Posts by RICHTO

Disney sitcom says open source is insecure

Re: Well

Guess he must have installed Ubuntu or Debian:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/malicious-backdoor-in-open-source-messaging-apps-not-spotted-for-4-months/

Windows 8: Download it, then speak YOUR brains

Re: @RICHTO

No it doesnt - Microsoft MADE it a requirement that you must be able disable it for those running legacy OSs.

Re: absolutely unusable

My 3 Year Old manages to navigate Metro just fine.....

Server 2012 doesnt have a GUI by default , and shouldnt be run with a GUI unless absolutely necessary anyway, so what the GUI is liike wont be relevant for most users...

Re: The irony is

That's true - Linux has been playing catch up with Windows for years - especially with kernel features.

Re: No need to wait.

Dont forget secure boot also - which further widens the security advantages of Windows over OS-X and Linux.

Re: Win8 for those that bothered to learn about it...

WP7 doubled its market share in the last year, gained the world best mobile phone manufacturer in Nokia as a sole agency, and reached 100,000 apps faster the IOS or Android. Not bad for a V1.1 OS.

WP8 comes out next month. I wouldnt count your chickens on WP being a failure until that hits the market....

US appeal dismissed in Dotcom case

Re: Apparently

Yes - he has been accused of shagging the FBI hard by surprise and without a condom!

Re: Good.

The sort of tosser who has lots more money than you?

He is guilty of nothing more than following the requirements of the DMCA - taking down content when notified. The MPAA didnt like the fact that he didnt delete the content - he only removed the specific URL complained about - but he had no obligation to do so - and this would have prevented due process in preventing DMCA counter notices being filed.

I hope he sues the US Governemnt and wins damages for his loss of business....

Nokia hails hacks for New York Lumia WinPho gig

Re: "It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness"

A slow death for the iPhone....

Apple's lone wolf approach to security will bite it in the rear

Re: Really?

Yes, Apple 'treating security as a first-class citizen in its engineering philosophy' must be why OS-X has over 1700 known security vulnerabilities. For reference thats about 4 times as many as Windows XP and 8 times as many as Windows 7.

In fact the only OS with a worse security vulnerability record is enterprise Linux distributions....

See Secunia.org

Re: Really?

NT was and is a fully multiuser OS and was sold as such for some uses. Just because the user experience was not the same doesn't mean it isn't so...

They didnt copy an old OS at all - as the rest of your comments make clear! What they did was employ one of the best OS and kernel experts in the business to build an enteprise grade hybrid microkernel OS from the ground up......

Re: Back on topic.

Thats because OS-X has never had significant market share. At only circa 5% it smply isnt worth it for hackers...

Re: Hence Gatekeeper

Erm - but IOS could be rooted simply by visiting a webpage....

What rubbish. It is the NT based OSs that are designed with 'security baked in' and UNIX that has to bolt on things like proper access ACLs and SEL to provide full security. Windows passed things like FIPS certification almost out of the box whereas Linux required massive changes to be made.

This is largely why Linux servers are a much larger security risk than Windows ones: http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4737

First tranche of Windows 8 released via MSDN and TechNet

Re: Technet site

When a percentage of 400 million users decides to all download on the day of release, it takes Azure a few minutes to spin up enough VMs and for Akamai to add the bandwidth to cope - It is fine now - I am downloading at 12MB a Sec from home.

Office 2013 to eat own file-format dog food

Re: docx not welcome here

If anyone claims to me that they cant read a DOCX file, I point them at the free Word Viewer download and Office Web Apps on Skydrive....

Kim Dotcom pressing on with Megabox music service plans

Yes it's terrible when someone has no respect for the law, due process or someone else's property.

Presumably Kim dot Com will site his servers in a more law abiding and democratic country next time and avoid the USA.....

Nokia straps Qt into ejector seat and hits the shiny red button

And if you look at an environment where some brave souls actually use Linux- like Internet facing servers, the security incidents back this up. A Linux server is several time more likely to be hacked than a Windows one:

http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4737

Re: Pure View

Nice invention, but completely and utterly wrong. PureView itself is ENTIRELY hardware:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_808_PureView

Re: Nice hate for WP7 around here.

Yes - Jeff Jones already did that (Google It). Linux still comes out much worse than Windows....

Re: Nice hate for WP7 around here.

I have NEVER seen a current version Windows Phone need a reboot. Thats generally an Android 'feature'. Have you connected your phones to a PC and updated them in the last year?

Re: Nice hate for WP7 around here.

Apps will come with OS market share.

What there is at least very stable, generally of high quality and totally Malware free - unlike IOS and Android! Yes there are a very few well known apps missing, but versus the 100K apps available, its not a big deal.

Re: Nice hate for WP7 around here.

IE9 was fastest in Javascript and graphics at launch: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/girishp/archive/2011/03/15/internet-explorer-9-the-fastest-browser-in-the-market-released-to-the-world-go-get-it-and-enjoy-your-life.aspx

I certainly disagree. In fact Mac OS-X has nearly EIGHT TIMES the vulnerabilities of Windows 7:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/27467/

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/96/

In fact about the only thing worse than OS-X for security is Linux:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12192/

Im sure you are quite capable of using Google, but known features include:

IE10 (IE9 was fastest browser when launched and has had fewer vulnerabilities than any major rival - liely IE10 will be similar)

NFC inc tap and send

Bluetooth file transfer

Windows 8 kernel

Multicore support

Hardware graphics acceleration (inc in IE10)

removable memory card support (not really required in a handset designed for cloud, but i guess a few want it)

In app purchases

Fully integrated Skype

Fully integrated RCS-e

Fully integrated Datasmart

OTA updates

Visual Voicemail

Extended voice commands and search

Cloud sync of all content

Native code support.

Hi res screen support

Ultra high res camera support

screenshots

MS Wallet

Resizable tiles

Universal search

Re: Whatever Richto's on, I want some

New features, new devices, more manufacturers, more carriers are known and are happening with ther release of WP 8. That can only build on a sales profile that is seemingly following an exponential curve...

Yes it could still fail, but recent indications are that is rapidly becoming a success. And Microsoft still have plenty of leeway to throw money at it if they need to...

Re: Can't be long now

The numbers are quoted from the link provided - cant you read?

Your conclusion does not follow. I will still be able to buy Windows 7 PCs for at least a while after Windows 8 has launched - and the same will be true of WP7. Just like it is for the iphone 4 / 4S, and the many Android phones that dont run the latest OS version....

Re: Good

Pure View is a camera technology consisting of a 41MP sensor and a Carl Zeiss lens. It IS not tied to Symbian. If you said Pure View is current only available on Symbina handsets you would have been correct. Stating it is 'based' on Symbian is wrong - it is an OS independant hardware technology.

Symbian or MeGo Power Users? lol. Now that's what i call an anachronism...

Re: Good

Wrong: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/03/nokia-confirms-pureview-windows-phone/

Re: Can't be long now

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/13/apple-and-google-dominate-smartphone-space-while-other-vendors-scramble/

Microsoft had 42% Marketshare in 2007, and 37% in 2006.

"Microsoft’s former smartphone operating system, Windows Mobile, peaked at 50 percent of smartphone sales in Q2 2007"

Acer dishing out 16,400 cheap OLYMPIC laptops to schools

I wonder if they include they OEM Windows licences too?

Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers

Re: Universal screwdriver

I think it most definately will be a problem:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WlMVScG-3sc/0.jpg

OK, hands up: Who hasn't sold an iPad to a big biz?

Wait until Microsoft surface comes out and watch those crapple enteprise sales head towards zero...

Microsoft: It's not Metro, it's Windows 8

Then that would be the preview - not the final version...

Re: It doesn't matter

Same difference. It is still revenue to Microsoft.

Re: Have you even tried it?

If you were a good sysadmin, you would use the remote tools for everything and install Core Server only on Server 2012 with no GUI. There is normally no need to RDP to a 2012 server, and you should not install the GUI unless actually required...

Re: How about "Double Glazing"?

Only for Metro Apps which are designed to work like that. There is still a desktop for everything else...

Re: Ok, Windows 8 now?

It is a stroke of genius for the family market though:

http://numbdrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Wooden-Blocks-585x442.jpg

Re: Finally it's official!

That's the sole reason I bother to post here. The place is full of dinosaurs mostly a long way from reality, and it only takes one voice to put some facts in each thread...

Re: It doesn't matter

Short lived? As in very quick to reach 300 million you mean?

Windows has 90% market share. No matter how much YOU dont like the new interface, it will sell...

Why women won't apply for IT jobs

Re: Woman

^TOO BAD

Re: Women want better

They seem to manage to sit in front of a supermarket checkout without issue...

Ouya Android games console to ship April 2013

Unless it can also play back MKVs @ 1080p then imo it is doomed....

Microsoft and NYPD install big data crime-fighting system

Re: NYPD think they are the FBI

Probably Infra Red radiation sensors. So they can detect when the donuts are ready....

Re: Mayor Bloomberg belongs in prison

Lol. What do you think of Echelon then?

Re: A reprieve of sorts

You mean large systems like Azure, Bing, Microsoft.com, Hotmail, Live Messenger, Outlook.com, Office 365, Teradata, Xbox Live, etc, etc?