Is it just me, or does this forum have wacky issues with cookies? I swear that my username/password blanks out about every 14 days, doesn't do that with any other website.

It does with Windoze, but why aren't you running Linux anyway?, Noob!

I gave up on Linux ages ago - used to run multiple game servers with a Debian or RedHat kernel. I'm not anti-Microsoft enough to go back to the insane headaches that the bajillion different versions of open source Linux provides. Having access to unlimited MS Vista, MS WinXP, and Apple OS X.x licenses for free doesn't hurt either...

YES...Although it's not a big deal. The frequency with me is about 36 hrs.

Ubuntu, the most user friendly Linux EVER!!

It's funny how that's Linux's motto - "It sucks less than the previous version!" lol

We were looking into Novell SLES/SLED last year at the Brainshare conference, but everything we saw just showed how much Linux isn't ready for prime time in big companies.

But big companies buy Dell computers.. Ugh.
Anyway, it's been AWESOME to me in the last few months of my noob adventures with it.

Completely stable and virus free.

Yup - we buy about 12,000 of them per year. Keeps the paychex rolling in...
I just bought my first personal Dell... Quad Core 2.4Ghz 6600, 3GB of RAM, 8600 GTS video, dual DVD-RW's, 250GB SATA HD (also have a 150GB raptor drive and 250GB SATA drive as secondaries), media card reader, 19" widescreen LCD panel, Vista Home Premium, etc. was $600 plus tax shipped to my door (my vid card though).



Only because nobody bothers writing many of them for Linux... Which would you write a virus for? The O/S 98% of the world uses, or the 2%?

People don't write viruses or trojans for Macs or *nixs much because malware has become a legitimate business and most people who run a Mac or Linux don't do anything worth a damn with their computers. Take, for instance, your version of Ubuntu on your computer. All I see you do is post whore up crappy forums (OK, I'm sure you play solitaire as well) so breaking into your PC would be worthless to a business man, hence why no one cares enough to crack it.

The Mac people are the worst with their "my PC just works" and "Mac's don't get viruses." Again, that is all wrong. The thing is hackers don't care about your home videos of the kids and what you are loading onto your iPod. They want stuff worth reselling, hence why they don't waste time cracking a consumer OS.

One of these days I'll setup my waste of space server to do remote penetration testing and we'll see just how safe and secure your Ubuntu is compared to my Windows Server. Oh and I'm not dogging on any OS here and I'm not a pro-microshaft person, I'm just tired of hearing about how "safe and secure" your anything other than Windows OS is, because it isn't, it just isn't as profitable to crack.

If you really want a "secure OS" go get MINIX and build it up with only what you need. Minix is a modular OS built from the ground up to be as secure as it gets and allows you get get a stripped copy of the kernal and shell that takes up 11KB. Then, you add the pieces as you need them. The cool thing is you can pull out the modules while the OS is running and replace them. This is cool if a driver or something crashes, it doesn't kill the Kernal. And if a module is infected or cracked, you can just pull it out and isolate it from the Kernal while running. I have a copy on a thumb drive somewhere that makes a great bootable OS if I need it (although I misplaced the drive during my last move, doh).

For the record I use Ubuntu, with a Vbox Windows XP and Vbox Mac OSX - and I never once considered security (in relation to hacking) as a motivation for my using *nix as my primary.

It was 60% for business (all my servers are *nix), 30% for the experience so I could say I was familiar with it, and 10% just because.

Although I do agree with Darren if we are just talking about home users, yea there is probably nothing worth while on your home PC, but there are many *nix servers out there, just like there are windows, and those may have some more important documents to a business.

mr. kettle?

Trust me, i do a lot more than use my computer to post whore on forums. I use it for my photo editing (that gets printed in magazines), use it to pay bills online, learn about the world from international sites, view sick fetishes, view funny websites, order tools and electronics, and a lot more..

I got sick of the constant invasions of privacy when using Windows, if i want to go look at some sick midget porn, i shouldn't have to worry about paying several hundred dollars every year for spyware and virus protection. I've had excellent luck using Ubuntu and it constantly continues to impress me with the ease of use, the free software, and of course the ease of mind knowing that it's not profitable enough for people to be writing malicious code for it.

I look forward to seeing your results after you get done testing.

And what about all of that would make it worthwhile to break into your computer? BTW, I have no invasions of privacy while doing all the same on my *dows machine. I pay nothing for my sick midget porn and suffer no consequences in doing so. If you are a conscientious user (which you probably are since you are a *nix user) you should know the common loopholes and should have secured you PC down enough, just like I have done. Closed any unused ports, keep up to date on all security patches, disable any functionality that you don't use that could be used maliciously, etc... If you've done all that, you are just as safe as I am and probably spend no less time than I did. So surf away. And as Art said, there is still plenty of *nix servers out there so you aren't quite out of the fire yet.

Again, I'm not pro-windows or a windows only type of person (in fact, I'd argue that I've probably used the widest variety of OS's than most others on here), I just don't like all the anti-microsoft anything ideals that people have. And when I get serious about it (next job may be a security engineer) I'll give your OS a test. Hell, it would be for your own good and you may pass with flying colors.

On a more humorous note out of 3 laptops with different OS's on them, the Macbook Air was the first and only one cracked so far during a security conference competition to crack them. Not only that, but it was cracked within 2 minutes. Poor oblivious Apple nutswingers. The really funny thing is it isn't a Macbook Air or even Macbook problem, but a Safari/Mac OS problem which will affect every Mac.

The Fujitsu machine running Vista and the Sony running Ubuntu both still stand uncracked.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...id=nl_IWK_daily

Just for reference, an unpatched XP install left alone still takes on average 6-11 minutes to be cracked.

And you know nothing about the ultra-super valuable classified financial information I store on my computer. And although I bet the music and movie industry would love to sue the shit out of me if they only knew about everything I have backed up on my server from my years of collecting, there sure isn't anything I do now-a-days that is worth breaking into my computer for. So yeah, I'm not saying I actually do anything worth a damn, just that most people that do do it on a *dows machine.

Interesting article, thanks for sharing that one.
Sucks for the Mac/Apple fanboys.

NP. As an update, the Ubuntu machine still stands unbroken (good news for those that keep it up to date), whereas the Vista machine fell victim to the Adobe Flash player fault when they opened it up past the OS and default programs to include 3rd party software. I find it interesting that it actually took using 3rd party software to cause a fault in windows and there weren't any inherent flaws built in that anyone could find (well, unpatched inherent flaws at least). So bad news for the Mac nutswingers, good news for me and even better news for you. Just keep your computer up to date.

Did you recently screw with the server settings again?

I'm having problems with login cookies again on both my home & work systems, and it's only happening with this website.

Not in the past few months

Same here, I have to re-enter my damn SN and password every time I come on this site now.

I tweaked a few things, let me know how it works now.

I'm not having issues anymore, what you did must've fixed it.

The site seems to be "remembering" me again

Yeah its kinda nnoying every time I visit the forum I have to log in everytime. Sucks. Same thing with snma.

I was having the same problem but now this wedsite is fixed I think .

The only time I have to relogin now is if my IP address changes. Such as going from work to home with my laptop.

I don't have that problem with SNMA.

Cookies are now working again, thanks.