Comment Re:LOL cats (Score 1) 178
No, but I should have.
Comment Re:If OSX, Linux, & BSD can do it, Microsoft c (Score 1) 178
IF the programmers of Apple OSX, Linux, and BSD can make mostly malware-free software, Microsoft can also.
Those operating systems have fewer vulnerabilities because they were designed to be secure.
Apple has a horrible record for patching OSX.
Linux and *BSD have plenty of advisories and vulnerabilities.
No, they were NOT designed to be secure. There are specialised variants, such as OpenBSD and SELinux that can make that, but the vast majority of *nix operating systems can not.
If you want security by design look at the mainframe or iSeries.
Comment Re:Or just switch to linux! (Score 1) 178
Windows is leaps and bounds more secure than any distro of linux, and will be for quite a while.
Citation, please?
The reason windows is so exploited, is because it is on 90%+ of the machines in the world which make it the prime target. If Linux had 90% of the desktop, I'm sure you wouldn't be saying "Switch to Linux"
Very true.
Comment Re:Not doing it will Hurt MS. (Score 1) 99
Yeah... But I also think that it's worth keeping an eye out for MS' answer to VMWare's hypervisor-style server product where the host OS is purpose designed to allocate resources to guest images and not much else. When this hits the street, windows as the base system will be irrelevant.
Making VS2005R2 a free download is a good start, and the required response to VMWare making their equivalent product free.
I agree wholeheartedly with the last point, this is fantastic for the consumer.
Making VS2005R2 a free download is a good start, and the required response to VMWare making their equivalent product free.
I agree wholeheartedly with the last point, this is fantastic for the consumer.
Journal Journal: Record traffic to Immigration Canada's website
Apparently Immigration Canada has received record traffic to their website following the results of the US Presidential elections.
The quote in the article from the Ottawa Citizen is priceless.
Journal Journal: Otra vez con la mierdacán
Yep, shiticane season again in ye olde 11th floor server room.
Working on a Saturday, trying to install two developer workstations for Monday... normally RIS would do that for me and allow me to actually get it done in a decent amount of time... Except the NICs don't support PXE.
Why do managers/purchasers cheap out on capital expenditures so they can spread salaried labour thin? Did I just answer my own question?
Journal Journal: For the record...
...I picked this handle after 6 years of working at one level or another in ye olde IT backoffice, and about 1 year before I ever read *any* BOfH posts...
Journal Journal: esperando que caiga la lluvia de mierda
Sitting in the eye of the shiticane and waiting for it to hit the fan.
Journal Journal: mount -o async,softdep http://slashdot.org /dev/journal
Well, after almost 2 years of a
This should be interesting...
Journal Journal: Sharepoint (Team Services and Portal Server) blues...
Yarr...
What a SNAFU.
Got SPS installed on the intranet box, and tried to install Project Server afterward.
Unfortunately, WSS/STS/whatever the hell ths canonical name is these days, cannot connect to it's config DB. I am not sure I can change the STS setting without breaking SPS. An SPS installation that has just been populated.
Yeah, I think this is what it feels like to be up shit creek without a paddle.
Journal Journal: Well isn't that just spamtastic
BBC News reports that MessageLabs has found spam that includes an embedded virus that can "open up a backdoor in the machine through which spammers can send out junk mail."
Lovely, so the next time some unsuspecting Outlook user views a spam in the preview pane their box becomes an open relay.
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