Posts by RICHTO

Mac malware Crisis as Apple lets slip its Mountain Lion

Both are round fruit that grow on trees - not that far apart....

Re: Linux servers need internet access

Yes, done that. Circa 200 vulnerabilities to review for Windows 2008 R2, and 3500 for SUSE 10...

Re: Java VM = malware portal

Or you could install Linux. That has more security holes than even OS-X.

Re: App Stores & Repositories

Yes - and it means that Linuxs servers need internet access to update or install anything new - a big security no no. Servers should never have internet access unless it is part of their function.

Re: Your 'gigbytes of patches and updates' statement is null.

Utter crap. Windows 2008 is about 2.5GB for a full install or 1.5 GB for a core install. I got growth of about 400MB of disk space by fully patching it - and most of that is temp files and backups of previous file versions and can be deleted if required...

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592038 for how to clear it.

Re: @RICHTO

But Linux has lots more vulnerabilities than OS-X.....Even if they are fixed faster than by Apple.

(But not as fast as by Microsoft: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3629/microsoft-we-patch-faster-than-apple-novell-and-red-hat/ )

But why bother with ~0% market share. At least OS-X has a couple of percent....

Re: @Dave Oldham:

WRONG. Mac OS-X DOES have known viruses:

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2006/02/macosxleap.aspx

Re: critical mass hypothesis

Sorry, but critical mass theory certainly DOES work here. Linux is used most as web servers and is many times more likely to be hacked than say a Windows server: http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4737

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows

Re: I thought this would have been common knowledge?

Every recognised benchmark that i have ever seen across both platforms shows that Direct-X is faster.

Re: 2500 Apps in their app store

Erm, but Windows Phone sales grew 292% compared to Q2 last year and now has 20% of the sales of the iPhone....

http://betanews.com/2012/08/03/android-leads-ios-follows-windows-phone-shows-surprising-growth/

Not bad for a brand new platform.

Open GL has in general been circa 2 years behind Direct X for most of the last decade...So less advanced...

Re: People forget why noone uses Lynux

It might be easy to install Linux - IF your hardware is supported - and Linux driver support is way inferior to Windows. But to actually use it day ot day afterwards - pfft - its a big old nightmare. Having to compile software before you can run it?! Its like something out of the dark ages...

Just compare this to for instance the Office 2013 preview which can INSTALL and LAUNCH an Office application within about 60 seconds of starting the installation process. App-V is ten years ahead of anything on Linux.

Re: Steam Linux?

If I was steam, i would stop wasting resources on a fragmented and dying Linux platform and start working out how i was going to make money out of the Windows App store....

Re: Cheaper PCs?

Yes, and 99% of consumers will wipe off Linux and install Warez Windows...

I mean OS-X is now getting loads of malware @ less than 5% market share and it only has ten tiomes the vulnerabilities of Windows 7 (about 1700 now in OS-X according to Secunia) - so what would happen if a REALLY insecure OS like Linux got popular? SUSE 10 for instance is now on 3600 known vulnerabilities.....

Uhm - well Linux is actually used by some brave souls for web servers, so lets see - what are the per OS statistics for webservers getting hacked?

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

And of course Linux Swiss Cheese is many times more likely to be hacked than any other platform - even allowing for market share...

Re: WHY?!!

Because Direct X is faster than OpenGL on every benchmark, so they need to find out where they screwed up...

Re: Not much of a surprise?

It is because Direct X is generally several years ahead of OpenGL in terms of features, it has a much better API, much better debugging and toolset, is the basis of cross platform compatibility with 50 million Xboxes, is a much larger suite of APIs inluding sound and compute that Open GL doesnt even cover, and above all, Direct X is much faster than OpenGL.

Re: Microsoft Suicide

I own a console and a PC for gaming - but a Mac? They are toys for people too stupid to use a real computer. The 'creative' types that left school with only an Art GCSE.....Useless for gaming.

Re: Poor platform for games

There isnt a better platform for games than Windows invented yet. ALL top gaming rigs and the highest specification gamers run Windows. A high end WIndows PC easily outpeforms consoles, and Direct X significantly outperforms OpenGL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTdBZ3x704

Re: cor

errm - but OpenGL DOESNT give better results. It is much slower than Direct X in any proper benchmark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTdBZ3x704

And with Windows 8, the performance advantage just got a LOT bigger too.

Re: Linux on a stick

But Windows is more rebust as in stable than Linux and has a tenth of the security vulnerabilities of a Linux distribution....

Re: Linux on a stick

No, it helps to have a standard paltform virtually the same for everybody. Not 200 flavours of it.

Re: M$

Or just type what you want to find from the start menu, and get an indexed search....

Re: Re:

But it doesnt support Multithreaded rendering and object creation or Compute shader - both heavily used requirements in most modern games.

Re: Gabe!

Firstly it's not 16% on the same configuration. It is 3%.

That is runs about 3% faster on Linux is completely meaningless unless that game code is identical. And it isnt. As the vast majority of peformance benchmarks are better on Windows than Linux, I would suggest the difference is far more likely in the game code.

Even if Linux was 3% faster its a marginal difference - far eclipsed by the fact that hardly anyone develops in Open GL and Direct X owns the market.

This was also tested on an old Windows OS in Windows 7 versus a current Linux version. Linux kernel development is constantly trying to catch up to Windows, so not suprising if a several years more recent version might have closed the gap....

Ubuntu 12.04 was only released a couple of months ago. A more realistic comparison would be to Windows 8 which is now RTM. If the most recent Linux can only just beat an ancient version of Windows by 3% then Windows 8 would absolutely kick Linux's arse:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/23/hardware-accelerating-everything-windows-8-graphics.aspx

Microsoft RTMs final Windows 8 and Server 2012 code

Re: Windows 7 the new XP?

How is selling 300 million copies and having over 90% market share 'failed'?

Booth babes banned by Chinese gaming expo

The primary reason I usually bother attending such events is that the booth babes are usually really hot, bored out of their mind and its easy to get a date.

I guess the attendance at this event is going to nose dive next year....

Analyst says Surface could hurt Ultrabook, Windows 8 tablets

Re: Eh?

Windows Phone will replace Android - give it a few years...

Re: Amazing

More importantly it runs Windows so you loose all the security falis of Linux / Android,

Re: It's possible...

But they do have a way of recouping profits. The Windows store. 20%-30% of all sales = Microsoft pocket money. And 300 million users of Windows and now adding tablets and Windows Phone means thats quite a lot of pocket money....

Re: failboat

You obviously havnt seen the sales figures lately. Xbox 360 outsells the Wii now days...and is far more profitable in terms of attach rates. Not to mention 30 million Xbox Live subscribers....

Oracle hurls MySQL at Microsoft database wobblers

Re: It depends, but usually MySQL is the choice

Do you make it up as you go along? MS SQL outperforms MySQL on pretty much every benchmark in existence - and by a long way. I can't even find a single recent benchmark that MySQL comes close in...

Ooops 57% - on Windows - about 30% on SQL...

Large SAP installs are exactly where you do see a lot of SQL Server - over 57% of all SAP installations in

fact are on SQL Server:

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/partners/SAP/sap-partnership.aspx

https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/benchmarks.aspx

Erm, I think you are confusing MySQL and NoSQL

Re: I think..

Upgrades for Microsoft SQL are FREE if you bother to keep your maintenance (Software Assurance) up to date...

SQL Server to MySQL?! Good luck with that.

I can see that maybe at the ultra high end, someone might move from SQL Server to Oracle RAC,but to the rest of the product range? No reason what so ever. SQL Server is cheaper to run, more secure and easier to manage, and is better tested on a more Secure OS (Windows) whereas Oracle is primarily tested on the Swiss Cheese of Linux - and to mySQL? Lol, I just can't see that happening.

I note from Secunia that there are 110 known vulnerabilities in MySQL5 versus 20 in SQL Server 2005 and 2! in SQL Server 2008....

Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz

Re: Touch this M$!

They are going for the 'minority report' approach too - havnt you seen what Kinect can do?

Re: Metro. Is it too much to ask......

In what way is clicking or touching the Desktop button, or pressing the Windows key challenging?

Re: I believe the MS is getting a unusually bad rap here on this one.....

Thats because its a beta...

Re: Touch...

Someone already thought of that first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peSYlJlg14E

Re: I see what you did there!

Catastrophic only for those with a vested interest in their own online app / game store...

Google shakes up Android Jelly Bean to fend off malware meanies

Re: About time...

IOS - circa 300 known security vulnerabilities

Windows Mobile and Windows Phone (all versions) - circa 2 known vulnerabilities.

QED.

(See Secunia.org)

Re: Compare and contrast

Since when have Microsoft charged for Service packs? Only Apple do that...

Fear not, Linux admins: There are TOOLS to help you

Absolutely agree - and Windows is in the position of having both the best CLI and the best GUI....

(Oh and just to point out that you dont have any idea about this either - Powershell is also much more flexible and powerful than any out of the box Unix Shell scripting like Bash, etc. as it combines similar basic scripting capabilities, but with a much more powerful object orientated approach and enterprise functionality like digitally signing of scripts, etc.)

Windows has been able to be installed completely without a GUI since 2008. (Windows Server Core)

Welcome to the 21st Century.....

Amazon crimps free Kindle 3G surfing

Re: The problem has been tethering

No they didnt. Find me one example of a Kindle tethered or hacked for third party data access?

Apple's new Safari snubs older Macs, drops Windows version

Re: Windows Users

And IE9 spanked Safari, Chrome and Firefox - fastest of all of them when it was launched and has better security with fewer vulnerabilities.

It's by Apple - Therefore it's the worst thing for Security

Apple - the only company useless enough to make an OS and apps that are nearly as insecure as Linux.

You really want to run this crap with a list of highly critical and unpatched vulnerabilities as long as your arm??! You might as well put your credit card data on a Linux server and give it to Sony.....

http://secunia.com/advisories/50058