Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The real problem is that nobody wants to trust something that you get for free. There's a certain irrational sense of security to be had by paying for something rather than downloading it from the internet. I can (sorta anyway) understand that... What BLOWS mi mind, is that there is a

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread mike havens
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (compare that to last 5 years of your favorite Ubuntu flavor) Has Ubuntu been around five years already? I remember when I first heard of it and at the next PLUG east side meeting Dennis had a bunch of copies.

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread Stephen
The irony in this to me that the government helped create Unix and moved away from it to MicroSoft. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first Ubuntu I ran was 5.04 They come out every 6 months. You do the math, my fingers are busy with the keyboard...:) ET mike havens writes: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (compare that to last 5 years of your favorite Ubuntu

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Rix
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/pentagon-cyber-siege-unprecedente d-attack/ ... it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's... The

RE: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
-4452 Catch the January PLUG HackFest! Kristy Westphal, CSO for the Arizona Department of Economic Security will provide a one hour presentation on forensics. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:27:46 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: OT: Pentagon Hit

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread Stephen
Actually if you look at the Revision number the first digit represent year, second digit (after period is the Month so 8.04 is April of 2008 5.04 is April of 2005. (i read this of an Ubuntu site someplace but was to lazy to find it again) On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Rix
On Fri November 21 2008 11:24:20 am Stephen wrote: . (i read this of an Ubuntu site someplace but was to lazy to find it again) Wikipedia has some good info on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ubuntu_releases Tells what is in each release, tells what the version number mean, etc --

OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11/20/pentagon-cyber-siege-unprecedente d-attack/ It gives me the chills to phantom that the guvement trusts Micro$haft to handle our private country business... Could anybody please grab a phone a find some intelligent guy in the White House and/or the

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread JD Austin
Yep.. you're preaching to the choir :) With all the companies trying to do budget cuts imagine how much they'd save using Open Office as a standard on new computers that is if they're buying new computers. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread Joshua Zeidner
something going on at MSFT. first they do a series of the weirdest ads ever, now today they announced they are selling bonds: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204sid=aLFI.RFFr67I something smells fishy in Redmond. -jmz On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread Tuna
JD Austin wrote: Yep.. you're preaching to the choir :) With all the companies trying to do budget cuts imagine how much they'd save using Open Office as a standard on new computers that is if they're buying new computers. No wai! That would be too much like those French sissies, and

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Tuna wrote: JD Austin wrote: Yep.. you're preaching to the choir :) With all the companies trying to do budget cuts imagine how much they'd save using Open Office as a standard on new computers that is if they're buying new computers. No wai! That would be too much like those