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Do your research, Apple licences the PowerPC arch. from IBM, the same arch. used in Enterprise Systems such as the S/390 or iSeries (Formaly AS/400's) and RS/6000's.
You sound like an idoit trying to act smart and say something dumb like "ONLY SERVERS HAVE 64BIT!!!" there's also the Sun Sparc workstations (64bit btw.) that just got lowered to the $1000 price range. (Too bad there's little apps avaible for Sun.)
Windows does, in fact consume much more Ram than it tells you when you open the "Task Manager", once again a beautiful Microsoft lie.
As for DirectX I am under the assumption that Graal was recently re-writen to do away with it. And since there is a Linux version avaible (or so I'm told) I'm sure THAT isn't using DirectX.
A Firewall is only as secure as the Trusted Interfaces connected to it. I hope the people at your so-called secure network use VPN clients with at LEAST 1024bit 3DES + L2TP + MD5 encryption. I alos hope that your Router is un-detectable as far as the make/modle, because there are exploites for just about every one out there. You school runs a Linux server? I'm impressed, I run Linux on an 2/390 for a mid-sized hospitial. It doesnt take a genious to call up RedHat and have them give you support and get Linux running to do one simple task. Linux has reached a point where it's easy for anyone to use it well. I'd almost go as far as to say it's eaiser then 2000 or NT server. And yes, Linux does out-preform them, lets not forget the *fake benchmarks that Microsoft paid a company to put out saying that NT was faster then Samba.
On XP security, I'll give you a hint. Socket Core Access.
Also see .NET
And lets not forget the thing that almost everyone was vulnerable to these last few weeks SNMP? (Hmm, Apple wasnt on the adviseory list.)
Stick with Microsoft, their Product Activation and Manditory Passport accounts are so convienent for you. I cant wait for Banks to start using Passport, then the REAL fun will begin.
XP seems to have re-writen the TCP/IP stack since 2000, too bad they overlooked some key issues that make us wonder if they even understand how TCP/IP works.
I never said I was a hacker.
I never have, or plan to hack anyone to cause damage, or gain unauthorised access to their systems, the only hacking I do is with writen permision by the owners in the name of security. The work I did on XP was an evaluation to see if we would be using XP at the hospitial, it failed, and we've placed a ban on XP for any node connecting to the network.
For your information when I started using computers Windows 3.1 or 3.11 didn't exsist yet, let alone Windows 95 or Windows 98, I grew up on IBM DOS, and basic. On Atari instead of Netendio. I was sending electronic mail on dial-up BBS's before most people knew what email was. Don't treat me like a child, I may enjoy Graal (hooked since 1.2x) , but I'm not classified in the 12-16 age group.
You want to talk about technology? lets see your certs? You work experience in the field? Your facts?
I spent 3 years building up close to 15 custom PC's a day. I tend to know a thing or two when it comes to hardware. Why don't you go do some reading up, and come see me in 1-2 years. |