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Linux fights off hackers
vnunet.com ^ | 17 Jan 2005 | Iain Thomson

Posted on 01/17/2005 10:56:25 PM PST by N3WBI3

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To: Golden Eagle
You can try to use Linux for online finance, but good luck finding any applications other than a basic browswer that banks will accept.

Begone troll. Any bank that will accept Netscape wil accept Mozilla. They use exactly the same rendering engine, called Gecko.

And Gnucash has features that Intuit hasn't dreamed of yet, including connection to a backend database of your choice for multi-user operation.

41 posted on 01/19/2005 7:18:23 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Golden Eagle
*BSD is better for this than linux, I would definitely agree.

I would welcome your agreement if it was based on anything like knowledge.

But since it's based strictly on whether you can grab the code and screw the coder...

Well, let's just say that I think you should take your agreement, fold it until it's all sharp, pointy corners and...

And I'll leave the rest to what passes for your imagination.

42 posted on 01/19/2005 7:21:11 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Watchguard.


43 posted on 01/19/2005 7:32:48 PM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: Golden Eagle

Linux home finance program: http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/faq.php3


44 posted on 01/19/2005 7:34:47 PM PST by dennisw (G_D: Against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Compared to 60,000 in W2k?


45 posted on 01/19/2005 7:43:20 PM PST by amigatec (There are no significant bugs in our software... Maybe you're not using it properly.- Bill Gates)
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To: dennisw

Kompatible with Karl Marx, nothing else that I know of.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=das+kapital+marx&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt


46 posted on 01/19/2005 7:45:34 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Knitebane; amigatec

your fixation with microsoft is astounding.


47 posted on 01/19/2005 7:46:31 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

your fixation with china is astounding.


48 posted on 01/19/2005 7:49:05 PM PST by amigatec (There are no significant bugs in our software... Maybe you're not using it properly.- Bill Gates)
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To: Golden Eagle

With "Kapital" I gave you more fuel for your anti Linux campaign.


49 posted on 01/19/2005 7:53:27 PM PST by dennisw (G_D: Against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Kompatible with Karl Marx, nothing else that I know of.

Which shows, once again, what you know:

Is Kapital compatible with MS Money and Quicken?

Yes. Kapital fully supports the Quicken QIF file format, both for import and export. Since MS Money also supports QIF, Kapital is also indirectly compatible with MS Money.

50 posted on 01/19/2005 7:57:12 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Linksys doesn't have a list of holes like this. 539 listed for the Red Hat distro alone.
http://lwn.net/Alerts/

It's funny to have you lecture anyone on internet security when you don't seem to notice the difference between "security alert" and "security hole".

With a little more investigation, you might discover that the vast majority of those security alerts are for applications. You are nuts if you think flaws in downloaded third-party software should be attributed to Red Hat. These are also almost entirely local exploits (i.e. you need to have a local account to use these to gain information about the system / elevated access). And with SELinux installed, that still wouldn't do you any good.

Hey, I have a pop quiz for you. How many viruses have swept through the Linux community? If your answer was a positive integer less than one, congratulations! You're correct!

By virtue of having a permissions system, linux is innately much more secure than windows will ever be (until it implements a similar system).

51 posted on 01/19/2005 8:03:47 PM PST by explodingspleen (http://mish-mash.info/)
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To: Golden Eagle
And your fixation with continualy talking down something that you have no knowledge of is either amusing or detestible.

I bounce between both feelings when I read your ludicrous posts.

52 posted on 01/19/2005 8:04:01 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: explodingspleen
Also, why in the world you be running a full Red Hat distribution on your firewall box? Or any of the applications on the RedHat advisory list?

I am inclined to think you don't have much acquaintance with setting up firewall boxes. . . .

53 posted on 01/19/2005 8:06:36 PM PST by explodingspleen (http://mish-mash.info/)
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To: Knitebane

So they stole their formats, Marx would be proud. Show me a bank that communicates in realtime with your Das Kapital, as mine does with Quicken and Money.


54 posted on 01/19/2005 8:06:39 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: dennisw
With "Kapital" I gave you more fuel for your anti Linux campaign.

Thanks. As you see some seem oblivious to its obvious reference to communism, if not highly motivated to defend.

55 posted on 01/19/2005 8:11:10 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
So they stole their formats, Marx would be proud. Show me a bank that communicates in realtime with your Das Kapital, as mine does with Quicken and Money.

Both of those run fine under Linux using Cedega. Microsoft Money will run fine even just using plain old WINE.

56 posted on 01/19/2005 8:15:24 PM PST by explodingspleen (http://mish-mash.info/)
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To: Golden Eagle
So they stole their formats, Marx would be proud

QIF is an open, published format, troll. The developers of Kapital didn't "steal it" any more than Microsoft stole TCP/IP.

And your Quicken does not communicate in "real time" with your bank. It does batch processing. Guess what? So does Kapital.

And so does Gnucash, btw.

57 posted on 01/19/2005 8:16:41 PM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Knitebane

Bottom line, you use communistic clones. I do not. A distinct and unquestionable difference, on many levels.


58 posted on 01/19/2005 8:18:10 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

Actually I am well aware of "Das Kapital" and Frederich Engels and Karl Marx


59 posted on 01/19/2005 8:19:03 PM PST by dennisw (G_D: Against Amelek for all generations.)
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To: explodingspleen

So you can jump through several hoops just to be able to run your communistic crap. I guess I'm supposed to be impressed? LOL!


60 posted on 01/19/2005 8:19:44 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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