"we are the only technological spacefaring race ....."
OR the only method of travel is sub-light and too slow and energy intensive to allow any sig. expansion
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As I have pointed out - wait for the update then. There's no problem unless your existing security is lacking.
I also find it hard to believe that you can't apply the simple workaround or remove the module altogether without the vendors says so - if that's the case why have a sys. manager at all ?
As many people have pointed out : if you are REALLY worried about this than it's possible to do something about it now, or more simply use the workaround. Most people don't have to do anything, just wait for their distro updates (unless their system's security is poor - in which case they have other worries)
Extracted from link in article
The following timeline details Linux's response to the reported issue:
2010-10-13 Vulnerability reported to Linux security team
2010-10-13 Response, agreement on disclosure date
2010-10-19 Fix publicly committed [3]
2010-10-19 Coordinated disclosure
There is also a workaround until you get/compile a new kernel
In "industrial strength" science - hardware stereo, xeons, multi-gigabytes of memory and the stability to run molecular modeling or dynamics for days on end on a workstation whilst still doing other work. So Linux then, esp. if one needs to offload the REALLY big jobs to Linux farms.
Whilst I agree with you in principle can you quote an example of Linux being compromised by just browsing ?
(I know that if you were mad enough to download and install an executable and then run it you could be in trouble but they'd still not own the machine.)
Only run Linux on the machines here. There really is no anti-virus software as no Linux virus has managed to spread so no anti-virus infrastructure has developed.
Security here is all down to automatic updates, strong passwords, local and router firewalls, SSH access only to long, unusual account names with VERY long passwords and online banking, again using VERY long passwords. All of this backed-up with a little paranoia and common-sense.
Oh and a system that doesn't run executables just because you click on a link in a email or browser.
One thing I spotted during my years with a major pharma was that some people would write a lot of macros, and often got quite good at it but in the vast majority of cases they could have done the same jobs more transparently by just using the spreadsheet functions. Also many people just blindly copied the macros (warts and all) and were oblivious to quite ludicrous results.
I only use Linux and so Open Office is a given. My use is mostly spreadsheets but my wife uses the word processor a lot and really had no trouble adapting, both to Linux and Open Office. She's a mostly-retired teacher who still acts as a consultant to her old school so was moving from Windows/Office. Remote access from the Linux machines to her school's Windows system is notably more robust and quicker BTW
So it's capable of overtaking on non-dual carriageway roads ? Capable of spotting that the truck crawling in front is doing so because it's in a line of slow traffic so don't overtake. Capable of spotting the emergency signs have suddenly closed off the outside lane. Capable of dealing with mad drivers. I could go on - this will take years to ever be safe if it ever happens.
This does rather give the impression that the Windows controllers/reporter computers are not involved. The systems wouldn't be in trouble if it wasn't for the vulnerabilities in Windows AND the criminal lax security of the Siemens systems.
But let us be clear - the Windows PCs ARE infected.
Not sure what your points are. Guy was positing that it's correct that almost all warmth on Earth comes from the sun - I agree
You both seem to have missed the simple point and veered off onto other things - in the case of Chris 2 in rather a patronising manner too.
You can't grasp how an increase in incoming intensity (In the right area of the em spectrum, i know overall intensity is down) can cause an overall increase in temperature?"
I can grasp it quite clearly - just don't know what it's got to do with this thread - the article & research yes
By the way "The Greenhouse Effect" is conjectured to increase the amount of HEAT retained by the Earth system. How that happens to relate to temperatures is probably a lot more complex.
Indeed they have but the yield is ~~1g/litre of milk and the product needs chromatography to purify it and seems to be used for very high performance (expensive) applications.
Are you sure your carpet isn't mohair - the silky fabric from Angora goats
I take your point but to be fair I travelled down the A26 in France on the 22nd Sept. in the middle of the day and there were no other vehicles for as far as the eye could see for long stretches.
On the other hand I went from Saas-Fee over the Simplon pass last week to Locarno and there were road-works & heavy traffic much of the way.
I repeat - if you can't get OpenOffice to open documents ~ as quickly as Office then it's not been set-up correctly.
Changing a few settings to save the cost of Office seems a small price ( esp. as I've got it on 6 machines ). In any case Office isn't an option as I'm an all-Linux operation. Whether under Windows OpenOffice is slower I can't test now but I DO know the kind of times that are quoted, if true, don't match my experience or many other peoples either.
Where I have found OpenOffice slow is using large spreadsheets - but in my previous life Excel wasn't up to it either as I used millions of rows so needed JMP.