it and fuck off.
Not when they're capitalists.
At the very least, heads should have rolled. And one of them had better be the CEO's. Better yet, the whole chain of command that made and approved the decision to install the malware.
Since this hasn't happened, we can safely conclude that Lenovo is in bad faith and unwilling to do what is right.
I think Hanlon's razor (never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity) is way too optimistic about human nature.
Lenovo has no ethics, pure and simple. As far as I'm concerned, they lost a prospective customer.
Strict dieters and fasters do that less often. So, selection bias there too.
I had read the whole article, in fact. How does that sentence you quoted tell me how and if the involved organizations make a profit?
As always, never a word on the OBVIOUS QUESTION.
Tell me if and how these organizations make a profit or don't waste my fucking time!!!
Stupid reporters!
Good questions that aren't answered in that disappointing article.
Oh NO!!! God please no, not crunchbag!!!1
On the web, that translates to "clickbait". A well-edited news aggregator site should counteract these petty tricks by providing notes. Slashdot didn't, of course.
And you'd get no privacy with either, as well. So competition does not make a real difference to you, the user.
Just a look at their ntpd.conf man page makes me want to switch to OpenNTPD yesterday.
Old ntpd man pages suck so hard that it's unbelievable.
As usual, OpenBSD documentation is a dream come true. Thank you, guys.
What format was the Cryptolocker vector in?
So they finally made OSX to work like Windoze XP in that regard.
Way to go, Apple!