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Comment Re:Macs have never been malware/virus proof (Score 1) 455

Linux may not be popular on the desktop, but I'd say Linux has a very high percentage of servers since roughly 60% of mail server responses are exim, postfix, and sendmail, while microsoft continues to decline. My own vanity domain is "tested" daily hundreds of times, and let me tell you, Iptables and ACL keep my server secure, not obscurity.

But that isn't how this malware is spreading. Users are downloading and installing this, it isn't an attack. That comparison doesn't really work there.

Comment Re:Who the fuck is Ted Dziuba? (Score 1) 831

Sounds like an idiot who can't setup a VM. I mean really: "I need to run Linux, whhaaa!!!!" - set up a VM, you utter muppet. What a total retard. And "emacs" OK fine, but does he not know about Coda?

He could have also just used http://aquamacs.org/ or fired up the terminal and used vi... I have done a fair bit of webdev on OS X. Works fine. Terrible article.

Comment Re:What is the point of OSX server? (Score 1) 365

While they killed off any enterprise level servers, you can still get a Mac Pro and throw OS X server on it. That would work for many people doing work with Xsan, Final Cut etc. And for just SOHO they can just get one of the Mac Minis with OS X server. Neither is good for a 'we can't have downtime!' enterprise level, but for SOHO? Plenty of options still exist. I see no reason for them to kill it off.

Comment Re:Long on Rhetoric (Score 1) 217

I'm betting he is a CIO that thinks a firewall is a red box from Watchguard they pay too much for to get little in return (pfsense in a cheapie 1u dell server is better than ANY product they sell at Watchguard.)

What nonsense you foul mountebank! Every good CIO knows that a firewall is a wall of fire (hence the name you dolt) that keeps burglars and other brigands away from the server of datas!

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 520

I just use my 'motherboard sound car' :p for the optical out to a receiver. The receiver does all the work so the quality of the onboard is almost totally irrelevant.

On top of that I would bet my bookshelves powered by a receiver from onboard audio sound better than many high end sound card to computer speaker setups.

Comment Re:it always looked to me like... (Score 1) 474

The naming convention behind SCSI was originally intending on it to be pronounced Sexy (secsi).

I believe Steve Jobs was behind that proposed pronunciation. The properly descriptive "scuzzy" won out.

I have seen a couple of people comment that on this story, but no source for it. The linked (entirely too often in this thread now) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi#History seems to disagree. I mean it IS wikipedia so it could be wrong, but I haven't seen any better source.

Comment Re:Where is the fun? (Score 2, Insightful) 854

Yep, there's nothing more fun than being teabagged by some jerk who has no life or job so they spend 24/7 practising so they can feel their life has meaning when some wage slave logs on to go find some fun for a few hours.

Not that I disagree with you, I don't (though I think you are grossly exaggerating the scale of the problem), but I do find it somewhat ironic that a thread about how easy games have become is filled up posts like yours... discussing how games are full of people way better than themselves ;)

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