On Monday 30 June 2003 08:07 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Owen Gunden}
> Monday 30 June 2003 11:42 pm
>
> > > What a terrible assumption.  A well thought out and planned attack can
> > > be executed and completed sucessfully against Linux than it can
> > > Windows.
> >
> > I'll believe it when I see it.  Where's your evidence that Linux is even
> > remotely as vulnerable as Windows?
>
> http://www.icculus.org/ ??? :-)
>
> OS are as much vulnerable as its administrator is a moron (oops, my English
> suck, but you know what I mean.) That's it. Period.

Amen.  Sysadmins are the downfall of both operating systems.  Unfortunately, 
it's a lot easier to get behind in patches (unless you are using some nifty 
package management like portage ;)) in a Linux distribution than it is in 
Windows 2003, for example.

> > > Windows XP has a form of their terminal services client/server out of
> > > the box. How easy would it be to instruct your grandmother on how to
> > > install, configure, and run a VNC server?  It's just easier with
> > > Windows in that aspect.
>
> KDE does remote desktop easy. Check it out when you have time.
>
> BTW, on Linux you can "ssh -X remotehost" and run applications on the
> remote end on, both CLI and GUI based apps. I couldn't ssh into a windows
> machine and get output from netstat for exaple, how useful is that?

`ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] can not control an existing X session, it can merely 
tunnel an application through to your X session.

> > > And if you think I am a Windows supporter or troll, tell that to my 4
> > > Gentoo boxes.
> >
> > I think you're giving yourself too much credit for knowing how to run a
> > linux box.  It's not that hard, 13 year old kids do it, and some are
> > probably better than you at it.
> >
> :-)

See my reply to this fellow's post for more information on my alleged 
inexperience (and my age: 15).

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Zack Gilburd
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