My New Linux Samba Server

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New Attack Bypasses EVERY Windows Security Product!

Are you a Windows user? Do you feel safe as you've installed an antivirus program? Well, you shouldn't!

Read about this new attack tactic that sidesteps every known Windows security software to find out why.

4K Sector Drives & Windows XP

4K Sector Drives are on the way and will become standard by 2011. Windows XP users are likely to face problems accessing them. Even if they do manage to access the drives using built-in emulation software, accessing a 4K sector HDD in 512 byte mode will slow the drive down significantly. In addition, XP users will run into issues with disk utilities such as formatting and disk cloning software.

If you're using Linux with a kernel released after September 2009 (like me), you won't need to worry about anything.

For people who're still using ancient Windows XP, anytime would be a good time to switch to Linux. I personally recommend Ubuntu.


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Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users

School-issued Laptops Used As Spycams

(Not actual photo - for illustrative purposes only)


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Thanks, MickySoft!
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:30:45 -0500
From: Fred A. Miller
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


This would be hard to do if the laptops had Linux installed or they were Macs. MickySoft has the back doors for this and other intrusions built-in.

Fred

A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop web cams to spy on students at home, a federal lawsuit claims.

Officials at the US school district can activate webcams on the computers without students' knowledge or permission, a family alleges in the lawsuit.

Plaintiffs Michael and Holly Robbins suspect the cameras captured students and family members as they undressed and in other embarrassing situations.

--
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President

Virus Cripples University Network

To cut a long story short, a virus hit the M$ Windows Vista machines of a university and the entire network had to be shut down.

Bear this in mind, boys and gals. If you're using M$ products, then you're like a $lut who has her legs spread wide open for the whole wide world to....you-know-what!

Enough said - Let's pop the champagne!



Related: Virus attack hits Vista machines, cripples university network

Microsoft Wireless Mouse & Ubuntu

Microsoft Wireless Mouse Model 1025. The reception is extremely good.

I'm using two of my eight spare made-in-China rechargeable batteries to power this baby up.

Honestly, I didn't expect this one to work with Ubuntu - but it does.

2nd Amendment

Similarly, self-professing $in-gaporean "IT gurus" call me an incompetent moron. Out of respect for their warped opinions, I promise NOT to use my skills and talent to save their porn-filled Windoze computers.

Cam whores can still count on me. Never will I leave you - never will I forsake you.

Linux - Cars & Fags

An evil $in-gaporean retard (a self-professing IT guru) once demanded to know why his home Windoze computer ran "so slowly" and kept crashing. He spent tons of money to upgrade his hardware and ultimately ended up buying an expensive computer, but that didn't help at all.

Well, I could have given him Linux but that would have been like giving him a manual transmission car to drive - he can't drive one! Imagine what would have happened if I had given it to him.....










You guessed it....after all the time and effort, he would have cursed me and started spreading lies about Linux and me.


Take it from me - don't ever cast pearls before swine. I know a pig when I see one - even one that is disguised as a human being. :P

The case on hand was clearly one that required the user (not the hardware or operating system) to be changed.


Wei-Yee Chan <--- American, European and Taiwanese hardware proudly sponsored by:




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Hackers Foil Two-Factor Authentication

Accounting creeps who use Windows to surf porn sites, watch out! Even if your bank has implemented two-factor authentication, it no longer offers any protection from hackers.

Ironically, dumb $in-gaporeans are safe from this threat. Thanks to the brilliance of foreign talent that $in-gaporeans are incapable of producing, the major banks there require a user to authenticate every monetary transaction.

Joke - Micro$oft Brother

Dear Agony Aunt,

I have two brothers, one works at Microsoft, the other was sentenced to death in the gas chamber.

My mother died of insanity when I was three years old, my two sisters are prostitutes and my father sells drugs.

Recently, I met a girl who was released from a reformatory where she served time for smothering her illegitimate child to death.

I love this girl very much and want to marry her.

My problem is this: Shall I tell her about my brother who works at Microsoft?


Sincerely,

Larry

Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:22:02 -0400
From: Fred A. Miller
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


From an elist.

Fred

Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List.

Their Acer Aspire 5535 laptop locks-out the wireless modem
and Bluetooth from any access unless a MS version of window
is installed.

See Acer's "tough luck for you" reply below.

Oh, they did offer to let me call their paid support - so they
could tell me the same thing.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Response (Mary LincyKM) - 07/29/2009 07:34 PM

Having reviewed your e-mail I understand that you are facing
an issue using wireless with Linux.

As per our record the operating system shipped with the
system was Vista.

Please note that Acer does not support changing an Operating
System. Changing the Operating System may cause driver
conflicts. You have the option of upgrading or changing your
Operating System at your own discretion. However, it is
preferred that you keep to the original configuration of
your system so that all the programs and applications in
your computer will recognize all the hardware installed in it.

We are sorry to inform that we are unable to offer support
since you have changed the operating system.

Have a great day!

Respectfully,
Acer America
Online Technical Support

The Uniquely $in-gapore Ubuntu eXPerience

Only in $in-gapore will you get this sort of uniquely $in-gapore Ubuntu eXPerience, which is a thousand times worse than the Micro$oft eXPerience.

Are you being verbally abused by countless noobs pretending to be gurus? Not getting the solutions that you need? Fed up with lousy mirrors? The horror...the horror!!!

Two words: Uniquely $in-gapore.

For a wonderful, trouble-free Ubuntu experience in Asia, come to Hong Kong - The Pearl of Asia; Hong Kong - The home of Wei-Yee Chan.

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Microsoft Money

Haha!!!! That's what you get when you use Micro$oft products! *rotfl*


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Forced to leave his (Microsoft) Money behind
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:51:07 +0800
From: Wei-Yee Chan
Organization: Google Inc.
To: Fred A. Miller


On Saturday, June 20, 2009 02:22 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
> Forced to leave his (Microsoft) Money behind
>


No problems here....

problem with gnucash resolved




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Restore an Overwritten GRUB Boot Loader

If you run a dual-boot system with Linux and Windows, this has happened to you. You had to do your monthly reinstall of Windows, and now you don't see the Linux bootloader anymore, so you can't boot into Ubuntu or whatever flavour of Linux you prefer.

Here's the quick and easy way to re-enable Grub.

Not Every PC is at Risk!!!

I'm publishing what BBC failed to publish.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Did you watch the video?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:48:17 -0400
From: Fred A. Miller
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


WELL written by a buddy of mine.

Fred
_____________________

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7932816.stm

Did you watch the video?

In almost ALL of these kinds of "reports" they refer to "PC"s as being
at risk. That implies that EVERY PC is at risk. Every PC is NOT at risk.
About 99.999% of all spam comes from hijacked PCs running Windows
because Windows is SO EASY to break into, even when you are running
protection software.

What they should say, if they were real reporters and not wanting to
avoid harming their Microsoft ad revenues, is that the risk is entirely
in the WINDOWS OS that these "PC"s run, not the PCs themselves.

If the PC were running Linux it would be virtually impossible to quickly
accumulate a few thousand "bots" (robots) by merely mailing out an
infected email.

Why? Because Linux does not use Window's "ActiveX" or similar technology
and won't automatically run an email attachment when it arrives at your
inbox, or when you click on the email header in order to read it.

To run a virus on Linux the user has to :
1) manually save the viral attachment as a file, then
2) manually mark as executable (IF it is an executable binary or script
file), then
3) manually run it.

In other words, a PC which is at risk running Windows is entirely safe
running Linux. On Windows the malware is automatically run WITHOUT user
help. On Linux it is impossible to run an email attachment WITHOUT user
help. The user has to be persuaded to perform those three steps. This
persuasion is called "social engineering". The content of the email has
to persuade the reader to do those three steps. Usually the email claims
the attachment is a pornographic picture to increase the probability
that some immature teenager or adult will want to view it. The HTML
protocol normally displays pictures arriving in emails, which is not the
same as executing an attached binary file, so it is pretty difficult to
convince a Linux user that an attachment is a picture.

About the only way a PC running Linux can be hijacked is if the hacker
manually attacks the PC through its Internet connection. A remote
attack. That is very risky. The hacker can be detected and tracked
before he does his stuff, or he can be interrupted before he can clean
his tracks, leaving a trail back to the computer he is using.
So, what usually happens is that the hacker easily captures 50,000 or so
Windows PCs using a SINGLE infected email, and then manually hacks into
ONE Linux PC. The Windows PCs are the "bot farm" and the Linux PC is the
master controller. Because Linux computers are generally immune to
automatic email attacks he knows his controller won't be the victim of
another hacker. The hacker, or course, owns NONE of them and none of
them are at his place of work or residence. He communicates to the Linux
PC from an Internet Relay Chat channel (IRC), a sort of live character
based chat box on a public Internet server somewhere in the world. The
Windows bots have been set to listen on a particular port for a
particular string of characters, which includes what Internet address
(web server) to attack and how to attack it. The Linux controller is set
to listen on one of its ports for a signal sent to it from the IRC by
the hacker, who usually signs on to the IRC with a fictitious name
through an anonymous server, which generally leaves no traceable trail.
When the hacker sends the string of characters out of the IRC to the
specific IP address of the Linux controller, via commands that are part
of the IRC software, the Linux controller immediately relays the message
on to the 50,000 bots, which began flooding one or more computers hooked
to the internet with spam. Focused at one computer it can shut it down,
making connections to it from other computers around the world
impossible. If it is a business web server it is like a member of the
Mafia padlocking the doors and standing guard until the store owner pays
up or fights back. Either way it can cost money...lots of money.

Windows fan boys like to fill the air with smoke claiming that Linux can
be just as easily infected as Windows can. But, how many Linux bot farms
have you read about in the news or seen on TV reports? There hasn't been
a single one. IF they existed you can bet your last dollar that
Microsoft would make that news public on as many informations channels
it owns or can buy off.

When that argument fails the fan boys counter that there are not that
many computers running Linux. This, of course, is total nonsense.
Linux is currently around 8-10% (not 0.8% as some claim) of the RETAIL
PC market in the US, which doesn't count the FREE copies of Linux
downloaded and installed on one or more computers. This laptop, for
example, is running Linux (only) and the Kubuntu 9.04 CD which was used
to install it was used on two other computers, too. ALL three of these
computers WERE running Windows. Now, NONE of them are. In China the
Linux desktop market share is over 15% and climbing. Russia's leaders
have decreed that its entire country is switching to Linux, as are the
government of several other countries. The US military is switching to
Linux, as are the militaries of MANY other countries. Hollywood's
graphics are done almost entirely on computers running Linux. John
Dvorak, the noted PC columnist at PCMagazine recommended in his latest
column that Windows users abandon the hopeless task of trying to keep
their VISTA computers free of malware and simply switch to Linux. He
recommends the cousin to Kubuntu, called Ubuntu. Together, they are the
two MOST popular versions of Linux.

What's nice about running Linux is that there is NO need to maintaining
anti-virus software subscriptions and there is little chance that your
personal information or financial data can be stolen, unless the online
vendors you do business with are running Windows. This is the story that
BBC SHOULD HAVE published.

--
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher

Cuba Bans Microsoft Windows

The Cuban government has banned M$ Windows in a bid to rid every computer in the country of it, and created its own Linux-based operating system.

French Fighter Jets Grounded Due To Virus

French fighter planes were unable to take off after military computers were infected by a Microsoft virus.

During the time it took to eradicate the virus, the French navy had to return to more traditional forms of communication: telephone, fax and snail mail.

*Rotfl* Surely, had they been using Linux, this wouldn't have happened!


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How Microsoft Overlooked Critical IE Bug

Microsoft developers missed a critical bug in Internet Explorer because they weren't properly trained and didn't have the right testing tools, the company's secure code expert has acknowledged.

A Professional Microsoft Liar Comes Clean

Why Now?

For eight years (1992-2000), I was the driving force behind Microsoft's effort to make its Technology Evangelism (TE) efforts more efficient, effective, and ruthless, by studying both the practice and the theory of TE. After leaving Microsoft in 2000, I spurned the inquiries of numerous Microsoft competitors to testify on their behalf. As recently as year, I fell on my sword on Microsoft's behalf.

So why come forward now?

Read on: A Professional Microsoft Liar Comes Clean

Windows 7, the KDE 3.5 Wannabe?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Windows 7, the KDE 3.5 Wannabe?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:12:54 -0500
From: Fred A. Miller
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Is Windows 7 a KDE 3.5 wannabe?

Note: KDE 3.5.x is the very popular Linux desktop present on Linux distributions like openSUSE 11.1 and Mandriva.

The big differences between Windows 7 and Linux are:

1) Linux is MUCH more secure than Windows.

2) Linux is MUCH more affordable than Windows and is ALWAYS available for free!

3) Linux won't plague you with DRM (Digital "Rights" Management -- Microsoft's rights, not yours) dialogs, or steal your personal information and mail it to some corporation headquarters for analysis and/or sale to demographic companies.

4) Linux won't charge you for updates or new releases.

5) Linux won't delay or conceal bugs or security holes because it doesn't have a corporate profit margin to maintain.

6) Linux DOES ALLOW you to legally install a single copy on as many PCs as you own or share that copy with as many family and friends as you want, without charge.

7) Linux DOES allow you to have access to the source code of Linux itself, or any GPL application that runs on Linux. If you have the skill you can edit that software and change it to fit your particular needs. Or, you can hire someone with the skill to make your changes for you.

This is only a partial listing of the rights Linux gives you that Proprietary software takes away from you.