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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: amigamad on August 19, 2003, 04:46:20 PM
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Having battened down the hatches to fight off Blaster worm, Microsoft Friday decided to bite the bullet and do someting radical about it. There was only one thing left to do: call for Linux! .
Check it out at The Inquirer.net (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11099) ...
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So... A popular web caching system runs Linux. Microsoft chose to use it. Who cares?
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Linux, their weapon...
What a huge bunch of dumb***es!!
:lol:
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:-D :-D :-D
:-) :-) :-)
I loooooove the Blaster Worm :-)
Hope that it get worse hehe :-)
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I don't know...
The first three comments about Linux were spelled three different ways.
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yes and has this something to do with worms blast ? :)
anyway... microshaft should die....not turn to other....
m$ = fools!!
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lol
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:roflmao:
M$ Borg has an infection. :roflmao:
M$'s destruction :destroy: would be more merciful on the world ! :-D
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I got nailed by it.... it's just a pain in the arse, tried to make a 4gb swap file etc.. I had to reformat....reinstall and then patch..... the joy of xp huh?
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Never afected my win2000 machine i have sp2 and i am using sygate firewall. :-)
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:roflmao: One week, Microsoft claims superior security to Linux, due to being closed source. But once the chips are down...
;-) Actions speak louder than words, I think. Microsoft will have a hard time living this down.
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:roflmao:
"Microsoft Windows Server is the secure choice for my business!"
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Um, Linux is not the issue here - obviously some Linux nut is finding material to wank over hard to find.
Microsoft chose akamai or wateva they are called *purely* because 1) They already exist so Microsoft doesnt have to create a similar system (taking time and we all know how lazy they are) 2) The akamai system is location based routing reducing DDoS load on any particular server.
At no point is there a choice by Microsoft to choose Linux, they chose akamai, regardless of what OS it uses. If akamai used amigaOS the decision wouldnt have been swayed. Or MonkeymadnessOS or QNX-RTOS or fishmonkeyOS
Honestly, this sort of twisted concluding that Microsoft somehow has bit the dust and decided Linux is better makes me desire the Judgement day Terminator 3 displays - great movie BTW................
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I agree with Xeron. Besides, the issue is not the flaw in Windows, it's about Denial of Service attacks. Any server, regardless of OS, can fall prey to that.
People make a big deal out of Microsoft.com downtime, including every time the domain name points to the wrong address. These people don't really know how the Internet works. When my ISP changed my static IP, it took a week for me to access my site through the DNS. There's something called TTL (Time To Live), and all that crap.
Big deal.
Besides, I can't take that article more seriously until they at least fix all their spelling mistakes. ;-)
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LOL
didnt affect my Amiga!!!!!!
must call M$ help line to solve that problem... :-P
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@amigamad
Yes! I have windows 2000 and I have SP4.
I am also using sygate firewall, and I never got affected by that worm or whatever is going around. I am rolling and just glad that I am still up and running. :-D
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The worm didn't affect my machine, because I know how to configure Windows properly and so don't need a firewall :-)
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The subject reminded me of an totaly unrelated quote:
'Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a cunning plan, even if it painted itself purple, danced on a harpsycord and sang: "Cunning plans are here again"'
--Black Adder
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Who cares if MS uses Linux ?! MS Is the biggest actor in the market and that upsets alot of people, but live with it. No one is perticular upset that our cars runs on Petrol after over a 100years of car development..
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No one is perticular upset that our cars runs on Petrol after over a 100years of car development..
And I thought my comparisons were well off-whack sometimes :-)
There's a certain amount to be said for a company using its own products.
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yes yes yes.. but I understand this childish I-HATE-MICROSOFT-HOPE-THEY-BURN-IN-HELL ive been there, done that stopped doing it..
MS are good at what they are doing developing, marketing, support etc. And I wouldnt have a job today if it wasnt for MS ;D
The facts are that all software and games are for Windows :) Why not give them credits for their improvements ?! :)
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The worm didn't affect my machine, because I know how to configure Windows properly and so don't need a firewall
well just because your clever no need to boast besides the firewall is handy to stop programs conecting to the net that you dont want to . :-)
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No one is perticular upset that our cars runs on Petrol after over a 100years of car development..
So what about diesel and lpg ,your a bit behind in your country. :-o :-o :-?
And I wouldnt have a job today if it wasnt for MS ;D
Why are they the only employers that wanted you? :-?
The facts are that all software and games are for Windows :) Why not give them credits for their improvements
because we are still waiting for them and if you spent the time you would also see that games are also on linux unreal demo runs as well if not better under linux. :-)
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well just because your clever no need to boast
No, not boasting, just waiting for an opportunity to advertise my site's existence, which has a guide to secure a Win2k/XP installation from scratch :-)
besides the firewall is handy to stop programs conecting to the net that you dont want to
Firewalls aren't fool-proof, and that's the problem to start with.
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poster: mikeymike Date: 2003/8/20 16:57:41
No, not boasting, just waiting for an opportunity to advertise my site's existence, which has a guide to secure a Win2k/XP installation from scratch :-))
Then do it, give us the url. :-)
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Poster: Eer0 Date: 2003/8/20 15:03:22
And I wouldnt have a job today if it wasnt for MS
That´s the one thing stopping better OSes from taking over, if there is only half of the problems with windows then half of the it-staff will be fired. Or horror of all horrors if there is no problem then there won´t be anyone working in the it-department :-)
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OmFg..
Petrol/diesel.. there's alternatives that arent bad for the enviroment..
I don't work for MS I work for a huge company that use Windows for server and workstation so I support them..
And the bs that there are Games for linux .. yeah well OLD and outdated games that I don't want to play anyways.. If Quake3 have 150fps more doesnt matter to me..
what matter is that my mouse in windows works and gives me 800dpi mouse and scroll wheel works and the thumb-buttons works.. directly with the drivers.. noo hacking xconfig etc..
Microsoft OS:es has the best support no doubt about that..
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And the bs that there are Games for linux .. yeah well OLD and outdated
so the latest latest unreal is out of date ?.What about americas army and castle wolfenstien .