A couple of times I was hit by a trojan by simply going to a web page. Next thing you know, my system gets infected, and Norton shuts down completely and won't start back up again. That's what you call protection? No thanks.
While Symantec's Norton AV is one of the most notorious AV programs out there, if you're relying on an AV to protect you... as the latest exploit shows... you are already in trouble.
AV products "protect" you as much as using garbage bags on top of your shoes when walking across broken glass.
If such a site were to exist, people would start catching on that it's all Microsoft's fault in the first place. Then people *would* switch to other systems.
Nope.
I've had conversations with regular non-techy people. They don't get it; they think that they are safe and/or don't want to think about the dangers or alternatives. Ever. It is not possible to convince them and if you point them to a technical site, they will ignore it. They must come to the decision by themselves after long years of abuse, if they drop Windows at all. That said, to my surprise, my brother in law decided to get a Mac Mini for his kids this Christmas. I gladly helped them configure it and bring over data from the old Windows box they (unfortunately) still use. I've given him that advice for about 5 years, and did not talk with him about it for the last 6 months...so whatever I've said or pointed out to him had very little to do with his decision. (My brother-N-L is a smart guy and does not ignore most other advice w/o good reasons.)
Personally, I just refuse to help them to secure the Windows-based systems they chose to use unless it is a single-function server that I can configure how I see fit. I do reinforce with them just how hard it is to use Microsoft's products in a safe manner; 'exceedingly frustrating and still I'm unconvinced that it is secure when I'm done' is a phrase I use often.
NOTE: I _DO_NOT_ subscribe to the idea that if you keep a system updated with the current patches, use a firewall, and be careful, it is safe to use. If that system is safe, it is more by luck and chance and not by your hard work. This exploit is a perfect example of how all those methods fall apart and can not be relied on.
Has anyone out there ever used a usb drive this small, and was it effective?
Yep. I have 2 of these. They both fit in my wallet, much of the time just like a credit card w/o any special case.
What makes no sense to me is why are the thick drives selling so well, when the slim ones can't get shelf space? There are no benifits to the thick ones over the thin ones -- and I consider the Iomega Micro Mini to be one of the thick ones.
Whether it's supported by Sun or not is mostly irrelevant, Windows does allow for this sort of thing. Binary compatibility certainly isn't an issue which mostly affects closed source software, the exact opposite is true, binary compatibility problems are worst in an open source system like Linux (because developers have dumb attitudes towards binaries).
I get the feeling that you really believe all that.
Not true. I haven't lost any of my PQI Intelligent Stick drives. They are about as big as a small flash drive for cameras and people don't loose those drives every week either.
I'm a happy owner of two of the older PQI Intelligent Stick drives, and they easily tuck away in my wallet. They are reasonably priced too...sometimes they even cost less!
Ah, but you can see how USA - Americans would think so. After all, being scared $#!7less about the actions of the current US government looks alot like hate.
Of course, the whole "french fries" fiasco was even funnier considering that french fries aren't even named after France - it's the way they're prepared that gave them their name, and the word just happens to be the same in (contemporary?) English.
The Belgians -- and quite a few French -- consider that Belgium is the source of the friet.
(I was asked years ago to make sure people knew this...and I keep my word.)
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I read the article you linked to. AIDS was a man-made virus? West Nile too? SARS?
While there would be political and economic impacts from spreading a super plauge, or just hyping the fear of one, the article is just not credible and neither are your comments by citing it as evidence.
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Ah, I don't consider Scientific American to be a sensationalistic periodical.
Much of the Linux documentation applies just as well to the BSDs.
But don't forget that the users in this case are IT professionals. They should know UNIX, and they should know Linux. If they don't, then they shouldn't be in the IT business. So for such people, adapting to OpenBSD shouldn't be a problem at all.
I don't know why your post was moderated as flamebait.
To some it might be harsh, yet if you know one *nix; UNIX is unix is Linux is *BSD... everything else is just flavoring.
Imagine a machine at your house that pumps out useful energy without you having to pay a monthly bill. These exist and have been patiented for years. The list of ways to do this is almost endless. The problem is that they don't pay the investments of the big guys anymore. That makes them "uneconomic" for the bankers and for the investment community. I won't bother listing the tech here because the list is so long.
Do you mean total energy, or a supplement (say, a grid of pipes on the roof that water runs through that are heated by the sun)?
If you have a single example that provides much/most/all of the energy for a single house, provide a link. After all, if it's important...
Make no mistake, I am not one of those socialist green types. I just have eyes and can see what is going on. I do not oppose nuclear. I am seeing a network developing where a person may be laid seige to and killed in a matter of days by merely switching him off. I am seeing a world where a person is a dependent for life on a utility grid as a baby in his mothers womb is dependent on the umbilical cord. This is not a rational set of solutions.
Not necessarily. The first instinct is to use the 'new OS' for a while. Only the people who are really annoyed with IE -- or who know better -- are going to immediately swap IE for Firefox. Everyone else will wait, looking at the 'new OS' as IE and parts. While they may likely rediscover Firefox, they aren't normally encouraged to do so or even motivated.
The problem is that if you ever leave, they have no guarantee that they'll be able to find someone else who's able to understand just what you did and be able to work on it. This isn't so much a problem with MS.
I think his point was that even if he doubled, trippled, or quadruppled the hardware deployed, his $90K (x2, x3, or x4) is still way below the $1.5M his competitor quoted.
Mind telling us which version of Windows 2000 all of these companies were using that didn't have Internet Explorer 5 or 6 installed? Upgrading from 2000 to XP wouldn't change the number of Internet Explorer users, unless a very large number of people were using Firefox and Opera in Win2k that haven't gotten around to reinstalling them yet under XP.
It does if the default browser changes...or if the machines are re-imaged (as is the case with most major upgrades of operating systems).
Those pennies that artists get for their songs may seem small until you realize that without RIAA they would be lucky to get even that. Nobody would have heard about them. If they don't like it they should take promotion into their own hands (which some do, and if RIAA tried to prevent THAT from happening, I'd agree with you.)
Then, why do the bands pay the record companies for the effort of promotion -- often ending up in debt? (Most bands like the promotion so that they can make money on concert tickets.)
This comment, and others like it, are completely lame. It is possible to use Windows securely, but most people don't. This isn't Microsoft's fault.
While you're right, Microsoft does make it exceeding difficult to do the right thing. You can not secure a single Windows system in the span of an hour or two...unless you have already done the work and have a pretty good custom tool kit and you know your environment.
You can just keep repeating an argument made by people 10 years ago as if it still applies to today.
In some ways, it still applies. I can't blaim most people for getting screwed on a regular basis. Microsoft doesn't help to solve the problem much by using default settings that are nuts. Sure, the defaults are starting to match unix-style security, but if you want security like unix why not just use that!
Agreed. The only problem that I've had with OOo writer was with tables. v.2 supposedly fixes many of these issues, though I haven't investigated it much...seems to work!
One oddity: MS Word has _2_ levels of highlighting. OOo Writer has 1. If you highlight something in Writer, you have to use the format paint brush in Word (not the highlight tool) to change it.
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While Symantec's Norton AV is one of the most notorious AV programs out there, if you're relying on an AV to protect you ... as the latest exploit shows ... you are already in trouble.
AV products "protect" you as much as using garbage bags on top of your shoes when walking across broken glass.
While I'm with you on the doubt, I'm also wondering if this will be another Intel-Mac.
Nope.
I've had conversations with regular non-techy people. They don't get it; they think that they are safe and/or don't want to think about the dangers or alternatives. Ever. It is not possible to convince them and if you point them to a technical site, they will ignore it. They must come to the decision by themselves after long years of abuse, if they drop Windows at all. That said, to my surprise, my brother in law decided to get a Mac Mini for his kids this Christmas. I gladly helped them configure it and bring over data from the old Windows box they (unfortunately) still use. I've given him that advice for about 5 years, and did not talk with him about it for the last 6 months...so whatever I've said or pointed out to him had very little to do with his decision. (My brother-N-L is a smart guy and does not ignore most other advice w/o good reasons.)
Personally, I just refuse to help them to secure the Windows-based systems they chose to use unless it is a single-function server that I can configure how I see fit. I do reinforce with them just how hard it is to use Microsoft's products in a safe manner; 'exceedingly frustrating and still I'm unconvinced that it is secure when I'm done' is a phrase I use often.
NOTE: I _DO_NOT_ subscribe to the idea that if you keep a system updated with the current patches, use a firewall, and be careful, it is safe to use. If that system is safe, it is more by luck and chance and not by your hard work. This exploit is a perfect example of how all those methods fall apart and can not be relied on.
Yep. I have 2 of these. They both fit in my wallet, much of the time just like a credit card w/o any special case.
What makes no sense to me is why are the thick drives selling so well, when the slim ones can't get shelf space? There are no benifits to the thick ones over the thin ones -- and I consider the Iomega Micro Mini to be one of the thick ones.
Rocketboom interview by that sexy Amanda Congdon.
I get the feeling that you really believe all that.
Not true. I haven't lost any of my PQI Intelligent Stick drives. They are about as big as a small flash drive for cameras and people don't loose those drives every week either.
I honestly do not know.
I'm a happy owner of two of the older PQI Intelligent Stick drives, and they easily tuck away in my wallet. They are reasonably priced too...sometimes they even cost less!
Ah, but you can see how USA - Americans would think so. After all, being scared $#!7less about the actions of the current US government looks alot like hate.
The Belgians -- and quite a few French -- consider that Belgium is the source of the friet.
(I was asked years ago to make sure people knew this...and I keep my word.)
While there would be political and economic impacts from spreading a super plauge, or just hyping the fear of one, the article is just not credible and neither are your comments by citing it as evidence.
Ah, I don't consider Scientific American to be a sensationalistic periodical.
If you know something I don't, please tell me.
But don't forget that the users in this case are IT professionals. They should know UNIX, and they should know Linux. If they don't, then they shouldn't be in the IT business. So for such people, adapting to OpenBSD shouldn't be a problem at all.
I don't know why your post was moderated as flamebait.
To some it might be harsh, yet if you know one *nix; UNIX is unix is Linux is *BSD ... everything else is just flavoring.
Do you mean total energy, or a supplement (say, a grid of pipes on the roof that water runs through that are heated by the sun)?
If you have a single example that provides much/most/all of the energy for a single house, provide a link. After all, if it's important...
Make no mistake, I am not one of those socialist green types. I just have eyes and can see what is going on. I do not oppose nuclear. I am seeing a network developing where a person may be laid seige to and killed in a matter of days by merely switching him off. I am seeing a world where a person is a dependent for life on a utility grid as a baby in his mothers womb is dependent on the umbilical cord. This is not a rational set of solutions.
Not necessarily. The first instinct is to use the 'new OS' for a while. Only the people who are really annoyed with IE -- or who know better -- are going to immediately swap IE for Firefox. Everyone else will wait, looking at the 'new OS' as IE and parts. While they may likely rediscover Firefox, they aren't normally encouraged to do so or even motivated.
Why is that a problem with Linux?
I think his point was that even if he doubled, trippled, or quadruppled the hardware deployed, his $90K (x2, x3, or x4) is still way below the $1.5M his competitor quoted.
It does if the default browser changes...or if the machines are re-imaged (as is the case with most major upgrades of operating systems).
Then, why do the bands pay the record companies for the effort of promotion -- often ending up in debt? (Most bands like the promotion so that they can make money on concert tickets.)
Actually, I did not mention patches. I didn't even intend to imply patches. OK?
While you're right, Microsoft does make it exceeding difficult to do the right thing. You can not secure a single Windows system in the span of an hour or two...unless you have already done the work and have a pretty good custom tool kit and you know your environment.
You can just keep repeating an argument made by people 10 years ago as if it still applies to today.
In some ways, it still applies. I can't blaim most people for getting screwed on a regular basis. Microsoft doesn't help to solve the problem much by using default settings that are nuts. Sure, the defaults are starting to match unix-style security, but if you want security like unix why not just use that!
Even if this was a US-based event, it's not a government event...thus they don't have to comply with ADA. Are you really sure you are deaf? :)
...and yet, the same people have no problem going from web site to web site...each with a different interface.
One oddity: MS Word has _2_ levels of highlighting. OOo Writer has 1. If you highlight something in Writer, you have to use the format paint brush in Word (not the highlight tool) to change it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument#Licens ing
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/0 6/13/428655.aspx
On the last link, look at the comments from Thomas...
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/0 6/13/428655.aspx#429554
...and the replies Brian Jones provides.
Additionally, Orcmid has a table of differences between the two licences;
http://nfocentrale.net/orcmid/blog/2005/06/micro soft-ox-vs-oasis-od-is-it-really.asp